today.nukz.net: Almanac March 28

Richard Marlin Perkins (March 28, 1905 – June 14, 1986) Zoologist and host of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom from 1963 to 1985

Events

37 – Roman Emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate.
193 – Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sell the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.
364 – Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor.
845 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
1776 – Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
1794 – Allies under the prince of Coburg defeat French forces at Le Cateau.
1795 – Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland, a northern fief of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia.
1802 – Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
1809 – Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medelin.
1854 – Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia.
1860 – First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Glorieta Pass – in New Mexico, Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of New Mexico territory. The battle began on March 26.
1871 – The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
1889 – The Yngsjö murder occurs in Yngsjö, Sweden and Anna Månsdotter is arrested along with her son.
1910 – Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
1913 – Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1920 – Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
1930 – Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.
1933 – The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool is believed to be the first airline lost to sabotage when a passenger sets a fire on board.
1939 – Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid after a three-year siege.
1941 – World War II: Battle of Cape Matapan – in the Mediterranean Sea, British Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham leads the Royal Navy in the destruction of three major Italian heavy cruisers and two destroyers.
1942 – World War II: In occupied France, British naval forces successfully raid the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire.
1946 – Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
1951 – First Indochina War: In the Battle of Mao Khe, French Union forces, led by World War II hero Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, inflict a defeat on Vi?t Minh forces commanded by General Võ Nguyên Giáp.
1959 – The State Council of the People's Republic of China dissolves the Government of Tibet.
1968 – Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is shot by the police in a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students. The aftermath of his death is one of the first major events against the military dictatorship.
1969 – Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
1969 – The McGill français movement protest occurs, the second largest protest in Montreal's history with 10,000 trade unionists, leftist activists, CEGEP students, and even some McGill students at McGill's Roddick Gates. This led to the majority of the protesters getting arrested.
1970 – Gediz earthquake: A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck western Turkey at about 23:05 local time, killed 1,086 and injured 1,260.
1978 – The US Supreme Court hands down 5-3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U.S. 349, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.
1979 – Operators of Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania fail to recognize that a relief valve in the primary coolant system has stuck open following an unexpected shutdown. As a result, enough coolant drains out of the system to allow the core to overheat and partially melt down.
1979 – The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan's government, precipitating a general election.
1990 – President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
1994 – In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths.
1994 – BBC Radio 5 is closed and replaced with a new news and sport station BBC Radio 5 Live.
1999 – Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill 146 Kosovo Albanians in the Izbica massacre.
2000 – Three children are killed when a Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by a CSX freight train.
2003 – In a friendly fire incident, two A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft from the United States Idaho Air National Guard's 190th Fighter Squadron attack British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing British soldier Matty Hull.
2005 – The 2005 Sumatra earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the fourth strongest earthquake since 1965.
2006 – At least 1 million union members, students, and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government's proposed First Employment Contract law.

Births

1472 – Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (d. 1517)
1515 – Teresa of Avila, Spanish Carmelite nun and saint (d. 1582)
1522 – Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (d. 1557)
1569 – Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1622)
1592 – John Amos Comenius, Czech bishop (d. 1670)
1599 – Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (d. 1658)
1613 – Empress Xiaozhuangwen of the Qing Dynasty (d. 1688)
1621 – Heinrich Schwemmer German music teacher and composer (d. 1696)
1652 – Samuel Sewall, American magistrate (d. 1730)
1725 – Andrew Kippis, English clergyman and biographer (d. 1795)
1750 – Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan nationalist (d. 1816)
1760 – Thomas Clarkson, British abolitionist (d. 1846)
1773 – Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general (d. 1844)
1793 – Henry Schoolcraft, American geographer and geologist (d. 1864)
1795 – Georg Heinrich Pertz, German historian (d. 1876)
1806 – Thomas Hare, English political scientist (d. 1891)
1811 – Saint John Nepomucene Neumann, Bohemian-born American bishop and Roman Catholic saint (d. 1860)
1815 – Arsène Houssaye, French novelist (d. 1896)
1818 – Wade Hampton III, American soldier and politician (d. 1902)
1819 – Sir Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (d. 1891)
1836 – Frederick Pabst, American brewer (d. 1904)
1840 – Emin Pasha, Equatorian politician (d. 1892)
1842 – William Harvey Carney, American Civil War officer (d. 1908)
1849 – James Darmesteter, French author and antiquarian (d. 1894)
1851 – Bernardino Machado, Portuguese politician (d. 1944)
1862 – Aristide Briand, French politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932)
1866 – Jimmy Ross, Scottish footballer (d. 1902)
1868 – Maxim Gorky, Russian author (d. 1936)
1871 – Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (d. 1951)
1879 – Terence MacSwiney, Irish nationalist (d. 1920)
1890 – Paul Whiteman, American bandleader (d. 1967)
1892 – Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
1892 – Tom Maguire, Irish republican (d. 1993)
1893 – Spyros Skouras, Greek-born American movie executive (d. 1971)
1894 – Ernst Lindemann, German naval officer (d. 1941)
1895 – Christian Herter, American politician (d. 1966)
1895 – Spencer W. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1985)
1897 – Sepp Herberger, German football coach (d. 1977)
1897 – Tillie Voss, American football player (d. 1975)
1899 – Harold B. Lee, American religious figure (d. 1973)
1899 – August "Gussie" Anheuser Busch, Jr., American brewer and baseball executive (d. 1989)
1899 – Buck Shaw, American football coach (d. 1977)
1900 – Edward Wagenknecht, American literary critic (d. 2004)
1902 – Dame Flora Robson, English actress (d. 1984)
1902 – Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech composer (d. 1988)
1903 – Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (d. 1991)
1903 – Charles Starrett, American actor (d. 1986)
1905 – Marlin Perkins, American zoologist and television host (d. 1986)
1905 – Pandro S. Berman, American film producer (d. 1996)
1906 – Murray Adaskin, Canadian violinist, composer and teacher (d. 2002)
1907 – Irving "Swifty" Lazar, American talent agent (d. 1993)
1907 – Norrey Ford (aka Jill Christian and Christian Walford), British writer (d. 1985)
1909 – Nelson Algren, American writer (d. 1981)
1910 – Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr., American librarian (d. 2001)
1910 – Jimmie Dodd, American actor (d. 1964)
1910 – Queen Ingrid of Denmark (d. 2000)
1911 – John Langshaw Austin, British language philosopher (d. 1960)
1912 – A. Bertram Chandler Australian author (d. 1984)
1912 – Marina Raskova, Russian navigator (d. 1943)
1914 – Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
1914 – Bohumil Hrabal, Czech writer (d. 1997)
1914 – Edmund Muskie, American politician (d. 1996)
1914 – Kenneth Richard Norris, Australian entomologist (d. 2003)
1915 – Jay Livingston, American composer and songwriter (d. 2001)
1917 – Claude Bertrand, Canadian neurosurgeon
1919 – Vic Raschi, American baseball player (d. 1988)
1921 – Walter Neugebauer, Croatian comic book author (d. 1992)
1921 – Sir Dirk Bogarde, English actor (d. 1999)
1921 – Herschel Grynszpan, German assassin of Ernst vom Rath (year of death unknown)
1922 – Neville Bonner, Australian politician (d. 1999)
1922 – Felice Chiusano, Italian singer (d. 1990)
1922 – Joey Maxim, American boxer (d. 2001)
1923 – Thad Jones, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1986)
1924 – Freddie Bartholomew, Irish actor (d. 1992)
1924 – Byrd Baylor, American author
1925 – Dorothy DeBorba, American child actress (d. 2010)
1926 – Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba
1927 – Marianne Fredriksson, Swedish author (d. 2007)
1928 – Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-born American political scientist and geostrategist
1928 – Alexander Grothendieck, German mathematician
1929 – Paul England, Australian racing driver
1930 – Robert Ashley, American composer
1930 – Elizabeth Bainbridge, English opera singer
1930 – Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1933 – Tete Montoliu, Catalonian jazz pianist (d. 1997)
1933 – Frank Murkowski, American politician
1934 – Lester Brown, American environmentalist
1935 – Michael Parkinson, English broadcaster
1936 – Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian author, politician and Nobel laureate
1937 – Liz Trotta, American journalist
1938 – Hans-Jürgen Bäsler, German footballer (d. 2002)
1940 – Tony Barber, Australian television personality
1940 – Yves Bérubé, Canadian engineer and politician (d. 1993)
1940 – Kevin Loughery, American basketball coach
1941 – Alf Clausen, America orchestra conductor
1941 – Jim Turner, American pro football player
1941 – Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, American author
1942 – Daniel Dennett, American philosopher
1942 – Kitanofuji Katsuaki, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 52nd Yokozuna
1942 – Neil Kinnock, British politician
1942 – Mike Newell, English film director
1942 – Samuel Ramey, American opera singer
1942 – Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (d. 1998)
1942 – Jerry Sloan, American basketball player and head coach
1943 – Conchata Ferrell, American actress
1943 – Pierre St.-Jean, Canadian weightlifter
1944 – Rick Barry, American basketball player
1944 – Ken Howard, American actor
1945 – Count Björn Hamilton, Swedish politician
1946 – Alejandro Toledo, President of Peru
1946 – Henry Paulson Jr., American economist
1946 – Wubbo Ockels, Dutch physicist and astronaut
1947 – John Landecker, American disk jockey
1947 – Greg Thompson, Canadian politician
1948 – Dianne Wiest, American actress
1948 – Gerry House, American radio personality
1948 – John Evan, British musician (Jethro Tull)
1948 – Milan Williams, American musician (The Commodores) (d. 2006)
1948 – Matthew Corbett, English retired actor
1948 – Jayne Ann Krentz, American novelist
1948 – Dennis Unkovic, American author
1950 – Claudio Lolli, Italian singer-songwriter
1951 – Karen Kain, Canadian ballerina
1951 – Matti Pellonpää, Finnish actor and musician (d. 1995)
1952 – Keith Ashfield, Canadian politician
1952 – Tony Brise, British racing driver (d. 1975)
1953 – Melchior Ndadaye, Burundian politician (d. 1993)
1954 – Morris Mason, American convicted rapist and murderer (d. 1985)
1955 – John Alderdice, Northern Irish politician
1955 – Reba McEntire, American singer and actress
1956 – Susan Ershler, American mountaineer
1956 – April Margera, mother of Bam Margera
1957 – Paul Eiding, American voice actor
1958 – Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1958 – Edesio Alejandro, Cuban music composer
1958 – Lou Franceschetti, Canadian ice hockey player
1959 – Chris Myers, American sportscaster
1960 – Chris Barrie, British actor
1960 – José Maria Neves, Cape Verdeian politician
1960 – Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, French author and dramatist
1961 – Orla Brady, Irish actress
1961 – Byron Scott, American basketball player and coach
1962 – Jure Franko, Slovenian skier
1962 – Terry Szopinski, American pro-wrestler
1964 – Pablo Contrisciani, Argentine-born American Abstract painter
1965 – Steve Bull, English footballer
1967 – John Ziegler, American talk-show host
1968 – Iris Chang, American author (d. 2004)
1968 – Nasser Hussain, English cricketer
1968 – Jon Lee, British drummer (d. 2002)
1968 – Tim Lovejoy, British television presenter
1968 – Max Perlich, American actor
1969 – Rodney Atkins, American country music singer-songwriter
1969 – Daniel Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player
1969 – Elliot Perry, American basketball player
1969 – Brett Ratner, American film director
1970 – Vince Vaughn, American actor
1970 – Michelle Gildernew, Irish republican politician
1970 – Jennifer Weiner, American author
1970 – Aiga Zagorska, Lithuanian track and road cyclist
1971 – Christianne Meneses Jacobs, Nicaraguan-born American writer and educator
1971 – Mr. Cheeks, American rapper
1971 – Wesley Person, American basketball player
1972 – Eby J. Jose, Indian journalist
1972 – Keith Tkachuk, American ice hockey player
1972 – Nick Frost, English comedian and actor
1973 – Eddie Fatu, Samoan professional wrestler (d. 2009)
1973 – Matt Nathanson, American singer-songwriter
1973 – Scott Mills, British radio disc jockey
1974 – Mark King, English snooker player
1975 – Shanna Moakler, American beauty queen and TV personality
1975 – Iván Helguera, Spanish footballer
1975 – Matt Reis, American soccer goalkeeper
1975 – Richard Kelly, American film director
1975 – Derek Hill, American racing driver
1975 – Kate Gosselin, American TV personality
1976 – Dave Keuning, American guitar player (The Killers)
1977 – Erik Rasmussen, American ice hockey player
1977 – Lauren Weisberger, American novelist
1977 – Annie Wersching, American actress
1979 – Park Chae-rim, South Korean actress
1979 – Crystal Cox, American reality television contestant
1980 – Stiliani Pilatou, Greek long jumper
1980 – Luke Walton, American basketball player
1980 – Chitrangada Singh, Indian actress
1980 – Rasmus Seebach, Danish singer
1981 – Lindsay Frimodt, American model
1981 – Gareth David-Lloyd, Welsh Actor
1981 – Edwar Ramirez, American baseball player
1981 – Antonio Rizzo, Italian footballer
1981 – Julia Stiles, American actress
1982 – Sonia Agarwal, Indian actress
1983 – Ryan Ashington, English footballer
1984 – Christopher Samba, Congolese footballer
1984 – Nikki Sanderson, British actress and model
1984 – Yordanos Abay, Ethiopian footballer
1984 – Ol Drake, English guitarist (Evile)
1985 – Stefano Ferrario, Italian footballer
1986 – Abuda, Brazilian footballer
1986 – J-Kwon, American rapper
1986 – Lady Gaga, American singer-songwriter and dancer
1986 – Yoon Joon-Soo, South Korean footballer
1986 – Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová, Czech tennis player
1987 – Lee Hea-Kang, South Korean footballer
1988 – Patrick Mayer, German footballer
1988 – Lacey Turner, British actress
1989 – Lukas Jutkiewicz, English footballer
1989 – David Goodwillie, Scottish footballer
1989 – Mira Leung, Canadian figure skater
1989 – Marek Suchý, Czech footballer
1990 – Zac Clarke, Australian rules footballer
1991 – Amy Bruckner, American actress
1991 – Marie-Philip Poulin, Canadian ice hockey player
1992 – Sergi Gómez, Spanish footballer
1992 – Liam Hess, British actor

Deaths

193 – Pertinax, Roman Emperor (b. 126)
1072 – Ordulf, Duke of Saxony
1239 – Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (b. 1180)
1285 – Pope Martin IV
1563 – Heinrich Glarean, Swiss music theorist (b. 1488)
1566 – Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (b. 1486)
1677 – Václav Hollar, Czech-born etcher (b. 1607)
1687 – Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (b. 1596)
1794 – Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1743)
1818 – Antonio Capuzzi, Italian composer (b. 1755)
1850 – Gerard C. Brandon, American politician (b. 1788)
1866 – Solomon Foot, American politician (b. 1802)
1868 – James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, British military leader (b. 1797)
1870 – George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816)
1874 – Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer (b. 1795)
1881 – Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Russian composer (b. 1839)
1884 – Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, son of Queen Victoria (b. 1853)
1910 – David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1837)
1910 – Edouard Judas Colonne, French violinist (b. 1838)
1927 – Joseph-Médard Émard, Canadian Catholic archbishop (b. 1853)
1928 – Nathan Stubblefield, American inventor (b. 1860)
1929 – Lomer Gouin, Canadian politician (b. 1861)
1939 – Francis Matthew John Baker, Australian politician (b. 1903)
1941 – Virginia Woolf, English feminist writer (b. 1882)
1941 – Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian Police Commissioner (b. 1877)
1942 – Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet, death in prison (b. 1910)
1943 – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer and pianist (b. 1873)
1944 – Stephen Leacock, Canadian humorist (b. 1869)
1946 – Chick Fullis, baseball player (b. 1904)
1947 – Karol Swierczewski, Polish general (b. 1897)
1949 – Grigoras Dinicu, Romanian composer and violinist (b. 1889)
1953 – Jim Thorpe, American athlete (b. 1887)
1958 – W. C. Handy, American composer (b. 1873)
1962 – Hugo Wast, Argentine writer (b. 1883)
1965 – Jack Hoxie, American actor and rodeo performer (b. 1885)
1965 – Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (b. 1888)
1965 – Charles William Train, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1890)
1969 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890)
1969 – Aryeh Levin, Orthodox Jewish rabbi (b. 1885)
1974 – Arthur Crudup, American blues singer and guitarist (b. 1905)
1974 – Dorothy Fields, American librettist and lyricist (b. 1905)
1974 – Françoise Rosay, French actress and singer (b. 1891)
1976 – Richard Arlen, American actor (b. 1898)
1977 – Eric Shipton, British explorer and mountaineer (b. 1907)
1978 – Dino Ciani, Italian pianist (b. 1941)
1979 – Emmett Kelly, American clown (b. 1898)
1980 – Dick Haymes, Argentine-born singer and actor (b. 1918)
1982 – William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
1984 – Carmen Dragon, American conductor, composer and arranger (b. 1914)
1985 – Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (b. 1887)
1986 – Virginia Gilmore. American actress (b. 1919)
1987 – Maria von Trapp, Austrian-born singer (b. 1905)
1987 – Patrick Troughton, British actor (b. 1920)
1989 – Robert J. Wilke, American actor (b. 1914)
1992 – Nikolaos Platon, Greek archaeologist (b. 1909)
1993 – Scott Cunningham, Occult author (b. 1956)
1994 – Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born French playwright (b. 1909)
1995 – Hugh O'Connor, American actor (b. 1962)
1996 – Shin Kanemaru, Japanese politician (b. 1914)
2000 – Anthony Powell, British novelist (b. 1905)
2001 – Moe Koffman, Canadian musician (b. 1928)
2003 – Rusty Draper, American country and pop singer (b. 1923)
2004 – Art James, American game show host (b. 1929)
2004 – Peter Ustinov, British actor (b. 1921)
2005 – Dame Moura Lympany, British pianist (b. 1916)
2005 – Robin Spry, Canadian filmmaker and television producer (b. 1939)
2006 – Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917)
2006 – Charles Schepens, American ophthalmologist (b. 1912)
2006 – Kevin Charles "Pro" Hart, Australian artist (b. 1928)
2006 – Proinsias Ó Maonaigh, Irish musician (b. 1922)
2006 – Vethathiri Maharishi, Indian philosopher (b. 1911)
2010 – Herb Ellis, American jazz guitarist (b. 1921)
2010 – June Havoc, American actress (b. 1913)
2011 – Wenche Foss, Norwegian actress (b. 1917)