1963 - Hiromi Kobayashi, Fukushima Japan, LPGA golfer (1993 JAL Big Apple) 1964 - Peter [Ped] Gill, rocker (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax) [or 3/5] 1964 - Virgil Hill, Missouri, middleweight boxer (Olympic-silver-1984) 1965 - Champaka Ramanayake, cricketer (Sri Lankan opening bowler) 1965 - Eric Wohlberg, Sudbury Ontario, cyclist (Olympics-96) 1965 - Maria Pitillo, Matwah NJ, actress (Ryan's Hope) 1965 - Michelle Forbes, actress (Julianna Cox-Homicide) 1966 - Darryl Hall, CFL linebacker (Calgary Stampeders) 1966 - Loretta Lee, [Lee Lai Chan], China, actress (Happy Ghost) 1966 - Andrew Wood, American musician (d. 1990) 1967 - Hollis Conway, Chicago Ill, high jumper (Olympics-silv/bronze-88, 92) 1967 - Kent Jones, Portales NM, golfer (NM State Amateur-1990-91) 1967 - Roger Rowland, Jacksonville FL, Nike golfer (1990 Macon Open-2nd) 1967 - Willie Anderson, US, NBA guard (NY Knicks, Olympic-bronze-1988) 1967 - R. Kelly, American singer 1968 - Alexander Alexeev, NHL defenseman (Belarus, Oly-98) 1968 - Ami Dolenz, LA Calif, actress (General Hospital, Can't Buy Me Love) 1968 - Brian Johnson, Oakland Calif, catcher (San Diego Padres) 1968 - Mark Duane Croghan, Akron Ohio, 3k steeplechase (Olympics-5th-96)
1911 - Butterfly McQueen, [Thelma], Tampa Fla, actress (Gone With the Wind) 1912 - Jos Ferrer, San Juan Puerto Rico, actor/director (Blood Tide, Dune) 1912 - Rudolf G Escher, Dutch composer (True Face of Peace) 1913 - Horace Smith, cricketer (NZ, only Test wkt off his 1st ball (Paynter)) 1914 - Charles Borromeo Mills, composer 1915 - Walker Cooper, American baseball player (d. 1991) 1917 - Peter Taylor, US writer 1917 - Stanley Prager, NYC, comedian (College Bowl) 1920 - Hendrikus J Wittebold, civil servant/resistance fighter 1921 - Herta Bothe, Nazi concentration camp guard 1922 - Abbey Simon, NYC, pianist 1923 - Giorgio Tozzi, Chicago Illinois, basso 1923 - Iva Michiels, [Rik Ceuppens], Flemish writer (Ksiega Alfa) 1923 - Johnny Wardle, cricketer (Yorkshire & England left-arm bowler of 50's) 1923 - Joseph Wiezenbaum, artificial intelligence pioneer 1923 - Larry Storch, NYC, comedian (F Troop, Larry Storch Show) 1923 - Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American author and computer scientist (d. 2008) 1924 - Antai Ribari, composer
1824 - Francisco Gonzlez Bocanegra, Mexican poet (d. 1861) 1830 - Gouverneur Kemble Warren, Major Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1882 1830 - Hans von Blow, German pianist and composer (d. 1894) 1836 - Fannie M Jackson, pioneer & educator, 1st US Black woman college grad 1836 - Lawrence Alma Tadema, Dutch/British painter/husband of Laura Epps 1843 - Frederick Abberline, British police investigator (d. 1929) 1843 - John H. Moffitt, American politician (d. 1926) 1846 - Albert Cahen, composer 1846 - William Wallace Gilchrist, composer 1852 - James Milton Carroll, American pastor and author (d. 1931) 1860 - Nancy Jones, US black missionary in Africa 1862 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher/founder (Doubleday & Co) 1864 - Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (d. 1892) 1866 - William G. Conley, American politician (d. 1940) 1867 - Emily Green Balch, US, sociologist/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1946) 1868 - Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity 1870 - Miguel Primo de Rivera Orbaneja, dictator of Spain (1923-30) 1871 - James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician (d. 1940) 1873 - Lucien Capet, composer
1873 - Iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician (d. 1953) 1873 - Elena of Montenegro, queen of Italy (d. 1956) 1881 - Henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960) 1883 - Josue Teofilo Wilkes, composer 1883 - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (d. 1941) 1883 - Patrick J. Hurley, United States Secretary of War (d. 1963) 1885 - John Curtin, Victoria, Australian PM (Labor, 1941-45) 1885 - A. J. Muste, Dutch pacifist and activist (d. 1967) 1886 - Noble Drew Ali, [Timothy Drew], NC, prophet (Moorish Science Temple) 1888 - Matt Moore, County Meath Ireland, actor (Coquette, Deluge) 1888 - Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (d. 1972) 1888 - Matthew Moore, Irish-American actor (d. 1960) 1889 - Paul Hartmann, Furth Germany, actor (Haunted Castle) 1890 - Sandor Rado, Hungarian/US psycho analyst 1891 - Bronislava Nijinska, ballet choreographer 1891 - Walter Bothe, Germany, subatomic particle physicist (Nobel 1954) 1891 - Storm Jameson, English writer (d. 1986) 1892 - Werner Wehrli, composer 1894 - St Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr (d. 1941) 1896 - Jaromir Weinberger, Prague Czechoslovakia, composer (Bird's Opera) 1896 - Manuel Rojas Sepulveda, Chile, writer (Men of the South) 1896 - Arthur Ford, American psychic (d. 1971) 1897 - Dennis Wheatley, British author (d. 1977) 1899 - Solomon WRD Bandaranaike, premier of Ceylon (1956-59) 1900 - Queen Marie, of Yugoslavia
1951 - Kenny Anthony, Saint Lucian politician 1952 - Lauri Walters, SF Calif, actress (8 is Enough, Harrad Experiment) 1952 - Norm Jarvis, Prince Albert Sask, golfer (1984 Chilliwack) 1952 - Vladimir Feltsman, Russian-American pianist 1953 - Bruce Sutter, pitcher (Cubs, Cards, Braves) 1955 - Mike Reno, Vancouver BC Canada, rock vocalist (Loverboy) 1955 - Spiros Livathinos, Greek footballer 1957 - Nacho Duato, Spanish classical dancer and choreographer 1958 - Rey Misterio, Sr., Mexican wrestler 1959 - Michael Harwood, Sydney NSW, Australasia golfer 1959 - Paul Hester, Australian drummer (d. 2005) 1960 - Jolanda Egger, Luzean Switz, playmate (June, 1983) 1961 - Shoaib Mohammad, cricketer (son of Hanif Patient & prolific batsman) 1961 - Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese creator of Yu-Gi-Oh 1961 - Calvin Smith, American athlete 1962 - Chris Marion, American musician 307 - Jin Huidi, Chinese Emperor of the Jin Dynasty, is poisoned and succeeded by his son Jin Huaidi. 871 - Alfred the Great leads a West Saxon army to repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings. 1297 - Monaco gains its independence. 1499 - Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany. 1734 - Premiere performance of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. 1746 - Second Jacobite Rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling. 1790 - George Washington delivers the first State of the Union Address in New York City. 1806 - Cape Colony becomes a British colony. 1811 - An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana. 1815 - War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans - Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British. 1835 - The United States national debt is 0 for the only time. 1838 - Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code). 1863 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield 1867 - African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C. 1877 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory. 1889 - Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' - his punched card calculator. 1904 - The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system. 1906 - A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people. 1912 - The African National Congress is founded.
1918 - President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I. 1940 - World War II: Britain introduces food rationing. 1956 - Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them. 1961 - In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria. 1962 - The Harmelen train disaster killed 93 people in the Netherlands. 1963 - Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. 1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States. 1973 - Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched. 1973 - Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins. 1975 - Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband. 1977 - Three bombs went off in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. 1978 - Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh. 1979 - The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland. 1981 - A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time". 1982 - The break up of AT&T: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions. 1989 - The Kegworth air disaster. British Midland flight 92 crashes into the M1 motorway killing 47 people out of 127 on board. 1989 - Beginning of Japanese Heisei era. 1994 - Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space. 1996 - An Antonov 32 cargo turboprop powered plane crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350 people. 2002 - President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act. 2003 - Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of 75 passengers. 2004 - The RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II. 2005 - The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired. 2010 - Gunmen from an offshoot the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attacked the bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 African Cup of Nations, killing three. 2011 - An attempted assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store kills 6 people and wounds 13, including Giffords.
1911 - Butterfly McQueen, [Thelma], Tampa Fla, actress (Gone With the Wind) 1912 - Jos Ferrer, San Juan Puerto Rico, actor/director (Blood Tide, Dune) 1912 - Rudolf G Escher, Dutch composer (True Face of Peace) 1913 - Horace Smith, cricketer (NZ, only Test wkt off his 1st ball (Paynter)) 1914 - Charles Borromeo Mills, composer 1915 - Walker Cooper, American baseball player (d. 1991) 1917 - Peter Taylor, US writer 1917 - Stanley Prager, NYC, comedian (College Bowl) 1920 - Hendrikus J Wittebold, civil servant/resistance fighter 1921 - Herta Bothe, Nazi concentration camp guard 1922 - Abbey Simon, NYC, pianist 1923 - Giorgio Tozzi, Chicago Illinois, basso 1923 - Iva Michiels, [Rik Ceuppens], Flemish writer (Ksiega Alfa) 1923 - Johnny Wardle, cricketer (Yorkshire & England left-arm bowler of 50's) 1923 - Joseph Wiezenbaum, artificial intelligence pioneer 1923 - Larry Storch, NYC, comedian (F Troop, Larry Storch Show) 1923 - Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American author and computer scientist (d. 2008) 1924 - Antai Ribari, composer
1824 - Francisco Gonzlez Bocanegra, Mexican poet (d. 1861) 1830 - Gouverneur Kemble Warren, Major Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1882 1830 - Hans von Blow, German pianist and composer (d. 1894) 1836 - Fannie M Jackson, pioneer & educator, 1st US Black woman college grad 1836 - Lawrence Alma Tadema, Dutch/British painter/husband of Laura Epps 1843 - Frederick Abberline, British police investigator (d. 1929) 1843 - John H. Moffitt, American politician (d. 1926) 1846 - Albert Cahen, composer 1846 - William Wallace Gilchrist, composer 1852 - James Milton Carroll, American pastor and author (d. 1931) 1860 - Nancy Jones, US black missionary in Africa 1862 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher/founder (Doubleday & Co) 1864 - Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (d. 1892) 1866 - William G. Conley, American politician (d. 1940) 1867 - Emily Green Balch, US, sociologist/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1946) 1868 - Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity 1870 - Miguel Primo de Rivera Orbaneja, dictator of Spain (1923-30) 1871 - James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician (d. 1940) 1873 - Lucien Capet, composer
1873 - Iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician (d. 1953) 1873 - Elena of Montenegro, queen of Italy (d. 1956) 1881 - Henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960) 1883 - Josue Teofilo Wilkes, composer 1883 - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (d. 1941) 1883 - Patrick J. Hurley, United States Secretary of War (d. 1963) 1885 - John Curtin, Victoria, Australian PM (Labor, 1941-45) 1885 - A. J. Muste, Dutch pacifist and activist (d. 1967) 1886 - Noble Drew Ali, [Timothy Drew], NC, prophet (Moorish Science Temple) 1888 - Matt Moore, County Meath Ireland, actor (Coquette, Deluge) 1888 - Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (d. 1972) 1888 - Matthew Moore, Irish-American actor (d. 1960) 1889 - Paul Hartmann, Furth Germany, actor (Haunted Castle) 1890 - Sandor Rado, Hungarian/US psycho analyst 1891 - Bronislava Nijinska, ballet choreographer 1891 - Walter Bothe, Germany, subatomic particle physicist (Nobel 1954) 1891 - Storm Jameson, English writer (d. 1986) 1892 - Werner Wehrli, composer 1894 - St Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr (d. 1941) 1896 - Jaromir Weinberger, Prague Czechoslovakia, composer (Bird's Opera) 1896 - Manuel Rojas Sepulveda, Chile, writer (Men of the South) 1896 - Arthur Ford, American psychic (d. 1971) 1897 - Dennis Wheatley, British author (d. 1977) 1899 - Solomon WRD Bandaranaike, premier of Ceylon (1956-59) 1900 - Queen Marie, of Yugoslavia
1951 - Kenny Anthony, Saint Lucian politician 1952 - Lauri Walters, SF Calif, actress (8 is Enough, Harrad Experiment) 1952 - Norm Jarvis, Prince Albert Sask, golfer (1984 Chilliwack) 1952 - Vladimir Feltsman, Russian-American pianist 1953 - Bruce Sutter, pitcher (Cubs, Cards, Braves) 1955 - Mike Reno, Vancouver BC Canada, rock vocalist (Loverboy) 1955 - Spiros Livathinos, Greek footballer 1957 - Nacho Duato, Spanish classical dancer and choreographer 1958 - Rey Misterio, Sr., Mexican wrestler 1959 - Michael Harwood, Sydney NSW, Australasia golfer 1959 - Paul Hester, Australian drummer (d. 2005) 1960 - Jolanda Egger, Luzean Switz, playmate (June, 1983) 1961 - Shoaib Mohammad, cricketer (son of Hanif Patient & prolific batsman) 1961 - Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese creator of Yu-Gi-Oh 1961 - Calvin Smith, American athlete 1962 - Chris Marion, American musician 307 - Jin Huidi, Chinese Emperor of the Jin Dynasty, is poisoned and succeeded by his son Jin Huaidi. 871 - Alfred the Great leads a West Saxon army to repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings. 1297 - Monaco gains its independence. 1499 - Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany. 1734 - Premiere performance of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. 1746 - Second Jacobite Rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling. 1790 - George Washington delivers the first State of the Union Address in New York City. 1806 - Cape Colony becomes a British colony. 1811 - An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana. 1815 - War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans - Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British. 1835 - The United States national debt is 0 for the only time. 1838 - Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code). 1863 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield 1867 - African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C. 1877 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory. 1889 - Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' - his punched card calculator. 1904 - The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system. 1906 - A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people. 1912 - The African National Congress is founded.
1918 - President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I. 1940 - World War II: Britain introduces food rationing. 1956 - Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them. 1961 - In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria. 1962 - The Harmelen train disaster killed 93 people in the Netherlands. 1963 - Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. 1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States. 1973 - Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched. 1973 - Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins. 1975 - Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband. 1977 - Three bombs went off in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. 1978 - Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh. 1979 - The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland. 1981 - A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time". 1982 - The break up of AT&T: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions. 1989 - The Kegworth air disaster. British Midland flight 92 crashes into the M1 motorway killing 47 people out of 127 on board. 1989 - Beginning of Japanese Heisei era. 1994 - Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space. 1996 - An Antonov 32 cargo turboprop powered plane crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350 people. 2002 - President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act. 2003 - Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of 75 passengers. 2004 - The RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II. 2005 - The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired. 2010 - Gunmen from an offshoot the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attacked the bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 African Cup of Nations, killing three. 2011 - An attempted assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store kills 6 people and wounds 13, including Giffords.
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