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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 181

1132 - Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
1148 - Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
1411 - Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place.
1487 - Citizens of Leeuwarden Neth rebel against ban on foreign beer
1534 - Jacques Cartier, lands in Canada, claims it for France
1554 - Queen Maria of England marries Philip, king of Naples/Jerusalem
1567 - Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate & 1-year-old James VI becomes King of Scotland
1577 - Spanish army/German mercenaries conquer Namur
1577 - Treason of Don Juan in Brussels
1581 - States of Holland/Zealand recognized by Willem van Orange
1651 - Anthony Johnson, a free black, receives grant of 250 acres in Va
1673 - Edmund Halley enters Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate
1683 - 1st settlers from Germany to US, leave aboard Concord
1692 - French defeat William III of England at Steinkirk (Enghein)
1701 - Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac found trading post at Ft Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit
1704 - English & Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar
1712 - Battle at Denain: France under Villars beat Dutch army
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes King James VIII
1758 - George Washington admitted to Virginia House of Burgess
1783 - Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia
1793 - France passes 1st copyright law
1799 - William Clark (of Lewis & Clark) is willed the slave York
1823 - Slavery is abolished in Chile.
1824 - Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll. Clear lead for Andrew Jackson
1832 - Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by using Wyoming's South Pass.
1833 - HMS Beagle departs Maldonado Uruguay
1847 - Brigham Young & his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, UT
1847 - Rotary-type printing press patents by Richard March Hoe, NYC
1851 - Window tax abolished in Britain
1861 - Skirmish at Taylor Mountain, (W)VA - CS Gen Wise retreats
1863 - Battle at Battle Mountain, Virginia
1864 - Battle of Winchester, VA US1200 CS600
1866 - Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union
1870 - 1st trans-US rail service begins
1877 - 1st time federal troops are used to combat strikers
1883 - Arabi Pasha declares a holy war in Egypt
1886 - China takes British protectorate of Burma
1893 - For only time in history of US Tennis championships, an event is held off the Eastern seaboard. Men's double championship in Chicago
1900 - Race riot in New Orleans, 2 white policemen killed
1901 - O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
1902 - Trumper a century before lunch 4th Test Cricket v England
1905 - Treaty of Bjorko: Emperor Wilhelm II/czar Nicholas II
1908 - John Hayes wins 4th olympics marathon (2:55:18.4 world record)
1909 - Bkln Dodger Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pitts Pirates
1910 - Matador Juan Belmonte (18) kills his 1st bull
1911 - Hiram Bingham discovers Lost City of the Incas
1911 - Cleve's League Park hosts 1st unofficial ML All Star game (benefit game for Addie Joss' family). Cleveland Naps lose to All Stars 5-3
1915 - Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 die
1919 - Race Riot in Washington DC (6 killed, 100 wounded)
1921 - Belgium's Leon Scieur wins Tour de France
1923 - Allied Powers & Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne
1925 - Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tn HS, fined $100 & costs
1927 - The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
1929 - NY to SF foot race ends (2½ months) winner is 60 year old Monteverde
1929 - Pres Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war
1931 - George Gunn gets 183 & son of a gunn George Vernon 100* same innings
1931 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2 mile (8:59.6)
1931 - A fire at a home for the elderly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people.
1933 - German judge Vogt signs deed of accusation against Van der Lubbe
1933 - #1726 Hoffmeister, #2136 Jugta, #2158, #3957 Sugie & #4589 McDowell
1934 - 1st ptarmigan hatched & reared in captivity, Ithaca, NY
1935 - 1st greeting telegram sent in Britain
1935 - The world's first children's railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR.
1936 - 118°F (48°C), Minden, Nebraska (state record)
1936 - 121°F (49°C), near Alton, Kansas (state record)
1936 - Gen Mola & Cabanellas form Spanish anti-govt
1937 - Alabama drops charges against 5 blacks accused of rape in Scottsboro
1938 - Instant coffee invented
1940 - 1st illegal "Newsletter of Pieter It Hen" publishes in Netherlands
1940 - Linthorst Homan, de Quay & Einthoven forms Dutch Union
1941 - FDR demands Japanese troops out of Indo-China
1941 - Nazi execute entire Jewish population of Grodz Lithuania
1941 - Red Sox Lefty Grove, 41, wins his 300th game
1942 - Irving Berlin's musical "This is the Army," premieres in NYC
1943 - RAF bombs Hamburg (20,000 dead)
1944 - 300 allied bombers drop fire bombs on Allied/German positions
1944 - Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek
1944 - US troops land on Tinian
1945 - US destroyer Underhill torpedoed West of Guam
1946 - 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League), die in a bus crash
1946 - US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island
1948 - 4 Duluth Minn Dukes (St Louis Cards Class C farm team) die in crash
1948 - Soviets blockades Berlin from west
1949 - Inidian pitcher Bob Lemon hits 2 HRs to beat Senators, 7-5
1950 - V-2/WAC Corporal rocket launch; 1st launch from Cape Canaveral
1952 - 112°F (44°C), Louisville, Georgia (state record)
1952 - Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record 5K (14:06.6)
1952 - Pres Truman settles 53-day steel strike
1953 - KEYT TV channel 3 in Santa Barbara, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Ali Sastroamidjojo of Govt resigns in Indonesia
1955 - Betty Jameson/Mary Faulk wins Virg Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament
1956 - Brendan Behan's "Quare Fellow," premieres in London
1956 - Dodgers lose to the Reds, 2-1, playing in Jesey City
1957 - KTVC TV channel 6 in Ensign, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1957 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - 14 people named 1st life peers in UK
1958 - Ted Williams is fined $250 for spitting at Boston fans again
1958 - Test Cricket debuts against NZ for Dexter, Illingworth & Subba Row
1959 - 500,000th Dutch TV set registered
1959 - VP Nixon argues with Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate"

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 245

1380 - Johannes van Capestrano, Italian saint
1660 - Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (d. 1718)
1686 - Benedetto Marcello, composer [or Aug 9]
1720 - Louise Ulrike, queen of Sweden/wife of Adolf Frederik
1725 - John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (d. 1807)
1738 - Elizabeth "Betje" Wolff-Bekker, Dutch author/poet (Sara Burgerhart)
1757 - Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (d. 1825)
1759 - Victor Emmanuel I, King of Sardinia (1802-21)
1783 - Simon Bolívar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule
1786 - Joseph Nicollet, French mathematician and explorer (d. 1843)
1794 - Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (d. 1865)
1796 - Herman van Sonsbeeck, Dutch lawyer/statesman
1796 - John Middleton Clayton, Delaware, (Sen-Del)/US Sec of State (1849-50)
1798 - John Adams Dix, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
1802 - Alexandre Dumas Pere, France, author (3 Musketeers)
1802 - Ira Aldridge, famous African
1803 - Alexander Jackson Davis, US, architect (gothic revivalist)
1815 - Antoine T D'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia) [or Jan 3, 1810]
1817 - Adolf WAKF, grand duke of Luxembourg (1890-1905)
1818 - Felix Godefroid, composer
1821 - William Poole, American gang member (New York City's Bowery Boys) (d. 1855)
1826 - Francisco S Lopez, [Tiran], president of Paraguay (1862-70)
1826 - Ivan Bloch, Polish military theorist and peace activist (d. 1902)
1827 - Julius Adolph de Lagnel, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1912
1832 - Johann Christoph Lauterbach, violinist
1841 - Raimundo Madrazo y Garretta, painter
1842 - Ambrose Bierce, Ohio, writer (Nuggets & Dust)
1851 - Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (d. 1935)
1856 - Charles Émile Picard, French mathematician (d. 1941)
1857 - Henrik Pontoppidan, Denmark, writer (Promised Country, Nobel 1917)
1858 - Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp Putsch 1920)
1860 - Alfons Mucha, Czech artist (d. 1939)
1862 - Johan A de Sleeve, [Adwaita], philosopher/classical/poet (Brahman)
1864 - B[enjamin] Frank[lin] Wedekind, German writer (Lulu)
1864 - Michel Gaston Carraud, composer
1865 - Frank Wedekind, writer
1867 - Fred Tate, cricketer (father of Maurice, 1 Test, Eng v Aus 1902)
1867 - Frederic Benson, novelist
1867 - Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran poet (d. the same day 1908)
1870 - Fred Law Olmsted Jr, architect/landscaper
1874 - Oswald Chambers, Scottish minister and writer (d. 1917)
1877 - Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian mafioso (d. 1954)
1878 - Lord Dunsany, [Edward JMD Plunkett], Irish sci-fi writer (Time & Gods)
1880 - Ernest Bloch, Geneva Switzerland, composer (MacBeth)
1880 - Kristian Hellström, Swedish athlete (d. 1946)
1884 - Abraham Rutgers, Dutch governor (Suriname, 1928-33)
1885 - Desider Antalffy-Zsiross, Hungarian organist/composer
1886 - Junichiro Tanizaki, Japan, writer (Snow Dusting)
1888 - Arthur Richardson, Australian cricket batsman (20's)
1894 - Walter Schulthess, composer
1896 - Hermann Kasack, German writer (Die Stadt hinter dem Strom)
1897 - Elmar Berkovich, Hungarian/Dutch designer (Eindhoven Theatre)
1897 - Karl von Mechow, German writer (Auf Dem Wege, Vorsommer)
1898 - Amelia Earhart, US aviator (1st woman to solo Atlantic)
1898 - Frank Mortelmans, Belgian painter
1899 - Chief Dan George, actor (Little Big Man)
1900 - Zelda Fitzgerald, 1st wife of F Scott
1902 - Hans Chemin-Petit, composer
1902 - Nora Swinburne, England, actress (Quo Vardis, Dinner at Ritz, River)
1903 - Robert Mills Delaney, composer
1904 - James R Killian Jr, MIT pres (1948-59)
1904 - Leo Arnaud, French-American composer (d. 1991)
1907 - Hugh Charles, songwriter/impressario
1908 - Cootie Williams, American trumpeter (d. 1985)
1910 - Edward Ford, registrat Order of Merit
1910 - Harry Horner, stage/Film Designer
1913 - George H Brown, film producer
1913 - Johnny McAfee, Dallas Tx, singer (Sammy Kaye Show)
1914 - David Miles Bensuan-Butt, economist
1914 - Edwin Mirvish, owner (Old Vic)
1914 - Frank Silvera, Kingston Jamaica, actor (High Chaparral)
1914 - Kenneth B Clark, Canal Zone, civil rights activist (Dark Ghetto)
1914 - Riccardo Malipiero, composer
1914 - Robert Emhardt, actor (Mac-Another World, Underworld USA, Mooncussers)
1915 - Frank Thistlethwaite, vice chancellor (University of East Anglia)
1915 - Enrique Fernando, Philippino jurist (d. 2004)
1916 - Bob Eberly, Mechanicsville NY, singer (Jimmy Dorsey Band)
1916 - John D MacDonald, novelist (Deep Blue Goodbye)
1917 - John Hillaby, writer/traveller
1917 - Robert Farnon, composer/conductor/arranger
1917 - Simon Slattvik, Norway, cross country ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1952)
1917 - Jack Moroney, Australian cricketer (d. 1999)
1918 - Ruggiero Ricci, SF Calif, composer/violinist (Paganini)
1919 - Robert Marsden Hope, Australian Justice (d. 1999)
1919 - Ferdinand Kübler, Swiss cyclist
1920 - Alexander H Cohen, NYC, Broadway producer (Beyond the Fringe)
1920 - Bella Abzug, (Rep-D-NY, 1970-74)
1921 - Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian operatic tenor (d. 2008)
1922 - Charles Mathias Jr, (Sen-R-MD, 1969-86)
1922 - Leo Kraft, composer
1922 - Madeleine Ferron, French Canadian writer
1924 - David Loram, British vice-admiral (Supreme Allied Commander)
1924 - Glenn Loren Glasow, composer
1924 - Janine Charrat, French ballerina/choreographer
1924 - Lord Digby, lord-lt for Dorset
1925 - Ignacio Aldecoa, Spanish writer (Gran Sol, Caballo the Pica)
1926 - Hans-Gunther Winkler, Germany, equestrian jumper (Olympic-gold-1956)
1926 - James Hele, high master (St Paul's School)
1927 - James J Howard, (Rep-D-NJ, 1965- )
1927 - Wilfred Josephs, composer

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 89 of 89

1115 - Matilda, Countess of Tuscany (b. 1046)
1240 - Konrad von Thüringen, fifth Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
1345 - Jacob van Artevelde, statesman, murdered
1568 - Prince Don Carlos of Spain (b. 1545)
1594 - John Boste, Catholic saint and martyr (b. 1544)
1652 - Johann Weichmann, composer, dies at 32
1712 - Cornelis earl of Nassau, general-major/mister of Woudenberg, dies
1739 - Benedetto Marcello, composer, dies on 53rd birthday
1756 - George Vertue, engraver, dies
1758 - John Dyer, poet, dies
1768 - Nathanial Lardner, English theologian (b. 1684)
1809 - Johann Gottfried Eckard, composer, dies at 74
1812 - Joseph Schuster, composer, dies at 63
1819 - Sophie Gail, composer, dies at 43
1826 - Jacob Kimball, composer, dies at 65
1831 - Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer, dies at 41
1837 - Charles Hodges, English/Dutch portrait painter
1842 - John Sell Cotman, landscape painter, dies
1846 - Joseph Leopold Eybler, Austrian composer/choir master, dies at 81
1846 - Louis Napoleon, French king of the Netherlands (1806-10), dies at 67
1862 - Martin Van Buren, 8th pres (1837-41), dies in Kinderhook NY at 79
1865 - Johan Filip von Schantz, composer, dies at 30
1868 - George Cattermole, painter/illustrator, dies
1876 - Thomas Molleson Mudie, composer, dies at 66
1883 - Matthew Webb, English Channel swimmer, drowns above Niagara Falls
1900 - Ferdinand Hamet, Dutch missionary in Mongolia, murdered at 59
1908 - Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran poet (b. the same day 1867)
1910 - Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (b. 1841)
1927 - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (b. 1892)
1931 - Marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of finance, dies at 75
1933 - Max von Schillings, composer, dies at 65
1936 - James Philip Dunn, composer, dies at 52
1944 - Jan Postma, leader of illegal Dutch party (CPN), executed at 49
1947 - Ernest Austin, composer, dies at 72
1954 - Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90
1957 - Sacha Guitry, actor/playwright/director (Lovers & Thieves), dies at 72
1960 - Carl Deis, composer, dies at 77
1960 - Hans Albers, German actor (Blue Angel), dies at 68
1962 - Victor Moore, comedian, dies of heart attack at 86
1964 - Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer, dies
1965 - Constance Bennett, actress (Madame X, Topper), dies at 59
1965 - Irene Browne, actress (Peg O' My Heart), dies of cancer at 69
1966 - Tony Lema, US golfer, dies at 32
1967 - Little Billy Rhodes, dies of stroke at 72
1969 - Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author (Ferdydurke, Dziennik), dies at 64
1970 - Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman (b. 1897)
1971 - Alan Rawsthorne, composer, dies at 66
1972 - Bobby Ramirez, drummer (White Trash), killed at 23 in bar brawl
1973 - Mary Frasca, singer/actress, dies in NYC
1974 - Chris Chubbock, newscaster, shoots self on air
1974 - Ernest Milton, actor (Julius Caesar, Cat Girl), dies at 84
1974 - James Chadwick, English physicist (Nobel 1935), dies at 82
1979 - Archie Duncan, actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 65
1980 - Peter Sellers, actor (Pink Panther, Mouse that Roared), dies at 54
1980 - Uttam Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1926)
1986 - Fritz A Lipman, discoverer (co-enzymes, Nobel 1953), dies at 87
1986 - Laurie Nash, cricketer (two Tests for Australia 1932-36), dies
1989 - Ernest Morrison, actor (Peggy Does Her Darndest), dies
1990 - Alan Clarke, director (Elephant, Road, Scum, Firm), dies at 54
1991 - Freddie Brown, cricketer (English Test captain 1950-51), dies
1991 - Isaac B Singer, Polish/US writer (Yentl, Nobel 1978), dies at 87
1991 - Karl Ellis, dies at 41
1992 - Arlette-Leonie Arletty, dies at 94
1992 - Khaled Mahmoud Saeed, asst to Palestine terrorist Abu Nidal, murdered
1992 - Lillian Oppenheimer, orgamist, dies of a heart attack at 93
1992 - Sam Berger, Canadian football owner (b. 1900)
1993 - Ben[jamin S] Polak, Dutch physician/resistance fighter, dies
1993 - Francis Bouygues, French entrepreneur/billionaire, dies at 70
1993 - Lonnie D'Orsa, dies at 96
1993 - Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian (b. 1957)
1994 - Grete Schickedanz, German head mistress, dies at 82
1994 - Wangila Napunyi, welterweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1988), dies at 26
1995 - Don Richard Carpenter, novelist, dies at 64
1995 - Jeremiah Jerry Patrick Lordam, songwriter/compser, dies at 61
1995 - Jerzy Bonawentura Toeplitz, film maker/teacher, dies at 94
1995 - Werner Grusch, film director, dies at 51
1996 - "Jock" John Wallace, soccer player/manager, dies at 60
1996 - Howard Vernon, actor (Faceless, Delicatessen), dies at 82
1996 - Jock Wallace, football player/manager, dies at 60
1996 - Virginia Christine, actress (Mrs Olson), dies at 76
1997 - Saw Maung, general/president of Myanmar (Burma) (1988-92), dies
1997 - William J Brennan, supreme court justice (1956-90), dies at 91
2000 - Ahmad Shamlou, Iranian poet (b. 1925)
2001 - Georges Dor, Canadian author, composer, singer and playwright (b. 1931)
2005 - Richard Doll, English epidemiologist (b. 1912)
2007 - Albert Ellis, American psychologist (b. 1913)
2007 - Chaney Kley, American Actor (b. 1972)
2008 - Norman Dello Joio, American composer (b. 1913)
2009 - E. Lynn Harris, American Author (b. 1955)