This Day in History for 11th April

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491 - Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
672 - Deusdedit III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1079 - Bishop Stanislaus of Krakow is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland.
1471 - King Edward IV of England conquers London from Henry VI
1512 - Battle of Ravenna: French forces under Gaston de Foix defeat Holy League in a major battle of the Italian Wars
1551 - English premier John Dudley appointed duke of Northumberland
1564 - England & France sign Peace of Troyes
1564 - Liege prince-bishop Robert van Bergen resigns
1567 - Dutch prince William of Orange flees from Antwerp to Breda
1579 - Venlo joins Union of Utrecht
1580 - Drenthe joins Union of Utrecht
1677 - Battle at Montcassel, French troops beat Prince William III
1689 - William III & Mary II crowned as joint rulers of Britain
1713 - Peace of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces to Britain - English, Prussian, Savoois, Portuguese & French peace treaty
1775 - The last execution for witchcraft in Germany takes place.
1783 - Hostilities formally cease in the American Revolutionary War
1801 - Johann von Schiller's "Die Jungfrau von Orleans" premieres in Leipzig
French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte1814 - Napoleon abdicates unconditionally; he is exiled to Elba
1828 - Foundation of Bahia Blanca.
1830 - Robert Schumann attends piano concerto by Paganini
1848 - Hungary becomes constitutional monarchy under king Ferdinand of Aust
1856 - Battle of Rivas; Costa Rica beats Wm Walker's invading Nicaraguans
1862 - Rebels surrender Ft Pulaski, Georgia-Rebels surrender
1863 - Battle of Suffolk, VA (Norfleet House)
1865 - Battle of Mobile, AL - evacuated by Confederates
1865 - Abraham Lincoln urges a spirit of generous conciliation during reconstruction
1868 - The Shogunate is abolished in Japan.
1876 - Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks organizes
1876 - Sir Charles Gordon ends religious tolerance in Sudan
1881 - River ferry "Princess Victoria" sinks in Thames River, Ontario, 180 die
US President Abraham Lincoln1881 - Spelman College founded
1888 - The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
1890 - Ellis Island, New York, designated as an immigration station
1891 - 8 year old Jewish tailor's daughter disappears in Greece, rumor spreads that she was a Christian girl ritually killed by Jews
1895 - Anaheim completes its new electric light system
1898 - President McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration
1899 - Treaty of Paris ratifies ends war; Spain cedes Puerto Rico to US
1900 - US Navy's 1st submarine made its debut
1900 - The first modern submarine designed and built by John Philip Holland is purchased by the U.S. Navy
1902 - Battle at Rooiwal, South-Africa
1907 - NY Giant Roger Bresnahan becomes 1st catcher to wear shin guards
1912 - RMS Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for NY
Engineer John Philip Holland1912 - Cornerstone of Technion in Haifa Palestine laid
1912 - The British Parliament introduce a Irish home rule bill, granting Ireland its own bicameral parliament and be required to send a representative to the British House of Commons; Protestants in Ulster resist
1914 - George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" premieres
1914 - Mexican President Huerta breaks off diplomatic relations with the US
1917 - Babe Ruth beats NY Yanks, pitching 3-hit 10-3 win for Red Sox
1919 - The International Labour Organization is founded.
1921 - Iowa imposed 1st state cigarette tax
1921 - KDKA broadcast 1st radio sporting event, a boxing match (Ray-Dundee)
1921 - Turkestan ASSR forms in Russian SFSR
1921 - First sports broadcast on the radio takes place.
1921 - The Emirate of Transjordan is created.
1924 - 1st men's college swimming championships begin
Baseball Legend Babe Ruth1924 - Socialists win Danish parliamentary elections
1924 - WLS-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions
1925 - Abd el-Krims Rifkabylen beats French army in Morocco
1926 - Flemish Economic Covenant (VEV) forms in Ghent
1927 - Chilean gen Carlos Ibáñez names himself president
1929 - KLO-AM in Ogden UT begins radio transmissions
1929 - Loetafoon celluloid film system demonstrated in Amsterdam
1933 - Hermann Goering becomes Premier of Prussia
1936 - Rodgers & Hart's musical "On Your Toes" premieres in NYC
1936 - Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3 games to 1
1939 - Hungary leaves League of Nations
1941 - Germany blitzes Conventry, England
1941 - Jewish Weekly newspaper taken control by Nazis
Nazi Politician Hermann Goering1941 - Nazi occupiers in Netherlands confiscate Jewish assets
1942 - Distinguished Service Medal for Merchant Marines authorized
1943 - Frank Piasecki, Vertol founder, flies his 1st (single-rotor) craft
1944 - RAF bombs census bureau in The Hague
1945 - Allied troops liberate Basket-Compascuum
1945 - SS burns & shoots 1,100 at Gardelegen
1945 - US captures Tsugen Shima
1945 - US soldiers liberate Nazi concentration camp "Buchenwald"
1945 - US troops conquers Mulheim, Oberhausen, Bochum, Unna, Essen
1948 - 12th Golf Masters Championship: Claude Harmon wins, shooting a 279
1950 - Prince Rainier III becomes ruler of Monaco
1950 - US B-29 bomber shot down above Latvia
1951 - US President Harry Truman fires Gen Douglas McArthur
1952 - The Battle of Nanri island takes place.
33rd US President Harry Truman1953 - Oveta Culp Hobby becomes 1st at Health, Education, & Welfare
1954 - Marlene Bauer wins LPGA New Orleans Golf Open
1955 - Sobers starts run of 85 Test Cricket appearances for WI uninterrupted
1955 - The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
1956 - French government decides to send 200,000 reservists to Algeria
1956 - Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater in racial incident
1957 - Pablo Neruda arrested in Buenos Aires
1957 - Ryan X-13 Vertijet becomes 1st jet to take-off & land vertically
1957 - Britain agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
1958 - Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated (SF)
1959 - "Jamaica" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 558 performances
1959 - Dodger pitcher Don Drysdale hits his 2nd Opening Day HR
Poet Pablo Neruda1959 - Dutch prince Bernhard visits Lockheed factory
1961 - Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem
1961 - Bob Dylan makes his 1st appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village
1961 - 15th NBA Championship: Bos Celtics beat St Louis Hawks, 4 games to 1
1961 - Adolf Eichmann trial begins in Israel
1961 - Austrian 4th & last government of Raab resigns
1961 - Israel begins Adolf Eichmann WW II crimes trial

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 247

146 - Lucius Septimius Severus, Leptis Magna Libya, Roman Emperor (193-211)
1370 - Frederick I the Warlike, elector of Saxony
1374 - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (d. 1398)
1492 - Marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (d. 1549)
1586 - Pietro Della Valle, composer
1602 - Johann Neukrantz, composer
1638 - Diogo Diaz Melgaz, composer
1661 - Antoine Coypel, French painter/poet
1681 - Anne Danican Philidor, composer
1682 - Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer
Roman Emperor Septimius Severus (146)1715 - John Alcock, composer
1721 - David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (d. 1808)
1722 - Christopher Smart, English poet & journalist (Ceremony of Carols)
1735 - Pierre Nicolas La Houssaye, composer
1755 - James Parkinson, English physician (d. 1824)
1769 - Johann Georg Lickl, composer
1770 - George Canning, (C) British PM (1827)
1772 - Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author/poet (El Duque de Viseo)
1775 - Charles-Francois Dumonchau, composer
1779 - Louise Reichardt, composer
1793 - Nicolaas C Kist, Dutch church historian/archivist
1794 - Edward Everett, Dorchester Mass, (Gov-Mass), statesman/orator
1798 - Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (d. 1854)
1801 - Claude Tillier, French journalist/writer (My Uncle Benjamin)
1810 - Henry Rawlinson, English scholar (d. 1895)
1815 - Klara Fey, German orchestra leader (Deutscher Arbeiterverein)
1825 - Ferdinand Lassalle, French politician/founder (Allgemeiner)
1837 - Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth, Col (Union Army), (d. 1861)
1838 - Joseph Leopold Rockel, composer
1840 - John Conrad Nordqvist, composer
1852 - Cap Anson, American baseball player (d. 1922)
1854 - Hugh Massie, cricketer (Australian batsman of the 1880's)
1856 - Arthur Shrewsbury, cricketer (dominant England bat late 19th cent)
1856 - Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionary in India
1859 - Basil Harwood, composer
1862 - Charles Evans Hughs, 11th Chief Justice of Supreme Court (1930-41)
1862 - William W Campbell, US astronomer/director Lick Observatory
1866 - Carla Ford, wife of Henry Ford
1866 - Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet (d. 1953)
1867 - John P Lotsy, Dutch botanist/geneticist (Genetics)
1867 - Mark Keppel, Superintendent of Schools of Los Angeles County (d. 1928)
1869 - Kasturba Gandhi, Wife of Mohandas Gandhi (d. 1944)
1869 - Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1943)
1873 - Edward Lawson, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1955)
1876 - Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (d. 1958)
1879 - Leendert Round, Dutch sculptor (entrance Rotterdam Zoo)
1881 - Harvey Bartlett Gaul, composer
1883 - Leonard Mudie, England, actor (Magnetic Monster, British Intelligence)
1888 - Donald Calthrop, actor (Blackmail, Scrooge, Rome Express), born in London, England
1889 - Nick LaRocca, US jazz coronetist/composer (Tiger Rag) (d. 1961)
1890 - Donna Rachele Mussolini, wife of Benito Mussolini (d. 1979)
1893 - Dean G Acheson, statesman/US Secretary of State (1949-53)
1893 - Johannes T Thijsse, Dutch founder (Waterloopkundig lab Delft)
1896 - Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Quebec novelist (d. 1967)
1897 - Caspar Neher, German set designer/librettist
1898 - Lou Holtz, comedian/actor (Follow the Leader)
1899 - Percy L Julian, chemist (drugs for treatment of arthritis)
1900 - Sandor Marai, Hungarian writer (d. 1989)
1901 - Adriano Olivetti, Italian engineer/manufacturer (typewriter)
1901 - Glenway Wescott, US writer (Apartment in Athens)
1901 - Theodor Rogalski, composer
1902 - Quentin Reynolds, newscaster (Its News to Me)/author (FBI), born in NYC, New York
1904 - Arthur Ernest Mourant, haematologist
1904 - Paul McGrath, actor (Witness, No Time for Love), born in Chicago, Illinois
1905 - József Attila, Hungarian poet (d. 1937)
1906 - Dale Messick, American cartoonist (d. 2005)
1907 - Paul Douglas, Phila Pa, actor (Adventure Theater, Clash by Night)
1907 - William Henry Swinburne, music teacher
1907 - Ivor Spencer-Thomas, English farmer, entrepreneur and inventor (d. 2001)
1908 - Karel Ancerl, Czech conductor (Prague/Toronto)
1908 - Leo Rosten, writer/humourist
1908 - Masura Ibuka, industrialist
1910 - Anna Magnani, Ital's actress (Awakening, Roma)
1910 - Antonio Sebastiao Ribiero de Spinola, general/president Portugal
1910 - Henry William Collins, artist
1911 - Stella Walsh-Stanislawa-Walasiewicz, Poland, sprinter (Oly-gold-32)
1912 - John Larkin, actor (Saints & Sinners, 12 O'Clock High), born in Oakland, California
1913 - Oleg Cassini, Paris France, fashion designer (Jackie Kennedy)
1914 - Norman McLaren, Canadian film animator and director (d. 1987)
1915 - (Hanlon) Pat Clarke, cyclist
1916 - Alberto E Ginastera, Buenos Aires Argentina, composer (Panambi)
1916 - Dan Fortmann, NFL guard (Chicago Bears)
1916 - Howard Koch, producer/director (Frankenstein, Airplane II)
1917 - Danny Gallivan, Canadian radio and television sportscaster (d. 1993)
1917 - David Westheimer, American novelist (d. 2005)
1918 - Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber, journalist
1918 - Richard Wainwright, MP
1918 - William Perrie, British prison governor
1919 - Hugh Carey, (Gov-D-NY)
1919 - Raymond Carr, Warden (St Antony's College Oxford)
1920 - Marlen Haushofer, writer
1920 - Emilio Colombo, Potenza, Italy, Prime Minister (1970-2), (d. 2013)
1921 - Jeff Stollmeyer, cricketer (WI batsman pre/post-war)
1921 - Virginia O'Brien, actress (Francis in the Navy), born in Los Angeles, California
1921 - Martin Buckmaster, 3rd Viscount Buckmaster, British diplomat
1921 - Jim Hearn, American baseball player (d. 1998)
1922 - Alexander Raichev, composer
1922 - Antoine Blondin, writer
Bobby Kennedy's Wife Ethel Kennedy (1925)1925 - Ethel Kennedy, wife of Bobby
1925 - Johan van Zonderen, painter

Legislator and Orator Henry Clay (1799)1799 - Politician Henry Clay (21) weds Lucretia Hart in Lexington, Kentucky
1888 - Industrialist Henry Ford (24) weds Clara Jane Bryant (22) in Greenfield Township, Michigan
1911 - Actress Mae West (17) weds fellow vaudevillian Frank Wallace (21) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1969 - South African president Frederik de Klerk marries Marike Willemse
1981 - Valerie Bertinelli marries Eddie Van Halen
1984 - MLB manager Pete Rose (42) weds second wife Carol J. Woliung
1992 - Country singer Lee Greenwood weds Miss Tennessee 1989 (Kimberly Payne)
1996 - Actor Hugh Jackman (27) weds actress Deborra-Lee Furness (41) at St. John's in Toorak, Victoria
2009 - Tennis player champion Roger Federer (27) weds former WTA tennis player Miroslava Vavrinec (31) in Basel, Switzerland
2014 - Actor and painter Titus Welliver (53) weds former model Jose Stemkens at Saddle Peak Lodge in Calabasas, California

Famous Divorces

Rock guitarist Richie Sambora (2007)2007 - "Dynasty" actress Heather Locklear (45) divorces rock-star Richie Sambora(47) due to irreconcilable differences after 11 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 108

678 - Donus, Italian Pope (676-78), dies
1034 - Romanus III Argyrus, Byzantine emperor (1028-34), assasinated by wife
1240 - Llywelyn ab Iorwerth the Great, monarch of Wales (1194-1240), dies
1500 - Michael T Marullus, Greeks poet, drowns
1512 - Gaston de Foix, French pretender to Navarra throne, dies in battle
1554 - Thomas Wyatt the younger, English rebel (b. 1521)
1612 - Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (b. 1566)
1626 - Marin Getaldić, Croatian mathematician (b. 1568)
1648 - Matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern, composer, dies at 53
1712 - Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (b. 1638)
1723 - John Robinson, English diplomat (b. 1650)
1729 - Manuel de Egues, composer, dies at 71
1783 - Nikita I Panin, Russian earl/ambassador in Denmark, dies at 64
1798 - Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b. 1725)
1810 - Jakob Zupan, composer, dies at 75
1812 - Gottlieb Schick, German painter (Opfer Noachs), dies at 35
1838 - Pieter L Uys, South African pioneer (Great Pull), murdered at 40
1839 - John Galt, Scottish writer (Last of the Lairds), dies at 59
1842 - John England, bishop of Charleston Carolina, dies
1853 - Louis Emmanuel Eadin, composer, dies
1854 - Karl Adolph von Basedow, German DR (Ziekte van Basedow), dies at 55
1856 - Juan Santamaría, national hero of Costa Rica (b. 1831)
1861 - Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (b. 1824)
1873 - Edward Canby, U.S. general (b. 1817)
1875 - Heinrich Schwabe, discoverer (11-year sunspot cycle), dies
1881 - Kristian Mandrup Elster, Norwegian author (Torn Trondal), dies at 40
1887 - Pyotr Petrovich Sokal'sky, composer, dies at 54
1890 - Joseph Merrick, "The Elephant Man", dies of asphyxia at 27
1894 - Constantin Lipsius, German architect (b. 1832)
1895 - Julius Lothar Meyer, German Chemist, dies at 64
1901 - Ivar Christian Hallstrom, composer, dies at 74
1902 - ... Potgieter, South African Boer general, dies in battle
1903 - Gemma Galgani, Italian saint, dies at 25
1906 - Georgi Apollonovitch Gapon, Rus-orthodox clergyman/tsarist agent, dies
1906 - James A Bailey, circus showman (Barnum & Bailey), dies at 58
1906 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (b. 1839)
1908 - Henry Bird, English Chess player and author (b. 1829)
1916 - Richard Harding Davis, journalist, dies at 52
1918 - Arthur Ochse, cricketer (WW I played for S Afr in 1889 aged 19), dies
1921 - Augusta Victoria, Queen of Prussia/wife of Emperor Wilhelm II, dies
Horticulturist Luther Burbank (1926)1926 - Luther Burbank, American botanist (b. 1849)
1936 - Mitya Stillman, composer, dies at 44
1939 - SS Van Dine, [William Huntingdon Wright], detective writer, dies at 50
1945 - Kamiel van Baelen, Flemish resistance fighter (in Dachau), dies at 29
1947 - Louise Peete, American murderess (b. 1880)
1952 - Wadi' Sabra, composer, dies at 76
1953 - Kid Nichols, American baseball player (b. 1869)
1958 - Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (b. 1875)
1961 - Francis de Bourguignon, composer, dies at 70
1967 - Donald Sangster, Jamaican prime-minister (b. 1911)
1969 - Ludvig Irgens Jensen, composer, dies at 74
1970 - Cathy O'Donnell, dies at 66
1970 - John H O'Hara, US journalist (Pal Joey, Rage to Live), dies at 65
1973 - Ted Decorsia, actor (Police Chief Hegedorn-Steve Canyon), dies at 69
1974 - Curt Conway, dies
1975 - Dorothy Patten, dies at 70
1976 - Liam Dunn, dies a 59
1977 - Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900)
1980 - Charlotte Henry, dies
1980 - Florence Lake, dies
1981 - Marie Ney, dies at 85
1983 - Dolores Del Rio, actress (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 78
1985 - Enver Hoxha, party leader/premier of Albania, dies at 76
1985 - Bunny Ahearne, British ice hockey promoter (b. 1900)
1987 - Erskine Caldwell, novelist (Tobacco Road), dies at 83
1987 - Kent Taylor, actor (Boston Blackie, Rough Riders), dies at 79
1987 - Primo Levi, Italy, chemist/writer (Survival in Auschwitz), dies at 67
1988 - Jeff Donnell, actor (Hoedown, 9 Girls), dies at 66 of a heart attack
1989 - Henk van Galen Last, Dutch journalist, dies at 68
1990 - Barbara Ann Miller, dies
1990 - Harold Ballard, Canadian ice hockey club owner and executive (b. 1903)
1990 - Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1904)
1991 - Tom Rosqui, dies at 62
1992 - Adele Dixon, singer/actress (Uneasy Virtue), dies of pneumonia at 83
1992 - Eve Merriam, poet (Inner City Mother Goose), dies of cancer at 75
1992 - James Brown, actor (Rip-Adv of Rin Tin Tin), dies at 72
1992 - Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter (b. 1920)
1993 - Mohammed el-Himi, brigade-general of Egyptian police, murdered
1993 - Rachmon Nabiyev, President of Tadzjikistan (1973..92), dies at 63
1994 - Johan Block, Dutch aviation pioneer (Martinair/Transavia), dies at 64
1996 - Daniel Wolf, journalist, dies at 80
1996 - Edwin Clarke, historian/neurologist, dies at 76
1996 - Jessica Dubroff, hoped to be youngest to fly across US, crashed at 7
1996 - Louis Osman, artist/goldsmith/craftsman, dies at 82
1996 - Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, advertising magnate, dies at 89
1997 - Michael Dorris, writer, commits suicide at 52
2000 - Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (b. 1945)
2001 - Sandy Bull, American musician (b. 1941)
2001 - Harry Secombe, Welsh actor and comedian (b. 1921)
2003 - Cecil Howard Green, British geophysicist and businessman (b. 1900)
2005 - André François, French cartoonist (b. 1915)
2005 - Lucien Laurent, French footballer (b. 1907)
2005 - Maurice R. Hilleman, American Microbiologist who developed over 36 vaccines including measles, mumps, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, chickenpox, meningitis, pneumonia, dies at 85
2006 - June Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters) (b. 1953)
2006 - Proof, American rapper (D12) (b. 1973)
2007 - Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor (b. 1925)
Writer Kurt Vonnegut Jr(2007)2007 - Kurt Vonnegut Jr, American author, dies from head trauma at 84
2007 - Ronald Speirs, American Army officer(CO of Easy Company) (b. 1920)
2007 - Janet McDonald, American novelist (b. 1954)
2008 - Merlin German, United States Marine

1962 - New York Mets make a losing debut
1963 - John XXIII encyclical On peace in truth, justice, charity & liberty
1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Warren Spahn beats Mets 6-1 for his 328th win (most by a lefty)
1964 - "Anyone Can Whistle" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 9 perfs
1965 - 29th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 271
1965 - 40 tornadoes strike US midwest killing 272 & injuring 5,000
1966 - 30th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 288
1966 - Emmett Ashford becomes 1st black major league umpire
1966 - Frank Sinatra records "Strangers in the Night" single for his album of the same name. Later reaches #1 Billboard charts
1967 - "Illya Darling" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 320 perfs
1967 - Harlem (NYC) voters defy Congress & reelect Adam Clayton Powell Jr
1967 - Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead" premieres
1968 - Polish Marshal Spychalski succeeds Ochab as president
1968 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act
1968 - W Berlin student Rudi Dutschke seriously wounded at demonstration
36th US President Lyndon B. Johnson1968 - WHED TV channel 15 in Hanover, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 - Apollo 13 launched to Moon; unable to land, returns in 6 days
1970 - Beatles' "Let It Be" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1970 - SF beats Cincinnati 2-1, only day Reds aren't in 1st place in 1970
1971 - "Johnny Johnson" opens/closes at Edison Theater NYC for 1 performance
1971 - 35th Golf Masters Championship: Charles Coody wins, shooting a 279
1971 - WBFF TV channel 45 in Baltimore, MD (IND) begins broadcasting
1972 - Benjamin L Hooks, named to FCC
1972 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1974 - WW II war criminal JP Philippa arrested
1975 - Hank Aaron returns as a Milwaukee player (Brewer)
1975 - JP Parise 11 sec OT goal-Isles 1st playoff advance eliminates Rangers
1976 - 40th Golf Masters Championship: Ray Floyd wins, shooting a 271
1976 - The Apple I is created.
Golfer and Four-Time Major Championship Winner Ray Floyd1977 - Ireland sets fishing zone at 50 mile
1979 - Ugandan dictator Idi Amin overthrown; Tanzania takes Kampala
1980 - Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulates sexual harassment
1980 - Paul McCartney releases "Coming Up"
1981 - Larry Holmes beats Trevor Holmes in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1981 - Race riot in London area of Brixton
1981 - Ronald Reagan arrives home from hospital after Hinkley shot him
1982 - 46th Golf Masters Championship: Craig Stadler wins, shooting a 284
1982 - Penguins 5-Isles 2-Preliminary-Series tied at 2-2
1983 - 3rd Golden Raspberry Awards: Inchon! wins
1983 - 47th Golf Masters Championship: Seve Ballesteros wins, shooting a 280
1983 - 55th Academy Awards - "Gandhi", Ben Kingsley & Meryl Streep win
1983 - NASA launches RCA-F
1983 - In the first 'supergrass' trial in Northern Ireland, fourteen Ulster Volunteer Force members are jailed for a total of two hundred years
Actress Meryl Streep1984 - Challenger astronauts complete 1st in space satellite repair
1984 - Chinese troops invade Vietnam
1984 - Gen Sec Konstantin U Chernenko named pres of Soviet Union
1984 - Soyuz T-11 returns to Earth
1984 - USSR party leader Chernenko elected president
1985 - Caps 2-Isles 1 (OT)-Patrick Div Semifinals- Caps hold 2-0 lead
1986 - A Canadain 1921 50 cent piece auctioned in NYC for $22,000
1986 - Dodge Morgan sailed solo nonstop around world in 150 days
1986 - Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km
1986 - KXA-AM in Seattle WA changes call letters to KRPM
1987 - Yankees score 12 runs in 7th inning vs KC Royals
1987 - Zoja Ivanova wins 2nd female World Cup marathon (2:30:39)
1988 - Royal Concert building in Amsterdam reopens
Actor Michael Douglas1988 - 60th Academy Awards - "The Last Emperor", Michael Douglas & Cher win
1989 - 1st playoff goal scored by a goalie, Ron Hextall of Philadelphia
1989 - Flyers, scores short-handed into an empty net beating Caps 8-5
1990 - Angels Mark Langston & Mike Witt, no-hit Seattle, 1-0
1990 - NY Lotto pays $35 million to two winner (#s are 6-14-24-32-34-51)
1990 - NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 6-1, Rangers lead 3-1 in preliminary
1990 - Customs officers in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
1991 - "Miss Saigon" opens at Broadway Theater NYC
1991 - NYC's Museum of Broadcasting becomes "Museum of Radio & Television"
1991 - Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) lands
1991 - UN Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq declaration
1992 - BPAA US Open by Robert Lawrence
NHL Goalie Ron Hextall1992 - Euro-Disney opens near Paris
1992 - Indians set team record for long game loss to Red Sox (19 inn - 6½ hr)
1992 - Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing 3
1993 - 57th Golf Masters Championship: Bernhard Langer wins, shooting a 277
1993 - Jeff Rouse swims world record 100m backstroke (51.43 sec)
1993 - Kirsan Ilumzjinov installed as president of Kalmukkie
1993 - 450 prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs. It was Easter Sunday.
1996 - "King & I" premieres at Neil Simon Theater in NYC for 781 perform
1996 - Detroit Red Wings become 2nd NHL team to win 60 games in a season
1999 - 63rd Golf Masters Championship: José María Olazábal wins, shooting a 280
Playwright and screenwriterNeil Simon2000 - AT&T Park in San Francisco, Minute Maid Park in Houston, and Comerica Park in Detroit open.
2001 - The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, People's Republic of China after a collision with an J-8 fighter is released.
2002 - The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
2002 - An attempted coup d'état takes place in Venezuela against President Hugo Chávez .
2004 - 68th Golf Masters Championship: Phil Mickelson wins, shooting a 279
2005 - 39th CMT Music Awards: Keith Urban, Gretchen Wilson & Kenny Chesney wins
2006 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.
2007 - 2007 Algiers bombings: Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers, kills 33 people and wounds a further 222 others.
Golfer and Five-Time Major Championship Winner Phil Mickelson2010 - 74th Golf Masters Championship: Phil Mickelson wins, shooting a 272
2011 - Minsk Metro bombing
2012 - 8.6 magnitude earthquake and 8.2 aftershock occurs off the coast of Indonesia
2012 - 2011 London riot looter is jailed for 11 years after starting a fire at a furniture retailer
2012 - South Korean legislative elections result in the governing Saenuri Party retaining governance
2012 - Prime Minister of Greece, Lucas Papademos, resigns and calls an election for May 6
2012 - Billionaire Warren Buffett is diagnosed with prostate cancer
2013 - 14 people are killed in clashes between drug traffickers and police in Michoacán, Mexico
2013 - 57 people are killed by the Syrian Army in Daraa Governorate, Syria
2013 - Two women are beheaded for sorcery in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Investor Warren Buffett2013 - Fossilized dinosaur eggs with embryos are discovered in China
2014 - 2014 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Peter Gabriel, Hall & Oates, KISS, Nirvana, Linda Ronstadt, and Cat Stevens
2014 - Bill Henry,American baseball player, dies from a heart attack at 86

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 101 - 200 of 247

1925 - Oscar De Ville, CEO (Meyer International)
1925 - Rik Kuijpers, Belgian director (Sea gulls die in the harbor)
1925 - Pierre Péladeau, Canadian businessman and newspaper editor (Quebecor) (d. 1997)
1926 - Gervase de Peyer, clarinettist
1926 - Robert Hall Lewis, composer
1926 - Victor Bouchard, Quebec pianist and composer
1927 - Domenico Guaccero, composer
1929 - Lawrence Coughlin, (Rep-R-PA, 1969- )
1930 - Carl Franklin, Richmond California, actor (Fantastic Journey)
1930 - Clive Exton, scriptwriter & playwright
1930 - James Alan Ferman, secretary (British Board of Film Classification)
1930 - Joseph Burnett-Stuart, CEO (Robert Fleming Holdings)
1930 - Kazuo Fukushima, composer
1930 - Nicholas F Brady, US Secretary of Treasury (1988-93)
1930 - W G [Bill] Hefner, (Rep-D-NC, 1975- )
1930 - Anton LaVey, Chicago Illinois, American founder of the Church of Satan
1931 - Johnny Sheffield, Pasadena California, actor (Boy-Tarzan Finds a Son)
1931 - Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese composer
1932 - F Gregory Neubeck, USAF pilot
1932 - Joel Grey, [Joe Katz], actor (Cabaret, Remo Williams, 7% Solution)
1932 - Max Schubel, composer
1933 - Tony Brown, Charleston WV, newsman (Tony Brown's Journal)
1934 - Dame Anne Poole, chief nursing officer (Dept of Health)
1934 - Mark Strand, American poet/editor/translator (Another Republic)
1934 - Richard A Garland, artist/photographer
1935 - Pierre Kartner, [Father Abraham], Dutch singer (Smurf Song)
1935 - Richard Berry, musician
Contract Killer Richard Kuklinski (1935)1935 - Richard Kuklinski, Jersey City New Jersey, American mafia hitman
1936 - Janet Allen, Headmistress (Benenden School)
1938 - Michael Deaver, politician/influence peddler (S&L scandal)
1938 - Kurt Moll, German bass
1939 - Louise Lasser, actress (Mary Hartman! Mary Hartman!), born in NYC, New York
1941 - David Lyle Boren, (Sen-D-OK, 1979- )
1941 - Frederick "Rick" Hauck, astr (STS-7, STS 51-A, STS-26), born in Long Beach, California
1941 - Ellen Goodman, American political columnist
1942 - Anatoly Nikolayevich Berezovoi, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-5)
1943 - E J Dommering, Dutch lawyer
1943 - John Montagu, 11th Earl of Sandwich, British entrepreneur, politician and nobleman
1943 - Elmer R Wilsoe, Island mayor (Curacao)
1944 - John Milius, writer (Red Dawn, 1941, Big Wednesday)
1944 - R J B Knight, deputy director (National Maritime Museum)
1947 - Michael Hindley, British MEP
1947 - Michael Wright, Vice-Chancello, (Aston University)
1947 - Peter Riegert, actor (Animal House, Crossing Delancey), born in NYC, New York
1947 - Uli Edel, Neuenburg am Rhein, South Baden, German film director
1947 - Meshach Taylor, American actor, born in Altadena, CA, (d. 2014)
1947 - Lev Bulat, Russian physicist
1948 - Ellen Goodman, syndicated columnist (or 1941)
1948 - Marcello Lippi, Italian football coach
1949 - Bernd Eichinger, German film producer
1949 - Carl Franklin, American actor
1950 - Bill Irwin, Santa Monica, actor (My Blue Heaven, Scenes From a Mall)
1951 - Robbie House, rocker (Snuff)
1951 - Doris McGowen Beck Angleton, American socialite (d. 1997)
1951 - Paul Fox, English guitarist (The Ruts) (d. 2007)
1951 - James Patrick Kelly, American author
1952 - Michael Daly, Toronto, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 BC Winter Tour)
1952 - Peter Windsor, English motor racing journalist and reporter
1953 - Andrew Wiles, British mathematician
1953 - Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium
1955 - Michele Scarabelli, actress (Jo Santini-Airwolf, Alienation, Dallas)
1955 - Piers J Sellers, Sussex England, PhD/astronaut
1955 - Kevin Brady, American politician
1957 - Everton Mattis, cricketer (WI batsman early 80's)
1957 - John Castellanos, actor (John Silva-Young & Restless), born in San Diego, California
1958 - Sally Clark, Feilding NZ, equestrian 3 day event (Olympics-silver-96)
1958 - Stuart Adamson, rock vocalist/guitarist (Big Country-Wonderland)
1958 - Brynn Hartman, American murderer (d. 1998)
1960 - Jeremy Clarkson, British journalist
1961 - Lucky Vanous, model (GQ, Diet Coke), born in Lincoln, Nebraska
1961 - Doug Hopkins, American musician
1961 - Vincent Gallo, American actor, director, writer (Buffalo '66, The Brown Bunny), born in Buffalo, New York
1962 - Andre Wasiman, soccer player (FC Volendam)
1962 - Terry Hoage, NFL wide receiver (Arizona Cardinals)
1963 - Eddy Moya, El Paso Tx, actor
1963 - Elizabeth Smylie, Perth Australia, tennis star (1987 Oklahoma City)
1963 - Chris Ferguson, American poker player
1963 - Billy Bowden, New Zealand umpire
1964 - Steve Azar, American singer-songwriter
1964 - Bret Saberhagen, American baseball player
1964 - Johann Sebastian Paetsch, American cellist
1966 - Dave Richards, NFL guard (Atlanta Falcons)
1966 - Kara McGaw, Toronto Ontario, softball rightfielder (Olympics-96)
1966 - Lisa Stansfield, English pop singer (Around the World)
1966 - Mark Higgs, NFL running back (Arizona Cardinals)
1966 - Steve Scarsone, Anaheim CA, infielder (SF Giants)
1966 - Mason Reese, American actor
1966 - Dustin Patrick Runnels, American professional wrestler
1967 - Lachlan Dreher, Australian field hockey goal keeper (Oly-silv-92, 96)
1967 - Mark Seay, NFL wide receiver (San Diego Chargers, Philadelphia Eagles)
1967 - Stefan Johnstown, Norwegian speed walker (world record 20 km)
1967 - Wendel Suckow, Marquette Mich, luger (Olympics-1994)
1968 - Eric Moten, NFL guard/tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1968 - Sergey Lukyanenko, Russian author
1969 - Gavin Briant, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test batsman 1993)
1969 - J Nick Adamson, Freeport Bahamas, US laser yachter (Olymp-21st-1996)
1969 - Janeth Arcain, WNBA forward (Houston Comets)
1969 - Jesse Campbell, NFL safety (NY Giants, Washington Redskins)
1969 - Cerys Matthews, Welsh singer
1969 - Chisato Moritaka, Japanese singer