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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 189

196 BC - Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.
1309 - Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population.
1329 - Pope John XXII issues his 'In Agro Dominico' condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
1513 - Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon discovers Florida
1599 - Robert Devereux becomes lt-general of Ireland
1613 - The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
1625 - Charles I, King Of England, Scotland & Ireland, ascends English throne
1642 - The sixth Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Joseph takes office.
1668 - English king Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company
1708 - English pretender to the throne James III flees to Dunkerk
1709 - Dike at Hardinxveld breaks (Alblasserwaard flooded)
1713 - Spain losses Menorca & Gibraltar
1721 - France & Spain sign Treaty of Madrid
1758 - Battle at Emmerich: British army floats around France the Rhine
1782 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1790 - The shoelace invented
1794 - US Navy forms
1794 - The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
1794 - Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
1802 - Treaty of Amiens-French Revolutionary War ends
1808 - Joseph Haydns oratorio "Die Schopfung" premieres in Vienna
1814 - Battle at Horseshoe Bend: Gen Andrew Jackson beats Creek-indians
1836 - 1st Mormon temple dedicated (Kirtland Ohio)
1841 - 1st US steam fire engine tested, NYC
1848 - John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster
1849 - Joseph Couch patents steam-powered percussion rock drill
1855 - Abraham Gesner patents kerosene
1860 - M L Byrn patents "covered gimlet screw with a 'T' handle" (corkscrew)
1861 - Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars
1863 - President Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting & prayer
1865 - Siege of Spanish Fort, AL-captured by Federals
1866 - Andrew Rankin patents the urinal
1866 - Pres Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amend
1868 - The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego, New York.
1871 - 1st international rugby game-Scotland 1, England 0
1879 - Longest championship fight (136 rounds)
1881 - Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance by the Salvation Army.
1884 - 1st long-distance telephone call, Boston-NY
1890 - A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
1906 - Founding of the Alpine Club of Canada in Winnipeg, Manitoba
1910 - Fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, killed 312
1912 - 1st Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Wash DC
1914 - 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)
1918 - Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.
1920 - Film stars Mary Pickford & Douglas Fairbanks wed
1920 - Hermann Muller becomes German chancellor (SPD)
1924 - Canada recognizes USSR
1924 - New French govt of Poincaré begins
1928 - KGB-AM in San Diego CA begins radio transmissions
1928 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1928 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
1929 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1929 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
1930 - 1st US radio broadcast from a ship at sea
1931 - Charlie Chaplin receives France's distinguished Legion of Honor
1931 - John McGraw says night baseball will not catch on
1932 - De Bataven soccer team forms in Gendt
1933 - Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized
1933 - Japan leaves League of Nations
1933 - Polythene discovered by Reginald Gibson & Eric William Fawcett
1936 - WOS-AM in Jefferson City Missouri goes off the air
1937 - Feyenoord-stadium official opens in Rotterdam
1938 - The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
1939 - 1st NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: U of Oregon beats OH State 46-33
1940 - Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice
1941 - Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years
1941 - Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia)
1941 - Yugoslavian coup gets rid of pro-German Prince Paul
1942 - -28] Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire
1942 - Japan forces Java to use "Tokyo time" 1½ hour forward
1942 - Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title (NYC)
1943 - Assassination attempt on Van de Peat at Amsterdams census bureau
1943 - Blue Ribbon Town (with Groucho Marx) 1st heard on CBS Radio
1943 - US begins assault on Fondouk-pass, Tunisia
1944 - 1,000 Jews leave Drancy France for Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1944 - 2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania
1944 - 40 Jewish policemen in Riga Latvia ghetto are shot by the gestapo
1944 - Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno
1945 - 7th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Okla State beats NYU 49-44
1945 - British premier Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine
1945 - DePaul beats Bowling Green for NIT title
1945 - Ella Fitzgerald & Delta Rhythm Boys record "It's Only a Paper Moon"
1945 - Gen Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken
1945 - Iwo Jima occupied, after 22,000 Japanese & 6,000 US killed
1945 - US 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden
1945 - World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins.
1948 - The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.
1950 - Jazz pianist, Erroll Garner's solo concert (Cleve OH)
1950 - Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China
1950 - WHAS TV channel 11 in Louisville, KY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 - 13th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Kansas 68-58
1951 - Frank Sinatra recorded "I'm a Fool to Want You"
1952 - Failed assassination attempt of German Chancellor Adenauer
1952 - Sun Records of Memphis begins releasing records
1953 - 21 die in a train crash in Conneaut Ohio
1955 - 9th Tony Awards: Desperate Hours & Pajama Game win
1955 - Steve McQueen makes his network TV debut (Goodyear Playhouse)
1955 - WPRI TV channel 12 in Providence, RI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 - French commandos land in Algeria
1956 - US seizes US communist newspaper "Daily Worker"

Famous Birthdays

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972 - King Robert II of France (d. 1031)
1416 - Antonio Squarcialupi, composer
1554 - Everhardus van Bronchorst, Dutch lawyer
1627 - Stephen Fox, English politician (d. 1716)
1665 - Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau)
1676 - Francis II Rákóczi, leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburg (d. 1735)
1696 - Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (d. 1760)
1702 - Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer
1710 - Joseph Marie Clement dall' Abaco, composer
1712 - Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (d. 1779)
1714 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (d. 1795)
1730 - Thomas Tyrwhitt, English classical scholar (d. 1786)
1746 - Augustin Ullinger, composer
1746 - Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney/father of emperor Napoleon
1746 - Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (d. 1767)
1757 - Richard John Samuel Stevens, composer
1760 - Ishmail Spicer, composer
1760 - MJ Auguste Vestrius, French ballet dancers
1765 - Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher/theologist
1772 - Giovanni Liverati, composer
1780 - August L Crelle, German inventor/mathematician (1st Prussian Railway)
1785 - Louis XVII Charles, king of France (1793-95)
1797 - Alfred V Comte de Vigny, French musketeer/writer (Moise, Chatterton)
1809 - Georges Eugene Haussmann, Paris France, architect
1810 - A Glabbrenner, writer
1810 - William Hepworth Thompson, English classical scholar (d. 1886)
1813 - Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
1816 - George Elvey, composer
1817 - Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli, Swiss biologist (d. 1891)
1818 - Jakob Axel Josephson, composer
1823 - Samuel Kosciusko Zook, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers)
1844 - Alophus Washington Greely, US, Arctic explorer
1845 - Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen, Germany, discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901)
1847 - Otto Wallach, Germany, chemist (Nobel 1910)
1851 - Ruperto Chapi y Lorente, composer
1851 - Vincent d'Indy, French composer and teacher (d. 1931)
1857 - Karl Pearson, London England, mathematician
1857 - Pearson, mathematician
1858 - Peter Christian Lutkin, composer
1859 - George Giffen, cricketer (one of Australia's greatest all-rounders)
1860 - Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (d. 1924)
1863 - Henry Royce, automobile founder (Rolls-Royce)
1867 - Edyth Walker, US singer
1868 - Patty Smith Hill, author/songwriter (Happy Birthday To You)
1869 - James McNeill, Irish politician (d. 1938)
1871 - Heinrich Mann, Germany, novelist/essayist (Blue Angel); bros of Thomas
1871 - Petrus J M Aalberse, Dutch minister of Labor (1918-25)
1879 - Edward Steichen, pioneered American photography
1879 - Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (d. 1929)
1883 - Jan Kunc, composer
1883 - Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (d. 1980)
1886 - Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, German/US architect (Bauhaus)
1886 - Sergey Kirov, Russian bolshevik leader (d. 1934)
1889 - Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu, Turkish writer/diplomat
1892 - Ferde (Ferdinand Rudolf von) Grofe, NY, composer
1892 - Thorne Smith, author (Topper, Rain in the Doorway, Stray Lamb)
1893 - Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic, Yugoslavian general/nazi collaborator
1893 - Karl Mannheim, Hung/German/British sociologist (Ideology & Utopia)
1894 - William Harrigan, NYC
1897 - ... Hartree, mathematician
1897 - Carlo Mierendorff, German politician/anti-fascist
1899 - Gloria Swanson, Chicago Ill, actress (Sadie Thomson, Queen Kelly) [NS]
1901 - Albert Henneberg, composer
1901 - Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (SPD)
1901 - Sato Eisaku, (Lib) Japanese PM (1964-72) (Nobel 1974)
1901 - Wilhelm Conrad von Roentgen, physicist (Nobel)
1901 - Carl Barks, American illustrator (d. 2000)
1902 - Mary Armour, artist
1902 - Charles Lang, American cinematographer (d. 1998)
1903 - Walt Kiesling, NFL guard/coach (HOF)
1905 - Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (d. 1980)
1906 - Pee Wee Russell, American musician (d. 1969)
1907 - Mary Treen, St Louis Mo, actress (Emily-Willy)
1908 - Jacques [Izaak] den Haan, Dutch writer (Dangerous Book)
1909 - Ben[jamin F] Webster, US tenor saxophonist
1909 - Golo Mann, [Gottfried], German/US historian (Antisemitism)
1910 - Rudi Ball, Germany, Jewish ice hockey star (Olympic-bronze-1932)
1912 - James Callaghan, (L) British PM (1976-79)
1912 - Reuel Lahmer, composer
1912 - Robert Watson Hughes, composer
1913 - Godfrey Turner, composer
1913 - Theodor Dannecker, SS officer (d. 1945)
1914 - Budd Schulberg, NYC, novelist (On the Waterfront)
1914 - Richard Denning, Poughkeepsie NY, actor (Steve-Karen, Hawaii Five-0)
1914 - Snooky Lanson, Memphis Tn, singer (Your Hit Parade, 5 Star Jubilee)
1915 - Richard Sharp, civil servant
1917 - Cyrus R Vance, US Secretary of State (1977-80)
1917 - Harry West, Unionist party leader (Unionist)
1919 - Julian Amery, conservative minister
1919 - Simon van Collem, Dutch journalist/TV host (Amsterdamned)
1920 - Richard Hayman, bandleader/conductor/pianist (Theme of 3 Penny Opera)
1920 - Robin Jacques, illustrator (d. 1995)
1921 - Tom Bevill, (Rep-D-AL, 1967- )
1921 - Harold Nicholas, American dancer (d. 2000)
1922 - Margaret Stacey, sociologist
1922 - Stefan Wul, French author (d. 2003)
1923 - Louis Simpson, Jamaican/US poet (Good News of Death)
1923 - Shusaku Endo, writer
1923 - Victor Hochhauser, British impresario (Israeli Philharmonic Orch)
1924 - Harold Nicholas, US actor (Tap, 5 Heartbeats, Stormy Weather)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 130

710 - Rupert of Salzburg
922 - Al-Hallaj al-Mughith-al-Hsayn Mansur, Persian mystic, beheaded at 64
965 - Arnulf I, the Elder/the Great, count of Flanders (918-65), dies
973 - Herman, Duke of Saxony
1378 - Gregory XI, [Pierre R the Beaufort], last French Pope (1370-78), dies
1462 - Vasili II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1415)
1472 - Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator, dies at 37
1482 - Maria, duchess of Burgundy/countess of Holland, dies at 25
1482 - Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold; wife of Maximilian I (b. 1457)
1555 - William Hunter, Protestant martyr
1572 - Girolamo Maggi, Italian Renaissance man (b. abt. 1523)
1625 - James I Stuart, king of Scotland (1567)/England (1603-25), dies at 58
1635 - Robert Naunton, English politician (b. 1563)
1668 - Clemens Thieme, composer, dies at 36
1679 - Abraham Mignon, Dutch still life painter, dies at 38
1697 - Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate (b. 1603)
1701 - Anne Hilarion de Cotentin, count of Tourville/Fr admiral, dies at 58
1714 - Anton Ulrich, German duke of Brunswick/poet, dies at 80
1757 - Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz, composer, dies at 39
1761 - Johann Ludwig Steiner, composer, dies at 72
1769 - Josef Antonin Gurecky, composer, dies at 60
1770 - Giovanni B Tiepolo, Italian painter (Banquet of Cleopatra), dies at 73
1809 - Joseph M Vien, French (court)painter/etcher, dies at 92
1826 - Jakob Haibel, composer, dies at 63
1827 - François Alexandre Frédéric, French social reformer (b. 1747)
1836 - James Fannin, Texas revolutionary (b. 1804)
1843 - Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (b. 1769)
1849 - Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford (b. 1776)
1850 - Wilhelm Bear, German banker/astronomer (Moon Map), dies at 53
1864 - Jean-Jacques Ampère, French scholar (b. 1800)
1865 - Petrus Hoffman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar (b. 1786)
1873 - Amedée Simon Dominique Thierry, French journalist and historian (b. 1797)
1875 - Edgar Quinet, French historian (b. 1803)
1878 - Dobri Voynikov, composer, dies at 44
1878 - George Gilbert Scott, architect, dies
1889 - Moritz Furstenau, composer, dies at 64
1889 - John Bright, English statesman (b. 1811)
1894 - Verney L Cameron, English explorer (Tanganyika), dies at 49
1897 - Andreas Anagnostakis, Greek physician (b. 1826)
1898 - Sajjid Ahmad Chan, co founder (Pakistan), dies at 80
1898 - Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian Muslim intellectual (b. 1817)
1900 - Pieter J Joubert [Smart Piet], South African general, dies at 69
1910 - Alexander E Agassiz, US businessman/biologist/geologist, dies at 74
1910 - David Duffle Wood, composer, dies at 72
1920 - Johan G Danser, Dutch poet (Meetings), dies at 26
1922 - Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, composer, dies at 63
1923 - Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist (b. 1842)
1924 - Walter Parratt, composer, dies at 83
1925 - Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist, dies at 92
1927 - Joe Start, American baseball player (b. 1842)
1928 - Leslie Stuart, composer, dies at 64
1929 - Samuil Shatunovsky, Ukrainian mathematician, dies at 70
1931 - Arnold Bennett, novelist, dies
1933 - Lionel Palairet, cricketer (49 runs in 2 Tests for England 1902), dies
1934 - Francis William Reitz, 5th State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1844)
1938 - Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher/psychologist, dies at 66
1939 - Constance Lindsay Skinner, author (Rivers of America), dies at 57
1940 - Michael Joseph Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1872)
1943 - Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot (BI-1), killed in crash
1945 - Jorgen Nielsen, Danish writer (romance), dies at 42
1947 - Charles Smith, cricketer (batted for S Afr in 1902-03), dies
1948 - Karel Candael, Flemish composer, dies at 64
1953 - Narciso Garay, composer, dies at 76
1956 - Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84
1959 - Grant Withers, actor (Okla Annie), suicide with sleeping pills at 54
1960 - Ian Whyte, composer, dies at 58
1961 - Jack Kane, orch leader (Steve & Eydie, Andy Williams Show), dies at 37
1966 - Mien Labberton, Dutch poet, dies at 82
1967 - Gerardus H de Vet, the Bold, bishop of Breda (1962-67), dies at 49
1967 - Jim Thompson, American designer (disappeared) (b. 1906)
1968 - Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, & Seryogin, in plane crash at 34
1972 - Maurits C Escher, Dutch lithograph carver (Praedestinatie), dies at 73
1972 - Sharkey Bonano, American musician (b. 1904)
1973 - Boyan Georgiev Ikonomov, composer, dies at 72
1975 - Arthur Bliss, English composer/conductor (Checkmate), dies at 83
1975 - Gertrude Niesen, actress (Start Cheering), dies at 63
1977 - Diana Hyland, actress (Peyton Place, 8 is Enough), dies at 41
1977 - Eve Meyer, X actress (Immoral Mr Teas), dies in a plane crash at 46
1977 - Lodewijk de Vocht, composer, dies at 89
1977 - A. P. Hamann, American politician
1978 - Wilfred Pickles, actor (Billy Liar, Gay Dog), dies at 73
1979 - Ronald Adam, actor (Phantom Shot), dies at 82
1981 - Mao Dun, Chinese writer (b. 1895)
1983 - James Hayter, actor (Pickwick Papers, Trio, Great Game), dies at 75
1983 - Janis Ivanovs, composer, dies at 76
1986 - Cass Canfield, US publisher, dies at 88
1987 - Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director, dies at 90
1988 - Jan van den Weghe, Flemish writer, dies at about 67
1989 - May Allison, actress (Youth for Salem Men of Steel), dies
1991 - Aldo Ray, western actor (Battle Cry), dies at 64 of cancer
1991 - Elinor Remick Warren, composer, dies at 91
1991 - Leueen McGrath, actress (Edward My Son, Saint's Vacation), dies at 77
1991 - Ralph Bates, British actor (Persecution, Graveyard), dies at 50
1992 - Anita Colby, US model/actress/author (Pepsi Coke), dies at 77
1992 - Easley Blackwood, expert bridge player, dies at 89
1992 - Gerry Duggan, dies at 82
1992 - James E Webb, head of NASA (1961-68), dies at 84
1992 - Martin Engelman, Dutch cartoonist/painter/graphic artist, dies
1993 - Carlos Gimenez, director (Theater Festival of Caracas), dies at 47
1993 - Clifford Jordan, tenor saxophonist, dies of cancer at 61