today.nukz.net: Almanac October 11

Arthur "Art" Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990), known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, was an American Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer and bandleader.

Along with Kenny Clarke and Max Roach, he was one of the inventors of the modern bebop style of drumming. He is known as a powerful musician and a vital groover; his brand of bluesy, funky hard bop was and continues to be profoundly influential on mainstream jazz. For more than 30 years his band, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, included many young musicians who went on to become prominent names in jazz. The band's legacy is thus not only known for the music it produced, but as a proving ground for several generations of jazz musicians; Blakey's groups are matched only by those of Miles Davis in this regard.

Blakey was inducted into the Jazz Hall of Fame (in 1982), the Grammy Hall of Fame (in 2001), and was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.

Events

1138 – A massive earthquake strikes Aleppo, Syria.
1531 – Huldrych Zwingli is killed in battle with the Roman Catholic cantons of Switzerland.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1614 – Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the New Netherland colony.
1634 – The Burchardi flood – "the second Grote Mandrenke" killed around 15,000 men in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany.
1649 – Sack of Wexford: After a ten-day siege, English New Model Army troops (under Oliver Cromwell) stormed the town of Wexford, killing over 2,000 Irish Confederate troops and 1,500 civilians.
1727 – George II and Caroline of Ansbach are crowned King and Queen of Great Britain.
1767 – Surveying for the Mason–Dixon Line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Valcour Island – On Lake Champlain a fleet of American boats is defeated by the Royal Navy, but delays the British advance until 1777.
1797 – Battle of Camperdown: Naval battle between Royal Navy and Royal Netherlands Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars. The outcome of the battle was a decisive British victory.
1809 – Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand.
1811 – Inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York City, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey).
1833 – A big demonstration at the gates of the legislature of Buenos Aires forces the ousting of governor Juan Ramón Balcarce and his replacement with Juan José Viamonte.
1852 – The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
1862 – American Civil War: In the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam, Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart and his men loot Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, during a raid into the north.
1864 – Campina Grande, Brazil is established as a city.
1865 – Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.
1890 – In Washington, DC, the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
1899 – Second Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.
1899 – The Western League is renamed the American League.
1906 – San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
1910 – Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright Brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.
1912 – First Balkan War: The Greek Army liberates the city of Kozani.
1918 – San Fermín earthquake hits western Puerto Rico.
1929 – JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
1941 – Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia.
1942 – World War II: Battle of Cape Esperance – On the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island.
1944 – Tuvinian People's Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva is annexed by the U.S.S.R
1950 – Television: CBS's mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
1954 – First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam.
1957 – Space Race: M.I.T. scientists calculate Sputnik I's booster rocket's orbit.
1958 – Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up).
1962 – Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
1968 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
1972 – A race riot occurs on the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off the coast of Vietnam during Operation Linebacker.
1975 – The NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live debuts with George Carlin as the host and Andy Kaufman, Janis Ian and Billy Preston as guests.
1976 – George Washington's appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford.
1982 – The Mary Rose, a Tudor carrack which sank on July 19, 1545, is salvaged from the sea bed of the Solent, off Portsmouth.
1984 – Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
1986 – Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe.
1987 – Start of Operation Pawan by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka that killed thousands of ethnic Tamil civilians and hundreds of Tamil Tigers & Indian Army soldiers.
1996 – Pala accident: a wood lorry and school bus collide in Jõgeva county, Estonia, killing eight children.
2000 – NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission, using Space Shuttle Discovery.
2001 – The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
2002 – A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven.

Births

1335 – Taejo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d. 1408)
1616 – Andreas Gryphius, German writer (d. 1664)
1661 – Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat (d. 1742)
1671 – Frederick IV of Denmark (d. 1730)
1672 – Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack starshina, diplomat (d. 1742)
1675 – Samuel Clarke, English philosopher (d. 1729)
1679 – Christian Vater, German organ and harpsichord builder (d. 1756)
1738 – Arthur Phillip, Governor of New South Wales (d. 1814)
1739 – Grigory Potemkin, Russian military leader and statesman (d. 1791)
1758 – Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers, German astronomer (d. 1840)
1786 – Stevenson Archer, American Congressman (d. 1848)
1788 – Simon Sechter, Austrian music teacher (d. 1867)
1809 – Orson Squire Fowler, American phrenologist (d. 1887)
1814 – Jean Baptiste Lamy, first Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1888)
1815 – Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Italian-born adventurer (d. 1881)
1821 – George Williams, English founder of the YMCA (d. 1905)
1844 – Henry Heinz, American food manufacturer (d. 1916)
1865 – Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian author and philologist (d. 1926)
1871 – Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian religious leader (d. 1943)
1872 – Harlan Fiske Stone, 12th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1946)
1872 – Emily Davison, Militant womans suffrage activist (d. 1913)
1876 – Paul Masson, French cyclist (d. 1944)
1877 – Henri Hazebroucq, French rower (death date unknown)
1879 – Ernst Mally, Austrian philosopher (d. 1944)
1881 – Hans Kelsen, Austrian legal theorist (d. 1973)
1884 – Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1949)
1884 – Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States and humanitarian (d. 1962)
1884 – Sig Ruman, German-American actor (d. 1967)
1885 – François Mauriac, French author, Nobel laureate (d. 1970)
1895 – Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer (d. 1982)
1897 – Nathan Twining, USAF general (d. 1982)
1899 – Eddie Dyer, American baseball player (d. 1964)
1902 – Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian freedom fighter and political leader (d. 1979)
1905 – Fred Trump, American real estate developer, father of Donald Trump (d. 1999)
1912 – Betty Noyes, singer who dubbed Debbie Reynolds' singing voice in Singin' in the Rain (d. 1987)
1913 – Dorothy Woolfolk, American comic book editor (d. 2000)
1913 – Joe Simon, American comic book artist and writer (d. 2011)
1915 – T. Llew Jones, Welsh author (d. 2009)
1918 – Fred Bodsworth, Canadian journalist (d. 2012)
1918 – Jerome Robbins, American choreographer (d. 1998)
1919 – Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (d. 1990)
1919 – Jean Vander Pyl, American voice actress (d. 1999)
1924 – André Emmerich, American gallerist (d. 2007)
1924 – Mal Whitfield, American athlete
1925 – Elmore Leonard, American novelist
1926 – Earle Hyman, American actor
1926 – Neville Wran, former Premier of New South Wales
1926 – Thích Nh?t H?nh, Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk
1927 – Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium (d. 2005)
1928 – Alfonso de Portago, Spanish race car driver (d. 1957)
1928 – Roscoe Robinson, Jr., first African American four-star Army general (d. 1993)
1929 – Liselotte Pulver, Swiss actress
1929 – Raymond Moriyama, Canadian architect
1929 – Curtis Amy, American saxophonist
1930 – Sam Johnson, American politician
1930 – LaVell Edwards, American football coach
1932 – Dottie West, American singer (d. 1991)
1935 – Dan Evins, American businessman, founded Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (d. 2012)
1935 – Daniel Quinn, American writer
1936 – Billy Higgins, American drummer (d. 2001)
1936 – Tom Zé, Brazilian songwriter, musician, and composer
1937 – Bobby Charlton, English footballer
1937 – R. H. W. Dillard, American poet
1939 – Maria Bueno, Brazilian tennis player
1939 – Austin Currie, Northern Irish politician
1941 – Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1999)
1941 – Charles Shyer, American film director
1942 – Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor
1943 – John Nettles, English actor
1943 – Gene Watson, American country singer
1944 – Mike Fiore, American baseball player
1944 – Rodney Marsh, English Footballer
1946 – Oba Chandler, American convicted murderer (d. 2011)
1946 – Daryl Hall, American rock singer
1946 – Sawao Kato, Japanese gymnast
1946 – Gary Mallaber, American musician
1947 – Al Atkins, English musician
1947 – Thomas Boswell, American sports columnist
1947 – Lucas Papademos, Greek economist
1947 – George McCorkle, American musician (d. 2007)
1948 – Cecilia, Spanish singer-songwriter (d. 1976)
1949 – Henry Luke Orombi, Archbishop of Uganda
1950 – Amos Gitai, Israeli filmmaker
1950 – Patty Murray, American politician, senior senator of Washington
1951 – Bruce Bartlett, American economist, author and political figure
1951 – Jean-Jacques Goldman, French singer/songwriter
1952 – Paulette Carlson, country music singer-songwriter
1953 – David Morse, American actor
1954 – David Michaels, American professor and government official
1954 – Vojislav Seselj, Serbian politician
1955 – Norm Nixon, American basketball player
1956 – Eduardo Arellano Félix, Mexican drug trafficker
1956 – Nicanor Duarte Frutos, former President of Paraguay, Senator for life
1957 – Paul Bown, English actor
1957 – Dawn French, Welsh comedian,actress and screenwriter
1957 – Paul Sereno, American paleontologist
1958 – Gregory Dudek, Canadian roboticist and computer scientist
1959 – Wayne Gardner, Australian racing driver
1960 – Randy Breuer, American basketball player
1960 – Nicola Bryant, English actress
1960 – Curt Ford, American baseball player
1961 – Neil Buchanan, English television presenter
1961 – Amr Diab, Egyptian singer
1961 – Steve Young, American football player
1962 – Joan Cusack, American actress and comedian
1962 – Richard Paul Evans, American author
1962 – Andy McCoy, Finnish musician Hanoi Rocks
1963 – Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein of Jordan
1963 – Ronny Rosenthal, Israeli footballer
1964 – Michael J. Nelson, American actor
1965 – Sean Patrick Flanery, American actor
1965 – Alexander Hacke, German musician
1965 – Orlando Hernández, Cuban baseball player
1965 – Luke Perry, American actor
1966 – Solofa Fatu, aka Rikishi, American professional wrestler
1966 – Todd Snider, American singer-songwriter
1967 – Tony Chimel, American professional wrestling announcer
1967 – Artie Lange, American actor and comedian
1967 – Daniel Razon, Vice Presiding Minister, Church of God International
1967 – David Starr, American race car driver
1967 – Tazz, American professional wrestler and commentator
1968 – Jane Krakowski, American actress
1968 – Claude Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 – Brett Salisbury, American football player and author
1969 – Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
1969 – Stephen Moyer, British actor
1970 – Chidi Ahanotu, American football player
1970 – Andy Marriott, English footballer
1970 – Constance Zimmer, American actress
1971 – Jason Ellis, Australian professional skateboarder
1971 – Petra Haden, American musician
1971 – MC Lyte, American rapper
1972 – Claudia Black, Australian actress
1972 – Cherokee Parks, American basketball player
1973 – Takeshi Kaneshiro, actor/model
1973 – Steven Pressley, Scottish footballer
1973 – Mike Smith, American guitarist (Snot, Limp Bizkit)
1973 – Niki Xanthou, Greek long jumper
1973 – Dmitri Young, American baseball player
1974 – Jason Arnott, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 – Rachel Barton Pine, violinist from Chicago
1974 – Terje Haakonsen, Norwegian snowboarder
1974 – Jamie Thomas, American skateboarder
1976 – Dominic Aitchison, Scottish musician (Mogwai)
1976 – Brent Bennett, American mercenary
1976 – Emily Deschanel, American actress
1977 – Matthew Bomer, American actor
1977 – Desmond Mason, American basketball player
1977 – Claudia Palacios, Colombian television journalist
1977 – Napoleon, American Rapper (Outlawz)
1977 – Jérémie Janot, French footballer
1977 – Ty Wigginton, American baseball player
1977 – Rhett McLaughlin, YouTuber
1978 – Kali, Angolan footballer
1979 – Bae Doona, South Korean model and actress
1979 – Andy Douglas, American professional wrestler
1979 – Gabe Saporta, Uruguayan-born American musician
1980 – Matthew Felker, American writer, producer and actor
1980 – Nyron Nosworthy, English footballer
1980 – Tomokazu Sugita, Japanese voice actor
1981 – Beau Brady, Australian Actor
1982 – Liz Cantor, Australian journalist
1982 – Jeff Larish, American Baseball Player
1982 – Terrell Suggs, American Football Player
1982 – Kristy Wu, American Actress
1983 – Bradley James, British actor
1983 – Ruslan Ponomariov, Ukrainian chess player
1983 – William Sledd, American internet personality
1984 – Sergio Hellings, Dutch footballer
1984 – Martha MacIsaac, Canadian actress
1985 – Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress
1985 – Álvaro Fernández, Uruguayan footballer
1987 – Mike Conley, Jr., American basketball player
1989 – Henry Lau, Canadian-Chinese singer
1989 – Michelle Wie, American golfer
1990 – Andre Tyson, English professional wrestler
1991 – Patrick Leyland, American baseball player
1991 – Panagiotis Vlachodimos, Greek footballer
1993 – Sean Murray, Irish footballer

Deaths

1188 – Robert I of Dreux, son of Louis VI of France
1303 – Pope Boniface VIII
1347 – Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1282)
1424 – Jan Žižka, leader of the Hussites (b. 1360)
1531 – Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (b. 1484)
1572 – Sulaiman Khan Karrani, Sultan of Bengal
1636 – Johann Albrecht Adelgrief, German man who claimed to be a prophet and was executed for witchcraft.
1705 – Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (b. 1663)
1708 – Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (b. 1651)
1721 – Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1636)
1725 – Hans Herr, Swiss-born Mennonite bishop (b. 1639)
1779 – Kazimierz Pulaski, Polish fighter for American independence (b. 1745)
1809 – Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (b. 1774)
1811 – Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (b. 1724)
1821 – John Ross Key, American judge and lawyer (b. 1754)
1852 – Gotthold Eisenstein, German mathematician (b. 1823)
1889 – James Prescott Joule, English physicist (b. 1818)
1896 – Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (b. 1824)
1896 – Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1829)
1897 – Léon Boëllmann, French composer (b. 1862)
1932 – William Alden Smith, American politician (b. 1859)
1935 – Steele Rudd, Australian author (b. 1868)
1940 – Lluís Companys i Jover, President of Generalitat of Catalonia (shot) (b. 1882)
1940 – Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1860)
1961 – Chico Marx, American comedian (b. 1887)
1963 – Jean Cocteau, French writer (b. 1889)
1963 – Édith Piaf, French singer (b. 1915)
1965 – Dorothea Lange, American photographer (b. 1895)
1965 – Walther Stampfli, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1884)
1971 – Chesty Puller, the most decorated American Marine in history (b. 1898)
1971 – Tamanoumi Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 51st Yokozuna (b. 1944)
1976 – Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (b. 1897)
1977 – MacKinlay Kantor, American author (b. 1904)
1986 – Norm Cash, American baseball player (b. 1934)
1988 – Bonita Granville, American actress (b. 1923)
1989 – M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (b. 1904)
1991 – Steven Jesse Bernstein, American underground poet (suicide) (b. 1950)
1991 – Redd Foxx, American comedian and actor (b. 1922)
1993 – Jess Thomas, American tenor (b. 1927)
1996 – Lars Ahlfors, Finnish mathematician (b. 1907)
1996 – Joe Morris, C.C., LL.D., Canadian trade unionist (b. 1913)
1996 – Renato Russo, Brazilian rock singer-songwriter (b. 1960)
1998 – Richard Denning, American actor (b. 1914)
2000 – Luc-Marie Bayle, French naval officer and artist (b. 1914)
2000 – Donald Dewar, first First Minister of Scotland (b. 1937)
2002 – Dina Pathak, Indian actress (b. 1922)
2004 – Keith Miller, Australian sportsman (b. 1919)
2005 – Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and Prime Minister in exile (b. 1915)
2005 – Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, Linguist, and writer of Pakistan (b. 1917)
2006 – Cory Lidle, American baseball pitcher (b. 1972)
2007 – Werner von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers (b. 1915)
2007 – David Lee "Tex" Hill, World War II fighter pilot, flying ace, 1st American Volunteer Group (b. 1915)
2007 – Sri Chinmoy (Chinmoy Kumar Ghose), founder of the Sri Chinmoy meditation centres (b. 1931)
2008 – Jörg Haider, Austrian politician (b. 1950)
2008 – Ernst-Paul Hasselbach, Dutch TV-host and producer (b. 1966)
2008 – Neal Hefti, American jazz trumpeter, composer and arranger (b. 1922)
2009 – Angelo DiGeorge, Italian-American pediatric endocrinologist (b. 1922)
2009 – Veronika Neugebauer, German actress and voice actress (b. 1968)