1999 Iron Eyes Cody, actor, dies at 94
1994 "Iron" Adriaan van Es, Dutch Undersecretary of Navy (1963-72), dies at 80
1993 Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor (large iron sculptures), dies at 80
1986 Charles Aubroeck, Belgian painter/sculptor (Iron Tower), dies at 91
1984 Hulk Hogan defeats Iron Sheik to become WWF champ
1983 Hulk Hogan pins Iron Sheik for World Wrestling Federation title
1978 1st Iron Man Triathlon held, Kona, Hawaii
1971 Rock group Iron Butterfly disbands
1970 Test Cricket debut of Rodney "Iron Gloves" Marsh vs. England, Brisbane
1968 Iron Butterfly's "In-a-gadda-da-vida" becomes 1st heavy metal song to hit charts, it comes in at #117
1962 Lydia Cheng, New York City, Ms Big Apple bodybuilder, 1982, Pumping Iron 2
1959 "On The Beach," is 1st film to premiere on both sides of Iron Curtain
1959 Paul Di'anno, rocker (Iron Maiden Chingford, London V Early Vocalist
1958 Dave Murray, English pop guitarist, Iron Maiden-Powerslave
1958 Bruce Dickinson, heavy metal rocker, Iron Maiden-Run to Hills
1958 Charles O'Malley, actor in silent westerns (Iron Horse), dies at 61
1957 83rd Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Iron Liege wins in 2:02.2
1957 Steve Harris, born in London, hard rock bassist, Iron Maiden-Gypsy's Kiss
1957 Adrian Smith, heavy metal guitarist, Iron Maiden-Aces High
1956 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 6th Iron quartet premieres in Leningrad
1955 Dave Murray, English pop guitarist, Iron Maiden-Number of the Beast
1954 Dennis Stratton, born in London, England, rock guitarist, Iron Maiden
1954 Carla Dunlap, Newark, New Jersey, bodybuilder, Pumping Iron 2
1954 Michael "Nicko" McBain, Eng hard rock drummer, Iron Maiden-Powerslave
1953 Dimitur Poljanov, [Popov], Bulgaria poet (Iron Verses), dies
1952 Phil Kramer, born in Youngtown, Ohio, rocker, Iron Butterfly
1951 Howard Reitzes, Southgate California, rocker, Iron Butterfly
1950 Erik Braunn, born in Boston, Massachusetts, rock guitarist, Iron Butterfly
1950 Eric Braunn, rocker, Iron Butterfly
1949 Britain nationalizes it's steel and iron industry
1949 Larry "Rhino" Rheinhardt, rock guitarist, Iron Butterfly
1948 Mike Pinear, rock guitarist, Iron Butterfly
1948 Larry Reinhardt, rocker, Iron Butterfly
1948 Tony Iommi, rock guitarist, Black Sabbath-Paranoid, Iron Man
1947 Rodney Marsh, cricketer, AKA "Iron Gloves" AKA "Bacchus" Kept wickets
1946 Doug Ingle, Omaha Nebraska, rock vocalist/keyboards, Iron Butterfly
1946 Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech (Fulton Missouri)
1945 Ronald Bushy, rocker, Iron Butterfly-Ina gada davida
1945 Ronald Bushy, Washington D.C., rock drummer, Iron Butterfly
1945 Lee Dorman, born in St. Louis, Missouri, rock bassist, Iron Butterfly
1939 "Monty" becomes commandant of 3rd "Iron" Infantry division
1939 Armand Calinescu, Romania's PM, assassinated by the iron guard
1938 Corneliu Codreanu, Romania fascist/putschist (Iron Guard), dies
1933 Romania disallows fascist Iron Guard
1932 Belle Bennett, actress (Iron Mask), dies at 41
1931 Roy Evans, general sect, British Iron and Steel Trade Confederation
1927 1st iron lung installed, Bellevue hospital, New York
1927 Bellevue Hospital in New York installs 1st iron lung
1925 6th Iron pilgrim at Diksmuide Belgium
1922 Sidney AK Keyes, English poet, Iron Laurel
1921 Paul Daels, president, Flemish Iron Pilgrimage committee
1920 Iron monument unveiled at Stone churches, Flanders
1918 1st use of iron lung (Boston's Children Hospital)
1912 Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor, great iron sculptures
1904 Iron Eyes Cody, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, actor, Black Gold, Ernest Goes to Camp
1899 Guy Wilkerson, Texas, actor, Dead or Alive, West of Texas, Shootin' Iron
1898 Otto von Bismarck, German "Iron" chancellor, dies at 83
1894 Charles Aubroeck, Belgian painter/sculptor, Iron Tower
1891 Belle Bennett, born in Milcoon Rapids, Iowa, actress, Stella Dallas, Iron Mask
1889 Felix Aylmer, actor, Anastasia, Hamlet, Iron Duke, Macbeth, St. Joan
1882 Electric iron patented by Henry W Seely, New York City
1876 Dimitur Poljanov, [Popov], Bulgaria, poet, Iron Poems
1869 Cornelius Swarthout patents waffle iron
1865 C J Thomsen, Denmark, archaeologist, named Stone/Iron/Bronze Ages
1862 Bismarck's "Blood and Iron" speech
1844 Iron ore discovered in Minnesota's Mesabi Mountains
1839 Anthracite coal 1st used to smelt iron, Mauch Chunk, Penn
1797 Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to farmers, though, they fear effects of iron on soil!
1703 Man in the Iron Mask, prisoner in Bastille prison in Paris, dies
879 Boudouin with the Iron Arm, earl of Flanders, dies
863 Boudouin with the Iron Arm weds Charles de Kales' daughter Judith
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