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Search for "Home Financing" 0222 Death - Varius A Bassianus Syrian emperor of Rome (218-22), murdered at 18? 0537 Goths lay siege to Rome 0638 Death - Sophronius of Jerusalem saint/patriarch of Jerusalem, dies 0843 Icon worship officially re-instated in Aya Sofia Constantinople 0928 Trpimir II succeedes to the Croatian throne 1302 Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare 1387 Battle of Castagnaro 1425 BC - Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (According to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty). 1486 Death - Albrecht III Achilles elector of Brandenburg, dies at 71 1502 Tebriz shah Ismail I of Persia crowned 1513 Leo X is elected Pope. 1544 Birth - Torquato Tasso Italy, Renaissance poet (Aminta, Apologia) 1549 Birth - Hendrik L Spieghel Dutch merchant/Renaissance poet (Hertspiegel) 1563 League of High Nobles routes 2nd protest against King Philip II 1567 Geuzen army leaves Walcheren to return to Oosterweel 1596 Birth - Isaac Elsevier book publisher 1597 Land guardian Albrecht occupies Amiens on France 1598 Countess Charlotte of Nassau marries duke Claude de la Tremoille 1649 The Frondeurs (rebels) and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil. 1649 Treaty of Rueil destroys 1st Fronde-uprising 1654 Birth - Heinrich Georg Neuss composer 1665 New York approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights 1669 Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000 1683 Birth - Giovanni Veneziano composer 1702 The first regular English-language newspaper, The Daily Courant, is published in London. 1708 Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation. 1715 Death - Jan-Erasmus Quellinus Flemish painter, dies at 80 1726 Birth - Madame Louise-Florence d'pinay France, writer (Woman, Man & 2 Kingdoms)/salon hostess 1731 Birth - Robert Treat Paine judge, signer of Declaration of Independence 1754 Birth - Juan Melndez Valds Spanish lawyer/poet 1772 Death - George Reuter composer, dies at 63 1779 Army Corps of Engineers for the United States was authorized by the Congress 1779 US army Corps of Engineers established (1st time) 1781 Birth - Anthony Philip Heinrich composer 1786 Death - Jacobus Bellamy [Zelandus], Dutch/Swiss poet, dies at 28 1787 Death - Maximilian JLP Gardel French ballet dancer/choreographer, dies at 45 1789 Benjamin Banneker with L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington DC 1791 Samuel Mulliken of Philadelphia, PA became the first person to receive more than one patent from the U.S. Patent Office. 1793 Birth - Jan F Willems Flemish writer/philologist 1794 Royal Theatre in London's Dury Lane opens 1795 Battle at Kurdla India: Mahratten beat Mogols 1801 Paul I of Russia is assassinated, leading the way for his son Alexander I to accede the throne. 1807 Death - Anton Eberl composer, dies at 41 1810 Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise 1810 Napoleon is married by proxy at Vienna to the Austrian archduchess Maria Luisa, 18, in a match arranged by Austrian foreign minister Metternich The "little corporal" hopes to father an heir 1811 Birth - Marsena Rudolph Patrick Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) 1811 Birth - Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier co-discovered Neptune 1812 Birth - James Speed Attorney General (Union), died in 1887 1812 Birth - Pieter Bluss van Oud-Alblas Dutch liberal minister of Finance 1812 Birth - William Vincent Wallace composer 1812 Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews 1818 Birth - John Wilkins Whitfield Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879 1819 Birth - Henry Tate English sugar producer (Tate Gallery) 1819 Birth - Marius Petipa French ballet dancer/choreographer (Don Quiotte) 1820 Death - Benjamin West British painter (Death of General Wolfe), dies at 81 1822 Birth - Allison Nelson Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 1823 The first normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord VT 1824 US War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs 1826 Death - Gervais-Franois Couperin composer, dies at 66 1827 Birth - Septimus Winner composer 1832 Birth - Franz Melde German physicist (Melde test) 1832 Birth - William Ruffin Cox Brigadier General (Confederate Army-2nd North Carolina Infantry), died in 1919 1833 Death - Fridolin Weber composer, dies at 71 1835 George Kingsmill sets up first formal police force in Canada; High Constable of Toronto. 1840 Birth - Edmund Kirby Jr Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 1845 British citizen Henry Jones invents self-raising flour. 1845 Death - John Chapman [Johnny Appleseed] dies in Allen County Indiana 1845 The Flagstaff War: In New Zealand, Chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti led 700 Moris to chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka because of breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi. 1846 Birth - Antnio C G Crespo Brazilian/Portuguese poet 1848 Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government. 1850 Richard Blanshard arrives at Fort Victoria; reads proclamation establishing the new colony of Vancouver Island, with himself as the first Governor. 1850 Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania (1st female medical school) 1857 Death - Manuel Jos Quintana Spanish author/poet (A la paz), dies at 84 1860 Birth - Thomas Hastings New York NY, architect (New York Public Library) 1861 Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution 1862 General Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia 1862 Lincoln removes McClellen as general-in-chief & makes him head of Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief 1863 Birth - Andrew Stoddart cricketer (My Dear Victorious Stod) 1863 Birth - Wobbe de Vries Dutch linguist 1864 The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield. 1865 Assembly of Canada votes 91-33 to proceed with Confederation. 1865 General Sherman's Union forces occupy Fayetteville NC 1867 Great Mauna Loa eruption (Hawaiian volcano) 1872 Birth - Abraham van Stolk Jzn lumber merchant/art collector 1872 The Meiji Japanese government officially annexes the Ryukyu Kingdom into what would become the Okinawa prefecture. 1872 Work began erecting Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales; Located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain. 1874 Death - Charles Sumner a white civil rights leader, dies at 63 1876 Birth - Carl Ruggles Marion MA, composer (Evocations) 1876 Birth - David Wijnkoop Dutch revolutionary socialist 1879 Birth - Justus Hermann Wetzel composer 1879 Birth - Niels Bjerrum Danish chemist (ph tests) 1879 Guelph Ontarioincorporated as a city; settlement founded by John Galt. 1882 Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton NJ 1884 Birth - Jan Lemaire Dutch writer/actor (Beautiful Juliet) 1885 Birth - Malcolm Campbell 1st auto racer to travel 5 miles/minutes (8 km/minute) 1885 Fort Carlton Saskatchewan Leif Newry Fitzroy Crozier 1847-1901 warns Ottawa of danger of rebellion in Saskatchewan; NWMP Superintendent at Fort Carlton 1888 Great blizzard of '88 strikes northeast US 1888 The "Great Blizzard of 88" started to roar along the Atlantic Seaboard of the U.S., shutting down communication and transportation lines. 1888 The Great Blizzard of '88 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400. 1890 Birth - Vannevar Bush developed 1st electronic analogue computer 1892 Birth - Raoul Walsh New York NY, director (Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry) 1892 Birth - Wladyslaw Anders Polish General (WWI, WWII) 1892 The first public basketball game (Springfield MA) 1894 Death - John Selby cricketer (6 Tests for England 1877-82), dies 1895 Spanish cruiser Reina Regenta sinks at Gibraltar, 400 killed 1897 A meteorite enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville, West Virginia. The debris causes damage but no human injuries are reported. 1897 Birth - Henry Dixon Cowell Menlo Park CA, composer (New Musical Resources) 1897 Death - Berthold Tours composer, dies at 58 1897 Death - Henry Drummond Scottish geologist/evangelist, dies at 45 1898 Birth - Dorothy Gish Massillon OH, stage & silent film actress (Orphans of the Storm) 1899 Birth - Frederick IX king of Denmark (1947-72) 1900 Death - Edmund Peate cricketer (9 Tests for England 1881-86), dies 1900 Second Boer War: Boer leader Paul Kruger's peace overtures are rejected by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Lord Salisbury. 1902 Birth - Josef Martin Bauer writer 1903 Birth - Dorothy Schiff publisher (New York Post) 1903 Birth - George Dickinson cricketer (bowled for New Zealand in their 1st 3 Tests) 1904 Birth - Cornelis Jan Bakker Dutch/US nuclear physicist 1904 Birth - Maurits Wertheim Dutch writer (Isaac De Fuentes) 1904 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Brandon Wheat Kings in 2 games 1906 Birth - Aasan Ferit Alnar composer 1907 Birth - Eleni Gatzoyiannis heroine (saved her kids) 1907 Birth - Helmuth J von Moltke German politician (July 20th plot) 1907 Birth - Jessie Matthews London England, actress (Gangway, First a Girl) 1907 Birth - Margaret Herbison British minister (Lab) 1907 Death - Nikola Petkow premier (Bulgaria), murdered 1908 Birth - Lawrence Welk Strasburg ND, orchestra leader (Lawrence Welk Show) 1908 Death - Peter Milne composer, dies at 83 1908 Laurier government creates National Battlefields Commission; partly to save Quebec's Plains of Abraham from property development. 1909 Birth - Ljubica Maric composer 1910 Birth - Robert H G Havemann German chemist 1910 Jack Hobbs 1st Test ton (187 vs SAfr), his only Test hit wicket 1911 Birth - Alan Gifford Boston MA, actor (Time Lock, Up Periscope) 1911 Birth - Fitzroy Maclean British diplomat soldier politician/historian 1912 1st Stanley Cup game to be played in 3 20-minute periods, formerly played in 30-minute halfs, Quebec beats Moncton 9-3 on way to sweep 1912 Birth - Robert Clifford Latham Pepys Scholar 1912 Birth - Xavier Montsalvatge Spanish composer (El gato con botas) 1912 Eleftherios Venizelos, leader of the Liberal Party, wins the Greek elections again. 1913 Birth - John Jacob Weinzweig Toronto Canada, composer (Enchanted Hill) 1913 Birth - Thomas Gray professor/anaesthetist 1914 Birth - Ralph Ellison writer (Invisible Man, Shadow & Act) 1915 Birth - Karl Krolow writer 1915 Birth - Vijay Hazare cricketer (prolific Indian batsman 1946-54) 1916 Birth - Sir [James] Harold Wilson (L) British Prime Minister (1964-70, 1974-76) 1917 1st NHL championship game ever played, Toronto Arenas beats Montréal Canadiens 7-3 in 1st of 2 game set (second game on March 13) 1917 Birth - GE Gran Schildt Finnish art historian/writer (Solbten) 1917 World War I: Baghdad falls to the Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude. 1918 Birth - Al Eben Philadelphia PA, actor (Doc Bergman-Hawaii Five-0) 1918 First confirmed cases of the Spanish Flu observed at Fort Riley, Kansas. 1918 Moscow becomes capitol of revolutionary Russia 1918 Save the Redwoods League founded 1919 Birth - Mercer Ellington son of Duke Ellington/bandleader 1919 Death - Harald Fryklof composer, dies at 36 1919 General strike in Germany, crushed 1920 Birth - D J Enright England, poet/novelist (Some Men are Brothers) 1920 Birth - Henry Marking CEO (British Airways) 1920 Birth - Kenneth Dover chancellor (St Andrews University) 1921 Birth - Astor Piazzolla Argentina composer (Tango Nuevo) 1921 Birth - F[rancis] M[arion] Busby Jr US, sci-fi author (Star Rebel) 1921 Death - Sherburne W Burnham US astronomer (binary stars), dies at 83 1922 Birth - Abdul Razak bin Hussain premier of Malaysia (1970-77) 1922 Birth - Thom Kelling Dutch singer/guitarist (Programa de Manha) 1922 Birth - Vinnette Carroll New York NY, actress (Alice's Restaurant, Reivers) 1923 Birth - A Louise Brough Clapp Oklahoma, tennis player (4 time Wimbledon champion) 1923 Birth - A X Gwerder writer 1923 Birth - Ad[rianus C] de Besten Dutch literary (River Basin) 1923 Birth - Morschi Mirando [Thomas Weiss], German/Dutch gypsy artist 1923 Birth - Terence Alexander London England, actor (Tony-Behind the Scenes) 1924 3rd term of Belgium Theunis government begins 1924 NHL Championship: Montréal Canadiens sweeps Ottawa Senators in 2 games 1925 Birth - James Miskin QC/recorder of London 1925 Death - Andreas Hallen composer, dies at 78 1926 Birth - Adrienne Keith Cohen travel editor 1926 Birth - Ilhan Mimaroglu composer 1926 Birth - Patricia Tindaole England, architect 1926 Birth - Ralph Abernathy civil rights leader (Southern Christian Leadership) 1926 Death - John Henry Anderson cricketer (score 32 & 11 in Test for South Africa), dies 1926 Eamon da Valera ends leadership of Sinn Fein 1927 Birth - Alan Betts emeritus professor (Royal Veterinary College) 1927 Birth - Raymond Jackson [Jaki], British cartoonist 1927 Birth - Robert Mosbacher US politician 1927 Birth - Ron Todd British trade unionist 1927 In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre. 1927 Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens famous Roxy Theater (New York NY) 1927 The Flatheads Gang was responsible for the first armored-car robbery -- near Pittsburgh, PA. It was reported that $104,250 was taken in the heist. 1927 The first golden gloves tournament 1928 Birth - Albert Salmi Brooklyn NY, actor (Daniel Boone, 79 Park Avenue) 1928 Birth - Peter Roger Hunt London England, director (Dr No) 1929 Birth - Erskine Childers unofficial/civil servant 1929 Birth - Francisco Bernardo Pulgar Vidal composer 1929 Birth - Jackie McGlew cricketer (dour South African opening bat of the 50') 1930 Babe Ruth signed a two-year contract with the New York Yankees for the sum of $80,000. 1930 Birth - David Gentleman designer/painter 1930 President & Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington 1931 "The Star-Spangled Banner", written by Francis Scott Key, officially became the national anthem of the United States. 1931 Birth - Peter Walters CEO (Midland Bank) 1931 Birth - Rupert Murdoch Australia, publisher (New York Post), CEO FOX-TV Network 1931 Province of Quebec extends civil rights to women, but still withholds the right to vote. 1931 Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union 1932 Birth - Nigel Lawson British government official (The Power Game) 1932 Birth - Valerie French London England, actress (Jubal, The Hard Man) 1933 Birth - Terry J Hatter Jr US judge in California 1934 Birth - George Stamatoyannopoulos Greece, medical genetics researcher 1934 Birth - Joep [Joseph Willem Frederik] Straesser composer (Blossom songs, Ramasasiri) 1934 Birth - Keith Speed British MP 1934 Birth - Sam Donaldson El Paso TX, ABC White House correspondent (Prime Time) 1934 Birth - Sydney Burke cricketer (South African quick, 11 wickets on Test debut vs New Zealand 1961) 1934 Netherlands beats Belgium 9-3, in soccer 1935 Bank of Canada opens 1935 Bank of Canada starts operations under Governor Graham Towers; has mandate to issue currency and regulate money supply; government-owned central bank 1935 Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe 1936 Birth - Antonin Scalia Trenton NJ, 105th Supreme Court Justice (1986- ) 1937 Birth - John Ward New Zealand cricket wicket-keeper (8 Tests 1964-68) 1937 Death - Paul Scheinpflug composer, dies at 61 1938 Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria 1938 Birth - Malcolm Keith Speed British high court judge 1938 German troops enter Austria 1941 Bronko Nagurski beats Ray Steele in Minnesota, to become wrestling champion 1941 Death - Walford Davies British organist/composer, dies at 71 1941 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill (lend money to Britain) 1942 Birth - Peter Eyre actor (Hedda) 1942 General MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia 1942 the first deportation train leaves Paris France for Auschewitz Concentration Camp 1943 Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands 1944 Birth - Ric Rothwell drummer (Mindbenders-Games of Love) 1944 Death - Hendrik W van Loon Netherlands/US radio commentator/writer, dies at 62 1944 Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested 1945 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs 1945 Birth - Harvey Mandel rock guitarist (Drei Amerikanische LP's) 1945 Birth - Mark Stein vocalist/organist (Vanilla Fudge-You Keep Me Hanging On) 1945 Birth - Timothy Mason consultant (British Arts Council) 1945 Birth - Tricia O'Neil Shreveport LA, actress (Piranha Part II) 1945 Flemish Nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death 1945 World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2. 1946 Birth - Brigitte Fossey Tourcoing France, actress (Man Who Died Twice) 1947 Birth - Dominique Sanda [Varaigne] Paris France, actress (1900, First Love, Inheritance, Beyond Good & Evil) 1947 Birth - Geoffrey Hunt Australia, world-champion squash player 1947 Birth - Mark Stein Bayonne NJ, rocker (Vanilla Fudge-You Keep Me Hanging On) 1947 Death - Victor Hely-Hutchinson composer, dies at 45 1947 Ottawa-born Barbara Ann Scott gets a ticker-tape parade down Bay Street after winning the World Figure Skating Championship; a year later she wins Olympic Gold. 1948 Birth - George Kooymans The Hague Netherlands, guitarist/singer (Golden Earring-Radar Love, Twilight Zone) 1948 Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed 1949 Birth - Richard de Bois Dutch drummer/producer 1949 Death - Henri-Honor Giraud French General/MP, dies at 70 1949 Death - Juan Lamonte de Grignon composer, dies at 76 1950 Birth - Bobby McFerrin singer (Don't Worry Be Happy-1989 Grammy) 1950 Birth - Jerry Zucker Milwaukee WI, director (Airplane, Naked Gun) 1950 Death - Florence Arliss actress (Disraeli), dies at 78 1951 Death - Philippe of Isacker Belgian minister, dies at 66 1952 Birth - Douglas Adams Cambridge England, author (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy) 1952 Birth - Susan Richardson Coatesville PA, actress (Susan-8 is Enough) 1953 An American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches 1954 US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics 1955 Birth - [Kater]Nina Hagen East Berlin German Democratic Republic, actress (Blue Angel) 1955 Death - Alexander Fleming English bacteriologist (penicillin), dies at 73 1956 Birth - Curtis L Brown Jr Elizabethtown NC, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 47, STS 66, 77, 85, 95) 1956 Death - Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko Russian opera composer, dies at 83 1957 Death - Richard E Byrd US, explorer (Antarctica), dies at 68 1958 Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21" 1959 Death - Haydn Wood composer, dies at 76 1959 The HSS-2 amphibian all-weather anti submarine warfare helicopter made its first flight 1959 The original Broadway production of A Raisin In The Sun opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York City. 1960 Death - Roy Chapman Andrews US biologist/explorer, dies at 76 1960 Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth & Venus 1961 Birth - Bruce Watson Ontario Canada, rock guitarist (Big Country-Wonderland) 1961 Birth - Mike Percy rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round) 1962 Birth - Peter Berg actor (Chicago Hope) 1962 Death - Will Vesper German author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 79 1963 Death - Mahomed Nissar cricketer (6 Tests for India 1932-36, 25 wickets), dies 1963 Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain 1964 Birth - Raimo Helminen Tampere Finland, hockey forward (Team Finland, Olympics-bronze-98) 1965 Birth - Eric Jelen West Germany, tennis star 1965 Death - James Reeb US vicar/civil rights activist, murdered 1965 Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto 1965 Number one hit on UK music charts - Tom Jones - It's Not Unusual 1966 A fire at two ski resorts in Numata, Japan kills 31 people. 1966 Birth - Pavel Petrovich Mukhortov Russian cosmonaut 1966 Birth - Ralph Tamm NFL guard/center (Denver Broncos, Kansas City Chiefs) 1966 Birth - Steve Reed Los Angeles CA, pitcher (Colorado Rockies) 1966 Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out 1966 President Sukarno of Indonesia was forced to give up his executive power. 1967 Birth - Andrew Zesers cricketer (played for Australia in 1987 World Cup) 1967 Birth - Bill Houlder Thunder Bay, NHL defenseman (Tampa Bay Lightning) 1967 Death - Geraldine Farrar soprano/actress (Such Sweet Compulsion), dies at 85 1967 Pink Floyd releases their 1st song (Arnold Layne) 1967 The World Cup skiing title was earned by Jean-Claude Killy of France. 1967 U.S. 1st Infantry Division troops engage in one of the heaviest battles of Operation Junction City. The fierce fighting resulted in 210 reported North Vietnamese casualties. 1968 Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting 1968 Birth - John Barrowman actor (Peter Fairchild-Central Park West) 1968 Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay" 1969 Birth - Dan Lacroix Montral, NHL left wing (New York Rangers) 1969 Birth - John Fina NFL offensive tackle (Buffalo Bills) 1969 Death - John Wyndham [Parkes Lucas B Harris] author (Day of the Triffids, Chrysalids), dies at 65 1970 12th Grammy Awards: Aquarius, Crosby Stills & Nash, Peggy Lee win 1970 Birth - Brett Liddle Boksburg South Africa, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Newcastle) 1970 Birth - Evgeniy Koreshkov hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Olympics-1998) 1970 Death - Erle Stanley Gardner US writer (Perry Mason), dies at 80 1970 Iraq Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation 1971 Birth - Bob Kronenberg WLAF corner (Rhein Fire) 1971 Birth - Jiri Vykoukai Olomouc Czechoslovakia, hockey player (Team Czechoslovakia Republic, Olympics-gold-98) 1971 Birth - Marta Lovera Parquet Miss Paraguay-Universe (1996) 1971 Birth - Martin Rucinsky Most Czechoslovakia, NHL left wing (Canadiens, Olympics-Gold-1998) 1971 Death - Philo T Farnsworth US TV pioneer, dies at 64 1971 Death - Roy Glenn dies in Los Angeles at 56 1971 Death - Whitney M Young Jr leader (National Urban League 1961-71), dies at 49 1971 Philo T. Farnsworth, television pioneer, dies 1972 Birth - Carl Greenwood NFL cornerback (New York Jets) 1972 Birth - Chris Shelling WLAF cornerback (Rhein Fire) 1972 Birth - Jamal Duff NFL defensive end (New York Giants, Washington Redskins) 1972 Death - Fredric [William] Brown sci-fi author (Martians Go Home), dies at 65 1972 Number one hit on UK music charts - Nilsson - Without You 1973 Birth - Kennedy Otieno Kenya cricket wicket-keeper (85 vs Australia 1996 World Cup) 1973 Birth - Mike Mihelic CFL offensive tackle (Winnipeg Blue Bombers) 1973 Birth - Sammie Brennan CFL defensive back (British Columbia Lions) 1973 Birth - Tony Veland NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32) 1973 Death - Manuel Rojas Seplveda writer 1974 Birth - Billy Granville linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals) 1974 Birth - David Cameron Australian rower (Olympics-96) 1974 Birth - Kevin Donovan Des Plaines IL, figure skater (1997 Great Lakes-2nd) 1974 Mount Etna in Sicily erupts 1974 Rhino Store gives people 5¢ to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album 1975 Birth - Cedric Henderson NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers) 1975 Birth - Shawn Springs cornerback (Seattle Seahawks) 1975 Death - Philip Bezanson composer, dies at 59 1975 Death - Sammy Spear orchestra leader (Dom Deluise Show), dies at 65 1975 Death - Walter Kinsella actor (Happy-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 74 1975 Portugal military coup under General Spinola fails 1977 34 Israelis killed by Palestinians on the Tel Aviv-Haifa highway 1977 Moslems hold 130 hostages in Washington DC 1978 Bobby Hull of the Winnipeg Jets joined Gordie Howe by getting career goal number 1,000 in a game against the Quebec Nordiques. 1978 Nine Palestinian Al Fatah guerillas hijack a bus in Israel, killing 34 civilians and wounding 70 before being killed by security forces. The Israelis retaliate by invading southern Lebanon three days later, under codename Operation Litani. 1978 Number one hit on UK music charts - Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights 1978 Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv, 45 killed 1979 Death - Victor Kilian actor (Gentleman's Agreement), dies at 88 1979 Randy Hold receives 67 minutes in penalties in a 60 minute NHL hockey game 1980 Rod Marsh bowls 10 overs for 51 runs in dull Australia vs Pakistan cricket draw 1981 Chile constitution takes effect, Augusto Pinochet 2nd term begins 1982 Birth - Hasan Raza cricketer (Test cricketer at the age of 14) 1982 Death - Edmund Cooper British sci-fi writer (Tomorrow Came), dies at 55 1982 Failed military coup under Rambocus/Hawker in Suriname 1982 Harrison Williams (Senator-Democrat-NJ) resigned rather than face expulsion 1982 Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Washington DC 1983 Bob Hawke becomes 23rd Prime Minister of Australia. 1984 Death - Nakagawa Soen Zen teacher/poet, dies in Rytutakuji monastery at 76 1984 In the Magdalen Islands seal hunter damage helicopter chartered by International Fund for Animal Welfare protesters. 1985 Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader 1985 Personal posting - Angelo "Bad Ass" LaBruno born 1985 UK hist Al Fayed buys Harrods 1986 187.27 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange 1986 Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 millionkm 1986 Popsicle announced its plan to end the traditional twin-stick frozen treat for a flatter, one-stick model. 1987 Death - [Wayne] Woody Hayes football coach (Ohio State), dies at 74 1987 Wayne Gretzky scores 1,500th NHL point 1988 Death - Pham Hung premier of Vietnam, dies at about 74 1988 Iran-Iraq War: Iran and Iraq agreed to stop attacking civilian centers. 1988 The £1 note ceases to be legal tender, replaced by £1 coin (a big run on belts to kep one's pants up) 1988 Utrecht conservatory destroyed by fire 1989 Death - Johan Fleerackers Flemish linguist, dies at 57 1989 Number one hit on UK music charts - Jason Donovan - Too Many Broken Hearts 1990 16th People's Choice Awards 1990 Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union. Gorbachev sent in the tanks. 1990 Patricio Aylwin is sworn-in as the first democratically elected Chilean president since 1970. 1991 Janet Jackson signs $40M three album deal with Virgin records 1991 John Smith, amateur wrestler, wins James E Sullivan Award 1991 Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked as #1 1992 Death - David Carroll actor (Grand Hotel), dies of pulmonary embolism at 41 1992 Death - Heinz Khn Prime Minister (Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany), dies at 80 1992 Death - Manuel De Dios Unanue US anti-drug journalist, murdered at 48 1992 Death - Richard Brooks director (Blackboard Jungle, Key Largo), dies at 79 1992 Environment Canada starts issuing weekly ozone warnings 1992 The FBI established a Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division. CJIS consolidated existing FBI services provided to law enforcement and criminal justice agencies. The Division incorporated the FBI's NCIC Program, the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), and the Uniform Crime Reports Program. 1993 Death - Dino Bravo wrestler (WWF), shot to death at 44 1993 Death - Edgar Nelson Barclift dancer, dies after lengthy illness at 76 1993 Death - Manuel da Fonseca Portuguese writer (Cerro Maior), dies at 81 1993 Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn-in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States. 1994 Death - Jacques Doucet French painter (Mostar Sarajevo), dies at 69 1994 Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as President of Chile 1995 Death - Carel Birnie found Utrecht Opera/Dutch Dance Theater, dies at 69 1995 Death - Ernest Kabushemeye Burundese minister of Mijnbouw, murdered 1995 Death - Frank Fidler artist, dies at 84 1995 President Nazarbajev disbands Kazakhstan parliament 1995 Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in US 1996 America Online agreed to use Netscape as the primary Web browser offered to its subscribers in a deal signed this day 1996 Chris Harris scores 130 in losing New Zealand side vs Australia, World Cup 1996 Death - Barry Appleby cartoonist, dies at 86 1996 Death - Charles William Oatley electrical engineer, dies at 92 1996 Death - Clifton Eugene Bancroft Robinson public servant, dies at 70 1996 Death - John Henry Pyle Pafford librarian, dies at 96 1996 Death - Vince Edwards actor (Ben Casey), dies of cancer at 67 1996 This was the year "The Book Clip - Guaranteed to keep your Book Open" first appeared on the Internet. See Pictures HERE www.bookclip.com 1996 EU Database Directive passed 1996 John Howard comes to power as the twenty-fifth Prime Minister of Australia. 1996 Mark Waugh scores 110 vs New Zealand for his third century of the World Cup 1997 An explosion at a nuclear waste reprocessing plant in Japan exposes 35 workers to low-level radioactive contamination in the worst nuclear accident in Japan's history. 1997 Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space 1997 Beatle Paul McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen Elizabeth II 1997 Former Beatle Paul McCartney is knighted. 1997 San Francisco Giant J T Snow suffers a fractured eye socket when hit by a pitch 1999 Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange. 2004 Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid (Spain) kill 192 people. 2004 The Madrid train bombings (also known as 3/11 and -in Spanish- as 11-M [1]) consisted of a series of coordinated bombings against the Cercanías (commuter train) system of Madrid, Spain on the morning of 11 March 2004 (three days before Spain's general elections), killing 191 people and wounding 2,050. 2006 Michelle Bachelet inaugurated as first female president of Chile. 2007 A suicide bomber strikes at Casablanca, Morocco 2008 Personal posting - my spouse Salematon Bangoura and I Karamba Bayo have been granted Asylum in the USA More historical events added daily - keep checking back Add your own Personal Historic listing FREE! - Click Here Return to Daily Calendar Contact us at:infoATdatesinhistory.com change the AT to @ "This site contains links to other Internet sites. 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