1964 – Earle Hodgins, actor (Guestward Ho!), dies at 64
1964 – Herb McGirr, New Zealand cricketer (2 Tests for NZ, 51 runs), dies at 72
1976 – José Revueltas, Mexican writer (b. 1914)
1986 – Horst Bastian, German writer and screenwriter, dies at 46
1988 – John Stonehouse, British politician (b. 1925)
1998 – Maurice Stans, American politician, Secretary of Commerce and Watergate figure, dies at 90
2000 – Phil Katz, American computer programmer (Zip file format), dies from the effects of alcoholism at 37
2005 – Benny Bailey, American jazz trumpeter, dies at 79
2008 – Miguel Galvan, Mexican actor/comedian. (b. 1957)
2011 – William Lipscomb, American chemist working in nuclear magnetic resonance, theoretical chemistry, boron chemistry, and biochemistry (Nobel 1976), dies at 91
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Historical Events for 14th April 2020
1544 – Battle at Carignano: French troops under Earl d’Enghien beat Swiss
1903 – Dr Harry Plotz discovers vaccine against typhoid (NYC)
1940 – RCA demonstrated its new electron microscope in Philadelphia
1945 – US forces conquered Motobu peninsula on Okinawa
1946 – Manager Mel Ott of Giants hits 511th and final HR
1968 – 1st NBA game at Madison Sq Garden, Knicks beat SD Clippers
1973 – Ireland edges France, 6-4 at Lansdowne Road, Dublin to create a 5-way tie for the Five Nations Rugby Championship; each nation wins their 2 home matches
1984 – Farewell concert of “Doe Maar” in Den Bosch Neth
1996 – “Apple Doesn’t Fall” opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 1 performance
2005 – The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
Today in History for 14th April 2020
Historical Events
1849 – Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Louis Kossuth as its leader
1914 – Stacy G Carkhuff patents non-skid tire pattern
1944 – Greek Colonel Venizelos forms government
1959 – (Robert) Taft Memorial Bell Tower dedicated in Washington, D.C.
1967 – Red Sox rookie Billy Rohome comes within 1 strike of a no hitter at
1972 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes twenty-four bombs in towns and cities across Northern Ireland
Famous Birthdays
1832 – James Hewett Ledlie, American civil engineer and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Utica, New York (d. 1882)
1945 – Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi, 8th Prime Minister of Samoa
1946 – Patrick Fairley, Scottish guitarist (Marmalade – “Ob La Di, Ob La Da”)
1965 – Tom Dey, American film director
1967 – Alain Côté, French Canadian ice hockey player
1969 – Vebjørn Selbekk, Norwegian journalist (Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy), born in Trondheim, Norway
Famous Deaths
1279 – Boleslaus of Greater Poland
1655 – Johann Erasmus Kindermann, German composer, dies at 39
1764 – Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow, Danish astronomer, dies at 84
1949 – Joseph A Cushman, US paleontologist, dies at 68
1990 – Peter Dunn, actor (Invaders from Mars) dies
1993 – Sam Ntombani, ANC-secretary in Soweto South-Africa, shot to death
Famous Deaths for 13th April 2020
1641 – Richard Montagu, English clergyman, dies at 64
1826 – Franz Danzi, German composer and cellist, dies at 62
1853 – Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (Gmelin’s test), dies at 64
1855 – Henry De la Beche, English geologist, dies at 59
1910 – William Orchardson, British painter, dies at 78
1959 – Eduard van Beinum, Dutch musician and conductor, dies at 58
1984 – Richard Hurndall, British actor (Doctor Who, The Inheritors, It’s Murder But Is It Art), dies from a heart attack at 73
1990 – Luis Trenker, South Tyrolean film producer, director and actor (Berge in Flammen), dies at 97
1993 – Barry Karas, American actor, dies of leukemia at 49
1994 – Taleb Ali al-Suheil, Iran sheik, murdered in Lebanon at 64
Historical Events for 13th April 2020
1842 – Lord Rosse successfully casts 72″ (183-cm) mirror for a telescope
1896 – John Philip Sousa’s “El Capitan” premieres at the Tremont Theatre in Boston
1919 – British troops open fire on demonstrators in Amritsar, India, killing 350
1945 – Red Army occupies Vienna
1957 – Saturday postal delivery in US is temporarily halted due to lack of funds
1972 – 1st baseball players’ strike ends after 13 days
1975 – Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war
1991 – BPAA US Open by Pete Weber
2002 – Pedro Carmona, interim president of Venezuela, resigns one day after taking office
2019 – BTS is the first K-pop band to perform on US TV show “Saturday Night Live”
Today in History for 13th April 2020
Historical Events
989 – Battle at Abydos: Byzantine emperor Basilius II beats Bardas Phocas
1911 – The US House of Representatives votes to institute direct elections of senators to Congress, a step towards direct democracy
1945 – Canadian army liberates Teuge and Assen, Netherlnds, from Nazis
1962 – Stan Musial scores his 1,869th run, a new NL record
1979 – Longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours
1997 – Travis Fryman homers off R Hernandez in both games of double header 1st time since 1961 that 2 doubleheaders are played in the same city Giants vs Mets and Oakland A’s vs Yankees in NY
Famous Birthdays
1799 – Ludwig Rellstab, German music theorist, born in Berlin (d. 1860)
1830 – Eduard Lassen, Belgian-Danish composer, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1904)
1873 – Theodore F. Morse, American composer, born in Washington D.C. (d. 1924)
1897 – Werner Voss, German World War I flying ace, born in Krefeld, Germany (d. 1917)
1942 – Ataol Behramoğlu, Turkish poet and writer, born in Çatalca, Istanbul Province, Turkey
1965 – Patricio Pouchulu, Argentine architect, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Famous Deaths
1612 – Sasaki Kojirō, Japanese samurai, dies at 27
1695 – Jean de la Fontaine, French poet (Fables), dies at 73
1880 – Robert Fortune, Scottish botanist, dies at 67
1978 – Paul McGrath, American actor (Witness, No Time for Love), dies at 74
1997 – Dorothy Frooks, American author and military figure, dies at 101
2005 – [Salvador] Tutti Camarata, American composer and producer (Vic Damone Show), dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 12th April 2020
1675 – Richard Bennett, English Colonial Governor of Virginia, dies at 65
1795 – Rainieri de Calzabigi, Italian librettist and poet, dies at 80
1797 – Josef Antonin Stepan, Bohemian composer, dies at 71
1959 – James Gleason, American writer and actor (Bishop’s Wife, Flying Fool), dies at 76
1971 – Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (b. 1931)
1974 – Carl Jaffe, German actor (1st Man in Space, Escapement), dies at 72
1981 – Hans Chemin-Petit, German composer, dies at 78
1996 – William Wilkinson, English conservationist and businessman, dies at 63
1996 – Marthe Robert, essayist/translator, dies at 82
2012 – Andrew Love, American saxophonist (The Memphis Horns), dies of Alzheimer’s disease at 70
Historical Events for 12th April 2020
1883 – French troops under lt-colonel Borgnis-Desbordes occupy Bamako Senegal
1926 – Dutch Catholic Radio Broadcast (KRO) forms
1942 – Japan kills about 400 Filipino officers in Bataan
1946 – Syria gains independence from France
1953 – KFDX TV channel 3 in Wichita Falls, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 – 8th NBA Championship: Min Lakers beat Syracuse Nationals, 4 games to 3
1954 – 18th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Sam Snead wins his 3rd and final Masters by 1 stroke in an 18-hole playoff with Ben Hogan
2012 – Civilian rule in Mali is returned after Dioncounda Traore is sworn in as interim president
2012 – A ceasefire in the 2011-2012 Syrian uprising comes into effect
2016 – Breakthrough Starshot: Scientists and internet entrepreneurs, including Yuri Milner, Stephen Hawking and Mark Zuckerberg, announce interstellar project to send robot spacecraft to Alpha Centauri
Today in History for 12th April 2020
Historical Events
1654 – Ordinance of Union between England and Scotland passed by the Council of State
1907 – Belgium government of De Stain de Naeyer resigns
1946 – LPGA Titleholders Championship Women’s Golf, Augusta CC: Louise Suggs wins her first major title by 2 strokes from Eileen Stulb
1957 – USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1959 – France Observator reports torture practice by French army in Algeria
2016 – Breakthrough Starshot: Scientists and internet entrepreneurs, including Yuri Milner, Stephen Hawking and Mark Zuckerberg, announce interstellar project to send robot spacecraft to Alpha Centauri
Famous Birthdays
1838 – John Shaw Billings, American librarian and surgeon, born in Allensville, Switzerland County, Indiana (d. 1913)
1852 – Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician (Proving π is a transcendental number), born in Hannover, German Confederation (d. 1939)
1939 – Alan Ayckbourn, English playwright and director, born in London, England
1956 – Herbert Grönemeyer, German singer (Mensch, Spruenge), born in Göttingen, Germany
1956 – Doris Baaten, Dutch actress (Sesame Street, Fien), born in Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
1964 – Amy Ray, American singer and songwriter (Indigo Girls), born in Decatur, Georgia
Famous Deaths
1687 – Ambrose Dixon, Virginia Colony pioneer
1898 – Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Roman catholic archbishop of Quebec (b. 1820)
1942 – Johannes E Akkeringa, Dutch painter/etcher, dies at 80
1961 – Philippine “Pine” Belder, [Mary de Klerk], actress, dies at 93
1972 – C W Ceram, [Kurt Marek], German/American writer (1st American), dies at 57
2013 – Michael France, American screenwriter, dies from complications from diabetes at 51
Famous Deaths for 11th April 2020
1854 – Karl Adolph von Basedow, German artist (Ziekte van Basedow), dies at 55
1908 – Henry Bird, English Chess player and author (b. 1829)
1991 – Walker Cooper, American baseball catcher (MLB All-Star 1942–44, 46–50; World Series 1942, 44; St. Louis Cardinals), dies at 76
1991 – Tom Rosqui, dies at 62
1996 – Daniel Wolf, American journalist, dies at 80
1996 – Louis Osman, artist/goldsmith/craftsman, dies at 82
1996 – Edwin Clarke, historian/neurologist, dies at 76
2003 – Cecil Howard Green, British geophysicist and businessman (b. 1900)
2018 – Mitzi Shore [Lillian Saidel], American owner of The Comedy Store and founder of The Comedy Channel, dies at 87
2019 – Frances Swem Anderson, American technologist (nuclear medicine), dies at 105