Today In History
Monday April 14th, 2003 -- Day Number: 104 - Days left: 261
Those born today...
1977 Sarah Michelle Gellar, actress (Kendall-All My Children)
1970 Jan Siemerink, Neth, tennis star
1970 Steve Avery, baseball player
1968 Anthony Michael Hall, Boston Mass, comedian (SNL, Breakfast Club)
1967 Barret Martin, rocker (Screaming Trees)
1967 Marla Wynne, Easton Penn, Miss Penn-America (1991) (top 10)
1966 David Justice, baseball player (Atlanta Braves)/husband of Halle Barry
1963 Cynthia Cooper, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1988)
1961 John Clarke, actor (Mickey-Days of Our Life)
1960 Brian Forster, rocker (Partridge Family Drums)
1958 Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre, Prince of Monaco
1955 Simone Griffeth, Savannah Georgia, actress (Death Race 2000, Amanda's)
1954 Bruce Sterling, US, sci-fi author (Involution Ocean, Schismatrix)
1953 I R Pronina, cosmonaut
1952 Kenny Aaronson, rocker
1950 Anna M "Ansje" Beentjes, actress (Blindgangers)
1950 Randolph Powell, Iowa City Iowa, actor (Alan-Dallas, Logan's Run)
1949 John Shea, North Conway NH, actor (Honeymoon, New Life)
1949 Michael Shea, Glendale NY, actor (Lucas- New Dick Van Dyke Show)
1948 Chester G Atkins, (Rep-D-MA)
1948 Larry Ferguson, Nassau, keyboardist (Hot Chocolate-You Sexy Thing)
1948 Ty Grimes, rocker (Capt Beefheart Band Drums
1946 Patrick Fairley, guitarist (Marmalade-Oh La Di Oh La Do)
1946 Tom Monteleone, US writer (Dark Star & Illumination)
1945 Derek Leckenby, rocker
1945 Ritchie Blackmore, Engld, guitarist (Rainbow-Stone Cold, Deep Purple)
1945 Steve Martin, Waco TX, writer/actor (Jerk, Housesitter)
1945 Uwe Beyer, German DR, shot-putter (Olympic-gold-1976)
1943 Yvonne Vriens-Auerbach, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
1942 Valentin Vitaliyevich Lebedev, cosmonaut (Soyuz 13, 35, T-5)
1941 A P Fyodorov, cosmonaut
1941 Julie Christie, Assam India, actress (Dr Zhivago)
1941 Pete Rose, Cincinnati Reds, Charlie hustle (most hits in majors)
1939 Jennifer Fowler, composer
1935 Joan Darling, Boston, actress (Frieda-Owen Marshall)
1935 Loretta Lynn, Butcher's Hollow Ky, singer (Coal Miner's Daughter)
1933 Buddy Knox, Happy Tx, rock vocalist (Party Doll, Lovey Dovey)
1933 Morton Subotnick, LA Calif, composer (Wild Bull)
1930 Bradford Dillman, SF Calif, actor (Piranha, Sudden Impact, Enforcer)
1930 George W Gekas, (Rep-R-PA, 1983- )
1930 Jay Robinson, NYC, actor (Born Again, Malibu Bikini Shop)
1929 William Edgar Thornton, Faison NC, MD/astronaut (STS-8, 51-B, sk:49)
1928 Robert Mugabe, president (Zimbabwe, 1988- )
1927 Gloria Jean, Buffalo NY, actress (Never Give a Sucker an Even Break)
1926 Jan Carl Christian Maegaard, composer
1925 Abel Muzorewa, bishop/premier (Rhodesia)
1925 Bill Harris, US guitarist (Clovers-Good Lovin')
1925 Rod Steiger, West Hampton NY, actor (Illustrated Man, Pawnbroker)
1924 Shorty Rogers, composer
1922 David Alexandrovich Toradze, composer
1920 Eduardo Maturana, composer
1918 Mary Healy, New Orleans, actress (2nd Fiddle, He Married his Wife)
1917 Valerie Hobson, North Ireland, actress (Great Expectations)
1916 Denis ApIvor, composer
1916 Emerson Buckley, composer
1913 Everhard van Royen, Dutch flautist/founder (Alma musica)
1913 Jean Fournet, French conductor
1913 John Howard, Cleve Ohio, actor (Dave-My Three Sons)
1912 Piet van Egmond, Dutch organist/conductor
1910 Werner Wolf Glaser, composer
1907 Fran‡ois "Doc" Duvalier, dictator of Haiti
1907 Otto F A H van Nispen, mayor of Pannerden/(KVP) 1st Chamber
1907 Phyllis Konstam, London England, actress (Murder, Skin Game)
1906 Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, King Saudi-Arabia (1964-75)
1906 Hunter Johnson, composer
1905 Frits Philips, Dutch engineer/CEO (Philips)
1904 John Gielgud, London England, actor (Arthur, Ages of Man)
1904 Reinout W van Bemmelen, Dutch geologist
1904 Sonia Gaskell, Russian/Neth choreographer
1902 Menachem A Schneerson, rebee (head of Lubavitcher Jews)
1901 Alfred West, champion cyclist/record hair splitter (17 splits)
1900 Salvatore Baccaloni, Rome, actor (Merry Andrew, Rock-a-Bye Baby)
19-- Brad Garrett, actor (Alex Chosek-Pursuit Of Happiness)
19-- John Diaquinto, Bkln NY, actor (Varges-Wild Side)
19-- Patricia Bruder, actress (Ellen-As the World Turns)
1898 Lee Tracy, Atlanta Ga, actor (Martin Kane-Martin Kane Private Eye)
1897 Barbara baroness Wootton of Abinger, English Lower house leader
1895 Mary Marquet, St Petersburg Russia, actress (Matter of Resistance)
1895 Wiktor Labunski, composer
1892 Giorgio Cesana, Italy, coxswain, (Olympic-gold-1906)
1892 Vere G Childe, British archaeologist/prehistorian
1889 Arnold Toynbee, England, historian (Study of History)
1889 Efim D Bogoljubov, Russian chess player
1889 James Stephenson, actor (Letter, Espionage Agent, Nancy Drew)
1886 Edward C Tolman, US psychologist (behaviorism)
1886 Ernst R Curtius, German literature historian
1881 Anton Wildgans, Austrian writer/director (Burg Theater)
1879 James Branch Cabell, American novelist/essayist (Restless Heads)
1877 Dani‰l Plooy, Dutch new testament scholar
1874 Count Alexander, of Athlone, gov-gen (South-Africa/Canada)
1873 Viktor Joseph Keldorfer, composer
1866 Anne Mansfield Sullivan, US, educated Helen Keller
1862 Pyotr A Stolypin, premier Russia (1906-11)
1857 Edgar Stillman Kelley, Sparta Wisconsin, composer (Gulliver)
1852 Henrique Oswald, composer
1843 Gustave Leon Huberti, composer
1842 Sven August Korling, composer
1832 James Hewett Ledlie, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1882
1831 Gerhard Rohlfs, German explorer/ambassador in Abyssinia
1820 Harry Thompson Hays, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1876
1813 Junius S Morgan, US, merchant/philanthropist (Metro Museum of Art)
1809 George W Vreede, Dutch lawyer/politician
1803 Friedrich von Amerling, Austrian painter
1797 Adolphe Thiers, 1st president of 3rd French Republic (1871-77)
1782 Carlo Coccia, composer
1762 Giuseppe Valadier, Italian architect/archaeologist
1738 Duck of Portland, (C) British PM (1783, 1807-09)
1723 John Wainwright, composer
1721 William August duke of Cumberland, English army leader
1718 Emanuele Barbella, composer
1710 Marie A C de Camargo, Spanish/Italian/Belgian dancer
1676 Ernst Chreistian Hesse, composer
1629 Christian Huygens, Holland, astronomer (discovered Saturn's rings)
1592 Abraham Elsevier, book publisher/publisher
1578 Philip III, King of Spain & Portugal (1598-1621)
Those who died today...
1995 Burl Ives, actor/singer (Jimmy Crack Corn), dies of mouth cancer at 85
1994 Harry Cordon, comic (Fred Hach‚ Show), dies at 70
1994 Selometsi Baholo, vice-premier of Lesotho, murdered
1993 Jo Farmer, author (Heir)
1993 Sam Ntombani, ANC-secretary in Soweto South-Africa, shot to death
1992 David Miller, dies of cancer at 82
1992 Sammy Price, US boogie-woogie pianist, dies
1990 Peter Dunn,
1988 Herbert Reynolds Inch, composer, dies at 83
1988 Johan Franco, composer, dies at 79
1987 Karl Holler, composer, dies at 79
1986 Jean Genˆt, French, playwright (Lesson NŠgres), dies at 75
1986 Simone de Beauvoir, French author (DeuxiŠme Sexe), dies at 86
1985 Reginald Beane, pianist (Starlit Time, Once Upon a Tune), dies at 63
1983 Nina Dumbadze, Discus thrower (Olympic-bronze-1952), dies at 64
1983 Pete Farndon, rock bassist (Pretenders)
1983 Willem F Voucher, composer, dies at 42
1980 Tom Fadden, actor (Duffeild-Broken Arrow, Cimarron City), dies at 84
1977 Riekus Waskowsky, poet, dies at 44
1976 Gerard Roms‚e, Flemish nationalist, dies at 74
1976 Maude Prickett, actress (Rosie-Hazel), dies at 60
1975 Frederic March, actor (Inherit the Wind), dies at 77
1973 Magda Janssens, Flemish/Neth actress/acting teacher, dies at 88
1973 Minna Gombell, dies in Santa Monica CA
1971 Armand Spitz, developer of small educational planetarium, dies
1965 Leonard Mudie, dies of heart ailment at 82
1965 Perry E Smith, US murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged
1965 Robert E Hickok, US murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged
1964 Earle Hodgins, actor (Guestward Ho!), dies at 64
1964 Rachel L Carson, US biologist/author (Silent spring), dies
1953 Emmanuel K de Bom, Flemish writer (Scheldelucht), dies at 84
1949 Joseph A Cushman, US paleontologist, dies
1948 Gerhard Anschtz, German professor, dies at 81
1943 Asser B Kleerekoper, SDAP-Second-Member of parliament, dies at 62
1943 Geoffrey Turton Shaw, composer, dies at 63
1941 Jack Edmonson, Australian corporal in Tobruk (Victoria Cross), dies
1934 Karl Dane, dies at 57
1925 Pieter D van Essen, Dutch artillery officier, dies
1924 Louis H Sullivan, architect (Wainwright building St Louis), dies at 67
1924 Roland Napoleon Bonaparte, French officer, dies at 65
1917 Lew [Lejzer L] Zamenhof, Polish physician/linguist (Esperanto), dies
1915 James Hutton Brew, Pioneer of West African Journalism, dies
1914 Paul Ehrenreich, German etnologist/mythologist, dies
1913 Karl Hagenbeck, German animal trainer (Von Tieren), dies at 68
1888 William Fisk Sherwin, composer, dies at 62
1874 Hermanus J Abbring, author/engineer on Cura‡ao, dies at 86
1843 Josef Franz Karl Lanner, composer, dies at 42
1843 Joseph F K Lanner, Austria, composer/violist, dies at 42
1813 Joachim Nicolas Eggert, composer, dies at 34
1768 Fran‡ois de Cuvilli‚s, Belgian architect of Bayern, dies
1764 Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow, Danish astronomer, dies at 84
1759 Georg Friedrich H„ndel, organist/composer (Watermusic), dies at 74
1695 Jean de la Fontaine, French poet (Fables), dies at 73
1692 Carlos de Gurrea, Spanish land owner in Spanish Netherlands, dies
1655 Johann Erasmus Kindermann, composer, dies at 39
1574 Christoffel Palts, German general strategist, dies in battle
1574 Hendrik, count of Nassau-Dillenburg, murdered
1574 Louis, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies in battle at 35
1552 Laurentius Andreae, [Lars Andersson], Swedish church reformer, dies
1471 Richard N graaf van Warwick, (kingmaker), English politician, dies
1433 Liduina van Schiedam, mystic (Christ's Bride)/saint, dies at 53
1427 John IV, duke of Brabant, dies
1099 Conrad, bishop of Utrecht, burned at stake
911 Sergius III, Italian Pope (904-11), dies
711 Childebert III, king of French, dies at about 27
485 Proclus, Greek philosopher, dies
Things that happened today...
1994 Billy Joel & Christie Brinkley announces plans to divorce
1994 US F-15 accidentally shoots 2 US helicopters down over Iraq, 26 die
Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender after
completion of his Seven Seals manuscript
1992 "Guys & Dolls" opens at Martin Beck theater on Broadway
1992 Court throws out Apple's lawsuit against Microsoft
1992 UAW ends 5 month strike against Caterpillar Inc
1992 UN imposes embargo against Libya takes effect
1989 1,100,000,000th Chinese born
1988 Devils 6-5 over Islanders-Devils take 1st round 4-2
1988 USSR, US, Pakistan & Afghanistan sign Afghanistan treaty
1987 Turkey asks to join European market
1986 Desmond Tutu elected Anglican archbishop of Capetown
1986 US aircraft attacks 5 terrorist locations in Libya
1985 Ahmed Salah wins 1st World Cup marathon (2:08:09)
1985 Alan Garcia wins elections in Peru
1985 Bernhard Langer wins golf masters
1985 Bob Carpenter is unsuccessful on Wash Caps 1st playoff penalty shot
1985 Caps 4-Isles 6-Patrick Div Semifinals-Series tied at 2-2
1984 Farewell concert of "Doe Maar" in Den Bosch Neth
1983 Isles tie own rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Ranger
1983 North Carolina State beats Houston for NCAA basketball title
Rangers 1-Isles 4-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 1-0 lead
1982 M Watt discovers asteroid #2675 Tolkien
1981 1st Space Shuttle-Columbia 1-returns to Earth
1980 E Bowell discovers asteroids #2759 Idomeneus & #2830 Greenwich
1980 Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Executioner's Song)
1978 David Hare's "Plenty," premieres in London
1978 H Debehogne discovers asteroid #2364 Seillier
1978 WRR-AM in Dallas Texas changes call letters to KAAM
1974 Gary Player wins his 2nd Masters golf tournament
1971 Fort Point, SF dedicated as a national historic site
1971 Stephen Sondheim's musical "Follies," premieres in NYC
1971 president Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China
1969 1st major league baseball game outside US played (Montreal Canada)
1969 41st Academy Awards
1969 KEET TV channel 13 in Eureka, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 Student Afro-American Society seized at Columbia College
1969 Tornado strikes Dacca East Pakistan killing 540
1968 Roberto de Vicenzo loses Masters for signing an incorrect score card
1967 Gen Gnassingbe Eyadema becomes president of Togo
1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 George Harrison is impressed by unsigned group "Rolling Stones"
1962 Demonstration for sovereign status of New-Guinea in Amsterdam
1962 Georges Pompidou becomes president of France
1961 1st live television broadcast from Soviet Union
1961 Cuban-American invasion army departs Nicaragua
1961 US element 103 (Lawrencium) discovered
1960 "Bye Bye Birdie" with Dick Van Dyke premieres in NYC
1960 1st underwater launching of polaris rocket
1960 Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Maple Leafs for Stanley Cup
1959 (Robert) Taft Memorial Bell Tower dedicated in Wash DC
1959 KDIN TV channel 11 in Des Moines, IA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1958 Sputnik 2 (with dog Laika) burns up in atmosphere
1957 Leah Neuberger wins her 8th women's singles ping pong championship
1956 Ampex Corp demonstrates 1st commercial videotape recorder
1955 Detroit Red Wings beat Mont Canadiens 4 games to 3 for Stanley Cup
1955 WBRZ TV channel 2 in Baton Rouge, LA (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov asks for politics asylum in Canberra
1953 Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup
1953 Viet-Minh offensive in Laos
1953 WHYN (now WGGB) TV channel 40 in Springfield-Holyoke, MA (ABC) begins
1950 1st edition of British strip "Eagle"
1950 Doorne's Auto factory opens in Netherlands
1949 International Military Tribunal at Neurenberg's last judgment
1948 A flash of light is observed in crater Plato on Moon
1948 Toronto Maple Leafs sweep Detroit Red Wings for Stanley Cup
1948 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1945 Arnhem/Zwolle freed from nazis
1945 Tokyo incendiary raids, using B-29's, damage Imperial Palace
1945 US marines attack Yae Take in Okinawa
1944 1st Jews transported from Athens arrive at Auschwitz
1944 Freighter "Fort Stikene" explodes in Bombay India, killing 1,376
1944 Gen Eisenhower becomes head commander of allied air fleet
1944 Greek Colonel Venizelos forms govt
1943 Gen Alexander/Eisenhower/Anderson/Bradley discuss assault on Tunis
1943 James Gow & A d'Usseau's "Tomorrow the World," premieres in NYC
1942 Destroyer Roper sinks German U-85 of US east coast
1942 L Oterma discovers asteroid #2501 Lohja
1941 1st massive German raid in Paris, 3,600 Jews rounded up
1941 King Peter leaves Yugoslavia
1940 Allies troops land in Norway
1935 Sandstorm ravages US midwest (Dust Bowl)
1933 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #2856
1932 Bizet, Massine & Mir¢'s "Jeux d'Enfants," premieres in Monte Carlo
1931 Mont Canadiens beat Chicago Black Hawks 3 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
1931 Spain becomes republic with overthrow of King Alfonso XIII
1930 Philip Barry's "Hotel Universe," premieres in NYC
1928 Maddus AL starts 1st regular passenger flights between SF & LA
1928 NY Rangers beat Montreal Maroons 3 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
1926 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1095 Tulipa
1923 Etienne Oehmichen sets helicopter distance record of 358 meters
1922 Republic rebels occupies 4 govt courts in Dublin
1921 Prince Henry opens Rotterdam-Amsterdam-Bremen-Hamburg air route
1917 Chic White Sox Ed Cicotte no-hits St Louis Browns, 11-0
1915 Dutch merchant navy ship Katwijk sunk by Germany torpedo
1913 Belgium begins general strike for voting rights
1910 President Taft begins tradition of throwing out ball on opening day
1909 Anglo-Persian Oil Company forms in London
1906 Pres Theodore Roosevelt denounces "muckrakers" in US press
1903 Dr Harry Plotz discovers vaccine against typhoid (NYC)
1900 President Loubet opens International Fairs in Paris
1900 Veteran's Hospital at Ft Miley forms
1895 1st performance of Gustav Mahler's (incomplete) 2nd Symphony
1894 1st public showing of Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures)
1890 Pan American Day-1st conference of American states (Wash DC)
1887 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Reigate Squires" (BG)
1883 Leo Delibes' opera "Lakm‚," premieres in Paris
1872 Dominion Lands Act passed-Canada's Homestead Act
1871 Canada sets denominations of currency as dollars, cents, & mills
1868 SC voters approved constitution, 70,758 to 27,228
1865 Mobile, Alabama is captured
1865 Pres Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth
1862 Battle of Ft Pillow TN
1861 Formal Union surrender of Ft Sumter
1860 1st Pony Express rider arrives in SF from St Joseph, Mo
1847 Persia & Osmaanse sign 2nd Treaty of Erzurum
1828 18-gun sloop "Acorn" sinks off Halifax with 115 men aboard
1828 1st edition of Noah Webster's dictionary published
1818 US Medical Corp forms
1775 1st abolitionist society in US organizes in Phila
1756 Gov Glen of SC protests against 900 Acadia indians
1671 Cosaks capture Russian boer leader Stenka Razin
1629 England & France sign Peace of Susa
1614 Pocahontas, daughter of chief Powhatan, marries planter John Rolfe
1611 Word "telescope" is 1st used (Prince Federico Cesi)
1574 Battle of Mookerhei-D'Avila beats Louis of Nassau
1570 Polish Calvinists/Lutherians/Hernhutters unify against Jesuits
1544 Battle at Carignano: French troops under Earl d'Enghien beat Swiss
1536 English king Henry VIII expropriate minor monasteries
1471 Battle of Barnet-King Edward IV vs Earl of Warwick
1191 85-year old Giacinto Bobo becomes Pope Coelestinus III
1028 German emperor Conrad II the Sailor crowns his son Henry III, king
979 Challenge to throne of King Aethelred II of England
972 Notger becomes bishop of Luik
754 Pact of Quierzy: between Pope Stephen II, [III] & Pippin the Korte
193 Lucius Septimus Severus crowned emperor of Rome
Other Occasions...
[US] Taxes tomorrow!
Celebrations...
[Burma] Water Festival (416)
[El Sal, Haiti, Hond, Venez] Pan American Day/D¡a de las Am‚ricas
[Laos] New Years (416)
[Mauritius] Varusha Pirruppa
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