Today In History

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1350 - While besieging Gibraltar, Alfonso XI of Castile died of the Black Death.

1794 - The U.S. Congress and President Washington authorized the creation of the U.S. Navy.

1802 - The Treaty of Amiens was signed ending the French Revolutionary War.

1814 - U.S. troops under Gen. Andrew Jackson defeated the Creek Indians at Horshoe Bend in Northern Alabama.

1836 - The Mexican army massacred about 400 Texan rebels at Goliad, TX, under the order of Santa Anna.

1836 - The first Mormon temple was dedicated in Kirtland, OH.

1841 - The first steam fire engine was tested in New York City.

1860 - The corkscrew was patented by M.L. Byrn.

1866 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson vetoed the civil rights bill, which later became the 14th amendment.

1884 - The first long-distance telephone call was made from Boston to New York.

1899 - The first international radio transmission between England and France was achieved by the Italian inventor G. Marconi.

1900 - The London Parliament ****** the War Loan Act that gave 35 million pounds to the Boer War cause in South Africa.

1900 - The Russian army mobilized 250,000 troops for active duty.

1901 - Filipino rebel leader Emilio Aguinaldo was captured by the U.S.

1904 - Mary Jarris "******" Jones was ordered by Colorado state authorities to leave the state. She was accused of stirring up striking coal miners.

1907 - French troops occupied Oudja, Morocco, as a punitive action for the ****** of French Dr. Muchamp.

1912 - The first cherry blossom trees were planted in Washington, DC. The trees were a gift from Japan.

1917 - The Seattle Metropolitans, of the Pacific Coast League of Canada, defeated the Montreal Canadiens and became the first U.S. hockey team to win the Stanley Cup.

1931 - Actor Charlie Chaplin received France’s Legion of Honor decoration.

1933 - About 55,000 people staged a protest against Hitler in New York City.

1933 - In the U.S., the **** Credit Administration was authorized.

1941 - Tokeo Yoshikawa arrived in Oahu, HI, and began spying for Japan on the U.S. Fleet at Pearl Harbor.

1942 - The British raided the **** submarine base at St. Nazaire, France.

1944 - One-thousand Jews left Drancy, France, for the Auschwitz concentration camp.

1944 - Thousands of Jews were ******** in Kaunas, Lithuania.

1946 - Four-month long strikes at both General Electric and General Motors ended with a wage increase.

1952 - The U.S. Eighth Army reached the 38th parallel in Korea, the original dividing line between the two Koreas.

1955 - Steve McQueen made his network TV debut on "Goodyear Playhouse."

1958 - Nikita Khrushchev became the chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers in addition to First Secretary of the Communist Party.

1958 - The U.S. announced a plan to explore space near the moon.

1964 - An earthquake in Alaska ****** 114 people and registered 8.4 on the Richter Scale.

1968 - Yuri Gagarin, the first man to orbit the earth, died in a plane crash.

1976 - Washington, DC, opened its subway system.

1977 - About 570 people died when a KLM 747 and a Pan Am 747 collided with each other on a foggy runway on the Canary Island of Tenerife.

1985 - Billy Dee Williams received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1988 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Intermediate-Range Nuclear ****** Treaty.

1989 - The U.S. anti-missile satellite failed the first test in space.

1992 - Police in Philadelphia, PA, arrested a man with AIDS on charges that he may have infected several hundred teenage boys with HIV through sexual relations.

1993 - In China, Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin was appointed President.

1995 - Maurizo Gucci was shot to death outside his office in Milan.

1997 - Russian workers, nearly 2 million, held a nationwide strike to protest unpaid wages.

1997 - In Australia, Governor-General William Deane signed a bill to overturn a 1996 Northern Territory act to legalize assisted suicides. The 1996 act was the first in the world to permit assisted suicides.

1997 - Dexter King met with James Earl Ray. Ray was in prison for the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. Dexter King believes that Ray had nothing to do with the assassination.

1998 - In the U.S., the FDA approved the ************ **** Viagra. It was the first pill for male impotence.

1998 - Top civilian aircraft makers in France, Spain, Germany and Britain agreed to create single European aerospace and defense company.

1998 - Ax-wielders ****** at least 52 people in southern Algeria, most of which were toddlers.

2002 - Rodney Dangerfield received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2004 - NASA successfully launched an unpiloted X-43A jet that hit Mach 7 (about 5,000 mph).

Current Birthdays


Mariah Carey turns 39 years old today
Mariah you on fire

82 Anthony Lewis
Newspaper columnist


74 Julian Glover
Actor


73 Jerry Lacy
Actor


69 Austin Pendleton
Actor


67 Michael York
Actor


59 Tony Banks
Rock musician (Genesis)


57 Maria Schneider
Actress


50 Andrew Farriss
Rock musician (INXS)


46 Dave Koz
Jazz saxophonist


46 Quentin Tarantino
Director


45 Derrick McKenzie
Rock musician (Jamiroquai)


42 Talisa Soto
Actress


40 Pauley Perrette
Actress


39 Brendan Hill
Rock musician (Blues Traveler)


39 Elizabeth Mitchell
Actress


38 Nathan Fillion
Actor ("Firefly")


34 Fergie
Singer (Black Eyed Peas)


25 Emily Ann Lloyd
Actress


21 Brenda Song
Actress


14 Taylor Atelian
Actress ("According to Jim")

Historic Birthdays


Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

3/27/1886 - 8/17/1969
German-born American architect

78 Andrew Bell
3/27/1753 - 1/27/1832
Scottish clergyman who developed popular education


66 Alfred-Victor Vigny
3/27/1797 - 9/17/1863
French poet, dramatist and novelist


84 Gloria Swanson
3/27/1899 - 4/4/1983
American film, stage and television actress


83 Otto Wallach
3/27/1847 - 2/26/1931
German Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1910)


70 Sir Henry Royce
3/27/1863 - 4/22/1933
English industrialist; a founder of Rolls-Royce Ltd.


78 Patty Smith Hill
3/27/1868 - 5/25/1946
American educator


93 Edward Steichen
3/27/1879 - 3/25/1973
American photographer; a leader of the Photo-Secession Group


74 Sato Eisaku
3/27/1901 - 6/3/1975
Japanese prime minister (1964-72); awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1974)


62 *** Wee Russell
3/27/1906 - 2/15/1969
American jazz clarinetist


64 Ben Webster
3/27/1909 - 9/20/1973
American jazz musician


33 Denton Welch
3/27/1915 - 12/30/1948
English painter and novelist


66 Sarah Vaughan
3/27/1924 - 4/3/1990
American jazz vocalist and pianist

 

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1774 - Britain ****** the Coercive Act against Massachusetts.

1797 - Nathaniel Briggs patented a washing machine.

1834 - The U.S. Senate voted to censure President Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.

1854 - The Crimean War began with Britain and France declaring war on Russia.

1864 - A group of Copperheads ****** Federal soldiers in Charleston, IL. Five were ****** and twenty were wounded.

1865 - Outdoor advertising legislation was enacted in New York. The law ****** "painting on stones, rocks and trees."

1885 - The Salvation Army was officially organized in the U.S.

1898 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a ***** born in the U.S. to Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen. This meant that they could not be deported under the Chinese Exclusion Act.

1903 - Anatole France's "Crainquebille" premiered in Paris.

1905 - The U.S. took full control over Dominican revenues.

1908 - Automobile owners lobbied the U.S. Congress, supporting a bill that called for vehicle licensing and federal registration.

1910 - The first seaplane took off from water at Martinques, France. The pilot was Henri Fabre.

1911 - In New York, suffragists performed the political play "Pageant of Protest."

1917 - During World War I the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) was founded.

1921 - U.S. President Warren Harding named William Howard Taft as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court.

1922 - Bradley A. Fiske patented a microfilm reading device.

1930 - Constantinople and Angora changed their names to Istanbul and Ankara respectively.

1933 - In Germany, the Nazis ordered a ban on all Jews in businesses, professions and schools.

1938 - In Italy, psychiatrists demonstrated the use of electric-shock therapy for treatment of certain mental illnesses.

1939 - The Spanish Civil War ended as Madrid fell to Francisco Franco.

1941 - The Italian fleet was defeated by the British at the Battle of Matapan.

1942 - British naval ****** raided the **** occupied French port of St. Nazaire.

1945 - Germany launched the last of the V-2 rockets against England.

1947 - The American Helicopter Society revealed a flying device that could be strapped to a person's body.

1962 - The U.S. Air ***** announced research into the use of lasers to intercept missiles and satellites.

1963 - Sonny Werblin announced that the New York Titans of the American Football League was changing its name to the New York Jets. (NFL)

1967 - Raymond Burr starred in a TV movie titled "Ironside." The movie was later turned into a television series.

1968 - The U.S. lost its first F-111 aircraft in Vietnam when it vanished while on a combat mission. North Vietnam claimed that they had shot it down.

1974 - A streaker ran onto the set of "The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson."

1979 - A major accident occurred at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. A nuclear power reactor overheated and suffered a partial meltdown.

1986 - The U.S. Senate ****** $100 million aid package for the Nicaraguan contras.

1986 - More than 6,000 radio stations of all format varieties played "We are the World" simultaneously at 10:15 a.m. EST.

1990 - Jesse Owens received the Congressional Gold Medal from U.S. President George Bush.

1990 - In Britain, a joint Anglo-U.S. "sting" operation ended with the seizure of 40 capacitors, which can be used in the trigger mechanism of a nuclear weapon.

1991 - The U.S. embassy in Moscow was severely damaged by fire.

1994 - ******** between Zulus and African National Congress supporters took the lives of 18 in Johannesburg.

1999 - Paraguay's President Raúl Cubas Grau resigned after protests inspired by the assassination of Vice-President Luis María Argaña on March 23. The nation's Congress had accused Cubas and his political associate, Gen. Lino César Oviedo, for Cubas' ******. Senate President Luis González Macchi took office as Paraguay's new chief executive.

2002 - The exhibit "The Italians: Three Centuries of Italian Art" opened at the National Gallery of Australia.

 

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1461 - Edward IV secured his claim to the English thrown by defeating Henry VI’s Lancastrians at the battle of Towdon.

1638 - First permanent European settlement in Delaware was established.

1847 - U.S. troops under General Winfield Scott took possession of the Mexican stronghold at Vera Cruz.

1848 - Niagara Falls stopped flowing for one day due to an ice jam.

1867 - The British Parliament ****** the North America Act to create the Dominion of Canada.

1882 - The Knights of Columbus organization was granted a charter by the State of Connecticut.

1901 - The first federal elections were held in Australia.

1903 - A regular news service began between New York and London on Marconi's wireless.

1906 - In the U.S., 500,000 coal miners walked off the job seeking higher wages.

1913 - The Reichstag announced a raise in taxes in order to finance the new military budget.

1916 - The Italians call off the fifth ****** on Isonzo.

1932 - Jack Benny made his radio debut.

1936 - Italy firebombed the Ethiopian city of Harar.

1941 - The British sank five Italian warships off the Peloponnesus coast in the Mediterranean.

1943 - In the U.S. rationing of meat, butter and cheese began during World War II.

1946 - Fiorella LaGuardia became the director general of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Organization.

1946 - Gold Coast became the first British colony to hold an African parliamentary majority.

1951 - The Chinese reject MacArthur's offer for a truce in Korea.

1951 - In the United States, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. They were executed in June 19, 1953.

1961 - The 23rd amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment allowed residents of Washington, DC, to vote for president.

1962 - Cuba opened the trial of the Bay of Pigs invaders.

1962 - Jack Paar made his final appearance on the "Tonight" show.

1966 - Leonid Brezhnev became the First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. He denounced the American policy in Vietnam and called it one of aggression.

1967 - France launched its first nuclear submarine.

1971 - Lt. William Calley Jr., of the U.S. Army, was found guilty of the premeditated ****** of at least 22 Vietnamese civilians. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. The trial was the result of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam on March 16, 1968.

1971 - A jury in Los Angeles recommended the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers for the 1969 Tate-La Bianca *******. The death sentences were later commuted to live in prison.

1973 - "Hommy," the Puerto Rican version of the rock opera "Tommy," opened in New York City.

1973 - The last U.S. troops left South Vietnam.

1974 - Mariner 10, the U.S. space probe became the first spacecraft to reach the planet Mercury. It had been launched on November 3, 1973.

1974 - Eight Ohio National Guardsmen were indicted on charges stemming from the shooting deaths of four students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970. All the guardsmen were later acquitted.

1975 - Egyptian president Anwar Sadat declared that he would reopen the Suez Canal on June 5, 1975.

1979 - The Committee on Assassinations Report issued by U.S. House of Representatives stated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was the result of a conspiracy.

1982 - The soap opera "Search for Tomorrow" changed from CBS to NBC.

1986 - A court in Rome acquitted six men in a plot to **** the Pope.

1987 - Hulk Hogan took 11 minutes, 43 seconds to pin Andre the Giant in front of 93,136 at Wrestlemania III fans at the Silverdome in Pontiac, MI.

1992 - Democratic presidential front-runner Bill Clinton said "I didn't inhale and I didn't try it again" in reference to when he had experimented with *********.

1993 - The South Korean government agreed to pay financial support to women who had been ****** to have sex with Japanese troops during World War II.

1993 - Clint Eastwood won his first Oscars. He won them for best film and best director for the film "Unforgiven."

1995 - The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a constitutional amendment that would have limited terms to 12 years in the U.S. House and Senate.

1998 - Tennessee won the woman's college basketball championship over Louisiana. Tennessee had set a NCAA record with regular season record or 39-0.

1999 - At least 87 people died in an earthquake in India's Himalayan foothills.

1999 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above the 10,000 mark for the first time.

2004 - Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia became members of NATO.

Current Birthdays


Elle Macpherson turns 46 years old today

82 John McLaughlin
TV host ("The McLaughlin Group")


73 Judith Guest
Author


66 Eric Idle
Comedian ("Monty Python")


66 John Major
Former British prime minister


66 Vangelis
Composer ("Chariots of Fire")


64 Walt Frazier
Basketball Hall of Famer


62 Bobby Kimball
Singer (Toto)


54 Earl Campbell
Football Hall of Famer


54 Christopher Lawford
Actor


52 Christopher Lambert
Actor


50 Perry Farrell
Rock singer (Jane's Addiction)


48 Amy Sedaris
Comedian, actress ("Strangers With Candy")


42 John ******
Rock musician (Blues Traveler)


41 Regina Leigh
Country singer (Regina Regina)


40 Brady Seals
Country singer


33 Jennifer Capriati
Tennis player


21 Kelly Sweet
Singer


Historic Birthdays


Cy Young

3/29/1867 - 11/4/1955
American professional baseball player


74 Santorio Santorio
3/29/1561 - 2/22/1636
Italian physician; introduced use of precision instruments in medicine


71 John Tyler
3/29/1790 - 1/18/1862
10th president of the United States


80 Isaac Mayer Wise
3/29/1819 - 3/26/1900
Bohemian-born American rabbi; organized Reform Jewish institutions in U.S.


83 Elihu Thomson
3/29/1853 - 3/13/1937
American engineer and inventor; founder of U.S. electrical industry


78 Howard Lindsay
3/29/1889 - 2/11/1968
American playwright, producer and partner of Russel Crouse


83 Jozsef Mindszenty
3/29/1892 - 5/6/1975
Hungarian Roman Catholic priest; opposed totalitarianism


54 Lavrenty Beria
3/29/1899 - 12/23/1953
Russian director of the Soviet secret police


80 Sir William Walton
3/29/1902 - 3/8/1983
English composer


70 E. Power Biggs
3/29/1906 - 3/10/1977
English-born American organist


72 Pearl Bailey
3/29/1918 - 8/17/1990
American singer and entertainer


74 Samuel Moore Walton
3/29/1918 - 4/5/1992
American retail magnate; founded Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

 

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1533 - Henry VIII divorced his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.

1814 - The allied European nations against Napoleon marched into Paris.

1822 - Florida became a U.S. territory.

1842 - Dr. Crawford W. Long performed the first operation while his patient was anesthetized by ether.

1855 - About 5,000 "Border Ruffians" from western Missouri invaded the territory of Kansas and ****** the election of a pro-slavery legislature. It was the first election in Kansas.

1858 - Hyman L. Lipman of Philadelphia patented the pencil.

1867 - The U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million dollars.

1870 - The 15th amendment, guaranteeing the right to vote regardless of race, was ****** by the U.S. Congress.

1870 - Texas was readmitted to the Union.

1903 - Revolutionary activity in the Dominican Republic brought U.S. troops to Santo Domingo to protect American interests.

1905 - U.S. President Roosevelt was chosen to mediate in the Russo-Japanese peace talks.

1909 - The Queensboro bridge in New York opened linking Manhattan and Queens. It was the first double decker bridge.

1909 - In Oklahoma, Seminole Indians revolted against meager pay for government jobs.

1916 - Pancho Villa ****** 172 at the Guerrero garrison in Mexico.

1936 - Britain announced a naval construction program of 38 warships.

1940 - The Japanese set up a puppet government called Manchuko in Nanking, China.

1941 - The German Afrika Korps under General Erwin Rommel began its first offensive against British ****** in Libya.

1944 - The U.S. fleet attacked Palau, near the Philippines.

1945 - The U.S.S.R. invaded Austria during World War II.

1946 - The Allies seized 1,000 Nazis attempting to revive the **** party in Frankfurt.

1947 - Lord Mountbatten arrived in India as the new Viceroy.

1950 - The invention of the phototransistor was announced.

1950 - U.S. President Truman denounced Senator Joe McCarthy as a saboteur of U.S. foreign policy.

1957 - Tunisia and Morocco signed a friendship treaty in Rabat.

1958 - The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater gave its initial performance.

1964 - "Jeopardy" debuted on NBC-TV.

1964 - John Glenn withdrew from the Ohio race for U.S. Senate because of injuries suffered in a fall.

1970 - "Applause" opened on Broadway.

1970 - "Another World - Somerset" debuted on NBC-TV.

1972 - The British government assumed direct rule over Northern Ireland.

1972 - The Eastertide Offensive began when North Vietnamese troops crossed into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in the northern portion of South Vietnam.

1975 - As the North Vietnamese ****** moved toward Saigon South Vietnamese soldiers mob rescue jets in desperation.

1981 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded in Washington, DC, by John W. Hinckley Jr. Two police officers and Press Secretary James Brady were also wounded.

1984 - The U.S. ended its participation in the multinational peace ***** in Lebanon.

1987 - Vincent Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" was bought for $39.85 million.

1993 - In Sarajevo, two Serb militiamen were sentenced to death for war crimes committed in Bosnia.

1993 - In the Peanuts comic strip, Charlie Brown hit his first home run.

1994 - Serbs and Croats signed a cease-fire to end their war in Croatia while Bosnian Muslims and Serbs continued to fight each other.

1998 - Rolls-Royce was purchased by BMW in a $570 million deal.

2002 - An unmanned U.S. spy plan crashed at sea in the Southern Philippines.

2002 - Suspected Islamic militants set off several grenades at a temple in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Four civilians, four policemen and two attackers were ****** and 20 people were injured.

Current Birthdays


Warren Beatty turns 72 years old today

83 Peter Marshall
Game show host ("Hollywood Squares")


80 Richard Dysart
Actor


79 John Astin
Actor ("Addams ******")


69 Jerry Lucas
Basketball Hall of Famer


68 Graeme Edge
Rock musician (The Moody Blues)


64 Eric Clapton
Rock musician


61 Justin Deas
Actor ("Guiding Light")


59 Robbie Coltrane
Actor


52 Paul Reiser
Actor, comedian ("Mad About You")


47 Mark Begich
U.S. senator, D-Alaska


46 MC Hammer
Rapper


45 Tracy Chapman
Rock singer


45 Ian Ziering
Actor


41 Celine Dion
Singer


38 Mark Consuelos
Actor


30 Norah Jones
Rock singer, musician


Historic Birthdays


Sean O'Casey

3/30/1880 - 9/18/1964
Irish playwright; contributed to Irish Literary Renaissance


69 Moses Maimonides
3/30/1135 - 12/13/1204
Spanish-born Jewish philosopher, jurist and physician


82 Francisco de Goya
3/30/1746 - 4/16/1828
Spanish painter; depicted political tyranny in his works


83 Juan Manuel de Rosas
3/30/1793 - 3/14/1877
Argentine military and political leader and governor of Buenos Aires (1835-52)


58 Anna Sewell
3/30/1820 - 4/25/1878
English author ("Black Beauty")


76 Charles Booth
3/30/1840 - 11/23/1916
English shipowner and sociologist


37 Vincent van Gogh
3/30/1853 - 7/29/1890
Dutch Post-Impressionist painter


78 Melanie Klein
3/30/1882 - 9/22/1960
Austrian-born English psychoanalyst


79 Arthur Herrington
3/30/1891 - 9/6/1970
American engineer and manufacturer; developed the World War II jeep


77 McGeorge Bundy
3/30/1919 - 9/16/1996
American educator and presidential advisor on foreign policy

 

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1492 - King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain issued the Alhambra edict expelling Jews who were ********* to convert to Christianity.

1776 - Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John that women were "determined to foment a rebellion" if the new Declaration of Independence failed to guarantee their rights.

1779 - Russia and Turkey signed a treaty concerning military action in Crimea.

1831 - Quebec and Montreal were incorporated as cities.

1854 - The U.S. government signed the Treaty of Kanagawa with Japan. The act opened the ports of Shimoda and Hakotade to American trade.

1862 - Skirmishing between Rebels and Union ****** took place at Island 10 on the Mississippi River.

1870 - In Perth Amboy, NJ, Thomas P. Munday became the first black to vote in the U.S.

1880 - Wabash, IN, became the first town to be completely illuminated with electric light.

1889 - In Paris, the Eiffel Tower officially opened.

1900 - The W.E. Roach Company was the first automobile company to put an advertisement in a national magazine. The magazine was the "Saturday Evening Post".

1900 - In France, the National Assembly ****** a law reducing the workday for women and ******** to 11 hours.

1901 - In Russia, the Czar lashed out at Socialist-Revolutionaries with the arrests of 72 people and the seizing of two printing presses.

1902 - In Tennessee, 22 coal miners were ****** by an explosion.

1904 - In India, hundreds of Tibetans were slaughtered by the British.

1905 - Kaiser Wilhelm arrived in Tangier proclaiming to support for an independent state of Morocco.

1906 - The Conference on Moroccan Reforms in Algerciras ended after two months with France and Germany in agreement.

1906 - The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States was founded to set rules in amateur sports. The organization became the National Collegiate Athletic Association in 1910.

1908 - 250,000 coal miners in Indianapolis, IN, went on strike to await a wage adjustment.

1909 - Serbia accepted Austrian control over Bosnia-Herzegovina.

1917 - The U.S. purchased and took possession of the Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million.

1918 - For the first time in the U.S., Daylight Saving Time went into effect.

1921 - Great Britain declared a state of emergency because of the thousands of coal miners on strike.

1923 - In New York City, the first U.S. dance marathon was held. Alma Cummings set a new world record of 27 hours.

1932 - The Ford Motor Co. debuted its V-8 engine.

1933 - The U.S. Congress authorized the Civilian Conservation Corps to relieve rampant unemployment.

1933 - The "Soperton News" in Georgia became the first newspaper to publish using a pine pulp paper.

1939 - Britain and France agreed to support Poland if Germany threatened invasion.

1940 - La Guardia airport in New York officially opened to the public.

1941 - Germany began a counter offensive in North Africa.

1945 - "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams opened on Broadway.

1946 - Monarchists won the elections in Greece.

1947 - John L. Lewis called a strike in sympathy for the miners ****** in an explosion in Centralia, IL, on March 25, 1947.

1948 - The Soviets in Germany began controlling the Western trains headed toward Berlin.

1949 - Winston Churchill declared that the A-bomb was the only thing that kept the U.S.S.R. from taking over Europe.

1949 - Newfoundland entered the Canadian confederation as its 10th province.

1958 - The U.S. Navy formed the atomic submarine division.

1959 - The Dalai Lama (Lhama Dhondrub, Tenzin Gyatso) began exile by crossing the border into India where he was granted political asylum. Gyatso was the 14th Daila Lama.

1960 - The South African government declared a state of emergency after demonstrations lead to the death of more than 50 Africans.

1966 - An estimated 200,000 anti-war demonstrators march in New York City.

1966 - The Soviet Union launched Luna 10, which became the first spacecraft to enter a lunar orbit.

1967 - U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signed the Consular Treaty, the first bi-lateral pact with the Soviet Union since the Bolshevik Revolution.

1970 - The U.S. ****** in Vietnam down a MIG-21, it was the first since September 1968.

1976 - The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that Karen Anne Quinlan could be disconnected from a respirator. Quinlan remained ******** until 1985 when she died.

1980 - U.S. President Carter deregulated the banking industry.

1985 - ABC-TV aired the 200th episode of "The Love Boat."

1986 - 167 people died when a Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashed in Los Angeles.

1987 - HBO (Home Box Office) earned its first Oscar for "Down and Out in America".

1989 - Canada and France signed a fishing rights pact.

1991 - Albania offered a multi-party election for the first time in 50 years. Incumbent President Ramiz Alia won.

1991 - Iraqi ****** recaptured the northern city of Kirkuk from Kurdish guerillas.

1993 - Brandon Lee was ****** accidentally while filming a movie.

1994 - "Nature" magazine announced that a complete skull of Australppithecus afarensis had been found in Ethiopia. The finding is of humankind's earliest ancestor.

1998 - U.N. Security Council imposed arms embargo on Yugoslavia.

1998 - Buddy Hackett received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1998 - For the first time in U.S. history the federal government's detailed financial statement was released. This occurred under the Clinton administration.

1999 - Three U.S. soldiers were captured by Yugoslav soldiers three miles from the Yugoslav border in Macedonia.

1999 - Fabio was hit in the face by a bird during a promotional ride of a new roller coaster at the Busch Gardens theme park in Williamsburg, VA. Fabio received a one-inch cut across his nose.

2000 - In Uganda, officials set the number of deaths linked to a doomsday religious cult, the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments, at more than 900. In Kanungu, a March 17 fire at the cult's church ****** more than 530 and authorities subsequently found mass graves at various sites linked to the cult.

2004 - Air America Radio launched five stations around the U.S.

2004 - Google Inc. announced that it would be introducing a free e-mail service called Gmail.

Current Birthdays


Al Gore turns 61 years old today.

88 Peggy Rea
Actress


82 William Daniels
Actor


81 Gordie Howe
Hockey Hall of Famer


75 Richard Chamberlain
Actor


75 Shirley Jones
Actress ("The Partridge ******")


75 John D. Loudermilk
Country singer, songwriter


74 Herb Alpert
Musician


69 Barney Frank
U.S. congressman, D-Mass.


69 Patrick Leahy
U.S. senator, D-Vt.


66 Christopher Walken
Actor


64 Gabe Kaplan
Actor, comedian ("Welcome Back Kotter")


61 Rhea Perlman
Actress ("Cheers")


59 Ed Marinaro
Actor ("Hill Street Blues")


52 Marc McClure
Actor


44 William McNamara
Actor


38 Bob Crawford
Country musician


38 Ewan McGregor
Actor


31 Tony Yayo
Rapper


26 Christian Scott
Jazz trumpeter

Historic Birthdays


Cesar Chavez

3/31/1927 - 4/23/1993
American organizer and leader of migrant American **** workers

53 Rene Descartes
3/31/1596 - 2/11/1650
French mathematician, scientist and philosopher


77 Franz Joseph Haydn
3/31/1732 - 5/31/1809
Austrian composer of the Classical period


74 Edward Fitzgerald
3/31/1809 - 6/14/1883
English writer and translator ("Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam")


87 James M. Cox
3/31/1870 - 7/15/1957
American newspaper publisher and governor of Ohio (1913-15, 1917-21)


50 Arthur Griffith
3/31/1872 - 8/12/1922
Irish journalist and principal founder of Sinn Fein movement


57 Serge Diaghilev
3/31/1872 - 8/19/1929
Russian impresario; created Ballets Russes in 1909


68 Jack Johnson
3/31/1878 - 6/10/1946
American boxer; heavyweight champion


81 Sir Lawrence Bragg
3/31/1890 - 7/1/1971
Australian-born English Nobel Prize-winning physicist


93 John McCloy
3/31/1895 - 3/11/1989
American diplomat, lawyer, and presidential adviser


84 Octavio Paz
3/31/1914 - 4/19/1998
Mexican Nobel Prize-winning poet, writer and diplomat

 

[minidog]

0527 - Justinianus became the emperor of Byzantium.

1572 - The Sea Beggars under Guillaume de la Marck landed in Holland and captured the small town of Briel.

1578 - William Harvey of England discovered ***** circulation.

1621 - The Plymouth, MA, colonists created the first treaty with Native Americans.

1724 - Jonathan Swift published Drapier's letters.

1748 - The ruins of Pompeii were found.

1778 - Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, created the "$" symbol.

1789 - The U.S. House of Representatives held its first full meeting in New York City. Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania was elected the first House Speaker.

1793 - In Japan, the volcano Unsen erupted ******* about 53,000.

1826 - Samuel Mory patented the internal combustion engine.

1853 - Cincinnati became the first U.S. city to pay fire fighters a regular salary.

1863 - The first wartime conscription law goes into effect in the U.S.

1864 - The first travel accident policy was issued to James Batterson by the Travelers Insurance Company.

1865 - At the Battle of Five Forks in Petersburg, VA, Gen. Robert E. Lee began his final offensive.

1867 - Blacks voted in the municipal election in Tuscumbia, AL.

1867 - The International Exhibition opened in Paris.

1867 - Singapore, Penang & Malakka became British crown colonies.

1868 - The Hampton Institute opened.

1872 - The first edition of "The Standard" was published.

1873 - The British White Star steamship Atlantic sank off Nova Scotia ******* 547.

1873 - Mehmed Kemals play "Vatan" premiered in Constantinople.

1876 - The first official National League (NL) baseball game took place. Boston beat Philadelphia 6-5.

1881 - Anti-Jewish riots took place in Jerusalem.

1881 - Kingdom post office in Netherlands opened.

1889 - The first dishwashing machine was marketed (in Chicago).

1891 - The London-Paris telephone connection opened.

1905 - The British East African Protectorate became the colony of Kenya.

1905 - Paris and Berlin were linked by telephone.

1916 - The first U.S. national women's swimming championships were held.

1918 - England's Royal Flying Corps was replaced by the Royal Air *****.

1924 - Adolf Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison for high treason in relation to the "**** Hall Putsch."

1924 - Imperial Airways was formed in Britain.

1927 - The first automatic record changer was introduced by His Master's Voice.

1928 - China's Chiang Kai-shek began attacking communists.

1929 - Louie Marx introduced the Yo-Yo.

1930 - Leo Hartnett of the Chicago Cubs broke the altitude record for a catch by catching a baseball dropped from the Goodyear blimp 800 feet over Los Angeles, CA.

1931 - An Earthquake devastated Managua Nicaragua ******* 2,000.

1931 - Jackie Mitchell became the first female in professional baseball when she signed with the Chattanooga Baseball Club.

1933 - **** Germany began the persecution of Jews by boycotting Jewish businesses.

1934 - Bonnie & Clyde ****** 2 police officers.

1935 - The first radio tube to be made of metal was announced.

1937 - Aden became a British colony.

1938 - The first commercially successful fluorescent lamps were introduced.

1938 - The Baseball Hall of Fame opened in Cooperstown, NY.

1939 - The U.S. recognized the Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war.

1941 - The first contract for advertising on a commercial FM radio station began on W71NY in New York City.

1945 - U.S. ****** invaded Okinawa during World War II. It was the last campaign of World War II.

1946 - Weight Watchers was formed.

1946 - A tidal wave (tsunami) struck the Hawaiian Islands ******* more than 170 people.

1948 - The Berlin Airlift began.

1949 - "Happy Pappy" premiered. It was the first all-black-cast variety show.

1950 - Italian Somalia became a United Nations trust territory under Italian administration.

1952 - The Big Bang theory was proposed in "Physical Review" by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow.

1953 - The U.S. Congress created the Department of Health Education and Welfare.

1954 - The U.S. Air ***** Academy was formed in Colorado.

1955 - "One Man's ******" was seen on TV for the final time after a six-year run on NBC-TV.

1960 - France exploded 2 atom bombs in the Sahara Desert.

1960 - The U.S. launched TIROS-1. It was the first weather satellite.

1963 - Workers of the International Typographical Union ended their strike that had closed nine New York City newspapers. The strike ended 114 days after it began on December 8, 1962.

1963 - The Soap operas "General Hospital" and "Doctors" premiered on television.

1970 - The U.S. Army charged Captain Ernest Medina in the My Lai massacre.

1970 - U.S. President Nixon signed the bill, the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act, that ****** cigarette advertisements to be effective on January 1, 1971.

1971 - The United Kingdom lifted all restrictions on gold ownership.

1972 - North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops renewed their offensive in South Vietnam.

1973 - Japan allowed its citizens to own gold.

1976 - Apple Computer began operations.

1979 - Iran was proclaimed to be an Islamic Republic by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini after the fall of the Shah.

1980 - A failed assassination attempt against Iraqi vice-premier Tariq Aziz occurred.

1982 - The U.S. transferred the Canal Zone to Panama.

1983 - New York Islander Mike Bossy became the first National Hockey League (NHL) player to score 60 goals in 3 consecutive seasons.

1986 - The U.S. submarine Nathaniel Green ran aground in the Irish Sea.

1987 - Steve Newman became the first man to walk around the world. The walk was 22,000 miles and took 4 years.

1987 - U.S. President Reagan told doctors in Philadelphia, "We've declared AIDS public health enemy No. 1."

1991 - Iran released British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years.

1991 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that jurors could not be barred from serving due to their race.

1991 - The Warsaw Pact was officially dissolved.

1992 - Players began the first strike in the 75-year history of the National Hockey League (NHL).

1996 - U.S. President Bill Clinton threw out the first ball preceding a game between the Kansas City Royals and the Baltimore Orioles.

1997 - David Carradine received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1998 - A federal judge dismissed the Paula Jones' sexual harassment lawsuit against U.S. President Clinton saying that the claims fell "far short" of being worthy of a trial.

1999 - In Zhytomyr, Ukraine, Anatoliy Onoprienko was sentenced to death for the deaths of 52 men, women and ********. 43 of the killings occurred in a 6-month period.

1999 - The Canadian territory of Nunavut was created. It was carved from the eastern part of the Northwest Territories and covered about 772,000 square miles.

2001 - China began holding 24 crewmembers of a U.S. surveillance plane. The EP-3E U.S. Navy crew had made an emergency landing after an in-flight collision with a Chinese fighter jet. The Chinese pilot was missing and presumed dead. The U.S. crew was released on April 11, 2001.

2001 - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested on corruption charges after a 26-hour standoff with the police at his Belgrade villa.

2003 - North Korea test-fired an anti-ship missile off its west coast.

2003 - Jason Mewes was ordered to complete **** rehabilitation or face five years in jail stemming from a **** conviction in 1999.

2004 - U.S. President George W. Bush signed the Unborn Victims of ******** Act. The bill made it a crime to harm a fetus during an assault on a pregnant woman.

2004 - Gateway Inc. announced that it would be closing all of its 188 stores on April 9.


Current Birthdays


Debbie Reynolds turns 77 years old today.

81 Jane Powell
Actress


79 Grace Lee Whitney
Actress, singer


75 Jim Ed Brown
Country singer


75 Don Hastings
Actor ("As The World Turns")


71 Eddie King
Blues singer


71 Ali MacGraw
Actress


70 Rudolph Isley
R&B singer (The Isley Brothers)


70 Phil Niekro
Baseball Hall of Famer


62 David Eisenhower
Grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower


61 Jimmy Cliff
Reggae singer


60 Gil Scott-Heron
Jazz keyboardist


59 Samuel Alito
Supreme Court justice


59 Billy Currie
Rock musician (Ultravox)


57 Annette O'Toole
Actress


56 Barry Sonnenfeld
Director


41 Woody Lee
Country singer


38 Method Man
Rapper


37 Albert Hughes
Movie producer


37 Allen Hughes
Movie producer


36 Rachel Maddow
Broadcast journalist


33 David Oyelowo
Actor


29 Bijou Phillips
Singer, actress


27 Sam Huntington
Actor


25 Hillary Scott
Country singer (Lady Antebellum)


24 Josh Zuckerman
Actor

Historic Birthdays


Florence Blanchfield

4/1/1884 - 5/12/1971
American nurse and army officer

79 William Harvey
4/1/1578 - 6/3/1657
English physician; developed theory of ***** circulation


61 Jean-Etienne Portalis
4/1/1746 - 8/25/1807
French lawyer; helped draft Napoleonic Code


83 Otto von Bismarck
4/1/1815 - 7/30/1898
German statesman; first chancellor of German Empire (1871-90)


58 Jorge Isaacs
4/1/1837 - 4/17/1895
Colombian poet and novelist


59 Edwin Austin Abbey
4/1/1852 - 8/1/1911
American-English painter and illustrator


50 Edmond Rostand
4/1/1868 - 12/2/1918
French dramatist; wrote "Cyrano de Bergerac"


69 Sergey Rachmaninoff
4/1/1873 - 3/28/1943
Russian composer and piano virtuoso


56 Edgar Wallace
4/1/1875 - 2/10/1932
English novelist, playwright, and journalist


47 Lon Chaney
4/1/1883 - 8/26/1930
American silent film actor


60 Whittaker Chambers
4/1/1901 - 7/9/1961
American journalist; accuser in the Alger Hiss case

 

[marquis2]

1945 - U.S. ****** invaded Okinawa during World War II. It was the last campaign of World War II.

Wrong. The Soviet Union invaded Manchuria in August 1945.

 

[minidog]

1513 - Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted Florida. The next day he went ashore.

1792 - The U.S. Congress ****** the Coinage Act to regulate the coins of the United States. The act authorized $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle & 2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins & silver dollar, dollar, quarter, dime & half-dime to be minted.

1801 - During the Napoleonic Wars, the Danish fleet was destroyed by the British at the Battle of Copenhagen.

1860 - The first Italian Parliament met in Turin.

1865 - Confederate President Davis and most of his Cabinet fled the Confederate capital of Richmond, VA.

1872 - G.B. Brayton received a patent for the gas-powered streetcar.

1877 - The first Egg Roll was held on the grounds of the White House in Washington, DC.

1889 - Charles Hall patented aluminum.

1902 - The first motion picture theatre opened in Los Angeles with the name Electric Theatre.

1905 - The Simplon rail tunnel officially opened. The tunnel went under the Alps and linked Switzerland and Italy.

1910 - Karl Harris perfected the process for the artificial synthesis of rubber.

1914 - The U.S. Federal Reserve Board announced plans to divide the country into 12 districts.

1917 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson presented a declaration of war against Germany to the U.S. Congress.

1932 - A $50,000 ransom was paid for the ****** *** of Charles and Anna Lindbergh. He ***** was not returned and was found dead the next month.

1935 - Sir Watson-Watt was granted a patent for RADAR.

1944 - The Soviet Union announced that its troops had crossed the Prut River and entered Romania.

1947 - "The Big Story" debuted on NBC radio. It was on the air for eight years.

1947 - The U.N. Security Council voted to appoint the U.S. as trustee for former Japanese-held Pacific Islands.

1951 - U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower assumed command of all allied ****** in the Western Mediterranean area and Europe.

1956 - "The Edge of Night" and "As the World Turns" debuted on CBS-TV.

1958 - The National Advisory Council on Aeronautics was renamed NASA.

1960 - France signed an agreement with Madagascar that proclaimed the country an independent state within the French community.

1963 - Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King began the first non-violent campaign in Birmingham, AL.

1966 - South Vietnamese troops joined in demonstrations at Hue and Da Nang for an end to military rule.

1967 - In Peking, hundreds of thousands demonstrated against Mao foe Liu Shao-chi.

1972 - Burt Reynolds appeared nude in "Cosmopolitan" magazine.

1978 - The first episode of "Dallas" aired on CBS.

1982 - Argentina invaded the British-owned Falkland Islands. The following June Britain took the islands back.

1984 - John Thompson became the first black coach to lead his team to the NCAA college basketball championship.

1984 - In Jerusalem, three Arab gunmen wounded 48 people when they opened fire into a crowd of shoppers.

1985 - The NCAA Rules Committee adopted the 45-second shot clock for men’s basketball to begin in the 1986 season.

1986 - On a TWA airliner flying from Rome to Athens a bomb exploded under a seat ******* four Americans.

1987 - The speed limit on U.S. interstate highways was increased to 65 miles per hour in limited areas.

1988 - U.S. Special Prosecutor James McKay declined to indict Attorney General Edwin Meese for criminal wrongdoing.

1989 - An editorial in the "New York Times" declared that the Cold War was over.

1989 - General Prosper Avril, Haiti's military leader, survived a coup attempt. The attempt was apparently provoked by Avril's U.S.-backed efforts to fight **** trafficking.

1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein threatened to incinerate half of Israel with chemical weapons if Israel joined a conspiracy against Iraq.

1992 - Mob boss John Gotti was convicted in New York of ****** and racketeering. He was later sentenced to life in prison.

1995 - The costliest strike in professional sports history ended when baseball owners agreed to let players play without a contract.

1996 - Russia and Belarus signed a treaty that created a political and economic alliance in an effort to reunite the two former Soviet republics.

1996 - Lech Walesa resumed his old job as an electrician at the Gdansk shipyard. He was the former Solidarity union leader who became Poland's first post-war democratic president.

2002 - Israeli troops surrounded the Church of the Nativity. More than 200 Palestinians had taken refuge at the church when Israel invaded Bethlehem.

Current Birthdays


Chris Meloni turns 48 years old today

81 Rita Gam
Actress


74 Sharon Acker
Actress


67 Leon Russell
Singer


66 Larry Coryell
Jazz guitarist


64 Linda Hunt
Actress


64 Don Sutton
Baseball Hall of Famer


62 Emmylou Harris
Country singer


60 Pamela Reed
Actress


56 David Robinson
Rock musician (The Cars)


48 Buddy Jewell
Country singer ("Nashville Star")


48 Keren Woodward
Singer (Bananarama)


47 Billy Dean
Country singer


47 Clark Gregg
Actor


45 Jana Marie Hupp
Actress


43 Bill Romanowski
Football player


42 Greg Camp
Rock musician (Smash Mouth)


40 Tony Fredianelli
Rock musician (Third Eye Blind)


36 Roselyn Sanchez
Actress ("Without a Trace")


34 Jill King
Country singer


34 Adam Rodriguez
Actor ("CSI: Miami")


33 Jeremy Garrett
Actor


30 Jesse Carmichael
Rock musician (Maroon 5)


28 Bethany Joy Galeotti
Actress ("One Tree Hill")


21 Jesse Plemons
Actor ("Friday Night Lights")


Historic Birthdays


Max Ernst

4/2/1891 - 4/1/1976
German painter and sculptor


71 Charlemagne
4/2/742 - 1/28/814
King of the Franks, King of the Lombards and Charles I of the Holy Roman Empire


73 Giovanni Casanova
4/2/1725 - 6/4/1798
Italian writer, soldier and adventurer


60 Catharine Macaulay
4/2/1731 - 6/22/1791
English historian and radical political writer


75 August Hoffmann von Fallersleben
4/2/1798 - 1/19/1874
German patriotic poet, philologist and literary historian


65 Erastus B. Bigelow
4/2/1814 - 12/6/1879
American industrialist; founder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology


70 Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
4/2/1834 - 10/4/1904
French sculptor of Statue of Liberty


85 Nicholas Butler
4/2/1862 - 12/7/1947
American educator and reformer; won Nobel Prize for Peace in 1931


65 Walter Chrysler
4/2/1875 - 8/18/1940
American businessman; founder of Chrysler Corporation


82 Kurt Adler
4/2/1905 - 2/9/1988
Austrian-born American conductor and administrator of the San Francisco Opera

 

[marquis2]

Charles Hall patented aluminum

What he patented was a method of extracting aluminium from its ore.The metal itself had been in use for decades.

 

[minidog]

Charles Hall patented aluminum

What he patented was a method of extracting aluminium from its ore.The metal itself had been in use for decades.

want me to "EDIT"??????????????????

 

[minidog]

1513 - Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon landed in Florida. He had sighted the land the day before.

1776 - Harvard College conferred the first honorary Doctor of Laws degree to George Washington.

1829 - James Carrington patented the coffee mill.

1860 - The Pony Express connected St. Joseph, MO and Sacramento, CA. The Pony Express only lasted about a year and a half.

1862 - Slavery was abolished in Washington, DC.

1865 - Union ****** occupy Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.

1866 - Rudolph Eickemeyer and G. Osterheld patented a blocking and shaping machine for hats.

1882 - The American outlaw Jesse James was shot in the back and ****** by Robert Ford for a $5,000 reward. There was later controversy over whether it was actually Jesse James that had been ******.

1910 - Alaska's Mt. McKinley, the highest mountain in North America was climbed.

1933 - First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt informed newspaper reporters that **** would be served at the White House. This followed the March 22 legislation that legalized "3.2" ****.

1936 - Richard Bruno Hauptmann was executed for the ********** and death of the *** of Charles and Anne Lindbergh.

1942 - The Japanese began their all-out assault on the U.S. and Filipino troops at Bataan.

1946 - Lt. General Masaharu Homma, the Japanese commander responsible for the Bataan Death March, was executed in the Philippines.

1948 - Harry Truman signed the Marshall Plan to revive war-torn Europe. It was $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.

1949 - Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis debuted on radio on the "Martin and Lewis Show". The NBC program ran until 1952.

1953 - "TV Guide" was published for the first time.

1967 - The U.S. State Department said that Hanoi might be ************ American prisoners.

1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "mountaintop" speech just 24 hours before he was assassinated.

1968 - North Vietnam agreed to meet with U.S. representatives to set up preliminary peace talks.

1972 - Charlie Chaplin returned to the U.S. after a twenty-year absence.

1979 - Jane Byrne became the first female mayor in Chicago.

1982 - John Chancellor stepped down as anchor of the "The NBC Nightly News." Roger Mudd and Tom Brokaw became the co-anchors of the show.

1984 - Sikh terrorists ****** a member of the Indian Parliament in his home.

1984 - Col. Lansana Konte became the new president of Guinea when the armed ****** seized power after the death of Sekou Toure.

1985 - The U.S. charged that Israel ******** the Geneva Convention by deporting Shiite prisoners.

1987 - Riots disrupted mass during the Pope's visit to Santiago, Chili.

1993 - The Norman Rockwell Museum opened in Stockbridge, MA.

1996 - An Air ***** jetliner carrying Commerce Secretary Ron Brown crashed in Croatia, ******* all 35 people aboard.

1996 - Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski was arrested. He pled guilty in January 1998 to five Unabomber attacks in exchange for a life sentence without chance for parole.

1998 - The Dow Jones industrial average climbed above 9,000 for the first time.

2000 - A U.S. federal judge ruled that Microsoft had ******** U.S. antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors. Microsoft said that they would appeal the ruling.

2000 - The Nasdaq set a one-day record when it lost 349.15 points to close at 4,233.68.


Current Birthdays


Jane Goodall turns 75 years old today

86 Doris Day
Actress, singer


79 Helmut Kohl
Former German chancellor


72 William Gaunt
Actor


68 Eric Braeden
Actor ("The Young and the Restless")


67 Marsha Mason
Actress


67 Wayne Newton
Singer


67 Billy Joe Royal
Rock singer


65 Tony Orlando
Singer


62 Pat Proft
Screenwriter


61 Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
NATO secretary-general


60 Richard Thompson
Rock musician


59 Curtis Stone
Country musician (Highway 101)


54 John Mooney
Blues guitarist


53 Mick Mars
Rock musician (Motley Crue)


51 Alec Baldwin
Actor ("30 Rock")


50 David Hyde Pierce
Actor ("Frasier")


48 Eddie Murphy
Actor, comedian


47 Mike Ness
Rock musician (Social Distortion)


41 Sebastian Bach
Rock singer (Skid Row)


39 James MacDonough
Rock musician (Megadeth)


37 Jennie Garth
Actress ("Beverly Hills, 90210")


34 Aries Spears
Comedian ("MadTV")


27 Cobie Smulders
Actress ("How I Met Your ******")


24 Leona Lewis
Rock singer


23 Amanda Bynes
Actress


Historic Birthdays


Henry R. Luce

4/3/1898 - 2/28/1967
American publisher of Time, Fortune and Life magazines


83 Pierre-Fidele Bretonneau
4/3/1778 - 2/18/1862
French epidemiologist; performed the first successful tracheotomy


76 Washington Irving
4/3/1783 - 11/28/1859
American author; wrote "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"


70 Mary Carpenter
4/3/1807 - 6/14/1877
American philanthropist and social reformer


87 Edward Everett Hale
4/3/1822 - 6/10/1909
American clergyman and author


55 William Marcy Tweed
4/3/1823 - 4/12/1878
American politician; leader of corrupt Tammany Hall organization in New York City


73 Alcide De Gasperi
4/3/1881 - 8/19/1954
Italian prime minister (1945-53)


69 Bud Fisher
4/3/1885 - 9/7/1954
American cartoonist; created "Mutt and Jeff"


75 H. St. John Philby
4/3/1885 - 9/30/1960
English explorer of Arabian peninsula


50 Leslie Howard
4/3/1893 - 6/1/1943
English actor, producer and film director


69 Stanislawa Walasiewicz
4/3/1911 - 12/4/1980
Polish-American Olympic gold medalist in track and field


40 Virgil I. Grissom
4/3/1926 - 1/27/1967
American astronaut; one of three who died in Apollo I fire

 

[minidog]

1242 - Russian troops repelled an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.

1614 - American Indian Pocahontas married English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia.

1621 - The Mayflower sailed from Plymouth, MA, on a return trip to England.

1792 - U.S. President George Washington cast the first presidential veto. The measure was for apportioning representatives among the states.

1806 - Isaac Quintard patented the cider mill.

1827 - James H. Hackett became the first American actor to appear abroad as he performed at Covent Garden in London, England.

1843 - Queen Victoria proclaimed Hong Kong to be a British crown colony.

1869 - Daniel Bakeman, the last surviving soldier of the U.S. Revolutionary War, died at the age of 109.

1887 - Anne Sullivan taught Helen Keller the meaning of the word "water" as spelled out in the manual alphabet.

1892 - Walter H. Coe patented gold leaf in rolls.

1895 - Playwright Oscar Wilde lost his criminal libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry. Wilde had been accused of homosexual practices.

1908 - The Japanese Army reached the Yalu River as the Russians retreated.

1919 - Eamon de Valera became president of Ireland.

1923 - Firestone Tire and Rubber Company began the first regular production of balloon tires.

1930 - Mahatma Ghandi defied British law by making salt in India.

1933 - The first operation to remove a lung was performed at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, MO.

1941 - German commandos secured docks along the Danube River in preparation for Germany’s invasion of the Balkans.

1951 - Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for committing espionage for the Soviet Union.

1953 - Jomo Kenyatta was convicted and sentenced to 7 years in prison for orchestrating the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya.

1955 - Winston Churchill resigned as British prime minister.

1984 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Los Angeles Lakers) became the all-time NBA regular season scoring leader when he broke Wilt Chamberlain's record of 31,419 career points.

1985 - John McEnroe said "any man can beat any woman at any sport, especially tennis."

1986 - A discotheque in Berlin was bombed by Libyans. The U.S. attacked Libya with warplanes on April 15, 1986.

1987 - FOX Broadcasting Company launched "Married....With ********" and "The Tracey Ullman Show". The two shows were the beginning of the FOX lineup.

1989 - In Poland, accords were signed between Solidarity and the government that set free elections for June 1989. The eight-year ban on Solidarity was also set to be lifted.

1998 - The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Japan opened becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world. It links Shikoku and Honshu. The bridge cost about $3.8 billion.

1999 - Two Libyans suspected of bombing a Pan Am jet in 1988 were handed over so they could be flown to the Netherlands for trial. 270 people were ****** in the bombing.

1999 - In Laramie, WY, Russell Henderson plead guilty to ********** and felony ****** in the death of Matthew Shepard.

2004 - Near Mexico City's international airport, lightning struck the jet Mexican President Vicente Fox was on.

Current Birthdays


Colin Powell turns 72 years old today

87 Gale Storm
Actress


83 Roger Corman
Filmmaker


78 Cowboy Jack Clement
Country music producer


69 Tommy Cash
Country singer


68 Michael Moriarty
Actor


67 Allan Clarke
Rock singer (The Hollies)


67 Peter Greenaway
Director, writer


66 Max Gail
Actor ("Barney Miller")


63 Jane Asher
Actress


59 Agnetha Faltskog
Singer (ABBA)


57 Mitch Pileggi
Actor


43 Mike McCready
Rock musician (Pearl Jam)


42 Troy Gentry
Country singer (Montgomery-Gentry)


41 Paula Cole
Rock singer


38 Krista Allen
Actress


37 Pat Green
Country singer


36 Pharrell Williams
Rapper, producer


Historic Birthdays


Booker T. Washington

4/5/1856 - 11/14/1915
American educator and spokesman for black Americans

91 Thomas Hobbes
4/5/1588 - 12/4/1679
English philosopher and political theorist


72 Elihu Yale
4/5/1649 - 7/8/1721
American-born English merchant and benefactor of Yale University


74 Jean-Honore Fragonard
4/5/1732 - 8/22/1806
French rococo painter


51 Vincenzo Gioberti
4/5/1801 - 11/26/1852
Italian philosopher, politician and cleric


85 Baron Joseph Lister
4/5/1827 - 2/10/1912
English surgeon and scientist


72 Algernon Chas. Swinburne
4/5/1837 - 4/10/1909
English poet and critic


92 Lincoln Filene
4/5/1865 - 8/27/1957
American business executive and philanthropist; chairman of Federated Department Stores (1929-57)


85 Chester Bowles
4/5/1901 - 5/25/1986
American politician and advertising entrepreneur


81 Bette Davis
4/5/1908 - 10/6/1989
American motion-picture dramatic actress


78 Jagjivan Ram
4/5/1908 - 7/6/1986
Indian politician and spokesman for the untouchables


81 Herbert von Karajan
4/5/1908 - 7/16/1989
Austrian-born conductor


72 Chaim Grade
4/5/1910 - 6/26/1982
Russian-born Yiddish poet, short-story writer and novelist

 

[minidog]

1199 - English King Richard I was ****** by an arrow at the siege of the castle of Chaluz in France.

1789 - The first U.S. Congress began regular sessions at the Federal Hall in New York City.

1814 - Granted sovereignty in the island of Elba and a pension from the French government, Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates at Fountainebleau. He was allowed to keep the title of emperor.

1830 - Joseph Smith and five others organized the Mormon Church in Seneca, NY.

1830 - Relations between the Texans and Mexico reached a new low when Mexico would not allow further emigration into Texas by settlers from the U.S.

1862 - The American Civil War Battle of Shiloh began in Tennessee.

1865 - At the Battle of Sayler's Creek, a third of Lee's army was cut off by Union troops pursuing him to Appomattox.

1875 - Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the multiple telegraph, which sent two signals at the same time.

1896 - The first modern Olympic Games began in Athens, Greece.

1903 - French Army Nationalists were revealed for forging documents to guarantee a conviction for Alfred Dryfus.

1909 - Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson claimed to be the first men to reach the North Pole.

1916 - Charlie Chaplin became the highest-paid film star in the world when he signed a contract with Mutual Film Corporation for $675,000 a year. He was 26 years old.

1917 - The U.S. Congress approved a declaration of war on Germany and entered World War I on the Allied side.

1924 - Four planes leave Seattle on the first successful flight around the world.

1927 - William P. MacCracken, Jr. earned license number ‘1’ when the Department of Commerce issued the first aviator’s license.

1931 - "Little Orphan Annie" debuted on the NBC Blue network.

1938 - The United States recognized the German conquest of Austria.

1941 - German ****** invaded Greece and Yugoslavia.

1945 - "This is Your FBI" debuted on ABC radio.

1953 - Iranian Premier Mossadegh demanded that the shah's power be reduced.

1957 - Trolley cars in New York City completed their final runs.

1959 - Hal Holbrook opened in the off-Broadway presentation of "Mark Twain Tonight."

1965 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorized the use of ground troops in combat operations in Vietnam.

1967 - In South Vietnam, 1,500 Viet Cong attacked Quangtri and freed 200 prisoners.

1985 - William J. Schroeder became the first artificial heart recipient to be discharged from the hospital.

1987 - Dennis Levine began a two-year jail term for insider trading.

1987 - Sugar Ray Leonard took the middleweight title from Marvin Hagler.

1988 - Mathew Henson was awarded honors in Arlington National Cemetery. Henson had discovered the North Pole with Robert Peary.

1997 - Mario Lemieux (Pittsburgh Penguins) announced that he would retire from the National Hockey League (NHL) following the playoffs of the current season.

1998 - Citicorp and Travelers Group announced that they would be merging. The new creation was the largest financial-services conglomerate in the world. The name would become Citigroup.

1998 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 9,000 points for the first time.

1998 - Federal researchers in the U.S. announced that daily tamoxifen pills could cut breast cancer risk among high-risk women.

1998 - Pakistan successfully tested medium-range missiles capable of attacking neighboring India.

1999 - Carmen Electra filed for a divorce from Dennis Rodman. They had only been married six months

Minidog is winding down..................


Current Birthdays


Paul Rudd turns 40 years old today.


80 Andre Previn
Pianist, conductor


72 Merle Haggard
Country musician


72 Billy Dee Williams
Actor


71 Roy Thinnes
Actor


67 Barry Levinson
Director ("Rain Man," "The Natural")


62 John Ratzenberger
Actor ("Cheers")


57 Marilu Henner
Actress ("Taxi," "Evening Shade")


56 Janet Lynn
Figure skater


54 Michael Rooker
Actor


49 Warren Haynes
Rock musician (Gov't Mule)


44 Frank Black
Rock musician (The Pixies)


43 Vince Flynn
Author


40 Ari Meyers
Actress


37 Jason Hervey
Actor ("The Wonder Years")


36 Markku Lappalainen
Rock musician (Hoobastank)


33 Candace Cameron Bure
Actress ("Full House")


27 Bret Harrison
Actor

Historic Birthdays


Clarence E. McClung

4/6/1870 - 1/17/1946
American zoologist

37 Raphael
4/6/1483 - 4/6/1520
Italian painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance


70 Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
4/6/1671 - 3/17/1741
French dramatist and poet


63 James Mill
4/6/1773 - 6/23/1836
Scottish philosopher, historian and economist


76 Joseph Medill
4/6/1823 - 3/16/1899
Canadian-born American editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune


85 Rene Lalique
4/6/1860 - 5/5/1945
French jeweler and important figure in the Art Nouveau movement


87 Louis Raemaekers
4/6/1869 - 7/26/1956
Dutch cartoonist famous for his anti-German cartoons in W. W. II


66 Walter Huston
4/6/1884 - 4/7/1950
Canadian-born American character actor in films and stage


49 Anthony Fokker
4/6/1890 - 12/23/1939
Dutch airman and pioneer aircraft manufacturer


89 Lowell Thomas
4/6/1892 - 8/29/1981
American radio commentator, explorer, lecturer and journalist


89 Donald Douglas
4/6/1892 - 2/1/1981
American aircraft designer; founded Douglas Aircraft Company


87 Harold Edgerton
4/6/1903 - 1/4/1990
American electrical engineer and photographer


69 Gerry Mulligan
4/6/1927 - 1/20/1996
American baritone saxophonist, arranger and composer

 

[minidog]

1652 - The Dutch established a settlement at Cape Town, South Africa.

1712 - A slave revolt broke out in New York City.

1798 - The territory of Mississippi was organized.

1862 - Union General Ulysses S. Grant defeated Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh, TN.

1864 - The first camel race in America was held in Sacramento, California.

1888 - P.F. Collier published a weekly periodical for the first time under the name "Collier’s."

1922 - U.S. Secretary of Interior leased Teapot Dome naval oil reserves in Wyoming.

1927 - The first long-distance TV transmission was sent from Washington, DC, to New York City. The audience saw an image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover.

1930 - The first steel columns were set for the Empire State Building.

1933 - Prohibition ended in the United States.

1940 - Booker T. Washington became the first black to be pictured on a U.S. postage stamp.

1943 - British and American armies linked up between Wadi Akarit and El Guettar in North Africa to form a solid line against the German army.

1945 - The Japanese battleship Yamato, the world’s largest battleship, was sunk during the battle for Okinawa. The fleet was headed for a suicide mission.

1948 - The musical "South Pacific" by Rogers and Hammerstein debuted on Broadway.

1948 - The United Nations' World Health Organization began operations.

1953 - The Big Four met for the first time in 2 years to seek an end to their air conflicts.

1953 - IBM unveiled the IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine. It was IBM's first commercially available scientific computer.

1957 - The last of New York City's electric trolleys completed its final run from Queens to Manhattan.

1963 - At the age of 23, Jack Nicklaus became the youngest golfer to win the Green Jacket at the Masters Tournament.

1963 - Yugoslavia proclaimed itself a Socialist republic.

1963 - Josip Broz Tito was proclaimed to be the leader of Yugoslavia for life.

1966 - The U.S. recovered a hydrogen bomb it had lost off the coast of Spain.

1967 - Israel reported that they had shot down six Syrian MIGs.

1969 - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material.

1970 - John Wayne won his first and only Oscar for his role in "True Grit." He had been in over 200 films.

1971 - U.S. President Nixon pledged to withdraw 100,000 more men from Vietnam by December.

1980 - The U.S. broke diplomatic relations with Iran and imposed economic sanctions in response to the taking of hostages on November 4, 1979.

1983 - Specialist Story Musgrave and Don Peterson made the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.

1985 - In Goteborg, Sweden, China swept all of the world table tennis titles except for men's doubles.

1985 - In Sudan, Gen. Swar el-Dahab took over the Presidency while President Gaafar el-Nimeiry was visiting the U.S. and Egypt.

1985 - The Soviet Union announced a unilateral freeze on medium-range nuclear missiles.

1987 - In Oklahoma a 16-month-old baby was ****** by a pit bull. On the same day a 67-year-old man was ****** by another pit bull in Dayton, OH.

1988 - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to final terms of a Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. Soviet troops began leaving on May 16, 1988.

1988 - In Fort Smith, AR, 13 white supremacists were acquitted on charges for plotting to overthrow the U.S. federal government.

1989 - A Soviet submarine carrying nuclear weapons sank in the Norwegian Sea.

1990 - In the U.S., John Poindexter was found guilty of five counts at his Iran-Contra trial. The convictions were later reversed on appeal.

1990 - At Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center a display of Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs went on display. On the same day the center and its director were indicted on obscenity charges. The charges resulted in acquittal.

1994 - Civil war erupted in Rwanda between the Patriotic Front rebel group and government soldiers. Hundreds of thousands were slaughtered in the months that followed.

1998 - Mary Bono, the widow of Sonny Bono, won a special election to serve out the remainder of her husband's congressional term.

1999 - Yugoslav authorities sealed off Kosovo's main border crossings to prevent ethnic Albanians from leaving.

2000 - U.S. President Clinton signed the Senior Citizens Freedom to Work Act of 2000. The bill reversed a Depression-era law and allows senior citizens to earn money without losing Social Security retirement benefits.

2002 - The Roman Catholic archdiocese announced that six priests from the Archdiocese of New York were suspended over allegations of sexual misconduct.

Current Birthdays


Jackie Chan turns 55 years old today.


92 R.G. Armstrong
Actor


89 Ravi Shankar
Musician


81 James Garner
Actor


77 Cal Smith
Country singer


76 Wayne Rogers
Actor ("MASH")


74 Bobby Bare
Country singer


72 Charlie Thomas
R&B singer (The Drifters)


71 Jerry Brown
Oakland mayor, former California governor


70 Francis Ford Coppola
Director


70 David Frost
TV journalist


65 Gerhard Schroeder
Former chancellor of Germany


62 Patricia Bennett
R&B singer (The Chiffons)


60 Mitch Daniels
Governor of Indiana


60 John Oates
Rock singer (Hall and Oates)


58 John Dittrich
Country musician (Restless Heart)


58 Janis Ian
Singer


55 Tony Dorsett
Football Hall of Famer


45 Mark Kibble
R&B singer (Take 6)


44 Bill Bellamy
Actor


44 Dave "Yorkie" Palmer
Rock musician (Space)


34 Ronde Barber
Football player


34 Tiki Barber
Football player, sportscaster


34 Heather Burns
Actress


Historic Birthdays


Billie Holiday

4/7/1915 - 7/17/1959
American jazz singer from the 1930's to the 1950's

46 St. Francis Xavier
4/7/1506 - 12/3/1552
Spanish Roman Catholic missionary


80 William Wordsworth
4/7/1770 - 4/23/1850
English Romantic poet; poet laureate of England (1843-50)


38 Jens Peter Jacobsen
4/7/1847 - 4/30/1885
Danish novelist


82 Randall Davidson
4/7/1848 - 5/25/1930
English religious leader


91 W. K. Kellogg
4/7/1860 - 10/6/1951
American industrialist and founder of the W.K. Kellogg Company


61 John McGraw
4/7/1873 - 2/25/1934
American baseball player and manager of the New York Giants (1902-1932)


72 Sir David Low
4/7/1891 - 9/19/1963
New Zealand-born English journalist, political cartoonist and caricaturist


76 Allen Dulles
4/7/1893 - 1/29/1969
American diplomat and director of the C.I.A. (1953-61)


51 Benny Leonard
4/7/1896 - 4/18/1947
American lightweight boxing champion (1917-1925)


75 Walter Winchell
4/7/1897 - 2/20/1972
American journalist and broadcaster

 

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[minidog]

1513 - Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain.

1525 - Albert von Brandenburg, the leader of the Teutonic Order, assumes the title "Duke of Prussia" and ****** the first laws of the Protestant church, making Prussia a Protestant state.

1789 - The U.S. House of Representatives held its first meeting.

1832 - About 300 American troops of the 6th Infantry left Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, to confront the Sauk Indians in the Black Hawk War.

1834 - In New York City, Cornelius Lawrence became the first mayor to be elected by popular vote in a city election.

1839 - The first Intercollegiate Rodeo was held at the Godshall Ranch, Apple Valley, CA.

1873 - Alfred Paraf patented the first successful oleomargarine.

1911 - The first squash tournament was played at the Harvard Club in New York City.

1913 - The Seventeenth amendment was ratified, requiring direct election of senators.

1935 - The Works Progress Administration was approved by the U.S. Congress.

1939 - Italy invaded Albania.

1942 - The Soviets opened a rail link to the besieged city of Leningrad.

1943 - Wendell Wilkie’s "One World" was published for the first time.

1946 - The League of Nations assembled in Geneva for the last time.

1947 - The first illustrated insurance policy was issued by the Allstate Insurance Company.

1952 - U.S. President Truman seized steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike.

1953 - The bones of Sitting Bull were moved from North Dakota to South Dakota.

1962 - Bay of Pigs invaders got thirty years imprisonment in Cuba.

1974 - Hank Aaron hits 715th home run breaking Babe Ruth's record.

1975 - Frank Robinson of the Cleveland Indians became first black manager of a major league baseball team.

1985 - India filed suit against Union Carbide for the Bhopal disaster.

1985 - Phyllis Diller underwent a surgical procedure for permanent eyeliner to eliminate the need for eyelid makeup.

1986 - Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel, CA.

1987 - Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigned over remarks he had made. While on ABC's "Nightline" Campanis said that blacks "may not have some of the necessities" to hold managerial jobs in major-league baseball.

1988 - Former U.S. President Reagan aid Lyn Nofzinger was sentenced to prison for ******* lobbying for Wedtech Corp.

1998 - The widow of Martin Luther King Jr. presented new evidence in an appeal for new federal investigation of the assassination of her husband.

2000 - 19 U.S. troops were ****** when a Marine V22 Osprey crashed during a training mission in Arizona.

2002 - Ed McMahon filed a $20 million lawsuit against his insurance company, two insurance adjusters, and several environmental cleanup contractors. The suit alleged breach of contract, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress concerning a toxic mold that had spread through McMahon's Beverly Hills home.

Current Birthdays


Robin Wright Penn turns 43 years old today.

91 Betty Ford
Former first lady


83 Shecky Greene
Comedian


78 John Gavin
Actor


72 Seymour Hersh
Investigative reporter


71 Kofi Annan
Former United Nations secretary-general


69 John Havlicek
Basketball Hall of Famer


68 Darlene Gillespie
TV personality ("The Mickey Mouse Club")


68 J.J. Jackson
R&B singer


68 Peggy Lennon
Singer (The Lennon Sisters)


67 Leon Huff
Songwriter, producer


65 Hywel Bennett
Actor


63 Stuart Pankin
Actor


62 Steve Howe
Rock musician (Yes)


60 John Madden
Director ("Shakespeare in Love")


58 Mel Schacher
Rock musician (Grand Funk Railroad)


55 Gary Carter
Baseball Hall of Famer


49 John Schneider
Actor, singer ("The Dukes of Hazzard")


47 Izzy Stradlin
Rock musician (Guns n' Roses)


46 Julian Lennon
Rock musician


46 Donita Sparks
Rock musician (L7)


45 Biz Markie
Rapper


41 Patricia Arquette
Actress ("Medium")


39 Craig Honeycutt
Rock singer (Everything)


38 Darren Jessee
Rock musician (Ben Folds Five)


36 Emma Caulfield
Actress ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Beverly Hills, 90210")


29 Katee Sackhoff
Actress ("Battlestar Galactica")


28 Taylor Kitsch
Actor ("Friday Night Lights")


25 Ezra Koenig
Rock musician (Vampire Weekend)


25 Taran Noah Smith
Actor ("Home Improvement")


25 Kirsten Storms
Actress

Historic Birthdays


Sonja Henie

4/8/1912 - 10/12/1969
Norwegian-born American skater; Olympic gold medalist and popular entertainer.

78 Giuseppe Tartini
4/8/1692 - 2/26/1770
Italian violinist, composer and theorist


64 David Rittenhouse
4/8/1732 - 6/26/1796
American astronomer and inventor


60 John Loudon
4/8/1783 - 12/14/1843
Scottish landscape architect and horticultural journalist


84 William Welch
4/8/1850 - 4/30/1934
American pathologist; modernized medical practices in the United States


70 Harvey Cushing
4/8/1869 - 10/7/1939
American surgeon; pioneered important neurosurgery techniques


59 Albert I
4/8/1875 - 2/17/1934
King of the Belgiams (1909-1934) and leader of Belgiam army during World War I


94 Sir Adrian Boult
4/8/1889 - 2/23/1983
English conductor; led the B.B.C. Symphony


87 Mary Pickford
4/8/1892 - 5/28/1979
Canadian-born American motion-picture actress


85 Sir John Hicks
4/8/1904 - 5/20/1989
English Nobel Prize-winning economist (1972)


74 Carmen McRae
4/8/1920 - 11/10/1994
American jazz vocalist and pianist


44 Michael Bennett
4/8/1943 - 7/2/1987
American dancer, choreographer, and stage director

 

[minidog]

0193 - In the Balkans, the distinguished soldier Septimius Seversus was proclaimed emperor by the army in Illyricum.

0715 - Constantine ended his reign as Catholic Pope.

1241 - In the Battle of Liegnitz, Mongol armies defeated the Poles and the Germans.

1454 - The city states of Venice, Milan and Florence signed a peace agreement at Lodi, Italy.

1667 - In Paris, The first public art exhibition was held at the Palais-Royale.

1682 - Robert La Salle claimed the lower Mississippi River and all lands that touch it for France.

1770 - Captain James Cook discovered Botany Bay on the Australian continent.

1831 - Robert Jenkins lost an ear. The event started a war between Britain and Spain.

1833 - Peterborough, NH, opened the first municipally supported public library in the United States.

1838 - The National Galley opened in London.

1865 - At Appomattox Court House, Virginia, General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate Army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in the parlor of William McClean's home. Grant allowed Rebel officers to keep their sidearms and permitted soldiers to keep their horses and mules. Though there were still Confederate armies in the field, the war was officially over. The four years of fighting had ****** 360,000 Union troops and 260,000 Confederate troops.

1866 - The Civil Rights Bill ****** over U.S. President Andrew Johnson's veto.

1867 - The U.S. Senate ratified the treaty with Russia that purchased the territory of Alaska by one vote.

1869 - The Hudson Bay Company ceded its territory to Canada.

1870 - The American Anti-Slavery Society was dissolved.

1872 - S.R. Percy received a patent for dried milk.

1900 - British ****** routed the Boers at Kroonstadt, South Africa.

1905 - The first aerial ferry bridge went into operation in Duluth, MN.

1912 - The first exhibition baseball game was held at Fenway Park in Boston. The game was between Red Sox and Havard.

1913 - The Brooklyn Dodgers' Ebbets Field opened.

1914 - In London, the first full-color film, "The World, The Flesh & the Devil," was shown.

1916 - The German army launched it’s third offensive during the Battle of Verdun.

1917 - The Battle of Arras began as Canadian troops began a massive assault on Vimy Ridge.

1918 - Latvia proclaimed its independence.

1921 - The Russo-Polish conflict ended with signing of Riga Treaty.

1928 - Mae West made her debut on Broadway in the production of "Diamond Lil."

1940 - Germany invaded Norway and Denmark.

1942 - In the Battle of Bataan, American and Filipino ****** were overwhelmed by the Japanese Army.

1945 - National Football League officials decreed that it was mandatory for football players to wear socks in all league games.

1945 - At Bari, Italy, the Liberty exploded and ****** 360 people. The ship was carrying aerial bombs.

1947 - 169 people were ****** and 1,300 were injured by a series of tornadoes in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.

1950 - Bob Hope made his first television appearance on "Star-Spangled Review" on NBC-TV.

1953 - TV Guide was published for the first time.

1957 - The Suez Canal was cleared for all shipping.

1959 - NASA announced the selection of America's first seven astronauts.

1963 - Winston Churchill became the first honorary U.S. citizen.

1965 - "TIME" magazine featured a cover with the entire "Peanuts" comic gang.

1965 - The Houston Astrodome held its first baseball game.

1967 - The first Boeing 737 was rolled out for use.

1968 - ******** civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was buried.

1976 - The U.S. and Russia agreed on the size of nuclear tests for peaceful use.

1984 - Nicaragua asked the World Court to declare U.S. support for guerilla raids *******.

1985 - Japanese Premier Nakasone urged Japanese people to buy foreign products.

1986 - It was announced that Patrick Duffy's character on the TV show Dallas would be returning after being ****** off.

1987 - Dikye Baggett became the first person to undergo corrective surgery for Parkinson’s disease.

1988 - The U.S. imposed economic sanctions on Panama.

1989 - 16 civilians were ****** during rioting in Soviet Georgia.

1989 - Hundreds of thousands marched past the White House in support of the right to abortion.

1991 - Georgia voted to secede from the U.S.S.R.

1992 - Former Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega was convicted in Miami, FL, of eight **** and racketeering charges.

1998 - The National Prisoner of War Museum opened in Andersonville, GA, at the site of an infamous Civil War camp.

1998 - More than 150 Muslims died in stampede in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on last day of the haj pilgrimage.

1999 - In Djibouti, Ismail Omar Guelleh of the ruling Popular Rally for Progress and the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy was elected president.

1999 - In Niger, President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara was assassinated. Daouda Malam Wanke was designated president two days later.

2000 - CBS-TV aired "Failsafe." It was the first live full-length show to by aired by CBS in 39 years.

Current Birthdays


Kristen Stewart turns 19 years old today


83 Hugh Hefner
Playboy magazine founder


77 Jim Fowler
Naturalist


76 Jean-Paul Belmondo
Actor


70 Michael Learned
Actress ("The Waltons")


67 Margo Smith
Country singer


56 Hal Ketchum
Country singer


55 Dennis Quaid
Actor


54 Jimmy Tingle
Comedian


50 Dave Innis
Country musician (Restless Heart)


45 Lisa Guerrero
TV personality ("Inside Edition")


44 Mark Pellegrino
Actor ("Dexter")


44 Paulina Porizkova
Actress, model


43 Cynthia Nixon
Actress ("Sex and the City")


40 Kevin Martin
Rock singer (Candlebox)


32 Gerard Way
Rock singer (My Chemical Romance)


30 Keshia Knight Pulliam
Actress ("The Cosby Show")


29 Albert Hammond Jr.
Rock musician (The Strokes)


29 Ryan Northcott
Actor


27 Jay Baruchel
Actor


22 Jesse McCartney
Actor, singer


22 Jazmine Sullivan
R&B singer


11 Elle Fanning
Actress ("Because of Winn-Dixie")

Historic Birthdays


Gregory Pincus

4/9/1903 - 8/22/1967
American endocrinologist; helped develop the birth control bill

82 John Bacon
4/9/1738 - 10/25/1820
American clergyman, legislator and judge; advocate of civil and religious liberty


53 Isambard Brunel
4/9/1806 - 9/15/1859
English civil and mechanical engineer; designed the first transatlantic steamer


46 Charles Baudelaire
4/9/1821 - 8/31/1867
French poet, translator and literary critic


66 Emily Hobhouse
4/9/1860 - 6/8/1926
English reformer and social worker


78 Leon Blum
4/9/1872 - 3/30/1950
French politician; first Socialist and Jewish premier of France (1936-37)


86 Frank King
4/9/1883 - 6/24/1969
American comic-strip artist; created "Gasoline Alley"


86 Sol Hurok
4/9/1888 - 3/5/1974
Russian-born impresario; popularized classical ballet and music in America


78 Paul Robeson
4/9/1898 - 1/23/1976
American singer, actor and black activist


67 Curly Lambeau
4/9/1898 - 6/1/1965
American football coach and founder of the Green Bay Packers


90 J. William Fulbright
4/9/1905 - 2/9/1995
American senator


82 Antal Dorati
4/9/1906 - 11/13/1988
Hungarian-born American conductor

 

[minidog]

1741 - Frederick II of Prussia defeated Maria Theresa's ****** at Mollwitz and conquered Silesia.

1790 - The U.S. patent system was established.

1809 - Austria declared war on France and its ****** entered Bavaria.

1814 - Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Toulouse by the British and the Spanish. The defeat led to his abdication and exile to Elba.

1825 - The first hotel opened in Hawaii.

1849 - Walter Hunt patented the safety pin. He sold the rights for $100.

1854 - The constitution of the Orange Free State in south Africa was proclaimed.

1862 - Union ****** began the bombardment of Fort Pulaski in Georgia along the Tybee River.

1865 - During the American Civil War, at Appomattox, General Robert E. Lee issued his last order.

1866 - The American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to ******* (ASPCA) was incorporated.

1902 - South African Boers accepted British terms of surrender.

1912 - The Titanic set sail from Southampton, England.

1916 - The Professional Golfers Association (PGA) held its first championship tournament.

1919 - In Mexico, revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata was ****** by government troops.

1922 - The Genoa Conference opened. The meeting was used to discuss the reconstruction of Europe after World War I.

1925 - F. Scott Fitzgerald published "The Great Gatsby" for the first time.

1930 - The first synthetic rubber was produced.

1932 - Paul von Hindenburg was elected president of Germany with 19 million votes. Adolf Hitler came in second with 13 million votes.

1938 - Germany annexed Austria. 99.75 percent of Austrians had voted in a referundum to merge with Germany.

1941 - In World War II, U.S. troops occupied Greenland to prevent **** infiltration.

1941 - Ford Motor Co. became the last major automaker to recognize the United Auto Workers as the representative for its workers.

1944 - Russian troops recaptured Odessa from the Germans.

1945 - German Me 262 jet fighters shot down ten U.S. bombers near Berlin.

1953 - Warner Bros. released "House of Wax." It was the first 3-D movie to be released by a major Hollywood studio.

1953 - Actress Hedy Lamarr became a U.S. citizen.

1959 - Japan's Crown Prince Akihito married commoner Michiko Shoda.

1960 - The U.S. Senate ****** the Civil Rights Bill.

1961 - Gary Player of South Africa became the first foreign golfer to win the Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, Georgia.

1963 - 129 people died when the nuclear-powered submarine USS Thresher failed to surface off Cape Cod, MA.

1967 - The 13-day strike by the American Federation of Radio-TV Artists (AFTRA) came to an end less than two hours before the 39th Academy Awards presentation went on the air.

1968 - U.S. President Johnson replaced General Westmoreland with General Creighton Abrams in Vietnam.

1971 - The American table tennis team arrived in China. They were the first group of Americans officially allowed into China since the founding of the People Republic in 1949. The team had recieved the surprise invitation while in Japan for the 31st World Table Tennis Championship.

1972 - An earthquake in southern Iran ****** more than 5,000 people.

1972 - The U.S. and the Soviet Union joined with 70 other nations in signing an agreement banning biological warfare.

1973 - In Switzerland, 108 people died when a plane crashed while attempting to land at Basel.

1974 - Yitzhak Rabin replaced resigning Israeli Prime Minister, Golda Meir. Meir resigned over differences within her Labor Party.

1980 - Spain and Britain agreed to reopen the border between Gibraltar and Spain. It had been closed since 1969.

1981 - Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands was elected to the British Parliament.

1988 - On Wall Street, 48 million shares of Navistar International stock changed hands in a single-block trade. It was the largest transaction ever executed on the New York Stock Exchange.

1990 - Three European hostages ********* at sea in 1987 by Palestinian extremists were released in Beirut.

1992 - A bomb exploded in London's financial district. The bomb, set off by the Irish Republican Army, ****** three people and injured 91.

1992 - Outside Needles, CA, comedian Sam Kinison was ****** when a pickup truck slammed into his car on a desert road between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

1992 - In Los Angeles, financier Charles Keating Jr. was sentenced to nine years in prison for swindling investors when his Lincoln Savings and Loan collapsed. The convictions were later overturned.

1993 - South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani was assassinated.

1994 - NATO warplanes launched air strikes for the first time on Serb ****** that were advancing on the Bosnian Muslim town of Gordazde. The area had been declared a U.N. safe area.

1996 - U.S. President Clinton vetoed a bill that would have outlawed a technique used to end pregnancies in their late stages.

1997 - Rod Steiger received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1998 - Negotiators reached a peace accord on governing British ruled Northern Ireland. Britain's direct rule was ended.

1999 - The www.June4.org web site was launched by Chinese dissidents and human rights activists to promote their campaign for democracy in China.

2000 - Monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) reported irregularities in the voting in Georgia's presidential election on April 9. President Eduard Shevardnadze was reelected to a new five-year term.

2000 - Ken Griffey Jr. became the youngest player in baseball history to reach 400 home runs. He was 30 years, 141 days old.

2001 - Jane Swift took office as the first female governor of Massachusetts. She succeeded Paul Cellucci, who had resigned to become the U.S. ambassador to Canada.

2001 - The Netherlands legalized mercy killings and assisted suicide for patients with unbearable, terminal illness.

2002 - Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke before the U.S. Senate as a representative of the Israeli government. He warned that suicide bombers would spread to the U.S. if Israel was not allowed to finish its military offensive in the West Bank. Netanyaho also cited the goals of dismantling the ****** regime and expelling Arafat from the region, ridding the Palestinian territories of terrorist weapons and establishing "physical barriers" to protect Israelis from future Palestinian attacks.

Current Birthdays


Mandy Moore turns 25 years old today.


94 Harry Morgan
Actor ("Dragnet," "MASH")


80 Liz Sheridan
Actress ("Seinfeld")


80 Max von Sydow
Actor


77 Omar Sharif
Actor ("Doctor Zhivago," "Lawrence of Arabia")


73 John Madden
Sportscaster


73 Bobbie Smith
R&B singer (The Spinners)


71 Don Meredith
Sportscaster


62 Bunny Wailer
Reggae musician


61 Mel Blount
Football Hall of Famer


58 Steven Seagal
Actor


56 Terre Roche
Folk singer (The Roches)


55 Peter MacNicol
Actor ("24," "Ally McBeal")


52 Steven Gustafson
Rock musician (10,000 Maniacs)


51 Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds
R&B singer, producer


50 Brian Setzer
Rock musician (Stray Cats)


49 Afrika Bambaataa
Rapper


49 Katrina Leskanich
Rock singer (Katrina and the Waves)


48 Jeb Adams
Actor


44 Tim "Herb" Alexander
Rock musician (Primus)


41 Orlando Jones
Actor, comedian


40 Mike Mushok
Rock musician (Staind)


39 Q-Tip (aka Kamaal)
Rapper


39 Kenny Lattimore
R&B singer


30 Shemekia Copeland
Blues singer


28 Laura Bell Bundy
Actress, singer


27 Chyler Leigh
Actress ("Grey's Anatomy")


26 Ryan Merriman
Actor


21 Haley Joel Osment
Actor ("The Sixth Sense")


18 Amanda Michalka
Actress, singer


Historic Birthdays


Joseph Pulitzer

4/10/1847 - 10/29/1911
American editor and journalist


62 Hugo Grotius
4/10/1583 - 8/28/1645
Dutch jurist and scholar; wrote "On the Law of War and Peace"


79 Benjamin H. Day
4/10/1810 - 12/21/1889
American printer and journalist; founded The New York Sun


78 Lewis Wallace
4/10/1827 - 2/15/1905
American soldier, lawyer and author; wrote "Ben-Hur"


83 William Booth
4/10/1829 - 8/20/1912
English minister and founder of the Salvation Army


87 Frank Baldwin
4/10/1838 - 4/8/1925
American inventor; known for the Monroe calculator


78 George Arliss
4/10/1868 - 2/5/1946
English actor


54 Vladimir Lenin
4/10/1870 (OS) - 1/21/1924
Russian Communist leader of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917)


85 Frances Perkins
4/10/1880 - 5/14/1965
American secretary of labor (1933-45)


62 Robert Burns Woodward
4/10/1917 - 7/8/1979
American Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1965)

 

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1096 - Peter the Hermit gathered his army in Cologne.

1204 - The Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople.

1606 - England adopted the original Union Jack as its flag.

1770 - The British Parliament repealed the Townsend Acts.

1782 - The British navy won its only naval engagement against the colonists in the American Revolution at the Battle of Saints, off Dominica.

1799 - Phineas Pratt patented the comb cutting machine.

1811 - The first colonists arrived at Cape Disappointment, Washington.

1833 - Charles Gaylor patented the fireproof safe.

1861 - Fort Sumter was shelled by Confederacy, starting America's Civil War.

1864 - Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest captured Fort Pillow, in Tennessee and slaughters the black Union troops there.

1877 - A catcher's mask was used in a baseball game for the first time by James Alexander Tyng.

1892 - Voters in Lockport, New York, became the first in the U.S. to use voting machines.

1905 - The Hippodrome opened in New York City.

1911 - Pierre Prier completed the first non-stop London-Paris flight in three hours and 56 minutes.

1916 - American cavalrymen and Mexican bandit troops clashed at Parrel, Mexico.

1927 - The British Cabinet came out in favor of women voting rights.

1934 - F. Scott Fitzgerald novel "Tender Is the Night" was first published.

1938 - The first U.S. law requiring a medical test for a marriage license was enacted in New York.

1944 - The U.S. Twentieth Air ***** was activated to begin the strategic bombing of Japan.

1945 - In New York, the organization of the first eye bank, the Eye Bank for Sight Restoration, was announced.

1945 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in Warm Spring, GA. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 63. Harry S Truman became president.

1955 - The University of Michigan Polio Vaccine Evaluation Center announced that the polio vaccine of Dr. Jonas Salk was "safe, effective and potent."

1961 - Soviet Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin became first man to orbit the Earth.

1963 - Police used dogs and cattle prods on peaceful civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham, AL.

1966 - Emmett Ashford became the first African-American major league umpire.

1967 - Jim Brown made his TV acting debut on the NBC show "I Spy."

1969 - Lucy and Snoopy of the comic strip "Peanuts" made the cover of "Saturday Review."

1981 - The space shuttle Columbia blasted off from Cape Canaveral, FL, on its first test flight.

1983 - Harold Washington was elected the first black mayor of Chicago.

1984 - Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger made the first satellite repair in orbit by returning the Solar Max satellite to space.

1984 - Israeli troops stormed a bus that had been hijacked the previous evening by four Arab terrorists. All the passengers were rescued and 2 of the hijackers were ******.

1985 - U.S. Senator Jake Garn of Utah became the first senator to fly in space as the shuttle Discovery lifted off from Cape Canaveral, FL.

1985 - In Spain, an explosion in a restaurant near a U.S. base ****** 17 people.

1985 - Federal inspectors declared that four ******* of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus were not unicorns. They were goats with horns that had been surgically implanted.

1987 - Texaco filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy after it failed to settle a legal dispute with Pennzoil Co.

1988 - Harvard University won a patent for a genetically altered mouse. It was the first patent for a life form.

1988 - The Chinese government named a new array of younger leaders to ensure economic reform.

1989 - In the U.S.S.R, ration cards were issued for the first time since World War II. The ration was prompted by a sugar shortage.

1992 - Disneyland Paris opened in Marne-La-Vallee, France.

1993 - NATO began enforcing a no-fly zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina.

2000 - More than 1,500 anti-**** agents raided four cities in Colombia and arrested 46 members of the "most powerful" heroin ring.

2000 - Robert Cleaves, 71, was convicted of second degree ****** and was sentenced to 16 years in prison. Cleaves had repeatedly run over Arnold Guerreiro on September 30, 1998 with his car after the two had an argument.

2000 - Israel's High Court ordered the release of eight Lebanese detainees that had been held for years without a trial.

2002 - A first edition version of Beatrix Potter's "Peter Rabbit" sold for $64,780 at Sotheby's. A signed first edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" sold for $66,630. A copy of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," signed by J.K. Rowling sold for $16,660. A 250-piece collection of rare works by Charles Dickens sold for $512,650.

2002 - It was announced that the South African version of "Sesame Street" would be introducing a character that was HIV-positive.

2002 - JCPenney Chairman Allen Questrom rang the opening bell to start the business day at the New York Stock Exchange as part of the company's centennial celebrations. James Cash (J.C.) Penney opened his first retail store on April 14, 1902.

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65 John Kay
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Actor ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer")


38 Shannen Doherty
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Actress


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Actress


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Historic Birthdays


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4/12/1903 - 6/9/1994
Dutch Nobel Prize-winning economist (1969)

74 Joachim Camerarius
4/12/1500 - 4/17/1574
German Lutheran theologian


54 Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford
4/12/1550 - 6/24/1604
English poet and patron of the Oxford's Men acting company


75 Henry Clay
4/12/1777 - 6/29/1852
American politician; U.S. congressman and senator (1806-52)


89 John Strachan
4/12/1778 - 11/1/1867
Scottish-born Canadian educator and first Anglican bishop of Toronto


85 Grenville Dodge
4/12/1831 - 1/3/1916
American engineer; chief engineer of Union Pacific Railroad (1866-70)


72 Sir James Mackenzie
4/12/1853 - 1/26/1925
Scottish cardiologist; pioneer in the study of cardiac arrhythmia


93 Imogen Cunningham
4/12/1883 - 6/24/1976
American photographer of plants and portraits


78 Lily Pons
4/12/1898 - 2/13/1976
French coloratura soprano


78 Pete Desjardins
4/12/1907 - 5/6/1985
American diver; 1928 Olympic medallist