Today In History
Monday April 7th, 2003 -- Day Number: 97 - Days left: 268
Those born today...
1975 Beverly Peele, model
1971 Victor Kraatz, Switzerland, pairs skater (Bourne & Kraatz)
1969 Peggy Clasen, St Paul Minn, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1966 Teri Ann Linn, Honolulu Hawaii, actress (Kristen-Bold & Beautiful)
1965 Alexander Mronz, Cologne Germany, tennis star
1962 Bonny Warner, Mount Baldy Calif, lugist
1960 Simon Climie, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Climie Fisher-Love Changes)
1958 Alexandra Neil, Boston, actress (Rose-Guiding Light)
1958 Tony Aire, rocker (Adventures-Sea of Love)
1954 Tony Dorsett, NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys)
1953 Everard Endt, US, yachting (Olympic-gold-1952)
1952 Bruce Gary, Burbank Ca, rock drummer (Knack-My Sharona)
1952 Jane Frederick, US pentathlete (Olympics-7th-1976)
1951 Janis Ian, NYC, [Janis Eddy Fink], lesbian/folk rocker (At 17)
1951 John Dittrich, Union NJ, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels)
1947 Patricia Bennett, US singer (He's So Fine)
1946 Barbara Benary, composer
1946 Bill Kreutzmann, Calif, rock drummer (Grateful Dead, Grass Roots)
1943 Mick Abrahams, Luton, rock guitarist (Jethro Tull-Thick as a Brick)
1943 Roberta Shore, Monterrey Park, Calif, actress/singer (Virginian)
1943 Spencer Dryden, NYC, rock drummer (Jefferson Airplane-Go Ask Alice)
1942 Edda Barends, actress (Arthur & Eva)
1940 Jan Wilhelm Morthenson, composer
1940 Patricia Paay, Dutch singer (You are not hip)
1939 David Frost, Tenterdon England, TV host (That Was the Week That Was)
1939 Donald L Holmquest, Dallas Texas, astronaut
1939 Francis Ford Coppola, Detroit, director (Godfather, Apocalypse Now)
1938 Freddie Hubbard, Indianapolis, jazz trumpeter (Art Blakey)
1938 Yvonne Lime, Glendale Calif, actress (Father Knows Best, Dobie Gillis)
1938 [Edmund G] Jerry Brown Jr, (Gov-D-Cal, 1974-..)
1937 Charley Thomas, rocker (Drifters)
1935 Bobby Bare, Irontown Oh, country singer (Detroit City)
1935 Hodding Carter III, press secretary (Jimmy Carter)
1934 Ian Richards, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (Montgomery-Ike)
1933 Wayne Rogers, Birmingham Ala, actor (M*A*S*H, House Calls, Chiefs)
1931 Daniel Ellsberg, whistleblower (Pentagon Papers)/patriot
1931 Donald Barthelme, Phila Pa, writer (Snow White, Sadness)
1930 Andrew Sachs, actor (Manuel-Fawlty Towers)
1928 Alan J Pakula, director (All the President's Men, Klute)
1928 James Garner, Norman Okla, actor (Rockford Files, Bret Maverick)
1928 James White, UK, sci-fi author (Star Surgeon, Star Healer)
1926 Johannes Rood, Dutch immunologist (Eurotransplant)
1924 Harry Cordon, comic/host (Fred Hach Show)
1924 Ikuma Dan, composer
1924 Nick Perito, Denver Colo, orch leader (Don Knotts Show, Big Show)
1922 Kenneth Howard Peacock, composer
1920 Ravi Shankar, Benares India, sitar player (Sounds of India)
1919 Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italy, pe (Olympic-gold-1952)
1919 Ralph Flanagan, Loraine Ohio, orch leader (Let's Dance)
1918 Peanuts Hucko, Syracuse NY, dixieland clarinetist (Lawrence Welk Show)
1918 Peter Aryans, [PCJ Vander], Dutch radio actor (Shoot Out)
1918 Ronald Howard, Norwood England, actor (Naked Edge, Africa-Texas Style)
1917 R G Armstrong, Birmingham Ala, actor (T.H.E. Cat)
1915 Billie Holiday, [Eleanora Fagan], Balt, singer (Aint Nobodys Business)
1915 Henry Kuttner, US, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were)
1912 Valre Depauw, Flemish writer
1908 Le Duan, Vietnamese politician
1908 Percy Faith, conductor (Summer Place)
1903 Willi Forst, Austrian actor/director (Im weissen Rssl)
19-- Andre Landzaat, actor (Tony Cassadine-General Hospital)
19-- Elaine Mille, actress (Marilyn-Northern Exposure)
19-- Morris Johnson Jr, drag race car driver
19-- Shane, rocker (Electric Angels-I Believe, Whiplash)
19-- Tebbs Lloyd Johnson, England, 50K walker (Olympic-bronze-1952)
1899 Robert Marcel Casadesus, French pianist/composer (Prix Dimer)
1897 Harald Sigurd Johan Saeverud, composer [OS]
1897 Walter Winchell, Harlem NYC, newscaster/columnist (Untouchables)
1896 Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing champ (1917-25)
1895 Eduardo Toldra, composer
1894 Gerald Brenan, English writer
1893 Allan W Dulles, US diplomat/CIA head 1953-61 (Germany's Underground)
1889 Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (Desolaci˘n, Tenderness) (Nobel 1945)
1884 Charles Dodd, English new testament authority
1884 Louis HN Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch politician/resistance fighter
1882 Kurt von Schleiger, German chancellor (12/2/32-1/28/33)
1878 Jozef C Bittremieux, Flemish theologist (Virgin & Mother of God)
1872 William Monroe Trotter, famous African
1870 Gustav Landauer, German socialist
1870 Joseph Ryeland, Belgian composer/Baron
1869 David Grandison Fairchild, US, botanist/explorer, brought plants to US
1860 W K Kellogg, a real corn flake
1859 Walter Camp, Ct, father of American football (Yale)
1858 Adrien H Gerhard, Dutch socialist politician (SDAP)
1851 Otto Adolf Klauwell, composer
1841 Joseph H "Jozef" Neuhuys, painter
1826 Johann Hermann Berens, composer
1822 Gershom Mott, Major General (Union volunteers)
1820 Gyrgy Klapka, Hungarian general/parliament leader (Kom rom-castle)
1819 Hubert Leonard, composer
1805 Francis Wilkinson Pickens, Gov (Confederacy-SC), dies in 1869
1801 Henry Eagle, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882
1786 William Rufus DeVane King, (D) 13th VP (1853)
1780 William Ellery Channing, US, Unitarian clergyman
1775 Francis C Lowell, founded 1st raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill
1772 F M Charles Fourier, French socialist
1770 William Wordsworth, England, poet laureate (Prelude)
1768 Karl Theodor Toeschi, composer
1756 Charles Felix, King of Sardina (1821-31)
1748 Georg Wenzel Ritter, composer
1745 Georg Druschetzky, composer
1727 Henri Hardouin, composer
1727 Michel Adanson, French biologist (Natural History of Sngal)
1699 Andreas Benedikt Praelisauer, composer
1694 Coelestin Praelisauer, composer
1648 Ferdinand van Kessel, Flemish painter
1629 Juan Jos, of Austria, Spanish general/governor of Netherlands
1622 Louise Hollandine, daughter of King Frederik V & Elizabeth Stuart
1613 Gerard Dou, Dutch painter (Night School)
1534 Jos de Anchieta, Spanish jesuit/missionary (Brazilian Tupi-Indians)
1506 Francis Xavier, saint/Jesuit missionary to India, Malaya, & Japan
Those who died today...
1994 Angelus Gottfried "Golo" Mann, German/US historian, dies at 85
1994 Evert Hartman, writer (War Without Friends), dies at 56
1994 Franois de Grossouvre, Pres Mitterrand advisor, suicide at 76
1994 Kurt Cobain, grunge rocker (Nirvana), commits suicide by gun at 27
1994 Lee Brilleaux, British R&B-singer/guitarist (Stupidity), dies at 41
1993 Max Croiset, actor/dramatist/director (Zeekant), dies at 80
1993 Richard Schmiechen, dies of AIDS at 45
1992 Alix Talton, former Miss Georgia, dies of lung cancer at 72
1992 Clovis Ruffin, designer, dies at 46 of AIDs
1992 Rick Emery, dies after long illness at 39
1988 Cesar Bresgen, composer, dies at 74
1987 Maxine Sullivan, [Marietta Williams), US singer/actress, dies at 75
1984 Frank Church, (Sen-D-Ohio, 1957-81), dies at 59
1984 Samuel C Engel, poet, dies of heart failure at 79
1983 Gavin Gordon, television actor (Romance, Lone Cowboy), dies at 82
1982 Brenda Benet, actress (Track of Thunder), commits suicide by gun at 36
1978 Ernest Kanitz, composer, dies at 83
1977 Siegfried Buback, West German procureur-general, murdered
1976 Mary Margaret McBride, TV hostess (Mary Margaret McBride), dies at 76
1973 Nick Stuart, bandleader, dies of cancer at 69
1972 "Crazy" Joe Gallo, mobster, killed at his 43rd birthday party
1972 Abeid Karume, Tanzanian sheik/president, murdered
1972 Victor Wong, dies at 65
1971 Charles F Pahud de Mortanges, (Olympic-gold-1928, 32), dies at 74
1970 Josina Machel, wife of Mozambique's 1st pres Samora Machel, dies
1968 Jim Clark, of Scotland, world driving champ, dies at 32 in race car
1967 Anne Morrison Chapin, dies in West Hollywood
1961 Jesus Guridi, composer, dies at 74
1961 Marian Jordan, radio comedienne (Fibber McGee & Molly), dies at 62
1961 Yusef Greiss, composer, dies at 61
1958 Judge Jackson, composer, dies at 75
1958 Klimenty Arkad'yevich Korchmaryov, composer, dies at 58
1955 Theda Bara, Silent screen actress, dies at 62
1950 Walter Huston, dies at 66
1943 Jovan Ducic, Serbian poet (Blauwe legends), dies
1934 William Monroe Trotter, African, dies on 62nd birthday in Boston
1933 Jan Erik/Eric Jan Hanussen, Berlin astrologist/illusionist, murdered
1932 Erv A Kelley, US policeman, shot to death by Pretty Boy Floyd
1917 Spyridon Filiskos Samaras, composer, dies at 53
1891 Phineas T Barnum, US circus promoter (B & Bailey), dies at 88
1884 Maria van Ackere-Doolaeghe, Flemish poet (Avondlamp), dies at 80
1881 Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsican rep of people, dies at 65
1880 Diederich Krug, composer, dies at 58
1877 Errico Petrella, composer, dies at 63
1871 Alexander, grandson of English queen Victoria, dies at 1 day old
1871 Wilhelm Freiherr von Tegetthoff, Aus admiral (Helgoland/Lissa), dies
1862 Sydney Nelson, composer, dies at 62
1858 Anton Diabelli, Austria publisher/composer, dies at 76
1850 William Lisle Bowles, English poet (14 Sonnets), dies
1842 Henrik A Bjerregaard, Norw writer/poet (Fjeldeventyret), dies at 50
1833 Antoni Henryk Radziwill, composer, dies at 58
1810 Pieter L van de Kasteele, politician/patriot, dies at 61
1803 [Franois D] Toussaint L'Ouverture, dies
1789 Abdl-Hamid I, 27th sultan of Turkey (1774-89), dies at 64
1789 Peter Camper, anatomist/animal scholar, dies at 66
1783 Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer, composer, dies at 71
1778 Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer, dies at 52
1768 Michel Mathieu, composer, dies at 78
1767 Franz Sparry, composer, dies at 51
1766 Tiberius Hemsterhuis, classical musician, dies at 81
1719 Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest/theory/saint, dies at 67
1614 El Greco, Spanish painter (View of Toledo), dies (birth date unknown)
1524 Philip van Bourgondie, bishop of Utrecht, dies
1444 John Capreolus, French theologist (Libri IV), dies at about 50
924 Berengarius I, Emperor of Italy, murdered
30 Christ, crucified, according to astronomer Schaefer
Things that happened today...
1995 Baseball exhibition season begins late due to strike
1994 1st night game at Cleveland's Jacobs Field, Indians 6 Seattle 2
1994 NY Yankees beat Texas Rangers 18-6
1994 Shannen Doherty files for divorce from Ashley Hamilton
1994 Vatican acknowledges Holocaust for 1st time (Nazis killing Jews)
1991 Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth
1991 George Washington Bridge raises toll from $3.00 to $4.00
1991 Wrestlemania VII scheduled in LA, actually performed 03/24
1990 Farm Aid IV concert
1990 John Poindexter (Natl Sec Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal
1990 Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations
1990 NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 5-2, Rangers lead 2-0 in preliminary
Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway, in an unrelated event, 30 die
in a ferry flip over in Burma
1989 NY Supreme Court takes America's Cup away from SD Yacht Club for
1989 Soviet sub sinks in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen deaths
using a catamaran against NZ. Appeals court eventually overrules
1988 Devils 3-2 over Isles, 1st round tied 1-1
1988 Gerrit John Heijns murderer, arrested
1988 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1987 National Museum of Female Physician opens in Wash DC
Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns,
after making racial remarks on "Nightline"
1985 1st live telecast of Easter Parade
1985 NJ General Hershel Walker runs for USFL record 233 yards
1984 Detroit Tiger Jack Morris no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0
1983 Caps 4-Isles 2-Patrick Div Semifinals-series tied 1-1
1983 STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave & Don Peterson 1st STS spacewalk
1983 WIBC Championship Tournament in Las Vegas, attracts 75,480
women bowlers for 83-day event
1982 Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested
1982 Penguins 1-Isles 8-Preliminary-Isles hold 1-0 lead
1981 Belgium Eyskens govt forms
1981 Willem Klein mentally extracts 13th root of a 100-digit # in 29 sec
1980 Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
1979 Henri La Mothe dives 28' into 12 3/8" of water
1979 Houston Astro Ken Forsch no-hits Atlanta Braves, 6-0
1979 Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against Flyers
1978 Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in NYC
1978 Pres Carter defers production of neutron bomb
1977 Consumer Product Safety Comn bans "TRIS" flame-retardant
1977 Toronto Blues Jays 1st game, they beat Chicago 9-5
1976 Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping
1974 Herb Gardner's "Thieves," premieres in NYC
1971 Pres Nixon orders lt Calley (Mi Lai) free
1971 WCJB TV channel 20 in Gainesville, FL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1970 "Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds," premieres in NYC
1970 "Midnight Cowboy" wins the Academy award
1970 J A Bruwer discovers asteroid #1794 Finsen
1970 Milwaukee Brewers (former Seat Pilots) 1st game, lose to Angels 12-0
1969 Ted Williams begins managing Wash Senators, they lose to Yanks 8-4
1967 Israeli/Syrian border fights
1967 Tom Donahue, SF dj begins new radio format - Progressive (KMPX-FM)
1966 US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!)
1963 Jack Nicklaus (23) wins 1st Masters golf tournament
1963 Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic
1962 Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail
1959 Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years
1959 Radar 1st bounced off Sun, Stanford Calif
1956 Philadelphia beats Fort Wayne, 4 games to 1, for NBA championship
1956 Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco
1954 German govt refuses to recognize DDR
1954 Pres Eisenhower fears "domino-effect" in Indo-China
1954 WALB TV channel 10 in Albany, GA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight
1953 Dag Hammarskjld of Sweden elected 2nd UN general-secretary
1953 J A Brouwer discovers asteroid #1660 Wood
1953 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids 2214 Carol, 2278, 2652 Yabuuti & 2806
1951 American Bowling Congress begins 1st masters tournament
1951 Ben Hogan wins Masters golf tournament
1951 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1949 "South Pacific" opens at Majestic Theater (for 1925 performances)
1948 World Health Organization forms by UN
1946 Herman Keiser beats Ben Hogan for Masters golf title
1946 Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR
1945 1st & last assault of German Rammkommando on US bombers
1945 Kamikaze attack on fleet at Okinawa
1945 Task Force 58 sinks Jap large battleship Jamamoto (on suicide mission)
1945 US B17's bombs range at Lneburg
1944 General Montgomery speaks to generals about invastion plan
1943 British/US troops make contact at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia
1943 Lt colonel Claus von Stauffenberg seriously wounded at allied air raid
1943 NFL adopts free substitution rule
1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
1941 British generals O'Connor & Neame captured in North Africa
1940 Jimmy Demeret beats Lloyd Mangrum for Masters golf title
1939 Italy annexes Albania
1933 1st 2 NAZI anti-Jewish laws, bars Jews from legal & public service
1933 Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment
1933 University Bridge, Seattle opens for traffic
1931 Seals Stadium opens in SF
1928 44-yr old NY Ranger GM Lester Patrick replaces his injured goaltender
in a Stanley Cup game, & beats Montreal Maroons 2-1
1927 Using phone lines TV is sent from Wash DC to NYC
1926 Forest fire burns 900 acres & kills 2 (San Luis Obispo Calif)
1926 Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose
1923 Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party
1922 Naval Reserve #3, "Teapot Dome," leased to Harry F Sinclair
1919 1st parcel of land is purchased for Cleveland Metroparks
1917 De Falla's ballet "El Sombrero de tres Picos," premieres in Madrid
1917 James Barries' "Old Lady Shows Her," premieres in London
1906 Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police & banking business
1902 Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms
1901 SDAP demands general voting right/abolishing First Chamber
1891 Nebraska introduces 8 hour work day
1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Yellow Face" (BG)
1880 V Knorre discovers asteroid #215 Oenone
1865 Battle of Farmville VA
1863 Battle of Charleston SC, failed Federal fleet attack on Fort Sumter
1862 Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tenn, Island #10 falls
1862 H P Tuttle discovers asteroid #73 Klytia
1860 Grand duke Frederik I liberalizes laws in Bathe
1831 Dom Pedro abdicates to son, Dom Pedro II crowned emperor of Brazil
1818 Gen Andrew Jackson conquers St Marks Fla from Seminole indians
1805 Premiere of Beethoven's "Eroica"
1798 Territory of Mississippi organized
1788 1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta
1724 Johann S Bach's "John Passion" premieres in Leipzig
1712 Slave revolt (NYC)
1655 Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Alexander VII
1652 Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, S Africa
1645 Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil
1625 Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander
1584 Ieper surrenders to duke Van Parma
1521 Inquisitor-general Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books
1521 Magelhaes' fleet reaches Cebu
1509 France declares war on Venice
1498 Crowd storms Savonarola's convent San Marco Florence, Italy
1456 Louis van Burbon becomes prince-bishop of Luik
451 Attila's Hun's plunder Metz
30 Scholars' reckon Jesus crucified by Roman troops in Jerusalem
Other Occasions...
Celebrations...
[China] Ching Ming - families gather at graves of ancestors
[Haiti] World Health Day (1948)
[Mozambique] Woman's Day
[Yugoslavia] Republic Day (1963)
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