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The following events took place on Friday 13th.
1900s
April 1900 – Workmen begin excavating the royal palace of Minos. Artist Pierre Molinier was born.
July 1900 – Earl of Hopetoun is appointed first Governor of
Australia. Jazz musician George Lewis was born.
September 1901 – US President William McKinley, spoke his
last words. He died the next day.
December 1901 – Estonian musician Olev Rommet was born. Japanese
journalist Nakae Chōmin dies, aged 54.
June 1902 – Five investors in Two Harbours, Minnesota, found
the Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company, now 3M. Texas passes an
appropriations bill for $1million to excavate a ship cannel to turn Huston into
a deep-water port. With his mother unable to take care of him, uncontrollable
7-year-old George Herman Ruth, Jr. was turned over to St. Mary's Industrial
School for Boys in Baltimore. He’ll live and work at the school for 12 years
and develop athletic ability, later becoming Major League Baseball player “Babe
Ruth.” Mathematician Carolyn Eisele was born.
February 1903 - Envoys in Washington sign British peace
protocol lifting blockade of Venezuela. Writer Georges Simenon and engineer
Georgy Beriev were born.
March 1903 – The British appoint Muhammadu Attahiru II as
Sultan of the Sokoto Caliphate, West Africa.
November 1903 – Painter Camille Pissarro dies, age 73.
May 1904 – Anglo-Chinese Labour
Convention signed in London, allowing Chinese people in British colonies. Cricketer
Louis Duffus was born.
January 1905 – Actress Kay Francis and sprinter Jack London
are born. 6th Premier of Queensland George Thorn dies, age 66.
October 1905 – Director Yves Allégret and footballer Coloman
Braun-Bogdan were born. Actor Sir Henry Irving dies, aged 67.
April 1906 – Samuel Beckett and Bud Freeman were born.
July 1906 – Orchestra leader Harry Sosnik was born.
September 1907 – Lusitania ends its record-breaking 5 days,
54 minute trip across the Atlantic to New York.
December 1907 – The Mauretania runs aground at Liverpool.
March 1908 – US Ambassador to the UK Walter Annenberg and
chemist Myrtle Bachelder were born.
November 1908 – The first International Motor Exhibition
opens in London. The International Convention of Authors’ Rights decides to
extend legal protections to films “having a personal and original form.” Historian
C. Vann Woodward was born.
August 1909 - Juan Vicente Gómez was sworn in as the 38th
President of Venezuela. Tehachapi, California, and Twisp, Washington, are
incorporated.
1910s
May 1910 - Woolworth's became the first large retail chain
to sell ice cream cones. Aviator Gabriel Hauvette-Michelin crashes while
taking-off at a show in Lyon.
January 1911 - A recently unemployed cook slashed a knife at
Rembrandt’s The Night Watch at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. 31st Premier
of Queensland Joh Bjelke-Petersen was born.
October 1911 - Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and
Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent. Poet
Millosh Gjergj Nikolla and actor Ashok Kumar were born. Activist Sister
Nivedita dies.
September 1912 - Colonel Maurice
K. Goddard and actress Reta Shaw were born. Author Joseph Furphy dies.
December 1912 – Brazilian musician Luiz Gonzaga was born.
June 1913 – David Lloyd George and other ministers are
exonerated over dealing shares of Marconi. General Yitzhak Pundak and radio/TV
host Ralph Edwards were born.
February 1914 – The American Society of Composers, Authors
and Publishers is established.
March 1914 – Flying ace Lieutenant Edward O’Hare and author
W. O. Mitchell were born.
November 1914 – Battle of El Herri. Actress Amelia Bence,
film director Alberto Lattuada, and film archivist Henri Langlois were born.
August 1915 – Allied forces struggle to occupy Gallipoli. Near
Armentieres, while Private W. J. Smith aimed his rifle at a sniper’s hideaway,
the sniper spotted him and shot him … and the bullet went straight down Smith’s
rifle barrel.
October 1916 - Anglo-Egyptian forces occupied the Sudanese
village of Dibbis, forcing rebel leader Sultan Ali Dinar of the Sultanate of
Darfur to re-open talks with British commander Philip James Vandeleur Kelly.
Talks failed sooner after and Dinar went back into hiding. Musician Howard Bigs
was born.
April 1917 – US President Woodrow Wilson makes an executive
order to establish the Committee on Public Information as an independent agency
of the U.S. Government. The USS New Mexico was launched.
Governor of Texas Bill Clements, writer Journal Kyaw Ma Ma
Lay and Founder of ARCO Robert Orville Anderson were born. Businessman Diamond
Jim Brady dies.
July 1917 - First Battle of Ramadi ends. The Regional State
Archives in Hamar, Norway, established. Jockey Tom Cannon Sr. and tennis player
James Dwight die.
September 1918 – Second day of the Battle of Saint-Mihiel.
After two weeks of inactivity, the Islamic Army of the Caucasus began a final
assault of Baku, Azerbaijan. A train crash near Weesp, Netherlands killed 41
people and injured 42 others. Canoeist Douglas Bennett, and singers Dick Haymes
and Ray Charles (not that one) were born. Artist Frederic Crowninshield and
baby famrer Sarah Makin die.
December 1918 – Portuguese President Sidonio Pais’s last day
alive. He is assassinated the next day.
June 1919 – Heroic homing pigeon Cher Ami, dies. The town of
Vero, Florida, established. Rimbey, Alberta, gets incorporated. Chemist Leo
Brewer and commander Lê Quang Tung were born.
February 1920 – The Negro National League is formed.
Songwriter Boudleaux Bryant and soprano Eileen Farrell were born.
August 1920 – Battle of Warsaw begins. Greek premier
Eleutherios Venizelos is wounded in an assassination attempt by two Greek
soldiers, while visiting Paris. Actor Neville Brand was born.
May 1921 – The first election for the Parliament of Southern
Ireland, under the new home Rule Act. Sinn Fein dominates, almost unopposed. Lord
Reading, the Governor-General of India, conferred with the Mahatma Gandhi,
leader of the Indian independence movement, at a meeting in Simla. U.S.
schooner Miztec foundered in Lake Superior, killed all seven crew. Komatsu
Ironworks was founded in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. Author Jean Aicard dies.
January 1922 – Release of Molière, sa vie, son oeuvre.
Director Albert Lamorisse was born.
October 1922 – Athlete Nathaniel Clifton was born.
April 1923 – Madame Alfred Mortier become first woman
admitted to the Académie Francaise. In Kohat, India, Mrs Ellis is murdered, and
her daughter Mollie, is kidnapped. She was rescued nine days later. Actor Don
Adamas, sociologist A. H. Halsey and founder of Tanger Factory Outlet Centers
Stanley Tanger were born.
July 1923 – Lady Astor’s Liquor Bill is passed, banning the
sale of alcohol to under-18s in the UK. Author Ashley Bryan was born.
June 1924 – A week-long strike by London underground workers
collapses.
February 1925 - The Judiciary Act of 1925, also known as the
Judge's Bill, was passed as an effort to reduce the workload of the US Supreme
Court.
March 1925 - day Light savings becomes permanent in the UK.
Release of The Phantom of the Moulin Rouge. Composer Roy Haynes was
born.
November 1925 – First exhibition of Surrealist art opens in
Paris. South African premier James Hertzog says cabinet wants segregation of
blacks and more lack-only areas.
August 1926 – Lou Gehrig hit two home runs off of fellow
baseball legend Walter Johnson in the same game. Fidel Castro was born.
May 1927 – Black Friday in Germany. Racing driver Archie
Scott Brown, singer-songwriter Fred Hellerman and actor Herbert Ross were born.
January 1928 – General Electric demonstrates television in Schenectady,
New York. The New York Daily News published a photograph of the Ruth
Snyder execution in an extra edition and reprinted it the following day.
Together, the two editions sold an extra 1.5 million copies, despite an uproar
April 1928 – London Zoo acquires a 100-year-old Chilian
tortoise. Release of Zvenigora. Racing driver Gianni Marzotto and
politician Alan Clark were born.
September 1929 – Traffic lights
are standardized in the UK. Activist Jatindra Nath Das dies, after a hunger
strike, age 24.
December 1929 – A House public buildings committee approved
a $9.74 million plan to erect a building for the US Supreme Court. Christopher
Plummer was born. Finnish physicist Rosina Heikel dies, age 87.
June 1930 – Al Capone is arrested for perjury in Miami. Sir
Henry Segrave dies when his speed boat, Miss England II, capsizes on
Lake Windermere while achieving a record speed of 98.76 mph. Iuliu Maniu
becomes Romanian Prime Minister, again. Colonel Ryszard Kukliński, painter
Gotthard Graubner, and archaeologist Paul Veyne were born.
February 1931 – New Delhi becomes capital of India. A cotton
weaver lockout in Lancashire ends, with owners agreeing to weavers’ terms. American
gameshow host Geoff Edwards was born.
March 1931 - French village of Le Châtelard was spared
disaster when a landslide split into three earth rivers that bypassed it.
November 1931 – Adrienne Corri was born. General Ivan Fichev
dies, age 71.
May 1932 – 23 prisoners of Dartmoor Prison are sentenced
between six months to 12 years for rioting in January.
January 1933 – US President Herbert hoover vetoes a bill
that gives the Philippines independence in ten years. Congress overrules it
four days later. Basketball player Tom Gola was born.
October 1933 – Release of The River. Judge Raynald
Fréchette and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales Thomas Bingham, Baron
Bingham of Cornhill, were born.
April 1934 – Turkey handed Samuel Insull over to American
authorities aboard a ship at Smyrna. Ice hockey player John Muckler was born.
July 1934 – Heinrich Himmler becomes head of Nazi
concentration camps. Journalist Peter Gzowski, footballer Gordon Lee, writer
Wole Soyinka, and astronaut Aleksei Yeliseyev, were born. Astronomer Mary E.
Byrd dies.
September 1935 – Haile Selassie made a plea for peace in a
radio address transmitted around the world. Two weeks after its New York
premiere, Top Hat beat box-office records by reaching $245,000 in
takings for Radio City Music Hall. Howard Hughes set a new air speed record,
reaching 352.39 mph in his new Hughes H-1 Racer over a fixed course near Santa
Ana, California
December 1935 – Police closed Barasch Brothers' Department
Store, Breslau, Germany. Representatives of the federal and provincial
governments of Canada agreed unanimously to amend the constitution to allow the
country to make its own constitutional amendments without recourse to the
British Parliament. Physicist Türkan Saylan, American football player Kenneth
Hall and baseball player Lindy McDaniel were born. Chemist Victor Grignard
dies, age 64.
March 1936 – Sir Thomas Inskip is appointed Minister for the
Co-ordination of Defence. Release of The Trail of the Lonesome Pine. 20th
Prime Minister of New Zealand Francis Bell dies, age 84.
November 1936 – A 20-minute fistfight broke out in the
French Chamber of Deputies over accusations made by right-wing newspapers that
Interior Minister Roger Salengro was a deserter during World War I. Go West,
Young Man released. Salim Kallas was born.
August 1937 – The Battle of Shanghai begins. Radio contact
to pilot Sigizmund Levanevsky and his crew on a plane from Moscow to the US. It
crashed in Canada due to severe weather conditions.
May 1938 - 48th Prime Minister of Italy Giuliano Amato,
businessman Laurent Beaudoin, actress Anna Cropper, playwright Francine Pascal,
and actor Buck Taylor were born. Physicist Charles Édouard Guillaume dies.
January 1939 – The Black Friday bushfires burn 20,000 km2
of land in Australia, killing 71 people. Author Edgardo Cozarinsky, footballer Jacek
Gmoch and ice hockey player Cesare Maniago were born.
October 1939 – US President Franklin Roosevelt rejects
Hitler’s plea for meditation between the UK, France and Germany. American
football player Larry Bowie and actress Melinda Dillon were born.
September 1940 – Italians capture Fort Capuzzo. President of
Costa Rica Óscar Arias and businessman Kerry Stokes were born.
December 1940 – The Battle of Himara begins. Pierre Laval
was dismissed from Philippe Pétain's cabinet and placed under house arrest. Economist
Sanjaya Lall was born.
June 1941 – The Battle of Jezzine. Chief of the French State
Philippe Pétain
announces the arrest of 12,000 Jews for “plotting to hinder Franco-German
co-operation.” Allied Forces encircle Damascus. The American Federation of
Labour calls for a boycott of Disney productions in support of striking
animators. Release of Tom, Dick and Harry. Painter Serge Lemoyne and
musician Marv Taplin were born.
February 1942 – The Battle of Palembang and the Battle of
Pasir Panjang begin. Italians sink the Tempest. Actress Carol Lynley,
singer-songwriter Peter Tork, and astronaut Donald E. Williams were born. 11th
President of Brazil Epitácio Pessoa and journalist Otakar Batlička die.
March 1942 – Japan finishes its Invasion of Salamaua–Lae. Song
of the Islands released. The Canadian Women's Army Corps was integrated
into the Canadian Army. Computer scientist Dave Cutler, journalist George
Negus, poet Mahmoud Darwish and singer-songwriter Scatman John were born.
November 1942 – A second day of four days of attacks against
a Japanese fleet off Guadalcanal by the US Navy. Allied forces recapture
Tobruk, Libya. In Paris, while taking part in a performance at the Medrano
circus, actress Gina Manès gets attacked by a tiger. Singer-songwriter John P.
Hammond was born.
August 1943 – Allied forces bomb Rome, Turin and Milan. President
of Haiti Ertha Pascal-Trouillot, Sergeant Michael Willetts and American
football player Fred Hill were born.
October 1944 – The Battle of Rovaniemi ends. Allied forces
liberate Athens. The Russian army enter Riga, Latvia. Germans send V-1 and V-2
rockets to Antwerp. Actress Odette Joyeux was released after been arrested in
her home in Paris yesterday for denunciation. Singer-songwriter Robert Lamm was
born.
April 1945 – Vienna is liberated from Nazi rule. Samland
Offensive begins. German troops kill over 1,000 political and military
prisoners in Gardelegen. Actor Tony Dow, musician Lowell George, and American
footballer Bob Kalsu, were born. Philosopher Ernst Cassirer and archaeologist Aarne
Michaёl Tallgren die.
July 1945 – The Berlin municipal council officially confiscated
all property held by members of the Nazi Party. US admits responsibility for
the accidental sinking of the hospital ship Awa Maru. Cricketer Ashley Mallett
was born. Actress Alla Nazimova dies.
September 1946 – SS officer Captain Amon Göth is hung, along
with collaborator Dr. Leon Gross. The Soviet Union issues decree No. 2163-880s,
launching Operation Osoaviakhim, to transfer German rocket production potential
to the USSR. Dr. Willis J. Potts performs the first aorta-to-pulmonary artery
anastomosis to correct a congenital heart defect, a surgery later called the
Potts shunt. The Boston Red Sox win the American League pennant, after Ted
Williams hit an inside-the-park home run for a 1-0 win over the Cleveland
Indians.
Swimmer Henri Kuprashvili and director Frank Marshall were
born. Artist Eugene Lancerary, 24th Premier of Victoria William Watt, and George
Washington Hill, the President of American Tobacco who hired Edward Bernays to
help sell cigarettes to women, dies, aged 61.
December 1946 – The UN approves the creation of eight trust
territories – New Guinea, Western Samoa, Ruanda-Urundi, Tanganyika, Cameroon
and Togo. The bodies of 13 young boys were discovered by employees at the
Gigant cinema in Omsk, Russia. Beauty and the Beast wins the Louis
Delluc prize.
June 1947 - Pennsylvania Central Airlines Flight 410 crashed
into Lookout Rock in West Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, killing all 50 on
board. Fenway Park in Boston, held its first night time game – the Red Sox beat
the Chicago White Sox 5-3. Musician Annesley Malewana was born.
February 1948 – The ATS and WAAF become the Women’s Royal
Army Corps and the Woman’s Royal Air Force.
August 1948 – Pam American Airlines cuts the price of their
return transatlantic flights by a quarter to £118 2/6d. Soprano Kathleen Battle
was born.
May 1949 – First maiden flight of the English Electric EE.A1
prototype jet bomber. A Bell 47 helicopter sets an altitude record of 18,550
feet (5,650 m). Musician Philip Kruse, conductor Jane Glover and actress Zoë
Wanamaker were born.
January 1950 – Finland forms diplomatic relations with
China. A group of police and civilian officials invade the grounds of the US
consulate in Beijing, China. Economist Clive Betts, baseball player Bob Forsch
and footballer Gholam Hossein Mazloumi, were baorn.
October 1950 – In the Korean War, UN forces successfully
push north Korean forces back as far as Pyongyang. Chef Mollie Katzen, sprinter
Annegret Richter, and singer-songwriter Simon Nicol were born. Author Ernest
Haycox dies.
April 1951 – Actor Peter Davison was born.
July 1951 – The Queen lays the foundation stone for the
National Theatre, London. Italian Film Export is set by a group of producers to
promote Italian films in the American market. Politician Rob Bishop and actress
Didi Conn were born. Composer Arnold Schoenberg dies.
June 1952 – Soviet MiG fighter jet shoots down an unarmed
Swedish DC-3, doing intelligence-gathering, near Gotska Sandön. Politician
Jean-Marie Dedecker was born.
February 1953 – The defendants of the Oradour Massacre trial
in Bordeaux, France, are given their sentences. Japanese wrestler Akio Sato was
born.
March 1953 – Georgi Malenkow’s last full day as premier and
First Secretary of Communist Party in Russia. Battleship Potemkin gets
its first general release in France. Journalist
Tim Sebastian, golfer Andy Bean and 27th presiding bishop of the Episcopal
Church Michael Curry were born. General Johan Laidoner dies a prisoner, age 69.
November 1953 – UK government announce plans for commercial
TV, beginning what will lead to ITV. Mexican Andrés Manuel López Obrador was
born. Actress Frances Conroy was born.
August 1954 – First full day after un troops withdrew from
Korea. Radio Pakistan broadcasts the "Qaumī Tarāna," Pakistan’s
national anthem, for the first time. Musician Nico Assumpção was born. Musician
Demetrius Constantine Dounis dies.
May 1955 - A riot takes place at an Elvis Presley concert in
Jacksonville, Florida.
January 1956 – Anti-US rioters burn down an American
hospital in Jordan. Artist Lyonel Feininger ages, age 84.
April 1956 – The last day of the pre-video tape days of
television. The first commercial video recorder is demonstrated the next day. Painter
Emil Nolde dies.
July 1956 – After hijacking an airliner to fly to West
Germany, seven Hungarian students ask for asylum. Musician Mark Mendoza and
boxer Michael Spinks were born.
September 1957 – Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap held
its 1,998th performance in London, becoming the UK’s longest running
play. Ice dancer Judy Blumberg, footballer Mal Donaghy, philosopher Brad
Hooker, politician John G. Trueschler, neurosurgeon Keith Black, judge Eleanor King,
golfer Mark Wiebe, and drummer Vinny Appice were born.
December 1957 – An Earthquake kills 2,000 in Iran.
June 1958 – Poet Edwin Keppel Bennett dies.
February 1959 – Kirk Douglas fires Anthony Mann as director
of Spartacus. The Female is released in Paris. Canadian ice
hockey player Gaston Gingras was born.
March 1959 – With the admission of Hawaii voted so soon
after the admission of Alaska, flag manufacturers asked that the adoption of
the 50-star flag be postponed until July 4, 1960. Digby Chandler, president of
Annin & Co, said that the industry had already manufactured 300,000 flags
with 49 stars, and added, "If we are forced to throw all these away and
start making 50-star flags for next July 4 there will be no flag industry
left." One proposal was to add an eighth star in the middle row of the
seven rows of seven stars. Australian cricketer Dirk Wellham was born.
November 1959 – The Narrows Bridge in Perth, Australia, was
opened to traffic. Caroline Goodall was born.
May 1960 – Hundreds of students begin a protest at the
University of California, Berkeley, over a visit by the House Committee on
Un-American Activities.
January 1961 - singer-songwriter Wayne Coyne, ice hockey
player Kelly Hrudey, Canadian and actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus were born.
October 1961 – Prime Minister of Burundi Louis Rwagasore is
assassinated. TV gardener Rachel De Thame and baseball player Doc Rivers were
born. Director Zoltan Korda dies.
April 1962 - Governor of California
Culbert Olson dies.
July 1962 – Reacting against a fall in conservative votes in
a by-election held yesterday, UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan sacks seven
ministers and dismissed a third of his most senior colleagues, including
Chancellor of the Exchequer, in what has been since called “the Night of the
Long Knifes.” Singer-songwriter Rhonda Vincent and voice actor Tom Kenny were
born.
September 1963 – Professor of Pharmacology at the University
of Oxford Antony Galione, politician Theodoros Roussopoulos, cricketer Robin
Smith and Boxer Yuri Alexandrov were born.
December 1963 – The Beatles wrap up their autumn tour of the
UK and Ireland with a gig at the Gaumont Cinema in Southampton. Theologist
Mahmud Shaltut and diplomat Filippo Anfuso die.
March 1964 – French President Charles De Gaulle meets
Algerian President Ben Bella in Paris. Baseball player Will Clark and rugby
players Craig Dimond and Trevor Gillmeister were born.
November 1964 – Pope Paul VI gives away his jewelled tiara
to the world’s poor. Racing driver Timo Rautiainen and politician Dan Sullivan
were born.
August 1965 – The National Guard move into Los Angeles
during the Watts riots. Alfred Hitchcock’s 66th birthday, and he is
met with François Truffaut to discuss his work for a book. Baseball
player Mark Lemke and composer Hayato Matsuo were born. 58th Prime Minister of
Japan Hayato Ikeda dies, age 65.
May 1966 - 3,000 students protest against the banning of
student leader Ian Robertson in Johannesburg. Singer-songwriters Darius Rucker
and Alison Goldfrapp are born.
January 1967 – Film producer Anatole de Grunwald dies, age
56.
October 1967 – Baseball players Scott Cooper and Trevor
Hoffman, high jumper Javier Sotomayor, footballer Steve Vickers, actress Kate
Walsh, and 7th president of UEFA Aleksander Čeferin were born. Film critic
Georges Sadoul dies.
September 1968 - Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact. Italian
authorities seize the film Teorema. British banks announce that, from
July 1969, they will close on Saturdays. Shop owners and the police protest. American
football player Brad Johnson and baseball player Bernie Williams were born.
December 1968 - Brazilian President Artur da Costa e Silva
issues AI-5 (Institutional Act No. 5), enabling government by decree and
suspending habeas corpus.
June 1969 – John Betjeman is knighted. Writer Virginie
Despentes, shot putter Svetlana Krivelyova, singer-songwriter Søren Rasted, and
actresses Cayetana Guillén Cuervo and Laura Kightlinger were born. Writer
Pralhad Keshav Atre dies, age 70.
February 1970 - Norwegian singer-songwriter Karoline Krüger
was born.
March 1970 – Tom King trebles Conservative majority in first
UK by-election where 18-year-olds can vote. Film director Tim Story was born.
November 1970 – After 10 days, the Bhola cyclone finally
dissipates, after killing around 500,000 in East Pakistan (Bangladesh). Syrian
President and premier are arrested as Hafez al-Assad takes over.
August 1971 – Racing driver Patrick Carpenter and baseball
player Adam Housley were born. Founder of Bentley, W. O. Bentley, dies.
October 1972 - Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the
Andes. Survivors resorted to cannibalism to survive. 29 died and 16 survived
when rescue finally came 72 days later. The book and movie Alive were
based on this event. Aeroflot Flight 217 crashes outside Moscow, killing 174. Bank
rates are abolished in the UK. Swimmer Summer Sanders was born.
April 1973 – American football player Aaron Hayden was born.
Actor Balraj Sahni dies, age 59.
July 1973 – Deputy assistant to US President Nixon,
Alexander Butterfield, reveals the existence of a secret Oval Office taping
system to investigators working for the Watergate Committee. At the Third
International Spittin’, Belchin’ and Cussin’ Triathlon in Central City,
Colorado, Harold Fielding spat saliva a record-breaking 10.37 m away. Actor
Willy Fritsch dies.
September 1974 - basketball player Travis Knight, football
player Éric Lapointe, Canadian and ice hockey player Craig Rivet were born.
December 1974 – Malta becomes a republic. North Vietnamese
forces begin their 1975 Spring Offensive. Turkish writer Yakup Kadri
Karaosmanoğlu dies, age 85.
June 1975 – John Profumo is made a CBE in the Queen’s
birthday honours. Footballers Riccardo Scimeca and Ante Covic,
singer-songwriter Jaan Pehk, writer Jeff Davis, and model Jennifer Nicole Lee
were born.
February 1976 - German racing driver Jörg Bergmeister and
Australian rugby player Shannon Nevin were born. 4th President of Nigeria
Murtala Mohammed and actress Lily Pons die.
August 1976 – In the final test match against England,
West-Indies cricket player Viv Richards scored 291 innings. Basketball player
Geno Carlisle and tennis player Nicolás Lapentti were born.
May 1977 – Mobster Mickey Spillane was killed outside his
apartment in Queens, New York. After 38 years in exile, communist Dolores
Ibarruri, a.k.a. “La Passionara,” is allowed back home in Spain. England
cricket captain Tony Greig was sacked for helping Kerry Packer recruit players
for his “World Series” in Australia. Singer-songwriter Ilse DeLange, baseball
player Robby Hammock, cricketer James Middlebrook, actress Samantha Morton,
actors Brian Thomas Smith, Anthony Q. Farrell and Neil Hopkins, and rapper
Pusha T were born.
January 1978 – Statistician Nate Silver was born. Former US
vice-president Hubert Humphrey and baseball player Joe McCarthy die.
October 1978 – Basketball player Jermaine O'Neal was born.
April 1979 – In Africa, Rhodesian troops destroy Zambian
nationalist leader Joshua Nkomo’s home and Yusuf Lule becomes President of
Uganda, after Tanzanian-backed forces overrule Idi Amin.
July 1979 – The FAA lifts its grounding of the DC-10. Footballers
Craig Bellamy and Daniel Díaz, tennis player Libuše Průšová, and figure skater
Lucinda Ruh were born. Artist Ludwig Merwart dies.
June 1980 – Activist Walter Rodney was assassinated by a car
bomb in Georgetown, Guyana. 5,000 bikers show up to Quenemo, Kansas, because
their tavern sold beer for 25 cents a cup, leading to chaos that results in
three dead and six injured. Student Seyedashraf Mirhadi eats a grape in a
Kroger’s in Montgomery, West Virginia, and get arrested for shoplifting. Writer Viktor Nekipelov is sentenced seven
years in a labour camp and five years internal exile for “anti-Soviet agitation
and propaganda.” US Representative John W. Jenrette Jr. is indicted by a grand
jury for bribery. AT&T is made to pay MCI Communications $1.8 billion for
monopolizing long-distance phone calls. UEFA fines the FA £8,000 for a riot
caused in English Football fans in Turin. Singer Sarah Conner, Racing driver
Markus Winkelhock, basketball players Jamario Moon and Juan Carlos Navarro, and
footballers Darius Vassell, Florent Malouda, and Diego Mendieta were born. Businessman
William A. Patterson, for United Airlines, dies, age 80.
February 1981 – Sewer explosions destroy over two miles of
street in Louisville, Kentucky. Rupert Murdoch buys The Times. The
Wind wins top award at Ouagadougou Film Festival, along with a special
prize going to The Gift of God. Brazilian footballer Luisão was born.
March 1981 – Drug lord Jorge Luis Ochoa’s sister, Martha
Nieves Ochoa Vasquez, is kidnapped by M-19. Head of the Paedophile Information
Exchange, Tom O’Carroll, is sentenced two years for conspiracy to corrupt
public morals. The first speedcubing championship took place in Munich, with
Jury Fröschi
winning, by completing a Rubik’s cube in 38 seconds.
November 1981 – While on holiday in Spain, the provisional
IRA blew up the house of Attorney General Michael Havers. The Canadarm robot
arm is used on the Space shuttle for the first time. Mainichi Shimbun
reported that US National Security Adviser Richard Allen had accepted $1,000
from Shufunotomo, in return or arranging an interview with Nancy Reagan,
which later lead to his resignation. The Damned releases an EP called Friday
13th. Wrestler Ryan Bertin and artist Rivkah were born.
August 1982 – Release of Friday the 13th Part III.
Health warnings appear on cigarette packets in Hong Kong. Fashion designer
Christopher Raeburn, actor Sebastian Stan, and White House press secretary
Sarah Huckabee Sanders were born.
May 1983 - handball player Anita Görbicz, cyclist Johnny
Hoogerland, singer Grégory Lemarchal, footballer Yaya Touré, actor Jacob
Reynolds and actress Natalie Cassidy were born.
January 1984 – Hurricane-force winds kill six people in the
UK. Sprinter Kamghe Gaba, footballer Matteo Cavagna, and American football
player Nick Mangold were born.
July 1984 – The Daily Mirror’s first full day owned
by Robert Maxwell. Singer-songwriter Ida Maria was born.
September 1985 – The World Health Organisation declares AIDS
a worldwide epidemic. Super Mario Bros. released in Japan for the NES. Singer-songwriter
David Jordan and rugby player Tom Learoyd-Lahrs, were born. Astrologer Dana
Rudhyar dies.
December 1985 – A Brit and two Palestinians were sentenced
to life in prison for murdering three Israelis on a yacht in Cyprus in
September 1985, as members of the PLO. The Brit, Ian Davison, was freed in
1993. Clue is released in Los Angeles.
June 1986 – Footballer Keisuke Honda, baseball player
Jonathan Lucroy, record producer DJ Snake, computer scientist Lea Verou, singer
Måns Zelmerlöw, and actresses Kat Dennings, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen were
born. Benny Goodman dies, aged 77.
February 1987 - Dutch footballer Eljero Elia was born.
March 1987 – Racing driver Marco Andretti and footballer
Andreas Beck were born.
November 1987 – Swimmer Dana Vollmer was born.
May 1988 – Release of Friday the 13th Part VII: The New
Blood. Actor and singer Paulo Avelino and singer-songwriter Casey Donovan
were born. Musician Chet Baker dies.
January 1989 – A virus attacks hundreds of IBM PCs in the
UK, triggered by the date. American football players Morgan Burnett and Doug
Martin were born.
October 1989 – A leveraged buyout deal for UAL Corporation
to acquire United Airlines was vetoed by the Association of Flight Attendants.
News of this is considered the trigger of a mini stock market crash, resulting
in the Dow Jones dropping 190.58 points and NASDAQ dropping 14.90 points. Crimes
and Misdemeanours released. Rugby
player Luke Kelly, footballer Breno Borges, cricketer Clive Rose and politician
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were born.
1990s
April 1990 - The Soviet Union apologizes for the Katyn
massacre. Tennis player Anastasija Sevastova was born. Film producer Luis
Trenker does.
July 1990 – Ghost released. Rugby player Kieran Foran
and footballer Eduardo Salvio were born.
September 1991 - gymnast Ksenia Afanasyeva was born. Conductor
Robert Irving, footballer Metin Oktay, and film producer Joe Pasternak die.
December 1991 - NY assembly speaker Mel Miller is convicted
of federal mail fraud. Ricky Pierce (Seattle) ends NBA free throw streak of 75
games. Composer Jay Greenberg was born. Writer Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues
dies, age 82.
March 1992 – Earthquake strikes Turkey, killing 498 people.
Last edition of the original version of Pravda published.
November 1992 – An attempted coup to overthrow the Peruvian
government was foiled. Rugby player Dylan Napa and Footballer Maksim
Podholjuzin were born.
August 1993 – Release of Jason Goes to Hell: The Final
Friday. Rugby player Moses Mbye was born.
May 1994 – Racing driver Duncan Hamilton and 42nd Governor
of Michigan John Swainson die.
January 1995 – Author Max Harris dies, age 73.
October 1995 – Boxer James Murray suffered a bleed in his
brain during a fight against Drew Docherty in the Hospitality Inn, Glasgow. He
died two days later, aged 25. Singer Jimin was born.
September 1996 – Tupac Shakur dies from his bullet wounds. Rapper
Playboi Carti was born.
December 1996 – Serbians Kofi Annan becomes
Secretary-General of the United Nations. Edward Blishen dies, age 76.
June 1997 – Oklahoma City Bomber Timothy McVeigh was
sentenced to death. Intellectual Nguyễn Mạnh Tường dies.
February 1998 – The final day of the 1998 Australian
Constitutional Convention, where delegates, meeting in Old Parliament House,
Canberra, voted for constitutional change favouring Australia becoming a
republic. A referendum was held in November 1999 – and the Australian public
voted no. The Spanish government and seven Latin-American countries announce
film finance scheme Ibermedia.
March 1998 – Footballer Jay-Roy Grot was born. Singer-songwriter
Judge Dread and physicist Hans von Ohain die.
November 1998 – Actresses Edwige Feuillère and Valerie
Hobson and basketball player Red Holzman die.
August 1999 – In Bogotá, Columbia, right-wing
paramilitary hitmen kill comedian/journalist/peace activist Jaime Garzón.
Bowfinger released. Controversial chairman of the Central Council of
Jews in Germany, Ignatz Bubis dies, aged 72.
2000s
October 2000 – On the Texas Motor Speedway, racing driver Tony
Roper crashes, and dies from his injuries the next day. Chairman of the
Communist Party USA Gus Hall, baseball player Benny Culp, cricketer John Davis,
actress Jean Peters, and musician Britt Woodman dies.
April 2001 -Author Celeste De Blasis, footballer George
Forrester, comedian Jimmy Logan, American jurist Stephen C. O'Connell, actress
Josephine Premice, and sound engineer Ken Weston die.
July 2001 - Statesman Daniel Ahmling Chapman Nyaho, comedian
Miguel Gila, writer David Noyes Jackson actress Eleanor Summerfield, politician
Thomas Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gryfe, and diplomat Wang Tifu die.
September 2002 – Physician Sir Douglas Black, architect
Richard Foster, journalist George Hills, 84, biologist Charles Herbert Lowe,
diplomat Sir Brooks Richards, and the designer of the Canadian flag George
Stanley die.
December 2002 - The EU announces that Cyprus, the Czech
Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and
Slovenia will become members on May 1, 2004. Theatre designer Maria Björnson,
jazz singer Stella Brooks, journalist Ronald Butt, swimmer Lucien Zins, nd Zal
Yanovsky, founder of The Lovin' Spoonful, die.
June 2003 – Former Prime Minster of Pakistan Malik Meraj
Khalid dies, age 87.
February 2004 - The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics announced the discovery of the universe’s biggest diamond. 2nd
President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev and
engineer François Tavenas die.
August 2004 – Opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in
Athens. 156 refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi. TV Chef
Julia Child dies.
May 2005 - Andijan uprising. Founder of Barclay Records,
Eddie Barclay, and mathematician George Dantzig die.
January 2006 – Breakfast on Pluto is released in the
UK and Ireland. Journalist Frank Fixaris and ice hockey player Marc Potvin die.
October 2006 – Politician Wang Guangmei died.
April 2007 – Actress Birgitta Arman, literacy expert Marie
Clay, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court Nathan Heffernan, writer
Hans Koning, jazz singer Joe Lane, basketball player Steve Malovic, poet Wilma
Elizabeth McDaniel, politician Neil Pickard, cricketer Capil Rampersad, racing
driver Joie Ray, actor Don Selwyn, and World War II resistance fighter Marion
Yorck von Wartenburg die.
July 2007 – Mountaineer Michael Reardon was reported
missing, after been hit by a rogue wave and swept out of sea, after climbing
Fogher Cliff, County Kerry, Ireland. His body was never recovered.
June 2008 – Ireland rejects Lisbon Treaty. Journalist Tim
Russert dies.
February 2009 – US Release of Friday the 13th
reboot. Author Edward Upward dies.
March 2009 – Actress Betsy Blair and businessman Alan W.
Livingston die.
November 2009 - NASA announces that they found a
"significant" quantity of water in the Moon's Cabeus crater.
Politician Roy Butler, Sprinter Emin Doybak, canoer Michał Gajownik, BASE
jumper Ueli Gegenschatz, anthropologist Dell Hymes, Governor of New Mexico
Bruce King, baseball player Ron Klimkowski, actress Mara Manzan, TV critic John
J. O'Connor, and botanist Armen Takhtajan die.
2010s
August 2010 – Footballer Panagiotis Bachramis, author Edwin
Newman and wrestler Lance Cade die.
May 2011 – Pakistan experiences multiple suicide bombings in
retaliation over the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Ice hockey player Derek
Boogaard sculptor Stephen De Staebler, founder of McCain Foods Wallace McCain
and documentary-maker Bruce Ricker die.
January 2012 - passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks
off the coast of Italy, killing 32 people. 1st President of Northern Cyprus
Rauf Denktaş, physicist Guido Dessauer, and footballer Miljan Miljanić die.
April 2012 – Flight Lieutenant Cecil Chaudhry and
illustrator Shūichi Higurashi die.
July 2012 - Basketball player Warren Jabali, boxer Jerzy
Kulej, and film producer Richard D. Zanuck die.
September 2013 - Taliban insurgents attack the US consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National Police
reported dead and about 20 civilians injured. 15th Governor of Ondo State Olusegun
Agagu, biologist Robert J. Behnke, American football player Rick Casares, and
trade union leader Luiz Gushiken die.
December 2013 – Musician Marcel Cellier, actor Daniel
Escobar, singer Marina Gordon, baseball player Vivian Kellogg, politicians Kim
Kuk-tae, James Schroder and Wyn Roberts, Baron Roberts of Conwy, cricketers Stan
Leadbetter and Zafar Mahmood, golfer Grace Lenczyk, artist Harvey Littleton, historian
Wallace T. MacCaffrey, cyclist Italo Mazzacurati, journalist Claudio Nasco, novelist
Hugh Nissenson, actor Zafer Önen, sound editor Andrew Plain, boxer Thad Spencer, and poet Horst Tomayer, die.
June 2014 – Economist Mahdi Elmandjra, footballer Gyula
Grosics, singer-songwriter Jim Keays, American football player Chuck Noll, and
playwright Robert Peters die.
February 2015 – Activist Faith Bandler and actor Stan
Chambers die.
March 2015 – Baseball player Al Rosen dies, age 91.
November 2015 – Nine members of ISIL carry out a series of
attacks in Paris, killing 130 people.
May 2016 - Seiji Arikawa, Bill Backer, Khamidbi M. Beshtoev,
Ondrej Binder, Buster Cooper, Karl Eigen, Sammy Ellis, Rodrigo Espíndola,
Makiko Futaki, David McNiven Garner, Blanche Hartman, W. K. Hastings, Doina
Florica Ignat, John Imbrie, Paul Jetton, Lauri Kähkönen, Rabbit Kekai, Jan
Korger, Engelbert Kraus, Mikio Kudō, Dick McAuliffe, Howard Meeks, Fredrik
Norén, Pinuccio Sciola, James M. Shuart, Baba Hardev Singh, and Murray A. Straus
die.
January 2017 - Gilberto Agustoni, Antony Armstrong-Jones,
Walter Benz, Jerome A. Berson, Hans Berliner, Bernard d'Abrera, Mark Fisher,
Dick Gautier,Horacio Guarany, Sir John Hanson, Robert H. Hughes, Alan Jabbour,
John Jacobs, Zainuri Kamaruddin, Magic Alex, David Modell, Anton Nanut, Albert
H. Owens Jr., Ari Rath, Nicodemo Scarfo, Fumiko Shiraga, Jan Stoeckart, and Udo
Ulfkotte die.
October 2017 - Bernd Bonwetsch, Betty Campbell, Satish
Chandra, Lady Jean Fforde, Pierre Hanon, William Lombardy, Ted Z. Robertson,
Iain Rogerson, P. S. Soosaithasan, and Albert Zafy die.
April 2018 - Yogesh Atal, Art Bell, Zbigniew Bujarski,
Cesarino Cervellati, Ron Cooper, Barrie Dexter, J. Harold Ellens, Walter Fink,
Miloš Forman, Joy Laville, André Maman, William Nack, Tata Subba Rao, Lidia
Redondo de Lucas, Marc Rowell, Clive Stanbrook, Fernando Tamayo Tamayo, and Gus
Weill die.
July 2018 - Ponty Bone, Peter Copeman, Grahame Dangerfield,
Stan Dragoti, Ray Frenette, Frank Giroud, Atukwei Okai, Claudio Pieri, Siraj
Raisani, K. Rani, Luc Rosenzweig, Claude Seignolle, Thorvald Stoltenberg,
Jocelyn Vollmar, and Australian racehorse Naturalism die.
September 2019 - Italian sports executive Bruno Grandi,
German footballer Rudi Gutendorf, novelist György Konrád, and musician Eddie
Money die.
December 2019 - Gerd Baltus, Lawrence Bittaker, Jean-Claude
Carle, Graham Cooper, Ekaterina Durova, Bram Gay, Richard G. Hatcher, Roy
Johnston, Roy Loney, Ushiomaru Motoyasu, Wolfgang Nastainczyk, Benur Pashayan,
Emil Richards, Joey Sandulo, Carl Scheer, Rashied Staggie, Alfons Sweeck,
Yasuhiro Takai, and Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse die.
2020s
March 2020 – Breonna Taylor was killed. Due to COVID-19 the
Nepalese government announces the closure of Mount Everest for the season.
November 2020 – Serial killer Peter Sutcliffe dies in
prison, age 74.
August 2021 - THIS LIST WAS PUBLISHED. The Taliban seize Chaghcharan and Lashkar Gah, in Afghanistan. Indonesian royal Mangkunegara IX, Duke of Mangkunegaran, politician Andrzej Borodzik, actress Carmen Morales, game designer Steve Perrin, rugby player Sheham Siddik, footballer Franck Berrier, singer Pil Trafa, singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith, hip hop musician Louie Knuxx, comic book artist Enzo Facciolo, activists Gino Strada, James Hormel and founder of Organización Ardila Lülle, Carlos Ardila Lülle die.
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