Today In History - Baseball, Football, Golf, Basketball, Hockey, Boxing, Horse Racing, Trains, Planes, Automobiles, Entertainment, Cival War, American Revolution,World War II, World War I, Disasters, Weather, Space, Weddings, Wild West, Tennis and Crime

General Events

1675 - New England colonies declare war on Wampanoag indians
1739 - Slave revolt in Stono South Carolina led by Jemmy (25 whites killed)
1817 - Alexander Lucius Twilight, probably 1st black to graduate from US college, receives BA degree at Middlebury College
1839 - John Herschel takes 1st glass plate photograph
1850 - California becomes 31st state
1850 - Territories of New Mexico & Utah created
1880 - President Hayes visits San Francisco
1895 - American Bowling Congress forms (New York City)
1904 - Mounted police 1st used in New York City
1913 - Assn for Study of Negro Life & History organizes in Chicago
1919 - Boston's police force goes on strike
1945 - 1st "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweasers from a relay & taped into the log
1957 - Nashville's new Hattie Cotton Elementary School dynamited
1957 - President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction
1961 - Maria Beale Fletcher (North Carolina), 19, crowned 34th Miss America 1962
1963 - Alabama Governor George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools
1967 - Debra Dene Barnes (Kansas), 20, crowned 40th Miss America 1968
1972 - Terry Anne Meeuwsen (Wisconsin), 23, crowned 45th Miss America 1973
1977 - 1st TRS-80 computer sold
1978 - Kylene Barker (Virginia), crowned 51st Miss America 1979
1981 - Vernon E Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League
1983 - Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco2)
1985 - President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa
1990 - Bush & Gorbachev meet in Helsinki & urge Iraq to leave Kuwait

Baseball

1904 - Boston Herald again refers to New York baseball club as Yankees, when it reports "Yankees take 2," Yankee name not official till 1913
1914 - Boston Brave George Davis no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 7-0
1922 - St Louis Brown "Baby Doll" Jacobson hits 3 triples beating Tigers 16-0
1932 - Frank Crosetti ties record, striking out twice in 1 inning
1936 - Yankees sweep Indians, New York clinches pennant on earliest date in history
1945 - Jimmie Foxx hits his 534th & final HR
1945 - Philadelphia A's Dick Fowler no-hits St Louis Brown, 1-0
1948 - Brooklyn Dodger Rex Barney no-hits New York Giants, 2-0
1954 - Indians becomes 1st Cleveland team to win 100 games in a season
1955 - Don Zimmer, hits 4,000th Dodger home run
1958 - Pirate Roberto Clemente ties record of 3 triples in a game
1965 - Sandy Koufax pitches his 4th no-hitter, a perfect game vs Cubs (1-0)
1970 - Bowie Kuhn suspends Denny McLain for carrying a gun
1977 - Tiger rookies Lou Whitaker & Allan Trammell debut together & will play together for 19 years
1978 - 3rd game of Boston Massacre; Yankees beat Red Sox 7-0
1978 - Baltimore Orioles pull their 7th triple play (5-4-3 vs Toronto)
1984 - California Angel Michael Witt is 11th to pitch a perfect baseball game
1987 - Nolan Ryan strikes out his 4,500th batter
1988 - Braves Bruce Sutter joins Fingers & Gossage to save 300 games
1990 - Oakland beats New York 7-3 to complete a 12-game sweep of Yankees this year
1991 - Only 1,695 fans watch Boston Red Sox play Cleveland
1992 - 1st time Baltimore Orioles draw 3 million fans at home
1992 - Robin Yount, is 17th to get 3,000 hits

Football

1960 - 4th American Football League plays 1st game (Denver 13, Boston 10)
1968 - Minnesota Tommy Krammer passes for 6 touchdowns vs Green Bay (42-7)
1971 - NHL great Gordie Howe retires

Basketball

1987 - Larry Bird (Celtics), begins NBA free throw streak of 59

Golf

1951 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Carrollton Georgia Golf Open
1955 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open
1962 - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Eugene Golf Open
1973 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1979 - Sally Little wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic
1984 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship
1990 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Ping-Cellular One Golf Championship

Boxing

1909 - Jack Johnson fights Al Kaufman to no decision in 10 for boxing title
1991 - Mike Tyson indicted for rape of Desiree Washington

Entertainment

1926 - National Broadcasting Co created by Radio Corporation of America
1950 - 1st use of TV laugh track-Hank McCune
1951 - 1st broadcast of "Love of Life" on CBS-TV
1953 - KGTV TV channel 10 in San Diego, California (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - WFIE TV channel 14 in Evansville, Indiana (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Elvis Presley appears on national TV for 1st time (Ed Sullivan)
1957 - "Diana" by Paul Anka reaches #1
1962 - WNYS (now WIXT) TV channel 9 in Syracuse, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting
1966 - John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at an avante-garde art exposition
1968 - WGIQ TV channel 43 in Louisville, Alabama (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - WVPT TV channel 51 in Staunton, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - WCVN TV channel 54 in Covington, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono appear on Dick Cavett Show (ABC-TV)
1971 - John Lennon releases "Imagine" album
1979 - 31st Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ron Leibman & Ruth Gordon
1979 - Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) weds Fouzia Ali at Kensington Mosque
1987 - Gary Hart admits on "Nightline," to cheating on his wife
1992 - 9th MTV Awards: Howard Stern appears as Fartman

Trains Planes and Automobiles

1753 - 1st steam engine arrives in US colonies
1830 - Charles Durant, 1st US aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, New York City to Perth Amboy, New Jersey
1908 - Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Virginia
1912 - J Verdrines becomes 1st to fly over 100 mph (107 mph/172 kph)
1995 - "Broadway Limited" last train ride (began in 1902)
1995 - Dean St Station in Brooklyn, is 6th MTA station to close since 1904

Disaster

1841 - Great Lakes steamer "Erie" sinks off Silver Creek New York, kills 300
1932 - Steamboat SS Observation explodes in New York City East River (71 killed)
1963 - Landslide into Vaiont Dam emptys lake, kills 3-4,000 (Italy)
1969 - Allegheny 853 collides with Piper Cherokee above Indiana, kills 82

Space

1892 - E E Barnard at Lick discovers Amalthea, 5th Jupiter moon
1967 - 1st successful Test flight of a Saturn V
1975 - Viking 2 Mars probe launch
1982 - Columbia mated with SRBs & external tank in preparation for STS-5
1982 - Conestoga 1, 1st private commercial rocket, makes suborbital flight
1983 - Challenger returns to Kennedy Space Center via Sheppard AFB, Texas
1994 - Space shuttle STS 64 (Discovery 20), launches into orbit

Wedding

1979 - Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) weds Fouzia Ali at Kensington Mosque
1995 - Chynna Phillips weds William Baldwin
1995 - Ice Skater Nancy Kerrigan (25) weds her agent Jerry Solomon (41)

World War II

1939 - Nazi army reaches Warsaw
1940 - 28 German aircraft shot down above England
1942 - 1st bombing on continental US soil, Mount Emily Oregon (WW II)
1942 - Japanese planes drop incendiary bombs on Oregon
1943 - 15 German JU-88's sink Italian flag ship Rome
1943 - Italy surrenders to Allies
1943 - Lt-General Bradley flies from Algiers to to Marrakech/Prestwick
1943 - Red Army occupies Bachmatsj
1943 - US, British & French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche)
1944 - Allied forces liberate Luxembourg
1944 - Bulgaria liberated from Nazi control (National Day)
1944 - US 113th cavalry passes Belg-Dutch borders
1945 - Japanese in S Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies

World War I

1914 - Belgian offensive from Antwerp
1914 - Battle of Marne (German advance stalls, Paris saved)

Cival War

1861 - Sally Tompkins is only Confederate Army female commissioned officer
1862 - Lee splits his army & sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry
1863 - Battle of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee

American Revolution

1776 - Continental Congress renames "United Colonies," "US"

Crime and Criminals

1971 - 1,000 convicts riot & seize Attica, New York prison
1986 - New York City jury indicts Gennadly Zakharov (Soviet UN employee) of spying
1991 - Mike Tyson indicted for rape of Desiree Washington

Birthdays

384 - Flavius Honorius, emperor East Roman Republic (395-423)
1583 - Girolamo Frescobaldi, composer
1585 - Armand-Jean du Plessicide de Richelieu, premier of France (1624-42)
1618 - Joan Cererols, composer
1629 - Cornelis Tromp, Dutch lt-adm-gen/son of Maarten Tromp
1646 - Zeger B van Espen, Flemish theologist
1664 - Johann Christoph Pez, composer
1687 - Jean-Baptiste Maurice Quinault, composer
1752 - Johann Friedrich Christmann, composer
1754 - William Bligh, nasty ship's captain (HMS Bounty)
1769 - Cornelis F van Maanen, Dutch minister of Justice (1807..42)
1789 - William Cranch Bond, US, astronomer (codiscovered Hyperion)
1809 - William Radford, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1890
1817 - Speed Smith Fry, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1819 - Martin Luther Smith, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1866
1822 - Napoleon J K P Bonaparte, French prince/member National Convention
1826 - Frederich I W L, Grand Duke of Baden (1856-1907)
1826 - Thomas John Lucas, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1908
1828 - Leo Tolstoy, Russia, novelist (War & Peace, Anna Karenina) [NS]
1834 - Joseph H Shorthouse, English writer (John Inglesant)
1834 - William MacRae, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1882
1840 - Gentil T Antheunis, Flemish poet/music/composer
1850 - Harishchandra, India, poet/dramatist/father of modern Hindi
1850 - Leopoldo Miguez, composer
1853 - Frederick R Spofforth, Australia, cricketer (Demon)
1855 - Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist
1858 - Benjamin Kidel, English Sudan (Control of the Tropics)
1865 - Edwin Lehare, composer
1868 - Mary Austin, Illinois, feminist/nature writer (Land of Little Rain)
1872 - Delilah L Beasley, US author/columnist (Negro trail-blazers)
1872 - Josef Stransky, composer
1873 - Edward Burlingame Hill, composer
1877 - Frank Chance, baseball player/manager, Tinkers to Evers to Chance
1880 - Viking Eggeling, Sweden, artist/film maker (Diagonal Symphony)
1887 - Alfred M Landon, (R-Kansas) pres candidate (1932, 1936)
1887 - Raymond Walburn, Plymouth Indiana, actor (Christmas in July)
1890 - Harland Sanders, Henryville Indiana, colonel/CEO (Kentucky Fried Chicken)
1892 - Bruno Sturmer, composer
1896 - Fritz Reuter, composer
1898 - Frank "Fordham Flash" Frisch, NYC, baseball player (NL MVP 1931)
1899 - Louis Cheslock, composer
1899 - Neil Hamilton, Lynn Massachusetts, actor (Commisioner Gordon-Batman)
1900 - James Hilton, English novelist (Goodbye Mr Chips)
1907 - Leon Edel, biographer
1907 - Pinky Tomlin, Eureka Springs Ark, singer/actor (Tip-Waterfront)
1908 - Cesare Pavese, Italian writer (La belle estate)
1908 - John Haeton, US, bobsled (Olympic-silver-1928, 48)
1909 - Jane Baxter, [Feodora Forde], Bremen Germany, actress (We Live Again)
1909 - Kwame Nkrumah, communist/premier Gold Coast/president Ghana (1960-66)
1912 - Kurt Sanderling, Arys Germany, conductor (E Berlin Symph 1960-77)
1919 - Jacques Marin, Paris, actor (Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo)
1919 - Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder, gambler/sportscaster (lay you 5 to 1)
1919 - Richard Webb, Bloomington Illinois, actor (Invisible Monster, Git)
1920 - Michael Aldridge, Glastonbury England, actor (Murder in Cathedral)
1921 - Andrzej Dobrowolski, composer
1922 - Anthony Derrick Parsons, diplomat
1922 - MacKenzie John, pipe major
1924 - Jane Greer, Wash DC, actress (Prisoner of Zenda, Clown)
1924 - Nino Bibbia, Italy, bobsled (Olympic-gold-1948)
1925 - Cliff Robertson, La Jolla California, actor (Charly)/spokesman for AT&T
1926 - Annie nee Becker Kriegel, historian
1926 - Jake Carey, US R&B-singer (Flamingos-I Know Better)
1927 - Elvin Jones, rocker
1928 - Julian E "Cannonball" Adderley, US, jazz musician (Black Messiah)
1929 - Stan Parris, (Rep-R-Virginia, 1973-74, 81- )
1930 - Paolo Castaldi, composer
1932 - Ali Doelman-Pel, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1932 - Sylvia Miles, NYC, actress (Midnight Cowboy, Farewell My Lovely)
1934 - Sonia Sanchez, US playwright/poet (The Bronx is Next)
1935 - [Chaim] Topol, Tel Aviv Israel, actor (Fiddler on the Roof)
1936 - Augustinius Franz Kropfreiter, composer
1937 - Mikhail N Tai, Latvia, World chess champion (1960-61)
1938 - Richard Sharpe, English rugby player
1939 - Howard P McKeon, (Rep-R-California)
1940 - Joe Negroni, rock vocalist (Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers)
1941 - Curtis Otto Bismark Curtis-Smith, composer
1941 - Les Braid, England, bass (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good)
1941 - Otis Redding, Dawson Gerogia, rock bassist (Sitting on the Dock of the Bay)
1942 - Inez Foxx, Greensboro North Carolina, rocker (Mockingbird, Hi Diddle Diddle)
1942 - John Linder, (Rep-R-Georgia)
1942 - Luther Simmons, rocker (Main Ingredient
1943 - George Roger Waters, keyboardist (Pink Floyd-Brick in the Wall)
1944 - Olga de Haas, Dutch ballerina
1945 - Dee Dee Sharpe, [Dione Larue], US singer (I Love You Anyway)
1945 - Omukama Patrick David Matthew Olimi Kaboyo II, king of Toro
1946 - Billy Preston, Texas, singer/pianist, 5th Beatle (David Brenner Show)
1946 - Christopher Francis Palmer, orchestrator/Author
1946 - Doug Ingle, Omaha Nebraska, rock vocalist/keyboards (Iron Butterfly)
1946 - Pete Gavin, rocker
1947 - David Rosenboom, composer
1947 - Freddy Weller, Georgia, rocker (Paul Revers & The Raiders)
1947 - Lol Creme, [Lawrence Creme], England, rock vocalist/guitarist (10cc)
1947 - Lynn Fitzgerald, marathoner (ran 133 miles 939 yards in 24 hrs)
1949 - Joe Theismann, NFL QB (Redskins)/sportscaster
1949 - John Curry, England, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1976)
1950 - Tom Wopat, Lodi Wisconsin, actor (Durning Rage, Christmas Comes to Willow)
1951 - Corry Konings, Dutch singer
1951 - Michael Keaton, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, actor (Gung Ho, Batman, Beetlejuice)
1951 - Robert Desiderio, Bronx New York, actor (Det Kennedy-Heart of the City)
1951 - Tom Wopat, Loda Wisc, TV actor (Luke-Dukes of Hazzard)
1952 - Angela Cartwright, England (Make Room for Daddy, Lost in Space)
1952 - Bonnie Large, Glendale California, playmate (March 1973)
1952 - David Stewart, rock guitarist (Eurtyhmics-Here Comes the Rain Again)
1952 - Lee M Morin, Manchester New Hampshire, cmdr USN/astronaut
1954 - Walter Paul Davis, Pineville North Carolina, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1976)
1956 - Anatoli Pavlovich Artsebarsky, Russia, colonel/cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-12)
1958 - Lita Ford, London England, vocalist (Kiss Me Deadly, Runaways)
1960 - Christopher Sherratt White, Hamilton NZ, rower (Olympics-96)
1960 - Hugh Grant, London England (4 Weddings & a Funeral, 9 Months)
1961 - Jim Corsi, Newtonville Massachusetts, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1962 - Aleta Rzepecki Sill, Detroit Michigan, bowler (1983 WIBC single)
1962 - Derek Kennard, NFL guard (Dallas Cowboys)
1962 - Jack Trudeau, NFL quarterback (Carolina Panthers)
1963 - Leslie Thompson, Burlington Vermont, cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1964 - Brett Hull, NHL right wing (MVP 1991, 86 goals)
1964 - Skip [Jules I] Kendall, Milwaukee Wisconsin, PGA golfer (1993 Intl-8th)
1964 - Willie Broughton, NFL defensive tackle (New Orleans Saints)
1965 - Brenda Epperson, actress (Ashley Abbott-Young & Restless)
1965 - Dan Majerle, NBA guard (Miami Heat)
1965 - Marc Dunn, Kingston Ontario, volleyball player (Olympics-96)
1965 - Todd Zeile, Van Nuys California, infielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1966 - Adam Sandler, actor/comedian (Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, SNL)
1966 - Alison Sydor, Edmonton Alberta, x-ctry cyclist (Olympics-silver-96)
1966 - David Bennent, Lausanne, actor (Tin Drum, Legend)
1966 - Kevin Hatcher, Detroit MI, NHL defenseman (Team USA, Dallas, Pittsburgh)
1967 - B J Armstrong, NBA guard (Charlotte Hornets)
1967 - Deion Sanders, NFL cornerback/wide reciever (Dallas Cowboys)
1968 - Jonathan A Drummond Jr, Philadelphia, 4X400m runner (Olympics-silver-96)
1968 - Julia Sawalha, actress (Saffron-Abfab, Chrissy-Buddy's Song)
1968 - Thomas P Auth, Orange New Jersey, rower (Olympics-1996)
1969 - Christine Smith, Darien Conn, rower (Olympics-96)
1969 - Scott DeFreitas, Newton Massachusetts, actor (Andy Dixon-As the World Turns)
1969 - Sean Rooks, NBA center (Los Angeles Lakers)
1970 - Dan Miceli, Newark New Jersey, pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1970 - Joey Hamilton, Statesboro Georgia, pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1970 - Mike Faulkerson, NFL fullback (Chicago Bears)
1971 - Jill Sudduth, Balt Maryland, synchronized swimmer (Olympics-gold-96)
1972 - Ben Bronson, NFL wide receiver (Detroit Lions)
1972 - Mike Hampton, Brooksville Florida, pitcher (Houston Astros)
1972 - Miriam Oremans, Berlicum Neth, tennis star
1973 - Mike Schlegel, NFL defensive tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 - Peter Scott, Newcastle Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1973 - Todd McMillon, CFL cornerback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1973 - Troy Rudolph, production asst (Suburbanators, Viper)
1974 - Jennie Kwan, Glendale California, actress (Samantha Woo-California Dreams)
1974 - Leah O'Brien, Garden Grove California, softball infielder (Olympic-gold-96)
1976 - Mattias Ohlund, NHL goaltender (Vancouver Canucks, Team Sweden 1998)
1978 - Jhane Landwier, Miss Bonaire Universe (1997)