Category: On This Day

Historical Events

1903 – President Emile Loubet of France and Minister of Foreign Affairs Theophile Declasse visit London, furthering the cause of Entente Cordiale between Britain and France
1936 – Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro, New Jersey
1965 – Rolling Stones release single “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
1972 – Gold hits record $60 an ounce in London
2012 – 46th CMT Music Awards: Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert and Luke Bryan wins
2015 – 114th Women’s French Open: Serena Williams beats Lucie Safarova (6-3, 6-7, 6-2)

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Famous Birthdays

1661 – Giacomo Antonio Perti, composer
1772 – Maria Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Holy Roman Empire Empress consort (d. 1807)
1894 – Violet Trefusis, English writer and socialite who had a famous affair with writer Vita Sackville-West, born in London England (d. 1972)
1902 – Harold Roxbee Cox Kings Norton, aeronautical engineer
1907 – Bill Dickey, NY Yankee hall-of-fame catcher (1928-43) and manager, born in Bastrop, Louisiana (d. 1993)
1973 – Jamie Wilson, tackle (Carolina Panthers)

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Famous Deaths

1799 – Patrick Henry, American Revolutionary and Founding Father famous for his “Give me liberty or give me death” speech, dies at 63
1928 – Heinrich Gottlieb Noren, composer, dies at 67
1941 – Louis Chevrolet, American automotive pioneer (b. 1878)
1951 – Olive Tell, American actress (b. 1894)
1956 – Margaret Wycherly, actress (Claudia), dies at 74
1999 – Anne Haddy, Australian actress (b. 1930)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Historical Events

1961 – JFK and Khrushchev meet in Vienna
1966 – European DX Council forms in Copenhagen (shortwave listeners)
1972 – Yanks score 8 times in 13th beating White Sox 18-10
1991 – Kuwait asks Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members to produce 800,000 bbl/d (130,000 m3/d) of oil on its behalf
2015 – 200 people are killed by an explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana
2016 – A week of heavy rains in Germany and France leave 10 dead and closing Paris museums along the Seine, including the Louve

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Famous Birthdays

1610 – Jacob Neefs, Flemish engraver/publisher, baptised
1910 – Wilfred Thesiger, explorer/writer
1912 – William Douglas-Home, playwright (Now .. Barabbas)
1958 – Ann Wilson, Brisbane Qld, golfer (1985 R/U NSW Open)
1963 – Deb Richard, Abbeville LA, LPGA golfer (1991 Women’s Kemper Open)
1971 – Mark Parrish, American canoeist (alt-Olympics 1996), born in Columbia, Maryland

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Famous Deaths

1826 – Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (b. 1766)
1877 РLudwig Ritter von K̦chel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1800)
1949 – Amadeo Giannini, American banker and entrepreneur (founded Bank of America), dies at 79
1989 – John McCauley, NHL official (b. 1945)
1997 – Dennis James, American television personality (b. 1917)
2016 – Dave Swarbrick, British folk fiddler (Fairport Convention), dies at 75

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Historical Events

1873 – Construction begins on Clay St (San Francisco) for world’s 1st cable railroad
1896 – 30th Belmont: Henry Griffin aboard Hastings wins in 2:24.5
1957 – US TV interviews Nikita Khrushchev
1969 – Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne slices US destroyer USS Frank E Evans in half, killing 74 (South Vietnam)
1983 – Toilet catches fire on Air Canada’s DC-9, 23 die at Cincinnati
1997 – Timothy McVeigh found guilty of 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, killing 168

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Famous Birthdays

1865 – George Lohmann, British cricketer regarded as one of the greatest bowlers of all time, born in Kensington, England (d. 1901)
1899 – Royal Beal, American actor (Death of a Salesman), born in Brookline, Massachusetts (d. 1969)
1915 – Robert Moffat Palmer, American composer, born in Syracuse, New York (d. 2010)
1955 – Chantal Hochuli, Swiss-born socialite
1957 – King Lizzard, American entertainer and songwriter
1977 – Zachary Quinto, American actor (Star Trek), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Famous Deaths

910 – Richilde of Provence, Queen of Western Francia
1750 – Johann Valentin Rathgeber, German benedictine and composer, dies at 68
1839 – Wijnand Nuijen, Dutch romantic painter and lithographer (Wrecked), dies at 26
1933 – Frank Jarvis, American athlete (Olympic 100m Champion-1900), dies at 54
2001 – Imogene Coca, American actress (b. 1908)
2003 – Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler (b. 1918)

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