Today In History
        Friday April 11th, 2003 -- Day Number: 101 - Days left: 264


Those born today...

1984 ?, 1st deep freeze baby, in Australia
1978 Victor Sikora, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1974 Alex Corretja, Barcelona Spain, tennis star (1990 Orange Bowl boys 16)
1974 Sascha van Delete, soccer player (MVV)
1970 Delroy Pearson, rock vocalist (Five Star-Between the Lines)
1967 Stefan Johnstown, Norwegian speed walker (world record 20 km)
1967 Wendel Suckow, Marquette Mich, luger (Olympics-1994)
1966 Lisa Stansfield, English pop singer (Around the World)
1963 Eddy Moya, El Paso Tx, actor^
1962 Andr‚ Wasiman, soccer player (FC Volendam)
1961 Lucky Vanous, Lincoln Nebraska, model (GQ, Diet Coke)
1959 Richie Sambora, rocker (Bon Jovi)/boyfriend of Cher
1958 Stuart Adamson, rock vocalist/guitarist (Big Country-Wonderland)
1958 William Stuart Adamson, Manchester, rock guitarist (Big Country)
1957 John Castellanos, San Diego Calif, actor (John Silva-Young & Restless)
1955 Michele Scarabelli, actress (Jo Santini-Airwolf, Alienation)
1954 Chris Difford, rocker (Squeeze)
1951 Robbie House, rocker (Snuff)
1950 Bill Irwin, Santa Monica, actor (My Blue Heaven, Scenes From a Mall)
1948 Ellen Goodman, syndicated columnist (or 1941)
1947 Peter Riegert, NYC, actor (Animal House, Crossing Delancey)
1947 Uli Edel,
1944 John Milius,
1943 E J Dommering, Dutch lawyer
1943 Elmer R Wilsoe, Island mayor (Cura‡ao)
1942 Anatoly Berezovoi, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-5)
1941 David Lyle Boren, (Sen-D-OK, 1979-  )
1941 Frederick "Rick" Hauck, Long Beach Ca, astr (STS-7, STS 51-A, STS-26)
1939 Louise Lasser, NYC, actress (Mary Hartman! Mary Hartman!)
1938 Michael Deaver, politician/influence peddler (S&L scandal)
1935 Pierre Kartner, [Father Abraham], Dutch singer (Smurf Song)
1934 Mark Strand, American poet/editor/translator (Another Republic)
1933 Tony Brown, Charleston WV, newsman (Tony Brown's Journal)
1932 Joel Grey, [Joe Katz], actor (Cabaret, Remo Williams, 7% Solution)
1932 Max Schubel, composer
1931 Johnny Sheffield, Pasadena Calif, actor (Boy-Tarzan Finds a Son)
1930 Carl Franklin, Richmond Calif, actor (Fantastic Journey)
1930 Kazuo Fukushima, composer
1930 Nicholas F Brady, US Secretary of Treasury (1988-93)
1930 W G [Bill] Hefner, (Rep-D-NC, 1975-  )
1929 Lawrence Coughlin, (Rep-R-PA, 1969-  )
1927 Domenico Guaccero, composer
1926 Robert Hall Lewis, composer
1925 Ethel Kennedy, wife of Bobby
1925 Johan van Zonderen, painter
1925 Rik Ku˜pers, Belgian director (Sea gulls die in the harbor)
1922 Alexander Raichev, composer
1919 Hugh Carey, (Gov-D-NY)
1918 Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber, journalist
1916 Alberto E Ginastera, Buenos Aires Argentina, composer (Panambi)
1916 Dan Fortmann, NFL guard (Chicago Bears)
1913 Oleg Cassini, Paris France, fashion designer (Jackie Kennedy)
1912 John Larkin, Oakland Calif, actor (Saints & Sinners, 12 O'Clock High)
1911 Stella Walsh-Stanislawa-Walasiewicz, Poland, sprinter (Oly-gold-32)
1910 Anna Magnani, Ital's actress (Awakening, Roma)
1910 Antonio de Sp”nola, general/president Portugal
1908 Karel Ancerl, Czech conductor (Prague/Toronto)
1907 Paul Douglas, Phila Pa, actor (Adventure Theater, Clash by Night)
1904 Paul McGrath, Chicago IL, actor (Witness, No Time for Love)
1902 Quentin Reynolds, NYC, newscaster (Its News to Me)/author (FBI)
1901 Adriano Olivetti, Italian engineer/manufacturer (typewriter)
1901 Glenway Wescott, US writer (Apartment in Athens)
1901 Theodor Rogalski, composer
19-- Catherine Shirriff, Toronto Canada, actress (Ripley's, Shaping Up)
1899 Percy L Julian, chemist (drugs for treatment of arthritis)
1898 Lou Holtz, comedian/actor (Follow the Leader)
1897 Caspar Neher, German set designer/librettist
1893 Dean G Acheson, statesman/US Secretary of State (1949-53)
1893 Johannes T Th˜sse, Dutch founder (Waterloopkundig lab Delft)
1889 Nick La Rocca, US coronetist/composer (Tiger Rag)
1888 Donald Calthrop, London, actor (Blackmail, Scrooge, Rome Express)
1883 Leonard Mudie, England, actor (Magnetic Monster, British Intelligence)
1881 Harvey Bartlett Gaul, composer
1879 Leendert Round, Dutch sculptor (entrance Rotterdam Zoo)
1867 John P Lotsy, Dutch botanist/geneticist (Genetics)
1866 Carla Ford, Henry's wife
1862 Charles Evans Hughs, 11th Chief Justice of Supreme Court (1930-41)
1862 William W Campbell, US astronomer/director Lick Observatory
1859 Basil Harwood, composer
1856 Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionary in India
1840 John Conrad Nordqvist, composer
1838 Joseph Leopold Rockel, composer
1837 Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth, Col (Union Army), died in 1861
1825 Ferdinand Lassalle, French politician/founder (Allgemeiner)
1815 Klara Fey, German orch leader (Deutscher Arbeiterverein)
1801 Claude Tillier, French journalist/writer (My Uncle Benjamin)
1794 Edward Everett, Dorchester Mass, (Gov-Mass), statesman/orator
1793 Nicolaas C Kist, Dutch church historian/archivist
1779 Louise Reichardt, composer
1775 Charles-Fran‡ois Dumonchau, composer
1772 Manuel Jos‚ Quintana, Spanish author/poet (El Duque de Viseo)
1770 George Canning, (C) British PM (1827)
1769 Johann Georg Lickl, composer
1735 Pierre Nicolas La Houssaye, composer
1722 Christopher Smart, English poet & journalist (Ceremony of Carols)
1715 John Alcock, composer
1682 Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer
1681 Anne Danican Philidor, composer
1661 Antoine Coypel, French painter/poet
1638 Diogo Diaz Melgaz, composer
1602 Johann Neukrantz, composer
1586 Pietro Della Valle, composer
1370 Frederick I the Warlike, elector of Saxony


Those who died today...

1994 Johan Block, pilot/aviation pioneer (Martinair/Transavia), dies at 64
1993 Mohammed el-Himi, brigade-general of Egyptian police, murdered
1993 Rachmon Nabijev, President of Tadzjikistan (1973-92), dies at 63
1992 Adele Dixon, singer/actress, dies of bronchial pneumonia at 83
1992 Eve Merriam, poet, dies of liver cancer at 75
1992 James Brown, actor (Rip-Adv of Rin Tin Tin), dies at 72
1991 Tom Rosqui, dies at 62
1990 Barbara Ann Miller,
1989 Henk van Galen Last, Dutch journalist, dies
1988 David Talker, US singer (Sam & Dave-Soul Man), dies in car crash at 50
1988 Jeff Donnell, actor (Hoedown, 9 Girls), dies at 66 of a heart attack
1987 Erskine Caldwell, novelist (Tobacco Road), dies at 83
1987 Kent Taylor, actor (Boston Blackie, Rough Riders), dies at 79
1987 Primo Levi, Italy, chemist/writer (Survival in Aushchwitz), dies at 65
1985 Enver Hoxha, party leader/premier of Albania, dies at 76
1983 Dolores Del Rio, actress (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 78
1981 Marie Ney, dies at 85
1980 Charlotte Henry, dies
1980 Florence Lake,
1977 Jacques Pr‚vert, French poet (La puil et le beau), dies at 77
1976 Liam Dunn, dies a 59
1975 Dorothy Patten, dies at 70
1974 Curt Conway,
1973 Ted Decorsia, actor (Police Chief Hegedorn-Steve Canyon), dies at 69
1970 Cathy O'Donnell, dies at 66
1970 John H O'hara, US journalist/writer (Pal Joey, Rage to Live), dies
1969 Ludvig Irgens Jensen, composer, dies at 74
1961 Francis de Bourguignon, composer, dies at 70
1952 Wadi' Sabra, composer, dies at 76
1945 Kamiel van Baelen, Flemish resistance fighter (in Dachau), dies at 29
1939 SS Van Dine, [William Huntingdon Wright], detective writer, dies at 50
1936 Mitya Stillman, composer, dies at 44
1921 Augusta Victoria, Queen of Prussia/wife of Emperor Wilhelm II, dies
1921 Virginia O'Brien, LA Calif, actress (Francis in the Navy)
1916 Richard Harding Davis, journalist, dies at 52
1906 Georgi Apollonovitsj, Russian-orthodox clergyman, dies
1906 James A Bailey, circus showman (Barnum & Bailey), dies at 58
1903 Gemma Galgani, Italian saint, dies at 25
1902 ... Potgieter, South African Boer general, dies in battle
1901 Ivar Christian Hallstrom, composer, dies at 75
1887 Pyotr Petrovich Sokal'sky, composer, dies at 54
1881 Kristian Mandrup Elster, Norwegian author (Torn Trondal), dies at 40
1875 Heinrich Schwabe, discoverer of 11-year sunspot cycle, dies
1853 Louis Emmanuel Eadin, composer, dies
1842 John England, bishop of Charleston Carolina, dies
1839 John Galt, Scottish writer (Last of the Lairds), dies at 59
1838 Pieter L Uys, South African pioneer (Great Pull), murdered at 40
1812 Gottlieb Schick, German painter (Opfer Noachs), dies at 35
1810 Jakob Zupan, composer, dies at 75
1783 Nikita I Panin, Russian earl/ambassador in Denmark, dies at 64
1729 Manuel de Egues, composer, dies at 72
1648 Matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern, composer, dies at 53
1512 Gaston de Foix, French pretender to Navarra throne, dies in battle
1500 Michael T Marullus, Greeks poet, drowns
1240 Llywelyn ab Iorwerth the Great, monarch of Wales (1194-1240), dies
1034 Romanus III Argyrus, Byzantine emperor (1028-34), dies
 678 Donus, Italian Pope (676-78), dies


Things that happened today...

2000 First baseball game at Comerica Park. Tigers vs Mariners. Temp 35 
2000 Detroit Tigers defeat Seattle 5-2. Opening day Comerica Park.
1993 Jeff Rouse swims world record 100m backstroke (51.43 sec)
1993 Kirsan Ilumzjinov installed as president of Kalmukkie
1992 Boston Red Sox beat Cleve Indians, 7-5, in 19 innings
1992 Country singer Lee Greenwood weds Miss Tennessee 1989 (Kimberly Payne)
1992 Euro-Disney opens near Paris
1992 Indians set a team record for longest game (19 inn - 6« hr)
1992 Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing 3
1991 NYC's Museum of Broadcasting becomes "Museum of Radio &
Television"
1991 Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) lands
1991 UN Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq declaration
1990 Angels Mark Langston & Mike Witt, no-hit Seattle, 1-0
1990 NY Lotto pays $35 million to two winner (#s are 6-14-24-32-34-51)
1990 NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 6-1, Rangers lead 3-1 in preliminary
1989 1st playoff goal scored by a goalie, Ron Hextall of Phila
     Flyers, scores short-handed into an empty net beating Caps 8-5
1988 Royal Concert building in Amsterdam reopens
1987 Yankees score 12 runs in 7th inning vs KC Royals
1987 Zoja Ivanova wins 2nd female World Cup marathon (2:30:39)
1986 A Canadain 1921 50› piece auctioned in NYC for $22,000
1986 Dodge Morgan sailed solo nonstop around world in 150 days
1986 Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km
1986 KXA-AM in Seattle WA changes call letters to KRPM
1985 Caps 2-Isles 1 (OT)-Patrick Div Semifinals- Caps hold 2-0 lead
1984 Challenger astronauts complete 1st in space satellite repair
1984 Chinese troops invade Vietnam
1984 Soyuz T-11 returns to Earth
1984 USSR party leader Chernenko elected president
1983 NASA launches RCA-F
1983 Steve Ballesteros wins his 2nd Masters golf tournament
1982 Craig Stadler wins the Masters
1982 Penguins 5-Isles 2-Preliminary-Series tied at 2-2
1981 Race riot in London area of Brixton
1981 Ronald Reagan arrives home from hospital after Hinkley shot him
1981 Valerie Bertinelli marries Eddie Van Halen
1980 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulates sexual harassment
1980 Paul McCartney releases "Coming Up"
1979 Ugandan dictator Idi Amin overthrown; Tanzania takes Kampala
1978 E F Helin & G Grueff discovers asteroid #3101 Goldberger
1977 Ireland sets fishing zone at 50 mile
1976 Ray Floyd wins the Masters
1975 JP Parise 11 sec OT goal-Isles 1st playoff advance eliminates Rangers
1974 WW II war criminal JP Philippa arrested
1972 Benjamin L Hooks, named to FCC
1972 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1971 WBFF TV channel 45 in Baltimore, MD (IND) begins broadcasting
1970 Apollo 13 launched to Moon; unable to land, returns in 6 days
1970 Beatles' "Let It Be," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1969 South African president Frederik de Klerk marries Marike Willemse
1968 Polish Marshal Spychalski succeeds Ochab as president
1968 Pres Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act
1968 W Berlin student Rudi Dutschke seriously wounded at demonstration
1968 WHED TV channel 15 in Hanover, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 F Borngen discovers asteroid #3539 Weimar
1967 Harlem (NYC) voters defy Congress & reelect Adam Clayton Powell Jr
1967 Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead," premieres
1966 Emmett Ashford becomes 1st black major league umpire
1966 Jack Nicklaus becomes 1st man to win consecutive Masters
1965 40 tornadoes strike US midwest killing 272 & injuring 5,000
1965 Jack Nicklaus scores a record 271 in his 2nd Masters win
1963 John XXIII encyclical On peace in truth, justice, charity & liberty
1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 New York Mets make a losing debut
1961 Adolf Eichmann trial begins in Israel
1961 Austrian 4th & last government of Raab resigns
1961 Boston beats St Louis, 4 games to 1, for NBA championship
1961 Israel begins Adolf Eichmann WW II crimes trial
1960 1st weather satellite launched (Tiros 1)
1959 Dutch prince Bernhard visits Lockheed factory
1958 Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated (SF)
1957 Pablo Neruda arrested in Buenos Aires
1957 Ryan X-13 Vertijet becomes 1st jet to take-off & land vertically
1956 French govt decides to sends 200,000 reservists to Algeria
1956 Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater by whites
1953 Oveta Culp Hobby becomes 1st at Health, Education, & Welfare
1951 Pres Truman fires Gen Douglas McArthur
1950 Prince Rainier III becomes ruler of Monaco
1950 US B-29 bomber shot down above Latvia
1947 Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in modern major-league baseball
1945 Allied troops liberate Basket-Compascuum
1945 SS burns & shoots 1,100 at Gardelegen
1945 US captures Tsugen Shima
1945 US soldiers liberate Nazi concentration camp "Buchenwald"
1945 US troops conquers Mlheim, Oberhausen, Bochum, Unna, Essen
1944 RAF bombs census bureau in The Hague
1943 Frank Piasecki, Vertol founder, flies his 1st (single-rotor) craft
1942 Distinguished Service Medal for Merchant Marines authorized
1941 Germany blitzes Conventry, England
1941 Jewish Weekly newspaper taken control by Nazis
1941 Nazi occupiers in Neth confiscate Jewish assets
1939 Hungary leaves League of Nations
1936 Detroit Red Wings beat Tor Maple Leafs 3 games to 1 for Stanley Cup
1936 Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical "On Your Toes," premieres in NYC
1933 Hermann G”ring becomes premier of Prussia
1929 KLO-AM in Ogden UT begins radio transmissions
1929 Loetafoon celluloid film system demonstrated in Amsterdam
1927 Chilean gen Carlos Ib ¤ez names himself president
1926 Flemish Economic Covenant (VEV) forms in Ghent
1925 Abd el-Krims Rifkabylen beats French army in Morocco
1924 1st men's college swimming championships begin
1924 Socialists win Denmark's parliamentary elections
1924 WLS-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions
1921 Iowa imposed 1st state cigarette tax
1921 KDKA broadcast 1st sporting event on radio, a boxing match
1921 Turkestan ASSR forms in Russian SFSR
1914 George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," premieres
1912 Cornerstone of Technion in Haifa Palestine laid
1911 Bob Dylan's 1st appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village
1907 NY Giant Roger Bresnahan becomes 1st catcher to wear shin guards
1904 M Wolf discovers asteroid #530 Turandot
1902 Battle at Rooiwal, South-Africa
1899 Treaty of Paris ratifies; Spain cedes Puerto Rico to US
1898 President McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration
1895 Anaheim completes it's new electric light system
1891 8 year old Jewish tailor's daughter disappears in Greece, rumor
     spreads that she was a Christian girl ritually killed by Jews
1890 Ellis Island designated as an immigration station
1881 River ferry "Princess Victoria" sinks in Thames River Ont, 180 die
1881 Spelman College founded
1878 J Coggia discovers asteroid #187 Lamberta
1876 Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks organizes
1876 Sir Charles Gordon ends religious tolerance in Sudan
1865 Battle of Mobile, AL - evacuated by Confederates
1865 Lincoln urges a spirit of generous conciliation during reconstruction
1863 Battle of Suffolk, VA (Norfleet House)
1862 Rebels surrender Ft Pulaski, Georgia-Rebels surrender
1856 Battle of Rivas; Costa Rica beats Wm Walker's invading Nicaraguans
1848 Hungary becomes constitutional monarchy under king Ferdinand of Aust
1830 Robert Schumann's live piano concerto of Paganini
1814 1st abdication of Napoleon; he is exiled to Elba
1801 Johann von Schiller's "Die Jungfrau von Orleans," premieres in Leipzig
1713 Peace of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces to Britain
     English, Prussian, Savoois, Portuguese & French peace treaty
1677 Battle at Montcassel, French troops beat Prince Willem III
1580 Drenthe joins Union of Utrecht
1579 Venlo joins Union of Utrecht
1567 Antwerp prince Willem of Orange flees to Breda
1564 England & France sign Peace of Troyes
1564 Luik prince-bishop Robert van Put flees
1551 English premier John Dudley appointed duke of Northumberland
1512 Battle at Ravenna: France under Gaston de Foix beat Spanish Army
1471 King Edward IV of England conquers London from Henry VI
 678 Donus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
 672 Deusdedit III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
 421 -BC- Sparta & Athens sign Peace of Nicias


Other Occasions...

     Barber Shop Quartet Day (1938)


Celebrations...

     [Costa Rica] Juan Santamaria Day/Battle of Rivas Commemoration (1856)
     [Czechoslovakia] Resistance Movement Day (1945)
     [Egypt] Shan-et-Nissin
     [Liberia] Fast & Prayer Day


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