Subj : This Day In History
To : All
From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Fri Jun 04 2021 12:30 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:
06/04/1694 Fran�ois Quesnay, France, economist, leader of Physiocrats
06/04/1700 Theodoor Verhaegen, Flemish sculptor
06/04/1738 George III, English King during American Revolution (1760-1820)
06/04/1751 John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon
06/04/1770 James Hewitt, composer
06/04/1801 James Pennethorne, architect
06/04/1803 Gabriel James Rains, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1881
06/04/1815 Paul Jones Semmes, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
06/04/1816 Phillipe Regis Denis de Keredern de Trobriand, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union)
06/04/1828 Alexander William Campbell, Brig general (Confederate Army)
06/04/1833 Garnet Joseph, 1st viscount Wolseley soldier
06/04/1838 Servaas Daems, [Peeter Klein], Flemish writer (Luit & flute)
06/04/1846 Josef Sittard, music writer
06/04/1863 Edmond R H Regout, industrialist/politician
06/04/1864 Nassau William Senior, British economist
06/04/1867 Carl Gustaf baron Mannerheim, general/president of Finland (1944-46)
06/04/1869 Boudew�n LPMCAJL, prince of Belgium/count of Vlaanderen
06/04/1877 Heinrich Wieland, German chemist (bile acids-Nobel 1927)
06/04/1878 Frank N D Buchman, US theologist (Moral Rearmament)
06/04/1881 Clara Blandick, actress (Huckleberry Finn, Romance, Tom Sawyer)
06/04/1882 Karl Valentin, German comic/writer
06/04/1891 Erno Rapee, composer
06/04/1893 Armand Calinescu, premier of Romania
06/04/1893 Daan Boens, Flemish poet (Man & his Wife)
06/04/1895 Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations (1925-32)
06/04/1899 Leo Spies, composer
06/04/1902 Richard Allen, India, field hockey goal tender (Olympic-gold-1928)
06/04/1906 Richard Whorf, actor/director (Yankee Doodle Dandy, Keeper of Flame)
06/04/1907 Marjan Kozina, composer
06/04/1908 Earl of Halsbury, chancellor (Brunei University)
06/04/1908 Rosalind Russell, actress (Mame, Take a Letter Darling)
06/04/1908 Walther Vanbeselaere, Flemish art historian
06/04/1909 Paul Nordoff, Philadelphia, composer (Frog Prince)
06/04/1910 Christopher Cockerell, inventor (Hovercraft)
06/04/1912 Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor (great iron sculptures)
06/04/1913 Bruno Bettinelli, composer
06/04/1914 Willy-August Linnemann, Danish writer/journalist
06/04/1915 Modibo Keita, president of Mali (1960-68)
06/04/1916 Cecil Blacker, CEO (British Equestrian Federation)
06/04/1917 Allen Greenwood, deputy CEO (British Aerospace)
06/04/1917 Charles Collingwood, Mich, news commentator (CBS, Chronicles)
06/04/1917 Howard Metzenbaum, (Sen-D-Ohio, 1974- )
06/04/1917 Robert Anderson, author (Tea & Sympathy)
06/04/1917 Robert Merrill, Bkln NY, baritone (NY Metropolitan Opera)
06/04/1921 Nina Vyroubova, Russ/French ballerina (Pavlova-prize 1957)
06/04/1922 Irwin Bazelon, Evanston Illinois, composer (Duo for Viola)
06/04/1922 John McNamara, baseball player
06/04/1922 John West, vice chancellor (Bradford University)
06/04/1923 John Lea, British vice-admiral
06/04/1924 Dennis Weaver, Joplin Mo, actor (Chester-Gunsmoke, Duel, Battered)
06/04/1926 Nan Leslie, LA Calif, actress (Kings Row, Californians)
06/04/1926 Robert Earl Hughes, became heaviest known human (486 kg)
06/04/1927 Geoffrey Palmer, British actor (Smacks & Thistle)
06/04/1928 Paul Greening, master of Queen's household
06/04/1930 Morgana King, jazz singer/actress (Godfather)
06/04/1930 Pentti Raitio, composer
06/04/1931 Cesar Bolanos, composer
06/04/1932 John Barrymore Jr, Beverly Hills Calif, actor (Pantomine Quiz)
06/04/1933 John Sparrow, CEO (British Horseracing Betting Levy Board)
06/04/1935 Hendrikus C 'Henk' Admiraal, actor (Rififi in Amsterdam)
06/04/1936 Bruce Dern, Winnetka Ill, actor (Coming Home, Silent Running, Tatoo)
06/04/1936 David Lyon, CEO (Bowater)
06/04/1937 Freddie Fender, Mexico, country singer (Feelings)
06/04/1938 Art Mahaffey, baseball player
06/04/1939 Phil Linz, baseball shortstop (NY Yankees)
06/04/1940 Dorothy Rudd Moore, composer
06/04/1940 Gerrit H Terpstra, economist/Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
06/04/1944 Michelle Phillips, singer/actress (Mamas & Papas)
06/04/1944 Roger Ball, Scotland, saxophonist (Average White Band)
06/04/1945 Anthony Braxton, jazz musician
06/04/1945 Daniel Topolski, writer/photographer/rowing coach
06/04/1945 Gordon Waller, Scotland, singer (Peter & Gordon-World Without Love)
06/04/1945 Ivan 'Ironman' Stewart, Mickey Thompson off-road champ (1983, 84, 90
06/04/1945 Margaret Impert, Horseheads NY, actress (Maggie, Spencer's Pilots)
06/04/1946 Bettina Gregory, newswoman (ABC-TV)
06/04/1948 Bob Champion, horse trainer/jockey
06/04/1948 Rosemary Joyce, model/actress (Daphne Draper-Search For Tomorrow)
06/04/1950 Brian Rose, cricketer (Somerset & England)
06/04/1950 Dagmar Krause, West Germany, singer (Henry Cow, Art Bears)
06/04/1950 Wayne Powers, New Rochelle NY, actor (Laverne & Shirley, 13 East)
06/04/1951 David Yip, actor (Ping Pong)
06/04/1951 Yvonne MCT van Rooy, Dutch Secretary of State Secretary (CDA)
06/04/1952 Carlene Watkins, actress (Tough Enough)
06/04/1952 Catherine Watkins, Hartford Ct, actress (It's Not Easy, Mary)
06/04/1952 Parker Stevenson, Phila Pa, actor (Falcon Crest, Stroker Ace)
06/04/1956 John Treacy, marathonr (Olympics-silver-1984)
06/04/1956 Terry Kennedy, baseball player
06/04/1957 Tony Pena, baseball player
06/04/1958 Julie Gholson, Birmingham Ala, actress (Where the Lilies Bloom)
06/04/1958 Tony Pigott, cricketer
06/04/1959 Lord Rayleigh, agri-businessman (Lord Rayleigh Farms)
06/04/1961 El Debarge, rocker (Debarge-All this Love)
06/04/1963 Mossimo Giannulli, fashion designer (hot)
06/04/1963 Xavier McDaniel, NBA forward (Seattle SuperSonics)
06/04/1964 Chris Kavanagh, rocker (Sigue Sigue Sputnik-Love Missile F-111)
06/04/1964 Steve Searcy, baseball player
06/04/1965 Andrea Jaeger, Chicago, tennis player (retired as a teenager)
06/04/1965 Beau Allred, baseball player
06/04/1965 Kurt Stillwell, baseball player
06/04/1968 Stacy Leigh Arthur, Naperville Ill, playmate (Jan, 1991)
06/04/1969 Robert Perez, baseball player
06/04/1971 Tanya Beyer, St Paul Minn, playmate (Feb, 1992)
06/04/1975 Betty Okino, Uganda, US gymnist (Olympic-92)
06/04/1992 Earvin Johnson III, son of NBA foward Magic Johnson
06/04/1993 ... Mowatt, grandson of English princess Alexandra
Deaths:
06/04/1039 Konrad II, King of Germany (1024-39), dies
06/04/1267 Hendrik of Vianden, bishop of Utrecht (1252-67), dies
06/04/1316 Louis X, King of France (1314-16), dies
06/04/1463 Flavio Biondi, Italian writer (Rome instaurata), dies at about 65
06/04/1558 Maximilian van Burgundy, leader of Holland, dies at 43
06/04/1585 Marc-Antoine de Muret, composer, dies at 58
06/04/1663 William Juxon, archbishop of Canterbury (1660-63), dies
06/04/1792 John Burgoyne, soldier/playwright, dies
06/04/1793 John Ekels de Young, painter, dies at 34
06/04/1798 Giovanni Jacopo Casanova, Ital Adventure/spy/librarian, dies
06/04/1809 Nicolai Arbraham Abildgaard, Danish painter/architect, dies at 65
06/04/1818 John van Well, choreographer/mime (Pierrot), dies at 44
06/04/1825 Ferdinand I, King of Sicily/Naples (Ferdinand IV), dies
06/04/1850 Willem F Mauritius HK, prince of Orange, dies at 74
06/04/1872 Johan R Thorbecke, literature/liberal premier, dies
06/04/1872 Stanislaw Moniuszko, composer, dies at 53
06/04/1875 Eduard M�rike, German vicar/poet/writer (Peregrina), dies
06/04/1876 Abd�l-Aziz, 32nd sultan of Turkey (1861-76), dies at 46
06/04/1880 Eugen Adam, painter, dies
06/04/1905 Carl Albert Loeschhorn, composer, dies at 85
06/04/1907 Agathe Grondahl, composer, dies at 59
06/04/1913 Emily Wilding Davidson, suffragette, trampled to death by a horse
06/04/1915 William Charles Denis Browne, composer, dies at 26
06/04/1921 Heinrich E Albers-Sch�nberg, German x-ray experimenter, dies at 56
06/04/1922 William Halse Rivers, British psychologist/anthropologist, dies
06/04/1925 Gheorghe Dima, composer, dies at 77
06/04/1925 Pierre Louys, [PF Louis], French writer (Aphrodite), dies
06/04/1926 Eugeen of Oye, Flemish writer/poet (Sparks & Radiates), dies
06/04/1926 Frederick Robert Spofforth, cricketer/demon bowler, dies
06/04/1931 Ibn Ali Hussein, King of Hejaz, dies
06/04/1941 Wilhelm II von Hohenzollern, emperor (Germany, 1888-1918), dies
06/04/1942 Reinhard Heydrich, German protector (Bohemia/Moravia (Lidice)), dies
06/04/1945 Georg Kaiser, playwright, dies
06/04/1951 Serge Koussevitsky, conductor/composer, dies at 76
06/04/1954 Harold Hoffman, (Gov-NJ), dies at 58
06/04/1956 Max Kowalski, composer, dies at 73
06/04/1959 Charles Vidor, director (Gilda, Farewell to Arms), dies at 58
06/04/1960 Lucien Littlefield, actor (Mr Beasley-Blondie), dies at 64
06/04/1962 William Beebe, US biologist/explorer, dies at 84
06/04/1965 Bernard Verhoeven, poet/educator (Pleidooi near een non), dies
06/04/1968 Dorothy Gish, [de Guiche], actress (Home Sweet Home), dies at 70
06/04/1970 Hjalmar Schcacht, [Horace Greeley], Nazi minister, dies
06/04/1970 Jopie [Johan A) Pengel, premier Suriname, dies
06/04/1970 Menasha Skulnik, comedian (Menasha the Magnificent), dies at 78
06/04/1970 Sonny Tufts, actor (Atomic Blonde, 7 Year Itch), dies at 58
06/04/1971 Gy�rgy Luk�cs, Hungarian philosopher, dies at 86
06/04/1972 Godfried Devreese, composer, dies at 79
06/04/1973 Arna Bontemps, writer (Harlem Renaissance), dies at 72 in Nashville
06/04/1973 Murray Wilson, father of beachboys Brian, Carl & Dennis, dies at 55
06/04/1975 Evelyn Brent, actress (Nitwits, Last Command, Spy Train), dies at 75
06/04/1989 Ayatalloh Ruhullah Khomeini, of Iran, dies at 86 of internal bleedin
06/04/1989 Vaclav Kaslik, composer, dies at 71
06/04/1990 Jack Gilford, comedic actor (Cocoon II), dies at 82 of stomach cance
06/04/1992 Carl Stotz, founder of baseball's little league, dies at 82
06/04/1993 June Smaney, actress, dies
Significant Events:
06/04/ 780 -BC- 1st total solar eclipse reliably recorded by Chinese
06/04/1070 Roquefort cheese created in a cave near Roquefort, France
06/04/1133 Rome-Innocentius II crowns Lotharius III Roman-German emperor
06/04/1632 Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Venlo
06/04/1647 British army seizes King Charles I as a prisoner
06/04/1664 Viceroy Willem Frederik conquerors Dijlerschans
06/04/1741 Prussia goes to the Covenant of Nymphenburg
06/04/1745 Frederick the Great (Prussia) defeats Austrians & Saxons
06/04/1783 Montgolfier brothers launch 1st hot-air balloon (unmanned)
06/04/1784 Mme Thible becomes 1st woman to fly (in a balloon)
06/04/1789 US constitution goes into effect
06/04/1792 Capt George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain
06/04/1805 Tripoli forced to conclude peace with US after war over tribute
06/04/1812 Louisiana Territory officially renamed 'Missouri Territory'
06/04/1825 Unseasonable hurricane hits NYC
06/04/1831 National Congress selects Leopold von Saksen-Coburg as King of Belgi
06/04/1832 3rd national black convention meets (Phila)
06/04/1845 Mexican-US war starts
06/04/1850 Empire Engine Company No 1 organized
06/04/1850 Self deodorizing fertilizer patented in England
06/04/1862 Confederates evacuate Ft Pillow, Tenn
06/04/1868 Van Bosse/Fock govt begins
06/04/1873 1st contract workers of British-Indie Co arrives in Suriname
06/04/1878 Cyprus ceded by Turkey to Britain for administrative purposes
06/04/1892 Oil City & Titusville Penn, destroyed by oil tank explosion; 130 die
06/04/1896 Henry takes his 1st Ford through streets of Detroit
06/04/1900 M Wolf & A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #456 Abnoba
06/04/1912 Cone of Mount Katmai (Alaska) collapses
06/04/1912 Massachusetts passes 1st US minimum wage law
06/04/1913 Suffragette Emily Davinson throws himself in front of king's horse
06/04/1916 Russian General Brusilov fails on his Eastern Front attack
06/04/1917 1st Pulitzer prize awarded to Richards & Elliott (Julia Ward Howe)
06/04/1917 Order of British Empire inaugurated
06/04/1918 M Wolf discovers asteroid #894 Erda
06/04/1919 Senate passes Women's Suffrage bill
06/04/1919 US marines invade Costa Rica
06/04/1920 Peace of Trianon between Allies & Hungary
06/04/1927 1st Ryders Cup (Golf), US beats England 9�-2�
06/04/1929 George Eastman demonstrates 1st technicolor movie (Rochester NY)
06/04/1932 Edouard Herriot becomes premier of France
06/04/1934 C Jackson discovers asteroid #2066 Palala
06/04/1937 L�on Blum becomes premier of People's front govt of France
06/04/1940 1st NL night game at Sportsman's Park (Dodgers 10, Cardinals 1)
06/04/1940 1st night game at Forbes Field (Pirates 14, Braves 2)
06/04/1940 British complete miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 300,000 troops
06/04/1940 German forces enter Paris
06/04/1941 Nazi's forbid Jews access to beach & swimming pools
06/04/1942 Battle of Midway begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II
06/04/1942 Capitol Record Co opens for business
06/04/1942 USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island
06/04/1943 Argentina taken over by Gen Rawson & Col Juan Per�n
06/04/1943 Race riots in LA
06/04/1943 St Louis Card Mort Cooper pitches his 2nd consecutive 1 hitter
06/04/1944 1st submarine captured & boarded on high seas-U 505
06/04/1944 5th Army enters & liberates Rome from Mussolini's Fascist armies
06/04/1944 French general De Gaulle arrives in London
06/04/1945 6th Marine division occupies Orokoe Peninsula Okinawa
06/04/1946 Largest solar prominence (300,000 mi/500,000 km) observed
06/04/1947 House of Reps approves Taft-Hartley act
06/04/1949 'Cavalcade of Stars' debuts (DuMont); Jackie Gleason made host in 19
06/04/1950 CVP wins Belgian parliamentary election
06/04/1950 Dutch cyclist Wim van Est wins Bordeaux-Paris (586 km in 17:25)
06/04/1951 Mississippi Valley State University founded
06/04/1951 Pirate's Gus Bell hits for cycle helps beat Phillies 12-4
06/04/1954 Arthur Murray flies X-1A rocket plane to record 27,000 m
06/04/1954 France grants Vietnam independence inside French Union
06/04/1956 Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public
06/04/1957 1st commercial coal pipeline placed in operation
06/04/1958 French premier De Gaulle arrives in Algiers
06/04/1962 Lee Harvey Oswald departs Rotterdam on SS Maasdam to US
06/04/1963 1st transmission of 'Pop Go the Beatles' on BBC radio
06/04/1963 British Minister of War John Profumo resigns due to Christine Keeler
06/04/1964 Beatles 'World Tour' begins in Copenhagen Denmark
06/04/1964 LA Dodger Sandy Koufax 3rd no-hitter beats Phil Phillies, 3-0
06/04/1964 Maldives adopts constitution
06/04/1965 Rolling Stones release 'Satisfaction'
06/04/1967 Emmy Awards-Monkees win for comedy series
06/04/1967 KTVN TV channel 2 in Reno, NV (CBS) begins broadcasting
06/04/1968 Don Drysdale pitches his 6th straight shutout, en route to 58 inning
06/04/1969 Nicky Hopkins quits rock & rolls, Jeff Beck Group
06/04/1970 Tonga (formerly Friendly Islands) declares independence from UK
06/04/1970 WSMW TV channel 27 in Worcester, MA (IND) begins broadcasting
06/04/1971 J Luns appointed secretary-general of NATO
06/04/1971 Oakland A's beat Wash Senators, 5-3, in 21 innings
06/04/1972 Angela Davis, black activist, acquitted of killing a white guard
06/04/1974 NFL grants franchise to Seattle Seahawks
06/04/1977 Violence during Puerto Rican Day in Chicago kills 2
06/04/1978 Liberal Julio Turbay Ayola wins Colombia elections
06/04/1979 South-African pres Vorster resigns due to scandal
06/04/1982 Israel attacks targets in south Lebanon
06/04/1984 Bruce Springsteen releases 'Born in the USA'
06/04/1985 STS 51-G vehicle moves to launch pad
06/04/1985 Supreme Court strikes down Alabama 'moment of silence' law
06/04/1986 Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in US court
06/04/1987 Danny Harris beats Edwin Moses, ends streak of 122 cons hurdle wins
06/04/1988 Longest game in Balt Memorial Stadium (5:46) 14 inn (beat NY 7-6)
06/04/1989 Beijing cop shoots & wounds Chinese priemer Li Ping
06/04/1989 Chinese Army tanks shoot on people in Beijing, kills 100s
06/04/1989 Eastern Europe's 1st somewhat free election in 40 years held in Pola
06/04/1989 Gas explodes near to 2 pass trains in USSR, kills 100s
06/04/1989 Largest parade in Bronx history honors 350th anniversary
06/04/1990 Greyhound Bus files bankruptcy
06/04/1990 NY Telephone company announces that it wants Bronx areacode 917
06/04/1991 1st post WW II non-communist government in Albania
06/04/1991 Pope John Paul II compares abortion with nazi murders
06/04/1991 Robert Strauss becomes US ambassador to Soviet Union
06/04/1992 USPO announces young Elvis beats old Elvis stamp
06/04/1994 Haile Gebre Selassie runs world record 5 km (12:56.96)
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