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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 162

337 - St Julius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1189 - Riots of Lynn in Norfolk spread to Norwich England
1508 - Maximilian I crowned Holy Roman Emperor
1577 - King Henri de Bourbon of Navarra becomes leader of Huguenots
1626 - Huguenot rebels & French sign Peace of La Rochelle
1651 - -7] Cardinal Mazarin flees Paris
1685 - James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II.
1693 - Royal charter granted College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Va
1716 - England & Netherlands renew alliance
1778 - England declares war on France
1778 - France recognizes US, signs treaty of aid in Paris; 1st US treaty
1788 - Mass becomes 6th state to ratify constitution
1815 - NJ issues 1st US railroad charter (John Stevens)
1819 - Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds freeport harbor Singapore
1820 - 1st organized emigration of blacks back to Africa (NY to Sierra Leone)
1820 - US population announced at 9,638,453 (1,771,656 blacks (18.4%))
1820 - The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia.
1832 - 1st appearance of cholera at Edinburgh, Scotland
1832 - US ship destroys Sumatran village in retaliation for piracy
1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reach Diemen's Land (Tasmania)
1840 - Waitangi Day; treaty signed between Britain & Maoris of NZ
1843 - The first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
1851 - Robert Schumann's 3rd Symphony "Rhenisch," premieres in Dusseldorf
1854 - Composer R Schumann is saved from suicide attempt into the Rhine
1861 - 1st meeting of Provisional Congress of Confederate States of America
1861 - English Vice-Admiral Robert Fitzroy issues 1st storm warnings for ships
1862 - Gen Ulysses S Grant captures Fort Henry in Tennessee
1862 - Naval Engagement at Tenn River-USS Conestago vs CSS Appleton Belle
1862 - Ulysses S Grant begins military campaign in Mississippi
1864 - -7] Skirmish at Barnett's Ford Virginia
1865 - 2nd day of battle at Dabney's Mills (Hatcher's Run)
1865 - Robert E Lee appointed Confederate General in Chief
1867 - Peabody Fund forms to promote Black education in South
1869 - Harper's Weekly publishes 1st picture of Uncle Sam with chin whiskers
1891 - 1st great train robbery by Dalton Gang (Southern Pacific #17)
1899 - Spanish-American War ends, peace treaty ratified by Senate
1900 - Battle at Vaalkrans, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
1902 - Young Women's Hebrew Association organizes in NYC
1904 - Russian-Japanese war began
1911 - 1st old-age home opened in Prescott, Ariz
1911 - Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey
1918 - Britain grants women (30 & over) vote
1919 - 1st day of 5-day Seattle general strike
1920 - Saarland administrated by League of Nations
1921 - "The Kid," starring Charlie Chaplin & Jackie Coogan, released
1922 - Cardinal Achille Ratti elected Pope Pius XI
1922 - US, UK, France, Italy & Japan sign Washington naval arms limitation
1926 - NFL rules college students ineligible until college classes graduates
1926 - St Louis Browns acquire catcher Wally Schang from NY Yankees
1929 - Rudy Vallee recorded "Deep Night"
1932 - 1st Olympic dog sled race, Lake Placid, NY (demonstration sport)
1932 - Fascist coup in the Memel territory
1933 - -90°F (-68°C), Oymyakon, USSR (Asian record)
1933 - 112' ocean wave observed near Manila
1933 - 20th Amendment goes into effect: Pres term begins in Jan not March
1933 - 20th amendment (terms of office) passed
1933 - Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 34 m, in Pacific hurricane
1933 - Pres von Hindenburg & von Papen end Prussian parliament
1934 - Reds purchase 43-year-old Dazzy Vance from the Cards for $7,500
1934 - Far right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
1935 - "Monopoly" board game goes on sale for 1st time
1935 - 1st election to allow women to vote in Turkey
1936 - 4th Winter Olympic games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
1936 - Pravda criticizes Shostakovitch' ballet "Clear Brook"
1937 - K Elizabeth Ohi becomes 1st Japanese-US female lawyer
1939 - Spanish govt flees to France
1941 - Auke Adema wins 6th official Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race (9:19)
1941 - Battle of Beda Fomm: Italian 10th army destroyed
1941 - British troops conquer Bengazi, Libya
1943 - 1st Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down
1943 - Singer Frank Sinatra debuts on radio's "Your Hit Parade"
1945 - 8th Air Force bombs Magdeburg/Chemnitz
1945 - Russian Red Army crosses the river Oder
1946 - "Lute Song" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 142 performances
1947 - Compton & Arthur Morris both complete dual tons in same Test Cricket
1948 - 1st radio-controlled airplane flown
1948 - Bradman retires hurt, 57 in his last Test Cricket innings in Australia
1948 - KNXT (now KCBS) TV channel 2 in Los Angeles, CA (CBS) 1st broadcast
1951 - "Broker Special" train crashes in Woodbridge NJ, killing 84
1951 - Radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into
1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site Argonne Atomic Lab (Ill), to demonstrate lax in security
1952 - England replaces King George VI stamp series with Queen Elizabeth II
1953 - Ian Craig makes Test Cricket debut at 17 yrs 239 days, youngest Aussie
1953 - US controls on wages & some consumer goods were lifted
1956 - Chicago's Daily Defender, begins publishing
1956 - French premier Guy Mollet pelted with tomatoes in Algiers
1956 - U of Alabama refuses admission to Autherine Lucy (because he's black)
1958 - 7 members on Manchester United football team die in an air crash
1958 - Ted Williams signs with Red Sox for $135,000, making him highest paid
1959 - 1st successful test-fire of Titan ICBM
1959 - Fidel Castro is interviewed by Edward R Murrow
1961 - "Jail, No Bail" Jail-in movement starts in Rock Hill SC
1961 - KOAP TV channel 10 in Portland, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 - Schoolman Athletic Field in the Bronx named
1964 - "Rugantino" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 28 performances
1964 - France & Great-Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel
1964 - WCIU TV channel 26 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
1965 - "Kelly" opens & closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC
1965 - Righteous Brothers "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" hits #1
1967 - Cultural Revolution in Albania

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 244

1461 - Dzore Drzic, Croatian poet
1564 - Christopher Marlowe, English poet/dramatist (Dr Faustus)
1577 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman (d. 1599)
1608 - Antonio Vieira, Portuguese Jesuit preacher
1611 - Chongzhen Emperor, Emperor of China (d. 1644)
1612 - Antoine Arnauld, [Grand Arnauld], French lawyer/theologist
1637 - Toyotomi Hideyoshi, unified Japan
1639 - Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (d. 1691)
1665 - Anne Stuart, Queen of England (1702-14)
1673 - Maximilian Dietrich Freisslich, composer
1695 - Andre Cheron, composer
1695 - Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1726)
1705 - Johann Matthias Leffloth, composer
1732 - Charles Lee, General in the American Revolution (d. 1782)
1744 - Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (d. 1795)
1748 - Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Bavarian Illuminati (d. 1811)
1753 - Evariste Desire Desforges chevalier de Parny, French poet
1756 - Aaron Burr, Newark NJ, (D-R), 3rd US VP (1801-05), dueler
1757 - Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Polish scholar and statesman. (d. 1841)
1778 - Ugo Foscolo, Italy, poet (Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis)
1793 - Pietro Rovelli, composer
1797 - Joseph Maria von Radowitz, Prussian minister of Foreign affairs
1802 - Charles Wheatstone, English physicist/musician [or Feb 7]
1804 - Ragnerus L van Andringa de Kempenaer, Dutch officer/swindler
1807 - Hans Matthison-Hansen, composer
1811 - Henry George Liddell, father of the Alice in Alice in Wonderland (d. 1898)
1818 - William Maxwell Evarts, (Union), died in 1901
1830 - Marcellus Monroe Crocker, Brig gen (Union volunteers), died in 1865)
1832 - John Brown Gordon, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1904
1833 - James Ewell Brown "JEB" Stuart, Major General (Confederate Army)
1833 - José María de Pereda, Spanish novelist (d. 1906)
1834 - William Dorsey Pender, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1834 - Ema Puksec, Croatian singer (d. 1889)
1838 - Henry Irving, [John H Brodribb], Engld, knighted 1895/actor (Hamlet)
1838 - Yisrael Meir Kagan, Chofetz Chayim (d. 1933)
1848 - Luigi Mancinelli, composer
1853 - Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (d. 1901)
1860 - Johan [Eliza J] de Meester, Dutch journalist/writer (Geertje)
1864 - John Henry Mackay, Scottish/German author/poet (Anarchists)
1866 - Karl T Sapper, German geography/geologist (Vulkankunde)
1872 - Theodor Lessing, writer [or Feb 8]
1874 - Milton Bennett Medary, US, architect (Washington Chapel)
1875 - Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (d. 1915)
1876 - Wilhelm Schmidtbonn[-Schmidt], German playwright (Der Sprechende Eros)
1878 - Waclaw Gieburowski, composer
1879 - Carl Ramsauer
1881 - Karl Weigl, composer
1887 - Josef Frings, German Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978)
1888 - Ljudmil Stojanow, Bulgarian poet (Metsh i Slowo, Cholera)
1889 - Karel Wellens, Flemish painter
1889 - Siegfried Kracauer, writer
1890 - Anton Hermann Fokker, avation pioneer
1892 - William Parry Murphy, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
1893 - Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, pres of UN General Assembly (1962-63)
1894 - Eric Partridge, New Zealand lexicographer (d. 1979)
1895 - George Herman (Babe) Ruth, Baltimore, baseball great (Yankees)
1897 - Alberto [de Almeida] Cavalcanti, Brazil, director (Nicholas Nickleby)
1897 - Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster (d. 1944)
1899 - Ramon Novarro, [Jose RG Samaniegos], Durango Mexico, actor (Ben Hur)
1900 - Roy Smeck, guitarist/banjoist
1900 - Rudolf Vornlund, Swedish playwright (Heliga Familjen)
1901 - Ben Lyon, Atlanta GA, actor (I Cover the Waterfront, Night Nurse)
1902 - Louis Nizer, lawyer (defended blacklisted stars in '50s, Catspaw)
1902 - George Brunies, American musician (d. 1974)
1903 - John Dunning, cricketer (NZ medium-fast bowler of 30's)
1903 - Pieter G Buckinx, Flemish writer (Temptation of Poverty)
1904 - Claudio Arrau, Chile, composer/pianist (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
1905 - Władysław Gomułka, Polish leader (d. 1982)
1907 - Sam Green, industrialist/inventor
1908 - Amintore Fanfani, premier of Italy
1908 - Edward Lansdale, general/model (Quiet American, Ugly American)
1908 - Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, national Park Warden
1909 - Israel Citkowitz, composer
1910 - George H Poyser, English soccer player/manager (Brentford)
1910 - Irmgard Keun, German author (d. 1982)
1910 - Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-born gangster (d. 1993)
1911 - A W "Dooley" Briscoe, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests for S Africa 30's)
1911 - Ronald Reagan, IL, actor (Bedtime for Bonzo)/40th pres (R) (1981-89)
1912 - Eva Braun, mistress (Adolph Hitler)
1913 - John Lund, Rochester NY, actor (Wackiest Ship in the Army)
1913 - Mary Nicol Leakey, palaeontologist
1914 - Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor (d. 2005)
1915 - Derk Roemers, Dutch politician (Soc-Dem)
1916 - Bill Doggett, rocker
1916 - John Crank, British mathematician (d. 2006)
1917 - Arthur Gold, Toronto, Canada, pianist
1917 - Liberato Firmino Sifonia, composer
1918 - Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author (d. 2007)
1919 - Lindsay Tuckett, cricketer (son of Len, 9 Tests for S Africa 1947-49)
1919 - Louis Heren, journalist/writer (China's Three Thousand Years)
1920 - James H Scheuer, (Rep-D-NY, 1965-73, 75- )
1922 - Patrick MacNee, London England, actor (Jonathan Steed-Avengers)
1922 - Denis Norden, British television personality
1923 - Maurice Le Roux, composer
1924 - Billy Wright, English soccer player
1924 - Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Road to Rome)
1926 - Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer
1926 - Walker Edmiston, American actor (d. 2007)
1927 - Smokey Burgess, baseball catcher (Pitts Pirates)
1929 - Sixten Jernberg, Sweden, skier (Olympic-gold-1956/60/64)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 132

743 - Hisham ibn 'Abd al-Malik, 10th Moslem caliph, dies at about 52
891 - Photius, Byzantine theologist/patriarch of Constantinople/saint, dies
1140 - Thurstan, archbishop of York, dies
1378 - Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (b. 1338)
1497 - John Ockeghem, Flemish singer/composer, dies at 79
1515 - Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
1585 - Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (b. 1518)
1593 - Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b. 1517)
1612 - Christopher Clavius, calendar reformer, dies (birth date unknown)
1617 - Prosper Alpinus, Italian physician/botanist, dies at 63
1617 - Prospero Alpini, Italian scientist (b. 1553)
1695 - Ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95), dies
1699 - Jozef Ferdinand of Bavaria, heir of Spanish king Carlos II, dies
1725 - Johann Philipp Krieger, composer, dies at 75
1775 - William Dowdeswell, English politician (b. 1721)
1783 - Lancelot "Capability" Brown, English architect (Kew), dies at about 67
1785 - Iman Willem Falck, Dutch governor of Ceylon (1765-83), dies at 48
1793 - Carlo Goldoni, Italian author (L'avaro), dies at 85
1798 - Niels Schiorring, composer, dies at 54
1804 - Joseph Priestley, Engl/US theologist/philosopher/chemist, dies at 70
1807 - John Reid, composer, dies at 85
1812 - Carlo Goldoni, writer, dies at 104
1816 - Maria Ludwika Rzewuska, Polish szlachcianka (b. 1744)
1833 - Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (b. 1762)
1834 - Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (b. 1804)
1855 - Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1791)
1859 - Johannes Josephus Viotta, composer, dies at 45
1865 - John Pegram, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 33
1881 - Pieter Mijer, Gov-Gen of Neth Indies (1866-72), dies at 68
1896 - Abraham Czn van Stolk, Dutch art collector, dies at 82
1897 - Ebenezer C Brewer, British writer (Dictionary of Phrase & Fable), dies
1899 - Georg Leo earl von Caprivi, German chancellor, dies at 67
1899 - Prince Prince Alfred of Edinburgh (b. 1874)
1910 - Alfonso Maria Fusco. Beatified Italian Roman Catholic priest and founder (b.1839)
1914 - J Albert Neuhuys, Dutch painter (Hague School), dies at 69
1916 - Anne C A I van Diest, Belgian physician/feminist, dies at 73
1916 - Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867)
1917 - Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semite journalist, dies at 72
1918 - Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter/cartoonist, dies at 55
1919 - Friedrich W Mengelberg, German sculptor/painter, dies at 81
1923 - Edward E Barnard, US astronomer (5th moon Jupiter), dies at 65
1927 - Daniel F Scheurleer, Dutch musicologist/banker, dies at 71
1927 - Sam Maguire, Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer (b. 1879)
1930 - Eva Strittmatter, writer, dies at 17
1938 - Marianne V von Werefkin, Russ/German/Swiss house painter, dies at 77
1941 - Maximilien Luce, French painter, dies at 82
1942 - Wobbe de Vries, Dutch linguist, dies at 78
1943 - HA Seyffardt, Dutch lt-gen/NSB "minister", dies at 71
1945 - Jan Bos, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1945 - Paul Bos, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1947 - Albert JM Bakker, Dutch actor (Teun the night watch), dies at 82
1947 - Luigi Russolo, composer, dies at 61
1948 - Robert Brasillach, French author/nazi collaborator, dies at 38
1950 - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (b. 1884)
1952 - George VI, King of Britain (1936-52), dies at 56
1952 - George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1895)
1958 - 7 soccer players of Manchester United, die in an aircrash at Munich
1958 - David Pegg, English footballer (b. 1935)
1958 - Tommy Taylor, English footballer (b. 1932)
1958 - Geoff Bent, English footballer (b. 1932)
1958 - Roger Byrne, English footballer (b. 1929)
1958 - Mark Jones, English footballer (b. 1933)
1958 - Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (b. 1913)
1958 - Walter Crickmer, English football club secretary and manager
1960 - Jesse Belvin, rocker, dies at 26 in a car crash
1961 - Archibald T Davison, composer, dies at 77
1963 - Mohammed ibn al-Chattabi Abd el-Krim, Morocco opposition leader, dies
1963 - Werner Erich Josten, German composer (Jungle), dies at 77
1963 - Abd el-Krim, Moroccan politician
1964 - Sophocles Venizelos, premier of Greece (1944, 50-51), dies at 69
1964 - W L Cornford, England cricket wicket-keeper (4 Tests v NZ 1930), dies
1964 - Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and President (b. 1869)
1965 - Jack Wagner, actor (Jive Junction), dies at 68
1966 - Johan Algot Haquinius, composer, dies at 79
1966 - Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film mogul (b. 1877)
1967 - Martine Carol, French actress (Nana), dies of heart attack at 46
1968 - C Montague Shaw, actor (Buck Rogers, Planet Outlaws), dies at 85
1970 - Roscoe Karns, actor (Capt Shafer-Hennesey), dies at 78
1972 - Julian H Steward, US anthropologist (South American), dies at 70
1973 - Ira S Bowen, US physicist/astronomer (Mt Wilson/Palomar), dies at 74
1976 - Vince Guaraldi, jazz pianist (Charlie Brown TV specials), dies at 43
1979 - Alain Teister, Dutch sculptor/writer, dies at 47
1979 - Arthur van Schendel, Dutch art historian, dies at 68
1981 - Hugo Montenegro, American film music composer (b. 1925)
1981 - Frederika of Hanover, Queen Consort of Greece (b. 1917)
1982 - Ben Nicholson, England, painter/sculptor (Circle), dies at 87
1985 - Charles Briggs, actor (13 Frightened Girls, Capt Newman), dies at 53
1985 - Dandy Nichols, actress (Confessions of a Window Cleaner), dies at 78
1985 - James Hadley Chase, English writer (b. 1906)
1986 - William Collier, actor (Up the River, She's My Weakness), dies
1986 - Frederick Coutts, Salvation Army general (b. 1899)
1986 - Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (b. 1912)
1988 - Lee Goodman, actor (Imitation of Life), dies of TB at 64
1988 - Marghanita Laski, English author (Victorian chaise-lounge), dies
1988 - Nuno Oliveira, Bass Player (b. 1925)
1989 - Andre Cayatte, dies
1989 - Barbara Tuchman, historian (Guns of August-Pulitzer), dies at 77
1989 - Chris Gueffroy, East German attempted defector (b. 1968)
1989 - Osbourne Ruddock, Jamaican Dub music performer (b. 1941)
1990 - Jane Novak, silent screen actress (Ghost Town), dies of stroke at 94