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Birthdates which occurred on May 03:
Bourgondie
1455 Joâo II the perfect, King of Portugal
(1481-95)/took in Spanish Jews
1469 Niccolò Machiavelli Italy,
politician/writer (The Prince)
1514 Bartholomaeus a Martyribus
[Fernandez], primate of Portugal
1535 Alessandro "Agnolo"
Allori Italian painter/carpet designer
1647 John A "Joannes"
Antonides van der Goes poet (Bellone aen bant)
1649 Johann
Valentin Meder composer
1691 Carolus van der Abeele
Flemish jesuit/author (Introduction à l'amour)
1692 Jan J
Mauricius Dutch Governor-General of Suriname (1742-51)
1708 Johann Adolph Scheibe German music theroist/composer
1729 Florian Leopold Gassmann composer
1737 Friedrich
Schwindl composer
1742 Jean-Baptiste Krumphultz composer
1744 Freidrich Wilhelm Weis composer
1752 Braz
Francisco de Lima composer
1764 Elisabeth PMH princess of
France/son of king Louis XVI
1773 Giuseppe Acerbi Italian
traveller/nature investigator/diplomat
1815 Hermanus W
Witteveen Dutch theologist
1816 Montgomery Cunningham
Meigs Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1892
1819 Nicola De Giosa composer
1826 Charles XV Louis E
King of Sweden/Norway (1859-72)/poet
1844 Edouard A Drumont
French anti-semitic journalist
1844 Richard D'Oyly Carte
England, opera impresario (Ivanhoe)
1849 Jacob Riis Denmark,
reporter (New York Tribune, New York Evening Sun)
1859 Andy
Adams US writer (Log of a Cowboy)
1867 Jack Hearne
cricketer (cousin of George & Alec 12 Tests for England)
1867 Valère-Gille Belgian playwright (La Corbeille d'Octobre)
1873 [Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll Norwegian author (Kvinnen og
Denmark)
1873 Nikolay N Tcherepnin St Petersburg, composer of
ballets, songs
1874 François Coty Corsica, Corsican
senator/perfume maker
1876 Bert Hopkins cricketer (Australian
pace bowler of the 1900's)
1876 John Elicius Benedict B P Quick
Carrington Dwyer cricketer (Sussex)
1886 Marcel Dupré
French organist/composer
1890 B Traven writer
1892 Beulah Bondi Chicago IL, actress (It's a Wonderful Life)
1892 Sir George Thomson demonstrated electron diffraction (Nobel 1937)
1893 Hope Landin Minneapolis MN
1895 Earnest
Kantorowicz German/US historian (Laudes regiae)
1895 Gabriel
Chevallier French author (Le petit général)
1895 Zoltan
Korda Hungarian/British director (Jungle Book, 4 Feathers)
1897 V K Krishna Menon India, nationalist/statesman
1898 Golda Meir [Meyerson] Kiev Ukraine, 4th Israeli PM (1969-74)
1898 Septima Poinsette Clark civil rights activist/educator
1899 Aline MacMahon McKeesport PA, actress (Backdoor to
Heaven)
19-- Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth rocker (Overkill-Hello
From the Gutter)
19-- Mark Thomas Miller Louisville KY, actor
(Johnny-Misfits of Science)
1901 Gino Cervi Bologna Italy,
actor (Les Miserables, Naked Maja)
1902 Hugo Friedhofer
composer
1902 Jack Larue New York NY, actor (Lights Out,
Mouthpiece, My Favorite Brunette)
1902 Seton I Miller Chehalis
WA, writer (Pete's Dragon, Istanbul)
1902 Walter Slezak
Vienna, actor (Bedtime for Bonzo, Inspector General)
1903 Bing
Crosby (Harry Lillis Crosby) Tacoma WA, crooner/actor (White Christmas,
Going My Way)
1904 Charles "Red" Ruffing New York Yankee
pitcher, hitter (1930-46)
1904 John Breeden San Fransisco CA,
actor (Salute, Madame Racketeer, Joy Street)
1905 Albrecht
Luitpold G Ferdinand Michael Wittelsbach duke of Bavaria
1905 Sebastian Lewis Shaw actor (High Season, Ace of Spades, Caste)
1906 Mary Astor Quincy IL, actress (Maltese Falcon, Dinky,
Across the Pacific)
1907 Earl Wilson Rockford OH, columnist
(Midnight Earl)
1910 Alceo Galliera composer
1911 John Rhea "Yank" Lawson trumpeter
1913 Earl
Blackwell Atlanta GA, author (Celebrity Register)
1913 William
M Inge US playwright (Picnic-Pulitzer 1953)
1915 Evencio
Castellanos composer
1916 Henry Barbosa Gonzalez San
Antonio TX, (Representative-D-TX, 1961- )
1916 Pierre Emmanuel
French poet (Sodome)
1917 James Penberthy composer
1919 Betty Comden Brooklyn NY, song writer (Comden & Green-Bells are
Ringing)
1919 Pete Seeger New York NY, folk singer (Weaver,
Goodnight Irene)
1920 Sugar Ray Robinson [Walter Smith]
middleweight/welterweight boxer (champion)
1921 Vasco dos Santos
Gonçalves Portuguese leftist colonel
1922 Marina Svetlova
ballerina/choreographer (Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo)
1923 Ralph M
Hall (Representative-D-TX, 1981- )
1924 Mary Carver Los
Angeles CA, actress (Cecilia-Simon & Simon)
1925 Nina Bara
Buenos Aires Argentina, actress (Tonga-Space Patrol)
1928 James
Brown Augusta GA, singer/jail bird, soul brother #1 (Hot Pants)
1928 Jeanne Bal Santa Monica CA, actress (Pat-Love & Marriage)
1929 Hendrik L van Beek Dutch Vice-Admiral
1929 Jaharna Imam Bangladeshi writer/political activist
1930 David Evatt Tunley composer
1931 Alex Cord actor
(The Dead are Alive)
1931 Joseph Lichtman Layton dancer
1933 Collie Smith cricketer (exciting West Indies all-rounder
all too briefly)
1934 Georg Kroll composer
1935 Donald P Hodel Portland OR, US Secretary of Interior (1985-89)
1936 Engelbert Humperdinck [Arnold George Dorsey] Madras
India, singer (After The Lovin', Release Me, Quando Quando Quando)
1937 Frankie Valli [Castelluccio] Newark NJ, singer (Four Seasons-Sherry)
1939 Jonathan David Harvey English composer (Bhakti, Music of
Stockhausen)
1939 José Torres US, boxer (Olympics)
1939 Samantha Eggar London England, actress (Anna and the King, Collector)
1941 Nona Gaprindasvili USSR, world women's chess champion
(1962-78)
1942 Lynn Farleigh Bristol England, actress (Lovers
of Their Time)
1942 Vera Càslavskà-Odlozilova Czechoslovakia,
gymnast (Olympics-gold-1964, 68)
1943 John Costello historian
1944 Ian Peter Leslie Smith journalist
1944 Peter Staples rocker (Troggs-Wild Thing)
1945 Sadiq
Mohammad cricketer (attacking Pakistan opening batsman 1969-81)
1946 Greg Gumbel sportscaster (CBS TV, WFAN)
1947 Doug
Henning Fort Garry Manitoba, magician (Broadway play-Magic)
1949 Albert Sacco Jr Boston MA, PhD/astronaut (STS 73)
1949 Ron Wyden (Representative-D-OR, 1981- )
1950 Mary
Hopkin South Wales, singer (Those Were the Days)
1951 Christopher Cross [Geppert] San Antonio TX, singer (Sailing, Arthur's
Theme)
1952 Allen Wells England, 100 meter dash
(Olympics-gold-1980)
1953 Bruce Hall Champaign IL, rock
bassist (Reo Speedwagon)
1953 Van McLain rocker (Shooting
Star)
1955 David Hookes cricketer (dashing Australian LHB, S
Aussie stalwart)
1955 Steve Jones English pop guitarist (Sex
Pistols-Mercy)
1957 Cactus Moser Montrose CO, country singer
(Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry)
1957 Rod Langway Formosa, NHL
defenseman (Montréal Canadiens, Washington Capitals)
1959 Ben
Elton London UK, actor (Stark, Friday Night Live)
1959 David
Ball Blackpool, rock keyboardist (Soft Cell)
1962 Anthony
Gilligan Penrith New South Wales, Australasia golfer
1963 Jeff
Hornacek NBA guard (Utah Jazz)
1964 Ron Hextall Winnipeg,
NHL goalie (Philadelphia Flyers, New York Islanders)
1966 Paul
Stevenson Victoria Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1968 Deborah Caprioglio Miestre Italy, actress (Big Game Hunter)
1968 Jay Darlington London England, keyboardist (Kula Shaker)
1969 Karen Kraft San Mateo CA, rower (Olympics-silver-96)
1970 Alexia Dechaume-Ballert La Rochelle France, tennis star
(1992 Australia)
1970 Ted Crowley Concord MA, US hockey
defenseman (Olympics-1994)
1971 James Roberson defensive end
(Tennessee Oilers)
1972 Brett Hayman Australian rower
(Olympics-96)
1972 Josh Taves defensive end (New England
Patriots)
1972 Vyacheslav Kozlov Voskresensk Russia, NHL
forward (Detroit Red Wings)
1973 Dominique Monami Verviers
Belgium, tennis star
1973 Michel Traveller soccer player
(Ajax)
Deaths which occurred on May 03:
1010 Ansfried 9th bishopof Utrecht (995-1010)/saint, dies at about 69
1294 Jan I duke
of Brabant/Limburg/poet, dies
1410 Alexander V [Petros
Philargi], Kreta's Pope (1409-10), dies
1442 Engelbert I Earl
of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies
1481 Mohammed II [Fâtih], sultan of
Turkey (1451-81), dies
1567 Leonhard Paminger composer, dies
at 72
1614 Sasbout Vosmeer Roman Catholic theologist/apostole
vicar, dies at 66
1654 François van Kinschot
treasurer-general/chancellor of Brabant, dies at 77
1703 Eglon van
de Down still-life painter, dies
1704 Heinrich Ignaz Franz von
Biber Austrian violist/composer, dies at 59
1707 Michiel de
Swaen South Netherlands physician/poet, dies at 53
1737 Abraham Patras Governor-General of East-Indies (1735-37), dies at 65
1758 Benedict XIV [Prospero L Lambertini] Pope (1740-58), dies
at 83
1764 Francesco Algarotti Italian earl/encyclopedist,
dies at 53
1774 Heinrich A Fouqué Prussian general (7 year
war), dies at 76
1783 Pieter Valck(x) South Netherlands
sculptor, dies at 49
1792 Carlo Zuccari composer, dies at 87
1839 Ferdinando Paer composer, dies at 67
1841 Cornelis T Elout Dutch minister of Finance/Navy/Colonies, dies at 74
1854 William Beale composer, dies at 70
1856 Adolfo Fumagalli composer, dies at 27
1856 Adolphe
Charles Adam French composer/critic (Giselle), dies at 52
1861 Anthony Philip Heinrich composer, dies at 80
1863 Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies
at 35
1868 Olof Wilhelm Udden composer, dies at 68
1881 Josip Jurcic Slovic writer (Schone Vida), dies
1893 Josef Rudolf Zavrtal composer, dies at 73
1902 David R
Capriles Curaçaos director of psychiatric, dies at 64
1916 Pádraic Pearse Irish nationalist, executed by British firing squad
1917 Norman Callaway New South Wales bat, cricketer (207 in
only FC innings), dies
1925 Clément Ader French engineer
(steam engine airplane), dies at 84
1926 Napoleon V Bonaparte
French pretender to the throne, dies at 63
1931 Frank Hoyt
Losey composer, dies at 59
1931 Otto Winter-Hjelm
composer, dies at 93
1932 Anton Wildgans Austrian writer (Dies
Irae)/director Burgtheater, dies at 51
1939 [Karl Eduard] Wilhelm
Groener German general, dies at 71
1942 Johan H Westerveld
Lieutenant-Colonel/leader Order Service, executed
1943 Leslie
Heward composer, dies at 45
1945 Louis L H de Visser Dutch
MP (CPN), dies at 66
1955 Philips C Visser explorer/ambassador
to Moscow, dies
1958 Frank Foster cricketer (England
all-rounder, 11 Tests 1911-12), dies
1961 Maurice [Jean Jacques]
Merleau-Ponty French philosopher, dies at 53
1964 Diana
Wynyard dies at 58
1965 Howard Spring British author
(Heaven Lies About Us), dies at 76
1965 Otto Forst de
Battaglia Austrian diplomat/genealogist, dies at 75
1966 Wylie
Watson dies at 77
1968 Leonid Leonidovich Sabaneyev
composer, dies at 86
1969 Imre Vincze composer, dies at 42
1970 Candelario Huizar composer, dies at 82
1972 Bruce Cabot actor (Diamonds are Forever), dies at 68
1972 Dan Blocker actor (Hoss-Bonanza), dies at 43
1972 Les
Harvey rocker, dies
1975 Samuel Gonard chairman
(International Red Cross), dies at 78
1976 David Bruce dies at
62
1976 Ernie Nevers college fullback (Stanford), dies at 72
1978 Wim van Doorne Dutch auto manufacturer (DAF), dies at 71
1979 Erin O'Brien-Moore actress (Nurse Choate-Peyton Place),
dies at 76
1982 Helmut Dantine actor (Shadow of the Cloak),
dies at 64
1982 Hugh Beaumont actor (Ward-Leave it to Beaver),
dies at 73
1983 Vaughn Taylor actor (Jailhouse Rock), dies of
cerebral hemorrhage at 72
1986 Robert Alda actor (Dan
Lewis-Supertrain), dies at 72
1987 Dicky Fuller cricketer (one
Test for West Indies 1935, one run, 0-12), dies
1987 Yolande
Christina Dalida dies at 54
1989 Christine Jorgensen 1st
transsexual, dies at 62
1989 Muriel Ostriche dies
1990 Pimen [Sergei Irzyekov] patriarch of Russian-orthodox church, dies at
79
1991 Gerrit Mik child psychiatrist/Dutch MP (D66), dies
1991 Jersy Kosinski author (Being There), dies at 57
1991 Margaret Tallichet actress (Stranger on the 3rd Floor),
dies
1992 Elizabeth Lennox radio singer, dies of heart seizure
at 98
1992 George Murphy (Senator-R-CA, 1965-71)/actor, dies
of Leukemia at 89
1992 Peter Bruni dies of heart failure at 60
1994 Gustaaf baron van Hemert Dingshof mayor of Maarn, dies at
78
1994 Haty Tegelaar-Boonacker Dutch MP (CDA), dies at 63
1994 Milford Dolliole pioneer jazz drummer, dies at 90
1994 Richard Scarry author/illustrator of children's books,
dies at 74
1996 Jack Weston actor (Ishtar, Rad, Cuba), dies of
lymphoma at 71
1996 Timothy Gullikson tennis player/coach,
dies at 45
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )1967 MOORE RALPH E. INDIANAPOLIS IN
1968 AVERY ROBERT DOUGLAS MORGANTOWN NC DID NOT RETURN FROM MISSION
1968 CLEM THOMAS D. NEW PARIS IN
1968 CHANEY ARTHUR F. VIENNA VA
1968 CLARK STEPHEN W. PLYMOUTH CA
1968 MC KAIN BOBBY L. GARDEN CITY KS
1968 TERRY ORAL R. MASCOUTAH IL
1970 CHURCHILL CARL R. BETHEL ME
1970 CONAWAY LAWRENCE Y. COLUMBUS OH
1972 AYRES TIMOTHY R. HOUSTON TX 03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1972 BRACY LESTER JR. 08/17/72 REMAINS RECOVERED ID 06/12/74 NOT ON WALL SP BRACEY
1972 HOPPER JOSEPH CLIFFORD MEMPHIS TN 08/72 REMAINS RECOVERED
1972 MC DONALD JOSEPH W. WAPPINGER FALLS NY POSSIBLY CAPTURED
1972 MC IVER ALEXANDER SANTA MONICA CA 08/72 REMAINS RECOVERED
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1972 UNGER DON LEE LAKE WORTH FL 08/72 REMAINS RECOVERED
1972 WILLIAMS DAVID B. LAFAYETTE LA REMAINS RETURNED 10/26/89
1972 WIDERQUIST THOMAS CARL MORTON GROVE IL 08/72 REMAINS RECOVERED
1973 MOREAU RON 05/73 RELEASED
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1294 John II becomes duke of Brabant/Limburg1342 Count Hartmann II becomes ruler of Vaduz (Liechtenstein)
1382 Battle on Beverhoutsfield near Brugge
1455 Jews flee
Spain
1494 Jamaica discovered by Christopher Columbus; he names it
"St Iago"
1512 Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen (18th
ecumenical council) in Rome
1515 Persian Gulf: Portugese fleet
occupies Ormuz
1616 Treaty of Loudun kills French civil war
1621 Francis Bacon accused of bribery
1624 Spanish silver
fleet sails to Panamá
1629 French huguenot leader duke De Rohan signs
accord with Spain
1640 English Upper house accept Act of Attainder
1654 Bridge at Rowley MA begins charging tolls for animals
1660 Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg & Austria sign Peace of Oliva
1661 Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be
seen
1662 Royal charter granted Connecticut
1678 French
conquering fleet at Curaçao, 1200 die
1715 Edmund Halley observes
total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads"
1722 Pierre de Marivaux' "La
Double Inconstance" premieres in Paris France
1747 Willem IV
appointed viceroy of Holland/Utrecht
1765 1st US medical college
opens in Philadelphia; founded by John Morgan, the School of Medicine belonged
to the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania).
1802 Washington DC incorporates as a city
1808 Goya's "Executions of
the 3rd of May"
1810 Lord Byron swims the Hellespont
1815 Battle at Tolentino: Austria beats king Joachim of Naples
1822 Society for the Propagation of the Faith starts (Lyon, France)
1830 1st regular steam train passenger service starts
1845 1st black
lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to the bar (Massachusetts)
1845 Fire
kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China
1846 Mexican army
surrounds fort in Texas
1851 Most of San Fransisco destroyed by fire;
30 die
1855 Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens
1861 General
Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan
1861 Lincoln asks for
42,000 Army Volunteers & another 18,000 seamen
1863 Battle of
Chancellorsville-Beaten Union army withdraws
1863 Battle of
Fredricksburg VA (Marye's Heights)
1863 Battle of Salem Church VA
1864 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria LA: Confederate assault
1886 M A Maclean elected 1st mayor of Vancouver British Columbia
1898 Camp Merriman established at Presidio (San Fransisco)
1900 26th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Boland aboard Lieut Gibson wins in
2:06¼
1901 Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville FL
1902 28th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on Alan-a-Dale wins in
2:08.75
1903 AVC Heracles (SC Heracles '74) soccer team forms in
Almelo
1906 British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from
Turkey
1909 35th Kentucky Derby: Vincent Powers on Wintergreen wins
in 2:08.2
1917 1st performance of Ernest Bloch's symphony "Israel"
1919 Afghánistán Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain
1919 America's 1st passenger flight (New York-Atlantic City)
1921 West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax
1922 Mayor
Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium
1922 Salt layer
find at Winterswijk
1923 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (New
York-San Diego) completed
1926 British general strike-3 million
workers support miners
1926 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis
(Arrowsmith)
1926 US marines land in Nicaragua (9-months after
leaving), stay until 1933
1929 Prussia bans anti-fascists
1932 24 tourists begin 1st air-charter holiday (London-Basle, Switzerland)
1933 1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of US Mint takes office
1934 Bradman scores 206 Australia vs Worcestershire, 210 minutes, 27
fours
1936 French People's Front wins elections
1936 New
York Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits
1937 Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With the Wind"
1938 Concentration camp at Flossenbürg goes into use
1938 Lefty Grove
defeats Tigers 4-3 for 1st of record 20 consecutive wins at his home field
Fenway Park; he doesn't lose there until May 12 1941
1938 Vatican
recognizes Franco-Spain
1941 67th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard
Whirlaway wins in 2:01.4
1941 German air raid on Liverpool
1942 Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu & Tanambogo, Solomon
Islands
1942 Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
1942 Nazis execute 72
OD'ers in reprisial in Sachsenhausen, Netherlands
1942 Nazis require
Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star
1943 Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton
Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth)
1943 Strike against obligatory labor camps
ends, after 200 killed
1943 US 1st armour division occupies Mateur
Tunisia
1944 "Meet Me in St Louis" opens on Broadway
1944 Meat rationing ends in US
1945 1st Polish armour brigade occupies
Wilhelmshafen
1945 Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner
Heisenberg
1945 British troop join in Rangoon
1945 German
ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed
1946 International
military tribunal in Tokyo begins
1947 73rd Kentucky Derby: Eric
Guerin aboard Jet Pilot wins in 2:06.8
1947 Japan forms a
constitutional democracy
1948 Pulitzer prize awarded to James
Michener & Tennessee Williams
1949 1st firing of a US Viking
rocket; reached 80 km
1951 New York Yankee Gil McDougald is 5th to
get 6 RBIs in an inning (9th)
1952 "Call Me Madam" closes at Imperial
Theater NYC after 644 performances
1952 1st landing by an airplane at
geographic North Pole
1952 78th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard
Hill Gail wins in 2:01.6
1953 Westchester conference of American
Library Association proclaims "Freedom to Read"
1953 WTVO TV channel
17 in Rockford IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 KTEN TV channel 10
in Ada-Ardmore OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 Pulitzer prize
awarded to Charles A Lindbergh & John Patrick
1954 WHA TV channel
21 in Madison WI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 A new range of
mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000')
1956 Frank
Loesser's musical "Most Happy Fella" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 678
performances
1958 84th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim
Tam wins in 2:05
1958 WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in
Boston, he quits
1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Land of the Sky Golf
Tournament
1959 Tiger's Charlie Maxwell hits 4 consecutive homeruns
in a doubleheader
1960 Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones' musical
"Fantasticks" premieres in NYC
1961 Warren Spahn pitches a 2 hitter
after pitching a no hitter
1962 Express train crashed into wreckage
of a commuter train and a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan)
1963 Leslie Narum is the only Baltimore Oriole to homer on his 1st at
bat
1963 Martin Luther King Jr delivers his "I have a dream" speech
1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Clifford Ann Creed Golf Invitational
1965 1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on the Early Bird Satellite
1965 3rd Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yankees 2-1 in 10
1965 Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US
1965 Don Steele,
begins a 40+ year radio career at KRTH (Los Angeles CA)
1965 KTCI TV
channel 17 in St Paul-Minneapolis MN (PBS) 1st broadcast
1965 Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era)
1966 WDHO
(now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1967 Black students seize finance building at Northwestern University
1968 Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio Veronica International
1969 "Trumpets of the Lord" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 7
performances
1969 95th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Majestic
Prince wins in 2:01.8
1970 24th NBA Championship: New York Knicks
beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3
1970 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA
Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational
1971 Erich Honecker succeeds
Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader
1971 National Public
Radio begins programming; 112 NPR stations premiere "All Things Considered"
1971 Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3
days
1971 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun)
1973 Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443 meters),
topped out
1973 Kansas City Royals' George Brett gets his 1st major
league hit
1975 101st Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Foolish
Pleasure wins 2:02
1975 Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record
marathon (2:40:15.8)
1976 Panamá 747SP lands after record flight
around world (46:26)
1976 Pulitzer prize awarded to Saul Bellow
(Humboldt's Gift)
1978 "Sun Day" - solar energy events are held in US
1978 Anderlecht wins 18th Europe Cup II
1978 Last cricket
test match appearance for Bobby Simpson, at Kingston
1978 West Indies
all set to lose cricket test vs Australia at Kingston till riots end game
1979 Bobby Bonds hits his 300th homerun (2nd to have 300 homeruns
& 300 stolen bases)
1979 Martin Sherman's "Bent" premieres in
London
1980 106th Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Genuine Risk
wins in 2:02
1980 Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits his 521st
& final homerun
1980 Texas Ranger Ferguson Jenkins becomes 4th to
win 100 games in American League & National League
1981 "Can-Can"
closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 5 performances
1981 "Moony,
Shapiro Songbook" opens & closes at Morosco Theater NYC
1981 Sally Little wins LPGA CPC Women's Golf International
1982 ABC's
All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations)
1982 New
York Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget
1982 President Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts
1983 Bruins 3-Isles 8-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 3-1 lead
1983 Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe
1983 US bishops condemn nuclear weapons
1985 Date of $5
million check in "View to a Kill"
1986 112th Kentucky Derby: Bill
Shoemaker aboard Ferdinand wins in 2:02.8
1986 Air Lanka crashes,
killing 22
1986 Cubs 3rd baseman Ron Cey hits his 300th & 301st
homerun
1986 NASA launches Goes-G, it failed to achieve orbit
1986 New York Yankee Don Mattingly is 6th to hit 3 sacrifice flies in
a game
1987 "Mikado" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 46
performances
1987 Cindy Hill wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1987 Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday & Saturday with
Gary Hart
1988 4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs
FL
1988 Jasper Johns' "Diver" sold for $4,200,000
1991 356th & final episode of CBS 2nd longest running series Dallas, 2nd only
to Gunsmoke
1991 Andy Williams weds Debbie Hass
1992 Baltimore's Gregg Olson, 25, is youngest to record 100 saves
1992 Beverly Hills 90210's Gabrielle Carteris marries Charles Isaacs
1992 Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic
1992 New York
Met Eddie Murray is 24th to hit 400 homeruns
1992 Ohio Glory wins 1st
WLAF game (after 6 loses), beat Frankfurt 20-17
1992 Sandra Palmer
wins LPGA Centel Senior Golf Challenge
1993 "Kiss of the Spider
Woman" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 906 performances
1994 29th Academy
of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins
1994 D66/Dutch Liberal
Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election
1994 US space probe
Clementine launched
1995 "My Thing of Love" opens at Beck Theater NYC
for 16 performances
1995 Australia beat West Indies to regain the
Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy
1995 David Bell debuts for the Indians
(3rd generation player, Gus & Buddy)
1996 Martin Moxon &
Michael Vaughan make 362 1st wkt Yorks vs Glam
1997 123rd Kentucky
Derby: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 2:02.3
1997 ABC Bud
Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jason Queen
1997 Garry
Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "dayof the week"
Japan-1947, Poland-1791 : Constitution Day
Lesotho : King's Birthday
Northern Ireland : Bank Holiday
Zambia : Labour Day - - - - - ( Monday )
New Orleans : McDonogh Day (1850) - - - - - ( Friday )
Religious Observances
Christian-Poland : Feast of Our Lady ofCzestochowa
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of SS Alexander, Eventius
& Theodulus, martyrs
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of the
Finding of the Cross
Roman Catholic : Feast of SS Philip & James,
apostles
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Juvenal,
bishop/confessor
Religious History
1512 The Fifth Lateran Council opened underPope Julius II. Its twelve sessions lasting through 1517, the council continued
under Leo X, following Julius' death in 1513.
1675 A Massachusetts
law was enacted requiring church doors to be locked during the worship service.
(Too many people were leaving before the long sermons were completed.)
1738 English revivalist George Whitefield, 23, first arrived in
America. In all, Whitefield crossed the Atlantic thirteen times, and died in
Massachusetts in 1770, during his seventh visit.
1850 Sixteen year
old Charles H. Spurgeon made his public profession of faith in Jesus Christ in a
Primitive Methodist Chapel, in Colchester, England. Spurgeon began a preaching
career the following year which did not end until his death in 1892.
1878 Death of William Whiting, 53, Anglican poet and music instructor. He is
known to have written only one hymn during his life, but its popularity has
endured: "Eternal Father, Strong to Save."
Source:
William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Additional information supplied by the
author. Contact via E-mail: William D.
Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)
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" Creditors have much bettermemories than debtors. "
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