This Day in History for 9th April

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Events 1 - 100 of 174

193 - Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans).
475 - Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysite christological position.
715 - Constantine ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1241 - Battle of Liegnitz - Mongol armies defeat Poles & Germans
1388 - Battle of Näfels; Glarius Swiss defeat Habsburg (Austrian) army
1413 - Henry V is crowned King of England.
1440 - Christopher of Bavaria is appointed King of Denmark.
1454 - Milan/Venice signs peace of Lodi
1474 - Breisach land guardian Peter von Hagenbach throws out Walloon/Italians
1483 - Edward V (12) succeeds his father Edward IV as king of England (never crowned). Disappears, presumed murdered same year.
1538 - Danish king Christian III enters Schmalkaldische Union
1555 - Marcello Cervini elected Pope Marcellus II
1609 - Spain & Netherlands sign 12 Year Resistant Pact
1621 - Spain & Netherlands 12 Year Resistant Pact ends
1667 - 1st public art exhibition (Palais-Royale, Paris)
1682 - Robert La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France
1691 - French troops occupy Mons
1724 - 1st Easter [NS=April 16]
1783 - Tippu Sahib drives out English from Bednore India
1808 - Mayor Wolters offers French king Louis Napoleon townhall as a palace
1814 - Elias Canneman (L) resigns as minister of Finance
1816 - African Methodist Episcopal Church organizes (Phila)
1829 - Danzig (Gdansk) dike break flood kills 1,200
1831 - Robert Jenkins loses an ear, starts war between Britain & Spain
1833 - 1st tax-supported public library (Peterborough, NH)
1838 - National Gallery re-opens in its new dedicated building in Trafalgar Square London
1864 - Battle of Pleasant Hill LA, 2870 casualities
Confederate General Robert E Lee 1865 - General Robert E Lee and 26,765 troops, surrender at Appomattox Court House in Virginia to US Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant
1866 - Civil Rights Bill passes over Pres Andrew Johnson's veto
1869 - Hudson Bay Company cedes it's territory to Canada
1870 - American Anti-Slavery Society dissolves
1872 - Samuel R Percy patents dried milk
1894 - 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 5th Symphony in B in Graz
1906 - 3½th modern Olympic games opens in Athens (4/22 NS)
1909 - The U.S. Congress passes the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act.
1912 - 1st exhibition baseball game at Fenway Park (Red Sox vs Harvard)
1912 - Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for NY
1913 - Brooklyn Dodger's Ebbets Field opens, Phillies win 1-0
1914 - "World, the Flesh & the Devil," 1st color film, shown in London
1914 - 1st full color film shown "World, Flesh & Devil" (London)
1914 - Tampico incident - US ship crew arrested in Mexico
1917 - Battle of Arras begins
1917 - Vimy Ridge France stormed by Canadian troops
1918 - Latvia proclaims independence
1923 - Sean O'Casey's "Shadow of a Gunman," premieres in Dublin
Baseball Great Babe Ruth 1925 - Babe Ruth rushed to hospital
1927 - Italy & US anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti given death sentences
1928 - Eugene O'Neill's "Lazarus Laughed," premieres in Pasadena
1928 - Mae West's NYC debut in a daring new play "Diamond Lil"
1928 - Top-Oss soccer team forms in Oss
1928 - Turkey passes separation of church & state
1931 - Chicago Cy Wentworth beats Mont Canadiens at 13:50 of 6th period
1932 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs sweep NY Rangers in 3 games
1935 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Maroons sweep Toronto Maple Leafs in 3 games
1939 - Marian Anderson sings before 75,000 at Lincoln Memorial
1940 - German cruiser Blucher torpedoed/capsizes in Oslofjord, 1,000 die
1940 - Germany invades Norway & Denmark during WW II (Denmark surrenders)
1941 - PGA establishes Golf Hall of Fame
1942 - Battle of Bataan-US-Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japs at Bataan
1944 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientals Ecclesiae
Actress Mae West 1945 - Battleship Admiral Scheer sunk by RAF bombing in Kiel
1945 - Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying aerial bombs explodes, kills 360
1945 - NFL requires players to wear long stockings
1945 - World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends.
1946 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1
1947 - Atomic Energy Commission confirmed
1947 - Baseball suspends Bkln Dodger Leo Durocher for 1 year
1947 - Tornadoes striking West Texas & Oklahoma kill 169, injuring 1,300
1948 - Massacre at Deir Yassin.
1949 - UN Intl Court of Justice held Albania responsible for incidents in Corfu Channel & awards Britain damages
1950 - 14th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 283
1950 - 4th Tony Awards: Cocktail Party & South Pacific win
1950 - Bob Hope's 1st TV appearance
1952 - Popular uprising in Bolivia
1952 - Hugo Ballivian's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines
1953 - "TV Guide" publishes 1st issue
1953 - Jomo Kenyatta sentenced to 7 years in Kenya
1953 - Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film, entitled House of Wax.
1954 - WECT TV channel 6 in Wilmington, NC (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1957 - Howard Hanson's "Song of Democracy," premieres in Wash DC
1957 - Suez Canal cleared for all shipping
1959 - Balt Orioles pull their 2nd triple play (3-6-3 vs Wash Senators)
1959 - Bill Sharman hits a NBA record 56 consecutive foul shot
1959 - NASA names 1st 7 astronauts for Project Mercury
1959 - 13th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics sweep Minn Lakers in 4 games Boston Celtics wins 8th straight title
1960 - 14th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat St Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3
1960 - South African premier Verwoerd wounded in battle
1962 - 26th Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 280
Actress Sophia Loren 1962 - 34th Academy Awards - "West Side Story," Sophia Loren & Max Schell win
1962 - JFK throws out 1st ball at Washington's new DC Stadium
1963 - Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary US citizen
1965 - Beatles "Ticket to Ride" is released in UK
1965 - India & Pakistan engage in border fight
1965 - 1st game at Astrodome, Houston beats Yankees 2-1 in exhibition as Mickey Mantle hits 1st indoor homerun
1966 - Anaheim Stadium for California Angels opens
1967 - "At the Drop of Another Hat" closes at Booth NYC after 105 perfs
1967 - 1st Boeing 737 rolls out
1967 - 31st Golf Masters Championship: Gay Brewer Jr wins, shooting a 280
1967 - Shortwave broadcaster Radio NY Worldwide's transmitter burns down

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 239

1336 - Tamerlane (Timur), Central Asian, Turkic conqueror (d. 1405)
1498 - John, Cardinal of Lorraine, French churchman (d. 1550)
1597 - John Davenport, Connecticut pioneer (d. 1670)
1611 - Giacomo Maria Predieri, composer
1627 - Johann Kaspar Kerll, composer
1634 - Albertine Agnes, princess of Orange-Nassau
1648 - Henri de Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Galway, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1720)
1649 - James Scott, duke of Monmouth, bastard son of English king Charles II
1680 - Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist (d. 1754)
1686 - James Craggs the Younger, British politician (d. 1721)
1691 - Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (d. 1761)
1716 - Johann Georg Zechner, composer
1717 - Georg Matthias Monn, composer
1751 - Emanuel Schikaneder, [Johann Schickeneder], German playwright [or 9/1]
1754 - Antonio Frantisek Becvarovsky, composer
1754 - Pieter Paulus, Dutch lawyer/CEO (National Convention)
1757 - Wojciech Boguslawski, composer
1770 - Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist (d. 1831)
1773 - Étienne Aignan, French writer (d. 1824
Turkic Conqueror Tamerlane (1336) 1785 - Sibrand Acker Stratingh, Dutch physician/chemist (electric car 1835)
1794 - Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute (d. 1881)
1798 - Giuditta Pasta, [Negri], soprano
1806 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, designer of 1st transatlantic steamer
1812 - Randolph Barnes Marcy, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1887
1821 - Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, France, symbolist poet (Flowers of Evil)
1826 - Thomas Hewson Neill, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1885
1830 - Eadweard Muybridge, England, pioneered study of motion, photography
1835 - Leopold II, King of Belgians (1865-1909)
1847 - Francesco Paolo Tosti, composer
1847 - Francis William Davenport, composer
1848 - F A MacKinnon, cricketer (later the 35th Mackinnon of Mackinnon)
1848 - Helena Lange, German feminist
1850 - Herman Zumpe, composer
1851 - C E Arthur Wichmann, German/Dutch geologist (Neth Indies)
1854 - Seaborn M Denson, composer
1855 - Gyula Reviczky, Hungarian author/poet
1861 - Charles Holroyd, painter/etcher
1865 - Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Germany, experiment with AC electricity
1865 - Erich Ludendorff, general (Germany)
1867 - Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1941)
1871 - Arthur Fickenscher, composer
1872 - Leon Blum, French premier (People's front government)
1874 - Julius Bittner, Austrian composer (Little Violet)
1879 - Gerald Festus Kelly, artist
1882 - Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, (d. 1946)
1883 - Renzo Bossi, composer
1884 - Franco Vittadini, composer
1888 - Florence Smith Price, US composer (Wanamaker Prize 1932)
1888 - Sol Hurok, theatrical impresario
1889 - Efrem Zimbalist, Rostov on Don Russia, composer/violinist
1891 - John Gobau, Flemish/Dutch actor (Electricity, Hostage Rights)
1894 - Ernest Kanitz, composer
1895 - Mance Lipscomb, Texas, blues musician (Texas Sharecropper)
1895 - Michel Simon, [Francois], Geneva Switzerland
1895 - Rudolf Kattnigg, composer
1898 - Earl "Curly" Lambeau, NFL coach (GB Packers)
1898 - Julius Patzak, Austrian tenor singer
1898 - Paul Robeson, Philadelphia, singer (Old Man River)/actor/footballer
1900 - Allen Jenkins, Staten Island, actor (Hey Jeannie, Top Cop, Girl Habit)
1901 - Paul Willis, American actor (d. 1960)
1902 - Frantisek Suchy, composer [or April 21, 1891]
1903 - Gregory Pincus, inventor (birth control pill) [or Nov 9]
1903 - Ward Bond, Denver Colo, actor (Seth-Wagon Trains)
1903 - Willem Pee, Belgian linguist
1904 - Lyle Latell, IA, actor (Not of the Earth, Sky Dragon)
1904 - Sharkey Bonano, American musician (d. 1972)
1905 - J William Fulbright, (Sen-D-Ark)
1906 - Antal Dorati, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Dresden Opera 1928-29
1906 - Todd Naylor "Hugh" Gaitskell, MP (Labour)
1906 - Rafaela Aparicio, Spanish actress (d. 1996)
1908 - Fred Lohse, composer
1908 - Victor Vasarely, Hungarian/French painter/author (Op Art)
1909 - Domenico Enrici, Apostolic Nuncio
1909 - Ivan Ivonovich Dzerzhinsky, composer
1909 - Robert Helpmann, Mt Gambier Australia, actor (Second Time Lucky)
1909 - Robert Murray Halpmann, dancer
1910 - Abraham A Ribicoff, (Sen-D-Ct)
1910 - Sharon Lynn, Weatherford TX, actress (Way Out West, Big Broadcast)
1911 - Albert Remy, Sevres France, actor (Grand Prix, Gigot, Train)
1911 - Lord Deramore, architect
1912 - Lew Kopelew, Russian author (d. 1997)
1914 - Richard Young, CEO (Boosey & Hawkes)
1915 - Daniel Johnson, Sr., Quebec politician (d. 1968)
1917 - Johannes Bobrowski, writer
1917 - Vincent O'Brien, racehorse trainer
1917 - Brad Dexter, American actor (d. 2002)
1918 - Jorn Utzon, Danish architect (Sydney Opera House)
1919 - John Presper Eckert, co-inventor (1st electronic computer-ENIAC)
1920 - Alexander Moulton, English bicycle designer (folding bicycle)
1920 - Art Van Damme, Norway Mich, jazz accordionist (Chicago Jazz)
1920 - David Walker, Professor of Law (Glasgow University)
1920 - F Don Miller, Racine Wisc, Boxing coach (Olympic-1956)
1921 - Frankie Thomas, NYC, actor (Tom Corbett Space Cadet)
1921 - Jean-Marie Balestre, French motorsports official (FIA) (d. 2008)
1922 - Carl Amery, writer
1922 - Gerald Moverley, Roman Catholic bishop (Hallam)
1922 - Michael Palliser, head of British diplomatic service
1923 - Bruno Kiefer, composer
1923 - Dann Cahn, Hollywood, California,film editor (I Love Lucy, Beverly Hillbillies), (d. 2012)
1924 - Harald Heilmann, composer

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 4 of 4

1966 - Sophia Loren marries married Carlo Ponti in Paris
1994 - Singer Wayne Newton (52) weds attorney Kathleen McCrone (30)
2005 - His Royal Highness Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles
2010 - Philadelphia Eagles long snapper Jon Dorenbos (30) weds Julie Lesicki at St. Augstine Catholic Church in Philadelphia

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

2012 - Salsa artist Marc Anthony (42) divorces pop star and actress Jennifer Lopez (43) due to irreconcilable differences after 7 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 104

93 - Yuan An, Minister over the Masses of the Han dynasty
491 - Zeno, Byzantine Emperor
715 - Constantine I, Greek/Syrian Pope (708-15), dies
1024 - Benedict VIII, [Theophylactus van Tusculum], Pope (1012-24), dies
1137 - William X, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1099)
1483 - Edward IV, King of England (1461-70, 71-83) (b.1442)
1484 - Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales (b. 1473), son of Richard III King of England
1492 - Lorenzo de' Medici, Florentine statesman, dies
1553 - Francois Rabelais, French author (Gargantua/Pantagruel), dies at 49
1557 - Michael Agricola, Finnish theologist/church reformer/bishop, dies
1626 - Francis Bacon, English statesman and philosopher, dies from pneumonia at 65
1654 - Matei Basarab, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1588)
1681 - Alfonso Marsh, composer, dies at 54
1693 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (b. 1618)
1747 - Simon Fraser, 12th baron Lovat Jacobite, last man beheaded in England
1754 - Christian von Wolff, German philosopher, dies at 75
1761 - William Law, British minister and theologian (b. 1686)
1765 - Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel, princess of Orange-Nassau, dies at 77
1793 - Ernestus Weinrauch, composer, dies at 62
Princess of Orange Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel (1765) 1804 - Jacques Necker, fiancier/statesman, dies
1806 - William V of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic dies at 58
1807 - John Opie, Engl painter/illustrator: Shakespeare gallery, dies at 45
1821 - Felix Maximo Lopez, composer, dies at 78
1850 - William Prout, physician/chemist, dies
1851 - Antoine-Charles Glachant, composer, dies at 80
1852 - John Howard Payne, actor/playwright (Fair Warning), dies
1862 - George W Johnson, US planter/Confederate (gov-Ky), dies at about 50
1865 - Thomas Alfred Smyth, Irish/US Union general-major, dies at 32
1872 - Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (b. 1794)
1876 - Charles Goodyear, American politician (b. 1804)
1879 - Ernst Friedrich Richter, composer, dies at 70
1882 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English Pre-Raphaelite poet and painter, dies at 53
1886 - Joseph V von Scheffel, German writer (Ekkehard), dies at 60
1889 - Michel Eugène Chevreul, French chemist (b. 1786)
1893 - Disma Fumagalli, composer, dies at 66
1904 - Isabella II, Queen of Spain (1833-68), dies at 73
1909 - Charles Conder, artist, dies
1909 - Helena Modrzejewska, Polish-American actress (b. 1840)
1916 - Vicente Goicoechea Errasti, composer, dies at 62
1917 - Edward Thomas, poet, killed in WW I
1917 - James Hope Moulton, British scholar of Classical Greek (b. 1863)
1923 - Mauritius H Binger, director/producer (Living Ladder), dies
1931 - Paul Antonin Vidal, composer, dies at 67
1933 - Sigfrid Karg-Elert, composer, dies at 55
1936 - Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (b. 1855)
1939 - Emilio Serrano y Ruiz, composer, dies at 89
1940 - Mrs Patrick Campbell, English actress (Outcast Lady, Riptide), dies
1944 - Boleslaw Wallek-Walewski, composer, dies at 59
1944 - Evgeniya Rudneva, Russian World War II heroine (b. 1920)
1945 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologist/antifascist, hanged
1945 - Hans Oster, German major-general/spy, "July 20th plot", hanged
1945 - Hans von Dohnanyi, "July 20th plotter", hanged
1945 - Wilhelm Canaris, Admiral/headed Germany Abwehr, hanged
1945 - Georg Elser, failed assassin of Hitler (b. 1903)
1947 - Konrad Friedrich Noetel, composer, dies at 43
1948 - George Carpenter, Australian Salvation Army general (b. 1872)
1948 - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (b. 1903)
1951 - Sadiq Hidajat, Persian writer (Hadji Aga), dies
1951 - Vilhelm F K Bjerknes, Norwegian/US physicist/meteorology, dies at 89
1954 - Philip Greeley Clapp, composer, dies at 65
1959 - Frank Lloyd Wright, US architect (Guggenheim Museum NY), dies at 89
1961 - Zog I, [Ahmed Zogu], King of Albania (1925-39), dies at 65
1962 - Juan Belmonte, famed bullfighter, dies at 70
1966 - Sutan Sjahrir, premier of Indonesia (1945-47), dies at 57
1970 - Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish illustrator (b. 1896)
1976 - Akio Yashiro, composer, dies at 46
1976 - Phil Ochs, singer (Draft Dodger Rag), commits suicide at 35
1978 - Clough Williams-Ellis, Welsh architect (b.1883)
1979 - Staats Cotsworth, dies at 71
1980 - Kathleen Burke, dies
1982 - Robert H G Havemann, German chemist/dissident, dies
1982 - Wilfred Pelletier, symph conductor (Voice of Firestone), dies at 85
1984 - Basil Henry Blackwell, British publisher, dies
1986 - Jean Mogin, Belgian poet, dies at 64
1988 - Brook Benton, singer (Just a Matter of Time), dies at 56 of meningitis
1988 - Dave Prater, rocker (Sam & Dave), dies in a car crash at 50
1991 - Maurice Binder, title designer (James Bond Movies), dies at 73
1991 - Martin Hannett, record producer (b. 1948)
1992 - Gale McGee, senator (Wyoming, 1959-77), dies at 77
1992 - Ruth Hammond, dies in her sleep at 96
1993 - Wouter Perquin, journalist/Dutch MP (KVP), dies at 74
1994 - Cornelis N "Cor" van Dis Jr, Dutch MP (1971-94), dies at 71
1994 - Keith Watson, British comic strip artist (Dan Dare), dies at 59
1994 - Marcel Ichac, French alpinist/director (Karakoram), dies at 87
1994 - Raouf Khayrat, Egyptian general-major, murdered
1995 - James Bullock, colliery manager, dies at 92
1996 - James William Rouse, US builder (shopping malls), dies at 81
1996 - Maisie Fitter, editor/conservationist, dies at 83
1996 - Richard Thomas Condon, author, dies at 81
1996 - Sandy Becker, NYC Kiddie TV Show host (Sandy Becker Show), dies at 74
1997 - Helene Hanff, author (84 Charing Cross Road), dies at 80
1998 - Tom Cora, American cellist and composer (b. 1953)
1999 - Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, Niger politician and general (b. 1949)
2001 - Willie Stargell, American baseball player (b. 1940)
2002 - Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician (b. 1891)
2002 - Pat Flaherty, American racecar driver (b. 1926)
2006 - Billy Hitchcock, American baseball player, coach, and official (b. 1916)
2006 - Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish writer and film director (b. 1924)
2007 - Egon Bondy, Czech philosopher and writer (b. 1930)
2009 - Nick Adenhart, MLB pitcher (b. 1986)