Births
1563 - Franciscus Gomarus, [Fran‡ois Gomaer], Dutch theologist/opera singer
1566 - Alessandro Piccinini, composer
1609 - Wenzel E Frst von Lobkowitz, Austrian chencellor (-1674)
1616 - William Sancroft, Archbishop (Canterbury)
1624 - Arnold Geulincx, South Netherland, philosopher (About Virtue)
1628 - George Villiers, 2nd duke of Buckingham England
1647 - Konrad Hoffler, composer
1687 - [Johann] Balthasar Neumann, German architect, baptized
1694 - Joseph Joachim Benedict Munster, composer
1697 - Johann Joachim Quantz, German royal flautist/composer
1708 - Georg D Ehret, German/English cartoonist
1710 - Vigilio Blasio Faitello, composer
1719 - Magnus G Lichtwer, German writer (Žsopischer Fabeln)
1724 - Ignaz Franz Xaver Kurzinger, composer
1752 - Joseph Matthias Kracher, composer
1756 - Josef Preindl, composer
1760 - Franz Xaver Partsch, composer
1775 - Walter Savage Landor, Warwick, critic/writer (Imaginary Conversation)
1781 - A v Chamisso, writer
1789 - George Augustus Kollmann, composer
1797 - Edwin Vose Sumner, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1814 - Jean-Baptist Capronnier, French/Belgian glass painter
1816 - Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1822 - John Basil Turchin, [Ivan Turchinoff], Brig General (Union volunteers
1829 - Alfred Cummings, Georgia, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1910
1830 - James G Blaine, US, minister of foreign affairs
1834 - Lord Avebury, [John Lubbock], British banker/politician
1835 - Oliver Edwards, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1904
1841 - Alfred Townsend George, Civil War journalist, died in 1914
1844 - Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing, German gen/gov-gen of Belgium (1914-17
1846 - Francis H Bradley, British philosopher (neo-idealism)
1853 - Leland Hone, cricketer (England keeper 1879 without county experience
1861 - Charles Martin Tornow Loeffler, Mulhouse Alsace, composer
1862 - Walter Johannes Damrosch, composer
1865 - Samuel Pl'h Naber, Dutch rear-admiral/librarian
1866 - Gelett Burgess, author (Purple Cow)
1871 - Seymour Hicks, St Helier Jersey, actor-manager (Scrooge)
1871 - Wilfred Lucas, actor (Pardon Us, Chump at Oxford)
1873 - Rose Melville, actress (Sis)
1882 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, New Hyde Park NY, 32nd Pres (D) (1933-1945
1885 - John Henry Towers, aviator/naval hero
1892 - Charles Trowbridge Haubiel, composer
1892 - Grigore Gafencu, Roman minister of Foreign affairs (1938-39)
1894 - Boris III, czar of Bulgaria (1918-43)
1894 - Marcel Canneel, Flemish painter (Reuzenstoet)
1898 - Alfred Schl„ppi, Switzerland, 4 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1924)
1899 - Max Theiler, English/US microbiologist (Nobel 1951)
1900 - Isaak Iosifovich Dunayevsky, composer
1900 - Martita Hunt, Argentina, actress (Man in Grey, Becket)
1900 - Sandy Powell, Rotherham England, costume designer (Rob Roy)
1901 - Earl of Huntingdon, mural painter
1901 - H E Nossak, writer
1902 - Elise Cavanna, actress (Pharmacist, Dentist, Barber Shop)
1902 - Nikolaus Pevsner, Engl, art historian (The Buildings of England)
1903 - G Evelyn Hutchinson, British zoologist (Treatise on Limnology)
1906 - Greta Nissen, actress (Ambassador Bill)
1909 - Mihaly Hajou, composer
1909 - Richard Hearne, Norwich England, actor (Capt Horatio Hornblower)
1909 - Saul David Alinsky, Chic Ill, radical writer (John L Lewis)
1910 - Frans Dohmen, union leader (Dutch Catholic Mineworker's Union)
1911 - Alexander George Ogston, biochemist
1911 - Hugh Marlowe, Phila Pa, actor (Ellery Queen)
1911 - Roy Eldridge, Pitts Pa, jazz trumpeter (Gene Krupa, Artie Shaw)
1912 - Barbara Tuchman, US, historian/author (Pulitzer, Guns of August)
1912 - Jadwiga Wajsowna-Marcinkiewicz, discus thrower (Oly-bronze-1932)
1913 - Dicky Fuller, cricketer (one Test WI v England 1935, 1, 0-12)
1913 - Percy Thrower, English radio host
1914 - David Wayne, Traverse City Mich, actor (Andromeda Strain, Adams Rib)
1914 - John Ireland, Vancouver BC, actor (Rawhide, Gunfight at OK Corral)
1914 - Louis Osman, artist architect goldsmith medallist/craftsman
1915 - Dorothy Dell, actor (Little Miss Marker, Wharf Angel)
1915 - John D Profumo, England, politician (C)
1915 - Pierre Wissmer, Swiss composer/theory (Capitaine Bruno)
1918 - David Opatoshu, NYC, actor (Bonino, Secret Empire, Masada)
1918 - Jarl Andr‚ Bjerke, [Bernhard Borge], Norwegian poet/writer
1919 - Robert Suter, composer
1920 - George Skibine, Russ/US dancer/choreographer (Tragedy in Verona)
1920 - Patrick Heron, abstract painter
1921 - Bernie Leighton, West Haven Ct, orch leader (Chance of a Lifetime)
1922 - Dick Martin, Detroit Mich, actor/comedian (Laugh-In, Carbon Copy)
1922 - Pal Jardanyi, composer
1922 - Dick Martin
1924 - Margaret Beda Nicholson, author (No Medals for the Major)
1925 - Dorothy Malone, Chic, actress (At Gunpoint, Night & Day, Peyton Place
1926 - Ruth Brown, Portsmouth Va, actress (Leona-Hello Larry, Checking In)
1927 - Olof Palme, Stockholm, PM of Sweden (1969-76, 1982-86) assassinated
1928 - Andrew Salkey, author editor/broadcaster
1928 - Harold Prince, US producer/director (West Side Story, Evita)
1928 - Mitch Leigh, composer
1929 - Hugh Tayfield, cricketer (celebrated S African off-spinner 1949-60)
1929 - Viscount Long
1930 - Magnus Adem Malan, South African minister of Defense (1980- )
1931 - Gene Hackman, Calif, actor (Bonnie & Clyde, Under Fire, Superman)
1931 - Jack Bowman, Chief Constable (Tayside)
1931 - Shirley Hazzard, Australian author (Transit of Venus)
1931 - Stewart B McKinney, (Rep-R-CT, 1971- )
1931 - Gene Hackman
1932 - Kazuo Inamori, Japanese business executive (Kyocera Ceramics Co)
1933 - Bob Muddimer, CEO (Ranks Hovis McDougall)
1933 - Louis Rukeyser, financial whiz (Wall Street Week)
1933 - Richard Brautigan, Tacoma Wash, novelist/poet (Trout Fishing...)
1933 - Richard Dufallo, Chicago Ill, clarinetist/conductor
1933 - Louis Rukeyser
1934 - Tammy Grimes
1934 - Tammy Grimes, Lynn Mass, actress (Can't Stop the Music)
1935 - John George Hughes, bishop of Kensington
1935 - Martin Taylor, former vice-chairman, Hanson
1935 - Richard Brautigan
1937 - Boris Spassky, USSR, world chess champion (1969-72)
1937 - Vanessa Redgrave, London, actress (Blow-Up, Julia, Orient Express)
1937 - Boris Spassky
1937 - Vanessa Redgrave
1938 - Marcel P A van Dam, Dutch politician/CEO (VARA Radio/TV)
1938 - Marlies van Alcmaer, [Smal], Dutch actress/director (Bridge too Far)
1939 - Eleanor Smeal, feminist/pres (NOW)
1939 - Frank R Wolf, (Rep-R-VA, 1981- )
1939 - Nick Gaselee, racehorse trainer
1940 - David Johnson, composer
1941 - Dick Cheney, (Rep-R-Wyo), Bush's secretary of defense (1989-93)
1941 - Joe Terranoua, rocker (Danny & The Juniors)
1942 - Andres, [Dries Holten], Dutch singer (Sandra & Andres)
1942 - Christopher Howes, Crown Estate Second Commissioner
1942 - Dave Brown, cricketer (Warwicks pace bowler, played 26X for England)
1942 - Heidi Brhl, German actress/singer (M„dels vom Immenhof)
1942 - Marty Balin, Cincinnati, singer (Jefferson Starship-Miracles)
1942 - Marty Balin
1943 - Davy Johnson, baseball manager (NY Mets)
1943 - Sandy Deane, rocker
1944 - John Thornton, English chocolate factory/multi-millionaire
1944 - Lord Westwood
1944 - Lynn Harrell, NYC, cellist
1945 - Michael Dorris, writer
1945 - Robert Wittinger, composer
1946 - Lord Mackay of Drumadoon, British QC
1947 - Martin Christoph Redel, composer
1947 - Steve Marriott, rock guitarist/vocalist (Humble Pie-Eat It, Faces)
1948 - Earl of Huntingdon
1948 - Nicholas Broomfield, director/editor (Dark Obsession, Heidi Fleiss)
1949 - William King, Alabama, soul trumpeteer (Commodores-Easy)
1950 - Bruce Howard Lidington, actor (Sword of Valiant, Mosses)
1950 - Silvia Bertolaccini, LPGA golfer
1951 - Bobby Stokes, footballer
1951 - Charles S Dutton, Balt Md, actor (Alien 3, Crocodile Dundee 2, Roc)
1951 - Clifford Leon Anderson, rocker (Cure)
1951 - Marv Ross, rocker (Quarterflash)
1951 - Phil Collins, England, singer/drummer (Genesis-Against All Odds)
1951 - Trevor Laughlin, cricketer (Australian all-rounder 1978-79)
1951 - Phil Collins
1954 - Alides Hidding, singer/guitarist (Time Bandits)
1955 - Curtis Strange, Norfolk VA, PGA golfer (1989 US Open)
1955 - Judith Tarr, US, sci-fi author (Isle of Glass, Ars Magica)
1955 - Michael Thompson, guitarist (Afterburn, Fresh, Sahara, Gridlock'd)
1957 - William Payne Stewart, Springfield MO, PGA golfer (1983 Walt Disney)
1958 - Brett Butler, Montgomery Ala, comedienne (Grace-Grace Under Fire)
1958 - Rob van Zandvoort, Dutch rock vocalist/keyboardist (Jack of Hearts)
1958 - Brett Butler
1959 - Jody Watley, Chic, dancer (Solid Gold)/singer (Looking For a New Love
1960 - Tony O'Dell, Pasadena Calif, actor (Alan Pinkard-Head of the Class)
1961 - Ranjit Madurasinghe, cricketer (3 Tests for Sri Lanka 1988-92)
1964 - Cheryl Akemi Toma, Pearl City Hawaii, Miss Hawaii-America (1991)
1965 - Julie McCullough, Honolulu Hi, playmate (Feb 86)/actr (Growing Pains)
1966 - Danielle Goyette, ice hockey forward (Canada, Oly-98)
1966 - Daphne Ashbrook, Long Beach Calif, actress (Liz-Our Family Honor)
1967 - Bill Leverty, Richmond Va, guitarist (Firehouse-Love of a Lifetime)
1968 - Bob Nardella, hockey defenseman (Team Italy 1998)
1968 - Felipe de Borbon, Prince of Asturias, heir to Spanish throne
1970 - Edwin de Kruyf/Kruijff, soccer player (FC Utrecht, FC Groningen)
1970 - Hans Spark, soccer player (RKC)
1970 - Oleg Khmyl, NHL defenseman (Belarus, Oly-98)
1970 - Scott Levins, Spokane, NHL right wing (Ottawa Senators)
1971 - Brent Moss, WLAF running back (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Chris Slade, NFL outside linebacker (New England Patriots)
1971 - Derek Allen, NFL/WLAF offensive linebacker (NY Giants, Rhein Fire)
1971 - Kevin Knox, WLAF receiver (Rhein Fire)
1971 - Kimo Von Oelhoffen, NFL defensive tackle (Cin Bengals)
1971 - Milko Pieren, Dutch soccer player (Sparta)
1971 - Quentin Neujahr, NFL center (Baltimore Ravens, Cleve Browns)
1971 - Takeshi Yamanaka, hockey defenseman (Team Japan 1998)
1971 - Trent Klatt, Robbinsdale, NHL right wing (Phila Flyers)
1972 - Burt Thornton, CFL receiver (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1972 - Chris Simon, Wawa, NHL left wing (Colorado Avalanche)
1972 - Jill McGill, Denver CO, LPGA golfer (1995 British Open-2nd)
1973 - Brad Yamaoka, CFL running back (BC Lions)
1973 - Holly Noelle Roehl, Miss Indiana USA (1996)
1973 - Jalen Rose, NBA guard (Indiana Pacers)
1973 - Jimmy Oliver, NFL wide receiver (SD Chargers)
1973 - Sharone Wright, NBA center/forward (Toronto Raptors)
1974 - Christian Bale, Wales, actor (Empire of the Sun, Little Women)
1974 - Martina Jerant, Windsor Ontario, basketball center (Olympics-96)
1974 - Robert Rollins, cricketer (big-hitting Essex wicketkeeper-batsman)
1976 - Florian Keller, Munchen GER, hockey player (Team Germany, Rosenheim)
1978 - Lnd Girchoukevitch, NHL goaltender (Belarus, Oly-98)
1979 - Diva Zappa, daughter of Frank
1979 - Karen Smith, Australian field hockey midfielder/halfback (Olympics-96
Events
1077 - Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV
1349 - Günther of Schwarzburg chosen German anti-king
1349 - Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred
1467 - Battle at Velke Kostolany: Hung king Mátyás Corvinus beats Bratríci
1487 - Bell chimes invented
1522 - Duke of Albany takes captured French back to Scotland
1544 - Adrian van Goes becomes land advocate of Holland
1592 - Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII
1647 - King Charles I handed over to English parliament
1647 - Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for £400,
1648 - Spain & Netherlands sign Peace of Münster, ending Tachtigjarige War
1667 - Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia & Poland sign peace treaty
1713 - England & Netherlands sign 2nd anti-French boundary treaty
1774 - Capt Cook reaches 71° 10' S, 1820 km from S pole (record)
1781 - Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland
1790 - Lifeboat 1st tested at sea, by Mr Greathead, the inventor
1797 - Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks
1798 - Rep Matthew Lyon (Vt) spits in face of Rep Roger Griswold (Ct) in US House of Representatives,
1800 - US population: 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%)
1804 - Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River
1806 - Prussia takes possession of Hanover
1815 - Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson's 6500 vols
1818 - Keats composes his sonnet, "When I Have Fears"
1820 - Edward Bransfield aboard Williams discovers Antarctica (UK claim)
1835 - Richard Lawrence misfires at Pres Andrew Jackson in Washington DC
1847 - Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco
1853 - Emperor Napoleon III marries Eugénie Maria de Montijo y de Guzman
1854 - 1st election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast
1858 - Charles Hallé founds Hallé Orchestra in Manchester
1858 - William Wells Brown published 1st Black drama, "Leap to Freedom"
1862 - US Navy's 1st ironclad warship (Monitor) launched
1877 - Storm flood ravages Dutch coastal provinces
1879 - French President MacMahon resigns
1883 - England team presented with ashes of a bail after Sydney Test
1888 - Harry Moses 297 not out for NSW against Victoria
1889 - John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48" (120cm) telescope
1889 - Victoria beat NSW after following on (NSW all out 63 needed 76)
1892 - Bobby Abel carries his bat for 132* for England in SCG Test
1892 - Capt Lugard occupies Uganda's King Mwanga's hide out
1894 - Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit
1894 - US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Adm Benham
1895 - C J Eady (Tas) 1st Australian to score twin centuries (v Vic)
1895 - SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed
1895 - Tasmania beat Victoria for 1st F-C victory in 41 years
1911 - 1st rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba
1913 - House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill
1915 - German submarine attack on Le Havre
1915 - No 10 batsman F W Hyett scores century on debut, Vic v Tas
1917 - 1st jazz record recorded (Dark Town Strutters Ball)
1919 - Reds hire Pat Moran as manager as Christy Mathewson, is still in France with US Army
1920 - Québec's Joe Malone sets NHL record of 7 goals in a game
1921 - French rapist-murderer Henri-Désiré Landru sentenced to death
1922 - Ted McDonald takes 8-58 in big Victorian win over NSW
1922 - World Law Day, 1st celebrated
1924 - Ponsford scores second 110 of the game in Vic win over NSW
1925 - Turkish govt throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople
1927 - Left wins national election in Thüringen
1928 - 1st radio telephone connection between Netherlands & US
1928 - Bradman scores 134 not out (225 mins, 13 fours) NSW v Vic
1928 - Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude," premieres in NYC
1930 - Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Banya," premieres in Leningrad
1931 - Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" premieres at Los Angeles Theater
1932 - Grimmett 7-116 in South Africa 1st innings at Adelaide Oval
1933 - "Lone Ranger" begins a 21-year run on ABC radio
1933 - Adolph Hitler named German Chancellor, forms govt with Von Papen
1933 - Grimmett takes 7-86 for SA in Qld 2nd inn, 13-135 for match
1934 - 1st theatrical presentation sponsored by US government, NYC
1934 - Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 yrs 298 days
1934 - Hitler proclamation on German unified states
1935 - Ezra Pound meets Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos"
1936 - New owners of Boston Braves ask newspapermen to pick a new nickname
1936 - Victoria need 442 to win against NSW, but lose, all out for 415 They pick "The Bees" it doesn'
1937 - 2nd of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov & 16 others sentenced to death
1939 - Heavy after shocks destroy some of Chile
1939 - Hitler calls for extermination of European Jews
1940 - Benjamin Britten's "Lesson Illuminations" premieres in London
1940 - Cor Jongert wins 6th Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race
1940 - Hassett's second 122 of the game for Vic can't stop a NSW win
1941 - Australian troops conquer Derna Libya
1942 - Japanese troops land on Ambon
1943 - 6 British Mosquito's daylight bomb Berlin
1943 - German assault on French in Tunisia
1943 - German under officers shot down in Haarlem Neth
1943 - Hitler promotes Friedrich von Paul to general-fieldmarshal
1943 - Illegal opposition newspaper Loyal begins publishing
1943 - USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean
1944 - US invades Majuro, Marshall Islands
1945 - "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7,700 die
1945 - German ship "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed, 4,800 killed
1946 - 1st issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime
1948 - 5th Winter Olympic games open in St Moritz, Switzerland
1950 - "Robert Montgomery Presents" dramatic anthology premieres on NBC TV
1950 - Pres Truman orders development of H-bomb [or 0131?]
1951 - Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio
1952 - Lehmer verifies: 2^521-1 & 2^607-1 (183 ciphers) Mersenne-prime #
1952 - Paul Creston's 4th Symphony, premieres
1954 - Belgium ends trade agreement with USSR
1954 - Italy's Fanfani govt resigns
1956 - Elvis Presley records his version of "Blue Suede Shoes"
1956 - KRMA TV channel 6 in Denver, CO (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - KTXS TV channel 12 in Sweetwater-Abilene, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Martin Luther King Jr's home bombed
1957 - US Congress accepts "Eisenhower-doctrine"
1958 - 1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas Tx
1958 - Baseball announces players & coaches rather than fans pick all stars
1958 - Dore Schary's "Sunrise at Campobello," premieres in NYC
1958 - House of Lords passes bill allowing women in
1959 - Australia 1-200 1st day 4th Test v England, Adelaide Oval
1959 - Paul Hindemith's symphony "Pittsburgh," premieres
1960 - CIA OKs Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft (Oxcart)
1960 - Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands
1960 - Riot curtails third days play at Port-Of-Spain WI v England
1960 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss
1960 - US male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins
1961 - Bobby Darin is youngest performer to headline a TV special on NBC
1961 - JFK asks for an Alliance for Progress & Peace Corp
1961 - KAET TV channel 8 in Phoenix, AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 - Lance Gibbs takes hat-trick (Mackay, Grout, Misson) at Adelaide
1962 - UN General Assembly censures Portugal (because of Angola)
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 - 2 members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid collapsed duri
1964 - Military coup of Gen Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam
1964 - Ranger 6 launched; makes perfect flight to Moon, but cameras fail
1965 - "The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis hits #3
1965 - State funeral of Winston Churchill
1966 - -19°F (-28°C), Corinth, Mississippi (state record)
1966 - -27°F (-33°C), New Market, Alabama (state record)
1966 - Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2:05.2)
1966 - Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 11th string quartet
1968 - Bobby Goldsboro records his biggest hit, "Honey"
1968 - Vietcong launch Tet-offensive on US embassy in Saigon
1969 - Beatles perform their last gig together, a free concert
1969 - US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere
1971 - "Ari" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 19 performances
1971 - Dennis Lillee takes 5-84 in his 1st Test bowl, v England
1971 - UCLA starts 88 basketball game win streak
1972 - Bloody Sunday: Brit soldiers shoot on catholics in Londonderry, 13 die
1972 - Pakistan withdraws from Commonwealth
1973 - 1st Kiss concert (Queens NY)
1973 - 26th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 5-4 at NY Rangers
1973 - Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all counts
1973 - KISS plays their 1st show (Coventry Club in Queens NY)
1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1976 - 1st-class debut of Dav Whatmore, in Johannesburg
1976 - George Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977)
1976 - William E Colby, ends term as 10th director of CIA
1977 - 8th (final) part of "Roots" is most-watched entertainment show ever
1977 - Allan Border scores 36 in his 1st-class innings (NSW v Qld)
1977 - Edward W Stack replaces Paul Kerr president of Hall of Fame
1978 - Addie Joss & Larry MacPhail elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1978 - Mutual Broadcasting Network begins airing Larry King Show on radio
1979 - Rhodesia agrees to new constitution
1980 - Edward Albee's "Lady from Dubuque," premieres in NYC
1981 - 8th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers wins
1982 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners
1983 - Hilbert van Thumb becomes European skating champ
1983 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Mazda of Deer Creek Golf Classic
1983 - Superbowl XVII: Wash Red Skins beat Miami Dolphins, 27-17 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: John Rigg
1988 - Hansie Cronje gets a pair in 2nd 1st-class game (OFS v N Tvl)
1989 - 16th American Music Award: Randy Travis & George Michael wins
1989 - 5 pharoah sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor
1989 - Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter
1989 - Last day of 1st class cricket for Dav Whatmore
1989 - Olympian, Bruce Kimball, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk
1992 - Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) lands
1993 - 100,000n Europeans demonstrate against fascism & racism
1993 - 67th Australian Women's Tennis Open: Monica Seles beat Graf (46 63 62)
1994 - 68th Australian Women's Tennis Open: S Graf beats A S Vicario (60 62)
1994 - 82nd Australian Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Todd Martin (76 64 64)
1994 - Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.76)
1994 - Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wkts
1994 - Superbowl XXVIII: Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 30-13 in Atlanta Superbowl MVP: Emmitt Sm
1995 - 22nd American Music Award: Boyz II Men & Ace of Base win
1995 - Belgium's TV channel 2 in Flanders goes on the air
1995 - Car bomb explodes in Algiers, 42 killed/296 injured
1995 - Kevin Eubanks officially becomes band leader of "Tonight Show"
1997 - Minuteman III launches
1998 - All-Star Fla Marlin catcher Darren Daulton, retires
1998 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Indianapolis IN on WNAP 93.1 FM
1998 - Paul Simon's "The Capeman," premieres
2000 - NFL Pro Bowl
Deaths
1156 - Herman van Horn, bishop of Utrecht (1151/52-56), dies
1384 - Louis van Male, count of Flanders/Nevers/R‚thel, dies
1393 - Aimery Poitiers, French nobleman, burned at royal ball
1393 - Yvain, son of earl of Foix, burned at royal ball
1584 - Jonker Wigbold van Ewsum, mister of Nienoord, dies in battle
1584 - Pieter Jansz Pourbus, Flemish painter, dies
1644 - William Chillingworth, Engl theologian, Cambridge Platonist, dies
1649 - Charles I, King of Great Britain (1625-49), beheaded for treason
1730 - Peter II Alekseyevitch, emperor of Russia (1727-30), dies at 14
1774 - Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer, dies at 69
1774 - Jean-Pierre Guignon, composer, dies at 71
1797 - Johann Abraham Sixt, composer, dies at 40
1816 - Reinier Vinkeles, Dutch engraver/cartoonist/art collector, dies at 74
1827 - Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer, dies at 53
1838 - Osceola, chief of Seminole indians, dies in jail
1860 - Francesco Antonio Norberto Pinto, composer, dies at 44
1881 - Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens, Flemish composer, dies at 58
1888 - Asa Gray, US botanist (Flora of North America), dies at 77
1890 - Karl Merz, composer, dies at 53
1897 - John Cottam, cricket (Test for Aust 1897, no Sheffield matches), dies
1900 - Vittorio Bersezio, [Carlo Nugelli], Italian playwright, dies at 71
1925 - Jakab Gyula Major, composer, dies at 66
1925 - John F Mellaerts, Flemish social founder (Boerenbond), dies at 79
1927 - Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer, dies at 64
1928 - Douglas Haig, Brit fieldmarshal (Sudan/Boer war/WW I), dies at 66
1942 - Vasily Pavovlich Kalafati, composer, dies at 72
1945 - Gottlieb J Haberlandt, Hungarian/German botanist, dies at 90
1945 - William Busch, composer, dies at 43
1947 - Frederick F Blackman, English botanist, dies at 80
1948 - Herb Pennock, pitcher (NY Yankees)/GM (Phillies), dies
1948 - Mahatma Ghandi, murdered by Hindu extremists in India
1948 - Orville Wright, US aviation pioneer, dies at 76
1951 - Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor (Porsche), dies at 75
1953 - Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 68
1956 - Gerrit Mannoury, mathematician/philosopher, dies at 88
1956 - Jane Seymour, actress (Young Mr Bobbin), dies at 56
1957 - Grigore Gafencu, Romanian min of Foreign Affairs (1938-39), dies at 6
1958 - Earnest H Heinkel, German airplane builder (WW II), dies at 70
1963 - Fran‡ois Poulenc, Fren composer (Litanies … Vierge noire), dies at 74
1963 - P F "Plum" Warner, cricketer (England mgr during Bodyline tour), dies
1964 - Berthold Altaner, German church historian, dies at 80
1965 - Vic Jackson, cricketer (NSW/Leicerstershire off-spinner), dies in car
1967 - Lee Morgan, actor (Dungeons of Harrow, Last Rebel), dies
1968 - Tsugouharu T Foujita, Japanese/French painter, dies at 81
1969 - Allan Welsh Dulles, US diplomat/director (CIA 1953-61), dies at 75
1969 - Dominique G Pire, clergyman, (Europe village Nobel 1958), dies at 58
1970 - Malcolm Keen, English actor (Uncle Chris-Mama), dies at 82
1972 - Karel Boleslav Jirak, composer, dies at 81
1973 - Jack McGowan, actor (On Our Selection), dies at 54
1974 - Bill Whitty, cricketer (37 wkts v South Africa 1910-11 series), dies
1975 - Boris Blacher, German composer (Purloined Letter), dies at 72
1976 - Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller, SF Blues Great, dies at 80
1976 - Mance Lipscomb, rocker, dies at 80
1976 - Percy Tyson "Plum" Lewis, cricketer (pair in only Test for S Af), die
1980 - Lil Dagover, actress (Destiny, Spiders), dies at 82
1980 - Professor Longhair, king of New Orleans music, dies at 61
1982 - F‚lix L V L J Labisse, French painter (libidoscaphes), dies at 76
1982 - Lightning Hopkins, rocker, dies of cancer at 69
1982 - Riccardo Nielsen, composer, dies at 73
1982 - Stanley Holloway, comedian (My Fair Lady, Our Man Higgins), dies at 9
1983 - Joan Valerie, actress (Pier 13), dies of pneumonia
1983 - [Dallas] Mack/McCord Reynolds, sci-fi author (Earth War), dies at 65
1985 - Ken Mayers, actor (Robbie Robertson-Space Patrol), dies at 67
1986 - Ticker Freeman, pianist (Dinah Shore Show), dies at 74
1987 - Angelo Rutherford, actor (Willie-Gentle Ben), dies at 32
1987 - Ken Drake, actor (Crime & Punishment USA), dies
1988 - Cornelia D "Corry" Spark, Dutch cabaret performer, dies at 85
1991 - John McIntire, actor (Virginian, Psycho), dies of emphysema at 83
1993 - Taikichiro Mori, Japanese real estate developer, dies at 88
1994 - Bahjat Talhouni, PM of Jordan (1960-62, 64-65, 67-69, 69-70), dies
1994 - Byron "Wild Child" Gipson, blues Singer, dies at 64
1994 - Ernestine "Tiny" Davis, jazz vocalist/trumpeter, dies at 86
1994 - Jan L N Schaefer, Dutch undersecretary of Housing (PvdA), dies at 53
1995 - George H Poyser, English soccer player (Manchester City), dies at 84
1995 - George Richard James, saxophonist, dies at 88
1995 - Gerald M Durrell, British zoologist/author (Mockery Bird), dies at 70
1996 - Bob Thiele, record producer, dies at 73
1996 - Guy Doleman, actor (Deadly Bees, Idol, Thunderball), dies at 72
1998 - Ricky Sanderson, stabbed 16-year old girl in NC, executed at 38
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