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:  
 
03/10/1452 Ferdinand II, the Catholic, King of Aragon/Sicily (expelled Jews) 
03/10/1503 Ferdinand I, German emperor 
03/10/1538 Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk; executed by Queen Elizabeth (1572) 
03/10/1628 Constantine Huygens Jr, poet/painter/cartoonist 
03/10/1656 Adolf H van Rechteren, diplomat/politician 
03/10/1698 Gaetano Maria Schiassi, composer 
03/10/1713 Christian Friedrich Schale, composer 
03/10/1713 Raphael Weiss, composer 
03/10/1748 John Playfair, Scotland, clergyman/geologist/mathematician 
03/10/1755 Philipp Christoph Kayser, composer 
03/10/1772 Friedrich von Schlegel, Germany, romantic writer/critic (Lucinde) 
03/10/1776 Luise, queen of Prussia/wife of Frederik Willem III 
03/10/1780 Juan Jose Landaeta, composer 
03/10/1787 William Etty, English painter (nudist) 
03/10/1788 Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (Tie Marmorbild) 
03/10/1809 William David Porter, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1864 
03/10/1810 John McCloskey, US, pres of St John's College (Fordham U) 
03/10/1810 Louis Gallait, Belgian painter (Egmont & Receiver) 
03/10/1812 Victor Tesch, Belgian lawyer/min of Justice 
03/10/1818 George Wythe Randolph, Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1867 
03/10/1822 Willem Roelofs, painter/lithographer 
03/10/1824 Thomas James Churchill, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 19

03/10/1830 Robert Lowry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1910 
03/10/1832 William Henry Penrose, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1903

03/10/1833 Pedro Antonio de Alarc¢n, Spain, writer (Three-Cornered Hat) 
03/10/1839 Dudley Buck, Hartford, Ct, organist/church composer 
03/10/1842 Ina Donna Coolbrith, US, poet laureate of Calif 
03/10/1844 Pablo Martin M de Sarasate y Navascuez, composer (Spanish Dancing) 
03/10/1845 Alexander III A Romanov, Russian tsar (1881-94) 
03/10/1850 Mary Mills Patrick, US, 1st pres of Instanbul Woman's College 
03/10/1865 Pim [Willem JH] Mulier, journalist/writer/sport-organizer 
03/10/1867 Lillian D Wald, US, sociologist/organizer (Visiting Nurses) 
03/10/1870 Alfred Kastner, composer 
03/10/1872 Felix Borowski, composer 
03/10/1873 Jakob Wassermann, Germany, novelist (My Life as German & Jew) 
03/10/1875 Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser, composer 
03/10/1877 David M Chumaceiro, Cura‡ao, poet 
03/10/1878 Karel van de Woest˜ne, Flemish writer (God & Sea) 
03/10/1880 Michael Jacobs, NYC, boxing promoter 
03/10/1888 Barry Fitzgerald, Dublin Ireland, actor (Acad Award-Going My Way) 
03/10/1888 Krsto Odak, composer 
03/10/1891 Jacob van Gelderen, economist/sociologist/Dutch 2nd Chamber (SDAP) 
03/10/1892 Arthur Honnegger, Le Havre France, composer (King David) 
03/10/1892 Eva Turner, British soprano 
03/10/1898 Cy Kendall, St Louis Mo, actor (Mysteries of Chinatown) 
03/10/1899 Finn Hoffding, composer 
03/10/1900 Sherman Billingsley, Enid Ok, talk show host (Stork Club) 
03/10/1903 Leon Bismarck 'Bix' Beiderbecke, US, jazz cornetist (In a Mist) 
03/10/1905 Rene Bernier, composer 
03/10/1907 Robert de Roos, composer 
03/10/1908 Kristian Palusalu, Finland, heavyweight wrestler (Olympic-gold-1936)

03/10/1909 Gerard Croiset, paragnost 
03/10/1911 Warner Anderson, Bkln, actor (Doctor, Lineup, Matthew-Peyton Place) 
03/10/1914 Chandler Harper, golfer (1950 PGA champ) 
03/10/1916 James Herriot, Scotland, writer (All Creatures Great & Small) 
03/10/1918 Heywood Hale Broun, journalist 
03/10/1921 Cec Linder, Galica Poland, actor (Goldfinger) 
03/10/1921 Paul Coates, NYC, columnist (Tonight! America After Dark) 
03/10/1922 Adam Kennedy, Lafayette Ind, actor (Dion-Californian) 
03/10/1922 Pamela Mason, London, actress (Navy vs Night Monsters) 
03/10/1925 M J J A [Sef] Imkamp, Dutch politician (D-66) 
03/10/1926 Marques Haynes, Harlem Globetrotters' ace 
03/10/1927 Donn Trenner, New Haven Ct, orch leader (ABC's Nightlife) 
03/10/1927 Paul Wunderlich, German lithograph/painter/sculptor 
03/10/1932 Anatoliy Roschin, USSR, super heavyweight wrestler (Olympic-gold-197

03/10/1933 Bernadetta Matuszczak, composer 
03/10/1937 Tamara Press, USSR, shot putter (Olympic-gold-1960, 64) 
03/10/1938 Ron Mix, NFL tackle (San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders) 
03/10/1939 Irina Press, USSR, 80m hurdles/Pentathelete (Olympic-gold-1960, 64) 
03/10/1940 Chuck Norris, [Carlos Ray], martial arts actor (Missing in Action) 
03/10/1940 David Rabe, playwright (Streamers) 
03/10/1940 Dean Torrence, surf music singer (Jan & Dean-Little Old Lady) 
03/10/1940 Francis Schwartz, composer 
03/10/1941 Daniel Kirkland Lentz, composer 
03/10/1941 Piotr Warzecha, composer 
03/10/1943 Alfred Whitford Lerdahl, composer 
03/10/1943 Angelique Pettyjohn, LA Calif, actress (Body Talk, Star Trek) 
03/10/1943 Stephen Montague, composer 
03/10/1945 Katherine Houghton, actress (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner) 
03/10/1947 Avril 'Kim' Campbell, Canada's 1st female premier (1993-  ) 
03/10/1947 Laurie Langenbach, author 
03/10/1947 Tom Scholz, rock guitarist/keyboardist (Boston-More Than a Feeling) 
03/10/1948 Austin Carr, NBA star (Cleveland Cavaliers) 
03/10/1952 Oupa J Gqozo, South African warden/army commandant in Ciskei 
03/10/1955 Bunny DeBarge, rocker (Debarge) 
03/10/1957 Adolfo Horta, Camaguey Cuba, HW boxer (Olympic-silver-1980) 
03/10/1957 Shannon Lee Tweed, St Johns NF, playmate (Nov 1981)/actr (Meatballs 

03/10/1958 Sharon Stone, Meadville Pa, actress (Basic Instinct, Sliver) 
03/10/1960 Linda Jezek, Calif, backstroke swimmer (Pan Am Gold-1979) 
03/10/1961 Mitch Gaylord, gymnist (Olympics 1984)/actor (American Anthem) 
03/10/1962 Gary Clark, rocker (Danny Wilson-Mary's Prayer) 
03/10/1963 Jasmine Guy, Boston Mass, actress (Whitley-Different World) 
03/10/1964 Cynthia Brimhall, Ogden Utah, playmate (Oct, 1985) 
03/10/1964 Edward Anthony Richard Louis, Prince of Britain/Elizabeth II grandso

03/10/1964 Neneh Cherry, Stockholm Sweden, Swedish pop singer (Money Love) 
03/10/1966 Pavel Petrovich Mukhortov, Russia, cosmonaut 
03/10/1977 Shannon Miller, Rolla Mo, US gymnist (Olympic-92) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
03/10/  37 Tiberius Claudius Nero, Roman emperor (14-37), dies at 77 
03/10/ 483 Simplicius, Italian Pope (468-83), dies 
03/10/1585 Rembert Dodoens, [Rembertus Dodonaeus], physician/botanist, dies at 

03/10/1597 Petrus Forestus, [Pieter Foreest], artist (Willem of Orange), dies 
03/10/1700 Diogo Diaz Melgaz, composer, dies at 61 
03/10/1701 Johann Schelle, composer, dies at 52 
03/10/1716 Wenzel Ludwig von Radolt, composer, dies at 48 
03/10/1735 Dirk T van Cloon, lawyer/gov-gen of East Indies, dies at about 46 
03/10/1826 Johan VI M L J, King of Portugal (1816-26), dies at 56 
03/10/1832 Muzio Clementi, composer, dies at 80 
03/10/1861 Josepf Francois Snel, composer, dies at 67 
03/10/1864 Maximilian II Jozef, King of Bayern (1848-64), dies at 52 
03/10/1866 Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini, composer, dies at 87 
03/10/1870 Ignaz Moscheles, composer, dies at 75 
03/10/1875 Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul, composer, dies at 85 
03/10/1888 Ciro Pinsuti, composer, dies at 58 
03/10/1892 Otto van Raised, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1884-88), dies at 69 
03/10/1897 Teodulo Mabellini, composer, dies at 79 
03/10/1900 Johann Peter Hartmann, composer, dies at 94 
03/10/1901 Vasily Georgiyevich Wrangell, composer, dies at 39 
03/10/1906 Eugen Richter, German liberal parliament member, dies at 67 
03/10/1910 Carl Reinecke, composer, dies at 86 
03/10/1910 Karl Lueger, Austrian anti-semite/mayor of Vienna, dies 
03/10/1913 Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, conductor on Underground RR, dies in N

03/10/1922 Arthur Hervey, composer, dies at 67 
03/10/1922 Horace Wadham Nicholl, composer, dies at 73 
03/10/1940 Louis de Vries, actor (Merchant of Venice), dies 
03/10/1944 David Bird, Ukrainian author (Auschwitz), dies at 52 
03/10/1948 Jan Masaryk, Czech Foreign minister, commits suicide 
03/10/1966 Frederik 'Frits' Zernike, physicist (Nobel 1953), dies at 77 
03/10/1966 Mari Sandoz, US author (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 64 
03/10/1971 Mabel Wheeler Daniels, composer, dies at 92 
03/10/1973 Richard Sharples, governor of Bermuda, is assassinated 
03/10/1974 Quinto Maganini, composer, dies at 76 
03/10/1975 Leopold Samuel, composer, dies at 91 
03/10/1977 E Power Biggs, composer, dies at 70 
03/10/1977 Pieter John Bouman, sociologist/historian, dies at 74 
03/10/1977 Willem Schermerhorn, Dutch premier (1945-46), dies at 82 
03/10/1980 Herman Tarnower, doctor (Scarsdale Diet), killed by Jean Harris 
03/10/1984 June Marlowe, actress (Pardon Us), dies at 81 
03/10/1985 Konstantin Chernenko, party leader/pres of USSR (1984-85), dies at 7

03/10/1986 Ray Milland, actor (Lost Weekend-Acad Award 1945), dies at 81 
03/10/1988 Andy Gibb, singer, dies at 30 of heart infection 
03/10/1988 Glenn Cunningham, US world record miler, dies at 78 
03/10/1988 William Brocklesby Wordsworth, composer, dies at 79 
03/10/1993 C Northcote Parkinson, English historian/sociologist (Law of P), die

03/10/1993 David Gunn, US abortionist, murdered at 47 
03/10/1994 Charles Bukowski, German/US writer (Barfly, Hollywood), dies at 73 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
03/10/ 241 -BC- Battle of Aegusa: Roman fleet sinks 50 Carthagean ships 
03/10/ 418 Jews are exculed from public office in the Roman Empire 
03/10/ 483 St Simplicius ends his reign as Catholic Pope 
03/10/1526 Emperor Charles V marries princess Isabella of Portugal 
03/10/1535 Bishop Tom s de Berlanga discovers Gal pagos Islands 
03/10/1789 Franklin College founded (1787?) 
03/10/1791 John Stone, Concord, Mass, patents a pile driver 
03/10/1791 Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution of the clergy 
03/10/1847 1st money minted in Hawaii 
03/10/1849 Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent; only US president to do so 
03/10/1861 Asteroid Cybele (65) discovered by Tempel 
03/10/1862 1st paper money issued by US gov't-$5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500, 1000 
03/10/1862 US issues $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 & $1000 paper money 
03/10/1864 Grant is named commander of the Union armies 
03/10/1864 Red River campaign LA 
03/10/1865 Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, NC 
03/10/1874 Purdue University (Indiana) admits it's 1st student 
03/10/1876 1st telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson) 
03/10/1880 Salvation Army of England sets up US welfare & religious activity 
03/10/1888 HW Boxing champ John L Sullivan draws Charlie Mitchell in 30 rounds 
03/10/1890 A Charlois discovers asteroid #289 Nenetta 
03/10/1893 A Charlois discovers asteroid #359 Georgia 
03/10/1893 Ivory Coast becomes a French colony 
03/10/1893 New Mexico State University cancels it's 1st graduation ceremony, 
03/10/1893 its only graduate Sam Steele was robbed & killed the night before 
03/10/1896 Charilaos Vasilakos of Greece wins 1st modern marathon in 3:18 
03/10/1896 The Bronx acquires O'Brien Square 
03/10/1900 Battle at Driefontein, South-Africa (Boers vs British army) 
03/10/1902 Earthquake destroys Turkish city of Tochangri 
03/10/1903 Harry Gammeter, Cleveland, patents multigraph duplicating machine 
03/10/1903 Ottawa Silver 7 beat Montreal AAA 8-0 for the Stanley Cup 
03/10/1905 Japanese Army captures Manchuria (Shanghai) 
03/10/1906 Bakerloo line opens from Baker Street to Waterloo in England 
03/10/1906 Coal dust explosion kills 1,060 at Courrieres France 
03/10/1910 Pittsburgh Courier, begins publishing 
03/10/1913 Quebec Bulldogs sweep Sydney (NS) Millionaires in 2 for Stanley Cup 
03/10/1913 William Knox, becomes 1st in American Bowling Congress to bowl 300 
03/10/1914 Suffragettes in London damage painter Rokeby's Venus of Velasquez 
03/10/1915 British expedition Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle 
03/10/1920 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #929 Algunde 
03/10/1920 NHL's Quebec Bulldog Jim Malone scores 6 goals vs Ottawa Senators 
03/10/1920 W Baade discovers asteroid #930 Westphalia 
03/10/1922 KLZ-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions 
03/10/1922 state of siege proclaimed during mine strike Johannesburg S Africa 
03/10/1925 Walter Mittelholzer is 1st to flies over Demawend mountain, Iran 
03/10/1926 Run on Belgian banks 
03/10/1927 Albania mobilize by threat of Serbian, Croatian & Slavs 
03/10/1927 Hitlers speech forbidden in Bayern 
03/10/1929 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1128 Astrid 
03/10/1931 British Labour party removes fascist sir Oswald Mosley 
03/10/1933 Major earthquake in Long Beach, Calif 
03/10/1933 Nevada becomes 1st US state to regulate narcotics 
03/10/1934 G Van Biesbroeck discovers asteroid #2463 
03/10/1934 Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games) 
03/10/1939 17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad India 
03/10/1940 1st US opera telecast, W2XBS, NYC, I Pagliacci 
03/10/1940 G Kulin discovers asteroid #1513 Matra 
03/10/1940 Germany invades the Benelux countries 
03/10/1941 Lee MacPhail, Dodger GM predicts all players will wear batting helme

03/10/1945 B-29 bombs Tokyo into flames 
03/10/1945 Germany blows-up Wessel Bridge on Rhine 
03/10/1945 Japan declares Vietnam Independence 
03/10/1945 Pattons 3rd Army makes contact with Hodges 1st Army 
03/10/1945 Tokyo in fire after night time B-29 bombing 
03/10/1946 Train derailment kills 185 near Aracaju Brazil 
03/10/1948 1st civilian to exceed speed of sound-Herb H Hoover, Edwards AFB Ca 
03/10/1952 Military coup by general Fulgencio Batista in Cuba 
03/10/1953 H Alikoski discovers asteroid #2573 Hannu Olavi 
03/10/1956 General strike in Cyprus protesting exile of archbishop Makarios 
03/10/1956 Peter Twiss sets new world air record 1,132 mph (1,823 kph) 
03/10/1957 Thousands of soccer fans riot in Italy 
03/10/1959 Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa Tibet 
03/10/1960 USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing 
03/10/1963 Pete Rose debuts with hits in his 2 1st at bats in spring training 
03/10/1963 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 70 points vs Syracuse 
03/10/1964 US begins reconnasissance flights above East-Germany 
03/10/1965 Dutch Princess Daisy & Pieter van Vollenhoven, get engaged 
03/10/1966 5 time Horse of the Year, Kelso, retires 
03/10/1966 Dutch crown princess Beatrix marries Claus von Amsberg 
03/10/1966 North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley 
03/10/1969 James Earl Ray pleads guilty of killing Martin Luther King Jr 
03/10/1970 Barbra Striesand records 'The Singer' & 'I Can Do It' 
03/10/1971 Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18 
03/10/1972 1st black US political convention opens (Gary Indiana) 
03/10/1972 Gen Lon Nol becomes pres & prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia 
03/10/1973 Morocco adopts constitution 
03/10/1974 Christian Democrates win Belgium parliamentary election 
03/10/1975 Dog spectacles patented in England 
03/10/1977 Rings of Uranus discovered during occultation of SAO 
03/10/1978 Soyuz 28 returns to Earth 
03/10/1980 Willard Scott becomes the weathercaster on the Today Show 
03/10/1982 Pres Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya 
03/10/1982 Sygyzy: all 9 planets aligned on same side of Sun 
03/10/1983 E Barr discovers asteroid #3743 
03/10/1984 Heavyweight Tim Witherspoon KOs Greg Page 
03/10/1985 Dallas Maverick coach Dick Motta is 4th NBA coach to win 700 games 
03/10/1985 French socialists lose election (Nationally Front 9%) 
03/10/1988 NY Islanders celebrate Mike Bossy night 
03/10/1991 Merlene Ottey runs world record 200 m indoor (22.24 sec) 
03/10/1994 1 million Greeks attend Melina Mercouri's funeral 
  
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