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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 142

3114 BC - According to the Lounsbury correlation, the start of the Maya calendar.
523 - St John I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1099 - Raniero elected as Pope Paschal II
1326 - Aradia de Toscano, according to legend/folklore, is initiated into a Dianic witchcraft cult and subsequently founds the tradition of Stregheria, later known as the Malandanti.
1415 - King Henry V of England army lands on mouth of Seine River
1516 - Kings Charles I & Francois I signs Treaty of Noyons
1516 - The Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain is signed. Francis recognises Charles's claim to Naples, and Charles recognises Francis's claim to Milan.
1521 - Spanish conquerors Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) from Aztecs
1536 - Buddhist monks from Kyōto's Enryaku Temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout Kyoto in the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1536).
1553 - Michael Servetus is arrested by John Calvin in Geneva as a heretic.
1578 - Duke French van Anjou recognized as protector of Netherlands
1608 - John Smith's story of Jamestown's 1st days submitted for publication
1624 - Cardinal Richelieu appointed Chief Minister of France by Louis XIII
1630 - Ferdinand II fires supreme commander Albrecht von Wallenstein
1642 - Christiaan Huygens discovers Martian south polar cap
1645 - Sweden & Denmark sign Peace of Brömsebro
1651 - Litchfield, CT founded
1695 - -15] French troops under Villeroi shoot in Brussels
1696 - State of Drenthe accredits Willem III as mayor
1704 - French & Bavarian forces were routed by a combined British, German & Dutch army at Blenheim, Germany
1713 - King Frederik Willem declares war on Brandenburg-Prussia
1732 - Voltaire's "Zaire," premieres in Paris
1740 - Hunger strike in Rotterdam
1784 - English parliament accept India Act
1788 - Prussia joins Anglo-Dutch alliance to form Triple Alliance to prevent spread of Russo-Swedish War of 1788-90
1792 - Revolutionaries imprison French royals including Marie Antoinette
1799 - English fleet under lord Seymour overthrows Suriname
1814 - Cape of Good Hope formally ceded to British by the Dutch
1814 - Treaty of London-Netherland stops transporting slaves
1831 - Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia
1864 - Battle of Deep Bottom VA (Strawberry Plains) & Fussell's Mill VA
1868 - Earthquakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador)
1876 - Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified
1876 - Wagner's "Of the Ring," premieres
1881 - Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolese monarch
1889 - William Gray patents coin-operated telephone
1892 - US black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore
1898 - US forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war
1902 - England beat Australia by one wicket at The Oval Famous victory
1906 - Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas
1906 - Cub's Pitcher Jack Taylor ends a string of completing 202 games (187 complete, 15 relief) by Dodgers in 3rd inning
1907 - 1st taxicab (NYC)
1908 - Cy Young Day in Boston, he pitches briefly against an All-Star team
1910 - Dodgers & Pirates play to 8-8 tie, both have 38 at bats, 13 hits, 12 assists, 2 errors, 5 strikeouts, 3 walks, 1 pass ball & 1 hit by pitch
1913 - Otto Witte, an acrobat, is purportedly crowned King of Albania.
1913 - Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
1914 - -14] German army occupies forts at Luik
1914 - Carl Wickman begins Greyhound, the 1st US bus line, in Minnesota
1914 - France declares war on Austria-Hungary, leading to WW I
1917 - Phillies steal 5 bases in an inning against Braves
1918 - Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany.
1919 - British troops fire on Amritsar India demonstrators; killing 350
1919 - Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga)
1920 - 24th US Golf Open: Ted Ray shoots a 295 at Inverness Club in Ohio
1921 - Simon Kaufman & Marc Connelly's "Dulcy," premieres in NYC
1923 - Germany: Gustav Stresemann becomes premier of coalition govt
1923 - Turkish National Congress selects Moestafa Kemal Pasja as president
1923 - US Steel Corp initiates 8th-hour work day
1928 - Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins
1931 - Cin Red Tony Cuccinello goes 6 for 6
1932 - Hitler refuses Von Hindenburg's proposal to become vice-chancellor
1932 - Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing homers & wins game 1-0 in 10 tying
1933 - 16th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Blue Mound CC Milwaukee
1933 - Jacques van Egmond becomes world champion amateur cyclist
1935 - Transcontinental Roller Derby begins (Chicago Coliseum)
1937 - Japanese attack Shanghai
1937 - Battle of Shanghai begins.
1939 - Yankees set AL shutout margin with 21-0 victory over A's
1939 - Sabotage suspected in crash of 'City of San Francisco'
1940 - Germany air attack on South England (Battle of Britain begins)
1940 - Goering's "Adler Tag" 45-48 German aircrafts shotdown over South-Engld
1941 - Red army evacuates Smolensk
1943 - Red army recaptures Spas-Demensk
1944 - British 8th army occupies Florence
1944 - Generals Montgomery/Dempsey/Bradley discuss naderende breakthrough
1944 - Jackie Gleason-Les Tremayne show premieres on NBC radio
1945 - 35 Jews sacrifice their lives to blow up Nazi rubber plant in Silesia
1946 - Britain transfers illegal immigrants bound to Palestine, to Cyprus
1948 - Satchel Paige at 42, pitches his 1st major league complete game
1950 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship
1950 - Pres Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime Bao-Dai
1951 - Great-Britain & Iraq sign new oil contract
1953 - 4-5 million French go on strike against economizations
1953 - Pres Eisenhower establishes Govt Contract Compliance Committee
1953 - US Gen Omar Bradley's becomes chief of staff
1954 - 21st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 31, All-Stars 6 (93,470)
1955 - Larry Doby's ends AL record of 167 errorless games in outfield
1956 - WBIR TV channel 10 in Knoxville, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 - Indians' right fielder Rocky Colavito makes his pitching debut, hurling 3 hitless innings, Detroit 3, Cleveland 2
1959 - Milt satellite Discoverer 5 launched (into polar orbit)
1960 - Central African Republic & Chad proclaim independence from France
1960 - USSR draws adviseors out of China
1961 - Construction of the Berlin Wall begins in East Germany
1961 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Kansas City Golf Open
1962 - Bert Campaneris of Daytona Beach (FSL) pitches ambidextrously
1963 - Custom agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum
1963 - Warren Spahn sets left-hander strike out mark at 2,382
1964 - 1st broadcast by Trans World Radio on Bonaire
1967 - WQLN TV channel 54 in Erie, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - Balt Oriole Jim Palmer no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0

Famous Birthdays

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582 - Arnulf of Metz, French bishop and saint (d. 640)
1311 - King Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (d. 1350)
1422 - William Caxton, 1st English printer (Histories of Troy)
1584 - Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (d. 1640)
1617 - Johann A Quenstedt, German Lutherian theologist
1625 - Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1698)
1655 - Johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet)
1662 - Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (d. 1748)
1666 - William Wotton, English scholar (d. 1727)
1692 - Anton Simon Ignaz Praelisauer, composer
1700 - Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (d. 1763)
1704 - Lorenzo Fago, composer
1717 - Christoph Nichelsmann, German composer
1717 - Louis François I, Prince of Conti, French military leader (d. 1776)
1721 - Francis Ireland, composer
1747 - Adrien-Joseph van Helmont, composer
1748 - Pieter L van de Kasteele, Dutch politician/patriot
1752 - Marie Caroline of Austria, queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1814)
1764 - Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (d. 1816)
1790 - William Wentworth, Australian explorer and politician (d. 1872)
1792 - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen consort of William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1849)
1802 - Nikolaus Lenau, Hungary, German poet (Faust, Die Albigenser)
1803 - Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1869)
1814 - Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (d. 1874)
1817 - Karoly Thern, composer
1818 - Lucy Blackwell-Stone, US abolitionist (US Woman's Suffrage Assn)
1819 - George Gabriel Stokes, physicist/mathematician (spectroscope)
1820 - George Grove, London, England, biblical scholar/misicographer
1820 - Joseph Alberdingk Thijm, [Pauwels Foreestier], poet (Dietsche Warande)
1823 - Goldwin Smith, English-born historian and journalist (d. 1910)
1826 - William Thomas Best, composer
1831 - Salomon Jaoassohn, composer
1840 - Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (Eros)
1841 - Unaarrimin, cricketer (played cricket as Johnny Mullagh)
1851 - John Lincoln Clem, Drummer (Union volunteers), died in 1937
1851 - Felix Adler, German-born educator (d. 1933)
1860 - Annie Oakley, Drake Ohio, frontierswoman (Buffalo Bill's Wild West)
1866 - Giovanni Agnelli, Italian industrialist (d. 1945)
1867 - Rudolf Georg Binding, German songwriter/writer (Legenden Der Zeit)
1867 - William A Craigie, Scottish lexicographer (Skotlands Rimur)
1871 - Karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary marxist (Sparta Party)
1872 - Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1942)
1878 - Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, composer
1878 - Salomon "Sam" de Wolff, Dutch zionist/socialist theorist
1879 - John N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Mai-Dun)
1881 - Jacqueline [Pierrette] R van Stuwe, [Eline v S], Dutch author
1884 - Harry Dean, England cricketer (d. 1957)
1886 - Jacob Pierneef, South Africa, painter
1887 - Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (d. 1952)
1888 - John Logie Baird, Scotland, inventor (father of TV)
1888 - Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (d. 1975)
1889 - Camillien Houde, Quebec politician, mayor of Montreal (d. 1958)
1890 - [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, black US advocate in Virginia
1894 - Ferdinand Sassen, Dutch philosopher/director
1894 - Leonid Alexeyevich Polovinkin, composer
1895 - Bert Lahr, [Irving Lahrheim], US comic/actor (Lion-Wizard of Oz)
1895 - Robert Burton, actor (Dr Gordon-Kings Row)
1896 - Leo[nhard] Pappenheim, conductor
1898 - Jean Borota, France, tennis champ (35 Wimbledons between 1922-64)
1899 - Alfred Hitchcock, London, director (Psycho, Birds, Rear Window)
1901 - Ian Whyte, composer
1902 - Bartoes, [Albertus J Wijstma], cabaret performer/comic
1902 - Felix Wankel, Germany, inventor (Wankel rotary-piston engine)
1902 - Lord Sainsbury of Drury Lane, president (J Sansbury Pics)
1902 - Regis Toomey, Pitts Pa, actor (Burke's Law, Petticoat Junction)
1903 - Wilton Graff, St Louis MO, actor (Bloodlust, Just Before Dawn)
1904 - Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Olathe KS, actor (Wings)
1907 - Alfred Alwin Felix Krupp, Essen Germany, arms manufacturer
1907 - Sir Basil Spence, Scottish architect (d. 1976)
1908 - Gene Raymond, NYC, actor (Paris 7000, Fireside Theater)
1909 - John Beal, Joplin MO, actor (10 Who Dare, I Am the Law, Amityville 3D)
1909 - Wilhelmina Von Bremen, US 4X100 relay sprinter (Olympic-gold-1932)
1911 - William Bernbach, Famous Advertiser (d. 1982)
1912 - Ben Hogan, Dublin Tx, PGA golfer (US Open 1950, 51, 53)
1912 - Jan Peeters, Dutch water colors painter/monumental artist
1912 - Max Croiset, playwright/director/actor (Dog of Flanders, Little Ark)
1912 - Metten Koornstra, Dutch painter/graphic artist
1912 - Rita Johnson, Worcester Mass, actress (Honolulu, All Mine to Give)
1912 - Salvador E Luria, Italian/US biologist (Nobel prize 1969)
1913 - Anatoly Vasilyevich Bogatiryov, composer
1913 - Francisco Escudero, composer
1913 - Liesbeth Askonas, concert agent
1913 - Lord Oram, British MP (Labour)
1913 - Makarios III, [Michail Moeskos], archbishop/president Cyprus
1914 - Richard Basehart, actor (Voyage to Bottom of the Sea)
1914 - Luis Mariano, Basque operetta singer (d. 1970)
1917 - Sid Gordon, American baseball player (d. 1975)
1918 - Denis Smallwood, British air chief marshal
1918 - Frederick Sanger, England, biochemist (Nobel 1958, 1980)
1918 - John Bunting, senior civil servant
1919 - Rex Humbard, televanglist
1920 - Charlie Alfred Galbraith, jazz trombonist
1920 - George Shearing, London, blind pianist/composer (Lullabye of Byrdland)
1921 - Neville Brand, Kewanee IL, actor (DOA, Eaten Alive, Fire, Mohawk)
1924 - John Milne, CEO (Blue Circles Industries)
1925 - Benny Bailey, jazz trumpeter
1925 - Leslie Joseph, QC
1926 - Fidel Castro Ruz, Mayari, Oriente, Cuba, dictator (1959- )
1929 - Augustyn Bloch, composer
1929 - Charles Lyon, gen-sect (Transport Salaried Staffs Association)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 112

586 - Radegund, wife of Clotaire I
587 - Radegundis, daughter of Thurings king Berthar/saint, dies
662 - Maximus Confessor, Greek theologist/crusader, dies
900 - Zwentibold, king of Lutherans (895-900), dies in battle at 29
1134 - Irene [Pirisca], Byzantine empress, dies
1134 - Piroska of Hungary, Empress consort of John II Comnenus
1191 - Philips van Heinsberg, archbishop of Cologne, dies
1278 - Daikaku, Zen teacher Rinzai line/head of Kenchoji, dies in Japan at 65
1382 - Eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (b. 1358)
1523 - Gerard David, Flemish painter
1617 - Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman (b. 1540)
1637 - Dirck J Bas, Dutch merchant/regent/govt leader (OIC), dies
1667 - Jeremy Taylor, Irish author and bishop (b. 1613)
1674 - Lars Johnstown, [Lasse Lucidor], Swedish poet, dies at 35
1686 - Louis Maimbourg, French-born historian (b. 1610)
1721 - Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (b. 1665)
1744 - John Cruger, Dutch-born Mayor of New York (b. 1678)
1749 - J E Schlegel, writer, dies
1762 - John Alberti, theologist/philological, dies at 64
1787 - Isaac de Pinto, merchant/lender/Dutch States-general, dies
1808 - Henri Hardouin, composer, dies at 81
1826 - René Laënnec, French physician (b. 1781)
1841 - Bernhard Heinrich Romberg, German composer, dies at 73
1841 - Bernhard Romberg, German cellist/composer, dies
1860 - Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro, dies
1863 - Eugène Delacroix, French painter (b. 1798)
1865 - Ignaz Semmelweis, gynecologist, dies at 47
1886 - Adolf von Doss, composer, dies at 62
1895 - Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition), dies
1896 - John Everett Millais, English painter, dies at 67
1897 - Antonius von der Linde, Neth/German librarian, dies at 63
1908 - Ira D Sankey, US evangelist/composer/singer (Gospel Hymns), dies at 67
1910 - Florence Nightingale, English nurse, dies at 90
1912 - Jules EF Massenet, French opera composer (Werther, Manon), dies at 70
1913 - F August Bebel, German social-democrat, dies
1916 - Fritz Steinbach, composer, dies at 61
1924 - Julian Aguirre, composer, dies at 56
1927 - James Curwood, US journalist/writer (Valley of Silent Men), dies at 49
1928 - Fernand de La Tombelle, composer, dies at 74
1933 - Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher, composer, dies at 80
1937 - Arthur Plunkett, English civil engineer (b. 1890)
1940 - George C Pearce, actor (Hold tat Lion, British Agent), dies at 75
1946 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, sci-fi author (Time Machine), dies at 79
1946 - Valery Viktorovich Zhelobinsky, composer, dies at 33
1946 - H. G. Wells, English writer (b. 1866)
1947 - Johan H T Norlind, Swedish musicologist, dies
1948 - Edwin Maxwell, actor (Taming of the Shrew), dies at 62
1948 - Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (b. 1897)
1953 - Dmitri Arakishvili, composer, dies at 80
1954 - Hermann W S Waltershausen, German musicologist/composer, dies at 71
1956 - Harry Donnan, cricketer (5 Tests for Australia 1891-96), dies
1958 - Otto Witte, acrobat and, purportedly, King of Albania (b. 1868)
1959 - Henry Garat, actor (Congress Dances), dies at 57
1961 - Adeline De Walt Reynolds, actress (Son of Dracula), dies at 78
1965 - Ikeda Hayato, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1899)
1967 - Jane Darwell, actress (Girls in Prison), dies of heart attack at 87
1970 - Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky, composer, dies at 75
1971 - King Curtis, [Curtis Ousley], US musician, murdered at 37
1972 - George Wiess, General Manager (NY Yankees), dies at 78
1973 - Ben van Eysselsteijn, Dutch playwright (Arid Earth), dies at 75
1974 - Hugo Yarnold, cricketer (Umpire in 3 Tests for England), dies
1974 - Kate O'Brien, Irish writer (Pray for the Wanderer), dies at 76
1977 - Henry Williamson, English author (Tarka the Otter), dies
1982 - Charles Walters, US actor/choreographer/dir (High Society), dies at 70
1982 - Joe E Ross, comedian (Toody-Car 54, Phil Silvers Show), dies at 77
1982 - Joe Tex, [Joseph Arrington Jr], singer (Getting Scarce), dies at 49
1982 - Joe Tex, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)
1984 - Clyde Cook, actor (Dawn Patrol, Jazz Heaven), dies in his sleep at 92
1985 - Marion Martin, actress (Dakota Lil, Queen of Burlesque), dies at 67
1986 - Helen Mack, actress (Son of Kong, Milky Way), dies
1987 - Vincent Persichetti, US composer (Sibyl), dies at 72
1988 - Otto E Passman, (Rep-D-La, 1947-77), dies at 88
1989 - Tim Richmond, race car driver (won 13 NASCAR races), dies of AIDS
1989 - Larkin Smith, U.S. Representative from Mississippi (b. 1944)
1990 - Jimmy Starr, actor (Hot Flashes), dies at 86
1991 - Jack Ryan, inventor (Barbie Doll, Hot Wheels), dies at 65
1992 - Bill Elverman, playwright/actor (After Hours), dies at 40
1992 - Clifford Allison, US stock-car racer, dies in an accident
1992 - David Kaplan, news director (ABC), killed in Sarajevo Yugoslavia
1992 - Jan Elburg, [Joannes G], poet (Geen letterheren), dies
1994 - Manfred Worner, German general/sec-gen of NATO (1988-94), dies at 59
1995 - Alison Hargreaves, mountaineer, dies at 33
1995 - Jesse Thomas, blues singer, dies at 84
1995 - Mickey Mantle, baseball great (NY Yankees), dies of cancer at 63
1995 - Per-Jakez Helias, Writer/teacher, dies at 81
1995 - Jan Křesadlo, Czech-born writer (b. 1926)
1996 - Antonio Sebastiao Ribiero de Spinola, soldier/polititican, dies at 86
1996 - Antonio de Spinola, general of Portugal, dies
1996 - Christopher John Gray, priest, dies at 42
1996 - David Randall, priest, dies at 49
1996 - David Tudor, composer, dies at 70
1996 - Tom Mees, ESPN sports anchors (NHL), drowns at 46
1996 - W Gordon Smith, playwright, dies at 67
1998 - Julien Green, American novelist (b. 1900)
1998 - Nino Ferrer, French-Italian singer and composer (b. 1934)
1999 - Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist and comedian, murdered (b. 1960)
2000 - Nazia Hassan, Pakistani pop singer (b. 1965)
2001 - Otto Stuppacher, Austrian racing driver (b. 1947)
2003 - Ed Townsend, American songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
2004 - Julia Child, American chef and television personality (b. 1912)