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Historical Events

Results 101 - 200 of 393

Jun 28th - Austria invades Siberia (WW I)
Jun 28th - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip , the casus belli of World War I.
Jun 29th - Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
Jun 30th - Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in S Africa
Jul 4th - 1st US motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks)
Jul 5th - Boston Braves are 15 games back in NL, & win World Series
Jul 5th - Germany offers Austria war aid to fight against Russia in Serbia
Jul 7th - Balt Orioles' (IL) owner Jack Dunn offers Babe Ruth, Ernie Shore & Ben Egan for $10,000 to Connie Mack, who refuses, pleading poverty
Jul 9th - 1st US duplicate auction bridge championship held, Lake Placid, NY
Jul 10th - Boston Red Sox purchase Babe Ruth from Baltimore Orioles
Jul 11th - Babe Ruth debuts as a pitcher for Boston Red Sox, he beats Cleve 4-3
Jul 12th - Babe Ruth makes his baseball debut, pitches for Red Sox
Jul 14th - 1st patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted (Dr R Goddard)
Jul 14th - NL's Boston Braves start climb from last place to world series sweep
Jul 15th - Mexican president Huerta flees with 2 million pesos to Europe
Jul 16th - Socialist conference in Brussel (Kautsky, Trotski & Rosa Luxemburg)
Jul 17th - Giants outfielder Red Murray is knocked unconscious by lightning after catching a flyball, ending 21 inning game, Giants win 3-1
Jul 18th - US army air service 1st comes into being, in Signal Corps
Jul 19th - Boston Braves begin drive from last to 1st place in NL
Jul 20th - Armed resistance against British rule begins in Ulster
Jul 23rd - Austria-Hungary issues ultimatum to Serbia leading to WW I
Jul 25th - Germany soc-democrat "No German blood for Austrian tyrant"
Jul 25th - Last day of club cricket for W G Grace at age 66 He made 69
Jul 26th - Austrian-Hungary condemns Serbian ultimatum
Jul 26th - British Min of Navy Winston Churchill orders British fleet to remain
Jul 26th - German chief of staff/gen von Moltke states ultimatum on Belgium
Jul 27th - Roda JC soccer team forms in Kerkrade
Jul 27th - Felix Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo with the Filipino government.
Jul 28th - Foxtrot 1st danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden (NYC, by Harry Fox)
Jul 28th - Minister of Navy W Churchill routes British fleet to Scapa Flow
Jul 28th - World War I began when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
Jul 29th - 1st transcontinental phone link made between NYC & SF
Jul 29th - Austrian-Hungary bombs Belgrade
Jul 29th - British fleet leaves Portland/passes Straits of Dover
Jul 29th - Russia mobilize troops along Austrian boundary
Jul 30th - Austrian-Hungary & Russia proclaim general mobilization
Jul 30th - French troops withdraw 10 km from German border
Jul 30th - John French appointed British supreme commander
Jul 31st - German Emperor Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize
Jul 31st - Oil discovered in Lake of Maracaibo
Aug 1st - British fleet reaches Scapa Flow
Aug 1st - Emperor Wilhelm II declares war on his nephew tsar Nicolas II (WW I)
Aug 1st - France & Germany mobilize
Aug 1st - Trois Vierges: German 69th infantry regiment enter Luxembourg Germany declares war on Russia in WW I
Aug 2nd - Belgian govt receives German ultimatum
Aug 2nd - German press falsely reports that French bombed Nuremberg
Aug 2nd - German troops overthrows Luxembourg
Aug 2nd - Germany & Turkey signs secret treaty
Aug 2nd - Great Britain mobilizes
Aug 2nd - Postdam Conference ended
Aug 2nd - Russian troops invade Eastern Prussia
Aug 2nd - Sherlock Holmes Adventure "His Last Bow" takes place
Aug 3rd - 1st seaworthy ship through Panama Canal
Aug 3rd - Belgium rejects demand to allow free crossing for German army
Aug 3rd - French fleet sails to North-Africa
Aug 3rd - German battle cruiser Goeben leaves Messina
Aug 3rd - Germany invades Belgium & declares war on France in WW I
Aug 3rd - Great Britain declares war on Germany
Aug 3rd - Turkey signs military pact with Germany
Aug 3rd - World Alliance for Promoting Intl Friendship through Churches forms
Aug 3rd - Yankee catcher Nunamaker throws out 3 would be stealers in 1 inning
Aug 4th - German army shoots Belgian priests/burns down village of Battice
Aug 4th - German fleet under admiral Souchon fire on Algerian coast
Aug 4th - Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany
Aug 4th - King Albert I becomes supreme commander of Belgian army
Aug 4th - Lord Kitchener becomes British minister of War
Aug 4th - US declares neutrality in WW I
Aug 5th - 1st traffic light installed (Euclid Ave & E 105th St, Cleveland)
Aug 5th - Cuba, Uruguay, Mexico & Argentina proclaim neutrality in WW I
Aug 5th - Dutch Cort Van de Linden govt issues silver bonds as money
Aug 5th - Massive German assault on forts around Luik
Aug 5th - Montenegro declares war against Austria-Hungary in World War I
Aug 5th - US beats Australia, 3-2, to win Davis Cup
Aug 5th - US, Nicaragua sign treaty granting canal rights to US
Aug 5th - Westerschelde leaves due to German invasion in Belgium
Aug 6th - Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia & Serbia
Aug 6th - French cavalry enter Belgium
Aug 6th - German Zeppelin bombs Liege City, 9 killed
Aug 6th - Serbia declares war against Germany
Aug 6th - Denis Patrick Dowd Jr. enlists in the French Foreign Legion, becoming the first American to fight in World War I.
Aug 7th - British Gloucester vs German Breslau/Goeben off Greece
Aug 7th - French govt awards king Albert of Belgium the Great Cross
Aug 7th - French troops under Gen Bonneau occupy Altkitrch at Elzas
Aug 7th - German army occupies city of Liege Belgium
Aug 7th - Lord Kitchner says "Your country needs you," poster spreads over UK
Aug 8th - 3rd pole expedition Ernest Shackleton "Endurance"
Aug 8th - French troops under Gen Bonneau occupy Mulhouse at Elzas
Aug 8th - Montenegro declares war on Germany
Aug 9th - German submarine U-15 sinks British cruiser
Aug 10th - At Luik, German 12"/16.5" guns reach Belgian boundary
Aug 10th - German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany
Aug 10th - German troops reconquer Mulhouse in Elzas
Aug 10th - Royal Nationally Steuncomite forms
Aug 11th - France declares war on Austria-Hungary
Aug 11th - Jews are expelled from Mitchenick Poland
Aug 11th - John Wray patents animation
Aug 11th - Mitchenick Poland, expels Jews
Aug 12th - Cavalery battle at Halen, Belgium ("Battle der Zilveren Helmen")
Aug 12th - German 16.5"/12" guns fires on forts round Luik
Aug 12th - Great Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary

Famous Birthdays

Results 101 - 200 of 563

Mar 1st - Ralph Waldo Ellison, US writer (Invisible Man, Shadow & Cast)
Mar 1st - Harry Caray, American sportscaster (d. 1998)
Mar 3rd - Martin Ritt, actor/director (Slugger's Wife, End of the Game)
Mar 4th - Gino Colaussi (Luigi Colaussi), Italian footballer (d. 1991)
Mar 4th - Ward Kimball, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
Mar 4th - Robert R. Wilson, American physicist, sculptor and architect (d. 2000)
Mar 5th - Philip Farkas, American horn player and teacher (d. 1992)
Mar 6th - Kirill P Kondrashin, Moscow Russia, conductor (Hollywood Bowl 1981)
Mar 7th - Morton DaCosta, Phila, director (Island of Love, Music Man)
Mar 8th - Jacob B Bakema, urban developer (St Louis Missouri)
Mar 8th - Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (d. 1987)
Mar 9th - Fred Clark, Lincoln Calif, actor (Burns & Allen, Auntie Mame, Hazard)
Mar 10th - Chandler Harper, golfer (1950 PGA champ)
Mar 12th - Jan Kapr, composer
Mar 13th - Carl-Olof Anderberg, composer
Mar 13th - Tessie O'Shea, entertainer
Mar 13th - Edward O'Hare, American pilot (d. 1943)
Mar 13th - W.O. Mitchell, Canadian writer (d. 1998)
Mar 14th - Henry Ralph Carr, soldier
Mar 14th - Jiri Reinberger, composer
Mar 14th - Lee Elhardt Hays, American folksinger (d. 1981)
Mar 14th - Bill Owen, British actor (d. 1999)
Mar 14th - Lee Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
Mar 15th - Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (d. 1985)
Mar 17th - Sammy Baugh, Texas, NFL hall of famer QB (Wash Redskins)
Mar 18th - Cesar Guerra Peixe, composer
Mar 18th - James Pack, naval officer museum curator
Mar 19th - J Jay Berwanger, 1st Heisman Trophy winner (1935)
Mar 19th - Patricia Morison, actress (Peyton Place, Dressed to Kill)
Mar 19th - Leonidas Alaoglu, Greek-Canadian mathematician (d. 1981)
Mar 20th - Sviatosiav Richter, Zhitomir Ukraine, pianist (Stalin Prize-1945)
Mar 20th - Wendell Corey, Dracut Mass, actor (11th Hour, Peck's Bad Girl)
Mar 20th - William Baddeley, rector (St Jame's Piccadilly)
Mar 21st - Herman Siles Zuazo, politician
Mar 21st - Paul Tortelier, composer
Mar 22nd - Cec Burke, cricketer (NZ leg-spinner v Australia 1946, 1 & 3, 2-30)
Mar 22nd - Lord Stokes
Mar 22nd - Masao Maruyama, social scientist
Mar 23rd - Robert Gross, composer
Mar 24th - Lilli Palmer, Posen Germany, actress (Boys From Brazil, Sebastian)
Mar 25th - Marthe Robert, essayist/translator
Mar 25th - Norman E Borlaug, US agriculture scientist (Nobel 1970)
Mar 26th - Ian McGeoch, Vice-Admiral
Mar 26th - William Westmoreland, Saxon SC, army general (Vietnam era)
Mar 26th - Toru Kumon, Japanese educator (d. 1995)
Mar 27th - Budd Schulberg, NYC, novelist (On the Waterfront)
Mar 27th - Richard Denning, Poughkeepsie NY, actor (Steve-Karen, Hawaii Five-0)
Mar 27th - Snooky Lanson, Memphis Tn, singer (Your Hit Parade, 5 Star Jubilee)
Mar 28th - Bohumil Hrabal, writer
Mar 28th - Edmund Sixtus Muskie, (Sen-D-Me)/US Sec of State (1980)
Mar 28th - Frank Lovejoy, Bronx NY, actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw)
Mar 28th - Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
Mar 28th - Kenneth Richard Norris, Australian entomologist (d. 2003)
Mar 29th - Chapman Pincher, British journalist/author (about secret service)
Mar 30th - Sonny Boy Williamson, [John Lee], blues musician (Down & Out Blues)
Mar 31st - Octavio Paz, Mexico, writer/diplomat (Salamandra, Topoemas)
Apr 1st - Carla van Neste, Belgian violinist
Apr 1st - Lor Tok, Thai comedian and actor (d. 2002)
Apr 2nd - Alec Guinness, London England, British actor (Bridge on River Kwai)
Apr 3rd - Katherine Stammers Menzies, England, doubles tennis player (Wimb 1935)
Apr 4th - Gustave Camus, Belgian painter
Apr 4th - John Beith, British diplomat
Apr 4th - Marguerite Duras, France, novelist/playwright (Sea Wall)
Apr 5th - Frederick Angus Armstrong, journalist
Apr 6th - George Reeves, Ashland Ky, actor (Superman, Gone With the Wind)
Apr 7th - Sydney Thompson, rock climber
Apr 8th - John Cameron, cricketer (brother of Jimmy WI v-capt 1939 England tour)
Apr 8th - María Félix, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
Apr 9th - Richard Young, CEO (Boosey & Hawkes)
Apr 10th - E A V "Foffie" Williams, cricketer (WI all-rounder 1939-48)
Apr 10th - Jack Badcock, cricketer (Tasmania Australian batsman of 30's)
Apr 11th - Norman McLaren, Canadian film animator and director (d. 1987)
Apr 12th - Armen Alchian, American economist
Apr 15th - John Gregory, dancer
Apr 16th - John Hodiak, Pittsburgh PA, actor (A Bell for Adamo, Lifeboat)
Apr 17th - George W. Davis, American art director (d. 1984)
Apr 18th - C S Nayudu, cricketer (brother of C K, 11 Tests as leggie)
Apr 18th - Henk Lankhorst, pacifist/Dutch MP (PSP)
Apr 19th - Andrew Wilkinson, pediatrician
Apr 20th - Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (d. 1999)
Apr 21st - Norman Panama, American screenwriter (d. 2003)
Apr 22nd - Charles Hubert Sisson, author/poet (Christopher Homm)
Apr 22nd - Hans Baumann, writer
Apr 22nd - Jan de Hartog, Dutch/English writer (Holland's Glory)
Apr 22nd - Michael Wittman, German soldier and tank ace (d. 1944)
Apr 23rd - Andrew Martin, Lord-Lt (Lechestershire England)
Apr 23rd - John Hubbard, Indiana Harbor Indiana, actor (Don't Call Me Charlie)
Apr 23rd - Mitsu Suzuki, teacher of tea ceremony at SF Zen Center
Apr 24th - Bernard Caulfield, judge
Apr 24th - Justin Wilson, cajun chef (Wise Potato Chips)
Apr 24th - Ruth White, Perth Amboy NJ, actress (Up the Down Staircase)
Apr 25th - Claude Mauriac, writer
Apr 25th - Marcos Perez Jimenez, president/dictator Venezuela
Apr 25th - Ross Lockridge, Jr., American writer (d. 1948)
Apr 26th - Bernard Malamud, US, novelist (Fixer, Natural, Pulitizer 1967)
Apr 26th - Charlie Chester, British comedian (Never Say Die)
Apr 26th - Horace Leonard Gold, Sci-Fi writer/editor
Apr 26th - James William Rouse, US builder (shopping malls/Columbia, Maryland)
Apr 26th - Wilfred Howard Mellers, composer
Apr 27th - Albert Soboult, French historian

Famous Deaths

Results 101 - 112 of 112

Nov 23rd - Elbrige Gerry, VP (of Gerrymander fame), dies at 70
Nov 24th - Louis de Raet, Belgian economist/Flemish People Party, dies
Nov 25th - Davorin Jenko, composer, dies at 79
Dec 6th - Eduard Jacobs, Dutch cabaret artist, dies at 47
Dec 8th - Maximilian von Spee, German naval officer (b. 1861)
Dec 12th - Watkins Lewis, black man, lynched in Shrevport La
Dec 14th - Giovanni Sgambati, composer, dies at 73
Dec 16th - Ivan Zajc, composer, dies at 82
Dec 19th - Johann F Ritter von Schulte, German catholic lawyer, dies at 87
Dec 21st - A O Jones, cricketer (12 Tests for England 1899-1909), dies
Dec 24th - John Muir, British naturalist (b. 1838)
Dec 27th - Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and inventor (b. 1863)