Nothingandall: On this day in History

0627 - Justus dies. Archbishop of Canterbury.
0745 - Musa al-Kazim was born (d. 0799). Shia Imam.
0901 - Adelaide of Paris was born. Queen of Western Francia.
1241 - Pope Celestine IV Gofredo Castiglioni) dies. He was elected during the papal warfare with Frederick Barbarossa, and reigned only 15 days.
1341 - Henry Percy was born (d. 1408). 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman.
1433 - Charles, Duke of Burgundy was born (d. 1477).
1444 - Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Ladislaus III of Poland (or Ulaszlo I of Hungary) are crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Ladislaus is killed.
1444 - King Wladislaus III of Poland dies killed in battle (b. 1424).
1483 - Martin Luther was born (d. 1546). German protestant reformer.
1520 - Danish King Christian II executes 82 in the Stockholm Bloodbath.
1549 - Pope Paul III dies (b. 1468).
1556 - Richard Chancellor was born. English explorer, dies in shipwreck off Scotland.
1565 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus was born (d. 1646). Swedish theologian and astronomer.
1566 - Robert Devereux was born (d. 1601). 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician.
1577 - Jacob Cats was born (d. 1660). Dutch poet, jurist and politician.
1596 - Peter Wentworth dies (b. 1530). English Puritan politician.
1605 - Ulisse Aldrovandi dies (b. 1522). Italian naturalist.
1617 - Barnabe Rich dies. English soldier and writer.
1619 - René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.
1620 - Ninon de l'Enclos was born (d. 1705). French courtesan and writer.
1624 - Henry Wriothesley dies (b. 1573). 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater.
1644 - Luís Vélez de Guevara dies (b. 1579). Spanish writer.
1668 - Louis III, Prince of Condé was born (d. 1710).
1668 - François Couperin was born (d. 1733). French composer.
1673 - Michał Wiśniowiecki dies (b. 1640). King of Poland.
1674 - Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England.
1683 - George II of Great Britain was born (d. 1760).
1695 - John Bevis was born (d. 1771). English physician and astronomer.
1697 - William Hogarth was born (d. 1764). English artist.
1710 - Adam Gottlob Moltke was born (d. 1792). Danish statesman.
1727 - Alphonse de Tonty dies (b. 1659). French explorer and American settler.
1728 - Fyodor Apraksin dies. One of the first Russian admirals.
1728 - Oliver Goldsmith was born (d. 1774). English playwright.

1735 - Granville Sharp was born (d. 1813). English campaigner for the abolition of slavery.

1759 - Friedrich von Schiller was born (d. 1805). German writer.

1764 - Andrés Manuel del Río was born in Madrid (d. 1849). Spanish chemist and minerologist.

1766 - The last Colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).

1772 - Pedro António Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção dies (b. 1724). Portuguese poet.

1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Continental Congress passes a resolution creating the Continental Marines (later renamed the United States Marine Corps) to serve as landing troops for the recently created Continental Navy.

1777 - Cornstalk dies. Shawnee chief.

1792 - The White House: Construction begins by placing of the cornerstone.

1801 - Samuel Gridley Howe was born (d. 1876). American social reformer.

1801 - Vladimir Dal was born (d. 1872). Russian lexicographer.

1808 - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester dies (b. 1724). British soldier and Governor of Quebec.

1810 - Panamá: Primer Grito de Independencia en la Heroica Villa de Los Santos.

1810 - George Jennings was born (d. 1882). Sanitary engineer.

1844 - Henry Eyster Jacobs was born (d. 1932). American Lutheran theologian.

1845 - Sir John Sparrow David Thompson was born. Fourth Prime Minister of Canada.

1847 - The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.

1850 - Arthur Goring Thomas was born (d. 1892). English composer.

1855 - Mouzinho de Albuquerque was born in Batalha (d. 1902). Portuguese military commander and administrator in Mozambique.

1865 - Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.

1868 - Gichin Funakoshi was born (d. 1957). Father of Japanese Shotokan Karatedo.

1871 - Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"

1871 - Winston Churchill was born (d. 1947). American novelist.

1875 - "Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa" is founded (Portugal).

1878 - Cy Morgan was born (d. 1962). Baseball player.

1879 - Vachel Lindsay was born (d. 1931). American poet.

1880 - Jacob Epstein was born (d. 1959). American-born sculptor.

1887 - Arnold Zweig was born (d. 1968). German author.

1888 - Andrei Tupolev was born (d. 1972). Russian aircraft designer.

1889 - Claude Rains was born (d. 1967). English actor.

1890 - Carlos Gardel was born (d. 24 Jun 1935). Argentinian singer and composer (Tango).

1891 - Arthur Rimbaud dies (b. 1854). French poet.

1893 - John P. Marquand was born (d. 1960). American writer.

1895 - John Knudsen Northrop was born (d. 1981). American airplane manufacturer.

1895 - Mabel Normand was born (d. 1930). American silent actress.

1896 - Jimmy Dykes was born (d. 1976). Baseball player and manager.

1906 - Josef Kramer was born (d. 1945). Commandant of Bergen Belsen concentration camp.

1907 - Jane Froman was born (d. 1980). American actor and singer.

1909 - Paweł Jasienica was born (d. 1970). Polish historian.

1909 - George Essex Evans dies (b. 1863). Australian poet.

1909 - Renee Vivien dies (b. 1877). American poet.

1910 - The date of Thomas A. Davis' openning of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910.

1912 - Birdie Tebbetts was born (d. 1999). American baseball player and manager.

1912 - Louis Cyr dies (b. 1863). Canadian strongman.

1913 - Álvaro Cunhal was born (d. 13 Jun 2005 ). Portuguese politician, anti-fascist resistent and secretary-general of PCP (Portuguese Comunist Party).

1916 - Billy May was born (d. 2004). American composer, arranger and bandleader.

1917 - Harry Trott dies (b. 1866). Australian cricketer.

1918 - The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, NS received a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa, ON and Washington, DC) that said on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.

1918 - Ernst Otto Fischer was born. German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1919 - The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota (convention ended on November 12).

1919 - George Fenneman was born (d. 1997). American radio and television announcer.

1919 - François Périer was born (d. 2002). French actor.

1919 - Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov was born. Russian inventor.

1919 - Moise Tshombe was born (d. 1969). Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

1920 - Rafael del Pino was born. Spanish entrepreneur.

1924 - Dion O'Banion, leader of the North Side Gang is assassinated in his flower shop by members of Johnny Torrio's gang, sparking the bloody gang war of the 1920s in Chicago.

1924 - Russell Johnson was born. American actor (Gilligan's Island).

1925 - Richard Burton was born (d. 1984). Welsh actor.

1926 - In San Francisco, California, a necrophiliac serial killer named Earle Nelson (dubbed "Gorilla Man") kills and then rapes his 9th victim, Mrs. William Edmonds.

1928 - Playing against Army at Yankee Stadium, Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne gives what is considered the greatest locker room speeches of all time by saying "Win one for the Gipper." The Fighting Irish would win the game 12-6.

1928 - Michinomiya Hirohito is crowned the 124th Emperor of Japan.

1928 - Ennio Morricone was born. Italian composer.

1929 - Marilyn Bergman was born. American composer and songwriter.

1932 - Roy Scheider was born. American actor.

1933 - Luiz Sergio Coelho Sampaio was born (d. 2003). Brazilian philosopher and author.

1933 - Ronald Evans was born (d. 1990). American astronaut.

1934 - Lucien Bianchi was born (d. 1969). Belgian racing driver.

1935 - Bernard Babior was born. American biochemist.

1935 - Igor Dmitrievich Novikov was born. Russian astrophisicist.

1936 - Louis Gustave Binger dies (b. 1856). French officer and explorer.

1938 - Kate Smith, on her weekly radio show, sings Irving Berlin's God Bless America for the first time.

1938 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk dies (b. 1881). First President of Turkey.

1939 - Allan Moffat was born. Canadian-Australian race car driver.

1939 - Russell Means was born. Native American activist.

1940 - Walt Disney begins serving as a informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood "subversives".

1940 - Russell Means was born. American activist.

1940 - Screaming Lord Sutch was born. English musician.

1941 - Kyu Sakamoto was born (d. 1985). Japanese singer and actor.

1942 - World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.

1942 - Robert F. Engle was born. American economist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1942 - Hans-Rudolf Merz was born. Swiss Federal Councilor.

1943 - Saxby Chambliss was born. American politician.

1944 - Ammunition ship USS Mount Hood (AE-11) exploded at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands.

1944 - Silvestre Reyes was born. American politician.

1944 - Sir Tim Rice was born. English composer

1944 - Miguel Cadilhe was born. Portuguese economist and politician.

1945 - Heavy battle in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).

1945 - Donna Fargo was born. American singer.

1947 - Greg Lake was born. British musician.

1947 - Glen Buxton was born (d. 1997). American musician (Alice Cooper).

1947 - Dave Loggins was born. American songwriter and singer.

1948 - Aaron Brown was born. American broadcast journalist.

1948 - Hugh Moffatt was born. American songwriter.

1948 - Vincent Schiavelli was born (d. 2005). American actor.

1948 - Greg Lake was born. American musician.

1949 - Ann Reinking was born. American actress, dancer and choreographer.

1950 - Debra Hill was born (d. 2005). American screenwriter and film producer.

1951 - Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.

1952 - Gerry DiNardo was born. American football coach.

1954 - Mario Cipollina was born. American bass player (Huey Lewis & the News).

1954 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.

1955 - Jack Clark was born. American baseball player.

1955 - James Chapman was born. American novelist.

1955 - Roland Emmerich was born. German film producer and director.

1956 - Mohsen Badawi was born. Egyptian entrepreneur, political activist and writer.

1956 - Sinbad was born. American actor and comedian.

1958 - The Hope Diamond was donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.

1958 - Massimo Morsello was born. Italian singer and activist .

1958 - Myrian Rios was born. Brazilian actress.

1958 - Brooks Williams was born. American musician.

1958 - Stephen Herek was born. American film director.

1959 - Linda Cohn was born. American sports reporter.

1959 - Mackenzie Phillips was born. American actress.

1959 - Marcelo Tas was born. Brazilian presenter, actor and director.

1959 - Nancy Cartwright was born. American voice actress (Known among the voices of Bart Simpson, Nelson Muntz, Todd Flanders and Ralph Wiggum in The Simpsons).

1960 - Neil Gaiman was born. English writer.

1961 - John Walton was born. English darts player.

1961 - Rudolf Grimm was born. Austrian physics professor.

1963 - Mike Powell was born. American athlete.

1964 - Kenny Rogers was born. Baseball player.

1964 - Magnús Scheving was born. Icelandic athlete.

1964 - Jimmie Dodd dies (b.1910). American actor.

1965 - Jamie Dixon was born. NCAA basketball coach.

1965 - Eddie Irvine was born. Northern Irish race car driver.

1966 - Vanessa Angel was born. English actress.

1968 - Steve Brookstein was born. English X Factor winner.

1968 - Tracy Morgan, American actor/comedian.

1969 - National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the children's television program Sesame Street.

1969 - Ellen Pompeo was born. American actress.

1969 - Faustino Asprilla was born. Colombian footballer.

1969 - Jens Lehmann was born. German footballer.

1970 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.

1970 - Soviet Lunar probe Lunokhod 1 launched.

1970 - Freddy Loix was born. Belgian rally driver.

1970 - Warren G was born. American rapper.

1971 - In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine airplanes.

1972 - Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.

1972 - Shawn Green was born. Baseball player.

1972 - Torquato Neto dies in Rio de Janeiro (suicide) (b. in Teresina, Piauí on 9 Nov 1944). Brazilian poet, journalist and songwriter.

1973 - Patrik Berger was born. Czech football player.

1975 - The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.

1975 - United Nations Resolution 3379: United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution was repealed in December 1991).

1975 - Jim Adkins was born. American musician.

1975 - Ernest M. McSorley dies (b. 1912). Great Lakes Shipping Captain.

1976 - Steffen Iversen was born. Norwegian football player.

1976 - Shefki Kuqi was born. Finnish football player.

1977 - Brittany Murphy was born. American actress.

1977 - Matt Cepicky was born. American baseball player.

1978 - Eve was born. American rapper (Sunil).

1978 - Kyla Cole was born. Slovak adult actress.

1980 - Troy Bell was born. Basketball player.

1980 - Red Cordell was born. American television personality.

1981 - Tony Blanco was born. American baseball player.

1981 - Jason L. Dunham was born (d. 2004). American Medal of Honor recipient.

1981 - Alison Waite was born. American model and Playboy Playmate.

1981 - Abel Gance dies (b.1889). French film director, producer and actor.

1982 - Yuri Andropov is named secretary-general of the URSS Comunist Party.

1982 - Clayton Fortune was born. English footballer.

1982 - Heather Matarazzo was born. American actress.

1982 - Leonid Brezhnev dies (b. 1906). General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

1983 - Craig Smith was born. American basketball player.

1983 - Miranda Lambert was born. American singer.

1983 - Sammie Rhodes was born. American pornographic actress.

1984 - Kendrick Perkins was born. American basketball player.

1985 - Pelle Lindbergh dies (b. 1959). Swedish hockey player.

1985 - Ricki-Lee Coulter was born. Australian singer.

1985 - Giovonnie Samuels was born. American television actress.

1986 - King Clancy dies (b. 1903). National Hockey League player, coach and referee.

1986 - Josh Peck was born. American actor.

1987 - Jessica Tovey was born. Australian actress.

1987 - Mason Aguirre was born. American snowboarder.

1987 - Khalid Yassin was born. Saudi Pharmacy owner and teacher of Islam.

1988 - Chisaki Hama, former Japanese actress and model.

1988 - Torquato de Sousa Soares dies. Portuguese teacher and medievalist.

1989 - After 35 years of communist rule in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Communist Party leader Todor Zhivkov is replaced by former Prime Minister Petre Mladenov who changes the party's name to the Bulgarian Socialist Party.

1990 - Aurelio Monteagudo dies (b. 1943). Cuban baseball player.

1990 - Mário Schenberg dies (b. 1914), Brazilian physicist, politician and critic of art.

1991 - Madico Fs dies (b. 1929). Australian professional wrestler.

1991 - William Afflis dies (b. 1929). American wrestler.

1992 - Chuck Connors dies (b. 1921). American actor, baseball and basketball player.

1994 - Carmen McRae dies (b. 1920). American singer.

1994 - Louis Nizer dies (b. 1902). British writer.

1995 - In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop) are hanged by government forces.

1995 - Ken Saro-Wiwa dies (b. 1941). Nigerian writer and activist.

1997 - Telcoms WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).

1997 - A jury in Fairfax, Virginia finds Mir Aimal Kasi guilty of the murder of two CIA employees in 1993.

1997 - Seymour Hersh's book "The Dark Side of Camelot" is published; it includes allegations of explicit photos of John F. Kennedy with various sex partners having been taken.

1997 - 19-year-old British au pair Louise Woodward, convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison in a baby-shaking death less than two weeks ago, has her conviction reduced to involuntary manslaughter and her sentence reduced to time served.

1997 - Tommy Tedesco dies (b. 1930). American musician.

1998 - Mary Millar dies (b. 1936). English actress.

2000 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas dies (b. 1915). French politician, prime minister of France

2001 - Ken Kesey dies (b. 1935). American author.

2002 - A tornado outbreak hits the Upper Ohio Valley leading to several deaths

2002 - Michel Boisrond dies (b. 1921). French film director.

2003 - Canaan Banana dies (b. 1936). First President of Zimbabwe.

2003 - Irv "Kup" Kupcinet dies murdered (b. 1912). American columnist and television personality.

2004 - John Ashcroft and Don Evans resign their posts as U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Secretary of Commerce respectively.

2004 - Katy de la Cruz dies (b. 1907). Filipino singer.

2006 - Sport Lisboa e Benfica entered to Guiness Book as the club with more associates in the World (160.398).

2006 - Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj (b. 1962) is assassinated in Colombo.