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Historical Events

Results 101 - 200 of 269

May 6th - NY to SF footrace begins
May 8th - Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway
May 8th - NY Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pirates, 11-0
May 9th - NY Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pitts Pirates
May 9th - WJW-AM in Cleveland Ohio begins radio transmissions
May 10th - 55th Preakness: Louis Schaefer aboard Dr Freeland wins in 2:01.6
May 10th - 64th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 292 at Muirfield Gullane
May 11th - 1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week)
May 11th - Dr Annie Webb Blanton forms Delta Kappa Gamma Society in Austin Tx
May 12th - Pulitzer prize awarded to Julia Peterkin (Scarlet Sister Mary)
May 15th - Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleve Ohio)
May 16th - 1st Academy Awards - "Wings," Emil Jennings & Janet Gaynor wins
May 16th - In Hollywood, California, the first Academy Awards are handed out.
May 18th - 55th Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee on Clyde Van Dusen wins in 2:10.8
May 18th - Dodgers beat Phillies 20-16 & lost 8-6 in 2nd game (record 50 runs)
May 19th - Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium crushes 2 people to death
May 19th - General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek govt
May 21st - Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NYC
May 21st - Sergei Prokoviev's ballet "Prodigal Son," premieres in Paris
May 24th - Detroit Tigers beats Chicago White Sox, 6-5, in 21 innings
May 27th - 2nd Ryder Cup: Britain-Ireland, 7-5 at Moortown, England
May 28th - 1st all color talking picture "On With the Show" exhibited (NYC)
May 31st - Atlantic City Convention Center opens
Jun 3rd - 1st trade show at Atlantic City Convention Center (electric light)
Jun 3rd - Border dispute between Peru & Chile resolved
Jun 3rd - Chile, Peru & Bolivia sign accord about Tacna-Arica-area
Jun 4th - George Eastman demonstrates 1st technicolor movie (Rochester NY)
Jun 5th - Ramsey MacDonald forms minority Labour govt in Britain
Jun 7th - Margaret Bondfield becomes 1st Dutch female minister (of Labor)
Jun 7th - Vatican City becomes a sovereign state
Jun 8th - 61st Belmont: Mack Garner aboard Blue Larkspur wins in 2:32.8
Jun 8th - Venezuelan rebel Rafael Urbina overthrows Fort Amsterdam, Curacao kidnap governor Fruytier
Jun 9th - Venezuelan rebel Urbina lets Dutch/Curacaose hostages free
Jun 14th - Prussia & Vatican sign Concord
Jun 15th - 1st time NY curb stock exchange transacts more business than NY Exch
Jun 16th - Otto E Funk, 62, ends marathon walk (NY to SF, 4165 miles in 183 days)
Jun 22nd - Mel Ott (Giants) homers off Leo Sweetland (Phillies) in doubleheader
Jun 25th - Pres Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
Jun 26th - ENKA/Vereinigte Glanzstoff Factory merge AKU (Genl Kunstzijde Union)
Jun 27th - 1st color TV demo (NYC)
Jun 27th - Pres Von Hindenburg refuses to pay German debt of WW I
Jun 29th - 1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca
Jun 29th - 31.1°C (88°F) hoogste temperatuur op deze dag in De Bilt
Jun 29th - Mexico & Vatican sign Concord
Jun 30th - 33rd US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 294 at Winged Foot CC NY
Jul 1st - US Immigration law of 1924 in effect
Jul 1st - US cartoonist Elzie Segar creates "Popeye"
Jul 3rd - Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories made foam rubber
Jul 4th - AM radio station WOWO, Indiana's transmitter burns down
Jul 5th - 42nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (61 62)
Jul 5th - WOWO-AM, Indiana returns to air, 1 day after transmitter burns down
Jul 6th - St Louis has 2, 10 run innings & beats Phillies 28-6
Jul 7th - Romania & Vatican sign concord
Jul 10th - In game between Pirates & Phillies 9 HRs hit 1 in each inning
Jul 10th - US issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency
Jul 15th - 1st airport hotel opens-Oakland Ca
Jul 17th - USSR drops diplomatic relations with China
Jul 23rd - The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.
Jul 24th - NY to SF foot race ends (2½ months) winner is 60 year old Monteverde
Jul 24th - Pres Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war
Jul 27th - Dike of Wieringermeerpolder finished
Jul 28th - Chicago Cardinals become 1st NFL team to train out of state (Mich)
Jul 29th - Belgium Maurice Dewaele wins Tour de France
Jul 31st - Aristide Briand becomes premier of France
Aug 2nd - Phillies Don Hurst sets NL record of 6 consecutive games with a HR
Aug 4th - 60,000 SA'ers/SS'ers march by Munich
Aug 4th - Indians, in 9th with 2 outs score 9 to beat Yanks 14-6
Aug 4th - Jones Beach in NY opens
Aug 7th - Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms Dutch govt
Aug 7th - Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games
Aug 8th - 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward begins
Aug 8th - German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight
Aug 8th - Salem Oregon airport dedicated
Aug 10th - Grover Alexander beats Phils 7-1 for his 373rd & last NL win
Aug 11th - Babe Ruth becomes 1st to hit 500 homers (off Willis Hudlin of Cleve)
Aug 11th - Persia & Iraq sign friendship treaty
Aug 11th - Russian-Chinese border fights
Aug 14th - Jewish Agency for Palestine forms
Aug 20th - 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed
Aug 21st - Chicago Cardinals become 1st pro football team to train out of town
Aug 23rd - Arabs attack Jews in Israel
Aug 24th - 43rd US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Phoebe H Watson (64 62)
Aug 24th - Palestinians attack orthodox Jews in Jerusalem
Aug 24th - Turkey & Persia signs friendship treaty
Aug 25th - Graf Zeppelin passes over SF for LA after trans-Pacific voyage
Aug 26th - 1st US roller coaster built
Aug 28th - Frank Woolley scores his 100th first-class hundred
Aug 29th - German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight
Sep 2nd - Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union & Lever Bros
Sep 2nd - WOR (NYC) ends affiliation with CBS radio network
Sep 3rd - Dow Jones hits a record peak of 381.17
Sep 3rd - Dow Jones Industrial Average reached all time high at the time (381.17), which was shortly followed by the Crash of 1929.
Sep 5th - French premier A Briand requests a US of Europe
Sep 11th - SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system
Sep 14th - 49th US Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats Francis Hunter (36 63 46 62 64)
Sep 14th - A's clinch AL pennant with a 5-0 win over White Sox
Sep 16th - Police shoots at strikers at Maastricht, 2 killed
Sep 17th - British troops begin evacuating
Sep 18th - Pirates loss to Braves & clinch NL pennant for the Cubs
Sep 18th - Preston Sturges' "Strictly Dishonorable," premieres in NYC

Famous Birthdays

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Feb 22nd - Ryne Duren, near-sighted pitcher (NY Yankees)
Feb 22nd - James Hong, American actor
Feb 22nd - Rebecca Schull, American actress
Feb 23rd - Eduard W "Ed" Bauer, [Eddy Evers], Dutch actor (Bluejackets)
Feb 23rd - Elston Howard, Yankee catcher (1st black NY Yankee/1963 AL MVP)
Feb 23rd - Richard Moryl, composer
Feb 24th - David Houston, Major-General/Lord Lieutenant of Sutherland
Feb 24th - Richard B Shull, Evanston Ill, actor (Diana, Holmes & Yoyo)
Feb 25th - Christopher George, Royal Oak Minn, actor (Rat Patrol, Immortal)
Feb 25th - Peter Bingham Hinchcliff, Brit church historian (1 Sided Reciprocity)
Feb 25th - Peter Hinchcliff, historian
Feb 25th - Tommy Newsom, Va, musician/bandleader/saxophonist (Tonight Show)
Feb 27th - Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer
Feb 27th - Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach (d. 2008)
Feb 28th - Frank O Gehry, architect (Galleria-Okla City)
Feb 28th - Hayden Fry, American football coach
Feb 28th - John Montague, Irish poet
Feb 28th - Joseph Rouleau, French Canadian bass opera singer
Mar 1st - Sonny James, singer (Young Love, Running Bear)
Mar 1st - Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (d. 1978)
Mar 2nd - Donald Gosling, English parkeerplaatsenmagnaat/multi-millionaire
Mar 3rd - Nicos Mamangakis, composer
Mar 4th - Bernard Haitink, Amsterdam Neth, conductor (London Phil Orch 1969-78)
Mar 4th - Josep Mestres-Quadreny, composer
Mar 5th - Joan Shawlee, Forest Hills NY, actress (Prehistoric Women)
Mar 5th - Erik Carlsson, Swedish rally driver
Mar 6th - David Sheppard, bishop (Liverpool)/cricketer (England batsman)
Mar 6th - Hal Miller, British MP
Mar 6th - Ho Dam, North Korean secretary of State (1970-83)
Mar 6th - Thomas S Foley, (Rep-D-WA, 1965-94)/majority whip/speaker of house
Mar 9th - Hugh Desmond Hoyte, president (Guyana, 1985-92)
Mar 9th - Marie Cardinal, writer
Mar 11th - Erskine Childers, unofficial/civil servant
Mar 11th - Francisco Bernardo Pulgar Vidal, composer
Mar 11th - Jackie McGlew, cricketer (dour South African opening bat of the 50')
Mar 11th - Timothy Carey, American actor (d. 1994)
Mar 12th - Bernard Costello, US, double sculls (Olympic-silver-1956)
Mar 12th - Lupe Anguiano, Mexican-American civil rights activist
Mar 12th - U Win Tin, jailed Burmese journalist
Mar 13th - J D Slater, writer
Mar 13th - Peter Breck, Rochester NY, actor (Black Saddle, Big Valley, Benji)
Mar 13th - Walter Medio, race horse trainer
Mar 13th - Will Eisma, composer
Mar 14th - Thomas Bell Jr, race horse trainer
Mar 15th - Tiezo Matsumura, composer
Mar 16th - Edwin London, composer
Mar 16th - Nadja Tiller, Austrian actress
Mar 18th - Christa Wolf, German novelist (Divided Heaven)
Mar 18th - Ctirad Kohoutek, composer
Mar 18th - Kai Winding, rocker
Mar 18th - John Macurdy, American bass
Mar 19th - Herman van San, composer
Mar 19th - Michael Ryan, actor (John Randolph-Another World)
Mar 19th - Robert Muczynski, composer
Mar 20th - Germán Robles, Spanish actor
Mar 21st - James Coco, Bronx NY, actor (Man of La Mancha, Murder by Death)
Mar 21st - Jules Verne Berman, space & science reporter (ABC-TV)
Mar 21st - Maurice Catarcio, wrestler
Mar 23rd - Albert H Crews, astronaut
Mar 23rd - Gerrit den Braber, Dutch composer/producer
Mar 23rd - James Ackley Maxwell, actor/director (Traitors, Pyt Potter, Otley)
Mar 23rd - Michael Manser, architect
Mar 23rd - Roger Bannister, England, 1st to run a 4 minute mile (May 6, 1954)
Mar 24th - Cuan McCarthy, cricketer (36 Test wkts for S Africa, 1 career no-ball)
Mar 25th - Harris W Fawell, (Rep-R-IL, 1985- )
Mar 25th - Kenneth Haigh, Yorkshire England, actor (Search for the Nile)
Mar 25th - Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (d. 2003)
Mar 26th - Maurice Simon, jazz musician
Mar 26th - Edwin Turney, American businessman
Mar 28th - Aubrey J Watson Sr, bishop
Mar 28th - Paul England, Australian racing driver
Mar 29th - Ronald Clive Williams, actor/comedian
Mar 29th - Sheila Kitzinger, author, anthropologist & child birth educator
Mar 29th - Utpal Dutt, Indian actor (d. 1993)
Mar 30th - Richard Dysart, Brighton Mass, actor (Leland MacKenzie-LA Law)
Mar 30th - Shirley Stoler, Brooklyn NY, actress (Frankenhooker, 7 Beauties)
Mar 31st - Lee Patterson, Vancouver BC, actor (Dave-Surfside Six, Another World)
Mar 31st - Liz Claiborne, Brussels Belgium, American fashion designer, entrepreneur and founder of Liz Claiborne Inc (d. 2007)
Mar 31st - Bertram Fields, American lawyer
Apr 1st - Milan Kundera, Czech poet/writer (Joke, Unbearable Lightness of Being)
Apr 1st - Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator
Apr 1st - Bo Schembechler, American football coach (d. 2006)
Apr 2nd - Catherine Gaskin, romantic novelist (Fiona, Coporation Wife)
Apr 2nd - Frans H J J Andriessen, Dutch MP (KVP/CDA)
Apr 3rd - Dennis Farr, director (Courtauld Institute Galleries)
Apr 3rd - Miyoshi Umeki, Jap, actr (Mrs Livingston-Courtship of Eddie's Father)
Apr 3rd - Lee Leonard, American television personality
Apr 4th - William F Clinger Jr, (Rep-R-PA, 1979- )
Apr 5th - Hugo Claus, Flemish writer/director (Cool Lover, Sugar)
Apr 5th - Nigel Hawthorne, actor (Tartuffe, Pope John Paul II)
Apr 5th - Joe Meek, English record producer
Apr 6th - "Crazy" Joe Gallo, mobster
Apr 6th - Andre Previn, Berlin Germany, conductor (London Symphony)/pianist
Apr 6th - Arthur S Taylor Jr, US drummer/band leader (Taylor's Wailers)
Apr 6th - Edison Vasalievich Denisov, composer
Apr 6th - Li Yuan-chia, artist
Apr 6th - Willis Hall, British writer
Apr 7th - Bob Denard, French mercenary (d. 2007)
Apr 8th - Jacques Brel, Belgium, singer/actor (Pain in the A__)
Apr 8th - Renzo de Felice, historian

Famous Deaths

Results 101 - 114 of 114

Nov 9th - Nicolaas Theunissen, S Afr cricket break bowler (2nd Test 1889), dies
Nov 11th - Mieczyslaw Soltys, composer, dies at 66
Nov 14th - Joseph McGinnity, baseball pitcher (NY Giants), dies at 58
Nov 17th - A F A Lilley, cricketer (92 dismissals in 35 Tests 1896-1909), dies
Nov 17th - Herman Hollerith, German/US statistician (punch card), dies at 69
Nov 18th - Henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop Utrecht (1895-1929), dies at 78
Nov 19th - Arthur H Mann, English composer (Church of England Hymnal), dies
Nov 24th - Georges Clemenceau, French journalist/premier (1917-20), dies at 88
Nov 26th - Michele Esposito, composer, dies at 74
Dec 9th - Willis Cuttell, cricketer (two Tests England v S Africa 1899), dies
Dec 12th - Charles Goodnight, American cattle baron (b. 1836)
Dec 13th - Knut Algot Hakanson, composer, dies at 42
Dec 20th - Emile Loubet, French premier (1892)/president (1899-1906), dies at 90
Dec 29th - Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846)