today.nukz.net: Almanac June 6

Sandra Bernhard (born June 6, 1955) is an American comedian, singer, actress and author. She first gained attention in the late 1970s with her stand-up comedy in which she often bitterly critiques celebrity culture and political figures. Bernhard is number 97 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 greatest standups of all time.

Events

1513 – Italian Wars: Battle of Novara. Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored.
1523 – Gustav Vasa is crowned king of Sweden this is the Swedish national day
1644 – The Qing Dynasty Manchu forces led by the Shunzhi Emperor capture Beijing during the collapse of the Ming Dynasty. The Manchus would rule China until 1912 when the Republic of China is established.
1654 – Charles X succeeds his abdicated cousin Queen Christina to the Swedish throne.
1674 – Shivaji, founder of the Maratha empire is crowned.
1683 – The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
1752 – A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow, including 18,000 homes.
1808 – Napoleon's brother, Joseph Bonaparte is crowned King of Spain.
1809 – Sweden promulgates a new Constitution, which restores political power to the Riksdag of the Estates after 20 years of Enlightened absolutism. At the same time, Charles XIII is elected to succeed Gustav IV Adolf as King of Sweden.
1813 – War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek – A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeats an American force two times its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
1822 – Alexis St. Martin accidentally shot in the stomach, which leads way to William Beaumont's studies on digestion.
1832 – The June Rebellion of Paris is put down by the National Guard.
1833 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride on a train.
1844 – The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.
1857 – Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway.
1859 – Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day).
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Memphis – Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee, from the Confederates.
1882 – More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour.
1882 – The Shewan forces of Menelik II of Ethiopia defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
1889 – The Great Seattle fire destroys the entirety of downtown Seattle, Washington.
1892 – Chicago 'L' begins operation
1894 – Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike.
1909 – French troops capture Abéché (in modern-day Chad) and install a puppet sultan in the Ouaddai Empire.
1912 – The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
1918 – World War I: Battle of Belleau Wood – The U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties while attempting to recapture the wood at Chateau-Thierry.
1919 – The Republic of Prekmurje ends.
1921 – The Southwark Bridge in London, is opened for traffic by King George V and Queen Mary.
1932 – The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1/4 ¢/L) sold.
1933 – The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey, United States.
1934 – New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
1939 – Judge Joseph Force Crater, known as the "Missingest Man in New York", is declared legally dead.
1942 – World War II: Battle of Midway. U.S. Navy dive bombers sink the Japanese cruiser Mikuma and four Japanese carriers.
1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.
1946 – The National Basketball Association is created, with eleven original teams.
1964 – Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany, are terminated, though they never resume.
1971 – Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 launches.
1971 – A midair collision between a Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a United States Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II jet fighter near Duarte, California claims 50 lives.
1971 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Khanh between Australian and Vietnamese communist forces begins.
1974 – A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy.
1981 – Bihar train disaster A passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati river. The government places the official death toll at 268 plus another 300 missing; however, it is generally believed that the actual figure is closer to 1,000 killed.
1982 – 1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their "Operation Peace for the Galilee", eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
1984 – Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all-time, is released.
1985 – The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is exhumed in Embu, Brazil; the remains found are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death". Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.
1993 – Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections.
2002 – Eastern Mediterranean Event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 meters diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
2004 – Tamil is established as a Classical language by the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.
2005 – The United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana, in Gonzales v. Raich.

Births

1236 – Wen Tianxiang, Chinese statesman (d. 1283)
1296 – Wladyslaw of Legnica, Duke of Legnica (d. 1352)
1436 – Regiomontanus, German mathematician (d. 1476)
1502 – King John III of Portugal (d. 1557)
1519 – Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher and botanist (d. 1603)
1542 – Richard Grenville, English soldier and explorer (d. 1591)
1576 – Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1649)
1580 – Godefroy Wendelin, Flemish astronomer (d. 1667)
1599 – Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660)
1606 – Pierre Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1684)
1622 – Claude-Jean Allouez, French missionary and explorer (d. 1689)
1661 – Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer (d. 1756)
1699 – Johann Georg Estor, German jurist (d. 1773)
1714 – King Joseph I of Portugal (d. 1777)
1735 – Anton Schweitzer, German composer of operas (d. 1787)
1755 – Nathan Hale, American writer and patriot (d. 1776)
1756 – John Trumbull, American painter (d. 1843)
1772 – Maria Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1807)
1799 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet (d. 1837)
1807 – Thieu Tri, the third emperor of the Nguy?n Dynasty of Vietnam (d. 1847)
1810 – Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin, German classical scholar (d. 1856)
1829 – Honinbo Shusaku, Japanese Go player (d. 1862)
1841 – Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish novelist (d. 1910)
1844 – Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (d. 1905)
1850 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1918)
1857 – Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician (d. 1918)
1862 – Henry John Newbolt, English author (d. 1938)
1867 – David T. Abercrombie, American entrepreneur (d. 1931)
1868 – Sir Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer (d. 1912)
1872 – Tsarina Alexandra of Russia (d. 1918)
1875 – Thomas Mann, German writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1955)
1878 – Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French criminal attorney (d. 1956)
1890 – Ted Lewis, American bandleader (d. 1971)
1891 – Maasti Venkatesh Iyengar, Karnatakaian poet and playwright (d. 1986)
1892 – Donald F. Duncan Sr., American entrepreneur (d. 1971)
1896 – Henry Allingham, English first world war veteran, and supercentenarian (d. 2009)
1896 – Italo Balbo, Italian fascist leader (d. 1940)
1898 – Ninette de Valois, Irish dancer (d. 2001)
1898 – Walter Abel, American actor (d. 1987)
1900 – Manfred Sakel, Polish psychiatrist (d. 1957)
1901 – Sukarno, First President of Indonesia (d. 1970)
1902 – Jimmie Lunceford, American bandleader (d. 1947)
1903 – Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer (d. 1978)
1906 – Max August Zorn, German-born mathematician (d. 1993)
1907 – Bill Dickey, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1913 – Carlo L. Golino, American scholar (d. 1991)
1914 – H. Adams Carter, American mountaineer (d. 1995)
1915 – Vincent Persichetti, American composer (d. 1987)
1916 – Hamani Diori, former President of Niger (d. 1989)
1917 – Kirk Kerkorian, American businessman
1918 – Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2009)
1919 – Peter Carrington, British politician
1923 – V. C. Andrews, American author (d. 1986)
1926 – Torsten Andersson, Swedish painter (d. 2009)
1926 – Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (d. 1998)
1929 – Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (d. 2005)
1932 – David Scott, American astronaut
1932 – Billie Whitelaw, English actress
1933 – Eli Broad, American entrepreneur and philanthropist
1933 – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist, Nobel laureate
1934 – King Albert II of Belgium
1934 – Roy Innis, American civil rights activist
1936 – Levi Stubbs, American musician (The Four Tops) (d. 2008)
1936 – A. Venkatesh Naik, Indian politician
1938 – Prince Luís of Orléans-Braganza, pretender to the Brazilian throne
1939 – Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer
1939 – Lawrence Stephen, Nauruan politician (d. 2006)
1939 – Gary U.S. Bonds, American musician
1939 – Ed Giacomin, Canadian hockey player
1939 – Marian Wright Edelman, American activist
1940 – Willie John McBride, Irish Rugby player
1940 – Larry Lujack, American disc jockey
1941 – Alexander Cockburn, Scottish-born American journalist
1943 – José de Jesús Gudiño Pelayo, Mexican jurist
1943 – Ken Hatfield, American football coach
1943 – Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
1944 – Edgar Froese, German artist and electronic music pioneer (Tangerine Dream)
1944 – David Penhaligon, British politician (d. 1986)
1944 – Phillip Allen Sharp, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1944 – Tommie Smith, American track and field athlete
1944 – Monty Alexander, Jamaican pianist
1945 – David E. Bonior, American politician
1945 – David Dukes, American actor (d. 2000)
1945 – Arthur Shawcross, American serial killer (d. 2008)
1947 – David Blunkett, English politician
1947 – Robert Englund, American actor
1947 – Ada Kok, Dutch swimmer
1948 – Tony Levin, American bassist (King Crimson)
1948 – Richard Sinclair, English musician (Caravan)
1949 – Ioannis Matzourakis, Greek association football manager and former player
1949 – Holly Near, American folk singer
1950 – Chantal Akerman, Belgian film director
1951 – Marietta Giannakou, Greek politician
1951 – Noritake Takahara, Japanese racing driver
1951 – Dwight Twilley, American pop/rock singer
1952 – Yukihiro Takahashi, Japanese musician and singer (Yellow Magic Orchestra)
1952 – Harvey Fierstein, American actor
1952 – Jean Hamel, Canadian hockey player
1953 – Dimitris Avramopoulos, Greek politician
1953 – June Yamagishi, Japanese guitarist
1954 – Cynthia Rylant, American author
1954 – Wladyslaw Zmuda, Polish footballer
1955 – Sandra Bernhard, American actress and comedian
1956 – Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player
1956 – Bubbi Morthens, Icelandic singer and songwriter
1957 – Fred Arbinger, German footballer
1957 – Mike Gatting, English cricketer
1957 – Christian Rach, German chef
1958 – Danny Webb, English actor
1959 – Jimmy Jam, American record producer
1959 – Colin Quinn, American comedian
1959 – David Schultz, American wrestler (d. 1996)
1959 – Amanda Pays, English actress
1959 – Josie Lawrence, British comedienne and actress
1959 – Georgios Voulgarakis, Greek politician
1960 – Lola Forner, Spanish actress
1960 – Jozef Pribilinec, Slovak athlete
1960 – Steve Vai, American musician
1961 – Bill Bates, American football player
1961 – Tom Araya, Chilean musician (Slayer)
1961 – Nir Brand, Israeli composer
1963 – Eric Cantor, American politician
1963 – Wolfgang Drechsler, German social scientist
1963 – Jason Isaacs, English actor
1964 – Jay Bentley, American bassist (Bad Religion)
1965 – Cam Neely, Canadian hockey player
1966 – Tony Yeboah, Ghanaian footballer
1966 – Sean Yseult, American musician (White Zombie)
1967 – Paul Giamatti, American actor
1967 – Max Casella, American actor
1968 – François Avard, Canadian writer and scenarist
1968 – Alan Licht, American guitarist, composer and journalist
1969 – Erik Prince, American businessman
1970 – Eugeni Berzin, Russian cyclist
1970 – Sarah Dessen, American author
1970 – Albert Ferrer, Spanish footballer
1970 – Anthony Norris, American wrestler
1970 – James Shaffer, American rock musician (Korn)
1972 – Cristina Scabbia, Italian singer (Lacuna Coil)
1972 – Natalie Morales, American television journalist
1973 – Kat Swift, American politician
1974 – Danny Strong, American actor
1974 – Sonya Walger, British actress
1974 – Uncle Kracker, American musician
1975 – Cheer Chen, Taiwanese singer and musician
1975 – Nina Kaczorowski, American actress
1975 – Staci Keanan, American actress
1975 – Niklas Sundström, Swedish hockey player
1976 – aKido, Canadian musician
1976 – Emilie-Claire Barlow, Canadian singer
1976 – Jonathan Nolan, British screenwriter
1976 – Geoff Rowley, British skateboarder
1976 – Z-Ro, American rapper
1977 – David Connolly, Irish footballer
1977 – Bryn Williams, Welsh chef
1978 – Carl Barât, English musician
1978 – Judith Barsi, American actress (d. 1988)
1978 – Mariana Popova, Bulgarian singer
1978 – Joy Enriquez, American singer
1978 – Andrew Reynolds, American professional skater
1980 – Matt Belisle, American baseball player
1981 – Johnny Pacar, American film actor
1981 – Philip McGinley, English actor
1983 – Gemma Bissix, British actress
1983 – Gianna Michaels, American porn actress
1983 – Joe Rokocoko, Fijian rugby player
1984 – Noor Sabri, Iraqi footballer
1984 – Shannon Stewart, American model
1984 – Jason Trusnik, American football player
1985 – Drew Galloway, Scottish wrestler
1985 – Chris Henry, American football player
1985 – Sebastian Larsson, Swedish footballer
1986 – Bhavana Balachandran, Indian actress
1986 – Kim Hyun Joong, Korean singer (SS501)
1986 – Justin Allgaier, American racing driver
1987 – Kyle Falconer, Scottish musician
1987 – Daniel Logan, New Zealand actor
1987 – Rubin Okotie, Austrian footballer
1988 – Israel Dagg, New Zealand rugby player
1989 – Paula Brancati, Canadian actress
1990 – Vid Belec, Slovenian footballer
1990 – Mike G, American rapper (OFWGKTA)
1990 – Gavin Hoyte, English footballer
1991 – Dong Woon, Korean singer (B2ST)
1992 – Hyuna, Korean singer (4minute)
1992 – Megumi Murakami, Japanese singer (Cute)

Deaths

1134 – Norbert of Xanten priest, saint and founder of the Premonstratensian Canons Regular (b. 1060)
1393 – Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (b. 1359)
1480 – Vecchietta, Italian artist and architect (b. 1412)
1548 – João de Castro, Portuguese noble and explorer (b. 1500)
1563 – Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1519)
1583 – Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese warlord (b. 1556)
1730 – Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, Marshal of France (b. 1646)
1740 – Alexander Spotswood, British Crown Lieutenant Governor of Virginia (b. 1676)
1784 – Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch politician (b. 1741)
1799 – Patrick Henry, American revolutionary (b. 1736)
1813 – Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect (b. 1739)
1832 – Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (b. 1748)
1840 – Marcellin Champagnat, French priest, saint, co-founder of the Marist Fathers and founder of the Marist Brothers (b. 1789)
1843 – Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet and dramatist (b. 1770)
1861 – Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1810)
1865 – William Quantrill, American confederate raider (b. 1837)
1878 – Robert Stirling, Scottish inventor (b. 1790)
1881 – Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer (b. 1820)
1891 – John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815)
1916 – Yuan Shikai, Chinese military officer and politician (b. 1859)
1922 – Lillian Russell, American actress (b. 1860)
1934 – Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (b. 1864)
1935 – Julian Byng, British Field Marshal and 12th Governor-General of Canada (b. 1862)
1941 – Louis Chevrolet, American automotive pioneer (b. 1878)
1943 – Pandelis Pouliopoulos, secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (b. 1900)
1946 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
1947 – James Agate, British diarist and critic (b. 1877)
1948 – Louis Lumière, French movie pioneer (b. 1864)
1951 – Olive Tell, American actress (b. 1894)
1954 – Fritz Kasparek, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1910)
1955 – Max Meldrum, Scottish-born painter (b. 1875)
1961 – Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875)
1961 – Ioannis Theotokis, Greek politician, 146th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1880)
1962 – Yves Klein, French artist (b. 1928)
1968 – Robert F. Kennedy, 64th United States Attorney General and politician (b. 1925)
1968 – Randolph Churchill, son of Winston Churchill (b. 1911)
1975 – Larry Blyden, American actor (b. 1925)
1976 – J. Paul Getty, American industrialist (b. 1892)
1976 – Victor Varconi, Hungarian actor (b. 1891)
1979 – Jack Haley, American actor (b. 1898)
1981 – Carleton S. Coon, American anthropologist (b. 1904)
1982 – Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (b. 1905)
1984 – A. Bertram Chandler, Australian author (b. 1912)
1991 – Stan Getz, American musician (b. 1927)
1992 – Larry Riley, American actor (b. 1952)
1994 – Mark McManus, Scottish actor (b. 1935)
1994 – Barry Sullivan, American actor (b. 1912)
1995 – Savely Kramarov, Soviet and American actor (b. 1934)
1996 – George Davis Snell, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1999 – Anne Haddy, Australian actress (b. 1930)
2000 – Frédéric Dard, French writer (b. 1921)
2002 – Robbin Crosby, American guitarist (Ratt) (b. 1959)
2003 – Ken Grimwood, American writer (b. 1944)
2003 – Dave Rowberry, British musician (The Animals) (b. 1940)
2005 – Anne Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931)
2005 – Dana Elcar, American actor (b. 1927)
2006 – Billy Preston, American musician (b. 1946)
2006 – Hilton Ruiz, Puerto Rican jazz pianist (b. 1952)
2006 – Arnold Newman, American photographer (b. 1918)
2009 – Jean Dausset, French immunologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
2009 – Jim Owens, American college football head coach (b. 1927)
2009 – Mary Howard de Liagre, American actress (b. 1913)
2010 – Marvin Isley, American musician The Isley Brothers (b. 1953)