!03       March events in history, version 91 M
!03       Copyright 1990-91, Robert Braunwart
B03011958 Vern Taylor, figure skater, 1st to perform a triple Axel
B03011956 Timothy Daly,  Sufferin, NY, actor (Almost Grown, Made in Heaven)
B03011954 Ron Howard, actor, director (American Graffiti, Happy Days)
B03011954 Catherine Bach,  Warren, Ohio, actress (Dukes of Hazzard)
B03011947 Alan Thicke, Canada, actor, talk show host (Growing Pains)
B03011946 Lana Wood,  Santa Monica, Calif., actress (Diamonds Are Forever)
B03011945 Dirk Benedict, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
B03011944 Roger Daltrey, rock singer (The Who - Tommy)
B03011943 Wolfgang Scheidel, German Democratic Rep., luger (Olympic gold 1972)
B03011943 Mauro Checcoli, Italy, equestrian (Olympic gold 1964)
B03011942 Joan Hackett, NY, actress (Will Penny, One Stone Pony)
B03011935 George G‚n‚reux, Canada, trap shooter (Olympic gold 1952)
B03011935 Robert Conrad, actor (Wild Wild West)
B03011931 Richard Moore Rive,  Cape Town, writer (Emergency, Writing Black)
B03011927 Harry Belafonte, NY, calypso singer, actor (Buck & the Preacher)
B03011926 Pete Rozelle, commissioner of the NFL (1960-89)
B03011925 Al Rosen, 3rd baseman, NY Yankee president (AL MVP 1953)
B03011924 Donald K. (Deke) Slayton,  Sparta, Wisc., astronaut (Apollo-Soyuz)
B03011921 Richard Wilbur, 2nd US poet laureate (Ceremony, Walking to Sleep)
B03011921 Terrence Cardinal Cooke, of NY
B03011920 Max Bentley,  Delisle, Sask., NHL center (Chicago, Toronto, Rangers)
B03011920 Howard Nemerov, US poet, novelist, critic; 3rd US poet laureate
B03011917 Robert Lowell, US poet, pacifist (Lord Weary's Castle, Near the Ocean)
B03011917 Tom Keating,  London, painter who faked 2,000 works of art
B03011917 Dinah Shore,  Winchester, Tenn., singer (See the USA in a Chevrolet)
B03011910 David Niven, British film actor (Around the World in 80 Days)
B03011905 Katsuji Kawamata, president, chairman of Nissan Motor Co.
B03011904 Glenn Miller,  Clarinda, Iowa, bandleader
B03011900 Basil Bunting, English poet (Briggflatts)
B03011896 Dimitri Mitropoulos,  Athens, conductor, pianist (NY Philharmonic)
B03011895 G.B. (Duke) Keats,  Montr‚al, hockey hall of famer
B03011892 Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japanese short-story writer (Rashomon, Kappa)
B03011886 Oskar Kokoschka,  Austria, Expressionist painter (Bride of the Wind)
B03011883 Thomas Shelvin, college football great (Yale)
B03011880 Lytton Strachey,  London, biographer, critic (Benson Medal 1923)
B03011860 Suzanna Salter, 1st US female mayor, temperance leader
B03011848 Augustus Saint-Gaudens, US sculptor; designed 1907 $20 gold piece
B03011837 William Dean Howells, US novelist, critic, editor (Atlantic)
B03011815 Benjamin F. Conley, NJ, last Republican governor of Georgia (1871-72)
B03011810 Fr‚d‚ric Chopin, Warsaw, composer, pianist (‚tudes, polonaises)
B03021962 Jon Bon Jovi,  NJ, rock musician (Bon Jovi - You Give Love a Bad Name)
B03021955 Dale Bosworth, TV host (America's Most Wanted)
B03021955 Jay Osmond,  Ogden, Utah, singer (Osmond Brothers)
B03021952 Laraine Newman, Los Angeles, comedian, actress (Saturday Night Live)
B03021950 Karen Carpenter, Conn., drummer, pop singer (We've Only Just Begun)
B03021950 Mark Laurance, actor (LA Law, Not Necessarily the News)
B03021945 Gordon Thomson, actor (Dynasty - Adam Carrington)
B03021944 Lou Reed [Louis Firbank], singer (Walk on the Wild Side)
B03021943 George Benson,  guitarist
B03021942 John Irving, NH, novelist (The World According to Garp)
B03021939 Barbara Luna, NYC, actress (5 Weeks in a Balloon, Gentle Savage)
B03021938 Simon Estes,  Centerville, Iowa, bass/baritone
B03021938 Donald Schwall, baseball player (1961 AL rookie of the year)
B03021931 Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Soviet leader (1985-  ) (Nobel 1990)
B03021931 Duane F. Graveline,  Newport, Vt., astronaut
B03021931 Tom Wolfe, journalist, author (The Right Stuff)
B03021930 John Cullum,  Knoxville, Texas, actor (Hawaii, Hamlet, The Day After)
B03021923 Doc Watson, country singer
B03021923 Rep. Robert H. Michel (R-Illinois)
B03021921 Ernst Haas,  Vienna, photojournalist (National Geographic, Look, Life)
B03021919 Jennifer Jones, Oklahoma, actress (A Farewell to Arms)
B03021917 Jim Konstanty, baseball player (NL MVP 1950)
B03021917 Desi Arnaz,  Havana, musician, actor (I Love Lucy - Ricky Ricardo)
B03021916 Bernard George Stevens,  London, composer (Symphony of Liberation)
B03021913 Mort Cooper, baseball player (NL MVP 1942)
B03021909 Mel Ott, NY Giant hall of famer, 1st in NL to hit 500 home runs
B03021905 Marc Blitzstein, Philadelphia, composer (The Cradle Will Rock)
B03021904 Dr. Seuss [Theodor Geisel], kid's book author (Horton Hears a Who!)
B03021902 Edward U[hler] Condon,  NM, atomic scientist (Manhattan Project)
B03021900 Kurt Weill,  Dessau, Germany, composer, Brecht collaborator
B03021896 Clair Bee, W. Va., basketball coach (Long Island Univ. 1931-52)
B03021876 Pius XII, 260th Roman Catholic pope (1939-58)
B03021829 Carl Schurz, journalist, political reformer, Civil War general
B03021824 Bedrich Smetana, Bohemian composer (The Bartered Bride, Moldau)
B03021817 J nos Arany, Hungarian epic poet (Toldi, Death of King Buda)
B03021810 Leo XIII, 256th Roman Catholic pope (1878-1903)
B03021793 Sam Houston, president of Texas (1836-38, 1841-44), senator, governor
B03021781 Samuel Clegg,  Manchester, England, inventor, engineer (gas light)
B03021769 DeWitt Clinton, governor, senator from NY
B03021459 Adrian VI,  Utrecht, Netherlands, pope (1522-23)
B03031971 David Faustino, actor (I Had 3 Wives, Married with Children - Bud)
B03031962 Herschel Walker, WFL/NFL running back (NJ Generals, Dallas Cowboys)
B03031962 Jackie Joyner-Kersee, heptathlete (Olympic gold 1988)
B03031961 Mary Page Keller, actress (Duet, Scared Stiff)
B03031950 Tim Kazurinsky, comedian (SNL, Neighbors, Police Academy 3)
B03031950 Ed Marinaro, NFL player, actor (Laverne & Shirley, Hill Street Blues)
B03031949 Bonnie J. Dunbar, Ph.D., Sunnyside, Wash., astronaut (STS-61A)
B03031946 Lt. Col. James C. Adamson, Warsaw, NY, astronaut (STS-28)
B03031942 Vladimir V. Kovalyonok, cosmonaut (Soyuz 25, 29, T-4)
B03031942 Roderick Hackney,  Liverpool, architect
B03031934 Gia Scala, Italy, actress (Angry Hills, Don't Go Near the Water)
B03031933 Princess Lee Radziwell, NYC (Jackie O's sister)
B03031926 James Merrill, NYC, poet (Divine Comedies)
B03031921 Junior Parker, Arkansas, blues vocalist, songwriter (Mystery Train)
B03031920 James Doohan, actor (Star Trek - Mr. Scott)
B03031920 Ronald Searle,  Cambridge, England, cartoonist (St. Trinian's)
B03031920 Martin Ritt, director (The Front, Nuts)
B03031920 Julius Boros, golfer (US Open 1952, 1963)
B03031912 Joe Stydahar, NFL tackle (Chicago Bears)
B03031911 Jean Harlow, 30's sex goddess, actress (Dinner at 8)
B03031907 Albert Wettstein,  Swiss chemist (steroids)
B03031895 Ragnar Frisch, Norway, economist (1st Nobel prize in economics, 1969)
B03031895 Gen. Matthew Ridgeway, US military leader (WW II, Korea)
B03031890 Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor in Spain & China
B03031873 William Green, president of American Federation of Labor (1924-52)
B03031872 Wee Willie Keeler, Baltimore Oriole outfielder; hit .432 in 1897
B03031847 Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone
B03031845 Georg Cantor, set theorist, discoverer of transfinite numbers
B03031831 George M. Pullman, inventor of the railway sleeping car
B03031756 William Godwin, philosopher, political writer (Caleb Williams)
B03031709 Andreas S. Marggraf,  Berlin, chemist, father of the sugar industry
B03031652 Thomas Otway, English dramatist, poet (Venice Preserved)
B03031606 Edmund Waller, English poet (Go Lovely Rose)
B03031606 William Davenant, English poet, dramatist
B03031583 Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, English philosopher, author
B03031549 Henric Spieghel, Dutch Renaissance poet (Hertspiegel)
B03041968 Patsy Kensit,  England, rock musician, actress (Lethal Weapon 2)
B03041964 Emilia Eberle, Romania, gymnast - scored a perfect 10 in Olympics
B03041961 Ray (Boom Boom) Mancini, boxer (killed a boxer in the ring)
B03041954 Irina Ratushinskaya,  Ukraine, dissident poet (Beyond the Limit)
B03041953 Kay Lenz, actress (Moving Violations, Rich Man Poor Man)
B03041950 Emilio Estefan, rock musician (Miami Sound Machine)
B03041948 Billy Gibbons, rock singer, guitarist (ZZ Top)
B03041948 Shakin' Stevens [Mike Barratt], rock singer (You Drive Me Crazy)
B03041948 Chris Squire,  London, rock bass player (Yes - Fish out of Water)
B03041944 Bobby Womack,  Cleveland, R & B singer (Woman's Got to Have It)
B03041939 Barbara McNair, Chicago, singer, actress (Change of Habit)
B03041939 Paula Prentiss, San Antonio, actress (Parallax View, He & She)
B03041936 James (Jim) Clark,  British racing driver
B03041934 Mario Davidovsky, Buenos Aires, composer
B03041932 Miriam Makeba, South Africa, singer (Grammy 1965)
B03041928 Alan Sillitoe, British writer (Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner)
B03041923 Piero d'Inzeo, French equestrian show jumper (Olympic gold 1952, 1964)
B03041923 Patrick Moore, English astronomer, writer (A-Z of Astronomy)
B03041921 Joan Greenwood,  London, actress, director (The Amorous Prawn)
B03041918 Margaret Osborne du Pont,  Ore., tennis player (Wimbledon 1946-50, 54)
B03041912 John Garfield, actor (Air Force, Destination Tokyo, Juarez)
B03041905 Lili Kr…us,  Budapest, Hungary, pianist
B03041904 George Gamow, nuclear physicist, cosmologist, writer (1, 2, 3... ì)
B03041901 Charles H. Goren, bridge master, writer
B03041898 Georges Dum‚zil,  Paris, Indo-European mythologist
B03041897 Francis (Lefty) O'Doul, baseball player/organizer of Japanese baseball
B03041891 Dazzy Vance, hall of fame pitcher (led NL in strikeouts 7 yrs)
B03041888 Knute Rockne,  Voss, Norway, football player, coach (Notre Dame)
B03041782 Johann Wyss,  Swiss folklorist, writer (Swiss Family Robinson)
B03041765 Charles Dibdin, English composer, author, actor (baptized)
B03041754 Benjamin Waterhouse, physician (smallpox vaccine pioneer)
B03041747 Casimir Pulaski,  Poland, American Revolutionary War general
B03041678 Antonio Vivaldi, Venice, Baroque violin virtuoso, composer (4 Seasons)
B03041651 John, Baron Somers (Whig), William III's chief minister (1696-1700)
B03041394 Prince Henry the Navigator, sponsor of Portuguese voyages of discovery
B03051961 Zeke Mowatt, NFL tight end (NY Giants)
B03051958 Andy Gibb, Australia, singer, TV host (Solid Gold)
B03051954 Marsha Warfield, comedian, actress (Night Court)
B03051950 Eugene Fodor, violinist (1972 Paganini Award, 1974 Tchaikovsky Award)
B03051948 Eddy Grant, reggae performer (Electric Avenue)
B03051947 Eddie Hodges, actor, singer (High Hopes, Huckleberry Finn)
B03051946 Rocky Bleier, Wisc., NFL running back (Pittsburgh Steelers)
B03051946 Michael Warren, actor (Hill Street Blues)
B03051945 Randy Matson, US shot putter (Olympic gold 1968)
B03051944 Paul Sand, actor (Story Theater, Can't Stop the Music, Wholly Moses)
B03051942 Felipe Gonz lez M rquez (PSOE), Andalus¡a, PM of Spain
B03051939 Samantha Eggar,  London, actress (Collector, Dr. Doolittle)
B03051938 Fred (The Hammer) Williamson, football player-turned-actor (Mean)
B03051936 Dean Stockwell, actor (Werewolf of Washington)
B03051935 Philip K. Chapman,  Melbourne, Australia, astronaut
B03051934 James B. Sikking, actor (Hill St. Blues, Star Trek III)
B03051933 Don L. Anderson, geophysicist who proposed the asthenosphere
B03051931 Barry Tuckwell,  Melbourne, Victoria, hornist
B03051922 Pier Paolo Pasolini,  Bologna, Italy, poet, director (Teorema, Pigsty)
B03051918 Pat Christman, St. Louis, NFL quarterback (Cardinals, Packers)
B03051908 Rex Harrison, actor (My Fair Lady, Dr. Doolittle)
B03051895 Moses Feinstein,  Byelorussia, US Orthodox rabbi, Talmudic scholar
B03051891 Harold Johnson, Chicago, comedian (Olsen & Johnson)
B03051890 B. Traven, Chicago, novelist (Treasure of Sierra Madre) (year approx.)
B03051887 Heitor Villa-Lobos, Rio de Janeiro, composer
B03051886 Paul Radmilovic, UK, water polo player (Olympic goal 1908, 1912, 1920)
B03051871 Rosa Luxemborg, Poland, Communist writer, theoretician, organizer
B03051870 Frank Norris, US writer (McTeague, The Octopus)
B03051853 Arthur Foote, Salem, Mass., composer
B03051853 Howard Pyle, illustrator, painter, author (Men of Iron, King Stork)
B03051852 Lady Isabella A. Gregory, Irish writer (Golden Apple), Yates' mistress
B03051840 Constance Fenimore Woolson,  NH, writer (Jupiter Lights)
B03051824 James Merritt Ives, lithographer (of Currier & Ives)
B03051824 Elisha Harris,  US physician, founder of American Public Health Ass'n
B03051751 James Madison (D-R), 4th US president (1809-17) (3/16 NS)
B03051696 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Venetian Rococo painter
B03051574 William Oughtred, English mathematician, an inventor of the slide rule
B03051512 Gerardus Mercator,  Rupelmonde, Belgium, geographer, mapmaker
B03051326 Louis I (the Great), king of Hungary (1342-82) & Poland (1370-82)
B03061962 Erika Hess, Switzerland, world champion alpine ski racer
B03061947 Kiki Dee,  Yorkshire, England, singer (Don't Go Breaking My Heart)
B03061947 David Gilmour, rock guitarist (Pink Floyd)
B03061947 Dick Fosbury, US high jumper (Olympic gold 1968)
B03061945 Rob (Meathead) Reiner, actor, director (All in Family, Stand by Me)
B03061944 Dame Kiri Te Kanawa,  Gisborne, NZ, operatic soprano
B03061944 Mary Wilson, singer (Supremes)
B03061942 Ben Murphy, actor (Alias Smith & Jones)
B03061941 Willie Stargell, Pittsburgh Pirate slugger (1971 NL HR leader)
B03061940 Joanna Miles,  Nice, France, actress (Cross Creek, Delta County USA)
B03061937 Valentina V. Tereshkova, USSR, 1st woman in space (Vostok 6)
B03061936 Marion S. Barry (D), major of Washington, DC (1979-  )
B03061935 Ronnie Delaney,  Ireland, 1,500-m runner (Olympic gold 1956)
B03061931 John Smith, Los Angeles, actor (Circus World, 7 Angry Men)
B03061930 Lorin Maazel,  Neuilly, France, conductor
B03061929 Rep. Thomas Foley (D-Washington), house majority whip
B03061928 Gabriel Garc¡a M rquez, Colombian novelist (Nobel 1982)
B03061927 Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr., Oklahoma, astronaut (Faith 7, Gemini 5)
B03061927 Andrzej Wajda,  Suwalki, Poland, director (Ashes & Diamonds, Lotna)
B03061927 Norman Treigle, New Orleans, bass-baritone
B03061926 Alan Greenspan, economist, presidential advisor
B03061924 Sarah Caldwell,  Maryville, Missouri, conductor, opera director
B03061924 William H. Webster, head of FBI, CIA
B03061923 Ed McMahon, Detroit, TV host (Tonight Show, Star Search)
B03061921 Julius Rudel,  Wien (Vienna), Austria, conductor
B03061906 Lou Costello, comedian, actor (Abbott & Costello)
B03061905 Bob Wills (& the Texas Playboys), country & jazz musician
B03061903 Elizabeth Pinkston Becker, US platform diver (Olympic gold 1928)
B03061901 Mark Donskoy,  Odessa, Ukraine, director (Heart of a Mother)
B03061900 Robert (Lefty) Grove, baseball pitcher (Phila., Boston) - won 300
B03061898 Jimmy Conzelman, NFL quarterback, coach, team owner
B03061897 Knud†ge Riisager,  Port Kunda, Estonia, composer
B03061893 Furry Lewis,  father of the blues
B03061892 Clark Shaughnessy, Minn., football coach, father of the T-formation
B03061885 Ring Lardner,  Niles, Mich., writer (You Know Me Al)
B03061870 Oscar Straus, Wien (Vienna), composer
B03061844 Nikolai A. Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (Scheherazade) (3/18 NS)
B03061831 Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, US military leader
B03061806 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (Sonnets from the Portuguese)
B03061791 Anna Claypoole Peale, US painter of miniatures
B03061787 Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist who studied the sun's spectrum
B03061619 Cyrano de Bergerac, dramatist, famous nose (A Voyage to the Moon)
B03061475 Michelangelo Buonarroti, painter, sculptor, architect (David, Piet )
B03071960 Ivan Lendl, Czechoslovakia, tennis pro (US Open 1985-87)
B03071952 Lynn Swann, NFL receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)
B03071950 Franco Harris,  NJ, NFL HOF running back (Pittsburgh Steelers)
B03071948 Little Peggy March,  Philadelphia, rock musician (I Will Follow Him)
B03071947 Donna Loren,  Boston, singer, actress (Beach Blanket Bingo)
B03071947 Lewis J. Stadlen, Brooklyn, actor (Savages, Windy City)
B03071946 Peter Wolf, rock singer (J. Giels Band - Centerfold)
B03071946 Matt Fisher, rock organist (Procol Harum)
B03071945 John Heard, actor (Cat People, Cutter's Way, C.H.U.D.)
B03071942 Michael Eisner, chairman, CEO of Walt Disney
B03071940 Viktor P. Savinykh, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz T-4)
B03071940 Daniel J. Travanti, actor (Hill St. Blues)
B03071938 Janet Guthrie, race car driver, 1st woman to race in Indy 500
B03071935 Angelo R. Donghia, Penn., interior designer
B03071934 Willard Scott, weather forecaster (Today Show)
B03071934 King Curtis,  R & B tenor saxophonist
B03071930 Anthony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon, photographer
B03071924 Kobo Ab‚, Japanese novelist, playwright (Woman in the Dunes)
B03071909 Anna Magnani, Italy, actress (Passionate Thief)
B03071904 Ivar Ballangrud, Norway, Olympic speed skater (4 gold, 2 silver)
B03071903 John J. Livingood,  US physicist, 1st to provide an artificial isotope
B03071889 Hyman Levy,  British mathematician, political thinker, writer
B03071875 Maurice Joseph Ravel,  Ciboure, France, composer (Bol‚ro)
B03071872 Piet Mondrian, Dutch abstract painter (Broadway Boogie Woogie)
B03071866 Paul Ernst, German poet, essayist, novelist, dramatist (Brunhild)
B03071857 Julius Wagner von Jauregg, Austrian psychiatrist (Nobel 1927)
B03071850 Tom s G. Masaryk,  Moravia, Father of Czechoslovakia
B03071849 Luther Burbank,  Lancaster, Mass., horticulturist
B03071845 Daniel D. Palmer,  founder of chiropractic treatment of disease
B03071844 Anthony Comstock, New Canaan, Conn., anti-vice crusader/philatelist
B03071837 Henry Draper, Virginia, astrospectrophotographer (moon, Jupiter)
B03071808 Johann Bluntschli,  Z�rich, writer on international law
B03071792 John Herschel,  Slough, England, William Herschel's son, astronomer
B03071785 Alessandro Manzoni,  Milan, poet, novelist (The Betrothed)
B03071765 Joseph N. Niepce,  French physicist, inventor of photography
B03071756 Andr‚ Michaux, French botanist
B03071715 Ewald Christian von Kleist, German lyric poet (Der Fr�hling)
B03071707 Stephen Hopkins, RI governor, signer of Declaration of Independence
B03071693 Clement XIII,  Venice, pope (1758-69)
B03081959 Aidan Quinn, Chicago, actor (All My Sons, Reckless, Stakeout)
B03081954 David Wilkie, England, 200-m backstroke swimmer (Olympic gold 1976)
B03081954 Marie-Th‚rŠse Nadig,  Switzerland, skier (2 Olympic gold 1972)
B03081954 Karl Schnabl, 90-m ski jumper (Olympic gold 1976)
B03081947 Carole Bayer Sager,  NY, a.k.a. Mrs. Burt Bachrach, singer
B03081945 Mickey Dolenz, rock drummer, vocalist, TV star (Monkees)
B03081943 Lynn Redgrave,  London, actress (Georgie Girl), Weight-Watcher
B03081942 Dick Allen, baseball player (AL MVP 1972)
B03081940 Susan Clark,  Sarnia, Ontario, actress (Night Moves, Webster)
B03081939 Robert Tear,  Barry, Wales, tenor
B03081939 Lidia Skoblikova, Soviet Olympic speed skater (2 gold 1960, 4 1964)
B03081939 Jim Bouton, NY Yankee pitcher, sportscaster, writer (Ball Four)
B03081939 George Reed, astronomy writer, cartoonist
B03081939 Rep. Mike Lowry (D-Washington)
B03081931 John McPhee,  Princeton, NJ, writer (Giving Good Weight)
B03081924 Sean McClory,  Dublin, Ireland, actor (Dead, My Chauffeur)
B03081922 Carl Furillo, Pa., Bkln. Dodger right fielder (NL batting champ 1953)
B03081921 Cyd Charisse,  Amarillo, Texas, dancer, actress (East Side West Side)
B03081921 Alan Hale, Jr., actor (Gilligan's Island - Skipper Jonas Grumby)
B03081913 Norman Chesterfield, Ont., champion birdwatcher (5,720/8,733 species)
B03081911 Clarence Mitchell, Jr., Baltimore, civil rights leader
B03081909 Albert (Ab) Box,  Toronto, star football kicker (Argos, Balmy Beach)
B03081909 Claire Trevor, actress (Murder My Sweet, Marjorie Morningstar)
B03081900 Howard H. Aiken,  Hoboken, NJ, inventor of the Mark I computer
B03081899 Eric Linklater, Scottish novelist, poet, historical writer
B03081891 Sam Jaffe, actor (Gunga Din, Ben Casey - Dr. Zorba)
B03081890 Gene Fowler,  Denver, journalist, novelist, biographer
B03081888 Stuart Chase, NH, writer, economist (Tragedy of Waste)
B03081886 Edward A. Kendall,  Conn., chemist who isolated cortisone (Nobel 1950)
B03081879 Otto Hahn, codiscoverer of nuclear fission
B03081865 Frederick William Goudy, US printer, type designer
B03081862 Joseph Lee, who helped develop playgrounds
B03081859 Kenneth Grahame,  Edinburgh, author (The Wind in the Willows)
B03081841 Oliver Wendell Holmes,  US Supreme Court justice (1902-32)
B03081788 Antoine C‚sar Becquerel, French physicist; established 98.6ø as normal
B03081787 Karl Ferdinand von Gr„fe, who helped create modern plastic surgery
B03081783 Hannah Hoes Van Buren, first lady
B03081714 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach,  Weimar, composer, son of J.S. Bach
B03081712 John Fothergill,  English physician who described migraine
B03081690 Christian Goldbach,  Prussia, mathematician, conjecturer (3/18 NS)
B03091971 Emmanuel Lewis, TV actor (Webster)
B03091955 Ornella Muti, Rome, actress (Flash Gordon)
B03091955 Teo Fabi, formula-1 racer
B03091954 Keven Wade,  Chappaqua, NY, screen writer (Working Girls)
B03091952 Iuliana Semenova, USSR, basketball player (Olympic gold 1976)
B03091948 Jeffrey Osborne, singer (On the Wings of Love)
B03091945 Robin Trower,  London, rock guitarist (Procol Harum)
B03091944 Trish Van Devere, actress (Movie Movie, Changeling, Hearse)
B03091943 Bobby Fischer, US, world chess champion (1972-75)
B03091942 Mark Lindsay, rock singer (Paul Revere & the Raiders)
B03091940 Raul Julia, actor (Eyes of Laura Mars, Kiss of the Spider Woman)
B03091936 Marty Ingels, Brooklyn, actor (I'm Dickens He's Fenster)
B03091936 Mickey Gilley, country singer (Urban Cowboy)
B03091935 Keely Smith,  Norfolk, Va., singer (Mrs. Louie Prima)
B03091934 Joyce Van Patten, actress (Billy Galvin, Good Guys)
B03091934 Yuri Gagarin, USSR, 1st man into space (aboard Vostok 1)
B03091927 Jack Jensen, baseball player (AL MVP 1958)
B03091923 Sen. James Buckley (R-NY)
B03091923 Andr‚ Courr‚ges, French fashion designer who introduced the miniskirt
B03091918 Mickey Spillane, mystery writer (I the Jury)
B03091910 Samuel Barber,  West Chester, Penn., composer (School for Scandal)
B03091905 Rex Ernest Warner, English novelist (The Aerodrome)
B03091905 Peter Quennell,  London, biographer (Byron, Ruskin, Shakespeare)
B03091905 Grigori Kozintsev,  Kiev, Ukraine, director (Hamlet, King Lear)
B03091902 Edward Durell Stone, US architect (US Embassy in New Delhi)
B03091900 Loren L. Ryder, movie sound engineer (6 academy awards)
B03091895 Dame Isobel Baillie, Scotland, concert & opera singer
B03091892 Josef Weinheber,  Wien, poet (Nobleness & Extinction)
B03091892 Vita Sackville-West, English novelist, poet (The Land)
B03091892 David Garnett, English novelist, editor (Lady into Fox)
B03091890 Vyacheslav M. Molotov, Soviet foreign minister
B03091881 Ernest Bevin,  British trade union leader, statesman
B03091856 Eddie Foy, NYC, vaudeville comedian (Piff! Paff! Pouf!)
B03091845 Wilhelm Pfeffer, German botanist, plant physiologist
B03091839 Modest P. Mussorgsky, composer (Boris Gudunov, Night on Bald Mtn) (OS)
B03091824 Leland Stanford, governor, senator, founder of Stanford University
B03091758 Franz Joseph Gall,  Germany, anatomist, physiologist, phrenologist
B03091564 David Fabricius, German astronomer, discoverer of variable stars
B03091454 Amerigo Vespucci, explorer - this could be Vespucciland (approx. date)
B03101967 Octuplets, to Maria de Sepulveda, M‚xico (all die)
B03101964 Prince Edward Anthony Richard Louis of Britain
B03101963 Jasmine Guy, Boston, actress (A Different World - Whitley)
B03101960 Linda Jezek, Calif., backstroke swimmer (Pan Am gold 1979)
B03101958 Sharon Stone, actress (Above the Law, Police Academy 4)
B03101947 Tom Scholz, rock guitarist, keyboardist (Boston)
B03101945 Katherine Houghton, actress (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
B03101940 Chuck Norris, martial arts champ, actor (Missing in Action)
B03101940 Dean Torrence, surf music singer (Jan & Dean)
B03101940 David Rabe, playwright (Streamers)
B03101939 Irina Press, USSR, 80-m hurdler, pentathlete (Olympic gold 1960, 1964)
B03101938 Ron Mix, NFL tackle (San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders)
B03101932 Anatoliy Roschin, USSR, super heavyweight wrestler (Olympic gold 1972)
B03101922 Pamela Mason, London, actress (Navy vs. Night Monsters)
B03101920 Jethro Burns, Tenn., country mandolinist, comedian (Homer & Jethro)
B03101918 Haywood Hale Broun, broadcast journalist
B03101917 John Putnam Merrill,  US physician (1st successful kidney transplant)
B03101908 Kristjan Palusalu, Estonia, heavyweight wrestler (Olympic gold 1936)
B03101903 Bix Beiderbecke,  Davenport, Iowa, jazz cornetist, composer
B03101892 Arthur Honegger,  Le Havre, France, composer
B03101888 Barry Fitzgerald, Dublin, Ireland, actor (Going My Way, The Quiet Man)
B03101880 Michael Jacobs, NYC, boxing promoter
B03101878 Karel van de Woestijne,  Ghent, Belgium, Flemish poet (The Man of Mud)
B03101873 Jakob Wassermann, German novelist (My Life as German & Jew)
B03101867 Lillian D. Wald, US sociologist
B03101842 Ina Donna Coolbrith, US, poet laureate of California
B03101839 Dudley Buck,  Hartford, Conn., organist, composer
B03101833 Pedro Antonio de Alarc¢n, Spanish writer (3-Cornered Hat)
B03101824 Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Churchill, who fought at Wilson's Creek, Red River
B03101810 John McCloskey, US, president of St. John's College (Fordham Univ.)
B03101772 Friedrich von Schlegel, German Romantic writer, critic
B03101748 John Playflair,  Scottish geometrician, geologist
B03101629 Alexis, Romanov tsar of Russia (1645-76) (3/20 NS)
B03101628 Marcello Malpighi,  Italian physician, biologist
B03101538 Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk; executed by Queen Elizabeth (1572)
B03101503 Ferdinand I,  Spain, Holy Roman emperor (1558-64)
B03101452 Ferdinand II of Aragon, unifier of Spain
B03111956 Curtis L. Brown, Jr., Elizabethtown, NC, major, USAF, astronaut
B03111952 Susan Richardson,  Bath, Maine, actress (8 Is Enough)
B03111950 Bobby McFerrin, singer (Don't Worry Be Happy - 1989 Grammy)
B03111947 Geoffrey B. Hunt, Australia, world squash champion
B03111945 Tricia O'Neal, Louisiana, actress (Piranha Part II)
B03111936 Antonin Scalia,  Trenton, NJ, Supreme Court justice
B03111934 George Stamatoyannopoulos, Greece, medical genetics researcher
B03111934 Sam Donaldson, ABC News White House correspondent
B03111932 Nigel Lawson (C), British chancellor of the Exchequer
B03111931 Rupert Murdoch, Australia, publisher, owner of FOX TV network
B03111930 Claude Jutra,  Montr‚al, movie director (Mon Oncle Antoine)
B03111926 Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader
B03111923 A. Louise Brough,  Okla., tennis player (4-time Wimbledon champ)
B03111920 D.J. Enright, English poet, novelist (Some Men Are Brothers)
B03111916 Sir Harold Wilson (Labour), British PM (1964-70, 1974-76)
B03111914 Ralph Ellison, Oklahoma City, writer (Invisible Man, Shadow & Act)
B03111913 John Weinzweig,  Toronto, Ont., composer
B03111903 Dorothy Schiff, newspaper publisher (NY Post)
B03111903 Lawrence Welk, conductor (champagne bubbles)
B03111899 Frederick IX, king of Denmark (1947-72)
B03111898 Dorothy Gish, stage & silent film actress (Orphans of the Storm)
B03111897 Henry Dixon Cowell,  Menlo Park, Calif., composer
B03111894 Bernie Bierman, Minn., college football coach (Minnesota)
B03111890 Vannevar Bush, developer of the 1st electronic analogue computer
B03111887 Henry Dixon Cowell,  Calif., composer (Aeolian Harp, Gaelic Symphony)
B03111885 Malcolm Campbell, 1st auto racer to travel 300 mph (483 kph)
B03111879 Ede Brada, Vienna, ballet choreographer
B03111876 Carl Ruggles,  Marion, Mass., composer
B03111860 Thomas Hastings, US architect
B03111832 Brig. Gen. William R. Cox, 2nd NC Infantry, ANV
B03111822 Marius Petipa,  Marseille, France, ballet choreographer
B03111811 Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier, codiscoverer of Neptune
B03111785 John McLean, NJ, Supreme Court justice, dissenter in Dred Scott case
B03111731 Robert Treat Paine, judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence
B03111726 Mme. Louise-Florence d'�pinay, French writer, salon hostess
B03111544 Torquato Tasso, Italian Renaissance poet
B03121963 Candy Costie, Seattle, synchronized swimmer (Olympic gold 1984)
B03121962 Darryl Strawberry, Los Angeles, NY Met right fielder
B03121957 Marlon Jackson, singer (Jackson 5)
B03121956 Dale Murphy,  Portland, Ore., Atlanta Brave baseball star
B03121953 Joanna Kerns, actress (Growing Pains - Maggie)
B03121948 James Taylor,  Boston, singer, songwriter (Up on the Roof)
B03121947 Jill O'Hara,  Warren, Penn., Broadway actress (Promises! Promises!)
B03121946 Liza Minnelli,  LA, singer, actress (The Sterile Cuckoo, Cabaret)
B03121942 Bert Campaneris, Oakland A shortstop
B03121941 Barbara Feldon,  Pittsburgh, actress (Get Smart - Agent 99)
B03121940 Al Jarreau, jazz singer (Moonlighting)
B03121940 Millie Perkins, actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Table for 5, Shooting)
B03121936 Lloyd Dobyns, NBC newsman
B03121932 Andrew Young (D), New Orleans, US ambassador to UN, mayor of Atlanta
B03121928 Edward Albee, Washington, DC, playwright (Virginia Woolf, Zoo Story)
B03121926 George R. Ariyoshi, governor of Hawaii (D)
B03121925 Louison Bobet, France, world champion cyclist (1954)
B03121925 Rep. G. William Whitehurst (R-Virginia)
B03121923 Walter M. Schirra, Jr., NJ, astronaut (Sigma 7, Gemini 6, Apollo 7)
B03121923 Hjalmar Andersen, Norway, 1.5, 5, 10K speed skater (Olympic gold 1952)
B03121922 Lane Kirkland, head of AFL-CIO
B03121922 Jack Kerouac,  Lowell, Mass., Beat writer (Dharma Bums, On the Road)
B03121921 Gordon MacRae, singer, actor (About Face, Oklahoma)
B03121917 Googie Withers,  Karachi, India, actor (1 of Our Aircraft Is Missing)
B03121912 Kylie Tennant, Australian novelist (Tiburon, The Battlers)
B03121911 Gustavo D¡az Ordaz,  president of M‚xico (1964-70)
B03121910 Roger L. Stevens, producer (Giant)
B03121881 Kemal Atat�rk, 1st president of Republic of Turkey
B03121881 Daniel Webster Hoan (Socialist), mayor of Milwaukee
B03121863 Gabriele D'Annunzio,  Italian writer, military hero (The Intruder)
B03121862 Jane Delano, nurse, teacher, director of US Department of Nursing
B03121858 Adolph S. Ochs,  Cincinnati, owner & publisher of the "NY Times"
B03121838 William Perkin, inventor of 1st artificial dye
B03121835 Simon Newcomb, US scientist, mathematician, astronomer
B03121832 Charles Boycott, estate manager in Ireland who caused boycotts
B03121831 Clement Studebaker, US wagon manufacturer, automobile pioneer
B03121824 Gustav Kirchhoff,  Prussian physicist, codiscoverer of Cs & Rb
B03121821 Sir John Abbott (C), 3rd Canadian PM (1891-92)
B03121806 Jane Means Appleton Pierce, first lady
B03121795 William Lyon Mackenzie,  Scotland, Canadian journalist, rebel
B03121739 Vasili I. Bazhenov,  Moscow, architect (Palace of St. Michael)
B03121685 George Berkeley, Irish philosopher, bishop of Cloyne
B03121613 Andr‚ de N“tre, French landscape architect (Versailles)
B03131971 Tracy Wells, actress (Mr. Belvedere - Heather)
B03131968 Christopher Collett, NYC, actor (Manhattan Project)
B03131960 Adam Clayton, rock bass guitarist (U2)
B03131954 Robin Duke, comedienne, actress (2nd City TV, Saturday Night Live)
B03131953 Deborah Raffin, Los Angeles, actress (Ransom, Demon, 40 Carats)
B03131953 Andy Bean, Lafayette, Ga., PGA golfer (Western 1978, Kemper 1978)
B03131939 Neil Sedaka,  Brooklyn, singer, songwriter (Breaking Up Is Hard to Do)
B03131938 Joseph Bellino, football player (1960 Heisman Trophy)
B03131936 Michael Checkland, director of British Broadcasting Corp. (1987-  )
B03131931 Rosalind Elias,  Lowell, Mass., mezzo-soprano (Die Walk�re - Grigerde)
B03131929 Peter Breck, actor (Big Valley, Benji)
B03131926 Pres. Ra£l Alfons¡n of Argentina (1983-89)
B03131925 Bertha Tickey, Calif., National Softball Hall of Fame pitcher
B03131921 Philippe Nguyen Kim Dien, archbp. of Hue, head of Vietnamese Catholics
B03131918 George McAfee, NFL halfback (Chicago Bears)
B03131916 Ina Ray Hutton, Chicago, bandleader (the Melodears)
B03131913 William J. Casey, head of the CIA during Iran-contra scandal
B03131911 L. Ron Hubbard, sci-fi writer, scientologist (Dianetics)
B03131910 Sammy Kaye, bandleader (Swing & sway with Sammy Kaye)
B03131906 Oscar Nemon,  Croatia, British sculptor (Elizabeth II, Churchill)
B03131901 Paul Fix, NY, western actor (The Rifleman - Marshal Torrance)
B03131899 J.H. Van Vleck,  Conn., mathematician, physicist (Nobel 1977)
B03131898 Henry Hathaway,  Sacramento, movie director (Kiss of Death, True Grit)
B03131893 Jean Borlin, Sweden, ballet choreographer
B03131890 Idris I, Libyan king (1951-69) deposed by Qaddafi
B03131886 John (Home Run) Baker, hall of famer (hit 2 HRs in 1911 world series)
B03131884 Sir Hugh Walpole, N.Z. novelist, critic, dramatist (Jeremy)
B03131883 Clifford M. Holland,  civil engineer, designer of NY's Holland Tunnel
B03131860 Hugo Wolf,  Windisch-Gr„z, Austria, composer
B03131855 Percival Lowell, who predicted the discovery of Pluto
B03131798 Abigail Powers Fillmore, first lady
B03131770 Daniel Lambert, English giant (weighed 334 kg, 735 lbs, at death)
B03131764 Charles, Earl Grey (Whig), British PM (1830-34)
B03131741 Joseph II, Vienna, Holy Roman emperor (1765-90)
B03131733 Joseph Priestley, English clergyman, scientist, discoverer of oxygen
B03131720 Charles Bonnet, naturalist, writer, discoverer of parthenogenesis
B03131615 Innocent XII, 242nd Roman Catholic pope (1691-1700)
B03141961 Kirby Puckett,  Minnesota Twin center fielder
B03141958 Prince Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre, heir apparent of Monaco
B03141954 Adrian Zmed, actor (Bachelor Party, Dance Fever)
B03141952 J. Fred Muggs, chimp (Today Show)
B03141947 Billy Crystal, singer, actor, comedian (Soap, SNL)
B03141946 Wes Unseld, NBA star, coach (Washington Bullets)
B03141946 Steve Kanaly, actor (Fleshburn, Dallas - Ray Krebbs)
B03141940 Rita Tushingham,  Liverpool, England, actress (Green Eyes)
B03141939 William B. Lenoir, Miami, Fla., astronaut (STS-5)
B03141939 Bertrand Blier, France, novelist, director (Going Places)
B03141934 Eugene A. Cernan, Chicago, astronaut (Gemini 9, Apollo 10, 17)
B03141933 Quincy Jones, composer, singer (We Are the World)
B03141933 Michael Caine, England, actor (Alfie, Educating Rita, Blame It on Rio)
B03141928 Frank Borman, Ind., astronaut (Gemini 7, Apollo 8), Eastern AL pres.
B03141925 John Wain, English novelist, poet (Hurry on Down)
B03141922 Colin Fletcher,  Cardiff, Wales, writer (The Complete Walker)
B03141920 Hank Ketcham, Seattle, creator of "Dennis the Menace"
B03141919 Max Shulman,  St. Paul, MN, novelist (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis)
B03141918 Dennis Patrick, Phila., actor (Dear Dead Delilah, Heated Vengeance)
B03141915 Carlos Surinach,  Barcelona, Spain, composer
B03141914 Fiorenzo Marini, Italy, ‚p‚e fencer (Olympic gold 1960)
B03141912 Les Brown, bandleader (& his band of renown)
B03141905 Raymond-Claude-Ferdinand Aron, Paris, Rationalist Humanist philosopher
B03141898 Richard Lee Strout, reporter, columnist (New Republic)
B03141882 Waclaw Sierpinski,  Warsaw, topologist (Sierpinski space)
B03141879 Albert Einstein,  Ulm, Germany, E = mcý (Nobel 1921)
B03141875 Isadore Gilbert Mudge, US librarian, author, bibliographer
B03141864 Casey Jones, railroad engineer, ballad hero
B03141862 Vilhelm F.K. Bjerknes,  Oslo, meteorologist, physicist
B03141854 Paul Ehrlich, Germany, bacteriologist (Nobel 1908)
B03141854 Thomas Riley Marshall (D), 28th US vice-president (1913-21)
B03141837 Charles Ammi Cutter, librarian, originator of Cutter system
B03141835 Giovanni Schiaparelli, discoverer of Martian "canals"
B03141833 Lucy Hobbs Taylor, 1st US woman dentist
B03141829 Charles Charlesworth, England, who later dies at 7 of old age
B03141821 Jens Worsaae, Danish archaeologist
B03141816 Brig. Gen. Montgomery D. Corse, Virginia
B03141804 Johann Strauss, the Elder, Viennese composer
B03141800 James Bogardus, US inventor, builder; made cast-iron buildings
B03141782 Thomas Hart Benton (D-Mo.), "Old Bullion," US senator, writer
B03141681 Georg Philipp Telemann,  Magdeburg, Germany, late Baroque composer
B03151962 Steve Coy, rock drummer (Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round)
B03151959 Eliot Teltscher, Calif., tennis player (US Davis Cup team)
B03151957 Park Overall, actress (Empty Nest - Laverne, Mississippi Burning)
B03151956 Ozzie Newsome, Cleveland Brown tight end
B03151955 Dee Snider,  Massapequa, NY (Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It)
B03151954 Craig Wasson, Oregon, actor (Body Double, 4 Friends, Men's Club)
B03151947 Ry Cooder, Los Angeles, blues guitarist (Crossroads)
B03151946 Bobby Bond, baseball player (Giants, Yankees, etc.)
B03151945 Mark J. Green, Brooklyn, lawyer, author (Closed Enterprise System)
B03151945 J”rgen Sundelin, Sweden, yachtsman (Olympic gold 1968)
B03151944 Sly Stone,  Dallas, rocker (Sly & the Family Stone - Everyday People)
B03151941 Mike Love, rock vocalist (The Beach Boys)
B03151940 Phil Lesh, rock bass player (Grateful Dead)
B03151935 Judd Hirsch, NYC, actor (Taxi - Alex Reiger, Ordinary People)
B03151933 Gerhard Weidner, Germany, world champion walker
B03151932 Alan Lavern Bean,  Wheeler, Texas, astronaut (Apollo 12, Skylab 3)
B03151926 Norm Van Brocklin, NFL quarterback, coach (LA Rams), hall of famer
B03151921 Sam (Lightning) Hopkins, country guitarist
B03151920 E. Donnall Thomas,  Texas, physician (Nobel 1990)
B03151920 Ranganandhan Francis, India, field hockey (Olympic gold 1948, 52, 56)
B03151919 Lawrence Tierney, Brooklyn, actor (Abduction, Dillinger)
B03151918 Richard Ellmann, US literary scholar, writer (Oscar Wilde)
B03151918 George (Punch) Imlach,  Toronto, NHL coach (Toronto, Buffalo)
B03151916 Harry James,  Albany, Ga., trumpeter (married to Betty Grable)
B03151915 David Schoenbrun, CBS news bureau head (Washington, Paris)
B03151913 MacDonald Carey, Iowa, actor (One Life to Live, Dream Girl)
B03151904 George Brent, actor (42nd St., Jezebel)
B03151903 Abubakar III, sultan of Sokoto (Nigeria), caliph of 50 million Muslims
B03151901 Colin McPhee, Montr‚al, PQ, composer
B03151900 Gilberto Freyre, Brazilian sociologist (The Masters & the Slaves)
B03151886 Sergey Kirov, official whose assassination began Stalin's Great Purge
B03151874 Harold L. Ickes, social activist, New Deal politician
B03151867 Lionel Pigot Johnson, English poet, critic (Ireland & Other Poems)
B03151854 Emil Adolf v. Behring,  Prussian bacteriologist, founder of immunology
B03151838 Alice Cunningham Fletcher, ethnologist, author, Indian musicologist
B03151830 Paul von Heyse, German writer (Nobel 1910)
B03151809 Joseph Jenkins Roberts, 1st president of Liberia
B03151779 William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne (Whig), British PM (1834, 1835-41)
B03151767 Andrew Jackson (D), 7th US president (1829-37)
B03151713 Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, astronomer who mapped the So. Hemisphere
B03161963 Phung Vuong, Saigon, murderer (on FBI Most Wanted List)
B03161955 Isabelle Huppert, Paris, actress (Cactus, Heaven's Gate)
B03161954 Hollis Stacy,  Savannah, Ga., LPGA golfer (US Open 1977, 1978)
B03161954 Nancy Wilson, SF, rock guitarist (Heart - Barracuda, What About Love?)
B03161951 Kate Nelligan,  London, Ont., actress (Bethune, Eye of the Needle)
B03161949 Erik Estrada, actor (CHiPs, The Cross & the Switchblade, Lightblast)
B03161949 Victor Garber, Montr‚al, actor (Days & Nights of Molly Dodd)
B03161942 Jerry Jeff Walker, country guitarist, songwriter (Lost Gonzo Band)
B03161942 Jonkheer van Lennep, Netherlands, coholder of Le Mans auto race record
B03161940 Bernardo Bertolucci,  Parma, Italy, director (Last Tango in Paris)
B03161932 R. Walter Cunningham,  Creston, Iowa, astronaut (Apollo 7)
B03161928 Christa Ludwig,  Berlin, soprano (Vienna State Opera)
B03161927 Olga San Juan, NYC, actress (Variety Girl, 1 Touch of Venus)
B03161927 Vladimir M. Komarov, Moscow, cosmonaut (Voskhod 1, Soyuz 1)
B03161927 Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY), UN ambassador
B03161926 Jerry Lewis, entertainer, fund raiser (MDA); loved in France
B03161920 John Addison,  Surrey, England, composer (Tom Jones - Academy Award)
B03161920 Leo McKern, actor (Blue Lagoon, Help, The Mouse That Roared)
B03161916 Lloyd McBride, president of United Steelworkers
B03161912 Pat Nixon,  Ely, Nevada, first lady
B03161910 Norman Wooland, Germany, actor (Hamlet)
B03161910 Aladar Gerevich, Hungary, sabre fencer (Olympic gold 1948)
B03161905 Elisabeth Flickenschildt,  Hamburg, German stage actress
B03161903 Mike Mansfield (D-Montana), Senate majority leader
B03161896 William Langer,  Boston, historian (Encyclopedia of World History)   <
B03161892 James Petrillo, pres. of American Federation of Musicians (1940-58)
B03161878 Archbishop Galen, domestic public opponent of Hitler throughout WW II
B03161868 Maksim Gorky [Aleksey M. Peshikov], Russian writer (Mother) (3/28 NS)
B03161849 Rev. James Smith, who became a father at 100 with a 36-yr-old woman
B03161839 Sully Prudhomme, French poet, 1st Nobel winner (1901)
B03161836 Andrew S. Hallidie,  US engineer, cable car inventor
B03161822 Rosa Bonheur, French landscape painter (Buffalo Bill)
B03161787 Georg Simon Ohm, physicist, discoverer of Ohm's Law
B03161771 Antoine-Jean, baron Gros, Paris, Romantic painter
B03161750 Caroline Lucretia Herschel,  Hannover, 1st modern woman astronomer
B03161739 George Clymer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution
B03161585 Gerbrand Bredero, Dutch poet, playwright (Klucht van de Koe)
B03171964 Rob Lowe, actor (St. Elmo's Fire, Hotel New Hampshire, home videos)
B03171959 Danny Ainge, NBA guard (Boston Celtics, Sacramento Kings)
B03171957 Robin Cousins, England, figure skater (Olympic gold 1980)
B03171954 Lesley-Anne Down,  London, actress (A Little Night Music)
B03171951 Kurt Russell, actor (The Thing, Overboard, Mean Seasons)
B03171949 Patrick Duffy, actor (Hurricane, Dallas, Man from Atlantis)
B03171948 Robert Braunwart,  Wash., who added 60,000 dates to this database   <
B03171944 John Sebastian, NYC, singer (Loving Spoonful, Welcome Back Kotter)
B03171942 Paul Kantner, rock guitarist, singer (Jefferson Starship)
B03171938 Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer (Kirov Ballet)
B03171937 Adam Wade, pop musician (Ruby)
B03171936 Thomas K. Mattingly II, Chicago, astronaut (Apollo 16, STS-4, 51C)
B03171935 Renee Taylor, actress, comedian (Last of the Red Hot Lovers)
B03171930 James B. Irwin, Pittsburgh, astronaut (Apollo 15)
B03171919 Hank Sauer, baseball player (NL MVP 1952)
B03171918 Mercedes McCambridge, actress (Exorcist, All the King's Men)
B03171917 Nat King Cole,  Montgomery, Ala., singer (Christmas Song)
B03171917 Carlo Cassola,  Roma, Italy, novelist (Fausto & Anna, Bebo's Girl)
B03171914 Sammy Baugh,  Temple, Texas, NFL HOF quarterback (Washington Redskins)
B03171910 Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader
B03171907 Takeo Miki (LDP), PM of Japan (1974-76)
B03171902 Bobby Jones, Ga., 1st pro golfer to win the 4 grand slam tournaments
B03171901 Turner Catledge, Mississippi, editor of the "NY Times" (1951-68)
B03171900 Alfred Newman, Conn., composer (Love Is a Many Splendored Thing)
B03171899 Gloria Swanson,  Chicago, actress (Sadie Thomson, Queen Kelly)
B03171895 Shemp Howard, replacement Stooge
B03171894 Paul Green, US novelist, playwright (In Abraham's Bosom)
B03171881 Walter R. Hess, Swiss ophthalmologist, physiologist (Nobel 1949)
B03171874 Stephen Samuel Wise,  Budapest, president of Zionist Org. of America
B03171874 Kincsem,  Hungary, Thoroughbred horse with 54 wins, no losses
B03171873 Margaret Bondfield, British union leader, 1st woman cabinet member
B03171846 Kate Greenaway,  London, artist, book illustrator
B03171839 Joseph Rheinberger,  Vaduz, Liechtenstein, composer
B03171834 Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer, inventor, automobile pioneer
B03171832 Moncure Daniel Conway, US clergyman, author, abolitionist
B03171828 Maj. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne, the "Stonewall of the West"
B03171804 James Bridger, scout, fur trader, mountain man par excellence
B03171789 Edmund Kean, great English tragic actor
B03171777 Roger Brooke Taney, 5th chief justice (Dred Scott decision)
B03171473 James IV,  Northumberland, king of Scotland (1488-1513)
B03181963 Vanessa Williams,  Millwood, NY, 1st black Miss America, singer
B03181961 Curt Warner, W. Va., Seattle Seahawk running back
B03181959 Irene Cara, NY, actress, singer (Fame, DC Cab, Certain Fury)
B03181957 Melvin Gentry, vocalist, guitarist (Midnight Star - No Parking)
B03181956 Ingemar Stenmark, Sweden, alpine skier (2 Olympic gold 1980)
B03181950 Brad Dourif, W.Va., actor (Ragtime, Eyes of Laura Mars, Fatal Beauty)
B03181945 Aleksey Vakhonin, USSR, bantamweight weight lifter (Olympic gold 1964)
B03181945 Joy Fielding,  Toronto, novelist (Kiss Mommy Goodbye, Trance)
B03181943 Kevin Dobson, actor (All Night Long, Kojak, Shannon, Knots Landing)
B03181942 Ann Packer,  England, 800-m runner (Olympic gold 1964)
B03181941 Wilson Pickett,  Prattville, Alabama, R & B singer (Funky Broadway)
B03181938 Charley Pride,  Sledge, Miss., country singer (Sweet Country)
B03181937 Mark Donohue, auto racer (1972 Indianapolis 500)
B03181936 Tony Nash, England, bobsled racer (Olympic gold 1964)
B03181936 F.W. de Klerk, Johannesburg, president of South Africa (1989-  )
B03181932 John Updike,  Shillington, Penn., poet, novelist (Rabbit Run)
B03181927 George Plimpton, NYC, hot-dog sports writer (Paper Lion)
B03181927 John Kander, composer (Kander & Ebb, Cabaret)
B03181926 Peter Graves, actor (Mission Impossible, Airplane, Stalag 17)
B03181919 Laila Schou Nilsen,  Norway, downhill skier (Olympic gold 1936)
B03181910 Chiang Ching-kuo, president of ROC (Taiwan) (1978-  ), head of KMT
B03181905 John Kirkpatrick, NYC, pianist (Concord Sonata)
B03181905 Robert Donat, England, actor (Goodbye Mr. Chips, Citadel)
B03181898 Lawrence Joseph, Cardinal Shehan, who desegregated US Catholic schools
B03181894 Sergey V. Ilyushin, Soviet aircraft designer
B03181893 Wilfred Owen, English anti-war poet (Anthem for Doomed Youth)
B03181892 Robert P. Tristram Coffin, poet, WW II reporter
B03181886 Kurt Koffka,  Berlin, Gestalt psychologist
B03181881 Oliver Seibert,  Kitchener, Ont., hall of fame hockey player
B03181877 Edgar Cayce,  psychic, writer
B03181869 Neville Chamberlain (C), British PM (1937-40)
B03181858 Rudolf Diesel,  Paris, thermal engineer, engine inventor
B03181848 Nathaniel Herreshoff, America's Cup yacht designer
B03181842 St‚phane Mallarm‚,  Paris, poet (L'AprŠs-midi d'un faune)
B03181838 Sir Randal Cremer, British trade unionist, pacifist (Nobel 1903)
B03181837 Grover Cleveland, 22nd US president (twice - 1885-89, 1893-97)
B03181813 Joshua B. Lippincott,  founder of a US publishing house
B03181796 Jakob Steiner, Swiss mathematician, a founder of projective geometry
B03181782 John C. Calhoun (D-R), SC, Andrew Jackson's VP (1825-32), senator
B03181721 Tobias Smollett,  Dumbartonshire, England, novelist (Humphry Clinker)
B03181286 Alexander III, king of Scotland (1249-86) (approximate date)
B03191955 Bruce Willis, actor (Moonlighting, Blind Date, Die Hard)
B03191953 Hans Rinn, German DR, 2-man luger (Olympic gold 1976, 1980)
B03191953 Ricky Wilson, rock guitarist (B-52's - Rock Lobster)
B03191947 Glenn Close, actress (The Big Chill, Fatal Attraction)
B03191946 John Gribben,  Kent, England, science writer (The Hole in the Sky)
B03191944 Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, LBJ's daughter
B03191944 Myung-Wha Chung,  Seoul, Korea, cellist
B03191939 Joe Kapp, NFL QB (Minnesota Vikings, Boston Patriots, Houston Oilers)
B03191936 Ursula Andress, Switzerland, actress (She, Sensuous Nurse)
B03191935 Phyllis Newman, Jersey City, NJ, actress (Coming of Age, TW3)
B03191933 Philip Roth,  Newark, novelist (Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint)
B03191933 John Sopinka, Sask., Canadian Supreme Court justice
B03191930 Ornette Coleman,  Ft. Worth, Texas, atonal jazz musician, saxophonist
B03191928 Patrick McGoohan, actor (Secret Agent, The Prisoner)
B03191927 Richie Ashburn, baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies), sportscaster
B03191916 Irving Wallace,  Chicago, author (The Man, The People's Almanac)
B03191914 Patricia Morison, actress (Peyton Place, Dressed to Kill)
B03191906 Adolf Eichman,  Ruhr, Germany, Nazi Gestapo officer
B03191904 John J. Sirica, Watergate judge
B03191901 Jo Mielziner, Paris, set designer
B03191891 Earl Warren (R), California gov., 14th chief justice, US Supreme Court
B03191888 Josef Albers, German painter, poet, Op Art theoretician
B03191882 Gaston Lachaise, US sculptor (Standing Woman)
B03191873 Max Reger,  Brand, Bavaria, composer, pianist
B03191872 Sergei P. Diaghilev,  Gruzino Novgorod, Russia, ballet director (OS)
B03191871 Joseph McGinnity, baseball pitcher
B03191871 John Henry Taylor, 1st English golfer to win the British Open (1894)
B03191864 Charles Russell, western painter
B03191860 William Jennings Bryan (D), "The Great Commoner," orator, statesman
B03191851 Roque S enz Pe¤a, president of Argentina (1910-14)
B03191849 Alfred von Tirpitz, Prussia, German Imperial admiral, politician
B03191848 Wyatt Earp,  gunslinger
B03191847 Albert Pinkham Ryder,  New Bedford, Mass., painter (The Race Track)
B03191837 Brig. Gen. Robert Johnson, 1 of few generals to survive the Civil War
B03191821 Sir Richard Burton, explorer, translator (Arabian Nights)
B03191813 David Livingstone,  British explorer found by Stanley in Africa
B03191809 Nikolai Gogol, 19th-century Russian Realism founder (Dead Souls) (OS)
B03191589 William Bradford, governor of Plymouth colony for 30 years (baptized)
B03191519 Henry II, king of France (1547-59)
B03201957 Theresa Russell, actress (Black Widow, Straight Time, Razor's Edge)
B03201957 Spike Lee,  Atlanta, movie producer, director (Do the Right Thing)
B03201954 Charlie Simmer,  Ontario, NHL left winger (LA Kings)
B03201952 Anand Amritraj, India, tennis player
B03201950 William Hurt, actor (The Big Chill, Children of a Lesser God)
B03201948 Bobby Orr,  Ontario, Boston Bruin HOF defenseman
B03201947 Carl Palmer,  England, rock drummer (Emerson Lake & Palmer, Asia)
B03201945 Pat Riley, NBA player, coach (LA Lakers)
B03201939 Brian Mulroney (P-C), 18th PM of Canada (1984-  )
B03201937 Helmut Recknagel, Germany, 90-m ski jumper (Olympic gold 1960)
B03201937 Lois Lowry,  Honolulu, kids' book author (Number the Stars)
B03201937 Jerry Reed, singer, actor ('Gator, Bat 21, Smokey & the Bandit)
B03201936 Ted Bessell, actor (That Girl, Mary Tyler Moore Show)
B03201931 Hal Linden, actor (Barney Miller, Blacke's Magic)
B03201928 Fred Rogers, kid show host; it's a lovely day in the neighborhood
B03201925 John Ehrlichman,  Nixon presidential aide, Watergate conspirator
B03201922 Larry Elgart, New Haven, Conn., bandleader, alto sax player
B03201922 Jack Kruschen, actor (Bustin' Loose, Hong Kong, Webster)
B03201922 Carl Reiner, comedian, actor (2000 Year Old Man, Dick Van Dyke Show)
B03201922 Ray Goulding,  Lowell, Mass., comedian (Bob & Ray)
B03201921 Amadou Mahtar M'Bow,  Dakar, Senegal, director general of UNESCO
B03201916 Tommy Cottonaro,  Buffalo, munchkin (The Wizard of Oz)
B03201914 Sviatoslav Richter,  Zhitomir, Ukraine, pianist
B03201908 Sir Michael Redgrave, actor (Browning Version, The Lady Vanishes)
B03201908 Frank Stanton, broadcast executive (CBS)
B03201907 Hugh MacLennan, Cape Breton, NS, novelist, essayist (Barometer Rising)
B03201906 Ozzie Nelson, bandleader, actor (Ozzie & Harriet)
B03201906 Abraham Beame (D), NYC's 1st Jewish mayor
B03201904 B.F. Skinner, psychologist, pioneer in Behaviorism (Skinner box)
B03201903 Vincent Richards, hall of fame tennis pro
B03201890 Lauritz Melchior,  Kíbenhavn (Copenhagen), tenor (National Symphony)
B03201890 Beniamino Gigli, Italian operatic tenor (Faust - Mefistofele)
B03201873 Sergei Rachmaninoff,  Novgorod Provine, Russia (Prelude in C# Minor)
B03201872 Aleksandra M. Kollontay,  Russian revolutionary, 1st woman ambassador
B03201856 Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management
B03201853 George Godfrey, heavyweight boxer
B03201849 Mrs. Bellamy Storer,  originator of Rookwood pottery
B03201834 Charles William Elliot,  educator, editor (Harvard Classics)
B03201828 Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist (Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler)
B03201813 Matthias Keller,  Ulm, Germany, hymm writer (O Father on High)
B03201811 George Caleb Bingham, US politician, painter (Country Election)
B03201811 Napol‚on II, king of Rome; Napol‚on Bonaparte's son
B03201770 Friedrich H”lderlin,  T�bingen, [West] Germany, lyric poet
B03201741 Jean-Antoine Houdon,  Versailles, France, Rococo sculptor (Diana)
B03201735 Torbern Olof Bergman, Swedish chemist
B0320 -43 Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso], Latin poet (Ars amatoria, Metamorphoses)
B03211963 Matthew Broderick, NYC, actor (WarGames, Biloxi Blues)
B03211960 Ayrton Senna, formula-1 racer (1988 champ)
B03211958 Marlies Gohr,  East German sprinter
B03211958 Brad Hall, comedian (SNL)
B03211956 Ingrid Kristiansen, world record-holder in 5,000 m, 10,000 m, marathon
B03211955 Barbel W”ckel (n‚e Eckert), E. Germany, Olympic sprinter (4 gold 1980)
B03211955 Penny Dean, Calif., record-holder for English Channel swim
B03211950 Roger Hodgson,  rock singer, guitarist, keyboardist (Supertramp)
B03211946 Timothy Dalton, actor (Chanel Solitaire)
B03211943 Antal Dunai, Hungary, soccer player (Olympic gold 1968)
B03211939 Kathleen Widdoes, actress (Without a Trace)
B03211937 Tom Flores, Fresno, Calif., NFL quarterback, coach (Raiders)
B03211935 Hubert Fichte, West German novelist (Das Waisenhaus)
B03211934 Al Freeman, Jr., Texas, actor (One Life to Live, My Sweet Charlie)
B03211929 James Coco, actor (Man of La Mancha, Murder by Death)
B03211925 Peter Brook,  London, director (Marat/Sade, 1776, US)
B03211923 Mort Lindsey, bandleader (Merv Griffin Show)
B03211921 Logan Ramsey, Calif., actor (Head, Joy Sticks, Say Yes)
B03211921 Arthur, Baron Grumiaux, Belgian violinist
B03211906 John D. Rockefeller, III, billionaire philanthropist
B03211905 Phyllis McGinley, Oregon, poet (Love Letters of Phyllis McGinley)
B03211904 Dean Burk, US chemist, discoverer of biotin, coinventor of NMR scanner
B03211902 Eddie (Son) House, musician
B03211898 Paul A. Weiss, Vienna, US biologist, embryologist, neurologist
B03211889 Dr. John (Jock) Sutherland, football coach (Pitt, Steelers, Dodgers)
B03211869 Albert Kahn, architect, originator of modern factory design
B03211869 Florenz Ziegfeld, of Follies fame
B03211866 Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury, astronomer
B03211833 Mary Abigail Dodge,  US author
B03211813 James Jesse Strang, king of the Mormons on Beaver Island, MI (1850-56)
B03211806 Benito Pablo Ju rez, president of M‚xico (1858-72)
B03211794 Poul Martin Míller, Danish novelist, poet (Adv. of a Danish Student)
B03211768 Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician, Egyptologist
B03211713 Francis Lewis, signer of the Declaration of Independence
B03211685 Johann Sebastian Bach,  Eisenach, Germany, Baroque composer, ancestor
B03221960 Scott Bradley,  Essex Fells, NJ, Seattle Mariner catcher
B03221957 Stephanie Mills, singer, actress (The Wiz)
B03221952 Bob Costas, sportscaster, talk show host (Later)
B03221948 Andrew Lloyd Webber,  London, writer of musicals (JC Superstar, Cats)
B03221946 Rudy Rucker, sci-fi & math writer (The Sex Sphere, Space-Time Donuts)
B03221945 Jeremy Clyde,  England, musician (Chad & Jeremy - Yesterday's Gone)
B03221943 Keith Relf, rock singer, harmonica player (Yardbirds, Renaissance)
B03221943 George Benson, Pittsburgh, singer, guitarist (Greatest Love of All)
B03221936 May Britt, German actress, former wife of Sammy Davis, Jr.
B03221934 Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah)
B03221932 Larry Evans, NY, US chess champion (1951-54, '61-62, '68-69, '80-81)
B03221931 William Shatner, Montr‚al, actor (Star Trek - Capt. Kirk, T.J. Hooker)
B03221930 Pat Robertson, televangelist, Republican presidential candidate (1988)
B03221930 Derek Bok, president of Harvard
B03221930 Stephen Sondheim, NY, composer (Side by Side by Sondheim)
B03221924 Allen Harold Neuharth,  SD, founder of "USA Today"
B03221923 Marcel Marceau, France, mime (Barbarella, Silent Movie)
B03221920 Werner Klemperer, actor (Hogan's Heroes - Col. Klink)
B03221917 Virginia Grey, LA, actress (Another Thin Man, Idiot's Delight)
B03221914 Congressman William Miller (R-NY), VP candidate (1964)
B03221913 Karl Malden, actor (Streets of SF); don't leave home without it
B03221912 Wilfrid Brambell,  Dublin, actor (Steptoe & Son, A Hard Day's Night)
B03221910 Nicholas Monsarrat,  Liverpool, England, novelist (The Cruel Sea)
B03221909 Gabrielle Roy, French-Canadian novelist (The Tin Flute)
B03221908 Maurice Stans, US secretary of commerce
B03221908 Louis L'Amour, ND, western writer (Kilkenny, The Ferguson Rifle)
B03221907 Roger Blin, French stage director (Waiting for Godot, The Blacks)
B03221902 Ellin Berlin (MacKay), Mrs. Irving Berlin, writer (Lace Curtain)
B03221887 Chico [Leonard] Marx, NYC, comedian (Marx Brothers)
B03221869 Emilio Aguinaldo,  Filipino independence fighter against Spain & US
B03221868 Robert A. Millikan, US physicist (photoelectric effect; Nobel 1923)
B03221846 Randolph Caldecott, English illustrator, Caldecott Medal namesake
B03221819 Brig. Gen. William Wirt Adams, who organized 1st Mississippi Cavalry
B03221814 Thomas Crawford, US sculptor (Babes in the Wood)
B03221799 F.W.A. Argelander,  Memel, East Prussia, cataloguer of 324,188 stars
B03221797 Kaiser Wilhelm I, German emperor (1871-88)
B03221788 Pierre-Joseph Pelletier,  Paris, chemist (caffeine, quinine)
B03221727 Niel Gow, Scottish violinist, musicologist, composer
B03221599 Sir Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish painter (Charles I of England)
B03221459 Maximilian I Habsburg,  Austria, Holy Roman emperor
B03231966 Marti Pellow, rock musician (Wet, Wet, Wet)
B03231965 Richard Grieco, actor (21 Jump Street)
B03231957 Amanda Plummer, NYC, actress (Hotel New Hampshire, Dollmaker)
B03231954 Moses Malone, NBA all-star (Philadelphia 76ers)
B03231953 Chaka Khan,  Chicago, rock singer (Rufus - Sweet Thing)
B03231952 Teofilo Stevenson, Cuba, heavywght boxer (Olympic gold 1972, '76, '80)
B03231951 Ron Jaworski, NFL quarterback (Philadelphia, Kansas City)
B03231950 Corrine Clery, Paris, actress (Moonraker, Yor)
B03231943 Gail Goodrich, NBA star (Lakers, Suns)
B03231937 Craig Breedlove, Los Angeles, auto-racing champion
B03231931 Viktor Korchnoi, Leningrad, chess grandmaster
B03231929 Roger Bannister, English runner - 1st to break the 4-min mile
B03231926 Martha Wright, Seattle, singer (Let's Dance, The Martha Wright Show)
B03231923 Arnie Weinmeister, AAFC, NFL defensive tackle (NY Yankees, Giants)
B03231922 Marty Allen, comedian (Allen & Rossi)
B03231917 Johnny Guarnieri, NYC, jazz pianist, composer (Breakthrough)
B03231917 Kenneth Tobey, actor (The Thing, Strange Invaders)
B03231912 Wernher von Braun,  Wirsitz, Ger., rocket expert (I Aim at the Stars)
B03231912 Alfred Schwarzmann, Germany, gymnast (2 Olympic gold 1936)
B03231912 John Payne,  Roanoke, Va., actor (Dodsworth, The Razor's Edge)
B03231911 Richard Chapman, golfer (1940 US amateur, 1951 British amateur)
B03231910 Akira Kurosawa,  Tokyo, movie director (7 Samurai)
B03231908 Joan Crawford,  Texas, movie actress (Strange Cargo, Mildred Pierce)
B03231907 Daniel Bovet, Swiss pharmacologist (Nobel 1957)
B03231900 Erich Fromm,  Frankfurt, psychoanalyst, writer (The Art of Loving)
B03231887 Juan Gris,  Spain, Cubist painter (Still Life Before an Open Window)
B03231887 Sidney Hillman, union leader
B03231881 Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, plastics researcher (Nobel 1953)
B03231881 Roger Martin du Gard, Fr. novelist, dramatist (Les Thibault-Nobel '37)
B03231876 Sir Muirhead Bone, Scotland, etcher, engraver
B03231868 Fiddlin' John Carson, musician
B03231857 Fannie Farmer,  Boston, cooking expert, namesake of a candy company
B03231823 Schuyler Colfax (R), 17th US VP (1869-73)
B03231822 Ignacy Lukasiewicz,  Polish pharmacologist, inventor (kerosene lamp)
B03231769 William Smith, English surveyor, geologist, stratigrapher
B03231749 Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace, mathematician, astronomer, physicist
B03231699 John Bartram, naturalist, explorer, father of American botany
B03241967 Kathy Rinaldi, Florida, tennis player
B03241959 Renaldo Nehemiah, US hurdler (110 m in 12.93 s), SF 49er
B03241954 Donna Pescow,  Brooklyn, actress (Angie, Out of This World, Rainbow)
B03241954 Robert Carradine, actor (Revenge of the Nerds, Wavelength)
B03241951 Pat Bradley, Mass., career-earnings record-holder for women golfers
B03241947 Mike Kellie, rock drummer (Spooky Tooth - It's All About)
B03241940 Bob Mackie,  Monterey Park, Calif., fashion designer (Striesand, Cher)
B03241938 Larry Wilson, NFL defensive back (Cardinals)
B03241937 Benjamin Luxon,  Redruth, England, baritone (Owen Wingrave)
B03241931 Thelma Kalama, US 4 x 100-m relay swimmer (Olympic gold 1948)
B03241930 Steve McQueen, actor (Wanted Dead or Alive, The Blob, Bullitt)
B03241928 Byron Janis,  McKeesport, Penn., pianist
B03241925 Norman Fell, US actor (The Graduate, 3's Company - Mr. Roper, The End)
B03241921 Vasily Smyslov,  Moscow, world chess champion (1957-58)
B03241920 Gene Nelson [Berg], Seattle, Wash., actor (Tea for 2, Oklahoma)
B03241919 Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Yonkers, Beat poet (A Coney Island of the Mind)
B03241917 Krafft A. Ehricke, Berlin, engineer, physicist, rocket specialist (V2)
B03241909 Clyde Barrow, bank robber (of Bonnie & Clyde)
B03241907 Lauris Norstad, NATO commander, Owens-Corning Fiberglass CEO
B03241907 Martin Kosleck, Germany, actor (Pursuit to Algiers)
B03241903 Malcolm Muggeridge, English writer (Observer of Life)
B03241902 Thomas E. Dewey (R), Ohio, 1st Catholic pres. candidate (1944, 1948)
B03241897 Lucia Chase,  Waterbury, Conn., ballerina, ballet director
B03241893 George Sisler, baseball hall of fame member (257 hits in 1920)
B03241890 John Rock, Mass., obstetrician-gynecologist, codeveloper of "the pill"
B03241887 Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle, silent screen actor (The Rounders)
B03241885 Charles Daniels, US Olympic swimmer (5 gold 1904)
B03241884 Peter Debye, Dutch physical chemist (Nobel 1936)
B03241874 Harry Houdini, Budapest, magician, escape artist
B03241869 �mile Fabre,  French playwright, administrator of Com‚die Fran‡aise
B03241866 Jack McAuliffe, US lightweight boxing champ, hall of famer
B03241855 Andrew W. Mellon, US financier, industrialist, treasury secretary
B03241855 Olive Schreiner,  Cape Colony, novelist (Story of an African Farm)
B03241835 Josef Stefan, Austrian physicist (Stefan-Boltzmann law)
B03241834 William Morris, English designer, craftsman, poet, socialist
B03241834 John Wesley Powell, US geologist, explorer, ethnologist
B03241809 Joseph Liouville,  France, discover of transcendental numbers
B03241755 Rufus King (F), a framer of the US constitution, senator
B03241494 Georgius Agricola, Germany, mineralogist
B03252184 Pavel Andreivich Chekov,  Leningrad, USSR (Star Trek character)
B03251960 Haywood Nelson, actor (What's Happening!, Grady)
B03251953 Mary Gross, Chicago, actress, comedian (SNL, Club Paradise, Feds)
B03251947 Elton John,  English singer, pianist (Rocketman, Candle in the Wind)
B03251946 Bonnie Bedelia, NY, actress (Die Hard, Heart Like a Wheel, New Land)
B03251943 Pavel Lednev, USSR, winner of 7 modern pentathlon Olympic medals
B03251942 Paul Michael Glaser, actor (Starsky & Hutch, Running Man)
B03251942 Aretha Franklin,  Memphis, singer, soul sister #1
B03251940 Anita Bryant, Okla., Miss America candidate, singer, homophobe
B03251938 Hoyt Axton, singer, actor (Black Stallion, Junkman, Rousters)
B03251934 Johnny Burnette,  Memphis, guitarist (Trains Kept A-Rollin')
B03251934 Gloria Steinem,  Toledo, Ohio, feminist, publisher (Ms. magazine)
B03251928 James A. Lovell, Jr, Cleveland, astronaut (Gemini 7, 12, Apollo 8, 13)
B03251927 Leslie Claudius, India, field hockey (Olympic gold 1948, 1952, 1956)
B03251926 Laszlo Papp, Hungary, Olympic boxer (gold 1948, 1952, 1956)
B03251925 Flannery O'Connor,  Georgia, novelist (A Good Man Is Hard to Find)
B03251924 Bonnie Guitar, country singer
B03251922 Eileen Ford, modeling agency head
B03251921 Simone Signoret, Germany, actress (Casque d'Or, Room at the Top)
B03251921 Nancy Kelly,  Lowell, Mass., actress (Double Exposure, Jesse James)
B03251920 Howard Cosell, sportscaster, author, lawyer
B03251908 Dame Bridget D'Oyly Carte, British theater & hotel director
B03251908 David Lean, motion picture director (Dr. Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter)
B03251906 Binni Barnes, London, actress (Last of the Mohicans, 3 Musketeers)
B03251899 Bella Spewack,  Hungarian playwright (Kiss Me Kate)
B03251893 Rep. Edward Hart (D-NJ), 1st chair, House Un-American Activities Comm.
B03251881 B‚la Bart¢k, Hungarian composer (Concerto for Orchestra), pianist
B03251867 Gutzon Borglum, sculptor of Mt. Rushmore
B03251867 Arturo Toscanini,  Parma, Italy, temperamental conductor
B03251839 William Bell Wait, US educator of the blind
B03251797 John Winebrenner, US clergyman, founder of Church of God
B03251769 Salvatore Vigan•,  Naples, ballet dancer, choreographer
B03261962 Richard Coles, rock keyboardist (The Communards)
B03261960 Jennifer Grey, actress (Dirty Dancing), Joel Grey's daughter
B03261960 Marcus Allen, NFL football player (LA Raiders)
B03261956 Charly McClain, country singer
B03261950 Teddy Pendergrass, Philadelphia, singer, drummer (Turn off the Lights)
B03261950 Martin Short,  Hamilton, Ontario, comedian (SNL, SCTV, 3 Amigos)
B03261949 Vicki Lawrence, Calif., actress (Carol Burnette Show, Mama's Family)
B03261948 Kyung-Wha Chung,  Seoul, South Korea, violinist
B03261948 Steven Tyler, NYC, rock vocalist (Aerosmith - Dream On)
B03261945 Mikhail Voronin, USSR, gymnast (Olympic gold 1968)
B03261944 Diana Ross,  Detroit, singer, actress (Lady Sings the Blues, Mahogany)
B03261943 Robert Woodward, investigative reporter (Watergate, CIA crimes)
B03261942 Erica Jong, NYC, author (Fear of Flying)
B03261940 Rod Lauren, singer (If I Had a Girl)
B03261939 James Caan, actor (Brian's Song, The Killer Elite, The Godfather)
B03261934 Alan Arkin, actor, director (Catch 22, The In-Laws, Wait Until Dark)
B03261934 Gino Cappelletti, ORFU, AFL running back (AFL player of the year 1964)
B03261931 Leonard Nimoy, actor, director (Star Trek - Spock, Mission Impossible)
B03261930 Peter Johnson,  London, writer (Boating Facts & Feats)               <
B03261930 Gregory Corso, NYC, Beat poet (Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man)
B03261930 Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman US Supreme Court justice
B03261926 Ann Curtis, US 400-m freestyle swimmer (Olympic gold 1948)
B03261925 Pierre Boulez,  Montbrison, France, composer, conductor
B03261925 Alec McCowen,  England, actress (Frenzy, Hanover Street, Stevie)
B03261924 Bob Elliott,  Boston, comedian (Bob & Ray)
B03261923 Clifton Williams,  Traskwood, Arkansas, band master
B03261922 William Milliken, actor (Drive-In)
B03261919 Sterling Hayden, NJ, actor (Dr. Strangelove, Asphalt Jungle, Cobra)
B03261916 Bill Edrich, English cricketer (career batting average of 42)
B03261914 William Westmoreland, Vietnam-era army general
B03261911 Tennessee Williams,  Columbus, MS, dramatist (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
B03261908 Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling,  Germany, tennis player (Wimbledon 1933)
B03261904 Emilio Fern ndez, Mexican revolutionary, film actor, director
B03261904 Joseph Campbell, NYC, mythologist, writer (The Mythic Image)
B03261880 Duncan Hines, US, author of restaurant guides
B03261879 Othmar H. Ammann, US engineer, designer of NY's Geo. Washington Bridge
B03261874 Robert Frost, SF, poet (Mending Wall, The Road Not Taken)
B03261859 A.E. Housman, English poet (A Shropshire Lad)
B03261856 William F. Massey (Reform), PM of New Zealand (1912-25)
B03261850 Edward Bellamy, US author (Looking Backward)
B03261804 Wolfgang v Kempelen,  Pressburg, engineer, exhibitor (Chess Automaton)
B03261773 Nathaniel Bowditch, US mathematician, astronomer, author, polyglot
B03261753 Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, Mass., English/German physicist
B03271986 Melissa Stern, a.k.a. Baby M, Sara Whitehead, surrogate baby
B03271956 Thomas Wassberg,  Sweden, cross-country skier (Olympic gold 1980)
B03271956 Brian Kelly, CFL wide receiver (Edmonton Eskimos)
B03271953 Annemarie Moser-Pr”ll, Austria, alpine skier (Olympic gold 1980)
B03271952 Maria Schneider, actress (Last Tango in Paris, Crime of Honor)
B03271952 Chick Vennera,  Herkimer, NY, actor (Hi Risk, Milagro Beanfield War)
B03271950 Tony Banks, rock keyboardist, singer (Genesis - That's All)
B03271942 Michael York, actor (Cabaret, Logan's Run, 3 Musketeers)
B03271939 Cale Yarborough, auto racer (NASCAR 1976-78)
B03271936 Jerry Lacy, Sioux City, Iowa, actor (Play It Again Sam)
B03271934 Arthur Mitchell, choreographer (Dance Theater of Harlem)
B03271930 David Janssen, actor (The Fugitive, Harry O, Marooned, Green Berets)
B03271927 Mstislav Rostropovich,  Baku, Azerbaijan, cellist, conductor
B03271927 Anthony Lewis, newspaper columnist (NY Times)
B03271924 Sarah Vaughan,  Newark, NJ, jazz singer (Broken Hearted Melody)
B03271923 Shusaku Endo,  Tokyo, novelist (White Men, The Sea & Poison)
B03271923 Louis Simpson,  Jamaica, US poet (At the End of the Open Road)
B03271917 Cyrus R. Vance,  W.Va., Carter's secretary of state
B03271914 Budd Schulberg, author (On the Waterfront)
B03271914 Snooky Lanson, singer (Your Hit Parade, 5 Star Jubilee)
B03271912 James Callaghan (Labour), British PM (1976-79)
B03271910 Rudi Ball, Germany, Jewish ice hockey star (Olympic bronze 1932)
B03271903 Walt Kiesling, NFL guard, coach, Hall-of-Famer
B03271901 Sato Eisaku (Liberal), Japanese PM (1964-72) (Nobel 1974)
B03271899 Francis Ponge, French poet (The Voice of Things, Soap)
B03271893 Dragoljub Mihajlovic,  Serbia, leader of the Chetnik WW II resistance
B03271892 Ferde [Ferdinand Rudolf von] Grof‚, NY, composer
B03271879 Edward Steichen, pioneer of US photography
B03271871 Heinrich Mann, German novelist, essayist; brother of Thomas
B03271863 Sir Henry Royce, Rolls-Royce founder
B03271851 Vincent d'Indy, Paris, dandy composer
B03271847 Otto Wallach,  German chemist (Nobel 1910)
B03271845 Wilhelm R”ntgen, Germany, discoverer of x-rays (Nobel 1901)
B03271844 Alophus Washington Greely, US arctic explorer
B03271817 Karl Wilhelm von N„geli, Swiss botanist
B03271813 Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
B03271785 Louis XVII, pretender to the throne during the French Revolution
B03281977 Angelo Garcia, Brooklyn, NY, singer (Menudo)
B03281962 Ged Grimes [Danny Wilson], rock musician (Mary's Prayer)
B03281961 Byron Scott, NBA guard (Los Angeles Lakers)
B03281955 Reba McEntire, country singer (Can't Even Get the Blues)
B03281944 Ken Howard, actor (White Shadow, 1776, Second Thoughts)
B03281944 Rick Barry, ABA/NBA star (NY Nets, SF/Golden State Warriors)
B03281943 Conchata Ferrell,  Charleston, W.Va., actress (Deadly Hero, For Keeps)
B03281942 Neil Kinnock, South Wales, leader of the British Labour Party
B03281942 Samuel Ramey,  Colby, Kansas, basso (La Scala)
B03281941 Charlie McCoy, C & W harmonica player
B03281936 Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, politician (The Green House)
B03281933 Sen. Frank Murkowski (R-Arkansas)
B03281928 Zbigniew Brzezinski,  Warsaw, Carter's national security advisor
B03281924 Freddie Bartholomew, actor (Anna Karenina, David Copperfield)
B03281920 Dirk Bogarde,  English actor, director (Death in Venice, The Servant)
B03281919 Jacob Avshalomov,  Tsingtao, China, composer (Sinfonietta)
B03281914 Sen. Edmund S. Muskie (D-Maine), secretary of state
B03281913 Shoroku Onoe II,  Tokyo, Kabuki actor (Earth Spider)
B03281909 Nelson Algren, US novelist (The Man with the Golden Arm)
B03281906 Joseph Wright, Canadian oarsman (Olympic gold 1928)
B03281905 Marlon Perkins, host of "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom"
B03281903 Rudolf Serkin,  Eger, Bohemia, pianist (Marlboro School of Music)
B03281902 Dame Flora Robson, actress (Dominique Is Dead, The Years Between)
B03281895 Spencer W. Kimball, 12th prophet of the Mormon church
B03281890 Paul Whiteman,  Denver, conductor (Rhapsody in Blue)
B03281880 Rosina Lh‚vinne,  Kiev, Ukraine, pianist
B03281871 Willem Mengelberg, Netherlands, conductor (NY Philharmonic 1922-30)
B03281862 Aristide Briand, French premier (1909-22) (Nobel 1926)
B03281818 Wade Hampton, SC, Confederate general, governor of South Carolina
B03281811 St. John Nepomucene Neumann, bishop of Philadelphia, 1st US male saint
B03281810 Alexandre Herculano de Carvalho e Ara£jo, Portuguese poet, historian
B03281760 Thomas Clarkson, English abolitionist (Negro Emancipation)
B03281592 Jan Amos Komensky (Comenius), Moravian educational reformer
B03281472 Fra Bartolomeo, monk, Florentine Renaissance painter
B03291964 Elle Macpherson,  Sydney, NSW, model (Sports Illustrated 1986-88)
B03291959 Marina Sirtis, actress (Star Trek the Next Generation - Troi)
B03291955 Earl Campbell,  Texas, NFL HOF running back (Houston, New Orleans)
B03291954 Karen Anne Quinlan,  NJ, famous comatose patient
B03291950 Bud Cort, actor (Maria's Lovers, Brewster McCloud, M*A*S*H)
B03291945 Walt (Clyde) Frazier, NBA star (NY Knicks)
B03291945 Julie Goodyear, British actress (Coronation Street - Bet Lynch)
B03291944 Denny McLain, Detroit Tiger pitcher (1968 AL MVP, Cy Young, 31 wins)
B03291943 Eric Idle,  England, comedian, actor (Monty Python)
B03291941 Terence Hill,  Venezia, It., actor (Super Fuzz, They Call Me Trinity)
B03291939 Nancy Kwan, Hong Kong, actress (Flower Drum Song, Night Creature)
B03291937 Billy Carter, first brother, beer drinker
B03291925 Emlen Tunnell, NFL safety (Giants, Packers)
B03291919 Eileen Heckart,  Columbus, Ohio, actress (Doll's House)
B03291918 Pearl Bailey,  Newport News, Va., jazz singer (Hello Dolly)
B03291917 Man O'War, Lexington, Ky., racehorse
B03291916 Sen. Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn.), pres. candidate; not the commie hunter
B03291913 Niall MacGinnis,  Dublin, Ireland, actor (Curse of the Demon)
B03291906 E. Power Biggs,  Westcliff-on-Sea, England, organist (CBS)
B03291902 Sir William Walton, English composer (Belshazzar's Feast, The Quest)
B03291890 Sir Harold Spencer Jones,  British astronomer
B03291889 Howard Lindsay, NY, playwright, producer, actor (State of the Union)
B03291888 James E. Casey, founder of United Parcel Service
B03291887 Albert C. Read,  aviator who made the 1st flight across the Atlantic
B03291875 Lou Henry Hoover,  Iowa, first lady
B03291869 Sir Edwin Lutyens,  London, architect, planner of New Delhi
B03291867 Cy Young, baseball's winningest pitcher (509 wins, 1890-1911)
B03291832 John Wesley Hillman, discoverer of Crater Lake, Ore.
B03291829 Ritta & Christina,  Sardinia, Siamese twins
B03291819 Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi, founder of American Hebrew Congregations
B03291819 Edwin L. Drake, who drilled 1st productive oil well in US (1859)
B03291799 Edward Stanley, Earl Derby (C), British PM (1852, 1858-59, 1866-68)
B03291790 John Tyler, 10th US president (1841-45)
B03291561 Santorio Sanctorius,  Trieste, Italy, physician burned as a heretic
B03301957 Paul Reiser, NYC, actor (Diner, Aliens, Cross My Heart, My 2 Dads)
B03301950 Dave Ball,  rock guitarist (Procol Harum)
B03301945 Eric Clapton, rock guitarist, vocalist, composer (Yardbirds)
B03301944 Graeme Edge,  rock drummer (Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin)
B03301940 Jerry Lucas, NBA center (NY Knicks) (NBA rookie of the year 1964)
B03301937 Warren Beatty, actor, producer (Bonnie & Clyde, Reds, Shampoo)
B03301930 John Astin, actor (Addams Family - Gomez, I'm Dickens He's Fenster)
B03301930 Rolf Harris, British cartoonist
B03301930 Peter Marshall, game show host (Hollywood Squares)
B03301929 Richard Dysart, actor (LA Law - Leland McKenzie)
B03301926 Ray McAnally, Irish actor (The Mission)
B03301921 Andr‚ Fontaine, editor of "Le Monde" newspaper (Paris)
B03301919 McGeorge Bundy, national security adviser under JFK
B03301913 Richard Helms, head of the CIA (1966-73)
B03301913 Frankie Laine [LaVecchio],  Chicago, singer (Moonlight Gambler)
B03301905 Mikio Oda, Japan, triple jumper (Olympic gold 1928)
B03301886 Stanislaw Lesniewski, Polish logician, mathematician
B03301883 Jo Davidson, US sculptor (Woodrow Wilson, Walt Whitman)
B03301880 Sean O'Casey,  Dublin, playwright (Playboy of the Western World)
B03301876 Clifford Whittingham Beers, US mental hygiene pioneer
B03301853 Vincent van Gogh, Holland, artist who always lent an ear
B03301844 Paul Verlaine,  Metz, France, lyric poet (Bonheur, Elegies)
B03301820 Anna Sewell,  Norwich, England, novelist (Black Beauty)
B03301746 Francisco Jos‚ de Goya, Spanish painter, etcher (Naked Maya)
B03301719 Sir John Hawkins, who wrote 1st history of music in English
B03301432 Mehmed II, Ottoman sultan (1444-46, 1451-81) who took Constantinople
B03301222 Nichiren, Japanese Buddhist priest, saint
B03301135 Maimonides [Moses ben Maimon],  C¢rdoba, Spain, philospher, physician
B03311966 Craig Kelly, 3-time pro world snowboarding champion
B03311959 Angus Young,  Glasgow, Scotland, guitarist (AC/DC - Highway to Hell)
B03311948 Rhea Perlman, Brooklyn, actress (Taxi - Zena, Cheers - Carla)
B03311948 Sen. Albert Gore, Jr. (D-Tenn.), presidential candidate
B03311945 Gabe Kaplan, comedian, actor (Welcome Back Kotter)
B03311943 Christopher Walken, NYC, actor (Deer Hunter, Brainstorm)
B03311940 Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont)
B03311940 Barney Frank (D-Mass.), avowedly gay congressman
B03311939 Liz Claiborne,  Brussels, fashion designer
B03311938 John Jakes, Chicago, writer (Sir Scoundrel, Great Women Reporters)
B03311936 Marge Piercy,  Detroit, author (Small Changes, Gone for Soldiers)
B03311935 Herb Alpert, bandleader (Tijuana Brass), A & M music executive
B03311935 Richard Chamberlain, TV actor (Dr. Kildare, Shogun, Thornbirds)
B03311935 Judith Rossner, US writer (August)
B03311934 Shirley Jones,  Penn., actress (Oklahoma!, The Partridge Family)
B03311934 Carlo Rubbia, Italian physicist, discoverer of W+, W-, Z0 (Nobel 1984)
B03311934 Anita Carter, country singer
B03311932 Nagisa Oshima,  Kyoto, Japan, director (Town of Love & Hope)
B03311929 Lee Patterson,  Vancouver, actor (Surfside 6)
B03311928 Gordie Howe, Saskatoon, Sask., NHL right wing (Detroit Red Wings)
B03311928 Lefty Frizzell, C & W musician
B03311927 C‚sar Chavez,  Yuma, Ariz., labor leader (United Farm Workers)
B03311927 William Daniels, actor (The Graduate, St. Elsewhere - Dr. Craig, 1776)
B03311927 Hoyt Hawkins, musician (Jordanaires)
B03311926 John Fowles,  Leigh-on-Sea, England, novelist (The Collector)
B03311926 Sydney Chaplin, actor (Adding Machine, Psycho Sister), Charlie's son
B03311922 Richard Kiley, actor (Little Prince, Man of La Mancha, Endless Love)
B03311915 Henry Morgan, US comedian, TV panelist (I've Got a Secret, Arena)
B03311914 Octavio Paz,  Mexican writer, diplomat (Salamandra) (Nobel 1990)
B03311906 Tomonaga Shin'ichiro,  Kyoto, quantum electrodynamicist (Nobel 1965)
B03311895 John Jay McCloy,  Penn., lawyer, banker, secretary of war (1941-45)
B03311878 Jack Johnson,  Galveston, Texas, 1st black heavyweight boxing champ
B03311872 Arthur Griffith, Irish journalist, founder of Sinn F‚in
B03311854 Sir Dugald Clerk, inventor of the 2-stroke motorcycle engine
B03311844 Andrew Lang, Scotland, author (The Blue Fairy Book)
B03311839 Charles H. Willcox,  US inventor of the "lock stick" sewing machine
B03311837 Robert Ross McBurney, 1st paid secretary of the YMCA
B03311835 John La Farge,  NYC, mural painter, stained glass artist
B03311811 Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, German chemist (Bunsen burner)
B03311809 Edward FitzGerald, English writer (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam)
B03311742 P.D.Q. Bach, composer, according to Peter Schickele
B03311732 Franz Joseph Haydn, composer; helped develop the Classical style
B03311621 Andrew Marvell, English poet (To His Coy Mistress)
B03311596 Ren‚ Descartes, French philosopher, mathematician
D03011881 Alexander II, Russian tsar, assassinated by a bomb (3/13 NS)
D03011661 Richard Zouche, a founder of international law, dies at about 71
D03011643 Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian organist, composer, dies at about 60
D03021585 Dr. William Parry, English M.P., executed for alleged high treason
D0302 274 Mani,  prophet, founder of Manichaeism, dies in a Persian prison (1
D0302 274Csuggested date)
D03031707 Aurangzeb, emperor of Hindustan, dies at about 89
D03031193 Saladin, sultan of Egypt &Syria (1175-93), dies at about 55
D03051982 John Belushi, comedian, dies of a drug overdose in Hollywood at 33
D03051953 Josef V. Stalin, responsible for 11 million murders, dies at 73
D03051770 Crispus Attackus becomes 1st black to die for American freedom
D03061616 Francis Beaumont, Elizabethan dramatist, dies at about 32
D03071951 Ali Razmara,  premier of Iran, is assassinated
D03071274 Thomas Aquinas, philosopher, saint, dies at about 50
D03081862 Ned Gordon, last American pirate to be executed, is hanged in NYC
D03091661 Jules Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister of France, dies
D03091566 David Rizzio, Mary Queen of Scots' secretary, murdered by Darnley
D03101985 Konstantin U. Chernenko, Soviet leader, dies in Moscow at 73
D03101913 Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, Underground RR conductor, dies at c. 93
D03101888 Ferdinand Eberstadt, mayor of Worms, 1st Jewish mayor in Germany, dies
D03101669 Sir John Denham, English poet, dies at about 54
D03101616 Vincent Fettmilch, leader of massacres of Jewish, is hanged
D03111965 James Reeb, a Unitarian minister, killed by white racists, Selma, Ala.
D03111932 Last heath hen dies, Mass. - extinction is forever
D03111845 John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) dies, Allen Co., Ind. (approx. date)
D03111820 Sir Alexander Mackenzie, 1st to cross America N of M‚xico, dies, c. 65
D03111801 Paul I, Russian tsar, assassinated by officials in his bedchamber (OS)
D03111676 Allart van Everdingen, Dutch artist, dies at about 54
D03121925 Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary leader, dies
D03131964 Kitty Genovese is stabbed to death in Queens as 40 neighbors look on
D03131628 John Bull, English musician, dies at about 66
D03141883 Karl Marx, author of "Communist Manifesto," dies in poverty in London
D03141682 Jacob van Ruysdael, Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 57
D03141471 Sir Thomas Malory, author of "Le Morte d'Arthur," dies in London at 71
D03141469 Jacob Fugger I,  German financier, dies (birth date unknown)
D03151673 Salvator Rosa, Italian artist, dies at about 58
D0315 -44 Julius C‘sar, would-be emperor, assassinated in the Senate at Rome
D03161959 John Sailling, last documented Civil War veteran, dies at 111
D03161914 Gaston Calmette, editor of "Figaro," assassinated by Mme. Caillaux for
D03161914Cpublishing love-letters
D03171040 Harold I Harefoot, king of England, dies, is succeeded by Harthacnut,
D03171040Cking of Denmark (-1042)
D03181886 Leopold Zunz, father of Reform Judaism, historian, dies
D03181789 Christian Bowman, last British woman executed by burning, dies
D03181314 Jacques de Molay, last grand master of Knights Templars, burnt, Paris
D0318 978 St. Edward the Martyr, king of the Anglo-Saxons (975-78), murdered
D03191981 2 workers killed in space shuttle Columbia accident
D03191687 La Salle, French explorer, killed during mutiny in what is now Texas
D03201899 Martha Place, 1st woman executed by electrocution, dies, NY
D03201727 Sir Isaac Newton, discoverer of gravitation, dies in London at 84
D03211556 Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, burned at the stake
D03211144 William of Norwich allegedly murdered, leading to 1st charge of ritual
D03211144Cmurder against Jewish in the Middle Ages
D03221978 Karl Wallenda, high-wire acrobat, falls to his death, c. 73, San Juan
D03221832 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dies in Weimar at 82 - "More light!"
D03221639 Thomas Carew, English poet, dies at about 41
D03231985 The Singing Nun commits suicide in Belgium
D03231983 Dr. Barney Clark, 1st artificial heart recipient, dies after 112 days
D03231961 Valentin Bondarenko, Soviet cosmonaut, killed in a training accident
D03231786 Patience Wright, 1st American woman pro artist, dies at about 61
D03231603 Elizabeth I, last Tudor monarch of England, dies at 69
D03241980 Oscar Romero, archbishop of El Salvador, assassinated saying mass
D03241900 Last known wild passenger pigeon killed with a BB gun in Ohio
D0324 809 Harun al-Rashid, caliph (786-809) of the Arabian Nights, dies
D03251975 Faisal, king of Saudi Arabia, is shot to death by a nephew
D03251965 Viola Liuzzo, civil-rights worker, gunned down by KKK near Selma, Ala.
D03251916 Ishi, "the last cave man," last North American wild Indian, dies
D03251911 Andrei Yushinsky, alleged ritual murder victim, found near Kiev
D03251911CMendel Beilis, a Jew, is later tried for murder & mutilation
D03251899 Chief Moses, Columbia Indian chief, dies at about 70
D03251738 Turlough O'Carolan, 1 of last Irish harpist-composers, dies at c. 68
D03251736 Nicholas Hawksmoore, English architect, dies at about 75
D0325 752 Stephen II, Roman Catholic pope, dies 2 days after his election
D03261990 Cindy Martin, world's 1st triple transplant recipient, dies after 3 mo
D03261923 Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, dies at 77
D03261892 Walt Whitman, poet, dies in Camden, NJ at 72
D03261827 Ludwig van Beethoven, composer, dies in Wien (Vienna) at 56
D03271968 Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit earth, & Seryogin die in a plane crash
D03271378 Gregory XI, last French pope & last Avignonese pope, dies at about 70
D03281953 Jim Thorpe, Olympics & pro football star, dies
D03281903 Jean-Maurice-�mile Baudot,  French engineer, telegrapher, dies
D03281677 Wenceslaus Hollar,  Bohemian engraver, dies at about 70
D03281462 Vasili II, last duke of Moscow vassal to the Tatars, dies
D03281038 Rav Hai Gaon, last of the geonim of Pumpedita, responsa author, dies
D0328 193 Pertinax, Roman emperor, assassinated by Praetorian guard after 3 mo.
D03291792 Gustav III, king of Sweden, dies of wounds inflicted by assassin 3/16
D0329 -87 Han Wu Ti, Chinese Han emperor (140-87 BC), dies at about 69
D03311945 Mother Maria, Russian nun who saved many French Jews, killed by Nazis
D03311631 John Donne, English Metaphysical poet, dies at about 59
D03311341 Ivan I Kalita, grand prince of Moscow (1328-41), dies at about 37
H030119932Green (or Clean) Monday (1st Monday of Lent) (Greece, Cyprus)
H0301     Chalanda Marz/Coming of spring (Engadine, Switzerland)
H0301     Constitution Day (Panam )
H0301     Whuppity Scoorie Day (Lanark, Lanarkshire, Scotland)
H0302     Peasant's Day (Burma)
H0303     Martyrs' Day (Malawi)
H0303     Hina Matsuri or Doll Festival (Japan); Japanese Girl's Day (Hawaii)
H030619952Green (or Clean) Monday (1st Monday of Lent) (Greece, Cyprus)
H03061957 Independence Day (Ghana)
H03081911 International Women's Day
H03081911C(official holiday in China, Cuba, Mauritania, Mongolia, USSR)
H0308    6Arbor Day (New Mexico)
H030919922Green (or Clean) Monday (1st Monday of Lent) (Greece, Cyprus)
H0309    6Arbor Day (New Mexico)
H0310    6Arbor Day (New Mexico)
H03111986 World Culture Day (leap years) (World Calendar - Sunday, March 10)
H0311    6Arbor Day (New Mexico)
H03121986 World Culture Day (common years) (World Calendar - Sunday, March 10)
H03121912 Girl Scouts Day
H0312    3Cotton Carnival (Memphis, Tenn.) (held for 5 days)
H0312     Renovation Day (Gabon) (National Day)
H0312     Commonwealth Day (formerly British Empire Day)
H0312    6Arbor Day (New Mexico)
H0313    6Arbor Day (New Mexico)
H0313     Attack on the Presidential Palace (Cuba)
H0314    3Cotton Carnival (Memphis, Tenn.) (held for 5 days)
H0314    6Arbor Day (New Mexico)
H0315     Thanksgiving Day (Honduras)
H0316     Feast of fictional St. Urho, patron of Finland
H0317 461       St. Patrick's Day, Irish National Day      
H0317     World Maritime Day
H0318     Flag Day/National Holiday (Aruba)
H0319     Canberra Day (Australia)
H0321     National Teen-Agers Day
H0321     Feast of Naw-R£z (Bah '¡ New Year); Bah  1 (year = Gregorian - 1843)
H0321     Nawroz (Persian New Year) (Afgh nist n, Iran, Iraq)
H0321     Indian New Year (leap years)
H03221873 Emancipation Day (Puerto Rico)
H0322     Indian New Year (common years)
H0323     World Meteorological Day, a UN observance
H0323     Roman Tubilustrium; purification of war trumpets; a. d. x Kal. Apr.
H032519172Transfer Day observed (US Virgin Islands)
H032518672Seward Day observed (Alaska)
H0325     Global Understanding Day
H0325     New Year's Day observed in England, 1155-1752 (OS)
H032619172Transfer Day observed (US Virgin Islands)
H032618672Seward Day observed (Alaska)
H0326     Arbor Day (Lesotho, Spain - Fiesta del Arbol)
H0326     Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Day (Hawaii)
H032719172Transfer Day observed (US Virgin Islands)
H032718672Seward Day observed (Alaska)
H032819172Transfer Day observed (US Virgin Islands)
H032818672Seward Day observed (Alaska)
H032919172Transfer Day observed (US Virgin Islands)
H032918672Seward Day observed (Alaska)
H03291638 Delaware Swedish Colonial Day (Delaware)
H03301976 Land Day (Palestine) - to protest Israeli land confiscation
H033019172Transfer Day observed (US Virgin Islands)
H033018672Seward Day (Alaska)
H03311974 Malta Republic Day (National Day)
H033119172Transfer Day (US Virgin Islands)
H033118672Seward Day observed (Alaska)
I030119966Ember Day (Ang, RC)
I030119954Ash Wednesday
I030119921Shrove (Quinquagesima) Sunday
I030119916Night of Remembrance (Moslem feast); Sha'bƒn 14, 1411 AH
I0301 549 Feast of St. Albinus (RC)
I0301 544 Commemoration of St. David, patron of Wales, c. 544 CE (Ang, RC)
I0301 492 Feast of St. Felix III, pope (483-92)
I0301     Commemoration of George Herbert, priest, 1633 CE (Luth)
I0301     Matronalia (Feast of Juno) in ancient Rome; Kalend‘ Martius
I030219967Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I030219922Shrove Monday
I03021791 Commemoration of John Wesley, 1791, & Charles Wesley, 1788 (Luth)
I0302 672 Commemoration of St. Chad (St. Ceadda), bishop of Lichfield (Ang)
I0302 274 Bema Festival (Manichaeism) (approximate date)
I0302     Beginning of Bah '¡ month of 'Al  (19 days of fasting)
I030319956'Id al-Fitr (Moslem feast); end of Ramadƒn fast; Shawwƒl 1, 1415 AH
I030319934Ember Day (Ang, RC)
I030319923Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras)
I03031791 Commemor. of John & Charles Wesley, priests, 1791 CE, 1788 CE (Ang)
I030419962Jewish Fast of Esther; Adar 13, 5756 AM
I030419924Ash Wednesday
I03041482 Memorial of St. Casimir, king of Poland, confessor (opt) (RC)
I0304 254 Commemoration of St. Lucius I, 22nd pope, martyr (RC)
I030519963Purim (Jewish Feast of Lots); Adar 14, 5756 AM
I0305199511st Sunday in Lent
I030519936Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I0305199251st day of Ramadƒn, 1412 AH; Moslem fast begins
I03051734 Feast of St. John Joseph of the Cross (RC)
I030619937Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I030619937Jewish Fast of Esther; Adar 13, 5753 AM
I0306     Jesus Nazarene of Atalaya (Panam )
I030719931Purim (Jewish Feast of Lots); Adar 14, 5753 AM
I03071274 Commemoration of St. Thomas Aquinas, confessor, doctor (old RC, Luth)
I0307 203 Commemor. of SS. Perpetua & her companions, martyrs (Ang, Luth, RC)
I030819954Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I0308199211st Sunday in Lent
I03081550 Memorial of St. John of God, confessor (opt) (RC)
I03091440 Memorial of St. Frances of Rome, patron of motorists, housewives (RC)
I0309 394 Commemoration of Gregory, bishop of Nyssa, c. 394 CE (Ang, RC)
I031019956Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I031019945Night of Power (Moslem feast); Ramadƒn 27, 1414 AH
I0310 320 Commemoration of the 40 Holy Martyrs of Sebaste, Armenia (RC)
I0310     Commemoration of St. John Ogilvie, Scottish Jesuit, 1615 CE (RC)
I031119957Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I031119924Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I03111770 Commemoration of St. Teresa Margaret Redi, Italian Carmelite (RC)
I0311 859 Feast of St. Eulogius (RC)
I0312 604 Comm., St Gregory I the Great, 64th pope (590-604) (old RC, Luth, Ang)
I031319926Ember Day (Ang, RC)
I0313 410 Feast of St. Euphrasia, virgin (RC)
I031419942'Id al-Fitr (Moslem feast); end of Ramadƒn fast; Shawwƒl 1, 1414 AH
I031419927Ember Day (RC, Ang)
I0314 968 Feast of SS. Matilda & Maud (RC)
I031519954Jewish Fast of Esther; Adar II 13, 5755 AM
I03151660 Commemoration of St. Louise de Marillac, widow (RC)
I0315     Commem. of St. Clement Mary Hofbauer, priest, missionary, 1820 CE (RC)
I0315     Commemoration of St. Longinus, soldier with spear
I031619955Purim (Jewish Feast of Lots); Adar II 14, 5755 AM
I03161648 Commemor. of St. John de Br‚beuf & companions, martyrs c. 1648 CE (RC)
I0316 355 Commemoration of SS. Abraham, hermit, & Mary, penitent, c. 355 CE (RC)
I0317199111st day of Ramadƒn, 1411 AH; Moslem fast begins
I0317 461 Memorial of St. Patrick, bishop, missionary to Ireland (opt) (RC, Ang)
I0317     Liberalia in ancient Rome, honoring Liber, Libera; a. d. xvj Kal. Apr.
I031819924Jewish Fast of Esther; Adar II 13, 5752 AM
I0318 386 Memorial of St. Cyril of Jerusalem, bishop & doctor (opt) (RC, Ang)
I031919925Purim (Jewish Feast of Lots); Adar II 14, 5752 AM
I0319     Solemnity of St. Joseph, stepfather of Jesus (RC, Luth, Ang)
I0319     Quinquatrus (Feast of Minerva) in ancient Rome; a. d. xiv Kal. Apr.
I0320 687 Commemoration of Cuthbert, bishop of Lindisfarne (Ang)
I032119931Night of Power (Moslem feast); Ramadƒn 27, 1413 AH
I03211487 Commemoration of Nicholas von Fl�e (RC)
I0321     Commemoration of Thomas Ken, bishop of Bath & Wells, 1711 CE (Ang)
I0321     Alban Eilir, witches' sabbat
I032219977Jewish Fast of Esther; Adar II 13, 5757 AM
I03221758 Commemoration of Jonathan Edwards, teacher, missionary (Luth)
I0322     Commemoration of James DeKoven, priest, 1879 CE (Ang)
I0322     Earliest possible Easter (e.g., 1818, 2285)
I032319971Purim (Jewish Feast of Lots); Adar II 14, 5757 AM
I032319971Palm Sunday of the Passion of Jesus
I0323 484 Feast of St. Victorian & Other African Martyrs, c. 484 CE (RC)
I0323 332 Gregory the Illuminator, bp., missionary of Armenia, c. 332 CE (Ang)
I0323     Mem. of St. Turibius of Mogrovejo, archbp. of Lima, 1606 CE (opt) (RC)
I032419911Palm Sunday of the Passion of Jesus
I0324     Commemor. of St. Gabriel, patron of postmen, telephone workers (RC)
I032519935'Id al-Fitr (Moslem feast); end of Ramadƒn fast; Shawwƒl 1, 1412 AH
I03251586 Commemoration of St. Margaret Clitherow, English martyr
I0325     Commemoration of St. Lucy Filippini, Italian educator, 1732 CE (RC)
I0325     Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord
I0325     Commemoration of St. Dismas, patron of prisoners (RC)
I0326 809 Commemoration of St. Ludger, bishop, confessor (RC)
I0326     Commemoration of St. Braulio of Aragon
I032719975Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday)
I032719941Passover/Pesach (Jewish Feast of Deliverance); Nisan 15, 5754 AM
I032719941Palm Sunday of the Passion of Jesus
I0327 760 Commemor. of St. John Damascene, confessor, doctor (old RC; now 12/4)
I0327     Commemoration of Charles Henry Brent, bishop of the Philippines & of
I0327    CWestern New York, 1929 CE (Ang)
I0327     Feast of Bl. Pellegrino
I032819976Good Friday
I032819915Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday)
I032919977Holy Saturday
I032919916Good Friday
I03291866 Commemoration of John Keble, priest (Ang)
I0329     Commemoration of Hans Hauge, renewer of the Church, 1824 CE (Luth)
I033019971Easter Sunday
I033019917Holy Saturday
I033019917Passover (Jewish Feast of Deliverance); Nisan 15, 5751 AM
I0330     Comm. of St. Leonard Murialdo, Italian priest, educator, 1900 CE (RC)
I033119961Palm Sunday of the Passion of Jesus
I033119945Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday)
I033119923Night of Power (Moslem feast); Ramadƒn 27, 1412 AH
I033119911Easter Sunday
I0331 424 Feast of St. Benjamin, martyr (RC)
I0331     Commemoration of John Donne, priest, 1631 CE (Ang, Luth)
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R03010320 Astrological sign:  Pisces
R0301     International Hamburger & Pickle Month, Red Cross Month begin
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R0301     Bah '¡ leap day (in Gregorian leap years); Ayy m-i-H  5
R0301     International Day of the Seal
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R0310     Dance of the flying men begins, Huachinango, Puebla, M‚xico
R0312     West Greenland Isua Group cherts (oldest sediment) (geoyear 3,700)
R0313    6Friday the 13th!  Beware!
R03140318 Corona-Australid meteor shower, radiant in Norma (southern hemisphere)
R0315     1eware the Ides of March (in the Roman calendar); Id. Mar.
R0315     The day the buzzards return to Hinckley, Ohio
R0315    1National Poison Prevention Week begins
R0315     English & American dates are Old Style to 1752, New Style thereafter
R0316     Traditional date for return of long-billed curlews to Umatilla, Ore.
R0316    1National Poison Prevention Week begins
R03171991 Pedestrian Rights Day
R0317    1National Poison Prevention Week begins
R0318    1National Poison Prevention Week begins
R0318     For your own birthdays, events & reminders create file TODAY.OWN
R0319    1National Poison Prevention Week begins
R0319     The day the swallows return to San Juan Capistrano
R0320    1National Poison Prevention Week begins
R03210419 Astrological sign:  Aries
R0321    1National Poison Prevention Week begins
R0321    7Daylight Savings Time in Western Europe starts tomorrow
R0321     Bengt name day in Sweden
R0321     Vernal (N) or Autumnal (S) Equinox/1st Point of Aries (most years)
R0321     1st day of spring in Northern Hemisphere (most years)
R03220324 March Geminid meteor shower, radiant near æ Geminorum
R0322    7Daylight Savings Time in Western Europe starts tomorrow
R0323    7Daylight Savings Time in Western Europe starts tomorrow
R0324    7Daylight Savings Time in Western Europe starts tomorrow
R0325     Annunciation Day (Lady Day), quarter day in medieval England
R0325    7Daylight Savings Time in Western Europe starts tomorrow
R0326    7Daylight Savings Time in Western Europe starts tomorrow
R0327    7Daylight Savings Time in Western Europe starts tomorrow
R0328     Origin of stromatolites (geoyear 3,500)
R0331    7Set your clock ahead - Daylight Time starts at 2 a.m. tomorrow
S03011990 Atomic clock in Boulder, Colo., accurate to 1 second in 300,000 years,
S03011990 Humans cause extinction of 3 species this day (& every day in 1990)
S03011990Cgets the date wrong (it thinks it's Feb. 29) - error fixed weeks later
S03011989 US joins Berne copyright convention
S03011986 EEC members sign Single European Act for increased integration in 1992
S03011985 Julio Sanguinetti's inauguration in Uruguay ends 12 y of military rule
S03011984 Women's record for Empire State Bldg. climb - I. Carmichael, 13 m 32 s
S03011983 Highest payout in US parimutuel history, $988,000 on jai alai, Fla.
S03011982 Russian Venera 13 spacecraft arrives at Venus
S03011977 US offshore fishing zone extended from 12 to 200 miles
S03011974 Watergate grand jury indicts 7 presidential aides
S03011973 Robyn Smith becomes 1st female jockey to win a major US stakes race
S03011972 Singer Merle Haggard pardoned by California Governor Ronald Reagan
S03011971 SDS Weather Underground explodes a bomb in US Capitol - no injuries
S03011970 White government of Rhodesia declares independence from Britain
S03011970 End of commercial whale hunting in the US
S03011969 Jim Morrison allegedly "exposes organs" in Florida concert
S03011968 NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement:  "Star Trek" will return
S03011967 Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D-NY) denied seat in Congress
S03011966 Venera 3 becomes 1st man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus)
S03011961 Pres. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps
S03011961 Mattel places Ken dolls on sale as Barbie's boyfriend
S03011954 4 Puerto Ricans open fire in US House, wound 5 congressmen
S03011954 Fallout from H-bomb test at Bikini contaminates nearby Pacific islands
S03011954 American Motors formed by merger of Nash-Kelvinator & Hudson
S03011950 British sentence Klaus Fuchs to 14 years in prison for spying for USSR
S03011949 "Ripley's Believe It or Not" (1st version) premiers on NBC TV
S03011947 International Monetary Fund begins operations
S03011941 1st US commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville, Tenn.
S03011937 1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Connecticut)
S03011932 Charles Lindbergh, Jr. kidnapped in New Jersey; found dead May 12
S03011919 Demonstrations for Korean independence from Japan begin
S03011917 German try for Mexican help in WW I (Zimmermann Telegram) published
S03011913 Federal income tax takes effect, as per 16th amendment
S03011912 Isabella Goodwin appointed 1st US woman detective, NYC
S03011912 Albert Berry becomes 1st to parachute from an airplane, St. Louis
S03011910 Worst US avalanche - 2 trains swept away, 96 die - Stevens Pass, Wash.
S03011909 1st US university school of nursing established, Univ. of Minnesota
S03011898 Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party founded (OS)
S03011875 Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Court, 1883
S03011872 Yellowstone becomes world's 1st national park
S03011867 Most of Nebraska becomes 37th US state (expanded later)
S03011864 Rebecca Lee becomes 1st black woman MD in US
S03011864 Movie machine patented by Louis Ducos du Hauron (never built)
S03011847 Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the
S03011847Cdeath penalty (except for treason against the state)
S03011823 "Jew," 1st Anglo-Jewish periodical published in US, appears
S03011815 Napol‚on lands in France from Elba with 1,500 troops
S03011803 Official admission date for Ohio, as 17th US state
S03011790 1st US census authorized
S03011786 Ohio Company formed in Boston to purchase land in NW Territory
S03011784 E. Kidner opens 1st cooking school, in Great Britain
S03011781 Articles of Confederation proclaimed adopted
S03011780 1st bank in the US chartered
S03011780 Pennsylvania becomes 1st US state to abolish slavery
S03011711 Addison & Steele publish 1st issue of the "Spectator"
S03011642 York, Maine becomes 1st American city to incorporate
S0301  -1 Start of revised Julian calendar in Rome (in use until 1920)
S03022000 Humans cause extinction of 20 species this day (& every day in 2000)
S03021990 "Science" reports on drastic global decline in amphibian population
S03021990CThe "miners' canaries" are starting to die
S03021989 "Exxon Houston" runs aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons of oil
S03021989 Madonna's "Like a Prayer" premiers on worldwide Pepsi TV commercial
S03021986 1st $1 million purse for a horse race - Santa Anita Handicap
S03021984 Largest earth-moon distance this century, 406,710 km center-to-center
S03021979 Solid hydrogen announced (at 57 kilobars pressure), Washington, DC
S03021978 Soyuz 28 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6
S03021974 First class postage raised to 10› from 8›
S03021968 USSR launches space probe Zond 4 - it fails to leave earth orbit
S03021965 US begins Operation Rolling Thunder sustained bombing of North Vietnam
S03021965 Movie "The Sound of Music" opens
S03021962 Wilt Chamberlain scores a record 100 points in an NBA game
S03021958 1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent completed (Vivian Fuchs)
S03021956 Morocco tears up the Treaty of F‚z, declares independence
S03021949 1st automatic street light (New Milford, Conn.)
S03021949 Lucky Lady II (USAF B-50 Superfortress) completes 1st nonstop round-
S03021949Cthe-world flight, Fort Worth, Texas - 37,742 km in 94 hrs
S03021940 Screen debut of Elmer Fudd, in Merry Melody "Elmer's Candid Camera"
S03021940 1st intercollegiate track meet telecast, MSG, NYC
S03021929 Chicago Black Hawks shut out for NHL-record 8th straight game
S03021927 Babe Ruth becomes highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year)
S03021925 Nationwide road numbering system & US shield marker adopted
S03021917 Territory of Puerto Rico created, US citizenship granted
S03021904 "Official Playing Rules of Professional Base Ball Clubs" adopted
S03021901 Platt Amendment, providing for continued US control of Cuba, passes
S03021899 Pres. McKinley signs bill creating Mt. Rainier Nat'l Park (5th in US)
S03021896 Battle of Aduwa, Abyssinia (Ethiopia); invading Italians defeated
S03021893 1st federal railroad legislation passed (requires safety features)
S03021887 American Trotting Association organized in Detroit
S03021867 Congress abolishes peonage in New Mexico
S03021867 Congress creates US Department of Education (1st time)
S03021865 At Waynesborough, Gen. Early's army is defeated
S03021863 4' 8«" gauge adopted by Union Pacific RR - now standard for most RRs
S03021861 Congress creates Dakota & Nevada Territories
S03021860 John McDouall Stuart expedition reaches geographic center of Australia
S03021853 Territory of Washington organized
S03021853 Verdi's opera "La Traviata" premiers, Venice
S03021836 Texas declares independence from M‚xico, Washington-on-the-Brazos
S03021831 John Frazee becomes 1st US sculptor to receive a federal commission
S03021829 New England School for the Blind, 1st in US, incorporated in Boston
S03021819 Territory of Arkansas formed from Missouri
S03021799 Congress standardizes US weights & measures
S03021702 "Daily Courant," 1st London daily newspaper, is issued
S03032020 Humans cause extinction of 150 species this day (& every day in 2020)
S03031989 Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, 2 yrs probation for Iran-contra
S03031983 Pres. Reagan calls for a week of reporting only good news
S03031973 34 dogsleds leave Anchorage on 1st Iditarod race
S03031972 Pioneer 10 launched toward asteroid belt & Jupiter
S03031969 Apollo 9 launched into earth orbit (10 days, 151 orbits)
S03031967 "Berkeley Barb" reports smoking bananas will get you high
S03031966 Hialeah refuses to take bets on a horse race because of a real risk
S03031966CTHE TRACK could lose money (Buckpasser is near-unanimous favorite)
S03031959 1st US probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, is launched
S03031945 US & Philippine forces recapture Corregidor
S03031939 1st recorded goldfish swallowing, Lothrop Withington, Boston College
S03031923 "Time" magazine publishes 1st issue
S03031921 Toronto's Dr. Banting & Dr. Best announce discovery of insulin
S03031920 Montr‚al Canadiens score NHL-record 16 goals vs. Qu‚bec (3 goals)
S03031918 Russia signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, withdraws from World War I
S03031917 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates (3/15 NS)
S03031915 David Griffith movie "The Birth of a Nation" premiers, NY
S03031912 Hadassah founded by Henrietta Szold
S03031885 American Telephone & Telegraph incorporated
S03031875 1st definitely recorded ice hockey game played, Montr‚al
S03031875 Bizet's last opera, "Carmen," premiers in Paris
S03031873 Comstock Act makes it illegal to send birth control info thru the mail
S03031871 Congress establishes the civil service system
S03031871 Congress nullifies all treaties with the Indians, makes them wards
S03031863 Last day Nebraska borders Washington
S03031863 1st US wartime military conscription bill enacted
S03031855 Congress appropriates $30,000 for camels to fight Indians
S03031851 Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin (3› piece)
S03031849 Gold Coinage Act passed, allowing gold coins to be minted
S03031847 Post Office Department authorized to issue postage stamps
S03031845 Florida becomes 27th US state
S03031845 1st US law passed over presidential veto (John Tyler's)
S03031843 Congress appropriates $30,000 "to test the practicability of
S03031843Cestablishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs" by the US
S03031842 1st US child labor law regulating working hours passed, Mass.
S03031837 Congress increases US Supreme Court from 7 to 9 justices
S03031820 Missouri Compromise enacted by Congress
S03031812 Congress passes 1st foreign aid bill
S03031805 Congress creates Territory of Louisiana from District of Louisiana
S03031803 1st impeachment trial of a federal judge, John Pickering, begins
S03031801 1st US Jewish governor, David Emanuel, takes office in Georgia
S03031791 Internal Revenue Act taxes distilled spirits & carriages
S03031513 Ponce de Leon sails from Puerto Rico to find the fountain of youth
S03041979 US Voyager 1 photo reveals Jupiter's rings
S03041977 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Nat'l Laboratories, NM
S03041976 John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio
S03041969 Union of Concerned Scientists formed at MIT
S03041966 John Lennon says the Beatles "are more popular than Jesus now"
S03041959 Pioneer 4 makes 1st US lunar flyby, enters orbit around sun
S03041948 Aldo Leopold completes "A Sand County Almanac"
S03041943 Japan loses 12 ships, 3,000 lives in battle of the Bismarck Sea
S03041941 NHL's Boston Bruins take 83 shots on goal; Black Hawk goalie Samuel
S03041941CLoPresti stops record 80 shots but loses the game 3-2
S03041940 Kings Canyon National Park, California established
S03041933 FDR inaugurated, says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"
S03041933 Frances Perkins becomes sec. of labor, 1st US woman cabinet member
S03041930 Greta Garbo's 1st talker, "Anna Christie," premiers
S03041930 Mrs. Charles Fahning of Buffalo, NY, becomes 1st woman to bowl a
S03041930Cperfect game under sanctioned competition rules
S03041929 Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st Native American VP
S03041925 Pres. Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations
S03041921 Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas
S03041911 Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes 1st socialist congressman in US
S03041902 American Automobile Association opens
S03041893 Grover Cleveland (D) becomes 22nd US president for the 2nd time
S03041881 Holmes & Watson begin "A Study in Scarlet," 1st case together
S03041877 Tchaikovsky's ballet "Le Lac des cygnes" premiers
S03041877 Thomas W. Ferry becomes ex-officio president of the United States
S03041873 "NY Daily Graphic," 1st US illustrated daily newspaper, is published
S03041871 National Association of Professional [Base] Ball Players organized
S03041861 Confederate States adopt "Stars & Bars" flag
S03041861 Lincoln's innauguration; 1st time US has 5 living former presidents
S03041848 George Sand & Fr‚d‚ric Chopin meet for the last time
S03041841 Longest inaugural speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison
S03041838 1st Jewish Sunday school in US opens, Philadelphia
S03041826 1st US railroad chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Mass.
S03041809 James Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in US-made clothes
S03041801 1st presidential inauguration in Washington, DC (Thomas Jefferson)
S03041793 Washington's 2nd inauguration; shortest speech (133 words)
S03041792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii
S03041791 Vermont admitted as 14th US state (1st addition to the 13 colonies)
S03041791 1st Jewish member of US Congress, Israel Jacobs (Penn.), takes office
S03041789 1st US Congress declares the constitution to be in effect
S03041681 King Charles II grants William Penn a royal charter for Pennsylvania
S03041675 John Flamsteed appointed 1st astronomer royal of England
S03041493 Columbus sights Portugal after his 1st voyage to the New World
S03041152 Frederick I Barbarosa of Hohenstaufen elected Roman king (-1190)
S03051984 Supreme Court (5-4) - city may use public money for nativity scenes
S03051984 QB Steve Young signs $40 million contract with USFL's LA Express
S03051983 Bob Hawke (Labor) defeats Australian PM Malcolm Fraser (Conservative)
S03051982 Russian Venera 14 spacecraft lands on Venus, sends back data
S03051980 Channel Islands National Park, California established
S03051979 Voyager 1's closest approach to Jupiter (280,000 km)
S03051978 Landsat 3 launched from Vandenberg AFB, Calif.
S03051976 British pound falls below $2 for 1st time
S03051973 Yankee pitchers Kekich & Peterson announce they have traded WIVES
S03051970 Nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect
S03051970 3 SDS Weathermen killed when bomb explodes in NYC townhouse
S03051968 US launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the sun
S03051956 "King Kong" 1st televised
S03051950 "Silly Putty" introduced
S03051946 Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech
S03051934 Mother-in-Law Day 1st celebrated (Amarillo, Texas)
S03051933 Pres. Franklin Roosevelt proclaims 10-day bank holiday effective 3/6
S03051927 1,000 US marines land in China to protect US property
S03051923 Montana & Nevada become 1st states to enact old age pension laws
S03051908 1st ascent of Mt. Erebus, Antarctica
S03051872 George Westinghouse, Jr. patents triple air brake for trains
S03051864 1st track meet between Oxford & Cambridge
S03051856 Georgia becomes 1st US state to regulate railroads
S03051854 Justo Urquiza becomes 1st Argentine president under 1853 constitution
S03051820 New England missionaries arrive in Hawaii, are greeted by the king
S03051770 Boston Massacre - 9 British soldiers kill 5 in a crowd of hecklers
S03051750 1st American Shakespearean production - "altered" "Richard III," NYC
S03051743 1st US religious journal, "The Christian History," published, Boston
S03051629 King Charles I imprisons Sir John Eliot & 8 other MPs
S03051623 1st American temperance law enacted, Virginia
S03051616 Copernicus's "De Revolutionibus" is placed on Catholic forbidden index
S03051590 Tycho Brahe discovers a comet in Pisces
S03051496 England's Henry VII commissions John & Sebastian Cabot to discover new
S03051496 lands
S03051179 3rd Lateran Council (11th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
S03061990 USAF Blackbird flies coast-to-coast in record 1 h 8 m 17 s
S03061990 Census Bureau estimates US population reaches 250 million
S03061989 Date in the title of a Salman Rushdie poem - "6 March 1989"
S03061988 Julie Krone becomes winningest female jockey with her 1,205th
S03061986 USSR's Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km
S03061985 North-Noriega plan to sabotage military HQ in Managua carried out
S03061985 Mike Tyson kayos Hector Mercedes in 1 round in his 1st pro fight
S03061983 New Bedford, Mass. woman says she was gang-raped atop a pool table
S03061983 US Football League plays 1st 6 games (average attendance 39,171)
S03061982 Susan Birmingham makes loudest recorded human shout (120 dB)
S03061981 Walter Cronkite signs off as anchorman of "The CBS Evening News"
S03061980 Novelist Marguerite Yourcenar is 1st woman elected to French Academy
S03061978 "Hustler" publisher Larry Flynt shot & crippled by a sniper in Georgia
S03061974 Assyrian love song played for 1st time since c. 1800 BC, Berkeley, CA
S03061970 Harlem Globetrotters play 10,000th game (9,678th win, 83-74)
S03061965 1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North America, J.R. Willford
S03061957 Ghana (Gold Coast) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
S03061947 XB-45, 1st US 4-engine jet bomber, makes 1st test flight, Muroc, Cal.
S03061946 France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation
S03061944 US begins daylight bombing of Berlin
S03061931 "The March of Time" news documentary premiers on CBS radio (-1945)
S03061930 Brooklyn's Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick freezing food
S03061906 Nora Blatch becomes 1st woman elected to Amer. Soc. of Civil Engineers
S03061896 1st auto in Detroit - Charles B. King rides his "horseless carriage"
S03061886 1st US alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington, Mass.
S03061865 Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida
S03061857 Supreme Ct.'s Dred Scott decision holds that blacks cannot be citizens
S03061836 The Alamo in San Antonio falls to the Mexicans - remember it!
S03061815 Comet Olbers discovered, Bremen, Germany
S03061808 1st college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard
S03061775 1st Negro Mason in US initiated, Boston
S03061665 "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" 1st published
S03061646 1st colonial machine patent awarded, to Joseph Jenkes, Mass.
S03061521 Magellan discovers Guam
S03071989 Iran severs relations with UK for not denouncing "Satanic Verses"
S03071988 Reagan's national security adviser Robert McFarlane pleads guilty to
S03071988Cwithholding information from Congress in Iran-contra affair
S03071986 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist
S03071985 IBM-PC DOS version 3.1 released
S03071983 Michael Jackson becomes 1st in "Billboard" history to have #1 rock LP
S03071983C& single & #1 R&B LP & single
S03071979 "NBC Novels for Television" presents James Farrell's "Studs Lonigan"
S03071977 Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin meets Pres. Carter
S03071975 Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate
S03071965 March by civil rights demonstrators broken up in Selma, Ala.
S03071962 Orbiting Solar Observatory 1 launched into earth orbit (554/595 km)
S03071959 1st aviator to fly 1 million mi. (1.61 M km) in a jet (M.C. Garlow)
S03071959 Arlen Clark (Oklahoma State) makes 24 of 24 basketball free throws
S03071955 Mary Martin as "Peter Pan" televised
S03071954 NBA experiment raises the baskets to 12' for 1 game - Minn 65, Milw 63
S03071945 During WW II, US 1st Army crosses Rhine River into Germany at Remagen
S03071939 "Glamour" magazine begins publishing
S03071936 Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland
S03071935 Saar incorporated into Germany
S03071933 Game of "Monopoly" invented
S03071930 Chicago high school wins lowest-scoring organized basketball game, 1-0
S03071926 1st transatlantic telephone call (London-New York)
S03071917 1st jazz recording released (The Dixie Jazz Band One-Step)
S03071911 US sends 20,000 troops to Mexican border
S03071911 Coin-operated locker patented by Willis Farnsworth, Petaluma, Calif.
S03071896 Gilbert & Sullivan's last collaboration, "The Grand Duke," premiers
S03071876 Alexander Graham Bell obtains patent on the telephone
S03071854 Charles Miller patents 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes
S03071848 In Hawaii, the Great Mahele (division of lands) is signed
S03071843 1st Catholic governor in US, Edward Kavanagh of Maine, takes office
S03071839 Artist Samuel F.B. Morse visits photographer Louis Daguerre in Paris
S03071778 Capt. James Cook 1st sights the Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay
S03071774 British close port of Boston to all commerce
S03071644 Massachusetts Bay establishes 1st 2-chamber legislature in colonies
S03071190 Jews are massacred by rioters, Stamford-fair, England
S03071138 Conrad III becomes 1st Hohenstaufen German king (emperor)
S03081986 Japanese probe Suisei passes Halley's Comet at 109,800 km
S03081986 Martina Navratilova becomes 1st tennis player to earn $10 M in play
S03081981 Record distance flown by a chicken - 95 m, Hammatzu, Japan
S03081976 Largest observed stony meteorite (1,774 kg) falls, Jilin, China
S03081973 Paul McCartney fined œ100 & costs for growing cannabis
S03081971 Radio Hanoi broadcasts Jimi Hendrix' "Star Spangled Banner"
S03081971CTape was sent by Abbie Hoffman
S03081971 Joe Frazier wins 15-round decision over Muhammad Ali
S03081968 6-year-old Tommy Moore hits a hole-in-1, Hagerstown, Md.
S03081967 Orbiting Solar Observatory 3 launched into earth orbit (534/563 km)
S03081965 1st US combat forces arrive in Vietnam - 3,500 Marines at Da Nang
S03081963 Syrian Arab Republic Revolution Day
S03081961 US nuclear submarine "Patrick Henry" arrives at Scottish Holy Loch
S03081961Cnaval base from SC in record undersea journey of 66 days 22 hrs
S03081960 Stu Beagle, Calgary, plays perfect curling game against Nova Scotia
S03081959 Final joint TV appearance by Groucho, Chico & Harpo Marx
S03081958 Silky Sullivan wins Santa Anita Derby after trailing by 40 lengths
S03081946 1st helicopter licensed for commercial use, NYC
S03081942 Allied forces on Java surrender to the Japanese
S03081935 Thomas Wolfe's 2nd novel, "Of Time & the River," is published
S03081934 Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars
S03081917 US invades Cuba for the 3rd time
S03081910 Baronne Raymonde de Laroche becomes 1st licensed female pilot
S03081894 NY passes 1st state dog license law
S03081887 Fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes patented by Everett Horton, Ct.
S03081862 Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" sinks the "Cumberland," Hampton Roads
S03081855 1st train crosses 1st US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls
S03081782 Ohio militia massacres 96 peaceful Christian Indians, Gnadenh�tten
S03081772 Montaigne discovers Comet Biela, Limoges, France
S03081753 George II assents to a land tax of 2/- in the œ for England & Wales
S03081622 Crown forbids owners of Virginia colony from continuing the lottery
S03091989 Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court
S03091986 Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km
S03091979 Linda Morabito discovers 1st active extraterrestrial volcano, on Io
S03091976 "Family" premiers on ABC TV (-1980)
S03091966 Head of commission to abolish HUAC banned from speaking at Univ. of NC
S03091965 Ham radio satellite Oscar 3 launched into earth orbit (908/941 km)
S03091961 Sputnik 9 carries a dog, Chernushka, into orbit
S03091954 Edward R. Murrow criticizes Sen. Joseph McCarthy on "See It Now"
S03091949 Claude Shannon presents "Programming a Computer to Play Chess," NY
S03091945 Japanese proclaim the "independence" of Indo-China
S03091935 Screen debut of Porky Pig, in Merry Melody "I Haven't Got a Hat"
S03091926 Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle
S03091919 Canadian Grand Trunk Pacific Railway declares bankruptcy
S03091916 Pancho Villa leads 1,500 men into New Mexico, kills 17 Americans
S03091907 1st US involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana
S03091904 Brandon's Lester Patrick becomes 1st hockey defenseman to score a goal
S03091892 Reporter Ida Wells-Barnett begins investigating Southern lynchings
S03091889 Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law in US
S03091864 U.S. Grant made lieutenant general, given command of all Union armies
S03091862 Ironclads "Monitor" (Union) & "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle to a standoff
S03091862Cat Hampton Roads, Va.
S03091861 Confederate currency authorized - $50, $100, $500, $1,000
S03091860 1st Japanese ambassador arrives in SF en route to Washington
S03091858 Street mailbox patented by Albert Potts of Philadelphia
S03091847 Gen. Winfield Scott & 10,000 US troops land at Veracruz, M‚xico
S03091842 1st gold found in California, at Placerita Canyon
S03091842 Verdi's opera "Nabucodnosor" premiers
S03091832 Abe Lincoln runs for his 1st political office - Illinois legislature
S03091822 Artificial teeth patented by Charles M. Graham, NY
S03091796 Napol‚on Bonaparte marries Jos‚phine de Beauharnais
S03091745 Bells for 1st American carillon shipped from England to Boston
S03091622 King James I grants land in New Hampshire to John Mason
S03091497 Nicolaus Copernicus's 1st recorded astronomical observation
S03101987 After many years of "no sex without reproduction" Vatican adds "no
S03101987Creproduction without sex," coming out against in-vitro fertilization
S03101982 Sygyzy:  all 9 planets aligned on same side of sun
S03101978 Vern Taylor, figure skater, becomes 1st to perform a triple Axel
S03101977 Rings of Uranus discovered during occultation of star SAO 158687
S03101970 Israeli Knesset defines a Jew as one born to a Jewish mother or a
S03101970Cconvert to the Jewish faith
S03101965 Marines at Danang report their 1st contact with Vietcong guerrillas
S03101962 Water desalinization plant dedicated, San Diego
S03101956 Elvis Presley's 1st hit in "Billboard" top 40 - "Heartbreak Hotel"
S03101952 Military coup returns Fulgencio Batista to power in Cuba
S03101949 Australian Parliament merges Papua & NE New Guinea into 1 territory
S03101948 1st civilian to exceed speed of sound, H.H. Houver, Edwards AFB, Cal.
S03101945 US B-29 bombers begin their incendiary raids on Japan
S03101942 Rangoon, Burma falls to the Japanese
S03101940 1st US opera telecast, W2XBS, NYC, "I Pagliacci"
S03101933 Big earthquake in Long Beach - W.C. Fields was making a movie when it
S03101933Cstruck & the cameras kept running
S03101933 Nevada becomes 1st US state to regulate narcotics
S03101926 Sylvia Warner's "Lolly Willows" published (1st Book of the Month)
S03101919 US Supreme Court upholds conviction of Eugene V. Debs for espionage
S03101914 Suffragette slashes Velasquez's "Venus at Her Mirror," Nat'l Gallery
S03101903 Multigraph duplicating machine patented by Harry Gammeter, Cleveland
S03101896 Charilaos Vasilakos of Greece wins 1st modern marathon, 3 h 18 m
S03101893 French Guinea & Ivory Coast become French colonies
S03101880 The Salvation Army begins US welfare & religious activity
S03101876 1st telephone call made, by Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson
S03101876C"Come here, Watson, I want you"
S03101867 Last French troops leave M‚xico
S03101864 Stephen Foster's song "Beautiful Dreamer" is copyrighted
S03101862 1st paper money issued by US gov't - $5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500, 1,000
S03101861 Asteroid Cybele (#65) discovered by Tempel
S03101849 Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent; only US president to do so
S03101849 Constitution for the "Temporary State of Deseret" [Utah] adopted
S03101847 1st money minted in Hawaii
S03101831 Louis-Philippe creates the French Foreign Legion
S03101812 1st 2 cantos of Lord Byron's "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" published
S03101791 Pile driver patented by John Stone, Concord, Mass.
S0310 418 Jews are excluded from public offices & dignities in the Roman Empire
S03111987 Arizona Gov. Evan Mecham aide testifies his boss is divinely inspired
S03111986 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4/21/753 BC
S03111986 Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km
S03111986 NFL adopts instant replay rule
S03111985 Mikhail S. Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader
S03111982 Sen. Harrison Williams (D-NJ) resigns rather than face expulsion
S03111981 Southernmost flowering plant found (Antarctic hair grass), 68ø 21' S
S03111977 34 Israelis killed by Palestinians on the Tel Aviv-Haifa highway
S03111967 Bald eagle placed on the Endangered Species List
S03111967 Whooping crane placed on the Endangered Species List
S03111967 Grizzly bear placed on the Endangered Species List
S03111966 Military coup led by Indonesian Gen. Suharto breaks out
S03111960 Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between earth & Venus
S03111959 Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" opens, NYC
S03111958 Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21"
S03111953 Fae Adams, MD receives 1st regular US army commission given a woman
S03111941 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill
S03111927 1st armored commercial car hold-up in US, Pittsburgh
S03111927 World's largest movie theater, the Roxie, opens in NYC (6,214 seats)
S03111918 Save the Redwoods League established
S03111892 1st public game of basketball, Springfield, Mass.
S03111888 Great blizzard of '88 strikes NE US; kills 400 in 4 days
S03111867 Great Mauna Loa volcanic eruption, Hawaii
S03111865 Gen. Sherman's Union forces occupy Fayetteville, NC
S03111861 Confederate convention in Montgomery adopts constitution
S03111850 Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania founded
S03111833 South Carolina convention withdraws its nullification of US tariffs
S03111826 William Ashley discovers Great Salt Lake, Utah
S03111823 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vt.
S03111818 Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" is published
S03111791 Samuel Mulliken, Philadelphia, is 1st to obtain more than 1 US patent
S03111302 Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare
S0311 537 Goths lay siege to Rome
S03121990 Guru Ma Prophet, Paradise Valley, Mont., predicts doomsday (4th time)
S03121981 Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 6
S03121980 Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago
S03121977 Chilean government of Pinochet outlaws political parties, institutes
S03121977Cdetention without charge & press censorship
S03121977 Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
S03121972 Boston Celtics retire Bill Russell's uniform number (#6)
S03121968 Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)
S03121966 Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years & 6,032 wins
S03121958 British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"
S03121956 Dick Farley, Syracuse, sets NBA record by fouling out after 5 min
S03121951 1st "Dennis the Menace" comic strip (by Hank Ketcham) appears
S03121950 Pope Pius XII encyclical "On combating atheistic propaganda"
S03121946 Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
S03121945 NY is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment
S03121940 Finland surrenders to Russia, cedes Karelian Isthmus
S03121938 Germany invades Austria
S03121935 30-mph (48-kph) speed limit enforced in built-up areas of Britain
S03121933 FDR conducts his 1st "fireside chat"
S03121930 Mohandas Gandhi begins 300-km march protesting British salt tax
S03121920 Haganah, an underground Jewish defense organization, formed, Palestine
S03121913 Foundation stone for new Australian capital laid in Canberra
S03121912 Albert Berry makes the 1st parachute jump from an airplane, Missouri
S03121912 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) founded in Savannah, by Juliette Low
S03121904 Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund
S03121903 American League officially approves NY Highlanders (Yankees)
S03121884 Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women
S03121877 Carl Schurz becomes 1st German-born US cabinet member (Interior)
S03121877 British annex Walvis Bay in southern Africa
S03121877 John Wanamaker opens the 1st department store, in Philadelphia
S03121868 Congress abolishes tax on manufactures
S03121850 1st US $20 gold piece issued
S03121849 1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to California
S03121840 Paul de Strzelecki climbs Australia's highest mountain, Mt. Kosciusko
S03121755 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine
S03121664 King Charles II grants New Jersey to James, Duke of York
S03121664 Charles II grants 1st naturalization act in American colonies
S03131989 27th shuttle mission, Discovery 8, launched - 1st countdown by a woman
S03131986 Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
S03131983 Randy Smith's NBA consecutive-game record streak ends at 906
S03131983 4 men "run" mile relay in 31 min 16 sec on their hands, Oak Ridge, TN
S03131979 Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement
S03131979 Mercator atlas of Europe auctioned for $700,000 (highest priced atlas)
S03131970 Digital Equipment Corp. introduces the PDP-11 minicomputer
S03131970 SF city employees begin 4-day strike
S03131968 6,400 sheep killed by army nerve gas release, Skull Valley, Utah
S03131965 Beatles' "8 Days a Week" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
S03131961 Pres. Kennedy calls for an "Alliance for Progress" with Latin America
S03131960 NFL's Chicago Cardinals move to St. Louis
S03131954 40,000 Vietminh attack 15,000 French at Dienbienphu
S03131942 Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army
S03131938 Anschluá - Austria annexed by Nazi Germany
S03131938 3rd of Stalin's purge trials; Bukharin & 17 others sentenced to death
S03131928 400 die in St. Francis dam burst (Calif.)
S03131925 Tennessee makes it illegal to teach evolution in any public school
S03131923 Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures, NYC
S03131921 Mongolia declares independence from China
S03131904 Bronze statue of Christ on Argentine-Chilean border dedicated
S03131891 Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" opens in London
S03131877 Chester Greenwood patents ear mufflers (earmuffs)
S03131868 Senate begins impeachment trial of Pres. Andrew Johnson
S03131852 Uncle Sam cartoon figure debuts in "NY Lantern" weekly
S03131845 Mendelssohn's violin concerto premiers, Leipzig
S03131791 Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man" is published
S03131781 Sir William Herschel sights a "comet" (really Uranus)
S03131714 Battle of Storkyro leads to Russian domination of Finland
S03131687 Father Eusebio Kino, mission founder, begins his work in SW US
S03131677 Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000
S03131639 Cambridge College renamed "Harvard" for clergyman John Harvard
S03141986 European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet at 605 km
S03141983 OPEC cuts oil prices for 1st time in 23 years
S03141982 Con McCarrick wins 136, draws 17, loses 1 in simultaneous checker play
S03141980 Polish airline crash kills all 87 aboard; 22 are US amateur boxers
S03141978 NFL permanently adds 7th game official (side judge)
S03141967 Defensive end Bubba Smith is 1st selected in combined AFL-NFL draft
S03141965 1st US use of napalm against North Vietnam
S03141965 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany
S03141964 Dallas jury finds Jack Ruby guilty of Lee Harvey Oswald murder
S03141951 During Korean War, UN forces recapture Seoul
S03141948 Peruvian matadora Conchita Cintron inaugurates Plaza de Toros, Lima
S03141948 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco
S03141945 Largest conventional bomb dropped (10,000 kg), by UK on Germany
S03141936 "Federal Register," 1st magazine of the US gov't, publishes 1st issue
S03141931 1st theater built for rear projection of movies opens, NYC
S03141923 Pres. Harding becomes 1st president to file an income-tax report
S03141918 "Faith," 1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic, is launched, SF
S03141904 Millions of migrating Lapland longspurs (birds) found dead, Minnesota
S03141903 1st US national bird reservation established, Sebastian, Fla.
S03141900 Gold established as standard for US currency
S03141894 Eli Whitney granted a US patent for the cotton gin
S03141870 California legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible
S03141794 Eli Whitney patents his cotton gin
S03141743 1st American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall)
S03141644 England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)
S03141629 Royal charter granted Massachusetts Bay Colony
S03141181 King Philip Augustus orders Parisian Jews seized for ransom
S03151999 Pluto again becomes outermost planet
S03151985 21 years of military rule ends in Brazil
S03151978 Israel invades Lebanon to rid area of Palestinian guerrillas
S03151970 Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan
S03151968 US Mint stops buying & selling gold
S03151966 Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles
S03151962 5 research groups simultaneously announce discovery of antimatter
S03151962 Wilt Chamberlain becomes only NBA player to score 4000 pts in a season
S03151962 Donald Jackson (Canada) makes 1st figure-skating triple lutz by a man
S03151960 Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)
S03151960 National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated
S03151959 Robert Foster sets record by staying underwater 13 m 42.5 s
S03151956 "My Fair Lady" opens on Broadway (NYC)
S03151952 Greatest 24-hr rainfall begins - 1.87 m, La R‚union, Indian Ocean
S03151945 "Billboard" magazine publishes 1st album charts - "King Cole Trio" #1
S03151939 Bohemia & Moravia (Czechoslovakia) become a German protectorate
S03151937 1st state contraceptive clinic opens, Raleigh, NC
S03151937 1st blood bank established, Chicago
S03151934 US Information Service opens
S03151930 1st streamlined submarine of US navy, "USS Nautilus," is launched
S03151930 1st seaplane glider flown, Port Washington, NY
S03151916 Gen. Pershing & 15,000 troops chase Villa into Mexico, stay 10 mo.
S03151913 Woodrow Wilson holds the 1st presidential press conference
S03151913 Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court
S03151897 1st indoor fly casting tournament opens, at Madison Square Garden
S03151887 Michigan authorizes 1st salaried game & fish warden in US
S03151869 Cincinnati Red Stockings begin 1st national pro baseball tour
S03151867 Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university
S03151864 Red River Campaign - Union forces reach Alexandria, Louisiana
S03151862 Gen. John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin, Tenn.
S03151820 Maine admitted as 23rd US state
S03151812 1st Russian settlement in California, Russian River
S03151783 Gen. Washington talks army out of staging a coup & naming him dictator
S03151749 Warrant issued for author, printer & publisher of "Fanny Hill," UK
S03151729 Sister St. Stanislas Hachard, 1st US nun, takes her vows, New Orleans
S03151649 John Milton appointed secretary of foreign tongues by the Commonwealth
S03151391 Anti-Jewish riots begin in Seville, Spain - 50,000 die in next 12 mo.
S03161988 Grand jury indicts North, Secord, Hakim & Poindexter in Iran-contra
S03161979 Judy Chicago's "The Dinner Party" is unveiled, SF Museum of Modern Art
S03161979 CBS TV airs "Wings over the World" with Paul McCartney
S03161978 "Amoco Cadiz" spills 223,000 tons of oil on coast of Brittany
S03161975 US Mariner 10 makes 3rd & final fly-by of Mercury (327 km)
S03161972 John Lennon & Yoko Ono ordered deported from US because of John's 1968
S03161972Cmarijuana conviction in Britain
S03161968 US troops massacre 500 unarmed villagers, My-Lai, South Vietnam
S03161967 "Science" reports massive doses of LSD cause chromosome damage in rats
S03161966 Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong & Scott; aborted after 6« orbits
S03161964 Football stars Paul Hornung & Alex Karras reinstated by NFL
S03161962 Premier Khrushchev announces Soviet rocket with range of 30,000 km
S03161947 Convair Liner, 1st US twin-engine pressurized airplane, tested
S03161935 Germany reintroduces compulsory military service
S03161935 Hitler orders German rearmament in violation of Versailles Treaty
S03161934 Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act
S03161926 Robert Goddard launches 1st liquid-fuel rocket - it travels 56 m
S03161917 Russian provisional gov't eliminates the Jewish pale of settlement
S03161897 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot" (BG)
S03161889 Typhoon sinks hostile US & German fleets in Samoa; 146 die but war is
S03161889Caverted
S03161882 US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross
S03161876 Nelly Saunders beats Rose Harland - 1st organized women's boxing match
S03161865 Civil War battle of Averasboro, NC; rebels fail to stop Sherman
S03161859 Tsar Alexander II allows Jews to reside outside the Jewish Pale
S03161850 "The Scarlet Letter," by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is published
S03161836 David G. Burnet becomes 1st president of Republic of Texas
S03161833 Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st US woman graduate of a pharmacy college
S03161830 31 shares of stock are traded on the NY Stock Exchange (record low)
S03161827 1st black newspaper in US, "Freedom's Journal," founded in NYC
S03161815 Willem I proclaimed king of the Netherlands, including Belgium
S03161802 US army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time)
S03161621 1st Indian appears at Plymouth, Mass.
S03161527 Mogul Emperor Babar defeats Hindu Confederacy at Kanwanha
S03171988 Highest scoring NCAA basketball game - Loyola-Marymnt 119, Wyoming 115
S03171985 Matti Nykaenen of Finland ski jumps world record 189.9 m
S03171982 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador
S03171970 Nixon administration casts 1st UN Security Council veto by US
S03171969 Golda Meir becomes Israeli PM
S03171966 US sub locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean
S03171964 LBJ's Nat'l Security Council approves covert bombing of North Vietnam,
S03171964CLaos & Cambodia
S03171963 Elizabeth Ann Seton of NY beatified (canonized 1975)
S03171959 Tibet rises against Chinese garrison - Dalai Lama later flees to India
S03171958 Navy launches Vanguard 1 (2nd US satellite); measures earth's shape
S03171955 Maurice (Rocket) Richard suspended, sparking a 7-hour riot in Montr‚al
S03171950 Discovery of element 98 (californium) announced
S03171945 US defeats Japan at Iwo Jima
S03171941 National Gallery of Art opens in Washington, DC
S03171917 1st US bowling tournament for women, St. Louis
S03171912 Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs. Luther Halsey Gulick
S03171908 Quickest world heavyweight title fight - Burns kayos Roche in 88 sec
S03171906 -46ø C (-50ø F), Snake River, Wyo. - 48-state record low for March
S03171906 Pres. Theodore Roosevelt 1st uses the term "muckrake"
S03171905 Anna Eleanor Roosevelt marries FDR, her 5th cousin, in NY
S03171898 1st practical submarine submerges for 1st time, NYC (for 1 h 40 m)
S03171897 Robert Fitzsimmons kayos James J. Corbet for world hvywt boxing title
S03171887 Beginning date of H.G. Wells' novel "The Island of Dr. Moreau"
S03171884 John Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight, Otay, Calif.
S03171876 1st high jump over 6' (1.83 m), Marshall Brooks, 6' 1/8", Oxford, Eng.
S03171868 Postage-stamp canceling machine patent issued
S03171854 1st park land purchased by a US city, Worcester, Mass.
S03171852 A. de Gasparis discovers asteroid Psyche (#16)
S03171811 1st workable sidewheel steamboat tested, Pittsburgh
S03171808 Revolt of Aranjuez forces the abdication of Charles IV of Spain
S03171776 British forces evacuate Boston during Revolutionary War
S03171766 British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act, 275-161
S03171753 1st official St. Patrick's Day
S03171737 1st US St. Patrick's Day observance, by Boston's Irish Charitable Soc.
S03171526 French King Francis I released from Spanish captivity
S03171521 Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines
S03181989 California Quake amusement ride opens at Universal Studios
S03181985 $3.5 billion purchase of ABC by Capital Cities announced
S03181982 Ali Idrissi Kaitouni gets 15 yrs in prison for writing a poem, Morocco
S03181980 Prelaunch fueling explosion kills 45 Soviet space workers at Plesetsk
S03181978 250,000 attend rock concert California Jam II in Ontario, Calif.
S03181974 Most Arab oil-producing nations end embargo against US
S03181970 Rightwinger Lon Nol deposes Prince Norodom Sihanouk in Cambodia
S03181967 Oil tanker runs aground, spills 36 million gallons, Scilly Islands, UK
S03181967 Beatles' "Penny Lane" single goes #1
S03181965 USSR launches Voskhod 2; Alexei A. Leonov makes 1st spacewalk (20 min)
S03181963 Supreme Court's Miranda Decision; defendants must have lawyers
S03181962 Algerian War ends after 7« years of fighting & 250,000 killed
S03181959 Celtic Bill Sharman shoots 1st of NBA-record 56 straight free-throws
S03181952 1st plastic lens for cataract patients fitted, Philadelphia
S03181945 Maurice Richard becomes 1st in the NHL to score 50 goals in a season
S03181938 Mexican Pres. C rdenas nationalizes 17 foreign oil companies
S03181937 400 die in gas explosion, New London, Texas
S03181931 1st electric dry razor marketed, by Schick
S03181922 1st intercollegiate indoor polo championship (Princeton vs. Yale)
S03181922 Mohandas K. Gandhi sentenced to 6 years' imprisonment
S03181920 Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar
S03181919 Order of DeMolay established in Kansas City
S03181911 Irving Berlin's song "Alexander's Ragtime Band" is published
S03181910 1st opera by an US composer (Converse) performed at the Met, NYC
S03181910 Harry Houdini makes 1st controlled powered flight in Australia, Vic.
S03181909 Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast
S03181899 Phoebe, a moon of Saturn, is discovered by Pickering
S03181892 Lord Stanley proposes silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup)
S03181871 Rising of the Commune begins in Paris
S03181859 Vera Cruz besieged by Miram¢n (Conservative) in Mexican War of Reform
S03181850 American Express founded
S03181848 Prussian troops massacre 274 protesters, Berlin
S03181848 Milan revolts against the Austrians
S03181834 1st railroad tunnel in US is completed, in Pennsylvania (275 m long)
S03181831 Supreme Court rules Indians are wards & cannot sue in federal court
S03181818 Congress approves 1st pensions for government service
S03181813 Apparatus for making coal gas patented by David Melville, Newport, RI
S03181781 Messier discovers M84-92 (galaxies in Virgo, Coma Berenices, Hercules)
S03181766 Parliament passes Declaratory Act, claiming right to tax the colonies
S03181692 Government of Pennsylvania is taken from William Penn by the king
S03181554 Princess Elizabeth sent to the Tower for suspected rebel complicity
S03181543 de Soto observes 1st recorded flood in America (Mississippi River)
S03181123 1st Latern Council (9th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
S03191990 Japan's Hagoromo module goes into lunar orbit
S03191987 PTL leader Jim Bakker resigns after sex scandal with Jessica Hahn
S03191984 Mobil oil tanker spills 200,000 gallons into Columbia River
S03191984 "Kate & Allie" with Susan St. James & Jane Curtin premiers on CBS TV
S03191981 Buffalo Sabres score NHL-record 9 goals in a period (2nd), vs. Toronto
S03191974 Jefferson Starship's 1st tour begins
S03191972 NBA's greatest winning margin - Los Angeles 162, Golden State 99
S03191969 Chicago 8 indicted in aftermath of Chicago Democratic convention
S03191958 Movie "South Pacific" opens
S03191954 1st rocket-driven sled on rails tested, Alamogordo, NM
S03191954 1st color telecast of a prize fight, Giardello vs. Troy, MSG, NYC
S03191953 1st national telecast of Academy Awards ceremony
S03191952 1st arctic ice island, Fletcher's (T-3), occupied for weather station
S03191951 Herman Wouk's Pulitzer-winning novel "The Caine Mutiny" is published
S03191949 Jockey Willie Shoemaker rides his 1st mount, Golden Gate Park
S03191949 1st museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy, Oak Ridge, Tenn.
S03191946 French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique & R‚union become French overseas
S03191946Cdepartments
S03191945 800 killed as kamikaze pilot attacks "USS Franklin" off Japan
S03191942 FDR orders men 45-64 to register for nonmilitary duty
S03191938 In NHL, Toronto (5) & NY Americans (3) score 8 goals in 4 m 52 s
S03191928 "Amos & Andy" debuts on radio (Blue Network)
S03191920 US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time, refusing to
S03191920Cratify League of Nations covenant (maintaining isolation policy)
S03191918 Congress authorizes standard time zones, approves daylight time
S03191917 US Supreme Court upholds 8-hour work day for railroad employees
S03191907 18.8 cm (7.40") of rainfall, Lewer's Ranch, Nevada (state 24-hr rec)
S03191895 Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service
S03191885 Louis Riel returns to Canada, proclaims provisional gov't, Sask.
S03191865 Battle of Bentonville, NC begins - Johnston fails to stop Sherman
S03191859 "Faust" by Charles Gounod premiers in Paris
S03191856 Victoria Electoral Act introduces the secret or "Australian" ballot
S03191831 1st recorded bank robbery in US - $245,000 - NYC
S03191822 Boston incorporated as a city
S03191799 Haydn's "The Creation" 1st publicly performed, Vienna
S03191649 English Parliament abolishes the monarchy
S03191628 90 Puritan merchants (New England Co.) receive New World land patent
S0319-721 1st recorded lunar eclipse, Babylon
S03201990 Baseball's spring training begins after 32-day lockout by owners
S03201985 Belgian parliament votes 116-93 to accept US cruise missiles
S03201985 Libby Riddles becomes 1st woman to win Alaska's Iditarod dogsled race
S03201984 Soviet oil tanker hits US mine off Nicaragua
S03201982 Joan Jett & Blackhearts' "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" goes #1 for 7 wks
S03201981 Jean Harris sentenced to 15-to-life for killing Scarsdale Diet doctor
S03201980 US appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran
S03201977 Parisians elect former PM Jacques Chirac as 1st mayor in a century
S03201976 Patricia Hearst convicted of armed robbery
S03201969 Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar
S03201969 Chicago 8 antiwar protesters are indicted by a federal grand jury
S03201968 Mrs. Peel's last appearance on "The Avengers" (in US)
S03201964 The Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love" is released in UK
S03201964 South Vietnamese forces & US advisors invade Cambodia, at Chantrea
S03201963 1st "Pop Art" exhibition (NYC)
S03201956 Tunisia gains independence from France
S03201956 156-day strike against Westinghouse ends
S03201952 Final ratification of peace treaty restoring sovereignty to Japan
S03201949 Capture of En-Gedi ends Israel's War of Independence
S03201948 1st live televised musical, Eugene Ormandy on CBS, followed in 90
S03201948Cminutes by 2nd live televised musical, Arturo Toscanini on NBC
S03201947 180-metric ton blue whale (record) caught in South Atlantic
S03201930 Communists lead 24-hour general strike in Cuba
S03201917 Imperial war cabinet 1st meets in London
S03201914 1st international figure-skating tournament in US held, New Haven
S03201911 National Squash Tennis Association formed, NYC
S03201897 1st intercollegiate basketball game with 5 men per side - Yale beats
S03201897CUniversity of Pennsylvania 32-10
S03201890 General Federation of Woman's Clubs founded
S03201888 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "A Scandal in Bohemia"
S03201886 1st AC power plant in US begins commercial operation, Mass.
S03201885 Establishment of Yiddish theater in US - Goldfaden operetta, NY
S03201865 Michigan authorizes workers' cooperatives
S03201861 "The World's Progress, A Dictionary of Dates" (rev ed) published, NY <
S03201852 "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe published in Boston
S03201815 Napol‚on enters Paris after his escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule
S03201760 Great fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings
S03201616 Walter Raleigh freed from Tower of London to look for gold in Guiana
S03201066 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet (Yeomans & Kiang)
S03211990 Namibia gains independence from the UN & South Africa
S03211989 South African police kill 19 blacks in funeral procession
S03211989 1st sea test of Trident 2 missile self-destructs, Cape Canaveral
S03211973CNixon authorizes $120,000 hush money for E. Howard Hunt (on tape!)
S03211965 Martin Luther King, Jr. begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.
S03211965 US Ranger 9 launched; takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact
S03211963 Alcatraz federal penitentiary in SF Bay closed
S03211963 Featherweight champion Davey Moore kayoed by Sugar Ramos; dies 3/23
S03211961 Beatles' 1st appearance at the Cavern Club
S03211960 South African authorities kill 69 demonstrators at Sharpeville
S03211953 NBA-record 106 personal fouls called as Boston Celtics beat Syracuse
S03211952 Allan Freed hosts the 1st rock show, "Moondog Ball," Cleveland
S03211947 Truman forms boards to find disloyal or potentially disloyal employees
S03211946 UN sets up temporary HQ at Hunter (now Lehman) College (Bronx)
S03211946 Kenny Washington signs with Rams, becomes 1st black in NFL since 1933
S03211937 Ponce massacre - police kill 19 at Puerto Rican nationalist parade
S03211935 Persia becomes Iran
S03211934 Babe Didrikson pitches a scoreless inning in A's-Dodgers exhibition
S03211927 Beginning date in Andr‚ Malraux's novel "Man's Fate"
S03211924 1st foreign language course broadcast on US radio, WJZ, NYC
S03211919 Hungarian Soviet Republic under Garbai & B‚la Kun proclaimed (-8/1)
S03211907 US invades Honduras
S03211891 A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ending a long feud in WV
S03211884 Trades unions legalized in France
S03211865 Battle of Bentonville ends; last Confederate effort to stop Sherman
S03211860 US extradition treaty with Sweden
S03211859 Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in US, is incorporated
S03211855 British government appoints a public fast for the Russian war
S03211850 San Diego incorporated as a city
S03211844 Origin of Bah '¡ Era - Bah '¡ calendar starts here - Bah  1, 1
S03211843 Preacher William Miller of Mass. predicts the world will end today
S03211829 Duel between the Duke of Wellington & the Earl of Winchelsea
S03211826 Beethoven's Quartet #13 in B flat Maj. (Op. 130) premiers in Vienna
S03211804 French civil Code of Napoleon adopted
S03211801 French defeated near Alexandria, Egypt by Ralph Abercromby
S03211791 Capt. Hopley Yeaton of NH becomes 1st commissioned officer in US navy
S03211697 Peter the Great begins 18-mo trip to Prussia, Holland, England, Vienna
S03221990 7-11 announces its purchase by 2 Japanese firms for $1 billion
S03221986 Debi Thomas, US, becomes 1st black woman world figure-skating champion
S03221984 Islander Bryan Trottier ties NHL record, scores 5 seconds into a game
S03221983 Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president
S03221983 US gov't offers to buy an entire Mo. town due to dioxin contamination
S03221982 3rd space shuttle mission - Columbia 3 - launched
S03221982 Secret Pentagon report "Fiscal 1984-88 Defense Guidance" shifts US
S03221982Cnuclear policy from defensive to offensive
S03221981 Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6
S03221981 First class postage raised to 18› from 15›
S03221981 Toshihiko Seko sets records for 25,000m (1:13:56) & 30,000m (1:29:19)
S03221979 NHL votes to accept 4 WHA teams (Oilers, Jets, Nordiques & Whalers)
S03221977 Indira Gandhi resigns as PM of India
S03221974 35.2 cm of rainfall, Cullenswood, Tasmania (state 24-hour record)
S03221972 Equal Rights Amendment proposed to the states; never ratified
S03221968 Lynda Johnson ordered off SF cable car for eating an ice cream cone
S03221967 Cassius Clay's (a.k.a. Muhammad Ali's) 1st MSG fight
S03221962 S. Vietnam begins forced relocation of peasants to "strategic hamlets"
S03221960 A.L. Schawlow & C.H. Townes obtain patent for the laser
S03221957 Earthquake gives SF the shakes
S03221947 Pres. Truman requires loyalty investigations of all federal employees
S03221946 Britain signs treaty granting independence to Jordan
S03221945 Arab League founded
S03221941 Grand Coulee dam in Washington goes into operation
S03221935 1st broadcast TV service (low-definition) begins, Berlin
S03221929 USCG vessel sinks Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor
S03221906 Odontoglossum orchid brings œ1,207.50 at auction, London
S03221903 Tickets for NY Highlanders (Yankees) 1st go on sale
S03221895 1st public showning of a movie on a screen, LumiŠme brothers, Paris
S03221882 Congress outlaws polygamy (again); bad news for Mormons
S03221874 Young Men's Hebrew Association founded in NYC
S03221873 Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico
S03221872 Illinois becomes 1st state to require sexual equality in employment
S03221871 Wm. Holden of NC is 1st US governor removed from office by impeachment
S03221862 San Marino & Italy conclude treaty of friendship & cooperation
S03221841 US patent for cornstarch granted to Orlando Jones, City Road, England
S03221778 Capt. Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Washington state
S03221630 Massachusetts outlaws all cards, dice & gambling equipment
S03221622 1st Indian massacre of whites, Jamestown, Va.; 347 slain
S03221621 Massasoit & Pilgrims agree on league of friendship (Plymouth)
S03231991 World League of American Football scheduled to play 1st games
S03231989 Asteroid 1989 FC misses earth by a mere 800,000 km!
S03231989 Room-temperature sustained nuclear fusion reported, Univ. of Utah
S03231979 NJ & Philadelphia replay final 17 m 50 s of 11/8 game; because of
S03231979Cintervening trade final box score lists 4 players for both teams
S03231978 Nat'l Council of Churches reports 10,470 US women Protestant ministers
S03231976 International Bill of Rights, ratified by 35 nations, goes into effect
S03231973 1st UK release of Paul McCartney & Wings' "My Love" single
S03231972 NFL moves hashmarks toward center of field - 23 y 1' 9" from sidelines
S03231969 World's longest bridge, 38.4 km, opens over Lake Pontchartrain, La.
S03231965 Gemini 3 launched - 1st US 2-man space flight (Grissom & Young)
S03231964 John Lennon publishes his 1st book, "In His Own Write"
S03231956 Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (National Day)
S03231952 Rangers with less than 14 minutes to go blow a 6-2 lead, losing 7-6 to
S03231952CChicago Black Hawks - Mosienko scores 3 times in 21 seconds
S03231950 World Meteorological Organization established by UN
S03231944 Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 m without a parachute & lives
S03231942 Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean
S03231940 All-India Muslim league calls for a Muslim homeland
S03231940 "Truth or Consequences" with Ralph Edwards premiers on CBS radio
S03231937 Los Angeles Railway Co. starts using PCC streetcars
S03231933 German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers
S03231932 Congress prohibits court injunctions against union strikes
S03231925 Tennessee becomes 1st state to outlaw teaching of evolution
S03231919 Benito Mussolini founds Fascist movement in Milan
S03231918 Germans shell Paris from 120 km away
S03231910 1st race at Los Angeles Motordrome (1st US auto speedway)
S03231901 US captures Emilio Aguinaldo, Philippine rebel leader
S03231901 Dame Nellie Melba reveals secret of her now famous toast
S03231880 Flour rolling mill patented by John Stevens of Wisconsin
S03231862 Battle of Kernstown, Va. - Jackson begins his Valley Campaign
S03231858 Cable car patented by Eleazer Gardner of Philadelphia
S03231832 British Commons passes 1st Reform Act, enfranchising middle class
S03231806 Lewis & Clark leave Ft. Clatsop on Pacific coast for return journey
S03231775 Patrick Henry asks for "liberty or death"
S03231765 Parliament passes the Stamp Act - 1st direct British tax on colonists
S03231752 Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias; dies 2 days later
S03231743 George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" premiers in London
S03231657 France & England form alliance against Spain; England gets Dunkirk
S03241990 Swimmer Tom Jager sets record for 50-m freestyle - 21.81 sec
S03241989 "Exxon Valdez" spills US record 11.1 million gal of oil, Valdez, AK
S03241986 US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra
S03241984 Andrea Sch”ne (E Germany) sets 5000-m women's skating record - 7:34.52
S03241981 "Nightline with Ted Koppel" premiers on ABC TV
S03241980 Mexican oil rig in Gulf of Mexico capped after 9 months of spewing oil
S03241980 Floyd Crandall sets 100-m unicycle speed record, 14.89 sec
S03241976 Argentine military overthrows Pres. Isabel Per¢n
S03241972 Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland
S03241967 Car carrying 17 family members crashes, Tecolutla, M‚xico; 14 die
S03241965 Sen. Robert Kennedy becomes 1st to climb Mt. Kennedy, Yukon Terr.
S03241965 1st anti-Vietnam War "teach-in" is held, University of Michigan
S03241965 US Ranger 9 strikes moon 16 km NE of crater Alphonsus
S03241962 Emile Griffith KOs Benny Paret for welterweight title; Paret dies 4/3
S03241960 US Court of Appeals rules "Lady Chatterley's Lover" is not obscene
S03241959 Integrated circuit unveiled publicly
S03241958 Elvis Presley inducted into the army in Memphis, Tenn.
S03241955 Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens on Broadway
S03241955 1st seagoing oil drilling rig placed in service
S03241949 Walter & John Huston become 1st father & son team to win Oscars
S03241949 Roller derby premiers on prime-time network TV (ABC)
S03241944 76 Allied officers escape from POW camp - basis of "The Great Escape"
S03241944 In occupied Rome, Nazis execute more than 300 civilians
S03241936 NHL's longest game begins - Red Wings beat Montr‚al Maroons in 16 min
S03241936C30 sec of 9th period (176 min total)
S03241934 FDR signs bill granting independence to the Philippines in 1945
S03241932 1st US radio broadcast from a moving train, WABC, from Maryland
S03241930 1st religious services telecast in US, W2XBS, NYC
S03241924 Greece becomes a republic
S03241890 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" (BG)
S03241887 Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey)
S03241882 German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus causing TB
S03241878 British frigate "Eurydice" sunk; 300 lost
S03241860 Clipper "Andrew Jackson" arrives in SF 89 days out of NY
S03241832 Mormon leader Joseph Smith beaten, tarred & feathered in Ohio
S03241828 Philadelphia & Columbia Railway (1st state owned) authorized
S03241794 Kosciusko expels the Russian garrison from Cracow
S03241792 Benjamin West (US) becomes president of Royal Academy of London
S03241765 Britain enacts Quartering Act
S03241668 Royal governor places the militias of New England under his control
S03241663 Charles II grants Carolina to the 8 proprietors
S03241638 Rhode Island purchased from the Indians for 40 fathoms of beads
S03241629 1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia
S03241603 King James VI of Scotland is proclaimed James I of England
S03241495 Columbus leaves Isabella, Espa¤ola to capture Indians for slaves
S03241401 Timur sacks Damascus
S03241084 Holy Roman Emperor-to-be Henry IV enters Rome, chases out the pope
S03251990 1st free election in Hungary in more than 40 years
S03251988 Kurt Browning, Canada, is 1st figure skater to land a quadruple jump
S03251983 Pavel Pegov (USSR) becomes fastest man on ice skates, 49.6 kph, 1000 m
S03251982 "Cagney & Lacey" cop show premiers on CBS television
S03251967 M.L. King, Jr. leads a march of 5,000 antiwar demonstrators, Chicago
S03251965 Martin Luther King leads 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery, Ala.
S03251964 Britain donates memorial site for the late US Pres. JFK at Runnymede
S03251961 Sputnik 10 carries a dog into earth orbit; later recovered
S03251961 St. Joseph's (Penn.) beats Utah 127-120 (4 OTs) in college basketball
S03251961 Explorer 10 launched into elongated earth orbit (177/181,000 km)
S03251960 1st guided missile launched from a nuclear powered sub (Halibut)
S03251958 Underground Church of Pius X consecrated, Fatima - world's 2nd largest
S03251958 Sugar Ray Robinson wins world middleweight boxing title for 5th time
S03251957 Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community (Common Market)
S03251955 East Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power, USSR
S03251954 RCA begins 1st commercial production of color TV sets
S03251954 Pope Pius XII encyclical "On consecrated virginity"
S03251951 E. Purcell & E.M. Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard
S03251947 Coal mine explosion in Centralia, Ill., claims 111 lives
S03251937 "Wash. Daily News" is 1st US newspaper with perfumed advertising page
S03251934 Golfer Horton Smith wins the 1st Masters tournament
S03251931 In Scottsboro, Ala., 9 black men are accused of raping 2 white women
S03251916 1st time women allowed to attend a boxing match - Willard-Moran
S03251915 1st submarine disaster; US F-4 sinks off Hawaii, 21 lives lost
S03251913 Great Dayton flood
S03251913 Home of Vaudeville, Palace Theatre, opens (NYC)
S03251905 Rebel battle flags captured during Civil War are returned to the South
S03251900 US Socialist Party formed at Indianapolis
S03251896 1st modern Olympic games begin in Athens (4/6 New Style)
S03251894 Coxey's Army of the unemployed leaves Massillon, Ohio for Wash., DC
S03251865 Confederate forces capture Fort Stedman, Va.
S03251851 James D. Savage enters Yosemite Valley
S03251843 400-m Thames Tunnel, London opened for foot traffic
S03251821 Greek uprising against Turkey begins (National Day)
S03251813 1st US flag flown in battle on the Pacific, frigate "Essex"
S03251811 Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from Oxford
S03251807 British Parliament abolishes the slave trade
S03251751 New Year's Day of England's shortest year - 282 days
S03251655 Battle at Annapolis, Md. between Puritans & Royalists
S03251655 Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, Saturn's largest satellite
S03251634 Lord Baltimore's 1st Catholic colonists arrive in Maryland
S03251306 Robert Bruce crowned king of Scotland (-1329)
S0325  31 1st Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus
S03261989 1st free elections in USSR - 190 million votes cast
S03261983 Natalia Petruseva (USSR) becomes fastest woman on ice skates, 45.4 kph
S03261982 Ground-breaking in Washington, DC for Vietnam Veterans Memorial
S03261980 Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police)
S03261979 Israel & Egypt sign Camp David peace treaty after Carter's mediation
S03261975 Washington Capitals play NHL-record 37th road game without a win &
S03261975CNHL-record 17th straight lose
S03261973 1st time women are allowed on the floor of the London Stock Exchange
S03261972 LA Lakers set NBA record of 69 wins in a season (69-13)
S03261971 East Pakistan proclaims independence, takes the name "Bangladesh"
S03261970 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945
S03261970 Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary pleads guilty to "taking immoral
S03261970Cliberties" with a 14-year-old girl
S03261969 Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched
S03261962 Supreme Court backs 1-man, 1-vote apportionment in state legislatures
S03261958 Army launches 3rd successful US satellite, Explorer 3
S03261955 "Ballad of Davy Crockett" becomes the #1 record in US
S03261953 Dr. Jonas Salk announces new vaccine against polio
S03261937 Spinach growers of Crystal City, Texas erect a statue of Popeye
S03261934 Driving tests introduced in Britain
S03261931 Leon Bentley, Lorain, Ohio, bowls 900 in 3 (unsanctioned) games
S03261930 Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway
S03261920 F. Scott Fitzgerald's "This Side of Paradise" is published
S03261902 Romania prohibits Jews from engaging in handicrafts or trade
S03261885 Louis Riel's forces defeat Canadian forces at Duck Lake, Sask.
S03261885 Eastman Film Co. manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film
S03261878 Hastings College of Law founded
S03261871 Paris Commune founded
S03261863 Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves
S03261859 1st recorded sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to lie inside the
S03261859Corbit of Mercury
S03261845 Adhesive medicated plaster, precursor of the bandaid, patented
S03261825 California officially becomes a territory of the Mexican Republic
S03261804 Territory of Orleans organized in Louisiana Purchase
S03261804 Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana
S03261802 Linn‘an Society incorporated in London
S03261790 Congress allows naturalization of free white aliens
S03261602 Bartholomew Gosnold, discoverer of Cape Cod, departs Falmouth, England
S03261150 Tichborne family of Hampshire, England start tradition of giving a
S03261150Cgallon of flour to each resident to keep a deathbed promise
S03272134 32nd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
S03271989 "Newsweek" poll finds 77% of Americans believe in heaven, 58% in hell
S03271986 Disney-MGM Studio Tour ground-breaking
S03271980 Mt. St. Helens becomes active after 123 years
S03271977 582 die in aviation's worst disaster, collision of KLM & Pan Am 747s
S03271973 Marlon Brando refuses his Oscar
S03271972 Venera 8 launched to Venus
S03271972 Angela Davis goes on trial for murder & kidnapping, San Jose, Calif.
S03271971 "Texaco Oklahoma" breaks apart, spills 9 million gallons of oil off NC
S03271969 Mariner 7 launched for fly-by of Mars
S03271968 Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in SF
S03271965 US use of defoliants in South Vietnam is revealed
S03271965 "I Can't Explain" is the Who's 1st hit
S03271964 Earthquake strikes Alaska, 8.4 on the Richter scale - 66 die
S03271964 Ariel 2 earth satellite launched for UK by NASA (299/1,328 km)
S03271961 Del Shannon's 1st hit, "Runaway," makes the charts
S03271958 Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier, 1st secretary of Communist Party
S03271955 National Academy of Sciences begins loyalty checks of grant applicants
S03271945 Last V-2 rocket attack on Britain - more than 1,300 in 7 months
S03271945 Gen. Eisenhower declares German defenses on the Western Front broken
S03271944 Nazis remove all children from the Kovno ghetto for execution
S03271941 Military coup in Yugoslavia deposes Prince Paul, regent for King Peter
S03271917 Seattle Metropolitans become 1st US team to win the Stanley Cup
S03271912 1st Japanese cherry trees planted in Washington, DC
S03271909 Laguna dam becomes 1st on the Colorado River
S03271884 1st long-distance telephone call, Boston-New York
S03271879 Arthur Chambers beats Johnny Clark for lightweight title in 136 rounds
S03271871 1st international rugby game - Scotland 1, England 0
S03271866 Pres. Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amend.
S03271860 M.L. Byrn patents the corkscrew (NY)
S03271855 Dr. Abraham Gesner patents kerosene
S03271854 France declares war on Russia - beginning of the Crimean War
S03271848 John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster
S03271847 Gen. Morales surrenders to US Gen. Scott, Veracruz, M‚xico
S03271841 1st US steam fire engine tested, NYC
S03271836 Texas POWs massacred at Goliad by order of Santa Anna
S03271836 1st Mormon temple dedicated (Kirtland, Ohio)
S03271829 London Zoological Society chartered
S03271794 Congress authorizes the president "to provide a naval armament"
S03271781 Messier adds M101 to his catalog (spiral galaxy in Ursa Major)
S03271713 Spain agrees to cede Gibraltar & Minorca to Britain & to grant Britain
S03271713Ca monopoly on importation of slaves to Spanish America (3/16 OS)
S03271668 Bombay, India transferred to English East India Company
S03271625 Charles I, king of England, Scotland & Ireland, ascends to the throne
S03281989 "New Zealand" wins America's Cup over "Stars & Stripes" in a NY court
S03281985 International Cometary Explorer measures solar wind ahead of Halley
S03281979 Major nuclear accident at 3 Mile Island, Middletown, Penn.
S03281966 Mrs. Peel & "The Avengers" 1st appear on US network TV (ABC)
S03281957 1st National Curling Championship held
S03281942 British naval forces raid Nazi-occupied French port of St. Nazaire
S03281942 1st train with Jewish deportees leaves Paris for Auschwitz
S03281939 Madrid falls to Francisco Franco; Spanish Civil War ends
S03281930 Constantinople & Angora change names to "Istanbul" & "Ankara"
S03281917 Jews of Tel Aviv & Jaffa expelled by the Turkish authorities
S03281912 British House of Commons rejects women's franchise bill
S03281908 Maurice Ravel's "Rapsodie espagnole" premiers
S03281903 1st International Cross-Country Championships, Scotland
S03281902 28 cm of rainfall (11"), McMinnville, Tennessee (state 24-hour record)
S03281895 Construction begins on 1st US municipal subway, Boston
S03281891 1st world weight-lifting championships held, London
S03281881 P.T. Barnum & James A. Bailey merge their circuses
S03281871 SF Art Association holds opening reception at 430 Pine
S03281865 NY enacts 1st state limits on outdoor advertising in US
S03281854 Britain declares war on Russia (Crimean War)
S03281848 1st child labor law in US restricting age of workers (Penn.)
S03281841 Dorthea Dix tours a Boston prison, becomes a social reformer
S03281836 1st Catholic Supreme Court chief justice appointed, Roger Taney
S03281834 Senate censures Pres. Jackson for taking deposits from Bank of US
S03281802 Heinrich Olbers discovers 2nd asteroid (Pallas)
S03281800 Act of Union with England passes the Irish Parliament
S03281797 Washing machine patented by Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire
S03281776 De Anza & colonists reach site of San Francisco
S03281774 British Parliament passes Coercive Acts against Massachusetts
S0328 193 Didius Julianus, highest bidder in Praetorian auction, becomes emperor
S03291990 US Trident II nuclear 1st-strike missiles operational, "USS Tennessee"
S03291990 Houston's Olajuwon makes 18 pts, 16 rebounds, 11 blocks & 10 assists
S03291989 Michael Milken, junk bond king, indicted in NY for racketeering
S03291989 1st US private commercial rocket takes suborbital test flight (NM)
S03291989 I.M. Pei's pyramidal entrance to the Louvre opens in Paris
S03291977 NFL adopts a 16-game regular-season schedule
S03291975 Danang falls to the Vietnamese Communists
S03291974 Mariner 10 makes 1st fly-by of Mercury, returns photos (703 km)
S03291973 Last US troops leave Vietnam, 9 years after Tonkin Gulf Resolution
S03291971 Lt. William L. Calley, Jr. found guilty in My Lai massacre
S03291969 Communist New People's Army founded in the Philippines
S03291961 23rd amendment ratified; allows Washington, DC to vote for president
S03291945 Last V-1 (buzz bomb) attack on Britain - more than 8,000 in 9 months
S03291945 USSR crosses the Austrian frontier during WW II
S03291937 Radio show "Our Gal Sunday" soap opera premiers (-1959)
S03291932 Jack Benny's 1st radio appearance, on "The Ed Sullivan Show" (CBS)
S03291929 Boston Bruins sweep NY Rangers in 2 games for the Stanley Cup
S03291928 Yeshiva College (now University) chartered in New York City
S03291927 1st auto to exceed 200 mph (322 kph), Henry Segrave, Daytona Beach
S03291919 Montr‚al & Seattle each win 2 games, with 1 tie - Stanley Cup finals
S03291919Ccalled on account of flu epidemic
S03291912 Last entry in Scott's diary, in a blizzard 18 km from the south pole
S03291897 Tchaikovsky's "Eugen Oniegin" premiers, Moskva (Moscow)
S03291896 Spiridon Louis, Greece, wins 1st Olympic marathon, Athens (4/10 NS)
S03291886 In 1st recognized world chess championship, Steinitz beats Zukertort
S03291871 Queen Victoria opens Albert Hall, London
S03291867 British North America Act (1st Canadian constitution) passed
S03291852 Ohio passes 1st US law regulating working hours of women
S03291848 Niagara Falls stops flowing - for 1 day - because of an ice jam
S03291815 Napol‚on abolishes the slave trade
S03291807 Heinrich Olbers discovers the 4th asteroid (Vesta)
S03291806 Congress authorizes construction of the Cumberland Road (Md. to Ohio)
S03291804 Haitian exslaves massacre 2,500 whites in 1 day
S03291638 1st Swedish immigrants form 1st permanent white settlement in Delaware
S03291626 1st American forestry legislation enacted, Plymouth Colony
S03291461 Henry VI defeats Edward IV in battle of Towton, Wars of the Roses
S03301981 Pres. Reagan & James Brady shot & wounded by John W. Hinckley, Jr.
S03301976 Israel kills 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation
S03301972 Jaguar placed on the Endangered Species List
S03301972 Ocelot is placed on the Endangered Species List
S03301970 USSR wins its 8th straight world hockey championship
S03301965 HUAC (the pot) votes to investigate the KKK (the kettle)
S03301965 A car bomb destroys the US embassy in Saigon - 22 die
S03301964 Astronaut John Glenn withdraws from Ohio senate race
S03301957 Bobby Helms' "Fraulein" enters country charts, stays for 52 weeks
S03301953 Einstein announces revised unified field theory
S03301950 Phototransistor invention announced, Murray Hill, NJ
S03301935 Newfoundland changes time to 3« hours W of Greenwich, repeats 44 sec
S03301923 "Laconia" becomes 1st cruise ship to circumnavigate the world
S03301917 Provisional government of Russia recognizes independence of Poland
S03301912 French protectorate in Morocco established
S03301909 Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan & Queens
S03301891 Congress authorizes 1st US forest reserve, at Yellowstone
S03301887 1st US mutual liability insurance company incorporated, Boston
S03301870 15th amendment passes; guarantees right to vote regardless of race
S03301870 Texas becomes 10th confederate state readmitted to the Union
S03301867 US buys Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million (Seward's Folly)
S03301858 Pencil with an eraser (!) patented by Hyman Lipman, Philadelphia
S03301855 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes "My Lost Youth"
S03301852 US patent granted for an electric whale-killing machine
S03301842 Dr. Crawford Long becomes 1st physician to use ether as an anesthetic
S03301822 Territory of Florida organized
S03301791 Construction begins on Knoxville Road, linking Va. to the frontier
S03301533 Henry VIII divorces his 1st wife, Catherine of Aragon
S03301282 Sicilian Vespers begin, Palermo - Sicilians massacre 8,000 French
S03311989 Minneapolis bans sale of food in nonrecyclable plastic containers
S03311982 Oil tanker collision spills 1.47 million gallons, Montz, La.
S03311982 Doobie Brothers split up
S03311978 USSR launches Kosmos 1000 navigation satellite
S03311976 Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan may be disconnected from respirator
S03311973 Flyers score 8 goals in 1 period vs. Islanders, on 60 shots
S03311967 1st time Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar (London)
S03311966 USSR launches Luna 10, 1st lunar orbiter
S03311963 Los Angeles ends streetcar service after nearly 90 years
S03311954 42ø C (108ø F), Rio Grande City, TX - 48-state record high for March
S03311954 USSR offers to join NATO
S03311949 Newfoundland becomes 10th Canadian province
S03311946 1st transcontinental through Pullman sleeping car service begins
S03311945 Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" opens at the Playhouse, NYC
S03311943 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!" opens on Broadway
S03311939 Britain & France agree to support Poland if it is invaded by Germany
S03311933 Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps
S03311933 1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton News" (Ga.)
S03311932 Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine
S03311932 1st US savings bank to claim $500 M in deposits, Bowery Savings, NYC
S03311923 1st dance marathon (NYC); Alma Cummings sets record of 27 hrs.
S03311921 British coal miners goes on strike
S03311918 1st daylight savings time in US goes into effect
S03311917 US purchases 50 Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million
S03311900 1st auto ad in a national magazine, Roach Co. in "Sat. Evening Post"
S03311896 Hookless fastening (zipper) patented by Whitcomb Judson, Chicago
S03311889 Eiffel Tower in Paris officially opens
S03311887 US Interstate Commerce Commission organized
S03311880 Wabash, Ind. becomes 1st town lit completely by electric light
S03311876 1st US title guaranty insurance company organized, Philadelphia
S03311870 Thomas Mundy becomes 1st black to vote under 15th amendment (NJ)
S03311868 Chinese embassy arrives aboard the steamship "China"
S03311854 Commodore Perry forces Japan to open its ports to foreign trade
S03311840 10-hr day established for federal public works employees
S03311836 1st monthly installment of Charles Dickens' "Pickwick Papers" appears
S03311831 Qu‚bec & Montr‚al incorporated
S03311831 1st steamship built in Australia, "SS Surprise," launched, Pt. Jackson
S03311814 Forces allied against Napol‚on capture Paris
S03311790 John Walker (Va.) becomes 1st US senator appointed by a governor
S03311732 1st US circulating library orders 1st books, Philadelphia
S03311492 Spanish & Sicilian Jews given 3 months to accept Christianity or leave
S0331 297 Diocletian's edict against the Manicheans
S0332