Events
1027 -
John XIX crowns Conrad II the Salier Roman German emperor
1147 - Jewish community in Cologne fast to commemorate anti-Jewish violence
1150 - Tichborne family of Hampshire England started tradition of giving a Gallon of flour to each resident to keep deathbed promise
1484 - William Caxton printed his translation of Aesop's Fables.
1526 - King Francois I returns Spanish captivity to France
1534 - Lubeck accept free Dutch ships into East Sea
1552 - Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru.
1636 - University of Utrecht opening ceremony
1668 - England takes control of Bombay India
1692 - King Maximilian installed as land guardian of South Netherlands
1780 - 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (Brit Gazette & Sunday Monitor)
1790 - Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency
1793 - Pro-royalist uprising in Vendée region of France
1799 - Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine
1804 - Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana
1804 - Territory of Orleans organizes in Louisiana Purchase
1808 - Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII.
1812 - Earthquake destroys 90% of Caracas Venezuela; about 20,000 die
1821 - Franz Grillparzer's "Das Goldene Vliess," premieres in Vienna
1824 - 1st performance of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis"
1830 - The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
1839 - 1st Henley Royal Regatta
1845 - Joseph Francis, NYC, patents a corrugated sheet-iron lifeboat
1845 - Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precusor of bandaid
1852 - Decree regarding streets of Paris passed
1856 - NSW's 1st 1st-class game, v Victoria at Melbourne NSW won
1859 - 1st sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit inside Mercury
1862 - Battle of La Glorieta Pass, NM Terr (Apache Canyon, Pigeon's Ranch)
1863 - Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves
1871 - Paris Commune founded
1872 - 7.8 earthquake shakes Owens Valley, California
1872 - Thomas J Martin patents fire extinguisher
1878 - Hastings College of Law founded
1878 - Sabi Game Reserve, world's 1st official designated game reserve, opens
1881 - Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again.
1885 - Eastman Film Co manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film
1885 - Louis Riel's forces defeat Canadian forces at Duck Lake, Sask
1886 - 1st cremation in England
1889 - Bernard Tancred carries bat for 26* out of 47! South Africa v England
1889 - Johnny Briggs took 15-26 (7-17 & 8-11) v South Africa at Newlands
1889 - South Africa all out 47, then follow-on all out 43 v England
1895 - King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day
1900 - 1st edition The (Free) People (Neth, probably Amsterdam)
1903 - American Hotel opens in Amsterdam
1909 - August Strindberg's "Bjalb-jarle-ti," premieres in Stockholm
1910 - US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick
1910 - William H Lewis appointed asst attorney general of US
1913 - Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the 1st Balkan War
1913 - Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, & Muskingum River reach flood stage simultaneously
1915 - Stanley Cup: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Ottawa Senators
1916 - Birdman of Alcatraz receives solitary
1917 - Stanley Cup: Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA) beat Montreal Canadiens (NHL), 3 games to 1 - Seattle is 1st US team to win Stanley Cup
1923 - Stanley Cup: Ott Senators beat Vanc Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 1
1924 - Premiere of Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan," in London
1926 - ACD de Graeff appointed gov-gen of Dutch East-Indies
1926 - The 1st lip-reading tournament held in America
1927 - Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA
1927 - Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms
1930 - Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway
1931 - Iraq & Trans-Jordan sign peace treaty
1931 - Leo Bentley bowls 3 consecutive perfect games in Lorain, Ohio
1931 - New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies
1934 - Driving tests introduced in Britain
1935 - "RvJ" Mitchell & Mjr Sorley discuss armament of Spitfire
1936 - 1st parliamentary debate on NZ radio
1936 - 200" telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass Works, NY-Cal Tech
1936 - Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska
1937 - Joe DiMaggio takes Ty Cobb's advice & replace his 40 with 36 oz bat
1937 - Spinach growers of Crystal City, Tx, erect statue of Popeye
1937 - William H Hastie becomes 1st black federal judge (Virgin Islands)
1938 - NBC radio performance of Howard Hanson's 3rd Symphony
1940 - Ernest Hemingway & Benjamin Glazer premiere in NYC
1942 - 1st "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz & Birkenau Camps
1942 - 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec
1942 - 20 tons of gelignite in a stone quarry at Easton Pa, kills 21
1942 - German offensive in North-Africa under Col-general Rommel
1943 - 1st woman to receive air medal (US army nurse Elsie S Ott)
1943 - Battle of Komandorski Islands, Pacific Ocean
1943 - Elsie S Ott becomes 1st woman awarded US Air Force Medal
1944 - 705 British bombers attack Essen
1945 - British premier Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg)
1945 - De Paul wins NIT basketball championship, George Mikan scores 34
1945 - Generals Eisenhower/Bradley/Patton attack at Remagen the Rhine
1945 - Japanese resistance ends on Iwo Jima
1945 - Kamikaze attack on US battle fleet near Kerama Retto
1945 - US 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms
1945 - Venray soccer team forms
1949 - 11th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Oklahoma State 46-36
1951 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Sandhills Women's Golf Open
1951 - USAF flag approved
1952 - 14th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kansas beats St Johns 80-63
1952 - F Durrenmatt's "Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi," premieres in Munich
1953 - Dr Jonas Salk announces vaccine to prevent polio[myelitis]
1953 - Salk Polio vaccine announced
1954 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1955 - "Ballad of Davy Crockett," becomes the #1 record in US
1956 - Medic Alert Foundation forms
1956 - Red Buttons debuts on TV in Studio One
1958 - 30th Academy Awards-"Bridge over River Kwai," Woodward & Guinness win
1958 - Army launches 3rd successful US satellite, Explorer III
1958 - US Army launched America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III"
1958 - The African Regroupment Party (PRA) is launched at a meeting in Paris.
1959 - Test debut for Mushtaq Mohammad v WI age 15 yrs 124 days
1960 - Iraq executes 30 after attack on Pres Kassem
1960 - Orioles-Reds series for Havana, is moved to Miami
1960 - USC captures NCAA swimming title
1961 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Golden Circle of Golf Festival
1962 - Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state leg
1964 - "Funny Girl" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1,348 performances
1965 - A truck loses control down Moosic Street, Scranton, Pennsylvania, killing the driver. This accident later inspired the 1974 Harry Chapin song, "30,000 Pounds of Bananas."
1967 - 21st Tony Awards: Homecoming & Cabaret win
1967 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Venice Ladies' Golf Open
1967 - Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Populorum progressio
1969 - Marcus Welby MD, a TV movie is shown on ABC-TV
1969 - Nuclear reactor Dodewaard Neth goes into use
1969 - Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched
1970 - "Minnie's Boys" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 80 performances
1970 - 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945
1970 - Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark
1970 - Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) plead guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl
1971 - "Benny Hill Show" tops TV ratings
1971 - "Cannon" with William Conrad premieres on CBS-TV
1971 - Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence
1972 - "Only Fools Are Sad" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 144 perfs
1972 - Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic
1972 - LA Lakers broke NBA record by winning 69 of 82 games (69-13)
1973 - 35th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Memphis 81-76
1973 - Soap "Young & Restless" premieres
1973 - Susan Shaw, is 1st woman in 171 years in London's Stock exchange
1973 - UCLA wins their 7th straight NCAA basketball title
1974 - George Foreman TKOs Ken Norton in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1974 - Romanian communist party names party leader Ceausescu president
1975 - "Tommy" premieres in London
1975 - Washington Capitals play record NHL 37th road game without a win & NHL record of 17 straight loses
1975 - The Biological Weapons Convention enters into force.
1976 - AL approves purchase of Toronto franchise by LaBatt Brewing for $7M
1976 - Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound" album
1976 - Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.
1977 - Elvis Costello releases his 1st record "Less Than Zero"
1977 - Focus on the Family is founded by Dr. James Dobson
1979 - 41st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Mich State beats Indiana St 75-64
1979 - Camp David peace treaty between Israel & Egypt
1979 - Michigan State Spartans snaps Indiana State's 33-game win streak
1979 - Padres & Giants announce plans to play exhibition series in Tokyo but Giant players reject it
1980 - Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police)
1981 - Police & Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo Yugoslavia
1981 - Soyuz T-4 lands
1982 - Ground-breaking in Washington, DC for Vietnam Veterans Memorial
1982 - Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder release "Ebony & Ivory" in the UK
1982 - Soap opera "Capitol" premieres
1983 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 - Geffen records signs Guns & Roses
1987 - August Wilson's "Fences," premieres in NYC
1987 - Hyderabad beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
1987 - NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it failed to reach orbit
1987 - Natl Fed of High School adopts college 3 point shot (21 feet)
1988 - Janet B Evans swims 1500m freestyle female world record (15:52.10)
1989 - 1st free elections in USSR; 190 M votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins
1989 - Allison Finney wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic
1990 - 62nd Academy Awards - "Driving Miss Daisy," D Day-Lewis, J Tandy win
1991 - Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street & Lexington Ave, NYC
1991 - Marc Camoletti's "Don't Dress for Dinner," premieres in London
1991 - Orlando Thunder beats San Antonio Riders in their 1st WLAF game 35-34
1991 - Victoria beat NSW by 7 wickets to win Sheffield Shield Final
1992 - Mike Tyson sentenced to 10 years in rape of Desiree Washington
1992 - NHL NY Rangers clinch 1st NHL regular season championship in 50 years
1994 - Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 m ladies (38.99 sec)
1994 - Gunda Niemann skates world record 5 km ladies (7:03.26)
1994 - Gunda Niemann skates un-official world record 10 km ladies (14:22.60)
1994 - Yuka Sato of Japan wins world figure skating championship in Tokyo
1995 - "Defending the Caveman," opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 671 perf
1995 - "Moliere Comedies" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 56 perfs
1995 - 15th Golden Raspberry Awards: Color of Night wins
1995 - 24th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nanci Bowen
1995 - Mashonaland beat Mashonaland U-24 by 165 runs to win Logan Cup
1995 - The Schengen Treaty goes into effect.
1996 - Last day of 1st-class cricket for Allan Border (Qld v Vic)
1996 - The International Monetary Fund approves a $10.2 billion loan for Russia.
1997 - "Annie," opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1997 - NHL announce Might Ducks & Vancouver Canucks to open 1998 in Japan
1997 - Thirty-nine bodies found in the Heaven's Gate cult suicides.
1998 - Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria; 52 people killed with axes and knives, 32 of them babies under the age of 2.
1999 - The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world.
1999 - A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.
2000 - 72nd Academy Awards - "American Beauty," Kevin Spacey & Hilary Swank win
2005 - The Taiwanese government calls on 1 million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China. Around 200,000 to 300,000 attend the walk.
2006 - In Scotland, the prohibition of smoking in all substantially enclosed public places comes into force.
2006 - The military junta ruling Burma officially named Naypyidaw, a new city in Mandalay Division, as the new capital. Yangon had formerly been the nation's capital.
2012 - Macky Sall elected as President of Senegal
2012 - Canadian Film maker, James Cameron, becomes the first person to visit Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth in over 50 years
1147 - Jewish community in Cologne fast to commemorate anti-Jewish violence
1150 - Tichborne family of Hampshire England started tradition of giving a Gallon of flour to each resident to keep deathbed promise
1484 - William Caxton printed his translation of Aesop's Fables.
1526 - King Francois I returns Spanish captivity to France
1534 - Lubeck accept free Dutch ships into East Sea
1552 - Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru.
1636 - University of Utrecht opening ceremony
1668 - England takes control of Bombay India
1692 - King Maximilian installed as land guardian of South Netherlands
1780 - 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (Brit Gazette & Sunday Monitor)
1790 - Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency
1793 - Pro-royalist uprising in Vendée region of France
1799 - Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine
1804 - Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana
1804 - Territory of Orleans organizes in Louisiana Purchase
1808 - Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII.
1812 - Earthquake destroys 90% of Caracas Venezuela; about 20,000 die
1821 - Franz Grillparzer's "Das Goldene Vliess," premieres in Vienna
1824 - 1st performance of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis"
1830 - The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
1839 - 1st Henley Royal Regatta
1845 - Joseph Francis, NYC, patents a corrugated sheet-iron lifeboat
1845 - Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precusor of bandaid
1852 - Decree regarding streets of Paris passed
1856 - NSW's 1st 1st-class game, v Victoria at Melbourne NSW won
1859 - 1st sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit inside Mercury
1862 - Battle of La Glorieta Pass, NM Terr (Apache Canyon, Pigeon's Ranch)
1863 - Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves
1871 - Paris Commune founded
1872 - 7.8 earthquake shakes Owens Valley, California
1872 - Thomas J Martin patents fire extinguisher
1878 - Hastings College of Law founded
1878 - Sabi Game Reserve, world's 1st official designated game reserve, opens
1881 - Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again.
1885 - Eastman Film Co manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film
1885 - Louis Riel's forces defeat Canadian forces at Duck Lake, Sask
1886 - 1st cremation in England
1889 - Bernard Tancred carries bat for 26* out of 47! South Africa v England
1889 - Johnny Briggs took 15-26 (7-17 & 8-11) v South Africa at Newlands
1889 - South Africa all out 47, then follow-on all out 43 v England
1895 - King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day
1900 - 1st edition The (Free) People (Neth, probably Amsterdam)
1903 - American Hotel opens in Amsterdam
1909 - August Strindberg's "Bjalb-jarle-ti," premieres in Stockholm
1910 - US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick
1910 - William H Lewis appointed asst attorney general of US
1913 - Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the 1st Balkan War
1913 - Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, & Muskingum River reach flood stage simultaneously
1915 - Stanley Cup: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Ottawa Senators
1916 - Birdman of Alcatraz receives solitary
1917 - Stanley Cup: Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA) beat Montreal Canadiens (NHL), 3 games to 1 - Seattle is 1st US team to win Stanley Cup
1923 - Stanley Cup: Ott Senators beat Vanc Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 1
1924 - Premiere of Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan," in London
1926 - ACD de Graeff appointed gov-gen of Dutch East-Indies
1926 - The 1st lip-reading tournament held in America
1927 - Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA
1927 - Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms
1930 - Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway
1931 - Iraq & Trans-Jordan sign peace treaty
1931 - Leo Bentley bowls 3 consecutive perfect games in Lorain, Ohio
1931 - New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies
1934 - Driving tests introduced in Britain
1935 - "RvJ" Mitchell & Mjr Sorley discuss armament of Spitfire
1936 - 1st parliamentary debate on NZ radio
1936 - 200" telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass Works, NY-Cal Tech
1936 - Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska
1937 - Joe DiMaggio takes Ty Cobb's advice & replace his 40 with 36 oz bat
1937 - Spinach growers of Crystal City, Tx, erect statue of Popeye
1937 - William H Hastie becomes 1st black federal judge (Virgin Islands)
1938 - NBC radio performance of Howard Hanson's 3rd Symphony
1940 - Ernest Hemingway & Benjamin Glazer premiere in NYC
1942 - 1st "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz & Birkenau Camps
1942 - 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec
1942 - 20 tons of gelignite in a stone quarry at Easton Pa, kills 21
1942 - German offensive in North-Africa under Col-general Rommel
1943 - 1st woman to receive air medal (US army nurse Elsie S Ott)
1943 - Battle of Komandorski Islands, Pacific Ocean
1943 - Elsie S Ott becomes 1st woman awarded US Air Force Medal
1944 - 705 British bombers attack Essen
1945 - British premier Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg)
1945 - De Paul wins NIT basketball championship, George Mikan scores 34
1945 - Generals Eisenhower/Bradley/Patton attack at Remagen the Rhine
1945 - Japanese resistance ends on Iwo Jima
1945 - Kamikaze attack on US battle fleet near Kerama Retto
1945 - US 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms
1945 - Venray soccer team forms
1949 - 11th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Oklahoma State 46-36
1951 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Sandhills Women's Golf Open
1951 - USAF flag approved
1952 - 14th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kansas beats St Johns 80-63
1952 - F Durrenmatt's "Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi," premieres in Munich
1953 - Dr Jonas Salk announces vaccine to prevent polio[myelitis]
1953 - Salk Polio vaccine announced
1954 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1955 - "Ballad of Davy Crockett," becomes the #1 record in US
1956 - Medic Alert Foundation forms
1956 - Red Buttons debuts on TV in Studio One
1958 - 30th Academy Awards-"Bridge over River Kwai," Woodward & Guinness win
1958 - Army launches 3rd successful US satellite, Explorer III
1958 - US Army launched America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III"
1958 - The African Regroupment Party (PRA) is launched at a meeting in Paris.
1959 - Test debut for Mushtaq Mohammad v WI age 15 yrs 124 days
1960 - Iraq executes 30 after attack on Pres Kassem
1960 - Orioles-Reds series for Havana, is moved to Miami
1960 - USC captures NCAA swimming title
1961 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Golden Circle of Golf Festival
1962 - Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state leg
1964 - "Funny Girl" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1,348 performances
1965 - A truck loses control down Moosic Street, Scranton, Pennsylvania, killing the driver. This accident later inspired the 1974 Harry Chapin song, "30,000 Pounds of Bananas."
1967 - 21st Tony Awards: Homecoming & Cabaret win
1967 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Venice Ladies' Golf Open
1967 - Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Populorum progressio
1969 - Marcus Welby MD, a TV movie is shown on ABC-TV
1969 - Nuclear reactor Dodewaard Neth goes into use
1969 - Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched
1970 - "Minnie's Boys" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 80 performances
1970 - 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945
1970 - Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark
1970 - Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) plead guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl
1971 - "Benny Hill Show" tops TV ratings
1971 - "Cannon" with William Conrad premieres on CBS-TV
1971 - Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence
1972 - "Only Fools Are Sad" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 144 perfs
1972 - Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic
1972 - LA Lakers broke NBA record by winning 69 of 82 games (69-13)
1973 - 35th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Memphis 81-76
1973 - Soap "Young & Restless" premieres
1973 - Susan Shaw, is 1st woman in 171 years in London's Stock exchange
1973 - UCLA wins their 7th straight NCAA basketball title
1974 - George Foreman TKOs Ken Norton in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1974 - Romanian communist party names party leader Ceausescu president
1975 - "Tommy" premieres in London
1975 - Washington Capitals play record NHL 37th road game without a win & NHL record of 17 straight loses
1975 - The Biological Weapons Convention enters into force.
1976 - AL approves purchase of Toronto franchise by LaBatt Brewing for $7M
1976 - Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound" album
1976 - Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.
1977 - Elvis Costello releases his 1st record "Less Than Zero"
1977 - Focus on the Family is founded by Dr. James Dobson
1979 - 41st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Mich State beats Indiana St 75-64
1979 - Camp David peace treaty between Israel & Egypt
1979 - Michigan State Spartans snaps Indiana State's 33-game win streak
1979 - Padres & Giants announce plans to play exhibition series in Tokyo but Giant players reject it
1980 - Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police)
1981 - Police & Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo Yugoslavia
1981 - Soyuz T-4 lands
1982 - Ground-breaking in Washington, DC for Vietnam Veterans Memorial
1982 - Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder release "Ebony & Ivory" in the UK
1982 - Soap opera "Capitol" premieres
1983 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 - Geffen records signs Guns & Roses
1987 - August Wilson's "Fences," premieres in NYC
1987 - Hyderabad beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
1987 - NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it failed to reach orbit
1987 - Natl Fed of High School adopts college 3 point shot (21 feet)
1988 - Janet B Evans swims 1500m freestyle female world record (15:52.10)
1989 - 1st free elections in USSR; 190 M votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins
1989 - Allison Finney wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic
1990 - 62nd Academy Awards - "Driving Miss Daisy," D Day-Lewis, J Tandy win
1991 - Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street & Lexington Ave, NYC
1991 - Marc Camoletti's "Don't Dress for Dinner," premieres in London
1991 - Orlando Thunder beats San Antonio Riders in their 1st WLAF game 35-34
1991 - Victoria beat NSW by 7 wickets to win Sheffield Shield Final
1992 - Mike Tyson sentenced to 10 years in rape of Desiree Washington
1992 - NHL NY Rangers clinch 1st NHL regular season championship in 50 years
1994 - Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 m ladies (38.99 sec)
1994 - Gunda Niemann skates world record 5 km ladies (7:03.26)
1994 - Gunda Niemann skates un-official world record 10 km ladies (14:22.60)
1994 - Yuka Sato of Japan wins world figure skating championship in Tokyo
1995 - "Defending the Caveman," opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 671 perf
1995 - "Moliere Comedies" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 56 perfs
1995 - 15th Golden Raspberry Awards: Color of Night wins
1995 - 24th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nanci Bowen
1995 - Mashonaland beat Mashonaland U-24 by 165 runs to win Logan Cup
1995 - The Schengen Treaty goes into effect.
1996 - Last day of 1st-class cricket for Allan Border (Qld v Vic)
1996 - The International Monetary Fund approves a $10.2 billion loan for Russia.
1997 - "Annie," opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1997 - NHL announce Might Ducks & Vancouver Canucks to open 1998 in Japan
1997 - Thirty-nine bodies found in the Heaven's Gate cult suicides.
1998 - Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria; 52 people killed with axes and knives, 32 of them babies under the age of 2.
1999 - The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world.
1999 - A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.
2000 - 72nd Academy Awards - "American Beauty," Kevin Spacey & Hilary Swank win
2005 - The Taiwanese government calls on 1 million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China. Around 200,000 to 300,000 attend the walk.
2006 - In Scotland, the prohibition of smoking in all substantially enclosed public places comes into force.
2006 - The military junta ruling Burma officially named Naypyidaw, a new city in Mandalay Division, as the new capital. Yangon had formerly been the nation's capital.
2012 - Macky Sall elected as President of Senegal
2012 - Canadian Film maker, James Cameron, becomes the first person to visit Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth in over 50 years
Birthdays
603 -
Pacal II ruler of the Maya polity of Palenque
1479 - Vasili III, great prince of Moscow (1505-33)/son of Ivan III
1516 - Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (d. 1565)
1554 - Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (d. 1611)
1577 - Elisabeth of Nassau, daughter of Willem I & Charlotte of Bourbon
1659 - William Wollaston, Coton England, philosopher
1671 - Giacomo Cesare Predieri, composer
1684 - Johann Graf, composer
1698 - Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist (d. 1765)
1717 - Manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila, composer
1749 - William Blount, American Statesman (d. 1800)
1753 - Benjamin Thompson, physicist (Royal Inst of Great Britain, Woburn MA)
1758 - Johann Daniel Ferstenberg, composer
1773 - Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician/astronomer/author (Marine Sextant)
1783 - Johann Baptist Weigl, composer
1794 - Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (d. 1872)
1806 - Josef Slavik, composer
1813 - Thomas West Sherman, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879
1817 - Herman Haupt, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1819 - Francisco Eduardo da Costa, composer
1819 - Louise Otto, Germany, author/feminist
1821 - Earnest Angel, German statistician (Law of Angel)
1827 - Emanuel Kania, composer
1830 - Eliza Laurillard, Dutch vicar/poet/writer
1830 - John Rogers Thomas, composer
1833 - Betsy Perk, [Christina E], Dutch journalist/writer/feminist
1840 - Carli Zoeller, composer
1840 - George Smith, London England, assyriologist (cuneiform (script))
1850 - Edward Bellamy, author (Looking Backward)
1854 - Braulio Dueno Colon, composer
1856 - David Alfred Thomas, Glamorganshire UK, 1st Viscount Rhondda
1859 - A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, England, poet (Shropshire Lad)
1859 - Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, composer
1859 - Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician (d. 1919)
1862 - George William Louis Marshall-Hall, composer
1868 - Fuad I, king of Egypt (1922-36)
1871 - Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana'ole of the Kingdom of Hawaii (d. 1922)
1873 - [Louise] Sophie de Vries, actress (On Hope of Blessing)
1874 - Gerald du Maurier, London England, actor (Power, Escape, Masks & Faces)
1874 - Oskar Nedbal, composer
1874 - Robert Frost, SF, poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken)
1875 - Syngman Rhee, P’yŏngsan Hwanghae Province, first President of South Korea (1948-60)
1876 - Prince William of Wied (d. 1945)
1879 - Othmar Ammann, Swiss bridge engineer (d. 1965)
1880 - Duncan Hines, US, restaurant guide writer (Out of Kentucky Kitchens)
1882 - Hermann Obrecht, Swiss jurist (d. 1940)
1884 - Wilhelm Backhaus, Leipzig Germany, pianist (Rubinstein 1905)
1885 - Julius Harrison, composer
1885 - Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer
1886 - Hugh Mulzac, America military officer (d. 1971)
1888 - Elsa Brändström, Swedish nurse (d. 1948)
1889 - Vaclav Kapral, composer
1890 - Jozef Arras, Flemish writer
1893 - Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Party of Italy)
1894 - Will Wright, SF CA, actor (Living Christ Story)
1894 - Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano (d. 1985)
1896 - Richard Flury, composer
1896 - Rudolf Dassler, Founder of PUMA AG (d. 1974)
1898 - Renzo Massarani, composer
1898 - Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (d. 1979)
1899 - James B Connant, chemist/college president (Yale)
1899 - William Baines, composer
1900 - Isadore Freed, composer
1902 - Leslie Melville, economist
1904 - Emilio Fernandez, El Seco Mexico, director (La Choca, Flor Silvestre)
1904 - Hermann Schroeder, composer
1904 - Joseph Campbell, mythologist (Mythic Image)
1904 - Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2004)
1905 - Pablo Garrido, composer
1905 - Viktor Emil Frankl, pyschiatrist (Man's Search for Meaning)
1906 - Rafael Mendez, Mexican trumpetist (d. 1981)
1907 - Leigh Harline, composer
1907 - Louis Saguer, composer
1908 - Betty MacDonald, [Anne E Campbell Bard], US writer (Egg & I)
1908 - Hank Sylvern, Brooklyn New York, American orchestra leader (Jane Froman's USA Canteen)
1908 - Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling, Essen Germany, tennis star (French 1935)
1908 - Kenneth Mellanby, entomologist
1908 - Robert William Paine, architect
1909 - Chips Rafferty, Broken Hill Australia, actor (Desert Rats)
1909 - Chris[tiaan R] Reumer, Dutch opera singer
1911 - Bernard Katz, biophysicist
1911 - Tennessee Williams, Columbus Miss, playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
1911 - T. Hee, American animator (d. 1988)
1913 - Paul Erdos, mathematician
1914 - Ian McGeoch, Vice-Admiral
1914 - William Westmoreland, Saxon SC, army general (Vietnam era)
1914 - Toru Kumon, Japanese educator (d. 1995)
1916 - Bill Edrich, cricketer (Middlesex & England bat, Compton's mate)
1916 - Christian B Anfinsen, US chemist (cell physiology, Nobel 1972)
1916 - Mort Abrahams, producer (Dr Doolittle, Planet Of Apes)
1916 - Sterling Hayden, NJ, actor (Dr Strangelove, Asphalt Jungle, Cobra)
1916 - Vic Schoen, Brooklyn New York, American orchestra leader (Patti Page Olds Show)
1917 - Jean Graham Hall, circuit court judge (England)
1917 - Rufus Thomas, Miss, singer (Walking the Dog)
1919 - Strother Martin, Kokomo Ind, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Slapshot)
1919 - Roger Leger, Quebec ice hockey player (d. 1965)
1920 - George E Brown Jr, (Rep-D-CA, 1963-71, 73- )
1920 - Sergio Livingstone, Santiago, Chile , football player and journalist (52 caps), (d. 2012)
1921 - George Jefferson, CEO (British Telecom)
1921 - Joe Loco, [Jose Esteves, Jr], musician
1921 - Peter Horsley, CEO (Osprey Aviation)
1922 - William Milliken, actor (Drive-in)
1922 - Oscar Sala, Italian-born physicist
1923 - Bob Elliot, Boston, Massachusetts, American comedian (Bob & Ray, Get a Life)
1923 - Clifton Williams, Traskwood Arkansas, band master (Sinfonians)
1923 - Elizabeth Jane Howard, British novelist (After Julius)
1923 - Gert Bastian, German politician (d. 1992)
1925 - Claudio Spies, composer
1925 - Lord Graham of Edmonton, House of Lords (chief opposition whip)
1925 - Baron Hooson [Hugh Emlyn], British politician and peer (MP for Montgomeryshire 1962-79), (d. 2012)
1925 - Maqsood Ahmed, cricketer (Pakistani batsman in 16 Tests 1952-56)
1925 - Pierre Boulez, Montbrison France, composer/conductor (Visage Nuptial)
1927 - Jonathan Tod, Vice-Admiral (England)
1928 - Carole Carr, singer/actress (Down Among the Z Men)
1929 - Maurice Simon, jazz musician
1929 - Edwin Turney, American businessman
1930 - Cristobal Halffter, composer
1930 - Gregory Corso, beat poet (Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man)
1930 - Sandra Day O'Connor, Texas, 1st woman Supreme Court Justice (1981- )
1931 - Leonard Nimoy, Boston, actor (Spock-Star Trek, Mission Impossible)
1932 - Dick Nolan, football coach
1934 - Alan Arkin, NYC, actor (Catch 22, In-Laws, Simon, Wait Until Dark)
1934 - G T Pryce, CEO (Dalgety)
1934 - Gino Cappelletti, ORFU, AFL running back (AFL Player of Year 1964)
1935 - Earl of Kinnoull
1935 - Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestine National Authority
1936 - Erich Urbanner, composer
1936 - Fred Paris, rocker (Five Satins)
1937 - Barbara Pearl Jones, Chicago Illinois, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-gold-1952, 60)
1937 - Lord Chetwode
1937 - Wayne Embry, holder of 7 basketball records (Miami of Ohio)
1938 - Anthony James Leggett, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1939 - Colin Webb, general manager (Press Association)
1939 - Phillip R Allen, Pitts, actor (Harry-Hardy Boys Mystery, Mitch-Alice)
1939 - Stuart Sutherland, Professor Emeritus (Sussex U)
1940 - James Caan, Bronx NY, American actor (Misery, Godfather)
1940 - Bill Ind, Bishop-designate (Truro)
1940 - Braulio Baeza, jockey (National Horse Racing Hall of Famer)
1940 - Nancy Pelosi, (Rep-D-California)
1940 - Rod Lauren, rocker (If I Had a Girl)
1940 - Servaes [J S] Huys, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1941 - Barclay Plager, hockey player/twin brother of hockey's Bob Plager
1941 - Bob Plager, hockey player/twin brother of hockey's Barclay Plager
1941 - Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist
1941 - Yvon Marcoux, Quebec politician
1942 - Erica Jong, [Mann], NYC, author (Fear of Flying)
1943 - Robert Woodward, investigative reporter (Watergate, CIA crimes)
1943 - Bob Woodward, American journalist
1944 - Diana Ross, [Earle], Detroit, (Supremes, Lady Sings Blues, Mahogany)
1945 - Mikhail Voronin, USSR, horse vault gymnist (Olympic-gold-1968)
1946 - Johnny Crawford, Los Angeles California, actor (Mark-The Rifleman)
1946 - Alain Madelin, French politician
1947 - Carmen Krolis, Suriname/Neth singer
1947 - Dar Robinson, American stuntman (d. 1986)
1948 - Kyung-Wha Chung, Seoul Korea, violinist (Chung Sisters)
1948 - Richard Tandy, rock bassist (ELO)
1948 - Steven Tyler, NYC, rock vocalist (Aerosmith-Janie Got a Gun)
1949 - Baroness Hayman [Hélène Hayman], Wolverhampton, West Midlands, Lord Speaker of the House of Lords
1949 - Fran Sheehan, rock bassist (Boston-More than a Feeling)
1949 - Vicki Lawrence, Inglewood Ca, actress (Carol Burnette, Mama's Family)
1949 - Patrick Süskind, German writer
1950 - Ernest Thomas, Gary Ind, actor (Roger-What's Happening!!)
1950 - Graham Barlow, cricketer (England batsman in 3 Tests 1976-77)
1950 - Martin Short, Hamilton Ontario, comedian (SNL, SCTV, 3 Amigos)
1950 - Ronnie McDowell, Fountain Head Tn, country singer (King is Gone)
1950 - Teddy Pendergrass, Phila, singer (Turn Off the Lights)
1950 - Tony Papenfuss, Minneapolis Minn, (Daryl-Newhart)
1950 - Alan Silvestri, American film score composer
1951 - Richard B Shull, US actor (Hail to the Chief, Big Bus)
1952 - David Amess, MP
1952 - Didier Pironi, French Formula One driver (d. 1987)
1953 - Michael Bonagura, Newark NJ, country singer (Baille & Boys-Oh Heart)
1953 - Tatyana Providokhina, Russian 1K runner (world record)
1953 - Elaine Chao, U.S. Secretary of Labor
1953 - Lincoln Chafee, American Senator from Rhode Island
1953 - Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian rebel (d. 2002)
1954 - Curtis Sliwa, founder (Guardian Angels)/radio personality (WABC)
1954 - Piers Gardner, director (Brit Institute of Intl & Comparative Law)
1954 - Kazuhiko Inoue, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
1955 - Dean Dillon, Lake City TN, country singer (Chair)
1955 - Danny Arndt, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 - Charly McClain, Jackson Tn, country singer (Radio Heart)
1956 - Tatyana Kochergina, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1957 - Leeza Gibbons, SC, TV host (Entertainment Tonight, Leeza)
1957 - Walter Rohlfing, Dusseldorf, WLAF defensive line coach (Rhein Fire)
1958 - Chris Codiroli, American baseballer
1959 - David Delong, Portland Ore, Canadian Tour golfer (1988 BC Open)
1959 - Chris Hansen, American reporter and correspondent
1960 - Billy Warlock, Hawthorne California, actor (Flip-Happy Days, Baywatch)
1960 - Debbie Hall, LPGA golfer
1960 - Marcus Allen, NFL running back (LA Raiders, KC Chiefs, Heisman 1981)
1960 - Michael Evans, Fontana CA, US water polo player (Olympic-silver-88)
1961 - Leigh Bowery, designer
1961 - William Hague, Secretary of State for Wales
1962 - John Stockton, Spokane Wash, NBA guard (Utah Jazz, Olympics-gold-96)
1962 - Kevin Seitzer, Springfield IL, infielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1962 - Maarten de Young, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1962 - Richard Coles, rocker (Communards-Don't Leave Me This Way)
1962 - Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko, Russia, lt-colonel/cosmonaut
1963 - Paul de Leeuw, Dutch TV host (Cry of the Lion)
1479 - Vasili III, great prince of Moscow (1505-33)/son of Ivan III
1516 - Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (d. 1565)
1554 - Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (d. 1611)
1577 - Elisabeth of Nassau, daughter of Willem I & Charlotte of Bourbon
1659 - William Wollaston, Coton England, philosopher
1671 - Giacomo Cesare Predieri, composer
1684 - Johann Graf, composer
1698 - Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist (d. 1765)
1717 - Manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila, composer
1749 - William Blount, American Statesman (d. 1800)
1753 - Benjamin Thompson, physicist (Royal Inst of Great Britain, Woburn MA)
1758 - Johann Daniel Ferstenberg, composer
1773 - Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician/astronomer/author (Marine Sextant)
1783 - Johann Baptist Weigl, composer
1794 - Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (d. 1872)
1806 - Josef Slavik, composer
1813 - Thomas West Sherman, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879
1817 - Herman Haupt, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1819 - Francisco Eduardo da Costa, composer
1819 - Louise Otto, Germany, author/feminist
1821 - Earnest Angel, German statistician (Law of Angel)
1827 - Emanuel Kania, composer
1830 - Eliza Laurillard, Dutch vicar/poet/writer
1830 - John Rogers Thomas, composer
1833 - Betsy Perk, [Christina E], Dutch journalist/writer/feminist
1840 - Carli Zoeller, composer
1840 - George Smith, London England, assyriologist (cuneiform (script))
1850 - Edward Bellamy, author (Looking Backward)
1854 - Braulio Dueno Colon, composer
1856 - David Alfred Thomas, Glamorganshire UK, 1st Viscount Rhondda
1859 - A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, England, poet (Shropshire Lad)
1859 - Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, composer
1859 - Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician (d. 1919)
1862 - George William Louis Marshall-Hall, composer
1868 - Fuad I, king of Egypt (1922-36)
1871 - Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana'ole of the Kingdom of Hawaii (d. 1922)
1873 - [Louise] Sophie de Vries, actress (On Hope of Blessing)
1874 - Gerald du Maurier, London England, actor (Power, Escape, Masks & Faces)
1874 - Oskar Nedbal, composer
1874 - Robert Frost, SF, poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken)
1875 - Syngman Rhee, P’yŏngsan Hwanghae Province, first President of South Korea (1948-60)
1876 - Prince William of Wied (d. 1945)
1879 - Othmar Ammann, Swiss bridge engineer (d. 1965)
1880 - Duncan Hines, US, restaurant guide writer (Out of Kentucky Kitchens)
1882 - Hermann Obrecht, Swiss jurist (d. 1940)
1884 - Wilhelm Backhaus, Leipzig Germany, pianist (Rubinstein 1905)
1885 - Julius Harrison, composer
1885 - Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer
1886 - Hugh Mulzac, America military officer (d. 1971)
1888 - Elsa Brändström, Swedish nurse (d. 1948)
1889 - Vaclav Kapral, composer
1890 - Jozef Arras, Flemish writer
1893 - Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Party of Italy)
1894 - Will Wright, SF CA, actor (Living Christ Story)
1894 - Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano (d. 1985)
1896 - Richard Flury, composer
1896 - Rudolf Dassler, Founder of PUMA AG (d. 1974)
1898 - Renzo Massarani, composer
1898 - Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (d. 1979)
1899 - James B Connant, chemist/college president (Yale)
1899 - William Baines, composer
1900 - Isadore Freed, composer
1902 - Leslie Melville, economist
1904 - Emilio Fernandez, El Seco Mexico, director (La Choca, Flor Silvestre)
1904 - Hermann Schroeder, composer
1904 - Joseph Campbell, mythologist (Mythic Image)
1904 - Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2004)
1905 - Pablo Garrido, composer
1905 - Viktor Emil Frankl, pyschiatrist (Man's Search for Meaning)
1906 - Rafael Mendez, Mexican trumpetist (d. 1981)
1907 - Leigh Harline, composer
1907 - Louis Saguer, composer
1908 - Betty MacDonald, [Anne E Campbell Bard], US writer (Egg & I)
1908 - Hank Sylvern, Brooklyn New York, American orchestra leader (Jane Froman's USA Canteen)
1908 - Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling, Essen Germany, tennis star (French 1935)
1908 - Kenneth Mellanby, entomologist
1908 - Robert William Paine, architect
1909 - Chips Rafferty, Broken Hill Australia, actor (Desert Rats)
1909 - Chris[tiaan R] Reumer, Dutch opera singer
1911 - Bernard Katz, biophysicist
1911 - Tennessee Williams, Columbus Miss, playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
1911 - T. Hee, American animator (d. 1988)
1913 - Paul Erdos, mathematician
1914 - Ian McGeoch, Vice-Admiral
1914 - William Westmoreland, Saxon SC, army general (Vietnam era)
1914 - Toru Kumon, Japanese educator (d. 1995)
1916 - Bill Edrich, cricketer (Middlesex & England bat, Compton's mate)
1916 - Christian B Anfinsen, US chemist (cell physiology, Nobel 1972)
1916 - Mort Abrahams, producer (Dr Doolittle, Planet Of Apes)
1916 - Sterling Hayden, NJ, actor (Dr Strangelove, Asphalt Jungle, Cobra)
1916 - Vic Schoen, Brooklyn New York, American orchestra leader (Patti Page Olds Show)
1917 - Jean Graham Hall, circuit court judge (England)
1917 - Rufus Thomas, Miss, singer (Walking the Dog)
1919 - Strother Martin, Kokomo Ind, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Slapshot)
1919 - Roger Leger, Quebec ice hockey player (d. 1965)
1920 - George E Brown Jr, (Rep-D-CA, 1963-71, 73- )
1920 - Sergio Livingstone, Santiago, Chile , football player and journalist (52 caps), (d. 2012)
1921 - George Jefferson, CEO (British Telecom)
1921 - Joe Loco, [Jose Esteves, Jr], musician
1921 - Peter Horsley, CEO (Osprey Aviation)
1922 - William Milliken, actor (Drive-in)
1922 - Oscar Sala, Italian-born physicist
1923 - Bob Elliot, Boston, Massachusetts, American comedian (Bob & Ray, Get a Life)
1923 - Clifton Williams, Traskwood Arkansas, band master (Sinfonians)
1923 - Elizabeth Jane Howard, British novelist (After Julius)
1923 - Gert Bastian, German politician (d. 1992)
1925 - Claudio Spies, composer
1925 - Lord Graham of Edmonton, House of Lords (chief opposition whip)
1925 - Baron Hooson [Hugh Emlyn], British politician and peer (MP for Montgomeryshire 1962-79), (d. 2012)
1925 - Maqsood Ahmed, cricketer (Pakistani batsman in 16 Tests 1952-56)
1925 - Pierre Boulez, Montbrison France, composer/conductor (Visage Nuptial)
1927 - Jonathan Tod, Vice-Admiral (England)
1928 - Carole Carr, singer/actress (Down Among the Z Men)
1929 - Maurice Simon, jazz musician
1929 - Edwin Turney, American businessman
1930 - Cristobal Halffter, composer
1930 - Gregory Corso, beat poet (Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man)
1930 - Sandra Day O'Connor, Texas, 1st woman Supreme Court Justice (1981- )
1931 - Leonard Nimoy, Boston, actor (Spock-Star Trek, Mission Impossible)
1932 - Dick Nolan, football coach
1934 - Alan Arkin, NYC, actor (Catch 22, In-Laws, Simon, Wait Until Dark)
1934 - G T Pryce, CEO (Dalgety)
1934 - Gino Cappelletti, ORFU, AFL running back (AFL Player of Year 1964)
1935 - Earl of Kinnoull
1935 - Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestine National Authority
1936 - Erich Urbanner, composer
1936 - Fred Paris, rocker (Five Satins)
1937 - Barbara Pearl Jones, Chicago Illinois, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-gold-1952, 60)
1937 - Lord Chetwode
1937 - Wayne Embry, holder of 7 basketball records (Miami of Ohio)
1938 - Anthony James Leggett, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1939 - Colin Webb, general manager (Press Association)
1939 - Phillip R Allen, Pitts, actor (Harry-Hardy Boys Mystery, Mitch-Alice)
1939 - Stuart Sutherland, Professor Emeritus (Sussex U)
1940 - James Caan, Bronx NY, American actor (Misery, Godfather)
1940 - Bill Ind, Bishop-designate (Truro)
1940 - Braulio Baeza, jockey (National Horse Racing Hall of Famer)
1940 - Nancy Pelosi, (Rep-D-California)
1940 - Rod Lauren, rocker (If I Had a Girl)
1940 - Servaes [J S] Huys, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1941 - Barclay Plager, hockey player/twin brother of hockey's Bob Plager
1941 - Bob Plager, hockey player/twin brother of hockey's Barclay Plager
1941 - Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist
1941 - Yvon Marcoux, Quebec politician
1942 - Erica Jong, [Mann], NYC, author (Fear of Flying)
1943 - Robert Woodward, investigative reporter (Watergate, CIA crimes)
1943 - Bob Woodward, American journalist
1944 - Diana Ross, [Earle], Detroit, (Supremes, Lady Sings Blues, Mahogany)
1945 - Mikhail Voronin, USSR, horse vault gymnist (Olympic-gold-1968)
1946 - Johnny Crawford, Los Angeles California, actor (Mark-The Rifleman)
1946 - Alain Madelin, French politician
1947 - Carmen Krolis, Suriname/Neth singer
1947 - Dar Robinson, American stuntman (d. 1986)
1948 - Kyung-Wha Chung, Seoul Korea, violinist (Chung Sisters)
1948 - Richard Tandy, rock bassist (ELO)
1948 - Steven Tyler, NYC, rock vocalist (Aerosmith-Janie Got a Gun)
1949 - Baroness Hayman [Hélène Hayman], Wolverhampton, West Midlands, Lord Speaker of the House of Lords
1949 - Fran Sheehan, rock bassist (Boston-More than a Feeling)
1949 - Vicki Lawrence, Inglewood Ca, actress (Carol Burnette, Mama's Family)
1949 - Patrick Süskind, German writer
1950 - Ernest Thomas, Gary Ind, actor (Roger-What's Happening!!)
1950 - Graham Barlow, cricketer (England batsman in 3 Tests 1976-77)
1950 - Martin Short, Hamilton Ontario, comedian (SNL, SCTV, 3 Amigos)
1950 - Ronnie McDowell, Fountain Head Tn, country singer (King is Gone)
1950 - Teddy Pendergrass, Phila, singer (Turn Off the Lights)
1950 - Tony Papenfuss, Minneapolis Minn, (Daryl-Newhart)
1950 - Alan Silvestri, American film score composer
1951 - Richard B Shull, US actor (Hail to the Chief, Big Bus)
1952 - David Amess, MP
1952 - Didier Pironi, French Formula One driver (d. 1987)
1953 - Michael Bonagura, Newark NJ, country singer (Baille & Boys-Oh Heart)
1953 - Tatyana Providokhina, Russian 1K runner (world record)
1953 - Elaine Chao, U.S. Secretary of Labor
1953 - Lincoln Chafee, American Senator from Rhode Island
1953 - Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian rebel (d. 2002)
1954 - Curtis Sliwa, founder (Guardian Angels)/radio personality (WABC)
1954 - Piers Gardner, director (Brit Institute of Intl & Comparative Law)
1954 - Kazuhiko Inoue, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
1955 - Dean Dillon, Lake City TN, country singer (Chair)
1955 - Danny Arndt, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 - Charly McClain, Jackson Tn, country singer (Radio Heart)
1956 - Tatyana Kochergina, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1957 - Leeza Gibbons, SC, TV host (Entertainment Tonight, Leeza)
1957 - Walter Rohlfing, Dusseldorf, WLAF defensive line coach (Rhein Fire)
1958 - Chris Codiroli, American baseballer
1959 - David Delong, Portland Ore, Canadian Tour golfer (1988 BC Open)
1959 - Chris Hansen, American reporter and correspondent
1960 - Billy Warlock, Hawthorne California, actor (Flip-Happy Days, Baywatch)
1960 - Debbie Hall, LPGA golfer
1960 - Marcus Allen, NFL running back (LA Raiders, KC Chiefs, Heisman 1981)
1960 - Michael Evans, Fontana CA, US water polo player (Olympic-silver-88)
1961 - Leigh Bowery, designer
1961 - William Hague, Secretary of State for Wales
1962 - John Stockton, Spokane Wash, NBA guard (Utah Jazz, Olympics-gold-96)
1962 - Kevin Seitzer, Springfield IL, infielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1962 - Maarten de Young, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1962 - Richard Coles, rocker (Communards-Don't Leave Me This Way)
1962 - Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko, Russia, lt-colonel/cosmonaut
1963 - Paul de Leeuw, Dutch TV host (Cry of the Lion)
1963 -
Rebecca Twigg, Seattle Wash, 79K cyclist (Olympic-silver-1984, 92, 96)
1963 - Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Japanese writer
1963 - Amparo Larrañaga, Spanish actress
1964 - Ab Plugboer, soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1964 - Ulf Samuelsson, Fagersta SWE, NHL defenseman (Team Sweden, NY Rangers)
1964 - Martin Donnelly, Irish racecar driver
1964 - Baz Warne, English Guitarist (The Stranglers)
1966 - Lee Porter, Greensboro NC, Nike golfer (1992 Texarkana Open-5th)
1966 - Mike Remlinger, Middletown NY, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1966 - Wesley Walls, NFL tight end (NO Saints)
1966 - Michael Imperioli, American actor
1967 - Mark Carroll, Australian rugby league footballer
1968 - Edward Kaminski, KC Kansas, javelin thrower
1968 - Ian Hutchings, Zimbabwe, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Klondike Klassic)
1968 - Jose Vizcaino, San Cristobal Dom Rep, infielder (NY Mets)
1968 - Kari Gronroos, WLAF kicker (Scotland Claymores)
1968 - Mike Trevathan, CFL slot back (BC Lions)
1968 - Shane Reynolds, Bastrop LA, pitcher (Houston Astros)
1968 - Kenny Chesney, American singer
1968 - James Iha, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle)
1968 - Laurent Brochard, French cyclist
1969 - Beth Howell, Clinton Mississippi, Miss Mississippi-America (1991)
1969 - Luke Richardson, Ottawa, NHL defenseman (Edmonton Oilers)
1969 - Vikram Rathour, cricketer (Indian Test opening batsman 1996-)
1970 - Evan Richards, Los Angeles California, actor (Frankie-Mama Malone)
1970 - Paul Bosvelt, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles/FC Twente)
1970 - Martin McDonagh, Anglo-Irish playwright and film director
1971 - Dave DeGraaf, Lansing Mich, team handball circle (Olympics-1996)
1971 - Jesus Tavarez, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, outfielder (Florida Marlins)
1971 - Rennae Stubbs, Sydney Australia, tennis star
1971 - Tommy Fagan, CFL/NFL defensive end (Atl Falcons, Winn Blue Bombers)
1971 - Behzad Ghorbani, Iranian zoologist and sociobiologist
1972 - Naoko Kijimuta, Yokohama Kanagawa Japan, tennis star (1996 Jakarta)
1972 - Steve Anderson, CFL defensive linebacker (Calgary Stampeders)
1972 - Jon Reep, American comedian and actor
1973 - Marshall Faulk, running back (Indianapolis Colts)
1973 - Heather Goldenhersh, American actress
1973 - Lawrence E. Page, American search engine pioneer
1973 - T.R. Knight, American actor
1973 - Matt Burke, Australian rugby player
1974 - Alfred Shipman, CFL slot back (BC Lions)
1974 - Hakeem Abdul-samad, rocker (Boys)
1974 - Irina Spirlea, Bucharest Romania, tennis star (1996 Amelia Island)
1974 - Mike Peca, Toronto, NHL center (Buffalo Sabres)
1976 - Amy Smart, American actress
1976 - Natalia Livingston, American actress
1976 - Nurgül Yeşilçay, Turkish actress
1976 - Ufuk Talay, Australian soccer player
1977 - Kevin Davies, English footballer
1977 - Sylvain Grenier, Canadian professional wrestler
1978 - Anastasia Kostaki, Greek basketball player
1979 - Heidi Zeigler, actress (Sherry-Just the 10 of Us)
1979 - Hiromi Uehara, Japanese jazz pianist
1979 - Pierre Wome, Cameroonian footballer
1979 - Nacho Novo, Spanish footballer
1980 - Son Ho Young, Korean singer
1981 - Baruch Dego, Israeli football player
1981 - Jay Sean, British Asian R&B singer
1981 - Josh Wilson, American baseball player
1982 - Mikel Arteta, Spanish footballer
1983 - David Bennett, Canadian powerlifter and steamfitter
1983 - Michael Brendli, American professional wrestler
1984 - Gregory Strydom, Zimbabwean crickaeter
1984 - Sara Jean Underwood, American model
1984 - Stéphanie Lapointe, French-Canadian singer
1985 - Keira Knightley, London, English actress (Bend It Like Beckham, Pirates of the Caribbean)
1985 - Prosper Utseya, Zimbabwean cricket captain
1985 - Jonathan Groff, American stage actor
1986 - Jessica McClure, baby trapped in Texas well in 1988
1987 - Yui, Japanese musician
1988 - Jose Vizcaino, San Cristobal Dom Rep, infielder (NY Mets)
1963 - Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Japanese writer
1963 - Amparo Larrañaga, Spanish actress
1964 - Ab Plugboer, soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1964 - Ulf Samuelsson, Fagersta SWE, NHL defenseman (Team Sweden, NY Rangers)
1964 - Martin Donnelly, Irish racecar driver
1964 - Baz Warne, English Guitarist (The Stranglers)
1966 - Lee Porter, Greensboro NC, Nike golfer (1992 Texarkana Open-5th)
1966 - Mike Remlinger, Middletown NY, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1966 - Wesley Walls, NFL tight end (NO Saints)
1966 - Michael Imperioli, American actor
1967 - Mark Carroll, Australian rugby league footballer
1968 - Edward Kaminski, KC Kansas, javelin thrower
1968 - Ian Hutchings, Zimbabwe, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Klondike Klassic)
1968 - Jose Vizcaino, San Cristobal Dom Rep, infielder (NY Mets)
1968 - Kari Gronroos, WLAF kicker (Scotland Claymores)
1968 - Mike Trevathan, CFL slot back (BC Lions)
1968 - Shane Reynolds, Bastrop LA, pitcher (Houston Astros)
1968 - Kenny Chesney, American singer
1968 - James Iha, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle)
1968 - Laurent Brochard, French cyclist
1969 - Beth Howell, Clinton Mississippi, Miss Mississippi-America (1991)
1969 - Luke Richardson, Ottawa, NHL defenseman (Edmonton Oilers)
1969 - Vikram Rathour, cricketer (Indian Test opening batsman 1996-)
1970 - Evan Richards, Los Angeles California, actor (Frankie-Mama Malone)
1970 - Paul Bosvelt, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles/FC Twente)
1970 - Martin McDonagh, Anglo-Irish playwright and film director
1971 - Dave DeGraaf, Lansing Mich, team handball circle (Olympics-1996)
1971 - Jesus Tavarez, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, outfielder (Florida Marlins)
1971 - Rennae Stubbs, Sydney Australia, tennis star
1971 - Tommy Fagan, CFL/NFL defensive end (Atl Falcons, Winn Blue Bombers)
1971 - Behzad Ghorbani, Iranian zoologist and sociobiologist
1972 - Naoko Kijimuta, Yokohama Kanagawa Japan, tennis star (1996 Jakarta)
1972 - Steve Anderson, CFL defensive linebacker (Calgary Stampeders)
1972 - Jon Reep, American comedian and actor
1973 - Marshall Faulk, running back (Indianapolis Colts)
1973 - Heather Goldenhersh, American actress
1973 - Lawrence E. Page, American search engine pioneer
1973 - T.R. Knight, American actor
1973 - Matt Burke, Australian rugby player
1974 - Alfred Shipman, CFL slot back (BC Lions)
1974 - Hakeem Abdul-samad, rocker (Boys)
1974 - Irina Spirlea, Bucharest Romania, tennis star (1996 Amelia Island)
1974 - Mike Peca, Toronto, NHL center (Buffalo Sabres)
1976 - Amy Smart, American actress
1976 - Natalia Livingston, American actress
1976 - Nurgül Yeşilçay, Turkish actress
1976 - Ufuk Talay, Australian soccer player
1977 - Kevin Davies, English footballer
1977 - Sylvain Grenier, Canadian professional wrestler
1978 - Anastasia Kostaki, Greek basketball player
1979 - Heidi Zeigler, actress (Sherry-Just the 10 of Us)
1979 - Hiromi Uehara, Japanese jazz pianist
1979 - Pierre Wome, Cameroonian footballer
1979 - Nacho Novo, Spanish footballer
1980 - Son Ho Young, Korean singer
1981 - Baruch Dego, Israeli football player
1981 - Jay Sean, British Asian R&B singer
1981 - Josh Wilson, American baseball player
1982 - Mikel Arteta, Spanish footballer
1983 - David Bennett, Canadian powerlifter and steamfitter
1983 - Michael Brendli, American professional wrestler
1984 - Gregory Strydom, Zimbabwean crickaeter
1984 - Sara Jean Underwood, American model
1984 - Stéphanie Lapointe, French-Canadian singer
1985 - Keira Knightley, London, English actress (Bend It Like Beckham, Pirates of the Caribbean)
1985 - Prosper Utseya, Zimbabwean cricket captain
1985 - Jonathan Groff, American stage actor
1986 - Jessica McClure, baby trapped in Texas well in 1988
1987 - Yui, Japanese musician
1988 - Jose Vizcaino, San Cristobal Dom Rep, infielder (NY Mets)
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