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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1990 Jean Paige, actress (Capt Blood, Black Beauty), dies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1974 Bob Dylan records Blood on the Tracks

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

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

1967 4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records

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

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

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

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

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

1956 Aldo Nova, rocker, Blood on the Bricks

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

1956 Guy Kibbee, actor (Capt Blood, Babes in Arms), dies at 74

1953 Ricky "Dragon" Steamboat, [Richard Blood], wrestler, NWA/WWF/WCW/AWA

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

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

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

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

1947 Sanner, leader of Norger blood bath, executed

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

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

1946 Lionel Atwill, actor (Capt Blood, Great Waltz), dies at 61

1946 Tony Klatka, rocker, Blood, Sweat and Tears

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

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

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

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

1945 George Wadenius, rocker, Blood, Sweat and Tears

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1942 Jerry Fischer, rocker in Blood, Sweat and Tears

1941 Ron McClure, rocker, Blood, Sweat and Tears

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

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

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

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

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

1937 1st blood bank forms (Chicago, Illinois)

1937 Ross Alexander, actor (Capt Blood, Boulder Dam), dies at 29

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

1936 Bobby Nunn, rocker, Coasters-Young Blood

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

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

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

1933 Dried human blood serum 1st prepared, Univ of Pennsylvania

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1921 Peter Sallis, actor, Tast the Blood of Dracula

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

1914 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)

1912 Tiny Alma, [Catharina E J Stam], operetta singer, Vienna Blood

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

1911 Imperial army recaptures Nanking (blood bath)

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

1907 Ross Alexander, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Boulder Dam, Capt Blood

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

1904 Charles Richard Drew, pioneer of blood plasma research

1904 Willy Forst, Austria actor and director, Vienna Blood

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

1901 Battle at Blood River Port: Boer Gen Botha beats mjr Goughs cavalry

1901 Lode Zielens, Flemish author/journalist, Obscure Blood

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

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

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

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

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

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

1862 Bismarck's "Blood and Iron" speech

1856 Henry FC Tollens, merchant/poet (Vienna Neˆrlands blood), dies at 76

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

1808 Caleb Blood Smith, Secretary Int, Union, died in 1864

1799 Jean Poiseuille, physician/physiologist, blood pressure

1780 Henry F. C. Tollens, merchant/poet, Vienna Neˆrlands Blood

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

1703 Archibald Campbell, Scot milt man (blood bath of Glencoe), dies at 52

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

1680 Thomas Blood, English Soldier

1671 Col Thomas Blood attempts to steal Crown Jewels

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

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

1652 Prince of Conde starts blood bath in Paris

1578 William Harvey of England discovers blood circulation

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

1562 Blood bath at Vassy: Gen de Guise allows 1200 huguenots murder

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

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



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