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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 203

65 - Jews revolt against Rome, capturing fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem
68 - Rome Senate accepts emperor Galba
452 - Italy invaded by Attila the Hun
536 - St Silverius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
570 - Religion of Islam (submission) founded in Mecca
793 - Vikings plunder St Cuthbert convent Lindisfarne
979 - Louis V de Luie, crowned King of France
1191 - Richard I arrives in Acre thus beginning his crusade.
1405 - Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
1551 - Pope Julius III excommunicates Duke Ottario Farnese of Parma
1624 - Earthquake strikes Peru
1632 - Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Sittard
1663 - Battle at Amegical: English & Portugese fleet beats Spanish
1690 - Siddi general Yadi Sakat, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.
1694 - English troop landing at Brest attack (300 killed)
1761 - British fleet occupies Belle Britain
1783 - Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption
1786 - Commercially made ice cream 1st advertised (Mr Hall, NYC)
1789 - James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the U.S. House of Representatives.
1815 - 39 German states unite under Act of Confederation
1824 - Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec
1829 - 1st UK municipal swimming pool outside of London, opens in Liverpool
1834 - HMS Beagle sails from Port Famine to Cape Turn
1846 - Battle at Gwanga: British troops beat Bantu
1856 - Pitcairn Islanders arrive on Norfolk Island
1861 - People of Tennessee vote to succeed from Union
1861 - US Sanitary Commission is given executive approval
1861 - American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
1862 - Valley Campaign-Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia
1865 - Tristanderl und Zusholde, premieres
1869 - Ives W McGaffey of Chicago patents 1st vacuum cleaner (it sucks)
1872 - Congress endorses penny post card
1878 - 12th Belmont: L Hughes aboard Duke of Magenta wins in 2:43.5
1882 - 16th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Forester wins in 2:43
1886 - 1st Civil Rights Act passes
1887 - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his punch card calculator.
1889 - Cable Cars begin service in LA
1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "Boscombe Valley Mystery" (BG)
1892 - Homer A Plessy refuses to go to segregated RR car (Plessy v Ferguson)
1896 - 1st car is stolen
1900 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 6 Napoleons" (BG)
1911 - Belgium govt of Schollaert falls
1912 - Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
1914 - 34.7°F (1.5°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands
1915 - 92°F (33.3°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands
1915 - William Jennings Bryan quits as Secretary of State
1917 - Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School
1918 - Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered
1920 - Reds' Edd Roush falls asleep in center during long infield argument Heinie Groh goes to wake him, but ump ejects Roush for delay of game
1921 - Babe Ruth arrested for speeding, fined $100, & held in jail until 4 PM
1927 - Tony Lazzeri hits 3 HRs Yanks beat White Sox 12-11
1928 - 1st US-to-Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford)
1929 - 61st Belmont: Mack Garner aboard Blue Larkspur wins in 2:32.8
1929 - Venezuelan rebel Rafael Urbina overthrows Fort Amsterdam, Curacao kidnap governor Fruytier
1931 - Duke & Duchess of Kent wed
1931 - Suriname Work Committee under Louis Doedel forms in Paramaribo
1933 - A's Jimmie Foxx homers his 1st 3 at bats for 4 consecutive HRs
1935 - 39th US Golf Open: Sam Parks Jr shoots a 299 at Oakmont CC PA
1935 - 67th Belmont: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 2:30.6
1935 - Lou Gehrig collides with Carl Reynolds & leaves the game
1936 - 1st parking meters are invented
1937 - World's largest flower blooms in NY Botanical Garden, 12' calla lily
1939 - British king George VI visits US
1940 - 72nd Belmont: Fred A Smith aboard Bimelech wins in 2:29.6
1940 - Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced
1940 - Last British troops leave Narvik Norway
1941 - English & French troop overthrow pro-German Syria
1942 - Bing Cosby records "Silent Night"
1944 - 1st SS-Pantser corps counter attacks at Normandy
1944 - Allies occupy Port-and-Bessin Normandy
1944 - Dutch Resistance fighter Frans Duwaer arrested
1944 - Gen Montgomery lands in Normandy, forms HQ in Chateau de Creully
1946 - "Lute Song" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 142 performances
1946 - Sukarno calls for anti colonial defiance in Indonesia
1948 - "Milton Berle Show" premieres on NBC TV
1948 - "Sally" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 36 performances
1948 - John Rudder becomes 1st negro commissioned officer in US marines
1949 - Siam changes name to Thailand
1950 - Boston Red Sox beat St Louis Browns 29-4 (win by record 25 runs)
1950 - Jean Duvieusart becomes Belgian premier
1950 - Test Cricket debut of Ramadhin & Valentine (8-104 1st inn) v England
1950 - Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Field Marshal in Australian history.
1952 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Eastern Women's Golf Open
1953 - Cluster of 6 tornadoes touch down in Flint Michigan killing 113
1953 - Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court
1953 - Tornadoes kill 110 in Mich & Ohio
1955 - Dodgers option Tommy Lasorda to make room on roster for Sandy Koufax
1956 - Lim Yem Hock forms Singapore govt
1956 - WDAM TV channel 7 in Laurel-Hattiesburg, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting
1958 - 4th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright
1959 - 1st official "missile mail" lands (Jacksonville, Fla)
1959 - X-15 makes 1st unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m
1960 - 1st date in James Clavell's novel "Nobel House"
1960 - Argentine government demands release of Adolf Eichmann
1961 - English prince Edward, Duke of Kent, weds Katharine Worsley
1961 - Test Cricket debut of William Morris Lawry, v Eng at Edgbaston, 57
1961 - Milwaukee sets record of 4 consecutive HRs (Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron Joe Adcock & Frank Thomas)
1962 - Jim Beatty runs world record 2 mile (8:29.8)
1963 - "Mr President" closes at St James Theater NYC after 265 performances
1963 - 95th Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Chateaugay wins in 2:30.2

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 253

1318 - Eleonora Plantagenet, daughter of King Eduard II/wife of Reinald II
1625 - Giovanni D Cassini, Perinaldo, France, discoverer (4 moons of Saturn)
1652 - William Dampier, English explorer/pirate
1671 - Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (Adagio in G-minor)
1717 - John Collins, American politician (d. 1795)
1722 - Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, composer
1724 - John Smeaton, Leeds, civil engineer
1740 - Gabriele Mario Piozzi, composer
1743 - Alessandro Cagliostro, Palermo Italy, adventurer
1745 - Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician (d. 1818)
1753 - Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac, composer
1756 - Cornelis van Foreest, mayor of Alkmaar
1757 - Cardinal Ercole Consalvi, Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal (d. 1824)
1759 - Thomas Dunham Whitaker, Rainham Norfolk UK, topographer
1772 - Robert Stevenson, Glasgow, civil engineer
1783 - Joseph Lincke, composer
1804 - Jan Baptist van Son, Dutch politician (RC)
1805 - Luigi Ricci, composer
1806 - Gideon Johnson Pillow, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1878
1812 - Spyridon Xyndas, composer
1813 - David Dixon Porter, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1891
1814 - Charles Reade, England, novelist (Cloister & Hearth)
1821 - John Dunlap Stevenson, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1821 - Samuel White Baker, London England, explorer (Ceylon/Egypt)
1824 - James Loudon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies
1824 - William Montgomery Gardner, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1829 - John Everett Millais, England, painter (Order of Release)
1831 - Thomas J. Higgins, decorated Union Army soldier (d. 1917)
1834 - George Garrett, composer
1837 - Jan Kleczynski, composer
1837 - Moriz Heyne, German germanist (Beowulf)
1842 - John Q. A. Brackett, 36th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1918)
1847 - Ida Sazton McKinley, 1st lady (1897-1901)
1849 - Juliaan Dillens, Flemish sculptor (Anspach Monument)
1851 - Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist (d. 1940)
1854 - Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician (d. 1921)
1856 - Natalia Janotha, composer
1858 - Antonio Nicolau, Spanish composer/conductor
1859 - Smith Wigglesworth, British religious figure (d. 1947)
1860 - Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (d. 1940)
1867 - Frank Lloyd Wright, Richland Center Wisc, master builder (Guggenheim)
1881 - Prospero Bisquertt, composer
1885 - Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (d. 1957)
1888 - Poul Julius Ouscher Schierbeck, composer
1889 - Joseph L Hromadka, Czech theologist (Lenin prize 1957)
1894 - Erwin Schulhoff, Czech/Russian composer/pianist (Ogelala)
1896 - Samuel Gonard, chairman (International Red Cross)
1897 - John G. Bennett, British scientist and author (d. 1974)
1900 - Herman J Friedericy, [H J Merlijn], writer (Last general)
1901 - Lena Baker, American murderer (d. 1945)
1902 - Albe, [Renaut A Joostens], Flemish writer (Andalusian Diary)
1903 - Gerrit C Berkouwer, Dutch theologist (Dogmatic Studies)
1903 - Ralph Webster Yarborough, politician
1903 - Ronald Shiner, actor (Carry on Admiral, Keep it Clean, Aunt Clara)
1905 - Brian Coffey, poet
1906 - Charles Janssens, Belgium, actor (Mira, Malpertuis)
1906 - S Nazir Ali, cricketer (bro of Wazir Ali, India's 1st Test 1932)
1909 - Maria M van de Berg, actress (It was April 1st)
1909 - William Odling, major-general
1910 - Aleksandr T Tvardovski, Russian conductor [NS=June 21]
1910 - John W Campbell, US, sci-fi writer (Moon is Hell)
1910 - Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (d. 2003)
1911 - Van Lingle Mungo, SC, pitcher (Dodgers, Giants)
1912 - Ian Morrow, company director
1912 - Harry Holtzman, American abstract artist (d. 1987)
1913 - Graham Watson, literary agent
1913 - Janos Jagamas, composer
1913 - Peter Diamand, artistic administrator
1914 - Joseph de Pietro, US, 56kg weightlifter (Olympic-gold-1948)
1914 - KuBa, writer
1915 - Gustaaf AWC baron van Hemert Dingshof, (mayor-Maarn Neth)
1915 - Julian Ridsdale, MP
1916 - Francis Crick, British co-discovered DNA's structure (Nobel 1962)
1916 - Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (d. 2007)
1917 - Byron R Whizzer White, Ft Collins, NFLer/Supreme Court Just (1962-93)
1918 - Robert Preston, Newton MA, actor (Music Man, Mame, Last Starfighter)
1918 - John D. Roberts, American chemist
1919 - Guy Overton, cricketer (NZ pace bowler in 3 Tests on 1953-54 SA tour)
1920 - A J Mottram, tennis player
1920 - Bert Leysen, TV director (Belgian National TV)
1920 - Gwen Harwood, Australian poet (d. 1995)
1921 - Alexis Smith, Penticton BC Canada, actress (Jessica-Dallas, Follies)
1921 - Alwyn Williams, Vice-Chancellor (Glasgow U)
1921 - Lord Campbell of Croy
1921 - Sheila Ryan, KS, actress (Big Fix, Mule Train, Ringside, Caged Fury)
1921 - Suharto, general/president Indonesia (1967- )
1921 - LeRoy Neiman, American painter
1922 - Myron Healy, Petalumus Calif, actor (Wyatt Earp)
1923 - Alice Coleman, geographer
1923 - Jean Maxwell-Scott, Lady-in-Waiting (Prin Alice Duchess Gloucester)
1923 - Karel Goeyvaerts, Flemish composer (Summer Games)
1923 - Malcolm Boyd, American Episcopal Priest and author
1924 - George Kirby, Chicago, comedian (ABC Comedy Hour, Pearl Bailey Show)
1924 - Glidewell, Lord Justice
1924 - Ian Colquhoun, cricket wicket keeper (NZ vs England 1954-55)
1924 - Sheldon Allman, Chicago, actor (Norm-Harris Against the World)
1924 - William Barlow, CEO (BICC)
1924 - Lyn Nofziger, American political operative (d. 2006)
1925 - Barbara Pierce Bush, Rye NY, 1st lady (1989-93)
1925 - Eddie Gaedel, 3'7" St Louis Browns pinch-hitter (he walked)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 107

218 - Opellius Macrinus, emperor of Rome (217-8), dies in battle at 54
632 - Mohammed, prophet of Islam (Koran), dies (according to tradition)
1042 - Hardicanute, King of England (1040-42), Lambeth
1042 - Harthacanute, King of Denmark and England (b. 1018)
1115 - Peter van Amiens, French minister of crusades, dies at about 64
1376 - "Black Prince" of Wales, son of King Edward of England, dies at 46
1383 - Thomas de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros, English Crusader (b. 1338)
1384 - Kanami, Japanese actor (b. 1333)
1476 - George Neville, English archbishop and statesman
1505 - Hongzhi, Emperor of China (b. 1470)
1611 - Jean Bertaut, French poet (b. 1552)
1612 - Hans Leo Hassler, composer, dies at 49
1621 - Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (b. 1567)
1628 - Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (b. 1547)
1661 - John Elsevier, book publisher/publisher, dies at 39
1688 - Hans Bontemantel, Amsterdams merchant, buried
1695 - Christian Huygens, inventor/astronomer (ring of Saturn), dies at 66
1711 - Katharina Lescaille, [Netherlands Sappho], poetess, dies at 61
1716 - Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658)
1727 - August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (b. 1663)
1742 - Omobono Stradivari, Italian violin maker/son of Antonius, dies at 62
1768 - Johann J Winckelmann, German archaeologist, dies at 50
1771 - George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (b. 1716)
1790 - Charles-Joseph van Helmont, composer, dies at 75
1794 - G A Borger, writer, dies
1795 - Louis XVII Charles, king of France (1793-95), dies at 10
1796 - Felice de Giardini, composer, dies at 80
1803 - Joannes Natalis Paquot, Belgian priest/historian, dies at 80
1806 - George Wythe, US attorney (signed Decl of Indep), dies at about 79
1809 - Thomas Paine, writer (Age of Reason, Common Sense), dies at 72
1814 - Friedrich Heinrich Himmel, composer, dies at 48
1831 - Sarah Kemble Siddons, English actress (Lady Macbeth), dies at 75
1835 - Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (b. 1761)
1845 - Andrew Jackson, (D) 7th pres (1828-37), dies at 78
1857 - Douglas William Jerrold, British playwright and satirist (b. 1803)
1865 - Joseph Paxton, designer (Crystal Palace), dies
1870 - Johann Gottlob Topfer, composer, dies at 78
1871 - Satank, Kiowa indian chief, shot to death
1874 - Cochise, Apache leader
1876 - George Sand, French author (Indiana, Consuelo), dies at 71
1884 - Henry Clay Work, composer, dies at 51
1885 - Ignace Bourget, Bishop of Montreal (b. 1799)
1889 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet, dies at 54
1906 - Christian Frederik Emil Horneman, composer, dies at 65
1908 - Johan Lindegren, composer, dies at 66
1919 - Jacob Fabricius, composer, dies at 78
1924 - Andrew Irvine, English mountain climber (climbing accident) (b. 1902)
1924 - George Leigh Mallory, English mountain climber (climbing accident) (b. 1886)
1929 - Bliss Carman, poet, dies
1940 - Frederick Shepherd Converse, US composer, dies at 69
1945 - Karl Hanke, Nazi official (b. 1903)
1947 - Tom O'Brien, actor (Flying Fool), dies at 56
1948 - Franz Carl Bornschein, composer, dies at 69
1948 - Hanson Carter, cricket (28 Tests for Aust, caught 44 stumped 21), dies
1951 - Eugène Fiset, French Canadian military officer and politician (b. 1874)
1953 - Godfrey Tearle, actor (39 Steps, Mandy, At Dawn We Die), dies at 68
1954 - Alan M Turing, British mathematician (Turing), commits suicide at 41
1956 - Marie Laurencin, French painter (b. 1883)
1965 - Edmondo Rossoni, Italian fascist (b. 1884)
1966 - Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (b. 1890)
1967 - Elliot Griffis, composer, dies at 74
1967 - Laverne Andrews, vocalist (Andrews Sister), dies
1969 - Robert Taylor, actor (Death Valley Days), dies of lung cancer at 57
1970 - Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (b. 1908)
1972 - Jimmy Rushing, US blues singer, dies at 68
1973 - Eino Mauno Aleksanteri Linnala, composer, dies at 76
1975 - William F Jenkins, author (Time Tunnel, Land of Giants), dies at 78
1979 - Herb Polesie, producer/playwright (20 Questions), dies at 79
1979 - Louis Salvador Palange, composer, dies at 61
1980 - Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (b. 1900)
1982 - [Leroy] Satchel Paige, US baseball pitcher, dies at 75
1984 - Gordon Jacob, composer, dies at 88
1987 - Yogi Horton, drummer (Luther Vandross), commits suicide at 33
1988 - Eli Mintz, actor (Boardwalk), dies
1988 - Russell Harty, broadcaster, dies
1988 - Virgil Oliver Jr, entertainer, dies
1990 - Alfredo Poveda, president of Consul of Ecuador (1976-79), dies
1990 - Jose Figueres, president of Costa Rica (1948-49, 53-58, 70-74), dies
1991 - Bertice Reading, Dutch actress (Moon in the Gutter), dies
1991 - Mary Bacon, jockey, dying of cancer, commits suicide by gun at 43
1992 - Beverly Carter, entertainer, dies at 51
1992 - Farag Foeda, Egyptian writer/publicist, murdered
1992 - William France, founder (Daytona 500), dies at 82
1992 - William McGowan, entrepreneur (MCI), dies at 64
1993 - René Bousquet, French Vichy-police chief deports jews, dies at 84
1993 - Root Boy Slim, American entertainer (b. 1945)
1994 - William Marshall, actor/director (Santa Fe Trail), dies at 86
1995 - Juan Carlos Ongania, pres of Argentina (1966-70), dies
1995 - Lord Erskine of Rerrick, peer, dies at 69
1995 - Sheikh Iman, singer, dies at 76
1996 - Barry Linehan, actor (Bullseye, Dark Places, Witchcraft), dies at 70
1996 - Gerry Gomez, cricketer (West Indian captain played 29 Tests), dies
1996 - Michael Fox, actor (Amos-Falcon Crest, Skinheads), dies at 75
1996 - Percy Edwards, animal imitator, dies at 88
1996 - Phyllis Stedman, politician, dies at 79
1997 - George Turner, Australian author (b. 1916)
1998 - Sani Abacha, President of Nigeria (b. 1943)
1998 - Maria Reiche, German-born mathematician and archaeologist (b. 1903)
2000 - Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist (b. 1948)
2003 - Leighton Rees, Welsh darts player (b. 1940)