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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 167

356 BC - Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
230 - St Pontianus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
285 - Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler.
365 - Alexandria hit by Earthquake; about 50,000 die
866 - John appointed bishop of the kingdom
905 - Holy Roman Catholic emperor Louis III captured
976 - Emperor Otto II gives earl Leopold I, East Bavaria
1320 - Count Louis of Nevers marries 8-year old daughter of Philips V
1542 - Pope Paul III begins inquisition against Protestants (Sactum Officium)
1545 - The first landing of French troops onto the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion of the Isle of Wight occurs.
1568 - Battle at Jemmingen: Alva's troops beat Dutch rebellion
1579 - Mechelen surrenders to duke of Parma
1588 - English fleet defeats Spanish armada
1595 - Alvara Mendana discovers Marquesas Island
1669 - John Lockes Constitution of English colony Carolina approved
1718 - The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
1730 - States of Holland put death penalty on "sodomy"
1749 - Pieter Steyn becomes pension advisor of Holland
1773 - Pope Clemens XIV bans Jesuits
1774 - Peace of Kutsjuk Kainardji (end Russian-Turkish War)
1774 - Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji ending the war.
1798 - Napoleon Bonaparte wins Battle of Pyramids in Egypt
1825 - Java princess Dipo Negoro/Mangkubumi declare war on all non-islamics
1831 - Belgium gains independence from Netherlands, Leopold I made king
1836 - 1st Canadian RR opens, between Laprairie & St John, Quebec
1846 - Mormons found 1st English settlement in Calif (San Joaquin Valley)
1861 - 1st major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va-South wins
1865 - In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first true western showdown.
1866 - Cholera-epidemic kills hundreds in London
1867 - City Gardens on Folsom opens
1873 - Jesse James & James Younger gang's 1st train robbery (Adair Iowa)
1877 - -27] US army breaks railroad strike
1880 - Compressed air accident kills 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, NY
1884 - 1st Test Cricket match played at Lord's
1896 - National Federation of Afro-American Women & Colored Women's
1897 - Tate Gallery opens in England
1898 - Spain cedes Guam to US
1900 - Pope Leo XIII encyclical to Greek-Melkite rite
1904 - After 13 years, the 4,607-mile Trans-Siberian railway is completed
1904 - Camille Jenatzy sets world auto speed record at 65.79 MPH
1918 - U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts.
1919 - Anthony Fokker's establishes airplane factory at Hamburg & Amsterdam
1919 - Dirigible crashes through bank skylight killing 13 (Chicago, Ill)
1921 - Indians (9) & Yankees (7) hit a record 16 doubles
1923 - Phillies score 12 in 6th & beat Cubs 17-4
1925 - Monkey Trial ends-John Scopes found guilty of teaching Darwinism
1930 - 110°F (43°C) at Millsboro, Delaware (state record)
1930 - US Veterans Administration forms
1931 - Reno race track, becomes 1st in US to use daily double wagering
1933 - Haifa Harbor in Palestine opens
1934 - 113°F (45°C), near Gallipolis, Ohio (state record)
1938 - Paul Hindemith & Leonide Massines ballet premieres in London
1940 - Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
1940 - VARA-management accepts Rost of Tonningens demands
1941 - 200 Jewish Torahs are burned in Ukraine
1941 - Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp
1942 - 8 die as coal waste heap slides in river valley near Oakwood, Va
1944 - British premier Winston Churchill flies to France, meets Montgomery
1944 - General Koiso becomes premier of Japan
1944 - US forces land on Guam to get rid of Japanese invaders
1944 - Von Kluge warns Hitler of impending collapse of front in Normandy
1945 - Detroit Tigers & Phila A's play 24 inning 1-1 tie
1946 - Jesus T Pinerol becomes 1st native born Puerto Rican governor
1947 - Indonesia begins 1st political election
1948 - WSPD TV channel 13 in Toledo, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 - Senate ratifies North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13 (NATO)
1951 - Dalai Lama returns to Tibet
1952 - 7.8 earthquake shakes Kern County Calif, 14 killed
1952 - Premier Ghavam es-Sultaneh of Persia, resigns
1954 - At Geneva, France agrees to independence of North & South Vietnam
1955 - 1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor launched-Seawolf
1956 - Cin Red pitcher Brooks Lawrence loses after 13 straight wins
1956 - US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Enwetak
1957 - 1st black to win a major US tennis tournament (Althea Gibson)
1957 - 39th PGA Championship: Lionel Hebert at Miami Valley GC Dayton Ohio
1957 - Marilynn Smith/Fay Crocker wins Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament
1959 - 1st nuclear powered merchant ship, NS Savannah, christened, Camden NJ
1959 - Red Sox are last team to use a black player (Pumpsie Green)
1960 - Country of Katanga forms in Africa
1960 - In Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) Sirima Bandaranaike is world's 1st woman PM
1960 - Francis Chichester arrive in NY aboard Gypsy Moth II, setting record of 40 days for a solo Atlantic crossing
1961 - Launch of Mercury 4 (Liberty Bell) with Grissom
1962 - 160 civil right activists jailed after demonstration in Albany Ga
1962 - Battles on Chinese & Indies boundary
1963 - 45th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 279 at Dallas AC Dallas
1964 - Arnold Long takes 11 catches in the match for Surrey v Sussex
1964 - Mildred Simpson runs female world record marathon (3:19:33)
1964 - Neth last whaling ship Willem Barents Sea sold to Japan
1965 - Pakistan, Iran & Turkey sign Regional Co-Operation pact
1966 - Gemini X returns to Earth
1966 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 - 50th PGA Championship: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Pecan Valley TX
1968 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational
1968 - Jan Janssen wins Tour de France: 1st Dutchman
1969 - Neil Armstrong steps on Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)
1969 - Russia's Luna 15 impacts moon after 52 lunar orbits
1970 - Huge Aswan Dam opens in Egypt
1970 - Libya orders confiscation of all Jewish property
1970 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 - Clay Kirby has a no-hitter going for 8 inn, but is lifted for a pinch hitter, Reliever Jack Baldschun gives up 3 hits & Padres lose, 3-0

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 213

810 - Imam Bukhari, Islamic scholar (d. 870)
1515 - St Philippus Nerius, [Philippo Neri], Italian merchant/priest
1620 - Jean Picard, French astronomer
1664 - Matthew Prior, English poet
1676 - Anthony Collins, English philosopher (A discourse on free-thinking)
1693 - Thomas Pelham-Holles 1st duke of Newcastle, Engl minister of finance
1706 - Pierre Lyonet, zoologist/cryptologist (Anatomy of Wilgehoutrups)
1710 - Paul Möhring, German physician (d. 1792)
1748 - Louis-Henry Paisible, composer
1758 - Elizabeth Hamilton, author (Cats: A Celebration)
1762 - Willem GF Bentinck, Dutch earl/politician/organist
1779 - Gottlob Wiedebein, composer
1797 - Franz Schoberlechner, composer
1802 - David Hunter, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1804 - Victor Schoelcher, Guadeloupe, abolished french slavery
1808 - Simion Bărnuţiu, Romanian philosopher and politician (d. 1864)
1810 - Henri V Regnault, French physicist/chemist
1815 - Stewart Van Vliet, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1901
1816 - Paul Julius Baron von Reuter, founded Reuters news service
1817 - John Gilbert, painter/illustrator
1817 - Joseph K Barnes, Major General (Union Army), died in 1883
1821 - Vasile Alecsandri, Romania, poet/ Foreign Minister/diplomat
1822 - Ludwig Theodore Gouvy, composer
1826 - James Gillpatrick Blunt, Major General (Union volunteers)
1828 - John Rutter Brooke, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1832 - Henrietta Marie Morse King, cattlewoman
1856 - Harry A P Eyres, British diplomat (Constantinople, Albania)
1856 - Louise Blanchard Bethune, 1st US woman architect
1857 - A S C Wallis, [Adele SC von Antal-Opzoomer], Dutch writer
1858 - Lovis Corinth, German painter (d. 1925)
1858 - Maria Christina of Austria, queen of Spain (d. 1929)
1858 - Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand artist (d. 1941)
1863 - C[harles] Aubrey Smith, London England, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)
1864 - Frances Folsom Cleveland, 1st lady (1885-89, 93-97)
1865 - Robert Kahn, composer
1870 - Emil Orlik, Czech painter (d. 1932)
1880 - Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak politician, French general and astronomer (d. 1919)
1882 - David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (d. 1967)
1885 - Frances Parkinson Keyes, novelist (Dinner at Antoine)
1892 - Anton Schnack, German writer/poet
1892 - Gijsbert Friedhoff, architect (tax office Wibautstraat, Amsterdam)
1892 - Lenore Ulric, US actress (Notorious, Better Woman) [or 1894]
1893 - Hans Fallada, writer
1895 - H G "Nummy" Deane, South African cricket Test captain (1927-31)
1895 - Ken Maynard, Texas, cowboy/actor/producer (Bigfoot)
1898 - Ernest Willem Mulder, composer
1898 - Sara Carter, Virginia, vocalist/guitarist (Carter Family)
1899 - Ernest Hemmingway, Oak Park, for whom the bell tolled... (Nobel 1954)
1899 - Hart Crane, US, poet (Bridge)
1901 - Allyn Joslyn, Milford Pa, actor (They Won't Forget, Cafe Society)
1903 - Theodore Karyotakis, composer
1903 - Roy Neuberger, American financier
1905 - Diana Trilling, writer
1906 - Daniel Ayala Perez, composer
1907 - Ross Alexander, Brooklyn NY, actor (Boulder Dam, Capt Blood)
1908 - Harold "Jug" McSpaden, American professional golfer (d. 1996)
1909 - Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, Egyptologist
1911 - Jozef Cyrankiewicz, premier Poland (1947..70)
1911 - Marshall McLuhan, Canada, writer (Medium is the Massage)
1915 - Duke of Norfolk
1915 - Floyd McDaniel, blues singer/guitarist
1915 - Maurice Laing, English contractor/multi-millionaire
1920 - Constantly, [A Nieuwenhuys], painter (Uprising of Homo Ludens)
1920 - Isaac Stern, Kreminiecz Russia, violinist (debut SF Symph)
1920 - Manuel Valls Gorina, composer
1921 - Billy Taylor, Greenville NC, orch leader (David Frost Show)
1922 - Kay Starr, Dougherty Okla, singer (Rock & Roll Waltz, Club Oasis)
1923 - Henny Alma, [Hendrika den Broek], Dutch actress (Soldier of Orange)
1924 - Don Knotts, Morgantown WV, actor (Amdy Griffth Show, 3's Company)
1925 - Al Checco, Pittsburgh PA, actor (Extreme Close-up)
1925 - Lovro Zupanovic, composer
1925 - Anne Meacham, American actress
1926 - Gerald Ian Lacey, architect/town planner
1926 - Karel Reisz, director (Everybody Wins, Isadora, Who'll Stop the Rain)
1926 - Norman Jewison, director (Moonstruck, ...and Justice For All)
1926 - Paul Burke, New Orleans, actor (Thomas Crown Affair) [or Jan 21]
1926 - Rahimuddin Khan, Pakistani general
1926 - Queenie Watts, English actress (d. 1980)
1927 - Stefan Niculescu, composer
1928 - Marcel Gauthier, Canadian wrestler (d. 1998)
1929 - Bob Orton, American wrestler (d. 2006)
1930 - Gene Alec Littler, San Diego CA, PGA golfer (1961 US Open)
1930 - Anand Bakshi, Indian lyricist (d. 2002)
1931 - Leon Schidlowsky, composer
1932 - Ernie Warlick, American football player
1933 - Brigitte Reimann, writer
1933 - John C Gardner, scholar/writer (Grendel, Sunlight Dialogues)
1934 - Chandu Borde, cricket batsman (55 Tests for India 1959-67)
1934 - Edolphus Towns, (Rep-D-New York, 1983- )
1935 - Julian Pettifer, English TV-host
1935 - Kaye Stevens, Pitts, singer/comedienne (Jerry Lewis Show)
1935 - Norbert Blüm, German politician
1935 - Moe Drabowsky, baseball player (d. 2006)
1938 - Anton Emil Kuerti, composer
1938 - Janet Reno, US attorney general (1993- )
1938 - Les Aspin, (Rep-D-Wisc, 1971-93)/Minister of Defense (1993-94)
1939 - John Negroponte, 1st United States Director of National Intelligence
1940 - James E Clyburn, (Rep-D-South Carolina)
1941 - Jim Bates, (Rep-D-CA, 1983- )
1942 - Fred Hetzel, NBA star (SF, Cincinnati, Milwaukee Bucks)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 94 of 94

1160 - Peterus Lombardus, Italian theologist/bishop of Paris, dies
1425 - Manuel Paleologus, Byzantine Emperor (1391-1425)/writer, dies
1540 - John I Zapolyai, prince of Transsylvania/king of Hungary, dies
1544 - René of Chalon [Renatus of Nassau], prince of Orange, slain in battle
1683 - Lord William Russell, English plotter against Charles II, beheaded
1688 - James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English statesman and soldier (b. 1610)
1717 - Niccolo Amenta, Italian poet (La Gostanza), dies
1782 - Placidus Cajetan von Camerloher, composer, dies at 63
1793 - Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, French explorer (b. 1739)
1796 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet (Auld Lang Syne), dies at 37
1798 - François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (b. 1733)
1821 - Maurice J M prince de Broglie, bishop of Ghent, dies at about 55
1831 - Emil Aarestrup, Danish physician/poet (Ritornellen), dies at 55
1861 - Francis Stebbins Bartow, Confederate colonel, dies in battle at 44
1870 - Josef Strauss, Austrian composer (Dynamids), dies at 42
1880 - Hiram Walden, American politician (b. 1800)
1888 - Matthias J Scheeben, German theologist (Natur und Gnade), dies at 53
1889 - Nelson Dewey, American politician, 1st Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1813)
1891 - Franco Faccio, Italian composer/conductor, dies at 51
1899 - Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and military officer (b. 1833)
1910 - Johan Peter Selmer, composer, dies at 66
1917 - Christopher J Forster, British RAF-pilot/capt, dies in battle
1922 - Djemal Pasha, dictator of Turkey, murdered
1927 - J J Lyons, cricketer (14 Tests for Australia), dies
1928 - Ellen A Terry, Brits actress/dir (Imperial Theatre), dies at 81
1932 - Bill Gleason, late 19th century baseball player
1938 - Owen Wister, American author (b. 1860)
1941 - Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (b. 1872)
1943 - Charles William Paddock, 100m runner (Olympic-gold-1920), dies at 42
1944 - Gerrit van den Bosch, led illegal Dutch CPN party, dies in Dachau
1944 - Henning von Tresckow, Gen-Maj, "July 20th plotter", commits suicide
1946 - Gualberto Villarroel, President of Bolivia (b. 1908)
1948 - Arshile Gorky, abstract expressionist, dies at 43
1948 - Donald Nichols Tweedy, composer, dies at 58
1950 - Albert Riemenschneider, composer, dies at 71
1957 - Bernard Spooner, US inventor (bulletproof jacket), dies
1957 - Rockley Wilson, cricketer (bro of Clem, Test for England 1921), dies
1966 - Eugeen Calleen, Flemish sculptor, dies at 83
1967 - Albert J Luthuli, president South Africa (ANC), dies
1967 - Basil Rathbone, actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies of heart attack at 75
1967 - Jimmy Foxx, baseball hall of famer (Det Tigers/534 HRs), dies at 59
1967 - Pierre Kemp, Dutch poet (English paint box), dies at 80
1968 - Ruth St Denis, US choreography, dies at about 90
1970 - Mikhail Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (b. 1907)
1970 - Bob Kalsu, American football player (b. 1945)
1972 - Jigme Dori Wangchuck, King of Bhutan, dies
1972 - Ralph Craig, American athlete (b. 1889)
1973 - Russell Hardie, dies after long illness at 69
1974 - Willem F K Hussem, painter/poet (Steltlopen on Sea), dies at 74
1975 - Billy West, actor (Jimmy the Gent, Jealousy), dies at 82
1975 - Fie Carelsen, actress (Malle Gevallen), dies at 85
1976 - Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to Ireland, assassinated
1979 - Ludwig Renn, writer, dies at 90
1982 - Dave Garroway, TV host (Today Show), dies at 69
1982 - Jean J A Girault, French director (Gendarme Saint-Tropez), dies at 58
1984 - Michael Osborne, rock guitarist/vocalist (Axe), dies at 34
1985 - Mickey Shaughnessy, actor (Chicago Teddy Bears), dies at 65
1985 - Vicki Vola, actress (Miss Miller-Mr District Attorney)
1986 - Paulo Correia, Guinee-Bissaus colonel/putschist, executed
1986 - Virginia Hewitt, actress (Carol-Space Patrol), dies at 60
1986 - Ernest Maas, American screenwriter (b. 1892)
1990 - Manuel Puig, Argentina writer (Buenos Aires Affair), dies at 57
1990 - Sacha Piteoff, dies of heart failure at 70
1990 - Stanley Shapiro, dies of leukemia at 65
1991 - Theodore Wilson, dies at 47
1991 - Paul Warwick, English racing driver (b. 1969)
1993 - Henk Kersting, bureau chef (Associated Press-WW II), dies at 88
1993 - Piet Wielinga, TV producer (Dutch Glory), dies at 56
1993 - Robert J Glass, film producer (ET), is killed at 53
1994 - Dorothy Collins, singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 67
1994 - John Ernest, constructionist Artist, dies at 72
1994 - Marjorie Dorothy Chandler Collins, jazz singer, dies at 67
1995 - Edwin "Russell" House, saxophonist, dies at 65
1995 - Elleston Trevor, author, dies
1995 - Jon Boulle, motorcyclist, dies at 59
1996 - Francis James Claude Piggott, soldier, dies at 85
1996 - Gerald McArthur, detective, dies at 70
1996 - Herb Edelman, actor (Odd Couple, St Elsewhere), dies of emphysema 62
1996 - James Tye, safety expert, dies at 74
1996 - John Kevin Moorhouse, test pilot, dies at 50
1996 - Macha Louis Rosenthal, critic/poet, dies at 79
1996 - Wolf Morris, actor (Padmasambhava-Dr Who), dies at 71
1998 - Alan Shepard, astronaut (b. 1923)
1998 - Robert Young, American actor (b. 1907)
2001 - Steve Barton, American actor (b. 1954)
2001 - Sivaji Ganesan, South Indian Tamil actor (b. 1927)
2003 - John Davies, New Zealand Olympic Committee president (b. 1938)
2003 - Walter M. "Matt" Jefferies, American film art director (b. 1921)
2004 - Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (b. 1929)
2004 - Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1918)
2005 - Long John Baldry, British blues musician (b. 1941)
2005 - Lord Alfred Hayes, British Wrestling Announcer for WWE (b. 1928)
2006 - Mako, Japanese-born American actor (b. 1933)
2006 - Ta Mok, "The Khmer Rouge Butcher", war criminal in Democratic Kampuchea (b. 1926)