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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 151

959 - Erachus becomes bishop of Luik
1192 - Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: July 12, 1192)
1321 - 160 Jews of Chincon France, burned at stake
1560 - Tycho Brahe becomes interested in astronomy
1598 - -22] Deed of Transfers proclaims Netherlands independence
1673 - Sea battle at Kijkduin: De Ruyter defeats English & French fleet
1680 - Pueblo Indians takes possession of Santa Fé from Spanish
1689 - The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland.
1703 - Turkish army removes sultan Mustafa II
1718 - Emperor Karel VI, Turkey & Venice sign peace treaty
1760 - The church (later cathedral) of "Our Lady of Candlemas of Mayagüez (Puerto Rico)" is founded, establishing the basis for the founding of the city.
1772 - King Gustav III completes his coup d'etat by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing himself as an enlightened despot.
1808 - Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.
1810 - Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.
1821 - Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances.
1831 - Nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia)
1841 - John Hampton patents venetian blind
1842 - The city of Hobart, Tasmania, is founded.
1852 - Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.
1856 - America's first consul to Japan, Townsend Harris, arrives in Shimoda. (Traditional Japanese date: July 21, 1856)
1858 - 1st Lincoln-Douglas debate (Illinois)
1862 - The Vienna Stadtpark opens its gates.
1863 - Raid at Lawrence KS by William Quantrill
1864 - BBT Charleston, SC [->DEC 31]
1864 - Battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia, ends after 2500 casualties
1864 - Battle of Grubbs Crossroads, KY
1864 - Battle of Summit Point, VA
1864 - Gen-major Nathan B Forrests assault on Memphis, Tennessee
1878 - American Bar Association organizes at Sarasota, NY
1878 - Edward Pooley completes record 8 stumpings in a cricket match
1879 - The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears to the people of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.
1883 - Providence shuts out Phillies 28-0
1887 - Mighty (Dan) Casey struck-out in a game with NY Giants!
1888 - William Seward Burroughs patents adding machine
1891 - Dutch Mackay govt resigns
1897 - Oldsmobile begins operation as a General Motors Corp division
1901 - 21st US Mens Tennis: William Larned beats Beals C Wright (62 68 64 64)
1901 - Joe McGinnity, suspended from NL for punching & spitting on an ump
1912 - Mr Carter-Cotton chosen 1st chancellor of Univ of British Columbia
1914 - 20th US Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 290 at Midlothian CC Ill
1914 - Belgium: German troops occupy Tamines
1914 - French offensive in the Ardennen/Sambre
1915 - Italy declares war on Turkey in World War One
1920 - 3rd PGA Championship: Jock Hutchison at Flossmoor CC Flossmoor Ill
1922 - Curly Lambeau & Green Bay Football Club granted NFL franchise
1925 - BV Emmen soccer team forms
1926 - -22] Uprising against Greek president/dictator Pangalos
1926 - White Sox Ted Lyons no hits Red Sox 6-0 in just 67 minutes at Fenway
1927 - 4th Pan-African Congress meets (NYC)
1929 - Chicago Cardinals become 1st pro football team to train out of town
1930 - Prohibition of Wieringermeer finished
1931 - Babe Ruth hits his 600th HR, off George Blaeholder of Browns
1932 - Wes Ferrell is 1st to win 20 games in each of his 1st 4 seasons
1933 - Ruth's homer leads AL to a 4-2 win in 1st All Star Game
1936 - Red Sox Wes Ferrell, walks off mound when he feels he did no get good feilding, Sox suspend him
1938 - Italy bars all Jewish teachers in Public & High School
1942 - Alpine hunters plant German flag on Elbroezgebergte, Kaukasus
1942 - Transport nr 22 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1942 - World War II: a Nazi flag is installed atop the Mount Elbrus.
1943 - Gromyko named USSR-ambassador in Washington
1943 - Japan leaves Aleutian Islands
1944 - Germans storm up Hill 262 (Mont Ormel) Normandy
1944 - Grieg/Work/Forest's musical "Song of Norway," premieres in NYC
1944 - Raid on Jewish childrens house in Secrétan/St-Mandé
1944 - US 12nd Army corp occupies Sens
1945 - Pres Truman ends Lend-Lease program
1947 - 1st Little League World Series Maynard Midgets of Williamsport PA win
1948 - Indians 47-inning scoreless streak broken by White Sox Aaron Robinson
1949 - Phila fans cause A's to forfeit game when they riot over a trapped line drive by Rich Ashburn, Giants leading 4-2 in 9th declared winners
1953 - Baseball player reps Ralph Kiner (NL) & Allie Reynolds (AL) hire John Norman Lewis at $15,000 to give legal advice to players in negotiation
1953 - Marion Carl in Douglas Skyrocket reaches record 25,370 m
1953 - Sultan Sidi Mohammed Am Joessoef V of Morocco deposed
1956 - WTVW TV channel 7 in Evansville, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 - 1st launching in Baikonur, Kazachstan (R7 "Semiorka"-rocket)
1958 - KUT-FM in Austin Texas begins radio transmissions
1959 - Hawaii becomes 50th US state
1961 - Jomo Kenyatta freed in Kenya
1962 - Verne Gagne beats Mister M (doctor X) in Minn, to become NWA champ
1963 - Jerry Lynch's record 15th pinch-hit HR gives Pirates a 7-6 win
1963 - Martial law declared in S Vietnam, following raids on Buddhist pagodas
1965 - Gemini 5 launched into Earth orbit (2 astronauts)
1965 - Romania adopts constitution
1965 - The Crusher beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champ
1966 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open
1967 - China reports downing of 2 US bombers
1967 - Ken Harrelson becomes baseball's 1st free agent
1967 - Liquid gas tanker explodes in Martelange Belgium, 22 killed
1967 - Mikis Theodorakis arrested in Greece
1968 - After 5 years Russia once again jams Voice of America radio
1968 - Democratic Convention opens in Chicago
1968 - Marine James Anderson Jr is 1st black Medal of Honor winner
1968 - Radio Prague (Czech) at 12:50 AM announces a soviet led invasion
1968 - Warsaw Pact forces enter Czechoslovakia to end reform movement
1968 - William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight)
1969 - Fire in Al-Aksa-mosque in Jerusalem
1972 - 1st hot air balloon flight over Alps
1972 - British harbor strike ends
1972 - Grace Slick maced by police when a band official called cops, pigs
1972 - Republican convention opens in Miami Beach
1972 - US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus launched

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 210

1165 - Philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223)
1535 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)
1567 - Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint
1597 - Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)
1642 - Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer
1643 - Afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill)
1660 - Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building
1665 - Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)
1670 - James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French military leader (d. 1734)
1689 - Jose Pradas Gallen, composer
1721 - Lucretia W van Winter-van Merken, Dutch poet
1725 - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter
1751 - Johann Georg Witthauer, composer
1754 - William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (d. 1839)
1754 - Banastre Tarleton, British soldier and politician (d. 1833)
1765 - William IV, king of England (1830-37)
1765 - William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837)
1780 - Jernej Kopitar, Slovenian censor (Slovenian Grammar)
1789 - Augustin-Louis, Baron Cauchy, French mathematician
1798 - Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France, L'Amour)
1800 - Hiram Walden, American politician (d. 1880)
1801 - Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, WW II Dutch statesman/historian
1806 - Johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer
1809 - Francesco Schira, composer
1810 - Thomas Jefferson McKean, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1813 - Jean Stas, Belgian chemist (d. 1891)
1816 - Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist (d. 1856)
1821 - William Barksdale, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1824 - John Sanford Mason, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1825 - Kate Fanny Loder, composer
1826 - Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist (d. 1903)
1829 - Otto Goldschmidt, composer
1847 - Arthur T Verhaegen, Belgian worker's union leader
1852 - Benedetto Junck, composer
1871 - Leonid N Andrejev, Russian journalist/writer (Red Laugh)
1872 - Aubrey Beardsley, England, artist (Salome)
1874 - Herman A van Karnebeek, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs (1918-27)
1875 - Maurice Lippens, Belgian earl/minister/governor of Congo
1879 - Henry Ainley, Leeds England, actor (As You Like It)
1880 - Johan H Westerveld, Dutch WW II resistance fighter/leader (OD)
1891 - Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World's oldest living man 2004-2007 (d. 2007)
1892 - Charles Vanel, Rennes France, actor (Wages of Fear)
1893 - Juliette Marie Olga Lili Boulanger, composer
1893 - Lili Boulanger, composer
1896 - Blossom Rock, actress, (Grandmamma-Addams Family)
1896 - Raymond Herreman, Flemish writer (Rose of Jericho)
1896 - Roark Bradford, writer/humorist (Ol' Man Adan an' His Chillun)
1900 - Eileen Percy, Belfast Ireland, silent film actress (Let's Go)
1902 - Renato Fasano, composer
1903 - Yannis Constantinidis, composer
1904 - [William] Count Basie, Red Bank NJ, jazz musician (Blazing Saddles)
1905 - Isadore I Friz Freleng, KC MO, animator (Warner Bros cartoons)
1906 - Joachim Homs, composer
1906 - Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, advertising magnate
1907 - Miguel Torga, [Adolfo Correia da Rocha], Portuguese author
1907 - Roy K Marshall, Glen Carbon Ill, TV scientist (Nature of Things)
1908 - David Farrar, Forest Gate England, actor (Beat Girl, I Accuse)
1908 - M. M. Kaye, British writer (d. 2004)
1908 - Oversight (nom de plume), American philosopher
1909 - C Dillon Douglas, Geneva Switz, US Secretary of Treasury (1961-65)
1909 - Jon William Jr Haussermann, composer
1909 - Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician (d. 1992)
1912 - Bruce Trent, singer
1912 - Toe Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1995)
1913 - Cornelius Johnson, LA Calif, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1936)
1913 - Diana Churchill, actress (Spider, Sally Bishop, Housemaster)
1913 - Victor Rosow, writer
1914 - Dallas Pratt, collector
1914 - Doug Wright, cricketer (England's leg-spinning genius of 30's & 40's)
1915 - Jack Weston, [Morris Weinstein], Cleveland, actor (4 Seasons, Rad)
1915 - Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (d. 1998)
1916 - William John Raff Hooper, cartoonist
1918 - Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
1920 - Christopher R Milne, son of Alan A Milne (Winnie the Pooh)
1923 - Chris Schenkel, Biuppus Ind, sportscaster (Monday Night Fights)
1924 - Gerald D Lascelles, son of English princess Mary
1924 - Jack Buck, American sports announcer (d. 2002)
1924 - Jack Weston, American actor (d. 1996)
1925 - Judy Grable, American professional wrestler (d. 2008)
1925 - Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (d. 2003)
1925 - Jorge Rafael Videla, ex-dictator of Argentina
1926 - Ben-Zion Orgad, composer
1927 - Wilhelm Jr Killmayer, composer
1927 - Thomas S. Monson, 16th president of the (Mormon) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1928 - Gillian Sheen, England, foils (Olympic-gold-1956)
1928 - Zdenek Lukas, composer
1928 - Art Farmer, American trumpet player (d. 1999)
1929 - Ahmed "Kathy" Kathrada, leader of S Afr Communist Party
1929 - X. J. Kennedy, American poet
1930 - Frank Perry, film director
1930 - Margaret Rose, princess of Engl (Sister of Queen Elizabeth) [or 4/21]
1931 - Gregg Smith, composer
1931 - Nancy Hadley, LA Calif, actress (Love That Jill, Joey Bishop Show)
1932 - Melvin Van Peebles, Chicago IL, actor/director (Sophisticated Gent)
1933 - Janet Baker, York England, mezzo-soprano (Owen Wingrave)
1934 - Paul Panhuysen, Dutch composer, visual and sound artist
1935 - Ken Taylor, cricketer (England opening batsman three times 1959-64)
1936 - Mart Crowley, playwright (Boys in the Band)
1936 - Wilt Chamberlain, NBA great center (LA Laker, 5 time MVP)
1936 - Radish Tordia, painter of Figurative Art from Georgia

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 105

1131 - Boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies
1157 - King Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105)
1190 - Godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies
1245 - Alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies
1271 - Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)
1516 - John III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland, dies at 78
1581 - Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)
1614 - Elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)
1627 - Jacques Mauduit, composer, dies at 69
1629 - Camillo Procaccini, Italian painter/etcher, dies
1673 - Isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist, dies at 51
1673 - John de Love I, vice-admiral, dies in sea battle at about 54
1689 - William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier
1723 - Dimitrie Cantemir, philosopher/monarch of Moldova 1710-11, dies at 49
1762 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)
1763 - Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)
1772 - Alessandro Felici, composer, dies at 29
1772 - Johann Andreas Joseph Giulini, composer, dies at 48
1785 - Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies
1796 - John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721)
1798 - Corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62
1812 - Silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67
1814 - Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753)
1824 - John Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70
1824 - Santiago Ferrer, composer, dies at 62
1836 - Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785)
1838 - A v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57
1856 - Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64
1864 - John Calhoun Sanders, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 24
1870 - Ma Xinyi Viceroy of Liangjiang of the late Qing Dynasty in China,(b. 1821)
1888 - Simon Vissering, Dutch minister of Finance (1879-81), dies at 70
1898 - Nicola van Westerhout, composer, dies at 40
1905 - Jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80
1911 - W R Wister, cricketer (USA v Canada 1859), dies
1932 - Frederick Corder, composer, dies at 80
1935 - Josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76
1935 - John Hartley, English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (b. 1849)
1940 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62
1940 - Paul Juon, Russian/Swiss violinist/composer, dies at 68
1940 - Ernest Lawrence Thayer, American poet (b. 1863)
1940 - Hermann Obrecht, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1882)
1942 - Kiyoano Ichiki, Japanese colonel (WW II), dies
1943 - Henrik Pontoppidan, writer (Peter Gelukkige, Nobel 1917), dies at 86
1947 - Ettore Bugatti, Italian/French car manufacturer, dies
1949 - Gerhard von Keussler, composer, dies at 75
1951 - (Leonard) Constant Lambert, English composer (Rio Grande), dies at 45
1952 - Isaac Sadeh, leader of Jewish commando forces, dies
1957 - Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888)
1957 - Nels Stewart, professional ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1958 - Stevan Hristic, composer, dies at 73
1958 - Walter Schumann, choral director (Ford Show), dies at 44
1960 - David Barnard Steinman, American civil engineer and bridge designer (b. 1886)
1963 - John Gunn, cricketer (England all-rounder in 6 Tests 1901-05), dies
1964 - Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Italian Party)/min of Just, dies
1968 - Vladimir Boudnik, Czech sculptor, commits suicide at about 45
1970 - Timothy Mather Spelman, composer, dies at 79
1971 - George Jackson, US prisoner, shot to death at 29
1976 - Ken James, cricketer (kept wicket for NZ in 11 Tests), dies
1977 - Octavus L "Octave" van Aerschot, actor (Scandal in Paris), dies at 87
1978 - Charles Eames, US chair manufacturer, dies at 71
1978 - Vinoo Mankad, cricketer (44 Tests for India, 2,109 runs), dies
1979 - Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (b. 1910)
1980 - Jack Cheetham, cricketer (15 Tests as S Afr capt, won 7 lost 5), dies
1981 - Hermann Schey, German/Neth singer, dies at 85
1982 - Sobhuza II, king of Swaziland/Ngwane (1921-82), dies
1983 - Benigno S Aquino Jr, Philippines opposition leader, killed at 50
1987 - Karl Bruck, entertainer, dies
1988 - Hans Gunther Adler, German writer, dies at 78
1988 - Ray Eames, American designer, artist and architect (b. 1912)
1989 - Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
1990 - George Adamson, British conservationist (Born Free), murdered in Kenya
1991 - Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 101
1991 - Richard Wilson, producer/writer/actor (Pay or Die), dies at 75
1991 - Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German/Swiss architect, dies
1992 - Lucille Brown, actress (Farina-Our Gang), dies after illness at 74
1992 - Theo van Tijn, Marxist/social-historian, dies at 65
1992 - Dai Vernon, Canadian magician (b. 1894)
1994 - Danitra Vance, comedienne (SNL), dies of breast cancer at 35
1994 - Hein Fentener van Vlissingen, eccentric millionaire, dies at 73
1995 - Anatole Fistoulari, conductor, dies at 88
1995 - Hilda Beatritz Guevara, daughter of Che Guevara, dies at 39
1995 - James Truitte, dancer, dies at 72
1995 - Ken Rickards, cricketer (104 runs at 34 66 for WI 1948-52), dies
1995 - Len Martin, sports broadcaster, dies at 76
1995 - Manfred Donike, chemist Drug Test pioneer, dies at 61
1995 - Nanni Loy, film Director, dies at 69
1995 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, physicist (Nobel-1983), dies at 84
1996 - Rosa Joyce Plesters Brommelie, conservation scientist, dies at 69
1996 - Sidney George Gray, company secretary, dies at 82
1997 - Misael Pastrana Borrero, Pres of Colombia (1970-74), dies
1997 - Yuri Nikulin, Russian clown and actor (b. 1921)
2000 - Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
2001 - Calum MacKay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
2003 - Kathy Wilkes, English philosopher and aid worker (b. 1946)
2003 - Wesley Willis, American musician (b. 1963)
2005 - Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1925)
2005 - Robert Moog, American pioneer of electronic music (b. 1934)
2005 - Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (b. 1936)
2005 - Martin Dillon, tenor, American opera singer (b. 1957)
2006 - Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch businessman and philanthropist (b. 1941)