Wednesday, 21 May 2014

Today in History for 21st May 2014

Historical Events


1914 - Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota

1952 - Bkln Dodgers score 15 runs in 1st inning and beat Cin Reds, 19-1

1964 - 1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay)

1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,844.68

1994 - 120th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 1:56.4

1999 - All My Children star Susan Lucci finally wins a Daytime Emmy after being nominated 19 times, the longest period of unsuccessful nominations in television history


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Famous Birthdays


1671 - Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer

1917 - Ronald John Bilsland Colville, businessman

1955 - Stan Lynch, Gainesville Fl, rock drummer (Tommy Petty and Heartbreakers)

1969 - Reid Simpson, Flin Flon, NHL left wing (NJ Devils)

1971 - Eric Nies, actor (MTV Real World, Grind)

1979 - Gaspard Augé, French musician


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Famous Deaths


1860 - Johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer, dies at 53

1924 - Bobby Franks, killed by Leopold and Loeb, at 14

1965 - Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer (b. 1882)

1990 - Moelvi Mohammed Farouk, Indian spiritual leader, murdered

1993 - John Frost, English lt-kol (operation Market Garden 1944), dies at 80

2000 - Barbara Cartland, English author (b. 1901)


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