Today In History
Saturday March 22nd, 2003 -- Day Number: 81 - Days left: 284
* Astrological sign: Aries
* Gems-bloodstone & aquamarine
* Flowers-jonquil, violet & daffodil
* Irish-American/Hamburger/Pickle/American Woman's History month
* National Kidney/Peanut/Nutrition/Eye Doner/Craft month
* Red Cross/Parenting Aware/Music in our Schools month
Those born today...
1976 Kellie Shanygne Williams, Wash DC, actress (Laura-Family Matters)
1972 Pieter Christiaan, Prince of Netherlands
1971 Richard Castillo, jockey
1970 Travis Richards, Crystal Minn, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994)
1963 Suzanne Sulley, Sheffield S Yorks, rocker (Human Leauge-Human)
1960 Laurie Sargent, rock vocalist (Face To Face)
1959 Matthew Modine, Loma Linda Cal, actor (Full Metal Jacket)
1958 Pete Wylie, Liverpool, rocker (Sinful)
1957 Stephanie Mills, singer/actress (Wiz)
1956 Lena Olin, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Enemies A Love Story)
1953 Peter Mcevoy, British? golfer
1953 Thomas H Andrews, (Rep-D-Maine)
1952 Bob Costas, Queens NY, sportscaster/talk show host (Later)
1951 Howard Reitzes, Southgate Ca, rocker (Iron Butterfly)
1951 Moesa Khiramanovich Manarov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-4, TM-11)
1950 Mary Tamm, British? actress (Odessa File)
1949 Brian Hanrahan, British? TV-host
1949 Fanny Ardant, Monte Carlo, actress (Australia, Confidentially Yours)
1949 Fran Sheehan, Boston Mass, rock bassist (Boston-More than a Feeling)
1948 Andrew Lloyd Webber, Broadway composer (Into the Woods, Phantom)
1948 Randy Hobbs, rocker (Johnny Winter Band/McCoys)
1947 Harry Vanda, [Vandenberg], Hague Neth, rock guitarist (Easybeats)
1947 Patrick Olive, percussionist (Hot Chocolate-You Sexy Thing)
1946 Rudy/Rudolf [von Bittner] Rucker, US, sci-fi author (Wetware)
1946 Serge, [Ruud Schaap], Dutch singer/guitarist (Saskia & Serge)
1945 Charles "Chuck" Jackson, US singer (Playboy, Independents)
1945 Jeremy Clyde, England, rocker (Chad & Jeremy-Yesterday's Gone)
1944 T S "Tony" McPhee, rocker
1943 George Benson, Pittsburgh, singer/guitarist (Greatest Love of All)
1943 Joseph Schwantner, composer
1943 Keith Reif, England, rocker (Yardbirds-For Your Love, Renaissance)
1942 Jon Arthur English, composer
1941 Bruno Ganz, Zurich Switzerland, actor (Strapless, Wings of Desire)
1941 Gary Lewis, horse trainer
1938 Glen Campbell, singer (By the Time I get to Phoenix, Galveston)
1938 Vivian Pulliam, horse trainer
1937 Jon Hassell, composer
1936 May Britt, Germany, actress (Young Lions)/wife of Sammy Davis Jr
1936 Roger Whittaker, Nairobi Kenya, country singer
1935 M[ichael] Emmet Walsh, Ogdensburg NY, actor (Wildcats, War Party)
1934 Orrin G Hatch, (Sen-R-UT, 1977- )
1933 Buddy MacKay, (Rep-D-FL, 1983- )
1931 William Shatner, Montr‚al Canada, actor (Star Trek, T J Hooker)
1930 Derek Bok, college president (Harvard)
1930 Lynden O Pindling, premier Bahamas (1967-92)
1930 Pat Robertson, televangelist (Pres candidate-R-1989)
1930 Stephen Sondheim, US composer (Side by Side by Sondheim)
1928 Bill Archer, (Rep-R-TX, 1971- )
1928 Ed Macauley, NBA'er (Boston Celtics)
1927 Mstislav Rostropovich, composer [3/12 OS]
1924 Al Neuharth, newspaper founder (USA Today)
1924 Bill Wendell, NYC, TV announcer (Late Night With David Letterman)
1923 Cor N van Dis Jr, Dutch 2nd chamber member (SGP, 1971-94)
1923 Marcel Marceau, Strasbourg France, mime (Barbarella, Silent Movie)
1922 Mujib ur-Rahman, Pakistan, sheik/premier
1921 Wilhelmus Norbert Schmelzer, Netherland, foreign minister (KVP)
1920 Ross Martin, Grodek Poland, actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West)
1918 Cheddi B Jagan, dentist/founder PPP/Guyanese Premier (1953, 1957-64)
1918 Tauno Kullerve Pylkkanen, composer
1917 Paul Rogers, British? actor (Looking Glass War, Billy Budd)
1917 Virginia Grey, LA, actress (Another Thin Man, Idiot's Delight, Idaho)
1916 George Wyle, NYC, orch leader (Jerry Lewis Show, Flip Wilson Show)
1916 Josephine van Gasteren, Dutch actress/director (Bluejackets)
1913 James Westerfield, Nashville TN, actor (Jungle Heat, Lucky Johnny)
1913 Karl Malden, Chicago, actor (Streets of SF, American Express)
1913 Martha M”dl, German singer/soprano (Wagner)
1912 Wilfrid Brambell, Dublin Ireland, actor (Hard Day's Night)
1910 Nicholas Monsarret, England, writer (Cruel Sea)
1909 Gabrielle Roy, French-Canadian novelist (Tin Flute)
1908 Louis D L'Amour, Jamestown ND, author (Hondo, Jubal Sackett)
1908 Maurice H Stans, US Secretary of Commerce (1969-72)
1907 James Gavin, US, 82nd Airborne Div General (Sicily/Normandy)
1907 Paul J Steenbergen, Neth, actor (Ciske Rat)/founder (Hague's Comedy)
1905 Carlo Alberto Pizzini, composer
1905 Grigor˜ M Kosinzev, Russian director
1905 Ruth Page, US choreographer/ballet leader (Diaghilev, Pygmalion)
1903 James S Russell, US pilot/admiral (WW II Pacific Ocean)
1902 Ellin Berlin, [MacKay], Mrs Irving Berlin, writer (Lace Curtain)
19-- Candy Evans, XXX actress (Club Head, Forbidden Bodies)
19-- Veleka Gray, actress (Young & Restless)
1895 Joseph Schildkraut, Vienna, actor (Joseph Schildkraut Presents)
1887 Chico Marx, [Leonard Martin], NYC, comedian (Marx Brothers)
1885 Adriano Lualdi, composer
1885 Jakabs Medins, composer
1868 Hamish MacCunn, composer
1868 Henry W Methorst, lawyer/director (Dutch Cent Bureau of Statistics)
1868 Robert A Millikan, US physicist (photoelectric effect; Nobel 1923)
1867 Meijer Linnewiel, [Prof Kokadorus], Amsterdam's pitchman
1865 Theophile Ysaye, composer
1857 Arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Along the Meuse)
1857 Paul Doumer, gov-genl of Indo-China/13th Pres of France (1931-32)
1852 Theodor Birt, [Beatus Rhenanus], German classical/writer
1846 Randolph Caldecott, England, illustrator (Caldecott Medal namesake)
1842 Carl AN Rosa, German violinist/composer
1842 Mykola Vytal'yevich Lysenko, composer
1834 Francis Asbury Shoup, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
1824 William Henry Chase Whiting, Major General (Confederate Army)
1822 Ahmed Djevdet Pasha, Turkish minister of Education/Justice
1822 Isaac D Fransen van de Putte, Dutch premier (1866)
1822 Seth Williams, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1866
1819 William Wirt Adams, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1888
1817 Braxton Bragg, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1876
1814 Thomas Crawford, US sculptor (Babes in the Wood)
1813 Gabriel Rene Paul, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1803 Anthonie Waldrop, Dutch painter/lithographer
1799 F W A Argelander, Memel E Prussia, cataloguer of 324,188 stars
1797 Kaiser Wilhelm I, German emperor (1871-88)
1785 Adam Sedgwick, British? geologist
1771 Heinrich D Zschokke, Swiss author (Das Goldmacherdorf)
1767 Cornelis T Elout, Dutch minister of Finance
1752 Johann Georg Joseph Spangler, composer
1728 Anton Raphael Mengs, German writer/neo-classic painter
1728 Giacomo Insanguine, composer
1700 Giuseppe Sellitto, composer
1609 John II Casimir Vasa, cardinal/king of Poland (1648-68)
1599 Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish painter (Charles I of England)
1459 Maximilian I of Habsburg, German Emperor/archduke of Austria
Those who died today...
2001 William Hanna, cartoon creator, diesat 91.
2001 William Hanna, cartoon creator, dies at age 91.
1999 David Strickland, actor, dies from binge drinking at 30.
1994 Dan Hartman, US singer/songwriter (Love Sensations), dies at 42
1994 Igor Aleinikov, Russian director (tractors, air crash), dies at 32
1994 Walter Lantz, US cartoonist (Woody Woodpecker), dies at 93
1993 Gret Palucca, German dancer/choreographer (Entartet), dies at 91
1993 Phia [Sophia R] Berghout, harpist, dies at 83
1993 Steve Olin, pitcher (Cleve Indians), drowns at 27
1993 Tim Crews, pitcher (Cleve Indians), drowns at 31
1991 Gloria Holden, actress (Dracula's Daughter, Test Pilot), dies at 73
1987 Joan Shawlee, actress (Abbott & Costello Show), dies at 58
1986 Charles Starrett, actor (Silver Streak, Jungle Bride)
1979 Ben Lyon, actor (I Cover the Waterfront, Indiscreet), dies at 78
1978 Karl Wallenda, falls to death walking high-wire in PR, at 73
1975 Asa Smith Bushnell Jr, Sec of US Olympics (1945-65), dies at 75
1975 Cass Daley, actress (Red Garters), dies at 59
1975 Paul Verhoeven, director (Robocop, 4th Man, Total Recall), dies at 73
1974 Peter Revson, US race car driver (Indianapolis 500), dies at 35
1969 Ernst Deutsch, actor (3rd Man, Golem), dies of heart attack at 78
1964 Addison Richards, actor (Col-Pentagon), dies at 76
1964 Joseph Schildkraut, Austrian actor (Flame of Barbary Coast), dies
1958 Michael Todd, producer (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 56
1956 George Sarton, Belgian/US historian, dies at 71
1953 James Anderson II, (Jo-Northern Exposure), dies
1951 J Willem Mengelberg, conductor (Matth„us Passion), dies
1946 Clemens A von Galen, bishop of Munster/anti fascist, dies at 68
1945 J Postuma, Dutch resistance fighter, dies
1944 ... Pucheu, French Internal minister to Vichy, executed
1931 Ban Johnson, founder of baseball's American League, dies at 67
1929 Anton Beer-Walbrun, composer, dies at 65
1924 R G Nivelle, French military man, dies
1923 Theophile Delcass‚, French statesman, dies at 71
1922 Louis A Ranvier, French anatomist/historian, dies
1909 Gyula Erkel, composer, dies at 66
1906 Martin Wegelius, Finnish composer, dies at 59
1890 D‚sir‚ de Haerne, Belgian priest/Congressional leader, dies at 85
1867 Ferdinando Giorgetti, composer, dies at 71
1845 Franz Joseph Volkert, composer, dies at 67
1838 Henry Fagel, Dutch/English baron, dies
1824 Johann Melchior Dreyer, composer, dies at 77
1820 Stephen Decatur, killed in a duel with Com James Barron, at 41
1798 Justin Morgan, composer, dies at 51
1796 Gaspare Gabellone, composer, dies at 68
1777 John Bartram, father of American botany, dies at 77
1771 Gottlieb W Rabener, German author (Bremer Beitr„ge), dies at 56
1758 Jonathan Edwards, theologian/philosopher (Original Sin), dies at 54
1687 Jean-Baptiste Lully, Ital/Fr composer (Marriage Forc‚), dies at 54
1661 Hendrick Uylenburgh, art dealer, buried at about 73
1639 Thomas Carew, English poet/diplomat (The Rapture), dies
1627 Cornelis van Aerssen, Flemish States-General, dies at about 81
1589 Lodovico Guicciardini, Ital historian, dies at 67
1471 George van Podiebrad, king of Bohemia (1458-71), dies
337 Constantine, Emperor of Rome, dies at 47
Things that happened today...
1999 Dr. Jack Kevorkian goes on trial for murder for videotaped assisted
death shown on TV show 60 Minutes.
1997 Tara Lipinski becomes worlds youngest figure skating champion.
1994 Mark Foster swims world record 50m butterfly (23.68 sec)
1994 South African Govt/ANC take power in Ciskei homeland
1994 Soyuz TM-21 lands
1993 Intel introduces Pentium-processor (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS
1992 US Air NY to Cleveland crashes on take off at LaGuardia, 27 die
1991 NY Daily News begins using motto "Forward with NY"
1991 Pamela Smart (HS teacher) found guilty in NH of manipulating her
student-lover to kill her husband
1990 Anchorage jury finds Capt Hazelwood innocent of Valdez oil spill
1989 Pete Rozelle announces retirement as NFL commissioner after 29 years
1989 US Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of NYC Board of Estimate
1986 Debi Thomas is 1st black to win world figure skating champ
1986 Ehrig skates ladies world record 5 km (7:20.99)
1986 HBO launches boxing's heavyweight-title-unification-tournament
1986 Heart's "These Dreams," single goes #1
1986 Kania skates ladies world record 1500m (1:59.30)
1985 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3713
1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA
1984 Islander Bryan Trottier ties NHL rec scores 5 seconds into game
1983 Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president
1982 3rd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 3 launched
1982 Iran offensive against Iraq
1981 1st class postage raised to 18› from 15›
1981 Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6
1981 Toshihiko Seko runs world record 25K (1:13:55.8)/30K (1:29:18.8)
1981 Toshihiko Seko runs world record 25k (1:13:55.8)
1979 Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt
1979 NHL votes to accept 4 WHA teams (Oilers, Jets, Nordiques & Whalers)
1978 France performs nuclear test
1978 Robert Frost Plaza, at California, Drumm & Market, SF, dedicated
1978 Rutle's "All You Need is Cash" is show on NBC-TV
1977 Indira Gandhi resigns as PM of India
1977 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2149 Schwambraniya & #2563 Boyarchuk
1977 Uyl govt falls
1975 "Dinge-competed" wins Eurovisie Song festival
1975 Delta State beats Immaculata for the women's AIAW championship
1975 Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens
1974 C Torres discovers asteroids #2282 Andres Bello & #2518 Rutllant
1972 Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified)
1972 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar named NBA MVP
1972 US Senate passes 27th amendment (Equal rights)
1972 Yankees trade Danny Cater to the Red Sox for Sparky Lyle
1971 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 UCLA wins its 5th national championship in 6 years
1968 Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia
1968 Lynda Johnson ordered off SF cable car for eating an ice cream cone
1968 Student riot in Nanterre at Paris
1967 Cassius Clay's (aka Muhammad Ali) 1st MSG fight; KOs Zora Folley
1965 D Senanayake wins general elections in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
1964 Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of NY Times Magazine section
1963 Beatles release 1st album, "Please Please Me"
1963 Brit Min of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler
1962 "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" opens on Broadway
1962 Barbra Striesand opens in "I Can Get it for You Wholesale"
1960 AL Schawlow & C H Townes obtain patent for the laser
1958 Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi-Arabia
1958 Kentucky beats Seattle 84-72 for NCAA basketball championship
1958 Liz Taylor's 3rd divorce (Mike Todd)
1958 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1957 Earthquake gives SF shakes
1957 Republic of India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian
1956 Death penalty against KPM-director L‚on Jungschlaeger
1956 Musical "Mr Wonderful" with Sammy Davis Jr premieres in NYC
1953 Anton¡n Z potocky chosen as president of Czechoslovakia
1952 Dutch DC-6 crashes near Frankfurt, killing 44
1949 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1574 Meyer
1946 1st US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up)
1946 Britain signs treaty granting independence to Jordan
1945 Arab League forms
1945 US 3rd Army attacks Nierstein on the Rhine
1944 600+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Berlin
1943 Dutch work week extended to 54 hour
1943 Obligatory work for woman begins in Belgium
1943 SS police chief Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children
1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
1941 Grand Coulee Dam in Washington goes into operation
1939 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1511 Dalera
1939 Lithuania state, forced to give Memel territory to Germany
1939 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #2486 Metsahovi
1934 Fire destroys Hakodate Japan (kills 1,500, injures 1,000)
1933 FDR makes wine & beer with up to 3.2% alcohol legal
1929 66 horses run in Irish Grand National Sweepstakes
1929 KIT-AM in Yakima WA begins radio transmissions
1929 USCG vessel sank Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor
1928 No‰l Coward's musical "This Year of Grace," premieres in London
1927 Federico Garc¡a Lorca's "El Maleficio," premieres in Madrid
1925 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1041 Asta
1922 British court sentence Mahatma Gandhi to 6 year
1903 NY Highlanders (Yankees) tickets 1st go on sale
1896 Charilaos Vasilakos wins 1st marathon (3:18)
1894 Montreal AAA beats Ottawa Capitals 3-2 & wins the 1st Stanley Cup
1892 A Charlois discovers asteroid #327 Columbia
1888 English Football League established
1882 Congress outlaws polygamy (again); bad news for Mormons
1874 Young Men's Hebrew Association organizes in NYC
1873 Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico
1872 Illinois becomes 1st state to require sexual equality in employment
1871 Wm Holden of NC is 1st governor removed from office by impeachment
1865 Raid at Wilson's: Chickaswas AL to Macon GA
1862 San Marino & Italy conclude treaty of friendship & cooperation
1841 Cornstarch patented (Orlando Jones)
1841 Orlando Jones patents cornstarch
1822 Gioacchino Rossini marries Isabella Colbran in Bologna
1822 NY Horticultural Society founded
1790 Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st US Secretary of State
1778 Capt Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Washington state
1775 Edmund Burke presents his 13 articles to the English parliament
1765 Stamp Act passed; 1st direct British tax on colonists
1692 Emperor Leopold I names duke Earnest August of Braunschweig, king
1680 Parliament of Breisach accept French sovereignty over Elzas
1638 Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Mass Bay Colony
1630 1st colonial legislation prohibiting gambling enacted (Boston)
1622 1st Indian massacre of whites, Jamestown, Va; 347 slain
1621 Hugo the Great escapes in bookcase from Loevenstein
1621 Massasoit & Pilgrims agree on league of friendship (Plymouth)
1594 French King Henri IV festival in Paris
1556 Cardinal Reginald Pole becomes archbishop of Canterbury
1349 Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacre Jews (blamed for black death)
752 Stephen begins his reign as Catholic Pope (or 23rd)
Other Occasions...
[Western Europe] Daylight Savings Time starts tomorrow
Celebrations...
[Jordan, Lebanon] Arab League Day (1945)
[Puerto Rico] Emancipation Day (1873)
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