Birthdays:
1954 ~ Guolaugur
Kristinn Óttarsson, Icelandic mathematician and engineer.
1950 ~ Christina Onassis (d. Nov. 19,
1988), American-born Greek heiress and socialite. She was the daughter of Ari Onassis and the
step-daughter of Jackie Kennedy Onassis.
She died of a heart attack 3 weeks before her 38th birthday.
1947 ~ Teri
Garr, American actress.
1944 ~ Brenda
Lee, American singer.
1943 ~ John
Kerry, 68th Secretary of State.
He served in the second Barak Obama administration from February 2013
through January 2017.
1939 ~ Tom Hayden (d. Oct. 23, 2016),
American politician and political activist.
He was also married to Jane Fonda from 1973 until their divorce in
1990. He died at age 73.
1931 ~ Rita
Moreno, American actress and dancer.
1927 ~ Stein Eriksen (d. Dec. 27, 2015),
Norwegian Olympic champion who helped popularize skiing. He won gold medals in the 1952 Winter
Olympics. He died just over 2 weeks
after his 88th birthday.
1925 ~ Paul
Greengard, American neuroscientist and recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine.
1923 ~ Lilian Cahn (d. Mar. 4, 2013),
Hungarian-born businesswoman who co-founded Coach, Inc. She died at age 89.
1922 ~ Grace Paley (d. Aug. 22, 2007),
American writer and political activist. She
died in Thetford, Vermont at age 84.
1918 ~
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (d. Aug. 3, 2008), Russian novelist and Soviet dissident
who chronicled the evils of communism.
He was the recipient of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature. He died at age 89.
1912 ~ Carlos Ponti, Sr. (d. Jan. 10, 2007),
Italian film producer and husband of Sophia Loren. He died a month after his 94th birthday.
1911 ~ Naguib Mahfouz (d. Aug. 30, 2006),
Egyptian author and recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He died at age 94.
1911 ~ Qian
Xuesen (d. Oct. 31, 2009), Chinese scientist who put China in space. He died at age 97.
1909 ~ Fred Andrew Seaton (d. Jan. 16, 1974),
36th United States Secretary of the Interior. He served under President Dwight D.
Eisenhower. He served in this office
from June 1956 until January 1961. He
died just over a month after his 64th birthday.
1890 ~ Carlos Gardel (né Charles Romuald
Gardès, d. June 24, 1935), French-Argentine tango singer and dancer. He was killed in a plane crash at age 44.
1889 ~ Walter Knott (d. Dec. 3, 1981),
American farmer and creator of Knott’s Berry Farm amusement park in
California. He died 8 days before his 92nd
birthday.
1882 ~ Fiorello La Guardia (d. Sept. 20,
1947), American politician and 99th Mayor of New York City. He served as Mayor from January 1934 through
December 1945. One of the airports
servicing New York City was named for him.
He died of pancreatic cancer at age 64.
1882 ~ Max Born (d. Jan. 5, 1970), German
physicist and mathematician. He was the
recipient of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics.
He died 25 days after his 87th birthday.
1874 ~ Yehuda Leib Maimon (né Yehuda Leib
Fishman, d. July. 10, 1962), Israeli rabbi and politician. He died at age 86.
1873 ~ Josip Plemelj (d. May 22, 1967),
Slovenian mathematician. He died at age
93.
1863 ~ Annie Jump Cannon (d. Apr. 13,
1941), American astronomer. She died at
age 77.
1843 ~ Robert Koch (d. May 27, 1910),
German physician, bacteriologist, and recipient of the 1905 Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine for his work with tuberculosis. He is considered the Father of Modern
Bacteriology. He died at age 66.
1838 ~ John Labatt (d. Apr. 27, 1915), Canadian
businessman and brewer. He was the founder
of the Labatt’s Brewing Company. He died
at age 76.
1830 ~ King Kamehameha V of Hawaii (d.
1872). He died on his 42nd birthday.
1803 ~ Hector Berlioz (d. Mar. 8, 1869),
French composer. He died at age 65.
1781 ~ Sir David Brewster (d. Feb. 10,
1868), Scottish mathematician. He died
at age 86.
1725 ~ George Mason (d. Oct. 7, 1792),
American statesman. He was a delegate to
the United States Constitutional Convention in 1787 and is known as being one
of 3 men who refused to sign the document.
He died at age 66.
1475 ~ Pope Leo X (né Giovanni di Lorenzo
de’Medici, d. Dec. 1, 1521). He was Pope
from March 1513 until his death 8 years later.
He died 10 days before his 56th birthday.
Events that Changed the World:
2014 ~ The
city of Detroit, Michigan came out of bankruptcy. It had filed for the larges municipal
bankruptcy in United States history.
2008 ~ Bernard Madoff (b. 1938) was
arrested and charged with securities fraud in an elaborate $50 billion Ponzi
scheme. Madoff would eventually be
convicted and sentenced to 150 years in prison.
2001 ~ The People’s Republic of China
joined the World Trade Organization.
1994 ~ Russian President Boris Yeltsin
(1931 ~ 2007) ordered Russian troops into Chechnya during the First Chechen
War.
1980 ~ The Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), also known as Superfund,
was enacted by the US Congress.
1972 ~ Apollo
17 was the sixth and final Apollo mission to land on the Moon.
1946 ~ The United Nations International
Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was established.
1941 ~ Germany and Italy declared war on
the United States, following the United States’ declaration of war against
Japan. The United States then declared
war on Germany and Italy, thereby formally entering in the fighting during
World War II.
1936 ~ King Edward VIII (1894 ~ 1972)
abdication the British throne became effective and he ceased to be the King of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain. Following
is abdication; he was given the title of the Duke of Windsor.
1917 ~ During World War I, British
General Edmund Allenby (1861 ~ 1936) declared martial law in Jerusalem.
1816 ~ Indiana became the 19th
State of the Union.
1792 ~ King Louis XVI (1754 ~ 1793) of France
was put on trial for treason by the French National Convention during the
French Revolution.
1789 ~ The University of North Carolina
was chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly.
1688 ~ King James II (1663 ~ 1701) of
England abdicated the throne when he was essentially deposed during the
Glorious Revolution. He was the last
Catholic monarch to reign over England, Scotland and Ireland.
Good-Byes:
2012 ~ Ravi Shankar (né Rabindro Shankar
Chowdhury, b. Apr. 7, 1920), Indian musician and sitar player. He died at age 92.
1998 ~ André Lichnerozicz (b. Jan. 21, 1915),
French mathematician. He died at age 83.
1989 ~ Louise Dahl-Wolfe (b. Nov. 19,
1895), American photographer. She died
22 days after her 94th birthday.
1978 ~ Vincent du Vigneaud (b. May 18,
1901), American chemist and recipient of the 1955 Nobel Prize in
Chemistry. He died at age 77.
1971 ~ Maurice James McDonald (b. Nov.
26, 1902), American fast-food entrepreneur and co-founder, along with his
brother Richard McDonald (1909 ~ 1998), of McDonald’s. He was born in Manchester, New
Hampshire. Richard died at age 89;
Maurice died 14 days after his 69th birthday.
1964 ~ Sam Cooke (né Samuel Dale Cook, b.
Jan. 22, 1931), American singer and musician.
He was murdered at age 33.
1964 ~ Alma Mahler (née Alma Maria
Schindler, b. Aug. 31, 1879), Austrian-born socialite, composer and artist. She married three famous men, including the
composer Gustav Mahler, the architect Walter Gropius, and novelist Franz
Werfel. She died at age 85.
1941 ~ Charles Émile Picard (b. July 24,
1856), French mathematician. He died at
age 85.
1938 ~ Christian Lous Lange (b. Sept. 17,
1869), Norwegian political scientist and recipient of the 1921 Nobel Peace
Prize. He died at age 69.
1880 ~ Oliver Winchester (b. Nov. 30,
1810), American businessman and manufacturer of the Winchester Repeating
Arms. He was born in Boston,
Massachusetts and died in New Haven, Connecticut 11 days after his 70th
birthday.
1872 ~ King Kamehameha V of Hawaii (b. Dec.
11, 1830). He died on his 42nd
birthday.
1282 ~
Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (b 1223), the last native Prince of Wales was killed
during the Battle of Orewin Bridge. The
exact date of his birth is not known.
384 ~ Pope
Damasus I (b. 305). He served as Pope
from October 366 until his death 12 years later. The exact date of his birth is not known.
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