Today In History
Thursday March 27th, 2003 -- Day Number: 86 - Days left: 279
* Astrological sign: Aries
* 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...
1986 Melissa Stern, [Baby M]/[Sara Whitehead], surrogate baby
1984 J P Steur, actor (Grace Under Fire)
1977 Tom van der de Void, soccer player (PSV)
1971 Mariah Carey, NYC, singer (Love Takes Time)
1968 Irina Belova, Russian pentathelete (world record 1992)
1967 Talisa Soto, [Miriam], Brooklyn NY, actress (License to Kill)
1966 Kate Donahoo, Las Vegas NV, US judoka (Olympic-92)
1963 Dave Koz, saxophonist
1963 Quentin Tarantino, screenwriter (Pulp Fiction)
1963 Randall Cunningham, NFL QB (Phila Eagles)
1963 [Maria] Xuxa, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, singer/actress (Xuxamania)
1961 Clark Datchler, vocalist (Johnny Hates Jazz-Don't Say it's Love)
1960 Jennifer Grey, actress (Dirty Dancing); Joel Grey's daughter
1959 Andy Farriss, Australian rock keyboardist (INXS-Original Sin)
1958 Shaun Cassidy, rocker/actor (Hardy Boys, Texas Guns)
1958 Susan Molinari, (Rep-R-New York)
1957 Billy MacKenzie, rock vocalist (The Associates-Affectionate Punch)
1957 Duncan Goodhew, England, 100m breast stroke swimmer (Oly-Gold-1980)
1956 Brian Kelly, CFL wide receiver (Edmonton Eskimos)
1956 Thomas Wassberg, Sweden, 15K/50K cross country skier (Oly-gold-1980)
1953 Annemarie Moser-Pr”ll, Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1980)
1953 Pamela Roylance, Seattle Wash, actress (Sarah-Little House on Prairie)
1952 Chick Vennera, Herkimer NY, actor (High Risk, Milagro Beanfield War)
1952 Maria Schneider, Paris, actress (Last Tango in Paris, Crime of Honor)
1952 Rocky Maffit, rocker (Champaign)
1950 Maria Ewing, opera singer
1950 Tony Banks, rock keyboardist (Genesis-Against All Odds)
1947 Tom Sullivan, Boston MA, blind actor (If You Could See What I Hear)
1946 Carl Weintraub, actor (Harry-Executive Suite)
1943 M Robert Carr, (Rep-D-Michigan, 1975-81, 83- )
1942 Michael York, England, actor (Cabaret, Logan's Run, 3 Musketeers)
1942 Raymond J McGrath, (Rep-R-NY, 1981- )
1941 Charles Pashayan Jr, (Rep-R-CA, 1979- )
1941 June Wilkinson, Eastbourne England, actress (Pajama Tops)
1941 Liese Prokop, Austria, pentathlete (Olympic-silver-1968)
1940 Austin Pendleton, Warren OH, actor (Short Circuit, Simon, Hello Again)
1940 Cale Yarborough, auto racer (Won Daytona 500 4 times)
1939 Jay C Kim, (Rep-R-California)
1939 Ruth Ashton, general secretary (Royal College of Midwives)
1937 Johnny "Clyde" Copeland, US blues guitarist/singer (Lion's Den)
1936 Jerry Lacy, Sioux City Iowa, actor (Play it Again Sam)
1936 Malcolm Goldstein, composer
1935 Julian Glover, London England, actor (QED, Heat & Dust, Mandela)
1934 Arthur Mitchell, choreographer (Dance Theater of Harlem)
1934 David Hancock, secretary (British Dept of Education & Science)
1933 Geoffrey Parker, high master (Manchestrer Grammar School)
1931 Yoriaki Matsudaira, composer
1930 Bob den Uyl, Dutch journalist/writer (Bird Watching)
1930 David Janssen, [Meyer], Naponee Nebraska, actor (Fugitive, Harry O)
1930 Richard Hayman, Cambridge Mass, orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show)
1928 Douglas Applegate, (Rep-D-OH, 1977- )
1927 Anthony Lewis, newspaper columnist (NY Times)
1927 Lord Fanshawe, MP
1926 Louis Blom-Cooper QC, press arbiter
1925 Lord Plumb, MEP
1925 Robert Cohan, artistic director (Contemporary Dance Trust)
1924 Harold Nicholas, US actor(?)
1924 Sarah L Vaughan, Newark NJ, jazz scat singer (Broken Hearted Melody)
1923 Louis Simpson, Jamaican/US poet (Good News of Death)
1923 Victor Hochhauser, impresario
1921 Tom Bevill, (Rep-D-AL, 1967- )
1919 Julian Amery, conservative minister
1919 Simon van Collem, Dutch journalist/TV host
1917 Cyrus R Vance, US Secretary of State (1977-80)
1917 Harry West, Unionist party leader (Unionist)
1914 Budd Schulberg, author (On the Waterfront)
1914 Richard Denning, Poughkeepsie NY, actor (Steve-Karen, Hawaii Five-0)
1914 Snooky Lanson, Memphis Tn, singer (Your Hit Parade, 5 Star Jubilee)
1913 Godfrey Turner, composer
1912 James Callaghan, (L) British PM (1976-79)
1912 Reuel Lahmer, composer
1912 Robert Watson Hughes, composer
1910 Rudi Ball, Germany, Jewish ice hockey star (Olympic-bronze-1932)
1909 Ben[jamin F] Webster, US tenor saxophonist
1909 Golo Mann, [Gottfried], German/US historian (Antisemitism)
1908 Jacques [Iza„k] den Haan, Dutch writer (Dangerous Book)
1907 Mary Treen, St Louis Mo, actress (Emily-Willy)
1903 Walt Kiesling, NFL guard/coach (HOF)
1901 Albert Henneberg, composer
1901 Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (SPD)
1901 Sato Eisaku, (Lib) Japanese PM (1964-72) (Nobel 1974)
19-- Brian Tarantina, NYC, actor (Uncle Buck, Lucky-One Life to Live)
19-- Corey Young, actor (Walt Benson-General Hospital)
19-- Michael O'Leary, Calif, actor (Guiding Light, Fatal Games)
19-- Michael Palance, Long Island NY, actor (Dan-One Life to Live)
1899 Gloria Swanson, actress (Sadie Thomson, Queen Kelly) [NS]
1897 Carlo Mierendorff, German politician/anti-fascist
1894 William Harrigan, NYC
1893 Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic, Yugoslavian general/nazi collaborator
1893 Karl Mannheim, Hung/German/British sociologist (Ideology & Utopia)
1892 Ferde (Ferdinand Rudolf von) Grof‚, NY, composer
1891 Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian/US author (Arar t/Sd a nap)
1889 Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu, Turkish writer/diplomat
1886 Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, German/US architect (Bauhaus)
1883 Jan Kunc, composer
1879 Edward Steichen, pioneered American photography
1871 Heinrich Mann, Germany, novelist/essayist (Blue Angel); bros of Thomas
1871 Peter JM Aalberse, 2nd member of Dutch parliament/minister of Labor
1867 Edyth Walker, US singer
1863 Henry Royce, automobile founder (Rolls-Royce)
1858 Peter Christian Lutkin, composer
1854 Edgar Tinel, Flemish composer (Le Chant Gr‚gorien)
1851 Ruperto Chapi y Lorente, composer
1851 Vincent d'Indy, Paris France, dandy composer (Symphonie C‚venole)
1847 Otto Wallach, Germany, chemist (Nobel 1910)
1845 Wilhelm Konrad R”ntgen, Germany, discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901)
1844 Alophus Washington Greely, US, Arctic explorer
1823 Samuel Kosciusko Zook, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1818 Jakob Axel Josephson, composer
1816 George Elvey, composer
1813 Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
1797 Alfred V Comte de Vigny, French musketeer/writer (Mo‹se, Chatterton)
1785 Louis XVII Charles, king of France (1793-95)
1780 August L Crelle, German inventor/mathematician (1st Prussian Railway)
1772 Giovanni Liverati, composer
1765 Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher/theologist
1760 Ishmail Spicer, composer
1760 MJ Auguste Vestrius, French ballet dancers
1757 Richard John Samuel Stevens, composer
1746 Augustin Ullinger, composer
1746 Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney/father of emperor Napoleon
1710 Joseph Marie Clement dall' Abaco, composer
1702 Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer
1665 Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau)
1554 Everhardus van Bronchorst, Dutch lawyer
1416 Antonio Squarcialupi, composer
Those who died today...
2002 Dudley More (1935-2002) dies at 66 of supranuclear palsy.
2002 Milton Berle (1908-2002) dies at 93 of colon cancer.
2000 Ian Dury, rocker, dies of cancer at age 58.
1995 Bernard Cornfeld, Romanian/US financier (Fund of Funds), dies at 67
1993 Carlos Gimenez, director (Theater Festival of Caracas), dies at 47
1993 Clifford Jordan, tenor saxophonist, dies at 61 of cancer
1993 Kate Reid, British actress (Lil-Dallas), dies of cancer at 62
1993 Katherine Hynes De Groot, dies of stroke at 88
1993 Wilhelmus MJ Russell, Member of Dutch 1st chamber (KVP/CDA), dies
1992 Anita Colby, 1st $100 an hour model, dies at 77 of lung disease
1992 Easley Blackwood, expert bridge player, dies at 89
1992 Gerry Duggan, dies at 82
1992 James E Webb, head of NASA (1961-68), dies at 84
1992 Martin Engelman, cartoonist/painter/graphic artist, dies
1991 Aldo Ray, western actor (Battle Cry), dies at 64 of cancer
1991 Elinor Remick Warren, composer, dies at 91
1991 Leueen McGrath, actress (Edward My Son, Saint's Vacation), dies at 77
1991 Ralph Bates, British actor (Persecution, Graveyard), dies at 50
1989 May Allison, actress (Youth for Salem Men of Steel), dies
1988 John van de Weghe, Flemish writer, dies at about 67
1987 Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director, dies at 90
1986 Cass Canfield, US publisher, dies at 88
1983 James Hayter, actor (Pickwick Papers, Trio, Great Game), dies at 75
1983 Janis Ivanovs, composer, dies at 76
1982 Joris No‰, Flemish literary, dies
1979 Ronald Adam, actor (Phantom Shot), dies at 82
1978 Wilfred Pickles, actor (Billy Liar, Gay Dog), dies at 73
1977 Diana Hyland, actress (Peyton Place, 8 is Enough), dies at 41
1977 Eve Meyer, X actress (Immoral Mr Teas), dies in a plane crash at 46
1977 Lodewijk de Vocht, composer, dies at 89
1975 Arthur Bliss, English composer/conductor (Checkmate), dies at 83
1975 Gertrude Niesen, actress (Start Cheering), dies at 63
1973 Boyan Georgiev Ikonomov, composer, dies at 72
1972 Mauritius C Escher, lithograph carver (Praedestinatie), dies at 73
1968 Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, & Seryogin, die in plane crash
1967 Gerardus H, the Bold, bishop of Breda (1962-67), dies at 49
1966 Mien Labberton, poetess, dies
1961 Jack Kane, orch leader (Steve & Eydie, Andy William Show), dies at 37
1960 Ian Whyte, composer, dies at 58
1959 Grant Withers, actor (Okla Annie), suicide with sleeping pills at 54
1956 Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84
1953 Narciso Garay, composer, dies at 77
1948 Karel Candael, composer, dies at 64
1945 Jírgen Nielsen, Danish writer (romance), dies at 42
1939 Constance Lindsay Skinner, author (Rivers of America), dies at 57
1938 Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher/psychologist, dies at 66
1928 Leslie Stuart, composer, dies at 64
1925 Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist, dies at 92
1924 Walter Parratt, composer, dies at 83
1922 Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, composer, dies at 63
1920 Johan G Dancer, poet (Meetings), dies
1910 Alexander E Agassiz, US businessman/biologist/geologist, dies
1910 David Duffle Wood, composer, dies at 72
1900 Pieter J Joubert [Smart Piet], South African general, dies at 69
1898 Sajjid Ahmad Chan, co founder (Pakistan), dies at 80
1894 Verney L Cameroon, English explorer (Tanganyika), dies
1889 Moritz Furstenau, composer, dies at 65
1878 Dobri Voynikov, composer, dies at 44
1875 Edgar Quinet, French writer/historian (Ahasv‚rus), dies
1850 Wilhelm Bear, German banker/astronomer (Moon Map), dies at 53
1826 Jakob Haibel, composer, dies at 63
1809 Joseph M Vien, French (court)painter/etcher, dies at 92
1770 Giovanni B Tiepolo, Italian painter (Banquet of Cleopatra), dies
1769 Josef Antonin Gurecky, composer, dies at 60
1761 Johann Ludwig Steiner, composer, dies at 72
1714 Anton Ulrich, German duke of Brunswick/poet, dies at 80
1701 Anne Hilarion de Cotentin, earl of Tourville/French admiral, dies
1679 Abraham Mignon, still life painter, dies at 38
1668 Clemens Thieme, composer, dies at 36
1625 James I Stuart, king of Scotland (1567)/England (1603-25), dies at 58
1482 Maria, duchess of Bourgondie/countess of Holland, dies at 25
1472 Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator, dies at 37
1378 Gregory XI, [Pierre R the Beaufort], last French Pope (1370-78), dies
1211 Sancho I, King of Portugal, dies at 56
965 Arnulf I, count of Flanders (918-65), dies
922 Al-Hallaj al-Mughith-al-Hsayn Mansur, Persian mystic, beheaded at 64
Things that happened today...
2134 32nd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1995 67th Academy Awards - Jessica Lange, Tom Hanks & "Forest Gump" win
1994 Church in Piedmont Alabama collapses in tornado, 19 killed
1994 Radio personality Rush Limbaugh weds wife #3, Marta Fitzgerald
1992 Bruce Springsteen releases "Human Touch" & "Lucky Town"
1991 New Kid Donnie Wahlberg, arrested on arson charges in Kentucky
1990 Bus accidentally touches high voltage wire in Karagpur India; 21 die
1989 1st half-black soap opera, "Generations," premieres on NBC-TV
1987 President Habr‚s troops reconquer Faya Largeau Chad
1986 Disney-MGM Studio Tour ground breaking
1984 Andrew Lloyd Webber/Richard Stilgoe's "Starlight Express," premieres
1983 Larry Holmes decisions Lucien Rodriquez to remain heavyweight champ
1983 Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs," premieres in NYC
1982 Randy Holt sets Wash Cap record of 34 penalty minutes
1981 John Lennon releases "Watching the Wheels" in UK
1980 Elevator in Vaal Reef S Afr gold mine crash 1900m down (23 die)
1980 Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years
1979 Supreme Court rules, 8-1, cops can't randomly stop cars
1978 Bob Fosses musical "Dancin'," premieres in NYC
1978 Kentucky beats Duke for NCAA basketball championship
1978 Rutles "All You Need is Cash" is shown on British TV
1977 583 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM-Pan Am 747 crash on Tenerife
1976 Delta States beat Immaculata, 69-64, for AIWA basketball title
1976 Washington DC underground Metro opens
1973 Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) stopped for speeding & LSD possession
1973 L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #2562
1972 Venera 8 launched to Venus
1971 UCLA wins their 5th consecutive NCAA basketball title
1970 Ringo releases his 1st solo album "Sentimental Journey"
1970 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 Black Academy of Arts & Letters forms in Boston
1969 Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190-mi above southern Mars
1968 Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in SF
1968 Suharto succeeds Sukarno as president of Indonesia
1966 Anit Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe & Australia
1964 1st true Pirate Radio station, Radio Caroline (England)
1964 Earthquake strikes Alaska, 8.4 on Richter scale, 118 die
1964 UN-troops arrives on Cyprus
1962 Ann Jellicoe's "Knack," premieres in London
1962 Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orlean Catholic school
1962 Jacques Plante ties record winning 6th NHL Vezina trophy
1961 Belgium govt of Eyskens resigns
1961 Failed assassination attempts on King Saif al-Islam Achmad of Yemen
1958 Havana Hilton opens
1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier & 1st sect of Communist Party
1956 French commandos land in Algeria
1956 US seizes US communist newspaper "Daily Worker"
1955 WPRI TV channel 12 in Providence, RI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 21 die in a train crash in Conneaut Ohio
1952 Failed assassination attempt of German Chancellor Adenauer
1952 Sun Records of Memphis begins releasing records
1951 Kentucky beats Kansas for NCAA basketball championship
1950 Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China
1950 WHAS TV channel 11 in Louisville, KY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1945 British premier Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine
1945 DePaul beats Bowling Green for NIT title
1945 Gen Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken
1945 Iwo Jima occupied, after 22,000 Japanese & 6,000 US killed
1945 Okla beats NYU for NCAA basketball championship
1945 US 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden
1944 1,000 Jews leave Drancy France for Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1944 2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania
1944 40 Jewish policemen in Riga Latvia ghetto are shot by the gestapo
1944 Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno
1943 Assassination attempt on Van de Peat at Amsterdams census bureau
1943 US begins assault on Fondouk-pass, Tunisia
1942 Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire
1942 Japan forces Java to use "Tokyo time" 1« hour forward
1942 Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon to retain heavyweight boxing title (NYC)
1941 Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years
1941 Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia)
1941 Yugoslavian coup gets rid of pro-German Prince Paul
1940 Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice
1939 U of Oregon beats Ohio State to win 1st NCAA basketball championship
1937 Feyenoord-stadium official opens in Rotterdam
1936 WOS-AM in Jefferson City Missouri goes off the air
1933 Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized
1933 Japan leaves League of Nations
1932 De Bataven soccer team forms in Gendt
1930 1st US radio broadcast from a ship at sea
1928 KGB-AM in San Diego CA begins radio transmissions
1924 Canada recognizes USSR
1924 New French govt of Poincar‚ begins
1922 B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #976 Benjamina
1922 J Palisa discovers asteroid #975 Perseverantia
1920 Hermann Mller becomes German chancellor (SPD)
1917 Seattle Metropolitans, 1st US team to win Stanley Cup beat Canadiens
1916 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #825 Tanina
1916 S Belyavskij discovers asteroid #850 Altona
1914 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)
1912 1st Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Wash DC
1906 A Kopff discovers asteroid #595 Polyxena
1906 M Wolf discovers asteroid #594 Mireille
1884 1st long-distance telephone call, Boston-NY
1879 Longest championship fight (136 rounds)
1871 1st international rugby game-Scotland 1, England 0
1866 Pres Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amend
1865 Siege of Spanish Fort, AL-captured by Federals
1863 President Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting & prayer
1861 Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars
1860 M.L. Byrn patents the corkscrew (NY)
1855 Abraham Gesner patents kerosene
1849 Joseph Couch patents steam-powered percussion rock drill
1848 John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster
1841 1st US steam fire engine tested, NYC
1836 1st Mormon temple dedicated (Kirtland Ohio)
1814 Battle at Horseshoe Bend: Gen Andrew Jackson beats Creek-indians
1808 Joseph Haydns oratorio "Die Sch”pfung" premieres in Vienna
1807 Vesta (asteroid) discovered by Heinrich Olbers
1802 Pallas (asteroid) discovered by Heinrich Olbers
1802 Treaty of Amiens-French Revolutionary War ends
1794 Congress authorizes the president "to provide a naval armament" (Navy)
1758 Battle at Emmerich: British army floats around France the Rhine
1721 France & Spain sign Treaty of Madrid
1713 Spain losses Menorca & Gibraltar
1709 Dike at Hardinxveld breaks (Alblasserwaard flooded)
1708 English pretender to the throne James III flees to Dunkerk
1668 English king Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company
1625 Charles I Stuart succeeds James I as king of England
1599 Robert Devereux becomes lt-general of Ireland
1512 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Le¢n sights Florida
Other Occasions...
Celebrations...
[Burma] Resistance Day
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