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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 161

863 - Boudouin with the Iron Arm weds Charles de Kales' daughter Judith
1294 - Pope Coelestinus V ends term
1294 - Saint Celestine V abdicates the papacy after only five months; Celestine hoped to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit.
1545 - Council of Trent (19th ecumenical council) opens
1545 - Pope Paul III opens council of Trente
1570 - Sweden/Denmark signs Peace of Stettin
1572 - Spanish army beats Geuzen fleet under admiral Lumey
1577 - Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around world
1621 - Emperor Ferdinand II delegates 1st anti-Reformation decree
1636 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the United States National Guard.
1642 - New Zealand discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman
1643 - English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire.
1668 - Jean Racines "Britannicus," premieres in Paris
1734 - England & Russia sign trade agreement
1742 - Willem KH Friso tests his mothers potatoes
1759 - 1st music store in America opens (Phila)
1769 - Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter
1774 - 1st incident of Revolution-400 attack Ft William & Mary, NH
1816 - Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston
1823 - Gioacchino Rossini arrives in London
1833 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port Deseado, Patagonia
1843 - "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published, 6,000 copies sold
1861 - Battle of Alleghany Summit, WV
1862 - Battle of Fredericksburg, VA (Marye's Heights)
1864 - Battle of Ft McAllister, GA
1879 - 1st federal fish hatching steamer lauched (Wilmington Delaware)
1889 - Belgium rules on women/child labor law
1895 - 1st complete execution of Gustav Mahlers 2nd Symphony
1900 - Battle at Nooitgedacht: generals The la Rey/Smuts beat Britten
1901 - Test debut of S F Barnes v Aust SCG, took 5-65 in 1st innings
1903 - Italo Marcioni patents ice cream cone (NJ)
1903 - Wright Bros make 1st flight at Kittyhawk
1906 - German chancellor Bernhard von Bulow disbands the Parliament
1907 - George Gunn scores 119 on Test debut v Australia SCG
1907 - German emperor Wilhelm II visits Amsterdam
1913 - Mona Lisa stolen in Aug 1911 returned to Louvre
1916 - Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian & Italian troops in 24 hrs in Tyrol
1916 - Esme Stuart Lennox Robinsons premieres in Dublin
1916 - French chief of staff Joffre replaced by Nivelle
1918 - US army of occupation crosses Rhine, enters Germany
1918 - Wilson, becomes 1st to make a foreign visit as president (France)
1919 - Ross & Smith land in Australia from a flight from London
1920 - F Pease's interferometer measures 1st stellar diameter (Betelgeuse)
1920 - League of nations establishes Intl Court of Justice in The Hague
1920 - Netherland breaks contact with kingdom of Serbia, Croatia & Slavia
1922 - Charles Ebbets proposes putting numbers on players' sleeves or caps
1924 - KOA-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
1928 - Clip-on tie designed
1928 - George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres (NYC)
1930 - George Sisler's career ends when Boston Braves release him
1930 - Theodore Steeg forms French govt
1934 - Mark Hellinger Theater (Warner Bros) opens at 237 W 51st St NYC
1936 - Final Boston Redskin NFL game, lose to Packers 21-6, move to Wash DC
1936 - Green Bay Packers win NFL championship
1938 - Los Angeles freezes at 28°F
1939 - Battle at La Plata - 3 British cruisers vs German Graf Spee
1941 - German occupiers forbid National Front & Netherland Union
1941 - Lawine battlers destroy Haaraz, Peru; about 3,000 die
1941 - U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier Ark Royal
1942 - Seyss-Inquart allows Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert to call himself Leader
1942 - Washington Redskins defeat Chic Bears 14-6, to win NFL title
1943 - 150 US Marauders bomb Schiphol
1944 - Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138
1944 - Norman Krasna's "Dear Ruth," premieres in NYC
1946 - Leon Blum elected French premier
1947 - "Caribbean Carnival" closes at International NYC after 11 perfs
1947 - Maine Turnpike opens to traffic
1949 - AL votes down proposal to revive spitball
1949 - Knesset votes to transfer Israel's capital to Jerusalem
1950 - "Let's Make an Opera" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 5 perfs
1950 - James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial
1951 - Future British PM Margaret Roberts Thatcher marries Denis Thatcher
1953 - KOAM TV channel 7 in Pittsburg-Joplin, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - Dodgers trade Jackie Robinson to Giants for pitcher Dick Littlefield & $35,000 Robinson retires
1959 - Archbishop Makarios elected 1st president of Cyprus
1960 - Italy beats US in Davis cup (1st time in 24 years US not in finals)
1960 - Laos General Fumi Nosavang occupies Vientiane
1961 - Beatles sign a formal agreement to be managed by Brian Epstein
1961 - Gideon Hausner in Jerusalem demands death penalty for Adolf Eichmann
1961 - Jimmy Dean's Big Bad John album is country music 1st million $ seller
1962 - Relay 1 communication satellite launched
1963 - Capital records signs right of 1st refusal agreement with Beatles
1964 - Shirley Englehorn & Sam Snead wins Haig & Haig Mixed Foursome Golf
1964 - In El Paso, Tx, LBJ & Mexican Pres Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-Mexico border
1965 - Algerian president Boumedienne visits Moscow
1966 - 1st US bombing of Hanoi
1966 - 1st battle for Bijlmer flats Amsterdam
1966 - Test debut of Clive Lloyd, v India Bombay, 82 & 78
1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 - United Soccer Assn & Natl Pro Soccer League merge into NASL
1967 - Unsuccessful coup against Greek King Constantine II
1967 - San Diego, CA records snow at a zero elevation after temperatures plunge 19 degrees (F) in eight hours.
1968 - Playland at Beach reopens
1968 - Pres Da Costa e Silva disbands parliament/grabs power
1969 - Arlo Guthrie releases "Alice's Restaurant"
1969 - Billy Martin fired as Twins' manager
1970 - Greg Chappell scores 108 on Test debut v England at the WACA
1970 - Neil Simon's "Gingerbread Lady," premieres in NYC
1971 - John Sinclair (sentence: 10 yrs, sold 2 marijuana joints) is freed
1973 - MPLA/FNLA accord about combat against Portuguese Libya

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 221

1521 - Sixtus V, [Felice Peretti/"Montalto"], bishop of Fermo/Pope (1585-90)
1533 - Erik XIV Wasa, king of Sweden (1560-69)
1553 - Henry IV, 1st Bourbon-king of Navarre/France (1572/89-1610)
1585 - William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (d. 1649)
1640 - Robert Plot, English naturalist (d. 1696)
1662 - Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (d. 1729)
1678 - Yongzheng Emperor of China (d. 1735)
1720 - Carlo Gozzi, Italian dramatist (d. 1804)
1724 - Aepinus, [Franz UT Hoch], German physician/physicist
1732 - Jean-Claude Trial, composer
1740 - Franz Xaver Schnitzer, composer
1770 - John Clarke-Whitfeld, composer
1784 - Archduke Louis of Austria (d. 1864)
1797 - Heinrich Heine, Germany, poet/lyricist (Schubert, Liszt)
1804 - Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (d. 1873)
1810 - Clark Mills, US, sculptor (Freedom, Armed Liberty)
1816 - Clement Claiborne Clay, MC (Confederacy), died in 1882
1816 - E Werner von Siemens, German artillery officer/inventor
1818 - Mary Todd Lincoln, 1st lady (1861-65)
1819 - Edwin George Monk, composer
1835 - Phillips Brooks, Episcopal bishop/composer (Little Town of Bethlehem)
1836 - Franz von Lenbach, German painter (d. 1904)
1838 - Marie-Alexis Castillon de Saint-Victor, composer
1843 - George Stephanescu, composer
1850 - G F Grace, cricketer (brother of W G )
1850 - Iver Paul Fredrik Holter, composer
1853 - Joseph Sickman Corsen, Curacao, musician/composer/screenwriter
1856 - Svetozar Boroević, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1920)
1858 - Jakab Gyula Major, composer
1860 - Lucien Guitry, French actor (d. 1925)
1863 - Johannes Weiss, German New Testament scholar
1864 - Emil Seidel, Mayor of Milwaukee (d. 1947)
1865 - Gustav Luders, composer
1867 - Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian explorer and scientist (d. 1917)
1870 - Edward LeSaint, American actor and director (d. 1940)
1871 - Herman T Colenbrander, Dutch historian
1871 - Russell W Porter, Vermont, explorer (Alaska)
1871 - Emily Carr, Canadian artist (d. 1945)
1874 - Ludwig Curtius, German archaeologist (Die antike Kunst)
1877 - Mykola Dmytrovich Leontovych, composer
1883 - Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian, bibliographer and archivist (d. 1950)
1886 - Lambertus J van Apeldoorn, lawyer (martial law)
1887 - George Polya, Hungarian-born mathematician (d. 1985)
1889 - Clarence Loomis, composer
1890 - Marc Connelly, McKeesport Pa, playwright (One Minute Please)
1892 - Brand Dirck Ochse, filmer/co-founder (Polygoon)
1893 - Curt Jurgens, Munich Germany, actor (Enemy Below, Longest Day)
1897 - Drew Pearson, Evanston Ill, newscaster (Drew Pearson)
1898 - Daniel Lazarus, composer
1899 - Harold Guinzburg, publisher (founder of Literary Guild)
1899 - Yusef Greiss, composer
1900 - Jonel Perlea, composer
1900 - Norman Foster, Richmond IN, actor (Skyscraper Souls)
1901 - Georg M Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/theory [OS]
1901 - John Wijga, painter/illustrator
1902 - Paul Kurzbach, composer
1902 - Talcott Parsons, US sociologist
1903 - Carlos Montoya, Madrid Spain, guitarist (Suite Flamenco 1966)
1903 - Jewgeni Petrow, writer
1903 - John Piper, British writer (US Churches in WW I)/official war painter
1906 - Ingemar Liljefors, composer
1906 - Laurens jan van der Post, soldier/explorer/conservationist
1908 - Victor Babin, composer
1910 - Lillian Roth, [Rutstein], singer/actress (Animal Crackers)
1910 - Van Heflin, Walters Okla, actor (Great Adventure, Madame Bovary)
1911 - Kenneth Patchen, US, poet/novelist (Cloth of the Tempest)
1912 - Max Croiset, Dutch actor (Dog of Flanders, Little Ark) [or Aug 13]
1913 - Archie Moore, light-heavyweight boxing champ (1952-60)
1913 - Jimmy Carroll, NYC, pianist (Most Important People)
1913 - John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, English art historian
1914 - Alan L Bullock, British historian
1914 - George "Tiger" Haynes, guitarist/actor (Land Without Music, Guv'nor)
1914 - Samuel "Larry" K Parks, Olathe KS, actor (Jolson-Jolson Story)
1915 - Balthazar Johannes Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa (1966-77)
1915 - Mark Stevens, Cleveland Ohio, actor (Big Town, Martin Kane)
1915 - Ross MacDonald, detective novelist (Goodbye Look)
1915 - Curd Jürgens, German-born Austrian actor (d. 1982)
1917 - Dave Street, LA Calif, actor/singer (Broadway Open House)
1917 - John Hart, American actor
1919 - Hans-Joachim Marseille, German flying ace of World War II (d. 1942)
1920 - Don Taylor, Freeport Pa, actor (Father's Little Dividend)
1920 - Frits Noske, Dutch musicologist (Signifier & the Signified
1920 - George P Schultz, US Secretary of State (1982-89)
1920 - Kaysone Phomvihane,/premier/president Laos (Pathet Lao) (1991-92)
1923 - Fred van der Spek, Dutch 2nd chamber member (PSP)
1924 - Larry Doby, 1st black in baseball's AL (Cleve Indians)
1925 - Dick Van Dyke, West Plains Mo, actor (Rob Petrie-Dick Van Dyke Show)
1925 - Henry C Gordon, USAF/astronaut (Dynasoar)
1926 - Carl Erskine, baseball player (Bkln Dodgers)
1926 - George Rhoden, Jamaican athlete
1928 - W Gordon Smith, playwright
1929 - Albert Paulsen, Guayaquil Ecuador, actor (Doctors' Hospital)
1929 - Christopher Plummer, Toronto, actor (Sound of Music, Doll's House)
1930 - Genevieve Page, actress (Day & the Hour)
1930 - Robert Prosky, Phila, actor (Christine, Sgt Jablonski-Hill St Blues)
1934 - Richard Darryl Zanuck, film producer/executive
1935 - Bonno Spieker, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
1935 - Karim Aga Khan, prince/billionaire/husband of Rita Hayworth
1935 - Thomas Wakefield, writer
1935 - Joe Christopher, American baseball player

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 140

838 - Pippijn I, King of Aquitania, dies
1048 - Al-Biruni, Arabic royal astrologer, dies at 74
1124 - Callistus II, [Guido di Borgogna], Italian Pope (1119-24), dies
1124 - Pope Callixtus II
1126 - Hendrik IX, the Black, Duke of Bayern (1120-26), dies
1126 - Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria
1204 - Maimonides, Jewish philosopher/talmudic scholar, dies in Cairo at 69
1250 - Frederick II, German Emperor (1212-1250), dies at 55
1404 - Albrecht, duke of Bavaria, dies at 74
1404 - Albert, Count of Holland (b. 1336)
1466 - Donatello, Florentine artist and sculptor (b. 1386)
1516 - Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer (b. 1462)
1521 - Manoel I "the Great", King of Portugal (1495-1521), dies at 52
1521 - Manuel I of Portugal (b. 1469)
1557 - Niccolo Tartaglia, Italian mathematician, dies
1565 - Konrad von Gesner, naturalist, dies at 49
1565 - Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (b. 1516)
1574 - Selam II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74), dies at 50
1603 - Franciscus Vieta, mathematician, dies in Paris at 63
1603 - François Viète, French mathematician (b. 1540)
1621 - Katarina Stenbock, Queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1535)
1622 - Jan Campanus, composer, dies at 50
1672 - Jan II Kazimierz, king of Poland (1648-68), dies at 63
1693 - Dodoftei, Romanian metropolitan of Moldavia/writer (Saint Lives), dies
1693 - Willem Van de Velde, Dutch the Old, seascape painter, dies at about 82
1716 - Charles de La Fosse, French painter (b. 1640)
1721 - Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor and castaway (b. 1676)
1729 - Anthony Collins, Engl philosopher (On Liberty & Necessity), dies at 53
1738 - Gotthard Wagner, composer, dies at 59
1769 - C F Gellert, writer, dies at 54
1774 - Susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother, dies at 50
1783 - Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (b. 1717)
1784 - Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (b. 1709)
1793 - Johann Joachim Christoph Bode, composer, dies at 63
1812 - Marianne von Martinez, composer, dies at 68
1814 - Charles Joseph Prince of Ligne, Belg fieldmarshal/author, dies at 79
1835 - John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1760)
1837 - Herman of Alaska, Russian Orthodox hermit (b. 1756)
1862 - Conrad Feger Jackson, US Union brig-general, dies in battle at 49
1862 - Maxcy Gregg, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 48
1862 - Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 39
1863 - Friedrich Hebbel, writer, dies at 50
1868 - Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (b. 1794)
1872 - Helena Beeloo, Hague's maid, murdered by Henry Jut
1872 - W T van der Kouwen-ten Cate, Hague's Dame, murdered by Henry Jut
1881 - August Senoa, Croatian writer (Kletva [The Curse]), dies at 43
1883 - Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (b. 1812)
1894 - Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist, dies at 68
1895 - Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist (b. 1800)
1898 - George Frederick Bristow, composer, dies at 72
1909 - Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/interpreter, dies at 53 [OS 11/30]
1911 - Reg Duff, cricketer (23 Tests for Australia 1902-05, 1317 runs), dies
1919 - Amintore Galli, composer, dies at 74
1919 - Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (b. 1850)
1921 - Frederick Martin, cricketer (14 wkts in 2 Tests for Eng 1890-92), dies
1922 - Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic politician and poet (b. 1861)
1924 - Samuel Gompers, organizer (American Federation of Labor), dies at 74
1929 - Knut Algot Hakanson, composer, dies at 42
1930 - Fritz Pregl, Slovenian/Austrian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1869)
1931 - Gustave le Bon, French psychologist (b. 1840)
1932 - Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter (b. 1853)
1934 - Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell (b. 1854)
1935 - John Nicolson, cricketer (South African lefty batsman 1926-27), dies
1940 - Dusty Tapscott, cricket (bro of Doodles, 4&1 in only S Af Test), dies
1940 - George Macaulay, cricketer (took 24 wkts in 8 Tests, Eng 22-33), dies
1940 - Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist (b. 1851)
1940 - George Regas, Greek actor (b. 1890)
1942 - Eleanor Everest Freer, composer, dies at 78
1942 - Wlodimir Ledochowski, Polish-Austrian director of the Society of Jesus (b. 1866)
1944 - Lupe Velez, actress (Joe Palooka), overdoses on seconal at 34
1944 - Vassily Kandinsky, abstract artist (Dreamy Inspiration), dies at 78
1945 - Robert van Genechten, Dutch Nazi (NSB), commits suicide
1945 - Vittorio Mario Vanzo, composer, dies at 83
1945 - Elisabeth Volkenrath, supervisor at concentration camps (b. 1919)
1947 - Nicholas Roerich, Russian-born painter (b. 1874)
1950 - Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1902)
1951 - Selim Palmgren, Finnish pianist/composer (Daniel Hjort), dies at 73
1954 - John Raymond Hubbell, American writer (b. 1879)
1955 - Egas Moniz, Portuguese psychiatrist and neurosurgeon, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
1958 - Ahmed Mukhtar Baban, premier of Iraq, executed
1958 - Barhanuddin Bashajan, Iraqi minister of Foreign affairs, executed
1958 - Brand Dirck Ochse, film/bioscope pioneer (Polygoon), dies at 66
1958 - Rafiq Aref, Iraqi chief-staff Arabs Statenbond, executed
1958 - Tim Moore, actor (Kingfish-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 70
1958 - Tim Moore, American actor (b. 1887)
1961 - Grandma [Anna M] Moses, US painter, dies at 101
1962 - Harry Barris, American popular singer (b. 1905)
1963 - Hubert ME Pierlot, Belgian advocate/premier (1939-45), dies at 79
1966 - Charles Watts, actor (Lone Ranger & Lost City of Gold), dies of cancer
1968 - Siegfried Reda, composer, dies at 52
1969 - Raymond A Spruance, US admiral (battle of Midway), dies at 83
1969 - Spencer Williams, Jr., American actor (b. 1893)
1971 - Max Mell, Austria artillery officer/literary, dies at 88
1973 - Henry Green, English author (b. 1905)
1974 - Rufe Davis, actor (Floyd Smoot-Petticoat Junction), dies at 66
1975 - Cyril Delevanti, actor (Lucius-Jefferson Davis), dies at 88
1975 - Hendrik Kruls, Dutch gen/chief milt authority (1944-46), dies at 73
1976 - Eduard Claudius, writer, dies
1979 - Jon Hall, actor (Ramor of the Jungle), dies at 66
1979 - Jon Hall, American actor (b. 1915)