Category: On This Day

Historical Events

1863 – Jo Shelby’s cavalry in action at Moffat’s Station, Arkansas
1905 – The physics journal Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein’s paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?”, introducing the equation E=mc².
1939 – White Sox host 1st “day-night” doubleheader, lose to Cleve, 5-2 and 7-5
1980 – Marvin Hagler defeats Alan Minter to claim boxing’s world Middleweight championship in London. They have to be escorted away by police after a riot forms.
1988 – Senate votes for major federal tax code changes
2005 – Atlanta Braves clinch their 14th straight division title thanks to Philadelphia’s loss to the New York Mets

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Famous Birthdays

1783 – Agustin I de Iturbide, General and 1st Emperor of Mexico (1822-23), born in Valladolid, Michoacán, Mexico (d. 1824)
1922 – James Wilson, composer
1932 – Peter Holmes, CEO (Shell Transport and Trading Company
1955 – Thelma Aldana, Guatemalan judge and 11th Guatemalan Attorney General, born in Gualán, Zacapa
1964 – Stephan Jenkins, American singer (Third Eye Blind)
1982 – Lil Wayne, American rapper

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Famous Deaths

1870 – Henry TP Comstock, Canadian silver prospector, dies at 50
1919 – Robert Gleeson, cricketer (one Test for South Africa 1895-96), dies
1944 – Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Russian photographer and chemist, dies at 81
1965 – Harry Reser, American banjo player and bandleader (Sammy Kaye Show), dies at 69
1972 – S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician (b. 1892)
1994 – Gerald Bledsoe, DJ (Soul Alive, WWRL), dies of heart attack at 51

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Historical Events

1777 – British General William Howe occupies Philadelphia during American Revolution
1921 – Yankee Ruth hits HRs 57 and 58 to beat Indians 8-7
1946 – 1st edition of Tintin (Kuifje), publishes until June 1993
1954 – Typhoon hits Japan – 5 ferryboats sink killing about 1,600
1970 – A groups of Protestant youths attack the Catholic Unity Flats as rioting continues in the Protestant Shankill Road area
1997 – An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.

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Famous Birthdays

1877 – Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (d. 1963)
1914 – Jack LaLanne, exercise mogul (Juice Tiger)
1930 – Fritz Wunderlich, Kusel Germany, tenor (Stuttgart 1955-58)
1970 – Rachel Jacobs, actress (It’s Not Easy), born in Ririe, Idaho
1972 – Shawn Stockman, [Slim], rapper (Boyz II Men), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1988 – Lilly Singh, Canadian YouTube vlogger (IISuperwomanII), born in Scarborough, Toronto

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Famous Deaths

1902 – Levi Strauss, American clothing manufacturer, dies at 73
1936 – Harriet Monroe, US poet (Poet’s Life), dies at 75
1961 – Juanita Hansen, actress (Fast Company), dies of heart ailment at 67
1965 – Otto Nothling, Australian rugby union player and cricketer (did next to nothling in Aust), dies at 65
1966 – Helen Kane, actress (Heads Up, Pointed Heels), dies of cancer at 62
1976 – Leopold Ružička, Croatian-Swiss chemist (Nobel 1939), dies at 89

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Historical Events

1878 – British physician Dr. Charles Drysdale warns against the use of tobacco in a letter to The Times newspaper in one of the earliest public health announcements on the dangers of smoking
1926 – Mackenzie King is re-elected as Prime Minister of Canada
1930 – Zoe Akins’ “Greeks Had a Word for it” premieres in NYC
1956 – Brooklyn Dodger Sal Maglie no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 5-0
1996 – The last of the Magdalen Asylums closes in Ireland.
1997 – Marv Albert plea bargains in assault case

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Famous Birthdays

1741 – Vaclav Pichl, Czech composer, born in Bechyně, Czech Republic (d. 1805)
1907 – Jan Felderhof, composer
1925 – Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress (Day in Court, Island Sinner), born in Rome, Italy (d. 2016)
1936 – Roosevelt “Booba” Barnes, bluesman
1955 – Steven Severin, British pop bassist (Siouxsie and Banshees-Wild Thing)
1958 – Eamonn Healy, Irish chemist

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Famous Deaths

813 – al-Amin, Arabic kalief of Islam (809-813), murdered
1940 – Marguerite Clark, American silent film actress (Snow White), dies at 57
1944 – Jakob Schaffner, Swiss writer (Irrfahrten), dies at 68
1991 – Lydia Cabrera, Cuban Anthropologist, dies at 91
2003 – Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (b. 1935)
2005 – Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani critic and linguist (b. 1912)

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Historical Events

1967 – Cards Jim Bakken kicks 7 field goals vs Steelers
1968 – “That’s Life” premieres-A Broadway musical type TV show
1987 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
2010 – “The Social Network” directed by David Fincher and starring Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake premieres at the New York Film Festival
2017 – Roger Federer is unbeaten as Team Europe dominates Team World 15-9 in the inaugural Laver Cup Tennis event in Prague, Czech Republic
2017 – Plastic polystyrene rubbish discovered for first time only 1,000 miles from the north pole by international team of scientists

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Famous Birthdays

1870 – Georges Claude, inventor (neon light)
1899 – Sir William Dobell, Australian portrait artist (d. 1970)
1916 – John Lapsley, British air marshal
1935 – Barbara Brilliant, TV host/producer
1940 – Yves Navarre, French writer (d. 1994)
1969 – Lisa Matthews, Peoria Ill, playmate (Apr, 1990)

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Famous Deaths

1180 – Manuel I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor (1143-80), dies
1790 – John Keyse Sherwin, engraver/painter, dies
1856 – Henry, 1st viscount Hardinge of Lahore, gov-gen of India, dies
1898 – Bartel Wilton, ship builder, dies at 70
1976 – Romney Brent, Mexican-American actor and writer (Dinner at the Ritz), dies at 74
2008 – Bengt Anderberg, Swedish poet and writer (Kain), dies at 88

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Historical Events

1746 – Jacob Gilles appointed Dutch pension advisor
1955 – Pakistan signs Pact of Baghdad
1968 – WKLE TV channel 46 in Lexington, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1983 – Gerrie Coetzee KOs Michael Dokes in 10 for heavyweight boxing title in Ohio
1983 – Argentine military regime gives amnesty to military and political assassins
1990 – PBS begins an 11 hour miniseries on Civil War

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Famous Birthdays

1895 – Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1947 – Mary Kay Place, actress/country singer (Mary Hartman!), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
1963 – Gabriele Reinsch, German DR, discus thrower (world record 1988)
1976 – Kip Pardue, American actor and model
1977 – Susan Tamim, Lebanese singer and actress (d. 2008)
1978 – Keri Lynn Pratt, American actress

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Famous Deaths

1837 – Richard John Samuel Stevens, English composer, dies at 80
1944 – Colijn, Neth PM, buried
1961 – Elmer R Diktonius, Finnish musicologist/author (Stenkol), dies at 65
1978 – Lyman Bostock, outfielder (Angels), shot and killed at 27
1994 – Madeleine Renaud, French actress and theater director (Plaisir), dies at 94
1994 – John van Damme, businessman, hanged in Singapore at 59

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Historical Events

1868 – Race riots in New Orleans, Louisiana
1965 – India and Pakistan ceases-fire goes into effect, ending Indo-Pakistani War
1969 – China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
1983 – Everly Brothers reunite after 10 years (Royal Albert Hall, London))
1989 – “Baywatch” starring David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson debuts on NBC
1993 – STS-51 (Discovery) lands

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Famous Birthdays

1729 – George Wilhelm Gruber, composer
1900 – William Spratling, American silversmith (d. 1967)
1918 – Henryk Szeryng, Zelazowa Wola Poland, violinist (Brahms Concerto)
1971 – Ian Van Der Wal, swimmer (Olympics 1996), born in Darwin, Australia
1981 – Subaru Shibutani, Japanese singer, dancer, actor (Kanjani8)
1982 – Kosuke Kitajima, Japanese swimmer (Olympic gold 100/200m breaststroke 2004, 08), born in Tokyo, Japan

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Famous Deaths

1531 – Louise Van Savoye, French regent of king Francois I, dies at 55
1662 – John Biddle, English theologian (b. 1615)
1975 – Patricia Doyle, actress (Wuthering Heights), dies at 60
1996 – Mohammed Ben Amhed Abdelghani, PM of Algeria (1979-84), dies
1997 – Ruth Picardie, journalist, dies at 33
1999 – Wyndraeth Morris-Jones, British political scientist, dies at 81

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Historical Events

1896 – British General Kitchener’s army occupies Dongola, Sudan
1922 – US President Warren G. Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine
1938 – The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500-700 people.
1970 – KAPP TV channel 35 in Yakima, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1984 – NASA launches Galaxy-C
2001 – University of Roorkee, becomes India’s 7th Indian Institute of Technology, rechristened as IIT Roorkee

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Famous Birthdays

1902 – Allen Lane, English publisher/founder (Penguin Books)
1961 – Nancy Travis, American actress (Kim-Almost Perfect, Chaplin, 8 Men Out), born in NYC, New York
1965 – Richard Brown, NFL linebacker (Minnesota Vikings)
1966 – Ronna Reeves, Big Spring TX
1980 – Aleksa Palladino, American actress
1980 – Robert Hoffman, American actor

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Famous Deaths

1796 – François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (b. 1769)
1809 – Alexander Reinagle, English-American composer, dies at 53
1961 – Maurice Delage, French composer, dies at 81
1988 – Christine Norden, British actress (Little Shop of Horrors, Night Beat), dies from pneumonia at 63
1995 – William Murray, teacher/educationalist, dies at 83
1997 – Jennifer Holt, American actress (b. 1920)

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Historical Events

1924 – Carl Mays is 1st pitcher to win 20 games seasons for 3 different teams
1931 – Lou Gehrig’s 4 RBIs break his old RBI mark of 175 en route to 184
1961 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1979 – Jose E dod Santos becomes president of Angola
1997 – Yanks clinch 37th appearance in post season, 3rd consecutive
2015 – Pope Francis meets Fidel Castro in Havana, on the 1st day of his tour of Cuba

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Famous Birthdays

1924 – James Galanos, fashion designer (Coty Hall of Fame 1959), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2016)
1931 – Cherd Songsri, Thai filmmaker (d. 2006)
1954 – Anne Mcintosh, British member European parliament
1956 – Debi Morgan, actress (All My Children, Cry Uncle), born in Dunn, North Carolina
1972 – Jenny Morris, Maryborough Australia, field hockey fullback (Olympics 1996)
1985 – David Allen, American composer and writer

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Famous Deaths

1863 – Jacob Grimm, German philologist, folklorist and editor of “Grimm’s Fairy Tales”, dies at 78
1880 – Donald McKay, Canadian-American naval architect (built fastest clipper ships), dies at 70
1884 – Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (b.1802)
1897 – Karel Bendl, Czech composer, dies at 59
1988 – Roy Kinnear, actor (Casanova, Pirates, Scrooge, Help!), dies at 54
2015 – Jack Larson, American playwright and actor (Jimmy Olsen-Superman), dies at 87

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Historical Events

1864 – 3rd Battle of Winchester, Virginia (Opequon, 3rd Winchester)
1949 – “Late Spring”, Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu, starring Chishū Ryū, Setsuko Hara and Haruko Sugimura, is released in Japan
1989 – Appeals court restores America’s Cup to US after NY Supreme Court gave it to NZ (NZ protested US’s use of a catamaran)
2004 – 56th Emmy Awards: The Sopranos, Arrested Development, James Spader and Allison Janney win
2009 – 34th Toronto International Film Festival: “Precious” directed by Lee Daniels wins the People’s Choice Award
2017 – US President Donald Trump addresses the United Nations vowing to “totally destroy North Korea” if threatens the US

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Famous Birthdays

1898 – Giuseppe Saragat, president of Italy (1964-71)
1920 – Karen Khachiturian, composer
1927 – Rosemary Harris, British actress (Spider-Man, The Lion in Winter, Holocaust, Notorious Woman, Tom and Viv), born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England
1947 – Steve Bartlett, (Rep-R-TX, 1983- )
1947 – Tanith Lee, British sci-fi author (Don’t Bite the Sun), born in London
1952 – Rhys Chatham, composer

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Famous Deaths

1339 – Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (b. 1288)
1356 – Gautier de Brienne, duke of Athens/French supreme commander, dies
1936 – Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (b. 1860)
1974 – Eve March, actress (Adam’s Rib, Danny Boy), dies at 63
1988 – Oren Lee Staley, 1st President of National the Farmers Organization (1955-79), dies at 65
1997 – Rich Mullins, American singer (b. 1955)

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Historical Events

1914 – Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I
1939 – Polish government of Moscicki flees to Romania
1949 – Baseball major league record 4 grand slams hit
1956 – Mickey Mantle is 8th to hit 50 HRs in a seaon
1980 – Royals Willie Wilson steals AL-record 28 consecutive base
1987 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

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Famous Birthdays

1636 – Pietro Sanmartini, composer
1910 – Henri A Cornelis, gov-general Belgian Congo/Rwanda-Urundi
1916 – Rossano Brazzi, Italian actor (Final Justice, South Pacific, The Barefoot Contessa), born in Bolognia, Italy (d. 1994)
1933 – Robert Blake, Nutley NJ, (Baretta, Little Rascals, Coast to Coast)
1950 – Darryl Sittler, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, Philadelphia Flyers and Detroit Red Wings), born in Kitchener, Ontario
1980 – Avi Strool, Israeli footballer

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Famous Deaths

1137 – Erik II Eimune, [Onvergetelijke], king of Denmark (1134-37), murdered
1905 – George MacDonald, sci-fi author (Princess and Curdie), dies at 80
1939 – Gwen John, Welsh painter, dies at 63
1960 – A J Evans, cricketer (only England Test v Aus 1921), dies
1964 – Clive Bell, English art critic, dies at 83
2002 – Mauro Ramos, Brazilian football player (b. 1930)

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