April 11......

April 11 is the 101st (102nd in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 264 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Change "The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing." — Nancy Astor

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Racism "We shall work for the establishment of a separate homeland for African Americans, so each race will be free to pursue its own destiny without racial conflicts or ill will." — David Duke

{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

● 491 - Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.

● 672 - Deusdedit III begins his reign as Catholic Pope

● 678 - Donus ends his reign as Catholic Pope

● 1079 - Bishop Stanislaus of Krakow is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland.

● 1241 - Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Muhi.

● 1471 - King Edward IV of England conquers London from Henry VI

● 1506 - The foundation stone of the new St. Peter's Basilica was laid under the patronage of Julius II. (The church was not completed, however, until 1626.)

● 1512 - War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix was victorious in the Battle of Ravenna.

● 1551 - English premier John Dudley appointed duke of Northumberland

● 1564 - England & France sign Peace of Troyes

● 1564 - Liege Prince-Bishop Robert van Bergen resigns

● 1567 - Dutch Prince William of Orange flees from Antwerp to Breda

● 1579 - Venlo joins Union of Utrecht

● 1580 - Drenthe joins Union of Utrecht

● 1617 - Pocahontas, the daughter of Native American King Powhatan, dies on a ship returning from England to Virginia. She leaves an infant son. School children are fed the romantic tale of Pocahontas' encounter with Captain John Smith, recently reinforced by Disney mythmakers. But the truth is that English settlers in Jamestown held her captive to force concessions from her father. Then Colonist John Rolfe married the captive Pocahontas, changed her name to Rebecca Rolfe, dressed her in English finery, and took her to England for Queen Elizabeth's amusement.

● 1677 - Battle at Montcassel, French troops beat Prince William III

● 1689 - William III & Mary II crowned as joint rulers of Britain

● 1713 - Peace of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces to Britain - English, Prussian, Savoois, Portuguese & French peace treaty

● 1775 - Last execution for witchcraft in Germany.

● 1783 - After receiving a copy of the provisional treaty on March 13, the U.S. Congress proclaimed a formal end to hostilities with Great Britain.

● 1803 - A twin-screw propeller steamboat was patented by John Stevens.

● 1812 - England - Attack on Rawfords Hill to destroy machinery. Wroe & Duncliffs Mfg. set ablaze. Three hundred Luddites meet their first serious resistance and suffer their first defeat in this abortive attack. Yorkshire machine breaking virtually at an end as Luddism acquires new patterns. William Cartwright's mill, Liversedge, attacked by mobs from Halifax, Huddersfield, Liversedge, Heckmondwyke, Gomersal, Birstall, Cleckheaton, et al.

● 1814 - Napoleon was forced to abdicate his throne. The allied European nations had marched into Paris on March 30, 1814. He was banished to the island of Elba.

● 1828 - Foundation of Bahia Blanca

● 1830 - Robert Schumann attends piano concerto by Paganini

● 1834 - Birth of Marcus Dods, Scottish clergyman and biblical scholar. His published works in New Testament studies helped popularize modern biblical scholarship in Great Britain.

● 1836 - English philanthropist George Mueller opened his famous orphanage on Wilson Street in Bristol. (By 1875, Mueller's orphanage was providing care for over 2,000 children.)

● 1848 - Hungary becomes constitutional monarchy under king Ferdinand of Austria

● 1856 - In Rivas, Nicaragua, Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where William Walker's invading Nicaraguans are holed up.

● 1862 - Rebels surrender Fort Pulaski GA

● 1863 - Battle of Suffolk VA (Norfleet House)

● 1865 - Birth of Mary Ovington, co-founder of NAACP.

● 1865 - Battle of Mobile AL - evacuated by Confederates

● 1865 - Abraham Lincoln makes his last public speech urges a spirit of generous conciliation during reconstruction.

● 1868 - The Shogunate is abolished in Japan.

● 1873 - The Battle of Lost River, the first hostilities between the U.S. Government andtain Jack's band of Modoc Indians in the Lava Bends of Northern California. Fifty Modoc Indians hold off 329 U.S. troops. The two sides fought at a distance of about 50 yards in one spot. No Modocs were killed, 24 soliders were killed, and at least another dozen were wounded. Captain Jack and his Modocs then lure General Canby and others to their encampment to discuss peaceful surrender. The truth is that the Modocs had lost all faith in the U.S. negotiators, and were hearing rumors about the whites planning to kill them. The Modocs surprise and kill General Canby, the only U.S. General killed during an Indian War.

● 1876 - The stenotype was patented by John C. Zachos.

● 1876 - The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.

● 1876 - Sir Charles Gordon ends religious tolerance in Sudan

● 1881 - River ferry "Princess Victoria" sinks in Thames River Ontario, 180 die

● 1881 - Spelman College founded

● 1888 - The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.

● 1890 - Ellis Island designated as an immigration station

● 1891 - 8 year old Jewish tailor's daughter disappears in Greece, rumor spreads that she was a Christian girl ritually killed by Jews

● 1893 - Dean Acheson, who advised four U.S. presidents as secretary of state and played an important role in the Cold War period, was born.

● 1895 - Anaheim completes its new electric light system

● 1895 - Cuba - Jose Marti and Maximo Gomez land at Playitas.

● 1898 - Pres. William McKinley declares Cuba independent of Spain and asks Congress for a resolution authorizing him to use armed forces in compelling the Spanish to "liberate" the island. The resolution passed and U.S. warships were dispatched to blockade all Cuban ports.

● 1899 - Treaty of Paris is ratified, ending war; Spain cedes Puerto Rico to US

● 1900 - US Navy's 1st submarine made its debut

● 1902 - Battle at Rooiwal, South-Africa

● 1905 - Einstein reveals his Theory of Relativity.

● 1906 - Einstein introduces his Theory of Relativity

● 1910 - Emma Goldman arrested in Cheyenne, Wyoming, while conducting an open-air meeting. The arrests spur further interest in Goldman.

● 1912 - Cornerstone of Technion in Haifa Palestine laid

● 1918 - Bolshevik secret police raid 26 anarchist centres in Moscow. Dozens killed on both sides, and hundreds arrested.

● 1919 - International Labour Organization founded.

● 1921 - The Emirate of Transjordan is created.

● 1921 - Iowa imposes 1st state cigarette tax

● 1921 - Turkestan ASSR is established in Russian SFSR

● 1924 - Socialists win Denmark's parliamentary elections

● 1925 - Abd el-Krims Rifkabylen beats French army in Morocco

● 1926 - Flemish Economic Covenant (VEV) forms in Ghent

● 1927 - Chilean General Carlos Ibáñez names himself president

● 1929 - Loetafoon celluloid film system demonstrated in Amsterdam

● 1933 - Hermann Göring becomes premier of Prussia

● 1938 - Richard Whitney, five-term president of the New York Stock Exchange, sentenced to five to 10 years in prison for grand larceny.

● 1939 - Hungary leaves League of Nations

● 1941 - Ford Motor Co. signs first contract with United Auto Workers.

● 1941 - French-born American Trappist monk Thomas Merton affirmed in his "Secular Journal": 'If we are willing to accept humiliation, tribulation can become, by God's grace, the mild yoke of Christ, His light burden.'

● 1941 - Germany blitzes Conventry, England

● 1941 - Jewish Weekly newspaper taken control by Nazi's

● 1941 - Nazi occupiers in Netherlands confiscate Jewish assets

● 1942 - Distinguished Service Medal for Merchant Marines authorized

● 1943 - James Hatsuki Wakasa, a 63-year-old Japanese-American chef, is shot to death by a sentry at Heart Mountain concentration camp while allegedly trying to escape through a fence. It is later determined that Wakasa had been inside the fence and facing the sentry when shot. The sentry stood a general court marshall two weeks later at Fort Douglas, Utah, and found "not guilty."

● 1944 - RAF bombs census bureau in The Hague

● 1945 - U.S. troops reached the Elbe River in Germany.

● 1945 - SS burns & shoots 1,100 at Gardelegen

● 1945 - US captures Tsugen Shima

● 1945 - US troops conquers Mülheim, Oberhausen, Bochum, Unna, Essen

● 1945 - World War II: United States forces liberate Buchenwald concentration camp.

● 1950 - Prince Rainier III becomes ruler of Monaco

● 1950 - US B-29 bomber shot down above Latvia

● 1951 - MacArthur fired - Ridgway takes over; US President Truman appoints General Ridgway as supreme commander of the UN forces in Korea after shocking the American public by dismissing General Douglas MacArthur.

● 1951 - The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which English monarchs are traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its traditional (to the British government) location in Westminster Abbey.

● 1952 - The Battle of Nanri island takes place.

● 1953 - Oveta Culp Hobby becomes 1st at Health, Education, & Welfare

● 1955 - The Air India Kashmir Princess downs in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the KMT.

● 1956 - Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater by whites

● 1956 - French government decides to sends 200,000 reservists to Algeria

● 1957 - Ryan X-13 Vertijet becomes 1st jet to take-off & land vertically

● 1957 - Pablo Neruda arrested in Buenos Aires

● 1957 - Britain agrees to Singapore self-rule; The island of Singapore is granted self-government

● 1958 - Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated (San Francisco)

● 1959 - Dutch prince Bernhard visits Lockheed factory

● 1960 - 1st weather satellite launched (Tiros 1)

● 1961 - Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.

● 1961 - Austrian 4th & last government of Raab resigns

● 1963 - John XXIII encyclical "On peace in truth, justice, charity & liberty"

● 1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1965 - The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.

● 1966 - Emmett Ashford becomes 1st black major league umpire

● 1967 - The Full Gospel Fellowship of Churches and Ministers International, formed in Dallas in 1962, changed its name to Christ for the Nations. This charismatic missions agency specializes in fund-raising and support for church construction and Christian literature distribution worldwide.

● 1967 - Harlem (NYC) voters defy Congress & reelect Adam Clayton Powell Jr

● 1968 - Polish Marshal Spychalski succeeds Ochab as president

● 1968 - Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.

● 1968 - Germany - In Berlin, the attempted assassination of Rudi Dutschke, a well-known student anarchist activist, unleashes solidarity demonstrations on his behalf in Paris, Rome, Vienna, and London.

● 1968 - Amid concerns about rising protests of the Viet Nam War, Congress enacts the Anti-Riot Act of 1968.

● 1970 - Apollo 13 blasted off on a mission to the moon that was disrupted when an explosion crippled the spacecraft. The astronauts did return safely.

● 1971 - Five hundred marchers in support of imprisoned conscientious objector Pepe Beunza reach Spanish border; 100 beaten by Franco's finest.

● 1972 - Benjamin L Hooks, named to the FCC

● 1972 - USSR performs underground nuclear test

● 1974 - The Judiciary committee subpoenas U.S. President Richard Nixon to produce tapes for impeachment inquiry.

● 1974 - WWII war criminal JP Philippa arrested

● 1977 - Ireland sets fishing zone at 50 mile

● 1978 - One hundred thirty-six Zimbabweans killed in Rhodesia napalm bombing, Solway Refugee Camp, Zambia.

● 1979 - Ugandan dictator Idi Amin overthrown; Tanzania takes Kampala

● 1980 - Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulates sexual harassment

● 1981 - Ronald Reagan arrives home from hospital after Hinkley shot him

● 1981 - A massive riot in Brixton, South London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.

● 1981 - Ten thousand gather in West Berlin to protest housing shortages. Some wear paint, some bring instruments. It is a celebration. The next night 500 go on a rampage, smashing cars and store windows and battling police.

● 1982 - Israeli soldier shoots dead two Arabs inside Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem.

● 1983 - NASA launches RCA-F

● 1984 - Challenger astronauts complete 1st in space satellite repair

● 1984 - Soyuz T-11 returns to Earth

● 1984 - Chinese troops invade Vietnam

● 1984 - General Secretary Konstantin U Chernenko named President of Soviet Union

● 1985 - Scientists in Hawaii measured the distance between the earth and moon within one inch.

● 1985 - The White House announced that President Reagan would visit the Nazi cemetery at Bitburg.

● 1986 - Seventeen are arrested on felony riot charges after police tear-gas striking Hormel meatpacking workers in Austin, Minn. Six thousand (in a city of 20,000) demonstrate the next day. The Hormel strike, generally regarded as labor's first major grass roots revolt against corporate downsizing, is eventually suppressed by Hormel in cooperation with both the state and the workers' own national union.

● 1986 - Dodge Morgan completes nonstop sail solo around the world in 150 days

● 1986 - Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 million km

● 1986 - A Canadain 1921 50¢ piece auctioned in NYC for $22,000

● 1986 - In Groton, CT, the submarine Nautilus exhibit opened to the public.

● 1986 - Kellogg's stopped giving tours of its breakfast-food plant. The reason for the end of the 80-year tradition was said to be that company secrets were at risk due to spies from other cereal companies.

● 1987 - The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.

● 1990 - First U.S. cruise missiles removed from West Germany to be destroyed in Arizona.

● 1990 - Customs seize 'supergun'; Customs officers in Middlesbrough say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.

● 1991 - Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) lands

● 1991 - UN Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq declaration

● 1992 - Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing 3

● 1993 - Stephen Dunifer makes first weekly broadcast of pirate radio station Free Radio Berkeley. Both FRB and Dunifer, in the following years, would become the best-known representatives of a widespread wave of illegal low- watt FM stations.

● 1993 - Kirsan Ilumzjinov installed as President of Kalmukkie

● 1996 - Israel launches attack on Beirut; Israeli planes and helicopters have launched air strikes against targets in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, for the first time in nearly 14 years.

● 1996 - Forty-three African nations signed the African Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty.

● 1996 - Seven-year-old Jessica Dubroff was killed with her father and flight instructor when her plane crashed after takeoff from Cheyenne, Wyoming. Jessica had hoped to become the youngest person to fly cross-country.

● 1996 - Treaty of Pelindaba signed in Cairo, making Africa a nuclear-free continent and at least in theory making the entire southern hemisphere a nuclear-free zone.

● 1998 - Tani Perla becomes first autonomous Zapatista community to be invaded by the Mexican Army.

● 1998 - Northern Ireland's biggest political party, the Ulster Unionists, announced its backing of the historic peace deal.

● 1999 - Daouda Malam Wanke was designated president of Niger. President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara had been assassinated on April 9.

● 2001 - China agreed to release 24 crewmembers of a U.S. surveillance plane. The EP-3E Navy crew had been held since April 1 on Hainon, where the plane had made an emergency landing after an in-flight collision with a Chinese fighter jet. The Chinese pilot was missing and presumed dead.

● 2002 - The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.

● 2002 - An attempted coup d'état in Venezuela against President Hugo Chávez began.

● 2002 - U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-Ohio, was convicted of taking bribes and kickbacks from businessmen and his own staff. (He was sentenced to eight years in prison.)

● 2003 - American troops took the northern Iraqi city of Mosul without a fight. {Holding onto it has not proven as easy.}

● 2006 - Israel's Cabinet declared Prime Minister Ariel Sharon permanently incapacitated, officially ending his five-year tenure.

● 2006 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.

BIRTHS

● 146 - Septimius Severus (d. 211)

● 1357 - John I of Portugal (d. 1433)

● 1374 - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (d. 1398)

● 1492 - Marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (d. 1549)

● 1592 - John Eliot, English statesman (d. 1632)

● 1705 - William Cookworthy, English chemist (d. 1780)

● 1721 - David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (d. 1808)

● 1722 - Christopher Smart, English poet (d. 1771)

● 1755 - James Parkinson, English physician (d. 1824)

● 1769 - Jean Lannes, French marshal (d. 1809)

● 1770 - George Canning, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1827)

● 1794 - Edward Everett, American statesman and orator (d. 1865)

● 1798 - Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (d. 1854)

● 1810 - Henry Rawlinson, English soldier (d. 1895)

● 1819 - Charles Hallé, German pianist and conductor (d. 1895)

● 1825 - Ferdinand Lassalle, German politician (d. 1864)

● 1852 - Cap Anson, American baseball player (d. 1922)

● 1857 - John Davidson, Scottish poet and playwright (d. 1909)

● 1862 - Charles Evans Hughes, 11th Chief Justice of the United States (1930-41) (d. 1948)

● 1867 - Mark Keppel, Superintendent of Schools of Los Angeles County (d. 1928)

● 1869 - Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1943)

● 1873 - Edward Lawson, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1955)

● 1876 - Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (d. 1958)

● 1883 - Hozumi Shigeto, Japanese author (d. 1951)

● 1889 - Nick LaRocca, American musician (d. 1961)

● 1890 - Donna Rachele Mussolini, wife of Benito Mussolini (d. 1979)

● 1893 - Dean Acheson, U.S. Secretary of State (d. 1971)

● 1896 - Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Quebec novelist (d. 1967)

● 1899 - Percy Lavon Julian, African American Scientist (d. 1975)

● 1900 - Sandor Marai, Hungarian writer (d. 1989)

● 1902 - Quentin Reynolds, American newscaster and writer (d. 1965)

● 1905 - Attila Jozsef, Hungarian poet (d. 1937)

● 1906 - Dale Messick, American cartoonist (d. 2005)

● 1908 - Leo Rosten, American humorist and author (d. 1997)

● 1908 - Masaru Ibuka, Japanese industrialist (Sony) (d. 1997)

● 1910 - António de Spínola, Portuguese general and politician (d. 1996)

● 1911 - Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Polish-born runner (d. 1980)

● 1913 - Oleg Cassini, American fashion designer (d. 2006)

● 1914 - Robert Stanfield, Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2003)

● 1914 - Norman McLaren, Canadian film animator and director (d. 1987)

● 1916 - Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (d. 1983)

● 1917 - David Westheimer, American novelist (d. 2005)

● 1917 - Danny Gallivan, Canadian radio and television sportscaster (d. 1993)

● 1918 - Richard Wainwright, English politician (d. 2003)

● 1919 - Hugh Carey, Former New York governor

● 1921 - Jim Hearn, baseball player (d. 1998)

● 1925 - Pierre Péladeau, Canadian businessman and newspaper editor (Quebecor) (d. 1997)

● 1928 - Ethel Kennedy, wife of Robert F. Kennedy

● 1930 - Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (d. 1997)

● 1931 - Johnny Sheffield, American actor

● 1932 - Joel Grey, American singer and actor ("Cabaret")

● 1934 - Mark Strand, Canadian-born American poet

● 1935 - Richard Berry, American singer, and composer (d. 1997)

● 1935 - Richard Kuklinski, mafia hitman (d. 2006)

● 1938 - Kurt Moll, German bass

● 1939 - Louise Lasser, American actress ("Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman")

● 1941 - Ellen Goodman, Syndicated columnist

● 1944 - John Milius, American director and writer

● 1946 - Bob Harris, British disc jockey and presenter

● 1947 - Peter Riegert, American actor

● 1947 - Meshach Taylor, American actor ("Designing Women")

● 1948 - Marcello Lippi, football coach

● 1949 - Bernd Eichinger, German film producer

● 1949 - Carl Franklin, Director

● 1950 - Bill Irwin, Actor

● 1951 - Doris McGowen Beck Angleton, American socialite (d. 1997)

● 1951 - James Patrick Kelly, American author

● 1953 - Andrew Wiles, British mathematician

● 1953 - Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium

● 1955 - Kevin Brady, American politician

● 1955 - Michael Callen, American singer and songwriter (d. 1993)

● 1957 - Jim Lauderdale, Country singer, songwriter

● 1957 - Daryl Simmons, Songwriter, producer

● 1958 - Stuart Adamson, British musician (Big Country) (d. 2001)

● 1960 - Jeremy Clarkson, British journalist

● 1961 - Lucky Vanous, Actor

● 1961 - Doug Hopkins, American musician

● 1962 - Vincent Gallo, American actor

● 1963 - Chris Ferguson, American poker player

● 1963 - Billy Bowden, test cricket umpire from New Zealand

● 1964 - Steve Azar, Country singer

● 1964 - Johann Sebastian Paetsch, American cellist and musician

● 1966 - Mason Reese, American actor

● 1966 - Lisa Stansfield, English singer

● 1968 - Sergey Lukyanenko, Russian author

● 1969 - Cerys Matthews, Welsh singer

● 1969 - Chisato Moritaka, Japanese singer

● 1970 - Trevor Linden, Canadian hockey player

● 1970 - Virgil Runnels III, American professional wrestler

● 1970 - Dylan Keefe, Rock musician (Marcy Playground)

● 1970 - Johnny Messner, Actor

● 1971 - Vicellous Shannon, Actor

● 1971 - Oliver Riedel, German musician (Rammstein)

● 1972 - Jason Varitek, American baseball player

● 1972 - Balls Mahoney, American professional wrestler

● 1974 - Trot Nixon, American baseball player

● 1974 - Tricia Helfer, Canadian model and actress

● 1974 - Anton Glanzelius, Danish actor

● 1975 - Walid Soliman, Tunisian author

● 1978 - Josh Hancock, baseball player

● 1978 - Brett Claywell, American actor

● 1979 - Malcolm Christie, English footballer

● 1979 - Chris Gaylor, American drummer

● 1979 - Michel Riesen, Swiss ice hockey player

● 1979 - Josh Server, American actor

● 1980 - Mark Teixeira, American baseball player

● 1981 - Alessandra Ambrosio, Brazilian model

● 1982 - Ian Bell, English cricketer

● 1983 - Nicky Pastorelli, Dutch racing driver

● 1984 - Kelli Garner, American actress

● 1987 - Joss Stone, English singer

DEATHS

● 1034 - Romanus III, Byzantine emperor (b. 1028)

● 1240 - Llywelyn the Great, King of Gwynedd

● 1554 - Thomas Wyatt the younger, English rebel (executed) (b. 1521)

● 1612 - Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (b. 1535)

● 1612 - Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (burned at the stake) (b. 1566)

● 1626 - Marin Getaldić, Croatian mathematician (b. 1568)

● 1712 - Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (b. 1638)

● 1723 - John Robinson, English diplomat (b. 1650)

● 1798 - Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b. 1725)

● 1856 - Juan Santamaría, national hero of Costa Rica (b. 1831)

● 1861 - Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (b. 1824)

● 1873 - Edward Canby, U.S. general (assassinated) (b. 1817)

● 1890 - Joseph Merrick, "The Elephant Man" (b. 1862)

● 1894 - Constantin Lipsius, German architect (b. 1832)

● 1906 - James Anthony Bailey, American circus impresario (b. 1847)

● 1906 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (b. 1839)

● 1916 - Richard Harding Davis, American author (b. 1864)

● 1926 - Luther Burbank, American botanist (b. 1849)

● 1953 - Kid Nichols, baseball player (b. 1869)

● 1958 - Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (b. 1875)

● 1970 - Cathy O'Donnell, American actress (b. 1923)

● 1970 - John O'Hara, American author (b. 1905)

● 1977 - Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900)

● 1983 - Dolores del Rio, Mexican actress (b. 1905)

● 1985 - Enver Hoxha, Albanian Communist dictator (b. 1908)

● 1985 - Bunny Ahearne, hockey promoter (b. 1900)

● 1987 - Erskine Caldwell, American author (b. 1903)

● 1987 - Primo Levi, Italian chemist, composer, librettist, and author (b. 1919)

● 1990 - Harold Ballard, Canadian hockey club owner and executive (b. 1903)

● 1991 - Walker Cooper, baseball player (b. 1915)

● 1992 - Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter (b. 1920)

● 1996 - Jessica Dubroff, American pilot (b. 1988)

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

● 2001 - Sandy Bull, American musician (b. 1941)

● 2001 - Harry Secombe, Welsh actor and comedian (b. 1921)

● 2003 - Cecil Howard Green, British-born geophysicist and businessman (b. 1900)

● 2005 - André François, French cartoonist (b. 1915)

● 2005 - Lucien Laurent, French footballer (b. 1907)

● 2006 - DeShaun Holton, also known as Proof, American rapper (b. 1973)

● 2006 - June Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters) (b. 1953)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Antipas
● St. Barsanuphius
● St. Daniël of Grimbergen
● St. Domnio
● St. Gemma of Lucca
● St. Godeberta
● St. Leo I, Pope [440-61], doctor
● St. Machai
● St. Maedhog
● St. Mary Margaret d'Youville
● St. Philip of Gortyna
● St. Stanislaus, bishop, martyr

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for March 29 (Civil Date: April 11)
● Martyr Mark, Bishop of Arethusa.
● Martyr Cyril the deacon of Heliopolis, and others who suffered under Julian the Apostate.
● St. John, anchorite of Egypt.
● St. Eustathius (Eustace) the Confessor, Bishop of Bithynia.
● Saints Jonah and Mark of the Pskov Caves.
● Repose of Elder Nicetas of the Roslavl forests (1793).

● The Feast Day of Martyr Antipas in the Greek Orthodox Church.

● Anglican:
● George Augustus Selwyn, bishop of New Zealand & Litchfield

● Costa Rica : Juan Santamaria Day/Battle of Rivas Commemoration (1856)

● Czechoslovakia : Resistance Movement Day (1945)

● Egypt : Shan-et-Nissin

● Liberia : Fast & Prayer Day


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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