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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 187

350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
1083 - Henry IV of Germany storms Rome, capturing St Peter's Cathedral
1098 - After 5-month siege in 1st Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch Turkey
1140 - French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.
1326 - Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
1357 - Peace of Aat
1509 - Henry VIII married wife No 1, Catherine of Aragon
1539 - Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain
1540 - Hernando de Soto crosses Appalachian Mountain, 1st European to do so
1620 - Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins at Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
1621 - Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands" (NY)
1621 - WIC, West Indian Co, under Heeren XIX, founded
1658 - Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.
1665 - Duke of York defeats Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft
1748 - Amsterdam establishes municipal postal service
1752 - Moscow houses & churchs destroyed by fire
1770 - Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo founded in Calif
1781 - Jack Jouett rides to warn Jefferson of British attack
1789 - Alex Mackenzie explores Mackenzie River (Canada)
1818 - Maratha Wars between British & Maratha Confederacy in India ends
1833 - 4th national black convention meets (Phila)
1847 - Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens
1851 - 1st baseball uniforms worn, NY Knickerbockers wear straw hat, white shirt & blue long trousers
1856 - Cullen Whipple patents screw machine
1860 - Comanche, Iowa completely destroyed by 1 of a series of tornadoes
1861 - 1st Civil War land battle-Union defeats Confederacy at Philippi, WV
1864 - Gen Lee wins his last victory of Civil War at Battle of Cold Harbor
1871 - Jesse James & his gang robs Obocock Bank (Corydon Iowa), of $15,000
1875 - Alexander Graham Bell makes 1st voice transmission
1876 - Lacrosse introduced in Britain & Canada
1884 - John Lynch (R-MS) chosen 1st black major-party natl convention chair
1886 - 24 Christians burn to death in Namgongo Uganda
1888 - "Casey at the Bat" published (SF Examiner)
1889 - The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast.
1899 - W G Grace's last day of Test cricket aged 50 yrs 320 days
1906 - Belgian King Leopold II calls Congo his private possession
1907 - Centro Escolar University is established by Librada Avelino and Carmen de Luna in Manila, Philippines.
1911 - "Come Josephine in My Flying Machine" hits #1
1913 - Dutch 1st Chamber accepts Health laws
1916 - National Defense Act establishes ROTC
1918 - Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional
1919 - Liberty Life Insurance Co (Chicago) organized by blacks
1921 - A sudden cloudburst kills 120 near Pikes Peak, Colorado
1924 - Gila Wilderness Area established by Forest Service
1925 - Eddie Collins, is 6th to get 3,000 hits
1925 - Goodyear airship "Pilgrim" makes 1st flight (1st with enclosed cabin)
1925 - White Sox manager Eddie Collins gets 3,000 hit
1929 - 1st trade show at Atlantic City Convention Center (electric light)
1929 - Border dispute between Peru & Chile resolved
1929 - Chile, Peru & Bolivia sign accord about Tacna-Arica-area
1930 - Grover Cleveland Alexander is released by the Phillies
1932 - John McGraw, who came to NY in 1902, resigns as manager of Giants
1932 - Lou Gehrig is 1st to hit 4 consecutive HRs; Yanks beat A's 20-13
1932 - Von Hindenburg disbands German Parliament
1933 - A's score 11 runs in 2nd, Yanks score 10 in 5th & win 17-11
1933 - Pope Pius XI encyclical "On oppression of the Church in Spain"
1934 - Dr Frederick Banting co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted
1935 - French Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of 1,077 hours
1935 - One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario.
1937 - Duke of Windsor (Edward 8) weds Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson in France
1937 - Josh Gibson HR's just 2 feet below rim of Yankee Stadium (580' drive)
1938 - German law on "Entartete Art" legalizes art robbery
1939 - 71st Belmont: James Stout aboard Johnstown wins in 2:29.6
1939 - Beer Barrel Polka hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Will Glahe
1940 - Last British/French troop leave Dunkirk
1941 - Attack on telephone exchange in Schiphol
1941 - Author Irving Wallace marries writer Sylvia Kahn
1941 - German occupiers stamp "J" on Jewish passports
1942 - Battle of Midway Island begins
1943 - United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration forms
1943 - A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beat up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots.
1944 - 76th Belmont: G L Smith aboard Bounding Home wins in 2:32.2
1944 - Generals Giraud & de Gaulle reach agreement on constitution
1944 - Nazis pull out of Rome
1946 - 1st bikini bathing suit displayed (Paris)
1946 - Intl Milt Tribunal opens in Tokyo against 28 Japanese war criminals
1946 - US Supreme court rules race separation on buses, unconstitutional
1947 - British viceroy of India lord Mountbatten visits Pakistan
1948 - "Sleepy Hallow" opens at St James Theater NYC for 12 performances
1948 - 200" (5.08 m) Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory
1948 - Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mt Rushmore
1949 - 1st negro to graduate from US Naval Academy (Wesley Anthony Brown)
1949 - Dragnet is 1st broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles)
1949 - GN Clark becomes 1st female US treasurer
1950 - French expedition reaches top of Himalayan peak of Annapurna in Nepal
1952 - Romanian premier Petru Groza chosen president
1953 - Congress cites research of NYC librarian Robert Henderson in proving
1953 - KVOS TV channel 12 in Bellingham/Vancouver, WA (CBS) begins
1953 - Alexander Cartwright officially credited by U.S. Congress as founder of baseball
1955 - KLFY TV channel 10 in Lafayette, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - Stan Musial hits his 300th HR
1956 - 3rd class travel on British Railways ends
1956 - KGUN TV channel 9 in Tucson, AZ (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA Pittsburgh Golf Open
1957 - Howard Cosell's 1st TV show
1958 - Referendum allows city to sell Chavez Ravine to the Dodgers
1959 - 1st US Air Force Academy graduation
1959 - 1st class graduates from Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo
1959 - Eisenhower routes Canadian premier Diefenbaker message off the Moon
1959 - Real Madrid wins 4th Europe Cup 1

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 253

1540 - Charles I of Austria (d. 1590)
1610 - Jacob Neefs, Flemish engraver/publisher, baptised
1657 - Manuel de Egues, composer
1659 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (d. 1708)
1660 - Johannes Schenck, composer
1685 - Cornelis Hop, Amsterdam regent/diplomat
1723 - Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born naturalist (d. 1788)
1726 - James Hutton, Edinburgh Scotland, geologist
1738 - Johann Christoph Oley, composer
1746 - James Hook, composer
1750 - Frederic Thieme, composer
1761 - Henry Scrapnel, English inventor (shrapnel shell)
1770 - Manuel Belgrano, Argentina
1771 - Sydney Smith, Woodford Essex, preacher/reformer/author
1773 - Caspar G C Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist
1773 - Michael Gottard Fischer, composer
1780 - William Hone, England, author/bookseller (Every-Day Book)
1782 - Charles Waterton, eccentric naturalist/pioneer
1801 - Frantisek Jan Skroup, composer
1804 - Richard Cobden, West Sussex, founder (Anti-Corn-Law League)
1808 - Jefferson F Davis, Ky, Pres of Confederate States of America (1861-5)
1812 - Pieter Mijer, Dutch gov-gen of Neth Indies (1866-72)
1815 - Martin Edward Green, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1818 - Louis Faidherbe, French general (d. 1889)
1819 - Johann Barthold Jongkind, Lattrop Neth, Dut/Fr painter (Winter Scenes)
1819 - Thomas Ball, US, sculptor/painter/singer
1824 - Charles Kinnaird Graham, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1828 - Jean Alexander Ferdinand Poise, composer
1828 - Jose Inzenga y Castellanos, composer
1829 - Alfonse Charles Renaud de Vilback, composer
1831 - Otho French Strahl, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1832 - Alexander Charles Lecocq, composer
1839 - Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic (Der Herr im Hause)
1840 - Eugeen van Oye, Flemish writer/poet (Morning Twilight)
1841 - Eduardo Caudella, composer
1843 - Frederik VIII CWK, King of Denmark (1906-12)
1844 - Detlev [Freiherr Friedrich A von] Liliencron, German poet
1844 - Emile Paladilhe, composer
1844 - Garret Augustus Hobart, (R) 24th US VP (1897-99)
1853 - William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (d. 1942)
1864 - Ransom Eli Olds, auto (Oldsmobile) & truck (REO) manufacturer
1865 - George V, Saksen-Coburg [Windsor], King of Great Britain (1910-36)
1865 - George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936)
1866 - George Howells Broadhurst, English director (d. 1952)
1867 - Bela Anton Szabados, composer
1868 - Lvar Henning Mankell, composer
1869 - Maria Radulphus, inspector on Curacao (Radulphus College)
1870 - Jules JBV Bordet, Belgian bacteriologist (syphillis, Nobel 1919)
1873 - Otto Loewi, Frankfurt am Main Germany, physician (Nobel-1936)
1877 - Raoul Dufy, France, Fauvist painter (Palm)
1879 - Pieter J A Adriani, Dutch tax lawyer
1879 - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (d. 1940)
1881 - Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (d. 1964)
1887 - Emil Axman, composer
1888 - Tom Brown, American musician (d. 1958)
1893 - Assen Karastoyanov, composer
1895 - Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, India, diplomat (Asia & Western Dominance)
1898 - Rosa Chacel, spanish novelist
1899 - Georg von Bekesy, Budapest Hungary, physician (Nobel-1961)
1900 - Gerard den Brabander, [Jan G Jofriet], poet (Nothing New)
1901 - Maurice Evans, Dorchester England, actor (Maurice-Bewitched)
1902 - Edward Wayne, physician (Queen of Scotland)
1903 - Eddie Acuff, American actor (d. 1956)
1904 - Charles Richard Drew, pioneer of blood plasma research
1904 - Jan Peerce, [Jacob Pincus Perelmuth], NYC, tenor (NY Met Opera)
1905 - Martin Gottfried Weiss, German, commandant of Dachau concentration camp (d. 1946, by execution)
1906 - Josephine Baker, dancer/Parisian night club owner (Folies-Bergere)
1906 - Louis Simmonds, bookseller
1906 - Norman Gallichan, cricketer (all-rounder in 1 Test NZ v England 1937)
1906 - Robert Brown Black, British diplomat/gov (Hong Kong)
1906 - Walter Robins, cricketer (dynamic England leg-spin all-rounder)
1907 - Antonio Emmanvilovich Spadavecchia, composer
1908 - Adele Dixon, actress (Calling the Tune)
1908 - Eddie Acuff, actor (Guns of the Pecos, Phantom Creeps, Outer Gate)
1910 - Wilfred Thesiger, explorer/writer
1911 - Ellen Corby, Racine Wisc, actress (Grandma Walton-Waltons)
1911 - Mason Gross, Dr/TV professor (Think Fast, Two for the Money)
1911 - Olaf Okern, Norway, Nordic skier (Olympic-medal-1948)
1911 - Paulette Goddard, [Marion Levy], Switz, actress (Great Dictator)
1912 - Richard D'Aeth, president (Hughes Hall Cambridge)
1912 - William Douglas-Home, playwright (Now .. Barabbas)
1913 - Pedro Mir, Dominican Poet Laureate (d. 2000)
1914 - Eugene Fuller, polymath/linguist
1914 - Ronald George Woodman, pilot
1915 - Iris Meredith, Sioux City Iowa, actress (Son of Davy Crockett)
1915 - Leo Gorcey, NYC, actor (Mannequin, Road to Zanzibar)
1917 - Leo Gorcey, American actor (d. 1969)
1918 - Patrick Cargill, actor (Help, Hammerhead)
1918 - Lili St. Cyr, American ecdysiast (d. 1999)
1920 - Lord Brandon of Oakbrook, Lord of appeal (Ordinary)
1921 - Forbes Carlile, Australian athlete
1922 - Alain Resnais, France, director (Providence, Hiroshima, Mon Amour)
1922 - Ivan Patachich, composer
1922 - M Alain Resnais, Vannes France, director (Melo, I Want to Go Home)
1923 - Michael Jaffe, director (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge England)
1923 - Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician
1924 - David Richard Holloway, literary Editor
1924 - Michael Gow, commandant (Royal College of Defense Studies)
1924 - Ted Mallie, American radio and television announcer (d. 1999)
1925 - Gerhard Zwerenz, writer

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 112

545 - Chlotilde, wife of French king Clovis/saint, dies at about 70
1107 - Kilidj Arslan I, Seldjoeken-sultan, dies in battle
1395 - Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
1397 - William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (b. 1328)
1411 - Duke Leopold IV of Austria (b. 1371)
1548 - Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish Catholic bishop of Mexico (b. 1468)
1594 - Michel Renichon, priest, executed
1594 - John Aylmer, English political theorist (b. 1521)
1615 - Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
1640 - Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (b. 1584)
1649 - Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (b. 1590)
1657 - William Harvey, English physician (b. 1578)
1659 - Morgan Llwyd, Welsh Puritan preacher and writer (b. 1619)
1661 - Gottfried Scheidt, composer, dies at 67
1679 - Jean-Francius Miller, painter, buried
1688 - Maximilian H of Bayern, prince-bishop of Luik, dies at 66
1732 - Pieter Vuyst, Dutch gov-gen of Ceylon, executed
1764 - Hans A Brorson, Danish poet/bishop of Ribe, dies at 69
1780 - Thomas Hutchinson, American colonial governor of Massachusetts (b. 1711)
1804 - Jean-Engelbert Pauwels, composer, dies at 35
1809 - John "Christmas" Beckwith, composer, dies at 58
1826 - Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (b. 1766)
1844 - Louis-Antoine, the Bourbon, French duke of Angouleme, dies
1849 - Francois de Paule Jacques Raymond de Fossa, composer, dies at 73
1858 - Julius Reubke, composer, dies at 24
1861 - Stephen A Douglas, "Little Giant", senator (Lincoln Debates), dies
1864 - James P McMahon, US Union colonel (164th NY), dies in battle
1864 - Peter A Porter, US Union colonel (8th NY), dies in battle
1865 - Okada Izō, Japanese samurai (b. 1838)
1872 - Heinrich Esser, composer, dies at 53
1875 - Georges Bizet, French composer (b. 1838)
1877 - Frank Pocock, British explorer, drowned in the Congo
1877 - Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1800)
1881 - Japanese giant salamander, dies in Dutch zoo at 55; oldest amphibian
1882 - Christian Wilberg, German painter (b. 1839)
1888 - Cark Reidel, composer, dies at 60
1890 - Henryk Oskar Kolberg, composer, dies at 76
1894 - Karl Eduard Zachariae, German expert on Byzantine Law (b. 1812)
1898 - Nikolai Afanisev, composer, dies at 77
1898 - Samuel Plimsoll, English MP ( Folkestone), dies at 74
1899 - Johann Baptist Strauss, Austria, composer (Waltz King), dies at 73
1904 - Vincent Tancred, cricket (Bernard & Louis bro, Test for S A), suicide
1913 - Josef Richard Rozkosny, composer, dies at 79
1924 - Franz Kafka, Czech writer (Trial, Amerika, Metamorphosis), dies at 40
1928 - Li Yüan-hung, Chinese general and political figure (b. 1864)
1933 - William Muldoon, Belfast NY, boxing commissioner, dies at 88
1943 - Folkert E Posthuma, Min of Agriculture, dies
1946 - Michail I Kalinin, Pres (Supreme Soviet), dies at 60
1949 - Amedos Peter Giannine, founder of Bank of America dies at 79
1955 - Barbara Graham, American murderer (b. 1923)
1959 - Ole Windingstad, composer, dies at 73
1963 - John XXIII, [Angelo G Roncalli], Pope (1958-63), dies at 81
1963 - Paul Maxey, actor (Matt-Lassie, Mayor-People's Choice), dies at 57
1963 - Nazim Hikmet, Turkish poet (b. 1902)
1964 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
1966 - Alice Calhoun, actress (Flowing Gold, Between Friends), dies at 65
1967 - Arthur Mitchell Ransome, critic/children's book author, dies
1967 - Arthur W Tedder of Glenguin, British air marshal (WW II), dies at 76
1967 - Gertrude "Mickey" MacFadden, entertainer, dies of heart attack at 67
1970 - Douwe Hermans Kiestra, [Harm Harmstra], Fries boer/writer, dies at 70
1970 - H G Hjalmar Schacht, pres Germany Kingdom bank/minister of Eco, dies
1971 - Heinz Hopf, German mathematician (b. 1894)
1973 - Dory Funk, professional wrestler (b. 1919)
1975 - Ozzie Nelson, actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet), dies at 69
1977 - Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
1977 - Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director (b. 1906)
1979 - Arno Schmidt, writer, dies at 65
1981 - Carleton Coon, anthropology prof (What in the World), dies at 76
1981 - Eric Dalton, cricketer (698 runs for South Africa at 31 72), dies
1983 - Miroslav "Standa" Bares, actress (Te Gkek Om Los te Lopen), dies at 60
1983 - Nanna, Rafi Khawar, Lollywood actor, Lahore
1986 - Anna Neagle, actress (Courtney Affair)/dancer, dies at 81
1986 - Arthur Charles Ernest Hoeree, composer, dies at 89
1986 - Patricia Wheel, actress (Christine-Woman to Remember), dies at 42
1987 - Andres Segovia, guitarist, dies
1987 - Will Sampson, actor (From Here to Eternity, Yellow Rose), dies at 54
1989 - Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian ayatollah, dies at 89
1989 - John McCauley, NHL official (b. 1945)
1990 - Tom Brown, actor (Judge Priest, Hello Sucker, Ex-Champ), dies at 77
1990 - Stiv Bators, American musician (The Dead Boys) (b. 1949)
1991 - Andy Milligan, cinematographer/director (Sweeney Todd), dies at 62
1991 - Eva La Gailliene, Brit/US actress/director (Resurrection), dies at 92
1991 - Harry Glicken, volcanologist, killed by Mt Unzen Volcano in Japan
1991 - Thomas C Lasorda, artist/son Dodger manager, dies of pneumonia at 33
1991 - Takeshi Nagata, Japanese geophysicist (b. 1913)
1992 - Patrick Peyton, Rosary Priest, dies of kidney failure at 83
1992 - Robert Morley, actor (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 84
1992 - William E Gaines, publisher (Mad Magazine), dies at 70
1993 - Bob Fitzsimmons, NY radio DJ (WNEW AM/WABC AM/WHN AM), dies at 53
1994 - Hub Matthijsen, violinist/bandmaster, dies at 52
1994 - Jack Cowie, cricketer (9 Tests for NZ, 45 wkts at 21 53), dies
1994 - Parmeso Emekrasha, buddhist Monk, dies
1994 - Roger Wolcott Sperry, physicist, dies at 89
1995 - Alastair Webster Mackie, poet/teacher, dies at 69
1995 - Dilys Powell, film Critic, dies at 93
1995 - Estelle Brody, actress (Safari, Kitty, Plaything), dies at 94
1995 - Frank Waters, writer, dies at 92
1995 - Jean-Patric Manchette, thriller writer, dies at 52
1996 - Len Creed, bookmaker, dies at 79
1996 - Peter Glenville, actor/director (Hotel Paradiso, Becket), dies at 82