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2004 Bob Keeshan, Captain Kangaroo/Clarabell the Clown, dies at 76

1994 David Platt appointed captain of English football team

1993 Richard Webb, actor (Captain Midnight), shoots himself at 77

1992 Itzhak Fuks, El Al captain, crashes in Bijlmer Netherlands

1992 Ohad Arnon, El Al captain, crashes in Bijlmer Netherlands

1992 Scott Stevens is named 5th Captain in New Jersey Devils history

1991 Don Mattingly named 10th New York Yankee Captain

1990 Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound and pay $50,000 in restitution for 1989 oil spill

1986 "Captain EO" with Michael Jackson premieres

1986 Captain Midnight (John R. MacDougall) interrupts HBO

1984 Allan Border's 1st Test Cricket match as captain (v WI Adelaide)

1984 Kim Hughes tearfully resigns as Australian cricket captain

1984 1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)

1982 Don Lever becomes 1st captain of New Jersey Devils

1974 Mees Toxopeus, Dutch rescue-vessel captain, dies at 89

1972 Larry Amar, Camarillo California, field hockey midfielder/captain 1996 Olympics

1971 Lt. Calley confessed and implicates Captain Medina

1969 Maurice Odumbe, cricketer, Kenyan batsman and 1996 World Cup captain

1968 Lee Germon, cricketer, NZ keeper and captain 1995-

1968 Saeed Al-Saffar, cricketer, UAE batsman 1996 World Cup, later captain

1968 Andy Flower, cricketer, Zimbabwe keeper and victorious Test captain

1968 Mike Atherton, cricketer, Lancashire batsman and England captain

1964 Mark Taylor, cricketer, genius Australian captain since 1994

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

1958 "Oh, Captain!" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 192 performances

1958 "Oh, Captain!" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 192 performances

1957 Chris Cowdrey, cricketer, son of Colin, captain of England 1988

1957 Mike Gatting, cricketer, England batsman 1977-95 and captain

1955 "Captain Kangaroo" premieres on CBS-TV, Good Morning, Captain!

1955 Andrew M. Allen, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Captain USMC/astronaut, STS 46, 62, 75

1955 Allan Border, cricket captain, Australia

1955 Captain Sensible, rocker

1954 Jeremy Coney, cricketer, NZ captain turned them into world-beaters

1954 Captain Sensible, [Ray Burns], UK, rock bassist, Women and Capts 1st

1953 Graham Gooch, cricketer, prolific England opener and captain

1953 Bandula Warnapura, cricketer, 1st Sri Lanka Test captain

1952 John Emburey, England cricket off-spinner, 1978-95, captain 1988

1952 Sew Shivnarine, cricketer, 3 Tests for WI 1978, later USA captain

1951 Geoff Howarth, cricketer, NZ captain early 80's

1949 "Captain Video and His Video Rangers," debut on DUMONT-TV

1947 Thurman Munson, baseball catcher/captain, New York Yankees

1946 Anura Tennekoon, cricketer, Sri Lankan World Cup captain 1975-79

1945 Het Parool publishes 1st Captain Rob-strip

1944 Anthony Stefanich, British boxer/captain, killed in Arnhem

1944 Keith Fletcher, cricket captain, Essex and England

1944 1st female U.S. Navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed

1942 Douglas H Fox, U.S. captain of destroyer Barton, dies in battle

1942 Mike Brearley, cricketer, outstanding England captain 1977-81

1942 Captain Moravec, Czech resistance fighter, commit suicide

1941 "Captain America" appears in a comic book

1941 Captain Beefheart, [Don Van Vliet], rocker, Bongo Fury, Shiny Beast

1940 Mike Denness, cricketer, England batsman and captain mid-70s

1940 1st U.S. merchant ship "Booker T Washington" commanded by a black captain (Hugh Mulzac), launched at Wilmington Delaware

1938 Timothy Elworthy, Captain of The Queen's Flight

1937 Tony Lewis, cricketer, England batsman, captain 1972-73

1937 Peter van der Merwe, cricketer, South African captain of mid-1960's

1937 Count Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to captain

1936 John Burton-Hall, Dorset England, captain, QE2

1935 Ronald Ellwin Evans, St. Francis, Kansas, Captain USN/astronaut, Apollo 17

1934 Nari Contractor, cricketer, Indian batsman and captain

1933 Mike J K Smith, cricketer, England captain mid-60s

1933 Itzhak Fuks, Israeli El Al captain, crashed in Amsterdam

1932 Ray Illingworth, cricketer, England off-spin all-rounder and captain

1931 Charles A. Bassett II, Dayton Ohio, Captain USAF/astronaut

1926 Peter Coker, captain

1926 Polly Umrigar, cricketer, Indian batsman and captain

1924 Frank Worrell, cricketer, one of the three W's, inspiring WI captain

1922 Harry Cave, cricketer, NZ bowler and Test captain in the 1950's

1918 Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of Army

1918 Gordon Pirie, England, Group Captain

1917 George Mann, captain English cricket team

1915 Arthur Lowe, born in Hayfield, England, actor, Captain Mainwaring-Dad's Army

1915 Norman Yardley, English cricket captain, late 40's

1914 R E Foster, only dual England captain at cricket and soccer, dies

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

1906 George B. Shaws "Captain Brassbound's Conversion," premieres in London

1905 Jock Cameron, South African cricket keeper, captain

1904 Don Alvarado, [Jose Page], Albuquerque, New Mexico, actor, Captain Thunder

1900 Douglas Jardine, cricketer, England's Bodyline captain

1898 Paul Voulet, French captain/mass murderer in Senegal, dies

1897 Bill Woodfull, cricketer, Australian captain in the Bodyline series

1895 H G "Nummy" Deane, South African cricket Test captain, 1927-31

1894 Arthur Gilligan, cricketer, England captain in 1920's

1892 Guillaume Van Kerckhoven, Belgian captain, dies at 39

1891 Omer Bodson, Belgian captain, dies in battle

1891 Captain Frederick Lugards army reaches Kavalli Equatoria

1889 Lord Tennyson III, cricketer, England batsman and captain

1889 Jack Ryder, cricketer, athletic Australian all-rounder and captain

1875 T F Powys, Wales, writer, Captain Patch, Goat Green

1875 Edouard Corbiere, French captain/writer (Le Negrier), dies at 82

1873 Kintpuash, "Captain Jack", chief of Modoc-indians, dies

1873 Kintpuash, [Captain Jack], fought Modoc indians, Oregon, dies

1870 Stanley Jackson, cricketer, captain of England, governor of Bengal

1869 A J Hayne, black captain of Arkansas militia, assassinated

1866 Faa di Bruno, Italian captain (Er d'italia, Lissa), commits suicide

1862 Union captain David Farragut conquers New Orleans

1861 John Q Marr, U.S. Confederate captain, dies in battle at Fairfax Courthouse

1858 Frederick Lugard, British captain/baron, Congo

1856 Owen Dunell, cricketer, South Africa's 1st Test captain

1848 Frederick Marryat, English captain/author (Mr Midshipman Easy), dies

1845 Dave Gregory, cricketer, Australia's 1st Test captain

1842 James Lillywhite, Jr., cricketer, 1st England Test captain

1793 Edouard Corbiere, French captain and writer, Le negrier

1778 Captain Cook reaches Cape Prince of Wales, Bering straits

1778 Captain James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay

1776 Nathan Hale, U.S. captain/patriot/spy, hanged by British at 21

1772 Joseph Kerckhoff, Limburg surgeon/robber captain, hanged

1728 James Cook, Scotland, captain/explorer, discovered Sandwich Islands

1650 Jean Bart, French captain/sea hero, Escape from Plymouth

1647 Sebastian Vrancx, Flemish painter (captain of vigilante), dies

1634 Irish captain Walter Devereaux kills duke Wallenstein

1617 Johan Evertsen de Captain, Swiss admiral, dies in battle

1608 Captain Newport arrives from England with supplies for colonists

1602 Martha's Vineyard 1st sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold)

1545 Roger Grenville, English captain of Mary Rose, drowns

1416 John, Duke of Berry, captain of Paris, dies

1340 John duke of Berry, captain of Paris/art collector



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