Births
1503 - Wilhelm von Grumbach, German lt col
1549 - Allesandre Spontone, composer
1563 - Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, English prime minister (1598-1612)
1611 - Felician Schwab, composer
1653 - Georg Muffat, composer
1679 - Johan Runius, Swedish poet (Dudaim)
1755 - Frederico Fiorillo, Ital's violist/composer
1757 - Ignaz J Pleyel, Austria composer/piano builder (Piano method)
1763 - Christian Gottlob Saupe, composer
1765 - Christiane Vulpius, wife of Johann W von Goethe
1765 - Friedrich Ludwig Seidel, composer
1769 - Joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner, composer
1771 - Ferdinando Paer, composer
1776 - John George Schetky, composer
1780 - Karl von Clausewitz, Prussian strategist
1790 - Salomon J Rappoport, Czech rabbi/learned (Ereg miliem)
1801 - Brigham Young, painter/religious leader (Mormon church)/polygamist
1804 - Mikhail Ivan Glinka, Novosspaskoye Russia, composer (Jota Aragonesa)
1806 - John Buchanan Floyd, Ex-Sect of War (Union), died in 1863
1825 - John Hunt Morgan, Brig General (Confederate cavalry commander)
1826 - Carl Bechstein, German piano inventor
1826 - Hermann Zopff, composer
1831 - John Bell Hood, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1844 - Galusha Pennypacker, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1916
1848 - Otto Valdemar Malling, composer
1858 - William W Campbell, Canadian poet (Beyond the Hills of Dream)
1862 - Ant¢nio JdC Feij¢, Portuguese diplomat/poet (Bailatas)
1878 - John Masefield, England, 15th poet laureate (Salt-Water Ballads)
1882 - John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Abraham Lincoln)
1886 - Ernst Kurth, Austrian/Swiss musicologist
1887 - Clive Brook, London England, actor/director (List of Adrian Messenger
1890 - Frank Morgan, [Francis P Wupperman], NYC, actor (Annie Get Your Gun)
1892 - Amanullah, emir/king of Afghanistan (1919-28)
1892 - Samuel L M Barlow, composer
1898 - Curtis Stevens, US, 2 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1932)
1898 - Edgar "Cookie" Fairchild, NYC, bandleader (Jerry Colonna Show)
1898 - Lieb Glantz, composer
1898 - Molly Picon, NYC, Yiddish actress (Milk & Honey)
1899 - Werner Janssen, NYC, conductor/composer (New Years Eve in NY)
1901 - John W Van Duren, playwright (I Remember Mama)
1903 - Percy William Whitlock, composer
1905 - Dinora de Carvalho, composer
1905 - Robert Newton, England, actor (Henry V, Around the World in 80 Days)
1907 - Frank A Whittle, England inventor (jet engine)
1908 - Percy Edwards, animal imitator
1909 - Szymon Goldberg, Polish/US violinist/conductor (Neth Chamber orch)
1911 - Gertrude Michael, AL, actress (Cleopatra, Menace, Club Havana)
1915 - John Randolph, NYC, actor (King Kong, Lucan, Lucas Tanner, Angie)
1919 - Boris Lazarevich Klyuzner, composer
1921 - Nelson Riddle, Oradell NJ, musical conductor (Batman, Frank Sinatra)
1921 - Nelson Riddle
1922 - Abdul Rashid, Pakistan, field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960)
1922 - Joan Caulfield, East Orange NJ, actress (Liz-My Favorite Husband)
1922 - Joan Copeland, [Miller], NYC, actress (Roseland, A Little Sex)
1924 - Paula Hinton, dancer
1925 - Richard Erdman, Enid Ok, actor (Stalag 17, Anything Goes)
1926 - Andy Griffith
1926 - Andy Griffith, Mount Airy NC, actor (Andy Griffith Show, Matlock)
1926 - Marilyn Monroe, [Norma Jean Mortenson], LA, actress (Some Like It Hot
1927 - Colleen McCullough, writer
1928 - Bob Monkhouse, Kent England, comedian (Bonkers)
1928 - Georgi Timofeyevich Dobrovolsky, Odessa, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11)
1929 - Yehudi Wyner, composer
1930 - Edward Woodward, Croydon England, actor (Breaker Morant, Wickerman)
1930 - Matt Poore, cricketer (NZ batsman in 14 tests 1953-56 average 15.43)
1930 - Ty Hardin, Ill, actor (Berserk, PT 109) [or Jan 1]
1930 - Edward Woodward
1932 - Francis Cameron, cricketer (NZ pace bowler took 61 wickets 1961-65)
1932 - Philo [Rolf] Bregstein, Dutch writer (Dingen die niet Voorbijgaan)
1933 - Alan "the Horse" Ameche, Wisc, NFL fullback (Baltimore Colts)
1933 - Charles Wilson, (Rep-D-TX, 1973- )
1933 - Ian Sinclair, cricketer (2 Tests NZ v WI 1956, bowling average 120.00
1934 - Pat Boone, Florida, singer/actor (April Love, Cross & Switchblade)
1934 - Peter Masterson, Houston Texas, actor (Ambush Bay)
1934 - Sylvia Syms, London, actress (Asylum, Moonraker, Shirley Valentine)
1934 - Willy Roggeman, Flemish writer (Goldfish, Nardis)
1934 - Pat Boone
1935 - James George, US, weightlifter (Olympic-silver-1960/bronze-1956)
1935 - John Edward Porter, (Rep-R-IL, 1980- )
1935 - Reverend Ike, SC, evangelist minister (Joy of Living)
1936 - Bekim Fehmiu, actor (Black Sunday, Permission to Kill, Cagliostro)
1937 - Colleen McCullough, writer (Tim, Indecent Obsession)
1937 - Morgan Freeman, Memphis Tn, actor (Driving Mrs Daisy, Glory)
1937 - Morgan Freeman
1939 - Cleavon Little, Chickasha Okla, actor (Blazing Saddles, Toy Soldiers)
1940 - Rene Auberjonois, actor (Clayton-Benson, Star Trek Deep Space 9)
1940 - Rene Auberjonois
1941 - Edo de Waart, Amsterdam Holland, conductor (Houston Opera-1976)
1942 - Tom Mankiewicz, LA Calif, screenwriter (Diamonds are Forever)
1943 - Ely van Tongeren, Dutch guitarist/singer (Buffoons)
1943 - Richard Goode, Bronx, concert pianist (1980 Avery Fisher Award)
1944 - Robert Powell, England, actor (Jigsaw Man, Shaka Zulu, Secrets)
1945 - Frederica Von Stade, Somerville NJ, mezzo-soprano (Die Zauberfl”te)
1945 - Linda Scott, singer (Hey Look at Me Now)
1946 - Brian Cox, actor (Killer Party, Manhunter)
1946 - Carol Neblett, Modesto California, soprano (NYC Opera)
1947 - Jonathan Pryce, Welsh actor (Evita, Brazil, Praying Mantis)
1947 - Ron Wood, rock guitarist (Faces, Jeff Beck Group, Rolling Stones)
1948 - Tom Sneva, US auto racer (Indianapolis 500-1983)
1949 - Mike Levine, rock keyboardist/bassist (Triumph)
1950 - Annemarie Jorritsma-Lebbink, Dutch minister of Traffic (VVD)
1950 - Charlene [D'Angelo], singer (I've Never Been To Me)
1950 - Gemma Craven, Dublin, actress (Wagner, Story of Slipper & Rose)
1950 - Gennadi Mikhailovich Manakov, colonel/cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-10, TM-16)
1950 - Graham Russell, Melbourne Australia, rock vocalist (Air Supply)
1953 - Diana Canova, West Palm Beach Fla, actress (Corrine-Soap)
1955 - Chiyonofuji, sumo wrestler
1955 - Lorraine Moller, Boulder Colo, NZ athelete (Olympics-96)
1956 - Lisa Hartman Black, Houston, singer/actress (Tabitha, Knots Landing)
1956 - Robin Mattson, LA Calif, actress (Janet Green-All My Children)
1958 - Cathy Hearn, Wash DC, slalom kayak (Olympics-7th-96)
1959 - Alan "Wild"er, English rock vocalist/music (Depeche Mode-Wild!)
1961 - Johnny Ray Huston, Mt Vernon IL, PGA golfer (1990 Honda Classic)
1961 - Mark Rodenhauser, NFL center (Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers)
1961 - Paul Coffey, Weston Ontario, NHL forward (Oilers, Penguins, Red Wings
1962 - Jesse Johnson, rocker (Time)
1962 - Sherri Howard, Sherman Tx, 4X400m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1984)
1963 - Mike Joyce, rock drummer (Smiths-Ask, Panic, London)
1964 - Rashid Patel, cricketer (Indian pace bowler, Lamba incident)
1965 - Dan Quinn, Ottawa, NHL center (Phila Flyers)
1965 - India Allen, Portsmouth Va, playmate of the year (Dec, 1987)
1967 - Carlos van Wanrooy, soccer player (NEC)
1967 - Olivier Delaitre, Metz France, tennis star (1991 Guaruja Doubles)
1967 - Vernon Turner, WLAF WR (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1968 - Jason Donovan, rocker/actor (Neighbors)
1968 - Jeff Hackett, London, NHL goalie (Chicago Blackhawks)
1968 - Jerry Crafts, WLAF tackle (Amsterdam Admirals)
1968 - Larry Centers, NFL running back (Arizona Cardinals)
1969 - Ari Sulander, hockey goaltender (Team Finland Oly-Bronze-1998)
1969 - Erin Hartwell, Phila, time trial cyclist (Olymp-bronze/silver-92, 96)
1969 - Florence Descampe, Brussels Belgium, LPGA golfer (1992 McCall)
1970 - Joshua Compston, art impressario
1970 - Raylee Johnson, NFL defensive end (SD Chargers)
1970 - Scott Couper, WLAF receiver (Scottish Claymores)
1970 - Shane Matthews, NFL quarterback (Chic Bears)
1972 - Cheryl Abplanalp, Bryn Mawr Penn, team handball wing (Olympics-1996)
1972 - Jon Witman, fullback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1972 - Leta Lindley, Phoenix AZ, LPGA golfer (1995 State Farm Rail-3rd)
1972 - Nicholas Porzig, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Scott Greene, fullback (Carolina Panthers)
1973 - Jeffrey Schiebler, New Westminster BC, 10k/steeplechase (Olympics-96)
1973 - Ray Carey, US, 200m butterfly (Olympics-96)
1974 - Alanis Morissette
1974 - Alanis Nadine Morisette, vocalist (Jagged Little Pill)
1975 - Michal Grosek, Gottwaldov Cze, NHL left wing (Buffalo Sabres)
1976 - Camille Martens, Vancouver BC, gymnist (Olympics-96)
1978 - Karen Kwan, Torrance Calif, figure skater (1995 Pac Coast Sr champ)
Events
794 - Charles the Great opens general synod in Frankfurt
1283 - Albrecht I van Habsburg becomes ruler of Austrian/Bull market
1459 - Pope Pius II opens congress of Mantua
1495 - 1st written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is
1526 - Parliament of Spiers: Lutheran monarchy freed of their belief
1533 - Anna Boleyn crowned queen of England
1562 - Emperor Ferdinand & Sultan Suleiman signs treaty
1568 - Duke van Alva beheads 18 nobles in Brussels
1608 - Valse Dimitri forms his 2nd Russian anti-govt
1638 - 1st earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Mass
1641 - France & Portugal sign anti-Spanish covenant
1649 - Czar Aleksei throws out English merchants from Moscow
1657 - 1st Quakers arrives in New Amsterdam (NY)
1670 - Engl king Charles II & Fr king Louis XIV sign anti-Dutch treaty
1679 - Battle at Bothwell Bridge on Clyde: Duke of Monmouth beats Scottish
1746 - French troops conquer Antwerp
1774 - Boston Port Bill: British govt orders Port of Boston closed
1789 - 1st US congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths)
1792 - Kentucky admitted as 15th US state
1794 - English fleet under Richard Earl Howe defeats French
1796 - Last of Britain's troops withdraws from US
1796 - Tennessee admitted as 16th US state
1808 - 1st US land-grant university founded-Ohio Univ, Athens, Ohio
1809 - Allardyce Barclay begins a bet of walking 1 mile every hour for 1,000 hours. Each hour he walk
1813 - Capt John Lawrence utters Navy motto "Don't give up the ship"
1834 - HMS Beagle for anchor in Port Famine, Magallanes Street
1835 - 6th national black convention (Phila)
1836 - Charles Darwin returns to Capetown
1843 - It snows in Buffalo & Rochester NY & Cleveland Ohio
1843 - Sojourner Truth leaves NY to begin her career as antislavery activist
1845 - Homing pigeon completes 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days
1855 - US adventurer Wm Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery
1861 - 1st skirmish in Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Va
1861 - British territorial waters & ports off-limits during Civil War
1861 - Skirmish at Arlington Mills, VA
1861 - US & Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange
1862 - 2nd/last day of battle at Fair Oaks/7 Pines Va (11,165 casualties)
1862 - Gen Lee assumes command after Joe Johnston is injured at 7 Pines
1862 - Slavery abolished in all US possessions
1864 - -Nov] Shenandoah Valley campaign
1864 - Battle of Cold Harbor, VA (Gaines' Mill, Gaines' Farm)
1864 - Confederate cruiser The Georgia sold to The English
1866 - General Dutch Typographer Union forms
1866 - Renegade Irish Fenians invade Ft Erie Ontario from US
1868 - Texas constitutional convention meets in Austin
1869 - Voting machine patented (Thomas A Edison)
1872 - 6th Belmont: James Roe aboard Joe Daniels wins in 2:58¼
1877 - Society of American Artists forms
1877 - US troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico
1880 - 1st pay telephone installed
1880 - US census at 50,155,783
1881 - Bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange
1888 - California gets its 1st seismograph
1890 - US census at 62,622,250
1893 - Opera "Falstaff" is produced (Berlin)
1898 - Trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha
1899 - Cricket test debut of Wilfred Rhodes & Victor Trumper in Grace's last
1900 - British army occupiers Pretoria South-Africa
1902 - Blue-White United soccer team of Amsterdam forms
1905 - Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon
1907 - -27°F (-33°C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record)
1908 - John Krohn begins walk around perimeter of US, which took 357 days
1909 - Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle
1910 - SC Enschede soccer team forms in Enschede
1911 - 1st US group insurance policy written, Passaic, NJ
1912 - Stormvogels soccer team forms in Ijmuiden
1914 - Oscar Egg bicycles world record time (44,247 km)
1915 - 1st Zeppelin air raid over England
1916 - German attack on Fort Vaux, Verdun
1917 - Hank Gowdy is 1st baseball player to enlist during WW I
1918 - Excelsior Maassluis soccer team forms in Maassluis
1918 - White Sox losing 5-4 against NY Yankees, load the bases in 9th with no outs Chick Gandil lines
1919 - Rhineland Republic forms in Wiesbaden
1920 - RKSV Volendam soccer team forms in Volendam
1921 - Race riot in Tulsa Okla (21 whites & 60 blacks killed)
1923 - NY Giants beat Phillies, 22-5, Giants score in every inning
1925 - Lou Gehrig replaces Wally Pipp (1st of record 2130 consec games)
1926 - Ignacy Mocicki elected president of Poland
1930 - 6th French Mens Tennis: Henri Cochet beats Bill Tilden (36 86 63 61)
1930 - 6th French Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (62 61)
1930 - Alphense Boys soccer team forms in Alphen on Rhine
1930 - Bradman scores cricket 191 Australia v Hampshire, 240 mins, 26 fours
1931 - Rozenburg soccer team forms in Rozenburg
1932 - Lunteren soccer team forms in Lunteren
1933 - Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago
1933 - Charlie Chaplin weds Paulette Goddard
1934 - AFC '34 soccer team forms in Alkmaar
1935 - Driving test & license plates introduced in England
1935 - Yanks set solo HR record with 6 beat Boston 7-2
1936 - "Lux Radio Theater" moved from NYC to Hollywood
1936 - Queen Mary completes its maiden voyage, arriving in NY
1937 - Chic White Sox Bill Dietrich no-hits St Louis Browns, 8-0
1937 - Prince Konoye becomes Japanese premier
1938 - Protective baseball helmets 1st worn by batters
1938 - Superman 1st appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1
1939 - 1st boxing match to be televised, Lon Nova defeats Max Baer
1939 - 1st night game at Phil's Shribe Park (Pirates 5, Phillies 2)
1939 - British sub "Thetis" sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard
1939 - Retired German Col-gen Gerd von Runstedt returns to service
1940 - Coffee & tea rationed in Holland
1940 - Gen-mjr Bernard Montgomery returns to London
1940 - Nazi occupiers kick Jews out of Dutch air guard
1941 - 12.59" (31.98 cm) rainfall, Burlington Kansas (state 24-hr record)
1941 - British troops occupy Bagdad Iraq
1941 - Germany bans all Catholic publications
1941 - Germany occupies Kreta
1941 - NY Giant Mel Ott hits his 400th HR & his 1,500th RBI
1943 - Germany shoots down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London, all die
1943 - Pirates Rip Sewell 1st throws his dew-drop (eephus) ball in a game
1944 - Gen Montgomery/Patton/Bradley/Dempsey/Crerar meet in Portsmouth
1944 - Nazi occupiers make it punishable to give aid to allied pilots
1945 - WLB-AM in Minneapolis Minn changes call letters to KUOM
1946 - 78th Belmont: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:30.8
1946 - Spijkenisse soccer team forms in Spijkenisse
1947 - OPA, which issued WW II rationing coupons, disbands
1947 - Photosensitive glass developed
1948 - Israel & Arabs agree to a cease fire
1949 - 1st magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers (Newsweek)
1949 - British government grants Cyrenaica (East-Libya) independence
1949 - KSL TV channel 5 in Salt Lake City, UT (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 - Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz wed for the second time
1949 - Microfilm copies of "Newsweek" magazine 1st offered
1950 - WKZO (now WWMT) TV channel 3 in Kalamazoo, MI (CBS) 1st broadcast
1951 - 1st self-contained titanium plant opens (Henderson Nevada)
1951 - International Cheese treaty signed
1952 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cross Country Weathervane Golf Tournament
1952 - Catholic church puts Andre Gides "Labor" on the index
1953 - KMJ (now KSEE) TV channel 24 in Fresno, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - WDAY TV channel 6 in Fargo, ND (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Emile Zatopek runs record 6 mile: (27:59.2)/10,000m (28:54.2)
1955 - Habib Bourguiba ends exile from Tunisia
1957 - 1st US runner breaks 4 minute mile (Don Bowden) [see May 5, 1956]
1958 - Belgian christian-democrats win parliamentary election
1958 - Charles de Gaulle elected premier of France
1958 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Gatlinburg Golf Open
1959 - 2-time champ Monterrey Mexico barred from 1959 Little League competition for using players out
1959 - Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)
1960 - "Finian's Rainbow" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances
1960 - WDTV TV channel 5 in Clarksburg-Weston, WV (CBS) begins broadcasting
1961 - FM multiplex stereo broadcasting 1st heard
1962 - Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit
1962 - Roda JC soccer team reforms in Kerkrade
1962 - USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 40,420 m
1963 - "El Watusi" by Ray Barreto hits #17
1963 - Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st premier of Kenya
1963 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, becomes Emperor of Ethiopia
1965 - A Penzias & R Wilson detect 3°K primordial background radiation
1965 - coal mine explosion in Fukuoka Japan kills 236
1966 - 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights
1966 - George Harrison is impressed by Ravi Shankar's concert in London
1966 - Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic
1966 - Shortwave station Radio NY Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW
1967 - Beatles release Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in US & goes gold
1967 - Mayor-council form of government instituted for Washington, DC
1968 - 100th Belmont: Gus Gustines aboard Stage Door Johnny wins in 2:27.2
1968 - Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs Robinson" hits #1
1969 - Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio & TV
1970 - "Everything Is Beautiful" by Ray Stevens hits #1
1970 - Com Bowie Kuhn reprimands Astro Jim Bouton for writing "Ball Four"
1970 - Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days
1970 - Tigers Al Kaline collides with another player & swallows his tongue
1971 - "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" opens at Golden NYC for 31 perfs
1971 - Ed Sullivan's final TV show on CBS
1972 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 15th Symphony, Dutch premieres in West Berlin
1972 - Tswanaland becomes Bophuthatswana in South Africa
1972 - West German police arrest RAF-leader Andreas Baader
1973 - George Harrison's "Living in the Material World" goes gold
1973 - Greek Pres Papadopoulos asks for "parliamentary presidential republic"
1973 - Paul McCartney & Wings release "Live & Let Die"
1974 - "My Girl Bill" by Jim Stafford hits #12
1974 - Bundy victim Brenda Ball disappears from Burien, Wash
1974 - Chemical plant explodes in Flixborough Lincs kills 29 in UK
1975 - "Chicago" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 947 performances
1975 - 21st LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth
1975 - Calif Angel Nolan Ryan 4th no-hitter beats Balt Orioles, 1-0
1975 - Cars in Netherlands must have seatbelts
1975 - Ron Woods replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stone guitarist
1976 - Great-Britain & Iceland terminate codfish war
1977 - British Virgin Islands adopts constitution
1977 - Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason
1977 - SC Heerenveen soccer team forms in Heerenveen
1978 - Cricket Test debut of David Gower, v Pakistan, Edgbaston, scores 58
1978 - High Council destroys judgment against war criminal Pieter Menten
1979 - 33rd NBA Championship: Sea Supersonics beat Wash Bullets, 4 games to 1
1979 - Rhodesian bishop Able Muzorewa becomes premier
1979 - Ted Coombs began a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC
1979 - Wings release "Old Siam, Sir"
1980 - 1st transmission of CNN, Cable News Network
1980 - ANC sets fire to Sasol oil installations in South Africa
1980 - Barbra Streisand appears at an ACLU Benefit in Calif
1980 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championshipship
1980 - Steve Garvey, hits the 7,000th Dodger home run
1980 - Ted Turner's Cable News Network begins broadcasting
1982 - Rickey Henderson is fastest to reach 50 stolen bases in a year
1984 - Douglas H Mitchell, QC of Calgary becomes 6th CFL Commissioner
1984 - KWK-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KGLD
1984 - Netherlands' Lubbers govt gives 48 sites for cruise missiles
1984 - Weightlifter Alexander Gunyashev of USSR snatches a record 211 kg
1985 - "Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody" by David Lee Roth hits #12
1985 - Viv Richards scores 300 in a day on the way to 322 v Warwicks cricket
1985 - Weird Al Yankovic released his Dare To Be Stupid LP
1986 - 32nd LPGA Championship won by Pat Bradley
1986 - 40th Tony Awards: I'm Not Rappaport & Mystery of Edwin Drood win
1987 - Phil Niekro 314th combines with Joe to have most wins by bros (530)
1988 - "Les Miserables," opens at Shubert Theatre, LA
1988 - "Morton Downey Jr Show," debuts in TV syndication
1988 - Train crash in Zeeland Neth, kills 2
1989 - 62nd National Spelling Bee: Scott Isaacs wins spelling spoliator
1989 - Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house
1989 - Robin Givens & Mike Tyson granted final divorce in NJ
1990 - "Cemetery Club" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 56 perfs
1990 - Cowboy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
1990 - Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland for 1st time since 1974
1990 - Dow Jones Avg hits a record high of 2,900.97
1991 - Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time in 600 years
1991 - Roseanne Arnold & Tom Arnold wed again, they divorced later
1992 - America West Arena opens in Phoenix
1992 - E Lamps (20 year lightbulb) introduced
1992 - Snowfall in Colorado
1992 - Stanley Cup: Pittsburgh Penguins sweep Chicago Blackhawks in 4 games
1993 - Brooklyn NY begins recycling
1993 - Connie Chung joins Dan Rather as anchors of CBS Evening News
1993 - Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army
1993 - Melchior Ndadaye elected pres of Burundi
1994 - FX Channel, Cable Network, debuts
1994 - Gen H Norman Schwarzkopf released from hospital after prostate surgery
1994 - Guns n Roses drummer Matthew Sorum files to divorce Kai
1995 - 68th National Spell Bee: Justin Tyler Carroll wins spelling xanthosis
1995 - Rangers' Kenny Rogers scoreless inning streak ends after 39
1996 - MTV Movie Awards
1996 - Sony does not renew lease on megatron in Times Square
1997 - 10th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $5,400,186
1997 - 1st NY Women Film Festival opens
1997 - 51st Tony Awards: Titanic & Last Night of Ballyhoo win
1997 - Ameritech Senior Golf Open
1997 - Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Michelob Light Classic
1997 - Donovan Bailey beats Michael Johnson in 150m race
1997 - Heartland LPGA Classic
1997 - LA Dodger Wilton Guerrero's bat breaks, revealing it is corked
1997 - Vijay Singh wins Golf Memorial at Muirfield Village CC, 14 under par
Deaths
193 - Didius Julianus, ship owner/emperor of Rome (193), murdered at 61
1191 - Philips van de Elzas, count of Vlanderen, dies
1340 - Jan III van Diest, bishop of Utrecht (1322-40), dies
1434 - Jagiello, King of Lithuania/Poland, dies
1557 - Joƒo III, King of Portugal (1521-57), dies at 54
1568 - Duke of Alva, & 18 nobles, beheaded
1568 - Gijsbert van Bronkhorst-Batenburg, calvinist leader, beheaded
1625 - Honor‚ d'urf‚, French writer (L'astr‚e), dies at 67
1676 - Creutz, Swedish admiral (™land), dies in battle
1676 - Uggla, Swedish admiral (™land), dies in battle
1713 - Johan Runius, Swedish poet (Dudaim), dies at 34
1729 - Matthaeus de Cock, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1725-29), dies at about 65
1763 - Johann Caspar Vogler, composer, dies at 67
1810 - Johann Paul Wessely, composer, dies at 47
1823 - Louis Nicholas Davout, French fieldmarshal, dies at 53
1846 - Gregory XVI, [Bartolomeo A Cappellari]/Mauro, Pope dies at 80
1861 - John Q Marr, US Union captain, dies in battle at Fairfax Courthouse
1864 - Solomon George Washington Dill, poor white ally of blacks, assassinat
1868 - James Buchanan, 15th US president (1857-61), dies at 77
1876 - Christo Botew, writer, dies
1909 - Giuseppe Martucci, composer, dies at 53
1910 - Francis S Haden, English surgeon/graphic artist, dies at 91
1918 - Friedrich Richard Faltin, composer, dies at 83
1918 - Jaroslav Novotny, composer, dies at 32
1922 - Frank Walters, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885, scored 7 & 5), die
1925 - Lucien G Guitry, French actor/theater director (l'od‚on), dies at 64
1926 - Vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov, composer, dies at 64
1935 - Alberto Cametti, composer, dies at 64
1938 - Od”n, [Edmund] von Horvath, Hungarian/Austrian writer, dies at 36
1941 - Hugh S Walpole, British writer (Killer & the Slain), dies
1942 - Ernest Pingoud, composer, dies at 53
1942 - Vladislav Vancura, Czech physician/resistance fighter, executed at 50
1943 - Leslie Howard, actor (Romeo & Juliet), Nazis shot down his plane at 5
1946 - Ion Antonescu, fascist premier/dictator of Romania, executed
1946 - Leo Slezak, Austria tenor/actor (Mein Lebensm„rchen), dies at 72
1947 - Emil H cha, lawyer/president of Czechoslovakia, dies at 74
1948 - Sonny Boy Williamson, [John Lee], blues player, dies at 34
1950 - ValŠre-Gille, Belgian playwright (Lesson Tombeaux), dies at 83
1951 - Rafael Altamira Crevea, Spanish lawyer/historian, dies at 85
1952 - John Dewey, US philosopher (Common Faith), dies at 92
1954 - Martin Anderson Nex”, Danish poet/writer (Pelle Erobreren), dies at 8
1955 - F Melius Christiansen, composer, dies at 84
1955 - Theo Frenkel, actor (Footlights, Hague's Comedy), dies
1960 - Lester Patrick, NHL coach/star, dies at 76
1964 - Rutkowski Bronislaw, composer, dies at 66
1968 - Helen Keller, blind & deaf/author (Let us Have Faith), dies at 87
1968 - [Johan] Erik Lindegren, Swedish poet/interpreter, dies at 57
1970 - G Ungaretti, writer, dies at 82
1971 - Reinhold Niebuhr, US theologist (Nature & Destiny of Man), dies at 78
1973 - Harvey S Firestone Jr, US tire manufacturer, dies at 75
1973 - Mary Kornman, actress (Desert Trail, Swing it Professor), dies at 57
1973 - Walter Greaza, actor (Leonard-Martin Kane, Treasury Men), dies at 76
1975 - Steve Prefontaine, 5K (Olympics-4-1972), dies at 25
1976 - Pieter Balledux, actor/stage manager/resistance fighter, dies at 89
1979 - Jack Mulhall, actor (Buck Rogers, Held for Ransom), dies at 91
1979 - Werner Forssman, German urologist (Nobel 1956), dies
1980 - [Richard] Rube Marquard, US baseball pitcher, dies at 90
1981 - Carl Vinson, (Rep-D-Ga, 1914-64), dies at 97
1981 - Naim Chadir, PLO-representative in Brussels, murdered
1982 - Hendrik Algra, Newspaper publisher/Dutch MP (ARP), dies
1983 - Anna Seghers, writer, dies at 82
1983 - Charles Tham, of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha, count of Flanders/Prince, dies
1984 - Gordon Jacob, composer, dies at 88
1985 - Richard Greene, actor (Adv of Robin Hood), dies at 67
1987 - Errol W Barrow, PM of Barbados (1961-76), dies at 67
1987 - Rashid Karame, 10 time premier of Lebanon, dies in bomb attack at 65
1990 - Eric Barker, actor/writer (Carry on Sergeant, Roommates), dies
1991 - David Ruffin, rock vocalist (Temptations), dies of drug overdose at 5
1992 - Howard Ralston, actor (Pollyana), dies
1992 - Louise Hoff, entertainer, dies at 69
1992 - Michael King, actor (Lonely are the Brave), dies at 69
1994 - Frances Heflin, actress (Mona Tyler-All My Children), dies at 70
1994 - Juan J H Rovira, Spanish general, murdered
1994 - Willem C L "Wim" van der Grinten, lawyer/KVP-politician, dies at 80
1995 - Prudence Hyman, dancer, dies at 80
1995 - Ronald Anthony "Tony" Clegg, property trader, dies at 58
1996 - Don Grolnick, jazz musician, dies at 48
1996 - Fernand Schokweiler, judge, dies at 60
1996 - Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, president of India, dies at 83
1996 - Ray Combs, TV host (Family Feud), commits suicide at 40
1996 - Robert Arthur Hughes, missionary/surgeon, dies at 85
1996 - Stephen Jones, art historian, dies at 41
1997 - Nikolai Tikhonov, Soviet PM (1980-85), dies at 92
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