Today In History

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1302 - The weaver Peter de Coningk led a massacre of the Flemish oligarchs.

1642 - Montreal, Canada, was founded.

1643 - Queen Anne, the widow of Louis XIII, was granted sole and absolute power as regent by the Paris parliament, overriding the late king's will.

1652 - In Rhode Island, a law was passed that made slavery illegal in North America. It was the first law of its kind.

1792 - Russian troops invaded Poland.

1798 - The first Secretary of the U.S. Navy was appointed. He was Benjamin Stoddert.

1802 - Great Britain declared war on Napoleon's France.

1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed emperor by the French Senate.

1828 - Battle of Las Piedras ended the conflict between Uruguay and Brazil.

1896 - The U.S. Supreme court upheld the "separate but equal" policy in the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision. The ruling was overturned 58 years later with Brown vs. Board of Education.

1897 - A public reading of Bram Stoker's new novel, "Dracula, or, The Un-dead," was performed in London.

1904 - Brigand Raizuli kidnapped American Ion H. Perdicaris in Morocco.

1917 - The U.S. Congress passed the Selective Service act, which called up soldiers to fight in World War I.

1926 - Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished while visiting a beach in Venice, CA. She reappeared a month later with the claim that she had been kidnapped.

1931 - Japanese pilot Seiji Yoshihara crashed his plane in the Pacific Ocean while trying to be the first to cross the ocean nonstop. He was picked up seven hours later by a passing ship.

1933 - The Tennessee Valley Authority was created.

1934 - The U.S. Congress approved an act, known as the "Lindberg Act," that called for the death penalty in interstate kidnapping cases.

1942 - New York ended night baseball games for the duration of World War II.

1944 - Monte Cassino, Europe's oldest Monastic house, was finally captured by the Allies in Italy.

1949 - Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America was incorporated

1951 - The United Nations moved its headquarters to New York City.

1953 - The first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound, Jacqueline Cochran, piloted an F-86 Sabrejet over California at an average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour.

1974 - India became the sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb.

1980 - Mt. Saint Helens erupted in Washington state. 57 people were killed and 3 billion in damage was done.

1994 - Israel's three decades of occupation in the Gaza Strip ended as Israeli troops completed their withdrawal and Palestinian authorities took over.

1998 - The U.S. federal government and 20 states filed a sweeping antitrust case against Microsoft Corp., saying the computer software company had a "choke hold" on competitors which denied consumer choices by controlling 90% of the software market.

1998 - U.S. federal officials arrested more than 130 people and seized $35 million. This was the end to an investigation of money laundering being done by a dozen Mexican banks and two drug-smuggling cartels.

Current Birthdays


Tina Fey turns 39 years old today.

87 Bill Macy
Actor


81 Pernell Roberts
Actor ("Bonanza," "Trapper John, M.D.")


79 Warren Rudman
Former U.S. senator, R-N.H.


78 Robert Morse
Actor ("Mad Men," "How to Succeed in Business ...")


75 Dwayne Hickman
Actor


72 Brooks Robinson
Baseball Hall of Famer


67 Rodney Dillard
Bluegrass musician (The Dillards)


63 Reggie Jackson
Baseball Hall of Famer


62 Candice Azzara
Actress


61 Joe Bonsall
Country singer (The Oak Ridge Boys)


61 Tom Udall
U.S. senator, D-N.M.


60 Rick Wakeman
Rock musician (Yes)


57 George Strait
Country singer


56 Butch Tavares
R&B singer


54 Chow Yun-Fat
Actor


49 Page Hamilton
Rock singer, musician (Helmet)


49 Jari Kurri
Hockey Hall of Famer


49 Yannick Noah
Tennis Hall of Famer


40 Martika
Singer, actress


35 Special Ed
Rapper


34 Jack Johnson
Rock singer


29 Darryl Allen
R&B singer (Mista)


29 Matt Long
Actor


17 Spencer Breslin
Actor

Historic Birthdays


Frank Capra

5/18/1897 - 9/3/1991
Italian-born American film director


83 Omar Khayyam
5/18/1048 - 12/4/1131
Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer


50 Johann Froberger
5/18/1616 - 5/7/1667
German composer, organist and harpsichordist


74 Peter Carl Faberge
5/18/1846(O.S.)- 9/24/1920
Russian goldsmith, designer and jeweler


69 Elisabeth Cary
5/18/1867 - 7/13/1936
American art critic for the New York Times


97 Bertrand Russell
5/18/1872 - 2/2/1970
English philosopher and logician; awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950


86 Walter Gropius
5/18/1883 - 7/5/1969
German architect; helped found the Bauhaus school


89 Eurico Dutra
5/18/1885 - 6/11/1974
Brazilian soldier and president; helped restore constitutional democracy


64 Ezio Pinza
5/18/1892 - 5/9/1957
Italian-born operatic bass and actor


77 Vincent du Vigneaud
5/18/1901 - 12/11/1978
American biochemist; won Nobel Prize in 1955


79 Richard Brooks
5/18/1912 - 3/11/1992
American screenwriter, film director and producer


68 Pierre Balmain
5/18/1914 - 6/29/1982
French couturier


71 Dame Margot Fonteyn
5/18/1919 - 2/21/1991
English ballerina


84 Pope John Paul II
5/18/1920 - 4/2/2005
264th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church

 

[Skyraider22]

Good stuff minidog 1942 ended those night games becaues of the east coast blackouts:thumbsup:

 

[melanielikestwo]

6 years ago the first mad cow in Canada.

 

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1098 - Christian Crusaders of the First Crusade seized Antioch, Turkey.

1539 - Hernando De Soto claimed Florida for Spain.

1621 - The Dutch West India Company received a charter for New Netherlands (now known as New York).

1784 - The United States Congress created the United States Army.

1800 - John Adams moved to Washington, DC. He was the first President to live in what later became the capital of the United States.

1805 - A peace treaty between the U.S. and Tripoli was completed in the captain's cabin on board the USS Constitution.

1851 - The New York Knickerbockers became the first baseball team to wear uniforms.

1856 - Cullen Whipple patented the screw machine.

1864 - About 7,000 Union troops were killed within 30 minutes during the Battle of Cold Harbor in Virginia during the U.S. Civil War.

1871 - Jesse James, then 24, and his gang robbed the Obocock bank in Corydon, Iowa. They stole $15,000.

1888 - "Casey at the Bat" the poem by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was first published.

1918 - The Finnish Parliament ratified its treaty with Germany.

1923 - In Italy, Benito Mussolini granted women the right to vote.

1928 - Manchurian warlord Chian Tso-Lin died as a result of a bomb blast set off by the Japanese.

1932 - Lou Gehrig set a major league baseball record when he hit four consecutive home runs.

1937 - The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne, married Wallis Warfield Simpson.

1938 - The German Reich voted to confiscate so-called "degenerate art."

1940 - German bombed Paris, killing 254 people. Most of the people killed were civilians and school children.

1952 - A rebellion by North Korean prisoners in the Koje prison camp in South Korea was put down by American troops.

1959 - The first class graduated from the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO.

1965 - Edward White became the first American astronaut to do a "space walk" when he left the Gemini 4 capsule.

1968 - Andy Warhol was shot and critically wounded in his New York film studio by Valerie Solanas.

1970 - Har Gobind Khorana and colleagues announced the first synthesis of a gene from chemical components.

1974 - Charles Colson, an aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon, pled guilty to obstruction of justice.

1983 - Gordon Kahl was killed in a gun battle with law enforcement officials near Smithville, AR. Kahl was wanted for the slayings of two U.S. marshals in North Dakota.

1985 - After five years, the characters of Nancy and Chris Hughes returned to CBS-TV's "As the World Turns."

1989 - Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini died.

1989 - Chinese army troops positioned themselves to began a sweep of Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square.

1991 - Mount Unzen in southern Japan erupted killing 40 people.

1998 - In Germany, a train veered off its tracks and hit a road bridge. 101 people were killed and 80 were injured.

1999 - Slobodan Milosevic's government accepted an international peace plan concerning Kosovo. NATO announced that airstrikes would continue until 40,000 Serb forces were withdrawn from Kosovo.

1999 - Dennis Muren received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2003 - Sammy Sosa (Chicago Cubs) broke a bat when he grounded out against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The bat he was using was a corked bat.

2003 - Toys "R" Us, Inc. announced that it had signed a multi-year agreement with Albertson to become the exclusive toy provider for all of all of Albertson's food and drug stores.

Current Birthdays


Anderson Cooper turns 42 years old today

84 Tony Curtis
Actor


80 Chuck Barris
Game show host ("The Gong Show")


74 Irma P. Hall
Actress


73 Larry McMurtry
Author


70 Ian Hunter
Rock musician (Mott the Hoople)


66 Billy Cunningham
Basketball Hall of Famer


66 Emmitt Thomas
Football Hall of Famer


63 Eddie Holman
Singer


61 Too Slim
Country musician (Riders in the Sky)


60 Richard Moore
Rock musician (The Troggs)


59 Suzi Quatro
Singer


58 Deniece Williams
R&B singer


55 Dan Hill
Singer


51 Scott Valentine
Actor


45 Kerry King
Rock musician (Slayer)


44 Mike Gordon
Rock musician (Phish)


41 Jamie O'Neal
Country singer


38 Ariel Hernandez
Singer (No Mercy)


38 Gabriel Hernandez
Singer (No Mercy)


32 Travis Hafner
Baseball player


23 Rafael Nadal
Tennis player


22 Lalaine
Actress ("Lizzie McGuire")

Historic Birthdays


Allen Ginsberg

6/3/1926 - 4/5/1997
American poet


71 James Hutton
6/3/1726 - 3/26/1797
Scottish geologist, chemist and naturalist


62 William Hone
6/3/1780 - 11/6/1842
English radical journalist and publisher


81 Jefferson Davis
6/3/1808 - 12/6/1889
American; president of the Confederate States of America (1861-5)


71 Henry James
6/3/1811 - 12/18/1882
American philosophical theologian


86 Charles Lecocq
6/3/1832 - 10/24/1918
French composer of operettas


86 Ransom Eli Olds
6/3/1864 - 8/26/1950
American inventor and automobile manufacturer


76 Raoul Dufy
6/3/1877 - 3/23/1953
French painter and designer


88 Maurice Evans
6/3/1901 - 3/12/1989
English-born American stage actor


69 Josephine Baker
6/3/1906 - 4/12/1975
American-born French dancer and singer


80 William Douglas-Home
6/3/1912 - 9/28/1992
English playwright


67 Colleen Dewhurst
6/3/1924 - 8/22/1991
American stage and film actress

 

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1595 - Henry IV's army defeated the Spanish at the Battle of Fontaine-Francaise.

1637 - American settlers in New England massacred a Pequot Indian village.

1752 - Benjamin Franklin flew a kite for the first time to demonstrate that lightning was a form of electricity.

1783 - A hot-air balloon was demonstrated by Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier. It reached a height of 1,500 feet.

1794 - The U.S. Congress prohibited citizens from serving in any foreign armed forces.

1827 - Athens fell to the Ottomans.

1851 - Harriet Beecher Stow published the first installment of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in "The National Era."

1865 - The first safe deposit vault was opened in New York. The charge was $1.50 a year for every $1,000 that was stored.

1884 - U.S. Civil War General William T. Sherman refused the Republican presidential nomination, saying, "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected."

1917 - American men began registering for the World War I draft.

1924 - Ernst F. W. Alexanderson transmitted the first facsimile message across the Atlantic Ocean.

1927 - Johnny Weissmuller set two world records in swimming events. Weissmuller set marks in the 100-yard, and 200-yard, free-style swimming competition.

1933 - President Roosevelt signed the bill that took the U.S. off of the gold standard.

1940 - During World War II, the Battle of France began when Germany began an offensive in Southern France.

1942 - In France, Pierre Laval congratulated French volunteers that were fighting in the U.S.S.R. with Germans.

1944 - The first B-29 bombing raid hit the Japanese rail line in Bangkok, Thailand.

1946 - The first medical sponges were first offered for sale in Detroit, MI.

1947 - U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall gave a speech at Harvard University in which he outlined the Marshall Plan.

1956 - Premier Nikita Khrushchev denounced Josef Stalin to the Soviet Communist Party Congress.

1967 - The National Hockey League (NHL) awarded three new franchises. The Minnesota North Stars (later the Dallas Stars), the California Golden Seals (no longer in existence) and the Los Angeles Kings.

1967 - The Six Day War between Israel and Egypt, Syria and Jordan began.

1968 - U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy was mortally shot in Los Angeles by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy died early the next morning.

1973 - The first hole-in-one in the British Amateur golf championship was made by Jim Crowford.

1975 - Egypt reopened the Suez Canal to international shipping, eight years after it was closed because of the 1967 war with Israel.

1981 - In the U.S., the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that five men in Los Angeles were suffering from a rare pneumonia found in patients with weakened immune systems. They were the first recognized cases of what came to be known as AIDS.

1986 - A federal jury in Baltimore convicted Ronald W. Pelton of selling secrets to the Soviet Union. Pelton was sentenced to three life prison terms plus 10 years.

1987 - Ted Koppel and guests discussed the topic of AIDS for four hours on ABC-TV’s "Nightline".

1994 - An earthquake in East Java killed 264 people.

1998 - A strike began at a General Motors Corp. parts factory near Detroit, MI, that closed five assembly plants and idled workers across the U.S. for seven weeks.

1998 - Volkswagen AG won approval to buy Rolls-Royce Motor Cars for $700 million, outbidding BMW's $554 million offer.

1998 - C-Span reported that Bob Hope had died. The report was false and had begun with an inaccurate obituary on the Associated Press Web site.

1998 - A strike at a General Motors parts factory began. It lasted for seven weeks.

2001 - Amazon.com announced that it would begin selling personal computers later in the year.

2004 - The U.S.S. Jimmy Carter was christened in the U.S. Navy in Groton, CT.

Current Birthdays


Kenny G turns 53 years old today.


84 Bill Hayes
Actor, singer ("Days of Our Lives")


75 Bill Moyers
Broadcast journalist


68 Floyd Butler
R&B singer


64 Don Reid
Country singer (The Statler Brothers)


63 Fred Stone
Rock musician (Sly and the Family Stone)


62 Laurie Anderson
Rock musician and performance artist


61 Gail Davies
Country singer


60 Ken Follett
Author


57 Nicko McBrain
Rock musician (Iron Maiden)


53 Richard Butler
Rock singer (Psychedelic Furs)


47 Jeff Garlin
Actor


46 Karen Sillas
Actress


42 Ron Livingston
Actor


40 Brian McKnight
R&B singer


39 Claus Norreen
Rock musician (Aqua)


38 Mark Wahlberg
Actor


35 Chad Allen
Actor


35 P-Nut
Rock musician (311)


33 Torry Holt
Football player


32 Navi Rawat
Actress ("Numb3rs")


32 Liza Weil
Actress ("The Gilmore Girls")


30 Pete Wentz
Rock musician (Fall Out Boy)


28 Seb Lefebvre
Rock musician (Simple Plan)


23 Amanda Crew
Actress

Historic Birthdays


John Maynard Keynes

6/5/1883 - 4/21/1946
English economist, journalist and financier


67 Adam Smith
6/5/1723 - 7/17/1790
Scottish social philosopher and political economist


73 John Couch Adams
6/5/1819 - 1/21/1892
English mathematician and astronomer


58 Pat Garrett
6/5/1850 - 2/29/1908
American sheriff; shot Billy the Kid


64 Jan Thorn-Prikker
6/5/1868 - 3/5/1932
Dutch painter, designer and decorator


45 Pancho Villa
6/5/1878 - 6/20/1923
Mexican revolutionary guerrilla leader


61 Ruth Benedict
6/5/1887 - 9/17/1948
American anthropologist


38 Federico Garcia Lorca
6/5/1898 - 8/19/1936
Spanish poet and dramatist


77 William Boyd
6/5/1895 - 9/12/1972
American motion-picture and television actor


63 Tony Richardson
6/5/1928 - 11/14/1991
English stage and screen director

 

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1674 - Sivaji crowned himself King of India.

1813 - The U.S. invasion of Canada was halted at Stony Creek, Ontario.

1833 - Andrew Jackson became the first U.S. president to ride in a train. It was a B&O passenger train.

1844 - The Young Men's Christian Association was founded in London.

1865 - Confederate raider Wiliam Quantrill died from shot in the back that he received while escaping from a Union patrol near Taylorsville, KY.

1882 - The first electric iron was patented by H.W. Seely.

1890 - The United States Polo Association was formed in New York City, NY.

1904 - The National Tuberculosis Association was formed in Atlantic City, NJ.

1924 - The German Reichtag accepted the Dawes Plan. It was an American plan to help Germany pay off its war debts.

1925 - Chrysler Corporation was founded by Walter Percy Chrysler.

1932 - In the U.S., the first federal tax on gasoline went into effect. It was a penny per gallon.

1933 - In Camden, NJ, the first drive-in movie theater opened.

1934 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Securities Exchange Act, which established the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

1936 - The first helicopter was tested in a building in Berlin, Germany.

1941 - The U.S. government authorized the seizure of foreign ships in U.S. ports.

1942 - The first nylon parachute jump was made by Adeline Gray in Hartford, CT.

1942 - Japanese forces retreated in the World War II Battle of Midway. The battle had begun on June 4.

1944 - The D-Day invasion of Europe took place on the beaches of Normandy, France. 400,000 Allied American, British and Canadian troops were involved.

1946 - The Basketball Association of America was formed in New York City, NY.

1966 - James Meridith was shot and wounded while on a solo march in Mississippi to promote voter registration among blacks.

1968 - U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy died at 1:44am in Los Angeles after being shot by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy was was shot the evening before while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination.

1971 - "The Ed Sullivan Show" aired for the last time. It was canceled after 23 years on the air. Gladys Knight and the Pips were the musical guests on show.

1978 - "20/20" debuted on ABC.

1982 - Israel invaded southern Lebanon in an effort to drive PLO guerrillas out of Beirut.

1985 - The body of Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele was located and exhumed near Sao Paolo, Brazil. Mengele was known as the "Angel of Death."

1993 - Mongolia held its first direct presidential elections.

2001 - U.S. District Court Judge Matsch rejected a request to delay the execution of convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. The date was left at June 11.

2005 - The United States Supreme Court ruled that federal authorities could prosecute sick people who smoke marijuana on doctor's orders. The ruling concluded that state medical marijuana laws did not protect uses from the federal ban on the drug.

Current Birthdays


Paul Giamatti turns 42 years old today.

77 Billie Whitelaw
Actress


75 Roy Innis
Civil rights leader


70 Gary "U.S." Bonds
Rock singer


66 Joe Stampley
Country singer


60 Robert Englund
Actor


60 Holly Near
Folk singer


58 Dwight Twilley
Singer


55 Harvey Fierstein
Actor


54 Sandra Bernhard
Actress, comedian


53 Bjorn Borg
Tennis Hall of Famer


50 Jimmy Jam
Record producer


50 Amanda Pays
Actress


50 Colin Quinn
Comedian ("Saturday Night Live")


49 Steve Vai
Rock musician


48 Tom Araya
Rock musicican (Slayer)


46 Jason Isaacs
Actor


43 Sean Yseult
Rock musicican (White Zombie)


42 Max Casella
Actor


41 Damion Hall
R&B singer (Guy)


40 Bardi Martin
Rock musician


39 James "Munky" Shaffer
Rock musician (Korn)


37 Natalie Morales
Broadcast journalist


36 Lisa Brokop
Country singer


35 Uncle Kracker
Rapper, rocker


35 Sonya Walger
Actress ("Lost")


34 Staci Keanan
Actress


26 Amber Borycki
Actress

Historic Birthdays


Thomas Mann

6/6/1875 - 8/12/1955
German novelist and essayist


61 Diego Velazquez
6/6/1599 - 8/6/1660
Spanish 17th-century painter


21 Nathan Hale
6/6/1755 - 9/22/1776
American Revolutionary patriot


87 John Trumbull
6/6/1756 - 11/10/1843
American painter, architect and author


51 Steele MacKaye
6/6/1842 - 2/25/1894
American playwright, actor and inventor


46 Alexandra
6/6/1872 - 7/16/1918
Russian consort of emperor Nicholas II


77 Sir Patrick Abercrombie
6/6/1879 - 3/23/1957
English architect and town planner


85 William Cosgrave
6/6/1880 - 11/16/1965
Irish statesman and first president


79 R. C. Sherriff
6/6/1896 - 11/13/1975
English playwright and screenwriter


69 Sukarno
6/6/1901 - 6/21/1970
Indonesian statesman; leader of independence movement and first president (1949-67)


45 Jimmie Lunceford
6/6/1902 - 7/12/1947
American jazz band leader


74 Aram Khachaturian
6/6/1903 - 5/1/1978
Russian composer


86 Bill Dickey
6/6/1907 - 11/12/1993
American athlete; catcher for the New York Yankees

 

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68 A.D. - Roman Emperor Nero committed suicide.

1064 - Coimbra, Portugal fell to Ferdinand, the King of Castile.

1534 - Jacques Cartier became the first to sail into the river he named Saint Lawrence.

1790 - John Barry copyrighted "Philadelphia Spelling Book." It was the first American book to be copyrighted.

1790 - Civil war broke out in Martinique.

1860 - The book, "Malaeska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter" by Mrs. Ann Stevens, was offered for sale for a dime. It was the first published "dime novel."

1861 - Mary Ann "Mother" Bickerdyke began working in Union hospitals.

1923 - Bulgaria’s government was overthrown by the military.

1931 - Robert H. Goddard patented a rocket-fueled aircraft design.

1934 - Donald Duck made his debut in the Silly Symphonies cartoon "The Wise Little Hen."

1940 - Norway surrendered to the Nazis during World War II.

1943 - The withholding tax on payrolls was authorized by the U.S. Congress.

1945 - Japanese Premier Kantaro Suzuki declared that Japan would fight to the last rather than accept unconditional surrender.

1946 - Mel Ott (with the New York Giants) became the first manager to be ejected from a doubleheader (both games).

1953 - A tornado struck Worcester, Massachusetts, killing about 100 people.

1959 - The first ballistic missile carrying submarine, the USS George Washington, was launched.

1965 - Michel Jazy ran the mile in 3 minutes, 53.6 seconds. He broke the record set by Peter Snell in 1964.

1972 - American advisor John Paul Vann was killed in a helicopter accident in Vietnam.

1978 - Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints struck down a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the Mormon priesthood.

1980 - Richard Pryor was severely burned by a "free-base" mixture that exploded. He was hospitalized more than two months.

1985 - Thomas Sutherland, an American educator, was kidnapped in Lebanon. He was not released until November 1991.

1985 - The Los Angeles Lakers won the NBA title by defeating the Boston Celtics.

1986 - The Rogers Commission released a report on the Challenger disaster. The report explained that the spacecraft blew up as a result of a failure in a solid rocket booster joint.

1998 - In Jasper, TX, three white men were charged in the dragging death of African-American James Byrd Jr.

1999 - NATO and Yugoslavia signed a peace agreement over Kosovo.

2000 - The U.S. Justice Department announced that it had not uncovered reliable evidence of conspiracy behind 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

2000 - Canada and the United States signed a border security agreement. The agreement called for the establishment of a border-enforcement team.

2000 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted to repeal gift and estate taxes. The bill called for the taxes to be phased out over 10 years.

2001 - Patrick Roy (Colorado Avalanche) became the first National Hockey League (NHL) player to win three Conn Smythe Trophies. The award is given to the playoff's Most Valuable Player.


Current Birthdays


Natalie Portman turns 28 years old today

94 Les Paul
Guitarist


93 Robert S. McNamara
Former defense secretary


83 Mona Freeman
Actress


79 Marvin Kalb
Broadcast journalist


70 Dick Vitale
Sportscaster


68 Jon Lord
Rock musician (Whitesnake, Deep Purple)


53 Patricia Cornwell
Mystery author


48 Michael J. Fox
Actor


48 Aaron Sorkin
Writer, producer ("The West Wing")


46 Johnny Depp
Actor ("Pirates of the Caribbean" movies)


45 Gloria Reuben
Actress ("E.R.", "Raising the Bar")


42 Dean Dinning
Rock musician


42 Dean Felber
Rock musician (Hootie & the Blowfish)


39 Ed Simons
Rock musician (Chemical Brothers)


36 Tedy Bruschi
Football player


35 Shade Deggs
Country musician


34 Jamie Dailey
Bluegrass musician


31 Michaela Conlin
Actress ("Bones")


21 Mae Whitman
Actress

Historic Birthdays


Cole Porter

6/9/1891 - 10/15/1964
American composer and lyricist


52 Peter I (the Great)
6/9/1672 - 2/8/1725
Russian emperor (1682-1725)


66 Samuel Slater
6/9/1768 - 4/21/1835
English-born industrialist; helped start American cotton industry


38 Otto Nicolai
6/9/1810 - 5/11/1849
German opera composer


71 Bertha Suttner
6/9/1843 - 6/21/1914
Austrian novelist and pacifist


67 James Stillman
6/9/1850 - 3/15/1918
American financier and banker


70 Charles Bonaparte
6/9/1851 - 6/28/1921
American politician; U.S. attorney general (1906-09)


66 Carl Nielsen
6/9/1865 - 10/3/1931
Danish violinist, conductor and composer


80 S. N. Behrman
6/9/1893 - 9/9/1973
American short-story writer and playwright


74 Patrick Steptoe
6/9/1913 - 3/21/1988
English physician and medical researcher

 

[minidog]

68 A.D. - Roman Emperor Nero committed suicide.

1064 - Coimbra, Portugal fell to Ferdinand, the King of Castile.

1534 - Jacques Cartier became the first to sail into the river he named Saint Lawrence.

1790 - John Barry copyrighted "Philadelphia Spelling Book." It was the first American book to be copyrighted.

1790 - Civil war broke out in Martinique.

1860 - The book, "Malaeska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter" by Mrs. Ann Stevens, was offered for sale for a dime. It was the first published "dime novel."

1861 - Mary Ann "Mother" Bickerdyke began working in Union hospitals.

1923 - Bulgaria’s government was overthrown by the military.

1931 - Robert H. Goddard patented a rocket-fueled aircraft design.

1934 - Donald Duck made his debut in the Silly Symphonies cartoon "The Wise Little Hen."

1940 - Norway surrendered to the Nazis during World War II.

1943 - The withholding tax on payrolls was authorized by the U.S. Congress.

1945 - Japanese Premier Kantaro Suzuki declared that Japan would fight to the last rather than accept unconditional surrender.

1946 - Mel Ott (with the New York Giants) became the first manager to be ejected from a doubleheader (both games).

1953 - A tornado struck Worcester, Massachusetts, killing about 100 people.

1959 - The first ballistic missile carrying submarine, the USS George Washington, was launched.

1965 - Michel Jazy ran the mile in 3 minutes, 53.6 seconds. He broke the record set by Peter Snell in 1964.

1972 - American advisor John Paul Vann was killed in a helicopter accident in Vietnam.

1978 - Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints struck down a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the Mormon priesthood.

1980 - Richard Pryor was severely burned by a "free-base" mixture that exploded. He was hospitalized more than two months.

1985 - Thomas Sutherland, an American educator, was kidnapped in Lebanon. He was not released until November 1991.

1985 - The Los Angeles Lakers won the NBA title by defeating the Boston Celtics.

1986 - The Rogers Commission released a report on the Challenger disaster. The report explained that the spacecraft blew up as a result of a failure in a solid rocket booster joint.

1998 - In Jasper, TX, three white men were charged in the dragging death of African-American James Byrd Jr.

1999 - NATO and Yugoslavia signed a peace agreement over Kosovo.

2000 - The U.S. Justice Department announced that it had not uncovered reliable evidence of conspiracy behind 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

2000 - Canada and the United States signed a border security agreement. The agreement called for the establishment of a border-enforcement team.

2000 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted to repeal gift and estate taxes. The bill called for the taxes to be phased out over 10 years.

2001 - Patrick Roy (Colorado Avalanche) became the first National Hockey League (NHL) player to win three Conn Smythe Trophies. The award is given to the playoff's Most Valuable Player.


Current Birthdays


Natalie Portman turns 28 years old today

94 Les Paul
Guitarist


93 Robert S. McNamara
Former defense secretary


83 Mona Freeman
Actress


79 Marvin Kalb
Broadcast journalist


70 Dick Vitale
Sportscaster


68 Jon Lord
Rock musician (Whitesnake, Deep Purple)


53 Patricia Cornwell
Mystery author


48 Michael J. Fox
Actor


48 Aaron Sorkin
Writer, producer ("The West Wing")


46 Johnny Depp
Actor ("Pirates of the Caribbean" movies)


45 Gloria Reuben
Actress ("E.R.", "Raising the Bar")


42 Dean Dinning
Rock musician


42 Dean Felber
Rock musician (Hootie & the Blowfish)


39 Ed Simons
Rock musician (Chemical Brothers)


36 Tedy Bruschi
Football player


35 Shade Deggs
Country musician


34 Jamie Dailey
Bluegrass musician


31 Michaela Conlin
Actress ("Bones")


21 Mae Whitman
Actress

Historic Birthdays


Cole Porter

6/9/1891 - 10/15/1964
American composer and lyricist


52 Peter I (the Great)
6/9/1672 - 2/8/1725
Russian emperor (1682-1725)


66 Samuel Slater
6/9/1768 - 4/21/1835
English-born industrialist; helped start American cotton industry


38 Otto Nicolai
6/9/1810 - 5/11/1849
German opera composer


71 Bertha Suttner
6/9/1843 - 6/21/1914
Austrian novelist and pacifist


67 James Stillman
6/9/1850 - 3/15/1918
American financier and banker


70 Charles Bonaparte
6/9/1851 - 6/28/1921
American politician; U.S. attorney general (1906-09)


66 Carl Nielsen
6/9/1865 - 10/3/1931
Danish violinist, conductor and composer


80 S. N. Behrman
6/9/1893 - 9/9/1973
American short-story writer and playwright


74 Patrick Steptoe
6/9/1913 - 3/21/1988
English physician and medical researcher

 

[minidog]

1190 - Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa drowned in the Saleph River while leading an army of the Third Crusade to free Jerusalem.

1776 - The Continental Congress appointed a committee to write a Declaration of Independence.

1793 - The Jardin des Plantes zoo opened in Paris. It was the first public zoo.

1801 - The North African State of Tripoli declared war on the U.S. The dispute was over merchant vessels being able to travel safely through the Mediterranean.

1806 - New York's "Commercial Advertiser" became the first U.S. newspaper to cover the sport of harness racing.

1854 - The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, held its first graduation.

1889 - Hattie McDaniel was born. She, for her role in "Gone With the Wind," was the first African-American to win an Academy Award.

1898 - U.S. Marines landed in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.

1902 - The "outlook" or "see-through" envelope was patented by Americus F. Callahan.

1909 - The SOS distress signal was used for the first time. The Cunard liner SS Slavonia used the signal when it wrecked off the Azores.

1916 - Mecca, under control of the Turks, fell to the Arabs during the Great Arab Revolt.

1920 - The Republican convention in Chicago endorsed woman suffrage.

1924 - The Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti was kidnapped and murdered by Fascists in Rome.

1924 - The Republican National Convention was broadcast by NBC radio. It was the first political convention to be on radio.

1925 - The state of Tennessee adopted a new biology text book that denied the theory of evolution.

1935 - Alcoholic Anonymous was founded by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith.

1940 - Italy declared war on France and Britain. In addition, Canada declared war on Italy.

1942 - The Gestapo massacred 173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in retaliation for the killing of a Nazi official.

1943 - Laszlo Biro patented his ballpoint pen. Biro was a Hungarian journalist.

1943 - The Allies began bombing Germany around the clock.

1944 - The youngest pitcher in major league baseball pitched his first game. Joe Nuxhall was 15 years old (and 10 months and 11 days).

1946 - Italy established a republic replacing its monarchy.

1948 - Chuck Yeager exceeded the speed of sound in the Bell XS-1.

1954 - General Motors announced the gas turbine bus had been produced successfully.

1967 - Israel and Syria agreed to a cease-fire that ended the Six-Day War.

1970 - A fifteen-man group of special forces troops began training for Operation Kingpin. The operation was a POW rescue mission in North Vietnam.

1971 - The U.S. ended a 21-year trade embargo of China.

1977 - James Earl Ray escaped with 6 others from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Tennessee. Ray was recaptured June 13, 1977.

1983 - Johnny Bench announced his plans to retire. He was a catcher in the major leagues for 16 years.

1984 - The U.S. Army successfully tested an antiballistic missile.

1985 - Frank Sinatra was portrayed as a friend of organized crime in a "Doonesbury" comic strip. Over 800 newspapers carried the panel.

1985 - The Israeli army pulled out of Lebanon after 1,099 days of occupation.

1987 - An earthquake hit 15 states from Iowa to South Carolina.

1988 - Author Louis L'Amour died at age 80.

1990 - The Civic Forum movement won Czechoslovakia's first free elections since 1946. The movement was founded by President Vaclav Havel.

1990 - Bulgaria's former Communist Party won the country's first free elections in more than four decades.

1993 - It was announced by scientists that genetic material was extracted from an insect that lived when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

1994 - U.S. President Clinton intensified sanctions against Haiti's military leaders. U.S. commercial air travel was suspended along with most financial transactions between Haiti and the U.S.

1995 - 26 people were killed in Medellin, Columbia, by a bomb blast that was blamed on drug traffickers.

1996 - The Colorado Avalanche defeated the Florida Panthers in a 1-0 triple overtime game. The win ended a four-game sweep for the Stanley Cup.

1996 - Britain and Ireland opened Northern Ireland peace talks. The IRA's political arm Sinn Fein was excluded.

1997 - Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot killed his defense chief Son Sen and 11 members of his family. He then fled his northern stronghold. The news did not emerge for three days.

1998 - The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that poor children in Milwaukee could attend religious schools at taxpayer expense.

1999 - NATO suspended air strikes in Yugoslavia after Slobodan Milosevic agreed to withdraw his forces from Kosovo.




Current Birthdays


Elizabeth Hurley turns 44 years old today

88 Prince Philip
Husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth


84 Nat Hentoff
Columnist


83 Lionel Jeffries
Actor, director


76 F. Lee Bailey
Attorney


70 Alexandra Stewart
Actress


68 Shirley Alston Reeves
R&B singer (The Shirelles)


68 Jurgen Prochnow
Actor


66 Jeff Greenfield
TV commentator


58 Dan Fouts
Football Hall of Famer


57 Thom Schuyler
Country singer


56 John Edwards
Former U.S. senator, D-N.C.


54 Andrew Stevens
Actor


50 Eliot Spitzer
Former governor of New York


48 Kim Deal
Rock musician (Pixies)


48 Maxi Priest
Reggae singer


47 Gina Gershon
Actress, singer


46 Brad Henry
Governor of Oklahoma


46 Jeanne Tripplehorn
Actress


45 Jimmy Chamberlin
Rock musician (Smashing Pumpkins)


45 Kate Flannery
Actress ("The Office")


44 Joey Santiago
Rock musician (Pixies)


43 Doug McKeon
Actor


42 Emma Anderson
Rock musician


42 Brian Hofeldt
Country musician (The Derailers)


41 The D.O.C.
Rapper


39 Mike Doughty
Rock singer (Soul Coughing)


38 Bobby Jindal
Governor of Louisiana


38 JoJo
R&B singer


36 Faith Evans
R&B singer


34 Hugh Dancy
Actor


31 Lemisha Grinstead
R&B singer (702)


31 DJ Qualls
Actor


31 Shane West
Actor


28 Hoku
Singer


27 Tara Lipinski
Figure skater


27 Leelee Sobieski
Actress


Historic Birthdays


Judy Garland

6/10/1922 - 6/22/1969
American motion-picture actress

58 James Short
6/10/1710 - 6/14/1768
English optician and astronomer


58 Gustave Courbet
6/10/1819 - 12/31/1877
French painter


60 Louis Marie Anne Couperus
6/10/1863 - 7/16/1923
Dutch novelist


74 Andre Derain
6/10/1880 - 9/8/1954
French painter and theatrical designer


57 Hattie McDaniel
6/10/1895 - 10/26/1952
American actress and singer


63 Clyde Beatty
6/10/1902 - 7/19/1965
American trainer of wild animals


86 Frederick Loewe
6/10/1901 - 2/14/1988
Austrian-born American composer


66 Sir Terence Rattigan
6/10/1911 - 11/30/1977
English playwright


72 Ralph Kirkpatrick
6/10/1911 - 4/13/1984
American musicologist and harpsichordist


68 Robert Maxwell
6/10/1923 - 11/5/1991
Czechoslovak-born English publisher

 

[minidog]

1346 - Charles IV of Luxembourg was elected Holy Roman Emperor in Germany.

1488 - James III of Scotland was murdered after his defeat at the Battle of Sauchieburn, Stirling. He was succeeded by his son James IV.

1509 - King Henry VIII married his first of six wives, Catherine of Aragon.

1770 - Captain James Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef off of Australia when he ran aground.

1776 - In America, the Continental Congress formed a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence from Britain.

1793 - Robert Haeterick was issued the first patent for a stove.

1798 - Napoleon Bonaparte took the island of Malta.

1847 - Sir John Franklin died in Canada while attempting to discover the Northwest Passage. Franklin was an English naval officer and an Arctic explorer.

1880 - Jeanette Rankin was born. She became the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress.

1889 - The Washington Business High School opened in Washington, DC. It was the first school devoted to business in the U.S.

1895 - Charles E. Duryea received the first U.S. patent granted to an American inventor for a gasoline-driven automobile.

1903 - King Alexander and Queen Draga of Serbia were murdered in a coup by members of the Serbian army.

1910 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau was born. He was the French underwater explorer that invented the Aqua-Lung diving apparatus.

1912 - Silas Christoferson became the first pilot to take off from the roof of a hotel.

1915 - British troops took Cameroon in Africa.

1919 - Sir Barton became the first horse to capture the Triple Crown when he won the Belmont Stakes in New York City.

1927 - Charles A. Lindberg was presented the first Distinguished Flying Cross.

1930 - William Beebe dove to a record-setting depth of 1,426 feet off the coast of Bermuda. He used a diving chamber called a bathysphere.

1934 - The Disarmament Conference in Geneva ended in failure.

1936 - The Presbyterian Church of America was formed in Philadelphia, PA.

1937 - Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a purge of Red Army generals.

1940 - The Italian Air Force bombed the British fortress at Malta in the Mediterranean.

1942 - The U.S. and the Soviet Union signed a lend lease agreement to aid the Soviets in their effort in World War II.

1943 - During World War II, the Italian island of Pantelleria surrendered after a heavy air bombardment.

1947 - The U.S. government announced an end sugar rationing.

1950 - Ben Hogan returned to tournament play after a near fatal car accident. He won the U.S. Open.

1955 - In France, 80 people were killed and more than 100 were injured when three cars crashed on the Le Mans racetrack. The cars had ploughed into the spectator's grandstand.

1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested in Florida for trying to integrate restaurants.

1963 - Buddhist monk Quang Duc immolated himself on a Saigon street to protest the government of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.

1963 - Alabama Gov. George Wallace allowed two black students to enroll at the University of Alabama.

1967 - Israel and Syria accepted a U.N. cease-fire.

1972 - Hank Aaron tied the National League record for 14 grand-slam home runs in a career.

1973 - After a ruling by the Justice Department of the State of Pennsylvania, women were licensed to box or wrestle.

1977 - In the Netherlands, a 19-day hostage situation came to an end when Dutch marines stormed a train and a school being held by South Moluccan extremist. Two hostages and the six terrorists were killed.

1981 - The first major league baseball player's strike began. It would last for two months.

1981 - In Iran, more than 1,000 people were killed in an earthquake that measured 6.8 on the Richter ScaleRichter Scale. The town of Golbaf in the Kermin province was destroyed.

1982 - Steven Spielberg's movie "E.T." opened.

1985 - Karen Ann Quinlan died at age 31. Quinlan was a comatose patient whose case prompted a historic right-to-die court decision.

1987 - Margaret Thatcher became the first British prime minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term of office.

1990 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a law that would prohibit the desecration of the American Flag.

1991 - Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted. The eruption of ash and gas could be seen for more than 60 miles.

1993 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that people who commit "hate crimes" could be sentenced to extra punishment. The court also ruled in favor of religious groups saying that they indeed had a constitutional right to sacrifice animals during worship services.

1993 - Steven Spielberg's movie "Jurassic Park" opened.

1994 - A car bomb blew up in Guadalajara, Mexico killing five people. The bombing was believed to be drug related.

1998 - Mitsubishi of America agreed to pay $34 million to end the largest sexual harassment case filed by the U.S. government. The federal lawsuit claimed that hundreds of women at a plant in Normal, IL, had endured groping and crude jokes from male workers.

1998 - Pakistan announced moratorium on nuclear testing and offered to talk with India over disputed Kashmir.

2001 - Timothy McVeigh was executed by the U.S. federal government for his role in the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City

Hugh Laurie turns 50 years old today.

AP Photo/Chris Pizzello Actor Hugh Laurie ("House M.D.") turns 50 years old today.




96 Rise Stevens
Opera singer


90 Richard Todd
Actor-producer


79 Charles Rangel
U.S. congressman, D-N.Y.


76 Gene Wilder
Actor


72 Johnny Brown
Comedian


72 Chad Everett
Actor


70 Jackie Stewart
Auto racer


69 Joey Dee
Rock singer


64 Adrienne Barbeau
Actress


60 Frank Beard
Rock musician (ZZ Top)


57 Donnie Van Zant
Rock singer (.38 Special)


56 Peter Bergman
Actor ("The Young and the Restless")


53 Joe Montana
Football Hall of Famer


46 Gioia Bruno
Singer (Expose)


43 Bruce Robison
Country singer, songwriter


40 Peter Dinklage
Actor


40 Dan Lavery
Rock musician (Tonic)


40 Smilin' Jay McDowell
Country musician (BR5-49)


33 Tai Anderson
Rock musician (Third Day)


31 Joshua Jackson
Actor ("Fringe," "Dawson's Creek")


27 Diana Taurasi
Basketball player


26 Jose Reyes
Baseball player


23 Shia LaBeouf
Actor


Historic Birthdays


Jeannette Rankin

6/11/1880 - 5/18/1973
First female member of the Congress of the United States


78 George Wither
6/11/1588 - 5/2/1667
English poet and Puritan pamphleteer


60 John Constable
6/11/1776 - 3/31/1837
English landscape painter


63 Julia Cameron
6/11/1815 - 1/26/1879
English portrait photographer


82 Dame Millicent Fawcett
6/11/1847 - 8/5/1929
English women's suffrage leader


85 Richard Strauss
6/11/1864 - 9/8/1949
German Romantic composer


72 Yasunari Kawabata
6/11/1899 - 4/16/1972
Japanese Nobel-Prize winning novelist (1968)


72 Ernie Nevers
6/11/1903 - 5/3/1976
American football and baseball player


87 Jacques-Yves Cousteau
6/11/1910 - 6/25/1997
French naval officer and oceanographer


57 Vince Lombardi
6/11/1913 - 9/3/1970
American professional football coach


72 Irving Howe
6/11/1920 - 5/5/1993
American literary and social critic

 

[minidog]

1099 - Crusade leaders visited the Mount of Olives where they met a hermit who urged them to assault Jerusalem.

1442 - Alfonso V of Aragon was crowned King of Naples.

1665 - England installed a municipal government in New York. It was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.

1667 - The first human blood transfusion was administered by Dr. Jean Baptiste. He successfully transfused the blood of a sheep to a 15-year old boy.

1812 - Napoleon's invasion of Russia began.

1838 - The Iowa Territory was organized.

1839 - Abner Doubleday created the game of baseball, according to the legend. However, evidence has surfaced that indicates that the game of baseball was played before 1800.

1849 - The gas mask was patented by L.P. Haslett.

1897 - Carl Elsener patented his penknife. The object later became known as the Swiss army knife.

1898 - Philippine nationalists declared their independence from Spain.

1900 - The Reichstag approved a second law that would allow the expansion of the German navy.

1901 - Cuba agreed to become an American protectorate by accepting the Platt Amendment.

1912 - Lillian Russel retired from the stage and was married for the fourth time.

1918 - The first airplane bombing raid by an American unit occurred on World War I's Western Front in France.

1921 - U.S. President Warren Harding urged every young man to attend military training camp.

1923 - Harry Houdini, while suspended upside down 40 feet above the ground, escaped from a strait jacket.

1926 - Brazil quit the League of Nations in protest over plans to admit Germany.

1929 - Anne Frank was born in Germany. She wrote in her diary about growing up in occupied Amsterdam during World War II. She died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945.

1931 - Al Capone and 68 of his henchmen were indicted for violating U.S. Prohibition laws.

1935 - U.S. Senator Huey Long of Louisiana made the longest speech on Senate record. The speech took 15 1/2 hours and was filled by 150,000 words.

1935 - The Chaco War was ended with a truce. Bolivia and Paraguay had been fighting since 1932.

1937 - The Soviet Union executed eight army leaders under Joseph Stalin.

1939 - The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, New York. This was exactly one hundred years to the day on which the game was invented by Abner Doubleday.

1941 - In London, the Inter-Allied Declaration was signed. It was the first step towards the establishment of the United Nations.

1944 - Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung announced that he would support Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek in the war against Japan.

1948 - Ben Hogan won his first U.S. Open golf classic.

1963 - "Cleopatra" starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison, and Richard Burton premiered at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City.

1963 - Civil rights leader Medgar Evers was fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, MS.

1967 - State laws which prohibited interracial marriages were ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.

1971 - Tricia Nixon and Edward F. Cox were married in the White House Rose Garden.

1975 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was found guilty of corrupt election practices in 1971.

1978 - David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer in New York, was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for each of six killings.

1979 - Bryan Allen flew the Gossamer Albatross, man powered, across the English Channel.

1981 - Major league baseball players began a 49 day strike. The issue was free-agent compensation.

1982 - 75,000 people rallied against nuclear weapons in New York City's Central Park. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt were in attendance.

1985 - Wayne "The Great One" Gretsky was named winner of the NHL's Hart Trophy. The award is given to the the league Most Valuable Player.

1985 - The U.S. House of Representatives approved $27 million in aid to the Nicaraguan contras.

1986 - South Africa declared a national state of emergency. Virtually unlimited power was given to security forces and restrictions were put on news coverage of the unrest.

1987 - Central African Republic's former emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa was sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.

1987 - U.S. President Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

1990 - The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declared its sovereignty.

1991 - Russians went to the election polls and elected Boris N. Yeltsin as the president of their republic.

1991 - The Chicago Bulls won their first NBA championship. The Bulls beat the Los Angeles Lakers four games to one.

1992 - In a letter to the U.S. Senate, Russian Boris Yeltsin stated that in the early 1950's the Soviet Union had shot down nine U.S. planes and held 12 American survivors.

1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered outside her home in Los Angeles. O.J. Simpson was later acquitted of the killings, but he was held liable in a civil suit.

1996 - In Philadelphia a panel of federal judges blocked a law against indecency on the internet. The panel said that the 1996 Communications Decency Act would infringe upon the free speech rights of adults.

1997 - Interleague play began in baseball, ending a 126-year tradition of separating the major leagues until the World Series.

1997 - The U.S. Treasury Department unveiled a new $50 bill meant to be more counterfeit-resistant.

1998 - Compaq Computer paid $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corp. in largest high-tech acquisition.

1998 - A jury in Hattiesburg, MS, convicted 17-year-old Luke Woodham of killing two students and wounding seven others at Pearl High School.

1999 - NATO peacekeeping forces entered the province of Kosovo in Yugoslavia.

2003 - In Arkansas, Terry Wallis spoke for the first time in nearly 19 years. Wallis had been in a coma since July 13, 1984, after being injured in a car accident.

Current Birthdays


George H.W. Bush turns 85 years old today.

AP Photo/Jae C. Hong Former President George H.W. Bush turns 85 years old today.




94 David Rockefeller
Banker


81 Vic Damone
Singer


81 Richard Sherman
Composer


79 Jim Nabors
Actor-singer ("Gomer Pyle, USMC")


68 Marv Albert
Sportscaster


68 Chick Corea
Jazz musician


68 Roy Harper
Singer


68 Reg Presley
Rock singer (The Troggs)


67 Len Barry
Singer


60 John Wetton
Rock musician (King Crimson, Asia)


58 Bun E. Carlos
Rock musician (Cheap Trick)


57 Spencer Abraham
Former secretary of energy


57 Junior Brown
Country singer, musician


56 Rocky Burnette
Singer, songwriter


52 Timothy Busfield
Actor ("The West Wing," "thirtysomething")


51 Meredith Brooks
Singer


51 Jenilee Harrison
Actress


50 John Linnell
Rock musician (They Might Be Giants)


47 Grandmaster Dee
Rapper (Whodini)


45 Paula Marshall
Actress


42 Frances O'Connor
Actress


35 Hideki Matsui
New York Yankees left fielder


32 Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Blues guitarist


30 Dallas Clark
Football player


30 Wil Horneff
Actor


30 Robyn
Singer


24 Chris Young
Country singer



Historic Birthdays


Anthony Eden

6/12/1897 - 1/14/1977
British foreign secretary (1935-8, 1940-5 and 1951-5) and prime minister (1955-7)


54 Cosimo I
6/12/1519 - 4/21/1574
Italian duke of Florence and Tuscany


74 Harriet Martineau
6/12/1802 - 6/27/1876
English essayist and novelist


55 Charles Kingsley
6/12/1819 - 1/23/1875
English Anglican clergyman, teacher and writer


89 Sir Oliver Lodge
6/12/1851 - 8/22/1940
English physicist and parapsychologist


73 Thomas Walsh
6/12/1859 - 3/2/1933
American politician; U.S. senator from Montana (1913-33)


87 Fritz Lipmann
6/12/1899 - 7/24/1986
German-born American biochemist


81 Bill Naughton
6/12/1910 - 1/9/1992
Irish-born English playwright


83 Milovan Djilas
6/12/1911 - 4/20/1995
Yugoslav political writer


15 Anne Frank
6/12/1929 - 3/?/1945
German Jewish girl killed in Holocaust; famous diarist

 

[marquis2]

Baseball was invented by Doubleday? It goes back much further than that
Quote;
The earliest known reference to baseball is in a 1744 British publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, by John Newbery. It contains a rhymed description of "base-ball" and a woodcut that shows a field set-up somewhat similar to the modern game—though in a triangular rather than diamond configuration, and with posts instead of ground-level bases.[5] English lawyer William Bray recorded a game of baseball on Easter Monday 1755 in Guildford, Surrey; Bray's diary was verified as authentic in September 2008.[6] This early form of the game was apparently brought to North America by English immigrants; rounders was also brought to the continent by both British and Irish immigrants. The first known American reference to baseball appears in a 1791 Pittsfield, Massachusetts, town bylaw prohibiting the playing of the game near the town's new meeting house.[7] By 1796, a version of the game was well-known enough to earn a mention in a German scholar's book on popular pastimes. As described by Johann Gutsmuths, "englische Base-ball" involved a contest between two teams, in which "the batter has three attempts to hit the ball while at the home plate"; only one out was required to retire a side.[8

 

[Skyraider22]

Keep it coming great stuff:thumbsup:

 

[minidog]

1415 - Henry the Navigator, the prince of Portugal, embarked on an expedition to Africa.

1777 - The Marquis de Lafayette arrived in the American colonies to help with their rebellion against the British.

1789 - Ice cream was served to General George Washington by Mrs. Alexander Hamilton.

1825 - Walter Hunt patented the safety pin. Hunt then then sold the rights for $400.

1866 - The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Congress. It was ratified on July 9, 1868. The amendment was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves. It did this by prohibiting states from denying or abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, depriving any person of his life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or denying to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

1886 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria drowned in Lake Starnberg.

1888 - The U.S. Congress created the Department of Labor.

1898 - The Canadian Yukon Territory was organized.

1900 - China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Chinese Christians erupted into violence.

1912 - Captain Albert Berry made the first successful parachute jump from an airplane in Jefferson, Mississippi.

1913 - Ralph Edwards, the host of "This is Your Life" and "Truth or Consequences" was born. Ronald Reagan was the only person to ever substitute for him.

1920 - The U.S. Post Office Department ruled that children may not be sent by parcel post.

1922 - Charlie Osborne started the longest attack on hiccups. He hiccuped over 435 million times before stopping. He died in 1991, 11 months after his hiccups ended.

1923 - The French set a trade barrier between the occupied Ruhr and the rest of Germany.

1927 - Charles Lindbergh was honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York City.

1927 - For the first time an American Flag was displayed from the right hand of the Statue of Liberty.

1940 - Paris was evacuated before the German advance on the city.

1943 - German spies landed on Long Island, New York. They were soon captured.

1944 - Germany launched 10 of its new V1 rockets against Britain from a position near the Channel coast. Of the 10 rockets only 5 landed in Britain and only one managed to kill (6 people in London).

1944 - Marvin Camras patented the wire recorder.

1949 - Bao Dai entered Saigon to rule Vietnam. He had been installed by the French.

1951 - U.N. troops seized Pyongyang, North Korea.

1966 - The landmark "Miranda vs. Arizona" decision was issued by the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision ruled that criminal suspects had to be informed of their constitutional rights before being questioned by police.

1967 - Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

1971 - The New York Times began publishing the "Pentagon Papers". The articles were a secret study of America's involvement in Vietnam.

1977 - James Earl Ray was recaptured after his escape from prison 3 days earlier.

1978 - Israelis withdrew the last of their invading forces from Lebanon.

1979 - Sioux Indians were awarded $105 million in compensation for the U.S. seizure in 1877 of their Black Hills in South Dakota.

1981 - At a parade in London a teen-ager fired six-blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.

1983 - The unmanned U.S. space probe Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system. It was launched in March 1972. The first up-close images of the planet Jupiter were provided by Pioneer 10.

1988 - The Liggett Group, a cigarette manufacturer, was found liable for a lung-cancer death. They were, however, found innocent by the federal jury of misrepresenting the risks of smoking.

1989 - The Detroit Pistons won their first National Basketball Association title. They beat the L.A. Lakers in four games.

1989 - U.S. President George Bush exercised his first Presidential veto on a bill dealing with minimum wage.

1991 - In the first round of the U.S. Open golf tournament a spectator was killed when lightning struck.

1992 - Future U.S. President Bill Clinton criticized rap singer Sister Souljah for making remarks "filled with hatred" towards whites.

1994 - A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, found Exxon Corp. and Captain Joseph Hazelwood to be reckless in the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

1994 - O.J. Simpson was questioned by Los Angeles police concerning the deaths of his ex-wife and her friend, Ronald Goldman.

1995 - France announced that they would conduct eight more nuclear tests in the South Pacific.

1996 - In Montana, the 81-day standoff between the Freemen and the FBI ended when the anti-government group surrendered.

1997 - The same Denver jury that convicted Timothy McVeigh of the 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahama City recommended the death penalty for his crime.

2000 - Julius "Dr. J." Erving issued a public appeal for help finding his 19-year-old son, Cory. Cory had been missing since May 28, 2000. His body was found July 6, 2000.

2000 - In Pyongyang, North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il welcomed South Korea's President Kim Dae for a three-day summit. It was the first such meeting between the leaders of North and South Korea.

Current Birthdays


Ban Ki-Moon turns 65 years old today.

AP Photo/Michel Euler United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon turn years old today.




77 Bob McGrath
Actor ("Sesame Street")


70 Siegfried
Magician (Siegfried & Roy)


69 Bobby Freeman
R&B singer


66 Malcolm McDowell
Actor


62 Jerrold Nadler
U.S. representative, D-N.Y.


60 Dennis Locorriere
Singer (Dr. Hook)


58 Jonathan Hogan
Actor


58 Stellan Skarsgard
Actor


58 Richard Thomas
Actor ("The Waltons")


56 Tim Allen
Actor, comedian ("Home Improvement")


50 Mike Smith
Football coach


47 Ally Sheedy
Actress


47 Hannah Storm
TV host


46 Paul deLisle
Rock musician (Smash Mouth)


41 David Gray
Singer


41 Deniece Pearson
R&B singer (Five Star)


40 Soren Rasted
Rock musician (Aqua)


40 Jamie Walters
Actor


39 Rivers Cuomo
Rock musician (Weezer)


37 Susan Haynes
Country singer


35 Steve-O
Actor ("Jackass")


31 Jason Michael Carroll
Country singer


31 Ethan Embry
Actor


28 Chris Evans
Actor


26 Sarah Schaub
Actress


24 Raz B
Singer


23 Kat Dennings
Actress


23 Ashley Olsen
Actress


23 Mary-Kate Olsen
Actress



Historic Birthdays


William Butler Yeats

6/13/1865 - 1/28/1939
Irish poet, dramatist and writer


80 Winfield Scott
6/13/1786 - 5/29/1866
American army general


82 Jose Antonio Paez
6/13/1790 - 5/7/1873
Venezuelan soldier and politician


48 James Clerk Maxwell
6/13/1831 - 11/5/1879
Scottish physicist


90 Robert Wood
6/13/1879 - 11/6/1969
American business executive


94 Etienne Gilson
6/13/1884 - 9/19/1978
French Canadian philosopher and historian


66 Elizabeth Schumann
6/13/1885 - 4/23/1952
German-born American soprano


78 Mark Van Doren
6/13/1894 - 12/10/1972
American poet, writer and teacher


84 Tage Erlander
6/13/1901 - 6/21/1985
Swedish prime minister (1946-69)


87 Red Grange
6/13/1903 - 1/28/1991
American football player


77 Luis Alvarez
6/13/1911 - 9/1/1988
American experimental physicist

 

[minidog]

0362 - Emperor Julian issued an edict banning Christians from teaching in Syria.

1579 - Sir Francis Drake claimed San Francisco Bay for England.

1775 - The British took Bunker Hill outside of Boston.

1789 - The Third Estate in France declared itself a national assembly, and began to frame a constitution.

1799 - Napoleon Bonaparte incorporated Italy into his empire.

1837 - Charles Goodyear received his first patent. The patent was for a process that made rubber easier to work with.

1848 - Austrian General Alfred Windischgratz crushed a Czech uprising in Prague.

1854 - The Red Turban revolt broke out in Guangdong, China.

1856 - The Republican Party opened its first national convention in Philadelphia.

1861 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln witnessed Dr. Thaddeus Lowe demonstrate the use of a hydrogen balloon.

1872 - George M. Hoover began selling whiskey in Dodge City, Kansas. The town had been dry up until this point.

1876 - General George Crook’s command was attacked and bested on the Rosebud River by 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne under the leadership of Crazy Horse.

1879 - Thomas Edison received an honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the trustees of Rutgers College in New Brunswick, NJ.

1885 - The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City aboard the French ship Isere.

1912 - The German Zeppelin SZ 111 burned in its hanger in Friedrichshafen.

1913 - U.S. Marines set sail from San Diego to protect American interests in Mexico.

1917 - The Russian Duma met in a secret session in Petrograd and voted for an immediate Russian offensive against the German Army.

1924 - The Fascist militia marched into Rome.

1926 - Spain threatened to quit the League of Nations if Germany was allowed to join.

1928 - Amelia Earhart began the flight that made her the first woman to successfully fly across the Atlantic Ocean.

1930 - The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill became law. It placed the highest tariff on imports to the U.S.

1931 - British authorities in China arrested Indochinese Communist leader Ho Chi Minh.

1932 - The U.S. Senate defeated the bonus bill as 10,000 veterans massed around the Capitol.

1940 - The Soviet Union occupied Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.

1940 - France asked Germany for terms of surrender in World War II.

1941 - WNBT-TV in New York City, NY, was granted the first construction permit to operate a commercial TV station in the U.S.

1942 - Yank, a weekly magazine for the U.S. armed services, began publication. The term "G.I. Joe" was first used in a comic strip by Dave Breger.

1942 - "Suspense" debuted on CBS Radio.

1944 - French troops landed on the island of Elba in the Mediterranean.

1944 - The republic of Iceland was established.

1950 - Dr. Richard H. Lawler performed the first kidney transplant in a 45-minute operation in Chicago, IL.

1953 - Soviet tanks fought thousands of Berlin workers that were rioting against the East German government.

1963 - The U.S. Supreme Court banned the required reading of the Lord's prayer and Bible in public schools.

1965 - Twenty-seven B-52’s hit Viet Cong outposts but lost two planes in South Vietnam.

1969 - Boris Spasky became chess champion of the world after checkmating former champion Tigran Petrosian in Moscow.

1970 - North Vietnamese troops cut the last operating rail line in Cambodia.

1972 - Five men were arrested for burglarizing the Democratic Party Headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington, DC. The men all worked for the reelection of President Nixon. The event was the beginning of the Watergate affair.

1982 - Former U.S. President Richard M. Nixon was interviewed by Diane Sawyer on "The CBS Morning News."

1985 - Judy Norton-Taylor was photographed for "Playboy" magazine.

1987 - American journalist Charles Glass was kidnapped. He was held captive for 62 days until he escaped on August 18, 1987.

1991 - The Parliament of South Africa repealed the Population Registration Act. The act had required that all South Africans for classified by race at birth.

1994 - O.J. Simpson drove his Ford Bronco across Los Angeles with police in pursuit and millions of people watching live on television. After the slow speed chase ended Simpson was arrested and charged with the murders of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman


Current Birthdays


Newt Gingrich turns 66 years old today.


80 Bud Collins
Tennis journalist


77 Peter Lupus
Actor


77 John Murtha
U.S. representative, D-Pa.


76 Rod Paige
Former secretary of education


63 Barry Manilow
Singer


58 Joe Piscopo
Comedian ("Saturday Night Live")


55 Mark Linn-Baker
Actor


52 Philip Chevron
Rock musician (The Pogues)


52 Jon Gries
Actor


51 Bobby Farrelly
Writer, director


48 Thomas Haden Church
Actor


46 Greg Kinnear
Actor


44 Dan Jansen
Olympic gold-medal speed skater


44 Kami Cotler
Actress ("The Waltons")


43 Jason Patric
Actor


40 Kevin Thornton
R&B singer


39 Will Forte
Actor, comedian ("Saturday Night Live")


38 Paulina Rubio
Singer


29 Venus Williams
Tennis player


26 Herculeez
Rapper

Historic Birthdays


Igor Stravinsky

6/17/1882 - 4/6/1971
Russian-born American composer


87 John Wesley
6/17/1703 (O.S.) - 3/2/1791
English Anglican clergyman and evangelist


75 Charles Gounod
6/17/1818 - 10/18/1893
French composer


66 E. G. Squier
6/17/1821 - 4/17/1888
American newspaper editor, diplomat and archaeologist


80 John Robert Greeg
6/17/1867 - 2/23/1948
Irish-born American inventor of short-hand


67 James Weldon Johnson
6/17/1871 - 6/26/1938
American poet, diplomat and anthologist of black culture


37 Aleksandr Friedmann
6/17/1888 - 9/16/1925
Russian mathematician and physical scientist


73 M. C. Escher
6/17/1898 - 3/27/1972
Dutch graphic artist


44 Martin Bormann
6/17/1900 - 5/2/1945
German Nazi party leader


87 Sammy Fain
6/17/1902 - 12/6/1989
American composer of popular songs


87 Ralph Bellamy
6/17/1904 - 11/29/1991
American motion-picture and stage actor


71 Charles Eames
6/17/1907 - 8/21/1978
American designer and architect


78 John Hersey
6/17/1914 - 3/24/1993
American novelist and journalist


69 Kingman Brewster, Jr.
6/17/1919 - 11/8/1988
American educator, diplomat; president of Yale University (1963-77)





26 Herculeez
Rapper

was he not Greek??? lol

 

[minidog]

1155 - Frederick I Barbarossa was crowned emperor of Rome.

1429 - French forces defeated the English at the battle of Patay. The English had been retreating after the siege of Orleans.

1621 - The first duel in America took place in the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.

1667 - The Dutch fleet sailed up the Thames toward London.

1778 - Britain evacuated Philadelphia during the U.S. Revolutionary War.

1812 - The War of 1812 began as the U.S. declared war against Great Britain. The conflict began over trade restrictions.

1815 - At the Battle of Waterloo Napoleon was defeated by an international army under the Duke of Wellington. Napoleon abdicated on June 22.

1817 - London's Waterloo Bridge opened. The bridge, designed by John Rennie, was built over the River Thames.

1861 - The first American fly-casting tournament was held in Utica, NY.

1873 - Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote for a U.S. President.

1898 - Atlantic City, NJ, opened its Steel Pier.

1915 - During World War I, the second battle of Artois ended.

1918 - Allied forces on the Western Front began their largest counter-attack against the German army.

1925 - The first degree in landscape architecture was granted by Harvard University.

1927 - The U.S. Post Office offered a special 10-cent postage stamp for sale. The stamp was of Charles Lindbergh’s "Spirit of St. Louis."

1928 - Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean as she completed a flight from Newfoundland to Wales.

1936 - Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano was found guilty on 62 counts of compulsory prostitution.

1936 - The first bicycle traffic court was established in Racine, WI.

1939 - The CBS radio network aired "Ellery Queen" for the first time.

1942 - The U.S. Navy commissioned its first black officer, Harvard University medical student Bernard Whitfield Robinson.

1948 - The United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights.

1951 - General Vo Nguyen Giap ended his Red River Campaign against the French in Indochina.

1953 - Seventeen major league baseball records were tied or broken in a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Detroit Tigers.

1953 - Egypt was proclaimed to be a republic with General Neguib as its first president.

1959 - A Federal Court annulled the Arkansas law allowing school closings to prevent integration.

1959 - The first telecast received from England was broadcast in the U.S. over NBC-TV.

1961 - "Gunsmoke" was broadcast for the last time on CBS radio.

1966 - Samuel Nabrit became the first African American to serve on the Atomic Energy Commission.

1972 - A BEA Trident crashed just after takeoff from London Airport. All 118 people on board were killed.

1975 - Fred Lynn of the Boston Red Sox hit three home runs, a triple and a single in a game against the Detroit Tigers.

1979 - In Vienna, U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) 2.

1983 - Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.

1984 - Alan Berg was shot to death outside his home. Two white supremacists were convicted of civil rights violations in the murder.

1996 - Richard Allen Davis was convicted in San Jose, CA, of the 1993 kidnap-murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas.

1997 - Sirhan Sirhan was denied parole for the 10th time. He had assissinated presidential candidate Robert Kennedy in 1968.

1998 - The Walt Disney Co. purchased a 43% stake in the Web search engine company Infoseek Corp.

1998 - Nine commemorative U.S. postage stamps were reissued. The stamps were considered to be classically beautiful examples of stamp engraving.

1998 - "The Boston Globe" asked Patricia Smith to resign after she admitted to inventing people and quotes in four of her recent columns.

1999 - Walt Disney's "Tarzan" opened.

2000 - In Algiers, Algeria, the foreign ministers of Ethiopia and Eritrea signed a preliminary cease-fire accord and agreed to work toward a permanent settlement of their two-year border war.

2002 - In Jerusalem, a suicide bomber killed 19 people and injured at least 50 more on a city bus. The Islamic militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Current Birthdays


Jay Rockefeller turns 72 years old today.

89 Ian Carmichael
Actor


83 Tom Wicker
Journalist


70 Lou Brock
Baseball Hall of Famer


67 Roger Ebert
Movie critic


67 Paul McCartney
Rock musician


62 Constance McCashin
Actress


62 Linda Thorson
Actress


59 Mike Johanns
U.S. senator, R-Neb.


57 Carol Kane
Actress


57 Isabella Rossellini
Actress


48 Alison Moyet
Rock singer


46 Bruce Smith
Football Hall of Famer


42 Tim Hunt
Country musician


40 Sice
Rock musician (The Boo Radleys)


38 Mara Hobel
Actress


38 Nathan Morris
R&B singer (Boyz II Men)


34 Silkk the Shocker
Rapper


33 Alana de la Garza
Actress ("Law and Order")


33 Blake Shelton
Country singer


29 Antonio Gates
Football player


20 Renee Olstead
Actress

Historic Birthdays


Edouard Daladier

6/18/1884 - 10/10/1970
French premier; signed the Munich Pact in 1938


80 Bartolommeo Ammannati
6/18/1511 - 4/22/1592
Italian sculptor and architect


55 Feofan Prokopovich
6/18/1681 - 9/19/1736
Russian Orthodox archbishop; important ally of Peter the Great


81 William Lassell
6/18/1799 - 10/5/1880
English astronomer


71 Edward Wyllis Scripps
6/18/1854 - 3/12/1926
American newspaper publisher


72 Henry Clay Folger
6/18/1857 - 6/11/1930
American industrialist and philanthropist


69 Nicolae Iorga
6/18/1871 - 11/28/1940
Romanian scholar, statesman and historian


82 James Montgomery Flagg
6/18/1877 - 5/27/1960
American illustrator and poster artist


53 Philip Barry
6/18/1896 - 12/3/1949
American dramatist


17 Anastasia
6/18/1901 - 7/17/1918
Russian daughter of Tsar Nicholas II

 

[minidog]

0240 BC - Eratosthenes estimated the circumference of the Earth using two sticks.

1586 - English colonists sailed away from Roanoke Island, NC, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in America.

1778 - U.S. General George Washington's troops finally left Valley Forge after a winter of training.

1821 - The Ottomans defeated the Greeks at the Battle of Dragasani.

1846 - The New York Knickerbocker Club played the New York Club in the first baseball game at the Elysian Field, Hoboken, NJ. It was the first organized baseball game.

1862 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln outlined his Emancipation Proclamation, which outlawed slavery in U.S. territories.

1864 - The USS Kearsarge sank the CSS Alabama off of Cherbourg, France.

1865 - The emancipation of slaves was proclaimed in Texas.

1867 - Mexican Emperor Maximillian was executed.

1867 - In New York, the Belmont Stakes was run for the first time.

1903 - The young school teacher, Benito Mussolini, was placed under investigation by police in Bern, Switzerland.

1910 - Father's Day was celebrated for the first time, in Spokane, WA.

1911 - In Pennsylvania, the first motion-picture censorship board was established.

1912 - The U.S. government established the 8-hour work day.

1917 - During World War I, King George V ordered the British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames. On July 17, 1917, the family took the name "Windsor".

1933 - France granted Leon Trotsky political asylum.

1934 - The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration was established.

1934 - The U.S. Congress established the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The commission was to regulate radio and TV broadcasting (later).

1937 - The town of Bilbao, Spain, fell to the Nationalist forces.

1939 - In Atlanta, GA, legislation was enacted that disallowed pinball machines in the city.

1942 - Norma Jeane Mortenson (Marilyn Monroe) and her 21-year-old neighbor Jimmy Dougherty were married. They were divorced in June of 1946.

1942 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrived in Washington, DC, to discuss the invasion of North Africa with U.S. President Roosevelt.

1943 - Henry Kissinger became a naturalized United States citizen.

1943 - The National Football League approved the merger of the Philadelphia Eagles and the Pittsburgh Steelers.

1944 - The U.S. won the battle of the Philippine Sea against the Imperial Japanese fleet.

1951 - U.S. President Harry S. Truman signed the Universal Military Training and Service Act, which extended Selective Service until July 1, 1955 and lowered the draft age to 18.

1952 - "I’ve Got a Secret" debuted on CBS-TV.

1953 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, NY. They had been convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.

1958 - In Washington, DC, nine entertainers refused to answer a congressional committee's questions on communism.

1961 - Kuwait regained complete independence from Britain.

1961 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a provision in Maryland's constitution that required state officeholders to profess a belief in God.

1964 - The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the U.S. Senate.

1965 - Air Marshall Nguyen Cao Ky became South Vietnam's youngest premier at age 34.

1968 - 50,000 people marched on Washington, DC. to support the Poor People's Campaign.

1973 - The Case-Church Amendment prevented further U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia.

1973 - Pete Rose (Cincinnati Reds) got his 2,000th career hit.

1973 - The stage production of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" opened in London.

1973 - Gordie Howe left the NHL to join his sons Mark and Marty in the WHA (World Hockey League).

1976 - During three days of violence, black student protestors were massacred in Soweto, South Africa.

1978 - Garfield was in newspapers around the U.S. for the first time.

1981 - "Superman II" set the all-time, one-day record for theater box-office receipts when it took in $5.5 million.

1981 - The European Space Agency sent two satellites into orbit from Kourou, French Guiana.

1983 - Lixian-nian was chosen to be China's first president since 1969.

1986 - University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias died of a cocaine-induced seizure.

1987 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Louisiana law that required that schools teach creationism.

1989 - The movie "Batman" premiered.

1997 - William Hague became the youngest leader of Britain's Conservative party in nearly 200 years.

1998 - Gateway was fined more than $400,000 for illegally shipping personal computers to 16 countries subject to U.S. export controls.

1998 - A study released said that smoking more than doubles risks of developing dementia and Alzheimer's.

1998 - Switzerland's three largest banks offered $600 million to settle claims they'd stolen the assets of Holocaust victims during World War II. Jewish leaders called the offer insultingly low.

1999 - Stephen King was struck from behind by a mini-van while walking along a road in Maine.

1999 - The Dallas Stars won their first NHL Stanley Cup by defeating the Buffalo Sabres in the third overtime of game six.

2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a group prayer led by students at public-school football games violated the 1st Amendment's principle that called for the separation of church and state.


Current Birthdays


Lauren Lee Smith turns 29 years old today.

79 Gena Rowlands
Actress


67 Spanky McFarlane
Pop singer (Spanky and Our Gang)


64 Aung San Suu Kyi
Nobel Peace Prize winner


62 Salman Rushdie
Author


61 Phylicia Rashad
Actress ("The Cosby Show")


59 Ann Wilson
Rock singer (Heart)


56 Larry Dunn
Rock musician


55 Kathleen Turner
Actress


54 Mary Schapiro
SEC chairwoman


53 Doug Stone
Country singer


50 Mark DeBarge
R&B singer


47 Paula Abdul
Singer, TV personality ("American Idol")


46 Andy Lauer
Actor


45 Brian Vander Ark
Rock singer, musician


39 Brian "Head" Welch
Rock musician (Korn)


37 Robin Tunney
Actress


35 Bumper Robinson
Actor


34 Poppy Montgomery
Actress ("Without a Trace")


33 Scott Avett
Country musician


31 Zoe Saldana
Actress


25 Paul Dano
Actor

Historic Birthdays


Lou Gehrig

6/19/1903 - 6/2/1941
American professional baseball player


39 Blaise Pascal
6/19/1623 - 8/19/1662
French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher


89 Thomas Sully
6/19/1783 - 11/5/1872
American portrait painter


83 William Henry Webb
6/19/1816 - 10/30/1899
American naval architect and shipbuilder


58 Elbert Hubbard
6/19/1856 - 5/7/1915
American editor, publisher and author


85 Laura Hobson
6/19/1900 - 2/28/1986
American novelist and short story writer


65 James J. Walker
6/19/1881 - 11/18/1946
American politician; mayor of New York City (1925-32)


89 Wallis Warfield Windsor
6/19/1896 - 4/24/1986
American who married the Duke of Windsor


75 Guy Lombardo
6/19/1902 - 11/5/1977
Canadian-born American dance-band leader


75 Paul Flory
6/19/1910 - 9/9/1985
American Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1974)


71 Abe Fortas
6/19/1910 - 4/5/1982
American lawyer and associate justice of the Supreme Court (1965-69)


38 Viktor Patsayev
6/19/1933 - 6/29/1971
Russian cosmonaut; died in space

 

[minidog]

0451 - Roman and Barbarian warriors brought Attila's army to a halt at the Catalaunian Plains in eastern France.

1397 - The Union of Kalmar united Denmark, Sweden, and Norway under one monarch.

1756 - In India, 150 British soldiers were imprisoned in a cell that became known as the "Black Hole of Calcutta."

1782 - The U.S. Congress approved the Great Seal of the United States.

1791 - King Louis XVI of France was captured while attempting to flee the country in the so-called Flight to Varennes.

1793 - Eli Whitney applied for a cotton gin patent. He received the patent on March 14. The cotton gin initiated the American mass-production concept.

1837 - Queen Victoria ascended the British throne following the death of her uncle, King William IV.

1863 - West Virginia became the 35th state to join the U.S.

1863 - The National Bank of Philadelphia in Philadelphia, PA, became the first bank to receive a charter from the U.S. Congress.

1893 - A jury in New Bedford, MA, found Lizzie Borden innocent of the ax murders of her father and stepmother.

1898 - The U.S. Navy seized the island of Guam enroute to the Phillipines to fight the Spanish.

1910 - Mexican President Porfirio Diaz proclaimed martial law and arrested hundreds.

1910 - Fanny Brice debuted in the New York production of the "Ziegfeld Follies".

1923 - France announced it would seize the Rhineland to assist Germany in paying its war debts.

1941 - The U.S. Army Air Force was established, replacing the Army Air Corps.

1943 - Race-related rioting erupted in Detroit. Federal troops were sent in two days later to end the violence that left more than 30 dead.

1947 - Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was murdered in Beverly Hills, CA, at the order of mob associates angered over the soaring costs of his project, the Flamingo resort in Las Vegas, NV.

1948 - "Toast of the Town" debuted on CBS-TV. The show was hosted by Ed Sullivan.

1950 - Willie Mays graduated from high school and immediately signed with the New York Giants.

1955 - The AFL and CIO agreed to combine names and a merge into a single group.

1963 - The United States and Soviet Union signed an agreement to set up a hot line communication link between the two countries.

1966 - The U.S. Open golf tournament was broadcast in color for the first time.

1967 - Muhammad Ali was convicted in Houston of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted. The U.S. Supreme Court later overturned the conviction.

1977 - The Trans-Alaska Pipeline began operation.

1979 - ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart was shot to death in Managua, Nicaragua, by a member of President Anastasio Somoza's national guard.

1994 - In Los Angeles, O.J. Simpson pled innocent to the killing of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

1997 - The tobacco industry agreed to a massive settlement in exchange for major relief from mounting lawsuits and legal bills.

2001 - Barry Bonds, of the San Francisco Giants, hit his 38th home run of the season. The home run broke the major league baseball record for homers before the midseason All-Star break.

2001 - In Texas, Andrea Yates was arrested for drowning her five children in a bathtub.

2002 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the execution of mentally retarded murderers was unconstitutionally cruel. The vote was 6 in favor and 3 against.

Current Birthdays


Nicole Kidman turns 42 years old today.


78 Olympia Dukakis
Actress


78 Martin Landau
Actor


78 James Tolkan
Actor


76 Danny Aiello
Actor


69 John Mahoney
Actor ("Frasier")


68 Stephen Frears
Director


67 Brian Wilson
Rock singer, songwriter (The Beach Boys)


64 John McCook
Actor ("The Bold and the Beautiful")


64 Anne Murray
Singer


63 Bob Vila
TV host ("This Old House")


63 Andre Watts
Musician


62 Candy Clark
Actress


61 Tina Sinatra
Producer


60 Lionel Richie
R&B singer


57 John Goodman
Actor


55 Michael Anthony
Rock musician (Van Halen)


49 John Taylor
Rock musician (Duran Duran)


47 Mark DeGliantoni
Rock musician


42 Murphy Karges
Rock musician (Sugar Ray)


42 Dan Tyminski
Country, bluegrass musician (Union Station)


41 Robert Rodriguez
Director ("Spy Kids")


40 Peter Paige
Actor ("Queer as Folk")


38 Josh Lucas
Actor


36 Chino Moreno
Rock singer


32 Amos Lee
Folk singer, songwriter


30 Chuck Wicks
Country singer


24 Mark Saul
Actor ("Grey's Anatomy")


20 Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Actor ("Superbad")


12 Maria Lark
Actress ("Medium")

Historic Birthdays


Lillian Hellman

6/20/1905 - 6/30/1984
American playwright and screenwriter


57 Salvator Rosa
6/20/1615 - 3/15/1673
Italian Baroque painter and etcher


92 Adam Ferguson
6/20/1723 - 2/22/1816
Scottish historian and philosopher


32 Thomas Edward Bowdich
6/20/1791 - 1/10/1824
English traveler and scientific writer


61 Jacques Offenbach
6/20/1819 - 10/5/1880
French composer


72 Alexander Winton
6/20/1860 - 6/21/1932
Scottish-born American automobile manufacturer


85 Sir Frederick Hopkins
6/20/1861 - 5/16/1947
English Nobel Prize-winning biochemist (1929)


44 Jean Moulin
6/20/1899 - 7/8/1943
French World War II Resistance hero


50 Errol Flynn
6/20/1909 - 10/14/1959
American motion-picture actor


65 Chester Arthur Burnett
6/20/1910 - 1/10/1976
American blues singer and composer

 

[minidog]

1683 - William Penn signed a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.

1700 - Russia gave up its Black Sea fleet as part of a truce with the Ottoman Empire.

1758 - British and Hanoverian armies defeated the French at Krefeld in Germany.

1760 - The Austrians defeated the Prussians at Landshut, Germany.

1757 - Robert Clive defeated the Indians at Plassey and won control of Bengal.

1836 - The U.S. Congress approved the Deposit Act, which contained a provision for turning over surplus federal revenue to the states.

1848 - A bloody insurrection of workers in Paris erupted.

1860 - The U.S. Secret Service was created to arrest counterfeiters.

1865 - Confederate General Stand Watie, who was also a Cherokee chief, surrendered the last sizable Confederate army at Fort Towson, in the Oklahoma Territory.

1868 - Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention that he called a "Type-Writer."

1884 - A Chinese Army defeated the French at Bacle, Indochina.

1902 - Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy renewed the Triple Alliance for a 12 year duration.

1904 - The first American motorboat race got underway on the Hudson River in New York.

1926 - The first lip reading tournament in America was held in Philadelphia, PA.

1931 - Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane.

1934 - Italy gained the right to colonize Albania after defeating the country.

1938 - The Civil Aeronautics Authority was established.

1938 - Marineland opened near St. Augustine, Florida.

1947 - The U.S. Senate joined the House in overriding President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.

1951 - Soviet U.N. delegate Jacob Malik proposed cease-fire discussions in the Korean War.

1952 - The U.S. Air Force bombed power plants on Yalu River, Korea.

1956 - Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.

1964 - Henry Cabot Lodge resigned as the U.S. envoy to Vietnam and was succeeded by Maxwell Taylor.

1964 - The burned car of three civil rights workers was found prompting the FBI to begin a search. The men had been missing since June 21, 1964. Their bodies were found on August 4, 1964.

1966 - Civil Rights marchers in Mississippi were dispersed by tear gas.

1972 - U.S. President Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI's Watergate investigation.

1985 - All 329 people aboard an Air-India Boeing 747 were killed when the plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland. The cause was thought to be a bomb.

1989 - The movie "Batman" was released nationwide.

1992 - John Gotti was sentenced in New York to life in prison after being convicted of racketeering charges.

1993 - Lorena Bobbitt of Prince William County, VA, sexually mutilated her husband, John, after he allegedly raped her.

1997 - Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X, died in New York of burns suffered in a fire set by her 12-year old grandson. She was 61.

2003 - Apple Computer Inc. unveiled the new Power Mac desktop computer.

2004 - The U.S. proposed that North Korea agree to a series of nuclear disarmament measures over a three-month period in exchange for economic benefits.

2005 - Roger Ebert received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame


Current Birthdays


Randy Jackson turns 53 years old today.

69 Diana Trask
Country singer


66 James Levine
Conductor


65 Rosetta Hightower
R&B singer


63 Ted Shackelford
Actor


62 Bryan Brown
Actor


61 Clarence Thomas
Supreme Court justice


52 Frances McDormand
Actress


47 Paul La Greca
Actor


47 Steve Shelley
Rock musician (Sonic Youth)


39 Chico DeBarge
R&B singer


37 Selma Blair
Actress


34 KT Tunstall
Rock singer


34 Virgo Williams
R&B singer (Ghostowns DJs)


32 Jason Mraz
Singer, songwriter


30 LaDainian Tomlinson
Football player


18 Katie Armiger
Country singer


Historic Birthdays


Edward VIII

6/23/1894 - 5/28/1972
King of England (1936); abdicated his throne

61 John Fell
6/23/1625 - 7/10/1686
English Anglican priest, author and typographer


75 Giambattista Vico
6/23/1668 - 1/23/1744
Italian philosopher


50 Josephine
6/23/1763 - 5/29/1814
French consort of Napoleon and empress of France (1804-10)


85 Carl Reinecke
6/23/1824 - 3/10/1910
German pianist, composer, conductor and teacher


67 Irvin S. Cobb
6/23/1876 - 3/10/1944
American journalist and humorist


62 Alfred Charles Kinsey
6/23/1894 - 8/25/1956
American zoologist; headed Indiana University's Institute for Sexual Research


89 Paul Joseph Martin
6/23/1903 - 9/14/1992
Canadian politician and diplomat


88 James Edward Meade
6/23/1907 - 12/22/1995
English Nobel Prize-winning economist (1977)


77 Jean Anouilh
6/23/1910 - 10/3/1987
French playwright


60 Bob Fosse
6/23/1927 - 9/23/1987
American theatre and film choreographer

 

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