today.nukz.net: Almanac September 15

Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15, 1928 – August 8, 1975)[2] was a jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s.

Adderley is remembered for his 1966 single "Mercy Mercy Mercy", a crossover hit on the pop charts, and for his work with trumpeter Miles Davis, including on the epochal album Kind of Blue (1959). He was the brother of jazz cornetist Nat Adderley, a longtime member of his band.

Events

668 – Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.
921 – At Tetin Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law.
994 – Major Fatimid victory over the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of the Orontes.
1327 – The British city of Exeter suffered from a plague which wiped out nearly half its population, resulting in widespread riots, and culminating in the September 15th massacre on the site of the current day University of Exeter.
1440 – Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.
1556 – Departing from Vlissingen, ex-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain.
1616 – The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.
1762 – Seven Years War: Battle of Signal Hill.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign.
1789 – The United States Department of State is established (formerly known as the "Department of Foreign Affairs").
1812 – The French army under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow.
1812 – War of 1812: A second supply train sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
1816 – HMS Whiting ran aground on the Doom Bar
1820 – Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal.
1821 – Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica jointly declare independence from Spain.
1830 – The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens.
1831 – The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipielago.
1851 – Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1862 – American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
1873 – Franco-Prussian War: The last German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
1916 – World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
1935 – India's first all-boys public school, The Doon School, was founded.
1935 – The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
1935 – Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag with the swastika.
1940 – World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Royal Air Force shoots down large numbers of Luftwaffe aircraft.
1942 – World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp is torpedoed at Guadalcanal.
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
1944 – Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps' 1st Marine Division and the United States Army's 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery.
1945 – A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond.
1947 – RCA releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube.
1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kanto Region in Japan killing 1,077.
1948 – The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour (1,080 km/h).
1950 – Korean War: United States forces land at Inchon
1952 – United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia.
1958 – A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 58.
1959 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
1961 – Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 miles per hour.
1962 – The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1963 – The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed at an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States
1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
1968 – The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
1972 – A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmö-Bulltofta Airport.
1974 – Air Vietnam flight 727 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
1975 – The French département of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
1981 – The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1981 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.
1981 – Vanuatu becomes a member of the United Nations.
1983 – Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
1987 – United States Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze sign a treaty to establish centers to reduce the risk of nuclear war.
1990 – France announces it will send 4,000 troops to the Persian Gulf.
1993 – Liechtenstein Prince Hans-Adam II disbands Parliament
1998 – With the landmark merger of WorldCom and MCI Communications completed the day prior, the new MCI WorldCom opens its doors for business.
2004 – National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.
2008 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.

Births

1254 – Marco Polo, Italian explorer. (d. 1324)
1533 – Catherine of Austria, queen consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1572)
1580 – Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (d. 1659)
1613 – François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (d. 1680)
1649 – Titus Oates, English minister and plotter (d. 1705)
1666 – Princess Sophia Dorothea of Celle (d. 1726)
1690 – Ignazio Prota, Italian composer and music educator (d. 1748)
1715 – Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery specialist (d. 1789)
1736 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer and orator (d. 1793)
1759 – Cornelio Saavedra, president of the Primera Junta and the Junta Grande, first patriotic governments of Argentina (d. 1829)
1760 – Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien, Prussian general of the Napoleonic Wars (d. 1824)
1789 – James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist (d. 1851)
1815 – Halfdan Kjerulf, Norwegian composer (d. 1868)
1819 – Cyprien Tanguay, Canadian priest and historian (d. 1902)
1828 – Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov, Russian chemist (d. 1886)
1830 – Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico (d. 1915)
1852 – Edward Bouchet, American physicist (d. 1918)
1857 – William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States and 10th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1930)
1858 – Charles de Foucauld, French catholic priest (d. 1916)
1858 – Jeno Hubay, Hungarian violinist (d. 1937)
1860 – Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer (d. 1962)
1863 – Horatio Parker, American composer (d. 1919)
1864 – Prince Sigismund of Prussia (d. 1866)
1867 – Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1920)
1870 – Rose Sutro, American duo-pianist with her sister Ottilie (d. 1957)
1876 – Bruno Walter, German conductor (d. 1962)
1876 – Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian novelist (d. 1938)
1877 – Jakob Ehrlich, Austrian politician and zionist (d. 1938)
1879 – Joseph Lyons, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1939)
1880 – Chujiro Hayashi, Japanese Reiki Master (d. 1940)
1881 – Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile engineer and designer (d. 1947)
1881 – Julian Schmitz, American gymnast (death date unknown)
1883 – Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (d. 1950)
1887 – Carlos Dávila, President of Chile (d. 1955)
1888 – Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (d. 1925)
1889 – Robert Benchley, American author (d. 1945)
1889 – Claude McKay, Jamaican-American poet and writer (d. 1948)
1890 – Ernest Bullock, English organist and composer (d. 1979)
1890 – Agatha Christie, English writer (d. 1976)
1890 – Frank Martin, Swiss composer (d. 1974)
1892 – Silpa Bhirasri, Italian sculptor (d. 1962)
1894 – Jean Renoir, French film director (d. 1979)
1894 – Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (d. 1977)
1895 – Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (d. 1977)
1895 – Charles "Chic" Harley, American football player (d. 1974)
1898 – J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist (d. 1936)
1901 – Sir Donald Bailey, British engineer (d. 1985)
1903 – Roy Acuff, American country musician (d. 1992)
1904 – King Umberto II of Italy (d. 1983)
1904 – Sheilah Graham Westbrook, English-US gossip columnist (d. 1988)
1906 – Jacques Becker, French screenwriter and director (d. 1960)
1906 – Walter E. Rollins, American musician and songwriter(d. 1973)
1907 – Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and writer (d. 1968)
1907 – Fay Wray, Canadian-born American actress (d. 2004)
1908 – Penny Singleton, American actress (d. 2003)
1908 – Kid Sheik, New Orleans jazz trumpeter (d. 1996)
1909 – C.N.Annadurai, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (d. 1969)
1909 – Phil Arnold, American actor d. 1968
1910 – Betty Neels, English novelist (d. 2001)
1911 – Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-born American golf entrepreneur (d. 2000)
1911 – Luther Terry, American Surgeon General (d. 1985)
1913 – Bruno Hoffmann, German glass harmonica player (d. 1991)
1913 – John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General and Watergate figure (d. 1988)
1913 – Johannes Steinhoff, German fighter pilot & NATO commander (d. 1994)
1913 – Henry Brant, Canadian-born American composer (d. 2008)
1914 – Creighton Abrams, American Army general (d. 1974)
1914 – Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
1914 – Orhan Kemal, Turkish writer (d. 1970)
1915 – Al Casey (jazz guitarist), American guitarist (d. 2005)
1915 – José Nicomedes Grossi, Brazilian bishop (d. 2009)
1915 – Paul Ch'eng Shih-kuang, Taiwanese bishop (d. 2012)
1915 – Albert Whitlock, English motion picture matte artist (d. 1999)
1915 – Ismail Yasin, Egyptian comedian and actor (d. 1972)
1916 – Margaret Lockwood, English actress (d. 1990)
1916 – Frederick C. Weyand, American army general (d. 2010)
1917 – Hilde Gueden, Austrian soprano (d. 1988)
1918 – Nipsey Russell, American comedian (d. 2005)
1918 – Phil Lamason, New Zealand WWII pilot (d. 2012)
1919 – Fausto Coppi, Italian racing cyclist (d. 1960)
1919 – Nelson Gidding, American screenwriter (d. 2004)
1920 – Kym Bonython, Australian radio broadcaster, jazz musician, speedway promoter (d. 2011)
1921 – Richard Gordon, English author
1921 – Norma MacMillan, Canadian actress (d. 2001)
1921 – Snooky Pryor, American Chicago blues harmonica player (d. 2006)
1921 – Gene Roland, jazz composer, arranger and musician (d. 1982)
1922 – Jackie Cooper, American actor and director (d. 2011)
1922 – Bob Anderson (fencer), English sword-master and Fight Choreographer(d. 2012)
1923 – Anton Heiller, Austrian organist (d. 1979)
1924 – Bobby Short, American musician (d. 2005)
1924 – György Lázár, Hungarian communist
1924 – Lucebert, Dutch artist (d. 1994)
1925 – Forrest Compton, American actor
1925 – Helle Virkner, Danish actress (d. 2009)
1925 – Stanley Chapman, British architect, designer, translator and writer (d. 2009)
1926 – Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
1926 – Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (d. 2006)
1927 – Erika Köth, German coloratura soprano (d. 1981)
1927 – David Stove, Australian philosopher (d. 1994)
1927 – Norm Crosby, American Comedian
1928 – Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1975)
1929 – Eva Burrows, the 13th General of The Salvation Army
1929 – Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1931 – Brian Henderson, Australian television presenter
1932 – Neil Bartlett, English chemist (d. 2008)
1933 – Henry Darrow, American actor
1933 – Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor
1933 – Monica Maughan, Australian actress (d. 2010)
1934 – Fred Nile, Australian politician
1934 – Tomie dePaola, American children's author
1936 – Ashley Cooper, Australian tennis player
1936 – Sara Henderson, Australian pastoralist and author (d. 2005)
1937 – Robert Lucas, Jr., American economist, Nobel laureate
1937 – Giuseppe 'Pino' Puglisi, Italian priest (d. 1993)
1937 – Fernando de la Rúa, 51st President of Argentina
1938 – Gaylord Perry, baseball player
1940 – Merlin Olsen, American football player and actor (d. 2010)
1940 – Norman Spinrad, American science fiction author
1941 – Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer (d. 2011)
1941 – Signe Toly Anderson, American singer
1941 – Miroslaw Hermaszewski, Polish cosmonaut
1941 – Yuri Norstein, Russian animator
1941 – Viktor Zubkov, Russian government official
1942 – Lee Dorman, American Bassist
1944 – Sotirios Hatzigakis, Greek politician
1945 – Hans-Gert Pöttering, German politician, President of the European Parliament
1945 – Carmen Maura, Spanish actress
1945 – Jessye Norman, American opera singer
1945 – Ron Shelton, American film director
1946 – Ola Brunkert, Swedish session drummer (ABBA) (d. 2008)
1946 – Tommy Lee Jones, American actor
1946 – Oliver Stone, American film director
1946 – Howard Waldrop, American science fiction author
1946 – Mike Procter, South African cricketer, coach and match referee
1947 – Theodore Long, American professional wrestling manager
1947 – Charles "Bobo" Shaw, American free jazz drummer
1949 – Joe Barton, American politician
1950 – Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih V, the spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
1951 – Pete Carroll, American football coach
1951 – Johan Neeskens, Dutch footballer
1952 – Richard Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player
1952 – Paula Duncan, Australian actress
1952 – Kelly Keagy, American drummer and vocalist
1953 – Paul Piché, Canadian singer and songwriter
1954 – Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (d. 2007)
1955 – Željka Antunovic, Croatian politician
1955 – Renzo Rosso, Italian clothing designer
1955 – Bruce Reitherman, American voice actor
1956 – Jaki Graham, English singer
1956 – Maggie Reilly, Scottish folk singer
1956 – Ned Rothenberg, American multi-instrumentalist and composer
1958 – Dr. Know, American guitarist (Bad Brains)
1958 – Joel Quenneville, Canadian ice hockey player
1958 – Wendie Jo Sperber, American actress (d. 2005)
1959 – Mark Kirk, American politician, junior senator of Illinois
1960 – Kevin Allen, Welsh actor
1960 – Ed Solomon, American screenwriter
1961 – Terry Lamb, Australian rugby league footballer
1961 – Dan Marino, American football player
1962 – Scott McNeil, Australian voice actor
1963 – Pete Myers, American basketball player
1964 – Róbert Fico, Slovak Prime minister, populist
1964 – Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, American musician (The Misfits)
1965 – Dyan Castillejo US ex-tennis place and sports presenter
1966 – Sherman Douglas, American basketball player
1967 – Paul Abbott, American baseball player
1967 – Sari Kaasinen, Finnish singer
1967 – Huw Bunford, guitarist in the rock band, Super Furry Animals
1968 – Danny Nucci, American actor
1969 – Revaz Arveladze, Georgian footballer
1970 – Carsten Klee, German footballer
1971 – Nathan Astle, New Zealand cricketer
1971 – Josh Charles, American actor
1971 – Ben Wallers, English musician and songwriter (Country Teasers)
1972 – Jimmy Carr, English-Irish comedian
1972 – Kit Chan, Singaporean singer
1972 – Letizia, Princess of Asturias, Spanish royalty
1973 – Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland
1975 – Martina Krupicková, Czech artist
1975 – Tom Dolan, American swimmer
1976 – Paul Thomson, Scottish drummer (Franz Ferdinand)
1976 – Matt Thornton, American baseball player
1977 – Angela Aki, Japanese singer-songwriter
1977 – Sophie Dahl, English model
1977 – Tom Hardy, English actor
1977 – Leander Jordan, American football player
1977 – Marisa Ramirez, American actress
1977 – Jason Terry, American basketball player
1978 – Eiður Guðjohnsen, Icelandic footballer
1979 – Dave Annable, American actor
1979 – Amy Davidson, American actress
1979 – Patrick Marleau, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 – Carlos Ruiz, Guatemalan footballer
1980 – David Diehl, American football player
1980 – Mike Dunleavy, Jr., American basketball player
1980 – Jolin Tsai, Taiwanese pop singer
1983 – Luke Hochevar, American baseball player
1984 – Prince Harry of Wales, English royalty
1985 – François-Olivier Roberge, Canadian speed skater
1986 – Heidi Montag, American TV personality and singer
1986 – Peter Wilson, British sports shooter
1987 – Aly Cissokho, French footballer
1987 – Clare Maguire, English singer-songwriter
1988 – Chelsea Kane, American actress
1989 – Kris Chetan Ramlu, New Zealand musician
1990 – Oliver Gill, English footballer
1990 – Matt Shively, American actor
1991 – Phil Ofosu-Ayeh, Ghanaian footballer
1991 – Lee Jung Shin, South Korean rapper, bass player, and actor (CN Blue)
1996 – Jake Cherry, American actor

Deaths

668 – Constans II, Byzantine emperor (b. 630)
866 – Robert the Strong, Margrave of Neustria (b. 820)
921 – Saint Ludmila of Bohemia, Bohemian martyr (b. c. 860)
1231 – Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1173)
1326 – Dmitry of Tver, Grand Prince of Vladimir and Tver (b. 1299)
1352 – Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (b. 1273)
1500 – John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1420)
1596 – Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist
1613 – Thomas Overbury, English writer (b. 1581)
1643 – Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (b. 1566)
1649 – John Floyd, English Jesuit preacher (b. 1572)
1700 – André Le Nôtre, French landscape architect (b. 1613)
1701 – Edmé Boursault, French writer (b. 1638)
1707 – George Stepney, English poet and diplomat (b. 1663)
1712 – Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, English politician
1750 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (b. 1690)
1794 – Abraham Clark, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1725)
1803 – Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1719)
1805 – Christopher Gadsden, American soldier and statesman from South Carolina (b. 1724)
1830 – François Baillairgé, Canadian painter and sculptor (b. 1759)
1830 – William Huskisson, English first rail fatality (b. 1770)
1835 – Sarah Knox Taylor, American wife of Jefferson Davis (b. 1814)
1841 – Alessandro Rolla, Italian violin master and composer (b. 1757)
1842 – Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (b. 1771)
1842 – José Francisco Morazán Quezada, Guatemalan statesman (b. 1792)
1859 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (b. 1806)
1864 – John Hanning Speke, British explorer (b. 1827)
1883 – Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist (b. 1801)
1885 – Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's circus elephant (b. 1861)
1893 – Thomas Hawksley, English civil engineer (b. 1807)
1915 – Ernest Gagnon, Canadian folklorist, composer and organist (b. 1834)
1921 – Roman Ungern von Sternberg, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1886)
1926 – Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)
1930 – Milton Sills, American actor (b. 1882)
1938 – Thomas Wolfe, American writer (b. 1900)
1940 – William B. Bankhead, American politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives (b. 1874)
1944 – Walter Middelberg, Dutch rower (b. 1875)
1945 – André Tardieu, French statesman (b. 1876)
1945 – Anton Webern, Austrian composer (b. 1883)
1965 – Steve Brown, American musician (b. 1890)
1972 – Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1887)
1973 – Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (b. 1882)
1978 – Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (b. 1898)
1978 – Robert Cliche, French Canadian politician and judge (b. 1921)
1979 – Tommy Leonetti, American songwriter, entertainer (b. 1929)
1980 – Bill Evans, American jazz pianist (b. 1929)
1981 – Harold Bennett, English actor (b. 1899)
1981 – Rafael Mendez, Mexican trumpet virtuoso (b. 1906)
1983 – Prince Far I, Jamaican reggae toaster and record producer
1985 – Cootie Williams, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1910)
1987 – Steven Tuomi, American murder victim of Jeffrey Dahmer (b. 1963)
1989 – Jan DeGaetani, American mezzo-soprano (b. 1933)
1989 – Olga Erteszek, American undergarment designer and lingerie company owner (b. 1916)
1989 – Robert Penn Warren, American writer (b. 1905)
1991 – John Hoyt, American actor (b. 1904)
1993 – Ethan Allen, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1993 – Giuseppe 'Pino' Puglisi, Italian priest (b. 1937)
1995 – Harry Calder, South African cricketer (b. 1901)
1995 – Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish football player (b. 1921)
1998 – Louis Rasminsky, Canadian economist, governor of the Bank of Canada (b. 1908)
2001 – June Salter, Australian actress (b. 1932)
2001 – Balbir Singh Sodhi, Indian murder victim (b. 1949)
2003 – Garner Ted Armstrong, American evangelist (b. 1930)
2003 – Jack Brymer, English clarinetist (b. 1915)
2003 – Josef Hirsal, Czech novelist (b. 1920)
2004 – Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (The Ramones) (b. 1948)
2004 – Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist (b. 1931)
2005 – Guy Green, English cinematographer and film director (b. 1913)
2005 – Sidney Luft, American film director (b. 1915)
2006 – Raymond Baxter, British television presenter (b. 1922)
2006 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (b. 1929)
2006 – Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (b. 1987)
2007 – Colin McRae, Scottish rally driver (b. 1968)
2007 – Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (b. 1928)
2007 – Brett Somers, Canadian-born American actress (b. 1924)
2007 – Sir Jeremy Moore, British Army commander (b. 1928)
2008 – Stavros Paravas, Greek actor (b. 1935)
2008 – Richard Wright, British keyboardist (Pink Floyd) (b. 1943)
2009 – Troy Kennedy Martin, Scottish film and TV screenwriter (b. 1932)
2010 – Arrow, Montserratian soca musician (b. 1949)
2011 – Frances Bay, Canadian actress (b. 1919)