Today's Famous Birthdays
1826 George McClellan, American Major General (Union Army), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1885)
1857 Joseph Conrad, Polish novelist (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness), born in Berdychiv, Poland (d. 1924)
1948 Ozzy Osbourne, English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter (Black Sabbath), born in Birmingham, England
1960 Julianne Moore, American actress (Magnolia, The Kids are Alright), born in Fayetteville, North Carolina
Who Died Today in History?
311 Diocletian, Roman Emperor (284-305), dies at 66
1894 Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist (Treasure Island), dies at 45
1910 Mary Baker Eddy, founder (Christian Science (Monitor)), dies at 89
1919 Pierre A Renoir, French painter/sculptor, dies at 78
Today's Weddings & Divorces in History
1931 Silent film actress Clara Bow (26) weds actor and politician Rex Bell (28) in Las Vegas
1940 Nobel Prize winning author Albert Camus (27) weds pianist and mathematician Francine Faure (25) in Lyon, France
1993 Baseball player Darryl Strawberry (31) weds Charisse Simon (26
Today's Historical Events
1678 Edmond Halley receives MA from The Queen's College, Oxford
1730 Colley Cibber is appointed British Poet Laureate under King George II
1736 Astronomer Anders Celsius takes measurements that confirm Newton's theory that the earth was an ellipsoid rather than the previously accepted sphere
1828 Andrew Jackson elected 7th US President
1847 Frederick Douglass publishes first issue of his newspaper "North Star"
1863 Confederate General James Longstreet abandons his siege at Knoxville, TN
1868 1st blacks on US trial jury appointed for Jefferson Davis trial
1881 Henry Morton Stanley founds Leopoldville (now Kinshasa)
1911 Willis Carrier presents his influential "Rational Psychrometric Formulae" on air conditioning to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
1926 Detective novelist Agatha Christie mysteriously disappears for 11 days
1933 Connie Mack sells Mickey Cochrane to Det Tigers for $100,000
1941 Hitler views Poltava, Ukraine
1943 Howard Hanson's 4th Symphony premieres
1947 Tennessee Williams' "Streetcar Named Desire" premieres in NYC
1948 Don Bradman scores his last century, 123 in his own testimonia
1950 Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast
1953 Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in the Republican Party
1954 Samuel Barber's "Prayers of Kierkegaard" premieres
1956 Wilt Chamberlain's 1st collegiate basketball game (scores 52 )
1967 Fomrer Indonesian president Sukarno placed under house arrest
1967 Assassination attempt made on Bob Marley and others during concert rehearsals in Jamaica
1971 US President Richard Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term
1982 "Frances", film depicting life of actress Frances Frances and starring Jessica Lange, first released in the US
1984 "Do They Know It's Christmas" single written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure and sung by Band Aid is released in the UK
1985 7th ACE Cable Awards: Shelley Duvall wins the Golden CableACE for "Faerie Tale Theatre"
1989 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush, declare the Cold War over
1991 Hulk Hogan defeats Undertaker to become 4th time WWF champion
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