Birthdays:
1975 ~ David Ortiz, Dominican-American baseball player who played for the Boston Red Sox. He was known as Big Papi. In June 2019, he was shot while sitting outside in a bar in the Dominican Republic. Although he received lift-threatening injuries, he survived. He was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
1974 ~ Chloë Sevigny (né Chloë Stevens Sevigny), American actress. She was born in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1968 ~ Owen Wilson (né Owen Cunningham Wilson), American actor. He was born in Dallas, Texas.
1965 ~ Brené Brown (né Casandra Brené Brown), American author. She was born in San Antonio, Texas.
1963 ~ Lennie Bias (né Leonard Kevin Bias; d. June 19, 1986), American basketball player. He was born in Landover, Maryland. He died in Riverdale, Maryland at age 22 from a cocaine overdose two days after being selected to play for the Boston Celtics in the NBA Draft.
1960 ~ Elizabeth Perkins (née Elizabeth Ann Perkins), American actress. She was born in Queens, New York.
1953 ~ Kevin Nealon, American comedian, and actor. He is best known for being a part of the Saturday Night Live ensemble from 1986 until 1996. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
1939 ~ Margaret Atwood (née Margaret Eleanor Atwood), Canadian novelist. She is best known for her 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. She was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
1939 ~ Amanda Lear (née Amanda Tapp), French singer. She was born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
1939 ~ Brenda Vacccaro (née Brenda Buell Vaccaro), American actress. She was born in New York, New York.
1924 ~ Lucien Le Cam (né Lucien Marie Le Cam; d. Apr. 25, 2000), French mathematician. He was born in Croze, France. He died at age 75 in San Pablo, California.
1923 ~ Alan Shepard (né Alan Bartlett Shepard; d. July 21, 1998), American pioneering astronaut. He was the first American and second person to travel into space, although is initial flight was suborbital. He was born in Derry, New Hampshire. He died in Pebble Beach, California of complications of leukemia at age 74.
1923 ~ Ted Stevens, Sr. (né Theodore Fulton Stevens; d. Aug. 9, 2010), American politician and United States Senator from Alaska. He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was killed at age 86 in small plane crash in Dillingham, Alaska. Sean O’Keefe was also a passenger in the plane, but he survived.
1908 ~ Imogene Coca (née Emogeane Coca; d. June 2, 2001), American actress. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She died at age 92 in Westport, Connecticut.
1906 ~ George Wald (né George David Wald; d. Apr. 12, 1997), American neurologist and recipient of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 90 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1901 ~ George Gallup (né George Horace Gallup; d. July 26, 1984), American mathematician, statistician, and creator of the Gallup poll. He was born in Jefferson, Iowa. He died at age 82 in Switzerland.
1899 ~ Howard Thurman (né Howard Washington Thurman; d. Apr. 10, 1981), African-American theologian, educator, philosopher and civil rights activist. He was born in Daytona Beach, Florida. He died at age 81 in San Francisco, California.
1897 ~ Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett (né Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett; d. July 13, 1974), English physicist and recipient of the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physics. The crater Blackett on the moon is named in his honor. He was born and died in London, England. He died at age 76.
1882 ~ Frances Gertrude McGill (d. Jan. 21, 1959), Canadian forensic pathologist and criminalist. She was born in Minnedosa, Manitoba, Canada. She died at age 76 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
1861 ~ Dorothy Dix (né Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer, d. Dec. 16, 1951), American journalist. She was born in on a plantation in Tennessee. She died in New Orleans, Louisiana a month after her 90th birthday.
1836 ~ Sir W.S. Gilbert (né William Schwenck Gilbert; d. May 29, 1911), English dramatist and lyricist who worked with composer Sir Arthur Sullivan to create operettas, such as the Pirate of Penzance. He was born in London, England. He died of a heart attack at age 74 while teaching 2 young women how to swim.
1810 ~ Asa Gray (d. Jan. 30, 1888), American botanist. He was born in Sauquoit, New York. He died at age 77 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1787 ~ Louis-Jacques Daguerre (né Louis-Jacques Mandé Daguerre; d. July 10, 1851), French physicist inventor of the daguerreotype, the forerunner of photography. He died at age 63.
1774 ~ Wilhelmine of Prussia (d. Oct. 12, 1837), Queen consort of the Netherlands and Grand Duchess consort of Luxembourg. She was the first wife of William I, King of the Netherlands. She was of the House of Hohenzollern. She was the daughter of Frederick William II, King of Prussia and Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt. She was a Calvinist. She died about a month before her 63rd birthday.
1630 ~ Eleanora Gonzaga (d. Dec. 6, 1786), Holy Roman Empress consort and Queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia. She was the third wife of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor. They married in 1651. She was of the House of Gonzaga. She was the daughter of Charles Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers and Maria Gonzaga, Duchess of Montferrat. She was Roman Catholic. She died 3 weeks after her 56th birthday.
1092 ~ Adelaide of Maurienne (d. Nov. 18, 1154), Queen consort of the Franks. She was married twice. Her first husband was Louis VI, King of France. They married in 1115. After his death, she married Matthieu I of Montmorency. She was his second wife. She was of the House of Savoy. She was the daughter of Count Humbert II of Savoy and Gisela of Burgundy. She was Roman Catholic. She died on her 62nd birthday.
Events that Changed the World:
2014 ~ Two Palestinian terrorists armed with guns and meat cleavers entered a synagogue in Jerusalem during prayer and killed four rabbis and a police officer. Several other worshippers were injured.
2014 ~ United States Senate Democrats blocked a bill that would have approved construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
2003 ~ In Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional.
1999 ~ A bonfire at the Texas A&M University campus collapsed, killing 12 students and injuring many others.
1993 ~ The United States House of Representatives ratified the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The agreement would become effective on January 1, 1994.
1991 ~ Shi’ite Muslims kidnapped Terry Waite (b. 1939) and Thomas Sutherland (1931 ~ 2016), both members of the Anglican Church, in Lebanon. Terry Waite had been kidnapped in 1987; Thomas Sutherland had been kidnapped in 1985.
1978 ~ Cult leader Jim Jones (1931 ~ 1978) convinced members of his Peoples Temple cult to drink poisoned Kool-Aid, leading to a mass murder-suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. Of the over 900 who died, over 270 were children. Only hours before the mass murder, members of the cult had shot and killed California Congressman Leo Ryan (1925 ~ 1978)
1963 ~ The push-button telephone first became available to the public.
1961 ~ President John F. Kennedy (1917 ~ 1963) sent 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.
1938 ~ John L. Lewis (1880 ~ 1969) was elected as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
1929 ~ A 7.2 magnitude earthquake, known as the Great Banks Earthquake, off the coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean caused severe damage along the south coast of the Burin Peninsula and broke 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables.
1928 ~ Mickey Mouse, created by Walt Disney (1901 ~ 1966), first appeared on screen in the animated short film, Steamboat Willie. This is that date considered to Mickey Mouse’s birthday.
1926 ~ George Bernard Shaw (1856 ~ 1950) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature but refused to accept the monetary award.
1918 ~ Latvia declared its independence from Russia.
1905 ~ Prince Carl of Denmark became known as Haakon VII, King of Norway (1872 ~ 1957). He reigned as King from November 18, 1905 until his death at age 85 on September 21, 1957.
1903 ~ The United States and Panama signed the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, which granted the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
1883 ~ The American and Canadian railroads instituted five standard continental time zones in an effort to centralize rail schedules.
1878 ~ Soprano Marie Selika Williams (1849 ~ 1937) became the first Black artist to perform at the White House. She sang for President Rutherford B. Hayes (1822 ~ 1893) and his family.
1872 ~ Susan B. Anthony (1820 ~ 1906) and 14 other women were arrested for illegally voting in the 1872 United States presidential election.
1865 ~ Mark Twain’s short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County was first published. It appeared in the New York Saturday Press.
1626 ~ St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome was consecrated.
1421 ~ In an event known as Sint-Elisabethsvloed, or St. Elizabeth’s Flood, a seawall at the Zuiderzee dike in the Netherlands broke, killing about 10,000 people and flooding over 70 villages.
1307 ~ According to tradition, William Tell shot an apple off his son’s head.
1180 ~ Phillip II (1165 ~ 1223) became King of the Franks.
1095 ~ Pope Urban II (1042 ~ 1099) called the Council of Clermont, which lead to the First Crusade (1096 ~ 1099).
Good-Byes:
2017 ~ Naim Süleymanoğlu (b. Jan. 23, 1967), Bulgarian-born Turkish weightlifting defector who became an Olympic icon. While on a World Cup Final in Australia in 1988, he defected and found his way to Turkey. He died in Istanbul, Turkey following complications of surgery. He was age 50 years old.
2017 ~ Malcolm Young (né Malcolm Mitchell Young; b. Jan. 6, 1953), Scottish-Australian AC/DC guitarist who churned out classical rock riffs. He and his brother, Angus, co-founded the band AC/DC. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He died at age 64.
2016 ~ Denton Cooley (né Denton Arthur Cooley, b. Aug. 22, 1920), American heart surgeon. He performed the first implantation of an artificial heart. He was born and died in Houston, Texas. He died at age 96.
2009 ~ Jeanne-Claude (née Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon; b. June 13, 1935), Moroccan-born French artist. She and her husband, Christo (né Christo Vladimirov Javacheff), were born on the same day. They were both visual artists and created many environmental works of art throughout the world. Christo is Bulgarian; Jeanne-Claude was born in Casablanca, Morocco of French parents. Jeanne-Claude was the French artist who helped Christo wrap his work. She died at age 74.
2002 ~ James Coburn (né James Harrison Coburn, III; b. Aug. 31, 1928), American actor best known for his role in western films. He was born in Laurel, Nebraska. He died of a heart attack at age 74 in Beverly Hills, California.
1999 ~ Paul Bowles (né Paul Frederic Bowles; b. Dec. 30, 1910), American expatriate author and composer. He is closely associated with Tangier, Morocco where he lived from 1947 until the end of his life. He is best known for his 1949 novel The Sheltering Sky. He was born in Queens, New York and died Tangier, Morocco. He was 88 years old at the time of his death.
1994 ~ Cab Calloway (né Cabell Calloway, III; b. Dec. 25, 1907), African-American Jazz singer and bandleader. He was born in Rochester, New York. He died about a month after his 86th birthday in Hockessin, Delaware.
1991 ~ Gustáv Husák (b. Jan. 10, 1913), 9th President of Czechoslovakia. He served in that office from May 1975 until December 1989. He died at age 78.
1990 ~ Beatrice Shilling (b. Mar. 8, 1909), British aeronautical engineer and motorcycle racer. She invented the “Miss Shilling's orifice” which helped prevent engines flooding in fighter aircraft during World War I. She died at age 81.
1978 ~ Leo Ryan (né Leo Joseph Ryan, Jr.; b. May 5, 1925), United States Congressman from California. He was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. He was assassinated at age 53 while on a political tour in Guyana by members of the People’s Temple.
1976 ~ Man Ray (né Emmanuel Radnitzky; b. Aug. 27, 1890), American photographer and artist. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died at age 86 in Paris, France.
1969 ~ Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. (né Joseph Patrick Kennedy; b. Sept. 6, 1888), American banker and diplomat and patriarch of the Kennedy clan. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He died at age 81 in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.
1965 ~ Henry A. Wallace (né Henry Agard Wallace; b. Oct. 7, 1888), 33rd Vice President of the United States. He served as President Franklin D. Roosevelt second Vice President from January 20, 1941 until January 20, 1945. He had previously served as the 11th United States Secretary of Agriculture from March 4, 1933 until September 4, 1940 during the Roosevelt administration. After serving as Vice President, he became the 10th United States Secretary of Commerce, under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. Prior to entering politics, he was a farmer and agronomist. He was born in Orient, Iowa. He died at age 77 in Danbury, Connecticut.
1962 ~ Niels Bohr (né Niels Henrik David Bohr; b. Oct. 7, 1885), Danish physicist and recipient of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics. In the 1930s, he aided refugees from Nazism. He was born and died in Copenhagen, Denmark. He died at age 77.
1959 ~ Aleksandr Khinchin (b. July 19, 1894), Russian mathematician. He is best known for his work in probability theory. He died at age 65 in Moscow, Soviet Union.
1941 ~ Walther Nernst (né Walther Hermann Nernst; b. June 25, 1864), German chemist and physicist. He was the recipient of the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He died at age 77.
1922 ~ Marcel Proust (né Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Proust; b. July 10, 1871), French writer. He died at age 51 in Paris, France.
1919 ~ Aldolf Hurwitz (b. Mar. 26, 1859), German mathematician. He died at age 60 in Zurich, Switzerland.
1886 ~ Chester A. Arthur (né Chester Alan Arthur; b. Oct. 5, 1829), 21st President of the United States. He served as President beginning in September 1881, following the assassination of James A. Garfield, until March 1885. Prior to becoming President, he was serving as the 20th Vice President of the United States. He was born in Fairfield, Vermont. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 57 in New York, New York.
1313 ~ Constance of Portugal (b. Jan. 3, 1290), Queen consort of Castile and León. She was the wife of Ferdinand IV, King of Castile. She was of the Portuguese House of Burgundy. She was the daughter of Denis, King of Portugal and Elizabeth of Aragon. She was Roman Catholic. She died at age 23.
1154 ~ Adelaide of Maurienne (b. Nov. 18, 1092), Queen consort of the Franks. She was married twice. Her first husband was Louis VI, King of France. They married in 1115. After his death, she married Matthieu I of Montmorency. She was his second wife. She was of the House of Savoy. She was the daughter of Count Humbert II of Savoy and Gisela of Burgundy. She was Roman Catholic. She died on her 62nd birthday.
953 ~ Liutgard of Saxony (b. 932), Duchess consort of Lorraine. In 947 she married Conrad, Duke of Lorraine. She was of the Ottonian dynasty. She was the daughter of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor and Eadgyth. The exact date of her birth is unknown, but she is believed to have been about 19 or 20 at the time of her death.
923 ~ Zhu Youzhen (b. Oct. 20, 888), 3rd and final Chinese Emperor of the Later Liang dynasty. He died a month after his 35th birthday.
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