1856 – Ivan Kireyevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher, dies at 50
1891 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist, dies at 86
1946 – William S. Hart, American silent film actor (Wild Bill Hickok, Tumbleweeds), dies at 75
1957 – Louis Fornberg, writer, dies at 48
1959 – Jean Gallon, French composer, dies at 80
1970 – Roscoe Turner, American aviator and racer (b. 1895)
1988 – Dayton Lummis, actor (Moonfire, Flight that Disappeared), dies
1991 – Antonio Jacinto, Angolan poet, dies at 66
1994 – Alan Frank, English composer and music publisher, dies at 83
2006 – Budhi Kunderan, Indian cricket wicketkeeper and batsman (18 Tests), dies of lung cancer at 66
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Historical Events for 23rd June 2020
1658 – Dutch troops occupy last Portuguese Fort at Jafnapatnam in Ceylon
1932 – Lou Gehrig plays 1,103rd successive game in a NY uniform, equaling Joe Sewell’s record with one team (Cleveland)
1940 – After conquering France, Adolf Hitler visits Paris and views the Eiffel Tower and the grave of Napoleon Bonaparte
1951 – Most expensive US hailstorm ($1.5M crop damage and $14M property-Kansas)
1959 – A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim, Norway kills 34 people
1972 – US President Nixon and his Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate
1973 – Phillies Ken Brett 4th consecutive game HR in which he pitched
1979 – Supertramp’s “Breakfast in America” becomes No. 1 album in the US featuring “Take the Long Way Home”
1991 – “Odd Couple” opens and closes at Belasco Theater NYC
1993 – Lorena Gallo Bobbitt amputates husband’s John Wayne Bobbitt’s penis
Today in History for 23rd June 2020
Historical Events
1724 – Russia and Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople
1940 – RAF bombs Schiphol, Netherlands
1962 – Larry Doby retires from Cleveland Indians to play in Japan
1967 – Jim Ryun sets mile record (3:51.1, Bakersfield CA)
1972 – US President Nixon and his Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate
1993 – Lorena Gallo Bobbitt amputates husband’s John Wayne Bobbitt’s penis
Famous Birthdays
1887 – John Finley Williamson, conductor (Westminster Choir), born in Canton, Ohio
1907 – Dercy Gonçalves, Brazilian comedienne (d. 2008)
1916 – Len Hutton, cricketer (England opener, 364 v Australia The Oval 1938)
1923 – George Russell, American jazz pianist (The Jazz Workshop) born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 2009)
1978 – Memphis Bleek, American rapper
1980 – Francesca Schiavone, Italian tennis player (French Open 2010), born in Milan, Italy
Famous Deaths
1075 – Theoduinus, Beiers prince-bishop of Liege, dies
1801 – Bendix Friedrich Zinck, German composer, dies at 58
1988 – M Gregor-Dellin, writer, dies
1996 – George Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (1981-89, 1993-96), dies at 76
2001 – Yvonne Dionne, one of the Canadian Dionne quintuplets (b. 1934)
2015 – Richard “Dick” Van Patten, American actor, businessman, and animal welfare advocate (Tom Bradford in 8 is Enough), dies at 86
Famous Deaths for 22nd June 2020
1429 – Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1380)
1735 – Pirro Capacelli, Italian aristocrat and composer, dies at 71
1973 – Jacques Wolfe, Romanian-American composer, dies at 77
1977 – Peter Laughner, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (Rocket From the Tombs, Pere Ubu), dies at 24
1979 – Louis Chiron, Monégasque racing driver, dies at 79
1988 – Ross Ford, actor (Reform School Girl, Jungle Patrol), dies
1989 – Lee Calhoun, hurdler (Olympic gold 1956, 60), dies at 66
1992 – Frederic I Rinaldo, writer (Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein), dies
1996 – Salah Abou Seif, film director, dies at 81
2018 – Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician, dies at 90
Historical Events for 22nd June 2020
1535 – Cardinal John Fisher is beheaded on Tower Hill, London, for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII as head of the Church of England
1774 – British parliament accepts Quebec Act, which extends the province’s territory and restores French civil law
1848 – Barnburners (anti-slavery) party nominates Martin Van Buren for President
1874 – Dr Andrew T Still, discovers the science of osteopathy
1947 – 12″ rain in 42 mins (Holt, MO)
1961 – Beatles record Aint She Sweet, Cry for a Shadow, When the Saints Go Marching In, Why, Nobody’s Child and My Bonnie, in Hamburg
1990 – Adam Sandler joins “Saturday Night Live”
2002 – WLAF World Bowl 10, Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf: Berlin Thunder beats Rhein Fire, 26-20
2016 – NHL owners meeting unanimously approves the Las Vegas expansion bid to start play in the 2017-18 season.
2018 – President Trump spokesperson Sarah Sanders is asked to leave Red Hen Restaurant in Lexington, Virginia over her support of Trump’s policies, igniting debate
Today in History for 22nd June 2020
Historical Events
816 – Pope Stephen IV, [V] elected to succeed Leo III
1825 – British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America
1942 – European broadcast première of Dmitri Shostakovich’s 7th Symphony in London conducted by Sir Henry J. Wood and the London Philharmonic Orchestra
1985 – “Grind” closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 79 performances
1989 – Business Day reports that SA is about to test an intermediate range ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads
2015 – JAMA Internal Medical Journal announces obese Americans now outnumber those just overweight
Famous Birthdays
1680 – Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (d. 1754)
1884 – James Rector, American athlete (d. 1949)
1948 – Sue Roberts, American golfer (4 LPGA titles), born in Oak Park, Illinois
1966 – Euan Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, English baron/multi-millionaire
1970 – Steven Page, Canadian singer (Barenaked Ladies)
1974 – Donald Faison, American actor
Famous Deaths
1906 – Fritz Schaudinn, German zoologist (examined syphilis), dies at 34
1950 – Julio Fonseca, Costa Rican composer, dies at 65
1959 – Hermann Brill, German politician (b. 1895)
1961 – Queen Maria of Yugoslavia [Maria of Romania], Queen consort of Yugoslavia (1922-34), dies at 61
1967 – Adrian Grigor’yevich Shaposhnikov, composer, dies at 79
1991 – Cameron Miller, actor (Portrait of Claire), dies at 82
Famous Deaths for 21st June 2020
1591 – Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian aristocrat and Jesuit saint, dies at 23
1884 – Alexander, Prince of Orange, heir apparent to the Netherlands, dies of typhus at 32
1940 – Smedley Butler, American Marine general, dies at 58
1940 – Hendrik Marsman, Dutch poet/writer/critic, drowns at 40
1944 – Jan Bonekamp, Dutch resistance fighter/friend of Hannie Schaft, dies
1983 – Anton G J van de Velde, Flemish writer/director (Tijl), dies at 87
1987 – Madman Muntz, American entrepreneur, businessman, electrical engineer, TV commercial actor (b. 1914)
1997 – Arthur Prysock, American jazz and RandB singer (I Didn’t Sleep a Wink Last Night), dies at 68 or 73
1999 – Karl Krolow, German poet and translator, dies at 84
2001 – John Lee Hooker, American blues guitarist (Boogie Chillen), dies at 83
Historical Events for 21st June 2020
1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Emperor of China and seventh Great Khan after defeating rival factions and succeeding his uncle Temür Khan
1667 – Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter occupies Sheerness, England
1826 – Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas
1907 – British Open Men’s Golf, Royal Liverpool GC: Frenchman Arnaud Massy wins by 2 strokes from J.H. Taylor; first non-Briton to win Open Championship
1916 – Mexican troops defeat US expeditionary force under Gen. Pershing
1956 – Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere
1963 – Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII
1978 – The British Army shoots dead 3 Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a passing Ulster Volunteer Force member at a postal depot on Ballysillan Road, Belfast; it is claimed that the PIRA volunteers were about to launch a bomb attack
1981 – Don Fagan and Walter Becker quit rock group Steely Dan
1992 – Last day of test cricket for Ian Botham and Allan Lamb
Today in History for 21st June 2020
Historical Events
1805 – Great Stone Face, or the Profile found in New Hampshire
1919 – Bauer forms German government
1921 – The UK, the Dominions, and India, become the British Commonwealth of Nations
1940 – The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia
1971 – International Court of Justice asks South Africa to pull out of Namibia
1986 – “Living on Video” by Trans-X peaks at #61
Famous Birthdays
1920 – Helen Cattanach, British Army Nursing Service (QARANC), born in Knockando, Morayshire, Scotland (d.1994)
1939 – Rubén Berríos, Puerto Rican politician, born in Aibonito, Puerto Rico
1954 – Robert Menasse, Austrian writer (Die Vertreibung aus der Hölle), born in Vienna
1972 – Billy Milner, NFL tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1978 – Jack Guzman, American actor
1985 – Lana Del Rey, American singer-songwriter (Born to Die, Ultraviolence), and model (HandM), born in NYC, New York
Famous Deaths
756 – Emperor Shōmu, Emperor of Japan (724-749), dies at 55 or 56
1582 – Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1534)
1865 – Frances Adeline Seward, wife of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward (b. 1824)
1893 – Leland Stanford, American business tycoon (Southern Pacific Railroad), 8th Governor of California and founder of Stanford University, dies of heart failure at 69
1940 – Hendrik Marsman, Dutch poet/writer/critic, drowns at 40
2001 – Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress (b. 1942)
Famous Deaths for 20th June 2020
1668 – Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (b. 1620)
1842 – Michael Umlauf, Austrian violinist, composer and conductor (premiere of Beethoven’s 9th), dies at 60
1890 – Theodore Lajarte, French writer on music and composer, dies at 63
1958 – Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel 1950), dies at 55
1964 – Edgar Barrier, American actor (Phantom of the Opera, Macbeth, Rocky, Cornered), dies from a heart attack at 57
1972 – Howard Johnson, US restaurant/hotel founder, dies at 75
1974 – Horace Lindrum, Australian snooker and billiards player, dies at 62
1994 – Bankole Timothy, Sierra Leonean journalist, dies at 70
1995 – Emil Mihai Cioran, writer/aphorist, dies at 84
2015 – Nazar Singh, British great-grandfather, believed to be Europe’s oldest man, dies at 111