Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date
Registered to Omicron Theta

By Scott Labrecque ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Births:

05/05/1352 Ruprecht, Roman catholic German king
05/05/1557 Emmanuel-Philibert van Lalaing, baron of Montigny/marquis of Renty 05/05/1635 Philippe Quinault, French playwright (L'amant indiscret)
05/05/1657 Jacques Danican Philidor, composer
05/05/1680 Giuseppe Porsile, composer
05/05/1708 Johann Adolph Scheibe, German music theroist/composer, baptised 05/05/1715 Daniel Dal Barba, composer
05/05/1749 Jean-Frederic Edelmann, composer
05/05/1804 Jacob Kats, Flemish writer (Aerdsch Paradise)
05/05/1813 S�ren Kierkegaard, Denmark, philosopher (founded Existentialism) 05/05/1815 Eug�ne-Marin Labiche, French playwright
05/05/1817 George Washington Julian, MC (Union), died in 1899
05/05/1818 Karl Marx, philospher (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital)
05/05/1819 Stanislaw Moniuszko, Polish composer
05/05/1823 James Allen Hardie, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1876 05/05/1826 Eug�nie M de Montijo y de Guzman, Emperoress of France
05/05/1832 H H Bancroft, historian, publisher (History of Pacific States) 05/05/1833 Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer/explorer
05/05/1842 Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, composer
05/05/1846 Federico Chueca, composer
05/05/1846 Henryk Sienkiewicz, Poland, author (Quo Vadis, Nobel 1905) 05/05/1848 Adalbert von Goldschmidt, composer
05/05/1849 Hambletonian, Chester NY, greatest standardbred horse
05/05/1854 Antonio Smareglia, composer
05/05/1865 Felicjan Szopski, composer
05/05/1867 Nellie Bly, whose name became a synonym for female star reporter 05/05/1867 Thomas Tertius Noble, composer
05/05/1869 Hans Erich Pfitzner, Moscow Russia, composer (Krakquer Begr�s) 05/05/1871 Alberto Cametti, composer
05/05/1879 Symon Petljoera, leader Ukraine (pogroms)
05/05/1883 Charles Bender, only Americian Indian in baseball's Hall of Fame 05/05/1883 Leopold Samuel, composer
05/05/1883 Petar Konjovic, composer
05/05/1884 Wang Tjing-Wei, premier China (1932-35)
05/05/1885 Henri Velge, 1st chairman (Belgian Council of State)
05/05/1886 Manuel Borguno, composer
05/05/1887 Lord Geoffrey Fisher of Lambeth, archbishop of Canterbury 05/05/1890 Christopher Morley, author (Kitty Foil)
05/05/1899 Freeman Gosden, Richmond Va, radio actor (Amos-Amos 'n' Andy) 05/05/1900 Charles Jewtraw, US, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1924) 05/05/1900 Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, German composer/conductor (Hassan gewinnt) 05/05/1900 Spencer Tracy, actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
05/05/1903 James Beard, US, culinary expert/author (Delights & Prejudices) 05/05/1904 Gordon Richards, British jockey (winner of 4,870 races)
05/05/1905 Arnold Meijer, leader of fascist Nationally Front
05/05/1907 Yoritsune Matsudaira, composer
05/05/1908 Jacques Massu, French general (Algeria)
05/05/1908 Rex Harrison, [Reginald Carey], Engld, actor (My Fair Lady, Cleopatr
05/05/1910 William I Martin, US pilot/vice-admiral (WW II)
05/05/1912 Alice Faye, [Ann Leppert], actress (Alexander's Ragtime Band) 05/05/1913 Tyrone Power, actor (Mark of Zorro, Alexander's Ragtime Band) 05/05/1915 Richard H Rovere, Jersey City, journalist (Goldwater Caper) 05/05/1916 Mutal' Burkhanov, composer
05/05/1919 George London, Montreal Canada, bass-baritone (Monterone-Rigoleto) 05/05/1919 Tony Canadeo, Chicago, NFL hall of fame halfback (Green Bay Packers)
05/05/1921 Sonja Oosterman, Dutch singer (Marketensters)
05/05/1922 Phil Gordon, Meridian Miss, singer/actor (Jasper-Bev Hillbillies) 05/05/1924 Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Buenos Aires, director (Monday's Child) 05/05/1924 Theo Olof, German/Neth violinist/prodigy/concert master
05/05/1925 Monica Lewis, actress (Box Office)
05/05/1926 Ann B Davis, Schenectady NY, actress (Bob Cummings Show, Brady Bunch
05/05/1927 Charles Rosen, NYC, pianist/musicologist (Sonata Forms)
05/05/1927 Pat Carroll, Shrevport La, comedienne/actress (Make Room for Daddy) 05/05/1929 John S Ragin, Newark NJ, actor (Dr Astin-Quincy ME)
05/05/1930 Michael J Adams, pilot (X-15)
05/05/1932 Aurel Stroe, composer
05/05/1932 Will Hutchins, Atwater Calif, actor (Sugarfoot, Hey Landlord) 05/05/1935 Douglas Marland, West Sand Lake NY, soap opera writer (Gen Hospital)
05/05/1937 Robert E 'Rob' van Gennep, publisher (Guevara, Gorz, Mand�l) 05/05/1938 Jerzy Skolimowski, Warsaw Poland, director (Hands Up, Deep End) 05/05/1938 Johnnie Taylor, US gospel singer (I Believe in You)
05/05/1938 Michael Murphy, US, actor (McCabe & Mrs Miller, Unmarried Woman) 05/05/1939 James R Jones, (Rep-D-OK, 1973- )
05/05/1941 Aleksandr Ragulin, USSR, ice hockey play (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72)
05/05/1941 Howie Komives, NBA star (NY Knicks, Buffalo Braves)
05/05/1942 Tammy Wynette, Redbay Alabama, country singer (Stand by your Man) 05/05/1943 Michael Palin England, comedian (Monty Python, Fish Called Wanda) 05/05/1944 Jean-Pierre Leaud, Paris France, actor (Detective)
05/05/1944 John Rhys Davies, Salisbury England, actor (Sir Edward-Quest) 05/05/1945 Raphael, Spain, spanish singer (When the Sun Sets, Lo Meyur de Ano) 05/05/1948 Bill Ward, rocker (Black Sabbath)
05/05/1949 Anna Bergman, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Agent 69)
05/05/1949 Michael Murphy, LA Calif, actor (Dr Art Armstrong-2 Marriages) 05/05/1950 Maggie MacNeal, singer (Mouth & MacNeal, I See a Star)
05/05/1952 Louis Cortiezzi, rocker (Mink DeVille)
05/05/1953 Billy Burnette, Memphis Tn, rocker (Between Friends)
05/05/1954 Peter Erskine, jazz drummer (Weather Report)
05/05/1955 Robert Feld, Nashville Tn, National Scrabble Champion (1990) 05/05/1956 Dick Kemper, bassist (Vandenberg)
05/05/1957 Lisa Eilbacher, Dharan Saudia Arabia, actress (Beverly Hills Cop) 05/05/1957 Thereza Bazaar, rocker (Dollar-Love's Gotta Hold on Me)
05/05/1959 Ian McCullough, rocker (Echo & Bunnymen-Heaven Up Here)
05/05/1961 Hiro Hase, wrestler (NJPW)
05/05/1962 Lori Singer, actress (Footloose, Summer Heat)
05/05/1964 Lorraine McIntosh, British pop singer (Deacon Blue-Fellow Hoodlums) 05/05/1972 Wendy Kaye, Memphis Tenn, playmate (Jul, 1991)
05/05/1973 Tina Yothers, Whittier Calif, actresss (Jennifer-Family Ties) 05/05/1976 Sage Stallone, actor (Rocky V)/Syvester's son
05/05/1990 Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg, NYC, daughter of Caroline


Deaths:

05/05/ 311 Gaius VM Galerius, emperor of Rome, dies at about 50
05/05/1028 Alfonso V, King of Le�n/Galicia (999-1028), dies in battle 05/05/1194 Kazimierz II, the Justified, grand duke of Poland (1177-94), dies 05/05/1309 Charles II, King of Naples (1285-1309), dies
05/05/1504 Anton van Bourgondie, [Great Bastard], knight, dies at about 82 05/05/1525 Frederik III the wise, ruler of Saxon (1486-1525), dies
05/05/1553 Erasmus Alberus, Germ theologist (Barf�sser M�nche), dies at about 5
05/05/1582 Charlotte de Bourbon, Princess of Orange, dies
05/05/1604 Claudio Merulo, composer, dies at 71
05/05/1613 Johann Steuerlein, composer, dies at 66
05/05/1678 Anna M van Schurman, poet/spoke 10 languages, dies at about 70 05/05/1702 Jacob Hintze, composer, dies at 79
05/05/1705 Leopold I, Emperor of Holy Roman Empire, dies at 64
05/05/1786 Pedro III, King of Portugal, dies
05/05/1821 Napoleon I Bonaparte, emperor France (1799-1815), dies in St Helena 05/05/1827 Frederik Augustus I, Justified, King of Saxon (1806-27), dies at 76 05/05/1831 Friedrich Ludwig Seidel, composer, dies at 66
05/05/1837 Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, composer, dies at 85
05/05/1840 Gottlob Benedikt Bierey, composer, dies at 67
05/05/1840 Matthaus Fischer, composer, dies at 76
05/05/1859 Peter G L Dirichlet, German mathematician, dies
05/05/1864 John Marshall Jones, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 43 05/05/1864 Leroy A Stafford, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 42 05/05/1875 John ACA van Nispen Sevenaer, Dutch parliament (1848-75), dies at 71
05/05/1885 Lauro Rossi, composer, dies at 73
05/05/1886 Joseph Albert, German photographer, dies at 61
05/05/1892 Jan Nepomuk Skroup, composer, dies at 80
05/05/1909 Pauline Staegeman, German feminist, dies
05/05/1921 Alfred H Fried, Austrian/German pacifist (Nobel 1911), dies 05/05/1927 Charles Boissevain, editor in chief (General Trade 1885-1908), dies 05/05/1945 Gu�mundur J�nsson Kamban, Icelandic writer (Vi mordere), dies at 56 05/05/1949 Maurice Maeterlinck, Belg playwright (Grand Fairie, Nobel 1911), die
05/05/1951 Eddie Dunn, comedian (Face to Face, Spin the Picture), dies at 54 05/05/1956 Charles R Gallas, lexicographer (French dictionary, dies at 88 05/05/1957 Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin, composer, dies at 74
05/05/1960 Sulho Ranta, composer, dies at 58
05/05/1963 Heinrich Gebhard, composer, dies
05/05/1963 Jacobus JP Old, architect/co-founder (St�l), dies at 73
05/05/1969 Ben Alexander, actor (Frank Smith-Dragnet), dies at 57
05/05/1971 Petro Scaglione, Italian procureur-general, killed by Mafia 05/05/1972 Rev Gary Davis, musician, dies
05/05/1976 Thomas Burnett Swann, sci-fi author (Day of Minotaur), dies at 47 05/05/1977 Ludwig Erhard, German CDU-minister of Economic Businesses, dies at 8
05/05/1980 Edmond Vandercammen, French/Belgian writer, dies at 79
05/05/1981 Bobby Sands, IRA activists dies in his 66th day of his hunger strike
05/05/1983 John Williams, actor (Family Affair, Dial M for Murder), dies at 80 05/05/1986 Jon William Haussermann Jr, composer, dies at 76
05/05/1986 Rui Coelho, composer, dies at 94
05/05/1988 Tamara Pos, Suriname/Dutch activist
05/05/1992 Jean-Claude Pascal, French actor (Golden Salamander), dies at 64 05/05/1992 Stefano d'Arrigo, Siciilian writer, dies at 72
05/05/1993 Balak Brahmachari, [Marxist Godman], Indies guru, dies at 73 05/05/1993 Irving Howe, US writer/critic (Dissent), dies at 72
05/05/1994 Hein Salomonson, architect, dies at about 83


Significant Events:

05/05/ 553 2nd Council of Constantinople (5th ecumenical council) opens 05/05/1382 Battle of Beverhoutsveld - population beats drunken army
05/05/1430 Jews are expelled from Speyer Germany
05/05/1646 King Charles I surrenders at Scotland
05/05/1726 Marie de Camargo (16) premieres at Op�ra of Paris
05/05/1749 Pope Benedict XIV proclaims 1750 a Year' [?]
05/05/1789 French king Louis XVI calls for Etats-G�n�raux
05/05/1797 Napoleon I's sister Elisa marries Felix Bacciochi
05/05/1809 Citzenship is denied to Jews of Canton of Aargau Switzerland 05/05/1814 British attack Ft Ontario, Oswego, NY
05/05/1816 American Bible Society organized (NY)
05/05/1834 Charles Darwins expedition begins at Rio Santa Cruz
05/05/1842 City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours (Hamburg Germany) 05/05/1847 American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)
05/05/1853 R Luther discovers asteroid #26 Proserpina
05/05/1854 English pirate Plumridge robs along pro-English Finnish coast 05/05/1861 Alexandria, VA - CS troops abandon city
05/05/1861 H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #70 Panopaea
05/05/1862 French army intervenes in Puebla, Mexico: Cinco de Mayo
05/05/1862 Peninsular Campaign-Battle of Williamsburg, VA
05/05/1863 Battle of Tupelo, MS
05/05/1863 Joe Coburn KOs Mike McCoole for US boxing title in 63rd round 05/05/1864 Atlanta Campaign-5 days fighting begins at Rocky Face Ridge 05/05/1864 Battle between Confederate & Union ships at mouth of Roanoke 05/05/1864 Battle of Wilderness, VA (Germanna Ford, Wilderness Tavern) 05/05/1864 Campaign in Northern Georgia - Chattanooga GA to Atlanta GA 05/05/1865 1st US train robbery (North Bend Ohio)
05/05/1867 Battle of Puebla; M�xicans defeat Maximilian's forces (Cinco de Mayo
05/05/1874 Dutch 2nd Chamber passes child labor law
05/05/1881 Anit-Jewish rioting in Kiev Ukraine
05/05/1891 Carnegie Hall opens in NYC with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor 05/05/1893 Great crash on NY Stock Exchange
05/05/1904 Cy Young of Boston pitches perfect game against Philadelphia (3-0) 05/05/1905 'Chicago Defender,' begins publishing
05/05/1905 Robert S Abbott published 1st issue of newspaper 'Chicago Defender' 05/05/1907 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #638 Moira
05/05/1908 Great White Fleet arrives in SF
05/05/1912 1st legal publication of 'Pravda'
05/05/1912 5th Olympic games open at Stockholm, Sweden
05/05/1912 Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4/22 OS) 05/05/1915 German U-20 sinks Earl of Lathom
05/05/1916 US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924
05/05/1917 St Louis Brown Ernie Koob no-hits Chic White Sox, 1-0
05/05/1920 German-Latvian peaces treaty signed
05/05/1920 Polish troops occupy Kiev
05/05/1920 US pres Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal
05/05/1921 Minature newspaper published (Brighton Gazette 10 x 13 cm) 05/05/1922 Construction on Yankee Stadium (Bronx) begins
05/05/1924 Unions terminate Twentse textile strike
05/05/1925 John T Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee 05/05/1925 Ty Cobb goes 6 for 6, (16 total bases)
05/05/1926 Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for 'Arrowsmith' 05/05/1927 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' 1st Symphony, premieres in Berlin
05/05/1930 1st woman to fly solo from Engl to Australia takes-off (Amy Johnson)
05/05/1932 Japan & China sign a peace treaty
05/05/1935 H Van Gent discovers asteroid #1693 Hertzsprung
05/05/1935 Jessie Owens of US, sets then long jump record at 26' 8�' 05/05/1936 Italians troops conquer Addis Ababa
05/05/1939 Flash floods kill 75 in Northeast Kentucky
05/05/1940 Norwegian govt in exile forms in London
05/05/1941 2 Fokker's employees flee naiz occupied Netherlands to England 05/05/1941 Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa
05/05/1941 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night
05/05/1942 British assault on Diego Suarez Madagascar
05/05/1942 US begins rationing sugar during WW II
05/05/1944 Gandhi freed from prison
05/05/1945 Mauthausen Concentration camp liberated
05/05/1945 Netherlands & Denmark liberated from Nazi control
05/05/1945 Premier Gerbrandy on Radio Orange tells Dutch they are liberated 05/05/1947 Mississippi Valley flooding kills 16 & causes $850M in damage 05/05/1947 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men) 05/05/1948 1st air squadron of jets aboard a carrier
05/05/1948 Belgian govt of Spaak resigns
05/05/1949 Council of Europe established
05/05/1949 KGO TV channel 7 in San Francisco, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting 05/05/1950 Phumiphon Abundet crowned as king Rama IX of Thailand
05/05/1952 Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk (Caine Mutiny)
05/05/1954 Military coup by general Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay
05/05/1955 Broadway musical 'Damn Yankees' opens
05/05/1955 West Germany granted full sovereignty by 3 occupying powers 05/05/1956 Jim Bailey (US) runs mile a record 3:58.6 in LA Calif
05/05/1956 World championships of judo are 1st held, in Tokyo
05/05/1957 Adolf Sch�rf elected president of Austria
05/05/1958 KNME TV channel 5 in Albuquerque, NM (PBS) begins broadcasting 05/05/1958 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for (Death in the Family) 05/05/1961 Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7) 05/05/1962 LA Angel Bo Belinsky no-hits Balt Orioles, 2-0
05/05/1964 Separatists riot in Quebec
05/05/1965 1st large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam 05/05/1966 Mont Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup 05/05/1969 Boston beats Los Angeles, 4 games to 3, for NBA championship 05/05/1969 Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night) 05/05/1971 Race riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn (NYC)
05/05/1972 Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily; killing 115 05/05/1973 Ron Turcotte on Secretariat wins Kentucky Derby (1:59.4, record) 05/05/1975 Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Shaara (Killer Angels)
05/05/1976 Train crash at Schiedam, kills 24
05/05/1978 Cin Red Pete Rose becomes 14th player to get 3,000 hits
05/05/1979 Masterpiece Radio Theater begins broadcasting
05/05/1979 Voyager 1 passes Jupiter
05/05/1981 16th & final Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-1, hold 8-7-1 ed
05/05/1983 Bruins 5-Isles 1-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 3-2 lead 05/05/1987 Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings
05/05/1987 Detroit Tigers are 11 games back in AL, but go on to win AL East 05/05/1988 Eugene A Marino intalled as 1st black US archbishop
05/05/1989 Mike Tyson gets 2nd speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany NY 05/05/1990 Paul Hogan & Linda Koslowski wed in Byron Bay, Eastern Australia 05/05/1990 Unbridled beats 2 favorites in 116th Kentucky Derby
05/05/1992 Country singer Tammy Wynette hospitalized with bile duct infection 05/05/1994 Labour beats Conservatives in British local elections
05/05/1994 North-Yemen air force bombs Aden South Yemen
05/05/2000 Conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn & Moon

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Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date
Registered to Omicron Theta

By Scott Labrecque ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Births:

05/06/ 973 Henry II, Roman Catholic German king/emperor (1002/14-24) 05/06/1501 Marcellus II, [Marcello Cervini], Italy, humanist/Pope (1555, 22 day
05/06/1581 Frans Francken, the Younger, painter
05/06/1606 Lorenzo Lippi, [Perlone Zipoli], poet/painter
05/06/1740 John Penn, signed Decl of Ind
05/06/1758 Maximilien Robespierre, Arras Fr, French revolutionary/avocat (1781)
05/06/1759 Fran�ois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician
05/06/1769 Ferdinand III, archduke of Austria/ruler of Toscane
05/06/1785 Arvir A Afzelius, Swedish story teller
05/06/1790 Vaclav Vilem Wurfel, composer
05/06/1800 Ferdinand Marcucci, composer
05/06/1801 George Sears Greene, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 189
05/06/1802 Friedrich Wilhelm Schirmer, artist
05/06/1806 Chapin Aaron Harris, US, found America Society of Dental Surgeons 05/06/1809 William Walker, composer
05/06/1812 Marin R Delany, Charlestown Va, pioneer black nationalist 05/06/1812 Martin Robinson Delaney, US, 1st black major in US Medical Corp 05/06/1813 Joseph Tarr Copeland, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1893 05/06/1814 Wilhelm Ernst, violinist/composer
05/06/1825 Joseph Bailey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1867 05/06/1829 Phoebe Ann Coffin, 1st female ordained minister in New England 05/06/1830 Guido Gezelle, Flemish priest/poet
05/06/1838 Alfred Humphreys Pease, composer
05/06/1843 Grove Karl Gilbert, geologist, investigated Lake Bonneville, Utah 05/06/1849 Wyatt Eaton, artist
05/06/1856 Robert Edwin Peary, US, arctic explorer (North Pole-Apr 6 1909) 05/06/1856 Sigmund Freud, Austria, cigar smoker, father of psychology 05/06/1858 Georges Adolphe Hue, composer
05/06/1859 Luis Mar�a Drago, Argentina, statesman, anti-interventionist 05/06/1859 Willem Kloos, poet
05/06/1861 Radindranath Tagore, Indian philosopher/poet/writer
05/06/1868 Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont, Poland, novelist (Chiopi, Nobel-1924) 05/06/1869 Jan R Slotemaker de Bru�ne, clergyman/CHU-politician
05/06/1870 Amedos Peter Giannine, San Jose Calif, founded Bank of America 05/06/1870 John McClutcheon, cartoonist (Pulitzer Prize-1931)
05/06/1871 August Reusner, composer
05/06/1875 William Daniel Leahy, Iowa, 5 star adimiral/chief of staff (1949) 05/06/1879 Johan H T Norlind, Swedish musicologist
05/06/1880 Baron W Edmund, Archangel & Ironside, British field marshal 05/06/1880 Ernst L Kirchner, German painter
05/06/1883 Jos� Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher/author [or May 9] 05/06/1888 Emmanuel Celler, (Rep-D-NY, 1923-73)
05/06/1889 Arthur Morison, typographer
05/06/1894 Filip Lazar, composer
05/06/1895 Rudolph Valentino, sheik/actor (Eagle)
05/06/1897 Paul Alverdes, German writer (That Pfeiferstube)
05/06/1898 Daniel Gerber, Freemont Mi, beloved by babies at mealtime 05/06/1902 Harry Golden, Jewish humorist/writer (2� Plain, Only in America) 05/06/1902 Max Oph�ls, Saarland, dir/writer (Letters From an Unknown Woman) 05/06/1902 Walter Dawson, British Air Chief marshall
05/06/1904 Harry Martinson, Sweden, novelist/poet (Trade Wind-Nobel 1974) 05/06/1905 Norman De Tar, composer
05/06/1905 [Bernard] Toots Shor, raconteur/restauranteur (Toots Shor) 05/06/1906 Andr� Weil, [Bourbaki], French/US mathematician
05/06/1907 Weeb Ewbank, NFL coach (Baltimore Colts, NY Jets)
05/06/1908 Necil Kazim Akses, composer
05/06/1910 Antoon Breyne, Belgian journalist
05/06/1912 Barend Roest Crollius, painter/writer (Chronicle Sins of Youth) 05/06/1912 Bill Quinn, NYC, actor (Rifleman, Van Ranseleer-All in the Family) 05/06/1912 Hugh Martell, British Vice Admiral
05/06/1913 Carmen Cavallaro, US, actress(?)
05/06/1913 Gyula David, composer
05/06/1913 Jack [John T] Aitken, British anatomist
05/06/1913 Ronald Harris, British 1st Church Estates Commissioner
05/06/1913 Stewart Granger, [James Stewart], London, actor (Prisoner of Zenda) 05/06/1913 Woody Herman, US jazz clarinetist/composer (Thundering Herds) 05/06/1915 George Perle, Bayonne NJ, composer (12 Tone Tonality)
05/06/1915 John Arnold, British high court judge
05/06/1915 May Henriquez-Alvarez, Cura�aos sculptor
05/06/1915 Orson Welles, Kenosha Wisc, actor (Citizen Kane, War of the Worlds) 05/06/1915 Theodore H White, historian/writer (Making of President)
05/06/1918 Godfrey Ridout, composer
05/06/1919 Frank Ereaut, Balliff of Jersey
05/06/1920 John Henderson, Lord-Lieutenant (Berkshire England)
05/06/1921 Freddy Randall, jazz trumpeteer
05/06/1921 Robert Fell, CEO (British Stock Exchange)
05/06/1921 Ross Hunter, US, actor(?)
05/06/1922 Alan Ross, editor (London Magazine)
05/06/1922 Carlos J Moorhead, (Rep-R-CA, 1973- )
05/06/1922 Pat Harder, Milwaukee, NFL fullback (Cardinals, Lions)
05/06/1923 Elizabeth Sellars, Glasgow Scotland, actress (Chalk Garden) 05/06/1924 Mimi Benzell, Bridgeport Ct, operatic soprano (Gilda-Rigoletto) 05/06/1925 Patrick Meany, CEO (Rank Organization)
05/06/1926 John Hamilton-Jones, CEO (Richmond Enterprises)/British Maj-Gen 05/06/1926 Marguerite Piazza, New Orleans LA, operatic soprano (Young Broadway)
05/06/1929 John Taylor, bishop (St Albans)/Lord High Almoner to Queen 05/06/1929 Rosemary Camp, president (Council for British Archaeology) 05/06/1931 Marvin Leath, (Rep-D-TX, 1979- )
05/06/1931 Willie Mays, baseball player, 'Say Hey Kid' (660 HRs, NL MVP 1954) 05/06/1932 Gunther Hauk, composer
05/06/1932 John Bond, cricket umpire
05/06/1933 Lord Pender
05/06/1934 Richard C Shelby, (Rep-D-AL (1979-86)/Sen-D-AL, 1987- )
05/06/1936 Joanna Dunham, actress (Possession, House the Dripped Blood) 05/06/1938 Eleanor Platt, QC
05/06/1939 Anthony Blacker, master-general of Ordnance
05/06/1940 Murray Sidlin, Baltimore Maryland, conductor (Natl Symph 1973-77) 05/06/1941 Fred J Eckert, (Rep-D-NY, 1985-87)
05/06/1941 Ghena Dimitrova, actress (Nabucco)
05/06/1945 Bob Seger, singer (Silver Bullet Band-Shake Down)
05/06/1945 Richard Eyers, LA Calif, actor (My Friend Irma, Stagecoach West) 05/06/1945 Victoria Bond, composer
05/06/1946 Jim Ramstad, (Rep-R-Minnesota)
05/06/1946 Susan Brown, actress (General Hospital)
05/06/1946 Sydne Rome, Akron Ohio, actress (What?, Candy)
05/06/1948 Lolita, [Abr�zame], spanish singer (Esp�rame)
05/06/1948 Richard Cox, NYC, actor (Mark-Executive Suite)
05/06/1949 David C Leestma, Muskegon Mich, USN/astronaut (STS 41-G, 28, 45) 05/06/1950 Robbie Mcintosh, drummer (Avg White Band-Show your Hand)
05/06/1953 Lynn Whitfield, Baton Rouge, actress (Josephine Baker, Equal Justice
05/06/1953 Tony Blair, British MP
05/06/1954 Sergei Nikolayevich Tresvyatsky, Russia, cosmonaut
05/06/1955 Donald A Thomas, Cleve Ohio, PhD/astronaut
05/06/1955 John Hutton, MP
05/06/1959 Charles Hendry, MP
05/06/1959 Eric D Fingerhut, (Rep-D-Ohio)
05/06/1959 Kate Collins, Boston Mass, actress (Natalie Hunter-All My Children) 05/06/1960 Bart de Farmer, guitarist (Ivy Green)
05/06/1960 Larry Steinbachek, rock synthersizer (Bronski Beat-Smalltown Boy) 05/06/1961 Clay O'Brien, Ray Az, actor (Weedy-Cowboys)
05/06/1962 Neil Foster, cricketer
05/06/1963 Alessandra Ferri, British ballerina
05/06/1964 Dana Hill, Van Nuys Calif, actress (2 of Us, Shoot the Moon) 05/06/1964 Kim Oden, Ala, US Olympic volleyball player (NCAA Play of Decade-80s
05/06/1964 Roma Downey, Derry Ireland, actress (JoAnna-One Life to Live) 05/06/1965 Norman Whiteside, British soccer player
05/06/1965 Zahid Sadiq, cricketer
05/06/1967 Patrick F Manning Jr, Poughkeepsie NY, rower (Olympic-92) 05/06/1968 Linnea Marie Fayard, Shrevept La, Miss Louisiana-America (1991-5th)


Deaths:

05/06/ 523 Thrasamunde, king of Vandalen
05/06/ 988 Dirk II, Westfries earl
05/06/1085 King Alfonso VI, of Le�n conquered Toledo, dies
05/06/1124 Balak, Emir of Aleppo, murdered
05/06/1475 Dieric Bouts, painter, dies at about 64
05/06/1527 Karel van Bourbon, military governor (Lombardije), dies at 37 05/06/1638 Cornelius Jansen, theologian, dies
05/06/1642 Frans Francken, the Younger, painter, dies on 61st birthday 05/06/1666 Paul Siefert, composer, dies at 80
05/06/1667 Johann Jacob Froberger, composer, dies at 50
05/06/1678 Joseph de La Barre, composer, dies at 44
05/06/1739 Bernardus Smijtegelt, vicar (Gekrookte Reed), dies at 63
05/06/1776 James Kent, composer, dies at 76
05/06/1794 Jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier, composer, dies at 60 05/06/1814 George Joseph Vogler, composer, dies at 65
05/06/1836 Christian Ignatius Latrobe, composer, dies at 78
05/06/1841 John Thomson, composer, dies at 35
05/06/1852 Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer, dies at 75
05/06/1856 William Hamilton, metaphysicist, dies
05/06/1859 Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, explorer/scientist, dies
05/06/1862 Henry David Thoreau, US writer/pacifist (Walden Pond), dies at 44 05/06/1864 Henry Livermore Abbott, US Union brig-general, dies in battle 05/06/1864 Micah Jenkins, Confederate brig-general (friendly fire), dies at 28 05/06/1882 Frederick Cavendish, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin 05/06/1882 Thomas Henry Burke, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin 05/06/1890 Hubert Leonard, composer, dies at 71
05/06/1892 Ernest Guiraud, composer, dies at 55
05/06/1904 Franz von Lenbach, artist, dies
05/06/1910 Edward VII, King of England (1901-10), dies
05/06/1916 Dirk Forest, liberal Member of Dutch 2nd parliament, dies at 53 05/06/1916 Earl Ross Drake, composer, dies at 50
05/06/1919 Lyman Frank Baum, author (Wizard of Oz), dies at 62
05/06/1924 Carel S Adama van Scheltema, poet/writer (socialism), dies at 47 05/06/1936 Hans Jelmoli, composer, dies at 59
05/06/1948 43 communist rebels, executed in Athens
05/06/1949 P-M-B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian philosopher (Nobel 1911), dies 05/06/1952 Alberto Savinio, Italian composer (Capitano Ulisse), dies at 60 05/06/1952 Maria Montessori, Italian physician/educationist, dies
05/06/1960 Paul Abraham, Hungarian composer (Blume von Hawaii), dies at 67 05/06/1961 Lucian Blaga, philospher/poet (Transcendental censor), dies at 65 05/06/1963 Monty Wooley, actor (Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 74
05/06/1964 Harold Morris, composer, dies at 74
05/06/1971 Helene Weigel, Austria/German actress/stage star, dies at 70 05/06/1973 Ernest MacMillan, composer, dies at 79
05/06/1975 J�zsef Mindszenty, [Joseph Prehm], Hungarian cardinal, dies at 83 05/06/1978 Ko van D�k Jr, Dutch actor (Zaak M P), dies at 61
05/06/1987 William J Casey, director of CIA (1981-87), dies at 73
05/06/1990 Charles Farrell, actor (Vern-My Little Margie), dies at 89 05/06/1991 Anthony van Kampen, writer (Ketelbinkie/Geschonden eldorado), dies 05/06/1991 Chucky Mullins, US soccer player, dies
05/06/1991 Wilfrid Hyde-White, Brits actor (Peyton Place/140+ films), dies at 8
05/06/1992 Jilly Rizzo, restauranteur/friend of Frank Sinatra, dies at 75 in ca
05/06/1992 Marlene Dietrich, [Maria Losch], actress (Angel), dies at 90 in Pari
05/06/1994 Moses Rosen, Romania's leading rabbi, dies at 81


Significant Events:

05/06/1312 Pope Clemens V signs council of Vienna
05/06/1527 Spanish & German Imperial troops sack Rome; ending Renaissance 05/06/1536 King Henry VIII, orders bible be placed in every church
05/06/1598 Arch duke Albrecht & Isabella become monarch of Southern Netherlands
05/06/1672 Brandenburgs monarch Frederik Willem signs treaty with Netherlands 05/06/1753 French King Louis XV observes transit of Mercury at Mendon Castle 05/06/1787 1st Black Masonic Lodge forms Prince Hall, Boston
05/06/1787 African Lodge # 459 organizes in Boston
05/06/1794 Haiti, under Toussaint L'Ouverture, revolts against France 05/06/1804 Suriname sold to English (util Feb, 1816)
05/06/1833 John Deere makes 1st steel plow
05/06/1840 1st postage stamps (Penny Black) issued (Great Britain)
05/06/1844 Johan Thorbecke argue general right to vote
05/06/1848 Otto Tank ends slavery in Suriname colony
05/06/1851 Dr John Gorrie patents a 'refrigeration machine'
05/06/1851 SF Chamber of Commerce starts
05/06/1853 1st major US rail disaster kills 46 (Norwalk, Connecticut) 05/06/1853 Train falls off bridge in S Norwalk Ct; 46 drown
05/06/1860 SF Olympic Club, 1st US athletic club founded
05/06/1861 Arkansas & Tennessee becomes 9th & 10th state to secede from US 05/06/1861 Jefferson Davis approves a bill declaring War between US & Confedera
05/06/1864 Battle of Port Walthall Junction, VA
05/06/1864 Battle of Wilderness-Gen Longstreet seriously injured
05/06/1864 General Sherman begins advance to Atlanta Georgia
05/06/1882 Epping Forest England dedicated by Queen Victoria
05/06/1882 US Congress ceases Chinese immigration
05/06/1889 Eiffel Tower in Paris, completed
05/06/1889 Universal Exposition opens in Paris
05/06/1890 Mormon Church renounces polygamy [1006-Truth Restored (Morman pub)] 05/06/1891 Conductors on London General Omnibus Company go on strike 05/06/1896 M Wolf discovers asteroid #417 Suevia
05/06/1902 British SS Camorta sinks off Rangoon; 739 die
05/06/1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes 'Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place' (BG) 05/06/1902 Zulu assault at Holkrantz South-Africa
05/06/1903 Chicago White Sox commit 12 errors against Detroit Tigers 05/06/1906 'Temporary' permit to erect overhead wires on Market St SF 05/06/1910 King George V ascends to British throne
05/06/1913 King Nikita I of Montenegro vacates Skoetari, North-Albania 05/06/1914 British house of lords rejects women suffrage
05/06/1915 Allies attack Cape Helles, Hellespont
05/06/1915 German U-20 sinks Centurion SE of Ireland
05/06/1915 Red Sox Babe Ruth pitching debut & 1st HR, loses to Yanks 4-3 in 15 05/06/1916 Belgian troop march into Kigali, German East-Africa
05/06/1917 St Louis Brown Bob Groom no-hits Chic White Sox, 3-0
05/06/1921 American Soccer League formed
05/06/1929 NY to SF footrace begins
05/06/1933 Italy & USSR sign trade agreement
05/06/1935 KTM-AM in Los Angeles Calif changes call letters to KEHE (now KABC) 05/06/1935 Pulitzer prize awarded to Audrey Wurdemann (Bright Ambush) 05/06/1937 Dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, NJ (36 die) 05/06/1940 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath) 05/06/1941 Josef Stalin becomes leader of USSR
05/06/1942 Corregidor & Philippines surrenders to Japanese Armies
05/06/1943 British 1st army opens assault on Tunis
05/06/1944 KJR-AM in Seattle Wash swaps calls with KOMO
05/06/1945 Gen J Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherland
05/06/1946 Pulitzer prize awarded to Arthur M Schlesinger (Age of Jackson)' 05/06/1950 Liz Taylor's 1st marriage (Conrad Hilton Jr)
05/06/1951 Pitts Pirate Cliff Chambers no-hits Boston Brave, 3-0
05/06/1953 Brown's Bobo Holloman 1st major league start, no-hits Phila A's, 6-0
05/06/1954 Roger Bannister breaks 4 minute mile (3:59:4)
05/06/1955 West Germany joins NATO
05/06/1956 WRCB TV channel 3 in Chattanooga, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting 05/06/1957 Italian govt of Segni resigns
05/06/1957 Pulitzer prize awarded to John F Kennedy (Profiles in Courage) 05/06/1960 English prince Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon
05/06/1960 Pres Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960
05/06/1960 Students attack Dutch embassy in Djakarta
05/06/1960 Trotsky's murderer Jacques Mornard (Ram�n Mercader), flees 05/06/1962 1st nuclear warhead fired from Polaris submarine (Ethan Allen) 05/06/1962 Antonio Segni elected president of Italy
05/06/1962 Pathet Lao breaks ceasefire/conquerors Took Tha Laos
05/06/1963 Pulitzer prize awarded to Barbara Tuchman (Guns of August) 05/06/1964 D McLeish discovers asteroid #2854
05/06/1966 Most runs scored in 11th inning (9) Phils score 5 to beat Pirates 8-
05/06/1967 400 students seize administration building at Cheyney State College 05/06/1967 C U Cesco & A R Klemol discovers asteroids #1829 Dawson,
05/06/1968 Battle between students & troops in Paris, 1000 injured
05/06/1968 Spain closes border to Gibralter except to Spaniards
05/06/1970 Yuchiro Miura of Japan skies down Mt Everest
05/06/1973 1st WHA championshiphip, Winnipeg Jets win 4 games to 1
05/06/1974 Bundy victim Roberta Parks disappears from OSU, Corvallis, Ore 05/06/1974 Smallest attendance at Phila's Veterans Stadium (4,149)
05/06/1974 Stolen 'Guitar Player' painting by Jan Vermeer found in London 05/06/1974 W German chancellor W Burns resigns
05/06/1975 Bundy victim Lynette Culver disappears from Pocatello, Idaho 05/06/1977 'Beatles at Hollywood Bowl,' released in UK
05/06/1978 South Africa military goes into Angola
05/06/1978 Steve Cauthen & Affirmed wins Kentucky Derby en route to Triple Crow
05/06/1979 Fred Markham set a bicycle speed record of 818 kph over 200 m 05/06/1981 C Shoemaker discovers asteroids #2742 Gibson, #2773 & #2982 Muriel 05/06/1982 Seattle Mariner Gaylord Perry becomes 15th pitcher to win 300 games 05/06/1984 Balt Oriole Cal Ripken Jr hits for cycle
05/06/1984 Jos� Napoleon Duarte wins El Salvador presidential election 05/06/1985 17th Space Shuttle Mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 lands at Edwards AFB 05/06/1986 Donald E Pelotte becomes 1st native American bishop
05/06/1987 Gary Hart denies affair with model Donna Rice
05/06/1987 Mario Andretti sets one-lap speed record at Indy at 218.204 MPH 05/06/1987 PTL's Jim Bakker & Rich Dortch dismissed from Assemblies of God 05/06/1989 Sunday Silence wins upset victory at Kentucky Derby
05/06/1990 Tom Cruise is ticketed for careless operation of a vehicle in SC 05/06/1991 Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) lands
05/06/1992 NY Met Anthony Young begins losing streak of at least 26 games 05/06/1993 STS-55 (Columbia) lands
05/06/1994 Chunnel linking England and France official opens
05/06/1994 Official opening of tunnel under the Canal
05/06/2012 Transit of Venus

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Births:

05/07/1530 Louis I Cond�, French prince/leader of hugenots
05/07/1574 Innocent X, [Giambattista Pamfili], 236th pope (1644-55)
05/07/1700 Gerard van Swieten, botanist
05/07/1704 Carl Henrich Graun, composer
05/07/1763 Josef Poniatovski, Polish general/marshal of France
05/07/1769 Giuseppe Farinelli, composer
05/07/1776 D�niel Berzsenyi, [Hungarian Horatius], Hungarian poet
05/07/1795 Gerhard M Roentgen, industrialist (founder dockyard Fijenoord) 05/07/1803 Johan Peter Cronhamm, composer
05/07/1812 Robert Browning, London England, poet (Pied Piper)
05/07/1826 Varina Howell Davis, 1st lady (Confederacy), died in 1905 05/07/1827 Charles TH Coster, Belgian literary (L�gendes flamandes)
05/07/1827 Francis Engle Patterson, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 18
05/07/1833 Johannes Brahms, German composer, enjoys a good lullaby
05/07/1840 Peter Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Votkinsk Russia, composer (1812 Overture)
05/07/1847 Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery (Lib), British PM (1894-95) 05/07/1861 Rabindranath Tagore, Hindu poet/mystic/composer (Nobel 1913) 05/07/1866 Cornelis JK van Aalst, president Dutch Business-Society
05/07/1873 Clarence Dickinson, composer
05/07/1882 Willem Elsschot, [Alfons J de Ridder], Flemish writer (Mend) 05/07/1883 Gino Roncaglia, composer
05/07/1883 Martin Albertz, German theologist (Church Jesus Christ)
05/07/1885 George 'Gabby' Hayes, US actor (In Old Santa Fe, El Paso) 05/07/1887 Henri Pourrat, French writer (Gaspard of the Montagnes)
05/07/1892 Archibald MacLeish, Glencoe Ill, polit essayist/poet/dramatist (JB) 05/07/1892 Josip Broz Tito, WW II partisan, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80) 05/07/1897 Kitty McKane, England, tennis (Oly-gold/2 silver/2 bronze-1920, 24) 05/07/1900 Bauke Tuinstra, Dutch/Friesian notary/author (Earste Keur) 05/07/1901 Gary Cooper, Montana, actor (2 Acad Awards-Sgt York, High Noon) 05/07/1901 L T Coggeshall, medical scientist/ US Secretary of HEW (1956-58) 05/07/1901 Marcel Poot, Belgian baron/composer
05/07/1907 Jef van Durme, composer
05/07/1908 Ed MacDonald, actor (Mysteries of Chinatown)
05/07/1908 Wouter Paap, composer
05/07/1909 Edwin H Land, inventor (instant photography (Polaroid))
05/07/1912 Paul H F Brenneker, Neth/Antillian photographer/folklorist 05/07/1917 Daniel Gill�s, Belgian writer
05/07/1917 David Tomlinson, US, actor (Mary Poppins, Helter Skelter) 05/07/1918 Argeliers Leon, composer
05/07/1919 Eva (Evita) Per�n-Duarte, Argentina, 1st lady/actress
05/07/1922 Darren McGavin, Spokane Wash, actor (Night Stalker, Tribes, Turk 182
05/07/1922 Gale Robbins, Chicago Ill, actress/singer (Hollywood House) 05/07/1923 Anne Baxter, Mich City Ind, actr (Myra-Marcus Welby, Victoria-Hotel)
05/07/1923 Pete V Domenici, (Sen-R-NM, 1973- )
05/07/1926 Val Bisoglio, NYC, actor (Lt Marsh-Police Woman, Danny-Quincy ME) 05/07/1927 Jim Lowe, Springfield Mass, DJ (WNEW) 'King of Trivia'
05/07/1929 Dick Williams, baseball player, manager (including Seattle 1986-87) 05/07/1930 Horst Bienek, German poet
05/07/1931 Gene [Rodman] Wolfe, US, sci-fi author (Soldier of Arete) 05/07/1931 Nel J Ginjar-Mas, Dutch Sect of State (VVD)
05/07/1931 Teresa Brewer, Toledo Ohio, singer (Put Another Nickel In) 05/07/1933 Johnny Unitas, NFL QB (Balt Colts, San Diego); one of the greats 05/07/1934 Donald Russell Holler, composer
05/07/1934 Heinz Marti, composer
05/07/1935 Kevin O'Connor, Honolulu Hawaii, actor (Bogie, Special Effects) 05/07/1936 Cornelius Cardew, composer
05/07/1938 Johnny Caldwell, Ireland, flyweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1956) 05/07/1939 Jimmy Ruffin, vocalist (What Becomes of Broken Hearted)
05/07/1939 Marco St John, New Orleans La, actor (Rayford-Ball Four)
05/07/1939 Rudolphus FM 'Ruud' Lubbers, director Dutch/CDA-premier (1982- ) 05/07/1940 Armando Krieger, composer
05/07/1943 Peter Horak, jetboat jumper
05/07/1944 Alison Margaret Bauld, composer
05/07/1944 Sivi Aberg, actress (Batman TV show)
05/07/1945 Robin Strasser, NYC, actress (Dorian-One Life to Live, Another World
05/07/1945 Wim A Mateman, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
05/07/1946 Bill Danoff, Springfield Mass, vocalist (Starland Vocal Band) 05/07/1946 Richard L Brodsky, US lawyer/NY State Assemblyman (D) (1983- ) 05/07/1950 Prairie Prince, rocker (Tubes)
05/07/1951 Janis Ian, [Fink], NYC, rocker (At 17, Society's Child)
05/07/1951 Robert Hegyes, NJ, actor (Underground Aces, Welcome Back Kotter) 05/07/1955 Peter Reckell, actor (Days of our Lifes)
05/07/1959 Tamara E Jernigan, [Tammy], Chattoonaga, astronaut (STS 40, 52, sk:6
05/07/1960 Arnon Ohad, co-pilot (El Al) plane that crashed on Bijlmer Amsterdam
05/07/1962 Robbie Knievel, daredevil, son of Evel
05/07/1964 Mustapha Zerqti, Moroccan/Neth writer (Ihtidaar hub fi el-mahd) 05/07/1968 Traci Lords, [Nora L Kuzma], Steubenville Oh, XXX actress (Cry Baby)
05/07/1969 Katerina Maleeva, Bulgaria, tennis player (US Open Junior 1984) 05/07/1987 Katie Danza, daughter of Tony & Tracy Danza


Deaths:

05/07/ 685 Marwan I ibn al-Hakam, 4th kalief of Omajjaden (684-85), dies 05/07/ 973 Otto I the Great, emperor of St Roman Rich, dies at 60
05/07/1205 Ladislaus III Arpad, King of Hungary (1204-05), dies
05/07/1523 Franz von Sickingen, German knight/protect of poor, dies in battle 05/07/1617 David Fabricius, German astronomer, dies at 53
05/07/1667 Johann J Froberger, German singer/composer, dies at 50
05/07/1673 Johannes Teellinck, vicar, dies at about 58
05/07/1736 John Weldon, composer, dies at 60
05/07/1792 Aert Schouman, bird/portrait painter, dies at 82
05/07/1793 Johan A Zoutman, lt admiral (battle of Doggersbank), dies at 68 05/07/1793 Pietro Nardini, composer, dies at 71
05/07/1800 Laurens P van Spiegel, regent/pension advisor (1787-95), dies at 64 05/07/1800 Niccol� Piccinni, Italian composer (Roland), dies at 72
05/07/1814 Franz Volrath Buttstett, composer, dies at 79
05/07/1818 Leopold Kozeluch, composer, dies at 71
05/07/1825 Antonio Salieri, Italian composer, dies in Vienna at 74
05/07/1836 Norbert Burgmuller, composer, dies at 26
05/07/1871 Louis Papineau, political reformer, dies
05/07/1876 Franz Grave von Pocci, German artist/composer (Alchemist), dies at 6
05/07/1884 Judah P Benjamin, confederate minister of War, dies
05/07/1900 Richard Storrs Willis, composer, dies at 81
05/07/1914 Edward Mollenhauer, composer, dies at 87
05/07/1915 Alfred G Vanderbilt, US millionaire, dies aboard Lusitania 05/07/1915 Alfred Scott Witherbee Jr, US Lusitania officer, dies
05/07/1915 Charles Frohman, dies aboard Lusitania
05/07/1928 Alexander Afanasii Spendiaryan, composer, dies at 56
05/07/1929 Albert Anselmi, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
05/07/1929 John Scalise, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
05/07/1929 Joseph 'Top Toad' Giunta, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone 05/07/1932 Albert Thomas, French social minister of Weapon production, dies 05/07/1934 Edward Naylor, composer, dies at 67
05/07/1941 David W�nkoop, revolutionary socialist, dies
05/07/1942 Felix Paul von Weingartner, Austria conductor/composer, dies at 79 05/07/1946 Anton A Mussert, engineer/NSB leader, executed
05/07/1958 Nyogen Senzaki, 1st Zen teacher to reside in USA, dies at 81 05/07/1968 Lurleen Burns, wife of George Wallace/gov of Alabama, dies at 41 05/07/1970 Carlos Estrada, composer, dies at 60
05/07/1971 Willem Banning, theologist/sociologist (Karl Marx), dies at 83 05/07/1977 Irwin Fischer, composer, dies at 73
05/07/1981 Mieczyslaw Kolinski, composer, dies at 79
05/07/1985 Dawn Addams, actress (Alan Young Show, Star Maidens), dies at 54 05/07/1986 Gaston Deferre, French politician, dies at 75
05/07/1989 Guy Williams, actor (Zorro, Lost in Space), dies in Argentina at 65 05/07/1994 Clement Greenberg, US art critic (Art & culture), dies at 85 05/07/1994 Margaret Skeete, oldest American, dies at 115


Significant Events:

05/07/1274 2nd Council of Lyons (14th ecumenical council) opens
05/07/1416 Monk Nicolaas Serrurier arrested because of heresy
05/07/1429 English siege of Orl�ans broken by Joan of Arc
05/07/1579 Congress of Cologne forms in Netherlands
05/07/1638 Cornelis S Goyer takes possession of Mauritius
05/07/1660 Isaack B Fubine of Savoys patents macaroni
05/07/1700 William Penn began monthly meetings for Blacks advocating emancipati
05/07/1727 Jews are expelled from Ukraine by Empress Catherine I of Russia 05/07/1748 French troops conquer Maastricht
05/07/1771 Samuel Hearne explores Copper Mine River of Canada
05/07/1789 1st inaugurational ball (NYC)
05/07/1792 Capt Robert Gray discovers Grays Harbor (Washington)
05/07/1800 Indiana Territory organized
05/07/1824 Beethoven's 9th (Chorale) Symphony performed for 1st time 05/07/1840 Tornado strikes Natchez Miss, kills 317
05/07/1847 American Medical Association organizes (Phila)
05/07/1848 Prussians stop insurrection in Varsovia
05/07/1856 Argentinian & Brazilian sign a navigation pact
05/07/1861 Riot occurs between prosecessionist & Union supporters in Knoxville
05/07/1862 Battle of West Point, VA (Eltham's Landing, Barnhamsville) 05/07/1862 Much of Enschede destroyed by fire
05/07/1864 Battle of Wilderness ends (total losses: USA-17,666; CSA-7,500) 05/07/1864 Skirmish at Port Walthall Junction Virginia (Drewry's Bluff) 05/07/1867 Blacks stage ride-in to protest segregation in New Orleans 05/07/1873 US marines attack Panama
05/07/1875 German SS Schiller sinks near Scilly Islands, 312 killed
05/07/1877 Cin Enquirer, 1st uses term 'Bullpen' to indicate foul territory 05/07/1885 John E W Thompson, named minister to Haiti
05/07/1888 Opera 'Le Roi D'ys' is produced (Paris)
05/07/1902 L Carnera discovers asteroid #485 Genua
05/07/1902 Soufriere volcano on St Vincent kills 2-5,000
05/07/1904 Flexible Flyer trademark registered
05/07/1904 R S Dugan discovers asteroid #535 Montague
05/07/1913 British House of Commons rejects women's suffrage
05/07/1914 US Congress establishes mother's day
05/07/1914 Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor marries in White House
05/07/1915 Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1198 lives lost
05/07/1920 USSR recognizes independence of Georgia
05/07/1922 Belgian soccer team defeats Netherlands: 1-2
05/07/1922 NY Giant Jesse Barnes no-hits Phillies, 2-0
05/07/1923 Mine strike at Belgian Borinage railroad
05/07/1924 Peruvian Torre forms APRA, Alianza Popular Revolutionaria Americana 05/07/1925 Phillies have their 8th game postponed in a row
05/07/1925 Pirate shortstop Glenn Wright makes an unassisted triple play 05/07/1927 SF Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated
05/07/1928 England lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21
05/07/1928 Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for (Bridge of San Luis Re
05/07/1929 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1146 Biarmia
05/07/1932 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1243 Pamela & #1321 Majuba 05/07/1934 Neth Princess Juliana opens Juliana Canal
05/07/1934 Part of Khabarovsk becomes a Jewish Autnomous Region
05/07/1934 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley (One in White)
05/07/1934 World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines 05/07/1939 Germany & Italy announce their alliance (Rome-Berlin Axis) 05/07/1940 Winston Churchill becomes PM of Britain
05/07/1941 British House of Commons votes for Churchill (477-3)
05/07/1941 Cornerstone of B of A building at 300 Montgomery laid
05/07/1941 Glenn Miller records 'Chattanooga Choo Choo' for RCA
05/07/1942 Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion
05/07/1942 Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto execute
05/07/1943 British troop occupy Tunis
05/07/1943 Dutch men 18-35 obliged to report to labor camps
05/07/1943 Liberty Ship George Washington Carver, named after scientist, launch
05/07/1945 British troops pull into Utrecht Neth
05/07/1945 Germany signs unconditional surrender; WW II ends in Europe 05/07/1945 Mauthausen Concentration Camp liberated
05/07/1945 Nazi generals Jodl & Von Friedenburg surrender
05/07/1945 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Hersey (Bell for Adano)
05/07/1945 SS open fire on crowd in Amsterdam, killing 22
05/07/1946 William H Hastie inaugurated as 1st black governor of Virgin Islands
05/07/1947 'Kraft Television Theater' premieres on NBC
05/07/1947 General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution
05/07/1947 Paraguayian govt unleashes contra revolt
05/07/1948 Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentence to death 05/07/1951 Pulitzer prize awarded to Conrad Richter (The Town)
05/07/1953 Record 537-kg swordfish was caught by LE Marron, in Chile 05/07/1954 French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu 05/07/1954 US, Great-Britain & France reject Russian membership in NATO 05/07/1955 Bill Shoemaker aboard Swaps, beats Eddie Arcaro on Nashua in Derby 05/07/1955 USSR signs peace treaty with France & Great-Britain
05/07/1955 West Europe Union established
05/07/1956 Battle at Oran, Algeria, kills 300
05/07/1956 Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett 05/07/1957 Herb Score hit in face by Gil McDougald's line drive
05/07/1957 Maj Johnson, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to 17.28 miles (27.8 K
05/07/1958 Howard Johnson sets aircraft altitude record in F-104, 27,810 m 05/07/1960 Leonid Brezhnev becomes president of USSR
05/07/1960 Michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12�-8� for world chess championship 05/07/1962 Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960
05/07/1963 Bruno Sammartino becomes WWF champ
05/07/1963 SETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km))
05/07/1965 WAOW TV channel 9 in Wausau, WI (ABC) begins broadcasting 05/07/1966 Mamas & Papas 'Monday Monday' hits #1
05/07/1966 Yankees fire manager Johnny Keene
05/07/1969 Oakland Oaks beat Indiana Pacers in 2nd ABA championship, 4 games to
05/07/1972 Lakers beat Knicks for NBA championship, 4 games to 1
05/07/1973 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter) 05/07/1974 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin)
05/07/1975 Flyers 3-Isles 4 (OT)-Semifinals-Flyers hold 3-1 lead
05/07/1975 Pres Ford declares an end to 'Vietnam Era'
05/07/1975 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays 05/07/1977 Jean Cruguet on Seattle Slew wins 103rd Kentucky Derby (2:02.2) 05/07/1979 5th UNCTAD-conference opens in Manila
05/07/1979 Gary Roenicke hits into Orioles 13th triple play (Oakland) 05/07/1982 Federal jury rules NFL violates antitrust laws in preventing 05/07/1982 IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1
05/07/1982 Oakland Raiders to move to LA
05/07/1983 August Hoffman perform record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups
05/07/1983 Bruins 4-Isles 8-Wales Conf Championship-Isles win series 4-2 05/07/1984 $180m out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit 05/07/1987 105� F, Sacramento, CA
05/07/1987 Diane Chambers' (Shelley Long) final episode on Cheers
05/07/1988 Winning Colors becomes 3rd filly to win Kentucky Derby
05/07/1989 Mark Merrony (Wales) cycles for 30 mins in Nepal at 21,030 feet 05/07/1989 Panamanian voters reject dictator Manuel Noriega's bid for presidenc
05/07/1992 5 NYC cops arrested in Hauppauge Long Island for selling cocaine 05/07/1992 Jockey Angel Cordero retires after winning over 7,000 horse races 05/07/1992 US space shuttle STS-49 launched (maiden voyage of Endeavour) 05/07/1994 Denver Nuggets become NBA's 1st #8 seed to beat a #1 seed (Seattle) 05/07/1994 Edvard Munchs painting 'The Scream' recovered 3 months after stolen 05/07/1994 Go For Gin wins Kentucky Derby

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Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date
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By Scott Labrecque ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date
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By Scott Labrecque ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Births:

06/11/1572 Ben Jonson, England, playwright/poet (Volpone, Alchemist) 06/11/1672 Francesco Antonio Bonporti, composer
06/11/1697 Francesco Antonio Vallotti, composer
06/11/1704 Jose Antonio Carlos de Seixas, composer
06/11/1719 Franz K von Velbruck, German free mason/prince-bishop of Luik 06/11/1723 J G Palitzsch, 1st saw Halley's comet on return, Prolitz
06/11/1740 Luigi Gatti, composer
06/11/1776 John Constable, England, landscape painter (Hay Wain)
06/11/1807 James Findlay Schenck, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882 06/11/1808 Charles Henry Poor, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882
06/11/1816 Robert Huston Milroy, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
06/11/1822 Samuel Davis Sturgis, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1889 06/11/1823 James Lawson Kemper, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1895 06/11/1829 Hendrik Gerhard, Founder (Dutch Social-Democratic)
06/11/1840 Henri Braekeleer, Flemish painter/etser
06/11/1842 Alfred, Liechtenstein noble
06/11/1847 Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of English women's movement 06/11/1861 Sigismund Vladislavovich Zaremba, composer
06/11/1863 Eduard David, German parliamentary member (constitution of Weimar) 06/11/1864 Richard G Strauss, Munich Germany, composer (Till Eulenspiegel) 06/11/1865 John H Leopold, poet (translated Omar Khayyam)
06/11/1867 Charles Fabry, found ozone layer in upper atmosphere
06/11/1874 Richard Stohr, composer
06/11/1876 Alfred L Kroeber, Hoboken NJ, author (Anthropologist looks at Histor
06/11/1880 Jeannette Rankin, 1st woman elected to US Congress (from Montana) 06/11/1883 Frank O King, Cashton Wisc, 'Gasoline Alley' cartoonist
06/11/1886 David Steinman, NYC, bridge designer (Hudson, Triborough) 06/11/1886 Lillian Fontaine, actress (Suddenly it's Spring)
06/11/1892 Edward B B Shanks, British poet/critic
06/11/1895 Nikolai A Bulganin, Gorki Russia, premier of USSR (1955-58) 06/11/1899 George Frederick McKay, composer
06/11/1899 Yasonari Kawabata, Japan, novelist (Thousand Cranes)
06/11/1900 Lawrence E Spivak, Bkln NY, news panelist (Meet the Press) 06/11/1902 Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin, composer
06/11/1903 Ernie Nevers, NFL fullback (Duluth Eskimos, Chicago Cardinals) 06/11/1904 Emil Frantisek Burian, composer
06/11/1906 Heinrich Hart, Germany, writer (Song of the Menschheit)
06/11/1907 Anton D Hildebrand, children's book writer (Man in the Moon) 06/11/1907 Paul Mellon, US, oil magnate/pres (Washington National Gallery of Ar
06/11/1910 Jacques-Yves Cousteau, France, oceanic explorer aboard Calypso 06/11/1911 Russ Hodges, Dayton Tn, sportscaster (Wednesday Night Fights) 06/11/1912 Mukhtar Ashrafi, composer
06/11/1913 John Terry, managing director (National Film Finance Corp) 06/11/1913 Revaz Kondrat'yevich Gabichvadze, composer
06/11/1913 Ris� Stevens, NYC, mezzo-soprano (Met Opera)/actor (Going My Way) 06/11/1913 Vince Lombardi, NFL coach (Green Bay Packers)
06/11/1914 Gerald Mohr, NYC, actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue)
06/11/1914 Hendrik Berkhof, theologist (Church & Emperor)
06/11/1914 Henry G Cisheros, (Mayor-D-San Antonio)
06/11/1917 James Bostock, painter/engraver
06/11/1918 Nelson Mandela, civil right activist in South Africa
06/11/1919 Richard Todd, Ireland, actor (Dorian Gray, Assassin Yangtse Incident
06/11/1920 Bir Bikram Shah Deva Mahendra, King of Nepal (1955-72)
06/11/1920 Hazel Scott, Trinidad, singer/pianist (Hazel Scott)
06/11/1920 Irving Howe, US, writer/critic (World of Our Fathers)
06/11/1920 Robert Hutton, Kingston NY, actor (Torture Garden, Rocket) 06/11/1921 Beatrice 'Fiet' van Ommeren-Samson, Suriname writer
06/11/1921 Michael Meyer, UK, novelist/Ibsen translator (Hedda Gabler) 06/11/1922 Erving Goffman, sociologist (presentation of self in everyday life) 06/11/1922 John Bromfield, South Bend In, actor (Easy to Love)
06/11/1922 Michael Cacoyannis, director (Zorba the Greek, Trojan Women) 06/11/1923 Gerard Vaughn, conservative MP
06/11/1925 William Styron, Va, novelist (Confess of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice
06/11/1926 Carlisle Floyd, Latta SC, composer (Slow Dusk)
06/11/1927 Beryl Grey, prima ballerina
06/11/1927 John Aspinall, owner (casino, zoos)
06/11/1927 Josef Anton Reidl, composer
06/11/1927 Marcus Fox, conservative MP/chairman (1922 Committee)
06/11/1928 Fabiola de Mora y Arag�n, Queen of Belgium
06/11/1928 Gerard van Le�enhorst, Dutch Sect of State (CDA)
06/11/1930 Charles B Rangel, (Rep-D-NY, 1971- )
06/11/1931 Lord Cameron of Lochbroom, lord advocate
06/11/1931 Lucianna Paluzzi, Rome Italy, actress (Five Fingers, Thunderball) 06/11/1931 Tab Hunter, NYC, actor (Tab Hunter Show)
06/11/1932 Athol Fugard, South Africa, anti-apartheid writer (Blood Knot) 06/11/1932 Timothy Sainsbury, British minister of state
06/11/1933 Jud Strunk, Jamestown NY, singer/comedian (Laugh-In)
06/11/1934 Anthony Evans, British high court judge
06/11/1935 Gene Wilder, [Jerome Silbermann], Milwaukee, actor (Silver Streak) 06/11/1936 Chad Everett, South Bend In, actor (Medical Center, Airplane II) 06/11/1937 Johnny Brown, St Petersburg Fla, comedian (Good Times, Leslie Uggams
06/11/1939 Barry Porter, conservative MP
06/11/1939 Jackie Stewart, Scotland, driver/sports announcer (27 Grand Prix) 06/11/1940 Joey Dee, Passaic NJ, actor (Hey Let's Twist, 2 Tickets to Paris) 06/11/1940 Rachel Heyhoe Flint, cricketer/British broadcaster
06/11/1944 Alan Horworth, MP
06/11/1944 Barry Stevens, British/Neth choreographer
06/11/1944 James 'Ox' D A Van Hoften, Fresno Calif, astronaut (STS 11, STS 20) 06/11/1945 Adrienne Barbeau, wife of John Carpenter/actress (Maude, Swamp Thing
06/11/1946 Jenny Pittman, horse trainer
06/11/1946 Michael Wilkes, commander UK Field Army
06/11/1948 Anthony Nelson, British Sec of Treasury
06/11/1949 Frank Beard, rocker (ZZ Top-She Got Lets, Fandango)
06/11/1950 Debbie 'Pokey' Watson, US, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-196
06/11/1950 Lindsey de Paul, singer
06/11/1950 Michael Swan, Palo Alto Calif, actor (Duncan-As The World Turns) 06/11/1951 Jan Frenchn, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (VVD)
06/11/1951 Maren Seidler, Bkln NY, shot putter (Olympics-11th-1968)
06/11/1951 Mark D Siljander, (Rep-R-MI, 1981- )
06/11/1952 Russell Hitchcock, rocker (Air Supply-All out of Love)
06/11/1953 Peter Bergman, actor (All My Children, Starland Vocal Band) 06/11/1954 Gary Fencik, NFL defensive back (Chicago Bears)
06/11/1954 John Dyson, cricketer
06/11/1955 Tony Allcock, bowler
06/11/1956 Joe Montana, NFL quarterback (SF 49ers)
06/11/1959 Hugh Laurie, actor (Strapless)
06/11/1964 Kim Gallagher, Phila, 800m runner (Olympic-silver-1984)
06/11/1966 Tiffany Cohen, Culver City Calif, swimmer (Olympic-2 gold-1984) 06/11/1967 Clare Carey, actress (Kelly Fox Rosebrock-Coach)
06/11/1969 Nancy Blogg, Swiss dancer (Josephine)
06/11/1973 Robby Kiger, Encino Calif, actor (Crazy Like a Fox)


Deaths:

06/11/1216 Hendrik of Constantinople, emperor of Constantinople (1206-16), dies
06/11/1249 Adelheid van Schaarbeek, Flemish mystic/saint, dies
06/11/1479 Johannes a San Facundo, Spanish Augustine saint, dies
06/11/1560 Marie Guise, French wife of king Jacobus V of Scotland, dies at 44 06/11/1666 Cornelis Evertsen the Old, Swiss vice-admiral, dies in battle at 55 06/11/1698 Balthasar Bekker, theologist (Bewitched World), dies
06/11/1764 Christoph Stoltzenberg, composer, dies at 74
06/11/1775 Egidio Romoaldo Duni, composer, dies at 67
06/11/1808 Giovanni Battista Cirri, composer, dies at 83
06/11/1879 Willem, (crown)prince of Orange, dies of bronchitis or murder at 39 06/11/1896 Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer, dies at 72
06/11/1900 Charles Swinnerton Heap, composer, dies at 53
06/11/1903 Draga Masin, wife of Serbian king Aleksandar I, murdered
06/11/1908 Georg Adler, German statehouse head, dies at 45
06/11/1912 L�on Dierx, French poet, dies
06/11/1913 Machmoed Sjevket Pasja, Turks grand vizier, murdered
06/11/1915 Luis Coloma, Spanish jesuit/writer (Peque�eces, Boy), dies 06/11/1924 Alexander F de Savornin Lohmann, Dutch minister (CHU), dies at 87 06/11/1924 Theodore Dubois, composer, dies at 86
06/11/1929 Gyula Andr�ssy Jr, Hungarian minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 68
06/11/1949 Koci Xoxe, Albanian vice-premier, executed
06/11/1949 Oton Zupanic, Slavs poet (Zimzelen pod snegom), dies at 71 06/11/1955 Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, French industrialist, dies
06/11/1955 Marcel Louis Auguste Samuel-Rousseau, composer, dies at 72 06/11/1955 Walter Hampden, actor (Sabrina, 5 Fingers, Vagabond King), dies at 7
06/11/1956 Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer (Poesie grigio-verdi)
06/11/1963 Quang Duc, Buddhist monk, immolates himself on a street in Saigon 06/11/1966 Ethel Clayton, actress (Warning Shadows), dies at 82
06/11/1966 Wallace Ford, actor (Deputy), dies at 68
06/11/1967 Billy Wells, actor, dies
06/11/1969 John L Lewis, formed Congress of Industrial Organizations, dies at 8
06/11/1969 J�szi Ters�nszky, Hungarian writer (Till Next Time), dies at 81 06/11/1970 Aleksandr F Kerenski, Russian premier (1917), dies at 89
06/11/1970 Camille Bombois, French circus/painter, dies at 87
06/11/1970 Frank Laubach, Benton Pa, taught reading through phonetics, dies 06/11/1970 Frank Silvera, actor (High Chaparral), dies at 55
06/11/1975 Floro Manuel Ugarte, composer, dies at 90
06/11/1979 August Maes, Flemish actor/director (Farmer that Dies), dies at 85 06/11/1979 John Wayne, [Marion M Morrison], US actor (True Grit), dies of cance
06/11/1981 Eppo Doeve, graphic artist/cartoonist/painter, dies at 73 06/11/1984 Enrico Berlinguer, secr-general (CP) Italy, dies
06/11/1985 Karen Ann Quinlan, dies in Morris Plains, NJ at 31
06/11/1986 Robert E Howard, sci-fi author (Conan the Conquerer), dies at 80 06/11/1988 Giuseppe Saragat, president of Italy (1964-71), dies at 89 06/11/1988 Nathan Cook, actor (White Night), dies of an allergic reaction at 38
06/11/1991 Vlastimil Fisar, Czech actor/pres (Intl Actors Federation), dies 06/11/1992 Marjorie Newell Robb, oldest living survivor of Titantic, dies at 10
06/11/1992 Marlene Hazlett, entertainer, dies
06/11/1992 Scotty Sachs, actor, dies
06/11/1993 Muriel C Bradbrook, English writer (Rise of Common Player), dies at
06/11/1993 Ray Sharkey, actor (Wiseguy, No Mercy, Body Rock), dies of AIDs at 4
06/11/1994 Herb Anderson, actor (Dennis the Menace), dies at 77


Significant Events:

06/11/1184 -BC- Greeks finally captured Troy
06/11/1231 Harderwijk becomes a city
06/11/1488 Battle of Sauchieburn, Scotland
06/11/1517 Sir Thomas Pert reached Hudson Bay
06/11/1572 Spanish co-land guardian duke of Medinaceli arrives in Lock 06/11/1644 Florentine scientist describe invention of barometer
06/11/1666 -14] Vierdaagse Sea battle (Ruyter-Monk vs Prince Ruprecht) 06/11/1676 Battle at �land: Danish & Dutch fleet under CM Tromp beats Sweden 06/11/1770 Capt Cook runs aground on Australian Great Barrier Reef
06/11/1788 1st British ship built on Pacific coast begun at Nootka Sound, BC 06/11/1859 Comstock silver load discovered near Virginia City, Nevada 06/11/1864 300' (90 m) of Meigg's Wharf washed away in storm
06/11/1864 Battle at Cynthiana Kentucky: Gen Hobsons unit caught
06/11/1864 Battle of Laurel Hill, WV
06/11/1864 Battle of Trevillian Station, VA (Central Railroad)
06/11/1870 1st-stone Amstel Brewery opens in Amsterdam
06/11/1876 Republican pick Rutherford Hayes as president candidate
06/11/1891 A Charlois discovers asteroid #311 Claudia
06/11/1891 Puerto Rican flag adopted
06/11/1895 1st auto race
06/11/1896 US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota authorized
06/11/1898 600 US marines land at Guantanamo Cuba
06/11/1898 Emperor De Zong proclaims reforms in Peking
06/11/1900 -12] Battle at Diamond Hill: British troops chase General Botha 06/11/1901 Cook Islands annexed & proclaimed part of New Zealand
06/11/1904 Cub's Bob Wicker no-hits NY Giants, wins in 12th on 1 hitter, 1-0 06/11/1905 Penns Railroad debuts fastest train in world (NY-Chicago in 18 hrs) 06/11/1911 Tigers trailing White Sox 13-1 come back to win 16-15
06/11/1911 UNIA founded by Garvey
06/11/1919 Sir Barton wins 51st Belmont Stakes (2:17.4) & 1st Triple Crown 06/11/1919 Walter Hagen wins US Open golf tournament
06/11/1920 Republicans nominate Warren G Harding for president
06/11/1921 Brazil votes for women sufferage
06/11/1924 Koos Vorrink elected President of AJC
06/11/1927 Babe Ruth hits 19th & 20th of 60 HRs
06/11/1929 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1147 Stavropolis
06/11/1932 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1222 Tina
06/11/1934 Disarmament conference in Geneva fails
06/11/1936 Presbyterian Church of America founded at Philadelphia
06/11/1937 Marx Brothers' 'A Day At The Races' released
06/11/1938 Cin Red Johnny Vander Meer no-hits Boston Braves, 3-0
06/11/1938 Earthquake in Belgium
06/11/1938 Ralph Guldahl wins again US Open golf tournament
06/11/1939 King & Queen of England taste 1st 'hot dogs' at FDR's party 06/11/1940 Italy declares war on allies/raids Malta
06/11/1940 Premier Winston Churchill flies to Orleans
06/11/1941 2nd great raid on Jews of Amsterdam
06/11/1942 German army defeated at El-Alamein North Africa
06/11/1942 US & USSR sign Lend-Lease agreement during WW II
06/11/1943 British invasion on Pantelleria
06/11/1944 15 US aircraft carriers attack Japanese bases on Marianas 06/11/1944 1st Serbian Orthodox cathedral in US, Cathedral of St Sava, NYC 06/11/1944 KP gang surprise attack on Dome Arnhem jail
06/11/1947 WW II sugar rationing finally ends
06/11/1949 Cary Middlecoff wins US Open golf tournament
06/11/1949 Emile Zatopek runs world record 10,000m (29:28.2)
06/11/1950 Ben Hogan wins US Open golf tournament
06/11/1951 Mozambique becomes an oversea province of Portugal
06/11/1955 1st jet magnesium airplane flown
06/11/1955 Eddie Arcaro ties record of 6 Belmont Stakes wins
06/11/1955 Le Mans race car accident kills 83 spectators
06/11/1957 12 die in a train crash in Vroman Colo
06/11/1958 UN Security council sends observers to Lebanon
06/11/1959 Postmaster General bans D.H. Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Love
06/11/1960 House packed with wedding celebrants collapses killing 30 (Pakistan)
06/11/1961 Norm Cash becomes 1st Det Tiger to hit a ball out of Tiger Stadium 06/11/1961 Roger Maris hits 19th & 20th of 61 HRs
06/11/1963 Gov Wallace tries to prevent blacks registering at U of Alabama 06/11/1963 Greek govt of Karamanlis resigns
06/11/1963 JFK says segregation is morally wrong & that it is 'time to act' 06/11/1964 West Germany seeks talks with Czechoslovakia
06/11/1966 French & German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry 06/11/1967 Chicago Cubs (7) & NY Mets (4) tie record of 11 HRs in a game 06/11/1967 Race riot in Tampa Florida; National Guard mobilizes
06/11/1969 David Bowie releases 'Space Oddity'
06/11/1970 US leaves Wheelus AFB Libya
06/11/1971 US & Japan sign accord to return Okinawa to Japan
06/11/1972 KPAT-AM in Berkeley CA returns from KRE
06/11/1974 Bundy victim Georgann Hawkins disappears from UW, Seattle, Wash 06/11/1975 1st oil pumped from North Sea oilfield
06/11/1975 Greece adopts constitution
06/11/1976 Anti-apartheid advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza arrested in South Africa 06/11/1977 Dutch marines rescued hostages from a Moluccan held train in Holland
06/11/1977 ELO releases 'Telephone Line'
06/11/1977 Main Street Electrical Parade premieres [Disneyland? WDW?] 06/11/1977 Seattle Slew wins 109th Belmont Stakes (2:29.6) & triple crown 06/11/1980 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2531 Cambridge
06/11/1980 K-Ingleside streetcar converts to METRO service (SF)
06/11/1981 Mariners beat Orioles 8-2 at Kingdome, then players go on strike 06/11/1982 Israel & Syria stop fighting in Lebanon
06/11/1982 Larry Holmes defeats Gerry Cooney, retains WBC heavyweight crown 06/11/1982 Movie 'ET The Extra-Terrestrial' released (highest grossing film) 06/11/1982 Pope John Paul II visits Argentina
06/11/1983 Zhu Jianhua of China set a new world record in high jump at 7-9 14 06/11/1984 Funeral for S Nakagawa & burial of half of his ashes
06/11/1985 Von Hayes becomes 21st to hit 2 HRS in an inning (Phils-26, Mets-7) 06/11/1985 WJW-AM/TV in Cleveland Ohio change call letters to WRMR
06/11/1987 British premier Margaret Thatcher elected
06/11/1987 Margaret Thatcher is 1st British PM in 160 years to win 3rd cons ter
06/11/1988 Galina Chistyakova of USSR sets long jump woman's record (24'8�') 06/11/1988 Yanks' Rick Rhoden becomes 1st pitcher to DH (0 for 1 with an RBI) 06/11/1990 UN appoints Olivia Newton-John environmental ambassador
06/11/1991 Chicago Bulls beat LA Lakers 4 games to 1 for NBA title
06/11/1991 Microsoft releases MS DOS 5.0
06/11/1992 US Olympic baseball team plays 1st exhibtion game, beat Venez 20-0 06/11/1993 Rafsanjani elected president of Iran
06/11/1993 Spielberg's 'Jurassic Park' premieres
06/11/1994 Drunken officer shoots 7 people dead in Falun Sweden
06/11/1994 Tabasco Cat wins the Belmont stakes

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Births:

06/12/1468 Juan del Encina, composer
06/12/1519 Cosmos de Medici, art patron (Accademia del Disegno)
06/12/1526 Marc-Antoine de Muret, composer
06/12/1599 Jan W van Brederode, governor (Hertogenbosch)/field marshal 06/12/1771 Patrick Gass, Falling Springs PA, sgt of Lewis & Clark Expedition 06/12/1795 John Marston Jr, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1885
06/12/1798 Samuel Cooper, General (Confederate Army), died in 1876
06/12/1819 Charles Kingsley, [Parson Lot], Engl vicar/historian (Westward Ho!) 06/12/1821 Henry Moses Judah, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1866 06/12/1825 John Cook, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1910 06/12/1829 Johanna Spyri, Switzerland, writer (Heidi)
06/12/1840 Jakub Arbes, Czech author (Modern� Up�ri)
06/12/1842 Rikard Nordraak, composer
06/12/1851 Oliver Joseph Lodge, England, early radio pioneer
06/12/1857 Achille Simonetti, composer
06/12/1874 Willem Louis Frederic Landre, composer
06/12/1876 Narciso Garay, composer
06/12/1877 Thomas C Hart, US admiral (Asiatic fleet)
06/12/1878 James O Curwood, US, journalist/writer (Kazan the wolfdog) 06/12/1881 Juan de Hernandez, composer
06/12/1885 Werner Erich Josten, Elberfeld Germany, composer (Jungle) 06/12/1890 Egon Schiele, Austrian painter/graphic artist
06/12/1892 John Donald Robb, composer
06/12/1893 Kommer Kle�n, actor (Paul Vlaanderen)
06/12/1897 Alexandre Tansman, Lodz Poland, composer (Dyptique)
06/12/1897 Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon (C), British PM (1955-57)
06/12/1900 Amadeo Roldan, composer
06/12/1902 Hendrik J Elias, Flemish historian
06/12/1904 Eino Roiha, composer
06/12/1907 Giorgio Nataletti, composer
06/12/1908 Max Tailleur, adjudant to Prince Bernhard/Jewish humorist 06/12/1908 Otto Skorzeny, German/Austrian SS F�hrer (Mussolini/Horthy) 06/12/1909 Archie Bleyer, Corona NY, orch leader (Arthur Godfrey)
06/12/1909 Mansel Treharne Thomas, composer
06/12/1911 Milovan Djilas, Yugoslavia, writer/politician (New Class) 06/12/1912 Russell 'Lucky' Hayden, Chico Calif, actor (Judge Roy Bean) 06/12/1914 Maurice Ohana, British?/French? pianist/composer (La C�lestine) 06/12/1914 William Lundigan, Syracuse NY, actor (Climax)
06/12/1915 David Rockefeller, banker/international power broker
06/12/1916 Irwin Allen, disaster-movie producer (Towering Inferno)
06/12/1917 Priscilla Lane, US, actress (Arsenic & Old Lace)
06/12/1919 Uta Hagen, Germany, actress (Boys From Brazil)/teaches acting 06/12/1919 Vera Hruba Ralston, Czech, actress (Dakota, Accused of Murder) 06/12/1920 Peter Jones, England, actor (From a Bird's Eye View)
06/12/1921 Hendrik J Witteveen, economist/minister of Finance/ director IMF 06/12/1921 James Houston, Toronto, author/filmmaker (Tikta'Liktak)
06/12/1921 Vera Hruba Ralston, actress (Dakota, Flame, Surrender, Timberjack) 06/12/1922 Leif Thybo, composer
06/12/1923 Marta Pan, Hungarian/French sculptor (Great spiral)
06/12/1924 George Herbert Walker Bush, (R) 43rd VP (1981-89) 41st Pres (1989-93
06/12/1927 Henry Slesar, Brooklyn NY, headwriter (Edge of Night)
06/12/1928 Vic Damone, [Vito Farinola], Bkln, singer (Street Where You Live) 06/12/1929 Anne Frank, Holland, Nazi victim/diarist (Diary of Anne Frank) 06/12/1930 Barbara Harris, famous African
06/12/1930 Hans Koetsier, speed artist (KLM-Schiphol)
06/12/1932 Jim Nabors, Sylacauga Al, actor/singer (Gomer Pyle)
06/12/1932 Mamo Wolde, Ethiopia, marathoner (Olympic-gold-1968)
06/12/1932 Rona Jaffe, novelist (Mazes & Monsters)
06/12/1936 Bill Zeliff, (Rep-R-New Hampshire)
06/12/1939 Francis X McCloskey, (Rep-D-Indiana)
06/12/1939 Frank McCloskey, (Rep-D-IN, 1983- )
06/12/1939 GAI Schu�t, Dutch jurist (right of information)
06/12/1941 Chick Corea, Chelsea Mass, jazz pianist (Delhpi I, Toy Dance) 06/12/1941 Lucille Roybal-Allard, (Rep-D-California)
06/12/1941 Roy Harper, Manchester, rocker (Folkjokeopus)
06/12/1943 Marv Albert, NYC, 'Yes!' sportscaster (NBC-TV)
06/12/1943 Reg Presley, rock vocalist (Troggs-Wild Thing)
06/12/1944 Linda Foster, Lancaster England, actress (Doris-Hank)
06/12/1944 Maurice Jackson, US singer (Independents-Leaving You)
06/12/1945 James Naughton, US, actor (Trauma Center) [or 7/6/46]
06/12/1947 Ronald J Freeman II, Elizabeth NJ, 4x400m runner (Olympic-gold-1968)
06/12/1951 Brad Delp, guitarist (Boston-More Than a Feeling)
06/12/1952 Ben E Carlos, drummer (Cheap Trick-Dream Police)
06/12/1952 Dale Krantz, singer (Crossings-Collis Band)
06/12/1952 Oliver Knussen, Glasgow Scotland, composer (Chicara)
06/12/1952 Seigfried Brietzke, German DR, coxless rower (Oly-gold-1972, 76, 80)
06/12/1953 Grace Jones, Kingston Jamacia (she claims but actually 5/19/48) 06/12/1953 Rebecca Holden, Austin Tx, actress (April-Knight Rider)
06/12/1953 Rocky Burnette, Memphis, rocker (Towing the Line)
06/12/1954 Tineke Schouten, TV host
06/12/1957 Jim Morris, impressionist/comedian (Ronald Reagan, George Bush) 06/12/1957 Timothy Busfield, East Lansing Mich, actor (Elliot-30 Something) 06/12/1959 Jenilee Harrison, Glendale Calif, actress (Cindy-3's Company, Dallas
06/12/1959 Kenneth Herdigein, Suriname/Dutch actor (Say Once Aaa)
06/12/1962 Ally Sheedy, [Alexandria], NYC, actress (Wargames, Blue City) 06/12/1962 Michael Link, Provo Utah, actor (Earl-Julia)
06/12/1965 Cathy Tyson, Liverpool England, actress (Serpant & Rainbow) 06/12/1965 Cindy Lee Berryhill, US singer/songwriter (Baby)
06/12/1965 Gwen Torrence, Atlanta GA, US Olympic runner (Olympic-gold-92)


Deaths:

06/12/ 816 Leo III, Italian Pope (795-816), dies
06/12/1490 Adrian Vilain II of Rassegem, peace of Tours, murdered at about 40 06/12/1616 Cornelis F Schuyt, organist/composer (Madrigalen), dies
06/12/1675 Charles Emanuel II, Duke of Savoy (1638-75), dies at 40
06/12/1687 Jurriaen van Streeck, still life painter, dies
06/12/1761 Meinrad Spiess, composer, dies at 77
06/12/1778 Philip Livingston, US merchant (signed Decl of Indep), dies at 62 06/12/1789 Jean E Liotard, [Turk], Swiss painter (Maria-Theresia), dies 06/12/1799 William Collins, English poet (Ode to Evening), dies
06/12/1850 Jean V Constantly de Rebecque, Swiss/Dutch army leader, dies at 77 06/12/1853 John C the Young, historian/archivist, dies at 60
06/12/1858 Cornelis Smit, ship builder/ship owner, dies at 74
06/12/1858 William Horsley, composer, dies at 83
06/12/1878 Hendrik J Jut, murderer [head of Jut], dies at 26
06/12/1887 Gustav Weber, composer, dies at 41
06/12/1888 Carel Vosmaer, art historian/poet/editor (Neth Spectator), dies at 6
06/12/1912 Fr�d�ric Passy, French economist/pacifist (Nobel 1901), dies 06/12/1917 Maria Teresa Carreno, composer, dies at 63
06/12/1922 Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp putsch 1920), dies at 63 06/12/1928 Salvador Diaz Miron, Mexicans poet, dies
06/12/1932 Ren� de Clerq, Flemish poet/writer (Book of Love), dies
06/12/1932 Theodorus Heemskerk, lawyer/Dutch sec of state (1866..88), dies at 7
06/12/1936 Isidore Weiss,French world checker champion, dies
06/12/1941 Guy de Pourtal�s, Swiss/French writer (P�che miraculous), dies 06/12/1942 Walter Leigh, composer, dies at 36
06/12/1946 Count Hisaichi Terauchi, Japanese field marshal, dies
06/12/1947 Jazeps Medins, composer, dies at 70
06/12/1952 Michael von Faulhaber, Cardinal/archbishop of Munich, dies 06/12/1957 James F 'Jimmy' Dorsey, US orchestra leader, dies at 53
06/12/1962 John Ireland, composer, dies at 82
06/12/1962 John N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Epic march), dies 06/12/1963 Medgar Evers, NAACP official, shot in Jackson Miss, at 37 06/12/1966 Hermann Scherchen, German conductor/music publisher, dies at 74 06/12/1966 Thomas Chalmers, actor (Blind Alleys, Outrage), dies at 81 06/12/1968 Fidelio Friedrich Finke, composer, dies at 76
06/12/1972 Edmund Wilson, US writer (To the Finland station), dies
06/12/1972 Saul David Alinsky, radical writer (John L Lewis), dies at 63 06/12/1980 Milburn Stone, actor (Doc-Gunsmoke), dies at 75
06/12/1983 Norma Shearer, Academy Award actress (Romeo & Juliet), dies at 80 06/12/1986 Antoon Breyne, Belgian journalist, dies at 76
06/12/1986 Tony Desimone, combo leader (Ernie in Kovacsland), dies at 66 06/12/1988 Marcel Poot, Belgian baron/composer, dies at 87
06/12/1989 Peter Conrad Baden, composer, dies at 80
06/12/1992 Edward Fleming, Danish director (Lille spejl), dies
06/12/1992 Gerda Nicolson, actress (Next of Kin, Clinic), dies
06/12/1992 Serge Daney, French film critic (Les cahiers du cin�ma, Traffic), di
06/12/1994 Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Lubavitcher leader (1950-94), dies at 92
06/12/1994 Nicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife of OJ, murdered at 35 (probably by OJ)
06/12/1994 Ronald Goldman, waiter, murdered with OJ's ex-wife Nicole Simpson


Significant Events:

06/12/ 28 Gaius Carrinas' triumphant procession through Rome
06/12/ 816 St Leo III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
06/12/1442 King Alfonso V van Arag�n occupies Naples
06/12/1523 Fries rebel leader Jancko Douwama arrested
06/12/1575 Willem of Orange marries Charlotte de Bourbon
06/12/1665 English rename New Amsterdam, NY, after Dutch pull out
06/12/1672 French army reach Lobith the Rhine
06/12/1701 Act of Settlement gives English crown to Sophia, Princess of Hanover
06/12/1775 1st naval battle of Revolution-Unity (Am) captures Margaretta (Br) 06/12/1776 Virginia adopts Declaration of Rights
06/12/1787 Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old 06/12/1792 George Vancouver discovers site of Vancouver, BC
06/12/1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia begins
06/12/1819 Dutch colonial troops driven out of Palembang Sumatra
06/12/1838 Hopkins Observatory, dedicated in Williamstown, Mass
06/12/1838 Territory of Iowa organized
06/12/1839 1st baseball game played in America
06/12/1840 Meteorite hits Uden, Netherlands
06/12/1845 George Abernethy becomes 1st governor of Oregon Country
06/12/1849 Gas mask patented by Lewis Haslett, Louisville, Ky
06/12/1859 Comstock Silver Lode in Nevada discovered
06/12/1861 Missouri Governor Claiborne Jackson calls for 50,000 volunteers 06/12/1861 to stop Federates from taking over his state
06/12/1864 Lee sends Early into Shenandoah Valley
06/12/1864 Skirmish at Mcafee's Cross Road Georgia, about 57 dies in battle 06/12/1867 Austro-Hungarian Empire forms
06/12/1880 1st baseball perfect game-John Richmond of Worcester beats Cleve 06/12/1885 Roof collapse kills 30 at murder trial in France
06/12/1889 Single tornado kills 119, injures 146 (New Richmond Wisc) 06/12/1892 Neth Society for Currency & Coin collecting forms
06/12/1897 Possibly most severe quake in history strikes Assam India. Shock 06/12/1897 waves felt over an area size of Europe. Negligible death toll 06/12/1898 Philippine nationalists declares independence from Spain to US contr
06/12/1900 German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power
06/12/1903 Niagara Falls, Ontario incorporated as a city
06/12/1907 Yanks commit 11 errors & lose 14-6 to Tigers
06/12/1908 Lusitania crosses Atlantic in record 4 days 15 hours (NYC) 06/12/1913 'Dachshund' by Pathe Freres, early animated cartoon, released 06/12/1917 Secret Service extends protection of president to his family 06/12/1918 1st airplane bombing raid by an American unit, France
06/12/1919 Dutch 2nd Chamber accord for equal Christian-public education 06/12/1920 Farmer Labor Party organized (Chicago)
06/12/1922 St Louis gets record 10 hits in a row & beats Phillies 14-8 06/12/1925 William DeHart Hubbard of US, sets long jump record at 25' 10 3/4' 06/12/1926 Brazil leaves League of Nations
06/12/1928 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 2 triples & 2 HRs to be White Sox 15-7 06/12/1930 Heavyweight Max Schmeling KOs Jack Sharkey in NYC
06/12/1933 Financial & Economy World conference opens (66 countries) 06/12/1935 Weapons pact ends 3 year war of Gran Chaco (Bolivia vs Paraguay) 06/12/1936 1st 50 KW US radio station (Pittsburgh Pa)
06/12/1936 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1394 Algoa
06/12/1937 Ralph Guldahl wins US Open golf tournament
06/12/1937 USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continues
06/12/1939 Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown NY
06/12/1939 Byron Nelson wins US Open golf tournament
06/12/1942 Anne Frank begins her diary
06/12/1942 Hitler orders importing Slavic slaves
06/12/1942 Tornado kills 35 in Oklahoma City
06/12/1943 Himmler orders extermination of all Polish ghettos
06/12/1944 1st V-1 rocket assault on London
06/12/1944 British 12th batallion conquers Br�ville
06/12/1944 US troop march into Carentan/Caumont, Normandy
06/12/1945 Attack on 7th Marine regiment on Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa
06/12/1947 Babe Didrikson is 1st American to win Br Women's Amateur Golf Champ 06/12/1948 Ben Hogan wins US Open golf tournament
06/12/1948 Eddie Arcaro on Citation wins 80th Belmont Stakes (2:28.2) 06/12/1948 Eddie Arcaro becomes 1st jockey to win triple crown twice 06/12/1950 2 Air France DC-4s crash near Bahrain, about 100 die
06/12/1952 420th kitten (record) born to cat named Dusty, Bonham, TX 06/12/1952 USSR declares peace treaty with Japan invalid
06/12/1954 Milwaukee Braves Jim Wilson no-hits Phillies, 2-0
06/12/1955 Monitor (full weekend program) begins on NBC radio network 06/12/1957 Paul Anderson of US back-lifts a record 2850 kg (6,270 lbs) 06/12/1959 SF Giants Mike McCormick no-hits Phillies, 3-0 in 5 inning game 06/12/1960 KORN (now KDLT) TV channel 5 in Mitchell-Sioux Falls, SD (ABC) begin
06/12/1961 Dutch Lockheed Electricity 'Sirius' accident at Cairo, kills 20 06/12/1962 Laos prince Souvanna Phouma forms coalition govt
06/12/1962 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 56,270 m
06/12/1963 'Cleopatra' premieres in NYC
06/12/1964 South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment 06/12/1965 Beatles are awarded MBE
06/12/1965 Rolling Stones release 'Satisfaction'
06/12/1965 South Vietnam Gen Nguyen Cla Ky succeeds Phan Huy Quat as premier 06/12/1967 Israel wins 6 day war
06/12/1967 Race riot in Cincinnati Ohio (300 arrested)
06/12/1967 Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages 06/12/1967 USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus
06/12/1967 Wash Senators beat Chic White Sox, 6-5, in 22 innings
06/12/1970 Pitts Pirate Dock Ellis no-hits San Diego Padres, 2-0
06/12/1971 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2216 Kerch
06/12/1971 Tricia Nixon & Edward F Cox marry at White House
06/12/1973 Yanks trade wife swapper Mike Kekich for Lowell Palmer
06/12/1977 Ground-breaking ceremonies for Pres Kennedy library
06/12/1978 David Berkowitz sentenced in NY Supreme Court to 25 yrs to life 06/12/1978 US House of Representatives allows live radio coverage
06/12/1979 Kevin St Onge throws a playing card a record 185'
06/12/1979 Opening ceremony at Cambridge Buddhist Assn meditation in Boston 06/12/1979 Sanista occupies parts of Managua
06/12/1980 Reagan said he would submit to periodic medical tests
06/12/1981 Baseball players begin a 50 day strike, their 3rd strike
06/12/1981 Only candidate Hassan Gouled Aptidon wins Djibouti pres election 06/12/1982 750,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators, rally in Central Park NYC 06/12/1982 Battle of Mount Longdon Falkland Islands
06/12/1986 P W Botha declares South African national emergency
06/12/1987 Central Afr Rep ex-emperor Jean-B�del Bokassa sentenced to death 06/12/1988 Andy Hampton is 1st American to win Round of Italy
06/12/1989 Ben Johnson, Canadian Olympian, admits using steroids
06/12/1991 Boris Yelstin elected president of Russian Federation
06/12/1991 Mount Pinatubo volcano on Philippines erupts
06/12/1994 -17] Pope John Paul II visits Spain

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Births:

08/17/1586 Johann V Andreae, German vicar/writer (Christenburg)
08/17/1601 Pierre de Fermat, mathematician who needed wider margins
08/17/1686 Nicola Antonio Porpora, composer
08/17/1720 Charles DJ Demand, French engraver/painter (Contes de La Fontaine) 08/17/1775 Philippe Libon, composer
08/17/1779 Franz de Paula Roser, composer
08/17/1786 Davy Crockett, US, frontiersman/adventurer/politician (Alamo) 08/17/1811 John H Scholten, theologist (Free Will)
08/17/1817 Joseph baron Kervyn de Lettenhove, Belgian Internal minister (1870-7
08/17/1819 James Henry Van Alen, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1886 08/17/1828 George William Warren, composer
08/17/1834 Peter Benoit, composer
08/17/1839 Hubert Platt Main, composer
08/17/1839 Th�s [Matth�s] Maris, painter/etcher
08/17/1840 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, England, writer (Irish Land League) 08/17/1844 Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913)
08/17/1851 Henry Drummond, Scottish geologist/evangelist
08/17/1856 Violet Paget, [Vernon Lee], British author (Satan the master) 08/17/1870 Frederick Russell, developed 1st successful typhoid fever vaccine 08/17/1876 Eric Drummond, 1st Secretary-General of League of Nations (1919-33) 08/17/1876 Henri G Winkelman, general/supreme commander/navy 1940
08/17/1876 Theodor D�ubler, German writer (Northern Lights)
08/17/1880 Leo Ascher, composer
08/17/1885 Clara [G Me�er-]Wichmann, German anarchists/feminist (Wife & society
08/17/1887 Charles I, last emperor of Austria-Hungary (1916-18)
08/17/1887 Marcus Garvey, began back-to-Africa movement among US blacks 08/17/1888 Monty Wooley, NYC, actor (Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner) 08/17/1890 Harry L Hopkins, US politician (Loan & Lease law)
08/17/1892 Mae West, Bkln, actress (Go up & see her sometime, Klondike Annie 08/17/1894 Johan Polet, sculptor
08/17/1896 Henry P De Vries, painter/poet (Laws of the Americas)
08/17/1898 Gerard Schmook, Flemish librarian/historian/custodian
08/17/1900 Quincy Howe, Boston Mass, newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
08/17/1901 Henri Tomasi, Marseilles France, composer (Don Juan de Ma�ara) 08/17/1903 Abram Chasins, composer
08/17/1905 John Hay Whitney, publisher (NY Herald Trib 1961-67)
08/17/1906 Marcello J tie Neves Alves Caetano, premier of Portugal (1968-74) 08/17/1907 Marian Viktorovich Koval, composer
08/17/1908 Kurt Hessenberg, composer
08/17/1910 Eric Aaltonen, composer
08/17/1910 J A Manusama, Moluccan politician
08/17/1911 Frederik de Merode, Belgian prince
08/17/1911 Jan L Cantens, Flemish poet (Puppet Uprising)
08/17/1912 Edgar Fernhout, painter/son of Charley Toorop
08/17/1914 Franklin D Roosevelt Jr, son of FDR/(Rep-D-NY, 1949-55)
08/17/1917 P Roger Peyrefitte, French writer (Singular Love)
08/17/1918 Mort Marshall, NYC, actor (Cully-Dumplings)
08/17/1920 Georgia Gibbs, Worcester Mass, singer (Ballin the Jack, Kiss of Fire
08/17/1921 Maureen O'Hara, [Fitzsimmons], Dublin, actress (Miracle on 34th St) 08/17/1922 Ralph Roberts, NC, actor (Tradition, Gone are the Days)
08/17/1923 Anton Kersjes, violinist/conductor (Amsterdam Philharmonic Orch) 08/17/1923 Larry Rivers, modern/abstract painter (Wash crossing Delaware-1953) 08/17/1924 Evan S Connell, US writer
08/17/1925 John Hawkes, US writer (2nd Skin)
08/17/1926 Haakon Barfod, Norway, yachting (Olympic-gold-1948, 52)
08/17/1926 Jean Poiret, French actor/writer (Le Dernier Metro)
08/17/1927 Robert Moore, Detroit Mich, actor (Marshall-Diana)
08/17/1928 Thomas Jefferson Anderson, composer
08/17/1928 Willem Duys, Dutch radio/TV host
08/17/1929 Francis Gary Powers, US spy (USSR captures him in 1959 U-2 incident)
08/17/1931 Alain Mimoun O'Kacha, France, marathon runner (Olympic-gold-1956) 08/17/1932 Chet Allen, Chickasha Okla, actor (Jerry-Bonino, Slats-Troubleshoote
08/17/1932 V S Naipaul, Trinidad, novelist (Middle Passage)
08/17/1932 Vidiadhar S Naipaul, British writer (In a free country)
08/17/1936 Ivan Parik, composer
08/17/1939 Luther Allison, Arkansas, guitarist (Bad News is Coming)
08/17/1940 David E Price, (Rep-D-North Carolina)
08/17/1940 Thomas Williams, US, ice hockey play (Olympic-gold-1960)
08/17/1941 Boog Powell, baseball player (AL MVP 1970)
08/17/1941 Ibrahim Babangida, president of Nigeria (1985- )
08/17/1943 Edward Cowie, composer
08/17/1943 Koos Postema, editor in chief (Free People)/Dutch TV host 08/17/1943 Robert De Niro, NYC, actor (Bang the Drum Slowly, Taxi Driver) 08/17/1943 Yukio Kasaya, Japan, 70m ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1972)
08/17/1946 Hans Vandenburg, singer/guitarist (Gruppo sportivo)
08/17/1947 Gary Talley, rocker (Box Tops)
08/17/1949 Sib Hashlan, rocker (Boston)
08/17/1951 Alan Minter, England, light-middleweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1972)
08/17/1952 Kathryn C Thornton, Montgomery Alabama, PhD/astronaut (STS 33, 49, 6
08/17/1953 Kevin Rowlands, rocker (Dexy's Midnight Runners-Come on Eileen) 08/17/1955 Janet Quist, playmate (Dec, 1978)
08/17/1955 Kevin Welch, Long Beach Calif, country songwriter
08/17/1958 Belinda Carlisle, Hollywood Ca, (GoGos lead singer, Heaven on Earth)
08/17/1960 Sean Penn, actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
08/17/1962 Gilby Clarke, US pop guitarist (Guns n' Roses-Civil War)
08/17/1963 Carmen Berg, Bismark ND, playmate (July, 1987)
08/17/1965 Glen Goldsmith, rocker (What You See is What You Get)
08/17/1969 Donald E Wahlberg, Jr, Boston, rocker (New Kids-Hangin' Tough) 08/17/1970 Jim Courier, tennis champ


Deaths:

08/17/ 754 Karloman, abbot of Monte cassino, dies at >39
08/17/1510 Edmund Dudley, English treasurer, beheaded
08/17/1510 Richard Empson, English treasurer, beheaded
08/17/1536 Pietersz, book publisher (Kersten Knight - on Index), dies 08/17/1553 Charles III, Duke of Savoy, dies
08/17/1635 Francisco the Moncada, Spanish earl of Osuna, dies at 48
08/17/1730 Mauritius Vogt, composer, dies at 61
08/17/1731 Johann Augustin Kobelius, composer, dies at 57
08/17/1777 Giuseppe Scarlotti, composer, dies at 54
08/17/1786 Frederik II, king of Prussia (1740-86), dies
08/17/1792 Jan Jachym Kopriva, composer, dies at 38
08/17/1850 Jos� Francisco de San Martin, South American revolutionary hero, die
08/17/1865 Johann Nepomuk Poissl, composer, dies at 82
08/17/1880 Ole Bull, composer, dies at 70
08/17/1887 Franz Commer, composer, dies at 74
08/17/1889 Ernst Franck, composer, dies at 42
08/17/1898 Carl Johann Adam Zeller, composer, dies at 56
08/17/1901 Edmond Audran, composer, dies at 61
08/17/1909 Richard Hoffman, composer, dies at 78
08/17/1914 James Grierson, British general
08/17/1915 Leo Frank, lynched for raping 12 year old in Georgia
08/17/1920 Ray Chapman, hit in the head by Yanks' Carl Mays pitch, dies 08/17/1924 Pavel S 'Paul' Urysohn, Russian mathematician, drowns at 26 08/17/1927 Horace Alderman, US, murderer, hanged
08/17/1936 Pierre-Octave Ferroud, French composer (Surgery & Foules), dies at 3
08/17/1945 Gino Marinuzzi, composer, dies at 61
08/17/1945 Pater Bleijs [Louis], resistance fighter, dies in car accident 08/17/1948 Nico J Polak, Dutch economist, dies at 60
08/17/1953 Johannes B Tielrooy, literature (French Living Lesson), dies at 66 08/17/1955 Fernand L�ger, French painter (Grand Parade), dies
08/17/1958 Florent Schmitt, French composer/critic (Jardin Secret), dies at 87 08/17/1961 Carlos Leon Salzedo, composer, dies at 76
08/17/1969 Ludwig Mies Van de Rohe, architect (November Group), dies at 83 08/17/1969 Philip Blaiberg, after 19 days with artificial heart, dies 08/17/1971 Horace McMahon, actor (Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 64 08/17/1972 Raymond Brulez, Flemish author (Schoone slaapster), dies at 76 08/17/1973 Conrad Aiken, Pulitzer winning poet, dies at 74
08/17/1973 Jean Barraque, composer, dies at 45
08/17/1973 Paul Williams, US singer (Temptations-Stop the war now), dies 08/17/1974 Aldo Palazzeschi, [Giurlani], Italian writer, dies at 89
08/17/1975 Sig Arno, Hamburg Germany, actor (My Friend Irma), dies at 80 08/17/1975 Vladimir Kutz, Russian distance runner (Olympic-gold-56) dies at 48 08/17/1976 William Redfield, actor (Jimmy Hughes Rookie Cop), dies at 48 08/17/1979 Vivian Vance, actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy), dies at 72 08/17/1981 Robert Russell Bennett, composer, dies at 87
08/17/1982 Barney Phillips, actor (Dragnet, Felony Squad), dies at 68 08/17/1982 Ruth Voorst, South African (A World Apart, Letter Bomb), dies 08/17/1983 Ira Gershwin, lyricist, dies in Beverly Hills, Cal, at 86 08/17/1987 Charles Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet, dies at 84
08/17/1987 Rudolph Hess, Nazi, suicide at 93, after 46 years in Spandau Prison 08/17/1988 Franklin D Roosevelt Jr, (Rep-D-NY, 1949-55), dies on 74th birthday 08/17/1988 Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, pres of Pakistan (1978-88), dies at 63 08/17/1990 Pearl Bailey, actress (Landlord)/singer, dies at 72 of heart attack 08/17/1991 Leo Geerts, [Marcel van der Linden], Belgian writer/critic, dies 08/17/1992 Andr� de Villiers, South African, murdered
08/17/1993 Max de Metz, publisher/interpreter, dies at 72


Significant Events:

08/17/ 682 St Leo II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
08/17/1585 Antwerp surrenders after 8 months siege by duke of Parma
08/17/1787 Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups 08/17/1795 Slave revolt at Knip plantation, Cura�ao
08/17/1796 English beat Bataafs navy in Saldanha Bay
08/17/1807 Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River 08/17/1808 Napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain 08/17/1827 Dutch King Willem I/Pope Leo XII sign concord
08/17/1833 Lou Gehrig breaks record by playing in his 1,308th straight game 08/17/1834 Charles Darwins reaches top of Campana Chile
08/17/1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave South-America for last time 08/17/1846 US fleet officer Robert F Stockton annexes California
08/17/1858 1st bank in Hawaii opens
08/17/1862 Confederate troops under Kirby Smith enter Kentucky
08/17/1863 Federal batteries & ships bombard Fort Sumter, Charleston 08/17/1863 Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee
08/17/1866 Bathe & Prussia signs peace treaty
08/17/1869 1st international boat race (Thames River) (Oxford beats Harvard) 08/17/1870 1st ascent of Mt Rainier, Washington
08/17/1870 Mrs Esther Morris becomes 1st woman magistrate (South Pass, Wyoming)
08/17/1876 Opera 'G�tterd�mmerung' is produced (Bayreuth)
08/17/1877 Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos
08/17/1890 J Palisa discovers asteroid #295 Theresia
08/17/1894 Phils get 36 hits, Sam Thompson hits for cycle beating Louisville 29
08/17/1896 Gold is discovered on Klondike River
08/17/1897 W B Purvis patents electric railway switch
08/17/1901 L Carnera discovers asteroid #476 Hedwig
08/17/1904 Boston's Jesse Tannehell no-hits Chic White Sox, 6-0
08/17/1905 Dutch govt of De Master begins
08/17/1906 Valparaiso Chile suffers earthquake
08/17/1907 Bishop forbids Christian membership in Dutch Textile Union 08/17/1908 Bank of Italy opens new HQ at Clay & Montgomery
08/17/1914 French troops under gen de Castelnau occupy Ch�teau Salins 08/17/1914 Lithuiana surrenders to Germans
08/17/1915 German troops over run Kovno Lithuiana
08/17/1916 Bulgarian offensive in Macedonia
08/17/1917 Italy declares war on Germany & Turkey
08/17/1918 British troops attack Baku Azerbaijan
08/17/1918 Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000
08/17/1918 Turkish troops overthrow Caukasus
08/17/1924 French-German trade agreement signed
08/17/1926 Greek-Serbian/Croatian/Slavs peace treaty signed
08/17/1928 M Wolf discovers asteroid #2483 Guinevere
08/17/1933 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1282 Utopia
08/17/1936 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1404 Ajax
08/17/1938 Henry Armstrong won his 3rd concurrent boxing championship 08/17/1939 'Wizard of Oz' opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in NY
08/17/1940 FDR & Canadian PM William M King agree to joint defense commission 08/17/1940 Greece mobilizes
08/17/1942 Task Force 17 leaves Pearl Harbor under adm George Murray on Hornet 08/17/1942 US bombers staged 1st independent raid on Europe attack Rouen, Franc
08/17/1943 US troops under Gen Patton over run Messina
08/17/1944 4th Canadian Armour division occupiers Trun Normandy
08/17/1944 Canadian 2nd division conquerors Falaise Normandy
08/17/1944 German field marshal Model replaces von Kluge in Normandy 08/17/1944 Russian troops arrive at Austria-Prussia border
08/17/1944 US 12 Army corp occupies Orl�ans
08/17/1944 US 320th regiment infantry occupies Ch�teaudun
08/17/1944 Yanks Johnny Lindell ties record with 4 consecutive doubles in a gam
08/17/1945 Indonesia (Dutch E Indies) declares independence from Netherlands 08/17/1948 Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent
08/17/1948 Phillies commit 8 errors in a game
08/17/1950 Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands
08/17/1951 Hurricane winds drive 6 ships ashore, Kingston, Jamaica
08/17/1955 Hurricane Diane, following hurricane Connie floods Connecticut 08/17/1955 River killing 190 & doing $1.8 billion damage
08/17/1958 World's 1st Moon probe, US's Thor-Able, explodes at T +77 sec 08/17/1959 7.1 quake strikes Yellowstone National Park
08/17/1959 USSR & Iraq signs contract for building Iraqi nuclear reactor 08/17/1960 Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow
08/17/1960 Gabon gains independence from France (National Day)
08/17/1960 Indonesia drops diplomatic relations with Netherlands
08/17/1961 Building of Berlin Wall begins
08/17/1961 Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress
08/17/1962 Beatles replaces Pete Best with Ringo Starr
08/17/1963 Jim Hickman becomes 1st NY Met to hit for cycle
08/17/1963 Oriole's Dick Hall retires his 28th consecutive player in relief 08/17/1966 Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit
08/17/1968 Dick Beyers (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne, to become NWA champ 08/17/1969 Hurricane Camille hits Mississippi, Alabama & Virginia; 258 die 08/17/1969 NY Jets beat NY Giants 37-14 in their 1st meeting (pre season) 08/17/1969 Ray Floyd wins PGA golf tournament
08/17/1970 Venera 7 launched by USSR for soft landing on Venus
08/17/1972 Phillies Steve Carlton wins his 15th straight game
08/17/1973 Lee Trevino's 1st hole-in-one
08/17/1974 L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #2576 Yesenin
08/17/1978 1st manned balloon crossing of Atlantic Ocean (Eagle II)
08/17/1979 2 Russian passenger ship crashes above Ukraine, 173 killed 08/17/1979 Monty Python's 'Life of Brian' premieres
08/17/1982 LA Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game completed 8/1
08/17/1982 South Bend, Ind jury acquits self-avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin
08/17/1984 Pete Rose returns to Cin Reds as player-manager (gets 2 hits) 08/17/1985 Dave Kingman hits his 400th HR
08/17/1985 Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India
08/17/1985 Sara Trollinger forms House of Hope in Orlando
08/17/1986 Bronze pig statue unveiled at Seattle's Pike Place Market 08/17/1987 Dow Jones Industrial Avg closes above 2,700 for 1st time (2,700.57) 08/17/1988 Butch Reynolds of USA sets 400m record (43.29) in Zurich
08/17/1988 LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991
08/17/1988 NYC 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy) 08/17/1990 'Exorcist 3' premieres
08/17/1990 Phyllis Polander sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment

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By Scott Labrecque ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Births:

08/18/ 472 Flavius Ricimer, general of the Western Roman Empire, kingmaker 08/18/1450 Marko Marulic/Marulus/Splichanin/Pechinich, Croatian poet 08/18/1579 Charlotte Flandrina van Nassau, daughter of Willem I of Orange 08/18/1587 Virginia Dare, 1st American born of English parents
08/18/1685 Brook Taylor, England, mathematician, discoverer of Taylor's Theorem
08/18/1745 Vaclav Josef Bartolomej Praupner, composer
08/18/1750 Antonio Salieri, Italy, composer (Tatare)
08/18/1769 Alexandre Stievenard, composer
08/18/1774 Meriwether Lewis, US explorer (Lewis & Clark Expedition)
08/18/1778 Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen, 1st to circumnavigate Antarctica 08/18/1792 John, 1st Earl Russell, British Whig PM (1846-52, 1865-66) 08/18/1805 Josef Danhauser, Austrian painter (Mutterliebe)
08/18/1807 Charles Francis Adams, (Union), died in 1886
08/18/1813 Benjamin Alvord, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1884 08/18/1818 William Farquhar Barry, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879
08/18/1823 Willem J F Nuyens, physician/RC historian
08/18/1834 Marshall Field, founded Chicago-based store chain
08/18/1849 Benjamin Godard, composer
08/18/1856 Charles Hutchison Gabriel, composer
08/18/1856 Jan Karol Gali, composer
08/18/1871 Johan J Arch, graphic artist (wood cutter)
08/18/1873 Leo Slezak, Austria tenor/actor (Othello)
08/18/1873 Otto Harbach, songwriter (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes)
08/18/1875 Johan E Elias, historian (Amsterdam)
08/18/1878 Fritz Brun, composer
08/18/1881 Hermann Karl Josef Zilcher, composer
08/18/1882 Marcel Louis Auguste Samuel-Rousseau, composer
08/18/1883 Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel, French mode-ontwerpster
08/18/1887 Nico J Polak, Dutch economist
08/18/1893 Ernest MacMillan, composer
08/18/1896 Alan Mowbray, London England, actor (Dante, Colonel Flack) 08/18/1900 Walter O'Keefe, Hartford Ct, songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood)
08/18/1902 Julius Kalas, composer
08/18/1903 Ake Olof Sebastian Udden, composer
08/18/1904 Max Factor Jr, CEO (Max Factor Cosmetics)
08/18/1904 Sterling W Cole, (Rep-R-NY)
08/18/1905 Peter Kreuder, German composer
08/18/1905 Peter Paul Kreuder, composer
08/18/1906 Andre Van Gyseghem, England, actor (Search for the Nile)
08/18/1907 Enoch Light, Canton Ohio, orch leader (Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith
08/18/1907 Howard Swanson, composer
08/18/1907 Otto Mortensen, composer
08/18/1908 Arm�n Pane, Indonesian writer (Belenggu)
08/18/1908 Edgar Faure, premier France
08/18/1908 Milan Ristic, composer
08/18/1910 Herman Berlinski, composer
08/18/1916 Elsa Morante, Italy, writer (L'isola di Arturo)
08/18/1916 Moura Lympany, Saltash England, pianist (OBE-1979)
08/18/1917 Casper Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense (1981-87)
08/18/1919 Walter J Hickel, (Gov-R-Alaska)/US Secretary of Interior (1969-71) 08/18/1922 Alain Robbe-Grillet, France, novelist (Voyeur)
08/18/1922 Shelley Winters, [Schrift], St Louis Mo, actress (Poisidon Adventure
08/18/1924 Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, pres of Pakistan (1978-88)
08/18/1925 Brian W[ilson] Aldiss, UK, sci-fi author (Helliconia Trilogy) 08/18/1927 Rosalynn Carter, Georgia, 1st lady (1977-1981), Jimmy's main lust 08/18/1930 Carl Barger, Lewistown Pa, baseball pres (Pitts Pirates, Fla Marlins
08/18/1930 Grant Williams, NYC, actor (Greg-Hawaiian Eye)
08/18/1930 Johnny Preston, Port Arthur, Tx, rocker (Feel So Fine)
08/18/1931 Hans van Mierlo, Dutch 2nd Chamber member/vice-premier (D66) 08/18/1933 Roman Polanski, Poland, director (Knife in the Water, Repulsion) 08/18/1934 Rafer Lewis Johnson, Hillsboro Tx, decathlete (Olympic-gold-1960) 08/18/1934 Roberto Clemente, US baseball outfielder (Pittsburgh Pirates) 08/18/1935 Gail Fisher, Orange NJ, actress (Peggy-Mannix)
08/18/1935 Lajos Papp, composer
08/18/1937 Robert Redford, Calif, actor (Sting, Candidate, Natural, Great Gatsb
08/18/1941 Christopher Jones, Jackson TN, actor (Wild in the Streets) 08/18/1943 Martin Mull, Chic Ill, actor/comedian (Bad Manners, Flick, Serial) 08/18/1944 Carl Wayne, rocker (Move)
08/18/1945 Barbara Harris, US soul singer (Toys-A Lover's Concerto)
08/18/1945 Nona Hendryx, Trenton NJ, rocker (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade) 08/18/1948 Rudy Hartono Kurniawan, Indonesia, All-England tennis champ 08/18/1950 Dennis Elliot, rocker (Foreigner)
08/18/1951 Candice Earley, actress (Donna Tyler-All My Children)
08/18/1952 Patrick Swayze, Houston Tx, actor/dancer (Dirty Dancing, Ghost) 08/18/1957 Carole Bouquest, Paris, actress (On Her Majesty's Secret Service) 08/18/1958 Madeleine Stowe, LA Calif, actress (Tropical Snow, Bad Girls) 08/18/1961 John Viscardi, NYC, actor (Father Tony-One Life to Live)
08/18/1967 Blas Elias Gomez, Kennedy TX, rock drummer (Slaughter-Stick it Live)
08/18/1967 Tracy Tracy, rocker (Primitives-Lovely, Lump of Coal)
08/18/1968 Greta Lind, actress (Katie Kennicott-All My Children)
08/18/1968 John Coyle, West Bloomfield Mich, short track skater (Olympics-1994)
08/18/1970 Malcolm Jamal Warner, Jersey City NJ, actor (Theodore-Cosby Show) 08/18/1971 Trey Ames, Canton Oh, actor (David-A Year in the Life)


Deaths:

08/18/1227 Genghis Khan, Mongol conqueror, dies
08/18/1236 Theodorus Van Celles, monastery founder (Kruisheren), dies 08/18/1276 Adrianus V, [Ottobono Fieschi], Italian Pope (7/11-8/18/1276), dies 08/18/1503 Alexander VI, [Rodrigo the Borja], Spanish Pope (1492-1503), dies 08/18/1559 Paul IV, [Giampietro Caraffa], Pope (1555-59), dies at 83 08/18/1803 James Beattie, Scottish poet/philosopher (Essay on Truth), dies at 6
08/18/1811 Johann Heinrich Zang, composer, dies at 78
08/18/1840 Antony CW Staring, patriot/poet (Jaromir), dies at 73
08/18/1850 Honor� de Balzac, French writer (Le p�re Goriot), dies at 51 08/18/1853 Peter Lichtenthal, composer, dies at 73
08/18/1863 Thomas Welsh, US Union brig-general (Antietam), dies at 39 08/18/1870 Felix Salm-Salm, Prussian/US prince/brig-general, dies in battle 08/18/1894 William Charles Levey, composer, dies at 57
08/18/1896 Frederick Nichols Crouch, composer, dies at 88
08/18/1901 Richard Kleinmichel, composer, dies at 54
08/18/1907 John Kerr, physicist (magneto-visually Kerr-effect), dies at 82 08/18/1915 Tevfik Fikret, Turkish poet (R�b�b-i Sjikeste), dies at 47 08/18/1916 Edward D Pain, English journalist (NY World), dies in battle at 36 08/18/1942 Erwin Schulhoff, Czech/Russian composer/pianist, dies at 48 08/18/1944 Cecile Chaminade, composer, dies at 87
08/18/1949 Paul J Mares, US jazz trumpetist/composer (Tin Roof Blues), dies at
08/18/1950 Julien Lahaut, chairman Belgian Communist Party, dies
08/18/1952 Ralph Byrd, actor (Dick Tracy TV Show), dies at 43
08/18/1957 Wawrzyniec Jerzy Zulawski, composer, dies at 41
08/18/1961 Learned Hand, Chief judge of US court of Appeals, dies at 89 08/18/1966 Isaac Keesing, founder (System Keesing), dies
08/18/1968 Cy Walter, pianist (3's Company), dies at 52
08/18/1969 Laci Boldemann, composer, dies at 48
08/18/1969 Otto Stern, German/US physicist (Nobel 1943), dies at 81
08/18/1980 Norman Cazden, composer, dies at 65
08/18/1981 Anita Loos, US (stage)author (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), dies at 88 08/18/1982 Beverly Bayne, actress (Romeo & Juliet, Passionate Youth), dies at 8
08/18/1988 Frederick Ashton, choreographer (Cinderella), dies at 83
08/18/1989 Bert Oosterbosch, cyclist, dies
08/18/1989 Luis Carlos Galan, Colombian presidential candidate, murdered 08/18/1990 B F Skinner, psychologist (Skinner Box), dies of Leukemia at 86 08/18/1990 Raf Reymen, Flemish actor, dies
08/18/1991 Vaughn Shoemaker, US cartoonist (John Q Public, Pulitzer), dies 08/18/1992 Gerard Sonder, Dutch radio host (AVRO), dies
08/18/1992 John Sturges, US, director (Magnificent 7, Great Escape), dies 08/18/1993 Alf Bold, German festival programmer, dies of AIDS at 47


Significant Events:

08/18/1289 Pope Nicolaus IV publishes degree 'Supra montem'
08/18/1587 1st English child born in New World (Virginia Dare)
08/18/1605 Spanish army under of general Sp�nola conquerors Lingen
08/18/1686 Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus
08/18/1698 Russian czar Peter the Great arrives in Zaandam
08/18/1700 Swedish, English & Dutch army lands on Seeland, Denmark
08/18/1759 -19) 2nd Battle of Lagos: England vs France
08/18/1769 Gunpowder in Brescia Italy church explodes, killing 3,000 08/18/1795 Cura�ao governor De Ferry routes miltia to stop rebellious slaves 08/18/1817 Gloucester, Mass, newspapers tells of wild sea serpent seen offshore
08/18/1834 Mt Vesuvius erupts
08/18/1835 Last Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago
08/18/1838 1st US marine expedition
08/18/1846 Gen Stephen W Kearney's US forces captures Santa Fe, NM
08/18/1858 Netherlands & Japan sign trade agreement
08/18/1862 General Lee's adjutant major Stuart captured
08/18/1864 6th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia: Confederate assault 08/18/1864 Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Weldon Railroad day 1 of 3 days 08/18/1868 Pierre Janssan discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse 08/18/1870 Battle at Gravelotte Privat: Prussia beat France, 32,000 casualties 08/18/1873 1st ascent of Mount Whitney, Calif (14,494')
08/18/1884 J Palisa discovers asteroid #239 Adrastea
08/18/1891 Hurricane hits Martinique; about 700 die
08/18/1894 Congress creates Bureau of Immigration
08/18/1914 -20] Belgian army withdraws to Antwerp
08/18/1914 French troops under general Dubail occupy Sarrebourg
08/18/1914 Pres Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality
08/18/1917 Dutch Naval Air Academy established (MLD)
08/18/1920 Tennessee ratifies 19th Amendment, guarantees women voting right 08/18/1924 France begins retracting troops out of Ruhrgebied
08/18/1925 Belgian & US sign treaty about war debts
08/18/1925 Cardinal Mercier warns Belgians against socialism/liberalism 08/18/1930 Eastern Airlines begins passenger service
08/18/1932 Auguste Piccard/Max Cos�ns reach 16,201m in a balloon
08/18/1932 Englishman James Mollisson is 1st to fly east to west over Atlantic 08/18/1936 106.5�F-Hottest afternoon ever in Iowa
08/18/1938 FDR dedicates Thousand Islands Bridge connecting US & Canada 08/18/1939 H Alikoski discovers asteroid #2257 Kaarina
08/18/1941 Concentration camp Amersfoort opens
08/18/1941 Phillies commit 8 errors in a game
08/18/1942 Carlson's Raiders lands on Makin, Gilbert island, kills 350 Japs 08/18/1943 Final convoy of Jews from Salonika Greece arrive at Auschwitz 08/18/1944 Paris railroad workers strike against nazi occupiers
08/18/1944 US 15th Army corp reaches Mantes-Gassicourt at Paris
08/18/1944 US 20th Army corp occupiers Chartres
08/18/1946 Golf Writers Associaton of America formed
08/18/1947 Naval torpedo & mine factory explodes at Cadiz, Spain killing 300 08/18/1949 Hungary adopts constitution
08/18/1954 Asst Sec of Labor James Wilkins became 1st black to attendgovt 08/18/1955 46.1 cm rainfall at Westfield, Massachusetts (state record) 08/18/1955 Sjukri al-Quwatli re-elected president of Syria
08/18/1956 Cin Reds (8) & Cubs (2) combine to hit 10 HRs in a 9 inning game 08/18/1957 Amelia Wershoven sets record of female throwing a baseball (252'4�')
08/18/1957 Juan-Manuel Fangio, wins his last auto World Championship at 46 08/18/1958 Betsy Palmer joins Today Show panel
08/18/1958 Fidel Castro makes a speech on Cuban pirate radio Rebelde 08/18/1958 Great Britain issues regional stamps (N Ireland, Scotland & Wales) 08/18/1958 Heavyweight Floyd Patterson KOs Roy Harris
08/18/1958 Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, published
08/18/1958 TV game show scandal investigation starts
08/18/1958 Verne Gagne beats Edouard Carpentier in Omaha, to become NWA champ 08/18/1960 1st photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 08/18/1961 Construction on Berlin Wall completed
08/18/1962 Peter, Paul & Mary release their 1st hit 'If I Had a Hammer' 08/18/1963 James Meredith became 1st black graduate from U of Mississippi 08/18/1964 Charles Helu elected president of Lebanon
08/18/1964 USSR launch 3 Kosmos satellites
08/18/1965 Hank Aaron loses a HR, because he hit it out of batter's box 08/18/1967 Rolling Stones release 'We Love You'
08/18/1967 WCBS radio in NYC goes all-news
08/18/1971 T Smirnova discovers asteroids #2071 Nadezhda & #3501
08/18/1972 L Zhuravleva discovers asteroids 1858 Lobachevsk�, 2098 Zyskin & 310
08/18/1972 Police fine Paul & Linda McCartney �800 in Sweden cannabis possessio
08/18/1973 Hank Aaron's record 1,378 extra base hit surpasses Stan Musial recor
08/18/1976 USSR's Luna 24 soft-lands on Moon
08/18/1977 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2580, #3053 Dresden, #3408 & #3518 08/18/1978 Memphis, Tenn, settles with striking police officers & firefighters 08/18/1979 Iran Ayatollah Khomeini demands Saint War against the Kurds 08/18/1981 Jerry Lewis appears on 'Donahue' to defend Telethons
08/18/1982 1st time NYSE tops 100 M figure, 132.69 M shares traded
08/18/1982 LA Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game started 8/17)
08/18/1982 Pete Rose sets record with his 13,941st plate appearance
08/18/1983 Hurricane Alicia battered Houston & Galveston, Texas
08/18/1983 Royals defeat Yanks, 5-4, completing 'pine-tar' game (12 minutes) 08/18/1983 Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is youngest woman to swim English Chann
08/18/1984 Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Fla, 08/18/1984 spills 2.5 m gallons of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire 08/18/1986 Crockett's Tavern opens in Fort Wilderness
08/18/1986 John Tesh's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight
08/18/1986 WYSP-FM Philadelphia begins simulcasting Howard Stern Show 08/18/1987 Ohio nurse Donald Harvey sentence to triple life (poisoned 24) 08/18/1987 Philip Rush of NZ, set record for triple crossing English Channel 08/18/1987 His time 28:21, 10 hours faster than 1st man to do it
08/18/1988 FDA approves Minoxidil as a hair loss treatment
08/18/1988 Largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island sold for $22 million 08/18/1988 Republican Convention in New Orleans select Bush-Quayle ticket 08/18/1989 Arturo Barrios of Mexico sets 10K record (27:08.23) in Berlin 08/18/1991 Pan Am games closes in Havana
08/18/1993 Historical Kapelbrug in Luzern Switz, destroyed by fire

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By Scott Labrecque ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Births:

08/19/1398 I�igo L�pez, Spain, marques de Santillana, poet (Comedieta de Ponza)
08/19/1521 Lodovico Guicciardini, Italian historian (Descrittione di tutti) 08/19/1558 Paulus Merula, lawyer/historian
08/19/1631 John Dryden, 1st poet laureate of England (Absalom & Achitophel) 08/19/1646 John Flamsteed, 1st astronomer royal of England
08/19/1686 Antonio Tonelli, composer
08/19/1689 Samuel Richardson, English novelist (Pamela) (baptized)
08/19/1737 Johann Georg Christoph Schetky, composer
08/19/1785 Seth Thomas, pioneer in mass production of clocks
08/19/1813 William Henry Fry, composer
08/19/1815 John Porter McCown, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1879 08/19/1816 Julius PJA van Zuylen van Nyevelt, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs
08/19/1824 Georg Goltermann, composer
08/19/1831 Stephen Gano Burbridge, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 08/19/1839 Oskar Brefeld, German botanist
08/19/1844 Minna Canth, Finland, novelist/playwright (social evils)
08/19/1851 French Schollaert, Belgian politician
08/19/1858 Edith Nesbit, England, children books author (Railway Children) 08/19/1858 Ludwig W�llner, German actor/baritone
08/19/1859 Charles Comiskey, 1st basemen/manager (Chicago White Sox) 08/19/1859 Hippolyte Delehaye, Flemish historian
08/19/1860 John Kane, Scottish-born US primitivist painter (Self-Portrait) 08/19/1870 Bernard Baruch, financier/presidential adviser (Cold War) 08/19/1871 Orville Wright, aviator (Wright Brothers)
08/19/1873 Fred Stone, US acrobat/Broadway actor (Alice Adams)
08/19/1878 Manuel Quezon, 1st president of Philippine Commonwealth (1935-42) 08/19/1881 Georges Enesco (or Enescu), Romania, composer (Romanian Dances) 08/19/1885 Werner Elert, German luthers theologist
08/19/1886 Robert Heger, composer
08/19/1889 Arthur Waley, sinologist, translator from Chinese & Japanese 08/19/1890 Yves Alix, French painter/graphic artist
08/19/1892 Alfred Lunt, Broadway actor (Emmy 1965)
08/19/1896 Eino Mauno Aleksanteri Linnala, composer
08/19/1896 Walter Lang, composer
08/19/1902 Ogden Nash, Rye NY, humorous poet (I'm a Stranger Here Myself) 08/19/1902 Vladimir M Kirsjon, Russian playwright [NS]
08/19/1903 Claude Dauphin, Corbell France, actor (April in Paris, Deported) 08/19/1903 James Gould Cozzens, US, novelist (1949 Pulitzer-Guard of Honor) 08/19/1905 Fitzhugh Lee, US pilot/vice-admiral (WW II, Navy Cross)
08/19/1905 Jacques de Menasce, composer
08/19/1906 Philo T Farnsworth, Beaver Utah, inventor (electronic TV) 08/19/1907 June Collyer, NYC, actress (June-Stu Erwin Show)
08/19/1907 Thurston Morton, (Sen-Ky, 1957-1969)
08/19/1907 Zygmunt Mycielsky, composer
08/19/1909 Jerzy Andrzejewski, Warsaw Poland, writer (Ashes & Diamonds) 08/19/1913 Walter B Jones, (Rep-D-NC, 1966-92)
08/19/1914 Fumio Hayasaka, composer
08/19/1915 Lardner Ring Jr, Chicago, screenwriter (Woman of the Year) 08/19/1916 Marie Wilson, Anaheim Calif, actress (My Friend Irma)
08/19/1919 Malcolm Forbes, publisher (Forbes Magazine)
08/19/1920 Lucila English-Boskaljon, Cura�ao painter
08/19/1920 Paul Kont, composer
08/19/1921 Gene Roddenberry, executive producer (Star Trek)
08/19/1921 Philip A Potter, Dominica sec-gen World council of Churches 08/19/1923 Erik Aalb�k Jensen, Danish vicar/author (Perleports)
08/19/1924 William Marshall, Gary Ind, actor (Blacula, Something of Value) 08/19/1927 James T Broyhill, (Sen-R-NC, 1986)
08/19/1930 D[avid] G[uy] Compton, UK, sci-fi author (Synthajoy, Radio Plays) 08/19/1931 Willie Shoemaker, jockey (In 1956 he won $2 million)
08/19/1933 Debra Paget, actress (Anne of the Indies, Love Me Tender) 08/19/1934 Bill Cleary, US, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960)
08/19/1934 David F Durenberger, Minn, (Sen-R-MN, 1978- )
08/19/1934 Renee Richards, [Richard Rankind], trans-sexual tennis player 08/19/1935 Bobby Richardson, SC, 2nd baseman (NY Yankees)
08/19/1935 F Story Musgrave, Boston, MD/astronaut (STS 6, 51-F, 33, 44, 61) 08/19/1938 Diana Muldaur, actress (McCloud, Star Trek Next Generation, LA Law) 08/19/1938 Valentin Mankin, USSR, finn class yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1968) 08/19/1939 Ginger [Peter] Baker, England, drummer (Cream-White Room) 08/19/1940 Jill St John, [Oppenheim], LA Calif, actress (Diamonds are Forever) 08/19/1940 Johnny Nash, Houston, Tx, rocker (I Can See Clearly Now)
08/19/1943 Billy J Kramer, Liverpool, rocker (The Dakotas-Bad to Me) 08/19/1943 Diana Muldaur, NYC, actress (McCloud, Survivors, Hizzoner) 08/19/1944 Eddy Raven, Lafayette La, country singer (Right Hand Man) 08/19/1944 Samuel J de Bear, S Afr vicar/underminister of Education
08/19/1945 Ian Gillian, heavy metal rocker (Deep Purple-Knocking at Backdoor) 08/19/1946 Charles F Bolden Jr, Columbia SC, astronaut (STS 61C, 31, 45, 60) 08/19/1947 Gerald McRaney, Collins Miss, actor (Simon & Simon, Major Dad) 08/19/1949 Bill Clinton, Pres (D, 1993- )
08/19/1951 John Deacon, British pop guitarist (Queen-Somebody to Love) 08/19/1951 Randi Oakes, Randalia Iowa, actress (Officer Bonnie Clark-CHiPs) 08/19/1952 Jonathan Frakes, actor (Commander William T Riker-Star Trek Next Gen
08/19/1953 Johan F de Leeuw, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
08/19/1955 Peter Gallagher, actor (Player, Summer Lovers, Dreamchild) 08/19/1956 Adam Arkin, Bkln, actor (Busting Loose, Pearl, Northern Exposure) 08/19/1956 Cindy Nelson, US, skier (Olympic-bronze-1976)
08/19/1957 Darby Hinton, Santa Monica Calif, actor (Israel-Daniel Boone) 08/19/1959 Steve Grimmett, heavy metal rocker
08/19/1960 Ron Darling, Hawaii, baseball pitcher (NY Mets)
08/19/1962 Valerie Kaprisky, Paris France, actress (Breathless, Public Woman) 08/19/1963 Joey Tempest, rocker (Europe-The Final Countdown)
08/19/1963 John Stamos, Cypress Calif, actor (General Hospital, Full House) 08/19/1965 Kevin Dillon, actor (Heaven Help Us, Remote Control, Platoon) 08/19/1967 Jason Starsky, son of Beatle Ringo
08/19/1967 Tabitha Soren, San Antonio Texas, MTV reporter (This Week in Rock) 08/19/1969 Christian Slater, actor (Legend of Billie Jean)
08/19/1970 Matthew L Perry, actor (Chazz Russell-2nd Chance, Sydney) 08/19/1971 Tricia Ann Luedtke, Oostburg Wisc, Miss Wisc-America-1991


Deaths:

08/19/ 14 -BC- Caesar August, [Octavianus], 1st emperor of Rome, dies at 76 08/19/ 440 Sixtus III, Italian Pope (432-40), dies
08/19/1493 Frederick III of Innsbruck, German Emperor (1440-1493), dies at 77 08/19/1580 Andrea Palladio, architect/writer (Il Redentore, Venice), dies at 71
08/19/1601 Michael the Brave, ruler of Turkey, dies
08/19/1691 Mustafa K�pr�l�, Turkish grand vizer, dies in battle
08/19/1699 Jos� Saenz d'aguirre, Spanish cardinal, dies at 69
08/19/1744 Carlo Arrigoni, composer, dies at 46
08/19/1780 Bernhard Haltenberger, composer, dies at 32
08/19/1795 Friedrich Hartmann Graf, composer, dies at 67
08/19/1812 Vincenzp Righini, composer, dies at 56
08/19/1813 Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, composer, dies at 54
08/19/1813 Josef Blazej Smrcek, composer, dies at 61
08/19/1822 Melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer, dies at 62
08/19/1851 Gioseffo Catrufo, composer, dies at 80
08/19/1872 Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer, dies at 63
08/19/1881 Joseph Labitzky, composer, dies at 79
08/19/1889 Jean MMPA de Villiers de l'isle-Adam, French writer (Axel), dies at
08/19/1891 Gestur P�lsson, Icelandic writer (Verdandi, Ritsafn), dies at 38 08/19/1892 Frantisek Zdenek Xavier Alois Skuhersky, composer, dies at 62 08/19/1909 Rembt THPLA of Boneval Faure, lawyer/1st-Member of parliament, dies 08/19/1912 Alfonse Hasselmans, composer, dies at 67
08/19/1922 Felipe Pedrell, composer, dies at 81
08/19/1929 Sergei P Diaghilev, Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet), dies at
08/19/1936 Federico Garc�a Lorca, Spanish poet/composer, dies
08/19/1944 G�nther von Kluge, German field marshal, commits suicide
08/19/1944 Henry J Wood, English conductor (My Life of Music, Proms), dies at 7
08/19/1947 Earnest Laqueur, chemist/psychologist (sexual hormones), dies 08/19/1954 Alcide de Gasperi, Italian premier (1945..53), dies at 73 08/19/1959 Jacob Epstein, US/English sculptor/painter, dies at 78
08/19/1962 Kerstin Hesselgren, 1st woman in Swedish parliament, dies at 90 08/19/1967 Carl W de Vries, lawyer (Great grandfather king), dies at 84 08/19/1967 Isaac Deutscher, Polish/Eng historian (Stalin-biography), dies at 60
08/19/1974 ... Davies, US ambassador on Cyprus, murdered
08/19/1976 Jeno Kenessey, composer, dies at 70
08/19/1977 Groucho Martin, NYC, comedian (Marx Bros), dies in LA at 86 08/19/1986 Hermione Baddeley, actress (Camp Runamuck, Maude), dies at 79 08/19/1986 Jacob AW Civilian, Dutch soc-dem party chairman, dies at 81 08/19/1990 Ben Rutgers Van de Loeff-Basenau, children's book writer, dies 08/19/1992 Feliks Arons, director/actor, dies
08/19/1993 Lucinda Ballard, US costume designer/wife of Howard Dietz, dies at 9


Significant Events:

08/19/ 440 St Sixtus III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
08/19/1071 Battle at Manzikert: Seldjuken sultan Alp Arslan beats Byzantine Kin
08/19/1099 Crusaders beat Saracens in Battle of Ascalon
08/19/1263 King James I or Argon censors Hebrew writings
08/19/1493 Maximilian I of Austria becomes Roman Catholic German emperor 08/19/1627 Prince Frederik Henry conquerors fort Groenlo
08/19/1698 Russian czar Peter the Great begins term
08/19/1702 -24] Battle at Santa Marta Venz: English fleet beet French 08/19/1787 W Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn
08/19/1791 Benjamin Banneker published his 1st Almanac
08/19/1812 US warship Constitution defeats British warship Guerriere 08/19/1816 Java again in Dutch hands
08/19/1821 Failed liberal coup against French King Louis XVIII
08/19/1826 Canada Co chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario)
08/19/1836 HMS Beagle anchors at Angra Azores
08/19/1849 NY Herald reports gold discovery in California
08/19/1861 Confederacy Congress allies with govt of MI
08/19/1864 2nd day of battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia
08/19/1882 J Palisa discovers asteroid #228 Agathe
08/19/1888 1st beauty contest (Spa, Belgium), 18 yr old West Indian wins 08/19/1890 A Charlois discovers asteroid #296 Phaetusa
08/19/1891 William Huggins describes astronomical application of spectrum 08/19/1893 A Charlois discovers asteroid #372 Palma
08/19/1903 Phillies suffer record 9th straight posponed game
08/19/1905 Russian tsar installs 'Imperial Duma', without legislative powers 08/19/1909 Indianapolis 500 race track opens
08/19/1913 Frenchman P�goud makes 1st parachute jump in Europe
08/19/1914 German army executed 150 Belgians by firing squad
08/19/1915 Rationing laws go into effect in Netherlands
08/19/1917 Sunday benefit baseball game at Polo Grounds results in John 08/19/1917 McGraw & Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws 08/19/1919 Afghanistan declares independence from UK
08/19/1933 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1289 Kutaissi
08/19/1934 Helen Hull Jacobs win US Lawn Tennis Association
08/19/1934 Hitler elected F�hrer (95.7% of German voters)
08/19/1934 Paul Runyan wins PGA golf tournament
08/19/1935 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1634 Ndola
08/19/1936 Trial against Ljev Kamenev & Grigori Zinovjev because of 'Trotskyism
08/19/1936 opens in Moscow
08/19/1938 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1469 Linzia
08/19/1939 37.6 cm rainfall at Tuckerton, NJ (state record)
08/19/1942 1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is 08/19/1942 4,000 Canadian & British soldiers killed raiding Dieppe, France 08/19/1942 Allied commandos attack Dieppe (1st allied assault on occupied area)
08/19/1942 Gen Paulus orders German 6th force to overthrow Stalingrad 08/19/1943 Belgian church excommunicates nazi L�on Degrelle
08/19/1943 US air raid on German bases at Gilze-Queries/Vlissingen
08/19/1944 Last Japanese troops driven out of India
08/19/1944 Nazi's give parts of Paris to R�sistance
08/19/1944 Paris police strike against nazi occupiers
08/19/1944 Polish 1st Division occupiers Hill 262 (Mont Ormel), Normandy 08/19/1944 US 15th Army corp occupies Mantes-Gassicourt at Paris
08/19/1944 US 90th/Polish 1st Division occupy Chambois Normandy
08/19/1947 J Arens & D van Villages synthetises vitamin A
08/19/1950 ABC begins Saturday morning kid shows (Animal Clinic & Acrobat Ranch
08/19/1951 Bill Veeck (Browns) sends Eddie Gaedel, a 3'7' midget, to pinch-hit 08/19/1954 Ralph J Bunche named undersecretary of UN
08/19/1955 32.4 cm rainfall at Burlington, Connecticut (state record) 08/19/1955 Hurricane Diane kills 200 & 1st billion $ damage storm (N.E. US) 08/19/1957 NY Giants vote to move their franchise to SF in 1958
08/19/1957 US Major David Simons reaches 30,933m in a balloon
08/19/1958 NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters 08/19/1959 Doctor X beats Wilber Snyder in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ
08/19/1959 Satellite Discoverer 6 launched into polar orbit
08/19/1960 Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident) 08/19/1960 Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 3 mice into orbit (later recovered alive) 08/19/1961 US vice-president Lyndon B Johnson visits West Berlin
08/19/1962 Homer Blancos plays finest round in golf, shooting a 55
08/19/1963 NAACP Youth Council begins sit-ins at lunch counters, Oklahoma City 08/19/1964 Communication satellite Syncom 3 launched
08/19/1965 Auschwitz trials end
08/19/1965 Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney 2nd no-hitter of year beats Chic Cubs, 1-
08/19/1966 Earthquake strikes Varko Turkey: 2,400 killed
08/19/1966 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #1789 Dobrovolsky
08/19/1967 Beatles' 'All You Need is Love,' single goes #1
08/19/1969 Chicago Cub Ken Holtzman no-hits Atlanta Braves, 3-0
08/19/1973 Pirate World Music Radio (Holland) closes down after 10 years 08/19/1976 Pres Gerald R Ford won Republican pres nomination at KC convention 08/19/1978 422 die in an arson fire at a movie theater in Iran
08/19/1978 Fire in movie theater kills 370 in Abadan Iran
08/19/1979 Crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 aft 175 d flight 08/19/1980 Saudi Arabian Lockhead Tristar crashes on landing at Riyadh, 301 die
08/19/1981 2 US Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22 08/19/1982 Renaldo Nehemiah of US sets record for 110 m hurdles, 12.93 sec 08/19/1982 Soyuz T-7 launched, Svetlana Savtiskaya 2nd woman in space 08/19/1982 Z Vavrova discovers asteroid #2781
08/19/1983 LSU footballer Billy Cannon sentenced to 5 yrs for counterfeiting 08/19/1984 Lee Trevino wins PGA
08/19/1984 Republican convention in Houston nominates Ronald Reagan for pres 08/19/1985 Japan launches its 2nd probe of Halley's Comet, Suisei
08/19/1988 Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT) 08/19/1988 Muang Muang succeeds Gen Sein Lwin as pres of Burma
08/19/1988 NY Rangers sign ex-Canadien great Guy LaFluer
08/19/1989 Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communmist president of Poland 08/19/1990 NY Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 14 HRs (approx 128 at bat)
08/19/1991 Janajev & KGB coup in Russia deposes Mikhail Gorbachev
08/19/1993 Actress Kim Basinger weds actor Alec Baldwin
08/19/1993 Dow Jones hits record high of 3612.13
08/19/1993 Mattel & Fisher Price toys merge
08/19/1993 Sally Gunnell runs lady world record 400m hurdles (52.74')

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Births:

08/20/1517 Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, cardinal/viceroy of Naples (1571-75) 08/20/1561 Jacopo Peri, composer
08/20/1601 Pierre de Fermat, French lawyer/mathematician
08/20/1625 Thomas Corneille, French playwright
08/20/1637 Cornelis Van Aerssen, marquis of Ch�tillon/governor of Suriname 08/20/1665 Bernardus Smijtegelt, vicar (Gekrookte Reed)
08/20/1666 Alphonse d' Eve, composer
08/20/1710 Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (rules of Simpson)
08/20/1720 Bernard de Bury, composer
08/20/1756 Bernardo Bittoni, composer
08/20/1764 Charles F Bentinck, minister of Colonization
08/20/1778 Bernardo O'Higgins, won independence for Chile
08/20/1779 Freiherr J�ns J Berzelius, Swedish chemist (atomic weight) 08/20/1785 Oliver Hazard Perry, US Naval hero ('We have met the enemy') 08/20/1788 Jose Bernardo Alcedo, composer
08/20/1799 Heinrich WA Freiherr von Gagern, German liberal politician 08/20/1802 Cadwalader Ringgold, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1867 08/20/1811 Gilman Marston, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1890 08/20/1820 Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer
08/20/1824 Absalom Baird, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1905 08/20/1827 Charles TH Coster, Belgian literary (L�gendes d'ulenspiegel) 08/20/1827 Josef Strauss, composer
08/20/1832 Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe, inventor, died in 1913 08/20/1833 Benjamin Harrison, North Bend Ohio, (R) 23rd Pres (1889-1893) 08/20/1842 Juliaan de Vriendt, Flemish painter
08/20/1860 Raymond Poincar�, France, president/PM (1912)
08/20/1873 Eliel Saarinen, Finland, architect (GM Tech Institute, Mich) 08/20/1873 William Henry Bell, composer
08/20/1881 Edgar Albert Guest, Detroit Mich, poet/newspaperman
08/20/1881 Nikolay Yakovlevich Myaskovsky, composer
08/20/1885 Dino Campana, Italian poet (Canti orfici)
08/20/1886 Paul Tillich, German/US theologist (Die sozial Entscheidung) 08/20/1888 George Sklavos, composer
08/20/1889 Witold Friemann, composer
08/20/1890 H P Lovecraft, US, Gothic novelist (At the Mountains of Madness) 08/20/1897 Tarjei Vesaas, Norse author (Det Store Spelet)
08/20/1898 G Kraus, director Santpoort (Insanity in Netherlands)
08/20/1898 Leopold Infeld, Polish nuclear physicist (Whom the God's Love) 08/20/1901 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italy, poet/critic/translator (Nobel 1959) 08/20/1904 Jap [Jacob AW] Burger, chairman (PvdA)
08/20/1905 Jack [Weldon J] Teagarden, US trombonist/actor (Meet Band Leaders) 08/20/1907 Alan Reed, NYC, actor (Mr Adams & Eve/voice (Fred Flintstone) 08/20/1907 Shirley Booth, NYC, actress (Hazel-Hazel, A Touch of Grace) 08/20/1908 Alfonso Lopez, baseball player (AL Manager of the year 1959) 08/20/1910 Eero Saarinen, Finnish/US architect (IBM Building, MIT Chapel) 08/20/1911 Ronald Udell, England, production designer (Pinewood Studios) 08/20/1912 Philip Kapleau, founder (Rochester Zen Center in New Haven) 08/20/1914 Kitei Sohn, Korean marathon runner/coach (Olympic-gold-1936) 08/20/1920 Istv�n Sziv�s, Hungary, water polo player (Olympic-gold-1976) 08/20/1921 Jacqueline Susann, Phila Pa, author (Valley of the Dolls) 08/20/1931 Bernhard Becher, photographer (industrialist builder 19th/20th) 08/20/1931 Don King, boxing promoter, shocking hairstyle
08/20/1933 Don Fuqua, (Rep-D-FL, 1963-86)
08/20/1933 George J Mitchell, (Sen-D-ME, 1980- /Senate Whip 1989- ) 08/20/1933 Larry Robideaux, horse trainer
08/20/1935 Charles Shere, composer
08/20/1935 Justin Tubb, San Antonio Tx, country singer (Grand Ole Opry) 08/20/1935 YY Malone, US soul singer (It's a shame)
08/20/1937 Corrie E Moret-de Jong, Dutch 2nd Chamber Member (CDA)
08/20/1937 George Thoma, German FR, cross country ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1960
08/20/1938 Jean-Loup Jaques Marie Chretien, France, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-6, TM-7)
08/20/1940 Sam Melville, Utah, actor (Mike Danko-Rookies, Roughnecks) 08/20/1941 Slobodan Milocevic, premier Serbia
08/20/1941 William H Gray III, Baton Rouge La, (Rep-D-PA, 1978- )
08/20/1942 Hans-Joachim Klein, German FR, 100m swimmer (Olympic-bronze-1964) 08/20/1942 Isaac Hayes, composer (Shaft)
08/20/1943 Robert Plant, rocker (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven)
08/20/1944 Graig Nettles, 3rd baseman (NY Yankees, SD Padres, Cleve Indians) 08/20/1944 Rajiv Gandhi, PM of India (1984- )
08/20/1946 Connie Chung, TV newscaster (NBC, CBS)
08/20/1948 Robert Plans, English rock vocalist (Led Zeppelin-Whole Lotta Love) 08/20/1951 Greg[ory] [Dale] Bear, US, sci-fi author (2 Hugos, Eon, Eternity) 08/20/1951 Svetlana Oktyabrevna Omelchenko, Russia, cosmonaut
08/20/1952 John Hiatt, US singer/songwriter
08/20/1952 Rudy Gatlin, Olney Tx, country singer (Gatlin Bros-Broken Lady) 08/20/1953 Peter Horton, Bellevue Wash, actor (Gary-30 Something)
08/20/1954 William Quinn Buckner, Phoenix Ill, basketballer (Olympic-gold-1976)
08/20/1955 Jay Acovone, Mahopac NY, actor (Det Rado-Hollywood Beat)
08/20/1955 Rob Wied�k, singer (Bob Color)
08/20/1956 Joan Allen, US, actress (Peggy Sue Got Married, Tucker, In Country) 08/20/1957 Cindy Nicholas, Canada, swimmer, swam English Channel 19 times 08/20/1957 Jim 'Bullseye' Bowen, British TV game show host
08/20/1958 Lenny Henry, British comedian (3 of a Kind)
08/20/1959 Richard DeStasio, horse trainer
08/20/1960 Elizabeth Alda, daughter of Alan Alda, actress (Beth-Four Seasons) 08/20/1960 Troy Young, horse trainer
08/20/1961 Linda Mantz, NYC, actress (Frankie-Dorothy)
08/20/1961 Rick Rael, heavy metal rocker
08/20/1964 Giuseppe Giannini, Rome Italy, soccer player (Rome A Team) 08/20/1965 Joe Durigon, jockey
08/20/1966 Courtney Gibbs, Miss USA (1988)/actress (Baywatch)
08/20/1969 Francisco Torres, jockey
08/20/1971 Ke Huy Quan, Saigon Vietnam, actor (Sam-Together We Stand) 08/20/1979 Frank J Guarini, (Rep-D-NJ, 1979- )
08/20/1980 Corey Carrier, actor (Young Indiana Jones)


Deaths:

08/20/ 984 John XIV, [Petrus Canepanova], Italian Pope (983-84), dies 08/20/1153 Bernard[us] van Clairvaux, French saint, dies
08/20/1384 Geert Great, [Gerardus Magnus], theologist (Get�denboek), dies 08/20/1538 Aefgen Listinck, wederdoopster, burned at stake
08/20/1672 Cornelis de Witt, statesman, lynched
08/20/1672 Johan de Witt, advisor of Holland, lynched
08/20/1679 Jacob Alting, theologist, dies at 60
08/20/1799 Johann Christian Gottlob Eidenbenz, composer, dies at 37
08/20/1804 Charles Floyd, only fatality of the Lewis & Clark Expedition 08/20/1813 Johann Baptist Vanhal, composer, dies at 74
08/20/1823 Pius VII, [Luigi B Chiaramonti], Pope (1800-23), dies at 83 08/20/1825 Richard Wainwright, composer, dies at 68
08/20/1854 Friedrich WJ von Schelling, German philosopher, dies at 79 08/20/1856 Philipp Jakob Riotte, composer, dies at 80
08/20/1864 Daniel Chaplin, US Union brig-general, dies
08/20/1864 John H Kelly, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 24 08/20/1885 Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter (Slave Market), dies 08/20/1908 Louis Varney, composer, dies at 64
08/20/1910 Arthur Coquard, composer, dies at 64
08/20/1912 William Booth, English minister/founder (Leader des Heils), dies 08/20/1914 Pius X, [Giuseppe M Sarto], Pope (1903-14), dies
08/20/1915 Paul Ehrlich, Germ geneologist (Chemotherapy, Nobel 1908), dies in 6
08/20/1917 JFW Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel 1905), dies 08/20/1931 Waldemar von Baussnern, composer, dies at 64
08/20/1932 Emille-Louis-Victor Mathieu, composer, dies at 87
08/20/1932 Paul Keller, German writer (Vergrabenes Gut), dies at 59
08/20/1932 Tadeusz Joteyko, composer, dies at 60
08/20/1935 Otakar Ostrcil, composer, dies at 56
08/20/1940 Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson 08/20/1947 Franz VM Cumont, Belgian religious historian, dies at 79
08/20/1948 David John de Lloyd, composer, dies at 65
08/20/1952 Kurt Schumacher, German politician/chairman (SPD), dies
08/20/1960 Rudolf Moser, composer, dies at 68
08/20/1961 Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic explorer, dies at 82
08/20/1968 Earl Sande, US jockey (Kentucky Derby), dies at 69
08/20/1970 Hildo Krop, modernistic sculptor, dies at 86
08/20/1978 Ivan Jirko, composer, dies at 51
08/20/1978 Petros John Petridis, composer, dies at 86
08/20/1980 Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, dies at 91
08/20/1982 Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress, dies in Vienna at 53 of bone cancer
08/20/1983 Kerwin Duinmeijer, Antillean boy, murder by racist at 15
08/20/1984 Jan Ret�l, Dutch actor (Niet Tevergeefs, Dorp aam Rivier), dies at 6
08/20/1985 Harchand Singh Longowai, Sikh leader, shot by Sikh extremists 08/20/1986 Donn Bennett, TV host (The Big Idea), dies at 76
08/20/1986 Thad Jones, jazz trumpeter, dies of cancer at 63
08/20/1986 Walter Brooke, actor (DA Scanlon-Green Hornet), dies at 71 08/20/1990 Marc Turfkru�er, Flemish movie journalist/writer, dies
08/20/1991 Lenore Strunsky Gershwin, widow of Ira Gershwin, dies at 90 08/20/1993 Bernard Delfgaauw, philosopher (Johnson murderer!), dies at 80


Significant Events:

08/20/ 2 Venus-Jupiter in conjunction-Star of Bethlehem(?)
08/20/ 573 Gregory of Tours selected bishop of Tours
08/20/ 636 Battle at Yarmuk: Moslems beat Byzantines
08/20/1191 Crusaders King Richard I kills 3,000 muslims in Akko
08/20/1566 Iconoclasm reaches Antwerp Belgium
08/20/1604 Spanish garrison of Lock surrenders to Earl Mauritius
08/20/1619 1st Black slaves brought by Dutch to colony of Jamestown Virginia 08/20/1648 Battle of Lens
08/20/1781 George Washington begins to move his troops south to fight Cornwalli
08/20/1794 Gen Mad Anthony Wayne routes Indians at Fallen Timbers, Ohio 08/20/1852 Steamer 'Atlantic' collided with fishing boat, sinks with 250 aboard
08/20/1856 Wilberforce University established in Ohio
08/20/1861 Skirmish at Jonesboro MI
08/20/1864 8th/last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Va (about 3900 casualties)
08/20/1865 Pres Johnson proclaims an end to 'insurrection' in Tx
08/20/1866 Pres Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over
08/20/1879 Govt Kappe�ne of Coppello resigns
08/20/1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes 'Adventure of Norwood Builder' (BG) 08/20/1896 Dial telephone patented
08/20/1901 Fawcett committee visits Mafeking concentration camp in Cape Colony 08/20/1908 A Kopff discovers asteroids #669 Kypria & #670 Ottegebe
08/20/1908 Congo Free State becomes Belgian Congo
08/20/1910 US supported opposition brings down Madriz in Nicaragua
08/20/1912 Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect
08/20/1912 Wash Senator Carl Cushion no-hits Cleve Indians, 2-0 in 6 innings 08/20/1913 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe P�goud-France) 08/20/1913 Piotr Nesterow 1st flight (Kiev Ukraine)
08/20/1914 -21] German General von B�low executes 211 Belgians
08/20/1914 -24] Battle of Bounderies: Lorraine, Ardennen, Sambre & Meuse, Mons 08/20/1914 Battle at Gumbinnen, East-Prussia: Russian beat Germans
08/20/1914 Battle at Morhange: German troops chase French, killing 1000s 08/20/1914 Bavarian troops kill 50 inhabitants of Nomeny France
08/20/1914 German forces occupy Brussels, Belgium during WW I
08/20/1915 Italy declares war on Turkey
08/20/1918 Britain opens offensive on Western front during WW I
08/20/1920 1st US coml radio, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit began daily broadcasting 08/20/1920 Allen Woodring wins Oympic 200 m dash wearing borrowed shoes 08/20/1920 Preliminary meeting in Akron to form American Pro Football League 08/20/1922 1st world championship athletics for women, held in Paris 08/20/1923 London harbor strike ends
08/20/1925 WJR-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions
08/20/1926 Uprising against Reza Shah Pahlawi in Persia
08/20/1929 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed 08/20/1930 Dumont's 1st TV broadcast for home reception (NYC)
08/20/1930 E Skvortsov discovers asteroid #1381 Danubia
08/20/1935 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1474 Beira
08/20/1935 Milt coup by General Pons & president Ibarra in Ecuador
08/20/1939 1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Assoc)
08/20/1939 Russ offensive under gen Zjoekov against Jap invasion in Mongolia 08/20/1940 Leon Trotsky, assassinated in Mexico City by Stalin agents, dies 8/2
08/20/1942 Dim-out regulations implemented in SF
08/20/1944 'Anna Lucasta,' opens on Broadway
08/20/1944 Gen de Gaulle returns to France
08/20/1944 Russian offensive at Jassy & Kisjinev
08/20/1945 Robert Hamilton wins PGA golf tournament
08/20/1945 Russian troops occupy Harbin & Mukden
08/20/1945 Tommy Brown, Bkln Dodger becomes youngest HR hitter (17)
08/20/1947 Turner Caldwell in D-558-I sets aircraft speed record, 1131 kph 08/20/1948 US expels Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin 08/20/1949 78,382 watch White Sox play Indians at Cleveland
08/20/1949 Hungary (Magyar People's Republic) accepts constitution
08/20/1952 Stalin meets Chou Enlai
08/20/1953 General Fazlollah Zahedi arrests premier Mossadeq of Persia 08/20/1953 Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation 08/20/1955 1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph (2897 kph)-HA Hanes, Palmdale Ca 08/20/1955 Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco & Algeria 08/20/1956 Republicans convene at Cow Palace
08/20/1957 Chic White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Wash Senators, 6-0
08/20/1957 USAAF ballon breaks an altitude record at 102,000' (310,896 m) 08/20/1957 White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Senators 6-0
08/20/1958 Dale Long becomes 1st major league lefty catcher in 52 years 08/20/1958 Detroit Tiger Jim Bunning no-hits Boston Red Sox, 3-0
08/20/1959 Belgium shortens conscription to 12 months
08/20/1960 Senegal breaks from Mali federation; declaring independence 08/20/1960 USSR recovers 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space 08/20/1961 Phillies set then dubious record of 23 straight loses
08/20/1964 LBJ signs anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion 08/20/1964 President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act
08/20/1965 Rolling Stones release 'Satisfaction' (their 1st #1 US hit) 08/20/1966 Crimean Astrophysical Obs discovers asteroid #2406 Orelskaya 08/20/1968 650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia
08/20/1969 69 cm rainfall in Nelson Co., Virginia (state record)
08/20/1971 FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr 08/20/1971 M Antal discovers asteroid #1807 Slovakia
08/20/1974 Nelson Rockefeller becomes VP
08/20/1974 Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph) 08/20/1975 Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126
08/20/1975 Viking 1 launched toward orbit around Mars, soft landing
08/20/1977 NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus & Neptune 08/20/1978 Gunmen open fire on an Israeli El Al Airline bus in London 08/20/1978 Mark Vinchesi of Amherst Mass keeps a frisbee aloft 15.2 seconds 08/20/1979 India premier Charan Singh resigns
08/20/1979 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #3618
08/20/1979 Singer Vikki Carr & Michael Nilsson wed
08/20/1980 NY Yankee Bob Watson hits Seattle Kingdome speaker, 2nd straight day
08/20/1980 Reinhold Messner of Italy is 1st to solo ascent Mt Everest 08/20/1982 C & E Shoemaker discover asteroids #3025 Higson & #3225 Hoag 08/20/1982 Don Lever becomes 1st captain of NJ Devils
08/20/1982 US marines land in Beirut Lebanon
08/20/1985 1st NL pitcher to strike out 200+ in 1st 2 seasons (Dwight Gooden) 08/20/1985 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3455 Kristensen
08/20/1985 Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of US
08/20/1985 Libya throws out 1000s Tunisian/Egyptian gas workers
08/20/1986 Mail carrier Patrick Sherrill, Edmond Ok, shot 14 fellow workers dea
08/20/1986 Phils Don Carmen perfect game bid is broken in 9th
08/20/1988 6.5 earthquake strikes India/Nepal, 1,000s killed
08/20/1988 Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria sets 100m hurdle woman's record (12.21)
08/20/1989 Said Aouita runs world record 3000 m (7:29.45)
08/20/1990 George Steinbrenner steps down as NY Yankee owner
08/20/1990 Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields
08/20/1990 NY Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 15 HRs (approx 132 at bat)
08/20/1991 Estonia declares it's independence from USSR
08/20/1992 Rocker Sting weds Trudie Styler
08/20/1993 Colin Jackson runs world record 110m hurdles (12.91)
08/20/1993 Howard Stern is fired from WLUP-AM, Chicago

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Births:

08/21/1165 Philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223) 08/21/1567 Fran�ois de Sales, French bishop of Genevea/writer/saint
08/21/1579 Henri II, Duke de Rohan-Gi�, French hugenot leader
08/21/1642 Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer
08/21/1643 Afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill)
08/21/1660 Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building 08/21/1689 Jose Pradas Gallen, composer
08/21/1721 Lucretia W van Winter-Notice, poetess
08/21/1751 Johann Georg Witthauer, composer
08/21/1765 William IV, king of England (1830-37)
08/21/1780 Jernej Kopitar, Slavic filmologist/censor (Slavic Grammar) 08/21/1789 Augustin-Louis, Baron Cauchy, French mathematician
08/21/1798 Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France, L'Amour) 08/21/1801 Guillaume Groen van Princeterer, statesman/historian
08/21/1806 Johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer
08/21/1809 Francesco Schira, composer
08/21/1810 Thomas Jefferson McKean, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 08/21/1821 William Barksdale, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 08/21/1824 John Sanford Mason, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1897 08/21/1825 Kate Fanny Loder, composer
08/21/1829 Otto Goldschmidt, composer
08/21/1847 Arthur T Verhaegen, Belgian worker's union leader
08/21/1852 Benedetto Junck, composer
08/21/1871 Leonid N Andrejev, Russian journalist/writer (Red Laugh)
08/21/1872 Aubrey Beardsley, England, artist (Salome)
08/21/1874 Herman A van Karnebeek, minister of Foreign affairs (1918-27) 08/21/1875 Maurice Lippens, Belgian earl/minister/governor of Congo
08/21/1880 Johan H Westerveld, leader OD (Order Service) WW II
08/21/1890 Bill Henry, SF Calif, newscaster (Who Said That?)
08/21/1893 Lili Boulanger, composer
08/21/1896 Raymond Herreman, Flemish writer (Rose of Jericho)
08/21/1896 Roark Bradford, writer/humorist (Ol' Man Adan an' His Chillun) 08/21/1902 Renato Fasano, composer
08/21/1903 Yannis Constantinidis, composer
08/21/1904 William 'Count' Basie, Red Bank NJ, jazz musician (Blazing Saddles) 08/21/1906 Friz Freleng, animator (Bugs Bunny-Emmy 1982)
08/21/1906 Joachim Homs, composer
08/21/1907 Dr Roy K Marshall, Glen Carbon Ill, TV scientist (Nature of Things) 08/21/1909 C Dillon Douglas, Geneva Switz, US Secretary of Treasury (1961-65) 08/21/1909 Jon William Jr Haussermann, composer
08/21/1913 Cornelius Johnson, LA Calif, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1936) 08/21/1915 Jack Weston, [Morris Weinstein], Cleveland, actor (4 Seasons, Rad) 08/21/1920 Christopher R Milne, son of Alan A Milne (Winnie the Pooh) 08/21/1921 Nancy Kulp, Harrisburg Pa, actress (Jane-Beverly Hillbillies) 08/21/1923 Chris Shenkel, Biuppus Ind, sportscaster (Monday Night Fights) 08/21/1924 Gerald D Lascelles, under English princess Mary
08/21/1926 Ben-Zion Orgad, composer
08/21/1927 Wilhelm Jr Killmayer, composer
08/21/1928 Gillian Sheen, England, foils (Olympic-gold-1956)
08/21/1928 Zdenek Lukas, composer
08/21/1929 Ahmed 'Kathy' Kathrada, leader of S Afr Communist Party
08/21/1930 Margaret Rose, princess of England (Sister of Queen Elizabeth) 08/21/1931 Gregg Smith, composer
08/21/1931 Nancy Hadley, LA Calif, actress (Love That Jill, Joey Bishop Show) 08/21/1933 Chris Schenkel, sportscaster (Boxing from St Nicholas Arena) 08/21/1933 Janet Baker, York England, mezzo-soprano (Owen Wingrave)
08/21/1936 Mart Crowley, playwright (Boys in the Band)
08/21/1936 Wilt Chamberlain, NBA great center (LA Laker, 5 time MVP) 08/21/1937 Robert Stone, US writer
08/21/1938 Kenny Rogers, singer (Through the Years)/actor (Coward of the County
08/21/1939 Clarence Williams III, NYC, actor (Mod Squad, 52 Pick Up, Purple Rai
08/21/1939 Harold W Reid, Augusta County Va, singer (Statler Bros-Class of '57)
08/21/1940 Robert Camac, horse trainer
08/21/1944 Jackie DeShannon, Hazel Kentucky, singer (What the World Needs Now) 08/21/1945 Patty McCormack, Bkln NY, actress (Mama, Peck's Bad Girl, Ropers) 08/21/1946 Lev Alburt, USSR, International Chess Master (1976)
08/21/1948 Taurean Black, actor (Hill Street Blues)
08/21/1951 Bernhard Germeshausen, German DR, bobsled (Olympic-gold-1976, 80) 08/21/1951 Harry Smith, Indiana, TV host (CBS Morning Show)
08/21/1953 Joe Strummer, [John Mellor], vocals/guitarist (Clash-Rock the Casbah
08/21/1956 Kim Cattrall, Liverpool England, actress (Mannequin, Star Trek VI) 08/21/1957 Budgie, rocker (Siouxsie & the Banshees-Wild Thing)
08/21/1957 Janice Thomas, WBL guard (NY Stars)
08/21/1957 Kim Sledge, Phila, vocalist (Sister Sledge-We are Family) 08/21/1958 Dom Mamzi, horse trainer
08/21/1959 Jim McMahon, NFL QB (Chicago Bears, SD Chargers, Phila Eagles) 08/21/1962 Matthew Broderick, actor (Ferris Buehler, Biloxi Blues)
08/21/1967 Michael Bendetti, actor (Officer Tony McCann-21 Jump Street) 08/21/1968 Barbara Moore, Spokane WA, playmate (Dec, 1992)
08/21/1979 David Osmond, Utah, vocalist (Osmond Boys)


Deaths:

08/21/1131 Boudew�n II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies
08/21/1190 Godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies
08/21/1245 Alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies
08/21/1516 John III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland, dies at 78 08/21/1627 Jacques Mauduit, composer, dies at 69
08/21/1629 Camillo Procaccini, Italian painter/etcher, dies
08/21/1673 Isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist, dies at 51 08/21/1673 John de Love I, vice-admiral, dies in sea battle at about 54 08/21/1723 Dimitrie Cantemir, composer, dies at 49
08/21/1772 Alessandro Felici, composer, dies at 29
08/21/1772 Johann Andreas Joseph Giulini, composer, dies at 48
08/21/1785 Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies 08/21/1812 Silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67
08/21/1824 Santiago Ferrer, composer, dies at 62
08/21/1856 Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64
08/21/1864 John Calhoun Sanders, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 24
08/21/1888 Simon Vissering, Dutch minister of Finance (1879-81), dies at 70 08/21/1898 Nicola van Westerhout, composer, dies at 40
08/21/1905 Jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80 08/21/1921 Ernest Daudet, French writer (Mon fr�re et moi), dies
08/21/1932 Frederick Corder, composer, dies at 80
08/21/1935 Josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76
08/21/1940 Leo Trotsky, dies at 62, wounds inflicted by assailant the day befor
08/21/1940 Paul Juon, Russian/Swiss violinist/composer, dies at 68
08/21/1942 Kiyoano Ichiki, Japanese colonel (WW II), dies
08/21/1943 Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer (Peter Gelukkige, Nobel 1917), die
08/21/1947 Ettore Bugatti, Italian/French car inventor, dies
08/21/1949 Gerhard von Keussler, composer, dies at 75
08/21/1951 Constantly Lambert, English composer/conductor/critic, dies at 45 08/21/1952 Isaac Sadeh, leader of Jewish commando forces, dies
08/21/1958 Stevan Hristic, composer, dies at 73
08/21/1958 Walter Schumann, choral director (Ford Show), dies at 44
08/21/1964 Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Italian Party)/min of Just, di
08/21/1970 Timothy Mather Spelman, composer, dies at 79
08/21/1971 George Jackson, US prisoner, shot to death at 29
08/21/1977 Octavus L 'Octave' van Aerschot, actor (Scandal in Paris), dies at 8
08/21/1978 Charles Eames, US chair manufacturer, dies at 71
08/21/1981 Hermann Schey, German/Neth singer, dies at 85
08/21/1982 Benigno S Aquino Jr, Philippines opposition leader, killed in Manila
08/21/1982 Sobhuza II, king of Swaziland/Ngwane (1921-82), dies
08/21/1983 Benigno S Aquino, Philippine politician, dies
08/21/1988 Hans G�nther Adler, German writer, dies at 78
08/21/1991 Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German/Swiss architect, dies
08/21/1992 Theo van T�n, Marxist/social-historian, dies at 65


Significant Events:

08/21/ 959 Erachus becomes bishop of Luik
08/21/1321 160 Jews of Chincon France, burned at stake
08/21/1560 Tycho Brahe becomes interested in astronomy
08/21/1598 -22] Deed of Transfers proclaims Netherlands independence 08/21/1673 Sea battle at K�kduin: De Ruyter defeats English & French fleet 08/21/1680 Pueblo Indians took possession of Santa F� from Spanish
08/21/1831 Nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia) 08/21/1841 John Hampson patents venetian blind
08/21/1858 1st Lincoln-Douglas debate (Illinois)
08/21/1863 Raid at Lawrence KS by William Quantrill
08/21/1864 BBT Charleston, SC [->DEC 31]
08/21/1864 Battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia, ends after 2500 casualties 08/21/1864 Battle of Grubbs Crossroads, KY
08/21/1864 Battle of Summit Point, VA
08/21/1864 Gen-major Nathan B Forrests assault on Memphis, Tennessee 08/21/1878 American Bar Association organizes at Sarasota, NY
08/21/1883 Providence shuts out Phillies 28-0
08/21/1887 Mighty (Dan) Casey struck-out in a game with NY Giants!
08/21/1891 Dutch Mackay govt resigns
08/21/1901 Joe McGinnity, suspended from NL for punching & spitting on an ump 08/21/1902 R H Frost discovers asteroid #505 Cava
08/21/1912 Mr Carter-Cotton chosen 1st chancellor of Univ of British Columbia 08/21/1914 Belgium: German troops occupy Tamines
08/21/1914 French offensive in the Ardennen/Sambre
08/21/1920 J Fowler Hutchison wins PGA golf tournament
08/21/1922 Curly Lambeau & Green Bay Football Club granted NFL franchise 08/21/1926 White Sox Ted Lyons no hits Red Sox 6-0 in just 67 minutes at Fenway
08/21/1927 4th Pan-African Congress meets (NYC)
08/21/1929 Chicago Cardinals become 1st pro football team to train out of town 08/21/1930 Prohibition of Wieringermeer finished
08/21/1931 Babe Ruth hits his 600th HR (Yanks beat Browns 11-7)
08/21/1933 E Delporte discovers asteroids #1285 Julietta & #1290 Albertine 08/21/1933 Ruth's homer leads AL to a 4-2 win in 1st All Star Game
08/21/1938 Italy bars all Jewish teachers in Public & High School
08/21/1942 Alpine hunters plant German flag on Elbroezgebergte, Kaukasus 08/21/1943 Gromyko named USSR-ambassador in Washington
08/21/1944 Dumbarton Oaks conference opens in Washington, DC; establishes UN 08/21/1944 Germans storm up Hill 262 (Mont Ormel) Normandy
08/21/1944 US 12nd Army corp occupies Sens
08/21/1945 Pres Truman ends Lend-Lease program
08/21/1946 E L Johnson discovers asteroid #1568 Aisleen
08/21/1949 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #3654
08/21/1949 NY Giants beat Phillies on a forfeit, due to fan's throwing debris 08/21/1953 Marion Carl in Douglas Skyrocket reaches record 25,370 m
08/21/1953 Sultan Sidi Mohammed Am Joessoef V of Morocco deposed
08/21/1956 WTVW TV channel 7 in Evansville, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting 08/21/1957 1st launching in Baikonur, Kazachstan (R7 'Semiorka'-rocket) 08/21/1958 KUT-FM in Austin Texas begins radio transmissions
08/21/1959 Hawaii becomes 50th US state
08/21/1961 Jomo Kenyatta freed in Kenya
08/21/1962 Verne Gagne beats Mister M (doctor X) in Minn, to become NWA champ 08/21/1963 Martial law declared in S Vietnam
08/21/1965 Gemini 5 launched into Earth orbit (2 astronauts)
08/21/1965 Romania adopts constitution
08/21/1965 The Crusher beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champ 08/21/1967 China reports downing of 2 US bombers
08/21/1967 Liquid gas tanker explodes in Martelange Belgium, 22 killed 08/21/1967 Mikis Theodorakis arrested in Greece
08/21/1968 After 5 years Russia once again jams Voice of America radio 08/21/1968 Democratic Convention opens in Chicago
08/21/1968 Radio Prague (Czech) at 12:50 AM announces a soviet led invasion 08/21/1968 Warsaw Pact forces enter Czechoslovakia to end reform movement 08/21/1968 William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight) 08/21/1969 Fire in Al-Aksa-mosque in Jerusalem
08/21/1972 1st hot air balloon flight over Alps
08/21/1972 British harbor strike ends
08/21/1972 Republican convention opens in Miami Beach
08/21/1972 US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus launched
08/21/1975 3 truck pile up kills 10, injures 26 on French highway
08/21/1975 Rick & Paul Reuschel become 1st brothers to pitch a combined shut ou
08/21/1975 US lightens trade embargo against Cuba
08/21/1976 Al Bumbry hits 17th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history
08/21/1977 Donna Patterson Brice sets high speed water skiing rec (111.11 mph) 08/21/1981 L Brozek discovers asteroid #3102
08/21/1982 Palestinian terrorists are dispersed from Beirut
08/21/1982 Rollie Fingers (Brewers) becomes 1st pitcher to get save #300 08/21/1983 110�F (43�C) at Fayetteville, North Carolina (state record) 08/21/1985 Mary Decker Slaney runs mile in world record 4:16.71
08/21/1985 T Schildknecht discovers asteroid #3328
08/21/1986 Lake Nios Volcano in Cameroon kills 1,746
08/21/1986 Red Sox Spike Owens scores 6 runs in a 24-5 rout of Cleve Indians 08/21/1986 Surinames Ronnie Brunsw�ks Jungle commandos kill 2 govt officials 08/21/1986 Volcanic eruption in Cameroon releases poison gas, killing 2,000 08/21/1986 With 2 outs in 6th inning, Red Sox score 11 runs
08/21/1987 'Mack Lobell' set harness racing's trotting mil (1:52)
08/21/1987 Clayton Lonetree, 1st marine court-martialed for spying, convicted 08/21/1988 Cease fire between Iran & Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war 08/21/1988 Yordanka Donkova runs world record 100 m hurdles (12.21)
08/21/1989 Voyager 2 begins a flyby of planet Neptune
08/21/1991 Communist coup is crushed in USSR in 2 days
08/21/1991 Latvia declares it's independence from USSR
08/21/1993 NASA loses contact with Mars Observer
08/21/2017 Next total solar eclipse visible from North America

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Births:

08/03/1645 August Kuhnel, composer
08/03/1748 Carl Ludwig Junker, composer
08/03/1753 Charles, Earl Stanhope, England, radical politician/scientist 08/03/1770 Frederik Willem III, reactionary king of Prussia (1797-1840) 08/03/1811 Elisha Graves Otis, inventor (safe elevator)
08/03/1816 John Eugene Smith, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1897 08/03/1817 Albrecht FR, arch duke of Austria (Battle at Custozza)
08/03/1818 HM Jozef Schadde, Flemish architect (New Stock exchange Antwerp) 08/03/1820 Luther Orlando Emerson, composer
08/03/1820 William Miller, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1909 08/03/1823 Thomas Francis Meagher, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 186
08/03/1824 William Burnham Woods, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 08/03/1832 Ivan Zajc, composer
08/03/1833 Auguste Schmidt, German teacher/feminist
08/03/1847 John de Mere, lawyer/tutor of Dutch Queen Wilhelmina
08/03/1850 Paul A Daum, writer/founder/editor (Batavian Newspaper)
08/03/1851 Isabella Caroline Somerset, temperance leader
08/03/1854 Fernand de La Tombelle, composer
08/03/1867 Stanley Baldwin, (C) British PM (1923-24, 1924-29, 1935-37) 08/03/1871 Vernon Louis Parrington, author (Romantic Revolution, Pulitzer 1928)
08/03/1872 Haakon VII, Charlottenlund Denmark, King of Norway (1905-57) 08/03/1878 Constantino Gaito, composer
08/03/1882 Charles O'Neill, composer
08/03/1882 Segundo Luis Moreno Andrade, composer
08/03/1884 Louis Gruenberg, near Brest Litovsk Poland, composer (Daniel Jazz) 08/03/1885 Naphtali Siegfried Salomon, composer
08/03/1887 Rupert Brooke, British WW I poet (1914)
08/03/1892 Oscar van Hemel, composer
08/03/1894 Harry Heilmann, SF Cal, baseball hall of famer outfielder (Detroit) 08/03/1894 John H Van Maarseveen, minister of Justice/Internal minister 08/03/1900 Arnoldus J Struycken, lawyer
08/03/1900 Ernie Pyle, England, correspondant during WW II
08/03/1900 John T Scopes, Tennessee teacher convicted for teaching evolution 08/03/1901 Bernard Reichel, composer
08/03/1901 John Stennis, (Sen-D-Miss)
08/03/1901 Stefan Wyszynski, Polish cardinal
08/03/1902 Habib Bourguiba, 1st president of Tunisia (1957-87)
08/03/1902 Judson Laire, NYC, actor/singer (Papa-Mama, Adm Broadway Revue) 08/03/1902 Ray Block, France, orch leader (Ed Sullivan, Jackie Gleason) 08/03/1904 Clifford D[onald] Simak, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Empire, Way Statio
08/03/1905 Dolores Del Rio, Mexico, actress (What Price Glory?)
08/03/1906 Alexandre Trauber, Hungarian/French set designer (H�tel du Nord) 08/03/1906 Leonard Huizinga, journalist/writer (Adrian & Olivier)
08/03/1907 Irene Tedrow, Denver Colo, actress (Lucy-Dennis the Menace, Mr Novak
08/03/1911 Karel G Bakker, actor (Lady Windermere's waaier)
08/03/1914 Rick Slabbinck, Flemish painter
08/03/1915 Sal Santen, writer
08/03/1918 James MacGregor Burns, political writer (The Lion & the Fox) 08/03/1920 Maria Karnilova, Hartford Ct, actress (Olga-Ivan the Terrible) 08/03/1920 P D James, mystery writer (Cover Her Face)
08/03/1921 Alec Wyton, composer
08/03/1921 Hayden Carruth, Waterbury Ct, novelist (Crow & Heart)
08/03/1921 Marilyn Maxwell, actress (East of Sumatra)
08/03/1921 Richard Adler, composer
08/03/1923 Anne Klein, fashion designer (Anne Klein II)
08/03/1923 Roger Foulon, French/Belgian songwriter
08/03/1924 Leon Uris, US, novelist (Exodus, QB VII, Battle Cry)
08/03/1924 Max van der Stoel, Dutch Foreign minister (PvdA)
08/03/1926 Tony Bennett, Queens NY, singer (Left a body part in SF)
08/03/1927 Enrique Pinella, composer
08/03/1927 Gordon Scott, Portland Oregon, actor (Tarzan & the Trappers) 08/03/1929 Bethel Leslie, NYC, entertainer (Capt Newman MD, Rabbit Trap) 08/03/1930 James Komack, NYC, writer/director/actor (Courtship of Eddie's Fathe
08/03/1931 Alex Cord, actor (Brotherhood, Fire, Street Asylum)
08/03/1932 Mario Montes de Oca, Mexican poet
08/03/1933 Tjong King, illustrator of children books (Miep Diekman)
08/03/1935 Georgi S Shonin, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 6)
08/03/1935 Richard D Lamm, (Gov-D-Colo)
08/03/1938 George Memmoli, NYC, actor (Earl-Hello Larry)
08/03/1938 Terry '5 Wigs' Wogan, British talk show host (Irish Days) 08/03/1940 John W Carlin, (Gov-D-KS)
08/03/1940 Joseph Dorfman, composer
08/03/1940 Lance Alworth, Houston Tx, NFL hall of famer (Charger, Cowboys) 08/03/1940 Martin Sheen [Ramon Estevez], NY, actor (Subject Was Roses, Wall St)
08/03/1941 Beverly Lee, Passaic NJ, singer (Shirelles-Soldier Boy)
08/03/1941 Martha Stewart, cookbook author/actress (Those Two)
08/03/1945 Ron Hendren, Pinehurst NC, TV host (Entertainment Tonight) 08/03/1949 B B Dickerson, rocker (War-World is a Ghetto)
08/03/1949 Morris 'BB' Dickerson, US bassist (War, Low Rider, Outlaw) 08/03/1950 JoMarie Payton, actress (Hariette-Family Matters/Perfect Strangers) 08/03/1950 John Landis, director (Twilight Zone, Blues Brothers)
08/03/1950 Waldemar Cierpinski, German DR, marathoner (Olympic-gold-1976, 80) 08/03/1951 Hans William Schlegel, German FR, cosmonaut
08/03/1951 Jon Graham, rocker (Earth Wind & Fire-Celebrate)
08/03/1951 Marcel Dionne, Qu�bec, NHL center (LA Kings, NY Rangers)
08/03/1952 Jay North, North Hollywood Calif, actor (Dennis the Menace, Maya) 08/03/1954 Denise Craig, WBL forward (Dayton Rockettes, NY Stars)
08/03/1956 Kirk Brandon, rocker (Theatre of Hate, Spear of Destiny-Outland) 08/03/1958 Cindy Nixon, Nashville Tenn, singer (Girls Next Door-Don't Be Cruel)
08/03/1959 Victoria Jackson, Miami Fla, actress (Casual Sex, SNL, UHF) 08/03/1960 Tim Mayotte, Springfield Mass, tennis player (Olympic-silver-1988) 08/03/1961 Lee Rocker, rocker (Stray Cats-Gonna Ball)
08/03/1962 Tina Lehtola, Finland, women's ski jumper (world's record holder) 08/03/1963 Carlo Imperato, Bronx, actor (Fame)
08/03/1963 James Hetfield, heavy metal rocker (Metallica-Helpless)
08/03/1966 Christine Richters, Fullerton Ca, playmate (May, 1986)
08/03/1967 John Femia, Bkln NY, actor (Square Pegs, Hello Larry)
08/03/1972 John Lilley, Wakefield Mass, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994) 08/03/1974 Jenny Beck, actress (Claire Carroll-Guns & Paradise)


Deaths:

08/03/ 808 P'ang Yun, [Layman P'ang], Exemplary Zen practitioner, dies in China
08/03/1387 Olaf V Hakonsson, King of Denmark (1376-87)/Norway (1380-87), dies 08/03/1530 Philibert Chalon, prince of Orange, dies
08/03/1531 Fern�n P�rez de Oliva, Spanish poet (Dignity of Man), dies at 37 08/03/1716 Sebastian Duron, composer, dies at 56
08/03/1779 Henry Kobell, painter/cartoonist, dies at 27
08/03/1780 Etienne B de Condillac, French philospher (sensualism), dies at 64 08/03/1784 Giovanni Battista Martini, composer, dies at 78
08/03/1797 Jeffrey Amherst, English gov-gen of America, dies at 80
08/03/1800 Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, composer, dies at 63
08/03/1802 Henry DFL, prince of Prussia/general strategist/diplomat, dies 08/03/1811 Sebastiaan C Nederburgh, director-gen of East Indie Co, dies at 49 08/03/1823 Jacob A Lacks, politician/colonial director, dies at 74
08/03/1825 Ambrogio Minoja, composer, dies at 72
08/03/1833 Stoffel Muller, sect leader, dies
08/03/1835 Wenzel Muller, composer, dies at 67
08/03/1877 Karl Georg Lickl, composer, dies at 75
08/03/1884 Paul Abadie, French master builder (Sacr�-Coeur, Montmartre), dies 08/03/1886 Per August Olander, composer, dies at 62
08/03/1890 Louise Ackermann-Choquet, French author (Journal), dies at 76 08/03/1902 August Friedrich Martin Klughardt, composer, dies at 54
08/03/1910 Nicolas Kinet, Belgian pilot, dies
08/03/1916 Roger Casement, Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916), dies 08/03/1918 Albert P Hahn, political cartoonist, dies
08/03/1924 Joseph Conrad, Polish/British writer (Heart of Darkness), dies 08/03/1934 Carl F baron von Langen-Parow, German (Olympic-gold-1928) 08/03/1938 Bartholome�s de Lies, anti-militaristic vicar, dies at 55 08/03/1939 Eugust Enna, composer, dies at 80
08/03/1948 Albert F Pollard, British historian (Evolution of parliament), dies 08/03/1954 Colette, France, novelist (Claudine), dies at 81
08/03/1964 Flannery O'Connor, writer (Good Man is Hard to Find), dies at 39 08/03/1966 Lenny Bruce, [Leonard Schneider] comedian, dies of a morphine overdo
08/03/1968 Constantine Rokossovski, vice-premier of Poland (1952-56), dies at 7
08/03/1977 Makarios III, [Michail Moeskos], archbishop/president Cyprus, dies 08/03/1978 Ezzedin Kalak, Palestinian PLO representative in Paris, murdered 08/03/1979 Renato Fasano, composer, dies at 76
08/03/1981 Robert Peci, Italian brother of Red Brigade leader, murdered 08/03/1983 Carolyn Jones, actress (Morticia-Addams Family), dies at 54 of cance
08/03/1986 Paul [Saul] de Groot, chairman Dutch Communist party, dies 08/03/1986 Willem Ruis, Dutch TV host, dies at 41
08/03/1992 Wang Hongwen, vice-President Chinese Comm Party, dies
08/03/1993 James Donald, actor (In Which We Serve, Way Ahead), dies at 76


Significant Events:

08/03/ 881 Battle at Saucourt: French King Louis III beats the Vikings 08/03/1108 Louis VI, King of France, crowned
08/03/1312 Power of Luik Patriarch murders over 200
08/03/1492 All Jews are expelled from Spain
08/03/1492 Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain for 'Indies'
08/03/1529 Women's peace (treaty of Cambrai)-emperor Charles V & King French I 08/03/1596 David Fabricius discovers light variation of Mira (1st variable star
08/03/1640 2,000 men VOC-army surrounds the city of Malakka
08/03/1645 Battle of Allersheim
08/03/1678 Robert LaSalle builds 1st ship in America, Griffon
08/03/1692 Battle at Steenkerke: French beats English/Dutch army
08/03/1704 English/Dutch fleet under Rooke/Callenburgh occupy Gibraltar 08/03/1778 Teatro alla Scale opens in Milan
08/03/1833 HMS Beagle reaches river mouth of Rio Negro
08/03/1852 1st intercollegiate rowing race, Harvard beats Yale by 4 lengths 08/03/1855 Rotterdam-Gouda railway opens
08/03/1860 American Canoe Association founded at Lake George NY
08/03/1861 Federal fleet bombs Galveston Texas
08/03/1863 Governor Seymour asks Lincoln to suspend draft in NY
08/03/1863 Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens
08/03/1864 Battle of Mobile AL
08/03/1881 US Nation Lawn Tennis Association removes 'Nation' from name 08/03/1882 Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration
08/03/1889 A Charlois discovers asteroid #285 Regina
08/03/1889 J Palisa discovers asteroid #286 Iclea
08/03/1904 British journalist Francis Younghusband visits forbidden city Lhasa 08/03/1904 M Wolf discovers asteroid #540 Rosamunde
08/03/1914 1st ship through Panama Canal
08/03/1914 Belgium rejects demand to allow free crossing for German army 08/03/1914 French fleet sails to North-Africa
08/03/1914 German battle cruiser Goeben leaves Messina
08/03/1914 Germany invades Belgium & declares war on France in WW I
08/03/1914 Great Britain declares war on Germany
08/03/1914 Turkey signs military pact with Germany
08/03/1914 World Alliance for Promoting Intl Friendship through Churches forms 08/03/1914 Yankee catcher Nunamaker throws out 3 would be stealers in 1 inning 08/03/1918 Wolf discovers asteroid #897 Lysistrata, #898 Hildegard & #899 Jokas
08/03/1921 1st aerial cropdusting (Troy Ohio to kill caterpillars)
08/03/1921 Due to a technicality, 8 Chicago White Sox accused in Black Sox 08/03/1921 scandal are acquited, however Landis throws them out of baseball 08/03/1923 VP Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th president
08/03/1924 Cyclist Piet Moeskops regains world sprint championist
08/03/1925 Last US troops leave Nicaragua (there since 1912)
08/03/1930 2nd time in 1930, Chuck Klein of Phillies hits in 26 straight games 08/03/1930 E Skvortsov discovers asteroid #1167 Dubiago
08/03/1933 Yanks are shut out for 1st time after 308 games
08/03/1937 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1437 Diomedes & #1457 Ankara 08/03/1940 German occupiers forbid ritual slaughters & English & French movies 08/03/1940 Italian troops attack British-Somalia
08/03/1940 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1881 Shao
08/03/1940 Lithuanian SSR is accepted into USSR
08/03/1941 Benzine sales limited in US
08/03/1941 German troops conquer Roslavl USSR
08/03/1943 Nazi occupiers attack city Orel, leave it in fire
08/03/1944 Allied troops conquer Myitkyina Burma
08/03/1944 Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4,000 gypsies 08/03/1946 Belgiangovt-Huysmans, forms
08/03/1948 FDR advisor Alger Hiss accused to be a 'communist'
08/03/1948 M Itzigsohn discovers asteroid #1569 Evita
08/03/1949 Republic Indonesia ends ceasefire
08/03/1952 15th Olympic games close in Helsinki Finland
08/03/1953 Frank Blair becomes news anchor of Today Show
08/03/1954 1st VTOL (Vertical Take-off & Land) flown
08/03/1955 Automobile Association of America ends support of auto racing 08/03/1955 Hurricane Connie begins pounding US for 11 days
08/03/1955 Roger Moens runs world record 800 m (1:45.7)
08/03/1956 Willie Williams of US sets 100 meter record at 10.1
08/03/1957 British offensive against imam Galeb Ben Ali of Oman
08/03/1958 USS Nautilus begins 1st crossing of Arctic Ocean under icecap 08/03/1959 50 killed in uprising in Guinea-Bissau
08/03/1959 AL beats NL 5-3 in 27th All Star Game (Dodger Stadium)
08/03/1960 Niger gains independence from France
08/03/1962 NY Met Frank Thomas hits his 6th HR in 3 games
08/03/1963 Allan Sherman releases 'Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda'
08/03/1963 Beatles final performance at Cavern Club in Liverpool
08/03/1963 Great Train Robbery-�2.5 M ($3.25 M) robbed
08/03/1967 45,000 US soldiers sent to Vietnam
08/03/1967 James Law rides entire NYC subway in 22 hrs 12 minutes
08/03/1969 Reds beats Phillies 19-17
08/03/1970 4 day NFL strike ends
08/03/1970 Hurricane 'Celia' becomes most expensive Gulf storm in history 08/03/1970 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2140 Kemerovo
08/03/1970 Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire, passes her driving test on 40th try 08/03/1971 Paul McCartney announces formation of his group Wings
08/03/1972 British premier Heath proclaims emergency crisis due to harbor strik
08/03/1972 Chozen-ji/Intl Zen Dojo founded by Omori Sogen Roshi, in Hawaii 08/03/1973 Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park (Isle of Man, UK)
08/03/1973 National People's party wins Dutch Antilles National elections 08/03/1974 Guitarist Jeff Baxter quits Steely Dan & joins Doobie Brothers 08/03/1975 500 drown when 2 river boats collide & sink in China's West River 08/03/1975 Louisiana Superdome is dedicated
08/03/1975 Poland & West germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans 08/03/1977 Radio Shack issues a press release introducing TRS-80 computer 08/03/1979 Fastest jai-alai shot (188 mph), Jose Arieto at Newport Jai Alai, RI
08/03/1980 22nd Olympic games close at Moscow, USSR
08/03/1980 Duke Snider & Al Kaline enter baseball's Hall of Fame
08/03/1981 13,000 Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) begin their strike 08/03/1981 E Bowell discovers asteroids #3115 Baily & #3690
08/03/1982 Clyde King replaces Gene Michaels as Yankee manager
08/03/1983 John Sain of South Bend, Ind builds 3.91 m house of cards 08/03/1984 365.7 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
08/03/1984 Bomb attack on Madras India airport, 32 killed
08/03/1985 'Nihilator' set harness pacing mile (1:49.6) in East Rutherford, NJ 08/03/1985 Train crash at Flaujac, France: 35 killed
08/03/1987 Chicago Bears beat Dallas Cowboys 17-6 in London, England (NFL expo)
08/03/1987 Discovery in Orbital Processing Facility is powered up for STS-26 08/03/1988 Skip Storch swims 246 km of Hudson River from Albany to NYC 08/03/1989 5th jockey to win 6,000 races (Jorge Valesquez)
08/03/1989 Lawrence Delisle drives his 4 kids into river
08/03/1989 Rickey Henderson sets AL mark of 50 steals in 9 seasons
08/03/1990 98.8�F (37.1�C) in Cheltenham, Glos. (UK record)
08/03/1990 NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 10th HR in 1st 72 at bats 08/03/1990 Radio Kuwait resigns air, due to Iraqi invasion
08/03/1990 US announces commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions
08/03/1991 Pan Am games open in Havana
08/03/1992 Dodgers win 3,000th game since moving to Los Angeles (3,000-2,531) 08/03/1992 Paramount inaugurates New York Street on TV/movie lot
08/03/1993 NBA Michael Jordan's father James found dead near McColl SC

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Births:

08/04/1502 Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter/carpet designer
08/04/1664 Louis Lully, composer
08/04/1687 Johan Willem Friso, prince of Orange/monarch of Nassau-Dietz 08/04/1705 Vaclav Matyas Gurecky, composer
08/04/1731 Giuseppe Colla, composer
08/04/1748 Maximilian Stadler, composer
08/04/1755 Nicolas-Jacque Conte, inventor (modern pencil)
08/04/1776 Pierre-Simon Ballanche, French philosopher/poet (Prol�gom�nes) 08/04/1776 Wenzel Sedlak, composer
08/04/1792 Percy Bysshe Shelley, England, romantic poet (Adonais)
08/04/1799 Olof Wilhelm Udden, composer
08/04/1816 Israel Vogdes, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1889 08/04/1818 Lovell Harrison Rosseau, Major General (Union volunteers) 08/04/1823 Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton, (Gov-Ind), died in 1877 08/04/1832 Gaspar N��ez de Arce, Spain, poet 'Spanish Tennyson'
08/04/1839 Walter Pater, London England, writer (Plato & Platoism)
08/04/1843 Flor van Duyse, composer
08/04/1846 Silas Gamaliel Pratt, composer
08/04/1859 Knut Hamsun, Norway, writer/Nazi (Hunger-Nobel 1920)
08/04/1870 Harry Lauder, Scotland, comedian/singer (Roman in the Gloamin) 08/04/1873 Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish general/minister of War 08/04/1881 Guy de Pourtal�s, Swiss/French writer (Nietzsche & Italy) 08/04/1883 Ren� 'Sascha' Schickele, German writer/founder (St�rmer)
08/04/1888 Philip Greeley Clapp, composer
08/04/1892 Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, composer
08/04/1897 Joseph Calleia, Malta, actor (Jungle Book, Gilda, Touch of Evil) 08/04/1900 Arturo Umberto Illia, pres of Argentina (1963-66)
08/04/1900 Douglas L Mays, cartoonist (Punch)
08/04/1900 Elizabeth, Britain's Queen Mother
08/04/1903 Helen Kane, [Schroeder], US singer/actress (Good Boy)
08/04/1904 Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author (Ferdydurke, Pornography) 08/04/1906 Marie-Jos� von Saksen-Coburg, Belgian Princess
08/04/1909 Glenn Cunningham, US middle distance runner in the 1930's 08/04/1910 William H Schuman, NYC, composer (Amer Festival Overture, Julliard) 08/04/1912 David Raksin, Phila Penns, composer (Modern Times)
08/04/1912 Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat in WW II (saved 10,000s of Jews) 08/04/1913 Wesley Addy, Omaha Neb, actor (Bostonian, Loving)
08/04/1914 Rik Slabbinck, Flemish painter
08/04/1915 Irving Fields, NYC, pianist (Ilona Massey Show)
08/04/1920 Helen Thomas, UPI journalist (starts press conferences)
08/04/1921 Maurice 'Rocket' Richard, Montreal Canadien (MVP-1947)
08/04/1923 Arthur Butterworth, composer
08/04/1928 Udham Singh, India, field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1952, 56, 64) 08/04/1930 David MG Curry, South african Labour Party parliament leader 08/04/1933 Nathan Eugene Brooks, Cleve Oh, flyweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1952) 08/04/1933 Rudi van Dantzig, choreographer/ballet dancer (Painted Birds) 08/04/1934 Dallas Green, baseball manager (Phillies, Yankees)
08/04/1934 Jonas Savimbi, Angolian leader of Unita
08/04/1934 Rutger Kopland, [R of the Hoofdakker], poet
08/04/1935 Micha�l Slory, Suriname poet (Bitter Combat)
08/04/1937 David Vickerman Bedford, composer
08/04/1937 Jacobus H 'Chose' van de Merwe, S Afr attorney/CP parliament leader 08/04/1939 Frankie Ford, Gretna La, rock vocalist (Sea Cruise)
08/04/1940 Rosemarie 'Timi' Yuro, US singer (Hurt)
08/04/1941 Quincey Daniels, Biloxi Miss, boxer (Olympic-bronze-1960) 08/04/1941 Ted Strickland, (Rep-D-Ohio)
08/04/1942 David Russell Lange, PM (L) New Zealand (1984- )
08/04/1943 Michael J McCulley, San Diego Calif, Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS-34) 08/04/1943 Rodney Stuart Pattison, British yachtsman (Olympics)
08/04/1943 Tina Cole, Hollywood, singer (King Cousins)/actress (Katie-My 3 Sons
08/04/1944 Richard Belzer, KOed by Hulk Hogan/comedian (How to be a Stand Up) 08/04/1945 Fred Hansen, US, pole vaulter (Olympic-gold-1964)
08/04/1946 Maureen Cox Starkey, 1st wife of Beatle Ringo Starr
08/04/1948 James C Slattery, (Rep-D-Kansas, 1983- )
08/04/1949 John Riggins, NFL running back (NY Jets, Wash Redskins)
08/04/1951 Lane Evans, (Rep-D-IL, 1983- )
08/04/1952 Bobby Buntrock, Denver Colo, actor (Harold Baxter-Hazel)
08/04/1952 Daniel Bautista, Mexico, 20k walker (Olympic-gold-1976)
08/04/1952 Kristoffer Tabori, LA Calif, actor (Rappaccini's Daughter) 08/04/1955 Andrew M Allen, Phila Pa, Captain USMC/astronaut (STS 46, 62) 08/04/1955 Charles D 'Sam' Gemar, Yankton SD, army/astronaut (STS 38, 48, 62) 08/04/1957 Robert E Andrews, (Rep-D-New Jersey)
08/04/1958 Greg Foster, Maywood Ill, 110m hurdler (Olympic-silver-1984 08/04/1958 Mary Decker Tabb Slaney, NJ, olympic track star (mile record 4:16.71
08/04/1960 Robbin Crosby, heavy metal rocker (Ratt-Round & Round)
08/04/1962 Paul Williams, rocker (Flock of Seagulls)
08/04/1962 Roger Clemens, Dayton Ohio, Boston Red Sox pitcher (Cy Young, MVP) 08/04/1965 Crystal Chappell, Silver Spring Md, actress (Carly-Days of our Lives
08/04/1966 Kensuke Sasaki, wrestler (WCW/NJPW/Calgary, Power Warrior) 08/04/1967 Mike Marsh, US, 200m runner (Olympic-Gold-1992)
08/04/1969 Max Cavalera, Brazilian rock vocalist/guitarist (Sepultura) 08/04/1972 Wesley Snipes, actor (Passenger 57)


Deaths:

08/04/1060 Henry I, King of France (1060), dies at 27
08/04/1204 Boniface of Montferrat, markgraaf of M, dies
08/04/1265 Simon de Montfort, English baron, dies in battle
08/04/1306 V�clav III, last Premysliden-king of Bohemia (1305-06), murdered 08/04/1430 Philip of Saint-Pol, duke of Brabant, dies at 26
08/04/1526 Juan Sebasti�n Cano, Spanish explorer, dies
08/04/1566 Girolamo della Robbia, Italian sculptor (Majolica relief), dies 08/04/1584 John vanf Hembyze, South Netherlands Calvinist, dies at 71 08/04/1633 George Abbott, English theologist/archbishop of Canterbury, dies at
08/04/1639 Juan R Alarcon y Mendoza, Mexican/Spanish playwright, dies at 58 08/04/1666 Johan Evertsen, ltalian admiral of Zeeland, lynched in Brielle 08/04/1708 Vincenzo De Grandis, composer, dies at 77
08/04/1712 Johann Jacob de Neufville, composer, dies at 27
08/04/1821 William Floyd, US soldier/signer (Declar of Independence), dies at 8
08/04/1850 Frantisek Tucek, composer, dies at 68
08/04/1856 Johann Gottlieb Schneider, composer, dies at 59
08/04/1875 Hans Christian Andersen, Danish fairy tale writer, dies at 70 08/04/1889 Carl Ludwig Amand Mangold, composer, dies at 75
08/04/1891 George Washington Williams, historian (History of Negro), dies at 41
08/04/1892 Abby Plates & Spouse, killed by Lizzie Borden(?)
08/04/1904 Arnold Krug, composer, dies at 54
08/04/1915 Richard Kiepert, German cartographer (Africa), dies at 68 08/04/1920 Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov, composer, dies at 54
08/04/1922 Enver Pasja, Turkish general/politician, dies at 41
08/04/1925 Alfons Van de Perre, Flemish physician, dies
08/04/1930 Siegfried Wagner, composer, dies at 61
08/04/1931 Daniel H Williams, doctor (pioneer in surgery), dies
08/04/1936 Henry Schoenfeld, composer, dies at 78
08/04/1938 LH Perquin, Dutch radio announcer, dies at 73
08/04/1938 Pearl White, US actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline), dies 08/04/1938 Rudolf G Binding, German poet/writer, dies at 70
08/04/1942 Alberto Franchetti, composer, dies at 81
08/04/1973 Eddie Condon, jazz guitarist (Eddie Condon's Floor Show), dies at 68
08/04/1977 Emil Bloch, German philosopher, dies at 92
08/04/1981 Melvyn Douglas, [Hesselberg], actor (Woman's Face, Hud), dies at 80 08/04/1984 Edmon Ryan, actor (Human Monster), dies at 79 of a heart attack 08/04/1984 Mary Miles Minter, silent screen star, dies at 82 of heart failure 08/04/1984 Walter Burke, actor (Jack the Giant Killer), dies at 75 of emphysema
08/04/1985 Zbynek Vostrak, composer, dies at 65
08/04/1991 Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek poet (Hodyne), dies at 80
08/04/1992 Frantisek Tomasek, archbishop of Prague/cardinal, dies at 93 08/04/1992 Ralph Cooper, creator of Amateur Night at the Apollo, dies of cancer
08/04/1993 Bernard Barrow, actor (Louie-Loving, Johnny-Ryan's Hope), dies 08/04/1993 Kenny Drew, US/Danish jazz pianist (Moonlight Desert), dies at 64


Significant Events:

08/04/1181 Supernova seen in Cassiopia
08/04/1265 Battle at Evesham: English prince Edward beats Simon van Montfort 08/04/1347 English troops conquer Ft Calais
08/04/1351 Sea battle at Zwartewaal: Willem V beats Hoeksen & English 08/04/1558 1st printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah)
08/04/1578 Battle of Alcazarquivir, Moroccans defeat Portuguese
08/04/1666 Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, Martinique & St Christopher; thousands di
08/04/1666 Sea battle between Netherlands & England
08/04/1693 Dom Perignon invents champagne
08/04/1695 French garrison of surrenders to Willem III
08/04/1735 Jury acquits John Zenger (NY Weekly Journal) charged with seditious 08/04/1735 libel by royal governor of NY (victory for Freedom of press) 08/04/1753 George Washington becomes a master mason
08/04/1777 Retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes 1st circus
08/04/1789 French National Meeting ending feudal system
08/04/1790 US Coast Guard founded as Revenue Cutter Service
08/04/1821 1st edition of Saturday Evening Post (publishes until 1969) 08/04/1830 Plans for city of Chicago laid out
08/04/1864 Land & naval action new Brazos Santiago, Texas
08/04/1881 122�F (50�C), Seville, Spain (European record)
08/04/1886 Colombia adopts constitution
08/04/1892 Queen Wilhelmina & Emma open Merwede Canal between Amsterdam-Rhine 08/04/1892 Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass 08/04/1897 Henry A Rucker appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia 08/04/1903 Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected Pope Pius X
08/04/1904 M Wolf discovers asteroid #541 Deborah
08/04/1910 A's Jack Coombs & White Sox Ed Walsh pitch a 16 inn scoreless tie 08/04/1914 German army executes, a Belgium priest, by firing squad
08/04/1914 German fleet under admiral Souchon fire on Algerian coast 08/04/1914 Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany 08/04/1914 King Albert I becomes supreme commander of Belgian army
08/04/1914 Lord Kitchener becomes British minister of War
08/04/1916 US agrees to buy Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million 08/04/1917 Pravda calls for killing all capitalists, priests & officers 08/04/1921 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #954 Li
08/04/1925 Col�n Dutch govt, forms
08/04/1925 US marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation
08/04/1926 H E Wood discovers asteroid #1663 van den Bos
08/04/1926 S Belyavsk� discovers asteroid #1065 Amundsenia
08/04/1927 Peace Bridge between US & Canada opened
08/04/1929 60,000 SA'ers/SS'ers march by Munich
08/04/1929 M Wolf discovers asteroids #2373 & #3626
08/04/1930 Child labor laws estralished in Belgium
08/04/1934 NY Giants Mel Ott sets record of 6 runs in game & beats Phillies 21-
08/04/1936 Ioannis Metaxas names himself dictator of Greece
08/04/1941 Winston Churchill departs on Prince of Wales to US
08/04/1942 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo
08/04/1942 German occupier orders all Dutch homing pigeons destroyed 08/04/1943 British premier Churchill travels on the Queen Mary to Canada 08/04/1943 Russian units reach suburbs of Orel
08/04/1944 British 8th army reaches suburbs of Florence Italy
08/04/1945 Golfer Byron Nelson records most tournament wins (18) in a season 08/04/1945 Red Sox Tom McBride is 3rd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th) 08/04/1948 5 day southern filibuster succeeds in maintaining poll tax 08/04/1949 NBL & NBAA merge into National Basketball Association
08/04/1953 Black families move into Trumbull Park housing project in Chicago 08/04/1953 Vic Raschi sets pitcher record by driving in 7 runs & wins 15-0 08/04/1956 1st motorcycle rode over 200 mph (Wilhelm Herz-210 mph/338 kph) 08/04/1956 Indonesia says it will not pay debts to the Netherlands
08/04/1958 Dumont TV Network crumbles
08/04/1960 Rocket propelled USAAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH 08/04/1961 108�F, Spokane, WA
08/04/1965 Cook Islands enters into free association with New Zealand 08/04/1967 British pirate radio station Radio 355 resigns air
08/04/1967 Shortwave group ANARC's 1st convention (Chicago)
08/04/1968 100,000 attend Newport Pop Festival, Costa Mesa, Calif
08/04/1968 WXTV TV channel 41 in New York-Paterson, NY (UNI) begins broadcastin
08/04/1969 Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a HR outside of Dodger Stadium 08/04/1970 Asteroid #2993 discovered
08/04/1970 Jim Morrison arrested for drunkenness
08/04/1970 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2575 Bulgaria
08/04/1971 US launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft 08/04/1974 Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor 08/04/1977 Pres Carter establishes Dept of Energy
08/04/1979 Italian govt of Cossiga begins
08/04/1981 Columbia mated with SRBs & external tank for STS-2 mission 08/04/1981 Oliver North is assigned to white house duty
08/04/1983 Bettino Craxi sworn in as premier of Italy
08/04/1983 L G Karachkina discovers asteroid #3063 Makhaon
08/04/1983 Revolution in Burkina
08/04/1984 Carl Lewis wins gold medal in 100-meter dash at LA Summer Olympics 08/04/1984 Cliff Johnson sets a record with his 19th pinch hit HR
08/04/1984 Prince's 'Purple Rain,' album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 24 weeks 08/04/1984 Republic of Upper Volta becomes Bourkina Fasso (National Day) 08/04/1985 Calif Angel Rod Carew gets his 3,000th hit
08/04/1985 Phil Rizzuto Day, Yanks retire #10
08/04/1985 White Sox Tom Seaver is 17th to win #300, beating Yankees 08/04/1986 OPEC lowers oil production 20%
08/04/1987 FCC vote 4-0 to rescind fairness doctrine for broadcasters 08/04/1988 Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II 08/04/1988 Hertz car rental will pay out $23 million in consumer fraud case 08/04/1990 95.5�F (35.3�C) in De Bilt Neth (highest Aug temp in Neth) 08/04/1990 European community proposes a boycott of Iraq
08/04/1993 Angolese air force bombs Huambo
08/04/1993 Rwandian Hutu's & Tutsi's sign peace treaty in Arusha
08/04/1996 26th Olympic games close at Atlanta, Georgia (sched)

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Births:

08/05/1540 Joseph Justice Scaliger, proposed Julian dating
08/05/1604 John Eliot, 'Apostle to Indians,' Bible translator
08/05/1607 Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, composer
08/05/1623 Antonio Cesti, composer
08/05/1624 William, Jamestown Va, 1st black child born in English America 08/05/1694 Leonardo Ortensio Salvatore de Leo, composer
08/05/1711 Johan Lulofs, physicist/philosopher/astronomer
08/05/1749 Thomas Lynch, signer (Declaration of Independence)
08/05/1797 Friedrich August Kummer, composer
08/05/1802 Niels H Able, Norse mathematician (Abelse comparisons)
08/05/1811 C L Ambroise Thomas, French composer (El Cid, Fran�oise the Rimini) 08/05/1813 Carnot Posey, Confederate brig-general
08/05/1813 Ivar A Aasen, Norse linguistic/poet
08/05/1815 Edward J Eyre, British explorer/governor (Jamaica)
08/05/1822 Johann Georg Herzog, composer
08/05/1823 Joseph E Labb�, French lawyer
08/05/1828 Giovanni Rossi, composer
08/05/1828 WFAA Louisa/Lovisa, queen of Sweden/Norway/princess of Netherlands 08/05/1829 Heinrich Franz Daniel Stiehl, composer
08/05/1829 Milo Smith Hascall, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1904 08/05/1830 James A Healy, 1st black bishop in America
08/05/1843 James Scott Skinner, composer
08/05/1850 Anton Simon, composer
08/05/1850 Guy de Maupassant, France, author (Boule de Suif)
08/05/1856 Achad Ha'am, [Asj�r Ginsberg], Hebrew philosopher/writer
08/05/1860 Joseph Carey Merrick, 'Elephant Man'
08/05/1864 Resurreccion Maria de Azkue, composer
08/05/1866 Alfred Holy, composer
08/05/1868 Oskar Merikanto, composer
08/05/1876 Mary R Beard, Indianapolis, historian (Woman as a Force in History) 08/05/1882 Joe English, Irish/Flemish signaler (WW I)
08/05/1886 Oscar Espla, composer
08/05/1887 Reginald Owen, English/US actor (Dr Watson-Sherlock Holmes) 08/05/1889 Conrad P Aiken, US, poet/writer (Ushant/Conversation)
08/05/1890 Erich Kleiber, Vienna Austria, conductor (NBC Symphony 1945-46) 08/05/1890 Hans Gal, composer
08/05/1890 Naum Gabo, Russian/US sculptor
08/05/1890 Naum Gabo, [Pevsner], Russian/US sculptor (Stillife Flower) 08/05/1899 Conrad Aiken, US, poet/short story writer/critic (Selected Poems) 08/05/1900 Bodi Rapp, [Johanna PAC Goetmakers], mezzo-soprano/song theorist 08/05/1901 Juan Carlos Paz, composer
08/05/1906 John Huston, Nevada Mo, director/writer (African Queen, Chinatown) 08/05/1906 Wassely Leontief, Russ/US economist (Nobel 1973)
08/05/1908 Harold Holt, PM of Australia (1966-67); supported US in Vietnam 08/05/1910 Nan Gindele, US javelin thrower (World Record 1932-38)
08/05/1911 Robert Taylor, Filley Neb, actor (Death Valley Days)
08/05/1912 Abb� Pierre, [Henri Pierre Grou�s], French priest who helps poor 08/05/1913 Nelly Aenders, [Petronella Meyer], actress (Spanish Fly)
08/05/1914 Anita Colby, Wash DC, model/actress (Pepsi Cola Playhouse) 08/05/1914 David Brian, NYC, actor (Accussed of Murder, Dawn at Sorocco) 08/05/1914 Stjepan Sulek, Croatian violinist/composer (Coriolan)
08/05/1920 G V [Sonny] Montgomery, (Rep-D-Mississippi, 1967- )
08/05/1920 Selma Diamond, London Ontario, comedienne (Selma-Night Court) 08/05/1923 Richard Kleindienst, attorney general (1972)
08/05/1925 Cor Witschge, actor (Pipo the Clown)
08/05/1926 Betsy Jolas, composer
08/05/1927 Gunnar Bucht, composer
08/05/1930 Neil Armstrong, Ohio, X-15 pilot, 1st Moonwalker (Gemini 8, Apollo 1
08/05/1932 Tera de Marez Oyens, composer
08/05/1933 Joan Weldon, SF, actress (So This is Love, Them)
08/05/1934 Vern Gosdin, Woodland Al, country singer (Set 'em Up Joe) 08/05/1935 John Saxon, Bkln, actor (Bees, Nightmare on Elm St, Electric Horsema
08/05/1936 John Dancy, Jackson Tx, newscaster (Prime Time Sunday)
08/05/1938 Hayes Wendell Jones, Sturksville Mich, 110m hurdler (Oly-gold-1964) 08/05/1938 Ja'net Dubois, Phila, actress (Willona-Good Times)
08/05/1939 Irene, Princess of Netherlands
08/05/194- Jo Collins, Ore, Playboy playmate (Dec, 1964)
08/05/1941 Leonid D Kizim, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-3, T-10, T-15)
08/05/1942 Rick Huxley, guitarist (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)
08/05/1943 Rodney Pattisson, England, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1968)
08/05/1943 Sammi Smith, singer
08/05/1944 Loni Anderson, St Paul Minn, actress (Jennifer-WKRP in Cincinnati) 08/05/1945 Jacob Reitsma, economist/Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
08/05/1946 Erika Slezak, Hollywood, Calif, actress (Viki-One Life to Live) 08/05/1946 Rick van der Linden, rocker (Ekseption)
08/05/1947 Rick Derringer, rocker (I am the Real American (Hulk Hogan's theme) 08/05/1950 Holly Palance, LA Calif, actress (Thorn Birds, Ripley's Believe It) 08/05/1950 Rose Mittermaier, German FR, slalom/downhill (Olympic-gold-1976) 08/05/1953 Samantha Sang, singer (Emotion)
08/05/1954 Eddie 'Fingers' Ojeda, Bx, (Twisted Sister-We're Not Gonna Take It) 08/05/1956 Ferdi Bolland, Dutch singer/guitarist (Bolland & Bolland) 08/05/1956 Maureen McCormick, actress (Marcia-Brady Bunch)
08/05/1957 Andrei Yevgeniyevich Zaitsev, cosmonaut
08/05/1957 Pavel Vinogradov, Russia, cosmonaut
08/05/1959 Pete Burns, rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round)
08/05/1960 Heidi S�renson, playmate (Jul, 1981)
08/05/1960 Mike Nocito, rocker (Johnny Hates Jazz-Turn Back the Clock) 08/05/1961 Tawny Kitaen, (Coverdale), actress (Bachelor Party, Witchboard) 08/05/1962 Patrick Ewing, Jamaica, basketball center (NY Knicks/Olympic-gold-92
08/05/1966 Jonathan Silverman, LA Calif, actor (Brighton Beach Memoirs) 08/05/1975 Ami Foster, actress (Margaux-Punky Brewster)
08/05/2184 Christine Lauren Chapel, Davenport Heights, Vermont (Star Trek) 08/05/2186 Kevin Thomas Riley, Tasvennir, Tarsus IV (Star Trek)


Deaths:

08/05/1157 Dirk VI, Count of Holland, dies
08/05/1644 J Henry Alting, theologist (Statenvertaling), dies at 61
08/05/1778 Thomas Linley, composer, dies at 22
08/05/1830 Karl Friedrich Horn, composer, dies at 68
08/05/1834 Gijsbert K van Hogendorp, Dutch min of Foreign affairs, dies at 71 08/05/1852 Frantisek L Celakovsky, Czech slavist/poet, dies at 53
08/05/1856 Rubert Lucas Pearsall, composer, dies at 61
08/05/1862 Thomas Williams, US Union brig-general, dies in battle at 47 08/05/1863 Adolf Friedrich Hesse, composer, dies at 53
08/05/1889 Willem Ruys J Dz, ship owner, dies at 80
08/05/1891 Henry Charles Litolff, composer, dies at 72
08/05/1895 Friedrich English, German textile manufacturer/marxist, dies 08/05/1900 James Augustine Healy, black Roman Catholic bishop, dies at 80 08/05/1901 Victoria, Emperor of Germany/Queen of Prussia, dies at 60 08/05/1910 Wojciech Gawronski, composer, dies at 42
08/05/1916 George Butterworth, composer, dies at 31
08/05/1916 Nikolay Ivanovich Kazanli, composer, dies at 46
08/05/1932 Isra�l Querido, writer (Jordan), dies
08/05/1940 Frederick A Cook, US, explorer (North Pole), dies at 75
08/05/1947 Joannes D M Cornelissen, historian (Johann de White), dies 08/05/1950 Emil Abderhalden, Swiss physiologist/bio-chemistry, dies at 73 08/05/1955 Carmen Miranda, singer/actress (Down Argentine Way), dies at 42 08/05/1957 Heinrich O Wieland, German chemist (Nobel 1927), dies at 80 08/05/1958 Joseph Holbrooke, composer, dies at 80
08/05/1959 Edgar Guest, US poet/newspaperman, dies at 77
08/05/1961 Sidney Holland, PM of New Zealand (1949-57), dies at 67
08/05/1962 Marilyn Monroe, found dead of apparent self-inflicted drug overdose 08/05/1971 Josef Stanislav, composer, dies at 74
08/05/1972 Frederic Tozere, actor (Mr Phillips-Stanley), dies at 71
08/05/1976 Adrian Roland Holst, poet (Past the Roads), dies at 88
08/05/1978 Queenie Smith, actress/dancer (Funny Side), dies at 79
08/05/1983 Judy Canova, singer/comedienne (Chatterbox), dies at 66 of cancer 08/05/1984 Howard Culver, actor (Howie-Gunsmoke), dies at 66
08/05/1984 Richard Burton, actor (Cleopatra), dies at 58 of cerebral hemorrhage
08/05/1985 Theodore Sturgeon, sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar), dies at 67 08/05/1987 Zygmunt Mycielsky, composer, dies at 79
08/05/1990 Herman Gooding, Suriname police-inspector, dies
08/05/1991 Paul Brown, NFL founder (Cleveland Browns, Cin Bengals), dies at 82 08/05/1991 Soichiro Hondo, CEO & founder (Honda), dies of liver cancer at 84 08/05/1992 Jeff Porcaro, drummer (Toto-Africa), dies at 38 of cardiac arrest 08/05/1992 Robert Muldoon, premier NZ (1975-84)/President IMF, dies


Significant Events:

08/05/ 135 Betar last outpost of Bar Kochba falls to Rome
08/05/1264 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Arnstadt Germany
08/05/1391 Jews are massacred in Toledo & Barcelona Spain
08/05/1399 Battle at Worskla: Tataren beat Russians & Litouwers
08/05/1420 Duke John VI of Bavaria visits 'Christ's bride'/virgin Liduina 08/05/1435 Battle at Ponza: king Alfonso V of Arag�n captured by Genuezen 08/05/1583 Gilbert claims Newfoundland (1st English colony in North America) 08/05/1587 Spanish troops conquer Lock
08/05/1654 French troops occupy Stenay
08/05/1666 English fleet beats Dutch under Michiel the Ruyter
08/05/1667 State of Holland obtain Eternal Edict
08/05/1772 1st partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia 08/05/1775 1st Spanish ship, San Carlos, enters SF Bay
08/05/1781 Battle at Doggers Bank: Dutch fleet vs English fleet
08/05/1837 1st ascent of Mt Marcy (5,344') highest in Adirondack, NY 08/05/1846 Oregon country divided between US & Britain at 49th parallel 08/05/1858 Cyrus W Field completes 1st transatlantic telegraph cable 08/05/1861 Enlistment increases from 3 months to 2 years
08/05/1861 Naval Engagement at Fernandina, FL-USS Vincennes ends rebel blockade
08/05/1861 US Army abolishes flogging
08/05/1861 US levies its 1st Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800)
08/05/1862 Battle of Baton Rouge, LA
08/05/1864 Battle of Mobile Bay Al-Farragut is given rank of vice-admiral 08/05/1864 Spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time, by Giovanni Donati 08/05/1884 Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe's Island (NYC) 08/05/1891 1st travelers checks issued (American Express)
08/05/1901 Peter O'Connor of Ireland, sets then long jump record at 24' 11 3/4'
08/05/1914 1st traffic light installed (Euclid Ave. & E. 105th St, Cleveland) 08/05/1914 Dutch Cort Van de Linden govt issues silver bonds as money 08/05/1914 Massive German assault on forts around Luik
08/05/1914 US beats Australia, 3-2, to win Davis Cup
08/05/1914 US, Nicaragua sign treaty granting canal rights to US
08/05/1914 Westerschelde leaves due to German invasion in Belgium
08/05/1915 German troops over run Warsaw
08/05/1917 British troops attack canal of Ypres in Boesinghe Belgium 08/05/1921 1st radio baseball broadcast Pirates-8, Phillies-0 (KDKA, Pitts) 08/05/1921 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #955 Alstede
08/05/1921 Treaty of Berlin: US & Germany sign separate peace treaty 08/05/1923 1st American to swim English Channel (Henry Sullivan)
08/05/1924 Comic strip 'Little Orphan Annie,' by Harold Gray, debuts 08/05/1926 1st talkie movie 'Don Juan' at Warner Theatre, NY
08/05/1926 French & German trade agreement signed
08/05/1926 Houdini stays in a coffin under water for 1� hrs
08/05/1927 Phillies Cy Williams hits for cycle in just 4 at bats
08/05/1931 Det Tiger Tommy Bridges perfect game is broken up with 2 outs in 9th
08/05/1936 At Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens wins his 3rd Olympic medal 08/05/1937 Ranger (US) beats Endeavour II (England) in 17th America's Cup 08/05/1940 'Acquaintance' blows-up Zandvoortse synagouge
08/05/1940 St Louis Brown John Whitehead no-hits Detroit Tigers, 4-0 in 6 innin
08/05/1942 German troops cross Kuban River
08/05/1943 Soviet forces reconquer Orel & Bjelgorod
08/05/1944 US 79th/90th division occupy Laval/Mayenne
08/05/1944 US troops occupy Vannes Bretagne
08/05/1945 Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6th in Japan)
08/05/1947 Netherlands ceases political action in Indonesia, due to UN pressure
08/05/1948 Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins US Golf Open
08/05/1949 Earthquake hits Quito; about 6000 die
08/05/1950 Ezzard Charles KOs Freddie Beshore to retain HW boxing title 08/05/1951 Armed uprising in Ambonezen Camp Middelburg
08/05/1953 Operation 'Big Switch' Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjom 08/05/1954 Boxing Hall of Fame's 1st election selects 24 modern & 15 pioneers 08/05/1956 KUAM TV channel 8 in Agana, GU (CBS/ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 08/05/1956 WCYB TV channel 5 in Bristol-Kingsport, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
08/05/1957 'American Bandstand,' begins network TV (ABC)
08/05/1957 WJZ-TV in Baltimore MD begins radio transmissions
08/05/1958 Atomic sub USS Nautilus completes 1st trip under North Pole 08/05/1958 Philip Kapleau, Zen teacher, 1st awakening under Yasutani Roshi 08/05/1959 42.4 cm rainfall in Decatur Co, Iowa (state record)
08/05/1959 Chic Cardinals (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 55-26 in Toronto 08/05/1960 Burkina (formerly Upper Volta) declares independence from France 08/05/1960 Detroit trades mgr Jimmy Dykes for Cleve's mgr Joe Gordon 08/05/1961 118�F (48�C), Ice Harbor Dam, Washington (state record)
08/05/1961 Chic Bears (NFL) beat Mont Alouettes (CFL) 34-16 in Montreal 08/05/1962 1st quasar located by radio
08/05/1962 Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement & illeagally leaving S Afr 08/05/1962 UN command forbids flights to Katangese airports
08/05/1963 Britain, US & USSR sign nuclear test ban treaty
08/05/1963 Craig Breedlove sets world auto speed record at 407.45 MPH 08/05/1963 US, USSR & Great Britain agree to discuss banning nuclear testing 08/05/1964 Actress Anne Bancroft & comedian Mel Brooks wed
08/05/1964 Beatles record 'Leave My Kitten Alone'
08/05/1964 Congo rebellion: Christopher Gbenye/Pierre Mulele conquer Stanleyvil
08/05/1964 US begins bombing North Vietnam
08/05/1965 Dave Marr wins PGA title
08/05/1966 Jose Torres beats Eddie Cotton to retain light-HW boxing title 08/05/1966 Martin Luther King Jr stoned during Chicago march
08/05/1966 Beatles release 'Revolver' album in US
08/05/1966 Beatles release 'Yellow Submarine' & 'Eleanor Rigby' in UK 08/05/1967 1st time an AFL team beats an NFL team, Broncos beats Detroit 13-7 08/05/1967 Bobby Gentry releases her only hit 'Ode to Billy Joe'
08/05/1967 Pirate Radio Station 333 (Radio Britain) & Radio London close down 08/05/1968 WMCV (now WZTV) TV channel 17 in Nashville, TN (IND) 1st broadcast 08/05/1968 WZTV TV channel 17 in Nashville, TN (IND) begins broadcasting 08/05/1969 Mariner 7 flies past Mars
08/05/1969 Pirate Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a ball out of Dodger Stadium 08/05/1970 US Black Panther leader Huey Newton let out of jail
08/05/1971 WNPE TV channel 16 in Watertown, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting 08/05/1972 Moody Blues release 'Nights in White Satin'
08/05/1972 Uganda president Idi Amin throws out all 80,000 Asians
08/05/1973 Atlanta Braves Phil Niekro no-hits SD Padres, 9-0
08/05/1973 USSR launches Mars 6
08/05/1974 Joan Jett forms her rock group Runaways
08/05/1975 Phillies 1st 8 batters get hits for a major league record, win 13-5 08/05/1978 H L Giclas discovers asteroid #2118 Flagstaff
08/05/1978 New Orlean Saints beat Phil Eagles 14-7 in Mexico City (NFL expo) 08/05/1979 Government of Mauretania signs peace treaty with Polisario 08/05/1980 NY Met Doug Flynn ties record of 3 triples in a game
08/05/1981 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3402 Wisdom
08/05/1981 Federal govt began firing striking air traffic controllers 08/05/1981 Pres Regan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers who struck 2 days ag
08/05/1984 Joan Benoit (US) wins 1st Olympic marathon for women (2h24m52s) 08/05/1984 Lou Pinella day at Yankee Stadium
08/05/1984 Toronto Blue Jay Cliff Johnson sets record with 19 pinch hit HRs 08/05/1985 Baseball players go on strike for 2 days
08/05/1985 Chic White Sox Tom Seaver wins #300 over Yanks at Yankee Stadium 08/05/1985 Flexible-wing glider altitude record (214,250') set by Larry Tudor 08/05/1986 Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway sets 5k woman's record (14:37.33) 08/05/1986 US Senate votes for SDI-project (Star Wars)
08/05/1988 Mario Biaggi (Rep-D-NY) convicted of racketeering resigns seat 08/05/1991 Sergei Bubka of USSR sets pole vault record (20'�') in Malm� Sweden

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Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date
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By Scott Labrecque ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Births:

08/06/ 966 Berengarius II, king of Italy
08/06/1504 Matthew 'Nosey' Parker, archbishop of Canterbury
08/06/1619 Barbara Strozzi, composer
08/06/1638 Nicolas de Malebranche, French philosopher
08/06/1651 Francois Fenelon, France, writer (Playing for Time)
08/06/1651 Johann Michael Zacher, composer
08/06/1664 Johann Christoph Schmidt, composer
08/06/1665 Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer
08/06/1697 Charles VII, Holy Roman emperor (1742-45)
08/06/1748 Bernhard Haltenberger, composer
08/06/1775 Louis-Antoine the Bourbon, French duke of Angoul�me/General of Franc
08/06/1804 Justinus van de Brugghen, Dutch lawyer/minister of Justice (1856-58)
08/06/1809 Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet laureate of England
08/06/1811 Judah Philip Benjamin, Secy War/Secy State (Confederacy), died in 18
08/06/1819 Samuel Powhatan Carter, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 08/06/1845 Anthonie A Vorsterman of Oyen, genealogist/heraldicus
08/06/1856 Nestor de Ti�re, Flemish poet (Roze Kate)
08/06/1858 Albert Fuchs, composer
08/06/1859 J Arthur S Berson, Austria meteorologist (Balloon flights, Amazon) 08/06/1861 Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, 2nd wife of Theodore Roosevelt 08/06/1868 Paul Claudel, France, diplomat/poet (L'Otage-1909)
08/06/1873 John Wesley Work, composer
08/06/1873 Mary Carr Moore, composer
08/06/1875 Marcel Labey, composer
08/06/1875 Thomas Mann, German writer (Die Buddenbrooks, Nobel)
08/06/1879 Joseph Wirth, German politician (Stalin Peace Prize)
08/06/1881 Alexander Fleming, England, bacteriologist (penicillin; Nobel 1954) 08/06/1882 Gerrit H Kersten, vicar/founder (Calvinist party)
08/06/1883 Francesco Santoliquido, composer
08/06/1883 Scott Nearing, US sociologist/pacifist/author (The Good Life) 08/06/1885 Jozef M E Meeus, Belgian director H-Heart union
08/06/1886 Edward Ballantine, composer
08/06/1892 Hoot Gibson, US western actor (Horse Soldier, Last Outlaw) 08/06/1893 Guthrie McClintic, Seattle Wash, Broadway producer/dir (Winterset) 08/06/1896 Cyril Mockridge, composer
08/06/1902 Michal Vilec, composer
08/06/1902 Vladimir M Kirsjon, Russian dramatist/playwright [OS]
08/06/1904 Henry Payne Iba, Easton Mo, US basketball coach (Olympic-gold-64, 68
08/06/1906 Ken Strong, NFL, AFL halfback (Staten Island, NY Yanks, NY Giants) 08/06/1908 George Singer, composer
08/06/1908 Helen Hull Jacobs, Berkley Calif, US tennis champ (1932-35) 08/06/1908 Svend Erik Tarp, composer
08/06/1910 Charles Crichton, director (Battle of Sexes)
08/06/1910 Friedrich Schroder, composer
08/06/1911 Lucille Ball, Jamestown NY, comedienne/actress (I Love Lucy, Mame) 08/06/1916 Dom[inic] Mintoff, premier Malta
08/06/1916 Michael Burke, sports executive (NY Yankees, NY Knicks)
08/06/1917 Robert Mitchum, Bridgeport Ct, actor (Winds of War, North & South) 08/06/1919 Pauline Betz Addie, Dayton Ohio, tennis champ (Wimbeldon 1946) 08/06/1921 Ella Raines, Sinoqualmie Falls Wash, actress (Janice Dean RN) 08/06/1922 Freddie Laker, CEO (Laker airlines)
08/06/1923 Jack Parnell, London England, orch leader (Englebert Humperdick Show
08/06/1923 Jackie Kelk, Brooklyn NY, actor (Homer-Aldrich Family)
08/06/1923 William B Williams, Babylon NY, DJ (WNEW, Sammy & Company) 08/06/1925 Barbara Bates, Denver Colo, actress (Kathy-It's a Great Life) 08/06/1925 Leland Smith, composer
08/06/1926 J[anet] O[pal] Jeppson, [nee Janet Asimov], author (2nd Experiment) 08/06/1927 Andy Warhol, artist/movie producer (Frankenstein, Bad)
08/06/1927 William David Ford, (Rep-D-Michigan, 1965- )
08/06/1928 Janice-Lee York Romary, Calif, fencer (Olympics-1952-68)
08/06/1929 Anneliese Kuppers, German FR, equestrian dressage (Oly-silver-1956) 08/06/1930 Abbey Lincoln, actress/singer (Nothing But a Man)
08/06/1934 John Storey Bonington, UK, mountain climber (Annapurna I in 1970) 08/06/1934 Leopold M de Beer, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (VVD)
08/06/1934 Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob, UK, sci-fi author (Chthon, Phthor) 08/06/1937 Barbara Windsor, actress (Study in Terror)
08/06/1938 Carry Tefsen, actress (Say Some time A)
08/06/1938 Peter Bonerz, Portsmouth NH, actor (Jerry-Bob Newhart Show, 9 to 5) 08/06/1939 William 'Sonny' Sanders, US singer (Rayber Voices)
08/06/1940 Louise Sorel, LA Calif, actress (BS I Love You, Crimes of Passion) 08/06/1941 Doris Ernestine Hays, composer
08/06/1941 Hubertus AGM 'Bert' Andr�, actor (Turkish Fruit-Come Back) 08/06/1943 Muchael Anderson Jr, London, actor (Clayt-The Monroes)
08/06/1943 Ray Buktenica, Greenwich Village NYC, actor (Rhoda, House Calls) 08/06/1944 Swoosie Kurtz, actress (Vice Versa, World According to Garp) 08/06/1947 Sally Eaton, Ill, actress
08/06/1948 Michael Peters, choreographer
08/06/1949 Joyce McKinney, Avery County NC, Miss Wyoming (1972)
08/06/1950 Dorian Harewood, Dayton Ohio, actor (Earl-Glitter, Trauma Center) 08/06/1950 Nathan Purdee, actor (Nathan-Young & Restless, Hank-1 Life to Live) 08/06/1950 Winston E Scott, Miami Fla, USN Commander/astronaut
08/06/1951 Catherine Hicks, Scottsdale Az, actress (Star Trek IV, Child's Play)
08/06/1951 Dorian Harewood, US actor (Glitter, Trauma Center)
08/06/1952 Barrel Scherpenzeel, rocker (Earth & Fire)
08/06/1952 Wojiech Fortuna, Poland, ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1972)
08/06/1954 Carl C Perkins, (Rep-D-KY, 1984- )
08/06/1956 Stepfanie Kramer, LA Calif, actress (Claudia-We Got it Made, Hunter)
08/06/1956 Vinnie Vincent, heavy metal rocker (Solo-Ashes to Ashes)
08/06/1957 Faith Prince, Augusta Ga, broadway actress (Guys & Dolls, Carousel) 08/06/1958 Randy DeBarge, rocker (Debarge)
08/06/1958 Simon Francken, bassist (Ivy Green)
08/06/1959 Joyce Sims, rocker (All & All)
08/06/1961 Carol Norman, Ardmore Okla, bowler (LPBT Rookie of Year 1982) 08/06/1962 Thomas Jefferson, Cleve Ohio, 200m runner (Olympic-bronze-1984) 08/06/1963 Kimberley Conrad Hefner, Moulton Al, playmate of year (Jan, 1988) 08/06/1963 Thomas Bohrer, US West Islip NY, rower (Olympic-92)
08/06/1964 Moosie Drier, Chic Ill, actor (Laugh-in)
08/06/1965 David Robinson, Fla, NBA center (San Antonio Spurs/Olympic-gold-92) 08/06/1968 Chris Boardman, English cyclist (world record time)
08/06/1976 Soleil Moon Frye, Glendora Calif, actress (Punky Brewster)


Deaths:

08/06/ 258 Sixtus II, bishop of Rome (257-58), beheaded
08/06/ 523 Hormisdas, Pope (514-23), dies
08/06/1195 Henry the Lion, duke of Saxon/Bayern, dies
08/06/1221 Dominicus, Italian religious order founder (Dominicans)
08/06/1272 Stefanus V, prince of Transylvania/king of Hungary (1270-72), dies 08/06/1458 Callistus III, [Alfonso the Borja], Pope (1455-58), dies at 79 08/06/1548 Georg Rhau/Rhaw, German cantor/composer/music publisher, dies 08/06/1623 Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare, dies
08/06/1661 Jacqueline-M-A the Sainte Madeleine Arnauld, French abbess, dies 08/06/1666 Tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian, dies in Battle at 43
08/06/1686 Paul Hainlein, composer, dies at 60
08/06/1718 Jacob F Muller, [Sjako/Jaco], Germ/Neth crowd leader, beheaded at 28
08/06/1727 Fran�ois Valentijn, vicar/writer, dies at 61
08/06/1746 Christian VI, king of Denmark/Norway, dies
08/06/1775 Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, composer, dies at 72
08/06/1783 Willem Bachiene, vicar/theologist/geography/astronomer, dies at 70 08/06/1784 Karl Kohaut, composer, dies at 57
08/06/1799 Joseph Friebert, composer, dies at 74
08/06/1816 Karl Frieberth, composer, dies at 80
08/06/1820 Anton Wranitzky, composer, dies at 59
08/06/1820 M A Elisa Bonaparte, Corsican monarch of Lucca, dies at 43, dies 08/06/1821 Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer, dies at 64
08/06/1848 Nicola Vaccai, composer, dies at 58
08/06/1853 Josif Josifovich Genishta, composer, dies at 57
08/06/1862 Francisco Acu�a de Figueroa, Uruguay national anthem, dies at 71 08/06/1867 Faustin-�lie Soulouque, emperor of Haiti, dies (birth date unknown) 08/06/1886 Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian, dies at 45
08/06/1890 William Kemmler, US, 1st executed in electric chair
08/06/1895 George Frederick Root, composer, dies at 74
08/06/1900 Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist/socialist, dies at 74 08/06/1914 Ellen Wilson, 1st lady (1913-14), dies at 54
08/06/1924 John Henry Roberts, composer, dies at 76
08/06/1928 William Henry Grattan Flood, composer, dies at 68
08/06/1935 Alexander Gustav Adolfovich Winkler, composer, dies at 70 08/06/1937 Annie E F Horniman, England, theater owner (Abbey Theatre), dies at
08/06/1937 Ferdinand CS Schiller, British philosopher (Mind!), dies at 72 08/06/1954 Theo[by] Van Re�n, sculptor/drawer/lithograph, dies at 70 [or 8/10] 08/06/1959 Preston Sturges [Edmund P Biden], US director/screenwriter, dies at
08/06/1961 Jozef E Van Roey, Flemish cardinal/archbishop of Mechelen, dies at 8
08/06/1964 Cedric Hardwicke, actor (Capt Hook-Peter Pan), dies at 71 08/06/1965 Nancy Carroll, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family), dies at 60 08/06/1965 Peter Ronnefeld, composer, dies at 30
08/06/1966 Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, sci-fi author (Space Lords), dies at
08/06/1968 Ernest Burnelle, Belgian politician, dies
08/06/1969 Theodor Adorno, German philosopher/sociologist, dies
08/06/1970 Ingolf Dahl, composer, dies at 58
08/06/1973 Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, dictator Cuba, dies
08/06/1976 Gregor Piatigorsky, composer, dies at 73
08/06/1978 Edward Durrell Stone, US architect, dies at 76
08/06/1978 Paul VI, [Giovanni Montini], Italian Pope (1963-78), dies at 80 08/06/1979 Kurt Kasznar, actor (Cmdr Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants), dies at 65 08/06/1980 Charles Urbanus, baseball player, dies at 66
08/06/1986 William J Schroeder, (longest-survivor with permanent artificial 08/06/1986 heart, dies at 54, after 620 days with Jarvik VII man-made pump) 08/06/1987 Ira C Eaker, commandant USAF in Europe (WW II), dies at 91 08/06/1988 J Skelly Wright, US judge (anti-segregatinist), dies at 77 08/06/1989 Hubert Beuve-M�ry, French newspaper founder (Le Voice), dies 08/06/1990 Jacques Soustelle, French ethnology/minister of Information, dies 08/06/1991 Harry Reasoner, newscaster (60 Minutes), dies at 68
08/06/1991 Shapour Bakhtiar, premier Iran (1979), dies in Paris
08/06/1993 Milton 'Milt' Thompson, US NASA-test pilot/chief-engineer, dies at 6


Significant Events:

08/06/ 258 St Sixtus II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
08/06/ 523 St Hormisdas ends his reign as Catholic Pope
08/06/ 768 [Constantine] ends his reign as Catholic Pope
08/06/ 939 Battle at Simancas-Spain beats Moors
08/06/1181 Supernova observed by Chinese & Japanese astronomers
08/06/1588 Spanish Armada under Medina Sidonia anchors
08/06/1601 Spanish garrison of Meurs surrender to earl Mauritius
08/06/1623 Maffeo Barberini elected Pope Urban VIII
08/06/1625 Earl Earnest Casimir appointed as viceroy of Groningen
08/06/1661 Holland sells Brazil to Portugal for 8 million guilders
08/06/1675 Russian Czar Aleksei bans foreign hairs cut
08/06/1774 Mother Ann (Lee) comes to NY (Shaker movement)
08/06/1787 Constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate
08/06/1806 Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire 08/06/1815 US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis & Tripoli
08/06/1821 1st edition of 'Courrier of Pays-Bas' newspaper published in Brussel
08/06/1824 Battle at Jun�n - Sim�n Bol�vars army beats Spanish
08/06/1825 Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day)
08/06/1854 Congress passes Confiscation Act
08/06/1861 Lexington KY-Union milt camp established in neutral state 08/06/1862 Confederate Army ironclad 'Arkansas' is badly damaged in Union attac
08/06/1864 Rebels evacuate Ft Powell, Mobile Bayd
08/06/1866 E Stephan discovers asteroid #89 Julia
08/06/1870 Battle at Spicheren: Prussia beats France
08/06/1870 White conservatives suppresed black vote & captured Tenn legislature
08/06/1871 J C Watson discovers asteroid #115 Thyra
08/06/1890 1st use of electric chair in US, John Hart, in NY for murder 08/06/1890 Cy Young pitches & wins 1st game
08/06/1905 26.7 cm rainfall at Princeton, Indiana (state record)
08/06/1908 St Louis Card John Lush's 2nd no-hitter, beats Dodgers, 2-0 in 6 inn
08/06/1910 NYC Mayor Wm J Gaynor seriously wounded during assassination attempt
08/06/1914 Austria-Hungary declares war against Russia
08/06/1914 French cavalry enter Belgium
08/06/1914 German Zeppelin bombs Luik City, 9 killed
08/06/1914 Serbia declares war against Germany
08/06/1918 Ferdinand Foch becomes marshal of France
08/06/1919 1st air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler
08/06/1919 Romanian forces destroys Bela Kun Republic in Budapest
08/06/1921 Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens muni ferry system begin
08/06/1923 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #998 Bodea
08/06/1926 NY's Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel 08/06/1930 Supreme Court Justice John Force Crater disappears in NYC 08/06/1934 US troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915 08/06/1937 Franco-artillery fire on Madrid
08/06/1937 Indians overturn Yankees' 7-6 win by a protest
08/06/1937 US & USSR sign trade treaty
08/06/1944 All 1,200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died 08/06/1944 Anti-German attack at Avranches fails
08/06/1944 Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins 08/06/1944 US 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes
08/06/1945 Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by 'Enola Gay' 08/06/1946 US officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court
08/06/1948 Bob Mathias, US, wins decathlon at London Olympics
08/06/1948 Dreesgovt (KVP/Social Democratics/CHU/Liberal) forms
08/06/1948 Fanny Blankers-Koen (Neth) is 1st women to win 3 golds at Olympics 08/06/1951 Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria
08/06/1952 Satchel Paige, 47, becomes oldest pitcher to win a complete shutout 08/06/1954 WLAC (now WTVF) TV channel 5 in Nashville (CBS) begins broadcasting 08/06/1958 Glenn Davis sets record of 49.2 in 400-meter hurdles
08/06/1960 Pitt Steelers (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in Toronto 08/06/1961 Gherman S Titov, 2nd Russian in space aboard Vostok 2 (17 orbits) 08/06/1962 Jamaica gains independence from Britain
08/06/1965 Beatles release 'Help' album in UK
08/06/1965 Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights
08/06/1965 Indian troops ocuppy Pakistan
08/06/1965 US president Johnson signs voting law
08/06/1966 Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Brian London
08/06/1966 Salazarbrug over Tag opens (longest suspension bridge of Europe) 08/06/1966 US citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam
08/06/1967 Minn Twin Dean Chance perfect games Boston Red Sox, 2-0 in 5 innings
08/06/1969 Balt Orioles pull their 3rd triple play (5-4-3 vs KC Royals) 08/06/1972 Garry Player wins PGA golf tournament
08/06/1972 Hank Aaron hits 660th & 661st HR for record HRs with one club 08/06/1974 6th time Phils get just 1 assist in game; no other team did it twice
08/06/1974 Explosion & fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee, Wash 08/06/1977 C-I Lagerkvist discovers asteroid #2191 Uppsala
08/06/1978 John Mahaffey wins PGA golf tournament
08/06/1979 David Graham wins PGA golf tournament
08/06/1980 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2570 Porphyro
08/06/1980 Z Vavrova discovers asteroids #2522, #2523 & #2544 Gubarev 08/06/1981 Argentina ex-president Isabel Per�n freed
08/06/1981 Due to strike, Yanks, A's, Philles & Dodgers declared 1st � champs 08/06/1981 NASA launches Fltsatcom-5, it failed
08/06/1982 WQXI (Atlanta) is 1st to use Harris Corp AM stereo system 08/06/1983 Minn Vikings beat St Louis Cards 28-10 in London, England (NFL expo)
08/06/1983 Supertanker Castillo de Bellvar crashes at South Africa
08/06/1984 203.05 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
08/06/1984 Carl Lewis wins 2nd (long jump) of 4 gold medals in Summer Olympics 08/06/1985 19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AF
08/06/1985 Major League Baseball Players Assn go on strike
08/06/1985 STS 51-I vehicle moves to launch pad
08/06/1986 Orioles (Dwyer & Sheets) & Rangers (Harrah) hit record 3 grand slams
08/06/1986 Phil Katz releases PKARC version 1.0, for IBM
08/06/1986 Record 3 grand slams hit in game Tx vs Balt (Harrah, Sheets & Dwyer)
08/06/1988 Oakland A's Jose Canseco becomes 11th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases
08/06/1988 Rich Gossage 300th career save (beats Phillies)
08/06/1989 Boston Red Sox retire Carl Yastrezemski's #8
08/06/1989 Jaime Paz Zamora inaugurated as president of Bolivia
08/06/1989 Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines 08/06/1990 NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 11th HR in 1st 86 at bats 08/06/1990 Pres Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses premier Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan 08/06/1992 Harold Wilson's academy award is auctioned for $60,500
08/06/1993 Japan Hosokawa govt begins
08/06/1993 Pope John Paul II publishes Veritatis splendor encyclical

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