Births
1552 - Edward Coke, Mileham Norfolk, jurist/politician (defended common law)
1603 - Michael Trumper, composer
1605 - Isaac Aboab de Fonseca, Portuguese/Neth rabbi/mystic
1633 - Gabriel Schutz, composer
1659 - Jacob Roggeveen, Dutch Swiss lawyer/navigator (Easter Island)
1669 - Miguel Lopez, composer
1690 - Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian opera composer
1710 - Konrad E Ackermann, German actor (Die Oberpfalz)
1757 - John P Kemble, England, actor/director (Drury Lane, Covent Garden)
1763 - Thomas Campbell, founder (Church of Disciples in America)
1789 - Hippolyte-Andr‚-Baptiste Chelard, composer
1791 - Charles J Sax, Belgian music instrument builder
1801 - Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, composer
1801 - Thomas Cole, US, romantic landscape painter (Hudson River School)
1805 - Auguste Blanqui, France, revolutionary (workers' leader)
1807 - Henri Klimrath, French lawyer (M‚moire sur lesson Olim)
1807 - William Bowen Campbell, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
1810 - Charles Lenox Remond, Salem Mass, famous black
1819 - Henry Lawrence Eustis, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1885
1821 - Charles Samvei Bovy-Lysberg, composer
1827 - Alphonse de Rothschild, French banker
1829 - John Potts Slough, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
1833 - Henry McNeal Turner, black methodist bishop
1839 - James A Herne, [J Aherne], US playwright (Hearts of Oak)
1841 - William H H Davenport, Buffalo, stage medium
1844 - Eduard Adolf Strasburger, German botanist (Angiospermen)
1844 - Granville Stanley Hall, US, psychologist
1848 - Adh‚mar Esmein, French lawyer
1859 - Victor August Herbert, Dublin Ireland, composer (Babes in Toyland)
1869 - Johannes F "Frits" Bakker Sr, actor (Holland Tooneelgezelschap)
1872 - Paul Fort, French poet/founder of Vers et Prose
1873 - Clara Butt, Southwick Sussex, contralto (Country of Hope & Glory)
1874 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austria, poet/dramatist/essayist
1875 - Eddie Pola, composer (Lullabye of Broadway)
1877 - Thomas Frederick Dunhill, composer
1878 - Hattie Wyatt Caraway, politician/teacher/1st woman elected to senate
1879 - Sydney Baynes, composer
1880 - Antonio Guarnieri, composer
1880 - Francesco Balilla Pratella, composer
1881 - Jose Ignacio Quinton, composer
1882 - Louis St Laurent, Compton Quebec, (L) 12th Canadian PM (1948-57)
1883 - Jevgeni B Vachtangov, Armenian/Russian actor/director (Eric XIV)
1884 - Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russia, novelist/playwright (We)
1885 - Camille Chautemps, premier France
1887 - Dirk Roosenburg, Dutch architect
1889 - Gertrude Caton-Thompson, British archaeologist (Zimbabwe, So Arabia)
1891 - James Price Johnson, composer
1892 - K Rudolf Mengelberg, composer/musicologist (Amsterdam Concert Hall)
1895 - John Ford, Maine, director (Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man)
1895 - John Ford
1896 - Anastasio "Tacho" Somoza, general/pres of Nicaragua (1937-56)
1897 - Denise Robins, London, romantic novelist (1st Long Kiss)
1900 - Stephen Potter, humorist/writer (School for Scoundrels, Shipbuilders)
1901 - Clark Gable, Cadiz OH, actor (Gone With the Wind)
1902 - Carlo Borbolla, composer
1902 - Langston Hughes, poet/translator (Weary Blues)
1902 - Langston Hughes
1903 - Georg Rendl, Austria miner/beekeeper/writer (The Bees Novel)
1904 - S J Perelman, Brooklyn, author/humorist (Around the World in 80 Days)
1905 - Emilio Segre
1905 - Ernst Carl Gerlach Stueckelberg
1906 - Hildegarde, Adell Wisc, night club vocalist (I'll Be Seeing You)
1906 - Pierre Cardevielle, French composer/conductor (Amants Captifs)
1907 - Alan Strode Campbell Ross, professor (coined the terms U & non-U)
1907 - Camargo Guarnieri, Brazil, composer/conductor
1907 - Gnter Eich, German literary (Underground Highway, Girls of Viterbo)
1907 - John Canaday, art critic (Metropolitan Museum of Art Portfolios)
1907 - Mozart Camargo Guarnieri, composer
1907 - S ndor Veress, Hungarian pianist/composer
1908 - Albie Booth, collegiate Hall of Fame football star (Yale)
1908 - Edward Staempfli, composer
1908 - George Pal, Hungarian/US director (When Worlds Collide, Puppetoons)
1909 - Douglas Hall, Governor (Somaliland Protectorate)
1909 - Helen Chandler, Charleston SC, actress (Christopher Strong, Dracula)
1910 - H Stanley Cayzer
1910 - Jahangir Khan, cricketer (father of Majid, Indian player 1932-36)
1910 - Michael Kanin, Rochester NY, director/writer/actor (Woman of the Year
1913 - Jeffrey Kindersley Quill, Test pilot
1914 - Hans Zlig, Swiss dancer
1915 - Stanley Matthews, 1st British soccer player to be knighted
1916 - Gordon Hobday, Lord Lieutenant (Nottinghamshire)
1918 - Maurice Laing, life president (John Laing)
1918 - Muriel Spark, Edinburgh Scotland, novelist (Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1920 - Kenneth Bond, former vice-chairman
1920 - Pierre Jonqu‚res d'Oriola, France, equest jumper (Oly-gold-1952, 64)
1921 - Peter Sallis, actor (Tast the Blood of Dracula)
1922 - Bogumil Witalis Andrzejewski, professor of Cushtic Languages
1922 - Clifford McWatt, cricketer (WI wicket-keeper in 6 Tests 1954-55)
1926 - Douglas Johnson, historian
1926 - Peter Crill, Bailiff of Jersey
1926 - Stuart Whitman, SF Calif, actor (Capt Apache, Ransom, Cimarron Strip)
1927 - Galway Kinnell, Providence RI, author (Body Rags, Book of Nightmares)
1928 - Eric Evans, Dean (St Paul's)
1928 - Peter Gordon Dorrell, archaeologist/photographer
1928 - Sam Edwards, physicist
1928 - Thoams Eric Evans, dean (St Paul's)
1928 - Tom Lantos, (Rep-D-CA, 1981- )
1928 - Ursula Mamlok, composer
1930 - Peter Tapsell, British MP
1931 - Barrel, [ABM] Frinking, teacher/Dutch MP (CVP)
1931 - Boris Yeltsin, Ural Mts USSR, president of Russian SSR
1931 - Madeline Berthod, Switzerland, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1956)
1931 - Mark Richmond, CEO (Science & Engineering Research Council)
1931 - Ton [ABM] Frinking, Dutch MP (CDA)
1931 - Boris Yeltsin
1932 - John Hart, Denver Colo, newsman (CBS News Retrospective, NBC News)
1932 - John Nott, British MP
1933 - Reynolds Price, US writer (Strengthened by a Pale Green Light)
1934 - Bob Shane, vocalist (Kingston Trio-Scarlet Ribbons)
1935 - Ruth Clarke, Moderator (General Assembly of the United Reform Church)
1935 - Vladimir Viktorovich Aksyonov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 22, T-2)
1936 - G H Blake, Principal (Collingwood College, Durham U)
1937 - Don Everly, Brownie Ky, vocalist (Everly Bros-Wake Up Little Susie)
1937 - Dr Hook, [Ray Sawyer], Ala, vocalist (Dr Hook-When You're in Love)
1937 - Garrett Morris, New Orleans La, actor (SNL, Martin, Carwash)
1937 - Don Everly
1937 - Garrett Morris
1938 - Sherman Hemsley
1938 - Jacky Cupit, golfer (Rookie of Year 1961)
1938 - Jimmy Carl Black, rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
1938 - Sherman Hemsley, Phila, actor (All in the Family, Jeffersons, Amen)
1939 - Del McCoury, bluegrass singer/musician
1939 - Paul E Gillmor, (Rep-R-Ohio)
1939 - Ray Sawyer, rocker
1940 - Bibi Besch, Vienna Austria, actress (Star Trek 2, Beast Within)
1940 - Herve Filion, sulky driver (1969 Canadian Sports Hall of Fame)
1941 - Anatoliy Firssov, USSR, ice hockey play (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72)
1941 - Franco Nones, Italy, 30K cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1968)
1941 - Robert Walmsley, British Vice-Admiral
1942 - Dave Sincock, cricketer (chinaman bowler played for Aust 1964-66)
1942 - Terry Jones, Colwyn Bay North Wales, comedian (Monty Python)
1943 - Josceline Dimbleby, cookery writer
1943 - Lord Mountevans
1943 - Tina Sloan, NY, actress (Lillian-Guiding Light, Search for Tomorrow)
1944 - Leo Burmester, Louisville Ky, actor (Flo, Chiefs, Abbys, Odd Jobs)
1944 - Tommy Duffy, rocker (Echos)
1945 - Ole Buck, composer
1946 - Bart Braverman, LA Calif, actor (Bobby-Vega$, Roy-New Odd Couple)
1947 - Adam Ingram, British MP
1947 - Terry Hibbitt, soccer star
1948 - Debbie Austin, LPGA golfer
1948 - Jennifer Adams, superintendent (Central Royal Parks)
1949 - Jimmy Lee Thorpe, Roxboro NC, PGA golfer (1985 Greater Milwaukee Open
1951 - Andrew Smith, British MP
1952 - Rick James, [James Johnson], rock/soul/funk vocalist (Super Freak)
1953 - Andy Mill, skier/husband of Chris Everet
1953 - C A Barnett, headmaster (Whitgift School)
1954 - Billy Mumy, Calif, actor (Will Robinson-Lost in Space, Dear Brigitte)
1954 - Mike Campbell, guitarist (Tom Petty & Heartbreakers-Breakdown)
1955 - Kate Ashbrook, general secretary (Open Spaces Society)
1955 - Virginia Elliot, three-day eventer
1957 - Donna Adamek, Duarte Calif, bowler (BWAA Woman of Year 1978-81)
1958 - Maureen Madill, Coleraine No Ireland, golfer (Brit Open Amateur 1979)
1959 - Anthony LaPlagia, actor (Criminal Justice, Betsy's Wedding)
1959 - Carolyn Hill, Santa Monica CA, LPGA golfer (1994 McCall's Classic)
1959 - Mike Horan, NFL punter (NY Giants)
1959 - Wade Wilson, NFL quarterback (Dallas Cowboys)
1961 - Daniel M Tani, Ridley Park MD, astronaut
1961 - Gabrielle Carteris, actress (Beverly Hills 90210)
1961 - Gina Hull, Jacksonville FL, LPGA golfer (1989 USX Golf Classic-8th)
1963 - Jani Lane, heavy metal drummer (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
1964 - Dwayne Rudolph Goettel, musician
1964 - Kaitlin Hopkins, NYC, actress (Kelsey-Another World)
1964 - Sharon Bruneau, Toronto Ontario, actress (Sensuous Muscle)
1965 - Brandon Lee, Emerson Colo, actor (Showdown in Little Tokyo)
1965 - David Callaghan, cricketer (S African all-rounder in one-dayers 1992)
1965 - Sherilyn Fenn, Detroit Mich, actress (2 Moon Junction, Twin Peaks)
1965 - Stephanie Marie Elisabeth de Grimaldi, Monte Carlo Monaco, Princess
1965 - Sherilyn Fenn
1966 - Donna Edmondson, Greensboro NC, playmate of year (Nov, 1986)
1966 - Eddie Zambrano, Venezuelan/US baseball outfielder (Chicago Cubs)
1966 - Michelle Akers, Santa Clara Calif, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1967 - Laura E Dern, LA Calif, actress (Blue Velvet, Mask, Smooth Talk)
1967 - Tim Naehring, Cincinnati OH, infielder (Boston Red Sox)
1968 - Lisa Marie Presley
1968 - George Quigley Jr, Cin Ohio, skeet (Olympics-1996)
1968 - Javier Sanchez, Spain, tennis star
1968 - Kent Mercker, Dublin OH, pitcher (Atlanta Braves, Balt Orioles)
1968 - Lisa Marie Presley Keough Jackson, Memphis Tenn, daughter of Elvis
1968 - Mark Recchi, Kamloops, NHL right wing (Montreal Canadiens)
1968 - Pauly Shore, Hollywood, comedian (Totally Pauly, Encino Man)
1968 - Sean Millington, CFL fullback (BC Lions)
1969 - Bryan Jacob, Palatka Fla, 59 kg (130 lbs) weightlifter (Oly-1992, 96)
1969 - John Moore, Australian baseball catcher (Olympics-1996)
1970 - Eric Mobley, NBA center (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1970 - Malik Sealy, NBA guard/forward (Detroit Pistons, LA Clippers)
1971 - Ajay Jadeja, cricketer (Indian opening batsman)
1971 - Derek Byrd, NFL cornerback (NO Saints)
1971 - Robert O'Neal, WLAF safety (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Tommy Salo, Surahammar SWE, NHL goalie (Team Sweden, NY Islanders)
1972 - Brian Krause, actor (December, Sleepwalkers, Return to Blue Lagoon)
1972 - Geoff Sanderson, Hay River, NHL left wing (Hartford Whalers)
1972 - Richard Becker, Aurora IL, outfielder (Minn Twins)
1972 - [Thomas] Carlton Bruner, US, 1500m freestyle swimmer (Olympics-96)
1973 - Andrew DeClercq, NBA forward (Golden State Warriors, Boston Celtics)
1973 - Elena Makarova, Moscow Russia, tennis star (1993 Futures-Val)
1973 - Michael Joyce, Santa Monica CA, tennis star (1989 USTA Natl Boys' 18)
1973 - Tlia Reima, ice hockey center (Finland, Oly-98)
1974 - Jennifer Lien, actress (Hannah Moore-Another World)
1974 - Lisa Marie Scott, Pensacola FL, playmate (Feb, 1994)
1974 - Walter McCarty, NBA forward (Boston Celtics)
1975 - Martijn Reuser, Dutch soccer player (Ajax)
1980 - Courtney Hamilton, Miss Arizona Teen USA (1996)
Events
772 - Adrian I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1539 - Emperor Karel & King François I sign anti-English treaty
1587 - English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuarts death sentence
1662 - Dutch garrison on Formosa surrenders for Chinese pirates
1669 - French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion
1709 - Alexander Selkirk [Robinson Crusoe] rescued from Juan Fernandez
1717 - Henri d'Aguesseau's 1st appointment as chancellor of France
1720 - Sweden & Prussia sign peace treaty
1732 - Parliament of Ratisborn accept Pragmatic Sanctions
1742 - Sardinia & Austria sign alliance
1783 - William Herschel announces star Lambda Herculis as apex
1788 - 1st US steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs & Longstreet
1789 - Chinese troops driven out of Vietnam capital Thang Long
1790 - Supreme Court convenes for 1st time (NYC)
1793 - France declares war on England & Netherlands
1793 - Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, NY, for oiled silk & linen
1809 - Dutch King Louis Napoleon accepts metric system
1810 - 1st insurance co managed by blacks (American Insurance Co of Phila)
1810 - Seville, Spain surrenders to French
1810 - US Population: 7,239,881, Black population: 1,377,808 (19%)
1814 - Lord Byron's "Corsair" sells 10,000 copies on day of publication
1814 - Volcano Mayon on Luzon Philippines erupts killing 1,200
1840 - Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, 1st in US, incorporated
1846 - Théophile Gautier publishes "Hashish Club" about his initiation
1860 - 1st rabbi to open House of Representatives, Morris Raphall of NYC
1861 - Dike breaks in Gelderland Netherlands
1861 - Texas becomes 7th state to secede
1862 - Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of Republic"
1864 - -Feb 8th] Battle of Yazoo River, MS
1864 - 2nd German-Danish war begins
1864 - Austrian/Prussian troops occupy Sleeswijk/Holstein
1865 - 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)
1865 - General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins
1865 - JS Rock, 1st black lawyer to practice in Supreme Ct, admitted to bar
1867 - Bricklayers start working 8-hour days
1871 - Jefferson Long of Georgia is 1st black to make an official speech in House of Reps (opposing l
1881 - US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri authorized
1883 - French lt-col Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger
1884 - 1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published
1887 - Harvey Wilcox of Ks subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern Calif & starts selling it off as
1892 - Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning use of "400
1893 - Puccini's Opera "Manon Lescaut," premieres in Turin
1893 - Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ)
1896 - Giacomo Puccini's Opera "La Boheme," premieres in Turin
1898 - 1st auto insurance policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Co
1902 - China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet
1902 - Hermann Sudermanns "Es lebe das Leben," premieres in Berlin
1905 - Hague soccer team ADO froms
1905 - Hungarian premier Tisza resigns
1906 - 1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas
1906 - English min of Frgn affairs Edward Grey's wife Dorothy fatally injured
1909 - US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens
1910 - 1st British labour exchange opens
1910 - Dragoumis govt forms in Greece
1914 - NY Giants & Chic White Sox play an exhibition baseball game in Egypt
1914 - Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] censors appointed
1914 - Tanganyika Railway opens
1917 - Admiral Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war
1918 - Franz Lehárs opera "Wo die Lerche singt," premieres in Budapest
1918 - Kern, Bolton & Wodehouse's musical premieres in NYC
1918 - Russia adopts Gregorian calender (becomes Feb 14)
1919 - Dodgers trade Jake Daubert to Reds for Tommy Griffith Daubert
1920 - 1st commercial armored car introduced (St Paul Minn)
1920 - Soccer team Quick Boys forms
1920 - Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Poli
1923 - Allied ultimatum on Lithuanian occupation of Memel
1923 - Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Mussolini
1923 - Noël Coward's "Young Idea," premieres in London
1924 - Amsterdam's Netherlands Press Museum opens
1924 - New British MacDonald govt recognizes USSR
1924 - Soccer team VSV Tonido forms in Voorburg
1924 - Soviet Union formally recognized by Britain
1925 - 1st national conference of KPD's Rotfrontkämpferbund in Berlin
1926 - Kirghiz Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kirghiz ASSR
1926 - Land at Broadway & Wall Street sold at a record $7 per sq inch
1929 - 1st clean & jerk of 400 lbs (182 kg), Charles Rigoulet, 402½ lbs
1930 - Arnold Schönbergs opera premieres in Frankfurt
1932 - Bradman makes 299* vs S Africa, runs out partner going for 300th
1933 - Colonial govt arrests Anton de Kom in Paramaribo Suriname
1933 - Dutch bishops forbid membership in non-catholic unions
1933 - German Parliament disolves, Gen Ludendorf predicts catastrophe
1934 - Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss dissolves all political parties but his
1935 - 1st "March of Time" newsreel premieres at the Capitol
1935 - James T Farrell finishes his "Studs Lonigan" trilogy
1937 - Stapleton, Staten Island becomes a customs-free port
1940 - Russia begins new offensive against Finland
1941 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn
1941 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner
1942 - 2nd Norwegian government of Quisling forms
1943 - German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier
1943 - Mussert forms pro Nazi shadow cabinet (Neth)
1944 - Supreme Soviet enlarges soviet republics' autonomy
1944 - US 7th Infantry/25th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein/Roi/Namur
1945 - US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie
1946 - Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist president
1946 - Trygve Lie, a Norwegian socialist, becomes 1st Sec-Gen of UN
1947 - Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian govt of christian-dems & communists
1947 - Dmitri Shostakovitch named professor at conservatory of Leningrad
1947 - NV United Dutch Fokker's Aircraft established
1948 - Federation Malaysia forms from 9 sultanates
1948 - Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed
1949 - 200" (5.08-m) Hale telescope 1st used [See June 3, 1948]
1949 - RCA releases 1st single record ever (45 rpm)
1950 - USSR demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes
1950 - Urko Kekkonen elected president of Finland
1951 - -50°F (-46°C), Gavilan, New Mexico (state record)
1951 - 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated
1951 - 1st telecast of atomic explosion
1951 - Alfred Krupp & 28 other German war criminals freed
1951 - UN condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea
1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1952 - General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia
1952 - SN Behrman's "Jane," premieres in NYC
1953 - "General Electric Theater" premieres on CBS TV; Reagan later hosts
1953 - "You Are There" with Walter Cronkite premieres on CBS television
1953 - Dr A de Waal appointed as Neth 1st female asst sect of state
1953 - Flooding in Netherlands, kills 1,835
1953 - WEEK TV channel 25 in Peoria, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - 1st TV soap opera "Secret Storm" premieres
1954 - Scapino Ballet Studio in Amsterdam destroyed by fire
1954 - Soccer team The County froms in Doetinchem
1955 - HC Hansen appointed premier of Denmark
1956 - Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking
1956 - WSAV TV channel 3 in Savannah, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 - 1st black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline
1957 - Gijsbert of Hall appointed mayor of Amsterdam
1958 - 1st US satellite (Explorer I) launched
1958 - Egypt & Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic
1958 - WFTV TV channel 9 in Orlando, FL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1959 - Swiss males vote against voting rights for women
1959 - Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit)
1959 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss
1959 - US male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins
1959 - WVUE TV channel 8 in New Orleans, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1959 - Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Havana Golf Tournament
1959 - Zack Wheat unanimously elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1960 - 34th Australian Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats J Lehane (75 62)
1960 - 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth
1960 - 48th Australian Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats N Fraser (57 36 63 86 86)
1960 - Extreme right-wing rebels in Algiers surrender
1961 - 1st full-scale test of US Minuteman ICBM is successful
1961 - British minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive
1961 - Mackay & Kline hang on for 100 mins for cricket draw vs West Indies
1962 - "New Faces of '62" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 performances
1962 - NL releases its 1st 162-game schedule
1963 - Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes self-governing under Hastings Banda
1964 - "Stop the World, I Want to..." closes at Shubert NYC after 556 perf
1964 - Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand," 1st #1 hit, stays #1 for 7 weeks
1964 - Indiana Governor Mathew Walsh tries to ban "Louie Louie" for obscenity
1964 - Suriname River dammed
1965 - Dutch Queen Juliana opens Brienenoord Bridge in Rotterdam
1965 - Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma Ala
1965 - Peter Jennings, 26, becomes anchor of ABC's nightly news
1965 - NL adopts emergency team replacement plan to restock any club struck by disaster
1967 - Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million & 60 lives
1967 - WCLP TV channel 18 in Chatsworth, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - Former VP Richard Nixon announces candidacy for president
1968 - Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of Green Bay Packers
1968 - World trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi
1968 - Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol
1969 - Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself in concert
1969 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
1969 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood
1969 - WPGH TV channel 53 in Pittsburgh, PA (IND) begins broadcasting
1970 - Ford Frick, Earle Combs & Jesse Haines elected to Hall of Fame
1970 - Stalled commuter train rammed by express in Argentina, 139 die
1970 - WMAA TV channel 29 in Jackson, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 - West-Germany & USSR sign gas contract
1972 - 1st scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395)
1972 - Wings release "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" in UK
1973 - Monte Irvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1974 - "Good Times" (spinoff from "Maude") premieres on CBS TV
1975 - "Hoppy, Gene & Me" by Roy Rogers peaks at #65
1975 - "Men on the Moon" closes at Little Theater NYC after 5 performances
1975 - 1st successful Wash Cap penalty shot, Ken Lockett vs Vancouver Canucks
1975 - Lorne Henning scores on 3rd Islander penalty shot
1975 - Otis Francis Tabler is 1st open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense D
1976 - "Rich Man, Poor Man" mini-series premieres on ABC TV
1976 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1976 - Sonny & Cher resume TV show, despite real-life divorce
1976 - East Lansing police arrest Dodgers reliever Mike Marshall for taking batting practice at Mich
1977 - Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives
1977 - Hillsdale High School defeats Person High School 2-0 in basketball
1978 - Harriet Tubman is 1st black woman honored on a US postage stamp
1978 - Director Roman Polanski skips bail & fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engagi
1979 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 yrs in exile
1979 - Patricia Hearst is released from a SF prison for bank robbery
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - Sears Radio Theater moves from CBS to Mutual Broadcasting System
1980 - Soap opera "Love of Life" ends a 28 year run
1981 - 11th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 21-7
1981 - 31st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 123-120 at Cleveland
1981 - Duke Ellington-musical "Sophisticated Ladies," premieres in NYC
1981 - Dutch Antilles census is 231,932
1981 - French govt accord sends 60 Mirage fighter jets to Iraq
1981 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 21-7
1981 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek
1981 - Trevor Chappell bowls underarm to Brian McKechnie, WSC Final MCG
1982 - "Late Night With David Letterman," debuts on NBC-TV
1982 - Senegal & Gambia form loose confederation (Senegambia)
1983 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1984 - China & Netherlands regain diplomatic relations
1984 - Daniel Stern becomes NBA commissioner
1984 - Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, kidnapped in England (killed 0203)
1985 - -61°F (-52°C), Maybell, Colorado (state record)
1985 - -69°F (-56°C), Peter's Sink, Utah (state record)
1985 - Azharuddin scores 3rd Test century in 3rd Test Cricket (122 v Eng)
1985 - Cards trade D Green, Jose Uribe, Dave LaPoint to Giants for Jack Clark
1985 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Tiffany Chin
1986 - KHJ-AM in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KRTH
1986 - Singer Diana Ross marries Norwegian businessman Arne Naess in Switz
1987 - 163 day strike against Deere & Co ends, workers accept wage freeze
1987 - 38,873 NBA crowd watch Chicago at Detroit
1987 - Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic
1987 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 10-6
1989 - Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at perihelion
1989 - Princess Diane of England visits NYC
1991 - Afghanistan/Pakistan hit by earthquake, 1,200 die
1991 - Craig McDermott takes 8-97 v England at the WACA
1991 - President F W de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws
1991 - US Air & Skywest Fairchild jet collide at LA Airport killing 32
1992 - "Crazy He Calls Me" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 7 perfs
1992 - Barry Bonds signs baseball's highest single year contract ($4.7 mil)
1992 - Denis Potvin's #5 becomes 1st number retired by NY Islanders
1993 - NY Judge Sol Wachtler indicted for harassing Joy Silverman
1993 - Soyuz TM-16 lands
1994 - Irina Privalova runs world record 50m indoor (6.03 sec)
1994 - Large meteorite falls near Kusaie, Pacific Ocean
1995 - Amtrak NY-Tampa run ends
1995 - Amy van Dikes swims woman's world record 50 m butterfly (26.73)
1995 - Andy & Grant Flower make 269 stand vs Pak, brotherly record
1995 - Belgium's TV channel VT4 goes on the air
1998 - "Street Corner Symphony," closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 79 perf
1998 - 86th Australian Mens Tennis: Petr Korda beats Marcelo Rios (62 62 62)
1998 - Australian Mixed: J Gimelstob & V Williams beat Suk & Sukova (62 61)
1998 - NFL Pro Bowl Game, AFC beats NFC 29-24
Deaths
656 - Sigebert III, king of Austrasia, dies at about 25
1204 - Alexius IV Angelus, regent of Byzantium (1203-04), murdered
1248 - Hendrik II, duke of Brabant (1235-48), dies
1294 - Louis II, the Stern, ruler of Upper-Bayern, dies
1328 - Charles IV, the Handsome, King of France (1322-28), dies
1502 - Olivier de la Marche, Flemish writer/poet/governor, dies
1542 - Hieronymus Aleander, [Gir¢lamo Aleandro], Ital diplomat, dies at 61
1650 - Rene Descartes, philosopher "I think therefore I am", stops thinking
1666 - Sjihab al-Din Sultan C Shah Djahan, mogol of India (Taj-Mahal), dies
1669 - Abandoned child, Huygens friend poet Catharina Questiers, buried at 3
1691 - Alexander VIII, [Pietro Ottoboni], Italian Pope (1689-91), dies at 80
1691 - George Etherege, English stage writer (Love in a Tub), dies at 56
1694 - John L baron van Elderen, 63rd bishop of Liege (1688-94), dies at 73
1733 - August II, the Strong, King of Poland (355 children), dies at 62
1743 - Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer, dies at 85
1747 - Jacobus E J Capitein, Dutch slave/vicar/merchant, dies
1795 - Giacomo Insanguine, composer, dies at 66
1818 - Giuseppi Gazzaniga, composer, dies at 74
1824 - Maria Theresia von Paradis, composer, dies at 64
1832 - Ecco Epkema, Dutch classic linguist (Frisian/Old Frisian), dies at 71
1838 - Abraham de Veer, Dutch gov-gen of Suriname (1822-28), dies at 71
1839 - Giuseppe Valadier, Italian architect/archaeologist, dies at 76
1851 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist (Frankenstein), dies at 53
1869 - Frederik W Conrad, hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer, dies at 68
1871 - Alexander Nikoleyevich Serov, composer, dies at 51
1873 - Matthew Maury, hydrographer, dies
1875 - William Sterndale Bennett, composer, dies at 58
1877 - Joseph-Leon Gatayes, composer, dies at 71
1878 - George Cruikshank, English illustrator (Grimm), dies at 85
1883 - Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author, dies
1889 - Joseph Gungl, composer, dies at 78
1902 - Salomon Jaoassohn, composer, dies at 70
1903 - George G Stokes, British physicist/pres Royal Society, dies at 83
1904 - Peter PM Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch historian/writer, dies at 76
1905 - Oswald Aschenbach, German painter, dies at 77
1908 - Carlos I, King of Portugal (1889-1908), assassinated by mob at 44
1910 - Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer (Irrgarten Der Liebe), dies at 44
1916 - Anton Simon, composer, dies at 65
1922 - William Desmond Taylor, director/actor (Broken Coin), dies at 49
1929 - August Otto Halm, composer, dies at 59
1937 - Marguerite Audoux, writer, dies
1944 - Martin Lunssens, composer, dies at 72
1944 - Piet Mondrian, abstract painter (Composition in Blue), dies at 71
1945 - Johan Huizinga, Dutch culture historian (Homo Ludens), dies at 72
1946 - Hans Betghe, writer, dies at 70
1949 - Herbert Stothart, composer, dies at 63
1950 - Harry Blomberg, Swedish author (Jacobs Dr”m), dies at 56
1954 - Julius P Hoste, Belg minister/newspaper publisher, dies at 69
1957 - Friedrich von Paulus, German field marshall (Stalingrad), dies at 66
1958 - Clinton Joseph Davisson, dies
1959 - Madame Sul-To-Wan, [Conley], actress (Birth of a Nation), dies at 85
1966 - Buster Keaton, [Joseph Francis], US comic (General), dies at 69
1966 - Hedda Hopper, [Elda Furry], US gossip columnist, dies at 75
1966 - Nicholas Piantanida, sets balloon flight record & dies in descent
1966 - William Harrigan, actor (Invisible Man, Girl in 419), dies at 71
1967 - Ernie Bromley, cricketer (2 Tests for Australia 1933-34), dies
1967 - Langston Hughes, poet/translator (Weary Blues), dies on 65th birthday
1968 - Lawson Little, amateur golfer (US/Brit Opens 1934,35), dies at 57
1970 - Blaz Arnic, composer, dies at 69
1971 - Jim A J Christy, cricket (10 Tests for S Af, 638 runs at 34 33), dies
1974 - Lynda Ann Healy, 1st Bundy murder victim, abducted in Seattle
1974 - Marieluise Fleiáer, writer, dies at 71
1975 - Richard Wattis, actor (Dick & Duchess, Liberace), dies at 62
1976 - Edgar Pangborn, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy), dies at 66
1976 - Werner C Heisenberg, physicist (Nobel 1932, field theory), dies at 74
1977 - Edmond [Moore] Hamilton, US, sci-fi author (Danger Planet), dies at 7
1979 - Mort Marshall, actor (Cully-Dumplings), dies at 60
1980 - Jack Bailey, TV host (Queen for a Day), dies at 72
1980 - Romolo Valli, actor (Boom, La Viaccia), dies at 54
1981 - Donald W Douglas, US aviation pionieer/builder, dies at 88
1981 - Ernst Pepping, composer, dies at 79
1981 - Nils Geirr Tveitt, composer, dies at 72
1981 - Wanda Hendrix, actress (Sierra, Ride the Pink Horse), dies
1983 - Tullio Campagnolo, Italian bicycle manufacturer, dies
1986 - Alva Myrdal, Swedish Nobel peace prize winner (1982), dies at 84
1986 - Dick James, Beatles' music publisher (1962-70), dies in London at 58
1987 - Erin Westmore, makeup artist (Hollywood Backstage), dies at 82
1988 - Heather O'Rourke, (Poltergeist) star, dies of intestinal ailment at 1
1988 - Reinder Zwolsman, Dutch businessman, dies at 75
1991 - Carol Dempster, actress (Sally of Sawdust, America), dies at 89
1991 - H J van Ommeren-Averink, Dutch MP (CPN), dies
1991 - James G MacDonald, cartoon voice (Mickey Mouse), dies at 84
1991 - Phil Watson, NHL coach (NY Rangers), dies
1992 - George Berkeley, actor (Life Stinks, Capts & Kings), dies at 70
1992 - Irving R Kaufman, federal judge (Rosenberg Case), dies at 81
1994 - Fouad Fram al-Boustani, Lebanese historian (Rawaeaa), dies at 88
1994 - Olan Soule, radio voice (Super Friends), dies of lung cancer at 83
1995 - George Abbot, director (Damn Yankees), dies at 107
1995 - John Smith, CEO (Liverpool FC), dies at 74
1995 - Michael Caesar, pope of pot, dies of liver cancer at 52
1996 - Clive Burton, neuropathologist, dies at 54
1997 - Herb Caen, columnist, Lung cancer, dies at 80
1997 - Mitchell Goodman, writer, dies at 71
1997 - Peter Morris, historian of France, dies at 50
1997 - Thelma Moss, psychologist, dies at 78
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