!06       June events in history, version 91 M
!06       Copyright 1990-91, Robert Braunwart
B06011968 Jason Donovan, rock musician, actor (Neighbors)
B06011962 Michael Clark,  Aberdeen, Scotland, dancer, choreographer
B06011956 Lisa Hartman, singer, actress (Tabitha, Knots Landing)
B06011955 Chiyonofuji, sumo wrestler
B06011948 Tom Sneva, US auto racer (Indianapolis 500 - 1983)
B06011947 Jonathan Pryce,  Wales, stage actor (Comedians, Miss Saigon)
B06011947 Ron Wood,  Middlesex, rock guitarist (Faces, Rolling Stones)
B06011946 Carol Neblett,  Modesto, California, soprano (New York Opera)
B06011945 Linda Scott, singer (Hey Look at Me Now)
B06011945 Frederica Von Stade,  Somerville, NJ, mezzo-soprano (Die Zauberfl”te)
B06011944 Robert Powell,  England, actor (Jigsaw Man, Shaka Zulu, Secrets)
B06011940 Rene Auberjonois, actor (McCabe & Mrs. Miller)
B06011939 Cleavon Little, actor, comedian (Blazing Saddles, Toy Soldiers)
B06011935 Reverend Ike, SC, evangelist minister
B06011935 Norman Robert Foster, English architect
B06011934 Peter Masterson,  Texas, actor (Ambush Bay)
B06011934 Pat Boone, singer, actor (April Love, The Cross & the Switchblade)
B06011933 Alan (the Horse) Ameche, Wisc., NFL fullback (Baltimore Colts)
B06011930 Ty Hardin, Ill., actor (Berserk, PT 109)
B06011930 Edward Woodward, actor (Breaker Morant, Wickerman)
B06011928 Georgi T. Dobrovolsky,  Odessa, Ukraine, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 11)
B06011926 Andy Griffith, actor (sheriff of Mayberry, Matlock)
B06011926 Marilyn Monroe [Norma Jean Baker], actress (Some Like It Hot)
B06011925 Richard Erdman,  Enid, Okla., actor (Stalag 17, Anything Goes)
B06011924 William Sloane Coffin, Jr., NYC, Yale chaplain, antiwar leader
B06011921 Nelson Riddle, musical conductor (Batman, Frank Sinatra)
B06011907 Frank Whittle, inventor of a jet engine
B06011902 Leopold Lindtberg,  Wien, Austria, director (Mother Courage)
B06011901 John W. Van Duren, playwright (I Remember Mama)
B06011899 Werner Janssen, NYC, conductor, composer (New Years Eve in NY)
B06011899 Edward Titchmarsh,  English mathematical analyst
B06011898 Curtis Stevens, US 2-man bobsled racer (Olympic gold 1932)
B06011898 Molly Picon, actress (Milk & Honey, Fiddler on the Roof)
B06011878 John Masefield, 15th poet laureate of England (Salt-Water Ballads)
B06011855 Edward H. Angle,  Penn., 1st orthodontic specialist
B06011825 Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan, Confederate cavalry commander
B06011814 Philip Kearney, Union Civil War general
B06011801 Brigham Young, Mormon church leader, polygamist
B06011796 Sadi Carnot,  Paris, physicist, thermodynamics pioneer
B06011637 Jacques Marquette,  French Jesuit missionary who explored Wisconsin
B06021959 Tony Hadley, rock singer, keyboardist (Spandau Ballet - True)
B06021955 Garry Grimes, SF, actor (Summer of '42, Class of '44)
B06021955 Dana Carvey, comedian (SNL - Church Lady)
B06021953 Craig Stadler, San Diego, Calif., PGA golfer (Masters 1982)
B06021948 Albert Innaurato, Philadelphia, playwright, director (Age in Soho)
B06021948 Jerry Mathers, the "Beaver"
B06021944 Marvin Hamlisch, NY, composer, pianist (The Sting, Chorus Line)
B06021944 Garo Yepremian, NFL place kicker (Miami Dolphins)
B06021943 Charles Haid, actor (Hill Street Blues, Altered States)
B06021941 Stacy Keach, actor (Mike Hammer, Butterfly, Watched)
B06021941 Charlie Watts, drummer (Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar)
B06021940 Constantine II, deposed king of Greece (1964-74)
B06021937 Sally Kellerman, Calif., actress (M*A*S*H, A Little Romance)
B06021936 Vladimir Golubnitschiy, USSR, Olympic 20-K walker (gold 1960, 1968)
B06021932 Barry Levinson,  movie director, writer (Good Morning Vietnam)
B06021932 William Millard,  Denver, founder of ComputerLand
B06021932 Sammy Turner,  Patterson, NJ, singer (Lavender Blue Moods)
B06021930 Charles Conrad, Jr., PA, astronaut (Gemini 5, 11, Apollo 12, Skylab 2)
B06021930 1st baby born on a vessel passing through the Panama Canal
B06021929 Chuck Barris, TV producer (The Gong Show, The Dating Game)
B06021926 Milo O'Shea, actor (Barbarella, Romeo & Juliet)
B06021915 Robert Palmer,  Syracuse, NY, composer (Memorial Music)
B06021915 Lester del Rey,  Saratoga, Minn., sci-fi writer (Nerves, Pstalemate)
B06021913 Barbara Pym,  Shropshire, England, romantic author (Very Private Eye)
B06021908 Miklos Szentkuthy, Hungarian novelist (Prae, Breviary of St. Orpheus)
B06021904 Johnny Weissmuller, Olympic swimmer (5 gold 1924-28), actor (Tarzan)
B06021890 Hedda Hopper, gossip columnist (From Under My Hat)
B06021863 Felix Weingartner, Germany, conductor (Zara, Dalmatia)
B06021857 Karl Gjellerup, Danish poet, novelist (Nobel 1917)
B06021857 Sir Edward Elgar,  Broadheath, England, composer (Pomp & Circumstance)
B06021850 Sir Edward A. Sharpey-Sch”fer,  London, physiologist
B06021840 Thomas Hardy, "Wessex," English poet, novelist (Mayor of Casterbridge)
B06021835 St. Pius X, 257th Roman Catholic pope (1903-14)
B06021821 Ion Bratianu, premier of Romania (Liberal, 1876-88)
B06021740 Marquis de Sade, Paris, writer (Justine, 120 Days of Sodom)
B06031961 Heaviest known baby at birth, 11.0 kg, Turkey
B06031958 Scott Valentine, actor (Family Ties, My Demon Lover)
B06031956 Suren Nalbandyan, USSR, lightweight wrestler (Olympic gold 1976)
B06031952 Billy Powell, rock keyboardist (Lynyrd Skynyrd - That Smell, Freebird)
B06031951 Deniece Williams, singer (Love Wouldn't Let Me Wait)
B06031950 Suzi Quatro,  Detroit, singer (Stumblin' In), actress (Happy Days)
B06031946 Ian Hunter,  English rocker (Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes)
B06031946 Tristan Rogers, actor (General Hospital - Scorpio)
B06031945 Hale Irwin, PGA golfer (US Open 1974, 1979)
B06031943 Billy Cunningham, NBA/ABA player/coach (Carolina Cougers, Phila 76ers)
B06031942 Curtis Mayfield, rock singer, guitarist (Freddie's Dead, Superfly)
B06031936 Larry McMurtry,  Wichita Falls, Texas, novelist (Lonesome Dove)
B06031927 Boots Randolph, C & W saxophonist (Yakety Sax)
B06031926 Colleen Dewhurst, actress (You Can't Take It with You)
B06031926 Allen Ginsberg,  Newark, NJ, Beat poet (Howl)
B06031925 Tony Curtis [Bernard Schwartz], actor (Some Like It Hot, Trapeze)
B06031922 Alain Resnais,  French director (Providence, Hiroshima Mon Amour)
B06031907 Paul Rotha, London, documentary film maker (World of Plenty)
B06031906 Josephine Baker, dancer, singer, Paris nightclub owner
B06031905 Paulette Goddard,  NY, actress (The Great Dictator)
B06031904 Jan Peerce [Jacob Pincus Perelmuth], NYC, operatic tenor (NY Met)
B06031901 Maurice Evans, England, US actor (Planet of the Apes)
B06031895 Kavalam Madhava Panikkar,  Indian statesman, diplomat, writer
B06031877 Raoul Dufy,  French Fauvist painter (The Palm)
B06031873 Alfred E. Smith,  Ottawa, pro hockey player, HOF member (Senators)
B06031873 Otto Loewi,  Germany, US physician, pharmacologist (Nobel 1936)
B06031865 George V, king of England (1910-36)
B06031864 Ransom Eli Olds,  auto (Oldsmobile) & truck (REO) manufacturer
B06031853 Sir William Flinders Petrie, English archaeologist, egyptologist
B06031844 Garret Augustus Hobart, 24th US VP (R, 1897-99)
B06031808 Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy (1861-65)
B06031780 William Hone, English author, bookseller (The Every-Day Book)
B06031761 Henry Shrapnel,  English artillery expert, inventor of shrapnel shell
B06031726 James Hutton,  Scottish physician, geological uniformitarian
B06031635 Philippe Quinault, French dramatist
B06041965 Andrea Jaeger,  Chicago, tennis player (retired as a teenager)
B06041964 Chris Kavanagh, rock musician (Sigue Sigue Sputnik)
B06041963 Xavier McDaniel, NBA forward (Seattle SuperSonics)
B06041958 Julie Gholson,  Birmingham, Ala., actress
B06041957 Keith Baker, CFL wide receiver (Montr‚al Alouettes, Hamilton)
B06041952 Parker Stevenson, actor (Stroker Ace)
B06041950 Wayne Powers, New Rochelle, NY, actor (Laverne & Shirley, 13 East)
B06041948 Rosemary Joyce, model, actress
B06041946 Bettina Gregory,  ABC newswoman
B06041945 Gordon Waller,  Scottish singer (Peter & Gordon - World Without Love)
B06041944 Roger Ball, saxophonist (Average White Band)
B06041944 Michelle Phillips,  Calif., singer, actress (The Mamas & the Papas)
B06041939 John Oliver,  Teaneck, NJ, conductor
B06041937 Freddie Fender, country singer (Feelings)
B06041936 Bruce Dern, actor (Coming Home, Silent Running, Tattoo)
B06041932 John Barrymore, Jr., actor (Clones)
B06041927 Gerry Mulligan, NY, jazz saxophonist
B06041926 Robert Earl Hughes, who became heaviest known human (486 kg, 1069 lbs)
B06041924 Dennis Weaver, actor (Gunsmoke - Chester, McCloud, Duel)
B06041922 Irwin Bazelon,  Evanston, Ill., composer (Duo for Viola)
B06041921 Bobby Wanzer, NYC, NBA HOF player, coach (Rochester/Cincinnati Royals)
B06041919 Robert Merrill, Brooklyn, NY, baritone (NY Met)
B06041917 Robert Anderson, NYC, playwright, novelist (Tea & Sympathy)
B06041917 Charles Collingwood, CBS news commentator
B06041917 Howard Metzenbaum, US senator from Ohio (D)
B06041909 Paul Nordoff, Philadelphia, composer (Frog Prince)
B06041908 Rosalind Russell, actress (Mame, Take a Letter Darling)
B06041901 Carlton E. Morse, La., creator of radio show "One Man's Family"
B06041891 Erno Rapee,  Budapest, conductor (NBC Orchestra)
B06041877 Heinrich Wieland, German chemist (bile acids) (Nobel 1927)
B06041867 Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, Finnish military hero, president (1944-46)
B06041860 Ren‚ Lalique,  French glass maker
B06041744 Jeremy Belknap, American author
B06041738 George III, English king during American Revolution (1760-1820)
B06041694 Fran‡ois Quesnay, French economist, leader of the Physiocrats
B06051974 Chad Allen Lazzari, actor (My 2 Dads - Zack)
B06051956 Kenny G, jazz/pop saxophonist
B06051949 Ken Follett,  Cardiff, Wales, author (Eye of the Needle)
B06051946 Michael Monarch,  rock guitarist (Steppenwolf)
B06051945 John Carlos, track star (Olympic bronze 1968); gave black power salute
B06051939 Charles Joseph Clark, 16th Canadian PM (P-C, 1979-80)
B06051938 Marion Chapman, smallest known premature baby to survive (280 g)
B06051934 Bill D. Moyers, news commentator (Bill Moyers' Journal)
B06051934 F. Curtis Michel,  LaCrosse, Wisc., astronaut
B06051932 Christy Brown,  Dublin, novelist (My Left Foot, Down All the Days)
B06051931 Jacques Demy,  France, New Wave director (Lola, Magic Donkey)
B06051928 Tony Richardson, English director (Delicate Balance, Hotel N.H.)
B06051928 Robert Lansing, actor (Bittersweet Love, Astronauts, S.H.E.)
B06051926 Bill Hayes, Ill., actor (Your Show of Shows, Days of Our Lives)
B06051923 Daniel Pinkham,  Lynn, Mass., composer (Signs of the Zodiac)
B06051920 Marion Motley, Ga., AAFC, NFL HOF fullback (Cleveland, Pittsburgh)
B06051919 James Fletcher, NJ, head of NASA (1986-  )
B06051919 Akeo Watanabe, Tokyo, conductor
B06051917 Jos‚ Batista Pinheiro de Azevedo, Portuguese admiral, premier (1975-6)
B06051915 Alfred Kazin, Brooklyn, writer
B06051906 Leonard Palmer,  English philologist, classical scholar
B06051905 John Abbott, London, actor (Smorgasbord)
B06051905 Art Donovan, NFL HOF defensive tackle (Baltimore, NY Yanks, Dallas)
B06051900 Dennis Gabor, inventor of holography (3D laser photography)
B06051898 Federico Garc¡a Lorca, Spanish poet, dramatist (Blood Wedding)
B06051887 Ruth Benedict, US anthropologist (Patterns of Culture)
B06051883 John Maynard Keynes,  English economist, mathematician, journalist
B06051882 Igor Stravinsky,  Oranienbaum, Russia, composer (Rite of Spring) (OS)
B06051878 Francisco (Pancho) Villa, Mexican revolutionary, guerrilla leader
B06051868 James Connolly, Marxist labor organizer (Irish Easter Rising, IWW)
B06051862 Alivar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist (Nobel 1911)
B06051819 John Couch Adams, codiscoverer of Neptune
B06051723 Adam Smith, Scottish economist (The Wealth of Nations) (baptized)
B06051718 Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (baptized)
B0605-468 Socrates,  Greek philosopher (one suggested date)
B06061976 Lukas Hass, actor (Lady in White)
B06061975 Staci Keanan, actress (My 2 Dads - Nicole)
B06061961 Sydney Walsh, actress (Hooperman - Mo)
B06061961 Terri Nunn, Calif., singer (Berlin - You Take My Breath Away)
B06061959 Amanda Pays, actress (Max Headroom, Off Limits)
B06061956 Bjorn Borg,  Sodertlage, Sweden, tennis player (Wimbledon 1976-79)
B06061954 Harvey Fierstein, actor, playwright (Torch Song Trilogy)
B06061951 Floyd Conner,  Cincinnati, writer (This Date in Sports History)      <
B06061949 Richard Lewis, comedian, actor (Anything But Love)
B06061949 Robert Englund, Calif., actor
B06061946 Chelsea Brown, comedienne (Laugh-In, Matt Lincoln)
B06061944 Peter Albin,  rock musician (Big Brother & the Holding Company)
B06061943 Joe Stampley, country singer
B06061942 Larry (The Mole) Taylor,  rock musician (Canned Heat)
B06061942 Sandra Morgan, US 4 x 100-m freestyle swimmer (Olympic gold 1956)
B06061939 Ed Giacomin,  Sudbury, Ont., NY Ranger goalie
B06061939 Gary (US) Bonds [Anderson], singer, songwriter (New Orleans)
B06061938 Franco,  Belgian Congo, jazz musician (Independence Cha Cha) (approx.)
B06061936 Levi Stubbs, rock musician (4 Tops - Same Old Song)
B06061935 Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, Tibetan religious leader (Nobel 1989)
B06061935 Bobby Mitchell, NFL running back, wide receiver (Browns, Redskins)
B06061934 Philippe Entremont,  Rheims, France, pianist, conductor
B06061933 Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist (tunneling microscope) (Nobel 1986)
B06061932 Billie Whitelaw, actress (The Adding Machine, Make Mine Mink)
B06061932 David R. Scott,  San Antonio, US astronaut (Gemini 8, Apollo 9, 15)
B06061928 George Deukmejian, Jr., Menands, NY, California governor (R, 1983-91)
B06061926 Klaus Tennstedt,  Merseburg, Germany, conductor
B06061907 Bill Dickey,  NY Yankee hall-of-fame catcher (1928-43), manager (1946)
B06061907 Bill Mokray,  NJ, basketball writer, scout, HOF member
B06061903 Aram Khachaturian,  Tiflis, Georgia, musician, composer (Gayane)
B06061901 Sukarno,  Java, Indonesian nationalist, president (1949-65)
B06061875 Thomas Mann,  Lbeck, Germany, novelist (Magic Mountain) (Nobel 1929)
B06061872 Alexandra,  Darmstadt, [West] Germany, last Russian tsarina
B06061868 Robert Falcon Scott, leader of ill-fated south polar expedition
B06061850 Karl F. Braun, codeveloper of wireless telegraphy (Nobel 1909)
B06061756 John Trumbull, US painter (The Declaration of Independence)
B06061755 Nathan Hale, who had but one life to give for his country
B06061606 Pierre Corneille,  Rouen, father of French Classical drama (Le Cid)
B06061599 Diego Vel zquez, Spanish painter (Fraga Philip) (baptized)
B06061436 Regiomontanus [Johannes Mller], preparer of astronomical tables
B06071989 Michael Joseph Tamboli,  Eldesburg, Md., born 01:23:45 p.m. on 6-7-89
B06071962 Janice Lawrence,  Mississippi, basketball player (Olympic gold 1984)
B06071962 Paddy McAloon, rock musician (Prefab Sprout - 2 Wheels Good)
B06071960 Prince [Rodgers Nelson], rock singer, actor (1999, Purple Rain)
B06071955 Sandra Bernhard,  Flint, Mich., actress (Casual Sex, Follow That Bird)
B06071954 Lui Passaglia,  Vancouver, BC, CFL place kicker (BC Lions)
B06071947 Thurman Munson, NY Yankee catcher, captain
B06071946 Bill Kreutzman, drummer (Grateful Dead - Uncle John's Band)
B06071944 Clarence White, guitarist (The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn!)
B06071943 Ken Osmond, actor (Leave It to Beaver - Eddie Haskel)
B06071943 Nikki Giovanni, poet ("Ladies Home Journal" woman of the year 1973)
B06071941 Jaime Laredo,  Cochabamba, Bolivia, violinist
B06071940 Tom Jones,  Wales, singer (What's New Pussycat?)
B06071937 Neeme J„rvi,  Tallinn, Estonia, USSR, conductor
B06071930 Dolores Gray, singer, actress (Designing Woman, Kismet)
B06071929 John Turner, Surrey, England, 17th Canadian PM (L, 1984)
B06071917 David C. Cooke,  Wilmington, Dela., writer (Jet & Rocket Planes)     <
B06071917 Gwendolyn Brooks,  Topeka, Kansas, poet, novelist (The Bean Eaters)
B06071913 J. Dallas Shirley,  Washington, DC, basketball HOF referee
B06071909 Virginia Apgar,  US anesthesiologist, developer of Apgar score
B06071909 Peter Rodino, US congressman (D-NJ), chair of Watergate hearings
B06071909 Jessica Tandy,  London, actress (Birds, Cocoon, Driving Miss Daisy)
B06071899 Elizabeth Bowen,  Dublin, novelist (The Death of the Heart)
B06071897 George Szell,  Budapest, Hungary, conductor (Met 1942-45)
B06071896 Robert S. Mulliken,  US chemist, physicist (Nobel 1966)
B06071879 Knud J.V. Rasmussen,  Greenland, explorer, founder of Thule Base
B06071868 Sir John Townsend, Scottish physicist (electrical conduction in gases)
B06071848 [Eugene Henri] Paul Gauguin, French Post-Impressionist painter
B06071843 Susan Elizabeth Blow, US pioneer in kindergarten education
B06071840 Carlota, wife of Emperor Maximilian of M‚xico
B06071825 R.D. Blackmore,  Berkshire, England, novelist (Lorna Doone, Norie)
B06071811 Sir James Young Simpson,  Scottish physician, a founder of gynecology
B06071778 George Bryan (Beau) Brummel, English dandy
B06071770 Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool, British PM (C, 1812-27)
B06071502 Pope Gregory XIII, who introduced the Gregorian calendar in 1582
B06081965 Robert Platus, NYC, rock dancer (Milli Vanilli - Girl You Know This)
B06081962 Nick Rhodes, rock keyboardist (Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf)
B06081960 Mike Hucknail, rock musician (Simply Red - Every Time We Say Goodbye)
B06081955 Griffin Dunne, actor (American Werewolf in London, Who's That Girl?)
B06081950 Kathy Whitton Baker,  Midland, TX, actress (Right Stuff, 16 Candles)
B06081950 Alex Van Halen, drummer (Van Halen - Jump, 1984)
B06081950 Elmar Oliveira,  Waterbury, Conn., violinist (Naumburg 1978)
B06081949 Emanuel Ax,  Lvov, Poland, pianist
B06081944 William Royce (Boz) Scaggs, rock singer (Steve Miller Band)
B06081943 Willie Davenport, US 110-m hurdler (Olympic gold 1968)
B06081942 Chuck Negron, rock singer (3 Dog Night - Joy to the World)
B06081940 Nancy Sinatra, Jersey City, singer; her boots were made for walkin'
B06081939 Herb Adderley, NFL defensive back (Green Bay, Dallas)
B06081937 Bruce McCandless II,  Boston, captain, USN, astronaut (STS-41B)
B06081936 James Darren, actor (Boss' [sic] Son, Diamond Head, Venus in Furs)
B06081934 Millicent Martin, actress
B06081933 Joan Rivers,  Brooklyn, comedian (The Late Show, Hollywood Squares)
B06081930 Bo Gunnar Widerberg,  Malm”, Sweden, director (Elvira Madigan)
B06081930 Dana Wynter, London, actress (Airport, Invasion of the Body Snatchers)
B06081929 Jerry Stiller,  Brooklyn, comedian (Stiller & Meara)
B06081925 Eddie Gaedel, 3'7" St. Louis Brown pinch-hitter
B06081925 Barbara Pierce Bush,  Rye, NY, first lady (1989-  )
B06081921 Alexis Smith, British Columbia, actress (Gentleman Jim)
B06081921 Suharto, 2nd president of Indonesia (1967-  ); murdered 500,000
B06081919 Constantine Fitzgibbon, Mass., historian, novelist (Cousin Emily)
B06081918 Robert Preston, actor (The Music Man, Mame, The Last Starfighter)
B06081917 Byron R. (Whizzer) White, football star, US Supreme Court justice
B06081916 Francis Crick, codiscoverer of the structure of DNA (Nobel 1962)
B06081914 Joseph de Pietro, US weight lifter (Olympic gold 1948)
B06081912 Walter Kennedy,  Conn., Stamford mayor, NBA commissioner (1963-75)
B06081911 Van Lingle Mungo,  SC, pitcher (Dodgers, Giants)
B06081903 Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian writer, 1st woman in Acad‚mie Fran‡aise
B06081867 Frank Lloyd Wright,  Richland Center, Wisc., master builder
B06081848 Franklin H. King, scientist, inventor of cylindrical tower silo
B06081847 Ida Saxton McKinley,  Canton, Ohio, first lady
B06081815 Samuel Hirsch, Germany, religious philosopher, Reform rabbi
B06081810 Robert Schumann,  Zwickau, Saxony, Germany, composer
B06081671 Tomaso Albinoni, Venice, composer (Sinfonie e Concerti a 5)
B06081625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, astronomer, discoverer of 4 moons of Saturn
B06091963 Johnny Depp,  Queensboro, Ken., actor (21 Jump Street)
B06091961 Michael J. Fox, actor (Family Ties, Teen Wolf, Back to the Future)
B06091951 Bonnie Tyler (Gaynor Hopkins), singer (Total Eclipse of the Heart)
B06091951 Dave Parker, baseball outfielder (Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Oakland)
B06091948 Nathaniel Rosen,  Altadena, Calif., cellist (Tchaikovsky gold 1978)
B06091947 Mitch Mitchell, drummer (Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze)
B06091944 23 puppies, to Lena, a foxhound, Ambler, Penn. (record litter)
B06091943 Joe W. Haldeman, Oklahoma City, sci-fi writer (Study War No More)
B06091941 John Lord,  England, rock keyboardist (Deep Purple - Hush)
B06091939 Illeana Cotrubas,  Galatz, Romania, soprano
B06091938 Charles Wuorinen, NYC, composer (Pulitzer 1980)
B06091934 Jackie Wilson,  Detroit, singer (Higher & Higher, Lonely Teardrops)
B06091934 Joe Santos, actor
B06091930 Marvin Kalb, educator, TV newsman (CBS, NBC)
B06091930 Ben Abruzzo, pilot of 1st balloon to cross the Atlantic
B06091930 Jackie Mason,  Wisc., comedian (World According to Me, Chicken Soup)
B06091926 Mona Freeman,  Baltimore, actress (Black Beauty, Dear Wife, Heiress)
B06091924 Tony Britton, Birmingham, Eng., actor (Day of Jackal, Girl in My Soup)
B06091924 Christine Goitschel,  French slalom skier (Olympic gold 1964)
B06091922 George Axelrod, playwright (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
B06091921 Agnes Keleti, Hungary, gymnast (Olympic gold 1952, 1956)
B06091916 Robert S. McNamara, US secretary of defense, head of the World Bank
B06091915 Les Paul, guitarist, inventor of the Les Paul guitar
B06091913 Patrick Steptoe, Engl. physician, developer of test tube fertilization
B06091912 Ingolf Dahl,  Hamburg, Germany, composer (Andante & Arioso)
B06091906 Tonio Selwart,  Germany, actor (Barefoot Contessa, Naked Maja)
B06091900 Fred Waring,  Penn., musician, conductor, inventor (Waring blender)
B06091893 S.N. Behrman,  Worcester, Mass., playwright (No Time for Comedy)
B06091893 Cole Porter, Ind., composer (Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate) (approx yr.)
B06091865 Carl Nielsen,  Norre-Lyndelse, Denmark, composer (Det Uuslukkelige)
B06091843 Bertha von Suttner,  Austrian novelist, pacifist (Nobel 1905)
B06091836 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson,  England, pioneer woman physician
B06091810 Otto Nicolai,  K”nigsberg, Prussia, composer (Merry Wives of Windsor)
B06091791 John Howard Payne,  US author, actor, diplomat (Home Sweet Home)
B06091781 George Stephenson, principal inventor of the railroad locomotive
B06091640 Leopold I, Vienna, Holy Roman emperor (1658-1705)
B06101967 Human Beatbox [Darren Robinson], rock musician (The Fat Boys)
B06101966 Doug McKeon, actor (Big Shamus Little Shamus, Centennial)
B06101962 Duane Sutter, NY Islander
B06101961 Maxi Priest, rock musician (Wide World)
B06101955 Andrew Stevens,  US actor (Seduction, The Boys in Company C, Fury)
B06101951 Dan Fouts, SF, NFL quarterback (San Diego Chargers)
B06101946 Matthew Fisher,  England, keyboardist (Procul Harum - Conquistador)
B06101943 Jeff Greenfield, media commentator (Firing Line, Nightline)
B06101941 Shirley Alston,  Passaic, NJ, singer (Shirelles - Soldier Boy)
B06101939 Alexandria Stewart, Montr‚al, actress (In Praise of Older Women)
B06101937 Richard Foreman, NYC, theatrical director (Daily Life)
B06101933 F. Lee Bailey,  US attorney (Sam Shepard case)
B06101932 Gardner McKay, NYC, actor (The Pleasure Seekers)
B06101929 Edward O. Wilson,  Birmingham, Ala., zoologist
B06101929 James A. McDivitt, Chicago, astronaut (Gemini 4, Apollo 9)
B06101928 Maurice Sendak, NYC, children's author, illustrator, set designer
B06101926 June Haver, actress (The Dolly Sisters, The Girl Next Door)
B06101925 Nat Hentoff, columnist, novelist (The Village Voice, The Cold Society)
B06101923 Robert Maxwell, Czechoslovakia, British publisher (Pergamon Press)
B06101922 Judy Garland [Frances Gumm], not in Kansas any more (Wizard of Oz)
B06101921 Prince Philip [Mountbatten], Duke of Edinburgh, Mr. Queen Elizabeth II
B06101915 Saul Bellow,  Qu‚bec, novelist (Herzog, Humboldt's Gift) (Nobel 1976)
B06101911 Sir Terence Rattigan, Engl. playwright (Winslow Boy, Browning Version)
B06101911 Ralph Kirkpatrick,  Leominster, Mass., harpsichordist
B06101910 Howlin' Wolf [Chester Burnette], harmonica player
B06101908 Robert Cummings,  Missouri, actor (Love That Bob, Dial M for Murder)
B06101904 Frederick Loewe,  Vienna, composer, partner of Learner
B06101903 Clyde Beatty, circus lion-tamer
B06101895 Immanuel Velikovsky,  Byelorussia, writer (Worlds in Collision)
B06101892 Abel Wolman, Md., engineer, codeveloper of drinking water chlorination
B06101863 Louis Marie Anne Couperus, Dutch novelist (Eline vere, Extaze)
B06101836 Yamaoka Tesshu, Japanese swordsman, master of kendo
B06101832 Nikolaus August Otto, inventor of 4-stroke internal-combustion engine
B06101819 Gustave Courbet, French Realist painter (Funeral at Ornans)
B06101735 John Morgan, physician-in-chief of Continental Army
B06101706 John Dollond, owner of 1st patent for achromatic lens
B06111966 Tiffany Cohen,  Culver City, Calif., Olympic swimmer (2 gold 1984)
B06111956 Joe Montana, NFL quarterback (SF 49ers)
B06111953 Gerry Dattilio, CFL quarterback (Montr‚al Alouettes)
B06111952 Russell Hitchcock, rock singer (Air Supply)
B06111950 Debbie (Pokey) Watson, US 200-m backstroke swimmer (Olympic gold 1968)
B06111949 Frank Beard, rock drummer (ZZ Top - Fandango)
B06111947 Henry G. Cisneros, mayor of San Antonio (D)
B06111945 Adrienne Barbeau, actress (Maude), wife of John Carpenter
B06111944 James D.A. Van Hoften, Fresno, Calif., astronaut (STS-41C, 51I)
B06111940 Joey Dee,  Passaic, NJ, actor (Hey Let's Twist, 2 Tickets to Paris)
B06111939 Jackie Stewart,  Scotland, auto racer, sports announcer
B06111937 Johnny Brown, comedian (Laugh-In, Good Times)
B06111936 Chad Everett, actor (Intruder Within, Medical Center, Airplane II)
B06111935 Gene Wilder, actor (Young Frankenstein, Silver Streak)
B06111931 Luciana Paluzzi,  Roma, actress (Thunderball)
B06111930 Charles B. Rangel,  Harlem, US representative (D-NY)
B06111926 Carlisle Floyd,  Latta, SC, composer (Slow Dusk)
B06111925 William Styron, Va., novelist (Confessions of Nat Turner)
B06111922 John Bromfield,  South Bend, Ind., actor (Easy to Love)
B06111920 Robert Hutton,  Kingston, NY, actor (Torture Garden, Rocket)
B06111919 Richard Todd, Irish actor (Dorian Gray, Assassin, Yangtse Incident)
B06111914 Calvin D. Linton,  Md., writer (The Bicentennial Almanac)            <
B06111913 Ris‰ Stevens, NYC, mezzo-soprano (Metropolitan Opera)
B06111913 Vince Lombardy, NFL coach (Green Bay Packers, Washington Redskins)
B06111912 Pham Hung, southern Vietnam, PM of Vietnam (1987-88)
B06111910 Jacques-Yves Cousteau,  French oceanic explorer, diver, scuba inventor
B06111903 Ernie Nevers, NFL HOF fullback (Duluth Eskimos, Chicago Cardinals)
B06111900 Lawrence Spivak, broadcast journalist (Meet the Press)
B06111899 Yasonari Kawabata, Japanese novelist (Thousand Cranes) (Nobel 1968)
B06111895 Nikolay A. Bulganin,  Nizhny Novgorod (Gorky), Soviet premier (1955-8)
B06111886 David Steinman, NYC, bridge designer (Hudson, Triborough)
B06111883 Frank O. King,  Cashton, Wisc., "Gasoline Alley" cartoonist
B06111881 Mordecai Kaplan, Lithuania, founder of Jewish Reconstructionism
B06111880 Jeannette Rankin, 1st woman elected to US Congress (D-Montana)
B06111867 Charles Fabry, discoverer of the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere
B06111867 Edward Bradford Titchener,  England, US experimental psychologist
B06111864 Richard Strauss,  Mnchen, Germany, composer (Till Eulenspiegel)
B06111847 Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett,  leader of English women's movement
B06111776 John Constable,  English landscape painter (Hay Wain)
B06111572 Ben Jonson, English playwright, poet (Volpone, The Alchemist)
B06121960 Jenilee Harrison, actress (3's Company, Dallas)
B06121957 Timothy Busfield, actor (thirtysomething - Elliot)
B06121953 Rocky Burnette,  Memphis, rock musician (Toeing the Line)
B06121952 Ben E. Carlos, rock drummer (Cheap Trick - Dream Police)
B06121952 Dale Krantz, singer (Crossings-Collis Band)
B06121952 Seigfried Brietzke,  German DR, rower (Olympic gold 1972, 1976, 1980)
B06121952 Oliver Knussen,  Glasgow, Scotland, composer (Chicara)
B06121952 420th kitten, to a cat named Dusty, Bonham, Texas (record)
B06121951 Brad Delp,  rock guitarist (Boston - More Than a Feeling)
B06121941 Kurt Matzerath, in Gnter Grass's novel "The Tin Drum"
B06121941 Roy Harper,  Manchester, rock musician (Folkjokeopus)
B06121941 Chick Corea,  Chelsea, Mass. funky jazz musician (Delphi I, Toy Dance)
B06121932 Rona Jaffe, novelist (Mazes & Monsters)
B06121932 Jim Nabors,  Ala., actor (Gomer Pyle), singer
B06121929 Anne Frank,  Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, Jewish diarist, Nazi victim
B06121928 Vic Damone,  Brooklyn, singer (On the Street Where You Live)
B06121924 George Herbert Walker Bush, 40th/41st US president (R, 1989-  )
B06121921 James Houston,  Toronto, author, film maker (Tikta'Liktak)
B06121919 Uta Hagen,  German actress, acting teacher
B06121919 Vera Hruba Ralston, actress (Dakota)
B06121917 Priscilla Lane, US actress (Arsenic & Old Lace)
B06121916 Irwin Allen, disaster-movie producer (The Towering Inferno)
B06121915 David Rockefeller, banker, international power broker
B06121908 Murray Wood,  Nova Scotia, munchkin (The Wizard of Oz)
B06121901 Harold (Brick) Muller, Calif., 1st All-America from the West (Calif.)
B06121899 Fritz Lipmann, East Prussia, US biochemist (coenzyme A) (Nobel 1953)
B06121897 Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon, British prime minister (C, 1955-57)
B06121897 Leon Jean Goossens,  Liverpool, England, oboist
B06121897 Alexandre Tansman,  Lodz, Poland, composer (Dyptique)
B06121892 Djuna Barnes,  Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY, poet, illustrator (Nightwood)
B06121885 Werner Josten,  Elberfeld, Germany, composer (Jungle)
B06121851 Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge,  England, early radio pioneer
B06121829 Johanna Spyri,  Swiss writer (Heidi)
B06121819 Charles Kingsley,  English clergyman, novelist (Westward Ho!)
B06121754 Jean Le Chapelier, French Revolutionary leader
B06131971 Broderick nonuplets,  Sydney, NSW (7 survive infancy)
B06131963 Bettina Bunge,  Switzerland, tennis player
B06131963 Catarina Lindqvist, Sweden, tennis player (Swedish Open 1986)
B06131962 Ally Sheedy, NY, actress (Short Circuit, Maid to Order)
B06131951 Richard Thomas, actor (The Waltons - John Boy, Johnny Belinda)
B06131945 Ronald J. Grabe, NYC, colonel, USAF, astronaut (STS-51J, 30)
B06131944 Joe Amato, NHRA top fuel drag racing champion
B06131940 Bobby Freeman, SF, rock musician (Do You Want to Dance?)
B06131935 Christo,  Bulgaria, artist, wrapper (Running Fence)
B06131926 Paul Lynde, comedian, actor (Bewitched, Hollywood Squares)
B06131922 Ruthven Tremain,  NYC, writer (The Animals' Who's Who)               <
B06131918 Ben Johnson, actor (Chisum, Battle Force, Dillinger)
B06131915 J. Donald Budge, US tennis player, 1st to hold world's 4 major titles
B06131914 Ellen Corby, actress (Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The Waltons)
B06131913 Ralph Edwards, TV producer (This Is Your Life)
B06131911 Erwin Mueller,  Berlin, US physicist, field ion microscope inventor
B06131911 Luis W. Alvarez, SF, physicist (bubble chambers) (Nobel 1968)
B06131903 Harold (Red) Grange, football's Galloping Ghost (U. Illinois, Bears)
B06131899 Carlos Ch vez,  M‚xico, conductor, composer (Sinfon¡a India)
B06131897 Paavo Johannes Nurmi,  Finland, Olympic track star
B06131894 Mark Van Doren, Ill., poet, critic, Columbia professor (Pulitzer 1940)
B06131893 Dorothy L. Sayers,  Oxford, England, novelist (The 9 Taylors)
B06131892 Basil Rathbone,  British actor (Sherlock Holmes movies)
B06131888 Elizabeth Schumann,  Meresburg, Germany, US soprano
B06131884 Gerald B. Gardner,  near Liverpool, witch, writer (A Goddess Arrives)
B06131881 Lois Weber, 1st US woman film director (What Do Men Want?)
B06131870 Jules Bordet,  Belgian bacteriologist, immunologist (Nobel 1919)
B06131868 Wallace Sabine,  Ohio, physicist, founder of architectural acoustics
B06131865 William Butler Yeats,  Dublin, poet (Wild Swans at Coole) (Nobel 1923)
B06131831 James Clerk Maxwell, physicist, formulator of electromagnetic theory
B06131821 Albert, duc de Broglie, French premier (1873-74, 1877)
B06131795 Thomas Arnold,  headmaster of Rugby School, historian
B06131786 Winfield Scott, US army general, presidential candidate
B06131773 Thomas Young,  Somerset, England, physician, physicist, egyptologist
B06131752 Fanny Burney,  Norfolk, England, novelist, diarist (Evelina, Camille)
B06131574 Richard Barnfield, English poet
B0613 823 Charles II (the Bald), king of France (843-77), emperor (875-77)
B0613  40 Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general, conquer of Wales, north England
B06142160 Montgomery Edward Scott,  Aberdeen, Scotland (Star Trek)
B06141969 Steffi Graff, West German pro tennis player
B06141961 Boy George [O'Dowd], androgynous rock musician, druggie
B06141958 Eric Heiden, Wisc., US Olympic speed skating gold medalist (5 in 1980)
B06141954 Will Patton,  Charleston, SC, actor (No Way Out, Ballzaire the Cajun)
B06141952 Eddie Mekka, actor (Laverne & Shirley, Blansky's Beauties)
B06141949 Bob Frankston, VisiCalc programmer
B06141949 Alan White, rock drummer (Yes)
B06141949 Rochelle Firestone,  Kansas City, Mo., actress (Hellhole)
B06141946 Donald Trump, master builder (Trump Towers/Plaza/Castle)
B06141945 Rod Argent,  England, keyboardist (Zombies - Never Even Thought)
B06141943 Muff Mervyn Winwood, singer (Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin')
B06141933 Jerzy Kosinski,  Poland, novelist (The Painted Bird, Being There)
B06141931 Marla Gibbs,  Chicago, actress (The Jeffersons, 227)
B06141928 Ernesto (Che) Guevara, Latin American revolutionary
B06141925 Pierre Salinger, politician, ABC newsman, White House press secretary
B06141924 Sir James W. Black, British pharmacologist (Nobel 1988)
B06141922 Gene Barry, actor (Bat Masterson, Burke's Law, The Name of the Game)
B06141919 Sam Wanamaker, actor, director (Competition, Raw Deal)
B06141918 Dorothy McGuire, actress (Old Yeller, Summer Magic)
B06141909 Burl I.I. Ives,  Ill., folk singer, actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
B06141907 Ren‚ Char, French poet (Le Marteau sans maŒtre)
B06141906 Margaret Bourke-White,  NYC, photographer, photojournalist
B06141906 Gil Lamb,  Minneapolis, actor (Hit Parade of 1947, Riding High)
B06141906 Carl Esmond, Wien (Vienna), actor (Smash-Up)
B06141901 Clarence (Hap) Day,  Ont., Toronto Maple Leaf HOF defenseman, coach
B06141884 John McCormack,  Athlone, Ireland, US operatic tenor
B06141874 Major [Edward] Bowes,  SF, radio amateur hour host
B06141868 Karl Landsteiner, immunologist, pathologist (Nobel 1930) (blood types)
B06141864 Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist, pathologist
B06141856 Andrei Markov,  Russian mathematician
B06141855 Robert M. La Follette,  Wisc. governor, Progressive pres. candidate
B06141854 Nell Kimball, US madam, writer
B06141820 John Bartlett, US editor, compiler of "Familiar Quotations"
B06141811 Harriet Beecher Stowe,  Conn., novelist (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
B06141736 Charles-Augustin de Coulomb,  physicist, formulator of Coulomb's Law
B06151965 Carrie Mitchum,  Los Angeles, actress (Bold & Beautiful - Donna)
B06151964 Courtney Cox, actress (Family Ties, Cocoon II)
B06151959 Eileen Davidson, actress (Young & Restless, House on Sorority Row)
B06151958 Wade Boggs, Nebr., Red Sox 3rd baseman (AL batting champ 1985-88)
B06151957 Gary & Glenn Cook, CFL defensive backs (Ottawa Rough Riders)
B06151954 Terri Gibbs,  Augusta, Ga., blind singer (Somebody's Knockin')
B06151954 Jim Belushi, comedian, actor
B06151951 Tom Forzani, CFL wide receiver (Calgary Stampeders)
B06151950 Noddy Holder,  rock singer, guitarist (Slade)
B06151949 Jim (Ernest) Varney, actor (Ernest Goes to Camp)
B06151947 Lee Purcell, NC, actor (Big Wednesday, Mr. Majestyk)
B06151946 Judy Pace, Los Angeles, actress (Young Lawyers)
B06151945 Nicola Pagett, actress (Oliver's Story, Privates on Parade)
B06151944 Inna Ryskal, USSR, Olympic volleyball player (gold 1968, 1972)
B06151943 Aron Kincaid, Los Angeles, actor (Ski Party)
B06151941 Harry Nilsson [Johnny Niles],  Brooklyn, laid-back singer, songwriter
B06151937 Waylon Jennings, singer of innumerable country songs (Ramblin' Man)
B06151935 Belinda Lee,  England, actress (Who Done It?, Runaway Bus)
B06151932 Mario Cuomo, governor of New York (D)
B06151930 Ren‚ Pronovost,  Qu‚bec, NHL player (Red Wings), WHA coach
B06151927 Natalie Hinderas,  Oberlin, Ohio, black pianist
B06151922 Morris K. Udall, US congressman from Arizona (D)
B06151915 Thomas Weller,  Ann Arbor, Mich., physician, virologist (Nobel 1954)
B06151914 Saul Steinberg, Romania, cartoonist, illustrator (New Yorker)
B06151914 Yuri V. Andropov, Soviet leader (1982-84)
B06151910 David Rose, orchestra leader (The Stripper)
B06151902 Erik H. Erickson, Existentialist psychologist
B06151902 Max Rudolf,  Frankfurt, conductor (G”teberg Symphony Orchestra)
B06151900 Otto Clarence Luening,  Milwaukee, composer (Sonority Canon)
B06151894 Robert Russell Bennett,  Kansas City, composer, arranger (Oklahoma!)
B06151892 William Wade,  Trenton, Tenn., college football coach (Alabama, Duke)
B06151888 Maria Dermo–t,  Java, Dutch novelist (The 10,000 Things)
B06151843 Edvard Grieg,  Bergen, Norway, composer (Bewitched One, Sl†tter)
B06151767 Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson,  first lady
B06151605 Thomas Randolph, English poet, dramatist (The Conceited Pedler [sic])
B06151330 Edward, the Black Prince
B06161975 Frederick Koehler, actor
B06161958 Mark Lewisohn,  London, writer (The Beatles Day by Day)              <
B06161957 Clio Goldsmith,  Paris, actress (The Gift, Heat of Desire)
B06161954 Gary Roberts,  rock guitarist (Boomtown Rats)
B06161952 Aleksandr Zaitsev, USSR, pairs figure skater (Olympic gold 1976, 1980)
B06161952 Gino Vannelli,  Canadian singer, singwriter (I Just Wanna Stop)
B06161951 Sonia Braga,  Maringa, Brazil, actress (Dona Flor & Her 2 Husbands)
B06161951 Roberto Duran, boxer (fists of stone)
B06161946 Rick Adelman,  Calif., Portland Trail Blazer player, coach
B06161946 Derek Sanderson,  Niagara Falls, Ont., NHL player (Boston Bruins)
B06161944 Takamiyama [Jesse Kuhaulua], Hawaii, 1st non-Japanese sumo champion
B06161943 Joan Van Ark, US actress (Falcon Crest)
B06161942 Giacomo Agostini,  Lovere, Italy, world motorcycle race champion
B06161941 Lamont Dozier, Detroit, songwriter (Dozier-Holland-Dozier)
B06161939 Billy (Crash) Craddock,  NC, country/rock singer (Ruby Baby)
B06161938 Joyce Carol Oates,  NY, novelist (A Garden of Earthly Delights)
B06161937 August Busch III, CEO (Anheuser-Busch)
B06161937 Erich Segal, author (Love Story, Oliver's Story)
B06161935 Jim Dine, Cincinnati, painter, sculptor, poet (happenings)
B06161925 Faith Domergue, New Orleans, actress (House of 7 Corpses)
B06161922 Frances Rafferty, Iowa, actress (Abbott & Costello in Hollywood)
B06161920 Jos‚ L¢pez-Portillo y Pacheco,  Mexico City, Mexican pres. (1976-82)
B06161920 John Howard Griffin, US photographer, author (Black Like Me)
B06161918 George C. Cotzias,  Crete, US neurologist, L-dopa researcher
B06161917 Katherine Graham, newspaper publisher (Washington Post)
B06161917 Irving Penn,  NJ, "Vogue" photographer (Moments Preserved)
B06161912 Enoch Powell, British Conservative politician, racist
B06161911 Victor Canning,  Plymouth, England, novelist (The Golden Salamander)
B06161902 Pierre Jacquot,  Vosges, France, Resistance leader, army officer
B06161902 Barbara McClintock, US cytogeneticist (Nobel 1983)
B06161902 George G. Simpson, Chicago, paleontologist (The Meaning of Evolution)
B06161899 Nelson Doubleday, US publisher
B06161897 Georg Wittig,  Berlin, chemist (Nobel 1979)
B06161890 Stan Laurel, film comedian (Laurel & Hardy)
B06161874 Arthur Meighen, 9th PM of Canada (C, 1920-21, 1926)
B06171964 Michael Gross, West German Olympic swimmer (2 world records 1984)
B06171954 Mark Linn-Baker, actor (Perfect Strangers - Larry Appleton)
B06171951 Joe Piscopo, comedian (SNL, Miller Lite commercials)
B06171948 Dave Concepcion,  Venezuela, all-star shortstop (Cincinnati Reds)
B06171946 Barry Manilow,  Brooklyn, singer (some think so) (Mandy)
B06171945 Eddy Merckx,  Belgium, 5-time winner of Tour de France bicycle race
B06171942 Norman Kuhlice,  English rocker (Swinging Blue Jeans - You're No Good)
B06171940 Bobby Bell, NFL linebacker (Kansas City Chiefs)
B06171931 Virginia McKenna,  London, actress (Born Free, The Gathering Storm)
B06171929 Tigran Petrosyan, USSR, world chess champion (1963-69)
B06171923 Elroy (Crazylegs) Hirsch, AAFC, NFL halfback, end (LA Rams)
B06171920 Fran‡ois Jacob,  French biologist, bacteriologist (Nobel 1965)
B06171920 Beryl Reid, actress (Joseph Andrews, Psycho Mania, Yellowbeard)
B06171919 Kingman Brewster, Jr., president of Yale (1963-77)
B06171917 Dean Martin, singer, actor, former partner of Jerry Lewis
B06171915 Eric F. Goldman,  DC, historian, professor (Rendezvous with Destiny)
B06171914 John Hersey,  Tientsin, China, US author (A Bell for Adano, Hiroshima)
B06171912 Don Gillis,  Cameron, Missouri, composer (Symphony No. 5«)
B06171911 Viktor P. Nekrasov, Soviet novelist (In the Trenches of Stalingrad)
B06171904 Ralph Bellamy, actor (Air Mail, Dive Bomber, Trading Places)
B06171902 Sammy Fain, NYC, composer (Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella, April Love)
B06171898 M[aurits] C. Escher,  Dutch graphic artist (Reptiles, Waterfall)
B06171881 Tommy Burns,  Ontario, world heavyweight boxing champ (1906-08)
B06171871 James Weldon Johnson, poet, lawyer, 1st black admitted to Florida Bar
B06171870 George Cormack, inventor of "Wheaties" cereal
B06171867 Henry Lawson, Aust. short-story writer, poet (Children of the Bush)
B06171867 John Robert Gregg,  Ireland, US inventor of shorthand
B06171832 Sir Wm. Crookes, chemist, physicist, spiritualist; discovered thallium
B06171818 Charles Fran‡ois Gounod,  Paris, opera composer (Faust)
B06171811 Jon Sigurdsson,  Iceland, politician, collector of Icelandic legends
B06171810 Ferdinand Freiligrath,  German radical poet (Glaubensbekenntnis)
B06171808 Henrik Arnold Wergeland, Norway's national poet (For arbeidsklassen)
B06171781 Francisco Espoz y Mina, Spanish guerrilla leader during Peninsular War
B06171742 William Hooper, signer of the Declaration of Independence
B06171703 John Wesley,  Epworth, England, cofounder of the Methodist movement
B06171682 Charles XII, king of Sweden (1697-1718) (6/27 NS)
B06171239 Edward I, king of England (1272-1307)
B06181962 Janice Merrill, US track star
B06181958 Daniels Koran, sax player (Atlantic Star - Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
B06181953 Tom Clements, CFL quarterback (Ottawa, Hamilton)
B06181952 Carol Kane,  Cleveland, actress (Dog Day Afternoon, Taxi - Simka)
B06181952 Isabella Rossellini, actress (Blue Velvet, Tough Guys Don't Dance)
B06181947 Linda Thorson,  Canada, actress (The Avengers, Marblehill Manor)
B06181942 Paul McCartney,  Liverpool, yeah-yeah-yeah
B06181942 Roger Ebert, movie reviewer (Siskel & Ebert)
B06181937 Vitali M. Zholobov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 21)
B06181937 Gail Godwin,  Birmingham, Ala., novelist (A Mother & 2 Daughters)
B06181933 Jean Wicki,  Switzerland, 4-man bobsleder (Olympic gold 1972)
B06181932 Dudley R. Herschbach,  San Jose, Calif., chemist (Nobel 1986)
B06181929 Eva Bartok,  Budapest, Hungary, actress (Assassin, Crimson Pirate)
B06181926 Tom Wicker, columnist (NY Times)
B06181925 Robert Arthur,  Aberdeen, Wash., actor (12 O'Clock High, Just for You)
B06181924 George Mikan,  Joliet, Ill., Minneapolis Laker HOF basketball center
B06181922 Donald L. Keene, NYC, English-Japanese translator, critic
B06181918 Franco Modigliani,  Roma, economist (Nobel 1985)
B06181918 Jerome Karle, NYC, x-ray crystallographer (Nobel for chemistry 1985)
B06181917 Richard Boone, actor (Have Gun Will Travel, The Alamo, Dragnet)
B06181915 Red Adair, who puts out oil well fires
B06181913 Sylvia Porter,  NY, financial writer (Sylvia Porter's Money Book)
B06181913 Sammy Cahn, lyricist (3 Coins in a Fountain)
B06181912 Henry Brandon,  Berlin, actor (Drums of Fu Manchu)
B06181910 E.G. Marshall, actor (The Defenders)
B06181906 Kay Kyser, radio & film personality (3 Little Fishes)
B06181904 Manuel Rosenthal,  Paris, composer (Bootleggers)
B06181904 Keye Luke, actor (Across the Pacific, Yangtse Incident)
B06181901 Jeanette MacDonald, actress, singer (When I'm Calling You)
B06181896 Philip Barry, US dramatist (The Philadelphia Story)
B06181896 Blanche Sweet,  Chicago, actress (Home Sweet Home)
B06181886 George Mallory, English mountain climber ("because it is there")
B06181882 Georgi M. Dimitrov, Bulgarian Communist leader, PM
B06181877 James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator, best known for his "I want you"
B06181877CUncle Sam recruiting poster
B06181857 Henry Clay Folger, Jr., US businessman, Shakespeare fan
B06181812 Ivan A. Goncharov, Russian novelist, travel writer (Oblomov)
B06181799 William Lassell, discoverer of satellites of Saturn, Uranus & Neptune
B06181788 Karl Sigismund Kunth,  German botanist
B06181754 Anna Maria Lenngren, Swedish Neoclassical poet (Portraiterne)
B06181681 Feofan Prokopovich, theologian, archbishop of Novgorod, westernizer
B06191962 Paula Abdul, choreographer, disco singer (Straight Up)
B06191950 Ann Wilson, San Diego, rock singer (Heart - Never, What About Love?)
B06191949 Kathleen Turner, actress (Peggy Sue Got Married, Romancing the Stone)
B06191948 Phylicia Allen Ayers Rashad,  US actress (The Cosby Show - Clair)
B06191947 Salman Rushdie, novelist (Midnight's Children, Satanic Verses)
B06191943 Malcolm McDowell, actor (A Clockwork Orange, O Lucky Man)
B06191942 Elaine (Spanky) McFarlane, rock musician (Spanky & Our Gang)
B06191936 Gena Rowlands,  Cambria, Wisc., actress (Gloria, Accidental Tourist)
B06191933 Viktor I. Patsayev,  Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 11)
B06191932 Pier Angeli,  Italy, actor (Sodom & Gomorrah, Battle of the Bulge)
B06191931 Toni Lander,  Denmark, ballerina
B06191928 Nancy Marchand, actress (Beacon Hill, Lou Grant)
B06191924 Leo Nomellini,  Italy, NFL HOF defensive tackle (SF 49ers)
B06191922 Aage N. Bohr, Danish physicist who studied atomic nucleus (Nobel 1975)
B06191921 Howell Heflin, US senator (D-Alabama)
B06191919 Louis Jourdan, French actor (Can-Can, Madame Bovary)
B06191919 Pauline Kael, "NY Times" movie critic (Reeling)
B06191918 Evelle Jansen Younger, prosecutor of Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan
B06191914 Alan Cranston, US senator from California (D)
B06191914 Lester Flatt,  bluegrass fiddler (Beverly Hillbillies theme)
B06191910 Paul John Flory,  Ill., chemist (polymers) (Nobel 1974)
B06191909 Osamu Dazai, Japanese novelist (Tsugaru, No Longer Human)
B06191908 Quentin N. Burdick,  US senator from North Carolina (D)
B06191908 Mildred Natwick, actress (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon)
B06191906 Walter Rauff, Nazi who killed 100,000 (granted asylum by Chile, 1984)
B06191904 Lester Cole, NYC, screenwriter (House of 7 Gables), 1 of Hollywood 10
B06191903 Henry Louis Gehrig, the "Iron Horse" of the Yankees (1B 1923-39)
B06191903 W.R. Hammond,  English cricketer (Glos., 167 centuries)
B06191902 Guy Lombardo,  London, Ont., conductor (Auld Lang Syne)
B06191900 Laura Zametkin Hobson,  NYC, novelist (Gentleman's Agreement)
B06191897 Moe Howard,  Stooge
B06191896 Erich Koch,  Nazi administrator convicted of 300,000 murders
B06191895 (Mrs.) Wallis Warfield Simpson, divorc‚e, Duchess of Windsor
B06191877 Charles Coburn,  Macon, Ga., actor (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)
B06191856 Elbert Hubbard, US editor, publisher, author (Message to Garcia)
B06191783 Thomas Sully, US portrait painter (Queen Victoria)
B06191783 Freidrich W.A. Sertrner,  German chemist, discoverer of morphine
B06191764 Sir John Barrow,  England, founder of Royal Geographical Society
B06191623 Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, religious writer
B06191566 James VI of Scotland (1567-1625)/James I of Great Britain (1603-25)
B06201961 Karin Enke, East German speed skater (Olympic gold 1980, 1984)
B06201960 John Taylor, rock bass player (Duran Duran - Girls on Film)
B06201960 Michael Corbett, actor (The Young & the Restless)
B06201955 Michael Anthony,  rock bass player (Van Halen)
B06201953 Brian Duffy,  Boston, major, USAF, astronaut
B06201953 Alan Longmuir,  rock bass player (Bay City Rollers)
B06201953 Cyndi Lauper,  Brooklyn, singer (Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Vibes)
B06201952 John Goodman, actor (Roseanne, Everyone's All American)
B06201949 Lionel Richie, singer (Commodores - Hello, Penny Lover)
B06201947 Candy Clark, actress (The Man Who Fell to Earth, Q, American Graffiti)
B06201946 Mark S. Geston,  Atlantic City, NJ, sci-fi writer (The Day Star)
B06201946 Andr‚ Watts,  Nuremberg, Germany, concert pianist (Oberon)
B06201945 James F. Buchli,  New Rockford, ND, astronaut (STS-51C, 61A, 29)
B06201945 Anne Murray,  Nova Scotia, singer (Snow Bird)
B06201942 Brian Wilson,  Ingelwood, Calif., singer (Beach Boys - In My Room)
B06201939 Judy Chicago,  Chicago, artist, feminist (The Dinner Party)
B06201937 David Stern, inventor of the Happy Face -  
  
   - Have a nice day!
B06201934 Rossana Podesta,  Tripoli, Libya, actress (Hercules, Ulysses)
B06201933 Jean Boiteux,  France, 400-m freestyle swimmer (Olympic gold 1952)
B06201931 Arne Nordheim,  Larvik, Norway, conductor, composer (Aftonland)
B06201931 Olympia Dukakis, actress (Moonstruck)
B06201928 Jean-Marie le Pen, French Neofascist politician (National Front)
B06201928 Martin Landau, actor
B06201925 Doris J. Hart, St. Louis, tennis player (Wimbledon 1947, 1951-53)
B06201924 Audie Murphy, war hero, actor (Destry, Joe Butterfly)
B06201924 Chet Atkins, Tenn., country guitar player (Me & My Guitar)
B06201916 T. Texas Tyler, country singer
B06201909 Errol Flynn, actor (Captain Blood, Robin Hood, Against All Flags)
B06201905 Lillian Hellman, La., playwright (The Little Foxes, Toys in the Attic)
B06201903 Glenna Collett Vare,  RI, amateur golf champ (1922, '25, '28-30, '35)
B06201899 Jean Moulin, hero of the French Resistance during WW II
B06201868 Helen Miller Shepard, philanthropist who established NYU Hall of Fame
B06201819 Jacques Offenbach,  Cologne, French composer (Tales of Hoffmann)
B06201808 Samson Raphael Hirsch,  Hamburg, founder of Jewish Neo-Orthodoxy
B06201723 Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher, historian, sociologist
B06201674 Nicholas Rowe, dramatist, English poet laureate (1715-18)
B06211982 Prince William Arthur Louis,  Chuck & Di's baby
B06211968 King Solomon of Ukwong, English champion chow chow dog
B06211959 Tom Chambers, NBA forward, center (Seattle SuperSonics, Phoenix Suns)
B06211956 Mikhail Burtsev, USSR, fencer (sabres) (Olympic gold 1976)
B06211953 Robyn Douglass,  Sendai, Japan, actress (Lonely Guy, Romantic Comedy)
B06211953 Benazir Bhutto, 1st female leader of a Moslem nation (Pakistan)
B06211950 Joey Kramer, NYC, rock drummer (Aerosmith)
B06211947 Meredith Baxter Birney,  Calif., TV actress (Family Ties)
B06211947 Michael Gross, actor (Family Ties)
B06211944 Ray Davies, rock singer, songwriter, guitarist (Kinks)
B06211944 Corinna Tsopel,  Athens, Greece, actress (A Man Called Horse)
B06211940 Joe Flaherty, comedian (2nd City, Blue Monday)
B06211940 Mariette Hartley, actress, Polaroid spokesperson (Marooned)
B06211938 Ron Ely, actor (Tarzan, Doc Savage)
B06211936 O.C. Smith,  lead singer with Count Basie (Little Green Apples)
B06211935 Fran‡oise Sagan, French novelist (Bon Jeur Trieste)
B06211935 Monte Markham, actor (Airport '77, Hotline)
B06211933 Bernie Kopell, actor (Get Smart, That Girl, Love Boat)
B06211932 Lalo Schifrin,  Buenos Aires, composer (Mission Impossible theme)
B06211931 Lawrence K. Grossman, president of NBC News
B06211931 Margaret Heckler,  US HEW secretary
B06211930 Mike McCormack, NFL offensive tackle (NY Yankees, Cleveland, Phila.)
B06211928 Judith Raskin, NYC, soprano (Le Nozze di Figaro - Susanna)
B06211927 Carl B. Stokes, mayor of Cleveland (D)
B06211925 Maureen Stapleton,  Troy, NY, actress (Airport, Coccoon, Plaza Suite)
B06211922 Judy Holliday, NYC, comedienne, actress (Born Yesterday, Adam's Rib)
B06211921 Jane Russell,  Bemidji, Minn., actress, full-figured gal (The Outlaw)
B06211912 Mary McCarthy,  Seattle, novelist (The Group)
B06211905 Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, writer (Nobel 1964 - declined)
B06211903 Dorothy Stickney,  ND, actress (And So They Were Married)
B06211892 Reinhold Niebuhr,  US theologian (Nature & the Destiny of Man)
B06211891 Hermann Scherchen,  Berlin, conductor (The Nature of Music)
B06211891 Pier Luigi Nervi,  Italian engineer, architect, ferrocemento inventor
B06211882 Rockwell Kent, US painter, illustrator (Canterbury Tales)
B06211851 Daniel Carter Beard, organizer of 1st US boy scout troop
B06211812 Moses Hess, journalist, socialist, Zionist
B06211732 Martha Washington, 1st first lady
B06211732 Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach,  Leipzig, composer
B06211639 Increase Mather, American Congregationalist minister, theologian
B06211002 St. Leo IX, Roman Catholic pope (1049-54)
B06221963 Anne-Marie Ruddock, rock musician (Amazulu - Excitable)
B06221962 Clyde Drexler,  Portland Trail Blazer forward/guard
B06221961 Jimmy Somerville, rocker (Bronski Beat, Communards - You Are My World)
B06221960 Tracy Pollan, actress (Family Ties)
B06221957 Garry Beers, rock musician (Inxs - Kiss the Dirt)
B06221954 Freddie Prinze, NYC, actor (Chico & the Man)
B06221954 Chris Lemmon, actor (Brothers & Sisters, Duet - Richard)
B06221950 Murphy Cross,  Maryland, actor (Perfect)
B06221949 Meryl Streep, NJ, actress (French Lieutenant's Woman, Sophie's Choice)
B06221949 Alan Osmond,  Ogden, Utah, singer (Osmond Brothers)
B06221949 Lindsay Wagner, LA, actress (Bionic Woman, Paper Chase, Nighthawks)
B06221948 Todd Rundgren,  Penn., rock singer, composer, producer (Hello It's Me)
B06221947 "Pistol Pete" Maravich,  Penn., NBA HOF player (Atlanta, Boston)
B06221947 Don Henley, drummer, singer (Eagles, Boys of Summer)
B06221946 Andrew Rubin, New Bedford, Mass., actor (Police Academy)
B06221945 Howard (Eddie) Kaylan, rock musician (Turtles, Flo & Eddie)
B06221944 Peter Asher, London, singer (Peter & Gordon - World Without Love)
B06221943 Jimmy Castor, NYC, rock musician (Troglodyte)
B06221941 Ed Bradley, CBS newscaster (60 Minutes)
B06221936 Kris Kristofferson, singer, actor (Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid)
B06221933 Diane Feinstein, mayor of San Francisco (D)
B06221929 Ralph Waite, actor (Last Summer, Cool Hand Luke, 5 Easy Pieces)
B06221922 Bill Blass, fashion designer
B06221921 Joseph Papp,  Brooklyn, stage producer, director (Pirates of Penzance)
B06221915 Cornelius Warmerdam,  California, pole-vault world-record holder
B06221910 Sir Peter Pears, English tenor (Peter Grimes, Death in Venice)
B06221910 Konrad Zuse,  Berlin, inventor of Z3, world's 1st programable computer
B06221910 Henry Cecil John Hunt, leader of 1st successful Everest expedition
B06221909 Michael Todd, producer (Around the World in 80 Days)
B06221906 Billy Wilder, director (Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Stalag 17)
B06221906 Anne Morrow Lindbergh,  US aviator, author (Gift from the Sea)
B06221903 John Dillinger, bank robber
B06221903 Carl Hubbell, NY Giant pitcher - 253 wins, 2.97 lifetime ERA
B06221898 Erich Maria Remarque, novelist (All Quiet on the Western Front)
B06221887 Sir Julian Huxley,  London, biologist, philosopher of science
B06221864 Hermann Minkowski,  Alexota, Russia, mathematician (4-D geometry)
B06221837 Paul Morphy, New Orleans, greatest chess player of all time - world
B06221837Cchampion 1857-61
B06221805 Giuseppe Mazzine,  Genoa, revolutionary political thinker, writer
B06221757 George Vancouver, who surveyed Pacific coast from SF to Vancouver I.
B06231980 Candice Reed, Australia's 1st test-tube baby, 3rd in the world
B06231967 Laurie Wood, playmate (March 1989)
B06231964 Trent Bushey,  Haverhill, Mass., actor (All My Children - David)
B06231953 Filbert Bayi,  Tanzania, 3,000-m runner (Olympic silver 1980)
B06231946 Ted Shackelford, actor (Dallas, Knots Landing)
B06231943 James Levine,  Cincinnati, music director (Metropolitan Opera, NYC)
B06231940 Adam Faith,  England, singer (Poor Me, What Do You Want?)
B06231940 Wilma Rudolph, Tenn., 100-m/200-m sprinter (3 Olympic gold 1960)
B06231935 Gy”rgy K rp ti, Hungary, Olympic water polo player (gold 1952, 56, 64)
B06231933 Bert Convy, game show host (Win, Lose or Draw)
B06231930 Donn F. Eisele, Columbus, Ohio, colonel, USAF, astronaut (Apollo 7)
B06231929 June Carter Cash,  Virginia, country singer & Johnny's wife
B06231929 Henri Pousseur,  Malm‚dy, Belgium, composer (Homo Habitis)
B06231927 Bob Fosse, choreographer, director (Cabaret, Damn Yankees)
B06231924 Ranasinghe Premadasa, 1st low-caste president of Sri Lanka (1989-  )
B06231922 Francis Thorne,  Bay Shore, NY, composer (Burlesque Overture)
B06231916 Irene Worth,  Nebraska, actress (Deathtrap, Nicolas & Alexandra)
B06231916 Sir Leonard Hutton,  Yorkshire, cricketer (Yorkshire, 129 centuries)
B06231913 William P. Rogers, secretary of state
B06231912 Alan Turing,  London, mathematician, pioneer in computer theory
B06231911 David Ogilvy, advertising whiz
B06231910 Ted Tinling,  English HOF tennis official, fashion designer
B06231910 Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (Thieves' Carnival, Becket)
B06231909 Katherine Henderson,  St. Louis, blues singer
B06231902 Dr. Howard T. Engstrom,  Boston, a designer of the UNIVAC computer
B06231894 Alfred Kinsey, entomologist, sexologist
B06231894 Duke of Windsor, king Edward VIII of England (briefly in 1936)
B06231887 John Finley Williamson,  Canton, Ohio, conductor
B06231883 Frederick (Cyclone) Taylor,  Ontario, hockey HOF player (Vancouver)
B06231876 Irvin S. Cobb,  Paducah, Ken., writer, humorist
B06231875 Carl Milles, Swedish-American sculptor
B06231858 Antonin B. Marfan,  French pediatrician (Marfan's syndrome)
B06231824 Carl Reinecke,  Altona, Germany, pianist, composer (K”nig Manfred)
B06231763 Jos‚phine,  Martinique, empress of France
B06231668 Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher, lawyer, father of anthropology
B06241965 Danielle Spencer,  Bronx, actress (What's Happening!! - Dee Spencer)
B06241961 Natalya Shaposhnikova, USSR, sidehorse vaulter (Olympic gold 1980)
B06241957 Astro,  rock toaster player, singer (UB40 - Red Red Wine)
B06241956 Joe Penny, actor (Jake & the Fatman)
B06241951 Ivar Formo, Norway, 50K cross-country skier (Olympic gold 1976)
B06241950 Nancy Allen, actress (Carrie, 1941, Robocop, Dressed to Kill)
B06241947 Peter Weller, actor (Robocop, 1st Born, Of Unknown Origin)
B06241946 Robert Reich, Penn., business writer (The Next American Frontier)
B06241946 Ellison S. Onizuka, Hawaii, astronaut (STS-51C, Challenger disaster)
B06241945 Betty Stove, Netherlands, tennis player (US Doubles 1972)
B06241944 Jeff Beck,  Surrey, England, singer, songwriter (Jeff Beck Group)
B06241943 Georg Stanford Brown, actor, director (Rookies, Roots)
B06241942 Mick Fleetwood, rock drummer (Fleetwood Mac)
B06241942 Michele Lee,  Los Angeles, actress (Love Bug, Falcon Crest, Comic)
B06241939 Stephen Dunn,  NYC, poet (Looking for Holes in the Ceiling)
B06241938 Boris Lagutin, USSR, light-middleweight boxer (Olympic gold 1964, '68)
B06241935 Pete Hamill, journalist (NY Post)
B06241935 Terry Riley,  Colfax, Calif., composer (Spectra)
B06241933 Sam Jones,  NC, NBA HOF player (Boston Celtics)
B06241932 David McTaggart, cofounder of Greenpeace
B06241930 Claude Chabrol, Paris, film director, producer (Les Cousins, Oph‚lia)
B06241923 Jack Carter,  NYC, comedian, actor (Amazing Dobermans, Octagon)
B06241922 Roy Elihu Travis, NYC, composer (Passion of Oedipus)
B06241919 Al Molinaro, singer, actor (The Odd Couple, Happy Days)
B06241916 John Ciardi, poet, critic, translator of Dante (Person to Person)
B06241915 Norman Cousins,  Union Hill, NJ, writer (Saturday Review)
B06241915 Sir Fred Hoyle, cosmologist who proposed steady-state universe theory
B06241911 Juan-Manuel Fangio, Argentina, 5-time World Drivers Champion
B06241909 Milton Katims, NYC, conductor, violist (Seattle Symphony)
B06241903 Phil Harris,  Indiana, singer, bandleader, actor (Anything Goes)
B06241895 Jack Dempsey, the Manassa Mauler, heavyweight boxing champ (1919-26)
B06241883 Victor Hess, Austrian physicist, discoverer of cosmic rays (Nobel '36)
B06241867 Karl Spiro,  Berlin, physiochemist (isolated ergotamine)
B06241850 Herbert Kitchener, Ireland, conqueror of Sudan, cabinet minister
B06241842 Ambrose Bierce, Ohio, satirist (The Devil's Dictionary)
B06241813 Henry Ward Beecher, US clergyman, orator
B06241799 Jedediah Smith, NY, fur trader, explorer
B06241797 John Hughes,  Ireland, 1st Roman Catholic archbishop of NY
B06241771 E.I. Du Pont de Nemours,  France, chemist, gunpowder maker
B06241650 John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, English general
B06251963 George Michael,  England, rock musician (Wham - I Want Your Sex)
B06251958 Debbie Green, South Korea, US volleyball player (Olympic silver 1984)
B06251952 Tim Finn,  rock singer, pianist (Split Enz)
B06251950 Tatyana Averina, USSR, 1K, 3K speed skater (Olympic gold 1976)
B06251949 Phyllis George[-Brown],  Denton, Texas, Miss America, sportscaster
B06251949 Clint Warwick,  rock bassist, vocalist (Moody Blues)
B06251946 Ian McDonald,  rock guitarist, keyboardist (King Crimson, Foreigner)
B06251945 Carly Simon, NYC, singer, songwriter (Anticipation, You're So Vain)
B06251942 Willis Reed,  Louisiana, NY Knick, basketball hall-of-famer
B06251940 Thomas K”hler, East German Olympic luge champion (1964, 1968)
B06251939 Andreas Gruentzig,  Ger., cardiologist, radiologist (balloon catheter)
B06251935 Laurent Terzieff,  Paris, actor (Head over Heels, Milky Way)
B06251935 Eddie Floyd,  rock musician (Knock on Wood)
B06251925 June Lockhart,  NYC, actress (Lassie's mom, Petticoat Junction)
B06251925 Robert Venturi, US architect (Levittown, NY, Las Vegas)
B06251924 Sidney Lumet,  Philadelphia, director (The Pawnbroker, The Verdict)
B06251913 Aim‚ C‚saire,  Martinique, French n‚gritude poet, playwright
B06251908 Willard Quine, Akron, Ohio, philosopher, educator (Mathematical Logic)
B06251907 J. Hans D. Jensen,  German physicist (atomic nuclei) (Nobel 1963)
B06251906 Roger Livesey, actor (Drums, Life & Death of Col. Blimp)
B06251906 John P. Gottselig,  Odessa, Ukraine, NHL left-winger (Chicago)
B06251903 George Orwell,  Bengal, India, English novelist (Animal Farm, 1984)
B06251903 Arthur Tracy, street singer (Vincent Lopez Show)
B06251900 Louis, Earl Mountbatten of Burma,  British admiral, viceroy of India
B06251895 Reid Antony Railton, British automotive engineer
B06251894 Hermann Oberth, father of German rocketry
B06251887 George Abbott, NY, Broadway producer, director (Damn Yankees)
B06251886 Henry (Hap) Arnold, commanding general of US Army Air Force in WW II
B06251881 Crystal Eastman,  Mass., lawyer, feminist, peace worker
B06251865 Robert Henri, US painter, leader of the Ashcan School
B06251864 Walther Hermann Nernst, Prussian physical chemist (Nobel 1920)
B06251860 Gustave Charpentier,  Dieuze, France, composer (Louise)
B06251852 Antonio Gaud¡, Spanish architect (Sagrada Familia in Barcelona)
B06251796 Nicholas I, tsar of Russia (1825-55) (7/6 NS)
B06251736 John Horne Tooke, English politician, philologist
B06261964 Zeng Jinlian, who becomes tallest woman known (2.46 m, 8' 1")
B06261961 Greg LeMond,  Reno, Nev., bicyclist (Tour de France 1986, 1989-90)
B06261960 Barbara Edwards, Playmate of the Year (September 1983)
B06261951 Pamela Bellwood, actress (Dynasty, W.E.B.)
B06261943 Georgie Fame,  England, rock singer, keyboardist, composer (Get Away)
B06261940 Billy Davis, Jr., singer (5th Dimension - One Less Bell to Answer)
B06261939 Charles Robb, US senator (D-Va.), husband of Lynda Baines Johnson
B06261936 Hal Greer,  W.Va., NBA HOF player (Syracuse/Philadelphia 76ers)
B06261934 John V. Tunney, US senator (D-California)
B06261933 Claudio Abbado,  Milano, Italy, conductor (London Symphony)
B06261933 Pat Morita, actor (Happy Days, Karate Kid)
B06261931 Michael Paul Elliott,  London, stage director (King Lear, The Dresser)
B06261931 Colin Wilson, English novelist (The Outsider, The Mind Parasites)
B06261928 Jacob Druckman, Philadelphia, composer (Animus I Auerole)
B06261925 Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (Voskhod 2)
B06261922 Eleanor Parker,  Cedarville, Ohio, actress (Hans Brinker)
B06261914 Mildred (Babe) Didrikson Zaharias,  TX, track, golf star (3 Oly. gold)
B06261914 Wolfgang Windgassen,  Annemasse, Haute Savoie, France, tenor
B06261913 Maurice Wilkes, inventer of the stored program concept for computers
B06261904 Peter Lorre,  Hungary, actor (M, Casablanca, The Beast with 5 Fingers)
B06261903 Floyd (Babe) Herman, Brooklyn Dodger slugger (.324 lifetime average)
B06261902 Antonia Brico,  Rotterdam, Netherlands, conductor, pianist (Antonia)
B06261901 Stuart Symington, US senator (D-Missouri, 1953-76)
B06261895 George Hainsworth,  Toronto, NHL HOF goalie (Canadiens, Maple Leafs)
B06261894 Pyotr L. Kapitsa, Russian low-temperature physicist (Nobel 1978) (OS)
B06261893 Big Bill Broonzy,  Mississippi, blues singer, guitarist
B06261892 Pearl S. Buck, W.Va., novelist (The Good Earth) (Nobel 1938)
B06261887 Anthony G. de Rothschild, Britain, philanthropist
B06261865 Bernard Berenson, art critic (Italian Painters of the Renaissance)
B06261854 Sir Robert Laird Borden, 8th Canadian prime minister (C, 1911-20)
B06261853 Frederick Henry Evans, English photographer of cathedrals
B06261824 William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, engineer, mathematician, physicist
B06261819 Abner Doubleday, who is credited with inventing baseball (he didn't)
B06261763 George Morland, English artist of rural landscapes
B06261742 Arthur Middleton, signer of the Declaration of Independence
B06261730 Charles Messier, astronomer, cataloger of "M objects"
B06261702 Dr. Philip Doddridge, English Nonconformist clergyman
B06271964 Chuck Person,  NBA player (Indiana Pacers)
B06271956 Larry M. Christiansen, joint US chess champion (1980-81, 1983-84)
B06271955 Isabelle Adjani,  Paris, actress (Story of Adele H, Quartet, Ishtar)
B06271951 Julia Duffy,  Minneapolis, actress (Newhart, Wizards & Warriors)
B06271951 Sidney M. Gutierrez,  Albuquerque, NM, major, USAF, astronaut
B06271950 Benjamin Peterson, US heavyweight boxer (Olympic gold 1972)
B06271945 Catherine Lacoste, French golfer, only amateur to win US Women's Open
B06271945 Norma Kamali, NYC, dress designer (costumes for "The Wiz")
B06271944 Patrick Sercu,  Belgian cyclist (Olympic gold 1964)
B06271939 Ivan Doig, Montr‚al, writer (This House of Sky)
B06271938 Bruce E. Babbitt, governor of Arizona (D)
B06271937 Joseph P. Allen IV, Ph.D., Crawfordsville, IN, astronaut (STS-5, 51A)
B06271933 Gary Crosby, son of Bing, actor (Which Way to the Front?)
B06271932 Anna Moffo,  Wayne, Penn., soprano
B06271930 Tamio Kono, US, world champion weight lifter (Olympic gold 1952)
B06271930 H. Ross Periot,  Texarcana, Texas, billionaire
B06271927 Captain Kangaroo [Bob Keeshan], children's host - Good Morning Captain
B06271922 George Walker,  Washington, DC, composer (In Praise of Lilies)
B06271920 I.A.L. Diamond, screenwriter (Some Like It Hot, The Apartment)
B06271918 Adolph Kiefer, US 100-m backstroke swimmer (Olympic gold 1936)
B06271913 Willie Mosconi, world champion pool player
B06271913 Philip Guston,  Montr‚al, Abstract Impressionist painter (Dial)
B06271907 John McIntire, US actor (American Dream)
B06271900 Rev. James Keller, Cal., Catholic priest, founder of the Christophers
B06271880 Helen Keller, Alabama, blind-deaf author, lecturer
B06271872 Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ohio, poet, short-story writer (Majors & Minors)
B06271869 Emma Goldman,  Kovno, Lithuania, anarchist, writer (Living My Life)
B06271862 May Irwin, US comedienne, singer (A Hot Time in the Old Town)
B06271850 Ivan M. Vazov, Bulgarian poet, novelist, playwright (Under the Yoke)
B06271850 Lafcadio Hearn,  Levk s, Greece, US journalist, author (Chita)
B06271846 Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish nationalist
B06271838 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee,  Bengali novelist (Anandamath)
B06271806 Augustus de Morgan,  India, English mathematician, logician
B06271550 Charles IX, king of France (1560-74)
B06271462 Louis XII (the Just), king of France (1498-1515)
B06281970 Jack Stephen Burton, actor (Out of This World - Chris, Days of Lives)
B06281969 Danielle Brisebois, actress (Archie Bunker's girl, Big Bad Mama II)
B06281966 Mary Stuart Masterson,  actress
B06281966 John Cusack, actor (Stand by Me, Sure Thing, Better off Dead)
B06281963 Andy Cousin, rock musician (All About Eve)
B06281961 Jay Schroeder, NFL QB (Washington Redskins)
B06281960 John Elway, Denver Bronco QB
B06281958 Sergei Shakrai, USSR, champion figure skater
B06281955 Nikolai Simyatov, USSR, nordic skier (3 Olympic gold 1976)
B06281949 Don Baylor, Texas, baseball player (1979 AL RBI leader)
B06281947 Patrick Kincaid, who wrote the TODAY program; send him a card
B06281946 Gilda Radner,  Detroit, comedienne (SNL - Baba Wawa)
B06281946 John (Mike) Lounge,  Denver, astronaut (STS-51I, 26)
B06281945 Dave Knight,  rock bass player (Procol Harum)
B06281943 Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist (resistance quanta) (Nobel 1985)
B06281929 Lewis P. Lipsitt, Mass., developmental psychologist
B06281928 Gordon Pask,  Derby, England, writer (Calculator Saturnalia)
B06281926 Mel Brooks, comedian, actor, director (To Be or Not to Be)
B06281909 Eric Ambler,  London, suspense author (Epitaph for a Spy)
B06281906 Maria Goeppert Mayer,  US atomic physicist (Nobel 1963)
B06281905 Ashley Montagu,  London, anthropologist, social biologist, writer
B06281902 Pierre Brunet, French figure skater (Olympic gold 1928, 1932)
B06281902 Richard Rodgers,  Hammels Station, NY, composer
B06281887 Floyd Dell, Ill., Socialist novelist, journalist, editor (Moon-Calf)
B06281875 Henri-L‚on Lebesgue, French mathematician (Riemann integral)
B06281873 Alexis Carrel, French surgeon, sociologist, biologist (Nobel 1912)
B06281867 Luigi Pirandello,  Sicily, writer (6 Characters) (Nobel 1934)
B06281831 Joseph Joachim,  Kittsee, Hungary, violinist (Hungarian Concerto)
B06281824 Paul Broca, French brain surgeon, anthropologist
B06281815 Robert Franz,  Halle, Germany, composer (Stormy Night, Dedication)
B06281712 Jean Jacques Rousseau,  Geneva, social contractor (Confessions)
B06281577 Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish Baroque painter
B06281491 Henry VIII, English king (1509-47) - don't lose your head over him
B06281490 Albert, Margrave of Brandenburg, cardinal (attacked by Luther)
B06281476 Paul IV, Roman Catholic pope (1555-59)
B06291963 Anne-Sophie Mutter,  Rheinfeldin, Germany, violinist (Berlin Phil.)
B06291960 Evelyn (Champagne) King,  Bronx, NY, singer (Shame, I'm in Love)
B06291960 Sergey Kopylov, USSR, cyclist (Olympic gold 1980)
B06291957 Miss Baker,  squirrel monkey, US astronaut (launched 5/28/59)
B06291949 Dan Dierdorf, sportscaster
B06291948 Fred Grandy, actor (Love Boat - Gopher)
B06291947 Richard Lewis, actor
B06291945 Little Eva [Boyd],  rock singer (The Locomotion)
B06291944 Gary Busey, actor, motorcyclist (Buddy Holly Story, A Star Is Born)
B06291938 Billy Storm, singer (Valiants - This Is the Night)
B06291936 Harmon Killebrew, baseball player (Minnesota Twins)
B06291936 David Jenkins,  Akron, Ohio, figure skater (Olympic gold 1960)
B06291934 Carl Levin, US senator (D-Michigan)
B06291930 Robert Evans, US actor, director (Best of Everything)
B06291929 Johnny Ace,  Memphis, ballad singer (My Song)
B06291929 Peter George,  US middleweight weight lifter (Olympic gold 1952)
B06291928 Ian Bannen, Scotland, actor (Eye of the Needle, Gorky Park)
B06291925 Cara Williams, actress (Pete & Gladys, Rhoda)
B06291924 Ezra Laderman, NYC, composer (Jacob & the Indians)
B06291923 Chou Wen-Chung,  Cheefoo, China, composer (Mode of Shang)
B06291919 Slim Pickens, actor (Dr. Strangelove, Blazing Saddles)
B06291915 Ruth Warrick, St. Joseph, Mo., actress (Peyton Place, All My Children)
B06291914 Rafael Kubelik,  Bychory, Czechoslovakia, conductor (Cornelia Farooli)
B06291912 Jos‚ Pablo Moncayo Garcia,  Guadalajara, M‚xico, composer (Huapango)
B06291912 Joan Davis, St. Paul, Minn., actress (I Married Joan)
B06291910 Frank Loesser, NY, composer
B06291909 Leroy Anderson, US composer (Syncopated Clock)
B06291905 Ed Gardner,  Long Island, NY, radio actor (Duffy's Tavern - Archie)
B06291901 Nelson Eddy, actor, baritone (duets with Jeanette MacDonald)
B06291900 Antoine Saint-Exup‚ry, French aviator, writer (Wind, Sand & Stars)
B06291886 William Fielding Ogburn,  Georgia, sociologist, statistician, writer
B06291868 George E. Hale,  Chicago, astronomer, instrument developer
B06291865 Shigechiyo Izumi, who achieved oldest authenticated age (120 y 237 d)
B06291865 William E. Borah, lawyer, US senator (R-Idaho)
B06291863 James Harvey Robinson, US historian, educator
B06291861 William James Mayo,  Le Sueur, Minn., surgeon
B06291858 George Washington Goethals, engineer who built the Panama Canal
B06291844 Peter I, king of Serbia (1903-18), Yugoslavia (1918-21) (7/11 NS)
B06291809 Petrus Borel,  Lyon, France, Romantic poet, novelist (Rhapsodies)
B06291805 Hiram Powers, US sculptor (Greek Slave)
B06301970 Brian Bloom, actor (As the World Turns)
B06301966 Mike Tyson, heavyweight boxing champ (1986-90)
B06301962 Julianne Regan, rock musician (All About Eve)
B06301958 Esa-Pekka Salonen,  Helsinki, Finland, conductor (Giro)
B06301951 Stephen S. Oswald, Seattle, Wash., astronaut
B06301950 Donna Jean Willmott,  Akron, Ohio, FALN member (FBI most wanted)
B06301944 Ron Swoboda, baseball outfielder (NY Yankees, NY Mets)
B06301944 Glenn Shorrock,  rock singer (Little River Band)
B06301943 Florence Ballard, singer (Supremes)
B06301942 Robert Ballard, submarine explorer, discoverer of the "Titanic"
B06301938 Billy Mills, US 10K runner (Olympic gold 1964)
B06301936 Dave Von Ronk,  Brooklyn, white blues guitarist (Bad Dream Blues)
B06301936 Tony Musante, actor (Toma, Nowhere to Hide)
B06301936 Nancy Dussault,  Florida, actress (Too Close for Comfort)
B06301934 Harry Blackstone, Jr., magician
B06301920 Zeno Colo, Italy, downhill skier (Olympic gold 1952)
B06301918 Susan Hayward,  Flatbush, Brooklyn, actress (I Want to Live, Tulsa)
B06301917 Lena Horne, Brooklyn, singer (Stormy Weather)
B06301917 Buddy Rich, NYC, drummer, bandleader
B06301912 Dan Reeves, NFL team owner (Cleveland/LA Rams)
B06301912 Leopoldo Zea,  Mexico City, writer, politician, educator
B06301911 Czeslaw Milosz,  Lithuania, US writer (Native Realm) (Nobel 1980)
B06301909 Juan Bosch, poet, president of the Dominican Republic (1962-63)
B06301901 Errol Ivor White,  London, paleontologist, expert on fossil fish
B06301893 Walter Ulbricht,  Leipzig, East German leader
B06301893 Harold Laski,  UK political scientist, educator, Labour Party leader
B06301861 Sir Frederick G. Hopkins,  English biochemist (Nobel 1929)
B06301819 William A. Wheeler, 19th US vice-president (R, 1877-81)
B06301817 Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, botanist, cofounder of Royal Botanic Gardens
B06301814 Franz, Freiherr Dingelstedt,  Ger. poet/playwright/theatrical producer
B06301811 Vissarion Belinsky,  Sveaborg, Finland, Russian critic, journalist
B06301803 Thomas Lovell Beddoes,  British poet (Death's Jest-Book)
B06301768 Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, first lady
B06301685 John Gay,  Devon, England, poet, dramatist (Beggar's Opera)
B06301470 Charles VIII, king of France (1483-98); invaded Italy
D06011981 Gene Viernes & Silme Domingo,  Marcos opponents, murdered in Seattle
D06011943 Leslie Howard, actor, killed when Nazis shoot down his plane
D06011660 Mary Dyer, a Quaker, is hanged in Boston for heretical preaching
D06011616 Tokugawa Ieyasu,  founder of last Japanese shogunate, dies
D0601 193 Didius Julianus, Roman emperor, killed by Rome's Danube legions
D06021941 Lou Gehrig, Yankee great, dies at 37 of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
D06021567 Shane O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, Irish rebel, assassinated at about 34
D06031989 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini,  Iranian anal retentive, dies at 86
D06031881 Japanese giant salamander, oldest amphibian, dies in Dutch zoo at 55
D06031568 Andr‚s de Urdaneta,  Spanish navigator, monk, dies at about 70
D06041942 Reinhard Heydrich, chief Nazi exterminator of Jews, dies from bombing
D06041844 Last great auks hunted down & clubbed to death, Eldey, Iceland
D06051900 Stephen Crane,  US novelist, dies in Germany at 28 of tuberculosis
D06051864 Gen. William E. (Grumble) Jones is killed at Piedmont
D0605-221 Chu Yuan, Chinese poet, drowns
D06061968 Sen. Robert F. Kennedy dies in LA after being shot by Sirhan Sirhan
D06061865 William Quantrill, Confederate guerrilla, killed on raid into Kentucky
D06061671 Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader, tortured, executed in Moscow (OS)
D06071924 George Leigh-Mallory, veteran mountain-climber, disappears on Everest
D06071862 William Mumford, 1st US citizen hanged for treason, dies
D06071631 Nur Jehan, wife of Shah Jehan of India, dies - Taj Mahal is her tomb
D06081874 Cochise, Indian chief, dies
D06081809 Thomas Paine, American patriot, dies in obscurity in NYC at 72
D06081795 Louis (XVII), French dauphin, dies in the Temple at 10
D06081042 Harthacnut, king of England & Denmark, dies, is succeeded in England
D06081042Cby Edward the Confessor, in Denmark by Magnus, king of Norway
D0608 632 Muhammad, prophet of Islam, dies at about 64 in Medina
D06091911 Carry A. Nation, temperance crusader, dies
D06091870 Charles Dickens, English novelist, dies at 58 in Gadshill
D06091290 Beatrice,  Dante's inspiration, dies
D06101924 Giacomo Matteotti, Italian Socialist leader, assassinated by Fascists
D06101903 King Alexander I & Queen Dragia of Serbia are assassinated
D06101735 Thomas Hearne, English historian, dies at about 57
D06101654 Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor, dies at about 52
D06101580 Lu¡s Vaz de Camoes, Portugal's national poet, dies
D06101555 Thomas Haukes burned at the stake for not baptizing his son (England)
D06101552 Alexander Barclay, English poet (Folys of the World), dies at about 76
D06101190 Frederick I Barbarossa, Holy Roman emperor, dies on the 3rd Crusade
D06111985 Karen Ann Quinlan, 31, dies in a coma, Morris Plains, NJ
D06111963 Quang Duc, Buddhist monk, immolates himself on a street in Saigon
D06121963 Medgar Evers, NAACP official, murdered by a sniper, Jackson, Miss.
D06131987 Geraldine Page, actress, dies at 62
D06131886 Ludwig II, king of Bavaria, drowns
D0613-323 Alexander the Great, king of Macedonia, dies of fever at Babylon
D0613  40 Mary,  mother of Jesus, dies (one suggested date)
D06141986 Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine author, dies in Geneva at 86
D06141962 Mrs. Anna Slesers, 1st Boston Strangler victim, found murdered
D06141864 Leonidas Polk, CSA general, killed by artillery barrage, Pine Mtn, Ga.
D06141801 Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary War general, dies in London
D06141594 Orlando di Lasso, composer, dies at about 64
D06151785 Pilƒtre de Rozier & Romain, French balloonists, die in aviation's 1st
D06151785Cfatal accident
D06151648 Margaret Jones,  1st woman executed as a witch in Massachusetts Bay
D06151648Ccolony, is put to death
D06151381 Wat Tyler, leader of English Peasants' Revolt, beheaded in London
D06161958 Imre Nagy, Hungarian PM, executed after failure of revolt against USSR
D06161933 Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff, leader of Palestine Labor Party, is assassinated
D06171985 Taniguchi Masaharu, Japanese founder of Seicho-no-Ie religion, dies
D06171939 Eugene Weidmann, murderer, becomes last publicly guillotined in France
D06171917 Julia Clark, 1st US woman airplane fatality, dies in a crash, Ill.
D06181975 Faisal ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz,  Saudi prince, beheaded in a Riyadh
D06181975Cshopping center parking lot for killing his uncle the king
D06181973 Fredrak Fraske, last white veteran of US Indian Wars, dies at 101
D06181464 Roger van der Weyden, Flemish painter, dies at about 64
D0618 741 Leo III the Isaurian, founder of Byzantine Syrian dynasty, dies
D06191986 Murray P. Haydon, artificial heart recipient, dies in Louisville, Ken.
D06191953 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg executed at Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, NY
D06191867 Maximilian, Mexican emperor, executed, Mexican republic restored
D06201947 Benjamin (Buggsy) Siegel, gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills
D06201605 Theodore II, tsar of Russia, assassinated by boyars in a palace coup
D06211964 Michael H. Schwerner,  Andrew Goodman & James E. Chaney, civil rights
D06211964Cworkers, disappear after release from a Mississippi jail
D06211885 The Mahdi,  anti-British rebel in the Sudan, dies
D06211738 Charles (Turnip), Viscount Townshend, English statesman, dies at c. 64
D06211631 John Smith, English seaman, Virginia pioneer, dies at about 52
D06221874 Howard Staunton, world chess champion, designer of chess pieces, dies
D06231771 Jos‚ C ndido Exposito, 1st pro bullfighter gored to death, dies, Spain
D0623 286 St. Alban, said to be 1st Christian martyr in Britain, decapitated
D06241922 Dr. Walter Rathenau, German foreign minister, killed by anti-semites
D06241729 Edward Taylor, American colonial poet, dies at about 84
D06241715 John Partridge, English astrologer, dies at about 69
D06251988 Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally), WW II Nazi propagandist, dies at 87
D06251906 Stanford White, architect, shot dead atop Madison Square Garden (which
D06251906Che designed) by Harry Thaw, jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit
D06261718 Alexis, heir of Peter the Great, murdered at instigation of his father
D06261688 Ralph Cudworth,  Cambridge Platonist philosopher, dies at about 71
D06271844 Joseph & Hyrum Smith, Mormon leaders, killed by a mob in Carthage
D06271829 James Smithson, founder of Smithsonian Institution in his will, dies
D06271776 Thomas Hickey hanged for plotting to kidnap Washington for the English
D06271742 Nathaniel Bailey, English lexicographer, dies at about 67
D06281954 Red deer,  oldest known deer, dies in Milwaukee Zoo at 26
D06281914 Ferdinand,  Austrian archduke, & his wife assassinated at Sarajevo -
D06281914Cleading to World War I
D06291941 Ignace Paderewski, Polish statesman, pianist, dies in NY at 80
D06301974 Mrs. Albert King, mother of Martin Luther King, murdered in church
D06301971 Lt. Col. Georgi Dobrovolsky, cosmonaut, dies during Soyuz 11 reentry
D06301971 Vladislav N. Volkov, cosmonaut, dies at 35 during Soyuz 11 reentry
D06301971 Viktor I. Patsayve, cosmonaut, dies at 38 during Soyuz 11 reentry
D06301597 William Barents, Dutch navigator, dies at about 50
H06011959 Victory Day/Constitution Day (Tunisian National Day)
H0601     Madaraka Day (Kenya), a day to enjoy freedom
H0601    4King's Birthday (Malaysia) (1st Wednesday in June)
H0601     Children's Festival Day (Chinese PR, Mongolia)
H0601    1Teachers' Day (Massachusetts)
H0601     Independence Celebration Day (Western Samoa National Day)
H0602    1Teachers' Day (Massachusetts)
H060419974Yom Yerushalayim; Izar 28, 5757 AM
H06041867 Flag Day (Finland)
H06051847 Constitution Day/Groundlovsdag (Denmark)
H0605    1Teachers' Day (Massachusetts)
H0605     Thanksgiving Day (Colombia)
H0606     Memorial Day (South Korea)
H0606    4King's Birthday (Malaysia) (1st Wednesday in June)
H0607    4King's Birthday (Malaysia) (1st Wednesday in June)
H0608    7Queen's official birthday; Great Britain's National Day
H0608    5National Asparagus Festival, Shelby, Mich.
H0608    1Children's Day (Massachusetts)
H0609    1Children's Day (Massachusetts)
H0609    7Queen's official birthday; Great Britain's National Day
H0609     Senior Citizens Day (Oklahoma)
H061019946Islamic calendar New Year's Day; Muharram 1, 1415 AH
H06101986 World Justice Day (leap years) (World Calendar - Sunday, June 10)
H06101580 National Day (Portugal)/Day of Portugal (Cape Verde, Madeira)
H0610    1Children's Day (Massachusetts)
H0610    7Queen's official birthday; Great Britain's National Day
H0610     Day of Affirmation of Argentina's Rights over the Malvinas (Argentina)
H06111986 World Justice Day (common years) (World Calendar - Sunday, June 10)
H061119351Chaco Peace Day/Aniversario de la Paz del Chaco observed (Paraguay)
H0611     King Kamehameha I Day in Hawaii (1737-1819)
H0611    7Queen's official birthday; Great Britain's National Day
H0611    1Children's Day (Massachusetts)
H061219351Chaco Peace Day/Aniversario de la Paz del Chaco (Paraguay)
H06121898 Independence Day (Philippines National Day)
H06121550 Helsinki Day (Finland)
H0612    7Queen's official birthday; Great Britain's National Day
H0612     Constitution Day (Turks & Caicos Islands)
H061319351Chaco Peace Day/Aniversario de la Paz del Chaco observed (Paraguay)
H0613    7Queen's official birthday; Great Britain's National Day
H0613    1Children's Day (Massachusetts)
H0613    5National Asparagus Festival, Shelby, Mich.
H061419351Chaco Peace Day/Aniversario de la Paz del Chaco observed (Paraguay)
H06141777 Flag Day (US)
H0614    5National Asparagus Festival, Shelby, Mich.
H0614    7Queen's official birthday; Great Britain's National Day
H061519351Chaco Peace Day/Aniversario de la Paz del Chaco observed (Paraguay)
H061519101Father's Day - remind the guy how much you care -    
H0615     Farmer's Day (Korea):  day to transplant rice seeds
H0615     Pioneer Day (Idaho)
H0615     Flag Day/Valdemar Day (Denmark)
H061619351Chaco Peace Day/Aniversario de la Paz del Chaco observed (Paraguay)
H061619101Father's Day - remind the guy how much you care -    
H061719351Chaco Peace Day/Aniversario de la Paz del Chaco observed (Paraguay)
H061719101Father's Day - remind the guy how much you care -    
H061819101Father's Day - remind the guy how much you care -    
H06191965 Anniversary of the Revolution (Algeria)
H061919101Father's Day - remind the guy how much you care -    
H06191865 Juneteenth Day/Emancipation Day (Texas)
H062019101Father's Day - remind the guy how much you care -    
H0620     Flag Day/D¡a de la Bandera (Argentina)
H062119932Islamic calendar New Year's Day; Muharram 1, 1414 AH
H062119101Father's Day - remind the guy how much you care -    
H062114972Discovery Day (by John Cabot) celebrated in Newfoundland
H0621     Dragon Boat Festival (Hong Kong, Taiwan)
H062214972Discovery Day (by John Cabot) celebrated in Newfoundland
H0622     School Teacher's Day/D¡a del Maestro (El Salvador)
H062314972Discovery Day (by John Cabot) celebrated in Newfoundland
H0623     Midsummer Eve/St. John's Eve (Finland, Latvia, Scandinavia)
H0623     Official birthday of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg (National Day)
H062414972Discovery Day (Newfoundland), by John Cabot
H0624     Midsummer Day celebrated in Europe
H0624     Countryman's Day/Day of the Indian/D¡a del Indio (Per£)
H0624     Constitution Day (Za‹re)
H06251975 Independence Day (Mozambique National Day)
H062514972Discovery Day (by John Cabot) celebrated in Newfoundland
H06261945 United Nations Charter Day
H062614972Discovery Day (by John Cabot) celebrated in Newfoundland
H062714972Discovery Day (by John Cabot) celebrated in Newfoundland
H0628     Mnarja Day (Malta); re-creation of customs of Middle Ages
H06301960 Independence Day (Za‹re)
H0630     Lebaran, official holiday in Suriname
H0630     Constitution Day (Mongolia)
I060119967Ember Day (Ang, RC)
I060119933'Id al-Adha (Moslem feast); Dh–l-Hijjah 10, 1413 AH
I0601 165 Commemoration of Justin, philosopher, martyr at Rome (Ang, Luth)
I0601     Commemoration of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces (RC)
I060219961Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity (Trinity Sunday)
I060219945Solemnity of Corpus Christi (Body & Blood of Christ) (RC)
I060219934Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I0602 657 Feast of St. Eugenius I, pope (654-57)
I0602 304 Memorial of SS. Marcellinus (304), Peter (303), martyrs (opt) (RC)
I0602 303 Commemoration of St. Erasmus (Elmo), martyr, patron of sailors (RC)
I0602 177 Commemoration of the Martyrs of Lyons (Ang)
I06031963 Commemoration of John XXIII, bishop of Rome (Luth)
I06031886 Memorial of SS. Charles Lwanga & 21 companions, Ugandan martyrs, c.
I06031886C1886 CE (RC, Ang)
I0603 545 Feast of St. Clotilda, queen of the Franks (RC)
I060419951Shavuot (Jewish celebration of the 10 commandments); Sivan 6, 5755 AM
I060419951Solemnity of Pentecost (Whitsunday)
I060419936Ember Day (Ang, RC)
I0604     Day of All Things (Unification Church - the Moonies)
I060519952Commemoration of 1st Book of Common Prayer (Ang) (may vary)
I060519937Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I0605 754 Mem. of St. Boniface, bp., martyr, apostle to Germany (RC, Luth, Ang)
I060619976Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (RC)
I060619965Solemnity of Corpus Christi (Body & Blood of Christ) (RC)
I060619931Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity (Trinity Sunday)
I0606 100 Feast of St. Philip the Evangelist, c. 100 CE
I0606     Mem. of St. Norbert, abp. of Magdeburg, confessor, 1134 CE (opt) (RC)
I060719977Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (opt) (RC)
I060719954Ember Day (Ang, RC)
I060719921Solemnity of Pentecost (Whitsunday)
I060719921Shavuot (Jewish celebration of the 10 commandments); Sivan 6, 5752 AM
I060719916Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (RC)
I06071866 Commemoration of Seattle, Chief of the Duwamish (Luth)
I060819922Commemoration of 1st Book of Common Prayer (Ang) (may vary)
I060819917Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (opt) (RC)
I0608 561 Feast of St. Medard, bishop, confessor, c. 561 CE (RC)
I0608     Feast of St. Chlodulph
I060919956Ashura (Moslem feast); Muharram 10, 1416 AH
I060919956Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I0609 735 Commemoration of Aidan (651 CE) & Bede (735 CE), confessors (Luth)
I0609 597 Commemoration of St. Columba, abbot of Iona (Ang, Luth, RC)
I0609 286 Commemoration of SS. Primus & Felician, martyrs (RC)
I0609     Memorial of Ephraem, deacon & doctor (opt) (RC)
I061019957Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I061019946Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (RC)
I061019935Solemnity of Corpus Christi (Body & Blood of Christ) (RC)
I061019924Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I0610 373 Commemoration of Ephrem of Edessa, Syria, deacon (Ang)
I061119974Shavuot (Jewish celebration of the 10 commandments); Sivan 6, 5757 AM
I061119951Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity (Trinity Sunday)
I061119947Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (opt) (RC)
I061119925'Id al-Adha (Moslem feast); Dh–l-Hijjah 10, 1412 AH
I0611     Memorial of St. Barnabas, apostle (RC, Ang, Luth, Cong)
I0611    1Methodist Student Day (2nd Sunday in June)
I061219926Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I06121479 Commemoration of St. John of San Facondo, confessor (RC)
I0612 816 Feast of St. Leo III, Roman Catholic pope (795-816)
I0612     Commemoration of SS. Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, Nazarius, martyrs (RC)
I061319927Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I0613     Memorial of St. Anthony of Padua, patron of lovers, poor, 1231 CE (RC)
I061419966Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (RC)
I061419921Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity (Trinity Sunday)
I0614 379 Comm., St. Basil the Great, bp. of C‘sarea, doctor (old RC, Luth, Ang)
I0614     Commemor. of Gregory of Nazianzus & Gregory of Nyssa, bishops (Luth)
I0614     Feast of SS. Valerius & Rufinus
I061519967Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (opt) (RC)
I061519955Solemnity of Corpus Christi (Body & Blood of Christ) (RC)
I0615     Commemoration of SS. Modestus & Crescentia, martyrs (RC)
I0615     Commemoration of St. Vitus, martyr, protector of epileptics (RC)
I0615     Sanno Matsuri - Shinto festival honoring the mountain god Sanno
I06161752 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, bishop of Durham (Ang)
I0616     Feast of the Madonna of Carmine, Italy
I061819936Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (RC)
I061819925Solemnity of Corpus Christi (Body & Blood of Christ) (RC)
I06181896 Commemoration of Bernard Mizeki, catechist, martyr in Rhodesia (Ang)
I0618 373 Commemoration of St. Ephrem, confessor, doctor (RC)
I0618     Commemoration of SS. Marcus & Marcellianus, martyrs (RC)
I061919941Ashura (Moslem feast); Muharram 10, 1415 AH
I061919937Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (opt) (RC)
I06191341 Feast of St. Juliana Falconieri, virgin (RC)
I0619     Commemoration of SS. Gervase & Protase, martyrs (RC)
I0619     Memorial of St. Romuald, abbot, 1027 CE (opt) (RC)
I0620 537 Feast of St. Silverius, 58th pope (536-37), martyr (RC)
I06211591 Memorial of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, religious, patron of youth (RC)
I0621     Commemor. of Onesimos Nesib, translator, evangelist, 1931 CE (Luth)
I0622 431 Feast of St. Paulinus, bishop of Nola, confessor (RC)
I0622 304 Feast of Alban, 1st martyr of Britain, c. 304 CE (Ang)
I0622     Mem. of SS. John Fisher, bp., martyr, & Thomas More, martyr (opt) (RC)
I0622     Alban Hefin, witches' sabbat
I062319956Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (RC)
I062319911'Id al-Adha (Moslem feast); Dh–l-Hijjah 10, 1411 AH
I06231860 Commemoration of St. Joseph Cafassio, Italian priest (RC)
I0623 679 Feast of St. Audrey (St. Ethelreda), virgin (RC)
I0623     Vigil (Eve) of St. John the Baptist (RC, Ang)
I062419957Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (opt) (RC)
I0624     Solemnity of Nativity of St. John the Baptist (Ang, RC, Luth, Cong)
I06251560 Commemoration of Philipp Melanchthon, renewer of the Church (Luth)
I06251530 Commemoration of the Augsburg Confession (Luth)
I06251142 Commemoration of St. William, abbot (RC)
I0625     Feast of St. Pontius Pilate (Abyssinian Church)
I062619926Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (RC)
I0626 362 Feast of SS. John & Paul, martyrs in Rome, c. 362 (RC)
I062719927Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (opt) (RC)
I06271095 Commemoration of St. Ladislas I (St. Lazlo), king of Hungary
I0627 444 Memorial of Cyril of Alexandria, bishop & doctor (opt) (RC)
I0627     Feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
I0628 202 Mem. of St. Iren‘us, bishop of Lyons, martyr c. 202 (Ang, RC, Luth)
I0629 258 Solemnity of SS. Peter & Paul, apostles (translation) (RC, Ang, Luth)
I063019934Ashura (Moslem feast); Muharram 10, 1414 AH
I0630     Commemoration of St. Paul (RC)
I0630     Memorial of the 1st Martyrs of the See of Rome (opt) (RC)
I0630     Feast of the 12 Apostles
R0600     Flowers - Rose & Honeysuckle     Gems - Moonstone, Pearl & Alexandrite
R06010621 Astrological sign:  Gemini
R0601     Ragweed Control Month - Zoo & Aquarium Month - Gay Pride Month - begin
R0601    1Family Day (1st Sunday in June)
R0601     Central Pacific hurricane season begins (ends Oct 31st)
R0601    1International Mothers' Peace Day (established by Julia Ward Howe)
R0601     Vacation Month - American Rivers Month - begin
R0601     National Adopt-a-Cat Month begins
R0602    1International Mothers' Peace Day (established by Julia Ward Howe)
R0602    1Family Day (1st Sunday in June)
R0602    2Teacher "Thank You" Week begins (1st Monday in June)
R0602     Larger NEWDAY databases are available - see documentation
R0603    2Teacher "Thank You" Week begins (1st Monday in June)
R0603     Egg Day
R0603    1International Mothers' Peace Day (established by Julia Ward Howe)
R0603     For other dates, type "TODAY mmdd" ("mmdd" = digits for month, day)
R0604    1International Mothers' Peace Day (established by Julia Ward Howe)
R0604     UN's International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
R0604    2Teacher "Thank You" Week begins (1st Monday in June)
R0604    1National Safe Boating Week begins
R0604     Old Maid's Day - if you already knew it, don't admit it
R0605     World Environment Day
R0605    2Teacher "Thank You" Week begins (1st Monday in June)
R0605    1International Mothers' Peace Day (established by Julia Ward Howe)
R060618677Belmont Stakes (3rd jewel in horse racing's triple crown)
R0606    2Teacher "Thank You" Week begins (1st Monday in June)
R0606    1International Mothers' Peace Day (established by Julia Ward Howe)
R060718677Belmont Stakes (3rd jewel in horse racing's triple crown)
R0607     Zeta Perseid meteor shower (6/1-17), radiant in Taurus, peaks
R0607    2Teacher "Thank You" Week begins (1st Monday in June)
R0607    1Family Day (1st Sunday in June)
R0607    1International Mothers' Peace Day (established by Julia Ward Howe)
R060818677Belmont Stakes (3rd jewel in horse racing's triple crown)
R060918677Belmont Stakes (3rd jewel in horse racing's triple crown)
R061018677Belmont Stakes (3rd jewel in horse racing's triple crown)
R061118677Belmont Stakes (3rd jewel in horse racing's triple crown)
R0613     Kitchen Klutzes of America Day
R0613    6Friday the 13th!  Beware!
R0614     Children's Day
R0614     200 days left in the year
R0615     National Smile Day
R0616     UN's International Day of Solidarity with the People of South Africa
R0616     Beginning of Proterozoic Eon (geoyear 2,500)
R0619     For your own birthdays, events & reminders create file TODAY.OWN
R06201982 National Bald Eagle Day
R0621     Summer Solstice, longest day of the year in N. Hemisphere (most years)
R06220722 Astrological sign:  Cancer
R0622    1Gay & Lesbian Pride Day (may vary)
R0623    1Gay & Lesbian Pride Day (may vary)
R0624    1Gay & Lesbian Pride Day (may vary)
R0624     Midsummer Day - quarter day in England, Ireland - rents due today
R0625    1Gay & Lesbian Pride Day (may vary)
R0626    1Gay & Lesbian Pride Day (may vary)
R0626     Negative year indicates B.C.; there was no year 0
R06271954 Abolish the CIA Day
R06270630 Pons-Winnecke (June Draconid) meteor shower, radiant in Draco
R0627     National Fink Day - reach out & tweak someone
R0627    1Gay & Lesbian Pride Day (may vary)
R0628    1Gay & Lesbian Pride Day (may vary)
S06011986 Pat Bradley becomes 1st to win all 4 major US women's golf tournaments
S06011984 Movie "Star Trek III:  The Search for Spock" premiers
S06011984 Weight lifter Alexander Gunyashev of USSR snatches a record 211 kg
S06011979 Seattle SuperSonics beat Washington Bullets for their 1st NBA title
S06011975 Ron Woods replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stone guitarist
S06011971 Ed Sullivan's final show
S06011968 Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson" hits #1
S06011965 A. Penzias & R. Wilson detect 3ø K primordial background radiation
S06011959 Johnny Horton's "Battle of New Orleans" becomes #1 pop song in US
S06011958 Charles de Gaulle becomes president of France (-1969)
S06011956 Alabama outlaws the NAACP
S06011954 CIA agent Edward Lansdale arrives in Saigon to conduct paramilitary
S06011954Coperations against the Vietminh
S06011946 Assault wins the Belmont Stakes & the Triple Crown
S06011944 M‚xico abolishes the siesta
S06011942 Columbia River water begins spilling over Grand Coulee dam, Wash.
S06011942 Supreme Court rules states may not sterilize habitual criminals
S06011939 1st TV heavyweight boxing match - Max Baer vs. Lou Nova
S06011938 1st appearance of Superman - in this month's "Action" comic book
S06011933 1st barge leaves Great Lakes for Gulf of Mexico on internal waterway
S06011925 Lou Gehrig replaces Wally Pipp - 1st of record 2,130 consecutive games
S06011915 1st Zeppelin attack on London
S06011909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle
S06011907 -33ø C (-27ø F), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record)
S06011905 Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Ore.
S06011900 Decennial census finds US resident population to be 75,994,575
S06011898 1st interurban streetcar line in US, Anderson-Alexandria, Ind.
S06011896 Baron de Zuylen's Peugeot becomes the world's 1st stolen car
S06011888 1st seismograph in US exhibited, Mt. Hamilton, Calif.
S06011868 Navaho Reservation established, Utah-Arizona-New Mexico
S06011862 Gen. Lee assumes command after Joe Johnston is injured at 7 Pines
S06011861 1st skirmish in the Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Va.
S06011860 Decennial census finds US population to be 31,443,321
S06011855 US adventurer Wm. Walker conquers Nicaragua, then reintroduces slavery
S06011847 John Humphrey Noyes inaugurates free-love colony at Putney, Vt.
S06011845 Homing pigeon completes 11,000-km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days
S06011831 Sir James C. Ross discovers the north magnetic pole
S06011813CCapt. James Lawrence utters navy motto "Don't give up the ship"
S06011808 1st US land-grant university founded - Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
S06011796 Tennessee admitted as 16th US state
S06011792 Kentucky admitted as 15th US state
S06011789 1st US congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths)
S06011638 1st earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Mass.
S06011495 1st written record of Scotch whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of
S06011495CScotland - Friar John Cor is the distiller
S06021991 Seppo Raty of Finland sets world javelin record of 96.95 m, Helsinki
S06021990 Randy Johnson pitches 1st Mariner no-hitter, beats Detroit 2-0
S06021986 Regular TV coverage of US Senate sessions begins
S06021983 USSR launches Venera 15 for radar imaging of Venus
S06021980 Sex Pistols eject bassist Glen Matlock for liking the Beatles
S06021979 John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a Communist country (Poland)
S06021977 NJ allows casino gambling in Atlantic City
S06021970 Woods bison placed on the Endangered Species List
S06021970 Orangutan placed on the Endangered Species List
S06021970 Bengal tiger placed on the Endangered Species List
S06021970 Humpback whale placed on the Endangered Species List
S06021970 Lowland gorilla placed on the Endangered Species List
S06021970 Cheetah added to the Endangered Species List
S06021966 US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum - 1st lunar soft-landing
S06021964 LBJ says he knows of no plans to extend the war to No. Vietnam (a lie)
S06021959 Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid," SF
S06021953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey
S06021946 Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day)
S06021936 Gen. Anastasio Somoza takes over as dictator of Nicaragua (-1956)
S06021930 Sarah Dickson becomes 1st woman Presbyterian elder in US, Cincinnati
S06021924 Congress grants US citizenship to all American Indians
S06021919 Radicals plants bombs at gov't offices, Att'y General Palmer's home
S06021913 1st strike settlement mediated by US Dep't of Labor - railroad clerks
S06021910 C.S. Rolls, England, makes 1st round-trip flight over English Channel
S06021910 Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
S06021909 Chopin's ballet "Le Sylphides" premiers, Paris
S06021902 2nd statewide initiative & referendum law adopted, in Oregon
S06021896 Guglielmo Marconi receives his 1st wireless patent, in Britain
S06021875 James Healy consecrated 1st black Roman Catholic bishop, Portland, ME
S06021874 Cornerstone laid for the American Museum of Natural History, NYC
S06021873 Ground broken on Clay Street (SF) for world's 1st cable railroad
S06021866 Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to US forces
S06021865 Gen. Kirby-Smith surrenders last armed Confederate force, Galveston
S06021858 Donati Comet 1st seen, named after its discoverer
S06021857 Chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine patented by James Gibbs, Va.
S06021851 1st US alcohol prohibition law enacted, in Maine
S06021837 Seminole Indians flee into the Everglades
S06021835 P.T. Barnum & his circus begin 1st tour of US
S06021810 Sir Walter Scott's "The Lady of the Lake" goes on sale
S06021802 Parliament rewards Dr. Jenner with œ10,000 for smallpox inoculation
S06021635 1st Italian immigrant arrives in NYC
S0602 455 Gaiseric & the Vandals sack Rome
S06031989 Blast engulfs 2 Trans-Siberian trains, kills 462
S06031989 Japan begins world's 1st broadcast of high-definition TV programs
S06031989 Craig Blanchette sets world record for wheelchair mile, 3:51
S06031988 Margo Adams sues Red Sox 3rd baseman Wade Boggs for palimony
S06031987 Rev. Leon Sullivan repudiates the Sullivan Principles, calls for trade
S06031987Cembargo & end of diplomatic relations with South Africa
S06031980 False US nuclear alert
S06031980 Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to earth aboard Soyuz 35
S06031979 Ixtoc I rig in Gulf of Mexico blows; 3 million bbl of oil spilled
S06031979 "The Madwoman of Central Park West" opens on Broadway
S06031976 US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta
S06031974 Yizhak Rabin becomes 1st native-born Israeli prime minister
S06031972 Sally Preisand is ordained 1st woman rabbi in US, Cincinnati
S06031966 Gemini 9 launched; 7th US 2-man flight (Stafford & Cernan)
S06031965 Gemini 4 launched; 2nd US 2-man flight (McDivitt & White)
S06031964 Rolling Stones begin 1st US tour (with Bobby Goldsboro & Bobby Vee)
S06031957 Howard Cosell's 1st TV show
S06031949 Wesley Anthony Brown becomes 1st negro graduate of US Naval Academy
S06031949 "Dragnet" is 1st broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles)
S06031948 5.08-m (200") Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory
S06031948 Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mt. Rushmore
S06031946 Supreme Court rules segregation on interstate buses unconstitutional
S06031946 Hungary issues 100,000,000,000,000,000,000-peng” denomination notes
S06031937 Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor, marries Wallis Warfield Simpson
S06031935 French "Normandie" sets Atlantic crossing record of 1,077 hours
S06031932 Lou Gehrig hits 4 consecutive HRs - Yanks beat A's 20-13
S06031929 Arica-Tacna border dispute between Per£ & Chile resolved
S06031925 Goodyear airship "Pilgrim," 1st with enclosed cabin, makes 1st flight
S06031921 Sudden cloudburst kills 120 near Pikes Peak, Colorado
S06031918 Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional
S06031888 Ernest Thayer's "Casey at the Bat" 1st published (by the SF Examiner)
S06031861 1st Civil War land battle - Union defeats Confederacy at Philippi, WV
S06031851 Clipper "Flying Cloud" leaves NJ for SF on maiden voyage (record 90 d)
S06031845 Mexican Pres. Santa Anna flees to Cuba after Congress declares him a
S06031845Crebel
S06031789 Alex Mackenzie begins exploration of Mackenzie River in Canada
S06031784 Last sitting of US congress at Annapolis, Md.
S06031770 Spanish mission & presidio established at Monterey, California
S06031769 Transit of Venus that leads to Capt. Cook's 1st voyage to So. Pacific
S06031621 Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands"
S0603 713 Byzantine emperor Philippicus overthrown, blinded
S06041989 Chinese People's Army massacres thousands of Chinese people, Beijing
S06041989 1st free (sort of) elections in Poland since WW II; Solidarity wins
S06041987 Danny Harris ends Edwin Moses's 127-race winning streak, 400-m hurdles
S06041986 Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in US court
S06041985 Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law
S06041984 Bruce Springsteen releases "Born in the USA"
S06041983 Anisoara Cusmir (Romania) sets women's long jump world record, 7.43 m
S06041982 "Star Trek II:  The Wrath of Khan" premiers
S06041974 US Attorney General's list of subversive organizations is abolished
S06041970 Tonga gains independence from Britain (National Day)
S06041968 LA Dodger Don Drysdale pitches his 6th consecutive shutout game
S06041962 "The Reivers," William Faulkner's last novel, is published
S06041959 US-owned sugar mills & plantations in Cuba expropriated
S06041956 Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public
S06041954 Arthur Murray flies X-1A rocket plane to record 27,000 m
S06041949 "Cavalcade of Stars" debuts (DuMont); hosted by Jackie Gleason in 1950
S06041946 Largest solar prominence (500,000 km/300,000 mi) observed
S06041944 Roma liberated from German armies by US 5th Army & British 8th Army
S06041944 1st submarine captured & boarded on the high seas - U 505
S06041942 Battle of Midway begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II
S06041942 Capitol Record Co. opens for business
S06041940 British complete miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 300,000 troops
S06041940 Carson McCullers, 23, publishes "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter"
S06041929 George Eastman demonstrates 1st technicolor movie, Rochester, NY
S06041928 US Supreme Court rules wire taps are okay
S06041919 US marines invade Costa Rica
S06041917 1st convoy of merchant ships leaves US for Britain
S06041912 Massachusetts passes 1st US minimum wage law
S06041910 Robert Schumann's ballet "Le Carnaval" premiers, Paris
S06041910 Rimsky-Korsakov's ballet "Sch‚h‚razade" premiers, Paris
S06041878 Cyprus ceded by Turkey to Britain for administrative purposes
S06041870 British Civil Service declared open to competitive examinations
S06041859 Louis-Napol‚on defeats Austrians at Magenta, Lombardy
S06041832 British House of Lords passes 3rd Reform Bill, reforming Parliament
S06041805 Tripoli forced to conclude peace with US after war over tribute
S06041784 Mme. Thible becomes 1st woman to fly (in a balloon)
S06041756 End of Quaker supremacy in Penn. - 6 leading Quakers quit Assembly
S06041647 British army seizes King Charles I as a prisoner
S06041070 Roquefort cheese accidentally created in a cave near Roquefort, France
S0604-780 1st total solar eclipse reliably recorded by Chinese
S06051988 Kevin Christopherson sets hang glider distance record, 360.5 km, Wyo.
S06051983 Eddie Hill sets record for a propeller-driven boat, 346 kph, Calif.
S06051982 Conquistador Cielo wins Belmont Stakes by 14« lengths
S06051981 CDC reports 1st evidence of AIDS, in 5 Los Angeles gays
S06051980 Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
S06051977 Coup in Seychelles (National Day)
S06051975 Suez Canal reopens (after 6-Day War caused it to close)
S06051972 UN Conference on the Human Environment opens in Stockholm
S06051968 Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies the next day
S06051967 Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq & Egypt begin 6-Day War
S06051967 Minnesota North Stars & Pittsburgh Penguins NHL franchises granted
S06051967 Los Angeles Kings & Philadelphia Flyers NHL franchises granted
S06051965 "Mr. Tambourine Man" becomes the Byrds' 1st hit
S06051964 Jim Ryan becomes 1st high-school student to break the 4-min mile, LA
S06051947 Sec. of State George C. Marshall outlines the Marshall Plan, Harvard
S06051945 USA, UK, USSR & France declare supreme authority over Germany
S06051944 Allies march into Rome
S06051943 Count Fleet wins the Belmont Stakes & the Triple Crown
S06051940 Germans begin the battle of France with an offensive along the Somme
S06051940 1st synthetic rubber tire exhibited, Akron, Ohio
S06051937 War Admiral wins the Belmont Stakes & the Triple Crown
S06051934 1st formal meeting of the Baker Street Irregulars, NYC
S06051933 FDR signs bill to take the US off the gold standard
S06051920 1st rivet driven on Bank of Italy headquarters at 1 Powell
S06051919 Giacomo Rossini's ballet "La Boutique Fantasque" premiers, London
S06051917 10 million US men begin registering for the draft in WW I
S06051912 US marines invade Cuba (3rd time)
S06051855 Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's 1st convention
S06051849 Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy (Danish National Day)
S06051833 Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage
S06051832 Jews of Canada accorded equal political rights with Christians
S06051794 Congress prohibits citizens from serving in foreign armed forces
S06051783 Montgolfier brothers' hot-air balloon (unmanned) reaches 1,800 m
S06051661 Isaac Newton admitted as a student at Trinity College, Cambridge
S06051637 English colonists kill 600 Pequot Indians, Mystic, Conn.
S06051455 Poet Fran‡ois Villon kills a priest in a brawl, is banished from Paris
S06061989 Khomeini's body spilled on ground in funeral frenzy, Iran
S06061989 California's Rancho Seco nuclear power plant closed by voters
S06061988 Per Lindstrand sets hot-air balloon altitude record, 18,062 m, Texas
S06061985 Oldest datable dinosaur (225 million years) unearthed, Arizona
S06061985 Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
S06061984 1,200 die in Sikh Golden Temple uprising, India
S06061981 World's worst rail accident - more than 800 die in Bihar, India
S06061981 Maya Yang Lin wins national competition for design of Vietnam memorial
S06061978 Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57%
S06061978 "20/20" news magazine premiers on ABC TV
S06061977 Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws
S06061973 World's largest totem pole (53 m) erected, Alert Bay, BC
S06061972 NY Islanders NHL franchise granted
S06061972 David Bowie's "Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust" released
S06061971 Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station
S06061966 Activist James Meredith shot in Mississippi
S06061960 Roy Orbison releases "Only the Lonely"
S06061956 "Ooby Dooby," Roy Orbison's 1st hit, makes the charts
S06061949 George Orwell's novel "1984" is published
S06061946 Henry Morgan becomes 1st to take off his shirt on US TV
S06061944 D-Day:  Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy
S06061942 Japanese forces retreat, ending battle of Midway
S06061939 1st Little League baseball game played, Williamsport, Penn.
S06061938 Bonneville dam enters service, Columbia River
S06061934 Securities & Exchange Commission established
S06061934 Yankee Myrl Hoag hits 6 singles in 1 game
S06061933 1st drive-in theater opens, Camden, NJ
S06061932 US federal gas tax enacted
S06061925 Walter Percy Chrysler founds Chrysler Corp.
S06061918 Battle of Belleau Wood - 1st US victory of WW I
S06061914 1st air flight out of sight of land (Scotland to Norway)
S06061882 Hague convention fixes 3-mile limit for territorial waters
S06061882 Electric iron patented by Henry W. Seely, NYC
S06061862 Battle of Memphis - the city is surrendered
S06061844 Young Men's Christian Association founded in London
S06061844 UK limits female workers to 12 hours/day, children 8-13 to 6« hours
S06061816 25 cm snowfall in New England - the "year without a summer" (Krakatoa)
S06061813 US invasion of Canada halted at Stoney Creek (Ont.)
S06061654 Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates to become a Catholic
S06061536 The Inquisition is introduced into M‚xico
S06071990 UN report says tropical rain forest being destroyed at 1.5 acres/sec
S06071990 260,000 gal of oil spilled between Staten I. & NJ - 5th time in 1990
S06071983 Steve Carlton surpasses Nolan Ryan's career strikeout record - 3,526
S06071981 Israeli aircraft destroy alleged Iraqi plutonium production facility
S06071980 Tommy John wins his 200th baseball game, 3-0 on a 2-hitter
S06071980 Temperance Hill wins the Belmont Stakes (53:1 long shot)
S06071979 1st elections held for the European Parliament
S06071979 Bhaskara 1, Indian earth resources/meteorology satellite, launched
S06071978 Washington Bullets defeat Seattle in 7th game of NBA finals
S06071972 German Chancellor Willy Brandt visits Israel
S06071971 Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes 1st transfer to orbiting Salyut
S06071969 Tommy James & the Shondells release "Crystal Blue Persuasion"
S06071965 Supreme Court finds 1879 Conn. law banning contraceptives invalid
S06071963 Rolling Stones' 1st TV appearance (Thank Your Lucky Stars)
S06071963 The Rolling Stones release 1st single, "Come On"
S06071955 Eisenhower becomes 1st president to appear on color TV
S06071955 "The $64,000 Question" premiers on CBS TV (-1958)
S06071953 1st network telecast in compatible color, Boston, Mass.
S06071942 Japanese forces occupy Attu & Kiska in Alaska's Aleutian Islands
S06071941 Whirlaway wins the Belmont Stakes & the Triple Crown
S06071939 George VI & Elizabeth become 1st king & queen of England to visit US
S06071938 Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat 1st flown, by Eddie Allen
S06071938 1st play telecast with original Broadway cast, "Susan & God"
S06071936 Yanks beat Indians 5-4 in 16 innings; longest game without a strikeout
S06071930 "NY Times" announces it will begin capitalizing the "N" in "Negro"
S06071930 Gallant Fox wins the Belmont Stakes & the Triple Crown
S06071924 Bryce National Park, Utah established
S06071913 Party of 4 makes 1st ascent of Denali (Mt. McKinley), Alaska
S06071912 Pope Pius X encyclical "On the Indians of South America"
S06071912 US army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane
S06071909 Mary Pickford's 1st movie appearance, "The Violin Maker of Cremona"
S06071909 Cleveland Industrial Exposition opens
S06071906 An airborne cloud of HAY obscures the sun, Sprimont, France
S06071905 Norway dissolves union with Sweden (in effect since 1814)
S06071863 Mexico City captured by French troops
S06071776 Richard Lee (Va.) moves Decl. of Independence in Continental Congress
S06071769 Daniel Boone begins his exploration of Kentucky
S06071628 King Charles I of England is forced to accept the Petition of Right
S06071566 Exchange of London founded by Sir Thomas Gresham
S06071099 1st Crusade reaches Jerusalem
S06082004 Transit of Venus between earth & sun
S06081990 Florida record store owner arrested for selling "obscene" rap album
S06081990 Explosion on "Mega Borg" leads to 4.3 million-gal oil spill off Texas
S06081989 Pres. Bush bans imports of ivory
S06081986 Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected president of Austria
S06081986 Longest 9-inning AL game (4 h 16 m) - Orioles beat Yankees 18-9
S06081986 Boston Celtics win NBA championship #16 over Houston Rockets
S06081979 The Source, 1st computer public information service, goes online
S06081975 USSR launches Venera 9 for Venus landing
S06081969 Nixon announces 1st US troop withdrawals from Vietnam
S06081969 Brian Jones announces his departure from the Rolling Stones
S06081969 Mickey Mantle Day; 60,096 see #7 retired (I was there - BTG)
S06081967 Israel attacks "USS Liberty" in the Mediterranean, kills 34 US crewmen
S06081966 NFL & AFL announce plans to merge as NFC & AFC in 1970
S06081965 US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam
S06081965 USSR launches Luna 6; it misses the moon
S06081965 Bob Dylan records a 1-hour BBC-TV special
S06081960 1st date in James Clavell's novel "Nobel House"
S06081959 X-15 makes 1st (unpowered) flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m
S06081959 1st official "missile mail" lands, Jacksonville, Fla.
S06081953 Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by US Supreme Court
S06081953 Tornadoes kill 110 in Michigan & Ohio
S06081948 John Rudder becomes 1st negro commissioned officer in US marines
S06081948 "The Milton Berle Show" premiers on NBC TV (-1959, 1966-67)
S06081947 "Lassie" premiers on ABC (later NBC) radio (-1950)
S06081940 Discovery of element 93, neptunium, is announced
S06081935 Omaha wins the Belmont Stakes & the Triple Crown
S06081934 Oswald Mosley addresses mass meeting of British Union of Fascists
S06081933 Philadelphia's Jimmie Foxx hits his 4th consecutive home run
S06081918 Nova Aquila, brightest since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered
S06081912 Maurice Ravel's ballet "Daphnis et Chlo‰" premiers, Paris
S06081900 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the 6 Napoleons" (BG)
S06081869 Ives W. McGaffey of Chicago patents his vacuum cleaner (it sucks)
S06081867 Mark Twain embarks for Europe on trip that inspires "Innocents Abroad"
S06081861 People of Tennessee vote to secede from the Union
S06081824 Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Qu‚bec
S06081786 1st US commercially made ice cream advertised, NYC
S06081504 Michelangelo's "David" set in place in the Palazzo, Firenze, Italy
S0608  65 Jewish rebels capture fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem (approximate)
S0608  65CBeginning of the Jewish rebellion against Rome
S06091997 British lease on New Territories in Hong Kong expires
S06091991 1st WLAF World Bowl - London Monarchs defeat Barcelona 21-0
S06091989 Movie "Star Trek V:  The Final Frontier" premiers
S06091988 Atmosphere of Pluto 1st detected, during occultation of a star
S06091985 USSR's Vega 1 deposits lander on surface of Venus
S06091984 Polygram's plant in Hannover, Germany produces its 10 millionth CD
S06091984 Jrgen Hingsen of West Germany sets record for decathlon, 8,798 pts
S06091982 Israel wipes out Syrian SAM missiles in Bekaa Valley
S06091979 1st pro football metric game, Ottawa Rough Riders intrasquad game, Ont
S06091979 Michael Cairney topples a record row of 169,713 dominoes
S06091978 Mormon Church permits black males (but no females) in the priesthood
S06091978 Gutenberg Bible (1 of 21 in existence) sells for $2.4 million, London
S06091978 Larry Holmes wins decision over Ken Norton for world heavyweight title
S06091973 Secretariat wins the Belmont Stakes & the Triple Crown
S06091972 Flood & dam burst kill 236, Rapid City, SD (worst SD disaster)
S06091972 1st vehicles over entire Pan-American highway arrive, Tierra del Fuego
S06091971 Paul McCartney's album "Ram" goes gold
S06091966 Minnesota Twins tie record by hitting 5 homers in 1 inning
S06091959 1st ballistic missile sub, the "George Washington," is launched
S06091956 D.W. Sime, US, is 1st to run 220 yds in 20.0 sec, Sanger, NC
S06091953 About 100 die in Worcester, Mass. tornado
S06091949 Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark of Kansas becomes 1st woman treasurer of US
S06091943 IRS introduces tax withholding
S06091934 Donald Duck debuts in Walt Disney's film "The Wise Little Hen"
S06091931 Goddard patents rocket-fueled aircraft design
S06091928 1st US-to-Australia flight lands after 83 h (Kingsford-Smith & Ulm)
S06091908 All 9 Cleveland batters get hits & score in 5th inning vs. Boston
S06091899 Jim Jeffries knocks out Bob Fitzsimmons for world heavyweight title
S06091898 China leases Hong Kong's New Territories to Britain for 99 years
S06091883 1st commercial electric railway line begins operation (Chicago El)
S06091869 Charles Elmer Hires sells his 1st root beer (Philadelphia)
S06091868 1st meeting of the Board of Regents, University of California
S06091863 Battle of Brandy Station, Va.
S06091860 1st dime novel, "Malaeska:  The Indian Wife of the White Hunter," by
S06091860CAnn Stephens, is published
S06091851 San Francisco Committee of Vigilance formed (1st time)
S06091790 1st book copyright under US constitution, "Philadelphia Spelling Book"
S06091772 1st Protestant church west of Pennsylvania (in Ohio) holds communion
S06091732 Royal charter for Georgia granted to James Oglethorpe
S06091628 1st deportation from what is now US, Thomas Morton from Massachusetts
S06091588 Duke of Medina Sidonia sails from Lisbon with the Spanish Armada (NS)
S06101990 1st free elections in Bulgaria in 58 years - communists win
S06101990 Alberto Fujimori elected president of Per£
S06101990 2 members of rap group 2 Live Crew arrested for "obscene" music, Fla.
S06101987 Mattie Hoge, not retarded, ordered released after 57-yr commitment in
S06101987Ca home for the mentally retarded, Washington, DC
S06101984 Zhu Jian Hua of China high jumps a record 2.39 m
S06101982 Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut
S06101981 Sebastian Coe of UK sets record for 800 m, 1:41.73
S06101978 Bruce Springsteen releases "Darkness on the Edge of Town"
S06101978 Affirmed wins the Belmont Stakes & the Triple Crown
S06101977 James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison
S06101977 Golfer Al Geiberger sets PGA tournament record with a round of 59
S06101975 Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans
S06101968 Jim Hines becomes 1st human to run 100 m in under 10 sec, Sacramento
S06101967 Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq & Egypt end "6-Day War" with UN help
S06101966 Janis Joplin debuts with Big Brother & the Holding Company, SF
S06101966 Beatles release "Rain," 1st to use reverse tapes
S06101962 A 1-day record of 54 home runs hit in baseball
S06101955 1st separation of a virus into component parts reported
S06101946 Italian Republic proclaimed
S06101944 Joe Nuxhall, 15, becomes youngest ML baseball player (Cincinnati)
S06101944 Triple dead heat in horse racing's Carter Handicap
S06101942 Massacre at village of Lidice, Czechoslovakia; Gestapo kills 173
S06101940 Italy declares war on France & Britain in World War II
S06101935 Alcoholics Anonymous formed by Dr. Robert Smith & William Wilson
S06101921 Ute Indians go on the warpath in Utah
S06101921 Babe Ruth becomes all-time HR champ with #120 (Gavvy Cravath)
S06101905 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, Maine
S06101898 US marines land in Cuba during Spanish-American War
S06101892 Wilbert Robinson (Baltimore) goes 7 for 7 in a 9-inning baseball game
S06101865 Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" 1st performed, Mnchen, Germany
S06101864 Austrian Archduke Maximilian crowned emperor of M‚xico
S06101848 1st telegraph link between NYC & Chicago
S06101846 English patent for a rubber tire granted Robert Thomson
S06101809 1st US steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves NY for Philadelphia
S06101801 Tripoli declares war on US for refusing tribute
S06101760 NY passes 1st effective state law regulating the practice of medicine
S06101752 Ben Franklin's kite struck by lightning - what a shock! (traditional)
S06101682 1st tornado recorded in America, New Haven, Conn. - uproots a 3' oak
S06101639 1st American log cabin, at Ft. Christina (Wilmington, Dela.)
S06111991 Microsoft releases DOS version 5.0
S06111990 Reagan's nat'l security advisor John Poindexter sentenced to 6 months
S06111990 Nolan Ryan pitches his 6th no-hitter - Texas beats Oakland 5-0
S06111989 Michael Chang is 1st US men's French Open tennis winner in 34 yrs
S06111988 Yankee Rick Rhoden becomes 1st pitcher to DH (0 of 1 with an RBI)
S06111987 Thatcher becomes 1st British PM in 160 years to win 3rd consec. term
S06111982 Israel & Syria stop fighting in Lebanon
S06111982 Movie "ET, the Extra-Terrestrial" released (highest grossing film)
S06111982 Larry Holmes defeats Gerry Cooney, retains WBC heavyweight crown
S06111980 In SF, K-Ingleside streetcar converts to METRO service
S06111978 John Hutson sets stand-up skateboard record of 86 kph, Long Beach, CA
S06111977 Seattle Slew wins Belmont Stakes & the Triple Crown
S06111975 Commonwealth Racial Discrimination Act becomes effective, Australia
S06111970 US leaves Wheelus AFB, Libya
S06111963 Gov. Wallace tries to prevent blacks registering at Univ. of Alabama
S06111962 1st Students for a Democratic Society convention opens, Port Huron, MI
S06111962 4 convicts escape from Alcatraz but probably drown in SF Bay
S06111959 Postmaster General bans D.H. Lawrence's book "Lady Chatterley's Lover"
S06111959 1st Hovercraft unveiled, England
S06111955 Flaming 2-car collision at Le Mans race kills 83 spectators
S06111950 "The Sammy Kaye Show" premiers on NBC (later CBS, ABC) TV (-1959)
S06111949 Hank Williams debuts on Grand Ole Opry
S06111947 WW II sugar rationing finally ends
S06111945 Liberals under Mackenzie King win Canadian elections
S06111945 Mao delivers speech "The Foolish Old Man Who Removed the Mountains"
S06111936 Presbyterian Church of America founded at Philadelphia
S06111919 Sir Barton becomes 1st racehorse to win the Triple Crown
S06111912 National strike of transport workers in Britain
S06111905 Pennsylvania RR debuts world's fastest train (NY-Chicago in 18 hrs)
S06111871 1st Hebrew periodical in US appears, NY (Ha-Zofeh ba-Arez ha-Hadashah)
S06111865 Texas state treasury robbed of $17,000 by 40 outlaws
S06111859 Henry Comstock files a claim to what turns out to be Nevada's Comstock
S06111859Csilver lode
S06111788 1st British ship built on Pacific coast begun at Nootka Sound, BC
S06111776 Continental Congress appoints a comm. to write Decl. of Independence
S06111775 Bruno Heceta claims area around Trinidad Head, Calif. for Spain
S06111770 Capt. Cook runs aground on Australian Great Barrier Reef
S06111685 James, Duke of Monmouth invades England at Lyme - Monmouth's Rebellion
S06111509 Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon
S06111496 Columbus returns to C diz after his 2nd voyage to the New World
S06121989 EPA approves 1st open-field tests of genetically engineered virus
S06121986 INFACT begins consumer boycott of GE, a major nuclear weapons supplier
S06121982 750,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators in Central Park, NYC
S06121981 3rd baseball strike starts
S06121980 Grazyna Rabsztyn (Poland) sets women's 100-m hurdles record, 12.36 s
S06121979 Bryan Allen in "Gossamer Albatross" becomes 1st to cross the English
S06121979CChannel in a human-powered aircraft; flight takes 2 h, 49 m
S06121977 Ground-breaking ceremonies for President Kennedy library
S06121974 Little League announces girls may play on previously all-boy teams
S06121972 John Lennon's political "Sometime in NYC" released, including "Woman
S06121972CIs the Nigger of the World," "Attica State" & "Luck of the Irish"
S06121967 USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus
S06121967 Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages
S06121964 The Beatles arrive in Sydney for an Australian tour
S06121963 $40 million movie "Cleopatra" premiers, NY
S06121957 Paul Anderson of US back-lifts a record 2,850 kg
S06121948 Eddie Arcaro becomes 1st jockey to win Triple Crown twice (Citation)
S06121947 "Sgt. Preston of the Yukon" premiers on ABC radio (later MBS) (-1955)
S06121947 Babe Didrikson is 1st American to win Brit. Women's Amateur Golf title
S06121939 Baseball Hall of Fame dedicated, Cooperstown, NY
S06121937 USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continues
S06121936 1st 50-kW radio station in US, Pittsburgh
S06121936 40-hour work week adopted in France
S06121934 Black-McKeller Bill passes, causing Bill Boeing empire to break up
S06121934Cinto Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] & United Air Lines
S06121930 Max Schmeling wins world hvywt title when Jack Sharkey commits a foul
S06121923 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straitjacket while suspended upside
S06121923Cdown 12 m (40') above the ground
S06121922 St. Louis (NL) gets record 10 hits in a row (in 7th), beats Phils 14-8
S06121920 Farmer Labor Party organized in Chicago
S06121918 1st airplane bombing raid by a US unit, France
S06121917 Secret Service extends protection of the president to his family
S06121913 "The Dachshund" by Pathe Freres, early animated cartoon, released
S06121898 Philippines declares independence from Spain, before passing to US
S06121880 John Richmond of Worcester pitches 1st major-league perfect game
S06121853 John Hillman & Issac Skeets become 1st whites to see Crater Lake, Ore.
S06121849 Gas mask patented by Lewis Haslett, Louisville, Ken.
S06121839 According to legend, this is the day Abner Doubleday invents baseball
S06121812 Napol‚on's invasion of Russia begins
S06121776 Virginia adopts Declaration of Rights, including freedom of religion
S06121775 1st naval battle of the Revolution - "Unity" (American) captures
S06121775C"Margaretta" (British), Machias, Maine
S06121701 Parliament passes law of the Hanoverian succession, excluding Stuarts
S06121365 King Edward III bans football in London, orders archery practice
S06131989 Government says savings & loans lost $16.4 BILLION in last 5 quarters
S06131987 Sachio Kinugasa (Hiroshima Toyo Carp) breaks Lou Gehrig's record by
S06131987Cplaying in his 2,131st consecutive baseball game
S06131986 Steve Garvey 1st ejected from a game, after Atlanta's triple play
S06131985 "Doonesbury" satirizes Reagan's Medal of Freedom award to Sinatra
S06131983 Pioneer 10 becomes 1st man-made object to leave the solar system
S06131983 Tiina Lillak (Finland) sets women's javelin world record, 74.76 m
S06131982 Fahd becomes king of Saudi Arabia when King Khalid dies at 69
S06131982 15 karate students demolish a wooden house with bare hands, Alberta
S06131975 John Lennon's last-ever stage appearance, on a US TV special
S06131973 Garvey, Lopes, Cey & Russell play together for 1st time, later set
S06131973Crecord of staying together as an infield for 8« years (LA Dodgers)
S06131971 "NY Times" begins publishing the Pentagon Papers
S06131970 Beatles' "Let It Be" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
S06131969 Mick Taylor leaves John Mayall Band & joins the Rolling Stones
S06131966 Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights
S06131948 Babe Ruth's #3 is retired
S06131946 1st transcontinental round-trip flight in 1 day, California-Maryland
S06131944 Nazi Germany begins V-1 buzz-bomb attacks against Britain
S06131942 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemnde, Germany - reaches 1.3 km
S06131940 Paris evacuated before the German advance
S06131937 Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs against St. Louis Browns
S06131935 James T. Braddock upsets Max Baer for world heavyweight boxing title
S06131933 Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation authorized
S06131933 1st sodium vapor lamps installed, Schenectady, NY
S06131927 Ticker-tape parade welcomes Charles A. Lindbergh to NYC
S06131917 14 bombers make 1st German airplane raid on London
S06131914 Greece annexes Chios & Mytilene
S06131911 Igor Stravinsky's ballet "Petrouchka" premiers, Paris
S06131910 Charles Hamilton makes 1st 1-day round-trip flight from NY to Phila.
S06131907 -17ø C (2ø F), Tamarack, Calif. - 48-state record low for June
S06131898 Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital
S06131895 mile Levassor wins 1st Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph)
S06131871 Hurricane kills 300 in LABRADOR!
S06131867 US gunboats attack Formosa to avenge killing of shipwrecked US sailors
S06131863 Samuel Butler publishes 1st part of "Erewhon," Christchurch, NZ
S06131789 Mrs. Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream for dessert, Washington, DC
S06131774 Rhode Island becomes 1st colony to prohibit importation of slaves
S06131667 Dutch fleet raids England & escapes with the royal barge - the nadir
S06131667Cof English naval power
S06141991 Leroy Burrell of US sets 100-m dash world record, 9.90 seconds
S06141989 Maiden flight of military Titan 4; most expensive unmanned launch ever
S06141985 Lebanese Shiite Moslem gunmen hijack TWA 847 after Athens takeoff
S06141983 Peter Bird completes 1st rowboat crossing of Pacific, SF-Australia
S06141982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falklands, ending 74-day conflict
S06141976 Asian elephant placed on the Endangered Species List
S06141976 Mountain zebra placed on the Endangered Species List
S06141976 "The Gong Show" premiers (syndicated)
S06141975 USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing
S06141975 Janis Ian releases "At 17"
S06141972 US judge orders bussing of 310,000 students between Detroit & suburbs
S06141968 Dr. Spock & 3 others convicted of counseling draft evasion, Boston
S06141967 Mariner 5 launched for fly-by of Venus
S06141965 Beatles release the album "Beatles VI"
S06141963 Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 begins 81 orbits of earth in 5 days
S06141962 European Space Research Organization established at Paris
S06141959 US agrees to give nuclear information & ballistic missiles to Greece
S06141954 Pres. Eisenhower adds words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance
S06141952 Keel laid for 1st nuclear-powered submarine, "USS Nautilus"
S06141951 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau
S06141942 Walt Disney's "Bambi" is released
S06141940 German forces occupy Paris during WW II
S06141940 Nazi extermination camp opens at Auschwitz - 3 million die here
S06141923 Stravinsky's ballet "Noces" premiers, Paris
S06141894 Mike Leonard knocks out Jack Cushing in 1st sports event ever filmed
S06141881 Player piano patented by John McTammany, Jr., Cambridge, Mass.
S06141876 Boston (24) & St. Louis (16) combine for 40 errors in 1 baseball game
S06141870 All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer 1st loss in 130 games
S06141863 Battle of 2nd Winchester, Virginia
S06141847 Bunson invents a gas burner; lab teachers worldwide celebrate
S06141846 California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma
S06141841 1st Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ont.
S06141834 Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine
S06141834 Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer, Jr., Springfield, Vermont
S06141789 Capt. Bligh reaches Timor after 6,000-km voyage in an open boat
S06141777 Stars & Stripes adopted as US flag, replacing Grand Union flag
S06141775 Continental Congress establishes US army
S06141645 Cromwell & a Puritan army defeat Charles I in battle of Naseby
S06141642 1st compulsory education law in America passed, by Massachusetts
S0614-510 Rome becomes a republic (one suggested date)
S06151993 Chunnel (English Channel Tunnel) scheduled to open to traffic
S06151983 Supreme Court strikes down state & local restrictions on abortion
S06151978 Soyuz 29 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days
S06151969 "Hee Haw" with Roy Clark & Buck Owens premiers on CBS TV
S06151967 Gov. Ronald Reagan signs liberalized California abortion bill
S06151965 Stanford M. Mirkin publishes "What Happened When"                    <
S06151957 Explosion at Rocky Flats nuclear bomb factory, Colo. kills 2
S06151956 John Lennon (15) & Paul McCartney (13) meet for the 1st time, as
S06151956CLennon's rock group The Quarrymen perform at a church dinner
S06151951 Joe Louis knocks out Lee Savold in 1st closed-circuit boxing match
S06151946 Olympic National Park, Wash. dedicated
S06151944 US forces begin invasion of Saipan in the Pacific
S06151940 French fortress of Verdun captured by Germans
S06151940 US declines France's appeal for aid against the Nazis in WW II
S06151938 Johnny Vander Meer of Cincinnati Reds becomes 1st to pitch 2
S06151938Cconsecutive no-hit, no-run baseball games, beats Brooklyn 6-0
S06151934 Great Smokey Mountains National Park dedicated
S06151924 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth automobile
S06151922 1st session of Permanent Court of International Justice begins, Hague
S06151919 1st nonstop Atlantic flight (Alcock & Brown) lands in Ireland
S06151918 2.5 cm (1") of snow falls in northern Pennsylvania
S06151907 44 nations meet in 2nd Hague Peace Conference (-Oct. 18)
S06151904 "General Slocum" excursion steamer catches fire, NYC - over 1,000 die
S06151902 20th Century Limited train leaves NYC for Chicago on maiden run
S06151896 53ø C (127ø F), Ft. Mohave, Ariz. - 48-state record high for June
S06151889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Stockbroker's Clerk" (BG)
S06151878 1st attempt at motion pictures (using 12 cameras, each taking 1
S06151878Cpicture), to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground at once
S06151871 Phoebe Couzins is 1st woman graduate of a US collegiate law school
S06151869 Celluloid patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, NY
S06151869 Mike McCoole (US) defeats Tom Allen (England) in bare-knuckle bout
S06151864 Battle for Petersburg begins, as Gen. Grant assaults Confederate line
S06151859 American shoots British hog, beginning the Pig War, San Juan Island
S06151851 Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up 1st ice-cream factory
S06151846 Oregon Treaty signed, setting western US-British boundary at 49ø N
S06151844 Charles Goodyear patents a vulcanization process for rubber
S06151839 British government extends boundaries of NSW to include New Zealand
S06151836 Arkansas becomes 25th US state
S06151775 Washington appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army
S06151215 King John signs the Magna Carta at Runnymede
S06161989 1st contingent of Soviet troops leaves Poland
S06161989 Imre Nagy, premier of 1956 Hungarian government, given state funeral
S06161989 Japan & Hong Kong announce ban on most ivory imports
S06161987 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession
S06161987Ccharges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him
S06161983 European Space Agency launches European Comm. Satellite 1, Oscar 10
S06161977 Leonid Brezhnev named president of USSR
S06161976 Student uprisings begin in Soweto - South African forces kill 700
S06161975 Randy Farland finds a FOURTEEN-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, SD
S06161971 Nixon administration sues to stop publication of Pentagon Papers
S06161970 ITT Pres. Geneen offers CIA "substantial sum" to stop Allende in Chile
S06161970 Kenneth A. Gibson elected 1st black mayor of Newark, NJ
S06161963 Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli PM
S06161963 Valentina Tereshkova becomes 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6
S06161961 Rudolf Nureyev, Soviet ballet dancer, defects to the West
S06161960 Movie "Psycho" opens in Hollywood
S06161955 Pope Pius XII excommunicates Argentine Pres. Juan Per¢n
S06161953 Satchel Paige ends 18-game Yank win streak, 14-game Brown loss streak
S06161952 John Barbieri becomes last man in US whipped for a crime, Delaware
S06161947 "Walter Compton News" premiers on DuMont TV, Washington, DC
S06161944 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan, Kyushu
S06161940 France is offered union with Britain
S06161938 Red Sox James Foxx ties major-league record, walks 6 times in a game
S06161937 Marx Brothers' "A Day at the Races" opens in Los Angeles
S06161933 National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law (later struck down)
S06161933 US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created
S06161920 ITT incorporated
S06161909 1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000
S06161904 Bloomsday (date of events in James Joyce's "Ulysses")
S06161903 Ford Motor Co. incorporated
S06161903 1st Highlander (Yankee) shutout victory, 1-0 over White Sox
S06161891 John Abbot (C) becomes premier of Canada on Macdonald's death (-1892)
S06161890 Madison Square Garden sports arena opens in NYC
S06161883 200 children die in stampede at puppet show, Sunderland, England
S06161882 Small still-living frogs found in hailstones, Dubuque, Iowa
S06161858 Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand"
S06161773 India Bill passes - British gov't takes control of East India Co.
S06161745 British, Americans take Cape Breton I. from French (King George's War)
S06161716 1st volume of Alexander Pope's translation of the "Iliad" is published
S06161373 Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest) signed, London
S06171988 Woman sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case
S06171986 Chief Justice Warren E. Burger resigns; Antonin Scalia nominated
S06171985 Shuttle Discovery 5 carries 7 astronauts (1 French, 1 Saudi prince)
S06171982 President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat
S06171979 Richard Brown sets skateboard speed record of 115.5 kph, Mt. Baldy, CA
S06171978 Ron Guidry sets Yankee record with 18 strikeouts
S06171975 Voters in Northern Mariana Islands approve commonwealth status with US
S06171972 5 arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ at Watergate
S06171967 China becomes world's 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power
S06171965 28.14 cm (11.08") of rainfall, Holly, Colorado (state 24-hour record)
S06171963 Supreme Court rules against Bible reading & prayer in public schools
S06171957 Stravinsky's ballet "Agon" premiers, Los Angeles
S06171954 Televised Senate Army-McCarthy hearings end
S06171953 2 million in East Berlin revolt against Soviet dictatorship
S06171950 1st kidney transplant, Chicago
S06171947 1st round-the-world civil air service leaves NYC - fare $1,700
S06171946 SW Bell inaugurates commercial mobile telephone service, St. Louis
S06171944 Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland
S06171942 "Suspense" premiers on CBS radio (-1962)
S06171940 France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II
S06171936 Canadian supreme court nullifies most of New Deal legislation of R.B.
S06171936CBennett's government
S06171925 International agreement banning poison gas & germ warfare signed
S06171919 "Barney Google" cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premiers
S06171917 Charlie Chaplin movie "The Immigrant" is released
S06171912 Wishing Ring wins at Latonia, pays $1,885.50 for a $2 ticket
S06171894 1st US poliomyelitis epidemic breaks out, Rutland, Vermont
S06171885 Statue of Liberty arrives in NYC aboard the French ship "Isere"
S06171880 John Ward, Providence, pitches perfect game vs. Buffalo
S06171877 Battle of White Bird Canyon starts the Nez Perc‚ War (Idaho)
S06171872 Johann Strauss conducts 987-piece orchestra & 20,000-member choir
S06171859 Santa Ana wind said to be 56ø C (133ø F), Santa Barbara, Calif.
S06171856 Republican Party opens its 1st national convention in Philadelphia
S06171851 1st skirmish in 1st Rogue River Indian war, southern Oregon Territory
S06171837 Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent
S06171794 George III of England becomes king of Corsica (for 16 months)
S06171789 3rd Estate in France declares itself a national assembly
S06171775 Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill)
S06171579 Francis Drake claims New Albion (California) for England
S06171567 Mary Queen of Scots is imprisoned in Lochleven Castle
S06181986 52 die in plane-helicopter collision over Grand Canyon
S06181983 Sally Ride becomes 1st US woman in space (on Challenger 2)
S06181983 Donna Hudson sets world women's record for 100-mi run, 15 h 31 m 56 s
S06181980 Mrs. Shakuntala Devi mentally multiplies 2 13-digit numbers in 28 sec
S06181979 Carter & Brezhnev sign SALT II arms-control agreement (never ratified)
S06181977 Space shuttle test model Enterprise carries a crew aloft for the 1st
S06181977Ctime, fixed to a modified Boeing 747
S06181967 Jimi Hendrix Experience's 1st US concert, Monterey, Calif.
S06181959 1st telecast transmitted from England to US
S06181953 Egypt proclaimed a republic - General Neguib becomes president
S06181953 Boston's Eugene Stephens gets 3 hits in 7th inning vs. Detroit
S06181948 UN Commission on Human Rights adopts Int'l Declaration of Human Rights
S06181948 American Library Association adopts the Library Bill of Rights
S06181948 US National Security Council authorizes covert operations for 1st time
S06181945 William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) charged with treason in Britain
S06181942 Eric Nessler of France stays aloft in a glider for 38 h 21 m
S06181940 Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations will
S06181940Cremember that "this was their finest hour"
S06181940 Gen. de Gaulle appeals for French resistance against Nazis, on the BBC
S06181929 John Salo wins NYC-Los Angeles foot race in 525 h, 57 m, by 2 m 47 s
S06181928 Amelia Earhart becomes 1st woman (passenger) to cross Atlantic by air
S06181918 US army's First Gas Regiment engages in 1st independent action
S06181908 A.A. Campbell Swinton publishes 1st description of principles of TV
S06181898 Amusement pier opens, Atlantic City, NJ (1st steel ocean pier in US)
S06181892 Macademia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii
S06181886 Dr. Reginald Fitz describes & names appendicitis
S06181878 Polish sailor Joseph Conrad arrives in England
S06181873 Susan B. Anthony fined $100 for attempting to vote for president
S06181861 Telegram sent from balloon "Enterprise" to Pres. Lincoln
S06181861 1st fly casting tournament in US, Utica, NY
S06181822 US-Canadian boundary from the St. Lawrence to Lake Superior determined
S06181815 Battle of Waterloo; Napol‚on defeated by Wellington & Blcher
S06181812 War of 1812 begins as US Congress approves war on Britain
S06181778 Henry Clinton evacuates British troops from Philadelphia
S06181621 1st known duel in American colonies (Plymouth Colony)
S06181583 William Gibbons takes out 1st known life insurance policy in England
S06181178 5 Canterbury monks report explosion on the moon (only such observation
S06181178Cknown) - proposed time of origin of lunar crater Giordano Bruno
S0618 860 Vikings from Russia repulsed in an attack on Constantinople
S06191990 Amnesty Int'l says Brazilian police are torturing & murdering suspects
S06191990 World's largest hotel, 4,032-room Excalibur, opens in Las Vegas
S06191989 Burma changes name to "Union of Myanmar" - Rangoon becomes "Yangon"
S06191981 India's APPLE satellite, 1st to be stabilized on 3 axes, launched
S06191981 Heaviest known orange (2.5 kg) exhibited, Nelspruit, South Africa
S06191977 Pope Paul VI makes 19th-century bishop John Neumann 1st US male saint
S06191977 Red Sox set record of 16 HRs in 3 games, all against Yanks
S06191976 US Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-mo. flight from earth
S06191973 Pete Rose & Willie Davis each get career hit #2,000
S06191970 A. Nikolayev & V. Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9
S06191970 Baseball player Jim Bouton's controversial "Ball Four" is published
S06191967 US judge rules Washington, DC's de facto segregation unconstitutional
S06191967 Paul McCartney admits on TV that he has taken LSD
S06191965 Earliest dated piece in Eldridge Cleaver's "Soul on Ice," Folsom Pris.
S06191963 Valentina Tereshkova, 1st woman in space, returns after 3 days
S06191963 Charter members of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame chosen
S06191961 Kuwait gains complete independence from Britain
S06191961 US Supreme Court strikes down provision in Maryland's constitution
S06191961Crequiring state office holders to believe in God
S06191960 Loretta Lynn's 1st single, "Honky Tonk Girl," makes the country charts
S06191959 Senate rejects Ike's appointment of Lewis Strauss for Sec. of Commerce
S06191955 Mickey Mantle hits career HR #100
S06191952 "I've Got a Secret" debuts on CBS TV with Garry Moore as host (-1976)
S06191947 Albert Boyd in F-80 sets world aircraft speed record of 1,004 kph
S06191946 1st TV sports spectacular - Joe Louis kayos Billy Conn
S06191944 US troops take Saipan from the Japanese
S06191934 1st moving pictures of the sun (other than eclipses), R.R. McMath
S06191934 US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created
S06191912 US government adopts the 8-hour day for all its employees
S06191911 Pennsylvania creates 1st US state board of moving picture censors
S06191910 Father's Day celebrated for 1st time, in Spokane, Wash.
S06191905 1st nickelodeon opens, Pittsburgh
S06191867 Ruthless wins the 1st running of the Belmont Stakes
S06191865 All slaves in Texas freed
S06191864 "CSS Alabama" sunk by "USS Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France
S06191862 Slavery outlawed in US territories
S06191846 1st baseball game (Cartwright Rules) - NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1
S06191809 Curwan's Act prohibits the sale of Parliamentary seats in Britain
S06191778 Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge
S06191586 English colonists sail from Roanoke Island, NC to return to England
S06201991 Mitchell's satyr butterfly (Mich., Ind.) named an endanged species
S06201990 7.7 earthquake centered in the Caspian Sea kills 50,000 Iranians
S06201989 Sri Lankan government declares state of emergency - hundreds disappear
S06201977 Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline, exits 38 days later at Valdez
S06201969 150,000 attend Newport '69, California rock concert
S06201967 Muhammad Ali convicted of draft evasion, Houston
S06201966 Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman
S06201963 US & USSR agree to set up "hot line"
S06201960 Federation of Mali (including Senegal) becomes independent of France
S06201960 Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson, regains heavyweight title
S06201950 Joe DiMaggio's 2,000th hit; Yanks beat Indians 8-2
S06201948 Ed Sullivan's 1st "shoe," "Toast of the Town," premiers on CBS TV
S06201947 Pres. Truman vetoes Taft-Hartley Act
S06201945 Abbott & Costello's "Who's on First" 1st seen, in "Naughty 90's" film
S06201943 New Qu‚bec (Chubb) Crater discovered in northern Qu‚bec (3« km dia)
S06201942 Nazis begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz camp
S06201941 Margaret Hamma sets 1-hour electric typing speed record of 149 wpm
S06201939 Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants
S06201939 1st operetta telecast in US - "Pirates of Penzance," W2XBS, NYC
S06201928 Montenegran deputy murders Croatian deputies in Yugoslav parliament
S06201921 Alice Robertson (OK) is 1st woman to preside over a house of Congress
S06201921 29.2 cm (11.5") of rainfall, Circle, Montana (state record)
S06201913 3 of 1st 4 Yanks hit by pitches en route to a record 6 hit batsmen
S06201913CBert Daniels sets AL mark by getting hit 3 times in a doubleheader
S06201912 NY Giant Jose Devore steals 4 bases in 9th inning vs. Boston
S06201910 Fanny Brice's Broadway debut, in "Ziegfeld Follies of 1910"
S06201910 "Krazy Kat" comic strip by George Herriman debuts in "NY Journal"
S06201907 1st Portland Rose Festival
S06201898 US navy seizes Guam in the Spanish-American War
S06201895 Nicaragua, El Salvador & Honduras form a short-lived confederation
S06201893 Lizzie Borden found innocent of murder, New Bedford, Mass.
S06201867 Mexico City surrenders to the Liberals
S06201863 West Virginia admitted as 35th US state (24th at the time)
S06201837 Queen Victoria at 18 ascends the British throne following the death of
S06201837Cher uncle, William IV; she rules for 63 years, ending in 1901
S06201819 "Savannah" becomes 1st ship to cross any ocean (Atlantic) using steam
S06201791 King Louis XVI tries to flee the French Revolution (doesn't make it)
S06201790 N-S compromise decides capital should be on Potomac, not Philadelphia
S06201782 Congress adopts the Great Seal of US, chooses the eagle as US symbol
S06201756 146 English people imprisoned in Black Hole of Calcutta; most die
S06201632 Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area
S06211989 Chinese government begins executing pro-democracy protesters
S06211989 FBI secretly given authority to kidnap fugitives in foreign countries
S06211986 Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women's record)
S06211982 Washington, DC jury finds John Hinckley, Jr. innocent by insanity
S06211981 12-bottle case of 1979 Napamedoc Cabernet wine auctioned for $24,000
S06211977 Menachem Begin (Likud), becomes Israel's 6th PM
S06211977 Former Nixon White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman enters prison
S06211973 Supreme Court rules pornography is not protected by the 1st amendment
S06211973 Bread's final concert, Salt Lake City
S06211972 World altitude record for helicopters set - 12,440 m - France
S06211969 Zager & Evans release "In the Year 2525"
S06211968 Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns
S06211964 Phillie Jim Bunning pitches perfect game (vs. Mets) on Fathers Day
S06211964CIn 2nd game of doubleheader, Mets get 3 hits - fewest hits in a NL DH
S06211963 Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII
S06211957 John Diefenbaker forms Conservative ministry in Canada (-1963)
S06211956 Arthur Miller refuses to testify before Un-American Activities Comm.
S06211955 Johnny Cash's 1st single, "Hey Porter," is released
S06211948 1st stored computer program run, on the Manchester Mark I
S06211948 Dr. Peter Goldmark of CBS demonstrates the "long playing record"
S06211945 Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to US during WW II after 2« mo.
S06211943 Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit; 30 dead
S06211942 Germans under Gen. Erwin Rommel retake Tobruk, Libya from the British
S06211942 A Japanese submarine fires on the Oregon coast but causes no damage
S06211942 54ø C (129ø F), Tirat Zevi, Israel (Asian record)
S06211939 Doctors reveal Lou Gehrig has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
S06211938 Boston's Pinky Higgins gets his 12th consecutive hit
S06211934 National [Labor] Mediation Board created by Congress
S06211933 1st Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans
S06211932 Heavyweight Jack Sharkey wins split title decision over Max Schmeling
S06211915 Supreme Court invalidates state "grandfather clauses" for voting
S06211913 Tiny Broadwick becomes 1st woman to parachute from an airplane, LA
S06211893 1st US ferris wheel debuts, at Chicago's Columbian Exposition
S06211834 Cyrus Hall McCormick patents his reaper
S06211824 Britain legalizes trades unions
S06211813 Wellington routs French at Vittoria, forcing Joseph Bonaparte to flee
S06211788 US constitution goes into effect with ratification by 9th state, NH
S06211633 Galileo Galilei is forced by the Inquisition to "abjure, curse, &
S06211633Cdetest" his Copernican heliocentric views
S06211607 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown, Va.
S06221990 Announcement that Japan has passed US as world's #1 foreign aid donor
S06221990 Northern spotted owl added to the threatened species list
S06221984 Margarita Ponomaryeva (USSR) sets women's 400-m hurdles record, 53.58s
S06221983 1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit, by space shuttle
S06221982 Manhattan institutes buses-only lanes
S06221979 Professional Football Researchers Association founded at Canton, Ohio
S06221978 James Christy's discovery of Pluto's moon Charon is announced
S06221978 Neo-Nazis call off plans to march in Jewish community of Skokie, Ill.
S06221977 Nixon Attorney General John Mitchell starts 19 mo. in Alabama prison
S06221977 Walt Disney's "The Rescuers" is released
S06221973 World Court orders France to end atmospheric nuclear tests
S06221970 Voting Rights Act extended to 1975, voting age reduced to 18
S06221969 Ohio's polluted Cuyahoga River catches fire
S06221964 US Supreme Court says Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" may not
S06221964Cconstitutionally be banned
S06221963 "Surf City" by Jan & Dean makes the charts
S06221962 Philippines claims part of British North Borneo
S06221949 Ezzard Charles beats Jersey Joe Walcott for vacant heavyweight title
S06221946 1st airmail carried by jet, to HST in Washington from Schenectady, NY
S06221944 FDR signs "GI Bill of Rights" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act)
S06221942 1st "V" mail (on film) dispatched from NY for London
S06221941 Germany invades Latvia & Lithuania in its opening attack on USSR
S06221940 France falls to Nazi Germany - armistice signed, France disarmed
S06221939 1st televised beauty contest, Flushing, NY
S06221938 Joe Lewis knocks out Max Schmeling in 1st round, NYC
S06221937 Joe Lewis wins world heavyweight title from James Braddock by KO
S06221894 World's 1st auto race (Paris-Rouen, France) begins
S06221889 AA Louisville Colonels set major-league baseball record with their
S06221889C26th consecutive loss
S06221870 US Department of Justice founded as a cabinet-level federal agency
S06221868 Arkansas becomes 2nd state readmitted to US after Civil War
S06221847 The doughnut is invented
S06221840 Hobson claims New Zealand for Britain as part of Australia
S06221830 Peter Bossy becomes last person legally sentenced to the pillory in UK
S06221815 2nd abdication of Napol‚on (after Waterloo)
S06221807 British board "USS Chesapeake," a provocation leading to War of 1812
S06221775 2nd Continental Congress issues 1st US paper money ($3,000,000)
S06221772 British court rules slaves brought to England are free
S06221675 Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II
S06221611 Henry Hudson & son set adrift in Hudson Bay during mutiny
S06231990 Canada's Meech Lake constitutional accord expires (Man., Nfld. say no)
S06231989 Movie "Batman" with Michael Keaton & Jack Nicholson opens
S06231988 Yank manager Billy Martin's 5th term ends, Lou Pinella named manager
S06231985 Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air - 329 die
S06231984 Rob Banis sets pogo-stick record of 125,102 consecutive jumps, Calif.
S06231982 Himmy, of Australia, weighs in at domestic cat record 20.7 kg (45 lbs)
S06231981 33-inning baseball game ends - Pawtucket 3, Rochester 2
S06231976 CN Tower in Toronto, tallest free-standing structure (555 m), opens
S06231973 Phillie Ken Brett hits HR in 4th consecutive game in which he pitches
S06231972 Nixon & Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate
S06231969 Warren E. Burger sworn in as US Chief Justice
S06231968 Vietnam War becomes the longest in US history
S06231967 US Senate censures Thomas J. Dodd (D-Ct.) for misusing campaign funds
S06231966 American Baptist Association denounces antiwar demonstrations
S06231956 Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt
S06231955 Walt Disney's "Lady & the Tramp" is released
S06231954 50ø C (122ø F), Overton, Nevada (state record)
S06231947 Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act overridden by Congress
S06231944 Thomas Mann becomes a US citizen
S06231938 US Civil Aeronautics Authority created
S06231938 Marineland opens in Florida
S06231933 "The Breakfast Club" premiers on the Blue radio network (-1968)
S06231931 Wiley Post & Harold Catty take off for flight around the world
S06231904 1st US motor boat race under organized rules, Hudson River, NYC
S06231894 International Olympic Committee founded, Paris
S06231888 Frederick Douglass receives 1 vote at Republican nominating convention
S06231888Cin Chicago - 1st for a black in a major US party
S06231868 Christopher Latham Sholes patents "Type-writer" (becomes Remington)
S06231860 Congress establishes the Government Printing Office
S06231848 Bloody insurrection of workers in Paris
S06231836 Congress divides $28 million US treasury surplus among the states
S06231810 John Jacob Astor organizes Pacific Fur Co. (Astoria, Ore.)
S06231784 1st manned balloon flight in US, 13-year-old Edward Warren, Baltimore
S06231775 1st regatta held on the Thames, England
S06231760 Battle of Landshut, Silesia - Austrians defeat Prussians
S06231757 Robert Clive defeats Indians at Plassey, wins control of Bengal
S06231694 Parliament passes 1st English stamp act, on paper, vellum & parchment
S06231683 William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in
S06231683CPennsylvania; only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken"
S0623 930 1st meeting of the Icelandic parliament opens
S06241990 Naty Alvarado wins his 11th US national pro handball championship
S06241989 Uruguayan tanker spills 304,000 gallons of oil in Delaware River
S06241984 Olga Bondarenko (USSR) sets women's 10,000-m world record, 31:13.78
S06241983 World's tallest roller coaster (75 m) opens, Japan
S06241982 Jean-Loup Chr‚tien, 1st spacionaut, 2 others, lift off (Soyuz T-16)
S06241973 Marlene Raymond sets limbo record by passing under 15.6-cm flaming bar
S06241970 Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
S06241967 John Lennon & George Harrison announce they have tried LSD
S06241967 "Purple Haze" by Jimi Hendrix makes the charts
S06241966 Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I
S06241966 Lenny Bruce's last public appearance, SF
S06241963 1st demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London
S06241949 "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes 1st network TV western (NBC)
S06241948 Soviet Union begins blockade of Berlin
S06241948 Republican Nat'l Convention in Phila. nominates NY Gov. Thomas Dewey
S06241947 Flying saucers sighted over Mt. Rainier by airline pilot Ken Arnold
S06241940 France signs an armistice with Italy during WW II
S06241936 Mary Bethune becomes 1st black woman to hold a major US federal office
S06241935 Richard Strauss's opera "Die schweigsame Frau" premiers
S06241930 1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia, DC
S06241922 E.L. (Curly) Lambeau buys back Green Bay franchise from NFL
S06241916 1st million-dollar movie contract awarded, to Mary Pickford for 2 yrs
S06241901 Jewish National Fund started
S06241898 1st land engagement of Spanish-American War, Las Guasimas, Cuba
S06241882 Baseball umpire Richard Higham suspended for life for helping gamblers
S06241881 Sir William Huggins & Henry Draper take 1st photos of a comet spectrum
S06241861 Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from US
S06241834 Roger Taney nominated for secretary of the treasury by Pres. Jackson
S06241834C(1st cabinet nominee to be rejected by the Senate)
S06241821 Battle of Carabobo; Bol¡var defeats royalists outside of Caracas
S06241812 Napol‚on crosses River Nieman & enters Russian territory
S06241675 King Philip of the Wampanoags leads a raid on Plymouth colony
S06241665 Thomas Willett is installed as 1st mayor of the city of New York
S06241662 Dutch invasion of Portuguese Macau repulsed (Macau Day)
S06241647 Margaret Brent, America's 1st feminist, demands a voice in Maryland's
S06241647Ccolonial assembly; she is ejected
S06241624 Virginia Company is dissolved - Virginia becomes a crown colony
S06241571 Miguel L¢pez de Legazpi establishes Manila
S06241497 John Cabot lands at Cape Breton I., claims eastern Canada for England
S06241314 Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England
S06251990 Brazil says 8% of its rain forest has been cut or burned
S06251984 John Moffet (US) sets 100-m breaststroke swimming record, 1:02.13
S06251982 Porn star John Holmes acquitted on murder charges
S06251981 Supreme Court upholds males-only draft registration
S06251981 Steven McPeak cross tightrope between two Alps, 960 m above the ground
S06251977 Roy C. Sullivan of Virginia is struck by lightning for the 7th time!
S06251977 Ted St. Martin shoots 2,036 consecutive free throws in demo, Fla.
S06251975 Mozambique gains independence from Portugal (National Day)
S06251968 US air force loses its 3,000th aircraft in Vietnam, according to VC
S06251966 Beatles' "Paperback Writer" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
S06251962 Supreme Court rules NY school prayer unconstitutional
S06251962 Yankee Jack Reed's 22nd-inning HR wins a 7-hour game
S06251961 Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq (Kuwait disagrees)
S06251959 USSR proposes Balkan/Adriatic denuclearized zone (rejected by west)
S06251959 Mao Tse-tung writes his poem "Shaoshan Revisited"
S06251953 1st passenger to fly commercially around the world in under 100 hours
S06251951 1st color TV broadcast - CBS's "Arthur Godfrey" from NYC to 4 cities
S06251950 Korean conflict begins; North Korea invades South Korea
S06251950 Israeli airline El Al begins service
S06251942 British RAF stages a 1,000-bomb raid on Bremen, Germany (WW II)
S06251941 FDR prohibits discrimination in gov't & defense industry employment
S06251938 Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40› per hour
S06251936 Gluck's opera "Don Juan" premiers, London
S06251934 Yank pitcher John Broaca ties record by striking out 5 times in a game
S06251921 Jack Hutchinson becomes 1st American to win golf's British Open
S06251918 British PM appeals to women to help with the harvest
S06251910 Congress passes the Mann Act, prohibiting "white slavery"
S06251881 George (Piano Legs) Gore steals record 7 bases in a game
S06251876 Col. George Custer & his troops killed by Sioux at Little Bighorn
S06251868 Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina & South Carolina
S06251868Creadmitted to US after Civil War
S06251868 Congress establishes 8-hr day for gov't laborers, workmen & mechanics
S06251864 Petersburg Campaign - Federals begin digging tunnels under Rebel lines
S06251857 Baudelaire's book of poems "Les Fleurs du Mal" is published
S06251835 1st building constructed at Yerba Buena (now San Francisco)
S06251682 Ivan V & Peter II (the Great) crowned as joint Russian tsars (7/5 NS)
S06251672 1st recorded monthly Quaker meeting in US held, Sandwich, Mass.
S06251658 English take Dunkirk, France from the Spanish (6/15 OS)
S06251638 A lunar eclipse becomes the 1st astronomical event recorded in US
S06251630 The table fork is introduced to American dining by Gov. John Winthrop
S06261990 Pres. Bush calls for $20 million in new federal taxes - read his lips
S06261990 44ø C (112ø F), Los Angeles, California (station record)
S06261984 Pablo Morales (US) sets 100-m butterfly swimming record, 53.38 sec
S06261983 "Our Times with Bill Moyers" premiers on CBS television
S06261983 Udo Beyer of East Germany sets record for shot put, 22.22 m
S06261982 US vetoes UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from
S06261982CBeirut of Israeli & Palestine Liberation Organization forces
S06261982 Brock Allison completes Vancouver-Halifax unicycle trip (5,982 km)
S06261978 Dennis Martz sets record for 100-story stair-climb, 11 m 24 s
S06261977 42 die in inmate-caused fire at Maury County Jail, Columbia, Tenn.
S06261977 Elvis's last concert, Indianapolis
S06261975 Indian PM Indira Gandhi declares state of emergency
S06261973 Prelaunch fueling explosion kills 9 Soviet space workers at Plesetsk
S06261968 Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US
S06261965 Gen. Westmoreland given formal authority to commit US forces to battle
S06261963 Kennedy visits W. Berlin - "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a jelly donut)
S06261960 British Somaliland (now part of Somalia) becomes independent of UK
S06261960 Madagascar gains independence from France (National Day)
S06261959 US government estimates that a nuclear attack would kill 19.7 million
S06261959CAmericans the 1st day & 22.2 million more shortly thereafter
S06261959 Queen Elizabeth & Pres. Eisenhower officially open St. Lawrence Seaway
S06261959 Ingemar Johansson beats Floyd Patterson for world heavyweight title
S06261949 Fred Allen's last regular radio show airs
S06261945 UN Charter signed by 50 nations in San Francisco
S06261944 Brooklyn Dodgers 5, NY Yanks 1, NY Giants 0 in 3-team exhibition game
S06261941 Lithuanian Fascists massacre 2,300 Jews in Kovno (Kaunas)
S06261940 End of USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6/27
S06261934 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing credit unions
S06261917 1st American Expeditionary Force arrives in France during WW I
S06261916 Cleveland Indians become 1st baseball team to wear uniform numbers
S06261916 3 baseball fans are arrested for keeping balls hit into the stands, NY
S06261900 Dr. Walter Reed begins research that beats yellow fever
S06261893 Silver dollar falls to below 60› in gold; financial panic ensues in US
S06261870 1st section of Atlantic City (NJ) boardwalk opens
S06261797 Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow - he can't sell it to
S06261797Cfarmers, though - they fear the effects of iron on the soil!
S06261549 17 provinces of the Netherlands made independent of the Empire
S06261483 Richard, Duke of Gloucester, usurps the English throne as Richard III
S06261284 Pied Piper of Hamelin, Germany reportedly lures 130 children away
S06271990 Jose Canseco signs record $23.5-million 5-yr contract with Oakland A's
S06271989 AMA & 10 other groups recommend regular mammograms for women over 40
S06271988 Mike Tyson knocks out Michael Spinks in 91 sec, Atlantic City
S06271986 World Court rules US aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal
S06271986 US informs New Zealand it will not defend it against attack
S06271986 Robby Thompson (SF) gets caught stealing 4 times in 1 game (record)
S06271984 Rev. Jesse Jackson negotiates release of 48 Cuban prisoners
S06271984 Doug Domokos performs 233-km motorcycle "wheelie," Talladega, Ala.
S06271983 Highest price paid for a painting by a living artist - œ960,200 - Mir¢
S06271983 Soyuz T-9 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
S06271982 Space shuttle Columbia makes 4th (1st US manned military) flight
S06271978 Soyuz 30 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Polish) to Salyut 6 space station
S06271978 US Seasat 1, 1st oceanographic satellite, launched into polar orbit
S06271975 Golfer Lee Trevino is struck by lightning on Oak Brook, Ill. course
S06271973 John W. Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's "enemies list"
S06271970 Henry Kissinger approves $500,000 to influence Chilean elections
S06271970C"I don't see why we have to let a county go Marxist just because the
S06271970Cpeople are irresponsible"
S06271968 US announces its evacuation of Khesanh, So. Vietnam, near the DMZ
S06271962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 6,606 kph, 37,700 m
S06271960 Chlorophyll A synthesized, Cambridge, Mass.
S06271957 500 people killed by hurricane Audrey in coastal Louisiana & Texas
S06271955 1st US automobile seat belt legislation enacted, in Illinois
S06271954 CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow elected government of Guatemala
S06271954 1st atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, USSR)
S06271950 UN Security Council calls on members for troops to aid South Korea
S06271950 Pres. Truman orders US air force & navy into Korean conflict
S06271950 Truman gives So. Vietnam military & economic aid, 35 military advisors
S06271942 FBI announces capture of 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off Long Island
S06271940 Jack Norworth, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" lyricist, sees his 1st
S06271940Cbaseball game, 32 years after publishing the song
S06271934 Federal Savings & Loan Association created
S06271929 1st public color TV demo, NYC
S06271917 Congress passes 1st US daylight savings time act
S06271915 38ø C (100ø F), Ft. Yukon, Alaska (state record)
S06271905 Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies) organized, Chicago
S06271898 Joshua Slocum completes 1st solo around-the-world sail, Boston
S06271787 Edward Gibbon completes "Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire"
S06271693 1st woman's magazine, "The Ladies' Mercury," published, London
S06271652 1st American traffic regulation - New Amsterdam
S06281989 Indian Ocean collision leads to 1.6 million-gal oil spill from "Puppy"
S06281989 Coast Guard reports over 5,000 oil & toxic spills in US waters in 1988
S06281989 1st American football in USSR - 2 Oklahoma high-school all-star teams
S06281987 Don Baylor sets career hit-by-pitch mark of 244 (on Rick Roiden pitch)
S06281984 Ingrid Kristiansen (Norway) sets women's 5000-m world record, 14:58.89
S06281980 John Wilkinson sets watermelon seed spitting record of 19.9 m
S06281978 Supreme Court orders California medical school to admit Allan Bakke, a
S06281978Cwhite man claiming reverse discrimination when not admitted
S06281974 "Nature" publishes 1st account of aerosol threat to the ozone layer
S06281973 Lawsuit in Detroit challenges Little League's "no girls" rule
S06281971 Dr. Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of Pentagon Papers, indicted
S06281970 Sonido becomes fastest horse over « mile - 44.4 sec - Caracas, Ven.
S06281966 Pascual Pistarini leads military coup in Argentina
S06281965 LBJ orders 1st major offensive for US ground forces in Vietnam
S06281964 Largest orchestra (20,100 instruments) assembled, Oslo, Norway
S06281962 NY jury awards $3« million to John Henry Faulk for libel by anti-
S06281962CCommunists that led to his blacklisting by broadcasting industry
S06281960 26.42 cm (10.40") of rainfall, Dunmor, Kentucky (state 24-hour record)
S06281958 Mackinac Straits bridge connecting Upper & Lower Michigan dedicated
S06281956 1st atomic reactor built for private research operates, Chicago
S06281951 "Amos 'n' Andy" premiers on CBS TV (-1953)
S06281950 North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea (1st time)
S06281942 DuMont TV network begins (WABD, NY)
S06281940 USSR invades Romania after its refusal to cede Bessarabia & Bukovina
S06281937 3 climbers become 1st to scale Devil's Tower by mountaineering methods
S06281926 W.L. Mackenzie King resigns as Canadian premier over customs scandals
S06281919 Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I, is signed
S06281919C(US later refuses to ratify the agreement)
S06281919 International Labour Organization founded, Versailles, France
S06281907 Senators steal record 13 bases off NY catcher Branch Rickey
S06281904 Helen Keller, blind & deaf, graduates with honors from Radcliffe
S06281894 Congress establishes Labor Day as a holiday for federal employees
S06281861 Tennessee allows blacks in the army, "to do... menial service"
S06281859 1st dog show held (Newcastle-on-Tyne, England)
S06281838 Queen Victoria is crowned in Westminster Abbey
S06281832 Cholera 1st reported in NYC; ultimately 2,251 Americans die
S06281820 The tomato is proved to be nonpoisonous
S06281778 Battle of Monmouth (NJ) Court House - both sides claim victory
S06281778CMary Hayes (Molly Pitcher) "mans" a cannon
S06281762 Catherine the Great takes the Russian throne from husband Peter (OS)
S06291990 Biggest S & L bailout to date - $1.7 billion, CenTrust Bank of Miami
S06291990 Oakland's Dave Stewart & LA's Fernando Valenzuela pitch no-hitters
S06291990C1st time no-hitters are pitched in both leagues on the same day
S06291989 Commerce Department reports US foreign debt tops $500 billion
S06291984 Pete Rose sets major-league record by playing in his 3,309th game
S06291980 George Jones' "He Stopped Loving Her Today" hits #1 on country charts
S06291977 Supreme Court rules out death penalty for rapists of adults
S06291976 Seychelles (in Indian Ocean) gains independence from Britain
S06291975 20.57 cm (8.10") of rainfall, Litchville, No. Dakota (state 24-hr rec)
S06291974 Isabel Per¢n inaugurated 1st woman president of an American nation
S06291972 Supreme Court says death penalty usually "cruel & unusual punishment"
S06291972 USSR launches Prognoz 2 into earth orbit (549/200,000 km)
S06291970 US ends 2-mo. military offensive into Cambodia - South Vietnamese stay
S06291969 Gays & police clash at Stonewall Inn, Greenwich Village, NYC
S06291969 1st Jewish worship service at White House
S06291967 Israel removes barricades separating city of Jerusalem
S06291966 US bombs fuel storage facilities near North Vietnamese cities
S06291965 USAF Capt. Joseph Henry Engle reaches 85,530 m in X-15
S06291964 24 New Zealand army engineers arrive in Saigon
S06291961 Transit 4A (with 1st nuclear power supply) & INJUN 1 launched
S06291956 Federal interstate highway system act signed
S06291954 Atomic Energy Comm. votes not to reinstate Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer
S06291953 "Name That Tune" premiers on NBC (later CBS) television (-1959)
S06291949 South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages
S06291946 British arrest 2,718 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorists
S06291943 US forces land in New Guinea
S06291938 Olympic National Park, Washington established
S06291933 Primo Carnera of Italy beats Jack Sharkey for world heavyweight title
S06291931 43ø C (109ø F), Monticello, Florida (state record)
S06291927 1st flight from the West Coast arrives in Hawaii
S06291916 Boeing aircraft flies for 1st time
S06291906 Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado established
S06291897 Chicago scores major-league baseball record 36 runs vs. Louisville
S06291880 Ned Kelly, Australian outlaw, is captured & later executed
S06291871 British Parliament legalizes trade unions
S06291864 Grand Trunk Railway accident; 100 killed
S06291863 Very 1st First National Bank opens, Davenport, Iowa
S06291767 British pass Townshend Revenue Act, levying taxes on America
S06291620 Parliament prohibits tobacco growing in England
S06291613 Globe Theatre burns to the ground during performance of "Henry VIII"
S06301992 UN moratorium on drift net fishing takes effect - Japan ignores it
S06301990 Agreement announced to allow US police in M‚xico, Mexican police in US
S06301990 Common Cold Research Center gives up & closes, London
S06301990 Lori Norwood, US, sets world women's modern pentathlon rec, 5,604 pts
S06301988 Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason
S06301986 Last 3 Playboy clubs owned by Playboy Enterprises close
S06301984 Longest pro football game - LA 27, Michigan 21 (USFL) in 93 m 33 s
S06301982 Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification
S06301977 Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) dissolved after 23 years
S06301972 1st leap second day; also 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985
S06301971 Supreme Court rules "NY Times" can publish the Pentagon Papers
S06301971 Military draft ends in the US
S06301966 Last day of prohibition in last US dry state, Mississippi
S06301960 Za‹re (then Congo) gains independence from Belgium
S06301952 "The Guiding Light" soap opera moves from radio to TV
S06301950 Pres. Truman orders US ground troops into Korea
S06301948 Last day NY subways can be ridden for a nickel
S06301940 US Fish & Wildlife Service established
S06301936 40-hour work week law approved in US (federal)
S06301936 "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell is published
S06301934 "Night of the Long Knives" - Hitler stages bloody purge of Nazi party
S06301927 Augusto Cesar Sandino issues his "Manifesto Politico"
S06301908 Giant fireball impacts in central Siberia (the Tunguska Event)
S06301906 US Pure Food & Drug & Meat Inspection Acts adopted
S06301899 Charles Murphy becomes 1st bicyclist to attain 60 mph (96 kph)
S06301898 American Expeditionary Force arrives in the Philippines
S06301896 Electric stove patented by William S. Hadaway, Jr., NYC
S06301894 Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid
S06301886 US Forest Service organized
S06301870 US Senate's 28-28 tie rejects treaty to annex the Dominican Republic
S06301870 Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law school graduate in US
S06301864 Yosemite Valley & Maripose Big Trees Grove become Calif. state parks
S06301864 1st federal cigarette tax levied
S06301863 1st Civil War bloodshed north of the Mason-Dixon line, Hanover, Penn.
S06301859 Charles Blondin becomes 1st to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope
S06301858 Joseph Heco becomes 1st Japanese granted US citizenship
S06301857 British House of Commons rejects the use of secret ballot in elections
S06301741 Pope Benedict XIV encyclical forbidding traffic in alms (that's ALMS!)
S06301632 Lord Baltimore awarded proprietorship of Maryland (6/20 NS)
S06301520 Cort‚s forced to evacuate Tenochtitl n by Aztec revolt
S0631