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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                               By Scott Labrecque 
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Births:  
 
08/10/1296 Jan de Blinde, King of Bohemia/Count of Luxembourg 
08/10/1556 Philipp Nicolai, Germany, theologist/poet/composer 
08/10/1560 Hieronymus Praetorius, composer 
08/10/1567 Girolamo Giacobbi, composer 
08/10/1589 Pietro Antonio Tamburini, composer 
08/10/1652 Peter I Scheemaeckers, Flemish sculptor (graf tombs) 
08/10/1654 Bernard Nieuwentyt, physician/theologist 
08/10/1657 Cornelis Chastelein, colonial director 
08/10/1699 Christoph Gottlieb Schroter, composer 
08/10/1708 John Stinstra, baptist vicar 
08/10/1720 Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schavensee, composer 
08/10/1740 Samuel Arnold, composer 
08/10/1750 Daniel Gottlob Turk, composer 
08/10/1762 Santiago Ferrer, composer 
08/10/1793 Heinrich August Neithardt, composer 
08/10/1794 Leopold Zunz, German learned (Synagogalen Prose(?)) 
08/10/1801 Robert Woodward Barnwell, MC (Confederacy), died in 1882 
08/10/1808 Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, composer 
08/10/1810 Camilio Benso di Cavour, Italy, PM 
08/10/1810 Cornelis Outshoorn, architect 
08/10/1814 Jacob Edvard Gille, composer 
08/10/1814 John Clifford Pemberton, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1881 
08/10/1814 William Lowndes Yancey, MC (Confederacy), died in 1863 
08/10/1823 Ant“nio G Dias, Brazilian poet 
08/10/1823 Charles Thomas Campbell, Brig General (Union volunteers) 
08/10/1835 Gyula Beliczay, composer 
08/10/1836 Jose Teodor Vilar, composer 
08/10/1856 Paul Geisler, composer 
08/10/1865 Alexander K Glazunov, St Petersburg Russia, composer (Chopiniana) 
08/10/1869 Lawrence Binyon, Vienna Austria, writer (Symbolic Wounds) 
08/10/1874 Herbert Clark Hoover, West Branch Iowa, (R) 31st Pres (1929-1933) 
08/10/1874 James (Tod) Sloan, jockey, created monkey crouch riding style 
08/10/1877 Rudolf Hilferding, German economist/SPD-minister of Finance 
08/10/1878 Alfred D”blin, German/French author/co-founder of Sturm 
08/10/1880 Clarence Cameron White, composer 
08/10/1881 Albrecht M Sprenger, landbuilder 
08/10/1882 Max Kowalski, composer 
08/10/1883 Carlos Lavin, composer 
08/10/1889 Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, composer 
08/10/1889 Irene Steer, England, 4 X 100m relay swimmers (Olympic-gold-1912) 
08/10/1893 Douglas Stuart Moore, Cutchogue NY, composer (Good Night Harvard) 
08/10/1893 Viscount Dunrossil, Scotland, Gov Gen of Australia (1959-61) 
08/10/1893 Voranc Prezikov [Lovro Kuhar), Slav author (Samorastniki) 
08/10/1897 Edward Orval Gourdin, Jacksonville, long jumper (Olympic-silver-1924

08/10/1897 Piet[er O] Bakker, journalist (Telegraph, People) 
08/10/1899 Jack Haley, Boston Mass, actor (Wizard of Oz, Ford Star Revue) 
08/10/1900 Arthur Porritt, NZ, 100m sprinter (Olympic-bronze-1924) 
08/10/1900 Norma Shearer, Canada, actress (Divorcee, Idiot's Delight) 
08/10/1905 Richard F Kahn, baron of Hampstead/British economist 
08/10/1909 Brian Easdale, composer 
08/10/1909 Claude Thornhill, composer 
08/10/1909 George W Crockett Jr, (Rep-D-MI, 1980-  ) 
08/10/1909 Julio A Abraham, president (Democratic Party Bonaire) 
08/10/1909 Mohammed V, ibn Joesoef, King of Morocco (1953, 1955-61) 
08/10/1910 Angus Campbell, US, psychologist (Elections & Political Order) 
08/10/1912 Herman Strategier, composer 
08/10/1912 Izak Samkalden, Dutch Minister of Justice (PvdA) 
08/10/1912 Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer (O Pais do Carnaval) 
08/10/1912 Richard Reeves, NYC, actor (Murph-Date With an Angel) 
08/10/1912 Romain Maes, Belgian bicylist 
08/10/1913 Noah Beery Jr, NYC, actor (Rockford Files, Quest, Doc Elliot) 
08/10/1913 Steven Nagy, bowler, 1st to bowl 300 on TV (1954) 
08/10/1914 Jeff Corey, NYC, actor (Getting Straight, Superman & Mole Men) 
08/10/1920 Red Holzman, NBA coach (NY Knickerbockers) 
08/10/1923 Rhonda Fleming, Hollywood Calif, actress (Spellbound) 
08/10/1924 Martha Hyer, actress (Day of the Wolves, Night of the Grizzly) 
08/10/1926 Edwin James Nairn Carr, composer 
08/10/1926 Marie-Claire Alain, French organist/composer 
08/10/1928 Eddie Fisher, Phila Pa, singer (Oh My Papa, Lady of Spain) 
08/10/1928 Jimmy Dean, Tx, actor/singer (Jimmy Dean Show, Diamonds are Forever)

08/10/1929 John Alldis, composer 
08/10/1932 Alexander Goehr, composer 
08/10/1933 Bill Nieder, shot putter, (Olympic-gold-1960) 
08/10/1933 Rocky Colavito, Bronx, baseball player (Hit 4 HRs in a game) 
08/10/1934 James Carl Tenney, composer 
08/10/1935 Giya Alexandrovich Kancheli, composer 
08/10/1937 Lucinda Williams, US sprinter (Olympic-gold-1960) 
08/10/1938 Diana Muldaur, actress (McCloud, Star Trek-Next Generation) 
08/10/1939 Charles Rose, (Rep-D-North Carolina, 1973-  ) 
08/10/1939 Kate O'Mara, Leicaster England, actress (Caress Morell-Dynasty) 
08/10/1940 Bobby Hatfield, Wisc, rocker (Righteous Bros-Unchained Melody) 
08/10/1941 Anita Lonsbrough, England, 200m backstroke swimmer (Oly-gold-1960) 
08/10/1941 Kees Van Kooten, TV-commentator/also-founder Simplisties Covenant 
08/10/1942 Betsy Johnson, fashion designer (1971 Winnie Award) 
08/10/1943 Ronnie Spector, [Veronica Bennett], NYC, singer (Be My Little Baby) 
08/10/1945 Harry Thomas, founder rock song festival/Dutch Homosexuals Party 
08/10/1945 Larry Larden, rocker (Every Mother's Son) 
08/10/1947 Ian Anderson, Scotland, rocker (Jethro Tull-Bungle in the Jungle) 
08/10/1948 Pal Gerevich, Hungary, fencer (Olympic-bronze-1972, 80) 
08/10/1948 Patti Austin, singer (Real Me) 
08/10/1949 Gene Johnson, Sugar Grove Pa, singer (Diamond Rio-Meet in the Middle

08/10/1952 Ashley Putnam, NYC, soprano (NY City Opera 1978) 
08/10/1952 Nikolai Alekseyevich Pushenko, Russia, lt-colonel/cosmonaut 
08/10/1956 Tugboat, [Fred Ottman], WWF wrestler 
08/10/1959 Mark Price, bass/vocals (All About Eve, Tin Huey-Contents Dislodged)

08/10/1959 Rosanna Arquette, NYC, actress (Desperately Seeking Susan) 
08/10/1961 Beatrice Alda, daughter of Alan Alda, actress (Lisa-Four Seasons) 
08/10/1961 Jon Farriss, Australian rock vocalist/drummer (INXS-Kiss the Dirt) 
08/10/1962 Dan Donovan, rocker (Bad) 
08/10/1967 Riddick Bowe, Brooklyn NY, HW boxing champ (Olympic-silver-1988) 
08/10/1968 Michael Bivins, US rock vocalist (Bell Div Devoe-Poison) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
08/10/  30 -BC- Cleopatra VII, Ptolemae‹sch queen, beloved by Caesar, dies 
08/10/ 794 Fastrada, 3rd wife of French king Charles the Great, dies at 30 
08/10/ 955 Conrad the Red, Duke of Lotharingen, dies in battle 
08/10/1002 Al-Mansur, Arabic general strategist/regent of C¢rdoba, dies 
08/10/1250 Erik IV Plovpenning, king of Denmark, murdered 
08/10/1589 Maarten Schenck Nideggen, Dutch army leader, drowned at about 49 
08/10/1628 Hans Jonsson, Swedish fleet commander, drowned 
08/10/1653 Maarten Harpertsz Tromp, [Bestevaer], lt-adm, dies in battle at 55 
08/10/1717 Nicolaas Witsen, etcher/mayor (Amsterdam), dies 
08/10/1730 Sebastien de Brossard, composer, dies at 74 
08/10/1759 Ferdinand VI, the wise, king of Spain, dies at 46 
08/10/1802 Aepinus, [Franz UT Hoch], German physician/physicist, dies at 77 
08/10/1806 Johann Michael Haydn, composer, dies at 68 
08/10/1821 Salvatore Vigano, composer, dies at 52 
08/10/1841 Hippolyte Monpou, composer, dies at 37 
08/10/1843 Jakob F Fries, German philosopher, dies 
08/10/1861 Nathaniel Lyon, US Union brig-gen, dies in battle at 43 
08/10/1867 Ira Aldridge, famed Shakespearean actor (Othello, Shylock), dies 186

08/10/1875 Karl (Theodor) Andree, German journalist (Globus), dies at 66 
08/10/1886 Eduard Grell, composer, dies at 85 
08/10/1896 Otto Lilienthal, German aircraft pioneer, dies 
08/10/1904 Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French foreign minister (Dreyfus), dies 
08/10/1911 Carl Christian Lumbye, composer, dies at 70 
08/10/1921 John M Martin, last confederate congress member, dies 
08/10/1929 Aletta [Henri‰tte] Jacobs, 1st Dutch female physician/feminist, dies

08/10/1930 William H Taft, US president (1909-13), dies 
08/10/1934 John Kane, US, painter, dies at 73 
08/10/1938 Joseph Moorat, composer, dies at 73 
08/10/1943 C Bergsma, resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies 
08/10/1943 J Janzen, resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies 
08/10/1943 J Posthuma, resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies 
08/10/1944 Berthold Schenk von Stauffenberg, attempt Hitler assassination, dies

08/10/1945 Robert H Goddard, US, rocket pioneer, dies at 62 
08/10/1960 Emil Strauss, German writer (Vaterland), dies 
08/10/1962 Ted Husing, sportscaster (Monday Night Fights), dies at 60 
08/10/1963 Estes Kefauver, (Sen-D-Tn), dies at 60 
08/10/1963 M ty  R kosi, [Rosencranz], premier of Hungary (1952-53), dies at 71

08/10/1966 Felix A Vening Meinesz, geophysicist (black force), dies at 79 
08/10/1966 Jacobus C Bloem, poet (Cinders), dies 
08/10/1967 John Francis Larchet, composer, dies at 83 
08/10/1970 Bernd Alois Zimmermann, composer, dies at 52 
08/10/1970 Gino Torretta, quarterback (Heisman Trophy 1992) 
08/10/1974 Ilona Massey, actress/singer (Ilona Massey Show), dies at 64 
08/10/1974 Pedro Regas, actor (Pat Paulsen's « Comedy Hour), dies at 92 
08/10/1976 Ray 'Crash' Corrigan, cowboy (Crash Corrigan's Ranch), dies at 74 
08/10/1977 Vince Barnett, actor (Star is Born, Human Jungle), dies at 75 
08/10/1979 Dick Foran, actor (OK Crackerby), dies at 69 
08/10/1985 Kenny Backer, comedian, dies of a heart attack at 72 
08/10/1987 Clara Peller, actress (Where's the Beef), dies at 86 
08/10/1987 I W Able, CEO (United Steel Workers of America, 1965-77), dies at 87

08/10/1988 Adela Rogers St John, journalist (Free Soul, Honeycomb), dies at 94 
08/10/1988 Arias Arnulfo, 3 time president of Panama, dies at 86 
08/10/1993 Ken England, US screenwriter (Good Girls Go to Paris), dies at 82 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
08/10/  70 '2nd Temple' of Jews is set aflame (approx) 
08/10/ 654 Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I 
08/10/ 955 Battle at Lech: German king Otto I beats Hungarians 
08/10/1304 -11] Battle at Zierik Sea: Dutch & French fleet beat Flemish fleet 
08/10/1461 Alfonso ed Espina, bishop of Osma urges for an Inquistion in Spain 
08/10/1519 Magellan's 5 ship set sail to circumnavigate Earth 
08/10/1557 Battle at St Quentin: Lamoraal of Egmont & Philibert beat France 
08/10/1566 Iconoclasm begins 
08/10/1622 County Maine appended on John Mason/Fernandino Gorges 
08/10/1628 Wasa sinks at Stockholm, 50 killed 
08/10/1653 Sea battle at He˜de, English fleet beats Dutch 
08/10/1675 King Charles II opens Greenwich Observatory, London 
08/10/1675 Portuguese-Jewish synagogue opens in Amsterdam 
08/10/1678 Netherlands & France signs peace treaty in N˜megen 
08/10/1680 In N Mex, Pop‚ leads rebellion of Pueblo Indians against Spaniads 
08/10/1743 Earliest recorded prize fighting rules formulated 
08/10/1774 1st Surinam newspaper (1st Wednesday Suriname) begins publishing 
08/10/1790 Robert Gray's Columbia, completes 1st American around world voyage 
08/10/1792 Mobs in Paris attack palace of Louis XVI 
08/10/1809 Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day) 
08/10/1821 Missouri admitted as 24th US state 
08/10/1822 Antioch Syria, hit by Earthquake; about 20,000 die 
08/10/1827 Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada) 
08/10/1831 Former slave Nat Turner led violent insurrection against slavery 
08/10/1831 Hurricane hits Barbados; about 1,500 die 
08/10/1833 Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200 
08/10/1835 Mob of whites & oxen pulled black school to a swamp out of Canaan NH

08/10/1846 Congress charters 'nation's attic,' Smithsonian Institution 
08/10/1856 Hurricane washes away 2-300 revelers at Last Island, Louisiana 
08/10/1861 Battle of Wilson's Creek MO (Springfield, Oak Hills)-Gen Lyon killed

08/10/1862 Battle of Nueces River TX 
08/10/1866 Transatlantic cable laid-Pres Buchanan spoke to Queen Victoria 
08/10/1877 Big Hole River: Col John Gibbon murders Nez-Perc‚ indians 
08/10/1877 Phillies & Expos play a doubleheader that ends at 3:23 AM 
08/10/1885 Leo Daft opens America's 1st coml operated electric streetcar (Balt)

08/10/1887 Excursion train crashes killing 101. (Chatsworth, Illinois) 
08/10/1888 NY Giant pitcher Tim Keefe sets a 19 game win streak record 
08/10/1893 Chinese deported from SF under Exclusion Act 
08/10/1895 1st Queen's Hall Promenade Concerto (Wagners 'Rienzi') 
08/10/1900 1st Davis Cup Tennis Tournament (Mass) US beats England 
08/10/1901 Chic White Sox Frank Isbell strands record 11 teammate base runners 
08/10/1904 Dutch newspaper Volk fires gay journalist Jacob de Cock 
08/10/1907 Prince Scipone Borchesi wins Peking to Paris, 7,500 mile auto rally 
08/10/1909 Algemeene Netherland Toonkunstenars Ver (ANTV) begins 
08/10/1911 Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords 
08/10/1913 2nd Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses 
08/10/1914 At Luik, German 12'/16.5' guns reach Belgian boundary 
08/10/1914 German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins German

08/10/1914 German troops reconquer Mulhouse in Elzas 
08/10/1914 Royal Nationally Steuncomit‚ forms 
08/10/1916 Turks annex Persian city Hamadan from Russia 
08/10/1918 M Wolf discovers asteroid #900 Rosalinde 
08/10/1919 Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine 
08/10/1920 Allies recognize Poland, Czechoslovakia & Romania 
08/10/1920 Treaty of SŠvres (Allies & Turkey) 
08/10/1920 Turkish Govt renounces its claim to Israel, recognizes British manda

08/10/1921 FDR stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian Is of Campobello 
08/10/1925 Hurricane strikes Borculo, 4 die 
08/10/1926 Italian-Spanish peace treaty signed 
08/10/1928 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1110 Jaroslawa 
08/10/1936 114øF (46øC) at Plain Dealing, Louisiana (state record) 
08/10/1936 120øF (49øC) at Ozark, Arkansas (state record) 
08/10/1938 119øF (48øC), Pendleton, Oregon (state record) 
08/10/1939 2ndgovt-De Geer, forms 
08/10/1940 Prince Bernhard Fund forms 
08/10/1941 FDR & Churchill's 2nd meeting at Placentia Newfoundland 
08/10/1942 Gen B Montgomery becomes commandant British 8th leader in N Africa 
08/10/1943 Dutch submarine attacks Island Hertenbeest in NW Bali 
08/10/1944 Boston Brave Red Barrett throws only 58 pitches to beat Reds 2-0 
08/10/1944 Race riots in Athens Alabama 
08/10/1944 US/French offensive at Alen‡on 
08/10/1945 Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided 
08/10/1945 status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged 
08/10/1948 ABC enters network TV at 7 PM (WJZ, NY) 
08/10/1948 Allen Funt's 'Candid Camera' TV debut on ABC 
08/10/1948 WABC TV channel 7 in New York, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting 
08/10/1949 Heavyweight Ezzard Charles KOs Gus Lesnevich in NY 
08/10/1949 Natl Military Establishment renamed Dept of Defense 
08/10/1954 Neth Indonesian Union breaks up 
08/10/1954 Sir Gordon Richards retires as a jockey with record 4,870 wins 
08/10/1960 Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space 
08/10/1960 Nicolaas Jouwe forms PANA in New-Guinea 
08/10/1961 England applies for membership in European Common Market 
08/10/1964 WJSP TV channel 28 in Columbus, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting 
08/10/1965 Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km 
08/10/1966 1st lunar orbiter launched by US 
08/10/1966 Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a 
08/10/1966 meteor entering Earth's atmosphere & leaving it again 
08/10/1968 Race riot in Miami, Chicago & Little Rock 
08/10/1972 1 million kg heavy meteorite grazes atmosphere above Canada 
08/10/1973 1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St Station 
08/10/1975 David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon 
08/10/1975 Jack Nickalus wins PGA golf tournament 
08/10/1977 US & Panamana sign Panama Canal Zone accord 
08/10/1978 H E Schuster discovers asteroid #3398 
08/10/1979 Ecuador adopts its constitution 
08/10/1979 Wings release 'Getting Closer' & 'Baby's Request' 
08/10/1980 Allen, most powerful hurricane in Caribbean hits Brownsville, Tx 
08/10/1980 Jack Nicklaus wins PGA championship for 5th time 
08/10/1981 Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business

08/10/1981 Pete Rose tops Stan Musial's NL record 3,630 hits 
08/10/1981 Richard Nixon Museum in San Clemente closes 
08/10/1984 Mary Decker trips on heel of Zola Budd during 3,000m Olympic run 
08/10/1985 Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle songs) for $47« million

08/10/1985 Uno Lindstron of Sweden, juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles 
08/10/1986 Billy Martin day, Yanks retire #1 
08/10/1987 Flight Readiness Firing of Discovery's main engines is successfully 
08/10/1988 Rodrigo Borja installed as president of Ecuador 
08/10/1988 UN estimates Asia's population hits 3 billion 
08/10/1990 US's Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus 
08/10/1991 NFL sportscaster Paul Maquire suffers a heart attack at 53 
08/10/1992 Satellite TOPEX/Poseidon launched 
  
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