Flag Day in the United States
Birthdays:
1969 ~ Steffi Graf (née Stefanie Marie Graf), German tennis player. She was born in Mannheim, Germany.
1968 ~ Campbell Brown (née Alma Dale Campbell Brown), American journalist. She was born in Ferriday, Louisiana. Her father is James Brown, the former Insurance Commissioner of Louisiana.
1961 ~ Boy George (né George Alan O’Dowd), British musician.
1952 ~ Pat Summitt (née Patricia Sue Head; d. June 28, 2016), American women’s basketball coach. She died 14 days after her 64th birthday.
1946 ~ Donald J. Trump (né Donald John Trump), American businessman, entrepreneur, and 45th President of the United States. He assumed the Office in January 2017. He was born in New York, New York.
1944 ~ Laurie Colwin (d. Oct. 24, 1992), American author. She died of a heart attack at age 48.
1935 ~ John Egerton (d. Nov. 21, 2013), American journalist and writer who paid homage to the food of the South. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He died of a heart attack at age 78 in Nashville, Tennessee.
1933 ~ Jerzy Kosiński (né Józef Lewinkopf; d. May 3, 1991), Polish-born author. He was a Holocaust survivor. He died by suicide at age 57.
1931 ~ Marla Gibbs (née Margaret Theresa Bradley), African-American actress best known for her role as Florence Jefferson on the television sit-com The Jeffersons. She was born in Chicago, Illinois.
1930 ~ Charles McCarry (d. Feb. 26, 2019), American CIA agent who became a best-selling spy novelist. He was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He died at age 88.
1928 ~ Che Guevara (né Ernesto Guevara; d. Oct. 9, 1967), Argentine-Cuban revolutionary and guerrilla leader. He was also a physician. He was executed at age 39 for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
1927 ~ Seymour Lazar (né Seymour Manuel Lazar; d. Mar. 30, 2016), American celebrity lawyer who embraced the counterculture. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died at age 88 in Palm Springs, California.
1926 ~ Don Newcombe (né Donald Newcombe; d. Feb. 19, 2019), African-American Dodgers pitcher who smashed racial barriers. In 1949, he became the first African-American to pitcher to start a World Series game. He died at age 92.
1925 ~ Pierre Salinger (né Pierre Emil George Salinger; d. Oct. 16, 2004), American journalist. He also served as 11thWhite House Press Secretary under Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson from January 1961 until March 1964. He died of heart failure at age 79.
1924 ~ Sir James Black (né James Whyte Black, d. Mar. 22, 2010), Scottish physician and recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He was 85 years old.
1919 ~ Sam Wanamaker (né Samuel Wattenmacker; d. Dec. 18, 1993), American actor. He died of prostate cancer at age 74.
1917 ~ Atle Selberg (d. Aug. 6, 2007), Norwegian mathematician. He was 1950 recipient of the Fields Medal. He died at age 90.
1909 ~ Burl Ives (né Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives; d. Apr. 14, 1995), American actor, writer and singer. He died of cancer at age 85.
1904 ~ Margaret Bourke-White (d. Aug. 27, 1971), American photojournalist. She died of Parkinson’s disease at age 67.
1903 ~ Alonzo Church (d. Aug. 11, 1995), American mathematician. He died at age 92.
1891 ~ Alexander Volkov (d. July 3, 1977), Russian novelist and mathematician. He died 19 days after his 86th birthday.
1877 ~ Ida MacLean (né Ida Smedley; d. Mar. 2, 1944), British biochemist. She was the first woman admitted into the London Chemical Society. She was the first femal staff member at the Manchester University where she became an assistant lecturer in the chemisty department in 1906. She was born in Birmingham, England. She died in London, England at age 66.
1868 ~ Karl Landsteiner (d. June 26, 1943), Austrian biologist, physician and recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He died 12 days after his 75th birthday.
1864 ~ Alois Alzheimer (né Aloysius Alzheimer; d. Dec. 19, 1915), German physician and neuroscientist who first described the signs of dementia, which ultimately was determined to be the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. He died of heart failure at age 51.
1856 ~ Andrey Markov (d. July 20, 1922), Russian mathematician. He died at age 66.
1832 ~ Nikolaus Otto (né Nikolaus August Otto; d. Jan. 26, 1891), German inventor and engineer. He invented the Internal combustion engine. He died at age 58.
1819 ~ Henry Gardner (né Henry Joseph Gardner; d. July 21, 1892), Governor of Massachusetts. He served as Governor from January 1855 until January 1858. He died at age 73.
1812 ~ Fernando Wood (d. Feb. 14, 1881), Mayor of New York City. He first served from January 1855 until January 1858, and his second term was from January 1860 until December 1862. He died at age 68.
1811 ~ Harriett Beecher Stowe (née Harriett Elizabeth Beecher; d. July 1, 1896), American novelist and abolitionist, best known for her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. She died 2 weeks after her 85th birthday.
1810 ~ Ward Hunt (d. Mar. 24, 1886), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was appointed to the High Court by President Ulysses S. Grant. He served from December 1872 until January 1882. He replaced Samuel Nelson on the Court. He was succeeded by Samuel Blatchford. He was born in Utica, New York. He died in Washington, D.C., at age 75.
1796 ~ Nikolai Brashman (d. May 25, 1866), Czech-Russian mathematician. He died 3 weeks before his 70th birthday.
1736 ~ Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (d. Aug. 23, 1806), French physicist who developed Coulomb’s Law. He died at age 70.
1529 ~ Ferdinand II, Archduke of Further Austria (d. Jan. 24, 1595). He reigned over Further Austria from June 1564 until his death on January 1595. He died at age 65.
1444 ~ Nilakantha Somayaji (d. 1544), Indian mathematician. He is believed to have lived to be 100 years old. The exact date of his death is unknown.
Events that Changed the World:
2017 ~ A gunman began shooting during a Congressional practice baseball game in Alexandria, Virginia. Louisiana Representative Steve Scalise (b. 1965) was shot and wounded. The gunman was killed during a police shoot-out.
1985 ~ Hezbollah hijacked TWA Flight 847 shortly after take-off from Athens, Greece. The hijackers were seeking the release of 700 Shi’ite Muslims prisoners in Israeli custody. One American was killed. He was the only fatality.
1982 ~ The Falklands War ended when Argentine forces in Stanley, Falklands unconditionally surrendered to British forces. Hidden land mines planted by the Argentines remain in the countryside 30 years later.
1967 ~ China tested its first hydrogen bomb.
1954 ~ The words, "under G`D" were officially added to the Pledge of Allegiance when President Eisenhower signed a bill into law allowing this action.
1947 ~ A UFO allegedly crashed in Roswell, New Mexico.
1940 ~ 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów were brought to Auschwitz and became the first inmates at the concentration camp.
1940 ~ During World War II, Paris fell under German occupation.
1937 ~ The United States House of Representatives passed the Marihuana Tax Act. It placed a tax on the sale of marijuana and became effective on October 1, 1937. It was repealed in 1970.
1907 ~ Norway granted women the right to vote.
1900 ~ Hawaii became a Territory of the United States.
1863 ~ The Second Assault on Confederate troops at the Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana occurred during the American Civil War.
1789 ~ The first known whiskey was distilled from corn by the Reverend Elijah Craig (d. 1808). It was called Bourbon because Rev. Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
1789 ~ Nineteen survivors of the mutiny from the HMS Bounty, including Captain William Bligh (1754 ~ 1817), reached Timor, after traveling nearly 4,600 miles in an open boat.
1777 ~ The Stars and Stripes was adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States.
1775 ~ The Continental Army was established by the Continental Congress. This was the forerunner of the United States Army.
1401 ~ Owain Glyndŵr (1359 ~ 1415), the Welsh rebel leader, declared himself Prince of Wales and allied himself with the French against Henry IV, King of England (1367 ~ 1413).
1158 ~ Henry the Lion, Duke of Bavaria (1129 ~ 1195) founded the city of Munich on the banks of the river Isar.
Good-Byes:
2012 ~ Gitta Sereny (b. Mar. 13, 1921), Austrian-born British author who explored the roots of evil. She wrote extensively about the Holocaust. She died at age 91.
2009 ~ Jackie Ronne (née Edith Ann Maslin, b. Oct. 13, 1919), American born explorer who was the first American woman on Antarctica. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She died at age 89 in Bethesda, Maryland.
2007 ~ Kurt Waldheim (né Karl Josef Waldheim; b. Dec. 21, 1918), 9th President of Austria. He served as President from July 1986 until July 1992. While running for President, allegations were made that while he was serving as an intelligence officer in Nazi Germany’s Wehrmacht during World War II, he had committed war crimes. He denied the allegations. He had previously served as the 4th Secretary-General of the United Nations. He served in that Office from January 1972 until December 1981. He died of heart failure at age 88.
1994 ~ Henry Mancini (né Enrico Nicola Mancini; b. Apr. 16, 1924), American composer. He died of pancreatic cancer at age 70.
1986 ~ Alan Jay Lerner (b. Aug. 31, 1918), American composer. He died of lung cancer at age 67.
1986 ~ Marlin Perkins (né Richard Marlin Perkins; b. Mar. 28, 1905), American zoologist and television host of Wild Kingdom. He died of cancer. He was 81 years old at the time of his death.
1986 ~ Jorge Luis Borges (b. Aug. 24, 1899), Argentine writer. He was 86 years old.
1968 ~ Salvatore Quasimodo (b. Aug. 20, 1901), Italian writer and recipient of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 66.
1936 ~ G.K. Chesterton (né Gilbert Keith Chesterton; b. May 29, 1874), English writer. He died 16 days after his 63rdbirthday.
1928 ~ Emmeline Pankhurst (née Emmeline Goulden; b. July 15, 1858), English suffragist and activist. She died a month before her 70th birthday.
1927 ~ Jerome K. Jerome (né Jerome Klapka Jerome; b. May 1, 1859), British author. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 68.
1926 ~ Mary Cassatt (née Mary Stevenson Cassatt; b. May 22, 1844), American painter. She died about 3 weeks after her 82nd birthday.
1914 ~ Adlai Stevenson, I (né Adlai Ewing Stevenson; b. Oct. 23, 1835), 23rd United States Vice President. He served under President Grover Cleveland from March 1893 until March 1897. He died at age 78.
1877 ~ Mary Carpenter (b. Apr. 3, 1807), British educational and social reformer. She was also an advocate for women’s rights. She died at age 70.
1825 ~ Pierre Charles L’Enfant (b. Aug. 2, 1754), French architect and engineer who designed Washington, D.C. He died at age 70.
1801 ~ Benedict Arnold (b. Jan. 14, 1741), American general turned spy for the British during the American Revolutionary War. He died at age 60.
1768 ~ James Short (b. June 21, 1710), Scottish mathematician and telescope maker. He died 7 days before his 58thbirthday.
1746 ~ Colin Maclaurin (b. Feb. 1, 1698), Scottish mathematician. The exact date of his birth is not known, but he is believed to have been born on February 1, 1698. He died at age 48.
1662 ~ Sir Henry Vane the Younger (b. Mar. 26, 1613), English politician and Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he was baptized on March 26, 1613. He was executed in England at age 49.
1642 ~ Saskia van Uylenburgh (b. Aug. 2, 1612), Dutch model and wife of Rembrandt. She died at age 29, probably from tuberculosis.
1497 ~ Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandia (b. 1474), Italian son of Pope Alexander VI. He was murdered at about age 23. The exact date and year of his birth is unknown.
1161 ~ Emperor Qinzong of Song (b. May 23, 1100), 9th Chinese Emperor of the Song Dynasty. He died 23 days after his 61st birthday.
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