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2009 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
2004 Max Faget, engineer, led the design of the Gemini space capsule, dies at 83 2000 "Gordon ""Tex"" Beneke", band leader/saxophonist, led the Glenn Miller Orchestra after Miller's death, dies at 86 1998 Kwame Ture, activist, "born as Stokely Carmichael, he led a number of black organizations", dies at 57 1995 Dave Bowen, born in Maesteg, Glamorgan, Wales, Welsh football player, manager, captain, led country to win 1958 World Cup finals, dies at 67 1992 U.N. Security Council votes unanimous for U.S. led forces to enter Somalia 1991 Browns set club record for largest lead blown (led 23-0), Philadelphia 32-30 1991 Operation Desert Storm begins - U.S. led allies vs Iraq 1990 Curtis Lemay, nicknamed Old Iron Pants, General, United States Air Force, running mate for George Wallace, 1968, designed World War II strategic bombing campaign, led Berlin airlift, led firebombing of Tokyo, 22 medals and decorations, dies at age 83 1987 2nd coup on Fiji led by Major General Sitiveni Rabuka 1981 British team led by Ranulph Fiennes completes longest and fastest crossing of Antarctica, reaching Scott base after 75 days (2,500 miles) 1980 2 months after death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin breaks up 1980 John Bonham, English pop drummer (Led Zeppelin), overdoses at 32 1980 Led Zeppelin begins their last European tour 1977 Pakistan's army, led by General Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes power 1976 Sarah Caldwell is 1st woman to conduct at New York's Metropolitan Opera House as she led orchestra in a performance of "La Traviata" 1975 Led Zeppelin fans riot before Boston concert, causing $30,000 damage 1974 William Hudson, actor (I Led 3 Lives), dies at 49 1973 $180,000 in Led Zeppelin receipts are robbed from New York, Hilton 1972 Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement, dies at 87 1969 140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zep and Janis Joplin 1969 Debut album of Led Zeppelin released in US 1968 Led Zeppelin's concert debut in Boston as opener for Vanilla Fudge 1968 Radio Prague, Czechoslovakia at 12:50 AM announces a soviet led invasion 1966 Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out 1965 Pope Paul VI and Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to split of 2 churches in 1054 1965 Martin Luther King, Jr. led 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama 1965 Boston Celtic center Bill Russell misses all 14 shots in loss to Philadelphia Warriors led by Wilt Chamberlain 1953 Jon Faddis, born in Oakland, California, musician, jazz trumpeter, conductor, composer, music educator, sound compared to his mentor, Dizzy Gillespie, member Lionel Hampton's big band, led Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, released Grammy-Award nominated work, Remembrances, 1999 1952 Gordon McQueen, born in Kilbirnie, Scotland, footballer, soccer player, central defender, coach, played for Manchester United and Leeds, led team to win FA Cup Final, 1979, coached Airdrieonians, manager for Middleborough, pundit for Sky Sports 1948 Robert Plant, English rock vocalist, Led Zeppelin-Whole Lotta Love 1948 John Henry "Bonzo" Bonham, drummer, Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven 1947 John Bonham, Redditch England, drummer, Led Zeppelin-Stairway 1947 Tommy James, born in Dayton, Ohio, born Thomas Gregory Jackson, musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, led rock band Tommy James and the Shondells 1946 John Paul Jones, rock bassist, Led Zeppelin 1946 John Paul Jones, rocker, Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven 1945 Takijiro Ohnishi, led Japanese kamikaze pilots (harakiri), dies 1945 U.S. soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines 1944 Gerrit van den Bosch, led illegal Dutch CPN party, dies in Dachau 1944 Jimmy Page, born in London, rock guitarist, Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven 1943 U.S. forces led by General George Patton liberate Palermo, Sicily 1941 German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa 1940 Stan Mikita, NHL center, led NHL in scoring 4 times 1936 Spanish Civil War begins, General Francisco Franco led uprising 1934 All-Star team led by Babe Ruth and Connie Mack sails to Hawaii and Japan 1930 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 1928 Dave Bowen, born in Maesteg, Glamorgan, Wales, Welsh football player, manager, captain, led country to win 1958 World Cup finals 1925 William Hudson, California, actor, I Led 3 Lives 1918 Robert Feller, MLB pitcher, Red Sox, led AL in strikeouts 7 times 1917 In Russia, Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin seizes power 1910 Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero 1906 Curtis Lemay, born in Columbus, Ohio, nicknamed Old Iron Pants, General, United States Air Force, running mate for George Wallace, 1968, designed World War II strategic bombing campaign, led Berlin airlift, led firebombing of Tokyo, 22 medals and decorations 1906 Belle Stewart, born near Bloirgowrie, Scotland, Scottish traditional singer, led life of a Scottish Traveler, daughter Sheila Stewart wrote her biography 'Queen Amang the Heather; the Life of Belle Stewart' 1891 Dazzy Vance, hall of fame pitcher, led NL in strike-outs 7-yrs 1885 Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement 1880 Lincoln Ellsworth, led 1st transarctic, transantarctic flights 1879 Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Fort Robinson 1877 Southern blacks led by Pap Singleton settle in Kansas 1864 Confederate forces led by General J Early begin invasion of Washington D.C. 1831 Nat Turner, former slave, led a violent insurrection, hanged in VA 1812 U.S. forces led by General Hull invade Canada, War of 1812 1802 Marcus Whitman, missionary, led to U.S. securing Oregon 1800 John Brown, abolitionist; led attack on Harpers Ferry 1787 Shays' Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by Captain Daniel Shays, fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Mass 1781 British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Va 1391 Mob led by Ferrand Martinez surounds and sets fire to Jewish quarter of Seville Spain, surviving Jews sold into slavery 1138 English defeated Scots at Cowton Moor Banners of various saints were carried into battle which led to being called Battle of the Standard |
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