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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 155

502 - Bourgundy King Gundobar delegates royal power
1461 - Battle near Towton Field, 33,000 die (War of the Roses)
1549 - The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded.
1632 - Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
1638 - 1st permanent white settlement in Delaware (Swedish Lutherans)
1673 - Eng king Charles II accept Test Act: RC excluded of public functions
1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera just 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
1795 - Beethoven (24) debuts as pianist in Vienna
1798 - Republic of Switzerland forms
1799 - New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state.
1804 - Thousands of Whites massacred in Haiti
1806 - Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.
1809 - King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup d'état. At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden.
1814 - Battle at Horseshoe Bend Ala: Andrew Jackson beats Creek-indians
1827 - 20,000 attend Ludwig von Beethovens burial in Vienna
1831 - Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniak rebel against Turkey.
1847 - 12,000 US troops capture Vera Cruz, Mexico
1848 - Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam
1849 - Britain formally annexs Punjab after defeat of Sikhs in India
1849 - The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.
1850 - Ireland's SS Royal Adelaide sinks in storm; 200 die
1852 - Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 & women to work more than 10 hours a day
1860 - Dion Boucicault's "Colleen Bawn," premieres in NYC
1864 - Great Britain gives Isotope Islands back to Greece
1864 - Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia Arkansas
1865 - -Apr 9th], Appomattox campaign, VA , 7582 killed
1865 - Battle of Quaker Road, VA
1867 - British North America Act (Canadian constitution) passes
1867 - Congress approves Lincoln Memorial
1871 - Albert Hall opens by Queen Victoria in London
1879 - Tsjaikovski's opera "Jevgeni Onegin," premieres in Moscow
1882 - Knights of Columbus chartered for Catholic men
1886 - Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise for Coca-Coke
1897 - Japan adopts Gold Standard
1906 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers sweep Kenora Thisles in 2 games
1912 - Capt Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"
1919 - Stanley Cup: Mont (NHL) & Seat (PCHA) win 2 games each with 1 tie, 1919 Stanley Cup not awarded due to flu epidemic
1924 - Bayern & Vatican reach accord
1927 - Henry O D Seagrave races his Sunbeam to a record 203.79 mph at Daytona
1928 - Yeshiva College (now University) chartered (NYC)
1929 - Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins sweep NY Rangers in 2 games
1930 - Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
1932 - Jack Benny debuts on radio
1934 - Bank of Travail in Belgium, socialist worker's movement bankrupt
1935 - French liner Normandie begins its maiden voyage
1936 - 10,000 watch the 200" mirror blank passing through Indianapolis
1936 - Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates
1940 - Joe Louis KOs Johnny Paycheck in 2 to retain heavyweight boxing title
1941 - 1st performance of Benjamin Britten's "Symphony da Requiem"
1941 - 3rd NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Wisconsin beats Wash State 39-34
1941 - WPAT radio in NJ begins broadcasting (country music format)
1942 - British cruiser Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea
1942 - British destroyer Campbeltown explodes in St-Nazaire: 400 Germans die
1942 - German submarine U-585 sinks
1942 - The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II was the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city.
1943 - Meat, butter & cheese rationed in US during WW II
1943 - Meat rationed in US (784 gram/week, 2 kilogram for GI's
1945 - World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.
1946 - 1st Test Cricket between Australia & NZ
1946 - Test Cricket debuts of Lindwall, Miller & Tallon
1947 - "Beggar's Holiday" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 111 perfs
1948 - Drachtster Boys soccer team forms in Drachten
1948 - Yanks & Red Sox tie at 2-2 in 17, spring training game
1949 - Turkey recognizes Israel
1951 - "King & I" opens at St James Theater NYC for 1246 performances
1951 - 23rd Academy Awards - "All About Eve," Judy Holliday & J Ferrer win
1951 - Julius & Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of spying
1953 - Patty Berg wins LPGA New Orleans Women's Golf Open
1958 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss
1958 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins
1959 - "Some Like it Hot" with Marilyn Monroe & Jack Lemmon premieres
1959 - Wes Hall takes Pakistani cricket hat-trick at Lahore
1960 - Darius Milhaud's 9th Symphony, premieres
1961 - 23rd Amendment ratified, allows Wash DC residents to vote for pres
1961 - After a 4½ year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted on treason charge
1961 - KCPT TV channel 19 in Kansas City, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 - Argentine Pres Frondizi flees from the army
1962 - Jack Paar's final appearance on the "Tonight Show"
1963 - Final episode of soap opera "Young Doctor Malone"
1966 - "It's a Bird... It's Superman" opens at Alvin NYC for 129 perfs
1966 - Muhammad Ali beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1967 - WCMU TV channel 14 in Mt. Pleasant, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - Students seize building at Bowie State College
1969 - Communist New People's Army found in Philippines
1970 - "Look to the Lilies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 25 perfs
1970 - Manchester City wins 10th Europe Cup II
1971 - 1st Lt William L Calley Jr found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre
1971 - Chile president Allende nationalizes banks/copper mines
1971 - Conrad Van Emde Boas becomes West Europe's 1st sexology professor
1971 - Development of a serum hepatitis vaccine for children announced
1971 - Royal Albert Hall opens
1971 - WSVN (now WSBN) TV channel 47 in Norton, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1973 - Dave Cowens, wins NBA MVP
1973 - US troops leave Vietnam, 9 yrs after Tonkin Resolution
1974 - Mariner 10's, 1st fly-by of Mercury, returns photos
1975 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Karsten-Ping Golf Open
1975 - Only 2nd time Islanders beat Rangers
1976 - 38th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Michigan 86-68
1976 - 8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State students
1979 - Andrew Hilditch given out handled the ball v Pakistan at WACA

Famous Birthdays

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1484 - Johann Spangenberg, composer
1519 - Carlo Caraffa, Italian cardinal
1553 - Vitsentzos Kornaros, Greek Renaissance poet (d. 1613 or 1614)
1561 - Santorio Sanctorius, Trieste Italy, physician/burned at stake/heretic
1584 - Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (d. 1648)
1602 - John Lightfoot, English theologist/literary (Horae Hebraicae)
1616 - Johann Erasmus Kindermann, composer
1636 - Esaias Reusner, composer
1668 - Thomas Coram, Founder of the Foundling Hospital (d. 1751)
1713 - John Ponsonby, Irish politician (d. 1789)
1725 - Joseph Franz Xaver Dominik Stalder, composer
1752 - Edward Jones, composer
1769 - Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal (d. 1851)
1790 - John Tyler, Va, (D/W) 10th Pres (1841-1845)
1799 - Edward Stanley, Earl Derby (C), British PM (1852, 1858-59, 1866-68)
1813 - John Letcher, Gov (Confederacy), died in 1884
1816 - James Gallant Spears, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1869
1817 - Constantine S Aksakov, Russian historian/poet
1819 - Edwin Drake, drilled 1st productive US oil well
1819 - Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi/founder (American Hebrew Congregations)
1821 - Joshua Thomas Owen, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1887
1822 - Joseph Quinaux, Belgian painter
1824 - Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (d. 1899)
1826 - Wilhelm Liebknecht, German MP (social-democratic)
1829 - Ritta & Christina, Siamese twins, in Sardinia
1829 - Robert Emmet Rodes, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1831 - Amelia Barr, writer
1848 - Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general/minister of War
1867 - Cy [Denton True] Young, Gilmore Ohio, pitcher (511 wins, 1890-1911)
1867 - Cy Young, American baseball player (d. 1955)
1869 - Ales Hrdlicka, US, anthropologist/curator (US National Museum)
1869 - Edwin Lutyens, architect, London
1871 - Tom Hayward, cricketer (great England batsman of the Golden Age)
1873 - Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician (d. 1941)
1875 - Lou Henry Hoover, 1st lady (1929-33)
1875 - Paul Rubens, composer
1876 - Jan Ingenhoven, composer
1876 - Joseph Schmidlin, German church historian/antifascist
1883 - Donald Dexter Van Slyke, US chemist (Micromanometric analysis)
1886 - Gustaf Adolf Tiburtius Bengtsson, composer
1888 - Adrianus M de Jong, Dutch writer (World Tour of Bulletje & Bonestaak)
1888 - James E Casey, founder (United Parcel Service)
1889 - Howard Lindsay, Waterford NY, playwright/actor/dir (State of Union)
1889 - Warner Baxter, Columbus OH, actor (In Old Arizona, Cisco Kid)
1891 - Ivan Goll, writer
1891 - Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (Mercedes Benz) (d. 1980)
1892 - Jozsef Mindszenty, [Joseph Prehm], Hungarian cardinal
1895 - Ernst Jünger, German author (d. 1998)
1898 - Cecil Lewis, airman/writer
1900 - John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1980)
1900 - Bill Aston, British racing driver (d. 1974)
1901 - Frans U Kailas, Finnish poet
1901 - Andrija Maurovic, Croatian illustrator (d. 1981)
1902 - Onslow Stevens, LA Calif, actor (Mr Fisher-This is the Life)
1902 - William Walton, England, composer (Troilus & Cressida, Wise Virgins)
1902 - Marcel Aymé, French writer (d. 1967)
1905 - Annunzio Mantovani, Venice Italy, orch leader (Mantovani)
1905 - Philip Ahn, American actor (d. 1978)
1906 - E Power Biggs, Westcliff-on-Sea England, organist/composer (CBS)
1907 - "Braguinha", Brazilian songwriter (d. 2006)
1908 - Arthur O'Connell, NYC, actor (Mr Peepers, Second Hundred Years)
1908 - Dennis O'Keefe, Fort Madison IA, actor/dir (T-Men, Fighting Seabees)
1909 - Moon Mullican, hillbilly pianist (7 Nights of Rock)
1909 - Yvonne Waegemans, Flemish writer (Gnome Patjoepelke)
1911 - Philip Ahn, LA Calif, actor (Master Kan-Kung Fu)
1911 - Brigitte Horney, German actress (d. 1988)
1912 - Hanna Reitsch, German test pilot (d. 1979)
1913 - Jack Jones, British trade unionist (CH)
1913 - Niall MacGinnis, Dublin Ireland, actor (Curse of the Demon)
1913 - Phil Foster, Bkln NY, comedian (Frank De Fazio-Laverne & Shirley)
1913 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 2000)
1914 - Chapman Pincher, British journalist/author (about secret service)
1915 - George Chisholm, Scottish jazz trombonist
1916 - Eugene J McCarthy, Watkins Minn, (Sen-D-Minn, pres candidate 1968)
1916 - John Paul, Governor-General (Bahamas)
1917 - Arthur Knight, CEO (Courtaulds)
1917 - Man O'War, racehorse (winner of 20 out of 21 races & $249,465)
1917 - Man o' War, American thoroughbred racehorse (d. 1947)
1918 - John Read, CEO (TSB Group)
1918 - Pearl Bailey, Newport News Va, singer (Hello Dolly)
1918 - Sam Walton, billionaire CEO (Wal-Mart)
1918 - Sam Walton, American businessman (d. 1992)
1919 - Eileen Heckart, Columbus Ohio, actress (Doll's House, Trauma Center)
1920 - John Belk, American head of Belk, Inc. (d. 2007)
1921 - Hugh Neill, Lord-Lieutenant (South Yorkshire)
1921 - Sam Loxton, cricketer (flamboyant Australian batsman of late 40's)
1923 - Julia Montgomery Walsh, political consultant/writer
1924 - Jules de Corte, blind Dutch ballad singer
1925 - Emlen Tunnell, NFL safety (Giants, Packers)
1925 - Lord Justice Beldam
1927 - Arthur Ravenel Jr, (Rep-R-South Carolina)
1927 - John McLaughlin, TV commentator (McLaughlin Group)
1927 - John Vane, FRS/pharmacologist
1927 - Lord Ross
1928 - Vaclav Felix, composer
1928 - Vincent Gigante, American mafioso (d. 2005)
1929 - Ronald Clive Williams, actor/comedian
1929 - Sheila Kitzinger, author, anthropologist & child birth educator
1929 - Utpal Dutt, Indian actor (d. 1993)
1930 - Donny Conn, rocker (Playmates)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 104

1058 - Stephen IX, [Frederik van Lotharingen], 1st Belg Pope (1057-58), dies
1368 - Emperor Go-Murakami, Emperor of Japan (b. 1328)
1461 - Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (b. 1421)
1546 - Cardinal Beaton, English archbishop of St Andrews, murdered
1578 - Arthur Champernowne, English admiral (b. 1524)
1578 - Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (b. 1527)
1625 - Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian (b. 1549)
1628 - Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York (b. 1546)
1629 - Jacob de Gheyn II, Dutch artist (b. 1565)
1650 - Cornelis Galle I, Flemish engraver, dies at about 73
1655 - Valerius Andreas, Flemish historian, dies at 66
1683 - Yaoya Oshichi, a young girl burned at the stake for arson in 17th Century Japan (b. 1667)
1697 - Nikolaus Bruhns, composer, dies
1745 - Robert Walpole, 1st British premier (1722-42), dies at 68
1751 - Thomas Coram, English sea captain and philanthropist
1772 - Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician (b. 1688)
1788 - Charles Wesley, hymn writer, dies
1792 - Gustav III, King of Sweden (1771-92), dies of wounds
1794 - Marie-J-A-N C Condorcet, mathematician (Theory of Comets), dies at 50
1800 - Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer (b. 1714)
1802 - Frederic Thieme, composer, dies at 51
1803 - Gottfried van Swieten, Dutch composer (b. 1733)
1837 - Maria Fitzherbert, morganatic wife of King George IV, dies
1839 - Bernardus JC Dibbets, Dutch baron/gen-major (Maastricht), dies at 56
1847 - Auguste De Polignac, premier France, dies at 66
1848 - John Jacob Astor, charted American Fur Company, dies at 84
1855 - Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1799)
1866 - Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch, Rabbi/Chassidic leader, dies
1873 - Francesco Zantedeschi, Italian physicist (b. 1797)
1880 - Jakob Axel Josephson, composer, dies at 62
1886 - John Keble, theologian, Bournemouth
1888 - Charles-Henri Valentin Alkan, composer, dies at 74
1891 - Georges-Pierre Seurat, French painter (Pointillism), dies at 31
1892 - William Bowman, English anatomist, dies at 75
1906 - Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (b. 1878)
1911 - Felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer, dies at 74
1912 - Robert F Scott, British pole explorer (Antarctica), dies
1917 - Fran Gerbic, composer, dies at 76
1924 - Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer/writer, dies at 71
1930 - Anton Bettelheim, writer, dies
1933 - Alexander Schmuller, Russian/Dutch violinist/conductor, dies at 52
1934 - Otto Hermann Kahn, German millionaire and benefactor (b. 1867)
1937 - Karol Szymanowski, Polish/Ukraine composer (Stabat Mater), dies at 54
1940 - Alexander Obolensky, Russian prince and famed Rugby Union footballer who played for England.(b. 1916)
1945 - Karl T Sapper, German geographer/geologist (Vulkankunde), dies at 79
1948 - Olev Siinmaa, Estonian architect (b. 1881)
1955 - Everard Verachtert, Flemish linguist (I Can Speak Nicely), dies at 81
1956 - Infante Alfonso of Spain (b. 1941)
1957 - Joyce A L Cary, English writer (Horse's Mouth), dies at 68
1958 - W[illiam] C[hristopher] Handy, composer, dies at 84
1959 - Barthelemy Boganda, Central African Republic's 1st president, dies
1959 - Sara Wennerberg-Reuter, composer, dies at 84
1963 - Pola Gojawiczynska, Polish author (Stolica), dies at 64
1964 - Ted Collins, pianist (Kate Smith Evening Hour), dies at 63
1966 - Harry Daugherty, trombonist (Spike Jones & City Slickers), dies at 50
1970 - Anna Louise Strong, American communist journalist (b. 1885)
1971 - Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1886)
1972 - J Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank, industrialist/film magnate
1974 - Seton I Miller, writer, dies at 71
1978 - Jayasinghrao Mansinghrao Ghorpade, cricketer (8 Tests for India), dies
1979 - Melville Cooper, TV panelist (I Got a Secret), dies at 82
1980 - ... Mantovani, orch leader (Mantovani), dies at 74
1981 - Eric Williams, Prime Minister (Trinidad & Tobago), dies at 79
1982 - Carl Orff, German composer (Mouth, Antigonae), dies at 86
1982 - Rudy Bond, actor (Streetcar Named Desire), dies of heart attack at 68
1982 - Walter Hallstein, W German politician (CDU, H-doctrine), dies at 80
1982 - Nathan Twining, USAF general (b. 1897)
1983 - Richard O'Brien, actor (Rocky Horror Show), dies of cancer at 65
1985 - Luther Terry, Surgeon General of the United States (b. 1911)
1985 - Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun, The Singing Nun (b. 1933)
1986 - Harry Ritz, actor (3 Musketeers, On the Avenue), dies at 79
1988 - Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player (b. 1924)
1989 - Bernard Blier, actor (Les Miserables, Women & War), dies at 73
1990 - Germaine Montenesdro, 2nd victim of NYC's Zodiac killer, shot dead
1991 - Lee Atwater, political strategists (R), dies of brain tumor at 40
1991 - Matt Bennett, actor (Hickey & Boggs), dies of brain tumor at 52
1992 - Earl Spencer, father of Lady Diana, dies at 68
1992 - Paul [G J von] Henreid, Austrian actor (Laszlo-Casablanca), dies at 84
1994 - Bill Travers, actor (Trio, Gorgo, Born Free), dies at 72
1994 - Paul Grimault, animator, dies at 89
1994 - William Natcher, (Rep-D-Ky), dies at 84
1995 - Carl E Jefferson, record company owner, dies at 74
1995 - Eddie Williams Wiggins, alto saxophone/comedian, dies at 78
1995 - James Eric Storrar, fighter Pilot, dies at 74
1995 - John Elliott Terry, film financier, dies at 82
1995 - Baltimora, British singer (b. 1957)
1996 - Maggie Donnelly, bag lady, dies at 46
1996 - Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1944)
1997 - Eddie Ryder, actor (Slick Jones-General Hospital), dies at 74
1997 - Ellen Clara Pollock, actress (Wicked Lady, Fake), dies at 94
1999 - Joe Williams, American singer (b. 1918)
2001 - Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer (b. 1899)
2001 - John Lewis, American jazz pianist (b. 1920)
2002 - Rico Yan, Philippine Young Movie & TV Actor (b. 1975)
2002 - Rachel Levy and Ayat al-Akhras, Israeli and Palestinian children
2003 - Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (SARS) (b. 1956)
2005 - Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer (b. 1937)
2005 - Mitch Hedberg, American comedian (b. 1968)
2005 - Miltos Sahtouris, Greek poet (b. 1919)
2006 - Salvador Elizondo, Mexican writer (b. 1932)