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1761 - Henry Scrapnel English inventor (shrapnel shell) 1808 - Jefferson Davis, Politician 1865 - George V king of England (1910-36) 1901 - Maurice Evans, Dorchester England, actor (Maurice-Bewitched) 1904 - Jan Peerce, [Jacob Pincus Perelmuth], NYC, tenor (NY Met Opera) 1905 - Martin Gottfried Weiss, German, commandant of Dachau concentration camp (d. 1946, by execution) 1906 - Josephine Baker, dancer/Parisian night club owner (Folies-Bergere) 1906 - Robert Brown Black, British diplomat/gov (Hong Kong) 1908 - Eddie Acuff, actor (Guns of the Pecos, Phantom Creeps, Outer Gate) 1911 - Ellen Corby, Racine Wisc, actress (Grandma Walton-Waltons) 1911 - Paulette Goddard, [Marion Levy], Switz, actress (Great Dictator) 1917 - Leo Gorcey, American actor (d. 1969) 1918 - Lili St. Cyr, American ecdysiast (d. 1999) 1925 - Tony Curtis, [Bernard Schwartz], Bronx, NY, actor (Some Like It Hot) 1926 - Allen Ginsberg, Newark, New Jersey, American beat poet (Howl) 1926 - Colleen Dewhurst, Montreal Canada, actress (Maggie-Blue & Grey) 1927 - Boots Randolph, Paducah KY, saxophonist (Yakety Sax) 1929 - Chuck Barris, Phila, TV game show producer/host (Gong Show) [or 6/2] 1930 - Marion [Eleanor] Zimmer Bradley [Breen], sci-fi author (Storm Queen) 1930 - Dakota Staton, American jazz singer (d. 2007) 1931 - Raúl Castro, Cuban statesman 1942 - Curtis Mayfield, Chicago, rock vocalist (Freddie's Dead, Superfly) 1944 - Michael Clarke, NYC, rock drummer (Byrds-Turn! Turn! Turn!) 1946 - Ian Hunter, England, rocker (Mott the Hoople-All the Young Dudes) 1947 - Mickey Finn, British guitarist and percussionist (T. Rex) (d. 2003) 1948 - Too Slim - bassist of Riders in the Sky is 64 1950 - Suzi Quatro[cchio], Detroit, singer (Stumblin')/actress (Happy Days) 1951 - Christopher Cross Texas, singer (Sailing)" 1951 - Deniece Williams singer (Love Wouldn't Let Me Wait) 1952 - Billy Powell, keyboards (Lynyrd Skynyrd-That Smell, Freebird) 1954 - Dan Hill, rocker (Sometimes When We Touch) 1959 - Tom Arnold, former husband of Rosanne Barr/actor (True Lies, Stupids) 1964 - James Purefoy, British actor 1967 - Anderson Cooper, TV Show Host |
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0350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators. 1098 - Christian Crusaders seize Antioch, Turkey 1539 - DeSoto claims Florida for Spain 1608 - Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec. 1621 - The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherlands, better known as New York 1789 - Alexander Mackenzie explores Mackenzie River (Canada) 1851 - The first baseball uniforms worn. Knickerbockers wear straw hat, white shirt & blue long trousers 1885 - Last military engagement fought on Canadian soil: Cree leader Big Bear escapes the North West Mounted Police. 1888 - The poem ""Casey at the Bat"", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner. 1889 - The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast. 1934 - Dr Frederick Banting co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted 1935 - One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario. 1937 - The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne, marries Wallis Warfield Simpson. 1940 - World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris. 1948 - Sue-On Choy is born in Southern China 1948 - Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mt Rushmore 1948 - The 200" (5.08 m) Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory 1950 - Sue-On's mom manages to smuggle the toddler out of China to Hong Kong with a neighbour's family 1953 - Billy Joe McAllister jumps off the Tallahatchie Bridge, according to the 1967 hit song Ode to Billy Joe by Bobbie Gentry, and the movie which followed. 1964 - Ringo Starr collapses from tonsilitis and pharyngitis 1964 - Rolling Stones begin first US tour (with Bobby Goldsboro & Bobby Vee) 1975 - Ozzie Nelson actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet), dies at 69" 1976 - US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta 1977 - Reggae stars Bob Marley and the Wailers release the classic album Exodus, which would be named Time magazine's ""Album of the Century"" in 1999. 1989 - The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation. 2002 - Two Bank Holidays declared in UK (Jun 3 & 4) to celebrate the Queen's Golden Jubilee |
ON THE ROAD WITH BILL and SUE-ON
HILLMAN
A 50-Year Musical Journey
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