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What happened in history on this day: March 11?
On March 11 in ...
- 222 - Varius A Bassianus, Syrian emperor of Rome (218-222), murdered at age 18?.
- 417 - Zosimus becomes bishop of Rome.
- 537 - Goths lay siege to Rome.
- 638 - Sophronius of Jerusalem, saint/patriarch of Jerusalem, dies.
- 843 - Icon worship officially re-instated in Aya Sofia Constantinople.
- 1302 - Romeo and Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare.
- 1486 - Albrecht III Achilles elector of Brandenburg, dies at age 71.
- 1502 - Tebriz shah Ismail I of Persia crowned.
- 1513 - Giovanni de' Medici chosen Pope Leo X.
- 1544 - Birth of Torquato Tasso Italy, Renaissance poet (Aminta, Apologia).
- 1549 - Birth of Hendrik L Spieghel Dutch merchant/Renaissance poet (Hertspiegel).
- 1563 - League of High Nobles' second protest against King Philip II.
- 1567 - Geuzen army leaves Walcheren to return to Oosterweel.
- 1596 - Birth of Isaac Elsevier book publisher.
- 1597 - Land guardian Albrecht occupies Amiens on France.
- 1598 - Countess Charlotte of Nassau marries duke Claude de la Tremoille.
- 1649 - Treaty of Rueil destroys first Fronde-uprising.
- 1654 - Birth of 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 of Giovanni Veneziano composer.
- 1702 - First English daily newspaper, "Daily Courant", is published.
- 1715 - Jan-Erasmus Quellinus Flemish painter, dies at age 80.
- 1726 - Birth of Madame Louise-Florence d'Épinay France, writer (Woman, Man and 2 Kingdoms)/salon hostess.
- 1731 - Birth of Robert Treat Paine judge, signer of Declaration of Independence.
- 1754 - Birth of Juan Meléndez Valdés Spanish lawyer/poet.
- 1772 - George Reuter composer, dies at age 63.
- 1779 - US army Corps of Engineers established (first time).
- 1781 - Birth of Anthony Philip Heinrich composer.
- 1786 - Jacobus Bellamy [Zelandus], Dutch/Swiss poet, dies at age 28.
- 1787 - Maximilian JLP Gardel French ballet dancer/choreographer, dies at age 45.
- 1789 - Benjamin Banneker with L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington DC.
- 1791 - Samuel Mulliken, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, is first to obtain more than one US patent.
- 1793 - Birth of Jan F Willems Flemish writer/philologist.
- 1794 - Royal Theatre in London's Dury Lane opens.
- 1795 - Battle at Kurdla India: Mahratten beat Mogols.
- 1807 - Anton Eberl composer, dies at age 41.
- 1810 - Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise.
- 1811 - Birth of Marsena Rudolph Patrick Brevet Major General (Union volunteers).
- 1811 - Birth of Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier co-discovered Neptune.
- 1812 - Birth of James Speed Attorney General (Union), died in 1887.
- 1812 - Birth of Pieter Blussé van Oud-Alblas Dutch liberal minister of Finance.
- 1812 - Birth of William Vincent Wallace composer.
- 1812 - Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews.
- 1818 - Birth of John Wilkins Whitfield Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879.
- 1819 - Birth of Henry Tate English sugar producer (Tate Gallery).
- 1819 - Birth of Marius Petipa French ballet dancer/choreographer (Don Quiotte).
- 1820 - Benjamin West British painter (Death of General Wolfe), dies at age 81.
- 1822 - Birth of Allison Nelson Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862.
- 1823 - First normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord Vermont.
- 1824 - US War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
- 1826 - Gervais-François Couperin composer, dies at age 66.
- 1827 - Birth of Septimus Winner composer.
- 1832 - Birth of Franz Melde German physicist (Melde test).
- 1832 - Birth of William Ruffin Cox Brigadier General (Confederate Army-2nd North Carolina Infantry), died in 1919.
- 1833 - Fridolin Weber composer, dies at age 71.
- 1835 - HMS Beagle anchors off Valparaiso, Chile.
- 1840 - Birth of Edmund Kirby Jr Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863.
- 1845 - Agronomist John Chapman [Johnny Appleseed] dies in Allen County, Indiana, USA.
- 1845 - British citizen Henry Jones invents self-raising flour.
- 1846 - Birth of António C G Crespo Brazilian/Portuguese poet.
- 1850 - Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania (first female medical school).
- 1851 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" premieres in Venice.
- 1857 - Manuel José Quintana Spanish author/poet (A la paz), dies at age 84.
- 1860 - Birth of Thomas Hastings New York City, New York, architect (New York Public Library).
- 1861 - Confederate convention in Montgomery, Alabama, adopts constitution.
- 1862 - General Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester, Virginia.
- 1862 - Lincoln removes McClellen as general-in-chief and makes him head of Army of the Potomac. General Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief.
- 1863 - Birth of Andrew Stoddart cricket player (My Dear Victorious Stod).
- 1863 - Birth of Wobbe de Vries Dutch linguist.
- 1864 - Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee.
- 1865 - General Sherman's Union forces occupy Fayetteville, North Carolina.
- 1867 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Don Carlos" premieres in Paris France.
- 1867 - Great Mauna Loa eruption (Hawaiian volcano).
- 1872 - Birth of Abraham van Stolk Jzn lumber merchant/art collector.
- 1874 - Charles Sumner a white civil rights leader, dies at age 63.
- 1876 - Birth of Carl Ruggles Marion Massachusetts, composer (Evocations).
- 1876 - Birth of David Wijnkoop Dutch revolutionary socialist.
- 1879 - Birth of Justus Hermann Wetzel composer.
- 1879 - Birth of Niels Bjerrum Danish chemist (ph tests).
- 1882 - Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton New Jersey.
- 1884 - Birth of Jan Lemaire Dutch writer/actor (Beautiful Juliet).
- 1885 - Birth of Malcolm Campbell first auto racer to travel five miles/minutes (8 km/minute).
- 1888 - Great blizzard of '88 strikes northeast US.
- 1890 - Birth of Vannevar Bush developed first electronic analogue computer.
- 1892 - First public basketball game (Springfield Massachusetts).
- 1892 - Birth of Raoul Walsh New York City, New York, director (Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry).
- 1892 - Birth of Wladyslaw Anders Polish General (WWI, WWII).
- 1894 - John Selby cricket player (6 Tests for England 1877-82), dies.
- 1895 - Spanish cruiser Reina Regenta sinks at Gibraltar, 400 killed.
- 1897 - Berthold Tours composer, dies at age 58.
- 1897 - Birth of Henry Dixon Cowell Menlo Park California, composer (New Musical Resources).
- 1897 - Henry Drummond Scottish geologist/evangelist, dies at age 45.
- 1898 - Birth of Dorothy Gish Massillon Ohio, stage and silent film actress (Orphans of the Storm).
- 1899 - Birth of Frederick IX king of Denmark (1947-72).
- 1900 - Edmund Peate cricket player (9 Tests for England 1881-86), dies.
- 1901 - Cincinnati Enquirer reports Baltimore manager John McGraw signed Cherokee Indian Tokohoma, who is really black second baseman Charlie Grant.
- 1902 - Birth of Josef Martin Bauer writer.
- 1903 - Birth of Dorothy Schiff publisher (New York Post).
- 1903 - Birth of George Dickinson cricket player (bowled for New Zealand in their first three Tests).
- 1904 - Birth of Cornelis Jan Bakker Dutch/US nuclear physicist.
- 1904 - Birth of Maurits Wertheim Dutch writer (Isaac De Fuentes).
- 1904 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Brandon Wheat Kings in two games.
- 1905 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 beat Rat Portage Thisles, two games to 1.
- 1906 - Birth of Aasan Ferit Alnar composer.
- 1907 - Birth of Eleni Gatzoyiannis heroine (saved her kids).
- 1907 - Birth of Helmuth J von Moltke German politician (July 20th plot).
- 1907 - Birth of Jessie Matthews London England, actress (Gangway, First a Girl).
- 1907 - Birth of Margaret Herbison British minister (Labour).
- 1907 - Nikola Petkow premier (Bulgaria), murdered.
- 1908 - Birth of Lawrence Welk in Strasburg, North Dakota, USA; orchestra leader (Lawrence Welk Show).
- 1908 - Peter Milne composer, dies at age 83.
- 1909 - Birth of Ljubica Maric composer.
- 1910 - Birth of Robert H G Havemann German chemist.
- 1910 - Jack Hobbs first Test ton (187 versus South Africa), his only Test hit wicket.
- 1911 - Birth of Alan Gifford Boston Massachusetts; actor (Time Lock, Up Periscope).
- 1911 - Birth of Fitzroy Maclean British diplomat soldier politician/historian.
- 1912 - First Stanley Cup game to be played in three 20-minute periods, formerly played in 30-minute halfs, Québec beats Moncton 9-3 on way to sweep.
- 1912 - Birth of Robert Clifford Latham Pepys Scholar.
- 1912 - Birth of Xavier Montsalvatge Spanish composer (El gato con botas).
- 1913 - Birth of John Jacob Weinzweig Toronto Canada, composer (Enchanted Hill).
- 1913 - Birth of Thomas Gray professor/anaesthetist.
- 1914 - Birth of Ralph Ellison writer (Invisible Man, Shadow and Act).
- 1915 - Birth of Karl Krolow writer.
- 1915 - Birth of Vijay Hazare cricket player (prolific Indian batsman 1946-54).
- 1916 - Birth of Sir [James] Harold Wilson (Liberal) British Prime Minister (1964-70, 1974-76).
- 1917 - First NHL championship game ever played, Toronto Arenas beats Montreal Canadiens 7-3 in first of two game set (second game on March 13).
- 1917 - Birth of GE Göran Schildt Finnish art historian/writer (Solbåten).
- 1917 - British troops occupy Baghdad.
- 1918 - Birth of Al Eben Philadelphia Pennsylvania; actor (Doc Bergman-Hawaii Five-O).
- 1918 - Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia.
- 1918 - Save the Redwoods League founded.
- 1919 - Birth of Mercer Ellington son of Duke Ellington/bandleader.
- 1919 - General strike in Germany, crushed.
- 1919 - Harald Fryklof composer, dies at age 36.
- 1920 - Birth of D J Enright England, poet/novelist (Some Men are Brothers).
- 1920 - Birth of Henry Marking CEO (British Airways).
- 1920 - Birth of Kenneth Dover chancellor (Saint Andrews University).
- 1921 - Birth of Astor Piazzolla Argentina composer (Tango Nuevo).
- 1921 - Birth of F[rancis] M[arion] Busby Jr US, sci-fi author (Star Rebel).
- 1921 - Sherburne W Burnham US astronomer (binary stars), dies at age 83.
- 1922 - Birth of Abdul Razak bin Hussain premier of Malaysia (1970-77).
- 1922 - Birth of Thom Kelling Dutch singer/guitarist (Programa de Manha).
- 1922 - Birth of Vinnette Carroll New York City, New York, actress (Alice's Restaurant, Reivers).
- 1922 - Western Hockey Championship: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Regina Capitals, in two games.
- 1923 - Birth of A Louise Brough Clapp Oklahoma, tennis player (4 time Wimbledon champion).
- 1923 - Birth of A X Gwerder writer.
- 1923 - Birth of Ad[rianus C] de Besten Dutch literary (River Basin).
- 1923 - Birth of Morschi Mirando [Thomas Weiss], German/Dutch gypsy artist.
- 1923 - Birth of Terence Alexander London England; actor (Tony-Behind the Scenes).
- 1924 - Third term of Belgium Theunis government begins.
- 1924 - Eden Phillpotts' "Farmer's Wife" premieres in London.
- 1924 - NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweeps Ottawa Senators in two games.
- 1925 - Andreas Hallen composer, dies at age 78.
- 1925 - Birth of James Miskin Queen's Council/recorder of London.
- 1926 - Birth of Adrienne Keith Cohen travel editor.
- 1926 - Birth of Ilhan Mimaroglu composer.
- 1926 - Birth of Patricia Tindaole England, architect.
- 1926 - Birth of Ralph Abernathy civil rights leader (Southern Christian Leadership).
- 1926 - Eamon da Valera ends leadership of Sinn Fein.
- 1926 - John Henry Anderson cricket player (score 32 and 11 in Test for South Africa), dies.
- 1927 - First armored commercial car hold-up in US, Pittsburgh.
- 1927 - First golden gloves tournament.
- 1927 - Birth of Alan Betts emeritus professor (Royal Veterinary College).
- 1927 - Birth of Raymond Jackson [Jaki], British cartoonist.
- 1927 - Birth of Robert Mosbacher US politician.
- 1927 - Birth of Ron Todd British trade unionist.
- 1927 - Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens famous Roxy Theater (New York City, New York).
- 1928 - Birth of Albert Salmi Brooklyn New York; actor (Daniel Boone, 79 Park Avenue).
- 1928 - Birth of Peter Roger Hunt London England, director (Dr No).
- 1928 - Netherlands and Belgium tie 1-1 (soccer match in Amsterdam).
- 1929 - Birth of Erskine Childers unofficial/civil servant.
- 1929 - Birth of Francisco Bernardo Pulgar Vidal composer.
- 1929 - Birth of Jackie McGlew cricket player (dour South African opening bat of the 50 feet).
- 1930 - Birth of David Gentleman designer/painter.
- 1930 - President and Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington.
- 1931 - Birth of Peter Walters CEO (Midland Bank).
- 1931 - Birth of Rupert Murdoch in Australia; publisher (New York Post), CEO FOX-TV Network.
- 1931 - The Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR programme, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union.
- 1931 - Death of F.W. Murnau, German director (born 1888).
- 1932 - Birth of Nigel Lawson British government official (The Power Game).
- 1932 - Birth of Valerie French London England, actress (Jubal, The Hard Man).
- 1933 - Birth of Terry J Hatter Jr US judge in California.
- 1934 - Birth of George Stamatoyannopoulos Greece, medical genetics researcher.
- 1934 - Birth of Joep [Joseph Willem Frederik] Straesser composer (Blossom songs, Ramasasiri).
- 1934 - Birth of Keith Speed British Member of Parliament.
- 1934 - Birth of Sam Donaldson El Paso Texas, ABC White House correspondent (Prime Time).
- 1934 - Birth of Sydney Burke cricket player (South African quick, 11 wickets on Test debut versus New Zealand 1961).
- 1934 - Netherlands beats Belgium 9-3, in soccer.
- 1935 - The Bank of Canada issues Canada's first national paper money, nine denominations ranging from $1 to $1000.
- 1935 - Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe.
- 1936 - Birth of Antonin Scalia Trenton New Jersey, 105th Supreme Court Justice (1986-).
- 1937 - Birth of John Ward New Zealand cricket wicket-keeper (8 Tests 1964-68).
- 1937 - Paul Scheinpflug composer, dies at age 61.
- 1938 - Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria.
- 1938 - Birth of Malcolm Keith Speed British high court judge.
- 1941 - Bronko Nagurski beats Ray Steele in Minnesota, to become wrestling champion.
- 1941 - In the United States, Congress passes "An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States", known as the Lend-Lease Act, authorizing the President to sell, lease, lend, transfer, or exchange war supplies to any nation deemed vital to defence of the US. Total value is US$1.3 billion.
- 1941 - Walford Davies British organist/composer, dies at age 71.
- 1942 - First deportation train leaves Paris France for Auschewitz Concentration Camp.
- 1942 - Birth of Peter Eyre actor (Hedda).
- 1942 - General MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia.
- 1942 - Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra.
- 1943 - Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands.
- 1944 - Birth of Ric Rothwell; drummer (Mindbenders - "Games of Love").
- 1944 - Hendrik W van Loon, Netherlands/US radio commentator/writer, dies at age 62.
- 1945 - 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen with 4,662 ton bombs.
- 1945 - Birth of Harvey Mandel; rock guitarist (Drei Amerikanische LP's).
- 1945 - Birth of Mark Stein; vocalist/organist (Vanilla Fudge - "You Keep Me Hanging On").
- 1945 - Birth of Timothy Mason; consultant (British Arts Council).
- 1945 - Birth of Tricia O'Neil in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA; actress (Piranha Part II).
- 1945 - Flemish Nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death.
- 1946 - Birth of Brigitte Fossey in Tourcoing, France; actress (The Man Who Died Twice).
- 1947 - Birth of Dominique Sanda [Varaigne] in Paris, France; actress (1900, First Love, Inheritance, Beyond Good and Evil).
- 1947 - Birth of Geoffrey Hunt in Australia; world-champion squash player.
- 1947 - Birth of Mark Stein in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA; rocker (Vanilla Fudge - "You Keep Me Hanging On").
- 1947 - Victor Hely-Hutchinson, composer, dies at age 45.
- 1948 - Birth of George Kooymans in The Hague, Netherlands; guitarist/singer (Golden Earring - "Radar Love", "Twilight Zone").
- 1948 - Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed.
- 1949 - Birth of Richard de Bois; Dutch drummer/producer.
- 1949 - Henri-Honoré Giraud, French General/Member of Parliament, dies at age 70.
- 1949 - Juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer, dies at age 76.
- 1950 - Birth of Bobby McFerrin; singer ("Don't Worry Be Happy" - 1989 Grammy).
- 1950 - Birth of Jerry Zucker in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; director (Airplane, Naked Gun).
- 1950 - Florence Arliss, actress (Disraeli), dies at age 78.
- 1951 - Philippe of Isacker, Belgian minister, dies at age 66.
- 1952 - Birth of Douglas Adams in Cambridge, England; author (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy).
- 1952 - Birth of Susan Richardson in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (Susan - Eight is Enough).
- 1953 - An American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to six safety catches.
- 1954 - US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics.
- 1955 - Meat packer Oscar Mayer dies.
- 1955 - Alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist (penicillin), dies at age 73.
- 1955 - Birth of [Kater]Nina Hagen in East Berlin, German Democratic Republic; actress (Blue Angel).
- 1956 - Birth of Curtis L Brown Jr in Elizabethtown, North Carolina, USA; Major US Air Force/astronaut (STS 47, STS 66, 77, 85, 95).
- 1956 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship.
- 1956 - Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, Russian opera composer, dies at age 83.
- 1957 - Richard E Byrd, American explorer (Antarctica), dies at age 68.
- 1958 - Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show 21.
- 1958 - Starting this season, American League batters are required to wear batting helmets.
- 1959 - Haydn Wood, composer, dies at age 76.
- 1959 - Teddy Scholten wins Eurovision Song festival with "A Little Bit".
- 1960 - Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth and Venus.
- 1960 - Roy Chapman Andrews, US biologist/explorer, dies at age 76.
- 1961 - Birth of Bruce Watson in Ontario, Canada; rock guitarist (Big Country - "Wonderland").
- 1961 - Birth of Mike Percy; rocker (Dead or Alive - "Spin Me Round").
- 1961 - NHL record 40 penalties, Chicago Black Hawks and Toronto Maple Leafs (20 each).
- 1962 - Birth of Peter Berg; actor (Chicago Hope).
- 1962 - Will Vesper, German author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at age 79.
- 1963 - Mahomed Nissar, cricket player (6 Tests for India 1932-36, 25 wickets), dies.
- 1963 - Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain.
- 1964 - Birth of Raimo Helminen in Tampere, Finland; hockey forward (Team Finland, Olympics-bronze-1998).
- 1965 - Birth of Eric Jelen in West Germany; tennis star.
- 1965 - Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto.
- 1965 - James Reeb, US vicar/civil rights activist, is murdered.
- 1966 - Birth of Pavel Petrovich Mukhortov, Russian cosmonaut.
- 1966 - Birth of Ralph Tamm; NFL guard/center (Denver Broncos, Kansas City Chiefs).
- 1966 - Birth of Steve Reed in Los Angeles, California, USA; pitcher (Colorado Rockies).
- 1966 - Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out.
- 1967 - Birth of Andrew Zesers; cricket player (played for Australia in 1987 World Cup).
- 1967 - Birth of Bill Houlder in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada; NHL defenseman (Tampa Bay Lightning).
- 1967 - Geraldine Farrar, soprano/actress (Such Sweet Compulsion), dies at age 85.
- 1968 - Birth of John Barrowman; actor (Peter Fairchild-Central Park West).
- 1968 - Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 12nd string quartet.
- 1968 - Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay".
- 1968 - Lisa Loeb is born; singer.
- 1969 - Birth of Dan Lacroix in Montréal, Quebec, Canada; NHL left wing (New York Rangers).
- 1969 - Birth of John Fina; NFL offensive tackle (Buffalo Bills).
- 1969 - John Wyndham [Parkes Lucas B Harris], author (Day of the Triffids, Chrysalids), dies at age 65.
- 1970 - 12th Grammy Awards: "Aquarius", Crosby Stills and Nash, Peggy Lee win.
- 1970 - Birth of Brett Liddle in Boksburg, South Africa; Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Newcastle).
- 1970 - Birth of Evgeniy Koreshkov; hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Olympics-1998).
- 1970 - Erle Stanley Gardner, US writer (Perry Mason), dies at age 80.
- 1970 - Iraq Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation.
- 1971 - Birth of Bob Kronenberg; WLAF corner (Rhein Fire).
- 1971 - Birth of Jiri Vykoukai in Olomouc, Czechoslovakia; hockey player (Team Czechoslovakia Republic, Olympics-gold-1998).
- 1971 - Birth of Marta Lovera Parquet; Miss Paraguay-Universe (1996).
- 1971 - Birth of Martin Rucinsky in Most, Czechoslovakia; NHL left wing (Montreal Canadiens, Olympics-Gold-1998).
- 1971 - Philo T Farnsworth, US TV pioneer, dies at age 64.
- 1971 - Johnny Knoxville is born; actor.
- 1971 - Roy Glenn dies in Los Angeles at age 56.
- 1971 - Whitney M Young Jr, leader (National Urban League 1961-71), dies at age 49.
- 1972 - Birth of Carl Greenwood; NFL cornerback (New York Jets).
- 1972 - Birth of Chris Shelling; WLAF cornerback (Rhein Fire).
- 1972 - Birth of Jamal Duff; NFL defensive end (New York Giants, Washington Redskins).
- 1972 - Fredric [William] Brown, sci-fi author (Martians Go Home), dies at age 65.
- 1973 - Birth of Kennedy Otieno in Kenya; cricket wicket-keeper (85 versus Australia 1996 World Cup).
- 1973 - Birth of Mike Mihelic; Canadian Football League offensive tackle (Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
- 1973 - Birth of Sammie Brennan; Canadian Football League defensive back (British Columbia Lions).
- 1973 - Birth of Tony Veland; NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32).
- 1973 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA S&H Green Stamp Golf Classic.
- 1973 - Manuel Rojas Sepúlveda, writer, dies.
- 1974 - Birth of Billy Granville; linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals).
- 1974 - Birth of David Cameron; Australian rower (Olympics-1996).
- 1974 - Birth of Kevin Donovan in Des Plaines, Illinois, USA; figure skater (1997 Great Lakes-second).
- 1974 - Mount Etna in Sicily erupts.
- 1974 - Rhino Store gives people 5 cents to take home Danny Bonaduce's album.
- 1975 - Birth of Cedric Henderson, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers).
- 1975 - Birth of Shawn Springs; cornerback (Seattle Seahawks).
- 1975 - Philip Bezanson, composer, dies at age 59.
- 1975 - Portugal military coup under General Spinola fails.
- 1975 - Sammy Spear, orchestra leader (Dom Deluise Show), dies at age 65.
- 1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk.
- 1975 - Walter Kinsella, actor (Happy - Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at age 74.
- 1976 - Near Newport, Rhode Island, a magnitude 3.5 earthquake occurs.
- 1977 - 34 Israelis killed by Palestinians on the Tel Aviv-Haifa highway.
- 1977 - Muslims hold 130 hostages in Washington DC.
- 1978 - Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv, Israel; 45 killed.
- 1978 - University of San Francisco-led Bill Cartwright scores 23 points as the Dons oust North Carolina.
- 1979 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic.
- 1979 - Randy Hold receives 67 minutes in penalties in a 60 minute NHL hockey game.
- 1979 - Victor Kilian, actor (Gentleman's Agreement), dies at age 88.
- 1980 - Rod Marsh bowls ten overs for 51 runs in dull Australia versus Pakistan cricket draw.
- 1981 - Birth of Lee Evans; American football player.
- 1981 - Johnny Mize and Rube Foster elected to baseball Hall of Fame.
- 1981 - Birth of LeToya Luckett; American singer.
- 1981 - Chile constitution takes effect; military dictator Augusto Pinochet is sworn in as President for another 8-year term.
- 1981 - Birth of David Anders; American actor.
- 1982 - Edmund Cooper, British sci-fi writer (Tomorrow Came), dies at age 55.
- 1982 - Failed military coup under Rambocus/Hawker in Suriname.
- 1982 - Harrison Williams (Senator-Democrat-New Jersey) resigns rather than face expulsion.
- 1982 - Birth of Thora Birch; American actress.
- 1982 - Birth of Hasan Raza; cricket player (Test cricket player at the age of 14).
- 1983 - Australia's First Hawke Ministry is sworn in; Andrew Peacock becomes Federal Opposition leader.
- 1983 - World Ice Dance Championship in Helsinki Finland won by Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean (Great Britain).
- 1983 - World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev (USSR).
- 1983 - World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Rosalynn Sumners (USA).
- 1983 - World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Scott Hamilton (USA).
- 1984 - Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher/poet, dies in Rytutakuji monastery at age 76.
- 1984 - Chris Johnson wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic.
- 1985 - Birth of Paul Bissonnette; Canadian hockey player.
- 1985 - Birth of Nikolai Topor-Stanley; Australian soccer player.
- 1985 - Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
- 1985 - Mohammed Al Fayed buys the London-based department store company Harrods.
- 1986 - New York Islanders' Mike Bossy is first NHL player to score 50 goals in nine straight seasons.
- 1986 - Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km.
- 1986 - NFL adopts instant replay rule.
- 1987 - Wayne Gretzky scores 1,500th NHL point.
- 1987 - [Wayne] Woody Hayes, football coach (Ohio State), dies at age 74 (born 1913).
- 1988 - Pham Hung, premier of Vietnam, dies at about age 74.
- 1988 - Utrecht conservatory destroyed by fire.
- 1988 - British pound note ceases to be legal tender, replaced by one-pound coin.
- 1989 - Johan Fleerackers, Flemish linguist, dies at age 57.
- 1989 - Death of James Kee, American politician (born 1917).
- 1990 - Lithuanian Parliament declares incorporation into the Soviet Union was illegal, and declares independence.
- 1990 - Maggie Will wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International.
- 1990 - Patricio Aylwin is sworn-in as the first democratically-elected Chilean president since 1970.
- 1991 - Janet Jackson signs US$40 million 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 in tennis.
- 1991 - A curfew is imposed on black townships in South Africa after fighting between rival political gangs kills 49.
- 1992 - David Carroll, actor (Grand Hotel), dies of pulmonary embolism at age 41.
- 1992 - Heinz Kühn, Prime Minister (Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany), dies at age 80.
- 1992 - Manuel De Dios Unanue, US anti-drug journalist, murdered at age 48.
- 1992 - Richard Brooks, director (Blackboard Jungle, Key Largo), dies at age 79.
- 1993 - Death of Adolfo "Dino Bravo" Bresciano, Italian-born professional wrestler (born 1949).
- 1993 - Edgar Nelson Barclift, dancer, dies after lengthy illness at age 76.
- 1993 - Manuel da Fonseca, Portuguese writer (Cerro Maior), dies at age 81.
- 1993 - Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate as Attorney General of the United States.
- 1994 - Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as President of Chile.
- 1994 - Jacques Doucet, French painter (Mostar Sarajevo), dies at age 69.
- 1995 - Carel Birnie, founded Utrecht Opera/Dutch Dance Theater, dies at age 69.
- 1995 - Ernest Kabushemeye, Burundese minister of Mijnbouw, murdered.
- 1995 - Frank Fidler, artist, dies at age 84.
- 1995 - President Nazarbajev disbands Kazakhstan parliament.
- 1995 - Yolanda Chen hop-skip-jumps world indoor record 15.03 metre.
- 1996 - Barry Appleby, cartoonist, dies at age 86.
- 1996 - Charles William Oatley, electrical engineer, dies at age 92.
- 1996 - Chris Harris scores 130 in losing New Zealand side versus Australia, World Cup.
- 1996 - Clifton Eugene Bancroft Robinson, public servant, dies at age 70.
- 1996 - John Henry Pyle Pafford, librarian, dies at age 96.
- 1996 - Mark Waugh scores 110 versus New Zealand for his third century of the World Cup.
- 1996 - Vince Edwards, actor (Ben Casey), dies of cancer at age 67.
- 1996 - The European Union Database Directive passes.
- 1997 - Paul McCartney is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his "services to music."
- 1997 - San Francisco Giants' player J T Snow suffers a fractured eye socket when hit by a pitch.
- 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.
- 1998 - In the Danish parliamentary election, Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen is re-elected.
- 2002 - BBC 6 Music, the first new BBC music radio station in decades, is launched.
- 2002 - Death of James Tobin, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918).
- 2002 - German Marion Gräfin Dönhof dies. She had worked with the newspaper, Die Zeit, (Hamburg) since 1946.
- 2003 - Iraqi fighter jets threaten two U.S. U-2 surveillance planes, on missions for U.N. weapons inspectors, forcing them to abort their mission and return to base.
- 2004 - In Madrid, Spain, ten simultaneous explosions on commuter trains and in rail stations kill 190 people.
- 2005 - In the United Kingdom, the controversial Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 is finally given Royal Assent after one of the longest ever sittings by the House of Lords.
- 2005 - Three people, including a judge, are murdered in the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia; the main suspect, Brian Nichols, surrenders to police the next day.
- 2005 - Central African Republic elections: The first round leads to a runoff between top candidates Francois Bozize and Martin Ziguele.
- 2006 - Death of Bernie Geoffrion, Canadian hockey player (born 1931).
- 2006 - Michelle Bachelet is sworn in as the first female President of Chile.
- 2006 - Slobodan MiloÜevic is found dead at age 64 from an apparent heart attack in his prison cell in the United Nations war crimes tribunal's detention centre, located in the Scheveningen section of The Hague.
- 2007 - Death of Betty Hutton, American actress (born 1921).
- 2008 - At the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US space shuttle Endeavour lifts off headed for the International Space Station. Its cargo includes part of a Japanese space laboratory and a Canadian-built robotic system.
- 2008 - The US Federal Reserve promises to lend up to US$200 billion of Treasury bonds on a monthly basis with mortgage-backed securities as collateral.
- 2008 - Two suicide blasts in Lahore, Pakistan, kill 24, injuring over 100.
- 2009 - French President Nicolas Sarkozy announces France will return to Nato's military command, after President Charles de Gaulle pulled France out in 1966.
- 2010 - A 6.9-magnitude earthquake hits 140km south of Valparaiso, Chile, followed by more tremors, including one with 6.7 magnitude.
- 2010 - Sebastian Pinera is sworn in as president of Chile.
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(this URL will automatically re-direct to the file containing the current day's events)
Or, visit my Timelines of History page.
Other web pages of interest:
Chronology of World History
Chronology of World War II
Chronology of Personal Computers
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