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Atherosclerosis Shows Tumor-Like Cell Growth, Surprising Scientists

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Blood Cells CholesterolA new study shows that cells in atherosclerotic blood vessels grow in a way that resembles tumor development. This finding offers new biological insights and could lead to new treatment strategies. Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark and Odense University Hospital have studied tissue from patients with atherosclerosis. They found that many of the […]



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Deadly Mold That Killed 10 Scientists Could Soon Save Thousands

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Mummy of King TutankhamunA toxic mold once feared for causing mysterious deaths in ancient tombs is now at the center of a medical breakthrough. Scientists at Penn have engineered compounds from Aspergillus flavus—a fungus blamed for the “pharaoh’s curse”—into powerful cancer-fighting molecules called asperigimycins. These unique, ring-shaped peptides not only rival FDA-approved leukemia drugs but also offer clues […]



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A Ghostly Radio Halo Just Changed What We Know About the Early Universe

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Distant Galaxy Cluster With a Newly Discovered Radio Mini-HaloAstronomers using the LOFAR radio array have detected a vast “mini-halo” of high-energy particles around galaxy cluster SpARCS1049, whose light has traveled 10 billion years to reach us. The find doubles the previous distance record and shows that colossal clusters have been bathed in charged particles since the universe’s youth. Record-Breaking Mini-Halo Discovery Astronomers have […]



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Geometric mosaic floor with rare painted tiles found in France – The History Blog

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Archaeologists have discovered a polychrome geometric mosaic floor in a Gallo-Roman home on a hill overlooking Alès in southern France. The mosaic features a crossword puzzle-like interlaced meander pattern in white and black tesserae, with rare painted accents in deep red and yellow. It dates to the 1st century B.C.

A team from France’s National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) is excavating the steep slopes of Hermitage hill before construction of a housing development. Since it began in February, the excavation has uncovered more than 40,000 square feet, revealing four ancient dwellings partially built into the rock and a small burial ground.

The remains of the dwellings are well preserved, attesting to the architectural features of their construction. The interior walls are covered with clay to contain water infiltration from the limestone banks they were carved into. Faint traces of wall paintings are visible on the clay coating. The water management system is enhanced by underground tile pipes on drainage layers of stone. The floors of these homes were made of limestone slabs or lime concrete over a layer of stone chippings and limestone powder.

One of the buildings, originally built of stone and beaten earth, was later remodeled with concrete paved floors decorated with mosaics. The polychrome mosaic is the central panel on the floor of a space measuring 15 x 12.5 feet.

Around this carpet, two sections composed entirely of white tesserae and devoid of patterns raise questions about the function of the room: were they alcoves or special arrangements intended to set up a bench or specific furniture? Finally, one side of the pavement has a pattern of white crosses on a black background framed in white, which could indicate the location of an opening, possibly a door leading to another room. Ongoing research aims to clarify the organization of the building and to confirm whether it was indeed a domus , a Roman urban house generally occupied by a wealthy family.

On the east side of this building, archaeologists unearthed a rainwater drainage conduit made of amphorae with their ends cut off and nested into each other.

South of the dwellings archaeologists found a burial ground with 10 graves dating to between the mid-5th century and the end of the 6th century. The deceased were buried with their heads pointed west and either in coffins or on top of wood planking. Some have a stone cover. There are no grave goods.

The new development will proceed despite the discovery of such significant archaeological material. The mosaics floor will be lifted, restored and put on display. The city government has decided to create a purpose-built exhibition area to house the mosaics permanently.



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Famous Deaths on June 28

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  • 548 Theodora, Byzantine Empress and wife of Justinian I, dies at about 48 of suspected breast cancer after a few days of illness, without children to succeed the throne, ending the Macedonian dynasty
  • 573 Alboin, king of Longobarden, probably poisoned by his wife
  • 683 Leo II, Pope (681-83), dies aged about 72
  • 767 Paul I, Italian Pope (757-67), dies
  • 1061 Floris I, Count of Frisia (now Holland), dies at about 44 [born c. 1017]
  • 1175 Andrei Bogolyubsky, Russian prince
  • 1194 Emperor Xiaozong, 11th emperor of the Song dynasty in China (1162-89), dies at 66
  • 1385 Andronicus IV Paleologus, Byzantine anti-emperor, dies
  • 1586 Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer, writer, and bible translator, dies at 78
  • 1598 Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and dealer in maps, books, and antiquities (Theatrum orbis terrarum), dies at 71
  • 1617 Johan Evertsen de Captain, Swiss admiral, dies in battle
  • 1714 Cornelis Chastelein, Dutch VOC merchant and plantation owner in Batavia who freed his slaves, dies at 56
  • 1714 Daniel van Papenbroeck, Flemish Jesuit historian, dies at 86
  • 1716 George FitzRoy, British lieutenant-general and 1st Duke of Northumberland, dies at 50 [1]
  • 1742 Jan Josef Ignác Brentner, Bohemian composer, dies at 52
  • 1748 Marretje Arends [Matje of Nieuwendijk], Amsterdam plunderer, hanged

  • 1748 Pieter van Dort, Amsterdam plunderer, hanged
  • 1754 Martin Folkes, English antiquarian and mathematician, dies at 63
  • 1776 Thomas Hickey, American sergeant convicted of treason, hanged
  • 1788 Johann Christoph Vogel, German composer, dies at 32
  • 1798 Pierre Dutillieu, French-Italian opera composer, dies at 44
  • 1802 Johann Jakob Engel, German author (Herr Lorenz Stark), dies at 60
  • 1806 Johann Friedrich Ludwig Sievers, German composer, dies at 64
  • 1813 Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussia general and Minister of War (1808-10) who reformed the Prussian army, dies at 57 after being wounded in the foot during battle

African-American abolitionist (Appeal to Colored Citizens), dies at 33 [date of birth disputed, some sources cite year as 1785]

David Walker

  • 1834 Joseph Bové, Russian architect (b. 1784)

James Madison

  • 1846 Adriaan van den Ende, Dutch vicar and educationalist, dies at 77
  • 1855 Giovanni Agostino Perotti, Italian composer, dies at 86
  • 1857 Joseph Fischhof, Czech-Austrian pianist and composer, dies at 53
  • 1872 Karl Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch, German composer, dies at 66
  • 1876 August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian Czech musicologist (History of Music), dies at 59
  • 1880 Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy, dies at 33
  • 1881 Jules Armand Dufaure, French statesman (Prime Minister of France 1871-73), dies at 82
  • 1889 Maria Mitchell, 1st US woman astronomer (Vassar), dies at 70
  • 1890 Edouard Gregoir, Belgian composer, dies at 67
  • 1891 Jose Inzenga y Castellanos, composer, dies at 63
  • 1892 Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman, dies at 82
  • 1909 Israel Durham, Phillies president dies
  • 1910 Gustave Leon Huberti, Belgian composer, dies at 67
  • 1913 Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, Brazilian lawyer, politician (President of Brazil, 1898-1902), and coffee grower, dies at 72

Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip, leads to declarations of war in WWI

Franz Ferdinand

  • 1914 Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, assassinated with her husband Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, at 46

Australian cricket batsman (48 Tests, top score 214; key figure foundation of rugby league in Australia), dies of Bright’s disease at 37

Victor Trumper

  • 1916 Ştefan Luchian, Romanian painter (b. 1868)
  • 1921 Charles Joseph Bonaparte, American Lawyer and political activist (US Attorney General (1906-9), dies at 70
  • 1922 Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright, dies at 36
  • 1924 Jack Darragh, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame right wing (Stanley Cup 1911, 20-21, 23; Ottawa Senators), dies of peritonitis at 33
  • 1929 Edward Carpenter, English poet and philosopher (Civilisation, Its Cause and Cure), dies at 84
  • 1937 Max Adler, Austrian socialist theorist, dies at 64
  • 1940 Italo Balbo, Italian pilot and governor of Libya, dies at 44
  • 1946 Antoinette Perry, American stage actress, theater director, co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, and namesake of the Tony Award, dies of a heart attack at 58
  • 1946 Eduard Veterman, Dutch painter/playwright, dies in an auto accident
  • 1947 Stanislav K Neumann, Czech poet (Anti-Guide), dies at 72
  • 1950 Henry Balfour Gardiner, English composer and musician, dies at 72
  • 1954 Red Deer, in Milwaukee Zoo, oldest known deer, dies at 26 (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
  • 1957 Ede Poldini, Hungarian composer (La poupée valsante; The Vagabond and the Princess), dies at 88
  • 1958 Alfred Noyes, British poet and essayist (Robin Hood), dies at 77
  • 1960 Jake Swirbul, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1898)

American Baseball HOF catcher (MLB All-Star 1934, 35; World Series 1929, 30, 35; AL MVP 1928, 34; Philadelphia A’s, Detroit Tigers) and manager (Detroit Tigers 1934–38), dies of lymphatic cancer at 59

Mickey Cochrane

  • 1963 John ‘Home Run’ Baker, American Baseball HOF third baseman (World Series 1910, 11, 13; AL HR leader 1911–14; AL RBI leader 1912, 13; Philadelphia A’s), dies at 77
  • 1964 King Calder, American actor (Lt Grey in “Martin Kane Private Eye”), dies at 64
  • 1965 (Ernest) “Red” Nichols, American jazz cornetist, composer and jazz bandleader (His Five Pennies – “Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider”; “Bugler’s Lament”), dies of a heart attack at 60 [1]
  • 1965 [Theodora E] Betsy Ranucci-Beckman, actress (Dood Water), dies at 88
  • 1971 Franz Stangl, Austrian commandant of concentration camps (b. 1908)
  • 1971 Henri Puvrez, Belgian sculptor (Serenity), dies at 78
  • 1971 Joseph Colombo, mobster, shot dead at 48

Indian scientist and applied statistician (Mahalanobis distance), whose birthdate is celebrated annually in India as “National Statistics Day”, dies at 78

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis

  • 1974 Frank Sutton, American actor (Marty, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.), dies of a heart attack at 50
  • 1975 Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis, Greek architect (b. 1913)
  • 1975 Rod Serling, American screenwriter and TV host (The Twilight Zone; Night Gallery), dies after multiple heart attacks at 50
  • 1975 Serge Reding, Belgian weightlifter (b. 1941)
  • 1976 Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and producer (Concrete Jungle, Zorro, Zulu), dies of pneumonia at 49
  • 1978 Clifford Dupont, First President of Rhodesia (b. 1905)
  • 1979 Paul Dessau, German composer and conductor (Adventures of Casanova; Never Trust a Woman), dies at 84
  • 1980 Helen Gahagan Douglas, American actress and politician (Nixon’s 1st opponent for the United States Senate in 1950), dies at 79
  • 1980 Herbie Faye, comedian (Doc, Phil Silvers Show), dies at 81
  • 1980 José Iturbi, Spanish concert pianist and conductor who appeared in nearly a dozen 1940s MGM musicals, dies at 84
  • 1980 Yoshiro Irino, Japanese composer, dies at 58
  • 1981 Floyd “Candy” Johnson, American jazz saxophonist (Andy Kirk; Count Basie; Bill Doggett), and educator, dies at 59
  • 1981 Mohammed Beheshti, Iranian cleric and politician (Chief Justice of Iran), assassinated in Hafte Tir bombing at 52
  • 1981 Peter Paul Kreuder, German-Austrian pianist and film score composer, dies at 75

Canadian one-legged distance runner (Marathon of Hope, 1980), dies of cancer at 22

Terry Fox

  • 1982 Gerard Rutten, Dutch film director (Sterren stralen overal), dies at 79
  • 1982 Harry Mills, American baritone pop singer and vocal trumpet (The Brothers – “Paper Doll”, “Up A Lazy River”, “The Glow-Worm”), dies at 70
  • 1985 James Craig [Meador], American actor (Devil & Daniel Webster, Cyclops), dies of lung cancer at 73
  • 1985 Jimmy Thomson, Scottish golfer (US Open 1935, PGA C’ship 1936 runner-up), dies at 76
  • 1985 Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (O blofatzis, Anna of Rhodes), dies at 72
  • 1988 Kurt Raab, German writer and actor (Boarding School, Stationmaster’s Wife), dies from AIDS complications at 46
  • 1989 Joris Ivens, Dutch director (A Tale of the Wind, Rain), dies at 90
  • 1990 Estelle Lamont, entertainer, dies
  • 1991 Ernie McCormick, Australian cricket fast bowler (12 Tests, 36 wickets, BB 4/101; Victoria), dies at 85
  • 1991 Klas Bruinsma, clergyman, dies
  • 1992 John Piper, British writer (US Churches in WWI) and official war painter, dies at 88
  • 1992 Mikhail Tail, Soviet Latvian World Chess Champion (1960-61), dies at 55
  • 1992 Vitya Vronsky, Russian-American concert pianist (Vronsky & Babin), and educator (Cleveland Institute), dies at 82
  • 1993 Boris Christoff, Bulgaria Italian bass opera singer (Boris Godunov), dies at 79
  • 1993 [Jesus Christ] “GG” Allin, American punk rock singer, dies of accidental heroin overdose at 36
  • 1994 (Fredericka) “Fredi” Washington, American stage and screen actress (Black & Tan), writer, and civil rights activist, dies at 90
  • 1994 William A. Henry III, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (Boston Globe), arts critic (Time Magazine), and author, dies of a heart attack at 44
  • 1995 Donald Sinclair, vet, dies at 83
  • 1996 (Ronald George) “Tim” Woodman, British WWII RAF pilot and squadron leader, dies at 82
  • 1996 Ghita Ionescu, Romanian politician scientist (Communism in Romania), dies at 83
  • 1996 Michael Wishart, British figurative painter, dies at 68
  • 1996 Willard McMurry, American blues record label executive (Trumpet Records), dies at 89
  • 1998 Ralph Perring, British businessman (Lord Mayor of London 1962-63), dies at 95
  • 2000 Jane Birdwood, British anti-Semitic activist (b. 1913)
  • 2000 Nils Poppe, Swedish actor (the Seventh Seal, Dum-Bom), dies of viral complications after several stroke at 92
  • 2001 Joan Sims, British actress (“Carry on” films, As Time Goes By), dies from liver failure and diverticulitis at 71
  • 2001 Mortimer J. Adler, American philosopher and author (Encyclopedia Brittanica), dies at 98
  • 2003 Joan Lowery Nixon, American writer of historical fiction and juvenile mystery (The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore, The Other Side of Dark), dies at 76 [1] [2]
  • 2003 Russell Endean, South African cricket wicketkeeper (28 Tests, 3 x 100, HS 162no, 41 dismissals; Transvaal, MCC), dies at 79
  • 2003 Wim Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
  • 2004 Anthony Buckeridge, English author (Jennings), dies at 92
  • 2005 Brenda Howard, American LGBT activist (b. 1946)
  • 2006 George Page, American television host (b. 1935)
  • 2006 George Unwin, British WWII fighter ace (b. 1913)
  • 2006 Jim Baen, American sci-fi publisher and editor (b. 1943)
  • 2006 Lennie “Len” Weinrib, American comedian and actor (H.R. Pufnstuf, Bedknobs and Broomsticks), dies from a stroke at 71
  • 2006 Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, English barrister, politician and author, dies at 87
  • 2007 Eugene B. Fluckey, American Navy submariner, dies at 93
  • 2007 Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (1991-93), dies at 87
  • 2008 Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model, dies aged 20 after falling from the ninth-floor balcony of her Manhattan apartment under unexplained circumstances
  • 2009 A. K. Lohithadas, Indian screenwriter, director, and producer (b. 1955)
  • 2009 Billy Mays, American television pitchman (b. 1958)
  • 2009 Fred Travalena, American comedian and impressionist (b. 1942)
  • 2009 John Ronayne, Irish classical and session violinist (Radio Éireann Symphony Orchestra; London Philharmonic; Royal Philharmonic; The Beatles – “All you Need is Love. “Yellow Submarine”), dies at 77
  • 2009 Tom Wilkes, American photographer, art director, poster and album cover designer (George Harrison; Rolling Stones; Carpenters, Sir Doug; Janis Joplin; Sandpipers), dies at 69
  • 2010 Bill Aucoin, American rock band manager(KISS, 1973-82; Billy Idol, 1981-86), dies of prostate cancer surgey complications at 66

Nicolas Hayek

  • 2010 Robert Byrd, US Senator (Democrat-WV, 1959-2010), majority leader and once the longest-serving Senator in history, dies at 92
  • 2012 Éric Gaudibert, Swiss composer, pianist, and teacher, dies at 75
  • 2012 Leontine T. Kelly, 1st African American female bishop (United Methodist Church), dies at 92
  • 2013 David Atkinson, British air marshal, and honorary physician to the Queen Elizabeth II, dies at 90
  • 2013 Matt Osborne, American professional wrestler, dies at 55
  • 2014 Jim Brosnan, American baseball player and writer (Long Season), dies at 84
  • 2014 Meshach Taylor, American actor, dies from colorectal cancer at 67
  • 2014 Seymour Barab, American cellist (Philip Glass Ensemble), and composer of fairy tale operas (Little Red Riding Hood), dies at 93
  • 2015 Jack Carter [Chakrin], American comedian and actor, dies at 93
  • 2016 Buddy Ryan, American football coach (Philadelphia Eagles, Arizona Cardinals), dies from cancer and stroke complications at 85
  • 2016 Pat Summitt, American Basketball HOF coach (8 × NCAA Division I tournament; 18 × NCAA Regional—Final Four; University of Tennessee), dies from Alzheimer’s disease at 61
  • 2016 Scotty Moore, American guitarist (Elvis Presley, 1954-68; Roy Orbison), dies at 84
  • 2016 Sergei Cortez, Chilean-Belarusian composer (Jubilee and The Bear; Giordano Bruno), dies at 81
  • 2018 Harlan Ellison, American sci-fi author and screenwriter (Star Trek -“The City on the Edge of Forever”), dies at 84
  • 2020 Joe Bugel, American football coach (offensive line Washington Redskins ‘Hogs’, Super Bowl 1982, 87; Phoenix Cardinals, Oakland Raiders), dies of bone cancer at 80
  • 2020 Marián Čišovský, Slovak soccer defender (15 caps; Inter Bratislava, Viktoria Plzeň), dies of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis at 40
  • 2021 Jock Aird, Scottish soccer defender (4 caps Scotland, 2 New Zealand; Burnley), dies at 94
  • 2021 Sergio Victor Palma, Argentine boxer (WBA Super Bantamweight champion 1980-82), dies from COVID-19 at 65
  • 2022 Cüneyt Arkın, Turkish film actor (The Adam Trilogy), dies at 84
  • 2022 Deborah James, British teacher, journalist, author (You, Me and the Big C), and charity campaigner, dies of cancer at 40
  • 2023 Lowell P Weicker, American politician (US Senator from Connecticut (R), 1971-88): Governor of Connecticut, 1991-95), dies at 92 [1]
  • 2024 Dudu, Brazilian soccer midfielder (13 caps; Palmeiras 134 games) and manager (Palmeiras), dies at 84
  • 2024 Marty Pavelich, Canadian ice hockey left winger (Stanley Cup & NHL All Star 1950, 52, 54, 55 Detroit Red Wings), dies from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at 96
  • 2024 Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican Baseball HOF first baseman (11 × MLB All-Star; World Series & NL MVP 1967 St. Louis Cardinals; NL Rookie of the Year 1958 SF Giants), dies at 86 [1]
  • 2024 Yves Herbet, French soccer midfielder (16 caps; Nancy 100 games) and manager (FC Martigues, Bahrain, Angers), dies at 78

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Famous Birthdays on June 28

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  • 1243 Go-Fukakusa, 89th Emperor of Japan (1246-60), born in Heian Kyō, Japan (d. 1304)

Pope (1555-59), born in Carpriglio, Italy

Paul IV

  • 1490 Albert of Brandenburg, German Archbishop of Mainz (Martin Luther’s Ninety-five Theses were addressed to him), born in Cölln, Germany (d. 1545)

King of England (1509-47) who separated the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church, born in London

Henry VIII

  • 1503 Giovanni Della Casa, Italian poet (Galateo), born in La Casa, Mugello, Tuscany (d. 1556)
  • 1547 Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer, born in Lucca, Republic of Lucca (d. 1599)
  • 1550 Johannes van den Driesche, Flemish Hebraist, born in Oudenarde, Flanders, Belgium (d. 1616)
  • 1577 Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish Baroque painter (Circumcision), born in Siegen (d. 1640)
  • 1586 Paul Siefert, German composer and organist, born in Danzig, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (d. 1666)
  • 1604 Heinrich Albert, German composer (Arien oder Melodien), and poet, born in Lobenstein, Imperial County of Reuss, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1651)
  • 1641 Marie Casimire Louise de la Grange d’Arquien, queen of Poland (1676-96), born in Nevers, France (d. 1716)
  • 1667 Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian noble and field marshal (Russo-Turkish War; Great Northern War), born in Russia (d. 1750) [OS = June 18]

English Christian theologian and co-founder of the Methodist movement, born in Epworth, England

John Wesley

  • 1712 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, political theorist, and writer (Confessions) whose works inspired French Revolution leaders and Romantic academics, born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1778)
  • 1719 Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman, born in Nancy, France (d. 1785)
  • 1734 Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier, French composer and organist (Notre Dame, 1783-93), born in Abbeville, Hauts-de-France, France (d. 1794)
  • 1787 Harry Smith, English military commander and leader of British-Indian forces (Battle of Aliwal), born in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, England (d. 1860)
  • 1794 Allen Frances Gardiner, British naval officer and Anglican missionary (Port Natal;, Zululand; Patagonia), born in Basildon, Berkshire, England (d. 1851)
  • 1808 Cristina Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess and politician, born in Milan, Lombardy, Italy (d. 1871)
  • 1812 Rudolf von Alt, Austrian painter, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1905)
  • 1824 Paul Broca, French brain surgeon and anthropologist (located speech center), born in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, France (d. 1880)
  • 1824 William T. Wofford, Brigadier General (Confederate Army-American Civil War), born in Toccoa, Habersham County, Georgia (d. 1884)
  • 1825 Emil Erlenmeyer, German chemist (Erlenmeyer flask), born in Wehen, Duchy of Nassau (d. 1909)
  • 1831 Joseph Joachim, German violinist (Hungarian Concerto), born in Köpcsény, Moson County, Kingdom of Hungary (d. 1907)
  • 1847 Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, Icelandic composer (Lofsöngur – National Anthem of Iceland), born in Seltjarnarnes, Iceland (d. 1927)
  • 1852 Hans Huber, Swiss composer and pedagogue, born in Eppenberg-Wöschnau, Switzerland (d. 1921)
  • 1853 Edwin Arthur Jones, American composer (Song of Our Saviour), born in Stoughton, Massachusetts (d. 1911)
  • 1865 Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer (Irrgarten Der Liebe), born in Grünberg, Province of Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1910)
  • 1867 Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (Six Characters in Search of An Author-Nobel 1934), born in Agrigento, Sicily, Italy (d. 1936)
  • 1867 William Courtleigh, Canadian actor (The Birth of Character, Ashes, The Nightingale), born in Guelph, Ontario (d. 1930)
  • 1870 Reginald Hall, British Royal Navy Admiral (Director of Naval Intelligence, 1914-19), born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England (d. 1943)
  • 1873 Alexis Carrel, French surgeon, sociologist and biologist (Nobel 1912), born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, France (d. 1944)
  • 1874 Oley Speaks, American composer (On the Road to Mandalay), born in Canal Winchester, Ohio (d. 1948)
  • 1875 Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (Lebesgue integration), born in Beauvais, Oise, France (d. 1941)
  • 1876 Clara Maass, American army nurse who sacrificed her life at 25 to prove that mosquitoes carry yellow fever, born in East Orange, New Jersey (d. 1901)
  • 1879 Sigurd von Koch, Swedish composer, born in Ägnö, Stockholm archipelago, Sweden (d. 1919)

Prime Minister of France (1931-32 and 1935-36) and Head of Vichy France (1942-44), born in Châteldon, France

Pierre Laval

  • 1884 Lamina Sankoh, Sierra Leonean pre-independence politician and nationalist, born in Freetown, Sierra Leone (d. 1964)
  • 1885 Berthold Viertel, Austrian screenwriter, born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1953)
  • 1885 Giuseppe Mulè, Italian composer, born in Rome, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1951)
  • 1886 Frank Mayo, American silent screen actor (Burning Gold, Hell’s Headquarters), born in New York City (d. 1963)
  • 1886 Joe Cox, South African cricket fast medium bowler (3 Tests; Natal), born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa (d. 1971)
  • 1887 Boleslav Vomácka, Czech composer (Vodntk – The Water Sprite), critic, and musicologist (Josef Suk), born in Mladá Boleslav, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1965)
  • 1888 George Challenor, West Indian cricketer (pioneering West Indian batsman), born in St. Michael, Barbados (d. 1947)
  • 1891 Carl Panzram, American serial killer and rapist, born in East Grand Forks, Minnesota (d. 1930)
  • 1891 Carl Spaatz, American World War II general and 1st Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, born in Boyertown, Pennsylvania (d. 1974)
  • 1891 Esther Forbes, American novelist (Johnny Tremain), born in Westborough, Massachusetts (d. 1968)
  • 1892 E. H. Carr, English historian (History of Soviet Russia), born in London (d. 1982)
  • 1893 Luciano Gallet, Brazilian pianist, composer, conductor, and educator, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (d. 1931)
  • 1893 Nils Björkander, Swedish composer, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1972)
  • 1894 Lois Wilson, American silent and sound screen actress (Miss Lulu Bett; The Great Gatsby; The Covered Wagon: Bright Eyes), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1988)
  • 1895 Kazimierz Sikorski, Polish composer, born in Zurich, Switzerland (d. 1986)
  • 1900 Alan Bunce, American radio and television actor (Homicidal, Ethel & Albert), born in Westfield, New Jersey (d. 1965)
  • 1900 Leon Kruczkowski, Polish author (Kordian into Cham), born in Kraków, Poland (d. 1962)
  • 1902 Pierre Brunet, French figure skater (Olympic gold pairs 1928, 32 [Andrée Brunet]), born in Paris (d. 1991)

American composer, mostly for theater (Rodgers & Hart – “Pal Joey”; “Babes In Arms”; Rodgers & Hammerstein – “Oklahoma!”; “South Pacific”; “The King And I”; “The Sound Of Music”) and 1st EGOT (Emmy; Grammy; Oscar; and Tony awards winner), born in New York City

Richard Rodgers

  • 1904 Włodzimierz Poźniak, Polish composer, born in Kraków, Poland (d. 1967)
  • 1906 Maria Goeppert-Mayer, American-German atomic physicist (Nobel 1963), born in Kattowitz, German Empire (d. 1972)
  • 1906 Nancy Mayhew Youngman, English painter and educationalist, born in Maidstone, England (d. 1995)
  • 1906 Safford Cape, American-Belgian conductor, composer and music historian, born in Denver, Colorado (d. 1973)
  • 1907 Paul-Emile Victor, French polar explorer, ethnologist, and writer (La civilisation du phoque), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1995)
  • 1908 James L. Reinsch, American broadcasting executive and presidential media adviser (Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy) who also advised Winston Churchill on his 1946 “Iron Curtain” speech, born in Streator, Illinois (d. 1991)
  • 1909 Arnold Shaw, American writer on popular music and composer, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1989)
  • 1909 Eric Ambler, English author of thrillers and spy novels (Epitaph for a Spy), born in London (d. 1998)
  • 1909 French van Immerseel, Belgian graphic artist, born in Borsbeek, Antwerp (d. 1978)
  • 1912 Audrey Langford, English singing teacher, born in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England (d. 1994)
  • 1912 Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor, composer, educator (Munich Philharmonic 1979-1996), born in Roman, Moldavia, Romania (d. 1996)
  • 1913 Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker (Der Bockerer), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 2007)
  • 1913 George Lloyd, English composer (The Serf; Pervigilium Veneris (The Vigil of Venus); John Socman), born in St. Ives, Cornwall, England (d. 1998)
  • 1913 Walter Oesau, German fighter pilot (WWII), born in Farnewinkel, Germany (d. 1944)
  • 1914 Aribert Heim, Austrian SS physician (served at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Mauthausen, known as Dr. Death), born in Bad Radkersburg, Austria-Hungary (d. 1992)
  • 1914 Charles Urbanus, Dutch baseball player, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1980)
  • 1915 David “Honeyboy” Edwards, American delta blues guitarist, born in Shaw, Mississippi (d. 2011)
  • 1917 A. E. Hotchner, American editor, novelist and playwright, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2020) [1]
  • 1917 Willem “Wim” Sonneveld, Dutch singer considered one of the ‘Great Three’ of Dutch cabaret (My Fair Lady), born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1974)

P. V. Narasimha Rao

  • 1922 Erik Bauersfeld, American voice actor (Star Wars’ Admiral Ackbar “Its a trap”), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2016)
  • 1922 Michael Vale, American actor known for being Dunkin’ Donuts mascot “Fred the Baker”, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2005)
  • 1922 Terje Stigen, Norwegian author (Det siste paradiset), born in Magerøya, Finnmark, Norway (d. 2010)
  • 1923 (Walter) “Pete” Candoli, American jazz, big band, and session trumpeter (Woody Herman; Stan Kenton; Henry Mancini; The Brothers Candoli), born in Mishawaka, Indiana (d. 2008)
  • 1923 Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, Argentine racing driver, born in Buenos Aires (d. 2012)
  • 1924 Henk van Stipriaan, Dutch journalist and VARA radio host, born in Hamburg (d. 1989)
  • 1925 Anne Mackenzie, South African long distance athlete, born in Ceres, Cape Province, South Africa (d. 2014)

1926 American writer, actor, comedian, songwriter, and director (Get Smart; Blazing Saddles; Young Frankenstein: Spaceballs), born in New York City

Mel Brooks

  • 1926 Robert Ledley, American scientist (invented the CT scanner), born in Queens, New York (d. 2012)
  • 1926 Robert Shelton [Shapiro], American music and film critic (New York Times), and biographer (No Direction Home, The Life and Music of Bob Dylan), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1995)
  • 1927 F. Sherwood Rowland, American Nobel laureate in chemistry 1995, born in Delaware, Ohio (d. 2012)
  • 1927 Theo van Tijn, Dutch Marxist social historian, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1992)
  • 1928 Andrew Gordon Speedie-Pask, English cybernetician stage producer and lyricist, born in Derby (d. 1996)
  • 1928 Cyril Smith, British Liberal Member of Parliament and alleged serial sex offender, born in Lancashire, England (d. 2010)
  • 1928 Hans Blix, Swedish head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission 2000-2003, born in Uppsala, Sweden
  • 1928 Harold Evans, English-American journalist, editor (The Sunday Times), and publisher (Random House), born in Patricroft, England (d. 2020) [1]
  • 1928 Nick Virgilio, American haiku poet, born in Camden, New Jersey (d. 1989)
  • 1928 Peter Heine, South African cricketer (solid South African fast bowler in 1950’s), born in Winterton, Natal, South Africa (d. 2005)
  • 1928 Ronald “Rags” Butler, British sailor, survivor on HMS Jervis Bay, born in Portsmouth, England (d. 1996)
  • 1929 Donald “Don” Dubbins, American actor (From Here to Eternity, The Caine Mutiny), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1991)
  • 1929 Helena van Heerden, English-South African pianist, born in East London, England
  • 1930 Itamar Franco, 33rd President of Brazil (1992-94), born in Brazilian territorial waters, Atlantic Ocean (d. 2011)
  • 1930 Nikolai Nikolayevich Karetnikov, Russian composer, born in Moscow (d. 1994)
  • 1931 Junior Johnson, American auto racer and team owner (Daytona 500 1960; NASCAR Hall of Fame), born in Wilkes County, North Carolina (d. 2019)
  • 1931 Lucien Victor, Belgian road racing cyclist, born in Oekene, Belgium (d. 1995)
  • 1932 Noriyuki ‘Pat’ Morita, American actor (Happy Days, Karate Kid), born in Isleton, California (d. 2005)
  • 1933 Gusty Spence, Northern Irish loyalist politician and leader of the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), born in Belfast, Northern Ireland (d. 2011)
  • 1934 Carl Levin, American attorney and politician (U.S. Senator from Michigan, 1979-2015), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2021)
  • 1934 Roy Gilchrist, West Indian cricket fast bowler (13 Tests, 57 wickets; Jamaica, Hyderabad), born in St Thomas, Jamaica (d. 2001)
  • 1935 John Inman, English actor (Mr. Humphries-Are You Being Served?), born in Preston, Lancashire, England (d. 2007)
  • 1936 Chuck Howley, American Pro Football HOF linebacker (Super Bowl VI; Super Bowl VI MVP; 5 × First-team All-Pro; 6 × Pro Bowl; Dallas Cowboys), born in Wheeling, West Virginia
  • 1936 Gisela Kraft, German writer, born in Berlin (d. 2010)
  • 1936 Major R. Owens, American politician (Rep-D-NY, 1983-2007), born in Collierville, Tennessee (d. 2013)
  • 1936 Peter Hall, British folklorist and musician, born in London (d. 1996)
  • 1937 George Knudson, Canadian golfer (8 PGA Tour titles; Masters 1969 runner-up), born in Winnipeg, Manitoba (d. 1989)
  • 1937 Georgios Zaimis, Greek sailor (Olympic gold dragon class 1960), born in Piraeus, Attiki, Greece (d. 2020)
  • 1937 Richard Bright, American actor (Al Neri-Godfather), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2006)
  • 1937 Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire in the American League (1969-79), born in Endicott, New York (d. 1995)
  • 1938 John Byner, American actor (Transylvania 6-5000) and comedian, born in New York City
  • 1938 Leon Panetta, American politician (23rd United States Secretary of Defense), born in Monterey, California
  • 1938 Moy Yat, Chinese martial artist (student of Yip Man), born in You Kum Chuen, China (d. 2001)
  • 1939 Klaus Schmiegel, German-American chemist (invented Prozac), born in Chemnitz, Germany

1940 Bangladeshi banker (Grameen – microlending), economist (Nobel Peace Prize 2006), born in Chittagong, British India

Muhammad Yunus

  • 1940 Roderick Wright, Scottish Bishop of Argyll and the Isles (1990-96), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 2005)
  • 1941 Al Downing, American MLB baseball player (NY Yankees), born in Trenton, New Jersey
  • 1941 Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (professor of Computer Science at the University of California and University of Oxford), born in San Diego, California (d. 2006)
  • 1942 (Martin) “Chris” Hani, South African politician (Secretary-General of South African Communist Party, 1991-93), born in Cofimvaba, Transkei, South Africa (d. 1993)
  • 1942 Frank Zane, American professional bodybuilder (Mr. Olympia, 1977-79), and author, born in Kingston, Pennsylvania
  • 1942 Jim Kolbe, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona), born in Evanston, Illinois
  • 1942 Sjoukje Dijkstra, Dutch figure skater (Olympic gold women’s singles 1964; World C’ship gold 1962, 63, 64), born in Akkrum, Netherlands (d. 2024)
  • 1943 Ed Pastor, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona), born in Claypool, Arizona
  • 1943 Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist (discovery of the integer quantum Hall effect, Nobel 1985), born in Schroda, Reichsgau Posen, Germany
  • 1945 Dave Knights, British rock bassist (Procol Harum – “Conquistador”), born in London, England
  • 1945 Jane Harman, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California), born in New York City
  • 1945 Ken Buchanan, Scottish boxer (undisputed world lightweight champion 1971), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 2023)
  • 1945 Raul Seixas, Brazilian rock singer-songwriter (“Mosca na Sopa” – “Fly In The Soup”), born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil (d. 1989)
  • 1946 Bruce Davison, American actor (Capt Wyler-Hunter, Willard, High Risk), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • 1946 David Duckham, English rugby union outside back (36 Tests England, 3 British & Irish Lions; Coventry RFC), born in Coventry, England (d. 2023)
  • 1946 Gilda Radner, American comedian and actress (SNL, 1975-80; Haunted Honeymoon), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 1989)
  • 1946 Jaime Guzmán, Chilean politician (President of the Independent Democratic Union), born in Santiago (d. 1991)
  • 1946 John M. Lounge, American engineer and astronaut (STS 51-I, STS 26, STS 35), born in Denver, Colorado (d. 2011)
  • 1946 Robert Asprin, American sci-fi writer (Thieves World, Cold Cash War), born in St John, Michigan (d. 2008)
  • 1946 Robert Xavier Rodriguez, American classical composer (Frida), born in San Antonio, Texas
  • 1947 Anny Duperey, French film and television actress, born in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
  • 1947 Mark Helprin, American writer (A Soldier of the Great War), born in Manhattan, New York
  • 1947 Patrick Kincaid, American computer programmer (TODAY) and communications consultant, born in Newberry, Michigan (d. 2020)

1948 American Academy Award-winning actress (Misery), born in Memphis, Tennessee

Kathy Bates

  • 1949 Don Baylor, American baseball player (Rockies, 1979 AL RBI leader, 267 HBP), born in Austin, Texas
  • 1949 Edward Totah, Lebanese-British art dealer, born in Lebanon (d. 1995)
  • 1950 Margaret Wu, Taiwanese-American industrial chemist, invented superior synthetic lubricants at ExxonMobil, born in Taipei, Taiwan [1]
  • 1950 Mauricio Rojas, Chilean-Swedish politician and political economist, born in Santiago, Chile
  • 1951 David “Frankie” Toler, American drummer and percussionist (Allman Brothers), born in Connersville, Indiana (d. 2011)
  • 1951 Mick Cronin, Australian rugby league centre (33 Tests; NSW 25 games; Parramatta RLFC 216 games), and coach (Parramatta RLFC 1990-93), born in Kiama, Australia
  • 1951 Tomás Boy, Mexican football midfielder and manager (52 caps; Tigres UANL 413 games), born in Ciudad de México, Mexico (d. 2022)
  • 1952 Alan Pasqua, American jazz and rock pianist, composer and educator (Standards; Twin Bill), born in New Jersey
  • 1952 Pietro Mennea, Italian runner (200m world record), born in Barletta, Apulia, Italy (d. 2013)
  • 1954 A. A. [Adrian Anthony] Gill, British critic (The Sunday Times), born in Edinburgh (d. 2016)
  • 1954 Alice Krige, South African actress (Chariots of Fire, Ladykiller), born in Upington, Cape Province, South Africa
  • 1954 Ava Barber, American country singer (Lawrence Welk Show), born in Knoxville, Tennessee
  • 1955 Eric Gates, English football player, born in Ferryhill, County Durham, England

1955 Soviet-Russian cross-country skier (5 Olympic golds 1980 & 84), born in Moscow, Soviet Union

Nikolay Zimyatov

  • 1955 Shirley Cheriton, English actress (Debbie Wilkins-EastEnders), born in London
  • 1955 Thomas Hampson, American lyric baritone, born in Elkhart, Indiana
  • 1956 Noel Mugavin, Australian rules football player, born in Koroit, Victoria
  • 1956 Paul Meyers, American jazz and Brazilian guitarist (Andy Bey, Jon Hendricks ), composer (Welcome Home; Blues for the Millennium), and educator, born in New York City
  • 1957 Georgi Parvanov, 3rd President of Bulgaria (2002-12), born in Sirishtnik, Bulgaria
  • 1957 Mike Skinner, American racecar driver, born in Susanville, California
  • 1958 Sergei Shakrai, Russian figure skater (Olympic silver 1980), born in Soviet Union
  • 1959 Brad Fraser, Canadian playwright and screenwriter ( Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love), born in Edmonton, Alberta

1960 American NFL quarterback (Denver Broncos-Super Bowl 32/33), born in Port Angeles, Washington

John Elway

  • 1961 Jay Schroeder, NFL quarterback (Wash Redskins, LA Raiders), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • 1961 Jeff Malone, American basketball guard (NBA All-Star 1986, 87; Utah Jazz, Washington Bullets), born in Mobile, Alabama
  • 1962 Anisoara Stanciu-Cusmir, Romanian long jumper (Olympic gold 1984), born in Brăila, Romania
  • 1964 Bryan Barker, NFL punter (Jacksonville Jaguars), born in Jacksonville Beach, Florida
  • 1964 Susan Mascarin, American tennis player, born in Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan
  • 1964 Tommy Lynn Sells, American serial killer, born in Oakland, California (d. 2014)
  • 1965 Michele Timms, Australian WNBA guard (Phoenix Mercury, Olympics 1988, 96), born in Melbourne, Australia
  • 1966 Andrew Lang, American NBA center (Minnesota Timberwolves, Milwaukee Bucks), born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas
  • 1966 John Cusack, American actor (Stand By Me, Sure Thing, Better Off Dead), born in Chicago, Illinois
  • 1966 Mary Stuart Masterson, American actress (Some Kind of Wonderful), born in Houston, Texas
  • 1967 Gil Bellows, Canadian actor, born in Vancouver, British Columbia
  • 1967 Matt Karchner, American baseball pitcher (Chicago White Sox), born in Berwick, Pennsylvania
  • 1968 Adam Woodyatt, English actor (Ian Beale in EastEnders), born in Walthamstow, London Borough of Waltham Forest, United Kingdom
  • 1968 Chayanne [Elmer Figueroa Arce], Puerto Rican singer, born in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
  • 1969 Ayelet Zurer, Israeli actress, born in Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 1969 Danielle Brisebois, American actress (Archie’s Place, Big Bad Mama 2), born in Brooklyn, New York
  • 1969 Tichina Arnold, American actress, born in Queens, NYC, New York
  • 1970 Mike White, American filmmaker and actor (The White Lotus), born in Pasadena, California
  • 1970 Mushtaq Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer (prodigious Pakistani leggie 1990-), born in Sahiwal, Punjab, Pakistan
  • 1970 Steve Burton, American actor (Chris-Out of this World), born in Indianapolis, Indiana
  • 1971 Aileen Quinn, American actress (Annie), born in Yardley, Pennsylvania
  • 1971 Bobby Hurley, American basketball guard (Sacramento Kings) and coach (Uni of Buffalo, Arizona State Uni), born in Jersey City, New Jersey

Elon Musk

  • 1971 Greg Keagle, American MLB right-handed pitcher (Detroit Tigers), born in Corning, New York
  • 1971 Jeff Cothran, NFL fullback (Cin Bengals), born in Middletown, Ohio
  • 1971 Kenny Cunningham, Irish soccer defender (72 caps Republic of Ireland; Millwall, Wimbledon, Birmingham City), born in Dublin, Ireland
  • 1971 Norika Fujiwara, Japanese actress and television personality, born in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
  • 1971 Ron Mahay, American baseball player, born in Crestwood, Illinois
  • 1972 Alessandro Nivola, American actor, born in Boston, Massachusetts
  • 1972 Arie van der Padt, Dutch soccer player (Tonegido, Sparta), born in Ridderkerk, Netherlands
  • 1972 Marvin Jones, American NFL linebacker (NY Jets), born in Miami, Florida
  • 1972 Willie Apiata, New Zealand army officer (Victoria Cross for NZ), born in Mangkino, New Zealand
  • 1973 Adrian Annus, Hungarian athlete, born in Szeged, Hungary
  • 1973 Alberto Berastegui, Spanish tennis player, born in Bilbao, Spain

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  • 683 Leo II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
  • 767 St Paul I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
  • 1098 Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul
  • 1119 Battle of Sarmada – Emir Ilghazi defeats French Crusaders
  • 1245 1st Council of Lyon (13th ecumenical council) opens

Edward IV

1461 Yorkist Edward IV crowned King of England after deposing Henry VI from the House of Lancaster

  • 1485 Gent/Brugge/Ieper recognize Maximilian of Austria as regent of Netherlands

Holy Roman Emperor Elected

1519 King Carlos I is elected Holy Roman Emperor Charles V

  • 1575 Spanish troops conquer Buren
  • 1629 Peace of Alès: Rights of French huguenots limited
  • 1635 French colony of Guadeloupe established in the Caribbean
  • 1651 Battle of Beresteczko between Poles and Ukrainians starts
  • 1675 Battle of Fehrbellin: Brandenburg-Prussian troops defeat Sweden
  • 1675 King Philip’s War: Colonial militia destroys Wampanoag settlement at Mount Hope in Bristol, Rhode Island, in response to recent attacks at Swansea, Massachusetts

Siege of Cuneo

1691 Siege of Cuneo ends in a French defeat and a loss of 700–800 troops after Imperial cavalry arrives to relieve forces led by Duke of Savoy Victor Amadeus II (Nine Years’ War)

  • 1748 Riot after public execution in Amsterdam, 200+ killed
  • 1762 First reported counterfeiting attempt in Boston

Catherine the Great Seizes Power

1762 Russian Tsarina Catherine II seizes power, declaring herself sovereign ruler of Russia

  • 1770 Quakers open a school for blacks in Philadelphia
  • 1776 Charleston, South Carolina repulses British sea attack

1776 Final draft of Declaration of Independence submitted to Continental Congress

  • 1778 Battle of Monmouth, New Jersey (General Washington beats Clinton)
  • 1778 Mary Ludwig Hayes “Molly Pitcher” aids American patriots
  • 1807 British troops land at Ensenada, Argentina
  • 1820 Colonel Robert Gibbon proves tomatoes are not poisonous by eating a tomato on the steps of a courthouse in Salem, New Jersey
  • 1832 Gerrit Moll measures the noise of guns
  • 1833 Three missionaries of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society obtain permission from Chief Moshoeshoe (Moshesh) to found a mission station in Basutoland (now Lesotho)
  • 1841 The Théâtre de l’Académie Royale de Musique in Paris premieres the ballet Giselle
  • 1846 The saxophone is patented by Antoine-Joseph “Adolfe” Sax
  • 1855 Sigma Chi Fraternity is founded at Miami University
  • 1859 First dog show is held, in Newcastle upon Tyne, England
  • 1861 Leipzig Observatory discovers short-period (6.2 yrs) Comet d’Arrest
  • 1862 Day 4 of 7 Day Battle of Savage’s Station [Garnett’s Farm] in Virginia
  • 1863 American Civil War: Second Battle of Donaldsonville, Louisiana – Union forces successfully repel Confederate attack on Fort Butler, on the Mississippi River
  • 1865 The Army of the Potomac is disbanded
  • 1869 Amsterdam typographer strike
  • 1870 U.S. Congress creates federal holidays (New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day), initially applicable only to federal employees
  • 1874 Freedmen’s Bank closes

Capture of Ned Kelly

1880 Australian bushranger Ned Kelly captured at Glenrowan

  • 1887 MLB Philadelphia Quakers (later Phillies) win most lopsided shut-out in franchise history, 24-0, over Hoosiers at Seventh Street Ballpark in Indianapolis, Indiana
  • 1892 Phillies tie club record of 16 straight victories
  • 1894 Labor Day established as a holiday for US federal employees
  • 1894 The Natal Legislature plans to introduce the Indian Franchise Bill, South Africa
  • 1895 El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form Central American Union

Gauguin Leaves for Tahiti

1895 Painter Paul Gauguin leaves France for Tahiti for the second time and never returns

  • 1897 Marquis C. de Bonchamps’ expedition reaches Gore, Ethiopia
  • 1902 Germany, Italy, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire renew their Triple Alliance for six more years
  • 1902 US buys concession to build Panama canal from French for $40 million
  • 1902 US Congress authorizes Louisiana Purchase Expo $1 gold coin
  • 1904 International Anti-Military Cooperation (IAMV) forms in Amsterdam
  • 1904 SS Norge runs aground and sinks off Rockall in the North Atlantic; more than 635 die, the largest maritime loss of life until the Titanic

Senators’ Record Steal

1907 MLB Washington Senators steal a record 13 bases off of New York Highlanders catcher Branch Rickey

First Zeppelin Flies with Passengers

1910 First airship with passengers, the Zeppelin LZ7 Deutschland, makes its maiden voyage and gets stuck in trees on Mount Limberg, Lower Saxony, injuring one crew member

  • 1911 Joseph Caillaux forms government in France

1914 Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated by Bosnian-Serb assassin Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, setting off a chain of alliances and events that lead to World War I

  • 1917 Potato entrepreneurs begins in Amsterdam
  • 1918 First flight between Hawaiian islands
  • 1919 Boston Red Sox Carl Mays pitches a complete doubleheader against NY Yankees, winning 1st game, 2-0, losing 2nd game, 4-1 (Polo Grounds, NYC)

1919 Treaty of Versailles is signed in France, ending World War I and establishing the League of Nations

  • 1922 The Irish Civil War starts when Irish Free State forces attack anti-treaty republicans in Dublin
  • 1923 MLB Brooklyn Robins blow 7-0 lead, as Phillies win 8-7 at the Baker Bowl in Philadelphia

Queen’s UK State Visit

1923 Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry of the Netherlands state visit to London, England

  • 1924 Test cricket umpire debut for Frank Chester, v South Africa at Lord’s
  • 1924 Tornado strikes Sandusky and Lorain, Ohio, killing 93
  • 1926 Mercedes-Benz forms when the world’s oldest automobile manufacturers DMG and Benz & Cie merge
  • 1928 Friedrich Schmiedl attempts rocket mail in Austria (unsuccessful)
  • 1928 NY Governor Alfred E. Smith is nominated for US President at the Democratic Convention
  • 1930 First night game in Detroit at the newly built Hamtramck Stadium as the Negro League Detroit Stars take on the KC Monarchs
  • 1934 Adolf Hitler flies to Essen, Germany for the “Night of the Long Knives”
  • 1935 Earl Averill‘s consecutive-game streak ends at 673

Fort Knox

1935 FDR orders a federal gold vault to be built at Fort Knox, Kentucky

  • 1936 Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China
  • 1937 Spanish pianist José Iturbi and his sister Amparo have their US debut performance as a piano duo, with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Robin Hood Dell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Louis vs Galento

1939 Joe Louis beats Tony Galento by TKO at 2:29 in round 4 at Yankee Stadium, NYC in his 7th heavyweight boxing title defense

  • 1939 Pan Am opens southern route transatlantic air service (Dixie Clipper)
  • 1939 Yanks hit 13 HRs, sweep A’s 23-2 & 10-0
  • 1940 “Quiz Kids?” premieres on radio
  • 1940 Romania cedes Bessarabia to Soviet Union
  • 1941 German and Romanian soldiers kill 11,000 Jews in Kishinev
  • 1941 German troops occupy Galicia, Poland
  • 1942 Col-gen Von Hoth’ 6th Pantser enters Voronezj
  • 1945 Polish Provisional government of National Unity set up by Soviets
  • 1946 Enrico de Nicola becomes 1st President of Italy
  • 1946 Permanent radio play-by-play of Cleveland Indians games begins
  • 1947 “Tim-Tayshun” (“Temptation”) novelty single by Red Ingle with Jo Stafford (billed as Cinderella G. Stump) hits #1
  • 1948 British begin airlift “Operation Plainfare” to West Berlin
  • 1950 North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea in opening phase of the Korean War
  • 1951 “Amos ‘n’ Andy” premieres on CBS TV
  • 1954 111°F (44°C) at Camden, South Carolina (state record)
  • 1956 Riots break out in Poznan, Poland, 38 die
  • 1956 The first atomic reactor built for private research operates in Chicago, Illinois
  • 1957 Reds’ fans stuff ballot box, electing 8 Reds as All Star starters
  • 1958 American swimmer Nancy Ramey sets world record for 100m butterfly in 1:09.6 in Los Angeles, California

1958 US Open Women’s Golf, Forest Lake CC: Mickey Wright wins 1st of 4 Open titles by 5 from Louise Suggs; 1st player to win Open & LPGA in same year

  • 1959 Meldrim trestle disaster; freight train derails over Ogeechee River in Georgia causing IPG tanks to explode killing 23
  • 1959 Philadelphia Phillies’ Wally Post is only outfielder to throw out 2 runners in an inning twice, in a 6-0 loss to Giants at Seals Stadium, San Francisco, California
  • 1960 10.40″ (26.42 cm) of rainfall, Dunmor, Kentucky (state 24-hour record)
  • 1961 Phils and San Francisco set then record longest night game (5h11m) 7-7 15 innings tie
  • 1962 Thalidomide drug banned in Netherlands
  • 1963 Belaunde Terry inaugurated as President of Peru

Event of Interest

1964 Organization for Afro-American Unity formed in New York by Malcolm X

  • 1965 Dutch Princess Beatrice and Claus von Amsberg announce their engagement
  • 1966 Ernie Terrell beats Doug Jones by unanimous points decision over 15 rounds in Houston to retain his WBA heavyweight boxing title
  • 1967 Israel annexes East Jerusalem
  • 1968 Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking the “Pentagon Papers” to the New York Times
  • 1969 John Hampshire scores 107 on Test cricket debut v WI at Lord’s
  • 1969 Police carry out an early morning raid on gay bar Stonewall Inn, Greenwich Village, NY; about 400 to 1,000 patrons riot against police, it lasts 3 days. Beginning of the modern LGBT rights movement
  • 1970 Around 500 Catholic workers at the Harland and Wolff shipyard are forced to leave their work by Protestant employees as serious rioting continues in Belfast

Sports History

1971 US Supreme Court (8-0) overturns draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali

  • 1973 Lawsuit in Detroit challenges Little League’s “no girls” rule
  • 1973 New Zealand ship HMNZS Otago sails for Mururoa nuclear test zone after France’s refusal to accept an International Court of Justice injunction against its atmospheric nuclear testing
  • 1973 Northern Ireland Assembly elections take place
  • 1974 Fall of earth and rocks kill 200 (Quebrada Blanca Canyon, Colombia)

Band on the Run

1974 Paul McCartney & Wings release singles “Band on the Run” and “Zoo Gang” in UK

  • 1975 The South African rugby team beats France 33-18 in Pretoria
  • 1976 First woman is admitted to the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado
  • 1976 Three British mercenaries are sentenced to death for their part in the Angolan civil war
  • 1977 Billy Hunter becomes Rangers’ 4th manager in 6 days
  • 1977 Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes papers
  • 1977 The United Party, main political opposition party in South Africa, is formally disbanded by the majority faction after members leave the party to join other new political parties
  • 1978 Supreme Court orders Cal medical school to admit Allan Bakke a white man claiming reverse discrimination when application was rejected
  • 1978 UNICEF chooses rock group Kansas as Ambassadors of Goodwill
  • 1979 OPEC raises oil prices 24%
  • 1980 NYC transit fare rises from 50 cents to 60 cents
  • 1980 The South African Springbok rugby team lead by Morné du Plessis beats the British Lions 12-10 in Port Elizabeth to lead 3-0 in the series
  • 1981 74 government officials die in attack on Islamic Republican Party conference in Tehran, Iran, including Chief Justice Mohammad Beheshti
  • 1983 Bridge section along I-95 in Greenwich, Connecticut collapses, killing 3
  • 1983 NASA launches Galaxy-A
  • 1984 Former member of South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), Jeannette Schoon, and her six-year-old daughter, Katryn, are killed by a letter bomb at Lubango, in northern Angola
  • 1985 Discovery ferried back to Kennedy Space Center via Bergstrom AFB, Tx
  • 1986 Irish population condemns divorce
  • 1986 Kenneth and Nellie Pike challenge Ala Dem runoff win by AG C Graddick
  • 1986 West European leaders, meeting in the Netherlands, delay indefinitely imposing economic sanctions against South Africa
  • 1987 Boston outfielder Don Baylor sets MLB career hit-by-pitch mark at 244 when plunked by Rick Rhoden in Red Sox, 6-2 win over NY Yankees

Contract of Interest

1988 Mike Tyson sues to break contract with manager Bill Cayton

  • 1991 South Africa signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
  • 1992 Burharnuddin Rabbani becomes president of Afghanistan
  • 1992 Italian government of Amato forms
  • 1992 LA Police commissioner Daryl Gates steps down
  • 1992 The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law
  • 1992 Two earthquakes, including the third strongest in the US (7.4), rock California
  • 1992 US Dream Team beats Cuba in 1st exhibition basketball game, 133-57
  • 1993 Carlton Fisk, 45, released by White Sox, as all time leader of most games caught and most HRs by a catcher

Sports History

1993 Doctors recommend ligament transplant to Jose Canseco‘s arm

  • 1993 Jacques Lemaire is named NJ Devils 8th Head Coach
  • 1993 NCRV shows last “Cheers” in Netherlands

Sports History

1994 Jonah Lomu becomes the youngest-ever All Black at 19 yrs 45 days playing rugby for New Zealand against France in Christchurch

Sports History

1994 MLB New York Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden suspended for 60 days due to drug charges

  • 1994 NHL Draft: Windsor Spitfires (OHL) defenceman Ed Jovanovski first pick by Florida Panthers
  • 1995 NBA draft: Maryland power forward Joe Smith first pick by Golden State Warriors
  • 1995 NJ Devils Stanley Cup Victory Party, admidst rumours they were moving to Nashville, goalie Chris Terreri holds up “Nashville? NO WAY!” sign

The Nutty Professor

1996 Remake of “The Nutty Professor” starring Eddie Murphy opens in theaters in the USA

  • 1996 The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
  • 1997 American TV evangelist Robert Schuller (70) attacks a male flight attendant (33), after disputes regarding during a luggage stowage, and cheese [1] [2]
  • 2000 Cuban exile Elián González returns to Cuba following a Supreme Court order.
  • 2000 NBA Draft: Cincinnati power forward Kenyon Martin first pick by New Jersey Nets
  • 2002 In South Africa, the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the Treatment Action Campaign table a national HIV/AIDS treatment plan in the National Economic, Development and Labour Council
  • 2004 Estonia, Lithuania and Slovenia join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism
  • 2004 Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation
  • 2005 A final design for Manhattan’s Freedom Tower is formally unveiled
  • 2005 NBA Draft: Utah center Andrew Bogut first pick by Milwaukee Bucks
  • 2005 Operation Red Wings: 3 members of US Navy SEAL reconnaissance team killed on Sawtalo Sar Mountain, Kunar, Afghanistan, in an ambush; 2 helicopters dispatched to assist shot down, killing an additional 16 US troops [1]
  • 2006 NBA Draft: Italian power forward Andrea Bargnani is first pick by Toronto Raptors
  • 2006 The Republic of Montenegro admitted as the 192nd Member of the United Nations by General Assembly resolution 60/264
  • 2007 Craig Biggio of the Houston Astros becomes the 27th member of the 3000 hit club, going 5 for 5 against the Colorado Rockies
  • 2007 NBA Draft: Ohio State center Greg Oden first pick by Portland Trail Blazers
  • 2007 Play “August: Osage County”, written by Tracy Letts, premieres at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago (Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2008)

Hawking’s Party for Time Travelers

2009 Professor Stephen Hawking hosts a ‘party for time travelers at the University of Cambridge, not sending out the invites until after the party

Election of Interest

2011 Christine Lagarde becomes the 1st women to be elected head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

  • 2012 A series of car bombs in Iraq kills 14 and injures 50 people

Sports History

2012 NBA Draft: Kentucky center Anthony Davis first pick New Orleans Pelicans

  • 2015 David Sweat shot and captured near Canadian border. 2nd prisoner to escape maximum-security Clinton Correctional Facility June 6
  • 2015 Greek Credit Crisis: Greek government says banks closed for a week and ATM withdrawals restricted after European Central Bank refused to supply emergency funds
  • 2016 Suicide bombings and gun attacks at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport kill 42 and wound more than 200

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2017 China’s president, Xi Jinping begins 3 day trip to Hong Kong to mark 20 years since the territory handed back to China

  • 2017 Wilshire Grand Center becomes the tallest building in Los Angeles and in the US west of the Mississippi at 1,100 ft
  • 2018 Amsterdam elects its first-ever woman mayor Femke Halsema since its first mayor in 1343
  • 2018 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo declared “largely contained” by World Health Organization, first outbreak to use new Merck vaccine
  • 2018 Employee charged with attempted poisoning of colleague’s sandwich in Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock, Germany, leading authorities to investigate 21 other suspicious deaths
  • 2018 Fire starts on Winter Hill on Lancashire moorland, England, lit by arson
  • 2018 Lone gunman attacks offices of Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, killing nine
  • 2018 Power company uncovers Neolithic wooden trackway 2,300 years old in Suffolk, England. One of the largest archaeological digs in Europe at 16,000 square meters
  • 2019 3,400 year old Bronze Age palace from the Mittani Empire uncovered on the banks of the Tigris River, due to lack of rainfall dropping the water level in the Mosul Dam reservoir
  • 2019 EU and South American trade bloc Mercosur agree on a historic trade deal, the EU’s biggest to date
  • 2019 Highest-ever temperature recorded in France 45.9°C in Gallargues-le-Montueux, southern France
  • 2020 50th anniversary of 1st Gay Pride march in New York City marked around the world
  • 2020 COVID-19 cases surge in southern and western US states with California, Texas and Florida closing bars, Arizona reports 20% of tests returning as positive
  • 2020 Global death toll from COVID-19 passes 500,000, doubling in less than two months (Johns Hopkins)
  • 2021 AirCar, prototype flying car capable of flying 1,000km (600 miles), at height of 8,200ft (2,500m), completes 35 min test flight between Nitra and Bratislava airports in Slovakia
  • 2021 Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalizes marijuana use by adults
  • 2021 Tigray Defense Forces retake Tigray’s regional capital of Mekelle in Ethiopia’s Tigray War. The Ethiopian government declares a unilateral ceasefire to save face but neither side sticks to it. [1]
  • 2021 US Supreme Court declines to hear school’s appeal in transgender bathroom case made by Gavin Grimm in Virginia, upholding an earlier decision it was discriminatory
  • 2022 Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years in US federal prison for grooming and aiding Jeffery Epstein to abuse underage girls [1]
  • 2022 In dramatic testimony to the Jan 6 Committee hearing, a senior White House aide testifies Trump wanted to march to the Capitol and his fury when he couldn’t [1]
  • 2022 Rocket Lab launches NASA’s CAPSTONE, a microwave-oven sized CubeSat spacecraft from Mahia peninsula, New Zealand, to orbit the Moon, research for future Gateway and Artemis missions [1]
  • 2023 New York Yankees’ pitcher Domingo Germán (30) throws a perfect game in 11-0 win over Oakland A’s at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum; it is his first complete game in 7-year MLB career
  • 2023 South Koreans become a year or two younger as country drops two traditional age-counting systems to align with international standards (used to be aged one at birth) [1]
  • 2024 Boy band Seventeen are the first K-pop group to play the main Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury [1]
  • 2024 US Supreme Court decision clears the way for states to place bans on homeless sleeping, as 650,000 now estimated homeless in the US, up 12% [1]

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What Happened on June 28

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The saxophone is patented by Antoine-Joseph “Adolfe” Sax

June 28, 1846


Fun Fact About June 28

Colonel Robert Gibbon proves tomatoes are not poisonous by eating a tomato on the steps of a courthouse in Salem, New Jersey

June 28, 1820

Famous Weddings

  • 1919 Future US President Harry Truman (35) weds (Elizabeth) ” Bess” Wallace (34) in Independence. Missouri, until his death in 1972
  • 1930 Film director David Lean (22) weds his first cousin Isabel Lean
  • 1934 Novelist Kenneth Patchen (22) weds Miriam Patchen in nearby Sharon, Pennsylvania

Famous Divorces

  • 2010 Academy award-winning actress Sandra Bullock (45) divorces “Monster Garage” host Jesse James (40) due to conflict of personalities after nearly 5 years of marriage
  • 2012 “Spy Kids” actress Alexa Vega (23) divorces film producer Sean Covel (36) due to irreconcilable differences after less than two years of marriage

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Rethinking Human Origins: Study Debunks Theory of Climate-Driven Evolution in Africa

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Africa Wrinkled MapThe study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with the appearance of the earliest known hominids in the fossil record. A study led by researchers at Brown University found that rainfall patterns across northern Africa stayed mostly consistent between 3.5 and 2.5 million years ago. […]



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Evil God-Bird Anzu Who Stole The Tablet Of Destiny To Control Universe And Fates Of All

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A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – An interesting – though only fragmentary – Babylonian myth tells the story of Anzu/Zu (‘the wise one’), the bird god, whose home is the underworld.

Evil God-Bird Anzu Who Stole The Tablet Of Destiny To Control Universe and Fates Of All

Anzu is a mythical creature depicted as a gigantic sky being, part human and part bird, with enormous wings. This creature could walk on two legs like a human. Anzu’s wings were said to have the power to generate thunder, whirlwinds, and sandstorms.

Originating from an early Sumerian myth, Anzu was linked to the Sumerian storm demon known as the Anzu bird. In celestial terms, this mythological figure is represented among the stars by the constellations Pegasus and Taurus.

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Mysterious Wise Pre-Flood Beings Who Gave Humans A Precious Gift – Did We Reject It?

Secrets Of Hermes Trismegistus Who Brought Divine Wisdom To Mankind

Mesopotamians Worshipped An Unusual And Peculiar-Looking Creature – Archaeology And Sacred Texts Reveal – But What Was It?

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