Hatches Happy birthday and many happy returns Michael Lee and Helen Huang. Born on the someday, across the years. Not April 1st. One asks if your parents were really trying .. 972 – Robert II of France (d. 1031) 1712 – Claude Bourgelat, French surgeon (d. 1779) 1753 – Andrew Bell, Scottish priest, founded Madras College (d. 1832) 1802 – Félix-Jacques Moulin, French photographer (d. 1875) 1804 – Giacomo Panizza, Italian conductor and composer (d. 1860) 1845 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923) 1863 – Henry Royce, English engineer and businessman, founded Rolls-Royce Limited (d. 1933) 1898 – Maria Rasputin, Russian-American daughter of Grigori Rasputin (d. 1977) 1899 – Gloria Swanson, American actress, singer, and producer (d. 1983) 1901 – Carl Barks, American illustrator and screenwriter (d. 2000) 1912 – Robert Hughes, Scottish-Australian composer (d. 2007) 1937 – Alan Hawkshaw, English keyboard player and songwriter (The Shadows) 1942 – Michael York, English actor 1950 – Tony Banks, English guitarist and songwriter (Genesis) 1963 – Quentin Tarantino, American director, screenwriter, and producer 1970 – Leila Pahlavi, Iranian daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (d. 2001) 1971 – Matt Pegg, English bass player (Procol Harum) 1981 – Cacau, Brazilian-German footballer 1999 – Natasha Calis, Canadian actress 2004 – Butler Blue II, American dog (d. 2013) Matches 87 BC – Crown Prince Fuling, later Emperor Zhao of Han, is named as Emperor Wu of Hans successor and heir to the throne. Emperor Wu dies two days later. 1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication, interdiction, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse against Venice, which had unjustly seized on Ferrara, a fief of the Patrimony of Peter. 1329 – Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical. 1613 – The first English child born in Canada at Cupers Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy. 1625 – Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France. 1814 – War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. 1836 – Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre – Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas. 1851 – First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans. 1854 – Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia. 1871 – The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place. 1881 – Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of Teetotalism by the Salvation Army. 1884 – A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse. 1910 – A fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, kills 312. 1915 – Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life. 1945 – World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japans ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers. 1958 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union. 1963 – Beeching Axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdoms rail network. 1977 – Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). Sixty-one survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the worst aviation accident in history. 1986 – A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing one police officer and injuring 21 people. 1993 – Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo. 1998 – The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States 2002 – Passover massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel. 2009 – A suicide bomber kills at least 48 at a mosque in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan. Despatches 710 – Rupert of Salzburg, Austrian saint (b. 660) 1555 – William Hunter, English martyr (b. 1535) 1572 – Girolamo Maggi, Italian scholar, jurist, and poet (b. 1523) 1918 – Henry Adams, American journalist, historian, and author (b. 1838) 1968 – Yuri Gagarin, Russian pilot and astronaut (b. 1934) 1972 – M. C. Escher, Dutch illustrator (b. 1898) 2000 – Ian Dury, English singer-songwriter and actor (The Blockheads) (b. 1942)
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