Subj : This Day In History
To : All
From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Sat Mar 13 2021 06:00 am
Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date
Registered to Omicron Theta
By Scott Labrecque
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Births:
03/13/1548 Sasbout Vosmeer, Catholic theologist/apostole
03/13/1599 Johannes Berchmans, Jesuit/saint
03/13/1615 Innocent XII, [Antonio Pignatelli], Pope (1691-1700)
03/13/1696 Louis F A D Hertog de Richelieu, French marshal
03/13/1700 James Kent, composer
03/13/1700 Michel Blavet, composer
03/13/1712 Isfrid Kayser, composer
03/13/1733 Joseph Priestly, England, clergyman/scientist, discovered oxygen
03/13/1746 Maurus Haberhauer, composer
03/13/1752 Josef Reicha, composer
03/13/1764 Charles Earl Grey, (Whig), British PM (1830-34)
03/13/1767 Heinrich Domnich, composer
03/13/1768 Charles Louis WJ van Keverberg, Dutch civil servant
03/13/1770 Daniel Lambert, England, giant (weighed 334 kg at death)
03/13/1779 Oliver Shaw, composer
03/13/1781 Karl F Schinkel, German architect/painter/writer (Schloss Tegel)
03/13/1798 Abigail Powers Fillmore, 1st lady (1850-53)
03/13/1818 Albion Parris Howe, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1897
03/13/1820 Louis Herbert, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
03/13/1832 Alberto Randegger, composer
03/13/1850 Emilio Serrano y Ruiz, composer
03/13/1855 Percival Lowell, predicted discovery of Pluto
03/13/1858 Maximilien Luce, French painter
03/13/1860 Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf, Windisch-Gr�z Austria, composer
03/13/1862 Vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov, composer
03/13/1872 Oswald Garrison Villard, American journalist
03/13/1875 Maria EG 'Lizzy' Ansingh, house painter (Caught Sultane)
03/13/1881 Balthazar H Verhagen, Neth/South African writer
03/13/1883 Enrico Toselli, composer
03/13/1884 Emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Bluthochzeit)
03/13/1884 Hugh S Walpole, NZ, novelist/playwright (Jeremy, Maradick at 40)
03/13/1886 Henri D Gagnebin, Swiss organist
03/13/1886 Henri Gagnebin, composer
03/13/1886 John 'Home Run' Baker, hall of famer (hit 2 HR in 1911 world series)
03/13/1887 Carlos Isamitt, composer
03/13/1890 Michael Taube, composer
03/13/1892 Alec Rowley, composer
03/13/1897 Marcel Thiry, Belgian poet (Statue of Fatigue)
03/13/1897 William Herald, Australia, swimmer (Olympic-1920)
03/13/1899 Pancho Vladigerov, composer
03/13/1901 Paul Fix, Dobbs Ferry NY, actor (Rifleman)
03/13/1907 Daphne Du Maurier, British writer (Homes & Haunts, Glass Blowers)
03/13/1907 Frank Wilcox, DeSoto Mo, actor (John-Beverly Hillbillies)
03/13/1908 Paul Stewart, NYC, actor (Top Secret USA, Deadline)
03/13/1908 Walter Annenberg, Milwaukee, publisher (Triangle-TV Guide)/Amb to GB
03/13/1909 Gilbert Inglefield, Burgemeister London (1967-68)
03/13/1910 Sammy Kaye, Rocky River Ohio, orch leader (Sammy Kaye Show)
03/13/1911 Jose Ardevol, composer
03/13/1911 L[aFayette] Ron Hubbard, sci-fi writer/scientologist (Dianetics)
03/13/1912 Ernst Hess, composer
03/13/1913 William J Casey, headed CIA during Iran-contra scandal (1981-87)
03/13/1914 Carl-Olof Anderberg, composer
03/13/1916 Lindy Boggs, (Rep-D-LA, 1973- )
03/13/1917 Ina Ray Hutton, Chicago Ill, orch leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show)
03/13/1917 Maria Vlamynck, Flemish author
03/13/1917 Tessie O'Shea, England, actress (Entertainers)
03/13/1918 George McAfee, NFL halfback (Chicago Bears)
03/13/1925 Anthony Milner, composer
03/13/1925 Bertha Tickey, Dinuba Calif, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1973)
03/13/1925 Roy Haynes, US jazz drummer
03/13/1926 Ra�l Alfons�n, Argentine pres (1983- ) (or 3/12/1927)
03/13/1927 Charles Sickman Corsen, Netherland Antillian poet
03/13/1929 J D Slater, writer
03/13/1929 Peter Breck, Rochester NY, actor (Black Saddle, Big Valley, Benji)
03/13/1929 Walter Medio, race horse trainer
03/13/1929 Will Eisma, composer
03/13/1930 Doug Harvey, hockey star (3 time James Norris winner)
03/13/1931 Marc Dessauvage, Flemish architect
03/13/1931 Rosalind Elias, Lowell Mass, mezzo-soprano (Grimgerde-Die Walkuere)
03/13/1933 Frank H Murkowski, (Sen-R-AK, 1981- )
03/13/1937 Fofo I F Sunia, (Rep-D-Amer Samoa, 1981- )
03/13/1938 Hans-Joachim Hespos, composer
03/13/1938 Jean-Claude Risset, composer
03/13/1938 Joseph Bellino, footballer (1960 Heisman Trophy)
03/13/1939 Neil Sedaka, Bkln NY, singer/songwriter (Breaking Up is Hard to Do)
03/13/1947 Lesley Collier, British ballet dancer
03/13/1947 Tomas Hinojosa, jockey
03/13/1950 Robert S Woods, Calif, actor (Bo-One Life to Live, Waltons)
03/13/1951 Fred Berry, St Louis Mo, actor (Rerun-What's Happening)
03/13/1952 Wolfgang Hihm, composer
03/13/1953 Andy Bean, Lafayette Ga, PGA golfer (Western 1978, Kemper 1978)
03/13/1953 Deborah Raffin, LA Calif, actress (Ransom, Demon, 40 Carats)
03/13/1954 Robin Duke, Toronto Canada, comedienne (SNL, SCTV, Club Paradise)
03/13/1955 Glenne Headly, actress (Dick Tracy, Making Mr Right)
03/13/1955 Olga Rukavishnikova, USSR, pentathlete (Olympic-silver-1980)
03/13/1955 Patricia J Engfer, general manager (Hyatt Regency-Orlando)
03/13/1956 Dana Delany, NYC, actress (Colleen McMurphy-China Beach)
03/13/1958 Debi Nicolle Johnson, Torrance Calif, playmate (October, 1984)
03/13/1958 Rick A Lazio, (Rep-R-New York)
03/13/1959 Ronnie Rogers, guitarist (T'Pau-Heart & Soul)
03/13/1960 Adam Clayton, Oxfordshire, rock bassist (U2-I Will Follow)
03/13/1966 Akira Nogami, wrestler (NJPW)
03/13/1968 Christopher Collett, NYC, actor (Manhattan Project)
03/13/1971 Tracy Wells, actress (Heather-Mr Belvedere)
03/13/1981 Howard Coble, (Rep-R-NC, 1985- )
Deaths:
03/13/1202 Mieszko III de Oude, great duke of Poland (1173-77, 1200-02), dies
03/13/1558 Jean Fernel, French physician/physiologist, dies
03/13/1569 Louis Cond�, French prince/co-leader of Hugenot, dies in battle
03/13/1573 Michel de l'H�pital, chancellor of France (1560-73), dies at about 6
03/13/1716 Georg Gabriel Schutz, composer, dies at 46
03/13/1756 Johann Melchior Conradi, composer, dies at 81
03/13/1817 Matej Sojka, composer, dies at 77
03/13/1839 Robert Gallenberg, composer, dies at 55
03/13/1879 Adolf Anderssen, German world champ chess (1851..66), dies at 60
03/13/1881 Alexander II, Tsar of Russia, assassinated
03/13/1890 Henry Wylde, composer, dies at 67
03/13/1901 Benjamin Harrison, 23rd pres (1889-1893), dies in Indianapolis at 67
03/13/1903 Nicolas Beets [Hildebrand], writer (Camera Obscura), dies
03/13/1906 Susan B[rownell] Anthony, American suffragist, dies
03/13/1911 Jacob M of Bemmelen, physicist/chemist, dies
03/13/1915 Sergei J White, premier of Russia, dies
03/13/1918 Karel Stecker, composer, dies at 57
03/13/1930 Mary E W Freeman, US writer (Pembroke), dies
03/13/1934 Fritz Cortolezis, composer, dies at 56
03/13/1938 Clarence S Darrow, Scopes Monkey Trial attorney, dies in Chicago at
03/13/1941 A Coenradi, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
03/13/1941 Bernard Iron wire, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
03/13/1941 E Hellenbyn, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
03/13/1941 Isaak E Babel, Russian writer (Zakat, Marija), dies at 46
03/13/1941 J Eyl, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
03/13/1945 Herbert Bedford, composer, dies at 78
03/13/1946 Abraham Bredius, art historian (Rembrandt), dies at 90
03/13/1946 Thomas Frederick Dunhill, composer, dies at 69
03/13/1946 Werner von Blomberg, German minister of Reichswehr, dies at 67
03/13/1951 James I Wedgwood, British theosopholgist/Catholic bishop, dies
03/13/1964 Kitty Genovese, stabbed to death in Queens; 40 neighbors looked on
03/13/1965 George Calinescu, Romanian author (Lauda Lucrorilor), dies at 65
03/13/1970 Rick Besoyan, composer, dies at 45
03/13/1971 Piero Coppola, composer, dies at 82
03/13/1971 Rockwell Kens, US artist/painter/illustrator, dies at 88
03/13/1973 Stacy Harris, actor (NOPD, Doorway to Danger), dies at 54
03/13/1974 Howard St John, actor (Investigator, Dr Lewis-Hank), dies at 68
03/13/1974 Janos Prohaska, actor (Andy Williams Show), dies at 52
03/13/1975 Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesian attorney/minister/premier, dies at 71
03/13/1975 Ivo Andric, Yugoslavian author (Nemiri-Nobel 1961), dies at 83
03/13/1975 Ruth Schaumann, German author/house painter/sculptor, dies at 75
03/13/1976 Willy Alfredo, [Willem Jue], comedian, dies at 77
03/13/1977 Fanie Lou Hamer, freedom fighter, dies
03/13/1977 John Patocka, Czech philosopher, dies
03/13/1978 David McKinley Williams, composer, dies at 91
03/13/1980 Tauno Kullerve Pylkkanen, composer, dies at 61
03/13/1982 Albert Weisser, composer, dies at 64
03/13/1982 Wilfred Hawker, Suriname sgt-major, executed
03/13/1983 Louison Bobet, French cyclist (Tour de France 1953-55), dies at 58
03/13/1983 Paul R Lemon, sculptor, dies at 86
03/13/1986 Alvaro Fayad Delgado, Colombian guerilla leader (M-19), dies
03/13/1987 Bernhard Grzimek, zoologist (West Germany), dies at 78
03/13/1987 Finn Videro, composer, dies at 80
03/13/1987 Gerald Moore, England, pianist (Am I Too Loud), dies at 87
03/13/1990 Bruno Bettelhelm, Austrian/US psychoanalyst, commits suicide at 86
03/13/1991 Cor Witschge, [Pipo the Clown], Dutch actor (Alicia), dies
03/13/1991 Jimmy McPartland, US, jazz cornetist, dies
03/13/1992 Hans Redeker, art critic (Gen Trade Journal), dies
03/13/1993 Ralph Smith Fults, US gangster (Bonnie & Clyde gang), dies at 82
03/13/1994 Danny Barker, US banjo player/guitarist (Bourbon St Black), dies at
Significant Events:
03/13/ 483 St Felix III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
03/13/ 607 12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
03/13/1519 Cortez lands in M�xico
03/13/1564 Cardinal Granvelle flees Brussels
03/13/1569 Battle of Jarnac
03/13/1634 Acad�mie Fran�aise opens
03/13/1639 Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard
03/13/1656 Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam
03/13/1677 Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000
03/13/1735 1st US Moravian bishop, David Nitschmann, consecrated in Germany
03/13/1759 27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
03/13/1781 Sir William Herschel sees 'comet' (really discovered Uranus)
03/13/1790 John Martin, 1st American-born actor, performs in Philadelphia
03/13/1835 Charles Darwin departs Valparaiso for Andersgebergte
03/13/1852 Uncle Sam cartoon figure debuts in NY Lantern weekly
03/13/1861 Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers
03/13/1865 US Confederate Congress calls on black slaves for field service
03/13/1868 Senate begins Pres Andrew Johnson impeachment trial
03/13/1869 Arkansas legislature passes anti-Klan law
03/13/1878 Oxford defeats Cambridge in their 1st golf match
03/13/1884 Siege of Khartoum Sudan begins
03/13/1884 Siege of Khartoum Sudan, begins
03/13/1884 Standard Time adopted in US
03/13/1887 Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs
03/13/1888 Great Blizzard of 1888 rages
03/13/1894 J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate
03/13/1895 Spanish warship Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die
03/13/1900 British troops occupies Bloemfontein, Orange-Free state
03/13/1904 Bronze statue of Christ on Argentine-Chilian border dedicated
03/13/1905 M Wolf discovers asteroid #560 Delila
03/13/1912 Quebec Bulldogs sweep Moncton (NB) in 2 for Stanley Cup
03/13/1913 Kansas legislature approves motion-picture censorship
03/13/1915 Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped
03/13/1915 from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit
03/13/1918 American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms
03/13/1920 Coup against Wolfgang Kapp in Berlin fails
03/13/1921 Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China
03/13/1922 WRR-AM in Dallas TX begins radio transmissions
03/13/1923 Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures, NYC
03/13/1924 German Republic day
03/13/1925 Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution
03/13/1928 450 die in St Francisquito Valley Dam burst (Calif)
03/13/1930 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
03/13/1931 M Wolf discovers asteroid #1178 Irmela
03/13/1932 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1217 Maximiliana
03/13/1933 Banks reopen
03/13/1933 Josef G�bbels becomes German minister of Information & Propaganda
03/13/1938 Anschlu�-Austria annexed by Nazi Germany
03/13/1939 Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
03/13/1940 Finland-Russian ceasefire signed, Finland gives up Karelische
03/13/1941 A Bougne forms AGRA (Amis du Grand Reich Allemand)
03/13/1942 Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army
03/13/1943 Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight
03/13/1943 Failed attempt on Hitler at Smolensk-Rastenburg
03/13/1943 Frank Dixon wins Knights of Columbus mile (4:09.6)
03/13/1944 USSR recognizes Italian Badoglio govt
03/13/1945 Queen Wilhelmina returns to Netherland
03/13/1945 Sicherheitsdienst arrest Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman
03/13/1948 Kentucky wins NCAA basketball championship
03/13/1950 General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record)
03/13/1951 2nd Dutch govt of Drees forms
03/13/1951 Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany
03/13/1954 Viet Minh General Giap opens assault on That Bien Phu
03/13/1955 Bir BSD Mahendra succeeds Tribhubana as king of Nepal
03/13/1957 Bloody battles after anti-Batista demonstration in Havana Cuba
03/13/1958 Govt troops land in Sumatra Indonesia
03/13/1960 NFL's Chicago Cardinals move to St Louis
03/13/1961 Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes pres of US Communistic Party
03/13/1961 Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johannson to retain championship
03/13/1961 JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress
03/13/1961 Landslide in USSR, kills 145
03/13/1962 Yugoslavia grants 1,000 prisoners amnesty
03/13/1963 2 Russian reconnasissance flights over Alaska
03/13/1963 Indonesia & Netherlands recover diplomatic relations
03/13/1964 Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack
03/13/1965 Beatles' 'Eight Days a Week,' single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
03/13/1965 Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds
03/13/1967 Congo sentences ex-premier Mo�se Tsjombe to death
03/13/1968 Beatles release 'Lady Madonna' in the UK
03/13/1969 Apollo 9 returns to Earth
03/13/1970 100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam
03/13/1970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
03/13/1970 SF city employees begin 4-day strike
03/13/1971 Live at Fillmore East recorded
03/13/1973 J Gibson discovers asteroid #1943 Anteros
03/13/1973 Syria adopts constitution
03/13/1978 Moluks 'suicide commandos' occupies Province house
03/13/1979 European Monetery System is established, ECU created
03/13/1979 Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement
03/13/1979 Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick
03/13/1980 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2796 Kron
03/13/1980 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:13.60)
03/13/1980 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #3633
03/13/1980 Ford Motor Co found innoncent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto
03/13/1981 Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca
03/13/1982 Elaine Zayak, lands 6 triple jumps to win world skating championship
03/13/1985 Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)
03/13/1985 Michael Secrest (US) begins 24hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
03/13/1986 Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
03/13/1986 Space probe Giotto encounters Halley's Comet
03/13/1987 John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering
03/13/1987 Washington Caps score 5 goals against Toronto in 3 mins & 3 secs
03/13/1989 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown
03/13/1989 FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in US
03/13/1989 US space shuttle STS-29 launched
03/13/1990 Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada
03/13/1991 Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Alaskan oil spil
03/13/1992 570 die in a Turkish earthquake
03/13/1992 FCC rules companies can own 30 AM & 30 FM stations (formerly 12)
03/13/1992 Martina Navratilova & Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit
03/13/1993 Blizzard of '93 hits north-east US
03/13/1994 33.3% of Austria votes for ultra-right FP�
03/13/1994 Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed)
03/13/1994 President Mangope of Bophuthaswana flees
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