Births
1436 - Regiomontanus (Johannes Mller), prepares astronomical tables
1502 - Joƒo III, King of Portugal (1521-57)
1599 - Diego Vel zquez, Spain, painter (Rokeby Venus) (baptized)
1606 - Pierre Corneille, France, dramatist (El Cid, Horace)
1621 - P‚ter Zrinyi, Hungarian ruler of Croatia
1625 - Domenico Guidi, Italian sculptor
1661 - Giacomo Antonio Perti, composer
1671 - Stenka/Stepan Razin, Russian cossack/boer leader
1676 - Georg Reidel, composer
1695 - Adriaen Valckenier, gov-gen Neth-Indies (1737-41)/killed 8,000 Chines
1722 - Adrien Trudo Sale, composer
1735 - Anton Schweitzer, composer
1755 - John Flaxman, English sculptor (Westminster Abbey tomb stones)
1755 - Nathan Hale, hanged patriot, had but one life to give for his country
1756 - John Trumbull, US painter (Declaration of Independence)
1765 - Cornelis Loots, Dutch accountant/poet (Dwingelandij)
1799 - Aleksandr Sergeyevich, Russia, poet, founder of modern Russian Lit
1799 - Alexandr Pushkin, Russia, writer (Eugene Onegin) (5/26 OS)
1804 - Petter Conrad Boman, composer
1807 - Adrien Fran‡ois Servais, composer
1813 - Israel Washburn, gov (Union), died in 1883
1815 - Francesco Antonio Norberto Pinto, composer
1819 - William Howard Glover, composer
1825 - Ignaz V Zingerle Edler von Simmersberg, Austria, poet (Weistmer)
1826 - Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist
1829 - John Baillie McIntosh, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888
1840 - John Stainer, composer
1840 - William Francis Bartlett, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1842 - James Morrison Steele Mackaye, US actor (Amer Acad of Dramatic Art)
1847 - Gerben Postma, [Ids], Frisian writer (Swealtsjeblommen)
1850 - Karl F Braun, Germany, co-developed wireless telegraphy (Nobel 1909)
1860 - William R Inge, English theologist/Deacon St Paul's Cathedral
1862 - Henry John Newbolt, English sea historian/poet
1868 - Robert Falcon Scott, British leader of ill-fated south pole expeditio
1869 - Andersen Nex”, writer
1869 - Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer/conductor
1872 - Alexandra Fjodorovna Romanova, last Russian tsarina (1894-1918)
1875 - Thomas Mann, Germany, novelist (Magic Mountain-Nobel 1929)
1875 - Walter Percy Chrysler, found Chrysler Corp (1925)
1878 - Vincent [de Moro-]Giafferi, French prosecutor (Dieudonn‚, Landru)
1879 - L Patrick Abercrombie, English architect
1880 - William T Cosgrave, president Irish Free state
1886 - Paul Dudley White, heart specialist
1887 - Ruth Benedict, anthropoligist
1890 - Dorothy Heyward, NYC, playwright (Porgy)
1891 - Istvan Kardos, composer
1891 - Ted Lewis, Circleville OH, bandleader/writer (Is Everybody Happy?)
1891 - Vladislac Vancura, writer
1892 - Pearl S Buck, writer
1893 - Ludovic Feldman, composer
1894 - Sabin V Dragoi, composer
1896 - Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/gov-gen of Libya (La marcia su Rome)
1896 - Robert Sheriff, playwright (Journey's End)
1898 - Johannes J Fouch‚, president South-Africa
1898 - Ninette de Valois, [Edris Stannus], Engl, ballerina (Royal Ballet)
1898 - Walter Abel, St Paul Mn, actor (Suspicion, Dream Girl)
1900 - Arthur Askey, Liverpool, actor (Bees in Paradise, Ghost Train)
1901 - Achmed Sukarno, Java, PM of Indonesia (1945-67)
1902 - Avraham Daus, composer
1902 - Harold Roxbee Cox Kings Norton, aeronautical engineer
1903 - Aram Il'yich Khachaturian, Tiflis Georgia, musician/composer (Gayane)
1905 - John Gart, Russia, orch leader (Paul Winchell Show)
1906 - Max Zorn, German mathematician (lemma of Zorn)
1906 - Stefan Andres, writer
1907 - Bill Dickey, NY Yankee hall-of-fame catcher (1928-43)/manager (1946)
1907 - Robert Humphreys, British? historian
1909 - Isaiah Berlin, philosopher
1909 - M J Gopalan, cricketer (1 Test India v England 1933-34)
1910 - Ben Aerden, [John Mikkelsen], actor (Hamlet)
1910 - Toshitsugu Ogiwara, composer
1913 - Jiri Hajek, Czech jurist/foreign minister
1915 - Dhimit‰r Shuteriqi, Albania, writer (€lirimtar‰t The liberator)
1915 - Vincent Persichetti, Phila Pennsylvania, composer (Sibyl)
1917 - Kirk Kerkorian, CEO (MGM, UA)
1917 - Prior Jones, cricketer (WI pace bowler in 9 Tests 1948-52)
1918 - Maria Montez, Dominican Rep, actress (Arabian Nights)
1918 - Richard Crane, Newcastle Ind, actor (Surfside 6)
1918 - Tom Scott, poet/editor
1919 - Charles Pringle, British air marshal
1922 - Ian Hamilton, composer
1924 - Serge Nigg, composer
1926 - Klaus Tennstedt, Merseburg Germany, conductor (Fidelio)
1926 - Tom Ryan, comic strip cartoonist (Tumbleweeds)
1928 - George Deukmejian, Menands NY, (Gov-Cal)
1929 - Boguslaw Schaffer, composer
1929 - Viktor Konezki, writer
1930 - Frank Tyson, cricketer ("Typhoon" England pace destroyer mid-50's)
1931 - Lloyd Lindroth, the Liberace of the Harp
1932 - Billie Whitelaw, Coventry England, actress (Omen, Adding Machine)
1932 - David R Scott, San Antonio Tx, Col USAF/astronaut (Gem 8, Apol 9, 15)
1933 - Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist (tunneling microscope-Nobel 1986)
1934 - Ad G J Lansink, chemist/Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
1934 - Albert II FHTCEM, king of Belgium (1993- )
1934 - Philippe Entremont, France, pianist/conductor (Vienna Chamber Orch)
1935 - Bobby Mitchell, NFL running back/wide receiver (Browns, Redskins)
1935 - Dalai Lama 14, Tibet, spiritual leader of Tibet's Lamaistic Buddhists
1935 - Harry Crews, US writer/actor (Indian Runner)
1935 - Jean Gattegno, translator/scholar
1935 - Misja Mengelberg, Dutch jazz pianist/composer (Reconstruction)
1936 - Levi Stubbs, rocker (4 Tops-Same Old Song)
1939 - Gary "US" Bonds, [Anderson], Fla, singer/songwriter (New Orleans)
1939 - Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer (Reconstruction)
1939 - Marian Wright-Edelman, health care president (Childrens Defense Fund)
1939 - Nganani Enos J Mabuza, S African leader (Inyandza Natl Movement)
1939 - Gary U.S. Bonds
1940 - Laudir De Olivera, rocker (Chicago)
1940 - Phillip Rhodes, composer
1940 - Sandra Morgan, 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1956)
1940 - Willie-John McBride, British rugby player
1942 - Howie Kane, rocker
1942 - Larry "The Mole" Taylor, rocker (Canned Heat)
1942 - Sandra Morgan, US 4 X 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1956)
1943 - Asif Iqbal, cricketer (elegant Pakistani batsman 1964-80)
1944 - Edgar Froese, rocker (Tangerine Dream)
1944 - Peter Albin, SF Calif, rocker (Big Brother & Holding Co)
1945 - David Dukes, SF, actor (Beacon Hill, 79 Park Avenue, Winds of War)
1945 - David E Bonior, (Rep-D-MI, 1977- )
1946 - Chelsea Brown, Chicago Ill, comedienne (Laugh-in, Matt Lincoln)
1946 - Lasse Hallstrom, director (Once Around, My Life as a Dog, ABBA)
1947 - Marion Coakes, England, equestrian show jumper (Olympic-silver-1968)
1947 - Terry Williams, rocker (First Edition)
1949 - Edgar Warren Williams, composer
1949 - Robert Englund, actor (Freddy Kreuger-Nightmare on Elm St, V)
1950 - Chantal Akerman, actor/director (Akermania, Je Tu II Elle)
1951 - Dwight Twilley, Tulsa Okla, country singer (Twilley Don't Mind)
1952 - Yukihiro Yakahashi, rocker (Yellow Magic Orchestra)
1953 - Ken Calvert, (Rep-R-California)
1954 - Harvey Fierstein, Brooklyn NY, playwright (Torch Song Trilogy, ID4)
1955 - Dana Carvey, Missoula MT, comedian (SNL, Garth-Wayne's World)
1955 - Sandra Bernhard, Flint Mich, actress (King of Comedy, Nancy-Roseanne)
1955 - Dana Carvey, "The
1955 - Sandra Bernhard
1956 - Andy Pycroft, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test batsman)
1956 - Bj”rn B”rg, Sodertlage Sweden, tennis champ (Wimbledon 1976-79)
1956 - Jay C Buckey, NYC, physician/astronaut (STS 58 alt, sk: 90)
1956 - Marilyn Jones, Pitts Pa, actress (Carey-King's Crossing)
1957 - Mike Gatting, cricketer (England batsman 1977-95 & captain)
1958 - Elaine Crosby, Birmingham MI, LPGA golfer (1989 Mazda Japan Classic)
1959 - Amanda Pays, London England, actress (Max Headroom, Off Limits)
1960 - Gary Graham, actor (Money on the Side)
1960 - Lola Forner, Alicante SW Spain, Miss Spain (1979)
1960 - Steve Vai, guitarist (Frank Zappa, David Lee Roth Band, Whitesnake)
1961 - Bill Bates, NFL safety (Dallas Cowboys)
1961 - Sydney Walsh, actress (Mo-Hooperman)
1963 - Dannette Leininger, Kailua HA, team handball wing (Olympics-92, 96)
1963 - Vladimir Ruzicka, hockey forward (Team Czech Oly-Gold-1998)
1964 - Dee C Lee, [Diane Sealey], rocker (Style Council-You're Best Thing)
1964 - Sherry J Traylor, Mexico Missouri, Miss Missouri-America (1991)
1965 - David Whyte, rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret)
1965 - Sally McDermid, Australian softball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1965 - Wendy Wiebe, St Catharines Ontario, rower (Olympics-96)
1966 - Angela Cavagna, Genoa Italy, singer
1967 - Max Casella, actor (Vinnie-Doogie Howser)
1967 - Michael Timpson, NFL wide receiver (Chic Bears, Philadelphia Eagles)
1967 - Wasim Haider, cricketer (member Pakistan's 1992 World Cup squad)
1968 - Brian Wright, Stillwater Okla, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 NM Open-2nd
1968 - Craig Roberts, Everett WA, Canadian 68 kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-96)
1968 - Edwin Vurens, Dutch soccer player (FC Twente)
1969 - Brian Greenfield, WLAF punter (London Monarchs)
1969 - Douglas Lee Mitchell, Miles Mi, heavy metal artist (Southgang)
1969 - Mike Croel, NFL linebacker (NY Giants)
1969 - Sunil Joshi, cricketer (Indian Test left-arm spinner 1996)
1970 - Randy Jordan, NFL running back (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 - Mike Craig, St Mary's, NHL right wing (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1972 - Dulip Liyanage, cricketer (Sri Lanka righty fast-medium Test bowler)
1972 - Erin Woodley, Mississauga Ontario, synchro swimmer (Olympic-silver-96
1972 - Frankie King, NBA guard (LA Lakers)
1972 - Gary Downs, running back (Atlanta Falcons)
1972 - Jeff Williams, Australian baseball pitcher (Olympics-1996)
1972 - Marko Kiprusoff, Turku FIN, NHL defenseman (Team Finland, Montreal)
1973 - Ashfaq Ahmed, cricketer (Pakistan pace bowler 1993-)
1973 - Jamie Wilson, tackle (Carolina Panthers)
1973 - Jon Hesse, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1973 - Olindo Mare, kicker (Miami Dolphins)
1974 - Brooke Wilkins, Australian softball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1974 - Patrick Hape, tight end (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1975 - Niklas Sundstrom, Ornskoldsvik Swe, NHL left wing (NY Rangers)
1975 - Staci Keanan, [Anastasia Love Sagorsky], actress (Nicole-My 2 Dads)
1976 - Lukas Hass, actor (Mars Attacks, Lady in White, Witness, Music Box)
1976 - Melanie Sibetang, Miss Northern Marianas Universe (1997)
1979 - Summer Newman, Miss Georgia Teen USA (1996)
Events
1002 - German king Henry II the Saint crowned
1242 - 24 wagonloads of Talmudic books burned in Paris
1391 - Inhabitants of Seville Spain massacres 5,000 Jews
1513 - Battle at Novara: Habsburgers vs Valois
1520 - France & England sign treaty of Scotland
1523 - Gustavus I becomes king of Sweden (Swedish National Day)
1536 - Mexico begins it's inquisition
1639 - Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill
1654 - Queen Christina of Sweden resigns & converts to Catholicism
1660 - Denmark & Sweden signs peace treaty
1664 - New Amsterdam renamed NYC
1665 - Battle at Monte Carlo: English & Portuguese army beat Spain
1673 - France & Brandenburg sign peace treaty
1716 - 1st slaves arrive in Louisiana
1744 - France & Prussia sign peace treaty
1752 - 3rd great fire in Moscow in 2 weeks; 1/3 of city destroyed
1772 - Haitian explorer Jean Baptiste-Pointe Dusable settles Chicago
1795 - Fire destroy 1/3 of Copenhagen; 18,000 injured
1797 - Napoleon forms Ligurische Republic
1801 - Peace of Badajoz: Spain-Portugal
1809 - Sweden declares independence, constitutional monarchy established
1813 - US invasion of Canada halted at Stoney Creek (Ont)
1816 - 10" snowfall in New England, "year without a summer" (Krakatoa)
1831 - 2nd national black convention (Phila)
1844 - Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) forms in London
1850 - Levi Strauss made his 1st blue jeans
1861 - Lincoln's cabinet declares Union govt will pay for expenses once states have mobilized volunte
1862 - Battle of Memphis-city is surrendered
1862 - Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry)
1862 - Skirmish at Harrisonburg, PA
1863 - Battle of Milliken's Bend, LA & Williamsport, MD
1864 - Battle of Lake Chicot, AR (Dutch Bayou)
1872 - Susan B Anthony is fined for trying to vote
1875 - Netherlands goes on the gold standard
1882 - Cyclone in Arabian Sea (Bombay India) drowns 100,000
1882 - Electric iron patented by Henry W Seely, NYC
1885 - 19th Belmont: Paul Duffy aboard Tyrant wins in 2:43
1885 - Opera "Lakmé" is produced (Paris)
1889 - Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks
1890 - United States Polo Association forms, NYC
1896 - 21st Preakness: Henry Griffin aboard Margrave wins in 1:51
1896 - George Samuelson leaves NY harbor to row across Atlantic
1904 - National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, NJ
1905 - French Foreign minister Delcassé resigns on German request
1911 - Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
1913 - Rabbit Maranville, is thrown out trying to steal home 3 times
1914 - 1st air flight out of sight of land (Scotland to Norway)
1916 - Voters in East Cleveland approves women suffrage
1918 - Battle of Belleau Wood, 1st US victory of WW I
1919 - Assent is given to an Act to amend the Canadian Currency Act, 1910
1919 - Finland declares war on bolsheviks
1920 - Gen Wrangel opens offensive against red Army
1921 - Detroit Stars' Bill Gatewood pitches the 1st no-hitter in Negro League history, defeating the
1924 - 28th US Golf Open: Cyril Walker shoots a 297 at Oakland Hills CC Mich
1925 - Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp (Iacocca is 8 months old)
1926 - Egyptian govt of Adly Pasha forms
1931 - "There Ought To Be A Moonlight Saving Time" by Guy Lombardo hits #1
1931 - Yanks turn triple-play but lose 7-5 to Indians
1932 - Carlos Davila coup against pres Juan Montero of Chile
1932 - Ijsselmeervogels soccer team forms in Spakenburg
1932 - US Federal gas tax enacted
1933 - 1st drive-in theater opens (Camden NJ)
1933 - US Employment Service created
1934 - Securities & Exchange Commission established
1934 - Yankee Myrl Hoag hits 6 singles in one game
1936 - 40th US Golf Open: Tony Manero shoots a 282 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1936 - 68th Belmont: James Stout aboard Granville wins in 2:30
1936 - Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro NJ
1937 - Phillies trailing 8-2 to St Louis, forfeit game
1938 - Sigmund Freud arrives in London
1939 - NY Giants beat Reds 17-3, with 5 HRs in 4th inning
1939 - NY supreme court justice J F Crater legally declared dead
1941 - 1st navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched
1941 - Giants use plastic batting helmets for 1st time
1942 - 1st nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray)
1942 - 74th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Shut Out wins in 2:29.2
1942 - Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway
1942 - Japanese troop land on Kiska, Aleutians
1944 - Baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion
1944 - D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France
1944 - Nazi troops executed 96 prisoners by firing squad
1944 - Theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor
1944 - U-955, U-970, U-629, U-373 sink in Gulf of Biskaje
1945 - "Free People" premieres in Amsterdam
1946 - 11 Basketball of America Assn teams meet to schedule 1st season
1946 - Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV
1946 - Martin Kresses begins publishing "Eric the Viking" comic strip
1947 - Treaty drawn for establishment of Intl Patent Institute
1949 - "It Pays To Be Ignorant," game Show, debut on CBS-TV
1949 - WKY (now KTVY) TV channel 4 in Oklahoma City, OK (NBC) 1st broadcast
1950 - German DR & Poland sign treaty about Oder-Neisse border
1954 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1955 - Bill Haley & Comets, "Rock Around the Clock" hits #1
1958 - Ozzie Virgil is 1st black to play as a Tiger
1958 - Premier Charles de Gaulle says Algeria will always be French
1960 - Roy Orbison releases "Only the Lonely"
1960 - South Africa police kills 11 Pondo's at Nqusa Hill
1960 - Steve Allen Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1962 - Beatles meet their producer George Martin for 1st time, they record "Besame Mucho" with Peter
1963 - Gasunie established
1964 - 96th Belmont: Manuel Ycaza aboard Quadrangle wins in 2:28.6
1964 - Beatles arrive in netherlands
1965 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Blue Grass Golf Invitational
1965 - Yankees Tom Tresh bangs 3 consecutive HRs beating White Sox 12-0
1966 - Activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi
1966 - Claus Von Bulow & Martha (Sunny) Crawford wed
1966 - Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with "angry alligator"
1966 - NFL & AFL announce their merger
1966 - Stokely Carmichael launches "Black Power" movement
1967 - Israeli troops occupy Gaza
1968 - WKHA TV channel 35 in Hazard, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - Joe Namath resigns from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his s
1970 - 102nd Belmont: John Rotz aboard High Echelon wins in 2:34
1971 - "Ed Sullivan Show" last broadcasts on CBS-TV
1971 - Air West filght 706 collides with Navy Phantom jet over LA, 50 die
1971 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono unannounced appearance at Fillmore East in NYC
1971 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1971 - Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station
1971 - WHAE (now WGNX) TV channel 46 in Atlanta, GA (CBN) begins broadcasting
1971 - Willie Mays hits record 22nd & last extra inning HR
1972 - David Bowie releases "Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust"
1972 - Explosion at world's largest coal mine kills 427 (Wankie Rhodesia)
1972 - Gold hits record $60 an ounce in London
1972 - US bombs Haiphong, North-Vietnam; 1000s killed
1974 - 47th National Spelling Bee: Julie Ann Junkin wins spelling hydrophyte
1975 - British voters decide to remain in Common Market
1975 - Nolan Ryan's bid for 2nd no-hitter broken in 6th inning
1975 - Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established
1976 - 30th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Phoenix Suns, 4 games to 2
1976 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Girl Talk Golf Classic
1977 - "Washington Post" reports US has developed neutron bomb
1977 - Doobie Brothers sponsor a Golf Classic & Concert for United Way
1977 - Joseph L Howze installed as bishop of Roman Catholic diocese (Miss)
1977 - Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws
1978 - Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57%
1979 - 200th running of horse's Derby in England
1979 - Josef Mengeles corpse excavated in Brazil
1979 - Royal Air force receives 1st F-16
1979 - Willie Horton becomes 43rd player to hit 300 HRs in the majors
1980 - Björn Börg beats John McEnroe for Wimbledon title
1981 - 113th Belmont: George Martens aboard Summing wins in 2:29
1981 - 51st French Womens Tennis: Hana Mandlikova beats Sylvia Hanika (62 64)
1981 - Maya Yang Lin wins competition to design the Vietnam War Memorial
1982 - 30,000 Israeli troops invade Lebanon to drive out PLO
1982 - 36th Tony Awards: Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby & Nine win
1982 - 52nd French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats G Vilas (16 76 60 64)
1982 - Bernard Glassman, installed as abbot of Zen Center of NY
1982 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA McDonald 's Golf Classic
1983 - 17th Music City News Country Awards: Marty Robbins & Roy Acuff
1983 - Bottle with note of June 9, 1910 found in Queensland
1983 - Emmy 10th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 4th time
1983 - Li Xiannian becomes pres/Deng Xiaoping supreme commander of China PR
1983 - Nicaragua expels 3 US diplomats
1983 - Twins draft pitcher Tim Belcher #1
1984 - 1,200 die in Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising India
1985 - 55th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Navratilova (63 67 75)
1985 - 58th National Spelling Bee: Balu Natarajan wins spelling milieu
1985 - Body of Nazi criminal, Dr Josef Mengele located & exhumed
1985 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts "status" of Aruba
1985 - Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
1986 - Jürgen Schull sets world discus record (74.07 m)
1986 - Kathy Ormsby, a 21-year-old member of NC State track team jumps off a bridge permanently paral
1987 - 119th Belmont: Craig Perret aboard Bet Twice wins in 2:28.2
1987 - 57th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats M Navratilova (64 46 86)
1987 - NY Yankees play their 13,000th game
1988 - 22nd Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis & Statler Brothers
1988 - 3 giant turtles found in Bronx sewage plant
1988 - George Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WW II
1988 - Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989)
1989 - Mets turn their 1st triple play in 7 years but lose to Cubs 8-4
1990 - 2nd International Rock Awards
1990 - For 2nd time this season, Cecil Fielder belts 3 home runs in a game
1990 - Stump Merrill replaces Bucky Dent as NY Yankee manager
1991 - Albert Belle is shipped to minors for not running out a ground ball
1991 - Dana Plato receives 6 yr suspended sentence for robbing a video store
1991 - NBC announces Jay Leno will replace Johnny Carson on May 25, 1992
1991 - Test Cricket debut of Graeme Hick, v West Indies at Headingley
1992 - 124th Belmont: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard AP Indy wins in 2:26
1992 - 62nd French Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats Steffi Graf (62 36 10-8)
1992 - Ben Vereen suffers injuries when hit by a car
1992 - David Bowie & model Iman marry in Switzerland
1992 - NY Met Eddie Murray sets RBI record by a switch hitter
1992 - WLAF World Bowl 2: Sacramento beats Orlando 21-17 (Montreal)
1993 - 47th Tony Awards: Angels in America & Kiss of the Spider Woman win
1993 - 63rd French Mens Tennis: S Bruguera beats Jim Courier (64 26 62 36 63)
1993 - 6th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
1993 - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic
1993 - Punsalmaagiyn Otsjirbat recognized as president of Mongolia
1993 - Ramiro de Léon Carpio elected pres of Guatemala
1994 - 28th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & Ray Stevens
1994 - 6.0 earthquake/avalanche destroys Toez Colombia (about 1000 killed)
1994 - Brian Lara scores 501 not out for Warwickshire vs Durham
1994 - CD-councillor H Selhorst arrested for hard-drugs trade
1994 - Cricketer Brian Lara hits record 501 not out/390 runs in 1 day
1994 - Tupolev-154M crashes at Xian China, 160 killed
1994 - Warwickshire score 4 for 810 declared against Durham
1995 - 1st Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
1998 - 130th Belmont
1998 - 68th French Womens Tennis:
2012 - Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs
Deaths
840 - Agobard, archbishop of Lyon (anti-semite), dies
1134 - Norbertus van Xanten, monastery founder, dies at about 51
1671 - Stenka/Stepan Razin, Russian cossack/boer leader, killed
1686 - Joannes B van Neercassel, RC spiritual leader of Neth, dies at 60
1710 - Fran‡oise de la Baume Le Blanc, mistress of king Louis XIV, dies at 6
1735 - Georg Osterreich, composer, dies at 71
1747 - Jean Barriere, composer, dies
1784 - Joan Derk van de Capellen, leader of democratic Patriots, dies at 42
1785 - Johann Michael Demmler, composer, dies at 36
1816 - Christiane Vulpius, wife of Johann W von Goethe, dies at 51
1836 - Antons Klemens Theodor, king of Saksen (1827-36), dies at 80
1852 - Tommaso Marchesi, composer, dies at 79
1861 - Giuseppe Concone, Italian singing teacher, dies at 59
1862 - Turner Ashby, General, killed near Harrisonburg VA, dies at 33
1877 - Prairie Flower, daughter of Ponca & chief Standing Bear, dies
1878 - Gottfried Herrmann, composer, dies at 70
1881 - Henry Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer, dies at 61
1883 - Ciprian Porumbescu, composer, dies at 29
1898 - Constant A Serrure, Flemish historian, dies at 62
1914 - Walter T Watts-Dunton, England, lawyer/poet/writer (Aylwin), dies
1916 - Yuan Shikai, president of China, dies at 56
1917 - Iacob Moresianu, composer, dies at 59
1922 - Lillian Russell, entertainer, dies at 60
1926 - Henry Tate, composer, dies at 52
1928 - Heinrich Gottlieb Noren, composer, dies at 67
1935 - Jacques Urlus, tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth), dies at 6
1937 - Jean Harlow, actr (Bombshell), dies from gallbladder infection at 26
1939 - Ford Madox Ford, writer, dies at 65
1940 - E E Clive, actor (Bulldog Drummond, Night Muss Fall), dies at 56
1943 - Karl Landsteiner, Austrian/US pathologist (Nobel 1930), dies at 74
1944 - Danny Brotheridge, British lieutenant, 1st to die during D-Day
1944 - Gerrit John van de Peat, artist/resistance fighter, executed at 41
1945 - Meinoud M Rost van Tonningen, anti semite/NSB (1937-41), suicide
1946 - Gerhart Hauptmann, writer, dies at 83
1947 - Norman Reid, cricketer (Test S Af v Aust 1921-22, 11 & 6, 2-63), dies
1951 - Lionel Hallam, cricketer (England capt 1921), dies
1956 - Margaret Wycherly, actress (Claudia), dies at 74
1958 - Lily Theresa Strickland, composer, dies at 71
1961 - Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychatrist (šber Alchemie), dies at 85
1962 - Guinn Williams, actor (Big Boy-Circus Boy), dies of poisoning at 63
1962 - Yves Klein, French sculptor/painter, dies at 34
1964 - Robert Warwick, actor (Konga, Zorro, Lady Godiva), dies at 85
1965 - Lester Matthews, (Sir Dennis-Adv of Fu Manchu), dies at 64
1966 - Claudette Orbison, wife of singer Roy, dies in a motorcyle crash
1967 - Edward G Givens Jr, Major USAF/astronaut, dies in an car crash at 47
1968 - Franklin C Fry, US minister (World Rad of Church), dies
1968 - Robert F Kennedy, (Sn-D-NY), assassinated in LA by Sirhan Sirhan at 4
1971 - Arnold Elston, composer, dies at 63
1974 - Blanche Yurka, actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Cry of Werewolf), dies at 8
1975 - Larry Blyden, actor (Joe & Mabel, What's My Line), dies at 49
1976 - J Paul Getty, oil magnate/billionaire, dies at 83 in London
1976 - Victor Varconi, actor (Divine Lady, King of Kings), dies at 85
1977 - Sophie Stewart, actress (As You Like It), dies at 69
1979 - Jack Haley, actor (Wizard of Oz), dies of cancer at 79
1984 - A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, author (Empress of Outer Space), dies at 7
1984 - Bill Voce, cricketer (key player of the Bodyline series), dies
1985 - Siem Devout, Dutch actor, dies at 54
1988 - Ella Raines, actress (Brute Force), dies of throat cancer at 66
1991 - Larry Kert, actor (Tony-West Side Story), dies of AIDS at 60
1991 - Stan Getz, jazz saxophonist (Girl from Impanima), dies at 64
1991 - Sylvia Porter, economist/author (Money Book), dies at 77
1992 - Georgia Brown, British actress (Lock up your daughters), dies at 58
1992 - Larry Riley, actor (Soldier Story, Knots Landing), dies of AIDS at 39
1992 - Thijs van Lier, lawyer/Dutch MP (PvdA), dies at 44
1993 - James Bridges, writer/director (Paper Chase), dies of cancer at 57
1993 - Peter Tazelaar, adjutant of Dutch queen Wilhelmina, dies at 73
1994 - Barry Sullivan, actor (Great Gadsby), dies at 81
1994 - John Morey Downs, actor/dancer/singer, dies at 80
1994 - John Slot, mayor of Eethen/Hardenberg/Ede, dies
1994 - Johnny Morey Downs, actor/singer (Algiers, Red Head), dies at 80
1994 - Mark McManus, actor (Ned Kelly), dies of pneumonia at 59
1994 - Peter Graves, English actor (Derby Day/Admirable Crichton), dies at 8
1994 - Willie Humphrey, jazz clarinetist, dies at 93
1995 - Imam Elissa, singer, dies at 76
1995 - James Anderson, writer, dies at 41
1996 - George Snell, genetecist, dies at 92
1996 - Glyn Worsnip, broadcaster, dies at 57
1996 - Jean Sinclair, teacher/campaigner, dies at 88
1996 - Richard Michael Hills, comedy script writer, dies at 70
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