Happenings in History Today for Tuesday, May 21, 2013.

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Today's historical events ..

• 0143 - Earliest known date in Amer-pre Mayan king Harvest-Bergvorst installed
• 0685 - Battle at Nechtansmere: Picten beat Northumbrians
• 0996 - Pope Gregory V crowns his cousin Otto III German emperor
• 1040 - King Henry III gives Utrecht the Groninger currency
• 1216 - French crown prince Louis enters England
• 1420 - Treaty of Troyes-French King Charles VI gives France to English
• 1471 - King Edwards IV enters London
• 1502 - Portuguese admiral Da Nova discovers St Helena
• 1526 - -Jun 8] Sermon of Bathe, Aargau: TC evangelical theology
• 1553 - English Lady Jane Grey marries Guildford Dudley
• 1602 - Martha's Vineyard 1st sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold)
• 1674 - General John Sobieski chosen King of Poland
• 1683 - West Indian Company sells 1/3 of Suriname
• 1793 - Cura‡ao Island Council forbids criticism on House of Orange
• 1804 - Lewis & Clark Expedition begins
• 1809 - Battle at Aspern-Essling: Austrian arch duke Karl beats Napoleon
• 1819 - 1st bicycles (swift walkers) in US introduced in NYC
• 1825 - Prince Willem FK marries Louise AWA of Prussia
• 1832 - 1st Democratic National Convention (Baltimore)
• 1840 - NZ became a British colony
• 1846 - 1st steamship arrives in Hawaii
• 1856 - Lawrence Kansas captured, sacked by pro-slavery forces
• 1861 - NC is 10th state to secede from Union
• 1861 - Richmond, Va is designated Confederate Capital
• 1863 - Siege on Port Hudson, Louisiana begins
• 1864 - GEN David Hunter takes command of Dept of West Virginia
• 1866 - 1st-class debut of G F Grace aged 15 years 159 days
• 1871 - -July 28] French regular troops attack Commune of Paris; 17,000 die
• 1878 - 4th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Carter aboard Day Star wins in 2:37¬
• 1879 - Battle of Iquiquw
• 1881 - American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton
• 1881 - US Nation Lawn Tennis Association forms
• 1886 - 14th Preakness: S Fisher aboard Bard wins in 2:45
• 1891 - Boxers Peter Jackson & Jim Corbett fight to a draw in 61 rounds
• 1892 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo's opera "Pagliacci," premieres in Milan
• 1897 - Yerkes Observatory 40" (1m) refractor used for 1st time
• 1898 - US Assay Office in Seattle, Washington authorized
• 1904 - Federation Internationale de Football Assn (Soccer) forms in Paris
• 1906 - Louis H Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars
• 1907 - 32nd Preakness: G Mountain aboard Don Enrique wins in 1:45.4
• 1908 - 1st horror movie (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) premieres in Chicago
• 1908 - Bill Burns has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in 9th
• 1914 - 39th Preakness: Andy Schuttinger aboard Holiday wins in 1:53.8
• 1914 - Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota
• 1916 - Britain begins "Summer Time" (Daylight Savings Time)
• 1917 - Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WW I
• 1918 - House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote
• 1921 - Oldest radio station west of Mississippi River licensed in Greeley Co
• 1922 - "On the Road to Moscow" is 1st cartoon to receive a Pulitzer Prize
• 1922 - Col Ruppert buys out Col Huston interest in NY Yankees for $1,500,000
• 1922 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Anna Christie)
• 1922 - Ruppert buys out Huston interest in Yankees for $15 million
• 1924 - Leopold & Loeb kidnap Bobby Franks for fun
• 1925 - Canadians allow to sell beer
• 1925 - George Lloyd of Dolobran becomes British High Director of Egypt
• 1925 - Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole
• 1926 - White Sox Earl Sheely hits a record 6th consecutive double
• 1927 - Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic
• 1929 - Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NYC
• 1929 - Sergei Prokoviev's ballet "Prodigal Son," premieres in Paris
• 1930 - Max Bishop draws 8 walks in a doubleheader
• 1930 - NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers
• 1931 - Belgian govt of Jaspar falls
• 1932 - 1st Curtis Cup: US, 5«-3«
• 1932 - 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands
• 1933 - Mt Davidson Cross lit by FDR via telegraph
• 1934 - Oskaloosa Iowa, becomes 1st US city to fingerprint its citizens
• 1938 - Bradman scores 143 Aust v Surrey, 198 mins, 11 fours
• 1940 - AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees
• 1940 - Allied counter attack at Atrecht North-France
• 1940 - Reynaud forms French govt
• 1941 - 1st US ship sunk by a U-boat (SS Robin Moore)
• 1941 - German airforce occupies airport at Maleme Kreta
• 1941 - Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp
• 1942 - Great-Britain convoy PQ16 departs to Russia
• 1943 - Fastest 9 inning AL baseball game (89 mins), White Sox beat Senators
• 1944 - Hitler begins attack on English/US "terror pilots"
• 1945 - Aust Services win 1st Victory Test Cricket at Lord's by 6 wickets
• 1945 - German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured
• 1945 - Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart wed
• 1948 - NY Yank Joe Dimaggio hits for cycle (single, double, triple, HR)
• 1950 - Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia
• 1952 - Bkln Dodgers score 15 runs in 1st inning & beat Cin Reds, 19-1
• 1952 - Dutch Queen Juliana opens Amsterdam-Rhine Canal
• 1953 - French govt of Mayer resigns
• 1954 - Amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated
• 1955 - "House of Flowers" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 165 performances
• 1955 - 1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight-sunrise to sunset
• 1955 - WFRV TV channel 5 in Green Bay, WI (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1956 - Jordan government of Said el-Mufti forms
• 1956 - US explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll
• 1956 - WITI TV channel 6 in Milwaukee, WI (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1957 - French govt of Mollet resigns
• 1958 - Indonesian paratroopers reconquers Morotai Island
• 1958 - US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)
• 1959 - "Gypsy" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 702 performances
• 1959 - Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Children's Petting Farm opens
• 1960 - 86th Preakness: Bobby Ussery aboard Bally Ache wins in 1:57.6
• 1961 - Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery
• 1962 - 3 more Cleveland HR set AL record for most HR (26) over 8 games
• 1964 - 1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay)
• 1964 - Fire in W‚gimond Belgium resort, kills 19
• 1964 - US begin intelligence flights above Laos
• 1966 - "Downtown" by Mrs Miller hits #82
• 1966 - "Time for Singing" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 41 performances
• 1966 - 92nd Preakness: Don Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 1:55.4
• 1966 - Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Henry Cooper in London
• 1966 - Louie Louie by The Kingsmen reentered the chart & hits #97
• 1966 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1967 - "Sing, Israel Sing" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 14 perfs
• 1967 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
• 1968 - Cubs Billy Williams sets outfielder record of 695 straight game
• 1968 - Paul McCartney & Jane Asher attend an Andy Williams concert
• 1968 - USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
• 1968 - WEKW TV channel 52 in Keene, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1968 - Nuclear-powered sub Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing & is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores
• 1969 - Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death
• 1969 - Slovan Bratislava wins 9th Europe Cup II in Basel
• 1969 - After 9,015 at bats Hank Aaron is lifted for a pinch hitter, Mike Lum, who doubled in a 15-3 victory over NY Mets
• 1970 - National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State U
• 1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1971 - Chelsea wins 11th Europe Cup II in Athens
• 1971 - National Guard mobilizes to quell riot in Chattanooga Tenn
• 1972 - "Heathen!" opens & closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 1 performance
• 1972 - "Lost in the Stars" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 39 perfs
• 1972 - Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
• 1975 - Borussia M”nchengladbach wins 4th UEFA Cup at Enschede
• 1975 - Lowell W Perry confirmed as chairman of Equal Opportunity Comm
• 1975 - Trial against Baader-Meinhof-group begins in Stuttgart
• 1977 - "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 167 perfs
• 1977 - 103rd Preakness: Jean Cruguet aboard Seattle Slew wins in 1:54.4
• 1977 - Albert Innaurato's "Gemini," premieres in NYC
• 1977 - Fire in hotel Duc de Brabant Brussels, kills 19
• 1977 - SD Padres beat Mont Expos, 11-8, in 21 innings
• 1978 - 118 Unification church couples wed in England
• 1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
• 1978 - Yamada Mumon Roshi appointed head of Zen Rinzai Sect
• 1979 - Dan White convicted of manslaughter death of SF mayor Moscone
• 1979 - Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in USSR
• 1979 - National Volksraad installed in Namibia
• 1979 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat NY Rangers, 4 games to 1
• 1980 - "Empire Strikes Back" premieres
• 1980 - Eintracht Frankfurt wins 9th UEFA Cup at Frankfurt
• 1980 - Ensign Jean Marie Butler is 1st woman to graduate from US service acad
• 1981 - Fran‡ois Mitterrand becomes president of France
• 1981 - Kim Seelbrede, (Ohio), crowned 30th Miss USA
• 1981 - Stanley Cup: NY Islanders beat Minnesota North Stars, 4 games to 1
• 1982 - British troops lands on Falkland Islands
• 1983 - "Bang The Drum All Day" by Todd Rundgren hits #63
• 1983 - 109th Preakness: Donald Miller Jr on Deputed Testamony wins in 1:55.4
• 1983 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB, for mating for STS-7 mission
• 1983 - David Bowie's "Let's "Dance," single goes #1
• 1986 - Atlanta Brave Rafael Ramirez hits 4 doubles in a game
• 1986 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1987 - Military coup in Fiji Islands under lt col Sitivani Rabuka
• 1987 - Xignals PC Board BBS begins in Alabama
• 1988 - "Da'Butt" by EU hits #35
• 1988 - "Fat" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #99
• 1988 - 114th Preakness: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard Risen Star wins in 1:56.2
• 1988 - Jane Powell weds Dickie Moore
• 1988 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1989 - 35th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez
• 1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,844.68
• 1990 - Last episode of "Newhart" airs on CBS-TV
• 1991 - Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns
• 1992 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
• 1992 - NJ senate overrides Governor Florio's veto & lowers sales tax to 6%
• 1993 - Dayanara Torres, 18, of Puerto Rico, crowned 42nd Miss Universe
• 1993 - Opposition leader Xanana Gusmao of East-Timor sentenced to life
• 1993 - Robin Smith scores 167 in England Texaco Trophy loss v Australia
• 1993 - Venezuela president Carlos Andr‚s P‚rez fired
• 1994 - "Best Little Whorehouse" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 16 perfs
• 1994 - 120th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 1:56.4
• 1994 - Burger King spokesman Dan Cortese (26) weds Dee Dee Hemby (26)
• 1994 - Country singer Trisha Yearwood (29) weds Robert Reynolds (32)
• 1994 - Reds bat out of order against Dodgers in 2nd inning
• 1994 - South Yemen secedes from Yemen
• 1994 - Sushmita Sen, 18, of India, crowned 43rd Miss Universe
• 1995 - Chris Johnson wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic
• 1996 - Blackout in many areas of Queens NY
• 1996 - Ken Griffey Jr, 26, is 8th youngest to hits 200 home runs
• 1996 - Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens beats Yankees for his 200th win
• 1997 - Emmy 24th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 17th time

Who was born today? ..

• 1471 - Albrecht D�rer, N�rnberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker
• 1527 - Philip II, King of Spain (1556-98) & Portugal (1580-98)
• 1633 - Joseph de La Barre, composer
• 1671 - Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer
• 1680 - Frederich Karl Erbach, composer
• 1688 - Alexander Pope, England, poet (Rape of the Lock)
• 1720 - Antonio Corbisiero, composer
• 1722 - Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer
• 1775 - Lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino/Musignano
• 1780 - Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse
• 1796 - Reverdy Johnson, rep (Union), died in 1876
• 1808 - G‚rard de Nerval, [Labrunie], French poet/writer (Sylvia)
• 1821 - John F Loudon, Dutch entrepreneur/colonial director
• 1822 - Dabney Herndon Maury, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1900
• 1822 - Mosby Monroe Parsons, Brig General (Confederate Army) died in 1865
• 1825 - George Lafayette Beal, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
• 1826 - Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro
• 1834 - Charles-Albert Gobat, Switz, politician/lawyer/author (Nobel 1902)
• 1835 - Newton Martin Curtis, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
• 1841 - Joseph Parry, composer
• 1843 - Louis Renault, French lawyer
• 1851 - L‚on Bourgeois, France, politician, internationalist (Nobel 1920)
• 1855 - Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian poet/writer (Les Flammes Hautes)
• 1858 - Jos‚ Battle Ordonez, Uruguay, politician
• 1860 - Willam Einthoven, Dutch physiologist/inventor (electrocardiograph)
• 1865 - C J Thomsen, Denmark, archaeologist, named Stone/Iron/Bronze Ages
• 1867 - John James Ferris, cricketer (mighty Australian bowler of late 1880's)
• 1867 - Marie Joseph Leon Desire Paque, composer
• 1872 - Henry Warren, Boston Mass, inventor (Telechon electric clock)
• 1873 - Emil Ermatinger, Switz, literature historian
• 1873 - Everard Verachtert, Flemish translator (I speak beschaafd Dutch)
• 1878 - Glenn Hammond Curtiss, US, inventor (hydroplane)
• 1878 - Louis L H de Visser, Dutch MP (CPN)
• 1880 - Pablo Luna y Carne, composer
• 1882 - Georgine M "May" Basting, actress (Hostage Rights of Aemstel)
• 1887 - Mabel Taliaferro, NYC, actress (Sentimental Tommy, My Love Come Back)
• 1888 - May Aufderheide, composer
• 1890 - Albert van Raalte, conductor (AVRO-orchestra)
• 1892 - John Peale Bishop, US poet (This Side of Paradise)
• 1893 - Arthur Carr, cricket capt (England v Australia 1926)
• 1893 - Simon Delmonte, actor/director (Boemeladvocaat)
• 1898 - Armand Hammer, NYC, millionaire industrialist (Occidental Petroleum)
• 1898 - Charles H ba, Czech violinist/composer
• 1898 - Karel Haba, composer
• 1899 - Ilse Lagner, writer
• 1899 - Ralph Sanford, Springfield Mass, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp)
• 1901 - Horace Heidt, Alameda Calif, orch leader (Swift Show Wagon)
• 1901 - Suzanne Lilar, [Verbist], France/Belgian writer (Le burlador)
• 1903 - Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesian attorney/minister/premier (1953..7)
• 1903 - Manly Wade Wellman, Angola, sci-fi author (After Dark, Devil's Planet)
• 1903 - Pedro Aramburu, president Argentina
• 1904 - Fats Waller, [Thomas Wright], jazz singer/composer (Ain't Misbehavin')
• 1904 - Robert Montgomery, Beacon NY, actor/dir (Earl of Chicago, Yellow Jack)
• 1905 - Edward Lockspeiser, composer
• 1906 - Keith Rigg, cricketer (Australian Test batsman in the thirties)
• 1909 - Guy de Rothschild, French banker
• 1911 - Andr‚ Renard, Belgian worker's union leader (Syndical Unifi‚)[or 5/25]
• 1916 - Harold Robbins, NYC, author (Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers, Betsy)
• 1916 - Helen Willis Moody Roark, tennis player (US Open 1923-25, 27-29, 31)
• 1916 - Joseph Janni, producer
• 1916 - Leonard Manasseh, architect
• 1917 - Dennis Day, Irish tenor/comedian (Jack Benny Show, Danny Boy)
• 1917 - Heather Swift, local councillor
• 1917 - Jean-Louis Curtis, French writer (Just Causes)
• 1917 - Raymond Burr, BC Canada, actor (Perry Mason, Ironsides, Godzilla)
• 1917 - Ronald John Bilsland Colville, businessman
• 1918 - Leonard Mullens, rubber physicist
• 1919 - Lord Maxwell, senator/prof (college of Justice Scotland)
• 1919 - Mark Wood, bishop (Ludlow)
• 1920 - Anthony Steel, London, actor (Malta Story, Wooden Horse)
• 1921 - Andrei Sakharov, Moscow, physicist, human rights worker (Nobel '75)
• 1923 - Bettye Danoff, LPGA golfer
• 1923 - Doris Mae Akers, gospel singer/songwriter
• 1924 - Peggy Cass, Boston MA, actress/TV panelist (To Tell the Truth, Mame)
• 1924 - Robert Parris, Philadelphia, composer (Book of Imaginery Beings)
• 1926 - Dan Perlsweig, horse trainer
• 1926 - Joseph Horovitz, composer
• 1926 - Rick Jason, NYC, actor (Day of the Wolves, Eagles Attack at Dawn)
• 1926 - Robert Creeley, Mass, poet/novelist (Island)
• 1927 - George Levy, antique dealer/heritage campaigner
• 1927 - Kay Kendall, Yorkshire England, actress (Genevieve, Les Girls)
• 1929 - Charles Wadsworth, Barnesville Georgia, pianist (Lincoln Center)
• 1929 - Paul Winslow, cricketer (big-hitter for S Africa, 108 v England 1955)
• 1929 - Robert Welch, designer/silversmith (Robert Welch flatware)
• 1930 - David Smith, principal/vice chancellor (Edinburgh University)
• 1930 - Malcolm Fraser, PM of Australia (Liberal, 1975-83)
• 1930 - Stanley Wells, director (Shakespeare Institute U of Birmingham)
• 1931 - Desmond Wilcox, broadcaster
• 1931 - George Vassiliou, president of Cyprus (1988-93)
• 1932 - G Wohmann, writer
• 1932 - John Armitage, principal (College of St Hilda & St Bede Durham)
• 1932 - Robert Sherlaw Johnson, composer
• 1933 - Barry Norman, Britain, film critic (Film Greats)
• 1934 - Phillip King, British sculptor
• 1935 - Terry Lightfoot, clarinetist/bandleader (New Orleans Jazzmen)
• 1936 - Ama Samy, Burma, Jesuit priest/Zen teacher/disciple of Yamada Koun
• 1936 - Dipak Nandy, founder (Runnymead Trust)
• 1938 - David Groh, Bkln NY, actor (Joe-Rhoda, Don-Another Day)
• 1938 - Urs Widmer, writer
• 1939 - Heinz Holliger, composer
• 1941 - Anatoli Semyonovich Levchenko, USSR, cosmonaut (TM-4)
• 1941 - Ronald Isley, Cincinnati Ohio, singer (Isley Brothers-Twist & Shout)
• 1942 - David Hunt, Wales sec of state
• 1942 - Robert C Springer, St Louis, Col USMC/astronaut (STS-29, STS-38)
• 1943 - Hilton Valentine, rock guitarist (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
• 1944 - Janet Dailey, US, author
• 1944 - Manual Pina, fashion designer
• 1944 - Marcie Blane, rocker
• 1944 - Mary Robinson, pres of Republic of Ireland (Labour, 1990- )
• 1944 - Mike Degett, horse trainer
• 1945 - Ernst Willi Messerschmid, Reutlingen Germany, astronaut (STS 22)
• 1946 - David Hill, Australian TV-reporter/owner (Fox Sports)
• 1946 - Ronald Bear, actor/director (Havana, Make-up)
• 1947 - Bill Champlin, Oakland Ca, rocker
• 1947 - Dorothy Germain, LPGA golfer
• 1947 - Richard Hatch, Santa Monica Calif, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
• 1948 - Carol Potter, actress (Beverly Hills 90210)
• 1948 - Leo Sayer, [Gerard], England, singer (When I Need Love)
• 1949 - Andrew Nell, editor (Sunday Times)
• 1949 - Arno Hintjens, Belgian singer (T C Matic)
• 1949 - Rosalind Plowright, British soprano (Aida, Senta)
• 1950 - Roger Hodgson, London, rocker (Supertramp)
• 1951 - Al Franken, comedian/writer/actor (SNL, Stuart Saves His Family)
• 1952 - Mr T, [Lawrence Tero], Chicago, actor (A-Team, Rocky III, T & T)
• 1954 - Bill Abbott, Sarnia Ontario, yachter (Olympics-96)
• 1954 - Marina Langner, Dusseldorf Germany, Miss World runner-up (1975)
• 1955 - John Glavin, rock keyboardist (Molly Hatchet
• 1955 - Liaqat Ali, cricket pace bowler (Pakistani in six Tests 1975-79)
• 1955 - Stan Lynch, Gainesville Fl, rock drummer (Tommy Petty & Heartbreakers)
• 1956 - Joanna M C "Annemarie" Henselmans, singer/cabaretiŠre (School Desk)
• 1957 - Judge Reinhold, Wilmington DE, actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
• 1957 - Sue Woodstra, Colton Ca, volleyball player (Olympic-silver-1984)
• 1958 - Mike Barson, rock keyboardist (Madness)
• 1958 - Monte Lynch, cricketer (Surrey batsman, WI Rebel, England ODI player)
• 1959 - Nick Cassavet‚s, actor (Rosemary's Baby, Quiet Cool)
• 1960 - Mark Kevin Carnevale, Annapolis MD, PGA golfer (1992 Chattanooga)
• 1961 - Tim Lever, keyboard/sax (Dead or Alive-You Spin Me Round)
• 1963 - Yelena Vodorezova, USSR, figure skater (Olympic-1976)
• 1964 - Annabel Schofield, Llanelli Wales, actress (Laurel Ellis-Dallas)
• 1964 - Tom Harding, Kalamazoo Mich, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 Transamerica)
• 1964 - Tommy Albelin, Stockholm Swe, NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames)
• 1966 - Manon Kelley, Quebec City Canada, actress (Red Lips 2)
• 1967 - Cindy Haley, Tyler TX, LPGA golfer (1987 Texas Amateur-2nd)
• 1967 - Rogel Nachum, Israel, Men's triple jump (Oly-1996)
• 1967 - Todd Doohan, Sarnia Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (Western Ont Amateur-92)
• 1967 - Tracy Simien, NFL linebacker (KC Chiefs)
• 1969 - Reid Simpson, Flin Flon, NHL left wing (NJ Devils)
• 1970 - Dorsey Levens, NFL running back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
• 1970 - Roman Turek, Strakonice CZE, hockey goalie (Team Czech Rep, Oly-98)
• 1970 - Scott "Munnster" Munn, Larkspur Calif, rower (Olympics-1996)
• 1970 - Veronica Sanchez, Michoan Mexico, WPVA volleyballer (Hermosa-17-1994)
• 1971 - Eric Nies, actor (MTV Real World, Grind)
• 1971 - Jeff Stavroff, Columbus OH, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Space Coast-4)
• 1972 - Alesha Oreskovich, Tampa FL, playmate (Jun, 1993)
• 1972 - Liliko Ogasawara, Englewood NJ, middleweight judoka (Olympics-96)
• 1974 - Fairuza Balk (The Craft, Gas Food Lodging)
• 1978 - Kandy Marshall, Miss Virginia Teen USA (1996)
• 1981 - Beth Botsford, 100m/200m backstroke (Olympics-gold-96)
• 1985 - Frustaci Septuplets, Calif, Patricia Frustaci gives birth to 7

Who died today? ..

• 0987 - Louis V, last Carlovingians King of France (966-987), dies
• 1254 - Koenraad IV, RC-German king (1237-54), dies at 26
• 1481 - Christian I, king of Denmark/Norway/Sweden, dies
• 1524 - Thomas Howard 2nd duke of Norfolk, general/premier, dies at about 80
• 1542 - Hernando de Soto, dies while searching for gold, near Mississippi R
• 1639 - Giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, dies at 70
• 1647 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, poet/playwright (Warenar), dies at about 65
• 1650 - James G, Marquis of Montrose, Scottish general, hanged
• 1690 - John Eliot, English missionary in Massachusetts, dies at 85
• 1703 - Roemer Vlacq, Dutch admiral, dies in battle
• 1725 - Robert Haley earl of Oxford, English Whig-premier (1710-4), dies at 63
• 1786 - Carl W Scheele, Swedish pharmacist/chemist, dies at 43
• 1790 - Thomas Warton, English poet (Oxford sausage), dies
• 1810 - Charles GLAAT chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy, dies at 81
• 1812 - Joseph Wolfl, composer, dies at 38
• 1815 - Roman Hoffstetter, composer, dies at 73
• 1817 - Johann Friedrich Christmann, composer, dies at 64
• 1844 - Guiseppi Baini, composer, dies at 68
• 1860 - Johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer, dies at 53
• 1885 - Gavril Yakimovich Lomakin, composer, dies at 73
• 1894 - August A Kundt, German physicist, (test of Kundt), dies at 54
• 1895 - Franz von Suppe, Austrian composer (Poet und Bauer), dies at 76
• 1897 - Karol Mikuli, composer, dies at 77
• 1919 - Victor A D S‚galen, [Max An‚ly], French ship's doctor/writer, dies
• 1924 - Bobby Franks, killed by Leopold & Loeb, at 14
• 1926 - Georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer, dies at 65
• 1926 - Ronald Arthur A Firbank, British writer (Prancing Nigger), dies at 40
• 1929 - V P F A Royle, cricketer (one Test England v Australia 1879), dies
• 1933 - John Henry Mackay, Scottish/German author (Der Schwimmer), dies at 69
• 1935 - Hugo de Vries, botanist Gruppenweise Artbildung, dies at 87
• 1935 - Jane Addams, a founder of ACLU (Nobel 1973), dies at 65
• 1949 - Klaus Mann, German writer, dies at 42
• 1952 - John Garfield, actor (Juarez, Air Force), dies at 39
• 1954 - Janos Hammerschlag, composer, dies at 68
• 1957 - Edwin St Hill, cricketer (two Tests for West Indies 1930-31), dies
• 1966 - Pat O'Malley, silent film actor (Wild One, Quiet Man), dies at 75
• 1968 - Doris Lloyd, actress (Oliver Twist), dies of heart strain at 71
• 1970 - Vinton Hayworth, actor (Gen Schaeffer-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 63
• 1971 - Dennis King, actor (Devil's Brother), dies of heart ailment at 73
• 1973 - Carlo E Gadda, Italian engineer/writer (War Diary), dies at 79
• 1973 - George Breakstone, actor/director (Great Expectations), dies at 53
• 1973 - Vaughn Monroe, singer/orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), dies at 61
• 1976 - Sulo Nikolai Salonen, composer, dies at 77
• 1978 - Joseph EA "Jo" Spier, Dutch cartoonist/water color painter, dies at 77
• 1980 - Ida Kaminska, actress (Shop on Main Street), dies
• 1981 - Yuki Shimoda, actor (Farewell to Manzanar), dies
• 1983 - Finn Einar Mortensen, composer, dies at 61
• 1984 - Andrea Leeds, actress (Stage Door, Earthbound), dies of cancer at 70
• 1984 - Ann Little, actress (Roaring Road), dies
• 1987 - Alejandro Rey, actor (Carlos-Flying Nun), dies at 57
• 1988 - Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations, dies at 92
• 1990 - Franklyn Seales, actor (Silver Spoon, Onion Field), dies of AIDS at 37
• 1990 - Mary Victor Bruce, who flew around empire state bldg in 1930, dies
• 1990 - Moelvi Mohammed Farouk, Indian spiritual leader, murdered
• 1991 - Bobby Dale, dies at 92
• 1991 - Jean Van Joutte, PM of Belgium (1952-54), dies
• 1991 - Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated at 46
• 1992 - Brendan Nulholland, Daily Mail reporter, dies at 59
• 1992 - Elizabeth David, British cookbook writer, dies
• 1992 - Mrithi, gorilla (Gorilla in the Mist), dies at 24
• 1992 - Skip Stephenson, TV host (Real People), dies
• 1993 - John Frost, English lt-kol (operation Market Garden 1944), dies at 80
• 1993 - John Holland, actor (They Saved Hitler's Brain), dies at 65
• 1994 - Cliff Wilson, snooker player, dies at 60
• 1994 - Forsyth Hardy, documentary film pioneer, dies at 84
• 1994 - Giovanni Goria, PM of Italy (1987-88), dies
• 1994 - John Henry Weidner, Dutch/US resistance fighter, dies at 81
• 1994 - John Weidner, war hero, dies at 71
• 1995 - Kieron Walsh, academic, dies at 46
• 1995 - Les Aspin, US sec of Defense (1993-95), dies of stroke at 56
• 1995 - Patrick Bowles, writer/translator, dies at 68
• 1996 - Al "Lash" La Rue, cowboy actor (Lash of the West), dies at 78
• 1996 - Bobby Tulloch, ornithologist, dies at 67
• 1996 - Eric Stuart Woord, archaeologist, dies at 83
• 1996 - Laurence Dowdall, lawyer, dies at 91
• 1996 - Mary Perot Nichols, journalist, dies at 79
• 1996 - Peter Fletcher, music teacher, dies at 60