A Better Day

Today was a much better day than yesterday, so I'd like to commemorate it.

Event
2006 - A better day

Births
823 - Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor and king of the West Franks (+ 877)
1786 - Winfield Scott, United States general (+ 1866)
1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (+ 1896)
1865 - William Butler Yeats, poet and dramatist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1923 (+ 1939)
1870 - Jules Bordet, physicist and microbiologist (+ 1961)
1887 - Bruno Frank, author (+ 1945)
1892 - Basil Rathbone, actor (+ 1967)
1893 - Dorothy L. Sayers, author (+ 1957)
1897 - Paavo Nurmi, runner (+ 1973)
1903 - Harold 'Red' Grange, American football player (+ 1991)
1913 - Kid Azteca, boxer (+ 2002)
1913 - Ralph Edwards, television host
1915 - Don Budge, tennis player (+ 2000)
1926 - Paul Lynde, actor (+ 1982)
1933 - Tom King, British politician
1935 - Christo, artist
1943 - Malcolm McDowell, actor
1948 - Garnet Bailey, ice hockey player & scout (+ 2001)
1951 - Richard Thomas, actor
1951 - Stellan Skarsg?d, actor
1953 - Tim Allen, actor
1962 - Ally Sheedy, actress
1970 - Rivers Cuomo, singer, guitar player (Weezer)
1974 - Steve-O, television personality
1986 - The Olsen twins, actresses


Deaths
1886 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria
1918 - Mikhail Alexandrovitch Romanov (AKA Grand Duke Michael), Tsar Mikhail II of Russia
1946 - Major Bowes, radio host
1972 - Clyde McPhatter, musician
1979 - Darla Hood, actress
1980 - Walter Rodney, historian, political figure
1982 - King Khalid of Saudi Arabia
1986 - Benny Goodman, musician
1987 - Geraldine Page, actress
1989 - Fran Allison, actress, television personality
1998 - Reg Smythe, Andy Capp cartoonist
2003 - Hein ten Hoff, German boxing athlete

~hope your June 13th was swell!~