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2013 Event - David Milliband announces plans to resign as Britain's Foreign Secretary and move to U.S. state of New York to head the International Rescue Committee

2012 Event - All members of the Commonwealth of Nations, who have the British Monarch as their head of state, agree to the Succession of the Crown Bill, enabling a female child, for the first time, to become monarch

2012 Event - Rick Majerus, the head basketball coach at Saint Louis University, announces his retirement due to health issues

2012 Event - Following some controversial remarks, Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, is accused of 'insulting the Greek people'

2012 Event - After three years without an elected head of state, Nicolae Timofti is named President of Moldova

2012 Event - In Seville, Prime Minister of Spain Mariano Rajoy is reelected head of the Popular Party

2012 Event - Jamaica's new Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller announces the country will become a republic, removing Queen Elizabeth II as head of state

2011 Event - Former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi's autopsy reveals that he was killed by a gunshot wound to the head

2011 Event - Latvian voters head to the polls for a parliamentary election

2011 Event - Singapore holds a presidential election; voters head to the polls

2011 Event - A team of divers discover the wreck of a Swedish warship, possibly Mars, the head of king Erik XIV's fleet which sank in the Baltic Sea in 1564

2011 Event - Following the resignation of Dominique Strass-Kahn, France finance minister Christine Lagarde becomes the new head of the International Monetary Fund

2011 Event - French Minister of Finance, Christine Lagarde, declares her candidacy as head of the International Monetary Fund

2011 Event - The Tibetan Parliament-in-exile rejects the 14th Dalai Lama's submitted resignation as Head of State of the Central Tibetan Administration

2011 Event - The 14th Dalai Lama, head of the Tibetan exile movement, plans to retire within days

2011 Event - In an effort to disprove claims that he has fled the country, Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi appears on television and claims to remain head of the revolution

2011 Event - A professor from New York University has an experimental life-blogging camera removed from his head after his immune system rejected the implant

2011 Event - President Hosni Mubarak relinquishes power to the head of the Higher Military Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces, Mohamed Hussein Tantawi

2011 Event - The head of the Taiwanese Army's electronic communications and information department, Major General Lo Hsien-che is arrested for leaking secrets to China

2010 Event - President Obama's economic advisor Lawrence Summers announces he will leave his post as head of the U.S. Economic Council

2010 Event - Raul Castro, head of the Cuban government, declares they will lay off half a million state workers to improve their economy by the middle of 2011

2010 Event - Senior Rwandan opposition politician Andre Kagwa Rwisereka is found, after reported missing, with his head nearly severed off

2010 Event - Abdul Tejan-Cole, head of Sierra Leone's anti-Corruption Commission, resigns

2010 Event - Two men on motorcycles fatally shot Pedro Alcantara de Souza, a Brazilian land reform activist, five times in the head while he tried to ride his bicycle in Para

2010 Event - Egypt announces the discovery of a granite head from a statue of Tutankhamun's grandfather, Amenhotep III, buried at a temple in Luxor

2009 Event - Phillipine police arrest a new terror suspect one week after the head of the militant Rajah Solaiman Movement is captured

2009 Death - Chuck Daly, basketball coach, head coach, successful 14-year NBA career included leading Detroit Pistons to two NBA Championships, led Dream Team to win gold at 1992 Summer Olympics, dies at 78 in Jupiter, Florida

2007 Death - Paul Gillmor, dies in Arlington, Virginia, of head and neck trauma from falling down stairs, at 68

2004 Death - Gary Webb, investigative journalist, wrote articles for 'San Jose Mercury News' about Nicaraguan cocaine smugglers linked to CIA-backed Contras, dies from two gunshot wounds to the head, judged a suicide

2001 Event - Eleven die after two trucks collide, head on, in a mountain tunnel in Switzerland

1998 Event - New York Rangers fire head coach Colin Campbell

1998 Event - Dallas Cowboys sign Chan Gailey as their 4th head coach

1998 Event - Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned

1997 Event - South African and U.S. surgeons separate Zambian Siamese twins joined at the head

1997 Death - Dawn Steel, film maker, first woman to head a major Hollywood studio, responsible for 'Flashdance', 'Fatal Attraction', dies at 51

1997 Death - Abe Gibron, head coach (Chicago Bears), dies at 72

1997 Death - Beam Dai, head of South Vietnam (1949-55), dies

1997 Death - Joshua Hassan, head of Gibraltar (1964-69, 72-87), dies

1997 Death - Deng Xiaoping, head of the Chinese Communist Party, dies at 92

1997 Event - Bill Parcells becomes head coach of New York Jets

1996 Death - Arthur Axmann, head of Hitler Youths in (1940-45), dies at 83

1996 Death - Howard Frank Trayton Smith, diplomat/head of MI5, dies at 76

1995 Death - Arthur Benfield, formed head of Cheshire CID, dies at 82

1995 Death - Azeddine Medjoubi, head Algerian nationally theater, murdered at 49

1994 Death - Herman H Felderhof, radio-announcer/head (NRU/NOS Radio), dies at 83

1994 Death - Jakob Kaplan, French head rabbi (1955-81), dies at 99

1994 Death - William Leonard, head (CBS News), dies of a stroke at 78

1994 Event - Dennis Richardson sworn in as head of St. Maarten

1994 Death - Mildred Mcafee Horton, U.S. 1st head mistress of WAVES, dies

1994 Death - Grete Schickedanz, German head mistress, dies at 82

1994 Death - Johnny Morey Downs, actor/singer (Algiers, Red Head), dies at 80

1994 Death - Ezra Taft Benson, 13th head of Mormon Church, dies at 94

1994 Death - Michalis Vranopoulos, head of Greek state bank, murdered at 48

1993 Event - Jacques Lemaire is named New Jersey Devils 8th Head Coach

1993 Event - Long fly ball by Indians' Carlos Martinez bounces off Jose Canseco's head and goes over fence for a home run

1993 Event - Judd Nelson pleads no contest to kicking Kim Evans in the head

1992 Event - Carlos Martinez hits a ball off Jose Canseco's head for a home run

1992 Death - James E Webb, head of NASA (1961-68), dies at 84

1992 Event - Matt Keough, in the dugout, is hit flush in the head by a batted ball

1992 Event - Sarah Ferguson wears paper bag over her head on airline ride

1991 Event - Gorbachev resigns as head of U.S.S.R. Communist Party

1991 Event - Robert M. Gates becomes head of CIA

1991 Event - Apple computer head Steve Jobs weds Laurene Powell

1991 Death - John A McCone, Head of CIA (1961-65), dies

1990 Death - Elizabeth Allan, actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Camille, Java Head), dies

1990 Death - Maurine Stuart, Zen teacher, head of Cambridge Buddhist Association, dies

1989 Death - Conrad Beck, composer, studied with Jacques Ibert, head of Radio Basel music department for 30 years, dies at 88

1989 Event - Rod Stewart hits his head while on stage and knocks himself out

1989 Event - Barry Switzer resigns as head coach of Oklahoma's football

1989 Event - Bill White named NL president; 1st black major-league sports head

1988 Death - John Loder, actor (Sabotage, Java Head), dies at 90

1988 Event - U.S. Olympic diver Greg Louganis hits his head on diving board

1988 Death - David Schoenbrun, CBS broadcast bureau head (Wash, Paris), dies at 73

1987 Event - Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Commission assassinated by death squads

1986 Event - Paul McCartney release "Pretty Little Head"

1986 Death - Bessie Head, writer, dies

1985 Death - Spencer W. Kimball, U.S. head of mormon church, dies at 90

1985 Event - "One Night In Bangkok" by Murray Head hits #3

1985 Death - Sarah Blanding, 1st U.S. fem college head (Vassar 1946-64), dies at 86

1985 Event - -19 degrees F (-28 degrees C), Caesar's Head, South Carolina (state record)

1984 Death - Bess Flowers, actress (View from Pompey's Head), dies at 85

1983 Event - Rita Lavelle, former head of EPA, convicted of perjury

1982 Event - Bill Parcells becomes 12th head coach of New York Giants

1981 Event - Lt Jerry Rawlings becomes head of Ghana, suspends constitution

1981 Event - O A "Bum" Phillips becomes head coach of New Orleans Saints

1980 Death - Alfred Andersch, German writer (Red Head), dies at 66

1980 Event - Head of narcotic brigade arrested for drug smuggling in Belgium

1979 Death - Nematullah Nassiri, Iran general/head of Savak, executed

1978 Event - Hannah H Gray inaugurated as 1st female head of U.S. university (Chic)

1978 Event - Yamada Mumon Roshi appointed head of Zen Rinzai Sect

1978 Birthday - John Smit, professional rugby player, born in Pietersburg, South Africa, hooker, tight head prop, forward, played for Clermont, Natal Sharks

1978 Death - Terry Kath, rock guitarist (Chicago), accidently shot in head at 32

1978 Event - Judge William H Webster appointed head of FBI

1976 Death - Michael Dewar Head, composer, dies at 76

1976 Death - General Murtala Mohammed, head of Nigeria, killed during a coup

1975 Birthday - Petra Begerow, born in Germany, tennis star, 1996 quarter Hilton Head

1974 Death - Lewis L Strauss, head U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (1953-58), dies at 78

1973 Death - Harold B Lee, U.S. head of Mormon Church, dies at 74

1972 Event - Lord Michael Killanin succeeds Avery Brundage as head of Olympics

1972 Event - Jean Westwood is 1st woman chosen to head Democratic National Committee

1972 Death - J Edgar Hoover, head of FBI (1924-72)/cross dresser, dies at 77

1970 Event - Taizan Maezumi Roshi, head of LA Zen Center, receives dharma

1970 Birthday - Dena Head, WNBA guard for the Utah Starzz

1969 Birthday - Ben Iroha, born in Aba, Nigeria, professional soccer player, played for the Nigerian national team, head coach, Nigeria's Dolphins FC

1969 Birthday - Rain Pryor, actress, Head of the Class, daughter of Richard

1969 Event - General Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via miltary coup

1969 Event - Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, Vice President, General Manager and head coach of Redskins

1969 Event - John Madden is named head coach of NFL's Oakland Raiders

1969 Event - The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasser Arafat head of PLO

1968 Event - Ralph Aberbathy elected to head So Christian Leadership Conference

1968 Event - Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to head

1967 Death - Ruth Fuller Sasaki, head of 1st Zen Institute of America, dies at 75

1967 Death - George Lincoln Rockwell, head of American Nazi Party, assassinated

1966 Birthday - Michael Franti, born in San Francisco, California, poet, musician, head of Michael Franti & Spearhead band, supports peace and social justice issues

1965 Event - William F. Raborn, Jr. replaces John A. McCone as 7th head of CIA

1964 Event - Brezhnev and Kosygin replace Khrushchev as head of Russia

1964 Birthday - Joss Whedon, born in New York City, New York, screenwriter, producer, director, head writer for 'Dollhouse', 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' 'Angel' television programs

1963 Event - Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of RC Church

1962 Birthday - Rob Burnett, born in North Caldwell, New Jersey, head writer, David Letterman

1961 Birthday - Jane Sibbett, actress, Teddy Z, Heddy Newman-Herman's Head

1961 Birthday - Roland Orzabal, rock vocalist, Tears for Fears-Shout, Head over Heels

1961 Death - Max Hymans, WW II resistance fighter/Head of Air France, dies at 60

1960 Event - Prince Norodom Sihanoek becomes head of Cambodia

1960 Birthday - Keith Musa[kawukhathi] Zondi, South Africa head, Inkatha Youth Brigade

1960 Birthday - Rob Derksen, Australian baseball head coach 1996 Olympics

1959 Death - Edmund Gwenn, actor (Them, Java Head, Miracle on 34th St), dies at 83

1959 Event - Joe Cronin signs 7 year pact to become head of AL

1958 Event - King Hussein declares himself head of Jordan/Iraqi federation

1958 Birthday - Bob Crudgington, Australian softball head coach 1996 Olympics bronze

1957 Birthday - Danny Heep, born in San Antonio, Texas, Daniel William Heep, athlete, baseball player, outfielder, coach, played for Houston Astros, played in two World Series, 1986 with New York Mets, 1988 with Los Angeles Dodgers, head coach for University of the Incarnate Word, Texas

1956 Death - Leon N H Jungschlaeger, head military intelligence Netherlands-Indies, dies at 52

1956 Death - Jeanne F Bourgeois, French head mistress (Moulin Rouge), dies at 84

1955 Birthday - Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, born in Hokkaido, Japan, sumo wrestler, 58th yokozuna, greatest, highest ranked sumo in recent times, won 31 tournament championships, coming in second to Taiho, noted as lightest yokozuna since Tochinoumi in the 1960's, head coach for Kokonoe stable

1954 Death - Johnny Ace, Memphis rocker, accidently shot self in head at 25

1954 Event - West German secret service head Otto John defects to East Germany

1954 Event - Dr. Peter Murray Marshall becomes 1st black to head an AMA unit

1954 Death - Joseph Hergesheimer, novelist (Java Head), dies

1954 Birthday - Anthony Stewart Head, actor, Buffy Vampire Slayer

1952 Event - Mr. Potato Head, introduced

1952 Event - Mr. Potato Head is 1st toy advertised on television

1952 Birthday - Richard Charsworth, Australian women field hockey head coach 1996 Olympics

1950 Event - Walter Bedell Smith replaces Roscoe H Hillenkoetter as 4th CIA head

1950 Birthday - Ronnie McDowell, born in Fountain Head, Tennessee, country singer, King is Gone

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

1949 Birthday - Lukas D. Barnard, head of South Africa secret service, NIS

1947 Event - Lt General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, ends term as 2nd head of CIA

1947 Birthday - Michael Mavor, Head Master, Rugby School

1947 Event - William Dawson becomes 1st black to head congressional committee

1946 Birthday - Al Luginbill, Pomona California, WLAF head coach for the Amsterdam Admirals

1946 Birthday - Dawn Steel, born in America, film maker, first woman to head a major Hollywood studio, responsible for 'Flashdance', 'Fatal Attraction'

1946 Event - Brooklyn Dodger Ed Head no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0

1946 Birthday - Murray Head, born in London, England, born Murray Seafield Saint-George Head, actor, singer, hit song, 'One Night in Bangkok'

1945 Death - Jacobus W. G. Balfoort, Dutch actor (Heimwee, Head On), dies at 57

1945 Birthday - Rod Argent, rocker, She's Not There-Zombies, Hold Your Head Up-Argent

1944 Event - Klaus Barbie, Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz

1944 Event - Enver Hoxha becomes head of Albania anti fascists

1944 Event - General Eisenhower becomes head commander of allied air fleet

1942 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt creates Office of War with Elmer Davis as head

1942 Birthday - John Lewis, Head Master, Eton College

1941 Death - Earnest Udet, German general/head air pioneer, commits suicide

1941 Birthday - Paul Anka, born in Ottawa, Ontario, singer, Put Your Head on My Shoulder

1941 Event - Martin Bormann is named head of Nazi Party Chancellery in Germany

1941 Event - Vichy-France's head of government Admiral Dalan consults with Hitler

1940 Birthday - David Hart, General-Secretary, National Association of Head Teachers

1940 Birthday - Galen Hall, WLAF Head Coach, Orlando Thunder, Rhein Fire

1940 Birthday - James Blyth, born in Britain, businessman, head of defense sales for Ministry of Defense, chairman, London Business School, CEO, The Boots Company

1940 Birthday - Jim Criner, WLAF head coach for the Scottish Claymores

1940 Birthday - Howard Hesseman, Salem Or, actor, Dr. Johnny Fever-WKRP, Head of Class

1940 Birthday - Anthony Gaurdine, Little Anthony and Imperials-Goin Out of My Head

1939 Birthday - France Nuyen, born in Marseilles, France, actress, St. Elsewhere, Diamond Head

1939 Birthday - N R Bomford, head master, Harrow School

1939 Birthday - Bernard Glassman, New York, Zen teacher/head, Zen Center of New York

1939 Event - Hermann Goering appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of Jewish Emigration

1938 Event - LP Beria follows Nikolai Jezjov as head of Russian secret police

1938 Event - New York Yankees suspend Jake Powell, after he said on Chicago radio he'd "hit every colored person in Chicago over head with a club"

1938 Birthday - Keith Peters, born in Baglan, Wales, physician, head of the School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge

1938 Event - Dutch writer Maurits Dekker sentenced to 50 days for "offending a friendly head of state" (Hitler)

1938 Birthday - Jack Bicknell, WLAF head coach, Barcelona Dragons

1938 Birthday - Mary Frances Berry, educator/head, US Commission on Civil Rights

1937 Birthday - David Summerscale, head master, Westminster School England

1936 Birthday - James Darren, born in Philadelphia, actor, TJ Hooker, Diamond Head, Venus in Furs

1935 Birthday - Jakusho Kwong, Santa Rosa California, head of Sonoma Mountain Zen Center

1935 Birthday - Lord Grenfell, head of External affairs European office, world bank

1934 Death - Maggis Lena Walker, 1st U.S. (black) woman to head a bank, dies at 69

1934 Birthday - Yakubu Gowon, born in Kanke, Nigeria, politician, General, Head of the Federal Military Government of Nigeria 1966 - 1975

1934 Birthday - Jane Byrne, born in Chicago, Illinois, first female Mayor of Chicago, Illinois 1979 - 1983, served as head of consumer affairs

1934 Birthday - Malcolm Gill, deputy head, Bank for International Settlements

1934 Death - Franz Ehrle, German jesuit/head of Vatican library, dies at 88

1933 Event - 59th Preakness: Charley Kurtsinger aboard Head Play wins in 2:02

1932 Event - Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program

1932 Birthday - Karl Kroeger, born in Louisville, Kentucky, composer, studied with Claude Almand, head, American Music Collection, New York Public Library

1932 Event - Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria

1931 Birthday - Roone Arledge, born in Forest Hills, New York, head of sports broadcasting, ABC

1930 Birthday - G[eorge] Gordon Liddy, head CIA/ate a rat/Watergate felon/radio host

1930 Birthday - Chuck Daly, born in St. Marys, Pennsylvania, basketball coach, head coach, successful 14-year NBA career included leading Detroit Pistons to two NBA Championships, led Dream Team to win gold at 1992 Summer Olympics

1930 Birthday - Elijah Barayi, head of South Africa union centre, COSATU

1930 Birthday - Nicolas Christopher Henry Browne-Wilkinson, born in England, life peer as Baron Browne-Wilkinson, studied at Lancing College and Magdalen College, Oxford, former head of the Privy Council and Vice-Chancellor of the High Court

1927 Birthday - Carel W. H. Boshoff, South African head, Broederbond/Volkswag

1925 Birthday - Gertrude Shope, South African head, ANC female section

1925 Event - Queen Wilhelmina names H Colijn head of government

1925 Birthday - Ernie Stautner, NFL tackle, Steelers, WLAF head coach, Galaxy

1924 Birthday - Darrell Royal, born in Hollis, Oklahoma, football coach, in 20 years as head coach, University of Texas Longhorn never lost a season, elected to College Football Hall of Fame, 1983

1924 Event - J. Edgar Hoover appointed head of FBI

1924 Birthday - William H. Webster, U.S., judge and head FBI/CIA

1923 Birthday - Lee Teng-hui, president of ROC, Taiwan, head of KMT, 1988-

1922 Birthday - Michael Palliser, head of British diplomatic service

1922 Birthday - Eileen Ford, modeling agency head, Ford Modeling Agency

1922 Birthday - Megan Bull, British head mistress, Holloway Jail

1921 Birthday - Whitney M. Young, Jr., civil rights leader, head of Urban League

1921 Birthday - Logan Ramsey, born in Long Beach, California, actor, Head, Joy Sticks, Say Yes

1920 Death - Ray Chapman, hit in the head by Yankees' Carl Mays pitch, dies

1920 Event - Ray Chapman, of Indians is hit in head by Yankees' Carl Mays pitch; he dies next day, only major league fatality

1920 Event - League of Nations places International head of Justice in Hague

1919 Birthday - Howard Frank Trayton Smith, diplomat/head, MI5

1919 Birthday - Iris Murdoch, born in Dublin, Ireland, novelist, Severed Head, Unicorn

1919 Death - Eugen Levine, head of 2nd Bavarian soviet republic, assassinated

1916 Birthday - Robert S. McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1961 - 1968, head World Bank

1915 Birthday - Dany [Daniel S] Tuijnman, head of Dutch traffic and water

1915 Birthday - David Schoenbrun, CBS broadcast bureau head, Washington, Paris

1914 Birthday - Daisy Bates, publisher/head, Arkansas NAACP

1914 Birthday - Alfred Andersch, German writer, Red Head

1913 Birthday - Bao Dai, emperor of Annam/Indochina/head of South Vietnam, 1949-55

1913 Birthday - Arthur Benfield, head of Cheshire CID

1913 Birthday - Richard Helms, CIA head, 1966-73

1913 Birthday - Ab [Albert] Visser, Dutch poet and writer, Man Without a Head

1913 Birthday - Juanita E Jackson Mitchell, U.S. head, NAACP

1911 Birthday - Clarence M Kelley, FBI head

1909 Event - 1st Lincoln head pennies minted

1908 Death - Georg Adler, German statehouse head, dies at 45

1907 Birthday - Edith Head, fashion designer, MGM

1906 Birthday - Dick White, head of British secret service, MI-5/MI-6

1906 Birthday - James E Webb, head of NASA, 1961-68

1906 Birthday - Galo Plaza Lasso, President of Ecuador, 1948-52, head of OAS, 1968-75

1904 Death - Justus van Maurik, cigar manufacturer/author/head of Red Guard, dies

1904 Birthday - J. Robert Oppenheimer, born in New York, head of Manhattan, A-bomb, Project

1904 Birthday - Leon N H Jungschlager, head of military intelligence, Netherlands-Indies

1902 Birthday - Menachem A. Schneerson, rebee, head of Lubavitcher Jews

1902 Birthday - Georgy M Malenkov, Stalin's successor as head of CPSU, PM, 1953-55

1901 Birthday - Conrad Beck, born in Lohn, Switzerland, composer, studied with Jacques Ibert, head of Radio Basel music department for 30 years, composed concertos, symphonies, oratorio, elegy, instrumental, vocal music, and one ballet

1900 Birthday - Heinrich Himmler, head of Gestapo, war criminal

1900 Birthday - Josephine Holt Bay, 1st woman to head a firm on New York stock exchange

1900 Birthday - David Wynne, born in Penderyn, Wales, composer, studied at University of Wales, Cardiff, University of Bristol, Head of Music, Lewis School Pengam, professor of composition, Cardiff College of Music and Drama

1900 Birthday - Michael Dewar Head, composer

1895 Birthday - Jakob Kaplan, French head rabbi, 1955-81

1895 Birthday - Walter Bedell Smith, U.S. general, WW II, head of CIA, 1950 - 1952

1893 Birthday - Allan W. Dulles, U.S. diplomat and CIA head 1953-61, Germany's Underground

1892 Birthday - Jack Warner, U.S. movie studio head, Warner Bros

1887 Birthday - Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral/head German military intelligence

1886 Birthday - Bela Kun, Czehul Romania, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic, 1919

1882 Birthday - Pierre H Ritter, Jr., Dutch literary/head, Utrecht Newspaper

1878 Death - Hendrik J Jut, Dutch murderer [Head of Jut], dies at 26

1876 Birthday - Raymond Duchamp-Villon, cubist sculptor, Head of Baudeaire

1875 Birthday - Michael I Kalinin, Russian metal worker/head of state

1875 Death - Francis Bond Head, Canadian Statesman

1874 Event - Harry S. Parmelee patents sprinkler head

1865 Birthday - Margaret Murray Washington, wife of Booker T/head, NACW 1896..1918

1863 Event - General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac

1862 Event - 40,000 watch Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, SC

1862 Event - Ambrose Burnside replaces McClellen as head of Army of Potomac

1844 Event - Brigham Young chosen Mormon Church head following Joseph Smith death

1793 Birthday - Francis Bond Head, Canadian Statesman

1773 Death - Ali Bey, Egyptian Mameluk head, dies

1760 Death - Gerard George Clifford, head of East-Indian Company, dies at 75

1690 Event - Netherlands-French sea battle at Beachy Head (Cornelis Evertsen)

1690 Event - Battle at Beachy Head: French under Tourville beat Netherlands/English fleet

1644 Event - Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists

1619 Death - Miriam Bella, head of Jewish community of Cracow, dies

1598 Event - London's head office of Hanze closed

1580 Event - Spanish king Philip II puts 25,000 gold coins on head of prince Willem of Orange

1535 Event - Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church

1534 Event - English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English church - a role formerly held by the Pope

1531 Event - Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of Church in England

1530 Event - King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church

1522 Event - Head inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens elected pope

1481 Death - Ikkyu Sojun, Zen head of Daitokuji temple, dies in Kyoto, Japan at 87

1382 Death - Daigaku, Zen teacher/46th head of Engakuji, dies in Kamakura Japan

1351 Death - Muso Soseki, Zen teacher/Rinzai line/head of Nanzenji, dies in Japan

1307 Event - William Tell shoots apple off his son's head

1278 Death - Daikaku, Zen teacher Rinzai line/head of Kenchoji, dies in Japan at 65

942 Death - Saadiah Gaon, head of Talmudic Academy of Sura, dies

31 Death - Sejanus, Roman head of praetorisch guard, executed













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