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Historical Events

Results 101 - 200 of 294

Apr 28th - Azerbaijan SSR joins USSR (1st time)
Apr 28th - Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.
May 1st - Babe Ruth's 1st Yankee HR & 50th of career, out of Polo Grounds
May 1st - Belgian-Luxembourg toll tunnel opens
May 1st - Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 1-1, in 26 innings
May 2nd - 1st game of National Negro Baseball League played in Indianapolis
May 5th - German-Latvian peace treaty signed
May 5th - Polish troops occupy Kiev
May 5th - US Pres Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal
May 7th - USSR recognizes Georgia's independence
May 8th - 46th Kentucky Derby: Ted Rice aboard Paul Jones wins in 2:09
May 14th - Wash Senator Walter Johnson wins his 300th game vs Detroit
May 14th - Giants inform Yankees that the lease allowing them to play in the Polo Grounds will not be renewed at end of 1920 season
May 15th - Soccer team ADO '20 forms in Heemskerk
May 16th - Joan of Arc (Jean D'arc) canonized a saint
May 16th - Spanish bullfighter Joselito is fatally gored fighting his last bull
May 17th - 1st De Havilland double-decker flight (London) lands in Schiphol
May 17th - 1st flight by Dutch airlines KLM (Koninklijke-Luchtvaart-Maatschappij)
May 18th - 46th Preakness: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 1:51.6
May 20th - Policemen raid the Cubs' bleachers & arrest 24 fans for gambling
May 23rd - Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Pacem Dei
May 27th - Tatar ASSR forms in Russian SFSR
Jun 1st - RKSV Volendam soccer team forms in Volendam
Jun 1st - Adolfo de la Huerta becomes president of Mexico.
Jun 2nd - Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Beyond the Horizon)
Jun 4th - Peace of Trianon between Allies & Hungary
Jun 5th - 1st rivet driven on Bank of Italy headquarters at 1 Powell
Jun 5th - A's VP Thomas Shibe denies charges that baseballs are livelier
Jun 6th - Gen Wrangel opens offensive against red Army
Jun 8th - Reds' Edd Roush falls asleep in center during long infield argument Heinie Groh goes to wake him, but ump ejects Roush for delay of game
Jun 11th - Republicans nominate Warren G Harding for president
Jun 12th - 52nd Belmont: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 2:14.2
Jun 12th - Farmer Labor Party organized (Chicago)
Jun 13th - Post Office says children could not be sent by parcel post
Jun 15th - De Zweef soccer team forms in Nijverdal
Jun 15th - Duluth lynchings in Minnesota.
Jun 17th - Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Anti-revolution law
Jun 20th - Yanks win protest of 1-0 White Sox win & game is replayed
Jun 24th - Chuvash Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR
Jun 25th - League of Nations places Intl head of Justice in Hague
Jul 1st - Wash Senator Walter Johnson no-hits Boston Red Sox, 1-0
Jul 3rd - 40th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats Patterson (26 63 62 64)
Jul 3rd - Java Technical School Bandung opens
Jul 3rd - Royal Air Force holds an air display at Hendon, England
Jul 6th - Yankees score 14 in 5th inning & beat Washington Senators, 17-0
Jul 10th - Tris Speaker is stopped at 11 consecutive hits by Tom Zachary
Jul 12th - Lithuania & USSR sign peace treaty, Lithuania becomes independent rep
Jul 12th - Panama Canal opens
Jul 15th - Ruth ties his record of 29 HRs in a season
Jul 16th - 15th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in Auckland (5-0)
Jul 16th - China joins the League of Nations
Jul 16th - Gen Amos Fries appointed 1st US army chemical warfare chief
Jul 16th - Ruth sets season home run record with 30 en route to 54
Jul 20th - Heerenveen soccer team forms
Jul 23rd - British East Africa renamed Kenya & becomes a British crown colony
Jul 25th - Red Sox turn triple-play, but Ruth's 35th HR leads Yanks to 8-2 win
Jul 27th - Radio compass used for 1st time for aircraft navigation
Jul 27th - Resolute beats Shamrock IV (England) in 14th running of America's Cup
Jul 29th - 1st transcontinental airmail flight from NY to SF
Jul 29th - Mexican rebel Pancho Villa surrenders
Jul 29th - Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
Aug 1st - Papendrecht soccer team forms
Aug 1st - Peace of Riga-Independence of Latvia
Aug 2nd - Marcus Garvey presents his "Back To Africa" program in NYC
Aug 8th - Tigers beat Yanks 1-0 in shortest AL game, 73 minutes
Aug 9th - Bulgarian & allied Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine goes into effect
Aug 10th - Allies recognize Poland, Czechoslovakia & Romania
Aug 10th - Treaty of Sèvres (Allies & Turkey)
Aug 10th - Turkish Govt renounces its claim to Israel, recognizes British mandate
Aug 11th - 1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Independence of Latvia
Aug 13th - 24th US Golf Open: Ted Ray shoots a 295 at Inverness Club in Ohio
Aug 14th - Little Entente formed by Czechoslovakia & Yugoslavia
Aug 14th - Olympic Games open in Antwerp
Aug 16th - Ray Chapman, of Indians is hit in head by Yanks' Carl Mays pitch; he dies next day, only major league fatality
Aug 17th - In memory of Ray Chapman (died Aug 16), Yanks cancel game with Indians
Aug 18th - 1st class debut of Walter Hammond
Aug 18th - Tennessee ratifies 19th Amendment, guarantees women voting right
Aug 20th - 1st US coml radio, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit began daily broadcasting
Aug 20th - Allen Woodring wins Oympic 200 m dash wearing borrowed shoes
Aug 20th - Israel publishes it's 1st medical journal "Ha-Refuah"
Aug 20th - Preliminary meeting in Akron to form American Pro Football League
Aug 20th - Red Sox-Indians game postponed in Boston to allow Indian players to attend Ray Chapman's funeral in Cleveland
Aug 21st - 3rd PGA Championship: Jock Hutchison at Flossmoor CC Flossmoor Ill
Aug 23rd - M R Rinehart & A Hopwood's "Bat," premieres in NYC
Aug 25th - 1st US woman to win in Olympics (Ethelda Bleibtrey)
Aug 26th - 19th amendment passes-women's suffrage granted (about time!)
Aug 26th - Percy Fender (Surrey v Northants) scores 100 in 35 mins
Aug 28th - 19th amendment acknowledges women's rights
Aug 31st - Belgium starts paying old age pensions
Aug 31st - Detroit radio station is 1st to broadcast a news program on the air
Sep 1st - France creates Lebanon
Sep 1st - New townhall of Rotterdam opens
Sep 2nd - W Somerset Maugham's "East of Suez," premieres in London
Sep 4th - Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria)
Sep 5th - Iron monument unveiled at Stone churches, Flanders
Sep 6th - 40th US Mens Tennis: Wm Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (61 16 75 57 63)
Sep 6th - Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight
Sep 8th - US Air Mail service begins (NYC to SF)
Sep 12th - 7th Olympic games close in Antwerp Belgium
Sep 16th - Bomb explosion in Wall Street, kills 30

Famous Birthdays

Results 101 - 200 of 640

Feb 17th - Paul Fetler, composer
Feb 17th - Trevor Oswald Ling, religious studies professor
Feb 18th - Bill Cullen, Pitts, TV game show host (over 20 different games)
Feb 18th - Jack Palance, [Walter Palanuik], Lattimer Pa, actor (City Slickers)
Feb 18th - Eric Gairy, Grenadan politician (d. 1997)
Feb 19th - Frances K Bairstow, educator/labor relations consultant
Feb 19th - George Rose, Bicester England, actor (Beacon Hill, Holocaust)
Feb 19th - C. Z. Guest, American socialite (d. 2003)
Feb 19th - Jaan Kross, Estonian writer (d. 2007)
Feb 20th - Armin Schibler, Dutch Swiss composer (Devil in the Winter Palace)
Feb 20th - Liesbeth Tonckens, [Wilhelmina], actress/lecturer (Free People)
Feb 20th - Evgeny Dragunov, Russian weapons designer (d. 1991)
Feb 22nd - Bettina Vernon-Warren, dancer
Feb 22nd - Del Wood, singer
Feb 22nd - Giulietta Masina, Italy, actress (La Strada, Swindle, White Sheik)
Feb 23rd - David Wright, poet
Feb 23rd - Hall Overton, Bangor Michigan, composer (Enchanted Pear Tree)
Feb 23rd - Lord St Levan
Feb 23rd - Paul Gérin-Lajoie, French Canadian politician
Feb 24th - Frank Rogers, CEO (NPA Telegraph)
Feb 25th - Antony Duff, diplomat
Feb 25th - Hayes Gordon, Boston MA, actor (Sky Pirates, Dark Room)
Feb 25th - Gérard Bessette, Canadian author (d. 2005)
Feb 26th - A W [Rie] Kuiper-Mastenbroek, Neth, swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1936)
Feb 26th - Antony Kearey, TV producer
Feb 26th - Tony Randall, [Leonard Rosenberg], Tulsa Ok, actor (Felix-Odd Couple)
Feb 26th - Danny Gardella, American baseball player (d. 2005)
Feb 26th - Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveller (d. 2006)
Feb 27th - David Vere Bendall, former diplomat
Feb 27th - Jose Melis, Havana Cuba, orch leader (Jack Paar Program)
Feb 27th - Reg Simpson, cricketer (prolific England opener 1948-55)
Feb 28th - Edward Kassner, music publisher
Feb 28th - Jim Olin, (Rep-D-VA, 1983- )
Feb 28th - Marjorie M Sweeting, English geomorphologist
Feb 29th - Arthur Franz, Perth Amboy NJ, actor (Invaders From Mars, Young Lions)
Feb 29th - James Mitchell, Sacramento Calif, actor (Palmer-All My Children)
Feb 29th - Louise Wood, director of Girl Scouts of USA (1961-72)
Feb 29th - Michèle Morgan, French actress
Feb 29th - Ivan Petrov, Russian operatic bass (d. 2003)
Mar 1st - Alfred Grant Goodman, composer
Mar 1st - Harry Caray, baseball announcer (Chicago Cubs)
Mar 1st - Howard Nemerov, US, 3rd US poet laureate/novelist (Blue Swallows)
Mar 1st - Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1984)
Mar 2nd - Enrique Franco, composer
Mar 3rd - James Doohan, Vancouver BC, actor (Montgomery Scott-Star Trek)
Mar 3rd - Julius Boros, golfer (PGA Champ 1968, US Open 1952, 63)
Mar 4th - Marcella Grady Jennings, rancher
Mar 4th - Jean Lecanuet, French politician (d. 1993)
Mar 4th - Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (d. 2002)
Mar 5th - Delbert L Latta, (Rep-R-OH, 1959- )
Mar 5th - Leontine Tg Kelly, 1st black female bishop (Methodist)
Mar 5th - Virginia Christine, actress (Mrs Olson)
Mar 5th - José Aboulker, Jewish Communist
Mar 6th - Lewis Gilbert, London England, director/actor (You Only Live Twice)
Mar 6th - Roger Price, Charleston WV, actor/writer (Who's There, Droodles)
Mar 7th - Willie Watson, cricketer (England batsman & soccer international)
Mar 8th - Eileen Herlie, Glasgow Scot, actress (Myrtle Fargate-All My Children)
Mar 8th - Eva Dahlbeck, Saltsjo-Duvnas Sweden, actress (Dreams, Lesson in Love)
Mar 8th - James Daniel "Danny" Turner, saxophonist
Mar 9th - Carl Betz, Pitts, actor (Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show)
Mar 10th - Jethro Burnsburns, country singer (Homer & Jethro)
Mar 10th - Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea (d. 2007)
Mar 10th - Boris Vian, French writer and musician (d. 1959)
Mar 11th - D J Enright, England, poet/novelist (Some Men are Brothers)
Mar 11th - Henry Marking, CEO (British Airways)
Mar 11th - Kenneth Dover, chancellor (St Andrews University)
Mar 13th - Frans van der Elst, Flemish attorney/MP (Volksunie)
Mar 14th - Dorothy Tyler-Odam, Great Britain, high jumper (Oly-silver-36, 48)
Mar 14th - Hank Ketcham, cartoonist (Dennis the Menace)
Mar 15th - Ranganandhan Francis, India, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56)
Mar 15th - Lawrence Sanders, American novelist (d. 1998)
Mar 15th - E. Donnall Thomas, American physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Mar 16th - John Addison, Surrey England, composer (Tom Jones-Acad Award)
Mar 16th - Leo McKern, Sydney Aust, actor (Blue Lagoon, Help, Mouse that Roared)
Mar 16th - Percy Mansell, cricketer (leg-spin all-rounder in 13 Tests for S Afr)
Mar 16th - Traudl Junge, Hitler's secretary (d. 2002)
Mar 16th - Dorothea Binz, Nazi war criminal (d. 1947)
Mar 16th - Sid Fleischman, American author
Mar 17th - John La Montaine, Oak Park Ill, composer (Pulitzer 1959)
Mar 18th - Eric Halsall, sheepdog trial commentator
Mar 18th - John Paul II, [Karol Wojtyla], Poland, Pope (1978- )
Mar 19th - Tige Andrews, American actor (d. 2007)
Mar 19th - Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author (d. 2002)
Mar 20th - Douglas G Chapman, biomathematical statistician
Mar 20th - Marian McPartland, jazz pianist (Bill Mayer, Jimmy McPartland)
Mar 20th - Werner Klemperer, Cologne Germany, actor (Col Klink-Hogan's Heroes)
Mar 21st - Bruno Maderna, composer [or Apr 21]
Mar 21st - Georg Ots, Estonian singer (d. 1975)
Mar 21st - Manolis Chiotis, Greek bouzouki virtuoso and song writer (d. 1970)
Mar 22nd - Fanny Waterman, concert pianist & teacher
Mar 22nd - Ross Martin, Grodek Poland, actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West)
Mar 23rd - Alexander Grigori Harut'unyan, composer
Mar 23rd - Geoffrey Bush, composer
Mar 23rd - James Brown, Desdemona Tx, actor (Lt Rip Masters-Rin Tin Tin)
Mar 23rd - Jimmy Edwards, comedy actor (Barnes)
Mar 23rd - Neal Smith, (Rep-D-IA, 1959- )
Mar 23rd - Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese baseball player and coach
Mar 24th - Gene Nelson, [Berg], Seattle Wash, actor (Tea For 2, Oklahoma)
Mar 25th - Patrick Troughton, actor (Doctor Who)
Mar 25th - Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (d. 1992)

Famous Deaths

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