Birthdays:
1968~ Salvatore Licitra (d. Sept. 5, 2011), Italian operatic tenor hailed as the next Pavarotti. He died from head injuries when the motor scooter he was riding slammed into a wall in Sicily. He died three weeks after his 43rd birthday.
1960~ Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor and former husband of Melanie Griffin.
1959~ Rosanna Arquette (née Rosanna Lisa Arquette), American actress.
1942~ Betsey Johnson, American fashion designer.
1928~ Jimmy Dean (né Jimmy Ray Dean, d. June 13, 2010), American businessman and founder of Jimmy Dean Foods. He died at age 81.
1928~ Eddie Fisher (né Edwin John Fisher, d. Sept. 22, 2010), American singer and one of the many husbands of Elizabeth Taylor. He left his first wife, Debbie Reynolds, for Taylor. He was the father of actress Carrie Fisher. He died at age 82.
1927~ Jimmy Martin (né James Henry Martin, d. May 14, 2005), American singer known as the King of Bluegrass. He died at age 77.
1913~ Wolfgang Paul (d. Dec. 7, 1993), German physicist and recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics. He died at age 80.
1909~ Leo Fender (né Clarence Leonidas Fender, d. Mar. 21, 1991), American businessman and founder of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. He died at age 81.
1909~ Richard J. Hughes (né Richard Joseph Hughes, d. Dec. 7, 1992), 45th Governor of New Jersey. He served as Governor from January 1962 until January 1970. He died at age 83.
1902~ Arne Tiselius (d. Oct. 29, 1971), Swedish chemist and recipient of the 1948 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He died at age 69.
1902~ Norma Shearer (née Edith Norma Shearer, d. June 12, 1983), American actress. She died of bronchial pneumonia at age 80.
1897~ Jack Haley (né John Joseph Haley, d. June 6, 1979), American actor best known for his portrayal of the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He died of a heart attack at age 81.
1880~ Robert L. Thornton (né Robert Lee Thornton, d. Feb. 15, 1964), Mayor of Dallas, Texas. He served as Mayor from 1953 to 1961. He died at age 83.
1874~ Herbert Hoover (né Herbert Clark Hoover, d. Oct. 20, 1964), 31st President of the United States. He was President from March 1929 until March 1933. Prior to being elected President, he served as the 3rd United States Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge. He served in that Office from March 1921 until August 1928. He died at age 90.
1856~ William Willett (d. Mar. 4, 1915), English builder and advocate for the establishment of Daylight Saving Time. He died of influenza at age 58 before Daylight Savings Time was established.
1814~ Henri Nestlé (né Heinrich Nestle, d. July 7, 1890), German-born Swiss confectioner and businessman. He was the founder of the Nestlé’s corporation. He died about a month before his 76th birthday.
1782~ Vicente Guerrero (d. Feb. 14, 1831), President of Mexico. He served as President from April 1829 until December 1829. His government was ousted and he was ultimately executed at age 48.
1753~ Edmund Randolph (né Edmund Jennings Randolph, d. Sept. 12, 1813), 1st United States Attorney General. He served under President George Washington from September 1780 until January 1794. He subsequently went on to serve as the 2nd United States Secretary of State in the Washington Administration from January 1794 until August 1795. He had previously served as the Governor of Virginia from December 1786 until December 1788. He died just over a month after his 60th birthday.
1602~ Gilles de Roberval (d. Oct. 27, 1675), French mathematician. He died at age 73.
Events that Changed the World:
1993~ A 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit the South Island of New Zealand.
1977~ David Berokwitz (b. 1953) was arrested in New York for the murders he had been committing over the course of a year under the name Son of Sam.
1961~ The United States Army began using Agent Orange in the Vietnam War.
1949~ President Harry Truman (1884 ~ 1972) signed the National Security Act Amendment which replaced the Department of War with the United States Department of Defense, which included the Army, Navy and Air Force.
1948~ Candid Camera made its television debut. Allen Funt (1914 ~ 1999) hosted the show, which ran until the 1970s.
1913~ Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro and Greece signed the Treaty of Bucharest, thereby ending the Second Balkan War.
1905~ The peace negotiations ending the Russo-Japanese War began in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
1856~ The Last Island hurricane hit Louisiana. Over 200 people were killed.
1846~ Congress chartered the Smithsonian Institution after James Smithson (1765 ~ 1829) bequeathed $500,000 to the United States for the creation of “an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.”
1821~ Missouri was admitted as the 24th State of the Union.
1793~ The Musée du Louvre was officially opened in Paris, France.
1776~ Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reached London, England.
1755~ Under orders of Charles Lawrence (1709 ~ 1760), the British Army began to forcibly deport the Acadians from Nova Scotia. Many resettled in what is now Louisiana and are known as Cajuns.
1675~ Construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, England began.
1628~ The Swedish warship, the Vasa, sank in the Stockholm harbor 20 minutes into her maiden voyage.
1519~ Ferdinand Magellan (1480 ~ 1521) and his five ships set sail from Seville, Spain to circumnavigate the world. Magellan was killed in the Philippines so was unable to complete his travels, however, his second in command, Juan Sebastián Elcano (1476 ~ 1526), completed the expedition.
Good-Byes:
2014~ Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw (née Kathleen Mary Timpson, b. Oct. 1, 1912), British mathematician, astronomer and Lord Mayor of Manchester, England. She died at age 101.
2013~ Amy Wallace (b. July 3, 1955), American author. She was the daughter of writer Irving Wallace. She died of a heart condition at age 58.
2013~ William P. Clark, Jr. (né William Patrick Clark, Jr., b. Oct. 23, 1931), 44th United States Secretary of the Interior. He served in that Office from November 1983 until February 1985. Prior to being appointed as Secretary of the Interior, he served as the 12th National Security Advisor. He served in that Office from January 1982 until October 1983. He served both offices during the Ronald Reagan Administration. He died at age 81.
2013~ Eydie Gormé (née Edith Garmezano, b. Aug. 16, 1928), American singer who often performed with her husband, Steve Lawrence. She died 6 days before her 85th birthday.
2008~ Isaac Hayes (né Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr., b. Aug. 20, 1942), American ultra-cool musician whose sound was pure soul. He died of a stroke 10 days before his 66th birthday.
1960~ Oswald Veblen (b. June 24, 1880), American mathematician. He died in Brooklin, Maine at age 80.
1945~ Robert H. Goddard (néRobert Hutchings Goddard, b. Oct. 5, 1882), American rocket scientist. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He died at age 62.
1932~ Rin Tin Tin (b. Sept. 10, 1918), German Shepherd dog adopted from a World War I battlefield. The dog ultimately starred in movies about a dog named Rin Tin Tin. The dog died almost 14 years after it was born, in August 1932.
1881~ Orville Hickman Browning (b. Feb. 10, 1806), 9th United States Secretary of the Interior. He served under President Andrew Johnson from September 1866 until March 1869. He died at age 75.
1535~ Ippolito de’Medici (b. 1509), Lord of Florence, Italy. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have died of malaria at age 24.
1250~ King Eric IV of Denmark (b. 1216). The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been about 33 or 34 at the time of his death.
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