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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 201

421 - Eudocia A Athenais marries Oostromeins emperor Theodosius II
555 - Vigilius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1099 - 1st Crusaders arrive in Jerusalem
1340 - Rotterdam Netherlands founded
1413 - King Ladislaw of Naples occupies Rome
1420 - Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independenceo f the Patriarchate of Aquileia.
1494 - Treaty of Tordesillas, Spain & Portugal divide America
1527 - Pope Clement VII surrenders to emperor Charles V's armies
1546 - England signs Peace of Andres with Scotland/Ireland
1557 - England declares war on France
1601 - Louis Gunther of Nassau weds countess Anna Margaretha of Manderscheid
1614 - 2nd parliament of King James I, dissolves passing no legislation
1628 - English king Charles I accepts Petition of Rights
1654 - Louis XIV crowned King of France
1672 - Battle by Solebay: Dutch adm M de Ruyter beats French/English fleet
1692 - Earthquake in Porte Royale, Jamaica, kills 3,000
1694 - English invasion army under Thomas Talmash reaches Brest
1769 - Daniel Boone begins exploring Bluegrass State of Kentucky
1775 - United Colonies change name to United States
1776 - Richard Lee (VA) moves Decl of Independence in Continental Congress
1780 - Anti-Catholic riot in London, 100s die
1788 - Masses stone French govt army at Grenoble
1798 - Jews of Pesaro Italy fast commemorating murder of Jews
1800 - David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
1832 - Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
1839 - Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed
1860 - Workmen start laying track for Market Street Railroad, SF
1860 - 1st US "dime novel" published: "Malaseka, The Indian Wife of the White Hunter," by Mrs Ann Stevens
1862 - Skirmish at Union Church, VA (Peninsular)
1862 - Gen B Butler orders William Mumford hanged after he removed & destroyed US flag on display over New Orleans Mint
1862 - The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade.
1863 - Battle of Milliken's Bend, LA-Jefferson Davis' home burnt
1863 - Mexico City captured by French troops
1864 - Abe Lincoln renominated for Pres by Republican Party
1866 - Irish Fenians raid Pigeon Hill, Quebec
1866 - 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.
1873 - 7th Belmont: James Roe aboard Springbok wins in 3:01.75
1880 - War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), that ended the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
1881 - 15th Belmont: T Costello aboard Saunterer wins in 2:47
1887 - Monotype type-casting machine patented by Tolbert Lanston, Wash DC
1892 - John J Doyle of Clev Spiders is 1st to pinch hit in a baseball game
1892 - Republican convention in Minneapolis begins
1893 - Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience.
1896 - G Harpo & F Samuelson leave NY to row the Atlantic (takes 54 days)
1898 - Social Democracy of America party holds 1st national convention, Chic
1900 - Boer general Christian de Law occupiers British train depot Roodewal
1905 - Norway dissolves union with Sweden (in effect since 1814)
1906 - Chicago Cubs score 11 in 1st inning, beating NY Giants 19-0
1906 - Famous Cunard passenger liner Lusitania launches
1909 - Cleveland Industrial Exposition opens
1909 - Mary Pickford made her screen debut at the age of 16.
1912 - St Pius X encyclical "On Indians of South America"
1912 - US army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane
1916 - Germany troop march into Fort Faux, Verdun
1919 - Sette giugno: Riot in Malta; four are killed.
1924 - 56th Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Mad Play wins in 2:18.8
1924 - George Leigh-Mallory disappears 775' from Everest's summit
1926 - Swedish govt of Ekman forms
1929 - Margaret Bondfield becomes 1st Dutch female minister (of Labor)
1929 - Vatican City becomes a sovereign state
1930 - 62nd Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:31.6
1930 - NY Times agrees to capitalize the n in "Negro"
1932 - Pitcher John Quinn, 47, is oldest player to have an extra-base hit (a double) & bat in a run, as the Dodgers beat the Cubs 9-2
1933 - Balanchine/Weills "7 Deadly Sins," premiers in Paris
1936 - Yanks beat Indians 5-4 in 16; longest game without a strikeout
1938 - 1st play telecast with original Broadway cast, "Susan & God"
1938 - Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat 1st flown (Eddie Allen)
1938 - The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
1939 - 1st king & queen of England to visit US, George VI & Elizabeth
1939 - Cleve Indians sets AL record of 16 inning game without striking out, however lose game 5-4 to NY Yankees
1940 - British/French troops evacuate Narvik
1941 - 45th US Golf Open: Craig Wood shoots a 284 at Colonial Club Ft Worth
1941 - 73rd Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway win in 2:31 (triple crown)
1942 - Battle of Midway ends: Adm Nimitz wins 1st WW II naval defeat of Japan
1942 - Germany Armys march into Sebastopol
1942 - Japanese troops lands on Attu, Aleutian Islands
1944 - Achilles Veen soccer team forms in Veen
1944 - Canadian 50th division occupies Bayeux
1944 - Claus von Stauffenberg meets Hitler
1946 - Pirates players vote 20-16 to walkout rather than play the Giants
1946 - US Supreme Court bans discrimination in interstate travel
1948 - Communist complete takeover of Czechoslovakia; Pres Bernes resigns
1948 - KVP wins Dutch Second-Parliamentary election
1952 - "3 Wishes after Jamie" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 94 perfs
1952 - 7th Curtis Cup: British Isles, 5-4
1952 - 84th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard One Count wins in 2:30.2
1953 - 1st color network telecast in compatible color, (Boston Mass)
1953 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1953 - Mary Terrell wins struggle to end segregation in Wash DC restaurants
1953 - WDAU (now WYOU) TV chan 22 in Scranton Wilkes-Barre, PA (CBS) begins
1954 - 1st microbiology laboratory dedicated (New Brunswick NJ)
1955 - "$64,000 Question" premieres on CBS TV
1955 - 1st President to appear on color TV (Eisenhower)
1955 - India premier Nehru visit USSR
1956 - Singapore govt of Marshall resigns
1957 - Mickey Stewart holds 7 cricket catches for Surrey v Northants
1958 - 90th Belmont: Pete Anderson aboard Cavan wins in 2:30.2
1958 - Battles between Turkish & Greeks Cypriots break out
1959 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1959 - KLX-AM in Oakland Calif changes call letters to KEWB (now KNEW)

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 184

1502 - Gregory XIII, Pope, introduced Gregorian calendar in 1582
1529 - Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and man of letters (d. 1615)
1619 - Paulus Voet, Dutch jurist/historian
1730 - Georg von Pasterwiz, composer
1736 - Karl Frieberth, composer
1761 - John Rennie, Scottish engineer (d. 1821)
1770 - Earl of Liverpool, (C) British PM (1812-27)
1778 - George Bryan "Beau" Brummel, London England, English dandy
1811 - James Young Simpson, Scotland, obsterician (used chloroform)
1812 - Theophilus Toulmin Garrard, Brig Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1902
1825 - Richard D Blackmore, England, author (Norie, Lorna Doone)
1831 - Amelia Edwards, English author and Egyptologist (d. 1892)
1833 - Alexander Ritter, composer
1837 - Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (d. 1903)
1840 - Charlotte MAAVCL, princess of Belgium/Emperor of Mexico (1864-67)
1843 - Susan Elizabeth Blow, US, pioneered kindergarten education
1845 - Leopold von Auer, Hungarians/US violinist
1846 - Wladyslaw Gorski, composer
1848 - Paul Gaugin, [Eugene Henri], French post-impressionist painter
1862 - Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
1865 - Guido Gasperini, composer
1867 - Luigi Maurizio Tedeschi, composer
1868 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and illustrator (d. 1928)
1873 - Landon Ronald, composer
1874 - Theodor Streicher, composer
1877 - Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1944)
1879 - Knud J V Rasmussen, Danish pole explorer (Thule)
1879 - Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (d. 1963)
1883 - Sylvanus Morley, U.S. archaeologist and spy (d. 1948)
1884 - Julius P Hoste, Belgium minister/daily newspaper publisher (Last News)
1885 - Percy Brier, composer
1886 - Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (d. 1972)
1887 - William Walraven, Dutch journalist/writer (Indian Daily)
1891 - Athos Palma, composer
1891 - Koos [Jacobus J] Vorrink, Dutch politician (SDAP/AJC/PvdA)
1896 - Robert Mulliken, US, chemist/physicist (Nobel 1966)
1896 - Vivien Kellems, TV hostess (Power of Women)
1896 - Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician (d. 1958)
1896 - Douglas Campbell, American World War I flying ace (d. 1990)
1897 - George Szell, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Metropolitan 1942-45)
1899 - Elizabeth Bowen, Dublin, novelist (Death of the Heart, Encounters)
1900 - Jan [Johannes A A] Engelman, poet/translator/critic (Garden of Eros)
1902 - Herman B Wells, president and chancellor of Indiana University (d. 2000)
1909 - Jessica Tandy, London, actress (Birds, Cocoon, Batteries Not Included)
1909 - Peter W Rodino, (Rep-D-NJ, 1949- )/chaired Watergate council
1909 - Virginia Apgar, American physician and childbirth specialist (d. 1974)
1910 - Bradford Washburn, American explorer, (d. 2007)
1911 - Franz Reizenstein, composer
1911 - Silas Roy Crain, singer/arranger/songwriter
1911 - Brooks Stevens, automotive designer (d. 1995)
1913 - Anthony David Machell Cox, medievalist
1917 - Gwendolyn Brooks, US poet (Bean Eaters, Annie Allen, Pulitzer 1950)
1917 - Dean Martin, Steubenville Ohio, American singer/actor (with Jerry Lewis)
1918 - Irene Vorrink, Dutch minister (health & environment)
1920 - Georges Marchais, political leader (French Communist Party)
1921 - Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist (d. 1998)
1922 - Hubert Du Plessis, composer
1922 - Rocky Graziano, boxer/entertainer (Pantomime Quiz) [or Dec 31]
1922 - Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player
1923 - Giorgio Belladonna, bridge champion
1923 - Jules Deschênes, Canadian jurist (d. 2000)
1924 - Dolores Gray, Chic Ill, singer/actress (Designing Woman, Kismet)
1925 - Camille Flammarion, French astronomer/writer (Thunder & Lightning)
1925 - Pieternella "Nel" van Arem, Dutch actress (Sea Gull)
1926 - Dick Williams, Wall Lake Iowa, choral director (Andy Williams Show)
1927 - Martin Carter, poet/critic
1927 - Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (d. 1953)
1928 - Anthony Nicholas Maria Wahl, historian
1928 - Charles Louis Strouse, composer
1928 - Dave Bowen, footballer
1928 - David Malcolm Lewis, expert in Greek Epigraphy
1928 - James Ivory, producer/director (Howard's End, Remains of the Day)
1928 - Reg Park, British bodybuilder
1929 - John Turner, Richmond England, (L) 17th Canadian PM (1984)
1929 - The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, Wrestling manager (d. 1983)
1930 - Ian Leggat, cricketer (1 Test v S Africa 1953-54 without distinction)
1931 - Henry Weinberg, composer
1931 - Lang Jeffries, Ontario Canada, actor (Skip-Rescue 8)
1931 - Virginia McKenna, actress (Born Free, Chosen, Lions are Free, Simba)
1931 - Malcolm Morley, English-born painter
1933 - Henk E Koning, Dutch sect of Finances (VVD)
1933 - Herb Score, pitcher (Cleveland Indians)
1934 - Philippe Entremont, Rheims France, concert pianist
1934 - Samuel Lipman, music critic
1935 - Thomas Kailath, American engineer
1937 - Neeme Järvi, Estonian conductor
1938 - Judy Ann Scott-Fox, agent
1940 - Tom Jones, [Woodward], Pontypridd Wales, singer (What's New Pussycat)
1940 - Tom Jones, Welsh singer
1941 - Jaime Laredo, Bolivia, violinist (Qn Elisabeth of Belgium prize 1959)
1943 - Ken Osmond, actor (Eddie Haskel-Leave it To Beaver)
1943 - Mel Levine, (Rep-D-CA, 1983- )
1943 - Nikki Giovanni, poet (LHJ Woman of the Year 1973)
1944 - Bill Rafferty, Queens NY, comedian (Laugh-In, Real People)
1944 - Clarence White, guitarist (Byrds-Turn! Turn! Turn!)
1944 - Townes Van Zandt, Texas, singer/songwriter (Kathleen, Loretta)
1945 - Wolfgang Schüssel, Chancellor of Austria
1946 - Bill Kreutzmann Jr, Palo Alto CA, drummer (Grateful Dead)
1946 - Jenny Jones, [Janina Stronski], Canada, comedienne (Jenny Jones Show)
1946 - Terry Gale, Wyalkatchem WA, Australasia golfer

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 116

555 - Vigilius, Italian Pope (537-55), dies
1329 - Robert Bruce, King of Scotland (1306-29), dies at 53
1337 - Willem III the Good, earl of Holland/Zealand, dies at about 49
1358 - Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b. 1305)
1394 - Anne of Bohemia, wife of Richard II of England (plague) (b. 1367)
1492 - Kazimierz IV, King of Poland (1447-92), dies at 64
1549 - Eelke Fouckens, Frisian anabaptist, beheaded
1555 - Maarten van Rossum, Dutch army leader, dies at about 76
1571 - Pier Francesco Corteccia, composer, dies at 68
1572 - August I [Sigismund II August], king of Poland (1548-72), dies at 42
1618 - Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English Governor of Virginia (b. 1577)
1624 - Anne of Saint Bartolomaeus, Flemish nun/monk/saint, dies at 74
1631 - Mumtax Mahal, wife of Shah Jahan of India, her tomb (Taj Mahal)
1654 - Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright/actor, dies at 76
1667 - Thomas de Keyser, Amsterdam master builder/painter, buried
1672 - Willem J van Gendt, admiral/governor of Breda, dies at about 37
1676 - Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (b. 1606)
1711 - Henry Dodwell, Irish theologian (b. 1641)
1754 - Nikolaj Eigtved, Danish, architect (Amalienborg Square), dies at 52
1778 - Johann Georg Zechner, composer, dies at 62
1779 - William Warburton, English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1698)
1784 - Jean-Baptiste Canavas, composer, dies at 71
1789 - Vaclav Jan Kopriva, composer, dies at 81
1800 - Willem A Alting, governor-genl of Neth-Indies (1780-97), dies at 75
1810 - Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b. 1765)
1814 - Robert Jasper van der de Capellen, mister of Marsch, dies at 71
1821 - Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian rebellion-leader (b. cca. 1780)
1826 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787)
1840 - Frederik Willem III, King of Prussia (1797-1840), dies at 69
1854 - Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)
1859 - David Cox, English artist (b. 1783)
1862 - William B Mumford, 1st US citizen hanged for treason, at 42
1863 - Franz Xavier Gruber, composer, dies at 75
1866 - Chief Seattle, Native American leader
1876 - George Sand, writer, dies at 71
1877 - Winand C H Staring, geologist (Bottom of Netherlands), dies at 68
1893 - Johann Schrammel, composer, dies at 43
1896 - Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (b. 1829)
1906 - Johan P Van de Kellen, stamp cutter/lithographer, dies at 74
1911 - Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (b. 1842)
1915 - Benjamin Lambord, composer, dies at 35
1916 - Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (b. 1847)
1926 - Henry Charles Tonking, composer, dies at 63
1927 - Voikov, Soviet ambassador to Warsaw, murdered
1927 - Edmund James Flynn, Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)
1928 - Chiang Tsolin, Chinese warlord of North-China, murdered
1929 - J E P McMaster, cricketer (Eng v S Af Test 1889 (out for 0), dies
1932 - Emil Pauer, composer, dies at 76
1935 - Ivan V Mitsjoerin, Russian botanist, dies
1936 - Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
1938 - Norbert Fonteyne, Flemish writer (How Flemings Came Late), dies
1940 - James Hall, writer/actor (Millie, Hell's Angels), dies at 39
1942 - Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (b. 1903)
1945 - Nishida Kitaro, scholar/philosopher/Zen practitioner, dies at 74
1945 - Ruben Marcos Campos, composer, dies at 69
1948 - Georges Adolphe Hue, composer, dies at 90
1951 - Bobel, Braune, Naumann, Ohlendorf, Pohl, Schallenmair & Otto Schmidt, Nazi war criminals, hanged
1956 - Julien Benda, Fren philosopher/writer (La trahison des clercs), dies
1957 - Elizabeth S Kingsley, double-Crostic puzzle creator, dies
1958 - Roger Hartigan, cricketer (2 Tests for Aust in 1908), dies
1961 - Robert Griffith, producer of Pajama Game, dies
1963 - Zasu Pitts, actress (Wedding March, Life With Father), dies at 65
1964 - Charlie Llewellyn, cricketer (544 runs in 15 Tests for S Africa), dies
1965 - Judy Holliday, comedienne (Born Yesterday, Adam's Rib), dies at 42
1965 - Pierre Cardevielle, Fren composer/conductor (L'ile Rouge), dies at 59
1965 - Richard Billinger, Austria poet/writer (Bauernpassion), dies
1966 - Hans/Jean Arp, French/Swiss painter/poet/sculptor, dies at 78
1967 - Dorothy Parker, US writer (Enough Rope), dies at 73
1967 - Pauline Brooks, actress (Make a Million), dies of cancer at 54
1967 - Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
1968 - Dan Duryea, actor (Pride of the Yankees), dies of cancer at at 60
1969 - Leo Gorcey, actor (Bowery Boys), dies at 53
1970 - Edward M Forster, Brit writer (Maurice, passage to India), dies at 91
1970 - E. M. Forster, English author (b. 1879)
1973 - Lane Bradford, actor (Dead Man's Gold, Gun Hawk), dies at 50
1976 - Bobby Hackett, jazz cornetist/orch leader (Air time '57), dies at 61
1978 - Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1979 - Forrest Carter, American author (b. 1925)
1980 - Henry [Valentine] Miller, US writer (Tropic of Capricorn), dies at 88
1980 - Richard Bonnelli, actor (Enter Madame), dies
1980 - Elizabeth Craig, British writer (b. 1883)
1983 - Charles von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, Belgium prince, buried
1983 - Daniele Amfiteatrov, composer, dies at 81
1984 - George Givot, actor (Versatile Vaudeville), dies at 81
1987 - John Blofeld, writer/translator/Zen practitioner, dies at 73
1988 - Joe Partridge, cricketer (S Afr pace bowler 1963-65), commits suicide
1988 - Vernon Washington, American actor (b. 1927)
1989 - Milton van Embricqs, Suriname/Dutch publicist, dies
1989 - Percy Stuart, Suriname/Dutch sports journalist, dies
1989 - Chico Landi, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1907)
1990 - Barbara Baxley, actress (Norma Rae), dies at 63 of a heart attack
1991 - Eric Francis, actor (Shillingbury Blowers), dies
1992 - Bob Sweeney, director/actor (Toby Tyler), dies of cancer at 73
1992 - William France, founder (Daytona 500), dies at 82
1993 - Drazen Petrovic, NBA player (NJ Nets), dies in auto-accident at 28
1994 - Barry Sullivan, actor (Streets of SF, Oh, God!), dies at 81
1994 - Dennis Potter, British TV writer (Pennies from Heaven), dies at 59
1994 - Joseph Ruzindana, Rwandian bishop of Bjumba, murdered
1994 - Stuart Havelock Hollingdale, anthropologist, dies at 42
1994 - Vincent Nsengijumva, Rwandan archbishop of Kigali, murdered