Subj : This Day In History
To : All
From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Sat Mar 20 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:
03/20/1634 Balthasar Bekker, theologist (Examiner of Comets)
03/20/1680 Baron Emanuele d' Astorga, Italian composer (Sabat mater)
03/20/1725 Abd�l-Hamid I, 27th sultan of Turkey (1774-89)
03/20/1728 Franciscus L Kersteman, lawyer/astrologist
03/20/1739 Eligio Celestino, composer
03/20/1750 Martinus van Marum, chemist/physicist (Homo Diluvii Testus)
03/20/1770 Johann Friedrich H�lderlin, T�bingen Germany, lyric poet (Der Rhein)
03/20/1774 John Braham, composer
03/20/1804 Neal Dow, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
03/20/1811 George Caleb Bingham, US, politician/painter (Country Election)
03/20/1811 Napoleon FKJ Bonaparte II, King of Rome
03/20/1812 George Bibb Crittenden, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 18
03/20/1813 Matthias Keller, Ulm Germany, hymm writer (O Farther un High)
03/20/1820 Alexander J Cuza, monarch of Moldavia/Walachije/Romania
03/20/1823 John Echols, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
03/20/1825 William Nelson Rector Beall, Brig General (Confederate Army)
03/20/1826 Carel Vosmaer, art historian/poet/editor
03/20/1828 Henrik Ibsen, Norway, playwright (Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler)
03/20/1829 Charles Albert White, composer
03/20/1830 Eugene Asa Carr, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1910
03/20/1833 Henry Southwick Perkins, composer
03/20/1834 Charles William Elliot, Boston, Pres of Harvard (1869-1909)
03/20/1853 George Godfrey, Chelsea Mass, heavyweight boxer (Old Chocolate)
03/20/1856 Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management
03/20/1863 Ernesto Nazareth, composer
03/20/1868 Obe Postma, Fries poet/geography/historian (Friesche kleihoeve)
03/20/1870 Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Prussian general strategist
03/20/1872 Bernhard Seklas, composer
03/20/1882 Ren� Coty, Le Harve France, president of France (1953-58)
03/20/1883 Colin Campbell, actress (High Bright Sun, Leather Boys)
03/20/1883 Karl Hasse, composer
03/20/1885 Eugen Herrigel, Germany, philosopher/early pioneer of Zen in Europe
03/20/1890 Lauritz Melchior, Copenhagen Denmark, baritone tenor (Natl Symphony)
03/20/19-- Big Bird, muppet (Sesame Street)
03/20/1948 John de Lancie, actor (Q-Star Trek Next Gen, Days of our Lives)
03/20/1902 Edgar Buchanan, Humansville Mo, actor (Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction)
03/20/1903 Vincent Richards, hall of fame tennis pro (elected 1961)
03/20/1904 B[urrhus] F[rederic] Skinner, Pa, Behaviorism pioneer (Skinner box)
03/20/1906 Abraham Beame, (Mayor-D-NYC), NYC's 1st Jewish mayor
03/20/1906 Ozzie Nelson, Jersey City NJ, actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet)
03/20/1906 Pavel P Parenago, Russian astronomer
03/20/1908 Frank Stanton, broadcasting exec (CBS)
03/20/1908 Michael Redgrave, actor (Browning Version, The Lady Vanishes)
03/20/1911 Mieke Verstraete, Belgian/Dutch actress (Pleasant settled)
03/20/1913 Judith Evelyn, actress (13th Letter, Tingler, Rear Window)
03/20/1914 Sviatoslav Richter, Zhitomir Russia, pianist (Stalin Prize-1945)
03/20/1914 Wendell Corey, Dracut Mass, actor (11th Hour, Peck's Bad Girl)
03/20/1914 William Baddeley, rector (St Jame's Piccadilly)
03/20/1915 Rudolf Kirchschl�ger, president of Austria (1974- )
03/20/1916 Pierre Messmer, PM (France)
03/20/1917 Kalervo H Hortamo, Finnish poet (Syd�nmaa)
03/20/1917 Vera Lynn, singer
03/20/1918 Bernd Alois Zimmermann, composer
03/20/1918 Bernd Zimmermann, German composer
03/20/1918 Jack Barry, Lindenhurst NY, game show emcee (Joker's Wild)
03/20/1920 Bryan Genesse, actor (Bold & Beautiful)
03/20/1920 Marian McPartland, jazz pianist (Bill Mayer, Jimmy McPartland)
03/20/1920 Werner Klemperer, Cologne Germany, actor (Col Klink-Hogan's Heroes)
03/20/1921 Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, Senegal, director general of UNESCO
03/20/1921 Primoz Ramovs, composer
03/20/1922 Arnold Burgen, college president (Academia Europaea)
03/20/1922 Carl Reiner, Bronx, comedian (2000 Year Old Man, Dick Van Dyke Show)
03/20/1922 Doug Barnard Jr, (Rep-D-GA, 1977- )
03/20/1922 Jack Kruschen, Winnipeg Canada, actor (Papa-Webster, Busting Loose)
03/20/1922 Larry Elgart, New Haven Ct, bandleader/alto sax (Elgart Orch)
03/20/1922 Ray Goulding, Lowell Mass, comedian (Bob & Ray)
03/20/1923 Marc Saporta, French writer/essayist
03/20/1925 John Ehrlichman, Watergate conspirator
03/20/1926 Ted Bessell, Flushing NY, actor (Don-That Girl, Frankie-Gomer Pyle)
03/20/1927 John Pierre Herman Joubert, composer (Chamber Music for brass quinte
03/20/1927 Sidney Poitier, US actor/director (They call me Mr Tibbs)
03/20/1928 Anthony Blond, British publisher (The Publishing Game, Book Book)
03/20/1928 Christopher Benstead, race horse trainer
03/20/1928 Fred 'Mr' Rogers, kid show host, 'lovely day in the neighborhood'
03/20/1928 Hans K�ng, Swiss religious theologist
03/20/1928 Jerome Cousins Biffle, Denver Co, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1952)
03/20/1930 Michel Magne, composer
03/20/1931 Antonio Tauriello, composer
03/20/1931 David Montgomery, chairman (British Forestry Commission)
03/20/1931 Hal Linden [Harold Lipshitz], actor (Barney Miller, Blacke's Magic)
03/20/1931 John Rae, British educator (Conscience & Politics)
03/20/1932 Tod Dockstader, composer
03/20/1933 Jacquez Guyonnet, composer
03/20/1934 Marion Conti, arch bishop (Aberdeen England)
03/20/1937 Helmut Recknagel, Germany, 90m ski jump (Olympic-gold-1960)
03/20/1937 Jerry Reed, singer/actor ('Gator, Bat 21, Smokey & the Bandit)
03/20/1937 Mark Saville, QC, British high court judge
03/20/1938 French J van der He�den, journal/Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
03/20/1939 Brian Mulroney, (P-C) 18th PM of Canada (1984-93)
03/20/1940 Mickey Preger, horse trainer
03/20/1941 Carlos Lopez, jockey
03/20/1945 Larry Combest, (Rep-R-TX, 1985- )
03/20/1945 Pat Riley, NBA star/coach (SD, LA Lakers, NY Knicks)
03/20/1945 Tim Yeo, British MP/under-sect (State of Environment)
03/20/1946 Ranger Doug, [Douglas Green], Ill, singer (Riders in Sky-Cowboy Way)
03/20/1947 Carl Palmer, drummer (Asia-Heat of the Moment, Emerson Lake & Palmer
03/20/1948 Bobby Orr, Parry Sound, Ontario, HOF hockey pro (Boston Bruins)
03/20/1948 Pamela Sargent, US, sci-fi author (Venus of Dreams, Cloned Lives)
03/20/1950 William Hurt, Wash DC, actor (Big Chill, Children of a Lesser God)
03/20/1951 Guy Perry, rocker (Motels-Only the Lonely)
03/20/1951 Jimmie Vaughan, guitarist (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
03/20/1951 Madan Lai, British cricketeer
03/20/1952 Anand Armitraj, India, tennis player (Brother of ViJay)
03/20/1954 Charlie Simmer, Ontario, NHL left winger (LA Kings)
03/20/1954 Jim Seales, Hamilton Ala, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South)
03/20/1956 Phillip Oppenhein, British MP
03/20/1957 Spike Lee, director (Mo Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X)
03/20/1957 Theresa Russell, [Paup], actress (Black Widow, Razor's Edge)
03/20/1958 Holly Hunter, Atlanta Georgia, actress (Broadcast News, Roe vs Wade)
03/20/1959 Richard Drummie, rocker (Go West-Call Me, Don't Look Down)
03/20/1961 John Clark Gable, actor (Bad Jim)
03/20/1961 Slim Jim Phantom, drummer (Stray Cats-Stray Cat Strut)
03/20/1963 Paul Mirkovich, rock keyboardist (Nelson-Love & Affection)
03/20/1967 Dana Rinehart Dalton, Orlando Florida, Miss Florida-America (1991)
03/20/1967 Randy Gullatt, horse trainer
03/20/1968 Eric Viscaal, soccer star (PSV/AA Gent)
03/20/1969 Paul Atkinson, jockey
03/20/1973 Jane March, Edgeware England, actress (Lover)
Deaths:
03/20/ 842 Alfonso II de Chaste, king of Asturi�, dies
03/20/1191 Clement III, [Paolo Scolari], Pope (1187-91, 3rd crusades), dies
03/20/1351 Mohammed ibn-Tughluq, sultan of Delhi India
03/20/1393 Johannes Nepomucenus, [Jan Nepomucky], Czech saint, dies
03/20/1415 Henry IV Bolingbroke, King of England (1399-1413), dies at 45
03/20/1501 Jean Carondelet, lawyer/chancellor of Bourgondie (1480-96), dies at
03/20/1531 Sicke Freerks/Frericx, [Cutter], anabaptist, beheaded
03/20/1568 Albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia, dies at 77
03/20/1617 Franciscus Aguilon, physicist/theologist/mathematician, dies at 50
03/20/1646 Matthew Vossius, historian (Annales Holland Zelandiaeque), dies at 3
03/20/1703 Johann Kunckel/Kunkel, German alchemist/ambassador to Sweden, dies
03/20/1727 Issac Newton, English physicist/astronomer, dies in London at 84
03/20/1757 Johann Paul Kunzen, composer, dies at 60
03/20/1767 Firmin Abauzit, French huguenot, dies at 87
03/20/1804 Ignaz Malzat, composer, dies at 47
03/20/1812 Jan Ladislav Dussek, composer, dies at 52
03/20/1866 Rikard Nordraak, composer, dies at 24
03/20/1871 Antonio Buzzolla, composer, dies at 56
03/20/1873 Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer, dies at 52
03/20/1874 Hans Christian Lumbye, composer, dies at 63
03/20/1892 Arthor Goring Thomas, composer, dies at 41
03/20/1894 Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian freedom fighter, dies at 91
03/20/1898 Luis Pal�s Matos, Puerto Rican poet (Tunt�n the paso y grifer�a), di
03/20/1899 Martha M Place, of Bkln, becomes 1st woman to die by electrocution
03/20/1910 F�lix Tournachon, [Nadar], French writer/photographer, dies
03/20/1911 Jean-Theodore Radoux, composer, dies at 75
03/20/1913 Christian Barnekow, composer, dies at 75
03/20/1913 Song Jiao-ren, leader Chinese Guomindang, murdered
03/20/1920 Venustiano Carranza, president Mexico, murdered
03/20/1925 George N Curzon, British viceroy in India, dies
03/20/1929 Ferdinand Foch, German marshal (WW I), dies
03/20/1933 Giuseppe [Joe] Zangara, electrocuted for assassination attempt on FD
03/20/1934 A Emma WT von Waldeck-Pyrmont, queen's regent, dies at 76
03/20/1941 D A van den Bosch, anti-nazi clergyman (Amersfoort Camp), dies
03/20/1942 Theodoro Valcarcel, composer, dies at 41
03/20/1944 Felix Woyrsch, composer, dies at 83
03/20/1950 Walter Eucken, German economist, dies at 59
03/20/1951 Jan Ingenhoven, composer, dies at 74
03/20/1951 Kathleen Lockhart Manning, composer, dies at 60
03/20/1962 Andrew E Douglass, Dendrochronologer (Study of Tree Rings) dies
03/20/1962 C Wright Mills, US Sociologist (Power Elite), dies at 45
03/20/1964 Brendan Behan, Irish writer/poet, dies at 41
03/20/1964 Jean Rogister, composer, dies at 84
03/20/1968 Carl T Dreyer, Danish director (Passion of Jeanne d'Arc), dies
03/20/1972 Aad de Hare, religious painter/graphic artist/cartoonist, dies at 51
03/20/1972 Jan Engelman, poet/art critic (At the Front), dies at 71
03/20/1972 Marilyn Maxwell, actress (Grace-Bus Stop), dies at 50
03/20/1974 Chet Huntley, newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report), dies at 62
03/20/1974 Edward Platt, actor (Chief-Get Smart), dies at 58
03/20/1976 Michael Goodliffe, actor (Gorgon, 7th Dawn, Way Out), dies at 61
03/20/1982 Hendrik L van Beek, Dutch vice-admiral, dies at 52
03/20/1987 Norman Harris, guitarist (O'Jays), dies at 39 of heart failure
03/20/1988 Gil Evans, US jazz composer/arranger, dies at 75
03/20/1990 Jannetje Visser-Roosendaal, writer, dies
03/20/1990 Jev Jasjin, Russian soccer goalie, dies
03/20/1991 Conor Clapton, 5, son of Eric Clapton, falls out of 53rd floor windo
03/20/1992 Avonne Taylor, actress (My Best Girl, Honor Among Lovers), dies
03/20/1992 Frank Westbrook, dies
03/20/1992 Georges Delerue, French composer (Hiroshima, My Love), dies
03/20/1993 Claudia Yeltsin, mother of Russian president Yeltsin, dies at 85
03/20/1993 Jonathan Ball, English youngster killed by IRA at 3
Significant Events:
03/20/ 141 6th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
03/20/1345 Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction: 'cause of bacteria epidemic'
03/20/1602 Operations begin at United Dutch East-Indian Company
03/20/1697 Willem de Vlamingh returns to Batavia after exploring 'Zuidland'
03/20/1760 Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings
03/20/1814 Prince Willem Frederik becomes monarch of Netherlands
03/20/1815 Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule
03/20/1833 US & Siam conclude commercial treaty
03/20/1848 King Louis I of Bayern abdicates to marry dancer Lola Montez
03/20/1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' published (Boston)
03/20/1863 Battle of Pensacola FL -evacuated by Federals
03/20/1865 Battle of Bentonville NC
03/20/1865 Michigan authorizes workers' cooperatives
03/20/1868 Jesse James Gang robs bank in Russelville Kentucky of $14.000
03/20/1883 Unity treaty of Paris signed: protects industrial property
03/20/1885 Surinamer John Matzeliger patents shoe lacing machine
03/20/1886 1st AC power plant in US begins commercial operation, Mass
03/20/1888 Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adventure, 'A Scandal in Bohemia'
03/20/1890 General Federation of Womans' Clubs founded
03/20/1890 J Palisa discovers asteroid #290 Bruna
03/20/1890 Otto von Bismarck resigns as German chancellor
03/20/1896 Marines land in Nicaragua to protect US citizens
03/20/1897 1st US orthodox Jewish Rabbinical seminary (RIETS) incorperates in N
03/20/1897 1st known intercollegiate basketball game, Yale beats Penn 32-10
03/20/1904 M Wolf discovers asteroids #527 Euryanthe, #528 Rezia & #529 Prezios
03/20/1906 A Kopff discovers asteroid #593 Titania
03/20/1907 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #792 Metcalfia
03/20/1911 National Squah Tennis Association formed (NYC)
03/20/1914 1st international figure-skating tournament held in US, New Haven
03/20/1914 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #784 Pickeringia
03/20/1915 J Comas Sola discovers asteroid #804 Hispania
03/20/1915 M Wolf discovers asteroid 800 Kressmannia, 801 Helwerthia & 802 Epya
03/20/1916 Allies attack on sea bridge
03/20/1920 1st flight from London to South Africa lands (1� months)
03/20/1922 USS Langley is commissioned, Navy's 1st aircraft Carrier
03/20/1922 WIP-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions
03/20/1923 Beiers minister of Interior forbids SA political party
03/20/1923 Belgian Senate rejects Dutch University in Ghent
03/20/1924 Finnair begins scheduled flight of Helsinki-Tallinn
03/20/1924 Montreal Canadiens sweep Vancouver in 2 games for the Stanley Cup
03/20/1930 Clessie Cummins sets diesel engine speed record of 129.39 kph
03/20/1931 Bishop Schreiber warns against national-socialism in Berlin
03/20/1932 Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kara-Kalpak ASSR
03/20/1933 Dachau, 1st concentration camp, built
03/20/1934 Rudolf Kuhnold demonstrates radar
03/20/1937 Franco-offensive at Guadalajara Spain
03/20/1938 A Wachmann discovers asteroid #1465 Autonoma
03/20/1938 M B Protitch discovers asteroids #1517 Beograd & #1675 Simonida
03/20/1939 7,000 Jews flee German occupied Memel Lithuania
03/20/1940 Paul Reynoud becomes French premier
03/20/1942 Gen MacArthur vows, 'I shall return'
03/20/1942 Major German assault on Malta
03/20/1943 British offensive against Mareth-line
03/20/1944 Bus falls off bridge into Passaic River NJ, killing 16
03/20/1946 Belgian govt of Spaak, resigns
03/20/1947 180-metric ton blue whale (record) caught in South Atlantic
03/20/1950 M Itzigsohn discovers asteroid #1571 Cesco
03/20/1951 Indonesian army on Java offensive against Darul Islam
03/20/1952 Final ratification of peace treaty restoring sovereignty to Japan
03/20/1952 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1617 Alschmitt
03/20/1952 US senate ratifies peace treaty with Japan
03/20/1954 La Salle wins NCAA basketball championship
03/20/1955 A Paroubek discovers asteroid #1989 Tatry
03/20/1955 KXTV TV channel 10 in Sacramento, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
03/20/1956 156-day strike against Westinghouse ends
03/20/1956 E Ochab succeeds Beirut as 1st secretary of Polish CP
03/20/1956 Mount Bezymianny on Kamchatka Penninsula (USSR) explodes
03/20/1956 Tunisia gains independence from France
03/20/1958 50' snow across the Mason-Dixon line
03/20/1958 Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio (communist) begins transmitting
03/20/1958 Greek Clandestine Radio (communist), Voice of Truth 1st transmission
03/20/1960 Asteroid #2103 discovered
03/20/1962 Sjoukje Dijkstra becomes world champion figure skater
03/20/1963 1st 'Pop Art' exhibition (NYC)
03/20/1963 Sikkim crown prince Paldan Thondup Namgyal marries Hope Cooke
03/20/1964 'Funny Girl' with Barbra Striesand opens on Broadway
03/20/1964 ESRO established, European Space Research Organization
03/20/1965 UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship
03/20/1967 Supremes release 'The Happening'
03/20/1967 WOET (now WPTD) TV channel 16 in Dayton, OH (PBS) begins broadcastin
03/20/1968 Pres Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from US paper money
03/20/1969 Abebe Bikila's auto-accident, near Addis Ababa
03/20/1969 Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar
03/20/1969 US president Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970
03/20/1972 S Mansholt succeeds Malfatti as chairman of European Committee
03/20/1973 Roberto Clemente elected to hall of fame, 11 weeks after his death
03/20/1976 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.70)
03/20/1976 Patricia Hearst convicted of armed robbery
03/20/1977 Communists/socialists win French municipal elections
03/20/1977 Parisians elect former PM Jacques Chirac as 1st mayor in a century
03/20/1977 Premier Indira Gandhi loses election in India
03/20/1978 Flyers' Rick MacLeash scores on 6th penalty shot against Islanders
03/20/1979 Columbia flies on Shuttle carrier aircraft to Kennedy Space Center
03/20/1980 The Mi Amigo ship containing England's pirate Radio Caroline sinks
03/20/1980 US appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran
03/20/1981 Argentine ex-president Isabel Per�n sentenced to 8 years
03/20/1981 Jean Harris sentenced 15-to-life for slaying of Scarsdale Diet Dr
03/20/1982 H Debehogne discovers asteroid #3002
03/20/1982 Joan Jett & Blackhearts' 'I Love Rock 'n' Roll' goes #1 for 7 wks
03/20/1982 Rev A Treurnicht establishes Conservative Party of South Africa
03/20/1984 Andy Kaufman & Fred Blassie's 'My Breakfast With Blassie' premieres
03/20/1985 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3326
03/20/1986 228 KPH gust of wind strikes Cairngorm (UK record)
03/20/1986 Jacques Chirac forms French government
03/20/1987 NASA launches Palapa B2P
03/20/1987 Soap opera 'Capitol' final episode
03/20/1987 Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 5 km (7:20.36)
03/20/1990 LA Lakers retires Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's #33
03/20/1991 Court awards Peggy Lee $3 million in suit against Disney
03/20/1991 Michael Jackson signs $65M 6 album deal with Sony records
03/20/1991 US forgives $2 billion in loans to Poland
03/20/1992 Janice Pennington is awarded $1.3M for accident on Price is Right se
03/20/1992 Noriega's wife Felicidad arrested for stealing buttons from dresses
03/20/1993 Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (36.02 sec)
03/20/1993 IRA-bomb kills 4 year old in Warrington England
03/20/1993 Morton Downey Jr weds Lori Krebs
03/20/1994 Brett Hart wins WWF championship at Wrestlemania X
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