Cheshiresoft CDAY Almanac

Today is Friday, March 12, 2010.

Birthdays

1831 Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer.
1832 Charles Boycott, estate manager in Ireland, caused boycotts.
1859 E. Cesaro --1906
1921 Gordon MacRae
1922 Jack Kerouac
1928 Edward Albee
1932 Andrew Young
1940 Al Jarreau
1941 Barbara Feldon
1942 Paul Kantner
1946 Liza Minnelli
1948 James Taylor
1962 Darryl Strawberry

Deaths

604 Gregory I the Great, Pope (590-604), dies at 64
1209 Djamal al-din Abu Mohammed Iljas Nizami, Persian poet, dies
1507 Cesare Borgia, cardinal/soldier/politician, killed in battle at 31
1570 Jacob van den Eynden, Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies
1648 Tirso de Molina, Spanish author, dies at about 63
1753 George Berkeley, philosopher/bishop (Cloyne), dies on 68th birthday
1834 Karl W Feuerbach, mathematician (circle of Feuerbach), dies at 33
1888 Henry Bergh, founder (ASPCA), dies at 76
1889 Yohannes IV, [Kasa], Emperor of Ethiopia (1872-89), dies in battle
1905 Rudolf von Alt, Austrian painter, dies at 92
1914 George Westinghouse, US engineer (Westinghouse Electric), dies at 67
1916 M v Ebner-Eschenbach, writer, dies at 39
1924 Hilaire Comte de Chardonnet, inventor (rayon), dies
1925 Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary president, dies at 58
1932 Ivar Kreuger, "Swedish Match King" industrialist, commits suicide
1945 Anne Frank, diarist (Diary of Anne Frank), killed in Belsen Camp
1946 Philip Merivale, dies at 59
1955 Charlie "Bird" Parker, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 34 in NYC
1955 Theodor Plievier, writer, dies
1957 Josephine Hull, actress (Harvey), dies at 71
1958 Ingeborg, Princess of Sweden, dies at 79
1961 Belinda Lee, actress (Joseph & his Brethren), dies in car crash at 25
1966 Estelita Rodriguez, actor (Golden Stallion, Susanna Pass), dies at 37
1973 Frankie "Fordham Flash" Frisch, baseball player, dies at 74
1973 Manuel Rojas Sepulveda, Chilean writer (Hijo de Ladron), dies at 77
1974 Billy Fox, Protestant Dublin MP, assassinated
1978 John Cazale, actor (Dog Day Afternoon, Deer Hunter), dies at 41
1984 Arnold Riley, playwright/actor, dies at 88
1985 Eugene Ormandy [Blau], Hungarian/US conductor, dies at 85
1988 Billie Rhodes, dies
1988 William Camp, dies at 74
1989 Maurice Evans, actor (Bewitched, MacBeth), dies at 87
1992 Barbara Morrison, actress (Proj Moonbase), dies of heart failure at 84
1992 Karel Poons, father of Paul Deen, dies
1992 Philippe Soupault, writer, dies
1992 Salvo Lima, mayor (Palermo)/MP (chr-dem), murdered
1993 June Valli, singer (Crying in the Chapel), dies of cancer at 62
1993 Michael Kanin, screenwriter (Woman of the Year), dies at 83
1993 Wang Zhen, marxist/vice-premier of China (1988), dies
1996 Charles Bruce Perry, professor of medicine, dies at 92
1996 Gyula Kallai, PM of Hungry (1965-67), dies at 85
1996 John Anthony Bowden Cuddon, writer/teacher, dies at 67

Events

Zeta Bo”tid meteor shower, radiant in Bo”tes
Commonwealth Day
1850 First $20 Gold piece issued.
1868 Congress abolishes manufacturers tax
1912 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) founded in Savanah Ga
1925 First transatlantic radio broadcast.
1936 FDR conducts his first "Fireside Chat"
1981 Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station

That's all for today.