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Born on this Day
1578: William Harvey
1815: German military theorist Prince Otto von Bismarck
1866: Italian pianist and composer Ferruccio Busoni
1873: Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff born Novgorod Province, Russia. He
was the last great figure of the tradition of Russian Romanticism and also a leading piano
virtuoso of the day.
1883: Actor Lon Chaney, The man of a thousand faces
1909: Society pianist Eddie Duchin
1920: Actor Toshiro Mifune
1922: Writer William Manchester ("Death of a President")
1928: Actor George Grizzard
1929: Actress Jane Powell
1930: Actress Grace Lee Whitney
1932: Actress Debbie Reynolds
1932: Actor Gordon Jump
1934: Country singer Jim Ed Brown
1934: Actor Don Hastings ("As the World Turns")
1938: Actress Ali MacGraw
1939: Rhythm-and-blues singer Rudolph Isley (The Isley Brothers)
1946: Rock musician Ronnie Lane (Faces)
1946: Singer Arthur Conley
1947: David Eisenhower
1948: Reggae singer Jimmy Cliff
1949: Jazz musician Gil Scott-Heron
1952: Rock musician Billy Currie (Ultravox)
1953: Actress Annette O'Toole
1953: Movie director Barry Sonnenfeld
1968: Country singer Woody Lee
1975: Tennis player Magdalena Maleeva
1982: Actor Sam Huntington ("Jungle 2 Jungle")
0009: Tigremas, Ard-Righ of Ireland, proclaims the wearing
of the "Nine Colors"
0568: Lombards assembled to cross the Alps to Italy
1132: Death of St. Hugh of Grenoble
1204: Death of Elanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France and
England
1282: Death of the IlKhan Abaqa, in Hamadan
1375: St. Catherine of Siena receives the Stigmata
1389: Treaty of Zurich
1401: Conway Castle taken by Welsh rebels
1406: Death of Robert II, King of Scotland
1548: Death of Sigsimund I, King of Poland
1548: Parliament orders "The Book of Common
Prayer" printed in English
1572: The "Sea Beggars" take Briel from the
Spanish
1611: Galileo received in Audience by Pope Paul V
1778: Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans Businessman, creates
the "$".
1789: The U-S House of Representatives held its first full
meeting, in New York City. Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania was elected the first
House Speaker.
1829: The Harmonicon proclaimed that a certain symphony
was "infinitely too lengthy" and predicted that would therefore, quote,
"fall into disuse." Which symphony? Oh, the Eroica.
1831: Berlioz left Rome to return to France claiming he
intended to murder his fiancee for allegedly seeing another man. The deed was never done.
1853: Cincinnati, Ohio, became the first US city to pay
its firefighters a regular salary.
1918: Toward the end of World War I, the Royal Air Force
was founded. Two months later, Britain began bombing industrial targets in Germany from
bases in France.
1933: Nazi Germany began persecuting Jews with a boycott
of Jewish-owned businesses.
1939: The United States recognized the Franco government
in Spain following the end of the Spanish civil war.
1930: Cosima Wagner died in Bayreuth at the age of 92,
fully 47 years after Wagner's death.
1945: American forces swarmed ashore on the Japanese
island of Okinawa, to begin what would be one of the longest and bloodiest battles of
World War II.
1946: Tidal waves struck the Hawaiian islands, resulting
in more than 170 deaths.
1947: Greece's King George the Second died.
1960: The first weather satellite, "TIROS-One,
(Television & Infra-Red Observation Satellite)" was launched from Cape Canaveral.
1963: The daytime drama "General Hospital"
premiered on ABC TV.
1970: President Nixon signed a measure banning cigarette
advertising on radio and television, to take effect after January first, 1971.
1982: The United States formally transferred control of
the Panama Canal Zone to the government of Panama.
1987: In his first major speech on the AIDS epidemic,
President Reagan told doctors in Philadelphia, "We've declared AIDS public health
enemy number one."
1988: Independent Counsel James C. McKay said there was
insufficient evidence to warrant a criminal indictment of Attorney General Edwin Meese the
Third in connection with the Iraq-Jordan pipeline plan or his investment in telephone
company stock.
1988: Jim Jordan, old-time radio's "Fibber
McGee," died in Beverly Hills, California, at age 91.
1989: Alaska Governor Steve Cowper announced that a
"strike force" of state officials and local fishermen were taking over some of
the cleanup operations following the massive Exxon Valdez oil spill.
1990: More Soviet military vehicles rolled through the
Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, a day after Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev warned
the Baltic republic to annul its declaration of independence.
1991: The US Supreme Court ruled, 7-to-2, that trial prosecutors violate the Constitution if they bar prospective jurors for racial reasons
– even when the defendant and the excluded jurors are of different races.
1991: Modern dance pioneer Martha Graham died at age 96.
1991: Duke defeated the University of Kansas 72-to-65 to win the NCAA college basketball championship.
1992: President Bush pledged the United States would help
finance a 24 billion-dollar international aid fund for the former Soviet Union.
1992:The House ethics committee publicly identified 22
current and former lawmakers as the worst offenders in the House bank overdraft
controversy.
1993: In an impassioned plea for Russian aid, President
Clinton told newspaper editors in Annapolis, Maryland, that America should help "not
out of charity" but as a crucial investment in peace and prosperity.
1994: The government reported the nation's unemployment
rate for March remained unchanged from February, at 6.5 percent.
1995: More than 1500 mourners attended a vigil for
Mexican-American singer Selena in Corpus Christi, Texas, where she'd been shot to death
the day before.
1995: United Nations peacekeepers officially took over
from the US-led multinational force in Haiti.
1995: With US Defense Secretary William Perry looking on,
Ukraine began the process of dismantling its nuclear missiles.
1996: In a case that sparked an uproar reminiscent of the
Rodney King case, two Riverside County, California, sheriff's deputies were videotaped
repeatedly clubbing a Mexican man and woman after a 70-mile highway chase involving a
pickup truck suspected of sneaking across the border.
1996: Baseball umpire John McSherry died after collapsing
during a season opener between the Cincinnati Reds and Montreal Expos.
1997: Federal authorities cautioned that thousands of
schoolchildren across the nation might have been exposed to the hepatitis A virus by
eating frozen strawberries imported from Mexico and processed in the US.
1998: US District Judge Susan Webber Wright dismissed
Paula Jones' lawsuit against President Clinton, saying her claims of sexual harassment
fell "far short" of being worthy of trial.
1998: A federal judge dismissed the sexual harassment
lawsuit filed by Paula Jones against President Clinton.
1999: Canada created a new territory, Nunavut, as a means
of providing autonomy for the Inuit people.
1999: A New Jersey man was arrested and charged with
originating the "Melissa" e-mail virus. (David L. Smith later pleaded guilty to
various state and federal charges.)
1999: The United States branded as an illegal abduction
the capture of three US Army soldiers near the Macedonian-Yugoslav border; President
Clinton demanded their immediate release.
2000: President Clinton, speaking at a fund-raiser for his wife's Senate campaign, accused New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani of enlisting a "right-wing venom machine" against Hillary Rodham Clinton.
2000: Michelle Kwan won her third World Figure Skating title.
2001: A U.S. Navy surveillance plane
collided with a Chinese fighter over the South China Sea, then made an
emergency landing on China's Hainan island.
2001: Former Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic was arrested on corruption charges after a 26-hour armed
standoff with the police at his Belgrade villa.
2001: Notre Dame won its first national
championship in women's basketball, defeating Purdue, 66-64.
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