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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 150

Jan 1st - Denmark adopts Mid-European time
Jan 1st - Manchester Ship Canal in England opens to traffic
Jan 4th - France ratifies Duple Alliance with Russia
Jan 7th - Motion picture experiment of comedian Fred Ott filmed sneezing
Jan 8th - Columbus World's fair in Chicago destroyed by fire
Jan 9th - "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters
Jan 9th - Georges Feydeau's "Un à la Patte," premieres in Paris
Jan 9th - New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
Jan 13th - Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops
Jan 21st - Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 500m in 47.8 sec
Jan 23rd - G W Bunbury of Dublin sets shorthand record of 250 wpm for 10 min
Jan 25th - James J Corbett KOs Charley Mitchell in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
Jan 27th - 1st college basketball game, U of Chicago beats Chicago YMCA 19-11
Jan 27th - Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park
Jan 30th - Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit
Jan 30th - US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Adm Benham
Feb 2nd - US warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef, near Solomon Island
Feb 3rd - 1st US steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched, Bath, Me
Feb 5th - Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms
Feb 7th - The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
Feb 8th - Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks
Feb 12th - Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into Paris's Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20.
Feb 14th - Venus is both a morning star & evening star
Feb 16th - British troops occupy Ilorin, Gold Coast
Feb 23rd - Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA's awarded cup by trustees as Ottawa refuses to travel to Toronto to play
Feb 24th - Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras (National Day, sort of)
Mar 3rd - 1st Greek-language publication in US begins, "NY Atlantis"
Mar 3rd - 4th & last British government of Gladstone resigns
Mar 4th - Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed
Mar 5th - Seattle authorizes 1st municipal employment office in US
Mar 5th - Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes First Lord of the Treasury.
Mar 8th - NY passes 1st state dog license law
Mar 8th - The state of New York enacts the nation's first dog-licensing law.
Mar 12th - Pittsburgh issues free season tickets for ladies on Tuesday & Friday
Mar 12th - In Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA, Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
Mar 13th - J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate
Mar 16th - Jules Massenet's opera "Thaïs," premieres in Paris
Mar 17th - US & China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering US
Mar 22nd - Stanley Cup: Mont AAA beat Ottawa Generals, 3-1 (1st Cup game ever)
Mar 22nd - The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
Mar 24th - 37 miners killed at Franklin, WA
Mar 25th - Coxey's Army of the unemployed sets out from Massillon Oh for Wash
Apr 5th - 11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville, Penn
Apr 5th - Start of Sherlock Holmes' "Adventure of Empty House" (BG)
Apr 9th - 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 5th Symphony in B in Graz
Apr 12th - British & Belgian secret accord on dividing Central-Africa
Apr 14th - 1st public showing of Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures)
Apr 14th - Thomas Edison presents "peep show" device
Apr 19th - Jules Massenet's opera "Werther," premieres in NYC
Apr 20th - 136,000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase
Apr 21st - George Bernard Shaw's "Arms & the Man," premieres in London
Apr 24th - French cyclist Henri Desgrange rides 100km in world record 2:39:18
Apr 24th - Phillies Lave Cross hits for cycle vs Bkln Dodgers
Apr 29th - Commonweal of Christ (Coxey's Army) arrives in Wash, DC 500 strong to protest unemployment; Coxey arrested for trespassing at Capitol
May 11th - American RR Union strikes Pullman Sleeping Car Co
May 12th - Ludwig Englander's musical "Passing Show," premieres in NYC
May 14th - Fire in Boston bleachers spreads to 170 adjoining buildings
May 15th - 20th Kentucky Derby: Frank Goodale aboard Chant wins in 2:41
May 16th - Fire in Boston destroys baseball stadium & 170 other buildings
May 17th - 19th Preakness: Fred Taral aboard Assignee wins in 1:49.25
May 21st - 22-year-old French Anarchist Émile Henry is executed by guillotine.
May 23rd - William Love hosts ground breaking ceremonies for Love Canal
May 26th - Emanuel Lasker (26) becomes World Champion chess player
May 26th - Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia.
May 28th - Belgium Princess Josephine marries Prince Karl von Hohenzollern
May 30th - Bobby Lowe is 1st to hit 4 HRs in 1 baseball game
Jun 15th - Phillies beat Cincinnati Reds, 21-8
Jun 17th - 1st US poliomyelitis epidemic breaks out, Rutland, Vermont
Jun 18th - Premier Roseberry declares Uganda a British protectorate
Jun 19th - 28th Belmont: Willie Simms aboard Henry of Navarre wins in 1:56.5
Jun 21st - Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company
Jun 22nd - Harry Houdini marries Bessie Rahner
Jun 23rd - The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
Jun 24th - Decision to hold modern Olympics every 4 years
Jun 24th - Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
Jun 25th - American Railway Union under Eugene V Debs goes on strike
Jun 26th - Karl Benz of Germany receives US patent for gasoline-driven auto
Jun 28th - Labor Day established as a federal employees holiday
Jun 30th - Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid
Jun 30th - London Tower Bridge opens
Jul 2nd - Government obtains injunction against striking Pullman Workers
Jul 4th - Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of 1st US autos at 6 MPH
Jul 4th - Republic of Hawaii proclaimed, Sanford B Dole as president
Jul 6th - Cleveland sends 2,000 troops to Chicago to suppress Pullman strike
Jul 16th - Many negro miners in Alabama killed by striking white miners
Jul 16th - Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley signed between Japan & England
Jul 20th - 2000 fed troops recalled from Chicago, having ended Pullman strike
Aug 2nd - Death duties 1st introduced in Britain
Aug 2nd - Dutch Society for Women Suffrage gets royal charter
Aug 16th - Indian chiefs from the Sioux & Onondaga tribes met to urge their people to renounce Christianity & return to their old Indian faith
Aug 17th - Phils get 36 hits, Sam Thompson hits for cycle beating Louisville 29-4
Aug 18th - Congress creates Bureau of Immigration
Aug 25th - -26] Balinese troops assault Dutch army, 97 killed
Aug 25th - Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
Aug 26th - Social-Democratic Worker's party (SDAP) forms
Aug 27th - Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court
Aug 30th - Frederick Lugards expedition to Niger
Aug 31st - Phillies Billy Hamilton steals 7 bases
Sep 2nd - -3] Amsterdam Municipal theater opens
Sep 2nd - Forest fires destroy Hinckley Minnesota: about 600 die

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 255

Jan 1st - Shitsu Nakano, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2007)
Jan 1st - Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian mathematician (d. 1974)
Jan 2nd - Robert Nathan, NYC, poet, novelist (Portrait of Jennie)
Jan 3rd - ZaSu Pitts, American actress (d. 1963)
Jan 4th - Wesley La Violette, composer
Jan 4th - Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician (d. 1962)
Jan 7th - Jose Rozo Contreras, composer
Jan 8th - St Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr (d. 1941)
Jan 9th - Henryk Stazewski, Polish abstract painter/graphic artist
Jan 10th - Reginald Denham, London, Broadway director (Obsession, The Bad Seed)
Jan 11th - Jaroslav Vogel, composer
Jan 12th - Billy Gilbert, Louisville KY, actor (Paradise Alley, Safari, Rio)
Jan 15th - Edmond Rubbens, Belgian attorney/minister of colonization
Jan 16th - Guy Chamberlin, early NFL end/coach (Canton, Frankford, Cards)
Jan 16th - Irving Mills, American jazz music publisher (d. 1985)
Jan 18th - Wilhelm HC Tenhaeff, Dutch parapsychologist
Jan 20th - Harold L Gray, creator (Little Orphan Annie)
Jan 20th - Walter Hamor Piston, Rockland Maine, composer (Incredible Flutis)
Jan 22nd - Charles Morgan, England, writer (Fountain)
Jan 22nd - Matt McHugh, PA, actor (Taxi, Freaks, Barbary Coast, Innocent Affair)
Jan 23rd - Remy Angenot, Flemish actor (Patriot/Idiot)
Jan 27th - Fritz Pollard, early black NFL star (1920-26)
Jan 30th - Boris III, czar of Bulgaria (1918-43)
Jan 30th - Marcel Canneel, Flemish painter (Reuzenstoet)
Jan 31st - Percy Helton, NY, actor (Jail Busters, Harbor of Missing Men)
Jan 31st - Isham Jones, American musician (d. 1956)
Feb 1st - James P. Johnson, American composer (d. 1955)
Feb 3rd - Norman Rockwell, US, artist/illustrator (Sat Evening Post covers)
Feb 6th - Eric Partridge, New Zealand lexicographer (d. 1979)
Feb 8th - Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher
Feb 10th - Roy D'Arcy, SF, actor (Warning Shadows, Revolt of Zombies)
Feb 10th - [Maurice] Harold MacMillan, London, (C) British PM (1957-63)
Feb 11th - Alfonso Leng, composer
Feb 11th - Isaac M Kolthoff, chemist (Massenanalyse)
Feb 14th - Jack Benny, [Benjamin Kubelski], Waukegan Ill, "Oh! Rochester!"
Feb 15th - Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil, lawyer/statesman (1st pres of UN)
Feb 18th - Andres Segovia, guitarist, Linares, Spain
Feb 19th - Herb Pennock, hall of fame pitcher (Yankees, 243 career wins)
Feb 22nd - Alexander Spitzmuller-Harmersbach, composer
Feb 25th - Ernst Friedrich, Breslau Germany, pacifist (War Against War!)
Feb 25th - Howard Wendell, Poland, actor (4 Skulls of Jonathan Drake)
Feb 25th - Meher Baba, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1969)
Feb 27th - Robert-Lucien Siohan, composer
Mar 2nd - Renaat Veremans, Flemish composer/conductor
Mar 5th - Henry Daniell, London, actor (Camille, Phila Story, Body Snatchers)
Mar 9th - Frank Arnau, German writer (d. 1976)
Mar 14th - Josef Schelb, composer
Mar 14th - Osa Johnson, American explorer (d. 1953)
Mar 15th - Slava Vorlova, composer
Mar 17th - Paul Green, US, novelist/playwright (In Abraham's Bosom)
Mar 19th - Jackie "Moms" Mabley, Brevard SC, comedienne (Merv Griffin Show)
Mar 25th - Erik William Gustav Leidzen, composer
Mar 26th - Will Wright, SF CA, actor (Living Christ Story)
Mar 26th - Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano (d. 1985)
Mar 27th - William Harrigan, NYC
Mar 30th - Sergei Ilyushin, Russian airplane builder (Ilyushin)
Apr 2nd - Rudolph P Cleveringa, Dutch anti-nazi lawyer
Apr 2nd - Walter Mittelholzer, Swiss aviation pioneer (Swiss Air)
Apr 3rd - Dooley Wilson, Tyler Tx, actor (Bill-Beulah, Casablanca)
Apr 6th - Gertrude Baines, American Supercentarian
Apr 7th - Gerald Brenan, English writer
Apr 9th - Ernest Kanitz, composer
Apr 10th - Ben Nicholson, English painter/sculptor (Circle)
Apr 10th - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist (d. 1983)
Apr 12th - Francisco H Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese general/president (1951-58)
Apr 13th - Ludvig Irgens Jensen, composer
Apr 15th - Elizabeth Mae "Bessie" Smith, Empress of Blues (over 200 songs)
Apr 17th - Nikita S Khrushchev, 1st secretary USSR (1953-64)
Apr 20th - Martinus Nijhoff, poet/interpreter/linguistic (spelling)
Apr 23rd - Basil Sydney, England, actor (Hamlet, Jassy, Simba, Farmer's Wife)
Apr 23rd - George Renevant, Paris, actor (Moulin Rouge, Scotland Yard, Comrade X)
Apr 23rd - Cow Cow Davenport, American pianist (d. 1955)
Apr 26th - Rudolf Hess, Nazi official (d. 1987)
Apr 27th - Nicolas Slonimsky, composer
Apr 27th - George Petty, WWII Pin-Up Artist (d. 1975)
May 5th - Kit Guard, Denmark, actor (El Diablo Rides, Kid Courageous)
May 6th - Filip Lazar, composer
May 10th - Dimitri Tiomkin, Russia, composer (Acad Award 1954-High & Mighty)
May 11th - Anton A Mussert, Dutch nazi leader (NSB)
May 11th - Florimond Cornellie, Belgium, yachting (Olympic-gold-1920)
May 11th - Martha Graham, Allegheny Penn, choreographer (Appalachian Spring)
May 12th - Cleo Ridgely, NY, silent screen actress (I Remember Mama)
May 13th - Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, 2nd President of Iceland (d. 1972)
May 20th - Adela Rogers St John, journalist/author (Foreign Correspondent)
May 20th - Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Indian Hindu sage, Jivanmukta (d. 1994)
May 25th - Dirk Vansina, Flemish playwright (Verschaeve Gives Evidence)
May 27th - Dashiell Hammett, Maryland, author (Sam Spade, Maltese Falcon)
May 27th - Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (d. 1961)
May 28th - Sammy White, RI, actor (711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off)
May 29th - Beatrice Lillie, Toronto, comedian/actress (Around World in 80 Days)
May 29th - Josef von Sternberg, Austrian director (Der blaue Engel)
May 30th - Hubertus J van Mook, Dutch minister of Colonies (1942-45)
May 31st - Fred Allen, Cambridge Mass, comedian (Fred Allen Radio Show)
Jun 4th - Blanch Knopf, publishing CEO (Knopf)
Jun 5th - Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, English publisher (d. 1976)
Jun 6th - Sabin V Dragoi, composer
Jun 8th - Erwin Schulhoff, Czech/Russian composer/pianist (Ogelala)
Jun 10th - Pavel Borkovec, Czech composer (Stmivani, [Twilight])
Jun 11th - Dai Vernon (David Frederick Wingfield Verner), Canadian magician, The Professor (d. 1992)
Jun 13th - Isaak E Babel, Russian writer (Konarmija, Marija) [or Jul 13]

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 61 of 61

Jan 1st - Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist (b. 1857)
Jan 8th - Pierre-Joseph van Beneden, paleont (life of tapeworms), dies at 84
Jan 13th - Nadezhda von Meck, Russian patroness of Pyotr Tchaikovsky (b. 1831)
Jan 19th - Francois Haverschmidt, Dutch writer, dies at 58
Jan 21st - Guillaume Jean Joseph Nicolas Lekeu, composer, dies at 24
Feb 4th - Antoine J "Adolphe" Sax, instrument maker (saxophone), dies at 79
Feb 11th - Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera, composer, dies at 70
Feb 12th - Hans von Bülow, German pianist and composer (b. 1830)
Feb 13th - Franjo Racki, Croatian historian/politician, dies at 65
Feb 14th - Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (b. 1814)
Feb 19th - Ernesto Camillo Sivori, composer, dies at 78
Feb 21st - Gustave Caillebotte, French shipbuilding designer/painter, dies at 45
Feb 25th - James Morrison Steele Mackaye, US actor/author/director, dies at 51
Mar 3rd - Ned Williamson, American baseball player (b. 1857)
Mar 11th - John Selby, cricketer (6 Tests for England 1877-82), dies
Mar 12th - Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (b. 1840)
Mar 20th - Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian freedom fighter/president (1849), dies at 91
Mar 21st - Jacob Rosenhaim, composer, dies at 80
Mar 24th - Robert Prescott Stewart, composer, dies at 68
Mar 27th - Verney L Cameron, English explorer (Tanganyika), dies at 49
Apr 8th - Bankim C Chattopadhyaya, writer (Mrinalini, Anandamath), dies at 55
Apr 11th - Constantin Lipsius, German architect (b. 1832)
May 8th - Klara Fey, German orch leaser (Die Kleinen Betrachtungen), dies at 79
May 21st - August A Kundt, German physicist, (test of Kundt), dies at 54
May 21st - Emile Henry, French anarchist (b. 1872)
May 24th - William Joseph Westbrook, composer, dies at 63
Jun 3rd - Karl Eduard Zachariae, German expert on Byzantine Law (b. 1812)
Jun 5th - Immanuel Faisst, composer, dies at 70
Jun 22nd - Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Canadian archbishop (b. 1823)
Jun 24th - M F Sadi Carnot, president of France (1887-94), murdered at about 56
Jul 1st - Julius PJA van Nyevelt, Dutch min of Foreign affairs, dies at 77
Jul 1st - Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (b. 1819)
Jul 5th - Betty Paoli, writer, dies
Jul 8th - Vladimir Nikitich Kashperov, composer, dies
Jul 13th - Juventino Rosas, composer, dies at 26
Jul 17th - Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (b. 1810)
Jul 18th - Leconte de Lisle, writer, dies at 75
Aug 3rd - George Inness, US landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap), dies at 69
Aug 16th - Herman van der Tuuk, Dutch linguist (Toba Batak grammar), dies at 70
Aug 18th - William Charles Levey, composer, dies at 57
Aug 26th - PPH van Ham, general-major, dies in battle on Lombok
Sep 8th - Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician (b. 1821)
Sep 13th - Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer (b. 1841)
Sep 17th - Deng Shichang, Chinese admiral (b. 1849)
Sep 24th - Martinus Nijhoff, founder Nijhoff's book publisher (Van Dale), dies
Oct 7th - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American writer (b. 1809)
Oct 30th - Honoré Mercier, politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
Nov 1st - Aleksandr III A Romanov, czar of Russia (1881-94), dies at 49
Nov 1st - Tsar Alexander III of Russia (b. 1845)
Nov 20th - Anton Rubinstein, Russian composer (Dmitri Donskoi), dies at 64
Nov 27th - Johanna von Puttkamer, Prussian noblewoman, wife of Otto von Bismarck (b. 1824)
Dec 3rd - HM Jozef Schadde, Flem architect (Antwerp Stock exchange), dies at 76
Dec 3rd - Robert Louis Stevenson, Engl writer (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), dies at 45
Dec 7th - Ferdinand de Lesseps, French engineer/diplomat/earl, dies at 89
Dec 8th - Willem JF Nuyens, Dutch physician/RC historian, dies at 71
Dec 8th - Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (b. 1821)
Dec 12th - Sir John Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1845)
Dec 13th - Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist, dies at 68
Dec 29th - Chris Rossetti, writer, dies at 64
Dec 30th - Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragist (Bloomers named for her), dies at 76
Dec 31st - Thomas J Stieltjes, mathematician (Stieltjes-integral), dies at 38