Subj : This Day In History
To : All
From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Thu Jun 17 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:
06/17/1239 Edward I, King of England (1272-1307)
06/17/1604 Johan Maurits, count of Nassau-Siegen (Maurits House)
06/17/1682 Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718)
06/17/1703 John B Wesley, England, religion co-founder (Methodists)
06/17/1714 Cesar F Cassini, 'the Thury', French astronomer (geodesic labor)
06/17/1725 Joseph Anton Bauer, composer
06/17/1742 William Hooper, signer (Decl of Ind)
06/17/1750 Michel Woldemar, composer
06/17/1756 Pierre-Joseph Cambon, French member of Committee of Salut Public
06/17/1811 Jon Sigurdsson, Iceland, leader/collects Icelandic legends
06/17/1817 Ivan K A�vazovski, Russan painter (Harbor Scenes)
06/17/1817 Thomas Maley Harris, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 190
06/17/1818 Charles Gounod, Paris, France, opera composer (Faust)
06/17/1818 Sophia Frederika Mathilde, queen of W�rttemberg
06/17/1823 John Henry Hobart Ward, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 190
06/17/1828 Jan K J de Jonge, historian
06/17/1830 Rochard Montgomery Gano, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 19
06/17/1832 William Crookes, chemist/physicist; discovered thallium
06/17/1837 Vincent Strong, civil war fighter, died in 1863
06/17/1838 Bankim C Chattopadhyaya, writer (Kapala-Kundala)
06/17/1838 Chattopadhyaya/Bankim Chandra, Bengalese writer (Monastery of Deligh
06/17/1845 Hendrik P Staal
06/17/1855 Fritz Steinbach, composer
06/17/1858 Eben Sumner Draper, (Gov-MA)
06/17/1861 Sidney James Jones, composer
06/17/1867 John Robert Gregg, Ireland, inventor (shorthand)
06/17/1870 George Cormack, created 'Wheaties' cereal
06/17/1871 James Weldon Johnson, lawyer (1st black admitted to Florida Bar)
06/17/1871 Nicolae Iorga, writer/poet/literature historian/pres of Romania
06/17/1875 Philipp A Kohnstamm, philosopher/theorist (Mensch & World)
06/17/1878 Albert Thomas, French socialist politician
06/17/1882 Igor F Stravinsky, Oranienbaum Russia, composer (Rite of Spring) [NS
06/17/1883 Alexandre Cellier, composer
06/17/1888 Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer, composer
06/17/1895 Louise Fazenda, US, actress/com�dienne (Almost an actress)
06/17/1895 Slavko Osterc, composer
06/17/1898 Maurits C Escher, graphic artist
06/17/1900 Hermann Reuter, composer
06/17/1900 Martin Bormann, propoganda minister of Hitler
06/17/1904 Coenrad van Emde Boas, sexologist
06/17/1904 Ralph Bellamy, Chicago, actor (Air Mail, Dive Bomber, Trading Places
06/17/1908 John Verrall, composer
06/17/1910 Herbert Owen Reed, composer
06/17/1910 Red Foley, Blue Lick Ky, country singer (Mr Smith Goes to Washington
06/17/1912 Don Gillis, Cameron Missouri, composer (Symphony #5�)
06/17/1914 John R Hersey, author (Hiroshima, Bell for Adano, Wall)
06/17/1915 Stringbean, [David Akeman], Ky, banjoist/comedian (Hee Haw)
06/17/1916 Einar Englund, composer
06/17/1918 Maldwyn Thomas, president (Welsh Liberal Party)
06/17/1919 Antonius C 'Ton' Lutz, Dutch actor/director (Lucifer)
06/17/1919 Galina Ivanova Ustvol'skaya, composer
06/17/1919 Kingman Brewster, college president (Yale)
06/17/1919 Max Dendermonde, [Henk Hazelhoff], literary
06/17/1920 Beryl Reid, actress (Joseph Andrews, Psychomania, Yellowbeard)
06/17/1920 Fran�ois Jacob, France, biologist/bacteriologist (Nobel 1965)
06/17/1920 Patrick Duffy, MP
06/17/1922 Herbert Kelsey Jones, composer
06/17/1922 Jerry Fielding, Pitts Pa, orch leader (Lively Ones)
06/17/1922 Paul Schall�ck, German writer (Don Quixote in Cologne)
06/17/1923 Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch, AAFC, NFL halfback, end (LA Rams)
06/17/1924 Henk J Hoekstra, president (CPN)
06/17/1925 Keith Larsen, Salt Lake City Utah, actor (Hunter, Brave Eagle)
06/17/1926 Alan Walters, political economist
06/17/1926 Manuel Enriquez, composer
06/17/1927 Austin J Murphy, (Rep-D-PA, 1977- )
06/17/1928 James Brown, soul singer (Hot Pants)
06/17/1929 Michael L Strang, (Rep-R-CO, 1985- )
06/17/1929 Tigran Petrosyan, USSR, world chess champion (1963-69)
06/17/1930 Brian Statham, cricketer
06/17/1930 James Gathers, Sumter SC, 200m runner (Olympic-bronze-1952)
06/17/1930 Romuald Twardowski, composer
06/17/1931 Virginia McKenna, London, actress (Born Free, Gathering Storm)
06/17/1932 Derek Ibbotson, athlete
06/17/1932 John P Murtha, (Rep-D-PA, 1974- )
06/17/1933 Christian Ferras, French violinist/conductor
06/17/1939 Donald Anderson, Labour MP
06/17/1940 Bobby Bell, NFL linebacker (KC Chiefs)
06/17/1940 Tony Marlow, conservative MP
06/17/1942 Norman Kuhlice, England, rocker (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good)
06/17/1943 Christopher Brown, composer
06/17/1943 Newton L Gingrich, (Rep-R-Georgia, 1979- )
06/17/1945 Eddy Merckx, Belgium, cyclist (5 time winner of Tour de France)
06/17/1945 Ken Livingstone, Labour MP
06/17/1945 Tony Roche, tennis coach
06/17/1946 Barry Manilow, NYC, singer/pianist (Mandy, I Write the Songs)
06/17/1946 Marcy Kaptur, (Rep-D-HA, 1983- )
06/17/1948 David Concepcion, Venezuela, all star shortstop (Cincinnati Reds)
06/17/1948 Rub�n Blades, Panama, singer/actor (Fatal Beauty, Critical Condition
06/17/1951 Joe Piscopo, Passaic NJ, comedian (SNL, Miller Lite commercials)
06/17/1954 Mark Linn-Baker, St Louis, actor (Larry Appleton-Perfect Strangers)
06/17/1956 Nicholas Cook, cricketer
06/17/1957 Philip Chevron, English pop musician (Pogues-Peace & Love)
06/17/1958 Dan McVicar, Independence Mo, actor (Clarke-Bold & Beautiful)
06/17/1964 Christy Cannon, XXX actress (Christy in the Wild)
06/17/1964 Michael Gross, West Germany, swimmer (Olympic-2 world records-1984)
06/17/1964 Steve Rhodes, cricketer
06/17/1965 Kami Cotler, Long Beach Calif, actress (Elizabeth-Waltons)
06/17/1969 Kevin Thornton, Amarillo, vocalist (Color Me Badd-Want to Sex You Up
06/17/1975 Frederick Koehler, Queens NY, actor (Chip-Kate & Allie)
06/17/1977 Bernardo Federico Tomas, Prince of Netherlands
06/17/1977 Jason Miller, Silver Springs Md, actor (New Mickey Mouse Club)
Deaths:
06/17/ 656 Osman ibn Affan, 3rd kalief of Islam (644-56) murdered
06/17/ 676 Adeodatus II, Italian Pope (672-76), dies
06/17/ 855 Leo IV, Italian Pope (847-55), dies
06/17/1091 Dirk V, count of Holland (1061-91), dies
06/17/1119 Boudew�n VII with the Axe, earl of Flanders (1111-19), dies
06/17/1501 Jan I Olbracht, King of Poland, dies
06/17/1672 Orazio Benevoli, composer, dies at 67
06/17/1678 Giacomo Torelli, composer, dies at 69
06/17/1696 Jan III Sobieski, King of Poland (1674-96), dies at 72
06/17/1696 Johannes II Sobieski, King of Poland (1674-96), dies
06/17/1719 Joseph Addison, English poet/writer/secretary of state, dies at 47
06/17/1797 Aga Mohammed Khan, cruel ruler of Persia, castrated & killed
06/17/1815 Hammida, Algerian admiral, dies in battle
06/17/1863 Isham W Garrott, US attorney/Confederate brig-general, dies in battl
06/17/1885 Gen Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel, mayor (Elzas-Lothar'n), dies
06/17/1905 M�ximo G�mez, Cuban general, dies at 68
06/17/1906 Harry N Pillsbury, US chess player, dies
06/17/1906 William Dale, international legal consultant, dies
06/17/1910 Lady Mosley, biographer, dies
06/17/1918 Derek Barber, CEO (Countryside Commission), dies
06/17/1928 Ramon de Basterra, Spanish writer/diplomat (Virulo, mocedades), dies
06/17/1936 Kenneth Loach, TV director (Singing the Blues in Red), dies
06/17/1938 Peter Michael, CEO (Cray Electronics), dies
06/17/1939 Eugene Weldman, last guillotined in France
06/17/1941 Johan Wagenaar, composer/conductor (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at 78
06/17/1951 Carl Vogler, composer, dies at 77
06/17/1952 Alberto Williams, composer, dies at 89
06/17/1953 Walter Niemann, composer, dies at 76
06/17/1959 Abdul Mouse, Indonesian nationalist foreman/author, dies at about 68
06/17/1961 Jeff Chandler, [Ira Grossel], actor (Away all boats), dies at 40
06/17/1963 Alain FB Alanbrooke, 1st viscount of Brookeborough, dies at 79
06/17/1963 John Whiting, British dramatist/actor (Devils), dies
06/17/1965 Arnold Me�er, leader (Fascist Nationally Front), dies
06/17/1973 Luis Van Rooten, actor (One Man's Family), dies at 66
06/17/1974 Pamela Britton, actress (Blondie, My Favorite Martian), dies at 50
06/17/1978 Cully Richards, actor (Don't Call Me Charlie), dies at 68
06/17/1979 Lou Frizzel, actor (Dusty Rhoades-Bonanza), dies at 58
06/17/1983 Peter Mennin, composer, dies at 60
06/17/1984 Chet Allen, actor (Jerry-Bonino, Slats-Troubleshooter), dies at 51
06/17/1984 Swale, Kentucky Derby winner, collapses & dies
06/17/1985 Piet de Somer, Belgian rector of University of Leuven, dies at 67
06/17/1986 Jef Keuleers, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 75
06/17/1986 Kate Smith, singer (God Bless America), dies in Raleigh NC at 78
06/17/1987 Dick Howser, NY Yankee & KC Royal mgr, dies at 51 of brain cancer
06/17/1989 David S Griggs, astronaut, dies in crash of WW II vintage plane
06/17/1989 John Matusek, Oakland Raider/actor, dies at 38 of a heart attack
06/17/1990 Dick Elffers, graphic artist, dies
06/17/1990 Palmira Henry, fashion designer, dies at 44 of cerebral hemorrhage
06/17/1992 Dewey Balfa, bayou fiddler, dies at 65
06/17/1992 Frederick Exley, novelist (Fan's Note), dies at 63
06/17/1993 Angus Suttie, English potter, dies of AIDS at 46
06/17/1993 French of Nouhuys, civil servant in Indonesia, dies at 88
Significant Events:
06/17/ 2 -BC- Venus-Jupiter conjunction, 'star of Bethlehem?'
06/17/ 653 St Martin I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
06/17/ 656 Ali ibn Abu Talib chosen kalief of Islam
06/17/ 676 Deusdedit III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
06/17/1091 Floris II de Vette becomes earl of Holland
06/17/1119 Charles the Good becomes earl of Flanders
06/17/1291 Akko reconquered after 200 years by French crusaders, & destroyed
06/17/1397 Union of Kalmar established between Denmark, Sweden & Norway
06/17/1579 Sir Francis Drake lands on coast of Calif
06/17/1580 Battle at Hardenberg: Spanish troops beat rebels
06/17/1583 Brabant: duke of Parma beats French mercenaries
06/17/1700 Mass orders priest to leave the colony
06/17/1745 American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton I from French
06/17/1775 Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill)
06/17/1789 3rd Estate in France declared itself a national assembly
06/17/1815 Stephen Decatur conquerors Algerian frigate Mashouda
06/17/1837 Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent
06/17/1850 Paddle-wheeler 'G P Griffith' burns off Mentor Ohio (206 die)
06/17/1855 Heavy French/British bombing of Sebastopol, 2000+ killed
06/17/1856 Republican Party opens its 1st national convention in Philadelphia
06/17/1861 Battle of Boonville, MI-Brig General Lyon defeats Conmfederate force
06/17/1863 Battle at Middleburg Virginia
06/17/1863 Battle of Aldie, Confederates fail to drive back Union in Virginia
06/17/1863 Naval Engagement at Warsaw Sound GA-USS Weehawken vs CSS Atlanta
06/17/1863 Travelers Insurance Co of Hartford chartered (1st accident insurer)
06/17/1864 -18] Confederate troops pull back out Solves/lost Mt, Georgia
06/17/1864 General John B Hood replaces General Johnston
06/17/1864 Skirmish at Mud Creek/Noyes's (Nose) Creek, Georgia
06/17/1876 1st to hit 2 HRs; & score 5 runs in 9 inn NL game (George Hall, A's)
06/17/1876 Battle of Rosebud/Battle Where Girl Saved Her Brother
06/17/1880 John Ward, Providence, pitches perfect game vs Buffalo
06/17/1882 Tornado kills 130 in Iowa
06/17/1885 Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard French ship `Isere'
06/17/1894 1st US poliomyelitis epidemic breaks out, Rutland, Vermont
06/17/1897 William Frank Powell, NJ educator, named minister to Haiti
06/17/1898 US Senate agrees to annex Hawaii
06/17/1909 A Kopff discovers asteroid #682 Hagar
06/17/1911 Belgium govt of De Broqueville forms
06/17/1915 League to Enforce Peace forms in Philadelphia
06/17/1916 1st national congress of Sarekat Islam at Bandoeng Java
06/17/1916 US troops under Gen Pershing march into Mexico
06/17/1917 British king George V takes the name Windsor
06/17/1919 'Barney Google' cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premieres
06/17/1920 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Anti-revolution law
06/17/1930 Chuck Klein sets Phillies hitting streak at 26 straight games
06/17/1932 Oil tanker Cymbeline explodes in Montreal, Canada
06/17/1933 Kansas City Massacre: 1 FBI agent, 4 cops & 1 gangster killed by mob
06/17/1937 Marx Brothers' 'A Day At The Races' opens in NY
06/17/1938 Japan declares war on China
06/17/1940 France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II
06/17/1940 General De Gaulle departs Bordeaux for London
06/17/1940 Germany occupiers ration bread in Holland
06/17/1942 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast)
06/17/1944 -19] French troops under Lattre de Tssigny conquer Elba
06/17/1944 Col Blake, poet [Mr of Heaven Good Heart] arrive in London
06/17/1944 Iceland declares independence from Denmark at Thingvallir, Iceland
06/17/1944 Resistance fighter Col Blake reachs London
06/17/1945 Day of Unity in West Germany (National Day)
06/17/1946 SW Bell innaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St Louis
06/17/1947 1st round-the-world civil air service leaves NYC
06/17/1947 Earnest Reuter becomes mayor of Berlin
06/17/1948 Joe Cronin pinch hit HRs in both ends of a doubleheader
06/17/1950 1st kidney transplant (Chicago)
06/17/1950 Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia & Syria sign security pact
06/17/1952 2 mine cave-ins at Charleroi, Belgium
06/17/1953 Riots in East Germany for reunification
06/17/1954 CIA exile army lands in Guatemala (JF Dulles & United Fruit Co)
06/17/1954 Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Ezzard Charles in NYC
06/17/1954 Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends
06/17/1957 Tuskegee boycott begins (Blacks boycotted city stores)
06/17/1958 Radio Moscow reports execution of Hungarian ex-premier Imre Nagy
06/17/1959 Eamon de Valera elected pres of Ireland
06/17/1960 Ted Williams hit his 500th HR
06/17/1961 Gene Littler wins US Open golf tournament
06/17/1961 Russian ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev defects to west in Frankfurt
06/17/1962 Brazil Beats Czechosolakia in soccer's 7th World Cup at Santiago
06/17/1962 Jack Nicklaus wins US Open golf tournament
06/17/1963 British House of Commons debates Profumo-Christine Keeler affair
06/17/1963 Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools
06/17/1965 11.08' (28.14 cm) of rainfall, Holly, Colorado (state 24-hour record
06/17/1965 1st bombing by B-52 (50 km north of Saigon)
06/17/1965 Kinks arrive in NYC beginning their 1st US tour
06/17/1967 1st Chinese hydrogen bomb explodes
06/17/1967 Barbra Striesand: A Happening in Central Park performed
06/17/1967 China becomes world's 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power
06/17/1968 Belgium govt of Eyskens-Merlot forms
06/17/1968 KQEC TV channel 32 in San Francisco, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
06/17/1971 C U Cesco discovers asteroid #2399 Terradas
06/17/1972 5 arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ at Watergate
06/17/1972 Chile president Allende forms new government
06/17/1972 Looking Glass releases 'Brandy'
06/17/1973 Johnny Miller wins US Open golf tournament
06/17/1973 Russian party leader Brezjnev visits US
06/17/1974 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroids #2997 & #3083
06/17/1975 Voters in Northern Mariana Is approve commonwealth status with US
06/17/1976 ABA (Nets, Pacers, Nuggets & Spurs) merges into NBA
06/17/1976 Indonesia annexes Portuguese East-Timor
06/17/1978 Ron Guidry sets Yankee record with 18 strike-outs
06/17/1979 Hale Irwin wins again US Open golf tournament
06/17/1980 C Shoemaker discovers asteroid #2586 Matson
06/17/1981 Battle between muslims & christians in Cairo, 14 killed
06/17/1982 Pres Reagan 1st UN Gen Assembly address ('evil empire' speech)
06/17/1982 President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat
06/17/1984 John Turner succeeds Pierre Trudeau as premier of Canada
06/17/1985 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 launched
06/17/1986 Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns Antonin Scalia nominated
06/17/1988 Bruce Springsteen separates from Juliette Phillips
06/17/1988 Givens' Family reports Mike Tyson beats his wife Robin Givens
06/17/1988 Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0
06/17/1988 Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case
06/17/1989 US beats Guatemala 2-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
06/17/1991 Country entertainer Minnie Pearl suffers a stroke at 78
06/17/1991 Pres Zachary Taylors body is exhumed to test how he died
06/17/1992 Conn Gov Lowell Weicker & WFAN DJ Don Imus change places for 1 day
06/17/1992 Phila 76ers trade Charles Barkley to Phoenix Suns
06/17/1992 Slaughtering by Inkhata-followers at Boipatong, S Africa, kills 42
06/17/1994 1994 World Cup soccer match begin, Germany vs Bolivia in Chicago
06/17/1994 OJ Simpson doesn't turn himself in on murder charges, LA cops chase
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