Births
1519 - Catherine de' M‚dici, Queen of Spain/daughter of Henry II
1519 - De Medicis, queen consort (Henry II of France)
1545 - Elisabeth van Valois, French queen of Spain/daughter of Henri II
1593 - Thomas Wentworth, London, earl of Strafford/Viceroy of Ireland
1626 - Aert Jansz van Nes, Lt-admiral, baptised
1648 - Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Mothe-Guyon, French mystic (qui‚tisme)
1713 - Pierre de Jelyotte, composer
1721 - John Hanson, Maryland, 1st US Pres under Articles of Confederation
1729 - Thomas Percy, English literary/bishop of Dromore
1732 - Frederick North, (C) British PM (1770-82)
1733 - Johann Heinrich Zang, composer
1743 - Thomas Jefferson, Virginia, (D-R) 3rd pres (1801-09)
1749 - Frederik Sigismund van Bylandt, Dutch count/vice-admiral
1756 - Louis H J Cond‚, French prince
1762 - Johanna C Wattier-Ziesenis, Dutch actress (Phaedra, Lady Macbeth)
1762 - Karl Friedrich Horn, composer
1771 - Adam FJA van der Duyn, Dutch governor (South Holland)
1771 - Richard Trevithick, Cornwall, inventor (steam locomotive)
1784 - Cornelis Smit, Dutch ship builder
1791 - F‚lix PBOG earl de Merode, Belgian minister of War/Finance
1799 - Heinrich F L Rellstab, German music theorist
1799 - Joseph Rastrelli, composer
1810 - F‚licien C David, French composer (Perle du Br‚sil, D‚sert)
1816 - William Sterndale Bennett, composer
1817 - Alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian/archivist (Brussels)
1822 - Leroy Augustus Stafford, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 186
1822 - William Stephen Walker, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
1828 - Joseph B Lightfoot, English theologist/bishop of Durham
1830 - Eduard Lassen, composer
1832 - James Wimshurst, British designer/inventor (electricstatic generator)
1847 - Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk, gov-gen (Neth East-Indies)
1849 - Enrique Jos‚ Varona, Cuban sociologist/psychologist
1852 - Frank W Woolworth, 5› & 10› King (Woolworths)
1854 - Richard T Ely, US economist (Hard Times)
1860 - James Ensor, Flemish painter/etcher (De lampenjongen)
1865 - Heinrich Reinhardt, composer
1867 - Sammy Woods, cricket bowler (Aust & Engld Rugby wing-forward)
1868 - John Blackwood McEwen, composer
1872 - A Roda Roda, writer
1873 - Theodore Morse, composer
1881 - Ludwig Binswanger, Swiss psychiatrist (šber Ideenflucht)
1883 - Alexander Alexandrov, composer
1883 - Demjan Bednyi, writer
1885 - Gy”rgy Luk cs, Hungarian philosopher (Zerst”rung der Vernunft)
1885 - Pieter S Gerbrandy, Dutch lawyer/premier in London (1940-45)
1886 - Ethel Leginska, composer
1892 - Arthur Harris, Cheltenham, Marshal of the RAF
1892 - Robert A Watson-Watt, England, physicist (radar)
1894 - Ludvig Irgens Jensen, composer
1895 - Olga Rudge, violinist
1895 - Olof R J„ndel, Swedish poet
1899 - Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, composer
1899 - Alfred Moser Butts, game inventor (Scrabble)
1899 - Alfred Schutz, Austrian/US architect/philosopher
1901 - Ren‚-Jean Pleven, French premier (1950-52)
1902 - Duke of Marlborough
1902 - Godfrey Kenton, actor (Well's Theater)
1902 - Philippe de Rothschild, Paris, manager (Bordeaux Vineyard)
1903 - Rex Evans, actor (Frankenstein meets the Wolfman, Zara, Matchmaker)
1904 - Georges Yves Marie Congar, dominican Theologian cardinal
1906 - Budd [Lawrence] Freeman, US jazz saxophonist (Eel)
1906 - Samuel Beckett, French playwright (Waiting for Godot, Nobel 1969)
1906 - Samuel Beckett
1907 - Harold Stassen, W St Paul Minn, (Gov-R-Minn) perennial pres candidate
1909 - Eudora Welty, Jackson Ms, novelist (Optimist's Daughter-Pulitzer 1973
1909 - Jan Veldkamp, Dutch geophysicist/director (KNMI)
1909 - Mervyn Hugh Cowie, willife conservationist
1909 - Eudora Welty
1911 - Nino Sanzogno, composer
1912 - Roy Winsor, Chicago, producer (Search for Tomorrow, Love of Life)
1913 - Bernard Chacksfield, Air Vice-Marshal
1913 - David Donald Albritton, Danville Al, high jumper (Olympic-silver-1936
1915 - Bert [Albert L F] Peleman, [Dirk Dyckmans], Flemish writer
1915 - R N Coote, Bishop (Colchester)
1915 - Stephan Hermlin, writer
1915 - Stephen Roberts, CEO (British Milk Marketing Board)
1915 - Tom Greenshields, sculptor
1917 - Howard Keel, Ill, actor/singer (7 Brides for 7 Brothers, Kiss Me Kate
1918 - Audrey Barker, writer
1919 - Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American atheist (opppsed prayer in school)
1920 - Liam Cosgrave, leader (Fine Gael Party)
1921 - Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza, industrialist
1921 - Carlo Prosperi, composer
1921 - James Wilson, British Lt-General
1921 - Maxwell Henley Harris, Australian poet/publisher (Gift of Blood)
1922 - John Braine, English novelist (Life at the Top)
1924 - Stanley Donen, SC, film director/producer (Bedazzled, Damn Yankees)
1925 - Frank Chamberlain, CEO (Test & County Cricket Board)
1925 - Frank Neville Hosband Robinson, physicist
1925 - Hilda Dianda, composer
1926 - 11th duke of Marlborough, English large landowner
1926 - Don Adams, NYC, comedian (Maxwell Smart-Get Smart, Check it Out)
1926 - Godfrey Kenton, actor
1926 - Don Adams
1927 - Lord Wedderburn of Charlton, QC
1927 - Mari Blanchard, Long Beach Calif, actress (Kathy-Klondike)
1927 - Maurice Ronet, Nice France, actor (Frantic, Sphinz, Circle of Love)
1927 - Rosa Joyce Plesters Brommelie, conservation scientist
1929 - Marilynn Smith, Topeka KS, LPGA golfer (1972 Pabst Open)
1930 - Justice Harman
1931 - Beverley Cross, playwright
1931 - Michael Burchill, actor
1932 - Barney Simon, theatre director/writer
1932 - Karl Kroeger, composer
1933 - Ben Nighthorse Campbell, (Sen-D Colorado)
1933 - Shani Wallis, Ireland, singer/actress (Oliver)
1934 - Horace Kay, US singer (Tams-You Lied to Your Daddy)
1934 - Siegfried Matthus, composer
1935 - Erich von D„niken, author (Chariots of the Gods)
1935 - Kenneth Hayr, air marshal
1935 - Lyle Waggoner, KC Kansas, actor (Carol Burnette Show, Wonder Woman)
1935 - Peter Heap, diplomat
1935 - Lyle Waggoner
1937 - Edward Fox, London England, actor (M-Never Say Never Again)
1937 - Lanford Wilson, US playwright (Hot L Baltimore)
1937 - Peter M Harris, Official Solicitor (Supreme Court)
1938 - Frederic Rzewski, Westfield Mass, composer (Spacecraft)
1938 - John Weston, diplomat
1939 - Barbara-Rose Collins, (Rep-D-Michigan)
1939 - Paul Sorvino, actor (Chiefs, Dick Tracy)
1939 - Seamus Heaney, poet
1939 - Wijnie Jabaaij, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1940 - Lester Chambers, Ms, vocalist (Chamber Brothers-Time Has Come Today)
1941 - Margaret Price, Tredegar Wales, soprano (Pamlina-Die Zauberfl”te)
1942 - Bill Conti, Providence RI, composer (For Your Eyes Only, Rocky IV)
1943 - Bill Koch, US skier
1943 - Eve Graham, rocker (New Seekers)
1944 - Brian Pendleton, rocker (Pretty Things)
1944 - Charles Burnett, director (When it Rains, Glass Shield)
1944 - Jack Casady, Wash DC, rock bassist (Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane)
1944 - Michael Saunders, barrister
1944 - Jack Casady
1945 - Tony Dow
1945 - Carlos Gimenez, Arg/Venez founder (Theater festival of Caracas)
1945 - Edward J Caruthers Jr, Troy Ala, high jumper (Olympic-silver-1968)
1945 - Lowell George, rock vocalist/guitarist (Little Feat-Time is a Hero)
1945 - Raymond van Geytenbeek, Dutch singer/drummer (Les Baroques)
1945 - Stacy Johnson, US singer (Sharpees-Tired of Being Alone)
1945 - Tony Dow, Hollywood Calif, actor (Wally-Leave it to Beaver)
1946 - Al Green, Forest City Arkansas, singer (Lets Stay Together)
1946 - Jim Pons, rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
1946 - Roy Loney, rocker (Flaming Groovies)
1946 - Al Green
1948 - Amy Robinson, Trenton NJ, writer/actress (Mean Streets)
1948 - Kathleen Battle, US soprano (Tannh„user)
1948 - Peter Swevel, rocker
1949 - Jean-Jacques Favier, Kehl Germany, astronaut (STS 78)
1949 - Philippe Petit, Nemours France, juggler/aerialist
1950 - Riff West, rock bassist (Molly Hatchet)
1950 - Ron Perlman, Bronx NY, actor (Quest for Fire, Beauty & the Beast)
1950 - Terry Lester, Indianapolis, actor (Young & Restless, As World Turns)
1951 - Beatrix "Trixie" Schuba, Austria, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1972)
1951 - Jack Quinn, (Rep-R-New York)
1951 - Max Weinberg, rock drummer (E Street Band, Conan O'Brien Show)
1951 - Peabo Bryson, Greenville SC, R&B vocalist (I'm So into You)
1951 - Peter Davison, actor (Dr Who, Sink or Swim, Fiddlers Three)
1952 - Jonjo O'Neill, racehorse trainer
1953 - Stephen Byers, MP
1954 - Barbara Roche, MP
1954 - Jimmy Destri, rock keyboardist (Blondie-Heart of Glass, Rapture)
1955 - Kabaka of Buganda
1955 - Louis Johnson, LA Calif, rock bassist/vocalist (Brothers Johnson)
1956 - Michael Nikolay, German DR, gymnist (Olympics)
1957 - Gary Kroeger, Cedar Falls Iowa, comedian (SNL, Return of Shaggy Dog)
1957 - Saundra Santiago, Bronx NY, actress (Gina-Miami Vice)
1957 - Wayne Lewis, keyboardist, (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1958 - Randy Piper, heavy metal rocker (Wasp-Wildchild)
1959 - Vicki Witt Lansing MI, playmate (Aug, 1978)
1961 - Tammy Stephens, Arlington Tx, singer (Girls Next Door-Don't Be Cruel)
1963 - Gary Kimovich Kasparov, USSR, world chess champion (1985- )
1963 - Jan Willem van Ede, Dutch soccer player (FC Utrecht, PSV)
1963 - Mark Leiter, Joliet IL, pitcher (SF Giants)
1964 - Bill D'Angelo, heavy metal rocker
1964 - Davis Milton Love III, Charlotte NC, PGA golfer (1987 MCI Heritage)
1964 - Doug Strange, Greenville SC, infielder (Seattle Mariners)
1964 - Jose Rijo, pitcher (NY Yankees, Cin Reds)
1964 - Page Hannah, Chicago Ill, actress (Kate Riley-Fame)
1965 - Quinn Early, NFL wide receiver (NO Saints, Buffalo Bills)
1966 - Rodney Smith, Wash DC, 149« lbs greco-roman wrestler (Oly-92, 96)
1967 - Dana Barros, NBA guard (Boston Celtics)
1968 - Tami Lyn Jameson, Minneapolis, team handball goalie (Olympics-92, 96)
1968 - Ted Washington, NFL nose tackle (Buffalo Bills)
1968 - Toni Lee Jameson, Minneapolis, team handball back court (Olympics-96)
1969 - Harold Pruett, rocker (Outsiders-Time Won't Let Me)
1970 - Eddie Robinson, NFL linebacker (Houston Oilers, Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 - Monty Brown, NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
1970 - Ramona Reuter, Miss USA-NY (1997)
1970 - Rick Schroder, SI NY, actor (Ricky-Silver Spoons, Champ, Earthling)
1970 - Rick Schroder
1971 - Corey Haim
1971 - Charles Outlaw, NBA forward (LA Clippers, Orlando Magic)
1971 - Corey Yothers, LA Calif, actor (Off the Rock)
1972 - Dave Wohlabaugh, NFL center/guard (NE Patriots)
1972 - Jeroen Thesseling, pop bassist (Pestilence, Spheres)
1972 - Mariusz Czerkawski, Radomsko Pol, NHL right wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1972 - Mike Kennedy, Vancouver, NHL left wing (Dallas Stars)
1973 - Aaron Hayden, NFL running back (SD Chargers, GB Packers-Superbowl 31)
1973 - Dave Wohlabaugh, corner (New England Patriots)
1974 - Sergei Gonchar, Chelyabinsk Rus, NHL defenseman (Capitals, Oly-S-1998
1976 - Everton Matambanadzo, Zimbabwean cricket pace bowler (v Paki 1996)
1976 - Jonathan Brandis, Danbury Ct, actor (Lucas Wolenczak-seaQuest DSV)
1978 - Grace Murray Tubbs, Miss Montana Teen USA (1996)
1979 - Monica Ivey, Miss Hawaii Teen USA (1996)
1991 - Dylan Francis Penn, LA Calif, daughter of Sean Penn & Robin Wright
1992 - Jet Travolta, daughter of John Travolta & Kelly Preston
Events
837 - Best view of Halley's Comet in 2000 years
989 - Battle at Abydos: Byzantine emperor Basilius II beats Bardas Phocas
1055 - Bishop Gebhard van Eichstätt named Pope Victor II
1111 - Pope Paschalis II crowns Roman catholics-German king Hendrik II
1180 - Republic day of Gelnhausen
1204 - Crusaders occupy Constantinople
1241 - Battle at Theiss: Mongols beat Hungarian King Béla IV
1346 - Pope Clemens VI declares German emperor Louis of Bavaria, envoy
1367 - Battle at Nájera Spain: Castilië & England beat Aragón & France
1517 - Osmaanse army occupies Cairo
1556 - Portuguese Marranos who revert back to Judaism burned by order of Pope
1598 - Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots
1640 - English Short Parliament forms (- May 5)
1668 - John Dryden (36) becomes 1st English poet laureate
1741 - Dutch people protest bad quality of bread
1741 - Royal Military Academy forms at Woolwich
1742 - George Frederic Handel's "Messiah" performed for 1st time (Dublin)
1759 - French beat European Allies in Battle of Bergen
1796 - 1st elephant arrives in US from India
1796 - Battle at Millesimo Italy: Napoleon beats Austrians
1808 - William Henry Lane ("Juda") perfects tap dance
1829 - English Emancipation Act grants freedom of religion to Catholics
1834 - HMS Beagle anchors at river mouth of Rio Santa Cruz, Patagonia
1842 - Lord Rosse successfully casts 72" (183-cm) mirror for a telescope
1849 - Hungarian Republic proclaimed
1860 - 1st Pony Express reaches Sacramento Calif
1861 - After 34 hours of bombardment, Ft Sumter surrenders to Confederates
1863 - Battle of Irish Bend, LA (Ft Bisland)
1863 - Hospital for Ruptured & Crippled in NY is 1st orthopedic hospital
1865 - Battle of Raleigh, NC
1865 - Sherman's march through Georgia begins
1869 - Steam power brake patented (George Westinghouse)
1870 - Metropolitan Museum of Art forms in NYC
1873 - Colfax Massacre in Grant Parish Louisiana (60 blacks killed)
1882 - Anti-Semitic League forms in Prussia
1883 - Alfred Packer convicted of cannibalism
1895 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Solitary Cyclist" (BG)
1902 - J C Penney opens his 1st store in Kemmerer, Wyo
1904 - Battle at Oviumbo Africa: Herero's chase away German army
1904 - Congress authorizes Lewis & Clark Expo $1 gold coin
1906 - Mutiny on Portuguese battleships Dom Carlos & Vasco da Gama
1908 - Groundbreaking on Philadelphia's Shibe Park (home of A's & Phillies)
1911 - Polo Grounds grandstand & left field bleachers go up in flames
1912 - Royal Flying Corps forms (later RAF)
1914 - 1st Federal League Game: Balt Terrapins beat Buffalo 3-2
1918 - Electrical fire kills 38 mental patients at Oklahoma State Hospital
1919 - Amritsar Massacre-British Army fires on nationalist rioters in India
1919 - British forces kill 100s of Indian Nationalists (Amritsar Massacre)
1920 - 1st woman US Civil Service Commissioner, Helen Hamilton appointed
1923 - Army wins 1st college three-weapon fencing championships
1924 - Greek plebiscite for a republic
1925 - Virginia Theater (ANTA, Guild) opens at 245 W 52nd St NYC
1926 - At 41, Walter Johnson pitches his 7th opening day shutout
1926 - Bicyclists without bicycle-tax-stamp rounded up in Amsterdam
1927 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Boston Bruins, in 2 games & 2 ties
1928 - 1st trans atlantic flight Europe-US (Fitzmaurice-von Hünefeld-Köhl)
1932 - Kozakken Boys soccer team forms in Werkendam forms
1933 - 1st flight over Mount Everest (Lord Clydesdale)
1933 - Stanley Cup: NY Rangers beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3 games to 1
1934 - 4.7 million US families report receiving welfare payments
1934 - US Congress passes Johnson Debt Default Act
1936 - Metaxas proclaims himself dictator of Greece
1938 - Clifford Goldsmith' "What a Life," premieres in NYC
1939 - W Saroyan's "My Heart's in the Highlands," premieres in NYC
1940 - 2nd battle of Narvik-8 German destroyers, destroyed
1940 - Cornelious Warmerdam became 1st man to pole vault 15 ft
1940 - Stanley Cup: NY Rangers beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 2
1941 - Heavy German assault on Tobruk
1941 - Russian-Japan no-attack treaty goes into effect
1943 - Catholic University Nijegen closes
1943 - FDR dedicates Jefferson Memorial
1943 - Nazi's discover mass grave of Polish officers near Katyn
1944 - SC rejects black suffrage
1944 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Chicago Blackhawks in 4 games
1944 - Transport nr 71 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1945 - Canadian army liberates Teuge & Assen Neth from Nazis
1945 - Red Army occupy Wien (Vienna)
1945 - US marines conquer Minna Shima off Okinawa
1946 - Belgian premier Acker proclaims wage & price freeze over
1946 - Eddie Klepp, a white pitcher signed by defending Negro League champ Cleveland Buckeyes, is bar
1948 - 75 scientists ambushed on way to Mount Scopus
1949 - 3rd NBA Championship: Minn Lakers beat Wash Capitols, 4 games to 2
1953 - 1st game of Milwaukee Braves, they beat Cin Reds 2-0
1954 - Balt Orioles 1st game, loses to Tigers in Detroit 3-0
1954 - Milwaukee Braves' Hank Aaron's 1st game
1954 - Robert Oppenheimer accused of being a communist
1955 - 20.33" (51.64 cm) of rainfall, Axis, Alabama (state record)
1956 - KETA TV channel 13 in Oklahoma City, OK (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 - "Shinbone Alley" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 49 performances
1957 - 11th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat St Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3
1957 - 11th Tony Awards: Long Days Journey into the Night & My Fair Lady win
1957 - Due to lack of funds, Saturday mail delivery in US is temp halted
1958 - 12th Tony Awards: Sunrise at Campobello & Music Man win
1959 - USAF launches Discoverer II into polar orbit
1959 - Vanguard SLV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1959 - Vatican edict forbids Roman Catholics for voting for communists
1960 - France becomes 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara
1960 - Transit 1B, 1st navigational satellite, placed in Earth orbit
1961 - "Carnival!" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 719 performances
1961 - UN General Assembly condemns South-Africa's apartheid
1962 - Stan Musial scores his 1,869th run, a new NL record
1962 - US steel industry forced to give up price increases
1963 - Pete Rose triples for his 1st major league base hit
1963 - Pirate's Bob Friend balks 4 times in a game
1964 - 36th Academy Awards - "Tom Jones," Sidney Poitier & Patricia Neal win
1964 - Ian D Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia
1964 - New Zealand Colin Bosher shears a record 565 sheep in 1 work day
1965 - Beatles record "Help"
1965 - 1st US Senate black page, Lawrence W Bradford Jr, 16, appointed by NY Sen Jacob Javits
1966 - Pan Am places $525,000,000 order for 25 Boeing 747s
1969 - 33rd Golf Masters Championship: George Archer wins, shooting a 281
1970 - 34th Golf Masters Championship: Billy Casper wins, shooting a 279
1970 - Greek composer Mikis Theordorakis freed
1970 - Apollo 13 announces "Houston, we've got a problem!" as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en rou
1970 - Oakland uses gold-colored bases during the club's home opener Rules Committee subsequently ban
1972 - 1st baseball players' strike ends after 13 days
1975 - 39th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 276
1975 - Chad military coup by General Odingar
1975 - Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war
1975 - Penguins 5-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 1-0 lead
1976 - $2 bill re-introduced as US currency
1976 - 1st NBA playoff game for Cleve Cavliers, they lose 100-95 to Wash
1976 - Federal Reserve begins issuing $2 bicentennial notes
1978 - Jackson slugs a 3-run HR in the 1st inning, & the field is showered
1978 - NY Yanks defeat White Sox 4-2 in home opener on Reggie Candy Bar Day
1979 - Christian Turks occupy St Jansbasiliek
1979 - Longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours
1979 - Yusuf Lule becomes premier of Uganda
1980 - "Grease" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 3,388 performances
1980 - "Reggae" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 21 performances
1980 - 44th Golf Masters Championship: Seve Ballesteros wins, shooting a 275
1980 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender/WRAL Golf Classic
1980 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1980 - US boycotts Summer Olympics in Moscow
1981 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Beth Henley for "Crimes of the Heart"
1981 - Wash Post Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize (later admits story a hoax)
1982 - Penguins 3-Isles 4 (OT)-Preliminary-Isles win series (3-2)
1983 - Harold Washington elected 1st black mayor of Chicago
1983 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 - Undefeated middleweight boxer Tony Ayala gets 35 years on sex assault
1984 - 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41C)-Challenger 5-returns to Earth
1984 - India beat Pak by 58 runs to win 1st Asia Cricket Cup in Sharjah
1984 - Pete Rose becomes 1st NL to get get 4,000 hits in a career
1985 - "TASS" denounced US boycott of Moscow Olympics
1985 - Atlantis ferried to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas
1985 - Caps 1-Isles 2-Patrick Div Semifinals- Caps hold 2-1 lead
1985 - Katrin Dörre wins 1st female World Cup marathon (2:33:30)
1985 - Ramiz Alia succeeds Enver Hoxha as party leader of Albania
1986 - 50th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 279
1986 - Boston Celtics end season with a 40-1 home win record
1986 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
1986 - Pope John Paul II met Rome's Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff at Rome synagogue
1986 - Spanish Grand Prix decided by 0.014 of a second
1987 - 1st 3 SD Padres hit HRs off SF starter Roger Mason
1987 - Portugal signs agreement to return Macau to China (in 1999)
1988 - Italy govt of De Mita forms
1989 - "Welcome to the Club" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 12 perfs
1990 - 4th largest NBA crowd (45,458) see Orlando play at Minneapolis
1990 - Final episode of Pat Sajak's late night TV show on CBS
1990 - NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 6-5, Rangers win preliminary, 4-1
1991 - BPAA US Open by Pete Weber
1992 - "2 Trains Running" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 160 perfs
1992 - 5.5 earthquake hits Netherlands
1992 - American Airlines reduce its 1st-class fares 20%-50%
1992 - Crystal Pepsi begins test marketing in Providence, Denver & Dallas
1992 - Great Chicago Flood - Chicago's underground tunnels flood
1992 - Lou Conaseca retires as coach of St John's basketball team
1992 - Nelson Mandela announces he will seek divorce from Winnie
1992 - Longest 2 undefeated baseball teams to meet (NY Yanks 5-0 vs Toronto Blue Jays 6-0); Yanks sco
1993 - "3 Men on a Horse" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 40 performances
1993 - 14th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1993 - Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia," premieres in London
1994 - President guard at Kigali Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death
1994 - Target date for Israeli complete withdrawal, doesn't occur
1994 - United Arab Emirates' 1st official ODI, losing to India
1995 - Yankees beat the Mets 2-0
1996 - En route to NHL record 62 victories Detroit Red Wings win #61
1996 - Ottawa Senators eliminate Stanley Cup Champs NJ Devils from playoff
1997 - "American Daughter" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 88 performances
1997 - 48th time opposing pitchers hit HRS, Carlos Perez (Mon)/Darren Holmes
1997 - 61st Golf Masters Championship: Tiger Woods at 21 (270 18 under par)
1997 - Hartford Whalers last NHL game
1997 - NHL Pitts Penguin Mario Lemieux's last NHL regular game
1997 - Travis Fryman homers off R Hernandez in both games of double header 1st time since 1961 that 2
Deaths
799 - Paulus Diaconus Warnafridi, Longobardisch writer, dies
1475 - Matteo Palmieri, Italian writer (Citt… di Vita), dies at 69
1517 - Tuman Bey, last Mamelukken sultan of Egypt, hanged
1638 - Henri II, duke of Rohan-Gi‚, French hugenot leader, dies at 58
1695 - Jean de La Fontaine, poet, dies
1722 - Charles Leslie, Irish controversialist, dies
1728 - Johann Christoph Schmidt, composer, dies at 63
1742 - Giovanni Veneziano, composer, dies at 59
1756 - Johann T Gottlieb Goldberg, German klavecinist/composer, dies at 29
1794 - S‚bastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort, Fr playwright, commits suicide at 53
1806 - Jean-Jacques Bachelier, French painter, dies at about 82
1822 - Gaetano Valeri, composer, dies at 61
1825 - Josef Gelinek, composer, dies at 66
1826 - Franz Danzi, composer, dies at 62
1831 - Ferdinand Kauer, composer, dies at 80
1864 - Johann Schneider, composer, dies at 74
1868 - Theodorus, [Kasa], emperor of Abyssinia, commits suicide
1873 - Carlo Coccia, composer, dies at 90
1886 - Karoly Thern, composer, dies at 68
1903 - Derk J A Haspels, Dutch actor, dies at 65
1904 - Vasili Vereshtshagin, Russian painter (War & Peace), dies
1910 - William Orchardson, British painter, dies
1928 - Luis Iruarrizaga Aguirre, composer, dies at 36
1932 - Johannes T de Visser, 1st Dutch Min of Education, dies at 75 [or 14th
1936 - Demertzis, Greek premier, dies
1941 - Annie Jump Cannon, US astronomer (Henry Draper catalogues), dies at 7
1942 - Henk Sneevliet, leader of Dutch RSAP/Spartacus, executed at 58
1944 - Cecile Chaminade, composer, dies at 86
1944 - Paul Hazard, French literature historian, dies at 65
1946 - William Henry Bell, composer, dies at 72
1949 - C V France, dies at 80
1952 - [Rosalie] Julia Cuypers, Flemish actress (Adelaarsjong), dies at 79
1959 - Eduard A van Beinum, Dutch musician/conductor, dies at 57
1959 - Rigardus "Rijn" Rijnhout, Giant of Rotterdam (2.375m), dies at 38
1967 - Luis Somoza Debayle, president of Nicaragua (1956-63), dies at 44
1973 - Alexandre A M Stols, publisher/typographer (Schoone Book), dies at 73
1974 - Stanley Smith, actor (Honey, King of Jazz, Soup to Nuts), dies at 71
1975 - Larry Parks, actor (Jazz Singer), dies at 60
1975 - N'garta Tombalbaye, president Chad, dies
1978 - Paul McGrath, actor (Witness, No Time for Love), dies at 74
1984 - Christopher Wilder, FBI's "most wanted man," accidentally kills self
1986 - Stephen Stucker, actor (Trading Places, Airplane), dies
1990 - Luis Trenker, dies at 97
1990 - Ronald Ibbs, dies
1992 - Brian Oulton, dies at 84
1992 - Wallace Stegner, novelist (Pulitzer 1972), dies at 84
1992 - Walter Stuart Surridge, cricketeer (Capt of Surrey), dies at 74
1993 - Barry Karas, dies of leukemia at 49
1993 - Henny Budie, Dutch director/producer (Sterrenslag), dies
1993 - Max Tripels, Dutch attorney/MP, dies at 72
1994 - Donald Benjamin Harden, archaeologist, dies at 92
1994 - Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov, actor (Telegram), dies at 83
1994 - Nikolai Krjoetsjkov, Russian actor (Ballad of Soldatje), dies at 83
1994 - P J Engels, Dutch MP (KVP), dies at 70
1994 - Robert O van Gennep, Dutch publisher (Guevara, MandŠl), dies at 56
1994 - Rudolf Hrusinsky, Czech actor (Short Cut, Golden Eels), dies at 72
1994 - Taleb Ali al-Suheil, Iran sheik, murdered in Lebanon at 64
1995 - Edward Firth Henderson, arabist, dies at 77
1995 - Lawrence Allan Laurie Scott, script writer, dies at 87
1996 - Denis Sargan, econometrician, dies at 71
1996 - George Mackey Brown, poet, dies at 74
1996 - James "Jimmy the Gent" Burke, criminal, dies at 64
1997 - Ann Craft, researcher/writer, dies at 53
1997 - George Wald, scientist (Nobel Prize, vitamin A in retina), dies at 80
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