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Birthdates which occurred on April 04:
188 Caracalla Roman emperor (211-17)
1648 Grinling Gibbons sculptor/woodcarver
1752 Nicolo Antonio Zingarelli composer (Andromeda)
1758 John Hoppner portrait painter
1785 Bettina von Arnim German writer (This Book Belongs to the King)
1792 Thaddeus Stevens US Radical Republican congressional leader (Rep-R)
1802 Dorothea Dix US, aroused interest in treatment of mental inmates
1821 Linus Yale US, portrait painter/inventor (Yale lock)
1823 Karl Wilhelm Siemens inventor (laid undersea cables)
1826 Z‚nobe Th‚ophile Gramme inventor (electric motor)
1828 Margaret Oliphant Scotland, novelist/biographer
1832 Jose Echegaray y Elizaguirre playwright/writer/scientist
1843 Hans Richter conductor
1870 George A Smith Salt Lake City Utah, 8th pres of Mormon church
1875 Pierre Monteux Paris France, conductor (Boston Symph Orch 1919-24)
1876 Maurice de Vlaminck Paris, Fauvist painter (Village in the Snow)
1881 Charles Funk Ohio, of Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia fame
1888 Tris Speaker baseball great, hit more doubles than Pete Rose
1892 Cyril Smith Peterhead Scotland, actor (Adv of Sir Lancelot)
1895 Arthur Murray NYC, dancer (Arthur Murray Dance Party)
1896 Robert Sherwood dramatist (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Idiot's Delight)
1896 Tristan Tzara [Samuel Rosenfeld] French poet (Approximate Man)
1899 Duke Ellington bandleader (Take the A Train)
1899 [Edward Kennedy] Duke Ellington Wash DC (or 4/29)
19-- Richard Coogan Short Hills NJ, actor (Captain Video)
19-- Tracey Phillips Montclair NJ, actress (Hope-Coed Fever)
1901 Carmel Myers SF Calif, actress (Carmel Myers Show)
1906 Bea Benaderet NYC, actress (Kate-Petticoat Junction)
1906 John Cameron Swayze Wichita Ks, newscaster (Timex, Hindenberg)
1907 Nathan M Pusey educator (1963 Natl Assoc for Social Sciences Medal)
1913 Frances Langford Lakeland Fla, singer (Armed Forces Hour, Star Time)
1914 Marguerite Duras France, novelist/playwright (The Sea Wall)
1914 Sir John Beith British diplomat
1915 Muddy Waters [McKinley Morganfield], guitarist (Hoochie Coochie Man)
1918 Earl Jellicoe chancellor (U of Southhampton)
1918 Margaret Dupont tennis champion
1919 Antony Tudor England, choreographer (Metropolitan Opera 1957)
1922 Elmer Bernstein NYC, movie music composer
1923 Eric Rohmer Nancy Francy, director (Claire's Knee)
1924 Gil Hodges baseball player/manager (Bkln Dodgers, NY Mets)
1924 Peter Vaughan actor (Haunted Honeymoon, Die Die My Darling)
1925 Elizabeth Wilson Grand Rapids Mich, actor (Doc, East Side/West Side)
1926 Cloris Leachman Des Moines Iowa, actress (Phyllis, High Anxiety)
1928 Bill Ryan Bkln NY, newscaster (Smithsonian)
1928 Jimmy Logan British comedian
1928 Monty Norman composer/writer
1928 Maya Angelou St Louis Mo, poet/actress (Nyo-Roots)
1930 David Sexton soccer manager
1932 Anthony Perkins NYC, actor (Psycho, Fear Strikes Out, Pretty Poison)
1932 Richard Lugar (Sen-R-Ind)
1935 Lord Ichayra secretary-general (British Banking Assn)
1935 Trevor Griffiths playwright (Absolute Beginners)
1937 Ian St James novelist
1938 A Bartlett Giamatti Boston, pres of Yale/baseball commish (1989)
1938 Michael Parks Corona Calif, actor (Then Came Bronson)
1938 Peter Attenborough British headmaster (Charterhouse)
1939 Hugh Masekela South Africa, trumpeter (I Am Not Afraid)
1939 Joanne Carner Kirkland Wash, LPGA golfer (US Open 1970, 76)
1940 Bijan Iran, mens apparel designer (Beverly Hills, NYC, London)
1942 Kitty Kelley author (Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra)
1943 Ian Robertson British museum director (National Army Museum)
1944 David Melville professor/director (Middlesex Polytechnic)
1944 Lawrence A Hough US, rower (Pairs w/o cox-1968 olympic silver)
1945 Caroline McWilliams Seattle Wash, actress (Sally-Soap, Marcy-Benson)
1945 Catherine Spaak actress (Hotel, Weekend at Dunkirk, Circle of Love)
1946 Craig T Nelson Spokane Wash, actor (Poltergeist, Hayden Fox-Coach)
1948 Berry Oakley rocker (Allman Brothers-Ramblin' Man)
195- Luke Halpin Astoria NY, actor (Sandy-Flipper)
1950 Christine Lahti Detroit, actress (Harvey Korman Show, Swing Shift)
1952 Dave Hill rock guitarist (Slade-Coz I Love You)
1954 Julie Carmen Mount Vernon NY, actress (Gloria, Last Plane Out)
1956 Evelyn Hart prima ballerina (Royal Winnipeg Ballet)
1957 Paul Downton British cricketeer
1958 Pierre-Paul Prud'hon painter
1960 Jonathan Agnew British broadcaster/test bowler
1962 Ava Fabian Brewster NY, playmate (Aug, 1986)
1964 Paul Parker soccer player
1965 Robert Downey Jr NYC, comedian (SNL, Less the Zero, Back to School)
1966 Nancy McKeon Westbury NY, actress (Jo Polniazek-Facts of Life)

Deaths which occurred on April 04:
1284 Alfonso X Spanish king (Castile & Leon), dies at 62
1588 Frederick II king of Denmark, dies
1604 Thomas Churchyard poet/pamphleteer, dies
1617 John Napier inventor of logarithms, dies (birth date unknown)
1807 Joseph J‚r“me Le Francais de Lalande astronomer, dies
1817 Andr‚ Mass‚na Duc de Rivoli soldier, dies
1817 Prince d'Essing dies
1841 William Henry Harrison becomes 1st pres to, die in office
1844 Charles Bulfinch 1st US pro architect (Mass State House), dies at 80
1919 William Crookes phsicist/chemist, dies
1929 Karl Freidrich Benz automobile engineer (Mercedes), dies
1931 Andre Michelin CEO (Michelin Tires), dies
1932 Wilhelm Ostwald physical chemist, dies
1939 Ghazi King of Iraq, dies
1953 King Carol II (Romania), dies
1963 Endzion Barelli 18, dies 2 days after winning a boxing match
1963 Jason Robards Sr actor (Acapulco), dies at 70
1968 Rev Martin Luther King Jr assassinated in Memphis (Dream continues)
1970 Byron Foulger actor (Capt Nice, Petticoat Junction), dies at 70
1972 Adam Clayton Powell Jr (Rep-D-NY), dies at 63
1979 Edgar Buchanan actor (Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction), dies at 77
1979 Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto former Pakistani president, hanged in Pakistan
1981 Brad Johnson actor (Annie Oakley), dies at 56
1983 Gloria Swanson actress, dies at 84 of a heart ailment
1983 Jacqueline Logan silent film leading lady, dies at 78
1990 Sarah Vaughn jazz singer, dies at 68
1991 Graham Green english novelist, dies at 86
1991 John Heinz (Sen-R-Pa), dies in a plane crash

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1965 DRAEGER WALTER F. JR. DEERFIELD WI CRASH FLAMES / NO PARA SEEN

1965 HARRIS CARLYLE S. PRESTON MD 02/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL IN 1998 1965

MAGNUSSON JAMES A. JR. NAHANT MA CRASH OW SEARCH NEGAT

1967 MARTIN DAVID EARL ORLANDO FL

1967 SZEYLLER EDWARD PHILIP ALTOONA PA

1968 TRIVELPIECE STEVE M. STOCKTON CA "KIA GUNFIRE, REMAINS LEFT BEHIND"

1970 DUFFY JOHN E. PORTLAND ME REMAINS RETURNED MAY 1993 IDENTIFIED MARCH 1996

1970 YOUNG JEFFREY J. INDIANAPOLIS IN

1971 SMITH JOSEPH S. ASSUMPTION IL

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

On this day...
896 Formosus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
896 Pope Formous ends reign
1460 University of Basle in Swizerland forms
1541 Ignatius of Loyola becomes 1st superior-general of the Jesuits
1581 Frances Drake completres circumnavigation of the world
1687 King James II orders his declaration of indulgence read in church
1818 Congress decided US flag is 13 red & white stripes & 20 stars
1850 City of Los Angeles incorporated
1858 Asteroid 54, Kalypso discovered (named for goddess of silence)
1858 R Luther discovers asteroid #53 Kalypso
1859 The opera "Dinorah" is produced (Paris)
1862 Battle of Yorktown begins
1865 Lee's army arrives at Amelia Courthouse
1870 Golden Gate Park established by City Order #800
1887 Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia, KS)
1896 Announcement of Gold in the Yukon
1902 Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund established with $10 million
1905 Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 370,000
1912 Chinese republic proclaimed in Tibet
1914 "The Perils of Pauline" shown for 1st time in LA
1918 Battle of Somme, ends
1922 WAAB (Baton Rouge La) becomes 1st US radio station with "W" calls
1929 "New Moon" musical opens in London
1929 1st AAU Greco-Roman wrestling championships held
1932 Vitamin C 1st isolated, C.C. King, Univ of Pittsburgh
1933 US Dirigible Akron crashes off coast of NJ, 73 die
1934 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1716 Peter
1939 Faisal II ascends to throne of Iraq
1940 L Oterma discovers asteroid #2332 Kalm
1944 British troops capture Addis Ababa Ethiopia
1945 Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation (Liberation Day)
1947 Largest group of sunspots on record
1947 UN's International Civil Aviation Organization established
1948 84-year-old Connie Mack challenges 78-year-old Clark Griffith to a
race from home to 1st base; it ends in a tie
1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed (Wash DC)
Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1798 Watts, #2641
Lipschutz & #3070
1959 Fed of Mali, consisting of Senegal & French Sudan (dissolved 1960)
1960 Project Ozma begins at Green Bank radio astronomy center
1964 Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
1966 Pirate Radio Scotland changes name to Radio Ireland
1968 Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned
1969 Dr Denton Cooley implants 1st temporary artificial heart
1971 Marine clay under houses liquifies, 31 die (St-Jean-Vianney Quebec)
1974 Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home-run record by hitting his 714th
1975 C5A Galaxy on military charter crashes, taking 155 lives (Saigon)
1975 Steve Miller is arrested for burning his girlfriend's clothes
1975 USAF transport carrying orphans from Saigon crashes killing 155
1976 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2369 Chekhov
1979 Jane M Byrne (D), elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago Ill
1983 6th space shuttle mission, Challenger 1 launched
1984 Winston Smith in Orwell's "1984" begins his secret diary
1985 Tulane University cancels its basketball season amidst scandal
1986 Wayne Gretsky sets NHL record with 213th point of season
1987 Dow Jones up 69.89 points, ending at record 2,390.34 pts
1988 Eddie Hill becomes 1st to race a ¬ mile in under 5 seconds
1988 Kansas upsets Oklahoma for NCAA basketball title
1988 Largest crowd (55,438) at a season game at Riverfront (Reds Vs Cards)
1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's last NBA game in Seattle
1989 NY Yankee Tommy John ties record of playing 26 seasons, his 287th
win puts him 19th overall as Yanks beat Twins on opening day 4-2
1990 "The Marshall Chronicles" premiers on ABC-TV
1990 Gloria Estefan released from the hospital after her accident
1990 Security law violator Ivan Boesky is released from federal custody
1992 Game 1 of Mayor Challenge - NY Yankees beat NY Mets 6-4 at Yank Stad
1992 Jury deliberations begin in the Noriega case

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Hungary : Liberation Day (1945)
Senegal : National Day (1960)
Switzerland : Glarius Festival (1388) - - - - - ( Thursday )
Mass : Student Government Day - - - - - ( Friday )

Religious Observances
Christian : Feast of St Benedict, the black
Christian : Feast of St Plato & St Tigernach
Christian : Feast of St Agathopus & Theodulus
Ang : Commemoration of St Ambrose
RC : Comm of St Isidore, abp of Seville, confessor/doctor (opt)

Religious History
1507 Future German reformer Martin Luther, at age 21, was ordained a priest in the Roman Catholic church.
1541 Spanish ecclesiastic reformer and mystic Ignatius Loyola, 50, was elected the first General of the Jesuit Order, which he had helped establish the previous year.
1687 James II issued a Declaration of Indulgence allowing full liberty of worship in England. The document allowed peaceable meetings of nonconformists and forgave all penalties for ecclesiastical offenses.
1944 German Holocaust victim Anne Frank, 14, wrote in her diary: 'I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for giving me this gift...of expressing all that is in me.'
1965 German theologian Jurgen Moltmann revealed in a letter to Karl Barth: 'Polemics always makes one a little one-sided.'

Thought for the day :
" Everything bows to success, even grammar. "