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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 185

399 - Philosopher Socrates sentenced to death
590 - Khosrau II is crowned as king of Persia
732 - Ho-tse Shen-hui, Zen teacher disputes founder of Northern Ch'an line
1145 - Bernardo elected Pope Eugene III
1313 - Peace of Angleur
1386 - Duke Philip the Stout forms Council of Flanders
1539 - Emperor Charles receives Cardinal Pole in Toledo
1552 - Dutch coast hit by heavy storm
1563 - Russian troops occupy Polotsk Lithuania
1637 - Ferdinand III succeeds Ferdinand II as Holy Roman Emperor
1677 - King Charles II reports anti-French covenant with Netherlands
1686 - Jean Baptiste Lully's opera "Armide," premieres in Paris
1689 - German Parliament declares war on France
1745 - Colley Cibbers "Papal Tyranny," premieres in London
1763 - Austria, Prussia & Saxony sign Peace of Hubertusburg
1764 - St Louis founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue
1764 - The city of St. Louis, Missouri is established.
1768 - 1st mustard manufactured in America advertised, Philadelphia
1775 - Angelo Braschi chosen as Pope Pius VI
1797 - Battle of Cape St Vincent
1799 - 1st US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania
1804 - New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery
1805 - Harmony Society is officially formed.
1842 - 1st adhesive postage stamps in US (private delivery company), NYC
1845 - William Parsons, Earl of Rosse, 1st uses 72" (183 cm) reflector
1848 - Sarah Roberts barred from white school in Boston
1851 - Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescueing a fugitive slave
1852 - Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits 1st patient
1861 - Ft Point completed & garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger)
1862 - Grant's major assault on Ft Donelson, Tennessee
1864 - Fire in Rotterdam Neth damages Museum Boymans
1869 - Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped
1870 - Ground broken for Northern Pacific Railway near Duluth, Minn
1876 - Historic Elm at Boston blown down
1879 - Congress authorizes women lawyers to practice before Supreme Ct
1882 - 1st cargo of frozen meat leaves NZ for Britain, on SS Dunedin
1891 - AIK is founded at Biblioteksgatan 8 in Stockholm by Isidor Behrens.
1895 - 23 cm (9") of snow falls on New Orleans
1898 - USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown-258 sailors die
1900 - General French relieves Kimberley/Cecil Rhodes
1902 - Underground railway (U-Bahn)
1903 - 1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris & Rose Michtom
1905 - 1st race meet at Oaklawn Park (Hot Springs, Ark)
1906 - British Labour Party organizes
1910 - The Boy Scouts of America is founded.
1912 - Fram reaches latitude 78° 41' S, farthest south ever by ship
1913 - 1st avant-garde art show in America opens in NYC
1916 - NY Yankees buy Frank "Home Run" Baker from the Athletics for $37,500
1917 - SF Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated
1918 - 1st WW I US army troop ship torpedoed & sunk by Germany, off Ireland
1918 - Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania adopt Gregorian calendar
1919 - American Legion organizes in Paris
1921 - Arthur Mailey completes 9-121 v England, Australian Test Cricket rec
1922 - Marconi begins regular broadcasting transmissions from Essex
1926 - Brooks Atkinson Theater opens at 256 W 47th St NYC
1926 - Contract air mail service begins in US
1929 - St Valentine's Day massacre (Chicago)
1930 - Weona beats Toluca in Illinois Basketball Tournament in 10 overtimes
1931 - 1st Dracula movie released
1931 - Spring training site of NY Yankees in St Petersburg is renamed Miller Huggins Field in honor of the team's late manager
1932 - 3rd Winter Olympic games close at Lake Placid, NY
1932 - Aust beat S Africa in cricket by an inn in 5 hrs 53 min playing time
1932 - George Burns & Gracie Allen debuted as regulars on "Guy Lombardo Show"
1932 - John Van Druten's "There's Always Juliet," premieres in NYC
1932 - US bobsled team member Eddie Eagan becomes only athlete to win gold in both Summer & Winter Olympics (1920 boxing gold)
1933 - Karl Radek praises invincible force of German communist party
1933 - Pres-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt
1933 - Social-democratic newspaper "Vorwarts" banned again in Berlin
1936 - -60°F (-51°C), Parshall, North Dakota (state record)
1936 - Hitler announce building of Volkswagens (starting slug-bug game)
1936 - Sonja Henie, Norway, wins 3rd consecutive Olympic figure skating gold
1939 - German battleship Bismarck was launched
1939 - Lillian Hellman's "Little Foxes," premieres in NYC
1941 - Duke Ellington 1st records "Take the A Train"
1942 - German U-boat shells at Antillian oil refinery
1942 - Japanese troops march into Palembang, South Sumatra
1942 - Singapore surrenders to Japanese
1943 - Women's camp Tamtui on Ambon (Moluccas) hit by allied air raid
1944 - 891 British bombers attack Berlin
1944 - Bombing & shooting at Monte Cassino convent Italy, begins
1946 - Bank of England nationalized
1947 - "Toplitzky of Notre Dame" closes at Century Theater NYC after 60 perfs
1948 - Mao Zedong's army occupies Yenan
1949 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' "Song of the Woods," premieres in Leningrad
1950 - KENS TV channel 5 in San Antonio, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 - WM Inge's "Come Back, Little Sheba," premieres in NYC
1950 - WSYR (now WSTM) TV channel 3 in Syracuse, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 - Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released
1952 - King George VI is buried in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.
1954 - 1st bevatron in operation-Berkeley, California
1954 - WRDW TV channel 12 in Augusta, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - 1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced
1956 - Urho Kekkonen appointed president of Finland
1956 - Pirates & KC A's cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham Alabama, because of local ordinance barring black from playing against white
1957 - Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister
1958 - Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by June Markham/Courtney Jones GRB
1958 - Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Barbara Wagner/Rob Paul of CAN
1958 - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Carol Heiss of USA
1958 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by David Jenkins USA
1958 - Sjafroeddin Prawiranegara forms anti-govt of Middle Sumatra

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 271

37 - Claudius Drusus Germanicus Caesar Nero, emperor of Rome (54-68)
1368 - Sigismund, Nornberg Germany, Holy Roman emperor (1410-37)
1458 - Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (d. 1490)
1471 - Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1503)
1483 - Babur, founder of Mughal dynasty in India (1526-30
1497 - Philipp Melanchthon, German Protestant
1519 - Pedro Menendez de Aviles, explorer (found St Augustine Florida)
1524 - Charles de Guise, archbishop/cardinal of Reims
1557 - Alfonso Fontanelli, composer
1564 - Galileo Galilei, Pisa Italy, astronomer/physicist
1571 - Michael Praetorius, Kreuzberg Germany, composer (Syntagma music)
1620 - Francois Charpentier, French scholar/archaeologist
1650 - Anne Jules duke de Noailles, marshal of France (hugenot)
1660 - Frans Anneessens, Belgian merchant/dean of artisans
1666 - Antonio M Valsalva, Italian anatomist (eardrums, glottis)
1705 - Charles A Vanloo, French painter
1707 - Claude Prosper, Paris France, novelist
1710 - Louis XV the Well-Beloved, Versailles, King of France (1715-74)
1725 - Abraham Clark, American founding father (d. 1794)
1726 - Abraham Clark, farmer/lawyer, signed Declaration of Independence
1739 - Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect (d. 1813)
1740 - Ernst Eichner, composer
1748 - Jeremy Bentham, London England philosopher/originator (Utilitarian)
1759 - Friedrich A Wolfius, [Wolf], German philological (Prolegomena)
1760 - Jean-Francois Le Sueur, composer
1764 - Jens I Baggesen, Danish writer/linguist (Danske V'rker)
1766 - Thomas Malthus, Rookery Surrey UK, economist/demographer
1768 - Jozef B Cannaert, [Olim], Flemish lawyer
1774 - W G Frederik, prince of Orange
1780 - Carel Asser, Dutch jurist
1783 - Johann Nepomuk Poissl, composer
1785 - Claude Louis Marie Navier
1789 - Friedrich Fesca, composer
1795 - Charles Niellon, Belgian brigade general (10 day campaign)
1797 - Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker (Steinway)
1800 - Frederik W Conrad, Dutch hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer
1803 - John Augustus Sutter, Swiss/US colonist (New Helvetia Ca, Sutter Mill)
1807 - Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski, composer
1809 - Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor (Mechanical reaper)
1809 - André Dumont, Belgian geologist (d. 1857)
1811 - Domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina (1868-74)
1812 - Charles Lewis Tiffany, Killingly Ct, jeweler (Tiffany)
1817 - Charles F Daubigny, French restauranteur/painter
1819 - Christopher Sholes, Mooresburg Penn, inventor (typewriter)
1820 - Susan Brownell Anthony, Adams Mass, woman's suffragette
1821 - Abraham de Amorie van der de Have, theologist/poet
1822 - Theodor Uhlig, composer
1823 - Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli Canton
1825 - Carter Harrison, Sr., American politician (d. 1893)
1826 - George J Stoney, Irish physicist
1828 - Johan H van Dale, schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Dictionary)
1829 - Silas Weir Mitchell, US physician/author (Roland Blake)
1834 - William Preece, English electrical engineer/wireless pioneer
1835 - Alexander Stuart Webb, Major General (Union Army), died in 1911
1835 - Demetrius Vikelas, Greek author (d. 1908)
1841 - Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, Brazilian politician (d. 1913)
1845 - Elihu Root, (R)/US Sec of State (1905-09)/Nobel Peace Prize (1912)
1847 - Robert Fuchs, composer
1855 - Gustav Hollaender, composer
1856 - Frank Harris, Galway England, writer
1856 - Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist (d. 1926)
1858 - William Pickering, Boston, astronomer (9th & 10th moons of Saturn)
1861 - Alfred North Whitehead, Engl mathematician/philosopher (Adv of Ideas)
1861 - Halford John Mackinder, Gainsborough Lincolnshire, geographer
1866 - Bannister Fletcher, London, architect & architectural historian
1874 - Emilis Melngailis, composer
1874 - Ernest H Shackleton, Kilkee Ireland, explorer (Endurance, Antarctica)
1877 - Louis Renault, French automobile executive (d. 1944)
1882 - John Barrymore, [Blythe], Phila, actor (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde)
1883 - Sax Rohmer, English author (d. 1959)
1885 - Richard Wurz, composer
1886 - Sax Rohmer, England, author (Dr Fu Manchu)
1887 - H M Bateman, Sutton Forest NSW, cartoonist
1890 - Robert Ley, German chemist/MP (NSDAP)
1890 - Robert Ley, Nazi official (d. 1945)
1892 - James Forrestal, US, banker/minister of Navy
1893 - Harm H Kamerlingh Onnes, painter/etcher/ceramist
1893 - Walter Donaldson, US pianist/composer (Girl Crazy, Whoopee)
1894 - Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil, lawyer/statesman (1st pres of UN)
1895 - Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete (d. 1971)
1896 - Arthur Shields, Dublin Ireland, actor (River, Enchanted Island)
1897 - Earl H Blaik, Det, college football hall of fame coach (elected 1965)
1898 - Toto, (Antonio de Curtis), Naples Italy, actor (Motorizzate, Noi Duri)
1898 - Allen Woodring, American runner (d. 1982)
1899 - Gale Sondergard, Litchfield Mn, actress (Cat & Canary, Road to Rio)
1899 - Georges Auric, Lodve France, Composer
1899 - Lillian Disney, Mrs Walt Disney
1901 - Andre Parrot, French archaeologist/theologist (Assur)
1901 - Christmas Humphreys, Engld, lawyer/writer/Buddhist (Awakening of Zen)
1901 - Paul Haesaerts, Flemish architect/painter (Animisme)
1904 - Antonin Magne, French bicyclist (Tour de France 1931, 34)
1904 - Mary Adshead, muralist/painter
1905 - Harold Arlen, [Hyman Arluck], US, composer (Over the Rainbow)
1906 - Stephen Brown, CEO (Stone-Platt Industries)
1907 - Cesar Romero, NYC, actor (Joker-Batman, Ocean's 11, Thin Man)
1907 - Jean Langlais, composer
1908 - Sidney Gilliat, producer
1908 - Ypk fan der Fear, Frisian writer (Reade Runen)
1908 - Sarto Fournier, Quebec politician (d. 1980)
1909 - Harold Beeley, British diplomat

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 147

1043 - Gisela, wife of RC-German emperor Conrad II the Salier, dies at 52
1145 - Lucius II, [Gherardo Caccianemici], Italian Pope (1144-45), dies
1152 - Konrad III, Roman-German King (1138-1152), dies at about 58
1400 - Richard II, British King (1377-99), murdered at Pontefract Castle
1503 - Henry Deane, Archbishop of Canterbury (1501-03), dies
1568 - Hendrik van Brederode, Dutch noble (Compromise of Nobles), dies at 36
1580 - Cunerus Petri, Dutch theologist/bishop of Leeuwarden, dies
1597 - Pieter J Kies, Dutch mayor of Haarlem (1572-73), dies at about 66
1600 - Jose the Acosta, Spanish missionary (Peru), dies at 59(?)
1621 - Michael Praetorius, German composer (In Dulce Jubilo), dies at 50
1637 - Ferdinand II, King of Bohemia/Hun/German Emperor (1619-37), dies at 58
1660 - Klaas Geritsz Compaen, Dutch buccaneer/merchant, dies at 72
1680 - Jan Swammerdam, Dutch entomologist (Bible of Nature), dies at 41
1680 - John Swammerdam, anatomist/entomologist (Bible of Nature), dies at 43
1701 - Adam Drese, German composer, dies at 80
1713 - Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, writer, dies
1738 - Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (b. 1684)
1744 - Frantisek Antonin Mica, composer, dies at 49
1744 - John Hadley, inventor (sextant), dies
1759 - Alexander von Papenhoven, Flemish religious sculptor, dies at 89
1761 - Carlo Cecere, composer, dies at 54
1775 - Peter Dens, Flemish Catholic theologian (b. 1690)
1778 - Johann Gottlieb Gorner, composer, dies at 80
1779 - James Cook, explorer, murdered by natives in Hawaii
1780 - William Blackstone, jurist, dies
1781 - G E Lessing, writer, dies at 52
1781 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Saxon playwright/critic, dies
1818 - Charles XIII, King of Sweden (1809-18)/Norway (1814-18), dies at 69
1820 - Pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63
1820 - William Ellery, US attorney (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 92
1831 - Henry Maudslay, inventor (metal lathe), dies
1832 - Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck, composer, dies at 85
1835 - Henry Hunt, British politican, dies
1839 - Chevalier de Lorimier, Quebec notary (b. 1803)
1841 - Sibrand Acker Stratingh, Dutch dr/chemist (electrical car), dies at 53
1843 - Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek military figure (b. 1770)
1844 - Henry Addington Lord Sidmouth, Brit premier (1801-04), dies at 86
1847 - Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (b. 1794)
1848 - Hermann von Boyen, Prussian field marshal (b. 1771)
1849 - Pierre F Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (logistic curve), dies at 44
1857 - Mikhail Glinka, composer, dies
1857 - Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Russian composer, dies at 53
1864 - Israel Zangwill, writer/Zionist/philanthropist, dies
1864 - William Dyce, painter, dies
1865 - Nicholas Wiseman, 1st Archbishop of Westminster (1850-65), dies
1869 - Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet (b. 1796)
1885 - Leopold Damrosch, composer, dies at 52
1887 - Alexander Borodin, composer, dies
1891 - William Sherman, Union General in Civil War, dies
1896 - E J Nicholson, writer, dies
1902 - Wilhelmina JR Albregt-Engelman, Dutch actress, dies at 68
1903 - Julie Verstraete-Lacquet, Flemish actress, dies at 69
1905 - Lewis Wallace, US diplomat/writer (Ben Hur), dies at 77
1910 - Albert Fuchs, composer, dies at 51
1911 - Theodor Escherich, German pediatrician (b. 1859)
1916 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Lodizhensky, composer, dies at 73
1917 - Charles A van Ophuysen, Dutch orientalist, dies at 60
1919 - Pieter K Pel, Dutch internist (Pel-Ebstein fever), dies at 66
1921 - Hans Haym, composer, dies at 60
1922 - Clara [G Meijer-]Wichmann, German/Dutch anarchist/feminist, dies at 36
1923 - Josephine B Willson Bruce, US black theorist, dies at 69
1924 - Lionel Monckton, English composer (Country Girl), dies at 62
1928 - Hubert H Asquith, premier Great-Britain (1908-16), dies at 75
1928 - H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1852)
1932 - Minnie Maddern Fiske, actress (Henrik Ibsen's plays), dies at 66
1933 - Anton J Cermak, (Mayor-D-Chicago), assassinated in Miami
1939 - Foppe G Scheltema, Dutch lawyer, dies at 47
1939 - Henri Jaspar, premier of Belgium (1926-31), dies at 68
1939 - Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Russian painter (b. 1878)
1942 - Guido Adler, Austrian musicologist, dies at 91
1942 - Stanislav Binicki, composer, dies at 69
1943 - Thomas "Fats" Waller, US jazz pianist (Hot Chocolate), dies at 38
1943 - William Victor Harris, composer, dies at 73
1955 - S Z Sakall, actor (Dolly Sisters, Casablanca), dies at 71
1959 - Owen W Richardson, English physicist (Nobel 1928), dies at 69
1961 - Jack Whiting, actor (Top Speed, Life of the Party), dies at 59
1961 - Marubel Vinaon Owen, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1932), dies
1962 - Vladimir Sokoloff, actor (Road to Morocco, Cloak & Dagger), dies at 72
1964 - Ken Hubbs, 2nd baseman (Chic Cubs), dies in plane crash at 22
1964 - Robert L. Thornton, American businessman and politician (b. 1880)
1965 - Nat King Cole, singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa), dies at 49
1966 - Camillo Torres, Colombian priest/guerrilla fighter, dies
1966 - Gerard Ciołek, Polish architect (b. 1909)
1967 - Antonio Moreno, Spanish actor/director (It, Careers), dies at 79
1967 - William C Bullitt, 1st US ambassador in USSR, dies at 76
1968 - Little Walter, rocker, dies at 37
1970 - Sir Hugh Dowding, commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain (b. 1882)
1971 - Marian Viktorovich Koval, composer, dies at 63
1971 - Dimitrios Loundras, Greek gymnast (b. 1885)
1972 - Edgar P Snow, US author/journalist (Battle for Asia), dies at 66
1972 - Jef [Josephus CF] Last, Dutch poet/Indonesian politician, dies at 73
1973 - Tim Holt, actor (Stagecoach, Hitler's Children), dies of cancer at 55
1973 - Wally Cox, actor (Mr Peepers, Hollywood Squares), dies at 48
1974 - Kurt Magnus Atterberg, composer, dies at 86
1975 - Julian Huxley, biologist, dies
1975 - Pelham G Wodehouse, writer, dies
1978 - Ilka Chase, actress (Masquerade Party), dies at 72
1979 - Alex Bradford, actor/composer (Your Arms too Short...), dies at 51
1979 - Mehdi Rahimi, Iran general/milt governor of Teheran, executed
1981 - Jack Crapp, cricketer (7 Tests for England 1948-49, 319 runs), dies