Today In History
Thursday April 3rd, 2003 -- Day Number: 93 - Days left: 272
Those born today...
1973 Jim Campbell, Worchester Mass, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994)
1972 Jennie Garth, Champagn Ill, actr (Kelly Taylor-Beverly Hills 90210)
1972 Sandrine Testud, Lyon France, tennis star
1971 Picabo Street, skier (Olympic-gold-94)
1968 Bernd Karbacher, Germany, tennis star
1968 Sebastian Philip Clerk Bach, Bahamas, rock (Skid Row-Psycho Love)
1963 Chris Bosio, baseball player
1962 John Gruffith, rocker (Red Rockers)
1962 Mike Ness, rocker (Social Distortion)
1961 Eddie Murphy, Bkln NY, actor (SNL, 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop, Raw)
1961 Melissa Etheridge, rock guitarist/vocalist (Come to My Window)
1958 Alec Baldwin, Amityville NY, actor (Joshua-Knots Landing, Beetlejuice)
1956 Miguel Bose, Panama, spanish singer
1955 Aleksandr Nikolayevich Yablontsev, Russian lt-colonel/cosmonaut
1954 Mick Mars, [Bob Allen Dale], IN, guitarist (Mtley Cre-Girls Girls)
1953 Huub van der de Lubbe, rock singer (Stampei-The Dike)
1951 Gwen Welles, US actress (Desert Hearts, Nashville)
1951 Mel Schacher, MI, bassist (Grand Funk Railroad-Some Kind of Wonderful)
1950 Curtis Stone, N Hollywood Calif, singer (Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry)
1949 Jan Keizer, Dutch singer (BZN-Rhythm of My Heart)
1949 Lyle Alzado, NFLer (LA Raiders)/actor (Oceans of Fire, Hangfire)
1949 Richard Thompson, vocalist/guitarist (Shoot Out the Lights)
1948 Garrick Ohlsson, Bronxville NY, pianist (Intl Busoni winner 1969)
1948 Jaap G de Hoop Scheffer, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
1948 Mary Gordon-Watson, England, equestrian 3 day event (Oly-gold-1972)
1946 Carlos Salinas de Gortari, president (Mxico, 1988-94)
1946 Dee Murray, rocker (Elton John Band)
1946 John Virgo, British snooker player
1945 Catherine Spaak, France, actress (Libertine, Hotel, Circle of Love)
1945 Wim J Deetman, Dutch minister of education/2nd Chamber member (CDA)
1944 Barry Pritchard, rock guitarist (Fortunes)
1944 Richard Manuel, rock pianist/vocalist (Band-Up on Cripple Creek)
1944 Tony Orlando, NYC, singer (& Dawn-Tie a Yellow Ribbon)
1942 Billy Joe Royal, Valdosta Ga, country singer (Down in the Boondocks)
1942 Marsha Mason, St Louis Mo, actress (Blume in Love, Cinderella Liberty)
1942 Michael Elliott, US, skier (Olympics-1968)
1942 Rick Sylvester, parachute ski jumper (world record 3,300')
1942 Wayne Newton, Roanoke Virginia, singer (Danke Schn)
1941 Eric Braeden, Aust, actor (Victor Newman-Young & Restless, Colossus)
1941 Jan Berry, LA Calif, rock vocalist (Jan & Dean-Deadman's Curve)
1941 Philippe Wynne, US soul singer (Detroit Spinners, Ghetto Child)
1940 Lino Brocka,
1939 Vitaliy Davidov, USSR, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72)
1938 Jeff Barry, Bkln NY, rock writer (Tell Laura I Love Her)
1938 Phillppe Wynn, rocker (Spinners)
1937 Simon Brown, British high court judge
1937 William Gaunt, Leeds England, actor (Champions)
1936 Englebert Humperdinck, rocker
1934 Jane Goodall, London England, ethologist (studied African chimps)
1934 Jim Parker, NFL guard, tackle (Baltimore Colts)
1934 John Lelliott, English contractor/multi-millionaire
1933 Robert K Dornan, (Rep-R-CA, 1977-83, 85- )
1930 Helmut Kohl, chancellor (Germany, 1982- )
1930 Lawton Chiles, (sen/gov-D-Florida, 1971-89/91- )
1930 Max Frankel, journalist (Tables of Id of Organic Compounds)
1929 Miyoshi Umeki, Jap, actr (Mrs Livingston-Courtship of Eddie's Father)
1927 Eva Szkely, Hungary, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1952)
1926 Virgil Grissom, Mitchell Ind, Lt Col USAF/astronaut (Merc 4, Gemini 3)
1925 Tony Benn, British minister of technology (1968)
1924 Doris Day, Cincinnati Oh, "girl next door" actress (Pillow Talk)
1924 Marlon Brando, Omaha Neb, actor (Superman, Godfather)
1923 Jan Sterling, NYC, actress (1st Monday in October, HS Confidential)
1923 John Smith, English large landowner/financier/MP (C)
1921 Harry Landers, NYC, actor (Ted Hoffman-Ben Casey)
1920 Stan Freeman, Waterbury Conn, pianist (Melody Tour)
1918 Enrique Iturriaga, composer
1918 Louis Applebaum, composer
1918 Sixten Ehrling, Malm Sweden, conductor (Royal Opera of Stockholm)
1917 Bill Finegan, Newark NJ, (Sauter-Finegan Band, Sat Night Revue)
1917 Tibor Andrasovan, composer
1916 Herb Caen, Sacramento Calif, columnist (SF Chronicle)
1914 Katherine Stammers Menzies, England, doubles tennis player (Wimb 1935)
1913 George Barati, composer
1912 Addeke H Boerma, Dutch dir-gen (FAO)
1912 Bert Bakker, Dutch publisher (Free Netherlands)
1907 Isaac Deutscher, Polish/English historian (Stalin/Trotsky biography)
1904 Iron Eyes Cody, Tulsa OK, actor (Black Gold, Ernest Goes to Camp)
1904 Peter Van Steeden, Amsterdam Neth, orch leader (Break the Bank)
1902 Henri Garat, Paris France, actor (Congress Dances)
1902 Siguringi Eirikur Hjorleifsson, composer
1900 Camille Chamoun, president of Lebanon
19-- Anne De Salvo, Phila, actress (Compromosing Positions)
19-- Danielle [Martin], XXX actress (Blonde Next Door, Flasher)
19-- David Hyde Pierce, NY, actor (Niles Crane-Fraiser)
19-- John Laughlin, Memphis Tn, actor (White Shadow)
19-- Kuan Yin, buddhist/taoist deity
19-- Laura Bryan Birn, actress (Lynne Bassett-Young & Restless)
19-- Pat Proft, Minneapolis Mn, comedy writer (Naked Gun, Airplane)
1899 Cees Lasseur, Dutch actor/owner (Hague Comedy)
1898 George Jessel, toastmaster general/entertainer (Diary of Young Comic)
1898 Henry R Luce, publisher (1965 Fisher Award)
1896 Douwe Kalma, Dutch literature/leader (Young Frisian Movement)
1895 Bjarne Brustad, composer
1895 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Firenze (Florence) Italy, composer
1894 Dooley Wilson, Tyler Tx, actor (Bill-Beulah, Casablanca)
1893 Leslie Howard, [Stainer], London, actor (Gone With the Wind)
1885 Harry St John Philby, [sheik Abdullah], British explorer
1882 Simon Elzinga, Dutch educator
1881 Alcide de Gasperi, Italian premier (1945..53)
1881 Margaret MJ "Daisy" Ashford, English author (Young Sisters)
1874 Eduardo Sanchez de Fuentes, composer
1871 Jos Juan Tablada, Mexican poet (El Florilegio)
1866 James B Hertzog, South African general/premier (1914-39)
1860 Frederik W van Eeden, Dutch utopian writer (Walden)
1859 Reginald De Koven, composer
1858 Matthew Ricketts, 1st Black man elected to Neb State Legislature
1842 Ulric Dahlgren, Col (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1838 Lon Michel Gambetta, French attorney/premier (1881-82)
1837 John Burroughs, writer/nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake)
1825 Adolf Rzepko, composer
1823 William Macy "Boss" Tweed, corrupt NYC political boss
1822 Edward Everett Hale, US, clergyman/author (Man without a Country)
1812 Louisa Maria, Queen of the Belgians (1832-50)/wife of Leopold I
1798 Charles D Wilkes, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1877
1783 Washington Irving, US writer (Legend of Sleepy Hollow)
1757 Ferenc Verseghy, composer
1751 Jean-Baptiste Lamoyne, composer
1727 Philippe-Lambert-Joseph Spruyt, Flemish painter/engraver
1720 Elia van Vilnius, [Elijahu ben Salomo Zalman], Latvian rabbi
1682 Johann Valentin Rathgeber, German benedictine/composer
1649 Joseph-Franois Salomon, composer
1617 Antimo Liberati, composer
1603 William Smith, composer
1593 George Herbert, English metaphysical poet (5 Mystical Songs)
1569 Giovanni Battista Massarengo, composer
1485 Lieven van der de Maude [Ammonius], South Netherland poet
1438 John III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland
1367 Henry IV, Bolingbroke, King of England (1399-1413)
1245 Philips III, the Stout, King of France (1270-85)
---- Pak Tai, Hong Kong
Those who died today...
2002 Linda Boreman - aka Linda Lovelace - dies in car crash at 53.
1996 Carl Stokes, 1st black mayor of a major US city (Cleve), dies
1994 Betty Furness, actress/news consumer reporter (WNBC), dies
1994 Frank G Wells, US director (Walt Disney), dies at 62
1994 Jerome Lejeune, French geneticist (Syndrome of Down), dies at 67
1994 Pat Harper, NY news anchor (WPIX, WNBC), dies
1993 Alexander Mnouchkine, French movie producer (Professional), dies at 83
1993 Dieter Plage, German wildlife filmmaker, dies at 57
1993 Eduardo Cabellero Calderon, Colombian writer/diplomat
1993 Pinky Lee, kiddie program host, dies at 85, of heart attack
1992 Lloyd "Slim" Andrews, actor (Buf Bill in Tomahawk Territory), dies
1992 Margaret Barker, actress, dies of lung cancer at 83
1991 Graham Greene, Brit writer (3rd Man, Our man in Havana), dies at 86
1990 Katharine Balfour, actress (Love Story), dies of ALS at 69
1990 Sarah Vaughn, jazz singer, dies of lung cancer at 66
1989 Norman Woolard, actor (Guilty, Saul & David, Medeleine), dies at 79
1988 Milton A Caniff, US cartoonist (Terry & the Pirates), dies at 81
1986 Peter Pears, English tenor (Death in Venice), dies at 75
1986 Richard Manuel, rock pianist/vocalist (Band), dies on 41st birthday
1982 Herman W Filarski, bridge journalist, dies at 69
1982 Warren Oates, actor (East of Eden, Stoney Burke), dies at 53
1980 Luella Gear, actress (Joe & Mabel), dies at 82
1976 Maurice Johnstone, composer, dies at 75
1975 Mary Ure, actress (Sons & Lovers, Where Eagles Dare), dies at 42
1972 Ferde Grof, US composer (Grand Canyon Suite), dies at 80
1971 Joseph Valachi, US gangster, dies at 66
1970 Manfred Bonnington Lee, [Ellery Queen], detective writer, dies at 65
1969 Rex Evans, actor (Frankenstein meets the Wolfman, Zara), dies at 65
1966 Russel Crouse, US stagewriter (Life with Father), dies at 73
1962 Benny "Kid" Paret, US welterweight boxer, dies after fight, at 24
1962 Manolis Kalomiris, composer, dies at 78
1960 Anton Pancake, astronomer/marxist theorist, dies at 77
1956 T Kostov, Bulgarian vice-premier, executed
1951 John C Kielstra, economist/governor of Suriname (1933-44), dies at 72
1950 Adolf Wiklund, composer, dies at 71
1950 Carter G Woodson, "father of black history," dies in Wash DC at 74
1950 Kurt Julian Weill, German composer (Dreigroschenoper), dies at 50
1949 Basil Harwood, composer, dies at 89
1946 Masaharu Homma, Lt Gen (responsible for Bataan Death March), executed
1945 Joseph Weinheber, Austria poet/writer (Vienna Wrtlich), dies
1943 Conrad Veidt, German/US actor (Cabinet of Dr Calgary), dies at 50
1942 Albert Siklos, composer, dies at 64
1942 Paul Gilson, composer, dies at 77
1941 Andr Michelin, French tire manufacturer, dies at 88
1941 Pal Teleki-von Szek, premier Hungary (1920-21, 39-41), commits suicide
1936 Bruno Hauptmann, convicted Lindbergh baby killer, executed
1920 Homer Newton Bartlett, composer, dies at 74
1919 Paul Geisler, composer, dies at 62
1909 Benjamin Johnson Lang, composer, dies at 71
1897 Johannes Brahms, German composer (Hungarian Dancing), dies at 63
1884 Carel JCH van Nispen Sevenaer, Catholic politician, dies at 59
1882 Friedrich Wilhelm Kucken, composer, dies at 71
1882 Jesse James, shot dead at 34, in St Joseph Mo by Robert Ford
1868 Franz Adolf Berwald, Swedish composer, dies at 71
1858 Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, Austrian composer, dies at 79
1850 Vaclav Jan Krtitel Tomasek, composer, dies at 75
1849 Juliusz Slowacki, Polish poet (Father of Bacteria), dies at 39
1838 Francesco Antommarchi, Napoleon's physician on St Helena, dies at 57
1811 Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen, Flemish (court)painter, dies
1797 Nonnosus Madlseder, composer, dies at 67
1769 Gerhard Tersteegen, German evangelist/poet (in blood), dies at 71
1695 Melchior de Hondecoeter, still life painter, dies at about 58
1694 Ferdinand van Apshoven de Jongere, Flemish painter, buried at 64
1682 Bartolom Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter
1581 Huibert Duifhuis, Roman Catholic pastor to Rotterdam/Utrecht
1525 Giovanni Rucellai, Italian poet (Le api), dies at 49
1512 Richard Pafraet, printer
1287 Honorius IV, [Giacomo Savelli], Italian Pope (1285-87), dies
628 Chosroes II, emperor of Persia (579..628), murdered by his son
33 Christ, crucified, according to astronomer Humphreys & Waddington
Things that happened today...
1995 UCLA Bruins win NCAA Men's basketball tournament
1992 1st exhibition game at Camden Field-Orioles beat NY Mets
1991 Thomas Bos skates world record 3 km (3:65.16)
1989 "Sunrise" a Gannett newspaper begins publishing for Bronx
1989 Michigan beats Seaton Hall for NCAA basketball title
1988 Louisiana Tech beats Auburn 56-54 to win NCAA Woman's title
1988 Mario Lemieux wins NHL scoring title, stopping Gretzky's 7 year streak
1988 NJ Devils beat Chicago to clinch their 1st ever playoff spot
1988 Somalia & Ethiopia sign accord about Ogaden desert
1988 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1987 Bill Elliott sets NASCAR qualify record of 212.809 mph at Talladega
1987 Duchess of Windsors jewels auctioned for 31,380,197
1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1986 Maureen O'Boyle (future host of Current Affair) is raped
1986 US national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000
1985 French government adopts equal electoral system
1985 Vic Elliot pocketed 15,780 pool balls in 24 hours in London
1984 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3676
1984 Guinea suspends constitution after coup
1984 Soyuz T-11 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 Indian-Rakesh Sharma) to Salyut 7
1982 Buffalo Sabre Gil Perrault scores his 1,000th NHL point
1982 UN Security Council demanded Argentina withdraw from Falkland Islands
1981 Arnie Boldt of Saskatchewan jumped 6' 8.25", with 1 leg
1981 Race riots in London's Brixton area
1980 France performs nuclear test
1980 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 Belgium's Martens govt forms
1979 Jane Byrne elected 1st female mayor of Chicago
1978 European market & China signs trade agreement
1978 Larry King moves his radio show from Miami to Washington DC
1977 Boston Bruin Jean Ratelle scores his 1,000th NHL point
1977 Egyptian Pres Anwar Sadat 1st meeting with President Jimmy Carter
1977 Netherlands/Belgium/Luxembourg adopt summer time
1976 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1976 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #3493
1976 Phila Flyers win record tying 20th straight NHL home game
1975 Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend
1975 James Rupers kills his family to inherit
1974 148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states
1974 Gold hits record $197 an ounce in Paris
1972 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2142 Landau
1970 Miriam Hargrave of England passes her drivers test on 40th try
1968 N Vietnam agrees to meet US reps to set up preliminary peace talks
1967 WNYE TV channel 25 in Brooklyn, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
113 East Europeans attending World Amateur hockey championships
in Vienna, ask for political asylum
1966 Luna 10 orbits Moon
1965 1st atomic powered spacecraft (snap) launched
1964 Beatles hold top 6 spots on Sydney Australia record charts
1964 US & Panam agree to resume diplomatic relations
1962 Jockey Eddie Arcaro retires after 31 years (24,092 races)
1960 Earthquake at Havr, Belgium
1958 Fidel Castro's rebels open attack on Havana
1957 Samuel Beckett's "Endgame," premieres in London
1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1956 German war criminals Hinrichsen/Rhl/Siebens/Viebahn freed
1955 Balt Orioles pull their 1st triple play (3-6-2 vs KC Athletics)
1955 Fire in cinema to Sclessin Belgium, kills 39
1955 Night express train in Guadalajara derails, killing 300
1954 Don Perry climbs a 20' rope in under 2.8 seconds (AAU record)
1952 Dutch Queen Juliana speaks to US Congress
1951 Christopher Fry's "Sleep of Prisoners," premieres in Oxford
1949 KQW-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KCBS
1949 WLWS (now WCMH) TV channel 4 in Columbus, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1948 1st US figure skating championships held
1948 Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries)
1946 Neth-German postal relations resume
1945 Hengelo freed from nazi control
1945 Nazi's begin evacuation of camp Buchenwald
1945 US 1st army conquers Hofgeismar
1944 British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz
1944 Supreme Court (Smith v Allwright) "white primaries" unconstitutional
1943 Jan Dieters (leader of illegal CPN) arrested
1941 Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion
1941 Rasjid al-Gailani forms pro-German regime in Iraq
1941 Waltons overture "Scapino," premieres in Chicago
1940 Y Vaisala discovers asteroids #2194 Arpola, #2512 Tavastia & #3099
1937 K Inkeri discovers asteroid #1425 Tuorla
1936 Al Carr KOs Lew Massey on 1 punch, :07 of 1st round
1936 Shortest boxing bout with gloves lasts only 10 seconds
1935 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1354 Botha & #1948 Kampala
1935 Yasuo Ikenada runs world record marathon (2:26:44)
1933 1st airplane flight over Mt Everest
1933 Then longest North American hockey game requires a 1:44:46 overtime
as Maple Leaf Ken Doraty scores to beat Canadiens 1-0
1930 Mont Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 2 games for Stanley Cup
1930 Ras Tafari becomes Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1929 Persia agrees to Litvinov Pact
1927 Interstate Commerce Comm transfers Ohio to Eastern time zone
1926 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 7th Symphony in C
1926 2nd flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard
1926 Italy establishes corp of force in order to break powerful unions
1925 Great Britain goes back to gold standard
1925 Neth & Belgium sign accord of Westerschelde
1922 Stalin named secretary-general of Central Committee
1919 Austria expels all Habsburgers
1918 House of Reps accepts American Creed written by William Tyler
1917 Lenin leaves Switzerland for Petrograd
1916 S Belyavskij disc asteroid 854 Frostia, 855 Newcombia & 856 Backlunda
1913 British suffragette Emily Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail
1911 Harry James Smith' "Mrs Bumsted-Leigh," premieres in NYC
1910 Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt McKinley climbed
1908 Frank Gotch wins world heavyweight wrestling championship in 2 hrs
1905 M Wolf discovers asteroid #562 Salome
1889 Savings Bank of Order of True Reformers opens in Richmond, Va
1886 J Palisa discovers asteroids #256 Walpurga & #274 Philagoria
1872 J C Watson discovers asteroid #119 Althaea
1868 An Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever, he rides a 50' tidal wave
1865 Battle at Namozine Church, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign)
1865 Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond Va & Petersberg
1864 Skirmish at Okolona, Arkansas
1860 Pony Express began between St Joseph Mo & Sacramento Calif
1856 Gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodos
1848 Thomas Douglas becomes 1st SF public teacher
1783 Sweden & US sign a treaty of Amity & Commerce
1776 Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College
1764 Austrian arch duke Jozef crowned himself Roman Catholic king
1721 Robert Walpole becomes England's 1st Lord of the Treasury
1679 Edmund Halley meets Johannes Hevelius in Danzig
1657 English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown
1645 English parliament accept Self-Denying Ordinance
1582 French van Valois honored as duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen
1559 Spain & France signs 2nd Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambrsis
1376 Battle of Navarrete (Najera), English beat France
1312 2nd council of Vienna
1043 Edward the Confessor crowned king of England
419 [Etalius] ends his reign as Catholic Pope
309 -BC- Origin of Seleucid Era
245 -BC- Origin of Era of Arsaces
Other Occasions...
American Creed Day
Celebrations...
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