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2013 Event - Scientists in Spain publish a study in the 'New England Journal of Medicine' that claims a Mediterranean diets, high in olive oil, nuts, fish and fresh fruits, reduce the risk of heart disease

2013 Event - Actor Gerard Depardieu is granted citizenship by Russian President, Vladimir Putin; Depardieu renounced his French citizenship due to the country's high taxes

2012 Event - Heavy rain and high winds across England and Wales kill two people and flood 800 homes

2012 Event - A customary law which prevented women from inheriting their family home, is overturned by the high court of Botswana

2012 Event - Australia's High Court upholds legislation providing for cigarettes to have plain packaging

2012 Event - In an apparent effort to keep his contract, a subcontractor at Japan's defunct Fukushima's nuclear power plant shielded dosimeters with lead plates to ensure they did not reach radiation limits, and workers to lie about possible high radiation exposure

2012 Event - A study finds that 90% of dropouts in Asia's major city schools suffer from myopia, or short-sightedness, with 10 - 20% having advanced, or high myopia, which can cause blindness

2012 Event - Strong manufacturing figures and company earnings cause the Dow Jones Industrial Average to reach a four-year high

2012 Event - Unemployment in Spain is reportedly at a record high

2011 Event - In western Ethiopia, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees opens new refugee camp for refugees from Sudan and South Sudan

2011 Event - Italy's credit rating is lowered from A+ to A by Standard and Poor's rating agency, a result of its high level of debt and the stability of its government

2011 Event - Bolstered by strong employment figures for March, the Australian dollar reaches a 28-year high against the U.S. dollar

2011 Event - Sendai, a major 9.0 earthquake strikes offshore of Japan's Miyagi Prefecture; 10-meter high tsunami's are produced near its epicenter, reaching land through the Pacific ocean

2011 Event - U.S. airlines continue increasing fares as a result of the high cost of jet fuel

2011 Event - The Superbowl XLV attracts a record high television audience; the Green Bay Packers defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers 31 - 25

2011 Event - The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization reports that world food prices have reached a record high

2010 Event - China's inflation rate reaches 5.1%, a 28-month high

2010 Event - Scientists working near Kokoda, Papua New Guinea uncover world's oldest known high altitude human settlement, estimated to be 49,000 years old

2010 Event - Poverty rates in the United States hit a 15-year high of 14.3 percent, or 43.6 million people

2009 Event - U.S. Commerce Department imposes high anti-dumping tariffs up to 99% on imports of Chinese tubular goods

2004 Death - Jan Sterling, actress, The High and the Mighty, dies at 82

2002 Death - Katy Jurado, actress, High Noon, dies at 78

2000 Death - Chris Rebello, high school football coach/child actor, Jaws, dies at 37

1999 Event - Two disaffected students brought guns to their high school in Columbine, Colorado and murdered twelve students, one teacher and then killed themselves

1996 Death - Murtaza Bhutto, politician, son of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was sentenced to death by Lahore High Court, dies at 42 in Karachi, Pakistan, shot dead along with six other activists of the Pakistan Peoples Party

1996 Death - Ken Dibbs, actor (Suddenly, Party Girl, High Society), dies at 78

1995 Death - Ida Lupino, actress/director (Hard Way, High Sierra), dies at 77

1995 Death - James Smiddy, high school basketball coach (1,216 wins), dies at 71

1995 Event - 1st New York City Mayor Trophy's High school track meet in 19 years

1994 Death - Sebastian Lewis Shaw, actor (High Season, Ace of Spades), dies at 89

1994 Death - Cameron Mitchell, actor (High Chapparral), dies of lung cancer at 75

1994 Event - Cbox is 39'115 long, 20'85 wide, and 8' high in Jacksonville, Florida Largest popcorn container is 6,619.76 cubic feet full of popped corn

1994 Event - 29.0 degrees C in Genevad, Sweden (Swedish April high temperature record)

1994 Event - 26.9 degrees C in Prestebakke Norway (Norwegian April high temp record)

1993 Event - Paul Chu group reports super conduction at -123 degrees C (record high)

1993 Event - Dow Jones index reaches record high of 3,638.96 points

1993 Event - Dow Jones hits record high of 3612.13

1993 Event - Javier Sotomayor jumps world record 2.45 m high

1993 Death - Deng Yingchao, high ranking communist China official, dies at 88

1993 Event - Gary Coleman wins $1,280,000 lawsuit against parents for high fees

1992 Event - Billy Joel, gets an honorary diploma from Hicksville High School at 43

1992 Event - "High Rollers Social and Pleasure Club" opens at H Hayes New York City 14 performances

1992 Event - "High Rollers Social and Pleasure Club" closes at H Hayes New York City 14 performances

1992 Event - "High Rollers" opens at Helen Hayes theater on Broadway

1992 Event - Heike Henkel high jumps female indoor world record (2.07m)

1991 Event - Dow Jones closes at record high 3168.83

1991 Event - Condoms are handed out to thousands of New York High School students

1991 Event - Charles Austin breaks U.S. high jump record at 7'10 "

1991 Event - Pamela Smart (High School teacher) found guilty in New Hampshire of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband

1990 Event - New York Mets tie their team career high 11 game win streak

1990 Event - Dow Jones Avg hits a record high of 2,900.97

1990 Event - Bus accidentally touches high voltage wire in Karagpur India; 21 die

1989 Event - Javier Sotomayor of Cuba sets high jump record (8'0") in San Juan

1989 Event - Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43m)

1988 Birthday - Vanessa Hudgens, born in Salinas, California, actress, singer, debut album, titled, 'V', certified Gold, screen debut, drama film, 'Thirteen', 2003, known for playing role of Gabriella Montez in High School Musical series

1988 Event - New York Islander's and NHL high scorer, Mike Bossy retires

1988 Event - Javier Sotomayer of Cuba high jumps world record 2.43 m (7' 11 ")

1988 Event - Temperature hits high of 88 on 8/8/88 in New York City

1988 Death - Leonie Fuller Adams, U.S. poet (High Falcon), dies at 88

1988 Event - Stefka Kostadinova high jumps indoor world record (2.06 m)

1987 Death - Irene Handl, actress (Riding High, Morgan), dies at 85

1987 Event - Stefka Kostadonova of Bulgaroa sets high jump woman's record (6'10")

1987 Event - Patrik Sjoberg of Sweden set a new world record in high jump

1987 Death - Dorothy Patrick, actress (Torch Song, New Orleans, High Wall), dies

1987 Event - National Federation of High School adopts college 3 point shot (21 feet)

1985 Event - Igor Paklin of U.S.S.R. set a new high jump world record at 7-11 12

1985 Event - Rudolf Povarnitsin of U.S.S.R. sets new high jump world record (7'10"12)

1985 Event - Dow Jones closes at 1297.92 (record high) after topping 1300 earlier

1984 Death - Percy Norris, deputy high commissioner of India, shot dead

1984 Event - STS-51-A launch scrubbed because of high shear winds

1984 Event - Zhu Jian Hua of China high jumps a record 7'10" (2.39m)

1983 Event - Zhu Jianhau (China) sets high jump record at 7'9 3/4"

1983 Event - Zhu Jianhua of China set a new world record in high jump at 7-9 14

1982 Death - Sol C Siegel, U.S. film producer (High Society), dies at 79

1982 Event - Trevor Baxter sets skateboard high jump record of 5' 5.7"

1982 Death - John C Gardner, U.S., writer (Life and Times of Chaucer High), dies at 49

1982 Death - Charles Walters, U.S. actor/choreographer/dir (High Society), dies at 70

1982 Event - "Is There Life after High School?" closes at Barrymore after 12 performances

1982 Event - "Is There Life after High School?" opens at Barrymore New York City for 12 performances

1981 Death - Lowell Thomas, newscaster (High Adventure), dies in Pawling New York at 89

1981 Event - National Centers for Disease Control announces high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men

1981 Event - Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires, replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman on high court

1981 Death - Jan Donner, Dutch chairman of High Council, dies at 89

1981 Event - "The Tide Is High" by Blondie hits #1

1980 Death - Raoul Walsh, U.S. director (High Sierra), dies at about 88

1980 Event - Gerd Wessig of East Germany set high jump record

1980 Event - Dietmar Mogenburg of West Germany ties high jump record at 7'8"

1980 Event - Jacek Wszoka of Poland sets high jump record (7'8")

1979 Event - "Rock 'n Roll High Schools" premieres

1979 Event - 2 Iowa girls High School basketball teams play 4 scoreless quarters game was won 4-2 in 4th overtime period

1978 Event - "Flying High," debuts on CBS

1978 Event - High Council destroys judgment against war criminal Pieter Menten

1978 Event - In girls' High School basketball, Chicago Latin beats Harvard St. George

1977 Event - Donna Patterson Brice sets high speed water skiing rec (111.11 mph)

1977 Event - High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 launched into Earth orbit

1977 Event - Hillsdale High School defeats Person High School 2-0 in basketball

1975 Birthday - Scott Ferrier, born in Australia, high jumper/decathlete 1996 Olympics

1974 Event - House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd and last charge of "high crimes and misdemeanors" to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up

1974 Birthday - Martin Love, cricketer, high scoring Queensland batsman, Australia 1995

1973 Birthday - Tim Forsyth, Australian high jumper, Olympics-bronze-92, 96

1973 Event - Dutch High Council stops fluorine addition to drink water

1973 Event - Rangers draft Texas high school pitcher David Clyde #1

1972 Birthday - Gwendolyn Wentland, born in Flint, Michigan, high jumper

1971 Birthday - Konstantin Matoussevich, Israel, Men's high jump, 1996 Olympics

1971 Birthday - Stephen Smith, Indianapolis Indiana, high jumper

1970 Birthday - Alison Inverarity, Australian high jumper, Olympics-8th-92, 96

1970 Death - Frank Silvera, Jamaican actor (High Chaparral), dies at 55

1970 Event - 102nd Belmont: John Rotz aboard High Echelon wins in 2:34

1970 Death - John Gunther, author/host (John Gunther's High Road), dies at 68

1969 Death - Louis van Tulder, tenor (Kantoorkruk to high C), dies at 77

1969 Event - Gold reaches then record high ($47 per ounce) in Paris

1968 Birthday - Des'ree, born in Barbados, born Desiree Annette Weeks, rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, hit songs, 'You Gotta Be', 'Feel So High'

1968 Event - Gold reaches then record high ($39.35 per ounce) in London

1968 Birthday - Ashley Judd, born in Granada Hills, California, actress, films include, 'Kiss the Girls', 'High Crimes', 'Double Jeopardy'

1968 Birthday - Chris Anderson, Australian high jumper 1996 Olympics

1968 Event - Record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mb, 32"), at Agata, U.S.S.R.

1968 Death - Bert Wheeler, actor (Rainmakers, High Flyers, Dixiana), dies at 72

1967 Death - Frank Overton, actor (12 O'Clock High), dies at 48

1967 Birthday - Hollis Conway, born in Chicago, Illinois, high jumper, Olympics-silv/bronze-88, 92

1966 Death - Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools, dies at 82

1966 Event - High schooler Robert Smith kills 7 for fame

1966 Birthday - Clare Look-Jaeger, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, high jumper

1965 Event - 630 foot high Gateway Arch completed in St. Louis

1965 Death - Henry Travers, actor (Bells of St. Mary, High Sierra), dies at 91

1965 Birthday - Mario Lemieux, Montreal, NHL high scoring center, Pittsburgh Penguin

1965 Birthday - Stefka Kostadinova, Bulgaria high jumper, world record 1987

1965 Event - "High Spirits" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 375 performances

1965 Death - John Larkin, actor (Saints and Sinners, 12 O'Clock High), dies at 52

1964 Birthday - Yolanda Henry, Houston Texas, high jumper

1964 Birthday - Philip McKeon, Westbury, New York, actor, Tommy-Alice, Return to Horror High

1964 Event - EMI rejects audition by "High Numbers," they go on to become The Who

1964 Birthday - Christian Conrad, actor, Charley Hannah, High Mountain Rangers

1964 Birthday - Blair Underwood, Tacomma Wash, actor, Jonathan-LA Law, High Incident

1964 Birthday - Heike Henkel, born in West Germany, world record indoor high jumper 1992

1964 Event - "High Spirits" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 375 performances

1964 Event - North Carolina high school basketball teams play to 56-54 score in 13 overtime

1963 Birthday - Cathy Johnston-Forbes, High Point, North Carolina, LPGA golfer, 1990 du Maurier

1963 Birthday - Carol Lewis, born in Willingboro, New Jersey, high jumper, Olympic-9th-1984

1963 Birthday - James Wilder, born in Cleveland, Ohio, actor, Scorchers, Zombie High, Murder 1

1963 Birthday - Phoebe Cates, born in Manhattan, New York, actress, Fast Times at Ridgemount High

1962 Birthday - Trevor Baxter, record holder for high jumping with a skateboard

1961 Event - East Germany begins erecting 5' high wall along the border with the west to replace the barbed wire put up Aug 13

1961 Birthday - Trey Parker, rapper/actor, Newsies, Hull High

1961 Death - Gary Cooper, 2 time Academy award winning actor (High Noon), dies at 60

1961 Birthday - Casey Siemaszko, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Biloxi Blues, 3 O'Clock High

1961 Death - Platt Adams, high jumper, Gold Medal 1912 Olympics, dies

1960 Birthday - Kenneth Branagh, born in Belfast, actor and director, High Season, Dead Again

1960 Birthday - Sean Penn, born in Santa Monica, California, actor, Fast Times at Ridgemont High

1960 Death - Mahlon Hamilton, actor (Peg O'My Heart, High School Girl), dies at 80

1958 Event - U.S.S.R. lends money to UAR to build Aswan High Dam

1958 Event - U.S. Supreme Court orders Little Rock Arkansas high school to integrate

1958 Event - Frank Zappa graduates from Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster, California

1958 Birthday - Linnea Quigley, Davenport Iowa, actress, Night of Demons, Virgin High

1958 Event - President Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central High School, Little Rock

1957 Event - White mob forces 9 black students who had entered a Little Rock high school in Arkansas to withdraw

1957 Event - Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to stop 9 black students from entering a Little Rock high school

1957 Event - David Simons reaches 30,942 m in Man High 2 balloon

1957 Birthday - Cameron Crowe, director, Jerry Maguire, Fast Times at Ridgemont High

1957 Birthday - Judge Reinhold, Wilmington, Delaware, actor, Fast Times at Ridgemont High

1957 Birthday - Ian Stanley, born in High Wycombe, England, Ian Christopher Stanley, keyboardist, musician, songwriter, record producer, member of Tears for Fears band, made multi-platinum selling album 'Songs from the Big Chair'

1957 Birthday - Adrian Smith, heavy metal guitarist, Iron Maiden-Aces High

1956 Birthday - Scott Jacoby, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Bad Ronald, Return to Horror High

1956 Event - 58 degrees F (15 degrees C), Esperanza Station, Antarctica (Antarctic record high)

1956 Event - Charles Dumas, makes 1st high jump over 7' (2.13 m)-LA, California

1956 Birthday - Ulrike Meyfarth, Frankfurt, West Germany, high jumper, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics

1955 Birthday - Pat Klous, Hutchinson, Kansas, actress, Marcy-Flying High, Judy-Love Boat

1955 Event - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Mile High Golf Open

1955 Death - Maarten P Vrij, Dutch lawyer/criminologist/High Council, dies at 59

1954 Birthday - Murtaza Bhutto, born in Karachi Pakistan, politician, son of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was sentenced to death by Lahore High Court

1954 Event - 86th Belmont: Eric Guerin aboard High Gun wins in 2:30.8

1953 Death - Millard Mitchell, actor (12 O'Clock High, Gunfighter), dies at 50

1953 Event - Elvis Presley graduates from LC Humes High School in Memphis, Tennessee

1953 Birthday - Sara Simeoni, Italy, high jumper, 1980 Olympics gold

1952 Event - 1st ultra high frequency (UHF) television station, Portland Or

1952 Birthday - Amy Heckerling, Bronx, dir, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Clueless

1952 Birthday - Rosemarie Ackermann, born in East Germany, high jumper 1976 Olympics gold

1952 Birthday - Chick Vennera, born in Herkimer, New York, actor, High Risk, Milagro Beanfield War

1951 Event - Golden Gate Bridge closes due to high winds

1951 Death - De Raymond, French High Director of Cambodia, murdered

1951 Death - Henry Gurney, British high commissioner to Malaya, assassinated

1951 Birthday - Martin Brest, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Fast Times at Ridgemont High

1951 Birthday - Geraint Wyn Davies, born in Wales, actor, Bury Me in Niagara, High Hopes

1950 Birthday - Gillian Armstrong, born in Melbourne, Australia, director, High Tide, Mrs. Soffel

1950 Event - U.N. General Assembly establishes High Commission for Refugees (Nobel 1954)

1950 Event - Baseball owners vote to drop 4-year old bonus and high school rule

1950 Birthday - Kathryn Witt, born in Miami, Florida, actress, Lenny, Pam-Flying High

1949 Event - "High Button Shoes" closes at Century Theater New York City after 727 performances

1948 Event - Commissioner Happy Chandler fines the Yankees, Cubs, and Phillies $500 each for signing high school players

1947 Event - Heavy snow blankets Northeast, buries New York City under 25.8" of snow in 16 hours That same day, LA set a record high of 84 degrees F

1947 Event - "High Button Shoes" opens at Century Theater New York City for 727 performances

1947 Event - Julie Styne and Sam Cohn's musical "High Button Shoes," premieres in New York City

1947 Birthday - Ilona Gusenbauer, Austria, high jumper 1972 Olympics bronze

1947 Birthday - Dick Fosbury, born in Portland, Oregon, high jumper, Gold Medal 1968 Olympics

1947 Birthday - Dick Fosbury, born in Portland Oregon, high jumper, won Olympic gold in 1968

1947 Birthday - Eddie Hodges, born in Mississippi, actor/singer, High Hopes, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1946 Death - Fawzi Husseini, Arabic High Director for Palestine, murdered

1946 Birthday - Bruce Davison, born in Philadelphia, actor, Captain Wyler-Hunter, Willard, High Risk

1946 Birthday - Clare Francis, yachtswoman/novelist, Come Hell or High Water

1945 Birthday - Tammi Terrell, Montgomery, singer, Ain't No Mountain High Enough

1945 Birthday - Edward J. Caruthers, Jr., Troy Ala, high jumper, Silver Medal 1968 Olympics

1945 Birthday - [Eileen] Joy[ce] Chant [Rutter], UK, sci-fi author, High Kings

1944 Event - 1st submarine captured and boarded on high seas-U 505

1943 Birthday - John Denver, New Mexico, singer, 'Rocky Mountain High', 'Thank God He's a Country Boy'

1943 Birthday - Mike Leigh, dramatist/director, High Hopes, Secrets and Lies

1943 Birthday - Leo Frankowski, U.S., sci-fi author, High Tech Knight, Flying Warlord

1942 Birthday - Madeline Kahn, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress, Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety

1940 Event - German High Commissioner in Norway sets up Vidkun Quisling government

1940 Birthday - Dilip Sardesai, cricketer, high scoring Indian batsman of 60's

1940 Birthday - Alex Trebek, born in Sudbury, Ontario, TV game host, High Rollers, Jeopardy

1939 Birthday - Roger Buckley, British High Court Judge

1938 Event - Italy bars all Jewish teachers in Public and High School

1938 Birthday - Stuart McKinnon, high court judge

1938 Birthday - John Sheil, Northern Irish High Court judge

1937 Birthday - Brian Blessed, English actor, King Arthur, High Road to China

1937 Birthday - Simon Brown, British high court judge

1937 Birthday - Mark Saville, QC, British high court judge

1937 Birthday - Charles Everett Dumas, Tulsa, Oklahoma, high jumper 1956 Olympics gold

1937 Event - Maxwell Anderson's "High Tor" premieres in New York City

1936 Birthday - Iolanda Balas, Romania, high jumper 1960 Olympics gold

1936 Death - Jose Sanjurjo y Sacanell, Spanish general/high director, dies

1936 Event - Empire State Building emanates high definition TV-343 lines

1936 Birthday - Edward Cazalet, British High Court Judge

1936 Birthday - Thelma Hopkins, born in England, high jumper, 1956 Olympics silver

1935 Death - John H Aberson, 1st rector of Landbouw high school, dies at 78

1934 Birthday - Ron Carey, Newark, New Jersey, actor, Barney Miller, Montefuscos, High Anxiety

1934 Birthday - Richard Scott, British high court judge

1934 Birthday - Nicholas Barrington, high commissioner, Pakistan

1934 Birthday - Brian Barder, British high commissar, Australia

1934 Birthday - Anthony Evans, British high court judge

1934 Birthday - Paul Gibson, British high court judge

1934 Event - 60th Preakness: Robert Jones aboard High Quest wins in 1:58.2

1934 Birthday - Leonard Hoffmann, high court judge

1934 Birthday - John Roch, high court judge

1934 Event - 1st high school auto driving course offered (State College, Penn)

1933 Birthday - Mildred McDaniel, U.S. high jumper 1956 Olympics gold

1933 Birthday - Desmond Fennell, British high court judge

1933 Birthday - Philip Otton, high court judge

1932 Birthday - Mary Moon, Headmistress, Manchester High School for Girls

1931 Birthday - Jose Telles Da Conceicao, Brazil, high jumper 1952 Olympics bronze

1931 Birthday - Denis Henry, British high court judge

1931 Birthday - Walter Davis, U.S., running high jumper 1952 Olympics gold

1930 Birthday - Nicolas Christopher Henry Browne-Wilkinson, born in England, life peer as Baron Browne-Wilkinson, studied at Lancing College and Magdalen College, Oxford, former head of the Privy Council and Vice-Chancellor of the High Court

1930 Event - Georgetown High of Chicago defeats Homer 1-0 in basketball

1929 Birthday - Michael Morland, High court judge

1929 Birthday - Elaine Stewart, Montclair, New Jersey, actress, Take the High Ground

1929 Birthday - John Taylor, bishop, St. Albans, Lord High Almoner to Queen

1928 Birthday - Robert Lansing, born in California, actor, 12 O'Clock High, Equalizer, Automan

1928 Birthday - Lew Gallo, Mount Kisko, actor, 12 O'Clock High

1926 Birthday - James Hele, high master, St. Paul's School

1926 Birthday - Ronald Waterhouse, high court judge

1926 Birthday - Cloris Leachman, born in Des Moines, Iowa, actress, Phyllis, High Anxiety

1925 Event - Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tennessee High School, fined $100 and costs

1925 Birthday - Robert Arthur, born in Aberdeen, Washington, actor, 12 O'Clock High, Just For You

1925 Event - George Lloyd of Dolobran becomes British High Director of Egypt

1925 Birthday - Joan Leslie, Detroit, actress, High Sierra, Yankee Doodle Dandy

1924 Event - 57,000 watch a High School football game (LA and Polytechnic tie 7-7)

1924 Birthday - Jean-Pierre Warner, British high court judge

1924 Event - Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland High School basketball game (163-3)

1924 Birthday - Peter Webster, British High Court Judge

1924 Birthday - Robert Gatehouse, former High Court judge

1924 Birthday - Katy Jurado, Mexico, actress, High Noon, Trapeze, Barabbas, AKA Pablo

1923 Birthday - Dika Newlin, born in Portland, Oregon, composer, child prodigy, began composing music at age 7, completed high school at 12, studied with Schoenberg at University of California at Los Angeles

1923 Birthday - Alice [Davis] Coachman, born in Albany, Georgia, high jumper, Gold Medal 1948 Olympics

1923 Birthday - John Weitz, spy/author/fashion designer, Friends in High Places

1922 Event - Oud-burgem of Rotterdam Zimmerman becomes High Comm's of Austria

1920 Birthday - Dick Francis, Wales, jockey/detective writer, Whip Hand, High Stakes

1920 Birthday - Michael Eastham, high court judge

1920 Birthday - Haydn Tudor Evans, British high court judge

1920 Birthday - Dorothy Tyler-Odam, born in Great Britain, high jumper, Olympics silver 1936, 1948

1919 Birthday - Howard Morris, New York City, comedic actor, High Anxiety

1919 Event - "Tidal wave" of molasses 15 m high x 25 m wide kills dozens, Boston

1918 Birthday - Dora Ratjen, Germany, man possing as woman high jumper, 1936 Olympics

1917 Birthday - Henderson Forsythe, Macon, Missouri, actor, Crisis at Central High

1917 Event - Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School

1917 Birthday - Derek Hodgson, British high court judge

1915 Birthday - Cornel Wilde, New York City, actor, High Sierra, 5th Musketeer

1915 Birthday - John Arnold, British high court judge

1914 Birthday - Frank Silvera, Kingston Jamaica, actor, High Chaparral

1914 Event - High Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands

1913 Birthday - Cornelius Johnson, born in Los Angeles, California, high jumper 1936 Olympics gold

1913 Birthday - Carolina Gisolf, Holland, high jumper 1928 Olympics silver

1913 Birthday - David Donald Albritton, born in Danville, Alabama, high jumper 1936 Olympics silver

1912 Birthday - John Larkin, born in Oakland California, actor, Saints and Sinners, 12 O'Clock High

1911 Birthday - Jean Shiley, U.S., high jumper 1932 Olympics gold

1910 Event - 1st junior high schools in U.S. opens (Berkeley California)

1909 Event - 1st junior high school established (Berkeley California)

1908 Birthday - Robert Morley, England, actor, High Road to China, African Queen

1908 Birthday - Neil Lawson, British high court judge

1906 Birthday - Gil Lamb, born in Minneapolis, actor, Hit Parade of 1947, Riding High

1905 Event - Royal Academy in Delft Holland becomes Technical High School

1905 Event - Waseda University of Tokyo defeats LA High School 5-3 in baseball

1905 Birthday - Sebastian Lewis Shaw, actor, High Season, Ace of Spades, Caste

1904 Birthday - Lily Pons, born in Draguignan, France, soprano diva, Hitting a New High

1903 Birthday - Millard Mitchell, Havana Cuba, actor, 12 O'Clock High, Gunfighter

1903 Birthday - Sol C Siegel, U.S., producer, High Society, Gentlemen prefer blondes

1901 Birthday - Irene Handl, born in London, England, actress, Riding High, Morgan

1901 Birthday - John Gunther, born in Chicago, Illinois, author/host, John Gunther's High Road

1901 Birthday - Gary Cooper, Montana, actor, 2 Academy Awards-Sergeant York, High Noon

1901 Death - Peter Benoit, Flemish composer and conductor (High Mass), dies at 66

1900 Birthday - Larry Kent, California, director, High Stakes

1900 Event - 7 high chiefs of American Samoa sign Instrument of Cession

1897 Death - Joost G Kist, lawyer/president of High Council (1885-97), dies at 74

1897 Birthday - Margalo Gillmore, London, actress, Skirts Ahoy, High Society

1895 Birthday - Maarten P Vrij, Dutch lawyer/criminologist/member High Court

1895 Birthday - Bert Wheeler, actor, Nitwits, Hold 'em Jail, High Flyers, Rainmakers

1892 Birthday - Louis van Tulder, Dutch tenor, From Office Stool to High C

1892 Birthday - Lowell Thomas, born in Woodington, Ohio, newscaster, High Adventure

1891 Birthday - Jan Donner, Dutch minister of Justice and president High Council

1890 Birthday - Henry Hull, born in Louisville, Kentucky, actor, Tobacco Rd, Boys Town, High Sierra

1888 Birthday - Maxwell Anderson, U.S., dramatist, Winter Set, High Tor

1888 Birthday - P A J Losecaat Vermeer, leader of Dutch High Council

1888 Birthday - Henry King, U.S., director, Jesse James, 12 O'Clock High

1885 Birthday - Otto Kruger, born in Toledo, Ohio, actor, Lux Video Theater, High Noon

1885 Birthday - Mae Murray, Girl with bee-stung lips, Virginia, actress, High Stakes

1884 Birthday - Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools

1883 Birthday - Lon Chaney, CO, man of 1000 faces, actor, High Noon, Phantom of Opera

1883 Birthday - Colin Campbell, born in Falkirk, Scotland, actress, High Bright Sun, Leather Boys

1880 Birthday - Mahlon Hamilton, born in Virginia, actor, Honky Tonk, High School Girl, Mississippi

1877 Event - British high director/governor sir Bartle Frere arrives in Capetown

1876 Event - 1st record high jump over 6' (Marshall Jones Brooks)

1874 Birthday - Henry Travers, born in England, actor, Bells of St. Mary, High Sierra

1861 Event - Battle of Bird Creek, Indian Terr (High Shoal, Chusto-Talasah)

1861 Birthday - Edmond H H Allenby, English Field Marshal/high director, Egypt

1854 Birthday - Daniel Josephus Jitta, Dutch High Court lawyer

1838 Birthday - John Muir, U.S., naturalist/discoverer, glaciers in High Seirras

1837 Event - Riot in New York over high price of flour

1829 Event - Ohio authorizes high school night classes

1822 Birthday - Joost G Kist, Dutch lawyer/president of High Council, 1885-97

1818 Death - Bruno Daalberg/Anonymus Belga, sect of High Council Adel, dies at 60

1813 Birthday - Matthias Keller, born in Ulm, Germany, hymm writer, O Farther un High

1795 Event - William Hastings acquitted in England of high treason

1733 Event - England passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum and molasses imported to the colonies from a country other than British possessions

1731 Death - Sicco van Goslinga, Fries diplomat/sect of High Council, dies at 67

1699 Event - People of Rotterdam strike over high cost of butter

1681 Event - Earl of Shaftesbury accused of high treason in London

1673 Event - Charles II's brother duke James of York resigns as Lord High Admiral

1673 Birthday - Cornelis van Bijnkershoek, lawyer/president of High Council

1658 Death - Robert Rich 2nd earl of Warwick, English Lord High Admiral, dies at 70

1647 Event - People's uprising against high prices and Spanish rule in Naples

1563 Event - League of High Nobles routes King Philip II

1563 Event - League of High Nobles routes 2nd protest against King Philip II

1553 Event - English Lady Jane Grey/bishop Cranmer accused of high treason

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