Today In History
Thursday April 24th, 2003 -- Day Number: 114 - Days left: 251
Those born today...
1988 Michael Tylo, son of US actor/actress Michael Tylo/Deborah Hunter
1976 Shane McDermott, actor (Garrett Booth-Swan's Crossing)
1974 Toine Ror˜e, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1968 Aaron Comes, rocker (Spin Doctors)
1968 Mark Vanderloo, Waddenveen Neth, model
1963 Billy Gould, LA Calif, rock bassist (Faith No More)
1963 Joey Vera, heavy metal rocker (Armored Saint-Aftermath)
1960 ?, weatherman (WNYW TV NYC)
1960 Paula Yates, London England, Mrs Bob Geldof/rocker/writer (Blondes)
1958 Kathy Willets, NYC, XXX actress (Animal Instincts)
1957 Tricia Lange, Hollywood Calif, playmate (June, 1984)
1955 Jack Kingston, (Rep-R-Georgia)
1955 Michael O'Keefe, NJ, actor (Caddyshack, Ironweed, Slugger's Wife)
1954 Captain Sensible, [Ray Burns], UK, rock bassist (Women & Capts 1st)
1954 Jack Blades, rock bassist (Damn Yankees-Coming of Age, Night Ranger)
1954 Vince Ferragamo, NFL/CFL quarterback (LA Rams, Montr‚al Alouettes)
1953 Eric Bogosian, Woburn MA, actor (Talk Radio)
1953 John P Hiler, (Rep-R-IN, 1981- )
1953 Porter Carroll Jr, drummer (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1948 Benzion Freshwater, English multi-millionaire
1948 Eddie James Hart, Martinez Cal, 4x100m relay runner (Olympic-gold-72)
1947 Glenn Cornick, rock bassist (Jethro Tull-Thick as a Brick)
1947 Hubert Ann Kelly, US singer (Hues Corporation/Rock the boat)
1946 Bruce Stuart Saylor, composer
1945 Doug Clifford, rock drummer (Creedence Clearwater Revival-Proud Mary)
1945 Eugene O'Brien, composer
1945 Robert Knight, rocker
1944 [Bernard] St Clair Lee [Calhoun], US singer (Rock the Boat)
1943 Richard Sterban, Camden NJ, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys-Elvira)
1942 Barbra Streisand, Bkln NY, singer/actress/award winner (People)
1942 V A Voloshin, cosmonaut
1941 John Williams, Melbourne Australia, guitarist (Acad Award)
1936 Jill Ireland, London, actress (Breakout, Assassination, Chino)
1935 Louis Keith, Chicago, physician (expert on multiple-births)
1934 John Barbour, Toronto, TV host (Real People)
1934 Shirley MacLaine, Richmond Va, actress/mystic (Irma la Douce)
1933 Freddie Scott, US songwriter/singer (Cry to Me)
1932 Coen[rad] Flink, Dutch actor (Pastorale 1943, Havinck, Honneponnetje)
1931 Bridget Riley, British painter (op-art)
1929 Ferit Tuzun, composer
1928 Gustav Krivinka, composer
1927 Josy Barthel, Luxembourg, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1952)
1924 Marilyn Erskine, Rochester NY, actor (Fran-Tom Ewell Show)
1924 Yehoshua Lakner, composer
1922 J D Cannon, Salmon Idaho, actor (McCloud, Ike, Call to Glory)
1921 Laci Boldemann, composer
1916 Stanley Kauffmann, NYC, playwright (Red Handkerchief Man)
1914 Justin Wilson, cajun chef (Wise Potato Chips)
1914 Ruth White, Perth Amboy NJ, actress (Up the Down Staircase)
1911 Jack E Leonard, Chicago Ill, comedian (Disorderly Orderly)
1911 Karl O Schiller, German economist/minister of Economic
1911 Robert Joseph Kane, Ithaca NY, Pres of US Olympic Comm (1976)
1911 Sigursveinn David Kristinsson, composer
1909 Bernhard Grzimek, zoologist (West Germany)
1908 Heddy Bouber, [Hermanus G Blom], actor (Bluejackets)
1907 Vaclav Trojan, composer
1905 Robert Penn Warren, 1st US poet laureate (All the King's Men)
1904 Friedrich Siemens, German industrialist (Siemens), dies
1904 Willem De Kooning, Netherlands, artist (North Atlantic Light)
1903 Jos‚ A Primo de Rivera y Sa‚nz de Heredia, founder (Spanish Falange)
1903 Mike Michalske, NFL guard (NY Yankees, Green Bay Packers)
1903 Siegfried F Nadel, Austrian/British anthropologist (Black Byzantium)
19-- Colleen Quinn, actress (Carly Rescott-Loving)
19-- John Vargas, actress (Mathilda-Dick & the Duchess)
19-- Wilfrido Vargas, Dominican Republic, jazz saxophonist
1897 Benjamin Lee Whorf, linguist (or 1797)
1897 Gyorgy Kosa, composer
1895 S Constantine Timoshenko, Russian marshal/people's commissioner
1893 Robert Harron, NYC, actor (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance)
1892 Jack Hulbert, Ely England, actor (Into the Blue, Bulldog Jack)
1889 [Richard] Stafford Cripps, Engl min of Plane-manufacturing (1942-45)
1886 R Pelgrom, oldest Dutch man (died Apr 15, 1994, 9 days short of 108)
1883 Jaroslav Hasek, Czech writer (Brave soldier Schweik)
1877 Charles Cuvillier, composer
1875 Jeno Huszka, composer
1874 John Russell Pope, US, architect (Jefferson Memorial)
1874 Willem E Roelofs, Dutch painter/cartoonist
1873 Theodor K”rner von Siegringen, Austrian general/president
1867 Fannie Thomas, became oldest known American (113 y 273 d at death)
1864 George AA Alting van Geusau, dir-gen (PTT)/Dutch Min of War (1918-20)
1856 Henri POBJ P‚tain, French marshal (Verdun/Vichy regime)
1851 Eduardo Acevedo D¡az, Uruguaian writer (Ismael, Grito de Gloria)
1849 Joseph S Galli‚ni, general (Battle of Marne)/milt governor (Paris)
1845 Carl Spitteler, Switz, poet (Prometheus & Epimetheus; Nobel 1919)
1837 Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz)
1836 Jeltje de Bosch Kemper, Dutch feminist
1829 George Peabody Estey, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1881
1828 Robert Brank Vance, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
1824 Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp forger
1822 Erastus Barnard Tyler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1815 Anthony Trollope, England, novelist/poet (Barchester Towers)
1815 James Edward Harrison, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1875
1814 Vincente F L¢pez, Argentina historian (La novia del hereje)
1807 Charles Ferguson Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1804 Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Comm (Union Navy)
1791 Nikolaj A Bestuzhev, Russia, writer/painter (Account about Holland)
1773 Harman W Muntinghe, lawyer/Dutch colonial director
1769 Arthur Wellesley, General/Duke of Wellington
1766 Robert Bailey Thomas, founder (Farmer's Almanac)
1750 Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician
1743 Edmund Cartwright, England, cleric, inventor (power loom)
1742 Roman Hoffstetter, composer
1721 Johann Philipp Kirnberger, composer
1706 Giovanni Battista Martini, composer
1670 Christian Ludwig Boxberg, composer
1660 Cornelis Dusart, Dutch painter/engraver
1620 John Graunt, statistician, founder of science of demography
1594 Benedikt Lechler, composer
1576 Sab Vicente de Pa£l
1538 Gugliemo Gonzaga, composer
Those who died today...
1996 Erma Bombeck, columnist (Septic Tank is Always Greener), dies
1993 Oliver Tambo, chairman (African National Congress), dies at 75
1991 J de Graaf, ethicus/president church & peace, dies
1990 Joseph Leberman, entertainer, dies
1990 Tom Rolfing, actor (He Knows You're Alone), dies
1986 Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson, (Edward abdicated for her), dies at 89
1980 Alentejo Carpentier, Cubans/French writer (Guerra del tiempo), dies
1979 John Carroll, actor (Hired Wife, Fiesta, Geraldine), dies at 72
1976 Mark Tobey, US abstract artist, dies at 85
1975 William Hartnell, actor (Jackpot, This Sporting Life), dies at 67
1974 Bud Abbott, comedian (Abbott & Costello), dies at 78
1968 Norman McKaye, actor (Untamed Fury, Frogman), dies at 62
1968 Tommy Noonan, actor (Gentlemen Perfer Blondes), dies at 45
1967 Frank Overton, actor (12 O'Clock High), dies at 48
1967 Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut is 1st to die in space, aboard Soyuz 1
1965 Louise Dresser, actress (State Fair, Ship Comes In, Mammy), dies at 86
1961 Lee Moran, actor (Circus Clown), dies of heart ailment at 72
1960 John P "John" Musch, actor/founder (JM), dies at 84
1959 Jef van Hoof, composer, dies at 72
1957 Andries CD de Graeff, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1926-31), dies at 84
1956 Albrecht G Alt, German theologist (Small Schriften), dies at 72
1956 Henry Stephenson, actor (Conquest, Mr Lucky), dies at 85
1955 Alfred Polgar, Austrian writer, dies at 79
1952 Hans [Hendrik A] Kramers, physicist (quantum mechanics), dies at 57
1952 Jules Poncelet, Belgian minister of State, dies at 82
1948 Jazeps Vitols, composer, dies at 84
1948 Manuel Marua Ponce, Mexican composer (Ferial), dies at 65
1948 Rosita Marstini, actress (I Cover Waterfront, Big Parade), dies at 54
1945 Anton de Come, Suriname resistance fighter, dies at 47
1945 Hubert Bath, composer, dies at 61
1943 Gerardus H de Hare, socialist vicar, dies at 63
1939 John Foulds, composer, dies at 58
1936 Bernard van Dieren, composer, dies at 51
1935 Paul Klengel, composer, dies at 80
1928 Ferdinand B Hummel, composer, dies at 72
1922 Richard Batka, composer, dies at 53
1904 Friedrich Siemens, German industrial, dies at 77
1900 George JD Campbell, Brit min of Indies (1868-74, 80-85), dies at 76
1891 Count Helmuth K B von Moltke, Prussian gen/fieldmarshal, dies
1875 Jose Maria de la Purificacion Ventura, composer, dies at 58
1855 Walenty karol Kratzer, composer, dies at 75
1850 Louis Alexandre Piccinni, composer, dies at 70
1848 Fran‡ois van Campenhout, composer, dies at 69
1827 Pierre Joseph Candielle, composer, dies at 82
1824 Herman Muntinghe, theologist (History of Mankind), dies at 71
1776 Carolus van de Abeele, Flemish Jesuit, dies at 84
1776 Giuseppi Paolucci, composer, dies at 49
1758 Florian Wrastill, composer, dies at 41
1731 Daniel Defoe, English novelist (Robinson Crusoe), dies
1617 Carlo Concino, French marquis of Ancre/state advisor, murdered
1530 Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (De partu Virginis), dies
1185 Antoku Taira, emperor of Japan (1180-85), drowns
1077 Geza I, King of Hungary (1074-7), dies
729 Egbert[us], English bishop/saint, dies in Iona at 89
709 Wilfried, bishop of York, dies at about 76
Things that happened today...
1996 Highest scoring baseball game in 17 years - Twins 24, Tigers 11
1995 Court orders Darryl Strawberry to pay back $350,000 in taxes
1995 Dow Jones Index hits record 4303.98
1994 Actress Kelly Preston (26) weds actor Lou Diamond Phillips (32)
1994 Armando Calder¢n Sol wins El Salvador presidential election
1994 Bomb attack in center of Johannesburg, 9 killed
1994 David Robinson scores ties 7th highest total in the NBA - 71
1994 NY Rangers sweep NY Islanders in NHL playoffs
1993 1000 kg heavy IRA-autobomb explodes in London, killing 1
1992 "Man of La Mancha" with Sheena Easton opens at Marquis theater
1992 David Bowie marries model Iman in Switzerland
1992 George Steinbrenner drops his suits against baseball
1992 Vinson Pike fined œ1000 for distributing obscene computer pictures
1990 Brian Friel's "Dancing at Lughnasa," premieres in Dublin
1990 Security law violator Michael Milken pleads guilty to 6 felonies
1990 US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) launches into orbit
1990 West & East Germany agree to merge currency & economies on July 1st
1989 10s of thousands of students strikes in Beijing China
1989 Massachusetts declares today "New Kids on the Block Day"
1985 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carolyn Lizer for "Yin"
1984 Oiler's Wayne Gretzky is 3rd to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot
1983 Austrian socialist party loses parliamentary election
1982 150 Khomeini followers assault student dormitory in West Germany
1982 C Torres discovers asteroid #3361 Orpheus
1981 Bill Shoemaker wins his 8,000th race, 2000 more than any other jockey
1981 IBM-PC introduced
1981 San Antonio blocks 20 Golden State shots to set NBA reg game record
1981 US ends grain embargo against USSR
1980 US military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die
1979 Rhodesian bishop Muzorewa wins general election
1977 C Kowal discovers asteroid #2063 Bacchus
1975 Penguins 1-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-series tied at 3-3
1975 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 Dutch women hockey team becomes world champion
1974 NFL grants franchise to Tampa Bay Bucaneers
1971 Soyuz 10 returns to Earth
1970 China PR launches its 1st satellite transmitting song "East is Red"
1970 Gambia becomes a republic within Commonwealth
1970 Senegal adopts constitution
1969 Gen Lin Piao succeeds Mao, is seriously wounded
1969 Lebanese army in battle with Palestinians
1969 Paul McCartney says their is no truth to rumors he is dead
1969 US B-52 drops 3,000 ton bombs at Cambodian boundary
1968 Leftist students take over Columbia University, NYC
1968 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1967 Philadelphia beats San Francisco, 4 games to 2, for NBA championship
1965 Military coup under Donald Reid Cabral in Dominican Republic
1965 NY Met Casey Stengel wins his 3,000 game as manager
1963 Boston beat LA, 4 games to 2, for NBA title; Bob Cousy retires
1963 English princess Alexandra marries sir Angus Ogilvy
1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 1st Lockheed A-12 is taxi tested
1962 MIT sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time: CA to MA
1962 Sandy Koufax's 2nd 18-strikeout game
1961 JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs
1961 Vasa, which sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is raised
1960 14th Tony Awards: Miracle Worker & Fiorello! win
1960 Heavy earthquake strikes South Persia, 500 killed
1959 Neth Dance Theater opens (Rudi of Dantzig & Cut Flier)
1959 WICD TV channel 15 in Champaign, IL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 Lee Walls hits 3 HRS, as Cubs beat Dodgers 15-2
1957 Asteroid #3648 discovered
1955 Conference of Bandung against colonialism & self determination, ends
1955 Gaullists lose elections in France
1955 KFDM TV channel 6 in Beaumont, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 KMAU (now KGMV) TV channel 3 in Wailuku, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 1st American, civilian pilot, P.R. Holden, wounded in Indochina
1954 Australia & USSR break diplomatic relations
1954 WSEE TV channel 35 in Erie, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
1950 Independent republic of South Molukkas declared
1950 Pres Truman denies there are communists in US govt
1945 Albert B "Happy" Chandler is named 2nd baseball commissioner
1944 1st Boeing B-29 arrives in China "over the Hump"
1944 RAF bombs Munich
1944 United Negro College Fund incorporates
1942 Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
1941 British army begins evacuation of Greece
1941 Dutch Prince Bernhard becomes an RAF pilot
1938 Lindenheuvel soccer team forms
1933 1st major league to get 4 consecutive doubles in 9 inn (Dick Bartell)
1932 German national election (NSDAP 36.3% in Prussia)
1932 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1862 Apollo
1931 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1193 Africa
1930 H Van Gent discovers asteroid #1165 Imprinetta
1929 1st non-stop England to India flight takes-off
1929 Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark
1925 88øF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April
1923 Colonel Jacob Schick patents Schick shavers
1923 General harbor strike begins in NYC
1921 1st municipal elections for men & women in Belgium
1920 British Mandate over Palestine goes into effect (lasts 28 years)
1920 Polish troops attack Ukraine
1917 Yankee lefty George Mogridge no-hits Red Sox 2-1 at Fenway
1916 Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins
1915 German army fires chloroform gas in Ieper
1915 Massacre of Armenians by Turks (Armenian Martyrs Day)
1915 Pitts' Frank Allen no-hits St Louis (Federal League), 2-0
1910 German Catholic youth movement Quickborn forms
1909 Harry Hillman & Lawson Robertson run 100m 3-legged race in 11 seconds
1908 Mr & Mrs Jacob Murdock become 1st to travel across US by car,
they leave LA in a Packard & arrive in NYC in 32d-5h-25m
1905 Senators execute a triple-play & beat Yankees 4-3
1901 1st AL game, Chic beats Cleve Blues 8-2, 3 other games rained out
1900 Passing of Andrew Halliday, cable car pioneer
1899 Transvaal British Uitlanders ask Queen Victoria for aid
1898 Spain declares war on US rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
1898 US fleet under commodore Dewey sails from Hong Kong to Philippines
1897 1st reporter, William Price, assigned to White House
1895 Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat
1894 French cyclist Henri Desgrange rides 100km in world record 2:39:18
1894 Phillies Lave Cross hits for cycle vs Bkln Dodgers
1891 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Final Problem"
1888 Eastman Kodak forms
1884 National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes (Atlanta)
1883 28 Surinamers depart to Amsterdam World's Fair
1880 Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men's athletics
in England & Wales, is founded in Oxford, England
1877 Last federal occupying troops withdraw from south (New Orleans)
1877 Russia declares war on Turkey through Romania
1872 Volcano Vesuvius erupts
1871 Opera "Aida" is produced (Cairo)
1867 Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond Va streetcars
1865 Fire alarm & police telegraph system put into operation (SF)
1863 Skirmish at Okolona/Birmingham, Mississippi (Grierson's Raid)
1854 Austria's Franz Joseph I marries Elisabeth AE "Sissi"
1833 Patent granted for 1st soda fountain
1823 EugŠne Scribes "Le Menteur V‚ridique," premieres in Paris
1801 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's oratorio "Die Jahreszeiten"
1800 Library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation
1792 "La Marseillaise" composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle
1762 Russia & Prussia signs peace treaty
1704 Boston News-Letter, 1st successful newspaper in US, forms
1596 Pacificatie of Ireland drawn
1570 Battles between Spanish troops & followers of sultan Suleiman
1558 Queen Mary Stuart of Scotland marries French crown prince Fran‡ois
1547 Battle of Mhlberg: Emperor Karel V vs ruler Johan F the Brave
1524 Duke of Bourbon drives admiral Bonnivet out of Milan
1364 Pope Urbabus V names John V van Virneburg as bishop of Utrecht
1311 Gen Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India
1288 Jews of Yroyes France are accused of ritual murder
1185 Battle at Danoura: Yoshitsune Minamoto's fleet beats imperial fleet
858 Nicolaas I succeeds Benedict III as pope
Other Occasions...
[US] Take Your Daughter to Work Day
Celebrations...
[Armenia] Armenian Martyrs' Day (1915)
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