|
|
|
| 1754 |
William Bligh - nasty ship's captain (HMS Bounty) |
| 1828 |
Leo Tolstoy - Russia, novelist (War & Peace, Anna Karenina) |
| 1850 |
Harishchandra - India, poet/dramatist/father of modern Hindi |
| 1887 |
Alfred Landon - (R-Ks) pres candidate (1932, 1936) |
| 1890 |
Harland Sanders - Kentucky Fried Chicken founder/colonel |
| 1899 |
Neil Hamilton - Lynn, MA, actor (Commisioner Gordon-Batman) |
| 1900 |
James Hilton - hotel magnate (Hilton Hotels) |
| 1919 |
Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder - gambler/sportscaster (lay you 5 to 1) |
| 1924 |
Jane Greer - Washington, DC, actress (Prisoner of Zenda, Clown) |
| 1925 |
Cliff Robertson - La Jolla, CA, actor (Charly)/spokesman for AT&T |
| 1932 |
Sylvia Miles - NYC, actress (Midnight Cowboy, Farewell My Lovely) |
| 1935 |
Chaim Topol - Tel Aviv Israel, actor (Fiddler on the Roof) |
| 1941 |
Otis Redding - Georgia, rocker (Sitting on the Dock of the Bay) |
| 1943 |
Roger Waters - rocker (Pink Floyd-The Wall) |
| 1946 |
Billy Preston - singer/pianist, the 5th Beatle (David Brenner Show) |
| 1947 |
Lynn Fitzgerald - marathoner (ran 133 miles 939 yards in 24 hrs) |
| 1950 |
Tom Wopat - Lodi, WI, actor (Luke Duke-Dukes of Hazzard) |
| 1951 |
Michael Keaton - Pittsburgh, PA, actor (Gung Ho, Batman) |
| 1952 |
Angela Cartwright - England (Make Room for Daddy, Lost in Space) |
| 1952 |
Dave Stewart - rocker (Eurythmics-Here Comes the Rain Again) |
| 1960 |
Hugh Grant - London, UK, actor (Love Actually, About A Boy, Notting Hill) |
| 1966 |
Adam Sandler - Brooklyn, NY, actor/comedian (The Wedding Singer) |
| 1972 |
Goran Visnjic - Sibenik, Yugoslavia, actor (Practical Magic, Ice Age, "E.R.") |
|
|
|
|
| 1087 |
William I - The Conqueror, King of England, & Duke of Normandy, dies |
| 1817 |
Paul Cuffe - entrepreneur/ civil rights activist, dies at 58 |
| 1962 |
Pat Rooney - vaudevillian, dies at 82 |
| 1976 |
Mao Tse-Tung - Chinese communist party chairman (1949-76), dies at 82 |
| 1990 |
Samuel K. Doe - Liberian president, killed by rebels |
|
|
|
|
| |
Teddy Bear Day |
| 1513 |
Battle of Flodden Fields; English defeat James IV of Scotland |
| 1739 |
Slave revolt in Stono SC led by Jemmy (25 whites killed) |
| 1776 |
Continental Congress renames "United Colonies," "United States" |
| 1817 |
Alexander Lucius Twilight, probably 1st black to graduate from US college, receives BA degree at Middlebury College |
| 1830 |
Charles Durant, 1st US aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, NYC to Perth Amboy, NJ |
| 1839 |
John Herschel takes the 1st glass plate photograph |
| 1841 |
Great Lakes steamer "Erie" sinks off Silver Creek NY, kills 300 |
| 1850 |
California becomes 31st state |
| 1850 |
Territories of New Mexico & Utah created |
| 1862 |
Lee splits his army & sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry |
| 1867 |
Luxembourg gains independence |
| 1875 |
Lotta's Fountain (Kearny & Market) dedicated |
| 1880 |
President Hayes visits SF |
| 1892 |
Almalthea, 5th moon of Jupiter, discovered by EE Barnard at Lick |
| 1908 |
Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, VA |
| 1911 |
1st airmail service (British Post Office) |
| 1912 |
J Verdrines becomes 1st to fly over 100 mph (107 mph/172 kph) |
| 1919 |
Boston's police force goes on strike |
| 1926 |
National Broadcasting Company created by the Radio Corporation of America |
| 1942 |
1st bombing on continental US soil, Mount Emily, OR (WW2) |
| 1943 |
Italy surrenders to the Allies |
| 1944 |
Allied forces liberate Luxembourg |
| 1944 |
Bulgaria liberated from Nazi control (often referred to as the invasion of Bulgaria by Russia) (National Day) |
| 1945 |
Japanese in S Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies |
| 1948 |
People's Democratic Republic of Korea proclaimed |
| 1950 |
1st use of TV laugh track-Hank McCune |
| 1956 |
Elvis Presley appears on national TV for 1st time (Ed Sullivan) |
| 1957 |
Nashville's new Hattie Cotton Elementary School dynamited |
| 1958 |
Pirate Roberto Clemente ties record of 3 triples in a game |
| 1963 |
Landslide into Vaiont Dam emptys lake, kills 3-4,000 (Italy) |
| 1965 |
Tibet is made an autonomous region of China |
| 1966 |
John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at an avante-garde art exposition |
| 1967 |
1st successful test flight of a Saturn V |
| 1968 |
1st US Open, held as an "open" (Arthur Ashe-wins) |
| 1969 |
Allegheny 853 collides with Piper Cherokee above Indiana, kills 82 |
| 1971 |
John Lennon releases the "Imagine" album |
| 1971 |
1,000 convicts seize Attica, NY, prison |
| 1971 |
John Lennon & Yoko Ono appear on the Dick Cavett Show (ABC-TV) |
| 1975 |
Viking 2 launched toward orbit around Mars, soft landing |
| 1977 |
1st TRS-80 computer sold |
| 1979 |
Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) weds Fouzia Ali at Kensington Mosque |
| 1981 |
Vernon E. Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League |
| 1982 |
Columbia mated with SRBs & external tank in preparation for STS-5 |
| 1982 |
Conestoga 1, 1st private commercial rocket, makes suborbital flight |
| 1983 |
Challenger returns to Kennedy Space Center via Sheppard AFB, Texas |
| 1983 |
Radio Shack announces their Color Computer 2 (the Coco2) |
| 1986 |
NYC jury indicts Gennadly Zakharov (Soviet UN employee) of spying |
| 1987 |
Gary Hart admits to cheating on his wife on "Nightline" |
| 1989 |
Steffi Graf beats Martina Navratalova for the US Open championship |
| 1990 |
Bush & Gorbachev meet in Helsinki & urge Iraq to leave Kuwait |
|
If you'd like to query on another date, pick a date from below and click Submit.
