1443 – Ferdinand, Portuguese saint/slave to Fez, dies
1568 – Lamoral, Count of Egmont and Philip de Montmorency executed in Brussels, fueling Dutch resistance to Spanish rule
1816 – Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Serva Padrona), dies at 76
1852 – Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer, dies at 45
1900 – Stephen Crane, author (Red Badge of Courage), dies at 28
1913 – Chris von der Ahe, German entrepreneur and owner of St. Louis Brown Stockings, dies at 61
1921 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright (Chat and Poche), dies at 58
1970 – Jay Irving, cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh), dies at 69
2004 – Ronald Reagan, 40th US President (Republican: 1981-89) and actor (Bedtime for Bonzo), dies at 93
2005 – Adolfo Aguilar ZÃnser, Mexican politician (b. 1949)
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Famous Birthdays for 5th June 2018
1718 – Thomas Chippendale, England, furniture maker (baptized)
1757 – Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (d. 1808)
1878 – William Franklin “Frank” Smith, American actor (Cowboy and Bandit, Scarlet Car, Frontier Days), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1961)
1898 – Federico Garcia Lorca, Spainish poet and dramatist (Blood Wedding), born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, AndalucÃa, Spain (d. 1936)
1931 – John Dellow, commisioner (London Metropolitan Police)
1931 – Jacques Demy, French director (Lola, Magic Donkey)
1945 – Don Reid, American country singer (Statler Bros-Flowers on the Wall), born in Staunton, Virginia
1966 – Tina Barrett, Balt, LPGA golfer (1989 Mitsubishi Motors Ocean State)
1969 – Keith Powe, WLAF/CFL defensive lineback (Win Blue Bombers, Claymores)
1978 – Fernando Meira, Portuguese football player
Historical Events for 5th June 2018
1752 – Prince William of Orange becomes Knight of Garter
1849 – Danish National Day-Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy
1913 – Dutch Disability laws go into effect
1947 – US Secretary of State George Marshall outlines the “Marshall Plan” to rebuild Western Europe
1956 – Fed court rules racial segregation on Montgomery buses anti-Constitutional
1977 – LA Dodgers retire Walt Alston’s #24
1980 – Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1988 – 1st Children’s Miracle Network Telethon raises $590,000
1995 – 29th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and Reba McEntire
2013 – 47th Country Music Association Award: George Strait, Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton wins
Today in History for 5th June 2018
Historical Events
1806 – Batavian Republic becomes Kingdom of Holland
1925 – 29th US Golf Open: Willie Macfarlane shoots a 291 at Worcester CC Mass
1940 – Battle of France begins in WW II
1955 – NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 550′ HR off Chicago Billy Pierce
1970 – Chile becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
1985 – Steve Cauthen wins aboard Slip Anchor at Epsom Downs to become the only jockey to win both the Kentucky Derby (1978) and The Derby
Famous Birthdays
1915 – Lancelot Ware, founder (MENSA)
1920 – Kurt Edelhagen, West German jazz pianist (Klimbim)
1943 – Ann Craft, researcher/writer
1954 – Peter Erskine, jazz drummer (Weather Report)
1971 – Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress
1987 – Charlie Clements, English actor
Famous Deaths
1118 – Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester
1568 – Willem Key, painter, dies at about 47
1667 – Pietro Sforza, Italian theologist (Assertiones Theologicae), dies
1825 – Odysseas Androutsos, hero in the Greek War of Independence
1967 – Edna Park Edwards, American stage and vaudeville actress, dies at 72
2009 – Jeff Hanson, American singer-songwriter, dies at 31
Famous Deaths for 4th June 2018
1608 – Francesco Caracciolo, Italian religious founder/saint, dies at 44
1921 – Heinrich E Albers-Schoenberg, German x-ray experimenter, dies at 56
1925 – Pierre Louys, [PF Louis], French writer (Aphrodite), dies
1970 – Jopie [Johan A] Pengel, premier Suriname, dies
1978 – Jorge de Sena, Portuguese novelist and poet (Reino da Estupidez), dies at 58
1990 – Jack Gilford, American comedic actor (Save the Tiger, Cocoon, Arthur 2), dies at 81 of stomach cancer
1994 – [Derek] Lek Leckenby, English rock guitarist (Herman’s Hermits), dies of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at 48
1995 – William J Law, sailor, dies at 84
1997 – Kurt Alfred Adler, therapist/writer, dies at 92
2015 – Hermann Zapf, German typeface designer (Palatino and Optima), dies at 96
Famous Birthdays for 4th June 2018
1394 – Philippa of England, queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (d. 1430)
1876 – Robert Dower, cricketer (1 Test South Africa v England 1898, scored 0 and 9)
1908 – Earl of Halsbury, chancellor (Brunei University)
1923 – John Lea, British vice-admiral
1936 – David Lyon, CEO (Bowater)
1945 – Ivan “Ironman” Stewart, Mickey Thompson off-road champ (1983, 84, 90)
1955 – Paul Stewart, British writer (The Edge Chronicles, Far Flung Adventures), born in London, England
1968 – Scott Wolf, actor (Broken Arrow, Party of 5), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1972 – Nikka Costa, American singer
1985 – Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian fashion model (d. 2006)
Historical Events for 4th June 2018
1133 – Rome-Innocentius II crowns Lotharius III Roman-German emperor
1756 – Quakers leave assembly of Pennsylvania
1783 – Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public hot-air balloon flight (unmanned), covering 2km and lasting 10 minutes with an estimated altitude of 1,600-2,000m
1859 – Second Italian War of Independence: Battle of Magenta, results in a French-Sardinian victory under Napoleon III over the Austrians under Marshal Ferencz Gyulai
1944 – French general De Gaulle arrives in London
1950 – CVP wins Belgian parliamentary election
1964 – LA Dodger Sandy Koufax 3rd no-hitter beats Phil Phillies, 3-0
1967 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA St Louis Women’s Golf Invitational
1970 – Tonga (formerly Friendly Islands) declares independence from UK
2012 – Car bomb kills 26 and injures 190 people in central Baghdad, Iraq
Today in History for 4th June 2018
Historical Events
1664 – Viceroy Willem Frederik conquers Dijlerschans
1940 – Winston Churchill’s speech “We shall fight on the seas and oceans”
1954 – Arthur Murray flies X-1A rocket plane to record 27,000 m
1972 – Record 8 shutouts pitched in 16 major league games (AL=5, NL=3)
1990 – Dr Jack Kevorkian assisted an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die
1998 – Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing
Famous Birthdays
1754 – Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian editor and astronomer (d. 1832)
1869 – Boudouin LPMCAJL, prince of Belgium/count of Vlaanderen
1882 – Karl Valentin, German comic/writer
1902 – Richard Allen, India, field hockey goal tender (Olympic gold 1928)
1922 – Irwin Bazelon, composer (Duo for Viola), born in Evanston, Illinois
1970 – Richie Hawtin, Canadian musician, born in Banbury, Oxfordshire
Famous Deaths
1830 РAntonio Jos̩ de Sucre, Great Marshall of Ayacucho (b. 1795)
1925 – Gheorghe Dima, composer, dies at 77
1945 – Georg Kaiser, German playwright (The Burghers of Calais), dies at 66
1960 – Lucien Littlefield, American actor (Blondie), dies at 64
1979 – Herman Shumlin, American Broadway producer, director and actor (Watch on the Rhine), dies at 80
2004 – Saturnino “Nino” Manfredi, Italian actor (Between Miracles), dies at 83
Famous Deaths for 3rd June 2018
1679 – Jean-Francius Miller, painter, buried
1809 – John “Christmas” Beckwith, composer, dies at 58
1898 – Samuel Plimsoll, English MP (Folkestone), dies at 74
1933 – William Muldoon, Belfast NY, boxing commissioner, dies at 88
1963 – Paul Maxey, American actor (The Narrow Margin, Till the Clouds Roll By), dies from a heart attack at 56
1975 – SatÅ Eisaku, Japanese Prime Minister (1964-72), (Nobel 1974), dies at 74
1981 – Carleton Coon, American anthropologist (What in the World), dies at 76
1995 – Estelle Brody, actress (Safari, Kitty, Plaything), dies at 94
1995 – Jean-Patrick Manchette, French thriller writer (3 to Kill, The Prone Gunman), dies at 52
2004 – Jonathan D Kramer, American composer (Notta Sonata), dies of leukaemia at 61
Famous Birthdays for 3rd June 2018
1904 – Charles R. Drew, American physician, surgeon, and pioneer of blood plasma research, born in Washington, D. C. (d. 1950)
1911 – Ellen Corby [Hansen], American actress (The Waltons, Vertigo, Caged), born in Racine, Wisconsin (d. 1999)
1926 – Allen Ginsberg, American beat poet (Howl), born in Newark, New Jersey
1931 – Lindy Remigino, American athlete
1936 – David Nicholls, priest/theologian/political theorist
1950 – Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter (E.T.), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2015)
1963 – Toshiaki Karasawa, Japanese actor
1964 – Nelson Liriano, Puerto Plata Dom Rep, infielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1974 – Bryan Still, wide receiver (San Diego Chargers)
1975 – José Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player (New York Yankees), born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico