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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 170

258 - St Sixtus II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
523 - St Hormisdas ends his reign as Catholic Pope
768 - [Constantine] ends his reign as Catholic Pope
939 - Battle at Simancas-Spain beats Moors
1181 - Supernova observed by Chinese & Japanese astronomers
1497 - John Cabot returns to Bristol from North-America
1538 - Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
1588 - Spanish Armada under Medina Sidonia anchors
1600 - Henry IV of France invades Savoy after negotiations break down over Saluzzo, controlled by Savoy since 1588
1601 - Spanish garrison of Meurs surrender to earl Mauritius
1623 - Maffeo Barberini elected Pope Urban VIII
1625 - Earl Earnest Casimir appointed as viceroy of Groningen
1661 - Holland sells Brazil to Portugal for 8 million guilders
1661 - The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
1675 - Russian Czar Aleksei bans foreign hairs cut
1726 - Emperor Karel VI & tsarina Catharina the Great sign military treaty
1774 - Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY
1787 - Constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate
1806 - Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire
1815 - US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis & Tripoli
1819 - Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
1821 - 1st edition of "Courrier of Pays-Bas" newspaper published in Brussels
1824 - Battle at Junan - Simon Bolívars army beats Spanish
1825 - Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day)
1845 - The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg.
1854 - Congress passes Confiscation Act
1861 - Lexington KY-Union milt camp forms in neutral state
1861 - The British annex Lagos, Nigeria.
1862 - Confederate Army ironclad "Arkansas" is badly damaged in Union attack
1864 - Rebels evacuate Ft Powell, Mobile Bayd
1870 - Battle at Spicheren: Prussia beats France
1870 - White conservatives suppresed black vote & captured Tenn legislature
1890 - Cy Young pitches & wins 1st game
1890 - Denton True "Cy" Young pitched his 1st major league baseball game
1890 - At Auburn Prison in New York murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
1896 - France annexes Madagascar
1901 - Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
1905 - 26.7 cm rainfall at Princeton, Indiana (state record)
1908 - St Louis Card John Lush's 2nd no-hitter, beats Dodgers, 2-0 in 6 inn
1909 - Alice Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip.
1910 - NYC Mayor Wm J Gaynor seriously wounded during assassination attempt
1914 - Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia & Serbia
1914 - French cavalry enter Belgium
1914 - German Zeppelin bombs Liege City, 9 killed
1914 - Serbia declares war against Germany
1914 - Denis Patrick Dowd Jr. enlists in the French Foreign Legion, becoming the first American to fight in World War I.
1917 - World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.
1918 - Ferdinand Foch becomes marshal of France
1918 - In WW I 2nd battle of the Marne ends
1919 - 1st air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler)
1919 - Romanian forces destroys Bela Kun Republic in Budapest
1921 - Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens muni ferry system begins
1926 - NY's Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel
1926 - Warner Bros premieres Vitaphone sound-on-disc movie system (NY)
1926 - Don Juan with John Barrymore shown
1926 - Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
1930 - Supreme Court Justice John Force Crater disappears in NYC
1930 - Remains of Solomon Andrees' balloon expedition to North Pole in 1897, found at Kvit oya Spitsbergen
1934 - US troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915
1936 - 1st time in 20th century, 1st 2 batters in a game-Roy Johnson & Rabbit Warstler of Boston Bees-lead off with HRs
1937 - Franco-artillery fire on Madrid
1937 - Indians overturn Yankees' 7-6 win by a protest
1937 - US & USSR sign trade treaty
1939 - 1st broadcast of "Dinah Shore Show" on NBC-radio
1940 - Estonia is annexed into Soviet empire
1941 - Detroit pitcher Al Benton is 1st to collect 2 sacrifices in an inning
1942 - -8] Riots by Dutch Jews
1942 - Assinibaine destroyer sinks U-210
1942 - Churchill fires Gen Auchinlek as Middle-East commandant
1942 - Goering proclaims occupied areas "thoroughly empty to plunder"
1943 - US 1st Infantry division occupies node Troina Sicily
1944 - All 1,200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died
1944 - Anti-German attack at Avranches fails
1944 - Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins
1944 - US 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes
1945 - Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by "Enola Gay"
1945 - Keith Miller scores 110 in the 4 Victory Test Cricket at Lord's
1946 - US officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court
1947 - 1st performance of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 8"
1948 - Bob Mathias, US, wins decathlon at London Olympics
1948 - Dreesgovt (KVP/Social Democratics/CHU/Liberal) forms
1948 - Fanny Blankers-Koen (Neth) is 1st women to win 3 golds at Olympics
1949 - Luke Appling record of 2,154 (en route to 2,218) games at shortstop
1951 - Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria
1952 - Satchel Paige, 47, becomes oldest pitcher to win a complete shutout
1953 - Ted Williams returns to Red Sox from the military
1954 - WLAC (now WTVF) TV channel 5 in Nashville (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena.
1958 - Glenn Davis sets record of 49.2 in 400-meter hurdles
1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1960 - Pitt Steelers (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in Toronto
1961 - Gherman S Titov, 2nd Russian in space aboard Vostok 2 (17 orbits)
1961 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
1961 - 1st case of motion sickness in space reported
1962 - Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule
1964 - Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Ecclesiam Suam
1964 - Prometheus, the world's oldest tree, is cut down.
1965 - 32nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 24, All-Stars 16 (68,000)
1965 - Beatles release "Help" album in UK
1965 - Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 238

1180 - Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239)
1504 - Matthew "Nosey" Parker, archbishop of Canterbury
1609 - Richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675)
1619 - Barbara Strozzi, composer
1638 - Nicolas de Malebranche, French philosopher
1644 - Francoise L de la Baume Le Blanc, French mistress of Louis XIV
1651 - Francois Fenelon, France, writer (Playing for Time)
1651 - Johann Michael Zacher, composer
1656 - Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (d. 1733)
1664 - Johann Christoph Schmidt, composer
1665 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer
1666 - Maria Sofia of the Palatinate, queen of Portugal (d. 1699)
1697 - Charles VII, Holy Roman emperor (1742-45)
1715 - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (d. 1747)
1748 - Bernhard Haltenberger, composer
1775 - Louis-Antoine the Bourbon, French duke of Angouleme/General of France
1775 - Daniel O'Connell, Irish politician (d. 1847)
1800 - Catherine Beecher, educator (championed higher education for women)
1804 - Justinus van der Brugghen, Dutch lawyer/minister of Justice (1856-58)
1809 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet laureate of England
1811 - Judah Philip Benjamin, Secy War/Secy State (Confederacy) [or Aug 11]
1819 - Samuel Powhatan Carter, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1826 - Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (d. 1915)
1844 - Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1900)
1845 - Anthonie A Vorsterman van Oyen, Dutch genealogist
1858 - Albert Fuchs, composer
1859 - J Arthur S Berson, Austria meteorologist (Balloon flights, Amazon)
1861 - Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, 2nd wife of Theodore Roosevelt
1866 - Chief Thundercloud, [Scott T Williams], MT, actor (Lone Ranger)
1868 - Paul Claudel, France, diplomat/poet (L'Otage-1909)
1871 - Emanuel Querido, [Joost Mendes], author/publisher
1873 - John Wesley Work, composer
1873 - Mary Carr Moore, composer
1874 - Charles Fort, American writer and researcher (d. 1932)
1875 - Marcel Labey, composer
1877 - Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (d. 1952)
1879 - Joseph Wirth, German politician (Stalin Peace Prize)
1880 - Hans Moser, Austrian actor (d. 1964)
1881 - Alexander Fleming, England, bacteriologist (penicillin; Nobel 1954)
1881 - Leo Carrillo, LA CA, actor (American Empire, Cisco Kid)
1881 - Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (d. 1972)
1882 - Gerrit H Kersten, Dutch vicar/founder (Calvinist party)
1883 - Francesco Santoliquido, composer
1883 - Scott Nearing, US sociologist/pacifist/author (The Good Life)
1885 - Jozef M E Meeus, Belgian director H-Heart union
1886 - Edward Ballantine, composer
1887 - Dudley Benjafield, British racing driver (d. 1957)
1888 - Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (d. 1952)
1889 - George Kenney, American Air Force General (d. 1977)
1889 - John Middleton Murry, English poet (d. 1957)
1891 - William Slim, British general (d. 1970)
1892 - Hoot Gibson, Tekamah NE, western actor (Horse Soldier, Last Outlaw)
1893 - Guthrie McClintic, Seattle Wash, Broadway producer/dir (Winterset)
1893 - Wright Patman, American politician (d. 1976)
1896 - Cyril Mockridge, composer
1900 - Cecil H. Green, American geophysicist (d. 2003)
1902 - Michal Vilec, composer
1902 - Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright (Ultimatum Factory) [OS]
1902 - Dutch Schultz, American bootlegger (d. 1935)
1904 - Henry Payne Iba, Easton Mo, US basketball coach (Olympic-gold-64, 68)
1904 - M Revis, [Willem Fisherman], author (Gelakte Brain)
1905 - Clara Bow, silent screen actress (Wings) "it" girl of 1920's films
1906 - Ken Strong, NFL, AFL halfback (Staten Island, NY Yanks, NY Giants)
1906 - Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (d. 1984)
1908 - George Singer, composer
1908 - Helen Hull Jacobs, Berkley Calif, US tennis champ (1932-35)
1908 - James Lees-Milne, architecural historian
1908 - Sol Adler, economist Sinophile
1908 - Svend Erik Tarp, composer
1908 - Will Lee, American actor (d. 1982)
1910 - Charles Crichton, British director (Battle of Sexes)
1910 - Friedrich Schroder, composer
1910 - William J Law, sailor
1911 - Lucille Ball, Jamestown NY, comedienne/actress (I Love Lucy, Mame)
1911 - Norman Gordon, S Afri cricket pace bowler (against England 1938-39)
1914 - Susan Cowdy, ornithologist
1914 - Arthur Charles Dobson, British racing driver (d. 1980)
1916 - Dom[inic] Mintoff, premier Malta
1916 - Michael Burke, sports executive (NY Yankees, NY Knicks)
1917 - Robert Mitchum, Bridgeport Ct, actor (Winds of War, North & South)
1918 - Norman Granz, American record producer (d. 2001)
1919 - Pauline Betz Addie, Dayton Ohio, tennis champ (Wimbledon 1946)
1921 - Ella Raines, Sinoqualmie Falls Wash, actress (Janice Dean RN)
1922 - Freddie Laker, CEO (Laker airlines)
1923 - Jack Parnell, London England, orch leader (Englebert Humperdick Show)
1923 - Jackie Kelk, Brooklyn NY, actor (Homer-Aldrich Family)
1923 - William B Williams, Babylon NY, DJ (WNEW, Sammy & Company)
1923 - Jess Collins, American artist (d. 2004)
1925 - Barbara Bates, Denver Colo, actress (Kathy-It's a Great Life)
1925 - Leland Smith, composer
1926 - Christa Reinig, writer
1926 - Frank Finlay, Farnworth Lancashire England, actor (Robbery, Lifeforce)
1926 - J[anet] O[pal] Jeppson, [nee Janet Asimov], author (2nd Experiment)
1926 - Clem Labine, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1926 - Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (d. 1999)
1927 - Andy Warhol, McKeesport PA, artist/producer (Frankenstein, Bad)
1927 - William David Ford, (Rep-D-Michigan, 1965- )
1928 - Janice-Lee York Romary, Calif, fencer (Olympics-1948-68)
1928 - Herb Moford, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1929 - Anneliese Kuppers, German FR, equestrian dressage (Oly-silver-1956)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 124

258 - Sixtus II, bishop of Rome (257-58), beheaded
258 - Saint Pope Sixtus II
523 - Hormisdas, Pope (514-23), dies
966 - Berengarius II, markgraaf of Ivrea/king of Italy (950-963)
1162 - Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona
1195 - Henry de Leeuw, duke of Saxon/Bayern, dies
1221 - Dominicus, Italian religious order founder (Dominicans)
1272 - Stefanus V, prince of Transylvania/king of Hungary (1270-72), dies
1414 - King Ladislas of Naples (b. 1377)
1458 - Callistus III, [Alfonso the Borja], Pope (1455-58), dies at 79
1458 - Pope Callixtus III (b. 1378)
1548 - Georg Rhau/Rhaw, German cantor/composer/music publisher, dies
1623 - Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare, dies
1628 - Johannes Junius, Mayor of Bamberg (b. 1573)
1637 - Ben Johnson, dramatist/playwright, dies at 65
1637 - Ben Jonson, English writer (b. 1572)
1645 - Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant (b. 1575)
1657 - Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Polish-Lithuanian noble
1660 - Diego Rodriguez de Silva Valezquez, Spanish (court)painter, dies at 61
1661 - Jacqueline-M-A the Sainte Madeleine Arnauld, French abbess, dies
1666 - Tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian, dies in Battle at 43
1679 - John Snell, English royalist (b. 1629)
1686 - Paul Hainlein, composer, dies at 60
1695 - François de Harlay de Champvallon, French Catholic archbishop (b. 1625)
1718 - Jacob F Muller, [Sjako/Jaco], Germ/Neth crowd leader, beheaded at 28
1727 - Francois Valentijn, vicar/writer, dies at 61
1746 - Christian VI, king of Denmark/Norway, dies
1753 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (b. 1711)
1759 - Eugene Aram, English philologist (b. 1704)
1775 - Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, composer, dies at 72
1783 - Willem Bachiene, vicar/theologist/geography/astronomer, dies at 70
1784 - Karl Kohaut, composer, dies at 57
1794 - Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (b. 1714)
1799 - Joseph Friebert, composer, dies at 74
1815 - James A. Bayard (elder), United States Senator from Delaware (b. 1767)
1816 - Karl Frieberth, composer, dies at 80
1820 - Antonin Vranicky, composer, dies at 59
1820 - M A Elisa Bonaparte, Corsican monarch of Lucca, dies at 43, dies
1821 - Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer, dies at 64
1828 - Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman
1848 - Nicola Vaccai, Italian composer, dies at 58
1850 - Edward Walsh, Irish poet (b. 1805)
1853 - Josif Josifovich Genishta, composer, dies at 57
1862 - Francisco Acuna de Figueroa, Uruguay national anthem, dies at 71
1866 - John Mason Neale, English divine, scholar and hymnwriter (b. 1818)
1881 - James White, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1821)
1884 - Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman (b. 1812)
1886 - Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian, dies at 45
1890 - John Hart or William Kemmler, US, 1st executed in electric chair (NY)
1893 - Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1811)
1895 - George Frederick Root, composer, dies at 74
1900 - Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist/socialist, dies at 74
1904 - Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic (b. 1825)
1914 - Ellen Wilson, 1st lady (1913-14), dies at 54
1920 - Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator, first flight in independent Poland (b. 1890)
1924 - John Henry Roberts, composer, dies at 76
1928 - William Henry Grattan Flood, composer, dies at 68
1931 - Bix Beiderbecke, American musician (b. 1903)
1935 - Alexander Gustav Adolfovich Winkler, composer, dies at 70
1937 - Annie E F Horniman, England, theater owner (Abbey Theatre), dies at 76
1937 - Ferdinand CS Schiller, British philosopher (Mind!), dies at 72
1938 - Warner Oland, actor (Werewolf of London, Jazz Singer), dies at 57
1943 - Tom Garrett, cricketer (last survivor of 1st Test in 1877), dies
1945 - Hiram Johnson, American politician (b. 1866)
1945 - Prince Wu of Korea (b. 1912)
1946 - Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1954 - Theo[by] Van Reijn, sculptor/drawer/lithograph, dies at 70 [or 8/10]
1959 - Preston Sturges, [Edmund Biden], US director/screenwriter, dies at 60
1961 - Jozef E Van Roey, Flemish cardinal/archbishop of Mechelen, dies at 87
1963 - Tom Keene, actor (Our Daily Bread), dies of cancer at 68
1964 - Cedric Hardwicke, actor (Capt Hook-Peter Pan), dies at 71
1965 - Aksel Sandemose, writer, dies
1965 - Everett Sloane, dies of apparent suicide with bartiturates at 55
1965 - Nancy Carroll, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family), dies at 60
1965 - Peter Ronnefeld, composer, dies at 30
1966 - Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, sci-fi author (Space Lords), dies at 53
1966 - Cordwainer Smith, American writer (b. 1913)
1968 - Ernest Burnelle, Belgian politician, dies at 60
1969 - Theodor Adorno, German philosopher/sociologist, dies at 65
1970 - Ingolf Dahl, German composer (Andante & Arioso), dies at 58
1973 - Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, dictator Cuba (1940-58), dies at 72
1974 - Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)
1976 - Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist, dies at 73
1978 - Edward Durrell Stone, US architect, dies at 76
1978 - Paul VI, [Giovanni Montini], Italian Pope (1963-78), dies at 80
1979 - Kurt Kasznar, actor (Cmdr Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants), dies at 65
1980 - Charles Urbanus, Dutch baseball player, dies at 66
1983 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (b. 1944)
1986 - Emilio Fernandez, director (La Choca, Flor Silvestre), dies at 82
1986 - Manfred Hausmann, writer, dies at 87
1986 - William J Schroeder, (longest-survivor with permanent artificial) heart, dies at 54, after 620 days with Jarvik VII man-made pump)
1987 - Ira C Eaker, commandant USAF in Europe (WW II), dies at 91
1987 - Sherwood Bailey, actor (Spud-Our Gang), dies
1988 - Anatoli S Levchenko, cosmonaut (TM-4), dies of brain tumor at 47
1988 - J Skelly Wright, US judge (anti-segregationist), dies at 77
1990 - Charles Arnt, actor (Double Exposure), dies of pancreatic cancer at 82
1990 - Gordon Metcalfe, actor (Monster in the Closet), dies of AIDS at 43
1990 - Jacques Soustelle, Fren ethnology/minister of Information, dies at 78
1990 - Mario De Andrade, founder (Movimiento Popular of Lib of Angola), dies
1990 - Robert Alex, shot to death by robber at 31