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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 207

285 - Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler.
306 - Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
841 - Battle at Fontenay: Louis & Charles beat their brother Lotharius I
864 - The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings.
1139 - Count Alfonso I of Portugal becomes king
1215 - Frederik II (20) crowned king of German
1261 - Byzantium Emperor Michael VIII recaptures Constantinople
1261 - The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire.
1360 - Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia
1511 - Portugese assault on city Malakka attack
1519 - San Cristobal de la Habana forms in Cuba
1521 - About 300 heretics burned in Vrijdagmarkt Gent
1536 - Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the City of Santiago de Cali.
1538 - The City of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil.
1547 - Henry II of France is crowned.
1564 - Maximilian II succeeds his father Ferdinand II as RC emperor
1567 - Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
1570 - Battle at Arnay-le-Duc Bourgundy: Huguenots-French govt army
1585 - Amsterdam bans 45 roman catholics
1593 - France's Protestant King Henri IV converts to Roman Catholic
1603 - James VI of Scotland is crowned the first king of Great Britain.
1652 - Nikita Minin becomes patriarch of Russian-orthodox church
1670 - Austrian Emperor Leopold I expels 4,000 Jews from Vienna
1670 - Don Juan Domingo Zuniga y Fonseca becomes gov-gen of Southern Neth
1670 - Vienna Austria expels Jews
1689 - France declares war on England
1693 - Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, México.
1722 - The Three Years War begins along the Maine and Massachusetts border.
1729 - North Carolina becomes a royal colony
1758 - Seven Years' War: the island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
1759 - British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War)
1775 - Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta
1792 - Dutch patriots exiles finds "Bataafs Legion"
1792 - The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French Royal Family is harmed.
1795 - The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid.
1797 - Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).
1799 - French-Egyptian forces under Napolean I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir
1814 - Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundy's Lane); Americans defeat British
1814 - George Stephenson introduced the 1st steam locomotive
1822 - Gen Agustin de Iturbide crowned Agustin I, 1st emperor of Mexico
1824 - Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
1832 - 1st railroad accident in US, Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies
1835 - Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine
1837 - The first commercial use of an electric telegraph was successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.
1848 - 1st battle at Custozza: Austrians under Radetzky beat Italian
1850 - Gold discovered in Oregon (Rogue River)
1853 - Joaquin Murietta, the famous Californio bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.
1860 - 1st US intercollegiate billiard match (Harvard vs Yales)
1861 - Washington DC - Crittenden resolution is passed stating that the war is to be fought to preserve union & uphold the Constitution, not to alter slavery
1861 - Skirmish at Fort Fillmore, NM Terr - Rebels attack Union troops
1863 - Skirmish at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia
1866 - 25th Postmaster General: Alexander W Randall of Wis takes office
1866 - David Faragut appointed as 1st admiral of US Navy
1866 - US Grant named 1st general of Army
1868 - US Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah & Idaho)
1871 - Carousel patents by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa
1897 - Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories.
1898 - 1st US troops land & occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay
1900 - Gilbert Jessop hits his 2nd 100 before lunch in same cricket match
1902 - James J Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1903 - Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes
1907 - Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
1908 - Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
1909 - France's Louis Bleriot, makes 1st airplane flight across Engl Channel
1912 - Comoros proclaimed a French colonies
1913 - Carl Weilman strikes out 6 times in a 15 inning game
1913 - Pirates Max Carey goes hitless, but scores 5 runs against Phillies
1914 - Germany soc-democrat "No German blood for Austrian tyrant"
1914 - Last day of club cricket for W G Grace at age 66 He made 69
1916 - Explosion at Lake Erie & Cleveland Waterworks
1917 - Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
1918 - Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of US, Calif
1918 - Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks & 2 whites killed)
1920 - Red Sox turn triple-play, but Ruth's 35th HR leads Yanks to 8-2 win
1922 - AT&T begins broadcasting on WBAY (NYC-later WEAF, WNBC, WRCA & WFAN)
1923 - German mark devalued to 600,000 Dmark=$1
1930 - Phila Athletics triple steal in 1st & 4th innings vs Cleveland
1933 - 1st Dutch live radio concert: Duke Ellington
1934 - Failed nazi coup in Austria
1936 - 115 acre Orchard Beach opens in the Bronx
1938 - Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany
1938 - Revolutionary offensive of Ebro Spain (Hollander Piet)
1939 - 5th & last Dutch govt of Colijn, forms
1939 - NY Yankee Atley Donald sets AL rookie record with 12 consecutive win
1940 - John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hrs 46 mins in the Mississippi R
1941 - FDR bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan
1941 - Red Sox Lefty Grove becomes 12th to win 300 games (his last victory)
1942 - German troops occupy Rostov
1942 - German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja
1943 - 1st warship named for a Black person, SS Leonard Roy Harmon, launched
1943 - Benito Mussolini captured, dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II
1943 - Opposition group Zwaantje forms in Delfzijl
1943 - RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam
1944 - -26] Japanse banzai-attack on Guam
1944 - 1st jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262)
1944 - Allied jailbreak at St-Lo (behind German lines)
1944 - US troop march into Guam
1944 - USAF kills 136, wounds 621 GI's at St-Lo
1944 - World War II: Operation Spring - one of the bloodiest days for Canadians during the war: 18,444 casualties, including 5,021 killed.
1946 - 1st bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 213

975 - Thietmar, bishop of Merseburg, German chronicler
1016 - Casimir I, Duke of Poland (d. c. 1058)
1109 - Afonso I, the Conqueror, king of Portugal (1143-85)
1336 - Albert, Count of Holland (d. 1404)
1404 - Philips van Saint-Pol, Duke of Brabant
1421 - Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1461)
1517 - Jacques Peletier (du Mans), French poet/scientist
1562 - Kiyomasa Kato, Japanese warlord (d. 1611)
1575 - Christoph Scheiner, Germany, astronomer
1579 - Valerius Otto, composer
1626 - Geeraerdt Brandt, Dutch theologist/poet/historian
1654 - Agostino Steffani, composer
1657 - Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer
1658 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (d. 1703)
1683 - Pieter Langendijk, painter/etcher/playwright (Wiskunstenaars)
1691 - Alessandro Galilei, Italian architect (Cappella Corsini)
1715 - Immanuel J Pyra, German poet (Temple of Real Poetry)
1750 - Henry Knox, American general (d. 1806)
1761 - Charlotte von Kalb, German writer
1772 - Gottlob Benedikt Bierey, composer
1775 - Anna Symmes Harrison, Ohio, 9th 1st lady (1841)
1778 - Heinrich Gebhard, composer
1780 - Christian Theodor Weinlig, composer
1786 - Giacomo Cordella, composer
1795 - James Barry, female disguised as a man, surgeon general (British army)
1797 - Princess Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge (d. 1889)
1799 - David Douglas, Scottish botanist (d. 1834)
1804 - Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello, Italian minister of Education
1816 - Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition)
1822 - Schuyler Hamilton, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
1824 - Richard James Oglesby, Union (Union volunteers), died in 1899
1832 - Simon Hassler, composer
1839 - Francis Garnier, French explorer (d. 1873)
1840 - Flora Adams Darling, founded Daughters of American Revolution
1844 - Thomas Eakins, American artist (d. 1916)
1848 - Arthur Earl Balfour, (C), British PM (1902-05) (Balfour Declaration)
1855 - Edward Solomon, composer
1860 - Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught (d. 1917)
1865 - Jac[obus] P Thijsse, Dutch biologist/educator (Contact with Plants)
1866 - Frederick Frost Blackman, English botanist
1867 - Max Dauthendy, German painter/author (Ewige Hochzeit)
1867 - Alexander Rummler, American painter (d. 1959)
1870 - Jan D Domela Nieuwenhuis Nyegaard, Dutch vicar (Young Flanders)
1870 - Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (d. 1966)
1882 - George S. Rentz, Navy Chaplain, Navy Cross (d. 1942)
1883 - Alfredo Casella, Turin Italy, composer (La Giara)
1884 - Davidson Black, Canada, doctor of anatomy (identified Peking Man)
1885 - Benito Lynch, Irish/Argentine writer (Caranchos de la Florida)
1890 - Julian Rivero, SF CA, actor (Son of Oklahoma, Via Pony Express)
1890 - Tom O'Brien, San Diego CA, actor (Physical Evidence)
1893 - Dorothy Dickson, actress/dancer (Paying the Piper, Danny Boy)
1895 - Yvonne Printemps, Ermont France, singer/actress (Le Duel)
1896 - Richard N Gale, English general/airborne commander (Normandy)
1896 - Jack Perrin, American actor (d. 1967)
1897 - Hermann Ambrosius, composer
1899 - Arthur Lubin, film director
1899 - Ralph Dumke, Indiana, actor (Movieland Quiz)
1900 - Enrique Amorim, Uruguayan author (La victoria no viene sola)
1901 - Walter Breedveld/Reinier de Muntel, writer (Een ship vergaat)
1901 - Lila Lee, American actress (d. 1973)
1902 - Eric Hoffer, longshoreman/author (True Believer)
1903 - Andre Fleury, composer
1905 - Elias Canetti, Bulgarian/British novelist (Life-Terms, Nobel 1981)
1905 - Lila Lee, Union City NJ, actress (Midnight Girl, Blood & Sand)
1905 - Denys Watkins-Pitchford, writer and illustrator (d. 1990)
1907 - Jack Gilford, NYC, actor (Save the Tiger, Cocoon, Arthur 2)
1907 - Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist (d. 1970)
1908 - Joseph Mitchell, writer
1908 - Bill Bowes, English cricketer (d. 1987)
1908 - Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian musician (d. 2003)
1913 - John Cairncross, linguist (5th Man)
1914 - Woody Strode, actor (Posse, Cotton Club, Vigilante, Scream)
1915 - David Napley, solicitor
1916 - Ko van Dijk Jr, Dutch actor (Zaak M P)
1916 - Lucien Saulnier, Quebec politician (d. 1989)
1917 - Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1990)
1918 - Nan Grey, [Eschal Miller], actress (3 Grief Girl, Dracula's Daughters)
1918 - Jane Frank, American artist (d. 1986)
1919 - Hubert Booi, Bonairian poet (Golgotha/Muchila)
1920 - Rosalind Franklin, English scientist (d. 1958)
1921 - John Christopherson, artist/collector
1923 - Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (d. 2007)
1924 - Estelle Getty, NYC, actress (Sophia Petrillo-Golden Girls)
1924 - Frank Church, (Sen-D-Id, 1957-81)
1925 - Alistair Taylor, cricketer (one Test as opening bat for S Afr 1956)
1925 - Jerry Paris, SF Calif, director/actor (Jerry-Dick Van Dyke Show)
1926 - Teodor Grigoriu, composer
1926 - Whitey Lockman, American baseball player
1927 - Midge Decter, St Paul Minn, anti woman's lib (Liberated Woman...)
1927 - Stanley Dancer, harness racer (4 Hambletonians, 3 Trot Triple Crown)
1927 - Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (d. 2003)
1927 - Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani politician (d. 2000)
1928 - Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (d. 2005)
1928 - Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (d. 1988)
1929 - Somnath Chatterjee, Indian communist leader
1929 - Eddie Mazur, Canadian hockey player (d. 1995)
1930 - Maureen Forrester, Montreal Canada, contralto (Ressurection Symphony)
1930 - Murray Chapple, cricketer (NZ Test batsman through the 1950's)
1930 - Alice Parizeau, Polish-born Quebec writer and essayist (d. 1990)
1930 - Annie Ross, British jazz singer

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 104

306 - Gaius Flavius V Constantius, under-emperor of Rome 297-306, dies
1409 - King Martin I of Sicily
1471 - John Soreth, French general, dies
1492 - Innocent VII, [Giovanni B Cibo], Italian Pope (1484-92), dies
1539 - Lorenzo Campeggi(east), archbishop of Bologna/diplomat, dies at 65
1564 - Ferdinand I, German Emperor (1558-64), dies at 61
1570 - Ivan Viskovati, chancellor of Russia, executed
1580 - Baltazar Alvarez, Spanish jesuit/writer, dies at 47
1593 - Steven Haghen, navigator/governor of Ambon (1617-18), dies at 61
1616 - Andreas Libavius, German alchemist, dies
1624 - Steven van der Haghen, admiral/gov on Ambon 1617-8, dies at about 61
1643 - Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, English statesman (b. 1584)
1675 - Nicolas Saboly, composer, dies at 61
1676 - François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (b. 1604)
1681 - Urian Oakes, English-born President of Harvard University (b. 1631)
1721 - Geleyn Evertsen, lt-admiral of Zealand, dies at 66
1739 - Johannes van der Hagen, vicar/genealogy/chronologist, dies at 73
1759 - Johann C Altnikol, German organist/klavecinist/composer, dies at 39
1759 - Theodoor Verhaegen, Flemish sculptor, dies
1790 - Johann Bernhard Basedow, German education reformer (b. 1723)
1790 - William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1723)
1791 - Isaac Low, American Continental Congressman (b. 1735)
1794 - Andrea-Marie Chenier, French poet (Avis aux Francais sur leurs), dies
1804 - William Forsyth, English gardening expert (Forsythia), dies
1814 - Charles Dibdin, composer, dies at 69
1826 - Pavel I Pestel, Russian officer, hanged at 33 [OS Jul 13]
1826 - Kondraty Fyodorovich Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary (b. 1795)
1834 - S T Coleridge, writer, dies at 61
1834 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet, dies at 61
1842 - Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (b. 1766)
1843 - Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (b. 1766)
1853 - Joaquin Murietta, Chilian/Us military man, murdered
1853 - Joaquin Murieta, California outlaw
1857 - Joseph Napoleon Ney Moskova, composer, dies at 54
1861 - Jonas Furrer, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1805)
1864 - Clement Hoffman Stevens, Us banker/inventor/Conf brig-gen, dies at 42
1865 - "James Barry", military surgeon, first female Briton to become a qualified medical doctor
1866 - Aloys Schmitt, German music theory/composer/royal pianist, dies
1887 - John Taylor, American religious leader (b. 1808)
1911 - Filippo Capocci, composer, dies at 71
1912 - Lawrence Alma Tadema, Dutch/British painter, dies at 76
1918 - Carlos Guido y Spano, Argentine poet (Mexico, canto epico), dies
1918 - Franiska zu Reventlow, writer, dies at 47
1922 - Jarolslaw Zielinski, composer, dies at 75
1927 - Matilde Serao, [Tuffolina], Italian writer (Land of Cockayne), dies
1932 - Cyriel Buysse, Flemish baron/writer (It Bolleken), dies [or 1936]
1934 - Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian chancellor assassinated by nazis
1934 - Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist (b. 1889)
1934 - François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (b. 1874)
1944 - Lesley J McNair, US lt-general, killed by US bomb at St-Lo
1946 - Narziss Oh, German psychology, dies
1952 - Herbert Murrill, composer, dies at 43
1955 - Ilmari Hannikainen, composer, dies at 62
1955 - Isaak Iosifovich Dunayevsky, composer, dies at 55
1958 - "Sensational" Sherri Martel, woman's wrestling champ (WWF)
1958 - Harry Warner, US movie pionier (Warner Bros), dies at 81
1959 - Isaac Halevi Herzog, chief rabbi of Israel (1936-59), dies at 71
1962 - Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian jurist and Chief Justice (b. 1879)
1963 - Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (b. 1877)
1966 - Frank O'Hara, writer, dies at 40
1966 - Montgomery Clift, movie actor (From Here to Eternity), dies
1967 - W Gombrowicz, writer, dies at 62
1969 - Douglas Stuart Moore, composer, dies at 75
1971 - Leroy Robertson, composer, dies at 74
1973 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882)
1974 - Walter Brennan, actor (Real McCoys), dies at 79
1980 - Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet, singer, and actor (b. 1938)
1981 - Ian Martin, actor (Uncle Bill-O'Neills), dies at 69
1982 - Beene Dubbelboer, writer (Turfgasgenerator), dies at 76
1982 - Hal Foster, Canadian-American cartoonist (Prince Valiant) (b. 1892)
1983 - Jerome Moross, US composer (Frankie & Johnny), dies at 69
1984 - Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1913)
1984 - Big Mama Thornton, American singer (b. 1926)
1986 - Theodore H "Ted" Lyons, pitcher (Chic White Sox), dies at 85
1986 - Vincente Minnelli, director (Gigi, Goodbye Charlie), dies in LA at 76
1987 - Malcolm Baldrige, Secretary of Commerce, dies of internal injuries
1989 - Steve Rubell, American night club owner (b. 1943)
1991 - Brian Haines, actor (Adv of Robin Hood, It), dies at 70
1991 - Kaganovitch, Russian minister of Transport for Stalin, dies
1991 - Toni Gerry, actress (Bullet for Joey, Lust for Life), dies at 61
1992 - Alfred Drake, Broadway actor (Oklahoma), dies of heart failure at 78
1992 - Hope Miller, actress (Bwana Devil), dies of breast cancer at 63
1993 - Nan Grey, actress (Invisible Man Returns), dies on 75th birthday
1994 - John M Dengler, jazz Bass Sax/Trumpet/Trombone, dies at 67
1995 - Charlie Rich, country singer (Lonely Weekends), dies at 62
1995 - Janice Elliott, novelist, dies at 63
1995 - Osvaldo Pugliese, musician/composer, dies at 89
1996 - Raymond O'Malley, teacher, dies at 87
1997 - Ben Hogan, golfer (Masters, Brit Open, US Open-1953), dies at 84
1997 - Dora Maar, Picasso model/companion, dies at 89
1997 - Margaret Farrer, midwife, dies at 83
1998 - Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist (b. 1921)
2002 - Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher (b. 1917)
2003 - Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (b. 1912)
2003 - Erik Brann, American musician (Iron Butterfly) (b. 1950)
2003 - John Schlesinger, British film director (b. 1926)
2005 - Albert Mangelsdorff, German jazz trombonist (b. 1928)
2006 - Carl Brashear, first African-American U.S Navy Master Diver (b. 1931)
2007 - Bernd Jakubowski, German goalkeeper (b. 1952)
2007 - Jesse Marunde, American strongman competitor (b. 1979)