Category: On This Day

Historical Events

1269 – King Louis IX of France decrees all Jews must wear a badge of shame
1807 – Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos
1846 – First offically recognised baseball game (played by Cartwright Rules) – NY Nines 23 defeat Knickerbockers 1 at Hoboken, New Jersey
1932 – Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China
1955 – Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 100
1963 – Greek government of Pipinolis forms

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Famous Birthdays

1606 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (d. 1649)
1914 – Anthony Bloom, Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church (d. 2003)
1925 – Alfred Nzo, South African General Secretary of the ANC (1969-91), born in Benoni, Transvaal, South Africa (d. 2000)
1970 – Claire Mitchell-Taverner, Australian field hockey midfielder (Olympics 1996)
1975 – Brandon Mitchell, defensive end (New England Patriots)
1980 – Lauren Lee Smith, Canadian actress

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Famous Deaths

1608 – Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (b. 1551)
1949 – Syed Zafarul Hasan, Indian-Pakistani Prominent Muslim philosopher, dies at 64
1977 – Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist (b. 1933)
2010 – Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (b. 1962)
2012 – Richard Lynch, American actor, dies at 76 (body found on this date)
2016 – Anton Yelchin, Russian-born American actor (Star Trek), dies in an accident at 27

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Historical Events

1316 – Peace of Fexhe: prince-bishop Adolf II of Mark and Luikse towns
1643 – Skirmish at Chalgrove Field: Prince Rupert parliamentary armies
1928 – American aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the 1st woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean landing at Burry Port, Wales
1948 – Phillies pitching great Robin Roberts debut, loses 2-0 to Pirates
1975 – Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs in a Red Sox 15-1 victory over Tigers
2015 – 18 vigilantes are killed and 53 are injured after an accidental detonation of an explosive device in Monguno, Nigeria

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Famous Birthdays

1897 – Henry Wadsworth, American actor (The Thin Man, Applause, Fast and Loose), born in Maysville, Kentucky (d. 1974)
1910 – E G Marshall [Everett Eugene Grunz], American actor (12 Angry Men, The Defenders), born in Owatonna Minnesota (d. 1998)
1949 – William Randolph Hearst III, publisher/editor
1949 – Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Polish lawyer and politician (head of Law and Justice party), born in Warsaw, Poland
1952 – Isabella Rossellini, actress (Big Night, Blue Velvet), born in Rome, Italy
1961 – [Genevieve] Alison Moyet, Essex England, rock vocalist (Yaz, Alf)

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Famous Deaths

1291 – Alfonso III, King of Aragon (1285-91), dies
1794 – James Murray, British military officer and administrator (b. 1721)
1980 – Terence Fisher, English film director (b. 1904)
1996 – Pierre Chany, writer/cycling journalist, dies at 73
2008 – Miyuki Kanbe, Japanese actor (b. 1984)
2008 – Jean Delannoy, French actor and director (b. 1908)

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Historical Events

1930 – Chuck Klein sets Phillies hitting streak at 26 straight games
1940 – General De Gaulle departs Bordeaux for London
1944 – -19] French troops under Lattre de Tssigny conquer Elba
1972 – Five men arrested after trying to bug Democratic National Committee office in Watergate Complex, Washington
1992 – Connecticut Governor Lowell Weicker and WFAN DJ Don Imus change places for 1 day
1992 – Philadelphia 76ers trade Charles Barkley to Phoenix Suns

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Famous Birthdays

1910 – Red Foley, country singer (Mr Smith Goes to Washington), born in Blue Lick, Kentucky (d.1968)
1926 – Alan Walters, political economist
1927 – Martin Böttcher, German conductor
1954 – Mark Linn-Baker, American actor (Perfect Strangers), born in St. Louis, Missouri
1977 – Bernardo Federico Tomas, Prince of Netherlands
1982 – Marek Svatoš, Slovakian ice hockey player

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Famous Deaths

1734 – Duke of Berwick, French general strategist, dies in battle
1813 – Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, English sailor and politician (b. 1726)
1974 – Pamela Britton, actress (Blondie, My Favorite Martian), dies at 50
1990 – Dick Elffers, graphic artist, dies
1996 – Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher of science (b. 1922)
2006 – Cláudio Besserman Vianna, aka “Bussunda”, Brazilian comedian (b. 1962)

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Historical Events

1861 – Battle of Vienna, Virginia and Secessionville, South Carolina (James Island)
1943 – Race riot in Beaumont Texas (2 die)
1944 – Iceland adopts constitution
1953 – Despite Johnny Mize 2,000th hit, Yanks lose ending 18 game win streak and also ending St Louis Brown 14 game losing streak
2002 – 102nd US Golf Open: Tiger Woods shoots a 277 at Bethpage State Park NY
2010 – Cam Neely is named President of his former team, the Boston Bruins

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Famous Birthdays

1752 – Meingosus Gaelle, composer
1792 – Sir Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer (d. 1855)
1949 – Peppy Castro, [Emil Thielhelm], American rock vocalist (Balance), born in NYC, New York
1950 – James Smith, American singer (Stylistics), born in NYC, New York
1976 – Frank van Twillert, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1981 – Miguel Villalta, Peruvian footballer

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Famous Deaths

956 – Hugo the Great, duke of the Franks, count of Paris, (b. about 1598)
1804 – Johann Adam Hiller, composer, dies at 75
1929 – Bramwell Booth, 2nd General of The Salvation Army, dies at 73
1981 – Humphrey Keervelt, director (Suriname Planning Bureau), murdered
1996 – David Mourao-Ferreira, poet/politician, dies at 69
2006 – Igor Śmiałowski, Polish actor (Lalka, Znachor, Niedaleko Warszawy), dies at 88

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Historical Events

1567 – Battle at Carberry, Scotland: Protestant troops beat Earl Bothwell’s army
1871 – Phoebe Couzins is 1st woman graduate of a US collegiate law school
1919 – 1st nonstop Atlantic flight (Alcock and Brown) lands in Ireland
1957 – 89th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Gallant Man wins in 2:26.6
1985 – En route to Halley’s Comet, USSR’s Vega 2 drops lander on Venus
1995 – Mark Ilott takes 9-19 incl all lbw hat-trick, Essex v Northants

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Famous Birthdays

1888 – Ramon Lopez Velarde, Mexican poet (La Sangre Devota)
1950 – Lakshmi Mittal, Indian industrialist
1955 – Sally E Silverstone, Walthamstow England, Co-Captain (Biosphere 2)
1961 – Dave McAuley, Northern Irish boxer
1972 – DeWayne Patterson, CFL defensive tackle (Calgary Stampeders)
1980 – Cara Zavaleta, American model

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Famous Deaths

1828 – Brizio Petrucci, composer, dies at 91
1905 – Hermann Wissmann, German African explorer and governor of East-Africa,, dies at 51
1971 – Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
1989 – Ray McAnally, Irish actor (The Mission, My Left Foot, Empire State, Sicilian), dies of a heart attack at 63
1994 – Nadia Gray [Nadia Kujnir-Herescu], Romanian actress (Naked Runner, Maniac, Candide), dies at 70
2017 – John Robert Jones [John Dalmas], American sci-fi author (White Regiment, Lizard War), dies at 90

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Historical Events

1822 – Charles Babbage proposes a “difference engine” in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled “Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables”
1908 – Fourth German Navy Bill is passed authorising the financing of the building of another four major warships
1923 – Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane)
1953 – Eisenhower condemns McCarthy’s book burning proposal
1981 – No Nukes concert at Hollywood Bowl
1989 – Nolan Ryan becomes 2nd pitcher to defeat all 26 teams

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Famous Birthdays

1883 – Lucien Cerfaux, Belgian bible expert
1939 – Steny H Hoyer, (Rep-D-MD, 1981- )
1944 – Laurie Colwin, American author (d. 1992)
1963 – Chris DeGarmo, guitarist (Queensryche-Breaking the Silence)
1970 – Willie Beamon, American former-NFL cornerback (New York Giants), born in Belle Glade, Florida
1977 – Massimiliano Neri, Italian Supermodel

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Famous Deaths

1883 – Edward FitzGerald, English poet (b. 1809)
1962 – Anna Sleasers, first Boston Strangler victim
1964 – [Hei]ko E Arnoldi, actor and director (3 Drops of Water), dies at 81
1969 – Wynonie Harris, American rhythm and blues singer, dies of cancer at 53
1982 – Marie Rambert, [Cyviam Ramberg], Polish/British ballerina, dies at 94
2016 – Henry McCullough, Irish guitarist (Wings), dies at 72

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Historical Events

1942 – Germany lands 4 saboteurs on Long Island
1944 – German counter attack on Villers-Bocage, Normandy
1974 – IMF establishes its “oil facility”, a special fund for loans to nations whose balance of payments have been severely affected by high oil prices
1978 – Film “Grease” opens, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, based on the 1971 musical
1981 – 39 Unification church couples wed in Germany
1988 – George Harrison releases “This is Love”

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Famous Birthdays

1763 – Jose B de Andrada e Silva, premier of Brazil
1854 – Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine)
1869 – Ede Poldini, Hungarian composer (La poupée valsante), born in Pest (d. 1957)
1951 – Jonathan Hogan, actor (House on Carroll St), born in Chicago, Illinois
1970 – Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (d. 2004)
1990 – Aaron Johnson, British actor

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Famous Deaths

1550 – Veronica Gambara, Italian poet, dies at 64
1810 – Johann Gottfried Seume, German writer (Spaziergang nach Syrakus), dies at 47
1865 – Cleaveland J Campbell, Union brigadier general, dies at about 29
1905 – Theodoros Delyannis, premier Greece, murdered
1944 – Christopher Heseltine, cricketer (2 Tests for England 1895-96), dies
2002 – John Hope, American meteorologist (b. 1919)

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Historical Events

1903 – The Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity is founded at the University of Michigan School of Music
1942 – Tornado kills 35 in Oklahoma City
1952 – 2nd Berlin International Film Festival: “One Summer of Happiness” wins Golden Bear (audience vote)
1957 – Paul Anderson of US back-lifts a record 2850 kg (6,270 lbs)
1973 – Yanks trade wife swapper Mike Kekich for Lowell Palmer
1977 – Groundbreaking ceremony for John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

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Famous Birthdays

1577 – Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (d. 1643)
1908 – Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian TV pioneer and president of the CBC (d. 1988)
1910 – Bill Naughton, English playwright (d. 1992)
1928 – Michael Wishart, artist
1968 – Sherry Stringield, actress (ER)
1992 – Allie DiMeco American musician and actress (The Naked Brothers Band)

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Famous Deaths

1687 – Jurriaen van Streeck, Dutch still life painter, buried
1878 – Hendrik J Jut, Dutch murderer [Head of Jut], dies at 26
1972 – Saul David Alinsky, radical writer (John L Lewis), dies at 63
1986 – Antoon Breyne, Belgian journalist, dies at 76
1986 – Tony Desimone, combo leader (Ernie in Kovacsland), dies at 66
1994 – Ron Goldman, waiter, murdered with wife of O.J. Simpson at 27

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Historical Events

1919 – 51st Belmont: J Loftus riding Sir Barton wins in 2:17.6 and Trip Crown
1940 – Italy declares war on Allies
1964 – Manfred Mann record Do Wah Diddy Diddy Dum Diddy Do
1978 – 24th LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez
1988 – “Everything Your Heart Desires” by Daryl Hall and John Oates peaks at #3
1992 – Tracy Austin, 29, is youngest inductee of International Tennis Hall of Fame

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Famous Birthdays

1917 – James Bostock, painter/engraver
1927 – Marcus Fox, conservative MP/chairman (1922 Committee)
1940 – Joey Dee, singer (Hey Let’s Twist, 2 Tickets to Paris), born in Passaic, New Jersey
1962 – Michael Kenny, WLAF offensive assistant (Scottish Claymores)
1968 – Sophie Okonedo, English actress (Hotel Rwanda), born in London
1982 – Diana Taurasi, American basketball player

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Famous Deaths

1216 – Henry of Flanders, Emperor of the Latin Empire
1949 – Koci Xoxe, Albanian vice-premier, executed
1988 – Giuseppe Saragat, president of Italy (1964-71), dies at 89
1990 – Clyde McCoy, American jazz trumpeter (wah wah sound), dies at 86
2008 – Ove Andersson, Swedish rally driver (b. 1938)
2015 – Ornette Coleman, American jazz saxophonist and composer (Free Jazz), dies at 85

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Historical Events

1794 – Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia forms
1865 – Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” 1st performance Munich, Germany
1890 – 24th Belmont: Pike Barnes riding Burlington wins in 2:07.75
1946 – Italian Republic established
1990 – 89th Women’s French Open: Monica Seles beats Steffi Graf (7-6, 6-4)
1999 – Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan MiloÅ¡ević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.

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Famous Birthdays

1844 – Albert Neuhuys, Dutch painter of peasant families (Laren School), born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1914)
1888 – Leo Weismantel, German writer (Der Reiter der Apocalypse)
1928 – Maurice Sendak, American author and illustrator (Where The Wild Things Are), born in NYC, New York (d. 2012)
1961 – Kim Deal, American musician (Pixies), (The Breeders)
1962 – Duane Sutter, NHL player (NY Islander)
1994 – Nicholas Santo Pietro, son of Vanna White

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Famous Deaths

1247 – Rodrigo Jimenez de Rada, archbishop Toledo/advisor Alfonso VIII, dies
1424 – Duke Ernest of Austria (b. 1377)
1839 – Nathaniel Pryor, sgt of Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies
1996 – Norman Lambert, British restaurateur, dies at 63 (b. 1933)
2003 – Dr Phil Williams, Welsh politician and scientist (b. 1939)
2007 – Augie Auer, Meteorologist and television presenter (b. 1940)

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