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2010 Event - Real blood is spilled at the gates of government by the Thai redshirts, in a third day of protests

2007 Death - Matt Nagle, dies in Massachusetts, of a blood infection, at 27

1997 Death - Andrew Keir, actor (Rob Roy, Absolution, Blood Hunt), dies at 71

1997 Event - Diane Blood, 32, in England, won right to use her dead husbands sperm

1996 Death - Rodney Rash, born in Frederick, Maryland, Rodney R. Rash, horse trainer, trained Thoroughbred horses, clients include Berry Gordy, Bruce McNall, Wayne Gretzky, Gary A. Tanaka, won Santa Anita Handicap with Urgent Request, 1995, dies of rare blood disorder at age 36

1995 Event - "Blood Brothers" closes at Music Box Theater New York City after 839 performances

1994 Event - Hague motorist with .51% alcohol in blood, breaks Dutch record (.47%)

1993 Death - Jeff Morrow, actor (Robe, Harbor Lights, Blood Legacy), dies at 80

1993 Death - Jane Nigh, actress (Big Town, Blue Blood, Rawhide), dies at about 67

1993 Event - "Blood Brothers" opens at Music Box Theater New York City for 839 performances

1990 Death - Jean Paige, actress (Captain Blood, Black Beauty), dies

1989 Death - Jack Starrett, director/actor (Chase, Nightwish, 1st Blood), dies

1986 Event - 6th Golden Raspberry Awards: Rambo: First Blood Part II wins

1986 Death - Paul Stewart, actor (Opening Night, In Cold Blood, Window), dies

1984 Death - Truman Capote, author (In Cold Blood), dies at 59

1982 Birthday - Lizzy Caplan, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, appeared in films, 'Mean Girls', 'Cloverfield' and television show 'True Blood' and 'Party Down'

1980 Event - 7 stabbed at Blood, Sweat and Tears concert in LA

1979 Event - U.S.'s 1st artificial blood transfusion occurs at University of Minnesota Hospital

1979 Event - John Huston's "Wine Blood" premieres at New York Film Festival

1977 Death - James Jones, U.S. writer (Bad Blood, From Here to Eternity), dies at 55

1975 Death - Louis J H C A de Bourbon, Dutch writer/poet (Gypsy Blood), dies at 66

1974 Event - Bob Dylan records 'Blood on the Tracks'

1973 Death - Lila Lee, actress (Blood and Sand), dies of stroke at 68

1970 Event - "Blood Red Roses" opens and closes at John Golden Theater New York City

1967 Event - 4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records

1965 Death - Perry E Smith, U.S. murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged

1965 Death - Robert E Hickok, U.S. murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged

1960 Death - Frank Lloyd, director (Berkeley Square, Blood on the Sun), dies at 72

1960 Birthday - Anne Parillaud, Paris, France, actress, Subway, Nikita, Innocent Blood

1959 Death - Errol Flynn, U.S. actor (Captain Blood), dies of heart attack at 50

1956 Birthday - Aldo Nova, rocker, Blood on the Bricks

1956 Birthday - Green [Gartside], rock vocalist, Scritti Politti-Flesh and Blood

1956 Death - Guy Kibbee, actor (Captain Blood, Babes in Arms), dies at 74

1956 Birthday - David Caruso, born in Forest Hills, New York, actor, producer, known for television series, 'CSI: Miami', appeared in films, 'First Blood', 'China Girl', 'An Officer and a Gentleman'

1953 Birthday - Ricky "Dragon" Steamboat, Richard Blood, wrestler, NWA/WWF/WCW/AWA

1951 Birthday - Stephen Root, born in Sarasota, Florida, actor, films include, 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?', 'The Ladykillers', television appearances include, '24', True Blood'

1951 Birthday - David Clayton-Thomas, singer, Blood, Sweat and Tears

1951 Birthday - Linda Hayden, Middlesex England, actress, Blood on Satan's Claw

1950 Death - Charles R Drew, surgeon/developer of blood bank concept, dies at 45

1947 Birthday - James Fielder, Denton, Texas, rocker, Blood Sweat and Tears

1947 Birthday - Jerry Hyman, Brooklyn, rock singer/trombonist, Blood Sweat and Tears

1947 Death - Sanner, leader of Norger blood bath, executed

1946 Event - Great Calcutta blood bath - Moslem/Hindu riot (3-4,000 die)

1946 Birthday - Jerry Weiss, New York City, rocker, Blood Sweat and Tears

1946 Death - Lionel Atwill, actor (Captain Blood, Great Waltz), dies at 61

1946 Birthday - Tony Klatka, rocker, Blood, Sweat and Tears

1946 Birthday - Tim Buckley, born in Washington D.C., rocker, Blood, Sweat and Tears-When I Die

1945 Birthday - Randy Brecker, Philadelphia, rocker, Blood Sweat and Tears

1945 Birthday - Valerie Leon, born in London, England, actress, Blood from Mummy's Tomb

1945 Birthday - Steve Katz, New York City, rock guitarist and vocalist, Blood, Sweat and Tears

1945 Birthday - George Wadenius, rocker, Blood, Sweat and Tears

1944 Birthday - Robert Colomby, New York City, rock drummer, Blood Sweat and Tears-When I Die

1944 Birthday - Lew Soloff, born in Brooklyn, New York, rocker, Blood, Sweat and Tears

1944 Birthday - Al Kooper, rock keyboards/vocalist, Blood Sweat and Tears-When I Die

1943 Birthday - Fred Lipsius, New York City, rock pianist/sax, Blood, Sweat and Tears

1943 Birthday - Richard Halligan, Troy, New York, rock vocalist, Blood Sweat and Tears

1943 Birthday - Mike Newell, director, Bad Blood, Awakening, Amazing Grace and Chuck

1943 Birthday - Charles Winfield, Penn, rocker, Blood Sweat and Tears-Spinning Wheel

1942 Birthday - Dave Bargeron, born in New York City, rocker, Blood, Sweat and Tears

1942 Birthday - Jerry Fischer, rocker in Blood, Sweat and Tears

1941 Birthday - Ron McClure, rocker, Blood, Sweat and Tears

1940 Birthday - Larry Willis, rock keyboardist, Blood, Sweat and Tears

1940 Event - Churchill says "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat"

1939 Death - Willem de Merode, poet (Precious Blood), dies at 51

1939 Birthday - Jane [Hyatt] Yolen, U.S., sci-fi author, Spider Jane, Heart's Blood

1938 Event - New York 1st requires serological blood tests of pregnant women

1937 Event - 1st blood bank forms (Chicago, Illinois)

1937 Death - Ross Alexander, actor (Captain Blood, Boulder Dam), dies at 29

1936 Birthday - Billy Guy, born in Attasca, Texas, rock baritone, Coasters-Young Blood

1936 Birthday - Bobby Nunn, rocker, Coasters-Young Blood

1936 Birthday - Roy Hudd, comedian, Blood Beast Terror, Vampire Beast Craves Blood

1936 Birthday - Joanna Dunham, actress, Possession, House the Dripped Blood

1935 Event - Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases (New York)

1933 Event - Dried human blood serum 1st prepared, University of Pennsylvania

1932 Birthday - Manuel Puig, Argentina, writer, Blood of Requited Love

1932 Birthday - Athol Fugard, born in Middleburg, South Africa, anti-apartheid writer, Blood Knot

1931 Birthday - Barbara Steele, England, actress, Castle of Blood, Dark Shadows

1931 Birthday - Richard Devon, born in Glendale California, actor, Battle of Blood Island

1929 Birthday - Betta St. John, Hawthorne California, actress, Corridors of Blood

1929 Death - Miller Huggins, manager (New York Yankees), dies from blood poisoning at 49

1928 Birthday - Patrick Tilley, UK, sci-fi author, 1st Family, Blood River

1926 Birthday - Andrew Keir, actor, Rob Roy, Absolution, Blood Hunt, Catholics

1924 Birthday - Truman Capote, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, author, In Cold Blood

1921 Birthday - Maxwell Henley Harris, Australian poet/publisher, Gift of Blood

1921 Birthday - Peter Sallis, actor, Tast the Blood of Dracula

1914 Event - Germany soc-democrat "No German blood for Austrian tyrant"

1914 Event - 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)

1912 Birthday - Tiny Alma, Catharina E J Stam, operetta singer, Vienna Blood

1912 Birthday - Richard Brooks, Philadelphia, director, Blackboard Jungle, In Cold Blood

1911 Event - Imperial army recaptures Nanking (blood bath)

1909 Birthday - Errol Flynn, born in Hobart, Tasmania, actor, Captain Blood, Robin Hood

1907 Birthday - Ross Alexander, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Boulder Dam, Captain Blood

1905 Birthday - Lila Lee, Union City, New Jersey, actress, Midnight Girl, Blood and Sand

1904 Birthday - Charles Richard Drew, pioneer of blood plasma research

1904 Birthday - Willy Forst, Austria actor and director, Vienna Blood

1903 Birthday - Johnny Blood, aka John McNally, early NFL halfback, Green Bay

1901 Event - Battle at Blood River Port: Boer General Botha beats Major Goughs cavalry

1901 Birthday - Lode Zielens, Flemish author/journalist, Obscure Blood

1900 Birthday - Ian Hunter, born in Capetown South Africa, actor, Dr. Blood's Coffin, White Unicorn

1898 Birthday - Federico Garcia Lorca, born in Spain, poet/dramatist, Blood Wedding

1898 Birthday - Nita Naldi, born in New York City, actress, Blood and Sand

1885 Birthday - George S Patton, U.S. general, Sicily/Italy/Normandy, "Old Blood and Guts"

1871 Birthday - Franc S Finzgar, Slovenian clergyman/writer, Our Blood

1869 Birthday - Harvey Cushing, U.S., neurosurgeon, blood pressure studies

1862 Event - Bismarck's "Blood and Iron" speech

1856 Death - Henry FC Tollens, merchant/poet (Vienna Nearlands blood), dies at 76

1829 Birthday - Louis van Haecke, Flemish chaplain/author, Blood to Bridge

1808 Birthday - Caleb Blood Smith, Secretary Int, Union

1799 Birthday - Jean Poiseuille, physician/physiologist, blood pressure

1780 Birthday - Henry F. C. Tollens, merchant/poet, Vienna Nearlands Blood

1769 Death - Gerhard Tersteegen, German evangelist/poet (in blood), dies at 71

1703 Death - Archibald Campbell, Scottish military man (blood bath of Glencoe), dies at 52

1697 Birthday - Gerhard Tersteegen, German evangelist/poet, wrote in blood

1680 Death - Thomas Blood, English Soldier

1671 Event - Col Thomas Blood attempts to steal Crown Jewels

1667 Event - Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys, French doctor, performs 1st blood transfusion

1666 Event - Samuel Pepys reports on 1st blood transfusion (between dogs)

1652 Event - Prince of Conde starts blood bath in Paris

1578 Event - William Harvey of England discovers blood circulation

1578 Birthday - William Harvey, born in England, physician, discovered blood circulation

1562 Event - Blood bath at Vassy: General de Guise allows 1200 huguenots murder

1529 Event - 30 Jews of Posing Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake

1500 Event - "Blood Wedding" of Astorre Baglione and Lavinia Colonna in Perugia family Baglione massacre


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