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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 186

1096 - Crusaders massacre Jews of Worm
1152 - Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine.
1268 - The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Battle of Antioch.
1291 - Sultan of Egypt & his son take last Christian stronghold of Acre
1302 - Trades people assault on French garrison (Brugse Metten)
1302 - Bruges Matins, the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by members of the local Flemish militia.
1385 - Peace of Doornik: Gent & Louis van Thoughts
1593 - Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
1596 - Willem Barents leaves Amsterdam for Novaya Zemlya
1619 - Hugo the Great sentenced to life in prison
1631 - English colony Massachusetts Bay grants puritarian voting right
1631 - John Winthrop is elected 1st governor of Massachusetts
1642 - Montreal Canada founded
1652 - Rhode Island enacts 1st law declaring slavery illegal
1703 - Dutch & English troops occupy Cologne
1756 - England declares war on France
1765 - Fire destroys a large part of Montreal, Quebec.
1783 - First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States.
1794 - 2nd battle of Bouvines (France-Austria)
1803 - Britain declares war on France after Napoleon Bonaparte continues interfering in Italy & Switzerland
1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of France
1811 - Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Río de la Plata in Uruguay lead by Jose Artigas.
1828 - Battle of Las Piedras, ends conflict between Uruguay & Brazil
1830 - Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of his invention, lawn mower. Saturdays are destroyed forever
1843 - United Free Church of Scotland forms
1846 - US troops attack Rio Grande occupying Matamoros
1848 - Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany.
1851 - Amsterdam-Nieuwediep telegraph connection linked
1852 - Massachusetts rules all school-age children must attend school
1860 - Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for president
1861 - Battle of Sewall's Point VA-1st Federal offense against South
1861 - Friedrich Hebbels "Kriemhildes Rache," premieres in Weimar
1863 - Siege of Vicksburg, MS
1864 - Battle of Yellow Bayou, LA (Bayou de Glaize, Old Oaks)
1866 - French Govt of De Putte resigns
1869 - Surrender and dissolution of the Ezo Republic to Japan.
1880 - 6th Kentucky Derby: George Lewis aboard Fonso wins in 2:37.5
1887 - Emmanuel Chabriers opera "Le Roi Malgré Luis," premieres in Paris
1889 - Jules Massenets opera "Esclarmonde," premieres in Paris
1896 - US Supreme court affirms race separation (Plessy v Ferguson)
1896 - Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
1897 - Irish Music Festival 1st held (Dublin)
1897 - NY Giant William Joyce sets record of 4 triples in 1 game
1897 - Paul Dukas "L'Apprenti Sorcier Pruimtabak on the Market," premieres
1897 - Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published.
1899 - World Goodwill Day-26 nations meet in 1st Hague Peace Conference
1900 - Britain proclaims protectorate over kingdom of Tonga
1904 - American Ion Perdicaris kidnapped in Morocco
1910 - Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic
1911 - Pres/dictator Jose Porfirio Diaz of Mexico term ends
1912 - A's beat Tigers 24-2, who use amateurs protesting Ty Cobbs suspension
1912 - Maurits Binger establishes 2 Dutch movie companies
1916 - US pilot Kiffin Rockwell shoots down German aircraft
1917 - Satie/Massine/Picasso's ballet "Parade," premieres in Paris
1917 - US passes Selective Service act
1918 - Neth Indian Volksraad installed in Batavia
1918 - TNT explosion in chemical factory in Oakdale Penn kills 200
1920 - 46th Preakness: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 1:51.6
1922 - Dutch 2nd Chamber agrees to 48 hour work week (was 45 hrs)
1926 - Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished in Venice Calif She showed up a month later & said she had been kidnapped
1927 - "Slide Lake" in Gros Ventre Wyoming collapses
1927 - Grauman's Chinese Theater opens in Hollywood Calif
1927 - Ritz Hotel opens in Boston
1929 - 55th Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee on Clyde Van Dusen wins in 2:10.8
1929 - Dodgers beat Phillies 20-16 & lost 8-6 in 2nd game (record 50 runs)
1933 - Tennessee Valley Act (TVA) Act signed by FDR, to build dams
1933 - 1st major league All-Star Game announced for July 6 at Comiskey Park It will be played as part of the Chicago World's Fair
1934 - Academy Award 1st called Oscar in print (Sidney Skolsky)
1934 - Congress approves "Lindbergh Act," makes kidnapping a capital offense
1934 - Jimmie Foxx hits 1st HR in Comiskey Park center field bleachers
1934 - TWA began commercial service
1935 - Harold Gimblett scores 123 in 80 mins on debut for Somerset
1940 - German troops conquer Brussels
1941 - An Egyptian steamer sinks
1941 - Italian army under general Aosta surrenders to Britain in Ethiopia
1941 - Jewish veterans honor their dead
1942 - NYC ends night baseball games for rest of WW II
1943 - Allied bombers attack Pantelleria in the Mediterranean Sea
1944 - Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino Italy
1944 - Expulsion of more than 200,000 Tartars from Crimea by Soviet Union begins, they are accused of collaborating with the Germans
1945 - Tigers & A's both have 7 straight games postponed due to rain
1947 - A's catcher Warren Rosar catches his 147th game without an error
1948 - "Ballet Ballads" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 62 performances
1948 - Arab Legion captures fort on Mt Scopus
1948 - Saudi Arabia joins invasion of Israel
1948 - The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.
1949 - Antiquarian Booksellers Assoc of America incorporates
1950 - "Liar" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 12 performances
1950 - Tommy Glaviano makes 3 consecutive errors on grounders
1951 - UN moves HQ to NYC
1951 - US General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea
1952 - Professor WF Libby said Stonehedge dates back to 1848 BC
1953 - 1st woman to break sound barrier (Jacqueline Cochrane, USA)
1953 - Jacqueline Cochran is 1st woman to break the sound barrier
1954 - European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect
1955 - 28.7 cm rain falls at Lake Maloya New Mexico (state record)
1955 - Atkinson & Depeiaza take WI from 6-187 to 6-494 in day v Aust
1955 - Queen Juliana opens E55 fair in Amsterdam
1956 - Hungarian party leader Matyas Rákosi enforces his own policy
1956 - Mickey Mantle hits HR from both sides of plate for record 3rd time

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 233

1048 - Omar Khayyám, Persian mathematician, poet and philosopher (d. 1131)
1186 - Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (d. 1218)
1474 - Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (d. 1539)
1610 - Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (d. 1664)
1662 - George Smalridge, English bishop of Bristol (d. 1719)
1692 - Joseph Butler, Wantage Berkshire, theologian
1711 - Ruggiero G Boscovich, [Rudzer J Boskovic], Italian astronomer
1744 - Joseph Beer, Bohemia clarinetist/composer (5th clarinet flap)
1759 - Charles Duquesnoy, composer
1778 - Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (d. 1854)
1785 - John Wilson, Scottish writer (d. 1854)
1788 - Hugh Clapperton, Annan Scotland, African explorer
1797 - Frederik Augustus II, King of Saxon (1836-54)
1797 - Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (d. 1854)
1798 - Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1870
1815 - Thomas Stanhope Bocock, rep (Confederacy), died in 1891
1817 - James William Denver, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1819 - Julius Hopp, composer
1830 - Karl Goldmark, Keszthely Hungary, composer (Sakuhtala)
1836 - Isidor Vorobchievici, composer
1836 - Wilhelm Steinitz, Austria, world chess champion (1866-94)
1850 - Oliver Heaviside, London, physicist (predicted ionosphere)
1851 - James Budd, Governor of California (d. 1908)
1854 - Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer (To my Fatherland)
1862 - Freiherr Albert von Schrenk-Notzing, German para-psychologist
1864 - Jan P Veth, Bayern, Dutch painter/etcher/lithographer/art historian
1865 - William Heinemann, England, publisher (Chemical Instrumental)
1868 - Nicholas II Aleksandrovitsj, last tsar of Russia (1894-1917)
1869 - Ruprecht, crown prince of Bavaria/general-fieldmarshall
1871 - Franiska zu Reventlow, writer
1872 - Bertrand Russell, England, mathematician/philosopher (Nobel 1950)
1875 - Guido Alberto Fano, composer
1881 - Georgi Atanasov, composer
1882 - Eduardo Fabini, composer
1882 - Babe Adams, American baseball player (d. 1968)
1883 - Walter Gropius, Berlin Germany, architect (Bauhaus school of design)
1885 - Eurico Gaspar Dutra, president of Brazil (1945-50)
1886 - Ole Windingstad, composer
1887 - Ernst Wiechert, writer
1889 - G Gunnarson, writer
1889 - Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (d. 1944)
1891 - Rudolf Carnap, philosopher (German Logical Positivist)
1896 - Walter Fitzgerald, Keyhan Devonport England
1897 - Frank Capra, Ital, director (Its a Wonderful Life, Arsenic & Old Lace)
1897 - Jack Raine, London England, actor (Quartet)
1898 - Juan J Domenchina, Spanish poet/interpreter (sombra desterrada)
1900 - Sarah Miriam Peale, US, portrait painter (Gen Lafayette-1825)
1901 - Harry Robert Wilson, composer
1901 - Henri-Pierre Sauguet, Bordeaux France, composer (La Chotte)
1901 - Vincent du Vigneaud, US biochemist
1902 - [Robert] Meredith Willson, Mason City Iowa, composer (Music Man)
1903 - George E Stone, Lodz Poland, actor (Viva Villa, Last Mile)
1904 - Jacob K Javits, (Sen-R-NY)
1905 - Eric Zeisl, composer
1905 - Hedley Verity, cricketer (terrific slow lefty for England pre-WW II)
1907 - Clifford Curzon, London England, pianist (MacFarren Gold Medal)
1907 - Robley D Evans, nuclear physicist
1907 - Carl Mydans, American photographer (d. 2004)
1909 - Fred Perry, English tennis star/commentator (Wimbledon, 1934-36)
1910 - Arthur van Schendel, Dutch art historian
1911 - Joe Turner, KC, blues singer (Corrine Corrina, Shake Rattle & Roll)
1911 - Lord Hartwell
1911 - Sigrid Gurie, Brooklyn NY, actor (Algiers, Sofia, Refugee)
1912 - Georg von Opel, German auto manufacturer
1912 - Perry Como, [Pierino], Canonsburg Pa, singer/TV (Perry Como Show)
1912 - Richard Brooks, Phila, director (Blackboard Jungle, In Cold Blood)
1913 - Charles Trenet, French singer and songwriter (d. 2001)
1914 - Anthony Fell, British MP
1914 - Boris Christoff, Bulgaria/Italian bass (Boris Godunov)
1914 - Pierre A Balmain, France, fashion designer (1940's "New Look")
1915 - Leon Shenandoah, native American leader
1917 - Charles Wintour, journalist
1917 - James Donald, Aberdeen Scotland, actor (Bridge on River Kwai, Vikings)
1918 - John Paul II, [Karol Wojtyla], 264th Roman Catholic pope (1978- )
1918 - George Welch, American pilot and war hero (d. 1954)
1918 - Massimo Girotti, Italian actor (d. 2003)
1919 - Margot Fonteyn, Surrey England, prima ballerina (Giselle)
1920 - Lucia Mannucci, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
1921 - Anthony Epstein, FRS/pathologist
1922 - Bill Macy, Revere Mass, actor (Walter-Maude, Oh! Calcutta)
1922 - GMcC Kitson, British principal (Central School of Speech/Drama)
1922 - Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (d. 2005)
1922 - Kai Winding, Danish-born musician (d. 1983)
1923 - Liam Sullivan, Jacksonville Ill, actor (Mapoy-Monroes)
1924 - Jack Whitaker, Phila Pa, sportscaster (ABC, CBS)
1924 - Priscilla Pointer, American actress
1926 - Dirch Passer, Danish actor (d. 1980)
1927 - Richard Body, MP
1928 - G R Hall, nuclear scientist
1928 - P G Hammersley, British Rear-Admiral
1928 - Pernell Roberts, Waycross Ga, actor (Adam-Bonanza, Trapper John MD)
1929 - Johan N Block, aviation pioneer (Martinair/Transavia/Air Holland)
1929 - Lord St John of Fawsley
1929 - Roger Matton, composer
1930 - Barbara Goldsmith, New Rochelle, author (Little Gloria Happy At Last)
1930 - Don Leslie Lind, Midvale Utah, astronaut (STS 51-B)
1930 - Fred[erick Thomas] Saberhagen, US, sci-fi author (Book of Swords)
1930 - Geoffrey Littler, CEO (County NatWest Group)
1930 - Warren B Rudman, (Sen-R-NH, 1980- )
1931 - Robert Morse, Newton Mass, actor (That's Life, Jack Frost)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 100

526 - John I, Pope (523-26), dies
1160 - Erik IX Helgi, [The Saint], King of Sweden, dies
1401 - Władysław Opolczyk (German: Ladislaus von Oppel, count palatine of Hungary 1367-1372, governor of Halych-Volhynia 1372 - 1378, count palatine of Poland
1410 - Ruprecht, Roman catholics German king, dies
1450 - Sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1397)
1550 - John, Cardinal of Lorraine, French churchman (b. 1498)
1551 - Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter (d. 1486)
1584 - Ikeda Motosuke, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1559)
1587 - Felix van Cantalice, Italian saint, dies
1625 - Francisco Gomez de Sandoval y Rojas, Spanish marquis of Denia, dies
1653 - Carel Reyniersz, gov-gen (Neth East Indies), dies at 48
1675 - Jacques Marquette jesuit/missionaries (Chicago), dies at 37
1675 - Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer (b. 1623)
1692 - Elias Ashmole, antiquary, dies
1724 - Johann K Amman, Swiss/Dutch doctor for deaf-mutes, dies at 54
1733 - Georg Bohm, German organist/composer, dies at 71
1767 - Thaddaus Ferdinand Lipowsky, composer, dies at 28
1780 - Charles Hardy, British governor of Newfoundland
1781 - Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian Indian revolutionary, a descendant of the last Inca ruler, Túpac Amaru (b. 1742)
1799 - Pierre de Beaumarchais, dramatist, dies
1800 - Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (b. 1729)
1807 - John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (b. 1721)
1808 - Jacob Albright, [Albrecht], German/US preacher, dies at 49
1808 - Elijah Craig, American minister and inventor (b. 1738?)
1829 - Bernardo Bittoni, composer, dies at 72
1829 - Maria Josepha of Saxony, queen consort of Spain (b. 1803)
1832 - Bonafacio Asioli, composer, dies at 62
1839 - Carolina [Maria A] Bonaparte (countess Lipona), dies at 57
1844 - Richard McCarty, American politician (b. 1780)
1848 - William A Leidesdorf, black, dies at 38 in SF
1862 - William H Keim, US Union brig-general, dies in battle at 48
1864 - James Byron Gordon, Confederate brig-gen, dies at 41
1889 - Isabella Glyn Dallas, Scottish Shakepearean actress (b. 1823)
1900 - Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien, French philosopher (b. 1813)
1909 - George Meredith, English poet/writer (Diana of Crossways), dies at 81
1910 - Flor van Duyse, composer, dies at 66
1910 - Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish novelist (b.1841)
1911 - Gustav Mahler, Austr composer (Children's Death Songs), dies at 50
1913 - Otto Reubke, composer, dies at 70
1918 - Toivo Kuula, composer, dies at 34
1922 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1845)
1927 - Andrew Kehoe, American mass murderer (b. 1872)
1930 - Joao Marcellino Arroyo, composer, dies at 68
1936 - Alick Maclean, composer, dies at 63
1949 - James T Adams, US historian (Pulitzer 1921)
1952 - Rossetter Gleason Cole, composer, dies at 86
1953 - Tom Killick, cricketer (at the crease 2 Tests for Eng 1929), dies
1955 - Mary McLeod Bethune, educator & civil rights leader, dies at 79
1956 - Maurice Tate, cricketer (39 Tests for England, 155 wickets), dies
1961 - Henry O'Neill, actor (Lady Killer, Nothing But Trouble), dies
1963 - Ernie Davis, American football player (b. 1939)
1965 - Eduard J Dijksterhuis, mathematician (Archimedes), dies at 72
1966 - Paul Althaus, German theologist (That Christian Wahrheit), dies at 78
1967 - Andy Clyde, Hopalong Cassidy's sidekick, dies at 75
1967 - Richard Ainley, actor (I Dood It, Above Suspicion), dies at 56
1972 - Eero Aukusti Sipila, composer, dies at 53
1973 - Jeannette Rankin, 1st Congresswoman (1917-19, 41-43), dies at 92
1974 - Daniel R Topping, US owner (NY Yankees), dies at 61
1975 - Leroy Anderson, composer, dies at 66
1980 - Ian Curtis, English rock vocalist (Joy Division), commit suicide at 23
1980 - Reid Blackburn, a photojournalist for National Geographic was also a victim of Mount St. Helens eruption (b. 1952)
1980 - Harry Truman, victim of Mount St. Helens eruption (b. 1896)
1980 - David A. Johnston, a U.S. Volcanoligist was also a victim of Mount St. Helens eruption (b. 1949)
1981 - Arthur O'Connell, actor (Mr Peepers, 2nd Hundred Years), dies at 73
1981 - William Saroyan, US stagewriter (Time of your life), dies at 72
1985 - Tex Terry, actor (Apache Rose, Timberjack), dies at 82
1986 - John Bubbles Sublett, tap dancer (Black & Bubbles), dies at 84
1987 - Wilbur J Cohen, 1st employee of Social Security System, dies at 73
1988 - Daws Butler, cartoon voice (Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound), dies at 71
1990 - Jill Ireland, actress (Carry on Nurse, Family), dies of cancer at 54
1991 - Edwina Booth, actress (Trader Horn), dies of heart failure at 86
1992 - Lawrence Welk, bandleader (L Welk Show), dies of pneumonia at 89
1992 - Marshall Thompson, actor (Bog), dies of congestive heart failure at 65
1992 - Skip Stephenson, comedian (Real People), dies of heart attack at 52
1993 - Heinrich Albertz, theologist/mayor of Berlin (1966-67), dies at 78
1993 - Pamela M Cunnington, English architect/writer, dies at 67
1995 - Alexander Gudonov, Russian dancer/actor (Witness), dies at 45
1995 - Elisha Cook Jr, actor (Maltese Falcon, Shane), dies at 91
1995 - Elizabeth Montgomery, actress (Bewitched), dies of cancer at 62
1995 - Gordon Reynolds, musician, dies at 74
1995 - Robert Harris, actor (Werewolf of London), dies at 95
1996 - Dermot O'Callaghan Grubb, prison governor, dies at 76
1996 - Simon Weinstock, businessman/racehorse owner, dies at 44
1997 - Bridgette Andersen, American actress (b. 1975)
1999 - Augustus Pablo, Jamaican singer (b. 1954)
1999 - Betty Robinson, American runner (b. 1911)
2000 - Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian musician and arranger (b. 1946)
2000 - Maulana Yousuf Ludhianvi, Muslim scholar
2002 - Davey Boy Smith, English professional wrestler (b. 1962)
2003 - Anna Santisteban, Puerto Rican beauty contest organizer (b. 1914)
2003 - Barb Tarbox, Canadian anti-smoking crusader (b. 1961)
2004 - Elvin Jones, American jazz drummer (b. 1927)
2004 - Serge Turgeon, Quebec actor and union leader (b. 1946)
2006 - Andrew Martinez, U.C. Berkeley's "Naked Guy" (b. 1972)
2007 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist (b. 1932)
2007 - Yoyoy Villame, Philippine novelty singer and movie actor (b. 1932)
2008 - Joseph Pevney, American television director
2009 - Velupillai Prabhakaran,Sri Lankan founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (b. 1954)
2009 - Dolla American Rapper a.k.a. Roderick Anthony Burton II (b.1987)
2009 - Wayne Allwine, American voice actor (b.1947)