Today in People History (Part 2)
Sub-Topics: Beauty Queens - Criminal
Historical Events
Results 101 - 200 of 598
1922-11-16 - Pope Pius XI calls on Belgian people to unite
1923-01-17 - Belgian Working people Party protest against occupied Ruhrgebied
1924-02-03 - Alexei Ryko elected as Pres of People's commission (succeeds Lenin)
1924-07-20 - Teheran, Persia comes under martial law after the American vice consul, Robert Imbrie, is killed by a religious mob enraged by rumors he had poisoned a fountain and killed several people.
1924-11-26 - Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed
1925-01-16 - Gen M Froense replaces Trotsky as People's Commissioner of Defense
1926-05-25 - Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of Ukrainian People's Republic.
1928-03-12 - In California, the St. Francis Dam fails, killing over 600 people.
1928-06-24 - With declining business, the Great Gorge and International Railway begins using one-person crews on trolley operations in Canada.
1929-01-06 - Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin a her work amongst India's poorest and diseased people.
1929-04-18 - Palace for People's industry in Amsterdam devastated by fire
1929-05-19 - Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium crushes 2 people to death
1929-10-18 - Women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.
1930-03-04 - Terrible floods ransack Languedoc and the surrounds in south-west France, resulting in twelve departments being submerged by water and causing the death of over 700 people.
1930-06-13 - 22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista Greece
1931-05-14 - Ådalen shootings: five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
1931-07-24 - A fire at a home for the elderly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people.
1931-10-14 - 1st broadcast of Dutch Radio Peoples University
1931-11-07 - Chinese People's Republic proclaimed by Mao Tse Tung
1933-01-07 - 1st edition of People & Fatherland published in Netherlands
1933-12-25 - Belgian Working people's party accept Henry de Mans Plan of Labor
1934-05-02 - Nazi-Germany begins People's court
1934-07-27 - French socialist/communist party of People's Front forms
1935-10-20 - Anti-fascist People front forms in Brussels
1936-01-23 - Catholic People's Party (KVP) of Curacao forms
1936-02-16 - Spanish Frente Popular (People's Front) wins elections
1936-05-03 - French People's Front wins elections
1936-07-14 - 1 million demonstrate to support French People's Front govt
1937-06-04 - Leon Blum becomes premier of People's front govt of France
1937-06-21 - French People's front govt-Blum falls
1937-11-05 - World War II: Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people.
1938-07-31 - NY Yanks suspend Jake Powell, after he said on Chicago radio he'd "hit every colored person in Chicago over head with a club"
1938-09-21 - The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500-700 people.
1938-10-25 - The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces Swing music as "a degenerated musical system... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people", warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell".
1939-01-13 - The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometres of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.
1941-07-10 - Jedwabne Pogrom is a massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
1941-10-13 - Nazi's kill 11,000 Jewish children/old people
1942-03-01 - Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save Jews
1942-04-15 - George VI awards George Cross to people of Malta
1942-06-12 - Hitler orders enslavement of Slavic peoples
1942-12-10 - Hitler names Mussert "leader of Netherland people"
1942-12-12 - A fire in a hostel in St. John's, Newfoundland kills 100 people.
1943-01-03 - 1st missing persons telecast (NYC)
1943-02-10 - "Manifesto of Algerian People" calls for equality & self-determination
1943-07-25 - 1st warship named for a Black person, SS Leonard Roy Harmon, launched
1944-02-23 - Forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people to Central Asia.
1944-07-12 - Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, with 4,000 people gased
1944-08-12 - Waffen SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
1944-10-02 - Nazis crush Warsaw Uprising killing 250,000 people
1944-10-11 - Tuvinian People's Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva was annexed by the U.S.S.R
1944-11-21 - Personnel & executive staff of Philips demonstrate for more food
1944-12-31 - 48 people die in a train accident in Ogden, Utah
1945-03-10 - The Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
1945-06-06 - "Free People" premieres in Amsterdam
1945-12-22 - Utrecht: Catholic People's party (KVP) established
1946-01-11 - Enver Hoxha declares People's Rep of Albania with himself dictator
1947-07-03 - 252,288 people (record) pass through Grand Central Station, NYC
1947-10-14 - Chuck Yeager in Bell XS-1 makes 1st supersonic flight (Mach 1.015)
1948-01-24 - Dutch Liberal Party forms-People's party for Freedom & Democracy (VVD)
1948-05-01 - North Korean proclaims itself People's Democratic Republic of Korea
1948-05-30 - A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
1948-06-25 - Truman signs Displaced Persons Bill (205,000 Europeans to US)
1948-09-01 - Communist form North China People's Republic
1948-09-09 - People's Democratic Republic of Korea proclaimed
1949-08-20 - Hungary (Magyar People's Republic) accepts constitution
1949-09-21 - Chinese Communist leaders proclaims People's Republic of China
1949-10-01 - People's Rep of China proclaimed by Mao Tse-tung (National Day)
1949-10-02 - USSR recognizes People's Republic of China
1949-12-17 - Burma recognizes People's Republic of China
1949-12-30 - India recognizes People's Republic of China
1950-03-27 - Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China
1950-05-01 - New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic China
1950-09-19 - UN reject membership of China's People Republic
1951-02-01 - UN condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea
1951-04-15 - Michael Gorsira is 1st person in charge of Curacao
1952-10-08 - Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.
1952-12-06 - Czech govt tells Israeli ambassador, he's persona non grata
1952-12-15 - Christine Jorgenson is 1st person to undergo a sex-change operation
1954-08-04 - Boscombe Down 1st flight of supersonic P-1 Lightning
1954-09-03 - The People's Liberation Army begin shelling the ROC-controlled islands of Quemoy.
1954-09-20 - 1st National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution
1955-02-26 - 1st aviator to bail out at supersonic speed-GF Smith
1956-01-01 - A new year event causes panic and stampedes at Yahiko Shrine, Yahiko, central Niigata, Japan, killing at least 124 people.
1956-01-18 - German DR forms own army (National People's Army)
1956-04-08 - M Bandaranaike's People's front wins election in Ceylon
1956-05-16 - Egypt recognizes People's Republic of China
1957-01-31 - Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
1957-02-17 - A fire at a home for the elderly in Warrenton, Missouri kills 72 people.
1957-02-27 - Mao's speech "On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People"
1957-05-15 - 18,000 people at Madison Sq Garden-Billy Graham launched a crusade
1957-12-05 - Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia.
1958-06-09 - "Purple People Eater" by Sheb Wooley hits #1
1958-07-24 - 14 people named 1st life peers in UK
1958-08-23 - Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
1959-02-20 - The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
1959-04-27 - The last Canadian missionary leaves the People's Republic of China.
1959-06-23 - A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim, Norway kills 34 people.
1960-08-24 - 60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil
1961-04-12 - Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes 1st person to orbit Earth (Vostok 1)
1961-06-13 - "Billy Barnes People" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 8 performances
Famous Birthdays
Results 101 - 164 of 164
1948-10-08 - Sarah Purcell, Richmond Ind, actress/TV hostess (Real People)
1950-04-20 - Itumeleng J Mosala, S Afr president (Azanian People's Org)
1950-07-18 - Glenn Hughes, American singer (Village People) (d. 2001)
1950-12-27 - Terry Bozzio, rock drummer (Missing Persons-Hello I Love You)
1951-07-21 - Slick Watts, NBA (Seattle SuperSonic)
1952-04-01 - Annette O'Toole, Houston Texas, actress (Cat People, Superman III)
1952-05-05 - Campbell McComas, Australian impersonator and broadcaster (d. 2005)
1952-06-15 - Lorna Young, salesperson
1952-09-13 - Randy Jones, American musician (The Village People)
1954-07-13 - David Thompson, NBA guard (Phoenix Suns, Seattle Supersonics)
1954-09-06 - Patrick O'Hearn, rock bassist (Missing Persons)
1955-03-02 - Dale Bozzio, Boston, vocalist (Missing Persons-Destination Unknown)
1955-04-06 - Keith Hunter Jesperson, Canadian-born serial killer
1955-09-17 - Rita Rudner, comedienne (Funny People)
1955-10-19 - Lonnie Shelton, NBA forward (NY Knick, Seattle Supersonics)
1955-11-14 - Jack Sikma, NBA center (Seattle Supersonics, Milwaukee Bucks)
1956-04-01 - Peter O'Toole, Irish pop bassist (Hothouse Flowers-People)
1956-04-12 - Alexander Briley, vocalist (YMCA-Village People)
1956-12-08 - Warren Cuccurullo, rock guitarist (Missing Persons)
1958-01-14 - Colin Ferguson, murderer (6 people on the LIRR on Dec 7, 1993)
1959-06-21 - Tom Chambers, NBA forward, center (Seattle SuperSonics, Phoenix Suns)
1959-08-14 - Frank Brickowski, NBA forward/center (Seattle Supersonics)
1959-12-12 - Belouis Some, rocker (Neville Keighley-Some People)
1960-01-09 - David Peoples, Augusta ME, Nike golfer (1991 Buick Southern Open)
1960-01-24 - Nastassja Kinski, Berlin Germany, actress (Tess, Cat People)
1960-08-06 - Dale Ellis, NBA guard/forward (Seattle Supersonics, Denver Nuggets)
1960-08-16 - Timothy Hutton, Malibu Calif, actor (Turk 182, Ordinary People)
1960-10-06 - Richard Jobson, British TV person/rocker (Skids-Scared to Dance)
1961-04-22 - Byron Allen, LA Calif, comedian (Real People, Byron Allen Show)
1961-05-01 - Marilyn Milian, current judge on The People's Court
1961-06-14 - Sam Perkins, NBA forward/center (Seattle Supersonics)
1962-05-25 - Zulqarnain, cricketer (last person in alphabetical order to play Test)
1962-06-26 - Jerome Kersey, NBA forward (Golden State Warriors, Sea Supersonics)
1963-01-21 - Detlef Schrempf, Germany, NBA forward (Mavericks, Pacers, Supersonics)
1963-06-04 - Xavier McDaniel, NBA forward (Seattle SuperSonics)
1963-12-15 - David Wingate, NBA guard/forward (Seattle Supersonics)
1963-12-15 - Helen Slater, NYC, actress (Supergirl, Billie Jean, Ruthless People)
1964-06-27 - Chuck Person, NBA forward (San Antonio Spurs)
1964-07-09 - Courtney Love, SF, vocalist (Hole)/actress (People vs Larry Flynt)
1964-08-03 - Nate McMillan, NBA guard/forward (Seattle Supersonics)
1965-09-09 - Brenda Epperson, actress (Ashley Abbott-Young & Restless)
1965-11-16 - Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Turin Italy, actress (Normal People)
1966-02-28 - Vincent Askew, NBA guard/forward (Seattle Supersonics, Trailblazers)
1966-09-29 - Hersey Hawkins, NBA guard (Seattle Supersonics, Olympic-bronze-1988)
1967-11-15 - Greg Anthony, NBA guard (Vancouver Grizzlies, Seattle Supersonics)
1967-12-21 - Ervin Johnson, NBA center (Seattle Supersonics, Milwaukee Bucks)
1968-07-23 - Gary Payton, NBA guard (Seattle Supersonics)
1969-10-06 - Robert Person, St Louis MO, pitcher (NY Mets)
1969-11-26 - Shawn Kemp, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers, Seattle Supersonics)
1970-07-15 - Stephen Howard, NBA forward (Seattle Supersonics)
1971-01-02 - Aaron Williams, NBA center (Seattle Supersonics)
1971-03-28 - Wesley Person, NBA guard (Phoenix Suns, Cleveland Cavaliers)
1971-04-22 - Daisuke Enomoto, Japanese people space tourist
1971-11-23 - Vin Baker, NBA forward (Seattle Supersonics, Milwaukee Bucks)
1972-04-15 - Peter Billingsley, NYC, actor (Real People)
1972-07-30 - Jim McIlvaine, NBA center (Washington Bullets, Seattle Supersonics)
1972-08-26 - Sherell Ford, NBA forward (Seattle Supersonics)
1972-08-30 - Shonte Peoples, CFL linebacker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1972-11-27 - Yureck Person, soccer player (NAC)
1973-04-24 - Eric Snow, NBA guard (Phila 76ers, Seattle Supersonics)
1973-11-19 - Takashi Matsumoto, Japanese photographer and business person
1975-12-14 - James Cotton, NBA guard (Seattle Supersonics)
1977-12-01 - Jared Fogle, American Subway spokesperson
1987-07-11 - Matej Gaspar, Yugoslavia, 5,000,000,000th person (UN)
Famous Deaths
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