Births
1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italy, painter/sculptor/scientist/visionary
1469 - Nanak, 1st guru of Sikhs
1588 - Claudius Salmasius, [Claude Saumaise], French linguist
1637 - Valentin Molitor, composer
1651 - Domenico Gabrielli, composer
1682 - John van Huysum, Dutch painter (flowers/fruit)
1684 - Catherine I, empress of Russia (1725-27)
1688 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer
1689 - Ferdinand Zellbell, composer
1707 - Leonhard Euler, Bassle Sweden, mathematician (Euler's Constant)
1741 - Charles Willson Peale, US, port painter/inventor (George Washington)
1757 - George Knowil Jackson, composer
1766 - Friedrich Bouterwek, German philosopher/critic
1793 - Friedrich Struve, Germany, founded dynasty of astronomers
1800 - James Clark Ross, explorer (British Antarctic)
1809 - Hermann Gnther Grassmann, mathematician
1812 - Pierre-Etienne-Theodore Rousseau, painter
1814 - John Lothrop Motley, US, historian/author (Rise of Dutch Rep)
1820 - Evander McNair, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1902
1821 - Emerson Brown Joseph, (Confederacy), died in 1894
1822 - Napolean Jackson Tecumseh Dana, Major General (Union volunteers)
1827 - Julius Tausch, composer
1829 - Mary Harris Thompson, 1st American woman surgeon
1837 - Horace Porter, Bvt Brig General (Union Army), died in 1921
1843 - Carl Eilhardt, composer
1843 - Henry James, US/British writer/critic (Turn of the Screw, Bostonians)
1845 - Dave Gregory, cricketer (Australia's 1st Test captain)
1850 - John Munroe Longyear, US, capitalist/bank president
1856 - Jean Mor‚as, [Yannis Papadiamantopoulos], Greek/French poet
1858 - Anton G O Ridder Van Rappard, Dutch painter/lithographer/etcher
1858 - Emile Durkheim, French sociologist (Division du travail social)
1874 - Johannes Stark, Germany, physicist (Stark effect) (Nobel 1919)
1875 - Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker, Dutch playwright/novelist (Poverty)
1878 - Robert Walser, writer
1882 - Giovanni Amendola, Italian antifascist/editor-in-chief (Il Mondo)
1888 - Florence Bates, San Antonio Tx, actress (Kismet, I Remember Mama)
1889 - Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader (Railroad Porter's Union)
1889 - Thomas Hart Benton, Missouri, painter/muralist (Lonesome Road)
1891 - Alvin Carter, Virginia, vocalist (Carter Family)
1891 - Vaino Raitio, composer
1891 - Wallace Reid, St Louis MO, actor/dir/screenwriter (Every Inch a Man)
1894 - Elizabeth Mae "Bessie" Smith, Empress of Blues (over 200 songs)
1894 - Bessie Smith
1895 - Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer (Gente in Aspromonte)
1895 - Harry F V Edward, British Guiana, 100m/200m runner (Oly-bronze-1920)
1897 - Marian Jordan, actress (Molly-Fibber McGee & Molly)
1898 - Nini de Bo‰l, Flemish operette singer (White Horse)
1901 - Joe Davis, English snooker/billiards-world champ (1927-46)
1903 - Erich Arendt, writer [or Apr 16]
1903 - John Williams, England, actor (Niles-Family Affair, Dial M for Murder
1906 - A J "Sandy" Bell, S Afr cricket fast bowler (16 Tests 1929-35)
1906 - Susan Walker, vice CEO (WRVS)
1907 - Gerald Abrahams, Liverpool, author (Teach Yourself Chess)
1907 - Nicholas Tinbergen, Neth/British biologist/zoologist (Nobel 1973)
1908 - Eden Ahbez, songwriter
1908 - Louise Chaplin, actress
1910 - Lord Grey of Naunton, chancellor (Ulster University)
1911 - Jacob Fresco, Dutch architect (Antilles Brewery/Autonomy Monument)
1912 - Kim II Sung, pres of North Korea (1945-94)
1912 - Peter Menzies, CEO (British Electricity Council)
1914 - John Gregory, dancer
1915 - Ernest Borneman, sexual researcher psychotherapist writer/musicologis
1917 - Hans Conried
1917 - Hans Conried, Balt Md, actor (Bullwinkle Show, Make Room for Daddy)
1917 - Pietro Grossi, composer
1918 - John Baragrey, Haleyville AL, actor (Creeper, Colossus of NY)
1919 - Clive Beadon, airman
1919 - Elizabeth Catelett, sculptor/lithographer
1919 - Meriol Trevor, novelist/biographer (Civil Prisoners)
1920 - Richard von Weizs„cker, baron/president (Germany, 1984-94)
1921 - Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 3)
1921 - Norman Ewart Thurston, musician
1922 - Harold Washington, 1st black mayor of Chicago (D, 1983-87)
1922 - Michael Ansara, Lowell Mass, actor (Cochise-Broken Arrow, Centennial)
1923 - Douglas Wass, CEO (Equity & Law Life Assurance Company)
1924 - John Grigg, British historian
1924 - Neville Marriner, Lincoln England, conductor (Minn Orch 1978)
1927 - Abha Gandhi, servant to Gandhi
1928 - Norma Merrick Sklarek, 1st black woman architect in NY & Calif
1928 - Richard Evans, British diplomat
1929 - Adrian Cadbury, candy manufacturer (Cadbury, Schweppes)
1929 - Jocelyn Barrow, deputy chair person (British Broadcast Standards)
1930 - Elijah Barayi, head of South Africa union centre (COSATU)
1930 - Vigdis Finnbogad¢ttir, president of Iceland (1980- )
1931 - Florian Zabach, Chicago Ill, violinist (Hot Canary, Club Embassy)
1931 - Kenneth Bloomfield, BBC governor (Ireland)
1931 - Tomas G Transtr”mer, Swedish psychologist/poet (M”rkerseende)
1932 - David Bolton, director (British Royal United Service for Defense)
1932 - Nikolai Stepanovich Porvatkin, Russian cosmonaut
1933 - Boris Strugatski, USSR, sci-fi author (Tale of Troika)
1933 - Elizabeth Montgomery, LA Calif, actress (Samantha/Serena-Bewitched)
1933 - Roy Clark, Meherrin Va, country singer (Hee Haw)
1933 - Elizabeth Montgome
1933 - Roy Clark
1935 - Gene Cherico, bassist
1936 - Hector Quintanar, composer
1936 - Jack Noreiga, cricketer (9-95 WI v India 1971)
1936 - Maurice Shock, rector (Lincoln College in Oxford)
1937 - Earl Russell, historian
1938 - Carles Marsden, professor (neurology)
1939 - Claudia Cardinale, Tunis, actress (Blindfold, 8«, Pink Panther)
1939 - Marti Wilder, father of rocker Kim Wilde
1939 - Claudia Cardinale
1940 - Edy Hubacher, Switzerland, 4-man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1972)
1940 - Jeffrey Archer, England, (Tory-Commons)/author (Matter of Honor)
1940 - Phll Lesh, rocker
1940 - Robert Walker Jr, NYC, actor (Ceremony, Ms Don Juan, Ensign Pulver)
1941 - Howard L Berman, (Rep-D-CA, 1983- )
1942 - Kim Il Jong, son of North Korean pres Kim Il Sung (1972-94)
1942 - Walter Raphael Hazzard, Wilmington Del, basketball (Olympic-gold-1964
1943 - Riem de Wolff, Indonesian/Dutch singer/guitarist (Blue Diamonds)
1944 - Dave Edmunds, Wales, singer/guitarist (Rockpile-Baby I Love You)
1944 - Dzhokhar Dudayev, separatist leader
1944 - Gerard Schoenaker, Dutch singer (Les Baroques)
1945 - Jos F B van Rey, Dutch MP (VVD)
1946 - Wayne Gilchrest, (Rep-R-Maryland)
1947 - Bojoura, [Raina GB van Melzen], Dutch singer/wife of Hans Cleuver
1947 - DeDe Lind, LA Calif, playmate (Aug, 1967)
1947 - Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, TV producer (Designing Women, Murphy Brown
1947 - Michael DeBello, singer (Maniac)
1947 - Mike Chapman, Australian songwriter/producer (Chinn & Chapman)
1947 - Wooly Wolstenholme, keyboardist/vocalist (Barclay James Harvest)
1950 - Amy Wright, Chicago Il, actress (Inside Moves, Accidental Tourist)
1951 - Hansel, Cuba, spanish personality
1951 - Heloise II, columnist (Heloise's Helpful Hints)
1951 - John L Phillips, Ft Belvoir Va, PhD/astronaut
1951 - Marsha S Ivins, Baltimore Maryland, astronaut (STS 32, 46, 62, 81)
1952 - Sam McMurray, actor (Tracey Ullman)
1954 - Emmanuel, M‚xico City M‚xico, spanish singer
1955 - Barbara Barrow, LPGA golfer
1955 - Enith Salle Brigitha, Neth, 100m/200m swimmer (Olympic-bronze-1976)
1956 - Gregory J Harbaugh, Cleveland Ohio, astronaut (STS 39, 54, 71, 82)
1956 - Michael Cooper, NBA star (LA Lakers)
1957 - Evelyn Ashford, Shreveport LA, 100m runner (Oly-4 gold-1976, 84)
1958 - John Bracewell, NZ cricketer (premiere spinner of 80's)
1958 - Matt Reid, rock keyboardist (Berlin-Takes Your Breathe Away)
1959 - Emma Thompson
1959 - Emma Thompson, England, actress (Henry V, Howards End, Oscar-1992)
1959 - Kevin Lowe, Lachute, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1960 - Marvin Clyde Goodwin, New Orleans La, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1960 - Philip, Belgian prince/husband of princess Paola
1961 - Lynne Austin, Plant City Fla, playmate (Jul, 1986)
1961 - Tiina Lillak, Finland, javelin thrower (Olympic-silver-1984)
1963 - Manoj Prabhakar, cricketer (Indian opening batsman & opening bowler)
1963 - Teresa Wentzel DeWitt, Ft Bragg NC, double trap (Olympics-1996)
1964 - Lydie Denier, St Nazaire France, actress (General Hospital)
1964 - Nadeem Abbasi, cricketer (three Tests for Pakistan v India 1989)
1965 - Anthony Miller, NFL wide receiver (Denver Broncos, Dallas Cowboys)
1965 - Kevin Stevens, Brockton, NHL left wing (LA Kings)
1965 - Mark Dennis, NFL tackle (Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers)
1965 - Michele Redman, Zanesville OH, LPGA golfer (1995 Star Bank-3rd)
1965 - Soichi Noguchi, Yokohama Japan, astronaut
1966 - Andrei Olhovskiy, Moscow Russia, tennis pro
1966 - Graeme Clark, bassist (Wet Wet Wet-Angel Eyes, Love is All Around)
1966 - Samantha Karen Fox, East End London England, singer (Touch Me)
1967 - Dara Torres, Beverly Hills CA, US Olympic swimmer (Olympic-gold-84)
1967 - Lance Zeno, NFL/WLAF corner (Rams, Scottish Claymores)
1967 - Mark Mortimer, actor (Nick Hudson-Another World)
1967 - Suzy Green, Detroit MI, LPGA golfer (1995 Fieldcrest Cannon-26th)
1968 - Billy Brewer, Fort Worth Texas, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1968 - Stacey Williams, Phila Penn, model (SI Swimsuit 1996)
1969 - Chris Smith, Indianapolis IN, Nike golfer (1993 BC Open-8th)
1969 - Jeromy Burnitz, Westminster CA, outfielder (Cleveland Indians)
1969 - Michael Jones, NFL linebacker (Oakland Raiders, St Louis Rams)
1969 - Phillippi Sparks, NFL cornerback (NY Giants)
1970 - Darrin Smith, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys, Phila Eagles)
1971 - Craig Whelihan, NFL quarterback (SD Chargers)
1971 - Derek Brown, NFL running back (NO Saints)
1971 - Guivi Sissaouri, Tbilisi Georgia, Canada freestyle wrestler (Oly-s-96
1971 - Jason Sehorn, NFL cornerback/safety (NY Giants)
1971 - Rich McKenzie, NFL linebacker (Cleve Browns)
1971 - Tim Tindale, NFL running back (Buffalo Bills)
1972 - Melvin Johnson, NFL safety (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1972 - Peter Billingsley, NYC, actor (Real People)
1972 - Ricky Otero, Vega Baja Puerto Rico, outfielder (Phila Phillies)
1972 - Ronald Cherry, NFL tackle (Detroit Lions)
1972 - Vickie Johnson, WNBA guard/forward (NY Liberty)
1973 - Jeremy Burkett, NFL/WLAF tight end (NY Giants, Barcelona Dragons)
1974 - Marena Bencomo, Miss Universe-2nd place (Venezuela, 1997)
1974 - Mike Quinn, quarterback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1974 - Sergei Krivokrasov, Angarsk Rus, NHL right wing (Blackhawks, Oly-S-98
1977 - Lisa Bell, Rockford Ill, figure skater (1997 Midwestern Sr champ)
1982 - Mark Mizzark, [Marlis Pugh], Akron Ohio, rapper (Another Bad Creation
Events
69 - Battle at Bedriacum, North-Italy
1045 - British Army liberates Belsen concentration camp
1205 - Battle at Adrianople: Bulgaria beats Emp Boudouin of Constantinople
1250 - Pope Innoncent III refuses Jews of Cordova Spain to build a synagogue
1450 - French defeat English at Battle of Formigny in 100 Years' War
1493 - -20/4 Barcelona] Columbus meets with King Ferdinand & Isabella
1581 - Cortes van Thomar accepts Philip II as king of Portugal
1594 - Fleming Pieter Stevens appointed royal painter of Rudolf II (Prague)
1595 - Willem I's daughter of Elisabeth of Nassau marries duke Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne of Broth
1621 - Hugo the Great arrives in France
1632 - Swedish & Saxon army beat Earl Tilly
1654 - England & Netherlands signs peace treaty
1689 - French king Louis XIV declares war on Spain
1697 - Charles XII succeeds Charles XI as King of Sweden
1715 - Uprising of Yamasse-indians in South Carolina
1716 - Russian & Prussian troops occupy Wismar
1729 - Johann S Bachs "Matthäus Passion" premieres in Leipzig
1738 - Bottle opener invented
1776 - Duchess of Kingston found guilty of bigamy
1784 - 1st balloon flight in Ireland
1788 - England, Netherlands & Prussia sign peace treaty
1793 - Bank of England hands out 1st £5-note
1800 - James Ross discovers North Magnetic pole
1817 - 1st American school for the deaf opens (Hartford Conn)
1850 - City of San Francisco incorporated
1851 - Earl G Andrássy sentenced to death in Hungary
1853 - Protestant church questions king Willem III RC bishops
1858 - Battle of Azimghur, Mexicans defeat Spanish loyalists
1861 - Federal army (75,000 volunteers) mobilized by Pres Lincoln
1864 - General Steeles' Union troops occupies Camden, Arkansas
1865 - Otto von Bismarck elevated to earl
1865 - Pres Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater
1870 - Last day US silver coins allow to circulate in Canada
1874 - NY legislature passes compulsory education law
1877 - 1st telephone installed: Boston-Somerville, Mass
1878 - Harley Procter introduces Ivory Soap
1892 - General Electric Company, forms & is incorporated in NY
1895 - Josephine Blatt (US) makes hip-and-harness lift of 3564 lb (record)
1896 - 1st Olympic games close at Athens, Greece
1900 - An early 50 mile race is won by an electric car in over 2 hrs
1900 - International Exposition opens in Paris
1901 - 1st British motorized burial
1902 - Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Church in US"
1909 - Mien Wenneker, Dutch prince Henry's lover, weds Uncle Cornelis Abbo
1909 - NY Giant Red Ames 2nd no-hitter, loses in 13 on a 7 hitter to Dodgers
1910 - Taft is 1st pres to throw out a 1st ball at a baseball game
1911 - Jack Lawrence Theater (Playhouse) opens at 137 W 48th St NYC
1911 - Walter Johnson pitches a record tying 4 strike outs in an inning
1912 - Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as band plays on
1915 - Manuel de Falla's ballet "El Amor Brujo," premieres in Madrid
1915 - NY Giant Rube Marquard no-hits Bkln, 2-0
1918 - Clemenceau publishes secret French/Austrian documents
1920 - New Canadian small cent coin is released
1921 - Black Friday- Labour Party strike of mine workers fails
1922 - Banting, MacLeod & Best discover insulin
1922 - Poodle Dog Restaurant closes
1923 - 1st sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (NYC)
1923 - Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics
1924 - Flemish-Walloon riots in Louvain Belgium, 1 dead
1924 - WHO-AM in Des Moines Iowa begins radio transmissions
1925 - NHL's NY Americans (formerly Hamilton Tigers) 1st game, lose 3-1
1927 - Babe Ruth hits 1st of 60 HRs of season (off A's Howard Ehmke)
1927 - Switzerland & USSR agree to diplomatic relations
1928 - Alioto's on Fisherman's Wharf (SF) forms
1931 - 1st walk across American backwards begins
1937 - Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat NY Rangers, 3 games to 2
1939 - Albert Lebrun elected president of France
1940 - British troops land at Narvik, Norway
1941 - 1st helicopter flight of 1 hr duration, Stratford, Ct
1942 - George VI awards George Cross to people of Malta
1943 - Metropolitan Life Insurances issues a $225 million check to Chase
1945 - British & Canadian troops liberate Nazi camp of Bergen-Belsen
1945 - FDR buried on grounds of Hyde Park home
1945 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Communium interpretes dolorum
1945 - US troops occupy concentration camp Colditz
1947 - Jackie Robinson goes hitless in his major league debut
1947 - Operations begin at Radio Netherlands World radio
1948 - 1st Jewish-Arab military battle, arabs defeated
1948 - Indian territory of Himachal Pradesh created
1948 - KCPX (now KTVX) TV channel 4 in Salt Lake City, UT (ABC) 1st broadcast
1949 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Redemptoris nostri
1951 - Michael Gorsira is 1st person in charge of Curaçao
1952 - 1st B-52 prototype test flight
1952 - Franklin National Bank issues 1st bank credit card
1952 - Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings sweep Montreal Canadiens in 4 games
1952 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1953 - Malans National Party wins South African elections
1953 - WHP TV channel 21 in Harrisburg, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - KARK TV channel 4 in Little Rock, AR (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Orioles 1st game in Baltimore beat White Sox 3-1
1954 - WHO TV channel 13 in Des Moines, IA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Yankees dedicate a plaque to Edward Barrow
1955 - Ray Kroc starts McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants (Illinois)
1955 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1956 - Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1957 - Congress gives Post Office $41M; restoring Saturday mail delivery
1957 - KTVI TV channel 2 in Saint Louis, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 - Saturday mail delivery restored after Congress givs PO $41 million
1958 - 10th Emmy Awards: Gunsmoke, Robert Young & Jane Wyatt
1958 - 1st baseball game in Calif, SF Giants beat LA Dodgers, 8-0
1959 - Fidel Castro begins US goodwill tour
1959 - US Sect of States John Foster Dulles resigns
1960 - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), organizes at Shaw U
1961 - "Music Man" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1375 performances
1962 - US national debt above $300,000,000,000
1963 - "Sophie" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 8 performances
1964 - Chesapeake Bay Bridge opens (world's longest)
1964 - Ian Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia
1965 - James Baldwin's "Amen Corner," premieres in NYC
1965 - NFL changes penalty flag from white to bright gold
1966 - KHET TV channel 11 in Honolulu, HI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - Rolling Stones release "Aftermath"
1967 - "Wait A Minim!" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 457 perfs
1968 - Houston Astros beat NY Mets, 1-0, in 24 innings
1969 - North Korea shoots at US airplane above Japanese sea
1970 - "Cry for Us All" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 8 performances
1970 - Libyan leader Gadaffi launches "Green Revolution"
1970 - WMGZ TV channel 16 in Mayaguez, PR ([M]) begins broadcasting
1970 - WPSJ TV channel 14 in Ponce, PR ([P]) begins broadcasting
1971 - "70, Girls, 70" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 35 performances
1971 - 43rd Academy Awards - "Patton," George C Scott & Glenda Jackson win
1972 - Barbra Striesand, James Taylor, Carole King & Quincy Jones perform at a benefit for George McG
1973 - 2nd Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
1973 - Walt Disney Story opens
1974 - 3rd Boston Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman of Calif in 2:47:11
1974 - 78th Boston Marathon won by Neil Cusack of Ireland in 2:13:39
1974 - Military coup in Niger, president Diori Hamani deposed
1975 - 1st appearance of San Diego Chicken
1975 - Gabon amends constitution
1975 - Penguins 3-Isles 1-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 2-0 lead
1976 - Yankee stadium reopens, Yanks beat Twins after trailing 4-0
1977 - 1st baseball game at Montreal's Olympic Stadium
1978 - 43 die as 2 express trains collide head-on south of Bologna, Italy
1978 - Great Britain performs nuclear test
1979 - 43rd Golf Masters Championship: Fuzzy Zoeller wins, shooting a 280
1981 - Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story is a lie, Wash Post relinqu
1982 - Apollo Computer announces DN400, DN420, & landscape display
1983 - Rangers 0-Isles 5-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 2-0 lead
1983 - Tokyo Disneyland opens
1984 - "Human Comedy" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 13 performances
1984 - 48th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Crenshaw wins, shooting a 277
1984 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1984 - Extremist Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab India
1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 - 14th Boston Women's Marathon won by Lisa Larsen Weidenbach in 2:34:06
1985 - 89th Boston Marathon won by Geoff Smith of Great Britain in 2:14:05
1985 - Challenger moves to launch pad for 51-B missing
1985 - S Africa will repeal sex & marriage laws against whites & non-whites
1986 - US air raids Libya, responding to La Belle disco, Berlin bombing
1986 - Viv Richards century off 56 balls v England in Antigua Test Cricket
1987 - "Barbara Cook: A Concert..." opens at Ambassador NYC for 13 perfs
1987 - Alfred Uhry's "Driving Miss Daisy," premieres in NYC
1988 - Meteorite explode above Indonesia
1988 - Wendy Wasserstein's "Heidi Chronicles," premieres in NYC
1989 - 95 crushed to death at Sheffield Soccer Stadium in England
1989 - South African/British Olympic runner Zola Budd marries
1989 - Students in Beijing pro-democracy protests
1989 - Sue Marchiano wins 3rd World Cup female marathon (2:30:48)
1989 - Then largest lottery in North America ($69M) drawn in Illinois
1990 - "In Living Color" premieres on FOX-TV
1990 - Greenidge & Haynes make 298 opening stand (v Eng), their best
1991 - "Secret Garden" opens at St James Theater NYC for 706 performances
1991 - 20th Boston Women's Marathon won by Wanda Panfil of Poland in 2:24:18
1991 - 95th Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:11:06
1991 - East-Europe Bank forms in London
1991 - Europe foreign ministers lift most remaining sanctions against S Afr
1991 - Former child actor Adam Rich charged with burglary
1991 - Magic Johnson sets NBA record for career assistswith 9,898
1991 - Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $280 per week
1991 - Sacramento Kings set NBA record, losing 35th consecutive game on road
1991 - Ton Sijbrands improves world record blind checker games (15 wins)
1992 - Billionaire Leona Helmsly is sent to jail for tax evasion
1992 - Jay Leno's final appearance as permanent guest host of Tonight
1992 - Lincoln Hospital in Bronx loses its accreditation
1992 - NY Islander, Al Arbour, coaches most NHL games (1,438)
1992 - William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy & DeForest Kelley inducted into National Association of Broadca
1994 - Indians loses 1st game at Jacobs Field, KC wins 2-1
1994 - Robert F Kennedy Jr (21 days after his divorce) weds Mary Richardson
1994 - WMMS-FM's Jeff & Flash, & entire station staff, are fired
1996 - "Apple Doesn't Fall" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 1 performance
1996 - 100th Boston Marathon won by Moses Tanui of Kenya in 2:09:15.9
1996 - 25th Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:27:12.6
1997 - America On Line, begins service in Japan
1997 - Baseball honors Jackie Robinson by retiring #42 for all teams
1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Charlotte NC on WXRC 95.7 FM
Deaths
1220 - Adolf I, archbishop of Cologne, dies
1415 - Manuel Chrysoloras, Byzantine leader/diplomat (ErotŠmata), dies
1472 - Leon B Alberti, Italian humanist/architect (Philodoxis), dies at 68
1502 - Jan IV Chalon, prince of Orange, dies
1605 - Boris Godunov, tsar of Russia (1598-1605), dies
1607 - Cornelius Kilianus, Flemish translator/poet, dies at about 78
1610 - Johan van Duivenoorde, mister of Warmond, dies at about 62
1659 - Simon Dach, German poet, dies
1719 - Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer, dies at 76
1756 - Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, composer, dies at 29
1764 - Jeanne-Antoinette-Poison LeNormant d'Etoiles, Marquis de Pomador, die
1765 - Michail v Lomonosov, Russian scholar/poet, dies at 53
1772 - Karel Jozef, ruler of Batthy nyi, dies at 73
1788 - Giuseppi Bonno, composer, dies at 77
1811 - Ernest Louis Muller, composer, dies at 70
1824 - Theodorus F van Capellen, vice-admiral (Algiers), dies at 61
1853 - Johann Leopold Fuchs, composer, dies at 67
1863 - Jan Nepomuk Kanka, composer, dies at 90
1865 - Abraham Lincoln, at 7:22 am, assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
1866 - William Jackson, composer, dies at 51
1888 - Matthew Arnold, English poet, dies at 65
1891 - Stephen Albert Emery, composer, dies at 49
1911 - Georg Knorr, German engineer, dies
1916 - Alfred Cogniaux, Belgian botanist, dies at 75
1920 - Jacob van Stolk Azn, art collector, dies at 74
1924 - Eduardo Caudella, composer, dies at 82
1925 - John Singer Sargent, US portrait painter, dies at 69
1926 - Frank Iredale, cricketer (14 Tests for Aust, 807 runs at 36 68), dies
1927 - Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (Di Giacomo), dies at 47
1929 - Antonio Smareglia, composer, dies at 74
1937 - Nikolai Artzibushev, composer, dies at 79
1938 - C‚sar Vallejo, Peru/French poet (Trilce, Russia & 1931), dies at 46
1942 - Robert Musil, Austrian writer (Mann ohne Eigenschaften), dies at 61
1943 - Raffaele Casimiro Casimiri, composer, dies at 62
1947 - Wolstenholme, rocker, dies
1949 - Wallace Beery, US actor (The Champ), dies at 64
1954 - Juan Vicente Lecuna, composer, dies at 54
1956 - Emile Nolde [Hansen], German painter (Grablegung Christi), dies at 88
1958 - Estelle Taylor, dies at 64
1962 - Clara Blandick, committed suicide at 80
1962 - Esther Minciotti, dies at 74
1965 - Syd Chaplin, dies at 80
1966 - Joseph Crehan, dies of stroke at 81
1967 - Antonio de Curtis Toto, comedian, dies of heart attack at 69
1968 - Boris Mykolayovich Lyatoshyns'ky, composer, dies at 73
1969 - Victoria von Battenberg, wife of Spanish king Alfonso, dies at 81
1972 - Otto Brenner, German trade union leader, dies at 64
1975 - Charles Marshall, dies
1975 - John B McKay, US test pilot (X-15), dies
1975 - Richard Conte, actor (Four Just Men, Jean Arthur Show), dies at 65
1976 - Gerald Smith, antisemite/catholic (Natl Christian Crusade), dies at 7
1980 - Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialist (Nobel 1964), dies in Paris at 74
1980 - Marshall Reed, actor (Fred Asher-Lineup), dies at 62
1980 - Paul Langton, actor (Leslie-Peyton Place), dies at 76
1980 - Raymond Bailey, actor (Mr Drysdale-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 75
1981 - French Duynstee, Dutch states rights leader, dies at 67
1982 - 5 murderers, of Egyptian pres Sadat, executed
1982 - Arthur Lowe, Brits actor (Capt Mainwaring in Dad's army), dies at 66
1982 - Louis M de Guiringaud, Fren forgn min (1976-78), commits suicide at 7
1983 - Gyula Illyes, Hungarian writer/poet (Az Ismertlen Illyes), dies at 80
1983 - Rodolfo Hoyos, actor (Luis-Viva Valdez), dies at 68
1984 - Tommy Cooper, comedian, dies at 61
1986 - Jean Genet, French criminal/novelist/dramatist, dies at 75
1986 - Sergei Nikolayevich Anokhin, cosmonaut, dies at 76
1986 - Tim McIntire, actor (Bob Younger-Legend of Jesse James), dies at 42
1988 - Hendrikus G "Han" Hoekstra, Dutch poet (Zandloper), dies at 81
1988 - Kenneth Williams, dies at 61
1989 - Charles Vanel, dies at 96
1989 - Hu Yaobang, general sec of Chinese Commnist Party, dies
1990 - Greta Garbo, actress (Anna Karenina, Camille), dies at 84
1991 - Marjorie Warfield, dies at 88
1991 - Martin Ashe, dies
1993 - George Ives, dies at 111
1993 - H H "Bull" Alexander, cricketer (Test for Aust 1933, avg 154), dies
1993 - Leslie Charteris, British mystery writer (Saint), dies at 85
1993 - William Bakewell, dies of leukemia at 84
1994 - John Curry, English figure skater (Oly-gold-76), dies of AIDS at 44
1995 - Cleo Brown, pianist, dies at 91
1995 - Denis Harding, soldier, dies at 79
1997 - Sam Moskowitz, SF fandom historian, dies at 76
1997 - Zdenek Mlynar, Sec of Czech Communist Central Committee (1968), dies
449 Events for 15th April