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Born on this Day
1316: John I Posthumous, French King born 5
months after father's death
1765: Robert Fulton, American inventor of
the steamboat
1776: Henri Dutrochet, discovered &
named process of osmosis
1778: Johann Hummel, a composer who
influenced music more than most people know was born. Hummel took lessons from
Clementi, Haydn, Mozart and Salieri. His greatest contributions to music were things which brought
other people's music to wider attention.
1840: French Impressionist painter Claude Monet
1889: Indian statesman Jawaharlal Nehru
1896: Mamie Doud Eisenhower, wife of
President Eisenhower
1889: Jawaharlal Nehru (India's 1st prime
minister after its independence)
1900: Composer Aaron Copland
He shocked audiences with his jazzy compositions then won everyone over with more
accessible works like "Billy the Kid," "Rodeo," and "Appalachian
Spring."
1904: Actor Dick Powell
1908: Journalist Harrison Salisbury
1908: Sen. Joseph McCarthy, D-Wis.
1908: Harrison Salisbury (journalist)
1910: Actress Rosemary DeCamp (Rhapsody in
Blue, On Moonlight Bay, The Bob Cummings Show, That Girl, The Life of Riley) some sources
give 1914
1912: Barbara Hutton (heiress: F.W.
Woolworth)
1912: Former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali
1914: Actress Rosemary DeCamp (Rhapsody in
Blue, On Moonlight Bay, The Bob Cummings Show, That Girl, The Life of Riley)
1915: Singer Martha Tilton (And the Angels
Sing, A Stranger in Town; actress: The Benny Goodman Story, Sunny)
1917: Actor Howard Duff (Felony Squad, Mr.
Adams and Eve, Flamingo Road, Knots Landing, Dante, Dallas, East of Eden, Kramer vs.
Kramer, The Naked City, Oh God!, Book 2)
1918: Actress Kathleen Hughes
1920: Singer (Giovanni DeSimone) Johnny
Desmond (Yellow Rose of Texas, Play Me Hearts and Flowers Don McNeill's Breakfast Club,
Actor in: Say Darling, Funny Girl, China Doll)
1921: Brian (Robert) Keith (actor: Family
Affair, Hardcastle & McCormick, Heartland, The Westerner, Crusader, Centennial, The
Brian Keith Show, Walter and Emily, Nevada Smith, The Loneliest Runner, The Parent Trap,
The Young Philadelphians, Young Guns)
1922: Former UN Secretary-General Boutros
Boutros-Ghali
1924: Actress Phyllis Avery (The George
Gobel Show, Mr. Novak)
1929: Auto racer Tiny (DeWayne) Lund
1929: Baseball player Jimmy Piersall
1929: Actor McLean Stevenson (M*A*S*H, The
McLean Stevenson Show, Hello Larry, The Tim Conway Comedy Hour, The Doris Day Show, Condo)
1933: Astronaut Fred Haise
1934: Jazz musician Ellis Marsalis
1935: Jordan's King Hussein
1935: Actor Don Stewart (Guiding Light, The
Doomsday Flight)
1936: Blues singer Carey Bell
1940: Pop singer Freddie Garrity (Freddie
& the Dreamers)
1947: Writer P.J. O'Rourke
1947: Zydeco singer-musician Buckwheat
Zydeco
1948: Britain's Prince Charles
1948: Actor Robert Ginty
1948: Rock singer-musician James Young
(Styx)
1951: Singer Stephen Bishop (It Might be
You, On and On, Save It for a Rainy Day, Everybody Needs Love, This is the Night, Living
in the Land of Abe Lincoln)
1961: Actress Laura San Giacomo
1961: Actor D.B. Sweeney
1964: Rapper Run (Run-DMC)
1964: Rock musician Nic Dalton (The
Lemonheads)
1972: Rapper Shyheim
0565: Death of Justinian I
"the Great," Eastern Roman Emperor
1060: Death of Count
Geoffrey of Anjou
1305: Crowning of the first
"Avignon Pope" (Clement V)
1359 :Death of St. Gregory
Palamas
1501: Marriage of Arthur,
heir to England, to Katherine of Aragon
1575: Elizabeth I of England
refuses sovereignty of the Netherlands
1587: Cavendish, an English
sea-rover, captures "Great St. Anne," a Spanish treasure galleon
1832: The first streetcar --
a horse-drawn vehicle called the "John Mason" -- first went into operation in
New York City. The vehicle had room for 30 people in three compartments. The new service
traveled Fourth Avenue between Prince and Fourteenth Streets.
1851: Herman Melville's
novel "Moby Dick" was first published in the United States.
1881: Charles J. Guiteau
went on trial for assassinating President Garfield. (Guiteau was convicted and hanged the
following year.)
1889: Inspired by Jules
Verne, New York "World" reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth
Cochrane) set out to
travel around the world in less than 80 days. (She succeeded: making the trip in 72 days.)
Today's
History Focus
1921: KYW Radio, Chicago, IL
broadcast the first opera by a professional company, as listeners heard "Samson Et
Dilila" from the Chicago Auditorium.
1922: The British
Broadcasting Corporation began its domestic radio service.
1930: Prokofiev's Fourth
Symphony was premiered by the Boston Symphony as part of its 50th anniversary season. The
Fourth has a slow introduction of unusual warmth and poignance and lots of action
afterwards.
1935: President Roosevelt
proclaimed the Philippine Islands a free commonwealth.
1940: German planes bombed
Coventry, England, destroying or damaging 69,000 buildings.
1944: Tommy Dorsey and
Orchestra recorded "Opus No. 1" for RCA Victor.
1945: Captain Eddie
Rickenbacker sold the historic Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Former Indy winner, Wilbur
Shaw became the new president and manager of the speedway. The track would be purchased by
the Tony Holman family shortly thereafter.
1951: The first world
lightweight title fight was telecast coast to coast this day. Jimmy Carter beat Art Aragon
in Los Angeles.
1959: Hawaii's Kilauea
volcano had its most spectacular eruption.
1960: GEORGIA ON MY MIND by
Ray Charles peaked at #1 on the pop singles chart.
1964: Gordie Howe, of the
Detroit Red Wings, set a National Hockey League record as he scored his 627th career goal
in a game against Montrealy.
1966: Boxing's largest
indoor crowd assembled in the Houston Astrodome to see Cassius Clay defeat Cleveland
Williams - by a TKO.
1967: The Monkees received a
gold record for "Daydream Believer."
1968: Yale University
announced it was going co-ed.
1969: "Apollo
12" blasted off for the moon.
1972: The Dow Jones
Industrial Average closed above the 1,000 level for the first time in its 76-year history:
ending the day at 1003.16.
1973: Britain's Princess
Anne married Captain Mark Phillips in Westminster Abbey. (They divorced in 1992, and Anne
re-married.)
1981: Paul 'Bear' Bryant
tied the record of Amos Alonzo Stagg - for most football wins - as the Alabama Crimson
Tide notched win #314 for Coach Bryant. Alabama beat Penn State 31-16.
1982: Solidarity leader Lech
Walesa returned to his home in Gdansk, Poland, after eleven months of internment by
martial law authorities.
1983: Amid protests from
opposition lawmakers and anti-nuclear demonstrators, the British government announced that
U.S.-made cruise missiles had arrived at the Greenham Common air base.
1984: Former Israeli Defense
Minister Ariel Sharon went to court in New York with a $50 million libel suit against Time
(Magazine) Incorporated. He lost after a two-month trial.
1984: Astronauts aboard the
space shuttle Discovery plucked a second satellite from orbit and secured it in the
spacecraft's cargo bay -- the second successful salvage mission in two days.
1985: President Reagan
delivered a nationally broadcast speech in which he previewed his upcoming Geneva summit
with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev as "a mission for peace."
1986: Bette Midler gave
birth to her first child...a daughter she named Sophie.
1986: The U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission announced that Ivan Boesky would have to pay $100 million in fines
and alleged profits to settle insider trading charges against him. The settlement was just
$6 million less than the entire S.E.C. budget for 1986.
1987: A bomb hidden in a box
of chocolates exploded in the lobby of Beirut's American University Hospital, killing
seven people, including the woman who was carrying it.
1988: Israeli President
Chaim Herzog formally asked Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to form a new government.
1988: US officials said
Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev would visit the United States the following month.
1989: The U.S. Navy, alarmed
over a recent string of serious accidents, ordered an unprecedented 48-hour stand-down.
1990: President Bush told
congressional leaders he had no immediate plans to go to war in the Persian Gulf.
1990: British commentator
Malcolm Muggeridge died in Sussex, England, at age 87.
1990: Simon and Schuster
announced it had dropped plans to publish the controversial Bret Easton Ellis novel
"American Psycho."
1991: U.S. and British
authorities announced indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection
with the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
1991: Fired postal worker
Thomas McIlvane stormed the Royal Oak, Michigan, Post Office, fatally shooting four
workers before killing himself.
1991: Cambodian Prince
Norodom Sihanouk returned to his homeland after 13 years in exile.
1991: Michael Jackson's
BLACK OR WHITE video premiered on FOX-TV.
1992: As preparations for
the presidential transition continued, President-elect Clinton told reporters in Little
Rock, Arkansas, that a compromise on a line-item veto proposed by House Speaker Thomas
Foley could prove acceptable.
1993: In a referendum,
residents of Puerto Rico voted in favor of continuing their U.S. commonwealth status.
1994: After many delays, the
first trains for the public were run in the Channel Tunnel - the "Chunnel" -
under the English Channel.
1994: President Clinton, in
Indonesia, held one-on-one meetings with the leaders of China, Japan and South Korea,
winning pledges to keep the pressure on North Korea to freeze its nuclear weapons program.
1994: U.S. experts visited
North Korea's main nuclear complex for the first time under an accord aimed at opening
such sites to outside inspections.
1994: heavy rains and
flooding from Tropical Storm Gordon swept across Haiti, killing several hundred people.
1995: The U.S. government
instituted a partial shutdown, closing national parks and museums while government offices
operated with skeleton crews.
1995: U.S. Rep. Enid Greene Waldholtz, R-Utah, filed for divorce from her husband, Joseph
Waldholtz, who was under
federal investigation for possible campaign financing improprieties.
1996: Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, the senior Roman Catholic prelate in the United States and leader of Chicago's
2.3 million Catholics, died at his home at age 68, surrounded by family and friends.
1997: A jury in Fairfax,
Virginia, decided that Pakistani national Mir Aimal Kasi should get the death penalty for gunning down two CIA
employees outside agency headquarters. (Kasi was sentenced to death in January 1998.)
1997: Sara Lister, assistant
secretary of the Army for manpower and reserve affairs, resigned in the wake of political
pressure after she called Marines "extremists" and made fun of their uniforms.
1998: Iraq said it would
resume cooperating with UN weapons inspectors as it appeared to back down in the face of a
threatened US attack.
1999: Democrat Bill Bradley took center court at New York's Madison Square Garden for a $1.5 million presidential campaign fund-raiser that featured his former Knick teammates and basketball rivals.
1999: The United Nations imposed sanctions on Afghanistan for refusing to hand over suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden.
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