Birthdays:
1974 ~ Joel Edgerton, Australian actor. He was born in Blacktown, Australia.
1957 ~ Frances McDormand (née Cynthia Ann Smith), American actress. She was born in Gibson City, Illinois.
1948 ~ Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the High Court by President George H.W. Bush. His confirmation hearings were controversial, because he had been accused of sexual harassment. The all-male hearing committee, however, refused to allow witnesses testify to support the accusations. Thomas replaced Thurgood Marshall on the Court. He assumed office in October 1991. He was born in Pin Point, Georgia.
1947 ~ Bryan Brown (né Bryan Neathway Brown), Australian actor.
1946 ~ Ted Shackelford (né Theodore Tillman Shackelford, III), American actor. He is best known for his role as Gary Ewing on the television drama and Dallas spin-off, Knots Landing. He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
1943 ~ James Levine (né James Lawrence Levine; d. Mar. 9, 2021), American maestro whose triumph gave way to scandal following allegations of sexual misconduct. For forty years he was the music director of the Metropolitan Opera. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He died at age 77 in Palm Springs, California on March 9, 2021.
1941 ~ Ivor Grattan-Guinness (né Ivor Owen Grattan-Guinness; d. Dec. 12, 2014), British historian of mathematics. He died at age 73.
1940 ~ Stuart Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe (né Stuart Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe; d. Apr. 10, 1962), Scottish bass player who was briefly with the Beatles. He was born in Edinburg, Scotland. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 21 in Hamburg, Germany.
1940 ~ Wilma Rudolph (née Wilma Glodean Rudolph; d. Nov. 12, 1994), African-American runner. She was born in Saint Bethlehem, Tennessee. She died at age 54 of cancer in Brentwood, Tennessee.
1937 ~ Martti Ahtisaari, President of Finland and recipient of the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize. He served as President from March 1994 through February 2000.
1936 ~ Richard Bach (né Richard David Bach), American novelist and essayist. He is best known for his 1970 book, Jonathan Livingston Seagull. He was born in Oak Park, Illinois.
1929 ~ June Carter Cash (née Valerie June Carter; d. May 15, 2003), American country singer and wife of Johnny Cash. She was born in Maces Spring, Virginia. She died at age 73 of complications following heart-valve replacement surgery in Nashville, Tennessee.
1927 ~ Bob Fosse (né Robert Louis Fosse; d. Sept. 23, 1987), American choreographer. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He died of a heart attack at age 60 in Washington, D.C.
1925 ~ Art Modell (né Arthur Bertram Modell; d. Sept. 6, 2012), American NFL owner of the Cleveland Browns that the people of Cleveland loved to hate. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died at age 87 in Baltimore, Maryland.
1923 ~ Anna Chennault (née Chan Sheng Mai; d. Mar. 30, 2018), Chinese-born power broker who schemed with Richard Nixon. She was actually born in 1923, but her birthday is reported as being on June 12, 1925. She married American General Claire Chennault in 1947. He was 30 years her senior and died in 1958. She was a prominent Republican member of the China Lobby. In 1968, she sent word to South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu that if he boycotted the planned peace talks with North Vietnam, he would secure the full support of President Nixon. She was born in Beijing, China. She died at age 94 in Washington, D.C.
1921 ~ Major General Jeanne M. Holm (née Jeanne Marjorie Holm; d. Feb. 15, 2010), American military officer. She was the first one-star general of the United States Air Force. She was born in Portland, Oregon. She died of pneumonia at age 88 in Annapolis, Maryland.
1913 ~ William P. Rogers (né William Pierce Rogers; d. Jan. 2, 2001), 63rd United States Attorney General. He served under President Dwight David Eisenhower from October 1957 until January 1961. He also served as the 55th Secretary of State from January 1969 until September 1973 during the President Richard Nixon administration. He was born in Norfolk, New York. He died at age 87 in Bethesda, Maryland.
1912 ~ Alan Turing (né Alan Mathison Turing; d. June 7, 1954), British mathematician and computer scientist. He was the subject of the 2014 movie The Imitation Game. He died by suicide after consuming a cyanide-laced apple 16 days before his 42nd birthday.
1907 ~ James Meade (né James Edward Meade; d. Dec. 22, 1995), British economist and recipient of the 1977 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He died at age 88 in Cambridge, England.
1900 ~ Blanche Noyes (née Blanche Wilcox; d. Oct. 6, 1981), American aviator. She was one of the first 10 women to receive a transport aviation license. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She died at age 81 in Washington, D.C.
1894 ~ Alfred Kinsey (né Alfred Charles Kinsey; d. Aug. 25, 1956), American biologist and sexologist. He founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University. He was born in Hoboken, New Jersey. He died at age 62 in Bloomington, Indiana.
1894 ~ Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom (né Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; d. May 28, 1972). He abdicated the throne to marry American divorcée, Wallis Simpson, and then became known as the Duke of Windsor. He was of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha until 1917 when the family changed its name to Windsor. He was the son of George V, King of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck. He died less than a month before his 78thbirthday.
1763 ~ Joséphine de Beauharnais (d. May 29, 1814), first wife of Napoléon Bonaparte. They divorced because there were no children of the marriage. She died 24 days before her 51st birthday.
1703 ~ Marie Leszczyńska (née Maria Karolina Zofia Felicja Leszczyńska; d. June 24, 1768), Queen consort of France and Polish wife of Louis XV, King of France. She was of the House of Leszczyński. She was the daughter of Stanisław Leszczyński and Catherine Opalińska. She died 1 day after her 65th birthday.
1612 ~ André Tacquet (d. Dec. 22, 1660), Flemish mathematician. He was born and died in Antwerp, Belgium. He died at age 48.
1456 ~ Margaret of Denmark (d. July 14, 1486), Queen consort of Scotland and wife of James III, King of Scotland. She was of the House of Oldenburg. She was the daughter of Christian I, King of Denmark and Dorothea of Brandenburg. She died of an illness 3 weeks after her 30th birthday.
Events that Changed the World:
2018 ~ Twelve boys and their coach from a soccer team in Thailand were trapped in a cave that flooded. They were trapped there for 18 days until they could be rescued.
2016 ~ The United Kingdom held a referendum on whether or not to maintain membership in the European Union. The vote was in favor to leave the European Union. This is known as the Brexit. The referendum cost Prime Minister David Cameron (b. 1966) his job. Theresa May (b. 1956) became Prime Minister and continued working on Brexit negotiations. No agreements could be met, leading to her resignation May in 2019. The United Kingdom formally left the European Union on January 31, 2020.
2013 ~ Nikolas Wallenda (b. 1979) became the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a high wire. Why?
2001 ~ An 8.4 magnitude earthquake struck southern Peru. The tsunami that followed killed at least 74 people and injured over 2,500 others.
1972 ~Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 was amended to prohibit sexual discrimination to any educational program receiving federal funding.
1969 ~ Warren E. Burger (1907 ~ 1995) was sworn in as the 15th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He replaced Chief Justice Earl Warren (1891 ~ 1974), who retired. Burger had been appointed to the High Court by President Richard Nixon (1913 ~ 1994). He served in that Office until September 1986.
1960 ~ The United States Food and Drug Administration authorized Enovid. It was the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill.
1958 ~ The Dutch Reformed Church admitted women ministers.
1956 ~ Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918 ~ 1970) was elected the president of the Republic of Egypt.
1926 ~ The College Board administered the first SAT examination.
1917 ~ In a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the Washington Senators, Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore (1891 ~ 1980) retired 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth (1895 ~ 1948). Ruth had been ejected from the game for punching an umpire.
1894 ~ The International Olympic Committee was founded in Paris.
1868 ~ Christopher Sholes (1819 ~ 1890) received a patent for the Typewriter.
1860 ~ The United States Congress established the Government Printing Office.
1810 ~ John Jacob Astor (1763 ~ 1848) formed the Pacific Fur Company.
1794 ~ Catherine II, Empress of Russia (1729 ~ 1796) granted Jews permission to settle in Kiev. She was also known as Catherine the Great.
1713 ~ The French residents of Acadia in Nova Scotia, Canada were given one year to give their allegiance to Britain or to leave the territory. Ultimately, many decided to leave and relocated in what is now Southern Louisiana. The descendants are known as Cajuns.
1611 ~ The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson (1565 ~1611), sent Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now the Hudson Bay. They were never heard from again.
Good-Byes:
2021 ~ John McAfee (né John David McAfee; b. Sept. 18, 1945), English-American software entrepreneur who went rogue. He died at age 75 of an apparent suicide while in prison in Spain while awaiting extradition to the United States for tax evasion.
2020 ~ Carsyn Davis (née Carsyn Leigh Davis; b. June 21, 2003), American high school student who survived cander and was living with a rare autoimmune disease. She had attended a church service two weeks before her death and caught Covid-19. She died in Fort Myers, Florida of complications of the disease 2 days after her 17th birthday.
2018 ~ Donald Hall (né Donald Andrew Hall, Jr.; b. Sept. 20, 1928), American poet laureate who wrote of love, death and rural life. He died at age 89 in Wilmot, New Hampshire.
2015 ~ Dick Van Patten (né Richard Vincent Van Patten; b. Dec. 9, 1928), American actor. He is best known for his role as the father on the television drama Eight is Enough. He died of complications of diabetes at age 86.
2013 ~ Frank Kelso (né Frank Benton Kelso, III; b. July 11, 1933), Chief of Operations of the United States Navy from 1990 to 1994. He was born in Fayetteville, Tennessee. He died 18 days before his 80th birthday in Norfolk, Virginia.
2013 ~ Bobby Blue Bland (né Robert Calvin Brooks; b. Jan. 27, 1930), African-American blues singer who was as smooth as Sinatra. He developed a sound that mixed with gospel and R&B. He died at age 83.
2013 ~ Kurt Leichtweiß (b. Mar. 2, 1927), German mathematician. He specialized in differential geometry. He died at age 86.
2011 ~ Peter Falk (né Peter Michael Falk; b. Sept. 16, 1927), American actor, best known for his role as the title character in the TV series Columbo. He died at age 83.
2009 ~ Ed McMahon (né Edward Leo Peter McMahon, Jr.; b. Mar. 6, 1923), American television personality who was the guffawing announcer who was Johnny Carson’s second banana. He died at age 86.
2006 ~ Aaron Spelling (b. Apr. 22, 1923), American television producer. He died of a stroke at age 83.
2005 ~ Shana Alexander (née Shana Ager; b. Oct. 6, 1926), American journalist who became a fixture on 60 Minutes. She died at age 79.
1998 ~ Maureen O’Sullivan (née Maureen Paula O’Sullivan; b. May 17, 1911), Irish-American actress. She died at age 87.
1997 ~ Betty Shabazz (née Betty Dean Sanders; b. May 28, 1934), wife of Malcolm X. She died a month after her 63rdbirthday from burns caused when her grandson set fire to her apartment.
1996 ~ Andreas Papandreou (b. Feb. 5, 1919), Prime Minister of Greece. He died at age 77.
1995 ~ Jonas Salk (né Jonas Edward Salk; b. Oct. 28, 1914), American biologist and physician. He was best known for his discovery and development of a polio vaccine. He died at age 80.
1980 ~ Sanjay Gandhi (b. Dec. 14, 1946), Indian politician and son of Indira Gandhi. He was killed in a private airplane crash at age 33.
1976 ~ Chuck Taylor (né Charles Hollis Taylor; b. June 24, 1901), American basketball player and salesman. He is best known for his association with the Chuck Taylor All-Star sneakers. He died one day before his 75th birthday.
1976 ~ Imogen Cunningham (b. Apr. 12, 1883), American photographer. She is best known for here botanical photographs and nudes. She was born in Portland, Oregon. She died at age 93 in San Francisco, California.
1859 ~ Maria Pavlovna of Russia (b. Feb 16, 1786), Grand Duchess consort of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. She was the wife of Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. She was of the House of Romanov. She was the daughter of Paul I, Tsar of Russia and Sophia Dorothea of Württemberg. She died at age 73.
1707 ~ John Mill (b. 1645), English theologian. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been about 61 or 62 at the time of his death.
1356 ~ Margaret II (b. 1311), Holy Roman Empress. She was the second wife of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor. The exact date of her birth is not known, but she is believed to have been about 47 or 48 at the time of her death.
79 ~ Vespasian (b. Nov. 17, 9), Roman emperor. This is the traditional date ascribed to his birth and death. He was 69 at the time of his death.
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