This Day in History for 10th April

0.0334 AUs of Earth

847 - St Leo IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
879 - Louis III becomes King of West Francia.
1407 - the lama Deshin Shekpa visits the Ming Dynasty capital at Nanjing. He is awarded with the title Great Treasure Prince of Dharma.
1500 - France captures duke Ludovico Sforza of Milan
1516 - 1st ghetto, Jews are compelled to live in specific area of Venice
1552 - Henri II of France occupies Metz
1589 - Spanish troops conquer Geertruidenberg
1656 - Dutch fleet occupiers Colombo Ceylon
1694 - Duke Victor Amadeus of Savoye attacks Casale
1710 - The first law regulating copyright is issued in Great Britain.
1741 - War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz.
1790 - US Patent system forms
1815 - Austria declares war on realm of Naples
1816 - 2nd Bank of US chartered
1821 - Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Turks from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus.
Duke of Milan Ludovico Sforza1825 - 1st hotel in Hawaii opens
1825 - Nicaraguan constituent assembly meets at Leon
1826 - The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town Messolonghi start leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.
1835 - Charles Darwin returns to Santiago, Chile
1841 - New York Tribune begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley
1845 - More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh, Pa
1849 - Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (NYC); sold rights for $400
1856 - The Theta Chi Fraternity is founded at Norwich University.
1858 - "Big Ben", a 13.76 tonne bell, is recast in the Tower of Westminster
1863 - Rebel Gen Earl Van Dorn attacks at Franklin, Tenn
1864 - Austrian Archduke Maximilian becomes Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico
1865 - At Appomattox, General Robert E. Lee issues Gen Order #9, his last
1866 - American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms
Confederate General Robert E. Lee1868 - 1st performance of John Brahms' "A German Requiem"
1868 - British defeat King of Abyssinia at Magdala
1869 - Congress increases number of Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9
1869 - José Martí founds the Cuban Revolutionary Party.
1871 - William Hammond Hall's maps & surveys of Golden Gate Park accepted
1872 - 1st National black convention meets in New Orleans
1872 - 1st Arbor Day celebrated in Nebraska, later changed to Apr 22
1877 - 1st human cannonball act performed in London
1877 - Federal troops withdrawn from Columbia, SC
1878 - California St Cable Car RR Co starts service
1882 - Captain William Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco & Hawaii)
1884 - US Senate accepts Belgian administration of Congo
1887 - President Abraham Lincoln's re-buried with his wife in Springfield, Ilinois
US President Abraham Lincoln1887 - Soccer team Be Quick forms in Hairs Groningen
1896 - Spiridon Louis wins 1st Olympic marathon (2:58:50)
1912 - RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton for her maiden (and final) voyage
1913 - President Woodrow Wilson throws out 1st ball, Senators beat Yankees 2-1
1913 - Walter Johnson begins string of 56 consecutive scoreless innings
1913 - During the Montenegrin siege of Scutari, the Montenegrin coastline is blockaded
1916 - 1st professional golf tournament held
1916 - The Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City.
1917 - Munition factory explosion at Eddystone PA, kills 133 workers
1919 - Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
1923 - Hitler demands "hatred & more hatred" in Berlin
Dictator of Nazi GermanyAdolf Hitler1924 - Tubular steel golf club shafts approved for championship play
1925 - Tsaritsyn re-named Stalingrad (now Volgograd)
1925 - Scribners publishes "The Great Gatsby" by F Scott Fitzgerald
1930 - George Headley scores 223 v England at Kingston
1930 - Synthetic rubber 1st produced
1932 - Paul von Hindenburg elected 1st German president (Hitler is 2nd)
1934 - Stanley Cup: Chicago Blackhawks beat Detroit Red Wings, 3 games to 1
1935 - Vaughan Williams' 4th Symphony premieres in London
1936 - 200" mirror blank arrives in Pasadena
1938 - 2nd government of Blum replaced by Daladier government in France
1938 - Austria becomes a state of Germany
1938 - NY makes syphilis test mandatory in order to get a marriage license
1939 - Colijn's Dutch government opens camp Westerbork for German Jews
1939 - Grens mobilization due to Italian invasion in Albania
Author F. Scott Fitzgerald1940 - Vidkun Quisling forms Norwegian "national government"
1941 - German troops conquer Libyan county Cyrenaica
1942 - Cigarettes & candy rationed in Holland
1943 - 12 Jewish patients of Herren Loo-Lozenoord escape nazis
1943 - General Montgomery occupies Sfax Tunisia
1944 - "Patrolling the Ether" is shown on 3 TV stations simultaneously
1944 - Soviet forces liberate Odessa from Nazis
1945 - Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald (Czech)
1945 - Canadian troops conquer Deventer
1945 - General Blaskowitz becomes nazi leader of "Fort Holland"
1945 - German troops attack Ijsselbrug
1945 - NFL's Boston Yanks & Brooklyn Tigers merge
1945 - US troops land on Tsugen Shima Okinawa
1945 - William Schuman & Antony Tudors ballet premieres in NYC
1946 - 1st election for Japanese Diet
1947 - King Frederik IX of Denmark crowned
1948 - Jewish Hagana repels an Arab attack on Mishmar HaEmek
Golfer Sam Snead1949 - 13th Golf Masters Championship: Sam Snead wins, shooting a 282
1953 - "House of Wax", 1st 3-D movie, released (NYC)
1953 - 7th NBA Championship: Minneapolis Lakers beat NY Knicks, 4 games to 1
1954 - KRGV TV channel 5 in Weslaco, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - 19th Golf Masters Championship: Cary Middlecoff wins, shooting a 279
1955 - 9th NBA Championship: Syrac Nats beat Ft Wayne Pistons, 4 games to 3
1955 - Dr Jonas Salk successfully tests Polio vaccine
1955 - Ruth Ellis shoots jilting lover David Blakely
1956 - Philips broadcasts 1st Dutch color TV programs
1956 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 1
1957 - John Osborne's "Entertainer" premieres in London
1957 - Jordanian government of Naboelsi resigns
1957 - Suez canal reopens for all traffic
Medical Researcher and Virologist Jonas Salk1957 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 - Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco
1960 - 24th Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 282

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 229

401 - Theodosius II, the Younger, Eastern Roman emperor
1512 - James V, King of Scots (1513-42)
1569 - Emilia van Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange & Anna of Saxon
1583 - Hugo Grotius, Holland, jurist, father of international law
1633 - Werner Fabricius, composer
1651 - Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (d. 1708)
1656 - René Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France (d. 1718)
1695 - Balthazar Huydecoper, Dutch translator/historian
1704 - Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar (d. 1766)
1713 - John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist (d. 1788)
1737 - Francois Giroust, composer
1755 - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician/originator of homeopathy
1762 - Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (d. 1834)
1778 - William Hazlitt, Maidstone Kent England, essayist/critic
1783 - Hortense E de Beauharnais, French queen of Netherlands (1806-10)
1794 - Matthew Calbraith Perry, Commodore, opened Japan
1796 - James Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (d. 1836)
1797 - Claude Ambroise Seurat, Troyes France, (World's skinniest man)
1806 - Leonidas Polk, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), (d. 1864)
1808 - Auguste Franchomme, composer
1823 - Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1827 - Lewis Wallace, Major General (Union volunteers)/author (Ben Hur)
1829 - William Booth, founder (Salvation Army)
1833 - David McMurtrie Gregg, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1833 - James Edward Rains, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1862)
1837 - Forceythe Willson, American poet (d. 1867)
1847 - Charles Swinnerton Heap, composer
1847 - Joseph Pulitzer, Hungary, publisher (St Louis Post-Dispatch, NY World)
1854 - Jozef M T Orelio, baritone
1857 - Henry Ernest Dudeney, mathematician/puzzle maker
1864 - Eugene Francis Charles D'Albert, German pianist/composer (Golem)
1864 - Tully Marshall, Nevada City CA
1865 - Jack Miner, Canadian conservationist (d. 1944)
1867 - George William Russell, Irish nationalist (d. 1935)
1868 - George Arliss, actor (Devil, Green Goddess), born in London, England
1877 - Alfred Kubin, writer
1880 - Frances Perkins, American politician and 1st woman to hold cabinet-level position (Labor), (d. 1965)
1880 - Montague Summers, English writer (d. 1948)
1880 - Mohammed Nadir Shah, Afghan king (d. 1933)
1882 - Simon F H J Berkelbach Van der Sprenkel, theologist (Fear & Religion)
1886 - Val Paul, American actor and director, born in Denver, Colorado
1887 - Bernardo A Houssay, Argentine physiologist (Nobel 1947)
1887 - Heinz Tiessen, Königsberg, German composer
1891 - Tim McCoy, Saginaw MI
1892 - Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt, German anthropologist (Rassenkunde)
1892 - Victor de Sabata, Trieste Italy, conductor/composer (Il Macigno)
1894 - Ben Nicholson, English painter/sculptor (Circle)
1894 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist (d. 1983)
1896 - Edith Day, Minneapolis MN
1897 - Ross Youngs, American baseball player (d. 1927)
1900 - Jean Duvieusart, premier (Belgium 1950)
1903 - Clare Boothe Luce, US ambassador (to Vatican)
1903 - Nick Stuart, Romania, bandleader
1905 - Jan H van Roijen, diplomat/Netherland foreign minister
1906 - Fud Livingston, composer
1906 - Kathleen Major, principal (St Hilda's College, England)
1906 - Lili Darvas, Budapest Hungary, actress (Szerelem, Cimmaron)
1907 - Pete Desjardins, US, platform/springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1928)
1908 - Aidan Crawley, CEO (London Weekend TV)
1910 - Abu-Bakr Khairat, composer
1910 - David Gilroy Bevan, politician
1910 - Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (d. 2004)
1911 - Maurice Schumann, French statesman/writer (La Voix du couvre-feu)
1912 - Clarke Hinkle, NFL fullback (Green Bay Packers)
1912 - Martin Denny, rocker/actor (Forbidden Island)
1912 - Roy Hofheinz, engineer (Houston Astrodome)
1913 - Stefan Heym, German/US author (Crusaders, Family Benda)
1914 - E A V "Foffie" Williams, cricketer (WI all-rounder 1939-48)
1914 - Jack Badcock, cricketer (Tasmania Australian batsman of 30's)
Actor Harry Morgan (1915)1915 - Harry Morgan, actor (December Bride, M*A*S*H, Dragnet), born in Detroit, Michigan
1915 - Leo Vroman, Dutch/US poet/biologist, (d. 2014)
1917 - Robert Burns Woodward, organic chemist (Nobel 1965)
1918 - Lee Bergere, American actor (d. 2007)
1921 - Chuck Connors, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Rifleman, Branded, Cowboy in Africa)
1921 - Peter Herbert Penwarden, priest
1921 - Sheb Wooley, Erick Oklahoma, vocalist (Purple People Eater, Hee Haw)
1923 - Floyd M Simmons, actor/decathlete (Olympic-bronze-1948, 52)
1923 - John Watkins, cricketer (South African all-rounder in 15 Tests 49-57)
1924 - Kenneth Noland, American painter
1926 - "Alvin" Junior Samples, Cummings Ga, country singer (Hee Haw)
1926 - Jacques Casterede, composer
1926 - Johnnie Tillmon, civil rights activist (Natl Welfare Rights Association)
1927 - Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1929 - Dusan Radic, composer
Actor Max Von Sydow(1929)1929 - Max Von Sydow, Lund Sweden, actor (Hawaii, Exorcist, Dune, Dreamscape)
1930 - Lord Morton, of Shauna, senator (College of Justice, Scotland)
1930 - Shuja-ud-Din, cricketer (batted in 19 Tests for Pakistan 1954-62)
1930 - Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actor/comedian (d. 2006)
1930 - Spede Pasanen, Finnish comedian (d. 2001)
1931 - Marcel van Maele, Belgian poet
1932 - Adrian Henri, poet/president (Liverpool Academy of Arts)
1932 - Delphine Seyrig, Beirut Lebanon, actress (Freak Orlando, Reperages)
1932 - Hari Rhodes, Cincinnati Oh, actor (Mike-Daktari, Roots)
1932 - Mae Heriwentha Faggs Starr, NJ, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1952)
1932 - Nathaniel Nelson, rocker (Flamingos)
1932 - Omar Sharif, [Michael Shalhoub], Egypt, actor (Dr Zhivago, Top Secret)
1933 - Philip Corner, composer
1933 - Poncie Ponce, actor (Kazuo Kim-Hawaiian Eye), (d. 2013)
1933 - Robert Rhodes James, historian (Gallipoli)
1933 - Rokusuke Ei, Japanese lyricist and author

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 8 of 8

1848 - British influential art critic and social commentator John Ruskin marries Effie Gray in Perth, Scotland (later annulled).
Physicist Robert A. Millikan(1902)1902 - Physicist Robert A. Millikan (34) weds Greta Blanchard
1935 - Nazi politician Hermann Goering (42) weds Emmy Sonnemann (42) in Berlin
1938 - NFL quarterback Sammy Baugh (24) weds his college sweetheart Edmonia Smith in Sweetwater, Texas
1943 - Actor Peter Cushing (29) weds actress Violet Helene Beck in London, England
1951 - Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser (68) weds nurse Alyce Chester
1959 - Japan's Crown Prince Akihito marries commoner Michiko Shoda
1960 - NBA guard Jerry West (21) weds his college sweetheart Martha Kane in Morgantown, West Virginia

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 115

879 - Louis II the Stammerer, King of the West Franks (877-79)
947 - Hugo van Arles, count of Arles/king of Italy, dies
1008 - Notger, bishop of Luik (972-1008), dies
1362 - Machteld, countess of Holland, dies
1533 - Frederik I, King of Denmark/Norway (1523-33), dies at 61
1545 - Costanzo Festa, Italian composer
1585 - Gregory XIII, [Ugo Buoncampagni], Italian Pope (1572-85), dies at 83
1599 - Gabrielle d'Estrée, mistress of King Henry IV of France (b. 1571)
1601 - Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet (b. 1562)
1619 - Thomas Jones, Archbishop of Dublin (b. c1550)
1640 - Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer, dies at 61
1640 - Charlotte Flandrina van Nassau, daughter of Willem I, dies at 60
1646 - Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor (b. 1576)
1704 - William Egon of Fürstenberg, Bishop of Strassburg (b. 1629)
1706 - Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1666)
1712 - Yusuf Nabi, Turkish poet (Hayriye), dies at about 77
1723 - Claude F Tserclaes, South Neth earl of Tilly, dies at 74
1731 - Maximilian Dietrich Freisslich, composer, dies at 58
1756 - Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer, dies at 94
1760 - Gerard George Clifford, head of East-Indian Company, dies at 75
1760 - Jean Lebeuf, French historian (b. 1687)
1784 - Simon Fokke, book illustrator, dies at 71
1786 - John Byron, British naval officer (b. 1723)
1810 - Konrad Back, composer, dies at 60
1813 - Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician and astronomer (b. 1736)
1823 - Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (b. 1757)
1825 - Paul-Louis Courier, (Mere), French writer/interpreter, dies at 53
1848 - Godert AGP baron van Capellen, gove-gen of Dutch-Indies, dies at 69
1862 - William Harvey Lamb Wallace, US lawyer/brig-general, dies at 40
1863 - Giovanni B Amia, Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist, dies at 77
1885 - John H Scholten, theologist (Free Want), dies at 73
1909 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, dies at 72
1911 - Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis, composer, dies at 35
1919 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican leader, murdered at 39
1920 - Moritz B Cantor, German mathematician, dies at 90
1920 - Tryggve Andersen, Norwegian writer (Mod Kvaeld), dies at 53
1927 - Ivo Bligh, cricketer (8th Earl of Darnley, 4 Tests 1882-83), dies
1929 - Edmond Thieffry, Belgium, WW I pilot, dies at 36
1931 - Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet and painter (b. 1883)
1932 - Andre Baillon, Belgian/French author (& sabots), dies at 56
1937 - Algernon Ashton, composer, dies at 77
1938 - Nana Annor Adjaye, Pan-Africanist, dies in W Nzima Ghana
1938 - Joe "King" Oliver, American musician (b. 1885)
1939 - Alfredo Panzini, Ital author (Il Bacio de Lesba), dies at 75
1945 - Hendrik N Werkman, resistance/painter (Blue Boat), executed at 63
1945 - Charles Nordhoff, English-born writer (b. 1887)
1954 - Auguste Lumière, French photograph/movie pioneer, dies at 81
1954 - Ludwig Curtius, German archaeologist (Die antike Kunst), dies at 79
1954 - Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1888)
1955 - Oskar Frederik Lindberg, composer, dies at 68
1955 - Teilhard de Chardin, French paleontologist and theologian (b. 1881)
1956 - Bozidar Sirola, composer, dies at 66
1956 - Clarence Beaumont, 1st batter in 1st World Series, dies at 75
1956 - Jozef Szulc, composer, dies at 81
1958 - Chuck Willis, rocker, dies at 30
1960 - Arthur Benjamin, Austral composer/pianist (Devil Take Her), dies at 66
1961 - Irene Warfield, silent screen actress (Satan Sanderson), dies at 65
1962 - Stuart Sutcliffe, bassist (Beatles), dies of brain hemorrhage at 21
1962 - Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-born director (b. 1886)
1965 - Linda Darnell, American actress, dies from burns received in a house fire at 41
1965 - Lloyd Casner, American race car driver and owner (b. 1928)
1966 - Christian J Modeste, Dutch king of gypsies, dies at 71
1966 - Evelyn Waugh, British writer (Black Mischief), dies at 62
1968 - Gustavs Celmins, Latvian politician (b. 1899)
1969 - Harley J. Earl, American automobile designer (b. 1893)
1970 - Charles Paton, dies at 96
1974 - Patricia Collinge, dies at 81
1974 - Roger Bastide, French sociologist, dies at 76
1975 - Marjorie Main, actress (Ma & Pa Kettle), dies at 85
1975 - Sophia JW "Sophie" Hermse, actress (But a Dream), dies at 86
1975 - Walker Evans, US photographer (Fortune Magazine), dies at 71
1979 - Henriette P "Hetty" Beck, actress (Dodendans), dies at 91
1979 - Nino Rota, Italian composer (Torquemada), dies at 67
1980 - Kay Medford, actress (Dean Martin Show, To Rome With Love), dies at 65
1983 - Issam Sartawi, PLO ambassador to Portugal, murdered
1983 - Ulf S von Euler-Chelpin, Swedish physiologist, dies at 78
1984 - Nate Nelson, R&B-singer (Flamingos-I'll Be Home), dies on 52 birthday
1984 - Ray Middleton, dies at 75
1986 - Joseph P Addabbo, US defence specialist/(Sen-D), dies at 61
1986 - Linda Creed, American songwriter (b. 1948)
1988 - Cliff Gladwin, cricketer (8 Tests for England 1947-49), dies
1989 - Joan Barry, dies at 85
1991 - Kevin Peter Hall, actor (Harry & Hendersons), dies of AIDS at 35
1991 - Natalie Schafer, actress (Gilligan's Island), dies at 90 from cancer
1992 - Ken Ward, dies at 37
Comedian Sam Kinison(1992)1992 - Sam Kinison, loud mouth comedian, dies in a car crash at 38
1993 - Chris Hani, sec-gen South Africian Communist Party, assassinated at 50
1994 - James L Lyons, jazz promoter, dies at 77
1994 - Victor Afanasiev, Rus editor-in-chief of Pravda (1976-89), dies at 71
1994 - Sam B. Hall, American politician (b. 1924)
1995 - Chen Yun, VPM of China (1949-75, 79-80), dies
1995 - Glyn Jones, writer, dies at 90
1995 - Gunter Guillaume, German politican, dies
1995 - Joseph Anthony "Joe" Richards, singer/actor (Colo Ranger), dies at 44
1995 - Morarji Desai, PM of India (1977-79), dies
1996 - Jessica Dubroff, attempting to be youngest pilot, dies in crash at 7
1999 - Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, German-born biochemist (b. 1910)
1999 - Jean Vander Pyl, American voice actress (b. 1919)
2000 - Peter Jones, English actor (b. 1920)
2000 - Larry Linville, American actor (b. 1939)

1960 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1960 - Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
1961 - 25th Golf Masters Championship: Gary Player wins, shooting a 280
1961 - Adolf Eichmann tried as a war criminal in Israel
1961 - Dutch foreign minister Luns talks to JFK about New Guinea
1961 - New Wash Senators loses 1st regular-season game 4-3 to White Sox
1962 - 1st baseball game at LA's Dodger Stadium, they lose 6-3 to Reds
1962 - 1st major league game in Houston, Colt .45s beat Chicago Cubs, 11-2
1962 - NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits his 375th HR
1963 - USS Thresher, a nuclear powered submarine, sinks 220 miles east of Boston
1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 - Demolition begins on Polo Grounds to clear way for housing project
1964 - Iranian motor launch catches fire & sinks killing 113 (Persian Gulf)
1967 - 39th Academy Awards - "Man For All Seasons," best picture, Elizabeth Taylor & Paul Scofield best actress/actor
1968 - Ferry Wahine sinks in Wellington harbour, New Zealand on route from Lyttelton (51 killed)
Actress Elizabeth Taylor1968 - "George M!" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 435 performances
1968 - 40th Academy Awards - "Heat of the Night", Rod Steiger & Katherine Hepburn win
1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970 - Paul McCartney officially announces the split of The Beatles
1971 - 1st baseball game at Phila's Veterans Stadium, Phils beat Expos 4-1
1971 - US table tennis team arrives in China PR
1971 - The Republican commemorations is held in Belfast of the Easter Rising (in 1916 in Dublin), revealing conflicts between the two wings of the Irish Republican Army
1972 - 7.0 earthquake kills 1/5 of population of Iranian province of Fars
1972 - US, USSR & 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons
1972 - 20 days after he was kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is executed by communist guerrillas.
Musician & member of the Beatles Paul McCartney1972 - Two British soldiers are killed in a bomb attack in Derry
1973 - BEA flight to Basel Switz, crashes on landing, killing 104 of 143
1973 - KC opens its new park, Royals Stadium, with 12-1 rout of Rangers
1973 - Pakistan suspends constitution
1974 - American Boccaccio Association forms
1974 - Magicians Penn & Teller 1st meet
1974 - Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli PM Golda Meir
1975 - Rangers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs
1976 - Brewers' Don Money's grand slammer disallowed-Yanks win 9-7
1976 - Cleveland Cavaliers win their 1st NBA Central Division title
1977 - 41st Golf Masters Championship: Tom Watson wins, shooting a 276
1977 - Beverly Klass wins LPGA Women's International Golf Satellite
1977 - Cleveland Indians set club record for longest, 9 inn game (3:17)
1978 - Formation of Major Indoor Soccer League announced
Golfer Tom Watson1979 - J R Richard throws major league record 6 wild pitches in Astrodome
1979 - Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian & a Bulgarian
1979 - Red River Valley Tornado Outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
1981 - "Caveman" with Ringo premieres
1981 - Computer glitch keeps Space Shuttle Columbia grounded
1981 - France performs nuclear test
1981 - Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliament
1982 - LA Kings losing 5-0 to Edmonton in 3rd period, win in OT 6-5
1982 - Penguins 2-Isles 1 (OT)-Preliminary- Isles hold 2-1 lead
1983 - Baltimore's Eddie Murray hits his 1,000 career hit
1983 - Caps 3-Isles 6-Patrick Div Semifinals-Isles win series 3-2
1983 - Hennie Kuiper (Neth) wins Paris-Roubaix cycle race
MLB First Baseman Eddie Murray1983 - Jordan king Hussein ceases negotiations with PLO
1983 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1984 - Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle
1984 - John Long (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 51 games
1984 - US Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors
1985 - At 80 Leo Sites becomes oldest bowler to score a 300 game
1985 - Caps 4-Isles 3 (OT)-Patrick Div Semifinals-Caps hold 1-0 lead
1985 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-B mission
1986 - "Big Deal" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 70 performances
1986 - Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan
1986 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 - 52nd Golf Masters Championship: Sandy Lyle wins, shooting a 281
1988 - 8th Golden Raspberry Awards: Leonard Part 6 wins
1988 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA San Diego Inamori Golf Classic
Pakistani Politican Benazir Bhutto1988 - Herschel Walker performs Fort Worth Ballet
1988 - Islanders beat Devils 5-4 (OT) 1st round tied at 2-2
1989 - 10th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1989 - 24th Academy of Country Music Awards: Hank Williams Jr, Alabama
1989 - Intel corp announces shipment of 80-486 chip
1989 - H J Heinz, Van Camp Seafood & Bumble Bee Seafood say they would not buy tuna caught in nets that also trap dolphins
1990 - CUNY/Lehman College, Bronx, opens a branch campus in Hiroshma Japan
1990 - Curtly Ambrose takes 8-45 in cricket vs England at Bridgetown
1991 - Boat rams a tanker in Livorno Italy fog, killing about 138
1991 - LA King Wayne Gretzky scores NHL record 93rd playoff goal
1991 - Last automat (coin operated cafeteria) closes (3rd & 42nd St, NYC)
1991 - Martin Zubero swims world record 200m backstroke (1:52.51)
1991 - A rare tropical storm develops in the Southern Hemisphere near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites.
Ice Hockey Great Wayne Gretzky1992 - 25 die in a bus bombing in Sri Lanka
1992 - Floriade (Flower Show) opens at Hague Neth
1992 - NHL strike ends after 10 days
1993 - BPAA US Open by Del Ballard Jr
1993 - Ottawa Senators win 1st road game (Islanders) after 38 straight loses
1993 - Pittsburgh Penguins win their NHL record 17 game winning streak
1994 - "Les Miserables" opens at Hiten Theatre, Osaka
1994 - 58th Golf Masters Championship: Jose M Olazabal wins, shooting a 279
1995 - "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 24 perfs
1995 - NYC bans smoking in all restaurants that seat 35 or more
1996 - Fastest wind speed ever recorded (not a tornado) 408 km/h (220 kn; 253 mph; 113 m/s) during tropical cyclone Olivia on Barrow Island, Australia
1998 - The Good Friday/Belfast Agreement for Northern Ireland is signed by the British and Irish goverments
Golfer Tiger Woods2005 - 69th Golf Masters Championship: Tiger Woods wins, shooting a 276
2006 - Hundreds of thousands protest H.R. 4437 (aka the "Sensenbrenner Bill") in the United States.
2006 - 40th CMT Music Awards: Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood & Kenny Chesney wins
2010 - Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board including President Lech Kaczyński.
2011 - 75th Golf Masters Championship: Charl Schwartzel wins, shooting a 274
2012 - United Nations deadline for Syrian troop withdrawal passes as violence continues
2012 - Apple Inc claims a value of $600 billion making it the largest company by market capitalization in the world
2012 - Rick Santorum suspends his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination making Mitt Romney the overwhelming favourite
Politician Mitt Romney2012 - Raymond Aubrac, French Resistance Leader, dies at 97
2013 - Japan and Taiwan sign an agreement on fishing rights around the Senkaku Islands

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 101 - 200 of 229

1933 - Ron Murphy, Hamilton, ON, NHL player (New York Rangers), (d. 2014)
1934 - David Halberstam, intl correspondent (NY Times/Pulitzer 1964)
1934 - Zsolt Durko, composer
1934 - Vladimir Posner, Russian journalist
1935 - Jorge Mester, Mexico City Mexico, conductor (Louisville Orch 1967-79)
1935 - Patrick Garland, director (Doll House), (d. 2013)
1936 - John Madden, Austin Minnesota, NFL coach (Oakland Raiders)/sports commentator (CBS, FOX)
1936 - Michael Naylor, insurance broker
Football Coach and Sportscaster John Madden(1936)1936 - Robert "Bobby" Smith, US singer (Spinners), (d. 2013)
1937 - Stan Mellor, British racehorse trainer/jockey
1937 - Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet
1938 - Don Meredith, Mount Vernon Texas, NFL QB (Cowboys)/Mon Night Football
1939 - Alan Rothenberg, US Soccer pres (1990- )
1939 - Daniel Oliver, CEO (Federal Trade Commission), born in NYC, New York
1940 - Gloria Hunniford, British broadcaster/actress (Old Curiosity Shop)
1941 - Paul Theroux, American travel book writer (Mosquito Coast)
1942 - Ian Callaghan, English footballer
1942 - Nick Auf der Maur, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1998)
1944 - Danny Woods, US musician (CEO of the Board)
1945 - Vera Misevich, USSR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1980)
1946 - Armand, [Herman van Loenhout], singer (Blommenkinders)
1947 - Bunny Wailer, Kingston, Jamaica, vocalist/percussionist (The Wailers with Bob Marley)
1947 - Karl Russell, rocker
1948 - Thomas Spencer, MEP (Conservative)
1949 - Frank de Leeuw, Dutch rock guitarist (Bob Color)
1950 - Eddie Hazel, US pop guitarist (Funkadelic-Uncle Jam Wants You)
1950 - Ken Griffey, Sr., American baseball player
1950 - Barry M. Riemer, American author
1951 - Mark Roth, bowler (4-time PBA Player of Year)
Actor Steven Seagal (1951)1951 - Steven Seagal, actor (Above the Law, Hard to Kill), born in Detroit, Michigan
1951 - David Helvarg, American journalist and environmental activist
1953 - David Moorcroft, British athlete
1953 - Terre Roche, rocker (Roches)
1954 - Peter MacNicol, Dallas TX, actor (Chicago Hope, Sophie's Choice)
1955 - Cary Middlecoff, golfer (Masters)
1955 - Lesley Garrett, British soprano
1957 - John M. Ford, American science fiction author and poet (d. 2006)
1957 - Steve Gustafson, American musician
1958 - Ken Griffy, baseball player (Cin Reds, NY Yanks)
1958 - Bob Bell, British engineer
1958 - Yefim Bronfman, Russian-born pianist
1959 - Brian Setzer, Massapequa Park NY, rock guitarist/vocalist (Stray Cats)
1959 - Yvan Loubier, Quebec politician
1960 - Julie Fulton, Evanston Ill, actress (Lime Steel)
1960 - Katrina Leskanich, American musician
1961 - Jeb Adams, Hollywood California, actor (Lt Jeb Pruitt-Baa Baa Black Sheep)
1961 - Olivia Brown, Frankfurt GFR, actress (Det Trudy Joplin-Miami Vice)
1961 - Joe Cole (roadie), American roadie (d. 1991)
1962 - Cathy Turner, short track skater (Olympics-gold-1994, born in Rochester, New York
1962 - Jukka Tammi, hockey goaltender (Team Finland Oly-Bronze-1998)
1962 - Steve Tasker, wide receiver (Buffalo Bills)
1963 - Claire Smith, Ottawa Ontario, equestrian 3 day event (Olympics-96)
1963 - Kirk Lowdermilk, NFL center (Indianapolis Colts)
1963 - Marvin Freeman, pitcher (Colorado Rockies), born in Chicago, Illinois
1963 - Mike Devereaux, Casper WY, outfielder (Baltimore Orioles)
1963 - Warren DeMartini, heavy metal musician (Ratt)
1963 - Doris Leuthard, member of the Swiss Federal Council
1964 - Alan "Reni" Wren, English pop drummer (Stone Roses-Fools Gold)
1964 - Felicia Collins, Albany NY, guitarist (David Letterman)
1964 - Manon Bollegraf, den Bosch Neth, tennis star (semi 1996 Aust doubles)
1965 - Karen Booker, WNBA center (Utah Starzz)
1965 - Tim Alexander, American funk metal drummer (Primus-Pork soda), born in Cherry Point, North Carolina
1966 - Neil Smith, NFL defensive end (KC Chiefs, Den Broncos-Super Bowl 32)
1967 - Donald Dufresne, Rimouski, NHL defenseman (Edmonton Oilers)
1967 - Kay Whitmore, Sudbury, NHL goalie (NY Rangers)
1968 - Orlando Jones, American actor and comedian
1969 - Billy Jacoby, Flushing NY, actor (Brad-Silver Spoons, Maggie)
1969 - Dennis Vial, Sault Ste-Marie Ca, NHL defenseman (Ottawa Senators)
1969 - Wayne Lammle, WLAF kicker/punter (Scotland Claymores)
1969 - William Jayne, actor (Mikey Randall-Parker Lewis Can't Lose)
1969 - Ekaterini Koffa, Greek sprinter
1970 - Enrico Ciccone, Montreal, NHL defenseman (Chicago Blackhawks)
1970 - J J McCleskey, NFL safety (NO Saints, Arizona Cardinals)
1970 - Sean Gilbert, defensive tackle (Washington Redskins)
1970 - Wesley Barnett, St Joseph Mo, Oly weightlifter (Pan Am-silver-1987)
1970 - Matt Barlow, American musician
1970 - Kenny Lattimore, American singer
1970 - Mike Mushok, American musician
1970 - Q-Tip, American musician
1971 - Karl Williams, wide receiver (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1971 - Mihai Bagiu, Timisoara Romania, US gymnast (Olympics-96)
1971 - Nana Miyagi, tennis star (1995 final Surabaya doubles), born in Seattle, Washington
1972 - Maurice Harrell, NFL tight end (San Diego Chargers)
1972 - Richard Wearne, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Sue Merz, ice hockey defenseman (USA, Oly-98)
1973 - Guillaume Canet, French actor and film director
1973 - Roberto Carlos, Brazilian footballer
1973 - Aidan Moffat, Scottish musician
1973 - Christopher Simmons, American designer
1974 - Sherry Johnson, Owatonna Minnesota, Miss America-Minnesota (1996)
1974 - Petros Passalis, Greek footballer
1974 - Eric Greitens, American former military officer
1975 - Eric Den Besten, Bettendorf Iowa, rower (Olympics-1996)
1975 - Floris, Prince of Netherlands
1975 - Steve Washburn, Ottawa, NHL center (Florida Panthers)
1975 - Chris Carrabba, American singer
1976 - Sara Renner, Canadian cross country skier
1977 - Claudia Delpin, Miss Chile Universe (1997)
1978 - Jessica Davis, Greenbrae California, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-27th-96)
1979 - Tsuyoshi Domoto, Japanese artist

2000 - Kirsten Rolffes, Danish actress (b. 1928)

Pop Singer Little Eva (2003)2003 - Little Eva (stage name for Eva Boyd) American pop singer (Locomotion)
2005 - Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist (b. 1923)
2005 - Iakovos, Archbishop of America (b. 1911)
2005 - Al Lucas, American football player (b. 1978)
2007 - Dakota Staton, American singer (b. 1930)
2009 - Deborah Digges, American poet (b. 1950)
2010 - Ryszard Kaczorowski, Polish statesman is killed in the crash of a Polish Air Force Tu-154 at 90
2010 - Dixie Carter, an American actress (b.1939)
2010 - Maria Kaczyńska, Polish economist and First Lady of Poland, is killed in the crash of a Polish Air Force Tu-154 at 67
2010 - Lech Kaczyński, Polish lawyer and politician, then President of Poland is killed in the crash of a Polish Air Force Tu-154 at 60
2011 - Mikhail Rusyayev, Russian footballer (b. 1964)
2011 - Homer Smith, American football coach (b. 1931)
2013 - Jimmy Dawkins, American electric blues musician, dies at 76
2013 - Robert Edwards, British physiologist, IVF pioneer, and Nobel laureate, dies at 87