Category: On This Day

Historical Events

1551 – English Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset re-arrested
1942 – Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta India
1976 – Soyuz 23 returns to Earth
1991 – Dallas Mavericks Roy Tarpley becomes 7th to be banned from NBA for life under the league’s anti-drug agreement
1998 – Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a Spanish warrant requesting his extradition on murder charges
2021 – NASA probe Lucy launched on mission to fly-by eight Trojan asteroids circling the sun

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Famous Birthdays

1811 – Gaetano Capocci, Italian organist and composer (Responsori), born in Rome (d. 1898)
1821 – Albert Franz Doppler, Austrian flautist and composer, born in Lemberg, Austrian Empire (now Lviv, Ukraine) (d. 1883)
1854 – Karl J Kautsky, Austrian marxist/socialist
1855 – Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (d. 1931)
1897 – Harrison Kerr, American composer, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1978)
1927 – Gus Yatron, American boxer and politician (Rep-D-PA, 1969-93), born in Reading, Pennsylvania (d. 2003)

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Famous Deaths

1333 – Nicolaas V [Pietro Rainalducci], Italian anti-Pope (1328-30), dies at about 73
1956 – Jules Rimet, French football administrator (3rd President of FIFA 1921-54), dies at 83
2003 – Avni Arbas, Turkish artist (b. 1919)
2004 – Pierre Salinger, American newsman (ABC) and press secretary (John F. Kennedy), dies at 79
2012 – Eddie Yost, American MLB player, dies from cardiovascular disease at 86
2020 – Rodolfo Fischer, Argentine soccer striker (35 caps; San Lorenzo 271 games), dies at 76

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Historical Events

533 – Byzantine General Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage, having conquered it from the Vandals
1955 – Buddy Holley opens for Bill Haley and His Comets in Lubbock, Texas, and impresses Nashville scout Eddie Crandall, leading to a recording contract with a misspelling that creates “Buddy Holly”
1956 – Pyotr Bolotnikov runs world record 10k (28:42.8)
1957 – Giants trade Minneapolis franchise to Red Sox for SF Seals-franchises only, not the players
1966 – Australia bans Troggs’ “I Can’t Control Myself” as “terribly obscene”
2012 – Hilary Mantel wins the 2012 Man Booker Prize for her novel “Bring Up the Bodies”

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Famous Birthdays

1711 – Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine, Queen consort of Sardinia (1737-41), born in Château de Lunéville, Lorraine (d. 1741)
1851 – George Foot Moore, American theologist (Hebrews, Old Testament), born in West Chester, Pennsylvania (d. 1931)
1878 – Paul Reynaud, Premier of France (May-June 1940), born in Barcelonette, France (d. 1966)
1900 – Mervyn LeRoy, American movie producer (Devil at 4 O’Clock), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1987)
1937 – Linda Lavin, American actress (Alice, Barney Miller), born in Portland, Maine
1957 – Mira Nair, Indian-American filmmaker (Monsoon Wedding), born in Rourkela, Odisha, India

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Famous Deaths

1674 – Robert Herrick, English poet (‘Gather ye rosebuds while ye may’), dies at 83
1948 – Edythe Chapman, American actress (b. 1863)
1960 – Clara Kimball Young, American actress (Return of Chandu), dies of stroke at 70
1964 – Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist (“Anything Goes”; “Night And Day”; “I’ve Got You Under My Skin”), dies of kidney failure at 73
1990 – Delphine Seyrig, French actress (Freak Orlando, Reperages) dies of lung disease at 58
2005 – Matti Wuori, Finnish politician, dies of cancer at 60

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Historical Events

1911 – Largest baseball crowd ever 38,281 (Polo Grounds) see Giants beat A’s, 2-1 (gate is record $77,379)
1931 – 1st broadcast of Dutch Radio Peoples University
1956 – Charles Ives’ overture “Robert Browning” premieres in NYC
1966 – 175 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam
1979 – 1st Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. by over 100,000 people
1987 – MLB National League Championship: St. Louis Cardinals beat San Francisco Giants, 4 games to 3

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Famous Birthdays

1827 – James Sidney Robinson, American politician and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Mansfield, Ohio (d. 1892)
1888 – Katherine Mansfield (Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry), New Zealand short story writer (The Garden Party), born in Wellington, New Zealand (d. 1923)
1943 – Lance Rentzel, American NFL receiver (Minn, LA) and ex-husband of Joey Heatherton, born in Flushing, New York
1977 – Tina Dico [Dickow], Danish singer-songwriter, born in Åbyhøj, Aarhus, Denmark
1980 – Paul Ambrosi, Ecuadorian footballer
1986 – Tom Craddock, English footballer

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Famous Deaths

1552 – Oswald Myconius, Swiss Protestant reformer (b. 1488)
1610 – Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1540)
1958 – Douglas Mawson, Australian Antarctic explorer (b. 1882)
1981 – Ingemar Liljefors, Swedish composer, dies at 74
2006 – Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (b. 1919)
2019 – Harold Bloom, American literary critic, ‘the most notorious literary critic in America’ dies at 89

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Historical Events

1899 – 7,000 laid-off black mine workers of South Africa reach Natal
1924 – Mecca falls without struggle to Saudi forces led by Abdulaziz Ibn Saud
1941 – Nazis kill 11,000 Jewish children and old people
1963 – The term “Beatlemania” is coined after Beatles appear at the London Palladium
1989 – Bob Quinn resigns as NY Yankee VP/GM and replaced by Harding Peterson
1993 – Captured American Pilot Mike Durant is filmed in an interview in captivity by a CNN camera crew.

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Famous Birthdays

1453 – Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales and the only son of King Henry VI of England and Margaret of Anjou, born in London (d. 1471)
1912 – Jan Peeters, Dutch watercolor painter, stained glass, tile, and monument artist, born in Amsterdam (d. 1992)
1923 – Faas Wilkes, Dutch soccer star (Xerxes, Fortuna, Inter Milan), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 2006)
1940 – (Farrell) “Pharoah” Sanders, American jazz saxophonist (John Coltrane groups; “Karma”), born in Little Rock, Arkansas (d. 2022)
1963 – Michael Lavine, American portrait photographer and contributor to several grunge rock album art packages (Nirvana; Soundgarden), born in San Francisco, California
1980 – Scott Parker, English soccer midfielder (18 caps; Charlton, West Ham, Fulham) and manager (Fulham, AFC Bournemouth), born in Lambeth, England

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Famous Deaths

1941 – GJ Berenschot, general/supreme commander Dutch East Indies army, dies
1987 – Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist (transistors, Nobel 1956), dies at 85
2000 – Jean Peters, American actress (Viva Zapata!, Apache, Deep Waters), dies at 73
2001 – Peter Doyle, Australian pop singer (The New Seekers – “I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing”) dies of throat cancer at 52
2007 – Bob Denard, French mercenary (b. 1929)
2010 – Vernon Biever, American photographer (b. 1923)

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Historical Events

1891 – Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated
1898 – Establishment of the first town council in Mateur.
1907 – Baseball World Series: Chicago Cubs beat Detroit Tigers, 2-0 at Bennett Park for 4-0-1 series victory; Cubs’ first Championship
1918 – Cloquet fire kills 453 and injures or displaces 52,000 people
1969 – Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 7 is launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in southern Kazakhstan
1995 – “Patti LuPone on Broadway” opens at Walter Kerr NYC for 46 performances

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Famous Birthdays

1813 – Lyman Trumbull, U.S. Senator from Illinois (1855-73), born in Colchester, Connecticut (d. 1896)
1890 – Luis de Freitas Branco, Portuguese composer, born in Lisbon, Portugal (d. 1955)
1929 – Robert Coles, American author (Anna Freud, Pulitzer 1973), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1947 – George Lam, Hong Kong veteran Cantopop singer, born in Hong Kong
1952 – Danielle Proulx, French Canadian actress, born in Montreal, Quebec
1968 – Bill Auberlen, American race car driver, born in Redondo Beach, California

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Famous Deaths

1343 – Reinald II, duke of Gelre, dies
1679 – William Gurnall, English writer (b. 1617)
1969 – Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (Olympic gold 1928, 32, 36), and actress (My Lucky Star), dies from leukemia at 57
1990 – Rifaat Maghub, president Egyptian MP, murdered
2017 – Grape-kun, a Humbolt penguin from Tobu Zoo, who gained fame from the anime series “Kemono Friends”, dies aged 21 (Miyashiro, Saitama Prefecture, Japan).
2018 – Takehisa Kosugi, Japanese violinist and experimental music composer (Group Ongaku; Taj Mahal Travellers), dies at 80

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Historical Events

1531 – Battle of Kappel: Swiss Roman Catholic cantons beat protestant forces of Zurich; Huldrych Zwingli Swiss reformation leader is killed
1726 – Benjamin Franklin returns to Philadelphia from England
1890 – First 100 yard dash under 10 seconds run by John Owen in 9.8 sec at Analostan Island, Washington, D.C.
1922 – First woman FBI “special investigator”, Alaska Davidson, appointed
1956 – 1st Pakistan v Australia Test 95 runs scored on 1st day
2015 – Nepal’s parliament elects Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, leader of the Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist party, as Prime Minister

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Famous Birthdays

1661 – Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat, Cardinal and poet, born in Chateau de la Ronte, Haute-Loire, France (d. 1741)
1747 – Marian Paradeiser, Austrian composer, born in Riedenthal, Austria (d. 1775)
1897 – Russell Collins, American actor (Niagara, Close Up, Shockproof), born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 1965)
1897 – Nathan Farragut Twining, U.S. Air Force general, born in Monroe, Wisconsin (d. 1982)
1919 – Jean Vander Pyl, American voice, radio and film actress (The Flintstones, The Jetsons), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1999)
1926 – John Dewes, British cricketer (England opener late 40’s early 50’s), born in Latchford, Cheshire, England (d. 2015)

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Famous Deaths

1666 – Henry de Fleury dee Coulan, mister of Buat/ritmeester, dies
1809 – Meriwether Lewis, American explorer, soldier and public administrator who helped lead the Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies of gunshot wounds at 35 under mysterious circumstances that could have been murder or suicide along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee at an inn called Grinder’s Stand
1896 – Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (Te Deum, Wagner Symphony), Wagner disciple and “monumental bore”, dies at 72
1967 – Ivan Isakov [Hovhannes Ter-Isahakyan], Russian-Armenian military commander (Commander in Chief of the Soviet Navy during World War II), dies at 73
1977 – Mason Gross, professor (Think Fast, 2 for the Money), dies at 66
2005 – Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and Prime Minister in exile (b. 1915)

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Historical Events

1854 – US Assay Office in NYC, New York opens
1904 – Liberty Theater opens at 234 W 42nd St NYC
1913 – Gamboa Dam in Panama blown up; Atlantic and Pacific waters mix
1935 – Coup under Gen Giorgios Kondylis in favor of Greek monarchy
1960 – WGTE TV channel 30 in Toledo, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1982 – Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev Maximilian Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint

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Famous Birthdays

1862 – Arthur De Greef, Belgian composer, born in Louvain, Belgium (d. 1940)
1868 – Guillermo M. Tomás, Cuban composer, born in Cienfuegos, Cuba (d. 1933)
1900 – Helen Hayes [Brown], American actress (Caesar and Cleopatra, Happy Birthday), and 1st female EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award winner), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1993)
1916 – Benson Fong, American character actor (Charlie Chan films; Purple Heart; Flower Drum Song), and restaurateur, born in Sacramento, California (d. 1987)
1921 – Boy Trip, Dutch minister, born in Amersfoort, Netherlands (d. 1990)
1936 – Artie Dick, New Zealand cricket wicket-keeper (NZ of 60’s), born in Middlemarch, New Zealand

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Famous Deaths

1473 – Giorgio da Sebenico, Venetian sculptor and architect (Cathedral of St James in Šibenik)
1745 – Jacobus Nozeman, Dutch composer and organist, dies at 52
1856 – Mikhail Vielgorsky, Russian composer, dies at 67
1977 – Jean Duvieusart, 36th Prime Minister of Belgium, dies at 77
1990 – Dick Jorgensen, NFL referee, dies at 56
2006 – Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)

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Historical Events

1668 – Mass society storms palace of “heretics” Spanish governor Jose de Paternina
1824 – Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica
1976 – Peter Petherick takes hat-trick on cricket debut New Zealand v Pakistan Javed 1st wkt
1978 – John Kander and Fred Ebb’s musical “Ballroom” premieres in NYC
1988 – 9th Rugby League World Cup: Australia beats New Zealand 25-12
2016 – Second US Presidential debate: Hostile confrontation between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton at Washington University, St. Louis

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Famous Birthdays

1823 – Mary Ann Shadd Cary, American-Canadian publisher and anti-slavery campaigner, 1st African American newspaper publisher (‘Provincial Freeman’), born in Wilmington, Delaware (d. 1893)
1856 – Sylvain Dupuis, Belgian conductor, composer, and music educator (Le Chant de la Création), born in Liège, Belgium (d. 1931)
1939 – Pierre Mertens, French-Belgian writer (Lettres Clandestines), born in Brussels, Belgium
1954 – Scott Bakula, American actor (Quantum Leap, Gung Ho, Murphy Brown), born in St Louis, Missouri
1973 – A. J. Ofodile, American NFL tight end (Pittsburgh Steelers), born in Detroit, Michigan
1982 – António Mendonça, Angolan footballer, born in Luanda, Angola

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Famous Deaths

1960 – Howard Glenn, NY Titan, dies of injuries sustain in this day’s game
1987 – Clare Boothe Luce, American politician and U.S. ambassador to Italy, dies at 84
1997 – Arthur Tracy, American radio personality (The Street Singer), dies at 98
1998 – Ian Johnson, Australian cricket spin bowler and captain (45 Tests; 109 wickets), dies at 80
2012 – Theo Olof, German-Dutch violinist and concert master, dies at 88
2017 – Jean Rochefort, French actor (Man on the Train, The Artist and the Model), dies at 87

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Historical Events

1813 – Treaty of Ried between Bavaria and Austria
1982 – Poland bans Solidarity and all labor unions
1984 – NBC’s premiere of TV made “The Burning Bed”, based on Francine Hughes
1988 – Fire in Seattle’s Space Needle causes evacuation, $2,000 damage
1992 – Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott
2018 – Major climate report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the UN says planet will warm 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) by 2040 with dire results

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Famous Birthdays

1838 – John Milton Hay, American politician (Union), born in Salem, Indiana (d. 1905)
1919 – Mac Anderson, New Zealand cricketer (played in 1st NZ-Aust Test 1946), born in Westport, West Coast, New Zealand (d. 1979)
1924 – Alphons Egli, Swiss politcian and member of the Swiss Federal Council, born in Lucerne, Switzerland (d. 2016)
1931 – Bill Brown, Scottish soccer goalkeeper (28 caps; Dundee, Tottenham Hotspur), born in Arbroath, Angus, Scotland (d. 2004)
1971 – Monty Williams, American basketball head coach and executive (Phoenix Suns 2019; New Orleans Hornets / Pelicans 2010-15) and NBA forward/guard (San Antonio Spurs), born in Fredericksburg, Virginia
1981 – Ruby [Rania Hussein Muhammad Tawfiq], Egyptian singer (“Do You Know Why”) and actress (The Baby Doll Night), born in Cairo, Egypt

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Famous Deaths

976 – Jelena of Zadar, Croatian queen
1094 – St Mark, the Evangelist, buried in San Marcos ministry in Venice
1974 – Harry Carney, American tenor and baritone jazz saxophonist (Duke Ellington Orchestra, 1927-74), dies at 64
2008 – George E. Palade, Romanian-American cell biologist (ribosomen, Nobel 1974), dies at 95
2008 – Eileen Herlie [Herlihy], Scottish-American actress (All My Children; The Angel with the Trumpet), dies of complications from pneumonia at 90
2011 – Antonio Iglesias Álvares, Spanish pianist, composer, educator and critic, dies at 93

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Historical Events

1916 – Georgia Tech, coached by John Heisman, defeats Cumberland, 222-0; most lopsided score in the history of US college football
1928 – Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10 miles (50:15.0)
1975 – MLB American League Championship: Boston Red Sox beat Oakland Athletics, 3 games to 0
1985 – KHQ-AM in Spokane Wash’s final transmission
1991 – Child star Adam Rich (Eight Is Enough) arrested for stealing hypodermics
1996 – Rupert Murdoch launches Fox News with Roger Ailes as CEO

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Famous Birthdays

1758 – Paul Anton Wineberger, composer
1939 – Joel Brodsky, American photographer, created over 400 album covers (The Doors; Isaac Hayes; Ohio Players), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2007)
1942 – Joy Behar [Occhiuto], American actress and comedian (The View), born in Brooklyn, New York
1967 – Mariana Perez-Roldan, Argentinan tennis star, born in Tandil, Argentina
1967 – Toni Braxton, American RandB singer-songwriter (“Un-Break My Heart”), born in Severn, Maryland
1982 – Madjid Bougherra, Algerian footballer, born in Longvic, France

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Famous Deaths

1553 – Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer, dies at about 53
1612 – Menso Alting, Dutch reformed vicar and theologist, dies at 70
1911 – John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (b. 1835)
1943 – Radclyffe Hall, British author (b. 1880)
1976 – Nikolai Lopatnikoff, Estonian-American composer (Variazioni Concertanti), dies at 73
1981 – Albert Cohen, Greek-born Swiss novelist (Belle du Seigneur), dies at 86

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