1888 – Hugo Kauder, Austrian composer, born in TovaÄov (d. 1972)
1921 – Agnes Keleti, Hungary gymnast (Olympic gold 1952, 56), born in Budapest, Hungary
1934 – Wild Jimmy Spruill, blues guitarist
1938 – Charles Wuorinen, American composer (Pulitzer 1980), born in NYC, New York
1954 РGeorge P̩rez, American comic book artist
1957 – Elly van Holly, running star (3k indoor world record)
1964 – Hiroko Yakushimaru, Japanese actress and singer
1971 – Gilles De Bilde, Belgian footballer
1973 – Chris Villarrial, center/guard (Chicago Bears)
1980 – Lehlohonolo Seema, Lesotho footballer
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Historical Events for 9th June 2018
721 – Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse
1864 – Battle of Big Shanty, Georgia
1963 – Barbara Romack wins LPGA Rock City Ladies Golf Open
1977 – 50th National Spelling Bee: John Paola wins spelling cambist
1983 – Zimbabwe win their 1st one-day cricket international, v Australia
1984 – Weird Al Yankovic gives a live performance at Starlight Amphitheater
1985 – 39th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2
1989 – “Star Trek V: The Final Frontier” premieres in USA
1991 – 90th Women’s French Open: Monica Seles beats Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (6-3, 6-4)
2007 – 139th Belmont: John Velazquez aboard Rags To Riches wins in 2:28.74
Today in History for 9th June 2018
Historical Events
1456 – 23rd recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet
1772 – 1st Protestant church west of Pennsylvania (in Ohio) holds communion
1914 – Honus Wagner is 2nd to get 3,000 hits
1933 – Walter Johnson takes over as Cleveland manager
1959 – 1st ballistic missile sub launched (George Washington-Groton, Ct)
1962 – 94th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Jaipur wins in 2:28.8
Famous Birthdays
1781 – George Stephenson, English engineer known as the “Father of Railways” (Locomotion No. 1, Standard Guage), born in Newcastle, England
1833 – John Rogers Cooke, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1891)
1910 – Robert Cummings, American actor (Love that Bob, Dial M For Murder), born in Joplin, Missouri (d. 1990)
1931 – Jackie Mason, Wisc, comedian (World According to Me, Chicken Soup)
1954 – Gregory Maguire, American fantasy writer
1975 – Andrew Symonds, cricketer (Birmingham, brilliant Qld and Gloucs batsman)
Famous Deaths
1929 – Lewis Bennison, American actor, dies at 44
1947 – Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, president of Poland (1939-40), dies at 62
1960 РRen̩ Maran, Martiniques writer (Batouala, Prix Goncourt), dies
1976 – James A Farley, US Postmaster General (1932-38), dies at 88
1991 – Bob Irwin, Comedian, dies of Alzheimer’s related illness at 88
1997 – Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (b. 1908)
Famous Deaths for 8th June 2018
1476 – George Neville, English archbishop and statesman
1695 – Christian Huygens, inventor/astronomer (ring of Saturn), dies at 66
1771 – George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman, dies at 54
1948 – Franz Carl Bornschein, composer, dies at 69
1951 РEug̬ne Fiset, French Canadian military officer and politician (b. 1874)
1995 – Lord Erskine of Rerrick, peer, dies at 69
1997 – George Turner, Australian author (b. 1916)
2003 – Leighton Rees, Welsh darts player (b. 1940)
2006 – Abouna Matta El Meskeen, Coptic Orthodox monk (b. 1919)
2016 – Michael Manser, English architect, dies at 87
Famous Birthdays for 8th June 2018
1745 – Caspar Wessel, Danish-Norwegian mathematician, born in Vestby, Norway (d. 1818)
1847 – Ida McKinley, U.S. 1st lady (1897-1901), the wife of 25th U.S. president William McKinley, born in Canton, Ohio (d. 1907)
1859 – Smith Wigglesworth, British religious figure (d. 1947)
1881 – Prospero Bisquertt, composer
1912 – Ian Morrow, company director
1921 – LeRoy Neiman, American painter, (d. 2012)
1942 – Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Skvortsov, Russian cosmonaut
1952 – Martin Taylor, CEO (Barclays Bank)
1955 – Griffin Dunne, actor (American Werewolf in London, Who’s That Girl)
1973 – Lexa Doig, Canadian actress
Historical Events for 8th June 2018
1918 – Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler’s nova of 1604, discovered
1948 – “Milton Berle Show” premieres on NBC TV
1950 – Test Cricket debut of Ramadhin and Valentine (8-104 1st inn) v England
1961 – Test Cricket debut of William Morris Lawry, v England at Edgbaston, 57
1965 – US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam
1969 – 68th Men’s French Open: Rod Laver beats Ken Rosewall (6-4, 6-3, 6-4)
1988 – Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20%
1995 – Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O’Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
1996 – China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
2013 – NHL Western Conference Finals: Chicago Blackhawks beat Los Angeles Kings, 4 games to 1
Today in History for 8th June 2018
Historical Events
1929 – 61st Belmont: Mack Garner aboard Blue Larkspur wins in 2:32.8
1944 – Allies occupy Port-en-Bessin Normandy
1963 – 95th Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Chateaugay wins in 2:30.2
1965 – US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam
1991 – Warren Schutte is 1st non American to win NCAA Division 1 golf title
2017 – British General Election results in a hung parliament, Prime Minster Theresa May and the Conservative party lose their majority
Famous Birthdays
1854 – Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician, born in Hawkesbury, Ontario (d. 1921)
1912 – Ian Morrow, company director
1926 – Anatol Vieru, composer
1932 – Ray Illingworth, English cricketer and captain, born in Yorkshire, England
1943 – J C A Barrett, Headmaster (Leys School-Cambridge)
1949 – Hildegard Falck, German FR, 800m runner (Olympic gold 1972)
Famous Deaths
1042 – Harthacnut/Harthacanute, King of Denmark and England (b. 1018) Lambeth
1809 – Thomas Paine, English American writer (Age of Reason, Common Sense), dies at 72
1889 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (Windhover), dies at 54
1924 – George Mallory, English mountain climber (“because it is there”), dies in a climbing accident at 37 (b. 1886)
1966 – Joseph A. Walker, WWII and NASA test pilot (1st spaceplane flights to edge of outerspace), dies in an aircraft collison at 45
1987 – Yogi Horton, drummer (Luther Vandross), commits suicide at 33
Famous Deaths for 7th June 2018
1329 – Robert the Bruce, King of Scots (1306-1329) and national hero, dies at 54
1862 – William B. Mumford, 1st US citizen hanged for treason, at 42
1866 – Chief Seattle, Native American leader
1935 – Ivan V Mitsjoerin, Russian botanist, dies
1937 – Jean Harlow, actress (Bombshell), dies from gallbladder infection at 26
1938 – Norbert Fonteyne, Flemish writer (How Flemings Came Late), dies
1942 – Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (b. 1903)
1991 – Eric Francis, actor (Shillingbury Blowers), dies
1992 – Bill France, Sr., American racing car driver and co-founder of NASCAR, dies of Alzheimer’s disease at 82
2009 – Hugh Hopper, British musician (b. 1945)
Famous Birthdays for 7th June 2018
1619 – Paulus Voet, Dutch jurist and historian, born in Heusden, Netherlands (d. 1667)
1730 – Georg von Pasterwiz, Austrian composer, born in Passau, Germany (d. 1803)
1811 – James Young Simpson, Scottish obstetrician who popularized chloroform for medicinal use, born in Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland (d. 1870)
1848 – Paul Gauguin, [Eugene Henri], French post-impressionist painter who worked in French Polynesia, born in Paris (d. 1903)
1862 – Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
1867 – Luigi Maurizio Tedeschi, composer
1928 – David Malcolm Lewis, expert in Greek Epigraphy
1930 – Ian Leggat, cricketer (1 Test v South Africa 1953-54 without distinction)
1934 – Philippe Entremont, French pianist and conductor (Vienna Chamber Orchestra), born in Reims, France
1935 – Harry Crews, US writer/actor (Indian Runner), (d. 2012)
Historical Events for 7th June 2018
1494 – Treaty of Tordesillas: Spain and Portugal divide the new world along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa
1628 – English King Charles I ratifies the Petition of Rights
1654 – Louis XIV crowned King of France
1900 – Boer general Christian de Law occupies British rail depot at Roodewal
1917 – The British detonate mines beneath the German-held Messines Ridge, in the Ypres area
1965 – Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits
1969 – 101st Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Arts and Letters wins in 2:28.8
1969 – Wash Senators draft Jeff Burroughs #1
1987 – 86th Women’s French Open: Steffi Graf beats Martina Navratilova (6-4, 4-6, 8-6)
1998 – 52nd Tony Awards: “The Lion King” and ‘”Art” win