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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 174

69 - General Vespasianus occupies Rome
69 - Vespasian, formerly a general under Nero, enters Rome to claim the title of emperor.
1046 - Synod of Sutri: German king Henry III removes Popes Gregory VI
1046 - Benedictus IX & Silvester III & names Bishop Siutger, Pope Clemens II
1192 - Richard the Lionhearted captured in Vienna
1448 - Pope Nicolaas V named Utrechts bishop Rudolf of Diepholt, cardinal
1522 - Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights of Rhodes, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually settle on Malta and become known as the Knights of Malta.
1585 - English fleet & earl Robert Dudley van Leicester reach Vlissingen
1600 - Ottario Rinuccini/Giulio Caccini's opera "Euridice" published
1606 - Virginia Company settlers leave London to establish Jamestown Va
1626 - Emperor Ferdinand II/Transylvanian monarch Gabor Betlen signs Peace of Pressburg
1661 - Corporation Act enforced in England
1669 - 1st jury trial in Delaware; Marcus Jacobson condemned for insurrection & sentenced to flogging, branding & slavery
1688 - Prince Willem III's troops pull into London
1694 - Frederik van Brandenburg flees Schweiben
1699 - Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed-Sept 1 to Jan 1
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army meets de Esk
1780 - England declares war on Netherlands
1790 - 1st successful US cotton mill to spin yarn (Pawtucket, RI)
1803 - Louisiana Purchase formally transferred from France to US for $27M
1820 - Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 & 50
1823 - Franz Schuberts "Ballet-Musik aus Rosamunde," premieres in Vienna
1830 - England, France, Prussia, Austria & Russia recognize Belgium
1850 - Hawaiian post office established
1860 - SC votes 169-0 for Ordinace of Secession, 1st state to secede
1861 - Battle of Dranesville, VA
1862 - -Dec 20th] Battle of Kelly's Ford, VA
1862 - -Jan 3rd] Vicksburg campaign
1862 - Battle of Holly Spring, MS
1862 - Brig-gen Nathan B Forrest occupies Trenton, Kentucky
1864 - -Dec 27th] Battle of Ft Fisher, NC
1865 - De Clear-Alkmaar railway opens
1879 - Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park
1880 - Battle at Bronker's Spruit, Transvaal: Farmers beat Britten
1880 - NY's Broadway lit by electricity, becomes known as "Great White Way"
1883 - Intl cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls
1891 - Strongman Louis Cyr withstands pull of 4 horses
1892 - Phileas Fogg completes around world trip, according to Verne
1892 - Pneumatic automobile tire patented, Syracuse, NY
1893 - 1st state anti-lynching statue approved, in Georgia
1894 - Day Six 1T Aus v Eng Australia need 177 to win, all out 166
1894 - England beat Australia by 10 runs in the 1st six-day Test Cricket
1900 - Giacobini discovers a comet (will be 1st comet visited by spacecraft)
1906 - Venezuela (under vice-pres Gomez) attacks Dutch fleet
1907 - Explosion at Yolande Alabama, coal mine kills 91
1912 - J Hartley Manners' "Peg O' My Heart," premieres in NYC
1912 - Paul Claudels "L'Annonce Faite à Marie," premieres in Paris
1915 - Russian troops overrun Qom, Persia
1917 - Russian secret police in Czech forms under Felix Dzerzjinski
1918 - Eugene O'Neill's "Moon of the Caribees," premieres in NYC
1919 - Canadian Natl Railways established (N America's longest, 50,000 KM)
1919 - US House of Representatives restricts immigration
1920 - Bert Collins scores 104 on Test Cricket debut v England SCG
1920 - Bob Hope became an American citizen
1921 - AL votes to return to best-of-7 World Series, while NL votes best-of-9 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis casts deciding vote for best-of-7
1922 - 14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (USSR)
1922 - Polish parliament selects Stanislaw Wojcieckowski as president
1924 - Adolf Hitler freed from jail early
1926 - Cards trade Rogers Hornsby to Giants for Frankie Frisch & Jimmy Ring
1926 - Pope Pius XI convicts fascist pursuit in Italy
1926 - Sidney Howard's "Silver Cord," premieres in NYC
1928 - 1st international dogsled mail leaves Minot, Maine for Montreal, Que
1928 - Ethel Barrymore Theater opens at 243 W 47th St NYC
1929 - Heinie Wagner replaces Bill Carrigan as Red Sox manager
1929 - Mount Davidson dedicated as a SF city park
1930 - Learie Constantine cricket 100 in 52 mins WI v Tas (10x4, 1x6, 1x5)
1932 - Queensland all out 74 v Victoria, Ironmonger (age 50) 7-13
1933 - Bolivia & Paraguay sign weapon cease fire
1935 - Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Ad Catholici Sacerdotii
1937 - Bill O'Reilly takes 9-41 for NSW against South Australia
1938 - Vladimir K Zworykin (Penn) receives patent on Iconoscope TV system
1939 - Radio Australia begins overseas shortwave service
1940 - Connie Mack acquires controlling interest in the Athletics for $42,000
1941 - Free France under adm Muselier occupies St-Pierre et Miquelon
1941 - Japanese troops lands on Mindanao
1941 - World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers" in Kunming, China.
1942 - 1st Japanese bombing of Calcutta
1943 - "International" is no longer USSR National Anthem
1944 - Archbishop De Young & bishop Huibers condemn black market
1944 - Battle of Bastogne, Nazis surround 101st Airborne (NUTS!)
1944 - Bishop forbids membership in non Catholic unions
1944 - Terence Rattigans "O Mistress Mine," premieres in London
1945 - Rationg of auto tires ends in US
1946 - Darius Milhaud's 2nd Symphony, premieres
1948 - Second Chamber accept 2nd Police Action in Indonesia
1949 - Maurice Ravel/John Cranko's ballet "Beauty & the Beast," premieres
1950 - "Harvey," starring James Stewart, premieres in NY
1952 - KHQ TV channel 6 in Spokane, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - KID (now KIDK) TV channel 3 in Idaho Falls, ID (CBS) 1st broadcasting
1953 - KWTV TV channel 9 in Oklahoma City, OK (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.
1956 - Military coup under colonel Simbolon in Sumatra
1956 - Montgomery, Ala, removed race-based seat assignments on its buses
1957 - Elvis Presley given draft notice to join US Army for National Service
1959 - Jasu Patel takes 9-69, India v Australia at Kanpur
1960 - Auschwitz-commandant Richard Bar arrested in German FR
1960 - National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam is formed.
1962 - D Sjostakovitz opera "Katerina Ismailova," premieres in Moscow
1962 - Osmond brothers debut on Andy Williams Show
1963 - Berlin Wall opens for 1st time to West Berliners

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 213

1494 - Oronce Finé, French mathematician (d. 1555)
1537 - King John III of Sweden (d. 1592)
1539 - Paul Melissus [Paul Schede], German poet/composer
1566 - Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (d. 1612)
1579 - John Fletcher, Elizabethan dramatist (Phylaster) (baptized)
1594 - Giovanni Battista Gagliano, composer
1606 - Christoph Schultze, composer
1626 - Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman (d. 1692)
1629 - Pieter de Hoogh, Dutch painter
1659 - Francois Fagel, Dutch lawyer/statesman
1717 - Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (d. 1787)
1720 - Charles Edward Stuart, [Bonnie Prince Charlie/Young Pretender]
1729 - Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorny, composer
1758 - Othon Joseph Vandenbroek, composer
1774 - Guillaume-Perre-Antoine Gatayes, composer
1786 - Pietro Raimondi, composer
1792 - Nicolas Charlet, French painter (d. 1845)
1805 - Thomas Graham, father of colloid chemistry
1807 - Richard Lucian Page, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1808 - Thomas Tinsley Craven, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1887
1809 - Friedrich Karl Kuhmstedt, composer
1812 - Achille Peri, composer
1813 - Samuel Jordan Kirkwood, (Gov-Iowa)/US Sect of Interior (1881-82)
1819 - John Geary, 1st SF postmaster, 1st mayor (May 1, 1850)
1825 - Romeyn Beck Ayres, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888
1833 - Samuel A Mudd, doctor, convicted of giving medical aid to JW Booth
1838 - Edwin Abbott Abbott, English schoolmaster, theologian, and author (d. 1926)
1841 - Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932)
1858 - Jean/Johannes T "Jan" Toorop, Dutch painter/graphic artist (3 Brides)
1859 - Antonius J Derkinderen, Dutch painter/etcher
1860 - Dan Leno, English entertainer (d. 1904)
1861 - Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (d. 1926)
1865 - Maude Gonne, Irish nationalist (Irish Joan of Arc)
1865 - Elsie De Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator (d. 1950)
1867 - Fini Valdemar Henriques, composer
1868 - Harvey S Firestone, Industrialist, where the rubber meets the road
1869 - Charley Grapewin, Xenia OH, actor (Wizard of Oz, Libeled Lady)
1870 - Pieter C Boutens, Dutch poet (Voices, Carmina)
1871 - Henry Kimball Hadley, composer
1872 - Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer
1873 - Kwan-Ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian(d. 1948)
1875 - T F Powys, Wales, writer (Captain Patch, Goat Green)
1876 - Jan Van Oudshoorn, [Jan K Feylbrief], Dutch writer (Maze of Senses)
1876 - Walter S Adams, US astronomer/director of Mount Wilson (1923-46)
1881 - Branch Rickey, baseball executive (Dodgers)
1884 - Marius HLW "Max" Blokzijl, Dutch nazi collaborator/traitor
1886 - Domingo Julio Gomez Garcia, composer
1886 - Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, Calif, tennis player (US Open 1909-11)
1888 - Fred Merkle, American baseball figure (d. 1958)
1889 - Bozidar Sirola, composer
1890 - Yvonne Arnaud, French-born actress (d. 1958)
1894 - Robert Menzies, Australian PM (1939-41, 1949-66)
1895 - Susanne Langer, US, philosopher/educator (Philosophy in a New Key)
1898 - Irene [Marie] Dunne, Louisville, actress (Show Boat, I Remember Mama)
1900 - Gabby Harnett, (NL MVP 1935)
1901 - Louis I Kahn, US architect [or Feb 20]
1901 - Robert Van de Graaff, Alabama, physicist (Mobility of Gaseous Ions)
1902 - George EAE, English prince/earl of St Andrews
1902 - Max Lerner, US, columnist (NY Post)
1902 - Sidney Hook, anticommunist philosopher (Paradoxes of Freedom)
1902 - George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (d. 1942)
1904 - Albert Van Dekker, Brooklyn NY, actor (Dr Cyclops, Beau Gesture)
1904 - [Schmidt] Hans Burkhardt, artist
1905 - "Tiger" Bill O'Reilly, cricketer (mighty Australian leg-spinner)
1906 - Dick White, head of British secret service (MI-5/MI-6)
1906 - Irving Krick, meteorologist
1906 - Lowell Gilmore, MN, actor (Living Christ Series)
1907 - Paul Francis Webster, songwriter (d. 1984)
1908 - Giulio Cesare Brero, composer
1908 - Norman Hackforth, broadcaster
1908 - Dennis Morgan, American actor (d. 1994)
1909 - Vagn Holmboe, composer
1909 - Vakkom Majeed, Indian politician (d. 2000)
1911 - Hortense Calisher, NYC, novelist (Arts & Letters 1967)
1915 - Aziz Nesin, writer
1916 - Michel Chartrand, Quebec union leader
1917 - David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (d. 1992)
1918 - Audrey Totter, Joliet Ill, actress (Carpetbaggers, Set-Up)
1922 - Charita Bauer, Newark NJ, actress (Guiding Light, Aldrich Family)
1922 - George Roy Hill, dir (Slap Shot, Little Drummer Girl, Little Romance)
1923 - Nadine Gordimer, Springs South Africa, novelist
1924 - Errol John, Port-of-Spain Trinidad, actor (PT-109, Assault on a Queen)
1924 - Ingeborg E A "Inge" Beekman, actress (Horizon)
1924 - Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician and broadcaster (d. 1980)
1925 - Bob de Moor, Flemish comic strip artist (Kuifje, Lion of Flanders)
1925 - Datuk Seri Mahathir bin Mahamad, premier of Malaysia (1981- )
1925 - Frederick Edward Nicklin, architect
1925 - Vlastimir Nikolovski, composer
1925 - Benito Lorenzi, Italian footballer (d. 2007)
1926 - David Levine, US painter
1926 - Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician
1927 - Jim Simpson, sportscaster
1927 - Kim Young-sam, President of South Korea
1928 - Charles Donald Adams, singer
1928 - Jack Christiansen, Kansas, NFL hall of famer defensive back (Lions)
1929 - Milan Panic, premier of little Yugoslavia
1931 - Mala Powers, American film actress (d. 2007)
1932 - John Hillerman, actor (Magnum PI)
1933 - Gordon Getty
1933 - Rik Van Looy, Belgian cyclist (world champion, 1961)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 110

69 - Aulus Vitellius, Roman commandant of Rhine & 7th emperor, murdered
217 - Pope Zephyrinus
860 - King Ethelbald of Wessex
910 - Alfonso III de Great, king of Asturias, dies
910 - Alfonso III of Leon
1022 - Elvira Mendes, wife of Alfonso V of Castile (b. 996)
1073 - Domingo, Spanish monastery founder/abbot/saint, dies
1355 - Stefanus IX Uros IV Dusan, king (1331-46)/Serbia (1346-55), dies
1494 - Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet
1524 - Thomas Linacre, English scholar and physician
1539 - Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer
1590 - Ambroise Paré, French physician (b. 1510)
1632 - Nicolas Antoine, French cath pastor who converted to Judaism, executed
1676 - John Galle, Flemish engraver/printer, dies at 76
1679 - Johan Maurits, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies at 75
1722 - Kangxi Emperor of China (b. 1654)
1723 - Augustus Quirinus Rivinus (b. 1652)
1738 - Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56
1740 - Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, English military officer and statesman (b. 1675)
1749 - Pakubuwono II, susuhunan of Mataram Java, dies
1768 - Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (b. 1692)
1783 - Antonio Francisco Jawer Jose Soler, Sp composer (Fandango), dies at 54
1793 - Joseph Legros, composer, dies at 54
1798 - Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Dutch engraver/art collector, dies at 72
1799 - David Traugott Nicolai, composer, dies at 66
1812 - Sacagawea, Shoshone interpreter for Lewis & Clark, dies
1815 - Giovanni Meli, Sicilian poet (Buccolica), dies at 75
1819 - Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, composer, dies at 50
1821 - Gian Francesco Fortunati, composer, dies at 75
1856 - Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (b. 1820)
1862 - Robert Knox
1875 - Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/writer (Povesti), dies at 75
1876 - Hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hanged in US
1903 - Gavriil Musicescu, composer, dies at 56
1909 - Benjamin Ipavec, composer, dies at 79
1916 - Manuel Giro, composer, dies at 68
1916 - William Wallace Gilchrist, composer, dies at 70
1917 - Lucien Petit-Breton, Argentine-French cyclist (b. 1882)
1921 - Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general (b. 1850)
1929 - Emile Loubet, French premier (1892)/president (1899-1906), dies at 90
1935 - Martin O'Meara, Australian soldier (b. 1882)
1936 - Baron De Borchgrave, Belgian ambassador, murdered in Madrid
1937 - Erich Ludendorff, German general (WW I), dies at 72
1938 - Annie Armstrong, American missionary leader (b. 1850)
1939 - Hans Langsdorff, German capt (Graaf Spee), commits suicide
1941 - Igor Severyanin, Russian poet (b. 1887)
1942 - Jean Gilbert, [Max Winterfield], German composer, dies at 63
1944 - Abbas Hilmi II, viceroy of Egypt (1892-1914), dies at 70
1945 - Charles Eady, cricketer (Tasmanian player for Aust 1896-1901), dies
1948 - C Aubrey Smith, actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 85
1948 - Ladha Ramji, cricketer (bro of Amar Singh, Test Ind 1933-34), dies
1954 - Emilis Melngailis, composer, dies at 80
1954 - James Hilton, English author (Lost Horizon), dies at 54
1956 - Ramon Carrillo, Argentine neuroscientist and Public Health minister (b. 1906)
1961 - Moss Heart, US dramatist (You can't take it with you), dies at 57
1961 - Earle Page, eleventh Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1880)
1962 - Erik William Gustav Leidzen, composer, dies at 68
1962 - Luis Abraham Delgadillo, composer, dies at 75
1963 - Paul Constantinescu, composer, dies at 54
1965 - Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt, German anthropologist, dies at 73
1968 - Bax Brod, composer, dies at 84
1968 - John Steinbeck, author (Grapes of Wrath, Nobel 1940, 62), dies at 66
1968 - Max Brod, writer, dies at 84
1971 - Roy O Disney, Brother of Walt, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 78
1973 - Bobby Darin, singer (Mack the Knife), dies of heart failure at 37
1973 - Luis Carrero Blanco, PM of Spain (1973), assassinated by ETA
1974 - Andre Jolivet, French composer (L'eunuque), dies at 69
1975 - Vincent Lopez, orch leader (Welcome Aboard), dies at 76
1975 - William Lundigan, Syracuse NY, actor (Climax), dies at 61
1976 - Richard J Daley, (Mayor-D-Chicago), dies at 74
1976 - Walter Fitzgerald, actor (Adv of Sadie, Fallen Idol), dies at 80
1981 - Dimitris Rontiris, Greek actor and director (b. 1899)
1982 - Artur Rubinstein, pianist (My Young Years), dies in Geneva at 95
1984 - Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1946)
1986 - Joe DeSa, American baseball player (b. 1959)
1988 - Max Robinson, 1st black network (ABC) TV anchor, dies of AIDS at 49
1988 - Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian television pioneer (b. 1908)
1989 - Audrey Christie, actress (Splendor in the Grass), dies at 77
1991 - Andries D Copier, Dutch glass designer (Guild glass), dies
1991 - Fop[pe] I Brouwer, biologist (Everything That Lives & Grows), dies
1991 - Helene Heigh, actress (Undercover Woman, Teen Age Thunder), dies at 86
1991 - Sam Rabin, speaker of house, dies at 88
1991 - Stephen Birnbaum, US tourism writer, dies at 54
1991 - Thomas Newman, actor/composer (Cape Fear), dies of heart attack at 60
1991 - Walter Chiari, actor (Girl Under Sheet), dies of heart attack at 67
1991 - Simone Beck, French chef (b. 1904)
1991 - Albert Van Vlierberghe, Belgian cyclist (b. 1942)
1993 - Moses Gunn, actor (Shaft), dies at 64
1993 - Sam Wanamaker, actor (Pvt Benjamin), dies from cancer at 74
1993 - W Edwards Deming, US economist (helped Japan after WW II), dies at 93
1994 - Dean Rusk, US Sect of State (1961-69), dies at 85
1994 - J C "Jody" Bateman, fiddler, dies at 75
1995 - John Henry Jacques, co-operative retailer, dies at 90
1995 - Madge Sinclair, actress (Star Trek IV, Conrack, Convoy), dies at 55
1996 - Amata Kabua, Pres of Marshall Islands (1979-96), dies
1996 - Carl Sagan, scientist (Contact), dies at 62
1996 - Roger Peacock), writer, dies at 76
1997 - Dawn Steel, film maker (When Harry Met Sally), dies at 51
1997 - Denise Levertov, poet, dies at 74
1997 - Vincent Ciccone, inventor (Blow-Pops candy), dies at 81