Today In History
        Monday April 21st, 2003 -- Day Number: 111 - Days left: 254


Those born today...

1984 Ashley Peldon, Staten Is NY, actress (Marsha-Guilding Light, Deceived)
1978 Avi Phillips, Ontario, actor (Maniac Mansion)
1971 Samantha Druce, youngest woman to swim English Channel
1968 Peter van Foxes, soccer player (Ajax)
1965 Karen Foster, Lufkin Tx, playmate (Oct, 1989)
1963 John Cameron Mitchell, El Paso TX, actor (Misplaced, Band of the Hand)
1962 Sergei Viktorovich Zalyotin, Russia, major/cosmonaut
1960 Julius Korir, Kenya, 3K steeplechaser (Olympic-gold-1984)
1959 Robert Smith, Sussex, rock guitarist/vocalist (Cure-Hell's Kitchen)
1958 Andie MacDowell, [Rosali Anderson], SC, actress (Green Card) [or 2/12]
1957 Jesse Orosoco, baseball relief pitcher (NY Mets, LA Dodgers)
1956 Rick DeMont, US, 400m swimmer, drug disqualification (1972 Olympics)
1951 Aleksandr Ivanovich Laveikin, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-2)
1951 Nicoel Barclay, rocker
1951 Paul Carrack, Sheffield England, rock vocalist (Squeeze/Ace-How Long)
1951 Tony Danza, Brooklyn, (Tony Banta-Taxi, Tony Micelli-Who's the Boss)
1949 Patti LuPone, Northport NY, actress/singer (Evita, Life Goes On)
1948 Claire Denis,
1948 Gary A Condit, (Rep-D-California)
1948 Lord Egremont, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1948 Paul Davis, Meridian Mi, country/rock vocalist (I Go Crazy)
1947 Alan Warner, rocker (Foundations)
1947 Iggy Pop, [James Osterberg], Mich, rocker (Zombie Birdhouse)
1947 John Weider, bassist (Family-Family Entertainment)
1942 Bobby McClure, US gospel singer (Don't Mess Up a Good Thing)
1940 Souleymane Cisse,
1939 Ernie Maresca, rocker
1939 John McCabe, composer
1937 Charles Lee Herron, Ky, FBI most wanted fugitive (Jan 1 1986)
1936 Anthony Joseph Gnazzo, composer
1936 Bob Cleary, US, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960)
1935 Charles Grodin, actor (Woman in Red, Lonely Guy, Heartbreak Kid)
1935 Robin Dixon, England, 2 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1960)
1933 Easley Blackwood, Indianapolis In, composer (Un Voyage   Cythere)
1932 Angela Mortimer, English tennis player (Wimbledon)
1932 Elaine May, Phila Pa, comedienne/writer/actress (New Leaf)
1930 Margaret Rose, London England, Princess of York [or Aug 21]
1930 Silvana Mangano, Rome Italy, actress (Death in Venice, Barabbas)
1927 Robert Brustein, NYC, dean (Yale School of Drama)
1926 Elizabeth, Alexandra Mary Windsor II, Queen of England (1952-  )
1924 Daniel Melnick, NYC, producer (Get Smart)
1924 Ira Louvin, Rainsville Ala, country singer (Louvin Brothers)
1923 Andrea Domburg, Dutch actress (Theo d'Or Prize, Keetje Tippel)
1920 Bruno Maderna, Venice Italy, conductor/composer (Hyperion) [or Mar 21]
1920 Christopher Dark, NY, actor (Suddenly, Tenderfoot)
1919 Franc [Franklin E] Essed, Suriname agricultural eng (Oper Grasshopper)
1917 Emanuel Vardi, Jerusalem Israel, violist (SD Symph 1978-82)
1916 Sidney Clute, Brooklyn NY, actor (Lou Grant, Cagney & Lacey)
1915 Andor Kovach, composer
1915 Anthony Quinn, M‚xico, actor (Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia)
1915 Frick, [W Groebli], Swiss clown (Frick & Frack)
1913 Choh Hao Li, bio-chemist professor (isolated growth hormones)
1913 Kai-Uwe von Hassel, German politician
1913 Norman Parkinson, England, fashion photographer (Harper's Bazaar)
1912 Feike P Asma, Dutch organist
1912 Marcel Camus, French director (Orfeu negro)
1912 Nell [Petronella GS] Koppen, actress (Kniertje-Op Hoop van Zegen)
1911 Leonard Warren, NYC, baritone (Met 1939-60) died on stage
1909 Rollo May, US, psychologist (Love & Will)
1908 Louis Hostin, France, Light Heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1932, 36)
1907 Antoni Szalowski, composer
1907 Beatrice Kay, NYC, singer/actress (Sister Sue-Calvin & Col)
1905 Edmund G "Pat" Brown, (Gov-D-Calif)
1904 G˜sbert van Hall, banker/mayor of Amsterdam (1957-67)
1904 Jean H‚lion, artist/author (They Shall Not Have Me)
1903 Hans Hedtoft, premier Denmark (1947..55)
1901 Julian Bautista, composer
19-- Christopher Mayer, NYC, actor (Vance-Dukes of Hazzard, Glitter)
19-- Jack Fletcher, Forest Hills NY, actor (Grady, Bob Crane Show)
19-- Manuella Torres, spanish entertainer
1899 Clement D'Hooghe, composer
1899 Randall Thompson, NYC, composer (Trip to Nahant)
1898 Steve Owen, NFL tackle, coach (NY Giants)
1896 Attila H”rbiger, Austrian actor (Die Grosse Liebe, Die Julika)
1896 Henry M de Montherlant, French stage author (La Reine Morte)
1892 ?, 1st buffalo born in Golden Gate Park
1892 Jaroslav Kvapil, composer
1887 Lillian Walker, Brooklyn NY, entertainer
1886 Charlie Naughton, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Frozen Limits)
1881 Jules-Marie Canneel, Flemish painter/caricaturist (Rocks of Oran)
1878 Albert Weisgerber, German painter/graphic artist
1872 GW Bitzer, [Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Bitzer], Roxbury MA
1871 Leo Blech, composer
1871 Vojtech Rihovsky, composer
1867 Benjamin A Jesurun, Antillian literary
1864 Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian (Ancient Judaism)
1854 Eusapia Palladino, Napolitanse with parergische phenomenons
1854 Wladyslaw Rzepko, composer
1853 Charles-Theodore Malherbe, composer
1849 Oskar Hertwig, Germany, embryologist, discovered fertilization
1840 Franz Xaver Haberl, German priest/musicologist (Magister choralis)
1838 John Muir, US, naturalist, discovered glaciers in High Seirras
1837 Fredrik Bajer, Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1908)
1834 William Rufus Terrill, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1828 Hippolyte Taine, French philosopher/historian (Voyage in Italy)
1824 Anselmo Clave, composer
1816 Charlotte Bront‰, Tornton England, novelist (Jane Eyre)
1816 Louis Trezevant Wigfall, Confederate Army, died in 1874
1814 Beni Egressy, composer
1809 Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, Secy State (Confederacy)
1806 Peter van Schendel, Dutch painter
1803 Levin Minn Powell, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1885
1795 Vincenzo Pallotti, Italian saint
1782 Friedrich W A Fr”bel, German educator (founded kindergarten)
1779 William Knyvett, composer
1775 Alexander Anderson, US, engraver/illustrator (Shakespeare)
1774 Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist/astronomer (balloonist)
1749 Johann Michael Malzat, composer
1730 Antonin Kammel, composer
1729 Catharina II, the Great, writer/emperess of Russia (1762-96)
1713 Louis Duke de Noailles, marshal of France
1672 Johann Philipp Kafer, composer
1619 John A van Riebeeck, colonial director/founder (Cape Colony)
1546 Arcangelo Crivelli, composer
1488 Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot


Those who died today...

1993 Hal Schumacher, baseball pitcher, dies at 82
1992 Robert Harris, executed in Calif's gas chamber, at 39
1992 Vladimir K Romanov, Grand Duke/Rus pretender to the throne, dies at 74
1991 Richard Bolling, (Rep-D-Missouri), dies at 74
1991 Willi Boskovsky, Austrian conductor (new years concert), dies
1990 Ert‚, art deco stylist, dies at 97
1990 Johnny Beagley, winner of two 1942 World Series games
1989 James Kirkwood, actor/writer (Devil's Holiday), dies at 64
1987 Edith S Green, (Rep-D-Ore), dies at 77
1985 Rudi Gernreich, US designer (miniskirt), dies at 62
1985 Tancredo Neves, President (Civil rights activist), dies at 75
1982 Joe Sawyer, actor (Biff O'Hara-Adventures of Rin Tin Tin), dies at 80
1978 Sandy Denny, country singer, dies at 37
1977 Gummo [Milton] Marx, US comic (Marx Brothers), dies at 84
1975 Jack Allan Westrup, composer, dies at 70
1973 Ursula Jeans, actress (Cavalcade, Over the Moon), dies at 66
1971 Edmund Lowe, actor (Front Page Detective), dies at 81
1971 Fran‡ois "Doc" Duvalier, dictator Ha‹ti, dies at 64
1968 Norman Demuth, composer, dies at 69
1968 Toby Halicki, car-crash film producer 48, killed shooting stunt
1967 Andr‚ L Danjon, French astronomer, dies at 77
1965 Edward V Appleton, English physicist (Nobel Prize 1947), dies at 72
1962 Frederick Handley Page, designer of 1st big airplane (40 seats), dies
1961 James Melton, opera tenor (Ford Festival), dies at 57
1952 Leslie Banks, actor (Henry V, 21 Days, Eye Witness), dies at 61
1952 [Richard] Stafford Cripps, Engl min of Plane-manufacturing, dies at 62
1948 Carlos Lopez Buchardo, composer, dies at 66
1946 John M Keynes, English economist (How to pay for the war?), dies
1945 John Poston, British major/Montgomery's ADC, dies in battle at 25
1939 Herman Finck, composer, dies at 66
1938 Muhammad Iqbal, Dutch east indies lawyer/Pakistan national hero, dies
1930 Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman, actress (Mother), dies
1930 Robert S Bridges, poet laureate (Testament of beauty), dies at 85
1924 Eleanora Duse, Italian actress (La Gioconda, La Locandiera), dies
1918 "Red Baron", [Manfred von Richtofen], killed in WW I
1910 Mark Twain, [Samuel Clemens], auther (Huckleberry Finn), dies at 74
1900 Heinrich Vogl, composer, dies at 55
1899 Heinrich Kiepert, German cartographer/geographer, dies at 80
1898 Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer, dies at 78
1878 Temistocle Solera, composer, dies at 62
1780 Ferdinand Zellbell, composer, dies at 60
1736 Frans Eugenius, duke/prince of Savoye, dies at 72
1730 John Palfijn, Flemish physician/inventor (forceps), dies at 79
1699 Jean Racine, French playwright (PhŠdre), dies at 59
1696 Andres de Sola, composer, dies at 61
1652 Pietro Della Valle, composer, dies at 66
1574 Cosimo d' Medici, Italian duke of Toscane, dies at about 54
1552 Peter Apianus, [Bennewitz/Bienewitz], German astronomer, dies at 50
1509 Henry VII, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509), dies
1142 Pierre Ab‚lard, French philosopher (Sic et Nun, H‚lo‹se), dies at 62
1109 Anselmus, philosopher/archbishop of Canterbury, dies
1073 Alexander II, [Anselmo da Baggio], Pope (1061-73), dies


Things that happened today...

1995 Boston Celtics final game at Boston Gardens, NY Knicks win 98-92
1994 Eddie Murray sets record for switch hit HRS in a games (11 times)
1994 Serbian army bombs distress clinic in Goradze Bosnia, 28 killed
1993 Brazil votes against a monarchy
1993 Rolling Stone Bill Wyman weds Suzanne Accosta on French Riveria
1992 "High Rollers" opens at Helen Hayes theater on Broadway
1992 Mobil Oil tug with 12,000 gallons of oil run aground in Arthur Kill
1991 Jakov Tolstikov wins 4th World Cup marathon (2:09:17)
1991 Rosa Mota wins 4th World Cup female marathon (2:26:14)
1990 "Cartoon All Stars to Rescue" shown on all 4 TV networks
1990 National League umpire is arrested for stealing baseball cards
1989 George W Bush & Edward W Rose become CEO of Texas Rangers
1988 Barbra Streisand records "You'll Never Know"
1987 Milwaukee Brewers lose after 13th straight victory to start season
1987 Tamil bomb attack in Colombo Sri Lanka, 115 killed
1986 Bob Hering sets Formula One power boat record (165.338 mph, Ariz)
1986 Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on TV & finds nothing
1985 Bomb attacks in NATO/AEG-Telefunken building in Brussels
1985 Flyers 5-Isles 2-Patrick Div Finals-Flyers hold 2-0 lead
1985 Ingrid Kristiansen wins London Marathon in a record 2:21:06
1984 "Nightline" reverts back from 1 hour to « hour
1984 After 37 weeks, "Thriller" is knocked off as top album by
"Footloose"
1984 Franz Weber of Austria skis downhill at a record 209.8 kph
1984 Montreal Expo David Palmer no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0 in a
     perfect 5 inn game
1983 Soyuz T-8 is launched [04-20?]
1983 œ1 coin introduced in United Kingdom
1982 Atlanta Braves win their 13th straight game
1982 Dutch Queen Beatrice addresses US Congress
1982 M Watt discovers asteroid #2991
1981 US furnish $1 billion in arms to Saudi-Arabia
1980 Bill Rodgers wins his 3rd Boston Marathon, Rosie Ruiz is disqualified
     as women's champ as she had not run entire course
1977 Billy Martin pulls Yankee line-up out of a hat, beats Blue Jays 8-6
1977 Broadway play "Annie" opens, 1st of 2,377 performances
1977 C Strouse & M Charnins musical "Annie," premieres in NYC
1977 Zia ur-Rahman appointed president of Bangladesh
1976 Swine Flu vaccine, for non-epidemic, enters testing
1976 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 Bill Rodgers wins his 1st Boston Marathon in 2:09:55
1975 Last South Vietnam president Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years
1975 Liane Winter wins world record female Boston marathon (2:42:24)
1974 28th Tony Awards: River Niger & Raisin win
1972 John Young & Charles Duke explores Moon (Apollo 16)
1972 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 4 (Copernicus) launched
1971 Original Codex Reguis (with Edda-liederen) returns to Iceland
1969 Record 1,152 starters compete in Boston Marathon
1968 22nd Tony Awards: Rosencranz & Guilderstern & Hallelujah Baby! win
1967 Dodgers 1st rain out in Los Angeles (after 737 consecutive games)
1967 EO, Evangelical Broadcasting, begins in Netherlands
1967 Kathy Switzer is 1st woman to run Boston Marathon
1967 Military coup in Greece, Konstantinos Kollias becomes premier
1967 Svetlana Alliluyeva (Josef Stalin's daughter) defects in NYC
1966 Emperor Haile Selassie (Ethiopia) visits Kingston Jamaica
1965 New York World's Fair reopens for 2nd & final season
1964 Pirates & Cubs combine for 9 HRs, Pirates win 8-5
1963 Beatles meet Rolling Stones for 1st time
1962 Century 21 Exposition opens in Seattle, Washington
1961 Dirk U Suffocated chosen as sec-gen of NATO
1961 French army revolts in Algeria
1961 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 32,000 m
1960 Brasilia becomes capital of Brazil
1959 1211-kg great white shark becomes largest fish ever caught on a rod
1959 Alf Dean using a rod & reel hooks a 2,664lb, 16' 10" white shark
1957 pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fidei Donum
1956 Elvis Presley's 1st hit record, "Heartbreak Hotel," becomes #1
1955 Bkln Dodgers win, then record 10th straight game to begin a season
1955 J Lawrence & R E Lee's "Inherit the Wind," premieres in NYC
1955 Minas Gerais Argentina tunnel caves in; 30 die
1954 Gregori Malenkov becomes premier of USSR
1954 USAF flies French battalion to Vietnam
1952 BOAC begins 1st passenger service with jets (London-Rome route)
1951 Rochester beats New York, 4 games to 3, for NBA championship
1951 Tor Maple Leafs beat Mont Canadiens 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup
1948 Baltimore beats Philadelphia, 4 games to 1, for NBA championship
1946 SED, Socialistic Einheitspartei Germany forms in East Germany
1945 Allied troops occupy German nuclear laboratory
1945 He Shima Okinawa conquered in 5 days, 5,000 die
1945 Ivor Nivello's "Perchance to Dream," premieres in London
1945 Russia army arrives at outskirts of Berlin
1945 US 7th Army occupies Neurenberg
1944 NFL Chic Cardinals & Pitts Steelers merge (dissolves on Dec 3)
1941 Greece surrenders to nazi-Germany
1940 1st $64 Question, "Take It or Leave It", on CBS Radio
1940 Netherlands beats Belgium 4-2 in soccer
1939 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1505 Koranna
1935 King Boris of Bulgaria forbids all political Party
1933 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1264 Letaba
1930 Fire at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 322
1930 Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Moskva Golid," premieres in Moscow
1925 Chuvash Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Chuvash ASSR
1925 No‰l Coward's "Fallen Angels," premieres in London
1921 Ottawa Senators beat Vanc Millionaires 3 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
1920 John Galsworthy's "Skin Game," premieres in London
1914 US marines occupy Vera Cruz, Mexico, stay 6 months
1913 German passenger ship Imperator runs aground
1910 Cleve Indians play 1st game at League Park, lose to Tigers 5-0
1908 Frederick A Cook claims to reach North Pole (He didn't)
1901 L Carnera discovers asteroid #470 Kilia
1898 Phillies' pitcher Bill Duggleby hits a grand slam on 1st at bat
1898 Spanish-American War begins
1894 George Bernard Shaw's "Arms & the Man," premieres in London
1892 Black Longshoremen strike for higher wages in St Louis Mo
1884 Potters Field reopened as Madison Park
1878 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Inscrutabili
1878 Ship Azor leaves Charleston with 206 blacks for Liberia
1876 Prosper Henry discovers asteroid #162 Laurentia
1874 J Palisa discovers asteroid #137 Meliboea
1865 Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington
1863 Declaration of Bah 'u'll h; Bah '¡ Feast of Ridv n (Jalƒl 13, 20)
1862 Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Co
1862 Ellen Price Wood's "East Lynne, premieres in Boston
1857 A Douglas patents bustle
1856 1st railroad bridge across Mississippi completed
1855 1st train crosses Miss River's 1st bridge, Rock Is Ill-Davenport Ia
1836 Battle of San Jacinto, in which Texas wins independence from M‚xico
1828 Noah Webster publishes 1st American dictionary
1818 Franz Grillparzer's "Sappho," premieres in Vienna
1794 NYC formally declares coast of Ellis Island publically owned, so
     they can build forts to protect NYC from British
1789 John Adams sworn in as 1st US VP (9 days before Washington)
1785 Russian tsarina Catharina II ends noble privileges
1739 Spain & Naples-Austria sign peace accord
1689 William III & Mary Stuart proclaimed king & queen of England
1654 England & Sweden sign trade agreement
1649 Maryland Toleration Act passed, allowing all freedom of worship
1600 1st date in James Clavell's novel Shogun (OS)
1572 France & England sign anti-Spanish military covenant
1526 Battle at Panipat: Mogol Emperor Babur beats sultan Ibrahim Lodi
1521 Battle at Villalar: Emperor Charles I beats Communards
1477 Maximilian of Habsburg marries Maria of Bourgondi‰ at proxy
1453 Turkish fleet sinks ships Golden Receiver in Constantinople
1420 Treaty of Saint Maartens Dike
 953 Otto I the Great gives Utrecht fishing rights
 753 -BC- Traditional date of foundation of Rome


Other Occasions...

     [Ancient Rome] Natale di Roma (753 BC) [contemporary Rome]


Celebrations...

     [Belize, Hong Kong] Queen's Birthday
     [Brazil] Tiradentes Day/D¡a de Tiradentes/Brasilia Day (1789, 1960)
     [Indonesia] Kartini Day
     [Israel] Deliverance from Egypt
     [Taiwan] Death of Chiang Kai-shek/Tomb Sweeping Day (non leap years)
     [Texas] San Jacinto Day (1836)


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