Today In History - Thursday, September 29, 2022




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Welcome to Today In History for Thursday, September 29, 2022.

On this day in history ..

0219 - Batavian soldiers consecrate altar on Hercules Magusanus Rome
0235 - St Pontianus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0440 - Pope Leo I the Great, installed
0855 - Benedict III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1066 - William the Conqueror invade England
1187 - Saladins army marches into Jerusalem
1227 - Pope Gregory IX excommunicate German emperor Frederik II
1349 - People of Krems Austria accuse Jews of poisoning wells
1364 - Battle of Auray, English forces defeat French at Brittany
1521 - Turkish troops occupy Belgrade
1524 - Emperor Charles V's troops give siege of Marseille
1564 - Robert Dudley becomes earl of Leicester
1567 - War of Religion - Huguenots try to kidnap king Charles IX
1608 - Captain Newport arrives from England with supplies for colonists
1650 - 2nd Fronde-uprising ends
1650 - Henry Robinson opens 1st marriage bureau (England)
1678 - France & Brandenburg signs peace treaty
1785 - Chasidic sect is excommunicated in Cracow Poland
1789 - 1st congress adjourns
1789 - US War Dept established a regular army
1793 - Tennis is 1st mentioned in an English sporting magazine
1815 - King Willem I forms Order of Dutch Lion
1829 - London's Metropolitan Police Force goes on duty (Scotland Yard)
1849 - 1st passenger train service to Peekskill NY (New Haven Railroad)
1853 - Emigrant ship "Annie Jane" sinks off Scotland, drowning 348
1859 - Great auroral display in US
1863 - Opera "Pescatori di Perle" is produced (Paris)
1864 - Battle of Waynesboro & New Market Heights VA
1872 - "3 Fingers" Mackenzie destroys Kwahadi-Commanche village
1872 - Kiowa-chief Lone Wolf captures Satanta & Big Tree
1875 - US-Spanish relations decline in wake of Cuban rebellion
1879 - NL owners meeting in Buffalo adopt reserve clause, giving each team exclusive rights to their players
1890 - 1st pro baseball game, NY Metropolitans beat Washington Nationals 4-2 in 5 innings at Polo Grounds in NYC
1892 - 1st night football game played (Mansfield, Penn)
1898 - French troops reach Guinea & Sudan, Samori caught
1902 - Impresario David Belasco opens his 1st Broadway theater
1904 - 1st monument honoring Spanish American War erected (Monroeville Ohio)
1906 - US intervenes in Cuba ousts dictator Estrada Palma
1907 - Construction begins on Washington National Cathedral
1908 - Calgary Rugby Football Union forms
1911 - Gun magazine of French battleship Libert‚ explode
1911 - Italy declares war on Turkey
1911 - Yanks steal 15 bases & get 13 walks, beating Browns 16-12; with a major-league record 6 stolen bases in 1 inning
1912 - French/British troops lands on Samoa
1913 - Sam S Shubert Theater opens at 225 W 44th St NYC
1913 - Wash Senator Walter Johnson wins his 36th game
1914 - Boston Braves, who were in last place in mid-July, clinch NL pennant
1915 - 1st transcontinental radio telephone message is sent
1915 - British army conquerors Chilly al Imara, Mesopotami‰
1915 - Dutch Opera's 1st performance
1915 - Herbert/Blossoms musical "Princess Pat," premieres in NYC
1915 - Hurricane claims 275 in Mississippi Delta
1915 - Phila Phillies clinch their 1st pennant
1918 - Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of Hindenburg Line
1920 - Babe Ruth sets then home run season record at 54
1920 - Belgium annexes Eupen/Malm‚dy
1920 - Joseph Horne Company in Pittsburgh sells radios for $10
1921 - Pirates drop doubleheader to Cards to allow idle Giants to clinch NL
1922 - Mussolini ask Vatican for support of fascist party program
1923 - 6th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Pelham CC Pelham NY
1923 - Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public
1924 - Santo Domingo joins League of Nations
1924 - Senators clinch pennant, finishing 2 games in front of Yankees
1925 - French Gen of Morocco, marshal Lyautey, is dismissed
1925 - Greek republican constitution enforced
1926 - Norma Shearer wed Irving Thalberg
1927 - Babe Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games
1927 - Telephone service begins between US & Mexico
1927 - Tornado strikes St Louis Missouri, 85 die
1928 - Cardinals win NL pennant with a 3-1 win at Boston
1928 - Yanks (17) Tigers (28) set 9 inning hit record (45)-Tigers win 19-10
1930 - 1st Canadian football game played under lights, Hamilton-UBC
1930 - Bing Crosby marries Dixie Lee
1930 - Boquer¢n battle ends Paraguay border dispute
1930 - Lowell Thomas made debuts on CBS Radio replacing Floyd Gibbons
1930 - NYC College offers 1st course in radio advertising
1932 - "Bill of Divorcement" premieres at the Mayfair
1933 - Little King, Cartoon Character, by Von Beuren, debut
1934 - Rondo Hatton weds Mabel Housh
1935 - 5th Ryder Cup: US, 9-3 at Ridgewood CC NJ
1936 - Radio used for 1st time for a presidential campaign
1937 - Frans Slaats bicycles world record time (45,563 km)
1938 - 1st archival course is offered at Columbia University in NYC
1938 - Treaty of Munich signed by Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier & Chamberlain
1940 - "Double or Nothing," a radio quiz show, 1st heard on Mutual Radio Net
1940 - "Strike Up Band," opens
1940 - 1st US merchant ship "Booker T Washington" commanded by a black captain (Hugh Mulzac), launched at Wilmington Delaware
1941 - Joe Louis TKOs Lou Nova in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1941 - Million jam downtown Brooklyn to cheer NL champ Dodgers in a parade
1941 - Nazi mass murder at Babi Jar, Soviet Union
1942 - 32øF lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Sept
1942 - Govt of De Gaulle cancels agreement of Munich
1943 - 1st Silbertanne-murder by German occupiers in Meppel
1943 - Eisenhower & Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice
1943 - German riots at Amsterdam Jews
1943 - Zjadovs 5th Gardeleger/Managarovs 53rd Army reconquer Kremenchug
1944 - Browns last in AL attendance,only 6,172 watch them sweep Yanks in DH
1944 - Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia
1945 - Cubs clinch NL pennant
1946 - "Adventures of Sam Spade" debuts on CBS Radio
1946 - 1st time NL pennant ends in a tie (Cards & Dodgers)
1946 - Al Couture knockouts Ralph Walton in Lewiston Maine in 10« secs
1946 - Los Angeles (previously Cleveland) Rams play 1st NFL game in LA
1946 - NPS, Nationale Party Suriname, forms
1947 - Dizzy Gillespie presented his 1st Carnegie Hall concert in NY
1947 - Former Yank manager Joe McCarthy signs to manage Red Sox
1947 - Record World Series crowd of 73,365 at Yankee Stadium ($325,828)
1948 - Laurence Olivier's "Hamlet" opens at Park Avenue Cinema
1948 - WBAP (now KXAS) TV channel 5 in Fort Worth-Dallas, TX (NBC) begins
1948 - WSB TV channel 2 in Atlanta, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 - "Front Page," debuts on CBS-TV
1949 - "Inside USA With Chevrolet," debuts on CBS-TV
1949 - Elia Kazan's "Pinky" starring Ethel Waters opens at Rivoli
1949 - George Lascelles marries Maria Stein
1950 - "Tin Pan Alley TV," last airs on ABC-TV
1950 - Telephone Answering Machine created by Bell Laboratories
1950 - Yanks clinch 2nd consecutive pennant under Casey Stengel
1951 - 1st color telecast of football game on network, Phila (CBS)
1951 - Emile Zatopek runs world record 20,000 m & 10 mile
1951 - S B Nicholson discovers 12th satellite of Jupiter
1952 - "Lights Out," last airs on NBC-TV
1952 - Stan Musial makes his only major league pitching appearance
1953 - "Buick-Berle Show," debuts on NBC-TV
1953 - "Make Room for Daddy," starring Danny Thomas, premieres on ABC-TV
1953 - 1st dept store to sell insurance is Carson Pirie Scott in Chicago Ill
1953 - Balt Mayor D'Alesandro buys Veeck's interest in Browns for $2,475,000
1953 - Milton Berle Show premieres
1953 - US govt gives France $385 million for combat in Indo-China
1954 - "Barefoot Contessa" starring Ava Gardner premieres at the Capitol
1954 - "Masquerade Party," TV game Show; moves to ABC
1954 - "Star is Born" starring Judy Garland & James Mason premieres
1954 - Bennekom soccer team forms in Bennekom
1954 - KALB TV channel 5 in Alexandria, LA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Willie Mays famous over-the-shoulder catch of Vic Wertz' 460' drive
1955 - "Sergeant Preston," debuts on CBS
1955 - Ali Sastroamidjojo's PNI wins elections in Indonesia
1955 - Arthur Millers "View From The Bridge," premieres in NYC
1956 - "I Love Mickey" by Mickey Mantle & Teresa Brewer peaks at #87
1956 - "Oh! Susanna," debuts on CBS-TV
1956 - Yanks Mickey Mantle hits his 52nd HR of season
1957 - "DuPont Show of the Month," debuts on CBS-TV
1957 - "Paul Winchell Show," debuts on ABC-TV
1957 - 300 die as express train hits stalled train (Montgomery W Pakistan)
1957 - Buddy Holly & Crickets released 2nd single "Oh Boy!"/"Not Fade Away"
1957 - NY Giants play & lose their last game at Polo Grounds (9-1 to Pitts)
1957 - Passenger train & oil train crash in Gambar West Pakistan, 300 die
1958 - "Studio One," TV Anthology Drama last airs on CBS-TV
1958 - "Summertime Blues" by Eddie Cochran peaks at #8
1958 - "Texan," debuts on CBS-TV
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 - "Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis," debuts on CBS-TV
1959 - "Philip Marlowe," debuts on ABC-TV
1959 - Dodgers win game 2 of playoff, 6-5, & take NL pennant
1959 - Little Anthony & the Imperials record "Shimmy Shimmy Koko Bop"
1959 - Sultan of Brunei promulgates a constitution
1960 - "Johnny Ringo," TV Western Drama; last airs on CBS-TV
1960 - "My Three Sons" starring Fred MacMurray, debuts on ABC-TV
1960 - "Outlaws," TV Western Drama; debuts on NBC-TV
1960 - "Tell Laura I Love Her" by Ricky Valance peaks at #1 in UK
1960 - "lrma La Douce" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 527 performances
1961 - "Detectives," TV Crime Drama; moves to NBC-TV
1961 - Bob Dylan's 1st recording session-backup harmonica for Caroline Hester
1961 - Mamum Kuzbari becomes premier of Syria
1962 - "Alley Cat" by Bent Fabric & His Piano peaks at #7
1962 - "Green Onions" by Booker T & MG's peaks at #3
1962 - "My Fair Lady" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 2,715 perfs
1962 - "Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Show," debuts on ABC-TV
1962 - "You Can't Judge A Book By Cover" by Bo Diddley peaks at #48
1962 - Algerian govt of Ben Bella forms
1962 - Indians & Angels set AL record of 40 strikeouts in a doubleheader
1962 - JFK authorized use of federal troops to integrate U of Mississippi
1962 - Launch of Alouette 1, 1st Canadian satellite (on US Delta rocket)
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - "Judy Garland Show," debuts on CBS-TV
1963 - "My Favorite Martian," starring Ray Walston, debuts on CBS-TV
1963 - 2nd session of Ecumenical council, `Vatican II,' opens in Rome
1963 - Card's Stan Musial's final game, gets his 3,629th & 3,630th hit
1963 - Houston Colt .45 John Paciorek goes 3 for 3 in his only game
1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
1963 - Pope Paul opens 2nd sitting of 2nd Vatican council
1963 - Rolling Stones 1st tour (opening act for Bo Diddley & Everly Bros)
1963 - Stan Musial Day in St Louis
1964 - Greece & Bulgaria close boundaries
1965 - Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 4 3/4"
1965 - St L Cards Charlie Johnson passes for 6 touchdowns vs Cleve (49-13)
1965 - WLVT TV channel 39 in Allentown, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 - Phillies catcher Pat Corrales sets record by reaching base twice on catcher's interference in one game & 6 times in one season
1966 - Bechuanaland gains independence from England, becomes Botswana
1966 - Sandy Koufax pitches 3rd 300-strikeout season
1967 - -Oct 29] Rome: 1st bishop synod
1967 - Gladys Knight & Pips releases "I Heard it Through the Grapevine"
1967 - Intl Monetary Fund reforms world monetary system
1967 - Mickey Hart joins the Grateful Dead & plays the Straightater
1968 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
1968 - Carl Yastrzemski .3005 avg wins his 2nd straight batting crown
1968 - Chuck Latourette, sets NFL record 47.7 yd punt return avg (3 punts)
1969 - "Bright Promise," TV Daytime Soap; debuts on NBC-TV
1969 - "Letters To Laugh-In," debuts on NBC-TV
1969 - "Love American Style," premieres on ABC-TV
1969 - "Name Droppers," debuts on NBC-TV
1969 - "Sale Of Century," debuts on NBC-TV
1969 - 7th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 7-6
1969 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1969 - Jackie DeShannon gets Gold Record for "Put Little Love in Your Heart"
1969 - Red Sox Rico Petrocelli hits shortstop record 40th HR of season
1969 - Steve O'Neal of NY Jets, kicks longest NFL punt; 98 yards vs Denver
1970 - "NET Festival," last aired
1971 - "McMillan & Wife," debuts on NBC-TV
1971 - Cyclone & tidal wave off Bay of Bengal kills as many as 10,000
1971 - Orbiting Solar Observatory VII launched
1971 - Ron Hunt is hit by a pitch for record 50th time in a season
1971 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 - Japan & People's Republic of China begin diplomatic relations
1973 - "Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne" by Looking Glass peaks at #33
1973 - "We're An American Band" by Grand Funk peaks at #1
1973 - Balt Orioles pull their 5th triple play (5-4-3 vs Detroit)
1973 - Insurance ind announces auto racers get into more highway accidents
1973 - Soyuz 12 returns to Earth
1974 - 4th NYC Women's Marathon won by Katherine Switzer in 3:07:29
1974 - 5th NYC Marathon won by Norbert Sander in 2:26:30
1974 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Classic
1975 - "Three For Money," debuts on NBC-TV
1975 - Jackie Wilson, slips into an irreversible coma; he dies in 1984
1975 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1975 - WGPR-TV Detroit, 1st Black-owned station in US, began broadcasting
1976 - "Alice," debuts on CBS-TV
1976 - 2nd Chamber recognizes Dutch Liberals/social democratic abortion law
1976 - Boy George expelled from school
1976 - SF Giant John Montefusco no-hits Atlanta Braves, 9-0
1976 - Syria drives Palestinian guerrillas out of Lebanon
1976 - Tommy Lasorda replaces Walter Alston as Dodger manager
1976 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1976 - Jerry Lee Lewis, attempting to shoot soda bottles hits his bass player Norman Owens twice in the chest
1977 - "Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band," by Meco hits #1
1977 - Eva Shain is 1st woman to referee a heavyweight championship
1977 - James Brown's band walks out claiming they were underpaid & overworked
1977 - Muhammad Ali beats Earnie Shavers in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1977 - Peter Schats circus opera "Houdini," premieres in Amsterdam
1977 - Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into Earth orbit
1978 - "Flying High," debuts on CBS
1978 - "For Richer, For Poorer," TV Daytime Soap; last airs on NBC-TV
1979 - "Ain't That A Shame" by Cheap Trick peaks at #35
1979 - "Bad Case Of Loving You" by Robert Palmer peaks at #14
1979 - "Boom Boom (Out Go Lights)" by Pat Travers peaks at #56
1979 - "Born To Be Alive" by Patrick Hernandez peaks at #16
1979 - "Cruel To Be Kind" by Nick Lowe peaks at #12
1979 - "Different Worlds" by Maureen McGovern peaks at #18
1979 - "Driver's Seat" by Sniff 'n' the Tears peaks at #15
1979 - "Girls Talk" by Dave Edmunds peaks at #65
1979 - "Lonesome Loser" by Little River Band peaks at #6
1979 - "Message In A Bottle" by Police peaks at #1 in UK
1979 - "What Cha Gonna Do With My Lovin'" by Stephanie Mills peaks at #22
1979 - Astros' J R Richard strikes out NL season righty record of 313
1979 - Gold hits record $400.20 an ounce in Hong Kong
1979 - John Huston's "Wine Blood" premieres at NY Film Festival
1979 - LA Dodger Manny Mota hits record 146th pinch hit
1979 - Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit Ireland
1980 - Malcolm McDowell wed Mary Steenburgen
1982 - 1st broadcast of "Cheers" on NBC-TV
1982 - Cyanide laced Tylenol capsules kills 7 in Chicago
1982 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 - "A Chorus Line" 3,389 performance to become longest running Bdwy show
1983 - 1st time Congress invokes War Powers Act
1983 - Airport of Beirut reopens
1983 - Congress authorized Pres Reagan to keep 1,600 US Marines in Lebanon
1983 - Oakland A's Mike Warren no-hits Chicago White Sox, 3-0
1984 - "(What) In Name Of Love" by Naked Eyes peaks at #39
1984 - "Cruel Summer" by Bananarama peaks at #9
1984 - "Drive" by Cars peaks at #3
1984 - "Layin' It On Line" by Jefferson Starship peaks at #66
1984 - "Let's Go Crazy" by Prince & Revolution peaks at #1
1984 - "Pretty Mess" by Vanity peaks at #75
1984 - "Torture" by Jacksons peaks at #17
1984 - "When You Close Your Eyes" by Night Ranger peaks at #14
1984 - "Yes Or No" by Go-Go's peak at #84
1984 - Elizabeth Taylor, undergoing rehabilitation at the Betty Ford Clinic
1985 - "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," returns to NBC-TV
1985 - "Amazing Stories," by Steven Spielberg, debuts on NBC-TV
1985 - "MacGyver," starring Richard Dean Anderson, debuts on ABC-TV
1985 - 1st of 5 cyanide-laced Tylenol victims dies
1985 - Deron Cherry, Kansas City vs Seattle, has 4 interceptions!
1985 - Houston QB Warren Moon sacked NFL tying record 12 times (by Cowboys)
1986 - "Airwolf," TV Adventure; moves to USA
1986 - "Designing Women," TV Comedy, debuts on CBS
1986 - Cubs Greg Maddux defeats Phillies Mike Maddux (1st rookie brothers)
1986 - Indians Jay Bell is 10th to hit a HR on 1st major league pitch he sees
1986 - Mary Lou Retton retires as a gymnast
1986 - USSR releases US journalist Nicholas Daniloff confined on spy charges
1987 - "Didn't We Almost Have It All," by Whitney Houston hits #1
1987 - "thirtysomething," debuts on ABC-TV
1987 - 8th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1987 - NY Yankee Don Mattingly hits record 6th grand slam of year
1988 - 26th Space Shuttle mission, Discovery 7 launched
1988 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1988 - Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets 200m woman's record (21.34)
1988 - UN peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace prize
1988 - Union Station reopens in Wash DC
1989 - Glenn Frey joins Don Henley on-stage (for 1st time since 1981)
1989 - Zsa Zsa Gabor convicted of slapping a police officer in Beverly Hills
1990 - "Love & Affection" by Nelson peaks at #1 on pop singles chart
1990 - "Street Scene" closes at NY State Theater NYC after 6 perfs
1990 - Brook Yeaton weds Traci Lords
1990 - Reds are 1st NL team to clinch title, staying in 1st place all year
1990 - US Sect of State James Baker meets with Vietnam's foreign minister
1990 - Washington National Cathedral construction is completed after 83 years
1990 - "Millie's Book" written by 1st Lady Barbara Bush for president's dog is a best-selling non-fiction book
1991 - "My Own Private Idaho" premieres
1991 - 29th Ryder Cup: US beats Europe, 14«-13« at Ocean Course (SC)
1991 - Pat Bradley wins MBS LPGA Golf Classic
1992 - Atlanta Braves wins 2nd straight NL West title
1992 - Magic Johnson announces return to play basketball (he doesn't)
1992 - Parliament suspends president Fernando Collor
1993 - "Grace Under Fire," starring Brett Butler debuts on ABC-TV
1993 - 27th Country Music Assn Award: Vince Gill wins
1994 - 1st phase of OJ Simpson murder trial jury selection ends (304 chosen)
1994 - House votes to end lobbyists buying meals & entertainment for Congress
1994 - Pointer Sisters receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
1995 - Indians break 1902 Pirates record for largest lead over 2nd-place team (KC) (27« games)
1995 - OJ Simpson trial sent to the jury
1995 - Saleem Elahi scores century on ODI debut, Pakistan v Sri Lanka
1995 - US space probe Ulyssus completes 2nd passage behind Sun
1996 - "Delicate Balance" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC
1996 - 34th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Spain in Atlantic City USA (5-0)
1996 - Alanis Morissette ends her 1st US tour (Houston Texas)
1996 - Balt Orioles end season with record 257 HRs
1996 - Houston Astro's retire Nolan Ryan's #34
1996 - Nintendo 64 video game system debuts in USA (3 months after Japan)
1996 - Orioles Brady Anderson is 14th to hit 50 HRs
1996 - SD Padres sweep LA Dodgers in race for NL West title
1996 - Trish Johnson wins LPGA Fieldcrest Cannon Golf Classic
1996 - US wins Federation Cup over Spain
1997 - Jury selection in Terry Nichols Okla bombing trial begins

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1276 - Christoffel II, king of Denmark (Handf‘stning)
1402 - Ferdinand, the Saint, Portuguese slave of Fez/saint
1511 - Michael Servetus, Spain, physician (Christianism Rostituta)
1518 - Tintoretto, Italian painter
1547 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, author (Don Quixote)
1561 - Roomen, mathematician
1583 - Johan VIII, the Younger, count of Nassau-Siegen/field marshall
1620 - John L baron of Elderen, 63rd prince-bishop of Luik (1688-94)
1640 - Antoine Coyzevox, French sculptor, baptized
1654 - Vincenz Lubeck, composer
1674 - Jacques Hotteterre, composer
1714 - Peter A van de Parra, gov-gen of Neth-Indies (1761-75)
1718 - Nikita I Panin, Russian earl/diplomat (plot against Peter III)
1725 - Robert Clive, English explorer/founder (British empire in India)
1725 - Robert Clive, founder (British empire in India)
1727 - Henry Harington, composer
1746 - Ernst Ludwig Gerber, composer
1753 - Johann Gottfried Schict, composer
1758 - Horatio Nelson, Burnham Thorpe Britain, naval hero (Trafalgar)
1794 - William Michael Rooke, composer
1803 - Charles-Francois Sturm, French mathematician (Sturm's Theorem)
1810 - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, London, novelist
1812 - Gopel, mathematician
1815 - Andreas Aschenbach, German painter/engraver
1829 - Bradley Tyler Johnson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1903
1829 - Giles Alexander Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1876
1830 - John Parker Hawkins, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1914
1831 - John McAlister Schofield, Major General (Union volunteers)
1838 - Henry Hobson Richardson, St James LA, Romanesque revival architect
1848 - Caroline Ardelia Yale, US, educated deaf
1849 - Ladislao Joseph Philip Paul Zavrtal, composer
1854 - Martin Pluddemann, composer
1855 - Michele Esposito, composer
1857 - Conrad T van Deventer, lawyer/2nd-Member of parliament
1858 - Leopoldo Mugnone, composer
1863 - Franz Zorell, German RC exegetist/lexicographer
1863 - Hugo Haase, German SPD-German parliament/revolutionary
1864 - Miguel de Unamuno Jugo, Bilbao Spain, philosopher (Ensayos, Teatro)
1867 - Philip Kleintjes, people's rights leader
1879 - Joaquin Nin y Castellanos, composer
1884 - Boris Asafiev, composer
1887 - Billy Bevan, Orange Australia, actor (White Sin)
1890 - Maria Matos, Lisbon Portugal, actress (Menina da R dio)
1891 - Gerda Bj”rne, Varmland Sweden, actress (Familjen Bjork, Hemsoborna)
1893 - Fabien Sevitzky, Vishny Volotchok Russia, conductor (Phila Orch)
1893 - Phillip Tead, Somerville Mass, actor (Lightnin', Fighting Blade)
1894 - Franco Capuana, composer
1895 - Joseph Banks Rhine, Penn, parapsychologist (Extra-Sensory Perception)
1895 - Louise Granville, Sydney Australia, entertainer
1899 - Billy Butlin, South Africa, holiday camp promoter,
1899 - Jolie Gabor, mother of Magda, Zsa Zsa, & Eva
1901 - Enrico Fermi, Rome, US physicist, gone fission/fermium (Nobel-1938)
1903 - Karl August Andersen, composer
1903 - Ted Decorsia, Bkln NY, actor (Police Chief Hegedorn-Steve Canyon)
1904 - Dorothy Emmet, philosopher
1905 - Francis Joseph Quinn, academic
1907 - Gene Autry, Tioga Tx, cowpoke/singer/actor/owner (Calif Angels)
1907 - Michael Shepley, Plymouth England, actor (Dick & the Duchess)
1907 - Richard Harkness, Artesian SD, newscaster (Story of the Week, NBC)
1908 - Greer Garson, North Ireland, actress (Pride & Prejudice, Chips)
1908 - James Norman Dalrymple Anderson, lawyer
1909 - Andrew Herron, Moderator (General Assembly of Church of Scotland)
1910 - Virginia Bruce, actress (Action in Arabia)
1911 - Reginald Victor Jones, CH, FRS natural philosopher
1912 - Lukas Ammann, Basel, actor (Day of Anger, Class Reunion, Palace Hotel)
1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni, Ferrara Italy, director (Blow-up, Red Desert)
1912 - Viscount Lambert
1913 - Silvio Piola, soccer star
1913 - Stanley E Kramer, NYC, producer/director (Inherit the Wind)
1915 - Ann Nagel, Boston MA, actress (Don Winslow of the Navy)
1915 - Brenda Marshall, Philippines, actress (Sea Hawk, Paris After Dark)
1916 - Carl Ronald Giles, cartoonist
1916 - Minao Shibata, composer
1916 - Trevor Howard, England, actor (Mutiny on Bounty, Ryan's Daughter)
1918 - Don Castle, TX, actor (Born to Speed, Tombstone, Motor Patrol)
1918 - Harold Laurence Walters, composer
1919 - Masao Takemoto, Japan, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1960)
1920 - Sergei F Bondarchuk, director/actor (Boris Godunov, Step, Otello)
1920 - Vaclav Neummann, conductor
1921 - Mikl¢s Jancs¢, Vac Hungry, director (Muzsika, Aube, Pacifist)
1922 - Lizabeth Scott, Scranton, Pa, actress (Dark City, Desert Fury)
1923 - Ellen Malcolm, painter
1923 - O A "Bum" Phillips, football coach (Houston Oilers/New Orlean Saints)
1924 - David Atkinson, British air marshal
1924 - Steve Forrest, Huntsville Tx, actor (Ben-Dallas, SWAT)
1925 - John Balcombe, Lord Chief Justice of Appeal
1925 - John Tower, (Sen-R-Tx)
1925 - Paul MacCready, engineer/inventor (1st man-powered aircraft)
1925 - Trevor Hughes, water engineer
1926 - Phyllis Taylor, educationist
1927 - Adhemar Ferreira da Silva, Brazil, triple jumper (Olympic-gold-52, 56)
1927 - Paul McCloskey, (Sen-R-Calif)
1928 - Ankie [Johanna A Hoving-]Peypers, Dutch author/poet
1928 - Lord Avebury
1929 - Murray McLaggan, British Lord-Lieutenant (Mid Glamorgan)
1930 - Colin Dexter, author
1930 - Morag Timbury, director (Central Public Health Laboratory)
1930 - Peter Miller, CEO (Lloyd's of London)
1930 - Ramnath Kenny, cricketer (batted in 5 Tests for India in 1950's)
1930 - Richard Bonynge, Sydney Australia, conductor (Aust Orch Sydney-1976)
1931 - Anita Ekberg, Malm” Sweden, actress (La Dolce Vita)/Miss Sweden (1950)
1931 - E S Orr Ewing, Lord-Lieutenant of Wigtown
1931 - Eddie Barth, Phila, actor (Shaft, Simon & Simon)
1931 - James Watson Cronin, nuclear physicist
1931 - Joseph M McDade, (Rep-R-Pennsylvania, 1963- )
1932 - Canon Paul Oestreicher, CEO (British section, Amnesty International
1932 - Jeremy Isaacs, general director (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden)
1932 - Mary Moon, Headmistress (Manchester High School for Girls)
1932 - Peter Stormonth Darling, CEO (Mercury Asset Management Group)
1932 - Robert Benton, Texas, writer/director (Kramer vs Kramer)
1932 - Ronald B Kitaj, US/British painter/graphic artist (pop art)
1933 - Samora Machel, president Mo‡ambique (1975-86)
1934 - Lance Gibbs, cricketer (prolific West Indian off-spinner, 309 wickets)
1934 - Lindsay Kline, cricketer (Australian chinaman bowler Hat-trick 1957)
1935 - David Hannay, diplomat
1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, Feriday La, country singer (Whole Lotta Shakin')
1936 - Michael Partridge, British civil servant
1936 - Mylene Demongeot, Nice France, actress (3 Murderesses)
1937 - Alice Mahon, British MP
1937 - R B Heywood, director (British Antarctic Survey)
1938 - H N L Keswick CEO (Matheson & Company)
1938 - Henry Keswick, British financier/merchant (Hong Kong)
1938 - Mike McCormick, MLB Pitcher (SF Giants, Cy Young 1967)
1938 - Wim Kok, NVV/FNV-chairman/Dutch soc-dem party-premier (1994- )
1939 - Eberhard Koellner, German DR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 31 backup)
1939 - Larry Linville, Ojai Calif, actor (Frank Burns-M*A*S*H, Blue Movie)
1939 - Tommy Boyce, songwriter (Boyce & Hart)
1940 - Jimmy Knapp, trade unionist
1940 - John Dawes, rugby coach
1940 - Mike Eischeid, NFL punter (Oakland Raiders)
1941 - Colin Niven, Headmaster (Alleyn's School)
1941 - David Steele, cricketer (England batsman, courageous v Lillee 1975)
1941 - Don Nix, US saxophonist (Last Night)
1941 - Kermit Zarley, Seattle WA, PGA golfer (1970 Canadian Open)
1942 - Donna Corcoran, Quincy Mass, actress (Man Without a Star)
1942 - Ian McShane, Blackburn England, actor (Roots, Bare Essence)
1942 - Jean-Luc Ponty, France, fusion violinist (Frank Zappa)
1942 - Madeline Kahn, Boston Mass, actress (Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety)
1942 - Rajinder Goel, cricketer (slow lefty who didn't play for India)
1942 - Steve Tesich, screenwriter/playwright
1942 - William Nelson, (Rep-D-Fla, 1979- )/astronaut (STS 61C)
1943 - Lech Walesa, Popowo Poland, leads Polish Solidarity (Nobel 1983)
1943 - Manuel Fernandez, rocker
1943 - Peter Rigby, CEO (Specialist Computer Holdings)
1944 - Mike Post, composer (Rockford Files, Hill St Blues, Magnum PI)
1944 - Tommy Boyce, songwriter (Boyce & Hart, Monkees)
1944 - Torben Jensen, Denmark, actor (Taxa, Hayfever, Watch Me Fly, Guldregn)
1945 - Kyriacos Sfetsas, composer
1945 - Nadezhda Chizova, USSR, shot putter (Oly-gold/silv/bronze-68/72/76)
1945 - Sarah Tyacke, Keeper of British Public Records
1945 - Tatiana Tauer, harpist
1946 - Alasdair Fraser, QC/director (Public Prosecutions for N Ireland)
1946 - Nick Taylor, singer/guitarist (Bloodrock)
1946 - Patricia Hodge, actress (Heat of the Day, Shell Seekers, Sunset)
1947 - Altie Taylor, soccer star
1947 - Jon Snow, British TV journalist (Channel 4)
1947 - Lyndon Harrison, MEP
1947 - R J Evans, FBA, historian
1948 - Bryant Gumbel, New Orleans La, sportscaster/TV host (Today Show)
1948 - John M McHugh, (Rep-R-NY)
1948 - Mark Farner, Mich, guitar/vocalist (Grand Funk Railroad-Locomotion)
1948 - Mike Pinear, rock guitarist (Iron Butterfly)
1948 - Viktor Krovopouskov, USSR, sabres (Olympic-gold-1976, 1980)
1949 - Steve Busby, footballer
1949 - Tony Hoty, Cleve OH, actor (Ransom, Paper)
1951 - David Murray, cricketer (WI wicket-keeper)
1952 - Monika Zehrt, German DR, 400m runner (Olympic-gold-1972)
1952 - R A Hodges, archaeologist
1953 - Drake Hogestyn, Ft Wayne Indiana, actor (7 Brides for 7 Brothers)
1953 - Jean-Claude Lauzon, Montreal, director/writer (Leola, Night Zoo)
1953 - Warren Cromartie, baseball player
1954 - Cindy Morgan, [Cichorski], Chicago Ill, actress (Tron)
1954 - Stephen Platt, editor (New Statesman & Society)
1955 - Ken Weatherwax, actor (Pugsley-Addams Family)
1955 - Mark Mitchell, actor (Larger than Life, Lift Off, Ground Zero)
1955 - Vicki Fergon, Palo Alto CA, LPGA golfer (1979 Lady Stroh's)
1956 - James Donald Halsell Jr, Monroe La, astronaut (STS 65, 74, 83, 94)
1956 - Sebastian Newbold Coe, England, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1980, 84)
1956 - Suzzy Roche, rocker (Roches)
1957 - Andrew "Dice" Clay, [Silverstien], comedian (Adv of Ford Fairlane)
1957 - Chris Broad, cricketer (prolific England opening batsman 1984-89)
1957 - Craig Lefferts, MLB Pitcher
1957 - Mari Wilson, British singer
1957 - Tim Flannery, DJ/MLB player (SD Padres)
1959 - Leslie Graves, Silver City NM, actress (Brenda-Capitol, Death Wish 2)
1960 - John MacBeth Paxson, NBA Guard (Chicago Bulls)
1960 - Leslie Graves, Silver City NM, actress (Capitol)
1960 - Rob Deer, MLB Outfielder (Milw Brewers)
1960 - Wendy White, Atlanta Ga, tennis player
1963 - Les Claypool, US funk metal singer/bassist (Primus-Suck on This)
1964 - Brad Lohaus, NBA forward/center (NY Knicks)
1964 - John Tucker, Windsor, NHL right wing (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1964 - Julie Peterson, Havre de Grace Md, playmate (Feb, 1987)
1965 - Fora van Leijenhorst, Cura‡aos/Neth dancer (Josephine)
1965 - Trent Yawney, Hudson Bay, NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames)
1966 - Hersey Hawkins, NBA guard (Seattle Supersonics, Olympic-bronze-1988)
1966 - Jason Gould, son of Barbra Striesand & Elliot Gould
1966 - Jill Whelan, Oakland Cal, actress (Vicki-Love Boat, Young & Restless)
1966 - Ken Norton Jr, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys, SF 49ers)
1966 - Rudy Poeschek, Kamloops, NHL right wing (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1967 - Dave Silvestri, St Louis MO, infielder (NY Yankees, Montreal Expos)
1968 - Luke Goss, rocker (Bros-I Owe You Nothing)
1968 - Matt Goss, rocker (Bros-I Owe You Nothing)
1968 - Mika Hakkinen, racing driver
1969 - Erika Eleniak, Glendale Ca, playmate (Jul, 1989)/actress (Baywatch)
1969 - Kelly Robbins, Mt Pleasant MI, LPGA golfer (1995 McDonald's LPGA
1970 - Chris Mims, NFL defensive end (SD Chargers)
1970 - Danny de Supervise, soccer player (FC Volendam)
1970 - Derrick Oden, NFL linebacker (Phila Eagles)
1970 - Emily Lloyd, London England, actress (Wish You Were Here, In Country)
1970 - Joseph Hudson, Philadelphia PA, pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1970 - Luke Bodensteiner, Iowa City Iowa, cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1970 - Natasha Gregson Wagner, actress (Dark Horse, SFW)/Robert's daughter
1970 - Nicolas Pereira, Salto Uruguay, tennis pro
1970 - Tina Fischer, Bad Nauheim Germany, golfer (European Amat champ 1994)
1971 - Adrion Smith, CFL cornerback (Toronto Argonauts)
1971 - Derrick Davis, WLAF cornerback (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Donald Smith, CFL cornerback (Toronto Argonauts)
1971 - Jay Kearney, WLAF receiver (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Ray Buchanan, NFL center (Indianapolis Colts)
1972 - Butler By'not'e, NFL running back (Carolina Panthers)
1972 - Jorgen Jonsson, hockey forward (Team Sweden 1998)
1972 - Trent Zenkewicz, NFL defensive tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1974 - Danielle DuClos, actress (Midnight Run, Zits)
1975 - Heather Pease, Monterey Calif, synchronized swimmer (Olympics-gold-96)
1978 - Mandy Groff, Miss Nebraska Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Mohini Bhardwaj, Phila, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
1980 - Sarah Sucher, Miss Iowa Teen USA (1997)
1988 - Emily Evelyn Chase, daughter of Jayni & Chevy

Famous deaths for this day ..

0855 - Lotharius I, Romanian-French emperor (signed Treaty of Verdun), dies
1530 - Andrea del Sato, [d'Agnolo di Franceszo], Italian painter, dies at 44
1560 - Gustaaf I, king of Sweden (1523-60), dies
1575 - Charles de Boisot, water beggar, dies in battle at about 45
1598 - Floris I van Pallandt, earl of Culemborg, dies at about 61
1619 - John Lippershey, inventor of telescope, buried
1800 - Michael Dennis, jesuit/author, dies at 71
1800 - William Billings, US composer (Rose of Sharon), dies at 53
1833 - Ferdinand VII MF, king of Spain, dies
1862 - William "Bull" Nelson, Union general-major, murdered at 38
1864 - Hiram Burnham, US Union-colonel (Chancellorsville), dies in battle
1895 - Louis Pasteur, scientist (Pasteurization) dies
1902 - Iosif Ivanovici, composer, dies
1902 - mile Zola, writer, dies at 62
1904 - Niels Ryberg Finnen, Danish physician (Nobel 1903), dies
1908 - Joaquim M Machado de Assis, Brazil writer (Dom Casmurro), dies at 69
1910 - Winslow Homer, painter (Prout's Neck), dies
1913 - Rudolph C K Diesel, German constructer (Diesel Motor), dies at 55
1914 - Jean Bouin, French marathoner (Olympic-silver-1912), dies in battle
1915 - Luther Orlando Emerson, composer, dies at 95
1915 - Rudi Stephan, composer, dies at 28
1918 - Eduard earl van Keyserling, German writer (Frhlingsopfer), dies at 63
1925 - E Runar Schildt, Finnish writer (Galgmannen), dies at 36
1925 - L‚on VA Bourgeois, French premier (1895-96, Nobel 1920), dies at 74
1927 - Willem Einthoven, Dutch physiologist (Nobel-1924), dies at 67
1928 - Arnold Kent, dies
1928 - Lido Manetti, dies
1928 - Steinitz, mathematician, dies
1929 - Giitji Tanaka, Japanese baron/general/premier (1927-29), dies at 66
1933 - Margaret Talmadge, dies
1937 - Ray Ewry, jumper (Olympics-10 gold-1900, 04, 06, 08), dies at 63
1939 - Dickstein, mathematician, dies
1941 - Friedrich Angel, German mathematician (group theory), dies at 79
1950 - Balthazar H Verhagen, Neth/South African dramatist/writer, dies
1951 - Bradley Barker, dies
1958 - Aare Merikanto, composer, dies at 65
1959 - Bruce Bairnsfather, cartoonist, dies
1959 - Harold Huber, actor (I Cover Times Square), dies at 49
1961 - Reinhard Herbig, German archaeologist, dies at 63
1962 - Patrick Corry, developed self-rotating rock drill, dies in the Bronx
1964 - Robert Burton, actor (Dr Gordon-Kings Row), dies at 69
1966 - Maurits H E Uyldert, Dutch poet/writer (Motion), dies at 75
1967 - Carson McCullers, US author (Heart is a Lonely Hunter), dies at 50
1967 - Ludwig Donath, actor (Torn Curtain, Sirocco), dies of leukemia at 67
1970 - Edward Everett Horton, actor/narrator (Bulwinkle Show), dies at 84
1973 - W H Auden, Vienna poet, dies
1974 - John Smallenbroek, Dutch Internal minister, dies at 72
1975 - Casey Stengel, NY Yankee manager (1949-60), dies in Glendale at 85
1977 - Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin, Russian composer, dies at 78
1978 - John Paul I, Pope for 34 days, dies at 65
1982 - H C Slinger Nitschke, cricketer (2 Tests for Australia 1931-32), dies
1984 - Marnix Gijsen, [Jan-Al Goris], writer (Lament for Agnes), dies at 85
1986 - Betty Kean, actress (Amy Tucker-Leave it to Larry), dies at 69
1987 - Henry Ford II, president Ford Motor Co, dies at 70
1988 - Charles Addams, cartoonist (Addams Family), dies of heart attack at 76
1989 - A A Busch Jr, brewer/baseball owner (St Louis Cards), dies at 90
1991 - Gijsbert Perlee, Amsterdam's organ builder/grinder (Arabian), dies
1991 - Sam Ntuli, South African ANC-writer, murdered
1991 - Zapata Jaw, [Nelson Renfrum], Surinamese musician, dies
1992 - Paul Jabara, singer/actor (Last Dance), dies of AIDS at 44
1993 - Ghuslam Wyne, premier of Lahore Pakistan, murdered at 60
1993 - Gordon Douglas, director (Call Me Mr Tibbs, Our Gang), dies at 85
1994 - Cheb Hasni, Algerian singer, murdered at 26
1994 - Don Watson, race car driver, dies in an accident at 46
1994 - John Heddle Nash, singer, dies at 68
1994 - Mehmet Topac, Turkish minister of Justice, murdered
1995 - Francis Frederick Johnson, architect, dies at 84
1995 - George Chesterman Phillips, naval Officer, dies at 90
1995 - Karl Anton Martin Gerhard Gerd Bucerius, publisher, dies at 89
1995 - Seger Pillot Ellis, pianist/vocalist, dies at 91
1995 - Susan Maureen Fleetwood, actress (Krays, Clash of Titans), dies at 51
1996 - Endo Shusaku, Japanese writer (Sea & Poison/Silence), dies at 73
1996 - Ethel Jane Cain, original UK Speaking Clock voice, dies at 87
1996 - Leslie Crowther, entertainer, dies at 63>>
1997 - Milner Connorton Gray, designer, dies at 97
1997 - Robert Arthur Thornbury Campbell, journalist/musician, dies at 55
1997 - Roy Lichtenstein, pop artist, dies of pneumonia at 73