23 Apr 07 - Monday
1564 William Shakespeare Stratford-on-Avon England, bard (Hamlet, MacBeth,
Julius Cæsar)
1791 James Buchanan Cove Gap PA, (Federalist/Democrat), 15th US President
(1857-61)
1813 Stephen Arnold Douglas [Little Giant] US Senator (Lincoln debates)
1891 Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev Ukraine, composer (Peter & the Wolf)
1928 Shirley Temple Black Santa Monica CA, child actress (Heidi)/
ambassador (UN)
1936 Roy Orbison Vernon TX, rocker (Oh Pretty Woman, Only The Lonely)
1939 Lee Majors [Harvey Lee Yearly] Wyandotte MI, TV actor (Big Valley, $6,000,000 Man, Fall Guy)
1943 Herve Villechaize France, "Da Plane! Da Plane!" (Fantasy Island)
1944 Sandra Dee [Alexandra Zuck] Bayonne NJ, actress (Gidget, A Summer Place, Tammy and the Doctor, Imitation of Life)
1949 Joyce DeWitt Wheeling WV, actress (Janet Wood-Three's Company)
1952 Tony Maselli (fictional character on "Who's the Boss")
1960 Steve Clark Hillsborough England, rock guitarist (Def Leppard-Hysteria)
1960 Valerie Bertinelli Wilmington DE, actress(One Day at a Time, Sydney)/
Mrs Eddie Van Halen
1967 Brent Muscat rocker (Faster Pussycat-Wake Me When It's Over)
0034 Christ crucified, according to Isaac Newton
1348 1st English order of knighthood founded (Order of the Garter)
1616 William Shakespeare English author (Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet),
dies on his 52nd birthday
1795 William Hastings acquitted in England of high treason
1860 Democratic convention in Charleston SC divided over slavery
1900 1st known occurrence of word "hillbillie" (New York Journal)
1956 US Supreme court ends race segregation on buses
1962 Stirling Moss auto racer, killed while racing at 32
1962 1st US satellite to reach the moon launched
1970 Herb Shriner humorist/TV host (Herb Shriner Show), dies at 51
1975 Pete Ham rocker (Badfinger), commits suicide by hanging himself at 27
1975 William Hartnell actor (Dr Who), dies at 67
1977 Czechoslovakian chess master Vlastimil Hort plays 201 games simultaneously & only loses 10
1984 AIDS-virus identified (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
1985 New Coke debuts
1988 Federal smoking ban during domestic airline flights of 2 hours or less
1990 Albert Salmi (Caddyshack), kills terminally ill wife & self at 62
1992 Marion Berry (former mayor of Washington DC) is released from prison
1992 McDonald's opens its 1st fast-food restaurant in China
1993 Mötley Crüe's Mike Mars files for divorce from Emi-Canyn
1993 Peter Townshend's musical "Tommy", premieres in NYC
1994 Libertarian party nominates Howard Stern for Governor of New York
1995 Howard Cosell sportscaster (Monday Night Football), dies at 77
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
William Shakespeare
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