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The Unexpected Material That Could Build Our First Mars Colony

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Mars Base Colony
Scientists are finding ways to turn Martian dirt into usable metals. This breakthrough could make it possible to build settlements on Mars without bringing everything from Earth. Credit: Shutterstock

Swinburne and CSIRO researchers have successfully produced iron in Mars-like conditions, opening the door to metal production beyond Earth.

The vision of establishing settlements on Mars has captured the imagination of billionaires, government space programs, and space exploration advocates.

However, building such colonies requires vast amounts of material, and transporting it all from Earth is not practical. To put it in perspective, sending NASA’s one-ton Perseverance Rover to Mars cost around US$243 million.

Clearly, unless we plan to build a settlement fit only for ants, far more resources will be necessary. The challenge then becomes: how do we obtain them?

For CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellow and Swinburne graduate Dr Deddy Nababan, the solution may lie in Mars’s own soil, known as regolith.

Scientists Make Iron Under Mars Like Conditions
Swinburne and CSIRO researchers have successfully made iron under Mars-like conditions, opening to door to off-world metal production. Credit: Swinburne University of Technology

“Sending metals to Mars from Earth might be feasible, but it’s not economical. Can you imagine bringing tonnes of metals to Mars? It’s just not practical,” Dr Nababan says.

“Instead, we can use what’s available on Mars. It’s called in-situ resource utilization, or ISRU.”

More specifically, Dr Nababan is looking at astrometallurgy — making metals in space.

Building an off-world foundry

As it turns out, Mars has all the ingredients needed to make native metals. This includes iron-rich oxides in regolith and carbon from its thin atmosphere, which acts as a reducing agent.

Swinburne University of Technology astrometallurgist, Professor Akbar Rhamdhani, is working with Dr Nababan to test this process with regolith simulant – an artificial recreation of the stuff found of Mars.

Spoonful of Regolith Simulant
The researchers used a regolith simulant that mimics the materials found at Gale Crater on Mars. Credit: Swinburne University of Technology

“We picked a simulant with very similar properties to that found at Gale Crater on Mars and processed them on Earth with simulated Mars conditions. This gives us a good idea of how the process would perform off-world,” he says.

The simulant is placed inside a chamber at Mars surface pressure and heated at increasing temperatures. The experiments showed pure iron metal formation around 1000°C, with liquid silicon-iron alloys produced around 1400°C.

“At high enough temperatures, all of the metals coalesced into one large droplet. This could then be separated from liquid slag the same way it is on Earth,” Professor Rhamdhani says.

Along with Dr Nababan, Prof Rhamdhani is collaborating with CSIRO’s Dr Mark Pownceby to further advance the process. They’re particularly focused on making metals with zero waste, where the byproducts of the process are used to make useful items.

If you can’t ship it, make it

In space exploration, in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) is becoming increasingly important because every kilogram launched aboard a rocket adds to the cost and complexity of a mission. Although launch costs are gradually decreasing, the scale of resources needed to support human exploration remains enormous.

Significant progress is already being made, including the first off-world demonstration of ISRU. NASA’s MOXIE experiment, carried by the Mars Perseverance rover, successfully generated breathable oxygen from nothing more than the carbon dioxide in Mars’s atmosphere.

Metal production is the next giant leap. Prof Rhamdhani hopes Mars-made alloys could be used as shells for housing or research facilities, and in machinery for excavation.

Researcher Placing Regolith Simulant Into Laboratory Furnace
The regolith simulant is placed in a furnace that recreates Martian conditions and heated, producing iron. Credit: Swinburne University of Technology

“There are certainly challenges. We need to better understand how these alloys would perform over time, and of course, whether this process can be recreated on the real Martian surface,” Prof Rhamdhani says.

But in the meantime, Swinburne and its partners are doubling down. Prof Rhamdhani, together with Dr Nababan and Dr Matt Shaw, another CSIRO researcher and Swinburne alum, recently delivered a 4-day bespoke workshop on astrometallurgy in South Korea. The feedback was promising.

“We’re starting to see increased interest in this field globally as the world gets serious about Mars exploration,” he says.

“To make it happen, we’re going to need experts from many fields — mining, engineering, geology, and much more.”

For Dr Nababan, the benefits go beyond exploration. He hopes their research will also drive more efficient metallurgy here on Earth.

“By doing this, I wish that I can help the development of space exploration, and at the end it will bring good to human life here on Earth.”

References:

“Iron (alloy) extraction on Mars through carbothermic reduction of regolith: a thermodynamic assessment and experimental study” by Deddy C. Nababan, Mark I. Pownceby, Aaron Torpy and M. Akbar Rhamdhani, 5 May 2025, Acta Astronautica.
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2025.05.005

“Metals extraction on Mars through carbothermic reduction: Mars regolith simulant (MGS-1) characterization and preliminary reduction experiments” by Deddy C. Nababan, Mark I. Pownceby and M. Akbar Rhamdhani, 23 April 2025, Acta Astronautica.
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2025.04.050

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This Common Sleep Aid May Also Protect Your Brain From Alzheimer’s

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A familiar, FDA-approved sleep aid restored healthier sleep and blunted tau-driven brain damage in Alzheimer’s-model mice, pointing to sleep circuits as a lever against neurodegeneration. By blocking orexin signaling, the drug reduced abnormal tau and inflammation, an approach that could complement anti-amyloid therapies. Credit: Shutterstock

Lemborexant and similar sleep medications show potential for treating tau-related disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease.

New research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows that a commonly used sleep medication can restore normal sleep patterns and shield mice from the brain damage linked to neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease. The drug, lemborexant, blocks the buildup of an abnormal form of the tau protein in the brain, thereby reducing the inflammation and cellular injury that tau typically causes in Alzheimer’s.

The findings indicate that lemborexant, along with other medications that act in a similar way, could hold promise for treating or preventing tau-related damage in several neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal syndrome, and certain forms of frontotemporal dementia.

The study was recently published in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

Linking sleep loss and tau buildup

“We have known for a long time that sleep loss is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease,” said senior author David M. Holtzman, MD, the Barbara Burton and Reuben M. Morriss III Distinguished Professor of Neurology at WashU Medicine. “In this new study, we have shown that lemborexant improves sleep and reduces abnormal tau, which appears to be a main driver of the neurological damage that we see in Alzheimer’s and several related disorders. We are hopeful this finding will lead to further studies of this sleep medication and the development of new therapeutics that may be more effective than current options either alone or in combination with other available treatments.

“The antibodies to amyloid that we now use to treat patients with early, mild Alzheimer’s dementia are helpful, but they don’t slow the disease down as much as we would like,” he added. “We need ways to reduce the abnormal tau buildup and its accompanying inflammation, and this type of sleep aid is worth looking at further. We are interested in whether going after both amyloid and tau with a combination of therapies could be more effective at slowing or stopping the progression of this disease.”

Testing lemborexant in mouse models

Holtzman and his colleagues were among the first to demonstrate that poor sleep is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease, closely linked to the buildup of proteins such as amyloid and tau. In earlier studies using mice genetically predisposed to develop these protein deposits, they showed that sleep loss accelerates this buildup. Their newest research revealed that improving sleep in these mice with lemborexant reduced tau tangles and lowered the level of nerve cell death typically associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

Cross Sections of Mouse Brain Tissue With and Without Lemborexant Treatment
A new study by WashU Medicine researchers suggests that lemborexant and sleep aids that work the same way could help treat or prevent damage caused by harmful buildup of the protein tau in multiple neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s. Shown are cross-sections of brain tissue from two mice genetically prone to tau accumulation. Treatment with lemborexant (right) results in larger volume in the hippocampus (central purple spiral), important for memory, and a smaller gap in brain tissue (white space) compared with no treatment (left). Credit: Samira Parhizkar/WashU Medicine

Tau protein accumulates in the brain in several neurological disorders, including Alzheimer’s, where it triggers inflammation and the degeneration of neurons. Holtzman’s team, with Samira Parhizkar, PhD, as first author, investigated lemborexant partly because it targets brain regions especially vulnerable to abnormal tau buildup. Importantly, it does not interfere with motor coordination, an issue often raised when considering sleep medications for people with dementia.

Mechanism of action and comparisons

Lemborexant belongs to a class of three FDA-approved sleep medications that act as orexin receptor antagonists. Orexins are small proteins that regulate sleep by binding to receptors on cell surfaces. By blocking both orexin receptor types (1 and 2), lemborexant disrupts orexin activity, influencing the sleep-wake cycle and related processes such as appetite regulation.

The pharmaceutical company Eisai provided lemborexant for these studies as part of a research collaboration with WashU Medicine focused on developing innovative treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and other neurodegenerative diseases.

In mice genetically prone to harmful tau buildup, lemborexant reduced brain damage compared with control mice. For example, those receiving lemborexant showed 30% to 40% larger volume in the hippocampus — a part of the brain important for forming memories — compared with control mice and those receiving a different sleep drug, zolpidem, which belongs to a different class of drugs. Zolpidem increased sleep but had none of the protective effects against tau accumulation in the brain that were seen with lemborexant, suggesting that the type of sleep aid — orexin receptor antagonist — is key in producing the neuroprotective effects. The researchers also found that the beneficial effects were only seen in male mice, which they are still working to understand.

Normal tau is important in maintaining the structure and function of neurons. When healthy, it carries a small number of chemical tags called phosphate groups. But when tau picks up too many of these chemical tags, it can clump together, leading to inflammation and nerve cell death. The authors found that by blocking orexin receptors, lemborexant prevents excess tags from being added to tau, helping tau maintain its healthy roles in the brain.

Holtzman said his team is continuing to explore the reasons lemborexant treatment’s neuroprotective effects were seen only in male mice. He speculated that the sex discrepancy could be due to the observation that female mice with the same genetic predisposition to tau accumulation developed less-severe neurodegeneration compared with male mice. With less damage to begin with, potential beneficial effects of the drug could have been smaller and more difficult to detect.

Reference: “Lemborexant ameliorates tau-mediated sleep loss and neurodegeneration in males in a mouse model of tauopathy” by Samira Parhizkar, Xin Bao, Wei Chen, Nicholas Rensing, Yun Chen, Michal Kipnis, Sihui Song, Grace Gent, Eric Tycksen, Melissa Manis, Choonghee Lee, Javier Remolina Serrano, Megan E. Bosch, Emily Franke, Carla M. Yuede, Eric C. Landsness, Michael Wong and David M. Holtzman, 27 May 2025, Nature Neuroscience.
DOI: 10.1038/s41593-025-01966-7

This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), grant numbers P01NS074969, RF1NS090934 and RF1AG061776; the JPB Foundation; the Alzheimer’s Association, grant number AARF-21-850865; the Rainwater Foundation, and a COBRAS Feldman Fellowship.

Holtzman is an inventor on a patent licensed by Washington University to C2N Diagnostics on the therapeutic use of anti-tau antibodies. Holtzman cofounded and is on the scientific advisory board of C2N Diagnostics.

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9,200-Year-Old Cave Find Challenges Theories on Farming’s Origins

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The 2019 Excavations in Toda Cave
The 2019 excavations in Toda Cave. Credit: Robert Spengler

A discovery in Uzbekistan shows that the roots of farming stretched far beyond the Fertile Crescent.

The emergence of agriculture during the Neolithic marked a turning point in the development of human culture. While scholars agree that farming practices arose independently in several regions, including Africa, the Americas, and eastern Asia, the origins of staple crops such as wheat, barley, and legumes have long been traced to the Fertile Crescent. There, a group known as the Natufians began harvesting wild grains around 10,000 years ago.

A recent interdisciplinary study now shows that by at least 9,200 years ago, communities as far north and east as southern Uzbekistan were also harvesting wild barley with sickle blades. This finding indicates that cultural practices leading toward agriculture were more widespread than previously recognized, challenging the idea that farming began solely as a response to climate pressures or population growth.

View of the Surkhandarya Valley
The view of the Surkhandarya Valley, where Toda Cave is located in southern Uzbekistan. Credit: Robert Spengler

Excavations at Toda Cave

The discovery comes from excavations at Toda Cave in the Surkandarya Valley of southern Uzbekistan. The work was carried out by an international team led by Xinying Zhou of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, under the guidance of Farhad Maksudov, director of the Institute of Archaeology in Samarkand. From the cave’s oldest layers, the researchers recovered stone tools, charcoal, and preserved plant remains.

Archaeobotanical analysis, directed by Robert Spengler of the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, confirmed that the inhabitants collected wild barley from nearby valleys. Additional plant remains included pistachio shells and apple seeds. Examination of the tools—mostly limestone blades and flakes—revealed wear patterns consistent with cutting grasses and other plants, paralleling evidence from sites associated with early agricultural activity.

Specimen of Wild Barley
A modern specimen of wild barley with the individual grains naturally shattering off as they become ripe. Credit: Robert Spengler

Rethinking the transition to farming

“This discovery should change the way that scientists think about the transition from foraging to farming, as it shows how widespread the transitional behaviors were,” says Xinying.

“These ancient hunters and foragers were already tied into the cultural practices that would lead to the origins of agriculture,” Spengler adds. “A growing body of research suggests that domestication occurred without deliberate human intent, and the finding that people continually developed the behaviors which lead to agriculture supports this view.”

The research team will continue to investigate how commonplace these behaviors were in Central Asia during this time period. Additionally, the team is further exploring the possibility that these grains represent an early example of cultivation using morphologically wild barley. If the grains were cultivated, it could mean that a sperate origin of farming was being experimented with or that the tradition form the Fertile Crescent spread eastward much earlier than previously recognized. In either case, future research is likely to fill in many gaps in our understanding of the human narrative.

Reference: “9,000-year-old barley consumption in the foothills of central Asia” by Xinying Zhou, Robert N. Spengler, Bahediyoh Sayfullaev, Khasanov Mutalibjon, Jian Ma, Junchi Liu, Hui Shen, Keliang Zhao, Guanhan Chen, Jian Wang, Thomas A. Stidham, Hai Xu, Guilin Zhang, Qingjiang Yang, Yemao Hou, Jiacheng Ma, Nasibillo Kambarov, Hongen Jiang, Farhod Maksudov, Steven Goldstein, Jianxin Wang, Dorian Q. Fuller and Xiaoqiang Li, 25 August 2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2424093122

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36 Fully Funded PhD Scholarships at Birmingham City University – 2025/26 – Global South Opportunities

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Unique copper alloy ingot found in Sweden – The History Blog

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A copper alloy ingot from the from the Scandinavian pre-Roman Iron Age that emerged from Särdal on the west coast of Sweden, in 2022 is the first of its kind ever found in Sweden. An analysis of its composition has found it is also a metallurgic twin to metal hoards from the same period found in Poland.

It was actually discovered almost 50 years ago by the Pedersen family when they were digging a fence post hole in their garden. No other objects were found with it or in the immediate area. They didn’t recognize it as a prehistoric artifact and stored it in their workshop for night on five decades until a friend of the family who was an amateur historian suggested that they show it to archaeologists at the Halland Museum of Cultural History.

It is a plano-convex ingot, a disc-shaped artifact with a flat topside and curved underside manufactured by open casting into a shallow mould or cavity in the ground. Also known as bun ingots or casting cakes, the pog-shaped ingots have been found across the Mediterranean area and continental Europe, with numerous examples found on Bronze Age and Iron Age shipwrecks.

Studies have shown that even though Scandinavia is rich in copper ore, it was not mined in the Bronze Age. Instead, all copper was imported from as far away as southern Europe, and the volume of trade was enormous. Researchers estimate that literal tons of foreign copper were imported into Scandinavia each year going back as far as the 3rd and 2nd millennium B.C. As essential raw materials, ingots are an important source of information about how metal was sourced and traded from the Bronze Age and later into the pre-Roman and Roman Iron Age.

Lead isotope and elemental analysis of copper alloy archaeological artifacts can pinpoint the geographic origin and chronology of the ore. The Särdal ingot emerged just as researchers at the University of Gothenburg. were running a new investigation into Bronze Age metal use in western Sweden, and since the plano-convex shape and dimensions of the ingot were typical of Bronze Age pieces, they incorporated this unique find into their study.

Much to their surprise, the analyses revealed that the ingot was of much later date, composed of copper-zinc-tin-lead alloy typical of the Iron Age. Information sharing with Polish archaeometallurgy researchers led to another surprise discovery: the Särdal ingot shared almost the exact same metallurgic composition two hoards of metal rods found in Poland between 2013 and 2015.

The source of the copper for all of the objects in the study, including the Särdal ingot and Polish rod ingots, were the zinc-rich copper ores occur of southwest Spain.

Iberian copper becomes a dominant ore source for Scandinavia already during the Late Bronze Age. Data from the subsequent Iron Age are not abundant, but the Iberian mines are intensely exploited during this period as well […]. Additionally, the quaternary alloys individuated in all the studied material is increasingly common in the Mediterranean since the 1st millennium BCE […], largely replacing the Bronze Age typical binary copper-tin alloy. Studies from the Baltic regions, which were intensely networking with West Sweden and southern Scandinavia during the pre-Roman Iron Age […], indicate that Cu-Sn-Zn-Pb alloy of the type from Särdal and the Iława Lakeland was present in the area already during the second half of the 1st millennium BCE […]. We propose therefore that the plano-convex ingot from Halland and the rod ingots from Poland can be both considered the outcome of maritime trade in metal connecting Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea to the Iberian Peninsula during the period corresponding to the Scandinavian pre-Roman Iron Age, following ancient routes in use since the Late Bronze Age.



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Famous Deaths on September 6

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  • 394 Eugenius, Roman teacher of rhetoric and Western Emperor of Rome (392-94), beheaded after losing the Battle of Figidus
  • 952 Suzaku, 61st Emperor of Japan (930-46), dies at 30
  • 957 Liudolf, Duke of Swabia
  • 972 John XIII Crescentii, pope (965-72), dies
  • 1032 Rudolf III, last independent King of Burgundy, dies at about 62
  • 1276 Vicedomino de Vicedominis, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals (b. ca. 1215)
  • 1511 Ashikaga Yoshizumi, 11th Japanese shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate (1493-1508), dies at 30
  • 1625 Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian (b. 1579)
  • 1635 Adrian Metius, Dutch astronomer and fort architect, dies at 63
  • 1649 Famiano Strada, Italian jesuit (bello belgico decades duae), dies at 77
  • 1649 Robert Dudley, English navigator and writer (Arcano del Mare), dies at 75
  • 1708 Sir John Morden, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1623)
  • 1748 Edmund Gibson, English jurist (b. 1669)

William Allen

  • 1782 Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748)
  • 1783 Carlo Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (commedia dell’arte), dies at 72
  • 1808 Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian, wrote “A History of France” for Napoleon, dies at 85
  • 1811 Julien-Amable Mathieu, French composer, dies at 77
  • 1819 Georg Druschetzky [Jiří Družecký], Czech composer, oboist, and timpanist, dies at 74
  • 1831 Friedrich Wollank, German composer, dies at 49
  • 1863 Lucius March Walker, Confederate brigadier general, dies of his wounds in a duel at 33
  • 1868 Pierre Adolphe Rost, Louisiana judge, Confederate commissioner and plantation owner (b. 1797)
  • 1869 John Aaron Rawlins, American Union army general and Secretary of War under Ulysses S. Grant, dies of tuberculosis at 38
  • 1902 Frederick Able, English chemist and inventor (cordiet), dies at 75
  • 1902 Philip James Bailey, English poet (Universal hymn), dies at 86
  • 1903 Charles Ammi Cutter, American librarian (Expansive classification), dies at 66
  • 1919 Charles Beresford, British admiral and politician who opposed Admiralty reforms, dies at 73
  • 1919 Pier Pander, Dutch sculptor, dies at 55
  • 1924 Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, 4th and last child of Franz Joseph I of Austria and Elisabeth of Bavaria, dies at 56
  • 1926 Harriet Williams Russell Strong, American inventor, agricultural entrepreneur (created dams and reservoirs in California) women’s rights activistb, dies at 82 [1]
  • 1927 Lafayette “Lave” Cross [Vratislav Kriz], American MLB baseball infielder, 1892-1907 (Philadelphia Phillies, Philadelphia Athletics, and 5 other teams), dies of a heart attack at 61
  • 1937 Henry Kimball Hadley, American composer (Bianca; Streets of Pekin), and conductor (San Francisco Symphony, 1915-18), dies of cancer at 65
  • 1938 John Stuart Hindmarsh, British auto racer (24 Hours of Le Mans 1935), dies in a flying accident at 30
  • 1939 Arthur Rackham, English book illustrator (Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Rip van Winkle), dies of cancer at 71
  • 1941 Hugo Loudon, Dutch businessman and co-founder of Royal Dutch Shell, dies at 81
  • 1944 Robert Lejour, Belgian lawyer and resistance fighter, murdered
  • 1945 John S. Mccain Sr., US admiral, (WW II-Pacific Ocean), dies of a heart attack at 61
  • 1947 Paul Guthnick, German astronomer, dies at 76
  • 1948 Brooklyn Supreme, Belgian stallion and once the heaviest known horse at 1,450 kg (3,200 lb), dies at 20 [1]
  • 1948 Gerrit Hendrik Kersten, Dutch vicar and founder (Calvinist Party), dies at 66
  • 1950 Olaf Stapledon, British philosopher and sci-fi writer (Star Maker), dies at 64
  • 1951 James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat, dies at 84
  • 1951 Joe Falcaro, American bowler (National Match Game champion 1929-33), dies at 55

English actress (Mimi, Rembrandt) and musical performer, dies of liver and abdominal cancer at 54

Gertrude Lawrence

  • 1952 Jose Forns y Cuadras, Spanish composer and teacher, dies at 54
  • 1956 Felix Borowski, British-American composer, educator (Chicago Musical College, 1896-1925), and musicologist (Chicago Symphony, 1908-56), dies at 84
  • 1956 Michael Ventris, English architect who deciphered Linear B, dies in a car accident at 34
  • 1959 Edmund Gwenn, English actor (Miracle on 34th Street), dies at 81
  • 1959 Kay Kendall [Justine McCarthy], British actress (Genevieve, The Constant Husband, Les Girls), dies of leukemia at 32
  • 1960 Jimmy Savo, American comedian (Through the Crystal Ball), dies at 65
  • 1962 Hanns Eisler, Austrian composer (East German National Anthem), dies at 64
  • 1962 Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (b. 1892)
  • 1963 Margarita Sierra, Spanish-American actress (Surfside 6 – “Cha Cha”), dies after heart surgery at 27
  • 1965 (Ernest) “Red” Ingle, American jazz and novelty saxophonist, songwriter, arranger and vocalist (Ted Weems; Spike Jones and His City Slickers; The Natural Seven), dies of an internal hemorrhage at 58
  • 1965 Konstantin G. Mostras, Russian composer, dies at 79
  • 1966 Hendrik Verwoerd, South African Prime Minister (1958-66), assassinated at 64 by Dimitri Tsafendas
  • 1966 Luigi Perrachio, Italian pianist, composer (Nove Poemetti; 25 Preludi), and pedagogue (Liceo Musicale Torino), dies at 83

American nurse, birth control proponent and feminist, dies at 86

Margaret Sanger

  • 1968 Karl Rankl, Austrian-born British composer and conductor (Covent Garden Opera Company), dies at 69
  • 1969 Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player, dies at 77
  • 1971 Phil Edwards, Canadian-Guyanese athlete (5 x Olympic bronze 1928, 32, 36), dies of heart disease at 63
  • 1973 William Henry Harris, English composer, dies at 90
  • 1974 Olga Baclanova, Russian-American actress (Freaks, Docks of NY), dies at 75
  • 1974 Otto Kruger, American actor (Lux Video Theater), dies on 89th birthday
  • 1977 Guido Pannain, Italian composer and musicologist, dies at 85
  • 1977 Paul Burkhard, Swiss composer, dies at 65
  • 1978 Adolf Dassler, German entrepreneur (founder sportswear company Adidas), dies at 78
  • 1978 Tom Wilson, American record producer (Sun Ra; Bob Dylan; Simon & Garfunkel; Mothers of Invention; Velvet Underground), dies of a heart attack at 47
  • 1979 Ronald Binge, British composer (Elizabethan Serenade, Sailing By), dies at 69
  • 1981 Christy Brown, Irish painter and autobiography writer (My Left Foot; Down All the Days), dies from choking during a meal at 49
  • 1981 Joseph Yasser, Russian-American composer, dies at 88
  • 1981 Maria Palmer, Austrian-American actress (Days of Glory, Web), dies at 64
  • 1984 E. J. Andre, American actor (Eugene Bullock-Dallas), dies at 74
  • 1984 Ernest Tubb, American country musician (“Walking the Floor Over You”), dies of emphysema at 70
  • 1985 Eurreal “Little Brother” Montgomery, American jazz, boogie-woogie and blues pianist, singer, and composer (“Crescent City Blues”), dies at 79
  • 1985 Jane Frazee [Mary Jane Frehse], American actress, singer, and dancer (Beautiful But Broke, Beulah), dies at 70 of pneumonia
  • 1985 Johnny Desmond [Giovanni De Simone], American radio and big band singer (Bob Crosby; Gene Krupa; Your Hit Parade; Glenn Miller’s Army Air Forces Orchestra), dies of cancer at 65 [1]
  • 1985 Leon Orthel, Dutch pianist and composer, dies at 79
  • 1986 Blanche Sweet, American actress (DW Griffith movies), dies at 90
  • 1988 Leroy Brown [Roland Daniels], American professional wrestler, dies after a stroke at 37
  • 1990 Issan Dorsey, American founder of the Hartford St Zen Center in San Francisco, dies of AIDS at 57
  • 1990 Len Hutton, English cricket batsman (79 Tests, 19 x 100, HS 364, BA 56.67; Yorkshire CCC), dies at 74

Tom Fogerty

  • 1991 Bob Goldham, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)
  • 1991 Donald Henry “Pee Wee” Gaskins, American serial killer (claimed to have murdered over 100 people), executed in the electric chair at 58
  • 1992 Pat Harder, American NFL fullback (Cardinals, Lions), dies at 70
  • 1993 Josephine Rich Corday, American vaudevillian, dies of kidney failure at 79
  • 1994 Duccio Tessari, Italian director, dies of cancer at 67
  • 1994 Max Kaminsky, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader (Max Kaminsky Orchestra), dies at 85

British rock session pianist (Rolling Stones (1967-75); The Who – “Getting In Tune”; The Kinks – “Sunny Afternoon”; Beatles – “Revolution”; John Lennon – “Jealous Guy”; Quicksilver Messenger Service), dies after surgical complications at 50

Nicky Hopkins

  • 1994 Wolf Donner, Austrian movie historian/festival director, dies at 55
  • 1995 Buster Mathis, American boxer (World Super Heavyweight title 1972), dies from heart failure at 52
  • 1995 Italo Valenti, Italian sculptor, dies at 83
  • 1997 P. H. Newby, British author and BBC radio director (b. 1918)
  • 1997 Philippe Rossillon, French civil servant and French language advocate, dies at 66

Japanese director and screenwriter who was posthumously named “Asian of the Century” in the “Arts, Literature, and Culture” category (Rashomon, Drunken Angel, Seven Samurai, Ran), dies of a stroke at 88

Akira Kurosawa

  • 1999 René Lecavalier, French Canadian sportscaster (b. 1918)
  • 2000 Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian army general, dies at 81
  • 2000 Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, American stillborn child – first to have cause of their stillborn solved by Kleihauer-Betke test (b. 2000)
  • 2000 Desmond Wilcox, English broadcaster (BBC, ITV), dies at 69
  • 2001 Carl Crack, German musician (Atari Teenage Riot) (b. 1971)
  • 2003 Harry Goz, American musical theatre actor and voice actor, dies at 71
  • 2003 Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountain climber, dies after being caught in an avalanche climbing Gasherbrum I (b. 1969)
  • 2005 Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet, dies at 76
  • 2007 Alex, African Grey parrot “student” of Dr. Irene Pepperberg (b. 1976)

Italian operatic tenor (Oh Giorgio; The Three Tenors), dies at 71

Luciano Pavarotti

  • 2007 Madeleine L’Engle, American writer of young adult fiction, novelist, and poet (Wrinkle in Time and sequels; Ilsa; Lines Scribbled on an Envelope), dies at 88
  • 2007 Percy Rodriguez [Rodrigues], Canadian actor (Star Trek, Planet of the Apes, Brainwaves), dies of kidney failure at 89
  • 2008 Anita Page, American silent screen actress (Our Dancing Daughters), dies at 98
  • 2008 Sören Nordin, Swedish harness racing driver and trainer (b. 1917)
  • 2010 Richard Bilderback Hervig, American composer, dies at 92
  • 2011 Wardell Quezergue, American jazz, blues, and funk composer, arranger, record producer, and bandleader, known as the “Creole Beethoven”, dies at 81

Art Modell

  • 2012 Jake Eberts, Canadian film producer (Chariots of Fire, Dances with Wolves), dies from cancer at 71
  • 2013 Cameron Rusby, British Royal Navy officer (Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic in WWII), dies at 87
  • 2015 Martin Milner, American actor (Route 66, Adam 12), dies at 83
  • 2016 Lewis Merenstein, American record producer (Miriam Makeba; Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks; Glass Harp), dies of pneumonia at 81
  • 2016 Raymond Hide, British geophysicist (geomagnetism, meteorology, geodesy and oceanography), dies at 87
  • 2017 Derek David Bourgeois, British composer, conductor and educator (National Youth Chamber Orchestra), dies of cancer at 75
  • 2017 Jim McDaniels, American basketball forward (All American 1971; Western Kentucky Uni; No. 1 overall pick ABA Draft 1971; ABA All-Star 1972; Carolina Cougars), dies from diabetes complications at 69
  • 2017 Kate Millett, American feminist and author (Sexual Politics), dies at 82
  • 2018 Alan Oakman, English cricket all-rounder (2 Tests; Sussex CCC), dies at 88

American actor (Deliverance, Evening Shade, Strip Tease, Cannonball), dies of cardiac arrest at 82

Burt Reynolds

  • 2018 Claudio Scimone, Italian conductor (I Solisti Veneti), dies at 83
  • 2018 Diane Leather, British athlete (first woman to run sub-5 minute mile), dies of a stroke at 85
  • 2018 Evelyn Anthony, English historical writer (Poellenberg Inheritance), dies at 92

American businessman who co-founded Amway, dies at 92

Richard DeVos

Pakistani cricket spin bowler (67 Tests; 236 wickets; best 9/56 1987), dies of cardiac arrest at 63

Abdul Qadir

Zimbabwean revolutionary, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (1980-87) and 1st black President of Zimbabwe (1988-2017), dies at 95

Robert Mugabe

  • 2020 Kevin Dobson, American actor (Kojak, Knots Landing, Shannon), dies at 77

American Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (6 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1964, 67; 8 × NL stolen base leader; St Louis Cardinals), dies from multiple myeloma at 81

Lou Brock

  • 2020 Mike Sexton, American poker player (World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions 2006; Poker Hall of Fame) and commentator (WPT), dies from prostate cancer at 72
  • 2020 Mister Satan [Sterling Magee], American blues guitarist, singer, and percussionist (Satan & Adam), dies of COVID-19 complications at 84 [1]
  • 2020 Tom Jernstedt, American Basketball Hall of Fame administrator (NCAA 1972-2010), dies at 75
  • 2021 Adlai Stevenson III, American politician (U.S. Senator from Illinois, 1970-81), dies at 90

French actor (Breathless; Casino Royale; Magnifique), dies at 88

Jean-Paul Belmondo

  • 2021 Jean-Pierre Adams, French soccer centre-back (22 caps; Nîmes, Nice, Paris Saint-Germain), dies after 39 years in a coma at 73
  • 2022 Dan Schachte, American ice hockey linesman (Canada Cup 1991; World Cup of Hockey 1996; Winter Olympics 2002; Stanley Cup Finals 1997, 98, 2000, 01, 02), dies from diabetes complications at 64
  • 2022 Guy Morriss, American football coach (Kentucky, Baylor, Texas A&M–Commerce) and guard (Philadelphia Eagles, New England Patriots), dies from Alzheimer’s disease at 71
  • 2023 Larry Chance [Figueiredo], American doo-wop vocalist (The Earls – “Remember Then”; “I Believe”), dies at 82
  • 2023 Marc Bohan, French fashion designer, dies at 97
  • 2023 Richard Davis, American jazz double bassist described as “the greatest bass ever heard on a rock album” (Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks), dies at 93
  • 2023 Robyn Broughton, New Zealand netball coach (Coca Cola Cup 1999, 2000, 01; National Bank Cup 2002, 03, 04, 07 Southern Sting; assistant coach NZ Silver Ferns 2000-02), dies at 80
  • 2024 Horst Weigang, German soccer goalkeeper (12 caps East Germany; Lokomotive Leipzig, Rot-Weiß Erfurt), dies at 83
  • 2024 Lucine Amara [Armaganian], American concert and opera soprano (Metropolitan Opera, 1950-91), dies at 99 [1]
  • 2024 Mark Moffatt, Australian guitarist, songwriter, and record producers (The Monitors; Tim Finn), dies of pancreatic cancer at 74 [1]
  • 2024 Paul Goldsmith, American auto and motorcycle racer (USAC stock car champion 1961-62; 127 NASCAR starts, 9 wins), dies at 98
  • 2024 Will Jennings, American Grammy and Academy Award-winning lyricist (Celine Dion – “My Heart Will Go On”; Steve Winwood – “Higher Love”; Eric Clapton – “Tears in Heaven”), dies at 80

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  • 1535 Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish merchant and historian, born in Antwerp (d. 1612)
  • 1620 Isabella Leonarda, Italian religious composer, born in Novara, Duchy of Milan (now Italy) (d. 1704)
  • 1627 Pierre Verdier, French composer working in Sweden, born in Paris, France (d. 1706)
  • 1633 Sebastian Knupfer, German composer, born in Asche, Lands of the Bohemian Crown (now Aš, Czech Republic) (d. 1676)
  • 1644 Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, Spanish organist and composer, born in Algemesí, Spain (d. 1712)
  • 1648 Johann Schelle, German composer, born in Geising, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1701)
  • 1656 Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman, born in Brive-la-Gaillarde, France (d. 1723)
  • 1697 Willem Gideon Deutz, Amsterdam regent, banker and merchant, born in Amsterdam (d. 1757)
  • 1702 Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, German composer, born in Wenigenehrich, Imperial County of Reuss, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. 1775)
  • 1711 Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church, born in Einbeck, Germany (d. 1787)
  • 1729 Moses Mendelssohn, German Jewish enlightenment philosopher (Haksalah), born in Dessau, Principality of Anhalt (d. 1786)
  • 1732 Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist, born in Wismar, Germany (d. 1796)

American patriot and French revolutionary, born in Chavaniac, France

Marquis de Lafayette

  • 1762 Theodorus Frederik van Capellen, Dutch naval officer (Bombardment of Algiers), born in Nijmegen, Dutch Republic (d. 1824)

English physicist and chemist who developed the atomic theory of matter and researched colour blindness, born in Eaglesfield, England

John Dalton

  • 1781 Anton Diabelli, Austria publisher and composer, born in Mattsee, Austria (d. 1858)
  • 1788 Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter (Modern Vasari), born in Berlin (d. 1862)
  • 1795 Frances Wright, Scottish writer and lecturer, born in Dundee, Scotland (d. 1852)
  • 1797 William “Extra Billy” Smith, American lawyer, politician (Governor of Virginia, 1846-49 and 1864-65; US Representative from Virginia, 1853-61), and oldest General in the Confederate Army, born in Marengo, Virginia (d. 1887)
  • 1802 Alcide d’Orbigny, French naturalist, born in Couëron, France (d. 1857)
  • 1805 Horatio Greenough, American neo-classical sculptor and writer (Form & Function), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1852)
  • 1808 Emir Abdelkader, Algerian political and military leader, born in Mascara, Algeria (d. 1883)
  • 1811 James Melville Gilliss, American astronomer and Founder of Naval Observatory in Washington, born in Georgetown, Washington (d. 1865)
  • 1811 Johanna D Courtmans-Berchmans, Flemish author (Rozeken Pot), born in Auderghem, Belgium (d. 1890)
  • 1814 George-Étienne Cartier, French Canadian politician (joint Prime Minister of Canada 1858-62), born in Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada (d. 1873)
  • 1815 St. John Richardson Liddell, American Civil War Confederate General, born in Wilkinson County, Mississippi (d. 1870)
  • 1816 Francis Stebbins Bartow, Confederate colonel, born in Chatham County, Georgia (d. 1861)
  • 1817 Alexander Tilloch Galt, Canadian politician, a father of Canadian Confederation, born in Chelsea, England (d. 1893)
  • 1819 Carl Ferdinand Pohl, German-Austrian music historian and composer, born in Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse by the Rhine, German Confederation (d. 1887)
  • 1819 Nicolae Filimon, Romanian writer and critic (Ciocoii Vechi Si Noi), born in Bucharest, Romania (d. 1865)
  • 1819 William Starke Rosecrans, American inventor, politician and US Army General (Union Army), born in Delaware County, Ohio (d. 1898)
  • 1826 Vladimir Nikitich Kashperov, Russian composer, born in Chufarovo, Russia (d. 1894)
  • 1827 John Morrison Oliver, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), and lawyer, born in Penn Yan, New York (d. 1872)
  • 1829 Marie Zakrzewska, Polish physician, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1902)
  • 1838 Samuel Arnold, Lincoln conspirator, born in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. (d. 1906)
  • 1850 Louis Apol, Dutch painter, etcher and literary, born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1936)
  • 1855 Ferdinand Hummel, German composer, born in Berlin, Prussia (now Germany) (d. 1928)
  • 1857 Zelia Nuttall, American Mexican archeologist and historian (Codex Nuttall), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1933) [1]

American pacifist, social activist, feminist, author, co-founder of ACLU (Nobel Prize for Peace, 1931), born in Cedarville, Illinois [1]

Jane Addams

  • 1863 Rodolfo Lenz, German-Chilian linguist (El Papiamento), born in Halle, Province of Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia (now Germany) (d. 1938)
  • 1868 Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss politician, member of the Federal Council, born in Weinfelden, Switzerland (d. 1947)

Austrian author (Bambi, a Life in the Woods), born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary

Felix Salten

  • 1869 Walford Davies, English composer, born in Oswestry, Shropshire, England (d. 1941)
  • 1876 John Macleod, Scottish-Canadian physiologist (Nobel 1923), born in Clunie, Dunkeld, Scotland (d. 1935)
  • 1876 Willem Adriaan Bonger, Dutch criminologist (Race & Crime), born in Amsterdam (d. 1940)
  • 1877 Charles “Buddy” Bolden, African-American jazz cornetist, born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1931)
  • 1877 Petar Stojanovic, Serbian composer, born in Budapest (d. 1957)
  • 1879 Joseph Wirth, German politician (5th Chancellor of the Weimar Republic, 1921-22; Member of Reichstag, 1920-33), and Stalin Peace Prize winner (1955), born in Freiburg im Breisgau, German Empire (d. 1956)
  • 1879 Max Schreck, German stage, silent and sound screen actor (Nosferatu – “Count Orlock”), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1936)
  • 1879 Neal Rev Dodd, American actor (You Belong to Me), born in Fort Madison, Iowa (d. 1966)
  • 1880 Jean-Louis Pisuisse, Dutch cabaret singer and comedian (“M’n Eerste” – “My First”; “The French Governess”), born in Vlissingen, Netherlands (d. 1927)
  • 1881 Charlie Dell, American actor and comedian (Pickle in the Middle), born in New York City (d. 1971)
  • 1882 John Powell, American pianist and composer, born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 1963)
  • 1884 Emerson Whithorne, American composer, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1958)
  • 1885 Franz Theodor Csokor, Austrian author (Writings on the Wall), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1969)
  • 1885 Otto Kruger, American actor (Lux Video Theater, High Noon), born in Toledo, Ohio (d. 1974)

American businessman, diplomat and father of JFK, RFK and Teddy, born in Boston, Massachusetts

Joseph P. Kennedy

  • 1888 Red Faber, American Baseball HOF pitcher (World Series 1917; AL ERA leader 1921, 22; Chicago White Sox 1914-33), born in Cascade, Iowa (d. 1976)
  • 1889 Sarat Chandra Bose, Indian activist for independence, born in Howrah, British India (d. 1950)
  • 1890 Clara Kimball Young, American actress (Return of Chandu), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1960)
  • 1890 Manfred Gurlitt, German composer, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1973)
  • 1892 Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist (Nobel Prize 1947), born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (d. 1965)
  • 1893 Claire Chennault, American aviator and military leader (Flying Tigers), born in Commerce, Texas (d. 1958)
  • 1893 Irving Bacon, American actor (Branded Men, Fort Ti), born in St Joseph, Missouri (d. 1965)
  • 1896 Mario Praz, Italian literary critic and scholar (La carne, la morte, e il diavolo), born in Rome, Italy (d. 1982)

American theatrical producer (Diamond Horse Show), born in New York City

Billy Rose

  • 1900 Julien Green, American-French writer (Frere Francois), born in Paris (d. 1998)
  • 1900 W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (Premier of British Columbia, 1952-72), born in Hastings, New Brunswick (d. 1979)
  • 1901 John Erik Jonsson, American businessman and Mayor of Dallas, born in New York City (d. 1995)
  • 1902 Morgan Beatty, American news anchor (Du Mont Evening News), born in Little Rock, Arkansas (d. 1975)
  • 1904 Arvi Kivimaa, Finnish writer (Groenende Cross), born in Hartola, Finland (d. 1984)
  • 1904 Lyubomir Pipkov, Bulgarian pianist, composer, music educator, and (with his father) Antarctic glacier namesake, born in Lovech, Bulgaria (d. 1974)
  • 1906 Alexander Bodon, Hungarian-Dutch architect (RAI, Dollywood), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1993)
  • 1906 John Meulenhoff, Dutch publisher, born in Amsterdam (d. 1978)
  • 1906 Raymond Keane, American actor (Midnight Sun, Love Eagle), born in Denver, Colorado (d. 1973)
  • 1907 Elizabeth Ferrars, British crime writer, born in Yangon, Myanmar (d. 1995)
  • 1907 Johnny Kelly, American marathon runner (Berlin 1936, Boston 1935..1991), born in Medford, Massachusetts (d. 2004)
  • 1908 Anthony Wagner, English Officer of Arms at the College of Arms and author on heraldry, born in London (d. 1995)
  • 1908 Louis Essen, British physicist (time measurement, speed of light determination), born in Nottingham, England (d. 1997)
  • 1908 Paul Lavalle, American bandleader (Cities Service Band of America), born in Beacon, New York (d. 1997)
  • 1909 John Ridgely, American actor (Northern Pursuit, They Died with Their Boots On, Air Force), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1968)
  • 1910 Frank Fidler, English artist, born in London (d. 1995)
  • 1911 Bentley Bridgewater, British Museum secretary, born in Vancouver (d. 1996)
  • 1911 Harry Danning, American baseball player, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2004)
  • 1912 Stephen Murray, English actor (Alice in Wonderland), born in Partney, England (d. 1983)
  • 1912 Vince DiMaggio, American baseball center fielder (MLB All Star 1943-44; Pittsburgh Pirates), born in Martinez, California (d. 1986)
  • 1912 Wayne Barlow, American composer, born in Elyria, Ohio (d. 1996)
  • 1915 Franz Josef Strauss, German politician, Minister of Defense (1956-62), born in Munich, Germany (d. 1988)
  • 1917 George Mann, English cricketer, born in Byfleet, Surrey, England (d. 2001)
  • 1917 Philipp von Boeselager, German Wehrmacht officer, failed assassin of Adolf Hitler, born in Bonn, Germany (d. 2008)
  • 1919 Wilson Greatbatch, American engineer and pioneering inventor (cardiac pacemaker), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 2011)
  • 1921 Carmen Laforet, Spanish author, born in Barcelona, Spain (d. 2004)
  • 1921 Norman Joseph Woodland, American co-inventor of the barcode, born in Atlantic City, New Jersey (d. 2012) [1]
  • 1923 Peter II Karadjordjevic, last King of Yugoslavia (1934-45), born in Belgrade, Serbia (d. 1970)
  • 1923 William Kraft, American timpanist, percussionist (Los Angeles Percussion Ensemble), conductor, and composer (The Demise of Suriyodhaya; Avalanche), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2022)
  • 1924 John Melcher, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Montana), born in Sioux City, Iowa (d. 2018)
  • 1925 Andrea Camilleri, Italian author (Inspector Montalbano novels, born in Porto Empedocle, Italy (d. 2019)
  • 1925 Eddie Duran, American jazz guitarist (Vince Guaraldi; Cal Tjader; Benny Goodman), born in San Francisco, California (d. 2019)
  • 1925 Jimmy Reed, American blues singer (Soulin’, Big Boss Man), born in Dunleith, Mississippi (d. 1976)
  • 1926 Arthur William Oldham, English composer, born in London (d. 2003)
  • 1926 Claus von Amsberg, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, born in Hitzacker, Germany (d. 2002)
  • 1927 Keith Humble, Australian composer, born in Geelong, Australia (d. 1995)
  • 1927 Margaret Keane, American painter whose husband claimed credit for her work (Big Eyes paintings), born in Nashville, Tennessee (d. 2022) [1]
  • 1928 Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor (USSR State Symphony, 1965-2000; Residentie Orchestra 1992-2000), pianist, and composer (Siberian Fantasy), born in Moscow, USSR (d. 2002)
  • 1928 Fumihiko Maki, Japanese architect who won 1993 Pritzker Prize, designed 4 World Trade Center, born in Tokyo, Japan (d. 2024) [1]
  • 1928 Robert M. Pirsig, American author (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 2017)
  • 1928 Rudolf Plyukfelder, Soviet light heavyweight lifter (Olympic gold 1964), born in Novoorlivka, Ukraine
  • 1929 Dow Finsterwald, American golfer (PGA Championship 1958; PGA Player of the Year 1958), born in Athens, Ohio (d. 2022)
  • 1929 Hsu Tsang-Houei, Taiwanese composer, born in Changhau, Taiwan (d. 2001)
  • 1930 Andre Beullens, Flemish painter, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1976)
  • 1930 Bernie Winters [Weinstein], British comedian, actor, and TV presenter (The Big Top Variety Show), born in London, England (d. 1991)
  • 1931 Sander Levin, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan), born in Detroit, Michigan
  • 1932 Gilles Tremblay, Canadian composer, ondes Martenot player, and educator, born in Saguenay, Quebec (d. 2017) [1]
  • 1934 Jody McCrea, American actor (Ben Matheson-Wichita Town), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2009)
  • 1934 Ragaa al-Gedawy, Egyptian actress (The Stranger), born in Ismailia, Egypt (d. 2020)
  • 1935 Bob Bouber [Boris Blom], Dutch singer (ZZ & Masks) and actor, born in Amsterdam (d. 2019)
  • 1935 Jock Wallace, Scottish soccer manager (Berwick Rangers, Rangers, Leicester City, Motherwell, Sevilla), born in Wallyford, Scotland (d. 1996)
  • 1937 Brigid Berlin, American actress (Andy Warhol films), born in New York City (d. 2020)
  • 1937 Irina Solovyova, Russian cosmonaut, born in Tula Oblast, Soviet Union
  • 1937 Jo Anne Worley, American comedienne (Laugh-in), born in Lowell, Indiana
  • 1937 Sergio Aragonés, Spanish-Mexican cartoonist (Groo the Wanderer), born in Sant Mateu, Spain
  • 1938 Alan Charles Downes, British founder member of Independent Television News and cameraman, born in Enfield, Middlesex (d. 1996)
  • 1938 Henry Diltz, American music photographer (Woodstock; Monterey Pop Festival; album covers), born in Kansas City, Missouri
  • 1938 Joan Tower, American composer (Breakfast Rhythms), born in New Rochelle, New York
  • 1939 Dan Cragg, American soldier and author, born in Rochester, New York
  • 1939 David Allan Coe, American country musician (“Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile”; Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy), born in Akron, Ohio
  • 1939 Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese molecular biologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1987), born in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
  • 1940 Elizabeth Murray, American abstract expressionist painter, and printmaker known for her use of shaped canvases, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2007)
  • 1940 Jackie Trent, English singer-songwriter (“Neighbours” theme) and actress, born in Newcastle-under-Lyme (d. 2015)
  • 1941 Michael “Micky” Waller, British blues and rock drummer (Long John Baldry; Jeff Beck Group), born in Hammersmith, London, England (d. 2008)
  • 1941 Monica Mason, British ballerina and arts administrator (Director of the Royal Ballet, 2002-12), born in Johannesburg, South Africa
  • 1941 Willibrord Frequin, Dutch television reporter, born in Arnhem, Netherlands
  • 1942 Dave Bargeron, American jazz-rock trombonist and tuba player (Blood, Sweat & Tears), born in New York City
  • 1942 Mel McDaniel, American country singer (“Baby’s Got Her Blue Jeans On”), born in Checotah, Oklahoma (d. 2011)

Roger Waters

  • 1943 Richard J. Roberts, English biochemist and molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, born in Derby, England
  • 1944 Aubrey Mokoape, South African political anti-apartheid activist and leader (Pan-African Congress and Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa), born in Johannesburg, South Africa
  • 1944 Donna J. Haraway, America scholar, feminist and author (The Cyborg Manifesto), born in Denver, Colorado
  • 1944 Gordon DeMarco, American writer and activist, born in Akron, Ohio (d. 1995)
  • 1944 Linda Kaye Henning, American actress (Betty Joe-Petticoat Junction), born in Los Angeles, California
  • 1944 Swoosie Kurtz, American actress (Slap Shot, Garp, Sisters), born in Omaha, Nebraska
  • 1945 Larry Lucchino, American baseball executive (President/CEO Boston Red Sox; World Series 2004, 07, 13), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2024)
  • 1945 Petr Novák, Czech musician (George and Beatovens, Flamengo), born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (d. 1997)
  • 1946 Bryan D. O’Connor, U.S. Marine Corps colonel and astronaut (STS 61B, STS 40), born in Orange, California
  • 1946 Buizen Beernd [Bennie Jolink], Dutch singer and musician (Normal), born in Hummelo, Netherlands
  • 1947 Bruce Rioch, Scottish footballer and coach, born in Aldershot, England

1947 American actress (SNL: Kate & Allie; 3rd Rock From the Sun), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Jane Curtin

American singer–songwriter (“Do Ya Wanna Funk”), born in Watts, Los Angeles, California

Sylvester James Jr.

  • 1948 Claydes Charles Smith, American guitarist (Kool & The Gang), born in Jersey City, New Jersey (d. 2006)
  • 1948 Jo Baker, American blues-rock vocalist (Elvin Bishop), born in Brockton, Massachusetts (d. 1996)
  • 1949 Jimmy Litherland, English rocker (Mitarbeit), born in Salford, Lancashire, England
  • 1949 Mhlabunzima Maphumulo, South African Kwazulu chief (first President of Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa, born in Maqongqo district of Kwazulu-Natal (d. 1991)
  • 1951 Barry Troyna, English educational sociologist and author (Racism, Education and the State), born in London (d. 1996)
  • 1952 (Steven) “Buddy” Miller, American folk and country singer-songwriter, born in Fairborn, Ohio
  • 1952 Jack Waldman, American jazz and rock keyboardist and avant garde composer, born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey (d. 1986)
  • 1953 Katherine Cannon, American actress (Father Murphy, Survivors), born in Hartford, Connecticut
  • 1953 Mohamed Kedir, Ethiopian 10k runner (Olympic bronze 1980), born in Ethiopia
  • 1954 Banner Thomas, American rock bassist (Molly Hatchet), born in Orange Park, Florida (d. 2017)
  • 1954 Carly Fiorina, Former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and political (R) candidate, born in Austin, Texas
  • 1954 Jon Erikson, American swimmer and 1st to triple cross the English Channel in 1981, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2014) [1]
  • 1954 Patrick O’Hearn, American rock bassist (Missing Persons), born in Los Angeles, California
  • 1955 Anne Henning, American 500m speed skater (Olympic gold 1972), born in Raleigh, North Carolina
  • 1955 Carl E. Walz, American NASA astronaut (STS 51, 65, 79), born in Cleveland, Ohio
  • 1956 Bill Ritter, American politician (41st Governor of Colorado), born in Denver, Colorado
  • 1957 Gwyn Evans, Welsh rugby union fullback (12 caps Wales, 2 caps British & Irish Lions; Maesteg RFC) and coach (Italy 1977-78), born in Maesteg, Wales
  • 1957 Joe Smyth, American country singer (“Betty’s Bein’ Bad”), born in Portland, Maine
  • 1957 José Sócrates, Prime Minister of Portugal (2005-11) indicted for corruption, born in Porto, Portugal
  • 1957 Michaëlle Jean, 27th Governor-General of Canada, born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
  • 1957 Paul Harrhy, Welsh actor and opera singer (Intelligence Park), born in South Wales (d. 1996)
  • 1958 Buster Bloodvessel [Douglas Trendle], English singer (Bad Manners), born in London
  • 1958 Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian (Jeff Foxworthy-The Jeff Foxworthy Show), born in Atlanta, Georgia
  • 1958 Michael Winslow, American actor and comedian (Police Academy), born in Spokane, Washington
  • 1958 Nigel Westlake, Australian musician and composer (Missa Solis – Requiem for Eli), born in Perth, Australia
  • 1959 David Tickle, British audio engineer and record producer (Split Enz; Four Non-Blondes), born in Guildford, Surrey, England
  • 1961 Pal Waaktaar, Norwegian rock guitarist and vocalist (A-ha), born in Oslo, Norway
  • 1961 Scott Travis, American drummer (Judas Priest), born in Norfolk, Virginia
  • 1961 Simon Reeve, Australian TV presenter and host (Million Dollar Minute), born in Perth, Australia

1962 American Republican politician, Governor of New Jersey (2010-18) and presidential candidate, born in Newark, New Jersey

Chris Christie

  • 1962 Doug Boyle, English guitarist and composer (Robert Plant; Nigel Kennedy), born in Buckhurst Hill, Essex, England
  • 1962 Elizabeth Vargas, American TV journalist (20/20), born in Paterson, New Jersey
  • 1962 Kevin Willis, American basketball center (NBA C’ship 2003 SA Spurs; NBA All-Star 1992 Atlanta Hawks; one of 15 players 16,000+ career points & 11,000+ rebounds), born in Los Angeles, California
  • 1963 Alice Sebold, American novelist (The Almost Moon), born in Madison, Wisconsin
  • 1963 Bryan Simonaire, American politician (Maryland State Senator), born in Baltimore, Maryland
  • 1963 Geert Wilders, Dutch politician (Party for Freedom leader), born in Venlo, Netherlands
  • 1963 József Kiprich, Hungarian soccer player (Feyenoord), born in Tatabánya, Hungary
  • 1963 Mark Chesnutt, American country singer (Too Cold at Home), born in Beaumont, Texas
  • 1963 Pat Nevin, Scottish soccer winger (28 caps; Chelsea, Everton, Tranmere Rovers), born in Glasgow, Scotland
  • 1964 Rosie Perez, American actress (Do the Right Thing, White Men Can’t Jump), born in Brooklyn, New York
  • 1965 Christopher Nolan, Irish handicapped writer (Under Eye of Clock), born in Mullingar, Ireland (d. 2009)
  • 1965 John Polson, Australian actor (The Sum of Us) and film director, born in Sydney, Australia
  • 1966 Joan Guetschow, American biathlete (Olympics 1994), born in Akron, Ohio
  • 1967 Macy Gray [Natalie McIntyre], American R&B and soul singer-songwriter (“I Try”), born in Canton, Ohio
  • 1968 Christopher Brookmyre, Scottish writer (Quite Ugly One Morning), born in Glasgow, Scotland
  • 1968 Gene Patrick, American actor (Gemini: Twin Stars), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • 1968 Pat Meares, American baseball infielder (Minnesota Twins), born in Salina, Kansas
  • 1968 Paul Rea, American TV and web journalist, born in Clarkesville, Georgia
  • 1969 Aaron Pierce, American NFL halfback (NY Giants), born in Seattle, Washington
  • 1969 Ben Finegold, American chess player, born in Detroit, Michigan
  • 1969 CeCe Peniston, American singer (Finally) and beauty queen (Miss Black Arizona 1989), born in Phoenix, Arizona
  • 1969 Helen Labdon, English model (page 3), born in Bracknell, England

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3114 BC August 11, 3114 BBCE is the widely accepted date as the starting point of the Maya/Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar as it corresponds to the Julian Calendar

Battle of the Frigidus

394 Battle of the Frigidus (Frigid River) in Northern Italy is fought in high winds. Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats Western Emperor Eugenius, who is captured and beheaded.

King Conrad II

1032 Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of Burgundy, succeeding Rudolf III

  • 1543 French and Ottoman fleets occupy Nice
  • 1595 A polar bear attacks and kills a member of the Second Dutch Expedition to the Arctic on Stateneiland in northern Russia [1]
  • 1622 Spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; thousands die
  • 1628 Puritans from Massachusetts Bay Colony land at Salem

Battle at Nördlingen

1634 Battle of Nördlingen: Imperial-Spanish forces led by Ferdinand of Hungary and Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand heavily defeat a combined Swedish and German Protestant army led by Gustav Horn and Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar

The Royal Oak

1651 King Charles II of England spends a day hiding in an oak tree during his escape after losing the Battle of Worcester

1666 After St. Paul’s Cathedral and much of the city burned down over four days, the Great Fire of London is finally extinguished

  • 1669 Siege of Candia on Crete ends with the Venetian fortress surrendering to the Ottomans, the second-longest siege in history (began 1648)
  • 1672 William of Orange’s troops reconquer Naarden from France
  • 1675 Swedish Admiral Stenbock sails out with a fleet of 66 ships
  • 1683 Le Plecta is appointed French Minister of Finance
  • 1688 Austrian armies occupy Belgrade
  • 1690 King Wiliam III escapes back to England
  • 1716 First lighthouse is built in North America (Boston)
  • 1732 VOC dismisses Dutch East Indies Governor-General Diederik Durven
  • 1776 David Bushnell’s “Turtle” attacks British ship “Eagle” in New York Bay in the first (failed) submarine attack
  • 1776 Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, killing more than 6,000
  • 1776 Hurricane hits Martinique; 100 French and Dutch ships sink and 600 people die
  • 1781 The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting in a British victory

La Clemenza di Tito

1791 Wolfgang Mozart‘s dramatic opera “La Clemenza di Tito” premieres at the Estates Theatre in Prague

  • 1819 American inventor Thomas Blanchard patents lathe [1]
  • 1837 Oberlin Collegiate Institute in Ohio goes co-ed (4 women, 30 men)

1839 Cherokee Nation unites and ratifies constitution at Tahlequah, Oklahoma

  • 1839 Great fire in New York
  • 1848 National Black Convention meets in Cleveland
  • 1863 After a 59-day siege, Confederate troops vacate Fort Wagner, SC, resulting in 1,700 casualties
  • 1869 First westbound train arrives in San Francisco
  • 1869 Mine fire kills 110 at Avondale, Pennsylvania
  • 1870 Ship sinks in Bay of Biscay, killing 483
  • 1873 Regular cable car service begins on Clay Street, San Francisco
  • 1876 Race riot in Charleston, South Carolina
  • 1876 Southern Pacific railroad line from Los Angeles to San Francisco is completed in California

Debut of W. G. Grace

1880 First Test cricket game in England begins with W. G. Grace scoring 152 on debut against Australia at The Oval

  • 1883 Chicago White Stockings beat Detroit Wolverines 26-6 at Lake Front Park, Chicago, setting an MLB record with 18 runs in the 7th inning
  • 1883 Cubs’ Burns (extra bases), Williamson, and Pfeiffer get three hits in one inning
  • 1885 Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria, accomplishing the Unification of Bulgaria

Distinguished Service Order

1886 Queen Victoria establishes the Distinguished Service Order

  • 1888 Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season
  • 1888 Queen Victoria grants William Mackinnon’s Imperial British East Africa Company political and commercial rights
  • 1889 King Kabaka Mwanga of Buganda abdicates
  • 1899 Carnation processes its first can of evaporated milk

Open Door Note

1899 US Secretary of State John Hay publishes his “Open Door Note” calling for equality of commercial opportunity for foreigners in China

  • 1900 British General Buller occupies Lydenburg, South Africa

Assassination of William McKinley

1901 US President William McKinley is shot and assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz while visiting the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York

  • 1905 Atlanta Life Insurance Company is formed
  • 1905 Chicago White Sox pitcher Frank Smith no-hits the Detroit Tigers, 15-0
  • 1905 General Trade Journal publishes the first Dutch photo of a train accident

Peary 1st to North Pole?

1909 New York Times headline announces American explorer Robert Peary discovered the North Pole 5 months earlier (now thought unlikely)

  • 1910 Saskatchewan (then Regina) Roughriders football club is formed
  • 1912 NY Giant Jeff Tesreau no-hits Philadelphia, 3-0
  • 1913 Hamilton Alerts apply for ORFU reinstatement, taking the name Hamilton Rowing Club
  • 1913 Jerry Travers wins the 19th US Amateur Golf Championship

1914 World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins as French and British forces prevent the German advance on Paris

1916 First true supermarket, “Piggly Wiggly,” is established by Clarence Saunders in Memphis, Tennessee; the grand opening is delayed by construction until the 11th [1]

  • 1917 French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down his 54th German aircraft

Dempsey KOs Miske

1920 Jack Dempsey knocks out Billy Miske in the third round for the heavyweight boxing title in the first radio broadcast of a prizefight

  • 1924 Charles Paddock wins the 100 and 200 yards at the AAU national senior outdoor track and field championships
  • 1930 Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 22-8

Yrigoyen Deposed in Coup

1930 Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup

  • 1930 Third Women’s World Games (track and field competition for women) take place over three days at the Letná Stadium in Prague, Czechoslovakia

Steamboat Round the Bend

1935 “Steamboat Round the Bend,” a film directed by John Ford and starring Will Rogers, is released weeks after Rogers’ death

  • 1937 Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco
  • 1938 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands celebrates her 40th anniversary
  • 1939 First German air attack on Great Britain in WW II
  • 1939 South Africa declares war on Nazi Germany
  • 1939 World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek
  • 1940 Crown Prince Michael succeeds Carol II as King of Romania
  • 1940 Former French Commander-in-Chief Army General Maurice Gamelin and other military leaders are arrested for their malfeasance [1]
  • 1941 All Jews over age 6 in German territories are ordered to wear a star
  • 1941 Great and Small Vilnius Jewish Ghettos established in Vilna, Lithuania, under Nazi occupation
  • 1942 Czech marathon runner Oskar Hêks is transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau
  • 1943 “Congressional Limited” train derails near Frankford, Philadelphia, killing 79
  • 1943 Carl Scheib becomes the youngest pitcher in American League history at 16 years and 8 months
  • 1944 Gen. von Zangen’s 15th Army escapes from Zeeland
  • 1945 A’s catcher Greek George punches umpire Joe Rue and gets suspended
  • 1946 All-America Football Conference begins regular season play as the Cleveland Browns beat the Miami Seahawks 44-0 before 60,135 at Cleveland’s Municipal Stadium

Queen Juliana

1948 Juliana is crowned Queen of The Netherlands

  • 1949 America’s first mass killing: Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in 12 minutes in Camden, New Jersey [1]
  • 1952 Canadian TV begins in Montreal

Konrad Adenauer Re-elected

1953 Konrad Adenauer is re-elected as German Chancellor for a second term, and his party, the CDU, is one seat short of a majority in the German Federal Republic

  • 1954 Alan Freed leaves Cleveland for NYC to join WINS radio
  • 1954 US plane is shot down above Siberia
  • 1954 Yankees use a record 10 pinch hitters
  • 1955 J. van Tilburg is appointed governor of Suriname

Elvis Records Christmas Classics

1957 Elvis records “White Christmas,” “Silent Night,” and “Here Comes Santa Claus”

  • 1958 The US performs a nuclear test over the South Atlantic Ocean, the third and final part of Operation Argus to study the Christofilos effect, a theoretical defensive shield to cloud Soviet radar
  • 1960 American Otis Davis runs a world record 44.9 to win the gold medal in the 400 m at the Rome Olympics; German Carl Kaufmann records the same time but is ruled second via photo finish
  • 1960 Australian middle distance runner Herb Elliott breaks his own world record by winning the 1500 m in 3:35.6 at the Rome Olympics
  • 1960 In a famous victory, American decathlete Rafer Johnson scores an Olympic record of 8,392 points to win the gold medal in Rome, beating his rival and friend C. K. Yang of China by 58 points
  • 1961 USSR performs a nuclear test at Kapustin Yar, USSR
  • 1962 US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
  • 1963 Historian Lee Allen says the Cleveland Indians-Washington Senators game is the 100,000th in Major League Baseball history

Lewis Signs with Smash Records

1963 Rocker Jerry Lee Lewis leaves Sun Records as his contract expires and signs with Smash Records

  • 1963 The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded at the University of Strasbourg, France
  • 1965 India invades West Pakistan, beginning the Indo-Pakistani War
  • 1965 KLNE TV channel 3 in Lexington, NE (PBS) begins broadcasting
  • 1966 Race riot in Atlanta, Georgia
  • 1968 American rock band “The Doors” open their first European tour with four sold-out shows over two days at London’s 2,500-seat Roundhouse
  • 1968 Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day)
  • 1970 Palestinians seize three airliners
  • 1970 USSR performs a nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeastern Kazakhstan

Northern Ireland Discussion

1971 British Prime Minister Edward Heath meets with Irish Prime Minister/Taoiseach Jack Lynch at Chequers in England to discuss the situation in Northern Ireland

Third Force for Ulster

1971 William Craig and Ian Paisley speak at a rally in Belfast before a crowd of approximately 20,000 people and call for the establishment of a “third force” to defend Ulster

  • 1972 Summer Olympics resume in Munich, Germany, after the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes by the Black September Palestinian terrorist organization
  • 1973 The New York Times reports that almost all Superfectas run at Yonkers, Roosevelt, and Monticello from January to March of 1973 were fixed
  • 1974 Saudi Arabia increases its oil buy-back price from 93 percent to 94.9 percent of the posted price
  • 1975 6.8-magnitude earthquake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice, Turkey
  • 1975 US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
  • 1976 “The Robert MacNeil Report” becomes “The MacNeil-Lehrer Report” (currently known as “PBS NewsHour”) on PBS
  • 1976 Russian pilot Belenko defects to Japan in a MiG-25 jet

Sinatra and Martin Share the Stage

1976 Singer Frank Sinatra brings surprise guest Dean Martin to his appearance on Jerry Lewis‘s 11th Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon, the first time Martin and Lewis share a stage in 20 years

  • 1977 Angels acquire Dave Kingman from Padres for cash, 9 days later Yankees buy Kingman (started with Mets) who plays in all 4 divisions in 1977
  • 1978 USSR performs an underground nuclear test
  • 1980 French runner Chantal Langlacé sets the women’s 100 km world record in 7:27.22 in Amiens, France
  • 1980 Macalester University of St. Paul, Minnesota, beats Mount Senario 17-14
  • 1980 US College football longest losing streak of 50 games ends for Macalester College (St. Paul)
  • 1981 Robert Granville “Bob” Lemon is named NY Yankees manager for the second time
  • 1982 Dutch Internal Minister Mr. M. Red assigns BVD to spy on communists
  • 1982 Jerry Lewis‘s 17th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $28,400,000

Tug of War

1982 Parlophone/EMI releases Paul McCartney‘s single “Tug of War” from the album of the same name

  • 1982 Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland
  • 1983 Soviet Union admits to shooting down the South Korean airliner KAL 007 on September 1

Amadeus

1984 “Amadeus,” from the play by Peter Shaffer, directed by Milos Forman and starring Tom Hulce, premieres in Los Angeles (Academy Award for Best Picture 1985)

  • 1984 Lanford Wilson’s “Balm in Gilead” premieres in New York City
  • 1984 Today Show begins live remote broadcasts from Moscow
  • 1985 Mark Messier loses control of his Porsche and totals three cars; he is charged with hit-and-run and careless driving and is ordered to pay a fine
  • 1985 Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9, crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31
  • 1986 300 invitees pay $5,000 to hear Barbra Streisand‘s benefit concert
  • 1986 Attack on synagogue in Istanbul kills 23
  • 1986 Jozef Pribilinec sets a speed walking world record time (15,447 km)
  • 1986 Michael Spinks TKO’s Steffen Tangstad in the 4th round for the heavyweight boxing title
  • 1986 USSR charges correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying
  • 1987 Conjoined twins Benjamin and Patrick Binder are separated at Johns Hopkins Hospital
  • 1987 Douglas Wakiihuri wins a marathon in 2:11.48
  • 1987 Saskatchewan’s Dave Ridgway kicks a CFL-record 60-yard field goal
  • 1988 Crippled Soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with two cosmonauts aboard
  • 1988 Tom Gregory (11) becomes the youngest person to swim the English Channel [1]
  • 1988 USSR performs an underground nuclear test
  • 1989 Amateur Athletic Federation strips Ben Johnson of all track records
  • 1989 Due to an error in the police computer system, 41,000 Parisians are mailed legal notices accusing them of manslaughter and prostitution
  • 1990 A US citizen is shot in Kuwait, and oil markets surge due to aggressive US statements toward Iraq
  • 1991 Ronald Venetiaan is chosen as president of Suriname
  • 1991 The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia’s second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924
  • 1991 USSR recognizes the independence of the three Baltic republics (Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania)
  • 1992 Noureddine Morceli runs a world record in the 1500 m (3:28.86)
  • 1993 Jerry Lewis‘s 28th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $46,014,922

Actor Blinded

1994 Actor Jackson Pinckney is awarded $487,000 for being partially blinded by Jean-Claude Van Damme during the filming of “Cyborg”

  • 1994 Franziska van Almsick swims a women’s world record in the 200 m freestyle (1:56.78)

Ripken Jr. Breaks Record

1995 Cal Ripken Jr. plays 2,131 consecutive games, breaking Gehrig’s record

Packwood Expulsion Vote

1995 US Senate Ethics Committee votes 6-0 to recommend the expulsion of Senator Bob Packwood over allegations of sexual abuse

New Moon

2006 “New Moon,” the second book in Stephenie Meyer‘s “Twilight Saga,” is published by Little, Brown and ends up selling 5.3 million copies

  • 2008 Beaux Arts Trio (Menahem Pressler, piano; Daniel Hope, violin; Antonio Meneses, cello) performs its final concert after 53 years in Lucerne, Switzerland
  • 2012 61 illegal immigrants die after a fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Turkey

Obama Accepts Nomination

2012 Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for US President

  • 2013 Islamist militants kill 20 people in villages in northeastern Nigeria
  • 2015 German police confirm more than 13,000 refugees have arrived in southern Germany in the last two days, fleeing conflicts in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan
  • 2016 Minnesota man Danny Heinrich admits to kidnapping and murdering 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling on October 22, 1989

Catalonia Independence Referendum

2017 Catalonia‘s parliament passes a law to allow a referendum on independence from Spain

2017 Hurricane Irma makes landfall on the Caribbean islands of Barbuda, Sint Maarten, and the British Virgin Islands. Prime Minister Gaston Browne reports 95% of buildings in Barbuda are damaged

Bolsonaro Stabbed

2018 Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro is stabbed at a campaign rally in Juiz de Fora, Brazil

  • 2018 India’s Supreme Court legalizes gay sex, overturning a colonial-era law
  • 2018 New York and New Jersey state attorneys launch investigations into sexual abuse by the Catholic clergy, bringing to six the number of states investigating
  • 2018 Remains of 166 people, 2 years old, are found in a mass grave in Veracruz state, Mexico
  • 2018 World Surf League announces that from 2019 there will be equal prize money for men and women across elite tour events, becoming the first US-based global sports league with gender pay parity
  • 2019 Sri Lankan cricket fast bowler Lasith Malinga takes 4 wickets in 4 balls and finishes with 5 for 6 as New Zealand is all out for 88 in a 37-run defeat in the 3rd T-20 International in Pallekele

Anti-Lukashenko Protests

2020 100,000 people demonstrate in Minsk against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko amid month-long protests against his re-election

As Slow As Possible

2020 First chord change in 7 years in John Cage‘s “As Slow As Possible” composition is being played for 639 years in Halberstadt, Germany

  • 2020 Los Angeles County records its highest-ever temperature of 121°F (49.4°C)
  • 2020 Premier Daniel Andrews announces a roadmap out of restrictions for the Australian state of Victoria but extends the lockdown until September 28
  • 2020 Strain of bacteria nicknamed “Conan the Bacterium” survives three years attached to the International Space Station in open space
  • 2022 Fire in a karaoke bar near Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, kills at least 32 [1]
  • 2023 Africa’s first climate summit opens in Nairobi, Kenya, calling for greater climate-related financing from industrialized countries [1]
  • 2023 American rocker Bruce Springsteen (73) postpones the remaining eight shows of his summer tour under doctor’s advice to treat peptic ulcer disease
  • 2023 Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi calls for a major reduction in the country’s birth rate to avoid a catastrophe, from more than two million to 400,000 a year [1]
  • 2023 Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalizes abortion nationwide, building on an earlier state-by-state ruling [1]
  • 2023 Russian daytime missile attack on a Ukrainian market in Kostyantynivka kills 17 civilians [1]
  • 2023 US sanctions Abdelrahim Hamdan Dagalo, Rapid Support Forces leader, for acts of violence, and human rights abuses, including the massacre of civilians in Darfur [1]
  • 2024 Philadelphia Eagles win 34-29 over Green Bay Packers at Corinthians Arena in São Paulo, Brazil, in the first NFL football game in the Southern Hemisphere

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August 11, 3114 BBCE is the widely accepted date as the starting point of the Maya/Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar as it corresponds to the Julian Calendar

September 6, 3114 BC


Fun Fact About September 6

King Charles II of England spends a day hiding in an oak tree during his escape after losing the Battle of Worcester

September 6, 1651

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Scientists Discover Mysterious Freshwater Reservoir Beneath the Ocean Floor. How Did It Get There?

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Co-chief scientists Brandon Dugan of the Colorado School of Mines and Rebecca Robinson of the University of Rhode Island chat on the drill floor while monitoring the groundwater pump controller. Credit: Erwan LeBer, ECORD IODP³

A team drilled offshore Nantucket and recovered cores with water near drinking quality. Studies will trace nitrogen cycling and measure the age of this subseafloor reservoir.

How did freshened water come to be trapped beneath the New England Shelf, how long has it remained there, and what volume does it represent?

Rebecca Robinson, a professor at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography, is investigating these questions by analyzing material collected from three offshore sites near Nantucket.

Robinson was one of three lead scientists directing the New England Shelf Hydrogeology expedition, a collaborative effort involving 41 researchers from multiple nations and disciplines. Over the course of 74 days at sea, the team recovered water and sediment from the subseafloor, producing 718 cores with a combined length of more than 871 meters. These samples are now being studied in laboratories to uncover the history and characteristics of the offshore reservoir.

Unusually fresh water below the seafloor

“Sampling of this offshore freshened groundwater to the extent that we can make comprehensive geochemical assessments of its history, including its age, is unprecedented in scientific ocean drilling,” said Robinson.

The salinity levels of sediments below the seafloor are typically close to those in the overlying ocean, yet offshore New England, the subseafloor contains an unusually large reservoir of freshened water.

Rebecca Robinson, Sara Polanco, and Bryce Mitsunuga Discuss a Sample Allocation Plan
From left, geochemists Rebecca Robinson, Sara Polanco, and Bryce Mitsunuga discuss a sample allocation plan in the Geochem container. Credit: Maryalice Yakutchik, ECORD IODP³

“The sheer freshness of the water, which was close to drinking water limits, was a surprise to me,” said Robinson. “I didn’t think freshened meant to the level of oceanic salinities, but I also didn’t think it would be so close to what we get out of the taps.”

Drilling challenges and success offshore

The expedition was carried out by the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling under the framework of the International Ocean Drilling Programme (IODP³). A 185-foot liftboat fitted with a compact drilling rig was used to extract 50,000 liters of water from multiple subseafloor depths.

“It was a challenge to pump significant amounts of groundwater out of the wells without destabilizing them,” said Robinson. “To prevent a column of sediment from collapsing, we had to be strategic about where we were pumping, the flow rate through the equipment, and where we placed our equipment. These were variables we learned to optimize.”

Probing the history of nitrogen cycling

Robinson was pleased with the results of the drilling operation.

“I am thrilled with our success in sampling such difficult formations and with the astonishing amount of water we were able to recover for science,” said Robinson.

Robinson will study the origins and history of the nitrogen in the groundwater by examining the composition of the samples in her lab.

Rachel Bell and Rebecca Robinson Discuss Groundwater Sampling
British Geological Survey hydrogeologist Rachel Bell, left, discusses groundwater sampling logistics in front of the sampling manifold with co-chief scientist Rebecca Robinson. Credit: Maryalice Yakutchik, ECORD IODP³

“We will study the nitrogen cycling of the water and how it is impacted by the freshened water,” said Robinson. “All organisms need nitrogen for life, so its cycling marks different types of microbial processing that occurs. Learning what happens along its flow path can tell us something about its history.”

Robinson will also measure the concentrations and the isotopic composition of nitrogen using an isotope ratio mass spectrometer. The age of the water will be measured by other researchers using radiogenic isotopes, such as carbon-14 and helium-4.

Collaboration and future research plans

The other two chief scientists on the expedition were Professor Brandon Dugan of the Colorado School of Mines and Professor Karen Johannesson of the University of Massachusetts Boston. The full science team will convene at the University of Bremen’s core repository in Bremen, Germany in January and February 2026 to further examine the cores, collect more data, and write preliminary reports about the initial findings.

The cores will be archived and made accessible for further scientific research for the scientific community after a one year moratorium period. All expedition data will be open access and resulting outcomes will be published.

The expedition was co-funded by IODP³ and the National Science Foundation.

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