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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 165

455 - A D Gaiseric & the Vandals sacked Rome
575 - Benedict I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
657 - St Eugene I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1129 - Fulco V's son Godfried marries king Henry I's daughter Mathildis
1615 - First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
1619 - England & Netherlands signs treaty about business in the Indies
1625 - Prince Frederik Henry sworn in as viceroy of Holland/Zealand
1627 - English king Charles I establishes Guyana Company
1633 - Prince Frederik Henry conquerors fort Rhine at Cologne
1676 - Battle at Palermo: French beats Dutch/Spanish fleet
1697 - Monarch August van Saksen becomes Catholic
1746 - Russia & Austria sign agreements
1763 - Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
1774 - England passed Quartering Act, mandating Colonists must board English troops in their homes
1774 - Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters were not provided.
1780 - Anti Catholic demonstration attacks parliament in London
1780 - The Derby horse race is held for the first time.
1797 - 1st ascent of "Great Mountain" (4,622') in Adirondack NY (C Broadhead)
1834 - 5th national black convention meet (NYC)
1835 - P T Barnum & his circus begin 1st tour of US
1848 - The Slavic congress in Prague begins.
1851 - 1st US alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine)
1855 - The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.
1857 - James Gibbs, Va, patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine
1858 - Donati Comet 1st seen named after it's discoverer
1862 - Gen Robert E Lee takes command of Confederate armies of E VA & NC
1862 - Raid at Early's: Maryland towards Washington DC
1863 - Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves
1864 - Battle of Cold Harbour, Day 2
1865 - At Galveston, Kirby-Smith surrenders Trans-Mississippi Dept
1866 - Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to US forces
1869 - Cleveland's Forest City play their 1st game (vs Cin Red Stockings)
1873 - Construction begins on Clay St (SF) for world's 1st cable railroad
1875 - James Augustine Healey became 1st Black Catholic Bishop in US
1876 - Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina
1881 - Haarlem-Zandvoort Railway opens
1882 - Pierre de Brazza festival welcomed in Paris
1883 - 1st night baseball under lights, Ft Wayne Indiana
1883 - Chicago's "El" opens to traffic
1886 - Grover Cleveland is 1st to wed during presidency (Frances Folsom)
1896 - 30th Belmont: Henry Griffin aboard Hastings wins in 2:24.5
1896 - Guglielmo Marconi patents the radio
1899 - Black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynchings
1901 - Benjamin Adams arrested for playing golf on Sunday (NY)
1902 - 2nd statewide initiative & referendum law adopted, in Oregon
1903 - Netherlands Korfball League forms
1903 - Pirates win a triple header from Dodgers
1904 - Professor Schron finds microbe that causes photosynthesis
1908 - 33rd Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Royal Tourist wins in 1:46.4
1909 - 43rd Belmont: Eddie Dugan aboard Joe Madden wins in 2:21.6
1909 - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
1910 - 1st roundtrip flight over English Channel (C S Rolls, England)
1910 - Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
1913 - 1st strike settlement mediated by US Dept of Labor-RR clerks
1913 - Demonstrations for general voting right in Neth
1914 - Glenn Curtiss flies his Langley Aerodrome
1916 - German troops under Lt Rackow take Fort Vaux
1919 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg (Cornhuskers)
1920 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Beyond the Horizon)
1922 - Suffy McInnis (1st base) ends an errorless string of 1,700 chances
1924 - Snyder Act: US citizenship granted to all American Indians
1925 - NY Yankee Lou Gehrig begins his 2,130 consecutive game streak
1928 - Velveeta Cheese created by Kraft
1930 - Sarah Dickson becomes 1st woman Presbyterian elder in US, Cincinnati
1932 - Franz von Papen "Cabinet of the Baron" premieres
1933 - FDR authorizes 1st swimming pool built inside the White House
1933 - WNJ-AM in Newark NJ goes off the air
1935 - Babe Ruth, 40, announces his retirement as a player
1936 - Gen Anastasio Somoza takes over as dictator of Nicaragua
1940 - Heavy German bombing on Dunkirk beach
1942 - Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists as a Navy aviator
1943 - 99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission (over Italy)
1943 - German assault on Sebastopol Krim, begins
1944 - Generals Eisenhower & Montgomery dine in Portsmouth
1944 - Judendurchgangslager Vught disbands
1946 - Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day)
1947 - "Louisiana Lady" opens at Century Theater NYC for 4 performances
1947 - Hungarian premier Ferenc Nagy resigns
1949 - Transjordan renamed Jordan
1950 - ST Louis Browns pitcher Harry Dorish swipes home vs Wash Senators
1951 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Evangelii praecones
1952 - 650,000 metal workers go on strike in US
1952 - Maurice Olley of General Motors begins designing the Corvette
1953 - Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey
1954 - John Costello (Cons) becomes premier of Ireland
1955 - The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
1956 - Yugoslav president Tito visits Moscow
1957 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1957 - US TV interviews Khrushchev
1958 - Alan Freed joins WABC (NYC) radio
1958 - Brooks Robinson, hits into 1st of record 4 triple plays
1958 - Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford fans 6 in a row to tie an AL record
1959 - Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid," SF
1960 - Broadway theaters close (labor dispute between owners & Actors Equity)
1962 - 32nd French Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Roy Emerson (36 26 63 97 62)
1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1964 - "Follies Bergere" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 191 performances
1964 - Lal Bahadur Sjastri elected premier of India
1964 - Rolling Stones 1st US concert tour debuts in Lynn, Mass
1965 - 2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges R India)

Famous Birthdays

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926 - Murakami, Emperor of Japan (d. 967)
1504 - George/Joris van Egmont, bishop of Utrecht
1535 - Leo XI, [Alessandro O de' Medici], Italy, Pope (1605)
1577 - Giovanni Righi, composer
1614 - Benjamin Rogers, composer
1624 - Jan III Sobieski, King of Poland (1674-96)
1715 - Herman-Francois Delange, composer
1740 - Marquis de Sade, 1st known sadist/writer (Justine)
1751 - Antoni Weinert, composer
1758 - Cornelis R T Krayenhoff, Dutch fortress engineer/cartographer
1759 - Jan Ekels, the Young, Dutch painter
1773 - John Randolph, U.S. Senator from Virginia (d. 1833)
1774 - William Lawson, explorer of New South Wales, Australia (d. 1850)
1777 - Christian Traugott Tag, composer
1802 - Adrian van der Hoop Jr, Dutch poet/critic
1803 - Michail I Glinka, Russian composer
1806 - Isaac Strauss, composer
1807 - Robert Fuhrer, composer
1815 - Philip Kearny, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1821 - Ion Bratianu, (Lib), premier of Romania (1876-88)
1823 - Gédéon Ouimet, French Canadian politician (d. 1905)
1828 - James Cutler Dunn Parker, composer
1830 - Olivier Metra, composer
1831 - Benjamin Hardin Helm, Brig General (Conf)/Lincoln's brother-in-law
1831 - Jan G Palm, Curacao, bandmaster/choir master/composer
1835 - Pius X, [Giuseppe Sarto], 257th Roman Catholic pope (1903-14)
1838 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna (d. 1900)
1840 - Thomas Hardy, England, poet/novelist (Far from the Madding Crowd)
1842 - Constantly AM Cap, Flemish poet/etcher
1849 - Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist (La femme)
1857 - Edward William Elgar, Broadheath Engld, composer (Pomp & Circumstance)
1857 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Denmark, poet (Poutnici Svetem, Nobel 1917)
1858 - Harry Rowe Shelley, composer
1863 - Paul Felix Weingartner, Germany, conductor (Zara, Dalmatia)
1864 - Ben Webster, London England, actor (Old Curiosity Shop)
1865 - George Lohmann, cricketer (England's great bowler late 19th cent)
1869 - Jack O'Connor, baseball player (d. 1937)
1876 - Hakon Borresen, composer
1879 - Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright/poet (Avondvlam)
1883 - Bokke R S Pollema, Dutch Frisian journalist/author (Lock of Hair)
1887 - Howard Johnson, American songwriter (d. 1941)
1890 - Hedda Hopper, [Elda Furry], PA, gossip columnist (From Under My Hat)
1891 - Ernst Kunz, composer
1891 - Thurman Arnold, American attorney and jurist (d. 1969)
1899 - Royal Beal, Brookline MA, actor (Death of a Salesman)
1900 - David Wynne, composer
1901 - Michael Todd, producer (Around the World in 80 Days)
1904 - Johnny Weissmuller, actor (Tarzan)/100m swimmer (Oly-5 gold-1924, 28)
1904 - Frank Runacres, English artist (d. 1
1907 - Dorothy West, US journalist/author (Living is Easy)
1908 - Gordon Weir, cricketer (NZ batsman in 11 Tests 1930-37)
1909 - Robin Orr, composer
1911 - Xia Hong, writer
1913 - Barbara Pym, romantic author (Very Private Eye)
1913 - Bert Farber, Bkln NY, orch leader (Arthur Gudfrey, Vic Damone)
1913 - Walter Andreas Schwarz, German singer and author (d. 1992)
1913 - Barbara Pym, English novelist (d. 1980)
1915 - Lester del Rey, US, sci-fi author (Moon Trilogy, Marooned on Mars)
1915 - Robert Moffat Palmer, composer
1915 - Walter Tetley, NYC, animation voice (Sherman-Bullwinkle Show)
1915 - Alexandru Nicolschi, Russian communist (d. 1992)
1916 - Betty Furness, actress, journalist/consumer advisor (NYC, WNBC)
1917 - Max Showalter, Caldwell Ks, actor/composer (Stockard Channing Show)
1917 - Heinz Sielmann, German photographer and filmmaker (d. 2006)
1918 - Ruth Atkinson, American cartoonist (d. 1997)
1919 - Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (d. 2005)
1920 - Michael James O'Hehir, commentator/journalist
1920 - Yolande Donlan, NJ, actress (Jigsaw, Expresso Bongo, Penny Princess)
1920 - Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-born cr
1920 - Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (d. 2003)
1920 - Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1969)
1921 - Alexander Salkind, producer (Superman)
1922 - Charlie Sifford, American go
1922 - Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
1923 - Del Simmons, rocker (Capt Beefheart)
1924 - June Callwood, Canadian jounalist and activist (d. 2007)
1926 - Milo O'Shea, Dublin Ireland, actor (Barbarella, Romeo & Juliet)
1927 - Andre Vandernoot, Flemish conductor (Royal Flemish Opera)
1927 - Phillip Burton, historian (Vanishing Eagles)
1927 - W. Watts Biggers, American novelist and animator
1928 - John Anthony Bowden Cuddon, writer/teacher
1929 - Alcides Lanza, composer
1929 - Frederic Devreese, composer
1929 - Willaim Brown, television executive
1929 - Norton Juster, American author and archi
1929 - Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player
1930 - Charles Pete Conrad Jr, Phila, USN/astro (Gem 5 11, Ap 12, Skylab 2)
1930 - Bob Lillis, baseball player
1931 - Larry Jackson, baseball player
1932 - Barry Levinson, Baltimore MD, director (Rainman)
1932 - Sammy Turner, Patterson, NJ, singer (Lavender Blue Moods)
1932 - Yaroslav Kirillovich Golovyanov, cosmonaut
1933 - Bob Rozario, Shanghai China, orch leader (Tony Orlando, Marie)
1933 - Jerry Lumpe, baseball player
1934 - Johnny Carter, US singer (Give your baby a standing ovation)
1935 - Carol Shields, American-born novelist (d. 2
1935 - Roger Brierley, English actor (d. 2005)
1935 - Dimitri Kitsikis, Greek turkologist
1936 - Sally Kellerman, Long Beach Cal, actress (M*A*S*H, Back to School)
1936 - Vladimir Golubnichy, USSR, 20K walker (Olympic-gold-1960, 68)

Famous Deaths

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657 - Eugene I, Italian Pope (654-7), dies
910 - Richilde of Provence, Queen of Western Francia
1418 - Katherine of Lancaster, wife of Henry III of Castile
1564 - Gellius Faber, [Jelle Smit], Fries theologist, dies
1567 - Shane O'Neill, Irish chieftain
1572 - Thomas Howard 4th duke of Norfolk, English Earl, executed at 36
1575 - Pieter Aertsen, [Long Worm], painter, dies at about 65
1581 - James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, regent of Scotland
1597 - Diederik Sonoy, German/Neth governor of Northern quarter, dies at 67
1632 - Ernst Casimir, count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Friesland, dies at 58
1639 - Floris II van Pallandt, earl of Culemborg/politician, dies at 62
1678 - Pieter the Great, regent/diplomat, dies at 63
1693 - John Wildman, English soldier and politician
1701 - Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1607)
1716 - Ogata Korin, Japanese painter
1750 - Johann Valentin Rathgeber, German composer, dies at 68
1754 - Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (b. 1680)
1761 - Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1685)
1785 - Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713)
1812 - John W de Winter, Dutch vice-adm, dies at battle at Kamperduin at 51
1833 - Simon Byrne, Irish bare-knuckle prize fighter (b. 1806)
1839 - Wijnand YY Nuijen, painter/lithographer (Wrecked), dies at 26
1864 - George Pierce Doles, US businessman/Confed brig-general, dies at 34
1865 - John E Feisser, founder (1st Dutch baptist church), dies at 59
1865 - Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (b. 1783)
1873 - Francois Hainl, composer, dies at 65
1875 - Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (b. 1806)
1879 - E Louis JJ Napoleon Bonaparte, crown prince, dies in battle at 23
1881 - Émile Littré, French lexicographer (b. 1801)
1882 - Guiseppi Garibaldi, Italian rebel leader, dies at 74
1896 - Gerhard Rohlfs, German explorer (Abbsynia/Ethiopia), dies
1901 - James A Herne, [J Aherne], US playwright (Margaret Fleming), dies
1901 - George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary (b. 1844)
1908 - Redvers H Buller, English general, dies at 68
1927 - Eduard GHH Cuypers, architect (De Hooge Vuursche), dies at 67
1927 - Freidrich Hegar, composer, dies at 85
1927 - Lizzie Borden, accused murderer, dies at 68
1929 - Charles Coventry, cricketer (13 runs in 2 Tests Eng v S Af 1889), dies
1933 - Frank Jarvis, American athlete (b. 1878)
1937 - Louis Vierne, composer, dies at 66
1940 - Willem E Roelofs, painter/cartoonist, dies
1941 - Lou Gehrig, 1st baseman (NY Yankee), dies of ALS in Riverdale NY at 37
1941 - Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1947 - Hermann Darewsky, composer, dies at 64
1948 - Viktor Brack, Nazi physician (b. 1904)
1948 - Karl Brandt, personal physician of Adolf Hitler (b. 1904)
1948 - Karl Gebhardt, Nazi doctor (b. 1897)
1948 - Waldemar Hoven, German physician (b. 1903)
1948 - Wolfram Sievers, Nazi physician (b. 1905)
1949 - Dynam-Victor Fumet, composer, dies at 82
1949 - Ernest Ford, composer, dies at 91
1950 - Stanislas Bizot, French checker player (world champ 1925), dies at 70
1951 - Alain, [Emile-Auguste Chartier], French philosopher, dies at 83
1951 - John Erskine, US writer/poet/pianist (Venus Love Goddess), dies at 71
1956 - Jean Hersholt, actress (Emma, Grand Hotel, Greed), dies at 69
1961 - George S Kaufman, playwright/dir/pulitzer prize winner, dies at 72
1961 - Peter H "Paul" Huf, actor/director (Dutch Comedy), dies at 70
1962 - Franc S Finzgar, Slovic writer (Service Girls), dies
1962 - V Sackville-West, writer, dies at 70
1967 - Zamah Cunningham, actress (Menosha the Magnificent), dies at 74
1967 - Benno Ohnesorg, German student (b. 1940)
1968 - André Mathieu, Quebec pianist and composer (b. 1929)
1970 - Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer, designer, and founder of eponymous race team (b. 1937)
1970 - Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (b. 1888)
1970 - Albert Lamorisse, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
1971 - Charles de Keukeleire, Belgian director (Evil Eye), dies at 66
1972 - Franz Philipp, composer, dies at 81
1974 - Elliott Sullivan, actor (Sergeant), dies at 66
1974 - Waldemar F Eric Marx, cricketer (3 Tests S Afr v Aust 1921-22), dies
1974 - Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese racing driver (b. 1949)
1975 - Eisaku Sato, premier of Japan (1964-71 Nobel 1974), dies at 74
1976 - Alan Dewitt, actor (Mr Tyler-It's About Time), dies at 52
1976 - Bartoes, [Albertus J Wijstma], cabaret performer/comic, dies at 73
1976 - Juan José Torres, former President of Bolivia, assassinated in the frame of Operation Condor
1977 - Forrest Lewis, actor (Great Gildersleeve, Ichabod & Me), dies at 77
1977 - Henri D Gagnebin, Swiss organist/composer, dies at 91
1977 - Stephen Boyd, actor (Fantastic Voyage, Ben-Hur, Lisa), dies at 48
1979 - Jim Hutton, actor (Ellery Queen), dies of liver cancer at 45
1982 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (b. 1904)
1983 - Stan Rogers, musician, dies in aircraft fire
1984 - Georgios Kasassoglou, Greek musician (b. 1908)
1986 - Daniel Sternefeld, Belgian conductor/composer (Elegie), dies at 80
1986 - Aurel Joliat, Canadian hockey player (b. 1901)
1987 - Andres Segovia, Spanish composer/guitarist, dies at 94
1987 - Sammy Kaye, orch leader (Sammy Kaye Show), dies at 77
1988 - Horace A Hildreth, (Gov-Maine, 1945-49), dies at 85
1989 - Ted a'Beckett, cricketer (4 Tests 1928-32), dies
1990 - Frederick Mellinger, founder of Fredericks of Hollywood, dies at 76
1990 - Jack Gilford, actor (Cracker Jacks), dies at 82
1990 - Rex Harrison, actor (My Fair Lady), dies of cancer at 82
1990 - Robert Noyce, co-inventor (semi-conductor)/founder (Intel), dies
1990 - Stuart Hall, actor (Cavalcade, Dawn Patrol), dies
1990 - Stiv Bators, American singer (The Dead Boys, The Lords of the New Church) (b. 1949)
1992 - Philip Dunne, founder (Screen Writers Guild), dies of cancer at 84
1993 - French JFM of Thiel, Dutch 2nd chamber chairman (1963-72), dies at 86
1993 - Johnny Mize, baseball player, dies at 80
1994 - David Stove, Australian philosopher (b. 1927)
1996 - John Alton, cinematographer, dies at 94
1996 - Leon Garield, writer, dies at 74
1996 - Peter Bird, ocean rower, dies at 49