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Author Topic: On This Date in History Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-21-2006 08:50 AM                        Rated G Birthdates which occurred on March 21: 1466 French van Brederode leader Hoeksen 1474 Angela Merici Italian monastery founder/saint 1521 Mauritius duke/nice monarch of Saksen (1547-53) 1527 Hermann Finck composer 1609 Jan II Kazimierz cardinal/King of Poland (1648-68) 1624 François Roberday composer 1642 Georg Schmezer composer 1685 Johann Sebastian Bach Eisenach Germany, composer (Matthäus-Passion) 1708 Caspar Ruetz composer 1713 Francis Lewis signed Declaration of Independence 1716 Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger composer 1763 Jean Paul writer 1765 Henry Fagel Dutch/English baron/diplomat 1768 Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier mathematician/Egyptologist 1779 Alexis Garaude composer 1806 Benito Pablo Juárez Oaxaca Mexico, President of México (1858-72) 1813 James Jesse Strang king of Mormons on Beaver Island MI (1850-56) 1816 Charlotte Bronte novelist/poet 1820 Frank Mori composer 1836 Jesus Monasterio composer 1839 Modest Mussorgsky composer (Boris Gudunov, Night on Bald Mountain) 1854 Alick A C Bannerman cricketer (brother of Charles, Australia 1878-1893) 1863 Hugo Kaun composer 1866 Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury astronomer 1869 Albert Kahn architect, originated modern factory design 1869 Florenz Ziegfeld producer (Ziegfield Follies) 1878 Thurlow Weed Lieurance composer 1880 Hans Hofmann German/US painter (Search for the Real) 1880 Wilhelm Pessler German sociologist 1881 Hermann Sandby composer 1882 Gilbert M Anderson [Max Aronson], Little Rock AR 1883 Jules van Nuffel composer 1884 George D Birkhoff US mathematician (Aesthetic measure) 1887 Edwin Scharff German "entartet" painter/sculptor 1891 Jonathan Hale actor (Saint's Double Trouble, Saint Strikes Back) 1893 Geoffrey Dearmer poet 19-- Ira Elliot rocker (RU Ready) 19-- Lorene Yarnell Los Angeles CA, mime (Shields & Yarnell) 19-- Robert Sweet rock drummer (Stryper-Against the Law) 1900 Eugenie Leontovitch Moscow Russia, actor (Homicidal) 1900 Paul Klecki/Kletzki Polish violinist/composer/conductor 1901 Carmelita Geraghty Rushville IN, actress (My Best Girl, Texas Ranger) 1901 Richard Leslie Hill historian 1902 Carl Jaffe Hamburg Germany, actor (1st Man in Space, Escapement) 1902 Eddie James "Son" House folk blues musician (Delta Blues) 1902 William Downie Forrest journalist 1904 Nikolaos Skalkottas composer 1905 Phyllis McGinley US, poet (Pulitzer 1961, Love Letters) 1906 John D Rockefeller III billionaire philanthropist (oil) 1908 Maurice Stans rocker 1910 Nick Castle Brooklyn NY, choreographer (Dinah Shore, Judy Garland) 1911 John Paxton screenwriter (On The Beach, Kotch, Farewell My Lovely) 1912 Peter Bull actor/author (Executioner, Tom Jones, Dr Strangelove) 1913 George Ghita Ionescu academic 1913 Max Youngstein New York NY, producer (United Artists) 1914 Herman Siles Zuazo politician 1914 Paul Tortelier composer 1916 Harold Robbins US, novelist (The Carpetbaggers) [or 0521] 1918 Howard Cosell Winston-Salem NC, sportscaster (Monday Night Football) 1918 Joe Carveth NHL forward (scored 20 or more goals in 3 seasons) 1919 Geoffrey Pinnington journalist 1919 Lois Collier Salley SC, actress (Mary-Boston Blackie, Slave Girl) 1921 Antony Hopkins composer 1921 Arthur Grumiaux Belgian violinist 1921 Logan Ramsey Long Beach CA, actor (Head, Joy Sticks, Say Yes) 1923 Mort Lindsey Newark NJ, orchestra leader (Merv Griffin Show) 1923 Philip Abbott Lincoln NE, actor (Arthur Ward-The FBI) 1924 Karl Heinz Fussl composer 1925 John E Grotberg (Representative-Republican-IL, 1985-86) 1925 Peter Brook London, director (1776)/TV writer 1926 André Delvaux Heverie Belgium, director/writer (Benvenuta) 1926 Virginia Weidler Hollywood CA, actress (Babes on Broadway) 1927 Hans-Dietrich Genscher German minister of Foreign affairs (FDP) 1928 Evelyn Ruth Anderson composer 1928 James W Kinnear Pittsburgh PA, CEO (Texaco) 1928 Peter Hacks German playwright (Tie Windloch) 1929 James Coco Bronx NY, actor (Man of La Mancha, Murder by Death) 1929 Jules Bergman space & science reporter (ABC-TV) 1931 Ivan William Hannaford sociologist 1932 Joseph Silverstein Detroit MI, violinist (Denver Symphony Orchestra) 1933 John Hall English real estate developer/multi-millionaire 1933 Michael Heseltine Welsh/British minister of Defense (1986)/MP 1934 Al Freeman Jr San Antonio TX, actor (One Life to Live, My Sweet Charlie) 1934 Lister Carney Bellaire OH, 200 meter runner (Olympics-silver-1960) 1935 Brian Clough soccer manager 1935 Hubert Fichte writer 1936 Marek Stachowski composer 1937 Tom Flores Fresno CA, NFL quarterback/coach (Raiders) 1938 Grahame Thomas cricketer (Australian batsman of the mid-60's) 1938 Wilf Corrigan English/US electronic manufacturer (LSI Logic) 1939 Kathleen Widdoes Wilmington DE, actress (Without a Trace) 1939 Martha Hudson Eastman GA, 4X100 meter relayer (Olympics-gold-1960) 1941 Dirk D Frimout Belgium, cosmonaut 1941 Malcolm Francke cricketer (leg-spinner, Ceylon 1956 to Queensland 1984) 1942 Françoise Dorléac Paris France, actress (That Man From Rio) 1943 Antal Dunai Hungary, soccer player (Olympics-gold-1968) 1943 Viv[ian] Stanshall Shillingford Oxon England, rocker (Bonzo Dog Band-I'm the Urban Spaceman) 1944 Charles Edward Greene Pine Bluff AR, 4x100 meter runner (Olympics-gold-1968) 1944 Henrik Colding-Jorgensen composer 1944 Jamary Oliveira composer 1944 Marie-Christine Barrault Paris France, actress (Stardust Memories) 1945 Charles E Greene US, 100 meter sprinter (Olympics-bronze-1968) 1945 Rose[mary] Stone Dallas TX, vocalist/pianist (Sly & the Family Stone-Everyday People) 1945 Vernon Guy US gospel singer (Cool Sounds, Sharpees) 1946 Ray Dorset rocker (Cold Blue Excursion) 1946 Timothy Dalton Colwyn Bay Wales, actor (James Bond-Living Daylights, License to Kill) 1948 Nancy Addison Altman New York NY, actress (Jillian Coleridge Ryan-Ryan's Hope) 1949 Alvin Kallicharran cricketer (wonderful West Indies LHB 1972-81) 1950 Roger Hodgson London England, rock vocalist (Supertramp-It's Raining Again) 1951 Helena Antonaccio playmate (June, 1969) 1951 Russell Thompkins Jr US soul singer (Stylistics-Sing Baby Sing) 1952 Chris O'Connell rocker 1953 Carl Wolfson Washington DC, comedian (Thicke of the Night) 1953 Robert "Shotgun" Johnson Miami FL, rock drummer (KC & the Sunshine Band-Give it Up) 1954 Mary Jane Smith Van Nuys CA, WPVA volleyballer (National-9th-1993) 1955 Barbel Wockel-Eckert German Democratic Republic, track star (Olympics-4 gold-1976, 1980) 1955 Jean Marie Hon San Francisco CA, actress (Jane-Man From Atlantis) 1956 Ingrid Kristiansen Norway, marathoner (Olympics-4th-1984, Boston-86, 89) 1957 Sabrina Le Beauf New Orleans LA, actress (Sondra-Crosby Show) 1958 Brad Hall Santa Barbara CA, comedian (Saturday Night Live) 1958 Gary Oldman actor (Sid & Nancy, Criminal Law, State of Grace) 1958 Marlies Göhr German Democratic Republic, sprinter (Olympics-gold-1976, 80) 1960 Ayrton Senna Brazilian formula-1 racer (1988 champion) 1960 Dale Baze jockey 1960 Guy Chadwick English singer/songwriter (House of Love) 1961 Kassie DePaiva [Wesley] Morganfield KY, actress (Chelsea-Guiding Light, Evil Dead 2, Blair-One Life to Live) 1961 Slim MacDonnell Jim Phantom rock percussionist (Stray Cats) 1961 Wei Wang Beijing China, US table tennis player (Olympics-96) 1962 Matthew Broderick New York NY, actor (Inspector Gadget, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, WarGames, Biloxi Blues) 1962 Rosie O'Donnell comedienne (League of Their Own, Flintstones, Rosie) 1963 Ronald Koeman Dutch soccer star (Ajax, PSV, Barcelona, Feyenoord) 1963 Sharon June Howe Pederson Glencoe MN, rocker (Vixen-Rev It Up) 1963 Shawon Dunston Brooklyn NY, infielder (San Francisco Giants) 1966 Al Iafrate Dearborn MI, NHL defenseman (San Jose Sharks) 1966 Karen Lunn Cowra Australia, LPGA golfer (1993 Women's British Open) 1966 Matthew Maynard cricketer (big hitting Glamorgan & England player) 1967 Elaina Oden Orange CA, volleyball middle blocker (Olympics-bronze-92, 96) 1967 Troy Westwood CFL kicker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers) 1968 Erwin Vanderbroeck Dutch soccer player (Roda JC) 1968 Jeff Lazaro Waltham MA, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994) 1968 Johan Garpenlov Stockholm Sweden, NHL left wing (Florida Panthers) 1968 Mark Sander WLAF linebacker (Scottish Claymores) 1968 Samantha Leah Dorman Lakeland FL, playmate (Sept, 1991) 1968 Scott Williams NBA forward (Philadelphia 76ers) 1969 Jennifer Lyn Jackson Cleveland OH, playmate (April, 1989) 1969 Mark Allen Australia, Australasia golfer 1971 Hason Graham NFL wide receiver (New England Patriots) 1972 Boris Mironov Moscow, NHL defenseman (Team Russia Olympics-S-98, Edmonton) 1972 Chris Ball Costa Mesa CA, kayak (alternate-Olympics-96) 1972 Frank West CFL defensive back (Hamilton Tiger Cats) 1972 John Leach CFL running back (Toronto Argonauts) 1972 Michele Michael Miss Maryland-USA (1996) 1973 Chiou Hai Ta Miss Taiwan Republic Of China-Universe (1997) 1973 Larry Bowie running back (Washington Redskins) 1975 Vitaly Potapenko NBA center (Cleveland Cavaliers) Deaths which occurred on March 21: 1487 Nicholas van Fluë Swiss saint/patron of Switzerland, dies 1538 Hugo earl of Leisnig, Governor of Frisia, dies at about 79 1556 Thomas Cranmer archbishop of Canterbury, burned at stake at 66 1652 Vredius [Olivier de Wree], Flemish historian/mayor (Brugge), dies at 55 1654 Johann Neukrantz composer, dies at 51 1656 Armagh James Ussher Archbishop (said world began 4004 BC), dies at 76 1729 John Law Scottish financier, dies at about 57 1734 Gunther Jacob Wenceslaus composer, dies at 48 1768 Jan J Mauricius Dutch Governor-General of Suriname (1742-51), dies at 75 1793 Johann Michael Schmidt composer, dies at 51 1801 Andrea Lucchesi composer, dies at 59 1810 Philippe-Joseph van den Berghe graaf Limmighe Brabants ships, dies 1844 Leopold F J J J van Sassen Ysselt Dutch politician, dies at 65 1857 Abraham J van der Aa lexicographer (Biograph dictionary), dies at 64 1863 Edwin Vose Sumner US Union-General-Major (Fair Oaks), dies at 66 1894 Jacob Rosenhaim composer, dies at 80 1916 Victor de Stuers Dutch art expert, dies at 72 1920 Federigo Tozzi Ital writer/journalist (Torre, Tre Croci), dies at 37 1921 "Big Jim" Colisimo US gangster, murdered by Al Capone 1934 Franz Schreker composer, dies at 55 1934 Lilyan Tashman actor (Bulldog Drummond), dies at 34 1936 Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov composer (Chopiniana), dies at 70 1938 Oscar Apfel actor (Inspiration), dies at 60 1939 Evald Aav composer, dies at 39 1941 Robert Liefmann German economist (Kartelle und Trusts), dies at 67 1942 Captain Morávec Czechoslovakian resistance fighter, commit suicide 1945 J Woortman Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Bergen-Belsen at 39 1952 A J Pieters SS-Untersturmführer, executed 1952 Wilhelm Albrecht German SD-chief, executed 1954 Harry Lawrence Freeman composer, dies at 84 1955 Muriel Aked dies at 67 1958 Cyril M Kornbluth US sci-fi writer (Space Merchants), dies at 34 1969 Gerhart Fritsch writer, dies at 44 1970 Marlen Haushofer writer, dies at 49 1973 Antoni Szalowski composer, dies at 65 1974 Candy Darling [James Slattery], female impersonator, dies 1975 Berend Giltay composer, dies at 64 1975 Ralph Hawtrey economist (multiplier), dies at 95 1980 Gideon Fagan composer, dies at 75 1982 Harry H Corbett British actor (Steptoe & Son, Jabberwacky), dies at 57 1985 Michael Redgrave actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Mr Arkadin), dies at 77 1985 Salvador Ley composer, dies at 78 1986 August de Boodt Belgian politician, dies at 90 1987 Dean Paul Martin actor (Billy-Misfits of Science), dies at 35 1987 Robert Preston actor (Harold Hill-Music Man), diesfrom lung cancer in Montecito CA at 68 1989 Milton Frome actor (Family Jewels), dies 1991 Leo Fender inventor (Fender guitar), dies 1991 Rajiv Gandhi former Prime Minister of India, killed by bomb at 46 1992 John Ireland actor (Rawhide), dies of leukemia at 78 1994 Dack Rambo actor (Jack Ewing-Dallas), dies from AIDs at 52 1994 Lili Damita wife of Errol Flynn (Bridge of San Luis Rey), dies at 89 1994 Macdonald Carey actor (Days of Our Lives), dies of cancer at 81 1995 Daan Wildschut Dutch painter/author, dies at 81 1995 Etienne Martin French sculptor, dies at 82 1995 Norman Schwartz record Producer, dies at 66 1995 Robert Urquhart actor (Dunkirk, Bulldog Breed), dies at 72 1996 Eric Brand diplomat, dies at 73 1996 Frank Murray police Officer, dies at 51 On this day...March 21 Events 1349 3,000 Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany 1421 Battle of Beauge-French beat British 1492 Alonzo Pietro, pilot, sailed with Columbus 1610 King James I addresses English House of Commons 1681 3rd Exclusion Parliament meets in London 1697 Czar Peter the Great begins tour through West-Europe 1702 Queen Anne Stuart addresses English parliament 1788 Fire destroyed 856 buildings in New Orleans LA 1788 Gustavus Vassa petitions Queen Charlotte, to free enslaved Africans 1790 Thomas Jefferson reports to President Washington in New York as Secretary of State 1791 Captain Hopley Yeaton of New Hampshire becomes 1st commissioned officer in USN 1804 French civil Code of Napoleon adopted 1824 Fire at Cairo ammunitions dump kills 4,000 horses 1826 Beethoven's Quartet #13 in B flat major (Op 130) premieres in Vienna 1835 Charles Darwin & Mariano Gonzales meet at Portillo Pass 1843 Preacher William Miller of Massachusetts predicts the world will end today 1844 Origin of Bahá'í Era-Bahá'í calendar starts here (Bahá 1, 1) 1851 Yosemite Valley discovered in California 1857 Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die 1859 Scottish National Gallery opens in Edinburgh 1859 Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in US, incorporated 1860 US extradition treaty with Sweden 1863 Naval Engagement at Havana Cuba-USS Henrick Hudson vs BR Wild Pigeon 1864 Battle at Henderson's Hill (Bayou Rapids) Louisiana 1865 Battle of Bentonville ends, last Confederate effort to stop Sherman 1866 Congress authorizes national soldiers' homes 1868 1st US professional women's club, Sorosis, is founded in New York NY 1871 Journalist Henry M Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa 1871 Otto von Bismarck elevated Fürst 1874 US Grant's daughter Nellie marries in the White House 1885 2nd French government of Ferry resigns 1888 Arthur Pinero's "Sweet Lavender" premieres in London 1890 Austrian Jewish communities are defined by law 1891 A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ends long feud in West Virginia; it started with an accusation of pig-stealing & lasted 20 years 1899 British & French accord about West-Africa 1907 US invades Honduras 1909 Moran & MacFarland (US) win Europe's 1st 6 day bicycle race (Berlin) 1913 Flood in Ohio, kills 400 1914 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Theresa Weld 1914 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Norman M Scott 1916 JP Van Limburg Stirum succeeds AWF Idenburg as Governor-General of Netherland Indies 1917 1st female US Navy Petty Officer is Loretta Walsh 1918 During WWI Germany launches Somme offensive 1921 Walter Kerr Theater (Ritz, CBS, NBC, ABC) opens at 223 W 48th St NYC 1922 KGW-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions 1923 US foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses USSR recognition 1924 1st foreign language course broadcast on US radio (WJZ, New York NY) 1924 Mass Investors Trust becomes 1st mutual fund set up in US 1925 Edinburgh's Murreyfield Stadium officially opens 1925 Iran adopts Khorshidi solar Hijrah calendar 1927 Guomindang Army conquerors Shanghai as British marines flee 1931 KRO-broadcast studio initiated in Hilversum Holland 1931 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Maribel Vinson 1931 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Roger Turner 1933 Hitler, Göring, Prince Ruprecht, Brüning & top army meet in Berlin 1934 Babe Didrikson pitches an inning in an A's-Dodgers exhibition game Walks 1, hits the next guy, 3rd guy hits into triple-play 1934 Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500 1935 Jean Anouilh's "Y avait un presonnier" premieres in Paris France 1935 Persia officially renamed Iran 1937 Ponce massacre, police kill 19 at Puerto Rican Nationalist parade 1939 Nazi-Germany demands Gdansk (Danzig) from Poland 1941 Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 13 for heavyweight boxing title 1942 Convoy QP9 departs Great Britain to Murmansk 1942 Heavy German assault on Malta 1943 Assassination attempt on Hitler fails 1943 British 8th army opens assault on Mareth line, Tunisia 1944 General Eisenhower postpones S France invasion until after Normandy 1945 1st Japanese flying bombs (ochas) attack Okinawa 1945 During WWII Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany 1945 Dutch Resistance fighter Hannie Schaft arrested by Nazi police 1946 Kenny Washington signs with Rams, 1st black NFLer since 1933 1946 UN set up temporary HQ at Hunter (now Lehman) College (Bronx) 1947 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fulgens radiatur 1947 President Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have allegiance to the United States 1947 Test Cricket debut of Bert Sutcliffe, New Zealand vs England at Christchurch 1948 "Stop the Music" with Bert Parks premieres on ABC radio 1949 WTVJ TV channel 4 in Miami FL (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting 1951 2,900,000 US soldiers in Korea 1952 "3 Wishes for Jamie" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 94 performances 1952 Alan Freed presents Moondog Coronation Ball at old Cleveland Arena, 25,000 attend 1st rock & roll concert ever 1952 Tornadoes in Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama & Kentucky cause 343 deaths 1953 NBA record 106 fouls & 12 players foul out (Boston-Syracuse) 1954 KFBB TV channel 5 in Great Falls MT (ABC/CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting 1955 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus desires Cyprus joining Greece 1955 Brooklyn Bulletin asks Dodger fans not to call their team "Bums" 1956 28th Academy Awards: "Marty", Ernest Borgnine & Anna Magnani win 1957 Tennessee Williams' "Orpheus Descending" premieres in New York NY 1958 1st presentation of West Point's Sylvanus Thayer Award 1958 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test 1959 "Juno" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 16 performances 1959 21st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: California beats W Va 71-70 1960 Sharpeville Massacre: Police kill 72 in South Africa & outlaws ANC 1961 Art Modell purchases Cleveland Browns for then record ($3,925,000) 1961 Beatles' 1st appearance at the Cavern Club 1962 A bear becomes the 1st creature to be ejected at supersonic speeds 1962 Dutch Roman Catholic bishop Beckers of Bosch makes TV speech in Netherlands in favor of birth control 1962 Philadelphia retires pitcher Robin Roberts' #36 1963 Alcatraz federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay closed 1963 David Hendon & Douglas Cross' musical premieres in London 1964 26th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Duke 98-83 1964 Beatles' "She Loves You" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks 1964 UCLA completes undefeated NCAA basketball season (30-0) 1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open 1965 Martin Luther King Jr begins march from Selma to Montgomery AL 1965 US Ranger 9 launched; takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact 1966 Supreme Court reverses Massachusetts ruling that "Fanny Hill" is obscene 1968 "Royals" chosen as the name of new Kansas City American League Baseball franchise 1968 Hill, Hawkins & Coghill's musical premieres in London 1968 Israeli forces cross Jordan River to attack PLO bases 1968 Portuguese socialist Mario Soares banished to Sao Tomé 1969 John & Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam Hilton) 1969 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1970 32nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Jacksonville 80-69 1971 Gavaskar scores 1st of his 34 Test Cricket tons, 116 at Georgetown 1971 Jan Ferraris wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic 1971 Vermont seasonal snowfall totals 132.2" 1971 WCPB TV channel 28 in Salisbury MD (PBS) begins broadcasting 1972 US Supreme Court rules states can't require 1-year residency to vote 1973 Frank Mahovlich becomes 5th NHLer to score 500 goals 1974 Attempt made to kidnap Princess Anne in London's Pall Mall 1975 Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3000 years 1978 Padres fire Al Dark (2nd manager ever fired during spring training) 1979 Egyptian Parliament unanimously approve peace treaty with Israel 1980 On TV show Dallas, JR is shot 1982 "Little Johnny Jones" opens & closes at Alvin Theater NYC 1982 Jerry Pate celebrates golf win by jumping into the water hazard 1982 Movie "Annie" premieres 1982 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament 1983 Only known typo on Time Magazine cover (control=contol), all recalled 1984 Border scores 100 vs West Indies Trinidad after 98 in 1st cricket innings 1984 NFL owners passed the infamous anti-celebrating rule 1984 Part of Central Park is named Strawberry Fields honoring John Lennon 1984 Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan 1985 Arthur Ashe is named to International Tennis Hall of Fame 1985 Bloodbath at Langa (Uitenhage) South-Africa, 19 killed 1986 199.22 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange 1986 Karin Kania (German Democratic Republic) skates ladies world record 500 meter (39.52 seconds) & 3 km (4:18.02) 1986 Pittsburgh Associates buy Pittsburgh Pirates for $218 million 1987 PSV sells soccer player Ruud Gullit to AC Milan (ƒ17 million) 1988 23rd Academy of Country Music Awards: Randy Travis & Hank Williams Jr 1989 1st sea test of Trident 2 missile self-destructs, Cape Canaveral 1990 "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens at Eugene O'Neill NYC for 149 performances 1990 "Normal Life" starring Moon Unit & Dweezil Zappa premieres on CBS-TV 1990 "Sydney" starring Valerie Bertinelli premieres on CBS-TV 1990 Namibia becomes independent of South Africa, Sam Nujoma becomes president 1991 27 lost at sea when 2 US Navy anti-submarine planes collide 1991 Largest wrestling crowd in Japan (64,500) at Tokyo Dome 1991 Tatsumi Fujinami beats Ric Flair for NWA wrestling championship 1991 UN Security Council panel decided to lift the food embargo on Iraq 1992 2nd WLAF season begins 1992 Pakistan scores 6-264 to overhaul New Zealand in exciting World Cup semi 1993 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament 1993 Pope John Paul II declares Duns Scotus, a saint 1993 South Africa White Wolves kill 5 year old black girl 1994 66th Academy Awards: "Schindler's List", Tom Hanks & Holly Hunter win 1994 Anne P Sidamon-Eristoff named chairwoman of Museum of National History 1994 Dudley Moore arrested for hitting girlfriend 1994 Watne Gretzky ties Gordie Howe's NHL record of 801 goals 1995 New Jersey officially dedicates the Howard Stern Rest Area along Route 295 1995 NYC agrees to sell it's 2 owned radio stations (WNYC AM & FM) 1996 "Night of the Iguana" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 68 performances 1997 World Ice Dance won by Oksana Grishuk & Evgeny Platov (Russia) 1997 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating won by Mandy Woetzel & Ingo Steuer (Germany) 1997 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Lausanne won by Tara Lipinski (USA) 1997 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Lausanne won by Elvis Stojko (Canada) 1997 Wrestlemania XIII  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-22-2006 05:02 AM                        Rated G Birthdates which occurred on March 22: 1459 Maximilian I of Habsburg German Emperor/archduke of Austria 1599 Sir Anthony Van Dyck Flemish painter (Charles I of England) 1609 John II Casimir Vasa cardinal/king of Poland (1648-68) 1700 Giuseppe Sellitto composer 1728 Anton Raphael Mengs German writer/neo-classic painter 1728 Giacomo Insanguine composer 1752 Johann Georg Joseph Spangler composer 1767 Cornelis T Elout Dutch minister of Finance 1771 Heinrich D Zschokke Swiss author (Das Goldmacherdorf) 1785 Adam Sedgwick Dent Yorkshire England, British geologist 1797 Kaiser Wilhelm I German emperor (1871-88) 1799 F W A Argelander Memel E Prussia, cataloguer of 324,188 stars 1803 Anthonie Waldrop Dutch painter/lithographer 1813 Gabriel Rene Paul Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886 1814 Thomas Crawford US sculptor (Babes in the Wood) 1817 Braxton Bragg General (Confederate Army), died in 1876 1819 William Wirt Adams Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1888 1822 Ahmed Djevdet Pasha Turkish minister of Education/Justice 1822 Isaac D Fransen van de Putte Dutch premier (1866) 1822 Seth Williams Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1866 1824 William Henry Chase Whiting Major General (Confederate Army) 1834 Francis Asbury Shoup Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 1842 Carl A N Rosa German violinist/composer 1842 Mykola Vytal'yevich Lysenko composer 1846 Randolph Caldecott England, illustrator (Caldecott Medal namesake) 1852 Theodor Birt [Beatus Rhenanus], German classical/writer 1857 Arnold Sauwen Flemish poet (Along the Meuse) 1857 Paul Doumer Governor-General of Indo-China/13th President of France (1931-32) 1865 Theophile Ysaye composer 1867 Meijer Linnewiel [Professor Kokadorus], Amsterdam's pitchman 1868 Hamish MacCunn composer 1868 Henry W Methorst lawyer/director (Dutch Cent Bureau of Statistics) 1868 Robert A Millikan US physicist (photoelectric effect; Nobel 1923) 1874 Ellen Glasgow novelist 1885 Adriano Lualdi composer 1885 Jakabs Medins composer 1887 Chico [Leonard] Marx New York NY, comedian (Marx Brothers) 1895 Joseph Schildkraut Vienna Austria, actor (Flame of Barbary Coast, Joseph Schildkraut Presents) 1896 Giulia D De Albertis writer 19-- Veleka Gray New Orleans LA, actress (Young & Restless) 1902 Ellin Berlin [MacKay] Mrs Irving Berlin, writer (Lace Curtain) 1903 James S Russell US pilot/Admiral (WWII Pacific Ocean) 1903 Jochen Klepper writer 1905 Carlo Alberto Pizzini composer 1905 Grigorij M Kosinzev Russian director 1905 Phyllis McGinley poet 1905 Ruth Page US choreographer/ballet leader (Diaghilev, Pygmalion) 1907 James Gavin US, 82nd Airborne Division General (Sicily/Normandy) 1907 Paul J Steenbergen Netherlands, actor (Ciske Rat)/founder (Hague's Comedy) 1908 Albrecht Goes writer 1908 Louis D L'Amour Jamestown ND, author (Hondo, Jubal Sackett) 1908 Maurice H Stans Shakope MN, US Secretary of Commerce (1969-72) 1909 Gabrielle Roy French-Canadian novelist (Tin Flute) 1909 Jack Popplewell composer/playwright 1910 Nicholas Monsarret England, writer (Cruel Sea) 1912 Henri Rousselot Admiral 1912 Lord Alport 1912 Wilfrid Brambell Dublin Ireland, actor (Hard Day's Night) 1913 James Westerfield Nashville TN, actor (Jungle Heat, Lucky Johnny) 1913 Karl Malden Chicago IL, actor (Mike-Streets of San Francisco, American Express) 1913 Martha Mödl German singer/soprano (Wagner) 1914 Cec Burke cricketer (New Zealand leg-spinner vs Australia 1946, 1 & 3, 2-30) 1914 Lord Stokes 1914 Masao Maruyama social scientist 1915 Forest Sagendorf cartoonist 1915 George Cresswell cricketer (3 Tests for New Zealand aged 35) 1916 George Wyle New York NY, orchestra leader (Jerry Lewis Show, Flip Wilson Show) 1916 Josephine van Gasteren Dutch actress/director (Bluejackets) 1917 C S Pick publisher 1917 Paul Rogers Plympton Devon England, actor (Looking Glass War, Billy Budd) 1917 Virginia Grey Los Angeles CA, actress (Another Thin Man, Idiot's Delight, Idaho) 1918 Cheddi B Jagan dentist/founder PPP/Guyanese Premier (1953, 1957-64) 1918 Harry Kay vice-chancellor (Exeter University) 1918 Tauno Kullerve Pylkkanen composer 1920 Fanny Waterman concert pianist & teacher 1920 James Brown Desdemona TX, actor (Targets) 1920 Ross Martin Grodek Poland, actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West) 1921 Wilhelmus Norbert Schmelzer Netherlands, foreign minister (KVP) 1922 Mujib ur-Rahman Pakistan, sheik/premier 1922 Stewart Stern screenwriter (Rebel Without A Cause) 1923 Bryan Clieve Roberts lawyer/civil servant 1923 Cor N van Dis Jr Dutch MP (SGP, 1971-94) 1923 Marcel Marceau Strasbourg France, mime (Barbarella, Silent Movie) 1924 Al Neuharth newspaper founder (USA Today) 1924 Bill Wendell New York NY, TV announcer (Late Night With David Letterman) 1925 Colin Spedding CEO (Council of Science & Technology Institutes) 1925 Wolfgang Bächler writer 1926 Julius Marmur biochemist/geneticist 1926 Lawrence Jackson Provost Emeritus (Blackburn) 1927 George Thoms cricketer (1 Test Australia against West Indies 1952, scored 16 & 28) 1927 Viscount Bolingbroke 1928 Betty Callaway figure skating trainer 1928 Bill Archer (Representative-Republican-TX, 1971- ) 1928 DC Ingman CEO (British Waterways Board) 1928 Dmitri Antonovitch Volkogonov soldier/historian 1928 Ed Macauley NBA'er (Boston Celtics) 1930 Derek Bok college president (Harvard) 1930 Lynden O Pindling Prime Minister of Bahamas (1967-92) 1930 Pat Robertson televangelist (700 club, Presidential candidate-Republican-1989) 1930 Stephen Sondheim New York NY, lyricist/composer (Sweeney Todd, Into The Woods, West Side Story, A Little Night Music) 1931 Igor Hajek translator/writer 1931 Leslie Thomas author 1931 William Shatner Montréal Canada, actor (Star Trek, T J Hooker) 1932 Richard Thomas Admiral 1933 Buddy MacKay (Representative-Democrat-FL, 1983- ) 1933 Chris Duckworth cricketer (South African batsman vs England 1956-57) 1934 Leslie Turnberg President (Royal College of Physicians) 1934 Orrin G Hatch (Senator-Republican-UT, 1977- ) 1934 Sheila Cameron QC, Vicar-General (Province of Canterbury) 1935 M[ichael] Emmet Walsh Ogdensburg NY, actor (Wildcats, War Party) 1936 Alan Bleasdale author/playwright (Are You Lonesome Tonight) 1936 May Britt [Maybritt Wilkens] Lidinga Sweden, actress (Young Lions)/wife of Sammy Davis Jr 1936 Philip Ely President (British Law Society) 1936 Roger Whittaker Nairobi Kenya, country singer (Durham Town) 1936 Ron Carey union president (Teamsters) 1937 Jon Hassell composer 1938 Vivian Pulliam horse trainer 1940 William Ritchie vice-chancellor (Lancaster University) 1941 Bruno Ganz Zurich Switzerland, actor (Strapless, Wings of Desire) 1941 Gary Lewis horse trainer 1942 Barbara Parkins Vancouver British Columbia, actress (Peyton Place, Asylum) 1942 Jon Arthur English composer 1943 George Benson Pittsburgh PA, singer/guitarist (Greatest Love of All) 1943 Joseph Schwantner composer 1943 Keith Relf Richmond London England, rocker (Yardbirds-For Your Love, Renaissance) 1944 Jeremy Clyde Buckinghamshire England, rocker (Chad & Jeremy-Yesterday's Gone) 1944 R P Mardling headmaster (Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield) 1944 T S "Tony" McPhee rocker (Sad Go Round) 1945 Alan Opie baritone (Boughton Bethlehem, Britten 5 Canticles) 1945 Charles "Chuck" Jackson US singer (Playboy, Independents) 1945 Paul Schockemöhle showjumper 1946 Don Chaney NBA player (Houston Rockets)/coach (Detroit Pistons) 1946 Laraine Ashton fashion models' agent (London) 1946 Rudy/Rudolf [von Bittner] Rucker US, sci-fi author (Wetware) 1946 Serge [Ruud Schaap] Dutch singer/guitarist (Saskia & Serge) 1947 Harry Vanda [Vandenberg] Hague Netherlands, rock guitarist (Easybeats) 1947 Patrick Olive percussionist (Hot Chocolate-You Sexy Thing) 1947 Priscilla Yates director (Royal Academy of Dancing) 1948 Andrew Lloyd Webber London England, composer (Evita, Starlight Express, Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar) 1948 Randy Hobbs rocker (Johnny Winter Band, McCoys) 1949 Brian Hanrahan British TV newsman (BBC) 1949 D Watson director (Brighton University) 1949 Fanny Ardant Monte Carlo, actress (Australia, Confidentially Yours) 1950 Mary Tamm Dewsbury Yorkshire England, actress (Odessa File, Doctor Who) 1951 Howard Reitzes Southgate CA, rocker (Iron Butterfly) 1951 Musa Khiramanovich Manarov USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-4, TM-11) 1952 Bob Costas Queens NY, sportscaster/talk show host (Later) 1953 Peter McEvoy Australia, actor (Against the Innocent) 1953 Thomas H Andrews (Representative-Democrat-ME) 1956 Lena Olin Stockholm Sweden, actress (Enemies A Love Story) 1956 Lyndsay Stephen Donnybrook WA, Australasia golfer 1957 Stephanie Mills singer/actress (Wiz) 1958 Joyce Lester Australian softball catcher (Olympics-bronze-96) 1958 Pete Wylie Liverpool England, rocker (Sinful) 1959 Matthew Modine Loma Linda CA, actor (Full Metal Jacket, Pacific Heights) 1960 Laurie Sargent rock vocalist (Face To Face) 1962 Diane Pavich Melbourne Australia, golfer (1993 T50 Alpine Australia Ladies) 1962 Juan Aguilera Spain, tennis star 1962 Tim Elliott Perth WA, Australasia golfer 1963 Hannu Virta Turku Finland, hockey defenseman (Team Finland) 1963 Rich Monteleone Tampa FL, pitcher (California Angels) 1963 Suzanne Sulley Sheffield South Yorkshire, rocker (Human Leauge-Human) 1964 Jeffrey Wagner Sydney New South Wales Australia, Australasia golfer 1966 Brad Edwards NFL safety (Atlanta Falcons) 1966 Brian Shaw NBA guard (Orlando Magic, San Francisco Warriors) 1966 Sean Berry Santa Monica CA, infielder (Houston Astros) 1966 Todd Ewen Saskatoon, NHL right wing (Anaheim Mighty Ducks) 1966 Yahya Ayyash militant 1968 Ramon Martinez Santo Domingo Dominican Republic, pitcher (Los Angeles Dodgers) 1969 Russell Maryland NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys, Oakland Raiders) 1970 Jason Rouser Tucson AZ, 200 meter/400 meter runner 1970 Reggie White NFL nose tackle (New England Patriots) 1970 Travis Richards Crystal MN, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994) 1971 Richard Castillo jockey 1972 Elvis Stojko Richmond Hill Ontario, (Olympics-silver-94) 1972 John Farquhar tight end (New Orleans Saints) 1972 Mikhail Sloutsky WLAF LB (Scotland Claymores) 1972 Pieter Christiaan Prince of Netherlands 1972 Shawn Bradley NBA center (Dallas Mavericks, New Jersey Nets, Space Jams) 1973 Joe Nedney kicker (Arizona Cardinals) 1973 Luther Elliss NFL defensive end (Detroit Lions) 1974 Kim Yun-Jung Miss Korea-Universe (1996) 1974 Marcus Camby NBA forward (Toronto Raptors) 1974 Tuomas Gronman NHL defenseman (Team Finland Olympics-Bronze-1998, Pittsburgh Steelers) 1975 Chris Bayne safety (Atlanta Falcons) 1975 Dax Griffin Atlanta GA, actor (Tim Truman-Sunset Beach) 1975 Jiri Novak Czechoslovakia, tennis star 1976 Kellie Shanygne Williams Washington DC, actress (Laura-Family Matters) 1979 Mariah Leanne Bergmann Miss Kansas Teen-USA (1997) Deaths which occurred on March 22: 0337 Constantine Emperor of Rome, dies at 47 1471 George van Podiebrad king of Bohemia (1458-71), dies 1589 Lodovico Guicciardini Ital historian, dies at 67 1627 Cornelis van Aerssen Flemish Clerk of the House, dies at about 81 1639 Thomas Carew English poet/diplomat (The Rapture), dies 1661 Hendrick Uylenburgh art dealer, buried at about 73 1743 Jean-Baptiste Lully Ital/Fr composer (Forced Marriage), dies at 77 1758 Jonathan Edwards theologian/philosopher (Original Sin), dies at 54 1771 Gottlieb W Rabener German author (Bremer Beiträge), dies at 56 1777 John Bartram father of American botany, dies at 77 1796 Gaspare Gabellone composer, dies at 68 1798 Justin Morgan composer, dies at 51 1820 Stephen Decatur killed in a duel with Com James Barron, at 41 1824 Johann Melchior Dreyer composer, dies at 76 1832 J W Goethe writer, dies at 82 1838 Hendrik Fagel Dutch/English baron, dies at 73 1845 Franz Joseph Volkert composer, dies at 67 1867 Ferdinando Giorgetti composer, dies at 70 1871 Johnny Cuzens cricketer (Australian aboriginal tourist 1868), dies 1890 Désiré de Haerne Belgian priest/Congressional leader, dies at 85 1906 Martin Wegelius Finnish musicologist/composer, dies at 59 1909 Gyula Erkel composer, dies at 66 1922 Louis A Ranvier French anatomist/historian, dies at 86 1923 Theophile Delcassé French statesman, dies at 71 1924 R G Nivelle French General (Verdun), dies at 67 1929 Anton Beer-Walbrun composer, dies at 64 1931 Ban Johnson founder of baseball's American League, dies at 67 1944 ... Pucheu French Internal minister to Vichy, executed 1945 J Postuma Dutch resistance fighter, dies 1946 Clemens A von Galen bishop of Munster/anti fascist, dies at 68 1951 J Willem Mengelberg Dutch conductor (Matthäus Passion), dies at 79 1953 James Anderson II (Jo-Northern Exposure), dies 1956 George A L Sarton Belgian/US historian, dies at 71 1958 Michael Todd producer (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 56 1962 Aura Abranches Port actress (Lisboa, O Primo Basilio), dies at 65 1964 Addison Richards actor (Colonel-Pentagon), dies at 76 1969 Ernst Deutsch [Dorian], Czechoslovakian actor (3rd Man, Golem), dies at 78 1971 Martin Bodmer writer, dies 1974 Peter Revson US race car driver (Indianapolis 500), dies at 35 1975 Asa Smith Bushnell Jr Secretary of US Olympics (1945-65), dies at 75 1975 Cass Daley actress (Red Garters), dies at 59 1975 Paul Verhoeven German director, dies at 73 1978 Karl Wallenda falls to death walking high-wire in Puerto Rico, at 73 1979 Ben Lyon actor (I Cover the Waterfront, Indiscreet), dies at 78 1986 Charles Starrett actor (Silver Streak, Jungle Bride), dies 1987 Joan Shawlee actress (Abbott & Costello Show), dies at 58 1991 Gloria Holden actress (Dracula's Daughter, Test Pilot), dies at 73 1993 Cec Pepper cricketer (New South Wales & Commonwealth XI leggie), dies 1993 Gret Palucca German dancer/choreographer (Entartet), dies at 91 1993 Phia [Sophia R] Berghout Dutch harpist, dies at 83 1993 Steve Olin pitcher (Cleveland Indians), drowns at 27 1993 Tim Crews pitcher (Cleveland Indians), drowns at 31 1994 Dan Hartman US singer/songwriter (Love Sensations), dies at 42 1994 Igor Aleinikov Russian director (tractors, air crash), dies at 32 1994 Luther Diamond radio Personality, dies at 89 1994 Walter Lantz US cartoonist (Woody Woodpecker), dies at 93 1995 Peter Woods newsreader, dies at 64 1996 Claude Mauriac writer, dies at 81 1996 Robert Franklin Overmyer astronaut (STS 5, STS 51-B), dies at 59 1996 Robert Mellors gay activist, dies at 47 1996 Ronald George Hayward political manager, dies at 78 On this day...March 22 Events 1752 Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, died 2 days later 1349 Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacre Jews (blamed for black death) 1457 Gutenberg Bible became the 1st printed book 1556 Cardinal Reginald Pole becomes archbishop of Canterbury 1594 French King Henri IV festival in Paris France 1621 Hugo de Grote escapes in bookcase from Loevenstein castle, Netherlands 1621 Massasoit & Pilgrims agree on league of friendship (Plymouth) 1622 1st Indian (Powhattan) massacre of whites, Jamestown VA; 347 slain 1630 1st colonial legislation prohibiting gambling enacted (Boston) 1638 Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony 1680 Parliament of Breisach accept French sovereignty over Elzas 1692 Emperor Leopold I names duke Earnest August of Braunschweig, king 1733 Joseph Priestly invents carbonated water (seltzer) 1765 Stamp Act passed: 1st direct British tax on colonists 1775 Edmund Burke presents his 13 articles to the English parliament 1778 Captain Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Washington state 1790 Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st US Secretary of State 1794 Congress bans US vessels from supplying slaves to other countries 1822 Gioacchino Rossini marries Isabella Colbran in Bologna 1822 New York Horticultural Society founded 1841 Cornstarch patented (Orlando Jones) 1861 1st US nursing school chartered 1862 San Marino & Italy conclude treaty of friendship & cooperation 1865 Raid at Wilson's: Chickaswas AL to Macon GA 1871 William Holden of North Carolina is 1st governor removed from office by impeachment 1872 Illinois becomes 1st state to require sexual equality in employment 1873 Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico 1874 Young Men's Hebrew Association is founded in New York NY 1882 Edmunds Act adopted by US to suppress polygamy in the territories 1888 English Football League established 1894 Stanley Cup: Montréal AAA beat Ottawa Generals, 3-1 (1st Cup game ever) 1895 Auguste & Louis Lumiere show their 1st movie to an invited audience 1896 Charilaos Vasilakos wins 1st marathon (3:18) 1903 New York Highlanders (Yankees) tickets 1st go on sale 1903 Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought 1914 World's 1st airline, St Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, begins 1922 British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison 1927 Federico García Lorca's "El Maleficio" premieres in Madrid 1928 Noël Coward's musical "This Year of Grace" premieres in London 1929 66 horses run in Irish Grand National Sweepstakes 1929 KIT-AM in Yakima WA begins radio transmissions 1929 USCG vessel sank Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor 1933 FDR makes wine & beer with up to 3.2% alcohol legal 1934 1st Masters golf championship began in Augusta GA 1934 Fire destroys Hakodate Japan (kills 1,500, injures 1,000) 1935 Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases (New York) 1939 Lithuania state, forced to give Memel territory to Germany 1941 Grand Coulee Dam in Washington goes into operation 1942 Heavy German assault on Malta 1943 Dutch work week extended to 54 hour 1943 Obligatory work for woman ends in Belgium 1943 SS police chief Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children 1944 600+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Berlin 1945 Arab League forms with adoption of a charter in Cairo Egypt 1945 US 3rd Army crosses Rhine at Nierstein 1946 1st US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up) 1946 Britain signs treaty granting independence to Jordan 1947 President Truman signs executive order calling for loyalty 1952 Dutch DC-6 crashes near Frankfurt, killing 44 1953 Antonín Zápotocky chosen as president of Czechoslovakia 1953 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open 1954 1st shopping mall opened in Southfield MI 1956 Death penalty against KPrime Minister-director Léon Jungschlaeger 1956 Musical "Mr Wonderful" with Sammy Davis Jr premieres at Broadway Theater NYC for 383 performances 1957 Earthquake gives San Francisco shakes 1957 Republic of India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian 1958 20th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Seattle 84-72 1958 Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi-Arabia 1958 Liz Taylor's 3rd divorce (Mike Todd) 1958 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Nehi Golf Tournament 1960 1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes 1962 "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" opens at Shubert NYC for 300 performances 1963 Beatles release 1st album, "Please Please Me" 1963 British Minister of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler 1963 Oregon State's Terry Baker becomes 1st & only Heisman Trophy winner 1964 Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of New York Times Magazine section 1964 Carol Mann wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open Invitational 1965 D Senanayake wins general elections in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1965 US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong 1967 Muhammad Ali [Cassius Clay] KOs Zora Folley in 7 for heavyweight boxing title in 1st Madison Square Garden fight 1968 Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia 1968 Lynda Johnson ordered off San Francisco cable car for eating an ice cream cone 1968 Student riot in Nanterre near Paris France 1969 "Billy" opens & closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 1 performance 1969 "Come Summer" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 7 performances 1969 31st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Purdue 92-72 UCLA wins its 5th national championship in 6 years 1970 "Blood Red Roses" opens & closes at John Golden Theater NYC 1970 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic 1971 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR 1972 "Selling of the President" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 5 performances 1972 Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified) 1972 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar named NBA MVP 1972 Nick Mileti purchases Cleveland Indians for $9 million 1972 Yankees trade Danny Cater to the Red Sox for Sparky Lyle 1975 "Dr Jazz" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 5 performances 1975 "Letter for Queen Victoria" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 18 performances 1975 Delta State beats Immaculata for the women's AIAW championship 1975 Teach-In wins Eurovision Song Festival with "Dinge-Dong" 1975 Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens 1977 Dutch Den Uyl government falls 1977 Indira Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India 1977 Uyl government falls 1978 France performs nuclear test 1978 Robert Frost Plaza, Drumm & Market, San Francisco CA, dedicated 1978 Rutle's "All You Need is Cash" is shown on NBC-TV 1979 Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt 1979 NHL votes to accept 4 WHA teams (Oilers, Jets, Nordiques & Whalers) 1981 1st class postage raised to 18¢ from 15¢ 1981 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Desert Inn Pro-Am Golf Tournament 1981 Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6 1981 Toshihiko Seko runs world record 25k (1:13:55.8)/30k (1:29:18.8) 1982 3rd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 3 launched 1982 Iran offensive against Iraq 1983 Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president 1984 Islander Bryan Trottier ties NHL rec scores 5 seconds into game 1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA 1986 Andrea Ehrig skates ladies world record 5 km (7 :0.99) 1986 HBO launches boxing's heavyweight-title-unification-tournament 1986 Heart's "These Dreams" single goes #1 1986 Karin Kania skates ladies world record 1500 meter (1 :9.30) 1986 Kurt Browning (Canada) becomes 1st skater to land a quadruple jump 1986 Trevor Berbick beats Pinklon Thomas in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 1986 World Ice Dance Championship in Geneva won by Natalia Bestemianova & Andrei Bukin (USSR) 1986 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Gordeeva & Grinkov (USSR) 1986 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Debi Thomas (USA) 1986 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Brian Boitano (USA) 1987 Betsy King wins LPGA Circle K Tucson Golf Open 1988 Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill 1988 Western Australia beat Queensland by 5 wickets to win the Sheffield Shield Final 1989 NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle announces retirement as NFL commissioner after 29 years 1989 US Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of New York NY Board of Estimate 1990 "Grapes of Wrath" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 188 performances 1990 "Les Miserables" opens at Shunert Theatre, Boston MA 1990 Anchorage jury finds Captain Hazelwood innocent of Valdez oil spill 1990 The Major League umpires announce that they will boycott exhibition games 1991 Law enforcement officers raid fraternities at University of Virginia seizing drugs 1991 New York Daily News begins using motto "Forward with New York" 1991 Pamela Smart (HS teacher) found guilty in New Hampshire of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband 1992 "Private Lives" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 37 performances 1992 Danielle Ammaccapane wins Standard Register Ping Golf Championship 1992 England beat South Africa in rain-ruined cricket World Cup semi final 1992 Joseph A Molloy elected New York Yankee general partner 1992 Record producer Lou Adler weds Paige Hannah (Daryl's sister) 1992 US Air New York to Cleveland crashes on take off at La Guardia, 27 die 1993 Intel introduces Pentium-processor (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS 1994 Dutch Ambassador to US christens a new tulip (the Hillary Clinton) 1994 Mark Foster swims world record 50 meter butterfly (23.68 seconds) 1994 South African Government/ANC take power in Ciskei homeland 1994 Soyuz TM-21 lands 1995 Deputy Governor of Bank of England, Rupert Pennant-Rea, resigns following revelations of his affair with a freelance journalist 1996 Cheryl Depew, of Florida, crowned 13th Miss Hawaiian Tropic International 1996 STS 76 (Atlantis 16), launches into orbit 1997 "Sunset Boulevard" closes at Minskoff NYC after 977 performances 1997 Comet Hale-Bopp Closest Approach to Earth (1.315 AU) 1998 18th Golden Raspberry Awards: The Postman wins 1998 Liselotte Neumann wins Standard Register PING Golf Tournament  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-23-2006 07:29 AM                        Rated G Birthdates which occurred on March 23: 1599 Thomas Selle composer 1638 Frederik Ruysch Dutch anatomist 1699 John Bartram naturalist/explorer, father of American botany 1736 Iman Willem Falck Dutch Governor of Ceylon (1765-83) 1749 Hugo Franz Karl Alexander von Kerpen composer 1749 Pierre-Simon Laplace mathematician/astronomer/physicist 1750 Johannes Matthias Sperger composer 1761 John W de Winter Dutch Vice-Admiral (Battle at Kamperduin) 1769 William Smith geologist (Strata Identified by Organized Fossils) 1795 Leopold Jansa composer 1801 Peterus D Regout Dutch industrialist (Sphinx, Maastricht) 1808 Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper sociologist/historian (Statistic yearbook) 1811 Camille Marie Stamaty composer 1811 Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert composer 1818 Don Carlos Buell Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1898 1821 Aleksej F Pisemski Russian writer (Clodhopper) 1823 Schuyler Colfax (R) 17th Vice President (1869-73) 1825 Edward Lloyd Thomas Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1898 1826 Leon Minkus composer 1834 Julius Reubke composer 1837 Joseph Wieniawski composer 1844 Eugene Gigout composer 1847 Alexandru D Xenopol Romania, historian 1854 Alfred Milner Giessen Germany, British Governor (Cape colony) 1857 Fannie Farmer actress (namesake of a candy company) 1858 Ludwig Quidde German historian/politician (Nobel prize 1927) 1860 Horatio W Bottomley British journalist/swindler 1863 Godfried CE van Daalen Dutch General/Governor of Atjeh 1864 Hjalmar Borgstrom composer 1876 Sir Muirhead Bone Glasgow Scotland, etcher/engraver of architecture 1878 Franz Schrecker composer 1881 Hermann Staudinger Germany, chemist/plastics researcher (Nobel '53) 1881 Roger Martin du Guard France, novelist (Les Thibault-Nobel 1937) 1882 C Montague Shaw Adelaide Australia 1883 Faisal I ibn Hussein ibn Ali 1st king of Iraq/Syria 1884 Glauco Velasquez composer 1887 Anthony van Hoboken Dutch musicologist (Haydn-catalog) 1887 Felix Felixovitch Yussupov Russian prince/murderer of Rasputin 1887 Juan Gris Spain, cubist painter (Still Life Before an Open Window) 1887 Sidney Hillman union leader (Sidney Hillman Foundation) 1891 Catherine Murphy Urner composer 1895 Dane Rudhyar composer 1898 Georgios Grivas Greek General/opposition leader on Cyprus 1898 Hazel Dawn [LaTout] Ogden UT, actress (Niobe, Under Cover, Feud Girl) 19-- Ken Michelman New York NY, actor (Abner-White Shadow) 19-- Terry Alexander Detroit MI, actor (Troy-One Life to Live) 1900 Erich Fromm Frankfurt Germany, psychologist (Sane Society) 1900 Jose Antonio Calcano composer 1901 Jan H de Groot Dutch resistance fighter/co-founder (Free Netherlands) 1902 Philip Ober Fort Payne AL, actor (General Stone-I Dream of Jeannie) 1905 Paul Grimault animator 1905 Ralph Perring Lord Mayor (London) 1906 George Posford composer 1907 Daniel Bovet Switzerland, pharmacologist (Nobel 1957) 1907 Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay politician 1908 Dominique de Menil arts patron/human rights advocate 1908 Joan Crawford [Lucille Fay LeSueur] San Antonio TX, actress (Mildred Pierce, What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?) 1910 Akira Kurosawa Tokyo Japan, director (7 Samurai, Living) 1910 Lale [Liselotte H] Anderson Bremerhaven Germany, singer/actress (Der Pott) 1911 Augustus John "Gus" Risman rugby league player 1911 Charles Joseph A Russhon USAF Lieutenant Colonel/liaison (James Bond films) 1911 Denis Wright diplomat 1911 Edward Warner diplomat 1911 Richard Chapman golfer (1940 US amateur, 1951 British amateur) 1912 Alfred Schwarzmann Germany, gymnast (Olympics-2 golds-1936) 1912 John Payne Roanoke VA, actor (Dodsworth, Razor's Edge) 1912 Werner von Braun Wirsitz Germany, rocket expert (I Aim at the Stars) 1914 Robert Gross composer 1915 Francis Berry poet/Shakespearean scholar 1917 H C Allen American historian 1917 Johnny Guarnieri New York NY, jazz pianist (Morey Amsterdam Show) 1917 Kenneth Tobey actor (The Thing, Strange Invaders) 1917 Patricia Burke Milan Italy, actress (Forbidden) 1919 Michael Lyne British air Vice-marshal 1920 Alexander Grigori Harut'unyan composer 1920 Geoffrey Bush composer 1920 James Brown Desdemona TX, actor (Lieutenant Rip Masters-Rin Tin Tin) 1920 Jimmy Edwards comedy actor (Barnes) 1920 Neal Smith (Representative-Democrat-IA, 1959- ) 1921 Donald Malcome Campbell Surrey UK, boat racer (1955 speed records) 1921 Ian Todd President (Royal College of Surgeons) 1921 Wolfgang Altendorfer writer 1922 Marty Allen Pittsburgh PA, comedian (Allen & Rossi), "Hello Dere" 1922 Ugo Tognazzi Cremona Italy, actor/director (La Cage Aux Folles) 1923 Arnie Weinmeister AAFC, NFL defensive tackle (New York Yankees, Giants) 1924 Peter Godfrey chartered accountant 1925 Cees de Ruyter European champion billiards player 1925 David McNee commissioner (Metropolitan Police) 1926 Martha Wright Seattle WA, singer (Let's Dance, The Martha Wright Show) 1927 Osvaldo Lacerda composer 1928 11th duke of Beaufort English large landowner/multi-millionaire 1928 Alfred Morris British MP 1929 Albert H Crews astronaut 1929 Gerrit den Braber Dutch composer/producer 1929 James Ackley Maxwell actor/director (Traitors, Pyt Potter, Otley) 1929 Michael Manser architect 1929 Roger Bannister England, 1st to run a 4 minute mile (May 6, 1954) 1931 Norman F Lent (Representative-Republican-NY, 1971- ) 1933 Geoffrey Leigh CEO (Allied London Properties) 1933 Monique van Vooren Belgium, actress (Andy Warhol's Frankenstein) 1933 Norman Bailey British bass-baritone (Flying Dutchman) 1934 Bryan Bass headmaster (City of London School) 1934 Mark Rydell New York NY, actor (Havana, Punchline, Long Goodbye) 1935 Barry Cryer comedian/writer (Goodies Rule-OK, All You Need is Cash) 1935 Desmond Pitcher CEO (Merseyside Development Corporation) 1935 Szilárd Kun Hungary, rapid fire pistol (Olympics-silver-1952) 1937 Craig Breedlove Los Angeles CA, auto-racing champion (600 MPH-Spirit of America) 1937 Heinz Martin Lonquich composer 1938 Christopher Glenn New York NY, news anchor (CBS Nightwatch) 1938 Kenneth J Gregory warden (Goldsmiths' College) 1939 Bert Berdis Pittsburgh PA, comedian (Tim Conway Show) 1939 Boris Ivanovich Tischenko composer 1940 Brian Hastings cricketer (New Zealand batsman in 70's) 1940 Luis Gasca rocker 1940 Tariq Yunus actor (Bollywood, Ashanti, Deceivers) 1942 Jimmy Miller US pop drummer (Rolling Stones, Motörhead) 1943 Gail Goodrich NBA star (Lakers, Suns) 1943 Peter Graves supt minister (Westminster Central Hall) 1944 Michael Nyman composer (Mesmer, Carrington) 1944 Salim Altaf cricketer (Pakistan medium-pacer in 21 Tests 1967-78) 1947 Barbara Rhodes Poughkeepsie NY, actress (Don't Just Stand There) 1948 Michael Gleeson otolaryngologist 1948 R J Bennett FBA/geographer 1948 Wasim Bari cricket wicket-keeper (Pakistan's most successful) 1949 Karen English (Representative-Democrat-AZ) 1949 Ric Ocasek Baltimore MD, rocker (Cars-Double Life, All Mixed Up, Bye Bye Love) 1950 Corrine Clery Paris France, actress (Moonraker, Yor) 1950 P R Scott Headmaster (Bancroft's School, Woodford Green) 1951 Dick Mast Bluffton OH, Nike golfer (1990 Mississippi Gulf Coast) 1951 Lis Howell director of programs (GMTV) 1952 Patricia Richardson Bethesda MD, actress (Jill-Home Improvement) 1953 Chaka Khan [Yvette Marie Stevens] Great Lakes IL, rocker (Rufus-I'm Every Woman) 1953 Geoffrey Clifton-Brown British MP 1953 Louie Anderson Minneapolis MN, comedian (Ratboy, Wrong Guys) 1954 Moses Malone NBA all star center (Atlanta Hawks, Milwaukee Bucks, Philadelphia '76ers) 1955 Cindy Olavarri Pleasant Hills CA, cyclist (7-Eleven team) 1956 Andrew Mitchell British MP 1956 Laura Thorne chef (named one of 10 best American chefs) 1957 Amanda Plummer New York NY, actress (Hotel New Hampshire, Dollmaker) 1957 Sheila Rena Ingram Washington DC, 4X400 meter relayer (Olympics-silver-1976) 1957 Teresa Ganzel Toledo OH, actress (Teachers Only, Duck Factory) 1958 Serena Grandi [Fagioli], Bologna Italy, actress (Miranda) 1960 Oscar Michael Moore journalist 1960 Terry Sweeney St Albans NY, writer/comedian (Saturday Night Live) 1962 Johan Steur soccer player (FC Volendam) 1963 Ana Quirot Cuba, 800 meter runner (Olympics-bronze/silver-92, 96) 1963 Kim Williams Bethesda MD, LPGA golfer (1995 GHP Heartland-26th) 1965 Dante Jones NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos) 1965 Daren Puppa Kirkland Lake, NHL goalie (Tampa Bay Lightning) 1965 Richard Grieco Waterton NY, actor (21 Jump Street, Booker) 1965 Wayne Presley Detroit MI, NHL right wing (Toronto Maple Leafs) 1966 James Saxon NFL fullback (Philadelphia Eagles) 1966 Marti Pellow rocker (Wet, Wet, Wet-Wishing I Was) 1966 Mike Remlinger Middletown NY, pitcher (Cincinnati Reds) 1967 David Ford Edmonton Alberta, kayaker (Olympics-15-92, 96) 1967 Duncan Macrae actor (Casino Royale, Kidnapped), dies at 61 1967 Sandra Ferguson [Reinhardt] Pittsburgh PA, actress (Amanda-Another World, Illegal in Blue) 1968 Atul Wassan cricketer (Indian pace bowler 1989-90) 1968 Curtis Mayfield CFL receiver (Saskatchewan Roughriders) 1968 David Maeva CFL linebacker (British Columbia Lions) 1968 Mark Maddox linebacker (Buffalo Bills) 1968 Mike Atherton cricketer (Lancashire batsman & England captain) 1970 Carl Pickens NFL wide receiver (Cincinnati Bengals) 1970 Turhon O'Bannon CFL receiver (Winnipeg Blue Bombers) 1971 Alexander Selivanov Moscow Russia, NHL right wing (Tampa Bay Lightning) 1971 Chris Lipuma Oak Lawn, NHL defenseman (Tampa Bay Lightning) 1971 Demetrius DuBose NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) 1971 Hiroyoshi Yamamoto wrestler (NJPW) 1971 Karen McDougal Gary IN, playmate (December 1997) 1971 Renette Cruz Miss Canada-Universe (1996) 1971 Yasmeen Ghauri Montréal Canada, model (Valentino Perfume) 1972 Jennifer K Chapman Miss Massachusetts-USA (1997) 1972 Jonas Bjorkman Vaxjo Sweden, tennis star (Davis Cup 1994) 1972 Ryan Kuwabara hockey forward (Team Japan 1998) 1973 David Vaughn NBA forward (Orlando Magic, San Francisco Warriors) 1973 Igor Nikitin hockey defenseman (Team Kazakhstan Olympics-1998) 1973 Jason Kidd NBA guard (Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks) 1973 Kathy Carboy Cincinnati OH, diver (Olympics-96) 1973 Naoko Sawamatsu Nishinomiya Japan, tennis star (1994 Singapore) 1973 Ninya Perna Miss Nevada-USA (1997) 1973 Rob Lazeo CFL offensive tackle (Saskatchewan Roughriders) 1974 Eric Washington NBA guard (Denver Nuggets) 1974 Scott Galyon linebacker (New York Giants) 1974 Tony Alberda Dutch soccer player (SC Heerenveen, Emmen) 1975 Rita Grande Napoli Italy, tennis star (3rd round 1996 Australian Open) 1976 Keri Russell actress (Mickey Mouse Club, Lottery, Daddy Girls) 1976 Nolan Baumgartner Calgary, NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals) 1977 Josh Ackerman actor (Mickey Mouse Club) 1978 Nicholle Tom Hinsdale IL, actress (Beethoven, Maggie-Nanny, Beverly Hills 90210) 1990 Eugenie Princess of York/daughter of prince Andrew/Sarah Ferguson Deaths which occurred on March 23: 1169 Shirkuh Kurd General/vizier of Cairo/Saladin's uncle, dies 1237 Jan of Brienne King of Jerusalem/Emperor of Constantinople, dies 1369 Pedro the Cruel, King/tyrant of Castile & Leon, murdered 1555 Julius III [Giovanni M del Monte], Pope (1550-55), dies at 67 1606 Justus Lipsius [Joost Lips], Dutch classic philologist, dies at 58 1653 Johan van Galen Dutch Admiral (Dunes Monte Christo), dies at about 48 1658 Valentin Dretzel composer, dies at 79 1669 Philipp Buchner composer, dies at 54 1676 Paulus Wirtz [Würtz], German/Netherlands army commander, dies at 63 1748 Johann Gottfried Walther German composer/musicologist, dies at 63 1756 Georg Gottfried Wagner composer, dies at 57 1783 Gaspard Fritz composer, dies at 67 1786 Patience Wright 1st US woman pro artist, dies (birth date unknown) 1801 Paul I tsar of Russia (1796-1801), strangled at 46 1806 George Frederic Pinto composer, dies at 20 1809 Ferdinand-Philippe-Joseph Staes composer, dies at 60 1816 Ignaz Vitzthumb composer, dies at 95 1818 Nicolas Isouard composer, dies at 42 1819 August v Kotzebue writer, dies 1821 Bernhard Anselm Weber pianist/conductor/composer, dies at 56 1832 Vaclav Vilem Wurfel composer, dies at 41 1842 Stendhal [Marie-Henri Beyle], French author (Lamiel), dies at 59 1862 Karl Robert von Nesselrode German chancellor, dies at 81 1869 Charles Lucas composer, dies at 60 1880 Gustav Adolf Mankell composer, dies at 67 1881 Nikolay Rubinstein composer, dies at 45 1902 Kálmán Tisza premier of Hungary (1875-90), dies at 71 1906 Victor Barton cricketer (scored 23 in Test England vs South Africa 1892), dies 1907 Constantine P Pobedonostsev Russian reactionary senator, dies at 79 1914 Teunis Stoel actor, dies at 62 1918 Cesar Cortinas composer, dies at 27 1919 Jean HL Bossard actor/impresario (2 Orphans), dies at 45 1925 Aleksei Kuropatkin Russian General/minister of War, dies at 76 1937 Helge Rode Danish poet/essayist, dies at 66 1943 André Lichtenberger French Sudan writer (Le Petit Roi), dies at 72 1943 Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger composer, dies at 47 1944 O C Wingate British General-Major (Burma), dies in air crash 1946 Alexandru Zirra composer, dies at 62 1950 Douglas Carr England cricket leg-spinner (Test 1909), dies 1952 Klaas Schilder Dutch vicar/theologist/antifascist, dies at 61 1953 Raoul Dufy painter, Forcalquier, France 1957 L Patrick Abercrombie English architect, dies at 77 1958 Florian Znaniecki Polish/US sociologist/philosopher, dies at 76 1960 Franklin P Adams columnist (Information Please), dies at 78 1961 A C Russell cricketer (10 Tests for England 910 runs), dies 1961 James Edward Murray (Senator-Democrat-MT) (1935-61), dies 1961 Valentin Vasilyevich Bondarenko cosmonaut, dies in accident at 24 1962 Josephus RH van Schaik lawyer/vice-premier of Netherlands, dies at 80 1962 Val Paul producer (F-Man), dies at 73 1963 Davey Moore dies seconds after being KOed in feather-weight championship 1964 Peter Lorre actor (Casino Royale), dies at 59 1964 Vassily Vainonen Russian ballet choreographer (Gayaneh), dies at 66 1965 Mae Murray actress (Bachelor Apartment), dies of heart ailment at 75 1966 Johannes W Elsensohn Dutch actor/writer (Arie), dies at 82 1967 Duncan Macrae actor (Casino Royale, Kidnapped), dies at 61 1968 Edwin O'Connor US writer, dies at 49 1969 Rudolf Pannwitz German author/philosopher (Urblik), dies at 87 1971 Armin Loos composer, dies at 67 1971 Simon Vestdijk Dutch author/poet (Brass Garden), dies at 72 1973 Ken Maynard actor (Phantom Rancher, $50,000 Reward), dies at 77 1979 Philip Bourneuf actor (Big Night, Frankenstein), dies at 71 1982 Mario Praz Italian author (Casa della vita), dies at 85 1983 Dr Barney Clark 1st artificial heart recipient , dies after 112 days at 62 1985 Anton Constandse Dutch anarchist/writer, dies at 85 1985 Patricia Roberts Harris (Representative-D), dies at 60 1985 Singing Nun [Janine Deckers] commits suicide in Belgium at 52 1987 Dean Paul Martin musician/tennis pro, killed in plane crash at 29 1991 Dominic Bellissimo created buffalo chicken wings, dies at 68 1991 Fons Jansen Dutch night club performer, dies at 65 1991 Mona Maris actress (Camila, Berlin Correspondent), dies at 88 1992 Friedrich A von Hayek British economist (Road to Serfdom), dies at 92 1993 Hans Werner Richter German writer/founder (Gruppe 47), dies at 84 1994 Alvara del Portillo Spanish Opus Dei bishop, dies at 80 1994 Giulietta Masina wife of Federico Felini/(La Strada), dies at 74 1994 Jim Moloney dies of Parkinson's disease 1994 Luis Donaldo Colosio Mexican Presidential candidate, assassinated at 44 1995 Alan Barton singer (Smokie, Black Lace), dies in a bus crash 1995 Daniel George "Danny" Apolinar composer/songwriter, dies at 61 1995 Davie Cooper soccer star, dies at 39 1995 Irving Shulman author/screenwriter, dies at 81 1995 Ripley L Ingram singer, dies at 65 1995 Robert Turner winner of 1st All-American Soap Box Derby, dies at 72 1995 Russell Reading Braddon author, dies at 74 1996 Jay D Miller record producer, dies at 73 1996 Peter Baer artost/printmaker, dies at 72 On this day...March 23 1026 Koenraad II crowns himself king of Italy 1066 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 1153 Treaty of Konstanz between Frederik I "Barbarossa" & Pope Eugene III 1490 1st dated edition of Maimonides "Mishna Torah" published 1534 Aragón legal 1568 Treaty of Longjumeau: French huguenots go on strike 1579 Friesland joins Union of Utrecht 1593 English Congressionalist Henry Barrow accused of slander 1630 French troops occupy Pinerolo Piedmont 1657 France & England form alliance against Spain; England gets Dunkirk 1708 English pretender to the throne James III lands at Firth of Forth 1743 George Frideric Händel's oratorio "Messiah" premieres in London 1775 Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death" 1794 Josiah Pierson patents a "cold-header" (rivet) machine 1794 Lieutenant-General Tadeusz Kosciuszko returns to Poland 1801 Murder attempt on Czar Paul I 1806 Lewis & Clark reach Pacific coast 1808 Napoleon's brother Joseph takes the throne of Spain 1832 British Parliament passes reform bill 1835 Charles Darwin reaches Los Arenales, in the Andes 1836 Coin Press invented by Franklin Beale 1839 1st recorded use of "OK" [oll korrect] (Boston's Morning Post) 1840 Draper takes 1st successful photo of the Moon (daguerrotype) 1849 Battle of Novara (King Charles Albert vs Italian republic) 1857 Elisha Otis' 1st elevator installed (488 Broadway, NYC) 1858 Streetcar patented (Eleazer A Gardner of Philadelphia) 1861 London's 1st tramcars, designed by Mr Train of New York, begins operating 1862 Battle of Kernstown VA-Jackson begins his Valley Campaign 1864 Encounter at Camden AR 1865 General Sherman/Cox' troops reach Goldsboro NC 1867 Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over President Johnson's veto 1868 University of California founded (Oakland CA) 1880 Flour rolling mill patented (John Stevens of Wisconsin) 1881 Boers & Britain sign peace accord; end 1st Boer war 1881 Gas lamp sets fire to Nice France opera house; 70 die 1889 President Harrison opens Oklahoma for white colonization 1891 1st jazz concert was held at Carnegie Hall 1896 Umberto Giordano's opera "Andrea Chénier" premieres in Milan 1901 Dame Nellie Melba, reveals secret of her now famous toast 1903 Wright brothers obtain airplane patent 1910 1st race at Los Angeles Motordrome (1st US auto speedway) 1912 Dixie Cup invented 1915 Zion Mule Corp forms 1917 4 day series of tornadoes kills 211 in Midwest US 1918 Alick Wickham dives 200' into Australia's Yarra River 1918 Crépy-en-Laonnoise: German artillery shells Paris France, 256 killed 1918 Lithuania proclaims independence 1918 Paris bombs "Thick Bertha's Dike" (nickname for the widow Krupp) 1919 Bashkir ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted 1919 Benito Mussolini forms Fascist movement in Milan Italy 1919 Moscow's Politburo/Central Committee forms 1920 Perserikatan Communist of India (PKI) political party forms 1922 1st airplane lands at the US Capitol in Washington DC 1922 KMJ-AM in Fresno CA begins radio transmissions 1922 WEW-AM in Saint Louis MO begins radio transmissions 1923 Frank Silver & Irving Conn release "Yes, We Have No Bananas" 1925 Tennessee becomes 1st state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution 1926 NHL Championship: Montréal Canadiens outscore Pittsburgh Pirates, 6-4 in 2 games 1929 1st telephone installed in White House 1930 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Maribel Vinson 1930 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Roger Turner 1933 Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers 1933 Kroll Opera in Berlin opens 1934 US Congress accepts Philippines independence in 1945 1936 Italy, Austria & Hungary sign Pact of Rome 1937 Los Angeles Railway Co starts using PCC streetcars 1938 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis frees 74 St L Cardinals minor leaguers 1940 1st radio broadcast of "Truth or Consequences" on CBS 1940 All-India-Muslim League calls for a Muslim homeland 1942 2,500 Jews of Lublin massacred or deported 1942 Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean 1942 US move native-born of Japanese ancestry into detention centers 1943 German counter attack on US lines in Tunisia 1944 Bomb assassination against Southern Tirol congregation in Rome, 33 die 1944 Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 meter without a parachute & lives 1945 British 7th Black Watch crosses the Rhine 1945 Largest operation in Pacific war, 1,500 US Navy ships bomb Okinawa 1945 Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Straelen 1946 8th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Oklahoma State beats North Carolina 43-40 1948 John Cunningham sets world altitude record (54,492' (18,133 meter)) 1949 Sidney Kingsley's "Detective Story" premieres in New York NY 1950 "Great to Be Alive" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 52 performances 1950 22nd Academy Awards: "All King's Men", Broderick Crawford & Olivia de Havilland win 1950 Sophocles Venizelos forms liberal Greeks government 1950 UN World Meteorological Organization established 1951 Wages in France increase 11% 1952 Rangers with less than 14 minutes to go blow a 6-2 lead, losing 7-6 to Chicago Black Hawks; Mosienko scores 3 times in 21 seconds 1956 18th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: San Francisco beats Iowa 83-71; this is San Francisco's 2nd consecutive national basketball championship 1956 Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (National Day) 1956 Sudan becomes independent 1957 19th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Kansas 54-53 (3 overtimes) 1957 US army sells last homing pigeons 1960 Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit 1962 JFK visits San Francisco 1962 Nawab of Pataudi captains India cricket vs West Indies age 21 years 77 days 1962 Wake Forest coach "Bones" McKinney becomes 2nd person to play & coach 1962 William DeWitt buys Cincinnati Reds for $4,625,000 1963 25th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Loyola beats Cincinnati 60-58 (OT) 1963 Rolf Hochhuth's "Der Stellvertreter" premieres in Berlin 1964 UNCTAD 1 world conference opens in Geneva 1965 Gemini 3 launched, 1st US 2-man space flight (Grissom & Young) 1965 Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed 1966 1st official meeting after 400 years of Catholic & Anglican Church 1968 30th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats North Carolina 78-55 1968 Reverend Walter Fauntroy, is 1st non-voting congressional delegate from Washington DC 1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Port Charlotte Golf Invitational 1969 Rally for Decency (Miami) 1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1971 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept simplified divorce 1971 USSR performs underground nuclear test 1972 Evil Knievel breaks 93 bones after successfully clearing 35 cars 1972 New York Yankees agree to continue playing ball in the Bronx 1973 After a 5½ year run, soap "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" ends 1973 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1973 Yoko Ono is granted permanent residence in US 1975 Sue Roberts wins LPGA Bing Crosby International Golf Classic 1976 International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratify) 1978 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1979 Larry Holmes TKOs Osvaldo Ocasio in 7 for heavyweight boxing title 1979 Wings release "Goodnight Tonight" 1980 Border completes 150 in each inning of Test Cricket vs Pakistan 1980 Donna Caponi Young Pro-Am wins LPGA National Golf Tournament 1980 France performs nuclear test 1980 Shah of Iran arrives in Egypt 1981 Supreme Court rules states could require, with some exceptions, parental notification when teen-age girls sought abortions 1981 Supreme Court upholds law making statutory rape a crime only for men 1982 Guatemala military coup under General Rios Montt, President Romeo Lucas flees 1982 Isle's Mike Bossy's 20th career hat trick-4 goals 1983 US President Ronald Reagan introduces "Star Wars"-plan (SDI) 1984 Andrea Schöne skates ladies world record 3 km (4 :0.91) 1984 World Ice Dance Championship in Ottawa won by J Torvill & Chris Dean (Great Britain) 1984 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Underhill & Paul Martini (Canada) 1984 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Katarina Witt (German Democratic Republic) 1984 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Scott Hamilton (USA) 1985 Betsy King wins LPGA Standard Register PING 1985 Billy Joel weds supermodel Christie Brinkley 1985 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-D mission 1985 Julian Lennon's 1st concert (San Antonio TX) 1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1986 6th Golden Raspberry Awards: Rambo; First Blood Part II wins 1986 Heavyweight Trevor Berbick KOs Pinklon Thomas 1986 Penny Pulz wins LPGA Circle K Tucson Golf Open 1987 Soap opera "Bold & Beautiful" premieres 1987 US offers military protection to Kuwaiti ships in the Persian Gulf 1987 West Germany SPD chairman Willy Brandt resigns 1989 2 Utah scientists claim they have produced fusion at room temperature 1989 Joel Steinberg sentenced to 25 years for killing his adopted daughter 1990 Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound & pay $50,000 in restitution for 1989 oil spill 1991 1st World League of American Football games, London beats Frankfurt 24-11, Sacramento beats Raleigh-Durham 9-3 & Montréal beats Birmingham 20-5 1991 20 Tornadoes kill 5 in Tennessee 1991 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.12 meter) 1992 Florida Marlins begin selling tickets 1993 Belgian government of Dehaene, resigns 1993 New York Knicks & Phoenix Suns get into a major brawl 1994 Amy Fisher's lover, Joey Buttafuoco, released from jail after 4 months & 9 days 1994 Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10 km (11 :8) 1994 Howard Stern formally announces his Libertarian run for New York Governor 1994 Last day of Test cricket for Kapil Dev 1994 Richard Jacobs buys naming rights to Indians new ball park at Gateway for $13.8 million (renamed Jacobs Field) 1994 Russian Airbus A-310 crashes in Siberia (74-75 killed) 1994 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 802 goals scored 1995 "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" opens at R Rodgers NYC for 548 performances 1995 Dollar equals 88.41 yen (record) 1997 "Mandy Patinkin in Concert" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC 1997 17th Golden Raspberry Awards: Striptease wins 1997 Laura Davies wins Standard Register PING Golf Tournament 1997 Liberty Legends of Senior Golf 1997 Phil Mickelson wins Bay Hill Golf Invitiational 1997 Wrestlemania XIII in Chicago, Undertaker beats Psycho Sid for title 1998 70th Academy Awards: Titanic, Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt win  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-24-2006 07:33 AM                        Rated G Birthdates which occurred on March 24: 1188 Ferrand of Portugal earl of Flanders/son of Sancho I 1441 Ernst I elector of Saxon (1464-86) 1494 Georgius Agricola Germany, mineralogist (De Re Metallica) 1607 Michiel A de Ruyter Dutch Rear Admiral (St Vincent, Dune) 1630 José Saenz d'Aguirre Spanish cardinal 1703 José F de Isla [Francisco de Salazar], Spanish Jesuit/writer 1714 Carlo Giovanni Testori composer 1732 Gian Francesco de Majo composer 1740 John Antes composer 1749 Bernard Jumentier composer 1755 Rufus King framer of US constitution/(Senator-F) 1762 Marcos Antonio da Fonseca Portugal, opera composer (Portogallo) 1797 Antonio Rosmini-Serbati philosopher/founder (Institute of Charity) 1802 Jacob van Lennep attorney/Dutch MP 1809 Joseph Liouville St Omer Pas-de-Calais France, discover of transcendental numbers 1814 Galen Clark US, naturalist, discovered Mariposa Grove 1817 Aime Maillart composer 1821 [George] Hector Tyndale Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) 1821 Elisa Felix [Rachel] tragedienne 1834 John Wesley Powell US, geologist/explorer/ethnologist 1834 William Morris England, designer/craftsman/poet/socialist 1835 Josef Stefan Austria, physicist (Stefan-Boltzmann law) 1837 Philips Count of Flanders Belgium 1855 Andrew W Mellon founder (Mellon Bank)/US Secretary of Treasury 1855 Olive Schreiner South African writer (Portrait of a South African Woman) 1866 Jack McAuliffe US lightweight boxing champion, hall of famer 1869 Émile Fabre France, playwright, administrator of Comédie Française 1871 Sir Ernest Rutherford nuclear scientist 1874 Harry Houdini [Erik Weisz] Budapest Hungary, magician/escape artist 1874 Luigi Einaudi economist/1st President of Italy (1948-55) 1878 Top Naeff [Anthonetta van Rhijn-N-Naeff] Dutch writer 1883 James I Wedgwood British theosophist/old-catholic bishop 1884 Gino Marinuzzi composer 1884 Peter Debye Holland, physical chemist (Nobel 1936) 1885 Charlie Daniels US swimmer (Olympics-4 gold-1904, 08) 1887 Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle Smith Center KS, actor (Keystone comedies) 1888 Jameson Thomas London England, actor (Farmer's Wife) 1890 Miguel Suriel Netherland Antillian writer (Muhé culpabel) 1891 Annie "Charley" Toorop Dutch painter (3 Generations) 1891 John Knittel writer 1893 George Sisler baseball hall of fame 1st baseman (257 hits in 1920) 1895 Arthur Murray dancer (Arthur Murray's Dance Party) 1895 Sid Saylor Chicago IL, actor (Wally-Waterfront) 1896 Gianna Manzini writer 1897 Charles Eyck Dutch painter/sculptor 1897 Wilhelm Reich Austrian-US psycho analysist (character analysis) 1898 Dorothy Stratton organizer (SPARS-women's branch of US Coast Guard) 1898 George Alpert railroad executive 19-- Crissy Wilzak Comstock Elyria OH, actress (Crissy-Mork & Mindy) 19-- Kim Ulrich Ripon CA, actress (Diana-As the World Turns) 19-- Terrell Anthony Illinois, actor (Rusty-Guiding Light) 1900 June [Algeria Junius] Clark musician trumpet 1902 Thomas E Dewey Ohio, 1st Catholic Presidential candidate 1944, 1948 (R) 1903 Adolph F J Butenandt German bio-chemist (Nobel 1939) 1903 John Patrick Sutton Ludlow actor (Agatha) 1903 Malcolm Muggeridge English writer (Observer of Life) 1905 André Christiaens Flemish writer (Unfindable Country) 1906 John Cameron Swayze news correspondant, Timex spokesman 1907 Janet Harmon Bragg US pilot/columnist (Chicago Defender) 1907 Lauris Norstad US General (NATO commander)/CEO (Owens-Corning Fiberglass) 1907 Lucia Chase US ballerina/co-founder (American Ballet Theater) 1907 Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya writer 1907 Martin Kosleck [Nicolaie Yoshkin] Barkotzen Germany, actor (Pursuit to Algiers) 1909 Clyde Barrow bank robber (of Bonnie & Clyde fame) 1909 Thomas E "Tommy" Trinder English radio comic/actor (Phoenix) 1910 Jacques Chailley composer 1910 Richard Conte Jersey City NJ, actor (Four Just Men, 13 Rue Madeleine, Hotel, Jean Arthur Show) 1911 Enrique Jordá San Sebastian Spain, conductor (San Francisco Symphony Orchestra 1970) 1911 Herman W "Fritz" Liebert US OSSer/librarian (Yale curator) 1911 Jane Beverly Drew architect 1911 Joseph Barbera animator (Hanna-Barbera) 1914 Lilli Palmer Posen Germany, actress (Boys From Brazil, Sebastian) 1918 Englebert van Anderlecht Belgian painter 1919 John J Duncan Jr (Representative-Republican-TN, 1965- ) 1919 Lawrence Ferlinghetti author (Coney Island of the Mind) 1920 Gene Nelson [Berg], Seattle WA, actor (Tea For 2, Oklahoma) 1921 Wilson Harris Guayanese author 1922 Dave Appell singer/musician/songwriter (In the Midnight Hour) 1922 Dorothy Irene Height president (national council of negro women) 1923 Edna Jo Hunter expert on military families & prisoners of war 1923 Murray Hamilton Washington NC, actor (Rich Man Poor Man) 1924 Lois Andrews actress (Ganster, Rustlers, Desert Hawk) 1924 Lorraine Gourley Los Angeles CA 1924 Norman Fell Philadelphia PA, actor (Mr Roper-3's Company, The End, Graduate) 1925 Duncan Wood TV director/producer 1925 Mai Zetterling Vaeras Sweden, actress (Hidden Agenda, Ringer) 1926 Dario Fo Leggiuno Sangiano VA, playwright (Nobel-1997) 1927 Janos Decsenyi composer 1927 Martin Walser writer 1928 Byron "Yanks" Janis McKeesport PA, pianist (NBC Symphony Orchestra) 1928 Vanessa Brown Vienna Austria, actress (My Favorite Husband) 1929 Cuan McCarthy cricketer (36 Test wickets for South Africa, 1 career no-ball) 1930 Kenneth Nelson Rocky Mount NC, actor (Henry Aldrich-Aldrich Family) 1930 Steve McQueen Slater MO, actor (Wanted, Dead or Alive, Blob, Bullitt) 1931 Thelma Kalama US, 4 X 100 meter relay swimmer (Olympics-gold-1948) 1932 William Smith Columbia MO, actor (Rich Man Poor Man, Hawaii Five-0) 1932 Yuri Anatoyevich Ponomaryov Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 18 backup) 1933 David Harries composer 1935 Peter Bichsel writer 1936 Fredrick Kaufmamn composer 1937 Benjamin Luxon Redruth England, baritone (Owen Wingrave) 1937 Bill Tillman baseball player 1937 Billy Stewart US R&B singer (I Do Love You) 1937 Erskine Sandiford premier (Barbados, 1987-94) 1938 Larry Wilson NFL back (Cardinals) 1940 Bob Mackie Monterey Park CA, designer (Streisand, Cher) 1943 H Martin Lancaster (Representative-Democrat-NC) 1943 Jesus Alou baseball outfielder (San Francisco Giants) 1943 Marika Kilius German Federal Republic, pairs ice skating-Franz Ningel/Hans Jurgen Baumler, (Olympics-silver-1960, 64) 1944 Denny McLain baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers, 31 wins in 1968) 1944 Patti Labelle singer (Phoenix, Tasty, Chameleon) 1946 Lee Oskar Copenhagen Denmark, rock harmonicist (War-Why Can't We Be Friends) 1946 Paul Williams climber 1947 Alan Sugar English multi-millionaire/computer manufacturer (Amstrad) 1947 Mike Kellie rock drummer (Spooky Tooth-It's All About) 1947 Paul McCandless rocker (Torches on the Lake) 1947 Pieter W Coetzer South African journalist/MP (NP) 1949 Nick Lowe vocalist/producer (I Knew the Bride) 1949 Steve Lang Montréal Canada, rock bassist (April Wine-Just Between You and Me) 1951 Dougie Thompson rocker (Supertramp-Bloody Well Right) 1951 Earl Williams NBAer 1951 Kenneth S Reightler Jr Patuxent MD, Commander USN/astronaut (STS 48, 60) 1951 Pat Bradley Westford MA, LPGA golfer (1981 US Women's Open) 1952 Nicholas Campbell Toronto Canada, actor (Nick-The Insiders) 1953 Steve Lubbers cricketer (captain of Dutch World Cup team 1996) 1954 Donna Pescow Brooklyn, actress (Angie, Out of this World, Rainbow) 1954 Irina Ratushinskaya Odessa Ukraine, dissident poet (Beyond the Limit) 1954 Robert Carradine Los Angeles CA, actor (Slim-The Cowboys, Wavelength) 1956 Ijaz Faqih cricketer (Pakistan off-spin all-rounder in 5 Tests 80-88) 1957 Scott J Horowitz Philadelphia PA, PhD/Captain USAF/astronaut (STS 75, 82) 1959 Renaldo Nehemiah US, hurdler (110 meter at 12.93)/NFLer (San Francisco 49ers) 1960 Kelly LeBrock New York NY, actress (Weird Science, Woman in Red) 1961 Dean Jones cricketer (dashing Australian batsman & fielder 1984-92) 1961 James T Gallagher Jr Johnstown PA, PGA golfer (1990 Greater Milwaukee) 1962 Penny Hammel Decatur IL, LPGA golfer (Jamie Farr Toledo-1985, 89) 1962 Star Jones attorney/TV hostess (NBC, Inside Edition) 1963 Raimond van der Gouw Dutch soccer goalie (Vitesse, Manchester) 1963 Sammy Giammatva Houston TX, tennis star 1964 Hans Schwaier West Germany, tennis star 1965 Angela Zuckerman St Louis MO, speed skater (Olympics-1994) 1965 Ben Torriero WLAF running back (Scottish Claymores) 1965 Jeff Reese Brantford, NHL goalie (Tampa Bay Lightning) 1965 Marian Vajda Czechoslovakia, tennis star 1966 Penny Toler WNBA guard (Los Angeles Sparks) 1966 Tatjana Patitz Hamburg German Federal Republic, model/actress (Rising Sun) 1967 Kathy Rinaldi-Stunkel Florida, tennis player (Virginia Slims of Arkansas 1987) 1967 Richard Gillam Atlanta GA, pairs skater (& Erin Moorad) 1969 Yoko Zetterlund San Francisco CA, volleyball setter (Olympics-bronze-92, 96) 1970 Lara Flynn Boyle Davenport IA, actress (The Practice, The Temp, Twin Peaks) 1970 Marques Bragg NBA forward (Minnesota Timberwolves) 1970 Mike Vanderjagt CFL kicker (Toronto Argonauts) 1970 Shannon Lemora Baton Rouge LA, 1.5k runner 1973 Atle Larsen WLAF kicker (Rhein Fire) 1973 Chip McCaw Chicago IL, volleyball setter (Olympics-96) 1973 David Moravec hockey forward (Team Czechoslovakia Olympics-gold-1998) 1973 Josh Lakatos Pasadena CA, trap shooter (Olympics-silver-1996) 1973 Philippe Boucher St Apollinaire CA, NHL defense (Los Angeles Kings, Olympics-G-98) 1974 Terry Killens linebacker (Tennessee Oilers) 1975 Debbie Keller Winfield IL, soccer forward (Olympics-96) 1975 Julia Bikbova Kiev Ukraine, dance skater (& John Lee) 1976 Danielle Garrett Camp Hill PA, soccer forward (Olympics-96) 1977 Olivia Burnette San Clemente CA, actress (Torkelsons) 1980 Luke Edwards Nevada City CA, actor (Newsie) Deaths which occurred on March 24: 0809 Harun al-Rashid caliph of the Abbasid empire (786-809), dies at 44 1400 Florens Radewijns Dutch priest/leader Modern Devotion, dies 1455 Nicholas V [Tommaso Parentucelli] Italian Pope (1447-55), dies at 57 1455 Rudolf van Diepholt bishop/cardinal of Utrecht (1448-55), dies 1471 Sir Thomas Malory author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55 1558 Anna van Buren countess of Egmond/Buren/Lingen, dies 1603 Elizabeth I Tudor [Maiden Queen] UK queen (1558-1603), dies at 69 1631 Philipp Dulichius composer, dies at 68 1635 Jacques Callot French cartoonist/engraver, dies at about 42 1644 Cecilia Renata arch duchess of Austria, dies 1654 Samuel Scheidt German composer (Concertus sacri), dies at 66 1661 William Leddra last Quaker, hanged in Boston 1755 Theodor Christleib Reinhold composer, dies at 72 1823 Cornelis van Foreest Dutch mayor (Alkmaar), dies at 66 1825 Giovanni Domenico Perotti composer, dies at 64 1838 Thomas Attwood composer, dies at 72 1842 Stendhal [Marie-H Beyle] French writer (The Love), buried at 59 1866 Maria Amalia of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Filips of Austria, dies 1877 Walter Bagehot English economist/critic/banker, dies at 51 1878 Albin Masek composer, dies at 73 1881 Friedrich Hecker German revolutionary republic politician, dies at 69 1882 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow US poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at 75 1894 Robert Prescott Stewart composer, dies at 68 1899 Billy Barnes cricketer (725 runs in 21 Tests for England), dies 1905 Jules Verne sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 77 1909 John Millington Synge Irish dramatist/playwright/poet, dies at 37 1911 Matthew Stanley Robison president (Cardinals), dies 1916 Enrique y Campina Granados Sp opera composer (Goyescas), drowns at 48 1918 Theophile Ysaye composer, dies at 53 1921 Deodat de Severac composer, dies at 48 1932 George Robert Canning cricketer (the 4th Lord Harris), dies 1937 Léopold Courouble Belgian writer (Pauline Flatbread), dies at 76 1945 J S Nicklin Lieutenant-Colonel/Canada's 1st parachutist, dies 1945 Thomas Rennie General-Major (Dutch command 51st Highland Division), dies 1946 Alexander A Aljechin world chess champion (1927-35, 37-46), dies at 53 1946 Gustaf Heintze composer, dies at 66 1953 Felix M Abel French dominican/biblical scholar, dies at 74 1953 Mary [Victoria of Teck] queen of Great Britain/North-Ireland, dies at 86 1953 Queen Mary of Britain dies 1960 Paul Joostens Flemish painter, dies at 70 1962 Auguste Picard Swiss explorer, dies at 78 1964 Peter Lorre Hungarian/US actor (Maltese Falcon, Raven), dies at 59 1967 Marc Lavry composer, dies at 63 1968 Howard Petrie actor (Border River, Bounty Hunter), dies at 61 1968 Lauwrens Voorthuyzen Dutch sect leader, dies at 70 1969 Joseph Kasavubu President of Congo (1960-65), dies at about 55 1974 Doris Deane dies at 74 1974 Yoshida Isoya Japanese architect (modern sukiya style), dies at 79 1975 Muriel Hutchinson actor (Another Thin Man), dies at 60 1975 Oscar Rasbach composer, dies at 86 1976 Bernard L Montgomery British General, defeated Rommel, dies at 88 1976 Nelson Case TV host (Trash or Treasure), dies at 66 1977 Saburo Moroi composer, dies at 73 1978 Brackett Hamilton Leigh [Douglass], author (Ginger Star), dies at 62 1979 Yvonne Mitchell writer, dies at 53 1980 Archbishop Oscar Romero assassinated while conducting mass in San Salvador 1982 Ace Goodman Kansas City MO, comedian (Easy Aces), dies at 83 1984 Sam Jaffe actor (Dr Zorba-Ben Casey), dies of cancer at 93 1986 Sarah Cunningham actress (Nurse Andrews-Trapper John MD), dies at 67 1990 Alice Sapritch actress (European Vacation), dies 1990 An Wang computer manufacturer (Wang), dies at 70 from cancer 1990 Ray Goulding comedian (Bob & Ray), dies from kidney failure at 68 1990 Rene Enriquez actor (Hill St Blues), dies from pancreatic cancer at 56 1993 Erik Andriesse Dutch painter (skulls, skeletons), dies at 35 1993 John Hersey Pulitzer prize author (Hiroshima), dies at 78 1993 Peter Roovers Dutch sculptor/teacher (war monuments), dies at 90 1993 Taylor Reed actor (Easy Money), dies of heart attack at 60 1994 Edith Porada art historian/archaeologist, dies at 81 1994 Luis Donaldo Colosio Mexican politician, assassinated 1994 Tommy Benford jazz drummer, dies at 88 1995 Anthony Standerwick Heal businessman, dies at 88 1995 Joey Long blues/cajun guitarist, dies at 62 1995 Trevor Oswald Ling religious Studies Professor, dies at 75 1996 Maria Lucia Beltran Alcayaga singer, dies at 66 On this day...March 24 Events 1379 End of Gelderse war victory 1545 German Parliament opens in Worms 1550 France & England sign Peace of Boulogne 1603 Scottish king James VI becomes King James I of England 1629 1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia 1645 Battle at Jankov Bohemia: Sweden beatS Roman Catholic emperor Ferdinand III 1664 Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island 1721 Johann Sebastian Bach opens his Brandenburgse Concerts 1734 Netherlands' William K H Friso marries princess Anne of Hanover 1765 Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers 1792 Benjamin West (US) becomes president of Royal Academy of London 1801 Aleksandr P Romanov becomes emperor of Russia 1828 Philadelphia & Columbia Railway (1st state owned) authorized 1832 Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred & feathered in Ohio 1837 Canada gives blacks the right to vote 1848 State of siege proclaimed in Amsterdam 1855 Manhattan Kansas founded as New Boston KS 1860 Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in San Francisco, 89 days out of New York 1868 Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms 1877 University boat race between Oxford & Cambridge ends in a dead heat 1878 British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost 1880 Tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in Connecticut 1882 German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB 1883 1st telephone call between New York & Chicago 1887 Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey) 1890 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" (BG) 1894 37 miners killed at Franklin WA 1898 1st automobile sold 1906 "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world 1910 83ºF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March 1913 Netherlands soccer team's 1st victory over England 1913 Palace Theater opens at 1564 Broadway NYC 1920 1st US coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC) 1922 Grand National at Aintree sees only 3 horses out of 32 starters finish 1924 Greece becomes a republic 1925 KSL-AM in Salt Lake City UT begins radio transmissions 1926 The Beehive in the Hague opens 1st escalator in Netherlands 1927 Cuban chess champion, Jose Capablanca wins 33-day Grand Chess Tournie 1927 Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Belgian & Netherlands' Wielingen Treaty 1930 1st religious services telecast in US (W2XBS, New York NY) 1930 Planet Pluto named 1930 Rÿnsburgse Boys soccer team forms 1932 1st US radio broadcast from a moving train (Belle Baker, WABC from Maryland) 1933 Peter I Island incorporated as a Norwegian dependency 1934 US declares the Philippines to become independent in 1945 1935 Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network 1936 Red Wings beat Montréal Maroons in 16 minutes & 30 seconds of 6th period Stanley Cup game lasts 9 periods (176 minutes), ends 1-0 1937 Bus blew a tire, going out of control, killing 18 (Salem IL) 1937 National Gallery of Art established by Congress 1941 British troops defeat British Somalia 1941 German troops occupy El Agheila Libya 1941 Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie for 20th Century Fox 1941 Long Island University beats Ohio University 56-42 for NIT basketball championship 1941 Richard Wright & Paul Green's "Native Son" premieres in New York NY 1944 76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (Great Escape) 1944 811 British bombers attack Berlin 1944 In occupied Rome, Nazis executed more than 300 civilians 1945 General Eisenhower, Montgomery & Bradley discuss advance in Germany 1945 Largest one-day airborne drop, 600 transports & 1300 gliders 1945 Operation Varsity: British, US & Canadian airborne landings East of Rhine 1945 US minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa 1947 Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the Presidency 1947 John D Rockefeller Jr donates NYC East River site to the UN 1949 21st Academy Awards: "Hamlet", Laurence Olivier & Jane Wyman win 1949 Walter & John Huston become 1st father-and-son team to win Oscars (actor & director of "Treasure of Sierra Madre") 1950 Gracie de Moss wins LPGA Pro-Ladies Golf Championship 1950 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Yvonne C Sherman 1950 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button 1952 Great demonstrations against apartheid in South-Africa 1953 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1955 1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service 1955 British Army patrols withdraw from Belfast after 20 years 1955 Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens on Broadway for 694 performances 1958 Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761) 1959 Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact 1960 US appeals court rules novel, "Lady Chatterly's Lover", not obscene 1961 New York Senate approves $55M for a baseball stadium at Flushing Meadows 1962 24th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Cincinnati beats Ohio State 71-59 1962 Benny Paret, KO'd in a welterweight title, he dies 10 days later 1962 Mick Jagger & Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue & Blue Boys 1964 Kennedy half-dollar issued 1965 US Ranger 9 strikes Moon, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of crater Alphonsus 1966 Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance 1967 University of Michigan holds 1st "Teach-in" after bombing of North Vietnam 1968 Mickey Wright wins Port Malabar Golf Invitational 1970 Dutch cartoonist Frans Piët ends "Sjors & Sjimmie" strip 1972 Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland 1973 Harley Race beats Dory Funk Jr in Kansas City, to become NWA champion 1973 Immaculata beats Queens College, 59-52 to win AIAW Basketball title 1973 Professional track debut of Kip Keino defeating Jim Ryun in the mile 1973 San Francisco 49er president Lou Spadia proposes NFL expand to 30 teams 1974 36th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina State beats Marquette 76-64; this ends UCLA's 7 year reign as NCAA basketball champions 1975 Muhammad Ali TKOs Chuck Wepner in 15 to retain the heavyweight boxing title 1976 Argentine President Isabel Perón deposed by country's military 1978 Wings release "With a Little Luck" 1979 "Ballroom" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 116 performances 1979 10 rebounds & 10 assists, as the Spartans cruise to a 101-67 by University of Pennsylvania; Michigan State's Earvin "Magic" Johnson registers triple-double 29 points 1979 1st appearance as Australian cricket captain for Kim Hughes 1979 Columbia flown on aircraft carrier lands at Kennedy Space Center 1980 42nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats UCLA 59-54 1980 ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline with Ted Koppel" 1980 Capitol Records releases some rare Beatles tracks 1981 Bombay beat Delhi by innings & 46 to win Ranji Cricket Trophy 1981 Colombia drops diplomatic relations with Cuba 1982 US sub Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia 1984 Andrea Schöne skates ladies world record 5 km (7 :4.52) 1984 Igor Malkov skates world record 10 km (14 :1.51) 1984 IOC agrees to 6-team exhibition baseball tournament in Olympics 1985 Golden Raspberry Awards presented to parody Oscar Awards (Bolero wins) 1985 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA GNA Golf Classic 1985 Norman Gifford makes cricket ODI debuts at age 44 (v Australia, Sharjah) 1986 58th Academy Awards: "Out of Africa", William Hurt & Geraldine Page win 1986 NASA publishes "Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle to Flight Status" 1986 Suriname army Captain Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling 1986 US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra 1987 1st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross win 1987 Western Australia win the Sheffield Shield by drawing cricket final vs Victoria 1988 "Gospel at Colonus" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 61 performances 1988 Quarterback Dan Fouts retires 1989 Mary Martin in "Peter Pan", 1st time seen on TV since 1973 1989 Worst US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 million gallons off Alaska 1990 Indian troops leave Sri Lanka 1990 Tom Hunter swims world record 50 meter freestyle (21.81 seconds) 1991 "Les Miserables" opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago 1991 11th Golden Raspberry Awards: Ford Fairlane & Ghosts Can't Do It win 1991 Barcelona Dragons beat New York/New Jersey Knights 19-7 in their 1st WLAF game 1991 Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament 1991 In liberated Kuwait, banks reopen 1991 New York Yankees beat New York Mets, 9-3 1991 Wrestlemania VII in Los Angeles, Hulk Hogan pins Sergeant Slaughter for championship 1992 "Jake's Women" opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 245 performances 1992 1st Belgian in the space, Dirk Frimout on Atlantis Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space 1992 Sudanese Boeing 707 crashes on mountain Hymettos at Athens; 5-6 die 1993 Ezer Weizman elected President of Israel 1994 "Carousel" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 322 performances 1994 "Song of Jacob Zulu" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 53 performances 1994 F-16 collides with C-130 Hercules above AFB in North Carolina, 120 die 1994 Robert F Kennedy Jr divorces Emily Black 1996 16th Golden Raspberry Awards: Showgirls wins 1996 Eastenders star Michael French is reported to be a homosexual 1996 Laura Davies wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament 1996 MTA raises NYC bridge tolls to $3.50 each way 1997 69th Academy Awards: "The English Patient", Tom Cruise & Frances McDormand win 1997 Australian parliament overturns world's 1st & only euthanasia law  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-25-2006 07:26 AM                        Rated G Birthdates which occurred on March 25: 1133 Henry II King of England (1154-89) 1252 Konradijn Hohenstaufen [Koenrad van Zwaben], son of Konrad IV 1495 Leonhard Paminger composer 1528 Jacob Andreae German theologist (Schwäbische Konkordie) 1532 Pietro Pontio composer 1594 Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher Dutch writer 1653 Joseph Sauveur French physicist/mathematician 1688 Johann Gotthilf Ziegler composer 1699 Johann Adolf Hasse composer 1702 Christian Gottlieb Ziegler composer 1702 Pieter Teyler Van der Hulst Dutch silk merchant (Teyler's Museum) 1713 Jean-Baptiste Canavas composer 1723 Kaat Mussel [Catharina Mulder], Dutch demonstrater 1745 Nicolas Etienne Framery composer 1762 Francesco Giuseppi Pollini composer 1767 Joachim Murat marshal of France/King of Naples (1808-15) 1769 Salvatore Vigano composer 1770 Carl Friedrich Ebers composer 1782 Carolina [Maria A] Bonaparte (countess Lipona), sister of Napoleon) 1784 François-Joseph Fétis Belgian musicology/composer 1786 Giovanni B Amia Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist 1797 John Winebrenner US, clergyman, founded Church of God 1800 Paulin Paris French historian 1808 José de Espronceda y Delgado Spanish revolutionary/poet (Cortes) 1818 Isaac Ingalls Stevens Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862 1820 Xavier F M G Earl of Merode, Belgian minister to Pope (in Rome) 1823 William Thompson Martin Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1910 1830 Julius Caesar cricketer (prominent batsman for Surrey) 1839 William Bell Wait US, educated the blind 1867 Arturo Toscanini Parma Italy, temperamental conductor 1867 Gutzon Borglum sculptor (Mount Rushmore) 1868 Bill Lockwood cricketer (England all-rounder in 12 Tests 1893-1902) 1869 Gustaaf Schamelhout Flemish physician/writer 1871 John Gutzon Borglum sculptor (Mount Rushmore) 1872 Vito Pardo Italian sculptor (Columbus monument in Argentina) 1873 Rudolf Rocker German/US anarchist 1875 Spencer Charters Duncannon PA, actor (3 Faces West) 1877 Alphonse de Châteaubriant French writer (Instantanés aux Pays-Bas) 1878 Henry graaf de Baillet-Latour Belgian President of IOC (1925-42) 1878 Theodore Samuel Holland composer 1879 Otakar Zich composer 1881 Béla Bartók Hungary, composer/pianist (Concerto for Orchestra) 1881 Louis Dosfel Flemish lawyer/writer (Assault!) 1882 Haydn Wood composer 1885 Veit Valentin German/US historian (Deutsche Revolution) 1887 Josef Capek Czechoslovakian painter/author/critic (Kulhavy Poutník) 1890 Marten Baersma [MH Bottema], Friesan author (De ljochte kimen) 1892 Andy Clyde Scotland, actor (George-Real McCoys, Cully-Lassie) 1893 Edward Hart (Representative-Democrat-NJ)/1st chairman of Committee on Un-American Activities 1894 Erik William Gustav Leidzen composer 1897 John Laurie Dumfries Scotland, actor (Jericho, Island of Desire) 1899 Bella Spewack Hungary, playwright (Kiss Me Kate) 1899 Jacques Audiberti French poet (Race of Men) 1901 Ed Begley Hartford CT, actor (Mr Koppel-Leave it to Larry) 1902 Sten Broman composer 1903 Frankie Carle Providence RI, orchestra leader (Golden Touch) 1905 Binnie Barnes London, actress (Last of the Mohicans, 3 Musketeers) 1906 Alan J P Taylor British historian (English history 1914-1915) 1906 Howard Pyle (Governor-Republican-AZ, 1951-55) 1906 Jean Sablon crooner 1908 Dame Bridget D'Oyly Carte British theater & hotel director 1908 David Lean Croydon England, director (Dr Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter) 1908 Helmut Käutner Düsseldorf Germany, director (Der Hauptmann von Köpenick) 1909 Dutch (Emil) Leonard baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox, 1.01 ERA 1914) 1909 Jay Blackton New York NY, conductor/arranger (Guys & Dolls) 1910 Mario Peragallo Italian composer 1911 Willy Anthoons Flemish sculptor (Mystic verheffing) 1914 Marthe Robert essayist/translator 1914 Norman E Borlaug US agriculture scientist (Nobel 1970) 1916 Nikolay Ivanovich Peyko composer 1919 Jeanne Cagney actress (Lion is in the Streets, Quicksand) 1920 Patrick Troughton actor (Doctor Who) 1921 Nancy Kelly Lowell MA, actress (Double Exposure, Jesse James) 1921 Simone Signoret Wiesbaden Germany, actress (Casque d'Or, Room at the Top) 1922 Bruno VeSota Chicago IL, actor/director (Chopper, Teenage Doll, Wild Rovers) 1922 Eileen Ford modeling agency head (Ford Modeling Agency) 1923 Lee Hale Tacoma WA, choral director (The Entertainers) 1923 Wim Van Est [Locomotief/Pletmolen], Dutch cyclist 1924 Julia A Perry Lexington KY, US composer (Cask of Amontillado, Selfish Giant) 1924 Machiko Kyo Osaka Japan, actor (Gate of Hell, Rashomon, Ugetsu) 1925 Flannery O'Connor Georgia, novelist (A Good Man Is Hard to Find) 1926 Hans Rausing Swedish/British industrial/billionaire (Tetra Pak) 1926 Laszlo Papp Hungary, Olympics Boxer (Gold-1948, 1952, 1956) 1927 Leslie Claudius India, field hockey (Olympics-gold-1948, 52, 56) 1928 James A Lovell Jr Cleveland OH, USN/astronaut (Gemini 7, 12, Apollo 8, 13) 1929 Harris W Fawell (Representative-Republican-IL, 1985- ) 1929 Kenneth Haigh Yorkshire England, actor (Search for the Nile) 1930 David Russell Burge composer 1931 Bohumil Golián Czechoslovakia, volleyball player (Olympics-bronze-1968) 1932 Wes Santee miler 1932 Woody (Woodson) Held baseball player 1934 Gloria Steinem Toledo OH, feminist/publisher (Ms Magazine) 1934 Johnny Burnette Memphis, guitarist (Trains Kept A-Rollin, You're 16) 1935 Susan Engel Vienna Austria, actress (Ascendancy) 1936 Lawrence Bernard "Larry" Gales bassist 1938 Hoyt Axton Duncan OK, actor (Black Stallion, Junkman, Rousters) 1939 Toni Cade Bambara director 1940 Anita Bryant Barnsdall OK, Miss Oklahoma-America (1958)/singer (George Gobel Show)/homophobe 1942 Aretha Franklin Memphis TN, Soul Sister #1/singer (Respect) 1942 Jacqueline Lichtenberg US, sci-fi author (Star Trek Lives!, Dreamspy) 1942 Paul Michael Glaser Cambridge MA, actor (Starsky-Starsky & Hutch) 1943 Pavel Lednev USSR, pentathlete (Olympics-gold-1980) 1943 Ronald Jeffers composer 1944 Frank Oz muppetteer (Grover-Sesame Street, Muppet Show) 1944 Ross Duncan cricketer (one Test Australia vs England 1971, 0-30) 1944 Terry L Bruce (Representative-Democrat-IL, 1985- ) 1946 Bonnie Bedelia [Culkin] New York NY, actress (Die Hard, Heart Like a Wheel, New Land) 1947 Claudine Schneider (Representative-Republican-RI, 1981- ) 1947 Elton John [Reginald Kenneth Dwight] Pinner Middlesex England, singer (Rocketman, Your Song, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road) 1948 Kelly Garrett actress/singer (Holdin) 1948 Michael Stanley Cleveland OH, rocker (Michael Stanley Band) 1948 Richard Lundy horse trainer 1949 Jean Potvin NHLer 1949 Neil Jones musician (Bend Me Shape Me) 1949 Nick Lowe Woodchurch Suffolk England, rocker (Rockpile-Cruel to be Kind) 1951 Bob Pelander rock keyboardist/vocalist (Michael Stanley Band) 1951 Maisie Williams Montserrat, rock vocalist (Boney M) 1952 Ken Boyd basketball 1953 Haroon Rashid cricketer (Pakistani & WSC batsman late 70's) 1953 Mary Gross Chicago IL, actress/comedian (Saturday Night Live, Club Paradise, Feds) 1956 Sonia M Lannaman England, 4X100 meter relayer (Olympics-bronze-1980) 1958 James McDaniel Washington DC, actor (Arthur Fancy-NYPD Blue) 1958 María Caridad Colón Cuba, javelin thrower, (Olympics-gold-1980) 1958 Yograj Singh cricketer (Indian pace bowler early 80's) 1959 Vince Guerra jockey 1960 Haywood Nelson New York NY, actor (Haywood-Grady, Dwayne-What's Happening) 1960 Robert Green Omaha NE, tennis star 1960 Steve Norman London England, rock saxophone player (Spandau Ballet-True) 1961 John Stockwell Galveston TX, actor (Born to Ride, City Limits) 1961 Mark David Brooks Fort Worth TX, PGA golfer (1994 Kemper Open) 1964 Alex Solls jockey 1964 Eric Woods California, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Xerox British Columbia Open) 1964 Ken Wregget Brandon Manitoba Canada, NHL goalie (Pittsburgh Penguins) 1965 Avery Johnson NBA guard (San Antonio Spurs) 1965 Sarah Jessica Parker Nelsonville OH, actress (Square Pegs, LA Story) 1965 Sean "Hollywood" Hamilton DJ (Hangin' With Hollywood, Z-100) 1966 David Hohl Winnipeg Manitoba, freestyle wrestler (Olympics-9-92, 96) 1966 Jeff Cross NFL defensive end (Miami Dolphins) 1966 Jeff Healey Canada, blind pop guitarist (See the Light) 1966 Tom Glavine Concord MA, pitcher (Atlanta Braves, Cy Young 1991) 1967 Debi Thomas US, figure skater (Olympics-bronze-1988) 1967 Takayuki Miura hockey defenseman (Team Japan 1998) 1968 Dixon Edwards NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys, Minnesota Vikings) 1968 Errol Martin CFL linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos) 1968 Peter Blackburn Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96) 1969 Dale Davis NBA forward (Indiana Pacers) 1969 Dan Wilson Arlington Height IL, catcher (Seattle Mariners) 1969 Guy Newman Australian water polo goalie (Olympics-96) 1969 Scott Sanders Hannibal MO, pitcher (San Diego Padres) 1970 Magnus Larsson Sweden, tennis star 1970 Shawn Antoski Brantford, NHL left wing (Philadelphia Flyers) 1971 Aashish Kapoor cricketer (Indian off-spin batsman 1994- ) 1971 AndrÄ Bolduc CFL slot back (Edmonton Eskimos) 1971 Cammi Granato ice hockey forward (USA, Olympics-98) 1971 Perry Klein NFL quarterback (Atlanta Falcons) 1971 Sheryl Swoopes Lubbock TX, WNBA forward (Houston Comets, Olympics-gold-96) 1972 Demet Edwards WLAF defensive tackle (Barcelona Dragons) 1972 Howard Battle Biloxi MS, infielder (Philadelphia Phillies) 1972 Lawrence Moten NBA guard (Vancouver Grizzlies) 1973 Andrei Nikolishin Vorkuta Russia, NHL center (Hartford Whalers) 1973 Bob Sura NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers) 1973 Ray Zellars NFL fullback (New Orleans Saints) 1974 Mike Adams wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers) 1974 Vyninka Arlow Australia, diver (Olympics-96) 1975 Miguel Mejia San Pedro de Macoris, outfielder (St Louis Cardinals) 1976 Monica Croscicka-Wnetrzak Miss Poland-Universe (1996) 1989 Chicken Kentucky 1st partial birth in space (chicken) 2184 Pavel Andreivich Chekov Leningrad, USSR (Star Trek-character) Deaths which occurred on March 25: 1223 Afonso II 3rd King of Portugal (1211-23), dies at 36 1458 Inigo López de Mendoza Spanish marquis of Santillana/poet, dies 1510 Georges d'amboise French archbishop of Narbonne/Rouen, dies at 49 1609 Johan Willem duke of Jülich/Cleef/Mark/Mountain/Ravensberg, dies 1692 Gerardus L Blasius Flemish anatomist, dies at about 66 1697 Hendrik Casimir II King of Nassau-Dietzstadhouder, dies 1751 Frederik of Hessen Kassel King of Sweden (1720-51), dies at 74 1766 Johannes Ritschel composer, dies at 26 1799 Constantin Reindl composer, dies at 60 1801 Anthony Ziesenis architect/sculptor (Camper), dies at 69 1801 Novalis writer, dies at 28 1823 Coelestin Jungbauer composer, dies at 75 1825 Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck Dutch patriot/earl, dies at 63 1835 Friederike Blum writer, dies 1852 Alexis Garaude composer, dies at 73 1880 Joseph Rummel composer, dies at 61 1880 Ludmilla Assing writer, dies 1909 Ruperto Chapi y Lorente composer, dies at 57 1910 Kálmán Mikszáth Hungarian author (Szent Péter Esernyöje), dies at 63 1914 Frédéric Mistral French poet (Nobel-1904), dies 1918 Claude A Debussy French composer (Iberia/La mer), dies in Paris France at 55 1924 John Reedman cricketer (Test for Australia 1894, 17 & 4, 1 for 24), dies 1937 John Drinkwater English poet/playwright (Bird in Hand), dies at 54 1940 Ion Nonna Otescu composer, dies at 51 1948 Warren Hymer actor (Show Them No Mercy), dies at 42 1949 Hanns A Rauter German SS-commandant in Netherlands, executed at 54 1951 Edward Collins Hall of Fame infielder (White Sox, A's), dies at 63 1954 Gertrud Bäumer writer, dies 1956 George Luther Foote composer, dies at 70 1956 Robert Newton actor (Henry V, Odd Man Out), dies at 50 1957 Fud Livingston composer, dies at 50 1958 Emerson Whithorne composer, dies at 73 1959 Billy Mayerl composer, dies at 56 1962 Auguste Piccard Swiss explorer/balloonist, dies at 78 1963 David Moore US feather weight boxer, dies at 29 1965 Giorgio Federico Ghedini composer, dies at 72 1965 Viola Gregg Liuzzo US civil rights activist, murdered 1966 Colin Campbell actor (Leather Boys), dies at 83 1968 Douglas Evans actor (South Pacific Trail), dies in Hollywood 1969 Alan Mowbray actor (Dante, Colonel Flack), dies at 72 1969 Max F Eastman US critic/essayist (Love & Revolution), dies at 86 1969 Norman Gallichan cricketer (one Test for New Zealand, 30 & 2, 3-113), dies 1973 Edward Steichen pioneer of American photography, dies at 92 1974 Otto Waldis actor (Unknown World, Whip Hand), dies at 72 1975 King Faisal of Saudi Arabia shot to death by his nephew 1978 Jack Hulbert actor (Bulldog Jack), dies at 85 1979 ... Sykes British ambassador in The Hague, murdered 1979 Anton Heiller composer, dies at 55 1983 Martha Sleeper actress (Spitfire), dies of a heart attack at 72 1987 Henry R LaBouisse headed UNICEF (1965-79), dies at 83 1991 Eileen Joyce pianist, dies at 78 1991 Lee Donn pianist, dies of stroke at 96 1992 Nancy Walker actress (Ida Morgenstern-Rhoda), dies of cancer at 69 1992 Noémie Perugia French mezzo soprano, dies 1994 David Miles Bensuan-Butt Economist , dies at 79 1994 Michel R Vassallucci French/Netherlands publisher (Arena), dies at 32 1995 James Gardner designer, dies at 87 1995 Peter Herbert Penwarden priest, dies at 73 1995 Warren E Burger chief justice of US (1969-86), dies 1996 John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge news commentator (BBC), dies at 91 1997 Roberto Sanchez Vilella Governor of Puerto Rico in (1965-69), dies On this date...Mardh 25 Events 0001 Origin of Dionysian Incarnation of the Word 0031 1st Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus 0421 Friday at 12 Prime Minister: city of Venice founded 0708 Constantine begins his reign as Catholic Pope 0752 Stephen ends his reign as Catholic Pope (or 26th) 1133 William the Conqueror orders 1st Domesday Survey of England 1306 Robert the Bruce crowned king of Scotland 1409 Council of Pisa opens 1571 Catholic Italian businessman Roberto Ridolfi leaves Enngeland 1581 Portugese Cortes calls Philip II king of Portugal 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh renews Humphrey Gilbert's patent to explore North America 1598 Cornelis de Houtman's fleet departs for East-Indies 1609 Henry Hudson embarks on an exploration for Dutch East India Co 1634 Lord Baltimore founded Catholic colony of Maryland 1647 Cape of Good Hope; tour ship Haerlem stranded in Tafel Bay 1655 Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, (Saturn's largest satellite) 1668 1st horse race in America takes place 1669 Mount Etna in Sicily erupts, destroying Nicolosi, killing 20,000 1700 England, France & Netherlands ratify 2nd Extermination treaty 1753 Voltaire leaves the court of Frederik II of Prussia 1774 English Parliament passes Boston Port Bill 1776 Continental Congress authorizes a medal for General George Washington 1802 France, Netherlands, Spain & England signs Peace of Amiens 1807 1st railway passenger service began in England 1807 British Parliament abolishes slave trade 1807 George Canning becomes British minister of Foreign affairs 1813 1st US flag flown in battle on the Pacific, frigate Essex 1814 Netherlands Bank established 1817 Tsar Alexander I recommends formation of Society of Israeli Christians 1820 Greece freedom revolt against anti Ottoman attack 1821 Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day) 1847 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On aid for Ireland" 1852 Friedrich Hebbel's "Agnes Bernauer" premieres in Munich 1856 A E Burnside patents Burnside carbine 1857 Frederick Laggenheim takes 1st photo of a solar eclipse 1863 1st Army Medal of Honor awarded 1863 Skirmish at Brentwood TN 1864 Battle of Paducah KY (Forrest's raid) 1865 Battle of Bluff Spring FL 1865 Battle of Fort Stedman VA: in front of Petersburg 1865 Battle of Mobile AL (Spanish Fort, Fort Morgan, Fort Blakely) 1865 SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire & sinks, killing 400 1876 Glasgow 1st soccer match Scotland-Wales (4-0) 1882 1st demonstration of pancake making (Department store in New York NY) 1888 Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber 1889 1st Test Cricket match played at Newlands, Cape Town vs England 1894 Coxey's Army of the unemployed sets out from Massillon OH for Washington DC 1895 Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia) 1896 Modern Olympics begin in Athens Greece 1898 Intercollegiate Trapshooting Association formed in New York NY 1900 US Socialist Party is formed at Indianapolis 1901 55 die as Rock Island train derailed near Marshalltown IA 1902 Irving W Colburn patents sheet glass drawing machine 1905 Rebel battle flags captured during war are returned to South 1907 Stanley Cup: Montréal Wanderers lose to Kenora Thistles but outscore them in 2 game set but outscore them 12-8 and win cup 1910 Chalmers Auto Co offers a new car to each leagues' batting champion 1911 146 die in a fire at Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York NY 1911 L D Swamikannu publishes "Manual of Indian Chronology" in Bombay 1913 Great Dayton Flood 1913 Home of vaudeville, Palace Theatre, opens (New York NY) starring Ed Wynn 1915 1st submarine disaster; a US F-4 sank off Hawaii, killing 21 1915 German U boat torpedoes Netherlands merchant ship Medea 1916 Heavyweight Jess Willard & Franc Moran fight to no decision in 10 for boxing title (New York NY) 1916 Women are allowed to attend a boxing match 1920 Greek Independence Day 1923 British government grants Trans-Jordan autonomy 1924 Greek parliament selects Admiral Paul Koundouriótis as premier 1924 Stanley Cup: Montréal Canadiens (NHL) sweep Calgary Tigers (WCHL) in 2 (2nd of 1924) 1931 Hal Kemp & his Orchestra record Whistles, with Skinnay Ennis 1931 Scottsboro Boys (accused of raping a white woman) arrested in Alabama 1934 1st Golf Masters Championship: Horton Smith wins, shooting a 284 1934 Horton Smith win 1st Masters golf championship 1935 1st Belgium government of Van Zealand resigns 1936 Detroit Red Wings beat Montréal Maroons in NHL longest game (2 hours 56 minutes 30 seconds) 1937 Italy & Yugoslavia sign no-attack treaty (Pact of Belgrade) 1937 It's revealed Quaker Oats pays Babe Ruth $25,000 per year for ads 1937 Lionel Conacher misses on 1st Stanley Cup penalty shot 1937 Washington Daily News is 1st US newspaper with perfumed advertising page 1938 1st US bred horse (Battleship) to win Grand National Steeplechase 1939 Billboard Magazine introduces hillbilly (country) music chart 1941 Carolina Paprika Mills, Dillon SC, incorporated 1942 700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp 1943 97% of all Dutch physicians strike againt Nazi registration 1943 Jimmy Durante & Garry Moore premiere on radio 1944 Germany troop executes 335 residents of Rome 1944 RAF Sergeant Nickolas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet without a parachute 1945 US 1st army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen 1945 US 4th Armored division arrives at Hanau & Aschaffenburg 1945 US Northern Tractor Flotilla departs Ulithi to Okinawa 1946 1st performance of Igor Stravinsky's "Ebony Concerto" 1947 9th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Holy Cross beats Oklahoma 58-47 1947 Agreement of Linggadjati ratified in Batavia 1947 Coal mine explosion in Centralia IL, claims 111 lives 1947 Last day of Test cricket for Walter Hammond (v New Zealand, Christchurch) 1949 SS police chief Rauter request for a pardon, denied 1951 5th Tony Awards: Guys & Dolls & Rose Tattoo win 1951 E Purcell & EM Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab 1954 26th Academy Awards: "From Here to Eternity", William Holden & Audrey Hepburn win 1954 Pope Pius XII encyclical "Sacra virginitas" (On consecrated virginity) 1954 RCA manufactures 1st color TV set (12½" screen at $1,000) 1955 East Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power, USSR 1957 NBA modifies the free-throw rule 1957 Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community (Common Market) 1958 Sugar Ray Robinson is 1st boxing champion to win 5 times 1958 West German parliament desires German atomic weapons 1959 Bill White traded to St Louis for pitchers Sam Jones & Don Choate 1959 French President De Gaulle acknowledges Oder-Neisse boundary 1960 1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut) 1960 DH Lawrence' "Lady Chatterley's Lover" ruled not obscene (New York NY) 1960 Ford Frick voids Indians-Red Sox deal as Sam White retires 1960 Italian government Tambroni forms 1961 "13 Daughters" closes at 54th St Theater NYC after 28 performances 1961 "Gypsy" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 702 performances 1961 23rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Cincinnati beats Ohio State 70-65 (OT) 1961 3rd place game is one of the wildest contests in NCAA Tournament history as St Joseph's defeats Utah 127-120 in 4 overtimes 1961 Elvis Presley performs live on the USS Arizona 1961 Explorer 10 launched into elongated Earth orbit (177/181,000 km) 1961 Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered 1962 "Family Affair" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 65 performances 1962 French OAS-leader ex-General Jouhaud arrested 1963 KWHY TV channel 22 in Los Angeles CA (IND) begins broadcasting 1964 Britain sets memorial for the late President John F Kennedy 1964 Egypt ends state of siege (1952-64) 1965 Martin Luther King Jr led 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery AL 1965 West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution 1966 Beatles pose with mutilated dolls & butchered meat for the cover of the "Yesterday & Today" album, It is later pulled 1966 US Supreme court rules "poll tax" unconstitutional 1967 29th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Dayton 79-64 1967 The Turtles' "Happy Together" goes #1 1967 UCLA wins its 3rd national basketball championship in 4 years 1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR 1967 Who & Cream make US debut at Murray the K's Easter Show 1968 KLVX TV channel 10 in Las Vegas NV (PBS) begins broadcasting 1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1969 Andes Pact signed in Peru 1969 John & Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam) 1969 Pakistan General Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as President 1970 Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH) 1971 Boston Patriots become New England Patriots 1971 European council accepts Mansholt plan laying off 5 million farmers 1971 Tom Jones' "She's a Lady" goes gold 1972 "Selling of the President" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 5 performances 1972 34th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Florida 81-76; UCLA's 6th consecutive national basketball title 1972 America's LP "America" goes #1 1972 Bobby Hull becomes the 2nd NHLer to score 600 goals 1973 27th Tony Awards: That Championship Season & Little Night Music win 1973 Carol Mann wins LPGA Sears Women's Golf Classic 1973 Majid Khan & Mushtaq Mohammad both out for 99 in Test vs England 1974 Barbra Streisand records the album "Butterfly" 1975 Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, king of Saudi-Arabia (1964-75), shot by nephew 1976 "My Fair Lady" opens at St James Theater NYC for 384 performances 1976 "Rex" opens at Lunt-Fontaine Theater NYC for 48 performances 1976 Argentine military junta bans leftist political parties 1979 Major riot at Bourda prevents day's play in WSC Supertest 1979 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sahara National Pro-Am Golf Tournament 1982 Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st NHL to score 200 points in a season 1983 Christa Rothenburger skates world record 500 meter ladies (39.69 seconds) 1983 Pavel Pegov skates world record 1000 meter (1:12.58) 1984 Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1985 57th Academy Awards: "Amadeus", F Murray Abraham & Sally Field win 1985 Edwin Meese III becomes US Attorney General 1986 Supreme Court rules Air Force could ban wearing of yarmulkes 1987 Supreme Court rules women/minorities may get jobs if less qualified 1988 "Les Miserables" opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya Japan 1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-206 1988 Robin Givens demands full access to husband Mike Tyson's money 1989 "Les Miserables" opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago 1990 "Lettice & Lovage" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 284 performances 1990 10th Golden Raspberry Awards: Star Trek V wins 1990 Fire in illegal NYC social club, kills 87 1990 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic 1991 63rd Academy Awards: "Dance with Wolves", Jeremy Irons & Kathy Bates win 1991 Allan Border takes 5-68 vs West Indies at Bourda (!), Georgetown 1992 British scientists find new largest perfect number (2 756839 -1 2 756839) 1992 Imran Khan scores 72 & takes 1-43 off 6 2 overs in last ODI 1992 Pakistan defeats England by 22 runs to win World Cup 1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, lands 1993 "Candida" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances 1994 Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3 km (4:09.32) 1994 Yasunori Miyabe skates world record 1000 meter (1:12.37) 1995 Boxer Mike Tyson released from jail after serving 3 years 1996 68th Academy Awards: "Braveheart", Nicholas Cage & Susan Sarandon win 1996 Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) approaches within 0.1018 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth 1996 Freedom Shoemakers on Maryport's Solway Estate closes 1996 US issues newly-redesigned $100 bill 1996 World Ice Dance Championship in Edmonton won by Gritshuk & Platov (Russia) 1996 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Edmonton won by Eltsova & Bushkov (Russia) 1996 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Edmonton won by Michelle Kwan (USA) 1996 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Edmonton won by Todd Eldredge (USA) 1997 "Barrymore" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 240 performances 1997 Indians trade Lofton & Embree to Braves for Grissom & Justice  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-26-2006 09:16 AM                        Rated G Birthdates which occurred on March 26: 1479 Vasili III great prince of Moscow (1505-33)/son of Ivan III 1516 Konrad von Gesner Zürich Switzerland, naturalist (Bibliotheca Universalis) 1577 Elisabeth of Nassau daughter of Willem I & Charlotte of Bourbon 1659 William Wollaston Coton England, philosopher 1671 Giacomo Cesare Predieri composer 1684 Johann Graf composer 1717 Manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila composer 1753 Benjamin Thompson physicist (Royal Institute of Great Britain, Woburn MA) 1758 Johann Daniel Ferstenberg composer 1773 Nathaniel Bowditch mathematician/astronomer/polyglot/author (Marine Sextant) 1783 Johann Baptist Weigl composer 1806 Josef Slavik composer 1813 Thomas West Sherman Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1879 1817 Herman Haupt Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1905 1819 Francisco Eduardo da Costa composer 1819 Louise Otto Germany, author/feminist 1821 Earnest Angel German statistician (Law of Angel) 1827 Emanuel Kania composer 1830 Eliza Laurillard Dutch vicar/poet/writer 1830 John Rogers Thomas composer 1833 Betsy Perk [Christina E], Dutch journalist/writer/feminist 1840 Carli Zoeller composer 1840 George Smith London England, assyriologist (cuneiform (script)) 1850 Edward Bellamy author (Looking Backward) 1854 Braulio Dueno Colon composer 1856 David Alfred Thomas Glamorganshire UK, 1st Viscount Rhondda 1859 A[lfred] E[dward] Housman England, poet (Shropshire Lad) 1859 Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov composer 1862 George William Louis Marshall-Hall composer 1863 Henry Royce founder (Rolls-Royce Limited in 1884) 1868 Fuad I king of Egypt (1922-36) 1871 Serafín Alvarez Quintéro Spanish dramatist/playwright (El Flechazo) 1873 [Louise] Sophie de Vries actress (On Hope of Blessing) 1874 Gerald du Maurier London England, actor (Power, Escape, Masks & Faces) 1874 Oskar Nedbal composer 1874 Robert Frost San Francisco CA, poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken) 1875 Syngman Rhee President of South Korea (1948-60) 1880 Duncan Hines US, restaurant guide writer (Out of Kentucky Kitchens) 1884 Wilhelm Backhaus Leipzig Germany, pianist (Rubinstein 1905) 1885 Julius Harrison composer 1885 Robert Blackburn British aviation pioneer 1888 Sigurd Erixon Swedish etnologist (Atlas över Svensk Folk culture) 1889 Vaclav Kapral composer 1890 Jozef Arras Flemish writer 1893 Palmiro Togliatti founder (Communist Party of Italy) 1894 Will Wright San Francisco CA, actor (Living Christ Story) 1896 Richard Flury composer 1897 Jean Epstein French director (Sa tête/Eau vive) 1898 Renzo Massarani composer 1899 James B Connant chemist/college president (Yale) 1899 William Baines composer 19-- Robert Shields mime (Shields & Yarnell) 1900 Isadore Freed composer 1902 Leslie Melville economist 1904 Emilio Fernandez El Seco Mexico, director (La Choca, Flor Silvestre) 1904 Hermann Schroeder composer 1904 Joseph Campbell mythologist (Mythic Image) 1905 Pablo Garrido composer 1905 Viktor Emil Frankl pyschiatrist (Man's Search for Meaning) 1907 Leigh Harline composer 1907 Louis Saguer composer 1908 Betty MacDonald [Anne E Campbell Bard], US writer (Egg & I) 1908 Dr Kenneth Mellanby entomologist 1908 Hank Sylvern Brooklyn NY, orchestra leader (Jane Froman's USA Canteen) 1908 Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling Essen Germany, tennis star (French 1935) 1908 Robert William Paine architect 1909 Chips Rafferty Broken Hill Australia, actor (Desert Rats) 1909 Chris[tiaan R] Reumer Dutch opera singer 1911 Bernard Katz biophysicist 1911 Tennessee Williams Columbus MS, dramatist (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) 1913 Paul Erdos mathematician 1914 Ian McGeoch Vice-Admiral 1914 William Westmoreland Saxon SC, army general (Vietnam era) 1916 Bill Edrich cricketer (Middlesex & England bat, Compton's mate) 1916 Christian B Anfinsen US chemist (cell physiology, Nobel 1972) 1916 Harry Rabinowitz British composer/conductor 1916 Mort Abrahams producer (Dr Doolittle, Planet Of Apes) 1916 Sterling Hayden Upper Montclair NJ, actor (Dr Strangelove, Asphalt Jungle, Cobra) 1916 Vic Schoen Brooklyn NY, orchestra leader (Patti Page Olds Show) 1917 Jean Graham Hall circuit court judge (England) 1917 Rufus Thomas Cayce MS, singer (Walking the Dog) 1919 Strother Martin Kokomo IN, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Slapshot) 1920 George E Brown Jr (Representative-Democrat-CA, 1963-71, 73- ) 1921 George Jefferson CEO (British Telecom) 1921 Joe Loco [Jose Esteves, Jr], musician 1921 Peter Horsley CEO (Osprey Aviation) 1922 William Milliken actor (Drive-in) 1923 Bob Elliot Boston MA, comedian (Bob & Ray, Get a Life) 1923 Clifton Williams Traskwood AR, band master (Sinfonians) 1923 Elizabeth Jane Howard British novelist (After Julius) 1925 Claudio Spies composer 1925 Lord Graham of Edmonton House of Lords (chief opposition whip) 1925 Lord Hooson QC crown court recorder 1925 Maqsood Ahmed cricketer (Pakistani batsman in 16 Tests 1952-56) 1925 Pierre Boulez Montbrison France, composer/conductor (Visage Nuptial) 1926 Ann Curtis US, 400 meter freestyle swimmer (Olympics-gold-1948) 1927 Jonathan Tod Vice-Admiral (England) 1928 Carole Carr singer/actress (Down Among the Z Men) 1929 Amédée Turner QC/MEP 1929 Maurice Simon jazz musician 1930 Cristobal Halffter composer 1930 Gregory Corso beat poet (Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man) 1930 Sandra Day O'Connor El Paso TX, 1st woman Supreme Court Justice (1981- ) 1931 Leonard Nimoy Boston MA, actor (Spock-Star Trek, Mission Impossible) 1932 Dick Nolan football coach 1934 Alan Arkin New York NY, actor (Catch 22, In-Laws, Simon, Wait Until Dark) 1934 G T Pryce CEO (Dalgety) 1934 Gino Cappelletti ORFU, AFL running back (AFL Player of Year 1964) 1935 Earl of Kinnoull 1936 Erich Urbanner composer 1936 Fred Paris rocker (Five Satins) 1937 Barbara Pearl Jones Chicago IL, 4X100 meter relayer (Olympics-gold-1952, 60) 1937 Lord Chetwode 1937 Wayne Embry holder of 7 basketball records (Miami of Ohio) 1939 Colin Webb general manager (Press Association) 1939 James Caan Bronx NY, actor (Brian's Song, Killer Elite, Godfather) 1939 Phillip R Allen Pittsburgh PA, actor (Harry-Hardy Boys Mystery, Mitch-Alice) 1939 Stuart Sutherland Professor Emeritus (Sussex University) 1940 Bill Ind Bishop-designate (Truro) 1940 Braulio Baeza jockey (National Horse Racing Hall of Famer) 1940 Nancy Pelosi (Representative-Democrat-CA) 1940 Rod Lauren rocker (If I Had a Girl) 1940 Servaes [J S] Huys Dutch MP (PvdA) 1941 Barclay Plager hockey player/twin brother of hockey's Bob Plager 1941 Bob Plager hockey player/twin brother of hockey's Barclay Plager 1942 Erica Jong [Mann] New York NY, author (Fear of Flying) 1943 Robert Woodward investigative reporter (Watergate, CIA crimes) 1944 Diana Ross [Earle] Detroit MI, (Supremes, Lady Sings the Blues, Mahogany) 1945 Mikhail Voronin USSR, horse vault gymnast (Olympics-gold-1968) 1946 Johnny Crawford Los Angeles CA, actor (Mark-The Rifleman) 1947 Carmen Krolis Suriname/Netherlands singer 1948 Kyung-Wha Chung Seoul Korea, violinist (Chung Sisters) 1948 Richard Tandy rock bassist (ELO) 1948 Steven Tyler New York NY, rock vocalist (Dream On, Walk This Way, Aerosmith-Janie's Got a Gun) 1949 Baroness Hayman 1949 Fran Sheehan Boston MA, rock bassist (Boston-More than a Feeling) 1949 Vicki Lawrence Inglewood CA, actress (Carol Burnett Show, Mama's Family) 1950 Ernest Thomas Gary IN, actor (Roger-What's Happening!!) 1950 Graham Barlow cricketer (England batsman in 3 Tests 1976-77) 1950 Martin Short Hamilton Ontario, comedian (Saturday Night Live, SCTV, 3 Amigos) 1950 Ronnie McDowell Fountain Head TN, country singer (King is Gone) 1950 Teddy Pendergrass Philadelphia PA, singer (Turn Off the Lights) 1950 Tony Papenfuss Minneapolis MN, (Daryl-Newhart) 1951 Richard B Shull US actor (Hail to the Chief, Big Bus) 1952 David Amess MP 1953 Michael Bonagura Newark NJ, country singer (Baille & Boys-Oh Heart) 1953 Tatyana Providokhina Russian 1K runner (world record) 1954 Curtis Sliwa founder (Guardian Angels)/radio personality (WABC) 1954 Piers Gardner director (British Institute of International & Comparative Law) 1955 Dean Dillon Lake City TN, country singer (Chair) 1956 Charly McClain Jackson TN, country singer (Radio Heart) 1956 Tatyana Kochergina USSR, team handball (Olympics-gold-1976, 80) 1957 Leeza Gibbons Hartsville SC, TV host (Entertainment Tonight, Leeza) 1957 Walter Rohlfing Dusseldorf, WLAF defensive line coach (Rhein Fire) 1958 Philip Brown Coalinga CA, actor (Doris Day Show, Colbys) 1959 David Delong Portland OR, Canadian Tour golfer (1988 British Columbia Open) 1960 Billy Warlock Hawthorne CA, actor (Flip-Happy Days, Baywatch) 1960 Debbie Hall LPGA golfer 1960 Marcus Allen NFL running back (Los Angeles Raiders, Kansas City Chiefs, Heisman 1981) 1960 Michael Evans Fontana CA, US water polo player (Olympics-silver-88) 1961 Leigh Bowery designer 1961 William Hague Secretary of State for Wales 1962 John Stockton Spokane WA, NBA guard (Utah Jazz, Olympics-gold-96) 1962 Kevin Seitzer Springfield IL, infielder (Milwaukee Brewers) 1962 Maarten de Young soccer player (SC Heerenveen) 1962 Richard Coles rocker (Communards-Don't Leave Me This Way) 1962 Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko Russia, Lieutenant-Colonel/cosmonaut 1963 Paul de Leeuw Dutch TV host (Cry of the Lion) 1963 Rebecca Twigg Seattle WA, 79K cyclist (Olympics-silver-1984, 92, 96) 1963 Susan Sulley rocker (Human League-Human) 1964 Ab Plugboer soccer player (FC Utrecht) 1964 Ulf Samuelsson Fagersta Sweden, NHL defenseman (Team Sweden, New York Rangers) 1966 Lee Porter Greensboro NC, Nike golfer (1992 Texarkana Open-5th) 1966 Mike Remlinger Middletown NY, pitcher (Cincinnati Reds) 1966 Wesley Walls NFL tight end (New Orleans Saints) 1968 Edward Kaminski Kansas City KS, javelin thrower 1968 Ian Hutchings Zimbabwe, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Klondike Klassic) 1968 Jose Vizcaino San Cristobal Dominican Republic, infielder (New York Mets) 1968 Kari Gronroos WLAF kicker (Scotland Claymores) 1968 Mike Trevathan CFL slot back (British Columbia Lions) 1968 Shane Reynolds Bastrop LA, pitcher (Houston Astros) 1969 Elizabeth Howell Clinton MS, Miss Mississippi-America (1990) 1969 Luke Richardson Ottawa, NHL defenseman (Edmonton Oilers) 1969 Vikram Rathour cricketer (Indian Test opening batsman 1996-) 1970 Evan Richards Los Angeles CA, actor (Frankie-Mama Malone) 1970 Paul Bosvelt soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles/FC Twente) 1971 Dave DeGraaf Lansing MI, team handball circle (Olympics-1996) 1971 Jesus Tavarez Santo Domingo Dominican Republic, outfielder (Florida Marlins) 1971 Rennae Stubbs Sydney Australia, tennis star 1971 Tommy Fagan CFL/NFL defensive end (Atlanta Falcons, Winnipeg Blue Bombers) 1972 Naoko Kijimuta Yokohama Kanagawa Japan, tennis star (1996 Jakarta) 1972 Steve Anderson CFL defensive linebacker (Calgary Stampeders) 1973 Marshall Faulk running back (Indianapolis Colts) 1974 Alfred Shipman CFL slot back (British Columbia Lions) 1974 Hakeem Abdul-samad rocker (Boys) 1974 Irina Spirlea Bucharest Romania, tennis star (1996 Amelia Island) 1974 Mike Peca Toronto, NHL center (Buffalo Sabres) 1979 Heidi Zeigler actress (Sherry-Just the 10 of Us) 1986 Jessica McClure baby trapped in Texas well in 1988 1988 Jose Vizcaino San Cristobal Dominican Republic, infielder (New York Mets) 2233 James T Kirk science fiction captain of USS Enterprise (Star Trek) Deaths which occurred on March 26: 0752 Pope Stephen II dies only 4 days after his election 0809 Liudger missionary/1st bishop of Münster/saint, dies at about 66 1258 Floris the Guardian, count-regent of Holland, dies 1350 Alfonso XI King of Castile & León, dies 1546 Thomas Elyot British diplomat, dies 1566 Antonio de Cabezon composer, dies 1638 Palamedes "Stevens" Palamedesz painter, dies at about 30 1649 John Winthrop Puritan & 1st Governor (Massachusetts), dies 1657 Jacob van Eyck Dutch blind flautist/carillonneur, dies at 69 1713 Pal Esterhazy composer, dies at 77 1726 John Vanbrugh Dutch/English playwright (Provoked Wife), dies at 62 1736 Georg Balthasar Schott composer, dies at 49 1797 James Hutton geologist, dies 1809 Gabriele Mario Piozzi composer, dies at 68 1820 Jean-Etienne Despreaux composer, dies at 71 1827 Ludwig van Beethoven German composer (Appassionata), dies in Wien (Vienna) at 56 1831 Richard Allen AME Church Bishop, dies at 71 1837 Joseph Lincke composer, dies at 53 1865 Thomas Hancock pioneer of rubber industry (Stoke Newington), dies 1871 François-Joseph Fétis Belgian musicologist/composer, dies at 87 1880 Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras composer, dies at 62 1892 Anton Wallerstein composer, dies at 78 1892 Walt Whitman poet, dies in Camden NJ at 72 1896 Nanny v Hof writer, dies 1900 Isaac Mayer Wise rabbi/found American Hebrew Congregations, dies at 80 1902 Cecil Rhodes Prime Minister of Cape Colony (1890-96) dies at 48 1909 Nikolai Arkas composer, dies at 56 1918 César A Cui Lithuanian fort builder/composer, dies at 83 1923 Sarah Bernhardt [Henriette-Rosine Bernard] actress (Qn Elizabeth), dies at 77 1924 Augusto de Oliviera Machado composer, dies at 78 1926 Georges Vezina NHL Hall of Fame goalie (Montréal Canadiens), dies 1926 Konstantin Fehrenbach German reichs chancellor (1920-21), dies at 74 1932 Jean Cartan composer, dies at 25 1934 Grete Gulbransson writer, dies at 51 1937 Albert Relf cricketer (13 Tests for England 1903-14), commits suicide 1944 Benjamin Crémieux French author (In Buchenwald), dies at 55 1945 David Lloyd George British (L) premier (1916-22), dies at 82 1945 Isaack Stouten resistance fighter, shot to death at 29 1948 Helen Ernst German poster artist/resistance fighter, dies at about 43 1953 Albert Spalding composer, dies at 64 1956 Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann composer, dies at 70 1957 Max Ophüls [Maximilian Oppenheimer] German/French director (Caught, Exile), dies 1958 Phil Mead cricketer (55061 1st-class runs 1905-36), dies 1959 Raymond T Chandler US detective writer (Long Goodbye), dies at 71 1960 Ian Keith actor (Identity Unknown, Queen Christina), dies at 61 1962 Marjorie Colton inventor of wax paper, dies at 64 1969 B[runo] Traven writer (Sierra Madre), dies at 87 1969 Günther Weisenborn German/Argentine writer (Illegals), dies at 66 1973 George Sisler hall of famer 1st baseman (257 hits-1920), dies at 80 1973 Noel Coward English playwright (Private Letters), dies at 73 1973 Safford Cape US/Belgian conductor/composer/musicologist, dies at 67 1975 Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz king of Saudi-Arabia (1964-75), murdered at 68 1976 Richard Arlen actor (Apache Uprising, Wings), dies at 75 1979 Jean Stafford US author (Boston Adventure), dies at 63 1980 Jon-Jon Poulos rocker (Buckinghams), dies from drugs at 32 1981 Cyril Dean Darlington biologist (hereditary mechanisms), dies at 77 1981 Tim Wall cricketer (SA vs New South Wales 1933 is Sheffield Shield record), dies 1982 Agathe "Henriëtte" de Beaufort writer (Dolly of Arnhem), dies at 91 1983 Anthony F Blunt British art historian/spy for USSR, dies at 75 1986 Bartlett Robinson actor (Wendy & Me, Mona McCluskey), dies at 73 1987 Walter Abel actor (Suspicion), dies at 88 1990 International Chrysis Transvestite actor (Q&A), dies of cancer at 38 1990 Roy "Halston" Frowick fashion designer, dies of AIDs at 68 1991 Frans Dohmen union leader (Netherlands Catholic Mine Workers), dies at 81 1993 Luis Falco US choreographer (Fame, Angel Heart), dies at 50 1993 Roy Riegels University of California football player who ran wrong way, dies at 84 1994 Constantine Koukouchkine Russian diplomat, murdered in Algeria at 41 1994 Jan Bor Dutch violinist/painter, dies at 83 1995 Rapper-E (Eazy Eric Wright) dies at 31 1996 (Elizabeth Cissie) Charlton football matriarch, dies at 83 1996 David Packard electronic engineer/businessman, dies at 83 1996 Edmund S Muskie Vice Presidential candidate/(Governor-Democrat-ME), dies at 81 1996 Thomas Wakefield writer, dies at 60 On this day...March 26 Events 1027 John XIX crowns Conrad II the Salier Roman German emperor 1147 Jewish community in Cologne fast to commemorate anti-Jewish violence 1150 Tichborne family of Hampshire England started tradition of giving a gallon of flour to each resident to keep deathbed promise 1526 King François I returns Spanish captivity to France 1534 Lübeck accept free Dutch ships into East Sea 1636 University of Utrecht opening ceremony 1668 England takes control of Bombay India 1692 King Maximilian installed as land guardian of South Netherlands 1780 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (British Gazette & Sunday Monitor) 1790 Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency 1793 Pro-royalist uprising in Vendée region of France 1799 Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine 1804 Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana 1804 Territory of Orleans organized in Louisiana Purchase 1812 Earthquake destroys 90% of Caracas; about 20,000 die 1821 Franz Grillparzer's "Das Goldene Vliess" premieres in Vienna 1824 1st performance of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" 1839 1st Henley Royal Regatta 1845 Joseph Francis, New York NY, patents a corrugated sheet-iron lifeboat 1845 Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precusor of bandaid 1856 New South Wales' 1st first-class game, vs Victoria at Melbourne; New South Wales won 1859 1st sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit inside Mercury 1862 Battle of La Glorieta Pass New Mexico Territory (Apache Canyon, Pigeon's Ranch) 1863 Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves 1871 Paris Commune founded 1872 7.8 earthquake shakes Owens Valley, California 1872 Thomas J Martin patents fire extinguisher 1878 Hastings College of Law founded 1878 Sabi Game Reserve, world's 1st official designated game reserve, opens 1885 Eastman Film Co manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film 1885 Louis Riel's forces defeat Canadian forces at Duck Lake, Saskatchewan 1886 1st cremation in England 1889 Bernard Tancred carries bat for 26 out of 47! South Africa vs England 1889 Johnny Briggs took 15-26 (7-17 & 8-11) vs South Africa at Newlands 1889 South Africa all out 47, then follow-on all out 43 vs England 1895 King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day 1900 1st edition The (Free) People (Netherlands, probably Amsterdam) 1903 American Hotel opens in Amsterdam 1909 August Strindberg's "Bjalb-jarle-ti" premieres in Stockholm 1910 US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick 1910 William H Lewis appointed Assistant Attorney General of US 1913 Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the 1st Balkan War 1913 Dayton OH almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, & Muskingum River reach flood stage simultaneously 1915 Stanley Cup: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Ottawa Senators in 3 1916 Birdman of Alcatraz receives solitary 1917 Stanley Cup: Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA) beat Montréal Canadiens (NHL), 3 games to 1; Seattle is 1st US team to win Stanley Cup 1923 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 1 1924 Premiere of Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan" in London 1926 ACD de Graeff appointed Governor-General of Dutch East-Indies 1926 The 1st lip-reading tournament held in America 1927 Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA 1927 Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms 1930 Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway 1931 Iraq & Trans-Jordan sign peace treaty 1931 Leo Bentley bowls 3 consecutive perfect games in Lorain OH 1931 New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capitol of British-Indies 1934 Driving tests introduced in Britain 1935 "RvJ" Mitchell & Major Sorley discuss armament of Spitfire 1936 1st parliamentary debate on New Zealand radio 1936 200" telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass Works, New York-Cal Tech 1936 Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska 1937 Joe DiMaggio takes Ty Cobb's advice & replace his 40 with 36 oz bat 1937 Spinach growers of Crystal City TX, erect statue of Popeye 1937 William H Hastie becomes 1st black federal judge (Virgin Islands) 1938 NBC radio performance of Howard Hanson's 3rd Symphony 1940 Ernest Hemingway & Benjamin Glazer premiere in New York NY 1942 1st "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz & Birkenau Camps 1942 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec 1942 20 tons of gelignite kills 21 in a stone quarry in Easton PA 1942 German offensive in North-Africa under Colonel-General Rommel 1943 1st woman to receive air medal (US army nurse Elsie S Ott) 1943 Battle of Komandorski Islands, Pacific Ocean 1944 705 British bombers attack Essen 1945 British premier Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg) 1945 De Paul wins NIT basketball championship, George Mikan scores 34 1945 Generals Eisenhower/Bradley/Patton attack at Remagen the Rhine 1945 Japanese resistance ends on Iwo Jima 1945 Kamikazes attack US battle fleet near Kerama Retto 1945 US 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms 1945 Venray soccer team forms 1949 11th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Oklahoma State 46-36 1951 Patty Berg wins LPGA Sandhills Women's Golf Open 1951 USAF flag approved 1952 14th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kansas beats St Johns 80-63 1952 F Dürrenmatt's "Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi" premieres in Munich 1953 Dr Jonas Salk announces new vaccine to prevent polio [myelitis] 1954 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island 1955 "Ballad of Davy Crockett" becomes the #1 record in US 1956 Medic Alert Foundation forms 1956 Red Buttons debuts on TV in Studio One 1958 30th Academy Awards-"Bridge on the River Kwai", Alec Guinness & Joanne Woodward win 1958 US Army launches America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III" 1959 Test debut for Mushtaq Mohammad vs West Indies age 15 years 124 days 1960 Iraq executes 30 after attack on President Kassem 1960 Orioles-Reds series for Havana, is moved to Miami 1960 USC captures NCAA swimming title 1961 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Golden Circle of Golf Festival 1962 Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state legislature 1964 "Funny Girl" with Barbra Streisand opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1,348 performances 1967 21st Tony Awards: Homecoming & Cabaret win 1967 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Venice Ladies' Golf Open 1967 Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Populorum progressio 1969 Marcus Welby MD, a TV movie is shown on ABC-TV 1969 Nuclear reactor Dodewaard Netherlands goes into use 1969 Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched 1970 "Minnie's Boys" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 80 performances 1970 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945 1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark 1970 Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) pleads guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl 1971 "Benny Hill Show" tops TV ratings 1971 "Cannon" with William Conrad premieres on CBS-TV 1971 Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence 1972 "Only Fools Are Sad" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 144 performances 1972 Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic 1972 Los Angeles Lakers broke NBA record by winning 69 of 82 games (69-13) 1973 35th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Memphis 81-76; this is UCLA's 7th consecutive NCAA basketball title 1973 Soap opera "The Young and the Restless" premieres 1973 Susan Shaw, is 1st woman in 171 years in London's Stock exchange 1974 George Foreman TKOs Ken Norton in 2 for heavyweight boxing title 1974 Romanian communist party names party leader Nicolae Ceausescu President 1975 "Tommy" premieres in London 1975 Washington Capitals play record NHL 37th road game without a win & NHL record of 17 straight losses 1976 American League approves purchase of Toronto franchise by LaBatt Brewing for $7M 1976 Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound" album 1977 Elvis Costello releases his 1st record "Less Than Zero" 1979 41st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Michigan State Spartans beat Indiana State Sycamores, 75-64 as Magic Johnson outscores Larry Bird, 24-19; this snaps Indiana State's 33-game win streak 1979 Camp David peace treaty between Israel & Egypt 1979 Padres & Giants announce plans to play exhibition series in Tokyo but Giant players reject it 1980 Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police) 1981 Police & Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo Yugoslavia 1981 Soyuz T-4 lands 1982 Ground-breaking in Washington DC for Vietnam Veterans Memorial 1982 Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder release "Ebony & Ivory" in the UK 1982 Soap opera "Capitol" premieres 1983 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1986 Geffen records signs Guns & Roses 1987 August Wilson's "Fences" premieres in New York NY 1987 Hyderabad beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy 1987 NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it failed to reach orbit 1987 National Federation of High School adopts college 3 point shot (21 feet) 1988 Janet B Evans swims 1500 meter freestyle female world record (15 :2.10) 1989 1st free elections in USSR: 190 M votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins 1989 Allison Finney wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic 1990 62nd Academy Awards: "Driving Miss Daisy", Daniel Day-Lewis, Jessica Tandy win 1991 Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street & Lexington Ave, New York NY 1991 Marc Camoletti's "Don't Dress for Dinner" premieres in London 1991 Orlando Thunder beats San Antonio Riders in their 1st WLAF game 35-34 1991 Victoria beat New South Wales by 7 wickets to win Sheffield Shield Final 1992 Mike Tyson sentenced to 10 years in rape of Desiree Washington 1992 NHL New York Rangers clinch 1st NHL regular season championship in 50 years 1994 Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 meter ladies (38.99 seconds) 1994 Gunda Niemann skates un-official world record 10 km ladies (14 :2.60) 1994 Gunda Niemann skates world record 5 km ladies (7 :3.26) 1994 Talk show hostess Ricki Lake weds Rob Sussman 1995 "Defending the Caveman" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 671 performances 1995 "Moliere Comedies" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 56 performances 1995 15th Golden Raspberry Awards: Color of Night wins 1995 24th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nanci Bowen 1995 Mashonaland beat Mashonaland U-24 by 165 runs to win Logan Cup 1996 Last day of 1st-class cricket for Allan Border (Queensland vs Victoria) 1997 "Annie" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC 1997 NHL announce Might Ducks & Vancouver Canucks to open 1998 in Japan [ 03-27-2006, 05:33 PM: Message edited by: Bob Maar ]  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-27-2006 06:45 AM                        Rated G Birthdates which occurred on March 27: 1416 Antonio Squarcialupi composer 1554 Everhardus van Bronchorst Dutch lawyer 1665 Benjamin Neukirch German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau) 1702 Johann Ernst Eberlin composer 1710 Joseph Marie Clement dall' Abaco composer 1746 Augustin Ullinger composer 1746 Carlo Bonaparte Corsican attorney/father of emperor Napoleon 1757 Richard John Samuel Stevens composer 1760 Ishmail Spicer composer 1760 MJ Auguste Vestrius French ballet dancers 1765 Franz Xaver von Baader German philosopher/theologist 1772 Giovanni Liverati composer 1780 August L Crelle German inventor/mathematician (1st Prussian Railway) 1785 Louis XVII pretender to the throne during the French Revolution (1793-95) 1797 Alfred V Comte de Vigny French musketeer/writer (Moïse, Chatterton) 1809 Georges Eugene Haussmann Paris France, architect 1810 A Glabbrenner writer 1813 Nathaniel Currier lithographer (Currier & Ives) 1816 George Elvey composer 1818 Jakob Axel Josephson composer 1823 Samuel Kosciusko Zook Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) 1844 Adolphus Washington Greely US, Arctic explorer, US Army General Greely was a Medal of Honor recipient, decorated by Great Britain and France to acknowledge his numerous contributions to telecommunications; General Greely was an outstanding soldier/communicator to whom Greely Hall, Fort Huachuca, Arizona was rededicated in a bicentennial year observance on 21 June 1976; His nineteen year service as Chief Signal Officer (1887-1906) represents the longest continuous period an incumbent has occupied 1845 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Germany, discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901) 1847 Otto Wallach Germany, chemist (Nobel 1910) 1851 Paul-Marie-Theodore-Vincent d'Indy Paris France, composer (Symphonie Cévenole) 1851 Ruperto Chapi y Lorente composer 1851 Vincent d'Indy Paris France, dandy composer (Symphonie Cévenole) 1854 Edgar Tinel Flemish composer (Le Chant Grégorien) 1857 Karl Pearson London England, mathematician 1858 Peter Christian Lutkin composer 1859 George Giffen cricketer (one of Australia's greatest all-rounders) 1863 Sir Henry Royce automobile founder (Rolls-Royce) 1867 Edyth Walker US singer 1868 Patty Smith Hill author/songwriter (Happy Birthday To You) 1871 Heinrich Mann Germany, novelist/essayist (Blue Angel); brother of Thomas 1871 Petrus J M Aalberse Dutch minister of Labor (1918-25) 1879 Edward Steichen pioneered American photography 1883 Jan Kunc composer 1886 Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe German/US architect (Bauhaus) 1889 Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu Turkish writer/diplomat 1891 Lajos Zilahy Hungarian/US author (Ararát/Süd a nap) 1892 Ferde (Ferdinand Rudolf von) Grofé New York NY, composer 1892 Thorne Smith author (Topper, Rain in the Doorway, Stray Lamb) 1893 Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic Yugoslavian General/Nazi collaborator 1893 Karl Mannheim Hung/German/British sociologist (Ideology & Utopia) 1893 William Harrigan New York NY, actor (Affair of Three Nations, Cabaret) 1897 Carlo Mierendorff German politician/anti-fascist 1897 Douglas Rayner Hartree mathematician 1899 Gloria Swanson Chicago IL, actress (Sadie Thomson, Queen Kelly) 19-- Brian Tarantina New York NY, actor (Uncle Buck, Lucky-One Life to Live) 19-- Michael Palance Long Island NY, actor (Dan-One Life to Live, Robert-Ryan's Hope) 1901 Albert Henneberg composer 1901 Erich Ollenhauer German politician (SPD) 1901 Sato Eisaku (Liberal) Japanese Prime Minister (1964-72) (Nobel 1974) 1902 Mary Armour artist 1903 Walt Kiesling NFL guard/coach (Hall of Fame) 1905 László Kalmár Edde Hungary, mathematician/promoted the development of computer science in Hungary 1907 Mary Treen St Louis MO, actress (Emily-Willy) 1908 Jacques [Izaäk] den Haan Dutch writer (Dangerous Book) 1909 Ben[jamin F] Webster US tenor saxophonist 1909 Golo Mann [Gottfried], German/US historian (Antisemitism) 1910 Rudi Ball Germany, Jewish ice hockey star (Olympics-bronze-1932) 1912 James Callaghan (L) British Prime Minister (1976-79) 1912 Reuel Lahmer composer 1912 Robert Watson Hughes composer 1913 Godfrey Turner composer 1914 Budd Schulberg New York NY, novelist (On the Waterfront) 1914 Richard Denning Poughkeepsie NY, actor (Steve-Karen, Hawaii Five-0) 1914 Snooky Lanson Memphis TN, singer (Your Hit Parade, 5 Star Jubilee) 1915 Richard Sharp civil servant 1917 Cyrus R Vance US Secretary of State (1977-80) 1917 Harry West Unionist party leader (Unionist) 1919 Julian Amery conservative minister 1919 Simon van Collem Dutch journalist/TV host (Amsterdamned) 1920 Richard Hayman bandleader/conductor/pianist (Theme of 3 Penny Opera) 1921 Tom Bevill (Representative-Democrat-AL, 1967- ) 1922 Margaret Stacey sociologist 1923 Louis Simpson Jamaican/US poet (Good News of Death) 1923 Shusaku Endo writer 1923 Victor Hochhauser British impresario (Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra) 1924 Harold Nicholas US actor (Tap, 5 Heartbeats, Stormy Weather) 1924 Sarah L Vaughan Newark NJ, jazz scat singer (Broken Hearted Melody) 1925 Lord Plumb MEP 1925 Robert P Cohan artistic director/choreographer (Contemporary Dance Trust) 1926 Louis Blom-Cooper QC press arbiter 1927 Anthony Lewis newspaper columnist (New York Times)/author (Gideon's Trumpet) 1927 Cecil Bödker writer 1927 Lord Fanshawe of Richmond MP 1927 Mstislav Leopold Rostropovich Baku USSR, cellist/conductor/teacher (Moscow Conservatory) 1928 Douglas Applegate (Representative-Democrat-OH, 1977- ) 1930 Bob den Uyl Dutch journalist/writer (Bird Watching) 1930 David Janssen [Meyer] Naponee NE, actor (Fugitive, Harry O) 1930 Richard Hayman Cambridge MA, orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show) 1931 Burt Collins trumpeter 1931 R P Bauman CEO (British Aerospace) 1931 Yoriaki Matsudaira composer 1932 Junior Parker blues musician (Driving Wheel, Outside Man) 1932 Wes Covington baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies) 1933 DRG Andrews CEO (Land Rover-Leyland) 1933 Frank Taylor Chief Constable (Durham) 1933 J Geoffrey Parker high master (Manchester Grammar School) 1934 Arthur Mitchell choreographer (Dance Theater of Harlem) 1934 David Hancock secretary (British Department of Education & Science) 1935 Earl of Suffolk & Berkshire 1935 Julian Glover London England, actor (QED, Heat & Dust, Mandela) 1936 Jerry Lacy Sioux City IA, actor (Play it Again Sam, Reverend Trask-Dark Shadows) 1936 Malcolm Goldstein composer 1937 Johnny "Clyde" Copeland US blues guitarist/singer (Lion's Den) 1938 A J Bellingham president (Royal College of Pathologists) 1938 Jock Slater Admiral 1938 P Daubeny CEO (Electricity Association) 1939 Jay C Kim (Representative-Republican-CA) 1939 Judy Carne comedienne (Laugh-In, Love on a Rooftop) 1939 Lord Lyell 1939 Ruth Ashton general secretary (Royal College of Midwives) 1940 Austin Pendleton Warren OH, actor (Short Circuit, Simon, Hello Again) 1940 Cale Yarborough auto racer (Won Daytona 500 4 times-1968, 77, 83, 84) 1940 June Wilkinson Eastbourne England, actress (Absolutely Glamorous, Pajama Tops) 1941 Charles Pashayan Jr (Representative-Republican-CA, 1979- ) 1941 Liese Prokop Austria, pentathlete (Olympics-silver-1968) 1942 Michael York Fulmer Buckinghamshire England, actor (Cabaret, Logan's Run, 3 Musketeers) 1942 Raymond J McGrath (Representative-Republican-NY, 1981- ) 1943 M Robert Carr (Representative-Democrat-MI, 1975-81, 83- ) 1945 Briton Selby NHLer 1946 Bill Sudakis baseball player 1946 Carl Weintraub actor (Harry-Executive Suite) 1947 Daphne Todd president (Royal Society of Portrait Painters) 1947 Dough Wilkerson football 1947 Tom Sullivan Boston MA, blind actor (If You Could See What I Hear) 1949 Patrick Deuchar CEO (Albert Hall) 1950 Maria Ewing opera singer 1950 Tony Banks East Heathly Sussex England, rock keyboardist (Genesis-Invisible Touch, Misunderstanding) 1950 Vic Harris baseball 1951 Bobby Lalonde NHLer (Boston Bruins) 1952 Chick Vennera Herkimer NY, actor (High Risk, Milagro Beanfield War) 1952 Maria Schneider Paris France, actress (Last Tango in Paris, Crime of Honor) 1952 Rocky Maffit rocker (Champaign) 1953 Annemarie Moser-Pröll Austria, downhill skier (Olympics-gold-1980) 1953 Pamela Roylance Seattle WA, actress (Sarah-Little House on Prairie) 1955 Kim Brassey racehorse trainer 1955 Patrick McCabe novelist 1956 Brian Kelly CFL wide receiver (Edmonton Eskimos) 1956 Thomas Wassberg Sweden, 15K/50K cross country skier (Olympics-gold-1980) 1957 Billy MacKenzie rock vocalist (The Associates-Affectionate Punch) 1957 Duncan Goodhew England, 100 meter breast stroke swimmer (Olympics-Gold-1980) 1957 Nicholas Hawkins MP 1958 Bart Connor gymnast/sportscaster (Olympics-gold-1984) 1958 Michael O'Leary St Paul MN, actor (Guiding Light, Fatal Games) 1958 Shaun Cassidy rocker/actor (Hardy Boys, Texas Guns) 1958 Susan Molinari (Representative-Republican-NY) 1960 Clare Lucy Madeleine Evans historian 1960 Jennifer Grey actress (Dirty Dancing); Joel Grey's daughter 1960 Steve Jarvin Australian soling yachter (Olympics-96) 1961 Ellery Hanley rugby league player 1963 Dave Koz saxophonist 1963 Ed Pinckney NBA forward (Philadelphia 76ers) 1963 Quentin Tarantino director/screenwriter (Pulp Fiction) 1963 Randall Cunningham NFL QB (Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings) 1963 Todd Graves Laurel MS, skeet (Olympics-1992, 96) 1963 Xuxa [Maria da Graca Meneghel] Brazil, actress (Xuxa Park) 1964 Clark Datchler vocalist (Johnny Hates Jazz-Shattered Dreams) 1966 Kate Donahoo Las Vegas NV, US judoka (Olympics-92) 1967 Jaime Navarro Bayamon PR, pitcher (Chicago Cubs) 1967 Talisa Soto [Miriam], Brooklyn NY, actress (License to Kill) 1967 Tom Hammonds NBA forward (Minnesota Timberwolves, Denver Nuggets) 1968 Irina Belova Russian pentathlete (world record 1992) 1969 Tom Beer NFL running back (Detroit Lions) 1970 Anthony Prior NFL cornerback/safety (New York Jets, Minnesota Vikings) 1970 Corey Page actor (Richard Wilkins-Loving/City) 1970 Ed Philion NFL nose tackle (Buffalo Bills) 1970 Mariah Carey New York NY, singer (Vision of Love, Love Takes Time, Hero) 1972 Kirby Dar Dar wide receiver (Miami Dolphins) 1973 Serge Tremblay La Malbaie Québec Canada, weightlifter (Olympics-96) 1974 Rosanna Gimenez Miss Paraguay-Universe (1997) 1975 B J Gallis CFL linebacker (British Columbia Lions) 1975 Gregory DuBois hockey defenseman (Team France 1998) 1976 Danny Fortson NBA forward (Denver Nuggets) 1976 Roberta Alma Anastase Miss Romania-Universe (1996) 1977 Tom van der Leegte Dutch soccer player (PSV) 1984 Emily Ann Lloyd actress (Sarah Kramer-Something So Right) 1984 J P Steur actor (Grace Under Fire) 1986 Melissa Stern aka "Baby M" aka Sara Whitehead, surrogate baby, awarded to her dad William Stern 1988 Kerri Ann Darling actress (Alli Fowler-Another World) Deaths which occurred on March 27: 0922 Al-Hallaj al-Mughith-al-Hsayn Mansur Persian mystic, beheaded at 64 0965 Arnulf I the Elder/the Great, count of Flanders (918-65), dies 1211 Sancho I King of Portugal (1185-1211), dies at 56 1378 Gregory XI [Pierre R the Beaufort], last French Pope (1370-78), dies 1472 Janus Pannonius Hungarian poet/translator, dies at 37 1482 Maria duchess of Burgundy/countess of Holland, dies at 25 1625 James I Stuart king of Scotland (1567)/England (1603-25), dies at 58 1668 Clemens Thieme composer, dies at 36 1679 Abraham Mignon Dutch still life painter, dies at 38 1701 Anne Hilarion de Cotentin count of Tourville/French Admiral, dies at 58 1714 Anton Ulrich German duke of Brunswick/poet, dies at 80 1757 Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz composer, dies at 39 1761 Johann Ludwig Steiner composer, dies at 72 1769 Josef Antonin Gurecky composer, dies at 60 1770 Giovanni B Tiepolo Italian painter (Banquet of Cleopatra), dies at 73 1809 Joseph M Vien French (court)painter/etcher, dies at 92 1826 Jakob Haibel composer, dies at 63 1850 Wilhelm Bear German banker/astronomer (Moon Map), dies at 53 1875 Edgar Quinet French writer/historian (Ahasvérus), dies at 72 1878 Dobri Voynikov composer, dies at 44 1878 George Gilbert Scott architect, dies 1889 Moritz Furstenau composer, dies at 64 1894 Verney L Cameron English explorer (Tanganyika), dies at 49 1898 Sajjid Ahmad Chan co founder (Pakistan), dies at 80 1900 Pieter J Joubert [Smart Piet] South African General, dies at 69 1910 Alexander E Agassiz US businessman/biologist/geologist, dies at 74 1910 David Duffle Wood composer, dies at 72 1920 Johan G Danser Dutch poet (Meetings), dies at 26 1922 Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov composer, dies at 63 1924 Walter Parratt composer, dies at 83 1925 Carl G Neumann German mathematician/physicist, dies at 92 1928 Leslie Stuart composer, dies at 64 1929 ... Shatunovsky mathematician, dies 1931 Arnold Bennett novelist, dies 1933 Lionel Palairet cricketer (49 runs in 2 Tests for England 1902), dies 1938 Louis William Stern German/US philosopher/psychologist, dies at 66 1939 Constance Lindsay Skinner author (Rivers of America), dies at 57 1943 Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi test pilot (BI-1), killed in crash 1945 Jørgen Nielsen Danish writer (romance), dies at 42 1946 Gabriela Preissová writer, dies 1947 Charles Smith cricketer (batted for South Africa in 1902-03), dies 1948 Karel Candael Flemish composer, dies at 64 1953 Narciso Garay composer, dies at 76 1956 Frans Beelaerts van Blokland minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84 1959 Grant Withers actor (Oklahoma Annie), suicide with sleeping pills at 54 1960 Ian Whyte composer, dies at 58 1961 Jack Kane orchestra leader (Steve & Eydie, Andy Williams Show), dies at 37 1966 Mien Labberton Dutch poet, dies at 82 1967 Gerardus H de Vet the Bold, bishop of Breda (1962-67), dies at 49 1968 Yuri Gagarin 1st man to orbit Earth, & Seryogin, dies in plane crash at 34 1972 Maurits C Escher Dutch lithograph carver (Praedestinatie), dies at 73 1973 Boyan Georgiev Ikonomov composer, dies at 72 1975 Arthur Bliss English composer/conductor (Checkmate), dies at 83 1975 Gertrude Niesen actress (Start Cheering), dies at 63 1977 Diana Hyland actress (Peyton Place, 8 is Enough), dies at 41 1977 Eve Meyer [Turner] Playboy Playmate/actress (Immoral Mr Teas), dies in a plane crash at 46 1977 Lodewijk de Vocht composer, dies at 89 1978 Wilfred Pickles actor (Billy Liar, Gay Dog), dies at 73 1979 Ronald Adam actor (Phantom Shot), dies at 82 1982 Joris Noë Flemish literary, dies at 68 1983 James Hayter actor (Pickwick Papers, Trio, Great Game), dies at 75 1983 Janis Ivanovs composer, dies at 76 1986 Cass Canfield US publisher, dies at 88 1987 Lloyd Goodrich American Arts Museum director, dies at 90 1988 Jan van den Weghe Flemish writer, dies at about 67 1989 May Allison actress (Youth for Salem Men of Steel), dies 1991 Aldo Ray western actor (Battle Cry), dies of cancer at 64 1991 Elinor Remick Warren composer, dies at 91 1991 Leueen McGrath actress (Edward My Son, Saint's Vacation), dies at 77 1991 Ralph Bates British actor (Persecution, Graveyard), dies at 50 1992 Anita Colby US model/actress/author (Pepsi Coke), dies at 77 1992 Easley Blackwood expert bridge player, dies at 89 1992 Gerry Duggan dies at 82 1992 James E Webb head of NASA (1961-68), dies at 84 1992 Martin Engelman Dutch cartoonist/painter/graphic artist, dies 1993 Carlos Gimenez director (Theater Festival of Caracas), dies at 47 1993 Clifford Jordan tenor saxophonist, dies of cancer at 61 1993 Kate Reid British actress (Lil-Dallas), dies of cancer at 62 1993 Katherine Hynes De Groot dies of stroke at 88 1993 Wilhelmus M J Russell Dutch MP (KVP, CDA), dies at 74 1994 Dennis Hartas flier, dies at 69 1995 Albert Drach writer, dies 1995 Bernard Cornfeld Romanian/US financier (Fund of Funds), dies at 67 1995 Chet Gierlach music publisher/composer, dies at 75 1995 Rene Allio film Director, dies at 70 On this day...March 27 Events 1513 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León sights Florida 1599 Robert Devereux becomes Lieutenant-General of Ireland 1625 Charles I, King Of England, Scotland & Ireland, ascends to throne 1668 English King Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company 1708 English pretender to the throne James III flees to Dunkerk 1709 Dike at Hardinxveld breaks (Alblasserwaard flooded) 1713 Spain losses Menorca & Gibraltar 1721 France & Spain sign Treaty of Madrid 1758 Battle at Emmerich: British army floats around France the Rhine 1790 The shoelace invented 1794 Congress authorizes the President "to provide a naval armament" (US Navy) 1802 Treaty of Amiens-French Revolutionary War ends 1808 Joseph Haydns oratorio "Die Schöpfung" premieres in Vienna 1814 Battle at Horseshoe Bend: General Andrew Jackson beats Creek-Indians 1836 1st Mormon temple dedicated (Kirtland OH) 1841 1st US steam fire engine tested, New York NY 1848 John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster 1849 Joseph Couch patents steam-powered percussion rock drill 1855 Abraham Gesner patents kerosene 1860 M L Byrn patents "covered gimlet screw with a 'T' handle" (corkscrew) 1861 Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars 1863 President Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting & prayer 1865 Siege of Spanish Fort AL: captured by Federals 1866 Andrew Rankin patents the urinal 1866 President Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th Amendment 1871 1st international rugby game-Scotland 1, England 0 1879 Longest championship fight (136 rounds) 1884 1st long-distance telephone call, Boston-New York 1912 1st Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Washington DC 1914 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels) 1917 Seattle Metropolitans, 1st US team to win Stanley Cup beat Canadiens 1920 Film stars Mary Pickford & Douglas Fairbanks wed 1920 Hermann Müller becomes German chancellor (SPD) 1924 Canada recognizes USSR 1924 New French government of Poincaré begins 1928 KGB-AM in San Diego CA begins radio transmissions 1928 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Maribel Vinson 1928 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Roger Turner 1930 1st US radio broadcast from a ship at sea 1931 Charlie Chaplin receives France's distinguished Legion of Honor 1931 John McGraw says night baseball will not catch on 1932 De Bataven soccer team forms in Gendt 1933 Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized 1933 Japan leaves League of Nations 1933 Polythene discovered by Reginald Gibson & Eric William Fawcett 1936 WOS-AM in Jefferson City MO goes off the air 1937 Feyenoord-stadium official opens in Rotterdam 1939 1st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: University of Oregon beats Ohio State 46-33 1940 Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice 1941 Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years 1941 Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia) 1941 Yugoslavian coup gets rid of pro-German Prince Paul 1942 Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire 1942 Japan forces Java to use "Tokyo time" 1½ hour forward 1942 Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title (New York NY) 1943 Assassination attempt on Van de Peat at Amsterdams census bureau 1943 Blue Ribbon Town (with Groucho Marx) 1st heard on CBS Radio 1943 US begins assault on Fondouk-pass, Tunisia 1944 1,000 Jews leave Drancy France for Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1944 2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania 1944 40 Jewish policemen in Riga Latvia ghetto are shot by the gestapo 1944 Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno 1945 7th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Oklahoma State beats NYU 49-44 1945 British premier Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine 1945 DePaul beats Bowling Green for NIT title 1945 Ella Fitzgerald & Delta Rhythm Boys record "It's Only a Paper Moon" 1945 General Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken 1945 Iwo Jima occupied, after 22,000 Japanese & 6,000 US killed 1945 US 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden 1950 Jazz pianist, Erroll Garner's solo concert (Cleveland OH) 1950 Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China 1950 WHAS TV channel 11 in Louisville KY (CBS) begins broadcasting 1951 13th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Kansas 68-58 1951 Frank Sinatra recorded "I'm a Fool to Want You" 1952 Failed assassination attempt of German Chancellor Adenauer 1952 Sun Records of Memphis begins releasing records 1953 21 die in a train crash in Conneaut OH 1955 9th Tony Awards: Desperate Hours & Pajama Game win 1955 Steve McQueen makes his network TV debut (Goodyear Playhouse) 1955 WPRI TV channel 12 in Providence RI (ABC) begins broadcasting 1956 French commandos land in Algeria 1956 US seizes US communist newspaper "Daily Worker" 1957 29th Academy Awards: "Around World in 80 Days", Yul Brynner & Ingrid Bergman win 1958 CBS Labs announce new stereophonic records 1958 Havana Hilton opens 1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier & 1st Secretary of Communist Party 1960 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Royal Crown Golf Open 1961 Belgian government of Eyskens resigns 1961 Failed assassination attempt on King Saif al-Islam Achmad of Yemen 1962 Ann Jellicoe's "Knack" premieres in London 1962 Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orlean Catholic school 1962 Jacques Plante ties record winning 6th NHL Vezina trophy 1964 Earthquake strikes Anchorage AK, 9.2 on Richter scale, 131 die from earthquake and resulting tsunami; this is the most violent eathquake in US history 1964 Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars 1964 UN troops arrive on Cyprus 1966 Anti Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe & Australia 1966 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Louise Suggs Delray Beach Golf Invitational 1968 Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in San Francisco 1968 Suharto succeeds Sukarno as President of Indonesia 1969 Black Academy of Arts & Letters forms in Boston 1969 Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190 miles above southern Mars 1970 Ringo releases his 1st solo album "Sentimental Journey" 1970 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR 1971 33rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Villanova 68-62; this is UCLA's 5th consecutive NCAA basketball title 1972 Adolph Rupp retires after 42 years of coaching University of Kentucky 1972 Venera 8 launched to Venus 1973 45th Academy Awards: "Godfather", Marlon Brando & Liza Minnelli win Marlon Brando turns down Oscar for best actor in support of Indians 1973 Dennis Amiss out for 99 vs Pakistan, 3rd 99 in Test Cricket 1973 Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) stopped for speeding & LSD possession 1976 Delta States beat Immaculata, 69-64, for AIWA basketball title 1976 Washington DC underground Metro opens 1977 583 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM-Pan Am 747 crash, Tenerife 1977 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Kathryn Crosby/Honda Civic Golf Classic 1978 40th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Duke 94-88 1978 Bob Fosse's "Dancin'" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 1,774 performances 1978 Rutles "All You Need is Cash" is shown on British TV 1979 Supreme Court rules, 8-1, cops can't randomly stop cars 1980 "Happy New Year" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 17 performances 1980 "Reggae" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 21 performances 1980 Elevator in Vaal Reef South Africa gold mine crash 1900 meter down (23 die) 1980 Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years 1981 John Lennon's "Watching the Wheels" is released in UK 1982 "Best Little Whorehouse..." closes at 46th St NYC after 1577 performances 1982 Imran takes 14-116 for cricket match vs Sri Lanka at Lahore 1982 Randy Holt sets Washington Capital record of 34 penalty minutes 1983 13th Easter Seal Telethon 1983 Larry Holmes beats Lucien Rodriguez in 12 for heavyweight boxing title 1983 Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs" premieres in NYC 1984 Andrew Lloyd Webber/Richard Stilgoe's "Starlight Express" premieres 1985 Billy Dee Williams receives a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1986 Disney-MGM Studio Tour ground breaking 1987 President Habré's troops reconquer Faya Largeau Chad 1988 Ok-Hee Ku wins Standard Register Turquoise Classic Golf Tournament 1988 World Ice Dance Championship in Budapest won by Bestemianova & Bukin (USSR) 1988 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Budapest won by E Valova & O Vasiliev (USSR) 1988 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Budapest won by Katarina Witt (German Democratic Republic) 1988 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Budapest won by Brian Boitano (USA) 1988 Wrestlemania IV at Trump Plaza, "Macho Man" Savage pins Ted Dibiase 1989 1st half-black soap opera, "Generations" premieres on NBC-TV 1989 Delhi beat Bengal by innings & 210 to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy 1990 Bus accidentally touches high voltage wire in Karagpur India; 21 die 1990 New South Wales beat Queensland by 345 runs to win Sheffield Shield Final 1991 NCAA bans University of Minnesota football team from postseason play in 1992 1991 New Kids on the Block's Donnie Wahlberg arrested on arson charges in Kentucky 1991 Scotty Bowman & Neil Armstrong elected to NHL Hall of Fame 1992 Bruce Springsteen releases "Human Touch" & "Lucky Town" 1994 23rd Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Donna Andrews 1994 Church in Piedmont AL collapses in tornado, 19 killed 1994 Radio personality Rush Limbaugh weds wife #3, Marta Fitzgerald 1994 World Ice Dance Championship in Chiba Japan won by Gritschuk & Platov (Russia) 1994 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Shishkova/Vadim Naumov (Russia) 1994 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Yuka Sato (Japan) 1994 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Elvis Stojko (Canada) 1995 67th Academy Awards: "Forest Gump", Tom Hanks & Jessica Lange win 1996 "State Fair" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 118 performances 1997 "Young Man From Atlanta" opens at Longacre NYC for 85 performances 1997 39 cult memebers in California commit mass suicide (Hale-Bopp) 1997 Martin Luther King's son meets with James Earl Ray 1998 Soul Train Awards 2134 32nd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet [ 03-27-2006, 05:25 PM: Message edited by: Bob Maar ]  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-28-2006 06:37 AM                        Rated G Birthdates which occurred on March 28: 1468 Charles I Duke of Savoy 1472 Fra Bartolomeo monk, Florentine Renaissance painter 1483 Raphael Urbino Italy, painter (School of Athens) 1515 Theresa of Avila/Teresa de Jesus Spanish mystic writer/saint 1592 Jan Amos Komensky [Comenius] Moravian educational reformer 1603 Stephan Otto composer 1615 Pieter de Groot Dutch regent/diplomat 1621 Heinrich Schwemmer composer 1643 Jose Solana composer 1660 Arnold Houbraken Dutch schilder/writer 1660 Georg Ludwig German monarch of Hanover/King George I of Great Britain 1727 Maximilian III Jozef Elector of Bayern (1745-77) 1729 Pieter Fouquet Dutch art seller (Atlas of Fouquet) 1731 Rámon de la Cruz Spanish playwright/interpreter 1737 Francesco Zannetti composer 1741 Johann Andre composer 1750 Francisco A G de Miranda Venezuelan freedom fighter 1760 Thomas Clarkson English abolitionist (Negro Emancipation) 1766 Joseph Weigl Austria composer/conductor (Emmeline) 1770 Sophie Mereau writer 1779 Angelo Maria Benincori composer 1799 Karl Adolph von Basedow German artist (Ziekte van Basedow) 1806 Ludolf AJW Sloet van de Beele Governor-General of Netherland Indies (1861-66) 1817 Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras composer 1818 Wade Hampton Charleston SC, Lieutenant General (Confederate Army), died in 1902 1840 Mehemed Emin Pasja German explorer/Governor (Equatoria) 1853 Rudolf Kittel German theologist (Psalms) 1859 Joséphin Péladan French writer/founder (French Rosicrucians) 1862 Aristide Briand France, premier (1909-22) (Nobel 1926) 1868 Cuno Amiet Swiss painter 1868 Maxim Gorki [Aleksei Peshikov] Russia, writer (Mother) 1868 Wojciech Gawronski composer 1871 Willem Mengelberg Utrecht Netherlands, conductor (New York Philharmonic 1922-30) 1872 José Sanjurjo y Sacanell Spanish General (Morocco) 1880 Rosina Lhévinne Kiev Ukraine, pianist/professor (Juilliard Graduate School) 1883 William H Harris composer 1885 Marc-Jean-Baptiste Delmas composer 1886 Jaroslav Novotny composer 1887 Rudolf F W Boskaljon Curaçao, musician/composer 1890 Paul Whiteman Denver CO, orchestra leader (Paul Whiteman's TV Teen Club) 1891 Karel Cruysberghs Flemish author 1891 Peter Suhrkamp German publisher (Suhrkamp Verlag) 1895 Spencer W Kimball 12th prophet of Mormon church 19-- Elvera Roussel actress (Hope-Guiding Light) 19-- Stephanie Dunnam Oak Harbor WA, actress (Kay-Emerald Point NAS) 19-- Tom O'Rourke New York NY, actor (Justin Marler-Guiding Light) 1900 Achille Longo composer 1900 Robert Harris actor (Big Caper, Laughing Anne) 1902 Dame Flora Robson South Shields England, actress (Dominique is Dead, The Years Between) 1902 Paul Godwin [Goldfein], Polish/Dutch violinist 1903 Rudolf Serkin Eger Bohemia, pianist (Marlboro School of Music) 1904 Fosco Giachetti Livorno Italy, actor (Wastrel, We the Living) 1905 Marlin Perkins Carthage MO, TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom) 1905 Pandro S Berman film producer 1906 Joseph Wright Canada, oarsman (Olympics-gold-1928) 1906 Robert (Bob) Allen actor (Texas Rangers) 1907 Herbert "Herb" Hall clarinetist/saxophonist 1909 Nelson Algren US, novelist (Man with the Golden Arm) 1910 Ingrid Queen Mother of Denmark 1911 Myfanwy Piper librettist 1912 A[rthur] Bertram Chandler UK, sci-fi author (Empress of Outer Space) 1914 Bohumil Hrabal writer 1914 Edmund Sixtus Muskie (Senator-Democrat-ME), US Secretary of State (1980) 1914 Frank Lovejoy Bronx NY, actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw) 1915 Jay Livingston composer (Buttons & Bows, Mona Lisa, Tammy) 1915 Raymond Emery cricketer (New Zealand Test batsman vs West Indies 1952) 1918 Youly Algaroff ballet dancer 1919 Jacob Avshalomov Tsingtao China, composer (Sinfonietta, The Oregon) 1919 Tom Brooks cricketer (New South Wales fast bowler of the 30's, later Test umpire) 1920 Gene Chappie (Representative-Republican-CA, 1981-86) 1920 Lord Butterfield 1921 Dirk Bogarde Hampstead London England, actor (Death in Venice, The Servant) 1924 Freddie Bartholomew Dublin Ireland, actor (Anna Karenina, David Copperfield) 1924 Gerhart Fritsch writer 1924 Peter Baer artist/printmaker 1925 Innokenti Smoktunovsky actor (Bely Prazdnik, Zakoldovannye) 1926 Francis Burt composer 1926 Polly Umrigar cricketer (Indian batsman & captain) 1928 Jose Luis de Delas composer 1928 Zbigniew Brzezinski Warsaw Poland, national security advisor (Carter) 1929 Aubrey J Watson Sr bishop 1930 Amelia Rosselli poet 1930 George Bruce painter 1930 Robert Ashley composer 1932 Sven Oskar Lindqvist Swedish writer (Myten om Wu Tao-tzu) 1933 Frank Murkowski (Senator-Republican-AK) 1934 Siegfried Thiele composer 1936 Mario Vargas Llosa Peru, writer (Aunt Julia)/Presidential candidate 1940 J Michael Plumb Islip NY, equestrian (Olympics-2 gold/4 silver-1976,84) 1940 Kevin Loughery NBA star/coach (Baltimore, Philadelphia) 1941 Alf Clausen Minneapolis MN, orchestra leader (Mary, Simpsons) 1941 Charlie McCoy Oak Hill WV, harmonica player (Hee Haw) 1942 Brian Jones [Lewis B Hopkin] Cheltenham Gloucestershire England, pop guitarist (Rolling Stones) 1942 Neil Kinnock Wales, leader of the British opposition (Labour) 1942 Samuel Ramey Colby KS, bass (La Scala) 1943 Conchata Ferrell Charleston WV, actress (Deadly Hero, For Keeps, Susan-LA Law) 1943 Mike Newell director (Bad Blood, Awakening, Amazing Grace & Chuck) 1943 Richard Eyre British director (National Theatre) 1944 Ken Howard El Centro CA, actor (Ken-White Shadow, Dynasty, 1776) 1944 Rick Barry ABA/NBA forward (New York Nets, Golden State Warriors) 1945 Chuck Portz Santa Monica CA, bassist (Turtles-Happy Together) 1945 Hans Brunhart leader of Liechtenstein (1978-93) 1946 Richard Sussman rocker 1947 Bruce Gilbert producer (China Syndrome, 9 to 5, On Golden Pond) 1948 Dianne Wiest Kansas City MO, actress (Radio Days, Hannah & Her Sisters, Footloose) 1948 John Evans [Evan] rock drummer (Jethro Tull, Blades-A Song for Jeffrey) 1944 Rick Barry Elizabeth NJ, basketball player (San Francisco Warriors/1966 NBA rookie of the year) 1948 Wubbo J Ockels Almelo Netherlands, astronaut (STS 22) 1949 Milan Williams US keyboardist (Commodores-Three Times a Lady) 1949 Ronnie Ray Smith 4 X 100 meter relay runner (Olympics-gold-1968) 1949 Shafiq Ahmed cricketer (Pakistani batsman during the 70's) 1953 Nydia M Velazquez (Representative-Democrat-NY, 1993- ) 1955 Reba McEntire McAlester OK, country singer (Can't Even Get the Blues) 1956 Asoka De Silva cricket leg-spinner (Sri Lanka in 10 Tests 1985-91) 1956 Evelin Jahl German Democratic Republic, discus thrower (Olympics-2 gold-1976) 1956 T A Sekar Indian cricket pace-bowler (2 Tests 1982-83 little impact) 1957 Harvey Glance Phoenix City AL, 4x100 meter runner (Olympics-gold-1976) 1958 Bart Wayne Conner Morton Grove IL, gymnast (Olympics-2 gold-1984) 1959 Petra Delhees Jauch Switzertand, tennis star 1959 Todd Curtis actor (Capitol, Skip-Young & Restless) 1961 Byron Scott NBA guard (Vancouver Grizzlies) 1962 Ged Grimes [Danny Wilson], rocker (Mary's Prayer) 1963 Bernice King daughter of Martin Luther King Jr 1963 Therese Washtock Vancouver British Columbia, 3 day equestrian (Olympics-96) 1965 Jeff Beukeboom Ajax, NHL defenseman (New York Rangers) 1966 Jason Garrett NFL quarterback (Dallas Cowboys) 1966 Nathalie Herreman France, tennis star 1966 Serge Djelloul hockey defenseman (Team France 1998) 1967 David Lang NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys) 1967 Ed[ward] Grose Juneau AK, rower (Olympics-1996) 1967 Shawn Boskie Hawthorne NV, pitcher (California Angels) 1968 Chad Biafore hockey defenseman (Team Italy 1998) 1968 Dennis Postlewait Jacksonville NC, Nike golfer (1994 Wichita Open) 1968 Max Perlich actor (JH Brodie-Homicide) 1968 Nasser Hussain cricketer (Essex & England batsman) 1968 Teee Williams Los Angeles CA, volleyball outside hitter (Olympics-bronze-92, 96) 1969 Cheryl "Salt" James rocker (Salt 'n' Pepa-Shake Ya Thang) 1969 Craig Paquette Long Beach CA, infielder (Kansas City Royals) 1969 Earnest Stewart soccer player (Willem II) 1969 Elliot Perry NBA guard (Phoenix Suns, Milwaukee Bucks) 1969 Scottie Graham NFL running back (Minnesota Vikings, Cincinnati Bengals) 1970 James Johnson NFL/WLAF running back (Tampa Buccaneers, Frankfurt Galaxy) 1970 Jason B Gailes Taunton MA, rower (Olympics-silver-1996) 1970 Shawn Price NFL defensive end (Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers, Buffalo Bills) 1971 Damien Marsh Georgia, Australian 100 meter/200 meter swimmer (Olympics-96) 1971 Wesley Person NBA guard (Phoenix Suns, Cleveland Cavaliers) 1972 Derek West offensive tackle (Indianapolis Colts) 1972 Jonathan Edwards Boston MA, doubles luger (Olympics-1994) 1972 Keith Tkachuk Melrose MA, NHL left wing (Winnipeg Jets, Phoenix, USA) 1972 Michael Smith NBA forward (Sacramento Kings) 1972 Mike Morton linebacker (Oakland Raiders) 1972 Shannon Mitchell NFL tight end (San Diego Chargers) 1973 Andrew Whittall cricketer (cousin of Guy Zimbabwe off-spinner 1996) 1974 K C Jones NFL center (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32) 1975 Atta-ur-Rehman cricketer (Pakistani quickie, debut vs England 1992 age 17) 1977 Angelo Garcia Brooklyn NY, singer (Menudo-Cannonball) 1978 Nafisa Joseph Miss India-Universe (1997) 1979 Juli Keech Miss South Dakota Teen-USA (1997) 1980 Cara Lewis Miss Mississippi Teen-USA (1997) Deaths which occurred on March 28: 0193 Publius Helvius Pertinax Roman Emperor (192-93), assassinated 0193 Roman Emperor Pertinax assassinated 0593 Guntram French king in Burgundy, dies at about 67 1134 Stefanus Harding 3rd abbott of Cîteaux/saint, dies 1285 Martinus IV [Simon de Brion], Pope (1281-85), dies 1566 Siegmund Freiherr von Herberstein Austrian diplomat, dies at 79 1673 Adam Pijnacker Dutch landscape painter/etcher, buried at 51 1677 Wenzel Hollar Bohemia cartoonist/etcher, dies at about 69 1687 Constantine Huygens diplomat/poet/composer (Bluebottles), dies at 90 1701 Domenico Guidi Italian sculptor, dies at 75 1712 Jan van der Heyden Dutch inventor (street lantern), dies at 75 1758 Jonathan Edwards US theologist (Great Awakening), dies at 54 1799 Etta L J "baronne" Palm-Aelders Dutch adventurer/spy, dies at 55 1801 Ralph Abercromby English army commander (North Holland), dies at 66 1818 Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi composer, dies at 62 1840 Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier Swiss mathematician, dies at 89 1847 Mariano Rodriguiz de Ledesma composer, dies at 67 1849 Stephan L Endlicher Austrian priest/botany, dies at 44 1856 Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov composer, dies at 76 1860 Johann Ludwig Bohner composer, dies at 73 1863 James Cooper US attorney/senator/Union-Brigadier-General, dies at 52 1865 Albert G Bilders Dutch landscape painter, dies at 26 1868 James Thomas Brudenell 7th earl of Cardigan, dies at about 70 1877 Vincenzo Fioravanti composer, dies at 77 1880 Achille Peri composer, dies at 67 1880 Eelco Refer linguistic (Oera Linda Book?), dies at 49 1881 Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky composer, dies at 42 1885 Fredrick Vilhelm Ludvig Norman composer, dies at 53 1887 Ditler G Monrad Danish bishop/premier (1863- ), dies at 75 1889 Matilde "Tillie" Ziegler killed by husband William Kemmler 1891 Dick Pilling cricketer ("Prince of Wicketkeepers", England 1881-88), dies 1896 E Rundle Charles writer, dies 1907 Pavel Ivanovich Blaramberg composer, dies at 65 1908 John Eliot English meteorology, dies at 68 1910 Edouard [Judas] Colonne French violinist/conductor, dies 1914 Hanus Trnecek composer, dies at 55 1927 Karl Prohaska composer, dies at 57 1928 Giuseppe Ferrata composer, dies at 63 1941 Virginia [Adeline] Woolf-Stephen author (To Lighthouse), commits suicide at 59 1942 Herman A van Karnebeek Dutch foreign minister (1918-27), dies at 67 1942 Miguel Hernadez Gilabert Spanish poet (Viento del Pueblo), dies at 31 1943 Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff Russian composer/pianist, dies at 69 1944 Rabbi Chayyim Most Maggid of Kovono, killed by Nazis 1944 Stephen Butler Leacock writer/economist (Literary Lapses), dies at 75 1947 Rudolph Hermann Simonsen composer, dies at 57 1949 Grigoras Dinicu composer, dies at 59 1950 Georgine M "May" Basting actress (Occupier), dies at 67 1953 James Francis Thorpe decathlete (Olympics-gold-12), dies at 64 1954 Francis B Young British physician/writer (In South Africa), dies at 69 1956 Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup vocalist, dies of a heart attack 1958 Chuck Klein Philadelphia Phillie homerun hitter, dies at 53 1958 W[illiam] C[hristopher] Handy US conductor/composer (St Louis Blues), dies at 84 1959 James Neblett cricketer (one Test West Indies vs England 1935), dies 1960 Ian Keith US actor (Ramses I-10 Commandments), dies at 61 1963 Alec A Templeton composer/pianist (Alec Templeton Time), dies at 52 1965 VAA Mary English princess, dies at 67 1969 Dwight D Eisenhower 34th President/General (WWII), dies in Washington DC at 78 1971 Felix Wolfes composer, dies at 78 1973 Hakuun Yasutani Zen teacher/co-founder (Sanbo Kyodan), dies 1974 Dorothy Fields US singer (Way you Look Tonight), dies at 68 1974 Françoise Rosay actress (Interlude, Women in Prison), dies at 82 1975 Renzo Massarani composer, dies at 77 1979 Emmett Kelly circus clown (Weary Willy), dies at 80 1980 Dick Haymes actor (Real Life, Betrayal), dies 1980 Jesse Owens (Olympics-gold-36), dies in Tucson AZ at the age of 66 1983 Ank [Anna M] van der Moer actress (Verkade, Dutch Comedy), dies at 71 1983 Martinus A Jansen bishop of Rotterdam (1956-70), dies at 77 1984 Kenneth Whitty 1st Secretary at British Embassy in Athens, shot dead 1985 Marc Chagall French painter, dies at 97 1985 Nand Baert Belgian radio/tv-host, dies at 53 1986 Victor J Lopez actor (Chuey-Man From Atlantis), dies at 39 1986 Virginia Gilmore actress (Jennie, Western Union), dies 1987 Maria Augusta Trapp singer (Trapp Family Singers), dies at 82 1987 Patrick Troughton actor (Dr Who-Dr Who), dies at 56 1990 Helene Fortescu Reynolds actress (Bermuda Mystery), dies at 65 1991 Carlos Montalban actor (Bananas), dies at 85 1992 Wendell Mayes writer, dies of cancer at 72 1994 Albert Goldman US biographer (Lives of John Lennon), dies at 66 1994 Eugene Ionesco playwright (Rhinoceros, Bald Soprano), dies at 84 1994 John Logan Gorlay journalist, dies at 74 1995 Hugh Edward R O'Connor actor (In the Heat of the Night), ODs at 32 1995 Jack Regan broadcaster, dies at 53 1995 Vivienne Byerley publicist, dies at 88 1996 Barbara McLean film Editor, dies at 86 1996 Charles Barnet "Roscoe" Harvey soldier, dies at 95 1996 David Band banker, dies at 53 1996 Edith Fowke folklorist, dies at 82 1996 Hans Blumenberg philosopher, dies at 75 1996 James Herbert Lloyd Morrell bishop, dies at 89 1996 Ken Dibbs actor (Suddenly, Party Girl, High Society), dies at 78 1996 Shin Kanemaru Vice President of Japan (1986-87), dies at 81 1996 Simon Harcourt Nowell-Smith British bibliophile, dies at 87 On this day...March 28 1535 Bloemkamp Abbey (Oldeklooster) attacked & destroyed 1556 Karel V's son Philip II crowned king of Spain 1556 Origin of Fasli Era (India) 1738 English parliament declares war on Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear) 1774 Britain passes Coercive Act against Massachusetts 1794 Louvre opens to the public (although officially opened since August) 1796 Bethel African Methodist Church of Philadelphia is 1st US-African church 1797 Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patents a washing machine 1799 New York State abolished slavery 1804 Ohio passed law restricting movement of Blacks, 1804 1834 Senate censure President Jackson for taking federal deposits from Bank of US 1837 Felix Mendelssohn marries Cécile Jeanrenaud 1844 José Zorilla's "Don Juan Tenorio" premieres in Madrid 1845 Mexico drops diplomatic relations with US 1849 Dutch princess Marianne & Prince Albert of Prussia separate 1854 During the Crimean War, Britain & France declare war on Russia 1859 1st performance of John Brahms' 1st Serenade for orchestra 1862 Skirmish at Bealeton Station, Virginia 1866 1st ambulance goes into service 1871 San Francisco Art Association holds open reception at 430 Pine 1885 US Salvation Army officially organized 1891 1st world weightlifting championship held 1896 The opera "Andrea Chenier" is produced (Milan) 1902 27.9 cm precipitation at McMinnville TN (state record) 1905 Paramaribo-Dam railway opens in Suriname, never used 1910 1st seaplane, takes off from water at Martigues France (Henri Fabre) 1917 Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv & Jaffa by Turkish authorities 1917 Puccini's "La Rondine" premieres in Monte Carlo 1920 Actor Douglas Fairbanks marries actress Mary Pickford 1920 Thomas Masaryk elected President of Czechoslovakia 1922 1st microfilm device introduced 1922 Stanley Cup: Toronto St Pats (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2 1924 WGN-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions 1927 Majestic Theater opens at 245 W 44th St NYC 1929 Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador 1930 1st performance of Walter Piston's Suite for orchestra (Boston) 1930 Constantinople & Angora changes names to Istanbul & Ankara 1935 Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket 1939 Dutch hunter shoots English bombers down 1939 Philip Barry's "Philadelphia Story" premieres in New York NY 1939 Renaissance Big 5 win 1st pro basketball championship 1939 Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco 1941 Sea battle at Cape Matapan: British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy 1942 234 RAF bombers attack Lübeck 1942 4th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Dartmouth 53-38 1942 British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire 1944 6th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Utah defeats Dartmouth 42-40 1944 Astrid Lindgren sprains ankle & begins writing Pippi Longstocking 1945 Last German V-1 (buzz bomb) attack on London 1948 2nd Tony Awards: Mister Roberts win 1950 12th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: City College of New York beats Bradley 71-68; CCNY becomes 1st to win NCAA & National Invitation Basketball in same year 1952 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Tenley Albright 1952 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button 1953 "New Faces (of 1952)" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 365 performances 1953 "Stock exchanges open, dikes closed" raises Æ’5,200,000 1953 7th Tony Awards: Crucible & Wonderful Town win 1953 KCAU TV channel 9 in Sioux City IA (ABC) begins broadcasting 1953 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Tenley Albright 1953 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Hayes A Jenkins 1954 8th Tony Awards: Teahouse of the August Moon & Kismet win 1954 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open 1954 WKAQ TV channel 2 in San Juan PR (TM) begins broadcasting 1955 New Zealand cricket all out for 26 vs England at Eden Park 1957 1st National Curling Championship held 1959 11 days after Tibet uprising, China dissolves Tibet's government & installs Panchen Lama 1960 Pope John raises the 1st Japanese, 1st African & 1st Filipino cardinal 1960 Scotch factory explodes burying 20 firefighters (Glasgow Scotland) 1962 Devastating 8 for 6 spell by Gibbs gives West Indies cricket victory over India 1962 Military coup in Syria, President Nazim al-Kudsi flees 1963 AFL's New York Titans become the New York Jets 1965 Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA All State Ladies' Golf Invitational 1967 "Sherry!" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 65 performances 1967 UN Secretary General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam 1969 Pope Paul VI names JGM Willebrands cardinal 1970 1,086 die when 7.3 earthquake destroys 254 villages (Gediz Turkey) 1971 25th Tony Awards: Sleuth & Company win 1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR 1972 Wilt Chamberlain plays his last pro basketball game 1974 Rock group Raspberries break up 1975 Washington Capitals win 1st game on road after 37 straight road losses also sets own team record with 17 straight losses 1977 39th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Marquette beats North Carolina 67-59 1977 49th Academy Awards: "Rocky", Peter Finch & Faye Dunaway win 1977 Morarji Desai forms government in India 1979 British government of Callaghan falls 1979 Lazarus & Vosburgh's "Day in Hollywood & night in Ukraine" premieres 1979 Major nuclear accident at 3 Mile Island, Middletown PA (no deaths) 1981 Christa Rothenburger skates ladies world record 500 meter 40.18 seconds) 1981 France performs nuclear test 1981 Gabi Schönbrunn skates ladies world record 3 km (4 :1.70) 1981 Viv Richards scores century in the 1st Test at his home Antigua 1981 Yevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500 meter (36.91 seconds) 1982 12th Easter Seal Telethon raises $19,500,000 1982 1st NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Louisiana Tech beats Cheney 76-62 1982 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1982 JN Duartes christian-democrats win elections in El Salvador 1985 International Cometary Explorer measures solar wind ahead of Halley's Comet 1985 Neil Simon's "Biloxi Blues" premieres in New York NY 1985 STS 51-D vehicle moves to launch pad 1986 Extremist Sikhs kill 13 hindus in Ludhiana India 1986 John N McMahon, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1987 Stacking of Discovery's SRBs gets underway 1989 New Zealand wins America's Cup over Stars & Stripes, in a New York court 1990 Bengal beat Delhi in rained-out cricket Ranji Trophy final on quotient 1990 Michael Jordan scores 69 points, 4th time he scores 60 points in a game 1990 President Bush awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal 1991 Mike Tyson admits paternity to Kimberly Scarborough's son 1992 6th American Comedy Awards: Cathy Ladman, Judy Watkins, Billy Crystal 1992 Ann Transon runs female world record 50k (3 :5 :1) 1992 PBA National Championship Won by Eric Forkel 1993 13th Golden Raspberry Awards: Shining Through wins 1993 22nd Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Helen Alfredsson 1993 Conservatives win French parliamentary election 1993 Type II supernova detected in M81 (NGC 3031) 1994 Armed Zulus demonstrate in Johannesburg, over 53 killed 1994 Italy's right-wing alliance under Silvio Berlusconi wins election 1995 Julia Roberts & Lyle Lovett split-up 1995 Queensland beat South Australia to win 1st ever cricket Sheffield Shield 1995 World's largest bank-Japan's Mitsubishi Bank & Bank of Tokyo merge 1996 "Seven Guitars" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC 1996 Katie Beam, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 35th Miss Teenage America 1997 "City" soap opera's final episode on ABC-TV 1999 18th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Purdue beats Duke 62-45 in San Jose CA  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-29-2006 07:47 AM                        Rated G Birthdates which occurred on March 29: 1484 Johann Spangenberg composer 1519 Carlo Caraffa Italian cardinal 1561 Santorio Sanctorius Trieste Italy, physician/burned at stake/heretic 1602 John Lightfoot English theologist/literary (Horae Hebraicae) 1616 Johann Erasmus Kindermann composer 1636 Esaias Reusner composer 1725 Joseph Franz Xaver Dominik Stalder composer 1752 Edward Jones composer 1790 John Tyler Charles County VA, (D/W) 10th President (1841-1845) 1799 Edward Stanley Earl Derby (C), British Prime Minister (1852, 1858-59, 1866-68) 1813 John Letcher Governor (Confederacy), died in 1884 1816 James Gallant Spears Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1869 1817 Constantine S Aksakov Russian historian/poet 1819 Edwin Drake drilled 1st productive US oil well 1819 Isaac Mayer Wise rabbi, founded American Hebrew Congregations 1821 Joshua Thomas Owen Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1887 1822 Joseph Quinaux Belgian painter 1826 Wilhelm Liebknecht German MP (social-democratic) 1829 Ritta & Christina Siamese twins, in Sardinia 1829 Robert Emmet Rodes Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 1831 Amelia Barr writer 1848 Aleksei Kuropatkin Russian General/minister of War 1867 Cy [Denton True] Young Gilmore OH, winningest pitcher (511 wins, 1890-1911) 1869 Ales Hrdlicka US, anthropologist/curator (US National Museum) 1869 Edwin Lutyens architect, London 1871 Tom Hayward cricketer (great England batsman of the Golden Age) 1875 Lou Henry Hoover 1st lady-Herbert Hoover (1929-33) 1875 Paul Rubens composer 1876 Jan Ingenhoven composer 1876 Joseph Schmidlin German church historian/antifascist 1883 Donald Dexter Van Slyke US chemist (Micromanometric analysis) 1886 Gustaf Adolf Tiburtius Bengtsson composer 1888 Adrianus M de Jong Dutch writer (World Tour of Bulletje & Bonestaak) 1888 James E Casey founder (United Parcel Service) 1889 Howard Lindsay Waterford NY, playwright/actor/director (State of Union) 1889 Warner Baxter Columbus OH, actor (In Old Arizona, Cisco Kid) 1891 Ivan Goll writer 1892 József Mindszenty [Joseph Prehm], Hungarian cardinal 1895 Ernest Jünger German philosopher (Anschwellender Bocksgesang) 1898 Cecil Lewis airman/writer 19-- Brenda Brock Beaumont TX, actress (Brenda-One Life to Live) 1901 Frans U Kailas Finnish poet 1902 Marcel Aymé French writer (Jument Verte) 1902 Onslow Stevens Los Angeles CA, actor (Mr Fisher-This is the Life) 1902 Sir William Walton Oldham Lancashire England, composer (Troilus & Cressida, Wise Virgins) 1905 Annunzio Mantovani Venice Italy, orchestra leader (Mantovani) 1906 E Power Biggs Westcliff-on-Sea England, organist/composer (CBS) 1908 Arthur O'Connell New York NY, actor (Mr Peepers, Second Hundred Years) 1908 Dennis O'Keefe Fort Madison IA, actor/director (T-Men, Fighting Seabees) 1909 Moon Mullican hillbilly pianist (7 Nights of Rock) 1909 Yvonne Waegemans Flemish writer (Gnome Patjoepelke) 1911 Philip Ahn Los Angeles CA, actor (Master Kan-Kung Fu) 1913 Jack Jones British trade unionist (CH) 1913 Niall MacGinnis Dublin Ireland, actor (Curse of the Demon) 1913 Phil Foster Brooklyn NY, comedian (Frank De Fazio-Laverne & Shirley) 1914 Chapman Pincher British journalist/author (about secret service) 1915 George Chisholm Scottish jazz trombonist 1916 Eugene J McCarthy Watkins MN, (Senator-Democrat-MN, Presidential candidate 1968) 1916 John Paul Governor-General (Bahamas) 1917 Arthur Knight CEO (Courtaulds) 1917 Man O'War racehorse (winner of 20 out of 21 races & $249,465) 1918 John Read CEO (TSB Group) 1918 Pearl Bailey Newport News VA, singer (Hello Dolly) 1918 Sam Walton billionaire CEO (Wal-Mart) 1919 Eileen Heckart Columbus OH, actress (Doll's House, Trauma Center) 1921 Hugh Neill Lord-Lieutenant (South Yorkshire) 1921 Sam Loxton cricketer (flamboyant Australian batsman of late 40's) 1923 Julia Montgomery Walsh political consultant/writer 1924 Jules de Corte blind Dutch ballad singer 1925 Emlen Tunnell NFL safety (Giants, Packers) 1925 Lord Justice Beldam 1927 Arthur Ravenel Jr (Representative-Republican-SC) 1927 John McLaughlin TV commentator (McLaughlin Group) 1927 John Vane FRS/pharmacologist 1927 Lord Ross 1928 Vaclav Felix composer 1929 Robert E Rodes led Jackson's flank at Chancellorsville, Major General 1929 Ronald Clive Williams actor/comedian 1929 Sheila Kitzinger author, anthropologist & child birth educator 1930 Donny Conn rocker (Playmates) 1930 G R Sunderam cricket pace bowler (2 Tests India vs New Zealand 1955-56) 1930 Hugh Edward Conway Seymour marquis of Hertford 1930 Marquess of Hertford 1931 Evelyn de Rothschild English banker/multi-millionaire 1931 James Weatherhead moderator (General Assembly of Church of Scotland) 1931 Lord Tebbit British CH 1931 Sylvia Law British town planner 1934 Ernstalbrecht Stiebler composer 1935 Ruby Murray Irish pop singer (Softly Softly) 1936 Richard Rodney Bennett Broadstairs Kent England, composer 1937 Anne Stoddart diplomat 1937 Billy Carter Plains GA, brother of President Carter 1938 Bert de Vries Dutch minister of Social Affairs (CDA) 1938 Margaret Howard British broadcaster 1939 Hanumant Singh cricketer (14 Tests for India-century on debut) 1939 Nancy Kwan Hong Kong, actress (Flower Drum Song, Night Creature) 1940 Raymond Davis US rock vocalist (Funkadelic-Knee Deep) 1941 Terence Hill Venice Italy, actor (Super Fuzz, They Call Me Trinity) 1942 Larry Pressler (Senator-Republican-SD, 1979- ) 1943 Eric Idle South Shields Durham England, comedian/actor (Monty Python) 1943 John Major British Prime Minister (C, 1990-97) 1943 Vangelis [Evangelos Papathanassiou] Valos Greece, composer/keyboardist (Chariots of Fire) 1944 Denny McLain Detroit Tiger pitcher (1968 American League MVP/Cy Young/31 wins) 1944 James Diggle FBA, classicist 1944 John Suchet British TV journalist (Independent TV News) 1945 Julie Goodyear British actress (Bet Lynch-Coronation Street) 1945 Walt "Clyde" Frazier NBA guard (New York Knicks) 1945 Willem Ruis Dutch TV host (Willem Ruis Show) 1946 Bruce Weber director (Broken Noses) 1946 Ronald Farrow radio producer/priest 1947 Aleksandr Stepenovich Viktorenko cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-3, 8, 14, 20) 1947 Bobby Kimball [Robert Toteaux] Vinton LA, rocker (Toto-Roseanna. Africa) 1947 Peter Hinchcliffe co-founder (Iceland Frozen Foods) 1948 Bud Cort New Rochelle NY, actor/director (Harold and Maude, Brewster McCloud, MASH) 1949 Michael Brecker jazz musician (The Brecker Brothers) 1949 Uton Dowe cricketer (West Indies pace bowler 1972-73 "Dowe shall not bowl") 1951 Barry Goudreau rocker 1951 Geoff Howarth cricketer (New Zealand captain early 80's) 1952 Teofilo Stevenson Cuba, heavyweight boxer (Olympics-gold-1972, 76, 80) 1954 Karen Anne Quinlan Scranton PA, famous comatose patient (right to die case) 1955 Christopher Lawford actor (Charlie Brent-All My Children) 1955 Dianne Kay Phoenix AZ, actress (Nancy-8 is Enough, Reggie, Glitter) 1955 Earl Campbell NFL running back (Houston, New Orleans, 1977 Heisman) 1955 Henry Bellingham MP 1956 Kurt Thomas US, gymnast (Olympics), actor (Gymkata) 1956 LaToya Jackson singer (If You Feel the Funk)/posed for Playboy 1956 Lisa J Allen TV reporter/lawyer 1956 Sue Fogleman LPGA golfer 1957 Christopher Lambert Great Neck Long Island NY, actor (Highlander, Subway, Greystoke, Why Me) 1958 Fiona Reynolds director/Council for Protection of Rural England 1959 Brad McCrimmon Dodsland, NHL defenseman (Hartford Whalers) 1959 Marina Sirtis London, actress (Deanna Troi-Star Trek: The Next Generation) 1961 Ane-Marie Sanches newscaster (Suriname TV/Radio) 1961 Mike Kingery St James MN, outfielder (Pittsburgh Pirates) 1962 Kirk Alan Triplett Moses Lake WA, PGA golfer (1992 Shell Houston-2nd) 1964 Elle Macpherson Sydney Australia, model (Sports Illustrated 1986, 87, 88)/actress (Sirens) 1964 Jill Goodacre Connick Lubbock TX, model (Victoria Secrets) 1966 Dwayne Harper NFL cornerback (San Diego Chargers) 1966 Eric Gunderson Portland OR, pitcher (Boston Red Sox) 1966 Robb Thomas NFL receiver (Seattle Seahawks, Tampa Bay Buccaneers) 1967 Brian Jordan Baltimore MD, outfielder (St Louis Cardinals) 1967 Jerry Olsavsky NFL linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers) 1968 Chris Calloway NFL wide receiver (New York Giants) 1968 James Williams NFL tackle (Chicago Bears) 1969 [Jane] Kim[berly] Batten McRae GA, 400 meter hurdler (Olympics-silver-96) 1969 Darren Chandler WLAF receiver (Amsterdam Admirals) 1969 James Atkin rocker (EMF-Unbelievable) 1969 Jeff Blackshear guard (Baltimore Ravens) 1969 Jimmy Spencer NFL cornerback (New Orleans Saints, Cincinnati Bengals) 1969 Kai Nurminen Turku Finland, hockey forward (Team Finland) 1969 Perry Farrell rocker (Jane's Addiction, Porno For Pyros) 1971 Lennart van Reen son of author Ton v R/publisher Corrie Zelen 1971 Ryan Mark Lambert Cleveland OH, actor/singer (Kids Incorporated, Freeze Frame) 1972 Alex Ochoa Miami FL, outfielder (New York Mets) 1972 John Rothell Titusville FL, 400 meter hurdler 1972 Paul Michael Kent Australia, New Zealand breast-stroker (Olympics-96) 1972 Trevor Kidd Dugald Manitoba, NHL goalie (Calgary Flames) 1973 Brad Bridgewater US, 200 meter backstroke (Olympics-gold-96) 1973 John Oppio Sparks NV, double trap (Olympics-1996) 1973 Marc Overmars Dutch soccer player (Ajax) 1973 Mark Platt Peterborough Ontario, rower (Olympics-96) 1975 Christopher Yule hockey forward (Team Japan 1998) 1976 Jennifer Capriati Long Island NY, tennis pro (Federation Cup-1990, Olympics-gold-92) 1987 7th Golden Raspberry Awards: Howard the Duck wins 2334 Beverly Crusher Copernicus Luna, fictional doctor-Star Trek Next Generation 2336 Deanna Troi Betazed, fictional counsellor-Star Trek Next Generation. Deaths which occurred on March 29: 1058 Stephen IX [Frederik van Lotharingen], 1st Belgian Pope (1057-58), dies 1546 Cardinal Beaton English archbishop of St Andrews, murdered 1650 Cornelis Galle I Flemish engraver, dies at about 73 1655 Valerius Andreas Flemish historian, dies at 66 1697 Nikolaus Bruhns composer, dies 1745 Robert Walpole 1st British premier (1722-42), dies at 68 1788 Charles Wesley hymn writer, dies 1792 King Gustav III King of Sweden (1771-92), dies of wounds 1794 Marie-J-A-N C Condorcet mathematician (Theory of Comets), dies at 50 1802 Frederic Thieme composer, dies at 51 1826 J H Voß writer, dies at 75 1837 Maria Fitzherbert morganatic wife of King George IV, dies 1839 Bernardus JC Dibbets Dutch baron/General-Major (Maastricht), dies at 56 1847 Auguste De Polignac premier France, dies at 66 1848 John Jacob Astor chartered American Fur Company, dies at 84 1866 Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch Rabbi/Chassidic leader, dies 1880 Jakob Axel Josephson composer, dies at 62 1886 John Keble theologian, Bournemouth 1888 Charles-Henri Valentin Alkan composer, dies at 74 1891 Georges-Pierre Seurat French painter (Pointillism), dies at 31 1892 William Bowman English anatomist, dies at 75 1911 Felix Alexandre Guilmant composer, dies at 74 1912 Robert F Scott British pole explorer (Antarctica), dies 1917 Fran Gerbic composer, dies at 76 1924 Charles Villiers Stanford Irish composer/writer, dies at 71 1930 Anton Bettelheim writer, dies 1933 Alexander Schmuller Russian/Dutch violinist/conductor, dies at 52 1937 Karol Szymanowski Polish/Ukraine composer (Stabat Mater), dies at 54 1945 Karl T Sapper German geographer/geologist (Vulkankunde), dies at 79 1955 Everard Verachtert Flemish linguist (I Can Speak Nicely), dies at 81 1957 Joyce A L Cary English writer (Horse's Mouth), dies at 68 1959 Barthelemy Boganda Central African Republic's 1st President, dies 1959 Sara Wennerberg-Reuter composer, dies at 84 1963 Pola Gojawiczynska Polish author (Stolica), dies at 64 1964 Ted Collins pianist (Kate Smith Evening Hour), dies at 63 1966 Harry Daugherty trombonist (Spike Jones & City Slickers), dies at 50 1972 J Arthur Rank 1st Baron Rank, industrialist/film magnate 1974 Seton I Miller writer, dies at 71 1978 Jayasinghrao Mansinghrao Ghorpade cricketer (8 Tests for India), dies 1979 Melville Cooper TV panelist (I Got a Secret), dies at 82 1980 [Annunzio Paolo] Mantovani orchestra leader, dies at 74 1981 Eric Williams Prime Minister (Trinidad & Tobago), dies at 79 1982 Carl Orff German composer (Mouth, Antigonae), dies at 86 1982 Rudy Bond character actor (Streetcar Named Desire), dies of a heart attack at 68 1982 Walter Hallstein West German politician (CDU, H-doctrine), dies at 80 1983 Richard O'Brien actor (Rocky Horror Show), dies of cancer at 65 1986 Harry Ritz actor (3 Musketeers, On the Avenue), dies at 79 1989 Bernard Blier actor (Les Miserables, Women & War), dies at 73 1990 Germaine Montenesdro 2nd victim of NYC's Zodiac killer, shot dead 1991 Lee Atwater political strategist (R), dies of brain tumor at 40 1991 Matt Bennett actor (Hickey & Boggs), dies of brain tumor at 52 1992 Earl Spencer father of Lady Diana, dies at 68 1992 Paul [G J von] Henreid Austrian actor (Laszlo-Casablanca), dies at 84 1994 Bill Travers actor (Trio, Gorgo, Born Free), dies at 72 1994 Paul Grimault animator, dies at 89 1994 William Natcher (Representative-Democrat-KY), dies at 84 1995 Carl E Jefferson record company owner, dies at 74 1995 Eddie Williams Wiggins alto saxophone/comedian, dies at 78 1995 James Eric Storrar fighter Pilot, dies at 74 1995 John Elliott Terry film financier, dies at 82 1996 Maggie Donnelly bag lady, dies at 46 1997 Eddie Ryder actor (Slick Jones-General Hospital), dies at 74 1997 Ellen Clara Pollock actress (Wicked Lady, Fake), dies at 94 On this day...March 29 - Events 0502 Bourgundy King Gundobar delegates royal power 1461 Battle near Towton Field, 33,000 die (War of the Roses) 1638 1st permanent white settlement in Delaware (Swedish Lutherans) 1673 English King Charles II accepts Test Act: Roman Catholic excluded of public functions 1795 Beethoven (24) debuts as pianist in Vienna 1798 Republic of Switzerland forms 1804 Thousands of Whites massacred in Haiti 1814 Battle at Horseshoe Bend AL: Andrew Jackson beats Creek-Indians 1827 20,000 attend Ludwig von Beethovens burial in Vienna 1847 12,000 US troops capture Vera Cruz, Mexico 1848 Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam 1849 Britain formally annexs Punjab after defeat of Sikhs in India 1850 Ireland's SS Royal Adelaide sinks in storm; 200 die 1852 Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 & women to work more than 10 hours a day 1860 Dion Boucicault's "Colleen Bawn" premieres in New York NY 1864 Great Britain gives Isotope Islands back to Greece 1864 Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia AR 1865 Appomattox campaign, Virginia, 7582 killed 1865 Battle of Quaker Road, Virginia 1867 British North America Act (Canadian constitution) is passed 1867 Congress approves Lincoln Memorial 1871 Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria in London 1879 Tsjaikovski's opera "Jevgeni Onegin" premieres in Moscow 1882 Knights of Columbus chartered for Catholic men 1886 Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise for Coca-Cola (with cocaine) 1897 Japan adopts Gold Standard 1906 Stanley Cup: Montréal Wanderers sweep Kenora Thisles in 2 games 1912 Captain Robert Scott, blizzard-bound in a tent 18 km from the South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far" 1919 Stanley Cup: Montréal (NHL) & Seattle (PCHA) win 2 games each with 1 tie; 1919 Stanley Cup not awarded due to flu epidemic 1924 Bayern & Vatican reach accord 1927 Henry O D Segrave races his Sunbeam to a record 203.79 mph at Daytona; 1st auto to exceed 200 mph (322 kph) 1928 Yeshiva College (now University) chartered (New York NY) 1929 Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins sweep New York Rangers in 2 games 1932 Jack Benny debuts on radio 1934 Bank of Travail in Belgium, socialist worker's movement bankrupt 1935 French liner Normandie begins its maiden voyage 1936 10,000 watch the 200" mirror blank passing through Indianapolis 1936 Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates 1940 Joe Louis KOs Johnny Paycheck in 2 to retain heavyweight boxing title 1941 1st performance of Benjamin Britten's "Symphony da Requiem" 1941 3rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Wisconsin beats Washington State 39-34 1941 WPAT radio in New Jersey begins broadcasting (country music format) 1942 British cruiser Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea 1942 British destroyer Campbeltown explodes in St-Nazaire; 400 Germans die 1942 German submarine U-585 sinks 1943 Meat, butter & cheese rationed in US during WWII (784 gram/week, 2 kilogram for GI's) 1946 1st Test Cricket between Australia & New Zealand 1946 Test Cricket debuts of Lindwall, Miller & Tallon 1947 "Beggar's Holiday" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 111 performances 1948 Drachtster Boys soccer team forms in Drachten 1948 Yankees & Red Sox tie at 2-2 in 17, spring training game 1949 Turkey recognizes Israel 1951 "King & I" opens at St James Theater NYC for 1246 performances 1951 23rd Academy Awards: "All About Eve", Jose Ferrer & Judy Holliday win 1951 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg convicted of espionage 1953 Patty Berg wins LPGA New Orleans Women's Golf Open 1958 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Carol Heiss 1958 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by David Jenkins 1959 "Some Like it Hot" with Marilyn Monroe & Jack Lemmon premieres 1959 Wes Hall takes Pakistani cricket hat-trick at Lahore 1960 Darius Milhaud's 9th Symphony, premieres 1961 23rd Amendment is ratified, allows Washington DC residents to vote for President 1961 After a 4½ year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted on treason charge 1961 KCPT TV channel 19 in Kansas City MO (PBS) begins broadcasting 1962 Argentine President Frondizi flees from the army 1962 Jack Paar's final appearance on the "Tonight Show" 1963 Final episode of soap opera "Young Doctor Malone" 1964 1st true Pirate Radio station, Radio Caroline (England) 1966 "It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman" opens at Alvin NYC for 129 performances 1966 Muhammad Ali beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 1967 WCMU TV channel 14 in Mount Pleasant MI (PBS) begins broadcasting 1968 Students seize building at Bowie State College 1969 Communist New People's Army found in Philippines 1970 "Look to the Lilies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 25 performances 1970 Manchester City wins 10th Europe Cup II 1971 1st Lieutenant William L Calley Jr found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre 1971 Chile President Allende nationalizes banks/copper mines 1971 Conrad Van Emde Boas becomes West Europe's 1st sexology professor 1971 Development of a serum hepatitis vaccine for children announced 1971 WSVN (now WSBN) TV channel 47 in Norton VA (PBS) begins broadcasting 1973 Dave Cowens wins NBA MVP 1973 Last US troops leave Vietnam, 9 years after Tonkin Gulf Resolution 1974 Mariner 10's, 1st fly-by of Mercury, returns photos 1975 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Karsten-Ping Golf Open 1975 Only 2nd time Islanders beat Rangers 1976 38th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Michigan 86-68 1976 8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State students 1979 Andrew Hilditch given out handled the ball vs Pakistan at WACA 1979 Caryl Churchill's "Cloud Nine" premieres in London 1979 Delhi beat Karnataka by 399 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy 1979 Last day of Test cricket for Mushtaq Mohammad 1981 "Woman of the Year" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 770 performances 1981 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1981 Tiina Lehtola ski jumps female record 110 meter 1981 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR 1982 2nd Golden Raspberry Awards: Mommie Dearest wins 1982 44th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Georgetown 63-62 1982 54th Academy Awards: "Chariots of Fire", Henry Fonda & Katharine Hepburn win 1982 Delhi 707 beat Karnataka 705 on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy 1984 NFL Baltimore Colts move to Indianapolis under cover of night 1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR 1985 Christos Sartzetakis elected President of Greece 1985 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 126th assist 1986 Beatle records officially go on sale in Russia 1987 6th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Louisiana Tech 67-44 1987 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic 1987 Wrestlemania III-93,173 watch Hulk Hogan beat Andre the Giant 1987 Yitzhak Shamir re-elected chairman of right wing Herut Party 1988 "Oba Oba" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 46 performances 1988 US Congress discontinues aid to Nicaraguan contras 1989 1st Soviet hockey players are permitted to play for the NHL 1989 1st US private commercial rocket takes suborbital test flight (New Mexico) 1989 61st Academy Awards: "Rainman", Dustin Hoffman & Jodie Foster win 1989 9th Golden Raspberry Awards: Cocktail wins 1989 I M Pei's pyramidal entrance to the Louvre opens in Paris France 1989 Michael Milken, junk bond king, indicted in New York for racketeering 1990 Houston's Akeen Olajuwan scores the 3rd NBA quadruple double 18 points, 16 rebounds, 10 assists & 11 blocks vs Milwaukee 1990 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 2nd victim, Germaine Montenesdro 1992 "Conversations with My Father" opens at Royale NYC for 462 performances 1992 12th Golden Raspberry Awards: Hudson Hawk wins 1992 21st Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Dottie Mochrie 1992 Herb Gardner's "Conversations With My Father" premieres in New York NY 1992 NCAA Basketball Women's Championship at Kemper Arena, Kansas City, Stanford beats Western Kentucky 78-62 1992 World Ice Dance Championship in Oakland won by Klimova & Ponomarenko (CIS) 1992 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Oakland won by Mishuktienok & Dmitriev (CIS) 1992 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Oakland won by Kristi Yamaguchi (USA) 1992 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Oakland won by Viktor Petrenko (CIS) 1993 65th Academy Awards: "Unforgiven", Al Pacino & Emma Thompson win 1993 Queensland all out for 75 vs New South Wales in Sheffield Shield Final 1994 Coach Jimmy Johnson quits Dallas Cowboys 1994 Last day of Test cricket for Allan Border 1994 Serbs & Croats signed a cease-fire to end the war in Croatia 1995 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Chicago IL on WCKG 105.9 FM 1996 10th Soul Train Music Awards: Patti Labelle, Boyz II Men win 1996 Cleveland Browns choose new name, Baltimore Ravens 1996 New York Yankees beats New York Mets 7-3 in an exhibition game 1997 1st game at Turner Field Atlanta, Braves beats Yankees 2-0 (exhibition) 1997 Actor Harry Hamlin weds actress Lisa Rinna 1997 PBA National Championship Won by Rick Steelsmith 1998 17th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at Kemper Arena Kansas City,Tennessee beats Louisiana Tech 93-75 1998 27th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship 1999 61st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at ThunderDome St Petersburg, UCONN beats Duke 77-74  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-30-2006 07:47 AM                        Rated G Birthdates which occurred on March 30: 1135 Maimonides [Moses Ben Maimon] Còrodoba Spain, philosopher/physician 1222 Nichiren Japan, Buddhist priest/saint 1432 Mehmed II [Fâtih] Sultan of Turkey (1451-81) 1672 Peter I "the Great" Romanov great tsar of Russia (1682-1725) 1674 Jethro Tull agricultural writer (Basildon), baptised 1681 Pieter Snyers Flemish painter/engraver 1687 Johann Balthasar Freisslich composer 1697 John-Baptist Xavery Flemish sculptor 1719 Sir John Hawkins England, wrote 1st history of music 1727 Tommaso Traetta Italy's opera composer/band leader (Farnace) 1746 Francisco Jose de Goya Fuendetodos Spain, painter/etcher (Naked Maja) 1750 John Stafford Smith composer 1772 Johann Wilhelm Wilms composer 1790 Joseph Smith Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1877 1804 Salomon Sulzer composer 1805 Adrien de La Fage composer 1811 Angelo Catelani Italian composer/conductor 1815 Wincenty Studzinski composer 1823 Joseph Farmer Knipe Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1901 1824 Innis Newton Palmer Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) 1825 Samuel Bell Maxey Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1895 1830 Auguste Tolbecque composer 1830 Julius F A Bahnsen German philosopher 1835 Bernhard Scholz composer 1836 Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg German industrialist/politician 1842 John Fiske [Edmund Fisk Green] US historian/philosopher 1844 Paul M Verlaine France, lyric poet (Sagesse Bonbeur) 1853 Vincent van Gogh Zundert Netherlands, artist who always lent an ear (Irises) 1864 Franz Oppenheimer German sociologist/politician 1865 Heinrich Rubens German physicist 1872 Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko composer 1876 Clifford Whittingham Beers US, mental hygiene pioneer 1880 Sean O'Casey Ireland, playwright (Playboy of the Western World) 1882 Melanie Klein Austrian/British psycho analysis 1883 Jo Davidson US, sculptor (Woodrow Wilson, Walt Whitman) 1886 Stanislaw Lesniewski Poland, logician/mathematician 1887 Albert P Termote Flemish/Dutch sculptor (Charles the Great) 1888 Anna Q Nilsson Ystad Sweden, actress (Shenandoah, Uncle Tom's Cabin) 1891 Jan B Cammans Flemish actor (Brothers Karamazov) 1892 Erwin Panofsky German/US art historian 1894 Sergei Ilyushin Russian airplane builder (Ilyushin) 1895 Jean Giono French writer (World Chant) 1898 Heinz Risse writer 1898 Joyce Carey London England, actress (Black Windmill) 1899 Irving Thalberg US producer (MGM) 19-- Steve Summers rocker (Pretty Boy Floyd-Rock & Roll) 1903 Countee Cullen US poet (Color, Ballad of the Brown Girl) 1903 Sol C Siegel US, producer (High Society, Gentlemen prefer blondes) 1904 Akarova [Marguerite Acarin], Belgian dancer (Les Biches) 1905 Mikio Oda Japan, triple jumper (Olympics-gold-1928) 1908 Camille Schmit composer 1908 Kurt Bruggemann composer 1908 Leslie O'Brien "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith Chinese cricket bowler 1909 Ernst Gombrich OM/FBA/director (Warburg Institute) 1911 Dennis Gomm musician 1912 Andrew Rodger Waterson scholar/naturalist 1912 Jack Cowie cricketer (successful New Zealand fast bowler either side of WWII) 1913 Frankie Laine [Frank Paul LoVecchio] Chicago IL, singer (Hey, Good Lookin', That's My Desire)/ actor (Frankie Laine Show, Rawhide) 1913 Gottfried Reinhardt theatre producer 1913 Richard Helms CIA head (1966-73) 1914 Sonny Boy Williamson [John Lee] blues musician (Down & Out Blues) 1917 Els Aarne composer 1917 Herbert Anderson actor (Henry-Dennis The Menace) 1917 Rudolf Bruci composer 1918 John Gray FRS/marine biologist 1918 Joseph Allen Jr Boston MA, actor (Death of a Champion) 1919 McGeorge Bundy Boston MA, national security adviser under JFK 1919 Ramsay Ames actress (G-Men Never Forget, Ali Baba & 40 Thieves) 1920 Turhan Bey Vienna Austria, actor (Dragon Seed, Ali Baba & 40 Thieves) 1921 Countess of Sutherland English great land owner/multi-millionaire 1921 Kan Ishii composer 1921 Oto Ferenczy composer 1922 German Germanovich Galinin composer 1922 J F Coates naval architect 1922 Peter Jona Korn composer 1923 Herbert Asmodi writer 1924 Milko Kelemen composer 1925 Ivo Malek composer 1925 John Wells MP 1926 John Heddle Nash singer 1926 Lord Rayner 1926 Ray McAnally Buncrana County Donegal Ireland, actor (My Left Foot, Empire State, Sicilian) 1926 Werner Torkanowsky Berlin Germany, conductor (New Orleans Symphony) 1927 Lord Armstrong of Ilminster 1927 Wally Grout cricketer (great Aussie wicket-keeper) 1928 Diether de la Motte composer 1928 Richard Trant British General 1928 Tom Sharpe English historian/author (Riotous Assembly, Want) 1929 Richard Dysart Brighton MA, actor (Leland MacKenzie-LA Law) 1929 Shirley Stoler Brooklyn NY, actress (Frankenhooker, 7 Beauties) 1930 Browne-Wilkinson lord 1930 David Staple joint president (Council of Churches for Britain & Ireland) 1930 John Astin Baltimore MD, actor (I'm Dickens He's Fenster, Gomez-Addams Family) 1930 Peter Marshall [Pierre LaCock] Huntington Long Island NY, TV game show host (Hollywood Squares) 1930 Rolf Harris Bassendean Western Australia, Australian/British cartoonist/singer (Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport)/actor (The Little Convict) 1931 Aleksey Vasilyevich Sorokin Russian cosmonaut 1931 Harold Burrage US singer/pianist (Hi Yo Silver) 1931 Sandor Szokolay composer 1932 A J Zuckerman Dean (Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine) 1933 Jean-Claude Brialy Aumale Algeria, actor (Circle of Love, Cousins) 1934 Lord Tanlaw 1935 Alan Jackson CEO (BTR) 1935 Gordon Mumma composer 1935 John Charles Eaton composer 1936 Mark Burns British director (Juggernaut) 1936 Richard Baker Santa Fe NM, Zen teacher (Dharma Sangha) 1937 J S Jennings CEO (Shell Transport & Trading Co) 1937 Jay W Macintosh Gainesville GA, actress (Sons & Daughters) 1937 Lord MacLaurin of Knebworth 1937 Warren Beatty Richmond VA, actor (Bonnie & Clyde,Shampoo, Dick Tracy) 1938 Martin Dunne Lord-Lieutenant (Warwickshire) 1940 Astrud Gilberto Brazil, singer (Girl From Ipanema) 1940 Jerry Lucas Middletown OH, NBA center (New York Knicks, NBA rookie of year 1964, Olympics-gold-60) 1940 Norman Gifford cricketer (respected England slow left-armer 1964-73) 1941 Brendan O'Friel CEO (Prison Governors Association) 1941 Robert C Smith (Representative-Republican-NH, 1985- ) 1941 Ron Johnston Vice-Chancellor (Essex University) 1941 Sven Hamrin Sweden, road race cycler (Olympics-bronze-1964) 1942 George Esson Chief Constable (Dumfries & Galloway) 1942 Graeme Edge Rochester Staffordshire England, rock drummer (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin, Your Wildest Dreams) 1943 Bob Blewett cricketer (father of Greg South Australia batsman 1975-79) 1944 Gerrit Komrij Dutch poet/essayist (Happy Schizo) 1945 Eric Clapton [Eric Patrick Clapp] Ripley England, legendary guitarist/singer (Yardbirds, Cream, Tears in Heaven) 1948 Dave Ball rocker (Procul Harum) 1948 Jim Dandy Mangrum vocalist (Black Oak Arkansas-Jim Dandy) 1948 Justin Deas Connellsville PA, actor (Buzz-Guiding Light, Dream Lover, As the World Turns, Santa Barbara) 1948 M A King FBA, economist 1948 Nigel Jones British MP 1949 Leslie Joan Corn theatre producer/director/writer 1949 Sue Cook British broadcaster 1950 Dave McCurdy (Representative-Democrat-OK, 1981- ) 1950 Eugene Bowen composer (Wonder's Edge) 1950 Joseph Cali New York NY, actor (Nick-Today's FBI) 1950 Rupert Greenall rock keyboardist (Fixx) 1951 John Gosden racehorse trainer 1955 Randy Van Warmer Indian Hills CO, vocalist (Just When I Needed You Most) 1957 Elena V Kondakova Moscow Russia, cosmonaut (STS 84) 1957 Paul Reiser New York NY, actor (My 2 Dads, Diner, Aliens, Mad About You) 1957 Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM 20, STS 84) 1958 Joseph Paul Sindelar Fort Knox KY, PGA golfer (British Columbia Open-1985, 87) 1959 Daniel Seifried Kitchener Ontario, Canadia Tour golfer (1981 Thunder Bay) 1960 William D Johnson US alpine skier 1962 M C Hammer [Stanley Kirk Burrell] Oakland CA, rapper (U Can't Touch This) 1963 Jenny Lidback Lima Peru, LPGA golfer (1995 du Maurier Ltd Classic) 1963 Lomas Brown NFL tackle (Detroit Lions, Arizona Cardinals) 1964 Corey Millen Cloquet MN, NHL center (Calgary Flames) 1964 Dave Ellett Cleveland OH, NHL defenseman (Toronto Maple Leafs) 1964 Tracy Chapman US singer/songwriter (Freedom Now, I Got a Fast Car) 1965 Karel Novacek Prostejov Czechoslovakia, tennis star (1994 Hilversum) 1965 Piers Morgan editor (Daily Mirror) 1967 Ian Ziering West Orange NJ, actor (Steve Sanders-Beverly Hills 90210) 1967 Julie Richardson Auckland New Zealand, tennis star (1992 Futures-Canberra) 1968 Celine Dion Québec Canada, singer (I'm Your Woman) 1968 Donna D'Errico Dothan AL, playmate (September 1995)/actress (Baywatch) 1969 Marco Foddis pop drummer (Pestilence) 1969 Mark Astley Calgary, NHL defenseman (Buffalo Sabres) 1970 George Coghill WLAF safety (Scottish Claymores) 1970 Mark Consuelos Zaragosa Spain, actor (Mateo Santos-All My Children) 1970 Secreteriat race horse, triple crown (1973) 1970 Shane Bertsch Denver CO, Nike golfer (1994 Permina Basin Open-14th) 1971 Mari Holden Milwaukee WI, cyclist (Olympics-96) 1972 Brenden Stai NFL guard (Pittsburgh Steelers) 1972 Matt Joyce NFL/WLAF guard/tackle (Cardinals, Seahawks, Claymores) 1972 Peggy Zlotkowski Miss France-Universe (1989) 1973 [Kirk] Kareem Streete-Thompson Ithaca NY, 100 meter/long jumper 1973 Caroline Ramagos Miss Mississippi-USA (1996) 1973 Melinda Penn Miss British Virgin Islands-Universe (1997) 1973 Rodney Thomas running back (Tennessee Oilers) 1974 Martin Love cricketer (high scoring Queensland batsman, Australia 1995) 1976 Chris Canty cornerback (New England Patriots) 1976 Toby Gowin punter (Dallas Cowboys) 1978 Wendy Christina Roberts Miss South Carolina Teen-USA (1996) 1980 Liriel Higa Los Angeles CA, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96) 1983 ? California condor chick, San Diego CA, 1st born in captivity hatches Deaths which occurred on March 30: 0988 Arnulf II count of Flanders (965-988), dies 1202 Joachim Van Fiore Italian religious founder (Joachimism), dies 1547 François I of Valois-Angoulême King of France (1515-47), dies at 52 1707 Sébastien le Prestre Vauban French fortress architect, dies at 73 1757 Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz composer, dies at 39 1764 Pietro Antonio Locatelli Italian violinist/composer, dies at 68 1840 George (Beau) Brummell Dandy, dies 1864 Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser composer, dies 52 1871 W F A A Louisa/Lovisa queen of Sweden/Norway, dies at 42 1872 Nicolaos Mantzaros composer, dies at 76 1873 Benedict Augustin Morel psychologist (dementia praecox), dies at 63 1875 Marie Moke Pleyel composer, dies at 63 1879 David van der Kellen Dutch coin engraver, dies at 74 1879 Thomas Couture French painter/author, dies at 63 1884 Hans Hampel composer, dies at 61 1906 Betsy Perk [Christina E], journalist/writer/feminist, dies at 73 1910 Jean Moréas [Y Papadiamantopoulos], Greek/French poet, dies at 53 1912 Karl May German writer (Winnetou/Kara Ben Nemsi), dies at 70 1925 Rudolf Steiner Austrian philosopher (anthroposophy), dies at 64 1926 Feliks E Dzerzjinski Lithuanian organizer (KGB), dies at 48 1935 Romanos Hovakimi Melik'yan composer, dies at 51 1942 Alfred Coville French historian (Lesson premier Valois), dies at 81 1945 Karel Moor composer, dies at 71 1946 John S S P V Gort viscount of Limerick/Hamsterley, dies at 59 1948 Mahatma Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi 1949 Dattaram Dharmaji Hindlekar cricketer (4 Tests for India), dies 1949 Friedrich C R Bergius chemist (brown coal, Nobel 1931), dies at 64 1950 Léon Blum French premier (People's Front Govt), dies at 77 1953 Roderich Mojsisovics-Mojsvar composer, dies at 75 1955 Harl McDonald US composer (Santa Fé Trail), dies at 55 1960 Fritz Klimsch German sculptor/painter, dies at 90 1960 Joseph Haas German opera composer (Totenmesse), dies at 81 1961 P J Melotte discovered Jupiter's 8th satellite Pasiphae, dies 1963 Alexander Vasil'yevich Gauk composer, dies at 69 1964 Willem CN Andriessen Dutch composer/pianist (Beethoven), dies at 76 1966 Erwin Piscator German director (Plebeians test rebellion), dies at 72 1966 Maxfield Parrish US painter, dies at 95 1969 Lucien Bianchi Belgian auto racer, dies at 34 1971 Selmer Jackson actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 82 1972 Gabriel Heather US news anchor, dies at 81 1972 Peter Whitney actor (Rough Riders), dies at 55 1974 Ludovicus J Rogier Dutch historian (Reborn in Freedom), dies at 79 1975 Peter Bamm writer, dies 1976 Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg actress (Hostage Rights), dies at 99 1977 Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky composer, dies at 88 1978 George Paine lefty cricket spinner (for England in West Indies 1935), dies 1978 Harold Gimblett cricketer (Batted in 3 Tests for England), suicide 1979 Airey Neave British MP (Conservatives), killed by terrorist bomb 1981 Dewitt Wallace US founder (Reader's Digest), dies at 91 1981 Noel Harford cricketer (8 Tests for New Zealand 1955-58), dies 1983 Pál Kadosa Hungarian composer/pianist, dies at 79 1984 Peter Yarrall strongest Englishman/weighed 826 lb (374.7 kg), dies 1985 Harold Peary actor (Herb-Blondie, Willy), dies of heart attack at 76 1986 James F Cagney actor (Public Enemy, Angels With Dirty Faces, Yankee Doodle Dandy), dies at his Stanfordville NY farm at 86 1986 John Ciardi US poet/interpreter (Dante), dies at 69 1989 Dort Clark actor (In Harm's Way), dies 1991 Jan Willem Hofstra Dutch actor/writer (Friends of My Friends), dies 1992 Art Hannes announcer, dies of a respiratory ailment at 72 1992 Luigi De Laurentiis Italian producer (Toto, Macaroni), dies 1993 Jeremy Siegrist actor (Adventures of Darly & Samy), dies hiking at 20 1993 Richard C Diebenkorn Jr US painter (Ocean Park Paintings), dies at 70 1994 Albert Goldman rock biographer (Elvis, John Lennon), dies at 66 1994 Sid Weiss bassist, dies at 79 1995 Graham Anthony Richard Lock cricketer, dies at 65 1995 Paul A Rothchild record producer, dies at 59 1995 Rozelle Claxton pianist/arranger, dies at 82 1995 Tony Lock cricketer (174 wickets for England), dies 1996 Hugh Edward Lance Falkus filmmaker/naturalist, dies at 78 1996 Ryoei Saito businessman, dies at 79 2002 HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother dies at Royal Lodge, Windsor, at 101 On this day...March 30 Evenys 0239 -BC- 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 0804 Liudger becomes 1st bishop of Münster 0988 Boudouin IV with the Beard becomes earl of Flanders 1282 Furious inhabitants of Palermo attack French occupation force 1422 Ketsugan, Zen teacher, performs exorcisms to free aizoji temple 1456 Prince Louis of Bourbon elected bishop of Liege 1474 Duke Sigismund van Tirol ends contacts with Switzerland 1492 King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella sign decree expelling Jews from Spain 1533 Henry VIII divorces his 1st wife, Catherine of Aragon 1533 Thomas Cranmer becomes archbishop of Canterbury 1603 Battle at Mellifont: English army under Lord Mountjoy beats Irish 1778 Playwright Voltaire crowned with laurel wreath 1814 Britain & allies march into Paris after defeating Napoleon 1822 Congress combined East & West Florida into Florida Territory 1842 Ether was used as an anaesthetic for 1st time by Dr Crawford Long (Jefferson GA) 1856 Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War 1858 Pencil with attached eraser patented (Hyman L Lipman of Philadelphia) 1863 Danish prince Wilhelm Georg of Sleeswÿk-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg chosen as king George of Greece 1864 Skirmish at Mount Elba AR 1865 Battle at 5 Forks Virginia 1866 Bedrich Smetana's "Verkaufte Braut" (Sold Bride), premieres 1867 US purchases Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2¢ an acre-Seward's Folly) 1870 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race 1870 Texas becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union 1889 John T Reid opens 1st US golf course (Yonkers NY) 1893 Thomas F Bayard becomes 1st US ambassador in Great Britain 1895 British inventor Birt Acres films Oxford-Cambridge 1900 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Compulsory education law 1909 Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan & Queens 1911 Lötschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 meter) completed 1912 French protectorate in Morocco established 1916 Stanley Cup: Montréal Canadiens (NHA) beat Portland Rosebuds (PCHA), 3 games to 2 1918 Stanley Cup: Toronto Arenas (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2 1919 Belgian Army occupies Düsseldorf 1919 Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act 1919 Paul Claudel's "Tête d'Or" premieres in Paris France 1922 KGY-AM in Olympia WA begins radio transmissions 1922 WWL-AM in New Orleans LA begins radio transmissions 1923 Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, formed at Howard University in 1920, incorporates 1925 Stalin supports rights of non-Serbian Yugoslavians 1925 Stanley Cup: Victoria Cougars (WCHL) beat Montréal Maroons (NHL), 3 games to 1 1930 Babberich-H soccer team forms 1932 Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic 1935 Newfoundland changes time to 3½ hours W of Greenwich, repeats 44 seconds 1940 2nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana University beats Kansas 60-42 1941 German counter offensive in North-Africa 1942 1st RSHA-transport from France arrives in camp Birkenau 1942 SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp 1943 5th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: University of Wyoming beat Georgetown 46-34 1943 British 1st army recaptures Sejenane 1944 781 British bombers attack Neurenberg 1945 289 anti-fascists murdered by Nazis in Rombergpark Dortmund 1945 USSR invades Austria during WWII 1946 "St Louis Woman" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 113 performances 1946 Australia beats New Zealand in cricket at 3 30pm on 2nd day 1946 Last Test Cricket appearance of Bill O'Reilly (5-14 & 3-19) 1950 Phototransistor invention announced, Murray Hill NJ 1952 6th Tony Awards: Fourposter & King & I win 1952 Patty Berg wins LPGA New Orleans Women's Golf Open 1953 Einstein announces revised unified field theory 1954 Test Cricket debut of Garry Sobers vs England at Kingston 1955 27th Academy Awards: "On the Waterfront", Marlon Brando & Grace Kelly win 1956 USSR performs nuclear test 1957 1st performance of Walter Piston's 4th Symphony 1959 WNED TV channel 17 in Buffalo NY (PBS) begins broadcasting 1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 169,600' (51,690 meter) 1963 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria 1964 Astronaut John Glenn withdraws from Ohio senate race 1966 Barbra Streisand stars on "Color Me Barbra" special on CBS 1967 Cover picture of Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper" is photographed 1968 General Ludvik Svoboda elected President of Czechoslovakia 1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Port Malabar Golf Invitational 1970 Miles Davis Bitches Brew released 1970 Soap opera "Somerset" premieres 1970 Strouse, Adams, Comden & Green's musical "Applause" premieres at Palace Theater NYC for 900 performances 1970 USSR wins its 8th straight world hockey championship 1972 "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 156 performances 1972 North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam 1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1973 Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to South Vietnam 1975 Ron Lalonde scores the 1st hat trick by a Washington Capital 1976 Israel kills 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation 1978 "History of the American Film" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 21 performances 1980 Mark Medoff's "Children of a Lesser God" premieres in New York NY 1980 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1981 43rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats North Carolina 63-50 1981 President Reagan shot & wounded by John W Hinckley Jr 1982 3rd space shuttle mission-Columbia 3 lands at White Sands NM 1982 John Pielmeier's "Agnes of God" premieres in New York NY 1983 Ray Cooney's "Run for your Wives" premieres in London 1983 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR 1984 US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force 1986 "Tango Argentino" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 198 performances 1986 5th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: Texas beats Southern California 97-81 1987 59th Academy Awards: "Platoon", Paul Newman & Marlee Matlin win 1987 Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" sells for record £22.5M ($39.7 million) 1988 2nd Soul Train Music Awards 1988 Tamil Nadu beat Railways by inns & 144 to win Ranji Trophy 1990 Jack Nicklaus made his debut in the "Seniors" golf tournament 1991 "Speed of Darkness" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 36 performances 1991 1st exhibition baseball games at Joe Robbie Stadium (Yankees-Orioles) 1991 44th NCAA Ice Hockey Chanmpionship: Northern Michigan beats Boston University 8-7; Northern Michigan's 1st NCAA hockey title 1991 Last issue of Dutch Newspaper "Vrÿe Folk" (Free People) 1991 PBA National Championship Won by Mike Miller 1991 William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman 1991 William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman (found not guilty) 1992 64th Academy Awards (Silent of the Lambs sweeps with Best Picture, Anthony Hopkins as Best Actor and Jodie Foster as Best Actress) 1992 CBS TV premieres overnight news program "Up To The Minute" 1992 Man accidentally backs into A's Jose Canseco's $225,000 Lamborghini 1992 PJ Patterson, resigns as 6th Prime Minister of Jamaica 1992 WNSR-FM (105.1) changes callsign to WMXV-FM (New York NY) 1993 French government of Balladur forms 1993 Jamaican premier Percival Patterson wins parliamentary election 1993 Lanford Wilson's "Redwood Curtain" premieres at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 40 performances 1993 New South Wales beat Queensland by eight wickets to win Sheffield Shield 1993 Punjab beat Maharashtra by 120 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy 1994 ABC Masters Tournament won by Hobo Boothe 1994 Bombay beat Bengal by 8 wickets to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy 1994 England Cricket all out for 46 at Port-of-Spain 1995 "Arcadia" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 204 performances 1996 Lara hits 146 cricket not out in ODI vs New Zealand at Port-Of-Spain 1996 New York Mets beats New York Yankees 5-3 in an exhibition game 1996 Prince Edward & girl-friend Sophie Rhys-Jones visited Greystoke Castle 1997 16th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Old Dominion 68-59 1997 26th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King 1997 Southwestern Bell Dominion Senior Golf 1997 Steve Elkington wins Golf's Players Championship 1998 60th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Alamodome San Antonio, Kentucky beats Utah 78-69  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-31-2006 06:05 AM                        Rated G Birthdates which occurred on March 31: 1499 Pius IV [Gianangelo de' Medici], Italian lawyer/pope (1559-65) 1519 Henry II King of Germany (1547-59) 1570 Louise Juliana countess of Nassau 1596 René Descartes France, philosopher (he thought, therefore he was) 1621 Andrew Marvell England, poet (To His Coy Mistress) 1675 Benedict XIV [Prospero L Lambertini], Italy, Pope (1740-58) 1684 Francesco Durante composer 1717 Florian Wrastill composer 1723 Frederik V King of Denmark/Norway (1746-66) 1732 Franz Joseph Haydn Austria, composer, helped develop classical style 1747 Johann Abraham Peter Schulz German composer (Moon has Risen) 1791 Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki composer 1809 Edward FitzGerald England, writer (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam) 1809 Nikolai Gogol father of 19th-century Russian realism (Dead Souls) 1809 Otto Jonas Lindblad composer 1811 Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen Germany, chemist (Bunsen Burner) 1822 Rafael Hernando composer 1831 Archibald Scott Scottish chemist 1835 John La Farge US painter 1837 Robert Ross McBurney 1st paid secretary of the YMCA 1837 Stephen Dodson Ramseur Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 1838 Léon Dierx French poet 1839 Nikolay Przhevalsky naturalist, explorer of east central Asia 1840 John Herbert Kelly Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 1844 Andrew Lang Scotland, author (The Blue Fairy Book) 1847 Jarolslaw Zielinski composer 1848 John Henry Roberts composer 1854 Sir Dugald Clerk inventor (2-stroke motorcycle engine) 1868 Karl Bonhoeffer German psychiatrist/neurologist 1872 Arthur Griffith Irish journalist, founder of Sinn Féin 1872 Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet) 1878 Jack Johnson 1st black heavyweight boxing champion (1908-1915) 1885 Jules Pascin [Julius Pincas], Bulgarian/US painter/cartoonist 1887 Jose Maria Usandizaga composer 1887 Saint-John Perse [MRA Alexis Léger], French poet (Nobel 1960) 1891 Erich Walter Sternberg composer 1891 Ion Pillat Romaniams poet/senator (Umbra timpului) 1891 Victor Varconi Hungary, actor (Divine Lady, King of Kings, Big City) 1892 Stanislav Wladyslaw Maczek Polish/British General-Major/commandant 1893 Clemens Krauss Vienna Austria, conductor (Berlin State Orchestra-1937) 1895 John Jay McCloy lawyer/banker (Assistant Secretary of War 1941-45, president-Chase Manhattan Bank (1953-60)) 1895 Vardis A Fisher US author (Darkness & Deep) 19-- Evan Cohen Los Angeles CA, actor (David-The Ropers, Johnny-It's Not Easy) 19-- Mirla Castellanos Buenos Aires Argentina, Spanish singer 19-- Peggy Rea Los Angeles CA, actress (Red Skelton Show, Waltons) 1900 Henry WFA English duke of Gloucester/earl of Ulters 1900 Lörinc Szabó Hungary, poet (Huszonhatodik év) 1903 Arthur Godfrey New York NY, TV host (Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts) 1906 Lauri Saikkola composer 1907 Eddie Quillan Philadelphia PA, actor (Julia, Hell Town) 1909 Pieter Jongeling Dutch MP (GVP)/editor (Netherlands Daily) 1909 Robert Brasillach French author/Nazi collaborator 1912 Wilhelmus Berkelmans civil servant/resistance fighter 1914 Octavio Paz Mexico, writer/diplomat (Salamandra, Topoemas) 1915 Eliseo Morales Pajaro composer 1915 Henry Morgan New York NY, comedian/TV panelist (I've Got a Secret, Arena) 1915 Jack Perry businessman 1916 John Vivyan Chicago IL, actor (Imitation of Life, Mr Lucky) 1918 Ted Post Brooklyn NY, director (Peacemaker, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Gunsmoke) 1920 Marga [Sara Voeten-] Minco Dutch writer (Bitter Herb) 1922 Patrick J G McGee North Ireland, actor (Clockwork Orange) 1922 Richard Kiley Chicago IL, actor (Man of La Mancha, Endless Love) 1923 Donald Argee Barksdale Berkley CA, basketballer (Olympics-gold-1948) 1923 Lawrie Miller New Zealand cricketer (opening bat in 13 Tests) 1924 Harry Cubitt 4th Lord Ashcombe ("Mad Harry"), English landowner 1924 Leo Buscaglia Los Angeles CA, "Dr Hug", psychologist (Love) 1926 John Fowles England, novelist (Collector, French Leiutenent's Woman) 1926 Sydney Chaplin son of Charlie/actor (Adding Machine, Psycho Sisters) 1927 Cesar Chavez Yuma AZ, farm labor leader (United Farm Workers) 1927 William Daniels Brooklyn NY, actor (Dr Mark Craig-St Elsewhere, 1776) 1928 Gordie Howe Floral Saskatchewan, NHL right wing (Detroit Red Wings) 1929 Lee Patterson Vancouver British Columbia, actor (Dave-Surfside Six, Another World) 1929 Liz Claiborne Brussels Belgium, fashion designer 1931 Miller Barber Shreveport LA, PGA golfer (1968 Byron Nelson Classic) 1932 Godfrey Lawrence cricketer (South African fast bowler, 8-53 vs New Zealand 1961) 1932 John Jakes Chicago IL, writer (Sir Scoundrel, Great Women Reporters) 1932 Nagisa Oshima Kyoto Japan, director (Town of Love & Hope) 1933 Bob Simmons Fulham England, stuntman (double for James Bond) 1933 Shirley Jones Smithton PA, actress (Partridge Family, Elmer Gantry) 1934 Grigori Grigoyevich Nelyubov Russia, cosmonaut (Vostok 1 backup) 1934 John D Loudermilk rock drummer/vocalist (Language of Love, Norman) 1934 Wim H Sinnige Dutch alderman of finance (social democratic) 1935 Herb Alpert bandleader/trumpeter (Tijuana Brass)/CEO (A & M) 1935 Judith Rossner US, writer (August) 1935 Richard Chamberlain Beverly Hills CA, actor (Dr Kildare) 1936 Marge Piercy author (Small Changes, Gone for Soldiers) 1937 Willem Duyn [Mouth], Dutch singer (Mouth & MacNeal) 1938 John Jakes Chicago IL, writer (Sir Scoundrel, Great Women Reporters) 1938 Nathaniel Taylor St Louis MO, actor (Rollo-Sanford & Son) 1940 Barney Frank (Representative-Democrat-MA, 1981- ) 1940 Jim Criner WLAF head coach (Scottish Claymores) 1940 Patrick J Leahy (Senator-Democrat-VT, 1975- ) 1943 Christopher [Ronald] Walken Astoria Queens NY, actor (Deer Hunter, Brainstorm) 1944 Rod Allen [B Rodney Bainbridge] rock bassist/vocalist (Fortunes) 1945 Valerie Curtin Jackson Heights NY, actress (Judy-9 to 5) 1946 Aftab Gul cricketer (Pakistani opening batsman in six Tests 1969-71) 1946 Al Nichol Winston Salem NC, rock guitarist/vocalist (Turtles) 1946 Gabe Kaplan Brooklyn NY, comedian/actor (Welcome Back Kotter) 1947 Al Goodman rock vocalist (Ray, Goodman, Brown) 1947 César Gaviria Trujillo President (Colombia, 1990-94) 1947 Jon-Jon Poulos Chicago IL, rocker (Buckinghams) 1948 Albert Gore Jr Washington DC, (Senator-Democrat-TN, 1985-92)/45th US Vice President (1993- ) 1948 David Eisenhower Eisenhower's grandson (married Julie Nixon) 1948 Mick Ralphs Hereford & Worcester England, guitarist (Bad Company, Mott the Hoople) 1948 Rhea Perlman Brooklyn, actress (Zena-Taxi, Carla-Cheers) 1948 Thijs van Leer Dutch singer/flutist (Focus, Introspection) 1950 Alison McCartney pathologist/Breast Cancer campaigner 1950 Ed Marinaro New York NY, actor (Joe-Hill St Blues, Sonny-Laverne & Shirley) 1950 Richard Hughes rocker (Johnny Winter Band) 1953 Greg Martin Louisville KY, singer (Kentucky Headhunters-Davy Crockett) 1953 Sean Hopper California, rock keyboardist (Huey Lewis & The News) 1954 Tony Brock England, rock drummer (Babys-Missing You) 1957 Marc McClure San Mateo CA, actor (Ross-California Fever) 1957 Mary Cadorette East Hartford CT, actress (Vicky-Three's a Crowd) 1957 Patrick G Forrester El Paso TX, Lieutenant Colonel Army/astronaut 1958 Jay Feenan Windham NH, rower (Olympics-1996) 1958 Ken Meeker New York NY, actor (Rafe Garretson-One Life to Live) 1958 Pat McGlynn Edinburgh, rock guitarist (Bay City Rollers) 1959 Angus Young Glascow Scotland, rock guitarist (AC/DC-Highway to Hell) 1960 Anne Howard San Diego CA, actress (Nicole Love-Another World) 1960 Mark Tuinei NFL tackle (Dallas Cowboys) 1961 Ron Brown Los Angeles CA, 4x100 meter runner (Olympics-gold-1984) 1962 John Taylor NFL wide receiver (San Francisco 49ers) 1964 Dave Wyman NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos) 1964 David Diaz-Infante NFL guard (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32) 1964 Erik Turner Omaha NE, rock guitarist (Warrant-Cherry Pie) 1964 Isabelle Ferrari Italy, (Italy's Miss Teenager) 1964 Rod Jones NFL cornerback (Cincinnati Bengals) 1965 Marlon Vonhagt cricketer (1 ODI Sri Lanka 1984-85 World Series Cup) 1965 Patty Fendick Sacramento CA, tennis star (1989 Auckland) 1965 Tom Barrasso Boston MA, NHL goalie (Pittsburgh Penguins) 1965 William McNamara Dallas TX, actor (Texasville, Beat, Stealing Home) 1966 Natalie Gosselin Levis Québec Canada, 52kg judoka (Olympics-96) 1966 Thomas Fitzgerald Brooklyn NY, team handball left wing (Olympics-1996) 1967 Glenn Montgomery NFL defensive tackle (Seattle Seahawks, Oilers) 1967 Nanci Bowen Tifton GA, LPGA golfer (1995 Nabisco Dinah Shore) 1968 J R Reid NBA forward (New York Knicks, Charlotte Hornets) 1969 Kevin Sargent NFL tackle/guard (Cincinnati Bengals) 1969 Steve Smith NBA guard (Atlanta Hawks) 1970 Derek Brown NFL tight end (Jacksonville Jaguars) 1970 Oleg Romanov NHL defenseman (Belarus, Olympics-98) 1970 Stuart Carruthers Australian field hockey fullback (Olympics-96) 1971 Ewan McGregor Perth Australia, actor (Trainspotting) 1971 Pavel Bure Moscow Russia, NHL left wing (Team Russia Olympics-Silver-1998, Vancouver Canucks) 1972 John Godina Fort Sill OK, shot putter/discus thrower (Olympics-silver-96) 1972 Kelly O'Leary Halifax Nova Scotia, kayaker (Olympics-96) 1973 Vanessa Mambi Miss Curaçao-Universe (1996) 1974 Anthony Hicks NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31) 1974 Carol Ann Plante actress (Sara Henderson-Harry & the Hendersons) 1974 James Burgess linebacker (San Diego Chargers) 1974 Jason Odom tackle (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) 1974 Nina Georgala Miss Greece-Universe (1996) 1976 Amanda Moody Orem UT, Miss Utah-America (1995) 1976 Josh Saviano actor (Paul Pfeiffer-Wonder Years) 1980 Jenny Smith Western Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96) 1982 Jessica Joseph Royal Oak MI, dance skater (& Butler-1997 National) Deaths which occurred on March 31: 1201 Absalon Asserssön Danish archbishop of Lund/statesman, dies 1340 Ivan I Kalita grand-duke of Vladimir, dies 1389 Everhard Tserclaes sheriff of Brussels, murdered 1567 Philip the Generous, count of Hessen, dies at 62 1578 Juan de Escobedo Secretary of Spanish land guardian Don Juan, murdered 1621 Felipe III King of Spain (1598-1621), dies at 42 1631 John Donne Metaphysical poet, dies (birth date unknown) 1656 Pierre de La Barre composer, dies at 64 1722 Campegius Vitringa Dutch theologist/exegete, dies at 62 1741 Peter Burmannus [Peter Burman], Dutch attorney/classicist, dies at 72 1809 Franz Joseph Haydn composer, dies on 77th birthday 1837 John Constable English painter/water colors painter, dies at 60 1850 John Calhoun dies at 68 1855 Charlotte Brontë English author (Jane Eyre), dies at 38 1877 Antoine A Cournot French mathematician (rule of C), dies at 75 1880 Henryk Wieniawski Polish violist/composer, dies at 44 1881 Gaetano Gaspari composer, dies at 73 1884 Jan T Beelen Netherlands/Belgian catholic bible expert, dies at 77 1885 Franz Wilhelm Abt German composer/choir conductor, dies at 65 1885 Philipp Fahrbach composer, dies at 69 1886 Giovanni Rossi composer, dies at 57 1892 Adolf Rzepko composer, dies at 66 1898 Edward Noyes Westcott US attorney/writer (David Harum), dies 1900 Frank Milligan cricketer (Mafeking 2 Tests England vs South Africa 1898-99), dies 1901 John Stainer composer, dies at 60 1913 John Pierpont Morgan US banker/CEO (US Steel Corp), dies at 75 1914 Ch Morgenstern writer, dies at 42 1928 Gustave Ador President of Austria (1919), dies at 82 1928 Medardo Rosso Italian sculptor (portraits), dies at 69 1931 Knute Rockne football player/coach, dies in a plane crash at 43 1934 Franz Ehrle German jesuit/head of Vatican library, dies at 88 1938 Willem J T Kloos Dutch poet/critic (New Guide), dies at 78 1939 Indrið Einarsson Iceland playwright (Skipið Sekkur), dies at 87 1944 Mineichi Koga Admiral of Japanese fleet, dies 1945 Hans Fischer German physicist (Nobel 1930), dies at 63 1945 Maurice Rose 1st US General in Nazi Germany, killed in action at 45 1948 Egon E Kisch Czechoslovakian writer/journalist (Raging Reporter), dies at 62 1951 Ralph Forbes actor (Riptide, Shock, Shock), dies at 45 1957 Gene Lockhart New York NY, actor (Going My Way), dies at 65 1959 Peter Suhrkamp German publisher (Suhrkamp Verlag), dies at 68 1960 Joseph Haas German (opera)composer (Totenmesse), dies at 81 1961 Seerp Anema Dutch poet/writer (Modern Art & Degenerating), dies at 85 1967 Don Alvarado actor (Morning Glory, Big Steal), dies at 62 1967 Hieronim Feicht composer, dies at 72 1970 Semjon Timoshenko Russian Marshal/Inspector-General (WWII), dies at 75 1971 Liselotte Liselot Beekmeyer Dutch actress (Child Crying), dies at 31 1973 Kurt George Hugo Thomas composer, dies at 68 1974 Andrea Checci actress (2 Women, Assassin, Black Sunday), dies at 57 1978 Astrid Allwyn actress (Love Affair, Girl for Calgary), dies at 68 1980 Jesse Owens of 1936 Berlin Olympics fame, dies in Arizona at 66 1982 Fritz Eberhard West German lawyer/resistor, dies at 85 1983 Stephen Murray actor (Guilty, Silent Dust, Master Spy), dies at 70 1986 Harry Ritz comedian/actor (Ritz Brothers), dies at 79 1986 Jerry Paris director/actor (Jerry-Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 60 1986 O'Kelly Isley US, singer (Isley Brothers), dies of heart attack at 48 1988 Talib Rasul Hakim composer, dies at 48 1990 Lillian "Miss" Miller audience member (Merv Griffin, Tonight Show), dies 1991 John Carter US jazz clarinetist (Roots & folklore), dies 1993 Brandon Lee US actor (Crow)/son of Bruce Lee, accidentally shot at 28 1993 Jose Maria Lemus President of El Salvador (1956-60), dies 1994 Léon J Ramirez Reine [Degrelle], Belgian/Spanish Nazi (Rex), dies at 87 1995 Carl M Story fiddler, dies at 78 1995 Selena [Quintanilla Perez] Mexican Grammy winning singer, killed by a fan at 24 1996 Dante Giacosa engineer/designer, dies at 91 1996 Dario Bellezza poet, dies at 51 1996 Jeffrey Lee Pierce musician, dies at 37 1996 Julius Young fast food entrepreneur, dies at 73 1997 Edwin Alberian TV celebrity (Clarabell), dies at 76 1997 Laxmishankar Pathak food retailer, dies at 62 On this day...March 31 Events 1084 Anti-pope Clemens crowns German emperor Hendrik IV 1492 Queen Isabella of Castilia & Ferdinand of Aragon expels Jews 1504 France & Spain signs ceasefire 1521 Magelhaes takes possession of Homohon, Archipelago of St Lazarus 1547 Henry II succeeds François I as king of France 1644 Pope Urbanus VIII & duke of Parma signs Peace of Ferrara 1651 Great earthquake at Cuzco Peru 1657 English Humble Petition offers Lord Protector Cromwell the crown 1667 France/England sign anti-Dutch military accord 1683 Emperor Leopold I/Poland signs covenant against Turkey 1745 Jews are expelled from Prague 1796 Johann Wolfgang von Goethes "Egmont" premieres in Weimar 1808 French created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names 1814 Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris France 1831 Mainzer Rijnvaart Convention ends 1831 Québec & Montréal incorporated 1841 1st performance of Robert Schumann's 1st Symphony in B 1849 Colonel John W Geary arrives as 1st postmaster of San Francisco 1850 US population hits 23,191,876 (Black population: 3,638,808 (15.7%)) 1854 Treaty of Kanagawa: Commodore Perry forces Japan to opens ports to foreign trade 1861 Confederacy takes over mint at New Orleans 1862 Civil War action at Island #10 on the Mississippi River 1865 Battle of Boydton, Virginia (White Oaks Roads, Dinwiddie Court House) 1865 General Pickette moves to 5 Forks, abandoning the defense of Peterburg 1868 Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China 1870 Thomas P Mundy became 1st black to vote in US (Perth Amboy NJ) 1877 British high director/Governor sir Bartle Frere arrives in Capetown 1877 Test Cricket debut of Fred "Demon" Spofforth, Australia vs England MCG 1878 Jack Johnson is 1st black to hold a heavyweight boxing title 1880 1st town completely illuminated by electric lighting (Wabash IN) 1883 1st performance of César Franck's "Le Chasseur Maudit" 1883 Utrecht begins water pipe system 1885 Great Britain declares Bechuanaland a protectorate 1889 300 meter Eiffel Tower officially opens (commemorates French Revolution) 1896 Whitcomb Judson, Chicago IL, patents a hookless fastening (zipper) 1900 Brigadier-General Broadwoods troops fall into guerrilla hands 1903 Richard Pearse flies monoplane several hundred yards (New Zealand) 1905 German emperor Wilhelm II visits Tanger 1906 George Bernard Shaw's German version of "Caesar & Cleopatra" premieres in Berlin 1907 Romanian Army puts down Moldavian farmers' revolt 1909 Baseball rules players who jump contracts are suspended for 5 years 1909 Gustav Mahler conducts New York Philharmonic for his 1st time 1916 Dutch government ends all military engagements 1917 US purchases Danish West Indies for $25M & renames them Virgin Islands 1918 1st daylight savings time in US goes into effect 1919 Strike against Ruhrgebied government of Scheidemann 1920 British parliament accept Irish "Home Rule"-law 1921 Albert Einstein lectures in New York on his new theory of relativity 1921 British coal miners goes on strike 1922 KFI-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions 1922 Prince Hendrik opens trade fair building in Amsterdam 1923 1st dance marathon-NYC-Alma Cummings sets record of 27 hours 1923 French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen; 13 die 1923 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) sweep Edmonton Eskimos (WCHL) in 2 games 1924 Croydon Airport; 1st British air company merger - Imperial Airways Ltd established 1924 London public transport strike ends 1925 WOWO-AM, Fort Wayne IN begins radio transmission (500 watts) 1926 German Special Court of Justice for state security disbands 1932 150 wild swans die in Niagara waterfall 1932 Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine 1933 1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton News" (Georgia) 1933 Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps 1933 German Republic gives power to Hitler 1934 Netherlands Indies BC Ltd begain radio transmission (Indonesia) 1935 Fusahige Suzuki runs world record marathon (2 :7 :9) 1939 Britain & France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany 1940 Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes 12th Soviet republic (until 1956) 1941 Germany begins a counter offensive in Africa 1941 Ground broken for Union Square Garage, San Francisco 1943 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!" opens on Broadway 1943 US errantly bombs Rotterdam, kills 326 1944 Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars 1945 3rd Algerian division crosses the Rhine 1945 Sicherheitsdienst murders 10 political prisoners in Zutphen 1945 Tennessee Williams' "Glass Menagerie" premieres in New York NY 1945 US artillery lands on Keise Shima/begins firing on Okinawa 1946 Belgian government of Acker, forms 1948 Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe 1949 Newfoundland becomes Canada's 10th province 1951 US tanks exceed 38º of latitude in Korea 1953 Department of Health, Education & Welfare established 1953 UN Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjöld Secretary-General 1954 US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs CO, established 1954 USSR offers to join NATO 1955 Chase National (3rd largest bank) & Bank of the Manhattan Company (15th largest bank) merge to form Chase Manhattan 1955 Collie Smith scores 104 on cricket debut West Indies vs Australia, Kingston 1955 US Assay Office in Seattle WA closes 1958 US Navy forms atomic sub division 1958 USSR suspends nuclear weapons tests, & urges US & Britain to do same 1959 Dalai Lama fled China & was granted political asylum in India 1960 Gore Vidal's "Best Man" premieres in New York NY 1961 Aklilou Habtewold becomes 1st premier of Ethiopia 1963 Los Angeles ends streetcar service after 90 years 1964 President Jango Goulart of Brazil chased out of office by military 1965 US ordered the 1st combat troops to Vietnam 1966 25,000 anti war demonstrators march in New York NY 1966 Labour Party wins British parliamentary election 1966 USSR launches Luna 10, 1st lunar orbiter 1967 Jimi Hendrix begins his tradition of burning his guitar 1968 LBJ announces he will not seek re-election 1968 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Palm Beach County Golf Open 1968 Pirate Radio Station Pegaus (New Zealand) begins transmitting 1968 Seattle's American League club is named Pilots 1969 George Harrison & Patti Boyd are fined £250 each for illegal drugs 1970 Federal bankruptcy court allows Seattle Pilots to be sold to Milwaukee 1971 South Africa national debt hits 5.45 billion 1971 William L Calley Jr sentenced to life for My Lai Massacre 1972 Official Beatles Fan Club closes down 1973 Flyers score 8 goals in 1 period vs Islanders, on 60 shots 1973 Ken Norton defeats Muhammad Ali in a 12 round split decision 1975 37th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Kentucky 92-55; this is John Wooden's final game & UCLA's 10th NCAA championship in 12 years 1976 Cleveland Cavaliers clinch their 1st ever NBA playoff berth 1976 New Jersey Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan may be disconnected from respirator 1977 Michael Cristofer's "Shadow Box" premieres in New York NY 1978 Red Rum wins 3rd consecutive Grand National & retires 1978 USSR launches Kosmos 1000 navigational satellite 1978 Wings release "London Town" album 1980 Larry Holmes TKOs Leroy Jones in 8 for (WBC) heavyweight boxing title 1980 Mike Weaver KOs John Tate in 15 for (WBA) heavyweight boxing title 1980 President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry 1981 1st Golden Raspberry Awards: Can't Stop the Music wins 1981 53rd Academy Awards: "Ordinary People", Robert De Niro, Sissy Spacek win 1982 Arkas tanker at Montz LA, spills 1.47 million gallons of oil 1982 Rock group Doobie Brothers split up 1983 Earthquake in Colombia kills some 5,000 people 1983 Marsha Norman's "'night, Mother" premieres in New York NY 1984 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1985 15th Easter Seal Telethon raises $27,400,000 1985 4th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Old Dominion beats Georgia 70-65 1985 El Salvador's President Duartes Christian-Democrats win election 1985 Wrestlemania I at Madison Square Garden New York, Hogan & Mr T beat Piper & Orndorf 1986 167 die when Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes 1986 48th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats Duke 72-69 1986 English Hampton Court palace destroyed by fire, 1 dead 1987 49th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Syracuse 74-73 1988 Last East Limburg coal mine closes in Gent Belgium 1988 New York Islanders celebrate Denis Potvin night 1988 Pulitzer prize awarded to Toni Morrison for "Beloved" 1989 Donald Trump purchases Eastern's Northeast Shuttle 1990 "Carol & Company" starring Carol Burnett premieres on NBC-TV 1990 Dionisio Castro cycles world record 20 km (57:18.4) 1990 Riots began in London over the new poll tax laws 1991 10th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Virginia 70-67 1991 20th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott 1991 Albania offers 1st multi-party election in 50 years 1991 Danny Bonaduce attacks a transvestite prostitute in Phoenix AZ 1991 Musical "Will Rogers Follies" premieres in New York NY 1991 Soviet Republic of Georgia endorsed independence; Warsaw Pact dissolves 1991 St Louis Blues Brett Hull scores his 86th goal 1992 Delhi beat Tamil Nadu on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy 1992 UN Security Council voted to ban flights & arms sales to Libya 1994 James Farentino pleads no contest to stalking Tina Sinatra 1994 Walkway from Cleveland's Tower City to Jacobs Field officially opens 1995 1st game at Coors Stadium Colorado (replacement Rockies beat Yankees 4-1) 1995 Bombay beat Punjab on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy 1995 Federal judge orders injunction to end baseball strike 1996 "Getting Away With Murder" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 17 performances 1996 "Midsummer Night's Dream" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 66 performances 1996 15th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Georgia 83-65 1996 1st Opening Day in history in March takes place in Seattle 1996 25th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan 1996 Karnataka defeat Tamil Nadu on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy 1996 Radio Canada International's final shortwave broadcast 1996 Space Shuttle STS 76 (Atlantis 16), lands 1996 Wrestlemania XII: Shawn Michaels beats Brett Hart for WWF title 1997 "Daytime to Remember" a series showing old soaps premieres on ABC-TV 1997 59th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Arizona beats Kentucky 84-79 (OT) 1997 Pioneer 10, ends its mission 1998 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 1st game they host Detroit Tigers  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 04-01-2006 07:01 AM                        Rated G Birthdates which occurred on April 01: 1283 Ludwig IV of Baveria Roman Catholic Bavarian emperor (1314-47) 1578 William Harvey England, physician (discovered blood circulation) 1582 Gaspar de Crayer Flemish painter 1582 Thomas Simpson composer 1643 Christian Demelius composer 1697 Abbé Prévost French novelist/journalist (Manon Lescaut) 1721 Pieter Hellendaal Dutch violinist/organist/composer (Glees) 1725 François Bainville composer 1732 Franz Josef Haydn Austria, composer (Die Schöpfung) 1755 Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin French politician/author (Physiologie du Goût) 1772 Ignaz Franz von Mosel composer 1785 J H Ferdinand Olivier German painter 1793 Edouard Corbière French captain/writer (Le negrier) 1802 Hubert Reis composer 1807 Fredrik Cygnaeus Finnish poet/literature critic 1809 Nikolai Gogol writer 1809 Willem Ruys J Dz Dutch ship owner 1815 Otto Von Bismarck Germany, chancellor (1866-90) 1817 Johannes J van Oosterzee Dutch theologist 1823 Simon Bolivar Buckner Lieutenant General (Confederate Army), died in 1914 1834 Isidore Edouard Legouix composer 1843 Ludwig Enneccerus German jurist 1847 Gavriil Musicescu composer 1847 Jules-Nicolas Crevaux French explorer (South America) 1852 Edward Austin Abbey US, painter (Quest of the Holy Grail) 1858 Arnold Aletrino Dutch physician-criminologist/author (From Life) 1858 Gaetano Mosca Italian sociologist (Circulation of Elite) 1864 Marie Jungius Dutch fairy tale writer 1865 Richard Zsigmondy Germany, chemist (Nobel-1925) 1866 Ferruccio D M B Busoni Italy, pianist/composer/conductor (Arlecchino) 1866 Johannes C H de Meÿere Dutch zoologist 1866 Sophonisba Breckenridge scholar/teacher/social activist 1868 Edmond Rostand France, poet/playwright (Cyrano de Bergerac) 1869 Peter A Egge Norwegian writer (De Droom) 1871 F Melius Christiansen composer 1872 Tadeusz Joteyko composer 1873 Sergei Vasilievitch Rachmaninov Novgorod Provine Russia, composer (Prelude in C# Minor) 1875 Edgar Wallace England, novelist/playwright/journalist (The Terror) 1878 Carl Sternheim German playwright (Hyperion/Tabula Rasa) 1883 Lon Chaney Colorado Springs CO, man of 1000 faces, actor (High Noon, Phantom of Opera) 1883 Aleksander V Aleksandrov Russian composer/conductor 1884 Laurette Taylor [Helen LM Cooney], US actress (Broadway) 1885 Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill (Hozier) British barones 1886 Wallace Beery Kansas City MO, actor (Alias a Gentleman, Dinner at 8, Ah Wilderness) 1886 Casimir von Paszthory composer 1887 Leonard Bloomfield US linguist 1893 Cicely Courtneidge Sydney Australia, actress (Double Exposure) 1895 Alberta Hunter African-American blues singer/composer (Downhearted Blues) 1897 Willem H van de Pol Dutch theologist (Christian Dilemma) 1898 Nita Naldi [Anita Donna Dooley] New York NY, actress (Blood & Sand) 1898 Pola Gojawiczynska Polish writer (Stolica) 1898 Roger Bastide French sociologist 1901 Boris Koutzen composer 1902 L P Jai cricketer (one Test India vs England 1934, scored 19 & 0) 1904 Juan Gil-Albert poet 1905 Gaston Eyskens PM of Belgium (1949, 1958-61, 1968-72) 1905 "Mother" Clara Hale US social worker (founded Hale House) 1905 Winfried P I Zillig German opera composer/conductor (Fantasia Irica) 1906 Ned Glass Poland, actor (Sol-Julia, Uncle Moe-Bridget Loves Bernie) 1906 Sigve Lie Norway, yachtsman (Olympics-gold-1948, 52) 1907 Walter Kaufmann composer 1908 Abraham H Maslow US psychologist (humanistic psychology) 1909 Abner Biberman Milwaukee WI, director/actor (Imhook-Kodiak) 1911 Evert H "Bep" Bakhuys Dutch soccer star/writer 1911 Ferdinand J Kranenburg Dutch Secretary of Defense (Socialist Democrat) 1911 Günther Rennert Essen Germany, opera director/producer 1914 Carla van Neste Belgian violinist 1915 Art Lund Salt Lake City UT, singer (Ken Murray Show) 1915 Willy Dixon blues artist (Mellow Down Easy) 1917 Leon Janney Ogden UT, actor (Hawk) 1917 Johnny Andrews Boston MA, singer/host (Songs at Twilight) 1920 Toshiro Mifune Tsing-tao China, writer/actor (Shogun) 1920 Joan Frances Will actress 1921 Douglas Allenbrook composer 1921 William L Bergsma Oakland CA, composer (Fortunate Island) 1922 William Manchester Attleboro MA, historian (Death of a President) 1923 Bobby Jordan Harrison NY, actor (Bowery Champs, Kid Dynamite, Flying Wild) 1924 Gunther Becker composer 1925 Sala Burton (Representative-Democrat-CA, 1983- ) 1926 Anne [Inez] McCaffrey US, sci-fi author (Crystal Singer, Dragonflight, Dragondrums) 1926 Lyndon Brook actor (Invasion, Reach for the Sky) 1927 Amos Milburn rocker 1928 George Grizzard Roanoke Rapids NC, actor (Wrong is Right, Bachelor Party, Attica) 1928 Herbert Klein newscaster/press secretary 1928 Jane Powell Portland OR, singer/actress (7 Brides for 7 Brothers) 1928 Dimitri Frenkel Frank Dutch writer/director (Hadimassa) 1929 Milan Kundera Czechoslovakia, poet/writer (Unbearable Lightness of Being, L'art du Roman, Joke) 1930 Grace Lee Whitney Ann Arbor MI, actress (Yeoman Rand-Star Trek) 1930 Joan Franks-Williams composer 1931 George Baker Bulgaria, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Curse of the Fly) 1931 Rolf Hochhuth German playwright (Deputy) 1932 Debbie Reynolds El Paso TX, actress (Singin' in the Rain) 1932 Gordon Jump Dayton OH, actor (Arthur Carlson-WKRP, Growing Pains) 1932 Alex[ander Colleridge Vanderpuiye Baka] Tetteh-Lartey broadcaster, lawyer and actor (Caught, Laughter of God) 1932 Jiri Smutny composer 1933 Dan Flavin US minimalist sculptor 1934 Don Hastings Brooklyn NY, actor (Captain Video, Bob-As the World Turns) 1934 Jim Ed Brown Sparkman AR, country singer (Nashville on the Road) 1935 Hans H Boswinkel actor/director (Surprise Attack, Tutorials in Love) 1935 John Murray cricketer (England 1961-67, 1st wk called Murray to play Tests) 1939 Ali MacGraw Pound Ridge NY, actress (Love Story, Goodbye Columbus) 1939 Phil Niekro knuckleball pitcher (New York Yankees, Atlanta Braves) 1939 Rudolph Isley Cincinnati OH, rocker (Isley Brothers-Shout) 1941 Ajit Wadekar cricketer (stalwart Indian batsman & captain) 1942 Alan Blakley rocker (Brian Poole & The Tremeloes) 1942 Danny Brooks rocker (Dovells) 1942 Phil Margo Brooklyn NY, rock vocalist (Tokens-Lion Sleeps Tonight) 1942 Samuel R[ay] Delany Jr US, sci-fi author (Towers of Toron, Dhalgren, Neveryona) 1944 Carol White England, actress (Daddy's Gone a Hunting) 1945 Heather Young Bremerton WA, actress (Betty-Land of Giants) 1946 John Barbata drummer (Turtles-Happy Together, Eleanor) 1946 Arthur Conley US soul singer (Sweet Soul Music) 1946 Ronnie "Plonk" Lane London England , rock bassist (Small Faces-Hey Girl) 1946 William Frederick Fisher Dallas TX, MD/astronaut (STS 51-I) 1947 David Eisenhower grandson of President Dwight, married Julie Nixon 1948 Jimmy Cliff Reggae singer 1948 Simon Crowe rock drummer (Boomtown Rats-Maxinguaye) 1948 Y Y Williams Welsh rugby player 1949 Gill Scott-Heron US, writer/poet/singer (Whities on the Moon) 1950 Ed[uardus] Nijpels Dutch minister of Environment (VVD) 1950 Leonard van Spirit Dutch/British fruit/food magnate 1952 Annette O'Toole Houston TX, actress (Cat People, Superman III) 1952 Billy Currie rock keyboardist/violinist (Ultravox-We Came to Dance) 1952 Rey Robinson US, 100 meter sprinter (Olympics-1972) 1952 Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi Tripoli Libya, bomber (Pan Am 103) 1953 Aftab Baloch cricketer (Pakistani in 2 Tests, scored 428 for Sind 74) 1953 Barry Sonnenfeld director (When Harry Met Sally, Big, Misery) 1954 Jeff Porcaro Los Angeles CA, drummer/percussionist (Toto-Roxanne, Africa) 1955 Danny Joe Pohl Mount Pleasant MI, PGA golfer (1986 Colonial) 1955 Stan Ridway rocker (Wall Of Voodoo) 1957 David Gower cricketer (elegant England left-handed batsman 1978-92) 1957 Donald William Hammond Frederick MD, PGA golfer (1986 Bob Hope) 1957 Peter Deutsch (Representative-Democrat-FL) 1958 Anton Innauer Austria, 70 meter ski jumper (Olympics-gold-1980) 1961 Mark White rock guitarist (ABC-All of My Heart) 1961 Jennifer Runyon actress (Cindy-A Very Brady Christmas, Gwendolyn-Charles in Charge) 1961 Jim Jeffcoat NFL defensive end (Buffalo Bills) 1962 Phillip Schofield TV personality/designer (Nightfire) 1962 Rich Amaral Visalia CA, outfielder (Seattle Mariners) 1964 John Morris cricketer (England right-hand batsman vs India 1990) 1964 Kevin Duckworth NBA center (Milwaukee Bucks) 1964 Scott Stevens Kitchener, NHL defenseman (New Jersey Devils, Team Canada) 1965 John "Jumbo" Elliot NFL tackle (New York Giants, New York Jets) 1965 Mark Jackson NBA guard (Indiana Pacers) 1965 Peter O'Toole Irish pop bassist (Hothouse Flowers-People, Home, Don't Go) 1966 Dave Vankoughnett CFL corner (Winnipeg Blue Bombers) 1966 Odie Harris NFL safety/defensive back (Houston Oilers) 1968 Joel Smeenge NFL defensive end (Jacksonville Jaguars) 1969 Traci Lin-Tavi New York NY, actress (Ryan's Hope, F/X, Fright Night 2) 1969 Andrew Vlahov Australian basketball forward (Olympics-1988, 92, 96) 1969 Arnaud Boetsch Meulam France, tennis star (1985 European Junior) 1969 Frank Castillo El Paso TX, pitcher (Chicago Cubs) 1969 John Forest soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles) 1969 Kevin Dean Madison, NHL defenseman (New Jersey Devils) 1970 Mark Wheeler NFL defensive tackle (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, New England Patriots) 1970 Wes Barnett St Joseph MO, 238lb (108kg) weightlifter (Olympics-6th-92, 96) 1970 Wyatt Jones Honolulu HI, kayak (alternate-Olympics-96) 1971 Daniel Vacek Prague Czechoslovakia, tennis star 1971 Ernest Jones NFL defensive end (Saints, Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32) 1971 Jessica Collins [Capogna] actress (Dinah Lee Mayberry-Loving) 1972 Kenny Gales NFL/WLAF cornerback (Chicago Bears, Barcelona Dragons) 1972 Mike McCoy WLAF quarterback (Amsterdam Admirals) 1973 Ferdy Vierklau soccer player (FC Utrecht) 1973 Stephen Fleming cricketer (New Zealand left-handed Test batsman 1994-) 1975 Kristine Quance 100 meter breaststroke/200 meter medley (Olympics-96) 1975 Magdalena Maleeva Sofia Bulgaria, tennis star (1995 Chicago Moscow) 1976 Clarence Seedorf Surinam/Dutch soccer player (Ajax, Real Madrid) 1980 Bryan Buffinton Ridgewood NJ, actor (Bill Lewis Jr-Guiding Light) 1982 Sam Huntington actor (Jungle 2 Jungle) Deaths which occurred on April 01: 1204 Eleanor of Aquitaine wife of Louis VII & Henry II, dies at 81 1205 Amalrik II King of Cyprus/Jerusalem, dies 1548 Sigismund I the Elder, King of Poland, dies at 81 1611 Gillis van Valkenborch Flemish painter, buried at about 72 1734 Louis Lully composer, dies at 69 1799 Narciso Casanovas composer, dies at 52 1807 Louis François Chambray composer, dies at 69 1807 Miklós Révai Hungarian linguistic/poet, dies at 57 1807 Vaclav Josef Bartolomej Praupner composer, dies at 61 1814 Jozef de Ferraris French/Austrian General/cartographer, dies at 87 1830 Carl Borromaus Neuner composer, dies at 51 1832 Robert the Hermit US ex-slave/hermit in Massachusetts, dies 1866 Aime Ambroise Simon Leborne composer, dies at 98 1866 Johannes C H de Meijere Dutch zoologist, dies 1869 Anthony G O Ridder van Rappard Minister of Reformed Worship, dies at 69 1870 Patrick Gass Sergeant of Lewis & Clark Expedition, dies at 98 1878 Eugene Gautier composer, dies at 56 1901 François M Raoult Fren physicist/chemist (Law of Raoult), dies at 70 1910 Andreas Aschenbach German painter/engraver, dies at 94 1914 Rube Waddell baseballer, dies at 37 of TB 1915 Johann Joseph Abert composer, dies at 82 1916 Gabrielle Petit Belgian resistance fighter, executed 1916 Sjoerd van der Schaaf Frisian journalist/writer (Abbingawâld), dies 1917 Scott Joplin ragtime composer (Sting), dies at 48 1918 Karl Fritjof Valentin composer, dies at 64 1922 Charles I emperor (Austria)/King of Hungary (Charles IV), dies 1925 Francis William Davenport composer, dies at 77 1930 Zawditu 1st reigning female monarch of Ethiopia, dies 1930 Cosima Liszt wife of Austrian composer Richard Wagner, dies at 92 1933 Frederick Lord Chelmsford viceroy of British-India (1916-21), dies at 64 1936 Mikhail Vladimirovich Ivanov-Boretsky composer, dies at 61 1941 Hippolyte Delehaye Flemish historian, dies at 81 1946 Noah Beery actor (Beau Geste, Cimarron Kid, Mammy), dies at 62 1947 George II king of Greece, dies at 56 1950 Charles R Drew surgeon/developer of blood bank concept, dies at 45 1951 Clement D'Hooghe composer, dies at 51 1952 Ferenc Molnár Hungarian playwright (Farkas, Tester), dies at 76 1955 Silvio d'Amico Italian theater critic (Il Teatro Italian), dies at 68 1957 Gheorge Tatarescu premier Romania (1933-37, 39-40), dies 1960 Piet[er O] Bakker Dutch journalist/writer (Ciske), dies at 62 1964 Bozidar Kunc composer, dies at 60 1965 Henry D G Crerar Canadian General (WWI, Normandy), dies at 76 1966 Karl B Adam German theologist (Jesus Christ), dies at 89 1968 Lev D Landau Russian physicist (Nobel 1962), dies at 59 1969 Helena Rubinstein US cosmetic manufacturer, dies at about 89 1973 Arthur Wood cricket wicket-keeper (England 1938-39), dies 1974 Alfred Ernest Whitehead composer, dies at 86 1975 Eugeen Yoors Flemish draftsman/glass painter, dies at 95 1976 Freddie Lennon father of John Lennon (Beatles), dies at 63 1976 Max Ernst German/French surrealist painter/sculptor, dies at 85 1976 Miroslav Ponc composer, dies at 73 1976 S Constantine Timoshenko Russian marshal, dies at 75 1979 Marinus Peijnenburg Dutch politician, dies at 51 1981 D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones sci-fi author (Colossus), dies at 65 1984 Marvin Gaye shot to death by his father Marvin Gaye Sr in Los Angeles CA at 44 1988 Jim Jordan actor (Fibber McGee), dies from a blod clot at 91 1988 Marius W Holtrop economist/president (Netherlands Bank), dies at 85 1989 Henk Gortzak Dutch MP (CPN/PSP), dies at 57 1991 Richard Thorpe director (MGM), dies at 95 1991 Martha Graham US, choreographer (Appalachian Spring), dies at 96 1991 Paulo Muwanga chief of Uganda (1980), dies 1992 Juanito soccer star (Madrid Real 1977-87), dies at 37 in car crash 1993 Alan Kulwicki stock car racer, dies in plane crash at 38 1993 Ihsan Mohamed Salem [Yunis Awad] Palestinian Al-Fatah leader, killed 1993 Juan of Borbon y Battemberg father of king Juan Carlos I, dies 1993 Wayne Mack sportscaster/actor (Storyville), dies of cancer at 68 1994 Leon Degrelle Belgium General, dies 1994 Robert Doisneau French photographer (The Kiss), dies at 81 1994 Rosalind Laura Burke aviatrix, dies at 86 1994 Stuart Sloan war hero/test pilot, dies at 72 1995 Cheryl Waltz author/film producer, dies at 50 1995 Francisco Moncion dancer, dies at 73 1995 Johnny Nicholss footballer, dies at 63 1995 Lucie Rie potter, dies at 93 1995 Richard Pool naval Officer, dies at 75 1995 Sampson DeBrier actor (Inauguration of Pleasure Dome), dies at 86 1996 Alfredo Nobre Coast PM of Portugal (1978), dies 1996 Edwin H "Buddy" Morris music publisher, dies at 89 1996 John Alwyne Kitching zoologist, dies at 87 1996 John McSheery dies of heart attack while umpiring a game, at 51 1996 Mario Viegas actor (The Jew, Divine Comedy), dies at 47 1997 Jolie Gabor mother of Zsa Zsa & Eva, dies at 97 1997 Nancy Woodhull news editor (USA Today), dies of cancer at 52 On this day...April 1 Events 0374 Halley's Comet approaches within 0.0884 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth 0527 Justinianus becomes compassionate emperor of Byzantium 0705 Greek pope John VII chosen as successor to John VI 1064 Body of bishop Eleutherius of Blandain moved to Doornik 1504 English guilds/corp goes under state control 1572 Bloys van Treslong conquers Brielle 1578 William Harvey of England discovers blood circulation 1581 Portugese Cortes subjects himself on Philip II 1663 Gemert fines unwed motherhood (50 guilder penalty) 1724 Henry Pelham becomes English minister of War 1724 Jonathan Swift publishes Drapier's letters 1748 Ruins of Pompeii found 1776 Friedrich von Klinger's "Sturm und Drang", premieres in Leipzig 1778 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates "$" symbol 1789 House of Representatives 1st full meeting, New York NY, F Muhlenberg 1st speaker 1792 Gronings feminist Etta Palm demands women's right to divorce 1793 Volcano Unsen on Japan erupts killing about 53,000 1803 French law rules the use of intention 1826 Samuel Mory patents internal combustion engine 1836 Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Cocos Islands 1850 San Francisco County government established 1853 Cincinnati becomes 1st US city to pay firefighters a regular salary 1862 Shenandoah Valley campaign, Jackson's Battle of Woodstock VA 1863 1st wartime conscription law in US goes into effect 1865 Battle of 5 Forks VA, signalling end of Lee's army 1865 Battle at Blakely AL 1866 US Congress rejects presidential veto gives all equal rights in US 1867 Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia AL 1867 International Exhibition opens in Paris France 1867 Singapore, Penang & Malakka become British crown colonies 1868 Hampton Institute opens 1872 1st edition of The Standard 1873 British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 550+ die 1873 Mehmed Kemals play "Vatan" premeres in Constantinople 1876 1st official National League baseball game (Boston-6, Philadelphia-5) 1881 Anti-Jewish riots in Jerusalem 1881 Kingdom post office in Netherlands opens 1888 Soccer team Sparta forms in Rotterdam 1889 1st dishwashing machine marketed (Chicago) 1891 London-Paris telephone connection opens 1891 Painter Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti 1899 North Carolina Mutual opens doors for business 1900 1st edition of Dutch newspaper "The People" 1905 British East African Protectorate becomes colony of Kenya 1910 Dumitru Dan (Romania) completed a 62,137 mile (100,000 m) walk 1916 1st US national women's swimming championships held 1918 England's Royal Flying Corps replaced by Royal Air Force 1918 Henry Miller's Theater opens at 124 W 43rd St New York NY 1920 Church disestablished in Wales 1920 Stanley Cup Ottawa Senators (NHL) beat Seattle (PCHA), 3 games to 2 1924 Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co 1924 Imperial Airways is formed in Britain 1924 Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor but General Ludendorff acquitted 1925 1st transmission of Danish state radio 1926 Halsteren Soccer team forms in Halsteren 1927 1st automatic record changer introduced by His Master's Voice 1928 Chiang Kai-shek's army crosses Yang-tse 1929 Morehouse College, Spelman College & Atlanta University affiliate to form Atlanta University Center 1929 Austrian government of Ignaz Seipel falls 1929 Doorne's trailer factory in Einsdhoven Netherlands opens 1929 Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo 1929 Luis Buñuel releases "Un Chien Andalou", 24-minute film 1930 "Blue Angel", starring unknown Marlene Dietrich, premieres in America 1931 Jackie Mitchell becomes 1st female in professional baseball 1931 Earthquake devastates Managua Nicaragua, kills 2,000 1933 Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews boycotting Jewish businesses 1933 Hammond scores 336 vs New Zealand at Auckland, 47 fours 10 sixes 1933 Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany 1934 Bonnie & Clyde kill 2 police officers 1935 1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady NY 1936 Orissa constitutes a province of British India 1937 Aden becomes British crown colony 1938 Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown NY 1938 Joe Louis KOs Harry Thomas in 5 for heavyweight boxing title 1939 US recognizes Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war Pope Pius XII congratulates Generalissimo Franco's victory in Spain 1941 Navy takes over Treasure Island (San Francisco Bay) 1941 Lillian Hellman's "Watch on the Rhine", premieres in NYC 1941 Nazi's forbid Jews access to cafés 1941 Pro-German Rashid Ali al-Ghailani grabs power in Iraq 1942 México changes from 3 time zones to 2 1942 Allied air raid on harbor city Kupang Timor 1944 German Abwehr ends England spiel, after 132 killed 1944 Japanese troops conquer Jessami, East-India 1945 US forces launch invasion of Okinawa during WWII 1945 1st edition of Indonesia Merdeka publishes 1945 Canadian troop free Doetinchem, Enschede, Borculo & Eibergen 1945 Ruhrgebied sealed off by US 1st & 9th army 1945 Sons of Elburger Soccer team forms in Elburg 1946 400,000 US mine workers strike 1946 Tsunamis generated by a quake in Aleutian Trench strike Hilo HI 1946 Van Acker forms Belgian government (without CVP) 1946 Weight Watchers forms 1947 1st Jewish immigrants to Israel disembark at Port of Eilat 1948 H H H Johnson bowls West Indies to win vs England 10-96 match on debut 1952 Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow 1952 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1953 J van Bale appointed Governor of New Guinea 1953 KXMC TV channel 13 in Minot ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting 1953 Walcott Worrell & Weekes all make centuries in innings vs India 1954 1st army helicopter battalion is formed, Fort Bragg NC 1954 US Air Force Academy established 1954 1st Dutch motorway, Amsterdam-Utrecht, opens 1954 Earthquake/tsunami ravage Aleutians, 200 killed 1954 WQED TV channel 13 in Pittsburgh PA (PBS) begins broadcasting 1955 Armed military action taken against bureaucratic strike in Amsterdam 1955 EOKA-bomb attacks against British government buildings in Cyprus 1955 WTVT TV channel 13 in Tampa-St Petersburg FL (CBS) 1st broadcast 1956 10th Tony Awards Diary of Anne Frank & Damn Yankees win 1956 KPIC TV channel 4 in Roseburg OR (CBS) begins broadcasting 1956 Violent clashes in Algeria, at least 380 killed 1957 Trial begins in Budapest against participants october uprising 1957 World's biggest glass oven used 1957 WYES TV channel 12 in New Orleans LA (PBS) begins broadcasting 1958 KVIQ TV channel 6 in Eureka CA (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting 1958 Marshal Boelganin becomes director of Russian Staatsbank 1960 Mabry Harper catches a 25 lb Walleye in Tennessee 1960 U Nu elected premier of Burma 1960 France performs nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria 1960 RCA TIROS (TV & Infra-Red Observation 'weather' Satellite) I launched 1961 Jim Bakker marries Tammy Faye 1963 NYC's newspapers resume publishing after a 114 day strike 1963 Soap operas "General Hospital" & "The Doctors" premier on TV 1963 New York Mets purchase Duke Snider from the Dodgers for $40,000 1964 John Lennon is reunited with his father Freddie after 17 years 1964 10ºF lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland OH in April 1964 Robert Lowell's "Benito Cereno", premieres in NYC 1965 Syncom 3, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, passes from civilian to military control 1965 South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 years 1966 1st world festival of black art (Dakar Senegal) 1966 China premier Tsjoe en-Lai starts "Cultural revolution" 1967 1st British ombudsman sir Edward Compton begins work 1968 KEMO (now KOFY) TV channel 20 in San Francisco CA (IND) 1st broadcast 1969 Royal Canadian Mint formally forms as a Crown Corp 1969 Seattle Pilots trade minor league outfielder Lou Piniella to Royals 1970 John Lennon & Yoko Ono release hoax they are having dual sex change operations 1970 Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, headed by Bud Selig, purchases the Seattle Pilots for $10,800,000; although negotiations were conducted over a period of months, it was not until March 13 when a federal bankruptcy referee declared the Pilots bankrupt 1970 President Richard Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements on 1/1/71 1971 United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership 1971 US/Canada ISIS 2 launched to study ionosphere 1972 30,000 attend Mar Y Sol rock concert, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico 1972 Major league baseball players stages 1st collective strike 1973 Japan allows its citizens to own gold 1973 John & Yoko form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence 1973 Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Alamo Ladies Golf Classic 1974 Pioneer Hall opens 1974 Yourdon, Inc forms 1974 Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an Islamic Republic in Iran 1975 Cambodia President Lon Nol flees for Red Khmer 1976 Stephen Wozniak & Steven Jobs originate Apple Computer 1977 NFL decides to experiment with a 7th official in some preseason games 1977 Attempt for Moslem state in Chad fails 1979 Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah 1979 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1980 Wayne Gretzky breaks Bobby Orr's record with 103rd assist 1980 Baseball Players' Association votes to cancel 92 remaining exhibition games 1980 Failed assassination attempt on Iraqi vice-premier Tariq Aziz 1980 France performs nuclear test 1981 CNN airs a videotape that shows that Tamara Rand predicts that Reagan is in danger from someone named Jack Humley (a hoax) 1982 US formally transfers Canal Zone to Panamá 1982 Anguilla (dependent territory of UK) adopts constitution 1983 New York Islander Mike Bossy becomes 1st to score 60 goals in 3 consecutive seasons 1983 Anti-nuke demonstrators link arms in 14-mile human chain in England 1984 14th Easter Seal Telethon raises $24,600,000 1984 3rd NCAA Women's Basketball Championship Southern California beats Tennessee 72-61 1984 8 men record longest distance (13 miles) rowed in 24 hours 1985 47th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion Villanova beats Georgetown 84-75 1986 US sub Nathaniel Green runs aground in the Irish Sea 1986 World oil prices dip below $10 a barrel 1986 Delhi beats Haryana by innings & 141 to win Ranji Trophy 1989 1st New York Mets-New York Yankees game in NYC since 1983, Yankees win 4-3 1989 A Bartlett Giamatti replaces Ueberroth as 7th commissioner of baseball 1990 "Ha!" the Comedy Channel on cable tv begins transmitting 1990 CBS fires sportscaster Brent Mussburger 1990 It becomes illegal in Salem OR to be within 2' of nude dancers 1990 Jack Nicklaus wins 1st start on Senior PGA tour 1990 Wrestlemania VI (67,678 in Toronto); Ultimate Warrior beats Hulk Hogan for championship 1990 19th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King 1990 2nd Seniors Golf Tradition Jack Nicklaus wins 1990 9th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship Stanford beats Auburn 88-81 1990 Guns & Roses' Duff divorces Mandy Brix, lead singer for Lame Flames 1991 Dwight Goodin signs $5.15 million 3 year contract with New York Mets 1991 US minimum wage goes from $3.80 to $4.25 per hour 1991 Warsaw Pact officially dissolves 1991 53rd NCAA Mens Basketball Champion Duke Bluedevils beats Kansas 72-65 1991 Iran releases British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years 1991 Supreme Court rules jurors can't be barred from serving due to race 1992 NFL decides to stay with 17 week schedule instead of expanded 18 games 1992 5th Largest wrestling crowd (64,287-Toronto SkyDome) 1992 Battleship USS Missouri (on which, Japan surrendered) decommissioned 1992 Last defendant in St John sex assault case sentenced to 3 years probation 1992 NHL players begin 1st strike in 75-year history 1992 Rocker Billy Idol fined $2,000 for hitting a woman 1992 Western Australia beats New South Wales by 44 runs to win the Sheffield Shield Final 1992 World's 7 wealthiest nations agree on $24 billion aid for former USSR 1993 Alan Bennett's "Madness of George III", premieres in London 1993 Stephane Powers weds Patrick de la Chenais 1994 Bob Feller Statue on Indians Plaza, dedicated 1995 Carlson Wagonlit Travel Agency begins charging $15 service fee 1995 New York Islanders retire Bobby Nystrom's uniform #23 1996 58th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Kentucky beats Syracuse 76-67 1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Boston MA on WBCN 104.1 FM (morning) 1997 69 year old Gordie Howe begins playing AHL game with Syracuse Crunch 1997 Comet Hale-Bopp Perihelion (0.914 AU) 1998 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Minneapolis MN; Russians Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze win 2001 20th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship at St Louis 2002 64th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship at Georgia Dome Atlanta  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 04-01-2006 04:08 PM                        Rated G Birthdates which occurred April 02: 0742 Charlemagne 1st Holy Roman emperor (800-14) 1602 Maria de Jesus de Agreda [Maria Coronel] Spanish franciscan 1618 Francesco M Grimaldi mathematician/physicist (light defraction) 1628 Constantin Christian Dedekind composer 1632 Georg Caspar Weckler composer 1711 Jan Punt Dutch engraver/illustrator/actor (Gideonschool) 1713 Onno Zwier van Haren Frisian poet (Fatherland) 1725 Casanova writer 1728 Franz Asplmayr composer 1733 Giacomo Tritto composer 1735 Christian Gotthilf Tag composer 1735 Franz Volrath Buttstett composer 1740 Armand-Gaston Camus French CEO (Council of 500) 1763 Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari composer 1798 Hoffmann von Fallersleben writer 1803 Franz Paul Lachner composer 1805 Hans Christian Andersen Denmark, author of 150 fairy tales 1806 Giacomo Antonelli Italian cardinal/Assistant Secretary of State for Pius IX 1814 Henry Lewis "Old Rock" Benning Brigadier General (Confederate Army) 1817 Teodulo Mabellini composer 1826 Philip Dale Roddey Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897 1827 William Holdman Hunt English painter (Light of the World) 1833 Thomas Howard Ruger Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) 1834 Frédéric-Auguste Bertholdi France, sculptor (Statue of Liberty) 1840 Émile Zola France, novelist (Nana, J'Accuse) 1841 Clément Ader French engineer 1862 Nicholas Murray Butler US, Columbia University president/pacifist (Nobel 1931) 1863 Henry C Van de Velde Flemish painter/architect (Art Nouveau) 1868 Eduard Jacobs singer/pianist (Dutch cabaret) 1875 Walter Chrysler founded Chrysler car company 1877 Arnold Schering German musicologist (Humor, Heldentum, Tragik) 1891 Max Ernst Germany, painter/sculptor (founded surrealism) 1894 Rudolph P Cleveringa Dutch anti-nazi lawyer 1894 Walter Mittelholzer Swiss aviation pioneer (Swiss Air) 19-- Sam Anderson Wahpeton ND, actor (Sam Gorpley-Perfect Strangers) 1900 Heinrich Besseler German musicologist 1901 Anis Fuleihan composer 1902 Danilo Svara composer 1905 Serge Lifar Kiev, dancer, choreographer (Paris Opéra Ballet) 1905 Edmond Jouhaud General 1905 Kurt Adler therapist/writer 1907 Irene Mayer Selznick producer (Street Car Named Desire) 1908 Buddy Ebsen Belleville IL, actor (Beverly Hillbillies, Barnaby Jones) 1909 Jean Kurt Forest composer 1910 Arnie Herber NFL quarterback (Green Bay Packers, New York Giants) 1910 Joeri German Russian writer 1911 Charles "Honi" Coles tap dancer (Tap) 1914 Sir Alec Guinness [de Cuffe] London England, thespian (Colonel Nicholson-Bridge on River Kwai, Obi-Wan Kenobi-Star Wars, George Smiley-Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) 1915 Antony Dornhorst professor of medicine 1915 Arthur Ballard artist 1917 Dabbs Greer Fairview MO, actor (Gunsmoke, Little House on Prairie) 1917 Lou Monte Lyndhurst NJ, singer (Peppino the Italian Mouse) 1919 Sir Ian Hunter England, impresario 1919 Antoon J Hubben Dutch mayor (Maasbree)/trade union leader 1920 Jack Webb Santa Monica CA, actor (Joe Friday-Dragnet) 1920 Lambertus van Straaten geologist (Waddenzee, Rhône-delta) 1922 Nikolaj G Bassov Russia, atomic physicist (laser, Nobel 1964) 1923 Sir Hugh Overton British diplomat 1923 Jacob "Jaap" Firet Dutch theologist (Agogisch Moment) 1924 Sir Denis Rooke CEO (British Gas) 1925 George MacDonald Fraser poet/author (Flashman at the Charge) 1926 Michael Rizzello sculpter/coin designer 1926 Elena Verdugo Hollywood CA, actress (Consuelo-Marcus Welby MD) 1927 Billy Pierce pitcher (Chicago White Sox) seven time all star 1928 Joseph "Cardinal" Bernardin of Chicago 1928 Rita Gam Pittsburgh PA, actress (Distortions, Hannibal, Sierra Baron, Mohawk) 1928 Serge Gainsbourg [Ginsburg] Russian/French singer (Ford Mustang) 1929 Catherine Gaskin romantic novelist (Fiona, Coporation Wife) 1929 Frans HJJ Andriessen Dutch MP (KVP/CDA) 1930 Girolamo Arriego composer 1930 W Hambleden Smith English newspaper magnate 1931 Imre Olsvai composer 1932 Mahmood Hussain Pakistani cricket swing bowler (68 wickets in 27 Tests) 1934 Brian Glover actor (McGuffin) 1934 Christopher France British permanent secretary (Department of Health) 1934 Sir Peter Middleton British permanent secretary (Treasury) 1934 Diane Cilento Rabaul,, actress (Hombre, Tom Jones, Wicker Man) 1935 Sharon Acker Toronto Ontario Canada, actress (Della Street-Perry Mason 1973) 1936 Jack Brabham Australia, race car driver (world champion 1966) 1937 Paul E Kanjorski (Representative-Democrat-PA, 1985- ) 1939 Marvin P Gaye Jr Washington DC, singer (Sexual Healing) 1940 Penelope Keith British actress (Norman Conquests, Priest of Love) 1940 Peter Haining writer/editor (Anatomy of Witchcraft) 1941 Leon Russell Lawton KS, pianist/singer (Carny) 1942 Graham Bright private secretary to British PM 1943 Glen Dale [Richard Garforth] rock vocalist (Fortunes Deal) 1943 Larry Coryell Galveston TX, jazz guitarist (11th House) 1945 Don Sutton baseball pitcher (Los Angeles Dodgers) 1945 Linda Hunt Morristown NJ, actress (Bostonians, Eleni, Silverado) 1945 Lord Skelmersdale British minister (C) 1946 Kurt Winter rocker (The Guess Who) 1946 Lynda Carr educationist 1946 Richard Collinge cricketer (New Zealand record wicket-taker (116) before Hadlee) 1947 Emmylou Harris Birmingham AL, country singer (Together Again) 1947 Camille Paglia Endicott NY, actress (Female Misbehavior, It's Pat) 1948 Joan D Vinge American writer (Tangled Up In Blue, The Snow Queen, Catspaw) 1948 Eleanor Margaret Burbridge astronomer/educator 1948 Joan [Carol] D[ennison] Vinge US, sci-fi author (2 Hugos, Dune) 1948 Kerry Minnear rocker (Gentle Giant) 1948 Marlene Floyd LPGA golfer 1949 Paul Gambaccini British disc jockey 1949 Pamela Reed Tacoma WA, actress (Grand, Kindergarten Cop, Home Court) 1951 Ayako Okamoto Hiroshima Japan, LPGA golfer (1990 Sara Lee) 1952 Dan Halldorson Winnipeg Manitoba Canada, Canadian Tour golfer (1985 World Cup) 1952 Joseph Kent Massey Oklahoma City OK, soling yachter (Olympics-bronze-1996) 1952 Leon Wilkerson rocker (Lynard Skynard) 1953 Debralee Scott Elizabeth NJ, actress (Cathy-Mary Hartman, Angie) 1953 David Robinson drummer (Cars) 1954 Ron Palillo Cheshire CT, actor (Arnold Horshack-Welcome Back Kotter) 1956 Farrukh Zaman lefty cricket spinner (bowled 10 overs Pakistan vs New Zealand 1976) 1959 Adrian Meagher Australian baseball pitching coach (Olympics-1996) 1959 Brian Goodell US, 400 meter/1500 meter freestyle swimmer (Olympics-2 gold-1976) 1959 Carmen Ayala-Troncoso New York NY, 5K runner 1959 Dean Townson St Petersburg FL, singer (Pirates of the Mississippi-Fred Jake) 1959 Gelindo Bordin Italian marathon runner (Olympics-gold-1988) 1959 Ken Macleay cricketer (at Bedford-on-Avon Australian ODI medium pacer) 1959 Victoria Jackson Miami FL, comedian (Saturday Night Live, Casual Sex) 1960 Linford Christie St Andrews Jamaica, 4x100 meter runner (Olympics-gold 1992 1961 Cindy Mackey Athens GA, LPGA golfer (1986 MasterCard International Pro-Am) 1961 Gijs Steinmann Dutch soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles) 1961 Keren Jane Woodward Bristol England, rock vocalist (Bananarama-Venus) 1962 Alex Tripolski Israel, Men's Shooting 50 meter air pistol (Olympics-16th-1996) 1962 Billy Dean Quincy FL, country singer (Billy the Kid) 1962 Bruce Kozerski NFL tackle/guard (Cincinnati Bengals) 1963 Dermot Reeve England, cricketer (in Hong Kong England all-rounder 1992) 1964 Pete Incaviglia Pebble Beach CA, outfielder (Philadelphia Phillies) 1965 Rodney King Sacramento CA, black motorist beaten by Los Angeles cops 1966 Andrei Kovalev NHL forward (Belarus, Olympics-98) 1966 Bill Romanowski NFL linebacker (Eagles, Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32) 1966 Willie Green NFL wide receiver (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32) 1969 Yj Nagata [Yuji] wrestler (NJPW) 1970 Jerry Reynolds NFL guard/tackle (New York Giants) 1970 Jon Lieber Council Bluffs IA, pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates) 1970 Marcus Christensen Toronto Ontario Canada, figure skater (1995 Canadian-2nd) 1970 Tammi Reiss WNBA guard (Utah Starzz) 1971 James Ransom Toronto Ontario Canada, Epee fencer (Olympics-96) 1971 Jenny Craig Miss Georgia-USA (1996) 1971 Todd Woodbridge Sydney Australia, tennis star ('95 doubles Wimbledon) 1972 Graham Hood Winnipeg Manitoba Canada, 1.5k runner (Olympics-92, 96) 1975 Deedee Magno rocker (Party-Rodeo, That's Why) Deaths which occurred on April 02: 1118 Boudouin I of Bologne/Edessa, 1st crusader/king of Jerusalem, dies 1416 Ferdinand I the Justified, king of Aragon/Sicily, dies at 52 1502 Arthur English crown prince/husband of Catharina of Aragón, dies 1640 Matthias C Sarbiewski [Sarbievius], Polish jesuit/poet, dies at 45 1657 Ferdinand III King of Hungarian/Bohemia/German Emperor, dies at 48 1705 Johann Lohner composer, dies at 59 1747 Johann J Dillenius German botanist, dies at 63 1758 Johann Balthasar Konig composer, dies at 67 1784 Pierre Leclair composer, dies at 74 1803 Hieronymus van Alphen Dutch attorney/poet (church hymns), dies at 56 1831 Charles Felix blind King of Sardina (1821-31), dies at 74 1852 Theodor Althaus writer, dies 1865 Richard Cobden founder Anti-Corn-Law League, dies at 60 1865 Ambrose Powell Hill Confederate General, killed in action at 39 1872 Samuel F B Morse developer of electric telegraph, dies at 80 1876 Paul van Vlissingen Dutch ship owner, dies at 78 1890 Marinus Campbell bibliographer, dies at 70 1892 Willem J d'Ablaing van Giessenburg Dut baron/genealogist, dies at 79 1910 Boyd Alexander English explorer (Niger to the Nile), murdered at 37 1910 Friedrich von Bodelschwingh German theologist, dies at 79 1928 Theodore Richards US chemist (atomic weight, Nobel 1914), dies 1932 Hugo Kaun composer, dies at 69 1933 K S Ranjitsinhji cricketer (989 Test runs, 1st-class average 56), dies 1937 Nathan Birnbaum Austria philosopher (Zionism), dies at about 72 1938 Alice Berend writer, dies 1941 Paul Teleki premier Hungary, dies 1944 Mikulas Moyzes composer, dies at 71 1947 Joseph Hardstaff cricket (311 runs in 5 Tests for England 1907-08), dies 1951 Simon Barere pianist, dies while perfoming at Carnegie Hall 1952 Bernard F Lyot French astronomer (chronograph, Lyot-filter), dies at 55 1953 Jean Epstein French director (Vive la Vie), dies at 56 1956 Albert de Bassompierre Belgium ambassador to Tokyo, dies at 82 1956 Chester Clute actor (Niagara Falls), dies at 65 1956 Philippo de Pisis Italian painter, dies at 59 1959 Benjamin Christensen Danish actor (Barnet, Mockery), dies at 79 1961 August Defresne Dutch director (Anno Christi 969), dies at 67 1961 Wallingford Riegger US composer (Bacchangle), dies at 75 1965 Renzo Bossi composer, dies at 81 1966 Cecil Scott Forester English author (Horatio Hornblower), dies at 66 1969 Fortunio Bonanova actor (My Best Gal, Havana Rose), dies at 74 1972 Gil Hodges manager (New York Mets), dies of heart attack at 57 1974 Douglass Dumbrille actor (Mr Deed Goes to Town), dies at 84 1974 Georges Pompidou French President, dies in Paris at 62 1976 Ray Teal actor (Sheriff Roy Coffee-Bonanza), dies at 74 1979 Carroll D Rosenbloom Los Angeles Rams president, dies at 72 1979 Ivan Barrow cricketer (11 Tests for West Indies 1930-39), dies 1980 Dick Howorth cricketer (England slow lefty all-rounder late 40's), dies 1987 Buddy Rich drummer/orchestra leader (Away We Go), dies at 69 1990 Aldo Fabrizi actor (Postman Goes to War, Open City), dies at 85 1992 Paula Kelly singer/actress (Sweet Charity), dies at 72 1993 Eugenie Leontovitch actress (4 Sons, Homicidal), dies at 93 1993 Klaas Schenk Dutch speed skater/coach/father of Ard, dies at 86 1994 Richard Davies actor (Pvt Buckaroo), dies of heart attack at 79 1995 Hannes Alfven physicist (Nobel prize), dies at 86 1995 Harvey Penick premier golf instructor/author, dies at 90 1995 Julius Arthur Hemphill saxophonist, dies at 57 1997 Tomoyuki Tanaka producer (Godzilla), dies of a stroke at 86 On this day...April 2 Events 0999 Gerbert of Aurillac elected as 1st French Pope 1416 Alfonso V succeeds his father as king of Aragón 1513 Explorer Juan Ponce de León claims Florida for Spain 1550 Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy 1559 England/France signs 1st Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambrésis 1590 States-General appoints earl Mauritius, viceroy of Utrecht 1595 Cornelis de Houtman's ships depart to Asia through Cape of Good Hope 1645 Robert Devereux resigns as parliament supreme commander 1745 Austria & Bavaria sign peace 1792 Congress establishes Philadelphia mint; US authorizes $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle & $2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins & silver dollar, ½ dollar, quarter, dime & half-dime 1800 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 1st Symphony in C 1819 1st successful agricultural journal ("The American Farmer") begins 1827 Joseph Dixon begins manufacturing lead pencils 1845 H L Fizeau & J Leon Foucault take 1st photo of Sun 1860 1st Italian Parliament met at Turin 1863 Bread revolt in Richmond VA 1864 Skirmish at Crump's Hill (Piney Woods), Louisiana 1864 Skirmish at Spoonville/Antoine AR 1865 CSA President Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond VA 1865 General A P Hill is killed by a Federal Picket 1865 Lee's line is broken at Petersberg 1865 Battle of Fort Blakely AL & Selma AL 1865 Battle of Petersburg VA (Fort Gregg, Sutherland's Station) 1866 President Andrew Johnson ends war in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee & Virginia 1870 Victoria Woodhull is 1st woman to be nominated for US President 1872 George B Brayton patents gasoline powered engine 1876 Philadelphia A's & Boston Red Caps play 1st National League game, in Philadelphia 1877 1st Easter egg roll held on White House lawn 1878 1st issue of Rotterdam's Newspaper 1883 Battle at Bamako French assault on Fabous arm forces attack 1884 London prison for debtors closed 1900 1st edition of The Volk published (Amsterdam) 1902 1st motion picture theater opens (Los Angeles CA) 1902 Soccer team MVV '02 forms in Maastricht 1905 Cairo-Capetown railway opens 1906 South Africa completes a 4-1 series drubbing of England 1908 Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday 1912 Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power 1912 Sun Yet Sen forms Guomindang-Party in China 1916 German troops overtake Bois de Caillette 1917 President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany 1917 Jeannette Rankin becomes 1st woman member of US House of Representatives 1921 Professor Albert Einstein lectures in NYC on his new theory of relativity 1926 Riots between Moslems & Hindus in Calcutta 1930 1st New York-Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda 1931 Teenage girl strikes out Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game in Chattanooga TN 1932 Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for kidnapped son 1935 Mary Hirsch, becomes 1st woman licensed as a horse trainer 1935 Sir Watson-Watt patents RADAR 1939 6th Golf Masters Championship Ralph Guldahl wins, shooting a 279 1941 German occupier disallows Dutch scouting association 1941 USS Hornet with Jimmy Doolittles B-25 departs from San Francisco 1944 CPI-leader Palmiro Togliatti returns to Italy 1944 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 8th Symphony, premieres in New York 1944 Soviet Army marches into pro-German Romania 1945 1st US units reach east coast of Okinawa 1947 Carlo Terron's "Il diamente del profeta", premieres in Rome 1950 WTAR (now WTKR) TV channel 3 in Norfolk VA (CBS) begins broadcasting 1953 Raab forms his 1st government in Austria 1954 Plans to build Disneyland 1st announced 1955 Pancho Gonzales retains tennis title by winning a tournament playing under table tennis rules 1955 US female Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright 1955 US male Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins 1956 Soap operas "As the World Turns" & "Edge of Night" premiere on TV 1956 Peter Ustinov's "Romanoff & Juliet" premieres in Manchester England 1958 National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA 1958 Wind speed reaches 450 kph in tornado in Wichita Falls TX (record) 1958 Antillean Brewery (Amstel beer) opens 1960 Cuba buys oil from USSR 1960 KPEC TV channel 56 in Lakewood Center-Tacoma WA (PBS) 1st broadcast 1963 Explorer 17 attains Earth orbit (254/914 km) 1963 USSR launches Luna 4; missed Moon by 8,500 km 1964 USSR launches Zond 1 to Venus; no data returned 1964 Josef Klaus succeeds Alfons Gorbach as chancellor of Austria 1964 Military coup in Brazil by General Castello Branco, President Goulart ousted 1965 Hochhuths play "Stellvertreter" banned in Italy 1966 Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon 1966 WJET TV channel 24 in Erie PA (ABC) begins broadcasting 1967 Actress Lynn Redgrave marries John Clark 1967 Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Louise Suggs Golf Invitational 1968 Beatles form Python Music Ltd 1968 Chad creates Union of Central African States 1968 Senator Eugene McCarthy wins Democratic primaries in Wisconsin 1969 Milwaukee Bucks sign (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) 1970 2 men begin ascent of south face of Annapurna I, the highest final stage in a wall climb in the world 1970 Meghalaya becomes autonomous state within India's Assam state 1970 Qatar gains independence from Britain 1971 Sci-fi soap opera "Dark Shadows" concludes an almost 5 year run 1972 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin visits Cairo Egypt 1972 44th Academy Awards - "French Connection", Gene Hackman & Jane Fonda win 1972 Tennessee Williams' "Small Craft Warnings" premieres in NYC 1973 Ed Kemper stuffs mother's throat in disposal 1973 CBS radio begins on hour news 24 hours a day 1973 ITT pleads guilty to asking CIA to affect Chilean presidential election 1974 Arganat Committee publishes report concerning Yom Kippur War 1974 46th Academy Awards - "The Sting", Glenda Jackson & Jack Lemmon win 1974 Tony Greig takes 8-86 vs West Indies Port-of-Spain (later 5-70 in 2nd inning) 1976 A's trade prospective free agents Reggie Jackson & Ken Holtzman, to Orioles for Don Baylor, Mike Torrez & Paul Mitchell 1976 Cambodia's Khieu Sampan succeeds prince Sihanouk as premier 1976 Portuguese constitution assumed 1977 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors", album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks 1977 Montréal Canadiens set NHL record of 34 straight home games without a loss 1978 TV show "Dallas" premieres on CBS (as a 5 week mini-series) 1978 7th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post 1978 Basil Williams scores 100 on Test Cricket debut, vs Australia Georgetown 1978 Velcro was 1st put on the market 1979 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin visits Cairo Egypt/meets President Sadat 1980 Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st teenager to score 50 goals in a season 1981 Belgium's 4th government of Martens resigns 1981 Heavy battle between Christian militia & Syrian army in East Lebanon 1982 In exhibition game A's pitcher Steve McCatty comes to bat using a 15" toy bat (under Billy Martins orders), protesting disallowing of DH 1982 Several thousand Argentine troops seize disputed Falkland (Malvinas) Islands 1984 46th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Georgetown beats Houston 84-75 1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1986 4 US passengers killed by bomb at TWA counter Athens Airport Greece 1986 George Corley Wallace (Governor-Democrat-AL) announces retirement plans 1986 NCAA adopts 3-point basketball rule (19 feet 9 inch distance) 1987 "Mikado" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 46 performances 1987 Doc Gooden undergoes cocaine rehabilitation 1987 IBM introduces PS/2 & OS/2 1988 Simply Majestic sets horse racing's 1-1/8 mile record at 1:45 1988 Test Cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, West Indies vs Pakistan, Georgetown 1989 Yankees beat Mets 4-0, sweeping 1989 mayor's trophy series in 2 games 1989 18th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Juli Inkster 1989 8th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship Tennessee beats Auburn 76-60 1989 Wrestlemania V at Trump Plaza, Hulk Hogan beats "Macho Man" Savage 1990 52nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Nevada-Las Vegas beats Duke 103-73 1991 Rotterdam Daily Newspaper begins publishing 1992 Country singer Wynonna Judd's 1st appearance as a single act 1992 John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallanos 1992 Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) lands 1992 "Hamlet" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances 1992 Edith Cresson, France's 1st female premier, resigns 1993 1st test flight of Fokker 70 (Amsterdam) 1993 Venezuelan DC-10 crashes at Margarita, killing 10 1994 1st exhibition game played at Jacobs Field, Pirates beat Indians, 6-4 1995 14th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship University of Connecticut Huskies beats Tennessee 70-64 1995 7th Seniors Golf Tradition Jack Nicklaus 1995 New York Police Department & New York Transit Police merge into one organization 1995 North & Western Colorado begins using new area code 970 1995 Owners accept baseball players proposal, agree to delay start of season until April 26 1995 Sunday New York Times raises price from $2.00 to $2.50 1995 Wrestlemania XI in Connecticut-Lawrence Taylor defeats Bam Bam Bigelow 1996 Sri Lanka 9-349 in 50 overs beat Pakistan 315 all out, Singapore Jayasuriya hits ton in 48 balls, world ODI record at Singapore 1996 Tigers slugger Cecil Fielder steals 1st base in 1,097th career game 1997 "Doll's House", opens at Belasco Theater NYC 1998 World Mens Figure Skating Championship in Minneapolis MN; Russian Alexei Yagudin wins 2000 19th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship at Corel State Spectrum 2001 63rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship at Metrodome Minneapolis  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 04-01-2006 04:19 PM                        Rated G Birthdates which occurred on April 03: 1367 Henry IV Bolingbroke Lincolnshire, King of England (1399-1413) 1438 John III van Egmont [Manke John], viceroy of Holland 1485 Lieven van der Maude [Ammonius] South Netherlands poet 1569 Giovanni Battista Massarengo composer 1593 George Herbert English metaphysical poet (5 Mystical Songs) 1603 William Smith composer 1617 Antimo Liberati composer 1627 Johann Caspar Kerll composer 1649 Joseph-François Salomon composer 1682 Johann Valentin Rathgeber German benedictine/composer 1715 John Hanson Port Tobacco MD, 1st US President under Articles of Confederation 1720 Elia van Vilnius [Elijahu ben Salomo Zalman] Latvian rabbi 1727 Philippe-Lambert-Joseph Spruyt Flemish painter/engraver 1751 Jean-Baptiste Lamoyne composer 1757 Ferenc Verseghy composer 1764 John Abernethy London, surgeon 1783 Washington Irving New York NY, American writer (Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle) 1798 Charles D Wilkes Commander (Union Navy), died in 1877 1812 Louisa Maria Queen of the Belgians (1832-50/wife of Leopold I) 1822 Edward Everett Hale US, clergyman/author (Man without a Country) 1823 William Marcy "Boss" Tweed corrupt NYC political boss 1825 Adolf Rzepko composer 1837 John Burroughs writer/nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake) 1838 Léon Michel Gambetta French attorney/premier (1881-82) 1842 Ulric Dahlgren Colonel (Union volunteers), died in 1864 1858 Matthew Ricketts 1st Black man elected to Nebraska State Legislature 1859 Reginald De Koven composer 1860 Frederik W van Eeden Dutch utopian writer (Walden) 1866 James B Hertzog South African General/premier (1914-39) 1871 José Juan Tablada Mexican poet (El Florilegio) 1874 Eduardo Sanchez de Fuentes composer 1881 Alcide de Gasperi Italian premier (1945..53) 1881 Margaret MJ "Daisy" Ashford English author (Young Sisters) 1882 Simon Elzinga Dutch educator 1884 Jackie Matthews cricketer (Australia leg-spinner, two hat-tricks 1912) 1885 Harry St John Philby [sheik Abdullah], British explorer 1888 Neville Cardus cricketer (doyen of cricket writers) 1889 Grigoras Dinicu composer 1893 Leslie Howard [Stainer] London England, actor (Ashley Wilkes-Gone With the Wind) 1894 Dooley Wilson Tyler TX, actor (Bill-Beulah, Sam-Casablanca) 1895 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Firenze (Florence) Italy, composer 1895 Bjarne Brustad composer 1896 Douwe Kalma Dutch literary/leader (Young Frisian Movement) 1898 George Jessel toastmaster general/entertainer (Diary of Young Comic) 1898 Henry R Luce Tengchow China, publisher (Time, Fortune, Life, 1965 Fisher Award) 1899 Cees Lasseur Dutch actor/owner (Hague Comedy) 19-- John Laughlin Memphis TN, actor (White Shadow) 19-- Kuan Yin buddhist/taoist deity 1900 Camille Chamoun President of Lebanon 1902 Henri Garat Paris France, actor (Congress Dances) 1902 Siguringi Eirikur Hjorleifsson composer 1903 Peter Huchel writer 1904 Peter Van Steeden Amsterdam Netherlands, orchestra leader (Break the Bank) 1904 Sally Rand US, actress/ecdysiast/fan dancer (1933 Chicago World Fair) 1904 Iron Eyes Cody Tulsa OK, actor (Black Gold, Ernest Goes to Camp) 1906 Kathleen Tillotson Emeritus Professor of English (Bedford College) 1907 Isaac Deutscher Polish/English historian (Stalin/Trotsky biography) 1911 Harold Watkins Shaw musicologist 1911 Michael Woodruff FRS, surgeon 1911 W R Lee language teacher 1912 Addeke H Boerma Dutch Director-General (FAO) 1912 Bert Bakker Dutch publisher (Free Netherlands) 1913 F H Tate vice-CEO (Tate & Lyle) 1913 George Barati composer 1914 Katherine Stammers Menzies England, doubles tennis player (Wimb 1935) 1915 Paul Touvier war criminal 1916 Herb Caen Sacramento CA, columnist (San Francisco Chronicle) 1916 Robert Jesse Charleston museum Curator 1917 Bill Finegan Newark NJ, (Sauter-Finegan Band, Sat Night Revue) 1917 Tibor Andrasovan composer 1918 Sixten Ehrling Malmö Sweden, conductor (Royal Opera of Stockholm) 1918 Enrique Iturriaga composer 1918 Louis Applebaum composer 1919 Duke of Grafton KG 1920 Stan Freeman Waterbury CT, pianist (Melody Tour) 1921 Harry Landers New York NY, actor (Ted Hoffman-Ben Casey) 1921 Marilyn Maxwell Clarinda IA, actress (Grace-Bus Stop) 1923 Jan Sterling New York NY, actress (1st Monday in October, HS Confidential) 1923 John Smith English large landowner/financier/MP (C) 1924 Doris Day Cincinnati OH, "girl next door" actress (Pillow Talk) 1924 Marlon Brando Omaha NE, actor (Superman, Godfather) 1924 Canon A D Caesar Sub Dean (HM Chapels Royal) 1924 Murray Dickie opera singer/director 1925 Tony Benn British minister of technology (1968) 1926 Virgil Grissom Mitchell IN, Lieutenant Colonel USAF/astronaut (Merc 4, Gemini 3) 1926 Andrew Keir actor (Rob Roy, Absolution, Blood Hunt, Catholics) 1927 Bud Levy, Flushing New York,President Trans-Lux Theatres,Chairman MPAA Ratings system, President Showeast, CATO, ITOA,etc. The honors go on and on. 1927 Eva Székely Hungary, 200 meter backstroke swimmer (Olympics-gold-1952) 1929 Miyoshi Umeki Otaru Hokkaido Japan, actress (Best Supporting Actress Oscar-1957-Sayonara, Mrs Livingston-Courtship of Eddie's Father) 1929 Dennis Farr director (Courtauld Institute Galleries) 1930 Max Frankel journalist (Tables of Id of Organic Compounds) 1930 Helmut Kohl chancellor (Germany, 1982- ) 1930 Lawton Chiles (Senator/Governor-Democrat-FL, 1971-89/91- ) 1931 Alex Cord Floral Park NY, actor (Jack-WEB, Michael-Airwolf) 1931 Johnny Nicholss soccer star 1932 Janet Bately Professor of English Language (King's College London) 1932 Nourse British lord justice 1933 Robert K Dornan (Representative-Republican-CA, 1977-83, 85- ) 1934 Jane Goodall London England, ethologist (studied African chimps) 1934 Jim Parker NFL guard, tackle (Baltimore Colts) 1934 David Jones British reverend/headmaster (Bryanston School) 1934 John Lelliott English contractor/multi-millionaire 1935 Jeffery Bowman CEO (Price Waterhouse Europe) 1937 Simon Brown British high court judge 1937 William Gaunt Leeds England, actor (The Champions) 1937 Sandra Spuzich LPGA golfer 1938 Jeff Barry Brooklyn NY, rock writer (Tell Laura I Love Her) 1938 Philippe Wynne Detroit MI, US soul singer (Spinners, Parliament, Ghetto Child) 1939 Vitaliy Davidov USSR, ice hockey player (Olympics-gold-1964, 68, 72) 1939 Malcolm Thornton MP 1940 Lino Brocka San Jose Philippines, director (Macho Dancer, Jaguar) 1940 R S Burman CEO (Association of British Chambers of Commerce) 1941 Eric Braeden Kiel Germany, actor (Victor Newman-Young & Restless) 1941 Jan Berry Los Angeles CA, rock vocalist (Jan & Dean-Deadman's Curve) 1942 Michael Elliott US, skier (Olympics-1968) 1942 Rick Sylvester parachute ski jumper (world record 3,300') 1942 Billy Joe Royal Valdosta GA, country singer (Down in the Boondocks) 1942 Marsha Mason St Louis MO, actress (Blume in Love, Cinderella Liberty) 1942 Wayne Newton Roanoke VA, singer (Danke Schön) 1943 Jonathan Lynn Bath England, writer/actor (Greedy, Bar Mitzvah Boy) 1944 Tony Orlando New York NY, singer (& Dawn-Tie a Yellow Ribbon) 1944 Barry Pritchard rock guitarist (Fortunes) 1945 Catherine Spaak Boulogne-Billancourt France, actress (Empty Canvas, Hotel, Libertine, Circle of Love) 1945 Richard Manuel rock pianist/vocalist (The Band-Up on Cripple Creek) 1945 Wim J Deetman Dutch minister of education/MP (CDA) 1946 Carlos Salinas de Gortari President (México, 1988-94) 1946 Dee Murray rocker (Elton John Band) 1946 John Virgo British snooker player 1947 Pat[rick] Proft Minneapolis MN, comedy writer (Naked Gun, Airplane) 1948 Garrick Ohlsson Bronxville NY, pianist (International Busoni winner 1969) 1948 Mary Gordon-Watson England, equestrian 3 day event (Olympics-gold-1972) 1948 H C Tomlinson Headmaster (Hereford Cathedral School) 1948 Jaap G de Hoop Scheffer Dutch MP (CDA) 1949 Anne De Salvo Philadelphia PA, actress (Compromosing Positions) 1949 Richard Thompson vocalist/guitarist (Shoot out the Lights) 1949 Jan Keizer Dutch singer (BZN-Rhythm of My Heart) 1949 Lyle Alzado NFLer (Los Angeles Raiders)/actor (Oceans of Fire, Hangfire) 1950 Curtis Stone North Hollywood CA, singer (Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry) 1951 Mel Schacher Owosso MI, bassist (Grand Funk Railroad-Some Kind of Wonderful) 1951 Gwen Welles US actress (Desert Hearts, Nashville) 1953 Huub van der Lubbe Dutch rock singer (Stampei-The Dike) 1955 Mick Mars [Bob Allen Dale] Terra Haute IN, guitarist (Mötley Crüe-Girls Girls) 1955 Aleksandr Nikolayevich Yablontsev Russian Lieutenant-Colonel/cosmonaut 1956 Miguel Bosé Aries Panamá, Spanish singer (Lo Mejor del Año)/actor (El Avaro, Queen Margot) 1957 Charles Jones NBA forward (Houston Rockets) 1958 Alec Baldwin Amityville NY, actor (Joshua-Knots Landing, Beetlejuice) 1959 David Hyde Pierce Saratoga Springs NY, actor (Niles Crane-Fraiser) 1961 Eddie Murphy Brooklyn NY, actor (Saturday Night Live, 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop, Raw) 1961 Melissa Etheridge rock guitarist/vocalist (Come to My Window) 1962 John Griffith rocker (Red Rockers) 1962 Mike Ness rocker (Social Distortion) 1962 Nancy Filteau Swift Current Saskatchawan, 72k judoka (Olympics-96) 1963 Chris Bosio baseball pitcher (Seattle Mariners) 1963 Zakir Khan cricketer (two Tests for Pakistan 1986-89) 1964 Ajay Sharma cricketer (Indian spin all-rounder played one Test 1988) 1965 Laura Bryan Birn actress (Lynne-Young and the Restless) 1966 Bo Orlando NFL safety (San Diego Chargers, Cincinnati Bengals) 1966 Shelley Michelle Hollywood CA, actress (Golden Eye) 1967 Brent Gilchrist Moose Jaw, NHL center (Dallas Stars) 1967 Pervis Ellison NBA forward/center (Boston Celtics) 1968 Sebastian Bach [Bierk] Bahamas, rock (Skid Row-18 and Life, I Remember You) 1968 Bernd Karbacher Germany, tennis star 1968 Mike Lansing Rawlins WY, infielder (Montréal Expos) 1969 David Morland North Bay Ontario Canada, golfer (1992 Trafalgar Rookie of Year) 1969 Reid Hayston Hamilton New Zealand, beach volleyball player (Olympics-96) 1969 Rodney Hampton NFL running back (New York Giants) 1970 Keith Franklin WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals) 1970 Matt Gay WLAF safety (Rhein Fire) 1971 Anthony McClanahan CFL linebacker (Calgary Stampeders) 1971 Kevin Farkas WLAF tackle (Amsterdam Admirals) 1971 Peter Schwab Boston MA, rower (Olympics-1996) 1971 Picabo Street skier (Olympics-gold-94) 1971 Quilvio Veras Santo Domingo Dominican Republic, infielder (Florida Marlins) 1972 Jennie Garth Urbana IL, actress (Kelly Taylor-Beverly Hills 90210) 1972 Sandrine Testud Lyon France, tennis star (1993 Strasbourg) 1973 Greg DeLong NFL tight end (Minnesota Vikings) 1973 Jim Campbell Worchester MA, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994) 1973 Kelly Lochbaum CFL linebacker (British Columbia Lions) 1975 Thomas Hamilton NBA center (Boston Celtics) 1976 Keith Closs NBA center (Los Angeles Clippers) 1977 Veronique De Kock Miss Belgium-Universe (1996) 1979 Esmeralda Gonzales Miss Wyoming Teen-USA (1997) Deaths which occurred on April 03: 0033 Christ crucified (according to astronomer Humphreys & Waddington) 0628 Chosroes II emperor of Persia (579..628), murdered by his son 1287 Honorius IV [Giacomo Savelli], Italian Pope (1285-87), dies 1512 Richard Pafraet Dutch printer, dies 1525 Giovanni Rucellai Italian poet (Le Api), dies at 49 1581 Huibert Duifhuis Roman Catholic pastor (Rotterdam/Utrecht), dies 1682 Bartolomé Esteban Murillo Spanish painter, dies 1694 Ferdinand van Apshoven de Jongere Flemish painter, buried at 64 1695 Melchior de Hondecoeter Dutch still life painter, dies at about 58 1769 Gerhard Tersteegen German evangelist/poet (in blood), dies at 71 1797 Nonnosus Madlseder composer, dies at 66 1811 Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen Flemish (court)painter, dies at 83 1822 Friedrich Bertuch writer, dies 1826 Reginald Heber bishop & hymn writer, dies 1838 Francesco Antommarchi Napoleon's physician on St Helena, dies at 57 1849 Juliusz Slowacki Pol poet (Father of the Plague-Patient), dies at 39 1850 Vaclav Jan Krtitel Tomasek organist/pianist/composer, dies at 75 1858 Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm Austrian composer, dies at 79 1862 James Clark Ross Arctic explorer, dies 1868 Franz Adolf Berwald Swedish composer, dies at 71 1876 Henriette Davidis writer, dies 1882 Friedrich Wilhelm Kucken composer, dies at 71 1882 Jesse James outlaw, shot dead at 34, in St Joseph MO by Robert Ford 1884 Carel JCH van Nispen tot Sevenaer Dutch Cath politician, dies at 59 1897 Johannes Brahms German composer/conductor (Hung Dances), dies at 63 1901 Richard D'Oyly Carte promotor (Gilbert & Sullivan operas), dies 1909 Benjamin Johnson Lang composer, dies at 71 1915 Andrew Stoddart cricketer (England captain at turn of century), suicide 1919 Paul Geisler composer, dies at 62 1920 Homer Newton Bartlett composer, dies at 74 1936 Bruno Hauptmann convicted Lindbergh baby killer, executed 1941 André Michelin French tire manufacturer, dies at 88 1941 Pal Teleki-von Szek PM Hungary (1920-21, 39-41), suicide at 61 1942 Albert Siklos composer, dies at 63 1942 Paul Gilson composer, dies at 76 1943 Conrad Veidt German/US actor (Cabinet of Dr Calgary), dies at 50 1945 Joseph Weinheber Austria poet/writer (Vienna Verbatim), dies at 43 1946 Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma (responsible for Bataan Death March), executed 1949 Basil Harwood composer, dies at 89 1950 Carter G Woodson "father of black history", dies in Washington DC at 74 1950 Adolf Wiklund composer, dies at 70 1950 Kurt Julian Weill German composer (Dreigroschenoper), dies at 50 1951 Johannes C Kielstra Dut economist/Governor (Suriname 1933-44), dies at 72 1956 T Kostov Bulgarian vice-premier, executed 1958 Theodor Kramer writer, dies 1960 Anton Pannekoek Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist, dies at 87 1962 Benny "Kid" Paret US welterweight boxer, dies after fight, at 24 1962 Manolis Kalomiris Greek opera composer, dies at 78 1966 Russel Crouse US stagewriter (Life with Father), dies at 73 1969 Rex Evans actor (Frankenstein meets the Wolfman, Zara), dies at 65 1971 Joseph Valachi US gangster, dies at 66 1971 Manfred Bonnington Lee [Ellery Queen], detective writer, dies at 65 1972 Ferde Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofé composer (Grand Canyon Suite), dies at 80 1975 Mary Ure actress (Sons & Lovers, Where Eagles Dare), dies at 42 1976 Maurice Johnstone composer, dies at 75 1977 Jack Ryder cricketer (20 Tests for Australia, 1394 runs), dies 1980 Luella Gear actress (Joe & Mabel), dies at 82 1982 Warren Oates actor (East of Eden, Stoney Burke), dies at 53 1982 Herman W Filarski Dutch bridge journalist, dies at 69 1986 Peter Pears English tenor (Death in Venice), dies at 75 1986 Richard Manuel rock pianist/vocalist (Band), dies on 41st birthday 1988 Milton A Caniff US cartoonist (Terry & the Pirates), dies at 81 1989 Norman Woolard actor (Guilty, Saul & David, Medeleine), dies at 79 1990 Sarah Vaughan jazz singer, dies of lung cancer at 66 1990 Katharine Balfour actress (Love Story), dies of ALS at 69 1991 Graham Greene British writer (3rd Man, Our man in Havana), dies at 86 1992 Lloyd "Slim" Andrews actor (Buf Bill in Tomahawk Territory), dies 1992 Margaret Barker actress (Fathers & Son), dies of lung cancer at 83 1993 Alexander Mnouchkine French movie producer (Professional), dies at 83 1993 Dieter Plage German wildlife filmmaker, dies at 57 1993 Eduardo Cabellero Calderon Colombian writer/diplomat, dies at 83 1993 Pinky Lee kiddie host (Pinky Lee Show), dies of heart attack at 85 1994 Betty Furness actress/news consumer reporter (WNBC), dies at 78 1994 Frank G Wells US director (Walt Disney), dies at 62 1994 Jerome Lejeune French geneticist (Syndrome of Down), dies at 67 1994 Pat Harper NYC news anchor (WPIX, WNBC), dies 1995 David Alexander Reginald Herbert writer, dies at 86 1995 Harvey Pennick golfer/teacher, dies at 89 1996 Carl Stokes 1st black mayor of a major US city (Cleveland OH), dies 1996 Christopher John Seward aid worker, dies at 45 1996 Ronald Harmon Brown Secretary of Commerce, dies in an accident at 54 1996 Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes bluesman, dies at 59 1997 Judy Flannery master triathlete, killed by a car at 56 On this day...April 3 0309 -BC- Origin of Seleucid Era 0245 -BC- Origin of Era of Arsaces 0419 [Etalius] ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1043 Edward the Confessor crowned king of England 1312 2nd council of Vienna 1376 Battle of Navarrete (Najera), English beat France 1559 Spain & France signs 2nd Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambrésis 1582 French van Valois honored as duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen 1645 English parliament accept Self-Denying Ordinance 1657 English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown 1679 Edmund Halley meets Johannes Hevelius in Danzig 1721 Robert Walpole becomes England's 1st Lord of the Treasury 1764 Austrian arch duke Jozef crowned himself Roman Catholic king 1776 Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College 1783 Sweden & US sign a treaty of Amity & Commerce 1790 Revenue Marine Service (US Coast Guard), created 1848 Thomas Douglas becomes 1st San Francisco public teacher 1856 Gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodos 1860 Pony Express began between St Joseph MO & Sacramento CA 1864 Skirmish at Okolona AR 1865 Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond VA & Petersburg VA 1865 Battle at Namozine Church VA (Appomattox Campaign) 1868 An Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever, he rides a 50' tidal wave 1882 Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks 1889 Savings Bank of the Order of True Reformers opens in Richmond VA 1893 1st New South Wales vs Queensland F-C game, at Brisbane Exhibition Ground 1908 Frank Gotch wins world heavyweight wrestling championship in 2 hours 1910 Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mount McKinley climbed 1911 Harry James Smith' "Mrs Bumsted-Leigh", premieres in NYC 1913 British suffragette Emily Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail 1917 Lenin leaves Switzerland for Petrograd 1918 House of Representatives accepts American Creed written by William Tyler 1919 Austria expels all Habsburgers 1922 Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party 1923 2 "Black Sox" sue White Sox (unsuccessfully) for back salary 1925 Great Britain goes back to gold standard 1925 Netherlands & Belgium sign accord of Westerschelde 1926 2nd flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard 1926 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 7th Symphony in C 1926 Italy establishes corp of force in order to break powerful unions 1927 Interstate Commerce Commission transfers Ohio to Eastern time zone 1929 Persia agrees to Litvinov Pact 1930 Ras Tafari becomes Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) 1930 Stanley Cup Montréal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 2 games 1933 1st airplane flight over Mount Everest 1933 Then longest North American hockey game requires a 1:44:46 overtime as Maple Leaf Ken Doraty scores to beat Canadiens 1-0 1935 Yasuo Ikenada runs world record marathon (2:26:44) 1936 Al Carr KOs Lew Massey on 1 punch, :07 of the 1st round (shortest boxing bout with gloves) 1941 Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion 1941 Rasjid al-Gailani forms pro-German regime in Iraq 1941 Waltons overture "Scapino", premieres in Chicago 1943 Jan Dieters (leader of illegal CPN) arrested 1944 Supreme Court (Smith vs Allwright) "white primaries" unconstitutional 1944 British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz 1945 Hengelo freed from nazi control by Canadian army 1945 Nazi's begin evacuation of camp Buchenwald 1945 US 1st army conquers Hofgeismar 1946 Netherlands-German postal relations resume 1947 "Barefoot Boy with Cheek" opens at Martin Beck NYC for 108 performances 1948 1st US figure skating championships held 1948 Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries) 1948 US female Figure Skating Championship won by Gretchen Merrill 1948 US male Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button 1949 KQW-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KCBS 1949 North Atlantic Treaty, pact signed by US, Britain, France & Canada 1949 WLWS (now WCMH) TV channel 4 in Columbus OH (NBC) begins broadcasting 1951 Christopher Fry's "Sleep of Prisoners", premieres in Oxford 1952 Dutch Queen Juliana speaks to US Congress 1954 Don Perry climbs a 20' rope in under 2.8 seconds (AAU record) 1954 "Me & Juliet" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 358 performances 1955 Baltimore Orioles pull their 1st triple play (3-6-2 vs Kansas City Athletics) 1955 Fire in cinema to Sclessin Belgium, kills 39 1955 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Oklahoma City Golf Open 1955 Night express train in Guadalajara derails, killing 300 1956 "Silk Stockings" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 461 performances 1956 Bulgarian vice premier Traitsjo Kostov rehabilitated 1956 German war criminals Hinrichsen/Rühl/Siebens/Viebahn are freed 1957 Samuel Beckett's "Endgame", premieres in London 1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test 1958 "Say, Darling" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 332 performances 1958 Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana 1960 Earthquake at Havré, Belgium 1961 "Happiest Girl in the World" opens at Martin Beck NYC for 97 performances 1961 Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia is sold to J Schleifer Properties 1962 Jockey Eddie Arcaro retires after 31 years (24,092 races) 1962 Lieutenant General Marshall S Carter, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA 1964 Beatles hold the top 6 spots on the Sydney Australia record charts 1964 US & Panamá agree to resume diplomatic relations 1965 1st atomic powered spacecraft (SNAP) launched 1966 Luna 10 orbits Moon 1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Venice Ladies Golf Open 1966 Tom Seaver, signs with the Mets for a reported $50,000 bonus 1967 113 East Europeans attending World Amateur hockey championships in Vienna, ask for political asylum 1967 WNYE TV channel 25 in Brooklyn NY (PBS) begins broadcasting 1968 North Vietnam agrees to meet US representatives to set up preliminary peace talks 1970 Miriam Hargrave of England passes her drivers test on 40th try 1974 148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states in the east, south & midwest killed approximately 315 1974 Gold hits record $197 an ounce in Paris France 1975 Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend 1975 James Rupers kills his family to inherit 1976 Philadelphia Flyers win record tying 20th straight NHL home game 1976 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1977 Boston Bruin Jean Ratelle scores his 1,000th NHL point 1977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's 1st meeting with President Jimmy Carter 1977 6th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Kathy Whitworth 1977 Netherlands/Belgium/Luxembourg adopt summer time 1978 50th Academy Awards - "Annie Hall", Rich Dreyfuss & Diane Keaton win 1978 European market & China signs trade agreement 1978 Larry King moves his radio show from Miami FL to Washington DC 1979 Belgium's Martens government forms 1979 Jane M Byrne (D) elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago IL 1980 France performs nuclear test 1980 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1981 Arnie Boldt of Saskatchewan jumped 6' 8.25", with 1 leg 1981 Race riots in London's Brixton area 1982 Buffalo Sabre Gil Perrault scores his 1,000th NHL point 1982 UN Security Council demands Argentina's withdrawal from Falkland Islands 1983 12th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott 1983 2nd NCAA Women's Basketball Championship Southern California beats Los Angeles Tech 69-67 1984 Soyuz T-11 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 Indian-Rakesh Sharma) to Salyut 7 1984 Bombay beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy 1984 Guinea suspends constitution after coup 1985 Vic Elliot pocketed 15,780 pool balls in 24 hours in London 1985 French government adopts equal electoral system 1985 Players' Association agrees to expand LCS from 5 to 7 games 1986 Maureen O'Boyle (future host of Current Affair) is raped 1986 US national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000 1987 Bill Elliott sets NASCAR qualifying record of 212.809 mph at Talladega 1987 Chicago Cubs trade Dennis Eckersley to A's for 3 minor leaguers 1987 Duchess of Windsor's jewels auctioned for £31,380,197 1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR 1988 Mario Lemieux wins NHL scoring title, stopping Gretzky's 7 year streak 1988 New Jersey Devils beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4-3 in OT, to clinch their 1st ever playoff spot 1988 17th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott 1988 7th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion Louisiana Tech beat Auburn 56-54 1988 Somalia & Ethiopia sign accord about Ogaden desert 1988 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR 1989 "Sunrise" a Gannett newspaper begins publishing for the Bronx 1989 51st NCAA Men's Basketball Champion Michigan beats Seton Hall 80-79 (OT) 1989 Mets win 11th consecutive home opener 8-4 over St Louis at Shea Stadium 1991 "Penn & Teller - Refrigerator Tour" opens at Eugene O'Neill NYC 1991 12th Emmy Sports Award presentation 1991 Bo Jackson signs 1-year contract with Chicago White Sox 1991 Thomas Bos skates world record 3 km (3:65.16) 1991 UN Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution 1992 1st exhibition game at Oriole Park at Camden Yards-Baltimore Orioles beat New York Mets 1994 13th NCAA Women Basketball Championship North Carolina beats Louisiana Tech 60-59 1994 1st roster of Silver Bullets (all-female pro baseball team) announced 1994 6th Seniors Golf Tradition Ray Floyd 1995 57th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion UCLA Bruins beats Arkansas 89-78 1995 Howard Stern gets in trouble for disparaging remarks about Selena 1996 South Australia grab exciting draw vs Western Australia to win Sheffield Shield 1996 St Francis Fighting Saints scores college baseball run record 71-1 1997 "Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical", opens at Royale NYC for 109 performance 1998 World Ice Dance Figure Skating Championship in Minneapolis MN; Russians Anjelika Krylova and Oleg Ovsyannikov win 2000 62nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship at RCA Dome Indianapolis  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 04-04-2006 01:44 PM                        Rated G Birthdates which occurred on April 04: 0188 Caracalla [Marcus Aureiius Antoniius] Roman emperor (211-17) 1527 Abraham Ortelius [Ortels/Hortels] South Netherlands geographer 1646 Antoine Galland French oriëntalist/interpreter 1648 Grinling Gibbons sculptor/woodcarver 1696 Giovanni Battista Tiepoldo painter 1716 John Evangelist Schreiber composer 1731 Francisco Morera composer 1740 Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen composer 1752 Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli composer (Andromeda) 1755 Vincenc Masek composer 1758 John Hoppner portrait painter 1762 Stephen Storace composer 1785 Bettina von Arnim German writer (This Book Belongs to the King) 1785 Bettina Brentano composer 1786 John Franklin British explorer (Arctic) 1792 Thaddeus Stevens US Radical Republican congressional leader (Representative-R) 1802 Dorothea Dix US, aroused interest in treatment of mental inmates 1804 Joseph Fischhof composer 1809 Benjamin Pierce US mathematician/astronomer 1814 John Blair Smith Todd Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1872 1817 John Wilson Sprague Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1893 1820 Charles Devens Jr Major General, Brevet (Union volunteers), died in 1891 1821 Linus Yale US, portrait painter/inventor (Yale cylinder lock) 1823 Karl Wilhelm Siemens inventor (laid undersea cables) 1823 Robert Byington Mitchell Brigadier General (Union volunteers) 1826 Zénobe Théophile Gramme inventor (electric motor) 1828 Margaret Oliphant Scotland, novelist/biographer (Beleaguered City) 1831 Edward Cary Walthall Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898 1832 Jose Echegaray y Elizaguirre playwright/scientist (Teatro Escogido) 1836 Jerome Hopkins composer 1843 Hans Richter Györ (Raab/Gyoer) Hungary, conductor (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra) 1843 Hans Richter composer 1858 Rémy de Gourmont French critic/writer (Physique de L'amour) 1866 George P Baker US playwright (47 Workshop) 1870 George A Smith Salt Lake City UT, 8th president of Mormon church 1872 Nikolai Amani composer 1872 Pauline de Haan-Manifarges Dutch singer 1875 Pierre Monteux Paris France, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra 1919-24) 1875 Jozef Szulc composer 1875 Samuel S Hinds Brooklyn NY, actor (The Bribe, The Egg and I, The Great Alaskan Mystery) 1876 Maurice de Vlaminck Paris France, Fauvist painter (Village in the Snow) 1879 Gabriel Groulez composer 1881 Charles Funk Ohio, Encylopediest (Funk & Wagnalls) 1882 Mary Howe composer 1884 Isoroku Yamamoto Admiral/supreme commander of Japanese fleet 1888 Tris Speaker baseball great, hit more doubles than Pete Rose 1892 Cyril Smith Peterhead Scotland, actor (Adventures of Sir Lancelot) 1892 Esther Howard Montana, actress (Born to Kill, Murder My Sweet, A Fool's Advice) 1895 Arthur Murray New York NY, dancer (Arthur Murray Dance Party) 1895 Charlie Hallows cricket batsman (Lancs played for England 1921-28) 1896 Robert Sherwood dramatist (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Idiot's Delight) 1896 Tristan Tzara [Samuel Rosenfeld] French poet (Approximate Man) 1897 Pierre Fresnay Paris France, actor (Grand Illusion) 1899 William Brann cricketer (South African batsman vs England 1922-23) 19-- Tacey Phillips Montclair NJ, actress (Hope-Coed Fever) 1901 Carmel Myers San Francisco CA, actress (Carmel Myers Show) 1902 Louise L de Vilmorin French poetess/author (Lutin Sauvage) 1905 Eugene Bozza composer 1906 Bea Benaderet New York NY, actress (Kate-Petticoat Junction) 1906 John Cameron Swayze Wichita KS, newscaster (Timex, Hindenberg) 1907 Nathan M Pusey Council Bluffs IA, educator (1963 National Association for Social Sciences Medal) 1908 Ernestine Gilbreth Carey author (Cheaper by the Dozen) 1910 [Marcelle] Georgette Hagedoorn actress/chansonnière 1910 Agnes Patrick campaigner 1913 Frances Langford Lakeland FL, singer (Armed Forces Hour, Star Time) 1913 Jerome Weidman US writer (Tenderloin) 1913 Rosemary Lane Indianola IA, actress (4 Mothers, Harvest Melody) 1914 Marguerite Duras France, novelist/playwright (The Sea Wall) 1914 Richard Coogan Short Hills NJ, actor (Captain Video) 1914 Sir John Beith British diplomat 1914 Gustave Camus Belgian painter 1914 John Beith British diplomat 1915 Muddy Waters [McKinley Morganfield], guitarist (Hoochie Coochie Man) 1915 Jan Drda Czechoslovakia, writer (Nema Barikada, Mestecko Na Dlani) 1915 Lars G Ahlin Swedish writer (Death of Me) 1916 David White actor (Larry Tate-Bewitched) 1916 Herbert Eugene Caen columnist 1917 Joseph Ortiz French-Algerian extremist (barricade uprising) 1918 Earl Jellicoe chancellor (University of Southhampton) 1918 Margaret Dupont tennis champion 1919 Antony Tudor England, choreographer (Metropolitan Opera 1957) 1920 Eric Rohmer Nancy France, director (Claire's Knee)/ actor (6 in Paris, Collector, Perceval) 1921 Willem J "Wim" the Villiers South Africa minister of Administration 1922 Elmer Bernstein New York NY, movie music composer (Robot Monster) 1923 Manon H E Alving Dutch actress (Short American) 1924 Gil Hodges baseball player/manager (Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Mets) 1924 Peter Vaughan actor (Haunted Honeymoon, Die Die My Darling) 1924 Christopher Prater screen printer 1924 Eva Marie Saint Newark NJ, actress (Sandpiper, Loving, Exodus) 1925 Elizabeth Wilson Grand Rapids MI, actor (Doc, East Side/West Side) 1925 Erna Spoorenberg Dutch singer 1926 Cloris Leachman Des Moines IA, actress (Phyllis, High Anxiety) 1927 Bob Stump (Representative-Republican-AZ, 1977- ) 1928 Bill Ryan Brooklyn NY, newscaster (Smithsonian) 1928 Maya Angelou [Marguerite Johnson] St Louis MO, poet (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)/actress (Nyo-Roots) 1928 Monty Norman composer/writer 1928 Jimmy Logan British comedian (Mad Death) 1929 William F Clinger Jr (Representative-Republican-PA, 1979- ) 1930 David Sexton soccer manager 1931 Denis Frank Owen Natural historian 1931 Harold L Volkmer (Representative-Democrat-MO, 1977- ) 1932 Anthony Perkins New York NY, actor (Psycho, Fear Strikes Out, Pretty Poison) 1932 Andrei Tarkovski Russian director (Solaris, Stalker) 1932 Bapu Nadkarni cricketer (economical Indian slow left-armer 1956-68) 1932 Richard G Lugar (Senator-Republican-IN, 1977- ) 1933 Fritz Bolkestein Dutch CEO (Shell)/Minister of Defense (VVD) 1933 Robin Phillips English multi-millionaire manufacturer (hand-dryer) 1933 Seoirse Bodley composer 1934 Dorothy Lousie Grenfell Williams broadcaster 1935 Lord Ichayra Secretary-General (British Banking Association) 1935 Trevor Griffiths playwright (Absolute Beginners) 1935 Easton Dudley Ashton St John McMorris cricketer (West Indies batsman of 60's) 1935 François-Bernard Mache composer 1936 Margo J Sylvia rocker (Tune Weavers) 1937 Ian St James novelist (Balfour Conspiracy, Vengeance, Money Stones) 1937 J Hans van den Doel economist/Dutch MP (PvdA) 1938 A Bartlett Giamatti Boston MA, president of Yale/baseball commish (1989) 1938 Michael Parks Corona CA, actor (Then Came Bronson) 1938 Peter Attenborough British headmaster (Charterhouse) 1939 Joanne Carner Kirkland WA, LPGA golfer (US Open 1970, 76) 1939 Hugh Masekela Wilbank South Africa, trumpeter (I Am Not Afraid) 1940 Bijan Iran, mens apparel designer (Beverly Hills, New York, London) 1940 Robby Mueller cinematographer (Breaking the Waves, Dead Man, Korczak) 1940 Vladimir Timofeyevich Isakov Russia, cosmonaut 1941 Major Lance US boxer/dancer/singer (Hey Little Girl) 1942 Kitty Kelley author (Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra) 1942 Kris Jensen rocker 1943 Ian Robertson British museum director (National Army Museum) 1944 David Melville professor/director (Middlesex Polytechnic) 1944 Lawrence A Hough US, rower (Pairs w/o cox-1968 Olympics-silver) 1945 Caroline McWilliams Seattle WA, actress (Sally-Soap, Marcy-Benson) 1945 Catherine Spaak actress (Hotel, Weekend at Dunkirk, Circle of Love) 1945 Bryan Andrews cricketer (New Zealand medium-pacer, toured Australia 1973-74) 1945 Walter Charles East Strousberg PA, actor (Fletch Lives, Weeds) 1946 Craig T Nelson Spokane WA, actor (Chief Jack Mannion-The District, Hayden Fox-Coach, Poltergeist) 1947 Salvatore Sciarrino composer 1948 Luke Halpin Astoria NY, actor (Sandy Ricks-Flipper) 1948 Berry Oakley Chicago IL, rocker (Allman Brothers-Ramblin' Man) 1948 Gail Davies Broken Bow OK, country singer (Blue Heartache) 1948 Pick Withers rocker (Dire Straits) 1949 Larry Lingle rocker 1950 Christine Lahti Detroit MI, actress (Dr Kathryn Austin-Chicago Hope, Harvey Korman Show, Swing Shift) 1951 Steve Gatlin Olney TX, country singer (Gatlin Brothers-Broken Lady) 1952 Dave Hill England, rock guitarist (Slade-Coz I Love You) 1952 Gary Moore Irish rock guitarist ("Still Got the Blues", Thin Lizzy, Skid Row) 1952 Peter Haycock rock guitarist (All Along the Watchtower) 1952 Rosemarie Ackermann German Democratic Republic, high jumper (Olympics-gold-1976) 1954 Julie Carmen Mount Vernon NY, actress (Gloria, Last Plane Out) 1955 Mick Mars rocker 1956 Evelyn Hart prima ballerina (Royal Winnipeg Ballet) 1956 Lamen Khalifa Fhimah Suk Giuma Libya, bomber (Pan Am Flight 103) 1957 Graeme Kelling British pop guitarist (Deacon Blue-Real Gone Kid) 1957 Paul Downton cricketer (England wicket-keeper in 80's) 1958 Pierre-Paul Prud'hon painter 1958 Derek Kallicharran cricket all-rounder (Guyana, USA 1994 ICC Trophy) 1958 Hrvoje Horvatic video artist 1958 John Wesley Jones Lawton OK, 4X100 meter relayer (Olympics-gold-1976) 1960 Jon[athan] Agnew British broadcaster/cricketer (England pace bowler late 80's) 1960 Bev Smith Armstrong British Columbia Canada, basketball forward (Olympics-96) 1961 Matt Cole Stratford Ontario Canada, Canadian Tour golfer (1990 Space Coast) 1962 Ava Fabian Brewster NY, playmate (August 1986)/actress (Cafe Nostra) 1962 Sherrin Smyers Newcastle Australia, LPGA golfer (1995 Youngstown-11th) 1962 Tina Tombs Montréal Québec Canada, LPGA golfer (1990 Jamie Farr Toledo) 1963 Anthony Clark comedian (Boyd Pritchett-Boston Common) 1963 Dale Hawerchuk Toronto Ontario Canada, NHL center (Philadelphia Flyers) 1963 David Gavurin English pop guitarist/composer (Sundays, Blind) 1963 Jack Del Rio NFL linebacker (Minnesota Vikings) 1964 Paul Parker soccer player 1964 Gregory Thomas Kraft Detroit MI, PGA golfer (1993 Walt Disney-2nd) 1964 Robbie Rist California, actor (Oliver-Brady Bunch) 1965 Robert Downey Jr New York NY, comedian/actor (Larry Paul-Ally McBeal, Saturday Night Live, Less than Zero, Back to School) 1965 Black Francis [Charles Thompson], US singer/songwriter (Pixies) 1965 Tony Burse CFL fullback (Edmonton Eskimos) 1965 Zwart Francis [Charles Thompson] US singer/songwriter (Pixies) 1966 Nancy McKeon Westbury NY, actress (Jo Polniazek-Facts of Life) 1966 Michal Clingman Indio CA, WPVA volleyballer (Nationals-9th-1994) 1966 Myriam Schropp West Germany, tennis star 1966 Stanislav Medrik Nitra Czechoslovakia, hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia) 1967 Juliana "Juli" Furtado New York NY, cyclist (Olympics-10th-96) 1968 Andre Bowden WLAF LB (Frankfurt Galaxy) 1969 Anthony Tucker NBA forward (New York Knicks) 1969 Carlos Reyes Miami FL, pitcher (Oakland A's) 1969 Dennis de Nooijer Dutch soccer player/twin brother of Gerard (Sparta) 1969 Gerard de Nooijer Dutch soccer player/twin brother of Dennis (Sparta) 1970 Barry van Galen Dutch soccer player (Roda JC) 1970 Jason Stoltenberg Australia, tennis star 1971 Allan Houston NBA guard (New York Knicks, Detroit Pistons) 1971 Felipe Lira Miranda Venezeula, pitcher (Detroit Tigers) 1971 Jaime Fernandez Australian rower (Olympics-96) 1971 Yanic Perreault Sherbrooke, NHL center (Los Angeles Kings) 1972 Chad Eaton defensive tackle (New England Patriots) 1972 Jim Werland Ventura CA, canoe (alternate-Olympics-96) 1972 Matt Wagner Cedar Falls IA, pitcher (Seattle Mariners) 1973 Damon Allen Winston-Salem NC, figure skater (1997 Midwestern champion) 1973 Peter Hoekstra Dutch soccer player (PSV, Ajax) 1973 Ryan Coughlin CFL offensive linebacker (Montréal Alouettes) 1973 Tiffany Woosley WNBA guard (Houston Comets) 1974 O J Santiago tight end (Atlanta Falcons) 1975 Kisha Ford WNBA guard/forward (New York Liberty) 1976 Alicia Silverstone San Francisco CA, actress (Clueless) 1978 Irene Skliva Athens Greece, Miss World (1996) 1979 Charles Butler Salt Lake City UT, dance skater (& Joseph-1997 National) 1979 Rebecca Stoyel South Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96) Deaths which occurred on April 04: 0397 Ambrosius Governor of Liguria/bishop of Milan (374-97)/saint, dies 0896 Formosus Pope (891-96), dies 1229 Hugo van Pierrepont bishop of Liege, dies 1284 Alfonso X "El Sabio" King of Castilië/León (1252-84), dies at 62 1292 Nicholas IV [Girolamo Masci] Pope (1288-92), dies 1393 Floris van Wevelinkhoven bishop of Utrecht, dies 1406 Robert III King of Scotland (1390-1406), dies 1417 John van Touraine 1st husband of Jacoba of Bavaria, dies 1585 Caspar de Robles Spanish viceroy of Frisia, dies at about 57 1588 Frederik II King of Denmark/Norway (1559-88), dies at 53 1604 Thomas Churchyard poet/pamphleteer, dies 1617 John Napier Scottish mathematician/inventor (logarithms), dies 1643 Simon Episcopius [Bisschop] Dutch theologist, dies at 60 1662 Davis Mell composer, dies at 57 1662 Leonhart Kern German sculptor , dies at about 73 1664 Adam Willaerts Dutch seascape painter, dies 1714 Karel duke of Berry/French heir to the throne, dies 1734 Johann C van Erckel old Catholic theologist, dies at about 79 1774 Oliver Goldsmith Irish poet (She Stoops to Conquer), dies at 17 1784 Mary Mead wife of English journalist John Wilkes, dies 1806 Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer composer, dies at 84 1807 Joseph Jérôme Le Francais de Lalande French astronomer, dies 1817 André Masséna Duc de Rivoli soldier, dies 1817 Prince d'Essing dies 1841 William Henry Harrison becomes 1st US President to die in office, at 68 1844 Charles Bulfinch 1st US pro architect (Massachusetts State House), dies at 80 1862 Harmen S Sytstra Dutch poet/editor (Iduna), dies at 45 1889 Thomas T H Jorissen historian, dies at 56 1893 Alphonse de Candolle Swiss botanist, dies at 86 1900 Edward VII King, assassinated 1905 Constantin Meunier Belgian painter/sculptor, dies at 73 1908 Josef Sucher composer, dies at 64 1919 William Crookes English chemist/physicist (Crookes-pipe), dies at 86 1923 L Martov [Joulij O Tsederbaum] Russian revolutionary, dies at 49 1929 Karl Friedrich Benz automobile engineer (Mercedes), dies at 84 1930 Vladimir Majakovski Russian poet, dies 1931 Andre Michelin CEO (Michelin Tires), dies 1931 George Whitefield Chadwick composer, dies at 76 1932 Ottokar T Czernin von und zu Chudenitz Austrian minister, dies at 59 1932 Wilhelm Ostwald physical chemist (Nobel 1909), dies 1934 Braulio Dueno Colon composer, dies at 80 1937 Frantisek X Salda Czechoslovakia, writer/critic, dies at 69 1938 Cyril Christiani cricket wicket keep (West Indies 1935), dies of malaria at 24 1939 Ghazi I King of Iraq (19??-39), dies in car accident 1941 Max Frisch writer, dies at 29 1943 Oskar Schlemmer German painter/sculptor, dies at 54 1943 Raoul Laparra composer, dies at 66 1944 John Peale Bishop US poet (Undertaker's Garland), dies at 51 1944 Karel Weis composer, dies at 82 1953 Carol II King of Romania (1930-40), dies at 59 1953 Rachilde [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery] French author, dies at 93 1956 Fritz Künkel German physician/charachterologist, dies at 66 1958 Hendrik Heyman Belgian minister of Nijverheid/mayor, dies at 78 1959 Stanley Snooke cricketer (brother of S J, duck in South African Test), dies 1963 Jason Robards Sr actor (Acapulco), dies at 70 1963 Endzion Barelli dies 2 days after winning a boxing match at 18 1967 Mischa Elman Ukraine/US violinist, dies at 76 1968 Reverend Martin Luther King Jr civil rights leader, assassinated in Memphis at 39 1970 Byron Foulger actor (Captain Nice, Petticoat Junction), dies at 70 1972 Adam Clayton Powell Jr (Representative-Democrat-NY), dies at 63 1972 John A H J S Bruins Slot co-founder/editor in chief (illegal), dies 1972 Stefan Wolpe German composer (Zeus & Elidco), dies at 69 1977 Jeno Zador composer, dies at 82 1978 Gino Contilli composer, dies at 70 1979 Edgar Buchanan actor (Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction), dies at 77 1979 Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto former Pakistani President, hanged in Pakistan at 51 1981 Brad Johnson actor (Annie Oakley), dies at 56 1982 Tsvetan Tsvetanov composer, dies at 50 1983 Jacqueline Logan silent film leading lady, dies at 78 1983 Gloria Swanson actress (Airport 1975), dies of a heart ailment at 84 1984 John Arnold cricketer (England bat vs New Zealand 1931, scored 34 only Test), dies 1986 Frank Mortelmans Belgian painter, dies at 87 1987 C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore author (Judgment Night), dies at 76 1991 John Heinz (Senator-Republican-PA), dies in a plane crash, dies at 52 1991 Luc de Rijck Belgian soccer player (Turnhout), dies 1991 Max Frisch Swiss architect/writer (Stiller, Biedermann), dies at 79 1992 Karl Tunberg US scriptwriter (Ben Hur), dies 1992 Samuel Reshevsky Polish-born chess grandmaster, dies at 80 1992 Sy Kramer singer/comedy writer dies of cancer at 59 1993 Alfred Mosher Butts US architect/game maker (Scrabble), dies at 93 1993 Bep [Alberta B] Ogterop [Rita la Roche] singer, dies 1994 Olga Lowina Dutch yodeler (Edelweisskapel), dies at 69 1994 Virginia "Ginny" Simms actress/singer (Kay Kyser Band), dies at 77 1995 Kenny Everett disc Jockey, dies at 50 1995 Peter Brinson dance educationalist, dies at 67 1995 Priscilla Lane actress (Saboteur, Bodyguard), dies at 77 1996 Carl Burton Stokes politician, dies at 68 1996 David Keylsey actor/director, dies at 63 1996 David Whitton campaigner, dies at 44 1996 Frederick Denison Maurice Hocking pathologist, dies at 97 1996 Joy Newton dancer, dies at 82 1996 Larry Laprise songwriter, dies at 83 1996 Seamas NacNeill piper, dies at 79 On this day...April 4 Events 0896 Formosus ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1081 Alexius I Comnenus occupies Byzantine throne 1460 University of Basle in Swizerland forms 1541 Ignatius of Loyola becomes 1st superior-General of the Jesuits 1552 Mauritius van Saksen begins alliance with Karel Anikita Stroganov 1558 Czar Ivan IV gives parts of North-Russia to fur traders 1581 Francis Drake completes circumnavigation of the world and is knighted 1588 Christian IV succeeds Frederik II as king of Denmark 1625 Viceroy Frederik Henry marries Amalia countess von Solms-Braunfels 1655 Battle at Postage Farina, Tunis English fleet beats Barbarian pirates 1660 English King Charles II ends Declaration of Breda (freedom of religion) 1687 English King James II orders his Declaration of Indulgence read in church 1716 Russian & Prussian troops occupy Wismar 1737 Anthony van Heim installed as Dutch pension advisor 1818 Congress decided US flag is 13 red & white stripes & 20 stars 1828 Casparus van Wooden patents chocolate milk powder (Amsterdam) 1832 Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Rio de Janeiro 1850 City of Los Angeles incorporated 1859 The opera "Dinorah" is produced (Paris France) 1862 Battle of Yorktown begins 1862 US begins Peninsular Campaign aimed at capturing Richmond 1864 Skirmish at Elkin's Ford (Little Missouri River), Arkansas 1865 Lee's army arrives at Amelia Courthouse 1870 Golden Gate Park established by City Order #800 1887 Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia KS) 1896 Announcement of Gold in the Yukon 1899 South Africa all out 35 vs England (Trott 4-19, Haigh 6-11) 1900 Assassination attempt on prince of Wales/king Edward VII 1900 British garrison of Reddersberg surrenders to Boer General De Wet 1902 Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund established with $10 million 1905 Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 370,000 1911 Hugh Chalmers, automaker, suggests idea of baseball MVP 1912 Chinese republic proclaimed in Tibet 1912 Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields Siberia 1914 "The Perils of Pauline" shown for 1st time in Los Angeles CA 1916 US Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in WWI 1918 Battle of Somme ends 1918 Food riot in Amsterdam 1920 Arabs attack Jews in Jerusalem 1921 Stanley Cup Ottawa Senators (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2 1922 WAAB (Baton Rouge LA) becomes 1st US radio station with "W" calls 1926 Greek dictator Theodorus Pangalos elected president 1929 "New Moon" musical opens in London 1929 1st AAU Greco-Roman wrestling championships held 1930 Andrew Sandham makes Test Cricket 1st triple century 1930 Les Ames makes the 1st Test Cricket century by a wicketkeeper (149) 1932 Vitamin C 1st isolated, C C King, University of Pittsburgh 1932 George Bernard Shaw's "Too True to be Good", premieres in NYC 1933 US Dirigible Akron crashes off coast of New Jersey, 73 die 1937 4th Golf Masters Championship Byron Nelson wins, shooting a 283 1938 5th Golf Masters Championship Henry Picard wins, shooting a 285 1939 Faisal II ascends to throne of Iraq 1940 R Rodgers/Lorenz Hart's "Higher & Higher", premieres in NYC 1941 German troops conquer Banghazi 1944 British troops capture Addis Ababa Ethiopia 1944 De Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communists 1945 Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation (National Liberation Day) 1945 US forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany 1945 US tanks/infantry conquer Bielefeld 1947 Largest group of sunspots on record 1947 UN's International Civil Aviation Organization established 1948 84-year-old Connie Mack challenges 78-year-old Clark Griffith to a race from home to 1st base; it ends in a tie 1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed (Washington DC) 1949 Israel & Jordan sign armistice agreement 1949 WKRC TV channel 12 in Cincinnati OH (ABC) begins broadcasting 1950 Dirk Stikker becomes chairman of OES 1951 Dutch Prince Bernhard visits Juan & Eva Perón in Buenos Aires Argentina 1953 KFDA TV channel 10 in Amarillo TX (CBS) begins broadcasting 1954 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Carrollton GA Golf Open 1955 British government signs military treaty with Iraq 1956 Enid Bagnold's "Chalk Garden", premieres in London 1957 Heitor Villa-Lobos' 10th Symphony, premieres in Paris France 1958 1st march against nuclear weapons (Aldermaston England) 1958 Eugène Ionesco's "Tueur sans Gages" premieres in Darmstadt 1959 Federation of Mali, consisting of Senegal & French Sudan (dissolved 1960) 1960 Project Ozma begins at Green Bank radio astronomy center 1960 32nd Academy Awards - "Ben-Hur", Charlton Heston & Simone Signoret win 1960 Senegal declares independence from France 1964 Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love", single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks 1964 "Anyone Can Whistle" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 9 performances 1965 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Baton Rouge Golf Invitational 1966 Pirate Radio Scotland changes name to Radio Ireland 1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1967 Dutch De Young government forms 1967 Marines chase "Nozems" out of Amsterdam Central Station 1968 Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned 1968 "Education of Hyman Kaplan" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 performances 1969 Dr Denton Cooley implants 1st temporary artificial heart 1970 Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Don Johnson 1971 Marine clay under houses liquifies, 31 die (St-Jean-Vianney Québec) 1971 "Follies" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 524 performances 1972 1st electric power plant fueled by garbage begins operating 1974 Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home-run record by hitting his 714th 1975 Steve Miller is arrested for burning his girlfriend's clothes 1975 USAF transport carrying orphans from Saigon crashes killing 155 1976 5th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Judy Rankin 1976 Seni Pramoj's Democratic Party wins elections in Thailand 1979 Jane M Byrne (D), elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago IL 1980 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR 1981 Henry Cisneros becomes 1st Mexican-American mayor (San Antonio) 1982 11th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sally Little 1983 6th space shuttle mission, Challenger 1 launched 1983 45th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship North Carolina State beats Houston 54-52 1984 Winston Smith in Orwell's "1984" begins his secret diary 1984 Michael Frayn's "Benefactors" premieres in London 1985 Tulane University cancels its basketball season amidst scandal 1986 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 213th point of season 1987 Dow Jones up 69.89 points, ending at record 2,390.34 points 1988 Eddie Hill becomes 1st to drag race a ¼ mile in under 5 seconds 1988 Largest crowd (55,438) at a season game at Riverfront (Cincinnati Reds vs St Louis Cardinals) 1988 50th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Kansas beat Oklahoma 83-79 1988 Last broadcast of "Crossroads" on British TV 1988 New York Mets set Opening Day record with 6 homeruns 1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's last NBA game in Seattle 1989 New York Yankee Tommy John ties record of playing 26 seasons, his 287th win puts him 19th overall as Yankees beat Twins on opening day 4-2 1990 "The Marshall Chronicles" premieres on ABC-TV 1990 Gloria Estefan released from the hospital after her accident 1990 Security law violator Ivan Boesky is released from federal custody 1991 "Lucifer's Child" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 28 performances 1992 Game 1 of Mayor Challenge - New York Yankees beat New York Mets 6-4 at Yankee Stadium 1992 Jury deliberations begin in the Noriega case 1992 John Tesh (Entertainment Tonight) marries actress Connie Selleca 1992 Sali Berisha becomes president/Alexander Meksi premier of Albania 1993 12th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion Texas Tech beats Ohio State 84-82 1993 5th Seniors Golf Tradition Tom Shaw 1993 Trish Johnson wins Las Vegas LPGA at Canyon Gate Golf Tournament 1993 Wrestlemania IX at Caesar's Palace Las Vegas, Hulk Hogan pins Yokozuna 1994 1st game played at Jacobs Field, Indians beat Mariners 4-3 in 11 innings 1994 56th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion Arkansas Razorbacks beats Duke 76-72 1994 KLM Saab 340B crashes at Schiphol, 3 killed 1994 Largest Opening Day crowd at Yankee Stadium, 56,706 1994 Los Angeles Dodger Darryl Strawberry begins substance abuse treatment 1994 Netscape Communications founded as Mosaic Communications 1994 Tony Curtis undergoes heart-bypass surgery 1996 "Inherit the Wind" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 45 performances 1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Austin TX on KJFK 98.9 FM 1997 Anaheim Ducks clinch their 1st-ever playoff berth 1997 Braves officially open Turner Field against Cubs 1997 DMSP Titan 2 launched 1997 STS 83 (Columbia 22), launches 1998 NFL Europe (Formerly WLAF), kicks off season  |  IP: Logged

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