Today In History
Sunday April 6th, 2003 -- Day Number: 96 - Days left: 269
Those born today...
1980 Matthew Thomas Carey,
1979 Frederick MGDL Windsor, son of English prince Michael
1976 Candace H Cameron, actress (DJ Tanner-Full House)
1975 Dannon Phillip Pampolina, rapper/drummer (Party)
1972 Jason Hervey, actor (Wayne Arnold-Wonder Years)
1969 Ari Meyers, San Juan PR, actress (Emma McArdle-Kate & Allie)
1966 Kymberly Paige, Newport Beach Ca, playmate (May, 1987)
1965 Rica Reinisch, German DR, 100m/200m backstroke (Olympic-gold-1980)
1964 Johnny Dee, heavy metal drummer (Britny Fox-Boys in Heat, King Kobra)
1962 Stan Cullimore, bassist (Housemartins-Happy Hour, Over There)
1959 Dianne Brill, Tampa, fashion designer/party girl (Queen of the Night)
1957 Maurizio Damilano, Italian speed walker (30K World Record)
1954 Judi Bowker, Shawford England, actress (Clash of the Titans)
1953 Janet Lynn, ice skater (Olympics-bronze-1972)
1952 Marilu Henner, Chicago, actress (Taxi, Man Who Loved Women, Eve Shade)
1952 Udo Dirkshneider, heavy metal rocker (Accept-Balls to the Wall, Udo)
1951 Ralph Cooper, Australia, drummer (Air Supply-All Out of Love)
1950 Dennis E Eckart, (Rep-D-OH, 1981- )
1949 Jane Actman, NYC, actress (Barbara-Paul Lynde Show)
1947 Jan Kees Wiebenga, Dutch 2nd chamber member (VVD)
1947 John Ratzenberger, Bridgeport Ct, actor (Cliff Clavin-Cheers)
1947 Tony Cooner, Essex, drummer (Hot Chocolate-You Sexy Thing)
1945 Bob Marley, reggae musician/singer (Whalers-No Woman)
1944 Felicity Palmer, British mezzo-soprano
1944 John Stax, rocker (Pretty Things-Don't Bring Me Down)
1944 Michelle Phillips, rocker (Mamas & The Papas)
1943 Joaquin Agostinho, Portuguese cyclist
1943 Susan Tolsky, Houston, actress (Madame's Place, Here Comes the Brides)
1942 Phil Austin, comedian (Firesign Theater)
1941 Hans W Geissendorfer
1940 Homero Aridjis, Mexican poet (La Tumba de Filidor)
1938 Paul Daniels, British magician
1938 Roy Thinnes, Chicago Ill, actor (Invaders, Falcon Crest, Gen Hospital)
1937 Billy Dee Williams, Harlem NYC, actor (Chiefs, Empire Strikes Back)
1937 Merle Haggard, Bakersfield Calif, country singer (Death Valley Days)
1936 Manfred Schoof, composer
1935 John Pepper Clark, Nigeria, writer (Horn, Song of a Goat)
1934 Antonius Geesink, Holland, judo (Olympic-gold-1964)
1934 Reijo Jyrkiainen, composer
1933 Dudley Sutton, British actor (Leather Boys, Brimstone & Treacle)
1931 Ivan Dixon, NYC, actor (Car Wash, Hogan's Heroes)
1931 Joan Carlyle, British soprano
1929 "Crazy" Joe Gallo, mobster
1929 Andr‚ Previn, Berlin Germany, conductor (London Symphony)/pianist
1929 Arthur S Taylor Jr, US drummer/band leader (Taylor's Wailers)
1929 Edison Denisov, composer
1929 Willis Hall, British writer
1928 James Watson, chemist (co-discovered structure of DNA)
1928 Joi Lansing, Salt Lake City Utah, actress (Bob Cummings Show)
1927 Gerry Mulligan, British saxophonist/orchestra leader
1926 Ian Paisley, North Ireland, clergyman/MP
1925 Arthur D Larsen, tennis champ (US Open-1950)
1925 John Knox, British supreme court justice
1921 Andrew Welsh Imbrie, composer
1921 Franta Belsky, British sculptor
1920 Bernard Carter, British painter/etcher
1918 Karen Verne, Berlin Germany
1914 George Reeves, Ashland Ky, actor (Superman, Gone With the Wind)
1912 Endre Szekely, composer
1912 Wilhelmus HL"Willem" Tollenaar, actor/director (Don Carlos)
1911 Phyllis Margaret Duncan Tate, composer
1910 Desmond Dreyer, British admiral
1910 Shakey, [Walter Horton], rocker
1908 Vano Il'ich Muradeli, composer
1906 John Betjeman, English Poet Laureate 1972-1984 (Mount Zion)
1904 Kurt G Kiesinger, German chancellor (Wherever They May Be)
1903 Harold Edgerton, foremost high-speed photographer
1903 Mickey Cochrane, baseball hall of fame catcher (.320 avg)
1902 Gertrude Short, Cincinnati OH
1901 Willem Pelemans, Flemish composer/music reviewer
1900 Andres Sas, composer
1900 Leo Robin, US writer (Thanks For the Memory)
19-- Judith McConnell, actress (Sophia-Santa Barbara)
19-- Robin Byrd, XXX actress/TV host (Robin Byrd Show, Debbie Does Dallas)
19-- Tiffany Million, GLOW wrestler/XXX actress (Consenting Adults)
1898 Bobby Gilbert, PA
1896 Juan Tomas Perez, composer
1892 Donald Wills Douglas, US, aircraft pioneer (McConnell Douglas)
1892 Lowell Thomas, Woodington Ohio, newscaster (High Adventure)
1892 Mateusz Glinski, composer
1890 Andr‚ L Danjon, French astronomer
1890 Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, Holland, aircraft pioneer (Spider)
1889 Barry Macollum, Northern Ireland
1888 Daniel Andersson, Swedish poet/writer (Svarta Ballader)
1885 Carlos Leon Salzedo, composer
1884 Walter Huston, Tor, actor (Maltese Falcon, Treasure of Sierra Madre)
1883 Mien Labberton, Dutch poetress
1878 Carl Emil Theodor Ehrenberg, composer
1874 Harry Houdini, [Erich Weiss], Hungary, famous magician/escape artist
1871 Alexander, grandson of England's Queen Victoria
1869 Louis Raemakers, Dutch draftsman/painter
1866 Butch Cassidy, [Robert Parker], US desperado (Wild Bunch Passage)
1866 Joseph Lincoln Steffens, muckraker/journalist (Shame of the Cities)
1860 Ren‚ Lalique, French jewel designer
1844 Joseph Ludwig, composer
1835 Jose Marraco y Ferrer, composer
1833 Johan HC Kern, Dutch linguist (Sanskrit, Old Javan)
1830 James Augustine Healy, Macon Ga, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop
1828 Charles William Field, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
1826 Gustave Moreau, French painter
1823 Joseph Medill, St John NB Canada, newspaper editor (Chicago Tribune)
1819 Johann AH Scheler, Belgian librarian
1818 Francis Henry Brown, composer
1815 Friedrich Robert Volkmann, composer
1812 Gavril Yakimovich Lomakin, composer
1810 Philip Gosse, intentor of institutional aquarium, writer (Omphalos)
1778 Joseph Funk, composer
1773 James Mill, Scotland, philosopher/historian (Hist of British India)
1757 Alessandro Rolla, composer
1752 Johann Friedrich Kranz, composer
1741 S‚bastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort, French playwright (Maximes)
1708 George Reuter, composer
1672 Andre Cardinal Destouches, composer
1671 Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French playwright/poet (Sacred Odes & Songs)
1660 Johann Kuhnau, composer
1631 Vincenzo De Grandis, composer
1483 Raphael Sanzio, Italian painter/master builder (Madonna Sistina)
Those who died today...
1996 Greer Garson, actress, dies at 92
1994 Agatha Uwilingiyimana, Rwanda/1st female PM in Africa, murdered
1994 Cyprian Niayamira, president of Burundi (1994), assassinated
1994 Juv‚nal Habayarimana, president of Rwanda, assassinated
1994 Theo Bosch, humanist/architect (Amsterdam), dies at 54
1993 Divya Bharati, "baby doll", Indies actress, dies in an accident at 19
1992 Isaac Asimov, Sci-Fi author (I Robot), dies at 72 from kidney failure
1992 Molly Picon, Yiddish actress (Milk & Honey), dies of Alzheimers at 94
1990 Nancy Hawkes, (1946 best dress woman), dies at 73
1990 Ronald E Evans, astronaut (Apollo 17), dies at 57 of a heart attack
1984 Jimmy Kenndy, British songwriter (South of the Border), dies
1983 Ana Maria, Salvador guerilla leader, murdered
1981 Bob "the bear" Hite, singer (Canned Heat-Goin' up the Country), dies
1979 M Marie Widlow, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1957), dies at 61
1979 Milton Ager, US composer, dies
1978 Nicolas Nabokov, composer (Holy Devil), dies at 74
1978 Reinoud Anders, actor (Unrest of Grave), dies at 65
1975 Chiang Kai-Shek, Nationalist Chinese leader, dies at 87
1974 Willem Dudok, architect (Hilversum town hall), dies at 89
1972 Heinrich Lbke, West Germany chancellor (1959-69), dies at 77
1971 Igor F Strawinsky, Russ composer (Le Sacre du Printemps), dies at 89
1968 Bobby Hutton, US Black Panther leader, shot to death
1966 Julia Faye, dies of cancer at 72
1962 J C Heldring, businessman, dies at 74
1961 Jules JBV Bordet, Belgian bacteriologist (Nobel 1919), dies at 90
1951 Halfdan Cleve, composer, dies at 71
1947 Vaclav Kapral, composer, dies at 58
1945 Benjamin M Telders, president (Dutch Liberal States Party), dies
1940 Andres Isasi, composer, dies at 49
1939 Robert Courtneidge, British theater producer, dies
1935 Edward Arlington Robinson, US poet, dies
1931 Giuseppi Radiciotti, composer, dies at 73
1926 Giovanni Amendola, antifascist/editor-in-chief (Il Mondo), dies at 43
1919 Stefan Surzynski, composer, dies at 63
1913 Jose Marraco y Ferrer, composer, dies on 78th birthday
1906 Alexander L Kielland, Norse writer (Working People), dies at 57
1865 John Austin Wharton, US Confederate general-major, dies at 36
1865 Reuben B Boston, US Confederate cavalery colonel, dies in battle
1862 Adley Hogan Gladden, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 51
1862 Albert Sidney Johnston, US Confederate general, dies in battle
1854 William Strickland, US architect, dies
1838 Jos‚ B de Andrada e Silva, premier of Brazil (1822-23), dies at 74
1829 Niels H Able, Norse mathematician (infinite series), dies at 26
1822 Franz Xaver Partsch, composer, dies at 62
1817 Bonaventura Furlanetto, composer, dies at 78
1805 Lorenz Justinian Ott, composer, dies at 56
1782 Rynoldus Popma van Oevering, composer, dies at 90
1779 Tommaso MFS Traetta, Italian opera composer/bandmaster (Farnace), dies
1707 Willem Van de Velde, the Young, seascape painter, dies a 73
1674 Charles de M‚an, Belgian lawyer (Observations), dies at 69
1605 John Stow, British historian, dies
1593 Henry Barrow, English puritian/Congressionalist, hanged
1593 John Greenwood, English Congressionalist, hanged
1590 Francis Walsingham, English secretary of state, dies at about 57
1551 Joachim Vadianus, Swiss physician/mayor of Sankt Gallen, dies at 66
1528 Albrecht Drer, German painter/graphic artist, dies in Germany
1520 Raphael, artist (Sistine Madonna), dies on his 35th birthday
1490 Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary, dies
1489 Hans Waldmann, Swiss military/mayor (Zurich), beheaded
1472 Pieter Bladelin, Belgium, land owner (Middelburg castle), dies
1362 Jacques de Bourbon, count of Marche, killed in battle
1348 Petrarch's Laura, dies of plague
1252 Peter van Verona, [Peter Martyr], Italian inquisitor/st, dies at 45
1199 Richard I, the Lion-hearted, King of England (1189-99), dies at 41
912 Nottker "the Stamelaar", benedictine monk/poet, dies at about 71
885 Methodius, Greek apostle of the slaves/archbishop of Sirmium, dies
Things that happened today...
1994 1st scheduled Indians night game at Jacobs Field is rained out
1994 Liberal Supreme Court Justice Blackmun (Roe v Wade) resigns
1994 Palestinian suicide bomber kills 7 Israelis & himself
1994 Rockwell B-1B Lancers break 11 world speed records
1993 1st test flight of Ilyushin IL-96M (Moscow)
1993 Florida Marlins 1st lost ever (4-2 to LA Dodgers)
1992 1st game at Camden Field, Balt-Orioles beat Indians 2-0
1992 Britain Radio Authority licenses Virgin & TV-AM radio licenses
1992 Duke beats Michigan 71-51 for NCCA basketball championship
1992 Oriole Park at Camden Yards opens, beating Cleveland 2-0
1992 Swedish troops begin siege of Sarajevo
1992 Voting begins on choice of Elvis postage stamps
1991 Former child actor Adam Rich arrested for breaking into a pharmacy
1991 NY-NJ Knights 1st home game (Giant Stad) lose to Frankfurt 27-17
1991 Subhana, becomes 1st Australian woman to become a Zen teacher
1988 Black pole explorer M Henson buried next to R Peary in Arlington
1988 NJ Devils' 1st playoff game; lose to Isles 4-3 (OT) in 1st round
1987 Sugar Ray Leonard upsets Marvelous Marvin Hagler
Al Campanis appears on Niteline saying blacks may not be equiped
to be in baseball management, sparking a racial controversy
1986 Soccer ball juggled non-stop for 14:14 hrs
1985 Atlantis (OV-104) rollout at Palmdale
1985 Sudan suspends constitution after coup under general Swarreddahab
1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41-C)-Challenger 5 is launched
1983 Caps 2-Isles 5-Patrick Div Semifinals- Isles hold 1-0 lead
1982 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center from White Sands
1981 Yugoslav govt routes troops to Kosovo
1980 Gordie Howe completes a record 26th season
1979 Rod Stewart & Alana Collins wed
1977 Judge rules Beatles 1962 Hamburg album can be released
1977 Kingdome in Seattle opens
1976 1st quadrophonic movie track: "Ladies & Gentlemen the Rolling
Stones"
1975 Bundy victim Denise Oliverson disappears from Grand Junction, Colo
1975 Fastest hat trick by a Wash Cap 3 mins 26 secs (Stan Gilbertson)
1974 200,000 attend rock concert "California Jam"
1974 Yankees 1st home game at Shea Stadium, beat Indians 6-1
1973 Harbor strike in Gent/Antwerp, Belgium
1973 Indies troops invade Sikkim
1973 Pioneer 11 launched toward Jupiter & Saturn
1973 Roberto Clemente Day, Pirates retire his #
1973 Yankee Ron Blomberg becomes 1st designated hitter, he walks
1972 Egypt drops diplomatic relations with Jordan
1968 94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution
1968 Gunpowder stocks at a sporting-goods store explode, killing 43 (Va)
1968 HemisFair 1968 opens in San Antonio, Texas
1967 Premier Pompidou forms new French government
1967 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #1804 Chebotarev
1966 Mihir Sen swims Palk Strait between Sri Lanka & India
1965 Intelsat 1 ("Early Bird") 1st coml geosynchronous comm satellite
1964 Egypt & Belgium recover diplomatic relations
1958 Arnold Palmer wins 1st major golf tournament-Masters
1957 NYC ends trolley car service
1957 USSR performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests)
1956 Polish communist Gomulka resigns
1955 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1955 Yemen: failed coup by Abdullah Seif el-Islam
1954 Mont Canadiens score 3 goals in 56 sec in playoff game against Det
1954 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1952 Sam Snead wins his 2nd Masters golf tournament
1950 John F Dulles becomes advisor to US Sect of State Acheson
1947 Jimmy Demaret wins his 2nd Masters golf tournament
1945 Coevorden freed from nazis
1945 Japanese large battleship Jamamoto heads to Okinawa
1945 Massive kamikaze-attack on US battle fleet near Okinawa
1945 US marines explores Tsugen Shima near Okinawa
1944 Jewish nursery at Izieu-Ain France overrun by Nazis
1943 British & US army link up in Africa during WW II
1943 British offensive at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia
1943 Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN) arrested
1942 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #2249 Yamamoto
1941 Begin oper Bestrafung-Germany bomb attacks Belgrade (17,000 die)
1941 British general Gambier-Parry caught in North Africa
1941 German bombardment on Piraeus (munitions ship explodes)
1941 Italian held Addis Ababa surrenders to British & Ethiopian forces
1939 Great Britain & Poland sign military pact
1939 US & UK agree on joint control of Canton & Enderbury Is (Pacific)
1936 ANP begins telex service in Amsterdam
1936 Tornado, kills 203 & injuring 1,800 in Gainesville Georgia
1935 H Levitt sinks 499 basketball free throws, misses & sinks 371 more
1934 418 Lutheran ministers arrested in Germany
1931 1st Scottsboro (Ala) trial begins - 9 blacks accused of rape
1931 1st broadcast of "Little Orphan Annie" on NBC-radio
1930 1st transcontinental glider tow completed
1926 Montreal Maroons beat Victoria Cougars 3 games to 1 for Stanley Cup
1925 1st film shown on an airplane (British Air)
1924 4 planes leave Seattle on 1st successful around-the-world flight
1924 Italy fascists receives 65% of vote of parliament
1924 V”lkische Block (nazi's) receives 17.8% of vote in Bayern
1922 B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #977 Philippa
1920 French troop attacks Main/Darmstadt/Hanau
1917 US declares war on Germany, enters World War I
1916 German parliament OKs unrestricted submarine warfare
1916 S Belyavskij discovers asteroid #857 Glasenappia
1909 1st credit union forms in US
1909 North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary & Matthew Henson
1908 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #755 Quintilla
1906 1st animated cartoon copyrighted
1905 P Gotz discovers asteroid #563 Suleika
1903 General railroad strike against "worgwetten" (anti-strike laws)
1900 Jim Jeffries KO's Jack Finnegan in 55 seconds
1896 1st modern Olympic games open in Athens Greece [3/25 OS]
American, James Connolly, wins 1st Olympic gold medal in mod history
1893 Andy Bowen & Jack Burke box 7 hrs 19 mins to no decision (111 rounds)
1893 Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City dedicated
1891 J Palisa discovers asteroid #309 Fraternitas
1890 French troops under capt Archinard occupy Segu, West-Sudan
1886 City of Vancouver, BC incorporated
1886 Declaration of Berlin neutralizes Tonga
1883 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Speckled Band" (BG)
1878 Prosper Henry discovers asteroid #186 Celuta
1868 Brigham Young marries his 27th & final wife
1866 G.A.R. forms
1865 Battle of Sayler's Creek, 1/3rd of Lee's army cut off
1865 Skirmish at High Bridge VA (Appomattox); 1/3rd of Lee's army cut off
1862 Battle of Shiloh, Union defeats Confederacy in SW Tennessee
1859 US recognizes Liberal government in M‚xico's War of Reform
1855 J Chacornac discovers asteroid #34 Circe
1853 J Chacornac discovers asteroid #25 Phocaea
1849 Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "Le ProphŠte," premieres in Paris
1848 Jews of Prussia granted equality
1841 Cornerstone laid for 2nd Mormon temple, Nauvoo, Missouri
1830 Joseph Smith & 5 others organizes Mormon church in Seneca Co, NY
1815 English militia shoots prisoners, 100's killed
1789 1st US Congress begins regular sessions, Federal Hall, NYC
1757 English king George II fires minister William Pitt Sr
1727 Denmark signs Covenant of Hannover
1724 Duke of Newcastle becomes English minister of Foreign Affairs
1722 Peter the Great proclaims end of tax on those with beards
1712 Slave revolt in NY
1672 France declares war on Netherlands
1664 France & Saksen sign alliance
1663 King Charles II signs Carolina Charter
1652 John of Riebeeck lands/establishes VOC-post in Capetown
1634 Heeren XIX asks "to secure Eylands Cura‡ao"
1516 A Willaert installed as cardinal Ippolito I d'este
1362 Robber bastion Tard-Venus strikes at Brignais France
1327 Italian poet Petrarch 1st sets eyes on his beloved Laura
1106 Fire in Venice
774 Charles the Great affirms Pippins promise of Quiercy
648 -BC- Earliest total solar eclipse; chronicled by Greeks
610 Lailat-ul Qadar, night koran descended to Earth
402 Battle at Pollentia: Roman army under Stilicho beats Visigoten
46 -BC- Battle at Thapsus: Julius Caesar beats republican under Scipio
Other Occasions...
Daylight Savings Time begins at 2 AM
[US] National Library Week begins
Celebrations...
[Ethiopia] Victory Day
[South Africa] Van Riebeeck Day-founding of Capetown
[Thailand] Chakri Day
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