1510 – Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (b. 1445)
1776 – Élie Catherine Fréron, French critic (b. 1719)
1792 – John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute, Prime Minister of Great Britain (1760-63), dies at 78
1866 – Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini, Italian-French composer and music publisher, dies at 87
1913 – Harriet Tubman [Araminta Ross], American abolitionist, former slave and humanitarian (Underground Railroad), dies at about 91 {birth date uncertain]
1988 – William Brocklesby Wordsworth, English composer, dies at 79
1995 – Carel Birnie, Dutch ballet producer, dies at 69
2007 – Ernie Ladd, American football player and professional wrestler (b. 1938)
2012 – Heinz Wunderlich, German organist and composer, dies at 92
2016 – Ken Adam, British film production designer (James Bond sets), dies at 95
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Historical Events for 10th March 2023
1535 – Bishop Tomés de Berlanga discovers the Galapagos Islands
1934 – US Ladies’ Figure Skating championship won by Suzanne Davis
1973 – 20th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: NC State beats Maryland, 76-74
1979 – Eubie Blake, a 92-year old ragtime piano player and composer, and Gregory Hines are musical guest on Saturday Night Live
1983 – Former Los Angeles Dodgers manager Walter Alston is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1984 – 25th SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Auburn, 51-49
1991 – 32nd SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats Tennessee, 88-69
1992 – Sandra Seuser, Katrin Schreiter, Annet Hesselbarth and Grit Breuer walk female indoor world record 4x400m (3:27.22)
1993 – Physician David Gunn shot and killed by anti-abortionist Michael Frederick Griffin in Pensacola, Florida, first anti-abortion murder of a doctor in the US
2001 – 22nd Big East Men’s Basketball Tournament: Boston College beats Pittsburgh, 79-57
Today in History for 10th March 2023
Historical Events
1830 – The KNIL also known as the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created
1849 – Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent (only US President to do so) for a device to lift a boat over shoals and obstructions
1948 – 5th Golden Globes: “Gentleman’s Agreement”, Ronald Colman, and Rosalind Russell win
1962 – Due to its no black policy, Phillies leave Jack Tar Harrison Hotel and move to Rocky Point Motel, 20 miles outside Clearwater, Florida
1963 – MLB infielder Pete Rose debuts with Cincinnati at spring training in Tampa, Florida; hits in his first 2 at bats
2015 – “See You Again” released by Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth commissioned by film “Furious 7” as tribute to Paul Walker (Billboard Song of the Year 2015)
Famous Birthdays
1771 – Georg Friedrich Creuzer, German classical scholar (Idea und Probe), born in Marburg an der Lahn, Hesse (d. 1858)
1943 – Sandra Palmer, American golfer (Titleholders Championship 1972, US Open 1975), born in Fort Worth, Texas
1945 – Katharine Houghton, American actress (Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner), born in Hartford, Connecticut
1961 – Mitch Gaylord, American gymnast (Olympics 1984), actor (American Anthem), born in Van Nuys, California
1968 – Thio Li-ann, Singaporean law academic and Nominated Member of Parliament
1998 – Justin Herbert, American NFL player (LA Chargers), born in Eugene, Oregon
Famous Deaths
1872 – Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary (Giovane Italy), dies at 66
1897 – Teodulo Mabellini, Italian composer, dies at 79
1940 – Louis de Vries, Dutch actor (Blokkade, Ghetto, Merchant of Venice), dies at 68
1982 – Minoru Shirota, Japanese microbiologist and founder of the Yakult Honsha beverage company, dies at 82
2003 – Barry Sheene, British motorcycle racer, dies at 52
2021 – Stephen Scott, American composer (Bowed Piano Ensemble; Vikings of Sunrise), and educator (Colorado College), dies from complications of dementia at 76
Famous Deaths for 9th March 2023
1800 – Dominique Della-Maria, French composer, dies at 30
1969 – Riad, chief of staff (Egyptian army), dies
1994 – Fernando Rey [Arambillet], Spanish actor (The French Connection, Matter of Time), dies of bladder cancer at 76
1994 – Lawrence E. Spivak, American news panelist (Meet the Press), dies at 93
1996 – Elman Ali Ahmed, Somali peace campaigner, dies at 42
2005 – István Nyers, Hungarian footballer, dies at 80
2006 – John Profumo, British cabinet minister (Profumo scandal), dies at 91
2010 – Doris Haddock, American political activist (b. 1910)
2020 – Keith Olsen, American rock record producer and sound engineer (Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac; Grateful Dead – Terrapin Station; Joe Walsh – The Confessor), dies of cardiac arrest at 74
2021 – James Levine, American conductor (director of the Metropolitan Opera, 1976-2017), dies at 77
Historical Events for 9th March 2023
1741 – British fleet under admiral Ogle begins assault on Cartagena
1914 – Hendrikus Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co
1923 – Amsterdam taxi strike ends
1959 – Barbie makes her debut at the American Toy Fair in New York. Over a billion have been sold worldwide since.
1959 – The Coasters’ single “Charlie Brown” peaks at #2 on the Billboard Top 100
1963 – Beatles began 1st British tour, supporting Tommy Roe and Chris Montez
1986 – Gilbert Perreault of the Buffalo Sabres becomes the 12th NHLer to score 500 career goals, in a 4-3 win over New Jersey Devils
1989 – Roger Kingdom runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.36 sec)
1994 – IRA launch 1st of 3 mortar attacks on London’s Heathrow Airport
1996 – NASA space shuttle STS-75 (Columbia 19) lands
Today in History for 9th March 2023
Historical Events
1230 – Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus near the village of Klokotnitsa
1496 – Jews are expelled from Carintha, Austria
1947 – US Ladies’ Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
1959 – The Coasters’ single “Charlie Brown” peaks at #2 on the Billboard Top 100
1977 – Adm Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), becomes 12th director of CIA replacing acting director Knoche
2006 – Liquid water is discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn
Famous Birthdays
1911 – Ramon Campbell Batista, Chilean physician, composer, and ethno-musicologist (traditional music of the Rapanui people), born in Quilpué, Chile (d. 2000)
1934 – Jim Landis, American MLB outfielder, 1957-67, 5X Gold Glove, 2X All-Star (Chicago White Sox, and 5 other teams), born in Fresno, California (d. 2017)
1952 – Ekkehard Fasser, Swiss bobsledder (Olympic gold, four-man 1988; World C’ship gold 1983; World Cup champion 1985-86), born in Glarus, Switzerland (d. 2021)
1960 – Linda Fiorentino, American actress (Jade, Last Seduction, Moderns), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1977 – Radek Dvořák, Czech ice hockey left wing (World C’ship gold 1999, 2001, 05; Florida Panthers, NY Rangers), born in Tábor, Czech Republic
1983 – Clint Dempsey, American footballer, born in Nacogdoches, Texas
Famous Deaths
1688 – Claude Mellan, French engraver, cartoonist and painter, dies at 89
1709 – Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, English diplomat, dies at 70
1851 – Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist (discovered electromagnetism), dies at 73
1975 – Joseph Dunninger, NYC, mentalist (Amazing Dunninger), dies at 82
1992 – Menachem Begin, 6th Prime Minister of Israel (1977-80, 81-83) and 1979 Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies of a heart attack at 85
2020 – Lorenzo Brino, American actor (7th Heaven – “Sam”), dies in single vehicle car crash at 21
Famous Deaths for 8th March 2023
1717 – Abraham Darby I, English ironmaster (1st to smelt iron ore with coke, pivotal figure in Industrial Revolution), dies at about 40
1734 – Carolomannus Pachschmidt, Austrian composer, dies at 33
1862 – Adrien de La Fage, composer, dies at 56
1887 – Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian/critic, dies at 73 (b. 1813)
1901 – Peter Benoit, Flemish composer/conductor (High Mass), dies at 66
1945 – Jan Beekes, resistance fighter, executed at 26
1946 – Frederick Lanchester, English Engineer who built the first British petrol automobile (1896), dies at 77
1974 – Willem “Wim” Sonneveld, Dutch singer considered one of the ‘Great Three’ of Dutch cabaret (My Fair Lady), dies from a heart attack at 56
1996 – Jack Churchill, British Army commando, dies at 89
2014 – William Guarnere, American WWII veteran, dies at 90
Historical Events for 8th March 2023
1862 – Confederate ironclad “Merrimack” launched
1896 – Volunteers of America forms (NYC)
1917 – US Senate introduces the Cloture Rule, requiring a two-thirds majority to end debate, at the urging of Woodrow Wilson
1973 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 – Paul and Linda McCartney are fined £100 for growing cannabis
1974 – Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France
1975 – Royal Canadian Mint announces branch opening in Winnipeg, Manitoba
1977 – Henry L Marsh III elected mayor of Richmond, Virginia
1986 – Japanese probe Suisei passes Halley’s Comet at 109,800 km
2018 – 5 million Spanish women mark International Women’s Day by striking over gender inequality and sexual discrimination
Today in History for 8th March 2023
Historical Events
1862 – Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads, VA CSS Virginia, Jamestown and Yorktown vs USS Cumberland, Congress and Monitor
1924 – Coal mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate, Utah
1954 – Herb McKinley sets quarter mile record of 0:46.8 in Melbourne, Australia
1979 – 1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered on Jupiter’s satellite Io
1979 – China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam
1986 – 27th SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Alabama, 83-72
Famous Birthdays
1879 – Otto Hahn, German physicist and chemist (Nobel 1944, radiothorium/actinium), born in Frankfurt, Germany (d. 1968)
1889 – Oscar Ewing, US government official (Everybody’s Business), born in Greensburg, Indiana (d. 1980)
1892 – Mátyás Rákosi, Hungarian party leader and Prime Minister (1952-53), born in Ada, Serbia (d. 1971)
1916 – Robert Wolfgang Schnell, German writer, born in Barmen, Germany (d. 1986)
1920 – Eileen Herlie [Herlihy], Scottish-American actress (All My Children, The Angel with the Trumpet), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 2008)
1925 – Darwin Vargas [-Wallis], Chilean composer
Famous Deaths
1920 – Rafael Obligado, Argentine writer (Santos Vega), dies at 69
1971 – Harold Lloyd sr, American silent film actor, comedian, and director (Why Worry, Safety Last!), dies of cancer at 77
1976 – Alfons Rebane, Estonian military commander (b. 1908)
1999 – Hans Eklund, Swedish composer, dies at 71
2006 – Brian Barratt-Boyes, New Zealand heart surgeon (b. 1924)
2021 – Julien-François Zbinden, Swiss jazz pianist, and jazz and classical composer (Monophrases), dies at 103
Famous Deaths for 7th March 2023
1578 – Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, niece of Henry VIII and whose son married Mary Queen of Scots, dies at 62
1949 – Bradbury Robinson Jr., American football pioneer who threw first legal forward pass in the history of American football in 1906, dies from complications following routine surgery at 65
1954 – Otto Diels, German organic chemist (1950 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for cyclic organic compounds), dies at 78
1955 – Tom Dugan, Irish actor (Circus Clown, Drag, Skyway), dies at 66
1981 – Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling, German tennis player (Wimbledon 1931, 1936 runner-up), dies at 72
1988 – Divine [Harris Glenn Milstead], American actress, drag queen and international icon of bad taste cinema (Pink Flamingos), dies of natural causes at 42
1995 – Jacques Lefebvre, Belgian air force general, commits suicide at 64
1999 – Lowell Fulson, Choctaw-Cherokee-American blues guitarist and songwriter (“3 O’Clock Blues”; “Reconsider Baby”), dies at 77
2010 – Mary Josephine Ray, Canadian-American supercentenarian, dies at 114
2013 – Peter Banks [Brockbanks], British rock guitarist and singer-songwriter described as “the architect of progressive music” (Yes, the Syn, Flash), dies of heart failure at 65