Today In History - Saturday, May 30, 2026




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Welcome to Today In History for Saturday, May 30, 2026.

On this day in history ..

1035 - Boudouin V van Rijsel becomes earl of Flanders
1087 - German emperor Henry IV crowns his son Koenraad
1100 - Burchard becomes bishop of Utrecht
1381 - English boer uprising begins in Essex
1416 - Jerome of Prague burned as a heretic by Church
1434 - Battle at Lipany
1498 - Columbus departs with 6 ships for 3rd trip to America
1522 - French troops driven out of Genoa
1527 - U of Marburg (Germany) founded
1536 - English king Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour
1539 - Spanish explorer Fernando de Soto discovers Florida
1574 - Henry III follows brother Charles IX as king of France
1574 - Sea battle at Lillo Belgium (Adolf Van Haemstede vs Louis de Boisot)
1584 - Earl Adolf van Nieuwenaar/Meurs becomes viceroy of Gelderland
1588 - Spanish Aramada under Medina-Sidonia departs Lisbon to invade England
1631 - France/Maximilian van Bavarian signs Accord of Fontainebleau
1635 - Emperor Ferdinand II & Saksen sign Peace of Prague
1646 - Spain & Netherlands signs temporary cease fire
1783 - Benjamin Tower of Phila publishes 1st daily newspaper in US
1793 - Georges Couthon chosen member of French Committee the Salut Public
1808 - Napoleon annexes Tuscany & gave it seats in French Senate
1814 - 1st Treaty of Paris, after Napoleon's 1st abdication
1821 - James Boyd patents Rubber Fire Hose
1822 - House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged)
1832 - Evariste Galois give his theory on free assembly (dies in duel May 31)
1842 - John Francis attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria
1848 - 2nd battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians
1848 - William G Young patents ice cream freezer
1848 - Mexico ratifies treaty giving US; New Mexico, California & parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona & Colorado in return for $15 million
1854 - Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise opens north slavery
1854 - Territories of Kansas & Nebraska created
1858 - Hudson's Bay Co rights to Vancouver Island revoked
1862 - Battle of Booneville MS - captured Gen Beauregard evacuates Corinth
1862 - Battle of Front Royal, VA
1864 - Battle of Bethesda Church VA
1864 - Cavalry fight at Old Church (Totopotomoy Creek) Virginia
1866 - Opera "Die Verkaufte Braut" premieres (Prague)
1868 - Memorial Day 1st observed when 2 women in Columbus Mississippi placed flowers on both Confederate & Union graves
1872 - Mahlon Loomis patents wireless telegraphy
1879 - 92躘 highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in May
1879 - Gilmore Garden (NYC) renamed Madison Square Garden
1883 - Rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse caused a stampede that kills 12
1889 - Brassier invented
1890 - 1st Dodger home run (Dave Foutz)
1894 - Bobby Lowe is 1st to hit 4 HRs in 1 baseball game
1895 - W G Grace scores his 1,000th Cricket run of the season after 22 days
1896 - 1st car accident occurs, Henry Wells hit a bicyclist (NYC)
1899 - 24th Preakness: R Clawson aboard Half Time wins in 1:47
1901 - Hall of Fame for Great American on NYU campus dedicated
1901 - Memorial Day 1st observed in US
1903 - 28th Preakness: W Gannon aboard Flocarline wins in 1:44.8
1904 - Frank Chance gets hit by pitch 5 times in a doubleheader
1906 - 40th Belmont: Lucien Lyne aboard Burgomaster wins in 2:20
1907 - 41st Belmont: G Mountain aboard Peter Pan wins
1908 - 1st federal workmen's compensation law approved
1908 - 42nd Belmont: Joe Notter aboard Colin win
1908 - Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System
1908 - Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane
1908 - US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah authorized
1909 - National Conference on the Negro is held
1909 - Reuben Siegel laid cornerstone of 1st home in Tel-Aviv
1910 - 44th Belmont: James Butwell aboard Sweep wins in 2:22
1911 - 1st Indianapolis 500 car race, Ray Harroun wins at 74.59 MPH (120 KPH)
1912 - US Marines sent to Nicaragua
1913 - 1st Balkan War ends, Treaty of London
1913 - New country of Albania, forms
1913 - John McGraw joins Fred Clarke, Cap Anson, Frank Selee, & Connie Mack
1913 - as managers who have won 1,000 games
1921 - Lord Dunsany's "If," premieres in London
1921 - Memorial to Capt Eddie Grant, killed in WW I, unveiled at Polo Grounds
1921 - Salzburg, Austria, votes to join Germany
1922 - Latvia & Vatican sign accord
1922 - Lincoln Memorial dedicated
1922 - Cubs swap Max Flack for Cards Cliff Heathcote during middle of doubleheader. Both play for both teams that day
1923 - Howard Hanson's 1st Symphony "Nordic," premieres
1924 - Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists
1925 - British mariners shoot on demonstrators
1925 - Peter DePaolo became 1st man to average over 100 mph at Indy
1925 - Rogers Hornsby replaces Branch Rickey as manager of Cardinals
1927 - Walter Johnson records 113th & last shutout of his career
1930 - Bill Arnold wins Indianapolis 500 car race (161.6 kph)
1931 - Phillies Chuck Klein homers off Ben Cantwell (Braves) in both ends DH
1932 - Yankees dedicate a plaque to Miller Huggins
1933 - Patent on invisible glass installation
1935 - Babe Ruth's final game, goes hitless for Braves against Phillies
1937 - 20th PGA Championship: Denny Shute at Pittsburgh FC Aspinwall PA
1937 - Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers, 10 die
1937 - Pitcher Carl Hubbell's 24th consecutive victory
1937 - Police kill 10 strikers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago
1937 - 61,756, 2nd-largest crowd in Polo Grounds history, sees Dodgers ends Carl Hubbell's consecutive-game winning streak at 24
1938 - Yanks sweep Red Sox 10-0 & 5-4 in front of 83,533 at Yankee Stadium
1941 - 1st anti semitic measures in Serbia
1941 - English Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government
1941 - German capture Kreta
1942 - 1,047 bombers bomb Cologne in RAF's raid of WW II
1942 - Reichsf�hrer Himmler arrives in Prague
1942 - Satchel Paige pitches 5 innings to defeat Dizzy Dean All-Stars 8-1
1942 - US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor
1943 - French general De Gaulle arrives in Algiers
1943 - US troops reconquer Attu Aleutians
1944 - Transport nr 75 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1946 - Braves Bernard Malamud HR shatters Bulova clock in Ebbets Field
1946 - United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (NY) 42 die
1948 - Schenectady Blue Jays Tom Lasorda strikes out 25 in 15-inning game
1949 - East Germans constitution approved
1949 - NPS/VHP win 1st general election in Suriname
1949 - WRTV TV channel 6 in Indianapolis, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1950 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1951 - Ezzard Charles beats Joey Maxim in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1952 - Charlie Grimm succeeds Tommy Holmes as manager of Boston Braves
1952 - Darius Milhaud's "West Point Suite," premieres
1953 - 1st major league network baseball game-Cleveland 7, Chicago 2
1953 - 23rd French Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats V Seixas (63 64 16 62)
1953 - 23rd French Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (62 64)
1954 - Dutch bishops forbid membership to non-catholic sporting clubs
1954 - Emile Zatopek runs world record 5K (13:57.2)
1954 - Hector Villa-Lobos' "Odisseia de Uma Raca," premieres
1955 - KMVT TV channel 11 in Twin Falls, ID (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Said el-Mufti forms Jordan govt
1955 - Tunisia begins domestic self governing
1956 - Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee Florida
1956 - Mickey Mantle misses by 18" hitting 1st HR out of Yankee Stadium
1956 - US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1957 - Real Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup 1 in Madrid
1957 - Test Cricket debut for Rohan Kanhai v England at Edgbaston
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1958 - Unidentified soldiers killed in WW II & Korean War buried in Arlington
1959 - "First Impressions" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 84 performances
1959 - "Nervous Set" closes at Henry Miller's Theater NYC after 23 perfs
1959 - Iraq terminates milt assistance pact with US due to neutrality
1959 - Pres Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua
1959 - Pres Stroessner disbands Paraguay's parliament
1959 - World's 1st hovercraft (SR-N1) tested at Cowes England
1961 - Dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 62 die
1961 - Maris hits his 10th & 11th of 61 HRs
1962 - 69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India)
1962 - Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem," premieres
1964 - "Beyond the Fringe" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 673 perfs
1964 - Beatles 1961 record of "Cry for a Shadow" is #1 in Australia
1964 - Beatles' "Love Me Do," single goes #1
1964 - Giants sweep Mets 5-3 & 8-6 in 23 inn, records include elapsed time of 9:50, 47 strikeouts, 7:22 for 2nd game & NY's 22 K's in 2nd games
1965 - France performs nuclear test at Ecker Algeria (Underground)
1965 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1965 - Viet Cong offensive against US base Da Nang, begins
1965 - Vivian Malone, is 1st black to graduate from University of Alabama
1966 - 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam
1966 - Graham Hill wins Indianapolis 500 car race (232.2 kph)
1966 - US launches Surveyor 1 to Moon
1967 - Biafra declares independence from Nigeria
1967 - King Hussein of Jordan visits Cairo
1967 - Robert "Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles
1967 - Yankee Whitey Ford, nearing 41, announces his retirement from baseball
1968 - Beatles begin work on their only double album "Beatles"
1968 - President De Gaulle disbands French parliament
1968 - University church in Leipzig German DR, blown up
1968 - West German Parliament accepts emergency crisis law
1969 - Derek Clayton runs world record marathon (2:08:33.6) at Antwerp
1969 - Gibraltar adopts constitution
1969 - People revolt in Willemstad, Cura𡩣o
1970 - "Minnie's Boys" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 80 performances
1970 - Baseball All-Star voting is returned to fans
1971 - 36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; drunk LSD apple juice
1971 - Train crash at Duivendrecht Neth, 5 die
1971 - US Mariner 9 1st satellite to orbit Mars launched
1971 - Willie Mays hits his 638th HR, sets NL record of 1,950 runs scored
1972 - 3 Jap PFL terrorists kills 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lod Intl airport
1973 - Ajax wins 3rd Europe Cup
1974 - 10th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 9-4
1975 - European Space Agency (ESA) forms
1975 - Wings release "Venus & Mars" album
1976 - 22nd LPGA Championship won by Betty Burfeindt
1976 - Bobby Unser sets world record for fastest pit stop (4 seconds)
1977 - Cleve Indian Dennis Eckersley no-hits Calif Angels, 2-0
1979 - Nottingham Forrest wins 24th Europe Cup 1 at Munich
1979 - Pat Underwood makes his pitching debut for Detroit beats brother Tom
1979 - Percom Data Company Inc release Microdos for Radio Shack's TRS-80
1979 - Ted Coombs begins a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC
1980 - 1st papal visit to France since 1814
1980 - Tiger reliever John Hiller, 37, (who had a 1971 heart attack), retires
1980 - Turner's painting "Juliet & Her Nurse" sells for $6.4 million
1980 - Twins Ken Landreaux ends his hitting streak after 31 games
1981 - "Nightline" extends from 4 nights to 5 nights a week (Friday)
1981 - Bangladesh Pres Ziaur Rahman is shot by group of rebel officers
1981 - LA Dodgers are quickest to get 1,000,000 attendence (22 games)
1982 - "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes..." closes at Alvin NYC after 5 perf
1982 - Closest Indy 500, Gordon Johncock beats Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds
1982 - Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1982 - Spain becomes 16th member of NATO
1983 - Surrey all out for 14 vs Essex, their lowest score ever
1983 - AL Pres Lee MacPhail suspends Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for one week, for his public criticism of umpires
1984 - Bomb explodes in rebel leader Eden Pastora headquarters in Nicaragua
1984 - Liverpool wins 29th Europe Cup 1 in Rome
1984 - NL suspends Mario Soto 5 days for Reds-Cubs fight on May 27th
1985 - Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Phila Flyers, 4 games to 1
1986 - Ariane-2 (ESA) launched
1986 - Bobby Rahal is 1st to avg over 170 mph in Indianapolis 500
1986 - France performs nuclear test
1987 - Mike Tyson TKOs Pinklon Thomas in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 - North American Philips Company unveils compact disc video
1987 - Tony Tucker TKOs Buster Douglas in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 - West German Mathias Rust lands airplane on Red Square
1989 - Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house
1990 - 135 die in a (6.4) earthquake in Peru
1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,878.56
1990 - Earthquake hit Peru, killing 135
1991 - 64th National Spelling Bee: Joanne Lagatta wins spelling antipyretic
1991 - Arturo Barrios runs world record one-hour distance (21,096 km)
1991 - Supreme Court rules prosecutors can be sued for legal advice they give police & can be held accountable
1992 - Minn Twin Bert Blyleven is 2nd to win as teenager & 40 year old
1992 - NY Lotto pays $30 million to one winner (#s are 12-15-30-33-40-48)
1992 - NY Yankee Scott Sanderson becomes 9th to beat all 26 teams
1992 - Paul Simon weds Edie Brickell
1992 - UN votes for sanctions against Serb-led Yugoslavia to halt fighting
1993 - Betsy King wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Game Golf Tournament
1993 - Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1996 - 69th National Spelling Bee: Wendy Guey wins spelling vivisepulture
1996 - John Tesh's final day as host of "Entertainment Tonight"
1996 - Albert Belle uses a forearm to break up a double play & nearly breaks Brewer 2nd baseman Fernando Vina's nose, Belle gets 2 game suspension
1997 - Betty Shabazz, widow of Malcolm X, set afire by 12 year old grandson
1997 - Ken Dryden becomes president of NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1220 - Alexander Nevski, [Aleksandr], Russian great ruler (1252-63)
1524 - Sel龧 II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74)
1578 - Valentin Dretzel, composer
1623 - Wallerand Vaillant, painter/engraver, baptized
1672 - Peter I, (the Great), tsar of Russia (1682-1725) [NS=June 9]
1757 - Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth (C), British PM (1801-04)
1797 - Johann Christian Lobe, composer
1800 - Karl W Feuerbach, German mathematician (Position of Feuerbach)
1808 - Joaquim Casimiro Jr, composer
1812 - John Alexander McClernand, Major General (Union volunteers)
1829 - Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert
1830 - Edward Winslow Hinks, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1832 - George Doherty Johnston, Brig General (Confederate Army)
1835 - Alfred Austin, Leeds England, poet laureate of England (Garden)
1844 - Louis Varney, composer
1845 - Amadeus I FM, duke of Aosta/king of Spain (1870-73)
1846 - Peter Carl Faberg�, Russia, goldsmith/jeweler/egg maker
1847 - Alice Sophia Stopford Green, Ireland, proponent of Irish independence
1853 - Andries Andr�, Dutch actor/husband of Geertruida Meeuwissen
1853 - Karl Fritjof Valentin, composer
1859 - Pierre Marie Felix Janet, France, psychologist/neurologist
1867 - Arthur Vining Davis, Sharon Mass, CEO (Alcoa-1910-57)
1879 - Colin Blythe, cricketer (outstanding English slow lefty pre-WW I)
1881 - George KFW von K�chler, German fieldmarshal (Invasion Netherlands)
1883 - Riccardo Zandonai, composer
1887 - Alexander Archipenko, Ukraine sculptor/lithographer
1887 - Gino Tagliapietra, composer
1888 - James A Farley, postmaster general (1932-38)
1891 - Iman J van den Bosch, Belgian resistance fighter
1894 - Hubertus J van Mook, Dutch minister of Colonies (1942-45)
1895 - Maurice Tate, cricketer (great England pace bowler of 20's)
1896 - Howard Hawks, Goshen Ind, director/producer (Rio Bravo, Scarface)
1901 - Cornelia Otis Skinner, Chic, writer (When Our Hearts Were Young & Gay)
1902 - Seton Howard Frederick Lloyd, archaeologist
1902 - Stepin Fetchit, [Lincoln Perry], Fla, actor (Miracle in Harlem)
1903 - Countee Cullen, Balt Md, poet (Black Christ & Other Poems)
1903 - Ray Howard-Jones, artist
1904 - Ernesto de la Guardia Jr, President of Panam� (1956-60)
1908 - Hannes OG Alfv�n, Swedish physicist (Nobel 1970)
1908 - Mel[vin J] Blanc, voice (Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd & Porky Pig)
1909 - Benny Goodman, Chicago, clarinetist/bandleader (King of Swing)
1909 - George Headley, cricketer (in Panama All-time great WI batsman)
1911 - Douglas Fowley, NYC, actor (Grandpa-Pistols 'n' Petticoats)
1912 - Alexander Langsdorf, physicist
1912 - Hugh Griffith, Wales, actor (Ben Hur, Mutiny on the Bounty, Oliver!)
1912 - Joseph Stein, dramatist/playwright (Fiddler on the Roof)
1912 - Julian Gustave Symons, writer
1913 - Cedric Thorpe Davie, composer
1914 - Bobby Sherwood, Indianapolis Ind, orch leader (Milton Berle Show)
1915 - Jerome Bert Weisner, military scientist/disarmer
1916 - Joseph W Kennedy, scientist (1 of 4 discoverers of plutonium)
1920 - John Heawood, actor/singer/choreographer (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
1922 - Harry Clement Stubbs, US, sci-fi author (Needle, Iceworld)
1923 - Jimmy Lydon, Harrington Pk NJ, actor (Richard-Love That Jill)
1924 - Norbert Schemansky, USA, middle heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1952)
1925 - Claude Prey, composer
1925 - Eddy Bruma, Suriname politician
1925 - Gerard John Toorenaar, political commissar in Amsterdam (1975-79)
1926 - Christine Jorgensen, pioneer transsexual
1926 - Edouard Van Remoortel, Brussels, conductor (1958-62 St Louis Symph)
1926 - James Whitman McLamore, businessman
1927 - Clint Walker, Hartford Ill, actor (Kodiak, Cheyenne, Dirty Dozen)
1927 - Dick Noel, Bkln NY, TV host (It's a Small Wonder)
1927 - Evelyn Wesler Zemel, US, author (American Glass Animals)
1928 - Agn鵮 Varda, French photograph/director (Cl�o de 5 � 7, Le bonheur)
1928 - John Keith Wright, English economist/asst sect of state (1971-84)
1929 - Michael Mellinger, Bavaria, actor (Goldfinger)
1932 - Pauline Oliveros, Houston Texas, composer (Sound Patterns)
1932 - Seppo Antero Yrjonpoika Nummi, composer
1934 - Alexei A Leonov, Siberia USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II, Soyuz 19)
1936 - Galina Shostakovitch, daughter of Russian composer Dmitri
1936 - Keir Dullea, Cleveland OH, actor (2001, 2010, David & Lisa)
1936 - Roy Harford, cricketer (brother of Noel NZ wicketkeeper v India 1968)
1936 - Ruta Lee, actress (Operation Eichmann, Marjorie Morningstar)
1937 - Arthur C Jacobs, poet
1938 - Wilfried A de Pree, Dutch MP (PvdA)/theologist
1939 - Michael J Pollard, Passaic NJ, actor (Bonny & Clyde, Roxanne)
1940 - David Ackroyd, Orange NJ, actor (I Come in Peace, Memories of Me)
1942 - Dan Miller, (Rep-R-Florida)
1942 - Lenny Davidson, London, rock guitarist (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)
1943 - Gale Sayers, NFL running back (Chicago Bears)
1944 - Larry Davidson, rocker (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)
1945 - Meredith MacRae, Houston Tx, actress (Petticoat Junction, My 3 Sons)
1946 - Candy Lightner, political activist/founder (MADD)
1947 - Jocelyne Bourassa, LPGA golfer
1949 - Bob Willis, cricketer (superb England fast bowler 1971-84)
1951 - Stephen Tobolowsky, Tx, actor (Single White Female, Thelma & Louise)
1952 - Zoltan Kocsis, composer
1953 - Colm Meaney, actor (Star Trek Deep Space 9)
1955 - Nicky "Topper" Headon, English drummer (Clash-Complete Control)
1957 - Allison Roe, Auckland NZ, marathoner (NYC-1981)
1957 - Chris Van Jaarsveld, guitarist (Sleeze Beez)
1957 - Michael Clayton, Melbourne VIC, Australasia golfer
1958 - Marie Fredriksson, Ostra-Lj Swed, singer (Roxette-Must Have Been Love)
1958 - Michael E Lopez-Alegria, Madrid Spain, Lt Cmdr/astro (STS 73, sk 92)
1958 - Ted McGinley, Newport Beach Calif, actor (Love Boat, MWC, Dynasty)
1960 - Stephen "Tea Tower" Duffy, rocker (Lilac Time-Paradise Song)
1961 - Ella Arolovich, Leningrad USSR, model
1961 - Ralph Carter, NYC, actor (Michael Evans-Good Times)
1961 - Trey Parker, rapper/actor (Newsies, Hull High)
1962 - Jan Gunnarsson, Sweden, tennis star
1962 - John Alt, NFL tackle (KC Chiefs)
1962 - Tonya Pinkins, Chicago Ill, actress (Livia Frye-All My Children)
1963 - Helen Patricia Sharman, Great Britain, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-12)
1963 - Lynda Wiesmeier, Washington DC, playmate (Jul, 1982)
1964 - Nhi Lan Le, Vietnam, US fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1964 - Wynonna, [Christina Judd], Ashland Ky, singer (Judds-Why Not Me)
1965 - Tammy Parks, Rockville Centre NY, actress (Attack of 60' Centerfold)
1965 - Tyronne Stowe, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks)
1966 - Gary Martin, cricket pace bowler (Zimbabwe ODI)
1967 - Beno龨 Gauthier, St Jerome Quebec, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1967 - Rechelle Hawkes, Albany W Aust, field hockey midfielder (Olympics-96)
1968 - Amy Fuller, Westlake Calif, rower (Olympics-4th-92, 96)
1968 - Jerry Springer, White Plains NY, Canadian Tour golfer
1968 - Tim Burgess, English rock vocalist (Charlatans-Only One I Know)
1970 - Audrey Wooding, LPGA golfer
1970 - Sam Rogers, NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
1971 - Drahomir Kadlec, Pribham CZE, hockey defenseman (Team Czech Rep)
1971 - Jiri Slegr, Jihlava Cze, NHL defenseman (Edmonton Oilers, Oly-G-98)
1971 - Kyle Vander Kuyp, Australian 110m hurdler (Olympics-96)
1972 - Allen Aldridge, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1972 - Anthony Cook, NFL defensive end/defensive tackle (Tenn Oilers)
1972 - Jeff Jones, NFL tackle (Detroit Lions)
1972 - Manny Ramirez, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, outfielder (Cleveland Indians)
1972 - Renita Farrell, Townsville Qld Aust, field hockey midfielder (Oly-96)
1972 - Terry Wilburn, WLAF running back (Barcelona Dragons)
1973 - Christine Pavone, Miss USA-Connecticut (1997)
1973 - Je'Rod Cherry, safety (New Orleans Saints)
1973 - Jennifer Darst, Dallas Texas, pairs skater (& Arthur Reid)
1973 - Steve Charbonneau, CFL defensive linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1974 - David Wilkie, Ellensburg, NHL defenseman (Montreal Canadiens)
1976 - Omri Hairi Katz, LA Calif, actor (Marshall Teller-Eerie Indiana)
1978 - Krassmira Todorava, Miss Bulgaria Universe (1997)
1986 - Ashley Slaney, daughter of Olympians Mary Decker & Richard Slaney

Famous deaths for this day ..

0727 - Hubertus, bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht/saint, dies at about 72
1035 - Boudouin IV, count of Flanders (988-1035), dies
1252 - Ferdinand III the holy, King of Castili�/Le▋, dies
1416 - Jerome of Prague, burned as a heretic by Church
1431 - Joan of Arc, burned as a witch by English at Rouen at 19
1434 - Prokopius, [Bohemia?], leader of taboriets, dies in battle
1574 - Charles IX, King of France (1560-74), dies
1593 - Christopher Marlowe, Brit dramatist (Tamburlaine the Great), murdered
1640 - Andr� Duchesne, French historian/genealogy, dies
1640 - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter, dies at 62
1718 - Arnold J van Keppel, earl of Albemarle/general, dies at about 48
1718 - Bernard Nieuwentyt, physician/theologist, dies at 63
1744 - Alexander Pope, English poet (Eloisa to Abelard), dies at 56
1746 - Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, composer, dies at 69
1778 - Voltaire, [Fran媤is-Marie Arouet], French writer (Candide), dies at 42
1791 - Ildephons Haas, composer, dies at 56
1797 - Carl Ludwig Junker, composer, dies at 48
1809 - Johan B Scheffer, portrait painter, dies at about 43
1833 - Josef Slavik, composer, dies at 27
1840 - Dominique J de Eerens, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies, dies at 59
1864 - James Barbour Terrill, US attorney/Confederate brig-gen, dies at 26
1865 - William Clarke Quantrill, criminal/Confederate bushwhacker, dies at 27
1870 - Gustave Vogt, composer, dies at 89
1906 - William Yeates Hurlstone, composer, dies at 30
1912 - Wilbur Wright, US aviation pioneer, dies
1918 - Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist, dies
1919 - Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies
1922 - David Mendes Chumaceiro, Cura𡩣os poet (Adelfas), dies at 45
1923 - Camille Chevillard, composer, dies at 63
1923 - Charles Fichardt, cricketer (S Afr batsman in 2 Tests 1892-96), dies
1935 - Lothar Windsperger, composer, dies at 49
1938 - Raden Sutomo, Indonesian freedom fighter, dies at 49
1940 - Y de Smit-Rog, eldest Dutchman, dies at 104
1944 - Jessie Ralph, actress (Good Earth, San Francisco), dies at 79
1945 - Irma Laplasse, Flemish farmer/nazi collaborator, executed
1947 - Sidney Hugo Nicholson, composer, dies at 72
1951 - Hermann Broch, writer, dies at 64
1953 - George Barnes, cinematographer, dies at 60
1954 - Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian/author, dies at 67
1957 - Toivo R Pekkanen, Finnish writer (Black Ecstacy), dies
1959 - Thomas Carl Whitmer, composer, dies at 85
1960 - Boris Pasternak, Russian poet (Dr Zhivago), dies at 70
1961 - Rafael L Trujillo Molina, dictator Dom Rep (1930-61), murdered at 69
1964 - Leo Szilard, Hungarians/US nuclear physicst, dies at 66
1966 - W�in� V Aaltonen, Finnish sculptor, dies at 72
1967 - Claude Rains, actor (Invisible Man), dies at 77
1969 - Gaston Brenta, composer, dies at 66
1969 - John Cipollini, guitarist, dies of ephysema at 45
1971 - Audie Murphy, WW II hero/actor (Sierra), killed in plane crash at 46
1971 - Marcel Dupr�, French composer, dies at 85
1971 - Rodd Redwing, actor (Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory), dies at 66
1972 - Margaret Ruthven Lang, composer, dies at 104
1973 - Hal Hastings, orch leader (Chevrolet on Broadway), dies at 66
1975 - Michel Simon, actor (Panic, Plague, Two of Us), dies at 80
1977 - Claire Goll, writer, dies at 86
1977 - Paul Desmond, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 52
1979 - Jack Raine, actor (Quartet), dies at 82
1980 - Carl Radle, bassist (Derek & Dominoes), dies of a kidney ailment
1980 - Timmy Caldwell, rocker (Marshall Tucker Band), dies
1981 - Ziaur Rahmen, pres of Bangladesh, is assassinated
1983 - Alfred M Gruenther, US general/NATO-commander (1953-56), dies at 84
1986 - Hank Mobley, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 55
1987 - Frank Carlson, (Gov/Rep/Sen-R-Ks), dies at 94
1987 - Turk Murphy, jazz trombonist, dies at 71
1988 - Ella Raines, actress (Uncle Harry, Runaround, Impact), dies at 66
1989 - Zinka Milanov, Met Opera Diva, dies of a stroke at 83
1991 - Manolo Gomez Bur, Spanish comedian dies at 74
1992 - Daniel Addes, actor (Victor-Sunst Grill), dies at 59
1992 - Karl Carstens, president German FR (1979-84), dies at 77
1992 - Leen 't Hart, organist/composer, dies at 72
1993 - Herman S Blount, Sun Ra, US jazz pianist (Solar Arkestra), dies at 79
1993 - Sun Ra, blues pianist/orchestra leader, dies of strokes at 79
1994 - Baron Marcel Bich, inventor (Bic Pen), dies at 79
1994 - Ezra Taft Benson, 13th head of Mormon Church, dies at 94
1994 - Jean Gattegno, translator/scholar, dies at 58
1994 - Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan writer (La vida breve), dies at 85
1994 - Marcel Bich, Italian/French baron/pen manufacturer (Bic), dies at 79
1995 - Bobby Stokes, soccer star, dies at 44
1995 - Philip Owen A Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator, dies at 72
1995 - Ted Drake, soccer star, dies at 82
1995 - Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, Brit national park warden, dies at 87
1996 - Bob Stroup, trombonist, dies at 57
1996 - John Cameron, judge, dies at 96
1996 - John Kahn, bassist, dies at 47
1996 - Leon-Etienne Duval, archbishop/cardinal, dies at 92