Today In History
         Monday March 10th, 2003 -- Day Number: 69 - Days left: 296

 * 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...

1977 Shannon Miller, Rolla Mo, US gymnist (Olympic-92)
1976 Barbara Schett, Innsbruck Austria, tennis star
1973 Eva Herzigova, Litvinov Czech, model (Guess Jeans, Wonderbra)
1969 Ricky Seagall, rocker (Partridge Family)
1966 Edie Brickell, rocker (& New Bohemians)
1966 Pavel Petrovich Mukhortov, Russia, cosmonaut
1966 Stephen Mailer, NYC
1964 Cynthia Brimhall, Ogden Utah, playmate (Oct, 1985)
1964 Edward Anthony Richard Louis, Prince of Britain/Elizabeth II grandson
1964 Neneh Cherry, Stockholm Sweden, Swedish pop singer (Money Love)
1963 Jasmine Guy, Boston Mass, actress (Whitley-Different World)
1962 Gary Clark, rocker (Danny Wilson-Mary's Prayer)
1961 Mitch Gaylord, CA, gymnist (Olympics 1984)/actor (American Anthem)
1960 Linda Jezek, Calif, backstroke swimmer (Pan Am Gold-1979)
1958 Sharon Stone, Meadville Pa, actress (Basic Instinct, Sliver)
1957 Adolfo Horta, Camaguey Cuba, HW boxer (Olympic-silver-1980)
1957 Shannon Lee Tweed, St Johns NF, playmate (Nov 1981)/actr (Meatballs 3)
1955 Bunny DeBarge, Grand Rapids Mich, rocker (Debarge)
1955 Juliusz Machulski, Poland, director/writer/actor (Do It Yourself)
1953 Caroline H "Carolien" van de Berg, actress (Havinck)
1952 Oupa J Gqozo, South African warden/army commandant in Ciskei
1950 Ted McKenna, rocker (Alex Harvey Band)
1948 Austin Carr, NBA star (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1948 Eddie Grundy, rocker
1947 Avril "Kim" Campbell, Canada's 1st female premier (1993)
1947 Laurie Langenbach, Dutch author
1947 Tom Scholz, rock guitarist/keyboardist (Boston-More Than a Feeling)
1945 Katharine Houghton, Hartford, actress (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
1943 Alfred Whitford Lerdahl, composer
1943 Angelique Pettyjohn, LA Calif, actress (Body Talk, Star Trek)
1943 Stephen Montague, composer
1941 Daniel Kirkland Lentz, composer
1941 Piotr Warzecha, composer
1940 Chuck Norris, [Carlos Ray], OK, martial arts actor (Missing in Action)
1940 David Rabe, playwright (Streamers)
1940 Dean Torrence, LA Cal, surf music singer (Jan & Dean-Little Old Lady)
1940 Francis Schwartz, composer
1939 Irina Press, USSR, 80m hurdles/Pentathelete (Olympic-gold-1960, 64)
1938 Marina Vlady, Clichy France, actress (Conjugal Bed, The Hunt)
1938 Ron Mix, NFL tackle (San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders)
1936 Juda Bar-Norwegian, Israeli/Dutch mime/actor (King)
1933 Bernadetta Matuszczak, composer
1932 Anatoliy Roschin, USSR, super heavyweight wrestler (Olympic-gold-1972)
1927 Donn Trenner, New Haven Ct, orch leader (ABC's Nightlife)
1927 Paul Wunderlich, German lithographer/painter/sculptor
1926 Marques Haynes, Harlem Globetrotters' ace
1925 Ed van der Elsken, movie photographer (Een liefdesgeschiedenis)
1925 M J J A [Sef] Imkamp, Dutch politician (D66)
1922 Adam Kennedy, Lafayette Ind, actor (Dion-Californian)
1922 Pamela Mason, London, actress (Navy vs Night Monsters)
1921 Cec Linder, Galica Poland, actor (Goldfinger)
1921 Paul Coates, NYC, columnist (Tonight! America After Dark)
1918 Heywood Hale Broun, journalist
1916 James Herriot, Scotland, writer (All Creatures Great & Small)
1914 Chandler Harper, golfer (1950 PGA champ)
1911 Warner Anderson, Bkln, actor (Doctor, Lineup, Matthew-Peyton Place)
1909 Gerard Croiset, Dutch paragnost
1908 Kristian Palusalu, Finland, heavyweight wrestler (Olympic-gold-1936)
1907 Robert de Roos, composer
1905 Rene Bernier, composer
1903 Bix Biederbecke, rocker
1900 Sherman Billingsley, Enid Ok, talk show host (Stork Club)
19-- Ariane Munker, actress (Ryan's Hope, Guiding Light, Doctors)
19-- Kari Kane, rocker (Pretty Boy Floyd-Rock & Roll)
19-- Lisette [Melendez], Lima Peru, spanish singer (Caricatura)
19-- Lupita D'Alessio, Mexico, spanish singer (Soy Autentica... Y Punto)
19-- Micky Lynn, XXX actress (Bush League 2, Beaverman 9)
19-- Senait Ashenafi, actress (Keesha Ward-General Hospital)
1899 Finn Hoffding, composer
1898 Cy Kendall, St Louis Mo, actor (Mysteries of Chinatown)
1896 Harry Krimer, actor (Napoleon)
1892 Arthur Honnegger, Le Havre France, composer (King David)
1892 Eva Turner, British soprano
1891 Jacob van Gelderen, economist/sociologist/Dutch 2nd Chamber (SDAP)
1888 Barry Fitzgerald, Dublin Ireland, actor (Acad Award-Going My Way)
1888 Krsto Odak, composer
1884 Stuart Holmes, Chicago IL, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)
1880 Michael Jacobs, NYC, boxing promoter
1878 Karel van de Woest˜ne, Flemish writer/poet (God at Sea)
1877 David M Chumaceiro, Cura‡ao, poet
1877 David Mendes Chumaceiro, Cura‡ao, poet (Cris lidas)
1875 Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser, composer
1873 Jakob Wassermann, Germany, novelist (My Life as German & Jew)
1872 Felix Borowski, composer
1870 Alfred Kastner, composer
1867 Lillian D Wald, US, sociologist/organizer (Visiting Nurses)
1865 Pim [Willem JH] Mulier, Dutch journalist/writer/sport-organizer
1850 Mary Mills Patrick, US, 1st pres of Istanbul Woman's College
1845 Alexander III A Romanov, Russian tsar (1881-94)
1844 Pablo Martin M de Sarasate y Navascuez, composer (Spanish Dancing)
1842 Ina Donna Coolbrith, US, poet laureate of Calif
1839 Dudley Buck, Hartford, Ct, organist/church composer
1833 Pedro Antonio de Alarc¢n, Spain, writer (Three-Cornered Hat)
1832 William Henry Penrose, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
1824 Thomas James Churchill, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1905
1822 Willem Roelofs, Dutch painter/lithographer
1818 George Wythe Randolph, Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1867
1812 Victor Tesch, Belgian lawyer/min of Justice
1810 John McCloskey, US, pres of St John's College (Fordham U)
1809 William David Porter, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1864
1788 Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (Das Marmorbild)
1787 William Etty, English painter (nudes)
1780 Juan Jose Landaeta, composer
1776 Luise, queen of Prussia/wife of Frederik Willem III
1772 Friedrich von Schlegel, Germany, romantic writer/critic (Lucinde)
1771 Georg F Creuzer, German philological/historian (Idea und Probe)
1755 Philipp Christoph Kayser, composer
1748 John Playfair, Scotland, clergyman/geologist/mathematician
1713 Christian Friedrich Schale, composer
1713 Raphael Weiss, composer
1698 Gaetano Maria Schiassi, composer
1656 Adolf H van Rechteren, Dutch diplomat/politician
1628 Constantine Huygens Jr, Dutch poet/painter/cartoonist
1538 Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk; executed by Queen Elizabeth (1572)
1503 Ferdinand I, German emperor (1558-64)
1452 Ferdinand II, the Catholic, King of Aragon/Sicily (expelled Jews)


Those who died today...

1995 Carel Birnie, ballet producer, dies at 69
1995 Hendrik W van Leeuwen, musician, dies at 79
1994 Charles Bukowski, German/US writer (Barfly, Hollywood), dies at 73
1993 C Northcote Parkinson, English historian/sociologist (Law of P), dies
1993 David Gunn, abortion doctor, killed by Michael Griffin at 47
1992 Roy Holmer Wallack, dies of pneumonia at 64
1988 Andy Gibb, singer, dies at 30 of heart infection
1988 Glenn Cunningham, US world record miler, dies at 78
1988 William Brocklesby Wordsworth, composer, dies at 79
1986 Ray Milland, actor (Lost Weekend-Acad Award 1945), dies at 81
1985 Konstantin Chernenko, party leader/pres of USSR (1984-85), dies at 73
1984 June Marlowe, actress (Pardon US), dies at 81
1980 Herman Tarnower, doctor (Scarsdale Diet), killed by Jean Harris
1977 E Power Biggs, composer, dies at 70
1977 Pieter John Bouman, sociologist/historian, dies at 74
1977 Willem Schermerhorn, Dutch premier (1945-46), dies at 82
1975 Leopold Samuel, composer, dies at 91
1974 June Harrison, actress (Land of the Lawless), dies at 48
1974 Quinto Maganini, composer, dies at 76
1973 Richard Sharples, governor of Bermuda, is assassinated
1971 Mabel Wheeler Daniels, composer, dies at 92
1968 Helen Walker, actress (Brewster's Million), dies of cancer at 47
1966 Frederik "Frits" Zernike, physicist (Nobel 1953), dies at 77
1966 Mari Sandoz, US author (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 64
1953 Charles Gordon Curtis, inventor of (Curtis-steam turbine), dies at 92
1948 Jan Masaryk, Czech Foreign minister, commits suicide
1944 David Bird, Ukrainian author (Auschwitz), dies at 52
1943 Tully Marshall, axtor (Let's Go, Red Dust), dies at 78
1940 Louis de Vries, actor (Merchant of Venice), dies
1935 Barend Barendse, actor/director (Broken Lives), dies at 82
1922 Arthur Hervey, composer, dies at 67
1922 Horace Wadham Nicholl, composer, dies at 73
1913 Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, conductor on Underground RR, dies in NY
1910 Carl Reinecke, composer, dies at 86
1910 Karl Lueger, Austrian anti-semite/mayor of Vienna, dies
1906 Eugen Richter, German liberal parliament member, dies at 67
1901 Vasily Georgiyevich Wrangell, composer, dies at 39
1900 Johann Peter Hartmann, composer, dies at 94
1897 Teodulo Mabellini, composer, dies at 79
1892 Otto van Raised, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1884-88), dies at 69
1888 Ciro Pinsuti, composer, dies at 58
1875 Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul, composer, dies at 85
1872 Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary (Giovane Italy), dies at 66
1870 Ignaz Moscheles, composer, dies at 75
1866 Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini, composer, dies at 87
1865 William Henry "Little Billy" Chase Whiting, US Conf gen-maj, dis at 48
1864 Maximilian II Jozef, King of Bayern (1848-64), dies at 52
1861 Josepf Fran‡ois Snel, composer, dies at 67
1832 Muzio Clementi, composer, dies at 80
1826 Johan VI M L J, King of Portugal (1816-26), dies at 56
1792 John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute/English premier (1760-63), dies at 78
1735 Dirk T van Cloon, lawyer/gov-gen of East Indies, dies at about 46
1716 Wenzel Ludwig von Radolt, composer, dies at 48
1701 Johann Schelle, composer, dies at 52
1700 Diogo Diaz Melgaz, composer, dies at 61
1597 Petrus Forestus, [Pieter Foreest], artist (Willem of Orange), dies
1592 Michiel Coxcie, Flemish (court)painter/carpet designer, dies
1585 Rembert Dodoens, [Rembertus Dodonaeus], physician/botanist, dies at 67
1546 Thomas Elyot, English diplomat (Boke named the Governor), dies at 46
 483 Simplicius, Italian Pope (468-83), dies
  37 Tiberius Claudius Nero, Roman emperor (14-37), dies at 77


Things that happened today...

2002 In Afghanistan Opperation Anaconda ends. 500 al-Qaida killed.
1996 NYC Mayor Guiliani visits Israel
1995 Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shite mosque, 17+ killed
1995 Chiel Me˜ering's "St Louis Blues," premieres in Arnhem
1995 Dow-Jones hits record 4035.64
1994 1 million Greeks attend Melina Mercouri's funeral
1992 Sandra Seuser/Katrin Schreiter/Annet Hesselbarth/Grit Breuer
     walk female indoor world record 4x400m (3:27.22)
1991 Merlene Ottey runs world record 200 m indoor (22.24 sec)
1991 Rico Lieder/Jens Carlowitz/Karsten Just/Thomas Sch”nlebe walk 4x400m
     indoor world record (3:03.05)
1990 Lt Gen Avril resigns as pres of Haiti
1990 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 NY Islanders celebrate Mike Bossy night
1985 Dallas Maverick coach Dick Motta is 4th NBA coach to win 700 games
1985 French socialists lose election (Nationally Front 9%)
1984 Heavyweight Tim Witherspoon KOs Greg Page
1983 E Barr discovers asteroid #3743
1982 Pres Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
1982 Sygyzy: all 9 planets aligned on same side of Sun
1980 Willard Scott becomes the weather forcaster on the Today Show
1978 Soyuz 28 returns to Earth
1977 Rings of Uranus discovered during occulation of SAO
1975 Dog spectacles patented in England
1974 Christian Democrates win Belgium parliamentary election
1973 Morocco adopts constitution
1972 1st black US political convention opens (Gary Indiana)
1972 Gen Lon Nol becomes pres & prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia
1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18
1970 Barbra Streisand records "The Singer" & "I Can Do It"
1969 James Earl Ray pleads guilty of killing Martin Luther King Jr
1968 Ferry boat sinks in harbor of Wellington NZ (200 killed)
1966 5 time Horse of the Year, Kelso, retires
1966 Dutch crown princess Beatrix marries Claus von Amsberg
1966 North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley
1965 Dutch Princess Daisy & Pieter van Vollenhoven, get engaged
1964 US begins reconnaissances flights above East-Germany
1963 Pete Rose debuts with hits in his 2 1st at bats in spring training
1963 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 70 points vs Syracuse
1960 USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing
1959 Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth," premieres in NYC
1959 Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa Tibet
1957 Thousands of soccer fans riot in Italy
1956 General strike in Cyprus protesting exile of archbishop Makarios
1956 Peter Twiss sets new world air record 1,132 mph (1,823 kph)
1953 H Alikoski discovers asteroid #2573 Hannu Olavi
1952 Military coup by general Fulgencio Batista in Cuba
1949 Detroit Tiger pitcher Art Houtteman is critically injured in an
     auto accident but recovers to win 15 games in 1949
1948 1st civilian to exceed speed of sound-Herb H Hoover, Edwards AFB Ca
1946 Train derailment kills 185 near Aracaju Brazil
1945 B-29 bombs Tokyo into flames
1945 Germany blows-up Wessel Bridge on Rhine
1945 Japan declares Vietnam Independence
1945 Patton's 3rd Army makes contact with Hodges 1st Army
1945 Tokyo in fire after night time B-29 bombing
1945 US troops lands on Mindanao
1941 Lee MacPhail, Dodger GM predicts all players will wear batting helmets
1940 1st US opera telecast, W2XBS, NYC, I Pagliacci
1940 G Kulin discovers asteroid #1513 Matra
1940 Germany invades the Benelux countries
1939 17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad India
1934 G Van Biesbroeck discovers asteroid #2463
1934 Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games)
1933 Major earthquake in Long Beach, Calif
1933 Nevada becomes 1st US state to regulate narcotics
1931 British Labour party removes fascist sir Oswald Mosley
1929 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1128 Astrid
1927 Albania mobilize by threat of Serbian, Croatian & Slavs
1927 Hitlers speech forbidden in Bayern
1926 Run on Belgian banks
1925 Walter Mittelholzer is 1st to flies over Demawend mountain, Iran
1922 KLZ-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
1922 state of siege proclaimed during mine strike Johannesburg S Africa
1920 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #929 Algunde
1920 NHL's Quebec Bulldog Jim Malone scores 6 goals vs Ottawa Senators
1920 W Baade discovers asteroid #930 Westphalia
1915 British expedition Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle
1914 Suffragettes in London damage painter Rokeby's Venus of Velasquez
1913 Quebec Bulldogs sweep Sydney (NS) Millionaires in 2 for Stanley Cup
1913 William Knox, becomes 1st in American Bowling Congress to bowl 300
1910 China ends slavery
1910 Pittsburgh Courier, begins publishing
1906 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Sonatine"
1906 Bakerloo line opens from Baker Street to Waterloo in England
1906 Coal dust explosion kills 1,060 at Courrieres France
1905 Japanese Army captures Manchuria (Shanghai)
1903 Harry Gammeter, Cleveland, patents multigraph duplicating machine
1903 Ottawa Silver 7 beat Montreal AAA 8-0 for the Stanley Cup
1902 Earthquake destroys Turkish city of Tochangri
1900 Battle at Driefontein, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
1896 Charilaos Vasilakos of Greece wins 1st modern marathon in 3:18
1896 The Bronx acquires O'Brien Square
     After Bob Fitzsimmons KOs much larger Jim Corbett to win world HW
     championship he says, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall"
1893 A Charlois discovers asteroid #359 Georgia
1893 Ivory Coast becomes a French colony
1893 New Mexico State University cancels it's 1st graduation ceremony,
     its only graduate Sam Steele was robbed & killed the night before
1890 A Charlois discovers asteroid #289 Nenetta
1888 1st performance of C‚sar Franck's "Psyche"
1888 HW Boxing champ John L Sullivan draws Charlie Mitchell in 30 rounds
1880 General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria
1880 Salvation Army of England sets up US welfare & religious activity
1876 1st telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson)
1874 Purdue University (Indiana) admits it's 1st student
1865 Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, NC
1864 Grant is named commander of the Union armies
1864 Red River campaign LA
1862 Great Britain & France recognizes independence of Zanzibar
1862 US issues $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 & $1000 paper money
1861 Asteroid Cybele (65) discovered by Tempel
1849 Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent; only US president to do so
1847 1st money minted in Hawaii
1791 John Stone, Concord, Mass, patents a pile driver
1791 Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution of the clergy
1789 Franklin College founded (1787?)
1734 Spanish army under Don Carlos (III) draws into Naples
1661 French king Louis XIV ends office of premier
1624 England declares war on Spain
1578 Queen Elizabeth I gives Johan Casimir œ20,000 to aid Dutch rebellion
1535 Bishop Tom s de Berlanga discovers Gal pagos Islands
1526 Emperor Charles V marries princess Isabella of Portugal
 483 St Simplicius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
 418 Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire
 241 -BC- Battle of Aegusa: Roman fleet sinks 50 Carthagean ships


Other Occasions...

     Zeta Bo”tid meteor shower, radiant in Bo”tes


Celebrations...

     [Dominica, St Lucia] Independence Day (1967)
     [Laos] Teachers' Day
     [World] World Culture Day (leap years)


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