Today in History for 4th November 2017:
Historical Events
1737 – The Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, inaugurated.
1904 – First stadium built specifically for football (Harvard Stadium)
1953 – Eddie Joost succeeds Jimmy Dykes as the manager of Philadelphia A’s
1970 – Russian nuclear physicist Sacharov forms Human Rights Comittee
1981 – Columbia shuttle launch scrubbed with 31 secs remaining
2015 – Plane crashes after take-off from Juba international airport, South Sudan, killing 37, 1 year old survives in father’s arms
Famous Birthdays
1640 – Carlo Mannelli, Italian composer, born in Rome (d. 1697)
1906 – Siegfried Borris, composer
1912 – Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov, composer
1957 – Najee [Jerome Najee Rasheed], American jazz musician, born in New York City
1960 – Kathy Griffin, American comedienne (Suddenly Susan, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List), born in Chicago, Illinois
1985 – Marcell Jansen, German footballer
Famous Deaths
1674 – Kano Tanjoe, Japanese painter (palaces, portraits), dies at 72
1704 – Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (b. 1654)
1956 – Art[hur] Tatum, US jazz pianist/composer, dies at 46
1994 – Jan Wegter, actor (Pastorale 1943), dies at 64
2007 – Peter Viertel, German-American author and screenwriter (b. 1920)
2011 – Andy Rooney, American radio and television writer (b. 1919)