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1783 Revolutionary Simon Bolivar was born in Caracas, Venezuela.
1847 Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in present-day Utah.
1862 Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States, died in Kinderhook, N.Y., at age 79.
1866 Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War.
1923 The Treaty of Lausanne, which settled the boundaries of modern Turkey, was concluded in Switzerland.
1929 President Herbert Hoover proclaimed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounced war as an instrument of foreign policy.
1937 The state of Alabama dropped charges against five black men accused of raping two white women in the Scottsboro case.
1969 Apollo 11, the first manned mission to the moon, splashed down safely in the Pacific.
1974 The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that President Richard M. Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor.
1979 A Miami jury convicted Ted Bundy of first-degree murder in the slayings of two Florida State University sorority sisters.
1990 Iraq massed tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks along its border with Kuwait.
1997 Retired Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan died at age 91.
1998 A gunman opened fire in the U.S. Capitol, killing two police officers before being shot and captured.
2002 The U.S. House expelled Rep. James Traficant, D-Ohio, who had been convicted of bribery, racketeering and tax evasion.
2005 Lance Armstrong won a seventh consecutive Tour de France.
2008 Ford Motor Co. posted the worst quarterly performance in its history, losing $8.67 billion.
2008 Cheered by an enormous crowd in Berlin, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama summoned Europeans and Americans together to "defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it" as surely as they had conquered communism a generation ago.
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
1993 Arissa Seagal, daughter of Kelly LeBrock and Steven Seagal
1990 Evan James Springsteen, born in Los Angeles, California, rocker Bruce Springsteen's son
1987 Mara Wilson, actress, Mrs Doubtfire
1982 Anna Paquin, oscar winning actress, Piano
1977 Arnold Bruggink, Dutch soccer player, FC Twente
1977 Lee EunHee, Miss Korea Universe 1997
1976 Anita Nall, U.S., breaststroke swimmer, Gold Medal 1992 Olympics
1976 Chris[tian] Patrick Raymond Ahrens, Whitefish Bay Wis, rower 1996 Olympics
1976 Scott Logan, Brisbane QLD Australia, swimmer 1996 Olympics
1975 Gloria Pizzichini, born in Italy, tennis star
1975 Torrie Wilson, American Celebrity
1974 Steve Bornhoeft, born in LaGrange, Illinois, canoe alternate for 1996 Olympics
1973 Tasha Ebanks, Miss Universe-Cayman Islands 1996
1970 Blaine Bishop, NFL safety for the Houston Oilers
1970 Gerald Ressman, hockey forward, Team Austria 1998
1970 Philip Sykes, born in Tacoma, Washington, field hockey defender 1996 Olympics
1970 Stephanie Adams, New Jersey, playmate, Nov, 1992
1970 Jennifer Lopez, Musician
1969 Chris King, NBA forward for the Vancouver Grizzlies
1969 Rick Fox, NBA guard and forward, Los Angeles Lakers, Boston Celtics
1969 Steve Jennings, Washington D.C., field hockey midfielder 1996 Olympics
1968 John P Navin, Jr., Philadelphia, actor, Joey Elliot-Jennifer Slept Here
1968 Mark Gunn, NFL defensive end for the Philadelphia Eagles
1968 Kristin Chenoweth, American Actress
1967 Jasper Teule, Dutch rock singer/bassist, Pilgrims-Once to Everything
1965 Andrew Gaze, Australian basketball player, Olympics-1984, 88, 92, 96
1965 Brian Blades, NFL wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks
1965 Joe Oliver, born in Memphis, Tennessee, catcher for the Cincinnati Reds
1965 Kadeem Hardison, actor, A Different World, The Sixth Man
1964 Barry Bonds, born in Riverside, California, left fielder, Pirates, San Francisco Giants, 3X MVP
1964 Erminia Russo, Kelowna BC, volleyball player 1996 Olympics
1964 Teri Schroeder, born in Newport Beach, California, WPVA volleyballer, U.S. Open-13-1993
1963 Julie Krone, born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, jockey, 1st female to win Belmont-93
1963 Kadeem Hardison, born in New York City, actor, Dwayne-Different World
1963 Karl Malone, born in Summeerfield, Louisiana, NBA forward, Utah, Gold Medals 1992, 1996 Olympics
1963 Paul Geary, born in Boston, Massachusetts, heavy metal drummer, Extreme-More Than Words
1962 Kevin Butler, NFL kicker for the Chicago Bears
1962 Bob Schaffer, American Politician
1959 Brian Fogt, born in Dayton, Ohio, Nike golfer, in 1992 Ft. Wayne Open-7th
1959 Edward Liddie, born in Union, Georgia, Judo fighter 1984 Olympics bronze
1958 Mick Karn, born in Nicosia, Cypress, rocker, instrumentalist, musician, songwriter, bassist for art rock band Japan
1958 Pam Tills, Country music artist
1957 Dorothy Mays, born in Baltimore, Maryland, playmate, Jul, 1979
1957 Pam Tillis, born in Plant City, Florida, country singer, Melancholy Child
1957 Robbie Grey, rocker, English rock band Modern English, most famous song, "I Melt With You"
1955 Lubov Odinokova, U.S.S.R., team handball, Gold Medal 1976, 1980 Olympics
1954 Philippe Alliot, race driver, grand prix
1953 Jon Faddis, jazz trumpeter
1953 Julian Brazier, born in Kent, England, British politician, Conservative Member of Parliament for Canterbury
1953 Steve Grogan, NFL quarterback for the New England Patriots
1952 Vin Weber, born in Slayton, Minnesota, Representative-R-Minnesota 1981 - 1993
1952 Gus Van Sant, American Director
1951 Chris Smith, MP, Labour
1951 Lynda Carter, born in Phoenix, Arizona, Miss USA, 1973, actress, Wonder Woman
1950 Dan Hedaya, actor, Cheers, Marvin's Room, Clueless
1950 Goutam Ghose, director, Patang, Voyage Beyond, Paar
1950 Sam Behrens, actor, Jake Meyer-General Hospital, Sunset Beach, LA Law
1949 Marjanne Sint, Dutch MP, PvdA
1949 Michael Richards, born in Los Angeles, California, comedian, Fridays, Kramer-Seinfeld
1947 Geoffrey McQueen, TV Writer
1947 M Jacques Fouroux, rugby player
1947 Michael Coveney, drama critic
1947 Neil McIntosh, CEO, VSO, Center for British Teaching
1947 Peter Serkin, New York City, pianist, Tashi
1947 Robert Hays, Bethesda, Maryland, actor, Airplane!, Starman, Scandalous
1947 Zaheer Abbas, cricketer, probably Pakistan's finest batsman ever
1946 William "Junior" Campbell, singer/guitarist, Marmalade
1944 Barbara Thompson, jazz musician/composer/bandleader
1944 Jim Armstrong, rock guitarist, Them
1943 Henk Vos, chemical analyst/Dutch politician, PvdA, 2nd Chamber
1943 Jim McCarty, rocker, Yardbirds
1943 Lyudmila Bragina, U.S.S.R., 1500m runner, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics
1942 Chris Sarandon, West Virginia, actor, Child's Play, Dog Day Afternoon, Lipstick
1942 Heinz Burt, Hargin Germany, rock bassist, Tornados
1941 Barbara Love, rocker
1940 Carroll A. Campbell, Jr., born in Greenville, South Carolina, Representative-R-South Carolina, 1979 - 1986, Governor of South Carolina 1987 - 1995
1939 Barry [Norman] Malzberg, sci-fi author, Revelations, Beyond Apollo
1939 Bob Lilly, NFL defensive tackle for the Dallas Cowboys
1939 Walt Bellamy, born in New Bern, North Carolina, NBA center, Knicks, Gold Medal 1960 Olympics
1938 Colin Southgate, CEO, Thorn EMI
1938 John Sparling, New Zealand cricket all-rounder, 11 Tests 1958-64
1938 Mike Mainieri, born in the Bronx, New York, jazz fusion vibraphonist, worked with Steps Ahead, pioneer in 'synth-vibe' electronic vibraphone music, recorded with Buddy Rich, Jeremy Steig, featured on Dire Straights tracks
1937 Baroness Blatch, British minister of state for Education
1937 Barry Lloyd Vercoe, composer
1937 Quinlan Terry, architect
1936 Mark Goddard, Lowell Massachusetts, actor, Don West-Lost in Space
1936 Ruth Buzzi, Westerly, Rhode Island, comedienne, Laugh-In, Margie-That Girl
1935 George Varnals, South African cricket batsman, England 1964-65
1935 Les Reed, songwriter, Heroin
1935 Pat Oliphant, Australia, cartoonist, The Art of Oliphant
1935 Trevor Chinn, CEO, Lex
1934 Jimmy Holiday, U.S. singer, How Can I Forget
1934 Thomas Ambler, CEO, Texaco
1934 Willie Davis, NFL defensive end, Cleveland Browns, Green Bay
1933 John Aniston, Crete, actor, Search for Tomorrow, Day of our Lives
1932 William D Ruckelshaus, headed Environmental Protection Agency
1932 William Ruckelshaus, American Lawyer
1930 Boris Nikolayevich Belousov, cosmonaut
1930 Charles Hambro, English banker/multi-millionaire/CEO, Hambros
1930 Jacqueline Brookes, Montclair, New Jersey, actress, Jack and Mike, Another World
1929 Alfred Binns, West Indian cricket wicketkeeper, 1953-56
1929 Hedda J Garza, writer/political activist
1929 Peter Yates, director, Breaking Away, Bullitt
1929 Oriana Fallaci, Italian Journalist
1927 James J. Howard, born in Irvington, New Jersey, Representative-D-New Jersey 1965 - 1988
1927 Wilfred Josephs, composer
1926 Hans-Gunther Winkler, Germany, equestrian jumper 1956 Olympics gold
1926 James Hele, high master, St. Paul's School
1925 Ignacio Aldecoa, Spanish writer, Gran Sol, Caballo the Pica
1924 David Loram, British Vice-Admiral, Supreme Allied Commander
1924 Glenn Loren Glasow, composer
1924 Janine Charrat, French ballerina/choreographer
1924 Lord Digby, lord-lt for Dorset
1922 Charles Mathias, born in Frederick, Maryland, Representative-R-Maryland 1961 - 1969, Senator-R-Maryland, 1969 - 1987
1922 Leo Kraft, born in Brooklyn, New York, composer, author, educator, recorded on CRI label, studied composition with Karol Rathaus, Randall Thompson, Nadio Boulander
1920 Alexander H Cohen, New York City, Broadway producer, Beyond the Fringe
1920 Bella Abzug, born in New York City, New York, Representative-D-New York, 1971 - 1977
1918 Ruggiero Ricci, born in San Francisco, California, composer/violinist, Paganini
1917 John Hillaby, writer/traveller
1917 Robert Farnon, composer and conductor /arranger
1917 Simon Slattvik, Norway, cross country ski jumper 1952 Olympics gold
1916 Bob Eberly, Mechanicsville, New York, singer, Jimmy Dorsey Band
1916 John D. MacDonald, novelist, Deep Blue Goodbye
1915 Frank Thistlethwaite, vice chancellor, University of East Anglia
1914 David Miles Bensuan-Butt, economist
1914 Edwin Mirvish, owner, Old Vic
1914 Frank Silvera, Kingston Jamaica, actor, High Chaparral
1914 Kenneth B Clark, Canal Zone, civil rights activist, Dark Ghetto
1914 Riccardo Malipiero, composer
1914 Robert Emhardt, actor, Mac-Another World, Underworld USA, Mooncussers
1913 George H Brown, film producer
1913 Johnny McAfee, born in Dallas, Texas, singer, Sammy Kaye Show
1910 Edward Ford, registrat Order of Merit
1910 Harry Horner, stage/Film Designer
1907 Hugh Charles, songwriter/impressario
1904 James R Killian, Jr., MIT President, 1948-59
1903 Robert Mills Delaney, composer
1902 Hans Chemin-Petit, composer
1902 Nora Swinburne, born in England, actress, Quo Vardis, Dinner at Ritz, River
1902 George H. Fallon, American Politician
1900 Zelda Fitzgerald, 1st wife of F Scott
1899 Chief Dan George, actor, Little Big Man
1898 Amelia Earhart, U.S. aviator, 1st woman to solo Atlantic
1898 Frank Mortelmans, Belgian painter
1897 Elmar Berkovich, Hungarian/Dutch designer, Eindhoven Theatre
1897 Karl von Mechow, German writer, Auf Dem Wege, Vorsommer
1896 Hermann Kasack, German writer, Die Stadt hinter dem Strom
1894 Walter Schulthess, composer
1888 Arthur Richardson, Australian cricket batsman, 20's
1886 Junichiro Tanizaki, Japan, writer, Snow Dusting
1885 Desider Antalffy-Zsiross, Hungarian organist/composer
1884 Abraham Rutgers, Dutch governor, Suriname, 1928-33
1880 Ernest Bloch, born in Geneva, Switzerland, composer, MacBeth
1878 Lord Dunsany, [Edward JMD Plunkett], Irish sci-fi writer, Time and Gods
1870 Fred Law Olmsted, Jr., architect/landscaper
1867 Frederic Benson, novelist
1865 Frank Wedekind, writer
1864 B[enjamin] Frank[lin] Wedekind, German writer, Lulu
1864 Michel Gaston Carraud, composer
1862 Johan A de Sleeve, [Adwaita], philosopher/classical/poet, Brahman
1858 Wolfgang Kapp, German politician, Kapp Putsch 1920
1857 Henrik Pontoppidan, born in Denmark, writer, Promised Country, Nobel 1917
1853 William Gillette, American Actor
1841 Raimundo Madrazo y Garretta, painter
1832 Johann Christoph Lauterbach, violinist
1827 Julius Adolph de Lagnel, Brigadier General Confederate Army, died in 1912
1826 Francisco S Lopez, [Tiran], president of Paraguay, 1862-70
1818 Felix Godefroid, composer
1817 Adolf WAKF, grand duke of Luxembourg, 1890-1905
1803 Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer/critic, Si j'etait roi
1803 Alexander Jackson Davis, U.S., architect, gothic revivalist
1802 Alexandre Dumas Pere, France, author, 3 Musketeers
1802 Ira Aldridge, famous African
1802 Alexander Dumas, French Novelist
1798 John Adams Dix, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1879
1796 Herman van Sonsbeeck, Dutch lawyer/statesman
1796 John Middleton Clayton, Delaware, Sen-Del, U.S. Secretary of State, 1849 - 1850
1783 Simon Bolivar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule
1759 Victor Emmanuel I, King of Sardinia, 1802-21
1750 John Philpot Curran, Irish Public Servant
1738 Elizabeth "Betje" Wolff-Bekker, Dutch author and poet, Sara Burgerhart
1720 Louise Ulrike, queen of Sweden/wife of Adolf Frederik
1380 Johannes van Capestrano, Italian saint
FAMOUS DEATHS
2007 Matt Nagle, dies in Massachusetts, of a blood infection, at 27
2004 Cotton Fitzsimmons, American Coach
2000 Thea Porter, '60s Soho designer, dies at 72
1997 Saw Maung, general/president of Myanmar (Burma) (1988-92), dies
1997 William J. Brennan, jurist, served on the Supreme Court for 34 years (1956-90), dies at 91
1996 "Jock" John Wallace, soccer player/manager, dies at 60
1996 Howard Vernon, actor (Faceless, Delicatessen), dies at 82
1996 Jock Wallace, football player/manager, dies at 60
1996 Virginia Christine, actress (Mrs Olson), dies at 76
1995 Don Richard Carpenter, novelist, dies at 64
1995 Jeremiah Jerry Patrick Lordam, songwriter/compser, dies at 61
1995 Jerzy Bonawentura Toeplitz, film maker/teacher, dies at 94
1995 Werner Grusch, film director, dies at 51
1994 Grete Schickedanz, German head mistress, dies at 82
1994 Wangila Napunyi, welterweight boxer, Gold Medal 1988 Olympics, dies at 26
1993 Ben[jamin S] Polak, Dutch physician/resistance fighter, dies
1993 Francis Bouygues, French entrepreneur/billionaire, dies at 70
1993 Lonnie D'Orsa, dies at 96
1992 Arlette-Leonie Arletty, dies at 94
1992 Khaled Mahmoud Saeed, asst to Palestine terrorist Abu Nidal, murdered
1992 Lillian Oppenheimer, orgamist, dies of a heart attack at 93
1991 Isaac B Singer, Polish/U.S. writer (Yentl, Nobel 1978), dies at 87
1991 Karl Ellis, dies at 41
1991 Isaac Bashevis Singer, American Novelist
1990 Alan Clarke, director (Elephant, Road, Scum, Firm), dies at 54
1989 Ernest Morrison, actor (Peggy Does Her Darndest), dies
1986 Fritz A Lipman, discoverer (co-enzymes, Nobel 1953), dies at 87
1980 Peter Sellers, actor (Pink Panther, Mouse that Roared), dies at 54
1979 Archie Duncan, actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 65
1976 Paul Morand, French Diplomat
1974 Chris Chubbock, newscaster, shoots self on air
1974 Ernest Milton, actor (Julius Caesar, Cat Girl), dies at 84
1974 James Chadwick, English physicist (Nobel 1935), dies at 82
1973 Mary Frasca, singer/actress, dies in New York City
1972 Bobby Ramirez, drummer (White Trash), killed at 23 in bar brawl
1971 Alan Rawsthorne, composer, dies at 66
1969 Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author (Ferdydurke, Dziennik), dies at 64
1967 Little Billy Rhodes, dies of stroke at 72
1966 Tony Lema, U.S. golfer, dies at 32
1965 Constance Bennett, actress (Madame X, Topper), dies at 59
1965 Irene Browne, actress (Peg O' My Heart), dies of cancer at 69
1964 Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer, dies
1962 Victor Moore, comedian, dies of heart attack at 86
1960 Carl Deis, composer, dies at 77
1960 Hans Albers, German actor (Blue Angel), dies at 68
1957 Sacha Guitry, actor/playwright/director (Lovers and Thieves), dies at 72
1954 Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90
1950 Robert W. Lehnhoff, [Executioner of Groningen], SS fuhrer, executed
1947 Ernest Austin, composer, dies at 72
1944 Jan Postma, leader of illegal Dutch party (CPN), executed at 49
1936 James Philip Dunn, composer, dies at 52
1933 Max von Schillings, composer, dies at 65
1931 Marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of finance, dies at 75
1900 Ferdinand Hamet, Dutch missionary in Mongolia, murdered at 59
1883 Matthew Webb, English Channel swimmer, drowns above Niagara Falls
1876 Thomas Molleson Mudie, composer, dies at 66
1868 George Cattermole, painter/illustrator, dies
1865 Johan Filip von Schantz, composer, dies at 30
1862 Martin Van Buren, 8th President (1837-41), dies in Kinderhook New York at 79
1846 Joseph Leopold Eybler, Austrian composer/choir master, dies at 81
1846 Louis Napoleon, French king of the Netherlands (1806-10), dies at 67
1842 John Sell Cotman, landscape painter, dies
1837 Charles Hodges, English/Dutch portrait painter
1831 Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer, dies at 41
1826 Jacob Kimball, composer, dies at 65
1819 Sophie Gail, composer, dies at 43
1812 Joseph Schuster, composer, dies at 63
1809 Johann Gottfried Eckard, composer, dies at 74
1758 John Dyer, poet, dies
1756 George Vertue, engraver, dies
1739 Benedetto Marcello, composer, dies on 53rd birthday
1712 Cornelis earl of Nassau, general-major/mister of Woudenberg, dies
1704 Istvan Gyongyosi, Hungarian poet (Janos Kemeny), dies in battle
1652 Johann Weichmann, composer, dies at 32
1345 Jacob van Artevelde, statesman, murdered
Holidays and Observances
Cousin's Day (Looks like B-Rads celebrating today!!)
National Drive-Thru Day
National Tell An Old Joke Day
Pioneer Day
