This Day in History for 8th November ◀ Oct November Dec ▶ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 All Events Birthdays Weddings Deaths Historical Events Events 1 - 100 of 157 392 - Roman Emperor Theodosius declares Christian religion, state religion 911 - Duke Koenraad I chosen German king 1322 - Pope John XXII names John van Diest, bishop of Utrecht 1494 - Uprising against Piero de Medici in Florence Italy 1519 - 1st meeting of Moctezuma II & Hernán Cortés in Tenochtitlan, Mexico 1520 - Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people. 1575 - French Roman Catholics & Huguenots signs treaty 1576 - Eighty Years War: Pacification of Ghent - 17 Dutch provinces sign anti-Spanish covenant 1598 - Spanish troops under Bernardino de Mendoza conquer Doetinchem 1602 - The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened Aztec Emperor Moctezuma IIAztec Emperor Moctezuma II 1620 - Battle of White Mountain, Prague 1627 - English fleet under George Villiers leaves Île de Ré 1658 - Battle of the Sound: Swedish fleet beats Dutch during 2nd Northern War 1701 - William Penn presents Charter of Priviliges 1731 - In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin opens 1st US library 1734 - Vincent la Chapelle, master cook to various nobility and royalty, forms Free Masons Lodge in Netherlands 1789 - Bourbon Whiskey, 1st distilled from corn (by Elijah Craig, Bourbon Ky) 1833 - Train derails at Hightstown NJ; 2 die 1837 - Mount Holyoke Seminary in Mass-1st US college founded for women Author Victor HugoAuthor Victor Hugo 1838 - Victor Hugos Ruy Blas premieres in Paris 1842 - Belgium King Leopold I proclaims child labor laws (for 1889) 1861 - Battle of Mount Ivy, KY 1861 - US removes Confederate officials from British steamer Trent 1864 - Abraham Lincoln (R) elected to his 2nd term as American President 1870 - Democratic governor elected in Tennessee 1880 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, made US debut at NYs Booth Theater 1883 - English freighter Nisero stranded at Atjeh (crew taken hostage) US President Abraham LincolnUS President Abraham Lincoln 1884 - German government recognizes King Leopold IIs Congo Free State 1889 - Montana admitted as 41st state of the Union 1892 - Grover Cleveland (D) elected 24th US President 1895 - German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produces and detects electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays or Röntgen rays 1895 - Wilhelm Röntgen observes X-rays for the first time during an experiment at Würzburg University, Germany 1900 - Theodore Dreisers novel Sister Carrie is published 1901 - Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek. 1904 - American President Theodore Roosevelt (R) defeats Alton B Parker (D) 26th US President Theodore Roosevelt26th US President Theodore Roosevelt 1904 - Inventor and manufacturer Harvey Hubbell receives the first U.S. patent for a separable electric attachment plug 1907 - In a landmark decision for Australia, the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration rules that the Sunshine Harvester Work must pay fair and reasonable wages 1910 - 1st Washington State election in which women could vote 1910 - For the first time since 1894, the US elects a Democratic Congress, including the first socialist ever to sit in Congress, Victor L Berger of Milwaukee 1910 - William H. Frost receives the first U.S. patent for an electrical insect destroyer 1917 - Peoples Commissars gives authority to Lenin, Trotsky & Stalin during October Revolution 1917 - Telephone Co runs 1st ad for Army operators, gets 7,000 applicants Marxist Revolutionary and Russian Leader Vladimir LeninMarxist Revolutionary and Russian Leader Vladimir Lenin 1918 - Pro-German supreme commander general Cutters lay-offs 1920 - Actress Edna Lewis Thomas debuts at Putnam Theatre Brooklyn 1920 - Baseball meeting to depose Ban Johnson is set for Nov 12th 1923 - Hitler stages unsuccessful Beer Hall Putsch in Muenchen (Munich) 1924 - Austria chancellor Ignaz Seipel, resigns after assassination attempt 1924 - Fortune Theatre opens in London 1926 - George Gershwins musical Oh, Kay premieres in NYC 1928 - George & Ira Gershwins musical Treasure Girl premieres in NYC 1929 - Jean Giraudoux Amphitryon 38 premieres in Paris Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf HitlerDictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler 1930 - Friedrich Wolfs Die Matrosen von Cattaro premieres in Berlin 1932 - Make Mine Music debuts 1932 - Franklin Roosevelt (D) elected 32nd President for 1st time 1933 - FDR creates Civil Works Administration 1934 - Ford Frick, NL publicity director, is named league president 1937 - The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew) opens in Munich. 1938 - 1st black woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Phila 1938 - A pogrom against the Jews of Germany and Austria takes place in response to the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris. 32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1939 - Failed assassination attempt on Hitler in Burgerbraukeller, Munich 1939 - H Lindsay & R Crouse Life with Father premieres in NYC 1940 - RAF bombs Munich 1941 - The Albanian Communist Party is founded. 1942 - 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast) 1942 - Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad from Munich beer hall 1942 - Operation Torch; began as US and British forces under Eisenhower land in French North Africa 1942 - Vichy-France drops diplomatic relations with US 1943 - France arrests government of Lebanon after they abolish the French mandate 1944 - 25,000 Hungarian Jews are loaned to Nazis for forced labor 1944 - Last German troops at Walcheren surrenders 1945 - Girl from Nantucket opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 12 performances 1945 - Riverboat sinks off Hong Kong; kills 1,550 Writer Jean-Paul SartreWriter Jean-Paul Sartre 1946 - Jean-Paul Sartres La Putain Respecteuse premieres in Paris 1947 - Bradman scores his 99th 1st-class cricket century, 100 SA v Victoria 1950 - 1st jet-plane battle ever, in Korean War 1950 - Boston Red Sox 1B Walt Dropo wins AL Rookie of Year 1950 - Walt Dropo of Boston Red Sox selected AL Rookie of Year 1951 - NY Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra wins 1st of his 3 MVP awards 1953 - Salazars party wins all parliamentary seats in Portugal 1954 - AL approves Philadelphia As move to Kansas City 1956 - UN demands USSR leave Hungary MLB Catcher and Manager Yogi BerraMLB Catcher and Manager Yogi Berra 1957 - Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island 1958 - Maria Golovin closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 5 performances 1959 - KJTV (now KGET) TV channel 17 in Bakersfield, CA (NBC) 1st broadcast 1959 - Tunisian president Habib Bourguibas Nes Destour party wins every seat 1960 - JFK (Sen-D-Mass) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) to become 35th US president 1961 - Whitey Ford is voted Cy Young Award winner over Warren Spahn 1962 - Canada government orders changing nickel back to round shape MLB Pitcher Whitey FordMLB Pitcher Whitey Ford 1964 - IMF grants Great Britain credit of $1 billion 1964 - KUPK TV channel 13 in Garden City, KS (ABC) begins broadcasting 1964 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open 1964 - Orioles Frank Robinson unanimous choice as AL MVP 1965 - Days of Our Lives premieres on TV 1965 - British Indian Ocean Territory formed 1966 - Edward W Brooke (Rep-R-Mass) becomes 1st black elected to Senate 1966 - Frank Robinson selected AL MVP 1966 - Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected Governor of California 1966 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs anti-trust immunity to AFL-NFL merger 36th US President Lyndon B. Johnson36th US President Lyndon B. Johnson 1967 - 1st local British radio station begins broadcasting (Radio Leicester) 1967 - Silver hits record $1.951 an ounce in London 1 2 ▶ Famous Birthdays Birthdays 1 - 100 of 232 30 - Nerva, Narni, Roman Emperor (96-98) 1342 - Julian of Norwich, English saint (d. 1416) 1431 - vlad III the Impaler, Wallachian prince (d. 1476) 1491 - Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (d. 1544) 1572 - Johan Sigismund, elector of Brandenburg/duke of Prussia 1590 - Francesco Gonzaga, composer 1592 - Domenico Mazzocchi, composer 1622 - Galenus Abrahamsz de Haen, Dutch baptist pastor (Lambs War) Wallachian Prince Vlad the ImpalerWallachian Prince Vlad the Impaler (1431) 1622 - Karl X Gustaf, King of Sweden (1654-60) 1647 - Pierre Bayle, French/Neth theologist/philosopher/writer 1656 - Edmund Halley, English astronomer (comet of Halley) [OS=Oct 29] 1657 - Thomas Bullis, composer 1693 - Leonhard Trautsch, composer 1706 - Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (d. 1772) 1710 - Sarah Fielding, English writer (d. 1768) 1715 - Elisabeth C van Brunswick-Bevern, wife of Frederik II the Great 1723 - John Byron, British naval officer (d. 1786) 1760 - Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael, South Neth earl/general 1768 - Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, (d. 1840) 1770 - Friedrich Witt, composer 1777 - Désirée Clary, queen of Sweden (d. 1860) 1785 - Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner, composer 1814 - Girolamo/Jeromin de Rada, Albanian poet (Skanderbeku) 1817 - Claudius Wistar Sears, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891 1817 - Theodoor J Canneel, Flemish painter 1829 - Samuel Wylie Crawford, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1892 1830 - Oliver Otis Howard, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1909 1831 - Edward R L Bulwer-Lytton, English statesman and Viceroy of India (1876-1880) 1836 - Milton Bradley, American game manufacturer (d. 1911) Novelist Bram StokerNovelist Bram Stoker (1847) 1847 - Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/author (Dracula) 1847 - Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (d. 1907) 1848 - Gottlob Frege, Germany, mathematician/logician (Begriffsschrift) 1849 - Edward Julius Biedermann, composer 1850 - Karel Komzak, composer 1854 - Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (d. 1919) 1863 - René [Raphael] Viviani, French historian/social premier (1914-15) 1866 - Herbert Austin, English automobile pioneer (d. 1941) 1867 - Ilmari Henrik Reinhold Krohn, composer 1868 - Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (d. 1942) 1876 - Frank L Gillespie, Ark, founded Supreme Life Insurance Company 1878 - Marshall Walter Major Taylor, world champion cyclist (1899) 1879 - King Baggot I, St Louis MO, director (Tumbleweeds) 1881 - Frank Speck, Brooklyn New York, American Anthropologist (Algonquin Tribes and Eastern Woodland Native Americans) 1881 - Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Paris, French Engineer and aviation pioneer who contributed to early heavier-than-air flight in Europe 1882 - Lazare Saminsky, composer 1883 - Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, London England, composer (Farewell My Youth) (d. 1953) 1883 - Ethel Clayton, MO, actress (Hotel Continental) 1884 - Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1922) 1885 - Hans Cloos, German geologist (d. 1951) 1885 - Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (d. 1946) 1885 - Emil Fahrenkamp, German architect (d. 1966) 1887 - Yury Alexandrovich Shaporin, composer 1888 - David Monrad Johansen, composer 1893 - John Miljan, Lead City SD, actor (Possessed, Final Extra, Susan Lenox) 1893 - Clarence Williams, American composer (d. 1965) 1893 - Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (d. 1941) 1895 - Hermann Schey, German/Neth singer 1895 - Photios Kontoglou, Greek writer, painter and iconographer (d. 1965) 1896 - Bucky Harris, baseball manager (Phillies, Yankees) 1897 - Dorothy Day, New York, American journalist, social activist, and devout Catholic convert 1898 - Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (d. 1937) 1900 - Georges Lonque, composer Author Margaret MitchellAuthor Margaret Mitchell (1900) 1900 - Margaret Mitchell, Atlanta, Georgia, author (Gone With the Wind), (d. 1949) 1900 - Mihailo Vukdragovic, composer 1900 - Albert F. Frey-Wyssling, Küssnacht, Swiss Botanist and pioneer of submicroscopic morphology and the discipline of molecular biology 1901 - Gheorge Gheorghiu Dej, Romania party leader/president 1901 - Szymon Laks, composer 1902 - Mihail A Suslov, Soviet-party ideologist [NS=Nov 22] 1902 - Walerian Josef Gniot, composer 1904 - Cedric Belfrage English-born writer (d. 1990) 1905 - Richard Nicholson, musician 1907 - Otto Brenner, German workers union leader 1908 - Martha Gellhorn, American writer (d. 1998) 1909 - Alberto Erede, Italian conductor 1912 - Jean-Louis Martinet, composer 1912 - Joseph Fattorini, businessman 1913 - Robert Strauss, NYC, actor (Sgt Gruzewsky-Mona McCluskey) 1913 - June Havoc, American actress 1914 - Lute T de Cock, student/resistance fighter 1914 - Norman Lloyd, Jersey City NJ, actor (Auschlander-St Elsewhere) 1916 - Frank McGuire, basketball coach (won 550 games in 30 college seasons) 1916 - June Havoc, Seattle Wash, actress (Willy, Panic, GE Theater) 1916 - Peter Weiss, Germany, Swedish author/dramatist/novelist (Marat/Sade) 1918 - Hermann Zapf, German designer 1919 - P. L. Deshpande, Indian author (d. 2000) 1920 - Esther Rolle, American actress (d. 1998) 1920 - Eugênio de Araújo Sales, Brazilian cardinal 1921 - Douglas Townsend, composer 1921 - Gene Saks, NY, actor/director (One & Only, Prisoner of 2nd Ave) 1921 - Jerome Hines, [Heinz], Hollywood California, basso (I am The Way) 1922 - Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon (perform 1st heart transplant) 1922 - Esther Rolle, Pompano Beach Fla, actress (Florida-Good Times, Maude) 1922 - Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (d. 1996) 1923 - Dmitri T Jazov, Russian minister of defense (1991 coup) Engineer Jack KilbyEngineer Jack Kilby (1923) 1923 - Jack Kilby, Jefferson City, Missouri, electrical engineer and Nobel laureate (handheld calculator, integrated circuit), (d. 2005) 1924 - Joe Flynn, Youngstown Ohio, actor (McHales Navy) 1927 - Patti Page, [Clara Ann Fowler], Claremont Ok, singer (Tennessee Waltz), (d. 2012) 1927 - Ken Dodd, English comedian 1929 - Trevor McMahon, NZ cricket wicketkeeper (v India & Pak 1955-56) 1929 - António Castanheira Neves, Portuguese philosopher 1 2 3 ▶ Famous Weddings Weddings 1 - 4 of 4 NBA Legend Larry BirdNBA Legend Larry Bird (1975)1975 - NBA legend Larry Bird (18) weds highschool sweetheart Janet Condra 1985 - Author Ken Follett (36) weds politician Barbara Hubbard (42) 2006 - Malaysian actress Sazzy Falak (25) weds co-founder of LVG Consultants and LVG MoneySkool Nazril Idrus 2009 - The Practice actress Marla Sokoloff (29) weds composer Alec Puro (34) at Il Cielo restaurant Famous Divorces Divorces 1 - 2 of 2 1968 - Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from Beatle member John 1970 - Easy Rider director and actor Dennis Hopper (34) divorces singer Michelle Phillips (26) only 8 days after getting married Famous Deaths Deaths 1 - 100 of 119 397 - Martin of Tours, [St Martin], bishop of Tours, dies 618 - St Deusdedit/Adeodatus I, Italian Pope (615-18), dies 955 - Pope Agapetus II 1171 - Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (b. 1108) 1195 - Conrad of Hohenstaufen 1226 - Louis VIII, the Lion, King of France (1223-26), dies at 39 1228 - Dirk I, ruler of Heinsberg/Valkenburg, dies 1246 - Berenguela of Castile, wife of Alfonso IX of Castile (b. 1180) 1308 - Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher (coined the word dunce), dies at 42 1494 - Melozzo da Forli, Italian painter, dies at about 56 1517 - Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros, cardinal/Chancellor of Castilia, dies 1527 - Jerome Emser, German theologian (b. 1477) 1578 - Johann Walter, composer, dies at 51 1590 - Joost Jansz Bilhamer, master builder/cartographer, dies at about 49 1595 - Peter Opmeer, church historian/humanist, dies at 69 1599 - Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (b. 1528) 1600 - Natsuka Masaie, Japanese warlord (b. 1562) 1605 - Robert Catesby, English conspirator (b. 1573) 1638 - Johann H Alsted, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 50 1658 - Pieter Floriszoon, Dutch admiral, dies in naval Battle of the Sound at about 50 1658 - Witte de With, Dutch vice-admiral, dies in naval Battle of the Sound, at age 59 Poet John MiltonPoet John Milton (1674) 1674 - John Milton, English poet (Paradise Lost), dies at 65 1694 - Ulrik Huber, Frisian lawyer/law historian/polemist, dies at 58 1719 - Michel Rolle, French mathematician (b. 1652) 1757 - Pierre Prowo, composer, dies at 60 1805 - Francois-Thomas de Baculard dArnaud, French writer, dies at 87 1811 - Charles F Bentinck, Dutch minister of Colonies, dies at 47 1817 - Andrea Appiana, Italian royal painter of Napoleon, dies at 63 1830 - King Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777) 1833 - Maximilian Stadler, composer, dies at 85 1858 - George Peacock, English Mathematician, dies at 67 1860 - Charles Fellows, English Archaeologist who discovered ruins of the cities of ancient Lycia and brought to Lycian marbles to England, dies 1873 - Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Span poet/comic playwright, dies at 76 1880 - Jacob Edvard Gille, composer, dies at 66 1885 - Johannes Kneppelhout, [Klikspaan], Dutch humorist/author, dies at 71 1886 - Frederick J Fred Archer, English jockey, commits suicide at 29 Gunfighter in the American Old West Doc HollidayGunfighter in the American Old West Doc Holliday (1887) 1887 - Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter, dies at 36 1890 - Caesar-Auguste Franck, Belgian organist/composer, dies at 67 1905 - Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870) 1908 - Victorien Sardou, French opera author (Madame Sans-Gene), dies at 77 1908 - William Edward Ayrton, English Physicist and Inventor, dies at 60 1909 - Charles Bordes, composer, dies at 46 1909 - Eduard de Hartog, composer, dies at 80 1911 - Samuel Wilks, British Physician and founding father of clinical science, dies at 87 1917 - Colyn Blythe, cricketer (2509 F-C wickets), dies during WW I 1920 - Abraham Kuyper, clergyman/Dutch premier (AR 1908-12), dies at 83 1920 - Salomon Anski, Russian/Polish yiddish author (Dibboek), dies at 57 1921 - Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (b. 1849) 1924 - Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, composer, dies at 64 1928 - Mauritz Stiller, Swedish actor/director (Streets of sin), dies at 45 1933 - Mohammed Nadir Shah, king of Afghanistan, assassin by Abdul Khallig 1934 - Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician (b. 1879) 1934 - James Mark Baldwin, American Philosopher and Psychologist, dies at 73 1937 - James Ramsay MacDonald, British PM (Lab, 1924, 29-35), dies at 71 1941 - Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Elite Circle), dies at 83 1944 - Walter Nowotny, German combat/jet fighter pilot, dies 1949 - Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian clergyman (b. 1874) 1952 - Claude Carter, cricketer (took 28 wkts 10 Tests for South Africa), dies 1953 - Iwan Bunin, writer, dies at 83 1953 - John van Melle, South African writer (Bart Nel), dies at 66 1959 - Frank Sherman Land, founder of DeMolay International (b. 1890) 1963 - Simon Jurovsky, composer, dies at 51 1965 - Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist (b. 1913) 1966 - Bernhard Zondek, German/Israeli gynaecologist, dies at 75 1968 - Wendell Corey, actor (11th Hour, Pecks Bad Girl), dies at 54 1969 - Kam Tong, actor (Have Gun Will Travel, Mr Garlund), dies at 62 1969 - Vesto Slipher, American Astronomer who provided the first evidence to support the expanding-universe theory 1970 - Huw Thomas Edwards, Welsh trade unionist and politician (b. 1892) 1974 - Ivory Joe Hunter, rocker, dies at 60 1977 - Bucky Harris, American baseball player (b. 1896) 1977 - Georg Wüst, German Oceanographer, dies at 87 1978 - Norman Rockwell, artist (Saturday Evening Post covers), dies at 84 1979 - Sydney Tafler, actor (Too Many Crooks), dies at 63 1979 - Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of Charles de Gaulle (b. 1900) Tennis Player Betty NuthallTennis Player Betty Nuthall (1983) 1983 - Betty Nuthall, English tennis player, dies at 72 1983 - Robert Agnew, director, dies at 84 of kidney failure 1983 - Mordecai Kaplan, Rabbi, founded Reconstructionist Judaism (b. 1881) 1984 - Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen, composer, dies at 81 1985 - Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1899) 1986 - Beatrice Kay, singer/actress (Sister Sue-Calvin & the Col), dies at 78 1986 - Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician (b. 1890) 1989 - Andre Kloos, Dut trade union leader (NVV)/chairman (VARA), dies at 67 1990 - Anya Seton, US author, dies 1990 - Grampy Davis, dies of heart attack at 87 1991 - Christine Felsmann, dies 1991 - Frances Faye, singer/actress (Pretty Baby), dies after strokes 1991 - John Kirckpatrick, US musicologist (Charles Ives Archives), dies 1991 - Patrick Hamilton, author (Gaslight, Rope, Angel Street), dies at 45 1992 - Kees [Cornelis] Broekman, speed skater (Olympic-silver-1952), dies 1992 - Keith Red Mitchell, US/Swedish jazz bassist, dies 1993 - Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff, Russian mathematician (b. 1906) 1994 - Marianne Straub, weaver, dies at 85 1994 - Michael ODonoghue, American comedy writer (SNL), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 54 1995 - Country Dan Dick Montana McLain, singer, dies at 40 1995 - Neil Blaney, politician, dies at 73 1996 - Edward Albert Radice, economist, dies at 89 1996 - Peter Fowler, physicist, dies at 73 1998 - Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913) 1999 - Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1941) 1999 - Leon Štukelj, Slovenian gymnast (b. 1898)1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1968 - Londonderry Corporation agreed to a Nationalist request to introduce a points system in the allocation of public sector housing, North Ireland 1970 - Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks NFL record 63 yard field goal 1973 - Nevada approves pari-mutuel betting on Jai Alai 1974 - British Lord (Lucky) Lucan disappears 1974 - Ted Bundy victim Debi Kent disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah 1975 - Nick Bockwinkle beats Verne Gagne in St Paul, to become NWA champ 1976 - A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated. 1977 - Manolis Andronikos, a Greek Archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina. 1978 - Tom Stoppards Night & Day premieres in London Playwright Tom StoppardPlaywright Tom Stoppard 1979 - Bernard Slades Romantic Comedy premieres in NYC 1979 - ABC broadcasts Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage with Frank Reynolds (forerunner to Nightline) 1979 - The Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) is formed. 1980 - Voyager 1 space probe discovers 15th moon of Saturn 1981 - Christian Democrats looses Belgium parliamentary election 1981 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic 1983 - Martha Layne Collins (D) elected 1st female governor of Kentucky 1983 - STS-9 vehicle again moves to launch pad 1983 - W Wilson Goode (D) elected 1st black mayor of Philadelphia LPGA Golfer Patty SheehanLPGA Golfer Patty Sheehan 1984 - 1st-class cricket debut of Wasim Akram, 2 months before his 1st Test 1984 - Anna Fisher becomes 1st mom to go into orbit 1984 - STS 51-A mission launches 1985 - Atlantis moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61-B mission 1986 - Song & Dance closes at Royale Theater NYC after 474 performances 1987 - Australia beat England by 7 runs to win cricket World Cup 1987 - IRA bomb attack in Enniskillen, North Ireland, 11 killed 1987 - Yuko Moriguchi wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic 1988 - 900 die as earthquake hits China 1988 - Arco Arena in Sacramento CA opens, Sac Kings lose to Seattle, 97-75 1988 - George W H Bush (R) beats Mike Dukakis (D) for presidency 1988 - Rafael Fernandez Colón elected as president of Puerto Rico 1989 - Cubs Jerome Walton wins the NL Rookie of Year 1989 - David Dinkins elected 1st black mayor of NYC 1989 - Douglas Wilder elected 1st US black governor (Virginia) 1989 - Hong Kongs MTR Lam Tin Station comes into service. 1990 - 6 Degrees of Separation opens at Vivian Beaumont NYC for 496 perfs 1990 - 100,000 additional US troops are sent to Persian gulf Baseball Player Darryl StrawberryBaseball Player Darryl Strawberry 1990 - Darryl Strawberry signs 5-year contract with LA Dodgers 1990 - Gina Marie Tolleson of USA, 21, crowned 40th Miss World 1990 - Saddam fires his army chief & threatens to destroy Arabian peninsula 1990 - Unconfirmed rumors emerge that Bush might announce an airlift of supplies to US embassy in Kuwait, which could ultimately trigger a military clash 1991 - Carol Burnette Show premieres on CBS-TV 1991 - Paul Coffey sets NHL defensman soring mark with 311th goal 1992 - Solitary Confinement opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 25 perfs 1992 - 300,000 demonstrate against racism in Berlin 1992 - Betsy King wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic LPGA Golfer Betsy KingLPGA Golfer Betsy King 1994 - Cleveland Cavaliers 1st game at Gund Arena, lose to Hous Rockets, 100-98 1994 - Haitian government of Smarck Michel forms 1997 - Tampa Bay Devil Rays name their 1st manager Larry Rothschild 1997 - Horse Racing Breeders Cup Champs: Countess Diana, Elmhurst, Ajina, Spinning World, Favorite Trick, Chief Bearhart, Skip Away 1998 - Japan Golf Classic 2002 - Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 - The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face serious consequences. Iraqi President Saddam HusseinIraqi President Saddam Hussein 2004 - War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah. 2011 - The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passed 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976. 2013 - 11 people are killed in a car park bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia 2013 - At least 6,000 people are killed after Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest storm recorded at landfall, makes landfall in the Philippines 2013 - 27th Soul Train Music Awards: Miguel, Tamar Braxton win ◀ 1 2 Famous Birthdays Birthdays 101 - 200 of 232 1929 - Bobby Bowden, American football coach 1930 - Bob Harris, Long Beach California, actor (Jim-Troubleshooters) 1930 - Edmund Happold, engineer 1931 - Morley Safer, Toronto California, TV newscaster (60 Minutes) 1932 - Richard E Lawyer, Los Angeles California, astronaut 1932 - Stephane Audran, Versailles France, actress (Just Before Nightfall) 1932 - Ben[jamin William] Bova, US, sci-fi author (Exiled from Earth) 1934 - Roberta Hazard, USN Admiral 1935 - Alain Delon, France, actor (Honor Among Thieves, Return of Zorro) 1935 - Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian Cardinal Bishop 1936 - Edward George Gibson, Buffalo NY, astronaut (Skylab 4) 1936 - Viscount Mountgarret, [Butler], English large landowner 1938 - John Asprey, British jeweler/multi-millionaire 1938 - Pleuni Touw, Dutch actress (Black Rider) 1938 - Pleuntje Pleuni Cordon, actress (Dear Guys) 1938 - Richard Stoker, composer 1938 - Driss Basri, Moroccan Interior Minister (d. 2007) 1942 - Aleksandr Yakovlevich Kramarenko, Russia, cosmonaut 1942 - Angel Cordero Jr, jockey (won over 6,000 races) [or May 8] 1942 - Gerald Alston, US singer (Manhattans-Crazy) 1943 - Martin Peters, British soccer player 1944 - Bonnie Bramlett, rock vocalist (Delandy & Bonnie) 1944 - Rodney Desborough Slater, rocker (Bonzo Dog Band) 1945 - Arnold Rosner, composer 1945 - David Jessel, British TV-reporter 1945 - Judith Lang Zaimont, composer 1945 - Tony Mann, Aust cricket leggie (1977 century as nightwatchman v India) 1946 - Roy Wood, Birmingham England, rock vocalist/cellist (ELO) 1947 - Margaret Rhea Seddon, Murfreesboro Tenn, MD/astro (STS 51D, 40, SK:58) 1947 - Minnie Ripperton, Chicago, singer (Loving You) 1948 - Dale A Gardner, Fairmont Minn, Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 8, STS 51A), (d. 2014) 1949 - Al Berger, rocker 1949 - Bonnie Raitt, Burbank CA, country singer (Green Light, The Glow) 1949 - Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice Presidenf of the National Rifle Association. 1951 - Larry Burnette, rocker (Firefall) 1951 - Mary Hart, Sioux Falls SD, TV hostess (Entertainment Tonight) 1951 - Alfredo Astiz, Argentine general 1952 - Alfre Woodard, Tulsa, Oklahoma, American actress (Primal Fear, Cross Creek) 1952 - Christie Ann Hefner, daughter of Hugh Hefner, CEO (Playboy) 1952 - Jan Raas, Dutch bicyclist 1952 - Jerry Remy, American baseball player, color commentator 1952 - John Denny, American baseball player 1953 - John Musker, American animation director 1954 - Rickie Lee Jones, Chicago, singer (Chuck Es in Love) 1954 - David Bret, Anglo-French biographer and broadcaster 1954 - Michael D. Brown, U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency director 1954 - Kazuo Ishiguro, British author 1954 - Jeanette McGruder, American musician (P Funk) 1956 - Beverly Klass, LPGA golfer 1956 - Randi Brooks, NYC, actress (Man With 2 Brains, Tightrope) 1956 - Steven Miller, American record producer 1956 - Richard Curtis, British screenwriter 1957 - Yohan Gunasekera, cricketer (2 Tests for Sri Lanka 1983) 1957 - Porl Thompson, British musician (The Cure) 1957 - Alan Curbishley, English football manager 1958 - Terry Lee Miall, England, rock drummer (Adam & The Ants) 1958 - Don Byron, American clarinetist 1959 - Simon Davis, Victorian cricket pace bowler (Test v NZ 1986, no wkts) 1960 - Oleg Menshikov, Russian actor 1960 - Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor 1961 - Leif Garrett, Hollywood Cal, singer/actor (Devil x 5, 3 for the Road) 1962 - Ron Johnson, Australian baseball hitting coach (Olympics-1996) 1963 - Dwight Smith, Tallahassee FL, outfielder (Atlanta Braves) 1963 - Paul Butcher, NFL linebacker (Carolina Panthers) 1964 - Chuck Cecil, NFL safety (Houston Oilers) 1965 - Bart Latuheru, soccer player (Vitesse) 1965 - Jeff Blauser, Los gatos CA, infielder (Atlanta Braves) 1965 - Mike Peluso, Pengilly Canada, NHL left wing (NJ Devils) 1965 - Craig Chester, American actor and screenwriter 1966 - Michael Soles, CFL fullback (Montreal Alouettes) 1966 - Ulrich Cruden, soccer player (NEC) 1966 - Gordon Ramsay, British chef and reality television personality 1967 - Courtney Thorne-Smith, actress (Day by Day, Lucas, Summer School) 1967 - Henry Rodriguez, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, outfielder (Montreal Expos) 1967 - Jay Taylor, NFL cornerback (KC Chiefs) 1967 - Kim Dugger, Wichita Kansas, Miss Kansas-America (1991) 1967 - Mark Zollitsch, Orono Maine, kayak (alt-Olympics-96) 1967 - Rhonda Kottke, Minneapolis Minn, WPVA volleyballer 1968 - Jose Offerman, San Pedro de Macoris, infielder (KC Royals) 1968 - Keith Jones, Brantford, NHL right wing (Washington Capitals) 1968 - Michelle Kline, Circle Pines Minn, speed skater (Olympics-1994) 1968 - Parker Posey, Balt Md, actress (Tess Shelby-As the World Turns) 1968 - Zara Whites, Dutch actress 1968 - Sergio Porrini, Italian footballer 1969 - Devon McDonald, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts) 1969 - Ricardo McDonald, NFL linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals) 1969 - Roxana Zal, American actress 1970 - Qadry Ismail, NFL wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings, Miami Dolphins) 1970 - Tom Anderson, co-founder of MySpace 1970 - José Francisco Porras, Costa Rican footballer 1970 - Diana King, Jamaican singer 1971 - Anna Katrina Simcic, Christchurch NZ, backstroker (Olympics-96) 1971 - Twan Scheepers, soccer player (MVV) 1971 - Carlos Atanes, Spanish film director 1972 - Chris Fydler, Sydney NSW NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96) 1972 - Ken Blackman, NFL guard (Cincinnati Bengals) 1972 - Gretchen Mol, American actress 1973 - Frantisek Kaberle, hockey defenseman (Team Czech Oly-gold-1998) 1973 - Nicole Teter, San Diego California, 800m runner 1973 - Tara Johnson, Miss USA-Wisconsin (1997) ◀ 1 2 3 ▶ Famous Weddings Please go to a prior page. Famous Divorces Please go to a prior page. Famous Deaths Deaths 101 - 119 of 119 2002 - Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher (b. 1931) 2003 - Bob Grant, English actor (b. 1932) 2003 - C. Z. Guest, American socialite (b. 1920) 2003 - Guy Speranza, American singer, original Riot frontman (b. 1956) 2004 - Peter Mathers, English-born Australian novelist (b. 1931) 2005 - David Westheimer, American novelist (b. 1917) 2005 - Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (b. 1928) 2006 - Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (b. 1945) 2006 - Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist 2007 - Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary. (b. 1943) 2007 - Chad Varah, English founder of charity The Samaritans (b. 1911) 2009 - Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist (b. 1916) 2010 - Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentine naval officer and National Reorganization Process figure (b. 1925) 2010 - Jack Levine, American painter (b. 1915) 2010 - Quintin Dailey, American basketball player (b. 1961) 2010 - Alex Fagan, American law enforcement official (b. 1950) 2011 - Heavy D, American hip-hop artist. (b. 1967) 2011 - Bil Keane, American cartoonist (b. 1922) 2012 - Lucille Bliss, American voice artist, dies from natural causes at 96
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