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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 208

28 - Gaius Carrinas' triumphant procession through Rome
1381 - Peasants' Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.
1418 - An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians.
1442 - King Alfonso V of Aragon occupies Naples
1523 - Frisian rebel leader Jancko Douwama arrested
1534 - Turkish adm Chaireddin "Barbarossa" allows Giulia Gonzaga to kidnap & plunder Naples
1552 - Land guardians of Netherlands attacks Verdun
1553 - King Edward VI accept archbishop Cranmers "42 Articles"
1560 - Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto.
1575 - William of Orange marries Charlotte de Bourbon
1653 - -13] Battle at North Foreland: English fleet beats Dutch
1653 - First Anglo-Dutch War: the Battle of the Gabbard begins and lasts until June 13.
1665 - English rename New Amsterdam, NY, after Dutch pull out
1665 - England installs a municipal government in New York City (the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam).
1667 - -13] Michiel de Ruyter destroys English fleet
1672 - French army under Gen Turenne crosses Rhine at Lobith
1673 - Charles II's brother duke James of York resigns as Lord High Admiral
1683 - Rye House-plot against English king Charles II uncovered
1691 - Pope Innocent XII succeeds Alexander VIII
1701 - Act of Settlement gives English crown to Sophia, Princess of Hanover
1714 - Prussia & Russia sign secret treaty
1775 - 1st naval battle of Revolution-Unity (US) captures Margaretta (Br)
1776 - Virginia adopts Declaration of Rights
1787 - Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old
1792 - George Vancouver discovers site of Vancouver BC
1812 - Napoleon invades Russia
1819 - Dutch colonial troops driven out of Palembang Sumatra
1830 - Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers land 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch.
1838 - Hopkins Observatory, dedicated in Williamstown, Mass
1838 - Iowa Territory forms
1839 - 1st baseball game played in America
1840 - Meteorite hits Uden, Netherlands
1845 - George Abernethy becomes 1st governor of Oregon Country
1849 - Gas mask patented by Lewis Haslett (Louisville Ky)
1859 - Comstock Silver Lode in Nevada discovered
1860 - The State Bank of the Russian Empire is established.
1861 - Missouri Governor Claiborne Jackson calls for 50,000 volunteers to stop Federates from taking over his state
1864 - Lee sends Early into Shenandoah Valley
1864 - Skirmish at Mcafee's Cross Road Georgia, about 57 dies in battle
1867 - Austro-Hungarian Empire forms
1875 - 9th Belmont: Bobby Swim aboard Calvin wins in 2:42.25
1880 - 1st baseball perfect game-John Richmond of Worcester beats Cleve
1880 - John Lee Richmond pitches 1st major league perfect game, Worcester 1, Cleveland's Forest City 0
1885 - Roof collapse kills 30 at murder trial in France
1889 - Single tornado kills 119, injures 146 (New Richmond Wisc)
1889 - 88 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland.
1892 - Neth Society for Currency & Coin collecting forms
1896 - J.T. Hearne sets a cricket record for the earliest date of taking 100 first-class wickets in a season.
1897 - Possibly most severe quake in history strikes Assam India, shock waves felt over an area size of Europe (negligible death toll)
1898 - Philippine nationalists declares independence from Spain to US control
1899 - New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 peoples and injures around 200.
1900 - German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power
1903 - Niagara Falls, Ontario incorporated as a city
1903 - The Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity is founded at the University of Michigan School of Music.
1907 - Yanks commit 11 errors & lose 14-6 to Tigers
1908 - Lusitania crosses Atlantic in record 4 days 15 hours (NYC)
1909 - "Shine On, Harvest Moon" by Ada Jones & Billy Murray hits #1
1910 - PEC soccer team forms in Zwolle
1913 - "Dachshund" by Pathe Freres, early animated cartoon, released
1915 - 29th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Hazel Wightman (46 62 60)
1916 - 30th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Louise Raymond (60 61)
1916 - Tennis legend Bill Tilden's 1st appearance at US tennis championship
1917 - Secret Service extends protection of president to his family
1918 - 1st airplane bombing raid by an American unit, France
1919 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accord for equal Christian-public education
1920 - 52nd Belmont: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 2:14.2
1920 - Farmer Labor Party organized (Chicago)
1922 - German Reich president Friedrich Ebert visits Munich
1922 - St Louis Brown Hub Pruett strikes out Babe Ruth 3 straight times
1922 - St Louis gets record 10 hits in a row & beats Phillies 14-8
1923 - Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in NYC
1925 - William DeHart Hubbard of US, sets long jump record at 25' 10 3/4"
1926 - 58th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard Crusader wins in 2:32.2
1926 - Brazil leaves League of Nations
1928 - NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 2 triples & 2 HRs to be White Sox 15-7
1930 - 34th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 287 at Interlachen CC Minn
1930 - Heavyweight Max Schmeling KOs Jack Sharkey in NYC
1930 - Max Schmeling beats Jack Sharkey on a foul in 4 for hw boxing title
1931 - Al Capone is indicted on 5,000 counts of prohibition & perjury
1933 - Financial & Economy World conference opens (66 countries)
1934 - Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Bill Boeing empire to break up into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] & United Air Lines
1935 - Weapons pact ends 3 year war of Gran Chaco (Bolivia vs Paraguay)
1935 - Senator Huey Long of Louisiana spoke continually for 15½ hours in Senate's longest speech on record (150,000 words)
1936 - 1st 50 KW US radio station (Pittsburgh Pa)
1937 - 41st US Golf Open: Ralph Guldahl shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills Mich
1937 - USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continues
1939 - 43rd US Golf Open: Byron Nelson shoots a 284 at Phila CC in Phila
1939 - Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown NY
1939 - Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
1942 - Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present (Amsterdam)
1942 - Hitler orders enslavement of Slavic peoples
1942 - Tornado kills 35 in Oklahoma City
1943 - Himmler orders extermination of all Polish ghettos
1944 - 1st V-1 rocket assault on London
1944 - British 12th airborne batallion/13th & 18th Hussars conquer
1944 - British 12th battalion conquers Bréville
1944 - Churchill/Marshall/Arnold visit Montgomery's HQ in Chateau de Creully
1944 - US troop march into Carentan/Caumont, Normandy
1945 - US 7th Marine regiment conquer summit of Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa
1947 - Babe Didrikson is 1st American to win Brit Women's Amateur Golf Champ

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 241

1107 - Emperor Gaozong of China (d. 1187)
1468 - Juan del Encina, composer
1519 - Cosmos de Medici, art patron (Accademia del Disegno)
1519 - Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1574)
1526 - Marc-Antoine de Muret, composer
1577 - Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (d. 1643)
1599 - Jan W van Brederode, governor (Hertogenbosch)/fieldmarshal
1659 - Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Japanese samurai (d. 1719)
1771 - Patrick Gass, Falling Springs PA, sgt of Lewis & Clark Expedition
1775 - Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (d. 1851)
1777 - Robert Clark, American politician (d. 1837)
1795 - John Marston Jr, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1885
1798 - Samuel Cooper, Sect of War/General (Confederate Army), died in 1876
1802 - Harriet Martineau, controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist (d. 1876)
1806 - John A. Roebling, German-America civil engineer (Brooklyn Bridge) (d. 1869)
1812 - Edmond Hébert, French geologist (d. 1890)
1819 - Charles Kingsley, [Parson Lot], Engl vicar/historian (Westward Ho!)
1821 - Henry Moses Judah, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1866
1825 - John Cook, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1910
1827 - Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (d. 1901)
1829 - Johanna Spyri, Switzerland, writer (Heidi)
1842 - Rikard Nordraak, composer
1851 - Oliver Joseph Lodge, England, early radio pioneer
1857 - Achille Simonetti, composer
1861 - William Attewell, English cricketer (d. 1927)
1874 - Willem Louis Frederic Landre, composer
1875 - Sam De Grasse, Canadian actor (d. 1953)
1876 - Narciso Garay, composer
1877 - Thomas C Hart, US admiral (Asiatic fleet)
1878 - James O Curwood, US, journalist/writer (Kazan the wolfdog)
1881 - Juan de Hernandez, composer
1885 - Werner Erich Josten, Elberfeld Germany, composer (Jungle)
1888 - Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician (d. 1920)
1890 - Egon Schiele, Austrian painter/graphic artist
1892 - John Donald Robb, composer
1892 - Djuna Barnes, American author (d. 1982)
1893 - Kommer Kleijn, Dutch actor/radio play director (Paul Vlaanderen)
1897 - Alexandre Tansman, Lodz Poland, composer (Dyptique)
1897 - Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon (C), British PM (1955-57)
1900 - Amadeo Roldan, composer
1900 - Betsy van Es, Flemish actress (Sonna)
1902 - Hendrik J Elias, Flemish historian/(mayor-Ghent)
1903 - Emmett Hardy, American musician (d. 1925)
1904 - Eino Roiha, composer
1905 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete (d. 1988)
1906 - Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977)
1907 - Giorgio Nataletti, composer
1908 - Max Tailleur, adjudant to Prince Bernhard/Jewish humorist
1908 - Ronald Selby Wright, minister
1908 - Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian TV pioneer and president of the CBC (d. 1988)
1908 - Marina Semenova, Russian ballerina
1909 - Archie Bleyer, Corona NY, orch leader (Arthur Godfrey)
1909 - Mansel Treharne Thomas, composer
1910 - Bill Naughton, English playwright (d. 1992)
1911 - Milovan Djilas, Yugoslavia, writer/politician (New Class)
1912 - Eddie Williams, blues/Jazz Bassist
1912 - Mary Lavin MacDonald Scott, author
1912 - Russell "Lucky" Hayden, Chico Calif, actor (Judge Roy Bean)
1912 - Jameel Jalibi, Pakistani scholar, writer, and Urdu linguist
1913 - Jean Victor Allard, Canadian army general (d. 1996)
1914 - Peter Lancelot Williams, dance journalist
1914 - William Lundigan, Syracuse NY, actor (Climax)
1915 - David Rockefeller, CEO (Chase Manhattan Bank)
1915 - Christopher Mayhew, British politician (d. 1997)
1916 - Irwin Allen, NYC, director (Land of the Giants, Poseidon Adventure)
1916 - Ivan Tors, TV producer (Sea Hunt, Flipper)
1917 - Priscilla Lane, US, actress (Arsenic & Old Lace)
1918 - Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (d. 2001)
1919 - Uta Hagen, Germany, actress (Boys From Brazil)/teaches acting
1919 - Vera Hruba Ralston, Czech, actress (Dakota, Accused of Murder)
1920 - Peter Jones, England, actor (From a Bird's Eye View)
1920 - Dave Berg, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
1920 - Jim Siedow, American actor (d. 2003)
1921 - H C Artmann, writer
1921 - Hendrik J Witteveen, economist/minister of finance/director (IMF)
1921 - James Houston, Toronto, author/filmmaker (Tikta'Liktak)
1921 - Christopher Derrick, British writer (d. 2007)
1922 - Leif Thybo, composer
1923 - Marta Pan, Hungarian/French sculptor (Great spiral)
1924 - George Herbert Walker Bush, MA, 43 VP (1981-89) 41st Pres (R, 1989-93)
1926 - Jackie Pallo, English professional wrestler (d. 2006)
1927 - Henry Slesar, Brooklyn NY, headwriter (Edge of Night)
1928 - Michael Wishart, artist
1928 - Richard Sherman, composer/lyricist (Mary Poppins)
1928 - Vic Damone, [Vito Farinola], Bkln, singer (Street Where You Live)
1929 - Anne Frank, Holland, Nazi victim/diarist (Diary of Anne Frank)
1929 - Brigid Brophy, novelist/campaigner
1930 - Barbara Harris, 1st US Episcopal female bishop
1930 - Hans Koetsier, Dutch sculptor (KLM-Schiphol)
1930 - Jim Burke, cricketer (Australian opener of 50s)
1930 - Donald Byrne, American chess player (d. 1976)
1930 - Jim Nabors, American actor
1930 - Innes Ireland, Scottish racing driver (d. 1993)
1932 - Jim Nabors, Sylacauga Al, actor/singer (Gomer Pyle)
1932 - Mamo Wolde, Ethiopia, marathoner (Olympic-gold-1968)
1932 - Rona Jaffe, novelist (Mazes & Monsters)
1933 - Eddie Adams, American photographer, won Pulitzer Prize (d. 2004)
1934 - John A. Alonzo, American cinematographer (d. 2001)
1935 - Christoph Meckel, writer
1935 - Ian Craig, cricketer (prodigious Australian bat of 50's)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 88 of 88

816 - Leo III, Italian Pope (795-816), dies
816 - Pope Leo III
918 - Ethelfleda, Lady of the Mercians
1020 - Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury
1036 - Tedald, Bishop of Arezzo
1231 - Antonius van Padua, [Fernando M de Bulhom], Port minister, dies at 35
1418 - Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, Constable of France (b. 1360)
1435 - John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1408)
1490 - Adriaan Vilain II of Rassegem, peace of Tours, murdered at about 39
1560 - Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyo (b. 1519)
1560 - Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (b. 1506)
1565 - Adrianus Turnebus, French classical scholar (b. 1512)
1567 - Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1490)
1616 - Cornelis F Schuyt, Dutch organist/composer (Madrigalen), dies
1647 - Thomas Farnaby, English grammarian
1675 - Charles Emanuel II, Duke of Savoy (1638-75), dies at 40
1687 - Jurriaen van Streeck, Dutch still life painter, buried
1758 - Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (b. 1722)
1759 - William Collins, English poet (Ode to Simplicity), dies at 37
1761 - Meinrad Spiess, composer, dies at 77
1772 - Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (b. 1724)
1778 - Philip Livingston, US merchant (signed Decl of Indep), dies at 62
1788 - Johann A Cramer, prime minister/poet, dies at 65
1789 - Jean E Liotard, [Turk], Swiss painter (Maria-Theresia), dies
1816 - Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (b. 1757)
1818 - Egwale Seyon, Emperor of Ethiopia
1850 - Jean V Constant de Rebecque, Swiss/Dutch army leader, dies at 77
1853 - John C de Jonge, Dutch historian/archivist, dies at 60
1858 - Cornelis Smit, Dutch ship builder/ship owner, dies at 74
1858 - William Horsley, composer, dies at 83
1878 - Hendrik J Jut, Dutch murderer [Head of Jut], dies at 26
1887 - Gustav Weber, composer, dies at 41
1888 - Carel Vosmaer, art historian/poet/editor (Neth Spectator), dies at 62
1904 - Camille de Renesse, Belgian Count (b. 1836)
1912 - Frederic Passy, French economist/pacifist (Nobel 1901), dies
1917 - Maria Teresa Carreno, composer, dies at 63
1922 - Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp putsch 1920), dies at 63
1928 - Salvador Diaz Miron, Mexicans poet, dies
1930 - Dyce Willcocks, cricketer ("Grand Old Man" of Canadian cricket), dies
1932 - René de Clerq, Flemish poet/writer (Book of Love), dies
1932 - Theodorus Heemskerk, lawyer/Dutch sec of state (1866..88), dies at 79
1936 - Isidore Weiss, French world checker champion, dies
1936 - Karl Kraus, writer, dies at 62
1937 - Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1893)
1942 - Walter Leigh, composer, dies at 36
1946 - Count Hisaichi Terauchi, Japanese fieldmarshal, dies
1947 - Jazeps Medins, composer, dies at 70
1952 - Michael von Faulhaber, Cardinal/archbishop of Munich, dies at 83
1957 - James F "Jimmy" Dorsey, US orchestra leader, dies at 53
1962 - John N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Epic March), dies at 82
1963 - Andrew Browne, Irish/British admiral (Cape Matapan, WW II), dies at 80
1963 - Medgar Evers, NAACP official, shot in Jackson Miss at 37
1966 - Hermann Scherchen, German conductor/music publisher, dies at 74
1966 - Thomas Chalmers, actor (Blind Alleys, Outrage), dies at 81
1968 - Fidelio Friedrich Finke, composer, dies at 76
1969 - Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter (b. 1899)
1972 - Edmund Wilson, US writer (To the Finland station), dies at 79
1972 - Saul David Alinsky, radical writer (John L Lewis), dies at 63
1978 - Guo Moruo, Chinese writer (b. 1892)
1980 - Milburn Stone, actor (Doc-Gunsmoke), dies at 75
1980 - Billy Butlin, Founder of the brand of holiday venues known as Butlins (b. 1899)
1982 - Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
1982 - Sgt Ian McKay VC, British soldier (Falklands War) (b. 1953)
1983 - Norma Shearer, actress (Escape, Romeo & Juliet), dies at 82
1986 - Antoon Breyne, Belgian journalist, dies at 76
1986 - Tony Desimone, combo leader (Ernie in Kovacsland), dies at 66
1988 - Marcel Poot, Belgian baron/composer, dies at 87
1989 - Peter Conrad Baden, composer, dies at 80
1989 - Lou Monte, American singer (b. 1917)
1990 - Terence O'Neil, lord/PM of Ulster (1963-69), dies
1992 - Edward Fleming, Danish director (Lille Spejl), dies
1992 - Gerda Nicolson, actress (Next of Kin, Clinic), dies
1994 - Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Lubavitcher leader (1950-94), dies at 92
1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife of OJ, murdered at 35 (probably by OJ)
1994 - Otto Roesch, paleontologist, dies at 93
1994 - Ron Goldman, waiter, murdered with wife of OJ Simpson at 27
1995 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, pianist, dies at 75
1996 - Ilona Ference, actress (Quatermass II, Star of My Night), dies at 78
1996 - MacKenzie John, pipe major, dies at 83
1997 - Bulat Okudzhava, Russian writer and musician (b. 1924)
2000 - P.L.Deshpande, Marathi writer (b. 1919)
2002 - Bill Blass, American fashion designer (b. 1922)
2003 - Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
2005 - Scott Young, Canadian sportswriter, novelist, and journalist (b. 1918)
2006 - György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923)
2006 - Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector (b. 1923)
2007 - Don Herbert aka "Mr. Wizard", American television host (b. 1917)
2008 - Derek Tapscott, Welsh footballer (b. 1932)