2013 Event Syria's President, Bashar al-Assad, states he will grant international weapons inspectors access to chemical weapons sites, but rebels may make the sites unreachable 2005 Death Joe Grant, American Artist 1996 Death John Grant, rear-admiral, dies at 87 1996 Death Grant Sawyer, U.S. politician, dies at 76 1995 Death Peter Grant, rock band manager, dies at 60 1995 Event Andy and Grant Flower make 269 stand vs Pak, brotherly record 1995 Death James P Grant, U.S. director of UNICEF (1980-95), dies at 72 1992 Birthday Sarah Cannon, daughter of singer Amy Grant 1991 Event U.S. and allied forces grant Iraq a cease fire 1991 Event Edmonton Oiler goalie Grant Fuhr returns to NHL after season-long suspension for substance abuse and shuts out New Jersey Devils 4-0 1986 Death Cary Grant, actor, 'Charade', 'Awful Truth', dies in Davenport, Iowa at 82 1985 Death Kirby Grant, actor/singer (Sky King), dies in an auto accident at 74 1985 Death Sidney Clute, actor (Lou Grant, Cagney and Lacey), dies at 69 1985 Death Grant Williams, actor (Shrinking Man), dies of toxic poisoning at 54 1983 Event Ron Grant completes a 217 day, 8,316 mile run around Australia 1980 Event 32nd Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ed Asner and Barbara Bel Geddes 1979 Event 31st Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ron Leibman and Ruth Gordon 1978 Death William Grant Still, composer, dies at 83 1976 Event Yankees trade May, Martinez, Pagan, MacGregor and Demsey to Baltimore for Holtzman, Alexander, Grant Jackson, Elrod Henrick and Jim Freeman 1974 Birthday Grant Williams, NFL tackle for the Seattle Seahawks 1974 Birthday Paul Grant, NBA center, Minnesota Timberwolves 1973 Birthday Rupert Grant, NFL fullback for the New England Patriots 1973 Birthday Grant McDonald, Australian baseball outfielder 1996 Olympics 1973 Birthday Grant Marshall, Mississauga, NHL right wing for the Dallas Stars 1972 Birthday Grant Hill, born in Dallas, Texas, NBA forward and guard, Detroit Pistons, Gold Medal 1996 Olympics 1972 Birthday Brian Grant, NBA forward for the Portland Trailblazers and Sacramento Kings 1971 Birthday Grant Smith, Australian field hockey forward 1996 Olympics 1970 Birthday Grant Carter, CFL defensive end for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 1970 Birthday Grant Flower, cricketer, bro of Andy Zimbabwe Test opening batsman 1970 Birthday Grant Moorhead, New Plymouth New Zealand, Australasia golfer 1969 Birthday Stephen Grant, NFL linebacker for the Indianapolis Colts 1969 Birthday Michael Grant, vocalist, Musical Youth 1967 Birthday Grant Leury, Melbourne VIC Australia, canoeist 1996 Olympics 1966 Birthday Grant Kenny, Norfolk Island NSW, Australasia golfer 1966 Birthday Grant Bradburn, cricketer, son of Wynne New Zealand off-spinner 1990- 1966 Birthday Grant Long, NBA forward for the Detroit Pistons, Atlanta Hawks 1966 Birthday Jennifer Grant, actress, Celeste-Beverly Hills 90210 1965 Birthday Grant Connell, Regina Saskatchawan, tennis player 1996 Olympics 1965 Birthday Harvey Grant, NBA forward, Trail Blazers, Orlando Magic, Wizards 1965 Birthday Gary Grant, NBA guard for the New York Knicks 1965 Event Ground breaking for "Dragon Gateway" at Grant Avenue 1964 Birthday Grant Osten Waite, Palmerston New Zealand, PGA golfer, 1993 Kemper Open 1963 Death Grant Richards, actor (Doug-Doorway to Danger), dies at 48 1963 Birthday Grant Herslov, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Wayne-Spencer, Under One Roof 1963 Birthday Grant Show, actor, Jake-Melrose Place, Rick-Ryan's Hope 1962 Birthday S C Grant, British Lieutenant-General 1962 Birthday Grant Fuhr, born in Edmonton, Alberta, NHL goalie, Oilers 1962 Birthday Grant Show, born in Detroit, Michigan, actor, Jack Hanson-Melrose Place 1961 Birthday Grant Ledyard, Winnipeg, NHL defenseman for the Dallas Stars 1961 Birthday Grant Shaud, actor, Miles Silverburg-Murphy Brown 1960 Birthday Amy Grant, Augusta Georgia, gospel/rock singer, 'Glory of Love', 'Baby Baby' 1960 Birthday Hugh Grant, born in London, England, 4 Weddings and a Funeral, 9 Months 1960 Birthday Lance Guest, Saratoga California, actor, Lance-Lou Grant 1959 Birthday Charles Grant, Winston Salem, North Carolina, actor, Another World 1959 Birthday Grant Aleksander, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actor, Guiding Light, All My Children 1959 Death Grant Withers, actor (Oklahoma Annie), suicide with sleeping pills at 54 1957 Birthday Charles Grant, actor, Evan Frame-Another World, Bold and Beautiful 1957 Birthday Richard E. Grant, born in Swaziland, actor, Posse, Bram Stoker's Dracula 1957 Death Grant Mitchell, actor (Great Lie, Laura, Cairo, Conflict), dies at 82 1956 Birthday Kenneth Grant, bass/vocalist, Midnight Star-No Parking, Operator 1956 Birthday David Grant, Jamaica, singer and songwriter, Stop and Go, Heaven Knows 1955 Birthday Rebecca Balding, Little Rock, Arkansas, actress, Carla-Lou Grant, Soap 1955 Birthday David Marshall Grant, born in Westport CT, actor, Legs, French Postcards 1953 Event Bud Grant of Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record) 1952 Birthday Grant Goodeve, Middlebury CT, actor, Northern Exposure 1952 Death Lawrence Grant, actor (Bulldog Drummond), dies at 82 1952 Birthday Grant Goodeve, New Haven Conn, actor, David-8 is Enough, Dynasty 1951 Birthday Daryl Anderson, Seattle, actor, Animal-Lou Grant 1950 Birthday Stephen Chatman, born in Faribault, Minnesota, Canadian composer, received Fulbright grant for study at Hochschule fur Misik in Cologne, since 1976 has served as professor and Head of the Composition Division at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver 1948 Birthday Eddy Grant, Guyana, reggae performer, Electric Avenue 1946 Birthday Linda Kelsey, born in Minneapolis, actress, Billie-Lou Grant, Kate-Day by Day 1944 Birthday Bernie Grant, British politician, Labour 1943 Birthday Robert Walden, New York City, actor, Joe Rossi-Lou Grant, New Doctors 1942 Birthday Grant "Mudcat" Jackson, pitcher, 1972 New York Yankees, Phillies 1942 Death Grant Wood, U.S. painter (American Gothic), dies at 49 1942 Birthday Cliff Potts, born in Glendale California, actor, Ted-Lou Grant 1941 Birthday Micki Grant, born in Chicago, Illinois, composer, singer, soprano, actress, writer, composer, appeared on NBC's Another World, became first African-American cast member of a daytime soap opera 1940 Birthday Jack Bannon, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Art-Lou Grant, Trauma Center 1938 Birthday Wynne Bradburn, cricketer, father of Grant New Zealand batsman vs. South Africa 1964 1938 Birthday Yuji Takahashi, born in Japan, composer, author, pianist, performer, grant recipient, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists 1937 Birthday Dyan Cannon, born in Tacoma, Washington, Mrs. Cary Grant, actress, 'Heaven Can Wait' 1935 Birthday Peter Grant, rock band manager 1933 Birthday Kathryn Grant Crosby, Houston Texas, actress, Mr Cory, Big Circus 1933 Birthday Johnny Grant, unofficial mayor of Hollywood 1930 Birthday Grant Williams, New York City, actor, Hawaiian Eye, Incredible Shrinking Man 1929 Birthday Edward Asner, Kansas City Kansas, actor, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant 1929 Birthday Anthony Grant, British MP 1928 Birthday Nancy Marchand, born in Buffalo, New York, actress, Beacon Hill, Margaret-Lou Grant 1927 Birthday Grant Beglarian, composer 1927 Birthday Lee Grant, Lyova Haskell Rosenthal, New York City, actress, Shampoo, Landlord 1927 Birthday [Harold] Bud Grant, Wisconsin, CFL/NFL player and coach, Winnipeg, Minnesota 1926 Birthday Grant Tinker, broadcasting executive, NBC-TV 1924 Birthday Gogi Grant, rock vocalist 1922 Event Congress authorizes Grant Memorial $1 gold coin 1921 Birthday Grant Johannesen, born in Salt Lake City, Utah, pianist, Ostend 1st prize 1947 1921 Event Memorial to Captain Eddie Grant, killed in WW I, unveiled at Polo Grounds 1920 Birthday Alfred Grant Goodman, composer 1919 Birthday Mason Adams, New York City, actor, Charlie Hume-Lou Grant, Deadliest Season 1918 Event Danish parliament passed an act to grant Iceland independence 1918 Birthday Claiborne Pell, born in New York, sponsor of the Pell Grant, U.S. State Senator from Rhode Island 1918 Birthday Katherine Grant, born in Scotland, Countess of Dysart, Lady Katherine Grant of Rothiemurchus, now 12th Countess of Dysart, a Scottish peeress, referenced as Baroness Huntingtower 1916 Birthday Jessie Kesson, born in Scotland, Jessie Grant McDonald, author, novelist, radio producer, and playwright 1916 Event Groundbreaking begins on Hugh Grant Circle in Bronx 1916 Birthday Sidney Clute, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Lou Grant, Cagney and Lacey 1913 Birthday Horace Grant Fletcher, composer 1911 Birthday Kirby Grant, Butte Mont, actor, Sky King 1908 Birthday John Grant, British rear-admiral 1908 Birthday Joe Grant, American Artist 1907 Birthday Robert Grant Grant-Ferris, politician 1907 Event Phillies Eddie Grant goes 7 for 7 in a doubleheader vs Giants 1906 Event Great Britain, France and Italy grant Independence to Ethiopia 1904 Birthday Cary Grant, born in England, actor, 'Arsenic and Old Lace', 'North by Northwest' 1904 Birthday Grant Withers, Pueblo CO, actor, Oklahoma, Annie 1903 Death Frederick Grant Gleason, composer, dies at 54 1901 Event Cincinnati Enquirer reports Baltimore manager John McGraw signed Cherokee Indian Tokohoma, who is really black 2nd baseman Charlie Grant 1899 Death C Grant B Allen, Canada, British writer (Woman Who Did), dies 1897 Event Grant's Tomb (famed of song and legend) dedicated 1895 Birthday William Grant Still, Woodville Mississippi, composer, Afro-American 1893 Event New Zealand is 1st country to grant all its women the right to vote 1892 Birthday Grant Wood, U.S., painter, American Gothic 1885 Death Ulysses S Grant, 18th U.S. president, dies in Mount McGregor, New York, at 63 1885 Death Ulysses S. Grant, American President 1885 Event Dr. W W Grant of Iowa, performs 1st appendectomy (on Mary Gartside, 22) 1875 Event President Grant sends federal troops to Vicksburg, Mississippi 1874 Event 1st reigning king to visit U.S. (of Hawaii) received by President Grant 1874 Birthday Grant Mitchell, Columbus, Ohio, actor, Man Who Came to Dinner 1874 Event U.S. Grant's daughter Nellie marries in the White House 1873 Event President Grant decrees Wallowa Valley for Nez-Perce indians 1873 Event Colfax Massacre in Grant Parish Louisiana (60 blacks killed) 1872 Event Ulysses S. Grant re-elected U.S. president 1871 Event President Grant re-elected 1871 Event President Grant suspends writ of habeas corpus 1871 Event President Grant condemns Ku Klux Klan 1870 Event Washington: President Grant meets with Sioux chief Red Cloud 1869 Birthday Lawrence Grant, Bournemouth England, actor, Bulldog Drummond 1869 Event Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th president 1868 Event Ulysses Grant (R) wins presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D) 1868 Event Republican National Convention, meets in Chicago, nominates Grant 1866 Event U.S. Grant named 1st general of Army 1865 Event Robert E. Lee and 26,765 troops, surrender to U.S. Grant at Appomattox 1864 Event Grant approves Sheridan's plan for Shenandoah Valley Campaign 1864 Event Ulysses S. Grant is named General of Volunteers 1864 Event At Petersburg, Grant ends 4 days of assaults 1864 Event Union General Grant begin siege of Petersburg, Virginia 1864 Event Battle for Petersburg begins as General Grant assaults Confederate line 1864 Event General Grant's Army at Potomac attacks at Rappahannock 1864 Event Ulysses S. Grant crosses Rapidan and begins his duel with Robert E. Lee 1864 Event Grant suspends prisoner-of-war exchanges 1864 Event Grant is named commander of the Union armies 1864 Event Ulysses S. Grant is appointed commander of Union Army 1863 Event Grant is given command of Union forces in West 1863 Event Orders barring Jews from serving under U.S. Grant are revoked 1863 Event General Grant begins siege on Vicksburg 1862 Event General U.S. Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee 1862 Event U.S. Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him 1862 Event Land Grant Act endows state colleges with federal land 1862 Event Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, Island #10 falls 1862 Event Ft. Donelson captured by General Grant (1,400 confederates surrender) 1862 Event Grant's major assault on Ft. Donelson, Tennessee 1862 Event General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Henry in Tennessee 1862 Event Ulysses S. Grant begins military campaign in Mississippi 1861 Event General Grant occupies Paducah Kentucky 1861 Event Grant assumes command of Federal forces at Cape Girardeau MI 1856 Birthday Heber J Grant, Salt Lake City, 7th President of Mormon church 1848 Birthday Frederick Grant Gleason, composer 1848 Birthday C Grant B Allen, Canadian writer, Woman Who Did 1838 Death Anne Grant, Scottish Poet 1838 Birthday John Grant Mitchell, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday Lewis Addison Grant, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday Julia Dent Grant, 1st lady, 1862-76 1822 Birthday Ulysses S. Grant, Ohio, R, 18th president, 1869-77 1755 Birthday Anne Grant, Scottish Poet 1651 Event Anthony Johnson, a free black, receives grant of 250 acres in Va
