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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 322

Jan 1st - Jacob Cocey Sr chosen as mayor of Massillon Ohio
Jan 1st - Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt publishes Himmler's wedding laws
Jan 1st - The United States Post Office Department issues a set of 12 stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth.
Jan 2nd - Young gang shoot dead 6 police in Springfield Missouri
Jan 3rd - Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop revolt by banana workers fired by United Fruit.
Jan 4th - Bradman scores 167 for Australia v South Africa at the MCG
Jan 4th - British East Indies Viceroy Willingdon arrests Gandhi & Nehru
Jan 4th - State of siege proclaimed in Honduras
Jan 7th - 1st game played at Orchard Lake Curling Club, Mich
Jan 8th - Ratification of present SF City Charter
Jan 10th - "Mickey Mouse" & "Silly Symphony" comics syndicated
Jan 10th - "Pete the Tramp" cartoon strip by C D Russell debuts
Jan 12th - France's Laval govt falls
Jan 12th - Hattie W Caraway elected 1st woman senator (D-Ark)
Jan 12th - Philip Barry's "Animal Kingdom," premieres in NYC
Jan 14th - 1st totalisator (to record racetrack bets) in US installed, Hialeah
Jan 14th - Horse racing legend Eddie Arcaro won his 1st race
Jan 19th - Charlie Conacher becomes 1st Toronto Maple Leaf to score 5 goals in a game, 1st coming at 7 seconds of game
Jan 21st - USSR & Finland stop non-attack treaty
Jan 22nd - British Anglicans & Old-Catholic church merge
Jan 23rd - El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers
Jan 25th - 1st commencement exercises at Hebrew U in Jerusalem
Jan 25th - Bradman scores 167 NSW v Victoria, 224 mins, 22 fours
Jan 26th - British submarine M-2 sinks in Channel (60 dead)
Jan 26th - KUT-AM in Austin Texas changes call letters to KNOW
Jan 28th - 1st US state unemployment insurance act enacted (Wisconsin)
Jan 28th - Japan occupies Shanghai
Jan 28th - Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
Jan 29th - Test debut of Bill O'Reilly, vs South Africa at Adelaide
Jan 30th - Grimmett 7-116 in South Africa 1st innings at Adelaide Oval
Jan 31st - US railway unions accept 10% wage reduction
Feb 1st - Bradman makes 299* vs S Africa, runs out partner going for 300th
Feb 2nd - Al Capone sent to prison (Atlanta, Georgia)
Feb 2nd - Geneva disarmament conference begins with 60 countries
Feb 2nd - Grimmett takes 14 wickets v South Africa (7-116 & 7-83)
Feb 2nd - Reconstruction Finance Corp organized
Feb 4th - 3rd Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, NY
Feb 4th - Japanese troop occupy Harbin, Manchuria
Feb 4th - World War II: Japan occupies Harbin, China.
Feb 6th - 1st Olympic dog sled race, Lake Placid, NY (demonstration sport)
Feb 6th - Fascist coup in the Memel territory
Feb 9th - America enter Olympic 2-man bobsled competition for 1st time
Feb 9th - US airship Columbia crashes during storm (Flushing, NY)
Feb 11th - 73°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in February
Feb 12th - Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees
Feb 13th - "Free Eats" introduces George "Spanky" McFarland to "Our Gang"
Feb 14th - S Africa all out for 36 in 1st innings v Aust (Ironmonger 5-6)
Feb 15th - 3rd Winter Olympic games close at Lake Placid, NY
Feb 15th - Aust beat S Africa in cricket by an inn in 5 hrs 53 min playing time
Feb 15th - George Burns & Gracie Allen debuted as regulars on "Guy Lombardo Show"
Feb 15th - John Van Druten's "There's Always Juliet," premieres in NYC
Feb 15th - US bobsled team member Eddie Eagan becomes only athlete to win gold in both Summer & Winter Olympics (1920 boxing gold)
Feb 16th - 1st patent issued for a tree, to James Markham for a peach tree
Feb 17th - Irving Berlin's musical "Face the Music," premieres in NYC
Feb 18th - Japan declares Manchuria Independent
Feb 18th - Sonja Henie wins her 6th straight World Women's figure skating title
Feb 19th - William Faulkner completes his novel "Light in August"
Feb 20th - Japanese troops occupy Tunhua China
Feb 21st - Andre Tardieu becomes premier of France
Feb 21st - Camera exposure meter patented, WN Goodwin
Feb 22nd - Purple Heart award reinstituted
Feb 24th - Malcolm Campbell drives record speed (253.96 mph) at Daytona
Feb 25th - Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship
Feb 27th - Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA (38 dead)
Feb 29th - Failed coup attempt by fascist Lapua Movement in Finland
Feb 29th - TIME magazine features eccentric American politician William "Alfalfa" Murray on its cover after Murray stated his intention to run for President of the United States.
Mar 1st - Charles Lindbergh Jr (20 months), kidnapped in NJ; found dead May 12
Mar 7th - Riots at Ford-factory Dearborn Michigan, kills 4
Mar 9th - Eamon De Valera becomes president of Ireland
Mar 9th - Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria
Mar 17th - German police raid Hitler's nazi-headquarter
Mar 19th - The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
Mar 20th - Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kara-Kalpak ASSR
Mar 24th - 1st US radio broadcast from a moving train (Belle Baker WABC from MD)
Mar 27th - De Bataven soccer team forms in Gendt
Mar 29th - Jack Benny debuts on radio
Mar 30th - Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic
Mar 31st - 150 wild swans die in Niagara waterfall
Mar 31st - Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine
Apr 2nd - Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for kidnapped son
Apr 4th - George Bernard Shaw's "Too True to be Good," premieres in NYC
Apr 4th - Vitamin C 1st isolated, CC King, Univ of Pittsburgh
Apr 5th - Dutch textile strike broken by trade unions
Apr 5th - Dominion of Newfoundland: 10,000 rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.
Apr 9th - Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs sweep NY Rangers in 3 games
Apr 10th - Paul von Hindenburg elected 1st German president (Hitler is 2nd)
Apr 12th - Emmanuel Chabriers & Balanchines ballet premieres in Monte Carlo
Apr 13th - Kozakken Boys soccer team forms in Werkendam forms
Apr 14th - Bizet, Massine & Mira's "Jeux d'Enfants," premieres in Monte Carlo
Apr 17th - Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia ends slavery
Apr 19th - 36th Boston Marathon won by Paul de Bruyn of Germany in 2:33:36.4
Apr 19th - Pres Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week
Apr 23rd - Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens at Stratford-on-Avon
Apr 23rd - The 153-year old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, the Netherlands burns down.
Apr 24th - German national election (NSDAP 36.3% in Prussia)
Apr 25th - Rose Franken's "Another Language," premieres in NYC
Apr 26th - Jean Anouilh's "L'Ermine," premieres in Paris
Apr 28th - 1st broadcast of "One Man's Family" on NBC-radio
Apr 28th - Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced
May 1st - 1st Suriname union congress at Paramaribo

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 667

Jan 1st - Arnfried G D P, Dutch manufacturer (breadcrumbs)/drugs dealer
Jan 1st - Jackie Parker, American football player (d. 2006)
Jan 2nd - Dabney Coleman, Austin Texas, (That Girl, Mary Hartman, Buffalo Bill)
Jan 3rd - Anatoli Petrovich Kuklin, Russia, cosmonaut
Jan 3rd - Jaswick Taylor, cricketer (WI pace bowler 50s, 10 wkts in 3 Tests)
Jan 3rd - Mara Corday, Santa Monica Calif, actress (Foxfire, Black Scorpion)
Jan 3rd - Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (d. 2005)
Jan 4th - Richard Stahl, Detroit Mich, actor (Howard-It's a Living)
Jan 4th - Carlos Saura, Spanish director
Jan 5th - Chuck Noll, Cleveland, NFL coach (Pittsburgh Steelers)
Jan 5th - Umberto Eco, author (Name of the Rose)
Jan 5th - Umberto Eco, Italian writer
Jan 6th - Sacha Distel, French singer
Jan 6th - Stuart A. Rice, American chemist
Jan 7th - Joe Berinson, Australian politician
Jan 10th - Elaine Devry, American actress
Jan 11th - Alfonso Arau, Mexican film director
Jan 12th - Alain Teister, Dutch sculptor/writer
Jan 12th - Des O'Connor, British television presenter
Jan 14th - Caterina Valente, Paris France, singer (Entertainers)
Jan 14th - Harriet Andersson, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Cries & Whispers)
Jan 14th - Don Garlits, American race car driver
Jan 15th - Dean Smith, US actor/relay runner (Olympic-gold-1952)
Jan 15th - Enrique Raxach, composer
Jan 15th - Louis Woodard Jones, New Rochelle NY, 4X400m relayer (Oly-gold-56)
Jan 16th - Dian Fossey, zoologist (Gorillas in the Mist)
Jan 16th - Jim Berry, cartoonist (Berry's World)
Jan 18th - Joe Schmidt, NFL Hall-of-Famer
Jan 18th - Robert Anton Wilson, US, sci-fi author (Trick Top Hat)
Jan 19th - Joe Schmidt, NFL Hall of Fame linebacker (Detroit Lions)
Jan 19th - Richard Lester, movie director (Hard Day's Night, Help!, Petulia)
Jan 20th - Lou Fontinato, Canadian ice hockey player
Jan 21st - Boris Shakhlin, Russia, gymnast (Olympic-gold-1956-60-64)
Jan 22nd - Piper Laurie, [Rosetta Jacobs], Detroit Mich, actress (Twin Peaks)
Jan 22nd - Berthold Grünfeld, Norwegian psychiatrist and former sexologist
Jan 23rd - Bud Shuster, (Rep-R-PA, 1973- )
Jan 24th - Werner Steger, composer
Jan 26th - Christopher Price, Director (Leeds Metropolitan U)
Jan 26th - George H Clements, famous African
Jan 26th - Ronald Allison, British author/broadcaster
Jan 26th - Coxsone Dodd, Jamaican record producer
Jan 27th - Neville Trotter, British MP
Jan 28th - David Thompson, CEO (Gestetner Holdings)
Jan 28th - Thomas J Bliley Jr, (Rep-R-VA, 1981- )
Jan 28th - W Parry O'Brien, Calif, shot putter (Oly-2 gold/silver-52, 56, 60, 64)
Jan 28th - Windlesham, Lord
Jan 29th - Clyde, Lord
Jan 29th - Raman Subba Row, CEO (Test/County Cricket Board)
Jan 29th - George Allen, English footballer
Jan 30th - Kazuo Inamori, Japanese business executive (Kyocera Ceramics Co)
Jan 30th - Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician
Jan 31st - Pieter Brattinga, Dutch graphic artist
Jan 31st - Rick Hall, country/R&B singer
Feb 1st - John Hart, Denver Colo, newsman (CBS News Retrospective, NBC News)
Feb 1st - John Nott, British MP
Feb 2nd - Robert Mandan, Clever Mo, actor (Chester-Soap, James-3's a Crowd)
Feb 3rd - J P "Pom-Pom" Felloes-Smith, cricketer (S Afr batsman v England 1960)
Feb 3rd - Maria Itkina, USSR, sprinter (9 world records)
Feb 3rd - Peggy Ann Garner, Canton Ohio, actress (Little Women, Daisy Kenyon)
Feb 4th - Ivan Davis, Electra Tx, pianist/writer (Hunger, Corn is Green)
Feb 5th - Cesare Maldini - Italian footballer and manager
Feb 6th - Francois Truffaut, Paris, director (Jules & Jim, Fahrenheit 451)
Feb 6th - Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1959)
Feb 7th - Alfred M Worden, Jackson Michigan, Colonel USAF/astronaut (Apollo 15)
Feb 7th - Gay Talese, author (Honor Thy Father)
Feb 8th - Jan H Christiaanse, president Dutch political party (CDA)
Feb 8th - John Towner Williams, Flushing NY, composer/conductor (Boston Pops)
Feb 9th - Tatsuro Hirooka, Japanese baseball player
Feb 9th - Gerhard Richter, German painter
Feb 10th - Donald Hilton, Moderator (General Assembly of United Reformed Church)
Feb 10th - Rockin Dopsie Sr, [Alton Jay Rubin], Jazz-Fusion singer (Zydeco)
Feb 11th - Dennis Skinner, MP
Feb 11th - Jerome Lowenthal, Phila, pianist/prof (Jerusalem Academy of Music)
Feb 12th - Lincoln Kilpatrick, St Louis Mo, actor (BJ-Leslie Uggams Show)
Feb 12th - Axel Jensen, Norwegian author (d. 2003)
Feb 13th - Susan Oliver, American actress (d. 1990)
Feb 14th - Alexander Kluge, writer
Feb 14th - Jack Hibbert, director (Central Statistical Office)
Feb 14th - Jocelyn Stevens, CEO (English Heritage)
Feb 14th - Michael Ball, Bishop (Truro)
Feb 14th - Peter Ball, Bishop (Gloucester)
Feb 15th - Adrian Swire, British aircraft magnate (Cathay Pacific)
Feb 16th - A Appelfeld, writer
Feb 16th - Gretchen Wyler, Bartlesville Okla, actress (Silk Stockings)
Feb 16th - Nand Baert, Belgian radio/TV-host
Feb 16th - Otis Blackwell, composer/singer
Feb 16th - Harry Goz, American actor (d. 2003)
Feb 16th - Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, President of Sierra Leone
Feb 17th - Buck Trent, Spartanburg SC, banjoist/singer (Hee Haw)
Feb 18th - Milos Forman, Czech/US director (Cuckoos Nest, Amadeus)
Feb 19th - Jean-Pierre Ponnele, Paris France, opera director (Carmina Burana)
Feb 19th - Joseph P Kerwin, Oak Park Ill, Capt Med Corps USN/astro (Skylab 2)
Feb 20th - Adrian Cristobal, Filipino writer (d. 2007)
Feb 21st - Harald V, King of Norway (1991- )
Feb 22nd - Edward M "Ted" Kennedy, (Sen-D-Mass, 1962- ), (Don't let him drive)
Feb 22nd - Ted Kennedy, American politician
Feb 23rd - Majel Barrett, American actress
Feb 24th - Andrew Jacobs Jr, (Rep-D-IN, 1965-73, 75- )
Feb 24th - Everard Goodman, English real estate developer (TOPS Estates)
Feb 24th - John Vernon, Canada, actor (Animal House, Chained Heat, Dirty Harry)

Famous Deaths

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Jan 1st - C P Scott, British journalist, publisher and politician (b. 1846)
Jan 7th - Henri Stroethoff, Dutch actor (Bright Paradise), dies at 60
Jan 8th - Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic (b. 1866)
Jan 13th - Sophia of Prussia, consort of Constantine I of Greece (b. 1870)
Jan 15th - Georg Kerschensteiner, German educationalist, dies at 77
Jan 17th - Albert Jacka, VC, Australian soldier (b. 1893)
Jan 21st - [Giles] Lytton Strachey, British biographer/critic, dies at 51
Jan 24th - Alfred Yarrow, English shipbuilder (b. 1842)
Jan 26th - William K Wrigley, owner (Wrigley Gum, Chicago Cubs), dies
Jan 28th - Franz Xavier Arens, composer, dies at 75
Feb 2nd - Agha Petros, Assyrian nationalist leader
Feb 8th - Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, mobster, killed by Dutch Schultz gang
Feb 9th - Junnosuke Inouye, Japanese minister of Finance, murdered
Feb 10th - R H Edgar Wallace, British writer/journalist (3 Just Men), dies at 76
Feb 15th - Minnie Maddern Fiske, actress (Henrik Ibsen's plays), dies at 66
Feb 16th - Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1841)
Feb 17th - Frans Gailliard, Belgian painter/graphic artist (Egina), dies at 70
Feb 18th - Frederik Augustus III, King of Saxon (1904-18), dies at 66
Feb 27th - William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (b. 1843)
Feb 28th - Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (b. 1851)
Feb 29th - "Big Ed" Morris, pitcher (Boston Red Sox), dies
Mar 1st - Dino Campana, Italian poet (Canti Orfici), dies at 46
Mar 1st - Frank Teschemacher, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1906)
Mar 3rd - Eugene Francis Charles D'albert, composer, dies at 67
Mar 5th - Takuma Dan, Japanese baron/financier/industrial, murdered
Mar 6th - John Philip Sousa, US composer (Stars & Stripes Forever), dies at 77
Mar 7th - Aristide Briand, 11 x premier of France (Nobel 1926), dies at 69
Mar 8th - Jan de Louter, Dutch lawyer/tutor of Queen Wilhelmina, dies at 84
Mar 12th - Ivar Kreuger, "Swedish Match King" industrialist, commits suicide
Mar 14th - George Eastman, US industrialist (Kodak-camera), suicide at 77
Mar 24th - George Robert Canning, cricketer (the 4th Lord Harris), dies
Mar 26th - Jean Cartan, composer, dies at 25
Apr 2nd - Hugo Kaun, composer, dies at 69
Apr 4th - Ottokar T Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Austrian minister, dies at 59
Apr 4th - Wilhelm Ostwald, physical chemist (Nobel 1909), dies
Apr 7th - Erv A Kelley, US policeman, shot to death by Pretty Boy Floyd
Apr 10th - Andre Baillon, Belgian/French author (& sabots), dies at 56
Apr 13th - Johannes T de Visser, 1st Dutch Min of Education, dies at 75 [or 14th]
Apr 19th - Wladyslaw Rzepko, composer, dies at 77
Apr 20th - Giuseppe Peano, mathematician, dies
Apr 26th - Bill Lockwood, cricketer (43 wickets in 12 Tests for England), dies
Apr 27th - Harold "Heart" Crane, US poet (Bridge), commits suicide at 32
Apr 27th - Hart Crane, American writer (b. 1899)
May 1st - Paul Doumer, Pres France (1931-32), assassin by Russia's Paul Gargalov
May 3rd - Anton Wildgans, Austr writer (Dies Irae)/dir Burgtheater, dies at 51
May 7th - Albert Thomas, French social minister of Weapon production, dies
May 8th - Albert Thomas, French socialist politician
May 12th - Lindbergh baby, found dead
May 15th - Ki Inukai, premier Japan (1931-32), murdered
May 16th - Ki Imukai, premier of Japan (1931-32), murdered
May 16th - William Pember Reeves, politician/poet, dies
May 22nd - Lady Augusta, [Isabella Gregory], playwright (Gold Apple), dies at 80
Jun 5th - Henry Taberer, cricket (bowl Trumper only Test wkt for S Africa), dies
Jun 7th - Emil Pauer, composer, dies at 76
Jun 9th - Natalia Janotha, composer, dies at 76
Jun 12th - René de Clerq, Flemish poet/writer (Book of Love), dies
Jun 12th - Theodorus Heemskerk, lawyer/Dutch sec of state (1866..88), dies at 79
Jun 14th - Dorimène Roy Desjardins, Canadian business pioneer
Jun 16th - Frederik W Van Oaths, psychiatrist/writer (Blades of Grass), dies
Jun 19th - Solomon Tshkisho Platje, South African writer, dies
Jun 22nd - Tommy Treichel, American professional wrestler (b. 1892)
Jul 2nd - Manoel II, last king of Portugal (1908-10), dies at 43
Jul 2nd - Manuel II of Portugal (b. 1889)
Jul 5th - Sasha Cherny, Russian poet (b. 1880)
Jul 6th - Kenneth Grahame, English author (b. 1859)
Jul 7th - Alexander Grin, Russian novelist (b. 1880)
Jul 7th - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1844)
Jul 8th - Florenz Ziegfeld, US theatre producer (Ziegfeld Follies), dies
Jul 9th - Henry Howell, English cricket fast bowler (5 Tests 1920-24), dies
Jul 9th - King C. Gillette, American inventor (b. 1885)
Jul 20th - René Bazin, French novelist (b. 1853)
Jul 21st - Bill Gleason, late 19th century baseball player
Jul 22nd - Roosje Vos, Dutch trade union leader, dies at 71
Jul 22nd - Roses Fox, Trade union leader, dies at 71
Jul 22nd - Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist (b. 1853)
Jul 22nd - Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor and radio pioneer (b. 1866)
Jul 23rd - Tenby Davies, Welsh half-mile world champion runner (b. 1884)
Jul 25th - Cyriel Buysse, Flemish baron/writer (It Bolleken), dies [or 1936]
Jul 31st - Francesco Paolo Neglia, composer, dies at 58
Aug 1st - Arnold Fothergill, cricketer (8 wickets in 2 Tests for Eng 1889), dies
Aug 2nd - Gheorghe Cucu, composer, dies at 50
Aug 5th - Israel Querido, writer (Jordan), dies
Aug 10th - Slang, writer, dies
Aug 10th - Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (b. 1918)
Aug 14th - Rin Tin Tin, US Hollywood-dog, dies
Aug 20th - Emille-Louis-Victor Mathieu, composer, dies at 87
Aug 20th - Paul Keller, German writer (Vergrabenes Gut), dies at 59
Aug 20th - Tadeusz Joteyko, composer, dies at 60
Aug 21st - Frederick Corder, composer, dies at 80
Aug 30th - Willem M van Rossum, cardinal/prefect of Propaganda Fide, dies at 77
Sep 5th - Paul Bern, husband of Jean Harlow, dies
Sep 5th - Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist (b. 1866)
Sep 10th - Percy Fletcher, composer, dies at 52
Sep 11th - Franciszek Zwirko and Stanislaw Wigura, Polish pilots (Żwirko b. 1895 Wigura b. 1901)
Sep 13th - Julius Rontgen, composer, dies at 77
Sep 13th - Paul Gorguloff, murderer of French pres Doumer, beheaded
Sep 14th - Jean Emile Paul Cras, composer, dies at 53
Sep 15th - Charles Hutchison Gabriel, composer, dies at 76
Sep 16th - Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)
Sep 20th - Max Slevogt, German painter, dies at 63