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Well, today is 4/20, so I had to post something I guess.

This day in history…

Hitler’s Birthday
National Smoke-out day

AND…

• 0295 - 8th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet

• 0850 - Guntherus becomes bishop of Cologne
• 1139 - 2nd Lateran Council (10th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
• 1505 - Jews are expelled from Orange Burgandy by Philibert of Luxembourg
• 1551 - John Dudley becomes English Earl Marshal
• 1650 - VOC-management sets new guidelines
• 1653 - Cromwell routes English parliament to house
• 1657 - Battle in Santa Cruz Bay, Tenerife: English fleet under Robert Blake sinks Spanish silver fleet
• 1702 - Comet C/1702 H1 approaches within 0.0437 AUs of Earth
• 1715 - Nicholas Rowe’s “Tragedy of Lady Jane Gray,” premieres in London
• 1770 - Capt Cook arrives in New South Wales
• 1775 - British begin siege of Boston
• 1777 - New York adopts new constitution as an independent state
• 1792 - France declares war on Austria, Prussia & Sardinia
• 1799 - Friedrich von Schiller’s “Wallensteins Tod,” premieres in Weimar
• 1799 - Napoleon issues a decree calling for establishing Jerusalem for Jews
• 1809 - Napoleon I defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria
• 1836 - Territory of Wisconsin created
• 1841 - 1st detective story (Poe’s “Murders in Rue Morgue”) published
• 1853 - Harriet Tubman starts Underground Railroad
• 1861 - Battle of Norfolk, VA
• 1861 - Colonel Robert E Lee resigns from Union army
• 1861 - Robert E Lee resigns from Union army
• 1865 - Chicago’s Crosby Opera House opens
• 1871 - 3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus)
• 1872 - SF Bar Association organized
• 1879 - 1st mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London & Cyprus
• 1884 - Pope Leo XIII encyclical “On Freemasonry”
• 1888 - 246 reported killed by hail in Moradabad, India
• 1894 - 136,000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase
• 1896 - 1st public film showing in US John Philip Sousa’s “El Capit n,” premieres in NYC
• 1898 - US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota opens
• 1902 - Marie & Pierre Curie isolate radioactive element radium
• 1903 - 7th Boston Marathon won by John Lorden of Mass in 2:41:29.8
• 1903 - NY Highlanders play their 1st game, with Jack Chesbro losing 3-1 to Al Orth & Washington
• 1904 - George Bernard Shaw’s “Candida,” premieres in London
• 1904 - Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in St Louis
• 1908 - 12th Boston Marathon won by Tom Morrissey of NY in 2:25:43.2
• 1910 - Cleve Indians Addie Joss 2nd no-hitter, beats Chicago, 1-0
• 1910 - Halley’s Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km
• 1912 - Fenway Park officially opens, Red Sox beat NY Highlanders 7-6 in 11
• 1912 - Tiger Stadium in Detroit opens, Tigers beat Cleve Indians 6-5
• 1914 - 18th Boston Marathon won by James Duffy of Canada in 2:25:01.2
• 1914 - 33 killed by soldiers during mine strike in Ludlow, Colo
• 1916 - German-British sea battle off Belgian coast
• 1916 - Weeghman Park (Wrigley Field) in Chicago opens, Cubs beat Cin Reds 7-6
• 1917 - Pravda (Lenin names Russia “Free land of world”)
• 1919 - Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army
• 1920 - 7th modern Olympic games opens in Antwerp Belgium
• 1920 - Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate
• 1920 - Big Show ends 2 year run on NBC radio
• 1920 - Tornadoes kill 219 in Alabama & Mississippi
• 1920 - Phillies mgr Gravvy Cravath puts himself in as pinch hitter, his 3- run homer beats NY Giants 3-0
• 1925 - 29th Boston Marathon won by Charles Mellor of Ill in 2:33:00.6
• 1926 - 1st check sent by radio facsimile transmission across Atlantic
• 1931 - 35th Boston Marathon won by Jim Henigan of Mass in 2:46:45.8
• 1931 - British House of Commons agrees for sports play on Sunday
• 1934 - Heinrich Himmler becomes inspector Prussian secret state police
• 1935 - “You’re Hit Parade” begins broadcasting (becomes #1 quickly)
• 1936 - 40th Boston Marathon won by Ellison Brown of RI in 2:33:40.8
• 1936 - Jews repel an Arab attack in Petach Tikvah Palestine
• 1939 - New York World’s Fair opens
• 1939 - Ted Williams’ 1st hit (off of Yankee Red Ruffing) a double
• 1940 - 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia, Pa
• 1941 - 100 German bombers attack Athens
• 1941 - Dodgers start to wear liners in their caps
• 1942 - German occupiers forbids Dutch access to their beach
• 1942 - Heavy German assault on Malta
• 1943 - Braves manager Casey Stengel is struck by a taxi, fractures a leg
• 1944 - Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death
• 1944 - NFL legalizes coaching from bench
• 1945 - Cleveland Browns organization formed by Arthur “Mickey” McBride
• 1945 - German occupiers flood Beemster & Fencer
• 1945 - Soviet troops enter Berlin
• 1945 - US 7th army captured German city of Nuremberg
• 1945 - US forces conquer Motobu peninsula on Okinawa
• 1946 - 1st baseball broadcast in Chicago, Cards vs Cubs
• 1946 - 50th Boston Marathon won by Stylianos Kyriakides of Greece in 2:29:27
• 1947 - Frederik IX becomes king of Denmark
• 1948 - NYC hikes subway fare from 5› to 10›
• 1948 - Walter P Reuther UAW pres shot & wounded at his home in Detroit
• 1949 - Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 1st race, in Albany, California
• 1950 - Balt’s Memorial Stadium opens - Orioles of International League
• 1951 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
• 1951 - Velsen city council demands investigation of police collaborators
• 1953 - 57th Boston Marathon won by Keizo Yamada of Japan in 2:18:51
• 1954 - “Golden Apple” opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 125 performances
• 1955 - “Saint of Bleecker St” closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 92 perfs
• 1957 - 61st Boston Marathon won by John J Kelley of Conn in 2:20:05
• 1957 - Yankee Bill Skowron becomes 3rd player to hit a ball out of Fenway
• 1958 - Buses replace Key System trains at 3 AM
• 1958 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
• 1958 - Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
• 1958 - Morocco demands departure of Spanish troops
• 1959 - 63rd Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:22:42
• 1960 - “From A to Z” opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 21 performances
• 1961 - American Harold Graham makes 1st rocket belt flight
• 1962 - NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 63,250 m
• 1962 - New Orleans Citizens Co gives free 1-way ride to blacks to move North
• 1962 - OAS-leader ex-general Salan arrested in Algiers
• 1963 - “Sophie” closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 8 performances
• 1963 - -30] All Africa Conferences of Churches opens in Kampala Uganda
• 1964 - 68th Boston Marathon won by Aurele Vandendriessche of Belg in 2:19:59
• 1964 - 86% of black students boycott Cleveland schools
• 1965 - People’s Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid
• 1966 - WDCA TV channel 20 in Washington, DC (IND) begins broadcasting
• 1967 - French author R‚gis Debray caught in Bolivia
• 1967 - NY Met Tom Seaver’s 1st victory, beats Cubs, 6-1
• 1967 - US Surveyor 3 lands on Moon
• 1967 - US planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time during Vietnam War
• 1967 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1968 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau sworn-in as Canada’s PM
• 1968 - S Afr Boeing 707 crashes at Windhoek, 122 killed
• 1969 - 23rd Tony Awards: Great White Hope & 1776 win
• 1969 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
• 1970 - 74th Boston Marathon won by Ron Hill of Great Britain in 2:10:30
• 1970 - Bruno Kreisky becomes 1st socialist chancellor of Austria
• 1970 - Ron Hill’s 2:10:30 at Boston, sets new US marathon record
• 1971 - Barbra Streisand records “We’ve Only Just Begun”
• 1971 - US Supreme Court upholds use of busing to achieve racial desegregation
• 1972 - Apollo 16’s Young & Duke land on Moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2
• 1972 - Kallicharran scores his 2nd Test century in his 2nd Test Cricket
• 1973 - Canadian ANIK A2 becomes 1st commercial satellite in orbit
• 1974 - Paul McCartney releases “Band on the Run”
• 1975 - 29th Tony Awards: Equus & Wiz win
• 1975 - 4th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Palmer
• 1975 - Penguins 1-Isles 3-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-1 lead
• 1976 - George Harrison sings lumberjack song with Monty Python
• 1977 - Supreme Court rules “Live Free or Die” may be covered on NH licenses
• 1977 - Woody Allen’s film “Annie Hall” premieres
• 1978 - Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets in Russian airspace
• 1980 - Cubans begin to arrive in US from Mariel boatlift
• 1980 - Donna White wins LPGA Florida “Lady Citrus” Golf Tournament
• 1981 - 10th Boston Women’s Marathon won by Allison Roe of NZ in 2:26:46
• 1981 - 85th Boston Marathon won by Toshihiko Seko of Japan in 2:09:26
• 1981 - Final performance of TV show “Soap” airs
• 1981 - Rocker Papa John Phillips arrested for drug possession
• 1982 - Atlanta Braves become 1st team to win 1st 12 games of the season
• 1983 - Pres Reagan signs a $165B bail out for Social Security
• 1983 - Rangers 2-Isles 7-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 3-2 lead
• 1983 - Soyuz T-8 launched; mission aborted when capsule fails to dock
• 1984 - Russian offensive in Panshirvallei Afghanistan
• 1985 - Carlos Lopes runs world record marathon (2:07:12)
• 1985 - Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mark Williams
• 1985 - Karyn Marshall of NYC lifted 303 lbs in a clean & jerk lift
• 1986 - “Jerry’s Girls” closes at St James Theater NYC after 139 performances
• 1986 - Michael Johnson sets NBA playoff record with 63 points in a game
• 1986 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1986 - Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland
• 1987 - 16th Boston Women’s Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:25:21
• 1987 - 91st Boston Marathon won by Toshihiko Seko of Japan in 2:11:50
• 1987 - Sri Lanka: Tamils shoot 122 Singalezen dead
• 1987 - US deports Karl Linnas, charged with nazi war crimes, to USSR
• 1988 - Balt Orioles set worst record to start a season 0-14 (will go 0-21)
• 1988 - NJ Devils 1st playoff hat trick-Eric Broten
• 1988 - US accuses Renamo of killing 100,000 Mozambiquians
• 1988 - Yanks HR 9,999 (D Winfield) 10,000 (C Washington) 10,001 (J Clarke)
• 1990 - Pete Rose pleads guilty to hiding $300,000 in income
• 1990 - 8 2/3 inning perfect game pitched by Brian Holman of Oakland A’s is spoiled by a home run hit by Ken Philips
• 1991 - “Les Miserables,” opens at Odense Teater, Odense
• 1991 - 1st non stop flight Schiphol-Flamingo airport Bonaire
• 1991 - Mark Lenzi is 1st diver to score 100 pts on a dive (101.85)
• 1991 - Raghib “Rocket” Ismael signs with Toronto Argonauts for $26.2 million
• 1992 - 100th episode of “Murphy Brown” airs
• 1992 - 21st Boston Women’s Marathon won by Olga Markova of Russia in 2:23:43
• 1992 - 96th Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:08:14
• 1992 - All star concert in memory of Freddie Mercury held at Wembley Stadium
• 1992 - Expo ‘92 opens in Seville Spain
• 1992 - Joan Lunden, breaks her left shoulder after being thrown from a horse
• 1992 - Madonna signs $60-million deal with Time Warner
• 1993 - Uranus passes Neptune (once every 171 years)
• 1994 - Danny Harold Rolling, sentenced to death in Florida, for killing 5
• 1994 - Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed
• 1994 - Sohail & Inzamam make world record ODI partnership of 263
• 1994 - Space shuttle STS-59 (Endeavour 6), lands
• 1996 - Chicago Bulls win record 72 games in a season
• 1997 - “Gin Game,” opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 144 performances
• 1997 - “Present Laughter,” closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC
• 1997 - 1st baseball game in Hawaii, Cards beat Padres in doubleheader
• 1997 - 27th Easter Seal Telethon raises $47,392,682
• 1997 - 58th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Hale Irwin
• 1997 - Cubs beat NY Mets ending NL worst opening, lost 14 straight games
• 1997 - Karrie Webb wins LPGA Susan G Komen International
• 1997 - Myrtle Beach LPGA Classic
• 1997 - Nick Price wins golf MCI Classic
• 1997 - PGA Seniors Championship
• 1997 - Mark McGwire, is 4th to HR on Detroit Tiger left field roof (others are Frank Howard, Harmon Killibrew, & Cecil Fielder)

Famous birthdays for this day ..

• 1442 - Edward IV, King (England, 1461-83)
• 1494 - John Agricola, [Schneider], German theologist/prime minister
• 1592 - John Eliot, St Germans Cornwall, English MP/author
• 1594 - Matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern, composer
• 1705 - Balthasar Schmid, composer
• 1725 - Johann Friedrich Kloffler, composer
• 1726 - Jozef de Ferraris, French/Austrian earl/general/cartographer
• 1745 - Philippe Pinel, physician, founder of psychiatry
• 1748 - Georg Michael Telemann, composer
• 1748 - Guillaume Albert Teniers, composer
• 1761 - Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier, composer
• 1808 - Louis-Napoleon (Napoleon III), emperor of France (1852-71)
• 1809 - John Smith Preston, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1881
• 1824 - Alfred Holt Colquitt, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1894
• 1826 - Dina M Craik, writer
• 1827 - John Gibbon, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1896
• 1839 - Carol I, King of Romania (1881-1914)
• 1840 - Odilon Redon, French painter/author (La nuit, Rˆves)
• 1850 - Daniel Chester, French/American sculptor (Minute Man)
• 1857 - Charles LP “Philip” Zilcken, painter/author (HW Knife Day)
• 1857 - Hermann Bang, writer
• 1858 - Auguste Chapuis, composer
• 1860 - Charles Gordon Curtis, US attorney/inventor (Curtis Turbine)
• 1860 - Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Dutch MP (SDAP)
• 1865 - Max HHR Nettlau, Austrian historian (Le PremiÅ re Internationale)
• 1866 - Victor Hollaender, composer
• 1870 - Simeon Roncal, composer
• 1871 - William Henry Davies, Wales, poet (Autobiography of a Super Tramp)
• 1876 - Gerard J Arbous, actor/publicist (Prince William of Orange)
• 1879 - Robert Lynd, Irish writer/critic (Pleasures of Ignorance)
• 1881 - Nikolai Miaskovsky, Novogeorievsk Poland, composer (Kirov is With Us)
• 1881 - Sem Dresden, composer/conductor
• 1889 - Adolph Hitler, Braunau Austria, dictator of Nazi Germany (1936-45)
• 1890 - Adolf Sch„rf, president Austria (1957-65)
• 1893 - Harold Lloyd, Burchard Neb, silent comic (Why Worry, Safety Last)
• 1893 - Hermann Ungar, writer
• 1893 - Juan Mir¢, Spain, painter/sculptor (Dog Barking at the Moon)
• 1894 - Martinus Nijhoff, poet/interpreter/linguistic (spelling)
• 1896 - Senor Wences, ventriloquist (Close the Door)
• 1897 - Bernard Verhoeven, poet/literature (About the Laugh)
• 1897 - Gregory Ratoff, Petrograd Russia, actor/director (Corsican Brothers)
• 1900 - Fred Raymond, composer
• 1900 - Kees Verwey, painter/water colors painter/cartoonist
• 1901 - Michel Leiris, French cultural anthropologist
• 1902 - Donald Wolfit, England, actor (Lawrence of Arabia, Becket, Accursed)
• 1902 - Vesselin Stoyanov, composer
• 1903 - Dagmar Edqvist, Swedish author (Kamrathustru-Wife & Comrade)
• 1904 - Bruce Cabot, Carlsbad NM, actor (Diamonds are Forever, King Kong)
• 1907 - Alan Reed, actor/voice (Fred Allen Show, Fred Flintstone)
• 1907 - Miran Bux, cricketer (his one season of Test & 1st-class play 1954-55)
• 1907 - William Dollar, St Louis, ballet dancer/choreographer
• 1908 - Wilhelmus M Bekkers, bishop of Hertogenbosch
• 1909 - Guido Alberti, literary patron/businessman
• 1909 - Lionel Hampton, orch leader/vibraphone improviser (Depths Below)
• 1909 - Richard Stubbs, publicity adviser
• 1910 - Robert F Wagner, (Mayor-D-NYC, 1954-65) [or May 15]
• 1911 - Kukrit Pramoj, politician
• 1912 - David Townsend, cricketer (3 Tests Eng v WI 1935)
• 1912 - Ed Jones, (Rep-D-TN, 1969- )
• 1912 - Frederick Craig Riddle, violist
• 1912 - Soewarsil Djojopoespito, Indonesia, writer (Toe the Line)
• 1913 - Dick Wessel, WI, actor (Dick Tracy vs Cueball, Beware of Blondie)
• 1920 - John Paul Stevens, Illinois, 103rd Supreme Court Justice (1975- )
• 1921 - Donald Gunn MacRae, sociologist
• 1923 - Tito Puente, Puerto Rico, bandleader (Dance Mania)
• 1924 - Gerhard Samuel, composer
• 1924 - Nina Foch, Leiden Netherlands, actress (American in Paris)
• 1924 - Paul M Van Buren, US theologist (Theological Explorations)
• 1925 - Ernie Stautner, NFL tackle (Steelers)/WLAF head coach (Galaxy)
• 1925 - Richard Hoffmann, composer
• 1926 - Harriett Elizabeth Byrd, politician (Wyoming house of Reps)
• 1927 - Karl Mller, Switzerland, superconductivity physicist (Nobel 1987)
• 1929 - Bob Braun, Ludlow Ky, singer (Dotty Mack Show)
• 1930 - Alan Oakman, cricketer (England batsman against Australia 1956)
• 1931 - Lee H Hamilton, Daytona Beach Fla, (Rep-D-Ind, 1965- )
• 1934 - Lindsay Oliver John Boynton, furniture historian
• 1936 - Pat Roberts, (Rep-R-KS, 1981- )
• 1938 - Bernard Malivoire, France, cox pair (Olympic-gold-1952)
• 1938 - Betty Cuthbert, Australia 100m/200m/400m dash (Olympic-gold-1956, 64)
• 1938 - Johnny Tillotson, Jacksonville Fla, singer (Gidget, Poetry in Motion)
• 1939 - Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian premier (1981-82, 86-89, 90- )
• 1940 - George Takei, LA Calif, actor (Sulu-Star Trek, Green Berets)
• 1940 - James Gammon, Newman Ill, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Nick-Nash Bridges)
• 1940 - Jan Cremer, Dutch writer/sculptor (I, John Cremer)
• 1940 - Pilar Miro, director (Wether, Beltenebros)
• 1941 - Joni Evans, NYC, publisher (Simon & Schuster, Random House)
• 1941 - Ryan O’Neal, LA Calif, actor (Peyton Place, Paper Moon, Love Story)
• 1943 - Edie Sedgwick, Santa Barbara CA, actor (Ciao Manhattan)
• 1943 - Ian Watson, UK, sci-fi author (Book of Being, Whores of Babylon)
• 1943 - Michael Greer, Galesburg Ill, actor (Bobby Gentry Show)
• 1945 - Jimmy Winston, London, organist (Samll Facres-Itchycoo Park)
• 1947 - David Leland, Cambridge England, actor/director (Nothing But Trouble)
• 1948 - Craig Frost, keyboardist (Grand Funk Railroad-Some Kind of Wonderful)
• 1949 - Jessica Lange, Cloquet Minnesota, actress (King Kong, Tootsie)
• 1949 - Michal, rocker
• 1950 - Itumeleng J Mosala, S Afr president (Azanian People’s Org)
• 1951 - Geraint Wyn Davies, Wales, actor (Bury Me in Niagara, High Hopes)
• 1951 - Luther Vandross, NYC, rock vocalist (On the Wings of Love)
• 1952 - Tamara Sergeyevna Zakharova, Russian cosmonaut
• 1952 - Toine van Benthem, dentist/playwright/cabaret performer (Purper)
• 1954 - Peter Toohey, cricketer (NSW & Australian batsman 1977-80)
• 1955 - Donald R Pettit, Silverton Oregon, PhD/astronaut
• 1957 - Graeme Fowler, cricketer (England left-handed opener early 80s)
• 1957 - Richenel, [Hubertus R Baars], singer/performer (Turn My Page)
• 1958 - Viacheslav Fetisov, Moscow, NHL defenseman (Team Russia, Detroit)
• 1959 - Clint Howard, Burbank Calif, actor (Gentle Ben)
• 1960 - Rodney Holman, NFL tight end (Detroit Lions)
• 1961 - Don “Hitman” Mattingly, Indiana, 1st baseman (NY Yankees/MVP 1985)
• 1961 - Marci Bozarth, Lampasas TX, LPGA golfer (1994 Lady Keystone Open-37th)
• 1963 - Brett Edward Garsed, Victoria Australia, heavy metal artist (Nelson)
• 1963 - Kal Swan, heavy metal rocker
• 1964 - John Carney, NFL kicker (SD Chargers)
• 1964 - Paul Nobes, cricketer (prolific opening batsman for Victoria & SA)
• 1965 - Jim Terrell, Cin Oh, sprint canoe (Olympics-96)
• 1967 - J D Roth, Beverly Hills Calif, TV host (Fun House)
• 1967 - Lara Jill Miller, Allentown Pa, actress (Samantha-Gimme a Break)
• 1967 - Miroslav Stefanovic, soccer player (FC Volendam)
• 1967 - Townsend Saunders, White Sands NM, freestyle wrestler (Oly-sil-92, 96)
• 1968 - LeShundra Nathan, Birmingham Ala, heptathlete
• 1969 - John van Halst, soccer player (FC Twente)
• 1969 - Takayuki Kobori, hockey defenseman (Team Japan 1998)
• 1970 - Ben Weir, Rock Island Ill, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Bogey Hills-2nd)
• 1970 - Shemar Moore, Oakland Cal, actor (Malcolm-Young & Restless)
• 1971 - Chris Penn, NFL wide receiver (KC Chiefs, Chicago Bears)
• 1971 - Grant Smith, Australian field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
• 1971 - John Senden, Brisbane QLD, Australasia golfer
• 1971 - Terry Smith, NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
• 1971 - Yonel Jourdain, NFL running back/kick returner (Buffalo Bills)
• 1973 - Itula Mili, tight end (Seattle Seahawks)
• 1973 - Lamond Murray, NBA forward (LA Clippers)
• 1973 - Todd Hollandsworth, Dayton OH, outfielder (LA Dodgers)
• 1974 - Ben[jamin] Lincoln Holbrook, Hartland Wis, rower (Olympics-1996)
• 1974 - Kevin Sullivan, Brantford Ontario, 1.5k runner (Olympics-96)
• 1974 - Paul Bradford, cornerback (San Diego Chargers)
• 1975 - Joey Lawrence, Phila Pa, actor (Gimme a Break, Blossom, Summer Rental)
• 1976 - Lenka Nemeckova, Brno Czech, tennis star (1993 Futures-Maribor-SLO)
• 1977 - Lisa Ervin, figure skater (US Nationals-4th-1992)

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 1164 - Victor IV, [Ottaviano Montecello], Italian antipope (1159-64), dies
• 1314 - Clement V, [Bertrand Got], pope (1305-14) move papacy to Avignon, dies
• 1317 - Agnes van Montepulciano, Italian mystic/saint, dies
• 1534 - Elizabeth Barton, [St Magd van Kent], British prophet, dies
• 1632 - Nicolas Antione, converted to Judiasm, burned at the stake
• 1643 - Christoph Demantius, composer, dies at 75
• 1662 - Gerard Terborch, the elder, painter, dies
• 1695 - Georg Caspar Weckler, composer, dies at 63
• 1759 - Georg Friedrich H„ndel, buried in Westminster Abbey
• 1768 - Giovanni AC Canaletto, Italian painter/cartoonist (Rialto), dies at 70
• 1769 - Pontiac, indian chief to Ottawa, murdered
• 1786 - John Goodricke, English deaf & dumb astronomer, dies at 21
• 1812 - George Clinton, 4th US VP, dies at 73 1st VP to, die in office
• 1820 - Arthur Young, author (Annals of Agriculture), dies
• 1821 - Franz K Achard, German physicist/chemist, dies at 67
• 1836 - Johan I Jozef, monarch of Liechtenstein/fieldmarshal, dies at 75
• 1839 - Giuseppe Rossini, father of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, dies
• 1869 - Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe, composer, dies at 72
• 1869 - Piotr Studzinski, composer, dies at 42
• 1872 - Ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja), dies at 62
• 1899 - Edouard Pailleron, French attorney/comedian (voice o—), dies at 64
• 1900 - Mebel Mercer, popular British singer, dies
• 1906 - Australian wombat; oldest known marsupial, dies in London Zoo at 26
• 1908 - Henry Chadwick, sports reporter (baseball), dies at 85
• 1912 - Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/writer (Dracula), dies
• 1918 - Reginald Harry Mybirgh Hands, cricketer (1 Test for SA), dies
• 1932 - Giuseppe Peano, mathematician, dies
• 1935 - Juliaan de Vriendt, Flemish painter, dies at 92
• 1941 - Barend ter Haar, Dutch lawyer, dies in Buchenwald at 49
• 1947 - Christian X, king of Denmark (1912-47), dies at 76
• 1953 - Erich Weinert, writer, dies at 62
• 1956 - Jaap Vranken, organist/composer (Stabat mater), dies
• 1956 - Lieven Duvosel, Flemish music composer (Levensschets), dies at 78
• 1962 - Arthur Harmat, composer, dies at 76
• 1962 - Jesse G Vincent, engineer designed 1st V-12 engine, dies at 82
• 1965 - Dick Wessel, dies of heart attack on 52nd birthday
• 1965 - Richard Wessell, actor (Carney-Riverboat), dies at 54
• 1968 - Marion Weeks, singer/actress, dies of stroke at 81
• 1971 - Cecil Parker, actor (Court Jester, Operation Snafu), dies at 73
• 1973 - Robert Armstrong, actor (Fall Guy, Exposed), dies at 82
• 1974 - Agnes Moorehead, actress (Endora-Bewitched), dies at 67
• 1974 - Mohammed Ayub Khan, premier/president (Pakistan), dies
• 1977 - Bryan Foy, director/writer, dies at 80
• 1977 - Len Johnson, cricketer (one Test for Australia, 3-66 & 3-8), dies
• 1979 - Peter Donald, host (Masquerade Party), dies at 60
• 1982 - Andrew Sandham, cricketer (325 Eng 1930, 879 runs in 14 Tests), dies
• 1982 - Archibald MacLeish, US, lawyer/writer (Conquistador), dies at 89
• 1982 - Mimi Boesnach, actress (Wedding of Kloris & Roses), dies at 82
• 1983 - Jerzy Andrezjewski, writer, dies
• 1984 - Mabel Mercer, English/US singer (Fly me to the moon), dies at 84
• 1987 - Antony Tudor, dancer/choreographer (Amer Ballet Theater) dies at 78
• 1990 - Horst Sinderman, RDA 1st minister (1973-76), dies
• 1991 - Don[ald] Siegel, US director (Coogan’s Bluff/Dirty Harry), dies at 78
• 1991 - Jumjaagiyn Tsedenbal, Mongolian politician, dies
• 1991 - Sean O’Faolain, [J Whelan], Irish writer (Nest of Simple), dies at 91
• 1991 - Steve Marriott, English guitarist (Small Faces), dies in a fire at 44
• 1991 - Yumzhagin Tsendenbal, PM of Mongolia (1952-74), dies
• 1992 - Benny Hill, comedian (Benny Hill Show), dies of a heart attack at 67
• 1992 - Johnny Shines, Delta blues singer/guitarist, dies at 76
• 1993 - Cantinflas, [Mario Moreno], Mexican actor (Pepe), dies at 81
• 1994 - Jean Carmet, French actor (Merci la Vie, Le Sucre), dies at 72
• 1995 - Milovan Djilas, Yugoslavian politician (1945-54), dies
• 1995 - R E S Wyatt, cricketer (England capt 16 times), dies
• 1995 - Sunil Jayasinghe, Sri Lankan wicketkeeper (1979 World Cup), suicide
• 1995 - Tessie O’Shea, entertainer, dies at 81
• 1996 - Cecilia Grace Hunt Reeves Gillie, bBC Executive, dies at 88
• 1996 - Christopher Robin Milne, bookseller, dies at 75
• 1996 - Tran Van Tra, soldier, dies at 77