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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 162

390 - Brennus & Gauls defeat Romans at Allia
463 - Start of Lunar Cycle of Hilarius
622 - Moslem Era begins-Mahomet begins flight from Mecca to Medina (Hejira)
622 - Origin of Islamic Era (Muharram 1, 1 AH)
622 - The beginning of the Islamic calendar.
1054 - Michael Caerularius excommunicated of Constantinople
1054 - Three Roman legates fractured relations between the Western and Eastern Christian churches by placing an invalid Papal Bull of Excommunication on the altar in the Hagia Sophia during Saturday afternoon divine liturgy. This is often dated as the start of the East-West Schism.
1099 - Crusaders herd Jews of Jerusalem into a synagogue & set it afire
1212 - Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Moslem power in Spain
1251 - The Virgin Mary gives Simon Stork a haircut (legend)
1338 - German monarch signs Treaty of Rense
1429 - Army entered Reims
1429 - Joan of Arc leads French army in Battle of Orleans
1439 - Kissing is banned in England (to stop germs from spreading)
1465 - Battle at Montlhéry
1519 - Public debate between Martin Luther & theologist John Eck
1548 - La Paz, Bolivia is founded
1573 - Alva demands submission of Zealand/Holland
1618 - Capt John Gilbert patents 1st dredger in Britain
1659 - Princess Henriette C of Orange-Nassau weds monarch Johan George II
1661 - 1st banknotes in Europe were issued by Bank of Stockholm
1683 - Turkish troops under Kara Mustafa attain Vienna
1683 - Manchu/Chinese Qing Dynasty naval forces under commander Shi Lang defeat the Kingdom of Tungning in the Battle of Penghu near the Pescadores Islands.
1769 - Father Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego, 1st mission in Calif
1775 - John Adams graduates Harvard
1782 - Mozart's opera "Das Entfuhrung aus dem Serail," premieres in Vienna
1790 - Congress establishes District of Columbia
1798 - US Public Health Service forms & US Marine Hospital authorized
1801 - Pope Pius VII & 1st consul Napoleon sign concord
1809 - The city of La Paz, in what is today Bolivia, declared its independence from Spanish Crown and formed the Junta Tuitiva, the first independent government in Spanish America, lead by Pedro Domingo Murillo.
1845 - NY Yacht Club holds its 1st regatta
1856 - Statue of Laurens Jansz Coster unveiled in Haarlem
1857 - Sir Henry Havelock arrives at Battle of Cawnpore
1861 - Battle of Bull Run, the 1st major battle of the Civil War, is fought
1861 - Manassas Campaign [->JUL 22]
1862 - David G Farragut is 1st rear admiral in US Navy
1863 - Utrecht-Swells railway opens
1867 - Amstel Hotel, "the dignified old lady" opens in Amsterdam
1867 - D R Averill patents ready-mixed paint
1867 - Joseph Monier patents reinforced concrete
1880 - Dr. Emily Stowe becomes the first woman licenced to practice medicine in Canada.
1894 - Many negro miners in Alabama killed by striking white miners
1894 - Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley signed between Japan & England
1895 - Archie MacLaren completes cricket 424 for Lancs v Somerset at Taunton
1902 - John McGraw named manager of NY Giants
1902 - Test Cricket debut of K S Ranjitsinhji v Australia, at Old Trafford
1904 - Islands of Manu'a group (Samoa) ceded to US by their chiefs
1909 - Det & Wash play longest scoreless game in AL history-18 innings
1912 - Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patents by B A Fiske
1914 - Socialist conference in Brussel (Kautsky, Trotski & Rosa Luxemburg)
1920 - 15th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in Auckland (5-0)
1920 - China joins the League of Nations
1920 - Gen Amos Fries appointed 1st US army chemical warfare chief
1920 - Ruth sets season home run record with 30 en route to 54
1924 - Conference over German recovery payments begins in London
1924 - NY Giants George Kelly is 1st to hit HRs in 6 cons games
1926 - Jaspar govt asks authority to save Belgian franc
1926 - National Geographic takes 1st natural-color undersea photos
1927 - Augusto Sandino begins 5½ year war against US occupation of Nicaragua
1934 - Bradman scores 140 Aust v Yorkshire, 120 mins, 22 fours 2 sixes
1935 - 1st automatic parking meter in US installed (Oklahoma City, Ok)
1936 - 1st x-ray photo of arterial circulation, Rochester, NY
1936 - NY Giants are 10½ games back in NL, & go on to win pennant
1938 - 21st PGA Championship: Paul Runyan at Shawnee CC Shawnee-on-Del Pa
1940 - NSB'er Woudenberg appointed as NVV-trustee
1941 - 100°F (38°C) highest temperature ever recorded in Seattle Wash
1941 - Joe Dimaggio goes 3 for 4, hitting in his 56th straight game
1942 - French police arrest 13,152 Jews in Paris
1942 - Jews transported from Holland to extermination camp
1944 - Dodgers score 8 unearned runs against Braves to win 8-5 & break their 16-game losing streak, they will lose another 5 in a row
1945 - 1st atomic bomb detonated, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico
1945 - Australian Services win 3rd Victory Test Cricket by 4 wickets
1945 - Cruiser Indianapolis leaves SF with atom bomb
1946 - Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in SF history)
1946 - US court martials 46 SS to death (Battle of Bulge crimes) in Dachau
1947 - Bobo Newsom wins 200th game, 1st as a Yankee & Yanks 18th straight In nightcap Vic Rashi extends streak to 19
1948 - Eddie Sawyer replaces Ben Chapman in Phila, NY Giants Leo Durocher replaces Mel Ott & Burt Shotton replaces Durocher as Dodger manager
1950 - Single day 16 team HR record set at 37 (NL-25, AL-12)
1950 - Uruguay beats Brazil 2-1 for soccer's 4th World Cup in Rio de Janeiro
1951 - 1st Dutchman to win Tour de France (Wim Van Est)
1951 - King Leopold III, of Belgium, abdicates
1951 - Len Hutton scores his 100th 100, Yorks v Surrey at The Oval
1951 - Novel "Catcher in Rye" by JD Salinger published
1953 - KROC (now KTTC) TV channel 10 in Rochester, MN (NBC) 1st broadcast
1955 - "Golden Horseshoe Revue" 1st of 50,000+ performances, Disneyland
1956 - Detroit Tigers & Briggs Stadium sold for then record $5.5 million
1956 - Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes part of Russian SFSR
1956 - King Faisal of Iraq begins visit to England
1956 - Last Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey Circus under a canvas tent
1957 - Marine Maj John Glenn sets transcontinental speed record (03:28:08)
1960 - 205,000 (record sports attend) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer
1960 - George Crowe sets record of 12 pinch hit HRs with a runner on
1961 - Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Tippecanoe Golf Open
1961 - Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 2"
1962 - NASA civilian Test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m
1963 - Amazon carries 190,000 m3/sec (record)
1964 - Republicans convention selects Barry Goldwater as pres candidate
1965 - Mount Blanc Road tunnel between France & Italy opens
1966 - "Half a Sixpence" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 512 perfs
1967 - Mickey Wright wins Lady Carling Golf Open

Famous Birthdays

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1194 - Saint Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (d. 1253)
1571 - Theodoor Galle, Flemish engraver, baptized
1611 - Archduchess Cecilia Renata of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1644)
1704 - John Kay, England, machinist, invented flying shuttle
1714 - Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer (d. 1800)
1715 - Charles, Prince de Rohan-Soubise, marshal of France
1722 - Joseph Wilton, sculptor
1723 - Joshua Reynolds, England, portrait painter (Simplicity)
1725 - Georg Simon Lohlein, composer
1728 - Henri Moreau, composer
1746 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian monk/discoverer (1st asteroid-Ceres)
1796 - Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, painter
1821 - Mary Baker Eddy, founded Christian Science (Science & Health)
1822 - Luigi Arditi, violinist/composer
1823 - James Isham Gilbert, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1829 - Robert Brown Potter, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1887
1834 - Carlo Angeloni, composer
1834 - Peter Leyten, bishop of Breda (1885-1914)
1839 - Philipus J Hoedemaker, Dutch theologist
1848 - Henri[cus A] Viotta, Dutch conductor/composer (Lexicon of Music)
1855 - Charles Francis Abdy Williams, composer
1858 - Eugene Ysaye, composer
1860 - Jens Otto Harry Jespersen, linguist/philologist
1862 - Ida Bell Wells-Barnett [Iola], US civil rights activist
1865 - George A Birmingham, [Rev James Owen Hannay], novelist
1870 - Lambert McKenna, Irish scholar (d. 1956)
1872 - Roald Amundsen, Norway, explorer, discovered South Pole
1877 - Béla Schick, Hungarian/US children artist (Serum Krankheit)
1882 - Edward Earle, Toronto Ont, actor (Charlie Chan-Meeting at Midnight)
1882 - Felix Locher, Switzerland, actor (Frankenstein's Daughter)
1884 - Anna Vyrubova, Russian memoirist (d. 1964)
1887 - "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, black sox player (Say it aint so, Joe)
1888 - Frits Zernike, invented phase-contrast microscope (Nobel 1953)
1888 - Percy Kilbride, SF CA, actor (Egg & I, Ma & Pa Kettle)
1889 - Larry Semon, American comedian (d. 1928)
1896 - Mauritius R J Dekker [Boris Robazki], Dutch writer (Merkteken)
1896 - Trygve Halvdan Lie, Norway, 1st UN secretary general (1946-52)
1896 - Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German eugenicist and Nazi physician (d. 1969)
1899 - Eunice Hunton Carter, 1st black female district attorney (NY)
1901 - Fritz Mahler, composer
1902 - Alexander Luria, Russian psychologist (d. 1977)
1903 - Mary Philbin, Chicago IL, actress (Phantom of the Opera)
1903 - Carmen Lombardo, Canadian musician (d. 1971)
1904 - Goffredo Petrassi, Zagarolo Italy, composer (Beatitudines)
1904 - Leo Joseph Suenens, Cardinal (Belgium)
1906 - Vincent Sherman, American film director (d. 2006)
1907 - Barbara Stanwyck, Bkln, actress (Dynasty II, Big Valley, Thorn Birds)
1907 - Orville Redenbacher, popcorn King (Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet)
1907 - Frances Horwich, American educator and television personality (d. 2001)
1908 - Aruna Asaf Ali, politician
1908 - Maurice Adams, surgeon/British rear admiral
1909 - Geoffrey Bryan Bentley, moral theologian
1909 - John Edward "Teddy" Buckner, trumpeter
1910 - Stan McCabe, cricketer (exciting NSW & Australian batsman of 30's)
1911 - Ginger Rogers, [Virginia McMath], Independ Mo, dancer (Gay Divorcee)
1911 - Sonny Tufts, [Bowen Charleston Tufts II], Bost, actor (Variety Girl)
1912 - Ray Barr, NYC, pianist (Vincent Lopez Show)
1912 - Milt Bocek, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1913 - Hugh Ford, FRS mechanic engineer
1913 - Peter Van Eyck, Steinwehr Germany, actor (Brain, Wages of Fear)
1915 - Barnard Hughes, Bedford Hills NY, (Tron, Where's Poppa, Best Friends)
1915 - Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe, deputy speaker (House of Lords)
1915 - Edward Miller, Master (Fitzwilliam College Cambridge)
1916 - Harold Locke, archdeacon of Loughborough
1917 - William Bishop, Oak Park Ill, actor (Steve-It's a Great Life)
1918 - Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (d. 1989)
1919 - Charles Graham, lord-lt of Cumbria UK
1919 - Choi Kyuha, President of South Korea (d. 2006)
1919 - Hermine Braunsteiner, Nazi war criminal (d. 1999)
1920 - Anwar Hussain, cricketer (four Tests for Pakistan v India 1952-53)
1921 - Bernard Rogers, supreme Allied commander Europe
1921 - Trevor Williams, scientific consultant
1923 - Reginald Prentice, British government minister
1923 - Chris Argyris, American educator
1924 - Bess Myerson, Bronx NY, 1st Jewish Miss America (1945)
1925 - Phillip Pine, Hartford Ct, actor (Set-Up, Under the Ground)
1925 - Cal Tjader, American musician (d. 1982)
1926 - Brian Howard, deputy chairman (Marks & Spencer)
1926 - Philip Randle, biochemist
1926 - Irwin Rose, American biologist, Nobel laureate
1927 - John Freeland, Legal advisor UK foreign office
1927 - John Warr, England, cricket bowler (avg 281)/president (MCC)
1927 - Shirley Hughes, author/illustrator
1928 - Bella Davidovich, Baku Russia, pianist (Chopin, Beethoven, Ravel)
1928 - James Kilfedder, MP (Ulster Popular Unionist)
1928 - Ray Thornton, (Rep-D-Arkansas)
1928 - Robert Sheckley, US, sci-fi author (10th Victim, Mindswap)
1928 - Anita Brookner, English novelist
1928 - Ticho Parly, Danish tenor (d. 1993)
1929 - Michael Morland, High court judge
1930 - Anne Francis, Ossining NY, actress (Honey West, Forbidden Planet)
1930 - John Everett Watts, composer
1930 - Michael Bilirakis, (Rep-R-Florida, 1983- )
1931 - Caroline Blackwood, writer
1932 - John Chilton, jazz trumpeter
1932 - Milly Vitale, Rome, actress (7 Little Foys, War & Peace, Juggler)
1932 - Oleg Protopopov, Russia, olympic pairs skater (Gold 1964, 68)
1932 - [Dick] Richard L Thornburgh, Penn, US Attorney General (1988-93)
1932 - Max McGee, American football player (d. 2007)
1933 - Sollie McElroy, R&B singer (Flamingos-Golden Teardrops)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 112

276 - Mark Annius Florianus, emperor of Rome (276), murdered
599 - Monulphus, bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht (St Servaaskerk), dies
1099 - El Cid, [Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar], Span general strategist, dies at 59
1139 - Walram II, duke of Limburg/Neth-Lutherans, dies
1216 - Innocent III, [Lotario di Segni], Italian Pope (1198-1216), dies
1324 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (b. 1267)
1342 - King Charles I of Hungary
1482 - John van Schaffelaar, Gelders knight, dies
1546 - Anne Askew, English Protestant (burned at the stake) (b. 1521)
1557 - Anne of Cleeves, queen of England/4th wife of Henry VIII, dies at 41
1590 - Bartholomaeus a Martyribus, [Fernandez], pontiff of Portugal, dies
1594 - Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy (b. 1558)
1647 - Massaniello, [Tommaso Aniello], Napolitan rebel, murdered
1647 - Masaniello, Neapolitan rebel (b. 1622)
1664 - A Gryphius, writer, dies at 47
1686 - John Pearson, English theologian (b. 1612)
1691 - Francois-Michel Le Tellier, marquis de Louvois, statesman, dies
1698 - Cristoph Kaldenbach, composer, dies at 84
1729 - Johann David Heinichen, composer, dies at 46
1730 - Elijiah Fenton, poet, dies
1736 - Thomas Yalden, poet/fable writer, dies
1747 - Giuseppe Maria Crespi, painter/etcher, dies
1762 - Jacques Hotteterre, composer, dies at 87
1764 - Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia (1740-41), murdered at 23
1770 - Francis Cotes, English painter (b. 1726)
1782 - Louise Ulrike, queen of Sweden/wife of Adolf Frederik, dies at 61
1796 - George Howard, British field marshal (b. 1718)
1827 - Josiah Spode, potter, dies
1831 - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (b. 1763)
1843 - Hubert MAJ van Asch van Wijck, politician, dies at 68
1857 - Pierre-Jean de Baranger, poet, dies
1864 - Victor JB Girardey, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 27
1868 - Louis-Francois Dauprat, composer, dies at 87
1871 - Tad Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln
1879 - Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (b. 1800)
1882 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (b. 1818)
1886 - Ned Buntline, [Edward Zane Carroll Judson], author, dies
1887 - Nicaise de Keyser, Flemish painter (Battle at Woeringen), dies at 73
1889 - Michele Amari, Italian historian/minister of Education, dies at 83
1890 - Gottfried Keller, novelist/poet, dies
1896 - Edmond-Louis-Antoine Huot de Goncourt, novelist, dies at 74
1896 - William Hamilton Gibson, illustrator/author/novelist, dies
1897 - Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert, dies
1915 - Ellen White, American co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1827)
1916 - Ilja [Elias] Metsjnikov, Russ bacteriologist (Nobel 1908), dies
1916 - Ludwig P Scharwenka, German composer (Album Polonaise), dies at 70
1916 - Victor Alexander Haden Horsley, physician, dies
1916 - Ilya Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1845)
1917 - Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, Ger composer (Album Polonaise), dies at 70
1923 - Louis M A Couperus, poet/writer (Books of Small Soles), dies at 60
1931 - Charles Studd, cricketer (5 Tests for England 1882-83), dies
1939 - Beatrice Erskine Lane Suzuki, Zen student, dies
1944 - John Post, Dutch farmer/resistance fighter (passage fight), executed
1949 - Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet (b. 1866)
1953 - Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc, author (Path to Rome), dies at 82
1955 - Jean de Merode, [Marie-Louise Courtenay], Belgian princess, dies at 81
1960 - Albrecht von Kesselring, German fieldmarshal (Italy), dies at 74
1960 - John Phillips Marquand, novelist, dies at 66
1961 - [Louise] Sophie M E de Vries, actress (English Prof), dies at 88
1962 - Jan M Romein, historian (Breaking of Two Ages), dies
1971 - H T Tsiang, dies at 65
1972 - Giorgio Nataletti, composer, dies at 65
1972 - Max Zehnder, composer, dies at 70
1973 - Trijntje "Nine" van de Schaaf, author (Fries dorpsleven), dies at 91
1976 - Carmelo Soria, Spanish diplomat assassinated in 1976 by the Chilean DINA
1979 - James F Mcintyre, archbishop of Los Angeles, dies at 93
1979 - Alfred Deller, English countertenor (b. 1912)
1981 - Harry Chapin, folk vocalist (Taxi), dies in car crash at 38
1982 - Leendert Braat, sculptor/writer (White World), dies
1982 - Patrick Dewaere, actor (Catherine & Co), shoots self at 35
1984 - Billy Williams, singer (Your Show of Shows), dies at 73
1985 - Wayne King, orch leader (Wayne King Show), dies at 84
1985 - Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
1989 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor, dies at 81
1990 - Robert Blackburn, Irish educationist (b. 1927)
1990 - Sidney Torch, English composer, conductor and organist (b. 1908)
1991 - Cornelis Z Forster, [Da Kuneisi], Suriname granman/gaanman, dies
1991 - Dwight Weist, Radio actor/film narrator (Radio Days), dies at 81
1991 - Frank Rizzo, (Mayor-D-Phila, 1972-80), dies of a heart attack at 70
1991 - Robert Motherwell, US painter (Elegies to Spanish Rep), dies at 76
1992 - "Gorgeous" George, [Arena], wrestler, dies at 84
1992 - Buck Buchanan, NFL defensive lineman (KC Chiefs), dies at 51
1992 - Johnny Martin, cricketer (NSW & Australian chinaman bowler), dies
1994 - M Vink, surgeon (1st Dutch kidney transplant), dies at 78
1994 - Madzy Rollin Couquerque, tennis star/international hockey, dies at 91
1995 - Charles Bruck, Hungarian/French/US conductor (Dutch Opera), dies at 83
1995 - Eleanore M "May" Sarton, Belg/US writer (Land of Silence), dies at 83
1995 - Juan Manuel Fangio, racing Driver, dies at 84
1995 - Max Factor Jr, makeup inventor, dies
1995 - Mordechai Gur, Israeli general, commits suicide at 65
1995 - Patsy Ruth Miller, actress (Wide Open, Sap, Twin Beds), dies at 91
1995 - Peter Francis de Sautoy, publisher, dies at 83
1995 - Stephen Harold Spender, writer, dies at 86
1995 - Travis Kemp, dancer/teacher, dies at 91
1996 - John Panozzo, drummer, dies at 48
1996 - Adolf von Thadden, German politician, (b. 1921)
1998 - John Henrik Clarke, American historian and scholar (b. 1915)
1999 - Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr. (b. 1966)
1999 - John F. Kennedy, Jr., American publisher (b. 1960)
1999 - Hiromi Yanagihara, Japanese singer (b. 1979)