today.nukz.net: Almanac June 2

Charles Robert "Charlie" Watts (born 2 June 1941) is an English drummer, best known as a member of The Rolling Stones. He is also the leader of a jazz band, a record producer, commercial artist, and horse breeder. Watts was born to Charles Watts, a lorry driver for a precursor of British Rail and his wife Lilian (née Eaves) at University College Hospital, London, and raised (along with his sister Linda) in Islington and then Kingsbury. He attended Tylers Croft Secondary Modern School from 1952 to 1956; as a schoolboy, he displayed a talent for art, cricket and football. Watts' parents gave him his first drum kit in 1955; he was interested in jazz, and would practice drumming along with jazz records he collected. After completing secondary school, he enrolled at Harrow Art School (now the University of Westminster), which he attended until 1960. After leaving school, Watts worked as a graphic designer for an advertising company called Charlie Daniels Studios, and also played drums occasionally with local bands in coffee shops and clubs. In 1961 he met Alexis Korner, who invited him to join his band, Blues Incorporated. At that time Watts was on his way to a sojourn working as a graphic designer in Denmark, but he accepted Korner's offer when he returned to London in February 1962. Watts played regularly with Blues Incorporated as well as working at the advertising firm of Charles, Hobson and Grey. It was in mid-1962 that Watts first met Brian Jones, Ian "Stu" Stewart, Mick Jagger, and Keith Richards, who also frequented the London rhythm and blues clubs, but it wasn't until January 1963 that Watts finally agreed to join the Rolling Stones.

Events

455 – Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks
1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7.
1615 – First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
1676 – Franco-Dutch War: France ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the Battle of Palermo.
1692 – Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Found guilty, she is hanged on June 10.
1763 – Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
1774 – Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
1793 – French Revolution: François Hanriot, leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat, setting the stage for the Reign of Terror.
1805 – Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptures Diamond Rock, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France, from the British.
1835 – P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.
1848 – The Slavic congress in Prague begins.
1855 – The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.
1866 – Fenian raids: Fenians are victorious in both the Battle of Ridgeway and the Battle of Fort Erie.
1876 – Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina
1886 – U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.
1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention: the radio.
1909 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
1910 – Charles Rolls, co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
1919 – Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.
1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
1941 – World War II: German paratoopers murder Greek civilians in the village of Kondomari.
1946 – Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum, Italians vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After the referendum the king of Italy Umberto II di Savoia is exiled.
1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
1955 – The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
1962 – During the 1962 FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history.
1966 – Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft land on another world.
1967 – Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.
1967 – Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into riots, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.
1979 – Pope John Paul II first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
1983 – After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed when a flashover occurs as the plane's doors open. Because of this incident, numerous new safety regulations are put in place.
1990 – The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12. Petersburg, Indiana, is the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with 6 deaths.
1995 – United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.
1997 – In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
1999 – The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.
2003 – Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
2004 – Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!
2010 – Derrick Bird goes on a killing spree in Cumbria, killing 13 and injuring 11, see Cumbria shootings.

Births

926 – Murakami, Emperor of Japan (d. 967)
1535 – Pope Leo XI (d. 1605)
1731 – Martha Washington, First American first lady (d. 1802)
1740 – Marquis de Sade, French author (d. 1814)
1743 – Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, Sicilian Occultist (d. 1795)
1773 – John Randolph, U.S. Senator from Virginia (d. 1833)
1774 – William Lawson, explorer of New South Wales, Australia (d. 1850)
1815 – Philip Kearny, American general (d. 1862)
1823 – Gédéon Ouimet, French Canadian politician (d. 1905)
1835 – Pope Pius X (d. 1914)
1838 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna (d. 1900)
1840 – Thomas Hardy, English writer (d. 1928)
1857 – Edward Elgar, English composer (d. 1934)
1857 – Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
1861 – Concordia Selander, Swedish actress (d. 1935)
1863 – Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (d. 1942)
1865 – George Lohmann, English cricketer (d. 1901)
1869 – Jack O'Connor, American baseball player (d. 1937)
1875 – Charles Stewart Mott, automotive industrialist and mayor (d. 1973)
1878 – Wallace Hartley, English violinist (d. 1912)
1887 – Howard Johnson, American songwriter (d. 1941)
1891 – Thurman Arnold, American attorney and jurist (d. 1969)
1891 – Takijiro Onishi, Japanese WWII figure (d. 1945)
1899 – Lotte Reiniger, German film director (d. 1981)
1904 – Frank Runacres, English artist (d. 1974)
1904 – Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (d. 1984)
1907 – Dorothy West, American writer (d. 1998)
1907 – John Lehmann, English poet, editor, and publisher (d. 1987)
1913 – Walter Andreas Schwarz, German singer and author (d. 1992)
1913 – Barbara Pym, English novelist (d. 1980)
1915 – Walter Tetley, American voice actor (d. 1975)
1915 – Alexandru Nicolschi, Romanian communist (d. 1992)
1917 – Heinz Sielmann, German photographer and filmmaker (d. 2006)
1917 – Max Showalter, American actor (d. 2000)
1918 – Ruth Atkinson, American cartoonist (d. 1997)
1918 – Kathryn Tucker Windham, American writer and storyteller (d. 2011)
1919 – Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (d. 2005)
1920 – Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1969)
1920 – Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-born critic
1920 – Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (d. 2003)
1920 – Johnny Speight, British television writer (d. 1998)
1921 – Betty Freeman, American philanthropist and photographer (d. 2009)
1922 – Charlie Sifford, American golfer
1922 – Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
1924 – June Callwood, Canadian journalist and activist (d. 2007)
1924 – Al Ruscio, American actor
1926 – Milo O'Shea, Irish actor
1926 – Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41st Yokozuna (d. 1977)
1927 – W. Watts Biggers, American novelist and animator
1929 – Norton Juster, American author and architect
1929 – Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (d. 2007)
1930 – Pete Conrad, American astronaut (d. 1999)
1930 – Bob Lillis, baseball player
1931 – Larry Jackson, baseball player (d. 1990)
1931 – William Donaldson, American businessman and politician
1932 – Sammy Turner, American singer
1934 – Johnny Carter, American doo wop singer (d. 2009)
1935 – Carol Shields, American-born novelist (d. 2003)
1935 – Roger Brierley, English actor (d. 2005)
1935 – Dimitri Kitsikis, Greek turkologist
1937 – Sally Kellerman, American actress
1937 – Jimmy Jones, American singer and songwriter
1937 – Robert Paul, Canadian figure skater
1938 – Kevin Brownlow, English film historian and author
1940 – King Constantine II of Greece
1941 – Stacy Keach, American actor
1941 – Charlie Watts, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
1941 – William Guest, American singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
1941 – Jeff Winkless, American voice actor (d. 2006)
1942 – Maree Cheatham, American actress
1943 – Charles Haid, American actor
1943 – Ilaiyaraaja, Indian Musician
1944 – Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and musician
1945 – Jane Bonnie Newman, American politician
1945 – Jon Peters, American film producer and hairdresser
1946 – Peter Sutcliffe, English serial killer
1946 – Lasse Hallström, Swedish film director
1946 – Song Dae Kwan, Korean singer
1947 – Mark Elder, British opera and symphony conductor
1948 – Jerry Mathers, American actor
1949 – Heather Couper, British astronomer
1949 – Frank Rich, American theater critic and columnist
1950 – Joanna Gleason, Canadian actress and singer
1951 – Larry Robinson, Canadian hockey player
1952 – Gary Bettman, American National Hockey League commissioner
1953 – Keith Allen, Welsh comedian, actor, singer and writer
1953 – Craig Stadler, American golfer
1953 – Cornel West, American civil rights activist
1954 – Dennis Haysbert, American actor
1955 – Michael Steele, American musician (The Bangles)
1955 – Chantal Hochuli, Swiss-born socialite
1955 – Dana Carvey, American actor
1956 – Malcolm Garrett, English graphic designer
1956 – Mani Ratnam, Indian Film Director
1956 – Jan Lammers, Dutch racing driver
1957 – Mark Lawrenson, English footballer and commentator
1957 – Jonathan Stack, American documentary filmmaker
1958 – Lawrence Pfohl, American professional wrestler
1959 – Charlie Huddy, Canadian hockey player
1959 – Lydia Lunch, American singer
1960 – Tony Hadley, English singer (Spandau Ballet)
1960 – Kyle Petty, American race car driver
1961 – Dez Cadena, American musician (Black Flag)
1963 – Jim Burns, American entrepreneur
1964 – Caroline Link, German film director and screenwriter
1965 – Jim Knipfel, American autobiographer and journalist
1965 – Mark Waugh Australian cricketer
1965 – Steve Waugh, Australian cricketer
1966 – Pedro Guerra, Spanish songwriter and singer
1967 – Mike Stanton, American baseball player
1968 – Beetlejuice, American radio personality
1968 – Andy Cohen, American television personality
1968 – Jon Culshaw, British comedian
1968 – Jason Falkner, American musician
1969 – Cy Chadwick, English actor
1970 – Andy McCollum, American football player
1970 – B-Real, American rapper (Cypress Hill)
1971 – Katerina Jacques, Czech politician
1971 – Jo Koy, Filipino-American comedian
1971 – Anthony Montgomery, American actor
1972 – Wayne Brady, American actor and comedian
1972 – Raúl Ibáñez, American baseball player
1972 – Wentworth Miller, American actor
1972 – Simon Staho, Danish film director
1973 – Neifi Perez, Dominican baseball player
1974 – Gata Kamsky, American chess player
1974 – Matt Serra, American mixed martial artist
1976 – Earl Boykins, American basketball player
1976 – Martin Cech, Czech ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1976 – Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira, Brazilian mixed martial artist
1976 – Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso of Lesotho
1976 – Tim Rice-Oxley, English musician (Keane)
1977 – Zachary Quinto, American actor
1978 – Dominic Cooper, English actor
1978 – Nikki Cox, American actress
1978 – Justin Long, American actor
1978 – A.J. Styles, American professional wrestler
1979 – Morena Baccarin, Brazilian actress
1979 – Butterfly Boucher, Australian musician
1980 – Fabrizio Moretti, Brazilian rock drummer (The Strokes)
1980 – Bobby Simmons, American basketball player
1980 – Abby Wambach, American footballer
1981 – Nikolay Davydenko, Russian tennis player
1981 – Chin-hui Tsao, Taiwanese baseball player
1981 – Velvet Sky, American professional wrestler
1891 – Catherine Manoukian, Canadian violinist
1982 – Jewel Staite, Canadian actress
1983 – Christopher Higgins, American ice hockey player
1983 – Brooke White, American singer
1983 – Leela James, American singer-songwriter
1984 – Max Boyer, Canadian professional wrestler
1985 – Ana Cristina, American singer, composer, and actress
1985 – Jacqueline Fernandez, Miss Universe Sri Lanka 2006, Indian Actress
1986 – Curtis Lofton, American football player
1987 – Darin Zanyar, Swedish singer
1987 – Maryka Holtzhausen, South African netballer
1987 – Sonakshi Sinha, Indian actress
1988 – Sergio Agüero, Argentinian footballer
1988 – Patrik Berglund, Swedish ice hockey player
1989 – Freddy Adu, Ghanaian/American footballer
1989 – Steven Smith, Australian cricketer
1990 – Brittany Curran, American actress
1992 – Pajtim Kasami, Swiss footballer
1994 – Jemma McKenzie-Brown, English actress