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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 203

1124 - Tyrus surrenders to Crusaders
1438 - French church/King Charles VII release Pragmatieke Sanctie of Bourges
1456 - Though she had already been executed, Joan of Arc is acquitted
1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.
1495 - King Ferdinand II returns to Naples
1498 - Emperor Maximilian I establishes choir of Imperial Chapel
1534 - European colonization of the Americas: first known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick.
1543 - French troops invade Luxembourg
1550 - Chocolate introduced
1585 - King Henri III & Duke De Guise signs Treaty of Nemours: French Huguenots loose all freedoms
1607 - "God Save the King" is 1st sung
1647 - People's uprising against high prices & Spanish rule in Naples
1668 - Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge
1713 - 1st performance of Georg F Handel's "To Deum" & "Jubilate"
1753 - English parliament grants Jewish English citizenship
1754 - Kings College in NYC opens (renamed Columbia College)
1768 - Firm of Johann Buddenbrook founded, in Thomas Mann's novel
1777 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Hubbardton
1798 - Quasi-War: the U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the 'war.'
1799 - Ranjit Singh's men take up their positions outside Lahore.
1801 - Toussaint L'Ouverture declares Haitian independence
1802 - 1st comic book "The Wasp," is published
1807 - France, Russia & Prussia sign Peace of Tilsit
1814 - Walter Scott's "Waverley" published
1829 - Royal Military Chapel forms
1838 - Central American federation is dissolved
1846 - US annexs California
1850 - Scottish explorer Edward Eyre reaches Albany, W-Australia
1861 - Battle of Laurel Hill, VA
1862 - Land Grant Act endows state colleges with federal land
1863 - 1st military draft by US (exemptions cost $100)
1863 - Orders barring Jews from serving under US Grant are revoked
1864 - S Middleton, MD -Early's Washington Raid-
1868 - Ed Pooley takes 12 dismissals as keeper in match Surrey v Sussex
1874 - 27th Postmaster General: James W Marshall of NJ takes office
1875 - Jesse James robs train in Otterville Missouri
1878 - Social-Democratic United forms in Amsterdam
1891 - Travelers checks patents
1892 - Katipunan: the Revolutionary Philippine Brotherhood is established leading to the fall of the Spanish Empire in Asia.
1898 - US annexes Hawaii
1900 - Boston hurler Kid Nichols notches his 300th career victory
1905 - 127°F (53°C), Parker Ariz (state record)
1908 - Great White Fleet leaves SF Bay
1911 - 28th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: D Chambers beats D Boothby (60 60)
1911 - Dorothea Lambert Chambers beats Dora Boothby 6-0, 6-0 in a record
1913 - British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule Law
1914 - Balt Orioles' (IL) owner Jack Dunn offers Babe Ruth, Ernie Shore & Ben Egan for $10,000 to Connie Mack, who refuses, pleading poverty
1915 - A Great Gorge and International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.
1919 - Phillies tie major league record of 8 steals in 9 inn game
1923 - 43rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: William Johnston beats F Hunter (60 63 61)
1923 - Cleve Indians beat Boston Red Sox 27-3 with 13 runs in 6th inning
1923 - University of Delaware invents "junior year abroad" (at Sorbonne)
1924 - Robert LeGendre of US, sets then long jump record at 25' 5½"
1928 - 41st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (62 63)
1928 - Edward Hamm of US, sets then long jump record at 25' 11"
1928 - Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri. It is described as “the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped".
1929 - Romania & Vatican sign concord
1930 - Construction begins on Boulder (Hoover) Dam
1932 - Bradman scores a cricket double century in Montreal
1934 - Elizabeth Ryan wins her 12th Wimbledon doubles championship
1936 - 4th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Braves Field, Boston
1937 - 5th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 8-3 at Griffith Stadium, Wash
1937 - Japanese & Chinese troops clash, (Marco Polo Bridge), becomes WW II
1939 - 52nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Kay Stammers (62 60)
1941 - Nazis executed 5,000 Jews in Kovono Lithuania
1941 - US forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion
1941 - World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.
1942 - Germany troop march into Woronezj
1942 - Milt all star team (including Bob Feller) losts to AL all stars 5-0
1943 - -10] Japanese premier Hideki Tojo visits Java
1943 - 3rd day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Dubrova
1943 - Erich Hartmann shoots 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk
1943 - Liberator bombers sinks U-517
1943 - U-951 sunk
1944 - Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France
1944 - Heavy Japanese counter offensive on Saipan
1946 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint
1947 - Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident.
1948 - 6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular US Navy
1948 - Cleveland Indians sign Leroy "Satchel" Paige
1948 - Indians sign Satchel Paige at 42
1949 - "Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)" opens at Broadway NYC for 76 perfs
1949 - "Dragnet" premieres on NBC radio; also a TV series in 1951 & 1967
1950 - 1st Farnborough airshow held
1950 - 64th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Budge Patty beats Sedgman (61 8-10 62 63)
1950 - 79th British Golf Open: Bobby Locke shoots a 279 at Royal Troon
1951 - 58th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats Shirley Fry (61 60)
1952 - SS United States cross Atlantic in record 82:40
1953 - 35th PGA Championship: Walter Burkemo at Birmingham CC Mich
1953 - Che Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
1954 - T.A.N.U. party forms in Tanzania
1954 - Formation of the TANU in Tanzania
1955 - 1st LPGA Championship won by Beverly Hanson
1956 - 63rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Shirley Fry beats Angela Buxton (63 61)
1956 - Douglas Moore/John Latouche' opera "Ballad of Baby Doe," premieres
1956 - 7 Army trucks loaded with dynamite explode in middle of Cali, Columbia killing 1,100-1,200, destroying 2,000 buildings
1956 - Fritz Moravec reaches the peak of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).
1957 - Heavy storm ravages Belgian coast
1958 - C A Milton scores 104* on Test Cricket debut, England v NZ Headingley
1958 - Pres Eisenhower signed a bill approving Alaskan statehood

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 217

1053 - Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1129)
1119 - Emperor Sutoku of Japan (d. 1164)
1528 - Anna of Austria, Duchess of Bavaria, daughter of Ferdinand I (d. 1590)
1586 - Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman (d. 1646)
1656 - Guru Har Krishan, 8th Guru of Sikhism (d. 1664)
1690 - Johann Tobias Krebs, composer
1710 - Arvid Niclas Hopken, composer
1746 - Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, composer
1752 - Joseph-Marie Jacquard, invented programmable loom
1778 - Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini, composer
1806 - Michele Amari, Italian historian/minister of Education
1813 - William Scott Ketchum, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1871
1816 - Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard, Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1889
1824 - Alfred Pleasonton, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1827 - James Murrell Shackelford, Brig General (Union volunteers)
1827 - William Montague Browne, Brig General (Confederate Army)
1843 - Camillo Golgi, Italy, physician, cytologist (Nobel 1906)
1851 - Lillien Jane Martin, psychologist, found gerontology clinic
1851 - Charles Tindley, American gospel music composer (d. 1933)
1853 - Albert Vandal, French earl/historian (Le Pacha Bonneval)
1855 - Ludwig Ganghofer, German writer (d. 1920)
1856 - George Hearne, cricketer (brother of Frank & Alec, Test for England)
1860 - Gustav Mahler, Kalischat Bohemia Austria, composer/conductor (Titan)
1872 - Juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer
1874 - Erwin Bumke, German jurist (d. 1945)
1879 - Jacob Weinberg, composer
1882 - Zdzislaw Jachimecki, composer
1883 - Toivo Kuula, composer
1884 - Lion Feuchtwanger, German dramatist (d. 1958)
1885 - Ernest Bristow Farrar, composer
1887 - Dirk Koster, literary (New Noises)
1887 - Marc Chagall, Vitebsk Russia, artist (I & The Village)
1887 - Raymond Hatton, Red Oak IA, actor (Girls in Prison, Lady Killer)
1890 - Tom Powers, Owensboro KY, actor (Station West, Destination Moon)
1893 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet Georgia, poet (Ode to Revolution)[NS=7/19]
1893 - Miroslav Krleža, Croatian writer (d. 1981)
1897 - Anna Luther, NJ, silent screen actress (Sinners in Silk)
1898 - Hanns Eisler, composer
1899 - George Cukor, producer/director (Adam's Rib, Philadelphia Story)
1900 - Earle E. Partridge, United States Air Force general (d. 1990)
1901 - Gustav Knuth, Braunschweig Germany, actor (Freddy Unter Fremden)
1901 - Vittorio de Sica, Italian actor/director (Fietsendieven)
1902 - James McCartney, father of Beatle (Paul)
1902 - Vittorio De Sica, Sora Italy, director/actor (2 Women)
1902 - Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1904 - Simone Beck, French chef (d. 1991)
1905 - Marcel Rubin, composer
1906 - Harry Von Zell, sidekick (George Burns Show)
1906 - [Leroy] Satchel Paige, baseball pitcher, never look back
1906 - William Feller, Croatian mathematician (d. 1970)
1906 - Anton Karas, Viennese musician (d. 1985)
1907 - Helene Johnson, poet
1907 - Robert A[nson] Heinlein, US, sci-fi author (4 Hugos, Red Planet)
1908 - Evert W Beth, Dutch mathematician/philosopher
1908 - Harriette Arnow, Wayne Co, Ky, novelist (Dollmaker)
1908 - Revilo P. Oliver, American professor (d. 1994)
1911 - Eddie Mayehoff, Balt Md, actor (Hour Glass, How to Murder Your Wife)
1911 - Gian-Carlo Menotti, Italy, composer (Amahl & Night Visitors)
1911 - Joan Perry Cohn Harvey, actress (Hands of a Stranger)
1912 - Tiny Alma, [Catharina E J Stam], operetta singer (Vienna Blood)
1914 - Cor de Groot, pianist/conductor/composer (Old-Dutch Suite)
1914 - Serafim Sergeyevich Tulikov, composer
1915 - Margaret Walker Alexander, poet/novelist (For My People)
1916 - Luc Peire, Flemish painter/graphic artist
1916 - Robert Stevens Baker, composer
1917 - Elton Britt, Marshall Ark, country singer (Sat Night Jamboree)
1917 - Lawrence F O'Brien, (Watergate conspirators broke into his office)
1917 - Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Salvadoran politician (d. 2003)
1919 - Jon Pertwee, English comic/actor (Dr Who, Worzel Gummidge)
1919 - William Moses Kunstler, defense attorney (Chicago 8)
1921 - Ezzard Charles, world heavyweight boxing champion (1949-51)
1921 - Stanislaw Wislocki, composer
1921 - Adolf von Thadden, German politician (d. 1996)
1922 - Artie Malvin, US music director (Julie LaRosa/Steve Lawrence)
1922 - Pierre Cardin, Paris France, fashion designer (Unisex)
1923 - Richard Lumley, English insurance magnate/multi-millionaire
1923 - Roberto Caamano, composer
1924 - Dieter Nowka, composer
1924 - Mary Ford, [Colleen Summer], vocalist/actress (Queen of Outer Space)
1925 - Yvonne Mitchell, London England, writer (Johnny Nobody, Genghis Khan)
1925 - Wally Phillips, American radio personality (d. 2008)
1927 - Alan J Dixon, (Sen-D-IL, 1981- )
1927 - Charlie Louvin, Rainsville Ala, country singer (Louvin Brothers)
1927 - Doc Severinson, [Carl], Arlington Or, bandleader/trumpeter (Tonight)
1927 - Doc Severinsen, American composer and musician
1928 - Colleen Summers, Pasadena Calif, vocal overdubber
1929 - Marcel Liebman, Belgian historian
1929 - R Baumgart, writer
1929 - Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (d. 2005)
1930 - Hank Mobley, US jazz saxophonist
1931 - David Eddings, US, sci-fi author (Belgariad, Malloreon)
1931 - Stanley Brock, Bkln, actor (Ivan-He's the Mayor)
1932 - Josef Zawinal, singer/pianist (Weather Report)
1932 - Ted Cassidy, actor (Lurch-Addams Family)
1932 - Josef Zawinul, Austrian composer and musician (d. 2007)
1933 - David McCullough, actor (Huey Long)
1933 - Dick Kallman, Brooklyn NY, actor (Borned to Be Loved, Verboten!)
1933 - Murray Halberg, New Zealand, 5K runner (Olympic-gold-1960)
1934 - Vinko Globokar, composer
1936 - Friedhelm Dohl, composer

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 118

1129 - Shirakawa, emperor of Japan (1072-86)/budhist monk, dies at 76
1304 - Benedict XI, [Niccolo Boccasini], Pope (1303-04), dies
1307 - Edward I, King of England (1272-1307), dies at 68
1348 - John Andreae, Italian canonist, dies
1537 - Madeleine de Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (b. 1520)
1572 - Sigismund II August, last Jagellonen king of Poland, dies at 51
1573 - Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (b. 1507)
1647 - Thomas Hooker, clergyman, father of American democracy, dies
1656 - Michelangelo Rossi, Italian opera composer, buried at about 55
1663 - Thomas Baltzar, German violinist
1694 - Dokusho, Zen teacher, Obaku line, dies
1701 - William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (b. 1631)
1713 - Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford and privy councillor (b. 1632)
1764 - William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician (b. 1683)
1771 - Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy), dies at 54
1773 - Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer, dies at 60
1774 - Giuseppi Maria Carretti, composer, dies at 83
1776 - Jeremiah Markland, English classical scholar (b. 1693)
1790 - Franciscus "Frans" Hemsterhuis, Frisian philosopher, dies at 68
1794 - Pascal Boyer, composer, dies at 51
1799 - William Curtis, English botanist (Botanical Magazine), dies at 53
1814 - Robert Jasper van der Capellen, Dutch politician, dies at 71
1816 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and politician (b. 1751)
1826 - Friedrich Ludwig Dulon, flautist/composer, dies at 56
1855 - Konstantin Batyushkov, Russian poet (b. 1787)
1861 - John Willis Ellis, US governor of NC (1858-61), dies
1865 - Mary Surratt, & 3 other Lincoln conspirators, hanged
1865 - Lewis Paine, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1844)
1865 - David Herold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1842)
1878 - Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (b. 1847)
1885 - Nicola De Giosa, composer, dies at 66
1889 - Giovanni Bottesini, composer, dies at 67
1890 - Henri Nestlé, Founder of Nestlé S.A. (b. 1814)
1893 - Guy de Maupassant, writer, dies at 42
1898 - Lucien Petipa, French dancer/choreograph/ballet leader, dies
1901 - Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (b. 1827)
1903 - Ferreira Veiga, Viscount d' Arneiro, composer, dies at 64
1903 - Jose Augusto da Ferreira Veiga, composer, dies at 64
1907 - James McGranahan, composer, dies at 67
1913 - Edward Burd Grubb, American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General (b.1841)
1919 - Paul Deusen, German philosopher/CEO (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft), dies
1922 - Cathal Brugha, Chief of Staff of Irish Republican Army (b.1874)
1925 - Clarence Hudson White American photographer (b.. 1871)
1927 - Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (b. 1846)
1930 - Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 71
1931 - Johannes Jacobus "Kodgee" Kotze, cricketer (S Africa 1902-07), dies
1932 - Alexander Grin, Russian novelist (b. 1880)
1932 - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1844)
1933 - John M Acket, literary (New Friends), dies at 70
1934 - Doodles Tapscott, cricketer (South African batsman 1922-23), dies
1939 - James Deacon White, ball player jumped teams in 1876 (Chi), dies at 91
1944 - Erich Salomon, German photographer, dies
1944 - Georges Mandel, [Louis Rothschild], French foreign min (-1940), dies
1945 - Salomeja Neris, [S Bacinskaite-Buciene], Latvian poet, dies at 40
1949 - Bunk Johnson, American musician (b. 1879 or 1889)
1955 - Franco Casavola, composer, dies at 63
1956 - Gottfried Benn, writer, dies at 70
1958 - Raymond Hackett, dies at 55
1965 - Bill Hitch, England cricket fast-bowler (7 Tests 1911-21), dies
1965 - Moshe Sharett, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)
1966 - Carmelita Geraghty, dies of heart attack at 65
1967 - Vivian Leigh, actress (Scarlet-Gone with the Wind), dies at 53
1967 - Jo Schlesser, French Formula One racing driver (b. 1928)
1968 - Leo Sowerby, composer (Pulitzer Prize), dies at 73
1969 - Erskine Sanford, dies at 83
1969 - Gladys Swarthout, US mezzo-soprano (La Gioconda), dies at 69
1970 - Allen Lane [Williams], English publisher (Penguin Books), dies at 67
1970 - Louise Harrison, mother of Beatle George, dies
1970 - Marjorie Rambeau, actress (Primrose Path, Torch Song), dies at 80
1970 - Sylvester Wiere, comedian (Wiere Brothers-Ford Festival), dies at 60
1971 - Claude Gauvreau, Canadian writer (b. 1925)
1971 - Ub Iwerks, American artist, director, and cartoonist (b1901)
1972 - Athenagoras, 268th patriarch of Constantinople, dies
1972 - King Talal of Jordan (b. 1909)
1973 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher/sociologist, dies at 78
1973 - Veronica Lake, [Constance Ockleman], actress (Ramrod), dies at 58
1975 - Barbara Brown
1975 - Vito Frazzi, composer, dies at 86
1975 - Ruffian, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1972)
1976 - Gustav Heinemann, German president, dies at 76
1976 - Norman Foster, dies at 75
1976 - Walter Giesler, American soccer coach (b. 1910)
1979 - D P Conyngham, cricketer (one Test for S Africa), dies
1980 - Reginald Gardiner, actor (Great Dictator), dies at 77
1981 - Keefe Brasselle, actor (Be Our Guest), dies at 58
1981 - Mildred Lisette Norman a.k.a. Peace Pilgrim, American pacifist and activist
1982 - Bep [Elisa H] Bakhuis, soccer star/writer, dies at 76
1982 - Fred Stuthman, actor (Henry Adler-Hello Larry), dies at 63
1983 - George Cukor, director (My Fair Lady), dies on 84th birthday
1983 - Herman Kahn, US futurist/nuclear strategist, dies at 71
1983 - Vicki Morgan, mistress (Beautiful Bad Girl), murdered at 30
1984 - Flora Robson, actress (Great Day, Frieda), dies in her sleep at 82
1984 - Carl Boenish, American father of BASE jumping (b. 1941)
1985 - Patti McCarty, actress (Gangster of the Frontier), dies at 64
1988 - Jimmy Edwards, actor (Plank, Bottoms Up, Late Mr H), dies at 68
1990 - Bill Cullen, game show host (Price is Right), dies at 70 of cancer
1990 - Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, Jes priest/apprentice Zen teacher, dies at 92
1990 - Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and composer (b. 1958)
1992 - Ruurd Faber, mayor of Aalten (1971-75), dies at 79
1993 - Mia Zapata, American singer with The Gits (b. 1965)