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Birthdates which occurred on May 23:

 1598 Claude Mellan French engraver/cartoonist/painter, baptized
1617 Elias Ashmole antiquary
1620 Pieter Neefs the Younger, Flemish painter, baptized
1644 Thomas Eisenhut composer
1696 Johann Caspar Vogler composer
1707 Carolus Linnæus Swedish botanist/"Father of Taxonomy" (naming plants & animals)
1710 François-Gaspard Adam French sculptor (garden sculptures)
1718 William Hunter obstetrician/medal writer
1729 Giuseppe Parini Italian priest/poet (Il Giorno)
1734 Friedrich Anton Mesmer Austria, physician/hypnotist (Mesmerism)
1735 Charles Joseph prince the Ligne, Belgian fieldmarshal/author
1737 Louis François Chambray composer
1741 Andrea Lucchesi composer
1753 Giovanni Battista Viotti violonist/composer
1754 Andrea Appiana Italian royal painter (Napoleon)
1756 Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel composer
1759 Antoinio da Silva Leite composer
1790 Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville explorer
1794 Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles composer
1795 Charles Barry architect
1799 Thomas Hood English poet/composer (Song of the Shirt)
1810 Margaret Fuller writer/critic 1st pro book review column (New York Tribune)
1812 Henri A Esquiros French poet/writer (Les Vierges Folles)
1813 Mason Brayman Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1820 James Buchanan Eads US, engineer/inventor (Eads Bridge-St Louis)
1824 Ambrose Everett Burnside Major General (Union volunteers)
1828 Edward Hitchcock America's 1st professor of physical ed (Amherst College)
1832 Pieter van der Aa Leyden Holland, Dutch Indologist/geographer
1837 James Sanks Brisbin Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1843 Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia composer
1844 'Abdu'l-Bahá early Bahá'í leader ('Azamat 7, 1)
1848 Helmuth J L von Moltke German general/chief of staff (WWI)
1848 Otto Lilienthal pioneer aviator
1849 Károly earl Khuen-Héderváry Premier of Hungary (1910-12)
1851 Antoni Stolpe composer
1862 William "Dummy" Hoy professoressional baseball player who lived to 99
1864 Louis Glass composer
1866 Gustav Aschaffenburg German psychiatrist/criminalologist
1871 Sigurd Lie composer
1873 Leo Baeck rabbi/president (World Union for Progressive Judaism)
1882 James Gleason New York NY, writer/actor (Bishop's Wife, Flying Fool)
1883 Douglas Fairbanks Denver CO, actor (Zorro/3 Musketeers/Robin Hood)
1886 Hermann Neiße writer
1888 Adrian Roland Holst Dutch poet (Raged & Tired)
1890 Herbert Marshall London, actor (Murder, Razor's Edge, Little Foxes)
1890 Virginia Eames Fort Davis TX, entertainer
1891 Pär Lagerkvist Sweden, novelist/poet/dramatist (Barabbas, Nobel 1951)
1898 Frank McHugh actor (Front Page, Gold Diggers 1935, Mighty Joe Young)
1898 Joseph Hazen lawyer
19-- Bill McCutcheon Russell KY, actor (Dom Deluise Show, Ball Four)
19-- Charytin Santo Domingo Dominican Republic, TV entertainer (El Show de Charytin)
19-- Lucia Galan Argentina, singer (Pimpinera)
19-- Phil Allocco rocker (Law & Order-Whiskey Song)
1901 Edmund Rubbra Northampton England, composer (Morning Watch)
1902 Mark Lothar composer
1903 Walter Reisch US, screenwriter (Ninotchka, Gaslight, Titanic)
1906 Hellmuth Christian Wolff composer
1907 Kenneth Allen engineer
1907 Matthew Campbell British senior civil servant
1908 Christian GK Baëta Togolese chairman (International Mission Council)
1908 John Bardeen US, physicist (transistor, Nobel 1956, 1972)
1908 Max Abramovitz US architect (Lincoln Center, UN Building)
1909 Edwin Arrowsmith diplomat
1910 Artie Shaw [Arthur Jacob Arshawsky] New York NY, bandleader (Come'on my House)
1910 Franz Jozef Kline US expressionist painter
1910 Hugh Casson architect
1910 Scatman Crothers [Benjamin], Terre Haute IN, actor (Zapped, Shining)
1911 Boris Kremenliev composer
1911 Melvin M Payne president (National Geographic Society)
1912 David Barran CEO (Midland Bank, England)
1912 Jean Françaix Le Mans France, composer (Le Rui Nu)
1912 John Payne Roanoke VA, actor (Restless Gun)
1912 Marius Goring Isle of Wight, actor (Herr Palitz-Holocaust)
1912 Samuel Curran vice chancellor (Strathclyde University)
1913 Ian Graeme Major-General
1914 Alec Dickson founder (VSO)
1914 Barbara Ward economist/writer (Only One Earth)
1914 Leo Lerman actor/manager/critic (Dance Magazine)
1914 Travis Kemp dancer/teacher
1915 Clyde Wiegand physicist
1916 Margaret Hayden Rector playwright (living legacy award 1995)
1918 Bulent Arel composer
1918 Bumps Blackwell rocker
1918 Denis Compton cricketer (England batsman 1938-56 & Arsenal forward)
1919 Betty Garrett St Joseph MO, actress (Irene-All in the Family)
1919 Robert Antonissen South African literary
1920 Helen O'Connell Lima OH, singer (Green Eyes, Amapola)
1920 Sid Melton Brooklyn NY, actor (Alf-Green Acres, Charlie-Danny Thomas)
1921 Humphrey Lyttelton jazz musician/actor (It's Great to Be Young)
1921 James [Benjamin] Blish US/UK, sci-fi author (Hugo, Star Trek Reader)
1921 Loren Tindall Oklahoma, actor (Meet Me on Broadway, Girl of Limberlost)
1921 Montague Modlyn broadcaster
1921 Sanderson Temple circuit judge
1922 Dennis Compton author/crickleter
1923 Alicia de Larrocha Copenhagen Denmark, pianist (Orquesta Sinfonica)
1923 Nirode Chowdhury Indian cricket pace bowler (1949-52)
1924 Desmond Carrington British radio host (Jim-Calamity the Cow)
1924 Michael McCrum master (Corpus Christi College Cambridge)
1924 V N Swamy cricketer (one Test India vs New Zealand 1955, DNB, 0-45)
1928 Nigel Davenport Cambridge England, actor (Without a Clue, Masada)
1928 Nina Otkalenko USSR, 800 meter runner (9 world records)
1928 Rosemary Clooney Maysville KY, singer/Coronet paper towels spokeswoman
1929 Joe Modise South African commandant of Umkhonto we Sizwe (1965- )
1929 Ulla Jacobson Swedish actress (One Summer of Happiness)
1930 Richard Anuszkiewicz Erie PA, painter
1931 Barbara Barrie Chicago IL, actress (Breaking Away, Barney Miller)
1931 José Telles Da Conceiçao Brazil, high jumper (Olympics-bronze-1952)
1932 James Lester MP
1932 John Lyons Cambridge England, Master (Trinity Hall)
1932 Mary Fickett Bronxville NY, actress (Ruth Martin-All My Children)
1933 Bruce A Peterson US test pilot (M2, HL-10)
1933 Gerrit J M Braks Dutch minister of agriculture & land & fishing (CDA)
1933 Joan [Henrietta] Collins London England, actress (Alexis Carrington Colby-Dynasty)
1934 Malcolm Gill deputy head (Bank for International Settlements)
1934 Robert Moog inventor (the Moog Synthesizer)
1935 Juliet Campbell British ambassador (to Luxembourg)
1935 Lord Grenfell head of External affairs European office, world bank
1936 Charles Kimbrough actor (Murphy Brown)
1936 Douglas John Gorman businessman
1936 Robert Sangster horse owner/trainer
1937 John Mazza horse trainer
1938 John R Miller (Representative-R-WA, 1985- )
1938 Peter Preston editor (Guardian)
1939 Ron Stevens horse trainer
1941 Jackson Hill composer
1943 General George Norman Johnson US singer (Down at the Beach Club)
1943 John "Poli" Palmer rocker (Family)
1943 John Newcombe Australia, tennis pro (Wimbledon 1967, 70, 71)
1943 Lars-Ake Nilsson diplomat
1943 Peter Kenilorea PM Solomon Islands
1944 Giles Smith TV journalist
1944 Olga Maitland MP
1944 Ramon "Tiki" Fulwood US drummer (Funkadelic, Knee Deep)
1945 Elliott Bernerd English broker/multi-millionaire
1945 Lauren Chapin actress (Kathy-Father Knows Best)
1945 Misty Morgan country keyboardist (duo with Jack Blanchard)
1946 Tom Dorris horse trainer
1947 Ann Hui director (Boat People)
1947 Jonathan Pryce North Wales, stage actor (Miss Saigon)
1948 Reggie Cleveland baseball player
1949 Alan García Pérez President of Peru (1985-90)
1950 Linda Thompson Memphis TN, actress (Hee Haw)
1951 Anatoliy Karpov USSR, world chess champion (1975-85)
1951 Judy Rodman Riverside CA, country singer (Girls Ride Horses Too)
1952 Deborah Adair actress (Tracey-Dynasty, Kate-Day of Our Life)
1952 James Mankey rocker (Concrete Blonde)
1954 "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler New Jersey, middleweight boxing champion (1982-83)
1955 John Stevens MEP
1957 Jimmy McShane Pop singer (Baltimora-Tarzan Boy)
1958 Shelly West Cleveland OH, country singer (Red Hot, West by West)
1958 Thomas Reiter Germany, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-22)
1959 Linden Ashby actor (Mortal Kombat)
1959 Marcella Mesker Netherlands, tennis star
1960 Theo Vogelaars pop bassist (Tröckener Kecks/Paid Love)
1961 Dave Babych Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Vancouver Canucks)
1961 Drew Carey Cleveland OH, actor/comedian (Drew-Drew Carey Show)
1961 Kevin Romine baseball player
1962 Karen [Duff] Duffy New York NY, MTV VJ/actress (Meet Wally Sparks)
1962 Keith Brantley Scott Air Force Base IL, marathoner (Olympics-96)
1964 Kenny Gattison NBA forward (Orlando Magic)
1964 Staci Greason Denver CO, actress (Isabella Toscando-Days of Our Lives)
1965 James Hasty NFL cornerback (Kansas City Chiefs)
1965 Lilian Drescher Venezuela, tennis star
1965 Woorkeri Venkat Raman cricketer (Indian slow left-arm all-rounder)
1966 Gary Roberts North York, NHL left wing (Calgary Flames)
1966 Graeme Hick cricketer (in Zimbabwe Massive run-scorer for Worcestershire)
1966 Helena Bonham Carter London, actress (Fort Worth, Howards End)
1967 Craig John Monk Auckland New Zealand, finn class yachter (Olympics-96)
1968 Daryl Hobbs NFL wide receiver (Oakland Raiders)
1968 Tiffany Rochelle-Anderson Laguna Beach CA, WPVA (Nationals-13th-1995)
1969 Pat Hurst San Leandro CA, LPGA golfer (1995 Rolex Rookie of the Year)
1969 Ramon Caraballo baseball player
1970 Grahae Hick cricketer
1970 Ricky Gutierrez Miami FL, infielder (Houston Astros)
1971 Issac Booth NFL cornerback/safety (Cleveland Browns)
1971 Joseph Rogers CFL receiver (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1971 Marshall Boze San Manual AZ, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1972 Isabelle Fijalkowski WNBA center/forward (Cleveland Rockers)
1972 Marco van Hoogdalem Dutch soccer player (Roda JC)
1972 Rene Ingoglia running back (Buffalo Bills)
1972 Shannon Brown NFL defensive tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 Verna Vasquez Miss Universe-best swimsuit (Curacao, 1997)
1974 Duane Clemons linebacker (Minnesota Vikings)
1974 Jewel [Kilcher] St George UT, folk/rock vocalist (Pieces of You)
1974 Kimber West Atlanta GA, playmate (Feb 1997)
1975 Vincent Goossens soccer player (Dordrecht '90)
1976 Kelly Marie Monaco Philadelphia PA, playmate (April, 1997)
1976 Melanie Joyce Bell Vernon NJ, Miss America-New Jersey (1997)
1980 Sarah Louise Catherwood Christchurch New Zealand, 4x200 meter swimmer (Olympics-96)
1984 Adam Wylie actor (Picket Fences)

Deaths which occurred on May 23:

1125 Hendrik V Roman catholics German king/emperor (1098/1111-25), dies
1153 David I king of Scotland (1124-53), dies at about 68
1423 Benedict XIII [Pedro the Luna] Spanish Pope (1394-1423), dies
1498 Girolamo Savonarola dictator of Florence (1494-98), tortured & executed in Florence at 45
1568 Adolf van Nassau German son of Willem the Rich, dies in battle at 27
1627 Luis de Góngora y Argote poet/writer, dies
1648 Luis de Nain painter, dies
1668 Philips Wouwerman Haarlems painter, buried
1684 Adriaen Backer Amsterdams painter buried at about 48
1701 William Kidd Scottish pirate, hanged at London's Execution Dock
1754 John Wood architect/town planner, dies
1783 James Otis American lawyer, dies
1785 William Woollett engraver, dies
1834 Charles Wesley composer, dies at 76
1838 John W Janssens Governor-General (Cape Colony), dies at 75
1841 Franz Xaver von Baader German philosopher/theologist, dies at 76
1842 José de Espronceda y Delgado Spanish revolutionary/poet, dies at 34
1851 Lucas Pieter Roodbaard architect, dies at 69
1860 Albert Richard Smith author/lecturer, dies
1867 Archibald Alison Scottish historian, dies at 74
1875 Johann Wilhelm Mangold composer, dies at 78
1881 Kit Carson frontiersman, dies
1881 Leopold von Ranke historian, dies
1883 Cyprian K Norwid Polish painter/poet/playwright (Wanda), dies
1887 Ludwig Mathias Lindeman composer, dies at 74
1891 Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach composer, dies at 73
1895 Franz E Neumann German mineralogist/physicist, dies at 96
1897 Aleko Konstantinov Bulgarian writer (To Chicago & Back), dies at 34
1905 Martinus W van AA Meerbeke head-editor (Time), dies at 75
1906 Henrik Johan Ibsen Norwegian playwright (Doll House), dies at 78
1908 François Coppée French poet, dies
1926 Hans Koessler composer, dies at 73
1934 Bonnie & Clyde bank robbers killed in shoot-out with police in Shreveport LA
1934 Bonnie Parker outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush
1934 Clyde Barrow outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush
1937 John Davison Rockfeller industrialist, dies at 97 in Ormond Beach FL
1938 Philip Kleintjes republic leader, dies at 70
1940 Andrej N Rimsky-Korssakov Russian musicologist/son of Nikolai, dies
1940 Paul Nizan French journalist/writer (Ce Soir/Aden Arabia), dies at 35
1941 Lord Herbert Austin motor manufacturer, dies
1941 Slavko Osterc composer, dies at 45
1945 Heinrich Himmler Nazi/Gestapo leader, commits suicide while in prison at Luneburg, Germany at 44
1947 C F Ramuz writer, dies at 68
1952 Georg Alfred Schumann composer, dies at 85
1954 H R Bromley-Davenport cricketer (batted in 4 Tests for England), dies
1960 Georges Claude engineer/inventor, dies
1961 Joan Davis comedic actress (I Married Joan), dies at 53
1965 David Smith sculptor, dies
1966 Ruth Gates Denton TX, actress (Aunt Jenny-Mama), dies at 79
1967 Philip Coolidge actor (I Want to Live, Tingler), dies at 58
1967 Sanne Sannes photographer, dies at 30
1968 James Burke actor (Ellery Queen, Army Surgeon), dies at 81
1968 Merle Kendrick orchestra leader (Window on the World), dies at 72
1969 Diane Aubrey actress (Haunted Strangler), dies of heart attack at 79
1969 Jimmy McHugh composer (Can't Give You Anything But Love), dies at 74
1969 Peter Alma painter/graphic artist, dies at 83
1970 Nydia Westman actress (Going My Way, Young Mr Bobbins), dies at 68
1973 Athena Lorde actress (Judith-One Man's Family, Fuzz, Skin Game), dies at 57
1974 Kathleen Cannell writer, dies
1975 Jackie "Moms" Mabley comedienne (Amazing Grace), dies at 81
1979 Hubert van Doorne auto manufacturer (DAF), dies at 79
1982 Louis J N Gérardin bicyclist (world champion sprint 1930), dies at 69
1983 Albert Claude Belgian biologist (Nobel 1974), dies at 84
1986 Sterling Hayden actor (Blue & Gray), dies at 70
1987 Karel Albert Flemish composer (Marieken van Nymeghen), dies at 86
1988 David Schoenbrun CBS broadcast bureau head (Washington, Paris), dies at 73
1990 Rocky Graziano boxer/writer/actor (Mr Rock & Roll), dies
1991 Jean van Houte Belgian premier, dies
1991 Peter T Thwaites British Brigadier-General/playwright (Love or money), dies
1991 William Sinnot Scottish pop musician (Shamen), dies at 30
1992 Atahualpa Yupanqui Argentine singer/composer/poet/guitarist, dies
1992 Giovanni Falcone anti-mafia judge (Palermo), murdered
1993 James Millhollin actor (Anston Foster-Grindl), dies at 77
1994 Carl Althoff German circus director, dies at 82
1994 Joe Pass US jazz guitarist (The Trio), dies at 65
1996 Dorothy Hyson actress (Spare a Copper, Sing as We Go), dies at 81
1996 Kronid Arkadyevich Lyubarsky human rights activist, dies at 61
1996 Patrick Cargill actor (Up Pompeii, Magic Christian), dies at 77

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

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 1965    WALKER           ORIEN JUDSON      BOSTON                MA     02/01/66 PROB DEAD  
 1967    HOMUTH           RICHARD W.        SPRING VALLEY         CA     SAR FOUND RAFT RADIO CONTACT  
 1967    PETTIS           THOMAS E.         MOBILE                AL     SAR FOUND RAFT RADIO CONTACT  
 1967    SCHMITTOU        EUREKA LAVERN     RINGGOLD              TX     SAR FOUND RAFT RADIO CONTACT  
 1967    SOUCY            RONALD PHILIP     WHITTING LAKE         IN     SAR FOUND RAFT RADIO CONTACT  
 1968    COCHRAN          ISOM CARTER JR.   HOUSTON               TX       
 1968    LANE             GLEN O.           ODESSA                TX       
 1968    OWEN             ROBERT D.         CHATHAM               VA       
 1968    SCHRUMP          RAYMOND C.        TOMAHAWK              WI     02/12/73 RELEASED BY PRG INJURED                       ALIVE IN 96
 1969    BENTON           GREGORY R.        VALLEJO               CA     FAMILY STATES NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN  
 1969    RAMIREZ          ARMANDO           WILLCOX               AZ       
 1972    BYRNS            WILLIAM G.        ST. LOUIS             MO     03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV     ALIVE AND WELL 1996/98
 1972    BEAN             WILLIAM R. JR.    FT PAYNE              AL     03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV    ALIVE AND WELL 98
 1972    BARNETT          CHARLES E.        HOUSTON               TX     BODY FELL IN FIELD-NHAN DAN     REMAINS RETURNED 02/22/89

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On this day...

1059 Henri I crowns his son compassionate King Philip I of France
1275 King Edward I of England orders cessation of persecution of French Jews
1420 Jews of Syria & Austria expelled
1421 Jews of Austria imprisoned & expelled
1430 Joan of Arc captured by Burgundians at Compiegne, who sell her to the British
1493 King Charles VIII & Maximilian I of Austria signs Peace of Senlis
1533 King Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon marriage declared null & void
1536 Pope Paul III installs Portugese inquisition
1544 German emperor Charles V recognizes king Christian III of Denmark
1555 Giampietro Caraffa elected Pope Paul IV
1568 Battle at Heiligerlee: Dutch rebels beat Spanish, 100s killed
1576 Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory
1611 Matthias von Habsburg chosen king of Bohemia
1618 2nd Defenestration of Prague; the beginning of the 30 Years War
1618 Imperial civil servants thrown out a window of Prague Castle
1644 Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists
1647 Willem II sworn in as viceroy of Holland
1660 King Charles II returns from exile sails from Scheveningen to England
1667 King Afonso VI of Portugal flees
1701 Captain Kidd hung in London after conviction of piracy & murder
1706 Battle of Ramillies-Marlborough defeats French; 17,000 killed
1750 Carlo Goldoni's "Il Bugiardo" premieres in Mantua
1774 Chestertown tea party occurs (tea dumped into Chester River)
1785 Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals
1788 South Carolina becomes 8th state to ratify US constitution
1844 Declaration of the Báb (Bahá'í festival) ('Azamat 7, 1)
1848 Otto Lilienthal, pioneer aviator
1853 Buenos Aires gains independence from Argentina (reunited 1859)
1861 3 fleeing slaves enter Fort Monroe VA
1861 Virginia citizens vote 3 to 1 in favor of secession
1862 Battle at Front Royal VA
1862 Valley Campaign-Stonewall Jackson takes Front Royal VA
1864 Battle of Dallas GA
1864 Battle of North Anna VA, 1st of 3 days of fighting
1865 Flag flown at full staff over White House, 1st time since Lincoln shot
1865 Grand Review begins in Washington DC
1865 Victory parade in Washington DC (Grand Review)
1867 Jesse James-gang rob bank in Richmond MO (2 die, $4,000 taken)
1873 1st Preakness: G Barbee aboard Survivor wins in 2:43
1873 Canada's North West Mounted Police Force (RCMPF) forms
1873 Postal cards sold in San Fransisco for 1st time
1876 1st National League no-hitter (Joe Borden, Boston)
1878 Attorney John Henry Smyth named minister to Liberia
1882 6" of snow falls in eastern Iowa
1883 9th Kentucky Derby: William Donohue aboard Leonatus wins in 2:43
1883 Baseball game between one-armed and one-legged players
1884 12th Preakness: S Fisher aboard Knight of Ellerslie wins in 2:39½
1887 1st transcontinental train arrives in Vancouver British Columbia
1894 William Love hosts ground breaking ceremonies for Love Canal
1898 1st Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Fransisco
19-- B.J. & Peg Hunnicutt of Mill Valley's anniversary (on MASH)
1900 Associated Press News Service forms in New York
1901 35th Belmont Stakes: H Spencer aboard Commando wins in 2:21
1901 Indians score 9 runs after 2 outs in 9th to beat Senators 14-13
1901 Ottawa Mint Act receives Royal Assent
1901 US captures leader of Philippine rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo
1903 1st automobile trip across US from San Fransisco to New York, ended April 1
1903 1st direct primary election law in US adopted, by Wisconsin
1908 Dirigible explodes over San Fransisco Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die
1908 Part of the Great White Fleet arrives in Puget Sound WA
1911 New York Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by President Taft
1915 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary & Germany during WWI
1916 Heavy battles at Fort Douaumont Verdun
1917 Dutch 2nd Chamber okays 1908 conscription draft
1918 King Oil/Shell refinery on Curaçao officially opens
1920 Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Pacem Dei
1921 "Shuffle Along" 1st black musical comedy, opens in NYC
1922 "Abie's Irish Rose" 1st of over 2,500 performances
1922 Harry Greb gives Gene Tunney his only professional boxing defeat
1922 Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films
1923 1st flight of Sabena: Brussel-Lympne, Great Britain
1926 Hack Wilson is 1st to hit a homerun off Wrigley Field scoreboard
1926 Lebanese constitution is established under French mandate
1928 Bomb attack on Italians embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die
1931 Whipsnade Zoo opens in Whipsnade Beds England
1932 Sir Hubert Ferdinand Opperman sets 24 hour record of 860 miles, 367 yards
1934 Wallace Carothers manufactures 1st nylon (polymeer 66)
1935 1st scheduled night game, postponed due to rain (Cincinnati)
1939 British decoration, George Cross, 1st presented
1939 British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949
1939 Dmitri Shostakovich appointed professor at conservatory of Leningrad
1939 Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland
1939 Submarine Squalis sinks off Portsmouth NH, 26 die
1940 1st great dogfight between Spitfires
1941 Joe Louis beats Buddy Baer on DQ in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1941 Rudolf Harbig runs world record 1k (2:21.5)
1943 826 Allied bombers attack Dortmund
1943 In Dr Faustus, Serenus Zeitblom begins his biography of Adrian Leverkühn
1944 British/Canadian troops occupy Pontecorvo Italy
1944 Chinese counter offensive at Hunan front
1944 Operation-Buffalo: Allied jailbreak out Anzio-bridgehead
1944 Polo Grounds host 1st NYC night game since 1941
1945 British military police arrest Admiral Karl Doenitz
1945 German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to British
1945 Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi leader & Chief of Police, committed suicide
1945 Lord Haw-Haw arrested at Danish boundary
1945 Winston Churchill resigns as British PM
1947 PC Hooft prize forms for literature
1948 Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive homeruns
1948 Ramat Rahel gateway to Jerusalem is repossessed by Israel
1949 Federal Republic of [West] Germany proclaimed (Republic Day)
1951 Peter Ustinov's "Love of Four Colonels" premieres in London
1953 79th Preakness: Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 1:57.8
1953 Schools 1st use Cliff's Notes
1953 WHIZ TV channel 18 in Zanesville OH (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 Presbyterian Church begins accepting women ministers
1956 World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, San Fransisco
1958 Mao Tse Tung starts "Great leap forward" movement in China
1959 "Party with Comden & Green" closes at John Golden NYC after 44 performances
1960 "Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 12 performances
1960 "Got A Girl" by The Four Preps hits #24
1960 Israel announced capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
1960 WGTV TV channel 8 in Athens-Atlanta GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 WKBM TV (now WLII) channel 11 in Caguas/San Juan Puerto Rico 1st broadcast
1960 WRCA radio changes call letters back to WNBC (NYC)
1962 Joe Pepitone 2nd Yankee to hit 2 homeruns in 1 inning (Joe DiMaggio)
1962 OAS leader General Raoul Salan sentenced to life
1962 Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in US Aurora 7
1963 NBC purchases 1963 AFL championship game TV rights for $926,000
1964 Dale Greig runs female marathon world record (3:27:45)
1965 Franz Jonas elected president of Austria
1965 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1965 Pontoon ferry overturned on Shire River Malawi, kills 150
1966 The Beatles release "Paperback Writer"
1967 Government bans submarines near South Africa
1968 AC Milan wins 8th Europe Cup II in Rotterdam
1968 Beatles open 2nd Apple Boutique at 161 New Kings Road, London
1969 BBC orders 13 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus
1969 Lauwerszee Dike in Holland closes
1969 The Who release the rock opera "Tommy"
1970 Grateful Dead's 1st perfomance outside of the US (England)
1970 San Diego Padres beat San Fransisco Giants 17-16 in 15 innings
1970 USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
1971 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationalionale
1971 Rock group Iron Butterfly disbands
1974 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 Italian Red Brigade officer Mario Sossi freed
1976 Amy Alcott wins '76 LPGA Golf Classic
1977 Benin adopts its constitution
1977 Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren & 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Netherlands, children released May 27, siege ends June 11
1977 Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of Watergate wrong doers H R Halderman, John Ehrlichman & John Mitchell
1978 American League approves transfer of Red Sox to Jean Yawkey for $15 million
1978 General strike in Peru
1979 "The Kids Are Alright" premieres
1979 1st edition of "Wisden Cricket Monthly"
1979 Borussia Mönchengladbach wins 8th UEFA Cup at Düsseldorf
1979 Rocker Tom Petty files chapter 11 bankruptcy
1979 West-Germany elects Karl Carstens president
1980 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Neil Burton
1981 Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage
1981 NASA launches Intelsat V
1982 BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina
1982 Cathy Morse wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Charity Golf Classic
1982 Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles
1982 Pope John Paul II declares "Peerke" Donders divine
1983 Radio Moscow announcer Vladimir Danchev praises Afghánistán Muslims standing up to Russia; he is removed from the air
1984 Anderlecht wins 13th UEFA Cup at London
1984 Detroit Tigers win American League record tying 16th straight road game
1986 US & West Europeans veto heavier sanctions against South Africa
1988 Maryland stops sale of cheap pistols on Jan 1, 1990
1989 3rd American Comedy Award: Paula Poundstone
1989 Angela Visser, 22, of Holland, crowned 38th Miss Universe
1989 Cleveland loses & drop to 21-22, this is the latest a sub .500 team is in 1st place (American League East)
1989 Lincoln Square in the Bronx is named
1990 A C Milan wins 35th Europe Cup 1 at Vienna
1990 Cost of rescuing savings & loan failures is put at up to $130 billion
1990 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,856.26
1990 New York Yankees hit 6 homeruns to beat Minnesota Twins 12-0
1991 Last Cubans troops leave Angola
1991 Phillie Tommy Greene no-hits Montréal Expos, 2-0
1991 San Diego Sockers win 4th consecutive Major Soccer League championship
1991 US Supreme Court bars subsidized clinics from discussing abortion
1992 New York Yankees play in their 4th straight extra inning game
1992 President Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees
1993 Val Skinner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1994 270 pilgrims dies in bustle round Mina Saudi-Arabia
1994 Roman Herzog elected President of Germany
1994 Star Trek The Next Generation, finale airs this week in syndication
1995 47th time opposing pitchers hit honeruns, K Foster (Cubs)/M Freeman (Rocks)
1996 Fred Norris of the Howard Stern show changes his name legally to Eric
1997 "King David" closes at New Amsterdam Theater NYC
1997 Mel Karmazin replaces Peter Lund as CEO of CBS TV




Holidays

Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Bermuda : Empire Day
German Federal Republic : Republic Day (1949)
Jamaica : Labour Day
Rye, Sussex England : Mayoring Day
South Carolina : Ratification Day (1788)
Canada : Victoria Day (1819) - - - - - ( Monday )

Religious Observances

Christ : Feast of St Ives of Chartres, patron of lawyers (or 0519?)
Bahá'í : Declaration of Bab (festival) ('Azamat 7, 1)

Religious History

1633 By French edict, only Catholic settlers were permitted permanent residence within the country known as New France (called "Canada" today), thus ending 30 years of attempted colonization by Huguenots (Protestants).
1862 Birth of Hermann Gunkel, the German Protestant biblical scholar who pioneered the analytical approach to understanding Scripture afterward known as "form criticism." Gunkel applied its formulas primarily to the Old Testament, in his commentaries on Genesis (1901) and on the Psalms (1926-28).
1889 Birth of Mary Susanne Edgar, a Canadian YWCA leader who wrote a number of hymns during her years of leading a Christian camping ministry with girls. Her best-remembered hymn: "God, Who Touchest Earth with Beauty."
1903 Death of American Congregational missionary Henry Blodget, 78. He served 40 years in China (1854-94), and helped translate the New Testament into the colloquial Mandarin language of Peking.
1926 Birth of Wilbur Nelson, Christian broadcast personality and for many years the host of "The Morning Chapel Hour," a radio ministry originating in Paramount, California.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Additional information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)

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