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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 213

254 - Stephan I replaces Lucius I as Catholic Pope
919 - Duke Henry of Saxon becomes king Henry I of Oostfrankische rich
1082 - Battle at Mailberg: Vratislav II of Bohemia beats Leopold II of Austr
1191 - Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre.
1215 - English barons serve ultimatum on king John without Country
1328 - Louis IV de Beier selects P Rainalducci as anti-Pope Nicolaas V
1328 - Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice.
1459 - Sun City India founded by Rao Jodhpur
1525 - Battle at Biblingen: Zwabische Union beats rebel Wurttembergse farmers
1534 - Wurttemberg becomes Lutherian
1551 - San Marcos University in Lima Peru, opens
1588 - Catholic League under duke Henri de Guise occupies Paris
1604 - Spanish garrison of Aardenburg surrenders to Mauritius
1640 - Uprising against Spanish king Philip IV
1641 - Prince Willem II (14) marries Engl princess Henriette Mary Stuart (9)
1689 - England & Netherlands form League of Augsburg
1695 - English king Willem III departs to Netherlands
1701 - Drenthe adopts Gregorian calendar (yesterday is 4/29/1701)
1733 - Maria Theresa crowned queen of Bohemia in Prague
1776 - Turgot, French minister of Finance, resigns
1777 - 1st ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-NY Gazette)
1780 - British troops occupy Charleston, South Carolina
1780 - Charleston, SC falls to British (Revolutionary War)
1789 - Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It later becomes an infamous group of NYC political bosses
1792 - Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented
1797 - First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice.
1821 - The first big battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks occurs in Valtetsi.
1832 - Gaetano Donizetti's opera "L'elisir d'amore," premieres in Milan
1835 - Charles Darwin visits copper mines in North Chile
1849 - Willem Alexander PFL crowned king Willem III in Amsterdam
1862 - Federal troops occupies Baton Rouge Louisiana
1863 - Battle of Raymond, Miss
1864 - Battle of Drewry's Bluff, VA (Ft Darling)
1864 - Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia
1864 - Battle of Todd's Tavern, VA (Sheridan's Raid)
1864 - Butler attacks Drewry's Bluff on James River
1864 - US Union colonel Emory Upton (24) promoted to brigade-general
1865 - Last land action of Civil war at Palmito Ranch, Texas
1870 - Manitoba becomes a province of Canada
1871 - Segregated street cars integrated in Louisville, Ky
1873 - Oscar II of Sweden-Norway is crowned King of Sweden.
1874 - US Assay Office in Helena, Montana authorized
1875 - 1st recorded shutout in pro baseball, Chicago 1, St Louis 0
1877 - Ottawa Rough Riders 1st outside competition vs Britannia
1881 - France sign treaty of protection with Tunisia colony
1881 - Treaty of Bardo, Tunis becomes a French protectorate
1885 - Battle of Batoche, French Canadians rebel against Canada
1888 - Crouching start 1st used by Charles Sherrill of Yale
1890 - Louisiana legalized prize fighting
1890 - The first-ever official County Championship match begins. Yorkshire beats Gloucestershire by eight wickets at Bristol. George Ulyett scores the first century in the competition.
1891 - Riot against tax increase in Paramaribo Suriname
1894 - Ludwig Englander's musical "Passing Show," premieres in NYC
1897 - 1800-1900 year old fossil of "girl of Yde" found in Drente Neth
1897 - Battle at Thessalie: Turkish army beats Greece
1898 - Louisiana adopts new constitution with "grandfather clause" designed to eliminate black voters
1900 - Boer attack under Sarel Eloff, about 70 killed
1900 - Lord Roberts' troops occupies Crown city
1901 - Pres McKinley visits SF
1908 - George Bernard Shaws' "Getting Married," premieres in London
1908 - Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by Nathan B Stubblefield
1909 - 34th Preakness: Willie Doyle aboard Effendi wins in 1:39.8
1910 - 2nd NAACP conference (NYC)
1910 - Phil A's Chief Bender no-hits Cleveland Indians, 4-0
1913 - Harry Green runs world record marathon (2:38:16.2)
1915 - Croatians plunder Armenia, killing 250
1915 - Franklin K Mathiews, presents idea of "Book Week"
1917 - 42nd Preakness: E Haynes aboard Kalitan wins in 1:54.4
1917 - 43rd Kentucky Derby: Charles Borel on Omar Khayyam wins in 2:04.6
1919 - Yanks & Senators play 2nd straight extra inning tie, 4-4 in 15
1921 - National Hospital Day 1st observed
1923 - 49th Preakness: Benny Marinelli aboard Vigil wins in 1:53.6
1924 - 50th Preakness: John Merimee aboard Nellie Morse wins in 1:57.2
1924 - 7th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at French Lick CC Ind
1925 - Uzbekistan & Kirgizistan become autonomous Soviet republics
1925 - Walter Hagen wins PGA golf tournament
1926 - Airship Norge is 1st vessel to fly over North Pole
1926 - British general strike ends
1926 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 1st Symphony, premieres in Leningrad
1926 - Gen Pilsudski sets coup on premier Witos compared
1926 - Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole
1928 - Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy
1928 - Opium laws enforced
1929 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Julia Peterkin (Scarlet Sister Mary)
1930 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Marc Connelly (Green Pastures)
1932 - Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell NJ
1932 - Goofy, aka Dippy Dawg, 1st appears in 'Mickey's Revue' by Walt Disney
1933 - Federal Emergency Relief Administration & Agricultural Adjustment Administration form to help the needy & farmers
1934 - "Cocktails For Two," by Duke Ellington hits #1
1934 - 60th Preakness: Robert Jones aboard High Quest wins in 1:58.2
1936 - Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Poisoned Kiss," premieres in London
1937 - George VI crowned King of England
1937 - St Louis Cards beat Phila Phillies, 15-3
1937 - Coronation of King George VI of Britain at Westminster Abbey.
1938 - Sandoz Labs manufactures LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)
1940 - French mariners occupy St Maarten
1940 - German tanks conquer Moerdijkbrug
1940 - Nazi blitz conquest of France began by crossing Muese River
1941 - Great British convoy marches into Alexandria
1941 - Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
1942 - 1,500 Jews gassed in Auschwitz

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 235

1401 - Emperor Shōkō (d. 1428)
1496 - Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1560)
1590 - Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621)
1622 - Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor General of New France (d. 1698)
1626 - Louis Hennepin, Flemish missionary (d. 1705)
1662 - Jan F van Bloom, [Orizonte] Flemish painter, baptized
1670 - August II, the Strong One, King of Poland (355 children)
1670 - Frederick Augustus I of Poland (d. 1733)
1679 - Giovanni Antonio Ricieri, composer
1700 - Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect
1725 - Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (d. 1785)
1739 - Jan Krtitel Vanhal, composer
1739 - Johann Baptist Vanhal, composer
1751 - Gaetano Manna, composer
1754 - Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer
1767 - Manuel de Godoy, Spanish statesman (d. 1851)
1776 - Juan Bros y Bertomel, composer
1790 - [Johannes] Carsten Hauch, Danish writer
1797 - Johann Hermann Kufferath, composer
1803 - Justus Freiherr von Liebig, German chemist (agricultural chemics)
1804 - Robert Baldwin, (L) help establish govt in Canada (or 1904)
1806 - Amos Beebe Eaton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1877
1806 - J V Snellman, Finland, journalist/statesman/nationalist
1812 - Edward Lear, England, landscape painter, (Complete Nonsense Book)
1812 - Louis Ludwig Blenker, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1813 - Johann Czerski, German chaplin
1820 - Florence Nightingale, Florence Italy, nurse (Crimean War)
1828 - D G Rossetti, writer
1828 - Gabriel Dante Rossetti, England, poet/painter, Pre-Raphaelite
1829 - Paul Karrer, composer
1829 - Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (d. 1896)
1842 - Jules Emile Fred Massenet, Montaud France, composer (Manon, Le Cid)
1845 - Gabriel Urbain Faure, Pamiers France, composer (Requiem, Ballade)
1850 - Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. statesman (d. 1924)
1863 - Charles Bordes, composer
1867 - Hugh Trumble, cricket off-spinner (great Aust at turn of century)
1868 - Halsey William Wilson, US, publisher of reference books
1874 - Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet, Austrian physician (Reaction of Pirquet)
1876 - Harold, grandson of English queen Victoria
1880 - Lincoln Ellsworth, led 1st transarctic, transantarctic flights
1880 - W Hupkes, engineer/director (Dutch Rail 1938)
1886 - Albert Saverys, Flemish painter
1886 - Hermann Grabner, composer
1886 - Piotr F Scharoff, Russian/Italian actor/director (Chechov)
1887 - Nandor Zsolt, composer
1889 - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank
1892 - Fritz Kortner, Austrian-born director (d. 1970)
1894 - Cleo Ridgely, NY, silent screen actress (I Remember Mama)
1895 - Jiddu Krishnamurti, India, philosopher (Songs of Life) [NS=May 22]
1899 - Indra Devi, Latvian Yoga Instructor (d. 2002)
1900 - Helene Weigel, Austria/German actress (Metropolis, Mutter Courage)
1901 - Hyam Greenbaum, composer
1902 - Heinrich Kirchner, German sculptor
1903 - Lennox R F Berkeley, British composer (Castaway)
1903 - Wilfrid Hyde-White, England, actor (My Fair Lady, Peyton Place)
1906 - William M Ewing, US geologist/geophysicist
1907 - Katharine Hepburn, Hartford CT, actress (Adam's Rib, On Golden Pond)
1907 - Leslie Charteris, English/US detective writer (Enter the Saint)
1910 - Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin, British chemist (penicillin/B12/Nobel 1964)
1910 - Gordon Jenkins, Webster Grove Mo, orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour)
1910 - Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (d. 1996)
1912 - Marshall Royal, jazz sax/clarinet
1912 - Archibald Cox, U.S. Solicitor General (d. 2004)
1914 - Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet/writer
1914 - Dan Daniel, (Rep-D-VA, 1969- )
1914 - Howard K Smith, LA, TV newsman (ABC, Moderated Kennedy-Nixon debate)
1915 - Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay Cosmetics (d. 2001)
1916 - Ellis Bonoff Kohs, composer
1917 - Andre A Rieu, Dutch conductor
1918 - Oscar Beregi Jr, Hungary, actor (Young Frankenstein, Panic in City)
1918 - Julius Rosenberg, Soviet spy (d. 1953)
1921 - Edvard Mikcaeli Mirzoyan, composer
1921 - Giovanni Benelli, archbishop (Florence)/Papal candidate
1921 - Henry Mackie, designer of the Belfast Calorimeter
1921 - Joseph Beuys, Germany, avant-garde painter/politician
1921 - Farley Mowat, Canadian writer and naturalist
1922 - Barend Busnac, office clerk/resistance fighter
1922 - Marco Denevi, Argentine writer (d. 1998)
1923 - Ewart G Abner, record company executive
1923 - Giovanni Testori, Italian writer (Rocco e i suoi fratelli)
1923 - Lord Laing, English biscuit manufacturer/pilot/multi-millionaire
1924 - Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Russian mathematician
1925 - John Simon, theater critic (NY Times)
1925 - Lawrence "Yogi" Berra, catcher/coach/manager (NY Yankees, Mets)
1925 - Tony Hancock, Birmingham England, actor (Rebel, Wrong Box)
1926 - Earl Hutto, Panama City Fla, (Rep-D-FL, 1979- )
1926 - Mervyn M Dymally, (Rep-D-CA, 1981- )
1928 - Manuel Lujan Jr, (Rep-R-NM, 1969- )
1928 - Henry Cosby, African-American songwriter (d. 2002)
1929 - Burt Bacharach, KC Mo, composer (I'll Never Fall in Love Again)
1929 - Dollard St. Laurent, Canadian ice hockey player
1929 - Sam Nujoma, first President of Namibia
1930 - Pat McCormick-Keller, Lakewood Calif, diver (Oly-4 gold-1952, 56)
1931 - Johan Fleerackers, Flemish vice-president of Dutch One
1933 - Andrey Voznesensky, Russian poet
1935 - Johnny Bucyk, Canadian ice hockey player
1936 - Tom Snyder, Milwaukee Wisc, newscaster (Tommorow, NBC Weekend News)
1936 - Guillermo Endara, President of Panama
1936 - Tom Snyder, American television personality (d. 2007)
1936 - Frank Stella, American painter

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 119

912 - Leo VI Sophos, Byzantine Emperor (886-912), dies at 45
1003 - Gerbert, French scholar, dies in Rome
1003 - Sylvester II, [Gerbert van Aurillac], 1st Fren Pope (999-1003), dies
1003 - Pope Silvester II
1012 - Sergius IV, [Pietro Crescentii], Italian Pope (1009-12), dies
1382 - Johanna I, Queen of Naples/Provence, dies
1465 - Thomas Palaeologus, Despot of the Despotate of Morea
1634 - George Chapman, English dramatist/interpreter, dies
1641 - Thomas Wentworth, English viceroy of Ireland, beheaded at 48
1649 - Isaac Doreslaer, English lawyer/diplomat, murdered
1684 - Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest
1699 - Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (b. 1626)
1708 - Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1658)
1737 - Cornelis van Alkemade, historian, dies at 83
1748 - Thomas Lowndes, English astronomer (b. 1692)
1759 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (b. 1700)
1784 - Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (b. 1710)
1792 - Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (b. 1710)
1796 - Johann P Uz, German poet (Theodicee), dies at 75
1801 - Nicholas Repnin, Russian statesman (b. 1734)
1811 - Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey, composer, dies at 52
1814 - Robert Treat Paine, US judge (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 83
1825 - Elias Mann, composer, dies at 75
1825 - Stanislao Mattei, composer, dies at 75
1843 - Johann Georg Lickl, composer, dies at 74
1845 - August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/interpreter/critic, dies at 77
1845 - János Bacsanyi, Hungarian poet (b. 1763)
1852 - John Richardson, Canadian writer (War of 1812), dies
1856 - Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (b. 1786)
1860 - Charles Barry, English architect (b. 1795)
1861 - Christian Heinrich Hohmann, composer, dies at 50
1864 - Abner Monroe Perrin, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 37
1864 - J E B Stuart, Confederate General, dies at 31
1867 - Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist (b. 1795)
1871 - Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber, French opera composer, dies at 89
1871 - John F W Herschel, British astronomer (Catalogue of Nebulae), dies
1876 - Henri A Esquiros, French poet (Evangile du peuple), dies at 63
1876 - Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary, brutally killed by the Turks (b. 1843)
1884 - Bedrich Friedrich Smetana, Czech composer (2 Widows), dies at 60
1896 - Juan Morel Campos, composer, dies at 38
1897 - Ulrika "Minna" Cant-Johnstown, Finnish playwright, dies at 53
1897 - Willem Roelofs, painter/lithographer, dies
1907 - J K Huysmans, writer, dies at 59
1908 - Melesio Morales, composer, dies at 69
1916 - James Connolly, Irish socialist (b. 1868)
1921 - Emilia Pardo Bazan, Spanish writer (La sirena negra), dies
1924 - Charles Henri Marechal, composer, dies at 82
1925 - Alfred Milner, British governor (Cape Colony)/minister, dies at 71
1925 - Amy Lowell, writer, dies at 51
1925 - Artur Napoleao dos Santos, composer, dies at 82
1925 - Amy Lowell, American poet (b. 1874)
1930 - Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Dutch SDAP leader, dies at 70
1931 - Eugene Ysaye, composer, dies at 72
1931 - Eugene-Auguste Ysaye, composer, dies at 72
1932 - Lindbergh baby, found dead
1935 - Josef Pilsudski, Polish dictator (1926-35), dies
1935 - Józef Piłsudski, Polish statesman (b. 1867)
1943 - Albert Stoessel, composer, dies at 48
1944 - Arthur T Quiller-Couch [Q], British author/critic, dies at 80
1948 - Isidor Achron, composer, dies at 55
1951 - Oscar DePriest, (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 80
1956 - Hendrik P Marchant, Dutch minister of Education, dies at 87
1956 - Louis Calhern, dies at 61
1956 - Vladimir Ambros, composer, dies at 65
1957 - Erich von Stroheim, Austrian/US actor (Grand Illusion), dies at 71
1957 - Alfonso de Portago, Spanish bobsledder and race car driver (b. 1928)
1960 - Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, composer, dies at 70
1962 - Dick Calkins, co-author (Buck Rogers), dies at 67
1963 - Stanislaw Wiechowicz, composer, dies at 69
1963 - Bobby Kerr, Canadian runner (b. 1882)
1965 - Roger Vailland, French playwright (La Truite), dies at 57
1966 - Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Heer and Waffen-SS officer (b. 1896)
1967 - Julius Kalas, composer, dies at 64
1967 - John Masefield, British writer (b. 1878)
1970 - Leonie "Nelly" Sachs, German/Swedish poet (Nobel 1966), dies at 78
1970 - Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general (WW I, WW II), dies at 78
1971 - J M Taylor, cricketer (20 Tests 1920-26, 997 runs), dies
1971 - Heinie Manush, American baseball player (b. 1901)
1973 - Frances Marion, screenwriter (Pollyanna, Camille), dies at 85
1973 - Art Pollard, American racecar driver (b. 1927)
1980 - Lillian Roth, actress (Animal Crackers, Alice Sweet Alice), dies
1981 - Benjamin H Sheares, president of Singapore, dies
1982 - Humphrey Searle, writer (20th Century counterpoint), dies at 66
1984 - Doris May, actress (Peck's Bad Boy), dies at 81 of heart failure
1985 - Jean Debuffet, French painter/sculptor, dies
1986 - Elisabeth Bergner, dies at 85
1986 - Lee Bonnell, dies
1987 - Victor Feldman, pianist/drummer, dies at 53
1989 - Joe Valdez Caballero, creator of hard taco, shell, dies at 81
1989 - Marcelle de Manziarly, composer, dies at 89
1990 - Chen Kenmin, Japanese chef (b. 1912)
1992 - Joe Burke, president (KC Royals), dies at 68, dies
1992 - Robert Reed, actor (Brady Bunch), dies of AIDs at 59
1992 - Lenny Montana, American actor (b. 1926)
1994 - Alfred Lane Beit, connoisseur, dies at 91
1994 - David Brooks, psychologist, dies at 91
1994 - Helen Lee Mai, Hong Kong actress, dies at 63
1994 - John Smith, British Labour Party chairman (1992-94), dies at 55
1994 - Xenophon Balaskas, cricketer (9 Tests for S Africa, 22 wkts), dies
1995 - Arthur Lubin, film director, dies at 95