538 St Gregory of Tours
chronicler/bishop
1466 Andrea Doria Genoese statesman/admiral
1554 Philip Sidney England, poet/statesman/soldier
(Arcadia)
1667 Jonathan Swift Engl, satirist (Gulliver's Travels, A
Modest Proposal)
1793 Johann Lukas Schonlein helped
establish scientific medicine
1810 Oliver Fisher Winchester rifle maker (Winchester)
1817 Theodor Mommsen Germany, historian/writer (Nobel
1902)
1835 Samuel Clemens [Mark Twain], author
(Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn)
1863 Andres Bonifacio leader of 1896 Philippine revolt
against Spain
1874 Sir Winston Churchill (C) British PM (1940-45,
1951-55, Nobel 1953)
1894 Ture Rangstrom Stockholm Sweden, composer/critic
(Kronbruden)
1898 Roy (Link) Lyman NFL tackle (Chicago Bears)
19-- Nada Rowand Sparta IL, actress (Kate-Loving)
19-- Sherilyn Wolter Clarksburg WV, actress (Cindy-BJ
& the Bear, General Hospital)
1906 Джон Диксон Карр,
английский писатель
1907 Jacques Barzun France, author (The House of
Interlect)
1910 Paul Cerutti Monaco, trap shooter, disqualified for
drugs in 76 Olympics
1912 Gordon Parks film director/writer (Learning Tree)
1913 John K.M. McCaffery Moscow Idaho, TV host (One Minute
Please)
1915 Angier Biddle Duke NYC, US Ambassador (Spain)
1915 Henry Taube chemist (Nobel 1983)
1920 Virginia Mayo St Louis MO, actress (Out of the Blue,
White Heat)
1923 Efrem Zimbalist Jr actor (77 Sunset Strip, FBI,
Scruples)
1924 Allan Sherman parody singer/songwriter (Hello Muddah,
Hello Faddah)
1924 Shirley Chisholm (D-Rep-NY), 1st black
congresswoman/presidential candidate
1926 Richard Crenna Los Angeles CA, actor (Rambo, Summer
Rental, Sand Pebbles)
1927 Robert Guillaume St Louis MO, actor (Benson, Soap)
1928 Chic Hecht (Sen-R-NV)
1928 Rex Reason Berlin Germany, actor (This Island Earth)
1929 Joan Ganz Cooney Phoenix AZ, TV exec (Children's TV
Workshop)
1930 G Gordon Liddy Watergate felon, radio talk-show host
1931 Gunther Herbig Usti-nad-Labem Czech, conductor (East
Berlin Orchestra)
1931 Jack Ging Alva Ok, actor (11th Hour, Ripcord, Tales
of Wells Fargo)
1031 Davey Jones rocker (Monkees-Daydream Believer, Last
Train To Clarksville, I'm A Believer)
1931 Jack Sheldon Jacksonville FL, actor (Run Buddy Run,
Merv Griffin)
1933 Linwood C Ivey NC, (Mayor-Garysburg NC)
1936 Abbie Hoffman aka Free, Yippie/activist/author (Steal
this Book)
1937 Paul Stookey Baltimore MD, singer (Peter, Paul &
Mary-Wedding Song)
1937 Richard Threlkeld newscaster (ABC-TV)
1939 Walter Weller Vienna Austria, conductor (Vienna
Tonkusteler Orchestra)
1945 Radu Lupu Galati Romania, pianist (Enesco 1st
prize-1967)
1945 Роджер Гловер,
бас-гитарист англ. группы "Deep
Puprle"
1947 David Mamet US playwright/director (Speed the Plow,
House of Games)
1949 Arthur Lee Washington Jr one of FBI's most wanted
1950 Kathryn Witt Miami FL, actress (Pam-Flying High,
Lenny)
1950 Margaret Whitton Philadelphia PA, actress
(Barbara-Hometown, Major League)
1950 Paul Westphal NBA guard (Boston Celtics, Phoenix
Suns)
1951 Dian Parkinson TV model (Price is Right)
1952 Mandy Patinkin actor/singer (Yentl, Alien Nation)
1954 June Pointer singer (Pointer Sisters-I'm So excited)
1955 Billy Idol [William Broad], rocker (White Wedding)
1959 Sylvia Hanika Munich West Germany, tennis player
(Avon-1982)
1962 Bo Jackson baseball/football player (Kansas City
Royals, Los Angeles Raiders)
1969 Carrie Jean Yazel Huntington Beach CA, playmate (May,
1991)
30 -BC- Cleopatra Egyptian queen commits suicide
1016 Edmund II Ironsides, King of the Saxons (1016), dies
at 27
1631 Rabbi Samuel Eliezer ben Judah ha-levi Edels dies
1694 Marcello Malpighi father of microscopic anatomy, dies
1718
Карл XII, шведский король
1728 Сергей Леонтьевич Бухвостов,
первый русский солдат
1881 Николай Николаевич
Муравьев-Амурский, граф,
диполомат, 1860 - флаг на месте
Владивостока
1900 Oscar Wilde Irish author, dies in Paris
1964 Don Redman orchestra leader (Sugar Hill Times), dies
at 64
1973 Bruce Yarnell Los Angeles CA, actor (Outlaws), dies
at 35
1979 Zeppo Marx dies at 78
1981 Robert H Harris actor (Jake-The Goldbergs), dies at
72
1987 Arthur H Dean lawyer/advisor to FDR, dies at 89
1990 Norman Cousins editor (Saturday Review), dies at 75
1996 Tiny Tim singer with the falsetto warble and ukulele
("Tiptoe Through the Tulips" ), dies at 64 3
Barbados : Independence Day (1966)
Benin : National Day
Iran : Qadir Khom Festival
Philippines : Bonifacio Day/Heroes' Day (1863)
Yemen PDR : Independence Day (1967)
Mass : John F Kennedy Day (1963) - - - - - ( Sunday
)
306 St Marcellus I begins
his reign as Catholic Pope
1700 сражение под Нарвой,
Северная война России и Швеции
1782 Britain signs agreement recognizing US
independence
1803 Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to
France
1804 Impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel
Chase begins
1853 Синопское сражение,
война России и Турции
1864 Battle of Franklin, Tennessee
1866 Work begins on 1st US underwater highway tunnel,
Chicago
1885 The opera "Le Cid" is produced (Paris)
1886 1st commercially successful AC electric power plant
opens, Buffalo
1887 1st indoor softball game (Chicago)
1907 Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle
1924 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by
radio
1936 London's Crystal Palace (built 1851), destroyed by
fire
1939 USSR invades Finland over a border dispute
1939 советско-финская война
1940 1st game of only 2-game Grey Cup (Ottawa 8,
Toronto Balmy Beach 2)
1941 101 year old Nyack-Tarrytown (NY) ferry makes its
last run
1947 Day after UN decree for Israel, Jewish settlements
attacked
1948 Baseball's Negro National League disbands
1948 Soviets set up a separate municipal government in
East Berlin
1949 Chinese Communists captured Chungking
1954 1st meteorite ( 8 lb ) known to strike a woman (Liz
Hodges-Sylacauga AL)
1958 1st guided missile destroyer launched, Dewey, Bath,
Me
1959 Joe Foss named 1st commissioner of AFL
1961 USSR vetoes Kuwait's application for UN membership
1962 U Thant of Burma elected 3rd Secretary-General of UN
unanimously
1964 USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars; no data returned
1966 Barbados gains independence from Britain (National
Day)
1966 Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, MD to
Boulder, CO
1967 Julie Nixon & David Eisenhower announce their
engagement
1967 Kuria Muria islands ceded by Britain to Oman
1967 People's Rep of South Yemen (Aden) gains independence
from Britain
1970 George Harrison releases his triple album set
"All Things Must Pass"
1972 BBC bans Wings "Hi, Hi, Hi"
1972 Illegal fireworks factory explodes killing 15 (Rome
Italy)
1974 20th time Islanders shut-out (3-0 vs Canucks)
1975 Dahomey becomes Benin
1979 Ted Koppel becomes anchor of nightly news on Iranian
Hostages (ABC)
1981 Porn star John Holmes arrested on fugitive charges
1982 STS-6 vehicle moves to launch pad
1982 US sub Thomas Edison collides with US Navy destroyer
in So China Sea
1983 Denver Nugget coach Doug Moe, hopelessly behind,
advise team to let Blazers break their scoring record
1983 Radio Shack announces the Tandy Model 2000 computer
(80186 chip)
1988 Cyclone lashes Bangladesh, Eastern India; 317 killed
1988 NYC furrier sues Mike Tyson for $92,000 for non
payment of purchase
1988 Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; 1st time in 38
years
1988 UN General Assembly (151-2) censures US for refusing
PLO's Arafat visa
1990 Actor Burt Lancaster suffers a stroke
1990 Bush proposes US-Iraq meeting to avoid war
1991 93 cars & 11 truck accident near San Francisco
during a dust storm, 17 die
1991 Rob Pilatus, 27, of Milli-Vanilli attempts suicide
RC, Luth, Ang-NZ : Feast of St Andrews
Day, patron of Scotland
(17сс) Свт. Григория Неокесарийского,
Прп. Никона Радонежского, Лазаря
иконописца
1215 The Fourth Lateran Council closed,
under Innocent III. It was this council that made first official
use of the term "transubstantiation," with reference to
the Eucharist (Lord's Supper).
1530 German reformer Martin Luther remarked: 'Whenever I
happen to be prevented by the press of duties from observing my
hour of prayer, the entire day is bad for me.'
1554 Roman Catholicism was (briefly) restored to England,
under the reign of Mary Tudor, the daughter of Henry VIII and
Catherine of Aragon. In the process, "Bloody Mary" had
Thomas Cranmer, Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and nearly 300
other Protestant leaders burned at the stake.
1729 Birth of Samuel Seabury, first bishop of the American
Protestant Episcopal Church. (Following the American Revolution,
Seabury helped formulate the constitution which made the American
Protestant Episcopal Church independent and autonomous from the
Church of England.)
1894 In Naperville, Illinois, seven groups of the
Evangelical Association withdrew from the organization to form
the United Evangelical Church. (In 1922 the two denominations
reunited.)