Ken Fussichen's History Of The Day For
August 8th

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1155*-German-born Frederick I, Barbarossa, is crowned emperor of Rome.Ref: 2
1539*Francisco de Ulloa sails from Acapulco, Mexico northward around the tip of Baja, California. 
1780*A skirmish between George Rogers Clark and the Shawnee at Old Chillicothe near the Mad River results in the loss of the Shawnee corn crop. The Shawnee will turn to the British in Detroit for relief.Ref: 61
1786*The silver dollar and the decimal system of money are adopted by the U.S. Congress.Ref: 62
1796*Boston African Society establishes with 44 members.Ref: 5
1815*Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for St. Helena to spend the remainder of his days in exile.Ref: 5
1839*Beta Theta Pi became the first Greek-letter fraternity west of the Alleghenies. The fraternity was a new arrival at Miami University in Oxford, OH.Ref: 4
1843*Natal (in South Africa) is made a British colony.Ref: 5
1844*Brigham Young chosen Mormon Church head following Joseph Smith death.Ref: 5
1851*Calvin Page of Boston, Massachusetts is returned his two daughters, who had been held hostage by the Pai Ute Indians in the Dakotas for twelve years. 
1852*The roots of the Baptist General Conference were planted when Swedish immigrant pastor Gustaf Palmquist baptized his first three converts in the Mississippi River at Rock Island, Illinois. Today, the denomination numbers about 140,000.Ref: 5
1860*Queen of Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) arrives in NYC.Ref: 5
1868*Quake destroys Arica Chile.Ref: 5
1882*Snow falls on Lake Michigan.Ref: 5
1889*Clams containing pearls are found in the Sugar River in Wisconsin. 
1890*Daughters of the American Revolution organizes.Ref: 5
1904*A distillery in Beavercreek Township (in Greene County OH), recently revived by Colonial Company, is destroyed by fire. The distillery had been in operation, intermittenly and by various owners, since about 1841. (XDG, p 8A, 2/27/2003)Ref: 83
1910*The Sacred Congregation of the Sacraments in the Vatican issued the decree "Quam singulari," which recommended that children be permitted to receive Holy Communion as soon as they reached the "age of discretion" (i.e., about age 7).Ref: 5
1911*Membership in the US House of Representatives was established at 435. Every 211,877 residents of the US were represented by one member of Congress.Ref: 4
1919*Treaty of Rawalpindi, British recognize Afghanistan's independence.Ref: 5
1925*40,000 Ku Klux Klanspersons stage public march down Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C.Ref: 10
1929*Salem Oregon airport dedicated.Ref: 5
1936*Mobster Charles 'Lucky' Luciano is found guilty on 62 counts of compulsory prostitution.Ref: 2
1937*Bonneville Dam on Columbia River begins producing power.Ref: 5
1940*Romania introduces anti-Jewish measures restricting education and employment, then later begins "Romanianization" of Jewish businesses.Ref: 35
1945*The USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea.Ref: 5
1945*Fat Man unit F33 is dropped in practice bomb run.Ref: 91
1945*Assembly of Fat Man unit F31 with the plutonium core completed in the early morning.Ref: 91
1945*2200: Fat Man is loaded on B-29 "Bock's Car".Ref: 91
1945*President Harry S. Truman signed the United Nations Charter.Ref: 70
1946 India agrees to give Bhutan 32 square miles.Ref: 5
1949*Bhutan, land of the Dragon, became an independent monarchy.Ref: 5
1953*The United States and South Korea initialed a mutual security pact.Ref: 5
1953*South Korean President Syngman Rhee releases Korean non-repatriate POWs against the will of the United Nations.Ref: 2
1955*Geneva conference held to discuss peaceful uses of atomic energy.Ref: 5
1959*A Federal Court annuls the Arkansas law allowing school closings to prevent integration.Ref: 2
1960*Ivory Coast declares independence.Ref: 5
1963*In what became known as Britain's Great Train Robbery, Bruce Reynolds and others rob the Glasgow-to-London mail train of $7.36 million. All the thieves are caught but less than $1 million is recovered.Ref: 52
1966*Samuel Nabrit becomes the first African American to serve on the Atomic Energy Commission.Ref: 2
1968*Race riot in Miami Florida.Ref: 5
1968*Richard Nixon was nominated for president at the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach. Later that day, Nixon chose Maryland Gov. Spiro T. Agnew to be his running mate.Ref: 70
1969*(Manson) Manson tells Family members, "Now is the time for Helter Skelter." That evening he tells Patricia Krenwinkel, Susan Atkins, Tex Watson, and Linda Kasabian to get knives and changes of clothes. As he sends them from the ranch on their mission, he tells them "to leave a sign --something witchy." Watson drives to the Tate residence.Ref: 87
1973*Vice President Spiro T. Agnew branded as "damned lies" reports he had taken kickbacks from government contracts in Maryland and vowed not to resign.Ref: 70
1974*President Nixon announced he would resign following new damaging revelations in the Watergate scandal.Ref: 5
1979*President Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev sign the Salt II pact to limit nuclear arms.Ref: 2
1980 LBV Conference Center & Club Lake Villas open.Ref: 5
1983*Brig Gen Efrain Rios Montt was deposed as president of Guatemela.Ref: 5
1983*Jury in KC, Mo, awards TV anchorwoman Christine Craft $500,000 in sex discrimination suit against KMBC-TV (later overturned).Ref: 5
1988*Temperature hits high of 88 on 8/8/88 in NYC.Ref: 5
1988*Sec of State Shultz narrowly escapes assassin attempt in Bolivia.Ref: 5
1988*Renovated Central Park Zoo reopens after 4 years.Ref: 5
1988 Jennifer Levin's parents file $25M suit against Dorrian Red Hand Bar.Ref: 5
1990*This was a watershed day in the Middle East. Iraq announced that it had annexed the kingdom of Kuwait -- moving over 200,000 troops into the tiny, oil-rich country. As Iraq declared Kuwait to be its 19th Providence, US President George Bush (I) warned Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, “A line has been drawn in the sand,” and American forces began moving into Saudi Arabia.Ref: 4
1991*The slain bodies of former Iranian Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar and his chief of staff were found in Bakhtiar's residence outside Paris.Ref: 6
1991*Lebanese kidnappers freed British TV producer John McCarthy, held hostage for more than five years; however, a rival group abducted Frenchman Jerome Leyraud, threatening to kill him if any more hostages were released (Leyraud was freed three days later).Ref: 5
1991*Billy Preston charged with exhibiting porno to a minor.Ref: 5
1994*(OJ Simpson) Defense counsel files motion to obtain personnel records of Detective Mark Fuhrman.Ref: 87
1994 Israel and Jordan opened the first road link between the two once-warring countries. 
1996*President Clinton belittled Bob Dole's tax plan, vowing to oppose tax cuts that he said the country couldn't afford.Ref: 6
1998*President Clinton, in his Saturday radio address, vows the bombers of two U.S. embassies in Africa would be brought to justice, "no matter how long it takes or where it takes us." 
2000 Chile's Supreme Court stripped General Augusto Pinochet's immunity, clearing the way for the former dictator to be tried on human rights charges. (However, an appeals court later ruled Pinochet unfit to stand trial because of his deteriorating health and mental condition.)Ref: 6
2000*Vice President Al Gore formally introduced and celebrated his Jewish running mate, Senator Joseph Lieberman, during an appearance in Gore's home state of TN.Ref: 6
1579*Cornerstone is laid for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory.Ref: 5
1609*Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope.Ref: 5
1709*First known ascent in hot-air balloon, Bartolomeu de Gusmao (indoors).Ref: 5
1805*Lewis & Clark: Sacagawea recognizes another landmark – Beaverhead Rock, north of present-day Dillon, Montana – and says they are nearing the river's headwaters and home of her people, the Shoshones. Desperate to find the Indians and their horses, Lewis decides to scout ahead with three men.Ref: 65
1876*Thomas A. Edison of Menlo Park, NJ patented the mimeograph machine. He described it as a method of preparing autographic stencils for printing. We don’t use mimeographs much these days, thanks to paper copiers and computer word processors. Mimeograph machines used to be cranked by hand and later models were electric. The mimeograph worked by first creating a spirit master which was placed on a large rotating drum. A strong smelling, purple ink would then print out on paper. We used to use these a lot in school back in the 1950s and 1960s. We remember the fumes, especially.Ref: 4
1899*The first household refrigerating machine is patented by Albert Marshall of Brockton MA.Ref: 2
1925*The first national congress of the Ku Klux Klan opens.Ref: 2
1928*Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to cross the Atlantic by airplane.Ref: 2
1929*The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins the first airship flight around the Earth flying eastward begins.Ref: 5
1978*The US launched "Pioneer Venus Two," which carried scientific probes to study the atmosphere of Venus.Ref: 5
1983*Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.Ref: 2
1985*Japan launches Planet A, a probe to Halley's comet.Ref: 5
1988*Discovery of most distant galaxy (15 billion light yrs distant) announced.Ref: 5
1989*The space shuttle Columbia blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on a secret, five-day military mission.Ref: 5
1570*Charles IX of France signs the Treaty of St. Germain, ending the third war of religion and giving religious freedom to the Huguenots.Ref: 2
1588 The Spanish Armada, a fleet of 130 huge ships, met defeat at the hands of English sailors and their smaller, more maneuverable vessels. Then a series of wicked Atlantic storms off the coast of Southern England took their toll. Only half of the 130 Spanish ships managed to limp ... at best ... home. The 60 or so English ships had saved England from the Spanish invaders.Ref: 4
1636*The invading armies of Spain, Austria and Bavaria are stopped at the village of St.-Jean-de-Losne, only 50 miles from France.Ref: 2
1778*British troops evacuate Philadelphia.Ref: 2
1812*The War of 1812 begins when the United States declares war against Great Britain.Ref: 2
1863*After repeated acts of insubordination, General Ulysses S. Grant relieves General John McClernand during the siege of Vicksburg.Ref: 2
1863*Confederate President Jefferson Davis refuses General Robert E. Lee's resignation.Ref: 2
1863*The Union attacks Fort Wagner SC. One of the leading regiments was the all-colored 54th Massachusetts that suffered 650 casualties in the first assault. (Claflin, Edward, "Sojourner Truth and the Struggle For Freedom", 1987, ISBN 0-8120-3919-X) 
1864*At Petersburg, Union General Ulysses S. Grant realizes the town can no longer be taken by assault and settles into a siege. Rebels' last-ditch stand at Petersburg.Ref: 2
1914*Serbia at war with Germany.Ref: 38
1914*Montenegro declares war on Germany.Ref: 62
1917*Canadian Conscription Bill passes its third reading in Senate.Ref: 38
1918*Anglo-French counter-attack at Amiens supported by heavy artillery and 400 tanks achieves major successes. Ludendorff describes it as 'the Black Day' for the German army.Ref: 38
1918*Six US soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York is given command & shoots 20 Germans & captures 132 more.Ref: 5
1937*The Japanese Army occupies Beijing.Ref: 2
1940*The German Luftwaffe attacks Great Britain for the first time.Ref: 2
1942*Six convicted Nazi saboteurs who had landed in the US were executed in Washington DC; two others receive life imprisonment. (XDG p 4A, 8/8/2000)Ref: 83
1942*U.S. Marines take the unfinished airfield on Guadalcanal and name it Henderson Field after Maj. Lofton Henderson, a hero of Midway.Ref: 2
1944*The US First Army breaks through the German lines on the Cotentin Peninsula and cuts off the German-held port of Cherbourg.Ref: 2
1944*American troops complete the capture of the Mariana Islands.Ref: 4
1945*Emperor Hirohito informs the Japanese prime minister that the war must be ended as soon as possible, on the basis of the Potsdam Declaration. 
1945*Organized Japanese resistance ends on the island of Mindanao.Ref: 2
1945*At Foreign Minister Togo's request Ambassador Sato tries to persuade the Soviets to mediate surrender negotiations. Molotov cancel's the meeting, then announces that the Soviet Union is at war with Japan effective the next day.Ref: 91
1945*Leaflet dropping, and warnings to Japan by Radio Saipan begin (Nagasaki does not receive warning leaflets until August 10).Ref: 91
1945*The Soviet Union declares war on Japan. The Red Army advances into Manchuria.Ref: 36
1950*U.S. troops repel the first North Korean attempt to overrun them at the battle of Naktong Bulge, which continued for 10 days.Ref: 2
1951*General Vo Nguyen Giap ends his Red River Campaign against the French in Indochina.Ref: 2
1988 South Africa declares cease-fire in Angola.Ref: 1
1988*Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war.Ref: 5
1988*U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar announced a cease-fire between Iran and Iraq.Ref: 70
1993*In Somalia, four US soldiers are killed when a land mine in detonated underneath their vehicle, prompting President Clinton to order Army Rangers to try to capture Somalian war lord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. (XDG, p 4A, 8/08/2003)Ref: 83
1786 Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michael-Gabriel Baccard become the first men to climb Mont Blanc in France.Ref: 2
1870 Magic (US) defeats Cambria (Engld) in 2nd running of America's Cup.Ref: 5
1876 Dan O'Leacy completes 500 mile walk in 139h32m.Ref: 5
1900*First Davis Cup tennis matches begin, held in Boston. US 3, England 0.Ref: 72
1920*Tigers beat Yanks 1-0 in shortest AL game, 73 minutes.Ref: 5
1921*Luke Stuart of the St. Louis Browns hits a home run in his first major league at bat.Ref: 12
1922*Pirates set record of 46 hits in a doubleheader (against Phillies).Ref: 5
1930*St Louis Cards are 12 games back in NL, & go on to win the pennant.Ref: 5
1931*Wash Senator Bob Burke no-hits Boston Red Sox, 5-0.Ref: 5
1931*Former heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey signed a contract for a six-bout tour of the northwestern US He was to be paid $35,000 or 50 percent of the gross receipts, whichever was more.Ref: 4
1953*Southpaws Whitey Ford and Bob Kuzava both blank the White Sox, 1-0 and 3-0 respectively, for a Yankee doubleheader sweep. Kuzava gives up his only hit in the ninth.Ref: 1
1954*Gil Hodges gets to bat three times in one inning as the Dodgers score 13 runs in the eighth and defeat the Reds, 20-7.Ref: 1
1955*Nellie Fox of the Chicago White Sox, plays the first of 798 consecutive games. ("The 1999 ESPN Sports Almanac") 
1957*Club President Walter O'Malley makes it official announcing the Dodgers will play in Los Angeles next season.Ref: 1
1961*Ham Tigercats (CFL) beat Buff Bills (NFL) 38-21 in Hamilton, Ontario.Ref: 5
1970*NY Yankees honor Casey Stengel, retiring his number 37.Ref: 5
1972*The Yankees sign a thirty-year lease to play in the new Yankee Stadium beginning 1976.Ref: 1
1977*The Texas Rangers turn the first triple play in team history. With runners on first and second, Oakland's Manny Sanguillen grounds to third baseman Toby Harrah, who steps on third and throws to Bump Wills at second for the force. Wills relays to Mike Hargrove at first to complete the triple play.Ref: 86
1984*Carl Lewis won his third gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics. He won the 200-meter sprint. At the same time, Greg Louganis received his first gold medal in diving in the springboard competition.Ref: 4
1985*Major League Baseball's new basic agreement permits the National League to expand by two teams to match the American League's 14.Ref: 86
1986*Record 3 grandslams in a game-(Harrah-Tex, Sheets & Dwyer-Orioles).Ref: 5
1987 The opening ceremonies of the Pan American games were held in Indpls, IN. A two-hour extravaganza called "The Magic that’s America" was presented at the Indpls Motor Speedway. The big show included some 6,000 volunteer performers and stagehands who joined a 20,000-piece, animated, card section, along with 80 Disney characters and a 1,027-piece band.Ref: 4
1987*Brewers' Rob Deer struck-out 5 times in a game.Ref: 5
1987 Lynne Cox became first to swim from US to Russia across Bering Strait.Ref: 5
1988*Jose Canseco becomes 11th to get 30 HRs & 30 steals in a season.Ref: 5
1988*The first night game in Wrigley Field history is rained out after three-and-a-half innings, with the Cubs leading the Phillies 3-1.Ref: 86
1988*Goose Gossage registers career save #300.Ref: 5
1988*Minn Twins pull 2nd triple-play of year & beat Cleve 6-2.Ref: 5
1989*In his major league debut, former Met farmhand Mauro Gozzo blanks the Rangers for eight innings helping the Blue Jays go over .500 for the first time since Opening Day. Toronto will eventually win the AL East.Ref: 1
1990*Carlton Fisk ties Johnny Bench hitting 327 HRs as a catcher.Ref: 5
1990*Balt Orioles pull their 10th triple play (1-6-3 vs Oakland).Ref: 5
1997*At Busch Stadium, recently acquired first baseman Mark McGwire hits his 365th career HR which is also his first NL homer off Phillies' pitcher Mark Lieter.Ref: 1
1998*At the age of 41, Twins' Paul Molitor becomes fifth player in major league history to have at least 3,000 hits and 500 steals. His 5-for-5 performance and the theft of his 500th base allows him to join Ty Cobb (4,191 hits, 892 steals), Honus Wagner (3,415, 722), Eddie Collins (3,315, 744) and Lou Brock (3,023, 938) as the only players to accomplish this milestone.Ref: 1
2000*Cubs hurler Phil Norton becomes the 18th pitcher in major league history to give up four homers in one inning as the Dodgers win the game, 7-5.Ref: 1
2000*In the top of the ninth, A's closer Jason Isringhausen throws just two pitches and the Yankees go from losing 3-2 to winning 4-3 thanks to back-to-back home runs by Bernie Williams and David Justice.Ref: 1
2001*C.C. Sabathia gets the win and the Cleveland Indians take first place from the Minnesota Twins. From this point on, the Indians stayed in first place.Ref: 86
2002*Closer John Smoltz records his 40th save in the 114th game of the Braves' schedule making it the earliest point in a season a relief pitcher has reached that mark. Lee Smith of the Cardinals accomplished the feat in his 117th game in 1993, and White Sox Bobby Thigpen turned the trick in 118 games en route to setting the major league record with 57 saves in 1990.Ref: 1
1923*Benny Goodman was 14 years old as he began his professional career as a clarinet player. He took a job in a band on a Chicago-based excursion boat on Lake Michigan.Ref: 4
1934*Bing Crosby became the first singer to record for the newly created Decca Records.Ref: 4
1941*Les Brown and His Band of Renown paid tribute to baseball’s ‘Yankee Clipper’, Joe DiMaggio of the NY Yankees, with the recording of Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio on Okeh Records. From that time on, DiMaggio adopted the nickname, Joltin’ Joe.Ref: 4
1960*Tell Laura I Love Her, by Ray Peterson, wasn’t a big hit in Great Britain. Decca Records in England said the song was “too tasteless and vulgar for the English sensibility.” They destroyed 25,000 of the platters this day.Ref: 4
1963*Kingsmen release "Louie, Louie," radio stations label it obscene.Ref: 5
1966*Beatles' release "Revolver".Ref: 5
1966*South Arican Broadcasting bans Beatles (Lennon's anti-Jesus remark).Ref: 2
1974*Roberta Flack received a gold record for the single, Feel Like Makin’ Love. Flack, born in Asheville, NC and raised in Arlington, VA, was awarded a music scholarship to Howard University in Washington, DC -- at the age of 15. One of her classmates became a singing partner on several hit songs. Donny Hathaway joined Flack on You’ve Got a Friend, Where is the Love and The Closer I Get to You. She had 10 hits on the pop charts in the 1970s and 1980s.Ref: 4
1991*Carlos Santana pleads no contest to marijuana possession charge.Ref: 5
1991*Gary Oldman, actor (State of Grace), arrested for drunk driving.Ref: 5
2003*(Napster) A US District Court rules that MIT and Boston College don't have to comply with subpoenas seeking information about students the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) suspects of file-sharing. (WSJ, p B1, 9/09/2003)Ref: 33
1694*Francis Hutcheson, Scottish-Irish moral philosopher, is born.Ref: 70
1763*Charles Bulfinch Boston Mass, first US pro architect (Mass State House), is born.Ref: 5
1799*Nathaniel B. Palmer, American discoverer of the frozen continent of Antarctica, is born.Ref: 68
1814*Esther Morris, American suffragist and public official, is born.Ref: 70
1819*Charles Dana, American journalist and editor of the New York SunRef: 70
1845*Birth of Thomas Koschat, Austrian sacred composer. One of his scores became the hymn tune POLAND, to which is commonly sung "The King of Love My Shepherd Is".Ref: 5
1857*Henry Osborn Conn, paleontologist/author (52 Years of Research), is born.Ref: 5
1866*Matthew Henson explorer: North Pole expedition [1908-09 w/Robert Peary]; is born. (Though some recent scholarship disputes this claim)Ref: 4
1883*Emilano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary leader, is born.Ref: 2
1884*Sara Teasdale US, poet (1st Pulitzer Prize-1918-"Love Songs"), is born.Ref: 5
1887*Malcolm Keen Bristol England, actor (Uncle Chris-Mama), is born.Ref: 5
1896*Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling, is born in Washington DC.Ref: 2
1899*Russell Markert choreographer: founded, directed: Radio City Music Hall Rockettes; is born.Ref: 4
1900*Victor Young Chic Ill, orch leader (Milton Berle Show, In Old Calif), is born.Ref: 5
1901*Dr Ernest O Lawrence, Canton SC, inventor (Cyclotron-Nobel 1939), is born.Ref: 5
1902*Paul A.M. Dirac England, theoretical physicist (Nobel 1933), is born.Ref: 5
1905*Andre Jolivet, Paris France, composer (L'Eunuque), is born.Ref: 5
1907*Benny Carter NYC, musician/composer (Easy Money, King Carter), is born.Ref: 5
1908*(US Supreme Court Justice) Arthur J Goldberg, UN ambassador/Supreme Court justice (1962-65), is born.Ref: 5
1910*Francisco Brochado Da Rocha PM of Brazil (1962), is born.Ref: 5
1910*Sylvia Sidney, Bronx NY, actress (WKRP, Sabotage, Beetlejuice, Demon), is born.Ref: 5
1913*Axel Stordahl Staten Island NY, orch leader (Frank Sinatra Show), is born.Ref: 5
1913*Robert Stafford (Sen-R-Vt), is born.Ref: 5
1919*Dino DeLaurentis producer (King Kong), is born in Torre Annunziata, Italy.Ref: 68
1921*Webb Pierce singer: In the Jailhouse Now, Honky Tonk Song, Tupelo County Jail, I’ve Got Leaving on My Mind, Back Street Affair, There Stands the Glass; is born.Ref: 4
1922*Rory Calhoun (Francis Durgin) actor: Angel, Apache Uprising, River of No Return, Treasure of Pancho Villa; is born. (also TWA, 1986)Ref: 4
1922*Rudi Gernreich designed first women's topless swimsuit, miniskirt, is born.Ref: 5
1923*Esther Williams, swimmer, actress: Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Dangerous When Wet, Neptune’s Daughter, Million Dollar Mermaid, is born in Inglewood CA. (also TWA, 1998)Ref: 4
1923*Jimmy Witherspoon singer: Ain’t Nobody’s Business, Some of My Best Friends are the Blues, You’re Next; is born.Ref: 4
1923*Rory Calhoun LA Calif, actor (Capitol, Motel Hell, Bill-Texan), is born.Ref: 68
1926*Urbie (Urban) Green musician: trombonist: played w/Cab Calloway, is born.Ref: 4
1926*Richard Anderson, Long Beach NJ, actor (Oscar Goldman-6 Million $ Man), is born.Ref: 5
1926*Webb Pierce West Monroe La, country singer (Ozark Jubilee), is born.Ref: 5
1927*Johnny (John Ellis) Temple baseball: Cincinnati Reds, Cincinnati Redlegs [all-star: 1956, 1957, 1959], Cleveland Indians [all-star: 1961], Baltimore Orioles, Houston Colt .45’s; is born.Ref: 4
1927*Jim Weaver (D-rep-Ore), is born.Ref: 5
1929*Josef Suk Prague Czechoslovakia, violinist (Artist of Merit-1977), is born.Ref: 5
1930*Joan Mondale (Adams) wife of 42nd US Vice-President Walter ‘Fritz’ MondaleRef: 4
1930*Nita Talbot NYC NY, actress (Supertrain, Here We Go Again), is born.Ref: 5
1932*Mel Tillis country singer/stutterer (Who's Julie, M-M-Mel), is born.Ref: 5
1933*Joe Tex singer/songwriter (Hold What You've Got), is born.Ref: 5
1936*Frank Howard baseball player (NL Rookie of the Year 1960), is born.Ref: 5
1936*Don Bowden US, first American to run a sub 4 min mile, is born.Ref: 5
1936*Keith Barron Mexborough England, actor (At the Earth's Core), is born.Ref: 5
1937*Dustin Hoffman LA, actor (The Graduate, Tootsie, Kramer vs Kramer), is born.Ref: 5
1938*Connie Stevens (Concetta Ingolia), Bkln, singer/actress (Hawaiian Eye, Back to Beach), is born.Ref: 5
1939*Phil Balsley Va, country singer (Statler Bros-Flowers on the Wall), is born.Ref: 5
1942*Paul McCartney, songwriter and singer, member of the Beatles, is born.Ref: 2
1944*Porn star John Holmes (John Curtis Estes) is born.Ref: 24
1947*Jose Cruz leftfielder (St Louis Cards, Houston Astros), is born.Ref: 5
1947*Larry Wilcox SD Calif, actor (Lassie, CHiPs), is born.Ref: 5
1948*Svetlana Y Savitskaya 2nd woman in space (Soyuz T-7, T-12), is born.Ref: 5
1949*Keith Carradine San Mateo CA, actor (Young Guns, Pretty Baby), is born.Ref: 68
1949*Brian Sipe football: Cleveland Browns: NFL Player of the Year [1980]; U.S. Football League [1985-86], is born.Ref: 4
1950*Andy Fairweather Low musician: guitar, singer: group: Amen Corner: Gin House Blues, Bend Me Shape Me, [If Paradise Is] Half as Nice, Natural Sinner, is born.Ref: 4
1951*Randy Shilts journalist, writer: And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic; is born.Ref: 4
1952*Robin Quivers radio/TV personality (Howard Stern's sidekick), is born.Ref: 5
1952*Mike (Michael Wilson) Ivie baseball: SD Padres, SF Giants, Houston Astros, Detroit TigersRef: 4
1953*Donny Most Bkln NY, actor (Ralph Malph-Happy Days), is born.Ref: 5
1953*"Sweet" Lou Dunbar basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters), is born.Ref: 5
1954*Nigel Mansell formula-1 racer (Portugal Grand Prix-1990), is born.Ref: 5
1956*Chris Foreman guitar (Madness-1 Step Beyond), is born.Ref: 5
1956*David Grant rocker (Heaven Knows), is born.Ref: 5
1958*TV personality Deborah Norville is born.Ref: 68
1958*Harry Crosby singer; actor: Friday the 13th, Private History of a Campaign that Failed; Son of Bing Crosby and Kathryn Grant), is born in Los Angeles CA.Ref: 4
1959*Rikki Rockett rocker (Poison-Every Rose Has a Thorn), is born.Ref: 5
1961*The Edge (Dave Evans) London, rocker (U2-I Will Follow), is born.Ref: 5
1962*Suzee Pai Toledo Ohio, actress (Big Trouble in Little China), is born.Ref: 5
1967*Lorraine Pearson rocker (5 Star-Silk & Steel), is born.Ref: 5
1970*X-rated film actress Stacy Valentine is born.Ref: 4
1976*J.C. Chasez singer: group: ’N Sync: I Want You Back, Tearin’ Up My Heart, Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday, God Must Have Spent A Little More Time On You, I Drive Myself Crazy, Music Of My Heart, is born.Ref: 4
1977*Lindsay Sloane actress: Mr. Rhodes, The Wonder Years, Dharma & Greg, Working, My So-Called Life, Between Mother and Daughter, is born.Ref: 4
1988*The Duchess of York ("Fergie") gives birth to 6 lb 12 oz baby girl, Beatrice (Beatrice Elizabeth Mary Windsor) Princess of York.Ref: 5
869 Lothair dies.Ref: 10
1306*King Wenceslas of Poland is murdered.Ref: 2
1471*Death of Thomas Kempis, 91, Dutch mystic and devotional author. Though most of his years were outwardly uneventful, his book "The Imitation of Christ" remains in print today, a guide to cultivating the inner human spirit.Ref: 5
1553*King Edward VI is buried at Westminster. 
1648*Ibrahim, the sultan of Istanbul, is thrown into prison, then assassinated.Ref: 2
1827 George Canning dies.Ref: 10
1898*Eugene Boudin, French landscape painter, dies at age 74.Ref: 70
1902*James Tissot, French artist, dies at age 65.Ref: 70
1909*Mary McKillop, Australia's first saint, dies in Sydney, Australia. Ref 
1921*George Trumbull Ladd, American philosopher/psychologist, dies at age 79.Ref: 70
1956*Fire & explosion kill 263 miners at Marcinelle, BelgiumRef: 5
1960*Danton Walker columnist (Broadway Spotlight), dies at 61.Ref: 5
1961*Charlie Gemora actor who portrayed King Kong, dies at 58.Ref: 5
1967*William Spratling, American silver designer and architect, dies at age 66.Ref: 70
1975*Julian ‘Cannonball’ Adderly musician: Alto/Soprano Saxophone: Mercy, Mercy, Mercy; dies.Ref: 4
1976*John Roselli hired by CIA to kill Castro, found murdered.Ref: 5
1979 Nicholas Monsarrat dies.Ref: 10
1984*Richard Deacon actor (Mel-Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 62Ref: 5
1985*Louise Brooks actress, dies of a heart attack at 78Ref: 5
1992*Arthur Lang US, boxer/businessman, dies at age 115.Ref: 5
1996*Sir Nevill Mott, English physicist, dies at age 90.Ref: 70
1996*Ben Johnson actor: Angels in the Outfield, The Getaway, The Last Picture Show, One-Eyed Jacks, Red Dawn, Shane; passed away Apr 8, 1996Ref: 4
1999*Harry (William) Walker ‘Harry the Hat’: baseball: SL Cardinals [World Series: 1942, 1943, 1946/all-star: 1943], Philadelphia Phillies [all-star: 1947], Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds; manager: Houston Astros; dies.Ref: 4
2000*A bomb ripped through an underground walkway in central Moscow, killing at least 13 people.Ref: 6
2001*Former President Reagan's daughter Maureen died at age 60.Ref: 70

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