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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 163

896 - Pope Formosa crowned king Arnulf of Karinthie/French emperor
1071 - Battle of Cassel-Robert I the Frisian defeats Arnulf III/I
1281 - Simon de Brion elected Pope Martinus IV
1288 - Girolamo Masci elected Pope Nicolas IV
1300 - Pope Boniface VIII delegates degree
1349 - Jews are expelled from Zurich Switzerland
1495 - French King Charles VIII enters Naples to claim crown
1561 - William of Orange appointed viceroy of Burgundy/Charolais
1630 - Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn, at Thanksgiving
1632 - Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
1656 - New Amsterdam granted a Jewish burial site
1744 - Battle at Toulon: English-French & Spanish fleet
1746 - French troops conquer Brussels
1746 - Jakobijnse troops vacate Aberdeen
1774 - English House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright
1775 - 1st US joint stock company (to make cloth) offers shares at 10 cents
1775 - Jews expelled from outskirts of Warsaw Poland
1784 - 1st US ship to trade with China, "Empress of China," sails from NY
1797 - Last Invasion of Britain: 1797 The Last Invasion of Britain by the French, begins near Fishguard, Wales.
1819 - Spain renounces claims to Oregon Country, Florida (Adams-Onís Treaty)
1821 - Spain sells (east) Florida to United States for $5 million
1825 - Russia & Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary
1828 - Russia & Persia sign Peace of Turkmantsjai
1835 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave Valdivia Chile
1836 - Dutch garrison evacuates fort Du Bus New Guinea
1847 - Battle of Buena Vista: US troops beat Mexican army
1854 - 1st meeting of Republican Party (Michigan)
1856 - 1st national meeting of Republican Party (Pittsburgh)
1858 - Dion Boucicault's "Jessie Brown," premieres in NYC
1860 - Organized baseball played in SF for 1st time
1860 - Shoe-making workers of Lynn Ms, strike successfully for higher wages
1861 - On a bet Edward Weston leaves Boston to walk to Lincoln's inauguration
1864 - -27] Battle at Dalton Georgia
1864 - 2nd/last day of Battle of Okolona, MS
1864 - Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta) Tennessee
1865 - Battle of Wilmington, NC (Fort Anderson) occupied by Federals
1865 - Tennessee adopts a new constitution abolishing slavery
1872 - 1st national convention of Prohibition Party (Columbus Ohio)
1876 - Johns Hopkins University opens
1878 - Greenback Labor Party forms (Toledo Ohio)
1879 - 1st 5 cent & 10 cent store opened by Frank W Woolworth (Utica NY)
1882 - With 120 miles James Saunders wins NYC's 24 hour race & $100 prize
1882 - The Serbian kingdom is refounded.
1887 - Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati
1888 - John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans (Yonkers NY)
1889 - Dakotas, Montana & Washington admitted to union
1889 - Pres Cleveland signs bill to admit Dakotas, Montana & Washington state
1892 - "Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde premieres at St James (London)
1892 - Manitoba Rugby Football Union forms
1898 - Black postmaster lynched, his wife & 3 daughters shot in Lake City SC
1900 - Battle at Wynne's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
1900 - Hawaii became a US territory
1903 - Due to drought the US side of Niagara Falls runs short of water
1904 - The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
1906 - Black evangelist William J Seymour arrives in LA Calif
1907 - 1st cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London
1907 - Leonid N Andreyev's "Zhizn Cheloveka," premieres in St Petersburg
1909 - Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Va
1912 - J Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph-161.29 kph
1913 - Lowell HS, SF opens (on it's 1st campus)
1915 - Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war
1917 - German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships
1918 - Germany claims Baltic states, Finland & Ukraine from Russia
1920 - 1st artificial rabbit used at a dog race track (Emeryville Calif)
1922 - Congress authorizes Grant Memorial $1 gold coin
1923 - 1st successful chinchilla farm in US (LA Calif)
1923 - Transcontinental airmail service begins
1924 - 1st presidential radio address (Calvin Coolidge)
1927 - ARC soccer team forms in Alphen on the Rhine
1927 - Baruch Spinosa's house of mourning opened as a museum
1928 - 1st solo England to Australia flight lands (Bert Hinkler)
1932 - Purple Heart award reinstituted
1933 - Goering forms SA/SS-police, shoots 40-50
1934 - "It Happened One Night," opens at NY's Radio City Music Hall
1935 - Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House
1936 - Construction on Ypenburg Neth airport begins
1939 - Netherlands recognizes Franco-regime in Spain
1940 - Finnish troops vacate Koivisto island
1940 - German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578
1941 - Arthur T "Bomber" Harris becomes British Air Marshal
1941 - German assault on El Agheila Libya
1941 - IG Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1941 - Nazi SS begin rounding up Jews of Amsterdam
1941 - Paul Creston's 1st Symphony, premieres
1941 - Roy Harris' "Ballad of a Railroad Man," premieres
1942 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defenses collapses.
1943 - Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
1944 - US 8th Air Force bombs Enschede, Arnhem & Nijmegen by mistake/800+ die
1945 - Arab League froms (Cairo)
1945 - British troops take Ramree Island, Burma
1945 - Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland
1948 - Arabs bomb attack in Jerusalem, 50 die
1950 - Brockway & Weinstock publish "Men of Music" (rev ed)
1955 - British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sets sail
1956 - 1st British soccer match at Kunstlicht: Portsmouth vs Newcastle United
1956 - Elvis Presley's 1st hit in Billboard's top 10: "Heartbreak Hotel"
1957 - Jockey Ted Atkinson, 3,500th win
1957 - Walter O'Malley says Dodgers may play 10 exhibitions in Calif in 1958
1958 - "Portotino" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 3 performances
1958 - Australian swimmer Jon Konrads sets 6 world records in 2 days

Famous Birthdays

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1040 - Rashi, French rabbi (d. 1105)
1403 - Charles VII, King of France (1422-61), drove out English
1403 - Charles VII of France (d. 1461)
1440 - Ladislaus V Posthumus, King of Hungary/Bohemia
1500 - Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (d. 1564)
1514 - Tahmasp I, shah of Persia (1524-76)/author (Tazkire-i Shah)
1542 - Santino Garsi, composer
1573 - Gemignano Capilupi, composer
1599 - Anthony Van Dyck, Antwerp Belgium, painter
1612 - George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (d. 1677)
1634 - Petrus "Pieter" van Schooten, fortress architect
1684 - William Pulteney, London, statesman (Earl of Bath)
1705 - Peter Arctedius, [Artedi], Swedish biologist
1714 - Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (d. 1795)
1732 - George Washington, Virginia, 1st pres (1789-97)
1745 - Joao de Sousa Carvalho, composer
1749 - Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist/1st biographer of Bach
1756 - Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (d. 1821)
1761 - Erik Eriksson Tulindberg, composer
1761 - Jacob Kimball, composer
1764 - Alexander Campbell, composer
1770 - Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek, composer
1772 - Joseph Lipavsky, composer
1772 - Karl Jacob Wagner, composer
1773 - Matthijs I van Bree, Flemish (court)painter
1778 - Rembrandt Peale, portrait/historical painter (Court of Death)
1779 - Joachim Nicolas Eggert, composer
1788 - Arthur Schopenhauer, Germany, philosopher (Great Pessimist)
1796 - Adolphe Quetelet, Belgium, mathematician/astronomer/statistician
1796 - Alexis Bachelot, French missionary (d. 1837)
1797 - William I, Berlin, King of Prussia (1861-88)/German Emperor (1871-88)
1798 - Charles Mynn Thruston, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1873
1806 - Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (d. 1875)
1810 - Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer [OS]
1810 - Holger Simon Paulli, composer
1814 - Henryk Oskar Kolberg, composer
1817 - Niels Wilhelm Gade, Danish violinist/composer/conductor
1817 - Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880)
1819 - Bernardo Calvo Puig, composer
1819 - James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat/abolitionist
1821 - Giovanni Bottesini, composer
1822 - Adolf Kuszmaul, German physician (stomach pump, Kuszmaul disease)
1824 - Pierre Janssen, French astronomer (d. 1907)
1825 - Jean Baptiste Salpointe, second Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1898)
1827 - James Barnet Fry, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1894
1828 - Robert Alexander Cameron, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1833 - Josef Foerster, composer
1834 - Albert Heinrich Zabel, composer
1836 - Eduard Wachmann, composer
1838 - Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen, discoverer of hydrogen in Sun
1839 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (d. 1906)
1840 - F August Bebel, German social-democrat
1842 - Carl Rosa, Hamburg Germany, founder (Rosa opera company)
1842 - Leon Vanderkindere, Belgian historian/mayor (Ukkel)
1843 - Affonso de Escragnolle Taunay, France/Brazil writer (Inocencia)
1844 - Kazamierz Julian Kratzer, composer
1849 - Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Russian mathematician (d. 1915)
1850 - Isaac L Rice, Germany, (namesake of Columbia Univ's Rice stadium)
1852 - Pieter K Pel, internist (Pel-Ebstein fever)
1857 - Heinrich Hertz, physicist, 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves
1857 - Robert Baden-Powell, founder (Boy Scouts, Girl Guides)
1862 - Karen Hulda Garborg[-Bergersen], Norwegian playwright (Mot Solen/Eli)
1864 - Jules Renard, France, writer (Poil de Carotte)
1865 - Otto Modersohn, German painter
1868 - Henri Polak, union leader/politician (soc-dem)
1873 - Muhammad Iqbal, Dutch East Indies lawyer/poet/philosopher
1874 - Bill Klem, American baseball umpire (d. 1951)
1877 - Yme C Schuitmaker, Dutch potato salesman/dramatist
1878 - Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist (d. 1909)
1880 - Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956)
1881 - Joseph B. Ely, American politician (d. 1956)
1882 - Eric Gill, England, sculptor/engraver/typographer (Perpetua)
1883 - Alfred Wikenhauser, German RC exegetist (John-Apokalyps)
1883 - Jaroslav Kocian, composer
1883 - Marguerite Clark, voice (Snow White)
1884 - Abraham "Abe" Attell, boxing hall of famer
1886 - Hugo Ball, German playwright/co-founder Flametti
1887 - Mary Ellen Chase, educator/author (Windswept, 1959 Sarah Hale Award)
1888 - Owen Brewster, American politician (d. 1961)
1889 - Robin G Collingwood, English philosopher (Roman Britain)
1889 - Olave Baden-Powell, English founder of the Girl Guide (d. 1977)
1891 - "Chico" Marx, NYC, actor/comedian (Marx Brothers, Animal Crackers)
1891 - Jan Wils, Holland, architect/designer (Amsterdam's Olympic Stadium)
1891 - Lucien Cailliet, composer
1891 - Vlas Chubar, Soviet politician (d. 1939)
1892 - David Dubinsky, labor leader (Freedom Award, 1969 Medal of Freedom)
1892 - Edna St Vincent Millay, poet/dramatist/feminist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize)
1894 - Alexander Spitzmuller-Harmersbach, composer
1895 - Victor RaulHaya de la Torre, founder (Peruvian Aprista Party)
1896 - Edvin Wide, Sweden, 10K runner (Olympic-silver-1924)
1896 - Enid Markey, Dillon Colo, actress (Aunt Violet-Bringing Up Buddy)
1896 - Nacio Herb Brown, US composer
1896 - Paul Van Ostaijen, Flemish poet/writer/critic (Occupied City)
1897 - Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (d. 1947)
1898 - Anton de Kom, Surinam/Dutch worker's union leader/resistance fighter
1899 - Dwight Frye, Salina KS, actor (Black Camel, Dracula, Frankenstein)
1899 - George O'Hara, American actor (d. 1966)
1899 - Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (d. 1986)
1900 - Evald Aav, composer
1900 - Giorgios Seferis, Greece, poet (Nobel 1963)

Famous Deaths

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606 - Sabinian, Italian Pope (604-06), dies
965 - Odo, Duke of Burgundy (b. 944)
1071 - Arnulf III, earl of Flanders/Hainault (Arnulf I), dies in battle
1076 - Godfried III, with the Hump, duke of Lower Lorraine, murdered [or Feb 26]
1078 - Johannes van Fecamp, Italian mystic writer, dies
1111 - Roger Borsa, King of Sicily
1213 - Wibert of Gembloers, benediction/writer/abbot of Gembloers, dies
1371 - David II Bruce, king of Scotland (1331..71), dies at 46
1478 - Hendrik Herp (Herpius/Harphius), writer (Spieghel volcomenheit), dies
1512 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (America), dies at 60
1627 - Olivier van Noort, Dutch navigator (b. 1558)
1674 - John Wilson, composer, dies at 78
1674 - Jean Chapelain, French writer (b. 1595)
1680 - Catherine Monvoisin, French sorceress (b. c.1640)
1687 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Paris, composer
1690 - Charles Le Brun, classical painter (Academie de Peinture), dies at 70
1727 - Francesco Gasparini, composer, dies at 58
1731 - Frederik Ruysch, Dutch anatomist, dies at 92
1732 - Francis Atterbury, English bishop and man of letters (b. 1663)
1742 - Charles Rivington, English publisher (b. 1688)
1750 - Pietro Filippo Scarlotti, composer, dies at 71
1770 - Christopher Snider, 11, Boston, becomes 1st martyr of US Revolution
1788 - Franz Joseph Oehlschlagel, composer, dies at 63
1797 - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720)
1799 - Heshen, infamous Qing Dynasty Chinese official at court (b. 1750)
1816 - Adam Ferguson, Scottish sociologist/historian, dies at 92
1822 - Johann Ignaz Walter, composer, dies at 66
1824 - John Davy, composer, dies at 60
1829 - Adam A earl von Neipperg, Austrian general, dies at 53
1832 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, Weimar, Germany
1836 - John Clarke-Whitfeld, composer, dies at 65
1838 - Friedrich Johann Eck, composer, dies at 70
1846 - Carolus Antonius Fodor, composer, dies at 77
1846 - Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher, dies at 49 [OS]
1849 - Alexander Ernst Fesca, composer, dies at 28
1875 - Charles Lyell, British geologist (Elements of Geology), dies at 77
1875 - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (b. 1796)
1878 - Franz Hunten, composer, dies at 84
1890 - John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (b. 1822)
1890 - Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (b. 1834)
1892 - Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (b. 1828)
1896 - Thomas Hughes, politican/author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, Brighton
1903 - Frederick William Farrar, writer/dean (Canterbury 1895-1903), dies
1903 - Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf, Austrian composer (Corregidor), dies at 42
1904 - Leslie Stephen, English writer and critic (b. 1832)
1912 - Richard Andree, German geographer (Andree's Handatlas), dies at 76
1913 - Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure, Swiss linguist, dies at 55
1913 - Francisco Indalecio Madero, Mex pres, assassinated in milt coup at 39
1913 - Suarez, Mexican vice pres, assassinated in a miltary coup
1921 - Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1864)
1925 - Georges/Joris Helleputte, Belgian Catholic minister, dies at 72
1925 - Nina David, [Mrs Radcliffe N Salomon], poet/author, dies
1925 - Thomas C Allbutt, English physiologist, dies at 88
1930 - Godfried CE van Daalen, Dutch general/governor of Atjeh, dies at 66
1934 - Willem Kes, violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 78
1936 - Johan M Skjoldborg, Danish writer (Dynaes Digte), dies at 74
1939 - Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (b. 1875)
1943 - Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter (That Weisse Rose), dies
1943 - Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (White Rose), beheaded at 24
1943 - Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (Die Weisse Rose), beheaded
1944 - Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mohandas Gandhi (b. 1869)
1945 - Osip Brik, Russian writer (b. 1888)
1949 - Russell Porter, actor (Betsy, Hanna's War, British Empire), dies
1957 - Harry Sothern, actor (Dr Huer-Buck Rogers), dies at 72
1958 - Michael Todd, film magnate, killed in an New Mexico air crash
1959 - Helen Parrish, actress (Hour Glass), dies of cancer at 36
1960 - Hubert Cuypers, composer/choir conductor (Missa Populi), dies at 86
1960 - Paul-Émile Borduas, Quebec painter (b. 1905)
1961 - George de las Cuevas Bustillo y Teheran, Chilean marquis, dies at 75
1961 - Nick LaRocca, American jazz musician (b. 1889)
1964 - Edie Martin, actor (Titfield Thunderbolt), dies at 84
1965 - Felix Frankfurter, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1882)
1966 - Paul de Keyser, Flemish philologist/folklorist, dies at 74
1967 - Fritz Erler, German politician (SDP), dies at 53
1967 - Joe Forte, actor (Horwitz-Life With Luigi), dies at 70
1968 - Omer CFL Tulippe, Belgian geographer, dies at 71
1968 - Peter Arno, American cartoonist (b. 1904)
1971 - Barry Macollum, actor (On the Waterfront), dies at 81
1971 - Matt McHugh, actor (Taxi, Freaks, Barbary Coast), dies at 77
1971 - Rudolf Mauersberger, composer, dies at 82
1972 - Walter Sande, actor (Adventures of Tugboat Annie), dies at 65
1973 - Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish novelist (Cat Jumps), dies in Lond at 73
1973 - Katina Paxinou, actress (For Whom the Bell Tolls, Zita), dies at 72
1973 - Winthrop Rockefeller, US governor (Arkansas), dies at 60
1973 - Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Quebec politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1916)
1974 - Samuel Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (b. 1930)
1976 - Angela Baddeley, actress (Speckled Band), dies at 71
1976 - Florence Ballard, rocker (Supremes), dies of a heart attack at 32
1976 - Michael Polany, Hungarians/English chemist/sociologist, dies at 84
1977 - Edith Barrett, actress (Molly & Me, Ghost Ship), dies at 64
1977 - Jack O'Connor, cricketer (batted in 4 Tests for England 1929-30), dies
1978 - Ilka Chase, actress (Masquerade Party, Trials of O'Brien), dies at 74
1978 - Phyllis McGinley, US poetess (Pulitzer 1961), dies at 72
1980 - Alfred Andersch, German writer (Red Head), dies at 66
1980 - Oskar Kokoschka, Austria/British painter/graphic artist, dies at 93
1980 - Richard Kallman, actor (Verboten, Hell Canyon Outlaws), dies at 46
1982 - Murray "the K" Kaufman, NYC DJ (5th Beatle), dies at 60
1982 - Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (b. 1898)
1983 - Christina E "Christine" Auwen, singer/wife of John Kelly, dies at 75
1983 - Romain Maes, Belgian bicyclist (Tour de France 1935), dies at 70