Birthdays:
1981 ~ Amy Schumer (née Amy Beth Schumer), American actress and comedian.
1974 ~ Alanis Morissette (née Alanis Nadine Morissette), Canadian musician.
1973 ~ Heidi Klum, German model.
1972 ~ Mike Dunham (né Michael Francis Dunham), American hockey player and coach. Prior to joining the National Hockey League, he played hockey at the University of Maine.
1968 ~ Mathias Rust, German pilot who, on May 28, 1987, illegally landed his small plane in Red Square in Moscow. He was 18 years old at the time of this flight. He was detained in Russia until August 1988.
1966 ~ Mark Filip (né Mark Robert Filip), Acting United States Attorney General for a few weeks after Barack Obama was sworn in as President in January 2009. His tenure ended when Eric Holder was sworn in as Attorney General on February 3, 2009.
1955 ~ Tony Snow (né Robert Anthony Snow; d. July 12, 2008), 26th White House Press Secretary. He was the sharp-tongued broadcaster who spoke for President George W. Bush. He died at age 53 of colon cancer.
1953 ~ David Berkowitz (né Richard David Falco), American serial killer who went by the name of Son of Sam.
1947 ~ Jonathan Pryce (né John Price), Welsh actor.
1947 ~ Ronnie Wood (né Ronald David Wood), English guitarist and member of The Rolling Stones.
1937 ~ Colleen McCullough (née Colleen Margaretta McCullough; d. Jan. 29, 2015), Australian neuroscientist and novelist. She was a prolific author best known for her novel The Thorn Birds. She died of renal failure at age 77.
1937 ~ Morgan Freeman, African-American actor.
1935 ~ The Reverend Ike (né Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter, II; d. July 28, 2009), American minister who preached the gospel of wealth. He died at age 74.
1933 ~ Charlie Wilson (né Charles Nesbitt Wilson, d. Feb. 10, 2010), American Representative from Texas and “party animal” behind the movie Charlie Wilson’s War. He died of a heart attack at age 76.
1930 ~ Edward Woodward (né Edward Albert Arthur Woodwood; d. Nov. 16, 2009), the suave English actor who was television’s The Equalizer. He died at age 79.
1926 ~ Marilyn Monroe (née Norma Jean Mortenson; d. Aug. 5, 1962), American model and actress. She died by suicide at age 36.
1926 ~ Andy Griffith (né Andy Samuel Griffith; d. July 3, 2012), American actor best known as the TV sheriff who solved problems with common sense. He died of a heart attack about a month before his 87th birthday.
1926 ~ Richard Schweiker (né Richard Schultz Schwieker; d. July 31, 2015), 14th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. He served in this office under the Ronald Reagan administration from January 1981 until February 1983. He was 89 at the time of his death.
1917 ~ William Standish Knowles (d. June 13, 2012), American chemist and recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was born in Taunton, Massachusetts. He died 12 days after his 95th birthday.
1909 ~ Yechezkel Kutscher (d. Dec. 12, 1971), Israeli philologist and Hebrew linguist. He died at age 63.
1907 ~ Sir Frank Whittle (d. Aug. 9, 1996), British inventor and pioneer in the development of the turbojet engine. He died at age 89.
1899 ~ Ted Titchmarsh (né Edward Charles Titchmarsh; d. Jan. 18, 1963), English mathematician. He died at age 63.
1843 ~ Henry Faulds (d. Mar. 24, 1930), Scottish physician best known for the development of fingerprinting. He died at age 86.
1833 ~ John Marshall Harlan (d. Oct. 14, 1911), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America. He was nominated to the High Court by President Rutherford Hayes. He replaced David Davis on the Court. He served on the Court from November 1877 until his death in October 1911. He died at age 78.
1831 ~ John Bell Hood (d. Aug. 30, 1879), Confederate General. He died of yellow fever in New Orleans, Louisiana at age 48.
1801 ~ Brigham Young (d. Aug. 29, 1877), American religious leader of the Mormons. He was born in Whitingham, Vermont. He died at age 76.
1791 ~ John Nelson (d. Jan. 18, 1860), 17th United States Attorney General. He served in the John Tyler administration from July 1843 until March 1845. He died at age 68.
1637 ~ Father Jacques Marquette (d. May 18, 1675), French explorer and Roman Catholic missionary who, along with Louis Jolliet, explored the Mississippi River. He died of dysentery 14 days before his 38th birthday.
Events that Changed the World:
2011 ~ A tornado outbreak struck in Springfield, Massachusetts killing at least 4 people.
2009 ~ Air France Flight 447, while en route to Paris from Rio de Janeiro, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of shortly after take-off. All 228 passengers and crew were killed. Almost exactly 2 years later, researchers discovered that the crash was due to pilot failure.
2009 ~ General Motors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
2001 ~ A Hamas suicide bomber killed 21 people at the Dolphinarium, a disco, in Tel Aviv.
2001 ~ Nepalese Crown Prince Dipendra (1971 ~ 2001) shot and killed several members of the royal family, including his parents, King Birendra (1945 ~ 2001) and Queen Aiswarya (1949 ~ 2001). He was said to have killed his family over a marriage dispute because his parents disapproved of the woman he wanted to marry. The Prince was injured in the massacre, but was named King after he had killed his father, despite being in a coma. He died from his wounds on June 3, 2001. His uncle, King Birendra’s brother, Gyanedra (b. 1947), then became king.
1998 ~ The European Central Bank was established.
1990 ~ United States President George H.W. Bush (1924 ~ 2018) and Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev (b. 1931) signed a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
1980 ~ The Cable News Network (CNN) began broadcasting.
1974 ~ The procedure for the Heimlich maneuver was published in the journal Emergency Medicine. The maneuver was named after Dr. Henry Heimlich (1920 ~ 2016), who first described it in 1974.
1967 ~ The Beatles released their Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album.
1943 ~ British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 was shot down over the Bay of Biscay by the Germans, killing all 17 crew and passengers aboard, including actor Leslie Howard (1893 ~ 1943), who was aboard. It has been speculated that the Germans believed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874 ~ `965) was on the flight, and the plane was targeted as an assassination attempt.
1941 ~ The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, began in Baghdad. During the two days of rioting, which occurred on the Jewish holiday of Shavout, 175 Jews were killed and over 1000 were injured. In addition, Jewish homes and shops were looted and destroyed.
1916 ~ Louis Brandeis (1856 ~ 1941) was confirmed as the first Jewish member of the United States Supreme Court.
1831 ~ James Clark Ross (1800 ~ 1862) discovered the Magnetic North Pole.
1812 ~ President James Madison (1751 ~ 1836) asked Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom during the War of 1812.
1796 ~ Tennessee became the 16th State of the Union.
1792 ~ Kentucky became the 15th State of the Union.
1779 ~ Benedict Arnold (1741 ~ 1801), a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, was court-martialed for malfeasance.
1660 ~ Mary Dyer (1611 ~ 1660), was hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1533 ~ Anne Boleyn (1501 ~ 1536) was crowned Queen of England.
1495 ~ Friar John Cor recorded the first known batch of Scotch whisky.
Good-Byes:
2013 ~ Mott Green (né David Lawrence Friedman, b. Apr. 15, 1966), American anarchist who earned acclaim as a chocolatier. He was electrocuted in a freak accident while working on a solar-powered cooling machine. He was 47 years old.
2013 ~ Hanfried Lenz (b. Apr. 22, 1916), German mathematician who specialized in geometry and combinatorics. He died at age 97.
2008 ~ Yves Saint Laurent (b. Aug. 1, 1936), French fashion designer. He died of brain cancer at age 71.
2005 ~ George Mikan (né George Lawrence Mikan, Jr.; b. June 18, 1924), the Lakers legend who was basketball’s first superstar. He was known as Mr. Basketball. He died less than 2 weeks before his 81st birthday.
2005 ~ Hilda Standish (née Hilda Crosby; b. Sept. 14, 1902), American physician who was a leader in the birth control movement. She was 102 at the time of her death.
2004 ~ William Manchester (né William Raymond Manchester; b. Apr. 1, 1922), American historian. He was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts. He died at age 82.
2001 ~ Hank Ketcham (né Henry King Ketcham; b. Mar. 14, 1920), American cartoonist and creator of Dennis the Menace. He died at age 81.
1980 ~ Arthur Nielsen, Sr. (né Arthur Charles Nielsen; b. Sept. 5, 1897), American market analyst and founder of the AC Nielsen company. He was 82 years old.
1979 ~ Werner Forssmann (b. Aug. 29, 1904), German physician and recipient of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with heart catheterization. From 1932 until 1945, he was a member of the Nazi Party. He died at age 74.
1968 ~ Helen Keller (née Helen Adams Keller; b. June 27, 1880), American author and activist. In her early childhood, she was stricken with scarlet fever, which left her deaf and blind. She died 26 days before her 88th birthday.
1962 ~ Adolf Eichmann (né Otto Adolf Eichmann; b. Mar. 19, 1906), German SS officer. He was one of the primary organizers of the Holocaust. After World War II, he and his family escaped and lived in Argentina for many years, where he was ultimately captured by Mossad and transferred to Israel where he was brought to trial for war crimes. He was convicted and hanged at age 56.
1952 ~ John Dewey (b. Oct. 20, 1859), American philosopher and educator. He was born in Burlington, Vermont. He died at age 92.
1946 ~ Ion Antonescu (b. June 15, 1882), Romanian Marshal and 43rd Prime Minister of Romania. He served in that Office from September 1940 until August 1944. After World War II, he was convicted of war crimes and was executed 14 days before his 64th birthday.
1943 ~ Wilfrid Israel (né Wilfrid Berthold Jacob Israel; b. July 11, 1988), Anglo-German businessman and philanthropist. He was born into a wealthy Jewish family and was also active in rescuing many Jews from Nazi Germany. He was killed at age 42 when the civilian plane he was traveling in from Lisbon to Bristol was shot down by a German fighter plane
1943 ~ Leslie Howard (né Leslie Howard Steiner; b. Apr. 3, 1893), English actor, best known for his role as Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind. He died at age 50 when the plane he was in was shot down by a German fighter plane during World War II.
1927 ~ Lizzie Borden (née Lizzie Andrew Borden; b. July 19, 1860), American accused of killing her parents. She was acquitted by a jury. She was from Fall River, Massachusetts. She died at age 66.
1925 ~ Thomas R. Marshall (né Thomas Riley Marshall, b. Mar. 14, 1854), 28th Vice President of the United States. He served under President Woodrow Wilson from March 1913 until March 1921. He died of a heart attack at age 71.
1912 ~ Daniel Burnham (né Daniel Hudson Burnham; b. Sept. 4, 1846), American architect. He designed such iconic buildings as the Flat Iron Building in New York City. He died at age 65.
1879 ~ Napoléon, Prince Imperial of France (b. Mar. 16, 1856), the last dynastic Bonaparte. He was the son of Napoléon III. He was killed in the Anglo-Zulu War at age 23.
1868 ~ James Buchanan, Jr. (b. Apr. 23, 1791), 15th President of the United States. He was President from March 1857 until March 1861. He had previously served as the 17th United States Secretary of State under Presidents James Polk and Zachary Taylor. He died at age 77.
1846 ~ Pope Gregory XVI (né Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari; b. Sept. 18, 1765). He was Pope from February 1831 until his death on this date in 1846. He was 80 years old.
1841 ~ Nicolas Appert (b. Nov. 17, 1749), French chef and inventor of the canning process. He died at age 91.
1833 ~ Oliver Wolcott, Jr. (b. Jan. 11, 1760), American lawyer and 2nd United States Secretary of the Treasury. He served as Secretary of the Treasury from February 1795 until December 1800, under both Presidents Washington and John Adams. He subsequently served as the Governor of Connecticut from May 1817 until May 1827. He died at age 73.
1662 ~ Zhu Youlang (b. Nov. 1, 1623), 4th and last Chinese emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty. He died at age 38.
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