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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 171

451 - Germans & Romans beat Atiila the Hun at Catalarinische Fields
1212 - French & Spanish crusaders unite against the Almohaden at Toledo
1214 - The University of Oxford receives its charter.
1402 - Battle of Angora (Ankara)-Tatars defeat Turkish Army
1530 - German Parliament joins to Augsburg together
1547 - Count Philip van Hessen captured
1567 - Don Henrique of Brazil, expel Jews
1567 - Jews are expelled from Brazil by order of regent Don Henrique
1582 - Bishop Domingo de Salazar of Manila suppresses the Philippines
1591 - Mauritius & Willem van Nassau occupy Devente
1631 - The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.
1632 - Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area
1656 - Polish King Jan II Casimir recaptures Warsaw
1675 - Abenaki, Massachusetts, Mohegan & Wampanoag indians form anti-English front under Metacom
1756 - 146 Brit soldiers imprisoned in India-Black Hole of Calcutta-most die
1756 - India rebels defeat Calcutta on British army
1779 - Battle of Stone Ferry
1782 - Congress approves Great Seal of US & eagle as it's symbol
1787 - Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.
1789 - Oath of Tennis Court (for a new constitution) in France taken
1791 - King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution
1793 - Eli Whitney patents his cotton gin
1819 - 320 ton Savannah becomes 1st steamship to cross any ocean (Atlantic)
1825 - Coronation of French king Charles X the Bourbon
1826 - Siam/England sign trade/peace treaty
1837 - England issues its 1st stamp, 1P Queen Victoria
1837 - Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901
1840 - Samuel Morse patents his telegraph
1855 - Commissioners appointed to lay out SF streets west of Larkin
1862 - Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
1863 - 1st bank chartered in US (National Bank of Davenport Iowa)
1863 - Skirmish at Greencastle Pennsylvania
1863 - West Virginia admitted as 35th US state
1864 - Battle of Kinston NC & Battle of Abingdon VA
1864 - Battle of Petersburgs VA - in trenches
1864 - Skirmish at Lattermore's Mills/Powder Springs Georgia
1866 - Italy declares war on Austria
1867 - Pres Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska
1871 - Ku Klux Klan trials began in federal court in Oxford Miss
1874 - 1st US Lifesaving Medal awarded (Lucian Clemons)
1888 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Libertas
1893 - Lizzie Borden acquitted in murder of parents in New Bedford Mass
1895 - 1st female PhD (science) earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin)
1895 - Canal of Smock official opens
1895 - Nicaragua, El Salvador & Honduras form a short-lived confederation
1901 - Charlotte Manye is 1st native African to graduate from a US college
1907 - 1st Portland Rose festival
1909 - 1st balloon honeymoon (Roger Burham & Eleanor Waring)
1910 - "Krazy Kat" comic strip by George Herriman debuts in NY Journal
1911 - NAACP incorporates (NY)
1912 - NY Giant Josh Devore steals 4 bases in an inning (2nd & 3rd twice)
1912 - NY Giants lead Bost Braves 14-2 into 9th, Giants win 21-12
1913 - 3 of 1st 4 Yankees hit-by-pitch en route to a record 6 hit batsman
1913 - Bert Daniels set AL mark, being hit-by-pitch 3 times in a doubleheader
1914 - 46th Belmont: Merritt Buxton aboard Luke McLuke wins in 2:20
1915 - German offensive in Argonnes
1919 - German govt of Scheideman resigns
1919 - Treaty of Versailles: Germany ends incorporation of Austria
1919 - 150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
1920 - Yanks win protest of 1-0 White Sox win & game is replayed
1921 - 11.5" (29.2 cm) of rainfall, Circle, Montana (state record)
1926 - Mordecai W Johnson becomes 1st black president of Howard University
1930 - 65th British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Hoylake Hoylake
1931 - Karl Buresch becomes chancellor of Austrian
1932 - A's Roger Cramer gets 6 consecutive hits in a game (repeats in 1935)
1936 - Jesse Owens of US sets 100 meter record at 10.2
1939 - Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants
1940 - Joe Louis TKOs Arturo Godoy in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1941 - German U-203 fails on torpedo attack on US battleship Texas
1942 - Adolf Eichmann proclaims deportation of Dutch Jews
1942 - German troops conquer Tobruk, North Africa
1943 - Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded
1943 - Detroit race riot kills 35
1943 - German round up Jews in Amsterdam
1943 - National Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organizes
1943 - New Quebec (Chubb) Crater discovered in northern Quebec (3½ km dia)
1943 - Sweden's Gunther Hagg beats favorite Greg Rice by 35 yards in 5,000m at national AAU track & field championship in NY
1944 - Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency
1944 - Heavy storm hits the Channel
1944 - Nazi begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz
1944 - Soviet forces conquer Wiborg
1944 - US attacks Japanese fleet in Philippines Sea
1944 - US troops occupy Biak
1946 - NYC transit begins using PA system - Car # 744 on 8th Ave IND line
1947 - Pres Truman vetoes Taft-Hartley Act
1948 - "Toast of the Town" hosted by Ed Sullivan premieres on CBS-TV
1948 - 20 Jews killed when a bomb is thrown into Jewish quarter of Cairo
1948 - Cleveland draws then record 82,781 for doubleheader
1948 - Deutsche Mark introduced in West-Germany
1949 - Central Intelligence Agency Act, passes
1950 - Dutch Air Force base Tjililitan given to Indonesia
1950 - Joe Dimaggio's 2,000th hit, Yanks beat Indians 8-2
1951 - Cleve Indian Bobby Avila hits 3 HRs, double & single vs Red Sox
1953 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1955 - "Almost Crazy" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 16 performances
1956 - Venezuelan Super Constellation crashes in NJ, 74 killed
1956 - At Detroit's Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle hits 2 Billy Hoeft pitches into right center field bleachers (no else hits 1 there)
1958 - NZ all out 47 v England at Lord's Laker 4-13, Lock 5-17
1960 - 12nd Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Robert Stack & Jane Wyatt
1960 - Federation of Mali (& Senegal) becomes independent of France

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 245

236 BC - Scipio Africanus, Roman statesman and general of the Second Punic War (d. 183 BC)
1005 - Ali az-Zahir, caliph (d. 1036)
1389 - John, Duke of Bedford, regent of England (d. 1435)
1566 - Sigismund III, King of Poland/Sweden
1583 - Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (d. 1652)
1585 - Lazaro Valvasensi, composer
1615 - Salvatore Rosa, Italian painter/musician [or 7/21]
1634 - Charles Emanuel II, Duke of Savoy (1638-75)
1642 - George Hickes, English linguistic (Old German Philology)
1647 - Johan Georg III, elect of Saxon (1680-91)
1647 - John George III, Elector of Saxony (d. 1691)
1674 - Nicholas Rowe, England, poet laureate (Jane Shore, Tamerlane)
1694 - Hans A Brorson, Danish poet/bishop of Ribe
1717 - Jacques Saly, French sculptor (d. 1776)
1723 - Adam Ferguson, Scottish sociologist/historian
1723 - Theophilus Lindsey, English theologian (d. 1808)
1730 - Nonnosus Madlseder, composer
1733 - Betty Washington- sister of George Washington
1737 - Tokugawa Ieharu, Japanese military (d. 1786)
1743 - Anna L Barbauld, writer of hymns
1756 - Joseph Martin Kraus, composer
1763 - Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish nationalist
1770 - Moses Waddel, American educator/minister and bestselling author (d. 1840)
1771 - Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, Scottish philanthropist (d. 1820)
1786 - Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, French poet (d. 1859)
1808 - Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi (d. 1888)
1819 - Jacques Offenbach, Cologne, French composer (Tales of Hoffmann)
1823 - Jesse Lee Reno, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1824 - George E Street, British (?) architect
1824 - John Tyler Morgan, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1907
1833 - Leon-J-F Bonnat, painter
1852 - Theodorus Heemskerk Jzn, minister of interior (1866..88) [or Jul 20]
1858 - Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (portraits)
1858 - Charles W. Chesnutt, American writer (d. 1932)
1860 - Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer, footballer, and coach (d. 1937)
1861 - Arthur Battelle Whiting, composer
1864 - Worm Pander, sculptor
1866 - Ivans, [Jacob van Schevichaven], Dutch lawyer/detective writer
1866 - Lord George ESMH Carnarvon, England, egyptologist (Tutanchamon)
1868 - Helen Miller Shepard, philanthropist/established Hall of Fame
1872 - George Carpenter, the 5th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1948)
1875 - Othenio Able, Austria, paleontologist
1883 - Giannotto Bastianelli, composer
1883 - Jules Verstraete, [Julien G the Graef], actor (Driestuiversopera)
1883 - Leah Baird, Chicago IL, actress (Lady Gangster)
1885 - Andrzej Gawroński, Polish scholar (d. 1927)
1887 - Arnaut Colnot, painter/graphic artist
1887 - Kurt Schwitters, German/British dada-artist/poet (collages)
1889 - John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-South African astronomer (d. 1951)
1891 - John A. Costello, second Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland (d. 1976)
1892 - S M Tretjakow, writer
1894 - George Delacorte, NYC, philanthropist/publisher (Dell Books)
1894 - Lloyd A Hall, Illinois, pioneer in food chemistry
1897 - Cyril "Froggy" Francois, cricketer (S Afr all-rounder v Eng 1922-23)
1897 - Elisabeth Hauptmann, German writer (d. 1973)
1899 - Anthon van der Horst, Dutch organist/composer
1899 - Jean Moulin, hero of the French Resistance (WW II)
1900 - Ernest White, composer
1901 - Iri Maruki, artist
1903 - Glenna Collett Vare, RI, Natl Am Golf champ (1922, 25, 28-30, 35)
1904 - Heinrich von Brentano di Tremezzo, German Foreign Minister
1905 - Lillian Hellman, American playwright (d. 1984)
1906 - Bob Howard, Newton Mass, singer/pianist (Sing it Again)
1906 - Catherine Cookson, England, novelist (Bannaman Legacy)
1907 - Lillian Hellman, playwright (Toys in the Attic, Little Foxes)
1907 - Jimmy Driftwood, American songwriter and musician (d. 1998)
1908 - Billy Werber, American baseball player
1909 - Cecil Marley, cricketer (Jamaican batsman 1928-1946, WICBC pres)
1909 - Errol Flynn, Hobart Tasmania, actor (Captain Blood, Robin Hood)
1909 - Joan Harrison, screenwriter
1911 - Gail Patrick, Birmingham Ala, actress (My Man Godfrey, Love Crazy)
1911 - Lord Brightman, British judge of appeals
1912 - Anthony Buckeridge, English author (d. 2004)
1914 - Friedrich Zipp, composer
1915 - Terence Young, Shanghai China, director (Dr No, Thunderball)
1915 - Dick Reynolds, Australian rules footballer and coach (d. 2002)
1916 - Johnny Morris, British broadcaster/actor (Once in a Lifetime)
1916 - William Balchin, geographer
1916 - Jean-Jacques Bertrand, premier of Quebec (d. 1973)
1917 - Igor Śmiałowski, Polish actor (d. 2006)
1918 - George Lynch, American auto racer (d. 1997)
1918 - Zoltán Sztáray, Hungarian writer
1919 - Bruce Gordon, London England, actor (Frank Nitti-Untouchables)
1919 - Ronald Hines, Dutch/British actor (Pack of Lies)
1920 - DeForest Kelley, Atlanta Ga, actor (Dr Leonard McCoy-Star Trek)
1920 - Haydn Tudor Evans, British high court judge
1923 - Marcus Bakker, Dutch MP (CPN)
1924 - Audie Murphy, Kingston Tx, WW II hero/actor (Destry, Joe Butterfly)
1924 - Chet Atkins, Luttrell Tenn, guitarist (Me & My Guitar)
1924 - Rainer Barzel, German leader (CDU-CSU)/minister
1925 - Doris J Hart, St Louis Mo, tennis player (Wimbledon 1951)
1926 - Arthur Bell, royal botanic gardens director (Kew Gardens)
1927 - John M Dengler, jazz bass sax/trumpet/trombone
1928 - David Mitchell, British MP
1928 - Jean-Marie le Pen, France, leader (National Front party)
1928 - Martin Landau, Bkln, actor (Mission Impossible, Space 1999, Ed Wood)
1928 - Robert Satanowski, composer
1929 - Ingrid Haebler, Austrian pianist (Hayd/Mozart/Schubert)
1930 - Ellie Rabb, US, actor (Fabulous Baker Boys, Extreme Close-up)
1930 - John Waine, bishop (Chelmsford)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 86 of 86

451 - Theodorid, King of the Visigoths
840 - Louis de Vrome, emperor of French rich, dies
885 - Bernard Plantapilosa, Count of Auvergne (b. 841)
1585 - Christianus Adrichomius, writer (Theatrum Terrae Sanctae), dies at 52
1597 - Willem Barents, explorer (discovered Spitsbergen & Bereneil), dies
1597 - Willem Barentsz, Dutch navigator
1649 - Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, author, dies
1668 - Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (b. 1620)
1751 - Adriaen Valckenier, gov-gen of Neth-Indies (1737-41), dies at 56
1776 - Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (b. 1704)
1787 - Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola player/composer, dies at 63
1800 - Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (b. 1719)
1820 - Manuel Belgrano, Argentine lawyer and politician (b. 1770)
1833 - Philip Knapton, composer, dies at 44
1837 - Giovanni Furno, composer, dies at 89
1837 - William IV, King of England, dies
1837 - William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1765)
1842 - Michael Umlauf, composer, dies at 60
1846 - Pieter Adams, architect of Rotterdam, dies at about 67
1869 - Toshizou Hijikata, Shinsengumi vice-commander (b. 1835)
1870 - Jules de Goncourt, writer, dies at 39
1876 - Antonio L de Santa Ana, pres Mexico, dies at 79
1883 - Olivier Gloux, [Gustave Aimard], French world explorer, dies at 64
1888 - Cesare Dominiceti, composer, dies at 66
1888 - John H Zuckertort, German chess player, dies at 45
1890 - Theodore Edouard Dufaure de Lajarte, composer, dies at 63
1906 - John Clayton Adams, British landscape artist (b. 1840)
1915 - Emil Rathenau, German industrialist (AEG), dies
1917 - James Mason Crafts, US chemist, dies at 78
1922 - Vittorio Monti, composer, dies at 54
1923 - Joseph Leopold Rockel, composer, dies at 85
1925 - Wilhelm Posse, composer, dies at 72
1925 - Josef Breuer, Austrian psychologist (b. 1842)
1933 - Clara Zetkin, German feminist/communist, dies
1940 - Jehan Alain, French organist/composer, dies in battle at 29
1941 - Stephanie H (Lapidoth-)Swarth, author (Lonely flowers, dies
1945 - Bruno Frank, writer, dies at 58
1947 - Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal
1948 - George Frederick Boyle, composer, dies at 61
1950 - Claude Jennings, cricketer (Aust opening bat in 1912 Triangular), dies
1952 - Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)
1953 - Hendrik de Man, sociologist (Belgian Working people Party), dies at 67
1958 - Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel 1950), dies
1959 - Hitoshi Ashida, Japanese politician, dies at 71
1960 - Mahlon Hamilton, actor (Peg O'My Heart, High School Girl), dies at 80
1960 - Walter Dehmel, writer, dies at 57
1963 - Gordon Jones, actor (Mike the Cop-Abbott & Costello), dies at 52
1963 - Joseph Self, murderer, executed; last Wash state execution in 25 yrs
1963 - Ralph Sanford, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 64
1963 - Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician (b. 1898)
1964 - Edgar Barrier, actor (Cobra Woman, Rocky, Macbeth), dies at 57
1965 - Ira Louvin, country singer (Louvin Brothers), dies at 41
1972 - Horst Salomon, writer, dies
1972 - Howard Johnson, US restaurant/hotel founder, dies at 75
1975 - Daniel Ayala Perez, composer, dies at 68
1976 - Lou Klein, American baseball player (b. 1918)
1977 - Abner Biberman, actor (Imhook-Kodiak), dies at 68
1978 - Karel G Bakker, actor (Coffee House), dies at 66
1980 - Gustaf Allan Pettersson, composer, dies at 68
1984 - Estelle Winwood, actress (Miracle on 34th Street), dies at 99
1984 - Sunny Johnson, actress (Animal House), dies cerebral hemorrhage at 30
1986 - Tim Herbert, comedian (Dagmar's Canteen), dies at 71
1990 - Ina Balin, actress (Patsy), dies at 52, of pulmonary hypertension
1994 - Bram Koopmans, cyclist/coach, dies at 78
1994 - Charlotte Auerbach, computer pioneer/mathematician, dies at 84
1994 - Emmanuel Bankole Timothy, journalist, dies at 70
1994 - Louis Benjamin, showman, dies at 71
1995 - Dennis Gomm, musician, dies at 84
1995 - Emil Mihai Cioran, writer/aphorist, dies at 84
1995 - Henry Iliffe Cozens, pilot, dies at 91
1996 - Hellevi Rombin Schine, Miss Universe (1955), dies in plane crash at 64
1996 - Irving Krick, meteorologist, dies at 89
1996 - Joseph Green, film maker, dies at 96
1996 - Michel Lebrun, crime writer, dies at 65
1996 - Walter Guevara Arze, provisional president of Bolivia (1979), dies
1997 - Bobby Helms, composer (Jingle Bell Rock), dies at 61
1997 - Lawrence Payton, rocker (4 Tops-I'll Be There), dies at 59
1998 - Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (b. 1942)
1999 - Clifton Fadiman, American author (b. 1902)
2002 - Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (b. 1905)
2002 - Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (b. 1916)
2003 - Bob Stump, American politician (b. 1927)
2005 - Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer, Nobel laureate (b. 1923)
2005 - Larry Collins, American writer (b. 1929)
2006 - Billy Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1918)
2007 - Trevor Henry, New Zealand Justice (b. 1902)