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Historical Events

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588 BC - Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah's reign. The siege lasts until July 23, 586 BC.
69 - Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, but only rules for three months before committing suicide.
708 - Sisinnius begins his reign as Pope (dies 20 days later)
946 - Caliph al-Mustaqfi blinded/ousted
1346 - Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria gives his wife Margaretha, Holland/Zealand
1535 - Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church
1552 - France signs secret treaty with German Protestants
1562 - 3rd sitting of Council of Trente opens
1582 - Russia cedes Livonia & Estonia to Poland, loses access to Baltic
1586 - Battle at Boxum: Spanish troops under Tassis beat state army
1752 - Tobias Smollett publishes pamphlet accusing Fielding of plagiarism
1754 - Riot at burial of doelist Daniel Raap in Amsterdam
1759 - British Museum opens in Montague House, London
1762 - Fraunces Tavern opens in NYC
1777 - People of New Connecticut (Vermont) declare independence from England
1780 - Continental Congress establishes court of appeals
1785 - Mozarts string quartet opus 10 premieres
1797 - 1st top hat worn (John Etherington of London)
1822 - Greek War of Independence: Demetrius Ypsilanti is elected president of the legislative assembly.
1831 - 1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run
1831 - 1st US railroad honeymoon trip, Mr & Mrs Pierson, Charleston, SC
1833 - HMS Beagle anchors at Goeree Tierra del Fuego
1844 - U of Notre Dame receives its charter in Indiana
1847 - 1st Swedish magazine in US, Skandinavia, published in NYC
1851 - Gen Arista replaces Mexican Pres Herrera
1857 - 1st first-class game in Sydney, NSW v Vic at The Domain
1861 - Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis
1863 - 1st US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal
1865 - Ft Fisher, NC falls to Union troops
1866 - Bedrich Smetana's opera "Branibori v Cechach," premieres in Prague
1870 - Donkey 1st used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly
1877 - US Assay Office in Helena, Montana opens
1882 - 1st US ski club forms (Berlin NH)
1886 - Weekly Herald, 1st Vancouver, BC newspaper, publishes 1st issue
1889 - The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is originally incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
1892 - Basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Mass
1895 - Albert Trott takes 8-43 on Test debut, then a record
1895 - French fleet reaches Majunga, Madagascar
1895 - Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premieres, St Petersburg (1/27 NS)
1896 - Henry Arthur Jones' "Michael & his Lost Angel," premieres in London
1900 - SCNEC soccer team forms
1905 - Coen de Koning becomes world champion all-round skater
1907 - 3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr Lee De Forest
1907 - Gold dental inlays 1st described by Wm Taggart, who invented them
1908 - C Hill & R J Hartigan make 8th wkt partnership 243 for Aust
1915 - Japan claims economic control of China
1915 - Sydney, Kern & Smith's musical "Love o' Mike," premieres in NYC
1919 - 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston MA, drowning 21
1919 - Frank Wedekind's "Die letzten Tage der Menschheit," premieres
1919 - Pianist & statesman Ignace Paderewski becomes 1st premier of Poland
1919 - Semana Tragica (Tragic Week): Bloodbath in Buenos Aires
1919 - W Collison & O Harbach's "Up in Mabel's Room," premieres in NYC
1919 - Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps.
1922 - Irish Free State forms; Michael Collins becomes 1st premier
1924 - 3rd Dutch govt Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
1925 - Hans Luther forms German govt, with DNVP
1930 - George Headley scores century on debut v England (made 176)
1934 - 8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal, 10,700 die
1934 - Babe Ruth signs a 1934 contract for $35,000 ($17,000 cut)
1935 - 300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition
1935 - Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty," premieres in NYC
1936 - 1st all-glass windowless structure in US completed, Toledo, Ohio
1936 - Horace Stoneham elected president of NY Giants
1936 - Non-profit Ford Foundation incorporates
1939 - 1st NFL pro bowl, NY Giants beat All Stars 13-10 in Wrigley Field
1939 - Municipal Railway & Market St RR begin service to Transbay Terminal
1940 - German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch trade ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church)
1942 - Cubs, drop plans to install lights at Wrigley due to WW II
1942 - FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WW II
1943 - 1st transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught
1943 - World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed
1943 - 1,000 workers complete air conditioning system for Pentagon
1944 - European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany
1944 - General Eisenhower arrives in England
1944 - Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die
1945 - "Make Mine Manhattan" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 429 perfs
1945 - Every Amsterdammer gets 3 kg sugar beets
1945 - Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp
1947 - The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California.
1949 - Mao's Red army conquers Ten-tsin
1950 - 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Wash DC
1951 - "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000
1951 - Supreme Court rule "clear & present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech & can be a cause for arrest
1953 - 16 car Federal Express train loses brakes & crashes in Wash DC station
1953 - GDR Min of Foreign affairs Georg Dertingen arrested for "espionage"
1955 - 1st official act of Princess Beatrice, launches tanker Vasum
1955 - D Shostakovitch' "From Jewish Folk Poetry," premieres in Leningrad
1955 - USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic
1956 - Bauer Marlene wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open
1956 - D Shostakovitch appointed honorary member of Academia Santa Cecilia
1956 - KWAB TV channel 4 in Big Spring, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 31-30
1957 - Brooklyn Dodgers sign a new 3 year lease for Ebbets Field
1958 - NY Yankees sign million dollar plus deal to show 140 games on WPIX TV
1961 - NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 35-31
1961 - Suggs wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational Open
1961 - Supremes signed with Motown Records
1962 - 50th Australian Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats R Emerson (86 06 64 64)
1962 - Dutch & Indonesian navy encounter in Etna Bay New Guinea
1964 - Baseball agrees to hold a free-agent draft in NYC

Famous Birthdays

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1432 - Afonso V "the African", king of Portugal (1438-1481)
1481 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1511)
1507 - Johann Oporinus [Herbster], Swiss book publisher (Koran)
1538 - Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (d. 1599)
1567 - Black Box, [Catherine Quinol], Guadeloupe, vocalist (Love Sensation)
1622 - Molière, French playwright (d. 1673)
1671 - Abraham de la Pryme, English antiquarian (d. 1704)
1674 - Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer (d. 1762)
1715 - Georg C Wagenzeil, Austria (court)composer/pianist
1716 - Philip Livingston, merchant (signed Declaration of Independence)
1730 - John Malchair, composer
1733 - Joseph Lederer, composer
1742 - Eugene Godecharle, composer
1747 - John Aikin, English doctor and writer (d. 1822)
1754 - Richard Martin, Irish animal rights activist (d. 1834)
1779 - Jean Coralli, Paris, ballet producer/choreographer
1791 - Franz Gillparzer, Austrian tragic dramatist (Golden Fleece)
1795 - Willem de Clerq, Dutch merchant/man of letters
1795 - Alexandr Griboyedov, Russian playwright (d. 1829)
1798 - Thomas Crofton Croker, Irish story teller (Fairy legends)
1803 - Marjory Fleming, Scottish writer and poet (d. 1811)
1809 - Cornelia Connelly, Phila, founder (Society of the Holy Child Jesus)
1809 - Pierre Joseph Proudhon, France, politician (libertarian socialist)
1812 - Peter C Asbjornsen, Norwegian fairy tale writer
1813 - James Marion Sims, SC, surgeon/gynecologist (vesicovaginal operation)
1815 - Henry Morris Naglee, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1816 - Marie LaFarge, French murderer (d. 1852)
1817 - Lewis Golding Arnold, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1871
1821 - Lafayette McLaws, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
1824 - Marie Duplessis, French courtesan (d. 1847)
1826 - Mikhail Saltykov, Spas-Ugol Russia, satirist (Family of Noblemen)
1841 - Lord Frederick Stanley, presenter of hockey's Stanley Cup
1842 - Blessed Mary McKillop, Australian candidate for sainthood (d. 1909)
1842 - Josef Breuer, Austrian psychologist (d. 1925)
1845 - Ella Flagg Young, 1st woman pres (National Educational Association)
1845 - Heinrich Vogl, composer
1850 - Mihail Eminesco, [Eminovici], Romanian poet (Samanul Dionis)
1850 - Sonya Kurtovsky Kovalevsky, mathemetician (Acad of Science)
1850 - Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1891)
1855 - Jacques Damala, Greek military officer and actor (d. 1889)
1858 - Giovanni Segantini, Italy, painter
1859 - Archibald Peake, Premier of South Australia (d. 1920)
1863 - Adolph Goldschmidt, German historian
1863 - Wilhelm Marx, premier (Prussia)
1866 - Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1931)
1868 - Noach Zjordanija, Georgian veterinarian/premier (1918-21)
1869 - Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist (d. 1907)
1870 - Johan Peter Koch, Danish officer/explorer (Greenland)
1870 - Pierre S. du Pont, American businessman (d. 1954)
1871 - Bertram Shapleigh, composer
1872 - Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (d. 1944)
1873 - Max Adler, Austria sociologist/socialist theorist
1875 - Tom Burke, American runner (d. 1929)
1877 - Lewis M Terman, Ind, psychologist (developed Stanford-Binet IQ test)
1878 - Johanna Muller-Hermann, composer
1879 - Ernest Thesiger, London England, actor (Bride of Frankenstein, Ghoul)
1879 - Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author (d. 1961)
1882 - Florian Znaniecki, Polish/US sociologist (Polish Peasant in Europe)
1882 - Princess Margaret of Sweden (d. 1920)
1885 - Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician (d. 1973)
1885 - Huang Yuanyong, Chinese writer (d. 1915)
1885 - Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (d. 1968)
1888 - Joseph Henabery, Omaha NE, director (Cobra)
1890 - Tommy Fleming, American soccer player (d. 1965)
1891 - Osip E Mandelstam, Warsaw Poland, Russian poet (Noise of Time)
1891 - Ray Chapman, American baseball player (d. 1920)
1892 - Frank Hutchens, composer
1892 - Rex Ingram, [Reginald IM Hitchcock], dir (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse)
1892 - Rex Ingram, Irish director (d. 1950)
1893 - D Ivor D Novello, British composer/writer (Truth Game)
1893 - Dragisa Cvetkovic, Serbian premiere of Yugoslavia (1939-4.)
1893 - Ivor Novello, Cardiff Wales, actor (Lodger, Phantom Fiend)
1894 - Edmond Rubbens, Belgian attorney/minister of colonization
1895 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
1896 - Jacobo Ficher, composer
1897 - Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (d. 1931)
1899 - Goodman Ace, radio/TV actor/columnist/humorist (Better of Goodman)
1900 - Caesar Domela, Dutch painter (Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis son)
1902 - Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Faisal al-Saud, king (Saudi Arabia)
1903 - Paul A. Dever, 58th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
1905 - Torin Thatcher, English actor (d. 1981)
1906 - Aristotle Onassis, Greece, rich shipping magnate
1906 - Rezso Kokai, composer
1908 - Edward Teller, Budapest Hungary, fathered H-bomb (Manhattan Project)
1908 - Roberta Bitgood, composer
1909 - Elie Siegmeister, NYC, composer (Plough & the Stars)
1909 - Enrique Sasal y Chapi, composer
1909 - Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman's drummer (Sing Sing Sing)
1909 - Jean Bugatti, German-born automobile designer (d. 1939)
1911 - Cy Feuer, NYC, Bdwy producer (Feuer & Martin-Chorus Line)
1911 - Wim Kan, Dutch cabaretier
1912 - Michel Debré, French politician (d. 1996)
1913 - Lloyd Bridges, San Leandro Calif, actor (Sea Hunt, Roots, Airplane)
1913 - Miriam Hyde, Australian composer (d. 2005)
1913 - Alexander Marinesko, captain of the S-13 submarine, which sank the German ship Wilhelm Gustloff (d. 1963)
1914 - Lord Dacre of Glanton, British historian
1916 - Mikki Doyle, journalist
1918 - Andreas M Donner, Dutch jurist (constitutional law)
1918 - Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt (1954-1971)
1918 - João Figueiredo, President of Brazil (d. 1999)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 119

69 - Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), lynched at 70
570 - Saint Ita, Irish nun (b. 475)
936 - King Rudolph of France
1208 - Peter of Castelnau, French nobleman, murdered
1345 - Martin Zaccaria, Italo-Greek ruler
1595 - Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1546)
1672 - John Cosin, English clergyman (b. 1594)
1683 - Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (b. 1609)
1684 - Caspar Netscher, Dutch portrait painter, dies at about 48
1705 - Walraad, the Young, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nijmegen, dies
1744 - Charles-Hubert Gervais, composer, dies at 72
1755 - Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer, dies at 83
1765 - Carlmann Kolb, composer, dies at 61
1775 - Giovanni Battista Sammartini, composer, dies
1781 - Marianne Victoria of Borbón, queen regent of Portugal (b. 1718)
1788 - Gaetano Latilla, composer, dies at 77
1790 - John Landen, English mathematician (b. 1719)
1804 - Dru Drury, English entomologist (b. 1725)
1812 - Johannes Herbst, composer, dies at 76
1815 - Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Lord Nelson (b. 1761
1816 - Henry Harington, composer, dies at 88
1844 - Joseph Mazzinghi, composer, dies at 78
1864 - Isaac Nathan, UK-Australian composer (b. 1792)
1866 - M T d'Azeglio, writer, dies
1876 - Eliza Johnson, U.S. First Lady (b. 1810)
1893 - Fanny Kemble, British actress and author (b. 1809)
1896 - Matthew B Brady, US photographer (Civil War), dies at about 72
1904 - Eduard Lassen, composer, dies at 73
1909 - Ernest Reyer, composer, dies at 85
1909 - Ernest von Wildenbruch, German playwright (Das Edle Blut), dies at 63
1909 - Arnold Janssen missionary (b. 1837)
1911 - Wilhelm Berger, composer, dies at 49
1915 - Guillaume Couture, composer, dies at 63
1916 - Modest Tchaikovsky, Russian writer (b. 1850)
1919 - Karl Liebknecht, Marxist revolutionary, murdered at 47
1919 - Rosa Luxemburg, Marxist revolutionary, murdered
1922 - John Kirk Barry, Dr/explorer David Livingstone's companion, dies at 89
1924 - Geza Zichy, composer, dies at 74
1926 - Enrico Toselli, composer, dies at 42
1932 - Georg Kerschensteiner, German educationalist, dies at 77
1934 - Hermann Bahr, Austrian writer (Concert), dies at 70
1934 - Patrick O'Malley, US policeman, killed by John Dillinger
1936 - Henry Forster, cricket (Hants & Oxford U, Gov-Gen of Australia), dies
1942 - Melvin Winfield Sheppard, runner (Olympic-gold-08, 12), dies at 58
1947 - Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia (b. 1924)
1949 - Black Dahlia, murder victim found in LA (basis of the movie)
1949 - Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron/diplomat/senator, dies at 63
1950 - Gen Henry "Hap" Arnold, U.S. General of the Air Force (b. 1886)
1952 - Ned Hanlon, Premier of Queensland (b. 1887)
1953 - Viktor Patrick Vretblad, composer, dies at 76
1955 - Yves Tanguy, French/American sailor/surrealistic painter, dies
1961 - Francesco Maria Saraceni, composer, dies at 49
1962 - Kenneth MacKenna, actor (Men Without Women), dies of cancer at 62
1964 - Weldon John "Jack" Teagarden, US jazz trombonist/singer, dies at 58
1965 - Pierre Ngendandumwe, premier of Burundi, murdered
1966 - Betsy Mitchell, US 100m backstroke swimmer, dies at 25
1967 - Albert Szirmai, composer, dies at 86
1967 - David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (b. 1882)
1968 - Bill Masterson, 1st NHLer fatally injured during game (Jan 13), dies
1968 - John Davidson, actor (Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc), dies at 80
1968 - Leopold Infeld, Pol nuclear physcist (Motion & Relativity), dies at 69
1968 - Bill Masterton, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
1969 - Theodor Werner, German painter, dies at 82
1971 - John Dall, actor (Corn is Green, Rope), dies of heart attack at 50
1972 - Daisy Ashford, English child writer (The Young Visiters) (b. 1881)
1973 - Jef Alpaerts, Flemish pianist/conductor, dies at 68
1973 - Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
1973 - Coleman Francis, American film director (b. 1919)
1974 - Karel Salmon, composer, dies at 76
1978 - Margaret Bowman & Janet Levy, Chi Omega, FSU, killed by Ted Bundy
1981 - Emanuel Celler, (Rep-D-NY, 1923-73), dies at 92
1982 - Red Smith, sportscaster (Pulitzer, Fight Talk), dies at 76
1983 - Meyer Lansky, reputed mobster, dies in Miami Beach Fla at 80
1983 - Shepperd Strudwick, actor (Psychomania), dies of cancer at 75
1986 - James H "Jim" Crowley, US football player (Notre Dame), dies at 83
1987 - Dolores Hawkins, singer (Guy Mitchell Show), dies at 58
1987 - Gerrit Borgers, Dutch literary, dies at 69
1987 - Ray Bolger, actor/dancer (Wizard of Oz), dies at 83
1988 - Sean MacBride, Ireland, commander of Irish Republican Army, dies at 83
1989 - Wilf Slack, cricketer (whilst bat in Gambia England player 1986), dies
1990 - Gordon Jackson, actor (Hamlet), dies after a short illness at 66
1992 - Dee Murray, English bassist (b. 1946)
1993 - Henry Iba, basketball coach, dies at 88
1993 - Huub H Jacobse, Dutch MP (VVD), dies at 68
1993 - Ken Cory, dies of AIDS at 51
1993 - Sammy Cahn, American songwriter (b. 1913)
1994 - Gyorgy Cziffra, Hungarian/French pianist (Chopin/Liszt), dies at 72
1994 - Harry Nilsson, rock vocalist (Everybody's Talkin'), dies at 52
1994 - Philippe Brun, jazz trumpeter, dies at 85
1995 - Sollie McElroy, singer, dies at 61
1996 - Les Baxter, singer/orch leader/composer (Born Again), dies at 73
1996 - Moshushu II, King of Lesotho (1966-90), dies at 51
1996 - Richard Charles Cobb, historian, dies at 78
1997 - Jose Ignacio Domecq, wine maker, dies at 82
1997 - Kenneth Thimann, botanist, dies at 92
1998 - Amos "Junior" Wells, blues musician, dies at 63
1998 - Gulzarilal Nanda, temporary PM of India (1964, 66), dies
1998 - Junior Wells, blues harpist, dies at 63
1999 - Betty Box, British film producer (b. 1915)
2000 - Georges-Henri Lévesque, Canadian Dominican priest and sociologist (b. 1903)