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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 197

69 - Battle at Bedriacum, North-Italy
1205 - Battle at Adrianople: Bulgaria beats Emp Boudouin of Constantinople
1250 - Pope Innoncent III refuses Jews of Cordova Spain to build a synagogue
1450 - French defeat English at Battle of Formigny in 100 Years' War
1493 - -20/4 Barcelona] Columbus meets with King Ferdinand & Isabella
1581 - Cortes van Thomar accepts Philip II as king of Portugal
1594 - Fleming Pieter Stevens appointed royal painter of Rudolf II (Prague)
1595 - Willem I's daughter of Elisabeth of Nassau marries duke Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne of Broth
1621 - Hugo the Great arrives in France
1632 - Swedish & Saxon army beat Earl Tilly
1632 - Battle of Rain; Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
1654 - England & Netherlands signs peace treaty
1689 - French king Louis XIV declares war on Spain
1697 - Charles XII succeeds Charles XI as King of Sweden
1715 - Uprising of Yamasse-indians in South Carolina
1715 - Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
1716 - Russian & Prussian troops occupy Wismar
1729 - Johann S Bachs "Mattheus Passion" premieres in Leipzig
1738 - Bottle opener invented
1738 - Premiere in London of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.
1755 - Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language published in London.
1776 - Duchess of Kingston found guilty of bigamy
1784 - 1st balloon flight in Ireland
1788 - England, Netherlands & Prussia sign peace treaty
1793 - Bank of England hands out 1st £5 note
1800 - James Ross discovers North Magnetic pole
1802 - William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
1817 - 1st American school for the deaf opens (Hartford Conn)
1850 - City of San Francisco incorporated
1851 - Earl G Andressy sentenced to death in Hungary
1853 - Protestant church questions king Willem III RC bishops
1858 - Battle of Azimghur, Mexicans defeat Spanish loyalists
1861 - Federal army (75,000 volunteers) mobilized by Pres Lincoln
1864 - General Steeles' Union troops occupies Camden, Arkansas
1865 - Otto von Bismarck elevated to earl
1865 - Pres Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater
1870 - Last day US silver coins allow to circulate in Canada
1874 - NY legislature passes compulsory education law
1877 - 1st telephone installed: Boston-Somerville, Mass
1878 - Harley Procter introduces Ivory Soap
1892 - General Electric Company, forms & is incorporated in NY
1895 - Josephine Blatt (US) makes hip-and-harness lift of 3564 lb (record)
1896 - 1st Olympic games close at Athens, Greece
1900 - An early 50 mile race is won by an electric car in over 2 hrs
1900 - International Exposition opens in Paris
1901 - 1st British motorized burial
1902 - Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Church in US"
1906 - The Armenian organization AGBU is established.
1909 - Mien Wenneker, Dutch prince Henry's lover, weds Uncle Cornelis Abbo
1909 - NY Giant Red Ames 2nd no-hitter, loses in 13 on a 7 hitter to Dodgers
1910 - Taft is 1st pres to throw out a 1st ball at a baseball game
1911 - Jack Lawrence Theater (Playhouse) opens at 137 W 48th St NYC
1911 - Walter Johnson pitches a record tying 4 strike outs in an inning
1912 - Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as band plays on
1915 - Manuel de Falla's ballet "El Amor Brujo," premieres in Madrid
1915 - NY Giant Rube Marquard no-hits Bkln, 2-0
1918 - Clemenceau publishes secret French/Austrian documents
1920 - New Canadian small cent coin is released
1921 - Black Friday- Labour Party strike of mine workers fails
1922 - Banting, MacLeod & Best discover insulin
1922 - Poodle Dog Restaurant closes
1923 - 1st sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (NYC)
1923 - Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics
1924 - Flemish-Walloon riots in Louvain Belgium, 1 dead
1924 - WHO-AM in Des Moines Iowa begins radio transmissions
1924 - Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
1925 - NHL's NY Americans (formerly Hamilton Tigers) 1st game, lose 3-1
1927 - Babe Ruth hits 1st of 60 HRs of season (off A's Howard Ehmke)
1927 - Switzerland & USSR agree to diplomatic relations
1928 - Alioto's on Fisherman's Wharf (SF) forms
1931 - 1st walk across American backwards begins
1937 - Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat NY Rangers, 3 games to 2
1939 - Albert Lebrun elected president of France
1940 - British troops land at Narvik, Norway
1941 - 1st helicopter flight of 1 hr duration, Stratford, Ct
1942 - George VI awards George Cross to people of Malta
1943 - Metropolitan Life Insurances issues a $225 million check to Chase
1945 - British Army liberates Nazi concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen
1945 - FDR buried on grounds of Hyde Park home
1945 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Communium interpretes dolorum
1945 - US troops occupy concentration camp Colditz
1947 - Jackie Robinson goes hitless in his major league debut
1947 - Operations begin at Radio Netherlands World radio
1948 - 1st Jewish-Arab military battle, arabs defeated
1948 - Indian territory of Himachal Pradesh created
1948 - KCPX (now KTVX) TV channel 4 in Salt Lake City, UT (ABC) 1st broadcast
1949 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Redemptoris nostri
1951 - Michael Gorsira is 1st person in charge of Curacao
1952 - 1st B-52 prototype test flight
1952 - Franklin National Bank issues 1st bank credit card
1952 - Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings sweep Montreal Canadiens in 4 games
1952 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1952 - The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress
1953 - Malans National Party wins South African elections
1953 - WHP TV channel 21 in Harrisburg, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - KARK TV channel 4 in Little Rock, AR (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Orioles 1st game in Baltimore beat White Sox 3-1
1954 - WHO TV channel 13 in Des Moines, IA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Yankees dedicate a plaque to Edward Barrow
1955 - Ray Kroc starts McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants (Illinois)

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 270

1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italy, painter/sculptor/scientist/visionary
1469 - Nanak, 1st guru of Sikhs
1489 - Sinan, Ottoman architect (d. 1588)
1552 - Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1626)
1588 - Claudius Salmasius, [Claude Saumaise], French linguist
1637 - Valentin Molitor, composer
1641 - Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician (d. 1722)
1646 - King Christian V of Denmark (d. 1699)
1646 - Pierre Poiret, French mystic (d. 1719)
1651 - Domenico Gabrielli, composer
1682 - John van Huysum, Dutch painter (flowers/fruit)
1684 - Catherine I, empress of Russia (1725-27)
1688 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer
1689 - Ferdinand Zellbell, composer
1707 - Leonhard Euler, Bassle Sweden, mathematician (Euler's Constant)
1710 - William Cullen, Scottish physician (d. 1790)
1741 - Charles Willson Peale, US, port painter/inventor (George Washington)
1757 - George Knowil Jackson, composer
1766 - Friedrich Bouterwek, German philosopher/critic
1772 - Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (d. 1844)
1793 - Friedrich Struve, Germany, founded dynasty of astronomers
1794 - Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist (d. 1867)
1800 - James Clark Ross, explorer (British Antarctic)
1809 - Hermann Gunther Grassmann, mathematician
1812 - Pierre-Etienne-Theodore Rousseau, painter
1814 - John Lothrop Motley, US, historian/author (Rise of Dutch Rep)
1820 - Evander McNair, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1902
1821 - Emerson Brown Joseph, (Confederacy), died in 1894
1822 - Napolean Jackson Tecumseh Dana, Major General (Union volunteers)
1827 - Julius Tausch, composer
1829 - Mary Harris Thompson, 1st American woman surgeon
1832 - Wilhelm Busch, German poet (d. 1908)
1837 - Horace Porter, Bvt Brig General (Union Army), died in 1921
1841 - Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (d. 1919)
1843 - Carl Eilhardt, composer
1843 - Henry James, American/British author (Turn of the Screw, Bostonians), (d. 1916)
1845 - Dave Gregory, cricketer (Australia's 1st Test captain)
1850 - John Munroe Longyear, US, capitalist/bank president
1858 - Anton G O Ridder Van Rappard, Dutch painter/lithographer/etcher
1858 - Emile Durkheim, French sociologist (Division du travail social)
1861 - Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (d. 1929)
1874 - Johannes Stark, Germany, physicist (Stark effect) (Nobel 1919)
1874 - George Harrison Shull, American plant geneticist (d. 1954)
1875 - Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker, Dutch playwright/novelist (Poverty)
1875 - James J. Jeffries, American heavyweight boxer (d. 1953)
1878 - Robert Walser, writer
1879 - Melville Henry Cane, American lawyer (d. 1980)
1882 - Giovanni Amendola, Italian antifascist/editor-in-chief (Il Mondo)
1883 - Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
1885 - Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Polish general (d. 1947)
1886 - Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (d. 1921)
1888 - Florence Bates, San Antonio Tx, actress (Kismet, I Remember Mama)
1888 - Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (d. 1904)
1889 - Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader (Railroad Porter's Union)
1889 - Thomas Hart Benton, Missouri, painter/muralist (Lonesome Road)
1891 - Alvin Carter, Virginia, vocalist (Carter Family)
1891 - Vaino Raitio, composer
1891 - Wallace Reid, St Louis MO, actor/dir/screenwriter (Every Inch a Man)
1892 - Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (d. 1983)
1892 - Theo Osterkamp, World War I and World War II German fighter pilot (d. 1975)
1894 - Elizabeth Mae "Bessie" Smith, Empress of Blues (over 200 songs)
1895 - Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer (Gente in Aspromonte)
1895 - Harry F V Edward, British Guiana, 100m/200m runner (Oly-bronze-1920)
1895 - Clark McConachy, New Zealand billiards player (d. 1980)
1896 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)
1898 - Marian Jordan, actress, radio comedienne (Molly-Fibber McGee & Molly)
1898 - Nini de Boel, Flemish operette singer (White Horse)
1901 - Joe Davis, English snooker/billiards-world champ (1927-46)
1902 - Fernando Pessa, Portuguese journalist (d. 2002)
1903 - Erich Arendt, writer [or Apr 16]
1903 - John Williams, England, actor (Niles-Family Affair, Dial M for Murder)
1904 - Arshile Gorky, Armenian Artist (d. 1948)
1906 - A J "Sandy" Bell, S Afr cricket fast bowler (16 Tests 1929-35)
1906 - Susan Walker, vice CEO (WRVS)
1907 - Gerald Abrahams, Liverpool, author (Teach Yourself Chess)
1907 - Nicholas Tinbergen, Neth/British biologist/zoologist (Nobel 1973)
1908 - Eden Ahbez, songwriter
1908 - Louise Chaplin, actress
1908 - Lita Grey, American actress (d. 1995)
1910 - Lord Grey of Naunton, chancellor (Ulster University)
1911 - Jacob Fresco, Dutch architect (Antilles Brewery/Autonomy Monument)
1912 - Kim II Sung, pres of North Korea (1945-94)
1912 - Peter Menzies, CEO (British Electricity Council)
1914 - John Gregory, dancer
1915 - Ernest Borneman, sexual researcher psychotherapist writer/musicologist
1916 - Alfred S. Bloomingdale, American businessman (d. 1982)
1917 - Hans Conried, Balt Md, actor (Bullwinkle Show, Make Room for Daddy)
1917 - Pietro Grossi, composer
1918 - John Baragrey, Haleyville AL, actor (Creeper, Colossus of NY)
1919 - Clive Beadon, airman
1919 - Elizabeth Catelett, sculptor/lithographer
1919 - Meriol Trevor, novelist/biographer (Civil Prisoners)
1920 - Richard von Weizsacker, baron/president (Germany, 1984-94)
1921 - Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 3)
1921 - Norman Ewart Thurston, musician
1922 - Harold Washington, 1st black mayor of Chicago (D, 1983-87)
1922 - Michael Ansara, Lowell Mass, actor (Cochise-Broken Arrow, Centennial)
1923 - Douglas Wass, CEO (Equity & Law Life Assurance Company)
1924 - John Grigg, British historian
1924 - Neville Marriner, Lincoln England, conductor (Minn Orch 1978)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 126

1053 - Godwin, Earl of Wessex
1220 - Adolf I, archbishop of Cologne, dies
1415 - Manuel Chrysoloras, Greek humanist and grammarian
1472 - Leon B Alberti, Italian humanist/architect (Philodoxis), dies at 68
1502 - Jan IV Chalon, prince of Orange, dies
1605 - Boris Godunov, tsar of Russia (1598-1605), dies
1607 - Cornelius Kilianus, Flemish translator/poet, dies at about 78
1610 - Johan van Duivenoorde, mister of Warmond, dies at about 62
1621 - John Carver, first governor of Plymouth Colony
1632 - George Calvert, Proprietor of the Avalon (Maryland) Colony (b. 1580)
1641 - Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (b. 1581)
1652 - Patriarch Joseph, head of the Russian Orthodox Church
1659 - Simon Dach, German poet, dies
1719 - Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer, dies at 76
1719 - Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (b. 1635)
1754 - Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (b. 1676)
1756 - Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, composer, dies at 29
1761 - Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1682)
1761 - William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (b. 1696)
1764 - Jeanne-Antoinette-Poison LeNormant d'Etoiles, Marquis de Pomador, dies
1764 - Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (b. 1721)
1765 - Michail v Lomonosov, Russian scholar/poet, dies at 53
1788 - Giuseppi Bonno, composer, dies at 77
1793 - Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary and geographer (b. 1718)
1804 - Charles Pichegru, French general (strangled in prison) (b. 1761)
1811 - Ernest Louis Muller, composer, dies at 70
1824 - Theodorus F van Capellen, vice-admiral (Algiers), dies at 61
1853 - Johann Leopold Fuchs, composer, dies at 67
1854 - Arthur Aikin, English chemist, mineralogist, and writer (b. 1773)
1863 - Jan Nepomuk Kanka, composer, dies at 90
1865 - Abraham Lincoln, at 7:22 am, assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
1866 - William Jackson, composer, dies at 51
1888 - Matthew Arnold, English poet, dies at 65
1889 - Father Damien, Belgian missionary (b. 1840)
1891 - Stephen Albert Emery, composer, dies at 49
1898 - Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader
1911 - Georg Knorr, German engineer, dies
1912 - Edward Smith, captain of the RMS Titanic (b. 1850)
1912 - John Jacob Astor IV, billionaire (b. 1864)
1912 - William T. Stead American author and journalist. (b. 1849)
1916 - Alfred Cogniaux, Belgian botanist, dies at 75
1920 - Jacob van Stolk Azn, art collector, dies at 74
1924 - Eduardo Caudella, composer, dies at 82
1925 - John Singer Sargent, US portrait painter, dies at 69
1926 - Frank Iredale, cricketer (14 Tests for Aust, 807 runs at 36 68), dies
1927 - Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (Di Giacomo), dies at 47
1927 - Gaston Leroux, French writer (b. 1868)
1929 - Antonio Smareglia, composer, dies at 74
1937 - Nikolai Artzibushev, composer, dies at 79
1938 - Caesar Vallejo, Peru/French poet (Trilce, Russia & 1931), dies at 46
1942 - Robert Musil, Austrian writer (Mann ohne Eigenschaften), dies at 61
1943 - Raffaele Casimiro Casimiri, composer, dies at 62
1943 - Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian artist (d. 1882)
1947 - Wolstenholme, rocker, dies
1948 - Radola Gajda, Czech military commander and politician (d. 1892)
1949 - Wallace Beery, US actor (The Champ), dies at 64
1954 - Juan Vicente Lecuna, composer, dies at 54
1956 - Emile Nolde [Hansen], German painter (Grablegung Christi), dies at 88
1957 - Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (b. 1917)
1958 - Estelle Taylor, dies at 64
1962 - Clara Blandick, committed suicide at 80
1962 - Esther Minciotti, dies at 74
1962 - Arsenio Lacson, Filipino politician and sportswriter (b. 1911)
1963 - Edward "Carji" Greeves, Australian rules footballer (b. 1903)
1965 - Syd Chaplin, dies at 80
1966 - Joseph Crehan, dies of stroke at 81
1967 - Antonio de Curtis Toto, comedian, dies of heart attack at 69
1968 - Boris Mykolayovich Lyatoshyns'ky, composer, dies at 73
1969 - Victoria von Battenberg, wife of Spanish king Alfonso, dies at 81
1970 - Ripper Collins, American baseball player (b. 1904)
1971 - Dan Reeves, American football team owner (b. 1912)
1972 - Otto Brenner, German trade union leader, dies at 64
1974 - Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (b. 1906)
1975 - Charles Marshall, dies
1975 - John B McKay, US test pilot (X-15), dies
1975 - Richard Conte, actor (Four Just Men, Jean Arthur Show), dies at 65
1976 - Gerald Smith, antisemite/catholic (Natl Christian Crusade), dies at 78
1980 - Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialist philosopher and writer (Nobel 1964), dies in Paris at 74
1980 - Marshall Reed, actor (Fred Asher-Lineup), dies at 62
1980 - Paul Langton, actor (Leslie-Peyton Place), dies at 76
1980 - Raymond Bailey, actor (Mr Drysdale-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 75
1981 - French Duynstee, Dutch states rights leader, dies at 67
1982 - 5 murderers, of Egyptian pres Sadat, executed
1982 - Arthur Lowe, Brits actor (Capt Mainwaring in Dad's army), dies at 66
1982 - Louis M de Guiringaud, Fren forgn min (1976-78), commits suicide at 70
1983 - Gyula Illyes, Hungarian writer/poet (Az Ismertlen Illyes), dies at 80
1983 - Rodolfo Hoyos, actor (Luis-Viva Valdez), dies at 68
1983 - Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (b. 1892)
1984 - Tommy Cooper, comedian, dies at 61
1984 - Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (b. 1925)
1986 - Jean Genet, French criminal/novelist/dramatist, dies at 75
1986 - Sergei Nikolayevich Anokhin, cosmonaut, dies at 76
1986 - Tim McIntire, actor (Bob Younger-Legend of Jesse James), dies at 42
1988 - Hendrikus G "Han" Hoekstra, Dutch poet (Zandloper), dies at 81
1988 - Kenneth Williams, dies at 61
1988 - Youri Egorov, Soviet classical pianist (b. 1954)
1989 - Charles Vanel, dies at 96
1989 - Hu Yaobang, general sec of Chinese Commnist Party, dies
1989 - Nesuhi Ertegün, American record executive (b. 1917)
1990 - Greta Garbo, actress (Anna Karenina, Camille), dies at 84