Important Dates & Events in History
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Medic Alert Week
Cherry Blossom Festival
Publicity Stunt Week
National Birthparents Week
Week of the Young Child
Cruelest Month Week (Fairy)
Straw Hat Week
National Bake Week (begins 1st Mon)
Consider Christianity Week
National Reading a Road Map Week
Hate Week

Be Kind to Animals Week
Masters Golf Tournament
National Medical Laboratory Week
Private Property Week (10th-16th)
National Library Week
Harmony Week
National Garden Week
TV Turn-Off Week
National Guitar Week
National Building Safety Week
National Home Safety Week

Library Forgiveness Week
National Police Week
Lefty Awareness Week
Boys and Girls Club Week
Astronomy Week
National Coin Week
Bike Safety Week
National Bubblegum Week
Pan American Week
National Week of the Ocean
National Crime Victims Rights Week
National Volunteer Week

Toonik Tyme (Aboriginal)Traditional Inuit games

Forest Week
National Lingerie Week
Canada-US Goodwill Week
Big Brothers/Sisters Appreciation Week
Consumer Protection Week
National TV-Free Week
Jewish Heritage Week
Grange Week
Keep Amerca Beautiful Week
National YMCA Week
Professional Secretaries Week
National Give-A-Sample Week
Sky Awareness Week
Intergenerational Week
Reading Is Fun Week
Week of the Young Child
Egg Salad Week
Teacher Appreciation Week (begins Last Mon)

Full Moon Day of 6th Buddhist month (@ Apr/May)

Vesak

Sun enters Aries

Solar New Year (Southeast Asia)
aka Thingyan (Burma)
aka Songkran (Thailand)

10th through 15th Day of 2nd lunar month

Paro Tsechu (Bhutan)

During planting season (@ Apr/May)

Tyi Wara (Mali)

Early April to late July (every 4 years)

Summer Olympics begin

Late April or May

Alp Aufzug (Switzerland)

Before 1st rainfall (@ Apr/May)

Bobo Masquerade (Burkina Faso)

Sometime in April

World Champioinship Cow Chip Throwing Contest

Palm Sunday - Christian
Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey and was cheered by crowds who strew
palm branches in his path. It is observed by worship services and parades
using palm branches.

Palm Sunday - Armenian Christian

*** GOOD FRIDAY - Christian
Commerates the passion and death by crucifixion of Jesus and is a solemn
day. Eastern Orthodox members fast; Macedonians make a plashtanitsa or
picture of the dead Jesus on a large cloth to be carried in a procession;
Italian Catholics have a procession called the Way of the Cross.

*** Easter - Christian
It marks the resurrection of Jesus from his grave. Most Christians welcome
Easter Sunday with a sunrise service.

Gathering of Nations Pow Wow (Native American)
Albuquerque, New Mexico is the venue of over 700 tribes and nations
participating in a three day event where over 3,000 participants share,
teach and exchange traditions with each other.

*** Pesach-Passover (Jewish) Commemorates the time of Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. It begins with a ritual meal "Seder" when no leavened bread is consumed and is celebrated for eight days with special prayers and symbolic foods.

1578 William Harvey, physician who discovered the mechanics of blood circulation (Folkestone, England; died 1657)
1815 Otto von Bismarck, German chancellor/statesman (Germany; died 1898)
1868 Edmond Rostand, dramatist/poet (France; died 1918)
1873 Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer/pianist (Russia; died 1943)
1920 Toshiro Mifune, actor (Japan; died 1997)
1928 Jane Powell, actress/singer (Portland, OR)
1932 Gordon Jump, actor (Dayton, OH)
Debbie Reynolds, actress (El Paso, TX)
1938 Ali MacGraw, actress (Pound Ridge, NY)
1947 David Eisenhower, author, grandson of Pres. Dwight Eisenhower, and son-in-law of Pres. Richard Nixon (West Point, NY)
1953 Annette O'Toole, actress (Houston, TX)
John Morton
Otto Von Bismark
Edwin Abbey
Sung Hi Lee
Scott Joplin
John Ford
Wallace Beery
Lon Chaney
Gordon Jump
Kevin Duckworth

" April Fool's Day - Canada, UK, USA
" Intolerance Day
" Fortuna Virilis (Old Roman Women's Festival to Venus, seeking good relations with men)
" Loki's Day (Norse)
" Islamic Republic Day (Iran)
" EOKA Day (Greece)
" San Marino National Day
" One Cent Day
" All Fools' Day
" Festival of Irritating Jokes and Childish Japes
" Tater Days begin (Kentucky)
" St. Melito's Day
" Hebrew University Day
" St. Lasarus' Day (patron of spring, love, Bulgaria)
" Alaska Dryrotta Day
" Gowkie Day (aka Gowkin' Day)
" St. Mary of Egypt's Day (Eastern)
" April Noddy Day
" Huntigowk Day
" St. Catherine of Palma's Day
" National Sourdough Bread Day
" St. Hugh of Grenoble's Day

" 1st Bridge in US built (1634)
" 2-Cylinder Internal Combustion Engine patented (1826)
" Defeat at Five Forks (Civil War; 1865)
" Ford's assembly line began rolling (1913)
" Paris & London 1st linked by telephone (1891)
" Automatic Record Changer introduced (1924)
" Battle of Okinawa began (WW 2; 1945)
" United Mine Workers' strike began (1946)
" Berlin Airlift began (1948)
" US Air Force Academy founded (1954)
" 1st Weather satellite sent into orbit (1960)
" Failure Analysis Association founded (1967)
" Exxon Alaskan oil spill (1989)
" Netscape established (1994 @)
" Great Cheese Scandal (UK)
" Adventures of Superman debuted

1725 Giovanni Casanova, adventurer/memoirist (Venice, Italy; died 1798)
1805 Hans Christian Anderson, children's author (Odense, Denmark; died 1875)
1834 Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, sculptor of the Statue of Liberty (Colmar, Alsace, France; died 1904)
1840 Emile Zola, novelist (Paris, France; died 1902)
1908 Buddy Ebsen, actor (Belleville, IL)
1909 Luke Appling, baseball player (High Point, NC; died 1991)
1914 Sir Alec Guinness, actor (London, England; died 2000)
1928 Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, archbishop of Chicago (Columbia, SC; died 1996)
1940 Penelope Keith, actress (Sutton, Surrey, England)
1941 Leon Russell, musician (Lawton, OK)
1945 Linda Hunt, actress (Morristown, NJ)
1947 Emmylou Harris, singer (Birmingham, AL)
Camille Paglia, literary and cultural critic (Endicott, NY)
1955 Dana Carvey, actor/comedian (Missoula, MT)
Charlemagne
Harold Lloyd
Marvin Gaye
Francesco Grimbaldi
Walter P. Chrysler
Frederic "Ellery Queen" Dannay
Reggie Jackson

" Green Day
" International Children's Book Day
" Feast of Acan (Mayan God of Wine)
" St. Francis of Paloa's Day (patron of sailors, naval officers, seafarers)
" Trivia Bowl
" Pascua Florida Day
" National Holiday (Argentina)
" St. Mary of Egypt's Day (Western)
" Taily Day (Kirkcaldy, Fife)
" Spring Fever and Medical Aid Appeal (Fairy)
" National Peanut Butter & Jelly Day
" St. Urban of Langres' Day (patron of barrel makers, drunkards, vintners; against blight, frost)

" Ponce de Leon discovered Florida (1513)
" US Mint established (1792)
" Battle of Copenhagen (1801)
" Napoleon Bonaparte married Marie Louise (1810)
" American Farmer journal 1st published (1819)
" Eire County, New York founded (1821)
" 1st Italian Parliament met (1860)
" 1st Easter Egg Hunt (1877)
" New York State 1st required license plates (1901)
" 1st Movie Theatre opened (L.A.; 1902)
" Woodrow Wilson makes his "world must be made safe for democracy" speech (1917)
" Spanish Civil War ended (1938)
" Khmer Rouge genocide discovered (1979)
" Falkland Islands seized by Argentina (1982)
" USSR Coal Miners' strike held (1991)
" Beethoven's 1st Symphony premiered
" 1st Human Cannonball stunt performed
" 1st Golf Tourament held

1783 Washington Irving, author (New York, NY; died 1859)
1823 William March Tweed, political boss of New York City's "Tweed Ring" (New York, NY; died 1878)
1893 Leslie Howard, actor (London, England; died 1943)
1898 Henry Luce, editor/publisher (Penglai, China; died 1967)
1904 Sally Rand, dancer/actress (Hickory County, MO; died 1979)
1924 Marlon Brando, actor (Omaha, NE)
Doris Day, actress/singer (Cincinnati, OH)
1926 Virgil "Gus" Grissom, astronaut who died in a fire during a simulation aboard Apollo 1 (Mitchell, IN; died 1967)
1930 Helmut Kohl, German chancellor (Ludwigshafen, Germany)
1934 Jane Goodall, anthropologist (London, England)
1942 Marsha Mason, actress (St. Louis, MO)
Wayne Newton, singer (Norfolk, VA)
1944 Tony Orlando, singer (New York, NY)
1958 Alec Baldwin, actor (Massapequa, NY)
1959 David Hyde Pierce, actor (Albany, NY)
1961 Eddie Murphy, actor/comedian (Brooklyn, NY)
1970 Rick Schroder, actor (Staten Island, NY)
1971 Picabo Street, Olympic champion skier (Triumph, ID)
1972 Jennie Garth, actress (Champaign, IL)
Henry van de Velde
John Burroughs
Doris Day
Aeschylus
George Jessel
Bruno Hauptmann
Pak Tai
Jim Parker
Miyoshi Umeki
Jan Berry
Sebastian Bach
Max Frankel
Sptima Poinsette Clark
Philip III

" National Find-A-Rainbow Day
" American Creed Day
" Don't Go To Work Unless It's Fun Day
" Festival of Min (Ancient Egypt)
" Sizdar-Bedah (Unlucky to stay indoors; Iran)
" Tweed Day
" Shower Dance (Fairy)
" Armenian Appreciation Day
" St. Richard of Chichester's Day (patron of coachmen
" National Chocolate Mousse Day
" St. Irene's Day (patron of peace)
" Favardin or Sizdeh Bedar (Iranian) is the 13th day after Nowruz. The number 13 is considered an unlucky number for the Persians, and therefore everyone leaves home for the day to go on picnics or trips.

" Pony Express established (1860)
" Jesse James killed (1882)
" 1st US Ambassador appointed (1893)
" Bruno Hauptmann executed (1936)
" Supreme Court ruled blacks eligible to vote in primary elections (Texas tried to exclude them; 1944)
" Largest single swarm of tornadoes (@148) descended on US midwest (1974)
" A state of emergency was declared in the area of Mount St. Helens as a 2nd crater formed and the north slope began swelling. (1980)
" Brixton Riots began (1981)
" Bishop Desmond Tutu appointed President of Peace & Reconcilliation Session (South Africa; 1995)
" A US fishing boat, the Arctic Rose out of Seattle, sank in the Bering Sea and all 15 aboard were feared dead. (2001)

1802 Dorothea Dix, social reformer (Hampden, ME; died 1887)
1884 Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral during World War II (Nagaoko, Honshu, Japan; died 1943)
1888 Tris Speaker, baseball player (Hubbard, TX; died 1958)
1896 Robert Sherwood, playwright/author (New Rochelle, NY; died 1955)
1915 Muddy Waters, blues singer/guitarist (Rolling Fork, MS; died 1983)
1924 Gil Hodges, baseball player/manager (Princeton, IN; died 1972)
1925 Elizabeth Wilson, actress (Grand Rapids, MI)
1926 Cloris Leachman, actress (Des Moines, IA)
1928 Maya Angelou, author/poet (St. Louis, MO)
1932 Anthony Perkins, actor (New York, NY; died 1992)
1938 A. Bartlett Giamatti, literature professor/university president and baseball commissioner (Boston, MA; died 1989)
1946 Craig T. Nelson, actor (Spokane, WA)
1965 Robert Downey Jr., actor (New York, NY)
1966 Nancy McKeon, actress (Westbury, NY)
Linus Yale
Robert Downey Jr.
Ted Wolny
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
Arthur Murray
Karl Wilhelm Siemens
John Cameron Swayze
Isoroku Yamamoto

Tell-A-Lie Day
Art Deco Day
National Reading a Roadmap Day
Senegal Independence Day
Magna Mater begins (aka Megalesia; Great Mother Festival)
St. Benedict the Moor's Day (patron of Palermo, North American blacks)
Festival of the Magna Mater of Phrygia (Ancient Rome)
Liberation Day (Hungary)
Victims of Violence Holy Day
St. Isidore of Seville's Day
Bonza Bottler Day
National Cordon Bleu Day
Swedish-American Friendship Day
Hanover Fair (Germany)
St. Ambrose's Day

" James II issued a Declaration of Indulgence (1687)
" Pennsylvania Mercury became 1st newspaper printed using American-made type (1775)
" US Congress passes the "Flag Act" restoring US Flag to 13 stars & stripes (1818)
" 1st Home Phone installed (1877)
" Gold discovered in the Yukon (1896)
" UN International Civil Aviation Organization established (1947)
" NATO established (1949)
" Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated (1968)
" 1st artificial human heart implanted (1969)
" Star Trek cancelled - the First Generation (1969).
" UNITA Rebels and Angolan government sign a cease-fire ending 30 years of civil war (2002).
" Los Angeles incorporated
" Mormon Church founded
" Vitamin C discovered
" Winston Smith writes "Down with Big Brother" in his diary (In the Huxley novel "1984")

1588 Thomas Hobbes, philosopher/political theorist (England; died 1679)
1732 Jean-Honoré Fragonard, painter (France; died 1806)
1827 Joseph Lister, physician who founded aseptic surgery (Upton, Essex, England; died 1912)
1856 Booker T. Washington, black educator/social reformer and author (Franklin County, VA; died 1915)
1900 Spencer Tracy, actor (Milwaukee, WI; died 1967)
1908 Bette Davis, actress (Lowell, MA; died 1989)
1916 Gregory Peck, actor (died 2003) (La Jolla, CA)
1920 Arthur Hailey, author (Luton, England)
1926 Roger Corman, filmmaker (Detroit, MI)
1929 Nigel Hawthorne, actor (Coventry, England)
1934 Frank Gorshin, actor/comedian (Pittsburgh, PA)
1937 Colin Powell, general and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (New York, NY)
1941 Michael Moriarty, actor (Detroit, MI)
1949 Judith Resnick, astronaut who died in the Challenger explosion (Akron, OH; died 1986)
1950 Christine Lahti, actress (Detroit, MI)
Plato
Herbert Von Karajan
Ludwig Spohr
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Mike McCready
Elihu Yale
Melvyn Douglas
Jane Asher
Benjamin Harrison
Albert Roussel
Nguyen Van Thieu

" Fortuna (Festival of Good Luck)
" Tomb Sweeping Day (Taiwan)
" St. Juliana of Liege's Day
" Ching Ming Festival (China) On the Clear and Bright Festival, family graves are visited to ask for the blessings of the departed spirits.
" Sunning of the Buddha (Tibet)
" Go For Broke Day
" Fringe Fairies' Welcome Party (Fairy)
" Tax Day (UK)
" Six Ringings Festival (Zurich, Switzerland)
" German-Americans Day
" National Raisin and Spice Bar Day
" St. Vincent Ferrer's Day (patron of builders)

" Noah's Ark grounded on Mt. Ararat
" 1st US Copyright issued
" Pocohantas married John Rolfe (1614)
" Battle of Nafels (Switzerland; 1388)
" UK Parliament passed Sugar Act (1764)
" Winston Churchill resigned (1955)
" Easter Island discovered (1722)
" Polish Solidarity Pact signed (1989)
" Strauss' Die Fledermaus premiered (1874)
" Nazi began deporting jews from Hungary (1944)
" Plans approved for US Capital (1793)
" Major British Task Forces left for the Falkland Islands (1982)
" NFL penalty flags changed color from white to bright gold (1965)
" Earth made first contact with aliens (2063; Vulcans, according to Star Trek: First Contact)
" Trial in Oscar Wilde's libel suit against Marquess of Queesberry began (1895)

1483 Raffaello Santi Raphael (Sanzio), painter/architect (Urbino, Italy; died 1520)
1773 James Mill (d.1836), English philosopher, historian (Hist of British India) and economist, was born in Scotland.
1870 Oskar Straus, composer (Austria; died 1954)
1892 Lowell Thomas, traveler/broadcaster/journalist (Woodington, OH; died 1981)
1927 Gerry Mulligan, jazz saxophonist (New York, NY; died 1996)
1928 James D. Watson, biochemist and codiscoverer of the structure of DNA (El Paso, TX)
1929 André Previn, composer/conductor (Berlin, Germany)
1937 Merle Haggard, singer/songwriter (Bakersfield, CA)
Billy Dee Williams, actor (New York, NY)
1947 John Ratzenberger, actor (Bridgeport, CT)
1952 Marilu Henner, actress (Chicago, IL)
1976 Candace Cameron, actress (Canoga Park, CA)
J.W. Waterhouse
Michelle Phillips
Anthony Fokker
John Ratzenberger
Billy Dee Williams
Barry Levinson
Mickey Cochrane
Ferruccio Lamborghini
Ernie Lombardi
Rose Schneiderman

" Plan Your Epitaph Day
" Old Lady Day
" Come-See-Me Festival
" Dogwood Festival
" Cold Food Day (Korea)
" Student Government Day
" Chakri Day (Thai) Commerorates the foundation of the ruling dynasty by King Rama I.
" Martyr's Day (Syria)
" Jump Over Things Day
" St. Notker Balbulus' Day (patron against stammering)
" Fete of the Little Boats (France)
" Army Day
" Sorting-Out of the Doggets Day (Fairy)
" South Africa Founder's Day (aka Van Riebeeck Day)
" National Caramel Popcorn Day
" Sorry Charlie Day (in honor of those who have been rejected and lived through it)

" Richard I died on Crusades (1199)
" Jan van Riebeeck discovered the Cape of Good Hope (1652)
" Napoleon abdicated (1814)
" Mormon Church founded (1830)
" Black Hawk War began (1832)
" Battle of Shiloh began (1862)
" Battle of Charleston (1863)
" Women's Trade Union League established (1882)
" Modern Olympics began (1896)
" Perry reached the North Pole (1909)
" 1st US Credit Union Law passed (1909)
" US Entered World War I by declaring war on Germany (1917)
" Early Bird satellite launched (1965)
" Howard Hughes died intestate (1976)
" Pioneer Courthouse Square opened in Portland. (1984)
" Rwanda and Burundi's Presidents killed sparking tribal war (1994)
" US Major League Soccer's 1st game played: San Jose-1, DC-0; (1996)
" Rhode Island became final state to ratify US Constitution
" Franz Lizst gave his 1st performance
" Brigham Young's last marriage (his 27th)
" 1st Milk Inspections held
" Breadbasket Bill passed (Germany)
" 1st Communication satellite sent into orbit

1770 William Wordsworth, poet/philosopher (Cumberland, England; died 1850)
1873 John McGraw, baseball player/manager (Truxton, NY; died 1934)
1884 Bronislaw Malinowski, anthropologist/author (Krakow, Poland; died 1942)
1897 Walter Winchell, journalist/broadcaster (New York, NY; died 1972)
1915 Billie Holiday, jazz singer (Philadelphia, PA; died 1959)
1920 Ravi Shankar, musician (Benares, India)
1928 James Garner, actor (Norman, OK)
1933 Wayne Rogers, actor (Birmingham, AL)
1934 Ian Richardson, actor (Edinburgh, Scotland)
1938 Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown Jr., Oakland mayor, California governor, and presidential candidate (San Francisco, CA)
1939 Francis Ford Coppola, filmmaker (Detroit, MI)
David Frost, TV personality (Tenterden, England)
1951 Janis Ian, singer/songwriter (New York, NY)
1954 Jackie Chan, actor (Hong Kong)
Tony Dorsett, football player (Rochester, PA)
1964 Russell Crowe, actor (Auckland, New Zealand)
El Greco
William Wordsworth
Ole Kirk Christiansen
Irene Castle
Frederick Carl Frieseke
Daniel Ellberg
Walter Camp
Percy Faith
Hodding Carter III
John Oates

" Museum Day
" World Health Day
" No Housework Day
" Pure Brightness Festival (China)
" Buddha Day (Hawaii)
" Women's Day (Mozambique)
" St. John Baptist de la Salle's Day (patron of teachers)
" National Teacher Appreciation Day
" Eggsibit
" St. Hegesippus' Day
" National Coffee Cake Day
" World Health Day - UN

" Highwayman Dick Turpin hanged (1739)
" Matches 1st for sale (1827)
" Battle of Shiloh (1862)
" Mount Vesuvius erupted (1906)
" The suffragists' marched to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. By the second decade of the 20th century, woman suffrage--women's right to vote--had become an issue of national importance in America. The growth in the numbers of American working women and the valuable contributions women made in war production during World War I further increased the suffragists' support. (1913)
" Teapot Dome Scandal began (naval reserve leased by US Secretary of Interior to oilman; 1922)
" 1st TV Transmission (1927)
" 1st Televised Political Demonstration (1927)
" 1st Stamp issued featuring an African American: Booker T. Washington (1940)
" LSD invented (1943)
" NFL made wearing Football Helmets mandatory (1943)
" UN World Health Organization established (1948)
" South Pacific premiered on broadway (1949)
" 1st 7 US Astronauts selected (1959)
" 1st POW Camp opened (WW 2)
" New York Harbor discovered

563 BC Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama), religious leader and founder of Buddhism (India; died c. 483 BC)
1893 Mary Pickford, actress (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; died 1979)
1912 Sonja Henie, Olympia champion figure skater (Norway; died 1969)
1918 Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States (Chicago, IL)
1920 Carmen McRae, jazz singer (New York, NY; died 1994)
1923 Franco Corelli, opera singer (Ancona, Italy)
1926 Shecky Greene, comedian/actor (Chicago, IL)
1928 John Gavin, actor (Los Angeles, CA)
1929 Jacques Brel, composer/singer (Belgium; died 1978)
1938 Kofi Annan, UN secretary general (Kumasi, Ghana)
1940 John Havlicek, basketball player (Martins Ferry, OH)
1947 Tom DeLay, U.S. representative and House majority whip (Laredo, TX)
1955 Barbara Kingsolver, author (Annapolis, MD)
1962 Julian Lennon, singer/musician and son of John Lennon (Liverpool, England)
1966 Robin Wright Penn, actress (Dallas, TX)
1968 Patricia Arquette, actress (New York, NY)
Jerry Seinfeld
Giuseppe Tartini
Ponce de Leon
Lewis Morris
William Williams
Philip IV

" All Is Ours Day
" Buddha's Birthday (Japan, Thailand)
" Grand Ivy Day
" International Bird Day
" Peanuts-Kids-Baseball Day
" St. Walter of Pontnoise's Day (patron of POW's, prisoners, vintners)
" Hana Matsuri (Flower Festival; Japan)
" Invocation of Lumps and Cysts (Goblin)
" St. Agabus' Day (Eastern)
" National Empanada Day
" Cosmonaut's Day

" Caligula assassinated (217 CE)
" Ponce de Leon landed in Florida (1513)
" House of Representatives 1st met; their 1st agenda, "how to raise money" (1789)
" Hank Aaron hits home run #715 (1974)
" 18-year old AIDS victim Ryan White died. White's monther, Jeanne, went on to become a champion for sufferers of AIDS, resulting in federal funding for research to combat the disease (1990)
" Kurt Cobain, singer-musician for the grunge band Nirvana, was found dead in Seattle of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound; he was 27. (1994)
" Time Magazine declared "God is Dead"
" 1st Squash Tourament held

1821 Charles Baudelaire, poet (France; died 1867)
1879 W. C. Fields, actor (Philadelphia; died 1946)
1883 Frank King, cartoonist and creator of "Gasoline Alley" (Cashon, WI; died 1969)
1898 Paul Robeson, actor/singer (Princeton, NJ; died 1976)
1926 Hugh Hefner, publisher of Playboy (Chicago, IL)
1928 Tom Lehrer, songwriter (New York, NY)
1933 Jean-Paul Belmondo, actor (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France)
1939 Michael Learned, actress (Washington, DC)
1954 Dennis Quaid, actor (Houston, TX)
1957 Severiano Ballesteros, golfer (Pedrena, Spain)
1964 Juliette Binoche, actress (Paris, France)
1966 Cynthia Nixon, actress (New York, NY)
1971 Jacques Villeneueve, auto racer (St. John d'Iberville, Quebec, Canada)
1979 Keshia Knight Pulliam, actress (Newark, NJ)
Earl "Curly" Lambeau
Charles Burchfield
Edward Muybridge
Francois Rabelais
Victor Vasarely
Paulina Porizkova
Antal Dorati
Carl Perkins
Charles Steinmetz
Avery Schreiber
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Marian Anderson
Harvey Lichtenstein
Efrem Zimbalist Sr.
Harris Wofford
Margo Smith
Hal Ketchum, Cartoonist and creator of "Dennis the Menace"

Name Yourself Day
All Over Again Day
Budget Day (UK)
Churchill Day
Fast & Prayer Day (Liberia)
Martyr's Day (Tunisia)
Bataan Day
Glarus Festival (Switzerland)
Jenkin's Ear Day
Verruca Salt (Goblin)
St. Casilda's Day (patron against bad luck, sterility)
Wild Turkey Drive begins
National Chinese Almond Cookie Day
" Jalai (2nd month) Baha'i - The English translation of Jalai(Arabic) is Glory

" Mouth of the Mississippi discovered (1682)
" Tennessee named (1796)
" National Gallery (London) opened (1838)
" US Civil War ended (Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox; 1865)
" US Congress granted citizenship to everybody but Native Americans (1866)
" Marian Anderson gave a concert on the steps on the Lincoln Memorial because the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) wouldn't let her inside nearby Constitution Hall because she was black (1939)
" Nazi Germany invaded Denmark and Norway (1940)
" CORE "freedom riders" drove buses into the South (1947)
" Beatles officially dissolved their partnership (1970)
" Nature magazine publishes the longest-ever word scientific word consisting of 207,000 letters (1981)
" Panama leader Manuel Noriega convicted by US Federal Court (1992)
" Academy Awards 1st held
" 1st Public Library opened
" 1st Art Exhibit held
" Golf Hall of Fame established
" 1st Macadam Road finished

1829 William Booth, social reformer and founder of the Salvation Army (Nottingham, England; died 1912)
1847 Joseph Pulitzer, journalist/publisher (Budapest, Hungary; died 1911)
1882 Frances Perkins, secretary of labor and first U.S. woman cabinet member (Boston, MA; died 1965)
1915 Harry Morgan, actor (Detroit, MI)
1921 Chuck Connors, actor (Brooklyn, NY; died 1992)
1929 Max Von Sydow, actor (Lund, Sweden)
1932 Omar Sharif, actor (Alexandria, Egypt)
1934 David Halberstam, journalist/author (New York, NY)
1936 John Madden, football coach and sportscaster (Austin, MN)
1938 Don Meredith, football player and sportscaster (Mount Vernon, TX)
1941 Paul Theroux, novelist (Medford, MA)
1951 Steven Seagal, actor (Lansing, MI)
1954 Peter MacNichol, actor (Dallas, TX)
1959 Babyface (Kenneth Edmonds), singer/songwriter (Indianapolis, IN)
Eva Herzigova
Hugo Grotius
Matthew "Commodore" Perry
Joseph Pulitzer
Brian Setzer
Clark Hinkle
Ben Nicholson
Kenneth Noland
Bernard Gimbel
Eric Knight
Claudette Nevins
Lew Wallace
William Brewster
Robert B. Woodward
William Hazlitt
Clare Boothe Luce
Mel Blount
Victor de Sabata
Ken Griffey Sr.

" Humane Day
" Explosion of the Car (Florence, Italy)
" Golfer's Day
" St. Fulbert's Day
" National Cinnamon Crescent Day
" St. Hedda's Day

" 1st American circumnavigates the earth (1790)
" US Patent Office established (1790)
" Austria declared war on France (1809)
" 1st British settlers arrived in South Africa (1820)
New York Tribune 1st published (1841)
" Safety Pin patented (1849)
" Archduke Maximilian became Emperor of Mexico (1864)
" ASPCA established (1866)
" 1st Arbor Day observed (1872)
" Reconstruction officially ended (1877)
" Paul McCartney left the Beatles (1970)
" 1st Professional Golf Tournament held (1916)
" Emiliano Zapata ambushed (1919)
" Bataan "Death March" began (WW2; 1942)
" Buchenwald concentration camp liberated (1945)
" US Civil Rights Bill passed (1960)
" Atomic Submarine USS Thresher sank (1963)
" The Mt. St. Helens north slope bulge extended out 320 feet and grew at a rate of 5 feet per day. (1980)
" Sudwerk Privatbrauerei Hubsch founded (California; 1990)
" Soviet Georgia declared independence (1991)
" The Energy Dept. announced that 90,000 acres of the security buffer around the Hanford nuclear reservation would be preserved as a wildlife refuge. (1999)
" 1st Symphony to call for an airplane propeller written (Ballet Mecanina by George Antheil)
" Salvation Army founded
" Last entry in the Mayan calendar

1852 Adrian "Cap" Anson, baseball player/manager (Marshalltown, IA; died 1922)
1862 Charles Evans Hughes, statesman and chief justice of the Supreme Court (Glens Falls, NY; died 1948)
1913 Oleg Cassini, fashion designer (Paris, France)
1928 Ethel Kennedy, widow of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (Greenwich, CT)
1932 Joel Grey, actor (Cleveland, OH)
1933 Tony Brown, journalist (Charleston, WV)
1939 Louise Lasser, actress (New York, NY)
1947 Peter Riegert, actor (New York, NY)
Meshach Taylor, actor (Boston, MA)
1948 Ellen Goodman, columnist (Newton, MA)
1950 Bill Irwin, actor/choreographer (Santa Monica, CA)
Dean Acheson
Lizzie "Lillie" Bliss
Jane Matilda Bolin
Bill Irwin
Daniel Garber
Hyman Bloom
Freeman Crofts
James Parkinson
Charles Halle
Lou Holtz
Christopher Smart
Percy Julian
Nicholas Brady
Jean-Calude Servan-Schriber

" Festival of Unmediated Play
" Dandelion Day
" Liberation Day (Uganda)
" Heroes Day (Costa Rica)
" Barbershop Quartet Day
" Schmeckfest (German Food Festival)
" International Resistance Movement Day (Czechoslovakia)
" St. Stanislaus' Day (patron of Poland)
" 8-Track Tape Day
" Birthday of Ch'ang Lao (to honor elderly; China)
" St. Guthlac's Day
" Library Legislative Day
" St. Godberta's Day (patron against drought, plague)
" National Cheese Fondue Day
" St. Gemma Galgani's Day (patron of hospital pharmacists)

" William & Mary crowned King & Queen of England (1689)
" Gibralter and Newfoundland ceded to UK by France (1713)
" International Labor Organization esablished (1919)
" Popeye 1st appeared (1929)
" Truman fired General MacArthur from Korea (1951)
" Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial began (1961)
" US Civil Rights Act of 1968 passed (1968)
" Apollo 13 lift off (1970)
" Ballet Elite Syncopations, based on music by Scott Joplin, premiered in Germany with only 2 pianos, the rest of the orchestra refused to play music by a black person based on a 1937 Nazi law (1988)
" English Soccer Clubs readmitted to European Cup (1989)
" International Criminal Court wins UN ratification, but U.S. refuses to ratify (2002).
" Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez ousted in coup, then reinstated two days later. (2002).
" Stenotype patented
" Napoleon abdicated

1777 Henry Clay, statesman, Speaker of the House, and presidential nominee (Hanover County, VA; died 1852)
1916 Beverly Cleary, children's author (McMinnville, OR)
1918 Helen Forrest, big band singer (Atlantic City, NJ; died 1999)
1919 Ann Miller, actress/dancer (Houston, TX)
1926 Jane Withers, actress (Atlanta, GA)
1933 Montserrat Caballe, opera singer (Barcelona, Spain)
1940 Herbie Hancock, musician (Chicago, IL)
1946 Ed O'Neill, actor (Youngstown, OH)
1947 Tom Clancy, author (Baltimore, MD)
David Letterman, TV personality/comedian (Indianapolis, IN)
1949 Scott F. Turow, author (Chicago, IL)
1950 David Cassidy, singer/actor (New York, NY)
1956 Andy Garcia, actor (Havana, Cuba)
1957 Vince Gill, country singer (Norman, OK)
1979 Claire Danes, actress (New York, NY)
Samuel F.B. Morse
Herbert Mills
Imogen Cunningham
Charles Ludlum
Herbie Hancock
Maria Callas
Frederick G. Melcher
David Cassidy
Andrew Young
Tiny Tim

" Cerealia (Old Roman Goddess of Fruit)
" Egg & Dairy Festival
" Look Up At the Sky Day
" Thank You School Librarian Day
" Festival to Preserve Corn (Cochumatan Indians; Guatemala)
" Halifax Independence Day (North Carolina)
" St. Julius I's Day
" National Licorice Day
" St. Zeno's Day (patron of anglers)

" 4th Crusade sacked Constantinople (1204)
" Union Jack became official English flag (1606)
" The Tattler 1st published (1709)
" 1st permanent settlement in Pacific Northwest founded at Ft. Astoria as colonists arrived at Cape Disappointment, Washington. (1811)
" Zulus crushed by British Settlers at Battle of Tugela (1838)
" 1st Truancy Law enacted (1853)
" Ft. Sumter bombarded, kicking off the American Civil War (1861)
" George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion premiered (1914)
" Salk Vaccine announced (1955)
" 1st Manned Orbit in space (Yuri Gagarin; 1961)
" Abortion legalized in the US (1967)
" 1st Space Shuttle launched (1981)
" The Snake River in southeastern Washington state was named as the nation's most endangered river because of 4 Pacific Northwest dams that have brought salmon runs to the brink of extinction. (1999)
" Swiss Army established
" Rubber Galashes 1st worn
" 1st Billiard Match played
" Baseball Catcher's Mask 1st worn
" Houston Astrodome opened
" Fire-Proof Safe patented
" Battle of San Jacinto
" Portable Typewrite patented

1743 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of the United States (Goochland/Albemarle County, VA; died 1826)
1866 Butch Cassidy, Western outlaw (Beaver, UT; died 1909?)
1899 Alfred Butts, inventor of Scrabble (Poughkeepsie, NY; died 1993)
1906 Samuel Beckett, author/critic/playwright (Foxrock, County Dublin, Ireland; died 1989)
1909 Eudora Welty, novelist/short-story writer (Jackson, MS)
1917 Howard Keel, actor/singer (Gillespie, IL)
1937 Edward Fox, actor (London, England)
Lanford Wilson, writer (Lebanon, MO)
1939 Paul Sorvino, actor (Brooklyn, NY)
1946 Al Green, singer (Forrest City, AR)
1950 Ron Perlman, actor (New York, NY)
1951 Peabo Bryson, singer (Greenville, SC)
1957 Saundra Santiago, actress (Bronx, NY)
Gary Kasparov
Erich Von Daniken
Paul Sorvino
F.W. Woolworth
Catherine de'Medici
James Ensor
Van Cliburn
Madalyn O'Hair
Al Green
Harold Stassen
Frederick North
Lyle Waggoner
Max Weinberg
Bret Saberhagen
Ricky Schroder

" Songkran Festival (Water; Singapore)
" Libertas (Old Roman Goddess of Liberty)
" Huguenot Day (France)
" Feast of Rotten Endings
" Chad National Day
" Fisherman's Festival
" St. Martin I's Day
" Mule Day (Tennessee)
" Songkran Day (Thailand)
" International Special Librarians Day
" St. Ursus of Aosta's Day (patron against faintness, kidney disease)
" Runic half-month of Ehwaz ends
" Squashing of Moonhopper Day (Fairy)
" National Peach Cobbler Day

" Edict of Nantes issued (1598)
" Handel's Messiah premiered (1742)
" Pony Express delivered its first letters (1860)
" Steam Power Brake patented (1869)
" Anti-Semitic League founded in Prussia (1882)
" Jefferson Memorial dedicated (1943)
" Rachel Carson's Silent Spring published (1962)
" Sidney Poitier became 1st black to win Best Actor Oscar (1964)
" Apollo 13 disabled by explosion in space (1970)
" 1st Baseball strike ended (1972)
" Longest Basketball Game began (102 hours; 1983)
" USSR admitted to Katyn Massacre of 15,000 Polish Army Officers (1990)
" Chicago flooded (1992)
" Elephants 1st exhibited in US
" 1st Military College opened

1866 Anne Mansfield Sullivan, teacher of Helen Keller (Feeding Hills, MA; died 1936)
1889 Arnold Toynbee, historian (London, England; died 1975)
1904 Sir John Gielgud, actor/director (London, England; died 2000)
1925 Rod Steiger, actor (West Hampton, NY)
1930 Bradford Dillman, actor (San Francisco, CA)
1935 Loretta Lynn, country singer (Butcher Hollow, KY)
1940 Julie Christie, actress (Assam, India)
1941 Pete Rose, baseball player/manager (Cincinnati, OH)
1963 Cynthia Cooper, basketball player (Chicago, IL)
1966 Greg Maddux, baseball pitcher (San Angelo, TX)
1968 Anthony Michael Hall, actor (Boston, MA)
1977 Sarah Michelle Gellar, actress (New York, NY)
Steve Martin
Frank Serpico
Erich Von Daniken
Christian Huygens
Junius Spencer Morgan
David Justice
Ritchie Blackmore
Antonio Coffman
Duck of Portland
Francis "Papa Doc" Duvalier
Philip II

" Baisakihi or Solar New Year (Hindu, Jains, Sikhs, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh
and India) Especially important to the Sikhs, it marks this day in 1699 when the 10th Guru, Guru Gobind Singh, established the order of "Khalsa". The festival is a mixture of entertainment and serious worship.***
" Songkran - Buddhist New Year (SE Asia) In Thailand, Songkran is a 3 day religious festival. Homes are ritually cleaned and water is sprinkled on monks who visit, statues of Buddha and each other.***
" Bown Pinai - New Years - Laos ***
" Dreams of Reason Feast Day
" Sommarsblot (Norse)
" Pan American Day
" Meme Appreciation Day
" Runic half-month of Man (human being) begins
" St. Tiburtius' Day
" Celtic tree month of Fearn ends
" Feast of St. Justin
" Quadlings of Oz Convention
" St. Lydwina's Day (patron of skaters)
" Elfin Choir Congress (Fairy)
" National Pecan Day
" St. Peter Gonzalez's Day (patron of sailors)

" Battle of Barnet (War of the Roses; 1471)
" Fort Sumter captured by Confederate forces (1860)
" Abraham Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Booth (1865)
" Kinetoscope 1st demonstrated by Edison (1894)
" Typhus Vaccine discovered (1903)
" 1st US President opened baseball season (Taft; 1910)
" Titanic struck an iceberg (1912)
" 1st US Pilot became an ACE (WW1; 1918)
" UK Highway Codes established (1931)
" Videotape 1st demonstrated (1956)
" LSD production halted (1966)
" Cordless Telephone introduced (1983)
" US Bombed Libya (1988)
" 1st Abolition Society established
" Ripley's Believe It Or Not 1st published
" 1st Rock Music Video released on videocassette
" American Medical Corps established

1452 Leonardo da Vinci, artist/sculptor/inventor (Vinci, Italy; died 1519)
1741 Charles Wilson Peale, portrait painter (Queen Anne County, MD; died 1827)
1843 Henry James, novelist/short-story writer/critic (New York, NY; died 1916)
1858 Emile Durkheim, sociologist (France; died 1917)
1889 Thomas Hart Benton, painter (Neosho, MO; died 1975)
1894 Bessie Smith, blues singer (Chattanooga, TN; died 1937)
1922 Harold Washington, first black mayor of Chicago (Chicago, IL; died 1987)
1924 Neville Marriner, conductor/musician (London, England)
1933 Roy Clark, singer/musician (Meherrin, VA)
1939 Claudia Cardinale, actress (Tunis, Tunisia)
1947 Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, TV writer/producer, Clinton friend (Poplar Bluff, AR)
1951 Heloise (Cruse Evans), household hints columnist (Waco, TX)
1956 Michael Cooper, basketball player (Los Angeles, CA)
1957 Evelyn Ashford, Olympic champion sprinter (Shreveport, LA)
1959 Emma Thompson, actress (London, England)

" Mahavira Jananti (Jain) This day celebrates the birthday of Lord Mahavira who was the 24th leader of the Jain religion and born around 599 BC.
" Remembrance Day
" Tellus Mater (Old Roman Mother Earth Festival)
" Good Roads Day (Illinois)
" National Griper's Day
" Celtic tree month of Saille (Willow) begins
" Fordicidia (Old Roman Cow Sacrifice)
" Malta Award Day
" Tax Resistor's Day
" African Freedom Day
" Rubber Eraser Day
" Feast of the Ransom (Leek Festival; WV)
" Indian Day (Bridgeport, Alabama)
" Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo (Monaco)
" St. Aristarchus' Day
" Bija Mangala (Field Cultivation Festival)
" St. Pudus' Day (Eastern)
" National Glazed Ham Day
" St. Trophimus of Ephesus' Day
" US Income Tax due
" St. Hunna's Day (patron of laundresses)

" Catholic Mass banned (Zurich; 1515)
" Samuel Johnson's Dictionary published (1753)
" Fivers (5 pound notes) 1st issued (UK; 1793)
" Mutiny at Spithead (1797)
" Abraham Lincoln died (1865)
" Titanic Sank (1912)
" Looted Nazi art treasures found in Austrian mine shaft (1945)
" Belsen Concentration Camp liberated by British (WW2; 1945)
" Jackie Robinson became the 1st black man to play baseball in the major league (1947)
" 1st Credit Card issued (1952)
" Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel opened
HMS Britannia launched (1953)
" McDonald's Restaurant 1st opened (San Bernadino, CA; 1955)
" Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee formed (SNCC; 1960)
" 200,000 marched against Vietnam War (NYC; 1967)
" Khmer Rouge seized Phnom Penh (1975)
" Insulin discovered
" 1st Wool Mill opened

1866 Jose de Diego, Puerto Rican patriot/political leader (Aguadilla, Puerto Rico; died 1918)
1867 Wilbur Wright, pioneer aviator (Millville, IN; died 1912)
1871 John M. Synge, playwright/poet (near Dublin, Ireland; died 1909)
1889 Charlie Chaplin, actor/filmmaker (London, England; died 1977)
1919 Merce Cunningham, dancer/choreographer (Centralia, WA)
1921 Peter Ustinov, actor (London, England)
1922 Kingsley Amis, author (London, England; died 1995)
1924 Henry Mancini, composer (Cleveland, OH; died 1994)
1929 Edie Adams, singer/actress (Kingston, PA)
1930 Herbie Mann, jazz musician (New York, NY)
1935 Bobby Vinton, singer (Canonsburg, PA)
1947 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball player (New York, NY)
1955 Ellen Barkin, actress (New York, NY)
1964 Lela Rochon, actress (Los Angeles, CA)
1965 Jon Cryer, actor (New York, NY)
Martin Lawrence, actor/comedian (Frankfurt, Germany)
1976 Lukas Haas, actor (West Hollywood, CA)
Aristotle
Ford Madox Brown
Anatole France
Hsu Chi
Patrick Stirrat
Giovanni Batista Tiepolo
A.B. Dick
Dusty Springfield
Spike Milligan
Arran Reynolds (invented ATM)
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark

" Royalty Day
" National Stress Awareness Day
" St. Bernadette's Day (Shrine of Lourdes; patron of sherpherds)
" Carhegie Foundation Day
" St. Padarn's Day (Celtic Weeding Day)
" De Diego Day (Puerto Rico)
" New Year's Day (Burma)
" St. Benedict Labre's Day (patron of beggars, homeless, pilgrims)
" National Eggs Benedict Day
" Day of Mushroom Encouragement (Fairy)
" St. Magnus of Orkney (patron of fismongers, Norway)
" Liberating the Rainbow Lost in White Light Festival
" St. Drogo's Day (patron of coffeehouse owners; protector against hernias, gravel in the urine)
" Sechselauten (Swiss) It means "six o'clock chimes", and when the church bells chime six times, an effigy of winter is burnt and spring is welcomed. Marchers visit homes and sprinkle water as a blessing.

" Brewer Henry Weinhard 1st arrived in Oregon (1856)
" Slavery Abolished in Washington, DC (1862)
" Book of the Month Club established (1926)
" Walter Cronkite became anchor of CBS Evening News (1962)
" CIA Agent Aldrich Ames began selling secrets to USSR (1985)
" 1st Test Tube baby born (Cleveland, Ohio; 1986)
" British Royal Society founded
" Panda Bears 1st shown in US
" 1st Mass Production Factory opened
" Self Lighting Cigars patented

1837 John Pierpont Morgan, financier/philanthropist (Hartford, CT; died 1913)
1894 Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet leader (USSR; died 1971)
1897 Thornton Wilder, playwright/novelist (Madison, WI; died 1975)
1918 William Holden, actor (O'Fallon, IL; died 1981)
1923 Harry Reasoner, TV anchor/journalist (Dakota City, IA; died 1991)
1928 Cynthia Ozick, writer (New York, NY)
1934 Don Kirshner, music producer/promoter (Bronx, NY)
1951 Olivia Hussey, actress (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
1958 Sean Bean, actor (Sheffield, Yorkshire, England)
1961 Norman "Boomer" Esiason, football player (West Islip, NY)
Isak Dinesen
John Ford
Giambattista Riccioli
Arhtur Schnabel
J.P. Morgan
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Joseph Foss

" Feast of Random Walks
" American Academy of Arts and Letters Charter Day
" Children's Protection Day (Japan)
" Syrian Arab Republic Independence Day
" Flag Day (American Samoa)
" National Cheeseball Day
" St. Stephen Harding's Day
" Verrazano Day
" Eidul Adha (Feast of Sacrifice)
" St. Agapetus' Day (Eastern)
" Nimble Fairies' Scattering (Fairy)
" Goddess Month of Columbina ends
" St. Rudolph of Berne

" Martin Luther's trial at Worms (1521)
" Verrazano discovered New York Harbor (1524)
" Dort Dike breaks, killing 100,000 (Holland; 1421)
" Columbus granted a commission in the Spanish Navy
" Virginia seceded from the Union (1861)
" Lowell Observatory opened (1894)
" 1st Civilian Conservation Corps established (1933)
" Doolittle raided Tokyo (WW 2)
" Beatles played their 1st gig in Hamburg, Germany (1960)
" Bay of Pigs debacle between the US and Cuba (1961)
" Apollo 13 safely returned to earth (1970)
" Rhodesia became Zimbabwe (1980)
" Polish Solidarity legalized (1982)
" In Spokane, Wa., Robert L. Yates Jr., a National Guardsman and the father of 5, was arrested for the murder of a 16-year-old prostitute and suspected in the murder of as many as 17 other slayings in Washington state. On Oct 16 Yates agreed to plead guilty to 13 murders to avoid the death penalty. He was sentenced to 408 years in prison. (2000)
" Horses 1st arrived in US
" Pineapple Cheese patented

1857 Clarence Darrow, attorney (Kinsman, OH; died 1938)
1882 Leopold Stokowski, conductor (London, England; died 1977)
1922 Barbara Hale, actress (DeKalb, IL)
1924 Henry J. Hyde, U.S. representative (Chicago, IL)
1937 Robert Hooks, actor/director/producer (Washington, DC)
1946 Jim "Catfish" Hunter, baseball pitcher (Hertford, NC; died 1999)
Hayley Mills, actress (London, England)
1947 Dorothy Lyman, actress (Minneapolis, MN)
James Woods, actor (Vernal, NJ)
1953 Rick Moranis, actor (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
1956 John James, actor (Minneapolis, MN)
Eric Roberts, actor (Biloxi, MS)
1959 Susan Faludi, feminist writer (New York, NY)
1962 Jane Leeves, actress (London, England)
1963 Conan O'Brien, TV personality (Brookline, MA)
1976 Melissa Joan Hart, actress (Smithtown, NY)
Mohammed
Franz Von Suppe
Ernie Pyle, journalist
Barbara Hale

" International Juggler's Day
" Goddess Month of Maia begins
" Look-Alike Day
" St. Aya's Day (patron against lawsuits)
" Third World Day
" National CPA's Goof Off Day
" Pet Owners Independence Day
" National Youth Service Day
" Independence Day - Zimbabwe
" Third World Day
" Constitution Day (Canada)
" St. Mme Acarie's Day
" National Animal Crackers Day

" American Revolutionary War began (1775)
" Paul Revere made his "midnight ride"(1775)
" Dorr's Rebellion (Rhode Island; 1842)
" Surrender at Durham Station, NC (Civil War; 1865)
" San Francisco earthquake (1906)
" San Francisco earthquake began (1906)
" 1st Game played in Yankee Stadium (1923)
" 1st Laudromat opened (Ft. Worth, TX; 1934)
" Republic of Ireland Act operational (1949)
" President Neguib of Egypt resigned (1954)
" Grace Kelly married Monaco's Prince Rainier (1956)
" Ezra Pound released from Asylum (1958)
" London Bridge bought for 1 million dollars by US tycoon, who confused it with Tower Bridge (1968)
" Crossword Puzzle Book 1st published
" Public Baths 1st opened in NYC
" Baseball Umpires 1st wear hats

1912 Glenn T. Seaborg, chemist and discoverer of plutonium (Ishpeming, MI; died 1999)
1925 Hugh O'Brien, actor (Rochester, NY)
1926 Don Adams, actor (New York, NY)
1935 Dudley Moore, actor (London, England)
1937 Elinor Donahue, actress (Tacoma, WA)
1942 Alan Price, singer/songwriter (Fairfield, England)
1946 Tim Curry, actor (Cheshire, England)
1962 Al Unser Jr., auto racer (Albuquerque, NM)
1968 Ashley Judd, actress (Los Angeles, CA)
1979 Kate Hudson, actress (Los Angeles, CA)
Fernando Botero
Roger Sherman
Benjamin Disraeli
Jayne Mansfield
Gertrude Whitney
Elliot Ness
Murray Perahia
Richard Hughes
Alan Price
Hugh O'Brian
James Mollison
Don Adams
Mark Volman
Frank John Viola Jr.
Thomas Hopkinson
"Kenneth" Everette Battelle

" Garlic Day
" Day of the Indian (Venezuela)
" St. James Duckett's Day (patron of booksellers, publishers)
" Parker Day
" Festival of Fabulous Wildmen
" Sierra Leone Republic Day
" Patriot's Day
" St. Alphege's Day
" National Amaretto Day
" St. Expidutus' Day (patron of emergenices; against procrastination)
" Primrose Day
" Bandages and Lozenge-Sucking Competition (Fairy)
" Snakes Return to Ireland Day
" Aries zodiac sign ends
" St. Leo IX's Day
" Discovery Day - Puerto Rico

" Battle of Lexington & Concord (1775)
" Paul Revere & William Dawes intercepted by the British, but Samuel Prescott manages to warn the patriots that the British were coming (1775)
" Oldest continuously peaceful alliance made by US (with Netherlands; 1782)
" 1st Bloodshed in American Civil War (1861)
" 1st Plutonium Bomb tested (1948)
" Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier III of Monaco (1956)
" Dalai Lama fled Tibet (1959)
" US Embassy in Beirut destroyed by car bomb (1983)
" "The Simpsons" cartoon created by Portlander Matt Groening, debuted on the Tracy Ullman Show. Groening named the central characters after members of his family, and several supporting characters after streets in Portland. (1987)
" USS Iowa exploded (1989)
" Oklahoma City federal building bombed (1995)
" FBI raided Branch Davidian Complex in Waco, Texas (1995)
" Layne Staley (34), lead singer for Alice in Chains, was found dead in Seattle with obvious signs of drug use. (2002)
" Gluck's Iphiginie En Audlibe premiered
" Successful treatment of syphillis 1st announced

1889 Adolf Hitler, Nazi dictator who launched World War II and the Holocaust (Braunau am Inn, Austria; died 1945)
1893 Joan Miró, painter (Spain; died 1983)
1908 Lionel Hampton, bandleader/musician (Louisville, KY)
1920 John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court justice (Chicago, IL)
1923 Tito Puente, musician (New York, NY; died 2000)
1924 Nina Foch, actress (Leyden, Netherlands)
1939 George Takei, actor (Sulu, Star Trek) (Los Angeles, CA)
1941 Ryan O'Neal, actor (Los Angeles, CA)
1949 Jessica Lange, actress (Cloquet, MN)
1951 Luther Vandross, singer/songwriter (New York, NY)
1973 Carmen Electra, actress (Cincinnati, OH)
1976 Joey Lawrence, actor (Montgomery, PA)
Marcus Aurelius
Bram Stoker
Johannes Agricola
Harold Lloyd
Jamie Gillis
Daniel Chester French
Odilon Redon
Dave Bancroft
Peter Frampton
Craig Frost
Ernie Stautner
W.H. Davies
Holland "Howling Mad" Smith
"Buttermilk Tommy" Dowd
Louis-Napoleon Napoleon III

" Astronomy Day
" Cucko Day
" Secretary Day
" Festival of Fabulous Wildwomen
" Taurus zodiac sign begins
" Rice Planting Day (Thailand)
" Maple Sugar Festival
" Radium Day
" St. Peter Martyr's Day (patron of inquisitors)
" National Pineapple Upside-Down Cake Day
" Anniversary of Something That Happened So Long Ago Everyone Has Forgotten What It Was (Fairy)

" Christopher Columbus reported on his 1st voyage to the Spanish Court (1493)
" Virginia Company chartered by King James (1606)
" 1st State Board of Education established (Massachusetts; 1837)
" 1st Automobile Race held (Paris; 1887)
" Worst recorded Hailstorm killed 246 in India (1888)
" Cook reached the North Pole (1908)
" 1st Interracial rock concert held (Brooklyn Paladium; 1955)
" Barbara Walters became 1st female network news anchor (1976)
" Gene Roddenberry and Timothy Leary's ashes, along with 22 others, sent into space (1997)
" Easter Rising; Irish 1st rebelled against English rule
" Electron Microscope invented

571 CE Mohammed
1782 Friedrich Froebel, educator who invented kindergarten (Oberweissbach, Germany; died 1852)
1816 Charlotte Bronte, novelist (Hartshead, Yorkshire, England; died 1855)
1828 Hippolyte Taine, French philosopher, historian (Voyage in Italy)
1838 John Muir, naturalist/explorer/conservationist (Dunbar, Scotland; died 1914)
1864 Max Weber, sociologist (Germany; died 1920)
1915 Anthony Quinn, actor (Chihuahua, Mexico; died 2001)
1926 Queen Elizabeth II, queen of the United Kingdom (London, England)
1930 Sylvia Mangano, actress (Rome, Italy; died 1989)
1932 Elaine May, actress/writer/director (Philadelphia, PA)
1935 Charles Grodin, actor/TV personality (Pittsburgh, PA)
1947 Iggy Pop, singer (Ann Arbor, MI)
1949 Patti LuPone, actress/singer (Northport, NY)
1951 Tony Danza, actor (New York, NY)
1958 Andie MacDowell, actress/model (Gaffney, SC)
1961 Don Mattingly, baseball player (Evansville, IN)
1971 Shannen Doherty, actress (Memphis, TN)
Groucho Marx
Alfred Maurer
Norman Parkinson
Jan van Riebeeck
Vincenzo Arrichiello Fabrizio

" Festival of Sacred Groves
" Birthday of Rome
" Kindergarten Day
" Parilia (Old Roman Shepherd's Festival)
" Blessing of the Animals
" Kartini Day (Indonesia)
" Tiradentes Day (Brazil) St. Anselm's Day
" Brasilia Day (Brazil)
" San Jacinto Day
" Feast of Ridvan begins (Baha'i) Ridvan means "paradise" and the 12-day festival is the holiest time for the Baha'is. It celebrates the Great Teacher Bah'u'llahs announcement that he was the prophet whose coming had been foretold. The Baha'is do not work on the 1st, 9th, and 12th day during the festival.
" St. Bueno's Day (patron against cattle diseases)
" Birthday of Ch'un T'i (Queen of Heaven; China)
" National Chocolate-Covered Cashews Day
" Alfred G. Packer Day (Colorado)
" St. Anastasius' Day (Eastern)
" Homecoming of Elves (Singing; Fairy)
Muster (Texas A&M)
" St. Januarius' Day (Eastern)
" World Cow Chip Throwing Tournament

" Rome founded (753 BCE)
" Henry VIII crowned King of England (1509)
" Toleration Act passed (Maryland; 1649)
" Webster's Dictionary published (1828)
" Battle of San Jacinto (1836)
" 1st Bridge across the Mississippi River opened (1856)
" Red Baron shot down (1918)
" Brasilia dedicated as capitol of Brazil (1960)
" Seattle's Space Needle opened (1962)
" 3 small strips removed Shroud of Turin for radiocarbon dating (1988)
" Over 10,000 congregate in Tienanmen Square (China; 1989)
" A federal court blocked Oregon's 1994 approved law on doctor assisted suicide. The block was rejected by the Supreme Court in October. (1997)
" Largest Shark caught (2,664 lbs.)
" Natural Gas discovered
" Prokofiev's Classical Symphony premiered
" Railroad 1st crossed the Mississippi River
" 1st Artifical Heart built
" BBC-2 1st aired

1707 Henry Fielding, novelist (Sharpham Park, Somerset, England; died 1754)
1724 Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (Konigsberg, Germany; died 1804) Kant held that space is just a "form of sensibility" that our minds impose on experience to give it structure. His works included the essay "Perpetual Peace" and "Critique of Pure Reason."
1899 Vladimir Nabokov, novelist (Russia; died 1977)
1908 Eddie Albert, actor (Rock Island, IL)
1916 Sir Yehudi Menuhin, violinist/conductor (New York, NY; died 1999)
1926 Charlotte Rae, actress (Milwaukee, WI)
1928 Aaron Spelling, TV writer/producer (Dallas, TX)
1936 Glen Campbell, singer (Billstown, AR)
1939 Jason Miller, playwright/actor (Scranton, PA)
1946 John Waters, filmmaker (Baltimore, MD)
1950 Peter Frampton, singer (Kent, England)
1961 Byron Allen, comedian/actor (Detroit, MI)
1964 Chris Makepeace, actor (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
1976 Reese Witherspoon, actress (Nashville, TN)
Jack Nicholson
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Henry Fielding
Charles Mingus
Paul Carrack
Richard Diebenkorn
Giuseppe Torelli
J. Sterling Morton

" Earth Day http://www.earthday.net
" Festival of Fabulous Androgynes
" Sniff-the-Breeze Day (Egypt)
" Arbor Day (Nebraska)
" Oklahoma Day
" Girl Scout Leader's Day
" National Jelly Bean Day
" St. Alexander's Day (Coptic)
" St. Theodore of Sykeon's Day (patron for/against rain)

" Brazil discovered (1500)
" 1st Steamer crossed Atlantic Ocean (1838)
" "In God We Trust" 1st printed on US coins (1864)
" Baseball's National League formed (1876)
Pennsylvania abolished capital punishment except for murder (1894)
" Rough Riders organized (1898)
" Oklahoma Land Rush began (1889)
" Babe Ruth pitched his 1st pro baseball game (1914)
" Poison Gas 1st used in warfare (by Germany; 1915)
" New York World's Fair opened (1964)
" Ginsburg v. US ruled variable obscenity standard leading to "Adults Only" signs (1965)
" 1st Earth Day observed (1970)
" 1st Row Boat completed Pacific Ocean jorney (1972)
" AIDS identified and announced by American Dr. Robert Gallo even though it had been discovered earlier in France (1984)
" Peace Symbol created
" 1st Global Cycling Tour began

1564 William Shakespeare, playwright/poet (Stratford-on-Avon, England; died 1616)
1775 Joseph M. W. Turner, painter (London, England; died 1851)
1791 James Buchanan, 15th president of the United States (near Mercersburg, PA; died 1868)
1858 Max Planck, physicist (Kiel, Germany; died 1947)
1891 Serge Prokofiev, composer (Russia; died 1953)
1897 Lester Pearson, Canadian prime minister/diplomat (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; died 1972)
1899 Dame Ngaio Marsh, mystery writer (New Zealand; died 1982)
1921 Warren Spahn, baseball pitcher (Buffalo, NY)
1928 Shirley Temple Black, child actress and diplomat (Santa Monica, CA)
1939 David Birney, actor (Washington, DC)
1940 Lee Majors, actor (Wyandotte, MI)
1942 Sandra Dee, actress (Bayonne, NJ)
1949 Joyce DeWitt, actress (Wheeling, WV)
1955 Judy Davis, actress (Perth, Australia)
1957 Jan Hooks, actress/comedian (Decatur, GA)
1960 Valerie Bertinelli, actress (Wilmington, DE)
Vladimir Nabakov
Shirley Temple
J.P. Donleavy
Roy Orbison, singer
Judy Davis
Granville T. Woods
Ngaio Marsh
Boris Goudnov
Halston, fashion designer
Phil Esposito
Herve Villechaize, actor

" St. George's Day (patron of England, Boy Scouts, cavalry, equestrians, farmers, horses, Portugal; against leprosy, syphilis) (Greeks & Coptic Egyptians) He is their patron saint.The Bulgarians and Macedonians celebrate it on May 6th. The red cross on St. George's armor and white tunic is now the symbol of the international Red
Cross and forms part of the Union Jack of UK and Northern Ireland.
" Picnic Day
" Book Day & Lover's Day (Spain)
" Festival of Jupiter and Venus (Old Roman)
" Blue Day
" World Laboratory Animals Day
" Emaishen (Luxembourg)
" Chance Day (Fairy)
" Green George (Corinthia)
" Ewe's Day (Bulgaria)
" Sigurd the Dragonslayer's Day (aka Siegfried; Northern Europe)
" Children's Day (Turkey)
" Industry Day
" Fast Day (New Hampshire)
" Georgemas
" St. Adalbert's Day (patron of Prussia)
" National Cherry Cheesecake Day
" Peppercorn Ceremony (Bermuda)
" National Sovereignty Day (Turkey)
" Administrative Professionals Day (USA, Canada) On this day, workplaces all over the two countries acknowledge secretaries, administrative staff and other support personnel for their contributions.
" World Book & Copyright Day - UN

" Order of the Garter established (1348)
Charles II crowned King of England (1661)
" Congress adopted Jefferson's proposal to extend US west of Appalachians (1784)
" 1st Public Movie shown (1896)
" Moscow Underground railway system opened (1935)
" 1st Decimal coins appeared in UK (1968)
" Conch Republic seceded from Florida (1982)
" Formula for Coke changed, New Coke introduced, proving to be a huge marketing disaster for the Coca-cola company. (1985)
" US Hostage Robert Polhill freed by Libya after 39 months (1990)
" COBE satellite findings showed structure in background radiation, supporting Big Bang Theory (1992)
" Commercial Railroad Service began in US

1743 Edmund Cartwright, cleric and inventor (Nottinghamshire, England; died 1823)
1766 Robert Bailey Thomas, founder and editor of The Farmer's Almanac (Grafton, MA; died 1846)
1815 Anthony Trollope, novelist (London, England; died 1882)
1905 Robert Penn Warren, poet/novelist/essayist (Guthrie, KY; died 1989)
1934 Shirley MacLaine, actress/dancer and writer (Richmond, VA)
1940 Sue Grafton, mystery writer (Louisville, KY)
1941 Richard Holbrooke, U.S. representative to the UN (New York, NY)
1942 Richard M. Daley, Chicago mayor (Chicago, IL)
Barbra Streisand, singer/actress/director (Brooklyn, NY)
1953 Eric Bogosian, actor/playwright (Boston, MA)
1954 Vince Ferragamo, football player (Torrance, CA)
1955 Michael O'Keefe, actor (Larchmont, NY)
1972 Chipper Jones, baseball player (DeLand, FL)

" National Rembrance of Man's Inhumanity To Man Day
" Professional Secretary's Day
" Birthday of the Sun (China)
" Rattlesnake Day (Magnum, Oklahoma)
" Native Son Day (Alton, Illinois)
" Feast of the 3 Holy Maries
" Armenian Martyr's Day
" Hostage Heroes Day
" Children's Day (Iceland)
" St. Egbert's Day
" National Pigs-in-a-Blanket Day
" Plumber's Day
" Happenstance and Coincidence Evening (Fairy)
" St. Mellitus' Day
" National PC/Typing Contest begins (@)
" St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen's Day
" Daughter/Son to Work Day - Canada/USA. Parents are encourages to bring their daughters and/or sons to work on this day and to use this opportunity to educate their children on the nature of employment.
" Martyr's Day (Armenian) This day commemorates the death of 1 1/2 million Armenians who were killed. It is a solemn day.
" Matsu Festival - Taiwan

" Trojan Horse worked; Greeks sacked Troy ending Trojan War
" Library of Congress established (1800)
" Soda Fountain patented (1833)
" New Big Ben bell cast (1858)
" 1st sailing around-the-world solo trip began (1895)
" Spain declared War on US (1898)
" 1st Cars on Prince Edward Island (1913)
" China sent up its 1st satellite (1970)
" Tehren, Iran hostage rescue attempt failed to rescue 53 hostages and 8 US soldiers died (1980)
" Pipeless Organ invented
" Haydn's Seasons premiered

1599 Oliver Cromwell, leader of the parliamentary forces in the English civil war (Britain; died 1658)
1874 Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of wireless telegraphy (Bologna, Italy; died 1937)
1906 William J. Brennan Jr., Supreme Court justice (Newark, NJ; died 1997)
1918 Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer (Newport News, VA; died 1996)
1920 Robert Q. Lewis, comedian/TV personality (New York, NY; died 1991)
1923 Melissa Hayden, ballerina (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
1930 Paul Mazursky, director/writer (Brooklyn, NY)
1932 Meadowlark Lemon, basketball player and Harlem Globetrotter (Lexington, SC)
1940 Al Pacino, actor (New York, NY)
1946 Talia Shire, actress (New York, NY)
1964 Hank Azaria, actor (Forest Hills, NY)
1969 Renee Zellweger, actress (Katy, TX)
1976 Tim Duncan, basketball player (St. Croix, Virgin Islands)
Karel Appel
Guglielmo Marconi
Stephen Beaumont
Flannery O'Connor
Wolfgang Pauli
Bjorn Ulvaeus
Edward II
Vassar Clements
Louis IX

" Anti-Nuclear Day
" Cuckoo Day
" St. Mark's Day (patron of cattle breeders, Egypt, notaries; against fly bites)
" Canadanaigua (festival of lights, ritual of harvest and thanksgiving; Native American)
" Anzac Day (Australia, New Zealand)
" Robigalia (Old Roman Wheat Festival)
" St. Louis' Day
" Portugal's Liberty Day
" Sinai Day (Egypt)
" Adonia (women's festival; Greece)
" Robigalia (Ancient Rome; God of Mildew)
" Swaziland National Flag Day
" World YMCA Day
" Running of the Rodents
" National Zucchini Bread Day
" St. Phaebadius' Day
" Anzac Day (Australia, New Zealand) commemorates the slain of their army corps in World War I.

" New World named America (1507)
" UK Parliament voted to restore monarchy (1660)
" Robinson Crusoe 1st published (1719)
" Construction of Suez Canal began (1859)
" Farragut captured New Orleans (1862)
" Battle of Gallipoli began (1915)
" Puccini's Turandot premiered, with Toscanini conducting (1926)
" DNA discovery announced (1953)
" St. Lawrence Seaway opened (1959)
" Hubble Telescope sent into orbit (1990)
" The USA State of Georgia's General Assembly votes to adopt a new state flag that does not include the Confederate battle emblem, ending, for now, a battle over symbols of history and hate that threatened to bring racial animosity back to the forefront of Georgia politics (2003)
" 1st Round the World Telephone Call made
" 1st Internal Combustion Engine
" Solar Battery invented

1711 David Hume, English empiricist, philosopher (Treatise of Human Nature),(Scotland; died 1776)
1785 John James Audubon, artist/naturalist (Haiti; died 1851)
1798 Eugène Delacroix, painter (France; died 1863)
1822 Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect/park designer (Hartford, CT; died 1903)
1880 Michel Fokine, ballet dancer/choreographer (Russia; died 1942)
1889 Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher (Tractatus). He pondered the nature of knowledge and the limits of language. He argued that the criteria for the correct use of any language must be social. "The human body is the best picture of the human soul." (Austria; died 1951)
1893 Anita Loos, author/playwright (Sisson, CA; died 1981)
1894 Rudolf Hess, Nazi leader (Alexandria, Egypt; died 1987)
1900 Charles Francis Richter, physicist/seismologist and developer of the Richter scale (near Hamilton, OH; died 1985)
1916 Morris West, novelist (Melbourne, Australia; died 1999)
1917 I. M. Pei, architect (Canton, China)
1933 Carol Burnett, actress/comedian (San Antonio, TX)
1942 Bobby Rydell, singer (Philadelphia, PA)
1961 Joan Chen, actress (Shanghai, China)
1962 Michael Damian, actor (San Diego, CA)
Daniel Defoe
Gracie Allen
Alfred Krupp

" National Pretzel Day
" Festival of Individual Sovereignty
" Read Me Day
" Fairy Laughter Convention (Fairy)
" Union Day (Tanzania)
" Richter Scale Day
" Static Cling Day
" Hug An Australian Day
" Shuffleboard Day
" International Azalea Festival
" Secretary's Tea Day
" St. Marcellinus' Day
" Remember Your First Kiss Day
" Arbor Day - USA
Communities across the United States plant trees in an ongoing effort to
conserve American forests.

" Virginia Colonists sighted land (1607)
" Emigrant Aid Society formed to encourage slavery opponents to relocate in Kansas to vote against slavery (1854)
" John Wilkes Booth shot dead (1865)
" Art Term "Impressionism" 1st used (1874)
" Guernica Massacre, Basque, Spain. (1937)
" National Party for Apartheid took power (South Africa; 1948)
" UN World Intellectual Property Organization established (1970)
" 181 Scottish Writers Manifesto against placing nuclear missiles in Scotland. (1983)
" Chernobyl nuclear disaster occured (1986)
" US Holocaust Museum opened (1993)
" First UN War Crimes Tribunal opens, The Hague, Netherlands (1995)
" Salk Polio Vaccine tested
" Hindenburg elected President of Germany
" Odd Fellows Lodge founded
" 1st Weather Forecast made on the radio

1737 Edward Gibbon, historian/author (Putney, Surrey, England; died 1794)
1759 Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, writer/feminist (London, England; died 1797)
1791 Samuel F.B. Morse, inventor of the magnetic telegraph and artist (Charlestown, MA; died 1872)
1820 Herbert Spencer, philosopher (Britain; died 1903)
1822 Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States and Civil War general (Point Pleasant, OH; died 1885)
1896 Rogers Hornsby, baseball player (Winters, TX; died 1963)
1922 Jack Klugman, actor (Philadelphia, PA)
1927 Coretta Scott King, civil rights leader and widow of Martin Luther King Jr. (Marion, AL)
1933 Casey Kasem, radio personality (Detroit, MI)
1934 Anouk Aimee, actress (Paris, France)
1937 Sandy Dennis, actress (Hastings, NE; died 1992)
1938 Earl Anthony, champion bowler (Tacoma, WA)
1945 August Wilson, playwright (Pittsburgh, PA)
1952 George Gervin, basketball player (Detroit, MI)
1959 Sheena Easton, singer (Bellshill, Scotland)
1962 Grant Show, actor (Detroit, MI)
Magellan
Walter Lantz, cartoonist
Edward Gibbon
Jack Klugman
Nicholas Slonimsky

" Sleep Day
" New Beginning Festival
" Tell A Story Day
" Take Our Daughters To Work Day
" National D.J. Day
" Furze Hopping Event (Fairy)
" Saur Revolution Day (Afghanistan)
" Togo Independence Day
" Mule Day
" St. Zita's Day (patron of housemaids, finding lost keys)
" Babe Ruth Day
" 2nd Republic Day (Austria)
" Soupstock
" National Prime Rib Day
" Sierra Leone Independence Day
" Write An Old Friend Today Day

" Magellan killed by Philippine islanders (1521)
" London Zoological Gardens opened (1828)
" Steamship Sultana exploded (2,000 died; 1865)
" Golden Gate Bridge completed (1937)
" Thor Heyerdahl made a Pacific Ocean journey on the Kon-Tiki (1947)
" Food Not Bombs established (1980)
" In Arlington, Oregon a fire at a 90-year-old building, used as a home for the elderly, killed 7 residents. (1998)
" Saur Revolution began (Afghanistan)
" Babe Ruth given a standing ovation
" Social Security Act established

1758 James Monroe, 5th president of the United States (Westmoreland County, VA; died 1831)
1871 Louise Dilworth Homer, opera singer (Sewickley, PA; died 1947)
1878 Lionel Barrymore, actor (Philadelphia, PA; died 1954)
1926 Harper Lee, author (Monroeville, AL)
1937 Saddam Hussein, Iraqi president until overthrown by US troops in 2003. (Takrit, Iraq)
Jack Nicholson, actor (Neptune, NJ)
1941 Ann-Margret, actress/dancer/singer (Stockholm, Sweden)
1948 Marcia Strassman, actress (New York, NY)
1949 Bruno Kirby, actor (New York, NY)
1950 Jay Leno, TV personality/comedian (New Rochelle, NY)
1964 Barry Larkin, baseball player (Cincinnati, OH)
1966 John Daly, golfer (Carmichael, CA)
Mary McDonnell
Edward IV
James A. Baker III

" Kiss-Your-Mate Day
" Floralia (Old Roman Goddess of Flowers)
" National Day of Mourning (Canada)
" Great Poetry Reading Day
" Costume Day
" Nabonassar New Year
" Runic half-month of Man ends
" Texas Wildflower Day
" St. Peter Chanel's Day (patron of Oceania)
" Fireman's Fun Festival
" Chicken-Tickling Day (Leprechauns; Fairy)
" Santa Fe Trail Day
" Worker's Memorial Day
" National Blueberry Pie Day
" St. Vitalis and Valeria's Day
" Jamal (Baha'i) The first day of the third Baha'i month. The English translation of Jamal (Arabic) is Beauty.

" Captain Cook landed at Botany Bay (1770)
" Maryland became the 7th state (1788)
" Crew of the HMS Bounty mutineed (1789)
" Rush-Bagot Treaty made Great Lakes neutral waters (1818)
" Jason Lee founded Methodist Mission in Oregon Territory, spending $250,000 over 11 years to convert not one person (1834)
" Guernica massacre took place (Spain; 1937)
" Dim-out in force along US Atlantic Coast (WW2; 1942)
" Mussolini executed at Lake Como (1945)
" Japan given self-government after WW2 (1953)
" German Baader-Meinhof Terrorists sentenced to life imprisonment (1977)
" 1st Woman conducted Royal Opera House (1988)
" Aloha Airlines jet survived having its roof blown off during flight. (1988)
" 1st Abortion Clinic opened
" 1st Parachute Jump
" 1st Killer Whale born in captivity

1854 Henri Poincare (d. 1912), French mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, was born. He investigated the idea of space and led to the notion that space is too complex for mathematics. Rather space is an assumption, and it can be described and controlled only so far as we assume it. In other words there is no such thing as space. Instead, there are as many spaces as there are people... for every person can assume an indefinite number of different spaces.
1863 William Randolph Hearst, newspaper editor/publisher (San Francisco, CA; died 1951)
1899 Duke Ellington, jazz musician/bandleader/composer (Washington, DC; died 1974)
1901 Emperor Hirohito, emperor of Japan during World War II (Tokyo, Japan; died 1989)
1915 Donald Mills, singer and member of the Mills Brothers (Piqua, OH; died 1999)
1919 Celeste Holm, actress (New York, NY)
1934 Luis Aparacio, baseball player (Maracaibo, Venezuela)
1936 Zubin Mehta, conductor (Bombay, India)
1952 Nora Dunn, actress/comedian (Chicago, IL)
Dale Earnhardt, auto racer (Kannapolis, NC; died 2001)
1954 Jerry Seinfeld, actor/comedian (New York, NY)
1955 Kate Mulgrew, actress (Captain Janeway, Star Trek Voyager) (Dubuque, IA)
1957 Daniel Day-Lewis, actor (London, England)
Michelle Pfeiffer, actress (Santa Ana, CA)
1958 Eve Plumb, actress (Burbank, CA)
1970 Andre Agassi, tennis champion (Las Vegas, NV)
Uma Thurman, actress (Boston, MA)
Oliver Ellsworth
Frank Auerbach
Rudolf Schwarz
Luis Aparicio
George Allen, comedian
Celeste Holm
Rod McKuen, poet
Duke of Wellington
Alexander I

" Feast of the Secret Masters
" Holocaust Day (Israel)
" Runic half-month of Lagu (flowing water) begins
" St. Catherine of Siena's Day (patron of Italy; against fire)
" St. Robert's Day
" National Shrimp Scampi Day
" St. Hugh of Cluny's Day
" St. Peter Martyr's Day
" Milk-Curdling Sunday (Gremlins; not always a Sunday)
" Midori no hi (Japan), also known as Greenery Day to appreciate nature.
" Yom ha-Shoah (Jewish) Holocaust Memorial Day commemorating the death of 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime.
" Jamai (3rd Month) Baha'i

" Peter de la Mare took office as 1st Speaker of House of Commons (1376)
" Botany Bay discovered (Australia; 1770)
" Women allowed at Oxford (1885)
" Zipper invented (1913)
" Dachau Concentration Camp liberated - WW 2; (1945)
" American Indian Movement founded (Minneapolis; 1968)
" Saigon fell to communists (1975)
" Trade Unions legalized again in Spain (1977)
" Unbelievably, 4 L.A. policeman found not guilty in Rodney King beating (1992)
" Rubber patented
" 1st Cancer Laboratory opened
" 1st Fraternity established

1870 Franz Lehar, composer (Hungary; died 1948)
1910 Al Lewis, actor (New York, NY)
1933 Willie Nelson, country singer (Abbott, TX)
1938 Gary Collins, actor/TV personality (Boston, MA)
1940 Burt Young, actor/writer (New York, NY)
1944 Jill Clayburgh, actress (New York, NY)
1945 Michael J. Smith, astronaut who died in the Challenger explosion (Beaufort, NC; died 1986)
1948 Perry King, actor (Alliance, OH)
1955 Jane Campion, director (Wellington, New Zealand)
1956 Lars Von Trier, director (Copenhagen, Denmark)
1961 Isiah Thomas, basketball player (Chicago, IL)
1982 Kirsten Dunst, actress (Point Pleasant, NJ)
Edouard Manet
Alice B. Toklas
Franz Lehar
William Lilly
Gale Sayers
Jaroslav Hasek
Karl Friedrich Gauss
Eve Arden, actress
Hosea Ballou
Jaroslav Hasek
Cloris Leachman
Julianna, former Queen of the Netherlands
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden

" National Honesty Day
" Beltane (Celtic)
" Raisin Day
" Maitag Vorabend (May Day Eve; Switzerland)
" Vappu Day (Finland)
" UHF Day
" St. James the Great's Day (Eastern)
" Fairy Queen's Birthday (Netherlands; Fairy)
" Walpurgisnacht (aka Walpurgis Night; Europe)
" Salus (Festival of the Dead; Portugal, Spain)
" Night of Demons
" St. Wolfhard's Day (patron of saddlers; against gallstones) " Feast of Valborg (Sweden)
" St. Pius V's Day
" National Oatmeal Cookie Day
" Roodmas (re: X-Files; Witch's Sabbath)
" St. Adjutor's Day (patron of swimmers, yachtsmen; against drowning)
" Gahambar Maidyozarem (Zorostrianism-Fasli) celebrates the creation of the sky.
" Koninginnedag - Netherlands. A Dutch national holiday, it's the nationwide celebration of the Dutch Queen's birthday. Flags are flown throughout the country with orange "wimpels" hanging on them to signify this royal occasion. Dutch city streets are taken over by organized games, fairs, flea markets and garage sales.

" Spain appointed Chistopher Columbus "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" (1492)
" Mohawks made peace with the French (1622)
" Washington inaugurated as 1st US President (1789)
" US purchased Louisiana & New Orleans from France (1803)
" Louisiana became the 18th state (1812)
" 1st US National Holiday declared (1889)
" Republic of Hawaii ceded itself to US (1900)
" Casey Jones' train, the Cannonball Express, derailed (1900)
" St. Louis Exposition opened (1904)
" TV 1st Public broadcast at the New York World's Fair (NBC; 1939)
" Hitler commited suicide (1945)
" Egypt reopened Suez Canal (1957)
" Willie Mays hit 4 home runs (1961)
" Bob Dylan's 1st Tour began (1965)
" Muhammed Ali stripped of Heavyweight Boxing Title for refusing to kill people in Vietnam (1967)
" Vietnam War ended (1975)
" Last Cosby Show aired (1992)
" Ellen Degeneres became the 1st network TV star to have her character come out of the closet (1997)
" Birth Control Pill patented
" Life Jacket 1st used
" Moscow founded