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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 218

60 - St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta
1098 - Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch
1355 - The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
1535 - 12 nude anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets
1549 - Tomé de Sousa appointed gov-gen of Brazil
1635 - Academie Francaise forms in Paris (by Cardinal Richelieu)
1676 - Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster Mass
1713 - Neth & England sign accord concerning anti-French Barrier [OS=Jan 31]
1716 - Scottish pretender to the throne James III Edward returns to France
1720 - Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England
1746 - English Pelham govt resigns
1749 - 10th (final) volume of Fielding's "Tom Jones" is published
1763 - Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to England
1774 - Andrew Becker demonstrates diving suit
1794 - Joseph Haydn's 99th Symphony in E, premieres
1798 - Louis Alexandre Berthier invaded Rome, on February 15 proclaimed a Roman Republic and then on February 20 take Pope Pius VI as a prisoner.
1807 - US Coast Survey authorized by Congress
1814 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Champaubert
1824 - Simon Bolivar named dictator by the Congress of Peru
1840 - British queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert von Saksen-Coburg
1846 - Beginning of Mormon march to west US
1846 - British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon, India
1855 - US citizenship laws amended all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship
1859 - Gen Horsford defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny
1860 - John Brahms' 2nd Serenade in A, premieres
1862 - Dutch 2nd govt of Thorbecke forms
1863 - 1st US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia
1863 - PT Barnum stages wedding of Tom Thumb & Mercy Lavinia Warren (NYC)
1866 - Dutch govt Frans van der Putte forms
1868 - Conservatives & military, seize Convention Hall in Florida
1870 - City of Anaheim incorporates (1st time)
1870 - YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) forms (NYC)
1870 - The YWCA is founded (New York City).
1878 - Peace of Zanjón
1878 - Peter Tsjaikovsky's 4th Symphony in F, premieres
1879 - 1st electric arc light used (California Theater)
1879 - Henry Morton Stanley departs to the Congo
1880 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Arcanum about Christian marriage
1881 - Jacques Offenbach's opera "Les Contes d'Hoffman," premieres in Paris
1882 - Rimski-Korsakovs opera "Snyegurochka," premieres in St Petersburg
1883 - Fire at un-insured New Hall Hotel in Milwaukee Wisc, kills 71
1890 - Around 11M acres, ceded to US by Sioux Indians opens for settlement
1897 - NY Times begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print"
1899 - -39°F (-39°C), Milligan, Ohio (state lowest record temperature)
1899 - US-Spain peace treaty signed by Pres McKinley. US gets PR & Guam
1900 - Peter Ostlund skates world record 500m (45.2 sec)
1904 - Japan & Russia declares war after Japan's surprise attack on Russian fleet at Port Arthur disabled 7 Russian warships
1906 - Britain's 1st modern & largest battleship "HMS Dreadnought" launched
1906 - State of siege proclaimed in Zululand
1908 - Tommy Burns KOs Jack Palmer in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
1912 - Hobbs & Rhodes make 323 cricket opening stand v Aust at MCG
1913 - Edward Sheldons "Romance," premieres in NYC
1916 - Conscription begins in Britain
1917 - Johanna Westerdijk installed as Neth 1st female professor
1920 - Baseball outlaws all pitches involving tampering with ball
1920 - Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
1923 - Ink paste manufactured for 1st time by Standard Ink Company
1923 - Owen Davis' "Icebound," premieres in NYC
1923 - SDAP speaks out against allied occupation of Ruhrgebied
1924 - Bucky Harris, 27, becomes youngest baseball manager (Wash Senators)
1925 - 1st waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City, Ind
1925 - AL decides to alternate leagues for game 1 of World Series each year
1926 - Building of Olympian Stadium Amsterdam, begins
1927 - Pres Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference
1929 - Msgr. Stephen Alencastre, SS.CC., dedicates the beautiful Romanesque church of Saint Patrick in Honolulu.
1930 - Grain Stabilization Corporation authorized by Congress
1931 - New Delhi becomes capital of India
1931 - Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Harts premieres in NYC
1933 - -54°F (-48°C), Seneca, Oregon (state record)
1933 - Delivery of 1st singing telegram (Postal Telegram Co NYC)
1933 - Dutch seaplane bombs Dutch ship
1933 - Hitler proclaims end of Marxism
1933 - Mutiny on "7 Provinces" ends (began Feb 4th), 23 killed
1934 - 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine
1934 - Byrd souvenir sheet issued, NYC; 1st unperforated ungummed US stamp
1934 - Howard Hanson's "Merry Mount," premieres in NYC
1934 - Stalin ends 17th CPSU-congress, says "Life becomes merrier"
1934 - Thomson/Gertrude Steins opera premieres in NYC
1935 - 1st US streamlined electric RR engine begins service
1935 - Pennsylvania RR begins passenger service on new electric locomotive
1937 - Ragnhild Hveger swims world free style record 400m (5:14.2)
1938 - King Carol II of Romania drives out dictator Goga
1940 - "In The Mood" by Glenn Miller hits #1
1940 - Tom & Jerry created by Hanna & Barbera debut by MGM
1940 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
1940 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner
1941 - 1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Wash, DC-Harrisonburg, VA
1941 - Anti-nazi "Het Parool" begins publishing in Netherlands
1942 - Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold disc for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo"
1943 - "Manifesto of Algerian People" calls for equality & self-determination
1943 - 8th Army sweeps through North Africa to Tunisia
1943 - Van der Veen Resistance starts fire in Amsterdam employment bureau
1944 - Belgium resistance fighter/author Kamiel van Baelen arrested
1944 - U-666/U-545/U-283 sink off Ireland
1945 - "Rum & Coca Cola" by Andrews Sisters hits #1
1946 - 1st black pro-baseball player Jackie Robinson marries Rachel Isum
1947 - Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia
1947 - Netherlands Radio Union forms
1947 - Province of Petsamo returned to Soviet Union by Finland
1947 - WW II peace treaties signed

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 263

1499 - Thomas Platter, Swiss humanist (d. 1582)
1524 - Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (d. 1580)
1606 - Christine Marie of France, regent of Savoy (d. 1663)
1609 - John Suckling, English Cavalier poet/dramatist/courtier
1637 - Henriette Catharina van Nassau, Dutch daughter of Frederik Henry
1670 - Norbert van Flowers, [Cephalus], Flemish painter
1670 - William Congreve, England, writer (Old Bachelor, Way of the World)
1685 - Aaron Hill, English playwright/poet (Tragedy of Zara)
1686 - Johann F Gronovius, Dutch physician/botany
1696 - Johann Melchior Molter, composer
1702 - Jean-Pierre Guignon, composer
1717 - Pierre de La Garde, composer
1728 - Peter III Feodorovich, German/Russian czar of Russia (1761-62)
1735 - Johann Christoph Kuhnau, composer
1741 - Franz Adam Veichtner, composer
1750 - Stanislao Mattei, composer
1775 - Charles Lamb, London England, critic/poet/essayist
1783 - Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873)
1788 - Johann Peter Pixis, composer
1795 - Ary Scheffer, Dutch painter/etcher/sculptor
1807 - Abner Clark Harding, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
1818 - Isham Green Harris, Gov (Confederacy), died in 1897
1819 - Richard Storrs Willis, composer
1821 - William Read Scurry, (Confederate Army Brig general, died in 1864)
1824 - Samuel Plimsoll, Bristol England, inventor (Plimsoll line for ships)
1827 - Peter J Savelberg, Dutch Limburgs monastery founder
1841 - Walter Parratt, composer
1846 - Mildred Childe "Life" Lee, daughter of confederate gen Robert E Lee
1846 - Charles Beresford, British admiral and politician (d. 1919)
1846 - Ira Remsen, American chemist (d. 1927)
1847 - A N Hornby, cricketer (pioneering England Test batsman)
1859 - Alexandre Millerand, French President (d. 1943)
1862 - W H "Gobo" Ashley, cricketer (7 wkts in 1 Test for S Africa 1889)
1866 - Bror Beckman, composer
1866 - Rafael Altamira Crevea, Spanish lawyer/historian
1868 - William Allen White, Emporia KS, editor (Pulitzer 1942)
1869 - Vasily Pavovlich Kalafati, composer
1870 - Fritz Klimsch, German sculptor/painter
1872 - Anne Anema, Dutch lawyer/journalist/politician (ARP)
1879 - Franz Carl Bornschein, composer
1880 - Jesse G Vincent, Arkansas, engineer designed 1st V-12 engine
1884 - Herbert Hordern, cricketer (pioneering leggie for Aust & Phila)
1884 - Frederick Hawksworth, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (d. 1976)
1887 - [Fran J] Vital Celen, Flemish literary/author [or Feb 9]
1888 - G Ungaretti, writer
1889 - Howard Spring, British author/novelist/writer/critic (O Absalom)
1890 - Boris L Pasternak, Russia, novelist/poet (Dr Zhivago, Nobel 1958) [OS]
1890 - Cor Ruys, Dutch actor (Princess Stage)
1890 - Fanny Kaplan, failed assassin of Vladimir Lenin. (d. 1918)
1891 - Harold RLG, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Gov-gen of Canada (1945-52)
1892 - Alan Hale, [Rufus A Mackahan], Wash DC, actor (Little John-Robin Hood)
1893 - Jimmy Durante, NYC, long-nosed comedian (and goodnight Mrs Calabash)
1893 - William [Bill] T Tilden II, tennis player (US Open 1920-25, 29)
1894 - Roy D'Arcy, SF, actor (Warning Shadows, Revolt of Zombies)
1894 - [Maurice] Harold MacMillan, London, (C) British PM (1957-63)
1896 - Olin Howlin, Denver Colo, actor (Swifty-Circus Boy)
1897 - John Franklin Enders, Conn, microbiologist (polio-Nobel 1954)
1898 - Bertolt Brecht, Germany, playwright (Mother Courage)/composer
1898 - Joseph Kessel, French journalist/writer (Army of the Shadows)
1898 - Judith Anderson, Adelaide Aust, actress (Laura, Rebecca, Tycoon)
1898 - Robert Keith, Fowler IN, actor (Battle Circus, Branded, Wild One)
1900 - Rebecca Negrin
1902 - Armand Bernier, Belgian poet (Sorcier Triste)
1902 - Stella Adler, NY, actress (My Girl Tisa)
1902 - Walter H Brattain, Amoy China, US physicist (Nobel 1956-transistor)
1903 - Matvey Isaakovich Blanter, composer
1903 - Waldemar Hoven, German physician (d. 1948)
1903 - Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (d. 1939)
1904 - John Farrow, Sydney Aust, director/actor (Botany Bay, Wake Island)
1905 - John Dierkes, OH, actor (Daughter of Dr Jekyll, Hanging Tree)
1905 - Max Schubert, winemaker
1905 - Vilko Ukmar, composer
1905 - Walter Brown, sports organizer (NBA)
1906 - Erik Rhodes, [Ernest Sharpe], actor (Top Hat, Night at the Ritz)
1906 - Henry Phelps Brown, historian/economist
1906 - John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer (elected 1962)
1906 - Lon Chaney Jr, Okla City Okla, actor (Hawkeye, Pistols 'n' Petticoats)
1906 - Walraven (Wally) van Hall, Dutch banker/resisted Nazis
1907 - Grace Hamilton, 1st black member of Georgia state legislature
1908 - Jean Coulthard, composer
1909 - Lord Milne
1910 - Dominique Pire, Belgium, educator, aided WW II refugees (Nobel 1958)
1910 - Douglas Spencer, actor (Thing, This Island Earth, River of No Return)
1910 - Joyce Grenfell, actress (Pickwick Papers, Americanization of Emily)
1910 - Paul Whitelaw, cricketer (NZ opening batsman v England 1933)
1912 - Lord Orr-Ewing
1913 - Philippa Bevans, actress (Notorious Landlady, World of Henry Orient)
1913 - Ragnhild Marie Hatton, historian
1914 - Larry Adler, Balt, hamonicist (Harmonicats) (blacklisted performer)
1916 - Edward R Roybal, (Rep-D-CA, 1963- )
1918 - Gordon Pirie, England, Group Captain
1918 - Idwal Pugh, British ombudsman
1920 - Alexander Comfort, English poet/writer (Wreath for the Living)
1920 - J Heslop-Harrison, botanist
1921 - Adrian Cruft, composer
1922 - Harold Hughes, (Gov-D-NJ)
1922 - Neva Patterson, Iowa, actress (Governor & JJ, Doc Elliot, Nichols)
1923 - Cesare Siepi, Milan Italy, basso (NY Metropolitan Opera)
1924 - Bud (Norman) Poile, NHLer
1924 - Randy Van Horne, El Paso Tx, vocalist (Nat King Cole Show)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 115

1126 - William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, poet (b. 1071)
1134 - Robert III/II Curthouse, Duke of Normandy, dies
1162 - Boudouin III, son of King Fulco of Anjou/husband of Theodora, dies
1162 - King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
1242 - Emperor Shijō of Japan (b. 1231)
1278 - Margaret II of Flanders (b. 1202)
1482 - Luca della Robbia, Italian sculptor (majolica reliefs), dies at 81
1495 - William Stanley, Engl lord chamberlain, executed for conspiracy
1567 - Lord Darnley Stuart, husband of English queen Mary, murdered
1576 - Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (b. 1532)
1588 - Joost Sybrantsz Buyck, Amsterdam merchant/regent, dies at about 82
1598 - Anna van Bull, 1st wife of Polish/Swedish king Sigismund II, dies
1657 - Sebastian Stosskopf, Elzabethian painter, dies at 59
1678 - Philip Vingboons, Amsterdam's master builder, buried
1686 - William Dugdale, Garter King of Arms (1677-86), dies
1711 - Lukas Fencer, Dutch poet (Meleager & Atalante), dies at 22
1722 - Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (b. 1682)
1755 - Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689)
1758 - Thomas Ripley, English architect
1772 - Jozef Wenceslas, monarch of Liechtenstein/general, dies at 75
1774 - Florian Leopold Gassmann, composer, dies at 44
1782 - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (b. 1702)
1783 - James Nares, composer, dies at 67
1816 - Johann Paul Aegidius Martini, composer, dies at 74
1822 - Albert-Kasimir, duke of Saxon-Teschen/governor of Hungary, dies at 83
1825 - Paul van Hemert, Dutch theologist/philosopher (Kant), dies at 68
1829 - Leo XII, [Annibale Sermattei], Italian Pope (1823-29), dies at 68
1829 - Pope Leo XII (b. 1760)
1832 - Antonio Benedetto Maria Puccini, composer, dies at 84
1837 - Alexander S Pushkin, writer, dies at 37
1857 - David Thompson, Canadian explorer (b. 1770)
1861 - Francis Danby, Exmouth, painter, dies
1865 - Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804)
1876 - Johan August Soderman, composer, dies at 43
1887 - Ellen Wood, English author (Pomeroy Abbey), dies at 73
1887 - Pieter JBCR van der Aa, Dutch geographer, dies at 54
1891 - Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)
1902 - J N Krieger, German Selenographer, dies
1904 - John A. Roche, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1844)
1905 - Ignacy Krzyzanowski, composer, dies at 78
1906 - Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman (E.B. Eddy Company) and politician (b. 1827)
1912 - Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, surgeon (pioneer of antiseptic), dies
1915 - Albert J-BJ Thijs, Belgian Colonial pioneer (Congo), dies at 65
1917 - Emile Pessard, composer, dies at 73
1917 - John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849)
1918 - Abdul Hamid II Ottoman Sultan (b. 1842)
1918 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1833)
1923 - Wilhelm Konrad von Rontgen, physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 77
1932 - R H Edgar Wallace, British writer/journalist (3 Just Men), dies at 76
1939 - Pius XI, [Ambrogio D A Ratti], Italian Pope (1922-39), dies at 81
1943 - Wa'er, shot dead by Defiance
1944 - Eugène Michel Antoniadi, Greek astronomer, a crater on Mars and the Antoniadi crater on the Moon were named in his honor (b. 1870)
1945 - Juan de Hernandez, composer, dies at 63
1945 - Anacleto Diaz, Filipino jurist (b. 1878)
1948 - Ewart Astill, cricket all-rounder (9 Tests for England 1927-30), dies
1948 - Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director (Battleship Potemkin), dies at 50
1950 - Armen Tigran Tigranyan, composer, dies at 70
1950 - Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (b. 1872)
1951 - Joseph Bovet, composer, dies at 71
1952 - Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1880)
1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, US author (Little House on Praries), dies at 90
1958 - Billy Vine, actor (54th Street Revue), dies at 42
1960 - Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
1962 - Willem Paerels, Neth/Belgian painter/graphic artist, dies at 83
1964 - Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905)
1966 - Billy Rose, US theater producer (Diamond Horse Show), dies at 66
1968 - Pitirim A Sorokin, Russian/US sociologist, dies at 79
1975 - Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (b. 1910)
1977 - Grace Mary Williams, composer, dies at 70
1982 - K R Meher-Homji, cricket wk (Test as Indian, catch no stumped), dies
1983 - Eduard Franz, actor (Zorro), dies at 80
1984 - David Von Erich, professional wrestler (b. 1958)
1985 - Johnny Mokan, baseball player (b. 1895)
1986 - Brian Aherne, actor (Juarez, My Sister Eileen, Rosie), dies at 83
1987 - Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi, Pakistani painter, calligrapher and artist (b. 1930)
1989 - Dan Kelly, NHL sportscaster, dies at 52, "He shoots, he scores!"
1992 - Alex Haley, US writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots), dies at 70
1992 - Florence Tarlow, dies of cancer at 70
1992 - Mau Kopuit, Dutch editor-in-chief (New Israeli Weekly Newspaper), dies
1992 - Meade Roberts, screenwriter, dies of congestive heart failure at 61
1992 - Thomas Graftdijk, Dutch writer (Dr Faustus), dies
1992 - Wim Ramaker, Dutch director/writer (On Death Track), dies
1993 - John Grossman, Czech director (Process, Revisor), dies
1993 - Joy Garrett, actress (Days of Our Live), dies of liver failure at 47
1993 - Maurice Bourges-Maunoury, PM of France (1957), dies
1993 - Fred Hollows, New Zealand ophthalmologist (b. 1929)
1995 - Kenton Kilmer, poet/translator, dies at 85
1995 - Louis Sen A Kaw, Suriname's great dam builder, dies at 75
1995 - Paul Monette, writer, dies at 49
1995 - S van der Linde, church historian, dies at 89
1996 - Hugh Francis Lamprey, ecologist, dies at 67
1997 - Brian McManus Connolly, musician, dies at 47
1997 - Milton Cato, PM of San Vincent & Grenadines (1979-84), dies
1997 - Matthew Eappen of Newton Massachusetts (b. 1996)
1998 - Buddy the Wonder Dog, dog (Air Bud), dies of cancer at 9
1998 - Maurice Schumann, French foreign minister (1969-73), dies
2000 - Jim Varney, American actor (b. 1949)
2001 - Abraham Beame, Mayor of New York City (b. 1906)
2001 - George Holmes Tate, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (b. 1913)
2002 - Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler's secretary (b. 1920)