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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 183

630 - Byzantine emperor Heraclius restores the True Cross to Jerusalem.
717 - Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
1188 - Accession to the throne of Japan by emperor Antoku.
1349 - 3,000 Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany
1413 - Henry V becomes King of England.
1421 - Battle of Beauge-French beat British
1492 - Alonzo Pietro, pilot, sailed with Columbus
1610 - King James I addresses English House of Commons
1681 - 3rd Exclusion Parliament meets in London
1697 - Czar Peter the Great begins tour through West-Europe
1702 - Queen Anne Stuart addresses English parliament
1788 - Fire destroyed 856 buildings in New Orleans Louisiana
1788 - Gustavus Vassa petitions Queen Charlotte, to free enslaved Africans
1788 - A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
1790 - Thomas Jefferson reports to Pres Washington in NY as Sec of State
1791 - Capt Hopley Yeaton of NH becomes 1st commissioned officer in USN
1804 - French civil Code of Napoleon adopted
1821 - First revolutionary act in Monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta, Greek War of Independence.
1824 - Fire at Cairo ammunitions dump kills 4,000 horses
1826 - Beethoven's Quartet #13 in B flat major (Op 130) premiered in Vienna
1835 - Charles Darwin & Mariano Gonzales meet at Portillo Pass
1843 - Preacher William Miller of Mass predicts the world will end today
1844 - Origin of Baha'i Era-Baha'i calendar starts here (Baha 1, 1)
1844 - The original date predicted by William Miller for the return of Christ.
1851 - Yosemite Valley discovered in California
1857 - Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die
1859 - 1st Zoological Society incorporates (Phila)
1859 - Scottish National Gallery opens in Edinburgh
1859 - Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in US, incorporated
1860 - US extradition treaty with Sweden
1863 - Naval Engagement at Havana Cuba-USS Henrick Hudson vs BR Wild Pigeon
1864 - Battle at Henderson's Hill (Bayou Rapids) Louisiana
1865 - Battle of Bentonville ends, last Confederate effort to stop Sherman
1866 - Congress authorizes national soldiers' homes
1868 - 1st US professional women's club, Sorosis, forms in NYC
1871 - Journalist Henry M Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa
1871 - Otto von Bismarck elevated Furst
1874 - US Grant's daughter Nellie marries in the White House
1885 - 2nd French government of Ferry resigns
1888 - Arthur Pinero's "Sweet Lavender," premieres in London
1890 - Austrian Jewish communities are defined by law
1891 - A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ends long feud in West Virginia it started with an accusation of pig-stealing & lasted 20 years
1899 - British & French accord about West-Africa
1907 - US invades Honduras
1909 - Moran & MacFarland (US) wins Europe's 1st 6 day bicycle race (Berlin)
1913 - -26] Flood in Ohio, kills 400
1914 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld
1914 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Norman M Scott
1916 - JP Van Limburg Stirum succeeds AWF Idenburg as gov-gen of Neth Indies
1917 - 1st female US Navy Petty Officer is Loretta Walsh
1918 - -28] During WW I Germany launches Somme offensive
1921 - Walter Kerr Theater (Ritz, CBS, NBC, ABC) opens at 223 W 48th St NYC
1922 - KGW-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
1923 - US foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses USSR recognition
1924 - 1st foreign language course broadcast on US radio (WJZ, NYC)
1924 - Mass Investors Trust becomes 1st mutual fund set up in US
1925 - Edinburgh's Murreyfield Stadium officially opens
1925 - Iran adopts Khorshidi solar Hijrah calendar
1927 - Guomindang Army conquerors Shanghai as British marines flee
1931 - KRO-broadcast studio initiated in Hilversum Holland
1931 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1931 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
1933 - Hitler, Guring, Prince Ruprecht, Bruning & top army meet in Berlin
1934 - Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500
1934 - Babe Didrikson pitches an inning in an A's-Dodgers exhibition game Walks 1, hits the next guy, 3rd guy hits into triple-play
1935 - Jean Anouilh's "Y avait un presonnier," premieres in Paris
1935 - Persia officially renamed Iran
1937 - Ponce massacre, police kill 19 at Puerto Rican Nationalist parade
1939 - Nazi-Germany demands Gdansk (Danzig) from Poland
1941 - Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1942 - Convoy QP9 departs Great Britain to Murmansk
1942 - Heavy German assault on Malta
1943 - Assassination attempt on Hitler fails
1943 - British 8th army opens assault on Mareth line, Tunisia
1943 - Massacre of the town of Kalavryta, Greece by German Nazi troops.
1944 - Gen Eisenhower postpones S France invasion until after Normandy
1945 - 1st Japanese flying bombs (ochas) attack Okinawa
1945 - During WW II Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany
1945 - Dutch Resistance fighter Hannie Schaft arrested by Nazi police
1946 - Kenny Washington signs with Rams, 1st black NFLer since 1933
1946 - UN set up temporary HQ at Hunter (now Lehman) College (Bronx)
1947 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fulgens radiatur
1947 - Pres Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have allegiance to the United States
1947 - Test Cricket debut of Bert Sutcliffe, NZ v England at Christchurch
1948 - "Stop the Music" with Bert Parks premieres on ABC radio
1949 - WTVJ TV channel 4 in Miami, FL (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 - 2,900,000 US soldiers in Korea
1951 - Julius & Ethel Rosenberg convicted of espionage
1952 - "3 Wishes for Jamie" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 94 perfs
1952 - -22] Tornadoes in Ark, Tenn, Mo, Miss, Ala & Ky cause 343 deaths
1952 - 31 storms crosses 6 states killing 340 in South-Central US
1952 - Alan Freed presents Moondog Coronation Ball at old Cleveland Arena, 25,000 attend 1st rock & roll concert ever
1953 - NBA record 106 fouls & 12 players foul out (Boston-Syracuse)
1954 - KFBB TV channel 5 in Great Falls, MT (ABC/CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus desires Cyprus joining Greece
1955 - Brooklyn Bulletin ask Dodger fans not to call their team "Bums"
1956 - 28th Academy Awards - "Marty," Anna Magnani & Ernest Borgnine win
1957 - Tennessee Williams' "Orpheus Descending," premieres in NYC
1958 - 1st presentation of West Point's Sylvanus Thayer Award
1958 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 209

1466 - French van Brederode, leader Hoeksen
1474 - Angela Merici, Italian monastery founder/saint
1521 - Mauritius, duke/nice monarch of Saksen (1547-53)
1521 - Maurice, Elector of Saxony (d. 1553)
1527 - Hermann Finck, composer
1609 - Jan II Kazimierz, cardinal/King of Poland (1648-68)
1624 - Francois Roberday, composer
1642 - Georg Schmezer, composer
1685 - Johann Sebastian Bach, Eisenach Germany, composer (Mattheus-Passion)
1708 - Caspar Ruetz, composer
1713 - Francis Lewis, signer (Decl of Ind)
1716 - Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, composer
1763 - Jean Paul, writer
1765 - Henry Fagel, Dutch/English baron/diplomat
1768 - Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician/Egyptologist
1779 - Alexis Garaude, composer
1801 - Maria Theresa of Tuscany, Queen of Sardinia (d. 1855)
1806 - Benito Pablo Juarez, Oaxaca Mexico, president of Mexico (1858-72)
1811 - Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (d. 1891)
1813 - James Jesse Strang, King of Mormons on Beaver Is, MI (1850-56)
1820 - Frank Mori, composer
1835 - Thomas Hayward, English cricketer (d. 1876)
1836 - Jesus Monasterio, composer
1839 - Modest Mussorgsky, composer (Boris Gudunov, Night on Bald Mt) [NS]
1854 - Alick A C Bannerman, cricketer (bro of Charles, Australia 1878-1893)
1863 - Hugo Kaun, composer
1863 - George Owen Squier, American inventor and Major General in U.S. Signal Corp(d.1934)
1866 - Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury, astronomer
1869 - Albert Kahn, architect, originated modern factory design
1869 - Florenz Ziegfeld, producer (Ziegfield Follies)
1876 - John Tewksbury, American athlete (d. 1968)
1878 - Thurlow Weed Lieurance, composer
1880 - Hans Hofmann, German/US painter (Search for the Real)
1880 - Wilhelm Pessler, German sociologist
1880 - Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, American actor (d. 1971)
1881 - Hermann Sandby, composer
1882 - Gilbert M Anderson, [Max Aronson], Little Rock AR
1883 - Jules van Nuffel, composer
1884 - George D Birkhoff, US mathematician (Aesthetic measure)
1887 - Edwin Scharff, German "entartet" painter/sculptor
1891 - Jonathan Hale, actor (Saint's Double Trouble, Saint Strikes Back)
1893 - Geoffrey Dearmer, poet
1895 - Zlatko Baloković, Croatian violinist (d. 1955)
1900 - Eugenie Leontovitch, Moscow Russia, actor (Homicidal)
1900 - Paul Klecki/Kletzki, Polish violinist/composer/conductor
1901 - Carmelita Geraghty, Rushville IN, actress (My Best Girl, Texas Ranger)
1901 - Richard Leslie Hill, historian
1901 - Karl Arnold, German politician (d. 1958)
1902 - Carl Jaffe, Hamburg Germany, actor (1st Man in Space, Escapement)
1902 - Eddie James "Son" House, folk blues musician (Delta Blues)
1902 - William Downie Forrest, journalist
1904 - Nikolaos Skalkottas, composer
1904 - Forrest Mars Sr., American candymaker (d. 1999)
1905 - Phyllis McGinley, US, poet (Pulitzer 1961, Love Letters)
1906 - John D Rockefeller III, billionaire philanthropist (oil)
1906 - Jim Thompson, American designer and businessman
1908 - Maurice Stans, rocker
1910 - Nick Castle, Bkln, choreographer (Dinah Shore, Judy Garland)
1910 - M S Khan, Bangladeshi intellectual (d. 1978)
1911 - John Paxton, screenwriter (On The Beach, Kotch, Farewell My Lovely)
1912 - Peter Bull, actor/author (Executioner, Tom Jones, Dr Strangelove)
1913 - George Ghita Ionescu, academic
1913 - Max Youngstein, NYC, producer (United Artists)
1913 - George Abecassis, English race car driver (d. 1991)
1914 - Herman Siles Zuazo, politician
1914 - Paul Tortelier, composer
1917 - Frank Hardy, Australian author (d. 1994)
1918 - Howard Cosell, Winston-Salem NC, sportscaster (Monday Night Football)
1918 - Joe Carveth, NHL forward (scored 20 or more goals in 3 seasons)
1919 - Geoffrey Pinnington, journalist
1919 - Lois Collier, SC, actress (Mary-Boston Blackie, Slave Girl)
1920 - Bruno Maderna, composer [or Apr 21]
1920 - Georg Ots, Estonian singer (d. 1975)
1920 - Manolis Chiotis, Greek bouzouki virtuoso and song writer (d. 1970)
1921 - Antony Hopkins, composer
1921 - Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist
1921 - Logan Ramsey, Long Beach Calif, actor (Head, Joy Sticks, Say Yes)
1923 - Mort Lindsey, Newark NJ, orch leader (Merv Griffin Show)
1923 - Philip Abbott, Lincoln Neb, actor (Arthur Ward-The FBI)
1923 - Shri Mataji Nirmala Srivastava, Founder of Sahaja Yogav
1924 - Karl Heinz Fussl, composer
1925 - John E Grotberg, (Rep-R-IL, 1985-86)
1925 - Peter Brook, London, director (1776)/TV writer
1925 - Hugo Koblet, Swiss cyclist (d. 1964)
1926 - Andre Delvaux, Heverie Belgium, director/writer (Benvenuta)
1926 - Virginia Weidler, Hollywood CA, actress (Babes on Broadway)
1927 - Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German minister of Foreign affairs (FDP)
1928 - Evelyn Ruth Anderson, composer
1928 - James W Kinnear, Pittsburgh Pa, CEO (Texaco)
1928 - Peter Hacks, German playwright (Tie Windloch)
1929 - James Coco, Bronx NY, actor (Man of La Mancha, Murder by Death)
1929 - Jules Verne Berman, space & science reporter (ABC-TV)
1929 - Maurice Catarcio, wrestler
1931 - Ivan William Hannaford, sociologist
1932 - Joseph Silverstein, Detroit Mich, violinist (Denver Symphony Orch)
1933 - John Hall, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
1933 - Michael Heseltine, Welsh/British minister of Defense (1986)/MP
1934 - Al Freeman Jr, Tx, actor (One Life to Live, My Sweet Charlie)
1934 - Lister Carney, Bellaire Oh, 200m runner (Olympic-silver-1960)
1935 - Brian Clough, soccer manager

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 94 of 94

1063 - Blessed Richeza of Lotharingia, venerated in Roman Catholicism, wife of King Mieszko II of Poland
1076 - Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1011)
1181 - Taira Kiyomori, Japanese Feudal general (b. 1118)
1306 - Robert II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1248)
1487 - Nicholas of Flue, Swiss hermit and saint (b. 1417)
1538 - Hugo, earl of Leisnig, governor of Frisia, dies at about 79
1556 - Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, burned at stake at 66
1617 - Pocahontas, Native American, daughter of Powhatan (b. c. 1595)
1652 - Vredius, [Olivier de Wree], Flem historian/mayor (Brugge), dies at 55
1654 - Johann Neukrantz, composer, dies at 51
1656 - Armagh James Ussher, Archbishop (said world began 4004 BC), dies at 76
1676 - Henri Sauval, French historian (b. 1623)
1729 - John Law, Scottish financier, dies at about 57
1734 - Gunther Jacob Wenceslaus, composer, dies at 48
1734 - Robert Wodrow, Scottish historian (b. 1679)
1751 - Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (b. 1706)
1762 - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (b. 1713)
1768 - Jan J Mauricius, Dutch governor-gen of Suriname (1742-51), dies at 75
1772 - Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, French cartographer (b. 1703)
1793 - Johann Michael Schmidt, composer, dies at 51
1795 - Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (b. 1714)
1801 - Andrea Lucchesi, composer, dies at 59
1804 - Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon-Condé, duc d'Enghien (executed) (b. 1772)
1810 - Philippe-Joseph van den Berghe graaf Limmighe, Brabants ships, dies
1843 - Guadalupe Victoria, first President of Mexico (b. 1786)
1843 - Robert Southey, English poet (b. 1774)
1844 - Leopold F J J J van Sassen Ysselt, Dutch politician, dies at 65
1850 - Miguel Pedrorena, American settler
1857 - Abraham J van der Aa, lexicographer (Biograph dictionary), dies at 64
1863 - Edwin Vose Sumner, US Union-general-major (Fair Oaks), dies at 66
1881 - Samuel Courtauld, American-born textile magnate (b. 1793)
1884 - Ezra Abbot, American bible scholar (b. 1819)
1894 - Jacob Rosenhaim, composer, dies at 80
1915 - Frederick Winslow Taylor, American inventor (b. 1856)
1916 - Victor de Stuers, Dutch art expert, dies at 72
1920 - Federigo Tozzi, Ital writer/journalist (Torre, Tre Croci), dies at 37
1921 - "Big Jim" Colisimo, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
1934 - Franz Schreker, composer, dies at 55
1934 - Lilyan Tashman, actor (Bulldog Drummond), dies at 34
1936 - Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov, composer (Chopiniana), dies at 70
1938 - Oscar Apfel, actor (Inspiration), dies at 60
1939 - Evald Aav, composer, dies at 39
1941 - Robert Liefmann, German economist (Kartelle und Trusts), dies at 67
1945 - J Woortman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Bergen-Belsen at 39
1945 - Artur Nebe, German SS officer {b. 1894)
1952 - Wilhelm Albrecht, German SD-chief, executed
1954 - Harry Lawrence Freeman, composer, dies at 84
1955 - Muriel Aked, dies at 67
1958 - Cyril M Kornbluth, US sci-fi writer (Space Merchants), dies at 34
1969 - Gerhart Fritsch, writer, dies at 44
1970 - Marlen Haushofer, writer, dies at 49
1970 - Manolis Chiotis, Greek songwriter and musician (b. 1920)
1973 - Antoni Szalowski, composer, dies at 65
1974 - Candy Darling, [James Slattery], female impersonator, dies
1975 - Berend Giltay, composer, dies at 64
1975 - Ralph Hawtrey, economist (multiplier), dies at 95
1975 - Joe Medwick, baseball player (b. 1911)
1980 - Gideon Fagan, composer, dies at 75
1980 - Peter Stoner, American mathematician, astronomer and Christian apologist (b. 1888)
1982 - Harry H Corbett, Brits actor (Steptoe & Son, Jabberwacky), dies at 57
1984 - Shauna Grant, American actress (suicide) (b. 1963)
1985 - Michael Redgrave, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Mr Arkadin), dies at 77
1985 - Salvador Ley, composer, dies at 78
1986 - August de Boodt, Belgian politician, dies at 90
1987 - Dean Paul Martin, actor (Billy-Misfits of Science), dies at 35
1987 - Robert Preston, actor (Harold Hill-Music Man), dies at 68
1989 - Milton Frome, actor (Family Jewels), dies
1991 - Leo Fender, inventor (Fender guitar), dies
1992 - John Ireland, actor (Rawhide), dies of leukemia at 78
1992 - Natalie Sleeth, American composer (b. 1930)
1994 - Dack Rambo, actor (Jack Ewing-Dallas), dies from AIDs at 52
1994 - Lili Damita, wife of Errol Flynn (Bridge of San Luis Rey), dies at 89
1994 - Macdonald Carey, actor (Days of Our Lives), dies of cancer at 81
1995 - Daan Wildschut, Dutch painter/author, dies at 81
1995 - Etienne Martin, French sculptor, dies at 82
1995 - Norman Schwartz, record Producer, dies at 66
1995 - Robert Urquhart, actor (Dunkirk, Bulldog Breed), dies at 72
1996 - Eric Brand, diplomat, dies at 73
1996 - Frank Murray, police Officer, dies at 51
1997 - W. V. Awdry, English children's writer (b. 1911)
1998 - Galina Ulanova, Russian prima ballerina assoluta (b. 1910)
1999 - Ernie Wise, British comedian (b. 1925)
2001 - Chung Ju-yung, Korean industrialist (b. 1915)
2001 - Norma MacMillan, Canadian voice actress (b. 1921)
2001 - Anthony Steel, English actor (b. 1920)
2002 - Herman Talmadge, American politician (b. 1913)
2003 - Umar Wirahadikusumah, Fourth Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1924)
2004 - Ludmilla Tchérina, French ballet dancer and actress (b. 1924)
2005 - Barney Martin, American actor (b. 1923)
2005 - Bobby Short, American singer (b. 1924)
2007 - Drew Hayes, American writer & graphic artist (b. 1969)
2007 - Sven O. Høiby, the father of Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway (b. 1936)
2007 - Kevin Whitrick, first British man to commit suicide on a live chatroom (b. 1964)
2009 - Walt Poddubny, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1960)