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Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date
Registered to Omicron Theta
By Scott Labrecque
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Births:
02/25/1635 Walraad the Old, earl of Nassau-Usingen
02/25/1643 Ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95)
02/25/1680 Philipp Hyacinth Lobkowitz, composer
02/25/1707 Carlo Goldoni, Italy, dramatist (Love of 3 Oranges)
02/25/1725 Armand-Louis Couperin, Paris France, organist/composer (Notre Dame)
02/25/1731 Simon Style, Fries medical/writer
02/25/1732 Robert Hudson, composer
02/25/1735 Ernst William Wolf, composer
02/25/1778 Jos‚ Francisco de San Mart¡n, liberated Argentina, Chile & Per£
02/25/1788 Mateo Ferrer, composer
02/25/1794 Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, earl of Nijenhuis/Peckedam
02/25/1807 George Alfred Trenholm, Secy Treas (Confederacy), died in 1876
02/25/1808 James Bowen, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
02/25/1809 George Washington Cullom, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 18
02/25/1811 Carl Schuberth, composer
02/25/1814 Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian national poet/painter (3/9 NS)
02/25/1815 Robert Hall Chilton, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
02/25/1833 Clement Anselm Evans, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1911
02/25/1840 Alexis Hollander, composer
02/25/1840 Otto Liebmann, German philosopher (Climax of Theories)
02/25/1841 Pierre Auguste Renoir, France, Impressionist painter/sculptor
02/25/1842 Karl May, German writer (Old Shatterhand/Winnetou)
02/25/1847 John Watson, Canada, philospher (Objective Idealism)
02/25/1856 Charles Lang Freer, art collector; endowed Freer Gallery [or 1876]
02/25/1866 Beneditto Croce, Italy, humanist/historian/editor/philosopher
02/25/1871 Oliver Samuel Campbell, tennis champ (US singles 1890)
02/25/1873 Enrico Caruso, Naples Italy, operatic tenor (Faust)
02/25/1876 Charles Freer, art collector; endowed Freer Gallery
02/25/1879 Otakar Ostrcil, composer
02/25/1881 William Foster, Mass, Communist Pres candidate (1924,28,32)
02/25/1882 Bruno? Traven, German? writer (Sierra Madre)
02/25/1882 Jozef Goossenaerts, Flemish philogicist (Language boundary)
02/25/1882 Ludvig Nordstr”m, Sweden, writer (Story of Peter Svensk)
02/25/1887 Leonard Carey actor (Laughter)
02/25/1888 John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State (1953-59)
02/25/1894 Ernst Friedrich, Breslau Germany, pacifist (War Against War!)
02/25/1894 Howard Wendell, actor (Black Dakotas, 4 Skulls of Jonathan Drake)
02/25/1895 DeBenneville 'Bert' Bell, PA, NFL owner/commissioner/HOF (Eagles)
02/25/1895 Henri Martelli, composer
02/25/1896 John J McClellan, (Sen-D-Ark)
02/25/1899 Leo J Weisgerber, German linguist
02/25/1900 Jed Harris, producer/director (Billy Rose Show, Operation Mad Ball)
02/25/1901 Federico Ghisi, composer
02/25/1901 [Herbert] Zeppo Marx, comedian/actor (Marx Brothers)
02/25/1904 Adelle Davis, author (Lets Stay Healthy)/nutritionist (died of cance
02/25/1906 Boris Papandopulo, composer
02/25/1906 Domingo Ortega, Spanish bullfighter
02/25/1906 Howard Zahniser, Father of Wilderness Act
02/25/1906 Warren Hymer, actor (Girl From Havana, Meet the Mob, Phantom Killer)
02/25/1907 Shimen Rushkin, actor (Beau Brummel, Having a Wonderful Time)
02/25/1908 Frank G Slaughter, author (Sangaree)
02/25/1909 Edgar Pangborn, US, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy)
02/25/1910 Millicent Fenwick, NYC, (Rep-R-NJ 1975-82) (Doonesbury)
02/25/1912 Richard Wattis, actor (Hobson's Choice, Prince & Showgirl)
02/25/1913 Gert Froebe, Saxony Germany, actor (Goldfinger)
02/25/1913 Jim Backus, Cleve, actor (Mr Magoo, Thurston Howell III-Gilligan Is)
02/25/1916 Ralph Baldwin, harness driver (set 11 major world records)
02/25/1917 Anthony Burgess, essayist/novelist (Clockwork Orange)
02/25/1918 Bobby Riggs, tennis star (1939 US Open)
02/25/1918 Henry Norwood Ewell, Harrisburg Pa, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1948
02/25/1919 F de Jong Edz, historian
02/25/1919 Monty Irvin, baseball hall of famer (NY Giants)
02/25/1920 Hayes Gordon
02/25/1921 Nancy Kelly, US, actress (Double Exposure, Jesse James)
02/25/1922 Matti Rautio, composer
02/25/1925 Bert Remsen, Glen Cove NY, actor (Mario-It's a Living)
02/25/1927 Dick Jones, Snyder Tx, actor (Buffalo Bill Jr)
02/25/1927 Jacques Monod, composer
02/25/1927 Jane Nigh, Hollywood Calif, actress (Lorelei-Big Town)
02/25/1928 Richard Stern, US writer
02/25/1929 Christopher George, Royal Oak Minn, actor (Rat Patrol, Immortal)
02/25/1929 Tommy Newsom, Va, musician/bandleader/saxophonist (Tonight Show)
02/25/1932 Martin William Karlins, composer
02/25/1934 Linda Cristal actress (Comanche, Mr Majestyk, Panic in the City)
02/25/1936 Norman Orville Scribner, composer
02/25/1937 Basia Johnson, maid who inherited Johnson & Johnson fortune
02/25/1937 Bob Schieffer, Austin Tx, newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
02/25/1937 Tom Courtenay, England, actor (Dresser, Dr Zhivago, To Catch a Spy)
02/25/1938 Diane Baker, Hollywood Calif, actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Marnie)
02/25/1938 Herb Elliott, Australia, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1960)
02/25/1939 Marisa Mell, Graz Austria, actress (Masquerade, Casanova '70)
02/25/1940 Billy Packer, US, actor(?)
02/25/1940 Jes£s Lopez-Cobos, Toro Spain, conductor (Intl Conductor Competition
02/25/1940 Jud Taylor, actor (Dr Gerson-Dr Kildare)
02/25/1940 Ron Santo, Chicago Cub (1st baseball player to veto his trade)
02/25/1941 David Puttnam, London, film producer/CEO (Columbia Pictures)
02/25/1941 Ramon Pagayon Santos, composer
02/25/1941 Susan Browning, Baldwin NY, actress (Pat-Mary Hartman)
02/25/1943 George Harrison, Beatle/Travelling Willberries (My Sweet Lord)
02/25/1943 Maryann Amacher, composer
02/25/1943 Sally Jessy Raphael, TV talk show host (Sally)
02/25/1944 Karen Grassle, Berkeley Ca, actress (Caroline-Little House on Prairi
02/25/1944 Kristina Holland, Fayetteville NC, (Tina-Courtship of Eddie's Father
02/25/1945 Elkie Brooks, Manchester England, rocker (Pearl's a Singer)
02/25/1945 Shivadhar Srinivasa Naipaul, Trinidad, novelist, essayist (Fireflies
02/25/1947 Lee Edward Evans, Madera Calif, 400m runner (Olympic-2 gold-1968)
02/25/1950 'Nature Boy' Ric Flair, [Fliehr], wrestler (NWA/WWF/WCW/AWA)
02/25/1950 Emitt Rhodes, musician (Merry-go-Round)
02/25/1950 Rick Flair, [Richard Fliehr], WCW wrestling champ
02/25/1952 James A Barcia, (Rep-D-Michigan)
02/25/1953 Garrett Glaser, entertainment correspondant (Entertainment Tonight)
02/25/1955 Leann Hunley, actress (Dane Carrington-Dynasty)
02/25/1957 Stuart 'Woody' Wood, guitarist (Bay City Rollers-Saturday Night)
02/25/1958 Kurt Rambis, NBA forward (Lakers, Hornets)/Clark Kent look-a-like
02/25/1959 Mike Peters, rocker (Alarm-In the Summertime)
02/25/1962 Birgit Fischer, German DR, 500m kayaker (Olympic-gold-1980)
02/25/1971 Jennifer LaVoie, Nashua NH, playmate (Aug, 1993)
02/25/1971 Sean Astin, actor (Goonies, Toy Soldiers, Like Father Like Son)
02/25/1976 Chris Pitman
Deaths:
02/25/ 779 Walburgis, English speaking abbess/saint (Walpurgisnacht), dies
02/25/1247 Hendrik IV, duke of Limburg/earl of Bergen (1226-47), dies
02/25/1495 Djem Sultan, son of Turkish sultan Mehmed II, dies at 35
02/25/1601 Earl of Essex, executed for treason in revolt against Queen Elizabet
02/25/1602 Everard van Reyd, historian, dies at about 51
02/25/1634 Albrecht WE baron von Wallenstein, [Waldstein], German duke, murdere
02/25/1643 Marco da Gagliano, composer, dies at 60
02/25/1682 Alessandro Stradella, composer, dies at 37
02/25/1713 Frederik I, King of Prussia (1701-13), dies at 55
02/25/1719 Giovanni Maria Casini, composer, dies at 66
02/25/1723 Christopher Wren, England, astronomer/architect, dies
02/25/1826 Piotr A von der Pahlen, military governor of St Petersburg, dies at
02/25/1851 Ferdinand Simon Gassner, composer, dies at 53
02/25/1865 Otto Ludwig, German writer (Zwischen Himmel und Erde), dies at 47
02/25/1901 Jose Rogel, composer, dies at 71
02/25/1902 Carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf, composer, dies at 77
02/25/1906 Anton Stepanovich Arensky, composer, dies at 44
02/25/1914 John Tenniel, illustrator (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 93
02/25/1920 Aloys, Liechtenstein nobleman/politician, dies at 73
02/25/1922 Henri-D‚sir‚ Landru, French sex murderer: guillotined at 52
02/25/1925 Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia, composer, dies at 81
02/25/1934 Daniel Protheroe, composer, dies at 67
02/25/1942 Leo Ascher, composer, dies at 61
02/25/1945 M rio R de Morais Andrade, Brazilian poet/story teller, dies at 51
02/25/1947 Friedrich Paschen, German physicist, dies
02/25/1953 Jesus Garcia Leoz, composer, dies at 49
02/25/1955 Marij Kogoj, composer, dies at 59
02/25/1957 Kurt von Wolfurt, composer, dies at 76
02/25/1957 Mark Aldanov, [Mark A Landau], Russian/French chemist, dies at 70
02/25/1962 Wilhelm Pessler, German sociologist, dies at 81
02/25/1967 John Griggs, actor (Joey Bishop Show), dies at 57
02/25/1968 Camille Huysmans, Belgian premier (1946-47), dies at 96
02/25/1969 Jan Zajic, Czech student, self incinerates
02/25/1970 Mark Rothko, abstract expressionist (Green on Blue), dies at 66
02/25/1975 Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, dies at 77 in Chicago
02/25/1978 Daniel 'Chappie' James Jr, retired Air Force general, dies at 58
02/25/1983 John Cowles Sr., Us publisher, dies at 84
02/25/1987 James Coco, actor (Joe-Dumplings), dies at 58
02/25/1988 Amapola Del Vando, actress (Cowboy), dies
02/25/1990 Deborah Hampton, dies
02/25/1992 Guy Deghy, actor (Matter of Who, 1 Eyed Soldiers), dies
02/25/1992 John E Allen Jr, dies
02/25/1992 Ollie O'Toole, dies
02/25/1993 Eddie Constantine, actor (Alphaville, License to Kill), dies at 77
02/25/1993 John D Boeke, organist/conductor, dies
02/25/1993 Sjeng, [Jean GH] Tans, Dutch social dem chairmans (1965-69), dies
02/25/1993 Troy Caldwell, country musician (Marshall Tucker Band), dies at 45
02/25/1994 Baruch Goldstein, physician/murderer (53 in mosque), lynched at 42
02/25/1994 Yann Piat, French FN/PR-parliament leader, murdered at 44
Significant Events:
02/25/1095 Council of Rockingham: bishop Anselmus & King Willem II Rufus
02/25/1358 Dalmati‰ flees Venice
02/25/1540 Francisco V squez de Coronado searches for 7 cities of Cibola M‚xico
02/25/1570 Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth, absolves her subjects from allegian
02/25/1605 Portuguese garrison surrenders to Admiral Van Haghen
02/25/1751 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1›)
02/25/1791 1st Bank of US chartered
02/25/1793 1st cabinet meeting (At George Washington's home)
02/25/1799 1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land
02/25/1799 Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation
02/25/1803 Duitslands & about 1800 sovereign state unify into about 60 states
02/25/1804 Jefferson nominated for president at Democratic-Republican caucus
02/25/1828 John Quincy Adam's son John marries in White House
02/25/1830 Victor Hugo's 'Hernani' premieres
02/25/1836 Samuel Colt patents 1st revolving barrel multishot firearm
02/25/1837 1st US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport
02/25/1838 London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward then forward in 8 hours
02/25/1839 Seminoles & black allies shipped from Tampa Bay Florida, to West
02/25/1847 State University of Iowa is approved
02/25/1859 First use of 'insanity plea' to prove innocence
02/25/1862 Congress establishes US Bureau of Engraving & Printing
02/25/1863 Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency
02/25/1868 Andrew Johnson impeached for violation of Tenure of Office act
02/25/1870 Hiram Revels, is sworn in as 1st black member of Congress (Sen-MS)
02/25/1875 Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) turn self in at Ft Sill
02/25/1887 J Palisa discovers asteroid #265 Anna
02/25/1892 J Palisa discovers asteroid #324 Bamberga
02/25/1901 US Steel Corp organizes under directorship of J P Morgan
02/25/1904 J M Synge's 'Riders to the Sea' opens at Irish Natl Theater Society
02/25/1904 Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Toronto Marlboroughs in 2 for Stanley Cup
02/25/1905 Neth Workers van Vakverenigingen, (NVV) political party forms
02/25/1907 US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic
02/25/1908 1st tunnel under Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens
02/25/1910 Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies
02/25/1911 Opera 'Natoma' is produced (Philadelphia)
02/25/1913 16th Amendment ratified, authorizing income tax
02/25/1913 F Kaiser discovers asteroid #743 Eugenisis
02/25/1916 German troops conquer Fort Douaumont
02/25/1917 J Palisa discovers asteroid #867 Kovacia
02/25/1917 M Wolf discovers asteroid #866 Fatme
02/25/1919 League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty
02/25/1919 Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1› per gallon)
02/25/1921 Georgian SSR proclaimed
02/25/1923 Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 mark
02/25/1924 Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland HS basketball game (163-3)
02/25/1926 Kwo-less-shrew (Guomindang) declares war on govt/warlords
02/25/1927 Gdanks & Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor
02/25/1930 Check photographing device patented
02/25/1932 Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship
02/25/1933 1st aircraft carrier 'USS Ranger' launched
02/25/1933 1st genuine aircraft carrier christened, USS Ranger
02/25/1933 Major NFL rule changes (hash mark 10 yds in, posts on goal line)
02/25/1933 Thomas Yawkey purchases Boston Red Sox
02/25/1938 British Lord Halifax becomes Foreign Minister
02/25/1940 1st televised (W2XBS, NYC) hockey game (Rangers vs Canadians)
02/25/1941 Boston Bruins set NHL record of 23-game unbeaten streak (15-0-8)
02/25/1941 February strike against spread of Judaism
02/25/1943 Vietminh forms Indo-chinese Democratic Front
02/25/1945 US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo
02/25/1948 Communists seize Czechoslovakia/C Gottwald becomes premier
02/25/1949 WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record)
02/25/1951 1st Pan American Games opens (Buenos Aires Argentina)
02/25/1952 6th Winter Olympic games close at Oslo, Norway
02/25/1954 Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premier
02/25/1956 Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference
02/25/1957 Buddy Holly & Crickets record 'That'll Be the Day'
02/25/1961 Niagara ends St Bonaventura's 99-game home basketball win streak
02/25/1961 Paul Bikle in glider climbs from 1208 m at release to record 14,10
02/25/1962 Indies Congress Party wins elections
02/25/1962 Mike O'Hara completes a record 97th marathon
02/25/1962 Robert Kennedy visits Netherlands
02/25/1963 Beatles release their 1st single in US 'Please Please Me'
02/25/1964 Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resigns
02/25/1966 Syrian military coup under Hafiz al-Assad
02/25/1968 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea
02/25/1968 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2279 Barto
02/25/1968 Makarios elected president of Cyprus
02/25/1969 Beatles begin recording Abbey Road album
02/25/1969 Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars
02/25/1972 Lopsided trade, Cards trade Steve Carlton to Phillies for Rick Wise
02/25/1972 Paul McCartney releases 'Give Ireland back to the Irish' single
02/25/1973 Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders
02/25/1977 New Orleans' Pete Maravich sets NBA record for a guard with 68 pts
02/25/1977 Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons
02/25/1977 Soyuz 24 returns to Earth
02/25/1979 Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station is launched
02/25/1980 Coup ousts PM Henck Arron of Suriname
02/25/1981 L Calvo Sotelo elected premier of Spain
02/25/1981 NHL most penalized game; Bruins vs Northstars, 84 penalties (392 min
02/25/1981 NY Islanders give up their most goals (11) vs Calgary Flames
02/25/1981 Rita Jenrette (wife of Abscam congressman) appears on Donahue
02/25/1982 Record speed for a snowmobile-239 kph
02/25/1984 H Debehogne discovers asteroid #3389
02/25/1984 Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500
02/25/1986 Corazon Aquino becomes president of Philippines, Marcos flees
02/25/1986 Iran conquerors Iraq peninsula Fao
02/25/1986 Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel
02/25/1987 Michael Jordan, scores Chicago Bull record 58 points in a game
02/25/1987 US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative action
02/25/1988 Bruce Springsteen 'Tunnel of Love Tour,' begins in Worcester Mass
02/25/1988 South Korea adopts constitution
02/25/1989 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary formed
02/25/1989 Dallas Cowboys' new owner fires 29-year coach Tom Landry
02/25/1989 Lowest baramotric pressure in Netherlands (956.7 mbar at De Bilt)
02/25/1989 Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 rounds
02/25/1990 Nicaraguans vote out Sandinistas
02/25/1991 US, barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, hit by scud missile, kills 28
02/25/1993 Florida Marlins introduce their mascot 'Billy'
02/25/1994 Israeli madman kills 29 in mosque at Hebron
02/25/1994 Perua Yak-40 to Tingo Maria crashes into mountain, killing 31
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Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date
Registered to Omicron Theta
By Scott Labrecque
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Births:
02/25/1635 Walraad the Old, earl of Nassau-Usingen
02/25/1643 Ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95)
02/25/1680 Philipp Hyacinth Lobkowitz, composer
02/25/1707 Carlo Goldoni, Italy, dramatist (Love of 3 Oranges)
02/25/1725 Armand-Louis Couperin, Paris France, organist/composer (Notre Dame)
02/25/1731 Simon Style, Fries medical/writer
02/25/1732 Robert Hudson, composer
02/25/1735 Ernst William Wolf, composer
02/25/1778 Jos‚ Francisco de San Mart¡n, liberated Argentina, Chile & Per£
02/25/1788 Mateo Ferrer, composer
02/25/1794 Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, earl of Nijenhuis/Peckedam
02/25/1807 George Alfred Trenholm, Secy Treas (Confederacy), died in 1876
02/25/1808 James Bowen, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
02/25/1809 George Washington Cullom, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 18
02/25/1811 Carl Schuberth, composer
02/25/1814 Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian national poet/painter (3/9 NS)
02/25/1815 Robert Hall Chilton, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
02/25/1833 Clement Anselm Evans, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1911
02/25/1840 Alexis Hollander, composer
02/25/1840 Otto Liebmann, German philosopher (Climax of Theories)
02/25/1841 Pierre Auguste Renoir, France, Impressionist painter/sculptor
02/25/1842 Karl May, German writer (Old Shatterhand/Winnetou)
02/25/1847 John Watson, Canada, philospher (Objective Idealism)
02/25/1856 Charles Lang Freer, art collector; endowed Freer Gallery [or 1876]
02/25/1866 Beneditto Croce, Italy, humanist/historian/editor/philosopher
02/25/1871 Oliver Samuel Campbell, tennis champ (US singles 1890)
02/25/1873 Enrico Caruso, Naples Italy, operatic tenor (Faust)
02/25/1876 Charles Freer, art collector; endowed Freer Gallery
02/25/1879 Otakar Ostrcil, composer
02/25/1881 William Foster, Mass, Communist Pres candidate (1924,28,32)
02/25/1882 Bruno? Traven, German? writer (Sierra Madre)
02/25/1882 Jozef Goossenaerts, Flemish philogicist (Language boundary)
02/25/1882 Ludvig Nordstr”m, Sweden, writer (Story of Peter Svensk)
02/25/1887 Leonard Carey actor (Laughter)
02/25/1888 John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State (1953-59)
02/25/1894 Ernst Friedrich, Breslau Germany, pacifist (War Against War!)
02/25/1894 Howard Wendell, actor (Black Dakotas, 4 Skulls of Jonathan Drake)
02/25/1895 DeBenneville 'Bert' Bell, PA, NFL owner/commissioner/HOF (Eagles)
02/25/1895 Henri Martelli, composer
02/25/1896 John J McClellan, (Sen-D-Ark)
02/25/1899 Leo J Weisgerber, German linguist
02/25/1900 Jed Harris, producer/director (Billy Rose Show, Operation Mad Ball)
02/25/1901 Federico Ghisi, composer
02/25/1901 [Herbert] Zeppo Marx, comedian/actor (Marx Brothers)
02/25/1904 Adelle Davis, author (Lets Stay Healthy)/nutritionist (died of cance
02/25/1906 Boris Papandopulo, composer
02/25/1906 Domingo Ortega, Spanish bullfighter
02/25/1906 Howard Zahniser, Father of Wilderness Act
02/25/1906 Warren Hymer, actor (Girl From Havana, Meet the Mob, Phantom Killer)
02/25/1907 Shimen Rushkin, actor (Beau Brummel, Having a Wonderful Time)
02/25/1908 Frank G Slaughter, author (Sangaree)
02/25/1909 Edgar Pangborn, US, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy)
02/25/1910 Millicent Fenwick, NYC, (Rep-R-NJ 1975-82) (Doonesbury)
02/25/1912 Richard Wattis, actor (Hobson's Choice, Prince & Showgirl)
02/25/1913 Gert Froebe, Saxony Germany, actor (Goldfinger)
02/25/1913 Jim Backus, Cleve, actor (Mr Magoo, Thurston Howell III-Gilligan Is)
02/25/1916 Ralph Baldwin, harness driver (set 11 major world records)
02/25/1917 Anthony Burgess, essayist/novelist (Clockwork Orange)
02/25/1918 Bobby Riggs, tennis star (1939 US Open)
02/25/1918 Henry Norwood Ewell, Harrisburg Pa, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1948
02/25/1919 F de Jong Edz, historian
02/25/1919 Monty Irvin, baseball hall of famer (NY Giants)
02/25/1920 Hayes Gordon
02/25/1921 Nancy Kelly, US, actress (Double Exposure, Jesse James)
02/25/1922 Matti Rautio, composer
02/25/1925 Bert Remsen, Glen Cove NY, actor (Mario-It's a Living)
02/25/1927 Dick Jones, Snyder Tx, actor (Buffalo Bill Jr)
02/25/1927 Jacques Monod, composer
02/25/1927 Jane Nigh, Hollywood Calif, actress (Lorelei-Big Town)
02/25/1928 Richard Stern, US writer
02/25/1929 Christopher George, Royal Oak Minn, actor (Rat Patrol, Immortal)
02/25/1929 Tommy Newsom, Va, musician/bandleader/saxophonist (Tonight Show)
02/25/1932 Martin William Karlins, composer
02/25/1934 Linda Cristal actress (Comanche, Mr Majestyk, Panic in the City)
02/25/1936 Norman Orville Scribner, composer
02/25/1937 Basia Johnson, maid who inherited Johnson & Johnson fortune
02/25/1937 Bob Schieffer, Austin Tx, newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
02/25/1937 Tom Courtenay, England, actor (Dresser, Dr Zhivago, To Catch a Spy)
02/25/1938 Diane Baker, Hollywood Calif, actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Marnie)
02/25/1938 Herb Elliott, Australia, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1960)
02/25/1939 Marisa Mell, Graz Austria, actress (Masquerade, Casanova '70)
02/25/1940 Billy Packer, US, actor(?)
02/25/1940 Jes£s Lopez-Cobos, Toro Spain, conductor (Intl Conductor Competition
02/25/1940 Jud Taylor, actor (Dr Gerson-Dr Kildare)
02/25/1940 Ron Santo, Chicago Cub (1st baseball player to veto his trade)
02/25/1941 David Puttnam, London, film producer/CEO (Columbia Pictures)
02/25/1941 Ramon Pagayon Santos, composer
02/25/1941 Susan Browning, Baldwin NY, actress (Pat-Mary Hartman)
02/25/1943 George Harrison, Beatle/Travelling Willberries (My Sweet Lord)
02/25/1943 Maryann Amacher, composer
02/25/1943 Sally Jessy Raphael, TV talk show host (Sally)
02/25/1944 Karen Grassle, Berkeley Ca, actress (Caroline-Little House on Prairi
02/25/1944 Kristina Holland, Fayetteville NC, (Tina-Courtship of Eddie's Father
02/25/1945 Elkie Brooks, Manchester England, rocker (Pearl's a Singer)
02/25/1945 Shivadhar Srinivasa Naipaul, Trinidad, novelist, essayist (Fireflies
02/25/1947 Lee Edward Evans, Madera Calif, 400m runner (Olympic-2 gold-1968)
02/25/1950 'Nature Boy' Ric Flair, [Fliehr], wrestler (NWA/WWF/WCW/AWA)
02/25/1950 Emitt Rhodes, musician (Merry-go-Round)
02/25/1950 Rick Flair, [Richard Fliehr], WCW wrestling champ
02/25/1952 James A Barcia, (Rep-D-Michigan)
02/25/1953 Garrett Glaser, entertainment correspondant (Entertainment Tonight)
02/25/1955 Leann Hunley, actress (Dane Carrington-Dynasty)
02/25/1957 Stuart 'Woody' Wood, guitarist (Bay City Rollers-Saturday Night)
02/25/1958 Kurt Rambis, NBA forward (Lakers, Hornets)/Clark Kent look-a-like
02/25/1959 Mike Peters, rocker (Alarm-In the Summertime)
02/25/1962 Birgit Fischer, German DR, 500m kayaker (Olympic-gold-1980)
02/25/1971 Jennifer LaVoie, Nashua NH, playmate (Aug, 1993)
02/25/1971 Sean Astin, actor (Goonies, Toy Soldiers, Like Father Like Son)
02/25/1976 Chris Pitman
Deaths:
02/25/ 779 Walburgis, English speaking abbess/saint (Walpurgisnacht), dies
02/25/1247 Hendrik IV, duke of Limburg/earl of Bergen (1226-47), dies
02/25/1495 Djem Sultan, son of Turkish sultan Mehmed II, dies at 35
02/25/1601 Earl of Essex, executed for treason in revolt against Queen Elizabet
02/25/1602 Everard van Reyd, historian, dies at about 51
02/25/1634 Albrecht WE baron von Wallenstein, [Waldstein], German duke, murdere
02/25/1643 Marco da Gagliano, composer, dies at 60
02/25/1682 Alessandro Stradella, composer, dies at 37
02/25/1713 Frederik I, King of Prussia (1701-13), dies at 55
02/25/1719 Giovanni Maria Casini, composer, dies at 66
02/25/1723 Christopher Wren, England, astronomer/architect, dies
02/25/1826 Piotr A von der Pahlen, military governor of St Petersburg, dies at
02/25/1851 Ferdinand Simon Gassner, composer, dies at 53
02/25/1865 Otto Ludwig, German writer (Zwischen Himmel und Erde), dies at 47
02/25/1901 Jose Rogel, composer, dies at 71
02/25/1902 Carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf, composer, dies at 77
02/25/1906 Anton Stepanovich Arensky, composer, dies at 44
02/25/1914 John Tenniel, illustrator (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 93
02/25/1920 Aloys, Liechtenstein nobleman/politician, dies at 73
02/25/1922 Henri-D‚sir‚ Landru, French sex murderer: guillotined at 52
02/25/1925 Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia, composer, dies at 81
02/25/1934 Daniel Protheroe, composer, dies at 67
02/25/1942 Leo Ascher, composer, dies at 61
02/25/1945 M rio R de Morais Andrade, Brazilian poet/story teller, dies at 51
02/25/1947 Friedrich Paschen, German physicist, dies
02/25/1953 Jesus Garcia Leoz, composer, dies at 49
02/25/1955 Marij Kogoj, composer, dies at 59
02/25/1957 Kurt von Wolfurt, composer, dies at 76
02/25/1957 Mark Aldanov, [Mark A Landau], Russian/French chemist, dies at 70
02/25/1962 Wilhelm Pessler, German sociologist, dies at 81
02/25/1967 John Griggs, actor (Joey Bishop Show), dies at 57
02/25/1968 Camille Huysmans, Belgian premier (1946-47), dies at 96
02/25/1969 Jan Zajic, Czech student, self incinerates
02/25/1970 Mark Rothko, abstract expressionist (Green on Blue), dies at 66
02/25/1975 Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, dies at 77 in Chicago
02/25/1978 Daniel 'Chappie' James Jr, retired Air Force general, dies at 58
02/25/1983 John Cowles Sr., Us publisher, dies at 84
02/25/1987 James Coco, actor (Joe-Dumplings), dies at 58
02/25/1988 Amapola Del Vando, actress (Cowboy), dies
02/25/1990 Deborah Hampton, dies
02/25/1992 Guy Deghy, actor (Matter of Who, 1 Eyed Soldiers), dies
02/25/1992 John E Allen Jr, dies
02/25/1992 Ollie O'Toole, dies
02/25/1993 Eddie Constantine, actor (Alphaville, License to Kill), dies at 77
02/25/1993 John D Boeke, organist/conductor, dies
02/25/1993 Sjeng, [Jean GH] Tans, Dutch social dem chairmans (1965-69), dies
02/25/1993 Troy Caldwell, country musician (Marshall Tucker Band), dies at 45
02/25/1994 Baruch Goldstein, physician/murderer (53 in mosque), lynched at 42
02/25/1994 Yann Piat, French FN/PR-parliament leader, murdered at 44
Significant Events:
02/25/1095 Council of Rockingham: bishop Anselmus & King Willem II Rufus
02/25/1358 Dalmati‰ flees Venice
02/25/1540 Francisco V squez de Coronado searches for 7 cities of Cibola M‚xico
02/25/1570 Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth, absolves her subjects from allegian
02/25/1605 Portuguese garrison surrenders to Admiral Van Haghen
02/25/1751 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1›)
02/25/1791 1st Bank of US chartered
02/25/1793 1st cabinet meeting (At George Washington's home)
02/25/1799 1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land
02/25/1799 Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation
02/25/1803 Duitslands & about 1800 sovereign state unify into about 60 states
02/25/1804 Jefferson nominated for president at Democratic-Republican caucus
02/25/1828 John Quincy Adam's son John marries in White House
02/25/1830 Victor Hugo's 'Hernani' premieres
02/25/1836 Samuel Colt patents 1st revolving barrel multishot firearm
02/25/1837 1st US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport
02/25/1838 London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward then forward in 8 hours
02/25/1839 Seminoles & black allies shipped from Tampa Bay Florida, to West
02/25/1847 State University of Iowa is approved
02/25/1859 First use of 'insanity plea' to prove innocence
02/25/1862 Congress establishes US Bureau of Engraving & Printing
02/25/1863 Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency
02/25/1868 Andrew Johnson impeached for violation of Tenure of Office act
02/25/1870 Hiram Revels, is sworn in as 1st black member of Congress (Sen-MS)
02/25/1875 Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) turn self in at Ft Sill
02/25/1887 J Palisa discovers asteroid #265 Anna
02/25/1892 J Palisa discovers asteroid #324 Bamberga
02/25/1901 US Steel Corp organizes under directorship of J P Morgan
02/25/1904 J M Synge's 'Riders to the Sea' opens at Irish Natl Theater Society
02/25/1904 Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Toronto Marlboroughs in 2 for Stanley Cup
02/25/1905 Neth Workers van Vakverenigingen, (NVV) political party forms
02/25/1907 US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic
02/25/1908 1st tunnel under Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens
02/25/1910 Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies
02/25/1911 Opera 'Natoma' is produced (Philadelphia)
02/25/1913 16th Amendment ratified, authorizing income tax
02/25/1913 F Kaiser discovers asteroid #743 Eugenisis
02/25/1916 German troops conquer Fort Douaumont
02/25/1917 J Palisa discovers asteroid #867 Kovacia
02/25/1917 M Wolf discovers asteroid #866 Fatme
02/25/1919 League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty
02/25/1919 Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1› per gallon)
02/25/1921 Georgian SSR proclaimed
02/25/1923 Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 mark
02/25/1924 Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland HS basketball game (163-3)
02/25/1926 Kwo-less-shrew (Guomindang) declares war on govt/warlords
02/25/1927 Gdanks & Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor
02/25/1930 Check photographing device patented
02/25/1932 Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship
02/25/1933 1st aircraft carrier 'USS Ranger' launched
02/25/1933 1st genuine aircraft carrier christened, USS Ranger
02/25/1933 Major NFL rule changes (hash mark 10 yds in, posts on goal line)
02/25/1933 Thomas Yawkey purchases Boston Red Sox
02/25/1938 British Lord Halifax becomes Foreign Minister
02/25/1940 1st televised (W2XBS, NYC) hockey game (Rangers vs Canadians)
02/25/1941 Boston Bruins set NHL record of 23-game unbeaten streak (15-0-8)
02/25/1941 February strike against spread of Judaism
02/25/1943 Vietminh forms Indo-chinese Democratic Front
02/25/1945 US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo
02/25/1948 Communists seize Czechoslovakia/C Gottwald becomes premier
02/25/1949 WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record)
02/25/1951 1st Pan American Games opens (Buenos Aires Argentina)
02/25/1952 6th Winter Olympic games close at Oslo, Norway
02/25/1954 Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premier
02/25/1956 Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference
02/25/1957 Buddy Holly & Crickets record 'That'll Be the Day'
02/25/1961 Niagara ends St Bonaventura's 99-game home basketball win streak
02/25/1961 Paul Bikle in glider climbs from 1208 m at release to record 14,10
02/25/1962 Indies Congress Party wins elections
02/25/1962 Mike O'Hara completes a record 97th marathon
02/25/1962 Robert Kennedy visits Netherlands
02/25/1963 Beatles release their 1st single in US 'Please Please Me'
02/25/1964 Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resigns
02/25/1966 Syrian military coup under Hafiz al-Assad
02/25/1968 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea
02/25/1968 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2279 Barto
02/25/1968 Makarios elected president of Cyprus
02/25/1969 Beatles begin recording Abbey Road album
02/25/1969 Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars
02/25/1972 Lopsided trade, Cards trade Steve Carlton to Phillies for Rick Wise
02/25/1972 Paul McCartney releases 'Give Ireland back to the Irish' single
02/25/1973 Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders
02/25/1977 New Orleans' Pete Maravich sets NBA record for a guard with 68 pts
02/25/1977 Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons
02/25/1977 Soyuz 24 returns to Earth
02/25/1979 Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station is launched
02/25/1980 Coup ousts PM Henck Arron of Suriname
02/25/1981 L Calvo Sotelo elected premier of Spain
02/25/1981 NHL most penalized game; Bruins vs Northstars, 84 penalties (392 min
02/25/1981 NY Islanders give up their most goals (11) vs Calgary Flames
02/25/1981 Rita Jenrette (wife of Abscam congressman) appears on Donahue
02/25/1982 Record speed for a snowmobile-239 kph
02/25/1984 H Debehogne discovers asteroid #3389
02/25/1984 Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500
02/25/1986 Corazon Aquino becomes president of Philippines, Marcos flees
02/25/1986 Iran conquerors Iraq peninsula Fao
02/25/1986 Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel
02/25/1987 Michael Jordan, scores Chicago Bull record 58 points in a game
02/25/1987 US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative action
02/25/1988 Bruce Springsteen 'Tunnel of Love Tour,' begins in Worcester Mass
02/25/1988 South Korea adopts constitution
02/25/1989 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary formed
02/25/1989 Dallas Cowboys' new owner fires 29-year coach Tom Landry
02/25/1989 Lowest baramotric pressure in Netherlands (956.7 mbar at De Bilt)
02/25/1989 Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 rounds
02/25/1990 Nicaraguans vote out Sandinistas
02/25/1991 US, barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, hit by scud missile, kills 28
02/25/1993 Florida Marlins introduce their mascot 'Billy'
02/25/1994 Israeli madman kills 29 in mosque at Hebron
02/25/1994 Perua Yak-40 to Tingo Maria crashes into mountain, killing 31
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Births:
02/27/ 289 Constantine the Great, Roman emperor (312-37), adopted Christianity
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Births:
02/27/1539 Franciscus Raphelengius, Dutch book publisher
02/27/1622 Rembrandt Carel Fabritius, painter
02/27/1649 Johann Philipp Krieger, composer
02/27/1702 Johann Valentin Gorner, composer
02/27/1745 Silverius Muller, composer
02/27/1746 Gian Francesco Fortunati, composer
02/27/1759 Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, composer
02/27/1784 Elias Annes Borger, theologist/poet (Ode on Rhine)
02/27/1784 Job Plimpton, composer
02/27/1792 Don Joaquin BF Espartero, Spanish adventurer/field marshal
02/27/1807 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Portland Maine, poet (Hiawatha)
02/27/1822 Eugene Gautier, composer
02/27/1823 Fredinand Van Derveer, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
02/27/1823 William Buel Franklin, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 190
02/27/1827 Richard W Johnson, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1897
02/27/1832 Alfred Pollard Edward, Civil War journalist, died in 1872
02/27/1846 Joaquin Valverde, composer
02/27/1847 Dame Ellen Alice Terry, England, actress/director (Imperial Theatre)
02/27/1848 Charles Hubert H Parry, English musicologist/composer (Jerusalem)
02/27/1850 Henry Edwards Huntington, US, railroad exec
02/27/1861 Rudolf Steiner, Austria, philosopher (founded anthroposophy movement
02/27/1867 Irving Fisher, US economist (compensating dollar)
02/27/1867 Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, composer
02/27/1870 Louis Coerne, composer
02/27/1873 Enrico Caruso, composer
02/27/1874 Max Ettinger, composer
02/27/1879 Jose Sancho Marraco, composer
02/27/1881 Luitzen [Bertus] Brouwers, mathematician
02/27/1881 Sveinn Bj”rnsson, 1st president of Iceland (1944-52)/poet (Figur ild
02/27/1886 Hugo L Black, Ala, (Sen-D-Ala)/78th Supreme Court justice (1937-71)
02/27/1887 James D Innes, English painter
02/27/1888 Lotte Lehmann, Perleberg Germany, soprano (Fidello)
02/27/1891 David Sarnoff, US, radio/TV pioneer/CEO (RCA)
02/27/1891 Georges E Migot, French composer
02/27/1892 William Demarest, St Paul Minn, actor (Uncle Charlie-My 3 Sons)
02/27/1893 Joseph Messner, composer
02/27/1894 Robert-Lucien Siohan, composer
02/27/1895 Edward Brophy, actor (Champ, Dumbo, Great Guy, Cameraman, Doughboys)
02/27/1897 Bernard F Lyot, French astronomer (Lyot filter)
02/27/1897 G Paul H Schuitema, graphic designer/photographer (System-O-Color)
02/27/1898 Allison Danzig, sports writer (Tennis Pictorial History)
02/27/1898 Rutkowski Bronislaw, composer
02/27/1899 Charles H Best, Maine, physiologist/co-discoverer (Insulin)
02/27/1899 Ian Keith, US actor (Rochefort-3 Musketeers)
02/27/1899 Sulo Nikolai Salonen, composer
02/27/1901 Marino Marini, Italian sculptor/painter
02/27/1902 Gene Sarazen, Harrison NY, PGA golfer (Masters 1935, US Open 1922, 3
02/27/1902 John Steinbeck, Salinas Calif, author (Grapes of Wrath-Nobel 1962)
02/27/1903 Reginald Gardiner, Wimbeldon England, actor (Great Dictator)
02/27/1904 James Thomas Farrell, US, author (Studs Lonigan trilogy)
02/27/1904 Renaat Verhe˜en, Flemish actor/director
02/27/1905 Charles de Keukeleire, Belgian director (Evil Eye)
02/27/1905 Franchot Tone, Niagara Falls NY, actor (Dr Freeland-Ben Casey)
02/27/1906 H Algernon F 'Algy' Rumbold, English diplomat (S Africa/Tibet)
02/27/1907 Gerhard Alexander, actor (Prince Willem of Orange)
02/27/1909 Elisabeth Welsh, singer
02/27/1910 Joan Bennett, Palasades NJ, actress (Little Women, Disraeli)
02/27/1910 Peter De Vries, Chicago, author (Reuben Reuben, Prick of Noon)
02/27/1912 Lawrence Durrell, Darjeeling India, writer (Alexandria Quartet)
02/27/1913 Frank Allaun, British MP (L)
02/27/1913 Irwin Shaw, US, novelist (Rich Man Poor Man)
02/27/1919 Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, composer
02/27/1920 Jose Melis, Havana Cuba, orch leader (Jack Paar Program)
02/27/1921 Andras Szollosy, composer
02/27/1922 Mervyn Jones, author (Nobody's Fault, 5 Hungarian Writers)
02/27/1923 Dexter Gordon, US tenor saxophonist
02/27/1923 Viktor Kalabis, composer
02/27/1925 Guy Mitchell, Detroit Mich, singer/actor (Guy Mitchell Show)
02/27/1925 Richard AFM Auwerda, journalist/writer
02/27/1926 Peter Emery, British MP
02/27/1930 Joanne Woodward, Thomasville Ga, actress (3 Faces of Eve, Rachel)
02/27/1932 Dolf Rover, painter
02/27/1932 Elizabeth Taylor, London, actress (Cleopatra) violet eyes
02/27/1932 Lord Young of Graffham, CEO (Cables & Wireless)
02/27/1933 Edward Lucie-Smith, poetry critic
02/27/1933 Malcolm Wallop, (Sen-R-WY, 1977- )
02/27/1933 Raymond Berry, Texas, NFL hall of famer (Baltimore Colts)
02/27/1934 Ralph Nader, ex-Corvair fan/consumer advocate (Unsafe at Any Speed)
02/27/1934 Van Williams, Fort Worth Tx, actor (Green Hornet, Tycoon)
02/27/1935 Alberto Remedious, opera singer
02/27/1935 Mirella Freni, Modena Italy, lyric soprano (Madame Butterfly)
02/27/1936 Chuck Glaser, Spalding Neb, singer (Glaser Bros-Getting to Me Again)
02/27/1936 Roger M Mahoney, Hollywood Ca, archbishop of Los Angeles (1985- )
02/27/1936 Virginia Maskell, actress (Suspect, Doctor in Love, Man Upstairs)
02/27/1937 Barbara Babcock, actress (Liz-Dallas, Grace-Hill St Blues)
02/27/1937 L Jay Silvester, US, discus thrower (Olympic-silver-1972)
02/27/1938 Pascal Petit, actor (Code Name: Jaguar, End of Desire, Cheaters)
02/27/1939 Antoinette Sibley, ballerina
02/27/1939 Kenzo Takada, fashion designer
02/27/1939 Peter Revson, auto racer (1971 Indianapolis pole winner)
02/27/1940 Howard Hesseman, Salem Or, actor (Dr Johnny Fever-WKRP, Head of Clas
02/27/1941 Paddy Ashton, New Delhi India, British MP leader (Soc/Lib Democrat)
02/27/1942 Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Due West SC, news reporter (McNeil-Lehrer)
02/27/1943 Mary Frann, St Louis Mo, actress (Joanna-Newhart, Days of Our Live)
02/27/1944 Alan Fudge, Wichita Ks, actor (Man From Atlantis, Paper Dolls)
02/27/1947 Gidon Kremer, Riga Latvia, violinist (Tchaikovsky Prize 1970)
02/27/1947 Marian G Fix, mime/actress (Dig up Cabbage)
02/27/1948 Eddie Gray, rock guitarist (Tommy James & Shondells-Crystal Blue)
02/27/1951 Lee Atwater, Republican National Committee Chairman (1989-91)
02/27/1952 Dwight Elmo Jones, Houston Tx, basketball player (Olymp-silver-1972)
02/27/1952 Henk Westbroek, singer (Good Goal)
02/27/1954 Neal Schon, rock guitarist (Journey-Open Arms, Bad English)
02/27/1955 Garry Christian, rocker
02/27/1957 Adrian Smith, heavy metal guitarist (Iron Maiden-Aces High)
02/27/1960 Andres Gomez, tennis pro (Madrid Grand Prix-1990)
02/27/1960 Bolik Dahan, Suriname singer/radio host (Radio KBC)
02/27/1960 Paul Humphreys, rock synthersizers (OMD-Crush, Pacific Age)
02/27/1960 Stoney Jackson, Richmond Va, actor (White Shadow, Insiders)
02/27/1961 Grant Shaud, actor (Miles Silverburg-Murphy Brown)
02/27/1961 James Worthy, NBA forward (LA Lakers, 1988 Playoff MVP)
02/27/1962 Adam Baldwin, actor (Full Metal Jacket, My Bodyguard)
02/27/1962 Grant Show, Detroit Mich, actor (Jack Hanson-Melrose Place)
02/27/1964 Ewen Vernal, British pop bassist (Deacon Blue-Your Town)
02/27/1966 Gregg Rainwater, actor (Buck Cross-Young Riders)
02/27/1969 Victoria Fair, Jackson Michigan, Miss Michigan-America (1991)
02/27/1971 Ivan Robinson, Phila Pa, US boxer (Olympic-92)
02/27/1973 'Pooh' Clark, rocker (High-5)
02/27/1975 Christina Nigra, actress (Out of This World)
02/27/1980 Chelsea Clinton, daughter of President Clinton
Deaths:
02/27/1167 Robert van Melun, English philosopher/bishop of Hereford, dies
02/27/1656 Johan van Heemskerk, lawyer/writer/interpreter, dies
02/27/1731 Angelo Predieri, composer, dies at 76
02/27/1733 Johann Adam Birkenstock, composer, dies at 46
02/27/1779 John Nepveu, gov-gen of Suriname (1769-79), dies at 59
02/27/1797 Benvenuto Robbio San Rafaele, composer, dies at 62
02/27/1805 Stefan Paluselli, composer, dies at 57
02/27/1844 Nicholas Biddle, US lawyer, diplomat, statesman, & financier, dies
02/27/1852 Joseph Drechsler, composer, dies at 69
02/27/1862 Gabriele dell' Addolorata, patron of Ital Catholic youth, dies at 23
02/27/1881 George Colley, British governor of Natal/general, dies in battle at
02/27/1887 Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin, composer, dies at 53
02/27/1920 Alexandru D Xenopol, Romanian historian, dies at 72
02/27/1923 Charles Francis Abdy Williams, composer, dies at 67
02/27/1929 Manuel Manrique de Lara y Berry, composer, dies at 65
02/27/1936 Ivan P Pavlov, Russian physiologist (reflexes, Nobel 1904), dies
02/27/1939 Nadezjda K Krupskaja, Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin, dies
02/27/1942 Karel WFM Doorman, spy (Java sea), dies
02/27/1943 Kost¡s Palam s, Greek poet/scholar (Flogera tou Bas¡lia), dies at 84
02/27/1945 HJ Lochtman, Dutch chaplin/resistance fighter (Belsen)
02/27/1955 Tom Howard, comedian (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 66
02/27/1956 Frank Dailey, orch leader (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 54
02/27/1956 Gunther Ramin, composer, dies at 57
02/27/1958 Harry Cohn, CEO (Columbia Pictures), dies of a heart attack
02/27/1960 Adriano Olivetti, Italian engineer/manufacturer, dies at 58
02/27/1961 Platt Adams, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1912), dies
02/27/1962 Willie Best, actor (Charlie-My Little Margie), dies at 45
02/27/1966 Minerva Urecal, actress (Apache Rose, Ghost Crazy), dies at 81
02/27/1968 Ludvik Podest, composer, dies at 46
02/27/1969 John Boles, actor (Stella Dallas, Curly Top), dies at 73
02/27/1973 Lucijan Marija Skerjanc, composer, dies at 72
02/27/1974 Pat Brady, Toledo Ohio, actor (Roy Rodgers Show), dies at 59
02/27/1977 Allison Hayes, actress (Attack of 50 Foot Woman), dies at 47
02/27/1978 Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov, composer, dies at 65
02/27/1980 George Tobias, actor (Abner Kravitz-Bewitched), dies at 78
02/27/1982 Malika A Sabirova, Russian dancer, dies at 39
02/27/1985 David Huffman, actor (FIST, Jane Doe, Firefox, Onion Field), dies
02/27/1985 Henry Cabot Lodge, (Sen-R)/diplomat, dies at 82
02/27/1985 Pat J O'Malley, actor (My Favorite Martian, Maude), dies at 83
02/27/1987 Joan Greenwood, actress (Gentle Sex, Bad Sister), dies at 65
02/27/1989 Conrad Lorenz, Austria zoologist (Nobel 1973), dies
02/27/1989 Joe Silver, actor (Rage, Rapid, Deathtrap, Shivers), dies
02/27/1991 Artie Mitchell, XXX producer (Behind the Green Door), shot at 45
02/27/1991 H J of Royen, director Concert worker, dies
02/27/1991 Robert-John Akkerman, diplomat to Tunis, murdered
02/27/1992 Marinus Ruppert, Dutch political president (CNV), dies
02/27/1993 Lillian Gish, US actress (Birth of a Nation), dies at 99
02/27/1993 Ruby Keeler, actress (42nd Street), dies of cancer at 83
02/27/1994 Harold Acton, English/Italian historian/art collector, dies at 84
02/27/1994 Karl I Pelgrom, sculptor, dies at 66
02/27/1994 Leopold 'Hans' Kohr, Austria social philosopher/economist, dies at 8
Significant Events:
02/27/ 837 15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
02/27/1526 Saxony & Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes)
02/27/1563 William Byrd is appointed organist at Lincoln Cathedral
02/27/1667 Abraham Crijnssen conquerors Fort Willoughby (Zeelandia), Suriname
02/27/1670 Jews are expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I
02/27/1700 Pacific island of New Britain discovered
02/27/1713 French troops bomb Willemstadt Cura‡ao
02/27/1801 Washington DC placed under Congressional jurisdiction
02/27/1803 Great fire in Bombay, India
02/27/1813 1st federal vaccination legislation enacted
02/27/1813 Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail
02/27/1814 Beethoven's 8th symphony premieres
02/27/1816 Dutch regain Suriname
02/27/1827 1st Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans
02/27/1844 Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti (National Day)
02/27/1854 Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt in Rhine
02/27/1861 US Congress authorizes 1st stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing
02/27/1864 6th & last day of battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties)
02/27/1864 Near Andersonville GA, rebels open a new POW camp 'Camp Sumpter'
02/27/1865 Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri
02/27/1869 John Menard is 1st black to make a speech in Congress
02/27/1871 Meeting of Alabama claims commission
02/27/1872 Charlotte Ray, 1st Black woman lawyer, graduated Harvard U
02/27/1873 Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor
02/27/1874 Baseball 1st played in England, at Lord's Cricket Grounds
02/27/1877 US Electoral College declares R Hayes winner presidential election
02/27/1881 Battle at Amajuba, S Afr: Boers vs Brit army under Gen Colley
02/27/1881 Battle at Majuba Hill: Boers beat British, 94 killed
02/27/1883 Oscar Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine
02/27/1890 D Needham & P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 h 39 m), SF; match is draw
02/27/1900 Boer General Cronj‚ surrenders to English in Pardenberg, South-Afric
02/27/1900 Conference in London calls for creation of a British labor party
02/27/1906 France & Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides
02/27/1912 Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway
02/27/1919 1st public performance of Holst's 'Planets'
02/27/1919 American Association for Hard of Hearing formed, NYC
02/27/1922 Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amend woman's right to vote
02/27/1924 Belgium's Theunis govt falls
02/27/1925 Hitler's forms NSDAP political party in Munich
02/27/1927 For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in SC arrested for violating Sabbath
02/27/1929 Turkey signs Litvinov-pact
02/27/1930 Bouvet Island declared a Norwegian dependency
02/27/1930 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1665 Gaby
02/27/1932 Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA (38 dead)
02/27/1933 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #2248 Kanda
02/27/1933 Nazis set fire to German parliament, blame it on communists
02/27/1936 Willy de Supervise swims world record 100 m free style (1:04.6)
02/27/1938 Britain & France recognize Franco govt in Spain
02/27/1939 Belgian govt of Pierlot falls
02/27/1939 France recognizes Franco's regime in Spain
02/27/1939 Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes
02/27/1942 Battle of Java Sea began 13 US warships sunk-2 Japanese
02/27/1942 J S Hey discovers radio emissions from Sun
02/27/1947 Paul-Emile Victor French polar expeditions organized
02/27/1949 Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli president
02/27/1950 General Chang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China
02/27/1951 22nd amendment ratified, limiting president to 2 terms
02/27/1951 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1649 Fabre
02/27/1956 Female suffrage in Egypt
02/27/1957 Mao's speech 'On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People'
02/27/1959 Chicago Cards trade running back Ollie Matson to LA Rams for 9 playe
02/27/1960 oil pipe line from Rotterdam-Ruhrgebied in use
02/27/1962 South-Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diems palace bombed, 1st US killed
02/27/1965 Dutch Marijnen govt resigns
02/27/1967 Antigua & St Christopher-Nevis become associated states of UK
02/27/1967 Dominica gains independence from England
02/27/1967 Pink Floyd release their 1st single 'Arnold Layne'
02/27/1967 Rio de la Plata Treaty
02/27/1969 Gen Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via milt coup
02/27/1969 President Nixon visits West-Berlin
02/27/1970 NY Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance
02/27/1972 Pres Nixon & Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued Shanghai Communique
02/27/1973 American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota
02/27/1973 Dick Allen signs a record $675,000 3-yr contract with White Sox
02/27/1973 Indians occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota
02/27/1973 L Kohoutek discovers asteroids 1999 Hirayama, 2407, 2472, 2541 & 290
02/27/1975 CDU-politician Peter Lorentz kidnapped in West Berlin
02/27/1975 House of Reps pass $21.3 billion anti-recession tax-cut bill
02/27/1976 Final meeting between Mao tse Tung & Richard Nixon
02/27/1976 P Wild discovers asteroids #2080 Jihlava, #2081 Sazava & #2088 Sahli
02/27/1976 R M West discovers asteroid #3004
02/27/1977 Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada
02/27/1980 Grammy Awards feature a Barbra Striesand-Neil Diamond duet
02/27/1980 Israel & Egypt exchange ambassadors
02/27/1980 Robert Mugabes ZANU-PF wins elections in Zimbabwe
02/27/1980 Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota
02/27/1981 Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747
02/27/1981 Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder record 'Ebony & Ivory'
02/27/1982 Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), hits on 63rd consecutive free throw
02/27/1982 Earl Anthony becomes 1st pro bowler to win more than $1 million
02/27/1982 Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta
02/27/1983 Eamonn Coghlan set indoor mile record of 3:49.78
02/27/1984 Carl Lewis jumps world record indoor (8,675 m)
02/27/1984 WRC-AM in Washington DC changes call letters to WWRC
02/27/1984 Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa
02/27/1985 Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief
02/27/1985 Mauritania's new constitutional charter published
02/27/1985 US dollar is worth Ÿ3.9355 (Netherlands)
02/27/1987 Donald Regan resigned as White House chief of staff
02/27/1987 Mike Conley jumps world record (17.76m)
02/27/1988 Bonnie Blair (US) wins Olympic 500m speedskating in record 39.1
02/27/1988 Gulfstream G-IV goes around the world 36:08:34
02/27/1988 Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympic figure skating
02/27/1989 German war criminals Aus Van de F nten/Fischer, freed
02/27/1991 Noureddine Morcelli set 1500m mark at 3:34:16
02/27/1991 Singer James Brown is released from prison
02/27/1991 US led allied 6 week war with Iraq ends
02/27/1994 17th Winter Olympic games closes in Lillehammer, Norway
02/27/1994 Church in Beirut bombed, 10 killed
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Births:
02/26/1564 Christopher Marlowe, dramatist (Dr Faustus), baptized
02/26/1588 Nicolaus Erich, composer
02/26/1675 Guillaume Delisle, Paris France, geographer (Atlas géographique)
02/26/1675 Johann Philipp Treiber, composer
02/26/1677 Nicola Fago, composer
02/26/1686 Godefroi L Count d'Estrades, French diplomat
02/26/1707 Carlo Goldoni, Ital's lawyer/playwright (Belisario)
02/26/1717 John Randall, composer
02/26/1770 Antoine Reicha, composer
02/26/1772 Caspar Furstenau, composer
02/26/1802 Victor Hugo, France, author (Hunchback of Notre Dame)
02/26/1808 Honoré Daumier, France, painter/lithographer/caricaturist
02/26/1824 Carlos Calvo, Arg diplomat/people rights scholar (Calvo Clause)
02/26/1825 Hans Balatka, composer
02/26/1831 Filippo Marchetti, composer
02/26/1832 John George Nicolay, US, author (Abe Lincoln's biographer)
02/26/1834 Aleksander Zarzycki, composer
02/26/1835 Richard Andree, German geography/etnologist (Andree's Handatlas)
02/26/1837 Charles Woeste, Belgian count/min of Justice
02/26/1838 Wendelin Weissheimer, composer
02/26/1842 Camille Flammarion, Mars researcher & popularizer of astronomy
02/26/1845 Aleksander Rozycki, composer
02/26/1845 Alexander III, St Petersburg, Russian tsar (1881-94) (3/10 NS)
02/26/1846 William 'Buffalo Bill' Cody, Davenport Iowa, killed 4000 buffaloes
02/26/1852 John Harvey Kellogg, surgeon, inspired flaked cereal industry
02/26/1857 Emile Coué, French pharmacist (recovery by auto suggestion)
02/26/1861 Ferdinand I, Vienna, 1st tsar of modern Bulgaria (1908-18)
02/26/1866 Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in US chemical industry (Dow Chemical)
02/26/1867 Siegfried Passarge, German geographer (Cameroon/So Afr/America)
02/26/1869 Nadezjda K Krupskaja, Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin
02/26/1873 Ewoud van Everdingen, meteorologist
02/26/1874 Carl Vogler, composer
02/26/1875 Emma Dunn, actress (Dr Monica, Dr Kildare's Strange Case, Hideaway)
02/26/1875 Richard Wetz, composer
02/26/1876 Agustin P Justo y Rolon, pres Argentina (1931-38)
02/26/1876 Pauline Musters, smallest man (1'11.2' (58.9 cm))
02/26/1877 Carel S Adama van Scheltema, poet/writer (socialism)
02/26/1877 Russell Alexander, composer
02/26/1879 Frank Bridge, English violinist/composer/conductor/tutor of B Britte
02/26/1883 Erich R Jaensch, German psychologist (eidetiek)
02/26/1884 Dina Appeldoorn, composer
02/26/1884 Hildo Krop, modernistic sculptor
02/26/1885 Lili Green, [Alice Sally Mary], Neth/Eng dancer
02/26/1887 Benegal Narsing Rau, India, pres of UN Security Council (1950)
02/26/1887 Grover Cleveland Alexander, HOF baseball pitcher (Phillies, Cubs)
02/26/1891 Alan Bridge, actor (North of Arizona, Badmen of the Hills)
02/26/1893 Ivor Richards, English critic
02/26/1893 William Frawley, Iowa, actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy, Bub-My 3 Sons)
02/26/1896 Eduard Flipse, conductor/composer
02/26/1898 Julien de Valckenaere, Flemish writer
02/26/1900 Jean Negulesco, Spanish director (3 Coins in a Fountain)
02/26/1902 Menno ter Brak, writer/essayist (Carnaval of the Citizens)
02/26/1902 Rudolf Moralt, German conductor
02/26/1902 Vercors, [Jean Bruller], French writer (Le silence de la mer)
02/26/1906 Madeleine Carroll, English actress (39 Steps, Secret Agent)
02/26/1911 Josef Smrkovsky, Czechoslovakia parliament chairman
02/26/1913 Jon Hall, Fresno Calif, actor (Ramor of the Jungle)
02/26/1914 Robert Alda, NYC, actor (Dan Lewis-Supertrain, By Popular Demand)
02/26/1914 Witold Rowicki, composer
02/26/1915 Elisabeth Eybers, South Afr/Dutch poetess (That woman & other Verses
02/26/1916 Mordecai Seter, composer
02/26/1917 Robert Taft Jr, (Sen-R-Oh)
02/26/1918 Edwin Charles 'Preacher' Roe, baseball pitcher (Bkln Dodgers)
02/26/1918 Otis R Bowen, US Sec of Health & Human Services (1985-89)
02/26/1918 Theodore [Hamilton] Sturgeon, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar)
02/26/1919 Beppie Nooij, actress/director (Bluejackets-Rooie Sien)
02/26/1919 Hendrika Mastenbroek, Netherlands, swimmer (Olympic-3 gold-1936)
02/26/1919 Luc-Andre Marcel, composer
02/26/1919 Mason Adams, NYC, actor (Charlie Hume-Lou Grant, Deadliest Season)
02/26/1920 A W [Rie] Kuiper-Mastenbroek, swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1936)
02/26/1920 Tony Randall, [Leonard Rosenberg], Tulsa Ok, actor (Felix-Odd Couple
02/26/1921 Betty Hutton, Battle Creek Mich, actress (Greatest Show on Earth)
02/26/1922 Margaret Leighton, Birmingham England, actress (Astonished Heart)
02/26/1924 Mark Bucci, NYC, composer (1959 Arts & Letters Award)
02/26/1924 Noboru Takeshita, Japanese PM (1987-89)
02/26/1925 James Moody, US, jazz saxophonist/orchestra leader
02/26/1926 Arsene Souffriau, composer
02/26/1926 Cynthia Stone, Peoria Ill, actress (That Wonderful Guy, Ad Libbers)
02/26/1926 Konstantin P Feoktistov, Voronezh, cosmonaut (Voskhod 1)
02/26/1927 Donald Gramm, Milwaukee Wisconsin, bass-baritone
02/26/1927 Tom Kennedy, Louisville KY, quiz host (You Don't Say, Name That Tune
02/26/1928 Aldonis Kalnins, composer
02/26/1928 Anatoli Vasilyevich Filipchenko, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 16)
02/26/1928 Antione 'Fats' Domino, rhythm & blues pianist (Blueberry Hill)
02/26/1930 Lazar Berman, Leningrad Russia, pianist (Budapest 3rd place-1956)
02/26/1931 Francisco Kroepfl, composer
02/26/1931 Robert Novak, Joliet Ill, news reporter (CNN-Evans & Novak)
02/26/1932 Johnny Cash, Kingsland Ark, country singer (I Hear the Train Coming)
02/26/1933 Godfrey Cambridge, actor (Cotton comes to Harlem)
02/26/1933 James Goldsmith, Paris France, financier/corporate raider
02/26/1938 Jack Knight, Somerville Miss, actor (Mr Shamley-James at 15)
02/26/1942 Joop van den Ende, director (Alsmeer Studio)
02/26/1943 Bob 'Bear' Hite, singer (Canned Heat-Going Up the Country)
02/26/1943 Bob van Reeth, Flemish architect
02/26/1945 Mitch Ryder, rocker (& Detroit Wheels-Devil With the Blue Dress)
02/26/1946 Bobby 'Bingo' Smith, NBA star (Cleveland Cavaliers)
02/26/1946 Phyllis Eisenstein, US, sci-fi author (Sorcerer's Son, Born to Exile
02/26/1947 Sandi Shaw, [Sandra Goodrich], Essex, rocker (Girl Don't Come)
02/26/1948 Priscilla Lopez, Bronx NY, actress (In the Beginning, Kay O'Brien)
02/26/1950 Jonathan Cain, keyboardist (Journey-Don't Stop Believing)
02/26/1953 Michael Bolton, rock vocalist (That's What Love Is All About)
02/26/1957 Connie Carpenter-Phinney, Madison Wisc, 79k cyclist (Oly-gold-1984)
02/26/1957 Keena Rothhammer, US, 800 m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1972)
02/26/1958 Jeff Fithian, actor (Trevor Nash-Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
02/26/1958 Joe Fithian, actor (Tracey Nash-Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
02/26/1958 Susan J Helms, Charlotte NC, Mjr USAF/Astronaut (STS 54, sk:64)
02/26/1965 Brittany York, London England, playmate (Oct, 1990)
02/26/1970 Katie O'Neill, LA Calif, actress (Together We Stand)
02/26/1970 Meeno Peluce, Amsterdam Netherlands, actor (Bad News Bears)
Deaths:
02/26/1076 Godfried III, with the Hump, duke of Neth-Lutherian, murdered
02/26/1154 Rogier II, King of Sicily, dies
02/26/1266 Manfred, bastard son of Emperor Frederik II/king of Sicily, dies
02/26/1324 Dino Compagni, Italian silk seller/poet/chronicler, dies
02/26/1538 Worp van Thabor, Fries abbott of Thabor (Chronicon Frisiae), dies
02/26/1577 Erik XIV Wasa, King of Sweden (1560-69), dies at 43
02/26/1686 Godefroi L earl d'estrades, French diplomat/marshal, dies at about 7
02/26/1726 Maximilian II M Emanuel, ruler of Bayern, dies
02/26/1766 August Bernhard Valentin Herbing, composer, dies at 30
02/26/1770 Francois Hanot, composer, dies at 72
02/26/1770 Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer/violinist, dies at 77
02/26/1810 Johann Ernst Rembt, composer, dies at 60
02/26/1813 Robert R Livingston, US diplomat (Decl of Independence), dies at 66
02/26/1823 John P Kemble, English actor/director (Covent Garden), dies
02/26/1827 David Moritz Michael, composer, dies at 75
02/26/1857 Ole Andreas Lindeman, composer, dies at 88
02/26/1859 Ferdinand Lukas Schubert, composer, dies at 64
02/26/1870 Wyatt Outlaw, black leader of Union League in NC, lynched
02/26/1871 Charles Niellon, Belgian brigade general, dies at 76
02/26/1906 Manuel Fernandez Caballero, composer, dies at 70
02/26/1913 Felix Draeseke, composer, dies at 77
02/26/1921 Carl Menger, Austrian economist, dies at 81
02/26/1926 Frederik Pijper, vicar/church historian (Monasteries), dies at 67
02/26/1926 Peter Erasmus Lange-Muller, composer, dies at 75
02/26/1930 Raffaele Merry del Val, Spanish Cardinal, dies
02/26/1931 Otto Wallach, German chemist (Nobel 1910), dies
02/26/1933 Antonio Nicolau, Spanish composer/conductor, dies at 75
02/26/1939 E Fernández Arbós, Spanish violinist/conductor/composer, dies at 75
02/26/1947 Ben Webster, actor (Old Curiosity Shop), dies at 82
02/26/1950 Harry Lauder, composer, dies at 79
02/26/1953 Martinus Nijhoff, poet/interpreter/linguistic (spelling), dies
02/26/1954 William R Inge, English theologist/philosopher, dies at 93
02/26/1959 Lou Costello, actor (Abbott & Costello), dies at 52
02/26/1960 Aleksandar Belic, Swedish linguist, dies at 83
02/26/1961 Karl Albiker, German sculptor (Problem of the Plastic), dies at 83
02/26/1961 Mohammed V, ibn Joesoef, sultan/King of Morocco, dies
02/26/1962 Carl Emil Theodor Ehrenberg, composer, dies at 83
02/26/1963 Artturi A Leinonen, Finnish journalist/politician (Prophet), dies
02/26/1965 Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist, dies of injuries
02/26/1966 Minerva Urecal, actress (Peter Gunn, Adv of Tugboat Annie), dies at
02/26/1967 Harry McNaughton, comedian (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 70
02/26/1968 Eric Feldary, actor (16 Fathoms Deep), dies at 55
02/26/1969 Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist/philosopher, dies at 86
02/26/1969 Levi Esjkol, [Sjkolnik], premier (Israel), dies
02/26/1970 Ethel Leginska, composer, dies at 83
02/26/1971 Fernandel, [Contandin], French actor (Death of Champion), dies at 67
02/26/1971 Joseph Berg, composer, dies at 43
02/26/1971 Tullio Carminati, actor (Roman Holiday, Moulin Rouge), dies at 76
02/26/1972 Tom Manders, cabaret artist (Dorus), dies at 51
02/26/1973 Mary Finney, actress (Honestly Celeste), dies at 68
02/26/1977 Maxime Jacob, composer, dies at 71
02/26/1981 FC Terborgh, [Reijnier Flaes], lawyer/writer (Turkish War), dies at
02/26/1981 Howard Hanson, US composer/conductor (Nordic), dies at 84
02/26/1981 Munabi, assistant to Oegandees president Obote, murdered
02/26/1982 Gabor Szabo, Hungarian jazz pianist (Perfect Circle), dies at 45
02/26/1990 Cornell Gunther, US musician (Coasters, Poison Ivy), dies at 53
02/26/1990 Maurine Stuart, Zen teacher (head of Cambridge Buddhist Assn), dies
02/26/1990 Scott Jarvis, dies
02/26/1992 Gerrit Schulte, [Le fou pedalant], 6 days bicyclist, dies
02/26/1992 Jean R Yawkey, owner (Boston Red Sox), dies at 83 of a stroke
02/26/1992 S I Hayakawa, (Sen-R-Calif), dies at 85 of a stroke
02/26/1993 Constance Ford, US actress (Another World, Burden Hunt), dies at 64
02/26/1993 Fletcher Knebel, author (7 Days in May), commits suicide at 81
02/26/1993 Mark Kolthoff, painter/photographer, dies at 92
02/26/1994 Avery Fisher, US audio manufacturer (1st hi-fi), dies at 87
02/26/1994 Leopold 'Hans' Kohr, Austrian social philosopher, dies at 84
Significant Events:
02/26/ 747 -BC- Origin of Era of Nabonassar
02/26/1266 Battle of Benevento
02/26/1531 Earthquake in Lisbon Portugal, kills 20,000
02/26/1534 Pope Paul II affirms George van Egmont as bishop of Utrecht
02/26/1616 Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo
02/26/1732 1st mass celebrated in 1st American Catholic church, Philadelphia
02/26/1773 Construction authorized for Walnut St jail (Phila) (1st solitary)
02/26/1815 Napoleon & 1,200 leave Elba to start 100-day re-conquest of France
02/26/1832 Russian czar declares realm of Poland-Russia
02/26/1834 1st US interstate crime compact (NY-NJ) ratified
02/26/1848 Marx & Engels publish 'Communist Manifesto'
02/26/1852 British troop ship Birkenhead sinks off South Africa-458 die
02/26/1859 Paul Morphy's chess match vs Augustus Mongredien begins; Morphy wins
02/26/1862 Battle of Woodburn, KY
02/26/1863 Lincoln signs National Currency Act
02/26/1866 New York Legislature establishes NYC Metropolitan Board of Health
02/26/1869 15th Amendment guaranteeing right to vote sent to states
02/26/1870 1st NYC subway line opens (pneumatic powered)
02/26/1877 Geheim compromise Dem-Rep over pres election result
02/26/1881 SS Ceylon begins 1st round-the-world cruise from Liverpool
02/26/1885 Conference of Berlin, gives Congo to Belgium & Nigeria to England
02/26/1891 1st buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park
02/26/1893 2 Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge, Mich
02/26/1893 Einar Halvorsen skates world record 500m (48 sec)
02/26/1895 Michael Owens of Toledo, Ohio patents a glass-blowing machine
02/26/1907 Royal Oil & Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP)
02/26/1912 Coal miners strike in England (settle on 03/01)
02/26/1913 J Rheden discovers asteroid #744 Aguntina
02/26/1914 New York Museum of Science & Industry incorporated
02/26/1915 Malancourt, Argonnen (1st (German) fire attack)
02/26/1916 French cruiser Province sinks in Mediterranean Sea, kills 3100
02/26/1916 Russian troops conquer Kermansjah Persia
02/26/1917 1st Annual fair at Utrecht Harbor (Netherlands)
02/26/1918 Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse & burn, killing 604
02/26/1919 Acadia National Park established (as Lafayette N P), Maine
02/26/1919 Congress established Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona
02/26/1919 US Congress opens Grand Canyon National Park
02/26/1923 Italian nationalist & fascists merge
02/26/1924 Trial against Hitler in Munich begins
02/26/1925 Jihad-Saint war against Turkish govt
02/26/1926 Dark Street in the Bronx renamed Lustre Street
02/26/1928 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1091 Spiraea
02/26/1930 'Green Pastures' opens at Mansfield Theater
02/26/1933 Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field
02/26/1935 Germany began Luftwaffe operation, under Reichsmarshall H Goering
02/26/1935 NY Yankees release Babe Ruth
02/26/1936 Military coup in Japan
02/26/1938 1st passenger ship equipped with radar
02/26/1938 G Kulin discovers asteroid #1452 Hunnia
02/26/1938 Rie Van Veen swims world record 200m free style (2:24.6)
02/26/1940 US Air Defense Command established at Mitchel Field, LI, NY
02/26/1941 2 fighters unable to continued slugfest, referee declares double KO
02/26/1941 Cowboys' Amateur Association of America organized (Calif)
02/26/1941 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1632 Siebohme
02/26/1941 Vichy-France makes religious education in school mandatory
02/26/1942 German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb
02/26/1942 Radio Orange calls for March 1 day of prayer in Dutch Indies
02/26/1942 WW II Navy flier Don Mason sends message 'Sighted sub sank same'
02/26/1942 Werner Heisenberger informs nazis about uranium project 'Wunderwaffe
02/26/1943 L Oterma discovers asteroid #2841 Puijo
02/26/1944 1st female US navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed
02/26/1945 Very heavy bombing on Berlin
02/26/1946 2 killed & 10 wounded in race riot in Columbia Tenn
02/26/1949 USAF plane began 1st nonstop around-the-world flight
02/26/1951 22nd amendment to Constitution is ratified
02/26/1951 Bread rationing in Czechoslovakia
02/26/1952 Neth-Indonesian Unity conference
02/26/1952 PM Winston Churchill announced that Britain had its own atomic bomb
02/26/1954 1st typesetting machine (photo engraving) used, Quincy Mass
02/26/1955 1st aviator to bail out at supersonic speed-GF Smith
02/26/1956 Writers Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge
02/26/1960 Soviet premier Khrushchev voices support for Indonesia
02/26/1960 USA's David Jenkins wins Olympic Gold for men's figure skating
02/26/1960 Verne Gagne beats Doctor X in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ
02/26/1962 US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation
02/26/1962 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 67 points vs NY
02/26/1965 West Germany ceases military aid to Tanzania
02/26/1966 KBIM TV channel 10 in Roswell, NM (CBS) begins broadcasting
02/26/1967 Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champ
02/26/1968 Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmissi
02/26/1970 Beatles release 'Beatles Again' aka 'Hey Jude' album
02/26/1972 Dam break in WV kills 107
02/26/1972 Slag heap dam collapses above Buffalo Creek WV, kills 125
02/26/1973 Triple Crown horse Secretariat bought for a record $5.7m
02/26/1974 Gold hits record $188 an ounce in Paris
02/26/1975 1st televised kidney transplant (Today Show)
02/26/1977 1st flight of Space Shuttle (atop a Boeing 747)
02/26/1979 Last total eclipse of Sun in 20th century for continental US
02/26/1980 Egypt & Israel exchange ambassadors for 1st time
02/26/1980 Milt coup under Desi Bouterse in Suriname
02/26/1981 84 penalties (406 mins) assessed for a brawl between NHL Minn & Bost
02/26/1981 Boston & Minnesota play most penalty-filled NHL game-406 min total
02/26/1981 French Train ů Grande Vitesse averages 380 kph on trial run
02/26/1981 H Debehogne discovers asteroid #3268 De Sanctis
02/26/1983 Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 37 week
02/26/1983 Shortwave pirate Radio USA (Wellsville, NY) begins transmission
02/26/1984 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #3575 & #3576
02/26/1984 Rev Jesse Jackson acknowledges that he called NYC, 'Hymietown'
02/26/1984 Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st US poet laureat
02/26/1986 Evert van Benthem wins 14th Friese 11 city skating race (6:55:16)
02/26/1986 Former Philippines President Ferdinand E Marcos fled in defeat
02/26/1986 Robert Penn Warren appointed US poet laureate
02/26/1987 1st release of Beatles compact discs
02/26/1987 NASA launches GEOS-H
02/26/1987 NBA's Michael Jordan's 58 points is a Chicago Bull record
02/26/1987 USSR resumes underground nuclear testing
02/26/1987 Wash blocks 20 Indiana shots tying NBA regulation game record
02/26/1988 ... Luding skates world record 1000m (1:17.65)
02/26/1989 Lowest rated pressure in Netherlands (955 hpa)
02/26/1989 NY Yankees announce that Tom Seaver is their new TV sportscaster
02/26/1990 Moscow begins pulling 73,000 troops out of Czechoslovakia
02/26/1991 Kuwaiti resistance leaders declare they have control of their capita
02/26/1991 NY-NJ Knights (WLAF) players 1st come together
02/26/1992 Irish Supreme Court rules 14 year old rape victim may get an abortio
02/26/1993 2nd tallest building in world, NYC World Trade Center bombed, 7 die
02/26/1998 Total solar eclipse in Venezuela-Pacific Ocean (4m09)
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Births:
03/04/1492 Francesco de Layolle, composer
03/04/1651 John Baron Somers, (Whig), William III's chief minister (1696-1700)
03/04/1678 Antonio Vivaldi, Venice, Baroque violin virtuoso/composer (4 Seasons
03/04/1719 Aert Schouman, bird/portrait painter
03/04/1742 Johann Heinrich Egli, composer
03/04/1745 Charles Dibdin, composer
03/04/1747 Casimir Pulaski, Count/American Revolutionary War general
03/04/1754 Benjamin Waterhouse, physician (smallpox vaccine pioneer)
03/04/1754 Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain, composer
03/04/1757 Ignaz Malzat, composer
03/04/1765 Charles Dibdin, England, composer/author (Sea Songs)/actor (baptized
03/04/1766 Emanuel ADMJ, French historian (Napoleon)
03/04/1773 Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, composer
03/04/1782 Johann Wyss, Swiss folklorist/writer (Swiss Family Robinson)
03/04/1789 Pavel P Gagarin, Russ monarch
03/04/1798 John Joseph Abercrombie, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 18
03/04/1813 Wijnand YY Nuijen, romantic/water colors painter (Wrecked)
03/04/1819 Charles Oberthur, composer
03/04/1826 John Buford, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
03/04/1828 Elisha Franklin 'Bull' Paxton, Brig General (Confederate Army)
03/04/1834 Peter Nicolai von Wilm, composer
03/04/1835 Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italy, astronomer (discovered canals of Mars)
03/04/1838 Paul Lacome, composer
03/04/1844 Josip Jurcic, Slavic writer (10th brother)
03/04/1875 Enrique Larreta, [E R Maza], Argentine diplomat (Gloria de Don Ramir
03/04/1875 Suze [Suzanna] Groeneweg, 1st female paliament member (SDAP, 1918-37
03/04/1877 Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, composer
03/04/1877 Dani‰l G van Beuningen, art collector
03/04/1885 Willem H Winkel, physician/founder (Red Cross of Cura‡ao)
03/04/1888 Knute Rockne, football player/coach (Notre Dame)
03/04/1889 Pearl White [Victoria], US actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline)
03/04/1891 Dazzy Vance, hall of fame pitcher (led NL in strike-outs 7-yrs)
03/04/1897 Francis 'Lefty' O'Doul, baseball player/organized Japanese baseball
03/04/1900 Roberto Soundy, El Salvador, trap shooter (Olympic-1968)
03/04/1901 Charles H Goren, bridge master
03/04/1904 George Gamow, nuclear physicist/cosmologist/writer (1, 2, 3...ì)
03/04/1905 Lili Kr…us, Budapest Hungary, pianist (Austrian Cross of Honor 1978)
03/04/1907 Edgar Barrier, actor (Cobra Woman, Macbeth, Rocky, Cornered)
03/04/1908 Boris N Poveloi, [Kampov], Russian journalist/writer [OS]
03/04/1909 Harry Helmsley, NYC, billionaire builder (Empire State Building)
03/04/1910 Tancredo Neves, president of Civil rights activist
03/04/1912 Afro, [Basaldella], Italian painter
03/04/1912 John Garfield, actor (Air Force, Destination: Tokyo, Juarez)
03/04/1915 Carlos Surinach, composer
03/04/1915 Eunice Catunda, composer
03/04/1915 Petrus de Jong, Dutch premier (KVP, 1967-71)
03/04/1916 Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (Botteghe oscure)
03/04/1916 Hans Eysenck, psychologist
03/04/1918 Margaret Osborne DuPont, Joseph Oregon, tennis pro (US Open 1948-50)
03/04/1921 Halim El-Dabh, composer
03/04/1921 Joan Greenwood, London, actress/director (Amorous Mr Prawn)
03/04/1923 Patrick Moore, England, astronomer/writer (A-Z of Astronomy)
03/04/1923 Piero J d'Inzeo, France, equestrian show jumper (Olymp-gold-1952, 64
03/04/1927 Robert Di Domenica, composer
03/04/1927 Thayer David, actor (Eiger Sanction, Rocky, Nero Wolfe, Savages)
03/04/1928 Alan Sillitoe, Brit, writer (Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner)
03/04/1928 Samuel Adler, composer
03/04/1929 Bernard Haitink, Amsterdam Neth, conductor (London Phil Orch 1969-78
03/04/1929 Josep Mestres-Quadreny, composer
03/04/1931 Gennady Rozhdestvensky, composer
03/04/1931 Han Jansen, painter
03/04/1932 Guido Baggiani, composer
03/04/1932 Hessel Rienks, economist/Dutch 2nd chamber member (PvdA)
03/04/1932 Miriam Makeba, South Africa, singer (Grammy 1965)
03/04/1933 Ann Burton, [Anna Rafalowicz], singer
03/04/1934 Barbara McNair, Racine Wisc, singer/actress (Barbara McNair Show)
03/04/1934 Jane van Lawick-Goodall, ethologist/chimp expert (1974 Walker Prize)
03/04/1934 Mario Davidovsky, Buenos Aires Argentinia, composer (Synchronisms)
03/04/1936 Aribert Reimann, composer
03/04/1936 Jim Clark, race car driver (Indianapolis 500)
03/04/1937 Graham Dowling, cricketeer (New Zealand)
03/04/1939 Paula Prentiss [Ragusa], San Ant Tx, actress (Parallax View, He & Sh
03/04/1940 Kas Garas, Kaunas Lithuania, actor (Hamlyn-Strange Report)
03/04/1941 Adrian Lyne, director (Fatal Attraction, 9« Weeks, Jacob's Ladder)
03/04/1941 John Hancock, actor (Black Marble, Traxx, Houston Knights)
03/04/1943 Zoltan Jeney, composer
03/04/1944 Bobby Womack, Cleve, R&B singer/guitarist (Woman's Got to Have It)
03/04/1945 Dieter Meier, Swiss singer/children book writer (Yello)
03/04/1945 Jaime Tirelli, NYC, actor (Orlando Lopez-Ball Four)
03/04/1946 Harvey Goldsmith, impresario
03/04/1946 Ralph Kirshbaum, cellist
03/04/1948 Billy Gibbons, rocker (ZZ Top-She Got Lets, Fandango)
03/04/1948 Chris Squire, London, rock bassist (Yes-Fish Out of Water)
03/04/1948 Shakin' Stevens, [Mike Barrett], rocker (You Drive Me Crazy)
03/04/1950 Emilio Estefan, Cuba, rocker (Miami Sound Machine-1 2 3)
03/04/1950 Kenny Dalglish, soccer manager
03/04/1950 Rafael Canizares Poey, Alacs Mtnzs Cuba, basketballer (Oly-bronze-72
03/04/1951 Chris Rea, English rock guitarist (Fool If You Think It Is Over)
03/04/1952 Ron Moss, actor (Hot Child in the City, Hard Ticket to Hawaii)
03/04/1953 Christopher H Smith, (Rep-R-NJ, 1981- )
03/04/1953 Kay Lenz, LA Calif, actress (Moving Violations, Rich Man Poor Man)
03/04/1954 Catherine O'Hara, Toronto Ont, comedienne (Beetlejuice, SCTV)
03/04/1955 Benny Alexander, sec-gen (S Afr Pan-Africanist Movement)
03/04/1959 Kelly Lynch, Golden Walley Minn, actress (Warm Summer Rain)
03/04/1960 Russell Todd, Troy NY, actor (Dr Jamie Frame-Another World)
03/04/1961 Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini, boxer (killed a boxer in the ring)
03/04/1963 Jason Newstedt, US heavy-metal bassist (Metallica-Kill 'em all)
03/04/1963 MDV, [Michiel de Vos], pop bassist (Burma Shave-Stash)
03/04/1964 Emilia Eberle, Romania, gymnist, scored a perfect 10 in olympics
03/04/1965 Dana Brown, Memphis Tenn, Miss Tenn-America (1991) (3rd)
03/04/1968 Patsy Kensit, London, rocker/actress (Lethal Weapon 2, 21, Hanover S
03/04/1969 Chastity Bono, daughter of Sonny & Cher/singer
03/04/1972 Sherida Pawiroredjo, Suriname Miss Indra Maju (1993)
Deaths:
03/04/1172 Stephan III, King of Hungary (1162-72), dies
03/04/1484 Kazimierz, the Saint, Polish ruler/saint, dies
03/04/1615 Hans von Aachen, German painter, dies
03/04/1617 Arcangelo Crivelli, composer, dies at 70
03/04/1793 Isaac Ouwater, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist, dies at 44
03/04/1794 Henri D count de Larochejacquelin, French royalist Army leader, dies
03/04/1831 Georg Michael Telemann, composer, dies at 82
03/04/1839 Ignace Antoine Ladurner, composer, dies at 72
03/04/1851 Michael Henkel, composer, dies at 71
03/04/1864 Thomas Starr King, Unitarian clergyman (Christianity & Humanity)
03/04/1866 Alexander Campbell, Irish/US founder Disciples of Christ, dies at 77
03/04/1876 Alfred Holmes, composer, dies at 38
03/04/1883 Alexander H Stephens, VP Confederate States, dies
03/04/1888 Amos Bronson Alcott, US theory/poet (Table Talk), dies at 88
03/04/1903 Joseph H Shorthouse, English writer (John Inglesant), dies
03/04/1916 Franz Marc, German painter/co-founder (Verdun), dies at 36
03/04/1918 Eugene D'Harcourt, composer, dies at 58
03/04/1922 Bert Williams, famous black, dies at 46, in NYC
03/04/1925 Moritz Moszkowski, composer, dies at 70
03/04/1933 Willie Walker, US jazz singer/guitarist (Dupree Blues), dies at 36
03/04/1936 Ruben Mattias Liljefors, composer, dies at 64
03/04/1941 Edoardo Mascheroni, composer, dies at 81
03/04/1942 Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg, composer, dies at 62
03/04/1943 Nikolaos 'Sokrates' Politis, Greek diplomat/foreign minister, dies
03/04/1943 Pieter C Boutens, poet, dies
03/04/1948 Antonin Artaud, French poet/actor (Napoleon), dies at 51
03/04/1948 Elsa Br„ndstr”m, [Angel of Siberia], Swedish philanthropist, dies
03/04/1953 Sergei S Prokoviev, Russian composer (Peter & the wolf), dies at 61
03/04/1954 Georg Gohler, composer, dies at 80
03/04/1954 Noel Gay, composer, dies at 55
03/04/1958 Albert Kuyle, [Louis Kuitenbrouwer], writer (Jesus' Carpet), dies
03/04/1960 Leonard Warren, US baritone, dies on stage at 48
03/04/1962 Cairine R Wilson, 1st Canadian female senator (appointed) dies at 77
03/04/1963 William Carlos Williams, US physician/poet, dies at 79
03/04/1966 Janis Medins, composer, dies at 75
03/04/1968 Alexandre Cellier, composer, dies at 85
03/04/1974 Adolph Gottlieb, US painter, dies at 71
03/04/1981 Torin Thatcher, actor (Houdini, Isranbul, Lady Godiva), dies
03/04/1983 Herg‚, [Georges R‚mi], Belgian cartoonist (Kuifje), dies
03/04/1984 Shalva Mikhaylovich Mshvelidze, composer, dies at 79
03/04/1986 Henri Handsome, journalist/writer, dies at 75
03/04/1986 Richard Manuel, rock vocalist/pianist (Band), commits suicide at 40
03/04/1991 Vance Colvig, actor, dies
03/04/1992 Arthur Babbitt, animator (Mr Magoo, Goofy), die at 84 of heart failu
03/04/1992 C Meijer, editor in chief (Typhoon), dies
03/04/1992 Christian K Nelson, inventor (Eskimo Pie), dies at 98
03/04/1992 Mary Osborne, jazz guitarist, dies at 70 of liver cancer
03/04/1992 Nestor Almendros, Spanish/US cameraman (Kramer vs Kramer), dies at 6
03/04/1993 Art Hodes, Russ/US jazz/blues pianist/editor (Jazz Record), dies
03/04/1993 Richard Sale, writer/director (Oscar, Torpedo Run), dies
03/04/1994 Guus Verstraete Sr, actor/director (Twee Druppels Waters), dies at 7
03/04/1994 John Candy, actor (Uncle Buck), dies at 43 from a heart attack
Significant Events:
03/04/1152 Frederik I Barbarossa elected Roman-German king
03/04/1461 Edward IV recognized as king of England
03/04/1570 King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students
03/04/1621 Jacarta, Java renamed Batavia
03/04/1634 Samuel Cole opens 1st tavern in Boston, Massachusetts
03/04/1665 English king Charles II declares war on Netherlands
03/04/1675 John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of England
03/04/1681 King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Penn
03/04/1699 Jews are expelled from Lubeck Germany
03/04/1741 English fleet under admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena
03/04/1774 1st sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel)
03/04/1789 1st Congress declares constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 reps)
03/04/1791 1st Jewish member of US Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office
03/04/1791 Pres Washington calls the US Senate into its 1st special session
03/04/1791 Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies)
03/04/1792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii
03/04/1793 French troops conquer Geertruidenberg
03/04/1793 Washington's 2nd inauguration, shortest speech (133 words)
03/04/1798 Catholic women force to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jew
03/04/1801 1st president inaugurated in Washington DC (Thomas Jefferson)
03/04/1809 Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes
03/04/1826 1st US RR chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Mass
03/04/1829 Unruly crowd mobs White House during Pres Jackson inaugural ball
03/04/1835 HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepci¢n
03/04/1837 Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American
03/04/1841 Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison
03/04/1849 US had no president, Polks term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't
03/04/1849 be sworn-in, Sen David Atchison (pres pro tem) term ended Mar 3rd
03/04/1853 William Rufus de Vane King (D) sworn in as 13th US VP
03/04/1861 Asteroid 64, Angelina discovered
03/04/1861 Confederate States adopt 'Stars & Bars' flag
03/04/1861 E W Tempel discovers asteroid #64 Angelina
03/04/1861 Lincoln's innauguration; 1st time US has 5 former presidents
03/04/1861 Pres Lincoln opens Govt Printing Office
03/04/1863 Battle of Thompson's Station, TN
03/04/1863 Territory of Idaho established
03/04/1865 Confederate congress approves final design of 'official flag'
03/04/1869 Ulysses Grant inaugurated as US president
03/04/1876 US Congress ends 'impeachment' of Minister of War Belknap
03/04/1880 NY Daily Graphic publishes 1st half-tone engraving, by S H Horgan
03/04/1881 California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation
03/04/1881 Holmes & Watson begin 'A Study in Scarlet', 1st case together
03/04/1881 James A Garfield inaugurated as US president
03/04/1885 Grover Cleveland becomes 1st Democratic president since Civil War
03/04/1889 Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as US, president
03/04/1892 M Wolf discovers asteroid #325 Heidelberga
03/04/1893 Grover Cleveland (D) becomes 22nd US president (2nd term)
03/04/1894 Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed
03/04/1895 Premeir of Gustav Mahlers 2nd Symphony (Berlin)
03/04/1897 William McKinley inaugurated as 25th president of US
03/04/1901 1st advanced copy of inaugural speech (Jefferson-Natl Intelligencer)
03/04/1901 Term of George H White, last of post-Reconstruction congressmen, end
03/04/1901 US president William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term of office
03/04/1902 American Automobile Association opens
03/04/1902 M Wolf discovers asteroid #483 Seppina
03/04/1906 M Wolf discovers asteroid #590 Tomyris
03/04/1907 A Kopff discovers asteroid #627 Charis
03/04/1908 Collingwood Ohio school catches fire; 180 die
03/04/1909 President Taft sworn-in during 10' snowstorm
03/04/1909 US prohibits interstate transportation of game birds
03/04/1911 Victor Berger (Wisc) becomes 1st socialist congressman in US
03/04/1913 1st US law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed
03/04/1913 Dept of Commerce & Labor split into separate departments
03/04/1917 Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) becomes 1st female member of Congress
03/04/1918 Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921)
03/04/1920 Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece
03/04/1921 Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas
03/04/1923 Lenin's last article in Pravda about Red bureaucracy
03/04/1925 Pres Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations
03/04/1925 Swain's I (near American Samoa) annexed by US
03/04/1926 De Geer govt in Netherlands takes office
03/04/1928 'Bunion Run' race from LA to NYC begins; It is won by Andy Payne
03/04/1929 Charles Curtis (R-Kans) becomes 1st native American VP
03/04/1929 Inauguration of President Herbert Hoover
03/04/1930 Emma Fahning bowls 1st sanctioned 300 game by a woman
03/04/1930 Mrs Charles Fahning is 1st woman to bowl a santioned perfect game
03/04/1932 H E Wood discovers asteroid #1241 Dysona
03/04/1933 Chancellor Dollfuss disolves Austrian parliament
03/04/1933 FDR inaugurated, says 'We have nothing to fear but fear itself'
03/04/1933 Frances Perkins becomes sec of labor, 1st US woman cabinet member
03/04/1934 Easter Cross on Mt Davidson (SF) dedicated
03/04/1936 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany
03/04/1937 L Boyer discovers asteroids #1415 Malautra & #1416 Renauxa
03/04/1941 18 Geuzen resistance fighter sentenced to death in The Hague
03/04/1941 NHL Chicago goalee Samuel LoPresti stops record 80 of 83 Boston shot
03/04/1944 Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy
03/04/1945 Finland declares war on nazi-Germany
03/04/1947 WWJ (now WDIV) TV channel 4 in Detroit, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
03/04/1949 Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister
03/04/1949 Piet Van de Pol of Neth becomes world champion billiard player
03/04/1949 Security Council of UN recommends membership for Israel
03/04/1954 1st black US sub-cabinet member appointed-JE Wilkins
03/04/1955 1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent
03/04/1959 US Pioneer IV misses Moon & becomes 2nd (US 1st) artifical planet
03/04/1960 French freighter 'La Coubre' explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100
03/04/1960 Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz
03/04/1961 Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as sec-gen of NATO
03/04/1966 Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at Tokyo, 64 die
03/04/1966 John Lennon, says 'We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus'
03/04/1968 Joe Frazier defeats Buster Mathis for heavyweight boxing championshi
03/04/1968 Martin Luther King Jr announces plans for Poor People's Campaign
03/04/1968 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched
03/04/1970 French submarine 'Eurydice' explodes
03/04/1970 Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game
03/04/1970 NY Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out
03/04/1971 'Stadscommando' kidnaps 4 US military men at Ankara, Turkey
03/04/1972 Keller skates world record 1000m (1:18.5)
03/04/1972 Libya & USSR signs cooperation treaty
03/04/1974 Harold Wilson becomes British premier
03/04/1976 John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio
03/04/1977 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, NM
03/04/1977 Earthquake in Romania, kills 1500
03/04/1978 Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue
03/04/1979 200th episode of 'All in the Family'
03/04/1979 US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings
03/04/1980 40th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
03/04/1980 Robert Mugabes (ZANU-PF) wins parliamentary election in Zimbabwe
03/04/1981 H Debehogne discovers asteroids #2765 & #3705
03/04/1982 2nd double hat trick in Islander history-Bossy & D Potvin
03/04/1982 NASA launches Intelsat V
03/04/1985 STS 51-E vehicle rolls back to Vandenberg AFB; mission cancelled
03/04/1986 C Shoemaker & E Shoemake discovers asteroid #3554 Amun
03/04/1989 Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline
03/04/1989 Eastern Airlines machinists strike
03/04/1989 Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43m)
03/04/1990 US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) returns from space
03/04/1991 Bank of Credit & Commerce Intl divests itself of 1st American Bank
03/04/1991 Iraq releases 6 US, 3 British & 1 Italian POW
03/04/1994 4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center
03/04/1994 STS-62 (Columbia) launches into orbit
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Why are you sending these "This Day In History" messages to alt.bbs.wildcat?
They don't have anything specific to do with BBSes nor the Wildcat BBS.
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Births:
03/07/1543 Johan Casimir, count of Rhine (occupied Gent)
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Births:
03/07/1574 John Wilbye, composer
03/07/1602 Kano Tanjoe, Japanese painter (palaces, portraits)
03/07/1621 Georg Neumark, composer
03/07/1663 Tomaso Antonio Vitali, composer
03/07/1682 Johan W van Ripperda, diplomat/baron/duke
03/07/1693 Clement XIII, [Carlo Rezzonico], Pope (1758-69)
03/07/1707 Stephen Hopkins, (Gov-RI) signed Decl of Ind
03/07/1715 Ewald Christian von Kleist, German lyric poet (Der Fr hling)
03/07/1731 Jean-Louis Laruette, composer
03/07/1762 Sebastiaan C Nederburgh, director-general (East Indies Company)
03/07/1765 Joseph Niepce, inventor (photography)
03/07/1769 Josef Alois Ladurner, composer
03/07/1773 Tommaso Marchesi, composer
03/07/1785 Alessandro Manzoni, Italy, poet/novelist (Betrothed)
03/07/1792 John Herschel, Slough England, William Herschel's son, astronomer
03/07/1797 Karl Schwencke, composer
03/07/1799 Frantisek L Celakovsky, Czech poet (national anthem, folk song)
03/07/1807 Franz Grave von Pocci, German poet/composer (Of the Alchemist)
03/07/1811 Christian Heinrich Hohmann, composer
03/07/1813 Judocus Smits, Catholic newspaper pioneer/founder (The Time)
03/07/1820 Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffman, composer
03/07/1822 Victor Masse, composer
03/07/1827 Henry DeLamar Clayton, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 188
03/07/1831 John Bratton, [Old Reliable], US physician/Confederate Brig Gen
03/07/1832 Orlando Metcalfe Poe, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
03/07/1837 Henry Draper, Virginia, astro-spectro-photographer (Moon, Jupiter)
03/07/1841 Olegario V¡ctor Andrade, Argentina, poet (El nido the c¢ndores)
03/07/1842 Anne CAI of Diest, Belgian physician/feminist
03/07/1844 Anthony Comstock, New Canaan Ct, anti-vice crusader/philatelist
03/07/1849 Luther Burbank, Lancaster, Mass, horticulturist
03/07/1850 Tom s G Masaryk, Czechoslovakia, Father/Pres of Czech (1918-35)
03/07/1856 Matilde Serao, [Tuffolina], Italian writer (Land of Cockayne)
03/07/1857 Julius Wagner von Jauregg, Austria, psychiatrist (Nobel 1927)
03/07/1858 Nikolai Artzibushev, composer
03/07/1869 Earnest J Cohen, chemist
03/07/1872 Piet Mondrian, Holland, abstract painter (Broadway Boogie Woogie)
03/07/1872 Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov, composer
03/07/1875 Maurice Joseph Ravel, Cibourne France, composer (Bol‚ro)
03/07/1875 Maurice Ravel, composer
03/07/1883 Carl Deis, composer
03/07/1887 Heino Eller, composer
03/07/1888 Alidius WLT van Starkenborch Stachouwer, gov of Neth Indies (1936-45
03/07/1895 Juan Jose Castro, composer
03/07/1896 Erwin Bodky, composer
03/07/1898 John Bata, Czech shoe manufacturer
03/07/1900 [Albert] Carel Willink, painter (realism)
03/07/1902 Heinz R hmann, German actor (Der Hauptmann von K”penick)
03/07/1904 Ivar Ballangrud, Norway, Olympic speed skater (4 gold, 2 silver)
03/07/1904 Reinhard Heydrich, German protector (Bohemen/Moravia (Lidice))
03/07/1904 Willy Forst, Austria actor/director (Wiener Broke)
03/07/1906 Alejandro Garcia Caturla, composer
03/07/1906 Hans Lachman, composer
03/07/1907 Juan Francisco Giacobbe, composer
03/07/1907 Mircea Eliade, religious historian (Le Yoga)
03/07/1908 Anna Magnani, Alexandria Egypt, actress (Rose Tattoo, Miracle)
03/07/1908 Joop [Joseph] van Santen, Dutch 1st chamber member (CPN)
03/07/1908 Tomas de Manzarraga, composer
03/07/1911 Stefan Kisielewski, composer
03/07/1915 Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician
03/07/1917 Davis Roberts, Mobile Ala, actor (Mr Johnson-Boone)
03/07/1917 Robert Erickson, composer
03/07/1924 Kobo Abe, Japan, playwright (Woman, the Dunes)
03/07/1930 Anthony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon, photographer
03/07/1930 James Broderick, Charleston NH, actor (Brenner-Brenner, Doug-Family)
03/07/1931 Cornelis T 'Cor' van de Molen, director Social Businesses of Press
03/07/1931 Donald Barthelme, US, writer (Snow White)
03/07/1934 Willard Scott, weather forecaster (Today Show)
03/07/1936 Georges Perec, French writer
03/07/1937 Don Bonker, (Rep-D-WA, 1975- )
03/07/1938 Homero Blancas, golfer (1965 Rookie of the Year)
03/07/1938 Janet Guthrie, race car driver, 1st woman to race in Indie 500
03/07/1939 Marion Marlowe, St Louis Mo, singer (Arthur Godfrey & Friends)
03/07/1940 Daniel J Travanti, Kenosha Wisc, actor (Frank Furillo-Hill St Blues)
03/07/1940 Rudi [Rudolf] Dutschke, German student leader
03/07/1940 Viktor Petrovich Savinykh, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-4)
03/07/1942 Michael Eisner, Mt Kisko NY, CEO (Walt Disney)
03/07/1942 Paul Preuss, US, sci-fi author (Medusa Encounter, Starfire)
03/07/1942 Tammy Faye Bakker, gospel singer/wife of Jim Baker (PTL)
03/07/1942 Tommy F Robinson, (Rep-D-AR, 1985- )
03/07/1943 Chris White, rock bassist (Zombies-Never Even Thought)
03/07/1944 Elton Gallegly, (Rep-R-California)
03/07/1945 Arthur Lee, rocker (Vindicator)
03/07/1945 John Heard, actor (Cat People, Cutter's Way, CHUD)
03/07/1946 Peter Wolf, rock singer (J Giels Band-Centerfold, Freeze Frame)
03/07/1947 Donna Loren, Boston Mass, singer/actress (Beach Blanket Bingo)
03/07/1947 Lewis J Stadlen, Bkln NY, actor (John-Benson, Savages, Windy City)
03/07/1950 Franco Harris, NFL fullback (Pitts Steelers)
03/07/1952 Ernie Isley, US guitarist (It's Your Thing, Heat is On)
03/07/1952 Lynn Swann, NFL receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)/sportscaster
03/07/1954 Matt Frenette, rocker (Loverboy)
03/07/1960 Ivan Lendl, Czechoslovakia, tennis pro (US Open 1985-87)
03/07/1961 Mary Beth Evans, Pasadena Calif, actress (Kayla-Days of our Lives)
03/07/1962 Taylor Dane, Long Island NY, rocker (I'll Always Love You)
Deaths:
03/07/ 161 Antoninus Pius, [Titus Aurelius], emperor of Rome (138-61), dies at
03/07/ 322 -BC- Aristotle, Greek philosopher, dies
03/07/1040 Harold I, King of England (1035-40), dies
03/07/1111 Bohemund I van Tarente, French ruler of Antioch, dies
03/07/1274 Thomas Aquinas, Italian thelogian/saint, dies at 48
03/07/1305 Gwijde van Dampierre, count of Flanders/count of Namen, dies at 78
03/07/1724 Innocent XIII, [Michelangiolo dei Conti], Pope (1721-24), dies at 68
03/07/1737 Guido Starhemberg, Austrian earl/field marshal, dies at 79
03/07/1750 Cornelis Consolation, portrait (It Beslikte Zwaentje), dies at 52
03/07/1761 Antonio Palella, composer, dies at 68
03/07/1802 Johann Georg Witthauer, composer, dies at 50
03/07/1804 John Wedgwood, founder (Royal Horticulture Society), dies
03/07/1809 Johann G Albrechtsberger, Austrian composer, dies at 73
03/07/1810 Albertus H Wiese, gov-gen of Neth Indies, dies at about 48
03/07/1842 Christian Theodor Weinlig, composer, dies at 61
03/07/1862 Ben McCulloch, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 50
03/07/1862 John Baillie McIntosh, US general-major (Union Army), dies at 32
03/07/1907 Victor Alphonse Duvernoy, composer, dies at 64
03/07/1911 Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer/poet (Il Santo, Leila), dies
03/07/1926 Jindrich Z Albestu Kaan, composer, dies at 73
03/07/1931 Akseli V Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter/illustrator, dies at 65
03/07/1931 Theo of Doesburg, [Christian EM Kupper], painter/architect, dies
03/07/1932 Aristide Briand, 11 x premier of France (Nobel 1926), dies at 69
03/07/1939 Amadeo Roldan, composer, dies at 39
03/07/1941 Arnold Schering, German musicologist, dies at 63
03/07/1945 Adolf Bartels, German writer, dies
03/07/1951 Ali Razmara, Shah of Iran (1950-51), assassinated
03/07/1951 Ivor Novello, British writer (Keep the Home Fires Burning), dies
03/07/1959 Arthur C Pigou, English economist (Economics of Welfare), dies
03/07/1959 Hinsdale Smith, developer of roll-down auto windows dies at 88
03/07/1961 Englebert van Anderlecht, Belgian painter, dies at 42
03/07/1961 Max Hymans, WW II resistance fighter/Head of Air France dies at 60
03/07/1964 Franz Alexander, Hungarian/US psycho analyst, dies at 73
03/07/1973 Andr‚ de Meulemaster, Belgian WW I pilot [Arend van Vlanderen], dies
03/07/1975 Ben Blue, actor (Accidental Family, Frank Sinatra Show), dies at 73
03/07/1976 Erwin Kroll, composer, dies at 90
03/07/1979 Guiomar Novaes, pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit), dies at 84
03/07/1979 Klaus Egge, composer, dies at 72
03/07/1981 John Gnagy, artist (Learn to Draw), dies at 73
03/07/1981 Kirill Petrovich Kondrashin, Russian conductor/composer, dies at 67
03/07/1982 Charles Borromeo Mills, composer, dies at 68
03/07/1983 Igor Markevich, composer, dies at 70
03/07/1983 Robert Bray, actor (Corey-Lassie, Simon-Stagecoach West), dies at 65
03/07/1985 George Schick, conductor (Chicago Symphony), dies at 76
03/07/1985 Robert W Woodruff, CEO (Coca-Cola), dies at 95
03/07/1985 Victor W Farris, inventor of paper milk carton, etc, dies
03/07/1986 Jacob K Javits, (Sen-R-NY), dies in Palm Beach, Fla at 81
03/07/1988 Robert Livingston, actor (Lone Ranger), dies at 83 of emphysema
03/07/1990 Max Neuhaus, composer, dies at 50
03/07/1993 Arnold Franchetti, Ital/US composer, dies
Significant Events:
03/07/1138 Conrad III becomes German king
03/07/1560 Christian fleet under Gian Andrea lands at Djerba, N Africa
03/07/1621 John Pieterszoon Coens troops land on Lontor, East-Indies
03/07/1633 Prince Frederik Henry appointed himself viceroy of Limburg
03/07/1644 Massachusetts establishes 1st 2-chamber legislature in colonies
03/07/1719 Amsterdams master builder Steven J Vennekool buried
03/07/1774 British close port of Boston to all commerce
03/07/1778 Capt James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay
03/07/1801 Massachusetts enacts 1st state voter registration law
03/07/1808 Portugal's regent Dom Juan IV arrives in Rio De Janeiro
03/07/1835 HMS Beagle sails from Valparaiso to Concepci¢n
03/07/1843 1st Catholic governor in US, Edward Kavanagh of Maine, takes office
03/07/1847 US General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico
03/07/1848 In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed
03/07/1850 Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850
03/07/1851 Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia ends
03/07/1852 Dutch telegraph worker law established
03/07/1854 Charles Miller patents 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes
03/07/1862 Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Day 2, Gens McCulloch & McIntosh killed
03/07/1865 -10] Battles round Kinston NC
03/07/1870 Cin Red Stockings, 1st pro BB team, begin 8-mo tour of Midwest & Eas
03/07/1872 -8øF in Boston, MA
03/07/1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
03/07/1894 A Charlois discovers asteroid #388 Charybdis
03/07/1900 Battle at Poplar Brutal
03/07/1902 Boers beat British troop in Two Bush, Transvaal
03/07/1906 Finnish Senate agrees for general voting right, except for poor
03/07/1907 Kopff discovers asteroid 628 Christine, 629 Bernardina & 630 Euphemi
03/07/1908 Cincinnati mayor says woman aren't physically fit to operate an auto
03/07/1911 US sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border
03/07/1911 Willis Farnsworth, Petaluma, CA, patents coin-operated locker
03/07/1912 Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole
03/07/1913 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #747 Winchester
03/07/1914 Prince Wilhelm von Wied becomes King of Albania
03/07/1921 Red Army under Trotsky attack sailors of Kronstadt
03/07/1926 1st transatlantic telephone call (London-NY)
03/07/1927 Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan
03/07/1930 Georgetown High of Chicago defeats Homer 1-0 in basketball
03/07/1932 Irregularities in Ford-factory Dearborn, Michigan, kill 4
03/07/1933 Game of 'Monopoly' invented
03/07/1934 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1301 Yvonne
03/07/1935 Saar incorporated into Germany
03/07/1936 Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland
03/07/1937 Bucharin, Jagoda & Rykov pushed out of CPSU in USSR
03/07/1939 Glamour magazine begins publishing
03/07/1940 Mont Canadiens lose record tying NHL 15th straight game at home
03/07/1940 Ray Steele beats B Nagurski in St Louis, to become wrestling champ
03/07/1941 3rd largest snowfall in NYC history (18.1')
03/07/1941 50,000 British soldiers lands in Greece
03/07/1941 British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
03/07/1942 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee
03/07/1943 S Arend discovers asteroid #1563 Noel
03/07/1944 Japans begins offensive in Burma
03/07/1945 Cologne taken by allied armies
03/07/1945 During WW II, US crosses Rhine River
03/07/1945 US 9th Pantzer division attacks Remagen on the Rhine
03/07/1948 C A Wirtanen discovers asteroid #1863 Antinous
03/07/1949 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1597 Laugier
03/07/1950 Dick Button wins 3rd consecutive world figure skating championship
03/07/1951 Ezzard Charles wins 15-round HW decision against Jersey Joe Walcott
03/07/1954 Russia wins title in their 1st international ice hockey competiton
03/07/1955 Baseball com Ford Frick says he favors legalization of spitter
03/07/1955 Mary Martin as 'Peter Pan' televised
03/07/1958 Chicago Cardinals announce they will play their 1958 opener in Buffa
03/07/1959 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 M km) in a jet (MC Garlow)
03/07/1960 Builders strike for CLA
03/07/1962 Launch of OSO 1, 1st astronomy satellite (solar flare data)
03/07/1965 Alabama state troopers & 600 black protestors clash in Selma
03/07/1965 Christian-democrats win parliament in Chile
03/07/1970 WXOW TV channel 19 in La Crosse, WI (ABC) begins broadcasting
03/07/1971 Egypt refuses to renew the Suez ceasefire
03/07/1973 Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory
03/07/1973 Sheik Mujib ur-Rahmans Awami League wins election in Bangladesh
03/07/1974 'Monitor' (US Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras NC
03/07/1974 1st general striking in Ethiopia
03/07/1975 Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate
03/07/1976 Morocco & Mauretania break diplomatic relations with Algeria
03/07/1977 Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections
03/07/1977 Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin meets Pres Carter
03/07/1978 Belgium baron Charles Brought kidnap
03/07/1978 Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot against Islanders
03/07/1978 Dutch 2nd Chamber votes against neutron bomb
03/07/1981 1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death
03/07/1982 Jarmilla Kratochvilova run world record 400 m indoor (49.59 sec)
03/07/1985 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 (update) released
03/07/1986 M Inoue & O Muramatsu discovers asteroid #3432 Kobuchizawa
03/07/1986 South-Africa emergency crisis disbands Brabant & Limburg
03/07/1986 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist
03/07/1987 Mike Tyson beats Bonecrusher Smith to win the WBA heavyweight title
03/07/1988 Jim Abbott, 1-handed pitcher, wins 58th James E Sullivan Award
03/07/1989 Iran drops diplomatic relations with Gr Britain over Rushdie
03/07/1989 Partial eclipse of the Sun (Hawaii, NW North America, Greenland)
03/07/1990 H Wayne Huizenga buys « Joe Robbie Stadium & 15% of Dolphins for $30
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Births:
03/08/1495 Juan de Dios, Port/Sp saint (Brother of Barmhartigheid)
03/08/1607 Johann Rist, composer
03/08/1714 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer, son of JS Bach
03/08/1743 Bendix Friedrich Zinck, composer
03/08/1748 Willem V Batavus, prince of Orange-Nassau
03/08/1778 Friedrich August Kanne, composer
03/08/1783 Gottfied Wilhelm Fink, composer
03/08/1783 Hannah Hoes Van Buren, NY, wife of pres Martin (1837-41) (died 1819)
03/08/1787 Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, help create modern plastic surgery
03/08/1799 Simon Cameron, Secy War (Union), died in 1889
03/08/1825 George William Martin, composer
03/08/1836 Matthew Calbraith Butler, Major General (Confederate Army)
03/08/1840 Franco Faccio, composer
03/08/1841 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mass, 59th Supreme Court justice (1902-32)
03/08/1843 Per Jonas Fredrik Vilhelm Svedbom, composer
03/08/1847 Karl von Bach, German engineer (Maschinenelemente)
03/08/1853 Edward Hubertus Joannes Keurvils, Flemish composer (Parisina)
03/08/1857 Ruggero Leoncavallo, composer
03/08/1859 Kenneth Grahame, author (Wind, Willows)
03/08/1859 Otto Taubmann, composer
03/08/1862 Joseph Lee, helped develop playgrounds
03/08/1865 Frederick William Goudy, US, printer/type designer
03/08/1872 Paul Juon, Russian/Swiss violinist/composer
03/08/1876 Franco Alfano, Italian opera composer (Il dottore Antonio)
03/08/1879 Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 44, radiothorium/actinium
03/08/1883 Manuel Gomez Carillo, composer
03/08/1886 Anton Portielje, inspector of Arts/radio host
03/08/1886 Edward Kendall, chemist, isolated cortisone (Nobel 1950)
03/08/1888 Stuart Chase, NH, writer/economist (Tragedy of Waste)
03/08/1889 Oscar Ewing, US govt official (Everybody's Business)
03/08/1891 Sam Jaffe, NYC, actor (Gunga Din, Dr Zorba-Ben Casey)
03/08/1892 M ty s R kosi, Hungarian party leader/premier (1952-53)
03/08/1894 W„in” V Aaltonen, Finnish sculptor
03/08/1898 Louise Beavers, Cin Ohio, actress (Beulah-Beulah, Made for each othe
03/08/1898 Theophilus E D”nges, South Afr minister of Internal Affairs
03/08/1899 Eric Linklater, Scotland, novelist/poet (Blue Swallows)
03/08/1909 Anthony Donato, composer
03/08/1909 Claire Trevor, actress (Murder My Sweet, Marjorie Morningstar)
03/08/1911 Alan Hovhaness, Somerville Mass, composer (Lousadzak, Ukiyo)
03/08/1917 A Marja, [ATE Mooy], wrtier (Snippers on the River)
03/08/1918 Alan Hale [MacKahan] Jr, LA Calif, actor (Skipper-Gilligan's Island)
03/08/1921 Cyd Charisse, [Tula Finklea], Amarillo Tx, dancer/actress (East Side
03/08/1922 Carl Furillo, Brooklyn Dodger (NL Batting Champ 1953)
03/08/1923 Sembene Ousmane, Senegalese author/novelist/director (Doctor Noir)
03/08/1924 Sean McClory, Dublin Ireland, actor (Jack-Californians, My Chauffeur
03/08/1925 Darwin Horacio Vargas-Wallis, composer
03/08/1925 Petrus Steenkamp, Dutch politician (KVP/CDA)
03/08/1927 Jaromir Podesva, composer
03/08/1927 Joseph Berg, composer
03/08/1928 Frank Michael Beyer, composer
03/08/1928 Judy Johnson, Norfolk Va, singer (Your Show of Shows)
03/08/1934 Christian Wolff, composer
03/08/1934 Ron Taylor, Sydney Australia, cinematographer (Those Amazing Animals
03/08/1936 Gabor Szabo, Hungarian jazz pianist (Perfect Circle)
03/08/1936 Sue Ane Langdon, Paterson NJ, actress (Bachelor Father, Arnie)
03/08/1937 Juvenal Hayarimana, president of Rwanda (1973- )
03/08/1937 Raynoma Gordy, [Mayberry], US orchestra leader (Rayber Voices)
03/08/1938 Lew DeWitt, Va, country singer (Statler Brothers-Flowers on the Wall
03/08/1939 George William Reed, astronomy writer/cartoonist (Dark Sky Legacy)
03/08/1939 Jim Bouton, Newark NJ, pitcher (NY Yankees)/author (Ball Four)
03/08/1939 Lydia Skoblikova, USSR, speed skater (Olympics-6 gold-1960, 64)
03/08/1939 Mike Lowry, (Rep-D-WA, 1979- )
03/08/1939 Robert Tear, Barry Wales, tenor (Welsh Natl Opera 1970)
03/08/1939 Yannis Vlachopoulos, composer
03/08/194- Alan Sues, Ross Calif, comedian (Laugh-In)
03/08/1940 Leslie Isben Rogge, one of FBI's most wanted
03/08/1940 Susan Clark, Sarnia Ontario, actress (Night Moves, Webster)
03/08/1940 Theo Laseroms, [The Tank], soccer player (Feyenoord)
03/08/1941 Ivana Loudova, composer
03/08/1941 Yvar Emilian Mikhashoff, composer
03/08/1942 Ann Packer-Brightwell, England, 400m/800m runner (Oly-gold-1964)
03/08/1942 Ralph Ellis, England, rhythm (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good)
03/08/1942 [Dick] Richie Allen, baseball player (AL MVP 1972)
03/08/1943 Lynn Redgrave, London, actress (Georgie Girl)/Weight-Watcher
03/08/1944 Carole Bayer Sager, NY, aka Mrs Burt Bachrach, singer
03/08/1945 Jim Chapman, (Rep-D-TX, 1985- )
03/08/1945 Mickey Dolenz, LA Calif, actor (Circus Boy)/singer (Monkees)
03/08/1946 Randy Meisner, rock bassist/vocalist (Poco, Eagles-Take it Easy)
03/08/1948 Peggy March, rock vocalist (I Will Follow Him)
03/08/1949 Charles Lismont, Belgian marathon runner (Olympic-silver-1972)
03/08/1952 Aleksandr A Volkov, Russia, col/cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-8, T-14, TM-7)
03/08/1952 Vladimir Vladimirovich Vasjoetin, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-14)
03/08/1953 Jim Rice, Boston Red Sox outfielder (AL MVP 1978)
03/08/1953 Kathleen Ann Shower, Brookville Oh, Playmate of the Year (May, 1985)
03/08/1954 Cheryl Baker, rock vocalist (Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies)
03/08/1954 David Wilkie, England, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1976)
03/08/1954 Karl Schnabl, 90m ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1976)
03/08/1954 Marie-Th‚rŠse Nadig, Tanneboden Switz, skier (Olympic-2 gold-1972)
03/08/1958 Gary Numan, [Gary Webb] Hammersmith England, vocalist (Replicas)
03/08/1959 Aidan Quinn, Chicago, actor (All My Sons, Reckless, Stakeout)
03/08/1964 Peter 'Ged' Gill, drummer (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-2 Tribes)
03/08/1966 Holly Ann Salo, Keani Alaska, Miss Alaska-America (1991)
03/08/1966 Laura McCabe, cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
03/08/1970 Rhett Harty, Pasedena CA, US soccer player (Olympic-92)
Deaths:
03/08/ 883 Albumasar, [Ahmad Aboe M Gafar al-Balkhi], Arabic astronomer, dies
03/08/1144 Celestine II, [Guido], Italian Pope (1143-44), dies in battle
03/08/1403 Bajezid I Jildirim, [Bliksemschicht], 4th sultan of Turkey, dies
03/08/1550 Juan de Dios, Port/Sp saint (Brothers of Barmhartigh), dies at 55
03/08/1638 Jacob C van Neck, admiral/mayor of Amsterdam, dies at about 73
03/08/1640 Guillaume van Messaus, composer, dies at 50
03/08/1702 William III, King of England (1689-1702), dies at 51
03/08/1716 Harald Vallerius, composer, dies at 69
03/08/1720 Georg Bronner, composer, dies at 53
03/08/1734 Carolomannus Pachschmidt, composer, dies at 33
03/08/1828 Johann Anton Sulzer, composer, dies at 75
03/08/1862 Adrien de La Fage, composer, dies at 56
03/08/1869 Hector Louis Berlioz, composer, dies at 65
03/08/1869 Louis H Berlioz, French composer (Symphony Fantastic), dies at 65
03/08/1874 Millard Fillmore, 13th president (1850-53), dies of at 74
03/08/1889 Jens/John Ericsson, Swed/US, engineer (fire extinguisher), dies at 8
03/08/1901 Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg, German politician, dies at 64
03/08/1901 Peter Benoit, composer, dies at 66
03/08/1917 Ferdinand von Zeppelin, air pioneer, dies
03/08/1919 Auguste Tolbecque, composer, dies at 88
03/08/1920 Rafael Obligado, Argentine writer (Santos Vega), dies
03/08/1923 Johannes S van der Waals, physicist (Nobel 1910), dies
03/08/1930 William Howard Taft, 27th US pres (1909-13)/Chief Justice, dies at 7
03/08/1931 Clara Kathleen Rogers, composer, dies at 87
03/08/1932 John de Mere, lawyer/tutor of Queen Wilhelmina, dies at 84
03/08/1937 Albert Verwey, poet/literature historian (Motion), dies
03/08/1941 Jose Serrano Simeon, composer, dies at 67
03/08/1941 Sherwood Anderson, US writer/publisher (Winesburg Ohio), dies at 64
03/08/1945 HJ Jamin, resistance fighter, dies in Buchenwald
03/08/1950 Jaroslav Kocian, composer, dies at 67
03/08/1951 Honeymoon Killers, die in electric chair
03/08/1951 John Winter Thompson, composer, dies at 83
03/08/1955 Clementine, Princess of Belgium, wife of V Napoleon Bonaparte, dies
03/08/1957 Othmar Schoeck, composer, dies at 70
03/08/1959 Abdel Wahab Shawwaf, Iraqi colonel/putschist, murdered
03/08/1961 Thomas Beecham, English composer (Last Night of the Prom), dies at 8
03/08/1971 Harold Lloyd, US comic/actor (Why Worry), dies at 77
03/08/1974 Christian van Yellow, poet/sculptor, dies at 56
03/08/1974 Willem 'Wim' Sonneveld, singer/actor (Silk Stockings), dies at 56
03/08/1975 George Stevens, US director (Swing Time, Gunga Din), dies at 70
03/08/1983 William T Walton, English composer (Belhazzar's feast), dies at 80
03/08/1985 Edward Andrews, actor (Broadside), dies at 70 of a heart attack
03/08/1985 Thomas Creighton, US heart patient (3 implants in 46 hrs), dies at 3
03/08/1992 Red Callender, US jazz bassist (Unfinished dream), dies
03/08/1993 Billy Eckstine, jazz singer (Fools Rush In), dies at 78 of stroke
03/08/1993 Johan Bodegraven, radiohost (Stock exch open, dikes close), dies at
03/08/1993 Joop Scheltens, TV host/director (Explore Your Place), dies at 69
03/08/1993 Wells Root, US screenwriter (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 92
03/08/1994 Joop C Swart, publisher/founder (World Press Photo), dies at 69
03/08/1994 Knut Haukelid, Norse/US resistance fighter (Rjukan 1943), dies at 82
Significant Events:
03/08/1418 Jacoba van Bayern marries her cousin John IV van Brabant
03/08/1586 Johan van Oldenbarnevelt becomes Dutch land advocate
03/08/1658 Peace of Roskilde between Sweden & Denmark
03/08/1702 Queen Anne ascends to the English throne
03/08/1766 Willem V (18) becomes governor of United Provinces
03/08/1782 Gnadenhutten massacre - Ohio militia kills 90 indians
03/08/1801 British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt
03/08/1838 US mint in New Orleans begins operation (producing dimes)
03/08/1854 US Commodore Matthew C Perry's 2nd trip to Japan
03/08/1855 1st train crosses 1st US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls
03/08/1858 Opera 'I Pagliacci' is produced (Naples)
03/08/1861 E W Tempel discovers asteroid #65 Cybele
03/08/1862 Battle of Elkhorn Tavern ends with Confederate withdrawal
03/08/1862 Confederate ironclad Merrimack launched
03/08/1862 Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads, VA CSS Virginia, Jamestown &
03/08/1862 Yorktown vs USS Cumberland, Congress & Monitor
03/08/1865 Battle of Kingston, NC (Wilcox's ridge, Wise's Forks)
03/08/1887 Everett Horton, CT, patents fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes
03/08/1888 J Palisa discovers asteroid #273 Atropos
03/08/1893 A Charlois discovers asteroid #358 Apollonia
03/08/1894 A Charlois discovers asteroid #389 Industria
03/08/1894 NY passes 1st state dog license law
03/08/1905 M Wolf discovers asteroid #559 Nanon
03/08/1906 Ottawa Silver 7 beat Smith Falls (Ont) for Stanley Cup
03/08/1908 Collingwood Elementary (Cleve) burns, kills 173 kids & 2 teachers
03/08/1908 Frederick of Eden speaks in Carnegie Hall, NY
03/08/1910 Baronne Raymonde de Laroche, France becomes 1st licensed female pilo
03/08/1911 1st International Woman's Day
03/08/1915 1st US navy minelayer, Baltimore, commissioned
03/08/1916 US invades Cuba, to stop corrupt regime-Menocal
03/08/1917 Russian revolution breaks out (2/24 OS) (in St Petersburg)
03/08/1917 US invades Cuba for 3rd time
03/08/1920 Denmark & Cuba join the League of Nations
03/08/1924 Coal mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate Utah
03/08/1930 Babe Ruth signs $80,000 contract with the Yankees
03/08/1930 Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India
03/08/1934 Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars
03/08/1938 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1453 Fennia
03/08/1941 1st baseball player drafted into WW II (Hugh Mulcahy, Phillies)
03/08/1942 Japanese forces captures Rangoon Burma
03/08/1942 KNIL surrenders to Japanese armies
03/08/1943 Limited gambling legalized in Mexico
03/08/1946 1st helicopter licensed for coml use (NYC)
03/08/1949 WAGA TV channel 5 in Atlanta, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
03/08/1949 WBAP-FM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting
03/08/1950 1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel-BR Walters
03/08/1950 USSR announces they have developed the atomic bomb
03/08/1951 Intl Table Tennis Federation bans Egypt (for refusing to play Israel
03/08/1951 M Itzigsohn discovers asteroid #1596 Itzigsohn
03/08/1952 Antoine Pinay forms French government
03/08/1952 Ronald Reagan marries Nancy Davis
03/08/1953 KSWO TV channel 7 in Lawton, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
03/08/1953 WFMJ TV channel 21 in Youngstown, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
03/08/1954 Herb McKinley sets ¬ mile record of 0:46.8 in Melbourne, Australia
03/08/1957 Israeli troops reopen Suez Canal
03/08/1958 Silky Sullivan comes from 40 lengths back to win by 3 at Santa Anita
03/08/1958 William Faulkner says US school degenerated to become babysitters
03/08/1959 Groucho, Chico & Harpo's final TV appearance together
03/08/1959 KUAT TV channel 6 in Tucson, AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting
03/08/1959 Pro-Egyptian coup fails in Mosul Iraq
03/08/1961 US nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrives at Scottish naval base
03/08/1961 of Holy Loch from SC in a record underseas journey of 66 days 22 hrs
03/08/1963 Syrian Arab Rep Revolution Day - Military coup in Syria
03/08/1964 F Borngen discovers asteroid #3181 Ahnert
03/08/1964 Malcolm X begins black Muslim action
03/08/1965 1st US combat forces arrive in Vietnam (3,500 Marines)
03/08/1965 4000 Marines land in South Vietnam
03/08/1967 New Orleans Saints begin selling season tickets (20,000 sold 1st day
03/08/1968 6 year old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown, Md)
03/08/1968 Fillmore East opens
03/08/1968 Students demonstrate in Warsaw
03/08/1969 Marriage of 12 year old Marcella Rosciglione in Palermo
03/08/1970 WTCI TV channel 45 in Chattanooga, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
03/08/1971 Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali in Madison Sq Garden (NYC)
03/08/1971 Milwaukee Bucks win their 20th straight NBA game (team record)
03/08/1971 Radio Hanoi broadcasts Jimi Hendrix's 'Star Spangled Banner'
03/08/1972 1st airship flown over Britain in 20 years (Europa)
03/08/1972 1st flight of the Goodyear blimp
03/08/1973 Paul & Linda McCartney are fined œ100 for growing cannabis
03/08/1974 Charles the Gaulle Airport opens in Paris
03/08/1976 1774 kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China
03/08/1977 Henry L Marsh III elected mayor of Richmond
03/08/1979 China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam
03/08/1979 Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) transported 38 miles overland from Palmdal
03/08/1979 Volcanoes on Io discovered by Voyager 1
03/08/1983 IBM releases PC DOS version 2.0
03/08/1983 Pres Reagan calls the USSR an 'Evil Empire'
03/08/1986 4 French TV crew members are abducted in west Beirut Lebanon
03/08/1986 Japanese probe Suisei passes Halley's Comet at 109,800 km
03/08/1986 Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis player to earn $10 million
03/08/1987 FBI apprehends most wanted Claude L Dallas, Jr in Calif
03/08/1987 Nelli Cooman becomes world champion 60m indoor
03/08/1990 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 1st victim, Mario Orosco
03/08/1991 Harry Hamlin & Nicollette Sheridan wed
03/08/1993 Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested again on suspicion of murder
03/08/1994 B737 collides with Ilyushin-86 in New Dehli, at least 8 killed
03/08/1994 Train accident at Pinetown, Natal kills 47
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03/10/1452 Ferdinand II, the Catholic, King of Aragon/Sicily (expelled Jews)
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Births:
03/10/1503 Ferdinand I, German emperor
03/10/1538 Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk; executed by Queen Elizabeth (1572)
03/10/1628 Constantine Huygens Jr, poet/painter/cartoonist
03/10/1656 Adolf H van Rechteren, diplomat/politician
03/10/1698 Gaetano Maria Schiassi, composer
03/10/1713 Christian Friedrich Schale, composer
03/10/1713 Raphael Weiss, composer
03/10/1748 John Playfair, Scotland, clergyman/geologist/mathematician
03/10/1755 Philipp Christoph Kayser, composer
03/10/1772 Friedrich von Schlegel, Germany, romantic writer/critic (Lucinde)
03/10/1776 Luise, queen of Prussia/wife of Frederik Willem III
03/10/1780 Juan Jose Landaeta, composer
03/10/1787 William Etty, English painter (nudist)
03/10/1788 Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (Tie Marmorbild)
03/10/1809 William David Porter, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1864
03/10/1810 John McCloskey, US, pres of St John's College (Fordham U)
03/10/1810 Louis Gallait, Belgian painter (Egmont & Receiver)
03/10/1812 Victor Tesch, Belgian lawyer/min of Justice
03/10/1818 George Wythe Randolph, Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1867
03/10/1822 Willem Roelofs, painter/lithographer
03/10/1824 Thomas James Churchill, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 19
03/10/1830 Robert Lowry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
03/10/1832 William Henry Penrose, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
03/10/1833 Pedro Antonio de Alarc¢n, Spain, writer (Three-Cornered Hat)
03/10/1839 Dudley Buck, Hartford, Ct, organist/church composer
03/10/1842 Ina Donna Coolbrith, US, poet laureate of Calif
03/10/1844 Pablo Martin M de Sarasate y Navascuez, composer (Spanish Dancing)
03/10/1845 Alexander III A Romanov, Russian tsar (1881-94)
03/10/1850 Mary Mills Patrick, US, 1st pres of Instanbul Woman's College
03/10/1865 Pim [Willem JH] Mulier, journalist/writer/sport-organizer
03/10/1867 Lillian D Wald, US, sociologist/organizer (Visiting Nurses)
03/10/1870 Alfred Kastner, composer
03/10/1872 Felix Borowski, composer
03/10/1873 Jakob Wassermann, Germany, novelist (My Life as German & Jew)
03/10/1875 Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser, composer
03/10/1877 David M Chumaceiro, Cura‡ao, poet
03/10/1878 Karel van de Woest˜ne, Flemish writer (God & Sea)
03/10/1880 Michael Jacobs, NYC, boxing promoter
03/10/1888 Barry Fitzgerald, Dublin Ireland, actor (Acad Award-Going My Way)
03/10/1888 Krsto Odak, composer
03/10/1891 Jacob van Gelderen, economist/sociologist/Dutch 2nd Chamber (SDAP)
03/10/1892 Arthur Honnegger, Le Havre France, composer (King David)
03/10/1892 Eva Turner, British soprano
03/10/1898 Cy Kendall, St Louis Mo, actor (Mysteries of Chinatown)
03/10/1899 Finn Hoffding, composer
03/10/1900 Sherman Billingsley, Enid Ok, talk show host (Stork Club)
03/10/1903 Leon Bismarck 'Bix' Beiderbecke, US, jazz cornetist (In a Mist)
03/10/1905 Rene Bernier, composer
03/10/1907 Robert de Roos, composer
03/10/1908 Kristian Palusalu, Finland, heavyweight wrestler (Olympic-gold-1936)
03/10/1909 Gerard Croiset, paragnost
03/10/1911 Warner Anderson, Bkln, actor (Doctor, Lineup, Matthew-Peyton Place)
03/10/1914 Chandler Harper, golfer (1950 PGA champ)
03/10/1916 James Herriot, Scotland, writer (All Creatures Great & Small)
03/10/1918 Heywood Hale Broun, journalist
03/10/1921 Cec Linder, Galica Poland, actor (Goldfinger)
03/10/1921 Paul Coates, NYC, columnist (Tonight! America After Dark)
03/10/1922 Adam Kennedy, Lafayette Ind, actor (Dion-Californian)
03/10/1922 Pamela Mason, London, actress (Navy vs Night Monsters)
03/10/1925 M J J A [Sef] Imkamp, Dutch politician (D-66)
03/10/1926 Marques Haynes, Harlem Globetrotters' ace
03/10/1927 Donn Trenner, New Haven Ct, orch leader (ABC's Nightlife)
03/10/1927 Paul Wunderlich, German lithograph/painter/sculptor
03/10/1932 Anatoliy Roschin, USSR, super heavyweight wrestler (Olympic-gold-197
03/10/1933 Bernadetta Matuszczak, composer
03/10/1937 Tamara Press, USSR, shot putter (Olympic-gold-1960, 64)
03/10/1938 Ron Mix, NFL tackle (San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders)
03/10/1939 Irina Press, USSR, 80m hurdles/Pentathelete (Olympic-gold-1960, 64)
03/10/1940 Chuck Norris, [Carlos Ray], martial arts actor (Missing in Action)
03/10/1940 David Rabe, playwright (Streamers)
03/10/1940 Dean Torrence, surf music singer (Jan & Dean-Little Old Lady)
03/10/1940 Francis Schwartz, composer
03/10/1941 Daniel Kirkland Lentz, composer
03/10/1941 Piotr Warzecha, composer
03/10/1943 Alfred Whitford Lerdahl, composer
03/10/1943 Angelique Pettyjohn, LA Calif, actress (Body Talk, Star Trek)
03/10/1943 Stephen Montague, composer
03/10/1945 Katherine Houghton, actress (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
03/10/1947 Avril 'Kim' Campbell, Canada's 1st female premier (1993- )
03/10/1947 Laurie Langenbach, author
03/10/1947 Tom Scholz, rock guitarist/keyboardist (Boston-More Than a Feeling)
03/10/1948 Austin Carr, NBA star (Cleveland Cavaliers)
03/10/1952 Oupa J Gqozo, South African warden/army commandant in Ciskei
03/10/1955 Bunny DeBarge, rocker (Debarge)
03/10/1957 Adolfo Horta, Camaguey Cuba, HW boxer (Olympic-silver-1980)
03/10/1957 Shannon Lee Tweed, St Johns NF, playmate (Nov 1981)/actr (Meatballs
03/10/1958 Sharon Stone, Meadville Pa, actress (Basic Instinct, Sliver)
03/10/1960 Linda Jezek, Calif, backstroke swimmer (Pan Am Gold-1979)
03/10/1961 Mitch Gaylord, gymnist (Olympics 1984)/actor (American Anthem)
03/10/1962 Gary Clark, rocker (Danny Wilson-Mary's Prayer)
03/10/1963 Jasmine Guy, Boston Mass, actress (Whitley-Different World)
03/10/1964 Cynthia Brimhall, Ogden Utah, playmate (Oct, 1985)
03/10/1964 Edward Anthony Richard Louis, Prince of Britain/Elizabeth II grandso
03/10/1964 Neneh Cherry, Stockholm Sweden, Swedish pop singer (Money Love)
03/10/1966 Pavel Petrovich Mukhortov, Russia, cosmonaut
03/10/1977 Shannon Miller, Rolla Mo, US gymnist (Olympic-92)
Deaths:
03/10/ 37 Tiberius Claudius Nero, Roman emperor (14-37), dies at 77
03/10/ 483 Simplicius, Italian Pope (468-83), dies
03/10/1585 Rembert Dodoens, [Rembertus Dodonaeus], physician/botanist, dies at
03/10/1597 Petrus Forestus, [Pieter Foreest], artist (Willem of Orange), dies
03/10/1700 Diogo Diaz Melgaz, composer, dies at 61
03/10/1701 Johann Schelle, composer, dies at 52
03/10/1716 Wenzel Ludwig von Radolt, composer, dies at 48
03/10/1735 Dirk T van Cloon, lawyer/gov-gen of East Indies, dies at about 46
03/10/1826 Johan VI M L J, King of Portugal (1816-26), dies at 56
03/10/1832 Muzio Clementi, composer, dies at 80
03/10/1861 Josepf Francois Snel, composer, dies at 67
03/10/1864 Maximilian II Jozef, King of Bayern (1848-64), dies at 52
03/10/1866 Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini, composer, dies at 87
03/10/1870 Ignaz Moscheles, composer, dies at 75
03/10/1875 Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul, composer, dies at 85
03/10/1888 Ciro Pinsuti, composer, dies at 58
03/10/1892 Otto van Raised, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1884-88), dies at 69
03/10/1897 Teodulo Mabellini, composer, dies at 79
03/10/1900 Johann Peter Hartmann, composer, dies at 94
03/10/1901 Vasily Georgiyevich Wrangell, composer, dies at 39
03/10/1906 Eugen Richter, German liberal parliament member, dies at 67
03/10/1910 Carl Reinecke, composer, dies at 86
03/10/1910 Karl Lueger, Austrian anti-semite/mayor of Vienna, dies
03/10/1913 Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, conductor on Underground RR, dies in N
03/10/1922 Arthur Hervey, composer, dies at 67
03/10/1922 Horace Wadham Nicholl, composer, dies at 73
03/10/1940 Louis de Vries, actor (Merchant of Venice), dies
03/10/1944 David Bird, Ukrainian author (Auschwitz), dies at 52
03/10/1948 Jan Masaryk, Czech Foreign minister, commits suicide
03/10/1966 Frederik 'Frits' Zernike, physicist (Nobel 1953), dies at 77
03/10/1966 Mari Sandoz, US author (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 64
03/10/1971 Mabel Wheeler Daniels, composer, dies at 92
03/10/1973 Richard Sharples, governor of Bermuda, is assassinated
03/10/1974 Quinto Maganini, composer, dies at 76
03/10/1975 Leopold Samuel, composer, dies at 91
03/10/1977 E Power Biggs, composer, dies at 70
03/10/1977 Pieter John Bouman, sociologist/historian, dies at 74
03/10/1977 Willem Schermerhorn, Dutch premier (1945-46), dies at 82
03/10/1980 Herman Tarnower, doctor (Scarsdale Diet), killed by Jean Harris
03/10/1984 June Marlowe, actress (Pardon Us), dies at 81
03/10/1985 Konstantin Chernenko, party leader/pres of USSR (1984-85), dies at 7
03/10/1986 Ray Milland, actor (Lost Weekend-Acad Award 1945), dies at 81
03/10/1988 Andy Gibb, singer, dies at 30 of heart infection
03/10/1988 Glenn Cunningham, US world record miler, dies at 78
03/10/1988 William Brocklesby Wordsworth, composer, dies at 79
03/10/1993 C Northcote Parkinson, English historian/sociologist (Law of P), die
03/10/1993 David Gunn, US abortionist, murdered at 47
03/10/1994 Charles Bukowski, German/US writer (Barfly, Hollywood), dies at 73
Significant Events:
03/10/ 241 -BC- Battle of Aegusa: Roman fleet sinks 50 Carthagean ships
03/10/ 418 Jews are exculed from public office in the Roman Empire
03/10/ 483 St Simplicius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
03/10/1526 Emperor Charles V marries princess Isabella of Portugal
03/10/1535 Bishop Tom s de Berlanga discovers Gal pagos Islands
03/10/1789 Franklin College founded (1787?)
03/10/1791 John Stone, Concord, Mass, patents a pile driver
03/10/1791 Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution of the clergy
03/10/1847 1st money minted in Hawaii
03/10/1849 Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent; only US president to do so
03/10/1861 Asteroid Cybele (65) discovered by Tempel
03/10/1862 1st paper money issued by US gov't-$5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500, 1000
03/10/1862 US issues $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 & $1000 paper money
03/10/1864 Grant is named commander of the Union armies
03/10/1864 Red River campaign LA
03/10/1865 Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, NC
03/10/1874 Purdue University (Indiana) admits it's 1st student
03/10/1876 1st telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson)
03/10/1880 Salvation Army of England sets up US welfare & religious activity
03/10/1888 HW Boxing champ John L Sullivan draws Charlie Mitchell in 30 rounds
03/10/1890 A Charlois discovers asteroid #289 Nenetta
03/10/1893 A Charlois discovers asteroid #359 Georgia
03/10/1893 Ivory Coast becomes a French colony
03/10/1893 New Mexico State University cancels it's 1st graduation ceremony,
03/10/1893 its only graduate Sam Steele was robbed & killed the night before
03/10/1896 Charilaos Vasilakos of Greece wins 1st modern marathon in 3:18
03/10/1896 The Bronx acquires O'Brien Square
03/10/1900 Battle at Driefontein, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
03/10/1902 Earthquake destroys Turkish city of Tochangri
03/10/1903 Harry Gammeter, Cleveland, patents multigraph duplicating machine
03/10/1903 Ottawa Silver 7 beat Montreal AAA 8-0 for the Stanley Cup
03/10/1905 Japanese Army captures Manchuria (Shanghai)
03/10/1906 Bakerloo line opens from Baker Street to Waterloo in England
03/10/1906 Coal dust explosion kills 1,060 at Courrieres France
03/10/1910 Pittsburgh Courier, begins publishing
03/10/1913 Quebec Bulldogs sweep Sydney (NS) Millionaires in 2 for Stanley Cup
03/10/1913 William Knox, becomes 1st in American Bowling Congress to bowl 300
03/10/1914 Suffragettes in London damage painter Rokeby's Venus of Velasquez
03/10/1915 British expedition Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle
03/10/1920 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #929 Algunde
03/10/1920 NHL's Quebec Bulldog Jim Malone scores 6 goals vs Ottawa Senators
03/10/1920 W Baade discovers asteroid #930 Westphalia
03/10/1922 KLZ-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
03/10/1922 state of siege proclaimed during mine strike Johannesburg S Africa
03/10/1925 Walter Mittelholzer is 1st to flies over Demawend mountain, Iran
03/10/1926 Run on Belgian banks
03/10/1927 Albania mobilize by threat of Serbian, Croatian & Slavs
03/10/1927 Hitlers speech forbidden in Bayern
03/10/1929 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1128 Astrid
03/10/1931 British Labour party removes fascist sir Oswald Mosley
03/10/1933 Major earthquake in Long Beach, Calif
03/10/1933 Nevada becomes 1st US state to regulate narcotics
03/10/1934 G Van Biesbroeck discovers asteroid #2463
03/10/1934 Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games)
03/10/1939 17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad India
03/10/1940 1st US opera telecast, W2XBS, NYC, I Pagliacci
03/10/1940 G Kulin discovers asteroid #1513 Matra
03/10/1940 Germany invades the Benelux countries
03/10/1941 Lee MacPhail, Dodger GM predicts all players will wear batting helme
03/10/1945 B-29 bombs Tokyo into flames
03/10/1945 Germany blows-up Wessel Bridge on Rhine
03/10/1945 Japan declares Vietnam Independence
03/10/1945 Pattons 3rd Army makes contact with Hodges 1st Army
03/10/1945 Tokyo in fire after night time B-29 bombing
03/10/1946 Train derailment kills 185 near Aracaju Brazil
03/10/1948 1st civilian to exceed speed of sound-Herb H Hoover, Edwards AFB Ca
03/10/1952 Military coup by general Fulgencio Batista in Cuba
03/10/1953 H Alikoski discovers asteroid #2573 Hannu Olavi
03/10/1956 General strike in Cyprus protesting exile of archbishop Makarios
03/10/1956 Peter Twiss sets new world air record 1,132 mph (1,823 kph)
03/10/1957 Thousands of soccer fans riot in Italy
03/10/1959 Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa Tibet
03/10/1960 USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing
03/10/1963 Pete Rose debuts with hits in his 2 1st at bats in spring training
03/10/1963 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 70 points vs Syracuse
03/10/1964 US begins reconnasissance flights above East-Germany
03/10/1965 Dutch Princess Daisy & Pieter van Vollenhoven, get engaged
03/10/1966 5 time Horse of the Year, Kelso, retires
03/10/1966 Dutch crown princess Beatrix marries Claus von Amsberg
03/10/1966 North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley
03/10/1969 James Earl Ray pleads guilty of killing Martin Luther King Jr
03/10/1970 Barbra Striesand records 'The Singer' & 'I Can Do It'
03/10/1971 Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18
03/10/1972 1st black US political convention opens (Gary Indiana)
03/10/1972 Gen Lon Nol becomes pres & prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia
03/10/1973 Morocco adopts constitution
03/10/1974 Christian Democrates win Belgium parliamentary election
03/10/1975 Dog spectacles patented in England
03/10/1977 Rings of Uranus discovered during occultation of SAO
03/10/1978 Soyuz 28 returns to Earth
03/10/1980 Willard Scott becomes the weathercaster on the Today Show
03/10/1982 Pres Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
03/10/1982 Sygyzy: all 9 planets aligned on same side of Sun
03/10/1983 E Barr discovers asteroid #3743
03/10/1984 Heavyweight Tim Witherspoon KOs Greg Page
03/10/1985 Dallas Maverick coach Dick Motta is 4th NBA coach to win 700 games
03/10/1985 French socialists lose election (Nationally Front 9%)
03/10/1988 NY Islanders celebrate Mike Bossy night
03/10/1991 Merlene Ottey runs world record 200 m indoor (22.24 sec)
03/10/1994 1 million Greeks attend Melina Mercouri's funeral
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03/09/1564 David Fabricius, Essens Germany, astronomer (discover variable star)
03/09/1735 August Bernhard Valentin Herbing, composer
03/09/1737 Josef Myslivecek, composer
03/09/1753 Jean-Baptiste Kléber, French general/architect (Mainz, Colors)
03/09/1758 Franz Joseph Gall, German/French physician (frenology)
03/09/1777 Alexander Orlowski, Polish painter/cartoonist/graphic artist
03/09/1810 Jean-Georges Kastner, composer
03/09/1812 Jakob Eduard Schmolzer, composer
03/09/1814 Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine, national poet/painter/prof of Kiev
03/09/1824 Leland Stanford, (Gov/Sen)/found Stanford U
03/09/1839 Felix Huston Robertson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 192
03/09/1839 Modest P Moessorgsky, Russian composer (Boris Gudunov) [OS]
03/09/1848 Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick, composer
03/09/1850 Alexandre Luigini, composer
03/09/1874 Johann Richard Ohlsson, composer
03/09/1875 Martin Fallas Shaw, composer
03/09/1877 Emil Abderhalden, Swiss physiologist/bio-chemist
03/09/1881 Enver Pasja, Turkish general/politician
03/09/1881 Ernest Bevin, British minister of Labour/Foreign affairs
03/09/1890 Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet foreign minister (UN)
03/09/1892 David Garnett, England, novelist/editor (Lady into Fox)
03/09/1892 Joseph Weinheber, Austria poet/writer (Adel und Underworld)
03/09/1892 Mátyá Rákosi, [Rosencranz], premier of Hungary (1952-53)
03/09/1892 Vita Sackville-West, England, novelist/poet (The Land)
03/09/1893 Edgar Scauflaire, Belgian wall-painter/decorator
03/09/1893 Hans Munch, composer
03/09/1902 Edward Durell Stone, US, architect (US Embassy, New Delhi)
03/09/1902 Will Greer, Frankfort Ind, actor (Grandpa Walton-The Waltons)
03/09/1905 Félix L V L J Labisse, French painter (libidoscaphes)
03/09/1905 Grigori Kozintsev, Kiev Ukraine, director (Hamlet, King Lear)
03/09/1905 Peter C Quennell, English biographer/critic (Byron in Italy)
03/09/1905 Rex Warner, English poet/writer (Wild Goose Chase)
03/09/1907 Henry Leland Clarke, composer
03/09/1908 Luiz Cosme, composer
03/09/1910 Ed[uard] Hoornik, writer/poet (Outlive)
03/09/1910 Samuel Barber, West Chester Pa, composer (Pulitz, School for Scandal
03/09/1911 Ramon Campbell Batista, composer
03/09/1913 Ger[ar]da Brautigam, journalist/Dutch 2nd Chamber (PvdA)
03/09/1914 Fred Clark, Lincoln Calif, actor (Burns & Allen, Auntie Mame)
03/09/1917 Dante B Fascell, (Rep-D-FL, 1955- )
03/09/1918 Mickey Spillane, mystery writer (I, the Jury)
03/09/1920 Carl Betz, Pitts, actor (Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show)
03/09/1922 Herbert P Douglas Jr, Pitts, long jumper (Olympic-bronze-1948)
03/09/1923 André Courréges, France, fashion designer (introed the miniskirt)
03/09/1923 James Buckley, (Sen-R-NY)
03/09/1924 Konstantin Iliev, composer
03/09/1926 Celso Garrido Lecca, composer
03/09/1926 Gerrit A Kooy, sociologist (Apartheid & work in South Africa)
03/09/1926 Irene Papas, Corinth Greece, actress (Moses The Lawgiver)
03/09/1927 Hans Ludwig Schilling, composer
03/09/1927 Jack Jensen, baseball player (AL MVP 1958)
03/09/1927 John Beckwith, composer
03/09/1929 Hugh D Hoyte, president (Guyana, 1985- )
03/09/1930 Harrie J B Arts, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
03/09/1930 Thomas Schippers, Kalamazoo Mich, conductor (Amahl & Night Visitors)
03/09/1932 Heere Heeresma, writer (Han the White goes in development aid)
03/09/1933 Lloyd Price, US, singer (Just Because)
03/09/1933 William Francis McBeth, composer
03/09/1934 Joyce Van Patten, Queens NY, actress (Good Guys, Don Rickles Show)
03/09/1934 Yuri Gagarin, Russia, cosmonaut, 1st man into space (aboard Vostok 1
03/09/1935 Keely Smith, Norfolk Va, singer (Mrs Louie Prima)
03/09/1935 Sister Bernard Ncube, South African nun
03/09/1936 Glenda Jackson, England, actress (Hopscotch, Touch of Class)
03/09/1936 Marty Ingels, Bkln NY, comedian (I'm Dickens He's Fenster)
03/09/1936 Mickey Gilley, Ferriday La, country singer (Urban Cowboy)
03/09/1938 Charles Siebert, Kenosha Wisc, actor (One Day at A Time, Trapper Joh
03/09/1940 Raul Julia, PR, actor (Eyes of Laura Mars, Kiss of the Spider Woman)
03/09/1941 Trish Van Devere, actress (Movie, Movie, Changeling, Hearse)
03/09/1942 John Cale, Welsh/US bassist/altviolist/singer (Velvet Underground)
03/09/1942 Mark Lindsay, Eugene Oregon, singer (Paul Revere & the Raiders)
03/09/1943 Bobby Fischer, US, world chess champion (1972-75)
03/09/1944 Trevor Burton, rocker (Move)
03/09/1945 Laura Lee, [Rundless], singer (Dirty Man, Women's Love Rights)
03/09/1945 Ray Royer, rocker (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale)
03/09/1945 Robin Trower, London, rocker (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale)
03/09/1946 German Semyonovich Arzamazov, Russia, cosmonaut
03/09/1948 Jamie Lyn Bauer, Phoenix Az, actr (Young & Restless, Centerfold Girl
03/09/1948 Jeffrey Osborne, singer (On the Wings of Love)
03/09/1949 Kalevi Aho, composer
03/09/1950 Danny Sullivan, Indy-car racer (over 10 wins)
03/09/1952 Iuliana Semenova, USSR, basketball (Olympic-gold-1976)
03/09/1952 William Kirby Cullen, Santa Ana Calif, actor (How the West Was Won)
03/09/1954 Keven Wade, Chappaqua NY, screen writer (Working Girls)
03/09/1955 Ornella Muti, Rome Italy, actress (Flash Gordon, Most Beautiful Wife
03/09/1955 Teo Fabi, formula-1 Indy-car racer (rookie of year-1983)
03/09/1957 Faith Daniels, news anchor (CBS-TV)
03/09/1957 Jon Engen, Oslo Norway, US biathelete (Olympics-1994)
03/09/1958 Martin Fry, rock vocalist (ABC-All of My Heart)
03/09/1959 Barbie, doll
03/09/1962 Brian Green, Columbus Indiana, actor (Sam Fowler-Another World)
03/09/1963 Kent Ferguson, Cedar Rapids Iowa, US diver (Olympic-92)
03/09/1965 Brian Bosworth, quarterback (Seattle)
03/09/1966 Juliette Binoche, Paris France, actress (Unbearable Lightness)
03/09/1967 Curt Schreiner, Albany NY, biathelete (Olympics-1994)
03/09/1967 Eric Flaim, Pembroke Mass, short track skater (Olympics-1994)
03/09/1970 Melissa Rathburn-Nealy, US soldier (Iraqi POW)
03/09/1971 Emmanuel Lewis, Bkln NY, actor (Webster)
Deaths:
03/09/1620 Aegidius Albertinus, German writer (Lucifer Königreich), dies at 59
03/09/1661 Jules 'Cardinal' Mazarin, chief minister of France, dies
03/09/1688 Claude Mellan, French engraver/cartoonist/painter, dies at 89
03/09/1706 Johann Pachelbel, composer, dies at 52
03/09/1747 Jacob Campo Weyerman, S Neth adventurer/painter/writer, dies at 69
03/09/1800 Dominique Della-Maria, composer, dies at 31
03/09/1819 Janos Fusz, composer, dies at 41
03/09/1827 Franz Xaver Gerl, composer, dies at 62
03/09/1870 Theodore Labarre, composer, dies at 65
03/09/1877 Mark Prager Lindo, English/Dutch author (Neth Spectator), dies at 58
03/09/1895 Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (Masochism), dies at 59
03/09/1918 [Benjamin] Franc[lin] Wedekind, German writer/press sec, dies at 53
03/09/1931 Ida B Wells-Barnett, famous black, dies at 78 in Chicago
03/09/1938 Sydney Baynes, composer, dies at 59
03/09/1941 Carlos Pedrell, composer, dies at 62
03/09/1943 Oskar Hłks, Czech marathon runner/antifascist, dies in Auschwitz
03/09/1955 Matthew A Henson, met Peary on 6/4/1909 at North Pole, dies
03/09/1962 Howard Engstrom, Boston, a designer of Univac computer dies at 59
03/09/1964 Johanna W 'Mina' Bakker, actress (Boefje), dies at 87
03/09/1964 Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Prussian general strategist, dies at 93
03/09/1965 Anthon van der Horst, composer, dies at 66
03/09/1969 Riad, chief of staff of Egyptian army, dies
03/09/1969 Richard Crane, actor (Surfside 6), dies at 50
03/09/1971 Jean-Pierre Guezek, composer, dies at 36
03/09/1974 Earl W Sutherland Jr, US pharmacologist (Nobel 1971), dies at 58
03/09/1975 Joseph Dunninger, NYC, mentalist (Amazing Dunninger), dies at 82
03/09/1981 Max Delbrück, German/US biologist (Nobel 1969), dies
03/09/1982 Alan Badel, actor (Shogun), dies of a heart attack at 58
03/09/1982 Rex Marshall, TV announcer (Circuit Rider, Herman Hickman Show), die
03/09/1982 Richard A Butler, England, min of Finance, dies at 79
03/09/1983 Faye Emerson, actress (I've Got a Secret), dies of cancer at 65
03/09/1986 Ned Calmer, TV host (In the First Person), dies at 78
03/09/1988 Kurt Georg Kiesinger, West German chancellor (1966-69), dies at 83
03/09/1989 Robert Mapplethorpe, US photographer, dies
03/09/1992 James Brooks, US mural painter (Flight, La Guardia Airport NY), dies
03/09/1992 Menachem W Begin, premier Israel (1977-80, 81-83, Nobel 1979), dies
03/09/1993 Ad de Gessel, actor (Everything For Our Soldiers), dies
03/09/1993 Bob Crosby, swing-era bandleader (Bobcats), dies of cancer at 79
03/09/1993 C Northcote Parkinson, British wit (Parkinson's Law), dies at 83
03/09/1994 Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (French Connection), dies at 76
Significant Events:
03/09/1496 Jews are expelled from Carintha Austria
03/09/1497 Nicolaus Copernicus 1st recorded astronomical observation,
03/09/1522 -16] Marten Luther preaches his Invocavit
03/09/1642 English Queen Henriette Mary arrives in Hellevoetsluis
03/09/1741 English fleet under admiral Ogle begins assault on Cartagena
03/09/1745 Bells for 1st American carillon shipped from England to Boston
03/09/1791 George Hayward, US, surgeon, 1st to use ether
03/09/1796 Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais
03/09/1798 Dr George Balfour becomes 1st naval surgeon in the US navy
03/09/1820 -11) Philippines chases out foreigners; about 125 die
03/09/1820 James Monroe's daughter Maria marries in the White House
03/09/1822 Charles Graham of NY patents artificial teeth
03/09/1841 US Supreme Court rules Negroes are free (Amistad Incident)
03/09/1842 The opera 'Nabucco' is produced (Milan)
03/09/1844 The opera 'Hernani' is produced (Venice)
03/09/1858 Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox
03/09/1860 1st Japanese ambassador arrives in SF en route to Washington
03/09/1861 Confederate currency authorized-$50, $100, $500, $1,000
03/09/1862 'Monitor' (Union) & 'Merrimack' (Rebel) battle in Hampton Roads
03/09/1864 Ulysses S Grant is appointed commander of Union Army
03/09/1868 The opera 'Hamlet' is produced (Paris)
03/09/1873 Royal Canadian Mounted Police founded
03/09/1882 False teeth patented
03/09/1882 J Palisa discovers asteroid #223 Rosa
03/09/1889 Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law in US
03/09/1895 Montreal AAA beat Queens Univ (Kingston Ont) for the Stanley Cup
03/09/1897 Premier of Gustav Mahlers 3rd Symphony (Berlin)
03/09/1902 Composer Gustav Mahler marries Alma Schindler
03/09/1904 Brandon's Lester Patrick becomes 1st hockey defenseman to score a go
03/09/1907 1st involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana
03/09/1914 Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Me
03/09/1914 US Sen Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands 'Cubanisering of Mexico'
03/09/1915 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #799 Gudula
03/09/1916 General Fransisco 'Poncho' Villa invades US (17 killed)
03/09/1916 Germany declares war against Portugal
03/09/1918 Russian Bolshevick Party becomes the Communist Party
03/09/1918 Wageningen School opens
03/09/1922 KJR-AM in Seattle Washington begins radio transmissions
03/09/1923 Amsterdam taxi strike ended
03/09/1924 South slavia votes with Italy to annex Fiume (Rijeka)
03/09/1926 Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle
03/09/1932 Eamon De Valera becomes president of Ireland
03/09/1932 Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria
03/09/1933 New Deal legislation begins
03/09/1943 Greek Jews of Salonika are transported to Nazi extermination camps
03/09/1943 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1562 Gondolatsch & #1732 Heike
03/09/1945 Japanese proclaim the 'independence' of Indo-China
03/09/1945 US bombing kills at least 120,000 in Tokyo
03/09/1946 Dutch troops land at Batavia/Semarang
03/09/1948 Temporary Indonesian government installed in Batavia
03/09/1950 Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of $64,000 in NYC
03/09/1952 Heinz Neuhaus wins Europe Heavyweight Boxing title
03/09/1953 A G Wilson discovers asteroid #1915 Quetzalcoatl
03/09/1953 Josef Stalin buried in Moscow
03/09/1954 Edward R Murrow criticizes Sen Joseph McCarthy (See it Now)
03/09/1954 WMUR TV channel 9 in Manchester, NH (ABC) begins broadcasting
03/09/1956 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus exiled to Seychelles
03/09/1956 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1990 Pilcher
03/09/1956 Weather forecasting phone line set up in London England
03/09/1957 Earthquake/flood strikes Aleoeten
03/09/1961 Mine cave-in in Japan, kills 72
03/09/1961 Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (dog) into orbit
03/09/1961 Supremes release 'I Want A Guy' & 'Never Again'
03/09/1962 Egyptian Pres Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians
03/09/1962 US advisors in South-Vietnam join the fight
03/09/1966 Andrew Brimmer becomes 1st black governor of Federal Reserve Board
03/09/1967 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #1790 Volkov
03/09/1968 Grammy Awards-Sgt Pepper's wins 4 awards
03/09/1976 Islander Glenn Resch's 10th shut-out opponent-Blues 4-0
03/09/1977 Hanafi Muslims invade 3 buildings in Wash DC, siege ended Mar 11th
03/09/1979 1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered (Jupiter's satellite Io)
03/09/1980 Flemish/Walloon battles in Belgium, 40 injured
03/09/1981 Dan Rather becomes primary anchorman of CBS-TV News
03/09/1981 E Bowell discovers asteroids #3057 Malaren, #3106 Morabito & #3667
03/09/1983 Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana
03/09/1984 Emile Gumbs' Anguilla National Alliance wins elections
03/09/1984 John Lennon releases 'Borrowed Time'
03/09/1984 Phila 76'ers block 20 Seattle shots tying NBA regulation game record
03/09/1985 Laura Johnson (Falcon Crest) & Harry Hamlin (LA Law) wed
03/09/1986 Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km
03/09/1988 President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp
03/09/1989 Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy
03/09/1989 Roger Kingdom runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.36 sec)
03/09/1989 Senate rejects Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary
03/09/1989 Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court
03/09/1990 Dr Antonia Novello sworn-in as US surgeon general
03/09/1991 Joe Dumaars (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 62 games
03/09/1991 US 70th manned space mission STS 39 (Discovery 12) launches into orb
03/09/1994 Asteroid #2060 Chiron eclipses m11.9 star
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Births:
03/12/1515 Caspar Othmayr, composer
03/12/1685 George Berkeley, Ireland, philosopher/bishop of Cloyne
03/12/1710 Thomas Augustine Arne, English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia)
03/12/1758 Leopold earl van Limburg Stirum, general/politician
03/12/1768 Carolus Antonius Fodor, composer
03/12/1788 Pierre J David, [David d'Angers], French sculptor
03/12/1793 Augustin-Philippe Peellaert, composer
03/12/1800 Louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian
03/12/1806 Jane Means Appleton Pierce, 1st lady (1853-57)
03/12/1808 Gerrit van de Linde Jz, 'Principal', poet
03/12/1816 David Stuart, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
03/12/1818 John Lorimar Worden, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1897
03/12/1821 John Abbott, Qu‚bec Canada, (C) 3rd Canadian PM (1891-92)
03/12/1821 Luitpold von Bayern, Prince-regent of Bayern
03/12/1823 William Flank Perry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
03/12/1824 Gustav R Kirchoff, Prussia, physicist (Gesammelte Ashandlongen)
03/12/1826 Robert Lowry, composer
03/12/1827 John Robert Jones, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
03/12/1827 William Richard Terry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
03/12/1830 William Felix Brantley, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 187
03/12/1831 Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer
03/12/1832 Charles Boycott, Ireland, estate manager/caused boycotts
03/12/1835 Simon Newcomb, US, scientist/mathematician/astronomer
03/12/1837 Alexandre Guilmant, composer
03/12/1838 William Perkin, inventor (1st artificial dye)
03/12/1848 Cyrill Kistler, composer
03/12/1855 John White, composer
03/12/1859 Josef Cyril Sychra, composer
03/12/1860 Salvatore Di Giacomo, composer
03/12/1862 Jane Delano, US, nurse/teacher, founded Red Cross
03/12/1863 Adolf A Wolfschoon, Cura‡aos poet
03/12/1863 Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italy, writer/military hero (Intruder)
03/12/1874 Edmund Eysler, Austria composer
03/12/1874 Edmund Eysler, composer
03/12/1875 Julio Garreta, composer
03/12/1877 Wilhelm Frick, German protector of Bohemia/Moravia
03/12/1878 Gemma Galgani, Italian saint
03/12/1878 Joseph Gustav Mraczek, composer
03/12/1881 Daniel Webster Hoan, Wisc (Mayor-Socialist-Milwaukee)
03/12/1881 Kemal Atat rk, 1st pres of Rep of Turkey
03/12/1881 V„in” A Tanner, premier of Finland (1926-27)
03/12/1883 Judge Jackson, composer
03/12/1888 Hall Johnson, composer
03/12/1889 Johannes IV, [Kasa], Emperor of Ethiopia (1872-89)
03/12/1889 Philip Guedalla, historian
03/12/1890 A Evert Taube, Swedish writer
03/12/1890 Vaslav Nijinsky, Ukrainian ballet dancer (Petroesjka)
03/12/1891 Michael Polany, Hungarian/English chemist/economist/sociologist
03/12/1898 Fredrik J 'Frits' Bakker Jr, actor (Grandfather)
03/12/1953 Ron Jeremy, XXX actor (Babe, Bad Girls, Caught From Behind)
03/12/1900 David Croll, QC senator
03/12/1900 Zoltan Vasarhelyi, composer
03/12/1910 Roger L Stevens, producer (Giant)
03/12/1911 Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, president of Mexico
03/12/1912 James McKay, lord provost of Edinburgh
03/12/1912 Kylie Tennant, novelist (Battlers, Lost Haven)
03/12/1912 Paul Weston, Springfield Mass, orch leader (Jim Nabors Hour)
03/12/1914 Jan Kapr, composer
03/12/1917 Googie Withers, Karachi India, actress (1 of Our Aircraft is Missing
03/12/1917 Tom Normanton, British MP
03/12/1918 James Bracken, race horse trainer
03/12/1921 Giovanni Agnelli, CEO (Fiat Automakers)
03/12/1921 Gordon MacRae, East Orange NJ, singer/actor (Oklahoma, Carousel)
03/12/1921 Max de Metz, publisher/interpreter
03/12/1921 Ralph Shapey, Phila, composer (Fantasy, Rituals)
03/12/1922 Helen Parrish, Columbus Ga, actress (Hour Glass, Show Business)
03/12/1922 Jack Kerouac, Beat writer (On the Road, Mexico blues)
03/12/1922 Lane Kirkland, union president (AFL-CIO)
03/12/1922 Thomas Hugh Eastwood, composer
03/12/1923 Hjalmar Andersen, Norway, speed skater 1500, 5K, 10K (Oly-gold-1952)
03/12/1923 Norbert Brainin, violinist
03/12/1923 Walter M Schirra Jr, Hackensack NJ, Capt USN/ast (Mer 8, Gem 6, Ap 7
03/12/1925 Georges Delerue, composer
03/12/1925 Harry [Maxwell] Harrison, UK, sci-fi author (Deathworld Trilogy)
03/12/1925 Leo Esaki, [Esaki Reona], Japan, physicist (Tunnel effect-Nobel 1973
03/12/1925 Louison Bobet, French cyclist (Tour de France 1953-55)
03/12/1925 William G Whitehurst, (Rep-R-Va)
03/12/1926 David Oliver Williams, trade unionist (COHSE)
03/12/1926 George R Ariyoshi, (Gov-D-Hawaii)
03/12/1926 Gudrun Ure, actress
03/12/1926 Hildy Park, Wash DC, actress (To Tell the Truth)
03/12/1926 John C[lellon] Holmes, US writer (Horn)
03/12/1926 Rolv Berger Yttrehus, composer
03/12/1926 Ronald Alley, art gallery manager (Tate Gallery)
03/12/1927 Mstislav Rostropovich, Baku Russia, cellist/conductor (3/27 NS)
03/12/1927 Raul Alfonsin, president (Argentina)
03/12/1928 Edward Albee, US playwright (Virgina Woolfe, Zoo Story)
03/12/1928 Phil Jones, principal (Trinity College of Music)
03/12/1928 Roland Moyle, British deputy chairman (Police Complaints Authority)
03/12/1929 Bernard Costello, US, double sculls (Olympic-silver-1956)
03/12/1930 Antony Acland, provost of Eton/British ambassador to US
03/12/1930 Scoey Mitchill, Newburgh NY, comedian (Barefoot in the Park, Rhoda)
03/12/1930 Stanko Horvat, composer
03/12/1931 Geoffrey de Bellaigue, director (Royal Collection)
03/12/1932 Andrew Young, US Ambassador to UN (1977-79)/(Mayor-D-Atlanta)
03/12/1934 Rudolph Agner, CEO (Consolidated Gold Fields)
03/12/1935 Helga Pilarczyk, German soprano (Salome, Lulu)
03/12/1935 John Gross, author (Age of Kipling, Dickens & 20th Century)
03/12/1936 Anthony Loehnis, vice chairman (S G Warburg & Co)
03/12/1936 Lloyd Dobbins, Newport News Va, newscaster (NBC News Overnight)
03/12/1936 Patrick Procktor, painter
03/12/1937 Elizabeth Vaughan, opera soprano
03/12/1938 Dimitri Terzakis, composer
03/12/1938 Karl Soderlund, Duluth Minn, Mr Sally Jesse Raphael
03/12/1938 Norman Hogg, British MP
03/12/1938 Tona Scherchen-Hsiao, composer
03/12/1939 Barbara Feldon, Pitts Pa, actress (Agent 99-Get Smart)
03/12/1939 David Mlinaric, British interior director
03/12/1940 Al Jarreau, jazz singer (Moonlighting)
03/12/1940 Millie Perkins, actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Table for 5, Shooting)
03/12/1942 Bert Campaneris, baseball player (Oakland A's)
03/12/1942 Paul Kantner, US rock singer/guitarist (Jefferson Airplane)
03/12/1942 Salvatore 'the Bull' Gravano, mobster (testified against Gotti)
03/12/1945 Hans van Emden, guitarist (Les Baroques)
03/12/1946 Liza Minnelli, LA, singer/actress (Sterile Cuckoo, Cabaret)
03/12/1947 Jill O'Hara, Warren Penn, Broadway actress (Promises! Promises!)
03/12/1948 James Taylor, vocalist/guitarist (Up on the Roof)
03/12/1948 Kent Conrad, (Sen-D North Dakota)
03/12/1948 Virginia Bottomley, British minister of state health
03/12/1949 Bill Payne, rock keyboardist (Little Feat-Time Loves a Hero)
03/12/1949 David Mellor, secretary of the British treasury
03/12/1949 Mary Alice Williams, news reporter (NBC-TV)
03/12/1949 Sara Lane, NYC, actress (Elizabeth Grainger-The Virginian)
03/12/1950 Willie Duggan, rugby football player
03/12/1951 Caren Kaye, NYC, actress (My Tutor, Bambi-Blansky's Beauties)
03/12/1953 Joanna Kerns, actress (Maggie-Growing Pains)
03/12/1956 Dale Murphy, Portland Ore, Atlanta Braves slugger (2 time NL MVP)
03/12/1957 Marlon D Jackson, US singer (Jackson 5-Maybe Tomorrow)
03/12/1957 Steve Harris, English hard rock bassist (Iron Maiden-Gypsy's Kiss)
03/12/1958 Debra Jensen, Orange County Cal, playmate (January, 1978)
03/12/1962 Darryl Strawberry, Los Angeles, right fielder (NY Mets, LA Dodgers)
03/12/1963 Candy Costie, Seattle Wash, synchronized swimmer (Olympic-gold-1984)
03/12/1963 Joaquim Carvalho Cruz, Brazil, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1984)
03/12/1963 Paul Way, British golfer
03/12/1966 Erich Fischer, Dinuba CA, US Olympic water polo foward (Olympic-92)
Deaths:
03/12/ 417 Innocent I, Italian Pope (401-417), dies
03/12/ 604 Gregory I the Great, Pope (590-604), dies
03/12/1209 Djamal al-din Aboe Mohammed Iljas Nizami, Persian poet, dies
03/12/1471 Dionysius de Kartuizer/van Rijkel, scholastic theologist, dies
03/12/1496 Johannes de Lapide, [Johan Heynlin], German philospher, dies
03/12/1507 Cesare Borgia, cardinal/soldier/politician, killed
03/12/1570 Jacob van den Eynden, land advocate of Holland, dies
03/12/1628 John Bull, organist/composer, dies
03/12/1681 French van Mieris, the Elder, Dutch genre painter, dies at 45
03/12/1734 Antonius Schultingh, [Schultingius], lawyer, dies
03/12/1753 George Berkeley, English/Irish philosopher/bishop of Cloyne, dies
03/12/1824 Heinrich Carl Ebell, composer, dies at 48
03/12/1831 Johann Franz Volkert, composer, dies at 64
03/12/1832 Friedrich Kuhlau, composer, dies at 45
03/12/1834 Karl W Feuerbach, German mathematician (circle/posing F), dies at 33
03/12/1840 Friedrich Westenholz, composer, dies at 61
03/12/1852 Juan Bros y Bertomel, composer, dies at 75
03/12/1877 Crystobal Oudrid y Segura, composer, dies at 52
03/12/1888 Henry Bergh, founder (ASPCA), dies at 76
03/12/1902 John Peter Altgeld, German/US governor of Illinois, dies at 54
03/12/1908 Edmondo de Amicis, Italian writer (L'idioma Gentile), dies at 61
03/12/1909 Johanna M 'Lena' Bakker, actress/wife of Bruno Gerlach, dies at 34
03/12/1913 Joseph Bayer, composer, dies at 61
03/12/1914 George Westinghouse, US engineer (Westinghouse Electric Corp), dies
03/12/1924 Hilaire Comte de Chardonnet, inventor (rayon), dies
03/12/1925 Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary leader, dies
03/12/1932 Ivar Kreuger, 'Swedish Match King' industrialist, commits suicide
03/12/1937 Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert Widor, composer, dies at 93
03/12/1937 Jeno Hubay, composer, dies at 78
03/12/1941 Charles Sanford Skilton, composer, dies at 72
03/12/1942 Enrique Morera, composer, dies at 76
03/12/1949 Maria E 'Beppie' Bakker, actress/wife of Piet Vink Sr, dies at 95
03/12/1950 L Heinrich Mann, German/US writer (Zwischen the Racial), dies
03/12/1955 Charlie 'Bird' Parker, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 34 in NYC
03/12/1958 Ingeborg, Princess of Sweden, dies at 79
03/12/1973 Esther Williamson Ballou, composer, dies at 57
03/12/1973 Frankie 'Fordham Flash' Frisch, baseball player, dies at 74
03/12/1973 Manuel Rojas Sepulveda, Chilean writer (Hijo de Ladron), dies
03/12/1974 Billy Fox, Protestant member of Dublin parliament, assassinated
03/12/1978 Tolchard Evans, composer/conductor, dies
03/12/1982 Elisabeth Zernike, writer (Barrel of Things), dies at 90
03/12/1983 Jevsei G Liberman, Ukraine economist (Plan, profit, bonus), dies at
03/12/1984 Arnold Riley, playwright/actor, dies
03/12/1985 Eugene Ormandy [Blau], Hungarians/Us conductor, dies at 85
03/12/1992 Charles Poons, of Paul Deen, dies
03/12/1992 Hans G Kresse, cartoonist (Eric the Viking), dies
03/12/1992 Ida Oosterbaan, founder (Women Action Committee), dies
03/12/1992 Karel Poons, father of Paul Danish, dies
03/12/1992 Salvo Lima, mayor (Palermo)/parliament leader (chr-dem), murdered
03/12/1993 Andreas J A I Bruggeman, mayor (Ship bell), dies at 62
03/12/1993 Cheek Zhen, marxist/vice-premier of China
03/12/1993 June Valli, singer (Crying in the Chapel), dies at 64 of cancer
03/12/1993 Michael Kanin, screenwriter (Woman of the Year), dies at 83
03/12/1994 Sandra Paretti, German/Swiss author (Drums of Winter), dies at 59
Significant Events:
03/12/ 417 St Innocent I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
03/12/ 604 St Gregory I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
03/12/1000 Odo van Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, replacing Victor III
03/12/1054 Pope Leo IX escapes captivity & returns to Rome
03/12/1144 Gherardo Caccianemici elected as Pope Lucius II, as Callistus II
03/12/1350 Orvieto city government beheads Jewish-Christian relatives
03/12/1365 University of Vienna mental home opens
03/12/1496 Jews are expelled from Syria
03/12/1572 Lu¡s Vaz de Camoes publishes 'Bullock Lus¡ados' in Portugal
03/12/1609 Bermudas becomes an English colony
03/12/1642 Abel Tasman is 1st European in New Zealand
03/12/1664 1st naturalization act in American colonies
03/12/1664 New Jersey becomes a British colony
03/12/1737 Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy
03/12/1755 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine
03/12/1773 Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicag
03/12/1789 US Post Office established
03/12/1848 2nd republic established in France
03/12/1849 1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to Calif
03/12/1850 1st US $20 gold piece issued
03/12/1857 Verdi's opera 'Simon Boccanegra' 1st preformed (Venice Italy)
03/12/1860 Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill: free land in West for colonists
03/12/1865 Affair near Lone Jack, Missouri
03/12/1867 Last French troops leave Mexico
03/12/1868 British create Basutoland in Africa
03/12/1868 Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax
03/12/1871 R Luther discovers asteroid #113 Amalthea
03/12/1877 British annex Walvis Bay in southern Africa
03/12/1884 Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women
03/12/1888 2nd day of the Great blizzard of '88 in NE US (400 die)
03/12/1888 Blizzard hits NY; about 800 die
03/12/1893 A Charlois discovers asteroid #362 Havnia
03/12/1896 1st movie in Netherland (Kalverstr 220)
03/12/1900 President Steyn of Orange-Free state flees from Bloemfontein
03/12/1903 AL offically approves NY Highlanders (Yankees)
03/12/1904 1st main line electric train in UK (Liverpool to Southport)
03/12/1904 Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund
03/12/1906 Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast
03/12/1908 Mont Wanderers sweeps Win Maple Leafs for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1908)
03/12/1910 Montreal Wanderers beat Berlin (Kitchener) 7-3 for the Stanley Cup
03/12/1912 Capt Albert Berry performs 1st parachute jump from an airplane
03/12/1912 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) founded in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Lo
03/12/1913 Foundation stone of the Australian capital in Canberra laid
03/12/1916 French airship sinks British submarine D3
03/12/1917 Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
03/12/1925 British govt of Baldwin ratifies Genevea agreement
03/12/1926 Denmark begins unilateral disarmament
03/12/1926 Pope Pius XI named archbishop of Mechelen
03/12/1930 Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt ta
03/12/1930 Stella Walsh sets record for the 220-yard dash (0:26.1)
03/12/1931 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1308 Halleria
03/12/1932 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1221 Amor
03/12/1933 FDR conducts his 1st 'fireside chat'
03/12/1934 Pres Constantine P„ts sees coup in Tallinn Estonia
03/12/1935 England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns & villages
03/12/1936 E Delporte discovers asteroid #2331 Parvulesco
03/12/1938 Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)
03/12/1939 Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies
03/12/1940 Finland surrenders to Russia during WW II, gives Karelische Isthmus
03/12/1940 G Kulin discovers asteroid #2738
03/12/1941 German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands
03/12/1942 British troops vacate the Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal
03/12/1942 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #3446
03/12/1943 Soviet troops liberate Wjasma
03/12/1945 CPI calls on for armed uprising in Italy
03/12/1945 NY is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment
03/12/1945 The British Empire celebrates it's 1st British Empire Day
03/12/1945 USSR gives Transylvania to Romania
03/12/1946 Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
03/12/1947 Belgian govt of Huysmans resigns
03/12/1947 Pres Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism
03/12/1950 Belgium agrees (58%) for return of king Leopold III
03/12/1950 Pope Pius XII encyclical 'On combating atheistic propaganda'
03/12/1951 Communistic troops driven out of Seoul
03/12/1954 M Itzigsohn discovers asteroid #1970
03/12/1957 German DR accepts 22 Russian divisions
03/12/1958 British Empire Day is renamed 'Commonwealth Day'
03/12/1959 Dutch Liberal Party wins Second-Parliamentary election
03/12/1959 House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
03/12/1962 Dutch Premier De Quay has secret talks with Indonesia
03/12/1963 Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold
03/12/1963 Bob Dylan cancels 'Ed Sullivan Show' television appearance
03/12/1964 Jimmy Hoffa sentence to 8 years
03/12/1964 Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam
03/12/1964 WKAB TV channel 32 in Montgomery, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
03/12/1966 Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record
03/12/1966 Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins)
03/12/1966 Love's 1st album released 'Love'
03/12/1966 Pioneer Plaza dedicated [SF?]
03/12/1967 Austrtia's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet
03/12/1967 Indonesian congress deprives president Sukarno of authority
03/12/1968 Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)
03/12/1969 120 joints found at George & Patti Harrison's home
03/12/1969 Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman in London
03/12/1970 US lowers voting age from 21 to 18
03/12/1971 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger marries Bianca P‚rez Morena de Macias
03/12/1971 Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected president
03/12/1971 Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army
03/12/1972 NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons
03/12/1974 Bundy victim Donna Manson disappears, Evergreen SC, Olympia, Wash
03/12/1975 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2577 Litva
03/12/1975 Vietcong conquer Ben me Thuot
03/12/1976 South African troops leave Angola
03/12/1977 Chile president Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party
03/12/1977 H Kosai & K Hurukawa discovers asteroid #3319 Kibi
03/12/1977 Sadat pledges to regain Arab terrority from Israel
03/12/1978 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:14.99)
03/12/1978 T Urata discovers asteroid #2090 Mizuho
03/12/1980 Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago
03/12/1980 NY Islanders 3rd scoreless tie, vs Pittsburgh Penguin
03/12/1981 Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
03/12/1981 Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond, VA
03/12/1982 PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on 'Nightline'
03/12/1984 National Union of Mineworkers in England begin a 51 week strike
03/12/1985 Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points
03/12/1986 210.25 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
03/12/1986 Giotto encounters Comet Halley
03/12/1986 Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
03/12/1987 David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game
03/12/1987 Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North
03/12/1989 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia)
03/12/1989 Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election
03/12/1990 LA Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland
03/12/1993 317 killed by bomb attack in Bombay
03/12/1993 Entertainment Tonight's 3,000th show
03/12/1993 Inkhata leider Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2« week speech
03/12/1994 Church of England select 1st 33 women priests
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03/11/1549 Henry L Spieghel, merchant/writer
03/11/1654 Heinrich Georg Neuss, composer
03/11/1683 Giovanni Veneziano, composer
03/11/1726 Louise-Florence d'êpinay, France, writer (Woman, Man & 2 Kingdoms)
03/11/1731 Robert Treat Paine, judge, signer (Declaration of Independence)
03/11/1754 Juan MelÇndez ValdÇs, Spanish lawyer/poet
03/11/1781 Anthony Philip Heinrich, composer
03/11/1793 Jan F Willems, Flemish writer
03/11/1811 Marsena Rudolph Patrick, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
03/11/1811 Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier, co-discovered Neptune
03/11/1812 James Speed, Atty Gen (Union), died in 1887
03/11/1812 Pieter BlussÇ van Old-Alblas, liberal minister of Finance
03/11/1812 William Vincent Wallace, composer
03/11/1818 John Wilkins Whitfield, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 187
03/11/1822 Allison Nelson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
03/11/1822 Marius Petipa, French ballet dancers/choreographer (Don Quiotte)
03/11/1827 Septimus Winner, composer
03/11/1832 Franz Melde, German phyicist (Melde proof)
03/11/1832 William Ruffin Cox, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1919
03/11/1840 Edmund Kirby Jr, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
03/11/1860 Thomas Hastings, NYC, architect (NY Public Library)
03/11/1863 Wobbe de Vries, linguist
03/11/1876 Carl Ruggles, Marion Mass, composer (Evocations)
03/11/1876 David Wònkoop, revolutionary socialist
03/11/1879 Justus Hermann Wetzel, composer
03/11/1879 Niels Bjerrum, Danish chemist (ph-stipulation)
03/11/1884 Jan Lemaire, writer/actor (Beautiful Juliet)
03/11/1885 Malcolm Campbell, 1st auto racer to travel 5 miles/min (8 km/min)
03/11/1890 Vannevar Bush, developed 1st electronic analogue computer
03/11/1892 Raoul Walsh, US director (Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry)
03/11/1892 Wladyslaw Else, Polish general (WW I, WW II)
03/11/1897 Henry Dixon Cowell, Menlo Park Calif, composer (New Musical Resource
03/11/1898 Dorothy Gish, stage/silent film actress (Orphans of the Storm)
03/11/1899 Frederick IX, [Christian FFMKWG], King of Denmark (1947-72)
03/11/1903 Dorothy Schiff, publisher (NY Post)
03/11/1904 Maurits Wertheim, writer (Isaac De Fuentes)
03/11/1906 Aasan Ferit Alnar, composer
03/11/1907 Helmuth J von Moltke, German politician (July 20th plot)
03/11/1907 Margaret Herbison, British minister (Lab)
03/11/1908 Lawrence Welk, Strasburg ND, orch leader (Lawrence Welk Show)
03/11/1909 Ljubica Maric, composer
03/11/1910 Robert H G Havemann, German chemist
03/11/1911 Fitzroy Maclean, British diplomat
03/11/1912 Xavier Montsalvatge, Spanish composer (El gato con botas)
03/11/1913 John Jacob Weinzweig, Toronto Canada, composer (Enchanted Hill)
03/11/1913 Thomas Gray, professor/anaesthetist
03/11/1914 Ralph Ellison, writer (Invisible Man, Shadow & Act)
03/11/1916 [James] Harold Wilson, (L) British PM (1964-70, 1974-76)
03/11/1917 Y Gîran Schildt, Finnish art historian/writer (SolbÜten)
03/11/1919 Mercer Ellington, son of Duke Ellington/bandleader
03/11/1920 D J Enright, England, poet/novelist (Some Men are Brothers)
03/11/1920 Henry Marking, CEO (British Airways)
03/11/1920 Kenneth Dover, chancellor (St Andrews University)
03/11/1921 Astor Piazzolla, Argentina composer (Tango Nuevo)
03/11/1921 F[rancis] M[arion] Busby Jr, US, sci-fi author (Star Rebel)
03/11/1922 Abdul Razak bin Hussain, premier of Malaysia (1970-77)
03/11/1922 Thom Kelling, singer/guitarist (Programa de Manha)
03/11/1923 A Louise Brough Clapp, Okla, tennis player (4 time Wimbeldon champ)
03/11/1923 Ad [Adrianus C] de Besten, literary (River Basin)
03/11/1923 Morschi Mirando, [Thomas Weiss], German/Dutch gypsy
03/11/1923 Terry Alexander, London, actor (Tony-Behind the Scenes)
03/11/1925 James Miskin, QC/recorder of London
03/11/1926 Ilhan Mimaroglu, composer
03/11/1926 Patricia Tindaole, England, architect
03/11/1926 Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader
03/11/1927 Alan Betts, emeritus professor (Royal Veterinary College)
03/11/1927 Raymond Jackson, [Jaki], British cartoonist
03/11/1927 Robert Mosbacher, US politician(?)
03/11/1927 Ron Todd, british trade unionist
03/11/1928 Albert Salmi, Bkln NY, actor (Daniel Boone, 79 Park Avenue)
03/11/1928 Peter Roger Hunt, London England, director (Dr No)
03/11/1929 Francisco Bernardo Pulgar Vidal, composer
03/11/1930 David Gentleman, designer/painter
03/11/1931 Peter Walters, CEO (Midland Bank)
03/11/1931 Rupert Murdoch, Australia, publisher (NY Post), owns FOX-TV Network
03/11/1932 Nigel Lawson, British government official (The Power Game)
03/11/1933 Terry J Hatter Jr, US judge in California
03/11/1934 George Stamatoyannopoulos, Greece, medical genetics researcher
03/11/1934 Joep Straesser, composer
03/11/1934 Keith Speed, British MP
03/11/1934 Sam Donaldson, El Paso Tx, ABC White House correspondent (Prime Time
03/11/1934 Tina Louise, NYC, marooned with Gilligan & Mary Ann (or 02110)
03/11/1936 Antonin Scalia, Trenton NJ, 105th Supreme Court Justice (1986- )
03/11/1938 Malcolm Keith Speed, biritish high court judge
03/11/1942 Peter Eyre, actor (Hedda)
03/11/1944 Ric Rothwell, drummer (Mindbenders-Games of Love)
03/11/1945 Mark Stein, vocalist/organist (Vanilla Fudge-You Keep Me Hanging On)
03/11/1945 Timothy Mason, consultant (British Arts Council)
03/11/1945 Tricia O'Neal, Louisiana, actress (Piranha Part II)
03/11/1946 Brigitte Fossey, Tourcoing France, actress (Man Who Died Twice)
03/11/1947 Dominique Sanda, Paris, actress (Inheritance, Beyond Good & Evil)
03/11/1947 Geoffrey Hunt, Australia, world-champion squash player
03/11/1948 George Kooymans, guitarist/singer: Golden Earring
03/11/1949 Richard de Bois, drummer/producer
03/11/195- Nina Hartley, XXX actress (Dyke Bar 2, Call Girls, Adultery)
03/11/1950 Bobby McFerrin, singer (Don't Worry Be Happy-Grammy 1989)
03/11/1952 Douglas Adams, England, author (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
03/11/1952 Susan Richardson, Coatesville Pa, actress (Susan-8 is Enough)
03/11/1955 [Kater]Nina Hagen, East Berlin German DR, actress (Blue Angel)
03/11/1956 Curtis L Brown Jr, Elizabethtown NC, astronaut (STS 47, sk: STS 66)
03/11/1961 Bruce Watson, rocker (Big Country-Wonderland)
03/11/1961 Mike Percy, rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round)
Deaths:
03/11/ 222 Elagabalus, emperor of Rome (218-22), murdered
03/11/ 638 Sophronius of Jerusalem, saint/patriarch of Jerusalem, dies
03/11/1486 Albrecht III Achilles, monarch of Brandenburg, dies at 71
03/11/1715 John-Erasmus Quellinus, Flemish painter, dies at 80
03/11/1772 George Reuter, composer, dies at 63
03/11/1786 Jacobus Bellamy, [Zelandus], Swiss poet, dies at 28
03/11/1787 Maximilian JLP Gardel, French ballet dancer/choreographer, dies at 4
03/11/1807 Anton Eberl, composer, dies at 42
03/11/1826 Gervais-Francois Couperin, composer, dies at 66
03/11/1833 Fridolin Weber, composer, dies at 71
03/11/1845 John Chapman, [Johnny Appleseed] dies in Allen County, Indiana
03/11/1874 Charles Sumner, a white civil rights leader, dies at 63
03/11/1897 Berthold Tours, composer, dies at 58
03/11/1897 Henry Drummond, Scottish geologist/evangelist, dies
03/11/1907 Nikola Petkow, premier Bulgaria, murdered
03/11/1908 Peter Milne, composer, dies at 83
03/11/1919 Harald Fryklof, composer, dies at 36
03/11/1921 Sherburne W Burnham, US astronomer (double territory), dies
03/11/1925 Andreas Hallen, composer, dies at 78
03/11/1937 Paul Scheinpflug, composer, dies at 61
03/11/1941 Walford Davies, composer, dies at 71
03/11/1944 Hendrik W van Loon, Neth/US radio commentator/writer, dies
03/11/1947 Victor Hely-Hutchinson, composer, dies at 45
03/11/1949 Henri-HonorÇ Giraud, French genl/parliament leader, dies at 70
03/11/1949 Juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer, dies at 76
03/11/1951 Philippe of Isacker, Belgian minister, dies at 66
03/11/1955 Alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist (penicillin), dies
03/11/1956 Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, composer, dies at 83
03/11/1957 Richard E Byrd, US, explorer (Antarctica), dies at 68
03/11/1959 Haydn Wood, composer, dies at 76
03/11/1960 Roy Chapman Andrews, US biologist/explorer, dies at 76
03/11/1965 James Reeb, US vicar/civil rights activist, murdered
03/11/1967 Geraldine Farrar, US soprano/actress (Such Sweet Compulsion), dies
03/11/1969 John Wyndham, [Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris], author (Chrysalids), die
03/11/1970 Erle Stanley Gardner, US writer (Perry Mason), dies at 80
03/11/1971 Philo T Farnsworth, US TV pioneer, dies at 64
03/11/1971 Whitney M Young Jr, leader (National Urban League 1961-71), dies at
03/11/1972 Fredric [William] Brown, sci-fi author (Martians Go Home), dies at 6
03/11/1975 Philip Bezanson, composer, dies at 59
03/11/1975 Sammy Spear, orch leader (Dom Deluise Show), dies at 65
03/11/1975 Walter Kinsella, actor (Happy-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 74
03/11/1979 Victor Kilian, actor (Gentleman's Agreement), dies at 88
03/11/1982 Edmund Cooper, British sci-fi writer (Tomorrow Came), dies at 55
03/11/1984 Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher/poet, dies in Rytutakuji monastery at 76
03/11/1987 [Wayne] Woody Hayes, football coach (Ohio State), dies at 74
03/11/1988 Pham Hung, premier of Vietnam, dies at about 74
03/11/1989 Johan Fleerackers, Flemish politician, dies
03/11/1992 David Carroll, actor (Grand Hotel), dies of pulmonary embolism at 41
03/11/1992 Heinz KÅhn, PM (Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany), dies at 80
03/11/1992 Manuel De Dios Unanue, US anti-drug journalist, murdered at 48
03/11/1992 Richard Brooks, director (Blackboard Jungle, Key Largo), dies at 79
03/11/1993 Dino Bravo, WWF wrestler, shot to death at 44
03/11/1993 Manuel da Fonseca, Portuguese writer (Cerro Maior), dies
03/11/1994 Jacques Doucet, French painter (Mostar Sarajevo), dies at 69
Significant Events:
03/11/ 417 Zosimus becomes bishop of Rome
03/11/ 537 Goths lay siege to Rome
03/11/ 843 Icon worship officially repaired in Aya Sofia Constantinople
03/11/1302 Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare
03/11/1513 Giovanni de' Medici chosen Pope Leo X
03/11/1598 Countess Charlotte of Nassau marries duke Claude de la Tremoille
03/11/1669 Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000
03/11/1702 1st London daily newspaper
03/11/1779 US army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)
03/11/1789 Benjamin Banneker with L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington DC
03/11/1791 Samuel Mulliken, Phila, is 1st to obtain more than 1 US patent
03/11/1810 Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise
03/11/1823 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vt
03/11/1824 US War Dept creates the Bureau of Indian Affair
03/11/1835 HMS Beagle anchors off Valparaiso, Chile
03/11/1850 Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school)
03/11/1851 The opera 'Rigoletto' is produced (Venice)
03/11/1861 Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution
03/11/1864 Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee
03/11/1865 Gen Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, NC
03/11/1867 Great Mauna Loa eruption (Hawaiian volcano)
03/11/1867 The opera 'Don Carlos' is produced (Paris)
03/11/1882 Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton NJ
03/11/1888 Great blizzard of '88 strikes NE US
03/11/1892 1st public basketball game (Springfield, Mass)
03/11/1893 A Charlois discovers asteroids #360 Carlova & #361 Bononia
03/11/1895 Spanish cruiser Reina Regenta sinks at Gibraltar, 400 killed
03/11/1904 Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Brandon (Man) Wheat Kings in 2 for Stanley Cup
03/11/1905 Ottawa Silver 7 beat Rat Portage (Kenora) Thisles for Stanley Cup
03/11/1907 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #637 Chrysothemis
03/11/1917 British troops conquer Baghdad
03/11/1918 M Wolf discovers asteroid #890 Waltraut
03/11/1918 Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia
03/11/1918 Save the Redwoods League founded
03/11/1919 General strike in Germany becomes bloody
03/11/1921 M Wolf discovers asteroid #949 Hel
03/11/1924 3rd term of Belgium Theunis govt begins
03/11/1924 M Wolf discovers asteroid #1021 Flammario
03/11/1926 Eamon da Valera ends leadership of Sinn Fein
03/11/1927 1st armored commercial car hold-up in US, Pittsburgh
03/11/1927 1st golden gloves tournament
03/11/1928 Netherlands-Belgium 1 to 1 radio report of Han Hollander begins
03/11/1930 Pres & Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington
03/11/1934 Netherlands beats Belgium 9-3, in soccer
03/11/1935 Bank of Canada opens
03/11/1936 German troops occupies Republic land
03/11/1938 German troops enter Austria
03/11/1941 Bronko Nagurski beats Ray Steele in Minn, to become wrestling champ
03/11/1941 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill
03/11/1942 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschewitz Concentration Camp
03/11/1942 Gen MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia
03/11/1942 Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra
03/11/1942 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1656 Suomi
03/11/1943 Nazi militia storms Netherlands
03/11/1944 Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested
03/11/1945 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs
03/11/1948 1st black in the US Tennis Open (Reginald Weir)
03/11/1948 Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed
03/11/1948 WBAL TV channel 11 in Baltimore, MD (CBS) begins broadcasting
03/11/1953 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)
03/11/1954 US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics
03/11/1958 Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show '21'
03/11/1959 'Raisin in the Sun,' 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens
03/11/1959 Lorraine Hansberry's 'A Raisin in the Sun' opens on Broadway
03/11/1959 Teddy Scholten wins Eurovisie Songfestival with 'One Bit'
03/11/1960 Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth & Venus
03/11/1961 Then NHL record 40 penalties, Black Hawks & Maple Leafs (20 each)
03/11/1963 Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain
03/11/1965 Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto
03/11/1966 Military coup led by Indonesian Gen Suharto breaks out
03/11/1967 Pink Floyd releases their 1st song (Arnold Layne)
03/11/1968 Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmittin
03/11/1968 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 12nd strng quartet
03/11/1970 Iraq Ba'th-party recognizes Kurd nation
03/11/1974 Rhino Store gives people 5õ to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album
03/11/1975 Portugal military coup under general Spinola fails
03/11/1977 Muslis hold 130 hostages in Wash DC
03/11/1978 Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv, 45 killed
03/11/1979 Randy Hold receives 67 min in penalties in a 60 min NHL hockey game
03/11/1981 Chile constitution takes effect, Augusto Pinochet 2nd term begins
03/11/1982 Failed military coup under Rambocus/Hawker in Suriname
03/11/1982 Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) resigned rather than face expulsion
03/11/1985 Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader
03/11/1986 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4/21/753 BC
03/11/1986 187.27 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
03/11/1986 Islander Mike Bossy, 1st NHLer to score 50 goals in 9 straight seaso
03/11/1986 Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km
03/11/1986 NFL adopts instant replay rule
03/11/1987 Wayne Gretzky scores 1,500th NHL point
03/11/1988 Utrecht conservatory destroyed by fire
03/11/1990 Lithuania declares it's Independence
03/11/1991 Janet Jackson signs $40M 3 album deal with Virgin records
03/11/1994 Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as president of Chile
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03/13/1599 Johannes Berchmans, Jesuit/saint
03/13/1615 Innocent XII, [Antonio Pignatelli], Pope (1691-1700)
03/13/1696 Louis F A D Hertog de Richelieu, French marshal
03/13/1700 James Kent, composer
03/13/1700 Michel Blavet, composer
03/13/1712 Isfrid Kayser, composer
03/13/1733 Joseph Priestly, England, clergyman/scientist, discovered oxygen
03/13/1746 Maurus Haberhauer, composer
03/13/1752 Josef Reicha, composer
03/13/1764 Charles Earl Grey, (Whig), British PM (1830-34)
03/13/1767 Heinrich Domnich, composer
03/13/1768 Charles Louis WJ van Keverberg, Dutch civil servant
03/13/1770 Daniel Lambert, England, giant (weighed 334 kg at death)
03/13/1779 Oliver Shaw, composer
03/13/1781 Karl F Schinkel, German architect/painter/writer (Schloss Tegel)
03/13/1798 Abigail Powers Fillmore, 1st lady (1850-53)
03/13/1818 Albion Parris Howe, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1897
03/13/1820 Louis Herbert, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
03/13/1832 Alberto Randegger, composer
03/13/1850 Emilio Serrano y Ruiz, composer
03/13/1855 Percival Lowell, predicted discovery of Pluto
03/13/1858 Maximilien Luce, French painter
03/13/1860 Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf, Windisch-Gr„z Austria, composer
03/13/1862 Vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov, composer
03/13/1872 Oswald Garrison Villard, American journalist
03/13/1875 Maria EG 'Lizzy' Ansingh, house painter (Caught Sultane)
03/13/1881 Balthazar H Verhagen, Neth/South African writer
03/13/1883 Enrico Toselli, composer
03/13/1884 Emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Bluthochzeit)
03/13/1884 Hugh S Walpole, NZ, novelist/playwright (Jeremy, Maradick at 40)
03/13/1886 Henri D Gagnebin, Swiss organist
03/13/1886 Henri Gagnebin, composer
03/13/1886 John 'Home Run' Baker, hall of famer (hit 2 HR in 1911 world series)
03/13/1887 Carlos Isamitt, composer
03/13/1890 Michael Taube, composer
03/13/1892 Alec Rowley, composer
03/13/1897 Marcel Thiry, Belgian poet (Statue of Fatigue)
03/13/1897 William Herald, Australia, swimmer (Olympic-1920)
03/13/1899 Pancho Vladigerov, composer
03/13/1901 Paul Fix, Dobbs Ferry NY, actor (Rifleman)
03/13/1907 Daphne Du Maurier, British writer (Homes & Haunts, Glass Blowers)
03/13/1907 Frank Wilcox, DeSoto Mo, actor (John-Beverly Hillbillies)
03/13/1908 Paul Stewart, NYC, actor (Top Secret USA, Deadline)
03/13/1908 Walter Annenberg, Milwaukee, publisher (Triangle-TV Guide)/Amb to GB
03/13/1909 Gilbert Inglefield, Burgemeister London (1967-68)
03/13/1910 Sammy Kaye, Rocky River Ohio, orch leader (Sammy Kaye Show)
03/13/1911 Jose Ardevol, composer
03/13/1911 L[aFayette] Ron Hubbard, sci-fi writer/scientologist (Dianetics)
03/13/1912 Ernst Hess, composer
03/13/1913 William J Casey, headed CIA during Iran-contra scandal (1981-87)
03/13/1914 Carl-Olof Anderberg, composer
03/13/1916 Lindy Boggs, (Rep-D-LA, 1973- )
03/13/1917 Ina Ray Hutton, Chicago Ill, orch leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show)
03/13/1917 Maria Vlamynck, Flemish author
03/13/1917 Tessie O'Shea, England, actress (Entertainers)
03/13/1918 George McAfee, NFL halfback (Chicago Bears)
03/13/1925 Anthony Milner, composer
03/13/1925 Bertha Tickey, Dinuba Calif, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1973)
03/13/1925 Roy Haynes, US jazz drummer
03/13/1926 Ra£l Alfons¡n, Argentine pres (1983- ) (or 3/12/1927)
03/13/1927 Charles Sickman Corsen, Netherland Antillian poet
03/13/1929 J D Slater, writer
03/13/1929 Peter Breck, Rochester NY, actor (Black Saddle, Big Valley, Benji)
03/13/1929 Walter Medio, race horse trainer
03/13/1929 Will Eisma, composer
03/13/1930 Doug Harvey, hockey star (3 time James Norris winner)
03/13/1931 Marc Dessauvage, Flemish architect
03/13/1931 Rosalind Elias, Lowell Mass, mezzo-soprano (Grimgerde-Die Walkuere)
03/13/1933 Frank H Murkowski, (Sen-R-AK, 1981- )
03/13/1937 Fofo I F Sunia, (Rep-D-Amer Samoa, 1981- )
03/13/1938 Hans-Joachim Hespos, composer
03/13/1938 Jean-Claude Risset, composer
03/13/1938 Joseph Bellino, footballer (1960 Heisman Trophy)
03/13/1939 Neil Sedaka, Bkln NY, singer/songwriter (Breaking Up is Hard to Do)
03/13/1947 Lesley Collier, British ballet dancer
03/13/1947 Tomas Hinojosa, jockey
03/13/1950 Robert S Woods, Calif, actor (Bo-One Life to Live, Waltons)
03/13/1951 Fred Berry, St Louis Mo, actor (Rerun-What's Happening)
03/13/1952 Wolfgang Hihm, composer
03/13/1953 Andy Bean, Lafayette Ga, PGA golfer (Western 1978, Kemper 1978)
03/13/1953 Deborah Raffin, LA Calif, actress (Ransom, Demon, 40 Carats)
03/13/1954 Robin Duke, Toronto Canada, comedienne (SNL, SCTV, Club Paradise)
03/13/1955 Glenne Headly, actress (Dick Tracy, Making Mr Right)
03/13/1955 Olga Rukavishnikova, USSR, pentathlete (Olympic-silver-1980)
03/13/1955 Patricia J Engfer, general manager (Hyatt Regency-Orlando)
03/13/1956 Dana Delany, NYC, actress (Colleen McMurphy-China Beach)
03/13/1958 Debi Nicolle Johnson, Torrance Calif, playmate (October, 1984)
03/13/1958 Rick A Lazio, (Rep-R-New York)
03/13/1959 Ronnie Rogers, guitarist (T'Pau-Heart & Soul)
03/13/1960 Adam Clayton, Oxfordshire, rock bassist (U2-I Will Follow)
03/13/1966 Akira Nogami, wrestler (NJPW)
03/13/1968 Christopher Collett, NYC, actor (Manhattan Project)
03/13/1971 Tracy Wells, actress (Heather-Mr Belvedere)
03/13/1981 Howard Coble, (Rep-R-NC, 1985- )
Deaths:
03/13/1202 Mieszko III de Oude, great duke of Poland (1173-77, 1200-02), dies
03/13/1558 Jean Fernel, French physician/physiologist, dies
03/13/1569 Louis Cond‚, French prince/co-leader of Hugenot, dies in battle
03/13/1573 Michel de l'H“pital, chancellor of France (1560-73), dies at about 6
03/13/1716 Georg Gabriel Schutz, composer, dies at 46
03/13/1756 Johann Melchior Conradi, composer, dies at 81
03/13/1817 Matej Sojka, composer, dies at 77
03/13/1839 Robert Gallenberg, composer, dies at 55
03/13/1879 Adolf Anderssen, German world champ chess (1851..66), dies at 60
03/13/1881 Alexander II, Tsar of Russia, assassinated
03/13/1890 Henry Wylde, composer, dies at 67
03/13/1901 Benjamin Harrison, 23rd pres (1889-1893), dies in Indianapolis at 67
03/13/1903 Nicolas Beets [Hildebrand], writer (Camera Obscura), dies
03/13/1906 Susan B[rownell] Anthony, American suffragist, dies
03/13/1911 Jacob M of Bemmelen, physicist/chemist, dies
03/13/1915 Sergei J White, premier of Russia, dies
03/13/1918 Karel Stecker, composer, dies at 57
03/13/1930 Mary E W Freeman, US writer (Pembroke), dies
03/13/1934 Fritz Cortolezis, composer, dies at 56
03/13/1938 Clarence S Darrow, Scopes Monkey Trial attorney, dies in Chicago at
03/13/1941 A Coenradi, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
03/13/1941 Bernard Iron wire, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
03/13/1941 E Hellenbyn, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
03/13/1941 Isaak E Babel, Russian writer (Zakat, Marija), dies at 46
03/13/1941 J Eyl, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
03/13/1945 Herbert Bedford, composer, dies at 78
03/13/1946 Abraham Bredius, art historian (Rembrandt), dies at 90
03/13/1946 Thomas Frederick Dunhill, composer, dies at 69
03/13/1946 Werner von Blomberg, German minister of Reichswehr, dies at 67
03/13/1951 James I Wedgwood, British theosopholgist/Catholic bishop, dies
03/13/1964 Kitty Genovese, stabbed to death in Queens; 40 neighbors looked on
03/13/1965 George Calinescu, Romanian author (Lauda Lucrorilor), dies at 65
03/13/1970 Rick Besoyan, composer, dies at 45
03/13/1971 Piero Coppola, composer, dies at 82
03/13/1971 Rockwell Kens, US artist/painter/illustrator, dies at 88
03/13/1973 Stacy Harris, actor (NOPD, Doorway to Danger), dies at 54
03/13/1974 Howard St John, actor (Investigator, Dr Lewis-Hank), dies at 68
03/13/1974 Janos Prohaska, actor (Andy Williams Show), dies at 52