1240 – Jacques de Vitry, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals
1898 – Alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian and archivist (Brussels), dies at 81
1926 – Nicolaus Adriani, Dutch translator (Middle-Celebes Language), dies at 60
1935 – Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (Tour de France 1923), dies of a gunshot wound at 46
1946 – Edward Bairstow, English composer, dies at 71
1946 – Percy Whitlock, English composer and organist, dies at 42
1991 – Richard Thorpe, American director (Jailhouse Rock, Night Must Fall), dies at 95
1994 – Ayrton Senna, Brazilian auto racer (World F1 champion 1988, 90, 91), dies in a crash at San Marino GP at 34
2015 – Pete Brown, American golfer (first African-American to win on PGA Tour, Waco 1964), dies at 80
2018 – Carl W. Duckworth, American politician (Utah House of Representatives, 1955–1958), dies of bone cancer at 53
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Historical Events for 1st May 2022
1930 – Cricket master batsman Don Bradman scores 236 for Australia v Worcestershire in his first 1st class innings in England
1946 – Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery appointed British supreme commander
1961 – Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba
1962 – JFK authorizes Area Redevelopment Act (ARA)
1977 – American golfer Gene Littler wins the Houston Open, his 29th and final PGA title
1983 – “My One and Only” opens at St James Theater NYC for 767 performances
1993 – 119th Kentucky Derby: Jerry Bailey wins aboard Sea Hero, the first of 2 Derby victories (1996 on Grindstone)
2013 – Insurgents kill 6 people in Pattani, Thailand
2018 – Chinese authorities label British cartoon “Peppa Pig” subversive and it is removed from the Douyin video website
2021 – India is the first country to record more than 400,000 new COVID-19 cases in one day (401,993)
Today in History for 1st May 2022
Historical Events
1394 – Ekiho exorcised the Zen temple and its surroundings of an old badger
1900 – Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah
1926 – Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Satchel Paige (19) debuts in the Negro Southern League for Chattanooga
1939 – Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Yearling)
1993 – Bomb attack on Sri Lankan president (26 die)
2010 – Canadian singer Bryan Adams is given the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for his 30 years of contributions to the arts
Famous Birthdays
1900 – Ignazio Silone, Italian novelist (Fontamara, Pane e vino), born in Pescina, Italy (d. 1978)
1924 – Dennis Main-Wilson, British TV and radio producer (Marty, Till Death Us Do Part), born in Dulwich, London (d. 1997)
1927 – Billy Byers, American jazz trombonist and arranger, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1996)
1937 – Bo Nilsson, Swedish composer (Doppelspiel), born in Skellefteå (d. 2018)
1939 – Judy Collins, singer (Send in the Clowns, Clouds), born in Seattle, Washington
1982 – Jamie Dornan, Irish actor (Fifty Shades of Grey), born in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Famous Deaths
1572 – Pius V [Antonio Ghislieri], Italian Pope (1566-72) who excommunicated Elizabeth I of England and arranged the formation of the Holy League (Battle of Lepanto), dies at 68
1772 – Gottfried Achenwall, German lawyer/statistics/economist, dies at 52
1913 – John Barclay Armstrong, Texas Ranger and U.S. Marshal (b. 1850)
1957 – Grant Mitchell, American actor (Great Lie, Laura, Cairo, Conflict), dies at 82
2017 – Sam Mele, American MLB outfielder/manager (Minnesota Twins record 102 wins 1965), dies at 95
2021 – Olympia Dukakis, Greek-American stage and screen, Obie, Oscar, and Golden Globe award-winning actress (Man Equals Man; Moonstruck; Steel Magnolias), dies at 89
Famous Deaths for 30th April 2022
1922 – David M Chumaceiro, Curacaos poet, dies
1983 – Jerry Hatsuo Fujikawa, actor (Uncle Matsu-Mr T and Tina), dies at 71
1989 – Guy Williams [Armando Joseph Catalano], American actor (Zorro, Lost in Space), dies of a brain aneurysm at 65
1992 – Daan van Driel, Dutch cartoonist/WWII resist fighter (Trouw), dies
1993 – Eric Rowan, cricketer (26 Tests for South Africa), dies
1996 – Jeanne Bal, American actress (Pat-Love and Marriage, Star Trek- The Man Trap), dies at 67
1997 – Henry Picard, American golfer (Masters 1938, PGA 1939), dies at 90
2003 – Mark Berger, University of Kentucky professor (b. 1955)
2007 – Grégory Lemarchal, French pop singer, dies of health complications while waiting for a lung transplant at 23
2021 – Anthony Payne, British composer (Phoenix Mass; Visions and Journeys), critic, and musicologist, dies at 84
Historical Events for 30th April 2022
311 – Roman Emperor Galerius issues Edict of Toleration, ending persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire
1772 – John Clais patents 1st scale
1889 – 1st US national holiday, on centennial of Washington’s inauguration
1935 – World Congress for Women’s Rights concludes in Istanbul
1945 – Concentration camp Munchen-Allag freed
1962 – NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 75,190 m
1971 – 25th NBA Championship: Milwaukee beat Balt Bullets in 4 games
1976 – The Betsy Ross Bridge, spanning the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Pennsauken, New Jersey opens
1982 – Atlanta Braves win record 12th straight from beginning of season
2021 – 45 killed and 150 injured in a crush of people at the Israeli Lag B’Omer festival at Mount Meron
Today in History for 30th April 2022
Historical Events
1907 – Honolulu, Hawaii, becomes an independent city.
1935 – World Congress for Women’s Rights concludes in Istanbul
1997 – Tajik Prest Imomali Rakhmonov wounded in assassination attempt
2004 – U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison
2012 – The unfinished One World Trade Center overtakes the Empire State building to become the tallest building in New York
2013 – 13 people are killed after a bomb explodes in Damascus
Famous Birthdays
1623 – François de Laval, French clergyman, 1st Roman Catholic bishop of Québec, and saint, born in Montigny-sur-Avre, Kingdom of France (d. 1708)
1874 – Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian priest and writer (Maria Magdalena – 1928), born in Ardooie, West Flanders, Belgium (d. 1949)
1941 – Wilfried Jentzsh, German composer, born in Dresden, Germany
1944 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress (Unmarried Woman, Semi-Tough), born in NYC, New York (d. 2010)
1980 – Sam Heughan, Scottish actor (Outlander), born in Balmaclellan, Scotland
1981 – Emma Pierson, British actress
Famous Deaths
1328 – Meister Eckhard, German theologist and mystic, dies at about 78
1544 – Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, Lord Chancellor of England
1883 – Édouard Manet, French impressionist painter (Olympia, The Luncheon on the Grass) dies at 51
1900 – Casey Jones, American railroad engineer, dies at 36 heroically in Cannonball Express train wreck
1982 – Taisen Deshimaru, founder of several Zen centers in France, dies at 67
2007 – Grégory Lemarchal, French pop singer, dies of health complications while waiting for a lung transplant at 23
Famous Deaths for 29th April 2022
1630 – Agrippa d’Aubigné, French poet (b. 1552)
1793 – Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi and Talmudist, dies at 79
1903 – Paul du Chaillu, French American explorer (first modern explorer to confirm existence of gorillas and pygmies) dies between 61-73 [birth date disputed] (b. c. 1835)
1944 – Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal (1915–17, 1925–26), dies at 93
1954 – Ernst Heldring, Dutch ship owner and financier, dies at 82
1995 – Angier Biddle Duke, American diplomat and the youngest American ambassador in history, dies at 79
2002 – Lor Tok [Sawong Supsamruay], Thai comedian and actor (Ngern, Ngern, Ngern), dies at 88
2004 – Sid Smith, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
2012 – Amarillo Slim, American professional poker player, dies at 83
2021 – Billie Hayes [Brosch], American stage, film, and television actress Li’l Abner – “Mammy Yokum”; Witchiepoo), dies at 96
Historical Events for 29th April 2022
1930 – 123 runs are scored in 7 major league games
1931 – Cleveland Indians pitcher Wes Ferrell no-hits St Louis Browns, 9-0
1945 – German armies in Italy sign an unconditional surrender to the Western Allies to be carried out on 2 May
1964 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 – Alfredo Magana elected President of El Salvador
1992 – Sheena Easton collapses on stage while performing in “Man of LaMancha”
2004 – Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office
2018 – Sweden’s official Twitter account confirms Swedish meatballs actually originated in Turkey
2020 – Fire at an Icheon warehouse, South Korea, kills 38
2021 – World’s longest pedestrian bridge at 516 metres (1,700 feet) opens inside northern Portugal’s Arouca Geopark
Today in History for 29th April 2022
Historical Events
1943 – German pastor and anti-Nazi dissident Dietrich Bonhoeffer arrested by the Gestapo
1945 – Japanese army evacuates Rangoon, British Burma
1965 – Australian government announces it would send troops to Vietnam
1981 – NFL Draft: South Carolina running back George Rogers first pick by New Orleans Saints
1990 – Wrecking cranes began tearing down the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate
1992 – William Finn and James Lapine’s musical “Falsettos” opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 487 performances
Famous Birthdays
1660 – Matthias Henriksen Schacht, Danish scholar and composer, born in Visby, Gotland, Sweden (d. 1700)
1727 – Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer and choreographer (ballet d’action), born in Paris (d. 1810)
1771 – Matthäus Stegmayer, Austrian composer, born in Vienna (d. 1820)
1938 – Bernard “Bernie” Madoff, American fraudster and financier who committed the largest fraud in US history, born in Queens, New York (d. 2021)
1944 – Richard Kline, American actor and director, born in New York City
1986 – Renee Alway, American Model and felon, born in Micigan
Famous Deaths
1935 – Leroy Carr, American blues piano player and singer-songwriter (“How Long, How Long Blues”), dies of nephritis of the kidneys at 30
1937 – Wallace Carothers, American chemist and inventor (nylon), commits suicide at 41
1945 – Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, German SS officer (b. 1893)
1951 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austria English philosopher (Philosophical Investigations), dies at 62
2007 – Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor and stand-up comedian (Mot i brøstet, Olsen-banden), dies of heart failure at 85
2008 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist (first synthesised LSD), dies at 102
Famous Deaths for 28th April 2022
1533 – Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat, dies at 72
1772 – Johann Friedrich Struensee, German physician of Christian VII of Denmark, dies at 34
1853 – Ludwig Tieck, German writer, dies at 79
1918 – Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian-Serb assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, dies of tuberculosis at 23
1934 – Charley Patton, American Delta blues musician (“Pony Blues”; “High Water Everywhere”), dies of a mitral valve disorder between the ages of 37 and 43
1935 – Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, Scottish composer, dies at 87
1966 – Ralph Bunker, American actor (Ghost Goes West), dies of a stroke at 77
1973 – Pat Henning, American actor (Goodyear TV Playhouse), dies at 64
1976 – Richard Hughes, English writer (Fiction as Truth), dies at 76
1999 – Alf Ramsey, English football manager, dies at 79