Today In History
Friday April 4th, 2003 -- Day Number: 94 - Days left: 271
Those born today...
1976 Alicia Silverstone, SF, actress (Clueless)
1973 Peter Hoekstra, soccer player (PSV)
1970 Barry van Galen, soccer player (Roda JC)
1970 Jason Stoltenberg, Australia, tennis star
1969 Dennis de Noo˜er, soccer player (Sparta)
1969 Gerard de Noo˜er, soccer player (Sparta)
1966 Nancy McKeon, Westbury NY, actress (Jo Polniazek-Facts of Life)
1965 Black Francis, [Charles Thompson], US singer/songwriter (Pixies)
1965 Robert Downey Jr, NYC, comedian (SNL, Less than Zero, Back to School)
1965 Zwart Francis, [Charles Thompson], US singer/songwriter (Pixies)
1964 Paul Parker, soccer player
1964 Robbie Rist, Calif, actor (Oliver-Brady Bunch)
1963 David Gavurin, English pop guitarist/composer (Sundays, Blindly)
1962 Ava Fabian, Brewster NY, playmate (Aug, 1986)/actress (Cafe Nostra)
1960 Jonathan Agnew, British broadcaster/test bowler
1958 John Wesley Jones, Lawton Ok, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-gold-1976)
1958 Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, painter
1957 Graeme Kelling, British pop guitarist (Deacon Blue-Real Gone Kid)
1957 Paul Downton, British cricketeer
1956 Evelyn Hart, prima ballerina (Royal Winnipeg Ballet)
1954 Julie Carmen, Mount Vernon NY, actress (Gloria, Last Plane Out)
1952 Dave Hill, England, rock guitarist (Slade-Coz I Love You)
1952 Gary Moore, Irish rock guitarist (Skid Row-Oh Pretty Woman)
1952 Peter Haycock, rocker
1952 Rosemarie Ackermann, German DR, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1976)
1951 Steve Gatlin, Olney Tx, country singer (Gatlin Bros-Broken Lady)
1950 Christine Lahti, Detroit, actress (Harvey Korman Show, Swing Shift)
195- Luke Halpin, Astoria NY, actor (Sandy-Flipper)
1949 Larry Lingle, rocker
1948 Berry Oakley, Chicago Ill, rocker (Allman Brothers-Ramblin' Man)
1948 Gail Davies, Broken Bow Ok, country singer (Blue Heartache)
1948 Pick Withers, rocker (Dire Straits)
1947 Salvatore Sciarrino, composer
1946 Craig T Nelson, Spokane Wash, actor (Poltergeist, Hayden Fox-Coach)
1945 Caroline McWilliams, Seattle Wash, actress (Sally-Soap, Marcy-Benson)
1945 Walter Charles, East Strousberg PA
1944 David Melville, professor/director (Middlesex Polytechnic)
1944 Lawrence A Hough, US, rower (Pairs w/o cox-1968 olympic silver)
1943 Ian Robertson, British museum director (National Army Museum)
1942 Kitty Kelley, author (Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra)
1942 Kris Jensen, rocker
1941 Major Lance, US boxer/dancer/singer (Hey Little Girl)
1940 Bijan, Iran, mens apparel designer (Beverly Hills, NYC, London)
1940 Robby Mueller
1940 V T Isakov, cosmonaut
1939 Hugh Masekela, South Africa, trumpeter (I Am Not Afraid)
1939 JoAnne Gunderson Carter, Kirkland Wash, golfer (US Open 1970, 76)
1938 A Bartlett Giamatti, Boston, pres of Yale/baseball commish (1989)
1938 Michael Parks, Corona Calif, actor (Then Came Bronson)
1938 Peter Attenborough, British headmaster (Charterhouse)
1937 Ian St James, novelist (Balfour Conspiracy, Vengeance, Money Stones)
1937 J Hans van den Doel, economist/Dutch 2nd chamber member (PvdA)
1936 Margo J Sylvia, rocker (Tune Weavers)
1935 Fran‡ois-Bernard Mache, composer
1935 Lord Ichayra, secretary-general (British Banking Assn)
1935 Trevor Griffiths, playwright (Absolute Beginners)
1933 Fritz Bolkestein, Dutch director (Shell)/Minister of Defense (VVD)
1933 Robin Phillips, English multi-millionaire manuafacturer
1933 Seoirse Bodley, composer
1932 Andrei Tarkovski, Russian director (Solaris, Stalker)
1932 Anthony Perkins, NYC, actor (Psycho, Fear Strikes Out, Pretty Poison)
1932 Richard G Lugar, (Sen-R-IN, 1977- )
1931 Harold L Volkmer, (Rep-D-MO, 1977- )
1930 David Sexton, soccer manager
1929 William F Clinger Jr, (Rep-R-PA, 1979- )
1928 Bill Ryan, Bkln NY, newscaster (Smithsonian)
1928 Jimmy Logan, British comedian (Mad Death)
1928 Maya Angelou, [Marguerite Johnson], St Louis, poet/actress (Nyo-Roots)
1928 Monty Norman, composer/writer
1927 Bob Stump, (Rep-R-AZ, 1977- )
1926 Cloris Leachman, Des Moines Iowa, actress (Phyllis, High Anxiety)
1925 Elizabeth Wilson, Grand Rapids Mich, actor (Doc, East Side/West Side)
1925 Erna Spoorenberg, Dutch singer
1924 Eva Marie Saint, Newark NJ, actress
1924 Gil Hodges, baseball player/manager (Bkln Dodgers, NY Mets)
1924 Peter Vaughan, actor (Haunted Honeymoon, Die Die My Darling)
1923 Eric Rohmer, Nancy Francy, director (Claire's Knee)
1923 Manon H E Alving, Dutch actress (Short American)
1922 Elmer Bernstein, NYC, movie music composer (Robot Monster)
1921 Willem J "Wim" the Villiers, S Afr minister of Administration
1919 Antony Tudor, England, choreographer (Metropolitan Opera 1957)
1918 Earl Jellicoe, chancellor (U of Southhampton)
1918 Margaret Dupont, tennis champion
1917 Joseph Ortiz, French-Algerian extremist (barricade uprising)
1915 Jan Drda, Czech writer (Nema Barikada, Mestecko Na Dlani)
1915 Lars G Ahlin, Swedish writer (Death of Me)
1915 Muddy Waters, [McKinley Morganfield], guitarist (Hoochie Coochie Man)
1914 Gustave Camus, Belgian painter
1914 John Beith, British diplomat
1914 Marguerite Duras, France, novelist/playwright (Sea Wall)
1913 Frances Langford, Lakeland Fla, singer (Armed Forces Hour, Star Time)
1913 Jerome Weidman, US writer (Tenderloin)
1913 Rosemary Lane, Indianola IA
1910 [Marcelle] Georgette Hagedoorn, actress/chansonniŠre
1907 Nathan M Pusey, educator (1963 Natl Assoc for Social Sciences Medal)
1906 Bea Benaderet, NYC, actress (Kate-Petticoat Junction)
1906 John Cameron Swayze, Wichita Ks, newscaster (Timex, Hindenberg) [NS]
1905 Eugene Bozza, composer
1902 Louise L de Vilmorin, French poetess/author (Lutin Sauvage)
1901 Carmel Myers, SF Calif, actress (Carmel Myers Show)
19-- Rebecca Wild, XXX actress (Howard Sperm Show, Red Beaver Bonanza)
19-- Richard Coogan, Short Hills NJ, actor (Captain Video)
19-- Tom Byron, XXX actor (Battle of the Superstars, Transitions)
19-- Tracey Phillips, Montclair NJ, actress (Hope-Coed Fever)
1898 Agnes Ayres, Carbondale IL
1897 Pierre Fresnay, Paris France, actor (Grand Illusion)
1896 Robert Sherwood, dramatist (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Idiot's Delight)
1896 Tristan Tzara, [Samuel Rosenfeld] French poet (Approximate Man)
1895 Arthur Murray, NYC, dancer (Arthur Murray Dance Party)
1892 Cyril Smith, Peterhead Scotland, actor (Adv of Sir Lancelot)
1892 Esther Howard, MT
1888 Tris Speaker, baseball great, hit more doubles than Pete Rose
1884 Isoroku Yamamoto, admiral/supreme commander of Japanese fleet
1882 Mary Howe, composer
1881 Charles Funk, Ohio, Encylopediest (Funk & Wagnalls)
1879 Gabriel Groulez, composer
1876 Maurice de Vlaminck, Paris, Fauvist painter (Village in the Snow)
1875 Jozef Szulc, composer
1875 Pierre Monteux, Paris France, conductor (Boston Symph Orch 1919-24)
1875 Samuel S Hinds, Brooklyn NY
1872 Nikolai Amani, composer
1872 Pauline de Haan-Manifarges, Dutch singer
1870 George A Smith, Salt Lake City Utah, 8th pres of Mormon church
1866 George P Baker, US playwright (47 Workshop)
1858 R‚my de Gourmont, French critic/writer (Physique de L'amour)
1843 Hans Richter, composer
1836 Jerome Hopkins, composer
1832 Jose Echegaray y Elizaguirre, playwright/scientist (Teatro Escogido)
1831 Edward Cary Walthall, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1898
1828 Margaret Oliphant, Scotland, novelist/biographer (Beleaguered City)
1826 Z‚nobe Th‚ophile Gramme, inventor (electric motor)
1823 Karl Wilhelm Siemens, inventor (laid undersea cables)
1823 Robert Byington Mitchell, Brig General (Union volunteers)
1821 Linus Yale, US, portrait painter/inventor (Yale cylinder lock)
1820 Charles Devens Jr, Major General, Bvt (Union volunteers), died in 1891
1817 John Wilson Sprague, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1893
1814 John Blair Smith Todd, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1872
1809 Benjamin Pierce, US mathematician/astronomer
1804 Joseph Fischhof, composer
1802 Dorothea Dix, US, aroused interest in treatment of mental inmates
1792 Thaddeus Stevens, US Radical Republican congressional leader (Rep-R)
1786 John Franklin, British explorer (Arctic)
1785 Bettina Brentano, composer
1785 Bettina von Arnim, German writer (This Book Belongs to the King)
1762 Stephen Storace, composer
1758 John Hoppner, portrait painter
1755 Vincenc Masek, composer
1752 Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, composer (Andromeda)
1740 Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, composer
1731 Francisco Morera, composer
1716 John Evangelist Schreiber, composer
1696 Giovanni Battista Tiepoldo, painter
1648 Grinling Gibbons, sculptor/woodcarver
1646 Antoine Galland, French ori‰ntalist/interpreter
1527 Abraham Ortelius, [Ortels/Hortels], South Neth geographer
188 Caracalla, [Marcus Aureiius Antoniius], Roman emperor (211-17)
Those who died today...
1994 Ginny Simms, [Virginia Sims], singer/actress (Playmates), dies at 77
1994 Olga Lowina, yodeler (Edelweisskapel), dies at 69
1993 Alfred Mosher Butts, US architect/game maker (Scrabble), dies at 93
1993 Bep [Alberta B] Ogterop, [Rita la Roche], singer, dies
1992 Karl Tunberg, US scriptwriter (Ben Hur), dies
1992 Sy Kramer, singer/comedy writer dies of cancer at 59
1991 John Heinz, (Sen-R-Pa), dies in a plane crash
1991 Luc de R˜ck, Belgian soccer player (Turnhout), dies
1991 Max Frisch, Swiss architect/writer (Stiller, Biedermann), dies
1987 C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore, author (Judgment Night), dies at 76
1986 Frank Mortelmans, Belgian painter, dies at 87
1983 Gloria Swanson, actress (Airport 1975), dies at 84 of a heart ailment
1983 Jacqueline Logan, silent film leading lady, dies at 78
1982 Tsvetan Tsvetanov, composer, dies at 50
1981 Brad Johnson, actor (Annie Oakley), dies at 56
1979 Edgar Buchanan, actor (Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction), dies at 77
1979 Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, former Pakistani president, hanged in Pakistan
1978 Gino Contilli, composer, dies at 70
1977 Jeno Zador, composer, dies at 82
1972 Adam Clayton Powell Jr, (Rep-D-NY), dies at 63
1972 John AHJS Bruins Slot, co-founder/editor in chief (illegal)
1972 Stefan Wolpe, composer, dies at 69
1970 Byron Foulger, actor (Capt Nice, Petticoat Junction), dies at 70
1968 Martin Luther King Jr, assassinated in Memphis (Dream continues)
1967 Mischa Elman, Ukraine/US violinist, dies
1963 Endzion Barelli, dies 2 days after winning a boxing match at 18
1963 Jason Robards Sr, actor (Acapulco), dies at 70
1958 Hendrik Heyman, Belgian minister of N˜verheid/mayor, dies at 78
1956 Fritz Knkel, German physician, dies
1953 Carol II, King of Romania (1930-40), dies
1953 Rachilde, [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery], French author, dies at 93
1950 Kurt Weill, German/US composer (Street Scenes), dies
1944 John Peale Bishop, US poet (Undertaker's Garland), dies at 51
1944 Karel Weis, composer, dies at 82
1943 Oskar Schlemmer, German painter/sculptor, dies
1943 Raoul Laparra, composer, dies at 66
1939 Ghasi I, king of Iraq (19..-39), dies
1937 Frantisek X Salda, Czech writer/critic, dies
1934 Braulio Dueno Colon, composer, dies at 80
1932 Ottokar T Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Austrian minister, dies
1932 Wilhelm Ostwald, physical chemist (Nobel 1909), dies
1931 Andre Michelin, CEO (Michelin Tires), dies
1931 George Whitfield Chadwick, composer, dies at 76
1930 Vladimir Majakovski, Russian poet, dies
1929 Karl Freidrich Benz, automobile engineer (Mercedes), dies
1923 L Martov, [Joulij O Tsederbaum], Russ revolutionary, dies at 49
1919 William Crookes, English chemist/physicist (Crookes-pipe), dies at 86
1908 Josef Sucher, composer, dies at 64
1905 Constantin Meunier, Belgian painter/sculptor, dies at 73
1900 Edward VII, King, assassinated
1893 Alphonse LPP de Candolle, Swiss botanist, dies at 86
1889 Thomas T H Jorissen, historian, dies at 56
1862 Harmen S Sytstra, poet/editor (Iduna), dies at 45
1844 Charles Bulfinch, 1st US pro architect (Mass State House), dies at 80
1841 William Henry Harrison, becomes 1st pres to die in office, at 68
1817 Andr‚ Mass‚na Duc de Rivoli, soldier, dies
1817 Prince d'Essing, dies
1807 Joseph J‚r“me Le Francais de Lalande, astronomer, dies
1806 Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer, composer, dies at 84
1784 Mary Mead, wife of English journalist John Wilkes, dies
1774 Oliver Goldsmith, Irish poet/writer (She stoops to conquer), dies
1734 Johann C van Erckel, old Catholic theologist, dies at about 79
1714 Karel, duke of Berry/French heir to the throne, dies
1664 Adam Willaerts, seascape painter, dies
1662 Davis Mell, composer, dies at 57
1662 Leonhart Nucleus, German sculptor, dies at about 73
1643 Simon Episcopius, bishop/theologist, dies
1617 John Napier, Scottish mathematician/inventor (logarithms)
1604 Thomas Churchyard, poet/pamphleteer, dies
1588 Frederik II, King of Denmark/Norway (1559-88), dies at 53
1585 Caspar de Robles, Spanish viceroy of Friesland, dies at about 57
1417 John van Touraine, 1st husband of Jacoba of Bavaria, dies
1406 Robert III, King of Scotland (1390-1406), dies
1393 Floris van Wevelinkhoven, bishop of Utrecht, dies
1292 Nicholas IV, [Girolamo Masci], Pope (1288-92), dies
1284 Alfonso X, King of Castili‰/Le¢n (1252-84), dies at 63
1229 Hugo van Pierrepont, bishop of Luik, dies
896 Formosus, Pope (891-96), dies
397 Ambrosius, gov of Ligurie/bishop of Milan (374-97)/saint, dies
Things that happened today...
1994 1st game played at Jacobs Field, Indians beat Mariners 4-3 in 11 inn
1994 Arkansas Razorbacks beat Duke 76-72 for NCAA basketball title
1994 KLM Saab 340B crashes at Schiphol, 3 killed
1994 LA Dodger Darryl Strawberry begins substance abuse treatment
1993 Wrestlemania IX-Hulk Hogan beats Okozuna for title
1992 Game 1 of Mayor Challenge - NY Yankees beat NY Mets 6-4 at Yank Stad
1992 John Tesh (Entertainment Tonight) marries actress Connie Selleca
1992 Jury deliberations begin in Noriega case
1992 Sali Berisha becomes president/Alexander Meksi premier of Albania
1990 "Marshall Chronicles" premieres on ABC-TV
1990 Gloria Estefan released from hospital after her accident
1990 Security law violator Ivan Boesky is released from federal custody
1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's last NBA game in Seattle
1989 NY Yankee Tommy John ties record of playing 26 seasons, his 287th
win puts him 19th overall as Yanks beat Twins on opening day 4-2
1988 Eddie Hill becomes 1st to race a ¬ mile in under 5 seconds
1988 Kansas upsets Oklahoma for NCAA basketball title
1988 Largest crowd (55,438) at a season game at Riverfront (Reds Vs Cards)
1988 Last broadcast of "Crossroads" on British TV
1987 Dow Jones up 69.89 points, ending at record 2,390.34 pts
1986 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 213th point of season
1985 Tulane University cancels its basketball season amidst scandal
1984 Michael Frayn's "Benefactors" premieres in London
1984 Winston Smith in Orwell's "1984" begins his secret diary
1983 6th space shuttle mission, Challenger 1 launched
1983 North Carolina State wins NCAA women's basketball championship
1980 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 Jane M Byrne (D), elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago Ill
1976 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2369 Chekhov
1976 Seni Pramojs Democratic Party wins elections in Thailand
1975 Steve Miller is arrested for burning his girlfriend's clothes
1975 USAF transport carrying orphans from Saigon crashes killing 155
1974 Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home-run record by hitting his 714th
1971 Marine clay under houses liquefies, 31 die (St-Jean-Vianney Quebec)
1969 Dr Denton Cooley implants 1st temporary artificial heart
1968 Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned
1967 Amsterdam Marines chase out "nozems" of Central Station
1967 Dutch De Young govt forms
1966 Pirate Radio Scotland changes name to Radio Ireland
1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love," single goes #1 & stays #1
for 5 weeks
1960 Oscar awarded to Neth director Bert Haanstra
1960 Project Ozma begins at Green Bank radio astronomy center
1960 Senegal declares independence from France
1959 Fed of Mali, consisting of Senegal & French Sudan (dissolved 1960)
1958 1st march against nuclear weapons (Aldermaston England)
1958 Darmstadt
1957 Heitor Villa-Lobos' 10th Symphony, premieres in Paris
1956 Enid Bagnold's "Chalk Garden," premieres in London
1955 British govt signs military treaty with Iraq
1953 KFDA TV channel 10 in Amarillo, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 Dutch Prince Bernhard visits Juan & Eva Per¢n in Buenos Aires
1950 Dirk Suffocated becomes chairman of OES
1949 Israel & Jordan sign armistice agreement
1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed (Wash DC)
1949 WKRC TV channel 12 in Cincinnati, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1798 Watts, #2641
Lipschutz & #3070
1948 84-year-old Connie Mack challenges 78-year-old Clark Griffith to a
race from home to 1st base; it ends in a tie
1947 Convention on International Civil Aviation goes into effect
1947 Largest group of sunspots on record
1947 UN's International Civil Aviation Organization forms
1945 Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
1945 US tanks/infantry conquer Bielefeld
1944 British troops capture Addis Ababa Ethiopia
1944 De Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communist
1941 German troops conquer Banghazi
1940 L Oterma discovers asteroid #2332 Kalm
1940 R Rodgers/Lorenz Hart's "Higher & Higher," premieres in NYC
1939 Faisal II ascends to throne of Iraq
1934 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1716 Peter
1933 US Dirigible Akron crashes off coast of NJ, 73 die
1932 George Bernard Shaw's "Too True to be Good," premieres in NYC
1932 Vitamin C 1st isolated, C.C. King, Univ of Pittsburgh
1929 "New Moon" musical opens in London
1929 1st AAU Greco-Roman wrestling championships held
1926 Greek dictator Theodorus Pangalos elected president
1922 WAAB (Baton Rouge La) becomes 1st US radio station with "W" calls
1920 Arabs attack Jews in Jerusalem
1918 Battle of Somme, ends
1918 Food riot in Amsterdam
1916 US Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in WW I
1914 "Perils of Pauline" shown for 1st time in LA
1912 Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields Siberia
1912 Chinese republic proclaimed in Tibet
1912 Tibet declares independence from China
1905 Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 370,000
1902 Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund forms with $10 million
1900 Assassination attempt on prince of Wales/king Edward VII
1900 British garrison surrenders to Boer general De Law
1896 Announcement of Gold in Yukon
1887 Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia, KS)
1870 Golden Gate Park forms by City Order #800
1865 Lee's army arrives at Amelia Courthouse
1864 Skirmish at Elkin's Ford (Little Missouri River), Arkansas
1862 Battle of Yorktown begins
1862 US begins Peninsular Campaign aimed at capturing Richmond
1859 Opera "Dinorah" is produced (Paris)
1858 R Luther discovers asteroid #53 Kalypso (goddess of silence)
1850 City of Los Angeles incorporated
1832 Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Rio de Janeiro
1828 Casparus van Wooden patents chocolate milk powder (Amsterdam)
1818 Congress decided US flag is 13 red & white stripes & 20 stars
1737 Anthony van Heim installed as Dutch pension advisor
1716 Russian & Prussian troops occupy Wismar
1687 King James II orders his declaration of indulgence read in church
1686 English king James II publishes Declaration of Indulgence
1660 Declaration of Breda
1660 English king Charles II ends Decl of Breda (freedom of religion)
1655 Battle at Postage Farina, Tunis: English fleet beats Barbarian pirates
1625 Viceroy Frederik Henry marries Amalia countess von Solms-Braunfels
1588 Christian IV succeeds Frederik II as king of Denmark
1581 Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of world
1581 Francis Drake becomes knight
1558 Czar Ivan IV gives parts of North-Russia to fur traders
1552 Mauritius van Saksen begins alliance with Karel Anikita Stroganov
1541 Ignatius of Loyola becomes 1st superior-general of Jesuits
1460 University of Basle in Swizerland forms
1081 Alexius I Comnenus occupies Byzantine throne
896 Formosus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
Other Occasions...
Celebrations...
[Guinea] Anniversary of 2nd Republic (1984)
[Hungary] Anniversary of Liberation (1945)
[Senegal] Independence Day (1960)
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