today.nukz.net: Almanac June 10

Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), known as Howlin' Wolf, was an influential American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player. With a booming voice and looming physical presence, Burnett is commonly ranked among the leading performers in electric blues; musician and critic Cub Koda declared, "no one could match Howlin' Wolf for the singular ability to rock the house down to the foundation while simultaneously scaring its patrons out of its wits." A number of songs written or popularized by Burnett—such as "Smokestack Lightnin'", "Back Door Man", "Killing Floor" and "Spoonful"—have become blues and blues rock standards. At 6 feet, 6 inches (198 cm) and close to 300 pounds (136 kg), he was an imposing presence with one of the loudest and most memorable voices of all the "classic" 1950s Chicago blues singers. This rough-edged, slightly fearsome musical style is often contrasted with the less crude but still powerful presentation of his contemporary and professional rival, Muddy Waters. Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Miller), Little Walter Jacobs, and Muddy Waters are usually regarded in retrospect as the greatest blues artists who recorded for Chess in Chicago. Sam Phillips once remarked, "When I heard Howlin' Wolf, I said, 'This is for me. This is where the soul of man never dies.'" In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him #51 on their list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".

Events

1190 – Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem.
1539 – Council of Trent: Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.
1619 – Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
1624 – Signing of the Treaty of Compiègne between France and the Netherlands.
1692 – Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries".
1719 – Jacobite Rising: Battle of Glen Shiel.
1786 – A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
1793 – The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
1793 – French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
1805 – First Barbary War: Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States.
1829 – The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place.
1838 – Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
1854 – The first class of the United States Naval Academy students graduate.
1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel. Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Brice's Crossroads. Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.
1871 – Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 U.S. Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
1878 – League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stephano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Greece.
1886 – Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces.
1898 – Spanish-American War: U.S. Marines land on the island of Cuba.
1910 – The Villisca Axe Murders were discovered in Villisca, IA.
1918 – The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István sinks after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat.
1924 – Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
1925 – Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches, held in the Toronto Arena.
1935 – Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.
1935 – Chaco War ends: a truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
1936 – The Russian animation studio Soyuzmultfilm is founded.
1940 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
1940 – World War II: Norway surrenders to German forces.
1942 – World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
1944 – World War II: 642 men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France.
1944 – World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
1944 – In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
1945 – Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
1947 – Saab produces its first automobile.
1957 – John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the Canadian federal election, 1957, ending 22 years of Liberal Party rule.
1965 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Xoai begins.
1967 – The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
1967 – Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1977 – James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13.
1977 – Apple ships its first Apple II personal computer.
1980 – The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
1990 – British Airways Flight 5390 lands safely at Southampton Airport after a blowout in the cockpit causes the captain to be sucked from the cockpit, no one dies.
1991 – The kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard
1996 – Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin.
1997 – Before fleeing his northern stronghold, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members.
1999 – Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Miloševic agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
2001 – Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
2002 – The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
2003 – The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.

Births

1213 – Fakhruddin 'Iraqi, Persian philosopher (d. 1289)
1632 – Esprit Fléchier, French writer and bishop (d. 1710)
1657 – James Craggs the Elder, English politician (d. 1721)
1688 – James Francis Edward Stuart, English son of James II of England (d. 1766)
1706 – John Dollond, English optician (d. 1761)
1710 – James Short, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768)
1713 – Princess Caroline of Great Britain (d. 1757)
1753 – William Eustis, Americian politician, 12th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825)
1803 – Henry Darcy, French scientist (d. 1858)
1804 – Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (d. 1884)
1819 – Gustave Courbet, French painter (d. 1877)
1825 – Princess Hildegard of Bavaria (d. 1864)
1825 – Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier (d. 1897)
1832 – Nikolaus Otto, German inventor and engineer, invented the Internal combustion engine (d. 1891)
1832 – Stephen Mosher Wood, American Politician (d. 1920)
1835 – Rebecca Latimer Felton, American writer, lecturer, and politician, first woman to serve in the United States Senate (d. 1930)
1839 – Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Danish politician (d. 1912)
1840 – Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (d. 1920)
1843 – Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1900)
1859 – Emanuel Nobel, Swedish-Russian oil baron (d. 1932)
1862 – Mrs. Leslie Carter, American actress (d. 1937)
1863 – Louis Couperus, Dutch novelist (d. 1923)
1865 – Frederick Cook, American explorer and physician (d. 1940)
1880 – André Derain, French painter (d. 1954)
1884 – Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache, English army captain (d. 1917)
1889 – Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor (d. 1973)
1891 – Al Dubin, American songwriter (d. 1945)
1894 – Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia (d. 1918)
1895 – Hattie McDaniel, American actress (d. 1952)
1901 – Frederick Loewe, Austrian-American composer (d. 1988)
1904 – Lin Huiyin, Chinese architect and poet (d. 1955)
1907 – Fairfield Porter, American painter (d. 1975)
1910 – Frank Demaree, American baseball player (d. 1958)
1910 – Robert Still, English composer and educator (d. 1971)
1910 – Howlin' Wolf, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1976)
1911 – Ralph Kirkpatrick, American musician and musicologist (d. 1984)
1911 – Terence Rattigan, English playwright (d. 1977)
1912 – Jean Lesage, Canadian lawyer and politician, 11th Premier of Quebec (d. 1980)
1913 – Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian composer (d. 2007)
1913 – Benjamin Shapira, German-Israeli biochemist, recipient of the Israel Prize (d. 1993)
1915 – Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
1918 – Patachou, French singer and actress
1918 – Barry Morse, English-Canadian actor (d. 2008)
1919 – Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian physician (d. 2007)
1919 – Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish athlete and physician (d. 2006)
1921 – Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Greek-English husband of Elizabeth II
1921 – Jean Robic, French cyclist (d. 1980)
1922 – Judy Garland, American actress and singer (d. 1969)
1923 – Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-English publisher and politician (d. 1991)
1925 – Nat Hentoff, American historian, novelist, critic, and columnist
1926 – Lionel Jeffries, English actor (d. 2010)
1927 – Ladislao Kubala, Hungarian footballer (d. 2002)
1927 – Lin Yang-kang, Chinese politician
1928 – Maurice Sendak, American author (d. 2012)
1929 – Harald Juhnke, German actor and comedian (d. 2005)
1929 – Ian Sinclair, Australian politician
1929 – E. O. Wilson, American biologist
1929 – James McDivitt, American astronaut
1931 – João Gilberto, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1932 – Branko Lustig, Croatian film producer
1933 – F. Lee Bailey, American attorney
1935 – Vic Elford, English race car driver
1936 – Alex DeCroce, American politician (d. 2012)
1937 – Luciana Paluzzi, Italian actress
1938 – Violetta Villas, Polish singer-songwriter, composer, and actress (d. 2011)
1940 – Augie Auer, American-New Zealand scientist and meteorologist (d. 2007)
1940 – John Stevens, English drummer (d. 1994)
1941 – Mickey Jones, American drummer and actor (The First Edition)
1941 – Shirley Owens, American singer (Shirelles)
1941 – Jürgen Prochnow, German actor
1941 – David Walker, Australian race car driver
1942 – Gordon Burns, Irish journalist and broadcaster
1942 – Preston Manning, Canadian politician
1946 – Fernando Balzaretti, Mexican actor (d. 1998)
1947 – Ken Singleton, American baseball player
1949 – Kevin Corcoran, American actor
1949 – John Sentamu, Ugandan-English bishop, 97th Archbishop of York
1950 – Elías Sosa, Dominican baseball player
1951 – Dan Fouts, American football player
1953 – John Edwards, American politician and lawyer
1954 – Rich Hall, American comedian and writer
1955 – Andrew Stevens, American actor
1956 – Borwin, Duke of Mecklenburg
1957 – Hidetsugu Aneha, Japanese architect
1957 – Lindsay Hoyle, English politician
1958 – Christos Dimopoulos, Greek footballer
1958 – Yu Suzuki, Japanese game designer and producer
1959 – Carlo Ancelotti, Italian footballer and manager
1959 – Eliot Spitzer, American lawyer and politician, 54th Governor of New York
1960 – Balakrishna Nandamuri, Indian actor
1960 – Maxi Priest, English singer-songwriter
1960 – Mark-Anthony Turnage, English composer
1961 – Kelley Deal, American singer and musician (The Breeders)
1961 – Kim Deal, American singer-songwriter and musician (Pixies, The Breeders, and The Amps)
1962 – Akie Abe, Japanese wife of Shinzo Abe
1962 – Anderson Bigode Herzer, Brazilian writer and poet (d. 1982
1962 – Gina Gershon, American actress
1962 – Wong Ka Kui, Hong Kong singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and actor (Beyond) (d. 1993)
1962 – Vincent Pérez, Swiss-French actor and director
1962 – Brent Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 – Brad Henry, American politician
1963 – Jeanne Tripplehorn, American actress
1964 – Jimmy Chamberlin, American musician, songwriter, and producer (The Smashing Pumpkins, Zwan, Starchildren, and The Jimmy Chamberlin Complex)
1964 – Ben Daniels, English actor
1964 – Kate Flannery, American actress
1964 – Tony Martin, Australian comedian, actor, and writer
1965 – Veronica Ferres, German actress
1965 – Elizabeth Hurley, English model and actress
1965 – Joey Santiago, Filipino-American singer, musician, and composer (Pixies and The Martinis)
1966 – David Platt, English footballer
1967 – Emma Anderson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Lush and Sing-Sing)
1967 – John Yoo, American attorney, author, and educator
1968 – Bill Burr, American comedian and actor
1968 – The D.O.C., American rapper and songwriter (Fila Fresh Crew)
1968 – Derek Dooley, American football player and coach
1968 – Jimmy Shea, American skeleton racer
1969 – Ronny Johnsen, Norwegian footballer
1969 – Kate Snow, American journalist
1970 – Mike Doughty, American singer-songwriter (Soul Coughing)
1971 – Joel “JoJo” Hailey, American singer (K-Ci & JoJo and Jodeci)
1971 – Bobby Jindal, American politician, 55th Governor of Louisiana
1971 – Bruno N'Gotty, French footballer
1971 – Erik Rutan, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Morbid Angel, Alas, Hate Eternal, and Ripping Corpse)
1971 – Kyle Sandilands, Australian radio host
1972 – Steven Fischer, American director and producer
1972 – Radmila Šekerinska, Macedonian politician
1973 – Faith Evans, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1973 – Flesh-n-Bone, American rapper (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
1973 – Pokey Reese, American baseball player
1975 – Rebecca Cardon, American actress and trainer
1975 – Altiyan Childs, Australian singer
1975 – Risto Jussilainen, Finnish ski jumper
1975 – Henrik Pedersen, Danish footballer
1976 – Freddy García, American baseball player
1976 – Esther Ouwehand, Dutch politician
1976 – Stefan Postma, Dutch football player
1976 – Hadi Saei, Iranian athlete
1977 – Adam Darski Polish singer-songwriter and musician (Behemoth)
1977 – Takako Matsu, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
1977 – Dan-e-o, Canadian rapper, songwriter, and actor
1977 – Enzo Emanuele, Italian clinical pathologist
1977 – Mike Rosenthal, American football player
1978 – Brian West, American soccer player
1978 – Shane West, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Germs)
1979 – Konstantinos Loumpoutis, Greek footballer
1979 – Jake Tsakalidis, Georgian-Greek basketball player
1979 – Svetlana Zakharova, Russian ballet dancer
1980 – Jessica DiCicco, American actress
1980 – Francelino Matuzalem, Brazilian footballer
1980 – Ovie Mughelli, American football player and agent
1980 – Wang Yuegu, Singaporean table tennis player
1981 – Hoku, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
1981 – Jonathan Bennett, American actor
1981 – Mat Jackson, English race car driver
1981 – Prince Hashim bin Al Hussein, Jordanian son of Hussein of Jordan
1981 – Albie Morkel, South African cricketer
1981 – Burton O'Brien, Scottish footballer
1981 – Nicky Whelan, Australian actress and model
1982 – Tara Lipinski, American figure skater
1982 – Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland
1982 – Leelee Sobieski, American actress
1982 – Ana Lucia Souza, Brazilian ballet dancer
1984 – Nicky Bailey, English footballer
1984 – Dean Leacock, English footballer
1984 – Johanna Kedzierski, German sprinter
1984 – Dirk Van Tichelt, Belgian judoka
1985 – Kaia Kanepi, Estonian tennis player
1985 – Kristina Lundberg, Swedish ice hockey player
1985 – Andy Schleck, Luxembourg cyclist
1985 – Vasilis Torosidis, Greek footballer
1987 – Lyssa Chapman, American bounty hunter
1987 – Martin Harnik, German-Austrian footballer
1987 – Amobi Okoye, Nigerian-American football player
1988 – Patrik Lindberg, Swedish gamer
1988 – Kelly Vitz, American actress
1989 – Mustapha Carayol, Gambian footballer
1989 – Alexandra Stan, Romanian singer-songwriter, dancer, and model
1989 – Ryuya Wakaba, Japanese actor
1990 – Valeen Montenegro, Filipino actress
1991 – Juan Guilherme Nunes Jesus, Brazilian footballer
1992 – Kate Upton, American model and actress
1993 – Vita Chambers, Canadian singer-songwriter

Deaths

323 – Alexander the Great, Macedonian king (b. 356 BC)
1075 – Ernest, Margrave of Austria (b. 1027)
1190 – Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1122)
1424 – Ernest, Duke of Austria (b. 1377)
1552 – Alexander Barclay, English poet (b. c. 1476)
1556 – Martin Agricola, German composer (b. 1486)
1580 – Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet (b. c. 1524)
1607 – John Popham, English politician (b. 1531)
1654 – Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (b. 1598)
1680 – Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1635)
1692 – Bridget Bishop, English-American first person to be executed during the Salem witch trials (b. 1632)
1735 – Thomas Hearne, English antiquarian (b. 1678)
1776 – Hsinbyushin, Burmese king (b. 1736)
1776 – Leopold Widhalm, Austrian luthier (b. 1722)
1791 – Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (b. 1720)
1831 – Hans Karl von Diebitsch, German-Russian field marshal (b. 1785)
1836 – André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (b. 1775)
1849 – Thomas Robert Bugeaud, French marshal and politician (b. 1784)
1896 – Amelia Dyer, English murderer (b. 1829)
1898 – Tuone Udaina, Croatian-Italian barber, last speaker of the Dalmatian language
1899 – Ernest Chausson, French composer (b. 1855)
1901 – Robert Williams Buchanan, Scottish poet and novelist (b. 1841)
1902 – Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)
1909 – Edward Everett Hale, American author (b. 1822)
1912 – Anton Aškerc, Slovenian priest and poet (b. 1856)
1918 – Arrigo Boito, Italian composer (b. 1842)
1923 – Pierre Loti, French sailor (b. 1850)
1924 – Giacomo Matteotti, Italian politician (b. 1885)
1926 – Antoni Gaudí, Spanish-Catalan architect, designed the Park Güell (b. 1852)
1929 – Hélène Smith, French psychic (b. 1861)
1930 – Adolf Harnack, German theologian (b. 1851)
1934 – Frederick Delius, English composer (b. 1862)
1937 – Robert Borden, Canadian politician, 8th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1854)
1940 – Marcus Garvey, Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, and activist, founded the Black Star Line (b. 1887)
1944 – Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (b. 1910)
1946 – Jack Johnson, American boxer (b. 1878)
1947 – Alexander Bethune, Canadian politician (b. 1852)
1949 – Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
1958 – Angelina Weld Grimke, American journalist (b. 1880)
1959 – Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian politician (b. 1883)
1963 – Timothy Birdsall, English cartoonist (b. 1936)
1967 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900)
1971 – Michael Rennie, English actor (b. 1909)
1973 – William Inge, American playwright (b. 1913)
1974 – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1900)
1976 – Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (b. 1873)
1982 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German actor and director (b. 1945)
1982 – Addie Harris McPherson, American singer (The Shirelles) (b. 1940)
1986 – Merle Miller, American author (b. 1919)
1987 – Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (b. 1943)
1988 – Louis L'Amour, American author (b. 1908)
1991 – Jean Bruller, French writer (b. 1902)
1992 – Zak Hernández, American soldier (b. 1970)
1992 – Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese composer and pianist (b. 1931)
1993 – Arleen Auger, American soprano (b, 1939)
1993 – Les Dawson, English comedian (b. 1934)
1996 – George Hees, Canadian politician (b. 1910)
1996 – Jo Van Fleet, American actress (b. 1914)
1998 – Jim Hearn, American baseball player (b. 1921)
1998 – Hammond Innes, English author (b. 1914)
2000 – Hafez al-Assad, Syrian politician, President of Syria (b. 1930)
2000 – Brian Statham, English cricketer (b. 1930)
2001 – Mike Mentzer, American bodybuilder (b. 1951
2001 – Leila Pahlavi, Iranian daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (b. 1970)
2002 – John Gotti, American mobster (b. 1940)
2003 – Donald Regan, American businessman and politician, 66th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1918)
2003 – Bernard Williams, English philosopher (b. 1929)
2003 – Phil Williams, Welsh politician and scientist (b. 1939)
2004 – Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer (b. 1930)
2004 – Xenophon Zolotas, Greek politician (b. 1904)
2005 – Curtis Pitts, American aircraft designer, designed the Pitts Special (b. 1915)
2007 – Augie Auer, New Zealand scientist and meteorologist (b. 1940)
2008 – Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani-Soviet author (b. 1928)
2009 – Tenniel Evans, English actor (b. 1926)
2009 – Stelios Skevofilakas, Greek footballer (b. 1940)
2010 – Basil Schott, American Archbishop (b. 1939)
2011 – Brian Lenihan, Jnr, Irish Politician (b. 1959)
2012 – Joshua Orwa Ojode, Kenyan politician (b. 1958)
2012 – Elvis J. Perrodin, American jockey (b. 1956)
2012 – George Saitoti, Kenyan politician, mathematician, and businessman, founded the African Mathematical Union (b. 1945)
2012 – Sudono Salim, Chinese-Indonesian businessman, founded Bank Central Asia (b. 1916)