Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Famous Birth On March 22

By Tracy Rocelyn


1944 - T S "Tony" McPhee, rocker (Sad Go Round)

1945 - Alan Opie, baritone (Boughton Bethlehem, Britten 5 Canticles)

1914 - Masao Maruyama, social scientist

1459 - Maximilian I of Habsburg, German Emperor/archduke of Austria

1946 - Don Chaney, NBA player (Houston Rockets)/coach (Detroit Pistons)

1946 - Laraine Ashton, fashion models' agent (London)

1946 - Rudy/Rudolf [von Bittner] Rucker, US, sci-fi author (Wetware)

1663 - August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (d. 1727)

1700 - Giuseppe Sellitto, composer

1712 - Edward Moore, English writer (d. 1757)

1918 - Cheddi B Jagan, dentist/founder PPP/Guyanese Premier (1953, 1957-64)

1948 - Andrew Lloyd Webber, London, composer (Phantom of the Opera, Cats)

1918 - Tauno Kullerve Pylkkanen, composer

1948 - Wolf Blitzer, American television journalist

1949 - Brian Hanrahan, British TV newsman (BBC)

1759 - Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1818)

1949 - Fanny Ardant, Monte Carlo, actress (Australia, Confidentially Yours)

1949 - Fran Sheehan, Boston Mass, rock bassist (Boston-More than a Feeling)

1797 - Kaiser Wilhelm I, German emperor (1871-88)

1923 - Bryan Clieve Roberts, lawyer/civil servant

1923 - Cor N van Dis Jr, Dutch MP (SGP, 1971-94)

1952 - Bob Costas, Queens NY, sportscaster/talk show host (Later)

1924 - Al Neuharth, newspaper founder (USA Today)

1953 - Thomas H Andrews, (Rep-D-Maine)

1817 - Braxton Bragg, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1876

1926 - Julius Marmur, biochemist/geneticist

1956 - Lena Olin, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Enemies A Love Story)

1927 - George Thoms, cricketer (1 Test Aust against WI 1952, scored 16 & 28)

1956 - Generosa Ammon, widow of Ted Ammon (d. 2003)

1927 - Viscount Bolingbroke

1958 - Joyce Lester, Australian softball catcher (Olympics-bronze-96)

1958 - Pete Wylie, Liverpool, rocker (Sinful)

1928 - DC Ingman, CEO (British Waterways Board

1959 - Matthew Modine, Loma Linda Cal, actor (Full Metal Jacket)

1928 - Ed Macauley, NBAer (Boston Celtics)

1959 - Avraham Fried, Orthodox Jewish Musician

1928 - E.D. Hirsch. American social commentator

1962 - Diane Pavich, Melbourne Aust, golfer (1993 T50 Alpine Aust Ladies)

1962 - Juan Aguilera, Spain, tennis star

1865 - Theophile Ysaye, composer

1963 - Hannu Virta, Turku FIN, hockey defenseman (Team Finland)

1963 - Rich Monteleone, Tampa FL, pitcher (California Angels)

1963 - Suzanne Sulley, Sheffield S Yorks, rocker (Human Leauge-Human)

1964 - Jeffrey Wagner, Sydney NSW, Australasia golfer

1868 - Robert A Millikan, US physicist (photoelectric effect; Nobel 1923)

1932 - Richard Thomas, admiral

1874 - Ellen Glasgow, novelist

1966 - Sean Berry, Santa Monica CA, infielder (Houston Astros)

1880 - Ernie Quigley, Canadian-American sports official (d. 1960)

1966 - Yahya Ayyash, militant

1885 - Jakabs Medins, composer

1967 - Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist

1934 - Sheila Cameron, QC, Vicar-General (Province of Canterbury)

1934 - Larry Martyn, English comedy actor (d. 1994)

1896 - Giulia D De Albertis, writer

1896 - He Long, Chinese marshal (d. 1969)

1936 - May Britt, Sweden, actress (Young Lions)/wife of Sammy Davis Jr

1970 - Travis Richards, Crystal Minn, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994)

1970 - Andreas Johnson, Swedish singer

1970 - Leontien van Moorsel, Dutch cyclist

1905 - Carlo Alberto Pizzini, composer

1971 - Will Yun Lee, American actor

1937 - Angelo Badalamenti, American composer

1905 - Ruth Page, US choreographer/ballet leader (Diaghilev, Pygmalion)

1972 - Mikhail Sloutsky, WLAF LB (Scotland Claymores)

1972 - Pieter Christiaan, Prince of Netherlands

1940 - William Ritchie, vice-chancellor (Lancaster U)

1940 - Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian/American actor (d. 1996)

1973 - Joe Nedney, kicker (Arizona Cardinals)

1908 - Maurice H Stans, Shakope Minn, Secretary of Commerce (1969-72)

1941 - Gary Lewis, horse trainer

1974 - Kim Yun-Jung, Miss Universe-Korea (1996)

1910 - Nicholas Monsarret, England, writer (Cruel Sea)

1912 - Henri Rousselot, admiral

1974 - Philippe Clement, Belgian footballer

1974 - Kidada Jones, American actress

1943 - Joseph Schwantner, composer

1975 - Jiri Novak, Czechostovakia, tennis star

1944 - Jeremy Clyde, rocker

1913 - Lew Wasserman, American film studio executive (d. 2002)

238 - Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman Emperors.

1621 - The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.

1622 - Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population.

1630 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.

1638 - Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.

1739 - Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.

1765 - The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.

1784 - The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.

1809 - Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne.

1829 - The three protecting powers (United Kingdom, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.

1849 - The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara.

1871 - In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.

1873 - A law is approved by the Spanish National Assembly in Puerto Rico to abolish slavery.

1888 - In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional Association Football league, is founded.

1894 - The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.

1906 - First Anglo-French rugby union match at Parc des Princes in Paris

1916 - The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.

1920 - Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).

1923 - The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.

1939 - World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.

1942 - World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, the Royal Navy confronts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.

1943 - World War II: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces.

1945 - The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.

1954 - Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens.

1960 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser

1972 - The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.

1975 - A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.

1978 - Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1982 - NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.

1984 - Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded.

1989 - Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat.

1992 - USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after liftoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.

1993 - The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.

1995 - Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.

1997 - Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest champion women's World Figure Skating Champion.

1997 - The Comet Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to Earth.

2004 - Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.

2006 - ETA, the armed Basque separatist group, declares a permanent ceasefire.

2006 - Three Christian Peacemaker Team hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the death of their colleague, American Tom Fox.

2009 - Mount Redoubt, a volcano in Alaska begins erupting after a prolonged period of unrest.




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