Today In History
Monday March 17th, 2003 -- Day Number: 76 - Days left: 289
* Astrological sign: Pisces
* 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...
1969 Gilbert Schaller, Bruck Austria, tennis star
1967 Van Conner, rocker (Screaming Trees)
1965 Andrew Hudson, South African cricket player
1965 Caitlin Bilodeaux, Boston Mass, US fencer (Olympic-92)
1964 Rob Lowe, Charlottesville Va, actor (St Elmo's Fire, Hotel NH, Class)
1964 Ron Warren Jr, jockey
1963 Rebeca Arthur, actress (Mary Anne-Perf Strangers, Opposites Attract)
1962 Clare Grogan, rocker (Altered Images-Happy Birthday)
1962 Janet Patricia Gardner, Juneau Alaska, rocker (Vixen-Rev It Up)
1962 Roxy Dora Petrucci, Rochester Minn, rock drummer (Vixen-Rev It Up)
1961 Casey Siemaszko, Chicago IL, actor (Biloxi Blues, 3 O'Clock High)
1960 Lee Ann Michelle, Surrey England, playmate (Feb, 1979)
1959 Mike Lindup, British rock keyboardist/singer (Level 42-Hot Water)
1957 Robin Cousins, England, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1980)
1956 Will Rigby, rocker
1955 Bill Beyers, actor (Wally McCandless-Capitol)
1955 Cynthia McKinney, (Rep-D-Georgia)
1955 Paul Overstreet, Van Cleave Miss, country singer (Daddy's Come Around)
1954 Lesley-Anne Down, London, actress (A Little Night Music, Moonraker)
1954 Rena Jones, rock vocalist
1954 Wally Stocker, London, rock vocalist/guitarist (Babys-Missing You)
1951 Kurt Russell, Springfeild Mass, actor (Thing, Overboard, Mean Seasons)
1951 Scott Gorham, Irish hard rock guitarist (Thin Lizzy-21 Guns)
1949 Patrick Duffy, Townsend Mont, actor (Bobby-Dallas, Man from Atlantis)
1948 Fran Byrne, rocker
1948 Pat Lloyd, rocker
1948 Robert Braunwart, who added thousands of dates to this database
1948 William [Ford] Gibson, Canada, sci-fi author (Neuromancer, Count Zero)
1947 Ian Gomm, rock guitarist
1946 Harold Brown, Long Beach Ca, rock drummer (War-Summer, Galaxy)
1946 Michael Peter Finnissey, composer
1945 Paco Gonzalez, race horse trainer
1944 Danny DeVito, Neptune NJ, actor (Louie-Taxi, Twins)
1944 John Sebastian, NYC, singer (Loving Spoonful, Welcome Back Kotter)
1944 Pat McCauley, N Ireland, rock drummer (Them)
1944 Patti Boyd, Somerset England, (Mrs George Harrison/Mrs Eric Clapton)
1943 Don Mitchell, Houston Tx, actor (Mark-Ironside)
1942 John Wayne Gacy, Chicago Ill, serial killer (32 boys)
1942 Sidney K Barthelmy, US politician(?)
1941 Clarence Collins, US singer (Imperials-Tears on my pillow)
1941 Edward Harper, composer
1940 Vito Picone, rocker (Elegants)
1938 Rudolf Nureyev, Russia, ballet dancer/choreographer (Kirov)
1937 Adam Wade, rocker
1937 Galina Samsova, ballerina
1936 Ladislaw Kupkovic, composer
1936 Thomas K Mattingly II, Chic, Capt USN/astro (Apollo 16, STS-4, 51C)
1935 Adam Wade, Pitts Pa, singer (Tony Orlando & Dawn)
1934 Erhard Grosskopf, composer
1931 Eunice Gayson, London England, actress (Dr No, From Russia With Love)
1930 James B Irwin, Pittsburgh Penn, Col USAF/astronaut (Apollo 15)
1928 Edino Krieger, composer
1927 Maurice Ingvar Karkoff, composer
1927 Patrick Allen, Malawi, actor (Roman Holiday, Dial "M" for Murder)
1927 Sulkhan Ivanovich Nasidze, composer
1926 Siegfried Lenz, German writer
1925 G M Hughes, British zoologist
1924 Stephen Dodgson, composer
1922 Megan Bull, British head mistress (Holloway Jail)
1920 John La Montaine, Oak Park Ill, composer (Pulitzer 1959)
1919 Hank Sauer, baseballer (NL MVP 1952)
1919 Nat "King" Cole, Montgomery Ala, singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa)
1918 D Arendo, [Arend Honhoff], Dutch pianist/composer (Eleonora)
1918 Mercedes McCambridge, Joliet Ill (Exorcist, All the King's Men)
1918 Wilhelmus M J Russell, Dutch attorney/Member of 1st chamber (KVP/CDA)
1917 Brian Boydell, composer
1915 Hans Namuth, German/US photographer (Todos Santos, Guatemala)
1915 William Roycroft, Austria, equestrian 3 day (Olympic-bronze-1976)
1914 Sammy Baugh, Texas, NFL hall of famer QB (Wash Redskins)
1911 Raffaele d' Alessandro, composer
1910 Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader
1909 Patrick Reilly, British diplomat
1908 Boris N Poveloi, [Kampov], Russian journalist/writer [NS]
1908 Radie Britain, composer
1907 Jan M J van Houtte, premier Belgium (1952-54)
1906 Michael O'Shea, Hartford Ct, actor (Denny-It's a Great Life)
1902 Bobby Jones Jr, Atlanta Georgia, PGA golfer (Grand Slam 1930)
1901 Eisaku Sato, premier of Japan (Nobel 1974)
1900 Alfred Newman, New Haven, composer (Love is a Many Splendored Thing)
19-- Amelia Heinie, actress (Stephanie-Loving)
19-- Vicki Lewis, Cincinnati, actress (Beth-Newsradio)
1899 Gloria Swanson, Chicago IL, actress (Sadie Thompson, Killer Bees) [OS]
1895 Shemp Howard, Bkln, comedian (3 Stooges, Bank Dick) [or 1891]
1894 Paul Green, US, novelist/playwright (In Abraham's Bosom)
1892 Sayed Darwish, composer
1890 Harold Morris, composer
1888 Frank Buck, actor (Africa Screams, Tiger Queen, Tiger Fangs)
1887 Ben Sajet, Dutch physician/politician
1881 Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Less bror Harris)
1880 Guillermo Uribe Holguin, composer
1877 Albert P Hahn, Dutch political cartoonist (People/Nutcracker)
1876 Frederic Ayers, composer
1874 Kincsem, horse that never lost a race
1874 Stephen Samuel Wise, US, pres of Zionist Org of America
1873 Margaret Bondfield, Brit Labour leader/1st woman cabinet member
1848 Horace Wadham Nicholl, composer
1846 Kate Greenaway, England, artist/book illustrator (Under the Window)
1839 Josef Rheinberger, Vaduz Liechtenstein, opera composer (Munich Conser)
1834 Gottlieb Daimler, Germany, engineer/inventor/designed 1st motorcycle
1832 Moncure Daniel Conway, US, abolitionist (Life of Thomas Paine)
1832 Walter Quintin Gresham, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1828 Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, Major General (Confederate Army)
1826 Oskar Peschel, German journalist/geography (V”lkerkunder)
1825 Rodolphe Bresdin, French cartoonist/lithographer (Le Bon Samaritain)
1820 Patrick Edward Connor, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1804 James Bridger, scout/fur trader/mountain man par excellance
1789 Edmund Kean, London England, tragic actor (Shylock)
1781 Dominique J de Eerens, governor-general of Neth Indies
1777 Roger Brooke Taney, Calvert Md, 5th Chief Justice (Dred Scott dec)
1746 Jan David Holland, composer
1685 Jean-Marc Nattier, French portrait painter
1675 Petrus Laurentius Wockenfuss, composer
1664 Georg Osterreich, composer
1628 Daniel van Papenbroeck, [Papebrochius], Flemish historian
1578 Francesco Albana, Ital painter (Mary's Ascension)
1473 James IV, king of Scotland (1488-1513)
Those who died today...
1995 Ahmad Khomeini, youngest son of Iran ayatollah Khomeini, dies at 48
1995 Marcus Jan Adriani, biologist/director (Weevers' Duin), dies at 56
1995 Rick Aviles, US comic/actor (Ghost), dies of AIDS
1995 Ronnie Kray, English gangster (The Firm), dies at 61
1995 Sunnyland Smart, jazz/blues singer/pianist (Delta Blues), dies at 87
1994 Mai Zetterling, actress (Night is My Future), dies of cancer
1994 Walter Janka, German writer (Schwierigkeiten mit Wahrheit), dies at 79
1993 Helen Hayes, actress (Airport), dies of congestive heart failure at 92
1993 Laadi Flici, Algerian parliament leader, murdered
1993 Skip Young, actor (Smokey & Hotwire Gang), dies at 62
1992 Charles Rea, British actor, dies at 69
1992 George Lovi, US columnist (Sky & Telescope's "Ramblings"), dies
1992 Grace Stafford Lantz, cartoon voice (Woody Woodpecker), dies at 87
1992 Jack Arnold, actor/dir (Sid Caeser Special, Emmy 1967), dies at 75
1990 Capucine, actress (Lion, Red Sun, Fellini Satyricon), dies at 57
1990 Germaine Capucine, actress (Rendez-Vous de Juillet), dies at 57
1990 Marˇ Mejˇa, Guatemalian feminist, murdered
1990 Rick Grech, rocker (Blind Faith, Traffic), dies at 44
1989 Merritt Butrick, actor (Shy People, Wired to Kill), dies of AIDS at 29
1986 Hal Buckley, actor (John Quincy-OK Crackerby), dies at 49
1982 Hans ter Lag, sound technician, murdered in El Salvador
1982 Jan Kuiper, IKON news editor, murdered in El Salvador
1982 Joop Willemsen, cameraman, murdered in El Salvador
1982 Koos Koster, IKON newscaster, murdered in El Salvador
1980 Rudolf Escher, composer, dies at 68
1976 Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Ital director (Terra Diaeresis), dies
1974 Carroll Nye, actress (Lawless Woman), dies at 72
1974 Louis I Kahn, Estonia/US architect, dies at about 73
1973 Geertruida MW "Truus" Bakker, actress (2 Orphans), dies at 81
1970 Fernand Crommelynck, Belgian playwright (Chaud et Frois), dies at 83
1967 Frank Wisbar, director (Fireside Theater), dies at 67
1967 Richard Reeves, actor (Murph-Date With an Angel), dies at 54
1966 Walter Lang, composer, dies at 69
1965 Almos Alonzo Stagg, football coach (U of Chic), dies in Calif at 102
1965 Quentin Reynolds, newscaster (Its News to Me)/author (FBI), dies
1963 William Henry Squire, composer, dies at 91
1962 Frank Orth, actor (Boston Blackie, The Brothers), dies at 82
1961 Suzanna Salter, 1st US female mayor/temperance leader dies at 101
1959 Raffaele d' Alessandro, composer, dies on 48th birthday
1956 Fred Allen, comedian (Colgate Comedy Hour), dies at 61
1954 Victor Rousseau, Belgian sculptor, dies at 88
1953 Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta, composer, dies at 73
1949 Felix Bressart, actor (Escape, Ninotchka, Iceland), dies at 54
1941 Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel, Rus writer (Crvena Konjica), dies at 46
1941 Joachim Schepke, German commandant (U-100), dies in battle
1933 Ferdinand Von Alten, actor (Champagne), dies at 48
1927 James Scott Skinner, composer, dies at 83
1915 Walter Crane, English painter/cartoonist/illustrator, dies at 69
1910 Joaquin Valverde, composer, dies at 64
1906 Carlos Calvo, Argentina diplomat (Calvo Clause), dies
1902 George William Warren, composer, dies at 73
1901 Franz Melde, German physicist (Melde Proof), dies at 69
1898 Blanche Kelso Bruce, (Sen-Miss, 1875-1881), dies at 57, in Washington
1891 Napoleon JKP Bonaparte, French prince/member Natl Meeting, dies at 68
1889 Joseph A Alberdingk Thijm, [Pauwels Foreestier], poet, dies at 68
1864 Alexandre Calamo, Swiss painter/etcher/lithographer, dies at 53
1863 John Pelham, US Confederate artillery major, dies in battle at 24
1862 Fromental Halevy, composer, dies at 62
1861 Petter Conrad Boman, composer, dies at 57
1857 Adolph Trube, composer, dies at 42
1855 Ramon Carnicer y Batlle, composer, dies at 65
1849 Willem II Frederik GL, King of Netherlands (1840-49), dies at 56
1846 F W Bessel, measurer of distance to 61 Cygni, dies
1846 Friedrich W Bessel, German astronomer (Bessel Functions), dies
1803 Candido Jose Ruano, composer, dies at 43
1801 Juan de Sesse y Balaguer, composer, dies at 64
1796 Pieter Paulus, lawyer/Chairman National Meeting, dies at 41
1764 George Parker, English astronomer, dies
1704 Menno baron van Coehoorn, fort builder/Coevorden/howitzer, dies at 63
1653 Johan van Galen, admiral (battle of Livorno), dies in battle at 48
1649 Gerardus Johannis Vossius, [Gerrit Jansz Vos], regent, dies at 71
1605 Pieter Bast, [Bastius], engraver/cartographer, dies at about 34
1588 Petrus Dathenus, Flemish minister/physician (Psalms of David), dies
1565 Alexander Alesius, [Aless/Alane], theologist/physician, dies at 64
1516 Giuliano de' Medici, monarch of Florence, dies at 37
1040 Harold, British King (1035-40), dies
659 Gertrudis van Nijvel, saint/patron of travellers, dies at about 32
180 Antonius Marcus Aurelius, [Marcus Verus], Emperor of Rome, dies at 58
Things that happened today...
1999 International Olympic Committee expells six of it's members in the
wake of a bribery scandal.
1996 Montreal Canadian's 1st game in their new arena
1995 British ś hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record)
1995 Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House
1995 Space shuttle STS-67 (Endeavour 8), lands
1994 Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan (32 killed)
1994 It is announced there is no smoking in Indians new ballpark
1993 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta
1992 De Klerk wins a white only referendum
1992 Islamic Jihad truck bombs Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires killing 29
1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit
1991 Irish Lesbians & Gays march in St Patrick Day parade
1991 John Robin Baitz' "Substance of Fire," premieres in NYC
1991 NJ raises turnpike tolls 70%
1991 USSR holds a referendum to determine if they should stay together
1989 Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade
1988 Highest scoring NCAA basketball game; Loyola-Marymont 119, Wyoming 115
1988 Iran says Iraq uses poison gas
1987 IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3
1986 Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF
1985 Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623'
1983 70th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
1982 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador
1981 FC Lisse soccer team forms
1978 Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast
1978 Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre," premieres in Stockholm
1977 Harvard College discovers asteroid #2395 Aho
1976 Malikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.76)
1976 Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroids #2387 & #2425
1975 Valeri Muratov skates world record 1000m (1:16.92)
1973 Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge
1973 St Patrick Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday
1972 Ringo releases "Back off Bugaloo" in UK
1970 Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of LA Dodgers
1970 US casts their 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England)
1969 Golda Meir becomes Israeli PM
1966 South Africa govt bans Defense & Aid Fund
1966 US sub locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean
1965 Beatles announce their film is named "8 Arms to Hold on to You" (Help)
1963 Bob Cousy plays his last NBA game
1963 Elizabeth Ann Seton of NY beatified (canonized in 1975)
1963 Eruptions of Mount Agung Bali, kills 1,900 Balinese
1961 NY DA arrests professional gamblers who implicate Seton Hall players
1961 South Africa leaves British Commonwealth
1960 Eisenhower decides anti-Castro-exile army to form under the CIA
1960 WSLA (now WAKA) TV channel 8 in Selma, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1959 Australia & USSR recover diplomatic relations
1959 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India
1958 Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape
1957 Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted
1957 Ramon Magsaysay, president of Philipines dies in a plane crash
1955 Maurice "Rocket" Richard suspended, sparks 7 hour riot in Montr‚al
1953 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1953 WBAY TV channel 2 in Green Bay, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 WWLP TV channel 22 in Springfield, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1951 Govt of Drees takes power
1950 Belgian govt of Eyskens resigns
1950 Element 98 (Californium) announced
1945 Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra
1944 Actor Charlton Heston weds Lydia Clarke
1943 Aldemarin (Ned) & Fort Cedar Lake (US) torpedoed & sinks
1943 F Hugh Herbert's "Kiss & Tell," premieres in NYC
1942 Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported
1941 National Gallery of Art, Wash DC opens
1939 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1757 Porvoo
1935 KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa call sign is given to KWCR
1934 Dollfuss, Mussolini & G”mb”s sign Donau Pact (protocols of Rome)
1932 German police raid Hitler's nazi-headquarter
1931 A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #1192 Prisma
1931 Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee
1929 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel
1929 Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera shuts university of Madrid
1927 US govt doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty
1926 Calvinist oust Rev J G Golden out of office
1926 Richard Rodgers & L Hart's musical "Girl Friend," premieres in NYC
1926 Spain & Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations
1924 Eugene O'Neill's "Welded," premieres in NYC
1924 Netherlands & USSR begin talks over USSR recognition
1924 Sweden & USSR exchange diplomats
1921 Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics
1921 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die)
1919 Dutch strike for 8 hr day & minimum wages
1917 1st US bowling tournament for women, St Louis
1917 Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne
1912 Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick
1910 DHC soccer team forms in Delft
1908 Quickest world heavyweight title fight (Burns KOs Roche in 88 seconds)
1906 Pres Theodore Roosevelt uses term "muckrake"
Montreal Wanderers lose to Ottawa silver 7 but win the Stanley Cup
by scoring most total points in the 2 game series
1905 Eleanor Roosevelt marries FDR in NY
1902 Montreal AAA beat Winn Victorias 2 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup
1901 Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands
1900 Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2 for the Stanley Cup
1899 Windsor luxury hotel in NYC catches fire, 92 die
1898 1st practical submarine 1st submerges, NYC (for 1 hour 40 minutes)
1897 Robert Fitzsimmons KOs James Corbert & becomes world heavyweight champ
1893 A Charlois discovers asteroid #363 Padua
1891 British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574
1886 Carrollton Massacre, (Mississippi) 20 blacks killed
1884 John Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight, Otay, Calif
1876 1st record high jump over 6' (Marshall Jones Brooks)
1876 Gen Crook destroy Cheyennes & Oglala-Sioux indian camps
1871 National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized
1868 Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued
1863 Battle of Kelly's Ford, VA
1861 Italy declares independence; Kingdom of Italy proclaimed
1860 Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh [sic]
1854 1st park land purchased by a US city, Worcester, Mass
1852 A De Gasparis discovers asteroid #16 Psyche
1847 The opera "Macbeth" is produced (Florence)
1833 Phoenix Society founded (NY)
1824 England & Netherlands sign a trade agreement
1804 Johann von Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell," premieres
1800 English warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die
1776 British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War
1766 Britain repeals Stamp Act
1762 1st St Patrick's Day-parade in NY
1757 Prince Mas Sa‹d of Mataram surrenders to Mangkubumi in Java
1756 St Patrick's Day 1st celebrated in NYC at Crown & Thistle Tavern
1753 1st official St Patrick's Day
1722 Willem KH Friso appointed viceroy of Drente
1672 England declares war on Netherlands
1658 Pro-Charles II plot in England discovered
1580 Prince Willem of Orange welcomed in Amsterdam
1537 French troops attack Flanders
1526 French king Fran‡ois I freed from Spain
1521 Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines
1521 Magelhaes lands on Homohon
1190 Crusades complete massacre of Jews of York England
455 Roman senator Petronius Maximus becomes Emperor
45 -BC- Battle at Munda: Julius Caesar beats Gnaeus Pompei's sons
Other Occasions...
Celebrations...
[Boston] Evacuation Day (1776)
[Ireland] St Patrick's Day/Irish National Day (461, 493)
[Italy] Independence Day (1861)
[World] World Maritime Day
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