Hatches Happy birthday and many happy returns Eric Kalemen. You were born on the same day the oldest university in the Americas, The National University of San Marcos opened in 1551, in Lima, Peru. Apparently the Spanish needed personal trainers really quickly. Also, it was Mothers Day and you are a good boy. 1401 – Emperor Shōkō, Japanese emperor (d. 1428) 1754 – Franz Anton Hoffmeister, German composer and publisher (d. 1812) 1755 – Giovanni Battista Viotti, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1824) 1812 – Edward Lear, English author, poet, and illustrator (d. 1888) 1814 – Adolf von Henselt, German pianist and composer (d. 1889) 1820 – Florence Nightingale, Italian-English nurse (d. 1910) 1839 – Ton That Thuyet, Vietnamese mandarin (d. 1913) 1867 – Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer and accountant (d. 1938) 1889 – Otto Frank, German-Swiss businessman and holocaust survivor (d. 1980) 1907 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress and singer (d. 2003) 1918 – Julius Rosenberg, American spy (d. 1953) 1925 – Yogi Berra, American baseball player and manager 1928 – Burt Bacharach, American pianist, composer, and producer 1937 – George Carlin, American comedian, actor, and author (d. 2008) 1939 – Reg Gasnier, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 2014) 1942 – Ian Dury, English singer-songwriter, bandleader, and actor (The Blockheads) (d. 2000) 1944 – Chris Patten, English politician and academic 1944 – Brian Kay, English radio presenter, conductor and singer 1945 – Alan Ball, Jr., English footballer and manager (d. 2007) 1948 – Steve Winwood, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, and Blind Faith) 1950 – Bruce Boxleitner, American actor and author 1956 – Glenn Robbins, Australian actor 1958 – Eric Singer, American drummer and songwriter (Kiss, Avantasia, Badlands, and Eric Singer Project) 1962 – Emilio Estevez, American actor, director, and screenwriter 1963 – Vanessa A. Williams, American actress 1978 – Malin Åkerman, Swedish-Canadian model, actress, and singer 1998 – Tornado Alicia Black, American tennis player Matches 254 – Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I as the 23rd pope. 304 – Roman Emperor Diocletian orders the beheading of the 14-year-old Pancras of Rome. 907 – Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tang Dynasty after nearly three hundred years of rule. 1364 – Jagiellonian University, the oldest university in Poland, is founded in Kraków, Poland. 1510 – The Prince of Anhua rebellion begins when Zhu Zhifan kills all the officials invited to a banquet and declares his intent on ousting the powerful Ming Dynasty eunuch Liu Jin during the reign of the Zhengde Emperor. 1551 – National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, is founded in Lima, Peru. 1926 – UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a nine-day general strike by trade unions ends. 1932 – Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Jr., is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey, just a few miles from the Lindberghs home. 1941 – Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the worlds first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin. 1942 – The Holocaust: 1,500 Jews are sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz. 1949 – The western occupying powers approve the Basic Law for the new German state: the Federal Republic of Germany. 1955 – Nineteen days after bus workers went on strike in Singapore, rioting breaks out and seriously impacts Singapores bid for independence. 1981 – Francis Hughes starves to death in the Maze Prison in a Republican campaign for political prisoner status to be granted to Provisional IRA prisoners. 1982 – During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan María Fernández y Krohn before he can attackPope John Paul II with a bayonet. Krohn, an ultraconservative Spanish priest opposed to the Vatican II reforms, believed that the Pope had to be killed for being an agent of Moscow. 2002 – Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castros 1959 revolution. 2006 – Iranian Azeris interpret a cartoon published in an Iranian magazine as insulting, resulting in massive riots throughout the country. Despatches 1003 – Pope Sylvester II (b. 946)
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