1915 - Bobby Hackett, Providence RI, trumpeteer/orch leader (Air Time '57) 1915 - Garry Moore, [Thomas Garrison Morfit], Balt, host (I've Got a Secret) 1915 - John Profumo, president (Toynbee Hall) 1915 - Thomas Merton, France, Trappist monk/poet/essayist (7 Storey Mt) 1915 - William Crosbie, artist 1915 - Alan Lomax, American musicologist (d. 2002) 1916 - Ciro D Crown, premier of Dutch Antilles (1968-69) 1916 - Frank A Parker, tennis champ (US Open-1944) 1916 - Violet Cane, statistician 1917 - Erich Geiringer, general practitioner campaigner 1917 - Jose Maceda, composer 1919 - Jackie Robinson, Ga, 1st black major league baseball player (Dodgers) 1919 - Robert Lowry, Baron Lowry. Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. 1920 - Patrick Heron, painter 1920 - Robert Hersant, press baron 1920 - Stewart L Udall, St Johns Ariz, US Secretary of Interior (1961-69) 1921 - Carol Channing, Wash, actress (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Hello Dolly) 1921 - John Agar, Chicago, actor (Fort Apache, Sands of Iwo Jima) 1921 - Mario Lanza, Phila, actor/singer (Great Caruso, Toast of New Orleans) 1921 - E. Fay Jones, American architect (d. 2004) 1922 - Michael Wilford, diplomat 1922 - William Sylvester, Oakland Calif, actor (2001, Gorgo, Gemini Man) 1923 - Eddie Ryder, NYC, actor (Slick Jones-General Hospital) 1923 - Joanne Dru, Logan WV, actress (Guestwood Ho, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon) 1923 - Norman Mailer, NJ, NYC mayoral candidate/novelist (Naked & the Dead) 1924 - Robert Gatehouse, former High Court judge 1924 - Tengiz Abuladze, filmmaker 1925 - Benjamin Hooks, civil rights leader 1925 - Charles Aidman, Frankfort Ind, narrator (New Twilight Zone) 1925 - Fred Catherwood, MP 1926 - Prunella Briance, founder (National Childbirth Trust) 1926 - Tom Alston, American baseball player (d. 1993) 1928 - Chuck Willis, rock vocalist (C C Rider) 1928 - Eric Ash, rector (Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine) 1928 - Richard Buckley, royal equerry 1928 - Robert Clatworthy, sculptor 1929 - Rudolf Mssbauer, German physicist, Nobel laureate 1929 - Jean Simmons, London, England, actress (Thorn Birds, Guys & Dolls) 1930 - Lynn Carlin, LA Calif, actress (Joan Hunter-James at 15) 1930 - Joakim Bonnier, Swedish racecar driver (d. 1972) 1931 - Bill Watson, cricketer (NSW & Australian opening batsman mid-50s) 1931 - Christopher Chataway, British MP/athlete (world record 5k) 1931 - Ernie Banks, "Mr Cub" Chicago Cubs, Hall-of-Famer (1st baseman) 1931 - Jean Burroughs, educationalist
1830 - James G Blaine, the "Plumed Knight" 1835 - William Charles Lunalilo, Monarch of Hawaii (d. 1874) 1836 - Henryk Szulc, composer 1857 - George Jackson Churchward, Great Western Railway Chief mechanical engineer. (d. 1933) 1863 - F Henri Berz, French existensialist philosopher (Revue the Synthesis) 1865 - Henri Desgrange, Founder of the Tour-de-France (d. 1940) 1865 - Shastriji Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1951) 1866 - Emil Strauss, Germany, writer (Naked Man) 1866 - Henry Forster, cricketer (Oxford blue 1887-89, later Aust Gov-General) 1868 - Theodore William Richards, chemist (atomic weights, Nobel-1914) 1869 - Henri Carton de Wiart, Belgian Count/literary/premier (1920-21) 1872 - Zane Grey, American West novelist (Riders of the Purple Sage) 1877 - Max Ettlinger, German philosopher 1878 - Willem J M van Eysinga, Dutch international law jurist 1881 - Irving Langmuir, inventor (tungsten filament lamp/Nobel 1932) 1881 - Joseph A Cushman, US, palaentologist 1882 - Anna Pavlova, St Petersburg Russia, ballerina/choreographer 1882 - Josephus RH van Schaik, Dutch lawyer/vice-premier 1884 - Nicholas Joy, Paris France, actor (Boss Lady) 1884 - Theodor Heuss, 1st President of Germany (Bundesprsident) (d. 1963) 1886 - Alfonso Lopez, Colombia, statesman (Pres UN security council-1948) 1889 - F R Foster, cricketer (330 runs & 45 wickets for England) 1890 - Adolf Bach, German language/sociologist (Deutsche Namenkunde) 1891 - Max Drischner, composer 1892 - Eddie Cantor, NYC, comedian (Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater) 1893 - Freya Stark, English explorist/author 1894 - Percy Helton, NY, actor (Jail Busters, Harbor of Missing Men) 1894 - Isham Jones, American musician (d. 1956) 1896 - Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1966) 1901 - Blaz Arnic, composer 1901 - Marie Luise Kaschnitz, writer
1946 - Subroto Guha, cricketer (right arm swing bowler for India 1967-69) 1946 - Terry Kath, rocker (Chicago-If You Leave Me Now) 1947 - Jim Nollman, composer 1947 - Nolan Ryan, pitcher (Mets, Angels, Astros) (7 no-hitters, 5,714 Ks) 1948 - Muneo Suzuki, Japanese politician 1949 - Carol Hawkins, actress (Dialing for Dingbats) 1949 - Johan Derksen, Dutch footballer and sports journalist 1949 - Ken Wilber, American philosopher 1951 - Harry Casey, [KC], rock vocalist (KC & Sunshine Band-Give It) 1951 - Phil Manzanera, rock guitarist (Roxy Music-Let's Stick Together) 1951 - Presiley Baxendale, British QC 1951 - Dave Benton, Aruban-born singer 1952 - Rosanne Musgrave, headmistress (Blackheath HS) 1952 - Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (d. 1969) 1953 - Aart Mol, Dutch bassist (Catapult) 1954 - Adrian Vandenberg, Amsterdam Neth, rock guitarist (Whitesnake) 1954 - Sheik Faoud Ahamul Bacchus, cricketer (West Indian bat late 70's) 1955 - Virginia Ruzici, Romania, tennis star 1956 - Johnny Rotten, [John Lydon], rocker (Sex Pistols-God Save the Queen) 1956 - Lloyd Cole, rocker 1956 - Trevor A Manuel, South African UDF/ANC-leader 1957 - Brett "the Hitman" Hart, Alberta Canada, WWF champion 1957 - Shirley F Babashoff, Calif, swimmer (Olympics-6 silver/2 gold-72, 76) 1958 - Rafael Santana, shortstop (NY Mets, NY Yankees) 1958 - Tom Schuman, pianist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance) 1959 - Anthony LaPaglia, actor (Murder One) 1959 - Kelly Lynch, actress (Drugstore Cowboy) 1959 - Kelly Moore, American stock car driver 1960 - Elaine Roque, Santa Monica Ca, beach volleyballer (Olympics-96) 1960 - Grant Morrison, British comic book author
314 - Silvester I begins his reign as Pope of the Catholic Church, succeeding Pope Miltiades. 1504 - France cedes Naples to Aragon. 1606 - Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England. 1747 - The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital. 1814 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina. 1846 - After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 1848 - John C. Fremont is court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders. 1849 - Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom (following legislation in 1846). 1862 - Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch telescope now located at Northwestern University. 1865 - American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery, submitting it to the states for ratification. 1865 - American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief. 1867 - Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board a French ship bound for Algeria 1876 - The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
1891 - The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto. 1900 - Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion 1915 - World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russia 1917 - World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus. 1918 - A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships. 1919 - The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland. 1929 - The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky. 1930 - 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape. 1942 - World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to the island of Singapore. 1943 - German Field Marshall Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of World War II's fiercest battles. 1944 - World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands. 1944 - World War II: During Anzio campaign 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy. 1945 - US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War. 1945 - World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed. 1946 - Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia). 1950 - President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb. 1953 - A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands. 1957 - Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet. 1958 - Explorer program: Explorer 1 - The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit. 1958 - James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
1961 - Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2 - Ham the Chimp travels into outer space. 1966 - The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program. 1968 - Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive. 1968 - Nauru gains independence from Australia. 1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 14 - Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon. 1971 - The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begin in Detroit, Michigan. 1990 - The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow. 1995 - President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy. 1996 - An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400. 1996 - Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake. 2000 - Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard. 2001 - In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. 2003 - The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia. 2007 - Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq. 2009 - In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.
1830 - James G Blaine, the "Plumed Knight" 1835 - William Charles Lunalilo, Monarch of Hawaii (d. 1874) 1836 - Henryk Szulc, composer 1857 - George Jackson Churchward, Great Western Railway Chief mechanical engineer. (d. 1933) 1863 - F Henri Berz, French existensialist philosopher (Revue the Synthesis) 1865 - Henri Desgrange, Founder of the Tour-de-France (d. 1940) 1865 - Shastriji Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1951) 1866 - Emil Strauss, Germany, writer (Naked Man) 1866 - Henry Forster, cricketer (Oxford blue 1887-89, later Aust Gov-General) 1868 - Theodore William Richards, chemist (atomic weights, Nobel-1914) 1869 - Henri Carton de Wiart, Belgian Count/literary/premier (1920-21) 1872 - Zane Grey, American West novelist (Riders of the Purple Sage) 1877 - Max Ettlinger, German philosopher 1878 - Willem J M van Eysinga, Dutch international law jurist 1881 - Irving Langmuir, inventor (tungsten filament lamp/Nobel 1932) 1881 - Joseph A Cushman, US, palaentologist 1882 - Anna Pavlova, St Petersburg Russia, ballerina/choreographer 1882 - Josephus RH van Schaik, Dutch lawyer/vice-premier 1884 - Nicholas Joy, Paris France, actor (Boss Lady) 1884 - Theodor Heuss, 1st President of Germany (Bundesprsident) (d. 1963) 1886 - Alfonso Lopez, Colombia, statesman (Pres UN security council-1948) 1889 - F R Foster, cricketer (330 runs & 45 wickets for England) 1890 - Adolf Bach, German language/sociologist (Deutsche Namenkunde) 1891 - Max Drischner, composer 1892 - Eddie Cantor, NYC, comedian (Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater) 1893 - Freya Stark, English explorist/author 1894 - Percy Helton, NY, actor (Jail Busters, Harbor of Missing Men) 1894 - Isham Jones, American musician (d. 1956) 1896 - Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1966) 1901 - Blaz Arnic, composer 1901 - Marie Luise Kaschnitz, writer
1946 - Subroto Guha, cricketer (right arm swing bowler for India 1967-69) 1946 - Terry Kath, rocker (Chicago-If You Leave Me Now) 1947 - Jim Nollman, composer 1947 - Nolan Ryan, pitcher (Mets, Angels, Astros) (7 no-hitters, 5,714 Ks) 1948 - Muneo Suzuki, Japanese politician 1949 - Carol Hawkins, actress (Dialing for Dingbats) 1949 - Johan Derksen, Dutch footballer and sports journalist 1949 - Ken Wilber, American philosopher 1951 - Harry Casey, [KC], rock vocalist (KC & Sunshine Band-Give It) 1951 - Phil Manzanera, rock guitarist (Roxy Music-Let's Stick Together) 1951 - Presiley Baxendale, British QC 1951 - Dave Benton, Aruban-born singer 1952 - Rosanne Musgrave, headmistress (Blackheath HS) 1952 - Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (d. 1969) 1953 - Aart Mol, Dutch bassist (Catapult) 1954 - Adrian Vandenberg, Amsterdam Neth, rock guitarist (Whitesnake) 1954 - Sheik Faoud Ahamul Bacchus, cricketer (West Indian bat late 70's) 1955 - Virginia Ruzici, Romania, tennis star 1956 - Johnny Rotten, [John Lydon], rocker (Sex Pistols-God Save the Queen) 1956 - Lloyd Cole, rocker 1956 - Trevor A Manuel, South African UDF/ANC-leader 1957 - Brett "the Hitman" Hart, Alberta Canada, WWF champion 1957 - Shirley F Babashoff, Calif, swimmer (Olympics-6 silver/2 gold-72, 76) 1958 - Rafael Santana, shortstop (NY Mets, NY Yankees) 1958 - Tom Schuman, pianist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance) 1959 - Anthony LaPaglia, actor (Murder One) 1959 - Kelly Lynch, actress (Drugstore Cowboy) 1959 - Kelly Moore, American stock car driver 1960 - Elaine Roque, Santa Monica Ca, beach volleyballer (Olympics-96) 1960 - Grant Morrison, British comic book author
314 - Silvester I begins his reign as Pope of the Catholic Church, succeeding Pope Miltiades. 1504 - France cedes Naples to Aragon. 1606 - Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England. 1747 - The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital. 1814 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina. 1846 - After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 1848 - John C. Fremont is court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders. 1849 - Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom (following legislation in 1846). 1862 - Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch telescope now located at Northwestern University. 1865 - American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery, submitting it to the states for ratification. 1865 - American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief. 1867 - Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board a French ship bound for Algeria 1876 - The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
1891 - The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto. 1900 - Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion 1915 - World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russia 1917 - World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus. 1918 - A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships. 1919 - The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland. 1929 - The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky. 1930 - 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape. 1942 - World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to the island of Singapore. 1943 - German Field Marshall Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of World War II's fiercest battles. 1944 - World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands. 1944 - World War II: During Anzio campaign 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy. 1945 - US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War. 1945 - World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed. 1946 - Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia). 1950 - President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb. 1953 - A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands. 1957 - Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet. 1958 - Explorer program: Explorer 1 - The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit. 1958 - James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
1961 - Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2 - Ham the Chimp travels into outer space. 1966 - The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program. 1968 - Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive. 1968 - Nauru gains independence from Australia. 1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 14 - Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon. 1971 - The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begin in Detroit, Michigan. 1990 - The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow. 1995 - President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy. 1996 - An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400. 1996 - Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake. 2000 - Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard. 2001 - In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. 2003 - The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia. 2007 - Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq. 2009 - In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.
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