Author: gil7

Historical Events

1958 – KAYS TV (now KBSH-DT) channel 7 in Hays, Kansas (CBS) begins broadcasting
1971 – There are further Irish Republican Army bombs set off across the region, including one in Belfast which wrecked the headquarters of the Ulster Unionist Party
1972 – French track cyclist Daniel Morelon successfully defends his Olympic sprint title beating Australian John Nicholson for the gold medal in Munich
1978 – American radio disc jockey and stunt pilot Hal McClain (38) performs world record 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston, Texas
2020 – Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi tests positive for COVID-19 and is later hospitalized

More Historical Events »

Famous Birthdays

1862 – Alphons Diepenbrock, Dutch composer, conductor, and essayist, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1921)
1901 – Adolph Rupp, American Basketball HOF coach (NCAA Div I Tournament 1948, 49, 51, 58; Uni of Kentucky; 5 × National Coach of the Year), born in Halstead, Kansas (d. 1977)
1912 – Johan Daisne [Herman Thiery], Belgian writer (magic realism), born in Ghent, Belgian (d. 1978)
1918 – Martha Mitchell [nee Beall], wife of US Attorney General John Mitchell, born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas (d. 1976)
1973 – Matthew Dunn, Australian swimmer (World C’ship SC gold x 8), born in Leeton, Australia

More Famous Birthdays »

Famous Deaths

1540 – Dawit II [Lebna Dengel], Emperor of Ethiopia (1508-40), assassinated at 43 or 44
1934 – (Alcide) “Yellow” Nunez, American New Orleans jazz clarinetist, dies of a heart attack at 50
1993 – John [Eoin] Higgins, Northern Ireland supreme court justice (1984-93), dies at 66
2003 – Bruce Waibel, American touring and session rock bassist (Gregg Allman; Firehouse), takes his own life at 45
2006 – Willi Ninja [William Leake], American dancer and choreographer (Paris Is Burning), dies of AIDS-related heart failure at 45

More Famous Deaths »

Historical Events

1632 – Battle at Castelnaudary: Henri de Montmorency’s rebel army loses to French royalist forces loyal to Louis XIII
1647 – French cardinal Mazarin and the Duke of Modena sign a treaty against Milan
1898 – First forestry school in America opens at Biltmore Estate, North Carolina
1946 – Greece votes in referendum to maintain the monarchy with 68.4% of the vote in support
2012 – US drone strike kills five people in North Waziristan, Pakistan

More Historical Events »

Famous Birthdays

1856 – Sergei Winogradsky, Russian microbiologist and ecologist, made important discoveries of the nitrogen cycle in nature, born in Kiev, Russian Empire (d. 1953)
1931 – Boxcar Willie [Travis Martin], American soldier (USAF) and singer (“King of the Road”), born in Ellis County, Texas (d. 1999)
1934 – Anatoly Yevtushenko, Ukrainian handball coach (Olympic gold USSR 1976, 88; silver 1980), born in Horlivka, Ukraine (d. 2026)
1952 – Phil Hendrie, American radio personality (The Phil Hendrie Show) and voice actor (The Unit, Rick and Morty, Futurama), born in Arcadia, California
1996 – Zendaya [Coleman], American actress (Spider-Man, Euphoria, Dune), singer and dancer, born in Oakland, California

More Famous Birthdays »

Famous Deaths

1780 – Reynier de Klerk, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1778-80), dies at 69
1981 – Albert Speer, German architect and Nazi leader (Reich Minister for Armaments and War Production), dies of a stroke at 76
1993 – Aleksey Vakhonin, Russian weightlifter (Olympic gold USSR bantamweight 1964; World C’ship gold 1963, 64, 66), dies at 58
2006 – Sir Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b. 1918)
2007 – Viliam Schrojf, Slovak soccer goalkeeper (39 caps Czechoslovakia; Slovan Bratislava 240 games), dies at 76

More Famous Deaths »

Historical Events

1778 – British forces kill 17 to 40 Stockbridge Indian fighters in Bronx during Revolution
1842 – US President John Tyler authorizes the establishment of the US Naval Observatory
1904 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport, RI: Holcombe Ward beats William Clothier 10-8, 6-4, 9-7 for his lone major singles title
1935 – Russian miner Aleksey Stachanov digs 102 tons of coal in under 6 hours, using a jackhammer
1988 – Bomb attack destroys the Khotso House, the office of the South African Council of Churches

More Historical Events »

Famous Birthdays

1879 – Viktor Alexandrovich Uspensky, Russian composer and ethnomusicologist, born in Kaluga, Russia (d. 1949)
1918 – Lucrecia Roces Kasilag, Filipina composer (Filiasiana), concert pianist, and educator (Bayanihan Dance Company), born in San Fernando, Philippines (d. 2008)
1949 – Jim Fassel, American football coach (University of Utah 1985–89; New York Giants 1997-2003), born in Anaheim, California (d. 2021)
1959 – Tony DeFranco, Canadian pop singer (The DeFranco Family – “Heartbeat – It’s a Lovebeat”), born in Port Colborne, Ontario
1984 – Charl Schwartzel, South African golfer (US Masters 2011), born in Johannesburg, Gauteng

More Famous Birthdays »

Famous Deaths

1616 – Gemignano Capilupi, Italian choral music composer, dies at 43
1654 – Ole Worm, Danish physician, dies at 66
1997 – Dodi Fayed, Egyptian businessman, died in a car crash in Paris with Diana, Princess of Wales,at 42
2007 – Karloff Lagarde, Mexican professional wrestler, dies at 79
2015 – Colin Hope, British Industrialist (Turner and Newall), dies at 83

More Famous Deaths »

Historical Events

1918 – Czechoslovakia forms an independent republic
1944 – 11th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 24, All-Stars 21 (48,769 attendees)
1972 – American women’s 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of Shirley Babashoff, Jane Barkman, Jenny Kemp, and Sandy Neilson beats East Germany by just 0.36 seconds to win gold at the Munich Olympics with a world record time of 3:55.19
2013 – Fifteen people are killed by a liquid ammonia leak at a cold storage plant in Shanghai, China
2019 – Co-founder and CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, has his Twitter account hacked; racist comments are posted in his name

More Historical Events »

Famous Birthdays

1914 – Julie Bishop [Jacqueline Wells], American actress (My Hero, Northern Pursuit, Threat), born in Denver, Colorado (d. 2001)
1923 – Gerhard Wimberger, Austria composer (Glove), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2016)
1939 – John Peel [Ravenscroft], British popular music radio presenter (BBC Radio 1, 1967-2004), born in Heswall, England (d. 2004)
1960 – Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, American Medal of Honor recipient, born in Lincoln, Maine (d. 1993)
1996 – Trevor Jackson, American actor (Grown-ish), and RandB singer-songwriter (“Drop It”), born in Indianapolis, Indiana

More Famous Birthdays »

Famous Deaths

1974 – Abraham Schierbeek, Dutch biologist (Leeuwenhoek), dies at 87
1991 – Alan Wheatley, British actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood), dies from a heart attack at 84
2007 – Michael Jackson, British beer and whiskey author and expert, dies at 65
2013 – Lotfollah “Lotfi” Mansouri, Persian opera director (Canadian Opera Company, 1976-88; introduced opera surtitles, 1983; San Francisco Opera, 1988-2001), dies at 84
2022 – Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1985-91), dies after an unspecified long and grave illness at 91

More Famous Deaths »