This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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Births:  
 
08/06/ 966 Berengarius II, king of Italy 
08/06/1504 Matthew 'Nosey' Parker, archbishop of Canterbury 
08/06/1619 Barbara Strozzi, composer 
08/06/1638 Nicolas de Malebranche, French philosopher 
08/06/1651 Francois Fenelon, France, writer (Playing for Time) 
08/06/1651 Johann Michael Zacher, composer 
08/06/1664 Johann Christoph Schmidt, composer 
08/06/1665 Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer 
08/06/1697 Charles VII, Holy Roman emperor (1742-45) 
08/06/1748 Bernhard Haltenberger, composer 
08/06/1775 Louis-Antoine the Bourbon, French duke of Angoulˆme/General of Franc

08/06/1804 Justinus van de Brugghen, Dutch lawyer/minister of Justice (1856-58)

08/06/1809 Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet laureate of England 
08/06/1811 Judah Philip Benjamin, Secy War/Secy State (Confederacy), died in 18

08/06/1819 Samuel Powhatan Carter, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 
08/06/1845 Anthonie A Vorsterman of Oyen, genealogist/heraldicus 
08/06/1856 Nestor de TiŠre, Flemish poet (Roze Kate) 
08/06/1858 Albert Fuchs, composer 
08/06/1859 J Arthur S Berson, Austria meteorologist (Balloon flights, Amazon) 
08/06/1861 Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, 2nd wife of Theodore Roosevelt 
08/06/1868 Paul Claudel, France, diplomat/poet (L'Otage-1909) 
08/06/1873 John Wesley Work, composer 
08/06/1873 Mary Carr Moore, composer 
08/06/1875 Marcel Labey, composer 
08/06/1875 Thomas Mann, German writer (Die Buddenbrooks, Nobel) 
08/06/1879 Joseph Wirth, German politician (Stalin Peace Prize) 
08/06/1881 Alexander Fleming, England, bacteriologist (penicillin; Nobel 1954) 
08/06/1882 Gerrit H Kersten, vicar/founder (Calvinist party) 
08/06/1883 Francesco Santoliquido, composer 
08/06/1883 Scott Nearing, US sociologist/pacifist/author (The Good Life) 
08/06/1885 Jozef M E Meeus, Belgian director H-Heart union 
08/06/1886 Edward Ballantine, composer 
08/06/1892 Hoot Gibson, US western actor (Horse Soldier, Last Outlaw) 
08/06/1893 Guthrie McClintic, Seattle Wash, Broadway producer/dir (Winterset) 
08/06/1896 Cyril Mockridge, composer 
08/06/1902 Michal Vilec, composer 
08/06/1902 Vladimir M Kirsjon, Russian dramatist/playwright [OS] 
08/06/1904 Henry Payne Iba, Easton Mo, US basketball coach (Olympic-gold-64, 68

08/06/1906 Ken Strong, NFL, AFL halfback (Staten Island, NY Yanks, NY Giants) 
08/06/1908 George Singer, composer 
08/06/1908 Helen Hull Jacobs, Berkley Calif, US tennis champ (1932-35) 
08/06/1908 Svend Erik Tarp, composer 
08/06/1910 Charles Crichton, director (Battle of Sexes) 
08/06/1910 Friedrich Schroder, composer 
08/06/1911 Lucille Ball, Jamestown NY, comedienne/actress (I Love Lucy, Mame) 
08/06/1916 Dom[inic] Mintoff, premier Malta 
08/06/1916 Michael Burke, sports executive (NY Yankees, NY Knicks) 
08/06/1917 Robert Mitchum, Bridgeport Ct, actor (Winds of War, North & South) 
08/06/1919 Pauline Betz Addie, Dayton Ohio, tennis champ (Wimbeldon 1946) 
08/06/1921 Ella Raines, Sinoqualmie Falls Wash, actress (Janice Dean RN) 
08/06/1922 Freddie Laker, CEO (Laker airlines) 
08/06/1923 Jack Parnell, London England, orch leader (Englebert Humperdick Show

08/06/1923 Jackie Kelk, Brooklyn NY, actor (Homer-Aldrich Family) 
08/06/1923 William B Williams, Babylon NY, DJ (WNEW, Sammy & Company) 
08/06/1925 Barbara Bates, Denver Colo, actress (Kathy-It's a Great Life) 
08/06/1925 Leland Smith, composer 
08/06/1926 J[anet] O[pal] Jeppson, [nee Janet Asimov], author (2nd Experiment) 
08/06/1927 Andy Warhol, artist/movie producer (Frankenstein, Bad) 
08/06/1927 William David Ford, (Rep-D-Michigan, 1965-  ) 
08/06/1928 Janice-Lee York Romary, Calif, fencer (Olympics-1952-68) 
08/06/1929 Anneliese Kuppers, German FR, equestrian dressage (Oly-silver-1956) 
08/06/1930 Abbey Lincoln, actress/singer (Nothing But a Man) 
08/06/1934 John Storey Bonington, UK, mountain climber (Annapurna I in 1970) 
08/06/1934 Leopold M de Beer, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (VVD) 
08/06/1934 Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob, UK, sci-fi author (Chthon, Phthor) 
08/06/1937 Barbara Windsor, actress (Study in Terror) 
08/06/1938 Carry Tefsen, actress (Say Some time A) 
08/06/1938 Peter Bonerz, Portsmouth NH, actor (Jerry-Bob Newhart Show, 9 to 5) 
08/06/1939 William 'Sonny' Sanders, US singer (Rayber Voices) 
08/06/1940 Louise Sorel, LA Calif, actress (BS I Love You, Crimes of Passion) 
08/06/1941 Doris Ernestine Hays, composer 
08/06/1941 Hubertus AGM 'Bert' Andr‚, actor (Turkish Fruit-Come Back) 
08/06/1943 Muchael Anderson Jr, London, actor (Clayt-The Monroes) 
08/06/1943 Ray Buktenica, Greenwich Village NYC, actor (Rhoda, House Calls) 
08/06/1944 Swoosie Kurtz, actress (Vice Versa, World According to Garp) 
08/06/1947 Sally Eaton, Ill, actress 
08/06/1948 Michael Peters, choreographer 
08/06/1949 Joyce McKinney, Avery County NC, Miss Wyoming (1972) 
08/06/1950 Dorian Harewood, Dayton Ohio, actor (Earl-Glitter, Trauma Center) 
08/06/1950 Nathan Purdee, actor (Nathan-Young & Restless, Hank-1 Life to Live) 
08/06/1950 Winston E Scott, Miami Fla, USN Commander/astronaut 
08/06/1951 Catherine Hicks, Scottsdale Az, actress (Star Trek IV, Child's Play)

08/06/1951 Dorian Harewood, US actor (Glitter, Trauma Center) 
08/06/1952 Barrel Scherpenzeel, rocker (Earth & Fire) 
08/06/1952 Wojiech Fortuna, Poland, ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1972) 
08/06/1954 Carl C Perkins, (Rep-D-KY, 1984-  ) 
08/06/1956 Stepfanie Kramer, LA Calif, actress (Claudia-We Got it Made, Hunter)

08/06/1956 Vinnie Vincent, heavy metal rocker (Solo-Ashes to Ashes) 
08/06/1957 Faith Prince, Augusta Ga, broadway actress (Guys & Dolls, Carousel) 
08/06/1958 Randy DeBarge, rocker (Debarge) 
08/06/1958 Simon Francken, bassist (Ivy Green) 
08/06/1959 Joyce Sims, rocker (All & All) 
08/06/1961 Carol Norman, Ardmore Okla, bowler (LPBT Rookie of Year 1982) 
08/06/1962 Thomas Jefferson, Cleve Ohio, 200m runner (Olympic-bronze-1984) 
08/06/1963 Kimberley Conrad Hefner, Moulton Al, playmate of year (Jan, 1988) 
08/06/1963 Thomas Bohrer, US West Islip NY, rower (Olympic-92) 
08/06/1964 Moosie Drier, Chic Ill, actor (Laugh-in) 
08/06/1965 David Robinson, Fla, NBA center (San Antonio Spurs/Olympic-gold-92) 
08/06/1968 Chris Boardman, English cyclist (world record time) 
08/06/1976 Soleil Moon Frye, Glendora Calif, actress (Punky Brewster) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
08/06/ 258 Sixtus II, bishop of Rome (257-58), beheaded 
08/06/ 523 Hormisdas, Pope (514-23), dies 
08/06/1195 Henry the Lion, duke of Saxon/Bayern, dies 
08/06/1221 Dominicus, Italian religious order founder (Dominicans) 
08/06/1272 Stefanus V, prince of Transylvania/king of Hungary (1270-72), dies 
08/06/1458 Callistus III, [Alfonso the Borja], Pope (1455-58), dies at 79 
08/06/1548 Georg Rhau/Rhaw, German cantor/composer/music publisher, dies 
08/06/1623 Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare, dies 
08/06/1661 Jacqueline-M-A the Sainte Madeleine Arnauld, French abbess, dies 
08/06/1666 Tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian, dies in Battle at 43 
08/06/1686 Paul Hainlein, composer, dies at 60 
08/06/1718 Jacob F Muller, [Sjako/Jaco], Germ/Neth crowd leader, beheaded at 28

08/06/1727 Fran‡ois Valentijn, vicar/writer, dies at 61 
08/06/1746 Christian VI, king of Denmark/Norway, dies 
08/06/1775 Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, composer, dies at 72 
08/06/1783 Willem Bachiene, vicar/theologist/geography/astronomer, dies at 70 
08/06/1784 Karl Kohaut, composer, dies at 57 
08/06/1799 Joseph Friebert, composer, dies at 74 
08/06/1816 Karl Frieberth, composer, dies at 80 
08/06/1820 Anton Wranitzky, composer, dies at 59 
08/06/1820 M A Elisa Bonaparte, Corsican monarch of Lucca, dies at 43, dies 
08/06/1821 Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer, dies at 64 
08/06/1848 Nicola Vaccai, composer, dies at 58 
08/06/1853 Josif Josifovich Genishta, composer, dies at 57 
08/06/1862 Francisco Acu¤a de Figueroa, Uruguay national anthem, dies at 71 
08/06/1867 Faustin-lie Soulouque, emperor of Haiti, dies (birth date unknown) 
08/06/1886 Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian, dies at 45 
08/06/1890 William Kemmler, US, 1st executed in electric chair 
08/06/1895 George Frederick Root, composer, dies at 74 
08/06/1900 Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist/socialist, dies at 74 
08/06/1914 Ellen Wilson, 1st lady (1913-14), dies at 54 
08/06/1924 John Henry Roberts, composer, dies at 76 
08/06/1928 William Henry Grattan Flood, composer, dies at 68 
08/06/1935 Alexander Gustav Adolfovich Winkler, composer, dies at 70 
08/06/1937 Annie E F Horniman, England, theater owner (Abbey Theatre), dies at 

08/06/1937 Ferdinand CS Schiller, British philosopher (Mind!), dies at 72 
08/06/1954 Theo[by] Van Re˜n, sculptor/drawer/lithograph, dies at 70 [or 8/10] 
08/06/1959 Preston Sturges [Edmund P Biden], US director/screenwriter, dies at 

08/06/1961 Jozef E Van Roey, Flemish cardinal/archbishop of Mechelen, dies at 8

08/06/1964 Cedric Hardwicke, actor (Capt Hook-Peter Pan), dies at 71 
08/06/1965 Nancy Carroll, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family), dies at 60 
08/06/1965 Peter Ronnefeld, composer, dies at 30 
08/06/1966 Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, sci-fi author (Space Lords), dies at 

08/06/1968 Ernest Burnelle, Belgian politician, dies 
08/06/1969 Theodor Adorno, German philosopher/sociologist, dies 
08/06/1970 Ingolf Dahl, composer, dies at 58 
08/06/1973 Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, dictator Cuba, dies 
08/06/1976 Gregor Piatigorsky, composer, dies at 73 
08/06/1978 Edward Durrell Stone, US architect, dies at 76 
08/06/1978 Paul VI, [Giovanni Montini], Italian Pope (1963-78), dies at 80 
08/06/1979 Kurt Kasznar, actor (Cmdr Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants), dies at 65 
08/06/1980 Charles Urbanus, baseball player, dies at 66 
08/06/1986 William J Schroeder, (longest-survivor with permanent artificial 
08/06/1986 heart, dies at 54, after 620 days with Jarvik VII man-made pump) 
08/06/1987 Ira C Eaker, commandant USAF in Europe (WW II), dies at 91 
08/06/1988 J Skelly Wright, US judge (anti-segregatinist), dies at 77 
08/06/1989 Hubert Beuve-M‚ry, French newspaper founder (Le Voice), dies 
08/06/1990 Jacques Soustelle, French ethnology/minister of Information, dies 
08/06/1991 Harry Reasoner, newscaster (60 Minutes), dies at 68 
08/06/1991 Shapour Bakhtiar, premier Iran (1979), dies in Paris 
08/06/1993 Milton 'Milt' Thompson, US NASA-test pilot/chief-engineer, dies at 6

 
 
Significant Events:  
 
08/06/ 258 St Sixtus II ends his reign as Catholic Pope 
08/06/ 523 St Hormisdas ends his reign as Catholic Pope 
08/06/ 768 [Constantine] ends his reign as Catholic Pope 
08/06/ 939 Battle at Simancas-Spain beats Moors 
08/06/1181 Supernova observed by Chinese & Japanese astronomers 
08/06/1588 Spanish Armada under Medina Sidonia anchors 
08/06/1601 Spanish garrison of Meurs surrender to earl Mauritius 
08/06/1623 Maffeo Barberini elected Pope Urban VIII 
08/06/1625 Earl Earnest Casimir appointed as viceroy of Groningen 
08/06/1661 Holland sells Brazil to Portugal for 8 million guilders 
08/06/1675 Russian Czar Aleksei bans foreign hairs cut 
08/06/1774 Mother Ann (Lee) comes to NY (Shaker movement) 
08/06/1787 Constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate 
08/06/1806 Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire 
08/06/1815 US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis & Tripoli 
08/06/1821 1st edition of 'Courrier of Pays-Bas' newspaper published in Brussel

08/06/1824 Battle at Jun n - Sim¢n Bol¡vars army beats Spanish 
08/06/1825 Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day) 
08/06/1854 Congress passes Confiscation Act 
08/06/1861 Lexington KY-Union milt camp established in neutral state 
08/06/1862 Confederate Army ironclad 'Arkansas' is badly damaged in Union attac

08/06/1864 Rebels evacuate Ft Powell, Mobile Bayd 
08/06/1866 E Stephan discovers asteroid #89 Julia 
08/06/1870 Battle at Spicheren: Prussia beats France 
08/06/1870 White conservatives suppresed black vote & captured Tenn legislature

08/06/1871 J C Watson discovers asteroid #115 Thyra 
08/06/1890 1st use of electric chair in US, John Hart, in NY for murder 
08/06/1890 Cy Young pitches & wins 1st game 
08/06/1905 26.7 cm rainfall at Princeton, Indiana (state record) 
08/06/1908 St Louis Card John Lush's 2nd no-hitter, beats Dodgers, 2-0 in 6 inn

08/06/1910 NYC Mayor Wm J Gaynor seriously wounded during assassination attempt

08/06/1914 Austria-Hungary declares war against Russia 
08/06/1914 French cavalry enter Belgium 
08/06/1914 German Zeppelin bombs Luik City, 9 killed 
08/06/1914 Serbia declares war against Germany 
08/06/1918 Ferdinand Foch becomes marshal of France 
08/06/1919 1st air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler

08/06/1919 Romanian forces destroys Bela Kun Republic in Budapest 
08/06/1921 Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens muni ferry system begin

08/06/1923 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #998 Bodea 
08/06/1926 NY's Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel 
08/06/1930 Supreme Court Justice John Force Crater disappears in NYC 
08/06/1934 US troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915 
08/06/1937 Franco-artillery fire on Madrid 
08/06/1937 Indians overturn Yankees' 7-6 win by a protest 
08/06/1937 US & USSR sign trade treaty 
08/06/1944 All 1,200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died 
08/06/1944 Anti-German attack at Avranches fails 
08/06/1944 Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins 
08/06/1944 US 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes 
08/06/1945 Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by 'Enola Gay' 
08/06/1946 US officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court 
08/06/1948 Bob Mathias, US, wins decathlon at London Olympics 
08/06/1948 Dreesgovt (KVP/Social Democratics/CHU/Liberal) forms 
08/06/1948 Fanny Blankers-Koen (Neth) is 1st women to win 3 golds at Olympics 
08/06/1951 Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria 
08/06/1952 Satchel Paige, 47, becomes oldest pitcher to win a complete shutout 
08/06/1954 WLAC (now WTVF) TV channel 5 in Nashville (CBS) begins broadcasting 
08/06/1958 Glenn Davis sets record of 49.2 in 400-meter hurdles 
08/06/1960 Pitt Steelers (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in Toronto 
08/06/1961 Gherman S Titov, 2nd Russian in space aboard Vostok 2 (17 orbits) 
08/06/1962 Jamaica gains independence from Britain 
08/06/1965 Beatles release 'Help' album in UK 
08/06/1965 Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights 
08/06/1965 Indian troops ocuppy Pakistan 
08/06/1965 US president Johnson signs voting law 
08/06/1966 Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Brian London 
08/06/1966 Salazarbrug over Tag opens (longest suspension bridge of Europe) 
08/06/1966 US citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam 
08/06/1967 Minn Twin Dean Chance perfect games Boston Red Sox, 2-0 in 5 innings

08/06/1969 Balt Orioles pull their 3rd triple play (5-4-3 vs KC Royals) 
08/06/1972 Garry Player wins PGA golf tournament 
08/06/1972 Hank Aaron hits 660th & 661st HR for record HRs with one club 
08/06/1974 6th time Phils get just 1 assist in game; no other team did it twice

08/06/1974 Explosion & fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee, Wash 
08/06/1977 C-I Lagerkvist discovers asteroid #2191 Uppsala 
08/06/1978 John Mahaffey wins PGA golf tournament 
08/06/1979 David Graham wins PGA golf tournament 
08/06/1980 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2570 Porphyro 
08/06/1980 Z Vavrova discovers asteroids #2522, #2523 & #2544 Gubarev 
08/06/1981 Argentina ex-president Isabel Per¢n freed 
08/06/1981 Due to strike, Yanks, A's, Philles & Dodgers declared 1st « champs 
08/06/1981 NASA launches Fltsatcom-5, it failed 
08/06/1982 WQXI (Atlanta) is 1st to use Harris Corp AM stereo system 
08/06/1983 Minn Vikings beat St Louis Cards 28-10 in London, England (NFL expo)

08/06/1983 Supertanker Castillo de Bellvar crashes at South Africa 
08/06/1984 203.05 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange 
08/06/1984 Carl Lewis wins 2nd (long jump) of 4 gold medals in Summer Olympics 
08/06/1985 19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AF

08/06/1985 Major League Baseball Players Assn go on strike 
08/06/1985 STS 51-I vehicle moves to launch pad 
08/06/1986 Orioles (Dwyer & Sheets) & Rangers (Harrah) hit record 3 grand slams

08/06/1986 Phil Katz releases PKARC version 1.0, for IBM 
08/06/1986 Record 3 grand slams hit in game Tx vs Balt (Harrah, Sheets & Dwyer)

08/06/1988 Oakland A's Jose Canseco becomes 11th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases

08/06/1988 Rich Gossage 300th career save (beats Phillies) 
08/06/1989 Boston Red Sox retire Carl Yastrezemski's #8 
08/06/1989 Jaime Paz Zamora inaugurated as president of Bolivia 
08/06/1989 Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines 
08/06/1990 NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 11th HR in 1st 86 at bats 
08/06/1990 Pres Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses premier Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan 
08/06/1992 Harold Wilson's academy award is auctioned for $60,500 
08/06/1993 Japan Hosokawa govt begins 
08/06/1993 Pope John Paul II publishes Veritatis splendor encyclical 
  
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