Today In History
       Wednesday April 23rd, 2003 -- Day Number: 113 - Days left: 252


Those born today...

1981 Gabriella MAO Windsor, daughter of English prince Michael
1971 Chuck Adams, Pacific Palisades Calif, tennis star (1989 USTA Boys)
1970 Cristiano Caratti, Italy, tennis star (1987 Orange Bowl boys doubles)
1969 Nadeem Shahid, cricketer
1968 Susan Emily Savastano, E Providence RI, Miss RI-America (1991)
1967 Brent Muscat, rocker (Faster Pussycat-Wake Me When It's Over)
1967 Melina Kanakaredes, Akron Ohio, actress (Eleni Andros-Guiding Light)
1966 Jacques"Jacq" Koumans, soccer player (NAC)
1965 Donna Weinbrecht, skier (Olympic-gold)
1964 Dan Frischman, Whippany NJ, actor (Arvid Engen-Head of the Class)
1964 Gen, [Simon Matthews], English pop drummer (Jesus Jones-Zeroes & Ones)
1964 Martin Lopez-Zubero, Spanish backstroke swimmer (world record 200m)
1960 Steve Clark, Hillsborough England, rock guitarist (Def Leppard)
1960 Valerie Bertinelli, Del, (1 Day at a Time, Sydney); Ms Eddie Van Halen
1958 Max Planck, physicist (Quanta Physics)
1957 Jan Hooks, Decatur Georgia, comedienne actress (SNL, Designing Women)
1955 Mike Smith, British DJ
1955 Su Ingle, British TV hostess
1955 Tony Miles, chess player
1953 Fred Upton, (Rep-R-Michigan)
1953 James Russo, NYC, actor (My Own Private Idaho, China Girl)
1952 Lionel Johnston, Augusta Ga, actor (Sons & Daughters)
1952 Narada, [Michael Walden], Mich, rocker (Don't Want Nobody Else)
1952 Tony Maselli, (fictional character on "Who's the Boss")
1951 Loek M L H A Hermans, Dutch 2nd chamber member (VVD)
1949 Blair Brown, Wash DC, actress (Altered States, Molly Dodd)
1949 John Miles, vocal/guitar/keyboards (John Miles Band-Rebel, Zaragon)
1949 Joyce DeWitt, Wheeling WV, actress (Janet Wood-Three's Company)
1949 Walter Sweeney, MP
1948 Tessa Wyatt, actress (Beast in the Cellar, Wedding Night)
1947 Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Ireland, political activist (or 1940)
1947 Saskia, [Trudy van den Berg], singer (S & Serge, Spinning Wheel)
1944 Niklaus Schilling,
1943 Carmen von Thyssen, Barcelona Spain, Baroness
1943 Herve Villechaize, France, "Da Plane! Da Plane!" (Fantasy Island)
1943 Hugh Davies, composer
1943 Tony Esposito, Ontario, NHL goalie (Chicago Blackhawks)
1943 [Gerardus] Bob van Toll, actor/interpreter/director (Pastorale 1943)
1942 Sandra Dee, [Zuck], Bayonne NJ, actress (Gidget, Imitation of Life)
1941 Ed Stewart, British DJ
1941 Hal Daub, (Rep-R-NB, 1981-  )
1940 Lee Majors, [Harvey Yeary], TV actor ($6,000,000 Man, Stunt Man)
1940 Richard Monaco, US, sci-fi author (Grail War, Final Quest)
1939 David Birney, Wash DC, actor (Brigette Loves Bernie, St Elsewhere)
1939 Ray Peterson, Denton Tx, singer (Tell Laura I Love Her)
1939 William Hagerty, editor (People)
1938 Russell Hillhouse, under-sect Scottish Office
1938 Steven D Symms, (Sen-R-ID, 1981-  )
1937 Victoria Glendinning, author (Edith Sitwell A Unicorn Among Lions)
1936 Elias, [Etienne Michiels], Flemish painter
1936 Estelle Harris, actress (Estelle-Seinfeld)
1936 Joseph Willaert, Flemish painter
1936 Roy Orbison, Vernon Tx, rocker (Pretty Woman)
1935 David Evans, MP
1933 Roger Wittevrongel, Flemish painter
1932 Halston, [R Halston Frowick], fashion designer (1972 Hall of Fame)
1932 Jim Fixx, jogger/writer (Jim Fixx on Running)
1930 Michael Bowen, RC Archbishop (Southwark)
1929 George Steiner, professor of English
1928 Bill Cotton, CEO (Noel Gay TV)
1928 Okke Jager, Dutch theologist/writer/poet
1928 Shirley Temple Black, Santa Monica Calif, child actress/ambassador
1927 Russell Smith, composer
1926 James P Donleavy, Brooklyn, novelist (Ginger Man, Onion Eaters)
1926 Richard Laws, Master (St Edmunds College Cambridge)
1924 Arthur Frackenpohl, Irving NJ, composer (Natural Superiority of Music)
1924 Colin Welch, columnist/critic
1924 Malcolm Anson, CEO (Wessex Water Authority)
1923 Avram Davidson, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Peregrine: Primus, Rork!)
1923 James Kirkup, travel writer/poet/novelist (African in Greenland)
1922 Boy [Segundo JA] Ecury, Aruba, resistance fighter
1922 Diarmuid Downs, auto engineer
1921 Janet Blair, Altoona Pa, actress (Leave it to the Girls, Smith Family)
1921 Warren Spahn, left-handed pitcher (Boston/Milwaukee Braves)
1920 Eric Yarrow, CEO (Clydesdale Bank)
1920 Louis Barron, composer
1919 Dorian Leigh, San Antonio TX, model, sister of Suzy Parker
1919 Talivaldis Kenins, composer
1918 Anthony Craxton, British TV producer
1918 Maurice Druon, [Kessel], French writer/journalist (Prix Goncourt)
1917 Jacob Kistemaker, nuclear physicist (ultra centrifuge)
1916 Bud Wilkinson, college football coach (Oklahoma)
1915 Arnold Hall, CEO (Hawker Siddeley Group)
1914 Andrew Martin, Lord-Lt (Lechestershire England)
1914 John Hubbard, Indiana Harbor Indiana, actor (Don't Call Me Charlie)
1914 Mitsu Suzuki, teacher of tea ceremony at SF Zen Center
1913 Jan Meyerowitz, composer
1911 Ronald Neame, director (1st Monday in Oct, Poseidon Adventure)
1911 Simone Simon, France, actress (All Money Can Buy, Ladies in Love)
1909 Thomas Padmore, senior civil servant
1908 Herbert Telley, British actuary
1907 Baroness Dudley
1906 Marcel Hillaire, Cologne Germany, actor (Adv in Paradise)
1906 Maria Arnoldo, [Adrianus Broeders], photographer/writer
1905 Lord Carew^
1904 Duncan Renaldo, Spain, actor (Cisco Kid)
1904 Leslie French, actor/singer (More than a Miracle)
1902 HalldĒr Laxness, Iceland, novelist (Salka Valka) (Nobel 1955)
1900 Ary Verhaar, composer
1900 Henry Barraud, composer
19-- Alan Oppenheimer, NYC, actor (6 Million Dollar Man, Eischied)
19-- Sydney St James, XXX actress (Anal Brat, Anal Intruder)
19-- Tina Andrews, Chicago, actress (Sanford Arms, Valerie-Falcon Crest)
1899 Edith Ngaio Marsh, NZ, Kiwi mystery writer (Black Beech & Honeydew)
1899 Vladimir Nabokov, St Petersburg Russia, novelist (Lolita, Ada)
1898 Edwin E Dwinger, German writer (General Vlassov)
1897 Harold French, director (Encore)/actor
1897 John Wengraf, Vienna Austria, actor (12 to Moon, Pride & Passion)
1897 Lester Bowles Pearson, (L) 14th Canadian PM (1963-68) (Nobel 1957)
1897 Lucius du Bignon Clay, US, general (WW II)/gov (West Germany)
1896 Margaret Kennedy, novelist
1894 Basil Sydney, England, actor (Hamlet, Jassy, Simba, Farmer's Wife)
1894 George Renevant, Paris, actor (Moulin Rouge, Scotland Yard, Comrade X)
1893 Frank Borzage, Salt Lake City, director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo)
1892 Minus van Looi, [Benjamin van der Voort], Flemish writer
1891 Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev, Ukraine, composer (Peter & the Wolf)
1890 Donald Nichols Tweedy, composer
1890 Marcel L'Herbier, French director/screenwriter (El Dorado)
1882 Albert Coates, St Petersburg Russia, conductor/composer (Eagle)
1882 Max Winders Maximilien, brought Belg gold reserves to England (WW II)
1881 Otakar Sini, composer
1877 Arthur Farwell, composer
1867 Simon Abramsz, Dutch teacher/writer (For the Young Ones)
1861 Edmund Henry Hynman, 1st viscount Allenby of Megiddo/Fieldmarshal
1858 Max KE Ludwig Planck, German physicist (Planck Constant, Nobel 1918)
1855 Ernst L Wolzogen, German writer/founder (Cabaret šberbrettl)
1852 Edwin Markham, US, poet (1st winner of Amer Acad of Poets Award 1937)
1838 Alfred J Verwee, Flemish painter
1828 Albert FA, king of Saxon (1873-1902)
1827 Johann F Ritter von Schulte, German Catholic lawyer
1823 Abdl-Medjid, 31st sultan of Turkey (1839-61)
1821 Pierre Dupont, song writer
1818 James Anthony Froude, historian
1818 John Gill Shorter, Gov (Confederacy), died in 1872
1813 Stephen Arnold Douglas, (Little giant), US senator (Lincoln debates)
1812 Louis-Antoine Julien, conductor
1810 Thomas Wright, historian
1809 Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer
1804 Guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general (Triangulatie of Belgium)
1803 Jules J baron d'Anethan, Belgian minister of Justice
1791 James Buchanan, Cove Gap PA, (Fed/Dem), 15th US president (1857-61)
1791 W Friedrich Olivier, German landscape painter/cartoonist
1775 Joseph Mallord Turner, England, landscape painter (Shipwreck)
1756 Alexander Reinagle, composer
1747 Alexandre-Auguste Robineau, composer
1735 Ildephons Haas, composer
1728 Samuel Wallis, explorer (Wallis Island)
1715 Johann Friedrich Doles, composer
1708 Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (Versuch einiger Poem)
1697 George Baron Anson, British admiral/explorer
1649 Andreas Kneller, composer
1629 John Commelin, director (Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam)
1598 Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp, naval commander
1564 William Shakespeare, bard (Hamlet, MacBeth, Julius C‘sar) (approx)
1547 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer (Don Quioxite)
1500 Alexander Alesius, [Aless/Alane], System theologist/physician
1484 Julius C‘sar Scaliger, Italy, scholar (On the Subtlety of Things)
1464 Johanna van Valois, Queen of France
1464 Robert Fayrfax, composer


Those who died today...

1995 Howard Cosell, sportscaster (Monday Night Football), dies at 77
1995 John Stennis, (Sen-D-MS), dies at 93
1994 Cassidy Clinton Cremer, author (John Cremer), murdered at 30
1994 Cecile Dreesmann, son of Anton Dreesmann, dies at 74
1993 Bertus Aafjes, poet/writer (World is a Muze), dies at 78
1993 Lalith Athulathmudali, Sri Lankan minister, murdered at 59
1992 Deron Johnson, 1965 NL run leader, dies of cancer at 53
1992 Satayajit Ray, Indian director (Distant Thunder/Agantuk), dies at 70
1992 Victoria Kellem Lederman, model, dies of amyloidosis at 52
1991 Peter Bailey, Graphic designer/calligrapher
1990 Albert Salmi, actor, killed his terminally ill wife & then self at 62
1990 Palmer Deane, actor, dies
1990 Paulette Goddard, actress (Hazard), dies at 78 (or 84) in Switzerland
1988 Arthur Michael, Lord Ramsey/archbishop of Canterbury, dies
1986 Harold Arlen, [Hyman Arluck], US composer, murdered at 81
1986 Otto Preminger, dir (Advise & Consent, Anatomy of Murder), dies at 79
1985 Kent Smith, actor (Peyton Place, Invaders), dies at 78
1985 Sam J Ervin Jr, (Sen-D-NC), dies at 88
1984 August "Guus" Oster, actor/director (Carrie), dies at 68
1983 Buster Crabbe, Olympic swimmer/actor (Flash Gordon), dies at 75
1983 Selena Royale, actress (Robot Monster), dies at 78
1980 Jane Froman, US singer (JF's USA Canteen), dies at 72
1976 James Flavin, actor (Man With a Camera), dies at 69
1976 Ronald Radd, actor (King Lear, Up Jumped a Swagman), dies at 47
1976 Shimen Ruskin, actor (Meyer-Corner Bar), dies at 68
1975 Pete Ham, rocker (Badfinger), commits suicide at 27 by hanging himself
1973 Otto Eissfeldt, German old testament scholar, dies at 85
1971 William Tubman, president of Liberia (1944-71), dies at 76
1970 Herb Shriner, host/humorist (Herb Shriner Show), dies at 51
1969 Krzystzof Komeda, composer, dies at 37
1965 Josephina J "Fien" de la Mar, actress (Pygmalion), dies at about 67
1962 Stirling Moss, auto racer, killed while racing
1960 Cornelis Jan Bakkerr, Dutch/US nuclear physicist, dies
1960 Tojohiko Kagawa, Japanese christian-social reformer/writer, dies
1957 William Orlamond, actor (Flesh & Devil, Words & Music), dies at 89
1955 Robert H Woltjer, classical/AR-First-Member of parliament, dies at 76
1952 Elisabeth Schumann, singer, dies
1952 Minus van Looi, [Benjamin van der Neart], Flemish writer, dies at 60
1946 Jesus Castillo, composer, dies at 68
1943 Fr‚deric baron d'Erlanger, French composer/banker, dies at 56
1942 Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, pres of Argentina (1922-28), dies at 73
1929 Rudolf W Nilsen, Norwegian poet (Hverdagen), dies
1926 Joseph Pennell, artist/author, dies
1925 Andr‚ Caplet, French composer (Le miroir de J‚sus), dies at 45
1918 Percy Thomson Dean, lt-commander, killed at Zeebrugge, dies
1915 Rupert Chawner Brooke, English poet (Lithuania), dies at 27
1905 Karel Komzak, composer, dies at 54
1897 Clement Harris, composer, dies at 25
1895 Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig, physiologist, dies
1885 William Henry Holmes, composer, dies at 73
1880 Guess Saleh, [Sarief Bastaman], Javanese painter
1878 Friedrich Preller, landscape painter, dies
1865 James Dearing, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 24
1853 Auguste Laurent, chemist, dies
1850 William Wordsworth, poet, dies at 80
1847 Erik Gustaf Geijer, composer, dies at 64
1838 John W Janssens, gov-gen of Cape Colony/Dutch-Indies, dies at 75
1827 Johanna C Wattier-Ziesenis, actress (Phaedra/Lady MacBeth), dies at 65
1812 Franz Sebastian Haindl, composer, dies at 85
1786 Alexander Cozens, English water colors painter, dies at about 68
1774 Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, painter, dies
1762 Johann Samuel Endler, composer, dies at 67
1742 Mihael Omerza, composer, dies at 62
1740 Thomas Tickell, poet, dies
1732 Cajetan Kolberer, composer, dies at 64
1728 Tomas de Torrejon y Velasco, composer, dies at 83
1695 Henry Vaughan, poet (Silex Scintillans), dies at 72
1670 Loreto Vittori, composer, dies at 69
1625 Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, dies at 57
1616 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer (Don Quixote), dies at 69
1616 William Shakesphere, Engl author (Hamlet), dies on his 52nd birthday
1416 Blaise/Blasius of Parma, Ital astrologist/philosopher/algebra, dies
1016 Aethelbred II "the Unready", king of England (979-1016), dies
1014 Brian Boru, king of Ireland, dies in battle at 87
1014 Sweyn Forkbeard, Viking king of England (1013-14), dies
0303 George, knight of Cappadoci‰?/saint/patron of England, beheaded
 997 Vojtech "Adalbert" of Prague, 2nd bishop of Prague/apostle, dies at 40
 990 Ekkehart II, [Palatinus], monk to St-Gallen/poet
 871 Ethelred I, king of Wessex/brother of Alfred the Great
 303 George, knight/saint/patron of England, beheaded
  34 Christ, crucified, according to Isaac Newton


Things that happened today...

1996 Sotherby begins 4 day auction of Jackie O stuff-take in $34.5 
1995 Pres Clinton declares a national day of mourning for Okla City
1994 Army shoots to death 23-40 fishermen in Gonaives Haiti
1994 Libertarian party nominates Howard Stern for Governor of NY
1993 Eritrea votes to secede from Ethiopia
1993 Peter Townshend's musical "Tommy," premieres in NYC
1992 "Shirnada" opens at Broadhurst theater on Broadway
1992 Marion Berry (former mayor of Wash DC) let out of prison
1991 Bjorn Borg loses 6-2, 6-3 to Jordi Arrese after 8 year lay off
1991 USSR grants republics right to secede under certain conditions
1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar plays his last game as a Laker
1989 Nolan Ryan blows a no hitter in 9th inning
1989 Students in Beijing China announce class boycotts
1988 A greek pedals self-powered aircraft, 74 miles
1988 Karolina Szabo runs female world record 25k (1:29:30)/30k  (1:47;06)
1987 28 construction workers killed in an apt collapse in Bridgeport, Ct
1987 NJ Devils farm team Maine Mariners (AHL) move to Utica (Devils) NY
1986 Grand Floridian Beach Resort groundbreaking
1986 Madrid-Nelli Cooman runs world record 60m indoor (7 sec)
1985 Brooklyn College soccer team wins Nepal's invitational
1985 C & E Shoemaker discover asteroid #3581 Alvarez
1985 Flyers 5-Isles 3-Patrick Div Finals-Flyers hold 3-0 lead
1985 New Coke debuts
1985 P Jensen discovers asteroid #3318 Blixen
1984 AIDS-virus identified (acquired immune deficiency syndrome)
1980 Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die
1978 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 ADO The Hague soccer team forms
1977 Dr Allen Bussey completes 20,302 yo-yo loops
1977 Milt workers kill 300-500 students in Addis Ababa
     & only loses 10
     Czech chess master Vlastimil Hort plays 201 games simultaneously
1976 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2808
1975 Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land," premieres in London
1974 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1972 26th Tony Awards: Sticks & Bones & 2 Gentlemen of Verona win
1972 Apollo 16 astronauts explores Moon surface
1971 Columbia University operations virtually end, by student strike
1971 Soyuz 10 launched; cosmonauts become 1st in Salyut 1 space station
1969 LA Laker Jerry West scores 53 points
1969 Over 1000ý mi flooded in Shantung Province China
1969 Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy
1968 1st decimal coins issued in Britain (5 & 10 pence)
1968 United Methodist Church forms
1967 Soyuz 1 launched; Vladimir Komarov becomes 1st in-flight casualty
1965 Launch of 1st Soviet communications satellite
1964 James Baldwin's "Blues for Mr Charlie," premieres in NYC
1964 New York State Theater opens
     Houston Colt 45s Ken Johnson becomes 1st major league pitcher to
     lose a 9 inning no-hitter, Reds win 1-0
1963 Jerry Bock & S Harnick's musical "She Loves Me," premieres in NYC
1962 NY Mets win their 1st game ever, after going 0-9, beat Pirates 9-1
1962 Ranger 4, 1st US satellite to reach Moon launched from Cape Canaveral
1960 1st performance of Ferde Grof‚'s "San Francisco Suite"
1959 1st heliport in Britain opens in London
1956 US Supreme court ends race segregation on buses
1954 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 1st of his 755 homers
1954 NBA adopts 24 second shot clock rule
1953 KTAR (now KPNX) TV channel 12 in Phoenix, AZ (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 WCOV TV channel 20 in Montgomery, AL (IND/CBS) begins broadcasting
1952 NY Giant Hoyt Wilhelm pitches his 1st relief game & hits his only HR
1952 Oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Banias completed
1950 1st major league day game completed under lights (Phils 6, Braves 5)
1950 Detroit Red Wings beat NY Rangers 4 games to 3 for Stanley Cup
1950 Minneapolis beats Syracuse, 4 games to 2, for NBA championship
1950 Nationalist China evacuates Hainan Island
1949 Chinese Red army conquerors Nanjing
1949 Courtesy mail boxes for motorists started in SF
1949 Netherlands annexes Elten & Tudderen
1948 KSTP TV channel 5 in St Paul-Minneapolis, MN (ABC) 1st broadcast
1946 Bkln Dodger Ed Head no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
1945 Concentration camp Flossenbrg freed
1945 US troops in Italy cross river Po
1943 British & US offensive directed at Tunis/Bizerta
1942 4-day allied bombing on Rostock begins
1942 Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
1941 Greece Army surrenders to German Nazis
     RAF brings Greek king George II to Egypt
1940 Dance hall fires kills 198 (Natchez Miss)
1940 NY Yankees dedicate a plaque to Jacob Rupert
1939 1st performance of B‚la BartĒk's 2nd Concerto for violin
1939 Boston Red Sox Ted Williams hits his 1st HR
1938 Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia demand self government
1936 M Laugier discovers asteroid #1651 Behrens
1933 Dovo soccer team forms in Veenendaal
1932 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens at Stratford-on-Avon
1930 H Van Gent discovers asteroids #1225 Ariane & #1267 Geertruida
1925 1st London performance of operetta "Fasquita" staged
1925 Pastor LH Perquin forms Union of Catholic Dutch Radio (KRO) forms
1924 British Empire Exhibition opens at Wembley
1924 London: king George V opens British Empire Exposition
1921 Charles Paddock runs world record 100m (10.4 secs)
1920 Turkish Grand National Assembly 1st meets, in Ankara
1918 Battle of Zeebrugge ends
1918 Dover Patrol overthrows Germany U-boat in East Sea
1918 National Urban League forms
1916 Lord Dunsany's "Night at an Inn," premieres in NYC
1915 ACA becomes National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA)
1910 International Exhibition opens in Brussels
1908 Denmark, Germany, Engld, France, Neth & Sweden signs North Sea accord
1904 American Academy of Arts & Letters forms
1903 NY Highlanders (Yankees) win their 1st game beating Wash Senators 7-2
1900 1st know occurrence of word "hillbillie" (NY Journal)
1896 Premier of motion pictures (Koster & Bial's Music Hall, NYC)
1896 Vitascope system of movie projection 1st demonstrated (NYC)
1891 Jews are expelled from Moscow Russia
1883 John Heemskerk Azn forms Dutch govt
1881 Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "Patience" produced in London
1878 1st Dutch test drive of steam tram
1871 Blossom Rock in SF Bay blown up
1867 Queen Victoria & Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel
1864 Battle of Cane River, LA (Red River Expedition, Monett's Ferry)
1861 Arkansas troops seize Ft Smith
1861 Battle of San Antonio, TX
1860 Dem convention in Charleston SC divided over slavery
1838 English steamship "Great Western" crossing Atlantic docks in NYC
1826 Missolonghi captured by Turks
1798 Dutch emperor accepts new Constitution
1795 William Hastings acquitted in England of high treason
1789 President George Washington moves into Franklin House, NY
1775 Opera "Il R‚ Pastore" is produced (Salzburg)
1723 Cornelis Steenoven elected archbishop of Utrecht
1705 Richard Steele's "Tender Husband," premieres in London
1662 Connecticut chartered as an English colony
1661 English king Charles II crowned in London
1633 Sweden & Protestant German monarchy form Union of Heilbronn
1616 Netherlands buys De Briel/Vlissingen/Fort Rammekens from England
1504 King Maximilian I routes troops to Bavaria
1501 Portuguese navigator Pedro Cabral & 6 ships return to Lisbon
1500 Pedro Cabral lands & annexes Brazil (Terra da Vera Cruz)
1348 1st English order of knighthood founded (Order of Garter)
1154 Damascus surrenders to sultan Nur ad-Din van Aleppo
1014 King Brian Boru of Ireland beats Danes at Battle of Clontarf


Other Occasions...

     [Ancient Rome] Vinalia (grape harvest)
     [US] National Secretary Day


Celebrations...

     [Bermuda] Peppercorn Day
     [England] St George's Day
     [Turkey] National Sovereignty Day/Children's Day (1923)


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