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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 160

Jan 1st - Wilhelm Roentgen announces his discovery of x-rays
Jan 2nd - Battle at Doornkop, South Africa (Boers beat Dr Jamesons troops)
Jan 3rd - Emperor Wilhelm congratulates Pres Kruger on the Jameson Raid
Jan 4th - AFL charters Actors' National Protective Union, NYC
Jan 4th - Following Mormon abandonment of polygamy, Utah admitted as 45th state
Jan 5th - German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen's discovers x-rays
Jan 5th - Isaac Albeniz' opera "Pepita Jiminez," premieres in Barcelona
Jan 6th - 1st US women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden
Jan 6th - Cecil Rhodes resigns as premier of Cape colony
Jan 7th - Fanny Farmer publishes her 1st cookbook
Jan 12th - 1st X-ray photo in US (Dr Henry Smith, Davidson NC)
Jan 15th - Henry Arthur Jones' "Michael & his Lost Angel," premieres in London
Jan 16th - Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire.
Jan 18th - 1st demonstration of an X-ray machine in US (NYC)
Jan 18th - British troops occupy Kumasi, West Africa
Jan 18th - The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.
Jan 23rd - Edward Macdowell's 2nd Suite in E, premieres
Jan 27th - Tasmania bowl out Victoria for 65 for their 1st ever innings victory
Jan 29th - Emile Grubbe is 1st dr to use radiation treatment for breast cancer
Feb 1st - Giacomo Puccini's Opera "La Boheme," premieres in Turin
Feb 8th - Georges Feydeaus' "Le Dindon," premieres in Paris
Feb 8th - Western Conference forms of Midwestern U, later renamed Big 10 Conf
Feb 11th - Oscar Wildes "Salome," premieres in Paris
Feb 14th - George Lohmann takes a hat-trick v S Africa, 8-7 for inning
Feb 14th - South Africa all out for 30 v England - their lowest ever
Feb 14th - Stanley Cup: Winnipeg Victorias beat Montreal Victorias, 2-0
Feb 14th - Theodor Herzl publishes "Der Judenstaat"
Feb 17th - London Country Councils' Muzzling Order becomes effective
Feb 18th - Cave of Winds at Niagara Falls goes almost dry for 1st time in 50 yrs
Feb 23rd - Tootsie Roll introduced by Leo Hirshfield
Feb 24th - Victoria all out for 43 vs South Australia, Jones 6-15 Jarvis 4-27
Feb 25th - Italian govt decides to attack governor Baratieri of Eritrea
Feb 28th - France dismisses Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar
Mar 1st - Battle of Adua: 80,000 Ethiopians destroy 20,000 Italians
Mar 1st - Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
Mar 2nd - Battle of Aduwa, Abyssinia (Ethiopia) defeats invading Italians
Mar 2nd - George Lohmann takes 9-28 v South Africa at Johannesburg
Mar 5th - Italian premier Crispi resigns
Mar 5th - Italians governor of Eritrea, Gen Baldissera, reaches Massawa
Mar 6th - 1st auto in Detroit, Charles B King rides his "Horseless Carriage"
Mar 7th - Gilbert & Sullivan's last operette "Grand Duke," premieres in London
Mar 8th - Volunteers of America forms (NYC)
Mar 10th - Bronx acquires O'Brien Square
Mar 10th - Charilaos Vasilakos of Greece wins 1st modern marathon in 3:18 [OS]
Mar 10th - After Bob Fitzsimmons KOs much larger Jim Corbett to win world HW championship he says, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall"
Mar 12th - 1st movie in Netherlands (Kalverstr 220)
Mar 14th - Sutro Baths (SF) opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1, 1952)
Mar 16th - Premiere of Mahler's "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen"
Mar 20th - Marines land in Nicaragua to protect US citizens
Mar 20th - Uprising in Matabeleland
Mar 22nd - Charilaos Vasilakos wins 1st marathon (3:18)
Mar 23rd - Umberto Giordano's opera "Andrea Chénier," premieres in Milan
Mar 23rd - The Raines Law is passed by the New York State Legislature, restricting Sunday sale of alcohol to hotels.
Mar 25th - Modern Olympics began in Athens, Greece [NS=Apr 6]
Mar 28th - The opera "Andrea Chenier" is produced (Milan)
Mar 31st - Whitcomb Judson, Chicago, patents a hookless fastening (zipper)
Apr 4th - Announcement of Gold in Yukon
Apr 5th - 1st modern Olympic Games officially opens in Athens
Apr 6th - 1st modern Olympic games open in Athens Greece [3/25 OS] American, James Connolly, wins 1st Olympic gold medal in mod history
Apr 10th - Spiridon Louis wins 1st Olympic marathon (2:58:50)
Apr 12th - Stamasia Portrisi is 1st woman to win a marathon (5:30 in Athens)
Apr 14th - John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan," premieres (NYC)
Apr 15th - 1st Olympic games close at Athens, Greece
Apr 19th - Herzl's "The Jewish State" is published
Apr 20th - 1st public film showing in US John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan," premieres in NYC
Apr 23rd - Premier of motion pictures (Koster & Bial's Music Hall, NYC)
Apr 23rd - Vitascope system of movie projection 1st demonstrated (NYC)
Apr 25th - Fight in Central Dance Hall starts fire (Cripple Creek Colorado)
Apr 25th - Sidney Jones & Harry Greenbacks musical premieres in London
May 4th - 1st edition of London Daily Mail (halfpenny)
May 4th - Grease fire ignites half ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek Colorado
May 6th - 22nd Kentucky Derby: Willie Simms aboard Ben Brush wins in 2:07.75
May 8th - Yorkshire Cricket all out for 887 against Warwickshire
May 9th - 1st horseless carriage show in London (featured 10 models)
May 14th - Lowest US temperature in May recorded (-10°F-Climax, Colo)
May 15th - Tornado kills 78 in Texas
May 18th - US Supreme court affirms race separation (Plessy v Ferguson)
May 18th - 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.
May 19th - 1st auto (Benz) to arrive in Netherlands
May 20th - The six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier falls on the crowd resulting in the death of one and the injury of many others.
May 26th - 1st American intercollegiate bicycle race, Manhattan Beach NY
May 26th - Dow Jones begins an index of 12 industrial stocks (closing is 40.94)
May 26th - Last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned
May 26th - James Dunham murders six people in Campbell, California.
May 27th - Bay District Race Track closes
May 27th - Tornado hit St Louis, killing 255 & leaving thousands homeless
May 30th - 1st car accident occurs, Henry Wells hit a bicyclist (NYC)
Jun 2nd - 30th Belmont: Henry Griffin aboard Hastings wins in 2:24.5
Jun 2nd - Guglielmo Marconi patents the radio
Jun 4th - Henry takes his 1st Ford through streets of Detroit
Jun 6th - 21st Preakness: Henry Griffin aboard Margrave wins in 1:51
Jun 6th - George Samuelson leaves NY harbor to row across Atlantic
Jun 7th - G Harpo & F Samuelson leave NY to row the Atlantic (takes 54 days)
Jun 8th - 1st car is stolen
Jun 11th - US Assay Office in Deadwood South Dakota authorized
Jun 12th - J.T. Hearne sets a cricket record for the earliest date of taking 100 first-class wickets in a season.
Jun 15th - Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku Japan 27,000 are killed, 9,000 injured, with 13,000 houses destroyed
Jun 16th - Temperature hits 127°F at Fort Mojave, Calif
Jun 26th - 1st movie theater in US opens, charging 10 cents for admission
Jun 30th - W S Hadaway patents electric stove

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 308

Jan 1st - Maurice Jacobson, composer
Jan 1st - Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japans actor/director (Jujiro, Jigoku-mon)
Jan 1st - Yitzhak Edel, composer
Jan 2nd - Dziga Vertiv, [Denis A Kaufman], Russian director (Sjagai, Soviet!)
Jan 2nd - Ernst-Lothar von Knorr, composer
Jan 2nd - Sir Lawrence Wackett, Australian aircraft engineer (d. 1982)
Jan 4th - Everett McKinley Dirkson, (Sen-R-Ill)
Jan 4th - Everett Dirksen, American politician (d. 1969)
Jan 5th - Hendrik Algra, Dutch MP (ARP)
Jan 6th - Abram N Pritzker, US businessman (Hyatt Hotels, McCall's magazine)
Jan 6th - Freerk Siemon Wolters, notary/resistance fighter
Jan 7th - Arnold Ridley, Bath England, actor/dramatist (The Ghost Train)
Jan 8th - Jaromir Weinberger, Prague Czechoslovakia, composer (Bird's Opera)
Jan 8th - Manuel Rojas Sepulveda, Chile, writer (Men of the South)
Jan 8th - Arthur Ford, American psychic (d. 1971)
Jan 9th - Warwick Braithwaite, New Zealand-born British conductor (d. 1971)
Jan 11th - Eva Le Gallienne, London England, actress/director (Resurrection)
Jan 11th - Paddy Driscoll, NFL QB/coach (Chic Cardinals, Bears)
Jan 12th - Rex Ingram, Ireland, actor/director (Elmer Gantry, God's Little Acre)
Jan 12th - David Wechsler, American psychologist (d.1981)
Jan 14th - John dos Passos, novelist (1919, Big Money, 42nd Parallel)
Jan 15th - Jacobo Ficher, composer
Jan 16th - Ruth Rose, American screenwriter (d. 1978)
Jan 17th - Harry Reser, Ohio, orch leader (Sammy Kaye Show)
Jan 18th - Hans H Holm, Norwegian poet (Jonsoknatt)
Jan 18th - C. M. Eddy, Jr., American writer (d. 1967)
Jan 20th - Elmer R Diktonius, Finnish musicologist/author (Janne Kubik)
Jan 20th - George Burns, [Nathan Birnbaum], NYC, actor/comedian (Oh God)
Jan 20th - Rolfe Sedan, NYC, actor (Mailman-George Burns Show)
Jan 20th - Isabel Withers, American actress (d. 1968)
Jan 23rd - Charlotte A E M W, grand duchess of Luxembourg (1919-64)
Jan 25th - John Moores, British gambling magnate/multi-millionaire
Jan 29th - Teddy Hoad, cricketer (pioneering West Indian Test batsman)
Jan 31st - Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1966)
Feb 1st - Anastasio "Tacho" Somoza, general/pres of Nicaragua (1937-56)
Feb 2nd - Jane Wilde, writer
Feb 2nd - Kazimierz Kuratowski, Polish mathematician and logician (d. 1980)
Feb 3rd - Johannes Urzidil, writer
Feb 4th - Friedrich Glauser, writer
Feb 4th - Friedrich Hund, German physicist (d. 1997)
Feb 7th - Harold Hoffman, South Amboy NJ, (Gov-NJ)
Feb 7th - Jacob Paludan, Danish pharmacist/writer (Jorgen Stein)
Feb 8th - Orville Caldwell, Ca, actor (Patsy, French Doll, Last Warning)
Feb 10th - Olin Howlin, Denver Colo, actor (Swifty-Circus Boy)
Feb 15th - Arthur Shields, Dublin Ireland, actor (River, Enchanted Island)
Feb 16th - Alexander Brailowsky, Russia, pianist (Chopin)
Feb 18th - Andre Breton, French writer (d. 1966)
Feb 19th - André Breton, French poet (d. 1966)
Feb 20th - Henri de Lubac sj, French theologist/anti-fascist
Feb 21st - Sylvain Poons, Dutch cabaret performer (Blue Jackets)
Feb 22nd - Edvin Wide, Sweden, 10K runner (Olympic-silver-1924)
Feb 22nd - Enid Markey, Dillon Colo, actress (Aunt Violet-Bringing Up Buddy)
Feb 22nd - Nacio Herb Brown, US composer
Feb 22nd - Paul Van Ostaijen, Flemish poet/writer/critic (Occupied City)
Feb 25th - John J McClellan, (Sen-D-Ark)
Feb 26th - Andrei A Zjdanov, Russian politician (against kosmopolitism)
Feb 26th - Eduard Flipse, Dutch conductor/composer
Feb 28th - Philip Showalter Hench, Pittsburgh, physician (cortisone-Nobel)
Feb 29th - Omer C F L Tulippe, Belgian geographer
Feb 29th - Ranchhodji Morarji Desai, premier of India (1977-79)
Feb 29th - Stanley Swash, CEO (Woolworths)
Feb 29th - William W Wellman, Brookline Mass, director (Star is Born)
Feb 29th - Wladimir Rudolfovich Vogel, composer
Mar 1st - Dimitri Mitropoulos, Athens Greece, conductor/composer
Mar 1st - Moriz Seeler, German writer and producer (d. 1942)
Mar 7th - Erwin Bodky, composer
Mar 8th - Charlotte Whitton, Canadian politician (d. 1975)
Mar 10th - Harry Krimer, actor (Napoleon)
Mar 10th - Nancy Cunard, writer
Mar 12th - Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller, San Francisco Blues Great
Mar 13th - Dorothy Aldis, writer
Mar 16th - Conrad Nagel, Keokuk Iowa, actor (Celebrity Time)
Mar 20th - Hal Walker, Ottumwa Ia, director (I Married Joan)
Mar 22nd - Giulia D De Albertis, writer
Mar 22nd - He Long, Chinese marshal (d. 1969)
Mar 24th - Gianna Manzini, writer
Mar 26th - Richard Flury, composer
Mar 26th - Rudolf Dassler, Founder of PUMA AG (d. 1974)
Apr 3rd - Douwe Kalma, Dutch literary/leader (Young Frisian Movement)
Apr 4th - Robert Sherwood, dramatist (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Idiot's Delight)
Apr 4th - Tristan Tzara, [Samuel Rosenfeld] French poet (Approximate Man)
Apr 6th - Juan Tomas Perez, composer
Apr 7th - Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing champ (1917-25)
Apr 8th - Karl Hermann Pillney, composer
Apr 8th - Yip Harburg, American lyricist (d. 1981)
Apr 10th - Edith Day, Minneapolis MN
Apr 11th - Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Quebec novelist (d. 1967)
Apr 15th - Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)
Apr 17th - Senor Wences, ventriloquist (his hand acts as a puppet)
Apr 18th - C Eugene Wegmann, Swiss geologist (Le Jura plisse)
Apr 20th - Senor Wences, ventriloquist (Close the Door)
Apr 20th - Wop May, Canadian aviator (d. 1952)
Apr 21st - H de Montherlant, writer
Apr 21st - Henry M de Montherlant, French stage author (La Reine Morte)
Apr 23rd - Margaret Kennedy, novelist
Apr 26th - Ernst Udet, WWI pilot and film actor, Luftwaffe officer (d. 1941)
Apr 27th - Rogers Hornsby, 2nd baseman (St Louis Cards)
Apr 27th - Wallace Hume Carothers, inventor (nylon)
Apr 29th - Jacques Leon Wolfe, composer
Apr 29th - Walter Mehring, writer

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 90 of 90

Jan 1st - Alfred Ely Beach, American inventor (b. 1826)
Jan 4th - Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop (b. 1821)
Jan 8th - William Rainey Marshall, Governor of Minnesota (b. 1825)
Jan 8th - Paul Verlaine, French poet (b. 1844)
Jan 15th - Matthew B Brady, US photographer (Civil War), dies at about 72
Jan 18th - Charles Floquet, French statesman (b. 1828)
Jan 20th - Heinrich M von Battenberg, German son-in-law of Victoria, dies at 37
Jan 25th - Frans C Baeckelmans, Flemish architect (Court of Justice), dies at 68
Jan 25th - Frederic Leighton, President of the Royal Academy (1878-96), dies
Jan 28th - Joseph Barnby, composer, dies at 57
Feb 4th - Henry David Leslie, composer, dies at 73
Feb 6th - Abraham Czn van Stolk, Dutch art collector, dies at 82
Feb 12th - Charles Louis Ambrose Thomas, French composer (Mignon), dies at 84
Feb 12th - Isaac Murphy, jockey, 628 wins on 1,412 mounts (44.5%), dies at 35
Feb 13th - Karl Reinthaler, composer, dies at 73
Feb 15th - E J Nicholson, writer, dies
Feb 22nd - Thomas Hughes, politican/author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, Brighton
Mar 1st - Albertone, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
Mar 1st - Arimondi, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
Mar 1st - Vittorio Dabormida, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
Mar 26th - Nanny v Hof, writer, dies
Mar 28th - E Rundle Charles, writer, dies
Mar 30th - Charilaos Trikoupis, seven times prime-minister of Greece (b. 1832)
Apr 5th - John Rogers Thomas, composer, dies at 66
Apr 12th - Alexander Ritter, composer, dies at 62
Apr 22nd - Thomas Meik, British civil engineer (b. 1812)
Apr 27th - Henry Parkes, known as the Father of Federation (b. 1815)
Apr 28th - Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian, dies
Apr 30th - Antonio Cagnoni, composer, dies at 68
May 1st - Nasr-ed-Din, shah of Persia (184.-96), murdered at 65
May 5th - Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (b. 1839)
May 7th - H. H. Holmes (Herman Webster Mudgett) , American serial killer (b. 1860)
May 12th - Juan Morel Campos, composer, dies at 38
May 13th - Nora Perry, writer, dies
May 20th - Clara Josephine Wieck Schumann, composer/pianist, dies at 76
May 27th - Allard Pierson, theologist/philosopher/art historian/poet, dies
May 27th - Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (b. 1839)
May 29th - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (b. 1814)
Jun 2nd - Gerhard Rohlfs, German explorer (Abbsynia/Ethiopia), dies
Jun 7th - Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (b. 1829)
Jun 10th - Amelia Dyer, English murderer (b. 1829)
Jun 11th - Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer, dies at 72
Jun 25th - Emile AH Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer/man of letters, dies at 58
Jun 26th - Louis CPR of Orleans, French duke (chosen king of Belgian), dies at 81
Jul 1st - Harriet Beecher Stowe, US author (Uncle Tom's Cabin), dies at 85
Jul 6th - Alexander Sergeyevich Famintsin, composer, dies at 54
Jul 11th - Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist/historian (Olympia), dies at 81
Jul 13th - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German chemist (b. 1829)
Jul 16th - Edmond-Louis-Antoine Huot de Goncourt, novelist, dies at 74
Jul 16th - William Hamilton Gibson, illustrator/author/novelist, dies
Jul 19th - Abraham H. Cannon, American Mormon apostle (b. 1859)
Aug 9th - Otto Lilenthal, aircraft pioneer, killed during a glider test at 48
Aug 10th - Otto Lilienthal, German aircraft pioneer, dies
Aug 12th - Thomas Chamberlain, officer of the 20th Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg
Aug 13th - John Everett Millais, English painter, dies at 67
Aug 17th - Bridget Driscoll, 1st Brit to die in an auto-accident
Aug 18th - Frederick Nichols Crouch, composer, dies at 88
Aug 30th - Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian statesman (b. 1824)
Sep 1st - Johannes Habert, composer, dies at 62
Sep 2nd - Nat Thompson, cricketer (played 1st Two Tests for Australia), dies
Sep 2nd - Nat Thomson, Australian cricketer (b. 1839)
Sep 11th - Anton Joseph Bruckner, composer, dies at 72
Sep 11th - Francis James Child, American ballad collector (b. 1825)
Sep 16th - Carlos Gomez, composer, dies at 60
Sep 18th - Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau, physicist, dies
Sep 20th - Gottfried Conradi, composer, dies at 76
Sep 23rd - Ivar A Aasen, Norwegian linguistic/poet, dies at 83
Sep 23rd - Louis-Gilbert Duprez, composer, dies at 89
Sep 24th - Francis SK Fitzgerald, US writer (Great Gatsby, Zelda), dies
Sep 24th - Percy McDonnell, cricketer (19 Tests 1880-88, 3 centuries), dies
Sep 24th - Louis De Geer, 1st Swedish Prime Minister (b. 1818)
Oct 3rd - William Morris, writer, dies at 62
Oct 11th - Anton Bruckner, Austr composer (Te Deum, Wagner Symphony), dies at 72
Oct 11th - Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1829)
Oct 12th - Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician (b. 1817)
Oct 21st - James Henry Greathead, British engineer (b. 1844)
Oct 26th - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (b. 1827)
Oct 30th - Charles Tupper, PM of Canada (C) (1896), dies
Nov 12th - Spyridon Xyndas, composer, dies at 84
Nov 13th - Antonio Pena y Goni, composer, dies at 50
Nov 22nd - George Washington Gale Ferris, inventor (Ferris wheel), dies
Nov 22nd - Leon Leopold Lewandoski, composer, dies at 65
Nov 26th - Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician (b. 1818)
Nov 26th - Coventry Patmore, British poet (b. 1823)
Dec 8th - Earnest Angel, German statistician (Law of Angel), dies at 75
Dec 10th - Alfred Nobel, Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date, dies at 63
Dec 15th - John GR Acquoy, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 67
Dec 27th - John Brown, British manufacturer (b. 1816)
Dec 30th - Jose Mercado Rizal, anti-Spanish rule of Philippines proponent, dies
Dec 31st - Leland Hone, cricketer (scored 7 & 6 in only England Test 1879), dies