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Historical Events

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836 - Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples
993 - Saint Ulrich of Augsburg is canonized.
1054 - Brightest known super-nova (Crab Nebula) starts shining (23 days)
1120 - Jordan II of Capua is anointed as prince after his infant nephew's death.
1187 - Battle of Hittin (Tiberias): Saladin defeats Reinoud of Châtillon
1301 - Battle at Breukelen: Holland vs Lichtenberg
1359 - Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz.
1415 - Angelo Correr becomes Pope Gregory XII
1453 - 41 Jewish martyrs burned at stake at Breslau
1534 - Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye.
1610 - Battle at Klushino: King Sigismund II beats Russian & Sweden
1634 - The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France, later to become the Canadian province of Quebec.
1636 - City of Providence, Rhode Island form
1652 - Prince of Condé starts blood bath in Paris
1653 - British Barebones Parliament goes into session
1672 - States of Holland declares "Eternal Edict" void
1693 - Battle at Boussu-lez-Walcourt: French-English vs Dutch army
1708 - Swedish King Karel XII beats Russians
1754 - George Washington gives Ft Necessity to France
1774 - Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts
1776 - Declaration of Independence-US gains independence from Britain
1779 - French fleet occupies Grenada
1789 - 1st US tariff act
1796 - 1st Independence Day celebration is held
1802 - US Military Academy officially opens (West Point, NY)
1803 - The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.
1810 - French troops occupy Amsterdam
1817 - Construction on Erie Canal begins
1819 - William Herschel makes last telescopic observation of 1819 comet
1827 - Slavery abolished in NY
1828 - Construction begins on B & O (Baltimore-Ohio) 1st US passenger RR
1829 - Cornerstone laid for 1st US mint (Chestnut & Juniper St, Phila)
1831 - "America (My Country 'Tis of Thee)" is 1st sung in Boston
1832 - "America" 1st sung publicly
1836 - Wisconsin Territory forms
1837 - Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
1840 - The Cunard Line's 700 ton wooden paddle steamer RMS Britannia departs from Liverpool bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia on the first transatlantic crossing with a scheduled end.
1845 - Henry David Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond
1845 - Texas Congress votes for annexation to US
1855 - In Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, titled Leaves of Grass, is published.
1859 - Austro-Sardinian War: the Battle of Magenta.
1861 - In a special session of 27th Congress Lincoln requests 400,000 troops
1861 - Skirmish at Harper's Ferry, WV
1862 - Battle at Green River Ky (Morgan's Ohio Raid)
1862 - Lewis Carroll creates Alice in Wonderland for Alice P Liddell
1862 - Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry)
1862 - R Morgan's: Tomkinsville, KY to Somerset, KY [->JUL 28]
1863 - Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)
1863 - Failed Confederate assault on Helena Arkansas (640 casualties)
1863 - General Lee's army withdraws from Gettysburg
1863 - Skirmish at Smithburg, TN
1863 - Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces
1864 - -9] Battle at Chattahoochee River, Georgia
1865 - 1st edition of "Alice in Wonderland" is published
1866 - Firecracker thrown in wood starts fire destroying half of Portland, Mainee, US
1868 - Battle at Ueno: last Tokugawa armies defeated
1873 - Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens
1874 - Social Democratic Workmen's Party of North America formed
1875 - White Democrats kill several blacks in terrorist attacks in Vicksburg
1876 - 1st public exhibition of electric light in SF
1876 - Batholdi visits Bedloe Island, future home of his Statue of Liberty
1879 - Africaner Union forms by Rev SJ du Toit at Cape colony
1879 - Battle at Rorkes Drift: Britain ends attack on Zulus
1881 - Booker T Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute (Alabama)
1882 - Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in SF
1883 - Buffalo Bill Cody presents 1st wild west show, North Platte, Nebr
1884 - 1st US bullfight held (Dodge City Ks)
1884 - Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris
1886 - 1st scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Pt Moody, BC
1887 - The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
1888 - 1st organized rodeo competition held, Prescott, Ariz
1889 - Washington state constitutional convention holds 1st meeting
1892 - James Keir Hardie chosen 1st socialist in British Lower house
1892 - Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, so that year there were 367 days in this country, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4.
1894 - Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of 1st US autos at 6 MPH
1894 - Republic of Hawaii proclaimed, Sanford B Dole as president
1895 - Katherine Lee Bates publishes "America the Beautiful"
1898 - French liner "La Bourgogne" collides with bark Cromartyshire, 560 die
1898 - US flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish-American War)
1903 - Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, Pres TR sends message
1905 - Phila A's beat Boston Red Sox 4-2 in 20 inning game
1906 - Gr Brit, France & Italy grant Independence to Ethiopia
1907 - Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1908 - NY Giant George "Hooks" Witse no-hits Phila Phillies, 1-0 in 10 inn
1910 - Jack Johnson KOs James J Jeffries in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1911 - 105°F (41°C) at Vernon, Vermont (state record)
1911 - 106°F (41°C) at Nashua, New Hampshire (state record)
1911 - Ty Cobb goes 0 for 4 & ends a 40 game hit streak
1911 - White Sox Ed Walsh stops Ty Cobb's 40-game hitting streak
1912 - Detroit Tiger George Mullen no-hits St Louis Browns, 7-0
1912 - Jack Johnson TKOs Jim Flynn in 9 for heavyweight boxing title
1913 - 37th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: A F Wilding beats McLoughlin (86 63 10-8)
1914 - 1st US motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks)
1918 - Altar dedicated at full-scale replica of Stonehenge at Maryhill, Wa
1918 - Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne.
1919 - ADGB (Allgemeine Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund) party forms
1919 - Cincinnati Reds are 10½ games back in NL, & win World Series
1919 - Jack Dempsey KOs Jess Willard in Cuba for heavyweight championship
1923 - Jack Dempsey beats Tommy Gibbon in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1925 - 44 die when Dreyfus Hotel in Boston collapses

Famous Birthdays

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1330 - Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (d. 1367)
1546 - Murad III, sultan of Turkey (1574-95)
1546 - Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1595)
1610 - Cornelis Evertsen, the Elder, Dutch/Swiss vice-admiral
1610 - Paul Scarron, French playwright (Virgile Travesti)
1669 - Alexander von Papenhoven, Flemish religious sculptor
1694 - Louis-Claude Daquin, [d'Acquin], French organist/composer (La Rose)
1715 - Christian F Gellert, Saxony, poet/novelist (Fables & Tales)
1719 - Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (d. 1797)
1753 - Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, 1st balloon flights in England, US
1762 - Marco Santucci, composer
1769 - Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, composer
1790 - George Everest, Welsh surveyor (d. 1866)
1793 - Franz Xaver Pechacek, composer
1799 - F J Oscar I, King of Sweden/Norway (1844-59)
1804 - Desire de Haerne, Belgian priest/Congressional leader
1804 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mass, author (House of 7 Gables, Scarlet Letter)
1807 - Giuseppe Garibaldi, freedom fighter (Risorgimento)/unified Italy
1810 - Phineas T Barnum, circus magnate
1816 - Hiram Walker, American grocer and distiller (d. 1899)
1819 - Reuben Eaton Fenton, Governor (Union), died in 1885
1826 - Green Clay Smith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1826 - Stephen Foster, Lawrencevil, Pa, composer (Oh! Susanna, Swanee River)
1828 - James Johnston Pettigrew, Brig General (Confederate Army)
1828 - Theodor W Ahlwardt, German orientalist
1829 - Hermann Kotzchmar, composer
1840 - James McGranahan, composer
1841 - Edward Gailliard, Flemish linguist/archaeologicalist
1841 - Marie von Wied, Princess of Orange Nassau
1842 - Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austria, sociologist/judge/fieldmarshal
1842 - Gyula Erkel, composer
1845 - Thomas John Barnardo, English social worker
1847 - James Anthony Bailey, Detroit, circus impresario (Barnum & Bailey)
1850 - Ole Olsen, composer
1854 - Heinrich Zollner, composer
1854 - Victor Babeş, Romanian bacteriologist (d. 1926)
1867 - Stephen Mather, organized US National Park Service
1868 - Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer (d. 1921)
1869 - Karl Seitz, president of Austria
1870 - Pieter van der Lijn, Dutch geologist (Dutch boulders)
1872 - Calvin Coolidge, [Silent Cal], Plymouth Vt, (R) 30th pres (1923-29)
1875 - Giovanni & Giacomo Tocci, Italy, siamese twins
1876 - William Farnum, Boston MA, actor (Spoilers, Man who Fights Alone)
1880 - George Mullin, pitcher (Detroit Tigers-no-hitter on 7/4/1912)
1880 - Pat Rooney, vaudevillian/actor (Night Club)
1881 - Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier (d. 1968)
1882 - Cornelis van der Lugt Melsert, Dutch actor/dir (Willem van Oranje)
1882 - Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (d. 1957)
1883 - Alan Brooke, English general [or Jul 23]
1883 - Maximilian Oseyevich Shteynberg, composer
1883 - Rube Goldberg, cartoonist (who made the easy outrageously difficult)
1884 - Alexander Byvanck, Dutch art historian/archaeologist
1885 - Louis B Mayer, Minsk Russia, motion-picture executive (MGM)
1886 - Heinrich Kaminski, composer
1888 - Henry Armetta, Italian/US actor (Bell for Adano, Big Store)
1894 - Henry Carlson, basketball coach (originated figure 8 play)
1895 - Irving Caesar, songwriter
1895 - Massimo Campigli, Italian painter/illustrator
1895 - Walderman Marx, cricketer (S Af, 240 on FC debut (then world record))
1896 - Adolf Hallis, composer
1896 - Mao Dun, Chinese writer (d. 1981)
1898 - Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (Mimi, Rembrandt)
1898 - Johnny Lee, Missouri, actor (Calhoun-Amos 'n' Andy)
1898 - Dr. Pilar Barbosa, Puerto Rican historian (d. 1997)
1900 - Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, New Orleans LA, jazz musician (Hello Dolly)
1902 - George Murphy, New Haven Ct, (Sen-R-Calif)/actor/dancer (MGM Parade)
1902 - Meyer Lansky, mobster (Started numbers)
1902 - Vince Barnett, Pittsburgh, actor (Star is Born, Human Jungle)
1903 - Flor Peeters, Antwerp Belgium, organist/composer (Lied Symphony)
1904 - Angela Baddeley, London England, actress (Ghost Train, Tom Jones)
1904 - Artur Malawski, composer
1904 - Seger Pillot Ellis, pianist/vocalist
1905 - Dante Fiorillo, composer
1905 - Lionel Trilling, author (1969 Poses Award, Liberal Imagination)
1905 - Irving Johnson, American adventurer (d. 1991)
1907 - Elliott Sullivan, San Antonio TX, actor (Sergeant)
1907 - Gordon Griffith, American director (d. 1958)
1907 - Howard Taubman, American music and theater critic (d. 1996)
1908 - Aurelio Peccei, Italian businessman/chairman (Club of Rome)
1909 - Alec Templeton, Cardiff Wales, pianist/composer (Concertino Lirico)
1909 - Lynette Roberts, poet
1909 - Madeleine Barot, resistance heroine
1910 - Francis D Foley, US lt adm (WW II, Guadalcanal)
1910 - Gloria Stuart, actress (Rose-Titanic)/founder (Screen Actors Guild)
1910 - William T "Champion Jack" Dupree, US boxer/slaughterhouse pianist
1911 - Mitch Miller, Rochester NY, sing along with Mitch (Yellow Rose of Tx)
1912 - Virginia Graham, Chicago Ill, TV personality (Girl Talk, Where Was I)
1912 - Viviane Romance, French actress (d. 1991)
1914 - Giuseppe 'Nuccio' Bertone, car designer
1915 - Christine Lavant, writer
1915 - Jimmie Rogers, Detroit Mich, singer (Sugar Hill Time)
1916 - Tokyo Rose, [Iva Toguri D'Aquino], propagandist (WW II)
1917 - Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1947)
1918 - Abigail Van Buren, [Mrs Morton Phillips], Sioux City Iowa, columnist
1918 - Alec Bedser, cricketer (mighty post-war England medium-pacer)
1918 - Ann Landers, Sioux City Iowa, twin sister/advice columnist
1918 - Buster Davis, Johnstown Pa, choral director (Garry Moore Show)
1918 - Eric Bedser, cricketer (bro of Alec, Surrey bowler but not England)
1918 - Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, King of Tonga (1965- )
1918 - Johnnie Parsons, American race car driver (d. 1984)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 142

907 - Luitpold, Margrave of Bavaria
943 - Taejo of Goryeo, ruler of Korea (b. 877)
965 - Pope Benedict V, Italian Roman Catholic Pope (b. unknown)
966 - Benedictus V Grammaticus, Italian Pope (5/22-6/23 964), dies
973 - Ulrich of Augsburg, German bishop (b. 890)
1187 - Reinoud van Châtillon, French prince of Antioch, dies
1301 - Willem II Berthout van Mechelen, bishop of Utrecht, dies in battle
1307 - Rudolf III, Duke of Austria/King of Bohemia dies
1336 - Elisabeth van Portugal, queen of Portugal/saint, dies at about 65
1498 - Filips van Burgundy, admiral-general of Netherlands, dies
1541 - Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish occupier, dies at about 56
1546 - Hayreddin Barbarossa, Admiral of the Ottoman Navy (b. 1478)
1578 - Charles de Berlaymont, baron of Hierges, gov/viceroy of Names, dies
1603 - Philippus the Monte, priest/bandmaster/composer, dies at 82
1623 - William Byrd, English composer (Ave verum corpus), dies at 80
1627 - Thomas Middleton, Elizabethan dramatist (Women Beware Women), dies
1648 - Antoine Daniel, French Jesuit missionary, one of the Canadian Martyrs (b. 1601)
1672 - Ambrosius Reiner, composer, dies at 67
1672 - Govert D Camphuysen, (court)painter, dies at about 48
1742 - Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (b. 1671)
1754 - Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist and author (b. 1680)
1757 - Jean-Joseph Vade, composer, dies at 38
1761 - Samuel Richardson, English writer (b. 1689)
1768 - Willem van Hairs, Fries nobleman/poet (Suicide), dies at 58
1780 - Charles Alexander, Duke of Lotharingen South Neth, dies at 67
1787 - Charles, prince de Rohan-Soubise, marshal of France, dies at 71
1789 - Claudio M da Costa, Brazilian conductor, dies at 59
1821 - Richard Cosway, English artist (b. 1742)
1826 - John Adams, 2nd president (1797-1801), dies at 90
1826 - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president (1801-09), dies at 83
1831 - James Monroe, 5th president (1817-25), dies at 73
1845 - Pierre P Royer-Collard, French philosopher/Council of 500, dies
1848 - Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, French novelist (Atala)/diplomat, dies
1850 - William Kirby, English entomologist (b. 1759)
1851 - Martin-Joseph Mengal, composer, dies at 67
1854 - Karl F Eichhorn, German law historian, dies at 72
1856 - Istvan Ferenczi, Hungarian sculptor, dies at 64
1857 - William L. Marcy, American statesman (b. 1786)
1863 - Paul Joseph Revere, US grandson of Paul Revere/Union brig-gen, dies
1881 - Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish statesman (b. 1806)
1882 - Joseph Brackett, American composer (b. 1797)
1888 - Theodor Storm, German judge/author (Schimmelreiter), dies at 70
1889 - Auguste Mermet, composer, dies at 79
1891 - Frederic Louis Ritter, composer, dies at 67
1891 - Hannibal Hamlin, U.S. Vice President (b. 1809)
1901 - John Fiske, [Edmund Fisk Green], US historian/philosopher, dies
1902 - Swami Vivekananda, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1863)
1905 - Élisée Reclus, French anarchist (b. 1830)
1910 - Giovanni V Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (Mars), dies at 75
1910 - Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray, composer, dies at 70
1910 - Melville Weston Fuller, 8th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1833)
1916 - Alan Seeger, American war poet (b. 1888)
1917 - Johan H C Kern, Dutch linguist (Sanskreet), dies at 84
1922 - Lothar von Richthofen, German pilot (b. 1894)
1923 - Florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw), dies at 67
1926 - Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Saint (b. 1901)
1929 - Otto Taubmann, composer, dies at 70
1931 - Emanuele F duke of Aosta, Italian WW I-general/fascist, dies at 62
1931 - Hussein ibn-Ali, sjarif Mecca/king/kalief of Hedzjaz (1917-24), dies
1934 - "Madame" Marie Curie-Sklodovska, Polish/French chemist, dies
1934 - Chaim Nachman Bialik, zionist poet, dies
1934 - Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Physics (b. 1867)
1938 - Otto Bauer, Austrian social democrat, dies at 56
1938 - Suzanne Lenglen, 6 time Wimbledon champ, dies at 39 of anemia
1941 - Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (b. 1881)
1943 - Wladyslaw Sikorski, gen/PM of Poland in exile (1939-43), dies at 62
1946 - Othenio Able, Austria paleontology, dies at 71
1946 - Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concentration camp overseer (b. 1922)
1948 - Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian writer (b. 1882)
1952 - Walter Long, dies at 73
1957 - Judy Tyler, actress (Princess-Howdy Doody), dies at 24 in car crash
1958 - Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright/poet (Avondvlam), dies at 79
1961 - Franklyn Farnum, dies of cancer at 83
1962 - Rex Bell, actor/lt-gov (Nevada), dies of heart attack at 56
1963 - Fritz Reuter, composer, dies at 66
1963 - Grant Richards, actor (Doug-Doorway to Danger), dies at 48
1963 - Bernard Freyberg, Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1889)
1970 - Harold Vanderbilt, America Cup winner (1930, 34, 37), dies at 85
1970 - Barnett Newman, American artist (b. 1905)
1971 - Don McPherson, rocker, dies at 29
1971 - Joe Cox, cricketer (4 wickets in 3 Tests for South Africa), dies
1971 - Thomas C Hart, US admiral/commander (Pacific Fleet), dies at 94
1971 - August Derleth, American writer and editor (b. 1909)
1973 - Leonid Stein, Russian chess player, dies at about 39
1974 - Mohammed SA al-Hoesseini, Mufti of Jerusalem/pres Com Palestine, dies
1975 - Georgette Heyer, English author (b. 1902)
1976 - Antoni Słonimski, Polish poet (b. 1895)
1977 - Gersh Budker, Russian physicist (b. 1918)
1979 - Lee Wai Tong, Chinese footballer (b. 1905)
1980 - Maurice Grevisse, Belgian grammarian (b. 1895)
1982 - Sylvestre A Guzman Fernandez, pres Dominican Rep, commits suicide
1982 - Terry Higgins, early British AIDS death (b. 1945)
1983 - Claus Adam, composer, dies at 65
1984 - Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
1985 - John de Quay, Dutch premier (1959-63), dies at 83
1986 - Flor Peeters, Flemish baron/organist/composer, dies at 83
1986 - Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (b. 1899)
1988 - Adrian Adonis, [Keith Franke], WWF wrestler, killed in auto accident
1991 - Victor Chang, Australian physician (b. 1936)
1992 - Astor Piazzolla, Argentine composer (Tango Nuevo), dies at 71