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:  
 
06/08/1318 Eleonora Plantagenet, daughter of King Eduard II/wife of Reinald II 
06/08/1625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, discovered 4 satellites of Saturn 
06/08/1671 Tommaso Albinioni, Ital's composer (Adagio in G-minor) 
06/08/1722 Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, composer 
06/08/1740 Gabriele Mario Piozzi, composer 
06/08/1753 Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac, composer 
06/08/1756 Cornelis van Foreest, mayor of Alkmaar 
06/08/1783 Joseph Lincke, composer 
06/08/1804 Jan Baptist van Son, RC politician 
06/08/1805 Luigi Ricci, composer 
06/08/1806 Gideon Johnson Pillow, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1878

06/08/1810 Robert A Schumann, Zwickau Saxony Germany, composer (Fantastiestcke

06/08/1812 Spyridon Xyndas, composer 
06/08/1813 David D Porter, US Admiral (Civil War) 
06/08/1813 David Dixon Porter, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1891 
06/08/1814 Charles Reade, England, novelist (Cloister & Hearth) 
06/08/1821 John Dunlap Stevenson, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1897 
06/08/1824 James Loudon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies 
06/08/1824 William Montgomery Gardner, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 190

06/08/1829 John Everett Millais, England, painter (Order of Release) 
06/08/1834 George Garrett, composer 
06/08/1837 Jan Kleczynski, composer 
06/08/1837 Moriz Heyne, German germanist (Beowulf) 
06/08/1847 Ida Sazton McKinley, 1st lady (1897-1901) 
06/08/1856 Natalia Janotha, composer 
06/08/1858 Antonio Nicolau, Spanish composer/conductor 
06/08/1867 Frank Lloyd Wright, Richland Center Wisc, master builder (Guggenheim

06/08/1881 Prospero Bisquertt, composer 
06/08/1888 Guëmundur J¢nsson Kamban, Icelandic writer (Sk lholt) 
06/08/1888 Poul Julius Ouscher Schierbeck, composer 
06/08/1889 Joseph L Hromadka, Czech theologist (Lenin prize 1957) 
06/08/1894 Erwin Schulhoff, Czech/Russian composer/pianist (Ogelala) 
06/08/1896 Samuel Gonard, chairman (International Red Cross) 
06/08/1900 Herman J Friedericy, [H J Merl˜n], writer (Last general) 
06/08/1902 Albe, [Renaut A Joostens], Flemish writer (Andalusisch Diary) 
06/08/1903 Gerrit C Berkouwer, theologist (Dogmatic Studies) 
06/08/1903 Ronald Shiner, actor (Carry on Admiral, Keep it Clean, Aunt Clara) 
06/08/1906 Charel Janssens, Belgium, actor 
06/08/1910 Aleksandr T Tvardovski, Russian conductor 
06/08/1910 John W Campbell, US, sci-fi writer (Moon is Hell) 
06/08/1911 Van Lingle Mungo, SC, pitcher (Dodgers, Giants) 
06/08/1913 Janos Jagamas, composer 
06/08/1914 Joseph de Pietro, US, 56kg weightlifter (Olympic-gold-1948) 
06/08/1915 Gustaaf AWC baron van Hemert Dingshof, mayor of Maarn Neth 
06/08/1916 Francis Crick, British co-discovered DNA's structure (Nobel 1962) 
06/08/1917 Byron R Whizzer White, Ft Collins, NFLer/Supreme Court Just (1962-  

06/08/1918 Robert Preston, Newton MA, actor (Music Man, Mame, Last Starfighter)

06/08/1920 Bert Leysen, Belgian TV director 
06/08/1921 Alexis Smith, Penticton BC Canada, actress (Jessica-Dallas, Follies)

06/08/1921 Sheila Ryan, actress (Big Fix, Mule Train, Ringside, Caged Fury) 
06/08/1921 Suharto, general/president Indonesia (1967-  ) 
06/08/1922 Myron Healy, Petalumus Calif, actor (Wyatt Earp) 
06/08/1923 Karel Goeyvaerts, Flemish composer (Summer Games) 
06/08/1924 George Kirby, Chicago, comedian (ABC Comedy Hour) 
06/08/1924 Sheldon Allman, Chicago, actor (Norm-Harris Against the World) 
06/08/1925 Barbara Pierce Bush, Rye NY, 1st lady (1989-93) 
06/08/1925 Eddie Gaedel, 3'7' St Louis Browns pinch-hitter (he walked) 
06/08/1926 Anatol Vieru, composer 
06/08/1928 Jiri Dvoracek, composer 
06/08/1928 Kat[i]e [Gertrude] Wilhelm, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Hamlet Trap) 
06/08/1929 Jerry Stiller, Bkln NY, comedian/actor (Stiller & Meara, Hairspray) 
06/08/1930 Bo Gunnar Widerberg, Malm” Sweden, director (Elvira Madigan) 
06/08/1930 Dana Wynter, London, actress (Airport, Invasion of the Body Snatcher

06/08/1930 Yannis Ioannidis, composer 
06/08/1932 Hans Gunter Helms, composer 
06/08/1933 Joan Rivers, [Molinsky], Bkln, comedienne (Late Show, Hollywood Sq) 
06/08/1934 Millicent Martin, Romford Eng, actress (Alfie, Nothing but the Best)

06/08/1936 James Darren, Phila, actor (TJ Hooker, Diamond Head, Venus in Furs) 
06/08/1937 Bruce McCandless II, Boston, Cap USN/astronaut (STS 41B, STS-31) 
06/08/1939 Bernie Casey, Wyco WV, actor (Boxcar Bertha, Rent-a-Cop) 
06/08/1939 Herb Adderley, Phila, NFL hall of famer (Packers, Cowboys) 
06/08/1940 Nancy Sinatra, Jersey City, singer, her boots were made for walkin' 
06/08/1941 Clarence 'Fuzzy' Haskins, US pop singer (Funkadelic-Knee Deep) 
06/08/1941 Joop H van den Berg, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA) 
06/08/1942 Chuck Negron, singer (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World) 
06/08/1942 Willie D Davenport, Troy Alabama, 110m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1968) 
06/08/1943 Colin Baker, actor (Swallows & Amazons) 
06/08/1943 Willie Davenport, US, 110m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1968) 
06/08/1944 Boz Scaggs, [William Royce], Dallas Tx, rocker (Steve Miller Band) 
06/08/1944 Don Grady, actor (Robbie Douglas-My 3 Sons) 
06/08/1946 Elizabeth A Lynn, US, sci-fi author (Watchtower, Red Hawk) 
06/08/1947 Joan La Barbara, composer 
06/08/1947 Mick Box, rocker (Uriah Heep) 
06/08/1949 Emmanuel Ax, Lvov Poland, pianist (Artur Rubinstein Comp-1974) 
06/08/1949 Hildegard Falck, German FR, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1972) 
06/08/1950 Alex Van Halen, drummer (Van Halen-Jump, 1984) 
06/08/1950 Elmar Oliveira, Waterbury Connecticut, violinist (Naumburg 1978) 
06/08/1950 Kathy Whitton Baker, Midland Tx, actress (Right Stuff, 16 Candles) 
06/08/1955 Griffin Dunne, actor (American Werewolf in London, Who's That Girl) 
06/08/1958 Keenen Ivory Wayans, comedian (In Living Color) 
06/08/1960 Mike Hucknail, rocker (Simply Red-Every Time We Say Goodbye) 
06/08/1961 Ursula Buchfellner, Munich Ger, playmate (Oct, 1979)/actr (Bloodline

06/08/1962 Nick Rhodes, rocker (Duran Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf) 
06/08/1963 Kino Haitsma, pianist/arrangeur (Josephine) 
06/08/1964 Nelli [Antoinette HC] Fiere-Cooman, Neth, runner (WR 60 m in 7.00) 
06/08/1965 Robert Platus, NYC, rocker (Milli Vanilli-Girl You Know This) 
06/08/1966 Doris Pearson, rocker (5 Star-Silk & Steel) 
06/08/1967 Neil Mitchell, rocker (Wet, Wet, Wet-Wishing I Was) 
06/08/1972 P[eter] J[ason] Farley, Hackensack, bass (Trixter-Give It To Me Good

 
 
Deaths:  
 
06/08/ 218 Macrinus, emperor of Rome (217-18), murdered 
06/08/ 632 Mohammed, prophet of Islam (Koran), dies (according to tradition) 
06/08/1115 Peter van Amiens, French minister of crusades, dies at about 64 
06/08/1376 'Black Prince' of Wales, son of King Edward of England, dies at 46 
06/08/1612 Hans Leo Hassler, composer, dies at 49 
06/08/1688 Hans Bontemantel, Amsterdams merchant, buried 
06/08/1695 Christian Huygens, inventor/astronomer (ring of Saturn), dies at 66 
06/08/1711 Katharina Lescaille, [Netherlands Sappho], poetess, dies at 61 
06/08/1768 Johann J Winckelmann, German archaeologist, dies at 50 
06/08/1790 Charles-Joseph van Helmont, composer, dies at 75 
06/08/1796 Felice de Giardini, composer, dies at 80 
06/08/1803 Joannes Natalis Paquot, Belgian priest/historian, dies at 80 
06/08/1806 George Wythe, US attorney (signed Decl of Indep), dies at about 79 
06/08/1809 Thomas Paine, writer (Age of Reason, Common Sense), dies at 72 
06/08/1814 Friedrich Heinrich Himmel, composer, dies at 48 
06/08/1831 Sarah Kemble Siddons, English actress (Lady Macbeth), dies at 75 
06/08/1845 Andrew Jackson, (D) 7th pres (1828-37), dies at 78 
06/08/1870 Johann Gottlob Topfer, composer, dies at 78 
06/08/1871 Satank, Kiowa indian chief, shot to death 
06/08/1876 George Sand, author, dies in Nohant France 
06/08/1884 Henry Clay Work, composer, dies at 51 
06/08/1906 Christian Frederik Emil Horneman, composer, dies at 65 
06/08/1908 Johan Lindegren, composer, dies at 66 
06/08/1919 Jacob Fabricius, composer, dies at 78 
06/08/1940 Frederick Shepherd Converse, composer, dies at 69 
06/08/1947 Tom O'Brien, actor (Flying Fool), dies at 56 
06/08/1948 Franz Carl Bornschein, composer, dies at 69 
06/08/1953 Godfrey Tearle, actor (39 Steps, Mandy, At Dawn We Die), dies at 68 
06/08/1954 Alan M Turing, British mathematician (Turing machine), dies 
06/08/1967 Elliot Griffis, composer, dies at 74 
06/08/1969 Robert Taylor, actor (Death Valley Days), dies at 57 
06/08/1971 Harold Lloyd Jr, actor (Frankenstein's Daughter), dies at 40 
06/08/1972 Jimmy Rushing, US blues singer, dies at 68 
06/08/1973 Eino Mauno Aleksanteri Linnala, composer, dies at 76 
06/08/1975 William F Jenkins, author (Time Tunnel, Land of Giants), dies at 78 
06/08/1979 Herb Polesie, producer/playwright (20 Questions), dies at 79 
06/08/1979 Louis Salvador Palange, composer, dies at 61 
06/08/1982 Jean Wi‚ner, French composer (Olive chez les nŠgres), dies at 86 
06/08/1982 [Leroy] Satchel Paige, US baseball pitcher, dies at 75 
06/08/1987 Yogi Horton, drummer (Luther Vandross), commits suicide at 33 
06/08/1988 Eli Mintz, actor (Boardwalk), dies 
06/08/1988 Virgil Oliver Jr, entertainer, dies 
06/08/1991 Bertice Reading, Dutch actress (Moon in the Gutter), dies 
06/08/1991 Heidi Brhl, German actress (M„dels vom Immenhof), dies 
06/08/1991 Mary Bacon, jockey, dying of cancer, commits suicide by gun at 43 
06/08/1992 Beverly Carter, entertainer, dies 
06/08/1992 Farag Foeda, Egyptian writer/publicist, murdered 
06/08/1993 Ren‚ Bousquet, French Vichy-police chief deports jews, dies at 84 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
06/08/  68 Rome Senate accepts emperor Galba 
06/08/ 452 Italy invaded by Attila the Hun 
06/08/ 536 St Silverius begins his reign as Catholic Pope 
06/08/ 570 Religion of Islam (submission) founded in Mecca 
06/08/ 793 Vikings plunder St Cuthbert convent Lindisfarne 
06/08/ 979 Louis V de Luie, crowned King of France 
06/08/1551 Pope Julius III excommunicates Duke Ottario Farnese of Parma 
06/08/1632 Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Sittard 
06/08/1694 English troop landing at Brest attack (300 killed) 
06/08/1783 Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption 
06/08/1786 1st commercially-made ice cream sold (NY) 
06/08/1815 39 German states unite under Act of Confederation 
06/08/1824 Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec 
06/08/1829 1st UK municipal swimming pool outside of London, opens in Liverpool

06/08/1834 HMS Beagle sails from Port Famine to Cape Turn 
06/08/1846 Battle at Gwanga: British troops beat Bantu 
06/08/1856 Pitcairn Islanders arrive on Norfolk Island 
06/08/1861 People of Tennessee vote to succeed from Union 
06/08/1861 US Sanitary Commission is given executive approval 
06/08/1862 Valley Campaign-Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia 
06/08/1865 Tristanderl und Zsholde, premieres 
06/08/1869 Ives W McGaffey of Chicago patents 1st vacuum cleaner (it sucks) 
06/08/1875 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #146 Lucina 
06/08/1886 1st Civil Rights Act passes 
06/08/1887 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #268 Adorea 
06/08/1889 Cable Cars begin service in LA 
06/08/1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure 'Boscombe Valley Mystery' (BG) 
06/08/1892 Homer A Plessy refuses to go to segregated RR car (Plessy v Ferguson

06/08/1900 Start of Sherlock Holmes 'Adventure of 6 Napoleons' (BG) 
06/08/1911 Belgium govt of Schollaert falls 
06/08/1914 34.7øF (1.5øC) in De Bilt, Netherlands 
06/08/1915 92øF (33.3øC) in De Bilt, Netherlands 
06/08/1915 William Jennings Bryan quits as Secretary of State 
06/08/1917 Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School 
06/08/1918 Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered 
06/08/1923 S Belyavskij discovers asteroid #995 Sternberga 
06/08/1927 Tony Lazzeri hits 3 HRs Yanks beat White Sox 12-11 
06/08/1928 1st US-to-Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford) 
06/08/1931 Suriname Work Committee under Louis Doedel forms in Paramaribo 
06/08/1935 Sam Parks Jr wins US Open golf tournament 
06/08/1935 Willis Saunders on Omaha wins 67th Belmont Stakes (2:30.6) 
06/08/1937 World's largest flower blooms in NY Botonical Garden, 12' calla lily

06/08/1939 British king George VI visits US 
06/08/1940 British troop leave Narvik, Norway 
06/08/1940 Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced 
06/08/1940 Last British troops leave Narvik Norway 
06/08/1941 English & French troop overthrow pro-German Syria 
06/08/1942 Bing Cosby records 'Silent Night' 
06/08/1944 Dutch Resistance fighter Frans Duwaer arrested 
06/08/1946 Sukarno calls for anti colonial defiance in Indonesia 
06/08/1948 'Milton Berle Show' premieres on NBC TV 
06/08/1948 John Rudder becomes 1st negro commissioned officer in US marines 
06/08/1949 Siam changes name to Thailand 
06/08/1950 Boston Red Sox beats St Louis Browns 29-4 
06/08/1950 Jean Duvieusart becomes Belgian premier 
06/08/1953 Cluster of 6 tornaodes touch down in Flint Michigan killing 113 
06/08/1953 Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court 
06/08/1953 Tornadoes kill 110 in Mich & Ohio 
06/08/1956 WDAM TV channel 7 in Laurel-Hattiesburg, MS (NBC) begins broadcastin

06/08/1959 1st official 'missile mail' lands (Jacksonville, Fla) 
06/08/1959 X-15 makes 1st unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m 
06/08/1960 1st date in James Clavell's novel 'Nobel House' 
06/08/1960 Argentine government demands release of Adolf Eichmann 
06/08/1961 English prince Edward, duke of Knows, marries Katharine Worsley 
06/08/1962 Jim Beatty runs world record 2 mile (8:29.8) 
06/08/1965 US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam 
06/08/1965 USSR launches Luna 6; missed Moon 
06/08/1966 NFL & AFL announce plans to become NFC & AFC in 1970 
06/08/1967 Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 US crewmen 
06/08/1968 Bermuda adopts its constitution 
06/08/1968 Don Drysdale pitches a record 58th consecutive scoreless inning 
06/08/1968 Gary Puckett & Union Gap release 'Lady Will Power' 
06/08/1968 James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr, captured 
06/08/1968 New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted 
06/08/1968 Rolling Stones release 'Jumpin' Jack Flash' 
06/08/1969 KDNL TV channel 30 in Saint Louis, MO (IND) begins broadcasting 
06/08/1969 Mickey Mantle Day, 60,096 saw #7 retired (I was there-BTG) 
06/08/1969 Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor replaces Brian Jones 
06/08/1972 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #3230 
06/08/1973 Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco appointed premier of Spain 
06/08/1974 Keyboardist Rick Wakeman quits rock group 'Yes' 
06/08/1974 US & Saudi Arabia sign military-economic contract 
06/08/1975 2 passenger trains collided near Munich Germany killing 35 
06/08/1975 USSR launches Venera 9 for Venus landing 
06/08/1978 Nevada jury rules Howard Hughes 'Mormon Will' is a forgery 
06/08/1979 Source, 1st computer public information service, goes online 
06/08/1979 Wings release 'Back to the Egg' album 
06/08/1982 Brazilian B-727 flight crashes into mountain; 135 die 
06/08/1982 Los Angeles beats Phila 76ers, for NBA championship 
06/08/1982 Reagan addresses joint session of British Parliament 
06/08/1983 Charlos Vieira begins 191 hr 'nonstop' cycling in Leiria, Portugal 
06/08/1986 Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected pres of Austria 
06/08/1986 Boston Celtics win NBA championship #16 over Houston Rockets 
06/08/1986 Longest 9 inning AL game (4h16m), Balt Orioles beat Yankees 18-9 
06/08/1987 Oliver North's secretary Fawn Hall tesifies at Iran-Contra hearing 
06/08/1990 Phil Bradley hits 18th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history 
06/08/1991 Former NY Jet Mark Gastineau wins 1st pro boxing fight in 12 seconds

06/08/1991 Monica Seles beats Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, 6-3, 6-4 for French Open

06/08/1991 Victory parade held in Wash DC (Persian Gulf War) 
06/08/1992 NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is banned from baseball for 7th time 
06/08/1992 Thomas Klestil succeeds Waldheim as president of Austria 
06/08/1993 Premier Marc Bazin of Haiti resigns 
06/08/1994 7.8 earthquake strikes North Bolivia 
06/08/1994 Mass murderer Joe Rifkind sentenced to 27 years 
06/08/2004 Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs 
  
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