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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 175

257 - St Sixtus II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1125 - Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg elected king of Germany
1146 - European leaders outlaw crossbow intending to ending war for all time
1363 - Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders— Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang—are pitted against each other in what was one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.
1464 - Pietro Barbo elected to succeed Pope Pius II (Paul II)
1481 - 2 Latvian monarchs executed for conspiracy to Polish king Kazimierz IV
1563 - Jewish community of Neutitschlin Moravia expelled
1574 - Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
1590 - Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
1645 - Dutch & Indians sign peace treaty (New Amsterdam (NY))
1673 - Leopold I, Spain, Netherlands & Lutherans form anti-French covenant
1682 - William Penn left England to sail to New World
1721 - Russian/Swedish Peace of Nystad, ends North Sea War
1751 - Georg Friedrich Handel completes oratorio "Jephtha"
1757 - Battle at Gross Jagerndorf: Russian army beats Prussia [OS=Aug 19]
1776 - US army evacuates Long Island/falls back to Manhattan, NYC
1781 - French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in Revolutionary War
1791 - The HMS Pandora sank after running aground on a reef the previous day.
1799 - Bataafse fleet surrender to English
1800 - Gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia
1813 - Battle of Kulm: French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
1831 - Charles Darwin refuses to travel with HMS Beagle
1835 - Melbourne, Australia is founded.
1836 - The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
1843 - 1st blacks participation in natl political convention (Liberty Party)
1850 - Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city
1854 - John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels
1860 - 1st British tram opens (Birkenhead)
1862 - 2nd Battle of Bull Run - Confederates beat Union
1862 - Battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, KY
1862 - Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee
1862 - Battle of Richmond, KY
1873 - Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
1884 - Jack Dempsey wins middleweight title in 1st fight with boxing gloves
1885 - 13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda
1888 - Lord Walsingham kills 1070 grouse in a single day
1893 - 13rd US Mens Tennis: Robert D Wrenn beats Fred H Hovey (64 36 64 64)
1894 - Frederick Lugards expedition to Niger
1895 - Belgium begins compulsory Roman Catholic education
1896 - Eight provinces in the Philippines were declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor General Ramon Blanco. This included the provinces of Batangas, Rizal, Cavite, Nueva Ecija as well as the nearby areas.
1897 - The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
1900 - Last 2000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt South Africa freed
1901 - Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner
1904 - Thomas Hicks wins 3rd Olympics marathon (3:28:53.0) (40 km)
1905 - Pogoro/Ngindo attack Fort Mahenge German East-Africa
1905 - Tiger Ty Cobb makes his debut, doubling off Yank Jack Chesbro
1906 - Hal Chase became 1st Yank to hit 3 triples in a game
1906 - NY Highlander Joe Doyle debuts pitching back-to-back shut-outs
1909 - Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
1910 - Yank Tom Hughes pitches 9 no-hit innings but loses to Cleve 5-0 in 11
1912 - St Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1
1913 - Phillies lead Giants 8-6 in top of 9th, fans in bleachers try to distract Giants, Umpire forefeits game to Giants, later overruled
1914 - 1st German plane bombs above Paris, 2 killed
1914 - Battle at Tannenberg ends in destruction of Russian 2nd Narev army
1916 - Boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St Louis Browns, 4-0
1916 - Paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany
1918 - Czechoslovakia forms independence republic
1918 - Fanya Kaplan shoots at Lenin
1918 - Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia, shot & wounded after speech
1919 - Ernst Toller's "Die Wandlung," premieres in Berlin
1922 - Babe Ruth is thrown out of a game for 5th time in 1922
1925 - 6th Iron pilgrim at Diksmuide Belgium
1926 - Jack Hobbs scores 316* at Lord's (Surrey v Middlesex)
1927 - 41st US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Betty Nuthall (61 64)
1928 - Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India
1932 - Hermann Goering elected chairman (Reichstag)
1933 - Air France forms
1933 - Portuguese dictator Salazar forms secret police (PIDE)
1937 - Joe Louis beats Tommy Farr in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1939 - 6th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: NY Giants 9, All-Stars 0 (81,456)
1939 - General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army
1939 - Isoroku Yamamoto appointed supreme commander of Japanese fleet
1939 - NY Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph)
1939 - Poland mobilizes
1941 - Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WW II
1941 - St Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cin Reds, 2-0
1942 - Nazi-Germany annexes Luxembourg
1944 - 11th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 24, All-Stars 21 (48,769)
1944 - Philip Yordan's "Anna Lucasta," premieres in NYC
1944 - Soviet troops enter Bucharest Romania
1945 - 12th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 19, All-Stars 7 (92,753)
1945 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 9th Symphony
1945 - Gen MacArthur lands in Japan
1945 - Hong Kong liberated from Japan
1949 - Roly Jenkins (Worcs v Surrey) takes his 2nd hat-trick of the game
1949 - WTVN (now WSYX) TV channel 6 in Columbus, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1951 - US & Philippines sign mutual defense pact
1953 - Future NYC mayor David Dinkins marries Joyce Burrows in NYC
1954 - Hurricane Carol, kills 68
1956 - USSR performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests)
1956 - White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas
1956 - Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
1957 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1957 - US senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights
1958 - US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
1960 - Boston 2nd baseman Pete Runnels goes 6-for-7
1960 - East Germany imposes a partial blockade on West Berlin
1961 - 1st Negro judge of a US District Court confirmed-JB Parsons
1961 - J B Parsons is 1st African American judge of a US District Court
1961 - Last Spanish troops leave Morocco

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 204

580 - Mohammed, Arabic prophet/founder (Islam)
1334 - Pedro, the Cruel, King of Castilia & Leon
1334 - Pedro of Castile (d. 1369)
1377 - Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (d. 1447)
1609 - Artus I Quellinus "the Old", Flemish sculptor, baptised
1687 - Francesco Maria Vallara, composer
1693 - Jacobus Nozeman, Dutch composer/organist
1705 - David Hartley, English philosopher (d. 1757)
1720 - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer (d. 1796)
1748 - Jacques-Louis David, France, Neoclassical painter (Death of Marat)
1767 - Christian Frederich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer
1769 - Bonifacio Asioli, composer/music writer
1772 - Henri D Count de Larochejacquelin, French royalist leader
1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, London England, author (Frankenstein)
1804 - Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka) [OS]
1805 - Michael Sars, Norwegian zoologist
1808 - Princess Ludovika of Bavaria (d. 1892)
1809 - Adolf Friedrich Hesse, composer
1811 - Thomas Gautier, writer
1813 - Princess Mathilde of Bavaria d. 1862
1818 - Alexander H. Rice, 30th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
1820 - George Frederick Root, composer
1821 - Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian warrior; Garibaldi's wife (War of Tatters) (d. 1849)
1837 - Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, 1st lady (1881-85)
1839 - Gulstan Ropert, French Catholic prelate (d. 1903)
1842 - Victor Alphonse Duvernoy, composer
1842 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1849)
1844 - Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum)
1848 - Andrew Onderdonk, Canadian railway contractor (d. 1905)
1849 - Joseph Mallaby Dent, Dutch publisher
1852 - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Neth, physical chemist (Nobel 1901)
1856 - Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (d. 1927)
1860 - Isaac Levitan, Russian artist (d. 1900)
1866 - Georges Minne, Flemish sculptor
1870 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia (d. 1891)
1871 - Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist and father of nuclear physics
1871 - Ernest Lord Rutherford, Engld, physicist (atomic nucleus; Nobel 1908)
1878 - Paul Hazard, French literature historian
1882 - Meijer de Hond, Dutch rabbi/writer
1883 - Theo Van Doesburg, [Christian EM Kupper], painter/architect (Style)
1884 - Theodor Svedberg, Sweden, chemist, worked with colloids (Nobel 1926)
1887 - Adam Kuckhoff, writer
1889 - Edward Ciannelli, Ischia Italy, actor (You Can't Escape Forever)
1893 - Huey P Long, Winn Parish La, (gov/sen-D-La)
1896 - Raymond Massey, Toronto Canada, actor (Dr Gillespie-Dr Kildare)
1898 - Shirley Booth, American actress (d. 1992)
1900 - Franklin C Fry, US minister (Lutheran World Relief)
1901 - John C Stennis, (Sen-D-MS, 1947-88)
1901 - John Gunther, Chicago Ill, author/host (John Gunther's High Road)
1901 - Roy Wilkins, civil rights director (NAACP)
1902 - Arnold Maria Walter, composer
1906 - Countess of Longford, biographer/historian
1907 - Fred MacMurray, Kankakee Ill, actor (Caine Mutiny, My 3 Sons)
1907 - Shirley Booth, actress (Hazel)
1908 - Leonor Fini, painter
1908 - Willie Bryant, New Orleans La, singer (Sugar Hill Times)
1909 - Barry Appleby, cartoonist
1909 - [Rose] Joan Blondell, NYC, actress (Real McCoys, Here Come the Brides)
1910 - Donald Bisset, Dutch children book writer/actor (Battle of the Sexes)
1912 - Edward M Purcell, US physicist (Nobel 1952)
1912 - Nancy Wake AC GM, New Zealand-born World War II secret agent
1913 - Allan David, actor/director/producer (Cry of the Children)
1913 - Thomas Torrance, theologist
1914 - Julie Bishop, Denver CO, actress (My Hero, Northern Pursuit, Threat)
1914 - Rafael Jose Luis Fernandez de la Calzada y Ferrer, restaurateur
1915 - Liesbeth Saijers, Dutch sculptor
1915 - Robert Strassburg, American composer (d. 2003)
1916 - John Thoday, geneticist
1916 - Kornelis M R van der Beek, reformed vicar (Arnhem)
1916 - Lord Keith of Castleacre, English banker
1917 - Denis Healey, English politician
1918 - Ted Williams, American baseball player, last player in MLB to bat over .400 in a single season (Red Sox, AL MVP '46, '49; Trip Crown '42, '47)
1918 - Billy Johnson, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1919 - Kitty Wells, Nashville Tn, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
1920 - Ben Cami, Flemish writer/poet (Rose from Mud)
1922 - Regina Resnik, NYC, mezzo-soprano (Sieglinde-Bayreuth)
1922 - Lionel Murphy, Australian politician (d. 1986)
1923 - Elias Victor Seixas, US, mixed double tennis player (Wimbeld 1953-56)
1923 - Gerhard Wimberger, Austria composer (Glove)
1923 - Barbara Mary Ansell, UK founder of paediatric rheumatology (d. 2001)
1923 - Charmian Clift, Australian writer and essayist (d. 1969)
1925 - Julien Schoenaerts, Flemish actor (Daens/Medea)
1925 - Laurent de Brunhoff, French writer and illustrator
1926 - Olgerts Gravitis, composer
1927 - Geoffrey Beene, Louisiana, dress designer (8 Coty Awards)
1927 - Pieter Willem Kee, composer
1928 - Bill Daily, Des Moines Iowa, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Newhart)
1928 - Johnny Mann, Balt Md, music director (Johnny Mann Stand Up & Cheer)
1928 - Ruth Westerheimer, sex therapist (Dr Ruth)
1928 - Lloyd Casner, American racecar driver and owner (d. 1965)
1930 - Noel Harford, cricketer (brother of Roy NZ Test batsman in 1950's)
1930 - Warren Burger, US, author (The Midas Touch)
1930 - Warren Buffett, American entrepreneur
1931 - Carrie Saxon Perry, 1st black mayor of a major US city (Hartford CT)
1931 - John Leonard Swigert Jr, Denver Colorado, astronaut (Apollo 13)
1933 - Arne Mellnas, composer
1934 - B P "Baloo" Gupte, cricketer (brother of Fergie, Indian leggie)
1934 - Eric Schneider, Dutch actor (Drop Out, Family, Flanagan)
1935 - John Phillips, singer/guitarist (Mama & Papas-California Dreaming)
1936 - Fabrizia Ramondino, writer

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 91 of 91

524 - Chlodomer, King of the France to Orleans, dies at about 29
526 - Theodorik the Great, King of Ostrogoten
526 - Theodoric the Great (b. 454)
1181 - Alexander III, [Orlando Bandinelli], Italian Pope (1159-81), dies
1428 - Emperor Shōkō (b. 1401)
1482 - Louis van Bourbon, prince-Bishop of Luik (Cluppelslagers), dies
1483 - Louis XI, King of France (1461-83), dies at 60
1529 - Juan del Encina, composer, dies at 61
1580 - Emanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy/governor of Netherlands, dies
1617 - Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (b. 1586)
1619 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
1666 - Benedictus Carpzovius, [Benedikt Carpzov], German lawyer, dies
1723 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch tradesman and scientist (b. 1632)
1745 - Jean-Baptiste Maurice Quinault, composer, dies at 57
1751 - Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (b. 1661)
1808 - Joseph Anton Bauer, composer, dies at 83
1809 - Ignacy Potocki, Polish Foreign Minister (constitution), dies
1826 - Theodor Zwetler, composer, dies at 67
1844 - Francis Baily, English astronomer/mathematician (Baily's Beads), dies
1856 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (b. 1811)
1879 - John B Hood, confederate general (lost Atlanta), dies at 48
1886 - Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American politician (b. 1836)
1896 - Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian statesman (b. 1824)
1903 - Vincente F Lopez, historian (Historia the Chile), dies at 87
1904 - Kate Fanny Loder, composer, dies at 79
1906 - Hans Auer, Swiss architect (b. 1847)
1907 - Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
1910 - Albert Vandal, French earl/historian (Napoleon), dies at 57
1914 - Adrian H Stewart, British lieutenant, dies in battle in Cameroon at 26
1914 - Aleksandr Samsonov, Russian general, commits suicide
1917 - Uritsky, leader of Petrogradse Czech, dies
1919 - Johann Sigurjonsson, Icelandic writer (Dr Rung), dies
1928 - Wilhelm Wien, Ger physicist (laws of motion, Nobel 1911), dies at 64
1930 - William H Taft, 27th US President (1909-13), dies
1932 - Willem M van Rossum, cardinal/prefect of Propaganda Fide, dies at 77
1934 - Earnest L Wolzogen, German writer (That tolle Komtess), dies at 79
1935 - Henri Barbusse, French writer (Le feu), dies at 62
1938 - Max Factor, make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer (b. 1877)
1940 - J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
1941 - Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (b. 1874)
1943 - A[braham] [P] Merritt, author (Moon Pool, Creep Shadow!), dies at 58
1944 - Morten Nielsen, Danish resistance fighter, dies
1946 - Grigory Semyonov, Russian counter-revolutionary (executed) (b. 1890)
1949 - Arthur Fielder, England cricket fast bowler (6 Tests 1903-08), dies
1952 - Arky Vaughn, infielder (Pirates & Dodgers), drowns
1953 - Dimiter Nenov, composer, dies at 51
1956 - Jose Antonio de Donostia, composer, dies at 70
1961 - Charles Coburn, actor (Heaven Can Wait, Idiot's Delight), dies at 84
1963 - Axel Stordahl, orch leader (Frank Sinatra Show), dies at 50
1963 - Guy Burgess, English-born Soviet spy (b. 1911)
1964 - Wesley Lau, actor (Lt Anderson-Perry Mason), dies at 43
1968 - William Talman, actor (Hamilton-Perry Mason), dies at 53
1970 - Anna Casati, Italian marchesa, murdered at 41
1970 - Del Moore, actor/announcer (Cal-Bachelor Father), dies at 53
1970 - Del Moore, American comedian (b. 1916)
1974 - Abraham Schierbeek, Dutch biologist (Leeuwenhoek), dies at 87
1981 - Mohammad Ali Rajai, president of Iran, assassinated by a bomb
1981 - Mohammad Javad Bahonar, prime minister of Iran, assassinated by a bomb
1981 - Vera-Ellen, actress (Big Leaguer, On the Town), dies of cancer at 55
1982 - Leo[nhard] Pappenheim, conductor, dies at 86
1985 - Taylor Caldwell, English-born author (b. 1900)
1986 - Otto Mortensen, composer, dies at 79
1989 - Joe De Santis, dies at 80
1989 - Seymour Krim, American journalist, essayist, and literary critic (b. 1922)
1991 - Alan Wheatley
1991 - Hans Koetsier, sculptor artist (KLM-Schiphol), dies
1991 - Jean Tinguely, Swiss sculptor artist (moving objects), dies
1993 - Richard Jordan, US actor (Hunt for Red October, Posse), dies at 55
1994 - Lindsay Anderson, British director/critic (If ...), dies at 71
1994 - Michael Gribble, film animator (Mike & Spike Festival), dies at 42
1995 - Dame Pattie Maie Menzies, Australian, dies at 96
1995 - Fischer S Black Jr, financial Theorist, dies at 57
1995 - Frank Perry, film director, dies at 65
1995 - Holmes Sterling Morrison, musician, dies at 53
1995 - Thomas Chalmers, broadcaster, dies at 82
1996 - Christine Pascal, actress/director (Smile, Elsa), dies at 43
1996 - Jose Toribio Merino, admiral/milt junta of Chile (1973-80), dies at 80
1996 - Louise Brown, dancer/teacher, dies at 89
1999 - Raymond Poïvet, French comics artist (b. 1910)
2001 - Ivor Spencer-Thomas, English farmer, entrepreneur and inventor (b. 1907)
2002 - J. Lee Thompson, English film director (b. 1914)
2003 - Charles Bronson, American actor (b. 1921)
2003 - Donald Davidson, American philosopher (b. 1917)
2004 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906)
2004 - Indian Larry, American motorcycle builder and stuntman (b. 1949)
2006 - Glenn Ford, Canadian-born American actor (b. 1916)
2006 - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
2006 - Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand jurist and member of the British House of Lords (b. 1926)
2007 - Michael Jackson, British beer and whiskey author/expert. (b. 1942)
2007 - Charles Vanik, American politician (b. 1918)
2008 - Killer Kowalski, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1926)