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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 202

202 BC - Coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place, initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty's rule over China
364 - Valentinian I becomes Roman Emperor.
870 - 8th Ecumenical council ends in Constantinople
1066 - Westminster Abbey opens
1570 - Anti-Portugese uprising on Ternate, Moluccas
1638 - Scottish Presbyterians sign National Convent, Greyfriars, Edinburgh
1646 - Roger Scott was tried in Mass for sleeping in church
1653 - -Mar 3] 3 Day Sea battle English beats Dutch
1667 - English colony Suriname in Dutch hands
1692 - Salem witch hunt begins
1700 - Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar.
1704 - Elias Neau, a Frenchman, opens a school for blacks in NYC
1704 - Indians attack Deerfield, Mass, kill 40, kidnap 100
1708 - Slave revolt, Newton, Long Island NY, 11 die
1710 - In the Battle of Helsingborg, 14,000 Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock.
1728 - Georg F Handel's opera "Siroe, re di Persia," premieres in London
1730 - Tsarina Anna Ivanovna leads autocracy
1749 - 1st edition of Henry Fieldings' "Tom Jones" published
1759 - Pope Clement XIII allows Bible to be translated into various languages
1778 - Rhode Island General Assembly authorizes enlistment of slaves
1784 - John Wesley charters Methodist Church
1787 - The charter establishing the institution now known as the University of Pittsburgh is granted.
1794 - US Senate voids Pennsylvania's election of Abraham Gallatin
1810 - 1st US fire insurance joint-stock company organized, Philadelphia
1819 - 1st public performance of a Schubert song, "Schäfers Klageleid"
1826 - M Biela, an Austrian officer, discovers Biela's Comet
1827 - 1st commercial railroad in US, Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) chartered
1828 - Franz Grillparzer's "Ein Treuer Diener," premieres in Vienna
1835 - Dr Elias L"nnrot publishes Finnish poem "Kalevala"
1838 - Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Québec)
1844 - 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes
1847 - US defeats Mexico in battle of Sacramento
1849 - 1st boat load of gold rush prospectors arrives in SF from east coast
1850 - The University of Utah opens in Salt Lake City, Utah.
1854 - Republican Party formally organized at Ripon, Wisc
1859 - Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery
1861 - Territories of Nevada & Colorado created
1861 - Colorado is organized as a United States territory.
1862 - Opera "La Reine de Saba," premieres in Paris
1863 - Confederate raider "Nashville" sinks near Fort McAllister Georgia
1864 - -Mar 3rd] Skirmish at Albemarle County Virginia (Burton's Ford)
1864 - -Mar 4th) Raid at Kilpatrick's Richmond
1870 - The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire.
1871 - 2nd Enforcement Act gives federal control of congressional elections
1878 - US congress authorizes large-size silver certificate
1879 - "Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political/economic exploitation
1882 - 1st US college cooperative store opens, at Harvard U
1883 - 1st US vaudeville theater opens (Boston)
1888 - Ferry in San Pablo Bay explodes
1888 - Vincent d'Indy's Wallenstein-trilogy, premieres
1891 - Oscar Grundén skates world record 500m (50.8 sec)
1893 - Edward Acheson, Penn, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum"
1896 - France dismisses Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar
1900 - General Buller's troops relieve Ladysmith Natal
1902 - Jules Massenets opera premieres in Monte Carlo
1903 - Barney Dreyfuss & James Potter buys Phila Phillies for $170,000
1904 - Vincent d'Indy's 2nd Symphony in B, premieres
1906 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Queen's U (Kingston Ont) in 2 games
1908 - Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Teheran
1912 - Victor Trumper's last Test Cricket innings c Woolley b Barnes 50
1913 - 6.8-m, 4000-kg elephant seal killed, South Georgia (S Atlantic)
1914 - Construction begins on Tower of Jewels for the Exposition (SF)
1917 - AP reports Mexico & Japan will allie with Germany if US enters WW I
1917 - Russian Duma sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
1920 - Maurice Ravel's "Le tombeau de Couperin," premieres
1922 - Egypt regains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
1922 - English princess Mary marries viscount Lascelles
1922 - KHQ-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions
1923 - Swedish king Gustaaf V begins state visit to Netherlands
1924 - US begins intervention in Honduras
1925 - "Tea For Two" by Marion Harris hit #1
1925 - Congress authorizes a special handling stamp
1925 - Longest win streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (9 games)
1925 - Theater Museum of Amsterdam forms
1929 - Chic Black Hawks lose record NHL 15th straight game at home
1931 - Canadian Rugby Union adopts the forward pass
1931 - Oswald Mosley founds his New Party
1933 - 1st female in cabinet: Francis Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor
1933 - German Pres Von Hindenburg abolishes free expression of opinion
1933 - Hitler disallows German communist party (KPD)
1935 - Amsterdam Hotel of the Red Lion gets sidewalk permit
1935 - Nylon discovered by Dr Wallace H Carothers
1939 - Great-Britain recognizes Franco-regime in Spain
1939 - The first issue of Serbian weekly magazine Politikin zabavnik is published.
1939 - The erroneous word "Dord" is discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.
1940 - 1st televised basketball game (U of Pitts beats Fordham U, 50-37)
1940 - Richard Wright's "Native Son" published
1940 - US population at 131,669,275 (12,865,518 blacks (9.8%))
1941 - 39 U Boats (197,000 ton) sunk this month
1941 - British-Italian dogfight above Albania
1942 - 1st weapon drop on Netherlands
1942 - Japanese land in Java, last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies
1942 - Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit
1943 - "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway with Anne Brown & Todd Duncan
1943 - 63 U Boats (359,300 ton) sinks this month
1947 - Anti Kuomintang demonstration on Taiwan
1947 - 228 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of 30,000 civilian lives.
1950 - "Alive & Kicking" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 46 perfs
1951 - French govt of Pleven dissolves
1951 - Senate committee reports of at least 2 major US crime syndicates

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 268

1155 - Henry the Young King, son of Henry II of England (d. 1183)
1261 - Margaret of Scotland, queen of Norway (d. 1283)
1409 - Elisabeth II of Bohemia (d. 1442)
1533 - Michel de Montaigne, France, essayist/philosopher
1552 - Jobst Borgi, [Justus Byrgius], Swiss/German mathematician
1552 - Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker (d. 1632)
1573 - Elias Hill, German architect/city builder (Augsburg)
1612 - John Pearson, English theologian (d. 1686)
1616 - Kaspar Forster, composer
1632 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Florence Italy, composer
1663 - Thomas Newcomen, English co-inventor (steam engine)
1670 - Benjamin Wadsworth, American President of Harvard University (d. 1737)
1675 - Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (d. 1726)
1683 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (d. 1757)
1690 - Aleksei P Romanov, Russia, son of Peter the Great
1704 - Louis Godin, French astronomer (d. 1760)
1712 - Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander (d. 1759)
1724 - George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (d. 1807)
1747 - Justin Morgan, composer
1750 - Ignacy Potocki, Polish foreign minister
1764 - Robert Haldane, Scottish theologist/philanthropist
1771 - French Jozef Kinsoen, Flemish portrait painter
1786 - D Francois J Arago, French astronomer/physicist/politician
1792 - Karl Earnest Ritter von Baer, Estonian/German embryologist
1797 - Mary Lyon, US, educator (Mt Holyoke) (Hall of Fame)
1797 - W Frederik K, prince of Netherlands/general/admiral (10 day campaign)
1810 - Reinier C Bakhuizen van de Brink, Dutch historian
1817 - James Craig, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1888
1820 - John Tenniel, England, cartoonist/illustrator (Alice in Wonderland)
1822 - Matthew Duncan Ector, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1823 - Ernest Renan, French philosopher/historian/scholar of religion
1824 - Charles Blondin, France, acrobat/aerialist
1824 - John Creed Moore, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
1825 - Quincy Adams Gillmore, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1888
1833 - Alfred von Schlieffen, Count/Prussian general-fieldmarshal
1838 - Maurice Lévy, French engineer (d. 1910)
1840 - Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (d. 1892)
1841 - Adrien Albert Marie de Mun, French politician (d. 1914)
1850 - Hermann Schell, German theologist/philosopher (Gott und Geist)
1851 - Samuel W. McCall, 47th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1923)
1854 - Juliusz Zarebski, composer
1857 - Gustave Adolph Kerker, composer
1858 - Jacob P Vis, Dutch industrialist (founder NV Royal Salt Industries)
1865 - Arthur Symons, Welsh poet/critic/co-founder (Savoy)
1865 - Wilfred Grenfell, England, medical missionary
1866 - Vyacheslav I Ivanov, Russian philosopher/classical/poet [OS=2/16]
1874 - Soledad Jiminez, Santander Spain, actor (Phantom ofthe Range)
1875 - Viliam Figus, composer
1876 - John Alden Carpenter, Chicago Illinois, composer (Sea Drift)
1877 - Sergei Bortkiewicz, composer
1878 - Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (d. 1929)
1878 - Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (d. 1952)
1882 - Geraldine Farrar, US soprano/actress (Story of American Singer)
1882 - Jose Vasconcelos, Oaxaca Mexico, politician/essayist/philosopher
1882 - Richard Heinrich Stein, composer
1886 - Jose Gutierrez Solana, Spanish painter/author (Madrid Escenas)
1886 - Max Vasmer, German slavic (La Tertulia de Pombo)
1887 - William Zorach, Lithuania, US sculptor (Spirit of the Dance)
1889 - Victor Sutherland, Paducah KY, actor (Captive City)
1890 - Vaslav Nijinsky, Kiev Ukraine, ballet dancer (3/12 NS)
1893 - Ben Hecht, NYC, novelist/playwright/screenwriter (Front Page)
1895 - Guiomar Novaes, Brazil, pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit)
1895 - Marcel Pagnol, French playwright/director (Marchands de Gloire)
1896 - Philip Showalter Hench, Pittsburgh, physician (cortisone-Nobel)
1898 - Molly Picon, Yiddish actress (Milk & Honey)
1899 - Frederick Denison Maurice Hocking, pathologist
1900 - Laura Z Hobson, writer
1900 - Wolfram Hirth, German pilot (d. 1959)
1901 - Linus Pauling, chemist/peace worker (Nobel 1954, 1962)
1901 - Rudolf W Nilsen, Norwegian poet (Hverdagen)
1903 - Vincente Minnelli, American film director (d. 1986)
1905 - Glyn Jones, writer
1906 - Bugsy Siegel, gangster created casinos in Las Vegas
1907 - Milton Caniff, Hillsboro Ohio, Dutch cartoonist (Terry & Pirates)
1908 - Billie Bird, American actress (d. 2002)
1908 - Alexander Golitzen, American art director (d. 2005)
1909 - Olan Soule, La Harpe Ill, actor (My 3 Sons, Arnie)
1909 - Stephen Harold Spender, Engld, poet/critic (Vienna, Edge of Darkness)
1910 - Roman Maciejewski, composer
1910 - Vincente Minnelli, Chicago IL, director (American in Paris, Gigi)
1911 - Amir Hamzah, Indonesian poet (Njanji Sunji)
1912 - Helmut Coing, German lawyer/director (Max-Planck-institute)
1912 - Clara Petacci, Italian mistress of Benito Mussolini (d. 1945)
1914 - Jim Boles, Lubbock Tx, actor (Joe-One Man's Family)
1915 - Peter Medawar, England, zoologist, immunologist (Nobel 1953)
1915 - Zero "Samuel" Mostel, Brooklyn, actor (Fiddler on the Roof)
1917 - Hans Deutgen, Sweden, world champion archer
1917 - John B Connally, (Gov/Sen-D/R-Tx), took a bullet with JFK
1918 - Alfred Burke, London England, actor (Backfire)
1920 - Edward Kassner, music publisher
1920 - Jim Olin, (Rep-D-VA, 1983- )
1920 - Marjorie M Sweeting, English geomorphologist
1921 - John Bouber, [Blom], actor/author (Fool of Heideloo)
1921 - Vladimir Sommer, composer
1921 - Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (d. 2006)
1923 - Charles Durning, Highland Falls NY, actor (Fury, Sting, Tootsie)
1924 - Robert A Roe, (Rep-D-NJ, 1969- )
1925 - Harry H Corbett, Rangoon Burma, actor (Steptoe & Son, Jabberwacky)
1926 - Seymour Shifrin, composer
1926 - Stanley Glasser, composer

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 128

642 - Oswald, English missionary/saint, dies in battle
1261 - Hendrik, duke of Brabant (1248-61), dies
1326 - Duke Leopold I of Austria (b. 1290)
1453 - Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (b. 1400)
1485 - Niclas, Graf von Abensberg, German soldier (b. 1441)
1510 - Juan de la Cosa, Spanish cartographer and explorer
1525 - Cuauhtémoc, Aztec ruler
1572 - Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (b. 1505)
1573 - Jan "Hans" Liefrinck, Flemish engraver/publisher, dies at about 54
1609 - Paul Sartorius, composer, dies at 39
1618 - Filips Willem, Prince of Orange, dies at 63
1621 - Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1590)
1626 - Cyril Tourneur, English poet/dramatist, dies at about 51
1638 - Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/poet, dies at 56
1638 - Henri duc de Rohan, French soldier/Huguenot leader, dies
1665 - Lodewijk van Nassau, Dutch governor (Bois-le-Duc), dies
1737 - Hercule Brehy, composer, dies at 63
1742 - Willem J 's-Gravesande, Dutch physicist, dies at 53
1746 - Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (b. 1660)
1781 - Richard Stockton, US attorney (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 50
1784 - Phillis Wheatly, poetess, dies
1786 - John Gwynn, English architect and engineer (b. 1713)
1788 - Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman (b. 1725)
1796 - Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, composer, dies at 56
1818 - Adriaan Loosjes Pzn, Dut publisher/writer (Moral Stories), dies at 56
1844 - Abel P Upshur, Secretary of State, dies in explosion on USS Princeton
1844 - Thommas W Gilmer, Navy Secretary, dies in explosion on USS Princeton
1857 - André Dumont, Belgian geologist (b. 1809)
1876 - Charles Edward Horsley, composer, dies at 53
1903 - Girolamo/Jeromin de Rada, Albanian poet, dies at 88
1905 - Joseph C Juglar, French physician/economist, dies at 85
1912 - Bill Storer, English cricket wicketkeeper (6 Tests 1897-99), dies
1913 - Elephant seal, 6.8-m, 4000-kg, killed in S Georgia (South Atlantic)
1916 - Henry James, US/British writer (Bostonians), dies in London at 72
1922 - Vicente Lleo, composer, dies at 51
1925 - Friedrich Ebert, soc-dem president Germany, dies
1929 - Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet, Austrian artist (React of P), dies at 54
1929 - John Ebenezer West, composer, dies at 65
1931 - Ban Johnson, created (baseball's AL), dies after a long illness
1932 - Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (b. 1851)
1935 - Alexander W F Idenburg, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1909-16), dies at 73
1935 - Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian composer (b. 1847).
1936 - Pedro Munoz Seca, La Caraba/La oca, dies at 55
1936 - Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1866)
1940 - Johan C Braakensiek, Dutch political cartoonist, dies at 81
1941 - King Alfonso XIII of Spain (b. 1886)
1949 - Stanley Robert Marchant, composer, dies at 65
1953 - Jim Thorpe, decathlete (Olympics-gold-1912), dies at 64
1956 - Emile Buisson, French murderer executed (b. 1902)
1959 - Maxwell Anderson, US dramatist (Key Largo, Bath Seed), dies at 70
1960 - F S Flint, British translator/poet (imagist movement), dies at 74
1960 - Jonathan Hale, actor (Blondie), shoots himself at 68
1961 - Joris Vriamont, Flemish writer/music publisher, dies at 64
1962 - Harold Ogden "Chic" Johnson, comedian (Olsen & Johnson), dies at 70
1963 - Theodore Newton, actor (Voltaire, Ace of Aces), dies at 58
1963 - Rajendra Prasad, First President of India (b. 1884)
1964 - Dirk HW Filarski, painter/lithographer (Bergen School), dies at 78
1965 - Adolf Scharf, president of Austria (1957-65), dies at 74
1966 - Charles A Bassett II, astronaut, dies at 34, in a crash of T-38 jet
1966 - Elliot McKay See Jr, astronaut, dies at 38 in T-38 jet crash
1967 - Henry Luce, American publisher (b. 1898)
1968 - Doretta Morrow, actress (Because You're Mine), dies at 41
1968 - Frankie Lymon, singer, dies at 25
1968 - Juanita Hall, actress (Capt Billy), dies at 66
1972 - Victor Barna, table tennis champ, dies
1973 - Cecil Kellaway, actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), dies at 78
1973 - Hope Landin, actress (I Remember Mama, Sugarfoot), dies at 79
1974 - Mees Toxopeus, Dutch rescue-vessel captain, dies at 89
1975 - Istvan Kardos, composer, dies at 83
1977 - Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, comedian (Jack Benny Show), dies at 71
1978 - Eric Frank Russell, sci-fi author (Hugo, Deep Space), dies at 73
1978 - Philip Ahn, LA Calif, actor (Master Kan-Kung Fu), dies at 66
1978 - Philip Ahn, American actor (b. 1905)
1979 - Jane Hylton, English actress (Adv of Sir Lancelot), dies at 52
1979 - Mr Ed, talking horse, dies
1979 - Paul Alverdes, German writer (b. 1897)
1980 - Ian Alexander Ross Peebles, cricketer (45 wkts for England), dies
1984 - Leslie Walcott, cricketer (Test for WI v England 1930), dies
1985 - Charita Bauer, actress (Mary-Aldrich Family), dies at 62 in NYC
1985 - David Byron, English singer (Uriah Heep) (b. 1947)
1985 - Ray Ellington, English singer (b. 1916)
1986 - Sven Olof Palme, Swedish PM (1969-76, 82-86), assassinated at 59
1986 - Laura Z. Hobson, American novelist (b. 1900)
1987 - Anny Ondra, actress (Blackmail), dies at 83
1987 - Nora Kaye, US ballet dancer, dies at 67
1988 - Mikha`il Na'imah, Lebanese playwright, dies at 99
1989 - Hermann Burger, writer, dies at 46
1990 - Colin Milburn, cricketer (9 Tests for England, 654 runs), dies
1990 - Fabia Drake, actress (Nice Girl Like Me), dies at 86
1990 - Tuppy Owen-Smith, S Afr cricketer (batsman v England 1929), dies
1991 - Guillermo Ungo, member of El Salvador junta (1979-80), dies
1991 - Wassily Hoeffding, American statistician (b. 1914)
1992 - Angelique Pettyjohn, actress (Body Talk, Star Trek), dies at 49
1992 - Emilla Sherman, choreographer/rockette, dies
1992 - La Lupe, Cuban singer, dies of a heart attack in the Bronx at 53
1993 - Fer A Olthoff, Dutch WW II resistance fighter (Het Parool), dies
1993 - Franco Brusati, Italian dir/writer (Bread & Chocolate), dies at 70
1993 - Ishiro Honda, Japanese director/producer (Godzilla), dies at 81
1993 - Joyce Carey, [Lawrence], English actress (Number 27), dies at 94
1993 - Ruby Keeler, actress (42nd Street, Dames), dies of cancer at 82