Sunday, 18 May 2014

Today in History for 18th May 2014

Historical Events


1596 - Willem Barents leaves Amsterdam for Novaya Zemlya

1869 - Surrender and dissolution of the Ezo Republic to Japan.

1959 - "Castin' My Spell" by Johnny Otis Show hits #52

1974 - India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb

1991 - USSR launches 2 cosmonauts to MIR space station

1992 - Supreme Court rules states could not force mentally unstable criminal defendants to take anti-psychotic drugs


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Famous Birthdays


1911 - Joe Turner, KC, blues singer (Corrine Corrina, Shake Rattle and Roll)

1940 - A Marshall Stoneham, FRS, physicist

1948 - Felix MH Troch, Flemish actor/director (Gekkenbriefje)

1968 - Ernie Logan, NFL defensive end (Jacksonville Jaguars, NY Jets)

1975 - Peter Iwers, Swedish bass player (In Flames)

1983 - Vince Young, American football player


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Famous Deaths


1410 - Ruprecht, Roman catholics German king, dies

1550 - John, Cardinal of Lorraine, French churchman (b. 1498)

1910 - Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish novelist (b.1841)

1967 - Andy Clyde, Hopalong Cassidy's sidekick, dies at 75

1972 - Eero Aukusti Sipila, composer, dies at 53

1996 - Dermot O'Callaghan Grubb, prison governor, dies at 76


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