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Historical Events

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338 BC - A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
216 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae - The Carthaginian army lead by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.
257 - St Stephen I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1057 - Frederik van Lotharingen elected as 1st Belgium, Pope Stephen IX [X]
1492 - Jews are expelled from Spain by King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella
1542 - French troops leave Flanders
1552 - Treaty of Passau: Emperor Charles V accepts Lutheran religion
1578 - Battle of Rijmenam
1581 - Leiden University names Snellius math professor
1610 - Henry Hudson enters bay later named after him, the Hudson Bay
1665 - French expedition against Barbarians in Tunis/Algiers
1704 - Duke of Marlborough beats French & Bavarians at Blenheim
1718 - Austrian joins Triple Alliance
1738 - France offers emperor Karel VI mediation in war against Turkey
1776 - Formal signing of Declaration of Independence
1782 - George Washington creates Honorary Badge of Distinction
1786 - Utrechtse Vroedschap flees
1787 - Horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc
1790 - The first US Census is conducted.
1791 - Samuel Briggs & his son, patent nail-making machine
1798 - British under Adm Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile
1802 - Napoleon declared "Counsel for Life"
1819 - 1st parachute jump in US
1831 - Ten day campaign begins, Dutch army occupies Belgium
1832 - 1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sac & Fox indians, end Black Hawk War
1832 - Black Hawk defeated (IA)
1832 - Whites decimate Indians in Battle of Bad Axe River, Wisc
1858 - 1st mailboxes installed in Boston & NYC streets
1858 - Govt of India transferred from East India Company to Crown
1861 - Skirmish at Dug Springs, MI
1864 - 2nd Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens
1865 - Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
1865 - Trans Atlantic Cable being laid by SS Great Eastern snaps & is lost
1870 - Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.
1873 - 1st trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones
1875 - 1st roller skating rink opens (London)
1877 - SF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes
1884 - Dutch Queen Emma appointed regent
1887 - Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire
1892 - Charles A Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator
1894 - Death duties 1st introduced in Britain
1894 - Dutch Society for Women Suffrage gets royal charter
1903 - Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey
1906 - Chicago White Sox begin AL record 19 game win streak
1907 - Walter Johnson, 19, debuts with Washington & loses 3-2 to Detroit
1909 - 1st Lincoln head pennies minted
1909 - Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers
1911 - Haiti's dictator Simon flees on US warship near Jamaica
1912 - 18th US Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 294 at CC of Buffalo NY
1914 - Belgian govt receives German ultimatum
1914 - German press falsely reports that French bombed Nuremberg
1914 - German troops overthrows Luxembourg
1914 - Germany & Turkey signs secret treaty
1914 - Great Britain mobilizes
1914 - Postdam Conference ended
1914 - Russian troops invade Eastern Prussia
1914 - Sherlock Holmes Adventure "His Last Bow" takes place
1916 - World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
1918 - Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
1920 - Marcus Garvey presents his "Back To Africa" program in NYC
1921 - Chicago jury brings in not guilty verdict against the Black Sox
1922 - China, hit by a typhoon; about 60,000 die
1924 - Joe Hauser sets record of 14 total bases in a game
1928 - Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1929 - Phillies Don Hurst sets NL record of 6 consecutive games with a HR
1931 - Spanish Catalonia agrees (99+%) for autonomous status
1932 - Charlie Grimm replaces Roger Hornsby as manager of Chic Cubs
1932 - The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
1934 - 1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it
1934 - Adolph Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of Germany
1934 - William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in 1 hour
1937 - The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, essentially rendering marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
1938 - 1st test of a yellow baseball (Dodgers vs Cardinals)
1939 - Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers
1940 - Clermont-Ferrand sentences Gen Charles de Gaulle to death
1940 - KL-House of saxon & commandos focus on Gross Rosen, Silesia
1941 - German 11st Army surrounds 20 Russian divisions at Oeman
1941 - Hungarian Ruthenia, expels Jews
1941 - Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia
1942 - 250 Dutch Catholic Jews arrested, transported to Amersfoort camp
1942 - Col-Gen Hoth' Pantser army reaches Kotelnikovo
1943 - Armed revolt breaks out in Treblinka
1943 - Lt John F Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands
1943 - RAF bombs Hamburg
1943 - Sunderland seaplanes sinks U-706 & U-106
1943 - Uprising at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed)
1944 - Amsterdam soccer team "The Volewijckers" plays in orange shirts
1944 - Jewish survivors of Kovono Ghetto emerge from their bunker
1944 - Turkey breaks diplomatic relationship with nazi-Germany
1945 - Potsdam Conference ended, with Stalin, Truman & Churchill
1953 - Betty Jack Davis, singer (w/Skeeter Davis), killed in car crash
1953 - KCPQ TV channel 13 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins broadcasting
1954 - Tahar Ben Ammar appointed premier of Tunisia
1955 - USSR performs nuclear test
1958 - Jordan & Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months
1959 - 41st PGA Championship: Bob Rosburg shoots a 277 at Minneapolis GC
1959 - Milwaukee Brave Bill Bruton hits 2 bases loaded triples
1959 - SF Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits 1st of his 521 HRs
1961 - Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club
1961 - Cyrille Adula becomes premier of Congo

Famous Birthdays

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1455 - Johan Cicero, elect of Brandenburg (1486-99)
1533 - Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588)
1627 - Samuel Dircksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter
1632 - Kaspar von Stieler, German poet (Teutsche Wolredner)
1672 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733)
1674 - Philip II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (d. 1723)
1696 - Mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman (Turkey) (1730-54)/fought Austria & Russia
1703 - Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (d. 1775)
1723 - Nicolas de Pigage, French classical architect
1746 - Joan Lucaz, Dutch journalist/patriot
1754 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, France, architect laid out Wash DC
1775 - Jose Angel Lamas, composer
1788 - Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1853)
1802 - Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman, 1st archbishop of Westminster
1815 - Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German writer (d. 1894)
1818 - [Willem] Alexander FCNM, prince of the Netherlands/general-major
1826 - William Denison Whipple, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1902
1828 - Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Spanish general (d. 1895)
1832 - Henry Steel Olcott, co-founder (Theosophical Society)
1834 - Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, Colmar France, sculptor (Statue of Liberty)
1834 - Isaac Capadose, lawyer/evangelist
1835 - Elisha Grey, inventor (Telephone)
1854 - Francis Marion Crawford, British author
1858 - A Emma WT von Waldeck-Pyrmont, queen/regent of Netherlands
1858 - Catherina van Rennes, composer
1858 - William Watson, British poet (Prince's Quest, Father of Forest)
1865 - Irving Babbitt, US writer (Rousseau & Romanticism)
1865 - John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (d. 1955)
1867 - Ernest C Dowson, British poet
1868 - Constantine I, king of Greece
1871 - John French Sloan, American artist (d. 1951)
1872 - George E. Stewart, American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1946)
1875 - Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian artist (d. 1957)
1878 - Aino J M Kallas, Finnish writer (White Ship, Estonian Tales)
1878 - Princess Ingeborg, of Sweden
1881 - Ethel Mary Dell, English author (Storm Drift)
1881 - Stanislaw Kazuro, composer
1882 - Johannes Tralow, writer
1882 - Nanny I Larsen-Todsen, Swedish opera singer
1882 - Rik Wouters, Belgian painter/sculptor (Virgin Doll)
1882 - Red Ames, baseball player (d. 1936)
1884 - Rómulo Gallegos, President of Venezuela (d. 1969)
1886 - John Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian Aviator ( d. 1961)
1887 - Tommy Ward, Former South African cricketer (d. 1936)
1888 - Oscar Rasbach, composer
1890 - Pauline Hall, composer
1890 - Marin Sais, American actress (d. 1971)
1891 - Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, London, composer (Olympians)
1891 - Mihail Jora, composer
1891 - Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian, linguist (d. 1971)
1892 - Jack Warner, US movie studio head (Warner Bros)
1892 - John Kieran, NYC, columnist/author (Natural History of NYC)
1895 - Matthew Henderson, cricketer (lefty pace bowler in NZ's 1st Test)
1896 - Lorenzo Herrera, Venezuelan singer and composer (d. 1960)
1897 - Karl Otto Koch, German SS-officer (d. 1945)
1897 - Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1974)
1899 - Charles Bennett, screenwriter
1899 - George Malcolm Thomson, journalist
1900 - Helen Morgan, [Riggins], US, singer/actress (Applause)
1900 - Marinus Adam, Dutch conductor/composer
1902 - Helen Morgan, American actress (d. 1941)
1905 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer
1905 - Myrna Loy, Helena Mont, actress (Jazz Singer, Thin Man, Vanity Fair)
1906 - Albert Goodwin, historian
1907 - Mary Hamman, American writer (d. 1984)
1908 - George Kimble, geographer
1909 - Lord Benson, accountant
1910 - Gertruida EW "Truss" van Aalten, actress (Girl in Blue Hat)
1910 - Lawrence Josset, engraver
1910 - Lou Zara, NYC, writer (Stump the Authors)
1910 - Roger MacDougall, writer (d. 1993)
1912 - Ann Dvorak, [McKim], NYC, actress (G Men, Life of Her Own, Scarface)
1912 - Bela Szigeti, theoretical physicist
1912 - George Kimble, geographer
1912 - Vladimir Zerjavic, Croatian statistician (d. 2001)
1913 - Lord Benson, accountant
1914 - Felix Leclerc, composer
1914 - Gary Merrill, Hartford Conn, actor (Young Dr Kildare, All About Eve)
1914 - Ismond Rosen, psychoanalyst/artist
1914 - Beatrice Straight, American actress (d. 2001)
1915 - Johan Limpers, sculptor/resistance fighter
1916 - Beatrice Straight, Old Westbury NY, actress (Poltergeist, Nun's Story)
1916 - Reginald Murley, surgeon
1919 - John Pinkerton, compuer scientist
1920 - Louis Pauwels, writer/editor
1920 - Phyllis James, mystery writer
1920 - Theo Marcuse, WA, actor (Mara of Wilderness)
1922 - Carroll O'Connor, NYC, actor (All in the Family, Heat of the Night)
1922 - Lord Murray of Epping Forest, general secretary (TUC)
1922 - Paul Laxalt, (Sen-R-NV, 1974- )
1923 - Brian Neill, Lord Justice of Appeal
1924 - James Baldwin, NY, author (Go Tell it on Mountain, Another Country)
1924 - Joe Harnell, American musician, composer and arranger (d. 2005)
1925 - Alan Wicker, British broadcaster
1925 - John McCormack, Canadian ice hockey player
1925 - Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentinian dictator
1926 - Betsy Bloomingdale, dept store mogul
1926 - Lord Murray of Epping Forest, general secretary (TUC)
1927 - Brian Neill, British Lord Justice of Appeal
1927 - Peter Swinnereton-Dyer, mathematician

Famous Deaths

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257 - Stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57)/heretic fighter, dies
640 - Severinus, Italian Pope (640), dies
686 - John V, 1st Greeks-Syrian Pope (685-86), dies
686 - Pope John V
924 - Ælfweard of Wessex
1002 - Abu Amir Mohammed ibn Abd allah ibn Mohammed ibn Abi Amir, dies at 64
1075 - John VIII Xiphilinus, theologian/patriarch of Constantinople, dies
1100 - William II, [Rufus], king of England, shot in New Forest at 44
1222 - Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156)
1511 - Andrew Barton, Scottish naval leader
1512 - Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher, dies at 48
1589 - Henry III, king of Poland/France (1573-89), assassinated at 37
1600 - Arent van Dorp, Dutch governor of East-Zealand, dies at about 70
1611 - Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1562)
1649 - Elisabeth Bas, wife of Dutch Adm Swartenhondt, dies at about 78
1655 - Alfonso de la Cueva, Spanish marquis of Bedmar/diplomat, dies at 83
1696 - Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, Scottish military commander (b. 1630)
1769 - Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician (b. 1689)
1776 - Louis François I, Prince of Conti, French military leader (b. 1717)
1788 - Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (Blue Boy), dies at 61
1792 - Nathanael Gottfried Gruner, composer, dies at 60
1799 - Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, balloonist, dies at 54
1811 - William Williams, US merchant/signer (Decl of Indep), dies at 80
1815 - Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French marshal (b. 1763)
1823 - Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (b. 1753)
1827 - James Hewitt, composer, dies at 57
1849 - Mehemet Ali, British viceroy to Egypt, dies
1849 - Governor Muhammad Ali of Egypt (b. 1769)
1858 - A Emma WT von Waldeck-Pyrmont, queen/regent, dies at 76
1859 - Horace Mann, American educator and abolitionist (b. 1796)
1869 - Alexandrine Tinne, Dutch explorer/photographer, murdered at 30+
1872 - Judocus Smits, Dutch RC newspaper publisher (De Tijd), dies at 59
1873 - Frank Mori, composer, dies at 53
1876 - Wild Bill Hickok, shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces & a pair of 8's
1881 - Marcus Andrews Hislop Clarke, author (His Natural Life) at 35
1889 - Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian author (b. 1851)
1903 - Martha Jane Cannary, [Calamity Jane], US desperado, dies
1903 - Edmond Nocard, French veterinarian (b. 1850)
1914 - Gabriel Edouard Xavier Dupont, composer, dies at 36
1916 - Hamish MacCunn, composer, dies at 48
1920 - Ormer Locklear, American stunt pilot (b. 1891)
1921 - Enrico Caruso, Italian opera singer, dies at 48
1922 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish/US physicist (telephone), dies
1922 - [Wilhel]Mina JPR Kruseman, Dutch author/feminist, dies at 82
1923 - Warren Harding, 29th Pres (1921-23), dies at Palace Hotel SF at 57
1929 - Mae Costello, American actress (b. 1882)
1932 - Gheorghe Cucu, composer, dies at 50
1934 - Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Hindenburg, soldier/statesman, dies at 86
1938 - Bjarni Thorsteinsson, composer, dies at 76
1939 - Harvey Spencer Lewis, American Rosicrucian mystic (b. 1883)
1941 - Jose Juan Tablada, Mexican poet (La Feria), dies at 70
1942 - Friedrich Aereboe, Dutch landlord, dies at 77
1945 - Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, composer (Donna Diana), dies at 85
1945 - Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (Cavalleria Rusticana), dies at 81
1954 - Rene Amengual, composer, dies at 42
1955 - Ruprecht, crown prince of Bayern/general-fieldmarshal, dies
1955 - Wallace Stevens, US poet/writer (Owl's Clover), dies at 75
1955 - Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1901)
1956 - Albert Woolson, last veteran US Union army, dies at 109
1958 - Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80
1959 - Prospero Bisquertt, composer, dies at 78
1961 - Giovanni B Angioletti, Italian writer (I grandi ospiti), dies at 64
1963 - Oliver Hazzard Perry La Farge, US anthropologist/writer, dies at 61
1964 - Jack Kirkwood, actor (Fibber McGee & Molly), dies at 69
1964 - Jose Maria Castro, composer, dies at 71
1965 - Milton B Babbitt, US composer (Widow's Lament), dies at 49
1967 - Claude A Barnett, founder (Associated Negro Press), dies at 77
1969 - Clarence Dickinson, composer, dies at 96
1971 - Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher, dies at 77
1972 - Brian Cole, vocalist/bassist (Association), dies of overdose at 29
1972 - Paul Goodman, US social critic/writer, dies at 60
1972 - Rudolf Ganz, composer, dies at 95
1972 - Helen Hoyt, American poet (b. 1887)
1973 - Jean-Pierre Melville, director (Bob Le Flambeur), dies at 57
1974 - W. Douglas Hawkes, British racing driver (b. 1893)
1976 - Fritz Lang, director (Cloak & Dagger, Metropolis), dies at 85
1978 - Carlos Chavez y Ramires, Mexican composer, dies at 79
1978 - Satomi Myodo, Zen nun/attendant of Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, dies at 82
1978 - Totie Fields, [Sophie Feldman], comedienne, dies at about 48
1979 - Thurmon Munson, NY Yankee, killed in a plane crash at Akron Oh at 32
1980 - Verdun John Scott, cricketer (ten Tests for NZ), dies
1982 - Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Separate Tables), dies at 93
1982 - Rudolf Maros, composer, dies at 65
1985 - Frank Faylen, vaudevillian, dies of pneumonia at 79
1985 - Sandy Bell, South African cricket pace bowler (16 Tests), dies
1986 - Roy Marcus Cohn, US lawyer (Joseph McCarthy), dies
1986 - Roy Cohn, American politician (b. 1927)
1987 - Myron Stout, US abstract artist, dies at 79
1988 - Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50
1988 - Roger Vuataz, composer, dies at 90
1988 - Joe Carcione, American consumer advocate (b. 1914)
1990 - Norman Mclean, American writer (b. 1902)
1990 - Edwin Richfield, British actor (b. 1921)
1991 - Gabriel Cohen, son of Meredith Viera & Richard Cohen
1991 - Helen Page Camp
1992 - Ephraim Katz, Israeli/US encyclopedist (film encyclopedia), dies
1992 - Jim Whaley, TV host (Cinema Showcase), dies of heart attack at 44
1992 - Julio C Fernandez, Cuban/US journalist (founder Alma Mater), dies
1992 - Michel Berges, French composer, dies of a heart attack at 44
1994 - Bhagwatpersad Ausan, commandant Suriname military police, dies at 38