Today In History
Thursday April 10th, 2003 -- Day Number: 100 - Days left: 265
Those born today...
1984 Zoe, Melbourne Australia, 1st frozen-embryo child
1975 Floris, Prince of Netherlands
1971 Nana Miyagi, Seattle Wash, tennis star
1970 Wesley Barnett, St Joseph Mo, Oly weightlifter (Pan Am-silver-1987)
1969 Billy Jacoby, Flushing NY, actor (Brad-Silver Spoons, Maggie)
1969 William Jayne, actor (Mikey Randall-Parker Lewis Can't Lose)
1965 Tim "Herb" Alexander, US funk metal drummer (Primus-Prok soda)
1964 Alan "Reni" Wren, English pop drummer (Stone Roses-Fools Gold)
1964 Felicia Collins, Albany NY, guitarist (David Letterman)
1963 Warren DeMartini, heavy metal rocker (Dokken-Alone Again, Ratt)
1962 Cathy Turner, Rochester NY, short track skater (Olympics-gold-1994)
1961 Jeb Adams, Hollywood Calif, actor (Lt Jeb Pruitt-Baa Baa Black Sheep)
1961 Olivia Brown, Frankfurt GFR, actress (Det Trudy Joplin-Miami Vice)
1960 Julie Fulton, Evanston Ill, actress (Lime Steel)
1959 Brian Setzer, Massapequa Park NY, rock guitarist/vocalist (Stray Cats)
1958 Ken Griffy, baseball player (Cin Reds, NY Yanks)
1955 Cary Middlecoff wins golf Masters
1954 Jouko T”rm„nen, Finland, 90m ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1980)
1954 Peter MacNicol, Dallas TX, actor (Chicago Hope, Sophie's Choice)
1953 David Moorcroft, British athlete
1953 Terre Roche, rocker (Roches)
1951 Steven Seagal, Detroit MI, actor (Above the Law, Hard to Kill)
1950 Dave Peverett, rocker (Foghat)
1950 Eddie Hazel, US pop guitarist (Funkadelic-Uncle Jam Wants You)
1949 Frank de Leeuw, Dutch rock guitarist (Bob Color)
1948 Thomas Spencer, conservative MEP
1947 Bunny Waller, vocalist/percussionist (Bob Marley & Wailers)
1947 Karl Russell, rocker
1946 Armand, [Herman van Loenhout], singer (Blommenkinders)
1945 Vera Misevich, USSR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1980)
1944 Danny Woods, US musician (Chairman of the Board)
1941 Paul Theroux, American travel book writer (Mosquito Coast)
1940 Gloria Hunniford, British broadcaster
1939 Daniel Oliver, NYC, chairman (Federal Trade Commission)
1938 Don Meredith, Mount Vernon Texas, NFL QB (Cowboys)/Mon Night Football
1937 Stan Mellor, British racehorse trainer/jockey
1936 John Madden, Oakland Raiders football coach, CBS sports commentator
1936 Robert "Bobby" Smith, US singer (Spinners)
1935 Jorge Mester, Mexico City Mexico, conductor (Louisville Orch 1967-79)
1935 Patrick Garland, director (Doll House)
1934 Zsolt Durko, composer
1933 Philip Corner, composer
1933 Poncie Ponce, actor (Kazuo Kim-Hawaiian Eye)
1933 Robert Rhodes James, historian
1932 Adrian Henri, poet/president (Liverpool Academy of Arts)
1932 Delphine Seyrig, Beirut, Lebanon
1932 Hari Rhodes, Cincinnati Oh, actor (Mike-Daktari, Roots)
1932 Mae Heriwentha Faggs Starr, NJ, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1952)
1932 Nathaniel Nelson, rocker (Flamingos)
1932 Omar Sharif, [Michael Shalhoub], Egypt, actor (Dr Zhivago, Top Secret)
1931 Marcel van Maele, Belgian poet
1930 Lord Morton, of Shauna, senator (College of Justice, Scotland)
1929 Dusan Radic, composer
1929 Max Von Sydow, Lund Sweden, actor (Hawaii, Exorcist, Dune, Dreamscape)
1926 "Alvin" Junior Samples, Cummings Ga, country singer (Hee Haw)
1926 Jacques Casterede, composer
1924 David Halberstam, NY Times intl correspondent (Pulitzer 1964)
1924 Johanna M van de Berg, actress (What See I?)
1923 Floyd M Simmons, actor/decathlete (Olympic-bronze-1948, 52)
1921 Chuck Connors, Bkln NY, actor (Rifleman, Branded, Cowboy in Africa)
1921 Sheb Wooley, Erick Okla, vocalist (Purple People Eater, Hee Haw)
1917 Robert Burns Woodward, organic chemist (Nobel 1965)
1915 Harry Morgan, Detroit Mich, actor (December Bride, M*A*S*H, Dragnet)
1915 Leo Vroman, Dutch/US poet/biologist
1913 Stefan Heym, German/US author (Crusaders, Family Benda)
1912 Clarke Hinkle, NFL fullback (Green Bay Packers)
1912 Martin Denny, rocker
1911 Maurice Schumann, French statesman/writer (La Voix du couvre-feu)
1910 Abu-Bakr Khairat, composer
1908 Aidan Crawley, CEO (London Weekend TV)
1907 Pete Desjardins, US, platform/springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1928)
1906 Fud Livingston, composer
1906 Kathleen Major, principal (St Hilda's College, England)
1906 Lili Darvas, Budapest Hungary
1905 Jan H van Ro˜en, diplomat/Netherland foreign minister
1903 Clare Boothe Luce, former US ambassador to Vatican
1903 Nick Stuart, Romania, bandleader
1900 Jean Duvieusart, premier (Belgium 1950)
19-- Claudette Nevins, Birmingham Al, actress (Dark Side of Innocence)
19-- Dale Pulde, drag race car driver
19-- Lee Bergere, NYC, actor (Joseph-Dynasty)
19-- Lee Weaver, Ft Lauderdale Fla, actor (Bill Cosby, Easy Street)
1898 Hans Ehrke, German writer/poet (Narrenspiegel, Fer)
1896 Edith Day, Minneapolis MN
1894 Ben Nicholson, English painter/sculptor (Circle)
1892 Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt, German anthropologist (Rassenkunde)
1892 Victor de Sabata, Trieste Italy, conductor/composer (Il Macigno)
1891 Tim McCoy, Saginaw MI
1887 Bernardo A Houssay, Argentine physiologist (Nobel 1947)
1887 Heinz Tiessen, composer
1886 Val Paul,
1882 Simon FHJ Berkelbach Van der Sprenkel, theologist (Fear & Religion
1880 Frances Perkins, 1st woman to hold cabinet-level position (Labor)
1868 George Arliss, London England, actor (Devil, Green Goddess)
1864 EugŠne FC "Eugen" Albert, German pianist/composer (Golem)
1864 Tully Marshall, Nevada City CA
1857 Henry Ernest Dudeney, mathematician/puzzle maker
1854 Jozef M T Orelio, baritone
1847 Charles Swinnerton Heap, composer
1847 Joseph Pulitzer, Hungary, publisher (St Louis Post-Dispatch, NY World)
1833 David McMurtrie Gregg, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1833 James Edward Rains, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1829 William Booth, founder (Salvation Army)
1827 Lewis Wallace, Major General (Union volunteers)/author (Ben Hur)
1823 Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Brig General (Confederate Army)
1808 Auguste Franchomme, composer
1806 Leonidas Polk, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1797 Claude Ambroise Seurat, Troyes France, (World's skinniest man)
1794 Matthew Calbraith Perry, Commodore, opened Japan
1783 Hortense E de Beauharnais, French queen of Netherlands (1806-10)
1778 William Hazlitt, Maidstone Kent England, essayist/critic
1755 Samuel Hahnemann, German physician/originator of homeopathy
1737 Fran‡ois Giroust, composer
1695 Balthazar Huydecoper, Dutch translator/historian
1633 Werner Fabricius, composer
1583 Hugo Grotius, Holland, jurist, father of international law
1569 Emilia van Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange & Anna of Saxon
1512 James I, king of Scotland (1513-42)
401 Theodosius II, the Younger, Eastern Roman emperor
Those who died today...
2000 Larry Linville, Frank Burns on M.A.S.H., dies of pneumonia at ??
1996 Jessica Dubroff (7), attempting to be youngest pilot, dies in crash
1994 Victor Afanasiev, Rus editor-in-chief of Pravda (1976-89), dies at 71
1993 Chris Hani, sec-gen South Africian Communist Party, murdered
1992 Ken Ward, dies at 37
1992 Sam Kinison, loud mouth comedian, dies at 38 in a car crash
1991 Kevin Peter Hall, actor (Harry & Hendersons), dies of AIDS at 35
1991 Natalie Schafer, actress (Gilligan's Island), dies at 90 from cancer
1989 Joan Barry, dies at 85
1986 Joseph P Addabbo, US defence specialist/(Sen-D), dies at 61
1984 Nate Nelson, R&B-singer (Flamingos-I'll Be Home), dies on 52 birthday
1984 Ray Middleton, dies at 75
1983 Issam Sartawi, PLO ambassador to Portugal, murdered
1983 Olf S von Euler-Chelpin, Swedish physiologist, dies
1980 Kay Medford, actress (Dean Martin Show, To Rome With Love), dies at 65
1979 Henri‰tte P "Hetty" Beck, actress (Dodendans), dies at 91
1979 Nino Rota, Italian composer, dies at 67
1975 Marjorie Main, actress (Ma & Pa Kettle), dies at 85
1975 Sophia JW "Sophie" Hermse, actress (But a Dream), dies at 86
1975 Walker Evans, US photographer (Fortune Magazine), dies at 71
1974 Patricia Collinge, dies at 81
1974 Roger Bastide, French sociologist, dies at 76
1970 Charles Paton, dies at 96
1966 Christian J Modeste, king of gypsies, dies at 71
1966 Evelyn Waugh, British writer (Black mischief), dies
1965 Linda Darnell, dies from burns received in a fire at 41
1962 Stuart Sutcliffe, bassist (Beatles), dies of brain hemorrhage at 21
1961 Irene Warfield, silent screen actress, dies at 65
1960 Arthur Benjamin, Austral composer/pianist (Devil Take Her), dies at 66
1958 Chuck Willis, rocker, dies at 30
1958 W C Handy, composer/musician, dies at 84 in NY
1956 Bozidar Sirola, composer, dies at 66
1956 Clarence Beaumont, 1st batter in 1st World Series, dies at 75
1956 Jozef Szulc, composer, dies at 81
1955 Oskar Frederik Lindberg, composer, dies at 68
1954 Auguste LumiŠre, French photograph/movie pioneer, dies at 81
1954 Ludwig Curtius, German archaeologist (Die antike Kunst), dies at 79
1945 Hendrik N Werkman, painter/resistance fighter (Blue Schuit), executed
1945 Henry Werkman, Dutch resistance fighter (Blue Schuit), executed at 63
1939 Alfredo Panzini, Ital author (Il Bacio de Lesba), dies at 75
1938 Nana Annor Adjaye, Pan-Africanist, dies in W Nzima Ghana
1937 Algernon Ashton, composer, dies at 77
1932 Andr‚ Baillon, Belgian/French author (& sabots), dies at 56
1929 Edmond Thieffry, Belgium, WW I pilot, dies
1920 Moritz B Cantor, German mathematician, dies at 90
1920 Tryggve Andersen, Norse writer (Mod Kvaeld), dies at 53
1919 Emiliano Zapata, Mexican leader, murdered
1911 Mikolajus Konstantinas Ciurlionis, composer, dies at 35
1909 Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, dies at 72
1885 John H Scholten, theologist (Free Want), dies at 73
1863 Giovanni B Amia, Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist, dies at 77
1862 William Harvey Lamb Wallace, US lawyer/brig-general, dies at 40
1848 Godert AGP baron van Capellen, gove-gen of Dutch-Indies, dies at 69
1825 Paul-Louis Courier, (M‚r‚), French writer/interpreter, dies at 53
1810 Konrad Back, composer, dies at 61
1807 Anna Amalia van Brumswijk-Wolfenbttel, duchess of Saxon-Weimar, dies
1784 Simon Fokke, book illustrator, dies at 71
1760 Gerard George Clifford, head of East-Indian Company, dies at 75
1756 Giacomo Antonio Perti, composer, dies at 95
1731 Maximilian Dietrich Freisslich, composer, dies at 58
1723 Claude F Tserclaes, South Neth earl of Tilly, dies at 74
1712 Yusuf Nabi, Turkish poet (Hayriye), dies at about 77
1640 Agostino Agazzari, Italian, composer, dies at 61
1640 Charlotte Flandrina van Nassau, daughter of Willem I, dies at 60
1585 Gregory XIII, [Ugo Buoncampagni], Italian Pope (1572-85), dies
1533 Frederik I, King of Denmark/Norway (1523-33), dies at 61
1362 Machteld, countess of Holland, dies
1008 Notger, bishop of Luik (972-1008), dies
947 Hugo van Arles, count of Arles/king of Italy, dies
879 Louis II, the stutterer, King of France (877-79), dies
Things that happened today...
1995 NYC bans smoking in all restaurants that seat 35 or more
1993 Ottawa Senators win 1st road game (Islanders) after 38 straight loses
1993 Pittsburgh Penguins win their NHL record 17 game winning streak
1992 25 die in a bus bombing in Sri Lanka
1992 Floriade (Flower Show) opens at Hague, Netherlands
1992 NHL strike ends after 10 days
1991 Boat rams a tanker in Livorno Italy fog, killing about 138
1991 Last automat (coin operated cafeteria) closes (3rd & 42nd St, NYC)
1991 Martin Zubero swims world record 200m backstroke (1:52.51)
1990 CUNY/Lehman College, Bronx, opens a branch campus in Hiroshma Japan
1989 Intel corp announces shipment of 80486 chip
1988 Herschel Walker performs Fort Worth Ballet
1988 Islanders beat Devils 5-4 (OT) 1st round tied at 2-2
1988 Sammy Snead wins golf's masters
1986 Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan
1986 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 At 80 Leo Sites becomes oldest bowler to score a 300 game
1985 Caps 4-Isles 3 (OT)-Patrick Div Semifinals-Caps hold 1-0 lead
1985 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-B mission
1984 Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle
1984 John Long (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 51 games
1984 US Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors
1983 Baltimore's Eddie Murray hits his 1,000 career hit
1983 Caps 3-Isles 6-Patrick Div Semifinals-Isles win series 3-2
1983 Hennie Kuiper wins Paris-Roubaix
1983 Jordan king Hussein ceases negotiations with PLO
1982 LA Kings losing 5-0 to Edmonton in 3rd period, win in OT 6-5
1982 Penguins 2-Isles 1 (OT)-Preliminary- Isles hold 2-1 lead
1981 "Caveman" with Ringo premieres
1981 Computer glitch keeps Space Shuttle Columbia grounded
1981 France performs nuclear test
1981 Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to Brit Parliament
1979 Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian & a Bulgarian
1978 Formation of Major Indoor Soccer League announced
1977 Cleveland Indians set club record for longest, 9 inn game (3:17)
1977 Tom Watson wins golf's masters
1976 Brewers' Don Money's grand slammer disallowed-Yanks win 9-7
1976 Cleve Cavaliers win their 1st NBA Central Division title
1975 Rangers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs
1974 American Boccaccio Association forms
1974 Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli PM Golda Meir
1973 BEA flight to Basel Switz, crashes on landing, killing 104 of 143
1973 Pakistan suspends constitution
1972 7.0 earthquake kills 1/5 of population of Iranian province of Fars
1972 US, USSR & 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons
1971 1st baseball game at Phila's Veterans Stadium, Phils beat Expos
1971 US table tennis team arrives in China PR
1970 Paul McCartney announces he is leaving Beatles
1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 Iranian motor launch catches fire & sinks killing 113 (Persian Gulf)
1963 Thresher, US atomic-powered submarine, sinks 220 miles east of Boston
1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 1st baseball game at LA's Dodger Stadium
1962 1st major league game in Houston, Colt .45s beat Chicago Cubs, 11-2
1962 NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits his 375th HR
1961 Dutch foreign minister Luns talks to JFK about New Guinea
1961 Gary Player becomes 1st foreign golfer to win Masters
1960 Arnold Palmer wins his 2nd Masters golf tournament
1960 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
1959 Japan's Crown Prince Akihito marries commoner Michiko Shoda
1958 Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco
1957 John Osborne's "Entertainer," premieres in London
1957 Jordanian govt of Naboelsi resigns
1957 Suez canal for all ship workers reopens
1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1956 Montreal Canadiens beat Det Red Wings 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup
1956 Philips broadcasts 1st Dutch color TV programs
1955 Ruth Ellis shoots jilting lover David Blakely
1955 Syracuse beats Fort Wayne, 4 games to 3, for NBA championship
1954 KRGV TV channel 5 in Weslaco, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 "House of Wax," 1st 3-D movie, released (NYC)
1953 Minneapolis beats New York, 4 games to 1, for NBA championship
1950 E L Johnson discovers asteroid #1760 Sandra
1949 Sam Snead wins Masters golf tournament
1948 Jewish Hagana repels an Arab attack on Mishmar HaEmek
1947 Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in major league baseball (Dodgers)
1947 King Frederik IX of Denmark crowned
1946 1st election for Japanese Diet
1945 Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald (Czech)
1945 Canadian troops conquer Deventer
1945 General Blaskowitz becomes nazi leader of "Fort Holland"
1945 German troops attack Ijsselbrug
1945 NFL's Boston Yanks & Brooklyn Tigers merge
1945 US troops land on Tsugen Shima Okinawa
1945 William Schuman & Antony Tudors ballet premieres in NYC
1944 "Patrolling the Ether" is shown on 3 TV stations simultaneously
1944 Soviet forces liberate Odessa from Nazis
1943 12 Jewish patients of Herren Loo-Lozenoord escape nazis
1943 General Montgomery occupies Sfax Tunisia
1942 Cigarettes & candy rationed in Holland
1941 German troops conquer Libyan county Cyrenaica
1940 Vidkun Quisling forms Norwegian "national government"
1939 Colijn's Dutch govt opens camp Westerbork for German Jews
1939 Grens mobilization due to Italian invasion in Albania
1938 2nd govt of Blum replaced by Daladier govt in France
1938 Austria becomes a state of Germany
1936 200" mirror blank arrives in Pasadena
1935 Vaughan Williams' 4th Symphony premieres in London
1934 Chic Black Hawks beat Det Red Wings 3 games to 1 for Stanley Cup
1932 Paul von Hindenburg elected 1st German president (Hitler is 2nd)
1930 Synthetic rubber 1st produced
1925 Czarina re-christened Stalingrad (now Volgograd)
1925 F Scott Fitzgerald publishes "Great Gatsby"
1923 Hitler speaks on "hatred & more hatred" in Berlin
1917 Munition factory explosion at Eddystone PA, kills 133 workers
1916 1st professional golf tournament held
1913 Pres Woodrow Wilson throws out 1st ball, Senators beat Yankees 2-1
Walter Johnson begins string of 56 consecutive scoreless innings
1912 J Palisa discovers asteroid #730 Athanasia
1912 RMS Titanic sets sail for its 1st & last voyage
1896 Spiridon Louis wins 1st Olympic marathon (2:58:50)
1887 Soccer team Be Quick forms in Hairs Groningen
1884 US Senate accepts Belgian administration of Congo
1882 Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco & Hawaii)
1880 J Palisa discovers asteroid #216 Kleopatra
1878 Calif St Cable Car RR Co starts service
1877 Federal troops withdrawn from Columbia SC
1872 1st National black convention meets in New Orleans
1872 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #120 Lachesis
1872 Arbor day 1st celebrated in Nebraska, later changed to Apr 22
1871 William Hammond Hall's maps & surveys of Golden Gate Park accepted
1868 1st performance of John Brahms' "Ein german Requiem"
1868 Brits defeat King of Abyssinia at Magdala
1866 American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms
1865 At Appomattox, Gen Lee issues Gen Order #9, his last
1864 Austrian Archduke Maximilian becomes emperor of M‚xico
1863 Rebel Gen Earl Van Dorn attacks at Franklin, Tenn
1849 Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (NYC); sold rights for $100
1845 More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh Pa
1835 Charles Darwin returns to Santiago, Chile
1825 1st hotel in Hawaii opens
1825 Nicaraguan constituent assembly meets at Le¢n
1816 2nd Bank of US chartered
1815 Austria declares war on realm of Naples
1790 US Patent system forms
1741 Prussians defeat Austrians at Mollwitz
1739 Dick Turpin executed in England for horse stealing
1694 Duke Victor Amadeus of Savoye attacks Casale
1656 Dutch fleet occupiers Colombo Ceylon
1589 Spanish troops conquer Geertruidenberg
1552 Henri II of France occupies Metz
1516 1st ghetto, Jews are compelled to live in specific area of Venice
1512 Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen
1500 France captures duke Ludovico Sforza of Milan
879 Louis III, crowned King of France
847 St Leo IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
Other Occasions...
Humane Day
Golf Masters Championship (Atlanta) begins
Celebrations...
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