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B05--1562 Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Deventer Holland, church music composer
B05--1912 Ellen Müller-Preis, Austria, foils (Olympics, 1932-56)
B05--1940 Deanna Lund, Chic Ill, actress (Land of the Giants, Detective)
B05--1946 Andre the Giant, [Roussimoff], France, WWF/actor (Princess Bride)
B05--1953 Martha Smith, Cleve Ohio, actress (Animal House, Blood Link)
B05--1961 Anette Dybda, Isle of Fyn Denmark, Miss Denmark (1977)
B05--1963 Natasha Richardson, London Engld, actress (Gothic, Handmaid's Tale)
B05011238 Magnus VI Lagaboeter, King of Norway (1263-80)
B05011493 Phillippus Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist (or 11/10)
B05011592 Johann A Schall von Bell, German missionaries/astronomer
B05011620 Miklós Zrínyi, Hungarian general
B05011672 Joseph Addison, England, essayist (Spectator)
B05011764 Benjamin Henry Latrobe, engineer/architect (built Capitol)
B05011769 Arthur Wellsley, Duke of Wellington, British PM (C) (1828-30)
B05011800 Ret Thomas Aloysius Dornin, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1874
B05011807 John Bankhead "Prince John" Magruder, Major General (Confederate Army)
B05011819 William Steele, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1885
B05011825 George Inness, US landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap)
B05011830 Mary Harris Jones, [Mother Jones], hell-raiser
B05011835 Alfred Napoleon Alexander "Natti" Duffie, Brig Gen (Union volunteers)
B05011839 Chardonnet, inventor (rayon)
B05011862 Anthony G Kröller, entrepreneur/govt advisor/husband of Helene Müller
B05011862 Marcel Prévost, French publisher/writer (Les demis-vierges)
B05011872 Hugo Alfvén, Stockholm Sweden, composer (Midsommarvaka)
B05011880 Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet (Tantum dic verbo)
B05011881 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, France, philosopher/paleontologist
B05011892 Howard Barlow, Plain City Ohio, conductor (Voice of Firestone)
B05011895 Leo Sowerby, Grand Rapids Michigan, composer (Pulitzer 1946)
B05011898 Eugene R Zwart, US, Pres of World Bank (1953-62)
B05011899 Jón Leifs, Iceland, composer/conductor
B050119-- Art Fleming, Bronx NY, TV host (Jeopardy)
B050119-- Bruno Ravel, rocker (Danger Danger-Screw It)
B050119-- Carmen Montejo, spanish entertainer
B050119-- Darius McCrary, actor (Edward Winslow-Family Matters)
B050119-- John Diehl, Cincinnati Oh, actor (Det Zito-Miami Vice)
B050119-- Johnny Colt, rocker (Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker)
B050119-- Louis Nye, Hartford Ct, comedian (Steve Allen, Happy Days)
B050119-- Sharon Spelman, LA Calif, actress (Joyce-Angie)
B05011900 Ignazio Silone, Italy, novelist/politician (Bread & Wine)
B05011907 Jan Pauw, CEO (Universal Netherlands Workers Aruba)
B05011907 John Peacock, founder (Stage group Gen Dutch Covenant Aruba)
B05011908 Giovanni Guareschi, Italian writer (Don Camillo, Peppone)
B05011909 Kate Smith, singer (God Bless America) Phila Flyer good luck charm
B05011909 Yannis Ritsos, Greek poet
B05011910 Cliff Battles, Akron Oh, NFL hall of famer (Braves, Redskins)
B05011913 Walter Susskind, Praha (Prague) Czechoslovakia, conductor
B05011916 Glenn Ford, Quebec Canada, actor (Cade's County, Big Heat, Midway)
B05011916 Jack Parr, Canton Ohio, TV host (Jack Paar Show)
B05011917 Danielle Darrieux, France, actress (Alexander the Great, Mayerling)
B05011917 John Beradino, LA Calif, actor (Steve Hardy-General Hospital)
B05011919 Dan O'Herlihy, Ireland, actor (Fail Safe, Last Starfighter, Robocop)
B05011921 Paul Daels, president (Flemish Iron Pilgramige committee)
B05011923 Joseph Heller, novelist (Catch-22, 1963 Arts & Letters Award)
B05011925 Chuck Bednarik, Penn, NFL hall of fame center/linebacker (Phila)
B05011925 Malcolm Scott Carpenter, Boulder, astronaut (Mercury 7 (Aurora 7))
B05011927 Greta Andersen, Denmark, 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1948)
B05011927 Harry Belefonte, calypso singer (Banana Boat Song)
B05011927 Roland Verhavert, Flemish screen writer (Sea gulls die of illness)
B05011928 Raoul Servais, Belgian cartoonist
B05011930 Ollie Matson, NFL halfback (Cardinals, Rams, Lions, Eagles)
B05011933 Joan Hackett, East Harlem NYC, actress (Defenders, Another Day)
B05011937 Bo Nilsson, Swedish composer (Doppelspiel)
B05011939 Judy Collins, Seattle Wash, singer (Send in the Clowns, Clouds)
B05011939 Max Robinson, Richmond VA, black news anchor (ABC Evening News)
B05011942 Stephen Macht, Phila Pa, actor (Joe-Knots Landing, Cagney & Lacey)
B05011944 Rita Coolidge, Nashville Tn, singer (Higer & Higher, We're All Alone)
B05011946 Joanna Lumley, Kashmir India, actress (On Her Majesty's Secret Serv)
B05011946 Valentin Muratov, USSR, floor exercise gymnist (Olympic-gold-1956)
B05011947 Carlos Ward, rocker (B T Express)
B05011949 Douglas Barr, Cedar Rapids Iowa, actor (Howie-Fall Guy)
B05011953 Felix Hanemann, rocker (Zebra)
B05011954 Michael Scott, reporter (Entertainment Tonight)
B05011954 Ray Parker Jr, rocker (Ghostbusters Theme)
B05011956 Byron Stewart, Baxter Springs Ks, actor (Warren-St Elsewhere)
B05011957 Dick Swett, (Rep-D-New Hampshire)
B05011957 Steve Ferris, rocker (Mr Mister)
B05011959 Paul Smith, rocker (Haircut 100)
B05011960 Steven Cauthen, jockey (1978 Kentucky Derby)
B05011967 Tawni Cable, Salem Oregon, playmate (June 1989)
B05011968 Mark Scott, Paramus NJ, rock drummer (Trixter-Give It To Me Good)
B0501197- Roy Rosello, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)
B05021601 Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit/inventor (lantern)
B05021660 Alessandro Scarlatti, Palermo Italy, composer (Tigrane)
B05021729 Catherine II (the Great), empress of Russia (1762-96)
B05021740 Elias Boudinot, lawyer/patriot, found Amer Biblical Society
B05021779 John Galt, Scotland, novelist (Ayrshire Legatees, Lawrie Todd)
B05021810 Leo XIII, 257th Roman Catholic pope (1878-1903)
B05021821 Abram Sanders Piatt, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1908
B05021837 Henry Martyn Robert, parliamentarian (Robert's Rules of Order)
B05021840 Theodor Herzl, Austria, journalist/founded Zionist movement
B05021844 Elijah McCoy, black inventor, held over 50 patents
B05021849 Fürst Bernhard HM von Bülow, German chancellor/Prussian PM (1900-09)
B05021860 D'Arcy Thompson, zoologist/classicist (On Growth & Form)
B05021860 Theodor Herzl, Austria journalist (founded zionism)
B05021872 GG van der Hoeven, head director (NRC)
B05021884 François de Vries, economist
B05021887 Edward Collins, NY, Hall of Fame infielder (White Sox, A's)
B05021890 E[dward] E[lmer] "Doc" Smith, US, sci-fi author (Triplanetary)
B05021892 Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, [Red Baron], German WW I ace
B05021895 Peggy Bacon, Ridgefield Ct, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads)
B05021898 Jef [Josephus C F] Last, poet/Spanish politician
B050219-- Jo Ann Pflug, Atlanta Ga, actress (M*A*S*H, Candid Camera, Rituals)
B050219-- Matt Thorr, rocker (Jailhouse-Alive in a Mad World)
B050219-- Myriam Hernández, Chile, spanish singer
B05021902 Brian Aherne, actor (Juarez)
B05021903 Benjamin Spock, pediatrician/author (Common Sense Book of Bay Care)
B05021905 Alan Rawsthorne, Haslingden England, composer (Cortéges)
B05021906 Aileen Riggin, Newport RI, springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1920, 24)
B05021908 William Bakewell, LA Calif, actor (Stage manager-Pinky Lee Show)
B05021912 Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate
B05021912 Marten Toonder, writer/cartoonist (Mr Bommel)
B05021915 Van Alexander, NYC, orch leader (Gordon MacRae Show)
B05021919 Than Wyenn, NYC, actor (Pete Kelly's Blues)
B05021921 Satyajit Ray, Calcutta India, director (Goddess, Adversary)
B05021924 Aafje Heynis, singer
B05021924 Theodore Bikel, folk singer/actor (Russians Are Coming)
B05021925 John Neville, actor (Adventures of Baron Münchausen)
B05021925 Roscoe Lee Browne, Woodbury NJ, actor (McCoy, Saunders-Soap)
B05021932 Bruce Glover, Chicago Ill, actor (Diamonds are Forever)
B05021935 Feisal II, King of Iraq (1939-58)
B05021935 Hoessein ibn Talal, King of Jordan (1952- )
B05021936 Michael Rabin, NYC, violinist (In Memorium)
B05021936 Quinn Redeker, Woodstock Ill, actor (Dan Raven, Young & Restless)
B05021937 Lorenzo Music, Bkln NY, writer/actor (Carlton-Rhoda)
B05021940 Roger Robinson, Seattle Wash, actor (Warren-Friends, Newman's Law)
B05021940 Sari van Heemskerck Pillis-Duvekot, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (VVD)
B05021941 Jules Wÿdenbosch, premier Suriname
B05021945 Bianca Pérez Morena de Macias Jagger, Nicaragua, model/Mick's ex-wife
B05021945 Goldy McJohn, rocker (Steppenwolf)
B05021946 Lesley Gore, Tenafly NJ, singer (cries at her own party)
B05021946 Robert Henriit, rocker (Argent)
B05021947 Bill Lowery, (Rep-R-CA, 1981- )
B05021948 Larry Gatlin, country singer (Gatlan Brothers)
B05021949 Joey Phillips, percussionist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
B05021950 Lou Gramm, rocker (Foreigner-Want to Know What Love is)
B05021953 "Keith" Jamaal Wilkes, NBA forward (Golden State-Rookie of Yr 1975)
B05021959 Brian Tochi, LA Calif, actor (Dr Alan Poe-St Elsewhere, Renegades)
B05021961 Doctor Robert, [Bruce R Howard], rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
B05021962 Elizabeth Berridge, Westchester NY, actress (Amadeus, Funhouse)
B05031455 Johan II de Volmakte, King of Portugal (1481-95)/took in Spanish Jews
B05031469 Niccolò Machiavelli, Italy, politician/writer (Prince)
B05031514 Bartholomaeus a Martyribus, [Fernandez], primate of Portugal
B05031773 Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian traveller/nature investigator/diplomat
B05031816 Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union Army), died in 1892
B05031826 Charles XV Louis E, King of Sweden/Norway (1859-72)/poet
B05031844 Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semitic journalist
B05031844 Richard D'Oyly Carte, England, opera impresario (Ivanhoe)
B05031849 Jacob Riis, Denmark, reporter (NY Tribune, NY Evening Sun)
B05031873 Nikolay Tcherepnin, St Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs (OS)
B05031874 François Coty, Corsica, Corsican senator/perfume maker
B05031892 Beulah Bondi, Chicago, actress (It's a Wonderful Life)
B05031892 George Thomson, demonstrated electron diffraction (Nobel 1937)
B05031895 Earnest Kantorowicz, German/US historian (Laudes regiae)
B05031895 Zoltan Korda, Hong Kong/England, director (Jungle Book)
B05031897 V K Krishna Menon, India, minister of defense
B05031898 Golda Meir, [Meyerson], Kiev Ukraine, 4th Israeli PM (1969-74)
B05031899 Aline MacMahon, McKeesport Pa, actress (Backdoor to Heaven)
B050319-- Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth, rocker (Overkill-Hello From the Gutter)
B050319-- Mark Thomas Miller, Louisville Ky, actor (Johnny-Misfits of Science)
B05031902 Jack Larue, NYC, actor (Lights Out, Mouthpiece, My Favorite Brunette)
B05031902 Walter Slezak, Vienna, actor (Bedtime for Bonzo, Inspector General)
B05031903 Bing Crosby, Tacoma Wash, singer (White Christmas, Going My Way)
B05031904 Charles "Red" Ruffing, NY Yankee pitcher, hitter (1930-46)
B05031906 Mary Astor, actress (Maltese Falcon, Dinky, Across the Pacific)
B05031907 Earl Wilson, Rockford Ohio, columnist (Midnight Earl)
B05031913 Earl Blackwell, Atlanta Ga, author (Celebrity Register)
B05031916 Henry Barbosa Gonzalez, San Antonio Tx, (Rep-D-Tx, 1961- )
B05031916 Pierre Emmanuel, French poet (Sodome)
B05031919 Betty Comden, Bkln, song writer (Comden & Green-Bells are Ringing)
B05031919 Pete Seeger, folk singer (Weaver, Goodnight Irene)
B05031920 Sugar Ray Robinson, [Walter Smith], middle/welterweight boxer (champ)
B05031921 Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, Portuguese leftist colonel
B05031923 Ralph M Hall, (Rep-D-TX, 1981- )
B05031924 Mary Carver, LA Calif, actress (Cecilia-Simon & Simon)
B05031925 Nina Bara, Buenos Aires Arg, actress (Tonga-Space Patrol)
B05031928 James Brown, Augusta Ga, singer/jail bird, soul brother #1 (Hot Pants)
B05031928 Jeanne Bal, Santa Monica Calif, actress (Pat-Love & Marriage)
B05031929 Hendrik L van Beek, Dutch vice-admiral
B05031931 Alex Cord, actor (Dead are Alive)
B05031935 Donald P Hodel, Portland Ore, US Secreatary of Interior (1985-89)
B05031936 Engelbert Humperdinck, [Arnold George Dorsey], Madras India, singer
B05031937 Frankie Valli, [Castelluccio], Newark NJ, singer (Four Seasons-Sherry)
B05031939 Jonathan Harvey, English composer (Bhakti, Music of Stockhausen)
B05031939 José Torres, US, boxer (Olympics)
B05031939 Samantha Eggar, England, actress (Collector)
B05031941 Nona Gaprindasvili, USSR, world women's chess champ (1962-78)
B05031942 Vera Càslavskà-Odlozilova, Czech, gymnast (Olympic-gold-1964, 68)
B05031944 Peter Staples, rocker (Troggs-Wild Thing)
B05031946 Greg Gumbel, sportscaster (CBS TV, WFAN)
B05031947 Doug Henning, magician (Broadway play-Magic)
B05031949 Ron Wyden, (Rep-D-OR, 1981- )
B05031950 Mary Hopkin, South Wales, singer (Those Were the Days)
B05031951 Christopher Cross, singer (Sailing, Arthur's Theme)
B05031952 Allen Wells, England, 100m dash (Olympic-gold-1980)
B05031953 Van McLain, rocker (Shooting Star)
B05031957 Rod Langway, Formosa, NHL defenseman (Mont Canadiens, Wash Caps)
B05031959 David Ball, rocker (Soft Cell)
B05031968 Deborah Caprioglio, Italy, actress (Paprika)
B05041006 Abd-Allah Ansari, Persian mystic/poet (Monadjat)
B05041635 Willem van Outhoorn, governor-general (Dutch Indies)
B05041776 Johann Friedrich Herbart, Germany, philospher/psychologist
B05041796 Horace Mann, US, educator/author/editor (pioneered public schools
B05041796 Joseph Pannell Taylor, Brig General (Union Army), died in 1864
B05041820 Joseph Whitaker, England, publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack
B05041820 Julia Gardiner Tyler, 2nd wife of Pres John Tyler (1841-45)
B05041825 Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist/humanist/Darwinist
B05041826 Frederick Church, US romantic landscape painter (Hudson River Sch)
B05041860 Nikolaus Von Reznicek, Vienna Austria, composer (Donna Diana)
B05041875 Ramiro de Maeztu y Whitney, Spanish writer (Don Quixote & Celestine)
B05041877 Arthur Long, US, boxer/businessman (?-Died 8/8/1992)
B05041889 Francis J Spellman, US Cardinal
B05041891 Johan W F Werumeus Buning, poet (...farmer's gang)
B05041902 Cola [Nicolas] Debrot, Bonaire governor (Neth Antilles)
B05041903 Luther Adler, NYC, actor (Dr Bernard Altman-Psychiatrist)
B05041905 Mátyás Seiber, Budapest Hungary, composer (Scherzando)
B05041906 Esmond Knight, East Sheen England, actor (Hamlet, Sleeping Murder)
B05041909 Howard Da Silva, [Silverblatt], Cleve Oh, actor (Ben Franklin-1776)
B05041912 Lou Brown, Bkln, orch leader (Jerry Lewis Show)
B05041914 Abdel Karim Kassem, general/premier/dictator of Iraq (1958-63)
B05041918 Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese PM convicted of bribe-taking
B05041921 Patsy Garrett, Atlantic City NJ, actress (Nanny & the Professor)
B05041922 John Paul Hammerschmidt, (Rep-R-AR, 1967- )
B05041924 Dennis Weaver, actor (McCloud)
B05041925 Peter Blum, German/South African/English poet (Capricorn)
B05041928 Betsy Rawls, Spartanburg SC, golfer (US Womens Open-51, 53, 57, 60)
B05041928 Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian president (1981- )
B05041928 Maynard Ferguson, jazz trumpeter (Roulette)
B05041929 Audrey Hepburn, Brussels Belg, (Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady)
B05041930 Roberta Peters, NYC, operatic soprano (NY Met)
B05041931 Ed Cassidy, drummer (Spirit-I Got A Line on You)
B05041931 Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Moscow Russia, conductor (USSR State Radio)
B05041934 Pete Barbutti, Scranton Pa, comedian (Garry Moore Show)
B05041936 El Cordobés, Spanish bullfighter
B05041938 William J Bennett, US Secretary of Education (1985-88)
B05041941 George F Will, political analyst (Night Line)
B05041942 Ronnie Bond, drummer (Troggs-Wild Thing)
B05041943 Nickolas Ashford, SC, singer (Ashford & Simpson-Solid as a Rock)
B05041944 Paul Gleason, actor (Breakfast CLub, Die Hard)
B05041945 Monika van Paemel, Belgian writer (Accursed fathers)
B05041948 Billy O'Donnell, harness racer driver of year (1984)
B05041949 Gerrit J P van Otterloo, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
B05041949 Sybil Danning, [Danninger], Weis Austria, actress (Chained Heat)
B05041950 Hilly Hicks, LA Calif, actor (Roll Out, Roots)
B05041951 Gene Greenwood, (Rep-R-Pennsylvania)
B05041951 Jackie [Sigmund] Jackson, rocker (Jackson 5-ABC)
B05041954 Julie Budd, Bkln, singer (Child of Plenty)
B05041956 Michael L Gernhardt, Mansfield Ohio, PhD/astronaut
B05041956 Ulrike Meyfarth, Frankfurt W Germany, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1972)
B05041958 Keith Haring, Kutztown Pa, graffiti artist (Vanity Fair, Paris Review)
B05041959 Randy Travis, country singer (Always & Forever)
B05041961 Mary Elizabeth McDonough, Van Nuys Cal, actress (Erin-Waltons)
B05041962 Tracy Vaccaro, Glendale Calif, playmate (October, 1983)
B05041967 Matthew Crane, Kimberton Pa, actor (Matt Cory-Another World)
B05041975 Pablo Ruiz, Buenos Aires Arg, spanish singer
B05051352 Ruprecht, Roman catholic German king
B05051635 Philippe Quinault, French playwright (L'amant indiscret)
B05051804 Jacob Kats, Flemish writer (Aerdsch Paradise)
B05051813 Sφren Kierkegaard, Denmark, philosopher (founded Existentialism)
B05051815 Eugène-Marin Labiche, French playwright
B05051817 George Washington Julian, MC (Union), died in 1899
B05051818 Karl Marx, philospher (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital)
B05051819 Stanislaw Moniuszko, Polish composer
B05051823 James Allen Hardie, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1876
B05051826 Eugénie M de Montijo y de Guzman, Emperoress of France
B05051832 H H Bancroft, historian, publisher (History of Pacific States)
B05051833 Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer/explorer
B05051846 Henryk Sienkiewicz, Poland, author (Quo Vadis, Nobel 1905)
B05051849 Hambletonian, Chester NY, greatest standardbred horse
B05051867 Nellie Bly, whose name became a synonym for female star reporter
B05051869 Hans Erich Pfitzner, Moscow Russia, composer (Krakquer Begrüs)
B05051879 Symon Petljoera, leader Ukraine (pogroms)
B05051883 Charles Bender, only Americian Indian in baseball's Hall of Fame
B05051884 Wang Tjing-Wei, premier China (1932-35)
B05051885 Henri Velge, 1st chairman (Belgian Council of State)
B05051887 Lord Geoffrey Fisher of Lambeth, archbishop of Canterbury
B05051890 Christopher Morley, author (Kitty Foil)
B05051899 Freeman Gosden, Richmond Va, radio actor (Amos-Amos 'n' Andy)
B050519-- Melinda Culea, Western Springs Ill, actress (A-Team, Glitter)
B050519-- Richard Schaal, Chicago Ill, actor (Leo-Phyllis, Trapper John MD)
B05051900 Charles Jewtraw, US, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1924)
B05051900 Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, German composer/conductor (Hassan gewinnt)
B05051900 Spencer Tracy, actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
B05051903 James Beard, US, culinary expert/author (Delights & Prejudices)
B05051904 Gordon Richards, British jockey (winner of 4,870 races)
B05051905 Arnold Meijer, leader of fascist Nationally Front
B05051908 Jacques Massu, French general (Algeria)
B05051908 Rex Harrison, [Reginald Carey], Engld, actor (My Fair Lady, Cleopatra)
B05051912 Alice Faye, [Ann Leppert], actress (Alexander's Ragtime Band)
B05051913 Tyrone Power, actor (Mark of Zorro, Alexander's Ragtime Band)
B05051915 Richard H Rovere, Jersey City, journalist (Goldwater Caper)
B05051919 George London, Montreal Canada, bass-baritone (Monterone-Rigoleto)
B05051919 Tony Canadeo, Chicago, NFL hall of fame halfback (Green Bay Packers)
B05051921 Sonja Oosterman, singer (Marketensters)
B05051922 Phil Gordon, Meridian Miss, actor/singer (Jasper-Bev Hillbillies)
B05051924 Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Buenos Aires, director (Monday's Child)
B05051925 Monica Lewis, actress (Box Office)
B05051926 Ann B Davis, Schenectady NY, actress (Bob Cummings Show, Brady Bunch)
B05051927 Charles Rosen, NYC, pianist/musicologist (Sonata Forms)
B05051927 Pat Carroll, Shrevport La, comedienne/actress (Make Room for Daddy)
B05051929 John S Ragin, Newark NJ, actor (Dr Astin-Quincy ME)
B05051930 Michael J Adams, pilot (X-15)
B05051932 Will Hutchins, Atwater Calif, actor (Sugarfoot, Hey Landlord)
B05051935 Douglas Marland, West Sand Lake NY, soap opera writer (Gen Hospital)
B05051938 Jerzy Skolimowski, Warsaw Poland, director (Hands Up, Deep End)
B05051938 Michael Murphy, US, actor (McCabe & Mrs Miller, Unmarried Woman)
B05051939 James R Jones, (Rep-D-OK, 1973- )
B05051941 Aleksandr Ragulin, USSR, ice hockey play (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72)
B05051941 Howie Komives, NBA star (NY Knicks, Buffalo Braves)
B05051942 Tammy Wynette, Redbay Alabama, country singer (Stand by your Man)
B05051943 Michael Palin, comedian (Monty Python, Fish Called Wanda)
B05051944 Jean-Pierre Leaud, Paris France, actor (Detective)
B05051944 John Rhys Davies, Salisbury England, actor (Sir Edward-Quest)
B05051945 Raphael, Spain, spanish singer (When the Sun Sets, Lo Meyur de Ano)
B05051948 Bill Ward, rocker (Black Sabbath)
B05051949 Anna Bergman, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Agent 69)
B05051949 Michael Murphy, LA Calif, actor (Dr Art Armstrong-2 Marriages)
B05051950 Maggie MacNeal, singer (Mouth & MacNeal, I See a Star)
B05051952 Louis Cortiezzi, rocker (Mink DeVille)
B05051953 Billy Burnette, Memphis Tn, rocker (Between Friends)
B05051954 Peter Erskine, jazz drummer (Weather Report)
B05051955 Robert Feld, Nashville Tn, National Scrabble Champion (1990)
B05051956 Dick Kemper, bassist (Vandenberg)
B05051957 Lisa Eilbacher, Dharan Saudia Arabia, actress (Beverly Hills Cop)
B05051957 Thereza Bazaar, rocker (Dollar-Love's Gotta Hold on Me)
B05051959 Ian McCullough, rocker (Echo & Bunnymen-Heaven Up Here)
B05051962 Lori Singer, actress (Footloose, Summer Heat)
B05051972 Wendy Kaye, Memphis Tenn, playmate (Jul, 1991)
B05051973 Tina Yothers, Whittier Calif, actresss (Jennifer-Family Ties)
B05051976 Sage Stallone, actor (Rocky V)/Syvester's son
B05051990 Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg, NYC, daughter of Caroline
B0506 973 Henry II, Roman Catholic German king/emperor (1002/14-24)
B05061501 Marcellus II, [Marcello Cervini], Italy, humanist/Pope (1555, 22 days)
B05061581 Frans Francken, the Younger, painter
B05061606 Lorenzo Lippi, [Perlone Zipoli], poet/painter
B05061740 John Penn, signed Decl of Ind
B05061758 Maximilien Robespierre, Arras Fr, French revolutionary/avocat (1781)
B05061769 Ferdinand III, archduke of Austria/ruler of Toscane
B05061785 Arvir A Afzelius, Swedish story teller
B05061801 George Sears Greene, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
B05061802 Friedrich Wilhelm Schirmer, artist
B05061806 Chapin Aaron Harris, US, found America Society of Dental Surgeons
B05061812 Marin R Delany, Charlestown Va, pioneer black nationalist
B05061812 Martin Robinson Delaney, US, 1st black major in US Medical Corp
B05061813 Joseph Tarr Copeland, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1893
B05061814 Wilhelm Ernst, violinist/composer
B05061825 Joseph Bailey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
B05061829 Phoebe Ann Coffin, 1st female ordained minister in New England
B05061830 Guido Gezelle, Flemish priest/poet
B05061843 Grove Karl Gilbert, geologist, investigated Lake Bonneville, Utah
B05061849 Wyatt Eaton, artist
B05061856 Robert Edwin Peary, US, arctic explorer (North Pole-Apr 6 1909)
B05061856 Sigmund Freud, Austria, cigar smoker, father of psychology
B05061859 Luis María Drago, Argentina, statesman, anti-interventionist
B05061859 Willem Kloos, poet
B05061861 Radindranath Tagore, Indian philosopher/poet/writer
B05061868 Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont, Poland, novelist (Chiopi, Nobel-1924)
B05061869 Jan R Slotemaker de Bruïne, clergyman/CHU-politician
B05061870 Amedos Peter Giannine, San Jose Calif, founded Bank of America
B05061870 John McClutcheon, cartoonist (Pulitzer Prize-1931)
B05061875 William Daniel Leahy, Iowa, 5 star adimiral/chief of staff (1949)
B05061879 Johan H T Norlind, Swedish musicologist
B05061880 Baron W Edmund, Archangel & Ironside, British field marshal
B05061880 Ernst L Kirchner, German painter
B05061883 José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher/author [or May 9]
B05061888 Emmanuel Celler, (Rep-D-NY, 1923-73)
B05061889 Arthur Morison, typographer
B05061895 Rudolph Valentino, sheik/actor (Eagle)
B05061898 Daniel Gerber, Freemont Mi, beloved by babies at mealtime
B050619-- Tony King, Canton Ohio, actor (Sgt John Webber-Bronk)
B05061902 Harry Golden, Jewish humorist/writer (2¢ Plain, Only in America)
B05061902 Max Ophüls, Saarland, dir/writer (Letters From an Unknown Woman)
B05061902 Walter Dawson, British Air Chief marshall
B05061904 Harry Martinson, Sweden, novelist/poet (Trade Wind-Nobel 1974)
B05061905 [Bernard] Toots Shor, raconteur/restauranteur (Toots Shor)
B05061906 André Weil, [Bourbaki], French/US mathematician
B05061907 Weeb Ewbank, NFL coach (Baltimore Colts, NY Jets)
B05061912 Barend Roest Crollius, painter/writer (Chronicle Sins of Youth)
B05061912 Bill Quinn, NYC, actor (Rifleman, Van Ranseleer-All in the Family)
B05061912 Hugh Martell, British Vice Admiral
B05061913 Carmen Cavallaro, US, actress(?)
B05061913 Jack [John T] Aitken, British anatomist
B05061913 Ronald Harris, British 1st Church Estates Commissioner
B05061913 Stewart Granger, [James Stewart], London, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)
B05061913 Woody Herman, US jazz clarinetist/composer (Thundering Herds)
B05061915 George Perle, Bayonne NJ, composer (12 Tone Tonality)
B05061915 John Arnold, British high court judge
B05061915 May Henriquez-Alvarez, Curaçaos sculptor
B05061915 Orson Welles, Kenosha Wisc, actor (Citizen Kane, War of the Worlds)
B05061915 Theodore H White, historian/writer (Making of President)
B05061919 Frank Ereaut, Balliff of Jersey
B05061920 John Henderson, Lord-Lieutenant (Berkshire England)
B05061921 Freddy Randall, jazz trumpeteer
B05061921 Robert Fell, CEO (British Stock Exchange)
B05061921 Ross Hunter, US, actor(?)
B05061922 Alan Ross, editor (London Magazine)
B05061922 Carlos J Moorhead, (Rep-R-CA, 1973- )
B05061922 Pat Harder, Milwaukee, NFL fullback (Cardinals, Lions)
B05061923 Elizabeth Sellars, Glasgow Scotland, actress (Chalk Garden)
B05061924 Mimi Benzell, Bridgeport Ct, operatic soprano (Gilda-Rigoletto)
B05061925 Patrick Meany, CEO (Rank Organization)
B05061926 John Hamilton-Jones, CEO (Richmond Enterprises)/British Maj-Gen
B05061926 Marguerite Piazza, New Orleans LA, operatic soprano (Young Broadway)
B05061929 John Taylor, bishop (St Albans)/Lord High Almoner to Queen
B05061929 Rosemary Camp, president (Council for British Archaeology)
B05061931 Marvin Leath, (Rep-D-TX, 1979- )
B05061931 Willie Mays, baseball player, "Say Hey Kid" (660 HRs, NL MVP 1954)
B05061932 John Bond, cricket umpire
B05061933 Lord Pender
B05061934 Richard C Shelby, (Rep-D-AL (1979-86)/Sen-D-AL, 1987- )
B05061936 Joanna Dunham, actress
B05061938 Eleanor Platt, QC
B05061939 Anthony Blacker, master-general of Ordnance
B05061940 Murray Sidlin, Baltimore Maryland, conductor (Natl Symph 1973-77)
B05061941 Fred J Eckert, (Rep-D-NY, 1985-87)
B05061941 Ghena Dimitrova, actress (Nabucco)
B05061945 Bob Seger, singer (Silver Bullet Band)
B05061945 Richard Eyers, LA Calif, actor (My Friend Irma, Stagecoach West)
B05061946 Jim Ramstad, (Rep-R-Minnesota)
B05061946 Susan Brown, actress (General Hospital)
B05061946 Sydne Rome, Akron Ohio, actress (What?, Candy)
B05061948 Lolita, [Abrázame], spanish singer (Espérame)
B05061948 Richard Cox, NYC, actor (Mark-Executive Suite)
B05061949 David C Leestma, Muskegon Mich, USN/astronaut (STS 41-G, 28, 45)
B05061953 Lynn Whitfield, Baton Rouge, actress (Josephine Baker, Equal Justice)
B05061953 Tony Blair, British MP
B05061954 Sergei Nikolayevich Tresvyatsky, Russia, cosmonaut
B05061955 Donald A Thomas, Cleve Ohio, PhD/astronaut
B05061955 John Hutton, MP
B05061959 Charles Hendry, MP
B05061959 Eric D Fingerhut, (Rep-D-Ohio)
B05061959 Kate Collins, Boston Mass, actress (Natalie Hunter-All My Children)
B05061960 Bart de Farmer, guitarist (Ivy Green)
B05061960 Larry Steinbachek, rock synthersizer (Bronski Beat-Smalltown Boy)
B05061961 Clay O'Brien, Ray Az, actor (Weedy-Cowboys)
B05061962 Neil Foster, cricketer
B05061963 Alessandra Ferri, British ballerina
B05061964 Dana Hill, Van Nuys Calif, actress (2 of Us, Shoot the Moon)
B05061964 Kim Oden, Ala, US Olympic volleyball player (NCAA Play of Decade-80s)
B05061964 Roma Downey, Derry Ireland, actress (JoAnna-One Life to Live)
B05061965 Norman Whiteside, British soccer player
B05061965 Zahid Sadiq, cricketer
B05061967 Patrick F Manning Jr, Poughkeepsie NY, rower (Olympic-92)
B05061968 Linnea Marie Fayard, Shrevept La, Miss Louisiana-America (1991-5th)
B05071530 Louis I Condé, French prince/leader of hugenots
B05071574 Innocent X, [Giambattista Pamfili], 236th pope (1644-55)
B05071763 Josef Poniatovski, Polish general/marshal of France
B05071776 Dániel Berzsenyi, [Hungarian Horatius], Hungarian poet
B05071812 Robert Browning, London England, poet (Pied Piper)
B05071826 Varina Howell Davis, 1st lady (Confederacy), died in 1905
B05071827 Francis Engle Patterson, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
B05071833 Johannes Brahms, German composer, enjoys a good lullaby
B05071840 Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, Votkinsk Russia, composer (1812 Overture)
B05071847 Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery (Lib), British PM (1894-95)
B05071861 Rabindranath Tagore, Hindu poet/mystic/composer (Nobel 1913)
B05071882 Willem Elsschot, [Alfons J de Ridder], Flemish writer (Mend)
B05071887 Henri Pourrat, French writer (Gaspard of the Montagnes)
B05071892 Archibald MacLeish, Glencoe Ill, polit essayist/poet/dramatist (JB)
B05071892 Josip Broz Tito, WW II partisan, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80)
B05071897 Kitty McKane, England, tennis (Oly 1920, 24) gold/2 silver/2 bronze
B050719-- Kevin O'Connor, Honolulu Hawaii, actor (Bogie, Special Effects)
B050719-- Maria Laria, Havana Cuba, Spanish TV hostess (Cara Cara)
B050719-- Michael E Knight, actor (Tad Martin-All My Children)
B050719-- Phil Campbell, rocker (Motorhead-No Remorse)
B05071900 Bauke Tuinstra, Fries notary/author (Earste Keur)
B05071901 Gary Cooper, Montana, actor (2 Acad Awards-Sgt York, High Noon)
B05071901 L T Coggeshall, medical scientist/ US Secretary of HEW (1956-58)
B05071908 Ed MacDonald, actor (Mysteries of Chinatown)
B05071909 Edwin H Land, inventor (instant photography (Polaroid))
B05071912 Paul H F Brenneker, Neth/Antillian photographer/folklorist
B05071917 David Tomlinson, US, actor(?)
B05071919 Eva (Evita) Perón-Duarte, Argentina, 1st lady/actress
B05071922 Darren McGavin, Spokane Wash, actor (Night Stalker, Tribes, Turk 182)
B05071922 Gale Robbins, Chicago Ill, actress/singer (Hollywood House)
B05071923 Anne Baxter, Mich City Ind, actr (Myra-Marcus Welby, Victoria-Hotel)
B05071923 Pete V Domenici, (Sen-R-NM, 1973- )
B05071926 Val Bisoglio, NYC, actor (Lt Marsh-Police Woman, Danny-Quincy ME)
B05071927 Jim Lowe, Springfield Mass, DJ (WNEW) "King of Trivia"
B05071929 Dick Williams, baseball player, manager (including Seattle 1986-87)
B05071930 Horst Bienek, German poet
B05071931 Gene [Rodman] Wolfe, US, sci-fi author (Soldier of Arete)
B05071931 Nel J Ginjar-Mas, Dutch Sect of State (VVD)
B05071931 Teresa Brewer, Toledo Ohio, singer (Put Another Nickel In)
B05071932 Pete V Domenici, (Sen-R New Mexico)
B05071933 Johnny Unitas, NFL QB (Balt Colts, San Diego); one of the greats
B05071935 Kevin O'Connor, US, actor (Bogie, Special Effects)
B05071938 Johnny Caldwell, Ireland, flyweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1956)
B05071939 Jimmy Ruffin, soloist (What Becomes of Broken Hearted)
B05071939 Marco St John, New Orleans La, actor (Rayford-Ball Four)
B05071939 Rudolphus F M Lubbers, Netherland Premier (CDA)
B05071943 Peter Horak, jetboat jumper
B05071944 Sivi Aberg, actress (Batman TV show)
B05071945 Robin Strasser, NYC, actress (One Life to Live, Another World)
B05071945 Wim A Mateman, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
B05071946 Bill Danoff, Springfield Mass, vocalist (Starland Vocal Band)
B05071950 Prairie Prince, rocker (Tubes)
B05071951 Janis Ian, [Fink], NYC, rocker (At 17, Society's Child)
B05071951 Robert Hegyes, NJ, actor (Underground Aces, Welcome Back Kotter)
B05071955 Peter Reckell, actor (Days of our Lifes)
B05071959 Tamara E Jernigan, [Tammy], Chattoonaga Tn, PhD/astronaut (STS 40, 52)
B05071960 Arnon Ohad, co-pilot El Al plane that crashed on Bijlmer Amsterdam
B05071962 Robbie Knievel, daredevil, son of Evel
B05071964 Mustapha Zerqti, Moroccan/Neth writer (Ihtidaar hub fi el-mahd
B05071968 Traci Lords, [Nora L Kuzma], Steubenville Oh, porn actress (Cry Baby)
B05071969 Katerina Maleeva, Bulgaria, tennis player (US Open Junior 1984)
B05071987 Katie Danza, daughter of Tony & Tracy Danza
B05081592 Francis Quarles, English poet (Argalus & Parthenia, Emblems)
B05081629 Niels Juel, Danish admiral (Oland, Moen, Kjögebocht)
B05081641 Nicolaas Witsen, etcher/mayor (Amsterdam)
B05081668 Alain R Lesage, French author (Turcaret ou le Financier)
B05081737 Edward Gibbon, England, historian (Decline & Fall of Roman Empire)
B05081753 Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, father of Méxican independence
B05081786 Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry
B05081810 James Cooper, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
B05081814 Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin, anarchist
B05081824 William Walker, filibuster/president of Nicaragua (1856-57)
B05081828 Jean Henri Dunant, Switz, writer/founder (Red Cross, YMCA, Nobel 1901)
B05081829 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, 1st internationally recognized US pianist
B05081833 Frank Wheaton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1903
B05081836 Bryan Morel Thomas, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1905
B05081842 Emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist
B05081846 Oscar Hammerstein, Germany, opera/playwright (Kohinoor)
B05081857 Frits [Frederik H] Tartaud, actor/wife of Alida Little
B05081858 John Meade Falkner, novelist (Moonfleet)
B05081871 [Emile M] Louis Madelin, French historian (French revolutionary)
B05081882 Philips C Visser, explorer/diplomat
B05081884 Harry S Truman, Lamar Missouri, 33rd US President (D) (1945-1949)
B05081891 Chet "Red" Hoff, pitcher (NY Yankees 1911-15), lived to 100
B05081892 Ezio Pinza, Rome Italy, bass singer (South Pacific, RCA Victor Show)
B05081893 Francis Quimet, Mass shop asst who won golf's US Open (1913)
B05081895 Edmund Wilson, American critic/writer (Patriotic Gore)
B05081895 Fulton J Sheen, El Paso Ill, bishop (Life is Worth Living)
B05081895 José Gómez, [Joselito el Gallo], bullfighter
B05081899 August von Hayek, economist
B05081899 Friedrich A von Hayek, Aust/British economist (Road to Serfdom)
B05081899 Jan F van Hall, sculptor/resistance fighter
B050819-- Eric Brittingham, rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)
B050819-- Jeff Wincott, Toronto Canada, actor (Night Heat)
B050819-- Mark Blankfield, Pasadena Tx, comedian (Fridays, Good & Evil)
B050819-- Reid Smith, Burbank Calif, actor (Chase, Chisholms)
B050819-- Stephen Furst, Norfolk Va, actor (Animal House, Elliot-St Elsewhere)
B05081903 Fernandel, [Fernand JD Contandin], French actor (Paris Holiday)
B05081904 John Snagge, BBC commentator
B05081906 David Van Vactor, Plymouth Indiana, composer (Chaconne)
B05081906 Roberto Rossellini, Italy, director (Open City)
B05081911 Robert Johnson, blues singer (King of Delta Blues Singer)
B05081911 Wilhelm F de Gay Fortman, lawyer/foreign minister
B05081912 Gertrud Fussenegger, [Dorn], Austrian writer (Mohrenlegende)
B05081914 Lord Murton, of Lindisfrarne, deputy chairman of Comm House of Lords
B05081915 John Archer, Nebraska, actor (Destination: Moon)
B05081920 Maurice Cranston, political scientist
B05081920 Sloan Wilson, US, novelist (Man in the Gray Flannal Suit)
B05081921 Graham Leonard, bishop of London
B05081922 Brian Kellett, CEO (Port of London Authority)
B05081925 Ali Hassan Mwinyi, president of Tanzania (1985- )
B05081925 Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle, lord of appeal in ordinary
B05081926 Don Rickles, Queens NY, comedian (Don Rickles Show, CPO Sharkey)
B05081926 Richard F Attenborough, environmentalist/zoologist (BBC)
B05081926 Ronald Waterhouse, high court judge
B05081927 Ian Denholm, CEO (Murray Investment Trust)
B05081927 Philip Wilkinson, deputy chairman (National Westminster Bank)
B05081928 Theodore Sorenson, pesidential advisor (JFK)/author (1000 Days)
B05081929 V N M Korte-van Hemel, Dutch Secretary of State (CDA)
B05081930 Doug Atkins, Humbolt Tn, NFL hall of famer (Browns, Bears, Saints)
B05081930 Gary Snyder, [Japhy Ryder], beat poet (Rip Rap & Cold Mountain Poems)
B05081930 Heather Harper, soprano
B05081933 Alistair Service, writer/publisher
B05081934 Leonard Hoffmann, high court judge
B05081934 Roger Kendrick, governor (Dartmoor Prison)
B05081935 Jack Charlton, soccer manager (Rep of Ireland)
B05081935 Salome Jens, Milwaukee Wisc, actress (From Here to Eternity)
B05081935 Viscount Falkland, British Lib-Dem peer
B05081936 Neville Purvis, British vice admiral/Chief of Fleet Support
B05081937 Daniël Robberechts, Belgian writer (Great Labia)
B05081937 Dennis DeConcini, (Sen-D-AZ, 1977- )
B05081937 Michael Simmons, Air Marshal (British Ministry of Defense)
B05081937 Thomas Pynchon, novelist (V)
B05081939 Otis Paul Drayton, Glen Cove NY, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1964)
B05081940 James Blyth, CEO (Boots)
B05081940 Peter Benchley, author (Jaws, Deep)
B05081940 Ricky Nelson, NJ, rock star (Hello Mary Lou, It's Late, Garden Party)
B05081941 James A Traficant Jr, (Rep-D-OH, 1985- )
B05081942 Angel Cordero Jr, Santurce PR, jockey (Seattle Slew-1978 Ky Derby)
B05081942 Norman Lamont, MP/Chancellor of Exchequer
B05081943 Paul Samwell-Smith, rocker (Yardbirds-For Your Love)
B05081943 Rick Samwell-Smith, rocker (Yardbirds-For Your Love)
B05081943 Toni Tennille, Montgomery Ala, female Beachboy (Capt & Tennille)
B05081944 Gary Glitter, [Paul Gadd], England, rocker (Rock & Roll Part II)
B05081945 Keith Jarrett, jazz musician
B05081947 Felicity Lott, English soprano (We come to the river)
B05081948 John Reid, MP
B05081951 Chris Frantz, rocker (Talking Heads-& She Was)
B05081951 Deborah Harmon, actress (Ted Knight Show, M*A*S*H, Just the 10 of Us)
B05081951 Philip Bailey, rocker (Earth Wind & Fire-Shining Star, Easy Lover)
B05081954 David Keith, Knoxville Tenn, actor (Back Roads, Firestarter)
B05081955 Alex Van Halen, rock drummer (Van Halen-1984, Jump)
B05081957 Deana Deardruff, US, 4 X 100m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1972)
B05081959 Ronnie Lott, Albuquerque, NM, NFL defensive back (SF 49er)
B05081964 Cheryl Richardson, Palo Alto Calif, actress (Jennie-General Hospital)
B05081964 Melissa Gilbert Brinkman, LA, actress (Little House on the Prairie)
B05081964 Peter Gill, rocker (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax)
B05081971 Chris Wolf, actor/musician (Guys Next Door)
B05091596 Abraham van Diepenbeeck, painter
B05091738 John Pindar, [Peter], physician/poet
B05091740 Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Il Barbiere the Siviglia)
B05091783 Alexander Ross, Canada, pioneer/fur trader
B05091785 James Pollard Espy, Penns, meteorologist (Philosphy of Storms)
B05091796 August Pauly, German classicus (Real Encyclopedia)
B05091800 John Brown, abolitionist; led attack on Harpers Ferry
B05091801 Samuel Cousins, mezzotint engraver
B05091810 Louis Gallait, historical painter
B05091824 William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones, Brig General (Confederate Army)
B05091829 Ciro Pinsuti, pianist/composer
B05091843 Belle Boyd, spy (Confederate)/actress/lecturer
B05091860 James Matthew Barrie, Scotland, novelist (Margaret Ogilvy, Peter Pan)
B05091873 Howard Carter, British archaeologist (found King Tutankhamen's tomb)
B05091873 Lilian Mary Baylis, manager (Old Vic & Sadler's Wells Theater)
B05091882 Henry J Kaiser, builder (Liberty Ships, Jeeps, Boulder Dam)
B05091892 Zita, empress (Austria)/Queen (Hungary)
B05091895 Lucian Blaga, Romaniams philosopher/poet (Dogmatic Aeon)
B05091895 Richard Barthelmess, US, actor (Broken Blossoms, Noose)
B050919-- Gregory Beecroft, actor (Guiding Light)
B050919-- Jeanna Michaels, New London Ct, actress (Connie-Dallas, Gen Hospital)
B05091906 Eleanor Estes, author (Ginger Pye, Moffats)
B05091907 Baldur von Schirach, German writer/nazi politician (Frame)
B05091910 Barbara Woodhouse, dog training expert
B05091911 Harry Simeone, Newark NJ, choral director (Kate Smith Show)
B05091912 Pedro Armendariz, Mexico, actor (From Russia With Love)
B05091913 John Hayes, Admiral
B05091913 Victor Smith, Admiral (Australian Chiefs of Staff)
B05091914 Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor
B05091914 Frank Chacksfield, arranger/orch leader
B05091914 Hank Snow, Nova Scotia Canada, country singer (I Went to Your Wedding)
B05091914 Theodore Kheel, labor negotiator (Fair Employment Practices)
B05091915 Richard Janvrin, British vice admiral
B05091916 Cyril Bowles, bishop of Derby
B05091916 Douglas Guest, organist
B05091917 John Arnatt, actor
B05091918 Mike Wallace, Brookline Mass, newscaster (Biography, 60 Minutes)
B05091918 Orville Freeman, Minneapolis, (Sen-D-Mn)/Sec of Agriculture (1961-69)
B05091919 Arthur English, comedian/actor
B05091920 Richard Adams, author (Day Gone By)
B05091922 Sheila Burrell, actress
B05091924 Boelat S Okoedzjava, Russian author (Student!)
B05091924 Connie Russell, NYC, singer (Club Embassy, Garroway at Large)
B05091924 Gerard Wernars, graphic form engraver (bibliotheekwerkpostz's 1991)
B05091924 Jean J A Girault, French director/screenwriter (l'Amour)
B05091925 Peter Leng, Master General of the Ordnance
B05091926 Alistair MacFarlane, principal (Heriot-Watt University England)
B05091926 Bernard Rose, organist
B05091926 Francis Kennedy, British diplomat
B05091926 Joshua Hassan, chief minister (Gibralter)
B05091926 Robin Cooke, pres (NZ Court of Appeal)
B05091927 John McDermott, Lord Justice of Appeal (Northern Ireland)
B05091928 Barbara Ann Scott, Ottawa Ontario, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1948)
B05091928 Richard A "Pancho" Gonzalez, LA Calif, tennis star (US 1948-49)
B05091929 Anthony Lloyd, Lord Justice of Appeal
B05091930 Joan Sims, actress (Carry on Behind, Carry on Cleo)
B05091931 Vance DeVoe Brand, Longmont Co, astro (Apollo 18, STS-5, 41B, 35)
B05091932 David Plastow, CEO (Medical Research Council)
B05091932 Gavin Lyall, author (Conduct of Major Maxim)
B05091932 Geraldine McEwan, actress (Henry V)
B05091932 J Alex McMillan, (Rep-R-NC, 1985- )
B05091933 Johnny Grant, unofficial mayor of Hollywood
B05091934 Alan Bennett, actor/playwright
B05091934 John Robertson, deputy chairman (Barclays de Zoete Wedd)
B05091934 Roy Massey, Master of Choristers (Hereford Cathedral)
B05091936 Albert Finney, UK, actor (Dresser, Under the Volcano)
B05091936 Glenda Jackson, Cheshire England, actress (Women in Love)
B05091936 Terry Downes, middleweight boxing champ
B05091936 Terry Drinkwater, TV newsman (CBS)
B05091937 Dave Prather, singer (Sam & Dave)
B05091937 Sonny Curtis, guitarist (Crickets)
B05091938 Geoffrey Holland, civil servant
B05091938 Nokie Edwards, rocker (Ventures)
B05091939 Kenneth Warby, fastest man on water at 300 knots (345 mph)
B05091939 Ralph Harold Boston, Laurel MS, long jumper (Olympic-gold-60)
B05091940 Dick Morrissey, saxophonist
B05091940 James L Brooks, producer/director (Broadcast News, Taxi)
B05091941 Jan Dibbets, speed artist (Dutch Mountains)
B05091942 John D Ashcroft, (Gov-MO)
B05091942 Tommy Roe, Atlanta, rocker (Hooray for Hazel)
B05091942 William Olner, MP
B05091943 Bruce Milner, rocker (Every Mother's Son)
B05091944 Don Dannemann, rocker (Cyrkle)
B05091944 Richard Furay, rocker (Buffalo Springfield, Poco)
B05091945 Steve Katz, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears-When I Die, Blues Project)
B05091946 Candice Bergen, Beverly Hills, actr (Carnal Knowledge, Murphy Brown)
B05091947 Anthony Corlan, Cork City Ireland, actor (Something for Everyone)
B05091949 Billy Joel, Bronx, singer (Pianoman, Capt Jack, Bridge)
B05091949 Oleg Yuriyevich Atkov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-10)
B0509195- Alley Mills, Chicago Ill, actress (Norma Arnold-Wonder Years)
B05091950 James A Butts, LA Calif, triple jumper (Olympic-silver-1976)
B05091950 Matthew Kelly, actor/TV host
B05091952 Patrick Ryecart, actor (Silas Mariner)
B05091953 Scott McInnis, (Rep-R-Colorado)
B05091955 Kevin Peter Hall, Pitts Pa, actor (Misfits of Science)
B05091957 Fred Markham, 1st man to pedal a bike 65 mph
B05091958 Esko Rechardt, Finland, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1980)
B05091960 Jim Reilly, rocker (Red Rockers)
B05091962 Dave Gahan, rocker (Depeche Mode-Strangelove, Pimf)
B05091962 Paul Heaton, rocker (Housemartins-Happy Hour, Over There)
B05091964 Miloslav Mecir, Czechoslovakia, tennis player (Olympic-gold-1988)
B05091965 Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot, rocker (Curiosity Killed Cat-Keep Distance)
B05101697 Jean-Marie Leclair, composer
B05101724 Johan A Zoutman, spy (battle of Doggersbank)
B05101727 Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, statesman
B05101730 George Ross, lawyer, signed Decl of Ind
B05101754 Asmus Jakob Carstens, painter
B05101760 Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, soldier/author/composer (Marseillaise)
B05101769 Jean Lannes, duc de Montebello, Marshal of France
B05101770 Louis Nicholas Davout, French field marshall (defeated Prussians)
B05101788 Augustin-Jean Fresnel, optics pioneer/physicist
B05101795 Jacques-Nicolas-Augustin Thierry, historian
B05101810 James Shields, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
B05101813 Montgomery Blair, Franklin County Ky, lawyer (Dred Scot V Sandford)
B05101822 August Ritter von Pettenkofen, painter
B05101823 John Sherman, MC (Union), died in 1900
B05101824 Charles Henry Van Wyck, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
B05101830 François M Raoult, French physicist/chemist (law of Raoult)
B05101838 James, 1st Viscount Bryce, historian/statesman
B05101838 John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Abraham Lincoln
B05101843 Benito Pérez Galdós, Spain, novelist (Fountain of Gold, Nazáarin)
B05101843 Kaufmann Kohler, reform rabbi/theologian
B05101850 Thomas Johnstone Lipton, England, tea magnate (Lipton Tea)
B05101855 Anatol Liadov, St Petersburg, Russia, composer (Enchanted Lake)
B05101857 Hendrik Zwardemaker, physiologist (olfactometer)
B05101873 Jan Kalf, literary/art historian (Preservation of museums)
B05101878 Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor (1923, Nobel 1926)
B05101886 Karl Barth, Basel Switzerland, theologian/author (Action in Waiting)
B05101886 Olaf Stapleton, British religious sci-fi writer (Star Maker)
B05101887 Jacobus C Bloem, poet (Sintels)
B05101888 Max[imilian Raoul Walter] Steiner, Vienna, composer (Gone With Wind)
B05101894 Dimitri Tiomkin, Russia composer (Acad Award 1954-High & Mighty)
B05101897 Ewart Levy
B05101898 Ariel Durant, writer (Story of Civilization)
B05101898 Herbert Elwell, Minneapolis Minnesota, composer (Happy Hypocrite)
B05101899 Fred Astaire, Omaha Neb, tap dancer/actor (Easter Parade, Swingtime)
B051019-- Larry Flash Jenkins, Long Island NY, actor (White Shadow)
B051019-- Laurence Lau, actor (Jamie Frame-Another World)
B051019-- Victoria Rowell, actress (Drucilla-Young & Restless)
B05101902 David O Selznick, Pittsburgh Pa, producer (Gone With the Wind)
B05101902 Joachim Prinz, author/Rabbi of Berlin (1926-37)
B05101904 David Brown, CEO (Aston Martin Lagonda)
B05101905 Angus Paton, civil engineer
B05101908 Carl Albert, (D) speaker of the House
B05101909 Lord Collison, British agriculture worker's leader
B05101909 Maybelle Carter, Nickelsville Va, country singer (Johnny Cash Show)
B05101910 Jimmy Demaret, winner of 44 golf tournaments, but not the Open
B05101910 Margot Turner, matron-in-chief (Army Nursing Service)
B05101912 Edward Gardner, Queen's Court
B05101914 Charles McGraw, NYC, actor (Michael-Falcon, Smith Family)
B05101914 Lord Smith, British surgeon
B05101915 Bert van Dongen, [Abraham J Cohen], singer/imitator/actor
B05101915 Christian Beyers Naudé, South African anti-apartheid fighter
B05101915 Denis Thatcher, husband of British PM Margret
B05101915 Monica Dickens, author/founder (US Samaritians)
B05101916 Milton Babbitt, US composer
B05101918 Margo, singer (Golden Irish Favorites)
B05101918 T Berry Brazelton, doctor (On Being a Father)
B05101919 Ella Grasso, (Gov-D-Ct)
B05101920 Basil Kelly, Lord Justice of Appeals (Northern Ireland)
B05101921 Nancy Walker, Phila, Bounty ads/actress (Rhoda, McMillan & Wife)
B05101922 David Orr, deputy chairman (Inchcape)/CEO (British Council)
B05101923 John Dugdal, Lord-Lt (Salop]
B05101925 Edward Fursdon, British Maj-Gen (defense council)
B05101929 Brian Corby, CEO (Prudential)
B05101930 June Knox-Mawer, British radio host/novelist (World of Islands)
B05101930 Pat Summerall, NFLer (NY Giants)/sportscaster (CBS)/achoholic
B05101931 Lord Michael Mustill, of Pateley Bridge, Lord Justice of Appeal
B05101934 William Lithgow, British industrialist/farmer
B05101936 Anthony Mullens, British Lt-Gen (Deputy chief of defense)
B05101936 Gary Owens, disc jockey/TV host (Laugh In, Gong Show)
B05101936 Trevor Clay, Gen-Sec (Royal College of Nursing)
B05101937 Arthur Kopit, US, playwright (Day Whores Came Out to Play Tennis)
B05101938 Henry Fambrough, rocker (Spinners)
B05101938 Manuel Santana, tennis player (US Open 1965)
B05101938 Maxim Shostakovich, Leningrad Russia, conductor (Atlanta Symph)
B05101938 Michael Shea, director of public affairs (Hanson Trust)
B05101939 Tamara Press, Lenningrad USSR, track star (Olympic-gold-1964)
B05101940 Arthur Alexander, US singer/songwriter (Lonely Just Like Me)
B05101940 Taurean Blacque, actor (Neal Washington-Hill Street Blues)
B05101940 William Cash, MP
B05101941 Danny Rapp, rocker (Danny & Juniors)
B05101941 Win Bischoff, CEO (Schroders)
B05101943 Donovan, [Leitch], Scotland, rock singer (Mellow Yellow)
B05101944 Jackie Lomax, Liverpool, rocker (Is This What You Want)
B05101944 Marie-France Pisier, Daclat Vietnam, actress (Scruples, Midnight)
B05101946 Graham Gouldman, bassist (10cc)
B05101946 Maureen Lipman, actress (Educating Rita, Wonderworks)
B05101947 Dave Mason, Worcester England, singer/songwriter (We Just Disagree)
B05101947 Jay Ferguson, Burbank Calif, rocker (Spirit-I Got A Line on You)
B05101947 Meg Foster, Conn, actress (Sunshine, Cagney & Lacey)
B05101951 Steve Gunderson, (Rep-R-WI, 1981- )
B05101953 Aynsley Dunbar, rocker (Mothers of Invention-200 Motels, Retaliation)
B05101953 Steve Thomas, rocker (Shooting Star)
B05101955 Homer Simpson, animation (Simpsons)
B05101955 Mark David Chapman, assassin of John Lennon
B05101957 Phil Mahre, US, slalom skier (Olympics-silver-1980)
B05101957 Sid Vicious, [John Beverly], bassist (Sex Pistols)
B05101957 Steve Mahre, US, slalom skier (Olympic-silver-1984)
B05101958 Ellen Ochoa, LA Calif, PhD/Astronaut (STS 56)
B05101958 Rick Santorum, (Rep-R-Pennsylvania)
B05101960 Bono Vox, [Paul Hauson], Dublin Ireland, rocker (U2-Joshua Tree)
B05101961 Teri Copley, Arcadia Calif, actress (Mickey-We've Got it Made)
B05101962 Garry Daley, keyboard (China Crisis-Christian)
B05101969 Dennis Bergkamp, soccer star (Ajax)
B05101969 Judson Mills, Purcellville Va, actor (Hutch-As The World Turns)
B05101991 Emily McEnroe, daughter of Tatum O'Neal & John McEnroe
B05111568 Christian I, ruler of Anhalt-Bernburg (Battle of White Mountain)
B05111722 Peter Camper, Leyden Holland, anatomist/professor (Amsterdam)
B05111807 Ira Aldridge, Great 19th century Black actor
B05111821 [Carlos] Charles John Stolbrand, Brig General (Union volunteers)
B05111823 Alfred Stevens, Belgian painter
B05111830 John Converse Starkweather, Brig General (Union volunteers)
B05111841 Earnest von Possart, German actor/stage manager/reciter
B05111847 Godefroid Kurth, Belg historian (La cité de Liège au moyen âge)
B05111852 Charles Warren Fairbanks, (R) 26th US VP (1905-09)
B05111854 Ottmar Mergenthaler, Hachtel Germany, inventor (linotype)
B05111878 Dhr Reyskens, oldest resident of Netherland
B05111882 Joseph Marx, Austrian composer/critic
B05111888 Irving Berlin, [Isadore Balin], Temun Russia, composer (White Xmas)
B05111888 P A J Losecat Vermeer, leader of Dutch High Council
B05111891 Henry Morgenthau Jr, US Secretary of Treasury (1934-45)
B05111892 Margaret Rutherford, England, actress (Murder Most Foul)
B05111894 Anton A Mussert, Dutch political leader (NSB)
B05111894 Florimond Cornellie, Belgium, yachting (Olympic-gold-1920)
B05111894 Martha Graham, Pitts, dancer/choreographer (Appalachian Spring)
B05111895 William Grant Still, Woodville Mississippi, composer (Afro-American)
B05111896 Philippo de Pisis, Italian painter
B05111897 Izak W van der Merwe, [Boerneef], S Afr writer (Tweetalige Woordeboek)
B051119-- Darrow Igus, Newark NJ, comedian (Fridays, Roll Out)
B051119-- Terry McGovern, Berkley Calif, actor (Jim-Charlie & Company)
B05111901 Mari Sandoz, Nebraska, author (Cheyene Autumn)
B05111902 Bidú Sayao, Niteroi Brazil, soprano (Mimia-La Bohéme)
B05111903 Charlie Gehringer, Detroit Tigers' 2nd baseman (1924-42)
B05111904 Guus Weitzel, radio-announcer
B05111904 Salvador Dalí, Spain, surrealist artist (Crucifixion)
B05111906 Kent Taylor, [Louis Weiss], Iowa, actor (Boston Blackie, Rough Riders)
B05111911 Doodles Weaver, LA Calif, comedian (Doodles Weaver)
B05111912 Foster Brooks, Louisville Ky, comedian/actor (Miles-Mork & Mindy)
B05111912 Phil Silvers, Bkln NY, comedian (Sgt Bilko-Phil Silvers Show)
B05111913 Tutti Camarata, Glen Ridge NJ, orch leader (Vic Damone Show)
B05111916 Camilo José Cela, Spain, author (La Colmena-1951)
B05111920 Denver Pyle, Bethune Colo, actor (Code 3, Tammy, Doris Day Show)
B05111924 Jackie Milburn, English soccer star (Newcastle United)
B05111927 Mort Sahl, comedian/political satirist/beatnik (Big Party)
B05111927 Zilpha Keatly Snyder, US, sci-fi author (Headless Cupid)
B05111928 Yaacov Agam, Israeli statues artist
B05111930 Stanley L Elkin, Bkln NY, writer/professor (Living End)
B05111932 Valentino
B05111933 Louis Farrakhan, leader of black islam nation
B05111934 James M Jeffords, (Rep-R-VT, 1975- )
B05111935 Doug McClure, Glendale Calif, actor (Checkmate, Virginian, Roots)
B05111938 Carla Bley, musician (Escalator Over the Hill)
B05111938 Harvey Sollberger, Cedar Rapids Ia, flutist/composer (2 Oboes Troping)
B05111941 Eric Burdon, rocker (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
B05111943 Les Chadwick, bassist (Gerry & Pacemakers-Ferry Crossed the Mersy)
B05111943 Nancy Greene, Canada, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1968)
B05111947 Claude "Butch" Hudson Trucks, drummer (Allman Brothers)
B05111948 Alfred Matt, Austria, slalom (Olympic-bronze-1968)
B05111953 Boyd Gaines, Atlanta Ga, actor (Mark-One Day at a Time, Sure Thing)
B05111955 Jos Haagmans, singer (Frank Boeijen Group)
B05111956 Mark Herndon, rock drummer (Alabama-Take Me Down)
B05111959 Martha Quinn, Ossining NY, MTV vee-jay/actress (Bradys)
B05111961 Cecile Licad, Manila Philippines, pianist (Leventritt Award-1981)
B05111961 Diana Lee, Seattle Wa, playmate (May, 1988)
B05111962 Emilio Estevez, NYC, actor (Breakfast Club, Young Guns)
B05111963 Mark Breland, Bkln NY, welterweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1984)
B05111964 Katie Wagner, model/guest VJ (MTV)
B05111967 Kenneth Gould, Chic Ill, Welterweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1988)
B05121670 August II de Sterke, King of Poland (355 children)
B05121729 Michaël FB Freiherr von Melas, Austrian general (7 Year Wars)
B05121804 Robert Baldwin, (L) help establish cabinet govt in Canada (or 1904)
B05121806 Amos Beebe Eaton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1877
B05121806 J V Snellman, Finland, journalist/statesman/nationalist
B05121812 Edward Lear, England, landscape painter, (Complete Nonsense Book)
B05121812 Louis Ludwig Blenker, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
B05121820 Florence Nightingale, Florence Italy, nurse (Crimean War)
B05121828 Gabriel Dante Rossetti, England, poet/painter, Pre-Raphaelite
B05121842 Jules Massenet, Montaud France, composer (Manon, Le Cid)
B05121845 Gabriel Urbain Fauré, Pamiers France, composer (Requiem, Ballade)
B05121868 Halsey William Wilson, US, publisher of reference books
B05121874 Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet, Austrian artist (Reactie of Pirquet)
B05121880 Lincoln Ellsworth, led 1st transarctic, transantarctic flights
B051219-- Lisa Raggio, NYC, actress (Pvt Maria Gianelli-Pvt Benjamin)
B051219-- Mark Evans, rocker (Warrior Soul-Last Decade of The Century)
B051219-- Ray Gillen, rocker (Badlands-Dreams in the Dark)
B051219-- Vanessa Williams, Bkln NY, actress (Rhonda Blair-Melrose Place)
B05121900 Helene Weigel, Austria/German actress/wife of Bertolt Brecht
B05121903 Lennox RF Berkeley, British composer (Castaway)
B05121903 Wilfrid Hyde-White, England, actor (My Fair Lady, Peyton Place)
B05121906 William M Ewing, US geologist/geophysicist
B05121907 Leslie Charteris, English/US detective writer (Enter the Saint)
B05121910 Gordon Jenkins, Webster Grove Mo, orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour)
B05121914 Bertus Aafjes, Limburgs poet
B05121914 Dan Daniel, (Rep-D-VA, 1969- )
B05121914 Howard K Smith, LA, TV newsman (ABC, Moderated Kennedy-Nixon debate)
B05121917 André A Rieu, conductor
B05121921 Giovanni Benelli, archbishop of Florence/Pope candidate
B05121923 Giovanni Testori, Italian writer (Rocco e i suoi fratelli)
B05121925 Earl Hutto, (Rep-D-FL, 1979 - )
B05121925 John Simon, theater critic (NY Times)
B05121925 Lawrence "Yogi" Berra, NY Yankee catcher/coach/manager, Mets, Astros
B05121926 Earl D Hutto, (Rep-D-Florida)
B05121926 Mervyn M Dymally, (Rep-D-CA, 1981- )
B05121928 Manuel Lujan Jr, (Rep-R-NM, 1969- )
B05121929 Burt Bacharach, composer (I'll Never Fall in Love Again)
B05121930 Patricia Keller McCormick, Calif, diver (Olympic-2 gold-1952, 56)
B05121931 Johan Fleerackers, Flemish vice-president of Dutch One
B05121936 Tom Snyder, Milwaukee Wisc, newscaster (Tommorow, NBC Weekend News)
B05121937 Beryl Burton, UK, won record (7) women's cycling titles
B05121937 George Carlin, Bronx, comedian (7 dirty words, AM & FM, Carwash)
B05121937 Gerry E Studds, (Rep-D-MA, 1973- )
B05121938 Millie Perkins, Passaic NJ, actress (Jane-Knots Landings)
B05121938 Susan Hampshire, London England, actress (Vanity Fair, Living Free)
B05121939 Ronald Ziegler, press secretary (Nixon)
B05121941 Anthony Newman, LA Calif, harpsichordist/organist (Bhajeb)
B05121941 Ruud de Wolff, singer/guitarist (Blue Diamonds)
B05121942 Barry B[rookes] Longyear, US, sci-fi author (City of Baraboo)
B05121942 Ian Dury, rocker
B05121943 Billy Swan, rocker (I Can Help)
B05121943 David Walker, rocker (Gary Lewis & Playboys-This Diamond Ring)
B05121943 Linda Dano, LA Calif, actress (Felicia Gallant-Another World)
B05121945 Linda Carlson, Knoxville Tn, actress (Bev-Newhart, Katie-Kaz)
B05121946 Ian McLagen, rocker (Faces)
B05121948 Lindsay Ann Crouse, NYC, actress (Slapshot, Iceman, Places in Heart)
B05121948 Steve Winwood, England, rocker (A Higher Love)
B05121950 Billy Squier, Mass, heavy metal guitarist (Don't Say No)
B05121950 Bruce Boxleitner, Elgin Ill, actor (Scarecrow & Mrs King)
B05121950 Jocko Marcellino, rocker (Sha Na Na)
B05121950 Shozo Fujii, judo champion
B05121951 Gunnar Larrson, Sweden, 200m/400m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1972)
B05121958 Beth Maitland, actress (Traci-Young & Restless)
B05121958 Christian Brando, son of Marlon/killed sisters boyfriend
B05121959 Dave Christian, Minn, NHL right wing (Wash Caps, Olympic-gold-1980)
B0512196- Jamie Luner, Palo Alto Calif, actress (Cindy-Just the 10 of Us)
B05121961 Billy Duffy, rocker (Cult-Hell's Kitchen)
B05121964 Joy Ellen Kitzmiller, LA Calif, US badminton player (Olympic-92)
B05121966 Stephen Baldwin, actor (Beast, Lawrenceville Stories)
B05121969 Kim Fields, LA Calif, actress (Tootie-Facts of Life)
B05121972 Paul Stout, Saugus Calif, actor (Phillip-Scarecrow & Mrs King)
B05121973 Mackenzie Astin, actor (Facts of Life, Garbage Pail Kids)
B05121976 Matthew P Newmark, actor (Joseph Carroll-Guns of Paradise)
B05131265 Dante Aligheri, poet
B05131314 Sergius van Radonesj, Russian saint
B05131655 Innocent XIII, [Michelangiolo dei Conti], Italy, 244th Pope (1721-24)
B05131717 Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria (Wife of Napolean)
B05131729 Henry William (Baron) Stiegel, early American glassmaker
B05131730 Marquess of Rockingham, (Whig), British PM (1765-66, 1782)
B05131761 Adrian Loosjes Pzn, publisher/writer (Mauritius Lijnslager)
B05131769 Johan VI M L J, King of Portugal (1816-26)
B05131792 Pius IX "Pio Nono", [Giovanni-Maria Mastai-Ferretti], Pope (1846-78)
B05131795 Joshua Ratoon Sands, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883
B05131828 Josephine Elizabeth Butler, social reformer
B05131830 Zebulon Baird Vance, Governor (Confederacy), died in 1894
B05131831 Willem baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller, minister of Cologne
B05131840 L-M Alphonse Daudet, French writer (Tartarin the Tarascon)
B05131842 Arthur Sullivan, London England, composer (Gilbert & Sullivan)
B05131843 Count Paul J Smet de Naeyer, Belgian politician
B05131854 Louis H Chrispijn, actor/director
B05131856 Peter Henry Emerson, 1st to promote photography as an independent art
B05131857 Ronald Ross, England, pathologist (Nobel 1902)
B05131867 Frank Brangwyn, Wales, painter/muralist/cartoonist (Willam Morris)
B05131881 Ilona Durigo, Hungarian singer
B05131882 Georges F Broque, French cubist painter (Bike)
B05131883 Henk JFM Sneevliet, leader RSAP/editor Spartacus (Dutch-Indies)
B051319-- Leslie Winston, Auston Tx, actress (Cindy-Waltons)
B05131903 Alfred Pugsley, civil engineer
B05131907 Daphne du Maurier, English writer (Rebecca, Parasites)
B05131907 Laurence Kirwan, archaeologist
B05131908 Michael Richardson, commandant (Home for Disabled Sailors)
B05131911 Robert Middleman, Cin Oh, actor (Barney-Monroes)
B05131913 Sanjiva Reddy, president (India)
B05131913 William R Tolbert, president Liberia (1971-80)
B05131914 Joe Louis, world heavyweight boxing champion (1937-49)
B05131915 John Habakkuk, principal (Jesus College in Oxford)
B05131917 Paul Osmond, British senior civil servant
B05131917 Wilhelmus C Wÿen, [Broeder Pius], social worker Curaçao)
B05131918 John Johnston, British diplomat (Rhodesia, Malaysia)
B05131920 Ratu Kasmisere Mara, PM of Fiji (1960-70, 70- )
B05131921 Syd[ney G] Vincent, British mine workers leader
B05131926 Beatrice Arthur, [Frankel], NY, actress (Maude, Dorothy-Golden Girls)
B05131927 Clive Barnes, drama critic (NY Times, NY Post)
B05131927 Herbert Ross, director/choreographer (Footloose)
B05131930 Mike Gravel, (Sen-R-Alaska)
B05131931 Eileen Diss, theatrical designer
B05131931 Jim Jones, reverend, poisoned over 100 in Guyana (Jonestown Massacre)
B05131931 Sydney Lipworth, CEO (Monopolies & Mergers Commission)
B05131931 William Utting, chief inspector (British Social Services)
B05131933 Sid Morrison, (Rep-R-WA, 1981- )
B05131936 Alan Rayfield, governor (Long Latin Prison)
B05131937 John Cope, MP/Paymaster General
B05131937 Judith Somogi, NYC, conductor (Frankfurt Opera-1982)
B05131937 Roger [Joseph] Zelazny, sci-fi author (6 Hugos, Chronicles of Amber)
B05131937 Zohra Lampert, NYC, actress (Doctor's Hospital)
B05131938 Buck Taylor, Hollywood Calif, actor (Monroes, Gunsmoke)
B05131939 Anthony Hide, racehorse trainer
B05131939 Harvey Keitel, actor (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore)
B05131939 William W Cobey Jr, (Rep-R-NC, 1985-87)
B05131940 Bruce Chatwin, England, writer (On the Black Hill)
B05131941 Imca Marina, [Bijl], singer (Viva España, Bella Italia, Oh Brazil)
B05131941 Joe Brown, singer/guitarist
B05131941 Ritchie Valens, singer (Donna, La Bamba)
B05131941 Senta Berger, Vienna Austria, actress (Cast a Giant Shadow)
B05131942 Jim Douglas, jazz guitarist
B05131942 Vladimir A Dzhanibekov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 27/39/T6/T12/T13)
B05131943 Mary Wells, Detroit, singer (My Guy)
B05131944 Crispin Agnew of Lochnaw, British explorer/genealogist
B05131945 Magic Dick, rocker (J Geils Band-Centerfold)
B05131946 Danny Klein, rocker (J Geils Band-Centerfold)
B05131946 Tim Pigott-Smith, actor (Sweet William, Jewel in Crown)
B05131947 David Hughes, cricketer
B05131947 Stephen R Donaldson, US, sci-fi author (Lord Foul's Bane)
B05131949 Franklin Ajaye, comedian/actor (Jazz Singer, Car Wash)
B05131949 John Glover, conductor
B05131949 Overend Watts, rocker (Mott the Hoople-All the Young Dudes)
B05131949 Zoe Wanamaker, actress (Raggedy Rawney)
B05131950 Peter Gabriel, rocker (Genesis-Against All Odds)
B05131950 Stevie Wonder, singer/songwriter (You are the Sunshine of My Love)
B05131951 Paul Thompson, rocker (Roxy Music)
B05131951 Selina Scott, TV newscaster (West 57th)
B05131952 John R Kasich, (Rep-R-OH, 1983- )
B05131956 Aleksandr Yuriyevich Kalery, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-14)
B05131957 Eloise Broady, Houston Tx, playmate (Apr, 1988)
B05131959 Robert Earnshaw, racehorse trainer
B05131963 Julian Brookhouse, rocker (Curiosity Killed Cat-Keep Your Distance)
B05141316 Charles IV, King of Bohemia (1346-78)/emperor (1355-78)
B05141679 Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow, Danish astronomer
B05141686 Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, Germany, inventor (thermometer) (or 5/24)
B05141771 Robert Owen, England, factory owner/socialist
B05141780 Auguste De Polignac, premier France (Réponse à mes adversaires)
B05141781 Friedrich von Raumer, German historian/parliamentarian
B05141787 Thomas Gainsborough, baptized, England, artist (Blue Boy)
B05141830 George Pierce Doles, (Confederate Army Brig General, died in 1864
B05141836 James Patrick Major, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1877
B05141881 Ed Walsh, pitcher, whose lifetime ERA of 1.82 is lowest ever
B05141883 Jan Olieslagers, Belgian aviation pioneer (Antwerp Devil)
B05141883 Julian Eltinge, Mass, vaudeville star/greatest female impersonator
B05141885 Otto Klemperer, Breslau Germany, conductor (Das Ziel)
B05141895 Lew Lehr, Phila, comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One)
B05141897 Sidney Bechet, US, jazz clarinetist/saxophonist/band leader
B051419-- Eric Peterson, rocker (Testament-Souls of Black)
B051419-- Walter Olkewicz, Bayonne NJ, actor (Last Resort, Wizards & Warriors)
B05141904 Billie Dove, NYC, actress (Black Pirate, Stolen Bride)
B05141906 Hastings Kamuzu Banda, president of Malawi (1966- )
B05141906 James Flavin, Portland Me, actor (Man With a Camera)
B05141907 Mohammed Ayub Khan, general/premier/president (Pakistan)
B05141909 Vladimir Alatortsev, USSR, International Chess Master (1950)
B05141911 J Borremans, Belgian politician (communist)/Chamber minister
B05141917 Lou Harrison, Portland Oregon, composer (Rapunzel)
B05141919 Heloise, & her helpful hints [or Apr 15, 1921?]
B05141923 Diane Arbus, [Nemerov], NYC, photographer (Vogue/Harper's Bazaar)
B05141925 Patrice Munsel, Spokane Wash, soprano (Patrice Munsel Show)
B05141926 Eric Morecambe, London, comedian (Morecambe & Wise, Picadilly Palace)
B05141929 Vladimir Antoshin, USSR, International Chess Grandmaster (1964)
B05141930 Edward V "Ned" Regan, Planfield NJ, (Controller-R-NY, 1978- )
B05141936 Bobby Darin, [Walden Waldo Cassotto], Bronx, singer (Mack the Knife)
B05141937 Dick Howser, shortstop (Kansas City A's), manager (KC Royals)
B05141942 Byron L Dorgan, (Rep-D-ND, 1981- )
B05141943 Alan B Mollohan, (Rep-D-WV, 1983- )
B05141943 Jack Bruce, Lanarkshire Scotland, bassist (Cream-White Room)
B05141944 Francesca Annis, London England, actress (Madame Bovary, Dune)
B05141944 Gene Cornish, rocker (Rascals)
B05141944 George Lucas, director (Star Wars)
B05141945 Lek Leckenby, rocker (Herman's Hermits-There's a Kinda Hush)
B05141946 Robert Jarvik, inventor (Jarvik 7 artificial heart)
B05141951 Jay Beckenstein, saxrophonist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
B05141951 Seasan Hubley, [Susan], NYC, actress (Vice Squad, Hardcore)
B05141952 David Byrne, Dunbartin Scotland, rocker (Talking Heads-Psycho Killer)
B05141952 Donald R McMonagle, Flint Michigan, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 39, 54)
B05141953 Tom Cochrane, rocker (Red Rider)
B05141956 Gillian [Marucha] Bradshaw, US, sci-fi author (Hawk of May)
B05141957 William G Gregory, Lockport NY, Mjr USAF/Astronaut
B05141959 Mike Quick, NFL wide receiver (Phila Eagles)
B05141962 C C Deville, rocker (Poison-Talk Dirty to Me)
B05141962 Ian Astbury, rocker (Cult-Fire Woman)
B05141966 Fabrice Morvan, Guadeloupe, singer (Milli Vanilli-Girl You Know)
B05141969 David William Wood, Boston, rocker (New Kids-Lovin' You Forever)
B05141970 Natasha Ryan, LA Calif, actress (Amy-Ladies' Man)
B05141973 Shanice [Wilson], Pittsburgh Pa, rock vocalist (Discovery, Loving You)
B05151567 Claudio Monteverdi, Cremona Italy, composer (L'Orfeo)
B05151791 Baron Floris A van Hall, minister of Justice/Finance
B05151795 Adolf B Marx, German music theorist
B05151802 Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1888
B05151810 Jacob Thompson, (Confederacy), died in 1885
B05151819 Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Major General (Union volunteers)
B05151830 Laurence Simmons Baker, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1907
B05151845 Ilja (Elias) Metsjnikov, USSR, zoologist/bacteriologist (Nobel 1908)
B05151856 Lyman Frank Baum, children's book author (Wizard of Oz)
B05151859 Pierre Curie, France, physicist (Nobel 1903)
B05151860 Ellen Louise Axson Wilson, 1st wife of Woodrow Wilson
B05151862 Arthur Schnitzler, Austria, playwright/novelist (La Ronde)
B05151865 Albert Verwey, poet/literature historian (Motion)
B05151880 Otto Dibelius, German theologist/bishop (Friend Kirche)
B05151888 Jean Wahl, French philosopher
B05151890 Katherine Anne Porter, US, novelist (Ship of Fools)
B05151891 David Bird, Ukraine author (Huwelÿksleven)
B05151891 Mikhail Bulgakov, Russia, playwright/novelist (Black Snow)
B05151894 Jean Renoir, French director (La Béte Humane)
B05151897 Casper Höweler, musico critic
B051519-- Jim Phipps, rock drummer (Every Mother's Nightmare-Hard to Hold)
B051519-- Peggy Pope, Montclair NJ, actress (Billy, Mrs David-Soap)
B05151902 Richard J Daley, (Mayor-D-Chic)
B05151904 Clifton Fadiman, Bkln NY, TV host (Information Please, Quiz Kids)
B05151904 Gustav-Adolf Boltenstein, Sweden, equest dressage (Oly-gold-1952, 56)
B05151905 Joseph Cotten, US, actor (3rd Man, Airport 77, Hearse)
B05151908 Lars-Erik Larsson, Akarp Sweden, composer (Linden)
B05151909 James Mason, England, actor (Lolita, Bloodline, Boys From Brazil)
B05151910 Constance Cummings, US, actress (John & Julie, 7 Sinners, Glamour)
B05151910 Robert F Wagner, (Mayor-D-NYC, 1949-65)
B05151911 Max Frisch, Swiss architect/writer (Quieter, Biedermann)
B05151912 Alexis Kagame, Rwanda, priest/writer
B05151912 Alexis Nihon, Bahamas, wrestler (Olympics-1968)
B05151912 Arthur Berger, NYC, composer (Ideas of Order)
B05151915 Maurice B Latey, commentator (BBC World Service)
B05151915 Paul A Samuelson, economist (1970 Nobel, 1947 John Bates Clark Medal)
B05151916 Bill Williams, Bkln NY, actor (Starlit Time, Date With the Angels)
B05151918 Eddy Arnold, country singer (Anytime)
B05151918 Joseph Wiseman, Montréal, actor (Dr No, Viva Zapata, Les Miserables)
B05151921 Erroll Garner, Pittsburgh Pa, jazz pianist (Misty)
B05151922 Enrico Berlinguer, sec-gen (CP) Italy
B05151923 Richard Avedon, US, photographer (1957 ASMP award)
B05151924 Ursula Thiess, Hamburg, actress (Monsoon, Bengal Brigade, Americano)
B05151925 Jos Jacobs, Flemish director (Madonna of Nedermunster)
B05151926 Anthony Shaffer, twin brother playwright (Sleuth)
B05151926 Peter Shaffer, twin brother playwright (5 Finger Exercise, Equus)
B05151930 Jasper Johns, artist (Green Target)
B05151931 F Korthals Altes, Dutch minister of Justice (VVD)
B05151932 John Glen, Thames England, actor (Spy Who Love Me, Backfire)
B05151936 Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italy, actress/singer (Cinderfella)
B05151936 Donald [Anthony] Moffitt, US, sci-fi author (Jupiter Theft)
B05151936 Paul Zindel, playwright (Effects of Gamma Rays on Marigolds)
B05151937 Trini Lopez, Trinidad, singer (If I Had a Hammer)
B05151938 Lenny Welch, Asbury Park NJ, (Breaking up is Hard to Do)
B05151940 Paul Rudd, Boston Mass, actor (Conn Yankee in King Arthτr's Court)
B05151941 Lainie Kazan, Brooklyn, singer/actress (Lust in the Dust)
B05151942 Anthony W England, Indianapolis Indiana, PhD/astronaut (STS 51F)
B05151944 Gunilla Hutton, Goteborg Sweden, actress (Petticoat Junction)
B05151944 Miruts Yifter, Ethiopia, 5K/10K runner (Olympic-gold-1980)
B05151947 Graham Goble, rocker (Little River Band)
B05151948 Brian Eno, Woodbridge England, singer (On Land)
B05151949 Frank L Culbertson Jr, Charleston SC, Cmdr USN/astro (STS-38)
B05151951 Dennis Frederiksen, rocker (Toto-Roseanna, Africa)
B05151953 George Brett, WV, KC Royal 3rd baseman (1980 AL MVP)
B05151953 Mike Oldfield, England, composer (Tubular Bells)
B05151954 Andrea Gyarmati, Hungary, water polo player (Olympic, 1948-60)
B05151955 Lee Horsley, Muleshoe Tx, actor (Nero Wolfe, Matt Houston)
B05151959 Andrew Eldritch, rocker (Sisters of Mercy-Walk Away, Black Planet)
B05151963 George Heidweiler, Suriname, Dutch painter
B05151963 Grant Herslov, LA Calif, actor (Wayne-Spencer, Under One Roof)
B05151964 Pierre Trentin, France, 1K time trials (Olympic-gold-1968)
B05151967 Omar Vizquel, Caracas Venezuela, shortstop (Seattle Mariners)
B05151968 Todd Porter, NJ, actor (Hamilton-Whiz Kids)
B05151970 Frank de Boer, soccer star (Ajax)
B05151973 Vic"Tori"a Davey Spelling, LA Ca, actress (Donna-Beverly Hills 90210)
B05151974 Ahmet Rodan Zappa, son of Frank
B05151981 Zara Anne Elizabeth Phillips, 10th in succession to British throne
B05161609 Ferdinand, Austria, cardinal of Spain
B05161641 Dudley North, financier/economist
B05161659 Campegius Vitringa, theologist
B05161718 Maria G Agnesi, Italy mathematician curves= x²y=a²(a-y)
B05161761 John Opie, artist
B05161763 Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin, chemist (discovered chromium, beryllium)
B05161782 John Sell Cotman, water color artist
B05161788 Friedrich Rückert, poet
B05161801 William Henry Seward, Sec of State (1861-69, buys Alaska at 2¢/acre)
B05161804 Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, founded 1st US kindergarten
B05161806 George C Cadwalader, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
B05161816 Henry Hopkins Sibley, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1886
B05161819 Daniel Ammen, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1898
B05161822 Eduard Hille, composer/conductor
B05161824 Edmund Kirby Smith, Fla, General (Confederate Army), died in 1893
B05161824 Levi Parsons Morton, (R) 22nd US VP (1889-93)
B05161827 Petrus J H Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam Museum, Central station)
B05161831 David Edward Hughes, inventor (microphone, teleprinter)
B05161832 Philip Danforth Armour, founder (Armour Foods)
B05161850 Arthur Henry Mann, organist/composer
B05161866 Ernest Watson Burgess, US sociologist (ecological school)
B05161889 Joan Collette, painter
B05161892 Richard Tauber, [Ernst Seiffert], Austria/British, tenor/conductor
B05161893 José Calvo Sotelo, Spanish minister of Finance
B05161898 August De Shriver, Belgian politician/founder (CVP)
B051619-- Carolyn Conwell, actress (Mary-Young & Restless)
B051619-- Jeanette Rodriguez, Carcas Venezuala, spanish actress
B05161902 Jan Kiepura, Polish/US singer
B05161904 Hugh Plaxton, Canada, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1928)
B05161905 Henry Fonda, Grand Is Nebraska, actor (Mr Roberts, On Golden Pond)
B05161905 Herbert Ernest Bates, novelist
B05161906 Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezula, writer/minister (Lanzas Coloradas)
B05161907 Robert Tisdall, Ireland, 400m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1932)
B05161908 Mohammed Roem, Indonesian foreign minister (Linggadjati)
B05161909 Charles Wislon, Principal (Glasgow University)
B05161911 Margaret Sullavan, Norfolk Va, actress (Back Street)
B05161911 Olaff J de Landell, [JB Wemmerslager van Sparwoude], writer
B05161912 Studs Terkel, NYC, author/host (Stud's Place, Working)
B05161913 Woody Herman, jazz clarinetist/bandleader/composer (Thundering Herds)
B05161916 Bernard Braden, broadcaster
B05161916 Ephraim Katzir, biophysicist/president (Israel)
B05161917 George Gaynes, Helsinki Finland, actor (Henry-Punky Brewster)
B05161917 Geraint Jones, conductor/organist
B05161918 Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer (Pedro Páramo)
B05161918 Kevin Skelton, Bishop of Lichfield
B05161919 Richard Mason, author
B05161919 [Wladziu Valentino] Liberace, West Allis Wisconsin, pianist
B05161921 Harry Carey Jr, Saugus Calif, actor (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon)
B05161922 Colin Cole, Principal King of Arms
B05161922 Martine Carol, [Maryse Mopurer], actress (Action of Tiger)
B05161922 Russell Wood, treasurer to Queen Elizabeth
B05161924 Dawda Kairaba Jawara, president (Gambia, 1970- )
B05161924 Frank F Mankiewicz, columnist (Perfectly Clear)
B05161927 John Walford, solicitor
B05161928 Billy Martin, baseball manager (NY Yankees, Oakland A's)
B05161928 Reginald Askew, dean of King's College London
B05161929 Adrienne Cecile Rich, Balt Md, feminist writer (Diamond Cutters)
B05161929 John Conyers Jr, (Rep-D-MI, 1965- )
B05161930 Desmond Langley, gov (Bermuda)
B05161930 Don Conicannon, govt minister
B05161930 Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist/composer (Hangman)
B05161931 Donald Martino, Plainfield NJ, composer (Noturnno-Pulitzer 1974)
B05161931 Jack Dodson, Pitts Pa, actor (Howard Sprage-Andy Griffith Show)
B05161931 Lowell P Weicker, (Sen-R-CT, 1971-88/Gov-D-CT)
B05161931 Peter Levi, poet/writer
B05161934 Anthony Walker, commandant (Royal College of Defense Studies)
B05161934 Nicholas Goodison, CEO (TSB Group)
B05161936 Philippe de Montebello, Paris, art exhibitionist (Treasures of Tut)
B05161936 Roy Hudd, comedian
B05161937 Yvonne Craig, Taylorville Ill, actress (Batgirl-Batman, Kissin Cousin)
B05161938 Stuart Bell, MP
B05161940 Gareth Roberts, chancellor Sheffield University
B05161941 John McWilliams, MP
B05161943 Dan Coats, (Rep-R-IN, 1981- )
B05161944 Billy Cobham, Panamá, jazz artist (Same Ole Love)
B05161945 Brewster H Shaw Jr, Mich, Col USAF/astro (STS-9, STS 61B, STS-28)
B05161945 James Moran, (Rep-D-Virginia)
B05161946 Jessi B Wilson, Mississippi, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
B05161947 Bill Smitrovich, actor (Crime Story, Miami Vice)
B05161947 Rosie Barnes, MP
B05161949 Jimmy Hood, MP
B05161949 Rick Reuschel, pitcher (NY Yankees)
B05161950 Johannes Bednorz, German superconductivity physicist (Nobel 1987)
B05161951 Jonathan Richman, rocker (Modern Lovers-New England, Egyptian Reggae)
B05161952 Pierce Brosnan, Israel, actor (Remington Steele)
B05161953 David Maclean, British minister of state
B05161953 Richard Page, rocker (Mr Mister)
B05161953 Rick Rhoden, pitcher (NY Yankees)
B05161954 Janet Maw, actress
B05161955 Debra Winger, Columbus Oh, actress (Officer & Gentleman)
B05161955 Hazel O'Connor, Coventry England, singer/actress (Breaking Glass)
B05161955 Jack Morris, St Paul Minn, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
B05161955 Olga Korbut, Grodno Byelorussia, gymnist (Olympic-2 golds-1972)
B05161957 Joan Benoit, Cape Elizabeth ME, marathon runner (Olympic-gold-1984)
B05161958 Glenn Gregory, rocker (Heaven 17-Electric Dreams)
B05161959 Mare Winningham, Phoenix Az, actress (St Elmo's Fire, Turner & Hooch)
B05161960 Anne Parillaud, Paris France, actress (Subway, Nikita)
B05161961 Nina Arvesen, White Plains, NY, actress (Cassandra-Young & Restless)
B05161964 John Salley, NBA star (Detroit Pistons)
B05161965 Brent Jasmer, Portland Oregon, actor (Sly-Bold & Beautiful)
B05161966 Janet Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer, Michael's sister (Control)
B05161966 Scott Reeves, Santa Monica Calif, actor (Ryan-Young & Restless)
B05161968 Ralph Tresvant, singer (New Editon)
B05161969 Steve Lewis, US, 4X100/400m runner (Olympic-gold-1988)
B05161969 Tracey Gold, NYC, actress (Carol-Growing Pains, Incredible Sunday)
B05161969 Tricia Cast, actress (Nina-Young & Restless)
B05161970 Gabriela Sabatini, Argentina, tennis player (Olympic-silver-1988)
B05161979 Evan Ferrante, actor (Owen-Swan's Crossing)
B05171444 Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (Birth of Venus)
B05171451 Engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz/viceroy of Luxembourg
B05171490 Albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia
B05171551 Martinus A del Rio, Spanish/South Neth lawyer/historian/theologist
B05171749 Edward Jenner, England, physician, discovered vaccination
B05171794 Anna Brownell Jameson, author
B05171796 Martinus J Niewindt, bishop of Curaçao (christen slaves)
B05171803 Robert Smith Surtees, novelist
B05171804 Ottho G Heldring, vicar (H Gestichten)
B05171812 Joseph Warren Revere, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1880
B05171823 Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby, contralto/composer
B05171836 Joseph Norman Lockyer, discovered Helium/founded Nature magazine
B05171866 Erik Satie, Honfleur France, composer (Mémoirs d'un Ambésique)
B05171867 Gerrit Mannoury, mathematician/philosopher
B05171873 Dorothy Miller Richardson, novelist
B05171873 Henri Barbusse, French writer (Le Feu)
B05171876 Alban Collignon, Belgian sport journalist
B05171886 Alfonso XIII, Borbón King of Spain (1902-31)
B05171888 Selmer Jackson, Iowa, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp)
B05171889 Alfonso Reyes, Mexican poet/historian/diplomat (Higenia Cruel)
B05171889 Marcel Moyse, Saint-Amour, France, flutist (20 Exercises et études)
B051719-- Arturo Peniche, México City México, spanish actor
B051719-- Audie Desbrow, rocker (Great White-Twice Shy)
B051719-- Paige Turco, actress (Melanie-Guiding Light)
B05171900 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's spiritual leader
B05171900 Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's ayatollah
B05171901 Werner Egk, Auchsesheim Germany, composer (Die Zaubergeige)
B05171903 Douglas Packard, British Lt General
B05171904 Jean Gabin, French actor (Stormy Waters, French Can Can)
B05171906 Eric Mensforth, former pres Westland Aircraft
B05171907 Charles Cawley, chief scientist/minister of power
B05171907 Horace McMahon, South Norwalk Ct, actor (Martin Kane Private Eye)
B05171907 Ilona Schacherer Elek, Budapest Hung, fencer (Olympic-gold-1936, 48)
B05171908 Zinka Milanov, Zagreb Yugoslavia, soprano (Ljublama Opera 1927)
B05171909 Edward Playfair, British senior civil servant
B05171911 Maureen O'Sullivan, Boyle Ireland, actress (Pride & Prejudice)
B05171912 Archibald Cox, 1st Watergate special prosecutor
B05171912 Clarence "Ace" Parker, NFL QB (Brooklyn, Boston Yanks)
B05171913 Alec Ogilvie, CEO (Powell Duffryn)
B05171913 Lord Hirshfield, chartered accountant
B05171915 Joseph Craggs, electrical engineer
B05171916 Cornelis A Eman, Antillian politician
B05171918 Birgit Nilsson, Karup Sweden, operatic soprano (Elektra, Salome)
B05171920 Harriet Van Horne, Syracuse NY, columnist/panelist (Leave it to Girls)
B05171920 Lydia Wideman, Finland, 10K cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1952)
B05171921 Dennis Brain, London England, french-hornist (Serenade)
B05171921 John Garlick, British senior civil servant
B05171923 Michael Beetham, Marshal of RAF
B05171923 Miles Wingate, deputy master Trinity House
B05171923 Peter [Mennini] Mennin, Erie Pennsylvania, composer (Moby Dick)
B05171924 Lord Tombs, CEO (Rolls Royce)
B05171924 Thomas Baird, vice-admiral
B05171926 David Young, CEO (Cairn tech)
B05171926 Geoffrey Caston, vice chancellor (U of South Pacific)
B05171926 Lord Chamberlain, Earl of Airilet
B05171926 Tenniel Evans, rev/actor
B05171927 Ronald Halstead, deputy chairman (British Steel)
B05171928 Donald Cameron Watt, historian
B05171928 Ian Griggs, bishop of Ludlow
B05171929 Raymond Hide, geophysicist
B05171931 Dewey Redman, jazz musician
B05171932 Arthur Jones, principal (Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester)
B05171932 Rodric Braithwaite, ambassador to USSR
B05171934 Earl Morrall, NFL QB (Lions, Giants, Colts)
B05171935 Dennis Potter, playwright
B05171935 Ivan Slone, world-famous watchmaker
B05171936 Dennis Hopper, actor (True Grit, Blue Velvet, Easy Rider)
B05171938 Don Dolan, Staten Island NY, actor (Guy Lewis- General Hospital)
B05171938 Pervis Jackson, rocker (Spinners)
B05171938 Trinus Riemersma, Fries writer (Conquest of Lion tamer)
B05171939 Hugh Dykes, MP
B05171939 Wim de Bie, CEO (Simplistic Covenant)
B05171942 Taj Mahal, NYC, singer/songwriter (Real Thing)
B05171944 Jesse Winchester, Shreveport La, singer/songwriter (Learn to Love it)
B05171945 Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, cricketer
B05171945 George Miller, (Rep-D-CA, 1975- )
B05171946 Sinaida Turchina, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976)
B05171950 Bill Bruford, drummer (Yes, King Crimson, Genesis)
B05171950 Christian Lacroix, French couturier (Chic Frills)
B05171950 Keith Bradley, MP
B05171951 Simon Hughes, MP
B05171952 Jody Pijper, (background)singer
B05171953 George Johnson, rocker (Brothers Johnson)
B05171953 Kathleen Sullivan, Pasadena Ca, newscaster (ABC-TV, CBS Morning Show)
B05171953 Nicholas Bacon, premier baronet of England
B05171954 John Iles, actor
B05171956 "Sugar" Ray Leonard, Wilmington NC, boxer (Olympic-gold-76)
B05171956 Bob Saget, comedian/actor (Danny-Full House, America's Home Videos)
B05171956 Sue Carpenter, TV presenter/journalist
B05171958 Vincent Henar, bassist (Fra Fra Sound)
B05171959 Paul Di'anno, rocker (Iron Maiden)
B05171960 Fiona Hutchison, Miami Fla, actress (One Life to Live, Guiding Light)
B05171961 Enya, [Eithne Ní Bhraonáin], Gweedore Ireland, vocalist (Watermark)
B05171962 Tracey Bryn, rocker (Voice of Beehive-Let it Bee)
B05171963 Brigitte Nielsen, actress (Red Sonja, Rocky IV, Domino)
B05171970 Jordan Nathaniel M Knight, Mass, rocker (New Kids-Hangin' Tough)
B05181711 Ruggiero G Boscovich, [Rudzer J Boskovic], Italian astronomer
B05181744 Joseph Bear, Bohemia clarinetist/composer (5th clarinet flap)
B05181797 Frederik Augustus II, King of Saxon (1836-54)
B05181798 Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1870
B05181815 Thomas Stanhope Bocock, rep (Confederacy), died in 1891
B05181817 James William Denver, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
B05181830 Karl Goldmark, Keszthely Hungary, composer (Sakuhtala)
B05181836 Wilhelm Steinitz, Austria, world chess champion (1866-94)
B05181850 Oliver Heaviside, physicist predicted existance of ionosphere
B05181854 Bernard Zweers, composer (On my Fatherland)
B05181862 Freiherr Albert von Schrenk-Notzing, German para-psychologist
B05181864 John P Veth, painter/etcher/lithographer/art historian
B05181865 William Heinemann, England, publisher (Chemical Instrumental)
B05181868 Nicholas II Aleksandrovitsj, last tsar of Russia (1894-1917)
B05181869 Ruprecht, crown prince of Bayern
B05181872 Bertrand Russell, England, mathematician/philosopher (Nobel 1950)
B05181883 Walter Gropius, German architect (founded Bauhaus school of design)
B05181885 Eurico Gaspar Dutra, president of Brazil (1945-50)
B05181891 Rudolf Carnap, philosopher (German Logical Positivist)
B05181897 Frank Capra, director (Its a Wonderful Life, Arsenic & Old Lace)
B05181898 Juan J Domenchina, Spanish poet/interpreter (sombra desterrada)
B051819-- Gail Strickland, Birmingham Ala, actress (Alice West-Insiders)
B051819-- Priscilla Pointer, NYC, actress (Rebecca-Dallas, Call to Glory)
B051819-- Steve Delong, rocker (Sweet F A-Stick To Your Guns)
B05181900 Sarah Miriam Peale, US, portrait painter (Gen Lafayette-1825)
B05181901 Henri Sauguet, Bordeaux France, composer (La Chotte)
B05181901 Vincent du Vigneaud, US biochemist
B05181902 Meredith Willson, Mason City Iowa, composer (Music Man)
B05181904 Jacob K Javits, (Sen-R-NY)
B05181907 Clifford Curzon, London England, pianist (MacFarren Gold Medal)
B05181909 Fred Perry, Stockport England, tennis star (Wimbeldon 1934-36)
B05181911 Joe Turner, KC, blues singer (Corrine Corrina, Shake Rattle & Roll)
B05181912 Perry Como, singer/TV (Perry Como Show, What did Delaware?)
B05181912 Richard Brooks, Phila, director (Blackboard Jungle, In Cold Blood)
B05181914 Boris Christoff, Bulgaria/Italian bass (Boris Godoenov)
B05181914 Pierre A Balmain, France, fashion designer (1940's "New Look")
B05181918 John Paul II, 264th Roman Catholic pope (1978- )
B05181919 Margot Fonteyn, England, ballerina (Giselle)
B05181922 Bill Macy, Revere Mass, actor (Walter-Maude, Oh! Calcutta)
B05181923 Liam Sullivan, Jacksonville Ill, actor (Mapoy-Monroes)
B05181924 Jack Whitaker, Phila Pa, sportscaster (ABC, CBS)
B05181928 Pernell Roberts, Waycross Ga, actor (Adam-Bonanza, Trapper John MD)
B05181930 Babara Goldsmith, New Rochelle, author (Little Gloria Happy At Last)
B05181930 Don L Lind, Midvale Utah, astronaut (STS 51B)
B05181930 Fred[erick] [Thomas] Saberhagen, US, sci-fi author (Book of Swords)
B05181930 Warren B Rudman, (Sen-R-NH, 1980- )
B05181931 Robert Morse, Newton Mass, actor (That's Life, Jack Frost)
B05181934 Dwayne Hickman, LA, actor (Dobie Gillis, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini)
B05181937 Brooks Robinson, Baltimore Oriole 3rd baseman (1955-77)
B05181937 Ildikó Sagi-Retjö, Hung, foils (Oly-2 gold/3 silv/2 bronze-1960-76)
B05181941 Diane McBain, Cleve Ohio, actress (Surfside Six, Spinout, Donner Pass)
B05181945 Marten van Tra, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
B05181946 Reggie Jackson, "Mr October" baseball rightfielder (Yankees, A's)
B05181949 Rick Wakeman, rocker (Yes-Fish Out of Water)
B05181949 William Wallace, rocker (Guess Who)
B05181950 Rodney Milburn Jr, USA, hurdler (Olympic-gold-1972)
B05181951 James Stephens, Mount Kisko NY, actor (Paper Chase, Devil's Island)
B05181952 Diane E[lizabeth] Duane, US, sci-fi author (Door into Fire)
B05181952 George Strait, country singer (Beyond the Blue Neon)
B05181952 Martin R Hoke, (Rep-R-Ohio)
B05181953 Butch Tavares, rocker (Tavares)
B05181958 Toyah Wilcox, Birmingham England, rocker (I Want to Be Free)
B05181960 Yannick Noah, France, tennis player (French 1983)
B05181969 Martika, [Marta Marrero], Cuba, singer (Toy Soldiers)
B05191469 Giovanni della Robbia, Ital's sculptor
B05191611 Innocent XI, [Benedetto Odescalchi], Italy, 240th Pope (1676-89)
B05191795 Johns Hopkins, philanthropist, founded Johns Hopkins University
B05191808 Samuel Jameson Gholson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1883
B05191812 Felix Kirk Zollicoffer, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
B05191815 John Gross Barnard, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1882
B05191828 Adin Ballou Underwood, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
B05191858 Roland Napoleon Bonaparte, French officer/traveller
B05191859 Lady Nellie Melba, [Heal Mitchell], Australian soprano (Peach Melba)
B05191860 Victor E Orlando, Ital's premier (1917-19)
B05191864 Carl Ethan Akeley, US, naturalist, devoleped animal mount process
B05191869 Jules Poncelet, Belgian minister of State
B05191879 Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, US/Eng's feminist/ex of Waldorf Astor
B05191879 Waldorf Astor, US/English Lower/Upper house member/owner Observer
B05191890 Ho Chi Minh, trail blazer/leader of Vietnam (1946, 1969)
B051919-- Marilyn Chris, actress (Wanda Wolek-One Life to Live)
B051919-- Tim Waldrip, Spokane Wash, actor (Casey-American Dream)
B05191904 Anthony Bushell, actor (Journey's End)
B05191904 Sven Thofelt, Sweden, pentathlete (Olympic-gold-1928)
B05191909 Bruce Bennett, Tacoma Wash, actor (Before I Hang, Sahara)
B05191915 Christian Beyers Naudé, South african anti-apartheid minister
B05191919 Beth Jameson, Norman Ok, golfer (US Women's Open 1947)
B05191922 David McLean, Akron Oh, actor (Tate-Tate)
B05191925 Malcolm X, [Little], [Detroit Red], Omaha NB, founder (Black Muslims)
B05191928 Anthony C B Chapman, England, sports car builder/autoracer (Formula 1)
B05191929 Harvey Cox, US theologist (Secular City)
B05191934 James Charles Lehrer, Wichita Ks, news anchor (McNeil-Lehrer Report)
B05191934 Jan Wijn, pianist
B05191935 David Hartman, Pawtucket RI, TV personality (Good Morning America)
B05191936 Elisabeth Schwartz, Austria, pairs figure skater (Olympic-gold-1956)
B05191937 Sanne Sannes, photographer
B05191938 James H Bilbray, (Rep-D-Nevada)
B05191939 Francis R Scobee, Wash, USAF/astronaut (STS 41C, 51L-Chal disaster)
B05191939 James Fox, England, actor (Greystoke)
B05191940 Frank Lorenzo, airline executive (Continental, Texas Air, Eastern)
B05191941 Nora Ephron, NY, writer (Heartburn)
B05191945 Peter Townshend, singer (Who-Tommy)
B05191946 Diedre Lenihan, Atlanta Ga, actress (Wendy-Needles & Pins)
B05191947 Glenn Close, Greenwich Ct, actress (Fatal Attractions) (or 0319)
B05191947 Jerry Hyman, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears)
B05191948 Grace Jones, [Mendoza], Spanishtown Jamacia, singer/actress (Vamp)
B05191948 Tom Scott, LA, saxophonist/bandleader (Pat Sajak Show)
B05191952 Barbara Loomis, rocker (BT Express)
B05191952 Joey Ramone, [Jeffrey Hyman], rock drummer (Ramones-Baby I Love You)
B05191954 Rick Cerone, Newark NJ, catcher (Yankees/Red Sox/Mets/Expos)
B05191955 Ed Whitson, pitcher (NY Yankees, SD Padres)
B05191955 Pierre J Thuot, Groton Conn, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 36, 49, SK:66)
B05191956 Althea Gwyn, WBL center (NY Stars)
B05191956 Martyn Ware, rocker (Heaven 17-Electric Dreams)
B05191956 Steve Ford, actor (Young & Restless)/son of Pres Gerald Ford
B05191957 Bill Laimbeer, NBA center (Cleveland Cavaliers, Detroit Pistons)
B05191961 Lisa Rathgber, Hillsboro Ill, bowler (LPBT Rookie of Year 1980)
B05191963 Yazz, [Yasmin Evans], Mrs Simon La Bon/rocker (One Way is Up)
B05191965 Joshua Rifkind, actor (Marshall Chronicles)
B05191969 David Wharton, Warminster PA, US Olympic swimmer (Olympic-silver-88)
B05201364 Henry Percy, [Harry Hotspur], British soldier/politican
B05201470 Pietro Bembo, cardinal/theologian
B05201537 Hieronymus Fabricius Ab, Aquapend Italy, physician (De Formato Foetu)
B05201743 [François D] Toussaint L'Ouverture, (à Breda), leader (Haiti)
B05201750 Stephen Girard, bailed out US bonds during War of 1812
B05201759 William Thornton, architect (Capitol building, Wash DC)
B05201768 Dolley Dandridge Payne Madison, 1st lady (1809-17)
B05201772 William Congreve, English officer (design fire rocket)
B05201799 Honoré de Balzac, France, novelist (Pere Goriot, Human Comedy)
B05201806 John Stuart Mill, UK, philosopher/political economist/Utilitarian
B05201815 Barthélémy Menn, Swiss graphic artist/painter
B05201818 William George Fargo, founder (Wells Fargo)
B05201822 Emile Erckmann, [E-Chatrian], French writer (Waterloo)
B05201822 Frédéric Passy, French economist/pacifist (Nobel 1901)
B05201828 James William Reilly, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
B05201830 Hector H Malot, French writer (Without Family, Alleen on de world)
B05201841 Sara Louisa Oberholtz, social reformer, anti-smoking advocate
B05201844 Henri Julien Felix Rousseau, French painter (Dream)
B05201851 Emile Berliner, Germany, inventor (flat phonograph record)
B05201851 Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, US, nun/daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne
B05201872 Albert Steinrück, German actor
B05201874 Folkert E Posthuma, minister of Agriculture/Industry
B05201881 Wladyslaw Sikorski, premier Poland
B05201882 Sigrid Undset, Norway, novelist (Kristin Lavransdatter, Nobel 1928)
B05201889 Margery Allingham, detective story writer
B05201889 William Lawther, union leader
B05201890 Beniamino Gigli, Italy, tenor (Enzo-La Gioconde)
B05201894 Adela Rogers St John, journalist/author (Foreign Correspondant)
B05201899 Estelle Taylor, US, actress (8 Commandments)
B05201899 John M Harlan, Chicago, 91st Supreme Court justice (1955-71)
B052019-- Jay Schellen, rocker (Hurricane-I'm On To You)
B052019-- Pete McClanahan, rocker (Warrior Soul-Last Decade of Century)
B05201901 Max Euwe, Netherlands, world chess champion (1935-37)
B05201905 Harry Campion, founder (British Central Statistical Office)
B05201908 Jimmy Stewart, PA, actor (Mr Smith Goes to Wash, Wonderful Life)
B05201909 John Arkell, director of BBC administration
B05201911 Annie Schmidt, writer (Fam Doorsnee/Jip & Janneke)
B05201911 Gardner F[rancis] Fox, US, sci-fi author (Kothar-Barbarian Swordsman)
B05201912 Joseph Proce, 3rd victim of NYC's Zodiac killer (survives)
B05201913 Henry Cadbury Brown, architect
B05201913 William Hewlett, cofounder of Hewlett-Packard Co
B05201915 Moshe Dayan, Israeli general/minister of Defense
B05201915 Peter Copley, actor (Victim, King & Country)
B05201916 John McIntyre, theologian
B05201916 Owen Chadwick, chancellor (U of East Anglia)
B05201917 Richard Cobb, historian
B05201919 George Gobel, Chicago Ill, comedian/TV personality (I Love My Wife)
B05201920 Betty Driver, actress
B05201920 John Cruickshank, banker
B05201920 William Simpson, British trade union leader
B05201921 John Harrison, Vice admiral british/surgeon
B05201921 John Marchi, (Rep-R-NY)
B05201922 Clifford Butler, vice chancellor (Loughborough University of Technology)
B05201923 Edith Fellows, Boston, actress (Pennies From Heaven, City Streets)
B05201923 Hugh Beach, General British
B05201924 Peter Shore, MP/labour minister
B05201925 D French Slaughter Jr, (Rep-R-VA, 1985- )
B05201926 David Hedison, Providence RI, actor (Colbys, Voyage to Bottom of Sea)
B05201927 Bud Grant, Wisc, CFL/NFL player/coach (Winnipeg, Minnesota)
B05201928 David Berriman, CEO (Rose Thomson Young group of Lloyds trustees
B05201929 André Carolus Cirino, Suriname/Indian poet
B05201929 David Hedison, [Ara Heditsian], Providence RI, actor (Licence to Kill)
B05201930 James McEachin, Pennert NC, actor (Harry-Tenafly)
B05201930 Robert Bunyard, Commandant (British Police Staff College)
B05201931 Chiharu Igaya, Japan, slalom (Olympic-silver-1956)
B05201933 Constance Towers, actress (Capitol, Shock Corrider, Naked Kiss)
B05201933 Danny Aiello, actor (Moonstruck, Do the Right Thing)
B05201936 Anthony Zerbe, US, actor (Papillon, They Call Me Mr Tibbs)
B05201937 Earl of Iveagh, pres (Guiness Pics)
B05201938 Alan Smithers, British professor
B05201938 Christina Bass-Kaiser, 3K spped skater (Olympic-gold-1972)
B05201940 Sadaharu Oh, of Yomiuri Giants (Japan), hit 868 career HR
B05201941 Goh Chok Sole, premier of Singapore (1990- )
B05201942 Lynn Davies, long jumper
B05201942 Paula, [Jill Jackson], Tx, singer (Hey Paula)
B05201943 Deryck Murray, cricket Manager (West Indies team)
B05201943 Ian Vallance, CEO (British Telecom)
B05201944 Boudewijn the Great, singer (Good night mister president)
B05201944 Cipa Dichter, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, pianist/wife of Misha Dichter
B05201944 David M Walker, Columbus Ga, Capt USN/astron (STS 51-A 30, sk:STS-44)
B05201944 Joe Cocker, England, rock musician (You are so Beautiful to me)
B05201944 Keith Fletcher, cricket captain (Essex & England)
B05201945 Harold E Ford, (Rep-D-TN, 1975- )
B05201945 Lord Hollick, CEO (MAI)
B05201945 Nikolai Nikolayevich Fefelov, Russia, colonel/cosmonaut
B05201945 Wally Herger, (Rep-R-California)
B05201946 Bakhaavaa Buidaa, Mongolia, wrestler (Oly-silver-1972) disqualified
B05201946 Cher Bono, Cal, rocker/actress (I Got You Babe, Jack Lalane, Mask)
B05201948 Dave Thomas, St Catherines Ontario, comedian (SCTV)
B05201948 John R McKernan Jr, (Rep-R-ME, 1983-86/Gov-Maine)
B05201948 Samuel Gejdenson, (Rep-D-Connecticut, 1981- )
B05201949 Nick Joe Rahall II, (Rep-D-WV, 1977- )
B05201951 Michael D Crapo, (Rep-R-Idaho)
B05201951 Thomas D "Tom" Akers, St Louis, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 41, 49)
B05201951 William Cullen Bryant, actor (Hell Squad)
B05201952 Warren Cann, rocker (Ultravox)
B05201954 James Henderson, country singer (Black Oak Arkansas)
B05201955 Nigel Griffiths, labour MP
B05201955 Steve George, rocker (Mr Mister)
B05201958 Jane Wiedlin, Wisc, singer/guitarist (GoGos, Fur, Rush Hour)
B05201958 Ronald Prescot Reagan Jr, Pres son/TV host (Ron Reagon Show)
B05201959 Bronson Pinchot, NYC, actor (Perfect Strangers, Beverly Hills Cop)
B05201960 John Cowsill, rock vocalist (Cowsills-Hair)
B05201961 Kit Clarke, rocker (Danny Wilson-Mary's Prayer)
B05201961 Nick Heyward, guitar/vocals (Haircut 100-Favourite Shirts)
B05201962 Lydia Cheng, NYC, Ms Big Apple bodybuilder (1982) (Pumping Iron 2)
B05201962 Sylvie Rauch, Munich German FR, nude model
B05201963 Brian Nash, Glendale Calif, actor (Joel-Please Don't Eat Daisies)
B05201964 Earl Spencer
B05201964 Joseph Sinnott Edwards, Chicago, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
B05201965 Fia Porter, Mexia Tx, actress (Audrey Ames-One Life to Live)
B05201966 Mindy Cohn, LA, actress (Facts of Life)
B05201969 Suzanne Lawrence, Humble Texas, Miss Texas-America (1991) (4th)
B0521 427 -BC- Plato, [Aristocles], Athens(?), Greek philosopher (Politeia)
B05211471 Albrecht Dürer, Nürnberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker
B05211527 Philip II, King of Spain (1556-98) & Portugal (1580-98)
B05211688 Alexander Pope, England, poet (Rape of the Lock)
B05211775 Lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino/Musignano
B05211780 Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse
B05211796 Reverdy Johnson, rep (Union), died in 1876
B05211808 Gérard de Nerval, [Labrunie], French poet/writer (Sylvia)
B05211822 Dabney Herndon Maury, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1900
B05211822 Mosby Monroe Parsons, Brig General (Confederate Army) died in 1865
B05211825 George Lafayette Beal, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
B05211826 Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro
B05211834 Charles-Albert Gobat, Switz, politician/lawyer/author (Nobel 1902)
B05211835 Newton Martin Curtis, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
B05211843 Louis Renault, French lawyer
B05211844 Henri "le Douanier" Rousseau, French ambassador/painter
B05211851 Léon Bourgeois, France, politician, internationalist (Nobel 1920)
B05211855 Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian poet/writer (Les Flammes Hautes)
B05211858 José Battle Ordonez, Uruguay, politician
B05211860 Willam Einthoven, inventor (electrocardiograph)
B05211865 C J Thomsen, Denmark, archaeologist, named Stone/Iron/Bronze Ages
B05211872 Henry Warren, Boston Mass, inventor (Telechon electric clock)
B05211873 Emil Ermatinger, Switz, literature historian
B05211878 Glenn Hammond Curtiss, US, inventor (hydroplane)
B05211878 Louis L H de Visser, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CPN)
B05211898 Armand Hammer, NYC, millionaire industrialist (Occidental Petroleum)
B05211899 Ralph Sanford, Springfield Mass, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp)
B052119-- Anthony Corder, rocker (Tora Tora-Walkin' Shoes)
B052119-- Booth Savage, Frederickton NB Canada, actor (Jason West-Hot Shots)
B052119-- Isabel Pandora, spanish entertainer
B052119-- John Ricco, rock guitarist (Warrior Soul-Last Decade of The Century)
B052119-- John Zee, NYC, actor (Bring 'em Back Alive)
B052119-- Lynnie Greene, Boston Mass, actress (Maria-On Our Own)
B052119-- Richard Libertini, Cambridge Mass, actor (Soap, Ghost)
B05211901 Horace Heidt, Alameda Calif, orch leader (Swift Show Wagon)
B05211901 Suzanne Lilar, [Verbist], France/Belgian writer (Le burlador)
B05211903 Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesian attorney/minister/premier (1953..7)
B05211903 Manly Wade Wellman, Angola, sci-fi author (After Dark, Devil's Planet)
B05211903 Pedro Aramburu, president Argentina
B05211904 (Thomas) Fast Waller, Jazz pianist/composer
B05211904 Fats Waller, jazz pianist, composer (Ain't Misbehavin')
B05211904 Robert Montgomery, Beacon NY, actor/dir (Earl of Chicago, Yellow Jack)
B05211904 Thomas "Fats" Waller, US jazz pianist (Honeysuckle Rose)
B05211909 Guy de Rothschild, banker
B05211911 André Renard, Belgian worker's union leader (Syndical Unifié)
B05211916 Harold Robbins, author (Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers)
B05211916 Helen Willis Moody Roark, tennis player (US Open 1923-25, 27-29, 31)
B05211916 Leonard Manasseh, architect
B05211917 Dennis Day, NYC, actor/singer (Jack Benny Show)
B05211917 Jean-Louis Curtis, French writer (Just Causes)
B05211917 Raymond Burr, actor (Perry Mason, Ironsides, Godzilla)
B05211918 Leonard Mullens, rubber physicist
B05211919 Lord Maxwell, College of Justice (Scotland)/senator
B05211919 Mark Wood, bishop of Ludlow
B05211920 Anthony Steel, London, actor (Malta Story, Wooden Horse)
B05211921 Andrei Sakharov, Moscow, physicist, human rights worker (Nobel '75)
B05211924 Peggy Cass, TV panelist, actress (To Tell the Truth)
B05211924 Robert Parris, Philadelphia, composer (Book of Imaginery Beings)
B05211926 Dan Perlsweig, horse trainer
B05211926 Rick Jason, NYC, actor (Day of the Wolves, Eagles Attack at Dawn)
B05211926 Robert Creeley, Mass, poet/novelist (Island)
B05211927 Kay Kendall, Yorkshire England, actress (Genevieve, Les Girls)
B05211929 Charles Wadsworth, Barnesville Georgia, pianist (Lincoln Center)
B05211929 Robert Welch, designer/silversmith
B05211930 David Smith, principal/vice chancellor (Edinburgh University)
B05211930 Malcolm Fraser, PM of Australia
B05211930 Stanley Wells, director (Shakespeare Institute U of Birmingham)
B05211931 Desmond Wilcox, broadcaster
B05211931 George Vassiliou, president of Cyprus (1988- )
B05211932 John Armitage, principal (College of St Hilda & St Bede Durham)
B05211933 Barry Norman, Britain, film critic (Film Greats)
B05211935 Terry Lightfoot, clarinetist/bandleader
B05211936 Dipak Nandy, founder (Runnymead Trust)
B05211938 David Groh, Bkln NY, actor (Joe-Rhoda, Don-Another Day)
B05211941 Ronald Isley, singer (Isley Brothers-Twist & Shout)
B05211942 David Hunt, Wales sec of state
B05211942 Robert C Springer, St Louis, Col USMC/astronaut (STS-29, STS-38)
B05211943 Hilton Valentine, rocker (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
B05211944 Janet Dailey, US, author
B05211944 Mary Robinson, pres of Republic of Ireland
B05211944 Mike Degett, horse trainer
B05211945 Ernst Messersclmid, Reutlingen Germany, astronaut (STS 22)
B05211947 Richard Hatch, Santa Monica Calif, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
B05211948 Leo Sayer, [Gerard], England, singer (When I Need Love)
B05211949 Andrew Nell, editor (Sunday Times)
B05211949 Arno Hintjens, Belgian singer (T C Matic)
B05211949 Rosalind Plowright, soprano
B05211952 Mr T, [Lawrence Tero], Chicago, actor, (A-Team, Rocky III, T & T)
B05211954 Marina Langner, Dusseldorf Germany, Miss World runner-up (1975)
B05211955 John Galvin, rocker (Molly Hatchet)
B05211955 Stan Lynch, rocker (Tommy Petty & Heartbreakers)
B05211957 Judge Reinhold, actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
B05211957 Sue Woodstra, Colton Ca, volleyball player (Olympic-silver-1984)
B05211958 Mike Barson, rocker (Madness)
B05211959 Nick Cassavetés, actor (Rosemary's Baby, Quiet Cool)
B05211961 Tim Lever, keyboard/sax (Dead or Alive-You Spin Me Round)
B05211963 Yelena Vodorezova, USSR, figure skater (Olympic-1976)
B05211964 Annabel Schofield, Wales, actress (Laurel Ellis-Dallas)
B05221804 John William (Turk) Livingston, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1885
B05221813 Richard Wagner, Leipsig Germany, composer (Ring, Flying Dutchman)
B05221821 Alfred Sully, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
B05221828 Albrecht Gräfe, pioneer eye surgeon; founded modern ophthalmology
B05221844 Mary Cassatt, US, Impressionist painter (Woman Bathing)
B05221859 Arthur Conan Doyle, UK, brought Sherlock Holmes to life twice
B05221874 Daniel F Malan, premier of South-Africa (1948-54)
B05221891 Robert Gordon Sproul, educator/college pres (Univ of Calif)
B05221892 Louis of Tulder, tenor (Kantoorkruk Up to High C)
B05221895 Jiddu Krishnamurti, India, spiritual philosopher (Songs of Life)
B05221898 René the Fox, tailor/actor/composer
B052219-- Victoria Wyndham, actress (Rachel Cory-Another World)
B05221902 Al Simmons, Milwaukee, outfielder (A's)/lifetime batting avg of .334
B05221904 Anne de Vries, writer (Bartje)
B05221907 Hergé, [Georges Rémi], Belgian cartoonist (Kuifje)
B05221907 Laurence Olivier, actor (Rebecca, Hamlet, Jazz Singer)
B05221911 Anatol Rapoport, Russ/US mathem/biologist (olympic theory)
B05221914 Vance Packard, US sociologist (Hidden Pseuders)
B05221919 Paul Vanden Boeynants, premier Belgium (1966-68, 1978-79)
B05221920 Thomas Gold, astronomer; proposed steady-state theory of universe
B05221922 Judith Crist, NY, movie critic (TV Guide)
B05221924 Charles Aznavour, Paris France, singer (Monsieur Carnavel)
B05221924 Helen Wedemeyer, Hilo Hawaii, actor (Hawaii Five-O)
B05221925 Jean Tinguely, Swiss speed artist (movement objects)
B05221927 Michael Constantine, actor (Room 222, Don't Drink the Water)
B05221928 T Boone Pickens, buys large companies (Shamrock)
B05221930 Dieuwke Y W de Countf-Nauta, Dutch Sect of State (CDA)
B05221933 John Browning, Denver Colorado, pianist (Leventritt Award-1956)
B05221934 Peter Nero, NYC, pianist (A Sunday in NY)
B05221938 Frank Converse, actor (It's About Time, Dr Cook's Garden, Movin' On)
B05221938 Richard Benjamin, actor/director (Goodbye Columbus, He & She)
B05221938 Susan Strasberg, NYC, actress (In Praise of Older Women, Manitou)
B05221940 Michael Sarrazin, actor (Seduction, They Shoot Horses Don't They)
B05221941 Paul Winfield, LA, actor (Star Trek II, Huckleberry Finn)
B05221942 Barbara Parkins, Vancouver BC, actress (Betty-Peyton Place, Asylum)
B05221942 Malika A Sabirova, Russian dancer
B05221943 Tommy John, pitcher (Yankee/Dodger)
B05221948 Richard Baker, (Rep-R-Louisiana)
B05221950 Bernie Taupin, musician, writes with Elton John
B05221951 Iva Davies, rocker (Icehouse)
B05221952 Jan Todd, woman power lifter, once lifted 248 kg in a squat
B05221953 John Edward Stevens, NYC, bank robber (FBI Most Wanted List)
B05221954 Jerry Dammers, keyboardist (Specials-Special)
B05221955 Sam Coppersmith, (Rep-D-Arizona)
B05221956 Douglas Heyes Jr, LA Calif, actor (Captains & Kings, Aspen)
B05221959 [Patrick] Morrissey, rocker (Depeche Mode-Somebody)
B05221964 David Lidberg, jockey
B05221970 Naomi Campbell, London England, model/girlfriend of Mike Tyson
B05221972 Alison Eastwood, daughter of actor Clint
B05231617 Elias Ashmole, antiquary
B05231707 Carolus Linnæus, Sweden, biological classifier
B05231718 William Hunter, obstetrician/medal writer
B05231729 Giuseppe Parini, Italian priest/poet (Il giorno)
B05231734 Friedrich Anton Mesmer, Austria, physician/hypnotist (Mesmerism)
B05231753 Giovanni Battista Viotti, violonist/composer
B05231754 Andrea Appiani, fresco painter
B05231790 Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville, explorer
B05231795 Charles Barry, architect
B05231799 Thomas Hood, poet/composer
B05231810 Margaret Fuller, writer/critic 1st pro book review column (NY Trib)
B05231812 Henri A Esquiros, French poet/writer (Les Vierges Folles)
B05231813 Mason Brayman, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
B05231820 James Buchanan Eads, US, engineer/inventor (Eads Bridge-St Louis)
B05231824 Ambrose Everett Burnside, Major General (Union volunteers)
B05231828 Edward Hitchcock, America's 1st prof of physical ed (Amherst College)
B05231837 James Sanks Brisbin, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
B05231844 'Abdu'l-Bahá, early Bahá'í leader ('Azamat 7, 1)
B05231848 Helmuth J L von Moltke, German general/chief of staff
B05231862 William "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player who lived to 99
B05231866 Gustav Aschaffenburg, German psychiatrist/criminalologist
B05231883 Douglas Fairbanks, US actor (Zorro/3 Musketeers/Robin Hood)
B05231888 Adrian Roland Holst, poet (Woest en moe)
B05231890 Herbert Marshall, actor (Murder, Razor's Edge, Little Foxes)
B05231891 Pär Lagerkvist, Sweden, novelist/dramatist (Barabbas, Nobel 1951)
B05231898 Frank McHugh, actor (Front Page, Gold Diggers 1935, Mighty Joe Young)
B052319-- Bill McCutcheon, Russell Ky, actor (Dom Deluise Show, Ball Four)
B052319-- Charles Pierce, SF, woman impersonnator (Judy Garland)
B052319-- Charytin, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, TV entertainer (El Show de Charytin)
B052319-- Lucia Galan, Buenos Aires Argentina, singer (Pimpinera)
B052319-- Mary Fickett, actress (Ruth Martin-All My Children)
B052319-- Phil Allocco, rocker (Law & Order-Whiskey Song)
B05231901 Edmund Rubbra, Northampton England, composer (Morning Watch)
B05231903 Walter Reisch, US, screenwriter (Ninotchka, Gaslight, Titanic)
B05231907 Kenneth Allen, engineer
B05231907 Matthew Campbell, British senior civil servant
B05231908 Christian GK Baëta, Togolese chairman (International Broadcasters)
B05231908 John Bardeen, US, physicist (transistor, Nobel 1956, 1972)
B05231908 Max Abramovitz, US architect (Lincoln Center, UN Building)
B05231909 Edwin Arrowsmith, diplomat
B05231910 Artie Shaw, [Arthur Arshawsky], NYC, bandleader (Come'on my House)
B05231910 Franz Jozef Kline, US expressionist painter
B05231910 Hugh Casson CH, architect
B05231911 Melvin M Payne, president (National Geographic Society)
B05231912 David Barran, CEO (Midland Bank, England)
B05231912 Jean Françaix, Le Mans France, composer (Le Rui Nu)
B05231912 John Payne, Roanoke Va, actor (Restless Gun)
B05231912 M Jean Francaix, composer
B05231912 Marius Goring, Isle of Wight, actor (Herr Palitz-Holocaust)
B05231912 Samuel Curran, vice chancellor (Strathclyde University)
B05231913 Ian Graeme, major-general
B05231914 Alec Dickson, founder (VSO)
B05231914 Barbara Ward, economist/writer (Only One Earth)
B05231918 Dennis Compton, author/cricketeer
B05231919 Betty Garrett, St Joseph Mo, actress (Irene-All in the Family)
B05231920 Helen O'Connell, Lima Ohio, singer (Green Eyes, Anapola)
B05231920 Sid Melton, Bkln NY, actor (Alf-Green Acres, Charlie-Danny Thomas)
B05231921 Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz musician
B05231921 James [Benjamin] Blish, US/UK, sci-fi author (Hugo, Star Trek Reader)
B05231921 Sanderson Temple, circuit judge
B05231923 Alicia de Larrocha, Copenhagen Denmark, pianist (Orquesta Sinfonica)
B05231924 Desmond Carrington, British radio host
B05231924 Michael McCrum, master of Corpus Christi College Cambridge
B05231928 Nigel Davenport, Cambridge England, actor (Without a Clue, Masada)
B05231928 Rosemary Clooney, Kentucky, singer/coronet paper towels spokeswoman
B05231929 Ulla Jacobson, Swedish actress (One Summer of Happiness)
B05231931 Barbara Barrie, Chicago, actress (Breaking Away, Barney Miller)
B05231931 José Telles Da Conceiçao, Brazil, high jumper (Olympic-bronze-1952)
B05231932 James Lester, MP
B05231932 John Lyons, Master of Trinity Hall (Cambridge)
B05231933 Gerrit J M Braks, Dutch minister of land & fishing (CDA)
B05231933 Joan Henrietta Collins, London, actress (Alexis-Dynasty, Bitch)
B05231934 Malcolm Gill, deputy head of Banking Depart, Bank for Intl Settlements
B05231934 Robert Moog, inventor (Moog Synthesizer)
B05231935 Juliet Campbell, British ambassador to Luxembourg
B05231935 Lord Grenfell, head of External affairs European office, world bank
B05231936 Robert Sangster, horse owner/trainer
B05231937 John Mazza, horse trainer
B05231938 John R Miller, (Rep-R-WA, 1985- )
B05231938 Peter Preston, editor (Guardian)
B05231939 Ron Stevens, horse trainer
B05231943 John Newcombe, Australia, tennis pro (Wimbeldon 1967, 70, 71)
B05231943 Peter Kenilorea, PM Solomon Islands
B05231944 Giles Smith, TV journalist
B05231944 Lady Olga Maitland, MP
B05231945 Lauren Chapin, actress (Kathy-Father Knows Best)
B05231946 Tom Dorris, horse trainer
B05231949 Alan García Pérez, pres of Peru (1985- )
B05231950 Linda Thompson, Memphis Tn, actress (Hee Haw)
B05231951 Anatoli Karpov, USSR, world chess champion (1975-85)
B05231952 "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler, NJ, middleweight boxing champ (1982-83)
B05231952 Deborah Adair, actress (Tracey-Dynasty)
B05231955 John Stevens, MEP
B05231958 Shelly West, country singer
B05231958 Thomas Reiter, German engineer/test pilot/astronaut candidate
B05231962 Karen Duffy, [Duff], NYC, MTV veejay
B05231964 Staci Greason, Denver, actress (Isabella Toscando-Days of Our Lives)
B05231966 Graeme Hick, cricketer
B05241544 William Gilbert, Essex England, physicist (researcher into magnetism)
B05241619 Philip Wouwerman, painter
B05241743 Jean-Paul Marat, France, revolutionist
B05241751 Charles Emanuel II, King of Sardina (1796-1802)
B05241753 Oliver Cromwell, Burlington NJ, black who served with Washington
B05241781 Louis-François Dauprat, composer/horn player
B05241794 William Whewell, British philospher (History of Inductive Science)
B05241803 Karel LJL Bonaparte, Corsican/French prince of Canino/Musignano
B05241807 Thomas Duncan, painter
B05241810 Abraham Geiger, theologian/author/leader of Reform Judaism
B05241811 Charles Clark, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1877
B05241816 Emanuel Leutze, US, painter (Washington Crossing the Delaware)
B05241816 Robert Seaman Granger, (Union Army Bvt Major general, died in 1894)
B05241819 Victoria Alexandrine, Queen of Great-Britain/Ireland/Emperor India
B05241819 Victoria, Queen of England (1837-1901)
B05241838 Paul Laband, German lawyer
B05241840 Frederick Walker, painter
B05241841 Charles Napier Henry, painter
B05241841 Tito Mattei, pianist/composer
B05241850 Ernest Albert Waterlow, water-color painter
B05241852 Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, author/politician
B05241854 Louis Mountbatten, admiral (WW I)
B05241855 Arthur Wing Pinero, British playwright
B05241858 Johan C Braakensiek, political cartoonist (Green Amsterdammer)
B05241866 Armando Frid, Argentina, live until July 28 1990 (124 years)
B05241870 Jan C Smuts, philosopher/general/premier South-Africa (1919...48)
B05241870 Jan Christian Smuts, proponnent of Commonwealth & League of Nations
B05241878 Lillian M Gilbreth, engineer (CIOS Gold Medal-1954)
B05241886 Paul Paray, Le Tréport Normandy, conductor (Artemis Trouble)
B05241891 Benedictus H Dancer, botanist
B05241895 Samuel I Newhouse, US millionaire publisher (Parade, Vogue, Glamour)
B05241898 Kathleen Hale, British children book writer/illustrator (Orlando)
B05241899 Suzanne Lenglen, France, Wimbledon tennis champion (6-times)
B052419-- Judy Kahan, Roslyn Heights NY, actress (Doc, Mary Hartman)
B052419-- Rich Robinson, rocker (Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker)
B05241904 George Formby, [William Hoy Booth], British singer/comic
B05241904 Kenneth Buckley, British rear-admiral
B05241905 Mikhail Sholokhov, USSR, writer (And Quiet Flows the Don, Nobel 1965)
B05241906 Edmund Sargant, solicitor
B05241906 John Mayo, director-general (Help the Aged)
B05241909 Guillermo Diaz-Plaja, Spanish literary/poet (Lorca)
B05241909 Wilbur Mills, (Rep-D-Ark)/involved with Fanne Foxe
B05241912 Joan Hammond, British operatic soprano
B05241912 Joseph Anthony (Deuster), US director/actor (Matchmaker, Tomorrow)
B05241913 Audrey Brown, England, 4 X 100m runner (Olympic-silver-1936)
B05241914 Clifford Irving, Chairman (Isle of Man Govt)
B05241914 Lilli Palmer, [Peiser], Germany, actress (Gentle Sex, Lotte in Weimar)
B05241916 Roden Cutler, Governor (New South Wales)
B05241917 Derek Hodgson, British high court judge
B05241917 Lord Campbell of Alloway, QC
B05241918 Coleman A Young, civil rights leader (Mayor-D-Detroit)
B05241918 D V Jennings, solicitor
B05241923 Paul Bramley, oral surgeon
B05241923 Siobhan McKenna, Ireland, stage actress (Saint Joan)
B05241925 Mai Zetterling, actress/director (Hitchhiker)
B05241927 John Kelly Jr, US, sculls (Oly-gold-1956), brother of Grace Kelly
B05241927 Timothy Beven, CEO (Barclays Bank)
B05241928 Peter Griffiths, MP
B05241928 Stanley Baxter, British comic
B05241928 William Trevor, Brit writer (Children of Dynmouth, Fools of Fortune)
B05241930 Ivor Richardson, Judge (NZ Court of Appeals)
B05241932 Arnold Wesker, British playwright
B05241932 Elaine Malbin, opera singer
B05241932 Graham Arnold, artist
B05241932 James Anderton, Chief constable of Manchester England
B05241932 Terence Heiser, British senior civil servant
B05241933 Christopher Staughton, British Lord Justice of Appeal
B05241933 Tony Mullett, director-general (National Criminal Intelligence Service)
B05241934 Jane Byrne, (Mayor-D-Chic)
B05241938 Tommy Chong, Edmonton, Alberta, comedian/actor (Cheech & Chong)
B05241939 Gert J Schutte, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (GPV)
B05241940 Joseph Brodsky, USSR, author (Less than 1, Nobel 1987)
B05241941 Andres Garcia, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, actor (Tiger Shark)
B05241941 Baroness Hollis of Heigham, history lecturer (U of East Anglia)
B05241941 Bob Dylan, [Zimmerman], Minn, singer/songwriter (Blowin' in Wind)
B05241941 Martin Mogg, governor (British Durham Prison)
B05241941 Tony Valentino, rocker (Standells-Dirty Water)
B05241942 Derek Quinn, guitarist (Freddie & Dreamers-I'm Telling You Now)
B05241942 Sarah Dash, Trenton, NJ, rocker (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade)
B05241943 Gary Burghoff, actor (Radar-M*A*S*H)
B05241943 James Levine, British conductor
B05241944 Arthur Brown, rock vocalist (Fire)
B05241944 Patti LaBelle, rocker (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade)
B05241945 Priscilla Presley, Bkln NY, actress (Jenna-Dallas, Naked Gun)
B05241945 Richard Ottaway, MP
B05241945 Steven Norris, British MP
B05241946 Irina Kirszenstein Szewinska, Lennigrad, long jumper (Oly-bronze-1972)
B05241946 Jeremy Treglown, English scholar/editor (TLS)
B05241946 Steve Upton, rock drummer (Wishbone Ash-There's the Rub, Locked In)
B05241947 Luke Rittner, sect-gen (Arts Council)
B05241949 John Illsley, rocker (Dire Straits)
B05241951 Pat Bradley, golfer (leader in LPGA career earnings)
B05241951 Rob Baker, rocker (Red Rider)
B05241953 Nell Campbell, [Laura], Sydney Australia, actress (Rocky Horror)
B05241955 Rosanne Cash, country singer (I Wonder)
B05241955 Thad Ackel, horse trainer
B05241956 Helen Terry, rocker (Now You're Mine)
B05241957 John G Rowland, (Rep-R-CT, 1985- )
B05241959 George Glanos, horse trainer
B05241963 Gene Anthony Ray, Harlem NY, actor (Leroy-Fame)
B05241963 Joe Dumars, NBA guard (Detroit Pistons)
B05241964 Adrian Moorhouse, British 100m breaststroker (Olympic-gold-1988)
B05241965 Chris Jorgis, Palo Alto Calif, US badminton player (Olympic-92)
B05241966 Tommy Turner, jockey
B05241967 Steve McDonald, rocker (Redd Kross)
B05241970 Thomas Alden Page, Glenridge NJ, rocker (New Kids-Hangin' Tough)
B05241982 ?, heaviest known viable baby, South Africa (10.2 kg)
B05251494 Jacopo Pontormo II, Italy, painter (Funeral procession of Christ)
B05251781 Ferdinand K J, archduke of Austria-Este/gov-gen (Sicily)
B05251803 Ralph Waldo Emerson, US, essayist/philosopher (Concord Hymn)
B05251830 Jules de Geyter, Belgian poet (International)
B05251845 William Muldoon, Belfast NY, boxing commissioner (help find PAL)
B05251847 John Alexander Dowie, [Elijah the Restorer], US, evangelist
B05251865 Frederick Augustus III, King of Saxon (1904-18)
B05251865 John Raleigh Mott, organizer (YMCA, Nobel 1946)
B05251865 Pieter Zeeman, naturalist (Zeeman effect, Nobel 1902)
B05251878 Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, actor (Stormy Weather, Little Colonel)
B05251879 W Maxwell Aitken lord Beaverbrook, Canada/English banker
B05251886 Philip Murray, founded Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
B05251889 Igor Sikorsky, developed a working helicopter
B05251891 Robert W P Peereboom, Dutch editor in chief (Haarlem Newspaper)
B05251898 Bennett Cerf, publisher (Random House) panelist (What's My Line)
B05251898 Gene Tunney, world heavyweight boxing champion (1926-30)
B052519-- Hillary Bailey Smith, actress (As the World Turns)
B052519-- Klaus Meine, rocker (Scorpions-No One Like You)
B052519-- Sue Simmons, news anchor (WNBC-TV)
B05251905 Joseph C Harsch, Toledo Ohio, newscaster (Background)
B05251907 U Nu, premier Burma (1948-58, 1960-62)
B05251908 David Lean, British director (Lawrence of Arabia)
B05251908 Theodore Roethke, US, poet (Words for the Wind)
B05251911 André Renard, Belgian worker union leader (Movement Syndical Unifié)
B05251917 Dorothy Sarnoff, US, actress(?)
B05251917 Theodore Hesburgh, ex-president of Notre Dame
B05251918 Claude Akins, actor (BJ & Bear, Movin' On, Lobo)
B05251918 Peder Lunde, Norway, yachtsman (Olympic-silver-1952)
B05251919 Lindsey Nelson, Pulaski Tn, sportscaster (NY Mets)
B05251921 Hal David, lyricist (Promises Promises-Grammy 1969)
B05251923 John Weitz, spy/author/fashion designer (Friends in High Places)
B05251925 Jeanne Crain, Barstow Calif, actress (Man Without a Star)
B05251926 Miles D Davis, US, jazz trumpeter (L'ascenseur pour l'échafaud)
B05251927 Robert Ludlum, spy novelist (Bourne Identity)
B05251929 Beverly Sills, [Belle "Bubbles" Miriam Silverman], Bkln NY, soprano
B05251929 David S Ruder, 23rd chairman of Security & Exchange Commission
B05251931 John Gabriel, US, actor(?)
B05251932 Georgi M Grechko, cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 26, T-14)
B05251932 K.C. Jones, Taylor Tx, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1956)
B05251934 Ron Nesson, press secretary (Gerald Ford)
B05251935 Barbara Harris, US, actress (Family Plot, Plaza Suite)
B05251936 Tom T Hall, Olive Hill Ky, country singer/writer (Harper Valley PTA)
B05251938 Ludmil Buldakova, USSR, volleyball player (Olympic-gold-1972)
B05251938 Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season)
B05251939 Dixie Carter, actress (Designing Women, Edge of Night)
B05251939 Ian McKellen, England, actor (Keep, Plenty, Scarlet Pimpernel)
B05251943 Leslie Uggams, NYC, singer/actress (Leslie Uggams Show, Roots)
B05251943 Sally Jesse Raphael, TV talk show host (Sally)
B05251944 Frank Oz, Heresford England, puppeteer (Sesame St, Muppet Show)
B05251945 Dave Lee Travis, DJ
B05251946 Irnema Szewinski Kirszenstein, Poland, 200m runner (1968 Olym Gold)
B05251946 Janet E[llen] Morris, US, sci-fi author (Golden Sword, Tempus)
B05251947 Jessi Colter, [Miriam Johnson], Phoenix, country singer (I'm Not Lisa)
B05251947 Karen Valentine, Santa Rosa Cal, actress (Room 222)
B05251951 Clifford Archer, bassist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
B05251954 Allison Stern, wife of radio personality Howard Stern
B05251955 Connie Selleca, Bronx, actress (Hotel, Capt America II)
B05251958 Dorothy Straight, 4 year old author (How World Begun)
B05251958 Paul Weller, guitar (Jam-This is Modern World, Style Council)
B05251963 Mike Myers, Canada, comedian (SNL, Wayne's World)
B05251965 Mark Knight, Calif, rock guitarist (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals)
B05251967 Danny Gonzales, jockey
B05251969 Matt Borlenghi, LA Calif, actor (Brian Bodine-All My Children)
B05251970 Lindsay Greenbush, LA, twin actress (Carrie-Little House on Prairie)
B05251970 Sidney Greenbush, LA, twin actress (Carrie-Little House on Prairie)
B05261478 Clement VII, [Giulio de' Medici], Italy, Pope (1523-34)
B05261566 Mohammed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603)
B05261667 Abraham De Moivre, French mathematician (De Moivre's theorem)
B05261689 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English essayist, feminist, eccentric
B05261799 Alexander S Pushkin, Russia, writer (Eugene Onegin)
B05261799 August Kopisch, German writer (Die Heinzelmännchen von Köln)
B05261806 Henry Knox Thatcher, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1880
B05261835 Edward Porter Alexander, Brig General (Confederate Army)
B05261850 Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman, actress (Stupid force)
B05261859 Alfred Edward Housman, Bromsgrove England, poet (A Buried Life)
B05261867 Mary, queen of Great Britain/North Ireland
B05261874 Henry Farman, French aviation pioneer (double decker)
B05261876 Jack Root, boxing's 1st light heavyweight champion
B05261877 Isadora Duncan, SF, free form/interpretative dancer
B05261877 Jean Schlumberger, French writer (La Mort de Sparte)
B05261877 Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War (1931-34)
B05261884 Charles Winninger, Athens Wisc, actor (Charlie Farrell Show)
B05261886 Al Jolson, [Asa Yoelson], jazz singer/silent actor (Mamie, Swanee)
B05261890 Kurt Edzard, German sculptor (nudist/portraits)
B05261893 Eugene Goossens, London England, conductor/composer (Perseus)
B05261893 Norma Talmadge, US actress (Sign on Door, Camille)
B052619-- Barbara Stock, Downers Grove Ill, actress (Susan-Spenser For Hire)
B052619-- Robyn Bernard, singer/actress (General Hospital)
B05261903 Estes Kefauver, (Sen-D-Tn)
B05261907 John Wayne, "Duke", [Marion Michael Morrison], actor (True Grit)
B05261908 Robert Morley, England, actor (High Road to China, African Queen)
B05261909 Richard Maibaum, NYC, screenwriter (Goldfinger)
B05261910 Laurance S Rockefeller, CEO (Chase Manhattan Bank)
B05261912 János Kádár, premier Hungary (1956-58)
B05261913 Peter Cushing, England, actor (Hound of Baskervilles, Star Wars)
B05261914 Archie Duncan, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Sherlock Holmes)
B05261920 Peggy Lee, [Norma Egstrom], Jamestown ND, singer (Thats All There Is?)
B05261923 Horst Tapper, German director/actor (Derrick)
B05261923 James Arness, actor (Matt Dillon-Gunsmoke, Thing)
B05261923 Oren Lee Staley, 1st pres of National Farmers Organization (1955-79)
B05261923 Roy Dotrice, Guernsey Channel Island, actor (Wizard)
B05261924 Cooper Evans, (Rep-R-IA, 1981-87)
B05261924 Victor Herbert, Irish/US composer (Kiss in Dark)
B05261925 Alec McCowen, Tunbridge Wells England, actor (Never Say Never Again)
B05261926 Miles Davis, Alton Ill, jazz artist (cool jazz)
B05261927 Jacques Bergerac, actor (Gigi, Les Girls, Thunder in Sun)
B05261929 Hugo Raes, Flemish writer (Horses Jump & Fresh Sea)
B05261938 Teresa Stratas, [Anastasia Stratakis], Toronto Canada, soprano
B05261938 William Elden Bolcom, Seattle Washington, composer (Oracles)
B05261939 Brent Musburger, sportscaster (CBS-TV)
B05261942 Levon Helm, drummer/singer (Band)
B05261942 Ray Ennis, England, guitar (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good)
B05261943 Erica G Terpstra, Oly swimmer/Dutch 2nd Chamber member (VVD)
B05261944 Verden "Phally" Allen, keyboardist (Mott the Hoople)
B05261945 Garry Peterson, rocker (Guess Who)
B05261946 Stevie Nicks, Phoenix Az, rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Bella Donna)
B05261947 Sherry Bain, Calif, actress (Pipe Dreams)
B05261949 Dan Pastorini, NFL quarterback (Houston Oilers, Oakland Raiders)
B05261949 Dayle Haddon, Montréal Québec Canada, actress (Bedroom Eyes)
B05261949 Hank Williams Jr, country singer (Honky Tonk)
B05261949 Pam Grier, Winston-Salem NC, actress (Big Bird Cage, Tough Enough)
B05261949 Philip Michael Thomas, Columbus Ohio, actor (Miami Vice)
B0526195- Candace L Collins, Dupo Illinois, playmate (Dec, 1979)
B05261951 Sally Kristen Ride, LA Calif, 1st US woman astronaut (STS-7, STS 41G)
B05261956 Joe Penny, actor (Jake & Fatman)
B05261959 Wayne Hussey, rocker (Mission-Lover for Life)
B05261962 Bob[cat] Goldthwait, comedian (Police Academy)
B05261962 Colin Vearncombe, rocker (Black-Wonderful Like)
B05261962 Genie Francis, Englewood NJ, actress (General Hospital, Bare Essence)
B05261963 Charles Van Eman, Pitts, actor (Charlie-All My Children, Dynasty II)
B05261963 Eddie Martin Jr, jockey
B05261964 Lenny Kravitz, singer (911 is a Joke)
B05261966 Helena Bonham Carter, UK, actress (Getting it Right, Lady Jane)
B05261966 Zola Budd, Bloemfontein South Africa, track star (Olympics-1988)
B05261968 Frederik, Heir Apparent Crown Prince of Denmark
B05261976 Benji Gregory, Encino Calif, actor (Brian Tanner-Alf)
B05271332 Ibn Khaldun, Tunis, Arab historian/sociologist (Muqaddimah)
B05271595 Benedictus Carpzovius, [Benedikt Carpzov], German lawyer
B05271626 William II, prince of Orange
B05271756 Maximilian I Jozef, King of Bavaria
B05271774 Francis Beaufort, admiral/hydrographer (Beaufort wind force scale)
B05271794 Cornelius Vanderbilt, millionaire (B & O railroad)
B05271799 Jacques-Francois-Fromental-Elle Halevy, [Elie Levy], composer
B05271815 Henry Parkes, statesman
B05271818 Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragette known for her pantaloons
B05271819 Julia Ward Howe, US, author/lecturer (Battle Hymn of the Republic)
B05271822 Joseph Joachim Raff, composer
B05271823 John Gray Foster, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
B05271836 Edwin Gray Lee, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1870
B05271836 Jay Gould, US railroad executive, financier
B05271837 "Wild Bill" Hickok, [James Butler], cowboy/scout
B05271837 Robert Frederick Hoke, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1912
B05271849 "Blind" Tom Bethune, pianist/composer
B05271854 Georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Jeune Belgium)
B05271861 Victoria E Matthews, educator
B05271867 Arnold Bennett, England, novelist/playwright/critic (Great Babylon)
B05271871 Georges Rouault, French painter/graphic artist (Miserere et Guerre)
B05271871 Georges-Henri Rouault, expressionist painter
B05271874 Dustin Farnum, US, actor (Squaw Man, Virginian) [or 1870]
B05271881 Rudolf Pannwitz, German writer
B05271887 Erich Kuttner, German journalist/historian (Vorwärts)
B05271892 Sara Heyblom, actress
B05271894 Dashiell Hammett, Maryland, author (Sam Spade, Maltese Falcon)
B05271894 Louis-Ferdinand Céline, France, novelist (Journey to End of Night)
B05271894 Samuel Dashiell Hammett, detective story writer (Maltese Falcon)
B05271897 John Douglas Cockroft, English physicist (Radar, Nobel 1951)
B05271897 Louis-Ferdinand Céline, [Destouches], French physician/anti semite
B052719-- Beau Kazer, actor (Brock-Young & Restless)
B052719-- Isabel Lascurain, México, singer
B052719-- Susan Foster, Torrance Calif, actress (Sierra)
B05271906 Robert Shone, director-general (NEDC)
B05271907 Felix de Nobel, orchestra leader
B05271907 Rachel Louise Carson, biologist/ecologist/writer (Silent Spring)
B05271908 Harold Rome, composer (Fanny, Pins & Needles)
B05271908 Melle J Oldeboerrigter, [Melle], painter/cartoonist
B05271910 Daniel Greenway, CEO (Daniel Greenway & Sons)
B05271911 Hubert Humphrey, (Sen-D-Minn) 38th VP (1965-69), 1968 Pres candidate
B05271911 Vincent Price, St Louis Mo, actor (Fly, Laura)
B05271912 John Cheever, writer (Wapshot Chronicle)
B05271912 Sam Snead, Hot Springs Va, PGA golfer (Masters 1949, 52, 54)
B05271913 Mervyn Stockwood, bishop of Southwark England
B05271913 Wolfgang Schulze, [Wols], German cartoonist/painter
B05271914 Lord Erroll of Hale, British minister
B05271914 Rose Stainton, CEO (British Airways)
B05271915 Herman Wouk, US, author (Caine Mutiny, Winds of War)
B05271915 Mario del Monaco, Italian opera singer (Verdi/Puccini)
B05271916 Norman Griggs, VP (Building Society Association)
B05271918 Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japanese PM (1982-87)
B05271919 Kam Fong, Honolulu Hawaii,actor (Hawaii Five-0)
B05271920 Michael Webster, CEO (DRG)
B05271920 William Crawshay, Lord-Lt of Gwent
B05271921 Caryl Chessman, kidnapper who got death penalty (1960)
B05271921 Redd Stewart, Ashland City Tn, guitarist/pianist (Pee Wee King Show)
B05271922 Christopher Lee, London England, actor (Hound of Baskervilles)
B05271923 Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State (1973-77)/Nobel Peace Prize (1973)
B05271923 Lord Freyberg, British Colonel of General Staff
B05271925 John Moberly, diplomat
B05271925 Mai Zetterling, Sweden, actress (Only 2 Can Play, Quartet)
B05271927 Bryan Cowgill, deputy chairman (Mirror Group)
B05271927 Jan Blokker, writer/journalist (VPRO, People's Newspaper)
B05271928 Thea Musgrave, Barnton Midlothian Scot, composer (Mary Queen of Scots)
B05271930 John Barth, novelist (Sot-Weed Factor)
B05271930 Simon Barrington-Ward
B05271930 William S Sessions, Arkansas, director of FBI
B05271931 Florence Sharples, director (British YWCA)
B05271931 John Chapple, British chief of General Staff
B05271931 Kenny Price, Florence Ky, country singer (Midwestern Hayride, Hee Haw)
B05271932 Jeffrey Bernard, singer
B05271934 Harlan [Jay] Ellison, US, sci-fi author (7 Hugos, Doomsman)
B05271935 Elias Gistelinck, Flemish composer
B05271935 Lee Meriwether, LA Calif, Miss America (Time Tunnel, Barnaby Jones)
B05271935 Ramsey Lewis, Chic, pop jazz artist (Hang on Sloopy)
B05271936 Benjamin Bathurst, vice chief of British Defense Staff
B05271936 Eric Anderson, headmaster (Eton)
B05271936 Lord Holme, president British Liberal Party
B05271936 Louis Gossett Jr, Bkln NY, actor (Officer & Gentleman, Deep)
B05271939 Earl Cairns, CEO (S G Warburg & Co)
B05271941 Allan Carr, Ill, director (Grease, Happiest Millionaire)
B05271941 Davina Phillips, actress
B05271942 Kent Bede Bernard, Trinidad, 4X400 runner (Olympic-bronze-1964)
B05271942 Roger Freeman, British minister of transport
B05271943 Bruce Weitz, Norwalk Ct, actor (Hill St Blues, Death of a Centerfold)
B05271943 Cilla Black, Liverpool England, rock vocalist (You're My World)
B05271943 Don Williams, singer
B05271944 Christopher J Dodd, (Gov/Sen-D-CT, 1981- )
B05271945 Bruce Cockburn, Canada singer/songwriter/folk rocker
B05271947 Peter DeFazio, (Rep-D-Oregon)
B05271947 Robert Reinacher Jr, horse trainer
B05271948 Pete Sears, bassist (Jefferson Starship)
B05271951 John Conteh, boxer
B05271954 Catherine Carr, US breaststroke swimmer (Olympics-2 gold-1972)
B05271956 Lisa Niemi, actress (Dirty Dancing, Will Rodgers Follies)
B05271956 Steve Pagano, horse trainer
B05271957 Duncan Goodhew, swimmer
B05271957 Siouxsie Sioux, [Susan Ballion], Kent England (Siouxsie & Banshees)
B05271958 Linnea Quigley, Davenport Iowa, actress (Night of Demons)
B05271958 Neil Finn, rocker (Split Enz-I Got You, Crowded House)
B05271960 Ray Armsetad, Kirksville Mo, 4X400 runner (Olympic-gold-1984)
B05271961 Cathy Silvers, NYC, actress (Jenny-Happy Days, Foley Square)
B05271961 John Lugbill, Wauseon Ohio, US canoist/kayaker (Olympic-92)
B05271962 Ravi Shastri, cricketer
B05271965 Pat Cash, tennis player (Wimbeldon 1987)
B05271965 Todd Bridges, actor (Diff'rent Strokes, Fish)
B05271967 Chin Yang, jockey
B05271967 Paul Gascoigne, soccer player
B05271969 Dondre Whitfield, Bkln NY, actor (Terence-All My Children)
B05281371 John the Fearless, Burgundy France, Duke of Burgundy/warrior
B05281660 George I, King of England (1714-27)
B05281738 Joseph I Guillotin, France, inventor (guillotine)
B05281759 William Pitt, the Younger (C), English PM (1783-1801, 1804-06)
B05281807 Louis Agassiz, Switzerland, naturalist/geologist/teacher
B05281810 Alexandre Calamo, Switz, painter/etcher/lithographer
B05281818 P G T Beauregard, La, General in charge of capture of Sumter
B05281818 Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, Gen (Confederate Army)
B05281819 William Birney, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1907
B05281828 Alpheus Baker, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
B05281830 George Lucas Hartsuff, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
B05281831 Eliza Ann Gardner, underground railway conductor
B05281838 Basil Wilson Duke, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1916
B05281865 Gerrit Grÿns, physiologist (Vitamin E)
B05281868 Claude Anet, [Jean Schopfer], French writer (Fille Perdue)
B05281879 Milutin Milankovic, Yugoslavian astronomer/meterologist
B05281884 Edvard Benes, premier/president of Czechoslovakia (1921-22, 35-48)
B05281884 Theo(by) Van Reÿn, sculptor/lithographer
B05281886 Nicolai Sokoloff, near Kiev Ukraine, conductor (Seattle Symph)
B05281888 James Francis Thorpe, Shawnee OK, decathelete (Olympic-gold-1912)
B05281888 Jim Thorpe, greatest US athlete of 1st half century
B05281896 Marius Monnikendam, choir composer
B05281896 Warren Giles, baseball's National League president
B05281898 Andy Kirk, jazz musician
B052819-- John Karlen, Bkln NY, actor (Harvey Lacey-Cagney & Lacey)
B05281900 Owen Aisher, president (Marley)
B05281903 Gaston Duribreux, Flemish writer
B05281906 Mary Ralton, director British WRAC
B05281906 Phil Regan, singer (My Wild Irish Rose)
B05281907 Patrick Browne, British Lord justice of appeal
B05281908 Ian Lancaster Fleming, London England, author (James Bond)
B05281910 Rachel Kempson, actress (Captive Heart)
B05281910 Stuart Piggott, archealogist
B05281910 T-Bone Walker, Linden Tx, blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done)
B05281912 Leslie Monson, diplomat
B05281912 Patrick White, Australia, novelist (Happy Valley, Nobel 1973)
B05281913 Gordon Wolstenholme, physician
B05281915 Scott McKay, Pleasantville Iowa, actor (Stage Door)
B05281915 Wolfgang Schneiderhan, violinist
B05281916 C Wright Mills, US sociologist (Power Elite)
B05281916 Thora Hird, actress (Nightcomers, Kind of Loving)
B05281916 Walker Percy, Brimingham Ala, author (Adventures of a Bad Catholic)
B05281917 Barry Commoner, Brooklyn NY, biologist (Science & Survival)
B05281917 Gerald Cash, Gov-Gen (Bahamas)
B05281917 Marshall Reed, Englewood Calif, actor (Fred Asher-Lineup)
B05281919 Duke of Rutland
B05281919 Frank Middlemass, actor (Island, Oliver Twist)
B05281919 John Eldridge, CEO (Matthews Wrightmson)
B05281922 John Alderson, chief constable of Devon & Cornwall UK
B05281923 György Ligeti, Dicsöszentmartin Transylvania Hungary composer
B05281923 Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, India, film star/politician
B05281924 Edward du Cann, CEO (Lonrho)
B05281924 Lord Rippon, British govt minister
B05281924 Reginald Eyre, solicitor/MP
B05281925 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Zehlendorf Germany, baritone (Doktor Faust)
B05281927 François Nourissier, French writer (Un petit bourgeois)
B05281927 Norman Ireland, CEO (Bowater)
B05281927 Robert Evans, CEO (British Gas)
B05281928 Albert Booth, British government minister
B05281929 Patrick McNair-Wilson, MP
B05281930 Edward Seaga, PM (Jamaica)
B05281930 Julian Slade, composer
B05281931 Carroll Baker, Penn, actress (Andy Warhol's Bad, Babydoll, Harlow)
B05281931 Raymond Miquel, chairman (Scottish Sports Council)
B05281931 Stephen Birmingham, Hartford, author (Real Lace: America's Irish Rich)
B05281932 Lord Renton, Conservative minister
B05281932 Timothy Renton, MP
B05281933 John Karlen, US, actor (Harvey Lacey-Cagney & Lacey)
B05281933 Philip Otton, high court judge
B05281934 Dionne quintuplets, (Annette, Cécile, Émilie, Marie, Yvonne)
B05281938 Jerry West, W Virginia, NBA superstar (LA Lakers, Olympic-gold-1960)
B05281940 Hans Dulfer, tenor saxophonist/director (Paradiso)
B05281940 Thomas E Petri, (Rep-R-WI, 1979- )
B05281943 Liz Edgar, horse show jumper
B05281943 Ray Mitchell, governor (Albany Prison, England)
B05281944 Billy Vera, musician (& Beaters-At This Moment, Into the Night)
B05281944 Gladys Knight, Atlanta Ga, singer, leader of Pips (Last train)
B05281945 John Fogerty, guitarist (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
B05281946 Madeline LeRouix, Wyoming, actress
B05281947 Beth Howland, Boston Mass, actress (Vera-Alice, Company)
B05281947 Faith Brown, impressionist
B05281947 Sondra Locke, Shelbyville Tenn, actress (Heart Is a Lonely Hunter)
B05281949 Sue Holderness, actress
B05281954 Joao Carlos De Oliveira, Brazil, triple jumper (Oly-bronze-1976, 80)
B05281956 Germaine Montenesdro, 2nd victim of NYC's Zodiac killer (survives)
B05281956 Susie Diane Owens, Arkansas City Kansas, playmate (March, 1988)
B05281957 Kirk Gibson, Mich, outfield (Tigers, Dodgers, 1988 NL MVP)
B05281957 Walter R Tucker, (Rep-D-California)
B05281958 Yvet Anna, painter
B05281960 Allan Green, cricketeer
B05281962 Brandon Cruz, actor (Eddie-Courtship of Eddie's Father)
B05281962 Roland Gift, rocker (Fine Young Cannibals-She Drives Me Crazy)
B05281968 Kylie Minogue, Australia, rock vocalist (Locomotion)
B05281970 Morgan Fox, Prince George BC, playmate (Dec, 1990)
B05281977 Ashley Ryan Ruiz Offord, Miami Fla, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)
B05291627 Anne ML of Orléans, duchess of Montpensier (Grand Mademoiselle)
B05291630 Charles II, King of England (1660-85)
B05291716 Louis JM Daubenton, French zoologist
B05291736 Patrick Henry, US, patriot "Give me liberty or give me death"
B05291810 Erasmus Darwin Keyes, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
B05291810 Solomon Meredith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1875
B05291824 Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox, Major General (Confederate Army)
B05291825 David Bell Birney, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
B05291826 Ebenezer Butterick, inventor (tissue paper dress pattern)
B05291827 Reuben Lindsay Walker, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1890
B05291837 Alexander F de Savornin Lohmann, Dutch minister/party leader (CHU)
B05291851 Léon VA Bourgeois, French premier (1895-96, Nobel 1920)
B05291860 Isaac [Manuel F] Albéniz, Spanish pianist/composer (Iberia)
B05291868 Fréderic baron d'Erlanger, French composer/banker
B05291874 Gilbert Keith Chesterton, England, novelist (Man Who Made Gold)
B05291880 Oswald Spengler, Germany, philosopher (Decline of West)
B05291885 Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer (theory of relativity)
B05291894 Beatrice Lillie, Toronto, comedian/actress (Around World in 80 Days)
B05291894 Josef von Sternberg, Austrian director (Der blaue Engel)
B05291896 George L Funke, botanist (Flower Physiology)
B05291897 Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Brno Austria, movie composer (Violanta)
B052919-- Aroya Megnot, Southfield Mich, actress (Ava-Loving)
B052919-- Donna Jean Young, East McKeesport Pa, comedienne (Laugh-in)
B052919-- Sandy Helberg, Frankfurt Germany, actor (Flatbush, 79 Park Ave)
B05291903 Bob Hope, [Leslie Townes], Kent England, entertainer (famous profile)
B05291904 Robert Knox, bacteriologist
B05291905 Gerrit Achterberg, poet (Sailing)
B05291905 Jan (Johannes) Teulings, actor/director
B05291905 Sebastian Shaw, London, actor (High Season, Spy in Black)
B05291906 Terence Hanbury White, novelist
B05291909 Neil R[onald] Jones, US, sci-fi author (Space War, Twin Worlds)
B05291911 James Marjoribanks, British ambassador
B05291911 Louis Wain, agricultural scientist
B05291913 Douglas Black, physician
B05291913 Iris Adrian, LA Calif, actress (Blue Hawaii, Bluebeard)
B05291915 David Jenklins, librarian (National Library of Wales)
B05291915 Igor Buketoff, Hartford Conn, conductor (Iceland Symph 1964-65)
B05291915 Lord Huntingfield, British agent to UN Secreteriat
B05291917 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Mass, (Sen-D-Mass), 35th Pres (1961-1963)
B05291920 Robin Haydon, British diplomat
B05291921 Clifton James, NYC, actor (Buster & Billie, David & Lisa)
B05291921 George Terry, chief constable of Sussex England
B05291921 James Clifton, Spokane Wash, actor (Live & Let Die)
B05291922 Iannis Xenakis, Braila Romania, composer/architect/mathematician
B05291922 John Heerbecq, Church commissioner
B05291923 Earl of Morley, Lord Lt of Devon
B05291923 Richard Worsley, quarter master General
B05291925 Anthony Grant, MP
B05291925 Kennetgh Couzens, CEO (Coal Products)
B05291926 Charles Denner, Tarnow Poland, actor (And Now My Love)
B05291927 Carl Toms, stage designer
B05291927 Trevor Holdsworth, CEO (National Power)
B05291928 Felix Rohatyn, Vienna Austria, investment banker (NY Big MAC Bonds)
B05291929 Katie Boyle, [Lady Sander Saunders], British broadcaster
B05291930 Eleanor Fazan, opera/show choreographer
B05291934 Heihatjirô Tôjô, Japanese admiral
B05291935 André P Brink, South African writer (Dry White Season)
B05291935 Martin Garrod, Commandant General Royal Marines
B05291936 Arlene McQuade, NYC, actress (Rosalie-Goldbergs)
B05291937 Alwin Schockemohle, horse show jumper
B05291939 Al Unser, auto racer (Indianapolis 500-1970, 71)
B05291939 Nanette Newman, writer/actress (Endless Game, Of Human Bondage)
B05291941 Douglas Scott, mountaineer
B05291942 Kevin Conway, NYC, actor (Flash Point, Cage of Angels)
B05291943 Bob Edgar, (Rep-D-PA, 1975-87)
B05291943 E Thomas Coleman, (Rep-R-MO, 1976- )
B05291943 Terry Pavey, editor (TV Times)
B05291944 Helmut Berger, actor (Ash Wednesday, Damned, Picture of Dorian Gray)
B05291944 Quentin Davies, (C) MP
B05291945 Lord Fraser of Carmyllie, Minister of State (Scotland)
B05291945 Martin Pipe, horse trainer
B05291946 Robin Johnson, Brooklyn, actress (Times Square)
B05291948 Anthony Geary, Coalville Utah, actor (Luke/Bill-General Hospital)
B05291948 Linda Esther Gray, opera singer
B05291948 Michael Berkley, composer/broadcaster
B05291949 Francis Rossi, rocker (Status Quo-Picture of a Matchstick Man)
B05291949 Gary Brooker, keyboardist (Procol Harum)
B05291950 Rebbie [Maureen] Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer (R U Tuff Enuff)
B05291952 Louise Cooper, UK, sci-fi author (Nemesis, Inferno, Infanta, Nocturne)
B05291955 John Hinckley Jr, shot & wounded Pres Reagan in 1981
B05291955 Mike Porcaro, rocker (Toto-Roseanna, Africa)
B05291956 Greg R, rocker (Bad)
B05291956 La Toya Yvette Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer (Playboy, Millipede)
B05291956 Larry Blackmon, rocker (Cameo-Alligator Woman)
B05291958 Annette Bening, Topeka KS, actress (Grifters, Bugsy, Valmont)
B05291958 Ivar Sisniega, México, pentathelete (Olympic-1980)
B05291959 Rupert Everett, actor (Princess Daisy, Another Country)
B05291959 Tamayo Otsuki, actress
B05291960 Mel Gaynor, drummer (Simple Minds-Water Front)
B05291961 Melissa Etheridge, US singer/songwriter/guitarist (Never Enough)
B05291963 Lisa Whelchel, Fort Worth Texas, actress (Blair-Facts of Life)
B05291963 Tracey E Bregman Recht, actress (Young & Restless, Concrete Jungle)
B05291965 Emilio Sanchez, Madrid Spain, Tennis player (1988 Olympic bronze)
B05291973 Tiffany M Sloan, Orange county Calif, playmate (Oct, 1992)
B05291977 Danny Gerard, Mt Vernon NY, actor (Alan Silver-Brooklyn Bridge)
B05291989 Danielle Riley Keough, grand daughter of Elvis Presley
B05291991 Coral Browne, Australian actor (Ruling Class), dies of cancer at 77
B05301220 Alexander Nevski, [Aleksandr], Russian great ruler (1252-63)
B05301524 Selîm II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74)
B05301672 Peter I, (the Great), tsar of Russia (1682-1725)
B05301757 Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth (C), British PM (1801-04)
B05301800 Karl W Feuerbach, German mathematician (Position of Feuerbach)
B05301812 John Alexander McClernand, Major General (Union volunteers)
B05301829 Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert
B05301830 Edward Winslow Hinks, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
B05301832 George Doherty Johnston, Brig General (Confederate Army)
B05301835 Alfred Austin, Leeds England, poet laureate of England (Garden)
B05301845 Amadeus I FM, duke of Aosta/king of Spain (1870-73)
B05301846 Peter Carl Fabergé, Russia, goldsmith/jeweler/egg maker
B05301847 Alice Sophia Stopford Green, Ireland, proponent of Irish independence
B05301859 Pierre Marie Felix Janet, France, psychologist/neurologist
B05301867 Arthur Vining Davis, Sharon Mass, CEO (Alcoa-1910-57)
B05301881 George KFW von Küchler, German field marshal (Invasion Netherlands)
B05301887 Alexander Archipenko, Ukraine sculptor/lithographer
B05301888 James A Farley, postmaster general (1932-38)
B05301891 Iman J Van de Bosch, Belgian resistance fighter
B053019-- John Terlesky, actor (Dakota-Guns of Paradise)
B053019-- Michel Langevin, Canada, rock drummer (Voivod-Angel Rat)
B053019-- Scott Holmes, actor (Tom-As the World Turns)
B053019-- Steve West, rocker (Danger Danger-Screw It)
B053019-- Ted McGinley, Newport Beach Calif, actor (Love Boat, Dynasty)
B053019-- William Springer, Indiana legislator
B05301901 Cornelia Otis Skinner, writer (When Our Hearts Were Young & Gay)
B05301902 Stepin Fetchit, [Lincoln Perry], actor (Miracle in Harlem)
B05301903 Countee Cullen, Balt Md, poet (Black Christ & Other Poems)
B05301904 Ernesto de la Guardia Jr, President of Panamá (1956-60)
B05301908 Mel[vin J] Blanc, voice of Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd & Porky Pig
B05301909 Benny Goodman, Chicago Ill, swinger/clarinetist, "King of Swing"
B05301911 Douglas Fowley, NYC, actor (Grandpa-Pistols 'n' Petticoats)
B05301914 Bobby Sherwood, Indianapolis Ind, orch leader (Milton Berle Show)
B05301916 Joseph W Kennedy, scientist (1 of 4 discoverers of plutonium)
B05301922 Harry Clement Stubbs, US, sci-fi author (Needle, Iceworld)
B05301923 Jimmy Lydon, Harrington Pk NJ, actor (Richard-Love That Jill)
B05301924 Norbert Schemansky, USA, middle heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1952)
B05301925 Eddy Bruma, Suriname politician
B05301926 Christine Jorgensen, pioneer transsexual
B05301926 Edouard Van Remoortel, Brussels, conductor (1958-62 St Louis Symph)
B05301927 Clint Walker, Hartford Ill, actor (Kodiak, Cheyenne, Dirty Dozen)
B05301927 Dick Noel, Bkln NY, TV host (It's a Small Wonder)
B05301927 Evelyn Wesler Zemel, US, author (American Glass Animals)
B05301929 Michael Mellinger, Bavaria, actor (Goldfinger)
B05301932 Pauline Oliveros, Houston Texas, composer (Sound Patterns)
B05301934 Alexei A Leonov, Siberia USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II Soyuz 19)
B05301936 Keir Dullea, actor (2001, 2010, David & Lisa)
B05301936 Ruta Lee, actress (Operation Eichmann, Marjorie Morningstar)
B05301938 Wilfried A de Pree, Dutch 2nd Chamber Member (PvdA)
B05301939 Michael J Pollard, Passaic NJ, actor (Bonny & Clyde, Roxanne)
B05301942 Dan Miller, (Rep-R-Florida)
B05301943 Gale Sayers, NFL running back (Chicago Bears)
B05301944 Larry Davidson, rocker (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)
B05301945 Meredith MacRae, Houston Tx, actress (Petticoat Junction, My 3 Sons)
B05301955 Nicky "Topper" Headon, drummer (Clash-Complete Control)
B05301957 Allison Roe, Auckland NZ, marathoner (NYC-1981)
B05301957 Chris Van Jaarsveld, guitarist (Sleeze Beez)
B05301958 Marie, Ostra-Ljuajak Sweden, singer (Roxette-Must Have Been Love)
B05301958 Michael E Lopez-Alegria, Madrid Spain, US Navy Lt Commander/astronaut
B05301960 Stephen "Tea Tower" Duffy, rocker (Lilac Time-Paradise Song)
B05301961 Trey Parker, actor (Newsies)
B05301962 Tonya Pinkins, Chicago Ill, actress (Livia Frye-All My Children)
B05301963 Lynda Wiesmeier, Washington DC, playmate (Jul, 1982)
B05301964 Wynonna Judd, country singer (Judds-Rockin' With Rhythm)
B05301976 Omri Hairi Katz, LA Calif, actor (Marshall Teller-Eerie Indiana)
B05311469 Manuel I, King of Portugal (1495-1521) during era of exploration
B05311701 Alexander Cruden, compiler of a concordance to King James Bible
B05311753 Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader
B05311810 Horatio Seymour, Gov (Union), died in 1886
B05311818 John Albion Andrew, Gov (Union), died in 1867
B05311819 Walt Whitman, West Hills, NY, poet (Leaves of Grass)
B05311837 Ernest Daudet, French writer (White Terror)
B05311837 Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
B05311837 William Henry Fitzhugh "Rooney" Lee, Major General (Confederate Army)
B05311838 Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (Wife at University)
B05311857 Pius XI, [Ambrogio DA Ratti], Italy, 259th Pope (1922-39)
B05311860 Walter Richard Sickert, Danish/English painter (The Miner)
B05311863 Francis E Younghusband, British journalist/explorer
B05311872 Charles G Abbot, US, astronomer (Constant Sun)
B05311872 William Heath Robinson, England, illustrator/cartoonist (Don Quixote)
B05311887 Saint-John Perse, France, poet/diplomat (Nobel 1960)
B05311888 Jack Holt, US, gold digger/actor/father of Jennifer Holt
B05311889 Athene Seyler, London, actress (Make Mine Mink)
B05311892 Gregor Strasser, German pharmacist/NSDAP-Reich organization leader
B05311892 Willem Ravelli, baritone singer
B05311894 Fred Allen, [John Sullivan], radio comedian (Fred Allen Show)
B05311897 Margalo Gillmore, London, actress (Skirts Ahoy, High Society)
B05311898 Johan Brouwer, pianist/writer/resistance fighter
B05311898 Norman Vincent Peale, Ohio, clergyman (Power of Positive Thinking)
B053119-- Corey Hart, Montreal Canada, vocalist (I Wear My Sunglasses at Night)
B053119-- Maeve Kinkead, actress (Guiding Light)
B05311900 Helma Wolf-Catz, author
B05311902 Henk Schaer, [Hendricus JM Schaareman], actor/conductor
B05311908 Don Ameche, actor (Cocoon, Trading Places)
B05311909 Thor Thorvaldsen, Norway, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1948, 52)
B05311912 Barbara Pepper, NYC, actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres)
B05311912 Henry M "Scoop" Jackson, (Sen-D-Wash)
B05311912 Martin Schwarzschild, US astronomer (evolution)
B05311916 Bert Hanstra, Holten Netherlands, director (Fanfare)
B05311920 Edward Bennett Williams, lawyer/team owner (Redskins, Balt Orioles)
B05311921 Alida Valli, Pola Italy, actress (Miracle of the Bells, 3rd Man)
B05311921 Robert Arthur Ley, UK, sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X)
B05311922 Denholm Elliott, actor (Alfie, Cuba, Doll's House, King Rat)
B05311922 Elisabeth, arch duchess of Austria/princess of Liechtenstein
B05311923 Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (1949- )
B05311928 Jacob Lateiner, Havana Cuba, pianist/professor (Juiliard)
B05311929 Elaine Stewart, actress (Take the High Ground)
B05311930 Clint Eastwood, SF Calif, actor (Dirty Harry), mayor (Carmel, Calif)
B05311931 John Schrieffer, US physicist (Nobel 1972)
B05311931 Shirley Verrett, New Orleans, mezzo-soprano (Cassandra-Les Troyens)
B05311931 Steve Horn, (Rep-R-California)
B05311934 Bent Peter Rasch, Denmark, canoe (Olympic-gold-1952)
B05311934 Jim Hutton, Binghamton NY, actor (Ellery Queen)
B05311938 Peter Yarrow, NYC, (Peter, Paul & Mary-Puff the Magic Dragon)
B05311939 Terry Waite, Anglican Church envoy/Lebanese hostage
B05311941 Johnny Paycheck, country singer (Take This Job & Shove It)
B05311941 Kenneth Cooper, NYC, harpsichordist/professor (Barnard, Bkln)
B05311942 Happy Hairston, NBA star (Cin, Detroit, LA)
B05311943 Joe Namath, PA, NFL QB (NY Jets), $400,000 man (1969 Superbowl)
B05311943 Sharon Gless, LA Calif, actress (Chris Cagney-Cagney & Lacey)
B05311944 Mick Ralphs, guitarist (Mott the Hoople, Bad Company)
B05311946 Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German play director
B05311948 Duncan L Hunter, (Rep-R-CA, 1981- )
B05311948 John "Bonzo" Bonham, drummer (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven)
B05311948 Rhea Perlman, Bkln NY, actress (Carla-Cheers, Zena-Taxi)
B05311949 Steven Kampmann, Phila, actor (Kirk-Newhart)
B05311950 Gregory Harrison, Catalina Calif, actor (Trapper John, Logan's Run)
B05311950 Tom Berenger, actor (Big Chill, Someone to Watch Over Me)
B05311956 Bart of Poppel, bassist/guitarist/singer (Tambourine)
B05311960 Chris Elliot, actor/comedian (Get a Life, David Letterman Show)
B05311960 Norm Johnson, NFL placekicker (Seattle Seahawk)
B05311961 Harry Enfield, comedian
B05311961 Lea Thompson, actress (Casual Sex, Howard the Duck, Space Camp)
B05311963 Wendy Smith, rocker (Prefab Sprout-2 Wheels Good)
B05311964 Scotti Hill, Manhasset NY, rock guitarist (Skid Row-Psycho Love)
B05311965 Brooke Shields, NYC, actress/model (Blue Lagoon, Endless Love)
B05311967 Sandrine Bonnaire, France, actress (Vagabond, Police)
B05311990 Liberty Irene Kasem, daughter of Casey & Jean Kasam
D05011171 Dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies
D05011277 Stefanus IV Uros I de Great, King of Serbia (1243-76), dies
D05011308 Albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered
D05011447 Louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies
D05011456 Hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies
D05011471 Thomas a Kempis, spiritual writer (Navolging of Christ), dies
D05011555 Marcellus II, [Marcello Cervini], Italian Pope (1555), dies at 53
D05011572 Pius V, [Antonio Ghislieri], great-inquisiteur/Pope (1566-72), dies
D05011700 John Dryden, English poet/playwright (Rival Ladies), dies
D05011872 Amalia, princess of Weimar/wife of prince Hendrik the Navigator, dies
D05011898 Alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian, dies at 81
D05011902 John Glover, English chemist (production sulfuric acid), dies at 85
D05011904 Antonín Dvorak, Czech composer (Slavic Dancing), dies
D05011917 José E Rodo, Uruguayan writer (Motivos de proteo), dies
D05011932 Paul Doumer, Pres France (1931-32), assassin by Russia's Paul Gargalov
D05011939 Wilhelm Normann, German chemist (harden van oliën), dies
D05011945 Joseph Goebbels, nazi-German minister of propaganda, commits suicide
D05011948 Christos Ladas, Greek minister of Justice, murdered
D05011952 William Fox, US film pioneer (Nickelodeon), dies
D05011959 Oscar Torp, Norwegian premier, dies
D05011965 Spike Jones, composer (Spike Jones Show), dies at 53
D05011978 Aram Katchaturian, Armeens/Russian composer (The earth), dies
D05011981 Clarence A Bacote, historian/political scientist, dies at 75
D05011982 Gene Sheldon, actor (Bernardo-Zorro), dies at 72
D05011984 Gordon Jenkins, orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 73
D05011988 Carroll Righter, astrologer, dies at 88 of postrate cancer
D05011989 David Webster, South African white anti-apartheids activist, murdered
D05011993 Hans [Henri EA] Tuynman, provo (Full-time Provo), dies at 50
D05011993 Pierre Bérégovoy, French premier (1992-93), commits suicide at 67
D05011993 Ranasinghe Premadasa, president (Sri Lanka, 1989-93), murdered at 68
D0502 649 Maruta of Tagrit, theology/1st mafriaan Jakobitische church, dies
D05021250 Toeransa, sultan of Egypt, murdered
D05021488 Jacob van Horne, Burgundy statesman, dies
D05021519 Leonardo Da Vinci, artist/scientist, dies at 67
D05021567 Marin Drzic, Croatian playwright (Dundo Maroje), dies
D05021845 August Pauly, German writer (Real Encyclopedia), dies at 48
D05021849 David H Chassé, baron/gen (fought Napoleon at Waterloo), dies at 84
D05021857 LC Alfred the Musset, French poet (Lesson caprices Marianne), dies
D05021919 Gustav Landauer, German socialist, dies
D05021945 Martin Bormann, propoganda minister for Hitler, dies
D05021954 Pauline de Cock-Manifarges, singer, dies at 82
D05021957 Joseph McCarthy, commie hunting senator (R), dies at 47
D05021958 Alfred Weber, German economist/sociologist, dies
D05021960 Caryl Chessman, rapist executed after 12 years of appeals at 39
D05021963 Wyck Brooks, US historian (Ordeal of Mark Twain), dies at 77
D05021964 Nancy N Witcher Astor, US/Eng feminist/ex of Waldorf Astor, dies
D05021968 Donald L Hall, US flyer (Spirit of St Louis), dies at 69
D05021972 J Edgar Hoover, head of FBI (1924-72)/cross dresser, dies at 77
D05021973 Alan Carney, actor (Herbie-Take it from Me), dies at 61
D05021982 Hugh Marlowe, actor (Ellery Queen), dies at 71
D05021983 Marius F Duintjer, architect, dies
D05021984 Jack Barry, game show emcee (Joker's Wild), dies at 66
D05021985 Hal LeRoy, dancer/actor, dies at 71 after cardiac surgery
D05021985 Milton S Eisenhower, US diplomat, dies at 85
D05021990 David Rappaport, 3'11' actor (Wizard. LA Law), shoots himself at 38
D05021992 Lee Salk, baby doctor/author, dies at 77 of cardiac arrest
D05021992 Margareth Wallmann, Austrian opera director, dies at 88
D05021992 Wilbur Mills, (Rep-D-Ark)/involved with Fanne Foxe, dies at 82
D05021993 Mick Ronson, Engl guitarist (David Bowie/Mott the Hoople), dies at 46
D05021993 WLPM, the Short, Dutch 2nd chamber member (KVP, 1945-73), dies at 83
D05031294 Jan I, duke of Brabant/Limburg/poet, dies
D05031410 Alexander V, [Petros Philargi], Kreta's Pope (1409-10), dies
D05031442 Engelbert I, Earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies
D05031481 Mohammed II, [Fâtih"/veroverar), sultan of Turkey (1451-81), dies
D05031758 Benedict XIV, [Prospero L Lambertini], Pope (1740-58), dies at 84
D05031774 Heinrich A Fouqué, Prussian general (7 year war), dies
D05031881 Josip Jurcic, Slovic writer (Schone Vida), dies
D05031916 Pádraic Pearse, Irishg nationalist, executed by British firing squad
D05031926 Napoleon V Bonaparte, French pretender to the throne
D05031932 Anton Wildgans, Austrian writer (Dies Irae)/dir Burgtheater, dies
D05031942 Johan H Westerveld, lt-col/leader Order Service, executed
D05031945 Louis L H de Visser, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CPN), dies at 66
D05031961 Maurice [Jean Jacques] Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher, dies
D05031965 Howard Jump, British author (Heaven Lies About Us), dies
D05031965 Otto Forst de Battaglia, Austrian diplomat/genealogist, dies at 75
D05031972 Bruce Cabot, actor (Diamonds are Forever), dies at 68
D05031979 Erin O'Brien-Moore, actress (Nurse Choate-Peyton Place), dies at 76
D05031982 Helmut Dantine, actor (Shadow of the Cloak), dies at 64
D05031982 Hugh Beaumont, actor (Ward-Leave it to Beaver), dies at 73
D05031983 Vaughn Taylor, actor, dies of a cerebal hemmorrhage at 72
D05031986 Robert Alda, actor (Dan Lewis-Supertrain), dies at 72
D05031990 Pimen, [Sergei M Irzjekov], patriarch of Russian-orthodox church, dies
D05031991 Gerrit Mik, child psychiatrist/2nd-Member of parliament (D66), dies
D05031991 Gerrit Mik, psychiatrist/Dutch 2nd Chamber Member (D66), dies
D05031991 Jersy Kosinski, author (Being There), dies at 57
D05031992 Elizabeth Lennox, radio singer, dies at 98 of heart seizure
D05031992 George Murphy, (Sen-R-Ca, 1965-71), dies at 89 of Leukemia
D05041752 Pieter Snyers, Flemish painter/engraver, dies at 71
D05041855 Camille Pleyel, Austria piano builder, dies at 66
D05041879 William Froude, British civil engineer/shipbuilder (F Integer), dies
D05041891 Sherlock Holmes, "dies" at Reichenbach Falls
D05041928 Barry E Odell Pain, English writer (Punch), dies
D05041938 Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist/writer (Nobel 1935), dies at 52
D05041953 Edward B B Shanks, British poet/critic, dies
D05041955 Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer, dies at 75
D05041965 Norman Brokenshire, TV moderator (Four Square Court), dies at 66
D05041970 4 students, at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard
D05041980 Josip Broz Tito, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80), dies at 87
D05041984 Diana Dors, actress, dies at 52 of cancer
D05041987 Cathryn Damon, actress (Mary Campbell-Soap), dies at 56
D05041987 Paul Butterfield, singer/harmonica player, dies of drug abuse at 44
D05041991 Dennis Crosby, son of Bing, commits suicide at 54
D05041992 Henri Guillemin, French historian, dies at 89
D05051028 Alfonso V, King of León/Galicië (999-1028), dies in battle
D05051194 Kazimierz II, the Justified, grand duke of Poland (1177-94), dies
D05051309 Charles II, King of Naples (1285-1309), dies
D05051525 Frederik III the wise, ruler of Saxon (1486-1525), dies
D05051582 Charlotte de Bourbon, Princess of Orange, dies
D05051705 Leopold I, Emperor of Holy Roman Empire, dies at 64
D05051786 Pedro III, King of Portugal, dies
D05051821 Napoleon I Bonaparte, emperor France (1799-1815), dies in St Helena
D05051827 Frederik Augustus I, Justified, King of Saxon (1806-27), dies at 76
D05051859 Peter G L Dirichlet, German mathematician, dies
D05051909 Pauline Staegeman, German feminist, dies
D05051921 Alfred H Fried, Austrian/German pacifist (Nobel 1911), dies
D05051927 Charles Boissevain, editor in chief (General Trade 1885-1908), dies
D05051949 Maurice Maeterlinck, Belg playwright (Grand Fairie, Nobel 1911), dies
D05051951 Eddie Dunn, comedian (Face to Face, Spin the Picture), dies at 54
D05051963 Jacobus JP Old, architect/co-founder (Stÿl), dies at 73
D05051969 Ben Alexander, actor (Frank Smith-Dragnet), dies at 57
D05051972 Rev Gary Davis, musician, dies
D05051976 Thomas Burnett Swann, sci-fi author (Day of Minotaur), dies at 47
D05051981 Bobby Sands, IRA activists dies in his 66th day of his hunger strike
D05051983 John Williams, actor (Family Affair, Dial M for Murder), dies at 80
D05051988 Tamara Pos, Suriname/Dutch activist
D05051992 Jean-Claude Pascal, French actor, dies at 64
D05051992 Stefano d'Arrigo, Siciilian writer, dies at 72
D05051993 Balak Brahmachari, [Marxist Godman], Indies guru, dies at 73
D05051993 Irving Howe, US writer/critic (Dissent), dies at 72
D05061085 King Alfonso VI, of León conquered Toledo, dies
D05061124 Balak, Emir of Aleppo, murdered
D05061527 Karel van Bourbon, military governor (Lombardije), dies at 37
D05061638 Cornelius Jansen, theologian, dies
D05061642 Frans Francken, the Younger, painter, dies on 61st birthday
D05061856 William Hamilton, metaphysicist, dies
D05061859 Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, explorer/scientist, dies
D05061862 Henry David Thoreau, US writer/pacifist (Walden Pond), dies at 44
D05061882 Frederick Cavendish, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin
D05061882 Thomas Henry Burke, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin
D05061904 Franz von Lenbach, artist, dies
D05061910 Edward VII, King of England (1901-10), dies
D05061919 Lyman Frank Baum, author (Wizard of Oz), dies at 62
D05061924 Carel S Adama van Scheltema, poet/writer (socialism), dies at 47
D05061948 43 communist rebels, executed in Athens
D05061949 P-M-B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian philosopher (Nobel 1911), dies
D05061952 Maria Montessori, Italian physician/educationist, dies
D05061961 Lucian Blaga, philospher/poet (Transcendental censor), dies at 65
D05061963 Monty Wooley, actor (Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 74
D05061971 Helene Weigel, Austria/German actress/stage star, dies
D05061987 William J Casey, director of CIA (1981-87), dies at 73
D05061990 Charles Farrell, actor (Vern-My Little Margie), dies at 89
D05061991 Anthony van Kampen, writer (Ketelbinkie/Geschonden eldorado), dies
D05061991 Chucky Mullins, US soccer player, dies
D05061991 Wilfrid Hyde-White, Brits actor (Peyton Place/140+ films), dies at 87
D05061992 Marlene Dietrich, [Maria M von Losch], actress, dies at 90 in Paris
D0507 685 Marwan I ibn al-Hakam, 4th kalief of Omajjaden (684-85), dies
D05071205 Ladislaus III Arpad, King of Hungary (1204-05), dies
D05071523 Franz von Sickingen, German knight/protect of poor, dies in battle
D05071617 David Fabricius, German astronomer, dies at 53
D05071793 Johan A Zoutman, spy (Battle of Doggersbank), dies
D05071800 Niccolò Piccinni, Italian composer (Roland), dies at 72
D05071825 Antonio Salieri, Italian composer, dies in Vienna
D05071871 Louis Papineau, political reformer, dies
D05071876 Franz Grave von Pocci, German artist/composer (Alchemist), dies
D05071884 Judah P Benjamin, confederate minister of War, dies
D05071915 Alfred G Vanderbilt, US millionaire, dies aboard Lusitania
D05071915 Charles Frohman, dies aboard Lusitania
D05071932 Albert Thomas, French social. minister of Weapon production, dies
D05071941 David Wÿnkoop, revolutionary socialist, dies
D05071942 Felix P von Weingartner, Austria conductor/composer, dies
D05071946 Anton A Mussert, engineer/NSB leader, executed
D05071968 Lurleen Burns, wife of George Wallace/gov of Alabama, dies at 41
D05071985 Dawn Addams, actress (Alan Young Show, Star Maidens), dies at 54
D05071989 Guy Williams, actor (Zorro, Lost in Space), dies in Argentina at 65
D0508 535 John, [Mercurius], Italian Pope (533-35), dies
D0508 685 Benedict II, Italian Pope (683-85), dies
D05081319 Haakon V, King of Norway (1299-1319), dies
D05081577 Viglius ab Aytta Zuichemus, lawyer/President (Raad van State), dies
D05081725 John Lovewell, US indian fighter, dies in battle
D05081773 Ali Bey, Egyptian Mameluk head, dies
D05081785 Pietro Longhi, painter, dies
D05081794 Antoine-Laurent Lavosier, chemist, gullotined
D05081844 Charles XIV Johan, [Jean B Bernadotte], King of Sweden/Norway, dies
D05081873 John Stuart Mill, great Empiricist philosopher, dies at 66
D05081880 Gustave Flaubert, French writer (Salammbô), dies
D05081887 Alexander Ulyanov, brother of Lenin/hanged for assassination of tsar
D05081891 Helena Petrovina Blavatsky, Russian theosophist, dies
D05081903 Eugène-Henri-Paul Gauguin, French painter (Tahiti), dies
D05081904 Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer (horse trot), dies
D05081909 Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat, dies
D05081915 Henry McNeal Turner, 1 US black army chaplain, dies at 82
D05081932 Albert Thomas, French socialist politician
D05081936 Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (Underworld of Abendlandes), dies
D05081943 Mordicai Anielewicz, commander of Warsaw ghetto uprising, killed
D05081951 Margaret Lindsay, actress (Take a Guess), dies at 40
D05081957 John CB "John" Sluyters, painter, dies at 75
D05081958 Nasni Matni, Lebanese journalist, murdered
D05081961 James Fairfax, actor (Gale Storm Show), dies at 63
D05081973 Ralph Miller, last 19th century baseball player, dies
D05081975 Avery Brundage, US chairman Intl Oly Committee (1952-72), dies at 87
D05081976 Ulrike Meinhof, lead Germany Red Army Faction, dies
D05081982 Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian auto racer, dies in an accident
D05081985 Dolph Sweet, actor (Gimme a Break), dies of cancer at 64
D05081985 Edmond O'Brien, actor (Sam Benedict), dies at 69 of Alzheimer's
D05081987 Pam Ewing, (Victoria Principal) character on Dallas, is killed off
D05081988 Robert A Heinlein, sci-fi writer (Friday), dies of heart failure at 80
D05081992 Addeke H Boerma, dir-gen (FAO), dies at 80
D05081992 Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink, author (Fear on Java, dies
D05081992 Richard Derr, actor (When Worlds Collide), dies at 74 of cancer
D05081993 Kees Deenik, singer/conductor
D05091280 Magnus VI Lagaboeter, King of Norway (1263-80), dies at 42
D05091443 Niccoló d'Albergati, Italian cardinal, dies
D05091590 Karel "Cardinal" van Bourbon, archbishop of Rouen, dies at 66
D05091657 William Bradford, Governor (Plymouth Colony, Mass), dies
D05091688 Frederick William, Great Elector of Brandenburg, dies at 67
D05091760 Nikolaus Ludwig, Count von Zinzendorf, leader of Moravian Church, dies
D05091791 Francis Hopkinson, US writer/music/lawyer, dies at 53
D05091805 Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, poet/playwright, dies
D05091850 Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac, chemist/physicist, dies
D05091903 Rudolf Serkin, Bohemian/US pianist, dies
D05091926 Joseph Mallaby Dent, publisher, dies
D05091931 Albert Abraham Michelson, physicist, dies
D05091949 Louis II, Prince of Monaco, dies
D05091952 Canada Lee, black actor, dies at 45 in NYC
D05091957 Ezio F Pinza, Italian bass (Scale of Milan, NY Met Opera), dies
D05091958 Bill Goodwin, TV announcer (Burns & Allen), dies at 47
D05091965 Leopold Figl, premier Austria, dies
D05091966 Wilhelmus M Bekkers, bishop of Dukeenbosch, dies
D05091967 Elmar Berkovich, Dutch industrial designer (Eindhoven theater), dies
D05091968 Harold Gray, US comic strip artist (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 74
D05091968 Marion Lorne, actress (Aunt Clara-Bewitched), dies at 81
D05091970 Walter P Reuther, US worker's union leader/president CIO, dies
D05091977 James Jones, US writer (Bad Blood, From Here to Eternity), dies at 55
D05091979 Cyrus S Eaton, Canada/US multi-millionaire, dies at 95
D05091981 Nelson Algren, US writer (Man with the Golden Arm), dies at 72
D05091982 Ab [Albert] Visser, poet/writer (Kaïn sloeg Abel), dies
D05091986 Herschel Bernardi, actor (Lt Jacoby-Peter Gunn, Arnie), dies at 62
D05091987 Obafemi Awolowo, Nigeria, pres of Nigeria (1979-83), dies at 78
D05091989 Paul J Steenbergen, actor/director/founder Hague's Comedy, dies at 82
D05091990 Luigi Nono, Ital's composer (Intolleranza), dies
D05091990 Pauline Frederick, 1st women to moderate Pres debate, dies at 84
D05091991 James L Reinsch, media-advisor (Roosevelt/Churchill/Kennedy), dies
D05091991 Ronnie Brody, British actor, dies
D05091991 Rudolf Serkin, Bohemian/US pianist, dies
D05091992 Mike Tyrell [Red Baron], British air acrobat, dies in an accident
D05091993 Lady Freya Stark, English author (Sunday Bloody Sunday), dies at 61
D05091993 Penelope Gilliatt [Conner], British author
D0510 238 Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus, the Thracian, Roman Emperor, murdered
D05101566 Leonhard Fuchs, German botanist, dies at 65
D05101569 Juan the Avila, Spanish minister/writer
D05101696 Jean de La Bruyêre, essayist, dies
D05101764 Picander, [Christian Henrici], German writer (Die Weiberprobe), dies
D05101774 Louis XV, King of France (1715-74), dies
D05101798 George Vancouver, British explorer, dies (birth date unknown)
D05101818 Paul Revere, US patriot, dies
D05101829 Thomas Young, physicist/decipherer of Egyptian hierogolyphics, dies
D05101849 Katsushuka Hokusai, artist, dies
D05101859 Johan BJFS, archduke of Austria (Firechief & Housewife), dies
D05101863 Stonewall Jackson, General, dies of wounds at Chancellorsville
D05101880 John Goss, composer/organist, dies
D05101904 Henry M Stanley, [John Rowlands], British explorer, dies
D05101909 Johannes de Koo, journalist/playwright, dies
D05101910 William Huggins, discoverer of stellar nature of Andromeda, dies
D05101915 Albert Weisgerber, German painter/graphic artist, dies in battle
D05101920 John Wesley Hyatt, inventor/plastics pioneer, dies
D05101923 Vaslav Vorovsky, Russian delegate, assassinated
D05101937 Johannes Walter, German geologist (Die Denudation i.d. Wüste), dies
D05101943 André Bertulot, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
D05101943 Arnaud/Armand Fraiteur, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
D05101943 Maurice-Albert Raskin, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
D05101950 John G Fletcher, US poet (Burning Mountain), dies
D05101964 Carol Haney, dancer (Pantomime Quiz), dies at 35
D05101973 Jack E Leonard, Chicago Ill, comedian, dies at 62
D05101977 Joan Crawford, [Lucille Fay Le Sueur], actress, dies
D05101979 John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Morton, writer, dies
D05101979 Louis Paul Boon, Flemish writer (Eros en de eenzame man), dies
D05101982 Jean C M Picart le Doux, French designer, dies
D05101982 Peter Weiss, German playwright (Marat-Sade), dies
D05101984 Robert Moore, actor (Marshall-Diana), dies at 56
D05101990 Walker Percy, physician/novelist (Lancelot), dies of cancer at 73
D05101991 Armand HF Boni, [Armand the Good], Flemish poet/writer, dies
D05101992 Joan Merrill, vocalist, dies of a stroke at 74
D05101992 John Lund, actor (Perils of Pauline), dies at 79
D05101992 Liesbeth Saÿers, sculptor, dies
D05101992 Sylvia Sims, singer (Flower Drum Song), dies of a heart attack at 74
D05111610 Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (China), dies
D05111857 E François Vidocq, French criminalogist/police officer, dies at 81
D05111871 John Herschel, cataloguer of southern hemisphere stars, dies at 79
D05111916 Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (s-effect), dies
D05111916 Max [Johann BJM] Reger, German composer/pianist/organist, dies
D05111927 Henry Martyn Robert, (Robert's Rules of Order), dies at 90
D05111944 Henk Hos, resistance fighter, executed at 37
D05111947 Else JT Rangstrφm, Swedish conductor/singer/composer/critic, dies
D05111960 John D Rockefeller Jr, philanthropist, dies at 86
D05111973 Grigorÿ M Kosinzev, Russian director, dies
D05111976 Alvar Aalto, architect (Finlandia House), dies at 78
D05111979 Lester Flatt, of Flatt & Scruggs, dies at 64
D05111981 Bob Marley, reggae singer, dies at 36 of brain & lung cancer
D05111981 Hoyt J Fuller, editor (1st World magazine), dies at 57
D05111982 Leigh Snowden, actress, dies at 51 of cancer
D05111982 Piet van Egmond, organist/conductor, dies at 70
D05111983 Zenna [Chlarson] Henderson, author (Anything Box), dies at 65
D05111985 Jorja Curtight, actress, dies of a heart attack
D05111991 Ho Dam, foreign minister North-Korea (1970-83), dies
D05111992 Carlos Herrera, drink inventor (Margarita), dies at 90
D05111992 Elizabeth McDonald, inventor (Spic & Span), dies at 98
D0512 912 Leo VI Sophos, Byzantine Emperor (886-912), dies at 45
D05121003 Gerbert, French scholar, dies in Rome
D05121003 Sylvester II, [Gerbert van Aurillac], 1st Fren Pope (999-1003), dies
D05121012 Sergius IV, [Pietro Crescentii], Italian Pope (1009-12), dies
D05121382 Johanna I, Queen of Naples/Provence, dies
D05121634 George Chapman, English dramatist/interpreter, dies
D05121852 John Richardson, Canadian writer (War of 1812), dies
D05121864 J E B Stuart, Confederate General, dies at 31
D05121871 John F W Herschel, British astronomer (Catalogue of Nebulae), dies
D05121876 Henri A Esquiros, French poet (Evangile du peuple), dies at 63
D05121884 Bedrich Smetana, Czech composer (2 Widows), dies
D05121897 Willem Roelofs, painter/lithographer, dies
D05121921 Emilia Pardo Bazan, Spanish writer (La sirena negra), dies
D05121925 Alfred Milner, British governor (Cape Colony)/minister, dies
D05121930 Pieter Jelles Troelstra, leader SDAP, dies
D05121932 Lindbergh baby, found dead
D05121935 Josef Pilsudski, Polish dictator (1926-35), dies
D05121951 Oscar DePriest, (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 80
D05121957 Erich von Stroheim, Austrian/US actor (Grand Illusion), dies
D05121962 Dick Calkins, co-author (Buck Rogers), dies at 67
D05121982 Humphrey Searle, writer (20th Century counterpoint), dies at 66
D05121984 Doris May, actress, dies at 81 of heart failure
D05121985 Jean Debuffet, French painter/sculptor, dies
D05121987 Victor Feldman, pianist/drummer, dies at 53
D05121989 Joe Valdez Caballero, creator of hard taco, shell, dies at 81
D05121992 Joe Burke, president (KC Royals), dies at 68, dies
D05131381 John of Chatillon, governor/viceroy of Holland, dies
D05131390 Robert II the Steward, King of Scotland (1371-90), dies
D05131619 Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, lands advocate, beheaded
D05131831 Christian G Körner, German lawyer, dies at 74
D05131835 John Nash, British town planner/architect (Regent's Park), dies
D05131839 Israel Ashkenazi of Shklov, found Ashkenazic community (1815), dies
D05131839 Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator, dies
D05131884 Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor, dies
D05131885 Juliana Horatia [Gatty] Ewing, author (Lob Lie-by-the-Fire), dies
D05131904 Jan Boissevain, ship owner/politician, dies
D05131916 Sholem Aleichem, yiddish writer (Fiddler on the Roof), dies
D05131930 Fridtjof Nansen, diplomat (Nobel 1922), dies
D05131930 Helena Lange, German feminist, dies
D05131951 Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips, author (Issue Beukennoot), dies at 65
D05131961 Gary Cooper, 2 time Acad award winning actor (High Noon), dies at 60
D05131962 Frank Jenks, actor (Colonel Flack), dies at 60
D05131962 Franz Jozef Kline, US expressionist painter, dies at 51
D05131962 H Trendley Dean, doctor (introduced fluoridation into water)
D05131966 Henk [Hendrik M] of Randwijk, poet/editor in chief (illegal), dies
D05131967 Frank McGrath, actor (Wagon Train), dies at 64
D05131982 Irmgard Keun, W-German writer (Blühende Neurosen), dies at 72
D05131982 Renzo Rossellini, Italian composer, dies at 74
D05131985 Leatrice Joy, silent screen star, dies at 91 in Riverdale (Bronx) NYC
D05131985 Selma Diamond, comedienne (Selma-Night Court), dies of cancer at 64
D05131988 Chet Baker, jazz trumpeter fell to death out of a hotel window at 59
D05131990 Venedikt Jerofejev, Russian writer, dies
D05131992 Floyd Arceneaux, trumpeter, dies at 58
D05131992 Robert Reed, actor (Brady Bunch), dies of cancer at 59
D05131993 Evert "Eef" Dolman, cyclist (Olympic-gold-1964), dies at 47
D0514 347 Pachomius, Egyptian monastery founder/abbot (Coenobieten), dies
D0514 649 Theodore, Greek Pope (642-49) (excommunicated by Paul II), dies
D0514 964 John XII, [Octavianus], Pope (955-64), dies
D05141565 Nicolaus von Amsdorf, German reform theologist, dies
D05141610 Henry IV, 1st Bourbon-king of Navarre/France (1572, 89-1610), dies
D05141726 John B Wellekens, poet/painter (Wedding guests, dies
D05141726 Moshe Darshan, Rabbi/author (Torat Ahsam), dies
D05141761 Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (rule of Simpson), dies at 50
D05141893 Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician (surface of Kummer), dies at 83
D05141904 Richard Hol, composer/organist/conductor, dies
D05141912 August Strindberg, Swedish writer (Deaddans), dies
D05141912 Frederik VIII C W K, King of Denmark (1906-12), dies at 68
D05141925 Henry Rider Haggard, English writer (Dawn, She), dies
D05141936 Samuel Pl'h Naber, spy/librarian, dies at 71
D05141940 Eddy [Charles E] du Platform, writer/poet, dies
D05141940 Emma Goldman, US anarchists/feminist/author (Living my life, dies
D05141940 Jacob van Gelderen, economist/sociologist/SDAP-2nd-Chamber, dies at 49
D05141940 Menno ter Brak, writer/essayist (Forum, New Elite), dies
D05141947 John Ray Sinnock, US chief engraver (1925-47), dies at 59
D05141953 Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Japans/US painter/etcher, dies at 59
D05141959 Sidney Bechet, US jazz clarinetist/saxophonist/bandleader, dies at 62
D05141965 Frances Perkins, US 1st female minister of Labor (1933-45), dies at 83
D05141968 Husband Edward Kimmel, commandant US Ocean fleet WW II, dies at 86
D05141976 Keith Reif, guitarist, electrocuted tuning his guitar
D05141982 Baron Mariel-Henri Jaspar, Belgian minister/ambassador, dies
D05141984 Larry Stock, songwriter (Blueberry Hill), dies
D05141987 Rita Hayworth, actress, dies at 68 of Alzheimer's disease
D05141988 Willem Drees, PM of Netherland (1948-58), dies at 101
D05141991 Ast Fonteyne, Flemish lecture artist, dies
D05141991 Herman Niels, Flemish radio director, dies
D05141991 Jiang Qing, widow of Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung, commits suicide
D05141992 Lyle Alzado, NFL defense linesman (Raiders), dies at 43 of cancer
D05141993 Patrick Haemers, Belgian criminal, commits suicide at 40
D05141993 William Randolph Hearst, US newspaper magnate (Pulitzer), dies at 85
D0515 884 Marinus I, [Martinus II], Pope (882-84), dies
D05151174 Noer ad-Din Mahmoed, King of Syria, dies
D05151470 Charles VIII, Knutsson Bonde, king of Sweden (14??-70), dies
D05151482 Paolo Toscanelli, Italian physician & mapmaker, dies
D05151761 Jacob Mossel, governor-general (Batavia), dies
D05151801 Louis C Graf Barbiano de Belgioioso, minister of Brussel, dies
D05151842 Emanuel ADMJ, French historian (Napoleon), dies at 76
D05151886 Emily Dickinson, US poet, dies
D05151889 Alfred Potocki, premier Austrian/governor/viceroy of Galicia, dies
D05151924 Paul d'Estornelles de Constant, French diplomat/pacifist, dies at 71
D05151926 Mohammed VI Vahideddin, last sultan of Turkey (1918-22), dies
D05151932 Ki Inukai, premier Japan, murdered
D05151940 Willem A Bonger, sociologist/criminologist (Race & Crime), dies
D05151945 Major Courtney, US medal of honor marine, dies in battle of Sugar Loaf
D05151964 Cornelis H Edelman, geologist, dies
D05151967 Edward Hopper, US painter (House by Railroad), dies at 84
D05151973 Willem H Rassers, cultural anthropologist (Pandji-Novel), dies at 95
D05151976 Samuel Eliot Morison, US historian (Admiral of Ocean Sea), dies at 88
D05151985 Jackie Curtis, playwright/actor, dies of a drug overdose at 38
D05151986 Theodore H White, US journalist (Making of Pres, Pulitzer), dies at 71
D05151987 John Baur, museum director, dies at 78
D05151988 Andrew Duggan, actor, dies of cancer at 64
D05151992 Bruce Hopkins, performer/director, dies at 44
D0516 942 Saadiah Gaon, head of Talmudic Academy of Sura, dies
D05161669 Pietro da Cortona, [Berrettini], painter/architect, dies
D05161691 Jacob Leisler, becomes 1st American colonist hanged for treason
D05161703 Charles Perrault, author/fairy tale writer, dies
D05161777 Button Gwinnet, US revolutionary leader, dies from wounds
D05161782 Daniuel Charles Solander, botanist, dies
D05161829 William Congreve, English officer, dies at 56
D05161830 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, mathematician, dies
D05161835 Felicia Dorothea Hemans, poet/hymn writer, dies
D05161847 Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer, dies at 59
D05161864 Lean Bear, Cheyenne chief, murdered
D05161892 John Banvard, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas), dies
D05161904 N I Bobrikov, Russian governor-general in Finland, dies
D05161926 Mehmed VI Vahideddin (Mohammed Osman), last sultan of Turkey, dies
D05161928 Edmund William Grosse, poet/author, dies
D05161929 Lilli Lehmann, soprano, dies
D05161932 Ki Imukai, premier of Japan (1931-32), murdered
D05161932 William Pember Reeves, politician/poet, dies
D05161938 Stephen Fairbairn, oarsman/coach, dies
D05161942 Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, anthropologist, dies
D05161944 George Ade, novelist/playwright, dies
D05161944 Max Brand, [Frederick Schiller Faust], western author, dies
D05161949 William Newzam Prior Nicholson, painter/engraver, dies
D05161954 Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (Vienna State Opera), dies at 61
D05161955 James Agee, US critic/writer (Death in Family), dies in NY
D05161966 Randoolph Turpin, boxer, shot dead in his home
D05161969 Johnny Jordan, cameraman (You Only Live Twice), dies at 44
D05161975 Michael X, (Abdul Malik), hanged in Trinidad, for murder
D05161979 Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader & civil rights pioneer, dies at 90
D05161984 Andy Kaufman, comedian (Latka-Taxi), dies at 35 of cancer
D05161984 Irwin Shaw, US writer (Rich man, poor man), dies at 71
D05161985 Margaret Hamilton, actress (Wicked Witch-Wizard of Oz), dies at 82
D05161988 Kay Baxter, Best Bodybuilder in the World (1983-85), dies at 42
D05161988 Louise Wood, director of Girl Scouts of USA (1961-72), dies at 78
D05161989 Hassan Khaled, sheik of Lebanon, murdered
D05161990 Jim Henson, muppeteer (Sesame Street), dies of pneumonia at 53
D05161990 Sammy Davis Jr, entertainer, dies at 64 of throat cancer
D05161993 Marv Johnson, US soul singer (You Got What it Takes), dies at 54
D05171050 Guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies
D05171510 Sandro Botticelli, [Alessandro di Mariano del Filpepi], painter, dies
D05171575 Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury, dies
D05171695 Cornelis de Heem, painter, dies
D05171727 Catherine I, emperess of Russia, dies
D05171809 Leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg, physician, dies
D05171838 Charles-Mauricede Talleyrand-Périgord, statesman, dies
D05171883 Lydia Estes Pinklham, patent-medicine manufacturer, dies
D05171889 William Roxby Beverly, artist, dies
D05171926 Lucien Herr, French leader (Correspondance entre Schiller), dies
D05171931 Johan [Eliza J] de Master, art critic/writer, dies
D05171931 Timothy Cole, wood engraver, dies
D05171935 Paul Abraham Dukas, composer, dies
D05171961 French of Cauwelaert, Flemish minister/mayor of Antwerp, dies at 81
D05171964 Otto V Kuusinen, pres of Karelo-Finnish soviet rep (1940-56), dies 82
D05171967 Nigel Martin Balchin, novelist, dies
D05171978 John Selwyn Brooke Selwyn Lloyd, speaker of house of commons, dies
D05171981 Jeannette Ridlon Piccard, 1st US woman free balloon pilot, dies
D05171985 Bobby Ewing, (Patrick Duffy) killed off on Dallas
D05171985 Hugh Burden, actor, dies at 72
D05171987 Gunnar Myrdal, Sweden, economist (Nobel 1974), dies at 88
D05171992 George Hurrell, Hollywood photographer, dies of cancer at 87
D05171992 Leonardo del Ferro, [Keyser], US epic tenor, dies
D0518 526 John I, Pope (523-26), dies
D05181160 Erik IX Helgi, [The Saint], King of Sweden, dies
D05181410 Ruprecht, Roman catholics German king, dies
D05181587 Felix van Cantalice, Italian saint, dies
D05181675 Jacques Marquette jesuit/missionaries (Chicago), dies at 37
D05181839 Carolina [Maria A] Bonaparte (countess Lipona), dies at 57
D05181848 William A Leidesdorf, black, dies at 38 in SF
D05181884 Heinrich R Göppert, German paleo-botanist, dies
D05181909 George Meredith, English poet/writer (Diana of Crossways), dies
D05181909 Isaac [Manuel F] Albéniz, Spanish pianist/composer), dies at 48
D05181911 Gustav Mahler, Austr conductor/composer (Childrentotenlieder), dies
D05181955 Mary McLeod Bethune, educator & civil rights leader, dies at 79
D05181973 Jeannette Rankin, 1st Congresswoman (1917-19, 41-43), dies at 92
D05181974 Daniel R Topping, US owner (NY Yankees), dies at 61
D05181980 Ian Curtis, musician (Joy Division), dies
D05181981 Arthur O'Connell, actor (Mr Peepers, 2nd Hundred Years), dies at 73
D05181981 William Saroyan, US stagewriter (Time of your life), dies at 72
D05181985 Tex Terry, actor, dies at 82
D05181987 Wilbur J Cohen, 1st employee of Social Security System, dies at 73
D05181990 Jill Ireland, actress (Carry on Nurse, Family), dies at 54 of cancer
D05181992 Lawrence Welk, bandleader (L Welk Show), dies at 89 of pneumonia
D05181993 Heinrich Albertz, theology/mayor of Berlin (1966-67), dies at 78
D05181993 Pamela M Cunnington, English architect/writer, dies at 67
D0519 804 Alcuin, English scholar, dies in Tours France at 69
D0519 988 Dunstan[us], English archbishop of Canterbury, dies
D05191296 Celestine V, [Pietro del Murrone], Pope (1294), dies
D05191536 Anne Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII, beheaded
D05191647 Sebastian Vrancx, Flemish painter (captain of vigilante), dies
D05191801 Herman H Vitringa, politician (National Meetings), dies
D05191864 Nathaniel Hawthorne, US, writer (Scarlet Letter), dies
D05191872 Johan van Dale, schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Wordbook), dies at 44
D05191895 José J Marti y Perez, Spanish/Cuban poet (Versos sencillos), dies
D05191901 Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st pres Republic South-Africa, dies
D05191935 Thomas E Lawrence (of Arabia), dies in a motorcycle crash
D05191953 Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish gen/min of War, dies at 79
D05191958 Ronald Colman, British actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 67
D05191961 Joe Howard, singer (Gay Nineties Revue), dies at 94
D05191965 Maria Dabrowska, Polish writer (Znaki Zycia), dies
D05191966 Tortoise, reportedly given to Tonga's King by Capt Cook (1773), dies
D05191969 Coleman Hawkins, US jazz musician/composer, dies
D05191971 Ogden Nash, poet/TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at 68
D05191983 Jean Rey, Belgian minister, dies
D05191987 Alice B[radley] Sheldon, sci-fi author (Byte Beautiful), dies at 71
D05191989 Able J Herzberg, Russ/Neth lawyer (Eichmann in Jerusalem), dies
D05191989 Robert Weber, character actor, dies of Lou Gehrig Disease at 64
D05191991 Douglas L Mays, cartoonist (Punch), dies
D05191993 Nemesio Antunes, Chilean painter, dies at 75
D05201277 John XXI, [Petrus Juliani/Hispanus], Port Pope (1276-77), dies
D05201444 Bernardinus van Siena, Italian saint, dies at 63
D05201449 Peter, Prince/regent of Portugal/writer (Virtuosa Benfeitoria), dies
D05201471 Henry VI, king of England (1422-61, 70-71)/France (1431-71), dies
D05201506 Christopher Colombus, explorer, dies in poverty, in Spain at 55
D05201597 Matthÿs Heldt, dies in battle
D05201622 Osman II, sultan of Turkey (1618-22), dies
D05201648 Wladyslaw IV Wasa, King of Poland, dies
D05201669 Joris van der Hagen, landscape painter, dies
D05201834 Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert de Motier, nobleman, 1834, dies
D05201834 Marquis de Lafayette, French general, dies
D05201841 Joseph Blanco White, theological writert, dies
D05201847 Mary Lamb, writer, dies
D05201864 John Clare, English poet (Little Trotty Wagtail), dies at 70
D05201875 Amalia, wife of King Otto of Greece, dies at 58
D05201876 Khristo Botev, Bulgarian poet, dies
D05201883 William Chambers, author/publisher, dies
D05201896 Clara Josephine Schumann, pianist, dies
D05201919 Jacob Verdam, philospher, dies
D05201923 Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist, dies
D05201935 Ivans, [Jacob van Schevichaven], lawyer/detective writer, dies at 68
D05201939 Joe Carr, NFL hall of famer/NFL president (1921-39), dies at 59
D05201940 Joris [Georges) of Severen, Flemish fascist/Member of parliament, dies
D05201956 André Eugene Maurice Charlot, actor (Summer Storm), dies
D05201956 Max Beerbohm, caricturist/writer (Yet Again), dies
D05201972 Walter Winchell, columnist/narrator (Untouchables), dies at 75
D05201975 Barbara Hepworth, sculptor, dies
D05201984 Peter Bull, British actor, dies of a heart attack at 72
D05201985 George Memmoli, actor (Earl-Hello Larry), dies at 46
D05201989 Gilda Radner, comedienne (Sat Night Live), dies at 42 of cancer
D05201989 John R Hicks, English economist (Nobel 1972), dies
D0521 987 Louis V, last Carlovingians King of France (966-987), dies
D05211481 Christian I, king of Denmark/Norway/Sweden, dies
D05211542 Hernando de Soto, dies while searching for gold, near Mississippi R
D05211650 James G, Marquis of Montrose, Scottish general, hanged
D05211790 Thomas Warton, English poet (Oxford sausage), dies
D05211810 Charles GLAAT chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy, dies at 81
D05211894 August A Kundt, German physicist, (test of Kundt), dies at 54
D05211919 Victor AD Ségalen, [Max Anély], French ship's doctor/writer, dies
D05211924 Bobby Franks, killed by Leopold & Loeb, at 14
D05211926 Arthur A R Firbank, British writer (Valmouth, Prancing Nigger), dies
D05211935 Hugo de Vries, botanist Gruppenweise Artbildung, dies at 87
D05211935 Jane Addams, a founder of ACLU, dies at 65
D05211949 Klaus Mann, German writer, dies at 42
D05211970 Vinton Hayworth, actor (Gen Schaeffer-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 63
D05211973 Vaughn Monroe, singer/orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), dies at 61
D05211984 Andrea Leeds, actress, dies of cancer at 70
D05211987 Alejandro Rey, actor (Carlos-Flying Nun), dies at 57
D05211988 Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations, dies at 92
D05211990 Mary Victor Bruce, who flew around empire state bldg in 1930, dies
D05211990 Moelvi Mohammed Farouk, Indian spiritual leader, murdered
D05211991 Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated
D05211992 Brendan Nulholland, Daily Mail reporter, dies at 59, dies
D05211992 Elizabeth David, British cookbook writer, dies
D05211992 Mrithi, gorilla (Gorilla in the Mist), dies at 24
D05211992 Skip Stephenson, TV host (Real People), dies
D05211993 John Frost, English lt-kol (operation Market Garden 1944), dies at 80
D05221540 Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian/pres of Romagna, dies at 57
D05221667 Alexander VII, [Fabio Chigi], Italian Pope (1655-67), dies at 68
D05221859 Ferdinand II, King of Sicily, dies
D05221868 Julius Plücker, German mathematician/physicist (formula of P), dies
D05221885 Victor(-Marie) Hugo, French writer (Les Misérables), dies
D05221910 Jules Renard, French writer (Le plaisir the rompre), dies at 46
D05221925 John [Denton P] French, British field marshal (Boer war/WW I), dies
D05221939 Willem de Mérode, poet (Precious Blood), dies at 51
D05221945 Carel A Lion Cachet, lithographer/wood carver, dies
D05221948 Claude McKaye, Jamaican/US author (Banjo, Home to Harlem), dies at 57
D05221949 Klaus HT Mann, German/US writer (Turning Point), dies
D05221957 Langston Hughes, poet laureate, dies
D05221958 Magdalene Székely-Lulofs, author (Our Italian Employees), dies at 58
D05221965 Heinrich Barth, Swiss philosopher (Das Sein in der Zeit), dies
D05221970 Joseph W Krutch, US writer (Measure of Man), dies at 76
D05221972 Margaret Rutherford, English actress (Murder Ahoy, VIP's), dies
D05221984 John Marley, actor, dies at 77 following heart surgery
D05221988 Giorgio Almirante, Italy, fascist (member of parliament), dies at 73
D05221990 Rocky Graziano, boxer, dies at 71, of heart failure
D05221991 Lino Brocka, Philippines director, dies
D05221993 Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Polish/US pianist (Carnegie Hall), dies at 100
D05231125 Hendrik V, Roman catholics German king/emperor (1098/1111-25), dies
D05231153 David I, king of Scotland (1124-53), dies at about 68
D05231423 Benedict XIII, [Pedro the Luna], Spanish Pope (1394-1423), dies
D05231498 Girolamo Savonarola, Italian preacher tortured & executed in Florence
D05231627 Luis de Góngora y Argote, poet/writer, dies
D05231648 Luis de Nain, painter, dies
D05231701 William Kidd, naval captain/pirate, hanged in London
D05231754 John Wood, architect/town planner, dies
D05231783 James Otis, American lawyer, dies
D05231785 William Woollett, engraver, dies
D05231842 José de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet, dies at 34
D05231860 Albert Richard Smith, author/lecturer, dies
D05231881 Kit Carson, frontiersman, dies
D05231881 Leopold von Ranke, historian, dies
D05231883 Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter/poet/playwright (Wanda), dies
D05231906 Henrik Johan Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (Doll House), dies
D05231908 François Coppée, French poet, dies
D05231934 Bonnie Parker, outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in cop ambush
D05231934 Clyde Barrow, outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in cop ambush
D05231937 John Davison Rockfeller, industrialist, dies at 97 in Ormond Beach Fla
D05231940 Andrej N Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/son of Nikolai, dies
D05231940 Paul Nizan, French journalist/writer (Ce Soir/Aden Arabia), dies at 35
D05231941 Lord Herbert Austin, motor manufacturer, dies
D05231945 Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo leader, commits suicide in prison
D05231960 Georges Claude, engineer/inventor, dies
D05231961 Joan Davis, comedic actress (I Married Joan), dies at 53
D05231965 David Smith, sculptor, dies
D05231966 Ruth Gates, actress (Aunt Jenny-Mama), dies at 79
D05231967 Sanne Sannes, photographer, dies at 30
D05231968 Merle Kendrick, orch leader (Window on the World), dies at 72
D05231969 Jimmy McHugh, composer (I Can't Give You Anything But Love), dies
D05231970 Nydia Westman, actress (Going My Way, Young Mr Bobbins), dies at 68
D05231973 Athena Lorde, actress (Judith-One Man's Family), dies at 57
D05231981 George Jessel, US comic/toastmaster (Diary of young comic), dies at 83
D05231982 Louis J N Gérardin, bicyclist (world champ sprint 1930), dies at 69
D05231986 Sterling Hayden, actor (Blue & Gray), dies at 70
D05231988 David Schoenbrun, CBS broadcast bureau head (Wash, Paris), dies at 73
D05231991 Jean van Houte, Belgian premier, dies
D05231991 Peter T Thwaites, British brig-gen/playwright (Love or money), dies
D05231992 Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentine singer/composer/poet/guitarist, dies
D05231992 Giovanni Falcone, anti-mafia judge (Palermo), murdered
D05241153 David I, King of Scotland, dies
D05241543 Copernicus, allegedly sees 1st copy of De Revolutionibus &, dies
D05241543 Nicolas Copernicus, astronomer, dies in Poland
D05241612 Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, dies
D05241665 Maria de Jesus de Agreda [Maria Coronel], Spanish franciscans, dies
D05241670 Ferdinand II, ruler of Toscane, dies at 59
D05241751 William Hamilton, of Gilbertsfield, poet, dies
D05241792 George Brydges, 1st baron Rodney/admiral, dies
D05241792 Jakob M R Lenz, writer (That Soldier), dies
D05241844 William Crockford, clubman/gambler, dies
D05241850 Jane Porter, novelist (Scottish Chiefs), dies at 74
D05241851 Stanko Vraz, [Jakob Frass], Slavic poet (grammatica), dies at 40
D05241872 Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, painter, dies
D05241879 William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist (Liberator), dies at 73
D05241881 Samuel Palmer, landscape painter, dies
D05241953 Cor Hermus, actor, dies at 63
D05241959 John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State (1953-59), dies at 71
D05241963 Elmore James, blues guitarist, dies at 45 of a heart attack
D05241968 Bernard Rogers, composer, dies
D05241972 Gavin Muir, actor (Hollister-Betty Hutton Show), dies at 64
D05241974 Duke Ellington, blues singer, dies at 75 of cancer
D05241981 Jack Warner, [Waters], actor (Captive Heart)/variety artist, dies
D05241986 Stephen D Thorne, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut, dies in a plane crash at 33
D05241987 Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold, actress (Gigi, Music Man), dies at 89
D05241988 Hamish Hamilton, publisher, dies
D05241989 Herwig Hensen [Flor Mielants], Flemish dramatist/poet, dies
D05241991 Gene Clark, singer/composer (Byrds), dies
D05241993 Jesus Posadas Ocampo, Mexican cardinal/archbishop, dies at 66
D0525 615 Boniface IV, Pope (608-15), dies
D0525 946 Edmund the Older, king of Wessex/England 939-46, dies
D05251085 Gregory VII, [Ildefireo], Pope (1073-85), dies
D05251261 Alexander IV, [Rinaldo dei conti di Segni], Pope (1254-61), dies
D05251890 Rosa Bonheur, French painter, dies
D05251895 Ahmed Djevdet Pasja, Turkish lawyer/Justice, dies
D05251919 Madame C J Walker, wealthy cosmetics manufacturer, dies at 51
D05251926 Symon Petljoera, leader of Ukraine (pogroms), dies at 47
D05251937 Henry O Tanner, artist, dies
D05251949 Simon H Spoor, intelligence officer/general (WW II), dies at 47
D05251968 Charles K Feldman, [Gould], producer (Casino Royale), dies at 63
D05251968 George KFW von Küchler, German marshal (Netherlands 1940), dies at 86
D05251971 Jo Etha Collier, young black woman killed by 3 whites in Drew Miss
D05251971 Terence De Marney, actor (Case Thomas-Johnny Ringo), dies at 62
D05251981 Rosa Ponselle, US singer (Metropolitan Opera), dies at 84
D05251982 Larry J Blake, character actor, dies at 68
D05251983 Sydney Box, academy award producer, dies at 76
D05251985 Harold Hecht, choreographer, dies at 77 of cancer
D05251985 Robert Nathan, US writer/poet (Portrait of Jennie), dies at 91
D05251986 Chester Bowles, US senator/ambassador, dies at 85
D05251990 Vic Tayback, actor (Mel-Alice), dies at 60 of a heart attack
D05251992 Danny Biasone, persuaded NBA to use 24 second clock, dies at 83
D05251992 Johan B W Polak, publisher/publicist (Bloom of décadence), dies at 63
D05251992 Viktor Grishin, hardline soviet communist, dies at 78, dies
D05261421 Mohammed I, sultan of Turkey (1413-21), dies
D05261512 Bajezid II, governor of Amasja/8th sultan of Turkey, dies
D05261703 Samuel Pepys, English marine expert (Diary), dies
D05261753 Willem Maurits, earl of Nassau/gov of Zeeuws-Flanders, dies
D05261818 Michael A Barclay de Tolly, Russian field marshal/War Minister, dies
D05261831 Georg Hermes, German philosopher/theologist (Hermenianen), dies
D05261905 Alphonse de Rothschild, French banker, dies
D05261912 Jan Blockx, Belgian opera composer (Bride of the Sea), dies
D05261924 Victor Herbert, Irish/US cellist/composer/conductor, dies at 65
D05261933 Jimmie Rodgers, country singer, dies at 35
D05261939 Charles H Mayo, US surgeon/co-founder (Mayo Clinic), dies at 74
D05261939 Cornelis J Cutters, supreme commander of Navy (1910-18), dies
D05261946 Friedrich AH von Waldeck, monarch of Waldeck, dies
D05261951 Lincoln Ellsworth, artic explorer, dies at 71
D05261956 Al Simmons, outfielder (A's)/lifetime batting avg of .334, dies at 54
D05261959 Ed Walsh, baseball pitcher (1.82 ERA), dies at 78
D05261959 Joe Kelly, TV host (Quiz Kids), dies at 57
D05261967 Antoon Spinoy, Belgian politician, dies
D05261971 John Longden, actor (Man From Interpol), dies at 70
D05261973 Jacques Lipchitz, US cubist sculptor, dies at 81
D05261977 William Powell, rocker (O'Jays), dies of cancer at 35
D05261991 Tom Eyen, US musical/TV writer (Dreamgirls, Mary Hartman), dies
D05261993 Cor de Great, pianist/conductor/composer (Vernissage), dies at 78
D0527 866 Ordoño I, King of Asturia (850-66), dies
D05271039 Dirk III Hierosolymita, Count of Holland, dies
D05271178 Godfried van Rhenen, bishop of Utrecht, dies
D05271525 Thomas Müntzer, anabaptist campaigner, executed, dies
D05271564 John Calvin, theologian, dies
D05271569 François de Coligny, French general (Jarnac), dies
D05271580 Jonker Barthold Entens van Mentheda until Middelstum, dies
D05271596 Tibaldi II, Italian painter/sculptor/architect, dies
D05271647 Achsah Young, becomes 1st woman known to be executed as a witch (MA)
D05271661 Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Argyll soldier, beheaded
D05271768 Johann M Fleischmann, German/Dutch stamp/letter designer, dies
D05271797 François-Emile Babeuf, French revolutionary, dies
D05271840 Niccolo Paganini, violinist, dies
D05271855 Nikolaj A Bestoezjev, Russ writer/painter (Account of Holland), dies
D05271876 Joseph Bosworth, lexicographer/scholar, dies
D05271896 Allard Pierson, theologist/philosopher/art historian/poet, dies
D05271902 Jan van Droogenbroeck, Flemish poet, dies
D05271910 Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, Cholera, Nobel), dies
D05271914 Joseph Wilson Swan, physicist/chemist, dies
D05271916 Joseph S Galliéni, General/military governor of Paris, dies
D05271918 Henry Adams, historian, dies
D05271934 Meijer Linnewiel, [Prof Kokadorus], Amsterdams street hawker, dies
D05271939 Joseph Roth, Austria journalist/writer (Fluctuate ohne Ende), dies
D05271941 Günther Lütjens, German admiral (Bismarck), dies
D05271949 Ropert L Ripley, cartoonist (Believe It or Not), dies at 55 in NY
D05271951 Thomas Blamey, soldier, dies
D05271958 Ainslie Pryor, actor (Adventures of Hiram Holiday), dies at 46
D05271958 Samuel Stritch, US cardinal/archbishop (Chicago), dies
D05271963 Lambrakis, Greek EDA-parliament leader, murdered
D05271964 Jawaharial Nehru, Independent India's 1st PM, dies at 74
D05271969 Jeffrey Hunter, actor (Christopher Pike-Star Trek Cage), dies at 43
D05271975 Ezzard Charles, heavyweight boxing champion (1949-51), dies at 53
D05271976 Ruth McDevitt, actress (Jo-All in the Family), dies at 80
D05271982 Jo Lagrillière, [Joke], Flemish cartoon character, dies at 47
D05271988 Florida Friebus, actress (Bob Newhart Show), dies at 79 of a stroke
D05271988 Melvin J "Cy" Oliver, US jazz composer/orchestra leader, dies at 77
D05271991 Ed Dodd, cartoonist (Mark Trail), dies at 88
D05271992 Daniël Robberechts, Belgian writer (Aankomen in Avignon), dies at 55
D05271992 Tony "Big Tuna" Accardo, mobster (St Valentines Day), dies at 86
D05271993 Willem PG Assmann, Second-Member of parliament, dies at 85
D05281089 Lanfrance, Archbishop of Canterbury, dies
D05281259 Christoffel I, King of Denmark, dies
D05281317 Guy van Avesnes/Henegouwen, bishop of Utrecht, dies at about 63
D05281357 Afonso IV, King of Portugal (1325-57), dies at 66
D05281843 Noah Webster, lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary), dies at 84
D05281849 Anne Bronté, novelist, dies
D05281898 Edward Bellamy, US author ("Looking Backward"), died
D05281911 Stephanus J du Toit, So Afr theologist/journalist (Afr Bond), dies
D05281913 Lord Avebury, [John Lubbock], British banker/politician, dies
D05281921 Geo Mestdagh, Belgian aviation pioneer, dies
D05281927 Georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Belgian Kempen), dies
D05281942 Jean F van Royen, German secretary PTT (camp Amersfoort), dies
D05281964 John Finley Williamson, conductor (Westminster Choir), dies at 76
D05281971 Audie Murphy, actor (Whispering Smiths), dies at 46
D05281972 Edward VIII, King of Gr Brit/N Ireland/emperor (India 1936), dies
D05281973 Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, German composer/conductor (Hassan), dies
D05281975 Roy Roberts, actor (Petticoat Junction, Lucy Show), dies at 75
D05281981 Mary Lou Williams, black musician, dies at 71 in Durham NC
D05281981 Stefan Wyszynski, Polish Cardinal, dies
D05281984 Eric Morecambe, comedian (Morecambe & Wise), dies at 58
D05281986 Lurene Tuttle, actress (Father of Bride, Julia), dies at 79
D05291453 Constantine XI Dragases, last Byzantine Emperor, dies at 49
D05291500 Bartholomeu Diaz de Narvaez (Novaez), Portugese sea explorer, dies
D05291544 Jacobus Latomus [Jasques Masson], Belgian inquisitor, dies at about 68
D05291814 Joséphine, empress of France (1804-14), dies
D05291816 Madame L'Ouverture, widow of Haiti's leader Toussaint L'O, dies
D05291829 Humphry Davy, scientist/inventor (Miner's safety lam), dies
D05291877 John Lothrop Motley, (History of United Netherlands), dies at 63
D05291892 Baha'u'llah [Mirza HA Noeri], Persian founder (Baha'i), dies
D05291911 William Schwenck Gilbert, Engl writer (Gilbert & Sullivan), dies at 74
D05291923 Adolf Oberländer, German painter, dies
D05291924 Pierre-Paul Cambon, French diplomat (Madrid/London), dies
D05291934 Heihatjirô Tôgô, Japanese admiral (Russ-Japanese war), dies
D05291935 Josef Suk, Czech violinist/composer, dies at 61
D05291942 John Barrymore [Blythe], US actor (Beloved Rogue, Dinner at 8), dies
D05291951 Fanny Brice, Zeigfield Girl (Baby Snooks Show), dies at 59
D05291970 John Gunther, author/host (John Gunther's High Road), dies at 68
D05291982 Romy Schneider, actress, dies of cardiac arrest at 43
D05291985 39, die at Heysel Stadium in Liverpool in a riot prior to soccor match
D05291985 Madge West, actress (Grandma-McLean Stevenson Show), dies at 93
D05291992 Bill Beyers, actor (Wally-Capitol), dies of AIDS at 37
D05291992 Peter John "Ollie" Halsall, guitarist, dies at 43 of a heart attack
D05291993 Billy Conn, boxer (fought Joe Louis 1951), dies at 75
D05291993 Tiny Hofman, Amsterdams activist (Nieuwmarkt), dies at 68
D05301035 Boudewijn IV, count of Flanders, dies
D05301252 Ferdinand III the holy, King of Castilië/León, dies
D05301416 Jerome of Prague, burned as a heretic by Church
D05301431 Joan of Arc, burned as a witch by English at Rouen at 19
D05301574 Charles IX, King of France (1560-74), dies
D05301593 Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist/poet/spy, murdered
D05301744 Alexander Pope, English poet (Eloisa to Abelard), dies at 56
D05301778 Voltaire, [François-Marie Arouet], French writer (Candide), dies
D05301912 Wilbur Wright, US aviation pioneer, dies
D05301918 Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist, dies
D05301919 Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies
D05301938 Raden Sutomo, Indonesian freedom fighter, dies at 49
D05301957 Toivo R Pekkanen, Finnish writer (Black Ecstacy), dies
D05301960 Boris Pasternak, Russian poet (Dr Zhivago), dies at 70
D05301961 Rafael L Trujillo Molina, pres/dictator Dom Rep (1930-61), murdered
D05301964 Leo Szilard, Hungarians/US nuclear physicst, dies at 66
D05301967 Claude Rains, actor (Invisible Man), dies at 77
D05301969 John Cipollini, guitarist, dies at 45 of ephysema
D05301973 Hal Hastings, orch leader (Chevrolet on Broadway), dies at 66
D05301980 Carl Radle, bassist (Derek & Dominoes), dies of a kidney ailment
D05301981 Ziaur Rahmen, pres of Bangladesh, is assassinated
D05301983 Alfred M Gruenther, US general/NATO-commander (1953-56), dies at 84
D05301987 Frank Carlson, (Gov/Rep/Sen-R-Ks), dies at 94
D05301987 Turk Murphy, jazz trombonist, dies at 71
D05301989 Zinka Milanov, Met Opera Diva, dies of a stroke at 83
D05301992 Karl Carstens, president Germany (1979-84), dies at 77
D05301992 Leen 't Hart, organist/composer, dies at 72
D05301993 Herman S Blount, Sun Ra, US jazz pianist (Solar Arkestra), dies at 79
D0531 455 Petronius Maximus, senator/Emperor of Rome, lynched
D05311091 Hendrik van Verdun, bishop of Luik (1075-91), dies
D05311504 Engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz, dies
D05311567 Péreguin de la Grange, French minister/martyr of Reform, dies
D05311594 Tintoretto, Italian Mannerist painter, dies (birth date unknown)
D05311740 Frederick-William I, King of Prussia (1713-1740), dies at 51
D05311806 Michaël FB Freiherr von Melas, Austrian general, dies
D05311809 Franz Josef Haydn, Austrian composer (Jahreszeiten), dies at 76
D05311906 King Alfonso XIII, assassinated in Madrid
D05311906 Victoria von Battenberg, assassinated in Madrid
D05311910 Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman physician, dies at 89
D05311928 Ludwig Enneccerus, German leader, dies at 85
D05311942 Reinhard Heydrich, German protector of Bohemia & Moravia, assassinated
D05311952 Walter Schellenberg, German lawyer/headed spy (Venlo), dies
D05311955 "Wild Bill" Vukovich, killed in Indy 500
D05311960 Willem Elsschot, [Alfons de Ridder], Flemish writer (Kas), dies at 78
D05311962 Adolf Eichmann, war criminal, hanged at Ramie Prison in Israel at 56
D05311974 Adelle Davis, US nutrionalist (Let's stay healthy), dies at 70
D05311976 Jacques Monod, French biochemist, dies
D05311976 Martha Mitchell wife of former Att Gen John Mitchell, dies in NY at 57
D05311983 Jack Dempsey, heavyweight boxing champ, dies at 87
D05311989 Charles A Hufnagel, doc (artificial heart valve pioneer), dies at 72
D05311989 Terry Drinkwater, CBS news correspondant, dies at 53 of cancer
D05311991 Angus Wilson, [Johnstone-W], British writer (Wrong Set), dies
D05311991 H N "Swanie" Swanson, literary agent, dies at 91 of a stroke
D05311992 Lutz Stavenhagen, top aid to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, dies at 52
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H0505 2[Zambia] Labour Day
H0505 6[New Orleans] McDonogh Day (1850)
H0506 [Bulgaria] Shepherd's & Herdsman's Day
H0506 [Denmark] Prayer Day
H0506 [Lebanon] Martyrs' Day
H0506 2[Zambia] Labour Day
H0506 6[New Orleans] McDonogh Day (1850)
H0507 [Dahomey] Anniversary of Presidential Council
H0507 [Scotland] Spring Day
H0507 [Thailand] State Ploughing Ceremony Day
H0507 2[Zambia] Labour Day
H0507 6[New Orleans] McDonogh Day (1850)
H0508 [Helston, England] Furry Day
H0508 [Missouri] Harry S Truman's Birthday (1884)
H0508 [México] Higaldo Day
H0508 [Norway] Liberation Day
H0508 [Ribe, Denmark] Stork Day
H0508 [World] V-E Day, Victory in Europe (1945)
H0508 1[US] Mother's Day, give her a call today
H0508 2[Ireland] Feis Ceoil music festival (1897)
H0508 7[US] Native American/Indian Day
H05080509 [Czechoslovakia] Anniversary of Liberation (1945)
H0509 [Channel Island, Guernsey, Jersey] Liberation Day (1945)
H0509 [Poland, USSR] Victory Day [in World War II]
H0509 [World] North Pole Flight Day (1926)
H0509 1[US] Mother's Day, give her a call today
H0509 2[Ireland] Feis Ceoil music festival (1897)
H0509 7[US] Native American/Indian Day
H0510 [Fed States of Micronesia] Proclamation of Federated States (1979)
H0510 [Hong Kong] Tin Hau's Day
H0510 [North & South Carolina] Confederate Memorial Day (1868)
H0510 [Thailand] Ploughing Ceremony
H0510 [US-Indians] Native American Day
H0510 1[US] Mother's Day, give her a call today
H0510 2[Ireland] Feis Ceoil music festival (1897)
H0510 7[US] Native American/Indian Day
H0511 [Ancient Rome] Lemuria; a. d. v Id. Maias
H0511 [Laos] Constitution Day (1947)
H0511 [Minnesota] Admission Day (1858)
H0511 [World] International Mother's Day
H0511 1[US] Mother's Day, give her a call today
H0511 2[Ireland] Feis Ceoil music festival (1897)
H0511 7[US] Native American/Indian Day
H0512 [Abbotsbury Dorsetshire England] Garland Day
H0512 [Finland] Snellman Day (1806)
H0512 [Khmer Republic] Constitution Day (1972)
H0512 [US] National Hospital Day (1921)
H0512 1[US] Mother's Day, give her a call today
H0512 2[Ireland] Feis Ceoil music festival (1897)
H0512 7[US] Native American/Indian Day
H0513 [Ancient Rome] Lemuria; a. d. iij Id. Maias
H0513 1[US] Mother's Day, give her a call today
H0513 2[Ireland] Feis Ceoil music festival (1897)
H0513 4[Baltimore] Preakness Frog Hop
H0513 7[US] Native American/Indian Day
H0514 [Guinea] Guinea Democratic Party Anniversary
H0514 [Liberia] Unification Day/Integration Day
H0514 [Malawi] Kamuzu Day
H0514 [Philippines] Carabao Festival/Constitution Day/Feast of St Isidro
H0514 1[US] Mother's Day, give her a call today
H0514 2[Ireland] Feis Ceoil music festival (1897)
H0514 7[US] Native American/Indian Day
H05140515 [Paraguay] Independence Days (1811)
H0515 [Austria] Independence Day (1955)
H0515 [Moluccas] Pattimura Day (Thomas Pattimura led revolt against Neth)
H0515 1[US] I am an American Day
H0515 7[US] Armed Forces Day
H0516 [Cayman Islands] Commonwealth Day
H0516 7[US] Armed Forces Day
H0517 [Cuba] Agrarian Reform/Peasant Day
H0517 [Norway] Independence Day/Constitution Day (1814)
H0517 7[US] Armed Forces Day
H0518 [Haiti] Flag Day/University Day
H0518 [Sweden] King Erik IX Helgi, [The Saint]
H0518 [Uruguay] Battle of Las Piedras (1828)
H0518 2[Canada] Victoria Day (1819)
H0518 7[US] Armed Forces Day
H0519 [Finland] Flag Day of Army
H0519 [Turkey] Youth & Sports Day
H0519 [Vietnam] Ho Chi Minh's Birthday (1890)
H0519 2[Canada] Victoria Day (1819)
H0519 7[US] Armed Forces Day
H0520 [Bulgaria] Botev Day
H0520 [Cambodia] Martyrs Day (1979)
H0520 [Cameroon] Constitution Day (1972)
H0520 [Cuba-1902, Saudi Arabia-1927] Independence Day
H0520 [Massachusetts] Lafayette Day (1834-anniversary of his death)
H0520 [North Carolina] Mecklenburg Day (1775)
H0520 [Zaïre] Revolution Day
H0520 2[Canada] Victoria Day (1819)
H0520 7[US] Armed Forces Day
H0521 [Ancient Rome] Agonalia
H0521 [Chile] Battle of Inquique/Navy Day (1879)
H0521 [Macedonia, Greece] Anastenarides Feast-dance barefoot on hot coals
H0521 [NY] Armed Forces Day
H0521 [US] Lindbergh Flight Day (1927)
H0521 2[Canada] Victoria Day (1819)
H0521 7[US] Armed Forces Day
H0522 [Angel's Camp, Calif] Jumping Frog Jubilee Day
H0522 [Bermuda] Bermuda Day
H0522 [Haiti] National Sovereignty Day
H0522 [Sri Lanka] Republic Day (1972)
H0522 [US] National Maritime Day
H0522 2[Canada] Victoria Day (1819)
H0523 [Bermuda] Empire Day
H0523 [German Federal Republic] Republic Day (1949)
H0523 [Jamaica] Labour Day
H0523 [Rye, Sussex England] Mayoring Day
H0523 [South Carolina] Ratification Day (1788)
H0523 2[Canada] Victoria Day (1819)
H0524 [Bahamas, Belize, Gibralter, Lesotho, Turk & Caicos] Commonwealth Day
H0524 [Bulgaria] Education Day/Enlightenment & Culture Day
H0524 [Ecuador] Battle of Pichincha/Independence Day (1822)
H0524 [England] Victoria Day/Empire Day (1819)
H0524 [ancient Rome] Quando Rex Comitiavit; a. d. ix Kal. Junias
H0524 2[Canada] Victoria Day (1819)
H05240525 [France] La Fete des Saintes Maries
H0525 [Argentina] Day of May Revolution/National Day (1810)
H0525 [Chad, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Zambia] African Freedom/Unity Day
H0525 [Jordan] Independence Day/Arab Renaissance Day (1946)
H0525 [Libya, Sudan] Sudan National Day/May Revolution Day (1969)
H0525 [Yugoslavia] Day of Youth
H0525 2[US] Memorial Day/Decoration Day, a legal holiday (1868)
H0525 2[Virginia] Confederate Memorial Day (1868)
H0526 [Guyana] Independence Day (1966)
H0526 2[US] Memorial Day/Decoration Day, a legal holiday (1868)
H0526 2[Virginia] Confederate Memorial Day (1868)
H0527 [Afghánistán] Independence Day (1921)
H0527 [Nicaragua] Army Day
H0527 [Nigeria] Children's Day
H0527 [Turkey] Freedom & Constitution Day (1960, 1961)
H0527 2[US] Memorial Day/Decoration Day, a legal holiday (1868)
H0527 2[Virginia] Confederate Memorial Day (1868)
H0528 [Puerto Rico] Memorial Day
H0528 2[US] Memorial Day/Decoration Day, a legal holiday (1868]
H0528 2[Virginia] Confederate Memorial Day (1868)
H0529 [England] Oak Apple Day/Nettle Day (1660)
H0529 [Rhode Island] Ratification Day (1790)
H0529 [Wisconsin] Admission Day (1848)
H0529 2[US] Memorial Day/Decoration Day, a legal holiday (1868)
H0529 2[Virginia] Confederate Memorial Day (1868)
H0530 [Anguilla] Anguilla Day
H0530 [Channel Is, England, N Ireland, Wales] Spring Holiday
H0530 [Guam, Puerto Rico, US, US Virgin Islands] Memorial Day
H0530 [Lincoln City, Indiana] Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial Day
H0530 [US] REAL Memorial Day (Decoration Day) (1868)
H0530 2[US] Memorial Day/Decoration Day, a legal holiday (1868)
H0530 2[Virginia] Confederate Memorial Day (1868)
H0531 [Botswana] President's Day
H0531 [Brunei] Royal Brunei Malay Regiment
H0531 [Namibia, South Africa] Union Day (1910), Republic Day (1961)
H0531 [Zimbabwe] Independence Day (1979)
H0531 2[US] Memorial Day/Decoration Day, a legal holiday (1868]
H0531 2[Virginia] Confederate Memorial Day (1868)
I0500 [RC] Month of Mary
I0501 [RC] Memorial of St Joseph the Workman, stepfather of Jesus (opt)
I0501 6[Christian] May Fellowship Day (Church Woman United)
I0501 62 [Ang, Luth] Feast of SS Philip & James, apostles
I050119941[Orthodox] Easter (4/18 OS)
I050120001[Orthodox] Easter (4/17 OS)
I0502 [Baha'i] Twelfth day of Ridvan-festival
I0502 6[Christian] May Fellowship Day (Church Woman United)
I0502 373 [RC, Luth, Ang] Mem of St Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria/doctor
I05021863 [Bahá'í] 12th day of Ridván (festival); Jamál 5, 20
I050220003[Jewish] Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) (Nisan 27, 5760 AM)
I0503 [Christian-Poland] Feast of Our Lady of Czestochowa
I0503 [RC] Commemoration of Finding of Cross
I0503 [RC] Commemoration of SS Alexander, Eventius & Theodulus, martyrs
I0503 2[Christian-Bruges Belgium] Holy Blood Procession
I0503 6[Christian] May Fellowship Day (Church Woman United)
I0503 62 [RC] Feast of SS Philip & James, apostles
I0503 376 [RC] Commemoration of St Juvenal, bishop/confessor
I0504 [Christian] Commemoration of St Florian, patron of firemen
I0504 2[Christian-Bruges Belgium] Holy Blood Procession
I0504 6[Christian] May Fellowship Day (Church Woman United)
I0504 387 [Luth, old RC, Ang] Feast of St Monica, mom of St Augustine of Hippo
I050419971[Jewish] Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) (Nisan 27, 5757 AM)
I050419993[Jewish] Lag B'Omer (love for Holy Land Day) (Iyar 18, 5759 AM)
I0505 2[Christian-Bruges Belgium] Holy Blood Procession
I0505 6[Christian] May Fellowship Day (Church Woman United)
I05051572 [old RC] Feast of St Pius V, pope (1566-72)
I050519972[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
I0506 [Ang] Feast day of St Edbert
I0506 [Ang] Feast day of St Evodius of Antioch
I0506 [Ang] Feast day of St John Before Latin Gate
I0506 [Ang] Feast day of St Petronax
I0506 [Denmark] Prayer Day
I0506 [RC] Commemoration of St John Before Latin Gate
I0506 2[Christian-Bruges Belgium] Holy Blood Procession
I0506 6[Christian] May Fellowship Day (Church Woman United)
I050619973[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
I0507 2[Christian-Bruges Belgium] Holy Blood Procession
I0507 6[Christian] May Fellowship Day (Church Woman United)
I05071079 [old RC] Feast of St Stanislaus, bishop, martyr, patron of Poland
I050719963[Jewish] Lag B'Omer (love for Holy Land Day) (Iyar 18, 5756 AM)
I050719974[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
I050719985[Moslem] Ashura (Muharram 10, 1419 AH)
I0508 [Orthodox] Latest possible Orthodox Easter (4/25 OS)
I0508 [RC] Commemoration of Apparition of St Michael the Archangel
I0508 2[Christian-Bruges Belgium] Holy Blood Procession
I05081417 [Ang] Commemoration of Dame Julian of Norwich
I050819975[Christian] Solemnity of Ascension
I050819975[Islam] calendar leap day (Dhûl-Hijjah 30, 1417 AH)
I0509 [Ang] Feast Day of St Beatus of Lungern/Vendôme
I0509 [Ang] Feast Day of St Gerontius of Cervia
I0509 [Ang] Feast Day of St Pachomius
I0509 [Christian] Feast of St Joan
I0509 2[Christian-Bruges Belgium] Holy Blood Procession
I0509 389 [old RC, Ang] Comm St Gregory Nazianzen, bp of Constantinople/doctor
I050919942[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
I050919976[Islam] New Year's Day (Muharram 1, 1418 AH)
I0510 [Ang] Feast Day of St Alphius
I0510 [Ang] Feast Day of St Calepodius
I0510 [Ang] Feast Day of St Cataldus or Cathal
I0510 [Ang] Feast Day of St Conleth or Conlaed
I0510 [Ang] Feast Day of St Epimarchus
I0510 [Ang] Feast Day of St Gordian
I0510 [Ang] Feast Day of St John of Avila
I0510 [Ang] Feast Day of St Solange
I0510 [Denmark] Common Prayer Day
I0510 [RC] Commemoration of SS Gordian & Epimachus, martyrs
I05101459 [RC] Commemoration of St Antoninus, bishop of Florence, confessor
I051019943[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
I051019954[Moslem] 'Id al-Adha (Dhûl-Hijjah 10, 1415 AH)
I051019992[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
I0511 62 [RC] Commemoration of SS Philip & James the Less, apostles
I051119944[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
I051119993[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
I051120016[Jewish] Lag B'Omer (love for Holy Land Day)
I0512 [Bhuddist-Burma] Buddha's Birthday
I0512 100 [RC] Commemoration of St Domitilla, martyr
I0512 100 [RC] Memorial of SS Nereus, Achilleus martyrs (opt)
I0512 304 [RC] Memorial of St Pancras, Roman martyr (opt)
I051219945[Christian] Solemnity of Ascension
I051219994[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
I0513 Feast day of St Andrew Hubert Fournet
I0513 Feast day of St Erconwald
I0513 Feast day of St Euthymius, the Enlightener
I0513 Feast day of St Gilyceria of Heraclea
I0513 Feast day of St John the Silent
I0513 Feast day of St Mucius or Mocius
I0513 Feast day of St Peter Regalatus
I0513 Feast day of St Servatius or Servais
I0513 Feast day of St Solomon
I0513 [Bhuddist-Singapore] Buddha's Birthday
I05131621 [RC] Comm of St Robert Bellarmine, bishop/confessor/doctor
I051319962[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
I051319995[Christian] Solemnity of Ascension
I0514 [Christian] St Matthias, apostle
I0514 306 [RC] Commemoration of St Boniface, martyr
I051419963[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
I051419985[Jewish] Lag B'Omer (love for Holy Land Day) (Iyar 18, 5758 AM)
I0515 [RC] Commemoration of St Dymphna, patron of insane
I05151170 [RC] Commemoration of Isidore the Farmer, patron of farmers
I05151719 [old RC] Feast of St John Baptist de la Salle, confessor
I051519964[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
I0516 [Christian] Feast of St Brendan
I0516 [Christian] Feast of St Carantoc/Carannog
I0516 [Christian] Feast of St Domnolus of Le Mans
I0516 [Christian] Feast of St Germerius/Germier
I0516 [Christian] Feast of St Honoratus of Amiens
I0516 [Christian] Feast of St John Newpomucen
I0516 [Christian] Feast of St Peregrinus of Auxerre
I0516 [Christian] Feast of St Possadius
I0516 [Christian] Feast of St Simon Stock
I0516 [Unification Church] Day of Love of God
I05161160 [RC] Commemoration of St Ubaldus of Gubbio, bishop/confessor
I051619942[Jewish] Shavuot (celebration of 10 commandments); Sivan 6, 5754 AM
I051619965[Christian] Solemnity of Ascension
I0517 [Christian] Feast of St Bruno of Würzburg
I0517 [Christian] Feast of St Mardon/Madern
I0517 988 [RC] Comm of St Dunstan, archbp of Canterbury, patron of jewelers
I05171592 [RC] Commemoration of St Paschal Baylon, lay brother
I0518 [Christian] St Eric of Sweden
I0518 250 [RC] Commemoration of St Venantius, bishop, martyr
I0518 526 [RC] Commemoration of St John I, pope & martyr (523-526)
I05181160 [Luth] Commemoration of Erik, King of Sweden, martyr
I051819955[Jewish] Lag B'Omer (love for Holy Land Day) (Iyar 18, 5755 AM)
I051819971[Christian-Scotland] Term Day
I051819971[Christian] Solemnity of Pentecost (Whitsunday)
I051819971[Moslem] Ashura (Muharram 10, 1418 AH)
I051819982[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
I0519 [Christian] St Ives
I0519 988 [Ang, Luth] Commemoration of St Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury
I05191296 [RC] Commemoration of St Peter Celestine, pope
I051919961[Islam] New Year's Day (Muharram 1, 1417 AH)
I051919972[Ang] Commemoration of 1st Book of Common Prayer
I051919983[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
I0520 [Christian] Feast of St Austregisiluis/Outrill
I0520 [Christian] Feast of St Basilla/Basilissa
I0520 [Christian] Feast of St Baudelius
I0520 [Christian] Feast of St Ethelbert
I0520 [Christian] Feast of St Thalelaeus/Asterius, Alexander & Others
I0520 804 [Ang] Commemoration of Alcuin, deacon & abbot of Tours
I05201444 [RC] Memorial of St Bernardine of Siena, priest (opt)
I052019984[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
I0521 [Orthodox] Feast of SS Constantine & Helen
I05211690 [Luth] Commemoration of John Eliot, missionary to Indians
I052119947[Moslem] 'Id al-Adha; end of Ramadân fast (Shawwâl 1, 1414 AH)
I052119974[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I052119985[Christian] Solemnity of Ascension
I052119996[Jewish] Shavuot (celebration of 10 commandments) (Sivan 6, 5759 AM)
I0522 [RC] Commem of St Rita of Cascia, widow; invoked in desperate cases
I05221096 [Orth] Translat of Relics of St Nicholas the Wonderworker (5/9 OS)
I052219941[Christian-Scotland] Term Day
I052219941[Christian] Solemnity of Pentecost (Whitsunday)
I052219952[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
I0523 [Christian] Feast of St Aldhelm
I0523 [Christian] Feast of St Desiderius of Vienne
I0523 [Christian] Feast of St Euphrosyne of Polotsk
I0523 [Christian] Feast of St Guibert
I0523 [Christian] Feast of St John Baptist dei Rossi
I0523 [Christian] Feast of St William of Rochester
I05231116 [Christ] Feast of St Ivo of Chartres, patron of lawyers
I05231844 [Bahá'í] Declaration of Bab (festival) ('Azamat 7, 1)
I052319942[Ang] Commemoration of 1st Book of Common Prayer
I052319953[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
I052319976[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I052319991[Christian-Scotland] Term Day
I052319991[Christian] Solemnity of Pentecost (Whitsunday)
I052320003[Jewish] Lag B'Omer (love for Holy Land Day) (Iyar 18, 5760 AM)
I0524 [Christian] Feast of St David I of Scotland
I0524 [Christian] Feast of St Donatian & Rogatian
I0524 [Christian] Feast of St Nicetas of Pereaslav
I0524 [Christian] Feast of St Vincent of Lerins
I0524 [RC] Memorial of Blessed Virgin Mary, help of Christians
I0524 883 [Orth] Feast of SS Cyril & Methodius, evangelizers (5/11 OS)
I05241543 [Luth] Commemoration of Copernicus, teacher
I05241783 [Luth] Commemoration of Euler, teacher
I05241870 [Ang] Commemoration of Jackson Kemper, 1st missionary bishop in US
I052419954[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
I052419966[Jewish] Shavuot (celebration of 10 commandments) (Sivan 6, 5756 AM)
I052419977[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I052419992[Ang] Commemoration of 1st Book of Common Prayer
I0525 [Anglican] Deposition of St Aldelmus, bishop/confessor
I0525 [RC] Pope Urban I, patron of wine
I0525 230 [RC] Commemoration of St Urban I, pope (222-230), martyr
I0525 563 -BC- [Buddhist-Hong Kong] Buddha's Birthday
I0525 735 [Ang, RC] Mem of Bede the Venerable, priest, monk of Jarrow (opt)
I05251085 [RC] Memorial of St Gregory VII, pope [1073-85], confessor (opt)
I05251607 [RC] Feast of St Mary Magdalen dei Pazzi, virgin
I05251865 [RC] Commemoration of St Madeleine Sophie Barat, virgin
I052519944[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I052519955[Christian] Solemnity of Ascension
I052519971[Christian] Solemnity of Most Holy Trinity (Trinity Sunday)
I0526 178 [RC] Commemoration of St Eleutherius, pope [175-178], martyr
I0526 605 [RC, Ang] Mem Augustine, English Apostle, 1st abp of Canterbury (opt)
I05261595 [RC] Memorial of St Philip Neri, priest
I052619961[Christian-Scotland] Term Day
I052619961[Christian] Solemnity of Pentecost (Whitsunday)
I052619994[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I0527 [Christian] Feast of St Augustine of Canterbury
I0527 [Christian] Feast of St Eutropius of Orange
I0527 [Christian] Feast of St Julius of Durostorum
I0527 [Christian] Feast of St Melangel of Montacella
I0527 [Christian] Feast of St Restituta of Sora
I0527 526 [old RC] Commemoration of St John I, pope/martyr
I0527 735 [old RC] Feast of St Bede the Venerable, doctor/writer
I05271564 [Luth] Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of church
I052719946[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I052719962[Ang] Commemoration of 1st Book of Common Prayer
I0528 [Christian] Feast of St Germanus of Paris
I0528 [Christian] Feast of St Ignatius of Rostov
I0528 [Christian] Feast of St Justus of Urgel
I0528 [Christian] Feast of St Senator of Milan & St William of Gellone
I0528 604 [old RC] Feast of St Augustine, 1st achbp of Canterbury, confessor
I05281081 [Christ] Comm of St Bernard of Montjoux, patron of mountain climbers
I052819947[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I052819963[Moslem] Ashura (Muharram 10, 1417 AH)
I052819996[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I052820012[Jewish] Shavuot (celebration of 10 commandments) (Sivan 6, 5761 AM)
I0529 [Christian-Andorra] Our Lady of Canolic
I0529 [Christian] Feast of St Bernard of Montjoux or Menthon
I0529 [Christian] Feast of St Cyril of Caesarea
I0529 [Christian] Feast of St Maximinus of Trier
I0529 [Christian] Feast of St Sisinnius, Martyrius & Alexander
I0529 [Christian] Feast of St Theodosia of Constantinople
I0529 [Christian] Feast of St William, Stephen, Raymond & companions
I05291607 [old RC] Feast of St Mary Magdalen dei Pazzi, virgin
I05291637 [Luth] Commemoration of Jiri Tranovsky, hymn writer
I05291892 [Bahá'í] Death (ascension) of prophet Bahá'u'lláh ('Azamat 7, 49)
I052919941[Christian] Solemnity of Most Holy Trinity (Trinity Sunday)
I052919964[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I052919975[RC] Solemnity of Corpus Christi (Body & Blood of Christ)
I052919997[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I0530 273 [RC] Commemoration of St Felix I, pope [268-73], martyr
I05301252 [RC] Commemor of St Ferdinand III, Spanish king/patron of engineers
I05301431 [RC] Comm of St Jean d'Arc, Maid of Orleans, patroness of France
I053019953[Islam] leap day (Dhûl-Hijjah 30, 1415 AH)
I053019991[Christian] Solemnity of Most Holy Trinity (Trinity Sunday)
I0531 [Luth, Ang, RC] Feast of Visitation [Queenship] of Mary
I0531 [RC] Commemoration of St Aurelia Petronilla, virgin
I05311540 [old RC] Feast of St Angela Merici, virgin
I053119954[Islam] New Year's Day (Muharram 1, 1416 AH)
I053119966[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I053119981[Christian-Scotland] Term Day
I053119981[Christian] Solemnity of Pentecost (Whitsunday)
I053119981[Jewish] Shavuot (celebration of 10 commandments) (Sivan 6, 5758 AM)
R0500 Correct Posture Month-National Physical Fitness & Sports Month
R0500 Flower-Hawthorne & Lily of the Valley Gem-Emerald
R0500 Good Car Keeping Month-National Bike Month-Better Sleep Month
R0500 National Barbecue Month-National Photo Month
R0500 National Photo-Car Maintainence-Foot Health Month
R0500 National Tavern-Steelmark-Senior Citizen Month
R0500 Sight Saving Month-Touring Theatre Month
R0501 Baseball teams may resume negotiating with their own free agents
R0501 May Day, International Workers Day, Law Day, Loyalty Day, Bird Day
R0501 [Algonquin] Flower Moon
R0501 [Ancient Rome] Kalendae Maiæ
R0501 [Babylonia] Abu
R0501 [England] Beltane-people light bonfires celebrating end of winter
R0501 [Nunamiut Eskimos] Moon When Ice Goes Out
R0501 1National Stuttering Awareness Week begins
R0501 1[World] Humane Sunday
R0501 6International Tuba Day (1st Friday)
R0501 7Kentucky Derby
R0501 506 Eta "May" Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius
R0501 520 Astrological sign: Taurus
R0502 1National Stuttering Awareness Week begins
R0502 1[World] Humane Sunday
R0502 6International Tuba Day (1st Friday)
R0502 7Kentucky Derby
R0503 1National Stuttering Awareness Week begins
R0503 1[World] Humane Sunday
R0503 6International Tuba Day (1st Friday)
R0503 7Kentucky Derby
R0504 International Tuba Day
R0504 1National Stuttering Awareness Week begins
R0504 1[World] Humane Sunday
R0504 6International Tuba Day (1st Friday)
R0504 7Kentucky Derby
R0505 [US] National Teacher's Day
R0505 1National Stuttering Awareness Week begins
R0505 1[World] Humane Sunday
R0505 6International Tuba Day (1st Friday)
R0505 7Kentucky Derby
R0506 National Nurses Day
R0506 [US] National Nurse's Day
R0506 1National Stuttering Awareness Week begins
R0506 1[World] Humane Sunday
R0506 6International Tuba Day (1st Friday)
R0506 7Kentucky Derby
R0507 Beaufort Scale Day-measures wind force (scale 0 calm to 12 hurricane)
R0507 Solar Summer-quarter of year with greatest sunshine in N Hemisphere
R0507 [Ancient Rome] Nonæ Maiæ
R0507 1National Stuttering Awareness Week begins
R0507 1[World] Humane Sunday
R0507 6International Tuba Day (1st Friday)
R0507 7Kentucky Derby
R0508 [Sweden] Ake name day
R0508 [World] Red Cross Day
R0508 [World] World Red Cross Day
R0509 North Pole Flight Day (1926)
R0509 Third Shift Workers Day
R0509 [Ancient Rome] Lemuria; a d vij Id Maias
R0510 1[US] National Transportation Week begins
R05101994 Annular eclipse visible over North America
R05101994 Eclipse of the sun North-Africa-USA (6m13s)
R0511 Spring Ghost Tales Day
R0511 [Ancient Rome] Lemuria
R0511 1[US] National Transportation Week begins
R0512 Limerick Day
R0512 National Hospital Day (1921)
R0512 National Limerick Day
R0512 1[US] National Transportation Week begins
R0513 Leprechaun Day-no blarney!
R0513 [Ancient Rome] Lemuria
R0513 [US] National Astronomy Day
R0513 1[US] National Transportation Week begins
R0513 6Friday the 13th! Beware!
R0514 1[US] National Transportation Week begins
R0515 Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean Day-It may be waving at you
R0515 Peace Officer's Memorial Day
R0515 [Ancient Rome] Idus Maiæ
R0515 1[US] National Transportation Week begins
R0515 6[US] National Defense Transportation Day
R0515 7International Chicken Flying Meet (3rd Saturday)
R0515 7[Maryland] Preakness Stakes (2nd jewel in horse racing triple crown)
R0516 1[US] I am an American Day
R0516 1[US] National Transportation Week begins
R0516 6[US] National Defense Transportation Day
R0516 7International Chicken Flying Meet (3rd Saturday)
R0516 7[Maryland] Preakness Stakes (2nd jewel in horse racing triple crown)
R0517 Jumping Frog Jubilee
R0517 [UN] World Telecommunications Day
R0517 1[US] I am an American Day
R0517 6[US] National Defense Transportation Day
R0517 7International Chicken Flying Meet (3rd Saturday)
R0517 7[Maryland] Preakness Stakes (2nd jewel in horse racing triple crown)
R0518 International Museum Day
R0518 Visit Your Relatives Day
R0518 World Good-Will Day
R0518 [Sweden] Erik name day in (most popular Swedish man's name)
R0518 1[US] I am an American Day
R0518 6[US] National Defense Transportation Day
R0518 7International Chicken Flying Meet (3rd Saturday)
R0518 7[Maryland] Preakness Stakes (2nd jewel in horse racing triple crown)
R0519 1[US] I am an American Day
R0519 6[US] National Defense Transportation Day
R0519 7International Chicken Flying Meet (3rd Saturday)
R0519 7[Maryland] Preakness Stakes (2nd jewel in horse racing triple crown)
R0520 Eliza Doolittle Day, encourages proper use of language
R0520 Weights & Measures Day
R0520 1[US] I am an American Day
R0520 6[US] National Defense Transportation Day
R0520 7International Chicken Flying Meet (3rd Saturday)
R0520 7[Maryland] Preakness Stakes (2nd jewel in horse racing triple crown)
R0521 [Ancient Rome] Agonalia
R0521 1[US] I am an American Day
R0521 6[US] National Defense Transportation Day
R0521 7International Chicken Flying Meet (3rd Saturday)
R0521 7[Maryland] Preakness Stakes (2nd jewel in horse racing triple crown)
R0521 621 Astrological sign: Gemini
R0522 National Maritime Day
R0522 [Angel's Camp, Calif] Jumping Frog Jubilee Day
R0522 [Indianapolis Indiana] Sportacular-honors US amateur athletes
R0522 [World] World Trade Day/National Maritime Day (1819)
R0523 [Ancient Rome] Tubilustrium
R0524 [Ancient Rome] Quando Rex Comitiavit
R0525 [White Sulphur Springs, WV] Dandelion Festival
R0525 1Indianaolis 500 auto race
R0526 [Mystic, Conn] Lobster Festival
R0526 [Scottsboro Alabama] Catfish Festival
R0526 1Indianaolis 500 auto race
R0527 [US] American Merchant Marine Book Week
R0527 1Indianaolis 500 auto race
R0528 1Indianaolis 500 auto race
R0529 1Indianaolis 500 auto race
R0530 Eta Pegasid meteor shower, radiant in Pegasus
R0530 1Indianaolis 500 auto race
R0531 1Indianaolis 500 auto race
S05-- 885 Pope Stephen V begins reign
S05--1921 WJZ-AM in Baltimore MD begins radio transmissions
S05--1939 1st FM radio station W43B (formerly W1XOJ, later WGTR) goes on air
S05--1949 WAPI (now WVMT) TV channel 13 in Birmingham, AL (NBC) 1st broadcast
S05--1953 KELO TV channel 11 in Sioux Falls, SD (CBS) begins broadcasting
S05--1953 KSBY TV channel 6 in San Luis Obispo/Salia, CA (NBC) 1st broadcast
S05--1960 WCRB-FM & WBZ-FM in Boston begin stereo test broadcasts
S05--1979 Radio Shack introduces TRS-80 Model II
S05--1987 Pete Penseyres & Lon Haldeman cross US on a tandem bicycle in 7
S05--1987Cdays, 14 hr, 44 min from Huntington Beach, CA to Atlantic City, NJ
S05--1990 Howard County, MD becomes 1st in US to make bicycle helmets mandatory
S05--1991 Ride for Rain - 3 students ride 3,000 miles across Amazon River Basin
S05011006 Supernova observed by Chinese & Egyptians in constellation Lupus
S05011528 Pánfilo the Narvaéz begins exploration to with 350 men to Florida
S05011628 Meiboom in Quincy Mass) degenerates into orgy with indian women
S05011682 Louis XIV & his court inaugurate Paris Observatory
S05011707 England, Wales & Scotland form UK of Great Britain
S05011751 1st American cricket match was played
S05011776 Adam Weishaupt founds secret society of Illuminati
S05011786 Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premiers in Wien (Vienna)
S05011822 John Phillips becomes 1st mayor of Boston
S05011840 1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued
S05011841 1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri for Calif
S05011844 Samuel Morse sends 1st telegraphic message
S05011844 Whig convention nominates Henry Clay as presidential candidate
S05011850 John Geary becomes 1st SF mayor
S05011851 Great Exhibition opens in London's Hyde Park, with Crystal Palace
S05011853 Argentina adopts it's constitution
S05011857 William Walker, conqueror of Nicaragua, surrenders to US Navy
S05011861 Lee orders Confederate troops under T J Jackson to Harper's Ferry
S05011862 Union captain David Farragut conquers New Orleans
S05011863 Battle of Chancellorsville, VA (29,000 injured or died)
S05011863 Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi
S05011863 Beginning of 4-day Battle of Chancellorsville
S05011863 Confederate congress passed resolution to kill black soldiers
S05011864 Atlanta campaign, GA
S05011864 Wilderness campaign
S05011867 Howard University chartered
S05011867 Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration
S05011869 "Folies-Bergère" opens in Paris
S05011869 A colt is reported killed by a meteorite near New Concord, Ohio
S05011869 Folies Bergère opens in Paris
S05011873 1st US postal card issued
S05011873 International Exhibition opens in Wien (Vienna)
S05011875 238 members of "Whiskey Ring" accused of anti-US activities
S05011883 Baseball returns to Phila, 1st NL game since 1876
S05011883 NY Athletic Club hires Bob Rogers as 1st American pro sports trainer
S05011884 Construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper (10 stories)
S05011884 Moses Walker became 1st black player in major league
S05011886 US general strike for 8 hour day broken
S05011889 1st International Workers Day, according to 2nd International
S05011892 US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, SF Bay
S05011893 World Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago
S05011898 George Dewey commands, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley"
S05011898Cas US route Spanish fleet at Manila
S05011900 Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah
S05011901 Detroit Tigers commit 12 errors against Chicago White Sox
S05011901 Herb McFarland hit 1st grand slam in American League
S05011901 Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo
S05011906 Phillie's John Lush no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 6-0
S05011907 Indian Mine Laws passes (concessions from Neth-Indies)
S05011908 World's most intense shower (2.47" in 3 minutes) at Portobelo Panama
S05011914 China's 1st president Yuan Shikai wins dictatorial qualification
S05011915 British Lusitania leaves NY, for Liverpool
S05011915 German submarine sinks US ship Gulflight
S05011919 Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke
S05011919Cthrough crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages
S05011920 Babe Ruth's 1st Yankee HR & 50th of career, out of Polo Grounds
S05011920 Belgian-Luxembourg toll tunnel opens
S05011920 Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 1-1, in 26 innings
S05011921 Druzisch sultan Pasja al-Atrasj elected governor of Suwayda
S05011923 Earl Sande, wins his 1st Kentucky Derby
S05011924 Admiral Paul Koundouriótis becomes president of Greece
S05011925 Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony
S05011926 British coal-miners go on strike
S05011926 Brooklyn Dodgers & Boston Braves deadlock at 1-1 in 26 innings
S05011926 Satchel Paige makes pitching debut in Negro Southern League
S05011927 1st British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways)
S05011927 Netherlands beats Belgium 3-2 in soccer match in Amsterdam
S05011928 6 children die & 10 injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania
S05011928 Drunken fascist Erich Wichman harasses VARA-radio transmitter
S05011928 Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)
S05011928 Pitcairn Airlines (later Eastern) begins service
S05011929 Brooklyn's Johnny Finn sets 100 yard sack race in 14.4 seconds
S05011929 Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen
S05011929 Police kill 19 Mayday demonstraters in Berlin
S05011931 Empire State Building opens in NYC
S05011931 Norway claims Peter I Island
S05011931 Singer Kate Smith begins her long-running radio program on CBS
S05011932 1st Suriname union congress at Paramaribo
S05011934 Austria signs pact with Vatican
S05011934 Philippine legislature accepts US proposal for independence
S05011934 Water state kingdom dismisses NSB-leader Anton Mussert
S05011936 Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades
S05011937 FDR signs act of neutrality
S05011939 Batman Comics hit street
S05011939 Pulitzer prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Yearling)
S05011940 140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship
S05011941 "Citizen Kane," directed & starring Orson Welles, premiers in NY
S05011941 German assault on Tobroek
S05011943 Johnny Longden on Count Fleet wins 69th Kentucky Derby (2:04)
S05011943 Rauter signs unofficial death sentence
S05011943 food rationing begins in US
S05011944 Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight
S05011944 Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the dark)
S05011944 Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails
S05011945 Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WW II
S05011946 Mrs Emma Clarissa Clement named "American Mother of Year"
S05011947 Radar for coml & private planes 1st demonstrated
S05011947 Vice Adm Roscoe Hillenkoeter becomes 1st director of CIA
S05011948 Dem People's Rep of Korea (N Korea) established
S05011948 Eddie Arcaro on Citation wins 74th Kentucky Derby (2:05.4)
S05011948 People's Republic North-Korea forms
S05011948CGlenn Taylor, Idaho Senator, arrested in Birmingham Alabama for
S05011948Ctrying to enter a meeting through a door marked "for Negroes"
S05011949 Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune)
S05011950 Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize (poetry)
S05011950 Mayor of Brussels reluctantly bans May Day parade
S05011950 New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic China
S05011950 Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers & Hammerstein (South Pacific)
S05011950 WJIM (now WLNS) TV channel 6 in Lansing, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
S05011951 600,000 march for peace & freedom in Germany
S05011951 Dutch Reformed Church introduces new church choir
S05011951 Mickey Mantle's 1st HR
S05011952 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #3428
S05011954 Bishops publish Mandement (member socialistic org forbidden)
S05011954 HSA-UWC Established (Unification Church) (Moonies)
S05011954 WAPA TV channel 4 in San Juan, PR (NBC/SFN) begins broadcasting
S05011955 Bob Feller's 15th 1 or less hitter (12 1-hitters, 3 no-hitters)
S05011957 Larry King's 1st radio broadcast
S05011957 US give Poland credit of $95 million
S05011957 Vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km
S05011958 Ambonese rebellion bombed Ambon/conquer Morotai
S05011959 Heavyweight Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London
S05011959 West Germany ntroduces 5 day work week
S05011959 White Sox Early Wynn beats Red Sox 1-0 on his own HR
S05011960 India's Bombay state split into Gujarat & Maharashtra states
S05011960 Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis
S05011960 Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk
S05011961 1st US airplane hijacked to Cuba
S05011961 Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba
S05011961 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
S05011961 Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain
S05011962 1st French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara
S05011962 Bo Belinsky pitches a no-hitter, in his 4th start
S05011962 JFK authorizes Area Redevelopment Act (ARA)
S05011963 1st American (James Whittaker) to conquer Mount Everest
S05011963 Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Neth
S05011964 1st BASIC program run on a computer (Dartmouth)
S05011965 Mont Canadiens beat Chic Black Hawks, 4 games to 3, for Stanley Cup
S05011965 USSR launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon
S05011966 Last British concert by Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley)
S05011966 Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting
S05011966 US troops shooting targets in Cambodia
S05011967 Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua
S05011967 Priscilla Beaulieu & Elvis Presley wed in Las Vegas
S05011967 Pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (Fixer)
S05011969 43 Unification church couples wed in NYC
S05011969 Houston Don Wilson 2nd no-hitter beats Cin Reds, 4-0
S05011969 Pirate Radio Station 259 (England/France) begins transmitting
S05011971 Amtrak railroad begins operation
S05011971 Rolling Stones release "Brown Sugar"
S05011972 Pulitzer prize awarded to Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose)
S05011972 Radio's Mutual Black Network premiers
S05011973 SF Giants score 7 runs with 2 outs in 9th to beat Pirates, 8-7
S05011975 Islander Parise & Potvin score within 14 seconds in playoffs
S05011975CFlyers 5-Isles 4-semifinals-Flyers hold 2-0 lead
S05011976 Bold Forbes wins Kentucky Derby
S05011976 Jos Hermens, Netherlands sets record for 20,000 m, 57:24.2
S05011977 Empress Lilly dedicated
S05011978 1st black mayor of New Orleans (Ernest Morial) inaugurated
S05011978 Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone
S05011979 Elton John becomes 1st pop star to perform in Israel
S05011979 Home rule introduced to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)
S05011979 Marshall Islands (in Pacific) become self-governing
S05011980 Sabres & Islanders play to 1:20 of 5th period in a playoff
S05011980CAmer Book Award: William Styron (Sophie Choice)/T Wolfe (Right Stuff)
S05011981 Billie Jean King admits to a lesbian affair with Marilyn Barnett
S05011981 Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) convicted on FBI Abscam charges
S05011981 Radio Shack releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3
S05011982 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville Tennessee opens
S05011982 Nordiques 4-Isles 5 (OT)-semifinals-Isles hold 3-0 lead
S05011983 Nolan Ryan surpasses Walter Johnson for most strikeouts (3,508)
S05011984 Mick Fleetwood (of Fleetwood Mac) files for bankruptcy
S05011986 Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap
S05011987 46 HRs hit in 13 baseball games
S05011987 Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish born nun
S05011989 135 acre Disney's MGM studio officially opens to public
S05011989 Jockey Chris Antley ends record of 64 consecutive winning days
S05011991 A's Rickey Henderson steals an all time record 939th base vs Yanks
S05011991 Angola's civil war ends
S05011991 Milwaukee Brewers beat Chicago Cubs, 10-9, in 19 innings
S05011991 Tx Ranger Nolan Ryan pitches record 7th no hitter (beats Toronto 3-0)
S05011991CSkin-Spit-Skin featuring lesbain, homosexual & hetrosexual nude
S05011991Ccouples caressing, is seen by 5,000 in NYC
S05011992 Eric Houston kills 4 in a Calif HS where he failed history 4 yrs prior
S05011992 NY Rangers wins their 1st ever 7th game of a playoff (vs NJ Devils)
S05011993 Bomb attack on Sri Lankan president (26 die)
S05021598 Peace of Vervins
S05021668 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Devolution
S05021670 Hudson Bay Company founded
S05021776 France & Spain agree to donate arms to American rebels
S05021780 William Herschel discovers 1st binary star, Xi Ursae Majoris
S05021808 Uprising against French occupation begins in Madrid
S05021863 South defeats North in Battle of Chancellorsville, Va
S05021863CStonewall Jackson attacks Chancellorsville, wounded by his own men
S05021864 N R Pogson discovers asteroid #80 Sappho
S05021865 Pres Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis
S05021876 Ross Barnes hit 1st home run in National League
S05021878 US stops minting 20¢ coin
S05021885 "Good Housekeeping" magazine is 1st published
S05021885 Congo Free State established by King Leopold II of Belgium
S05021890 Territory of Oklahoma created
S05021915 Old Fordham Road in Bronx renamed Landing Road
S05021916 2nd Ave & Bronx Terrace renamed Bronx Blvd; Seward Pl renamed Sycamore
S05021916CAve; Herald Ave renamed Dickinson Ave; Monroe & Selwyn Avenue named
S05021917 Cin Fred Tooney & Chic's Hippo Vaughn pitch duel no-hitter, Vaughn
S05021917Cgives up 2 hits & a run in 10th, so Cin wins 1-0
S05021919 1st US air passenger service starts
S05021920 1st game of National Negro Baseball League played in Indianapolis
S05021921 Begin 3rd anti-German revolt in Upper-Silesia
S05021922 WBAP-AM begins broadcasting from Ft Worth Texas
S05021923 Senator Walter Johnson pitches his 100th shutout, beats Yanks 3-0
S05021924 Netherlands refuses to recognize USSR
S05021925 Kezar Stadium in SF's Golden Gate Park opens
S05021926 US military intervenes in Nicaragua
S05021927 Intl Economic Conference (52 countries including USSR) opens
S05021927 Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn)
S05021928 KPQ-AM in Wenatchee WA begins radio transmissions
S05021932 Jack Benny's 1st radio show premieres (NBC Blue Network)
S05021932 Pulitzer prize awarded to Pearl S Buck (Good Earth)
S05021933 Germany forbids trade union
S05021934 Nazi-Germany begins People's court
S05021935 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1926 Demiddelaer
S05021936 "Peter & Wolf" premiers in Moscow
S05021936 Emperor Haile Selassie & family flee Abyssinia
S05021938 Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder (Our Town)
S05021939 Lou Gehrig ends 2,130 consecutive game streak, Yanks beat Tigers 22-2
S05021941 Ted Williams lowest average (.308) in year he hit over .400
S05021944 WABD (WNEW, now WNYW) TV channel 5 in NYC (DUM/MET/FOX) 1st broadcast
S05021945 Germany Army in Italy surrenders
S05021945 Russia takes Berlin; General Weidling surrenders
S05021946 Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die
S05021949 Bolivian state of siege proclaimed
S05021949 Pulitzer prize awarded to Arthur Miller (Death of a salesman)
S05021950 Dutch 1st Chamber accept Laws on immigration
S05021950 Dutch PM Malan recognizes South-Africa but not China PR
S05021952 1st commercial jet plane, BOAC Comet
S05021952 Operations begin at United Suriname Workers of Netherland
S05021953 Dark Star, noses out Native Dancer to win Kentucky Derby
S05021953 Feisal II intalled as king of Iraq
S05021953 Hussein I intalled as king of Jordan
S05021954 Stan Musial hits 5 HRs in a doubleheader
S05021955 India poses discrimination "onaanraakbaren" punishable
S05021955 Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams for (Cat on Hot Tin Roof)
S05021955 WGBH TV channel 2 in Boston, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting
S05021956 US Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus
S05021956 US Methodist church disallows race separation
S05021960 Pulitzer prize awarded to Al Drury (Advice & Consent)
S05021962 OAS strikes in Algeria
S05021962 WMHT TV channel 17 in Schenectady-Alby-Tro, NY (PBS) 1st broadcast
S05021964 Beatles' "Beatles' 2nd Album" goes #1 & stays #1 for for 5 weeks
S05021964 Northern Dancer wins Kentucky Derby
S05021965 Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service
S05021966 Pulitzer prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger Jr (Thousand Days)
S05021967 Tor Maple Leafs beat Mont Canadiens 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
S05021968 Boston beats Los Angeles, 4 games to 2, for NBA championship
S05021968 Gold reaches then record high ($39.35 per ounce) in London
S05021968 Israelli television begins transmitting
S05021970 1st woman jockey at Kentucky Derby (Diane Crump)
S05021970 KOAI (now KNAZ) TV channel 2 in Flagstaff, AZ (NBC) 1st broadcast
S05021972 Electrical fire in Sunshine Silver mine. 126 die (Kellogg Idaho)
S05021973 A R Klemola discovers asteroid #2014 Vasilevskis
S05021974 Former VP Spiro Agnew disbarred
S05021975 Apple records closes down
S05021976 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2269 Efremiana, #2476 Andersen &
S05021976C#2625 Jack London
S05021978 Portland Trail Blazers win their only NBA championship, in 4 games
S05021979 "Quadrophenia" premieres in London
S05021979 Vivekananda (Sri Lanka) begins nonstop ride, cycling 187 hrs,
S05021979C28 min., around Vihara Maha Devi Park, Columbia, Sri Lanka
S05021980 Joseph Doherty & 3 other IRA men arrested for murder
S05021981 Radio Shack re-releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 with 2 fixes
S05021982 Argentina cruiser Belgrano off Falkland Islands sinks; about 300 die
S05021983 6.7 earthquake injures 487 in Coalinga Calif
S05021984 Mattingly's single breaks up Lamarr Hoyt's perfect game bid
S05021986 Transportation Expo 86 opens in Vancouver, BC
S05021987 Chris Mccarron on Alysheba wins 113rd Kentucky Derby (2:03.4)
S05021988 Balt Orioles sign a 15 year lease to remain in Balt & get a new park
S05021988 Jackson Pollock's "Search" sold for $4,800,000
S05021990 South Africa & African National Congress open talks to end apartheid
S05021991 Pope John Paul II's encyclical on Centesimus annus
S05021992 Lil E Tees (17-1 shot) wins 118th Kentucky Derby
S05031342 Count Hartmann II becomes ruler of Vaduz (Liechtenstein)
S05031382 Battle on Beverhoutsfield near Brugge
S05031455 Jews flee Spain
S05031494 Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica
S05031494 Jamaica discovered by Columbus; he names it "St Iago"
S05031512 5th Lateran Council (18th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
S05031654 Bridge at Rowley Mass begins charging tolls for animals
S05031661 Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen
S05031662 Royal charter granted Connecticut
S05031678 French conquering fleet at Curaçao, 1200 die
S05031715 Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads"
S05031765 1st US medical college opens in Philadelphia
S05031802 Washington DC incorporates as a city
S05031808 Goya's "Executions of 3rd of May"
S05031810 Lord Byron swims Hellespont
S05031822 Society for Propagation of Faith starts (Lyon, France)
S05031830 1st regular steam train passenger service starts
S05031845 1st black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to bar (Mass)
S05031845 Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China
S05031846 Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas
S05031851 Most of SF destroyed by fire; 30 die
S05031861 GEN Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan
S05031861 Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers & another 18,000 seamen
S05031863 Battle of Chancellorsville-Beaten Union army withdraws
S05031863 Battle of Fredricksburg, VA (Marye's Heights)
S05031863 Battle of Salem Church, VA
S05031886 M A Maclean elected 1st mayor of Vancouver, BC
S05031888 A Charlois discovers asteroid #277 Elvira
S05031898 Camp Merriman established at Presidio (SF) (see 0517)
S05031901 Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida
S05031906 British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey
S05031919 Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain
S05031919 America's 1st passenger flight (NY-Atlantic City)
S05031921 West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax
S05031922 Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium
S05031922 Salt layer find at Winterswijk
S05031923 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed
S05031926 British general strike-3 million workers support miners
S05031926 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith)
S05031926 US marines land in Nicaragua (9-mo after leaving), stay until 1933
S05031929 Prussia bans anti-fascists
S05031932 24 tourists begin 1st air-charter holiday (London-Basle, Switz)
S05031933 1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of US Mint takes office
S05031935 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1356 Nyanza & #1638 Ruanda
S05031936 French People's Front wins elections
S05031936 NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits
S05031937 Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitizer Prize for "Gone With the Wind"
S05031938 Concentration camp at Flossenbürg goes into use
S05031938 Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain
S05031941 Eddie Arcaro on Whirlaway wins 67th Kentucky Derby (2:01.4)
S05031942 Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu & Tanambogo, Solomon Islands
S05031942 Nazi's execute 72 OD'ers in reprisial in Sachsenhausen, Netherlands
S05031942 Nazi's require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star
S05031943 Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth)
S05031943 US Panzer division conquer Mateur Tunisia
S05031944 "Meet Me in St Louis" opens on Broadway
S05031944 Meat rationing ends in US
S05031945 Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg
S05031945 British troop join in Rangoon
S05031946 International military tribunal in Tokyo begins
S05031947 Japan forms a constitutional democracy
S05031948 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener & Tennessee Williams
S05031949 1st firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km
S05031951 Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning
S05031951 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1952 Hesburgh
S05031951 NY Yankee Gil McDougald is 5th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (9th)
S05031952 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole
S05031953 WTVO TV channel 17 in Rockford, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
S05031953 Westchester conf of Amer Library Assoc proclaims "Freedom to Read"
S05031954 KTEN TV channel 10 in Ada-Ardmore, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
S05031954 Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A Lindbergh & John Patrick
S05031954 WHA TV channel 21 in Madison, WI (PBS) begins broadcasting
S05031956 A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000')
S05031958 WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston, he quits
S05031959 Tiger's Charlie Maxwell hits 4 consecutive HRs in a doubleheader
S05031962 Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train
S05031962Cand a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan)
S05031963 Leslie Narum is only Balt Oriole to homer on his 1st at bat
S05031965 1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird Satellite
S05031965 3rd Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 2-1 in 10
S05031965 KTCI TV channel 17 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) 1st broadcast
S05031965 Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era)
S05031966 WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
S05031967 Black students seize finance building at Northwestern U
S05031968 Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio Veronica Intl
S05031969 Unbeaten Majestic Prince wins Kentucky Derby
S05031971 All Things Considered premiers on 112 National Public Radio stations
S05031971 National Public Radio begins programming
S05031971 Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days
S05031971 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun)
S05031973 Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443 m), topped out
S05031973 KC Royals' George Brett gets his 1st major league hit
S05031976 Panama 747SP lands after record flight around world (46:26)
S05031976 Pulitzer prize awarded to Saul Bellow (Humboldt's Gift)
S05031978 "Sun Day" - solar energy events are held in US
S05031979 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher)
S05031980 Genuine Risk becomes 2nd philly to win Kentucky Derby
S05031980 Texas Ranger Ferguson Jenkins becomes 4th to win 100 games in AL & NL
S05031981 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2411 Zellner, #2685 Masursky, #2844 Hess,
S05031981C#2920 Automedon, #3208 Lunn & #3748
S05031982 ABC's All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations)
S05031982 NY Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget
S05031982 Pres Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts
S05031983 Bruins 3-Isles 8-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 3-1 lead
S05031983 US bishops condemn nuclear weapons
S05031984 B A Skiff discovers asteroid #3325
S05031984 L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #3616
S05031985 Date of $5 million check in "View to a Kill"
S05031986 Bill Shoemaker, 54, wins Kentucky Derby
S05031986 NASA launches Goes-G, it failed to achieve orbit
S05031986 NY Yankee Don Mattingly is 6th to hit 3 sacrifice flies in a game
S05031986 Willie Shoemaker on Ferdinand wins 112th Kentucky Derby (2:02.8)
S05031987 Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday & Saturday with Gary Hart
S05031988 4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs Florida
S05031988 Jasper Johns' "Diver" sold for $4,200,000
S05031991 Andy Williams weds Debbie Hass
S05031991C356th & final episode of CBS 2nd longest running series Dallas, 2nd
S05031991Conly to Gunsmoke
S05031992 Beverly Hills 90210 Gabrielle Carteris marries Charles Isaacs
S05031992 George Murphy, (Sen-R-Calif)/actor, dies at 89
S05031992 NY Met Eddie Murray is 24th to hit 400 HRS
S05031992 Ohio Glory wins 1st WLAF game (after 6 loses), beat Frankfurt 20-17
S05041471 Battle of Tewkesbury - King Edward IV vs Ex-queen Margaretha
S05041493 Spanish Pope Alexander VI divides America between Spain & Portugal
S05041626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth & buttons
S05041626 Peter Minuit becomes director-general of New Netherlands
S05041715 French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris)
S05041776 Rhode Island declares independence from England
S05041780 American Academy of Arts & Science founded
S05041783 Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus
S05041805 Henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in Bronx
S05041814 Bourbon reign restored in France
S05041846 US state Michigan ends death penalty
S05041851 1st major SF fire
S05041858 War of Reform (México); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz
S05041861 At Gretna LA, one of 1st guns of Rebel navy is cast
S05041862 Yorktown, VA - McClellan halted his troop before town as
S05041862Cit was full of armed torpedoes left by CS Brig general Gabrial Rains
S05041863 Battle of Chancellorsville-action at Salem Church
S05041863 End of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws
S05041864 Ulysses S Grant crosses Rapidan & begins his duel with Robert E Lee
S05041865 Battle of Citronville, AL; Richard Taylor surrenders
S05041865 Battle of Mobile, AL
S05041866 Woodward's Gardens opens to public
S05041871 1st baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players),
S05041871C(Ft Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double
S05041878 Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House
S05041886 Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen
S05041886 R Luther discovers asteroid #258 Tyche
S05041896 A Charlois discovers asteroid #416 Vaticana
S05041896 Grease fire ignites ½ ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek Colorado
S05041897 Fire in Paris bazaar at Rue Jean Goujon kills 200
S05041910 Tel Aviv founded
S05041912 Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes
S05041916 At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare
S05041917 Arabs sack Tel Aviv
S05041918 Yankees set record with 8 sacrifices, beat Red Sox's Babe Ruth 5-4
S05041919 1st legal Sunday baseball game in NYC (Phillies beat Giants 4-3)
S05041919 Student revolt at Tian An Men Square, Peking
S05041922 KNX-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions
S05041923 Bloody street battles between nazi's, socialist & police in Vienna
S05041923 NY state revokes Prohibition law
S05041924 8th modern Olympic games opens in Paris
S05041924 German Republic election fascists & communists win
S05041925 League of Nations conference on arms control & poison gas usage
S05041926 General strike hits Britain
S05041927 1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Ill)
S05041927 Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences forms
S05041927 Nicaragua agrees to a US supervised presidential election in 1928
S05041929 Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive HRs, Yankees 11, Tigers 9
S05041931 Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish president
S05041932 Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiary
S05041933 Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador)
S05041935 Willis Saunders on Omaha wins 61st Kentucky Derby
S05041936 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harold L Davis (Honey in the Horn)
S05041938 Douglas Hyde (a protestant) becomes 1st president of Eire
S05041940 21 NSB'ers (fascist & communist) arrested in Netherlands
S05041940 Gallahadion (35-1 longshot) wins Kentucky Derby
S05041942 Battle of Coral Sea begins
S05041942 Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air)
S05041942 Food 1st rationed in US
S05041942 Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life)
S05041945 German troops in Netherland, Denmark & Norway surrender
S05041946 5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz pirison in SF bay
S05041946 Warren Mehrtens on Assault wins 72nd Kentucky Derby (2:06.6)
S05041948 The Hague Court of Justice convicts Hans Rauter to the death
S05041949 Air crash at Turijn (whole Torino-soccer team survives)
S05041953 Pulitzer prize awarded to E Hemingway (Old Man & The Sea)
S05041956 Queen Juliana unveals National Monument to Dams in Amsterdam
S05041957 Bill Shoemaker misjudges finish & loses Derby to Iron Liege
S05041958 Alberto Lleras Camargo chosen president of Colombia
S05041959 Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (JB)
S05041960 1st great Delta dam closes, North-South Beveland
S05041961 13 Freedom riders began bus trip through South
S05041961 1st on-the-road Spacemobile lecture given.
S05041961 CORE begins freedom rides from Washington, DC
S05041961 Malcolm Ross & Victor Prather reach 34,668 m (record) in balloon
S05041961 US balloon reaches 34,595m altitude
S05041963 Pitcher Bob Shaw sets record of 5 balks in a game
S05041964 "Another World" & "As the World Turns" premieres on TV
S05041964 70 GATT-countries confere in Geneva
S05041964 KIII TV channel 3 in Corpus Christi, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
S05041964 Pulitzer prize awarded to Richard Hofstadter (Anti-intellectualism)
S05041965 Willie Mays 512th HR breaks Mel Ott's 511th NL record
S05041967 Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by US; begins orbiting Moon May 7
S05041968 Dancer's Image wins 94th Kentucky Derby, but disqualified for drugs
S05041968 Pitts Pipers beat NO Buccaneers in 1st ABA championship, 4 games to 2
S05041969 Montreal Canadiens sweep St Louis Blues for Stanley Cup
S05041970 National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio
S05041970 Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi's Truth)
S05041973 1st TV network female nudity-Steambath (PBS)-Valerie Perrine
S05041973 Longest game in Veterans' Stadium, Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20
S05041973 Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20 innings
S05041973 Wings release "Red Rose Speedway" in UK
S05041974 Cannonade wins Kentucky Derby
S05041975 Flyers 1-Isles 0-Semis-Flyers hold 3-0 lead-Isles held to 14 shots
S05041976 Kiss performs their 1st concert
S05041979 Jackie Mercer wins her 4th golf title 31 years after her 1st
S05041979 Margaret Thatcher elected prime minister of England
S05041979 NASA launches Fltsatcom-2
S05041981 Rockline premiers on KLOS FM in Los Angeles
S05041981 T Furuta discovers asteroid #2478 Tokai
S05041981 Yankee Ron Davis strikes out 8 consecutive Angels, ran record of 13
S05041981Cstrikeouts of last 14 faced, also saved Gene Nelsons 1st win, 4-2
S05041982 Nordiques 2-Isles 4-Semifinals-Isles win series 4-0
S05041984 Dave Kingman's fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling)
S05041985 Spend a Buck wins Kentucky Derby
S05041989 Junior Felix of Toronto becomes 53rd to hit HR on 1st at bat
S05041989 US launches Magellan to Venus
S05041989 US space shuttle STS-30 launched
S05041990 Angela Bowie reveals that ex husband David slept with Mick Jagger
S05041990 Latvia's parliment votes 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence
S05041990 Oriole Gregg Olson sets relief pitcher rec of 41 cons scoreless inns
S05041991 Actress Sharon Gless & producer Barney Rosenzeig wed
S05041991 Morris K Udall, (Rep-D-Ariz), resigns due to Parkinson disease
S05041991 Pres Bush is hospitalized for erratic heartbeat
S05041991 Strike the Gold wins 117th Kentucky Derby
S05041993 Space probe Galileo enter asteroid belt
S0505 553 2nd Council of Constantinople (5th ecumenical council) opens
S05051382 Battle of Beverhoutsveld - population beats drunken army
S05051430 Jews are expelled from Speyer Germany
S05051494Christopher Columbus 1st sights Jamaica on his 2nd voyage
S05051646 King Charles I surrenders at Scotland
S05051749 Pope Benedict XIV proclaims 1750 a Year" [?]
S05051780 2nd oldest learned society in US (American Academy of Arts &
S05051780CSciences) forms (Boston)
S05051789 French king Louis XVI calls for Etats-Généraux
S05051797 Napoleon I's sister Elisa marries Felix Bacciochi
S05051809 Citzenship is denied to Jews of Canton of Aargau Switzerland
S05051814 British attack Ft Ontario, Oswego, NY
S05051816 American Bible Society organized (NY)
S05051842 City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours (Hamburg Germany)
S05051847 American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)
S05051853 R Luther discovers asteroid #26 Proserpina
S05051861 Alexandria, VA - CS troops abandon city
S05051861 H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #70 Panopaea
S05051862 French army intervenes in Puebla, Mexico: Cinco de Mayo
S05051862 Peninsular Campaign-Battle of Williamsburg, VA
S05051863 Battle of Tupelo, MS
S05051863 Joe Coburn KOs Mike McCoole for US boxing title in 63rd round
S05051864 Atlanta Campaign-5 days fighting begins at Rocky Face Ridge
S05051864 Battle of Wilderness, VA (Germanna Ford, Wilderness Tavern)
S05051864 Campaign in Northern Georgia - Chattanooga GA to Atlanta GA
S05051865 1st US train robbery (North Bend Ohio)
S05051867 Battle of Puebla; Méxicans defeat Maximilian's forces (Cinco de Mayo)
S05051891 Carnegie Hall opens in NYC with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor
S05051893 Great crash on NY Stock Exchange
S05051904 Cy Young of Boston pitches perfect game against Philadelphia (3-0)
S05051905 "Chicago Defender," begins publishing
S05051905 Robert S Abbott published 1st issue of newspaper "Chicago Defender"
S05051907 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #638 Moira
S05051908 Great White Fleet arrives in SF
S05051912 1st legal publication of "Pravda"
S05051912 5th modern Olympic games opens in Stockholm
S05051912 Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4/22 OS)
S05051916 US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924
S05051917 St Louis Brown Ernie Koob no-hits Chic White Sox, 1-0
S05051920 German-Latvian peaces treaty signed
S05051920 Polish troops occupy Kiev
S05051920 US pres Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal
S05051921 Minature newspaper published (Brighton Gazette 10 x 13 cm)
S05051922 Construction on Yankee Stadium (Bronx) begins
S05051924 Unions terminate Twentse textile strike
S05051925 John T Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee
S05051925 Ty Cobb goes 6 for 6, (16 total bases)
S05051926 Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith"
S05051930 1st woman to fly solo from Engl to Australia takes-off (Amy Johnson)
S05051932 Japan & China sign a peace treaty
S05051935 H Van Gent discovers asteroid #1693 Hertzsprung
S05051935 Jessie Owens of US, sets then long jump record at 26' 8¼"
S05051936 Italians troops conquer Addis Ababa
S05051939 Flash floods kill 75 in Northeast Kentucky
S05051940 Norwegian govt in exile forms in London
S05051941 Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa
S05051941 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night)
S05051942 US begins rationing sugar during WW II
S05051944 Gandhi freed from prison
S05051945 Mauthausen Concentration camp liberated
S05051945 Netherlands & Denmark liberated from Nazi control
S05051947 Mississippi Valley flooding kills 16 & causes $850M in damage
S05051947 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men)
S05051948 1st air squadron of jets aboard a carrier
S05051948 Belgian cabinet-Spoke resigns
S05051949 Council of Europe established
S05051949 KGO TV channel 7 in San Francisco, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
S05051950 Phumiphon Abundet crowned as king Rama IX of Thailand
S05051952 Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk (Caine Mutiny)
S05051952 Ron Necciai of Pitts Pirate's Bristol Twins Class D farm team, strikes
S05051952Cout 27, as he no-hits Welch Minors, 4 Minors do reach base
S05051954 Military coup by general Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay
S05051955 Broadway musical "Damn Yankees" opens
S05051955 West Germany granted full sovereignty by 3 occupying powers
S05051956 Jim Bailey (US) runs mile a record 3:58.6 in LA Calif
S05051956 World championships of judo are 1st held, in Tokyo
S05051957 Adolf Schärf elected president of Austria
S05051958 KNME TV channel 5 in Albuquerque, NM (PBS) begins broadcasting
S05051958 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for (Death in the Family)
S05051961 Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7)
S05051962 LA Angel Bo Belinsky no-hits Balt Orioles, 2-0
S05051962 West Side Story soundtrack album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 54 weeks
S05051962Cwhich is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album
S05051964 Separatists riot in Quebec
S05051965 1st large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam
S05051966 Mont Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
S05051969 Boston beats Los Angeles, 4 games to 3, for NBA championship
S05051969 Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night)
S05051971 Race riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn (NYC)
S05051972 Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily; killing 115
S05051973 Ron Turcotte on Secretariat wins Kentucky Derby (1:59.4, record)
S05051975 Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Shaara (Killer Angels)
S05051976 Train crash at Schiedam, kills 24
S05051978 Cin Red Pete Rose becomes 14th player to get 3,000 hits
S05051979 Masterpiece Radio Theater begins broadcasting
S05051979 Voyager 1 passes Jupiter
S05051981 16th & final Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-1, hold 8-7-1 edge
S05051981 E Bowell discovers asteroids #2659 Millis & #3023 Heard
S05051981C#3107 Weaver, #3375 Amy & #3689 Yeates
S05051981CC Shoemaker discovers asteroids #2686 Linda Susan, #2748 Patrick Gene,
S05051983 Bruins 5-Isles 1-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 3-2 lead
S05051987 Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings
S05051987 Detroit Tigers are 11 games back in AL, but go on to win AL East
S05051988 Eugene A Marino intalled as 1st black US archbishop
S05051989 Mike Tyson gets 2nd speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany NY
S05051990 Paul Hogan & Linda Koslowski wed in Byron Bay, Eastern Australia
S05051990 Unbridled beats 2 favorites in 116th Kentucky Derby
S05051992 Country singer Tammy Wynette hospitalized with bile duct infection
S05052000 conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn & Moon
S05061527 Spanish & German Imperial troops sack Rome; ending Renaissance
S05061536 King Henry VIII, orders bible be placed in every church
S05061753 French King Louis XV observes transit of Mercury at Mendon Castle
S05061787 1st Black Masonic Lodge forms Prince Hall, Boston
S05061787 African Lodge # 459 organizes in Boston
S05061794 Haiti, under Toussaint L'Ouverture, revolts against France
S05061804 Suriname sold to English (util Feb, 1816)
S05061833 John Deere makes 1st steel plow
S05061840 1st postage stamps (Penny Black) issued (Great Britain)
S05061851 Dr John Gorrie patents a "refrigeration machine"
S05061851 SF Chamber of Commerce starts
S05061853 1st major US rail disaster kills 46 (Norwalk, Connecticut)
S05061853 Train falls off bridge in S Norwalk Ct; 46 drown
S05061860 SF Olympic Club, 1st US athletic club founded
S05061861 Arkansas & Tennessee becomes 9th & 10th state to secede from US
S05061861 Jefferson Davis approves a bill declaring War between US & Confederacy
S05061864 Battle of Port Walthall Junction, VA
S05061864 Battle of Wilderness-Gen Longstreet seriously injured
S05061882 Epping Forest England dedicated by Queen Victoria
S05061882 US Congress ceases Chinese immigration
S05061889 Eiffel Tower in Paris, completed
S05061889 Universal Exposition opens in Paris
S05061890 Mormon Church renounces polygamy [1006-Truth Restored (Morman pub)]
S05061891 Conductors on London General Omnibus Company go on strike
S05061896 M Wolf discovers asteroid #417 Suevia
S05061902 British SS Camorta sinks off Rangoon; 739 die
S05061902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place" (BG)
S05061903 Chicago White Sox commit 12 errors against Detroit Tigers
S05061906 "Temporary" permit to erect overhead wires on Market St SF
S05061910 King George V ascends to British throne
S05061913 King Nikita I of Montenegro vacates Skoetari, North-Albania
S05061914 British house of lords rejects women suffrage
S05061915 Allies attack Cape Helles, Hellespont
S05061915 Red Sox Babe Ruth pitching debut & 1st HR, loses to Yanks 4-3 in 15
S05061916 Belgian troop march into Kigali, German East-Africa
S05061917 St Louis Brown Bob Groom no-hits Chic White Sox, 3-0
S05061921 American Soccer League formed
S05061929 NY to SF footrace begins
S05061933 Italy & USSR sign trade agreement
S05061935 KTM-AM in Los Angeles Calif changes call letters to KEHE (now KABC)
S05061935 Pulitzer prize awarded to Audrey Wurdemann (Bright Ambush)
S05061937 Dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, NJ (36 die)
S05061940 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath)
S05061941 Josef Stalin becomes leader of USSR
S05061942 Corregidor & Philippines surrenders to Japanese Armies
S05061943 British 1st army opens assault on Tunis
S05061944 KJR-AM in Seattle Wash swaps calls with KOMO
S05061945 Gen J Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherland
S05061946 Pulitzer prize awarded to Arthur M Schlesinger (Age of Jackson)"
S05061950 Liz Taylor's 1st marriage (Conrad Hilton Jr)
S05061951 Pitts Pirate Cliff Chambers no-hits Boston Brave, 3-0
S05061953 Brown's Bobo Holloman 1st major league start, no-hits Phila A's, 6-0
S05061954 Roger Bannister breaks 4 minute mile (3:59:4)
S05061955 West Germany joins NATO
S05061956 WRCB TV channel 3 in Chattanooga, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting
S05061957 Italian cabinet of Segni resigns
S05061957 Pulitzer prize awarded to John F Kennedy (Profiles in Courage)
S05061960 Pres Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960
S05061960 Princess Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones
S05061960 Students attack Dutch embassy in Djakarta
S05061960 Trotsky's murderer Jacques Mornard (Ramón Mercader), flees
S05061962 1st nuclear warhead fired from Polaris submarine (Ethan Allen)
S05061962 Antonio Segni elected president of Italy
S05061963 Pulitzer prize awarded to Barbara Tuchman (Guns of August)
S05061964 D McLeish discovers asteroid #2854
S05061966 Most runs scored in 11th inning (9) Phils score 5 to beat Pirates 8-7
S05061967 400 students seize administration building at Cheyney State College
S05061967 C U Cesco & A R Klemol discovers asteroids #1829 Dawson,
S05061967C#1991 Darwin, #2308 Schilt & #2504 Gaviola
S05061968 Battle between students & troops in Paris, 1000 injured
S05061968 Spain closes border to Gibralter except to Spaniards
S05061970 Yuchiro Miura of Japan skies down Mt Everest
S05061973 1st WHA championshiphip, Winnipeg Jets win 4 games to 1
S05061974 Bundy victim Roberta Parks disappears from OSU, Corvallis, Ore
S05061974 Smallest attendance at Phila's Veterans Stadium (4,149)
S05061974 Stolen "Guitar Player" painting by Jan Vermeer found in London
S05061975 Bundy victim Lynette Culver disappears from Pocatello, Idaho
S05061975 Early warnings provided by REACT (ham radio operators) means only
S05061975C3 people die in tornado that strikes Omaha, Nebraska
S05061977 "Beatles at Hollywood Bowl," released in UK
S05061978 Steve Cauthen & Affirmed wins Kentucky Derby en route to Triple Crown
S05061979 Fred Markham set a bicycle speed record of 818 kph over 200 m
S05061981 C Shoemaker discovers asteroids #2742 Gibson, #2773 & #2982 Muriel
S05061982 Seattle Mariner Gaylord Perry becomes 15th pitcher to win 300 games
S05061984 Balt Oriole Cal Ripken Jr hits for cycle
S05061985 17th Space Shuttle Mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 lands at Edwards AFB
S05061986 Donald E Pelotte becomes 1st native American bishop
S05061987 Gary Hart denies affair with model Donna Rice
S05061987 Mario Andretti sets one-lap speed record at Indy at 218.204 MPH
S05061987 PTL's Jim Bakker & Rich Dortch dismissed from Assemblies of God
S05061989 Sunday Silence wins upset victory at Kentucky Derby
S05061990 Tom Cruise is ticketed for careless operation of a vehicle in SC
S05061991 Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) lands
S05061992 NY Met Anthony Young begins losing streak of at least 26 games
S05062012 Transit of Venus
S05071274 2nd Council of Lyons (14th ecumenical council) opens
S05071416 Monk Nicolaas Serrurier arrested because of heresy
S05071429 English siege of Orléans broken by Joan of Arc
S05071700 William Penn began monthly meetings for Blacks advocating emancipation
S05071727 Jews are expelled from Ukraine by Empress Catherine I of Russia
S05071771 Samuel Hearne explores Copper Mine River of Canada
S05071789 1st inaugurational ball (NYC)
S05071792 Capt Robert Gray discovers Grays Harbor (Washington)
S05071800 Indiana Territory organized
S05071824 Beethoven's 9th (Chorale) Symphony performed for 1st time
S05071840 Tornado strikes Natchez Miss, kills 317
S05071847 American Medical Association organizes (Phila)
S05071848 Prussians stop insurrection in Varsovia
S05071856 Argentinian & Brazilian sign a navigation pact
S05071861 Riot occurs between prosecessionist & Union supporters in Knoxville TN
S05071862 Battle of West Point, VA (Eltham's Landing, Barnhamsville)
S05071864 Battle of Wilderness ends (total losses: USA-17,666; CSA-7,500)
S05071867 Blacks stage ride-in to protest segregation in New Orleans
S05071873 US marines attack Panama
S05071877 Cin Enquirer, 1st uses term "Bullpen" to indicate foul territory
S05071885 John E W Thompson, named minister to Haiti
S05071888 Opera "Le Roi D'ys" is produced (Paris)
S05071902 L Carnera discovers asteroid #485 Genua
S05071902 Soufriere volcano on St Vincent kills 2-5,000
S05071904 Flexible Flyer trademark registered
S05071904 R S Dugan discovers asteroid #535 Montague
S05071913 British House of Commons rejects women's suffrage
S05071914 US Congress establishes mother's day
S05071914 Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor marries in White House
S05071915 Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1198 lives lost
S05071920 USSR recognizes independence of Georgia
S05071922 Belgian soccer team defeats Netherlands: 1-2
S05071922 NY Giant Jesse Barnes no-hits Phillies, 2-0
S05071923 Mine strike at Belgian Borinage railroad
S05071924 Peruvian Torre forms APRA, Alianza Popular Revolutionaria Americana
S05071925 Phillies have their 8th game postponed in a row
S05071925 Pirate shortstop Glenn Wright makes an unassisted triple play
S05071927 SF Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated
S05071928 England lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21
S05071928 Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for (Bridge of San Luis Rey)
S05071929 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1146 Biarmia
S05071932 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1243 Pamela & #1321 Majuba
S05071934 Part of Khabarovsk becomes a Jewish Autnomous Region
S05071934 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley (One in White)
S05071934 World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines
S05071939 Germany & Italy announce their alliance (Rome-Berlin Axis)
S05071940 Winston Churchill becomes PM of Britain
S05071941 British House of Commons votes for Churchill (477-3)
S05071941 Cornerstone of B of A building at 300 Montgomery laid
S05071941 Glenn Miller records "Chattanooga Choo Choo" for RCA
S05071942 Battle in Coral Sea-Japanese expansion ends
S05071942 Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion
S05071942 Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed
S05071943 British troop occupy Tunis
S05071943 Dutch men 18-35 obliged to report to labor camps
S05071943 Liberty Ship George Washington Carver, named after scientist, launched
S05071945 Germany signs unconditional surrender; WW II ends in Europe
S05071945 Mauthausen Concentration Camp liberated
S05071945 Nazi Generals Jodl & Von Friedenburg surrender
S05071945 Nazi generals Jodl & Von Friedenburg surrender
S05071945 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Hersey (Bell for Adano)
S05071945 SS open fire on crowd in Amsterdam, killing 22
S05071946 William H Hastie inaugurated as 1st black governor of Virgin Islands
S05071947 "Kraft Television Theater" premiers on NBC
S05071947 General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution
S05071947 Paraguayian govt unleashes contra revolt
S05071951 Pulitzer prize awarded to Conrad Richter (The Town)
S05071953 Record 537-kg swordfish was caught by LE Marron, in Chile
S05071954 French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu
S05071954 US, Great-Britain & France reject Russian membership in NATO
S05071955 Bill Shoemaker aboard Swaps, beats Eddie Arcaro on Nashua in Derby
S05071955 USSR signs peace treaty with France & Great-Britain
S05071955 West Europe Union established
S05071956 Battle at Oran, Algeria, kills 300
S05071956 Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
S05071957 Herb Score hit in face by Gil McDougald's line drive
S05071957 Maj Johnson, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to 17.28 miles (27.8 K)
S05071958 Howard Johnson sets aircraft altitude record in F-104, 27,810 m
S05071959 "Roy Campanella Night" Largest baseball crowd (93,103 in LA Coliseum)
S05071959Csees Dodgers' Sandy Koufax beat Yankees 6-2 in exhibition
S05071960 Leonid Brezhnev becomes president of USSR
S05071960 Michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12½-8½ for world chess championship
S05071962 Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960)
S05071963 SETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km))
S05071965 WAOW TV channel 9 in Wausau, WI (ABC) begins broadcasting
S05071966 Mamas & Papas "Monday Monday" hits #1
S05071966 Yankees fire manager Johnny Keene
S05071969 Oakland Oaks beat Indiana Pacers in 2nd ABA championship, 4 games to 1
S05071972 Lakers beat Knicks for NBA championship, 4 games to 1
S05071973 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter)
S05071974 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin)
S05071975 Flyers 3-Isles 4 (OT)-Semifinals-Flyers hold 3-1 lead
S05071975 Pres Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era"
S05071975 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays
S05071977 Jean Cruguet on Seattle Slew wins 103rd Kentucky Derby (2:02.2)
S05071979 Gary Roenicke hits into Orioles 13th triple play (Oakland)
S05071982 Federal jury rules NFL violates antitrust laws in preventing
S05071982 IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1
S05071982 Oakland Raiders to move to LA
S05071983 August Hoffman perform record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups
S05071983 Bruins 4-Isles 8-Wales Conf Championship-Isles win series 4-2
S05071984 $180m out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit
S05071987 105° F, Sacramento, CA
S05071987 Diane Chambers' (Shelley Long) final episode on Cheers
S05071988 Winning Colors becomes 3rd filly to win Kentucky Derby
S05071989 Mark Merrony (Wales) cycles for 30 mins in Nepal at 21,030 feet
S05071989 Panamanian voters reject dictator Manuel Noriega's bid for presidency
S05071992 5 NYC cops arrested in Hauppauge Long Island for selling cocaine
S05071992 Jockey Angel Cordero retires after winning over 7,000 horse races
S05071992 US space shuttle STS-49 launched (maiden voyage of Endeavour)
S0508 535 John II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
S0508 615 St Boniface IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
S0508 685 St Benedict II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
S05081360 Treaty of Brétigny signed by English & French
S05081450 Jack Cade's Rebellion-Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI
S05081541 Hernando de Soto discovers Mississippi River
S05081721 Michelangiolo dei Conti replaces Pope Clement XI, as Innocent XIII
S05081784 Only known deaths by hailstones in US (Winnsborough SC)
S05081792 British Capt George Vancouver sights, names Mt Rainier, Wash
S05081794 US Post Office established
S05081823 "Home Sweet Home" 1st sung (London)
S05081842 Versailles to Paris train catches fire; 50 die
S05081846 1st major battle of Méxican War fought at Palo Alto Texas
S05081858 John Brown holds antislavery convention
S05081862 Valley Campaign: Federals repulsed at Battle of McDowell Va
S05081863 Confederación Granadina becomes Estados Unidos de Colombia
S05081864 Atlanta Campaign: Sever fighting near Dalton
S05081864 Battle of Antietam, VA (Spotslyvania Court House, Laurel Hill)
S05081864 Initial fighting at Spotslyvania Court House
S05081866 Australian Rules Football is created
S05081878 1st unassisted triple play in organized baseball, by Paul Hines
S05081878 Paul Hines made baseball's unassisted 1st triple play
S05081885 Sarah Ann Henley survives 76-m jump from Clifton Bridge, Avon, Engl
S05081886 Atlanta pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invents Coca Cola
S05081895 China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki
S05081900 250 grave robbers shot to death
S05081900 Galveston Texas, hit by hurricane; about 6,000 die
S05081902 Mt Pelée erupts, wipes out St Pierre, Martinique, kills 30,000
S05081906 Phila A's pitcher Chief Benders plays outfield & hits 2 HRs
S05081907 Boston's Big Jeff Pfeffer no-hits Cin Reds, 6-0
S05081907 Heavyweight Tommy Burns KOs Jack O'Brien in LA
S05081915 Regret becomes 1st of 3 fillys to win Kentucky Derby
S05081919 1st transatlantic flight take-off by a navy seaplane
S05081924 Memel territories given to Lithuania
S05081924 Workers at Werkspoor in Amsterdam strike against 3rd wage cut
S05081925 French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco
S05081926 1st flight over North Pole (Bennett & Byrd)
S05081926 Fire breaks out in Fenway Park
S05081929 Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway
S05081929 NY Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pirates, 11-0
S05081935 Cin Red Ernie Lombardi doubles in 6th, 7th, 8th & 9th beat Phils 15-4
S05081936 Jockey Ralph Neves unexpectedly revived after being declared dead
S05081936Cafter a fall. His wife fainted when he returned to track
S05081937 War Admiral wins 63rd Kentucky Derby on his way to Triple Crown
S05081941 German Q-ship Pinguin sinks in Indian Ocean
S05081942 Aircraft carrier Lexington sunks by Japanese air attack at Coral Sea
S05081943 Johnny Longden on Count Fleet wins 68th Preakness Stakes (1:57.4)
S05081945 Chinese counter attack at Tsjangte, supports by 14th air fleet
S05081945 Gen Von Keitel surrenders to Marshal Zhukov
S05081945 V-E Day; Germany signs unconditional surrender, WW II ends in Europe
S05081946 Red Sox Johnny Pesky scores 6 runs in 1 game
S05081949 West German constitution approved
S05081950 Chang Kai Shek asks US for weapons
S05081951 Dacron men's suits introduced
S05081953 WIPB TV channel 49 in Muncie, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
S05081954 1st shot-put over 60' (18.29 m)-Parry O'Brien, Los Angeles, CA
S05081958 Pres Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central HS, Little Rock
S05081958 VP Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed & spat upon by protesters in Peru
S05081959 3-deck Nile excursion steamer springs a leak panicking passengers
S05081959Cwho capsized ship. 200 drown just yards from shore
S05081960 USSR & Cuba regain diplomatic relations
S05081961 1st practical sea water conversion plant-Freeport Texas
S05081961 Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington
S05081962 "Funny Thing Happened on Way to the Forum" opens on Broadway
S05081963 "Dr No" premiers in US
S05081963 JFK offers Israel assistance against aggression
S05081965 1st shut put over 70' (Randy Matson 70' 7")
S05081966 Last game at old Busch stadium, St Louis Card lose 10-5 to SF
S05081966 Only HR ever hit out of Baltimore's Memorial Park (Frank Robinson)
S05081967 Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in US Army
S05081968 Jim (Catfish) Hunter of Oakland pitches perfect game vs Twins (4-0)
S05081968 Pulitzer prize awarded to William Styron (Confessions of Nat Turner)
S05081970 Beatles release "Let it Be" album
S05081970 Knicks beat Lakers, 113-99 for their 1st NBA championship
S05081971 Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali at Madison Sq Garden
S05081972 Sabena aircraft at Lod Intl, Tel Aviv, captured by Palestinians
S05081973 Indians holding SD hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrender
S05081974 50 MPH speed limit in Britain lifted
S05081977 David Berkowitz pleads guilty in "Son of Sam" 44-caliber shootings
S05081978 ABC TV airs "Stars Salute Israel at 30"
S05081979 Radio Shack releases TRSDOS 2.3
S05081980 Sabres take only 15 shots, Islanders 22, in a playoff game
S05081981 L Brozek discovers asteroid #3419
S05081981 Ron Davis pitches 10th consecutive strike out, 1 short of record
S05081982 Canucks 5-Isles 6 (OT)-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 1-0 lead
S05081984 Chicago White Sox beat Milw Brewers, 7-6, in 25 inn (completed 5/9)
S05081984 Thames Barrier to stop flooding in London officially completed
S05081984 USSR announces it will not participate in LA Summer Olympics
S05081987 Gary Hart quits democratic presidential race (Donna Rice affair)
S05081988 Mike Tyson crashes his $183,000 Bently on Varick St in NYC
S05081988CAmateur referees work NJ Devil-Boston Bruin playoff games, as NHL
S05081988Creferees walk-off, due to a restraining order brought by Devils
S05081989 Paul McCartney releases "My Brave Face" & "Ferry Cross the Mersey"
S05081989 US space shuttle STS-30 lands
S05081991 CIA director William H Webster resigns
S05091002 After trailing 9-0, St Louis Cards beat Atlanta Braves 12-11
S05091092 Lincoln Cathedral consecrated
S05091336 Italian poet Francesco Petrarca climbs Mont Ventoux
S05091386 Treaty of Windsor between Portugal-England
S05091460 Court yard episcopal palace Atrecht has witch burnings
S05091502 Columbus left Spain on his 4th & final trip to New World
S05091671 Col Thomas Blood attempts to steal Crown Jewels
S05091754 1st newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake "Join or die"
S05091785 Joseph Bramah receives British patent for beer pump handles
S05091837 "Sherrod" burns in Mississipi River below Natchez Miss; 175 dies
S05091846 Battle of Resaca de la Palma-US sends Mexico back to Rio Grande
S05091862 Battle of Farmington, MS
S05091862 Battle of Ft Pickens, FL (Pensacola), evacuated by CS
S05091862 US Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis MD to Newport, RI
S05091864 Battle of Cloyd's Mt, & Swift Creek, VA (Drewery's Bluff, Ft Darling)
S05091864 Battle of Dalton, GA
S05091864 Ship battle at Helgoland, Austria-Denmark
S05091874 Victoria Embankment, in London opens
S05091882 Telegraph Hill RR Co organized
S05091896 1st horseless carriage show in London (featured 10 models)
S05091901 Cleve's Earl Moore no-hits Chic White Sox 9 inn but loses in 10th 4-2
S05091905 M Wolf discovers asteroid #565 Marbachia
S05091905 P Gotz discovers asteroid #564 Dudu
S05091908 Dirk Fock becomes governor of Suriname
S05091911 Fire breaks out at Empire Theater in Edinburgh Scotland
S05091913 17th amendment provides for election of senators by popular vote
S05091914 Pres Wilson proclaims Mother's Day
S05091915 German & French fight Battle of Artois
S05091916 British-France Sykes-Picot meet over division of Turkey
S05091917 R Schorr discovers asteroid #869 Mellena
S05091925 Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem laid
S05091926 Richard Byrd & Floyd Bennett make 1st flight over North Pole
S05091927 Australian Parliament 1st convenes in new capital, Canberra
S05091929 NY Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pitts Pirates
S05091929 WJW-AM in Cleveland Ohio begins radio transmissions
S05091930 Gallant Fox wins 55th Preakness Stakes en route to triple crown
S05091932 Burgoo King wins Preakness Stakes
S05091932 Piccadilly Circus, 1st lit by electricity
S05091932 WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa merges with WHO to become WHO-WOC
S05091933 Spanish anarchists call for general strike
S05091936 1st KLM airplane to land on Bonaire
S05091936 Italy takes Addis Abba, annexing Absynnia (Ethiopia)
S05091937 Reds beat Phillies 21-10 (Ernie Lombardi goes 6 for 6)
S05091941 English Army breaks German spy codes
S05091942 Alsab wins Preakness Stakes
S05091943 Rotschild-Haddassh University Hospital opens
S05091944 1st eye bank opens (NYC)
S05091944 Country singer Jimmie Davis becomes governor of Louisiana
S05091944 Russians recapture Crimea by taking Sevastopol
S05091945 Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (Natl Day)
S05091945 Jersey liberated from nazis
S05091946 1st hour long entertainment TV show, "NBC's Hour Glass" premiers
S05091946 1st variety show on TV "NBC's Hour Glass," premiers
S05091946 King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy abdicates, replaced by Umberto
S05091949 Britain's 1st launderette opens in Queensway London
S05091949 Prince Rainier III becomes leader of Monaco
S05091950 French Foreign min Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS
S05091950 Robert Schuman announces Schuman Plan for European integration
S05091951 Air raid on Chinese positions at Yellow River
S05091955 German Federal Republic joins NATO
S05091958 Botvinnik recaptures world chess championship
S05091960 Nigeria becomes a member of British Commonwealth
S05091960 US send U-2 over USSR
S05091961 Balt Oriole Jim Gentile hits 2 grand slams (9 RBIs) vs Minn Twins
S05091961 FCC Chairman Newton N Minow criticizes TV as a "vast wasteland"
S05091962 Beatles sign their 1st contract with EMI Pstlophone
S05091962 Laser beam successfully bounced off Moon for 1st time
S05091964 Khrushchev visits Egypt
S05091964 Peter & Gordon release "World Without Love"
S05091965 Beatles attend a Bob Dylan concert
S05091965 Luna 5 launched (USSR) 1st attempt to soft land on Moon. (fails)
S05091967 1st flight of Fokker F-28 Fellowship
S05091970 100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War
S05091971 Friends of Earth return 1500 non-returnable bottles to Schweppes
S05091971 Largest walk in crowd (31,626) in Balt Oriole history
S05091972 T Smirnova discovers asteroids #1903 Adzhimushkaj & #1904 Massevitch
S05091973 For 2nd time, Johnny Bench hits 3 HRs in a game
S05091974 House Judiciary Committee begin formal hearings on Nixon impeachment
S05091975 Brian Oldfield shot puts 22.86 m (world record)
S05091975?Flyers 1-Isles 5-Semifinals-Flyers hold 3-2 lead
S05091977 Mabel Murphy Smythe confirmed as ambassador to Rep of Cameroon
S05091977 Patty Hearst let out of jail
S05091978 Fee Waybill of Tubes breaks a leg falling off stage
S05091980 35 motorists die as a Liberian freighter rams a Tampa Bay Bridge
S05091981 Kazimiroff Blvd in Bronx named for a Bronx historian
S05091983 S Sei discovers asteroid #2909 Hoshi-no-ie
S05091984 Alexander Calder's "Big Crinkly" sells for $852,000
S05091984CChicago White Sox beat Milw Brewers, 7-6, in 25 inn (started 5/8)
S05091984CWhite Sox & Brewers play 8:06, game, longest timed baseball game
S05091987 183 die aboard a Polish jetliner that crashes in Warsaw
S05091987 Actor Tom Cruise (27) & actress Mimi Rogers (33), marry
S05091987 Oriole Eddie Murray is 1st to switch hit HRs in 2 consecutive games
S05091988 Australia's new parliment house is opened by Queen Elizabeth
S05091989 Journalist petition Chinese govt for freedom of press
S05091989 NY Mets Kevin Elster, errors after 88 errorless games at shortstop
S05091990 NY Newsday reporter Jimmy Breslin suspended for a racial slur
S05091991 Italian actress Laura Antonelli found guilty of cocaine possession
S05091991 Michael Landon appears on Tonight Show to talk about his cancer
S05091992 America Cup finals begin in San Diego
S05091992 Final episode of "Golden Girls" airs on NBC-TV
S05091992 Michelle McLean, 19, of Namibia, crowned Miss Universe
S05091993 Landslide in Nambija Ecuador, kills 300
S05101267 Vienna's church orders all Jews to wear a distinctive garb
S05101427 Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland
S05101503 Columbus discovers Cayman Islands
S05101652 John Johnson, a free black granted 550 acres in Northampton Va
S05101655 Jamaica captured by English
S05101676 Bacon's Rebellion, frontiersmen vs Virginia govt begins
S05101774 Louis XVI ascends to throne of France
S05101775 2nd Cont Congress convened in Pa issues paper currency for 1st time
S05101775 Green Mountain Boys capture Ft Ticonderoga NY-American Revolution
S05101787 Parliment impeaches Warren Hastings
S05101796 Napoleon defeats Austria in Battle of Lodi Bridge
S05101857 Indian Mutiny begins with revolt of Sepoys of Meerut
S05101857 Sepoy-revolt in Meerutkazerne, Delhi
S05101861 Union troops march on state militia in St Louis, MI
S05101862 Battle of Plum Run Bend, TN (Plum Point Bend)
S05101865 Surrender of Sam Jones
S05101865 Union captures Jefferson Davis in Irwinville Ga
S05101869 Golden Spike driven, completes Promontory Pt Ut-Transcontinential RR
S05101870 Jem Mace & defends his heavyweight crown against Irish champ Joe
S05101870CCoburn, it lasts 1 hr & 17 minutes, & neither was struck by a punch
S05101871 German-French peace treaty signed: France loses Elzas
S05101871 Peace of Frankfurt-am-Main concluded between France & Germany
S05101872 Victoria Woodhull becomes 1st woman nominated for US president
S05101876 Centennial Fair opens in Philadelphia
S05101879 Meteor falls near Estherville, Iowa
S05101889 Buddhist wins Preakness
S05101893 Imperial Institute in London opens
S05101905 Agile wins Kentucky Derby
S05101906 Russia's Duma (Parliament) meets for 1st time
S05101908 1st Mother's Day held (Phila)
S05101909 Winchester's Fred Toney no-hits Lexington for 17 inning
S05101910 1st aircraft air display held (Hendon, England)
S05101910 Comet Halley's closest approach to Earth in 1910 pass
S05101913 Long shot Donerail wins Kentucky Derby
S05101913 Yanks commit 8 errors & still beat Tigers 10-9 in 10 innings
S05101915 Zeppelin drops hundred of bombs on Southend-on-Sea
S05101916 Disastrous fire in Ellendale, ND
S05101916 Historic Shipport Museum opens in Amsterdam
S05101917 Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks
S05101918 HMS Vindictive sunk to block entrance of Ostend Harbor
S05101919 Johnny Loftus on Sir Barton wins 45th Kentucky Derby (2:09.8)
S05101919 Race riot in Charleston SC, 2 blacks killed
S05101922 WHB-AM in Kansas City MO begins radio transmissions
S05101924 J Edgar Hoover appointed head of FBI
S05101924 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1044 Teutonia
S05101928 WGY, Schenectady begins regular TV programming
S05101930 1st US planetarium opens (Adler-Chicago)
S05101931 Golf ball size hail falls in Burlington NJ
S05101932 J Hartmann discovers asteroid #1254 Erfordia
S05101932 Senate chairman Albert Lebrun becomes president of France
S05101933 Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF) forms
S05101933 Nazis stage public book burnings in Germany
S05101933 Paraguay declares war on Bolivia
S05101933 Suriname worker's union leader A de Come banish to Netherlands
S05101934 H Van Gent discovers asteroid #1753 Mieke
S05101936 Manuel Azaña becomes president of Spain
S05101936 Nahas Pasja becomes premier of Egypt
S05101937 Busmen strike in London
S05101938 Banning speech on anti-fascism demonstration in Amsterdam
S05101940 British Local Defense Volunteers (Home Guard) forms
S05101940 French marines stationed on Aruba
S05101940 Germany invades Benelux countries
S05101940 Nazi army overthrows eastern Europe
S05101940 Nazi armys attacks Netherland, Belgium & Luxembourg
S05101940 Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British PM
S05101941 Adolph Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland
S05101941 Eddie Arcaro on Whirlaway wins 66th Preakness Stakes (1:58.8)
S05101941 England's House of Commons detroyed in a blitz
S05101941 German Luftwaffe strikes London with fire bombs
S05101941 Holborn Theater in London destroyed
S05101941 Whirlaway wins Preakness Stakes
S05101944 Smith v Allwright (excluding Blacks from primary voting) is illegal
S05101946 Red Sox win 15th straight beat Yanks 5-4, DiMaggio hits Grand Slam
S05101946 Umberto II succeeds Victor Emanuel III as king of Italy
S05101948 1st attack by Egyptian irregular forces at Kfar Darom Israel
S05101950 1st Neth-US telex sent
S05101951 Z Alexander Looby elected to Nashville City Council
S05101953 KCBD TV channel 11 in Lubbock, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
S05101954 Bolshoi-ballet does not appear in Paris
S05101956 French govt sends 50,000 reservists to Algeria
S05101956 KFSN TV channel 30 in Fresno, CA (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
S05101957 1st meeting of legislative of Cameroon
S05101959 Soviet forces arrive in Afghanistan
S05101960 US atomic sub USS Triton completes 1st around world under water trip
S05101960 USS Nautilus completes 1st circumnavigation of globe under water
S05101963 Decca signs Rolling Stones on advice of Beatle George Harrison
S05101967 C U Cesco & A R Klemol discovers asteroid #1770 Schlesinger
S05101967 Keith Richards, Brian Jones & Mick Jagger arrested on drug charges
S05101968 Paris peace talks begin
S05101969 Turtles play White House, Mark Volman falls off stage 5 times
S05101969 US troop begin attack on Heuvel 937/Hamburger Hill
S05101970 Boston Bruins sweep St Louis Blues for Stanley Cup
S05101970 Brave's Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in his 1,000th game, loses to Cards 6-5
S05101971 US special delivery rates go from 45¢ to 60¢
S05101972 Overloaded South Korean bus plunges into resevoir, killing 77
S05101973 9th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 8-4
S05101973 Knicks beat Lakers, 102-93, for NBA championship, 4 games to 1
S05101973 Mont Canadiens beat Chic Black Hawks 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
S05101974 NY Nets beats Utah Stars in 7th ABA championship, 4 games to 1
S05101975 Brian Oldfield of US put shot 75,' an unofficial record
S05101979 Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing
S05101979 John McMullen becomes CEO of Houston Astros
S05101979 Vivekananda (Sri Lanka) completes nonstop cycle ride of 187 hrs, 28
S05101979Cmin, around Vihara Maha Devi Park, Columbia, Sri Lanka
S05101980 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #2811
S05101981 Francois Mitterrand defeats Valery Giscard d'Estang for Pres of France
S05101981 Montreal Expo Charlie Lee no-hits SF Giants, 4-0
S05101982 WABC NYC plays its last record (John Lennon's Imagine)
S05101982CWABC joins ABC's All Talk radio network
S05101983 Lee Chin Yong did 170 continuous chin-ups in Seoul
S05101983 Oilers 0-Isles 2-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 1-0 lead
S05101984 Intl Court of Justice rules on US blockade of Nicaragua
S05101985 Challenger transports back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
S05101986 Tommy Lee drummer of Motley Crüe marries Heather Locklear
S05101988 Edgar Degas' "Danseresje of 14" sold for $10,120,000
S05101990 French TGV-train hits record speed of 510.6 kph
S05101992 Bible Lands Museum opens in Jerusalem Israel
S05101993 Fire in clothing factory at Bangkok, kills 145
S05101993 Last TV appearance of Mies Bouwman
S05101993 Paul Cézannes stilllife sells for $28,600,000 in NYC
S05101993 Premier Lubbers opens Terminal West on Schiphol
S0511 330 Constantinople founded
S05111421 Jews are expelled from Styria Austria
S05111689 Battle of Bantry Bay, French & English naval battle
S05111690 English troops of W Phips conquer Port Royal Nova Scotia
S05111745 Battle of Fontenoy (Doornik): Austrian Succession war
S05111751 1st US hospital founded (Pennsylvannia Hospital)
S05111752 1st US fire insurance policy issued (Philadelphia)
S05111772 Fire in Amsterdam theater on Emperors canal
S05111792 Columbia River discovered & named by US Capt Robert Gray
S05111812 Waltz introduced into English ballrooms. Most observers consider it
S05111812Cdisgusting & immoral. No wonder it caught on!
S05111816 American Bible Society forms (NY)
S05111818 Cincinatti Reds Hod Eller no-hits St Louis Cards, 6-0
S05111833 "Lady-of-the-Lake" strikes iceberg & sinks in N Atlantic; kills 215
S05111850 A De Gasparis discovers asteroid #11 Parthenope
S05111850 Work starts on 1st brick building in SF
S05111858 Minnesota admitted as 32nd US state
S05111862 Confederates scuttle CSS Virginia off Norfolk, VA
S05111864 Battle of Yellow Tavern, VA (Sheridan's Raid, South Anna Bridge)
S05111864 Gen J.E.B. Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern
S05111865 Surrender of Jeff Thompson
S05111883 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #233 Asterope
S05111894 American RR Union strikes Pullman Sleeping Car Co
S05111897 Wash Senator catcher Charlie Farrell throws out 8 attempted stealers
S05111900 Heavyweight James J Jeffries KOs James J Corbett at Coney Island NY
S05111902 L Carnera discovers asteroid #486 Cremona
S05111904 Andrew Carnegie donates $1.5M to build a peace palace
S05111904 G H Peters discovers asteroid #536 Merapi
S05111904 US Andrew Carnegie gives away $1,500,000 to build Peace Palace
S05111907 Bank of SF incorporated
S05111910 Glacier National Park established
S05111916 Einstein's Theory of General Relativity presented
S05111917 Britain grants Royal Letters Patent to New Zealand
S05111918 Exterminator wins Kentucky Derby
S05111919 Yanks' Jack Quinn & Senators' Walter Johnson, 12 inning 0-0 tie
S05111921 Tel Aviv becomes 1st all Jewish municipality
S05111923 10 HRs hit in Phillies 20-14 victory over St Louis Cards
S05111924 Cartel des Gauches wins French parliamentary election
S05111924 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost (New Hampshire)
S05111925 Communistic Party of Holland splits
S05111925 Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region constituted in RSFSR
S05111926 Airship Norge leaves Spitsbergen for 1st air crossing of Arctic O
S05111927 Belgium beats England 9-1 in soccer
S05111928 General Electric opens 1st TV-station (Schenectady, NY)
S05111929 1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week)
S05111935 Willis Saunders on Omaha wins 60th Preakness Stakes (1:58.4)
S05111940 NY World's Fair reopens
S05111942 Japanese troops conquer Kalewa
S05111943 US 7th div lands on Attu, Aleoeten
S05111944 Slomp Resistance fighter (Frits de Zwerver) freed from Arnhem prison
S05111945 US marines conquer Awatsha Draw Okinawa
S05111946 1st night game at Boston Braves Field (Giants 5, Braves 1)
S05111946 Warren Mehrtens on Assault wins 71st Preakness Stakes (2:01.4)
S05111947 BF Goodrich manufactures 1st tubeless tire, Akron, Oh
S05111947 Laos accepts constitution for parliamentary democracy
S05111948 Haganah takes control of Safed & port of Haifa
S05111948 Luigi Einaudi elected president of Italy
S05111949 1st Polaroid camera sold $89.95 (NYC)
S05111949 By a vote of 37-12, Israel becomes 59th member of UN
S05111949 Siam renames itself Thailand
S05111950 Belgium mine disaster at Borinage, 39 die
S05111951 Jay Forrester patents computer core memory
S05111953 Tornado kills 114 in Waco Texas ($39M damage)
S05111953 Winston Churchill criticizes John Foster Dulles domino theory
S05111955 Israel attacks Gaza
S05111957 Gabriel Paris forms govt of Colombia
S05111959 Elvis Presley's 1st entry on UK charts with "Heartbreak Hotel"
S05111960 French liner "France" launched
S05111960 Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires
S05111962 Antonio Segni becomes president of Italy
S05111962 US sends troops to Thailand
S05111963 LA Dodger Sandy Koufax 2nd no-hitter beats NY Giants, 8-0
S05111963 Racial bomb attacks in Birmingham Alabama
S05111965 1st of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (India)
S05111965 Bangladesh windstorm kills 17,000
S05111967 100,000,000th US phone connected
S05111968 Montreal Canadiens sweep St Louis Blues for Stanley Cup
S05111968 Richard Harris releases "MacArthur Park"
S05111970 Sammy Davis Jr weds Altovise
S05111972 Boston Bruins beat NY Rangers 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
S05111972 John Lennon says his phone is tapped by FBI on Dick Cavett Show
S05111972 Willie Mays traded to NY Mets
S05111974 Steely Dan releases "Rikki Don't Lose that Number"
S05111975 Flyers 1-Isles 2-Semifinals-Series tied at 3 games
S05111975 Israel signs an agreement with European Economic Market
S05111977 Ted Turner manages an Atlanta Braves game
S05111978 Margaret A Brewer becomes 1st female general of US marine corp
S05111981 Kim Carnes' "Bette Davis Eyes" hits #1, stay there 9 weeks
S05111982 Canucks 4-Isles 6-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 2-0 lead
S05111984 Transit of Earth as seen on Mars
S05111985 Booby trap bomb kills 86 people in India
S05111985 Madonna's "Crazy For You," single goes #1
S05111985 Soccer stadium in Bradford England catches fire; 53 die
S05111985CDave Concepcion becomes 4th Cin Red teammate to get 2,000 hits,
S05111985Cothers include Pete Rose, Tony Perez & Cesar Cedeno
S05111988 Mario Andretti records fastest Indianapolis 500 lap (221.565 mph)
S05111989 217th & final episode of "Dynasty" is aired
S05111990 NY Yankees trade Dave Winfield to Angels for Mike Witt
S05111993 Paramaribo Suriname TV studio destroyed by fire
S0512 254 Stephan I replaces Lucius I as Catholic Pope
S05121328 Louis IV de Beier selects P Rainalducci as antiPope Nicolaas V
S05121459 Sun City India founded by Rao Jodhpur
S05121777 1st ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-NY Gazette)
S05121780 Charleston, SC falls to British (Revolutionary War)
S05121789 Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It
S05121789Clater becomes an infamous group of NYC political bosses
S05121792 Lavatory that flushed itself at regular intervals patented
S05121832 Opera "L'Elisir D'Amore" is produced (Milan)
S05121863 Battle of Raymond, Miss
S05121864 Battle of Drewry's Bluff, VA (Ft Darling)
S05121864 Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia
S05121864 Battle of Todd's Tavern, VA (Sheridan's Raid)
S05121864 Butler attacks Drewry's Bluff on James River
S05121865 Last land action of Civil war at Palmito Ranch, Texas
S05121870 Manitoba becomes a province of Canada
S05121871 Segregated street cars integrated in Louisville, Ky
S05121872 J C Watson discovers asteroid #121 Hermione
S05121874 US Assay Office in Helena, Montana authorized
S05121875 1st recorded shutout in pro baseball, Chicago 1, St Louis 0
S05121881 France sign treaty of protection with Tunisia colony
S05121881 Treaty of Bardo, Tunis becomes a French protectorate
S05121885 Battle of Batoche, French Canadians rebel against Canada
S05121888 Crouching start 1st used by Charles Sherrill of Yale
S05121890 Louisiana legalized prize fighting
S05121898 Louisiana adopts new constitution with "grandfather clause"
S05121898Cdesigned to eliminate black voters
S05121901 Pres McKinley visits SF
S05121907 A Kopff discovers asteroids #633 Zelima & #634 Ute
S05121910 2nd NAACP conference (NYC)
S05121910 Phil A's Chief Bender no-hits Cleveland Indians, 4-0
S05121915 Croatians plunder Armenia, killing 250
S05121915 Franklin K Mathiews, presents idea of "Book Week"
S05121917 M Wolf discovers asteroid #870 Manto
S05121919 Yanks & Senators play 2nd straight extra inning tie, 4-4 in 15
S05121921 National Hospital Day 1st observed
S05121925 Uzbekistan & Kirgizistan become autonomous Soviet republics
S05121925 Walter Hagen wins PGA golf tournament
S05121926 Airship Norge is 1st vessel to fly over North Pole
S05121926 Gen Pilsudski sets coup on premier Witos compared
S05121926 Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole
S05121929 Pulitzer prize awarded to Julia Peterkin (Scarlet Sister Mary)
S05121930 Pulitzer prize awarded to Marc Connelly (Green Pastures)
S05121937 George VI crowned King of England
S05121937 St Louis Cards beat Phila Phillies, 15-3
S05121940 French mariniers occupy St Maarten
S05121940 German tanks conquer Moerdÿkbrug
S05121940 Nazi blitz conquest of France began by crossing Muese River
S05121941 Great British convoy marches into Alexandria
S05121942 David Ben-Gurion leaves Jewish state in Palestine
S05121942 Russia occupies Crackow, until Aug 23, 1943
S05121943 Axis forces in North Africa surrender
S05121943 Tunisia (German troops in North-Africa surrender
S05121944 Secret Police arrest Gerrit Van de Peat
S05121948 Queen Wilhelmina resigns
S05121949 1st foreign woman ambassador received in US-SVL Pandit, India
S05121949 West begins Berlin Airlift to get supplies around Soviet blockade
S05121951 1st H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll
S05121952 Charlton Playground named in Bronx
S05121953 KUHT TV channel 8 in Houston, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
S05121955 Chicago Cub Sam Jones is 1st black to pitch no-hitter (Pirates, 4-0)
S05121956 Bkln Dodger Carl Erskine's 2nd no-hitter, beats NY Giants, 3-0
S05121956 East Pakistan struck by cyclone & tidal waves
S05121959 Liz Taylor's 4th marriage (Eddie Fisher)
S05121960 Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special
S05121961 Botvinnik wins world chess championship for 3rd time
S05121962 Grevelingendam closes
S05121963 Bob Dylan walks off Ed Sullivan Show
S05121963 Race riot in Birmingham Alabama
S05121964 Manlio Brosio chosen as sec-gen of NATO
S05121965 Israel & West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations
S05121966 St Louis's Busch Stadium opens, Braves lose to Cards 4-3 in 12 inns
S05121967 H Rap Brown replaces Stokely Carmichael as chairman of Student
S05121967CNonviolent Coordinating Committee
S05121968 WSKG TV channel 46 in Binghamton, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
S05121969 Kenneth H Wallis achieved record speed for an autogiro-179 KPH
S05121970 Ernie Banks hits his 500th home run
S05121970 Harry A Blackmun is confirmed as a justice on Supreme Court
S05121970 KTVM TV channel 6 in Butte, MT (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
S05121970 Race riots in Augusta Georgia; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops)
S05121971 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger weds Bianca Macias at St Tropez Town Hall
S05121972 Milwaukee Brewers beat Minn Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (completed 5/13)
S05121972 Paul McCartney & Wings release "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
S05121973 Indiana Pacers beat Ky Colonels in 6th ABA championship, 4 games to 3
S05121974 Boston Celtics beat Mil Bucks for NBA championship, 4 games to 3
S05121975 US merchant ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodian forces
S05121977 1st quadrophonic concert (Pink Floyd in London)
S05121978 Commerce Dept says hurricane names will no longer be only female
S05121979 Chris Evert's 125-match winning streak on clay comes to an end
S05121980 1st nonstop crossing of US via balloon
S05121981 Isles tie own rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Minn
S05121982 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Updike (Rabbit is Rich)
S05121982CIn Fatima Portugal, a Spanish priest with a bayonet is stopped prior
S05121982Cto his attempt to attack Pope John Paul II
S05121983 Oilers 3-Isles 6-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 2-0 lead
S05121984 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-D
S05121984 Joe Lucius scored his 13th hole-in-one on same hole
S05121984 S Afr prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for 1st time in 22 years
S05121984 World of Rivers world exposition opens in New Orleans
S05121986 Bicycle is pedaled 65 mph
S05121986 President Reagan appoints Dr James C Fletcher NASA Administrator
S05121986CFred Markham (US), unpaced & unaided by wind, is 1st to pedal 65 mph
S05121986Con a level course, Big Sand Flat, Calif
S05121989 "Entertainment Tonight" performs their 2,000th TV performance
S05121990 Comic Relief '90 (4th one) raises $4.7 million
S05121990 Nora Dunn & Sinead O'Connor boycott Saturday Night Live to protest
S05121990CAndrew "Dice" Clay's hosting
S05121992 1st Belgian woman (Ingrid Baeyens) to ascend Mount Everest
S05121993 Final episode of 6 year run of ABC's Wonder Years in Netherlands
S0513 535 St Agapitus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
S05131110 Crusaders march into Beirut causing a bloodbath
S05131568 Mary of Scotland defeat at Battle of Langside (Glasgow)
S05131607 English colonists (John Smith) lands near James River in VA
S05131779 War of Bavarian Succession ends
S05131820 Opera "Die Jägarsbraut" is completed
S05131828 US passes Tariff of Abominations
S05131835 1st foreign embassy in Hawaii established
S05131846 US declares war on México, 2 months after fighting begins
S05131861 Queen Victoria announces England's position of neutrality
S05131864 Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Resaca [or 0515]
S05131865 S Brownsville, TX (Palmito Ranch) Final engagement of Civil War
S05131865CPVT John J Williams of 34th Indiana is last man killed
S05131874 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On Greek-Ruthenian rite"
S05131884 Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) founded
S05131888 DeWolf Hooper 1st recited "Casey at Bat"
S05131888 Princess Isabel of Brazil signs "Lei Auréa" abolishing slavery
S05131891 Kingman wins Kentucky Derby
S05131909 A Kopff discovers asteroid #681 Gorgo
S05131909 Christian National Labor Workers (CNV) party begins in Netherlands
S05131911 NY Giant Fred Merkle is 1st to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st)
S05131912 Royal Flying Corps established in England
S05131913 1st 4 engine aircraft built & flown (Igor Sikorsky-Russia)
S05131916 1st observance of Indian (Native American) Day
S05131917 1st appearance of Mary to 3 shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal
S05131918 1st US airmail stamps issued (24¢)
S05131923 Pulitzer prize awarded to Willa Carter (One of Ours)
S05131926 German cabinet of Luther falls
S05131927 "Black Friday" on Berlin Stock Exchange
S05131930 Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock, Texas
S05131930 Only known fatality due to hail
S05131931 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1194 Aletta
S05131931 Paul Doumer elected president of France
S05131934 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1320 Impala
S05131934 Great dustbowl storm
S05131936 Quiroga govt takes office in Spain
S05131940 British bomb factory at Breda
S05131940 Churchill says I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears & sweat
S05131940 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina flees to England
S05131942 Pitcher Jim Tobin belts 3 HRs in a game
S05131943 German & Italian forces in Africa surrender
S05131943 German occupiers confiscate all radios
S05131945 US troops conquer Dakeshi Okinawa
S05131946 US convicts 58 camp guard of Mauthausen concentration camp to death
S05131950 Diner's Club issues its 1st credit cards
S05131952 Minor-league pitcher Ron Necciai strikes out 27 in 9-innings
S05131952 Pandit Nehru becomes premier of India
S05131954 Labour Party wins British municipal elections
S05131954 Robin Roberts gives up a HR then retires next 27 men in a row
S05131955 Mickey Mantle hits 3 consecutive HRs of at least 463'
S05131958 French settlers riot against French army in Algeria
S05131958 Jordan & Iraq form Arab Federation
S05131958 Pierre Pflimlin forms French govt
S05131958 Rioters attack US VP Nixon in Venezuala
S05131958 Stan Musial gets hit # 3000
S05131960 1st launch of Delta satellite launching vehicle; it failed
S05131960 Phillies lose 3rd consecutive 1-0 game
S05131960 WOLE TV channel 12 in Aguadillo, PR
S05131965 Rolling Stones record "Satisfaction"
S05131966 Rolling Stones release "Paint it Black"
S05131967 NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits career HR #500 off Stu Miller
S05131967 Octagonal boxing ring is tested to avoid corner injuries
S05131969 P Wild discovers asteroid #1775 Zimmerwald
S05131970 Beatles movie "Let it Be" premiers
S05131971 Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane seriously injured in a car accident
S05131972 115 die in nightclub atop 7-story Sennichi dept store (Osaka Japan)
S05131972 Milwaukee Brewers beat Minn Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (started 5/12)
S05131973 Tennis hustler Bobby Riggs beat Margaret Smith Court in a
S05131973CMother's Day match in California
S05131975 Flyers 4-Isles 1-Semifinals-Flyers win semifinals 4-3
S05131975 Hail stones as large as tennis balls hit Wernerville Tenn
S05131976 NY Nets beat Denver Nuggets in 9th & final ABA championship, 4 to 2
S05131978 Henry Rono of Kenya sets record for 3,000 m steeplechase (8:05.4)
S05131978 Joie Chitwood drives a Chevette 5.6 miles on just 2 wheels
S05131980 Cincinatti Red Ray Knight hits 2 HRs in 5th inning vs NY Mets
S05131981 Pope John Paul II shot, wounded by assailant in St Peter's Square
S05131982 Braniff Airlines files for bankruptcy
S05131982 Canucks 0-Isles 3-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 3-0 lead
S05131982 Chicago Cubs win their 8,000th (beat Astros)
S05131982 Soyuz T-5 is launched-Berezovoi & Lebedev for 211 days in space
S05131983 Reggie Jackson is 1st major leaguer to strike out 2,000 times
S05131984 Johan Cruyffs last competitive match
S05131985 Carlton Fisk becomes 5th catcher to steal 100 bases
S05131985 Phila Police bomb a house held by group "Move", kills 11
S05131989 Approx 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China
S05131989 Minn Twin Kirby Puckett becomes 35th to hit 4 doubles in a game
S05131989 Trinidad & Tobago ties US 1-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
S05131991 "Michael Jackson: Magic & Madness" goes on sale
S05131991 Apple releases Macintosh System 7.0
S05131991 South African activist Winnie Mandela convicted of abducting 4 blacks
S05131992 Final episode of "Night Court" airs on NBC-TV
S05131992 Frank Stallone beats Geraldo Rivera in boxing on Howard Stern Show
S05131993 6th annual business person run held in Wall Street
S05131993 Arsenio Hall's 1,000th show retrospective seen in Netherlands
S05131993 CBS' Knots Landing ends 14 year run with 334th show in Netherlands
S05131993 KC Royal George Brett hits his 300th HR
S05131993 Methane gas explosion in Secunda coal mine South-Africa, kills 50
S0514 649 Theodore I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
S05141027 Robert II, the Vrome, names son Henry I, king of France
S05141264 Baron's War fought in England
S05141509 Battle of Agnadello, French beat Venitians in Northern Italy
S05141607 1st permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown, Va
S05141787 Delegates gather in Phila to draw up US constitution
S05141796 1st smallpox inoculation administered, by Edward Jenner
S05141804 Lewis & Clark set out from St Louis for Pacific Coast
S05141811 Paraguay gains independence from Spain (Natl Day)
S05141853 Gail Borden applies for patent for condensed milk
S05141862 Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patents chronograph
S05141863 Battle of Jackson, MS
S05141864 Battle of Reseca, GA -Atlanta-
S05141874 1st admission charge at a football game, Harvard beats McGill 3-0
S05141879 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #196 Philomela
S05141884 Anti-Monopoly party forms in US
S05141894 Fire in Boston bleachers spreads to 170 adjoining buildings
S05141896 Lowest US temperature in May recorded (-10°F-Climax, Colo)
S05141903 President Theodore Roosevelt visits SF
S05141904 1st Olympics in US are held (St Louis)
S05141908 1st passenger flight in an airplane
S05141913 French Hals museum opens in Harleem Netherlands
S05141914 Chic Jim Scott no-hits Cleve, gives up 2 hits in 10th & loses 1-0
S05141917 M Wolf discovers asteroid #871 Amneris
S05141919 Johnny Loftus on Sir Barton wins 44th Preakness Stakes (1:53)
S05141920 Wash Senator Walter Johnson wins his 300th game vs Detroit
S05141921 Mussolini's fascists obtains 29 parliament seats
S05141932 "We Want Beer!" parade in NY
S05141935 LA's Griffith Planetarium opens, 3rd in US
S05141935 Plebiscite in Philippines ratifies independence agreement
S05141940 Nazi bombs Rotterdam (600-900 dead), surrender
S05141940 Netherlands surrender to Germany
S05141942 US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms
S05141944 Gen Rommel, Speidel & von Stülpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler
S05141945 Kamikaze-Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise
S05141945 US offensive on Okinawa, Sugar Loaf conquered
S05141948 Israel declares independence from under British administration
S05141948 Israeli Radio Station Kol Yisrael's 1st broadcast
S05141948 WBEN (now WIVB) TV channel 4 in Buffalo, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
S05141949 Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral
S05141954 Belgium shortens military conscription from 20 to 18 months
S05141955 Warsaw Pact forms
S05141960 USSR launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule
S05141961 Bus with 1st group of Freedom Riders bombed & burned in Alabama
S05141962 Ex-pres Milovan Djilas sentenced to 5 years
S05141962 Princess Sophia of Greece weds Don Juan Carlos of Spain
S05141966 1st reported monitoring of pirate radio station WBBH (NJ)
S05141967 Mickey Mantle's 500th HR off Oriole's Stu Miller
S05141967 Pirate Radio Station 270 (England) closes down
S05141969 Abortion & contraception legalized in Canada
S05141969 Last Chevrolet Corsair built
S05141970 Cops kill 2 students in racial disturbance (Jackson State U, Miss)
S05141970 Harry A Blackmun appointed to Supreme Court
S05141970 NYC local newspaper "Our Town" begins publishing
S05141972 In Willie Mays 1st game as a NY Met his homer beats SF Giants, 5-4
S05141972 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #1905 Ambartsumian
S05141973 Gold hits record $102.50 an ounce in London
S05141973 Skylab launched, 1st Space Station
S05141973 US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military
S05141974 Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, 6 killed
S05141975 US forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship
S05141976 Lowell Thomas ends 46 years as radio network reporter
S05141977 KC Royals Jim Colborn no-hits Texas Rangers, 6-0
S05141977 Montreal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins to win Stanley Cup
S05141980 Dept of Health & Human Services begins operation
S05141980CBucky Dent hits an inside park HR, Royals walk 14 Yanks
S05141980Cincluding 5 with bases loaded, Yanks win 16-3
S05141981 Boston Celtics win their 14th NBA championship (beat Houston Rockets)
S05141981 NASA launches space vehicle S-192
S05141982 Guinea adopts constitution
S05141983 Oilers 1-Isles 5-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 3-0 lead
S05141985 C Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3553 Mera
S05141986 Reggie Jackson hit his 537th HR passing Mickey Mantle into 6th place
S05141987 Colt revolver (Peacemaker) of 1873 sells for $242,000
S05141988 1st non-pitcher (Jose Oquendo) in 20 years to get a decision in a
S05141988Cbaseball game, he & St Louis Cards lose to Braves 7-5 in 19 inn
S05141989 1st Tour de Trump bicycle race run (Atlanta)
S05141989 1st time since 1948 a player hit 6 consecutive doubles (Kirby Puckett)
S05141989 Final TV episode of "Family Ties" airs
S05141990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,821.53
S05141991 42 die in a train collision is Japan
S05141991 Robert M Gates becomes head of CIA
S0515 884 Marinus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
S05151248 Archbishop Konrad v Hochstaden lays cornerstone for Köln cathedral
S05151525 German boer army surrounded/slaughters 5,000; ends Boer war
S05151602 Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold
S05151618 Johannes Kepler discovers his harmonics law
S05151702 War of Spanish Succession, 1st Amer conflict between England & France
S05151796 Treaty of Paris
S05151800 Pope Pius VII calls on French bishops to return to Gospel principles
S05151829 Joseph Smith ordained by John the Baptist according to Joseph Smith
S05151836 Francis Baily observes "Baily's Beads" during annular solar eclipse
S05151849 Philadelphia Turngemeinde founded
S05151856 2nd SF Vigilance Committee organized
S05151862 Battle of Drewry's Bluff (Ft Darling), Virginia
S05151862 Battle of Princeton, WV
S05151862 Department of Agriculture created
S05151862 Union Grounds, Brooklyn, 1st baseball enclosure, opens
S05151864 Battle of New Market, Virginia
S05151864 Battle of Resaca, Georgia (or 05/13)
S05151876 Vagrant wins Kentucky Derby
S05151882 May Laws-Czar Alexander III bands Jews from living in rural areas
S05151885 Canadian Méti insurgent Louis Reil captured, Saskatchewan
S05151891 British Central African Protectorate (now Malawi) established
S05151891 Operations begin at Philips & Co in Holland
S05151896 Tornado kills 78 in Texas
S05151902 Portugal bankrupt by revolt in Angola
S05151911 Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Indiana University, incorporates
S05151911 Sup Court dissolves Standard Oil violates Sherman Antitrust Act
S05151912 Ty Cobb rushes a fan at a NY Highlander game & is suspended
S05151915 A.T.&T. becomes 1st corporation to have 1 million stockholders
S05151918 1st regular airmail service (between NY & Wash) inaugurated
S05151918 War Cloud wins Preakness
S05151918 Washington Senator Walter Johnson pitches 1-0 18 inning game
S05151919 Bkln Dodgers score 10 runs in 13th to beat Reds 10-0
S05151926 British general strike ends, but mine workers go on strike
S05151929 Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleve Ohio)
S05151929 Gas fire in Cleveland Ohio; 121 die
S05151930 Ellen Church becomes 1st airline stewardess, United (SF to Cheyenne)
S05151931 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quadragesimo anno
S05151933 1st voice amplification system to be used in US Senate
S05151934 Dept of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive
S05151934 Karlis Ulmanis names himself fascist dictator of Latvia
S05151935 Pirates beat Phillies 20-5
S05151937 Charles Kurtsinger on War Admiral wins 62nd Preakness Stakes (1:58.4)
S05151938 Paul-Henri Spak forms red coalition of Belgium
S05151939 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1506 Xosa
S05151940 1st nylon stockings sold in US
S05151940 Gen Winkelman signs surrender to Germany
S05151940 German armour division moves into Northern France
S05151941 1st British turbojet flies
S05151941 British attack Halfaya-pass & Fort Capuzzo in Egypt & Libya
S05151941 Joe DiMaggio starts 56-game hitting streak; Yanks win 13-1
S05151942 Gasoline 1st rationed in US (17 Eastern States)
S05151944 Cincinatti Reds Clyde Shoun no-hits Boston Braves, 1-0
S05151948 Eddie Arcaro on Citation wins 73rd Preakness Stakes (2:02.6)
S05151948 Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq & Saudi-Arabia troops attack Israel
S05151952 Detroit Tiger Virgil Trucks no-hits Wash Senators, 1-0
S05151952 Johnny Longden becomes 2nd jockey to ride 4,000 winners
S05151953 Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Joe Walcott in Chicago
S05151953 Osip Zadkines monument to "The destroyed city" unveiled in Rotterdam
S05151954 KGLO (now KIMT) TV channel 3 in Mason City, IA (CBS) 1st broadcast
S05151955 Austria regains its sovereignity
S05151955 Austrian state treaty signed making itself independent again
S05151955 Building of space travel center at Baikonur Kazachstan begins
S05151955 KPUA (now KGMD) TV channel 9 in Hilo, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting
S05151957 18,000 people at Madison Sq Garden-Billy Graham launched a crusade
S05151957 1st British A-bomb explosion (Christmas Island)
S05151958 USSR launches Sputnik III
S05151960 Chic Cub Don Cardwell no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0
S05151960 KHVO TV channel 13 in Hilo, HI (ABC) begins broadcasting
S05151960 Sputnik 4 launched into Earth orbit; later recovery failed
S05151961 36 Unification church couples wed in Korea
S05151961 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et Magistra
S05151963 Last Project Mercury flight, L Gordon Cooper in Faith 7, launched
S05151967 Paul McCartney meets his future wife Linda Eastman
S05151968 "Wonderwall" with George Harrison premiers at Cannes Film Festival
S05151968 A tornado strikes Jonesboro Arkansas at 10 PM, killing 36
S05151968 Paul McCartney & John Lennon appear on Johnny Carson Show to promote
S05151968CApple records, Joe Garagiola is substitute host
S05151969 Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigns from Supreme Court
S05151970 Mississippi Highway Patrol kills 2 at Jackson State College
S05151972 Bus plunges into Nile River killing 50 pilgrims. (Minia Egypt)
S05151972 George Wallace shot & left paralyzed by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Md
S05151972 Ryukyu Is & Daito Is returned to Japan after 27 yrs of US control
S05151973 Calif Angel Nolan Ryan's 1st no-hitter beats KC Royals, 3-0
S05151975 11th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 9-4
S05151977 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2862 Vavilov
S05151980 1st trans-US balloon crossing
S05151980 Flyers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs
S05151981 2nd City TV's (SCTV) network premier (NBC)
S05151981 George Harrison releases "All Those Years Ago" in UK
S05151981 Leonard Barker of Cleveland pitches perfect game vs Toronto
S05151981 Soyuz 40 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Rumanian) to Salyut 6
S05151982 16-year-old jockey wins Preakness
S05151982 Osservatorio San Vittore discovers asteroid #3344 Modena
S05151983 Madison Hotel (Boston) destroyed by implosion
S05151987 Record archery score for a pair over 24 hrs, is set
S05151988 Soviets begin withdrawl in Afghanistan
S05151989 Soviet Pres Gorbachev in Beijing for 1st Sino-Soviet summit in 30 yrs
S05151989 US Basketball League cancels its summer schedule
S05151989CMaxwell House coffee runs ads during "Roe vs Wade" movie despite
S05151989Cthreat of boycott by right to lifers
S05151990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,822.45
S05151990 Edmonton Oiler Klima beats Boston Bruins in 6th period
S05151990 Miss Universe pageant
S05151991 Defense releases docs claiming Noriega was "CIA's man in Panama"
S05151991 Edith Cresson becomes France's 1st female premier
S05151991 Pres Bush takes Queen Elizabeth to Oakland A's-Balt Oriole game
S05151992 Colombo '92 opens in Genoa Italy
S05151992 NY dept store chain Alexanders announces closing of all 11 stores
S05151992 Part of Cruger Avenue in Bronx renamed Regis Philbin Avenue
S05151993 Montreal Expo retires their 1st #, #10 for Rusty Staub
S05151993 Prairie Bayou wins 118th Preakness
S0516 955 Alberich II. (bastard?)son of Octavianus elected pope
S05161165 Ramjbam & his family reach Acre Palestine
S05161571 Johannes Kepler, by his own calculations, is conceived at 4:37 AM
S05161605 Camillo Borghese elected to succeed Pope Leo XI becomes Paul V
S05161763 Samuel Johnson meets his future biographer James Boswell in London
S05161770 Marie Antoinette marries future King Louis XVI of France
S05161792 Denmark abolishes slave trade
S05161803 Peace of Amiens ends
S05161804 Senate & Tribune declare Napolean leader of France
S05161811 Peninsular War-Allies defeat French at Albuera
S05161860 -18) Chicago: Republican convention selects Abraham Lincoln candidate
S05161861 Kentucky proclaims its neutrality
S05161863 Battle of Champion's Hill, MS-bloodiest action of Vicksburg Campaign
S05161864 Battle of Bermuda Hundred, VA
S05161866 Congress authorizes nickel 5¢ piece (replaces silver half-dime)
S05161866 N R Pogson discovers asteroid #87 Sylvia
S05161866 US Treasury Dept authorizes nickel
S05161868 President Johnson acquitted during Senate impeachment, by 1 vote
S05161869 Cincinnati Reds play their 1st baseball game, win 41-7
S05161872 Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time
S05161874 1st recorded dam disaster in US (Williamsburg Mass)
S05161875 1st running of Kentucky Derby
S05161875 Quake in Venezuela & Colombia kills 16,000
S05161879 Treaty of Gandamak to set up Afghan state between Russia & English
S05161881 World's 1st elec tram goes into service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin)
S05161888 CPR opens Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, BC
S05161888 J Palisa discovers asteroid #278 Paulina
S05161891 A Charlois discovers asteroid #310 Margarita
S05161894 Fire in Boston destroys baseball stadium & 170 other buildings
S05161901 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Priory School" (BG)
S05161903 1st transcontinental motorcycle trip begins at SF (George Wymann)
S05161911 Remains of a neanderthal man found in Jersey UK
S05161911 Zeppelin "Deutscheland" wrecked at Dusseldorf
S05161914 American Horseshoe Pitchers Assn organizes in Kansas City
S05161914 Ewing Field, near Masonic Street, opens
S05161920 Joan of Arc (Jean D'arc) canonized in Rome
S05161920 Spanish bullfighter Joselito was fatally gored fighting his last bull
S05161922 White Star Line Majestic completes 5½ day maiden voyage
S05161924 108°F in Blitzen Oregon
S05161925 1st network radiocast (WHAS) of Kentucky Derby, Flying Ebony wins
S05161927 NY Yankee Bob Meusel steals 2nd, 3rd & home
S05161929 1st Academy Awards (Film-Wings, Actor-E Jennings Actress-J Gaynor)
S05161933 Cecil Travis becomes 1st player to get 5 hits in his 1st game
S05161936 1st British air hostess (Daphne Kearley) flight to France
S05161937 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1427 Ruvuma
S05161938 38 die in Terminal Hotel fire (Atlanta Ga)
S05161939 1st AL night game, Phila Shribe Park (Indians 8, Athletics 3 in 10)
S05161941 Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham)
S05161942 1st transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma
S05161943 -May 17th) RAF bombs Möhne & Eder (Battle of Ruhr)
S05161943 Bomb dropped on Möhne & Eder dams in Ruhr Germany[dup]
S05161943 German troops destroy synagouge of Warsaw
S05161944 Milt police attack gypsies
S05161945 Violent battles around Sugar Loaf/Halve Moon Okinawa
S05161948 Botvinnik wins 5-player tournament to determine world chess champion
S05161948 CBS news correspondent George Polk's body is found in Greece
S05161948 Israel issues its 1st postage stamps
S05161953 Phillies Curt Simmons gives up a single, then retires next 27 in a row
S05161954 Ted Williams gets 8 hits in 1st game since breaking his collarbone
S05161954 WGAN (now WGME) TV channel 13 in Portland, ME (CBS) 1st broadcast
S05161955 Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Don Cockell in SF
S05161955 King Boudewÿn of Belgium visits Congo
S05161956 Kraft Theatre presents an act from "Profiles in Courage"
S05161957 Maj Irwin, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to a record 1,404.18 MPH
S05161957 US launches its 3rd atomic submaine, USS Skate, at Groton Conn
S05161957 Yanks involved in Copacabana Incident, leads to Billy Martin trade
S05161958 Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mex
S05161958 Walter Irwin flies 2,259 KPH in F-104A Starfighter
S05161959 WTOM TV channel 4 in Cheboygan, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
S05161960 Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as USSR levels spy charges against US
S05161963 Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends US Proj Mercury
S05161964 Northern Dancer wins Preakness stakes by 2½ lengths
S05161965 Balt Oriole Jim Palmer's pitching debut, beats Yankees 7-5 & homers
S05161965 WNJU TV channel 47 in NY-Linden, NY (TEL) begins broadcasting
S05161966 A record of "Pets Sounds" is released
S05161966 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #1796 Riga
S05161966 National Welfare Rights Organization organizes
S05161966 Stokely Carmichael named chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating
S05161968 Earthquake kills 47 in Japan
S05161969 Barbra Striesand appears at a Friars Club Tribute
S05161969 US nuclear sub Guitarro sinks at marine dock SF
S05161969 US nuclear sub Guitarro sinks off SF
S05161969 Venera 5 lands on Venus, returns data on atmosphere
S05161969 Who's Pete Townsend & Roger Daltrey charged with assault
S05161971 1st class postage now costs 8¢ (was 6¢)
S05161971 Bulgaria adopts it's constitution
S05161972 Greg Luzinski's 500' HR hits Liberty Bell monument in Phila Vet
S05161975 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali KOs Ron Lyle in Las Vegas
S05161975 Japanese Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mt Everest's summit
S05161975 Wings release "Listen to What the Man Said" in UK
S05161976 Mont Canadiens sweeps Phila Flyers for Stanley Cup
S05161977 5 die as NY Airway helicopter topples on Pan Am bldg in NYC
S05161977 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali KOs Alfredo Evangelista in Landover Md
S05161980 Brian May of rock group Queen collapses onstage with hepatitis
S05161980 Los Angeles beats Phila 76ers, for NBA championship
S05161980 Paul McCartney releases "McCartney II" album
S05161981 Houston Astro Craig Reynolds hits 3 triples beating Cubs 6-1
S05161981 Pretenders' Martin Chambers weds Tracy Atkinson
S05161982 Canucks 1-Isles 3-Stanley Cup-Isles win cup 4-0 (15-4)
S05161982 Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating in preparation for STS-4
S05161983 Isles win 3rd Cup in row def Canucks in Vancouver 3-1 in game 4
S05161984 Guinea-Bissau adopts constitution
S05161984 Phillie pitcher Steve Carlton hits a grand slam homer
S05161986 Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) comes back from dead on Dallas
S05161987 Chris Mccarron on Alysheba wins 112nd Preakness Stakes (1:55.8)
S05161987 Rocker David Crosby weds Jan Dance in LA
S05161988 US Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant
S05161991 Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (Superman character)
S05161991 Queen Elizabeth becomes 1st British monarch to address US congress
S05161992 Pine Bluff wins 117th Preakness
S05161992 Polls show Perot, Bush & Clinton could be in a deadlock
S05161992 US space shuttle STS-49 lands (maiden voyage of Endeavour)
S05161993 Farmer Sugeng finds 1.2 million year old Pithecanthropus IX skull
S05161993 Süleyman Demirel elected president of Turkey
S0517 218 7th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
S0517 352 Liberius begins his reign as Catholic Pope replacing Julius I
S0517 884 St Adrian III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
S05171527 Pánfilo de Narvaéz departs to explore Florida
S05171620 1st merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey)
S05171630 Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface
S05171672 Frontenac becomes governor of New France (Canada)
S05171673 Louis Joliet & Jacques Marquette begin exploring Mississippi
S05171742 Frederick great (Emperor of Prussia) beats Austrians
S05171756 Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French & Indian War)
S05171787 English slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes
S05171792 24 merchants form NY Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street
S05171794 Hard frost in southern New England
S05171804 Lewis & Clark begin exploration of Louisiana Purchase
S05171809 Papal States annexed by France
S05171814 Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (Natl Day)
S05171814CNorwegian constitution passed by constitutent assembly at Eidsvoll
S05171849 Fire destroy Centrum in St Louis Missouri
S05171863 Battle of Big Black River Bridge, MS
S05171864 Battle of Adairsville Georgia, Union forces Confederates to retreat
S05171871 Indians fighter Gen Sherman escapes in ambulance vs Comanches
S05171872 Bohemian Club incorporated
S05171875 Oliver Lewis on Aristides wins 1st Kentucky Derby, Churchill Down
S05171876 7th US Cavalry under Custer leaves Ft Lincoln
S05171881 Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Wash DC
S05171881 Revised version of New Testament
S05171887 J Palisa discovers asteroid #266 Aline
S05171890 1st regular weekly comic paper (Comic Cuts) (England)
S05171890 Mascagni Opera Cavalleria Rusticans 1st performed (Rome)
S05171890 Opera "Rustic Chivalry" is produced (Rome)
S05171898 Camp Merritt established in Presidio [see 0503]
S05171899 Victoria & Albert Museum foundation laid England
S05171900 Mafeking under seige by Boers
S05171903 Cleve Indians beat NY Highlanders 9-2 in Columbus Ohio
S05171906 Switzerland's Simpion Tunnel open to rail traffic
S05171909 White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks
S05171915 Last liberal British Cabinet overthrown
S05171915 National Baptist Convention chartered
S05171915 last liberal British cabinet-Asquith falls
S05171916 British Summer Time (Daylight Savings), 1st introduced
S05171918 M Wolf discovers asteroid #891 Gunhild
S05171920 1st De Havilland double-decker flight (London) lands in Schiphol
S05171920 1st flight by Dutch airlines KLM (Koninklijke-Luchtvaart-Maatschappij)
S05171921 Belgian-Luxembourg sign unity agreement
S05171921 President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show
S05171923 Fire during closing day ceremonies at Grover Cleveland School (SC)
S05171925 Cleveland Indian Tris Speaker gets his 3,000th hit
S05171926 Chang Kai Shek made lord of China supreme war lord in Canton
S05171926 German cabinet-Marx takes power
S05171927 Chicago Cubs beat Boston Braves, 4-3, in 22 innings
S05171928 9th modern Olympic games opens in Amsterdam
S05171930 Earl Sande on Gallant Fox wins 56th Kentucky Derby (2:07.6)
S05171932 Congress changes name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico"
S05171937 Juan Negrin succeeds Largo Caballero as Spain's premier
S05171938 Radio quiz show "Information Please!" debuts on NBC Blue Network
S05171939 1st sports telecast-Columbia vs Princeton-college baseball
S05171940 Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium & begins invasion of France
S05171940 Nazi's bombs Middelburg/B IJzerdrat begins illegal defiance
S05171944 Allies land on Netherland's New-Guinea (operation Straightline)
S05171944 Chinese/US arm forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma
S05171944 Operation Straightline: Allies land in Neth New-Guinea
S05171945 2 US P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu
S05171945 US 77th infantry division conquerors Chocolate Licorice
S05171946 KVP wins 2nd-Parliamentary election
S05171949 British government admits Republic of Ireland
S05171954 Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown v Topeka Board of Education
S05171954Creversed 1896 "separate but equal" Plessy Vs Ferguson decision
S05171955 Cabinet of Drees resigns
S05171957 Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC)
S05171957 School desegregation law, Brown v Board of education
S05171958 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Algeria
S05171959 Sam Snead sets PGA record for 36 holes at 122
S05171960 1st atomic reactor system to be patented, JW Flora, Canoga Park CA
S05171962 Marin County withdraws from BART district
S05171963 Houston Colt .45's Don Notterbart no-hits Phillies, 4-1
S05171964 Phillies triple play Houston Colt .45s
S05171966 KFDO (now KVIJ) TV channel 8 in Sayre, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
S05171967 Dylan's 1965 UK Tour is released as film "Don't Look Back"
S05171968 European Space Research Org launches 1st satellite
S05171969 Balt, Cleve & Pitts agree to go from NFC to AFC in NFL
S05171969 Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus
S05171970 Hank Aaron becomes 9th player to get 3,000 hits
S05171970 Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atlantic on reed raft Ra
S05171972 T Smirnova discovers asteroids #2400 Derevskaya, #3082 Dzhalil & #3146
S05171973 Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings
S05171973 Stevie Wonder releases "You are the Sunshine of my Love"
S05171975 10cc releases "I'm Not in Love"
S05171975 Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches
S05171979 -12° F (11° C), Mauna Kea, Hawaii (state record)
S05171979 Phillies beat Cubs, 23-22, on 50 hits with 11 HRs
S05171980 Codex wins Preakness
S05171980 Major race riot in Miami Florida - 16 killed, 300 injured
S05171980 Paul & Linda McCartney appear on Saturday Night Live
S05171980 VS Kumar Anandan sets record of balancing on 1 foot for 33 hrs
S05171981 Islanders score 5 power play goals against Flyers in a playoff
S05171983 Israel & Lebanon sign a peace treaty
S05171983 Oilers 2-Isles 4-Stanley Cup-Isles win cup 4-0 (15-5)
S05171985 Les Anderson, catches record 97 lb 4 oz Chinook Salmon, off Alaska
S05171987 USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die
S05171989 Nelson Mandela recieves a BA from U of S Africa
S05171990 Cheers' star Kelsey Grammer sentenced to jail for 30 days for DWI
S05171990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,831.71
S05171990 European court rules pension rights for both men & women
S0518 526 St John I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
S05181596 Willem Barents leaves Amsterdam for Novaya Zemlya
S05181756 England declares war on France
S05181794 2nd battle of Bouvines (France-Austria)
S05181804 Napoleon became Emperor of France
S05181828 Battle of Las Piedras, ends conflict between Uruguay & Brazil
S05181830 Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of
S05181830Chis invention, lawn mower. Saturdays are destroyed forever
S05181846 US troops attack Rio Grande occuping Matamoros
S05181860 Abraham Lincoln nominated for president
S05181861 Battle of Sewall's Point VA-1st Federal offense against South
S05181863 Seige of Vicksburg, MS
S05181864 Battle of Yellow Bayou, LA (Bayou de Glaize, Old Oaks)
S05181890 1st performance Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana (Rome)
S05181895 A Charlois discovers asteroid #403 Cyane
S05181896 Plessy v. Ferguson upholds "separate but equal" policy
S05181897 Irish Music Festival 1st held (Dublin)
S05181897 NY Giant William Joyce sets record of 4 triples in 1 game
S05181899 World Goodwill Day-26 nations meet in 1st Hague Peace Conference
S05181900 Britain proclaims protectorate over kingdom of Tonga
S05181904 American Ion Perdicaris kidnapped in Morocco
S05181910 Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic
S05181911 J Helffrich discovers asteroid #714 Ulula
S05181911 Pres/dictator José Porfirio Diaz of Mexico term ends
S05181912 H E Wood discovers asteroid #758 Mancunia
S05181912 Phila A's beat Detroit Tigers 24-2
S05181917 US passes Selective Service act
S05181918 TNT explosion in chemical factory in Oakdale Penn kills 200
S05181922 Dutch 1st Chamber agrees to 48 hour work week (was 45 hrs)
S05181922 S Belyavskij discovers asteroid #978 Aidamina
S05181926 H E Wood discovers asteroid #2193 Jackson
S05181927 "Slide Lake" in Gros Ventre Wyoming collapes
S05181929 Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 20-16
S05181933 Tennessee Valley Act (TVA) Act signed by FDR, to build dams
S05181941 An Egyptian steamer sinks
S05181941 Jewish veterans honor their dead
S05181942 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1601 Patry
S05181942 NYC ends night baseball games for rest of WW II
S05181944 Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino
S05181947 A's catcher Warren Rosar catches his 147th game without an error
S05181949 Antiquarian Booksellers Assoc of America incorporates
S05181950 Tommy Glaviano makes 3 consecutive errors on grounders
S05181951 UN moves HQ to NYC
S05181951 US General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea
S05181953 1st woman to break sound barrier (Jacqueline Cochrane, USA)
S05181955 28.7 cm rain falls at Lake Maloya New Mexico (state record
S05181956 Hungarian party leader Matyas Rákosi enforces his own policy
S05181960 Eillen Fulton begins playing Lisa on As the World Turn (for > 30 yrs)
S05181964 David Frost interviews Paul McCartney on BBC
S05181965 Gene Roddenberry suggests 16 names including Kirk for Star Trek Capt
S05181965 WTAF TV channel 29 in Philadelphia, PA (IND) begins broadcasting
S05181967 Silver hits record $1.60 an ounce in London
S05181969 Apollo 10 (Stafford/Cernan/Young) launched toward lunar orbit
S05181971 Bulgarian constitution goes into effect
S05181971 Mont Canadiens beat Chic Black Hawks 4 games to 3 for Stanley Cup
S05181971 Pres Nixon rejects 60 demands of Congressional Black Caucus
S05181971 Utah Stars beat Ky Colonels in 4th ABA championship, 4 games to 3
S05181971 Vampire rapist Wayne Bodens last victim found
S05181972 John Sebastian makes 63 consecutive free throws while blindfolded
S05181974 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2691
S05181974 India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb
S05181977 E S Bus discovers asteroid #3598 Saucier
S05181977 Nightclub in Cincinnati fire kills 164
S05181979 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #2304 Slavia
S05181980 Mount St Helens blows its top in Washington State, 60 die
S05181985 1st remote location for "Nightline" (South Africa)
S05181986 David Goch finishes swimming 55,682 miles in a 25-yd pool
S05181986CChung Kwung Ying did 2,750 "atomic" hand-stand push-ups
S05181990 Judy Carne arrested at JFK airport on an 11 year old drug warrant
S05181991 USSR launches 2 cosmonauts to MIR space station
S05181993 Italians police arrest Mafia boss Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola
S0519 715 St Gregory II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
S05191506 Columbus selects his son Diego as sole heir
S05191588 Spanish Armada sets sail for Lisbon, bound to England
S05191643 Battle of Allersheim
S05191749 George II grants charter to Ohio Company to settle Ohio Valley
S05191780 About midday, near-total darkness descends on much of New England
S05191780Cto this day it's cause is still unexplained
S05191793 Netherland captures French island of St Maarten (held until 1795)
S05191851 J R Hind discovers asteroid #14 Irene
S05191856 Sen Charles Sumner, Mass, spoke out against slavery
S05191862 Homestead Act becomes law provides cheap land for settlement of West
S05191863 Siege of Vicksburg, investment of city complete
S05191864 Battle of Port Walthall Junction, VA (Bermuda Hundred)
S05191864 Last engagement in series of battles known as Spotsylvania
S05191865 President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Georgia
S05191874 J Perrotin discovers asteroid #138 Tolosa
S05191878 Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed register of treasury by Pres Garfield
S05191881 J Palisa discovers asteroid #220 Stephania
S05191885 1st mass production of shoes (Jan Matzeliger in Lynn, Massachusetts)
S05191892 National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded
S05191893 A Charlois discovers asteroids #367 Amicitia & #368 Haidea
S05191893 Heavy rain wash "quick clay" into a deep valley, kills 111 (Norway)
S05191900 Great Britain annexes Tonga archipeligo
S05191905 Tom Jenkins beats Frank Gotcha for heavyweight wrestling champ
S05191906 Dutch King Victor Emanuel & Swiss president open Simplon tunnel
S05191906 Federated Boys' Club (Boys' Club of America) organizes
S05191909 Heavyweight Jack Johnson & Jack O'Brien fight to no decision
S05191910 Cleve Indian Cy Young gets his 500th win, beats Wash 5-4 in 11 innings
S05191911 Phila Athletics are 12½ games back in AL, & win World Series
S05191917 M Wolf discovers asteroid #875 Nymphe
S05191919 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #913 Otila
S05191921 Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system
S05191923 KPD-revolts by allied occupation of Ruhrgebiedsteden
S05191923 Zev wins Kentucky Derby
S05191926 French air force bombs Damascus Syria
S05191928 "Firedamp" explodes in Mather Pa coal mine killing 195 of 273 miners
S05191928 51 frogs enter 1st annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp, Cal)
S05191928 Explosion in coal mine in Mather, Pennsylvania, 195 die
S05191929 General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek govt
S05191929 Stampede in Yankee Stadium crushes 2 people to death
S05191930 White woman win voting rights in South-Africa
S05191931 Armour cruiser Germany launched
S05191934 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1323 Tugela
S05191934 Military coup by Col Damian Veltsjev in Bulgaria
S05191934 Sherlock Holmes crossword puzzle in "Sat Review of Lit" Males who
S05191934Csolved puzzle became members of Baker Street Irregulars
S05191935 NFL adopts an annual college draft to begin in 1936
S05191939 Churchill signs British-Russian anti-nazi pact
S05191940 Amsterdam time becomes MET (Middle European Time)
S05191941 Germany occupiers forbid taxis
S05191941 New nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland
S05191943 Berlin is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews)
S05191950 NY Times reports of worlds smallest & dumbest mechanical brain
S05191951 UN begins counter offensive in Korea
S05191954 Postmaster General Summerfield approves CIA mail-opening project
S05191957 Adone Zoli forms Italian govt
S05191958 South Pacific soundtrack album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks
S05191959 John de Quay becomes premier of Netherlands
S05191960 Belgian parliament requires rest day for self employed
S05191960 Juan Marichal debuts as SF Giant pitcher, beats Phillies on 1 hitter
S05191960 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 33,222 m
S05191961 Scheveningen: new worm opened
S05191962 Indonesian parachutist land in New Guinea
S05191964 US diplomats find at least 40 secret mics in Moscow embassy
S05191965 Patricia R Harris named 1st US black female ambassador (Luxembourg)
S05191967 US bombs Hanoi
S05191967 USSR ratifies treaty with Engl & US banning nuclear weapons in space
S05191968 Frank Howard fails to homer, after hitting 10 in 6 consecutive games
S05191968 Pirate Radio Brumble of Northern England 1st heard
S05191971 USSR launches Mars 2, 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
S05191972 WMAV TV channel 18 in Oxford, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
S05191973 Secretariat wins 98th Preakness (1:55), 2nd leg in Triple Crown
S05191974 Phila Flyers beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
S05191975 Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66
S05191975Cin truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India
S05191976 Gold ownership legalized in Australia
S05191979 Guitarist Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd
S05191979 O Pizarro & G Pizarro discovers asteroid #2567 Elba
S05191979 Spectacular Bid wins Preakness
S05191979C#2596 Vainu Bappu & #3477
S05191979CR M West discovers asteroids #2526 Alisary, #2595 Gudiachvili,
S05191980 Ringo & Barbara Bach are involved in a car crash
S05191981 Pirate Jim Bibby gives up a leadoff single to Brave Terry Harper,
S05191981Cthen retires next 27 batters
S05191983 NASA launches Intelsat V
S05191984 Edmonton Oilers beat NY Islanders 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup
S05191984 Pat LaFontaine scores 2 goals within 22 sec in an NHL playoff game
S05191984 STS 41-D vehicle moves to launch pad
S05191988 Red Sox retire Bobby Doerr's #1
S05191989 Dow Jones Avg passes 2,500 mark for 1st time, closes at 2,501.1
S05191989 Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) last appearance on Dallas
S05191990 Summer Squall wins 115th Preakness Stakes
S05191992 VP Dan Quayle sites Murphy Brown as a poor example of family values
S05191993 Boeing 727 crashes into mountain at Medellín Colombia, kills 132
S05192161 Syzygy: 8 of 9 planets aligned on same side of sun
S0520 325 1st Christian ecumenical council opens at Nicæa, Asia Minor
S0520 526 Earthquake kills 250,000 in Antioch, Syria
S05201498 Vasco da Gama, navigator arrives at Calcutta India
S05201501 Joao da Nova Castell discovers Ascension Islands
S05201690 England passes Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II
S05201704 Elias Neau forms school for slaves in NY
S05201774 Britain gives Québec, Labrador & territory north of Ohio
S05201775 Citizens of Mecklenburg County, NC declare independence of Britain
S05201825 Charles X becomes King of France
S05201830 1st railroad timetable published in newspaper (Baltimore American)
S05201845 1st legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii
S05201861 Cornerstone of University of Washington laid in Seattle
S05201861 Kentucky proclaims its neutrality in Civil War
S05201861 North Carolina becomes 11th & last state to secede from Union
S05201861 US marshals appropriate previous year's telegraph dispatches, to
S05201861Creveal prosecessionist evidence
S05201862 Homestead Act provides cheap land for settlement of West
S05201867 Brit parliament rejects John Stuart Mills law on women sufferage
S05201867 Royal Albert Hall foundation laid
S05201868 Republican National Convention, meets in Chicago, nominates Grant
S05201874 Levi Strauss markets blue jeans with copper rivets, price $13.50 doz
S05201875 Intl Bureau of Weights & Measures established by treaty
S05201890 A Charlois discovers asteroid #293 Brasilia
S05201900 2nd modern Olympic games opens in Paris (lasted 5 months)
S05201902 US military occupation of Cuba (since Jan 1, 1899) ends
S05201903 R S Dugan discovers asteroid #510 Mabella
S05201910 Funeral for Britian's King Edward VII
S05201915 Bataafsche Petroleum Me begins oil extraction of Maracaibo
S05201916 Codell, Kansas hit by tornado (also on same date in 1917 & 1918)
S05201918 1st electrically propelled warship (New México)
S05201919 Volcano Keluit on Java, erupts killing 550
S05201923 Stanley Baldwin, becomes PM of UK
S05201926 Belgian cabinet of Jaspar takes power
S05201926 Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies
S05201927 At 7:40 AM, Lindbergh takes off from NY to cross Atlantic for Paris
S05201927 Great Britain via treaty grants Saudi Arabia's kingdom independent
S05201927 Saudi Arabia becomes independent (Treaty of Jedda)
S05201930 1st airplane catapulted from a dirigible, Charles Nicholson, pilot
S05201930 University of California dedicates $1,500 to research on prevention
S05201930C& cure of athlete's foot
S05201932 Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic
S05201932 Engelbert Dollfuss becomes chancellor of Austria
S05201939 Pan Am begins transatlantic passenger & air mail service
S05201939C1st regular transatlantic airmail (NY to Marsseille France)
S05201940 Gen Guderians tanks reach The Channel (British expeditionary army)
S05201940 Trailing 7-1 in 9th to Pitts, Phils win 8-7
S05201941 Archer's "Christian Calendar & Gregorian Reform" published
S05201941 Former Dutch premier Colijn says Neth Indie not ready for independence
S05201941 Germany invades Crete
S05201944 US Communist Party forms
S05201950 Hill Prince wins Preakness
S05201954 Chang Kai-shek becomes president of Nationalist China
S05201955 Argentine parliament accepts separation of church & state
S05201956 Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane-Bikini Atoll
S05201959 Shah of Persia visits Netherlands
S05201959 Yanks sink to last place, 1st time since May 25, 1940
S05201960 Baseball game in Milwaukee postponed due to dense fog
S05201961 Mauritania adopts constitution
S05201961 White mob attacks "Freedom Riders" in Montgomery, Alabama
S05201963 Sukarno appointed president of Indonesia
S05201964 Buster Mathis defeats Joe Frazer to qualify for US Olympic team
S05201965 Pakistani airliner crashed at Cairo Egypt, killing 120
S05201967 BBC bans Beatle's "A Day in the Life" (drug references)
S05201967 Damascus wins Preakness
S05201969 US troop march into Hill 937/Hamburger Hill Vietnam
S05201970 100,000 march in NY supporting US policies in Vietnam
S05201970 2 die in a NYC subway accident
S05201970 Beatles' "Let it Be" movie premiers in UK
S05201971 Pentagon reports blacks constitute 11% of US soldiers in SE Asia
S05201972 Affirmed wins Preakness
S05201972 Bee Bee Bee wins Preakness
S05201972 Cameroon adopts its constitution
S05201972 Indiana Pacers beat NY Nets in 5th ABA championship, 4 games to 2
S05201972 Republic of Cameroon declared as constitution is ratified
S05201974 Soyuz 14 returns to Earth
S05201977 "Beatlemania" opens on Broadway
S05201978 3 PFLP members kill a cop near El Al airlines in Orly Airport, Paris
S05201978 Steve Cauthen on Affirmed wins 103rd Preakness Stakes (1:54.4)
S05201978 US launches Pioneer Venus 1; produces 1st global radar map of Venus
S05201979 1st western pop star to tour USSR-Elton John
S05201980 Drummer Peter Criss quits Kiss
S05201980 In a referendum, 59.5% of Québec voters reject separatism
S05201985 Dow Jones industrial avg closes above 1300 for 1st time
S05201985 FBI arrests John A Walker Jr, convicted of spying for USSR
S05201985 Larry Holmes wins a decision over Carl Williams
S05201985 US began broadcasts to Cuba on Radio Marti
S05201987 Wrestler Jerry Lawler sues WWF & Harley Race for trademark name "king"
S05201988 Mike Schmidt hits his 535th HR, moving into 8th place
S05201989 China declares martial law in Beijing
S05201989 Walter McConnel, 57, is oldest to reach 27,000' Mt Everest top
S05201992 India launches its 1st satelite independently
S05201993 274th & final "Cheers" on NBC
S05201993 Ukraine Premier Leonid Koetsjma resigns
S05211420 Treaty of Troyes-French King Charles VI gives France to English
S05211502 Portugese admiral Da Nova discovers St Helena
S05211602 Martha's Vineyard 1st sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold)
S05211793 Red Curaçao forbids criticism on House of Orange
S05211804 Lewis & Clark Expedition begins
S05211832 1st Democratic party national convention
S05211846 1st steamship arrives in Hawaii
S05211856 Lawrence, Kans captured, sacked by pro-slavery forces
S05211861 Richmond, Va is designated Confederate Capital
S05211863 Siege on Port Hudson, Louisiana begins
S05211864 GEN David Hunter takes command of Dept of West Virginia
S05211871 -July 28) French regular troops attack Commune of Paris; 17,000 die
S05211879 Battle of Iquiquw
S05211879 J Palisa discovers asteroid #197 Arete
S05211881 American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton
S05211881 US Nation Lawn Tennis Association formed
S05211897 Yerkes Obsrvatory 40" (1 m) refractor used for 1st time
S05211898 US Assay Office in Seattle, Washington authorized
S05211901 M Wolf & L Carnera discovers asteroid #480 Hansa
S05211904 Federation Internationale de Football Assn (Soccer) forms in Paris
S05211908 1st horror movie (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) premiers in Chicago
S05211914 Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota
S05211916 Britain begins "Summer Time" (Daylight Savings Time)
S05211917 Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WW I
S05211917 M Wolf discovers asteroids #872 Holda & #873 Mechthild
S05211922 H E Wood discovers asteroid #982 Franklina
S05211922 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Anna Christie)
S05211922 Ruppert buys out Huston interest in Yankees for $15 million
S05211924 Leopold & Loeb kidnap Bobby Franks for fun
S05211925 George Lloyd of Dolobran becomes British High Director of Egypt
S05211925 Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole
S05211926 White Sox Earl Sheely hits a record 6th consecutive double
S05211927 Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic
S05211928 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1304 Arosa
S05211929 Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NYC
S05211930 NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers
S05211931 Belgian cabinet of Jaspar falls
S05211931 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1196 Sheba
S05211932 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands
S05211933 Mt Davidson Cross lit by FDR via telegraph
S05211941 1st US ship sunk by a U-boat (Robin Moor)
S05211943 Fastest 9 inning AL baseball game (89 mins), White Sox beat Senators
S05211948 NY Yank Joe Dimaggio hits for cycle (single, double, triple, HR)
S05211950 Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia
S05211952 Bkln Dodgers score 15 runs in 1st inning & beat Cin Reds, 19-1
S05211952 Queen Juliana opens Amsterdam-Rhine Canal
S05211953 French cabinet of Mayer resigns
S05211955 1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight-sunrise to sunset
S05211955 WFRV TV channel 5 in Green Bay, WI (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
S05211956 US explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll
S05211956 WITI TV channel 6 in Milwaukee, WI (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
S05211957 French cabinet of Mollet resigns
S05211958 Indonesian paratroopers reconquers Morotai Island
S05211961 Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery
S05211964 1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations
S05211964 Fire in in Wégimond Belgium resort, kills 19
S05211964 US begin intelligence flights above Laos
S05211966 Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Henry Cooper in London
S05211966 Kauai King wins Kentucky Derby
S05211968 Paul McCartney & Jane Asher attend an Andy Williams concert
S05211968 US sub Scorpion sinks off Azores, with all 99 crew lost
S05211968 WEKW TV channel 52 in Keene, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
S05211969 After 9,015 at bats Hank Aaron is lifted for a pinch hitter, Mike
S05211969CLum, who doubled in a 15-3 victory over NY Mets
S05211970 National Guard mobilized to quell disturbances at Ohio State U
S05211971 National Guard mobilized to quell riot in Chattanooga Tenn
S05211975 Lowell W Perry confirmed as chairman of Equal Opportunity Comm
S05211977 Jean Cruguet on Seattle Slew wins 102nd Preakness Stakes (1:54.4)
S05211977 SD Padres beat Mont Expos, 11-8, in 21 innings
S05211978 118 Unification church couples wed in England
S05211979 Dan White convicted of manslaughter death of SF mayor Moscone
S05211979 Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in USSR
S05211979 Mont Canadiens beat NY Rangers 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup
S05211980 "Empire Strikes Back" premeirs
S05211981 Francois Mitterrand becomes president of France
S05211981 NY Islanders beat Minn North Stars 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup
S05211982 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3018 Godiva
S05211982 P Wild discovers asteroid #2731 Cucula
S05211983 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB, for mating for STS-7 mission
S05211983 David Bowie's "Let's "Dance," single goes #1
S05211985 A Gilmore & P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #3305
S05211985 Frustaci Septuplets, Calif, Patricia Frustaci gives birth to 7
S05211986 Atlanta Brave Rafael Ramirez hits 4 doubles in a game
S05211987 Xignals PC Board BBS begins in Alabama
S05211988 Jane Powell weds Dickie Moore
S05211988 Risen Star wins Preakness
S05211989 Nancy Lopez wins her 3rd LPGA championship
S05211990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,844.68
S05211990 Last episode of "Newhart" airs
S05211991 Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns
S05211992 NJ senate overrides Governor Florio's veto & lowers sales tax to 6%
S05211993 Opposition leader Xanana Gusmao of East-Timor sentenced to life
S05211993 Venezuela president Carlos Andrés Pérez resigns
S0522 12 -BC- A daytime meteor shower, possibly Zeta Perseid observed in China
S0522 760 14th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
S05221176 Attempted assassination on Saladin of Aleppo
S05221200 Peace of Goulet
S05221370 Jews are expelled from Brussels Belgium
S05221761 1st life insurance policy in US, issued in Phila
S05221807 Townsend Speakman 1st sells fruit-flavored carbonated drinks (Phila)
S05221819 1st steam propelled vessel to cross Atlantic (Savannah leaves Ga)
S05221856 H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #41 Daphne
S05221856 Violence in Senate, SC rep Brooks used a cane on Mass Sen Sumner
S05221858 Confederación Granadina (now Colombia) forms
S05221863 War Dept establishes Bureau of Colored Troops
S05221864 Battle of N Anna River, VA (Totopotamy River, Haw's Shop, Hanovertown)
S05221868 Great Train Robbery-7 men (Reno Brother) make off with $98,000 in cash
S05221872 Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners (except for 500)
S05221877 Baden-Baden wins Kentucky Derby
S05221883 Cub's Billy Sunday's 1st at bat, begins 14 consecutive strikes out
S05221884 1-armed pitcher Hugh Daily fanned 13 hitters
S05221885 Tecumseh wins Preakness
S05221893 Montreal Athletic Assn beat Ottawa Generals 2-1, in 1st Cup Game
S05221900 Associated Press organizes in NYC as non-profit news cooperative
S05221900 M Wolf & A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #455 Bruchsalia
S05221905 Royal Academy in Delft Holland becomes Technical High School
S05221906 10th anniversary of Olympics, celebration held in Athens
S05221906 Wright Brothers patents an aeroplane
S05221909 1st SF fireboat, David Scannell, launched
S05221911 Braves pitcher, Cliff Curtis, loses his 23rd game in a row
S05221915 Local train collides with troop train killing 226 (Gretna Scotland)
S05221924 In Chicago, Nathan Leopold & Richard Loeb kidnap Robert Franks
S05221926 CPH expells David Wine
S05221926 Chiang Kai-shek replaces communists in Guomindang China
S05221927 Dodgers beat Phillies, 20-4
S05221930 Ruth hits 3 consecutive HR (8th-10th of 60 in 1930)
S05221930 Yankee "Bronx Bombers" hit 14 HRs in a game
S05221933 World Trade Day/National Maritime Day 1st celebrated
S05221939 Hitler & Mussolini sign "Pact of Steel"
S05221941 British troop take Baghdad
S05221942 Mexico declares war on nazi-Germany & Japan
S05221943 Stalin disbands Komintern
S05221945 6th Marine division reaches suburbs of Naha Okinawa
S05221946 Yankees turn triple-play & defeat Tigers' 5-3
S05221947 "Truman Doctrine" goes into effect, aiding Turkey & Greece
S05221947 1st US ballistic missile fired
S05221950 Celal Bayar elected president of Turkey
S05221950 E L Johnson discovers asteroid #1580 Betulia
S05221950 Poet Gerrit Achterberg wins PC Hooft prize
S05221953 Yankee Irv Noren hits into a triple-play, Yanks beat Wash 12-4
S05221954 Hasty Road wins Preakness
S05221954 KREX TV channel 5 in Grand Junction, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting
S05221954 Robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan is Bar Mitzvahed
S05221955 Oldest man to drive in the Grand Prix (aged 55) finishes 6th
S05221956 KRIS TV channel 6 in Corpus Christi, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
S05221957 KBTX TV channel 3 in Bryan, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
S05221957 South Africa govt approves race separation in universities
S05221959 Benjamin O Davis Jr becomes 1st black gen-major in USAF
S05221960 Virtually all coastal towns between 37th & 44th parallels severly
S05221960Cdamaged by tsunami that strikes Hilo, Hawaii at 01:04 AM
S05221962 Neth telephone net becomes completely automated
S05221962 Robert A Rushworth, USAF major, takes X-15 to 30,600m
S05221962 Roger Maris walks 5 times (record 4 intentionally) in a 9 inn game
S05221963 Greek parliament leader Lambrakis injured
S05221963 Mickey Mantle hits a ball off Yankee Stadium's facade
S05221964 LBJ presents "Great Society"
S05221965 Beatles' "Ticket to Ride," single goes #1
S05221967 Egyptian president Nassar closes Straits of Tiran to Israel
S05221967 Fire at L'Innovation dept store kills 322 (Brussels, Belgium)
S05221969 Stafford & Cernan pilot Apollo 10 LEM 9.4 mi(15km) above lunar surface
S05221970 Arab terrorists kill 9 children & 3 adults on a school bus
S05221970 Mel Stottlemyre sets record by walking 11, but wins 2-0
S05221972 Ceylon becomes Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified
S05221972 US president Nixon begins visit Moscow
S05221974 Ruffian begins her racing career as a filly & dies 14 months later
S05221975 Ky Colonels beats Ind Pacers in 8th ABA championship, 4 games to 1
S05221976 NASA launches space vehicle S-179
S05221976 St Louis Cardinal Reggie Smith hits 3 HR
S05221977 Final European scheduled run of Orient Express (94 years)
S05221977 Red Sox (6) & Brewers (5) tie single game HR record of 11
S05221979 Canadians elect conservatives, ending Elliott Trudeau's reign
S05221980 Marlo Thomas & Phil Donahue marry
S05221980C H Debehogne discovers asteroids #2590 Mourao, #2673, #2926 Caldeira,
S05221980C#3138 & #3374
S05221981 Soyuz 40 returns to Earth
S05221983 Toronto Blue Jay Cliff Johnson hits record 18th pinch hit HR
S05221985 Pete Rose 2,108th run passes Hank Aaron as NL run scoring leader
S05221985 US sailor Michael L Walker arrested for spying for USSR
S05221987 30 killed in a Texas tornado
S05221990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,852.23
S05221990 Final episode of "Newhart" airs
S05221990 Microsoft presents Windows 3.0
S05221990 North & South Yemen merge to form Republic of Yemen
S05221992 Calif Angels, are involved in a bus crash, in NJ
S05221992 India launches its Agni rocket
S05221992 Johnny Carson's final appearance as host of Tonight Show
S05231430 Joan of Arc captured by Burgundians, who sell her to English
S05231493 Peace of Senlis
S05231533 King Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon marriage declared null & void
S05231555 Giampietro Caraffa elected Pope Paul IV
S05231576 Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory
S05231618 Defenestration of Prague; beginning of 30 Years War
S05231660 King Charles II returns from exile sails from Scheveningen to England
S05231706 Battle of Ramillies-Marlborough defeats French
S05231785 Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals
S05231788 SC becomes 8th state to ratify US constitution
S05231844 Declaration of Báb (Bahá'í festival) ('Azamat 7, 1)
S05231848 Otto Lilienthal, pioneer aviator
S05231853 Buenos Aires gains independence from Argentina (reunited 1859)
S05231856 N R Pogson discovers asteroid #42 Isis
S05231861 Virginia citizens vote 3 to 1 in favor of secession
S05231862 Valley Campaign-Stonewall Jackson takes Ft Royal, Virginia
S05231864 Battle of Dallas, GA
S05231864 Battle of North Anna, Va, 1st of 3 days of fighting
S05231865 Flag flown at full staff over White House, 1st time since Lincoln shot
S05231865 Grand Review begins in Washington DC
S05231867 Jesse James-gang rob bank in Richmond Missouri (2 die, $4,000 taken)
S05231873 Canada's North West Mounted Police force established
S05231873 Postal cards sold in SF for 1st time
S05231876 1st NL no-hitter (Joe Borden, Boston)
S05231878 Atty John Henry Smyth named minister to Liberia
S05231882 6" of snow falls in eastern Iowa
S05231883 Baseball game between one-armed & one-legged players
S05231887 1st transcontinental train arrives in Vancouver, BC
S05231898 1st Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from SF
S052319-- B.J. & Peg Hunnicutt of Mill Valley's anniversary (on M*A*S*H)
S05231900 Associated Press News Service forms in NY
S05231901 Indians score 9 runs after 2 outs in 9th to beat Senators 14-13
S05231901 US captures leader of Philippine rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo
S05231903 1st automobile trip across US from SF to NY, ended April 1
S05231903 1st direct primary election law in US adopted, by Wisconsin
S05231908 Dirigible explodes over SF Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die
S05231908 Part of Great White Fleet arrives in Puget Sound, Wash
S05231911 NY Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by Pres Taft
S05231915 Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary during WW I
S05231918 King Oil/Shell refinery on Curaçao officially opens
S05231921 "Shuffle Along" 1st black musical comedy, opens in NYC
S05231922 "Abie's Irish Rose" 1st of over 2,500 performances
S05231922 Harry Greb gave Gene Tunney his only professional boxing defeat
S05231922 Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films
S05231923 1st flight of Sabena: Brussel-Lympne, Great Britain
S05231923 Stanley Baldwin becomes British premier
S05231926 Lebanese constitution established under French mandate
S05231928 Bomb attack on Italians embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die
S05231931 Whipsnade Zoo opens in Whipsnade Beds England
S05231932 Sir Hubert Ferdinand Opperman sets 24 hr record of 860 mi, 367 yds
S05231934 Wallace Carothers manufactures 1st nylon (polymeer 66)
S05231935 1st scheduled night game, postponed due to rain (Cincinatti)
S05231939 British decoration, George Cross, 1st presented
S05231939 British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949
S05231939 Submarine Squalis sank off Portsmouth NH, 26 die
S05231941 Heavyweight Joe Louis beats Buddy Baer (disqualification) in Wash DC
S05231943 In Dr Faustus, Serenus Zeitblom begins his bio of Adrian Leverkühn
S05231943 Thomas Mann begins writing his novel Dr Faustus
S05231945 German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to British
S05231947 PC Hooft prize established for literature
S05231948 Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs
S05231948 Ramat Rahel gateway to Jerusalem is repossessed by Israel
S05231949 Federal Republic of [West] Germany proclaimed (Republic Day)
S05231953 WHIZ TV channel 18 in Zanesville, OH (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
S05231956 World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, SF
S05231958 Mao Tse tung start "Great leap forward" movement in China
S05231959 Presbyterian church accepts women preachers
S05231960 Israel announced capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
S05231960 WGTV TV channel 8 in Athens-Atlanta, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
S05231960 WKBM TV (now WLII) channel 11 in Caguas/San Juan, PR 1st broadcast
S05231960 WRCA radio changes call letters back to WNBC (NYC)
S05231962 Joe Pepitone 2nd Yankee to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning (Joe DiMaggio)
S05231962 OAS leader general Raoul Salan sentenced to life
S05231962 Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in US Aurora 7
S05231963 NBC purchases 1963 AFL championship game TV rights for $926,000
S05231965 Pontoon ferry overturned on Shire River Malawi, kills 150
S05231966 Beatles release "Paperback Writer"
S05231968 Beatles open 2nd Apple Boutique at 161 New Kings Road, London
S05231969 Who release rock opera "Tommy"
S05231970 Grateful Dead's 1st perfomance outside of US (England)
S05231970 SD Padres beat SF Giants 17-16 in 15 innings
S05231971 Rock group Iron Butterfly disbands
S05231977 Benin adopts its constitution
S05231979 "Kids Are Alright" premiers
S05231979 Rocker Tom Petty files chapter 11 bankruptcy
S05231981 NASA launches Intelsat V
S05231982 Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles
S05231984 Detroit Tigers win AL record tying 16th straight road game
S05231988 Maryland stops sale of cheap pistols on Jan 1, 1990
S05231989 Lincoln Square in Bronx named
S05231990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,856.26
S05231990 NY Yankees hit 6 home runs to beat Minn Twins 12-0
S05231991 Phillie Tommy Greene no-hits Mont Expos, 2-0
S05231992 NY Yankees play in their 4th straight extra inning game
S05241086 Abbott Dauferio/Desiderius becomes Pope Victor III
S05241153 Malcolm IV becomes king of Scotland
S05241430 Jeanne d'Arc captured during battle
S05241487 Lambert Simnel, pretender to English throne, crowned in Dublin
S05241658 Battle of Dunes (Spanish-French War) fought
S05241689 English Parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants
S05241738 Methodist Church established
S05241809 Dartmoor Prison opens to house French prisoners of war
S05241815 George Evans discovers Lachlan River, Australia
S05241818 Gen Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola Florida
S05241822 Battle of Pichincha, Bolívar secures independence of Quito from Spain
S05241824 Pope Leo XII proclaims a universal jubilee
S05241829 Pope Pius VIII issues his program for pontificate
S05241830 1st passenger rail service in US (Baltimore & Elliots Mill, Maryland)
S05241844 Samuel FB Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" (1st telegraph msg)
S05241846 Gen Zachary Taylor captures Monterey in Méxican War
S05241854 Anthony Burns, slave, arrested by US Deputy marshals in Boston
S05241854 Lincoln University, Penn, 1st Black college in US forms by Prebyts
S05241861 Alexandria, VA occupied by Federal troops
S05241861 Maj Gen Benjamin Butler declares slaves "contraband of war"
S05241862 Westminster Bridge across Thames opens
S05241866 Berkeley, Calif named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne)
S05241870 Memoria of Jackson Kemper, 1st Missionary Bishop in US
S05241873 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #131 Vala
S05241878 1st American bicycle race held (Boston)
S05241878 CA Parker (Harvard) wins 1st American bike race, Beacon Park Boston
S05241881 Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London Ontario
S05241883 Brooklyn Bridge opened by Pres Arthur & Gov Cleveland
S05241884 Anti-Monopoly party & Greenback Party forms People's Party in US
S05241890 Geo Train & Sam Wall circle world in record 67 days, Tacoma-Tacoma
S05241890 Tivoli Theater of Varities opens in London
S05241895 Henry Irving becomes 1st theatrical knight
S05241899 1st auto repair shop opens (Boston)
S05241900 Britain annexes Orange Free State
S05241902 Empire Day 1st celebrated in Britain
S05241909 Bristol University granted Royal Charter
S05241915 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary
S05241916 Conscription begins in Britain
S05241916 Last British-Indian contract workers arrive in Suriname
S05241918 Cleveland beats Yankees 3-2 in 19 inning
S05241921 1st parliament for Northern Ireland elected
S05241921 British Legion formed
S05241922 Record temperature in Netherlands for May (35.6°C)
S05241922 Russian-Italian trade agreement signed
S05241927 J Comas Sola discovers asteroid #1117 Reginita
S05241928 Umberto Nobile fly airship over North Pole again
S05241929 Detroit Tigers beats Chicago White Sox, 6-5, in 21 innings
S05241930 1st woman to fly from England to Australia solo, lands (Amy Johnson)
S05241930 Amy Johnson lands at Port Darwin after flying from London
S05241931 1st air-conditioned train installed-B&O Railroad
S05241931 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1195 Orangia
S05241934 Colombia & Peru sign accord about harbor city Leticia
S05241935 1st major league night baseball game, in Cincinnati (Reds 2, Phil 1)
S05241935 H Van Gent discovers asteroid #1385 Gelria
S05241936 Bishops forbid NSB-membership
S05241936CTony Lazerri 2 grand slams (11 RBIs); Ben Chapman sets record
S05241936Cby reaching 1st 7 times safely, Yanks beat A's 25-2
S05241940 1st night game at NY's Polo Grounds (Giants 8, Braves 1)
S05241940 1st night game at St Louis Sportsman Park (Indians 3, Browns 2)
S05241941 Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood (1416 die)
S05241943 Admiral Dönitz stops U-boat in Atlantic Ocean
S05241944 Enver Hoxha becomes head of Albania anti fascists
S05241944 Icelandic voters severe all ties with Denmark
S05241946 Bill Dickey replaces Joe McCarthy as Yankee manager
S05241951 Racial segregation in Wash DC restaurants ruled illegal
S05241951 Willie Mays begins playing for NY Giants
S05241954 1st rocket attains 150 mi (241 km) altitude, White Sands, NM
S05241954 Dr Peter Murray Marshall becomes 1st black to head an AMA unit
S05241954 German airline Lufthansa forms
S05241957 Anti American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan
S05241958 Pres Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion
S05241958 UP & International News Service merge into United Press International
S05241959 1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited, Pleasant Hills, Pa
S05241959 Empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day in England
S05241961 27 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi
S05241961 Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit
S05241962 M Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 launched into Earth orbit
S05241963 1st Lockheed A-12 to crash, CIA pilot Ken Collins ejects safely
S05241964 Beatles' 3rd appearance on Ed Sullivan
S05241964 Longest HR (471') in Balt Memorial Stadium (Harmon Killebrew, Minn)
S05241964 Panic in Lima Peru soccer stadium, kills 300
S05241967 AFL grants a franchise to Cincinatti Bengals
S05241968 Haiti closes down shortwave station 4VEH for 40 days
S05241968 Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithfull arrested for drug possession
S05241969 Beatles' "Get Back," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
S05241970 Peter Queen quits Fleetwood Mac to join a religious cult
S05241971 A commuter bus plunges into Panama Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard
S05241975 Soyuz 18B carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4
S05241976 1st commerial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Wash DC)
S05241980 Flyers 4-Isles 5 (OT)-Stanley Cup-Isles win cup 4-2 (15-6)
S05241980 Iran rejects a call to World Court to release US hostages
S05241980 NY Islanders beat Phila Flyers 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
S05241981 Al Unser wins, loses, & wins a controversial Indy 500
S05241981 Hostage situation ends at Central Bank in Barcelona Spain
S05241984 Det Tigers win AL record 17th straight road game
S05241985 "View to a Kill" premiers in US
S05241985 -25) cyclone hits Bangladesh; about 10,000 die
S05241986 Country Singer Garth Brooks marries Sandy
S05241986 Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British PM to visit Israel
S05241986 Mont Canadiens beat Calgary Flames 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup
S05241986 Reginald Huffstetler treds water for 985 hrs
S05241987 Al Unser Sr, 47, wins his 4th Indy 500
S05241988 Power outage in Boston Garden in NHL's Stanley Cup finals
S05241989 "Indiana Jones & Last Crusade" premiers
S05241989 French war criminal Paul Touvier arrested in monastery in Nice
S05241989 NHL's NY Rangers fire GM & coach Phil Esposito
S05241989CNY Yankee hurler Lee Gutterman sets record of pitching 30-2/3
S05241989Cinnings before giving up his 1st run of season
S05241990 Andre Dawson recieves a record 5 intentional walks in a game
S05241990 Edmonton Oilers beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup
S05241992 Al Unser Jr wins Indy 500
S05241992 Despite trailing 7-1, NY Yanks tie Milwaukee Brewers & then score
S05241992C1 in 9th to avoid 5th straight extra inning game
S0525 585 -BC- 1st known prediction of a solar eclipse
S05251085 St Gregory VII, pope (1073-85), dies (birth date unknown)
S05251721 John Copson becomes America's 1st insurance agent
S05251784 Jews are expelled from Warsaw by Marshall Mniszek
S05251787 Constitutional convention opens at Phila, G Washington presiding
S05251810 Argentina declares independence from Napoleonic Spain (Natl Day)
S05251825 American Unitarian Assn founded
S05251861 John Merryman is arrested under suspension of writ of habeas corpus
S05251861Cit later sparks a supreme court decision protecting writ
S05251862 Battle of Winchester VA
S05251864 Battle of New Hope Church, GA
S05251870 Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Québec
S05251876 1st tie in NL history (Athletics & Louisville, 2-2 in 14)
S05251887 Gas lamp at Paris Opera catches fire; 200 die
S05251898 1st US troop transport to Manila leaves SF
S05251900 Eyre M Shaw, 78, becomes oldest gold medalist in Olympics
S05251906 After 20 straight wins, Boston Red Sox lose to Chicago White Sox 3-0
S05251911 Revolution in México overthrows President José Porfirio Diaz
S05251914 British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule
S05251915 Chicago Claude Hendrix no-hits Pitts (Federal League), 10-0
S05251917 M Wolf discovers asteroid #874 Rotraut
S05251924 V Albitzkij discovers asteroid #1030 Vitja
S05251927 Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A)
S05251928 Amelia Earhart (as a passenger) is 1st woman to fly Atlantic Ocean
S05251932 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1244 Deira
S05251935 Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs, Boston Braves vs Pirates
S05251935 Jesse Owens equals or breaks 6 world records in one hour
S05251936 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1393 Sofala
S05251937 1st airmail letter to circle globe returns to NY
S05251939 Carl Storck becomes 2nd NFL president
S05251940 German troops conquer Boulogne
S05251940 Golden Gate Intl Expo reopens
S05251941 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India
S05251943 Riot at Mobile Ala shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers
S05251943 Trident conference in Wash DC (operation plan '43 against Japan)
S05251945 Arther C Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit
S05251946 Jordan gains independence from Britain (Natl Day)
S05251947 Coal dust explosion rocks Centralia Coal Co's Mine #5 killing 111
S05251948 Ben Hogan wins PGA golf tournament
S05251948 SF receives its 1st telecast
S05251949 Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai
S05251950 Bkln-Battery Tunnel opens in NYC
S05251951 NY Giant Willie Mays 1st major league game (goes 0 for 5)
S05251953 1st atomic cannon electronically fired, Frenchman Flat, Nevada
S05251953 1st noncommercial educational television station-Houston, Texas
S05251955 Series of 19 twisters destroy Udall Kansas & most of Blackwell Okla
S05251959 Khrushchev visits Angolia
S05251959 Supreme ct rules La prohibiting black-white boxing unconstitutional
S05251961 JFK sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade
S05251961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,770 m
S05251962 Isley Brother relase "Twist & Shout"
S05251962 US unions AFL-CIO begins campaign for 35-hour work week
S05251963 Early Wynn wins his 300th baseball game
S05251963 Great Britain ends its amateur-professional classes in cricket
S05251963 Organization for African Unity formed by Chad, Mauritania & Zambia
S05251965 Dave Davies of Kinks stumbles & is knocked unconscious on stage
S05251965 Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston in 1st round for HW boxing title
S05251966 Peru & Argentina soccer fans fight in Lima; 248 die
S05251967 John Lennon takes delivery of his psychedelic painted Rolls Royce
S05251968 Rolling Stones release "Jumping Jack Flash"
S05251970 Indiana Pacers beat LA Stars in 3rd ABA championship, 4 games to 2
S05251972 Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Ron Stander
S05251973 George Harrison releases "Give Me Love" in UK
S05251973 Skylab 2 (US) launched
S05251973 US launches 1st Skylab crew Kerwin, Conrad, Weitz
S05251975 Warriors beat Bullets for NBA championship, 4 games to 0
S05251976 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali KOs Richard Dunn in Munich
S05251977 "Beatles Live! At Star-Club in Hamburg Germany" released
S05251978 "Star Wars" released
S05251978 Mont Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
S05251979 American Airlines DC-10 crashes in Chicago killing 275
S05251979 Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt
S05251979 Raul Gonzáles of México completes 50,000 m walk in record 3:41:38.4
S05251980 Jacek Wszoka of Poland sets high jump record (7'8")
S05251981 Al Unser becomes 1st Indy 500 winner to be disqualified
S05251982 Ferguson Jenkins becomes 7th pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters
S05251982 STS-4 vehicle moves to launch pad
S05251983 "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) released
S05251983 Fire in Nassermeer Egypt kills 357
S05251986 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida
S05251986 Hands Across America - 6 million people hold hands from Calif to NY
S05251986 KC Royal George Brett gets his 2,000th hit
S05251989 Calgary Flames beat Montreal Canadiens for Stanley Cup
S05251989 Eastern Airlines graduates it 1st class of non-union pilots
S05251991 Israel evacuates 14,000 Ethiopian Jews
S05251992 Jay Leno becomes permanent host of "Tonight Show"
S05251992 NY Yankees score 9 runs before 1st out in 8th inn, beat Brewers 13-7
S05261328 William of Ockham forced to flee from Avignon by Pope John XXII
S05261637 1st battle of Pequot at New Harbour Ct kills 500 indians
S05261647 Massachusetts disallows priest access to colony
S05261736 Battle of Ackia (La), British & Chickasaw Indians defeat French
S05261781 Bank of North America incorporated in Philadelphia
S05261788 Mary Clark of England gives birth to a baby without a brain
S05261790 Territory South of River Ohio created by Congress
S05261861 Postmaster General Blair announces end of postal connection with South
S05261861 Union blockades New Orleans LA & Mobile AL
S05261864 Territory of Montana organized
S05261865 Battle of Galveston TX, surrender of Edmund Kirby Smith
S05261868 President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote
S05261876 HMS Challenger returns from 128,000-km oceanographic exploration
S05261887 Legal betting at rece tracks begins
S05261896 1st American intercollegiate bicycle race, Manhattan Beach NY
S05261896 Dow Jones Industrial Average adopted
S05261896 Last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned
S05261898 SF approves City Charter, allows Municipal ownership of utiliies
S05261903 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 3 Gables" (BG)
S05261905 A pogrom against Jews in Minsk Belorussia
S05261907 Chic White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits NY Highlanders, 8-1 in 5 inning game
S05261913 Actors' Equity Association forms (NYC)
S05261915 H H Asquith forms a coalition government in England
S05261916 F Sy discovers asteroid #858 El Djezair
S05261917 Walt Cruise hit 1st HR out of Braves Field
S05261918 Georgian Social Democratic Republic declares independence from Russia
S05261922 Lenin suffers a stroke
S05261923 1st Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance was run
S05261923 Socialistic Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg
S05261924 German cabinet of Marx resigns
S05261924 Pres Coolidge signs Immigration law: restricting immigration
S05261926 Lebanon adopts constitution
S05261927 15 millionth T-Ford produced
S05261928 A's commit 7 errors & lose to Yanks 7-4
S05261930 Joe Sewell, hardest to strike out, is struck out twice by Pat Caraway
S05261932 Admiral Makoto Saito forms parliament cabinet in Tokyo
S05261932 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1245 Calvinia
S05261933 Phillies Chuck Klein hits for cycle vs St Louis Cards
S05261934 Century of Progress Exposition reopens in Chicago
S05261937 San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens
S05261938 House on un-American Activities begins work
S05261941 American Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Phila
S05261941 Ark Royal airplane sights German battleship Bismarck
S05261941 German occupiers begin youth labor
S05261942 Belgium Jews are required by Nazis to wear a Jewish star
S05261943 1st president of a black country to visit US (Edwin Barclay, Liberia)
S05261943 Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam
S05261945 US drop fire bombs on Tokyo
S05261946 Klement Gottwald becomes premier of Czechoslovakia
S05261946 Patent filed in US for H-Bomb
S05261948 South Africa elects a nationalist govt with apartheid policy
S05261953 Dutch Convair crashes at Schipholweg, 2 die
S05261955 Khrushchev arrives in Belgrade
S05261956 Aircraft carrier "Bennington" burns off RI, killing 103
S05261956 Reds' John Klippstein, Hershel Freemman & Joe Blacks no-hitter,
S05261956Cbroken up with 2 outs in 10th & lose to Braves in 11th, 2-1
S05261958 Ceylon emergency crisis proclaimed
S05261958 Union Square, SF becomes state historical landmark
S05261959 Harvey Haddix pitches 12 perfect innings, loses in 13th
S05261961 Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee establishes in Atlanta
S05261961 USAF bomber flies Atlantic in a record of just over 3 hours
S05261963 Organization of African Unity established
S05261963 Wes Stock becomes only Balt Oriole to win a double header
S05261965 Revised intl Convention on Safety of Life at Sea takes effect
S05261966 Guyana (formerly British Guiana) declares independence from UK
S05261969 Apollo 10 returns to Earth
S05261969 John & Yoko begin their 2nd bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montrael)
S05261973 Bahrain adopts it's constitution
S05261973 Beatles' "Beatles 1967-1970," album goes #1
S05261973 Chic White Sox beat Cleve Indians, 6-3, in 21 inn (game complete 5/28)
S05261974 During a David Cassidy concert in London a 14 year old is trampled
S05261975 Tennis game in Surrey championships lasts 31 minutes
S05261976 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2426 Simonov
S05261977 "Beatlemania" opens in Winter Garden Theater on Broadway
S05261977 George Willig climbs NYC World Trade Center
S05261977 Movie "Star Wars" debuts
S05261978 1st legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City
S05261980 Dietmar Mogenburg of West Germany ties high jump record at 7'8"
S05261980 Phillie Steve Carlton is 1st NLer to record 6, 1-hitters
S05261980 Soyuz 36 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Hungarian) to Salyut 6
S05261981 Soyuz T-4 returns to Earth
S05261983 Challenger moves to launch pad for STS-7
S05261983 LA Lakers set NBA playoff game record of fewest free throws
S05261983 NASA launches Exosat
S05261984 C Shoemaker & E Shoemake discovers asteroid #3317 Paris
S05261984 Floods kill 14 in Tulsa Okla
S05261984 Frisbee is kept aloft for 1,672 seconds in Philadelphia
S05261984 Tulsa Oklahoma gets 13" of rain, 14 die
S05261985 Danny Sullivan wins Indy 500 by 24 seconds following a spin
S05261989 At 7:42 AM, radio has a 30 2nd silence, honoring radio
S05261989 Danish parliament allows legal marriage among homosexuals
S05261990 Phila Phillies retire Mike Schmidt's uniform #20
S05261991 Austria passenger flight explodes in Bangkok, 223 die
S05271647 1st woman known to be executed as a witch, Achsah Young in Mass
S05271679 Habeaus Corpus act passes in UK
S05271703 St Petersburg (Lenningrad) founded by Peter the Great
S05271813 Americans capture Ft George, Canada
S05271844 Samuel F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line
S05271850 Mormon Temple in Nauvoo Illinois destroyed by tornado
S05271854 Marine Telegraph from Ft Point to SF completed
S05271856 Doctor William Palmer found guilty of poisoning
S05271857 H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #44 Nysa
S05271862 Battle of Hanover Court House, VA (Slash Church, Peake's Station)
S05271863 CSS Chattahoochie explodes on Chattahoochie River GA, 18 die
S05271863 Seige of Port Hudson LA
S05271873 1st Preakness Stakes won by Survivor (2:43)
S05271887 A Charlois discovers asteroid #267 Tirza
S05271896 1st major tornado to strike urban US (St Louis & E St Louis Mo)
S05271896 Bay District Race Track closes
S05271896 Tornado (900 kph?) hits St Louis Missouri; 306 die
S05271903 Queen Wilhelmina opens Berlages Merchants bureau in Amsterdam
S05271904 NL record of 5 stolen bases in a game (Dennis McGann, NY Giants)
S05271905 Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima
S05271906 1st outlining of Gustav Mahler's 6th symphony, in Essen
S05271907 Bubonic Plague breaks out in SF
S05271916 Groundbreaking begins on Hugh Grant Circle in Bronx
S05271917 Race riot in East St Louis Illinois, 1 black killed
S05271918 Battle of Aisne
S05271919 1st transatlantic flight ends; US Navy flying boat takes 11 days
S05271920 Tatar ASSR established in Russian SFSR
S05271921 After 84 years of British control, Afghánistán achieves sovereignty
S05271927 Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war
S05271927 Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president
S05271931 1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field Va
S05271931 Piccard & Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon
S05271933 Austrian communistic party banned
S05271933 Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago
S05271933 Trailing 11-3, Yanks score 12 runs in 8th & beat White Sox 15-11
S05271933 Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released
S05271935 Supreme Court declares FDR's Natl Recovery Act unconstitutional
S05271936 RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for NY on maiden voyage
S05271937 Carl Hubbell wins his 24th consecutive game (sine July 17, 1936)
S05271937 Golden Gate Bridge, SF, dedicated
S05271940 British & French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)
S05271941 FDR proclaimes an "unlimited national emergency"
S05271941 German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force
S05271944 Allies landing on Biak, Indonesia (operation Horlicks)
S05271944 Japanese advance in Hangkhou China
S05271949 Russian stop train traffic West-Berlin
S05271950 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens
S05271951 Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, SF opens
S05271952 European Defense Community forms
S05271953 Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections
S05271955 Boston Red Sox Norm Zauchin gets 10 RBIs, beating Senators 16-0
S05271958 Ernest Green & 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central HS
S05271958 Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
S05271960 1st use of oversized catching mitt (Balt Oriole Clint Courtney)
S05271960 Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey
S05271961 Pres Kennedy announces US goal to reach Moon
S05271961 Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' ½"
S05271963 3 NJ businessman purchase NHL Colorado Rockies, & get approval
S05271963Cto move them to NJ Meadowlands (Devils)
S05271964 "From Russia With Love" premiers in US
S05271968 6th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-3
S05271968 NL awards Montreal & SD major league franchises
S05271968 Nuclear submarine Scorpion is lost
S05271969 Walt Disney World construction begins
S05271970 British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I
S05271971 UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship
S05271973 Rick Wohlhuter uns record 880 yards in 1:44.6
S05271975 Paul McCartney releases "Venus & Mars"
S05271975 Phila Flyers beat Buffalo Sabres 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
S05271975 Worst motor vehicle disaster in UK; bus full of elderly women plunges
S05271975CDibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38
S05271977 NYC fines George Willig 1¢ for each of 110 stories he climbed
S05271979 Pope John Paul ordains John J O'Conner as a bishop
S05271981 A Gilmore & P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #2434 Bateson
S05271981 John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol
S05271981 Lenny Randle tries to blow a slow roller foul but ump says no
S05271982 C & E Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3194 Dorsey
S05271983 Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of Congress
S05271984 C & E Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3671 Dionysius
S05271984 Manuela Manleeva wins 3 singles tennis matches in one day
S05271985 Inaugural bands parade for Pres Reagan
S05271986 Norway Showcase groundbreaking
S05271987 Jim & Tammy Bakker appears on "Nightline" after PTL scandal
S05271987 Yank Phil Niekro is 3rd pitcher making 700th start (Young & Sutton)
S05271990 74th Indianapolis 500 runs
S05271990 César Gaviria Trujillo chosen pres of Colombia
S05271990 Radical Democratic Party holds 1st political meetings in Moscow
S05271991 Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die
S05271993 Mafia bombs Uffizi-museum in Florence, kills 6
S0528 585 -BC- Thales Miletus predicts solar eclispe Persian-Lydian battle ends
S0528 640 Severinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope (elected in 638)
S05281358 Daint-Leu at Oise begins French boer uprising
S05281533 England's archbishop voids King Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn's marriage
S05281539 Hernando de Soto lands in Florida
S05281664 1st Baptist Church organized (Boston)
S05281731 All Hebrew books in Papal State are confiscated
S05281742 1st indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London)
S05281754 George Washington defeats French & indians at Ft Duquesne (Pitts)
S05281774 1st Continental Congress convenes (Virginia)
S05281830 Congress authorizes Indian removal from all states to western prairie
S05281845 Fire in Quebec Canada, 1,500 houses destroyed
S05281863 1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War
S05281868 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #99 Dike
S05281871 Paris communards revolt put down
S05281880 Grenanda wins Preakness
S05281892 Sierra Club forms in SF, for conservation of nature
S05281894 Belgium Princess Josephine marries Prince Karl von Hohenzollern
S05281900 Britain annexes Orange Free State (as Orange River Colony)
S05281901 Laws against phosphor matches enacted (inhibition white phosphorous)
S05281901 Parader wins Preakness
S05281904 Bryn Mawr wins Preakness
S05281905 P Gotz discovers asteroids #566 Stereoskopiab & #567 Eleutheria
S05281907 Auto-Cycle Union Tourist Trophy was 1st held
S05281918 Tatars declares Azerbaijan, in Russian Caucasus, independent
S05281919 Armenia declares it's Independence
S05281926 Military coup by Gen Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal
S05281926 US Customs Court created by congress
S05281929 1st all color talking picture "On With the Show" exhibited, NYC
S05281932 Dam closed, at current monument (South Seas)
S05281935 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1712 Angola
S05281937 Golden Gate Bridge in SF opens to vehicular traffic
S05281937 Neville Chamberlain becomes PM of England
S05281940 Belgium surrenders to Germany, King Leopold III gives himself up
S05281940 British-French strike captures Narvik Norway
S05281941 1st night game at Wash DC, Griffith stadium (Yanks 6, Senators 5)
S05281946 1st night game at Yankee stadium (Senators 2, Yanks 1)
S05281948 Iraq captures Ge'ulim settlement
S05281951 Bernardus J Alfrink appointed bishop's asst of Utrecht
S05281951 Willie Mays gets his 1st major league hit, a home run
S05281953 Premier of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor-"Melody"
S05281955 Bob Sweikert wins Indianapolis 500
S05281955 Nashua wins Preakness
S05281956 Carl Erskine becomes 1st to hit HRs in 8 straight games
S05281957 NL approves Bkln Dodgers' & NY Giants' move to west coast
S05281957 WPSD TV channel 6 in Paducah, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
S05281958 French cabinet of Pflimlin resigns
S05281959 Congressional Committee of Astronautics meets Project 7 astronauts
S05281959 Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 mi (500 km) into space on Jupiter
S05281959Cmissile, became 1st animals retrieved from a space mission
S05281961 Amnesty Intl founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)
S05281961 Last trip (Paris to Bucharest) on Orient Express (after 78 years)
S05281962 Suit alleging de facto school segregation filed in Rochester NY
S05281962 US stock market drops $20.8 B in 1 day
S05281962 Wide World of Sports with Chris Schenkel premiers on CBS radio
S05281963 Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; about 1 million houses destroyed
S05281963 Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India)
S05281963 Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st PM of Kenya
S05281964 Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Dehli
S05281964 Unmanned Apollo 2 Saturn test launched into Earth orbit
S05281965 Fire & explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad India kills 400
S05281967 Francis Chichester arrives home at Plymouth from Round-the-world trip
S05281968 AL announces it is splitting into 2 divisions
S05281968 NL grants San Diego Padres a franchise
S05281968 Senator Eugene Mccarthy wins Democrat primary in Oregon
S05281971 Paul McCartney releases his 2nd solo album "Ram"
S05281971 USSR Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars
S05281972 White House "plumbers" break into Democratic Nat'l HQ at Watergate
S05281973 Chic White Sox beat Cleve Indians, 6-3, in 21 inn (game started 5/26)
S05281974 E F Helin discovers asteroid #2050 Francis
S05281977 165 killed in a fire at Beverly Hills Supper Club in Kentucky
S05281978 Al Unser became 5th to win Indianapolis 500, 3 times
S05281980 2 Oakland A's steal home in 1st inning
S05281980 Joe Darby does a standing long jump of 12'5"
S05281982 Leonard Maltin's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight
S05281982 Pope John Paul II is 1st pope to visit Great Britain
S05281985 David Jacobsen taken hostage in Beirut Lebanon
S05281985 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-G
S05281987 Mathias Rust, 19, W German pilot, makes unauthorized landing in USSR
S05281987 Paul Pearman jumps 21 barrels on a skateboard in Augusta
S05281987 Southern League no-hit record-Bob Milacki pitches 11 1/3 no-hit inn
S05281987 Stacking of Discovery's SRBs completed
S05281989 Delta Burke (Designing Women) weds Gerald McRaney (Major Dad)
S05281989 Emerson Fittipaldi wins Indianapolis 500
S05281991 Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa
S05281993 200,000 demonstrate against mafia terror
S05281993 Polish cabinet-Suchocka falls
S0529 526 Antioch struck by Earthquake; about 250,000 die
S0529 757 St Paul I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
S05291138 Anti-Pope Victor IV (Gregorio) overthrows self for Innocentius II
S05291176 Battle of Legnano
S05291415 Council of Konstanz
S05291453 Constantinople falls to Muhammad II (Turks); ends Byzantine Empire
S05291630 Gov John Winthrop begins "History of New England"
S05291660 Charles II restored to English throne after Puritan Commonwealth
S05291692 Royal Hospital Founders Day 1st celebrated
S05291721 South Carolina formally incorporated as a royal colony
S05291787 "Virginia Plan" proposed
S05291790 Rhode Is becomes last of original 13 colonies ratifing Constitution
S05291848 Wisconsin becomes 30th state
S05291849 Patent for lifting vessels granted to Abraham Lincoln
S05291861 Asteroid 72, Feronia, discovered (name for Italian goddess of groves)
S05291861 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #72 Feronia
S05291861 Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for Union Army
S05291864 Méxican Emperor Maximilian arrives at Vera Cruz
S05291874 Present constitution of Switzerland takes effect
S05291884 1st steam cable trams start in highgate
S05291889 A Charlois discovers asteroid #284 Amalia
S05291900 Trademark "Escalator" registered by Otis Elevator Co
S05291909 Frank "Home Run" Baker's 1st career home run
S05291910 Pope's encyclical on Editae Saepe, against church reformers
S05291911 1st running of Indianapolis 500
S05291912 15 young women fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing "Turkey Trot"
S05291912Cduring their lunch break
S05291914 Ship rams Canadian ship Empress of Ireland on St Lawrence R; 1024 die
S05291916 Official flag of president of US adopted
S05291916 US forces invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924
S05291919 Einstein's light-bending prediction confirmed by Arthur Eddington
S05291922 Ecuador becomes independent
S05291922 US Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport & not a
S05291922Cbusiness & thus not subject to antitrust laws
S05291928 Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car
S05291935 Hague local museum opens
S05291940 Arthur Seyss-Inquart intalled as Reich commissar of Hague
S05291943 Confederacy of Algiers (Churchill-Marshall-Eisenhower)
S05291943 Meat & cheese rationed in US
S05291945 US 1st Marine division conquerors Shuri-castle Okinawa
S05291946 KVP wins Provincial National election in Netherlands
S05291951 1st North Pole flight in single engine plane-CF Blair
S05291953 Edmund P Hillary & Tensing Norkay are 1st to reach summit of Everest
S05291954 Kirk & Anne Douglas married
S05291954 Pope Pius X issues holy declaration
S05291956 WESH TV channel 2 in Daytona Beach-Orlando, FL (NBC) 1st broadcast
S05291957 Algerian rebellion, kills 336 collaborators
S05291957 Laos govt of prince Suvanna Phuma resigns
S05291959 Charles de Gaulle forms French govt
S05291960 Everly Brothers "Cathy's Clown" hits #1
S05291962 Barbra Striesand appears on "Garry Moore Show"
S05291965 Phillies Dick Allen hits 529' HR out of Connie Mack Stadium
S05291967 Australian Paul McManus waterskis barefoot for 1:30:19
S05291971 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2127 Tanya
S05291973 Thomas Bradley elected 1st black mayor of Los Angeles Calif
S05291973C $100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records
S05291973CColumbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating
S05291977 A J Foyt wins Indianapolis 500 for a record 4th time
S05291977 NBC News & Information Service (24 hr news) ends on radio
S05291977CJanet Guthrie becomes 1st woman to drive in Indy 500
S05291977CSue Press is 1st woman golfer to hit consecutive holes-in one
S05291978 1st class postage now 15¢ (13¢ for 3 years)
S05291979 Radio's 1st rock network "Source" premiers
S05291980 Attempted assassination of Vernon Jordan Jr, National Urban Leag pres
S05291980 J Turners "Juliet & her Nurse" sold for $6,400,000 in NYC
S05291980 Larry Bird beats out Magic Johnson for NBA rookie of year
S05291983 Yuri Dumchev of USSR throws discus a record 71.86 m
S05291984 Boston Red Sox retires #9 (Ted Williams) & #4 (Joe Cronin)
S05291985 35 die in rioting between British & Italians at European Cup soccer
S05291987 "Twilight Zone" director John Landis found innocent
S05291987 Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains
S05291987 Robin Ventura set a college baseball record with hits in 57 games
S05291989 Student protesters in China construct a replic of Statue of Liberty
S05291990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,870.49
S05291990 NY Mets fire manager Davey Johnson & hire Bud Harrelson
S05291992 NY Mets score in 9th to end home shut-out streak at 3 games
S05291993 Nazi's kill 5 Turkish women in Solingen Germany
S05301416 Jerome of Prague burned as a heretic by Church
S05301498 Columbus departs with 6 ships for 3rd trip to America
S05301527 U of Marburg (Germany) founded
S05301539 Spanish explorer Fernando de Soto lands in Florida
S05301574 Henry III follows brother Charles IX as king of France
S05301574 Sea battle at Lillo Belgium (Adolf Van Haemstede vs Louis de Boisot)
S05301814 1st Treaty of Paris, after Napoleon's 1st abdication
S05301822 House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged)
S05301848 William Young patents ice cream freezer
S05301854 Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise opens north slavery
S05301854 Territories of Kansas & Nebraska created
S05301858 Hudson's Bay Co rights to Vancouver Island revoked
S05301862 Battle of Booneville MS - captured Gen Beauregard evacuates Corinth
S05301862 Battle of Front Royal, VA
S05301864 Battle of Bethesda Church VA
S05301866 Opera "Die Verkaufte Braut" premiers (Prague)
S05301868 Memorial Day 1st observed when 2 women in Columbus Mississippi
S05301868Cplaced flowers on both Confederate & Union graves
S05301889 Brasierre is invented
S05301894 Bobby Lowe is 1st to hit 4 HRs in 1 baseball game
S05301901 Hall of Fame for Great American on NYU campus dedicated
S05301901 Memorial Day 1st observed in US
S05301903 R S Dugan discovers asteroid #511 Davida
S05301904 Frank Chance gets hit by pitch 5 times in a doubleheader
S05301908 1st federal workmen's compensation law approved
S05301908 Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System
S05301908 Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane
S05301908 US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah authorized
S05301911 1st Indianapolis 500 car race, Ray Harroun wins at 75 MPH (120 KPH)
S05301912 US Marines sent to Nicaragua
S05301913 1st Balkan War ends, Treaty of London
S05301913 Conclusion of 1st Balkan War
S05301913 New country of Albania, formed
S05301921 Salzburg, Austria, votes to join Germany
S05301922 Latvia & Vatican sign accord
S05301922 Lincoln Memorial dedicated
S05301922CCubs swap Max Flack for Cards Cliff Heathcote during middle
S05301922Cof doubleheader. Both play for both teams that day
S05301924 H E Wood discovers asteroid #1032 Pafuri
S05301924 Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists
S05301925 British mariners shoot on demonstrators
S05301925 Peter DePaolo became 1st man to average over 100 mph at Indy
S05301930 Bill Arnold wins Indianapolis 500 car race (161.6 kph)
S05301932 Yankees dedicate a plaque to Miller Huggins
S05301933 Patent on invisible glass installation
S05301935 Babe Ruth's final game, goes hitless for Braves against Phillies
S05301937 Denny Shute wins PGA golf tournament
S05301937 Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers, 10 die
S05301937 Pitcher Carl Hubbell's 24th consecutive victory
S05301937 Police kill 10 strikers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago
S05301938 Yanks sweep Red Sox 10-0 & 5-4 in front of 83,533 at Yankee Stadium
S05301941 English Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government
S05301942 1st Bombing attack on Cologne (1,000 bombers)
S05301943 US troops reconquer Attu Aleutians
S05301946 United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (NY) 42 die
S05301949 East Germans constitution approved
S05301949 WRTV TV channel 6 in Indianapolis, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
S05301951 Heavyweight Ezzard Charles KOs Joey Maxim in Chicago
S05301953 1st major league network baseball game-Cleveland 7, Chicago 2
S05301955 KMVT TV channel 11 in Twin Falls, ID (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
S05301955 Tunisia begins domestic self governing
S05301956 Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee Florida
S05301959 Pres Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua
S05301959 Pres Stroessner disbands Paraguay's parliament
S05301959 World's 1st hovercraft tested at Cowes England
S05301961 Dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 61 die
S05301961 Maris hits his 10th & 11th of 61 HRs
S05301962 69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India)
S05301964 Beatles 1961 record of "Cry for a Shadow" is #1 in Australia
S05301964 Beatles' "Love Me Do," single goes #1
S05301965 Vivian Malone, is 1st black to graduate from University of Alabama
S05301966 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam
S05301966 Graham Hill wins Indianapolis 500 car race (232.2 kph)
S05301966 US launches Surveyor 1 to Moon
S05301967 Biafra declares independence from Nigeria
S05301967 Robert "Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles
S05301968 Beatles begin work on their only double album "Beatles"
S05301968 University church in Leipzig German DR, blown up
S05301969 Gibraltar adopts constitution
S05301969 People revolt in Willemstad, Curaçao [Trinti di mei]
S05301971 36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; drunk LSD apple juice
S05301971 Train crash at Pigeon droppings, 5 die
S05301971 US Mariner 9 1st satellite to orbit Mars launched
S05301972 3 Jap PFL terrorists kills 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lod Intl airport
S05301974 10th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 9-4
S05301975 Wings release "Venus & Mars" album
S05301976 Bobby Unser sets world record for fastest pit stop (4 seconds)
S05301977 Cleve Indian Dennis Eckersley no-hits Calif Angels, 2-0
S05301979 Percom Data Company Inc release Microdos for Radio Shack's TRS-80
S05301979 Ted Coombs began a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC
S05301980 Turner's painting "Juliet & Her Nurse" sells for $6.4 million
S05301981 "Nightline" extends from 4 nights to 5 nights a week (Friday)
S05301982 Closest Indy 500, Gordon Johncock beats Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds
S05301982 Spain becomes 16th member of NATO
S05301985 Edmonton Oilers beat Flyers 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup
S05301986 Ariane-2 (ESA) launched
S05301986 Bobby Rahal is 1st to avg over 170 mph in Indianapolis 500
S05301987 West German Mathias Rust lands airplane on Red Square
S05301989 Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house
S05301990 135 die in a (6.4) earthquake in Peru
S05301990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,878.56
S05301992 Minn Twin Bert Blyleven becomes 2nd to win as teenager & 40 year old
S05301992 NY Yankee Scott Sanderson becomes 9th to beat all 26 teams
S05301992 Paul Simon weds Edie Brickell
S05311634 US colony Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony
S05311678 Tax protester Lady Godiva rides naked through Coventry
S05311790 US copyright law enacted
S05311821 1st catholic minster of US initiated in Baltimore Md
S05311837 NY's Astor Hotel opens ... most elaborate in US
S05311853 Elisha Kane's Arctic expedition leaves NY aboard Advance
S05311861 Gen Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line
S05311861 Mint at New Orleans closes
S05311862 Battle of Seven Pines VA (Fair Oaks)
S05311864 Raid at Morgan's Kentucky
S05311868 Dr James Moore (UK) wins 1st recorded bicycle race, a 2-km
S05311868Cvelocipede race at Parc fde St Cloud, Paris
S05311870 Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks)
S05311879 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition
S05311879 Madison Square Garden opens its doors
S05311884 John Kellogg patents "flaked cereal"
S05311889 Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Penn
S05311891 Work on trans-Siberian railway begans
S05311899 Bronx acquires Keltch Memorial Park
S05311900 US troops arrive in Peking, help put down Boxer Rebellion
S05311902 Boer War Ends; Treaty of Vereeniging signed, Britain annexes Transvaal
S05311906 Attack on King Alfonso XIII & Victoria von Battenberg in Madrid
S05311908 Miss Pottelsberghe de la Pottery is 1st airplane passenger (Belgium)
S05311909 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, NYC)
S05311910 Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa
S05311910 Union of South Africa declares independence from UK
S05311912 US marines land on Cuba
S05311913 17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified
S05311914 Chic White Sox Joe Benz no-hits Cleve Indians, 6-1
S05311915 An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London
S05311916 Battle of Skagerrak: Brit-German sea battle at Jutland (10,000 dead)
S05311917 1st jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball)
S05311918 M Wolf discovers asteroids #892 Seeligeria & #893 Leopoldina
S05311919 NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes 1st crossing of Atlantic
S05311921 Suffy McInnis (1st base) begins an errorless string of 1,700
S05311923 China & USSR exchange diplomats
S05311926 Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo flees after coup
S05311926 Sesquicentennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia
S05311927 Tiger 1st baseman Johnny Neun makes an unassisted triple play
S05311928 1st aerial cross of Pacific takes off from Oakland
S05311929 Atlantic City Convention Center opens
S05311929 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1108 Demeter
S05311935 Babe Ruth grounds out in his final at bat
S05311935 Quake kills 50,000 in Quetta Pakistan
S05311937 Bkln Dodgers snap NY Giant Carl Hubbell's 24-game winning streak
S05311937 German battleships bomb Almeria Spain
S05311938 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1466 Mundleria
S05311941 -June 1) 32.0 cm rain falls on Burlington Kansas (state record)
S05311941 German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach & swimming pools
S05311942 Sam Snead wins PGA golf tournament
S05311947 Communists grab power in Hungary
S05311947 Eastern DC-4 crashes between Ft Deposit & Perryville Md, kills 53
S05311947 Italian cabinet of Gasperi forms
S05311949 Sam Snead wins PGA golf tournament
S05311950 Due to rain, Johnny Parson wins Indy 500 in 345 miles
S05311951 Neth & South Africa sign cultural accord
S05311951 S Arend discovers asteroid #1591 Baize
S05311953 Lebanese president Camille Shamun disbands government
S05311953 WSUN TV channel 38 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
S05311955 Construction begins on Soviet cosmodrome launch facilities
S05311955 Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike
S05311955 Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed"
S05311956 Mickey Mantle HR just misses clearing Yankee Stadium's roof
S05311958 Dick Dale invents "surf music" with "Let's Go Trippin"
S05311961 Dominican Republic president Trujillo assassinated
S05311961 Judge Irving Kaufman orders Board of Ed of New Rochelle, to integrate
S05311961 Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves Commonwealth
S05311964 Charles Schmid kills first Pied Piper victim
S05311964 SF Giants beat NY Mets, 8-6, in 23 innings (2nd game) (7 hrs 32 mins)
S05311965 Jim Clark becomes 1st foreigner in 49 years to win Indy
S05311969 John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance"
S05311969 Stevie Wonder releases "My Cherie Amore"
S05311970 7.75 Earthquake aftershocks hit Peru; 50-70,000 die
S05311970 At 03:23 PM, Yungay Peru levelled by earthquake (50-70,000 die)
S05311970 KDUB TV channel 40 in Dubuque, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting
S05311971 WDXR (now WKPD) TV channel 29 in Paducah, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
S05311974 Israel & Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights
S05311975 Fred Newman made 12,874 baskets in a one-day exhibition
S05311976 Loudest PA (76 KW) for Who's Quadrophenia in London
S05311977 Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani becomes Heir Apparent to throne of Qatar
S05311977 Trans Alaska oil pipeline completed
S05311979 J Kveton discovers asteroid #2672 Pisek
S05311979 Radio City Music Hall (NYC) reopens
S05311979 Zimbabwe proclaims independence
S05311983 Phila 76ers sweep Lakers for NBA championship in 4 games
S05311985 41 tornadoes hit Northeast US, killing 88
S05311985 Guatemala adopts constitution
S05311985 New Orleans Saints are sold for $70,204,000
S05311987 Edmonton Oilers beat Flyers 4 games to 3 for Stanley Cup
S05311987 Saul Ballesteros drives 3 golf balls off Mt McKinley, Alaska
S05311989 "Rambling with Gambling" 20,000th radio program on WOR-AM (NYC)
S05311989 1st presentation of rock n roll Elvis awards
S05311989 Speaker of House Jim Wright resigns
S05311990 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 3rd victim, Joseph Ponce
S05311991 Oldest bride - Minnie Munro, 102, weds Dudley Reid, 83, in Australia
S05311991 Sides in Angola sign a treaty ending 16 year civil war
S05311993 President Dobrica Cosic of little Yugoslavia flees
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