Today's Famous Birthdays

1826 George McClellan, American Major General (Union Army), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1885)

1857 Joseph Conrad, Polish novelist (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness), born in Berdychiv, Poland (d. 1924)

1948 Ozzy Osbourne, English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter (Black Sabbath), born in Birmingham, England

1960 Julianne Moore, American actress (Magnolia, The Kids are Alright), born in Fayetteville, North Carolina

Who Died Today in History?

311 Diocletian, Roman Emperor (284-305), dies at 66

1894 Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist (Treasure Island), dies at 45

1910 Mary Baker Eddy, founder (Christian Science (Monitor)), dies at 89

1919 Pierre A Renoir, French painter/sculptor, dies at 78

Today's Weddings & Divorces in History

1931 Silent film actress Clara Bow (26) weds actor and politician Rex Bell (28) in Las Vegas

1940 Nobel Prize winning author Albert Camus (27) weds pianist and mathematician Francine Faure (25) in Lyon, France

1993 Baseball player Darryl Strawberry (31) weds Charisse Simon (26

Today's Historical Events

1678 Edmond Halley receives MA from The Queen's College, Oxford

1730 Colley Cibber is appointed British Poet Laureate under King George II

1736 Astronomer Anders Celsius takes measurements that confirm Newton's theory that the earth was an ellipsoid rather than the previously accepted sphere

1828 Andrew Jackson elected 7th US President

1847 Frederick Douglass publishes first issue of his newspaper "North Star"

1863 Confederate General James Longstreet abandons his siege at Knoxville, TN

1868 1st blacks on US trial jury appointed for Jefferson Davis trial

1881 Henry Morton Stanley founds Leopoldville (now Kinshasa)

1911 Willis Carrier presents his influential "Rational Psychrometric Formulae" on air conditioning to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

1926 Detective novelist Agatha Christie mysteriously disappears for 11 days

1933 Connie Mack sells Mickey Cochrane to Det Tigers for $100,000

1941 Hitler views Poltava, Ukraine

1943 Howard Hanson's 4th Symphony premieres

1947 Tennessee Williams' "Streetcar Named Desire" premieres in NYC

1948 Don Bradman scores his last century, 123 in his own testimonia

1950 Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast

1953 Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in the Republican Party

1954 Samuel Barber's "Prayers of Kierkegaard" premieres

1956 Wilt Chamberlain's 1st collegiate basketball game (scores 52 )

1967 Fomrer Indonesian president Sukarno placed under house arrest

1967 Assassination attempt made on Bob Marley and others during concert rehearsals in Jamaica

1971 US President Richard Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term

1982 "Frances", film depicting life of actress Frances Frances and starring Jessica Lange, first released in the US

1984 "Do They Know It's Christmas" single written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure and sung by Band Aid is released in the UK

1985 7th ACE Cable Awards: Shelley Duvall wins the Golden CableACE for "Faerie Tale Theatre"

1989 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush, declare the Cold War over

1991 Hulk Hogan defeats Undertaker to become 4th time WWF champion

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