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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 179

355 - Emperor Constantine II crowns cousin Julianus keizer of Britain
1153 - Treaty of Wallingford signed
1528 - Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas.
1534 - -7] Zealand hit by heavy storm
1572 - Supernova is observed in constellation known as Cassiopeia
1632 - Battle at Lutzen: Swedish/Saxon army beats imperial armies
1657 - Brandenburg & Poland sign unity of Bromberg
1676 - King Carlos II of Spain becomes of age (at 15)
1789 - Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
1792 - Battle at Jemappes: French army beats Ausrtrians
1813 - Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain
1844 - Spain grants Dominican Rep independence
1850 - 1st Hawaiian fire engine
1850 - Yerba Buena & Angel Islands (SF Bay) reserved for military use
1860 - Abraham Lincoln (Rep-R-Ill) elected 16th pres
1861 - Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate pres
1862 - NY-SF direct telegraphic link forms
1863 - Battle of Rogersville TN
1864 - Battle of Cane Hill, AK
1864 - Battle of Droop Mountain, WV (Averell's Raid)
1865 - Maastricht-Venlo railway in Neth opens
1865 - American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on its cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels.
1869 - 1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4)
1871 - Cameroon reaches coast of Angola after trip through Africa
1878 - Henrik Ibsens "Samfundets Stotter," premieres in Oslo
1879 - Canada celebrates 1st Thanksgiving Day
1883 - NYAC organizes 1st American cross-country championship race
1884 - British protectorate proclaimed over southeast New Guinea
1884 - Montreal Foot Ball Club (QFRU) defeats Toronto Argonauts (ORFU) 30-0 in 1st CRFU Championship game
1885 - US mint at Carson City, Nevada directed to close
1888 - Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-Ind) beats Pres Grover Cleveland (D), 233 electoral votes to 168, Cleveland received slightly more votes
1897 - Peter Pan opens in NY at Empire Theater
1900 - Battle at Bothaville: gen-mjr Charles Knox beats Boers
1900 - Pres William McKinley (R) re-elected, beating William Jennings Bryan
1903 - USA recognizea independence of Panama
1906 - Charles Evans Hughes (R) elected NY gov beats William Randolph Hearst
1908 - Leonid Andreyevs "Dui Nashey Zhizni," premieres in St Petersburg
1910 - SDAP/NVV initiate campaign for general males/female suffrage
1911 - Francisco Madeiro inaugurated president of Mexico
1913 - Mohandas K Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in S Afr
1915 - 1st military flight in Neth East Indies (Tandjong Priok)
1915 - Sophokles Skouloudis forms Greek govt
1917 - Bolshevik revolution begins with capture of Winter Palace
1917 - NY allows women to vote
1918 - Republic of Poland proclaimed
1918 - Supreme commander of the army Gen Cutters resigns
1919 - 1st Dutch radio program: Soirée Musicale with "Turf in you(r) ransel"
1922 - King George V proclaims Irish Free state
1923 - USSR adopts experimental calendar, with 5-day "weeks"
1924 - Stanley Baldwin becomes PM of England
1925 - Secret agent Sidney Reilly is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
1928 - Clevelanders vote to build a stadium with city bonds
1928 - Herbert Hoover (R) beats Alfred E Smith (D) for pres
1928 - Colonel Jacob Schick patents 1st electric razor
1928 - Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the king.
1932 - German election - KPD defeats NSDAP
1934 - NFL Phila Eagles beat Cincinnati Reds 64-0
1935 - 1st test flight of British Hurricane aircraft
1935 - Engl prince Henry (under George V) weds Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott
1935 - Maiden flight by Canada's Hawker Hurricane military plane
1936 - RCA displays TV for press
1936 - Terence Rattigans "French Without Tears," premieres in London
1938 - 3 DiMaggio brothers play together for 1st time, charity all star game
1939 - WGY-TV (Schenectady, NY), 1st coml TV station, begins service
1939 - WRGB TV channel 6 in Schenectady-Alby-Troy, NY (CBS) 1st broadcast
1939 - World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau
1940 - Franklin D Roosevelt re-elected president
1941 - Einsatz group kills 15,000 Jews of Rovno Ukraine
1941 - Japanese fleet readies assault on Pearl Harbor
1941 - USA lends Soviet Union $1 million
1942 - Nazis execute 12,000 Minsk ghetto Jews
1942 - Sukarno & Mohammed Hatta finds Ampat Serangkai
1943 - Russian troops land on Kertsj peninsula
1943 - Soviet forces reconquer Kiev
1943 - Stalin says: "The issue of German fascism is lost"
1945 - HUAC begins investigation of 7 radio commentators
1949 - Greeks civil war ends
1950 - Branch Rickey signs 5-yr contract as VP/GM of Pitts Pirates
1950 - Chinese offensive halts at Chongchon River, North Korea
1950 - King Tribhuvana of Nepal flees to India
1952 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch's cantata "About our Fatherland," premieres
1953 - French National Meeting grants Saarland more autonomy
1953 - Jimmy Dykes succeeds Marty Marion as manager of Balt Orioles
1953 - Masao Oki's symphony "Atomic Bomb," premieres
1955 - 11th Ryder Cup: US, 8-4 at Thunderbird Ranch & CC Calif
1955 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1956 - Holland & Spain withdraw from Olympics, protest Soviets in Hungary
1956 - Pres Eisenhower (R) re-elected defeating Adlai E Stevenson (D)
1957 - "Rumple" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 45 performances
1957 - Felix Gaillard becomes premier of France
1958 - AL announces that KC will play AL record 52 night games in 1959
1958 - Belgium govt of Eyskens & Lilar forms
1958 - Wilber Snyder beats V Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ
1961 - US govt issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith
1962 - BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote
1962 - Edward M Kennedy 1st elected (Sen-D-Mass)
1962 - Edward W Brooke (R) elected attorney general of Massachusetts
1962 - Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more
1962 - Saudi Arabia proclaims abolishing slavery
1962 - UN General Assembly adopts resolution condemning South Africa

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 197

1391 - Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (d. 1425)
1479 - Johanna, the Insane, Queen of Castile (1504-20)
1494 - Sulayman I, the Great, sultan of Turkey (1520-66)
1494 - Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566)
1550 - Karin Månsdotter, Queen of Sweden (d. 1612)
1558 - Thomas Kyd, English dramatist (Spanish Tragedy)
1566 - Julien Perrichon, composer
1607 - Sigmund Theophil Staden, composer
1613 - Luis de Garay, composer
1659 - Theodor Schwartzkopff, composer
1661 - Charles II, last Habsburg king of Spain (1665-1700)
1671 - Colley Cibber, England, dramatist/poet laureate (Love's Last Shift)
1692 - Louis Racine, French poet (d. 1763)
1746 - Absalom Jones, Delaware, born into slavery
1753 - Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Breval, composer
1753 - Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian sculptor (d. 1802)
1757 - Louis-Abet Deffroy de Reigny, composer
1771 - Alois Senefelder, inventor (lithography)
1779 - Michal Bogdanowicz, composer
1796 - George Back, English sea officer/explorer (North Canada)
1800 - Eduard Grell, composer
1814 - Adolphe Sax, Belgium, musician/inventor (saxophone)
1818 - Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author (V Lesach) [OS=Oct 25]
1822 - Gordon Granger, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1876
1832 - Joseph Smith, son of founder of Mormonism
1833 - Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (d. 1908)
1836 - Francis Ellingwood Abbot, Boston, theologian (Scientific Theism)
1838 - John Grant Mitchell, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1841 - Nelson W. Aldrich, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island (d. 1915)
1841 - Armand Fallières, French president (d. 1931)
1851 - Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (co-founded Dow Jones/1st editor of Wall St Journal) (d.1902)
1854 - John Phillip Sousa, Wash DC, march king (Stars & Stripes Forever)
1855 - Eduard Yosif Kotek, composer
1855 - Ezra Seymour Gosney, American philanthropist and eugenicist (d. 1942)
1856 - Nicholas Nikolajevitsj, ruler of Russia
1861 - James A Naismith, inventor (basketball)
1867 - Marie Bregendahl, Danish author (Holger Hauge og hans Hustru)
1875 - Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron/diplomat/senator
1878 - Ernest Irving, composer
1879 - Eugen Varga, Hungarian/Russian economist/politician
1880 - Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (d. 1942)
1880 - Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-American writer and novelist (d. 1959)
1883 - Hubert Bath, composer
1884 - Ludomir Rozycki, Polish composer/conductor (Meduza, Eros i Psyche)
1885 - Emiel Poetou, Flemish sculptor
1887 - Walter Johnson, Kansas, Wash Senator pitcher (1907-27) (414-218)
1892 - John Alcock, English pilot (1st non-stop flight across Atlantic Ocean)
1892 - John Sigvard "Ole" Olsen, Wabash Ind, comedian (Olsen & Johnson)
1892 - Harold Ross, American editor (d. 1951)
1893 - August Defresne, Dutch playwright/director (Uninhabited Island)
1896 - Jim Jordan, Peoria IL, radio comedian (Fibber McGee)
1901 - Juanita Hall, Keyport NJ, actress (Capt Billy)
1903 - June Marlowe, American actress (d. 1984)
1904 - Selena Royale, NYC, actress (Date With Judy, Misleading Lady)
1906 - Francis Lederer, Prague Czech, actor (Diary of a Chambermaid)
1906 - James D. Norris, sportsman and businessman (Chicago Black Hawks) (d. 1966)
1908 - Fanny Leys, Flemish author (Ontwijding)
1909 - Heinz Rottger, composer
1909 - Henk Bijvanck, composer
1910 - Arthur Cohn, composer
1914 - Jonathan Harris, actor (Dr Zachary Smith-Lost in Space)
1916 - Ray Conniff, Attleboro Mass, chorus director (Ray Conniff Singers)
1918 - Ronnie Brody, England, actor (Superman 3, What's Up Nurse, Ritz)
1919 - Alan Lisette, cricketer (NZ slow left-armer vs West Indies 1956)
1920 - John Smith, CEO (Liverpool FC)
1921 - Geoff Rabone, cricketer (gifted all-rounder for NZ in 1950's)
1921 - James Jones, Robinson Ill, novelist (From Here to Eternity)
1922 - Lars Edlund, composer
1923 - Aleksandra Chudina, USSR, track jumper (Olympic-2 silver-1952)
1923 - Clay Jones, gardener
1923 - Renato Capecchi, Italian violinist/baritone
1924 - Jeanette Schmid, Austrian professional whistler, AKA Baroness Lips von Lipstrill (d. 2005)
1925 - Dirk de Vroome, [Red Giant], SS'er
1926 - Brian Abel-Smith, professor of Social Adminstration
1928 - Peter Matz, Pitts Pa, orch leader (Hullabaloo, Carol Burnette Show)
1930 - Raymond Baervoets, Belgian composer (Metamorphoses)
1931 - Mike Nichols, [Peschowsky], director (Catch 22, Biloxi Blues)
1931 - Tsvetan Tsvetanov, composer
1931 - Peter Collins, English race car driver (d. 1958)
1932 - Stonewall Jackson, rocker
1933 - Joseph Pope, US singer (Hey Girl Don't Bother Me)
1933 - Knut Johannesen, Norway, 5K/10K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1964)
1936 - David Ward-Steinman, composer
1936 - K Schippers, [Gerard Stigter], Dutch author
1936 - Mikhail Vladimirovich Sologub, Russian cosmonaut
1937 - Bas de Gaay Fortman, Dutch MP (PPR)
1937 - Edwin Roxburgh, composer
1937 - Joe Warfield, American actor
1938 - P J Proby, [James Marcus Smith], Houston Texas, American rocker
1938 - Mack Jones, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1938 - Jim Pike, American singer (The Lettermen)
1938 - Dumitru Rusu, Romanian painter
1939 - Leonardo Quisumbing, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
1940 - Ruth Messinger, Manhattan Borough President and President of the American Jewish World Service
1940 - Dieter F. Uchtdorf, LDS apostle
1941 - Doug Sahm, San Antonio Texas, country singer (Texas Tornadoes-Dinero)
1941 - Guy Clark, Rockport Tx, country singer (Heartbroke)
1941 - James Bowman, English contratenor
1943 - Michael Schwerner, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964
1944 - Bill Henderson, Vancouver BC, rock vocalist/guitarist (Chilliwack)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 110

1231 - Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1196)
1406 - Innocent VII, [Cosma de' Migliorati], Italian Pope (1404-06), dies
1492 - Antoine Busnois, French composer
1550 - Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1487)
1632 - Gustavus II Adolphus, king of Sweden, dies in battle at 37
1650 - Willem II, earl of Nassau/prince of Orange, dies at 24
1656 - Johan IV, duke of Braganca/king of Portugal (1640-56), dies at 52
1656 - Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist (b. 1583)
1669 - Laurentius Erhard, composer, dies at 71
1692 - Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (b. 1619)
1712 - Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer, dies at 58
1730 - Hans Hermann von Katte, Prussian lieutenant, beheaded
1752 - Ralph Erskine, Scottish minister (b. 1685)
1771 - Hermanus Noordkerk, Dutch jurist, dies at 69
1771 - John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (b. 1695)
1790 - James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (b. 1726)
1795 - Jiri Antonin Benda, composer, dies at 73
1796 - Catherine II of Russia (b. 1729)
1801 - Christian Friedrich Gregor, composer, dies at 78
1816 - Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (b. 1752)
1822 - Hendrik van Stralen, Secretary of Interior, dies at 71
1822 - Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (b. 1748)
1835 - Ignaz Schuster, composer, dies at 56
1836 - Charles X, King of France (1824-30), dies at 79
1839 - Hayim Rapoport, Rabbi of Ostrowiec/author (Maxim Chayyim), dies
1846 - Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and activist (b. 1800)
1846 - Alexander Chavchavadze, Georgian poet and general
1862 - Charles Davis Jameson, US Union brig-gen (Fair Oaks), dies at 35
1865 - Atale Therese Annette Wartel, composer, dies at 51
1875 - John Baptist van Son, Dutch Catholic politician, dies at 71
1876 - Giacomo Antonelli, secretary of state of Pius IX, dies at 70
1893 - Piotr Ilyich Tchaikofsky, Rus composer (Nutcracker), dies at 53
1897 - Edouard Deldevez, composer, dies at 80
1900 - PWJ Le Gallais, British lt-colonel, dies in battle at Bothaville
1901 - Bohdan Borkowski, composer, dies at 48
1901 - Kate Greenaway, English children book illustrater, dies at 55
1912 - Mykola Vytal'yevich Lysenko, composer, dies at 70
1914 - Allessandro d'Ancona, Italian philologist (Dante), dies at 79
1922 - William Baines, composer, dies at 23
1925 - Khải Định, Emperor of Vietnam
1929 - Max von Bathe, German prince/Chancellor (1910-11, 18), dies at 62
1936 - Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive (b. 1864)
1939 - Adolphe Max, Belgian liberal MP, dies at 69
1941 - Maurice Leblanc, French novelist (b. 1864)
1944 - Hannah Senesh, Jewish poetess, executed by Nazis in Budapest
1944 - Lord Moyne, British prefect (Middle-East), murdered
1944 - Segundo "Boy" Ecury, Aruba, WW II resistance fighter, executed at 22
1946 - Zygmunt Denis Antoni Stojowski, composer, dies at 76
1947 - Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Paradisets Have), dies at 66
1953 - John Parsons Beach, composer, dies at 76
1955 - Charley Toorop, [Annie CP Fernhout-Toorop], Dutch painter, dies at 64
1955 - Cornelis GN de Vooys, translator, dies at 82
1958 - Francis George Scott, composer, dies at 78
1960 - Erich Raeder, German grand admiral (b. 1876)
1963 - Djuanda Kartawidjaja, premier (Indonesia), dies at 52
1964 - Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
1964 - Hugo Koblet, Swiss cyclist (b. 1925)
1965 - Clarence Williams, composer, dies at 67
1965 - Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varese, composer, dies at 81
1968 - Guillaume Landre, composer, dies at 63
1968 - Charles Munch, French conductor and violinist (b. 1891)
1968 - Charles B. McVay III, Ex-U.S. Navy Captain (b. 1898)
1969 - Augustin Lara, composer, dies at 69
1970 - Agustín Lara, Mexican composer and poet (b. 1900)
1972 - Billy Murcia, rocker (New York Dolls), chokes to death at 21
1972 - Tod Andrews, actor (Gray Ghost, Counterthrust), dies at 52
1978 - Flora Campbell, actress (Faraway Hill, Date With Judy), dies at 67
1978 - Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (b. 1899)
1980 - Mary Michael, actress (Biridie-Wonderful John Acton), dies at 77
1983 - Robert Gross, composer, dies at 69
1984 - Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist and dramatist (b. 1929)
1985 - Joel Crothers, actor (Edge of Night), dies of a heart attack at 44
1986 - Elisabeth Grümmer, Alsatian soprano (b. 1911)
1987 - Ross R Barnett, lawyer/(Gov-D-Miss), dies at 89
1987 - William C Pahlmann, interior decorator (4 Seasons NYC), dies at 80
1987 - Zohar Argov, Israeli singer (b. 1955)
1989 - Yusaku Matsuda, Japanese actor (b. 1949)
1989 - Dickie Goodman, creator of "break-in" records (b. 1934)
1990 - Will Kuluva, actor (To Trap a Spy, Go Naked in World), dies at 73
1991 - Andre Vandernoot, Flemish fluitist/conductor, dies at 64
1991 - Gene Tierney, actress (Laura, Whirlpool), dies of emphysema at 70
1995 - Norman Waterhouse Lees, jazz fan, dies at 90
1995 - Philip Rawson, artist/teacher, dies at 71
1995 - Stanley Oliphant Stewart, librarian, dies at 82
1995 - Aneta Corsaut, American actress (b. 1933)
1996 - Mario Savio, activist, dies of heart attack at 53
1996 - Patience Edney, nurse/communist, dies at 85
1996 - Tommy Lawton, footballer, dies at 80
1997 - Phillipo Seed, social work academic, dies at 67
1998 - Marcel Gauthier, Canadian wrestler (b. 1928)
2000 - David R. Brower, American environmentalist (b. 1912)
2000 - L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (b. 1907)
2001 - Anthony Shaffer, English dramatist (b. 1926)
2002 - Sid Sackson, American board game designer (b. 1920)
2003 - Crash Holly, American professional wrestler (b. 1971)
2003 - Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (b. 1919)
2003 - Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (b. 1962)
2004 - Fred Dibnah, English television personality (b. 1938)
2004 - Johnny Warren, Australian soccer player (b. 1943)
2005 - Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (b. 1967)