Today In History
Wednesday March 12th, 2003 -- Day Number: 71 - Days left: 294
* 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...
1973 Louis Laros, soccer player (Willem II)
1966 Erich Fischer, Dinuba CA, US Olympic water polo foward (Olympic-92)
1964 Tony Terry, rocker
1963 Candy Costie, Seattle Wash, synchronized swimmer (Olympic-gold-1984)
1963 Joaquim Carvalho Cruz, Brazil, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1984)
1963 Julia Campbell, Huntsville Ala, actress (Opportunity Knocks)
1963 Paul Way, British golfer
1962 Darryl Strawberry, Los Angeles, right fielder (NY Mets, LA Dodgers)
1962 Gunde Svan, Swedish long jumper (Olympics-gold-1984, 88)
1960 Courtney B Vance, Detroit MI, actor (Hamburger Hill)
1958 Debra Jensen, Orange County Cal, playmate (January, 1978)
1957 Jerry Levine, New Brunswick NJ, actor (Born on 4th of July)
1957 Marlon D Jackson, Gary IN, singer (Jackson 5-Maybe Tomorrow)
1957 Steve Harris, London, hard rock bassist (Iron Maiden-Gypsy's Kiss)
1956 Dale Murphy, Portland Ore, Atlanta Braves slugger (2 time NL MVP)
1953 Labamba, [Richard Rosenberg], rocker (Asbury Jukes)
1951 Caren Kaye, NYC, actress (My Tutor, Bambi-Blansky's Beauties)
1951 Jack Green, rocker
1950 Jon Provost, actor (Timmy-Lassie)
1950 Willie Duggan, rugby football player
1949 Bill Payne, Waco TX, rock keyboardist (Little Feat-Time Loves a Hero)
1949 David Mellor, secretary of the British treasury
1949 Mary Alice Williams, news reporter (NBC-TV)
1949 Mike Gibbons, Swansea Wales, rock drummer (Badfinger)
1949 Sara Lane, NYC, actress (Elizabeth Grainger-The Virginian)
1948 Dana Walden, rock keyboardist (Champaign)
1948 James Taylor, Boston MA, vocalist/guitarist (Up on the Roof)
1948 Kent Conrad, (Sen-D North Dakota)
1948 Les Holroyd, Oldham England, rocker (Barclay James Harvest)
1948 Virginia Bottomley, British minister of state health
1947 Jill O'Hara, Warren Penn, Broadway actress (Promises! Promises!)
1946 Liza Minnelli, LA, singer/actress (Sterile Cuckoo, Cabaret)
1945 Hans van Emden, Dutch guitarist (Les Baroques)
1942 Bert Campaneris, baseball player (Oakland A's)
1942 Paul Kantner, SF Calif, rock singer/guitarist (Jefferson Airplane)
1942 Salvatore "the Bull" Gravano, mobster (testified against Gotti)
1940 Al Jarreau, Milwaukee WI, jazz singer (Moonlighting)
1939 Barbara Feldon, Pitts Pa, actress (Agent 99-Get Smart)
1939 David Mlinaric, British interior director
1938 Dimitri Terzakis, composer
1938 Karl Soderlund, Duluth Minn, Mr Sally Jesse Raphael
1938 Millie Perkins, actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Table for 5, Shooting)
1938 Norman Hogg, British MP
1938 Tona Scherchen-Hsiao, composer
1937 Elizabeth Vaughan, opera soprano
1936 Anthony Loehnis, vice chairman (S G Warburg & Co)
1936 Lloyd Dobbins, Newport News Va, newscaster (NBC News Overnight)
1936 Patrick Procktor, painter
1935 Helga Pilarczyk, German soprano (Salome, Lulu)
1935 John Gross, author (Age of Kipling, Dickens & 20th Century)
1934 Rudolph Agner, CEO (Consolidated Gold Fields)
1932 Andrew Young, US Ambassador to UN (1977-79)/(Mayor-D-Atlanta)
1931 Geoffrey de Bellaigue, director (Royal Collection)
1930 Antony Acland, provost of Eton/British ambassador to US
1930 Scoey Mitchill, Newburgh NY, comedian (Barefoot in the Park, Rhoda)
1930 Stanko Horvat, composer
1929 Bernard Costello, US, double sculls (Olympic-silver-1956)
1928 Edward Albee, US playwright (Virgina Woolfe, Zoo Story)
1928 Phil Jones, principal (Trinity College of Music)
1928 Roland Moyle, British deputy chairman (Police Complaints Authority)
1927 Mstislav Rostropovich, Baku Russia, cellist/conductor [3/22 NS]
1927 Raul Alfonsin, president (Argentina)
1926 David Oliver Williams, trade unionist (COHSE)
1926 George R Ariyoshi, (Gov-D-Hawaii)
1926 Gudrun Ure, actress^
1926 Hildy Park, Wash DC, actress (To Tell the Truth)
1926 John C[lellon] Holmes, US writer (Horn)
1926 Rolv Berger Yttrehus, composer
1926 Ronald Alley, art gallery manager (Tate Gallery)
1925 Georges Delerue, composer
1925 Harry [Maxwell] Harrison, UK, sci-fi author (Deathworld Trilogy)
1925 Leo Esaki, [Esaki Reona], Japan, physicist (Tunnel effect-Nobel 1973)
1925 Louison Bobet, French cyclist (Tour de France 1953-55)
1925 William G Whitehurst, (Rep-R-Va)
1923 Hjalmar Andersen, Norway, speed skater 1500, 5K, 10K (Oly-gold-1952)
1923 Norbert Brainin, violinist
1923 Walter M Schirra Jr, Hackensack NJ, Capt USN/ast (Mer 8, Gem 6, Ap 7)
1922 Helen Parrish, Columbus Ga, actress (Hour Glass, Show Business)
1922 Jack Kerouac, Beat writer (On the Road, Mexico Blues)
1922 Lane Kirkland, union president (AFL-CIO)
1922 Thomas Hugh Eastwood, composer
1921 Giovanni Agnelli, CEO (Fiat Automakers)
1921 Gordon MacRae, East Orange NJ, singer/actor (Oklahoma, Carousel)
1921 Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator
1921 Ralph Shapey, Phila, composer (Fantasy, Rituals)
1918 James Bracken, race horse trainer
1917 Googie Withers, Karachi India, actress (1 of Our Aircraft is Missing)
1917 Tom Normanton, British MP
1915 Alberto Burri, Italian physician/sculptor/painter
1914 Jan Kapr, composer
1912 James McKay, lord provost of Edinburgh
1912 Kylie Tennant, novelist (Battlers, Lost Haven)
1912 Paul Weston, Springfield Mass, orch leader (Jim Nabors Hour)
1911 Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, president of Mexico
1910 Roger L Stevens, producer (Giant)
1910 Tony "Two-Ton" Galento, Orange NJ, boxer/actor (On the Waterfront)
1910 Wilhelmus L Re˜ers, sculptor
1908 Inez Courtney, NYC, actress (13th Man, Crime Ring, Raven)
1900 David Croll, QC senator
1900 Zoltan Vasarhelyi, composer
19-- Fallon, [Robin Lee], XXX actress (Bare Essence, Con Job, Dreams)
19-- Ron Jeremy, XXX actor (Babe, Bad Girls, Caught From Behind)
1898 Fredrik J "Frits" Bakker Jr, Dutch actor (Sold Grandpa)
1896 Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller, San Francisco Blues Great
1891 Michael Polany, Hungarian/English chemist/economist/sociologist
1890 A Evert Taube, Swedish writer/troubadour
1890 Vaslav Nijinsky, Ukrainian ballet dancer (Petrushka) [NS]
1889 Philip Guedalla, historian
1888 Hall Johnson, composer
1885 Rapha‰l HLAJM Verwilghen, Flemish architect/urban developer
1883 Judge Jackson, composer
1881 Daniel Webster Hoan, Wisc (Mayor-Socialist-Milwaukee)
1881 Kemal Atatrk, 1st pres of Rep of Turkey
1881 V„in” A Tanner, premier of Finland (1926-27)
1880 House Peters, England, silent film actor (Kansas Territory)
1878 Gemma Galgani, Italian saint
1878 Joseph Gustav Mraczek, composer
1877 Wilhelm Frick, German protector of Bohemia/Moravia
1875 Julio Garreta, composer
1874 Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer
1863 Adolf A Wolfschoon, Cura‡ao, poet
1863 Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italy, writer/military hero (Intruder)
1862 Jane Delano, US, nurse/teacher/founder (Red Cross)
1860 Salvatore Di Giacomo, composer
1859 Josef Cyril Sychra, composer
1855 John White, composer
1848 Cyrill Kistler, composer
1838 William Perkin, inventor (1st artificial dye)
1837 Alexandre Guilmant, composer
1835 Simon Newcomb, US, scientist/mathematician/astronomer
1832 Charles Boycott, Ireland, estate manager/caused boycotts
1831 Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer (Studebaker)
1830 William Felix Brantley, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1870
1827 John Robert Jones, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1827 William Richard Terry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
1826 Robert Lowry, composer
1824 Gustav R Kirchoff, Prussia, physicist (spectral analysis)
1823 William Flank Perry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1821 John Abbott, Qu‚bec Canada, (C) 3rd Canadian PM (1891-92)
1821 Luitpold von Bayern, Prince-regent of Bayern
1818 John Lorimar Worden, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1897
1816 David Stuart, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1808 Gerrit van der Linde Jz, "Schoolmaster", Dutch poet
1806 Jane Means Appleton Pierce, 1st lady (1853-57)
1800 Louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian
1793 Augustin-Philippe Peellaert, composer
1788 Pierre J David, [David d'Angers], French sculptor
1768 Carolus Antonius Fodor, composer
1758 Leopold earl of Limburg Stirum, Dutch general/politician [or March 22]
1755 Georges Couthon, French politician
1710 Thomas Augustine Arne, English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia)
1685 George Berkeley, Ireland, philosopher/bishop of Cloyne
1515 Caspar Othmayr, composer
1479 Giuliano de' Medici, monarch of Florence
1336 Eduard, Duke of Gelre (1361-71) husband of Catharina of Bayern
Those who died today...
2001 Morton Downey Jr., talk show host, dies of cancer at age 68.
2001 Spy novelist Robert Ludlum dies in Naples, Fla. at 73.
1999 Violinist Yehudi Menuhin dies in Berlin at 82.
1994 Sandra Paretti, German/Swiss author (Drums of Winter), dies at 59
1993 Andreas J A I Bruggeman, mayor (Ship bell), dies at 62
1993 Cheek Zhen, marxist/vice-premier of China
1993 June Valli, singer (Crying in the Chapel), dies of cancer at 64
1993 Michael Kanin, screenwriter (Woman of the Year), dies at 83
1992 Barbara Morrison, actress (Project Moonbase), heart failure at 84
1992 Charles Poons, of Paul Deen, dies^
1992 Hans G Kresse, cartoonist (Eric the Viking), dies
1992 Ida Oosterbaan, founder (Women Action Committee), dies
1992 Karel Poons, father of Paul Danish, dies
1992 Salvo Lima, mayor (Palermo)/parliament leader (chr-dem), murdered
1991 Etienne Decroux, French mime (Voyage, Surprise), dies at 92
1989 Maurice Evans, actor (Bewitched, MacBeth), dies at 87
1988 Billie Rhodes, dies
1988 William Camp, dies at 74
1985 Eugene Ormandy [Blau], Hungarians/Us conductor, dies at 85
1984 Arnold Riley, playwright/actor, dies at 88
1983 Jevsei G Liberman, Ukraine economist (Plan, profit, bonus), dies at 85
1982 Elisabeth Zernike, writer (Barrel of Things), dies at 90
1978 John Cazale, actor (Dog Day Afternoon, Deer Hunter), dies at 41
1978 Tolchard Evans, composer/conductor, dies
1974 Billy Fox, Protestant member of Dublin parliament, assassinated
1973 Esther Williamson Ballou, composer, dies at 57
1973 Frankie "Fordham Flash" Frisch, baseball player, dies at 74
1973 Manuel Rojas Sepulveda, Chilean writer (Hijo de Ladron), dies
1966 Estelita Rodriguez, actor (Golden Stallion, Susanna Pass), dies at 35
1961 Belinda Lee, actress (Joseph & his Brethren), dies in car crash at 25
1958 Ingeborg, Princess of Sweden, dies at 79
1957 Josephine Hull, actress (Harvey), dies at 71
1955 Charlie "Bird" Parker, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 34 in NYC
1950 L Heinrich Mann, German/US writer (Zwischen the Racial), dies
1949 Maria E "Beppie" Bakker, actress/wife of Piet Vink Sr, dies at 95
1946 Philip Merivale, dies at 59
1942 Enrique Morera, composer, dies at 76
1941 Charles Sanford Skilton, composer, dies at 72
1937 Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert Widor, composer, dies at 93
1937 Jeno Hubay, composer, dies at 78
1932 Ivar Kreuger, "Swedish Match King" industrialist, commits suicide
1925 Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary leader, dies
1924 Hilaire Comte de Chardonnet, inventor (rayon), dies
1914 George Westinghouse, US engineer (Westinghouse Electric Corp), dies
1913 Joseph Bayer, composer, dies at 61
1909 Johanna M "Lena" Bakker, actress/wife of Bruno Gerlach, dies at 34
1908 Edmondo de Amicis, Italian writer (L'idioma Gentile), dies at 61
1905 Rudolf von Alt, Austrian painter, dies at 92
1902 John Peter Altgeld, German/US governor of Illinois, dies at 54
1889 Yohannes IV, [Kasa], Emperor of Ethiopia (1872-89), dies in battle
1888 Henry Bergh, founder (ASPCA), dies at 76
1877 Crystobal Oudrid y Segura, composer, dies at 52
1852 Juan Bros y Bertomel, composer, dies at 75
1840 Friedrich Westenholz, composer, dies at 61
1834 Karl W Feuerbach, German mathematician (circle/posing F), dies at 33
1832 Friedrich Kuhlau, composer, dies at 45
1831 Johann Franz Volkert, composer, dies at 64
1824 Heinrich Carl Ebell, composer, dies at 48
1753 George Berkeley, English/Irish philosopher/bishop of Cloyne, dies
1734 Antonius Schultingh, [Schultingius], lawyer, dies
1681 French van Mieris, the Elder, Dutch genre painter, dies at 45
1648 Tirso de Molina, Spanish author, dies at about 63
1628 John Bull, organist/composer, dies
1570 Jacob van den Eynden, land advocate of Holland, dies
1507 Cesare Borgia, cardinal/soldier/politician, killed in battle at 31
1496 Johannes de Lapide, [Johan Heynlin], German philosopher, dies
1471 Dionysius de Kartuizer/van Rijkel, scholastic theologist, dies
1209 Djamal al-din Aboe Mohammed Iljas Nizami, Persian poet, dies
604 Gregory I the Great, Pope (590-604), dies
417 Innocent I, Italian Pope (401-417), dies
Things that happened today...
2000 Pope John Paul II asks God's forgiviness for the sins of Roman Catholics.
1999 Czech Republic, Hungry and Poland join NATO.
1998 Astronomers debunk claim an asteroid might collide with the Earth
on Oct 26, 2028, saying the calculations were off by 600,000 miles.
1995 Congress party loses India national election
1995 Letitia Vriesde runs S Amer indoor record 800m (2:00.35)
1994 Church of England select 1st 33 women priests
1993 317 killed by bomb attack in Bombay
1993 Cleveland radio station WMMS-FM/101.7 is bought by Disney
1993 Entertainment Tonight's 3,000th show
1993 Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2« week speech
1990 LA Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland
1989 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia)
1989 Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election
1987 David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game
1987 Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North
1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1986 210.25 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1986 Giotto encounters Comet Halley
1986 Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
1985 Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points
1984 National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike
British ice dancing team, Torvill & Dean, become 1st skaters
to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships
1983 Don Ritchie runs world record 50 mile (4:51:49)
1982 PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline"
1981 Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1981 Stephen Sondheim's musical "Marry Me a Little," premieres in NYC
1981 Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond, VA
1980 Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago
1980 NY Islanders 3rd scoreless tie, vs Pittsburgh Penguin
1978 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:14.99)
1978 T Urata discovers asteroid #2090 Mizuho
1977 Chile president Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party
1977 H Kosai & K Hurukawa discovers asteroid #3319 Kibi
1977 Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
1976 South African troops leave Angola
1975 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2577 Litva
1975 Vietcong conquer Ben me Thuot
1974 Bundy victim Donna Manson disappears, Evergreen SC, Olympia, Wash
1972 NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons
1971 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger marries Bianca P‚rez Morena de Macias
1971 Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected president
1971 Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army
1970 US lowers voting age from 21 to 18
1969 120 joints found at George & Patti Harrison's home
1969 Grammy awards - Simon & Garfunkel win their 1st Grammys
1969 Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman in London
1968 Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 Austria's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet
1967 Indonesian congress deprives president Sukarno of authority
1966 Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record
1966 Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins)
1966 Love's 1st album released "Love"
1966 Pioneer Plaza dedicated [SF?]
1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 Grammy awards - Striesand wins 2 Grammies
1964 Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years
1964 Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam
1964 SN Behrmann's "But for Whom Charlie," premieres in NYC
1964 WKAB TV channel 32 in Montgomery, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1963 Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold
1963 Bob Dylan cancels "Ed Sullivan Show" television appearance
1962 Dutch Premier De Quay has secret talks with Indonesia
1959 Dutch Liberal Party wins Second-Parliamentary election
1959 House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
1958 British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"
1957 German DR accepts 22 Russian divisions
1956 Dow Jones closes above 500 for 1st time (500.24)
1954 1st performance of Arnold Sch”nberg's "Moses und Aaron"
1954 M Itzigsohn discovers asteroid #1970
1951 Communist troops driven out of Seoul
1950 Belgium agrees (58%) for return of king Leopold III
1950 Pope Pius XII encyclical "On combating atheistic propaganda"
1948 -5øF lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
1947 Belgian govt of Huysmans resigns
1947 Pres Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism
1946 Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
1945 30 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers
1945 CPI calls on for armed uprising in Italy
1945 NY is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment
1945 The British Empire celebrates it's 1st British Empire Day
1945 USSR gives Transylvania to Romania
1943 Soviet troops liberate Wjasma
1942 British troops vacate the Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal
1942 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #3446
1941 German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands
1940 Finland surrenders to Russia during WW II, gives Karelische Isthmus
1940 G Kulin discovers asteroid #2738
1939 Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies
1938 Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)
1936 E Delporte discovers asteroid #2331 Parvulesco
1935 England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns & villages
1934 Josip Broz (Tito) freed from jail
1934 Paul Hindemith's "Mathis der Maler," premieres in Berlin
1934 Pres Constantine P„ts sees coup in Tallinn Estonia
1933 FDR conducts his 1st "fireside chat"
1932 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1221 Amor
1931 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1308 Halleria
1930 Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax
1930 Stella Walsh sets record for the 220-yard dash (0:26.1)
1926 Denmark begins unilateral disarmament
1926 Pope Pius XI named archbishop of Mechelen
1925 British govt of Baldwin ratifies Geneva agreement
1919 Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany)
1919 George Bernard Shaw's "Augustus Does His Bit," premieres in NYC
1917 Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
1917 Stalin, Kamenev & Muranov arrives in St Petersburg
1916 French airship sinks British submarine D3
1913 Foundation stone of the Australian capital in Canberra laid
1912 Capt Albert Berry performs 1st parachute jump from an airplane
1912 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) founded in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low
1910 Montreal Wanderers beat Berlin (Kitchener) 7-3 for the Stanley Cup
1908 Mont Wanderers sweeps Win Maple Leafs for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1908)
1906 Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast
1904 1st main line electric train in UK (Liverpool to Southport)
1904 Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund
1903 AL officially approves NY Highlanders (Yankees)
1900 President Steyn of Orange-Free state flees from Bloemfontein
1897 Vincent d'Indy's opera "Fervaal," premieres in Brussel
1896 1st movie in Netherlands (Kalverstr 220)
1893 A Charlois discovers asteroid #362 Havnia
1889 Battle at Metema (Gallabad): Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated
1888 2nd day of the Great blizzard of '88 in NE US (400 die)
1888 Blizzard hits NY; about 800 die
1884 Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women
1877 British annex Walvis Bay in southern Africa
1877 Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony
1871 R Luther discovers asteroid #113 Amalthea
1868 British create Basutoland in Africa
1868 Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax
1868 Great Britain annexes Basutoland
1867 Last French troops leave Mexico
1865 Affair near Lone Jack, Missouri
1860 Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill: free land in West for colonists
1857 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Simon Boccanegra," premieres in Venice
1850 1st US $20 gold piece issued
1849 1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to Calif
1848 2nd republic established in France
1799 Austria declares war on France
1789 US Post Office established
1773 Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago
1755 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine
1737 Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy
1689 Former English King James II lands in Ireland
1664 1st naturalization act in American colonies
1664 New Jersey becomes a British colony
1642 Abel Tasman is 1st European in New Zealand
1622 Ignatius of Loyola declared a saint
1619 Dutch settlement on Java changes name to Batavia
1609 Bermuda becomes an English colony
1597 England routes troops to Amiens
1594 Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies
1587 English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower
1572 Lu¡s Vaz de Camoes publishes "Bullock Lus¡ados" in Portugal
1496 Jews are expelled from Syria
1365 University of Vienna mental home opens
1350 Orvieto city government beheads Jewish-Christian relatives
1144 Gherardo Caccianemici elected as Pope Lucius II, as Callistus II
1054 Pope Leo IX escapes captivity & returns to Rome
1000 Odo van Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, replacing Victor III
604 St Gregory I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
417 St Innocent I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
Other Occasions...
Celebrations...
[British Commonwealth] Commonwealth Day (formerly British Empire Day)
[Gabon] Renovation Day (Gabonese Democratic Party established) (1968)
[Lesotho] Moshoeshoe's Day
[Libya] King's Birthday
[Mauritius] Independence Day (1968)
[Venezuela] Flag Day
[World] Girl Scouts Day (1912)
[World] World Culture Day (non Leap year)
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