Today In History
Tuesday March 25th, 2003 -- Day Number: 84 - Days left: 281
* Astrological sign: Aries
* 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...
2184 Pavel Andreivich Chekov, Leningrad, USSR (Star Trek-character)
1989 Chicken Kentucky, 1st partial birth in space (chicken)
1973 Alexandra Quinn, [Dianne Stewart], XXX actress (Man Bait, Taboo 9)
1970 Magnus Larsson, Sweden, tennis star
197- Lark Voorhies, actress (Wendy-Days of Our Lives)
1967 Debi Thomas, US, figure skater (Olympic-bronze-1988)
1966 Jeff Healey, Canada, blind pop guitarist (See the Light)
1965 Sarah Jessica Parker, Nelsonville Oh, actress (Square Pegs, LA Story)
1965 Sean "Hollywood" Hamilton, DJ (Hangin' With Hollywood, Z-100)
1964 Alex Solls, jockey
1961 John Stockwell, Galveston TX, actor (Born to Ride, City Limits)
1960 Haywood Nelson, NYC, actor (Haywood-Grady, Dwayne-What's Happening)
1960 Steve Norman, London, rock sax (Spandau Ballet-True)
1959 Vince Guerra, jockey
1958 Mar¡a Caridad Col¢n, Cuba, javelin thrower, (Olympic-gold-1980)
1956 Sonia M Lannaman, England, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-bronze-1980)
1953 Mary Gross, Chicago Ill, actress/comedian (SNL, Club Paradise, Feds)
1951 Bob Pelander, rock keyboardist/vocalist (Michael Stanley Band)
1951 Maisie Williams, Montserrat, rock vocalist (Boney M)
1949 Nick Lowe, England, rock vocalist (Rockpile-Cruel to be Kind)
1948 Michael Stanley, Cleveland OH, rocker (Michael Stanley Band)
1948 Richard Lundy, horse trainer
1947 Claudine Schneider, (Rep-R-RI, 1981- )
1947 Elton John, [Reginald Kenneth Dwight], England, singer (Rocketman)
1946 Bonnie Bedelia, [Culkin], NYC, actress (Die Hard, Heart Like a Wheel)
1944 Frank Oz, muppetteer (Grover-Sesame Street, Muppet Show)
1944 Terry L Bruce, (Rep-D-IL, 1985- )
1943 Pavel Lednev, USSR, pentathelete (Olympic-gold-1980)
1943 Ronald Jeffers, composer
1942 Aretha Franklin, Memphis Tenn, Soul Sister #1/singer (Respect)
1942 Jacqueline Lichtenberg, US, sci-fi author (Star Trek Lives!, Dreamspy)
1942 Paul Michael Glaser, Cambridge Mass, actor (Starsky-Starsky & Hutch)
1940 Anita Bryant, Barnsdall Okla, Miss America candidate/singer/homophobe
1938 Hoyt Axton, Duncan Okla, actor (Black Stallion, Junkman, Rousters)
1935 Susan Engel, Vienna Austria, actress (Ascendancy)
1934 Gloria Steinem, Toledo Ohio, feminist/publisher (Ms Magazine)
1934 Johnny Burnette, Memphis, guitarist (Trains Kept A-Rollin, You're 16)
1931 Bohumil Goli n, Czech, volleyball player (Olympic-bronze-1968)
1930 David Russell Burge, composer
1929 Harris W Fawell, (Rep-R-IL, 1985- )
1929 Kenneth Haigh, Yorkshire England, actor (Search for the Nile)
1928 James A Lovell Jr, Cleveland Oh, USN/astr (Gemini 7, 12, Apollo 8, 13)
1927 Leslie Claudius, India, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56)
1926 Hans Rausing, Swedish/British industrial/billionaire (Tetra Pak)
1926 Laszlo Papp, Hungary, Olympic Boxer (Gold-1948, 1952, 1956)
1925 Flannery O'Connor, GA, novelist (A Good Man is Hard to Find)
1924 Julia A Perry, US composer (Cask of Amontillado)
1924 Julia Perry, Lexington Kentucky, composer (Selfish Giant)
1924 Machiko Kyo, Osaka Japan, actor (Gate of Hell, Rashomon, Ugetsu)
1923 Lee Hale, Tacoma Wash, choral director (The Entertainers)
1923 Wim Van Est, [Locomotief/Pletmolen], Dutch cyclist
1922 Bruno Ve Sota, IL, actor (Daddy-O)
1922 Eileen Ford, Modeling agency head
1921 Nancy Kelly, Lowell Mass, actress (Double Exposure, Jesse James)
1921 Simone Signoret, Weisbaden Germany, (Casque d'Or, Room at the Top)
1920 Patrick Troughton, actor (Doctor Who)
1916 Nikolay Ivanovich Peyko, composer
1914 Norman E Borlaug, US agriculture scientist (Nobel 1970)
1911 Willy Anthoons, Flemish sculptor (Mystic verheffing)
1910 Mario Peragallo, Italian composer
1909 Jay Blackton, NYC, conductor/arranger (Guys & Dolls)
1908 Bridget D'Oyly Carte, British theater & hotel director
1908 David Lean, Croydon England, director (Dr Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter)
1908 Helmut K„utner, German director (Der Hauptmann von K”penick)
1906 Alan J P Taylor, British historian (English history 1914-1915)
1906 Howard Pyle, (Gov-R-Az, 1951-55)
1905 Binnie Barnes, London, actress (Last of the Mohicans, 3 Musketeers)
1903 Frankie Carle, Providence RI, orch leader (Golden Touch)
1902 Sten Broman, composer
1901 Ed Begley, Hartford Ct, actor (Mr Koppel-Leave it to Larry)
19-- Persia, XXX actress (Tales from the Backside, Knockin' da Booty)
1899 Bella Spewack, Hungary, playwright (Kiss Me Kate)
1899 Jacques Audiberti, French poet (Race of Men)
1897 John Laurie, Dumfries Scotland, actor (Jericho, Island of Desire)
1894 Erik William Gustav Leidzen, composer
1893 Edward Hart, (Rep-D-NJ)/1st chairman of Com on Un-American Activities
1892 Andy Clyde, Scotland, actor (George-Real McCoys, Cully-Lassie)
1890 Marten Baersma, [MH Bottema], Friesan author (De ljochte kimen)
1887 Josef Capek, Czech painter/author/critic (Kulhavy Poutn¡k)
1885 Veit Valentin, German/US historian (Deutsche Revolution)
1882 Haydn Wood, composer
1881 B‚la Bart¢k, Hungary, composer/pianist (Concerto for Orchestra)
1881 Louis Dosfel, Flemish lawyer/writer (Assault!)
1879 Otakar Zich, composer
1878 Henry graaf de Baillet-Latour, Belgian pres of IOC (1925-42)
1878 Theodore Samuel Holland, composer
1877 Alphonse de Chƒteaubriant, French writer (Instantan‚s aux Pays-Bas)
1875 Spencer Charters, Duncannon PA, actor (3 Faces West)
1873 Rudolf Rocker, German/US anarchist
1872 Vito Pardo, Italian sculptor (Columbus monument in Argentina)
1869 Gustaaf DFL Schamelhout, Flemish physician/writer
1867 Arturo Toscanini, Parma Italy, temperamental conductor (NBC)
1867 Gutzon Borglum, sculptor (Mt Rushmore)
1839 William Bell Wait, US, educated the blind
1823 William Thompson Martin, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
1820 Xavier F M G, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister to Pope (in Rome)
1818 Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1808 Jos‚ de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet (Cortes)
1800 Paulin Paris, French historian
1797 John Winebrenner, US, clergyman, founded Church of God
1786 Giovanni B Amia, Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist
1784 Fran‡ois-Joseph F‚tis, Belgian musicology/composer
1782 Carolina [Maria A] Bonaparte, (countess Lipona), sister of Napoleon)
1770 Carl Friedrich Ebers, composer
1769 Salvatore Vigano, composer
1767 Joachim Murat, marshal of France/King of Naples (1808-15)
1762 Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer
1745 Nicolas Etienne Framery, composer
1723 Kaat Mussel, [Catharina Mulder], Dutch demonstrater
1713 Jean-Baptiste Canavas, composer
1702 Christian Gottlieb Ziegler, composer
1702 Pieter Teyler Van der Hulst, Dutch silk merchant (Teyler's Museum)
1699 Johann Adolf Hasse, composer
1688 Johann Gotthilf Ziegler, composer
1653 Joseph Sauveur, French physicist/mathematician
1594 Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, Dutch writer
1532 Pietro Pontio, composer
1528 Jacob Andreae, German theologist (Schw„bische Konkordie)
1495 Leonhard Paminger, composer
1252 Konrad˜n Hohenstaufen, [Koenrad van Zwaben], son of Konrad IV
1133 Henry II, King of England (1154-89)
Those who died today...
2000 Helen Martin, actress, dies of a heart attack at age 91.
1994 Michel R Vassallucci, French/Neth publisher (Arena), dies at 32
1992 Nancy Walker, actress (Ida Morgenstern-Rhoda), dies of cancer at 69
1992 No‚mie Perugia, French mezzo soprano, dies
1991 Eileen Joyce, pianist, dies at 78
1991 Lee Donn, pianist, dies of stroke at 96
1987 Henry R LaBouisse, headed UNICEF (1965-79), dies at 83
1983 Martha Sleeper, actress (Spitfire), dies of a heart attack at 72
1979 ... Sykes, British ambassador in The Hague, murdered
1979 Anton Heiller, composer, dies at 55
1978 Jack Hulbert, actor (Bulldog Jack), dies at 85
1975 Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, king of Saudi-Arab (1964-75), shot by nephew
1974 Otto Waldis, actor (Unknown World, Whip Hand), dies at 72
1973 Edward Steichen, pioneer of US photography, dies at 93
1969 Alan Mowbray, actor (Dante, Colonel Flack), dies at 72
1969 Max F Eastman, US critic/essayist (Love & Revolution), dies
1968 Douglas Evans, actor (South Pacific Trail), dies in Hollywood
1966 Colin Campbell, actor (Leather Boys), dies at 83
1965 Giorgio Federico Ghedini, composer, dies at 72
1965 Viola Gregg Liuzzo, US civil rights activist: murder
1963 David Moore, US feather weight boxer, dies at 29
1962 Auguste Piccard, Swiss explorer/balloonist dies at 78
1959 Billy Mayerl, composer, dies at 56
1958 Emerson Whithorne, composer, dies at 73
1957 Fud Livingston, composer, dies at 50
1956 George Luther Foote, composer, dies at 70
1956 Robert Newton, actor (Henry V, Odd Man Out), dies at 50
1951 Edward Collins, Hall of Fame infielder (White Sox, A's), dies
1949 Hanns A Rauter, German SS-commandant in Netherland, executed
1948 Warren Hymer, actor (Show Them No Mercy), dies at 42
1940 Ion Nonna Otescu, composer, dies at 51
1937 John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Bird in hand), dies
1918 Claude A Debussy, French composer (Iberia/La mer), dies at 55 in Paris
1914 Fr‚d‚ric Mistral, French poet (Nobel-1904), dies
1910 K lm n Miksz th, Hungarian author (Szent P‚ter Eserny”je), dies at 63
1909 Ruperto Chapi y Lorente, composer, dies at 57
1880 Joseph Rummel, composer, dies at 61
1852 Alexis Garaude, composer, dies at 73
1825 Rutger John Schimmelpenninck, patriot/earl, dies at 63
1823 Coelestin Jungbauer, composer, dies at 75
1801 Anthony Ziesenis, architect/sculptor (Camper), dies at 69
1799 Constantin Reindl, composer, dies at 61
1766 Johannes Ritschel, composer, dies at 26
1751 Frederik van Hessen Kassel, King of Sweden (1720-51), dies at 74
1697 Hendrik Casimir II, King of Nassau-Dietzstadhouder, dies
1692 Gerardus L Blasius, Flemish anatomist, dies at about 66
1609 Johan Willem, duke of Jlich/Cleef/Mark/Mountain/Ravensberg, dies
1510 Georges d'amboise, French archbishop of Narbonne/Rouen, dies at 49
1458 Inigo L¢pez de Mendoza, Spanish marquis of Santillana/poet, dies
1223 Afonso II, King of Portugal (1211-23), dies
752 Stephen II, Pope (752), dies, only 2 days after his election
Things that happened today...
1999 NATO launches airstrikes against Yougoslavia.
1996 68th Academy Awards: Braveheart, Nicholas Cage & Susan Sarandon win
1995 Boxer Mike Tyson released from jail after serving 3 years
1994 Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3 km (4:09.32)
1994 Yasunori Miyabe skates world record 1000 m (1:12.37)
1992 British scientists find new largest perfect # (2 756839 -1 * 2 756839)
1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, lands
1991 63rd Academy Awards: Kathy Bates, Jeremy Irons & Dance with Wolves
1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-206
1988 Robin Givens demands full access to husband Mike Tyson's money
1986 Brian Boitano (US) wins his 2nd world figure skating title
Kurt Browning (Canada) becomes 1st skater to land a quadruple jump
1985 Edwin Meese III becomes US Attorney General
1983 Christa Rothenburger skates world record 500 m ladies (39.69 sec)
1983 Pavel Pegov skates world record 1000m (1:12.58)
1982 Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st NHL to score 200 points in a season
1976 Argentine milt junta bans leftmost political parties
1974 Barbra Streisand records the album "Butterfly"
1973 27th Tony Awards: That Championship Season & Little Night Music win
1972 Bobby Hull becomes the 2nd NHLer to score 600 goals
1972 UCLA wins its 6th consecutive national basketball title
1971 Boston Patriots become New England Patriots
1971 C J Van Houten discovers asteroid #1873 Agenor
1971 European council accepts Mansholt plan laying off 5 million farmers
1970 Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH)
1969 Andes Pact signed in Peru
1969 John & Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam)
1969 Pakistan Gen Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as pres
1968 KLVX TV channel 10 in Las Vegas, NV (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 The Turtle's "Happy Together" goes #1
1967 UCLA wins its 3rd national basketball championship in 4 years
1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1967 Who & Cream make US debut at Murray the K's Easter Show
1966 US Supreme court rules "poll tax" unconstitutional
Beatles pose with mutilated dolls & butchered meat for the cover
of the "Yesterday & Today" album, It is later pulled
1965 Martin Luther King Jr led 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery, Al
1965 West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution
1964 Britain sets memorial for the late Pres John F Kennedy
1964 Egypt ends state of siege (1952-64)
1963 KWHY TV channel 22 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1962 French OAS-leader ex-general Jouhaud arrested
1961 Cincinnati wins NCAA basketball championship
1961 Elvis Presley performs live on the USS Arizona
1961 Explorer 10 launched into elongated Earth orbit (177/181,000 km)
1961 Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered
1960 1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut)
1960 DH Lawrence' "Lady Chatterley's Lover" ruled not obscene (NYC)
1960 Italian govt Tambroni forms
1959 French pres De Gaulle acknowledges Oder-Neisse boundary
1958 West German Bondsdag desires German atomic weapons
1957 NBA modifies the free-throw rule
1957 Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community (Common Mkt)
1955 E Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power, USSR
1954 Pope Pius XII encyclical "On consecrated virginity"
1954 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Sacra virginitas
1954 RCA manufactures 1st color TV set
1951 E Purcell & EM Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab
1949 SS police chief Rauter request for a pardon, denied
1947 Agreement of Linggadjati signed in Batavia
1947 Coal mine explosion in Centralia, Ill, claims 111 lives
1947 Holy Cross wins NCAA basketball championship
1946 1st performance of Igor Stravinsky's "Ebony Concerto"
1945 US 1st army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen
1945 US 4th Panzer div arrives at Hanau & Aschaffenburg
1945 US Northern Tractor Flotilla departs to Okinawa
1944 Germany troop executes 335 residents of Rome
1943 Artisans strike against obligatory report to Artisans chamber
1942 700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp
1941 Carolina Paprika Mills, Dillon, SC, incorporated
1938 1st US bred horse (Battleship) to win Grand National Steeplechase
1937 It's revealed Quaker Oats pays Babe Ruth $25,000 per year for ads
1937 Italy & Yugoslavia sign no-attack treaty (Pact of Belgrade)
1937 Lionel Conacher misses on 1st Stanley Cup penalty shot
1937 Wash Daily News is 1st US newspaper with perfumed advertising page
1936 200" mirror blank leaves for California to be ground
1936 Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in NHL longest game (2h56m30s)
1935 1st Belgium government of Van Zealand resigns
1935 M Laugier discovers asteroid #2677
1934 Horton Smith win 1st Master's golf championship
1933 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1587 Kahrstedt
1931 Scottsboro Boys (accused of raping a white woman) arrested in Alabama
1924 Greek parliament selects admiral Paul Koundouri¢tis as premier
1924 Mont Canadiens sweep Calgary Tigers in 2 for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1924)
1923 British govt grants Trans-Jordan autonomy
1920 Greek Independence Day
1916 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #824 Anastasia
1916 Heavyweight Jess Willard & Franc Moran fight to no decision in NYC
1916 Women are allowed to attend a boxing match
1915 1st submarine disaster; US F-4 sinks off Hawaii, 21 lives lost
1915 German U boat torpedoes Neth merchant ship Medea
1913 Great Dayton Flood
1913 Home of vaudeville, Palace Theatre, opens (NYC)
1911 L.D. Swamikannu publishes "Manual of Indian Chronology" in Bombay
1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory catches fire 145 die, all but 13 girls
1907 Montreal Wanderers lose to Kenora Thistles but win Stanley Cup by
scoring most total points in the 2 game series
1905 Rebel battle flags captured during war are returned to South
1901 55 die as Rock Island train derailed near Marshalltown Iowa
1900 US Socialist Party formed at Indianapolis
1898 Intercollegiate Trapshooting Association formed in NYC
1896 Modern Olympics begin in Athens (4/6 New Style)
1895 Italian troops move into Abyssinia
1894 Coxey's Army of the unemployed sets out from Massillon, O for Wash
1888 Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber
1876 Glasgow 1st soccer match Scotland-Wales (4-0)
1865 Battle of Bluff Spring, FL
1865 Battle of Fort Stedman, VA - in front of Petersburg
1865 Battle of Mobile, AL (Spanish Fort, Fort Morgan, Fort Blakely)
1865 SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire & sinks, killing 400
1864 Battle of Paducah, KY (Forrest's raid)
1863 Skirmish at Brentwood Tennessee
1857 Frederick Laggenheim takes 1st photo of a solar eclipse
1856 A E Burnside patents Burnside carbine
1852 Friedrich Hebbel's "Agnes Bernauer," premieres in Munich
1847 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On aid for Ireland"
1821 Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day)
1820 Greece freedom revolt against anti Ottoman attack
1817 Tsar Alexander I recommends formation of Society of Israeli Christians
1814 Netherlands Bank established
1813 1st US flag flown in battle on the Pacific, frigate Essex
1807 British Parliament abolishes slave trade
1807 George Canning becomes British minister of Foreign affairs
1802 France, Netherlands, Spain & England signs Peace of Amiens
1776 Continental Congress authorizes a medal for Gen Washington
1753 Voltaire leaves the court of Frederik II of Prussia
1700 England, France & Netherlands ratify 2nd Extermination treaty
1669 Mount Etna, Sicily destroys Nicolosi & takes 20,000 lives
1668 1st horse race in America takes place
1655 Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, (Saturn's largest satellite)
1647 Cape of Good Hope: tour ship Haerlem stranded in Tafel Bay
1634 Lord Baltimore founded Catholic colony of Maryland
1598 Cornelis de Houtmans fleet departs East-Indies
1581 Portugese Cortes calls Philip II king of Portugal
1571 Catholic Italian businessman Roberto Ridolfi leaves Enngeland
1409 Council of Pisa opens
1306 Robert the Bruce crowned king of Scotland
752 Stephen ends his reign as Catholic Pope (or 26th)
708 Constantine begins his reign as Catholic Pope
421 Friday 12 hour (Venice asylum) (legend)
31 1st Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus
1 Origin of Dionysian Incarnation of the Word
Other Occasions...
Global Understanding Day
[England, Ireland] ¬ Day/Lady Day
[England] New Year's day (12th century-1752)
[Medieval England] Annunciation Day (Lady Day), ¬ day
Celebrations...
[England] New Year's Day 1155-1752 (OS)
[Greece] Independence Day (Proclamation of war of independence) (1821)
[Maryland] Maryland Day (1634)
[US] Pecan Day
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