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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 184

930 - World's oldest parliament, the Iceland Parliament, established
1295 - Pope Boniface VIII enters Rome
1298 - Duke Albrecht von Habsburg chosen Roman Catholic German king
1305 - French-Flemish peace treaty signed at Athis-sur-Orge
1532 - Henry VIII & Francois I signs secret treaty against emperor Karel V
1565 - Turgut Reis (Dragut), commander of the Ottoman Navy, dies during the Siege of Malta.
1585 - Spanish army under Tassis beats Amerongen Staatse troops
1611 - Henry Hudson set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers on his ship Discovery & never seen again
1658 - Dutch troops occupy last Portugese Fort Jafnapatnam Ceylon
1661 - Marriage contract for Charles II of England & Catharina of Portugal
1683 - William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians in Pennsylvania; only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken"
1713 - The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada.
1724 - Russia & Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople
1757 - Robert Clive defeats Indians at Plassey, wins control of Bengal
1758 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld - British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.
1760 - Battle of Landshut Silesia: Austria beats Prussia
1775 - 1st regatta held on Thames, England
1776 - Final draft of Declaration of Independence submitted to US Congress
1780 - American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township.
1784 - 1st US balloon flight (13 year old Edward Warren)
1794 - Empress Catherine II grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev
1810 - John Jacob Astor organizes Pacific Fur Co (Astoria, Oregon)
1821 - Dutch troops conquer Palembang
1848 - Antoine Joseph Sax patents Saxophone
1848 - Bloody insurrection of workers in Paris
1854 - Antwerp-Roosendaal railway goes into use
1860 - Congress establishes Government Printing Office
1860 - US Secret Service created
1863 - Tullahoma campaign, TN
1865 - At Ft Towson, Gen Stand Watie surrenders last sizeable confed army
1868 - Christopher Latham Sholes patents "Type-writer"
1888 - Frederick Douglass is 1st African-American nominated for president
1894 - The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
1902 - Gioacchino Rossini's unveils monument to Santa-Croce
1909 - Confessional parties win Dutch parliamentary elections
1915 - Yanks get record 16 walks & 3 wild pitches beat A's Bruno Hass, 15-0
1915 - Zeb Turner, country-rock performer (Chew Tobacco Rag)
1917 - 31st US Womens Tennis: Molla Mallory beat Marion Vanderhoef (46 60 62)
1917 - Ammunition factory in Boleweg Bohemia explodes, killing 1,000
1917 - Ernie Shore replaces Red Sox pitcher Babe Ruth with a runner on, he throws him out & retires all 26 he faces for a perfect game
1918 - Boston Red Sox Dutch Leonard's 2nd no-hitter beats Tigers, 5-0
1919 - Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Assn (UNIA) incorporates
1919 - Nitti govt forms in Italy
1922 - 57th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 300 at Royal St George
1924 - 8 month Twenste textile strike ends
1925 - British warship fires on Hong Kong harbor strikers
1925 - Landslides create 3-mile long "Slide Lake" (Gros Ventre Wyoming)
1926 - 8th govt of Briand van France forms
1926 - Commencement of the West Indies' 1st Test cricket match, at Lord's
1926 - The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
1927 - Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in 11-4 victory over Red Sox
1930 - Chicago Cubs beat Philadelphia Phillies 21-8
1931 - Wiley Post & Harold Catty took off for flight around world
1932 - Lou Gehrig plays 1,103rd successive game in a NY uniform, equaling Joe Sewell's record with one team (Cleveland)
1933 - Don McNeill's Pepper Pot (Breakfast Club) begins 35½ year run on NBC
1935 - Anthony Eden offers Mussolini, Somalian harbor
1938 - Civil Aeronautics Authority (US) established
1938 - Marineland opens in Florida-1st aquarium
1938 - NYC Mayor LaGuardia assigns 21 cops to patrol subway
1939 - Bronko Nagurski beats Lou Thesz in Houston, to become wrestling champ
1939 - France turns over Sanjak of Alexandretta (Hatay) to Turkey
1940 - Marcel Louette seeks opposition group "White Brigade" on Antwerp
1940 - RAF bombs Schiphol
1941 - Germany occupies Telz Lithuana
1942 - World War II: Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf FW190 is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
1943 - Dutch artsens protest against nazis
1943 - RAF discovers Werner von Brauns V1/V2-base in Peenemunde
1944 - 4 tornadoes strike Appalachia, killing 153
1944 - Russian offensive in central front sector
1944 - Thomas Mann becomes a US citizen
1945 - 77th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Pavot wins in 2:30.2
1945 - Last organized Japanese defiance broken (Tarakan)
1947 - Compton & Bill Edrich make 370 stand for 3rd wkt v S Africa
1947 - Truman's veto of Taft-Hartley Act overridden by congress
1949 - 1st 12 women graduate from Harvard Medical School
1949 - Dutch Constellation plunge at Bari in sea, 33 die
1950 - Swiss parliament refuses voting right for women
1950 - Yanks & Tigers hit record 11 HRs, Tigers win 10-9
1950 - Indians' Luke Easter hits longest ball in Cleveland Stadium history, 477 feet, into upper deck, Section 4
1951 - British diplomats Guy Burgess & Donald Maclean flee to USSR
1951 - Most expensive US hailstorm ($1.5M crop damage & $14M property-Kansas)
1952 - US airplanes bomb energy centers at Yalu Korea
1953 - Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Women Golf Tournament
1954 - 122°F (50°C), Overton, Nevada (state record until June 29, 1994)
1955 - Walt Disney's "Lady & the Tramp" released
1956 - "Jimmy Durante Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1956 - "Transfusion" by Nervous Norvous peaks at #8
1956 - Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt
1958 - Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers
1958 - Fed judge rules race separation must end in 2½ years in Little Rock
1958 - Foundation Praemium Erasmianum (Erasmus Prize) established
1959 - Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany (where he resumed a scientific career).
1959 - A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim, Norway kills 34 people.
1960 - "Pat Boone Show," last airs on ABC-TV
1960 - Japan signs security treaty with the US
1961 - Antarctic Treaty goes into effect
1961 - Cubs Ernie Banks ends his 717 consecutive-games-played streak
1961 - Phillies overcome 9-0, losing 11-2 they score 4 in 8th & 6 in 9th
1961 - USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 32,830 m
1962 - "Subways Are after Sleeping" closes at St James NYC after 205 perfs

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 223

47 BC - Pharaoh Ptolemy XV of Egypt (d. 30 BC)
1160 - Johannes de Matha, French saint/founder (Trinitarians)
1433 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1488)
1456 - Margaret of Denmark, wife of James III of Scotland (d. 1486)
1534 - Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (d. 1582)
1540 - Johann Baptista Serranus, composer
1596 - Johan Banér, Swedish soldier (d. 1641)
1612 - Justus G Schottel, [Schottelius], German poet
1612 - André Tacquet, Belgian mathematician (d. 1660)
1668 - Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (d. 1744)
1683 - Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (d. 1745)
1703 - Maria Leszczyńska, queen of Louis XV of France (d. 1768)
1716 - Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (d. 1789)
1749 - Konrad Back, composer
1750 - Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist (d. 1801)
1763 - Josephine Martiniques, empress of France (1804-14)
1774 - Matthijs Siegenbeek, Dutch linguist (spelling)
1799 - John Milton Bernhisel, American physician (d. 1881)
1800 - Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and social activist (d. 1846)
1801 - Daniel Smith Donelson, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1810 - Franziska"Fanny" Elssler, Austrian ballerina
1818 - Simon Vissering, Dutch economist/minister of Finances (1879-81)
1822 - Young Marshall Moody, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1866
1824 - Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke, composer
1837 - Ernest Guiraud, composer
1838 - Edwin Henry Stoughton, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1846 - George Sax, inventor (saxophone)
1848 - Antoine Joseph Sax, inventor (saxophone)
1852 - Stephane Raoul Pugno, composer
1855 - Maude Valerie White, composer
1858 - William Ernst Johnson, Cambridge England, mathematician
1859 - Florentinus M Wibaut, Amsterdams social alderman (building of houses)
1875 - Carl Milles, Uppsala Sweden, fountain sculptor (Wedding of Rivers)
1876 - Irvin S Cobb, Ky, writer/humorist (Old Judge Priest)
1877 - Blair Fairchild, composer
1877 - Hermann Stephani, composer
1879 - William Ewart Berry, 1st viscount Camrose/English nobleman
1884 - Werner Krauss, Germany, actor (Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Joyless Street)
1884 - Cyclone Taylor, ice hockey player (d. 1979)
1887 - Ernst Rowohlt, German publisher (Rowohlt-Verlag)
1887 - John Finley Williamson, Canton Ohio, conductor (Westminster Choir)
1888 - Anna Achmatova, [AA Gorenko], Russian conductor (Tsjetki)
1888 - Lee Moran, Chicago IL, actor (Circus Clown)
1888 - Bronson M. Cutting, American politician (d. 1935)
1889 - Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (d. 1966)
1892 - Able Kiviat, US, runner (Olympic-gold-1912)
1892 - Edmund Cobb, Albuquerque NM, western actor (Comanche Territory)
1892 - Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Polish/US pianist
1893 - Donald McBride, Brooklyn NY, actor (Mr Clyde-My Friend Irma)
1894 - Alfred Kinsey, entomologist/sexologist (Kinsey Report)
1894 - Edward VIII, King of Great Brit/N-Ireland/emperor of India (1936)
1897 - Winifred Wagner-William, German organizer (Wagner Festival)
1899 - Alexander Moiseyevich Veprik, composer
1901 - Mariel-Henri Jaspar, Belgian minister/ambassador
1901 - Paul Verhoeven, Unna Germany, director (4th Man, Basic Instinct)
1902 - Howard T Engstrom, Boston, computer designer (Univac)
1902 - Mathias Wieman, German actor (d. 1969)
1903 - Anthony Veiller, NYC, writer (Night of Iguana, Moulin Rouge)
1903 - Hans C Branner, Danish writer (Toys, Horse Rider)
1903 - Paul Joseph James Martin, Canadian politician (d. 1992)
1904 - Carleton Coon, prof of anthropology (What in the World)
1904 - Quintin McMillan, cricketer (South African leg spinner 1929-32)
1904 - Willie Mae "Mother" Smith, gospel singer/evangelist folk artist
1905 - Jack Pickersgill, Canadian politician (d. 1997)
1906 - Wolfgang Koeppen, writer
1907 - Dercy Gonçalves, Brazilian comedienne (d. 2008)
1908 - Paulus Akkerman, [Paul fen Nijenborn], Frisian writer (Each om Each)
1910 - Jean Anouilh, France, dramatist (Thieves' Carnival)
1910 - Milt Hinton, American jazz bassist (d. 2000)
1911 - David Ogilvy, advertising whiz (Ogilvy & Mathers)
1912 - Alan Turing, mathematician/pioneer in computer theory (Turing Machine)
1912 - Maurice Dallimore, England, actor (Collector, Lad: A Dog)
1913 - Jacques Rabemananjara, Hungarian author/vice-president (Antsa)
1913 - Molly Harris, actress/writer (Immortal)
1913 - William P Rogers, Norfolk NY, US secretary of state (1969-73)
1915 - Dennis Price, Twyford England, actor (Adventurers, Millionairess)
1916 - Irene Worth, [Hattie Abrams], Nebraska, actress (Nicolas & Alexandra)
1916 - Len Hutton, cricketer (England opener, 364 v Australia The Oval 1938)
1917 - Sid Watters Jr, horse trainer
1919 - Muhammad Boudiaf, Algerian political leader (d. 1992)
1920 - Paul Des Marais, composer
1921 - Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1964- )
1922 - Francis Thorne, Bay Shore NY, composer (Burlesque Overture)
1922 - Leonard Dorfman, horse trainer
1922 - Hal Laycoe, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
1925 - Amada Galvez Santos Ocampo, composer
1925 - Art Modell, owner (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens, Modells Stores)
1925 - Richard Barber, cricketer (scored 12 & 5 in only Test NZ v WI 1956)
1925 - Miriam Karlin, English actress
1926 - Lars Johan Werle, composer
1927 - Bob Fosse, Chicago Ill, choreographer/director (Cabaret, Damn Yankees)
1929 - Dave King, Twickenham England, comedian (Kraft Music Hall)
1929 - Henri Pousseur, Malmö dy Belgium, composer (Homo Habitis)
1929 - June Carter Cash, Maces Spring Va, country singer (Johnny Cash Show)
1930 - Donn Fulton Eisele, Columbus Ohio, Col USAF/astronaut (Apollo 7)
1931 - Urs Jaeggi, writer
1932 - Bob Blair, cricketer (NZ pace bowler in 19 Tests in 50s)
1933 - Bert Convy, St Louis MO, game show host (Win, Lose or Draw)
1935 - Maurice Ferre, former mayor of Miami
1936 - Berend Boudewijn [van der Woude], Dutch TV host/director (Baantjer)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 98 of 98

79 - Vespasian, Roman Emperor (b. 9)
758 - Ho-tse Shen-hui, Zen teacher/disciple of Hui-neng, dies at 74
1018 - Henry I of Austria
1075 - Theoduinus, Beiers prince-bishop of Liege, dies
1137 - Adalbert I, archbishop of Mainz (1111-1137), dies
1139 - Andries van Kuik, bishop of Utrecht, dies
1444 - Marcus, [Manuel] Eugenicus, Byzantine bishop of Efeze/theologist, dies
1555 - Pedro Mascarenhas, Portuguese explorer (b. 1470)
1582 - Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military leader (b. 1537)
1615 - Mashita Nagamori, Japanese warlord (b. 1545)
1677 - Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1647)
1686 - William Coventry, English statesman
1707 - John Mill, English theologian
1733 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (b. 1672)
1770 - Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (b. 1721)
1771 - Jean-Claude Trial, composer, dies at 38
1775 - Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (b. 1692)
1779 - Ras Mikael Sehul, warlord of Ethiopia (b. about 1691)
1801 - Bendix Friedrich Zinck, composer, dies at 58
1806 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (b. 1723)
1817 - Otto Carl Erdmann Kospoth, composer, dies at 63
1832 - James Hall, Scottish geologist (b. 1761)
1833 - Nikolaus Paul Zmeskall, composer, dies at 73
1836 - James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian, (b. 1773)
1856 - Ivan Kireevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (b. 1806)
1866 - Samuel Sarphati, Amsterdam physician/social activist, dies at 53
1878 - George Backing, English sea officer/explorer (B's River), dies at 81
1888 - Emil Naumann, composer, dies at 60
1891 - Francis Henry Brown, composer, dies at 73
1891 - George Parr, cricketer (Nottinghamshire & All-England), dies
1891 - Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (b. 1804)
1893 - Sir Theophilus Shepstone, British-born South African statesman (b. 1817)
1895 - Joseph Paul Skelly, composer, dies at 44
1901 - Charles Kensington Salaman, composer, dies at 87
1916 - Victor Chapman, US legionaire/WW I pilot, killed
1919 - Amy G C A Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist, dies
1924 - Cecil [James] Sharp, English folk musician, dies at 64
1926 - Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
1928 - Thomas H Rollinson, composer, dies at 84
1945 - Lt Gen Ushijima, Japanese commander, commits suicide at Okinawa
1951 - Armin Knab, German composer (Wunderhorn), dies at 70
1956 - Reyngol'd Moritsevich Glier, composer, dies at 81
1956 - Reinhold Glière, Russian composer (b. 1875)
1957 - Louis Fornberg, writer, dies at 48
1958 - Edvard Armas Jarnefeldt, composer, dies at 88
1959 - Jean Gallon, composer, dies at 80
1959 - Boris Vian, French writer and musician (b. 1920)
1961 - Franz de Backer, Flemish writer (Rubens' Daughter), dies at 70
1965 - Mary Boland, actress (Boy Trouble, New Moon), dies at 83
1969 - Stanley Andrews, actor (Old Ranger-Death Valley Days), dies at 78
1969 - Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish athlete (b. 1907)
1970 - Roscoe Turner, American aviator and racer (b. 1895)
1971 - George Blagoi, entertainer, dies
1971 - Walter Schulthess, composer, dies at 76
1972 - Elton Britt, country singer (Sat Night Jamboree), dies at 54
1973 - Fay Holden, actress (Mother-Andy Hardy films), dies at 77
1975 - William Hansen, actor (Homebodies), dies at 64
1980 - John Laurie, actor (39 Steps, Jericho, Kidnapped), dies at 83
1980 - Odile Versois, actress (Nude in a White Car, Young Lovers), dies
1980 - Sanjay Gandhi, Indian politician, dies
1980 - Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian (bomanslag), dies
1980 - Clyfford Still, American painter (b. 1904)
1980 - Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Fourth President of India (b. 1894)
1981 - Zarah Leander, Swedish/German singer/actress (Gabriela), dies at 79
1982 - Vincent Chin, Chinese-American hate crime victim (b. 1955)
1986 - Nigel Stock, actor (Lost Continent, Young Sherlock Holmes), dies
1988 - Dayton Lummis, actor (Moonfire, Flight that Disappeared), dies
1988 - Evert Werkman, Dutch journalist (Het Parool), dies at 73
1988 - M Gregor-Dellin, writer, dies
1989 - Werner Best, German jurist and nazi leader (b. 1903)
1991 - Antonio Jacinto, Angolan poet, dies at 66
1991 - Bill Buysman, Dutch guitarist/singer (Kilima Hawaiians), dies
1992 - Lou Ramos, entertainer, dies
1992 - Renie Irene Brouillet Conley, US, costume designer (Cleopatra), dies
1994 - Alan Frank, music publisher, dies at 83
1994 - Piet van Elk, cartoonist, dies at 74
1994 - Stanley Gebler Davies, journalist/drinker, dies at 50
1995 - Jonas Salk, biologist (Polio vaccine), dies of heart failure
1995 - Anatoly Tarasov, Russian ice hockey coach (b. 1918)
1996 - Andreas George Papandreou, PM of Greece (1981-89, 93-96), dies at 76
1996 - Angelo John Novarese, record company founder, dies at 72
1996 - Elbert Parr Tuttle, lawyer/judge, dies at 98
1996 - Pasqualino de Santis, cinematographer, dies at 69
1996 - William Walsh, academic, dies at 80
1997 - "Wino" Willie Forkner, biker (Wild One), dies of heart attack at 77
1997 - Betty Shabazz, widow of Malcolm X, suffering from burns, dies at 63
1998 - Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish actress (b. 1911)
1999 - Buster Merryfield, British actor (b. 1920)
2001 - Yvonne Dionne, one of the Canadian Dionne quintuplets (b. 1934)
2002 - Pedro 'El Rockero' Alcazar, Panamanian boxer (b. 1975)
2003 - Maynard Jackson, Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia (b. 1938)
2005 - Shana Alexander, American columnist (b. 1926)
2005 - Manolis Anagnostakis, Greek poet (b. 1925)
2006 - Aaron Spelling, American television producer (b. 1923)
2006 - Luke Graham, American wrestler (b. 1940)
2006 - Harriet, Galápagos tortoise (b. 1830)
2007 - Rod Beck, American baseball player (b. 1968)
2009 - Ed McMahon, American television personality (b. 1923)