By What is Today at History Home » On This Day in History » 20th October This Day in History for 20th October ◀ Sep October Nov ▶ 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 31 All Events Birthdays Weddings Deaths Historical Events Events 1 - 100 of 208 1097 - 1st Crusaders arrive in Antioch (First Crusade) 1528 - Treaty of Gorinchem (Emperor & church) 1536 - Danish/Norw king Christian III leads reform in Catholic possessions 1576 - Spanish troops occupies & plunder Maastricht 1587 - Battle at Coultras: Henri van Navarra beats Catholic League 1600 - Battle of Sekigahara sets Tokugawa clan as Japans rulers (shoguns) 1603 - Chinese uprising in Philippines fails after 23,000 killed 1634 - English King Charles I disbands new Ship Money tax 1714 - Georg Ludwig von Hannover crowned as English King George I 1740 - Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria, Hungary & Bohemia 1751 - Royal ship Duc de Bourgogne launched at Rochefort 1774 - Continental Congress orders discouragment of entertainment King George IKing George I 1781 - Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, was approved in Habsburg Monarchy. 1786 - Harvard University organizes 1st astronomical expedition in US 1803 - US Senate ratifies Louisiana Purchase 1813 - German Kingdom of Westphalia abolished 1817 - 1st Mississippi Showboat, leaves Nashville on maiden voyage 1818 - 49th parallel forms as border between US & Canada 1818 - US & Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country 1820 - Spain sells part of Florida to US for $5 million 1822 - 1st edition of London Sunday Times 1827 - Battle at Navarino: Engl/Russ/French fleet beat Turk/Egyptian fleet Naturalist Charles DarwinNaturalist Charles Darwin 1833 - Charles Darwin reaches river mouth of Parana 1835 - HMS Beagle leaves Galapagos Archipelago/sails to Tahiti 1843 - 1st Chinese immigrant arrives in Suriname 1847 - Little William Nelman poisons his grandpa 1856 - Arnhem-Oberhausen railway in Netherlands opens 1862 - Amnesty proclaimed for escaped slaves of Suriname 1864 - US President Lincoln formally establishes Thanksgiving as a national holiday 1873 - P T Barnum Hippodrome featuring Greatest Show on Earth, opens (NYC) 1877 - Franz Schuberts 2nd Symphony in B, premieres 1880 - Amsterdam Free University opens 1883 - Max Bruchs Kol Nidre, 1st performed Composer Franz SchubertComposer Franz Schubert 1883 - Treaty of Ancon, Peru cedes Tarapaca to Chile 1888 - Chicago & All America baseball teams play exhibition in Auckland, NZ 1889 - Gerhart Hauptmanns Vor Sonnenaufgang, premieres in Berlin 1891 - 1st International 6 day bike race (NY Madison Square Garden) begins 1898 - NC Mutual & Provident Insurance Company forms 1899 - Battle at Talana Hill, Natal: British army vs Boers 1899 - Columbia (US) beats Shamrock (England) in 11th Americas Cup 1902 - The Chamber of Deputies appoints a committee to consider questions on the separation of Church and State in France Author and Nobel Laureate Gerhart HauptmannAuthor and Nobel Laureate Gerhart Hauptmann 1903 - US wins disputed boundary between District of Alaska & Canada 1904 - Bolivia and Chile sign a treaty ending the War of the Pacific; it recognizes Chiles possession of the coast, but provides for construction of a railway to link La Paz, Bolivia, to Arica on the coast 1905 - Great General Strike in Russia begins; lasts 11 days 1905 - Russian Tsar allows Polish people to speak Polish 1906 - Dr Lee DeForest demonstrated his electrical vacuum tube (radio tube) 1908 - King Leopold II sells Congo to Belgium 1910 - 1st appearance of cork centered baseball in World Series 1910 - Soccer team KFC forms in Alkmaar 1910 - The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland. 1911 - Helen Hayes Theater (Folies Bergere) opens at 210 W 46th St NYC 1911 - Roald Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole 1912 - Cort Theater opens at 148 W 48th St NYC 1912 - Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record marathon (2:29:39.2) 1918 - In order to secure an armistice, Germany agrees to further concessions 1920 - 1st Year with Frank Craven premieres in NYC 1922 - Kennelworth in Bronx renamed Dwight Place 1924 - 1st Negro League World Series: KC Monarchs shuts out Hilldales, 5-0 1926 - Hurricane in Cuba, kills 600 1929 - Bayshore Highway opens (SF) 1930 - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, premiers on NBC radio 1930 - British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land 1931 - Frankie Frisch of the Cards named MVP 1931 - To create a pretext for the invasion of Manchuria, China, a railway explosion is faked by the Japanese. 1932 - Journalist, Robert Trout, joins CBS Baseball Legend Babe RuthBaseball Legend Babe Ruth 1934 - All-Star team led by Babe Ruth & Connie Mack sails to Hawaii & Japan 1934 - Richard Strauss completes his opera Die Schweigsame Frau 1935 - 400,000 demonstrators against fascism in Madrid 1935 - Anti-fascist People front forms in Brussels 1935 - Hank Greenberg is named AL MVP by the BBWAA, Wes Ferrell is runner-up 1935 - Communist forces end their Long March at Yanan, in Shaanxi China bringing Mao Zedong to prominence 1936 - Carl Hubbell, 26-6, edges out Dizzy Dean, 24-13, for MVP honors in NL 1936 - Spanish government moves to Barcelona Chinese Communist Revolutionary Mao ZedongChinese Communist Revolutionary Mao Zedong 1939 - All the Things You Are recorded by Tommy Dorsey Orch 1939 - Pope Pius XII publishes his 1st encyclical Summi pontificatus 1940 - Cheese rationed in Netherlands 1940 - Greenhouse rationing begins in Netherlands 1941 - Nazi occupiers murder 500 inhabitants of Kragujevac Serbia 1942 - Durham Manifesto calls for fundamental changes in race relations 1942 - The extermination asocials through labour is approved by Otto Thierack, Nazi minister of justice 1944 - Liquid-gas tanks in Cleveland, Ohio explode, 135 die, 3,600 homeless 1944 - Revolution by workers & students in Guatemala 1944 - Russian/Yugoslavian troops free Belgrade 1944 - US 1st army wins battle of Aachen 1944 - US 6th army lands on Leyte, Philippines WW2 General Douglas MacArthurWW2 General Douglas MacArthur 1944 - US forces under Gen Douglas MacArthur return to Philippines 1945 - Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Lawrence opens trial ofNuremberg 1946 - Frank Seno returns kickoff 105 yd, Chicago Cards vs NY Giants 1947 - HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood 1947 - Radio rights for the World Series sell for $475,000 for 3 years 1947 - Robinson Jeffers Medea, premieres in NYC 1949 - Eugenie Anderson becomes 1st woman US ambassador (to Denmark) Nobel Prize Winning Chemist Archer John Porter MartinNobel Prize Winning Chemist Archer John Porter Martin 1950 - Chemists Archer John Porter Martin and James Lovelock give the first demonstration of gas chromatography at a meeting of the Biochemical Society. The technique is rapidly adopted by the petrochemical industry. 1951 - The Johnny Bright Incident occurred in Stillwater, Oklahoma 1952 - Emergency crisis proclaimed in Kenya 1953 - WRAU (now WHOI) TV channel 19 in Peoria, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting 1954 - Peter Pan opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 149 performances 1955 - No Time for Sergeants opens on Broadway, starring Andy Griffith 1955 - Harry Belafonte records Day-O (Banana Boat Song) 1955 - Yanks begin 16-game exhibition in Japan 1 2 3 ▶ Famous Birthdays Birthdays 1 - 100 of 236 1435 - Andrea Della Robbia, Florence, sculptor, nephew of Luca 1475 - Giovanni Rucellai, Italian poet (Le Api) 1496 - Claude de Lutherans, duke of Guise 1616 - Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. 1680) 1620 - Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (d. 1691) 1632 - Christopher Wren, East Knoyle, Wiltshire, England, astronomer/great architect (St. Pauls Cathedral), (d. 1723) 1637 - Nicolaas van der Veken, Flemish sculptor (confessional chairs) Architect Christopher WrenArchitect Christopher Wren (1632) 1656 - Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (d. 1746) 1660 - Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (d. 1723) 1677 - Stanislaus I Leszczyński, King of Poland (d. 1766) 1679 - Samuel von Cocceji, German lawyer 1700 - Charlotte Aglaé of Orléans, Duchess of Modena (d. 1761) 1711 - Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (d. 1795) 1719 - Gottfried Achenwall, German lawyer/statistician/economist 1740 - Belle van Zuylen, Neth/Swiss writer (Three Women) 1751 - Hendrik van Stralen, Dutch MP/secretary of Interior 1759 - Chauncey Goodrich, U.S. Senator from Connecticut (d. 1815) 1780 - M Pauline Bonaparte, Corsican duchess of Parma/Guastalla 1784 - Lord Henry JT Palmerston, English minister of Foreign affairs 1785 - George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (d. 1873) 1788 - Philip Knapton, composer 1792 - Anton Bernhard Furstenau, composer 1792 - Colin Campbell/Lord Clyde, British officer (Sepoy-uprising) 1808 - Karl [Theodor] Andree, German geographer/journalist (Globus) 1812 - Austin Flint, 19th century heart research pioneer 1819 - Daniel Edgar Sickles, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1914 1819 - Karol Mikuli, composer 1819 - The Báb, Persian founder of the Bábí Faith (d. 1850) 1820 - Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General (Confederate Army) 1820 - George Jerrison Stannard, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 1822 - Mansfield Lovell, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1884 1823 - Thomas Hughes, England, author (Tom Browns School Days) 1832 - Constantin Lipsius, German architect (d. 1894) 1843 - Victor de Stuers, Dutch art connoisseur 1854 - Alphonse Allais, French author/humorist (Pass the Bile) Poet Arthur RimbaudPoet Arthur Rimbaud (1854) 1854 - Arthur Rimbaud, Charleville, France, poet/adventurer (Illuminations) 1858 - John Burns, English politician (d. 1943) 1859 - G B Studd, cricketer (brother of C T, 4 Tests for England) 1859 - John Dewey, philosopher, educational theorist/writer (Learn by doing) 1864 - James F. Hinkle, American politician, sixth Governor of New Mexico (d. 1951) 1871 - Frederick Burton, IN, actor (One Way Passage) 1874 - Charles Edward Ives, Danbury Ct, composer (Holiday Quick Step) 1874 - Viscount Palmerston, (Whig) British PM (1855-65) Philosopher, Psychologist, Writer John DeweyPhilosopher, Psychologist, Writer John Dewey (1859) 1877 - Josephine McGill, composer 1882 - Bela Lugosi [Blaskó ], Lugos, Austria-Hungary, actor (Dracula, Plan 9 From Outer Space) 1884 - Thomas Chalmers, NYC, actor (Blind Alleys, Outrage) 1887 - Addison Richards, Zanesville OH, actor (Pentagon, Fighting Seabees) 1887 - John Warburton, Huddersfield England, actor (Saratoga Trunk) 1889 - Margaret Dumont, actress-Marx Brothers foil (Day at the Races) 1890 - Ferdinand Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans, jazz pianist/composer 1891 - James Chadwick, English physicist (discovered neutron) 1891 - Jomo Kenyatta, Gatundu Kenya, Kenyan leader and 1st Premier (1963-78) Kenyan Prime Minister and President Jomo KenyattaKenyan Prime Minister and President Jomo Kenyatta (1891) 1893 - Charley Chase, American comedian, actor and director (d. 1940) 1894 - Olive Thomas, American actress (d. 1920) 1895 - Rex Ingram, US actor (Tarzan of the Apes, 10 Commandments) 1896 - Nat Holman, basketball coach (CCNY) 1897 - Jevsei G Liberman, Ukrainian economist (Plan, profit, bonuses) 1897 - Crown Prince Eun of Korea (d. 1970) 1899 - Evelyn Brent, Tampa FL, actress (Panama Lady, Last Coomand) 1899 - Marnix Gijsen, [baron Jan-Albert Goris], Flemish writer (Grote God Pan) 1900 - Rodolfo Halffter, composer 1900 - Wayne Morse, (Sen-R/D-Ore) 1901 - Hans-Otto Borgmann, composer 1903 - John Lodge, Washington DC, actor (Witchmaker) 1904 - Anna Neagle, London England, actress (London Melody, Nurse Edith Cavell) 1904 - Tommy Clement Douglas, Canadian politician (d. 1986) Father of Medicare Tommy DouglasFather of Medicare Tommy Douglas (1904) 1904 - Tommy Douglas, Falkirk Scotland, Canadian politician (Father of Medicare) 1907 - Arlene Francis, American television personality (d. 2001) 1909 - Monique Hare, French pianist 1909 - Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (d. 1993) 1911 - Will Rogers Jr, NY, actor (Down to Earth) 1913 - Angelo Ephrikian, composer 1913 - Bao Dai, emperor of Annam/Indochina/head of South Vietnam (1949-55) 1913 - Barney Phillips, St Louis Mo, actor (Dragnet, Felony Squad) 1913 - Grandpa [Louis M] Jones, Niagra KY, country musician (Hee-Haw) 1914 - Fayard Nicholas, US, actor (Big Broadcast of 1936) 1915 - Giora Schuster, composer 1917 - Efrain Jonckheer, premier Dutch Antilles 1917 - Jean-Pierre Melville, Paris France, director (A Cop) 1917 - Ken Cranston, cricketer (England all-rounder captained once in 1948) 1918 - Anton Diffring, Koblenz Germany, actor (Assignment Vienna) 1918 - Robert Lochner, German journalist (d. 2003) 1919 - Tracy Hall, American inventor (d. 2008) 1921 - Hans Warren, Dutch writer/poet/critic (Secret Diary) 1921 - Pierre Laporte, Canada, journalist/statesman (Revolution Script) 1922 - John Anderson, Clayton Ill, actor (Virgil-Legend of Wyatt Earp) 1923 - Herschel Bernardi, actor (Arnie, Voice of Charlie the Tuna, Front) 1923 - Joe Minogue, journalist 1923 - Robert Craft, Kingston, NY, conductor, Stravinsky-follower 1924 - Kenneth WIlliam Gatland, aerospace scientist 1924 - Stanley Eric Francis Booth-Clibborn, bishop (Manchester) 1925 - Art Buchwald, Mt Vernon NY, columnist/author (Have I Ever Lied to You) 1925 - Herman Roelstraete, composer 1925 - Tom Dowd, American recording engineer (d. 2002) 1925 - Roger Hanin, French actor 1926 - Ursula Happe, Germany, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1956) 1927 - Oskar Pastior, writer 1927 - Joyce Brothers, NYC, pop psychologist ($64,000 Question, Naked Gun), (d. 2013) 1931 - Ken Morrison, English supermarket maginate/multi-millionaire Baseball Legend Mickey MantleBaseball Legend Mickey Mantle (1931) 1931 - Mickey Mantle, NY Yankee, home run slugger (1956 Triple Crown) 1 2 3 ▶ Famous Weddings Weddings 1 - 13 of 13 23rd US President Benjamin Harrison23rd US President Benjamin Harrison (1853)1853 - 23rd US President Benjamin Harrison (20) weds music teacher Caroline Scott (21) 1943 - British Childrens writer Enid Blyton marries 2nd husband surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters at City of Westminster registry office, London 1949 - Constitutional lawyer Phyllis Schlafly (25) weds attorney John Fred Schlafly, Jr. 1968 - Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis on the island of Scorpios 1973 - Canadian actor William Shatner (Star Trek) marries Marcy Lafferty 1978 - Journalist Ben Bradlee (57) weds fellow journalist Sally Quinn (37) 1991 - Actress Lisa Hartman weds country singer Clint Black Actress Christina ApplegateActress Christina Applegate (2001) 2001 - Actor Johnathon Schaech (32) weds actress Christina Applegate (29) at the three-acre Cree Estate in Palm Springs, California 2005 - Prince Floris of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven (30) weds Aimee Sohngen (28) on a civil ceremony at the Stadhuis in Naarden 2006 - Liberty X member Michelle Heaton (27) weds Pop Idols Andy Scott-Lee (26) in Hertfordshire, England 2012 - Clueless actress Elisa Donovan (41) weds Charlie Bigelow (36) on a outdoor ceremony on the Vineyard Lawn at The Carmel Valley Ranch in Carmel, California 2013 - Singer Kelly Clarkson (31) weds talent manager Brandon Blackstock at Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tennessee 2013 - Actor Rider Strong (33) weds actress Alexandra Barreto (31) in Oregon Famous Deaths Deaths 1 - 100 of 103 460 - Eudocia Aelia Athenais, empress Oostromeinse Rich/poetess, dies 1139 - Henry X the Trotse, duke of Bayern (1126-38), dies 1187 - Urban III, [Umberto Crivelli], Italian Pope (1185-87), dies 1268 - Conrad Hohenstaufen/Conradin, last Duke of Swabia, beheaded in Naples aged 16 1274 - Engelbert II of Falkenburg, archbishop of Cologne, dies 1438 - Jacopo di Piero della Quercia, Italian sculptor, dies at about 64 1525 - Joannes Custos, S Neth humanist, dies at about 50 1570 - João de Barros, Portuguese historian (b. 1496) 1631 - Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1550) 1640 - John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1585) 1652 - Antonio Coello, Spanish writer (b. 1611) 1676 - Christopher Gibbons, composer, dies at 61 1713 - Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (b. 1652) 1740 - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1685) 1765 - William August duke of Cumberland, Engl supreme commander, dies at 44 1794 - James Adam, System architect (essays on agriculture), dies at about 64 1819 - Lambert-Francois Godecharle, composer, dies at 66 1842 - Grace Darling, English heroine (b. 1815) 1864 - Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Confederate gen-major, dies at 27 1865 - Champ Ferguson, Confederate guerrilla (b. 1821) 1870 - Michael William Balfe, composer (Bohemian Girl), dies at 62 Inventor Charles BabbageInventor Charles Babbage (1871) 1871 - Charles Babbage, English mathematician/inventor (calculator), dies of renal failure at 79 1876 - Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper, Dutch sociologist/historian, dies at 68 1882 - Olegario Victor Andrade, Argentina poet (El arpa perdida), dies at 41 1890 - Sir Richard Burton, British explorer and writer (b. 1821) 1899 - Robert H Bobby Gunning, Brit colonel (60th Rifles), dies in battle 1900 - Charles Dudley Warner, US writer (As We Go), dies at 70 1900 - Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet (b. 1846) 1904 - Henry Hiles, composer, dies at 77 1906 - William Buck Ewing, hall of fame catcher (NY Giants), dies at 67 Geographer, Explorer & Translator Richard Francis BurtonGeographer, Explorer & Translator Richard Francis Burton (1890) 1907 - Said Pasha Kurd, Kurdish statesman (b.1834) 1910 - David B. Hill, Governor of New York (b. 1843) 1913 - Leander Schlegel, composer, dies at 69 1920 - Max Bruch, German composer (Kol Nidre), dies at 82 1926 - Eugene V. Debs, American labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate (b. 1855) 1927 - Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ivanov, composer, dies at 78 1929 - Rudolf Kittel, German theologist, dies at 76 1931 - Emanuel Moor, composer, dies at 68 1936 - Anne Sullivan, American teacher (b. 1866) 1940 - Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect (b. 1885) 1941 - Ken Farnes (WWII) 15 Tests for England, cricketer (60 wickets), dies 1942 - May Robson, actress (Star is Born, Reckless), dies at 84 1944 - Gabriel Groulez, composer, dies at 65 1950 - Henry Lewsis Stimson, US minister of War/gov-gen, dies 1952 - Basil Radford, actor (Whisky Galore, Dead of Night), dies at 55 1953 - Werner Baumbach, German bomber pilot (b. 1916) 1954 - Willie Shaw, race car driver (Indy 500-1937, 39, 40), dies at 51 1955 - Eino Roiha, composer, dies at 51 1959 - Werner Krauss, actor (Joyless Street), dies at 75 31st US President Herbert Hoover31st US President Herbert Hoover (1964) 1964 - Herbert Hoover, 31st President of US (1929-33), dies in NY at 90 1964 - Miles WL Killearn of Killearn, baron/diplomat (Egypt), dies at 84 1967 - Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878) 1968 - Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, TV preacher, dies at 84 1970 - Patrick Wymark, actor (Skull, Tomb of Ligeia), dies at 44 1972 - Harlow Shapley, astronomer (Suns position in galaxy), dies at 86 1977 - Cassie Gaines, rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies in a plane crash at 28 1977 - Ronnie Van Zant, rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies in a plane crash at 29 1977 - Steve Gaines, rock guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies in air crash at 28 1983 - Merle Travis, country singer, dies at 75 1983 - Yves Thériault, French Canadian author (b. 1915) 1984 - Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896) Theoretical Physicist and Nobel Laureat Paul DiracTheoretical Physicist and Nobel Laureat Paul Dirac (1984) 1984 - Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, dies at 82 1986 - Samora Machel, president of Mozambique, dies in air crash at 53 1987 - Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1903) 1988 - Sheila Scott, English aviatrix (b. 1922) 1989 - Anthony Quayle, actor (Moses, Operation Crossbow), dies at 76 1990 - Joel McCrea, actor (Ramrod), dies of pulmonary complications at 84 1990 - Bridget Bate Tichenor (born Bridget Pamela Arkwright Bate), Mexican surrealist painter dies aged 72 1992 - Orton Chirwa, Malawis lawyer/Justice minister, dies in captivity 1993 - James Leo Herlihy, novelist (Midnight Cowboy), dies at 66 1993 - Maurice Dolbier, US actor/writer (Nowhere near Everest), dies at 81 1993 - Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (b. 1909) 1994 - Burt Lancaster, actor (Elmer Gantry), dies of heart attack at 80 1994 - Charles Robert Owen Medley, dancer/Choreographer, dies at 88 1994 - Eberhard Feik, German actor (Tatort), dies at 50 1994 - Ivan Svitak, philosopher, dies at 69 1994 - Sergei F Bondartsjoek, actor/director (Waterloo), dies at 74 1995 - Bernadette Hingley, priest, dies at 47 1995 - Christopher Stone, actor (Dave-Dallas, Interns), dies at 53 1995 - Jack Rose, screenwriter, dies at 83 1995 - Raymond Rasberry, pianist/singer, dies at 65 1996 - Alfred William Bill Bedford, test Pilot, dies at 75 1996 - Mary Tuck, social researcher/civil servant, dies at 68 1999 - Calvin Griffith, Former owner of Washington Senators (b. 1911) 2001 - Ted Ammon, American financier (b. 1949) 2002 - Barbara Berjer, American actress (b. 1920) 2002 - Bernard Fresson, French actor (b. 1931) 2003 - Jack Elam, American actor (b. 1918) 2003 - Miodrag Petrović, Serbian actor (b. 1924) 2004 - Anthony Hecht, American poet (b. 1923) 2004 - Chuck Hiller, American baseball player (b. 1934) 2005 - Shirley Horn, American singer (b. 1934) 2005 - Endon Mahmood, First Lady of Malaysia (breast cancer) (b. 1941) 2005 - Eva Svankmajerova, Czech artist (b. 1940) Actress Jane WyattActress Jane Wyatt (2006) 2006 - Jane Wyatt, American actress, dies at 96 2007 - Max McGee, American football player (b. 1932) 2007 - Paul Raven, British bass-player (Killing Joke, Ministry) (b. 1961) 2008 - Gene Hickerson, American football Hall of Famer (b. 1935) 2010 - Bob Guccione, American publisher (Penthouse magazine), dies at 79 2010 - Parthasarathy Sharma, Indian cricketer (b. 1948)1955 - Publication of The Return of the King, the 3rd and final volume of The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien - 2nd best-selling novel 1956 - 58°F (15°C), Esperanza Station, Antarctica (Antarctic record high) 1956 - Hannes Lindemann begins journey across Atlantic in a 17 craft 1957 - Karachi A (277-0d) beat Sind A by an innings w/o losing a wkt 1957 - Walter Cronkite begins hosting weekly documentary 1959 - Clark Griffith of Senators says team will not move the franchise 1959 - WABG TV channel 6 in Greenwood-Greenville, MS (ABC) 1st broadcast 1960 - 1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI 1960 - Ralph Houk, 41, replaces Casey Stengel as Yankee manager 1962 - Musical Mr President opens at St James Theater New York for 265 performances Broadcast Journalist Walter CronkiteBroadcast Journalist Walter Cronkite 1962 - Chinese army lands in India 1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island 1963 - Alec Douglas-Home forms British government 1963 - France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria 1963 - Jim Brown sets NFL single-season rushing record, 1,863 yds 1963 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Hillside Golf Open 1963 - South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela & 8 others on conspiracy 1963 - WITV TV channel 7 in Charleston, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting 1964 - Golden Boy opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 569 performances Anti-apartheid activist and South African President Nelson MandelaAnti-apartheid activist and South African President Nelson Mandela 1964 - Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ 1964 - Riot at Rolling Stones show in Paris (150 arrested) 1965 - 19th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-2 at Montreal 1965 - Beatles receive a gold record for Yesterday 1965 - Mass arrests of communists in Indonesia 1967 - All white federal jury convicts 7 in murder of 3 civil rights workers in Meridan Mississippi 1967 - Charlie Finley names Bob Kennedy 1st manager of Oakland As 1967 - KMXN (now KJTV) TV channel 34 in Lubbock, TX (IND) begins broadcasting 1967 - A purported bigfoot is filmed by Patterson and Gimlin. 1968 - Her 1st Roman opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 17 perfs 1968 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic 1968 - Mamo Wolde wins 16th Olympic marathon (2:20:26.4) 1969 - WKYH (now WYMT) TV channel 57 in Hazard, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting 1970 - American Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1970 - Zond 8 Launch (Moon Orbit & Return) 1971 - Aint Supposed to Die a Natural Death opens at Barrymore for 325 per 1971 - West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1971 - The Nepal stock exchange collapses. 1971 - Senator in the US Congress Edward Kennedy calls for a withdrawal of British troops from Northern Ireland and all-party negotiations to establish a United Ireland 1972 - Queen Juliana visits Yugoslavia 1973 - Mariette Hartley appears on Bob Newhart in Have You Met Miss Dietz 1973 - OPEC oil embargo begins Versatile Athlete Jim ThorpeVersatile Athlete Jim Thorpe 1973 - President Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe greatest athlete of 1st ½ century 1973 - Queen Elizabeth II opens Sydney Opera House 1973 - US president Nixon fires Watergate accuser Archibald Cox 1973 - Solicitor Gen Bork, AG Richardson & Deputy AG Ruckelshaus resigned 1973 - The Family Station Inc buys shortwave Radio Station WNYW, changes calls to WYFR & moves station from NYC to Scituate Mass 1974 - 1st broadcast of Derrick on ZDF 1974 - Bards presentation of Richard III opens at Lincoln Center NYC Queen of the United Kingdom Elizabeth IIQueen of the United Kingdom Elizabeth II 1975 - Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after warning 1976 - 70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince 1976 - NY Nets Julius Dr J Erving sold to Phila 76ers 1977 - David Mamets Life in the Theater, premieres in NYC 1977 - Hamilton Deane & John Balderstons Dracula, premieres in NYC 1977 - Six killed in Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash in McComb, Mississippi including band members Ronnie Vanzant, Steve Gains, Cassie Gaines and Dean kilpatrick 1978 - Paul Vanden Boeynants forms Belgium government 1978 - Polices 1st US concert (NYs CBGBs) 1978 - US dollar devalued below Dutch Ÿ2 Singer-Songwriter Bob DylanSinger-Songwriter Bob Dylan 1979 - Bob Dylan appears on Saturday Night Live 1979 - John F Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston 1979 - John Tate beats Gerrie Coetze in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 1981 - 1st NBA game at Meadowlands Arena, NJ Nets lose to NY Knicks 103-99 1981 - 3 members of Weather underground arrested for armored truck robbery 1981 - Bomb attack on Antwerp Belgium synagogue, 1 dead, 80 injured 1982 - Billy Martin fired as manager of Oakland As 1982 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to George Stigler 1982 - Sri Lanka President Jayewardene re-elected 1982 - St Louis Cards beat Milwaukee Brewers, 4 games to 3 in 79th World Series 1982 - During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster. 1983 - IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released 1984 - Cleveland Metroparks Valley Parkway All Purpose Trails are completed NHL Right Winger Mike BossyNHL Right Winger Mike Bossy 1984 - Islanders Mike Bossys 30th career hat trick-4 goals 1984 - The Monterey Bay Aquarium opens in Monterey Bay, California. 1986 - Tupolev-134 crashes in Southern Africa 1987 - 10 die as US Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis 1987 - Dow-Jones increases 102.27 pts/608,120,000 shares traded (record) 1987 - Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail 1988 - Les Miserables, opens at Forrest Theatre, Phila 1988 - Britain ends suspects right to remain silent in crackdown on IRA 1988 - Gastineau sacks Jets, retires from football for personal reasons 1988 - LA Dodgers beat Oakland As in baseballs 85th World Series 4 games to 1 1988 - Man armed with explosives blows himself up in 125 St subway station (NYC) 1988 - Reggie Rogers, Det Lions # 1 pick, kills 3 by driving intoxicated 1989 - Pakistan win Sharjah Trophy over India & WI on round-robin 1989 - US Senate impeaches US District Judge Alcee L Hastings 1990 - 3 members of 2 Live Crew acquitted on obsenity charges in Florida 1990 - Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 US cities (US-Iraq) 1990 - Cincinnati Reds sweep Oakland As in 86th World Series 1991 - Andre Hellers Wonderhouse opens at Broadhurst NYC for 9 perfs 1991 - 6.1-7.1 earthquake in Uttar Kashi, India, about 670 die 1991 - Formal opening ceremony of Intl One Mind Zen center in Crestone, Colo 1992 - 1st World Series game outside of US - Toronto beats Atlanta 1992 - David Houghton scores Zimbabwes 1st Test hundred (121 v India, debut) 1992 - Mr Johnson surrenders Monrovia, Liberia & is exiled to Nigeria 1993 - Highest scoring World Series game Blue Jays 15, Phillies 14 in 4h14m 1995 - STS 73 (Columbia 18), launches into orbit 1995 - Sri Lanka beat West Indies to win Sharjah Champions Trophy final 1996 - Summer & Smoke closes at Criterion Theater NYC 1996 - Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Samsung World Championship of Womens Golf 1996 - Braves Andruw Jones is youngest player to homer in World Series 1996 - Wasim Akram & Saqlain Mushtaq gets cricket Test record 313 for 8th wkt ◀ 1 2 3 ▶ Famous Birthdays Birthdays 101 - 200 of 236 1932 - Roosevelt Brown, Virginia, NFL hall of fame tackle (NY Giants) 1932 - William Christopher, Evanstown Ill, actor (Father Mulcahy-M*A*S*H) 1932 - Rosey Brown, American football player (d. 2004) 1934 - Eddie Harris, saxophonist/composer 1934 - Martin Landau, actor (Mission Impossible, Space 1999, Ed Wood) 1934 - Michael Dunn, Shattuck OK, actor (House of the Damned, Ship of Fools) 1934 - Michiko, empress of Japan 1934 - Timothy West, Yorkshire England, actor (Masada) 1935 - Jerry Ohrbach, Bronx NY, actor (Law & Order, Dirty Dancing) 1936 - Larry Mowry, San Diego CA, PGA golfer (1987 Crestar Pepsi Senior) 1937 - Juan Marichal, Hall of Fame baseball pitcher (SF Giants) 1937 - Wanda Jackson, Maud Oklahoma, country singer (Lets Have a Party) 1938 - Iain Macmillan, Abbey Road photographer (d. 2006) 1939 - Jay Siegel, Bkln, rock bassist (Tokens-Lion Sleeps Tonight) 1939 - Raymond Jones, rocker 1940 - Kathy Kirby, British singer 1940 - Robert Pinsky, American poet and Poet Laureate of the United States 1941 - Bob Panasik, Windsor Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1986 Canadian TPC) 1942 - Earl Hindman, Bisbee AZ, actor (Wilson-Home Improvement) 1943 - Dunja Vejzovic, Croatian soprano 1944 - William Hugh Albright, composer 1945 - Ric Lee, rock drummer (Ten Years After-Cannock, Staffs) 1945 - Thomas Pasatieri, composer 1946 - Connie Chung, Washington DC, news ancher (NBC, CBS) 1946 - Elfriede Jelinek, writer 1946 - Lucien Van Impe, Belgian cyclist 1948 - Andrei Suraikin, USSR, pairs figure skater (Olympic-silver-1972) 1948 - Robert A Borski, (Rep-D-PA, 1983- ) 1949 - Valery Borzov, USSR, 100m/200m dash (Olympic-gold-1972) 1949 - Wayne Collett, US, 400m runner (Olympic-silver-1972) 1950 - Isaac Curtis, NFL wide receiver (Cincinnati Bengals) 1950 - Tom Petty, Gainesville Florida, American classic rock singer (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) 1951 - Al Greenwood, keyboardist (Foreigner-Feels Like the First Time) 1951 - Patrick Hall, British politician 1951 - Leif Pagrotsky, Swedish politician 1952 - Dave Collins, baseball player 1952 - Dave McLelland, NHLer 1952 - Melanie Mayron, Phila, actress (30 Something, Car Wash, Missing) 1952 - Mikhail Georgiyevich Potapov, Russian cosmonaut MLB First Baseman Keith HernandezMLB First Baseman Keith Hernandez (1953) 1953 - Keith Hernandez, San Francisco California, MLB 1st baseman (St Louis Cardinals, NY Mets) 1953 - Bill Nunn, American actor 1954 - Suru Nayak, cricketer (two Tests for India v England 1982) 1954 - Steve Orich, orchestrator 1954 - Günter Müller, German sound artist, improvisor and percussionist 1955 - Robert ten Brink, Dutch TV host/cabaret artist 1955 - Thomas Newman, American composer 1955 - David Profumo, English novelist 1955 - Aaron Pryor, American boxer 1956 - Danny Boyle, English film director 1957 - Chris Cowdrey, cricketer (son of Colin, captain of England 1988) 1957 - Susanna Haavisto, Finnish actress and singer 1958 - Dave Krieg, NFL quarterback (Arizona Cardinals, Tennessee Oilers) 1958 - Eric Scott, Hollywood California, actor (Ben-Waltons) 1958 - Ivo Pogorelich, Belgrade Yugoslavia, pianist (1978 Casagrande winner) 1958 - Mark King, bass/vocalist (Level 42-Standing in the Light, Love Games) 1958 - Ricky Byrd, rocker (Joan Jett & Blackhearts) 1958 - Valerie Faris, American film director 1958 - Lynn Flewelling, American fantasy author 1958 - Ivo Pogorelic, Croatian pianist 1959 - Janice McCaffrey, Etobicoke Ontario, 10k walker (Olympics-25-92, 96) 1959 - Razor Ramon, [Scott Hall], wrestler (WWF/WCW/NWA/Florida/AWA/KC) 1960 - Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (d. 2004) 1960 - Lepa Brena, famous Yugoslav singer 1961 - Ian Rush, Welsh footballer 1961 - Michie Tomizawa, Japanese voice actress 1962 - Ray Childress, NFL defensive tackle/defensive end (Houston Oilers) 1962 - Steven R Randy Jackson, US percussionist/singer (Enjoy Yourself) 1963 - Julie Payette, Montreal Quebec, astronaut 1963 - Navjot Singh Sidhu, cricketer (Indian opening batsman) 1963 - Nikos Tsiantakis, Greek footballer 1965 - Amos Mansdorf, lsrael, tennis star 1965 - Chad Hennings, NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys) 1965 - M Shtalenkov, Moscow Russia, NHL goalie (Anaheim Mighty Ducks) 1965 - Mikhail Shtalenkov, Moscow Russia, NHL goalie (Team Russia, Anaheim) 1965 - Norman Blake, Scottish musician 1965 - William Zabka, American actor 1966 - Allan Donald, cricketer (great South African fast bowler) 1966 - Erin Deiters, Green Bay Wis, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-9th-1994) 1966 - Fred Coury, Johnston NY, rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station) 1966 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al-Qaeda leader (d. 2006) 1966 - Stefan Raab, German entertainer 1966 - Patrick J. Volkerding, Founder and maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution 1967 - Harvey Pulliam, SF CA, outfielder (Colorado Rockies) 1967 - Susan Tulley, British actress (Michelle-EastEnders) 1967 - Luigi Lo Cascio, Italian actor 1967 - Luck Mervil, Québécois actor and singer 1967 - Marco Ngai, Hong Kong actor 1968 - Raymond Biggs, CFL linebacker (Calgary Stampeders) 1969 - Chantel Tremitiere, WNBA guard (Sacramento Monarchs) 1969 - Guillermo Perez-Roldan, Argentina, tennis star 1969 - Herman Moore, NFL wide receiver (Detroit Lions) 1969 - Juan Gonzalez, Vega Baja Puerto Rico, outfielder (Texas Rangers) 1969 - Laurie Daley, Australian rugby league footballer 1970 - Greg Primus, NFL wide receiver (Chic Bears) 1970 - Ralph Dawkins, WLAF running back (Amsterdam Admirals) 1970 - Sander Boschke, soccer player (FC Twente) 1970 - Shane George, cricketer (S Australian fast bowler, Shield debut at 17) 1970 - Chavo Guerrero, Jr., American professional wrestler 1970 - Michelle Malkin, American political commentator and author 1971 - Dannii Minogue, Melbourne Australia, singer, sister of Kylie Minogue ◀ 1 2 3 ▶ Famous Weddings Please go to a prior page. Famous Deaths Deaths 101 - 103 of 103 2011 - Muammar Gaddafi, Ruler of Libya (b. 1942) 2011 - Moatassem Gaddafi, Son of Moammar Gaddafi and National Security Adviser of Libya (b. 1977) 2011 - Tone Pavček, Slovenian poet and translator (b. 1928)
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