April 10......

April 10 is the 100th (101st in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 265 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Certainty "Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty." — Friedrich Nietzsche

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Obtuseness "Four-fifths of all our problems would disappear if we would only sit down and keep still." — Calvin Coolidge, Republican president of the United States prior to the stock market crash

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 837 - Comet 1P/837 F1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0334 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth

● 847 - St Leo IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope

● 879 - Louis III, crowned King of France

● 1500 - France captures duke Ludovico Sforza of Milan

● 1512 - Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen

● 1516 - 1st ghetto, Jews are compelled to live in specific area of Venice

● 1552 - Henri II of France occupies Metz

● 1589 - Spanish troops conquer Geertruidenberg

● 1656 - Dutch fleet occupiers Colombo Ceylon

● 1694 - Duke Victor Amadeus of Savoye attacks Casale

● 1729 - Advertisement in American Weekly Mercury offered Indian woman and child for sale.

● 1739 - Dick Turpin executed in England for horse stealing

● 1741 - War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz.

● 1790 - United States Patent system established

● 1790 - Robert Gray is 1st American to circumnavigate the Earth

● 1809 - Austria declared war on France and its forces entered Bavaria.

● 1814 - Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Toulouse by the British and the Spanish. The defeat led to his abdication and exile to Elba.

● 1815 - Austria declares war on realm of Naples

● 1815 - Mount Tambora eruption covers several islands with ash in Indonesia.

● 1816 - In Philadelphia, church reformer Richard Allen, 56, was elected the first bishop of the newly-created African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. (Previously, in 1799, Allen had been the first black ordained to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church.)

● 1816 - The U.S. government approved the creation of a Second Bank of the United States.

● 1821 - Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hung by the Turks from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus.

● 1825 - 1st hotel in Hawaii opens

● 1825 - Nicaraguan constituent assembly meets at León

● 1826 - The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town Messolonghi start leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.

● 1835 - Charles Darwin returns to Santiago, Chile

● 1838 - Birth of Edward Kremser, German chorister. Included among his numerous vocal and instrumental works is the enduring hymn tune KREMSER ("We Gather Together").

● 1845 - More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh PA

● 1847 - Joseph Pulitzer, influential 19th-century American newspaper editor and publisher , was born.

● 1848 - Revolution in Paris.

● 1848 - Mass meeting of Chartists, campaigning for civil rights. Kennington Common, Surrey, Britain. A procession to the House of Commons to present a petition for civil rights was prevented by authorities.

● 1849 - Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (New York NY); sold rights for $100

● 1854 - The constitution of the Orange Free State in south Africa was proclaimed.

● 1856 - Theta Chi Fraternity Founded at Norwich University

● 1862 - Union forces began the bombardment of Fort Pulaski in Georgia along the Tybee River.

● 1863 - Rebel General Earl Van Dorn attacks at Franklin TN

● 1864 - Archduke Maximilian, supported by a French army, became Emperor of Mexico.

● 1865 - At Appomattox, General Lee issues General Order #9, his last

● 1865 - American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.

● 1865 - The last photograph of Abraham Lincoln alive was taken.

● 1866 - The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh.

● 1868 - At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor Theodore. While 700 Ethiopians are killed and many more injured, only two die from the British/ Indian troops.

● 1869 - Congress increases number of Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9

● 1872 - 1st National black convention meets in New Orleans

● 1872 - Arbor day 1st celebrated in Nebraska, later changed to April 22

● 1877 - Federal troops withdrawn from Columbia SC

● 1877 - 1st human cannonball act performed in London

● 1878 - California State Cable Car Railroad Company starts service

● 1884 - US Senate accepts Belgian administration of Congo

● 1887 - President Abraham Lincoln is re-buried with his wife in Springfield IL

● 1902 - South African Boers accepted British terms of surrender.

● 1917 - Gandhi begins Champaran satyagraha, India.

● 1917 - Munition factory explosion at Eddystone PA, kills 133 workers

● 1919 - Mexican anarchist revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata ambushed and assassinated by Mexican troops, age 29, Chinameca, Mexico. One of the main participants in the peasant uprisings against the central government's authority from 1910 until his death.

● 1922 - The Genoa Conference opened. The meeting was used to discuss the reconstruction of Europe after World War I.

● 1923 - Hitler demands "hatred & more hatred" in Berlin

● 1924 - The first train robbery is reported in Greece outside the city of Larissa.

● 1925 - Czarina re-christens Stalingrad (now Volgograd)

● 1930 - Birth of Dolores Huerta, prominent Chicana labor activist.

● 1930 - Synthetic rubber 1st produced

● 1932 - Paul von Hindenburg was elected president of Germany with 19 million votes. Adolf Hitler came in second with 13 million votes.

● 1933 - New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps is created.

● 1933 - Death of Henry Van Dyke, 81, an American Presbyterian clergyman and author. He is still remembered for two writings: a book, "The Story of the Other Wise Man" (1896), and a hymn, "Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee" (1908).

● 1936 - 200" mirror blank arrives in Pasadena

● 1938 - Germany annexed Austria. 99.75 percent of Austrians had voted in a referendum to merge with Germany.

● 1938 - 2nd government of Blum replaced by Daladier government in France

● 1938 - New York makes syphilis test mandatory in order to get a marriage license

● 1939 - Colijn's Dutch government opens camp Westerbork for German Jews

● 1939 - Grens mobilization due to Italian invasion in Albania

● 1940 - Vidkun Quisling forms Norwegian "national government"

● 1941 - In World War II, U.S. troops occupied Greenland to prevent Nazi infiltration.

● 1941 - Ford Motor Co. became the last major automaker to recognize the United Auto Workers as the representative for its workers.

● 1941 - German troops conquer Libyan county Cyrenaica

● 1941 - World War II: The Axis Powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustase fascist insurgents in power.

● 1942 - Cigarettes & candy rationed in Holland

● 1943 - 12 Jewish patients of Herren Loo-Lozenoord escape Nazi's

● 1943 - General Montgomery occupies Sfax Tunisia

● 1944 - Soviet forces liberate Odessa from Nazi's

● 1944 - Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escape from Birkenau death camp.

● 1945 - U.S. medical staff at an Oak Ridge, Tennessee hospital inject plutonium into the survivor of a car accident. Thus begins an enormous (and until the 1990s, top-secret) U.S. government program, which did not end until the mid-1970s, to investigate the effects of radioactive materials when injected into live humans.

● 1945 - U.S. Armed forces liberated the prison camp at Buchenwald, Germany. It was estimated that nearly 57,000 prisoners (mostly Jews) perished in the gas chambers of Buchenwald during its eight-year existence as a Nazi concentration camp.

● 1945 - German Me 262 jet fighters shot down ten U.S. bombers near Berlin.

● 1945 - Canadian troops conquer Deventer

● 1945 - General Blaskowitz becomes Nazi leader of "Fort Holland"

● 1945 - German troops attack Ijsselbrug

● 1945 - US troops land on Tsugen Shima Okinawa

● 1946 - 1st election for Japanese Diet

● 1947 - Brooklyn Dodgers president Branch Rickey announced he had purchased the contract of Jackie Robinson from the Montreal Royals. Jackie Robinson appears in first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers, becoming the first African-American to play major league baseball after 78 years of segregation. The game, until a franchise moved to Atlanta in the mid-'60s, was played entirely in northern cities.

● 1947 - King Frederik IX of Denmark crowned

● 1948 - Jewish Hagana repels an Arab attack on Mishmar HaEmek

● 1955 - Death of Jessie Wallace Hughan, founder of War Resisters League.

● 1955 - Ruth Ellis shoots jilting lover David Blakely

● 1955 - Dr Jonas Salk successfully tests Polio vaccine

● 1957 - Jordanian government of Naboelsi resigns

● 1957 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test

● 1957 - The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.

● 1958 - Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco

● 1960 - Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill

● 1961 - Adolf Eichmann tried as a war criminal in Israel

● 1961 - Dutch foreign minister Luns talks to President John F Kennedy about New Guinea

● 1963 - The submarine USS Thresher is lost at sea, with all hands (129 officers, crewmen and civilian technicians). The submarine imploded after it was unable to resurface because of "breaching testing."

● 1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1964 - Iranian motor launch catches fire & sinks killing 113 (Persian Gulf)

● 1968 - U.S. President Johnson replaced General Westmoreland with General Creighton Abrams in Vietnam.

● 1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1968 - Dozens die in NZ ferry disaster; Fifty-one people die when a ferry capsizes in Wellington harbour, New Zealand, during one of the worst storms ever to hit the country.

● 1970 - The Russian Orthodox Church in America was granted autocephalic independence by its Mother organization, the Russian Orthodox Church. Headquartered today in Syosset, New York, membership in this religious body currently numbers approximately one million.

● 1970 - Vietnam War: 48 percent of the Americans polled in a Gallup Poll approve of U.S. President Richard M. Nixon's Vietnam policy, while 41 percent disapprove

● 1971 - 90-year-old Jeanette Rankin, the first U.S. Congresswoman and the only member of Congress to vote against U.S. entry to both World Wars, leads 8,000 women in march on Pentagon to protest war in Vietnam.

● 1971 - The American table tennis team arrived in China. They were the first group of Americans officially allowed into China since the founding of the People Republic in 1949. The team had received the surprise invitation while in Japan for the 31st World Table Tennis Championship.

● 1972 - 20 days after he was kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is executed by communist guerrillas.

● 1972 - Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967 American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.

● 1972 - 7.0 earthquake kills 1/5 of population of Iranian province of Fars

● 1972 - Convention prohibiting biological weapons signed, London, Moscow, and Washington.

● 1973 - Pakistan suspends constitution

● 1973 - A British Vanguard turboprop crashes during a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104.

● 1973 - In Switzerland, 108 people died when a plane crashed while attempting to land at Basel.

● 1974 - Yitzhak Rabin replaced resigning Israeli Prime Minister, Golda Meir. Meir resigned over differences within her Labor Party.

● 1978 - Volkswagen becomes the first non-American automobile manufacturer to build cars in the United States, opening a plant in Pennsylvania.

● 1979 - On "Terrible Tuesday", a tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.

● 1979 - Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian & a Bulgarian

● 1980 - Spain and Britain agreed to reopen the border between Gibraltar and Spain. It had been closed since 1969.

● 1981 - U.N. approves world treaty assuring no civilians should be attacked with "napalm, mines, or booby-traps." Defeated by U.S. veto.

● 1981 - Brixton Riots - Beginning of a weekend of rioting in the racially mixed section of London, known as Brixton. Young people set fire to buildings and cars, pelted cops with bricks, and looted stores. Roving gangs directly fought cops with bricks, iron bars, and Molotovs.

● 1981 - Computer glitch keeps Space Shuttle Columbia grounded

● 1981 - Hunger striker elected MP; Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands has been elected to Westminster as the MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone.

● 1981 - France performs nuclear test

● 1983 - Jordan's King Hussein ceases negotiations with PLO

● 1984 - Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle

● 1984 - Five hundred thousand rally for direct presidential elections and an end to military rule. Later they win second demand. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

● 1984 - U.S. Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors.

● 1985 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-B mission

● 1986 - Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan

● 1986 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1988 - On Wall Street, 48 million shares of Navistar International stock changed hands in a single-block trade. It was the largest transaction ever executed on the New York Stock Exchange.

● 1989 - Intel announces shipment of the 80486 chip

● 1989 - H J Heinz, Van Camp Seafood & Bumble Bee Seafood say they will not buy tuna caught in nets that also trap dolphins

● 1990 - Three European hostages kidnapped at sea in 1987 by Palestinian extremists were released in Beirut.

● 1990 - CUNY/Lehman College, Bronx, opens a branch campus in Hiroshma Japan

● 1991 - Last automat (coin operated cafeteria) closes (3rd & 42nd St, New York NY)

● 1991 - Italian ferry "Moby Prince" collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140.

● 1991 - A rare tropical storm develops in the Southern Hemisphere near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites.

● 1992 - 25 die in a bus bombing in Sri Lanka

● 1992 - A bomb exploded in London's financial district. The bomb, set off by the Irish Republican Army, killed three people and injured 91.

● 1992 - Outside Needles, CA, comedian Sam Kinison was killed when a pickup truck slammed into his car on a desert road between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

● 1992 - In Los Angeles, financier Charles Keating Jr. was sentenced to nine years in prison for swindling investors when his Lincoln Savings and Loan collapsed. The convictions were later overturned.

● 1993 - South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani was assassinated.

● 1994 - NATO warplanes launched air strikes for the first time on Serb forces that were advancing on the Bosnian Muslim town of Gordazde. The area had been declared a U.N. safe area.

● 1995 - California judge rules that assault-type weapons manufacturers can be sued for carnage resulting from the product's use.

● 1995 - The Coalition Against the USS Des Moines holds a rally opposing the placing of the retired warship in Duluth, Minnesota.

● 1995 - NYC bans smoking in all restaurants that seat 35 or more

● 1996 - U.S. President Clinton vetoed a bill that would have outlawed a technique used to end pregnancies in their late stages.

● 1998 - Negotiators reached a peace accord on governing British ruled Northern Ireland. Britain's direct rule was ended.

● 1999 - The www.June4.org web site was launched by Chinese dissidents and human rights activists to promote their campaign for democracy in China.

● 2000 - Damages for sacked HIV manager
A shop manager who was sacked for being HIV positive is to receive thousands of pounds in compensation.

● 2000 - Monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) reported irregularities in the voting in Georgia's presidential election on April 9. President Eduard Shevardnadze was reelected to a new five-year term.

● 2001 - Jane Swift took office as the first female governor of Massachusetts. She succeeded Paul Cellucci, who had resigned to become the U.S. ambassador to Canada.

● 2001 - The Netherlands legalized mercy killings and assisted suicide for patients with unbearable, terminal illness.

● 2002 - Eight Israelis were killed by a suicide bomber aboard a bus in Haifa.

● 2002 - Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke before the U.S. Senate as a representative of the Israeli government. He warned that suicide bombers would spread to the U.S. if Israel was not allowed to finish its military offensive in the West Bank. Netanyaho also cited the goals of dismantling the terror regime and expelling Arafat from the region, ridding the Palestinian territories of terrorist weapons and establishing "physical barriers" to protect Israelis from future Palestinian attacks.

● 2003 - Baghdad falls to invading U.S./U.K. army. Widespread looting begins. {Rumsfeld's comment at the time, "Stuff happens."}

● 2003 - The House passed a bill creating a national Amber Alert system and strengthening child pornography laws.

● 2006 - Hundreds of thousands protest H.R. 4437 (aka the "Sensenbrenner Bill") in cities across the United States.

BIRTHS

● 1389 - Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1464)

● 1583 - Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (d. 1645)

● 1647 - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, (Surfer query: d.o.b. correct? See Wilmot's entry: April 1) English satirical poet (d. [[1680])

● 1651 - Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (d. 1708)

● 1656 - René Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France (d. 1718)

● 1704 - Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar (d. 1766)

● 1713 - John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist (d. 1788)

● 1755 - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician (d. 1843)

● 1762 - Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (d. 1834)

● 1778 - William Hazlitt, English writer (d. 1830)

● 1783 - Hortense de Beauharnais, French-born queen of Holland and wife of Louis Bonaparte (d. 1837)

● 1794 - Matthew Perry, American commodore (d. 1858)

● 1810 - Benjamin H. Day, American printer and journalist; founded The New York Sun (d. 1889)

● 1827 - Lewis Wallace, American soldier, lawyer and author; wrote "Ben-Hur" (d. 1905)

● 1829 - William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army (d. 1912)

● 1838 - Frank Baldwin, American inventor; known for the Monroe calculator (d. 1925)

● 1847 - Joseph Pulitzer, American journalist and publisher (d. 1911)

● 1864 - Eugen d'Albert, German composer (d. 1932)

● 1867 - George William Russell, Irish nationalist (d. 1935)

● 1868 - George Arliss, English actor (d. 1946)

● 1870 - Vladimir Lenin, Russian Communist leader of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917) (d. 1924)

● 1880 - Montague Summers, English writer (d. 1948)

● 1880 - Mohammed Nadir Shah, Afghan king

● 1882 - Frances Perkins, American politician (d. 1965)

● 1887 - Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)

● 1894 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist (d. 1983)

● 1910 - Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (d. 2004)

● 1911 - Martin Denny, American musician (d. 2005)

● 1913 - Stefan Heym, German author (d. 2001)

● 1915 - Harry Morgan, American actor ("Dragnet," "MASH")

● 1917 - Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)

● 1921 - Chuck Connors, American actor (d. 1992)

● 1921 - Sheb Wooley, American actor and singer (d. 2003)

● 1926 - Junior Samples, American musician (d. 1983)

● 1927 - Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

● 1929 - Max von Sydow, Swedish actor

● 1929 - Liz Sheridanress ("Seinfeld")

● 1930 - Claude Bolling, French jazz composer/pianist

● 1930 - Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actress/comedienne (d. 2006)

● 1930 - Spede Pasanen, Finnish comedian (d. 2001)

● 1932 - Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor

● 1934 - David Halberstam, American writer

● 1934 - Vladimir Posner, Russian journalist

● 1936 - Bobbie Smith, R&B singer (The Spinners)

● 1936 - John Madden, American football coach and broadcaster

● 1937 - Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet

● 1938 - Don Meredith, American football player and broadcaster

● 1941 - Paul Theroux, American author

● 1943 - Andrzej Badeński, Polish athlete

● 1946 - David Angell, American television producer (d. 2001)

● 1947 - Bunny Wailer, Jamaican musician

● 1948 - Mel Blount, Football Hall of Famer

● 1950 - Ken Griffey, Sr., baseball player

● 1950 - Eddie Hazel, American guitarist (P-Funk and The Temptations) (d. 1992)

● 1951 - David Helvarg, American journalist and environmental activist

● 1951 - Steven Seagal, American actor

● 1953 - Terre Roche, Folk singer (The Roches)

● 1954 - Peter MacNicol, actor ("24," "Ally McBeal","Numb3rs")

● 1955 - Lesley Garrett, British soprano

● 1957 - John M. Ford, American science fiction author and poet (d. 2006)

● 1957 - Steve Gustafson, American rock bassist (10,000 Maniacs)

● 1958 - Yefim Bronfman, Russian-born pianist

● 1958 - Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, American music producer, musician, and film producer

● 1959 - Brian Setzer, American musician (Stray Cats)

● 1959 - Yvan Loubier, Quebec politician

● 1960 - Katrina Leskanich, American singer (Katrina and the Waves)

● 1960 - Afrika Bambaataa, Rapper

● 1960 - Steve Bisciotti, owner of the Baltimore Ravens

● 1961 - Jeb Adams, Actor

● 1962 - Steve Tasker, American football player

● 1963 - Warren DeMartini, American rock guitarist (Ratt)

● 1963 - Doris Leuthard, member of the Swiss Federal Council

● 1965 - Tim "Herb" Alexander, Rock musician (Primus)

● 1967 - Donald Dufresne, French Canadian ice hockey player

● 1968 - Orlando Jones, American actor and comedian

● 1969 - Billy Jayne, American actor

● 1969 - Ekaterini Koffa, Greek sprinter

● 1970 - Kenny Lattimore, American singer

● 1970 - Mike Mushok, American rock guitarist (Staind)

● 1970 - Q-Tip, American rapper and actor

● 1970 - Petros Passalis, Greek footballer

● 1970 - Leonard Dorin, Canadian boxer

● 1970 - Enrico Ciccone, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1973 - Roberto Carlos da Silva, Brazilian footballer

● 1973 - Christopher Simmons, American designer

● 1973 - Guillaume Canet, French actor and director

● 1975 - Chris Carrabba, American singer (Dashboard Confessional)

● 1976 - Sara Renner, Canadian cross country skier

● 1979 - Shemekia Copeland, American singer

● 1979 - Rachel Corrie, American activist (d. 2003)

● 1979 - Tsuyoshi Domoto, Japanese artist

● 1979 - Sophie Ellis-Bextor, English singer

● 1979 - Marlena Hall (Troncoso), American comic book colorist/web designer

● 1980 - Sean Avery, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1980 - Charlie Hunnam, British actor

● 1980 - Kasey Kahne, American race-car driver

● 1980 - Bryce Soderberg, American rock bassist (Lifehouse)

● 1981 - Liz McClarnon, British singer

● 1981 - Michael Pitt, American actor

● 1981 - Alexei Semenov, Russian ice hockey player

● 1982 - Damián Lanza, Ecuadorian footballer

● 1982 - Chyler Leigh, American actress

● 1983 - Ryan Merriman, American actor

● 1984 - Mandy Moore, American singer/actress

● 1985 - Dion Phaneuf, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1986 - Vincent Kompany, Belgian footballer

● 1986 - Fernando Gago, Argentine footballer

● 1987 - Hayley Westenra, New Zealand soprano

● 1988 - Haley Joel Osment, American actor ("The Sixth Sense")

● 1990 - Alex Pettyfer, English actor

● 1991 - Amanda Michalka (AJ), American singer and actress

DEATHS

● 879 - Louis the Stammerer, King of the West Franks (b. 846)

● 1533 - King Frederick I of Denmark (b. 1471)

● 1545 - Costanzo Festa, Italian composer

● 1585 - Pope Gregory XIII (b. 1502)

● 1599 - Gabrielle d'Estrée, mistress of King Henry IV of France (b. 1571)

● 1601 - Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet (b. 1562)

● 1640 - Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer (b. 1578)

● 1646 - Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor (b. 1576)

● 1704 - William Egon of Fürstenberg, Bishop of Strassburg (b. 1629)

● 1706 - Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1666)

● 1756 - Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer (d. 1661)

● 1760 - Jean Lebeuf, French historian (b. 1687)

● 1786 - John Byron, British naval officer (b. 1723)

● 1813 - Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician (b. 1736)

● 1823 - Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (b. 1757)

● 1862 - W.H.L. Wallace, American Union general (b. 1821)

● 1882 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter (b. 1828)

● 1904 - Queen Isabella II of Spain (b. 1830)

● 1909 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet and critic (b. 1837)

● 1919 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1879)

● 1920 - Moritz Cantor, German mathematician (b. 1829)

● 1931 - Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet and painter (b. 1883)

● 1945 - Charles Nordhoff, English-born writer (b. 1887)

● 1945 - H.N. Werkman, Dutch artist and printer (b. 1882)

● 1954 - Auguste Lumière, French film pioneer (b. 1862)

● 1954 - Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1888)

● 1955 - Teilhard de Chardin, French paleontologist and theologian (b. 1881)

● 1958 - Chuck Willis, American singer and songwriter (b. 1928)

● 1962 - Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-born director (b. 1886)

● 1962 - Stuart Sutcliffe, English musician (The Beatles) (b. 1940)

● 1965 - Linda Darnell, American actress (b. 1923)

● 1966 - Evelyn Waugh, English writer (b. 1903)

● 1968 - Gustavs Celmins, Latvian politician (b. 1899)

● 1969 - Harley J. Earl, American automobile designer (b. 1893)

● 1975 - Marjorie Main, American actress (b. 1890)

● 1979 - Nino Rota, Italian composer (b. 1911)

● 1980 - Kay Medford, American actress (b. 1914)

● 1986 - Linda Creed, American songwriter (b. 1949)

● 1991 - Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (b. 1955)

● 1991 - Natalie Schafer, American actress (b. 1900)

● 1992 - Sam Kinison, American comedian (b. 1953)

● 1993 - Chris Hani, South African activist (b. 1942)

● 1994 - Sam B. Hall, American politician (b. 1924)

● 1995 - Morarji Desai, Indian activist (b. 1896)

● 1997 - Michael Dorris, American author (b. 1945)

● 1999 - Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, German-born biochemist (b. 1910)

● 1999 - Jean Vander Pyl, American voice actress (b. 1919)

● 2000 - Peter Jones, English comedian (b. 1920)

● 2000 - Larry Linville, American actor (b. 1939)

● 2000 - Kirsten Rolffes, Danish actress (b. 1928)

● 2002 - Yuji Hyakutake, Japanese astronomer (b. 1950)

● 2003 - Little Eva, American singer (b. 1943)

● 2005 - Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist (b. 1923)

● 2005 - Iakovos, Archbishop of America (b. 1911)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Apollonius
● St. Beocca
● St. Ezechiel
● St. Fulbert of Chartres
● St. Macarius the Ghent
● St. Malchus
● St. Michael of the Saints
● St. Palladius
● St. Paternus
● St. Terence
● Bl. Anthony Neyrot

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for March 28 (Civil Date: April 10)
● St. Hilarion the New, abbot of Pelecete.
● St. Stephen the Wonderworker, abbot of Tryglia.
● Martyrs Jonah and Barachisius and those with them in Persia: Zanithas, Lazarus, Maruthas (Marotas), Narses, Elias, Marinus (Mares), Abibus, Sembeeth (Sivsithina), and Sabbas.
● Martyr Eustratius of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Hilarion, monk of Gdov.
● St. Hesychius the Theologian, presbyter of Jerusalem.
● Saints George, Bishop of Parodus, and Peter, presbyters, and Prince Boyan, Martyrs of Bulgaria.

● Greek Calendar:
● Apostle Herodion of the Seventy.
● Repose of Abbot Adrian (in schema Alexis) of Konevits (1812).
● Repose of Blessed Helen of Arzamas, disciple of Abbot Nazarius of Valaam (1820).

● Lutheran:
● Mikael Agricola, Bishop of Turku

● Feast for Three Days - Third Day (Thelema)


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

Quotes of the Day taken from "The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right" Compiled by William P. Martin 2004

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