This Day in History for 18th January

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 169

336 - St Mark elected Catholic Pope
350 - General Maxentius drives out Western Roman emperor Constans
474 - Leo II briefly becomes Byzantine emperor.
532 - Nika uprising at Constantinople fails, 30-40,000 die
1126 - Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong.
1307 - German king Albrecht I makes his son Rudolf king of Bohemia
1478 - Grand Duke Ivan II of Moscow occupies Novgorod
1520 - Christian II of Denmark & Norway defeats Swedes at Lake Asunde
1535 - Francisco Pizarro founds the city of Lima, Peru
1591 - King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Minchit Sra of Burma in single combat, for which this date is now observed marked as Royal Thai Armed Forces day.
1644 - Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's 1st UFO sighting
1650 - French Prince Louis II of Condé captured
1671 - Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders, captures Panama
1691 - English king Willem III travels to The Hague
1701 - Frederick I and Sophie Charlotte van Hanover crowned king/queen of Prussia
1733 - 1st polar bear exhibited in America (Boston)
1776 - James Wright, Royal Governor of Georgia, is placed under house arrest by Major Joseph Habersham
1777 - San Jose California, founded
1778 - Capt James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands)
Captain/Explorer James Cook 1788 - The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay to setup a penal colony
1795 - French admitted to Amsterdam without resistance
1795 - governor/viceroy Willem V flees Scheveningen to England
1817 - San Martinleads a revolutionary army over Andes
1840 - Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, 1st US electrical journal, appears
1850 - British blockade Piraeus, Greece to enforce mercantile claims
1854 - Filibuster William Walker proclaims Republic of Sonora in NW Mexico
1861 - American Civil War - Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in seceding from the United States.
1862 - Confederate Territory of Arizona forms
1865 - Battle of Ft Moultrie, SC
1869 - Elegant California Theater opens in SF
1871 - 2nd German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I & Bismarck
1884 - General Charles Gordon departs London for Khartoum
1884 - Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom.
1886 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck 1895 - Amsterdam's AFC soccer team forms
1896 - 1st demonstration of an X-ray machine in US (NYC)
1896 - British troops occupy Kumasi, West Africa
1900 - Jan Blockx's "Tÿl Uilenspiegel" premieres in Brussels
1901 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Graves De Communi Re
1905 - French government of Combes falls
1908 - Frederick Delius' "Brigg Fair," premieres
1911 - 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania)
1913 - Turkish-Greek sea battle near Troy
1915 - Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico, about 600 die
1915 - Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
1916 - A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite stikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri.
1919 - WW I Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France
1919 - Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
1921 - William Archer's "Green Goddess," premieres in NYC
1922 - Irish author Liam O'Flaherty & others occupy Rotunda in Dublin
1923 - 1st radio telegraph message from Netherlands to Dutch East Indies
1929 - "NY Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio
Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin 1929 - Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo
1930 - -27°F (-33°C), Watts, Oklahoma (state record)
1930 - Shostakovitch' opera "The Nose," premieres in Leningrad
1933 - White Sands National Monument, NM established
1934 - Eugene O'Neill's "Days Without End," premieres in NYC
1938 - Bradman scores 104* for South Australia v NSW at the SCG
1938 - Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander is elected to Hall of Fame
1939 - SA wicketkeeper Bradman gets his 6th straight ton, 135* v NSW
1942 - Nazi's arrest Frans Goedhart & Wiardi Beckman
1943 - Presliced bread sale banned to reduce bakery demand for metal parts
1943 - Soviets announce they broke long Nazi siege of Leningrad
1943 - US rations bread & metal
1944 - 1st Chinese naturalized US citizen since repeal of exclusion acts
1944 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers were Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
1945 - Warsaw freed by Soviet army
Jazz Trumpeter Louis Armstrong 1947 - "Red Mill" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 831 performances
1947 - Detroit Tigers sell Hank Greenberg to Pirates (for $25-35,000)
1947 - Small river steamer sank on Yangtze River, kills 400
1948 - 1st courses begin at University of Ibadan, Nigeria
1948 - Ted Mack's "Original Amateur Hour" begins, DuMont (later NBC/ABC/CBS)
1949 - "They Stand Accused" courtroom drama premieres on CBS (later DuMont)
1949 - 1st US Congressional standing committee headed by Negro (W Dawson)
1950 - Christopher Fry's "Venus Observed," premieres in London
1950 - Indians pitcher Bob Feller, after 15-14 season, takes $20,000 salary cut to $45,000, pay cut is Feller's own suggestion
1951 - 1st use of lie detector in Netherlands
1951 - Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to "hate campaign against GDR"
1951 - NFL rules tackles, guards & centers ineligible for forward pass
1951 - NFL takes control of failing Baltimore Colts
1953 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
1954 - Fanfani forms Italian government
1955 - Battle of Yijiangshan occurred.
1956 - German DR forms own army (National People's Army)
1957 - 3 B-52's set record for around-the-world flight, 45 hr 19 min
1958 - 1st black in NHL (William O'Ree, Boston Bruins)
1959 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
1960 - US & Japan sign joint defense treaty
1961 - Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi party wins 1 seat by a single vote & parliament by a single seat
1962 - Southern University closed due to demonstrations
1962 - US begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Reinier Paping wins Dutch 11-Cities Skating Race (10:59)
1964 - Beatles 1st appear on Billboard Chart (I Want to Hold Your Hand-#35)
1964 - Plans for World Trade Center announced (NYC)
1965 - H L de Vries appointed Dutch governor of Suriname
1966 - Robert C Weaver, confirmed as 1st black cabinet member (HUD)
1967 - 20th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 3-0 at Montreal
1967 - Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced to life in prison
1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 227

885 - Daigo, Emperor of Japan (d. 930)
1519 - Isabella Jagiełło, queen of Hungary (d. 1559)
1543 - Alfonso Ferrabosco, composer
1641 - Francois Michel le Tellier, French statesman (Marquis de Louvois)
1657 - Hendrik Casimir II, Dutch Fieldmarshal (Nassau)
1672 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (d. 1731)
1685 - Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch Classical prof, baptized
1688 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1765)
1689 - Charles de Montesquieu, France, philosopher/writer (Letters Persanes)
1726 - Hendrik D F L, prince of Prussia/diplomat
1732 - Jean-Guillain Cardon, composer
1751 - Ferdinand Kauer, composer
1779 - Peter Roget, thesaurus fame/inventor (slide rule, pocket chessboard)
1782 - Daniel Webster, Salisbury NH, orator/politician/lawyer, (d. 1852)
1793 - William Henry Havergal, composer
1795 - Anna Paulowna Romanova, monarch of Russia/daughter of czar Paul I
1809 - Richard Caswell Gatlin, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
1813 - Joseph Farwell Glidden, inventor (1st coml useable barbed wire)
1815 - James Chesnut Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885
American Statesman Daniel Webster (1782) 1815 - Richard Yates Gov, MC (Union), died in 1873
1815 - Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (d. 1874)
1817 - Jacques Gregoir, composer
1818 - Johannes van Vloten, Dutch literary/theologist
1820 - Abraham Buford, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1884
1829 - Louis van Haecke, Flemish chaplain/author (Blood to Bridge)
1831 - Edward Ferrero, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
1835 - Caesar A Cui, Vilna Lithuania, fort architect/composer
1835 - Jan van Droogenbroeck, Flemish poet
1840 - Austin Dobson, England, poet/critic/biographer
1840 - Ernst Rudorff, composer
1841 - Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier, France, composer (Le Roi Malgré Lui)
1842 - Albert Alonzo Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (d. 1911)
1848 - Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer (d. 1925)
1849 - Edmund Barton, 1st PM of Australia (1900-03)
1850 - Seth Low, American politician (d. 1916)
1854 - Thomas A Watson, needed by Bell, inventor assistant (Telephone)
1856 - John Hyatt Brewer, composer
1857 - Otto von Below, German commandant (WW I)
Heart surgeon Daniel Williams (1858) 1858 - Daniel Williams, Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, surgeon (1st open heart operation), (d. 1931)
1861 - Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist
1861 - Raymond Huntington Woodman, composer
1867 - Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan Journalist, Diplomat, Poet (d. 1916)
1869 - Willem De Vreese, Flemish linguist/biblographer
1870 - Berend Modderman, printer (Drukkers yearbook)
1872 - Paul Leautaud, [Maurice Boissard], France, writer (Petit ami)
1877 - Samuel Zemurray, U.S. businessman (d.1961)
1878 - Hendrik Baels, Belgian politician
1879 - Henri Giraud, French general (d. 1949)
1880 - Paul Ehrenfest, Austria/Neth physicist (adiabates hypothesis)
1881 - Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (Librairie Gallimard) [or 1908]
1882 - Alan Alexander Milne, English author (Winnie-the-Pooh)
1882 - Jacob Clay, Dutch philospher/phyicist (Mesones)
1882 - Sylvia Pankhurst, English feminist
1884 - Arthur Ransome, English author (Swallows & Amazons)
1886 - Antoine Pevsner, French sculptor
1886 - Peter Alma, Dutch painter/graphic artist
1892 - Oliver Hardy, Harlem Ga, comedy team member (Laurel & Hardy)
1892 - Paul Rostock, German surgeon (d. 1956)
1893 - John Lawrence Seymour, composer
1894 - Wilhelm HC Tenhaeff, Dutch parapsychologist
1896 - Hans H Holm, Norwegian poet (Jonsoknatt)
1896 - C. M. Eddy, Jr., American writer (d. 1967)
1901 - Arie Querido, Dutch social psychiatrist
1901 - Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1973)
1903 - Berthold Goldschmidt, German/British (opera)composer (Beatrice Cenci)
1904 - Cary Grant, England, actor (Arsenic & Old Lace, North by Northwest)
1904 - Henri-Georges Adam, French etcher/painter/sculptor (Grand Nude)
1904 - Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (d. 2006)
1905 - Chick Chandler, Kingston NY, actor (Barney-One Happy Family)
1905 - Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (d. 2002)
1906 - Hans Aeschbacher, Swiss sculptor (Venus de Six-Tours)
1907 - Janos Ferencsik, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Budapest Opera)
1908 - Albert P Morano, (Rep-R-Conn, 1951-59)
1908 - Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian
1908 - Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1972)
1910 - Arthur John Howard, actor (Frieda, Last Holiday, Paradiso, Glass Cage)
1911 - Gabor Darvas, composer
1912 - Charles Moeller, Belgian theologist (Humanism et saintete)
1912 - William Sansom, English writer (Loving Eye)
1913 - Danny Kaye, Bkln NY, UNICEF/comedian/actor (Danny Kaye Show)
1914 - Arno Schmidt, writer
1915 - Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (d. 1984)
1916 - Alec Coxon, cricketer (England pace bowler in one Test, 2-90 & 1-82)
1916 - James Crow, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, geneticist and influential educator (Genetic Theories and Influences: Comments on the Value of Diversity), (d. 2012)
1917 - Oscar Lewenstein, impressario
1917 - Wang Yung-ching, Taiwanese businessman
1918 - Adriano Mandarino Hypolito, priest
1918 - Bohuslav Jeremias, composer, dies at 58
1918 - Ton Brandsteder, CEO/founder (Sony Nederland)
1918 - Gustave Gingras, French Canadian physician (d. 1996)
1919 - Juan Antonio Orrego-Salas, Santiago Chile, composer
1921 - Bruce Woodcock, boxer
1921 - Robert Glaser, Providence, Rhode Island, educational psychologist (National Assessment of Educational Progress), (d. 2012)
1922 - Constance Moore, Sioux City Iowa, actress (Window on Main Street)
1922 - Yehezkiel Braun, composer
1922 - Bob Bell, American clown (d. 1997)
1924 - Donald Baverstock, TV producer
1925 - Anthony Joly de Lotbiniere, TV producer
1925 - Gilles Deleuze, philosopher
1925 - Roepie Kruize, Dutch field hockey player (Olympic-Bronze-48/Silver-52)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 5 of 5

1486 - King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV
1893 - British Poet and writer Rudyard Kipling (26) marries Carrie Balestier (29) in London
1949 - South African Rev Andries P Treurnicht marries Engela Dreyer
1989 - Candace Thomas marries Steve Garvey
1992 - Actress Joan Chen (Twin Peaks) marries Dr Peter Hui

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

1996 - Lisa Marie Presley files for divorce from Michael Jackson in NY

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 107

52 BC - Publius Clodius Pulcher (murdered) (b. 93 BC)
474 - Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 401)
1367 - Pedro I, king of Portugal (1357-67), dies at 46
1425 - Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (b. 1391)
1471 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (b. 1419)
1479 - Louis IX, the Rich, duke of Bayern (U of Ingolstadt), dies at 61
1580 - Antonio Scandello, Italian composer (Passion of John), dies at 63
1586 - Margaret of Austria, regent of The Netherlands (b. 1522)
1659 - Benedikt Lechler, composer, dies at 64
1664 - Moses Amyraut, French theologian (b. 1596)
1666 - Adriaen A Bloemaert, Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 56
1677 - John A van Riebeeck, Dutch founder Cape Colony, dies at 57
1760 - Claudio Casciolini, composer, dies at 62
1769 - Hakuin Ekaku, Zen teacher (reformer of Rinzai school), dies in Japan
1803 - Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (b. 1743)
1854 - Juda Turo, American philanthropist, dies
1862 - John Tyler, 10th US pres (1841-45), dies in Richmond Va at 71
1873 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English author (b. 1803)
1875 - Joseph Philbrick Webster, composer, dies at 55
US President John Tyler (1862) 1878 - Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1788)
1886 - Michal Czajchovski, [Sadik Pasja], writer, dies
1886 - Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (b. 1819)
1890 - Amadeus I FM, king of Spain (1870-73), dies at 44
1892 - Anton Anderledy, Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1819)
1896 - Charles Floquet, French statesman (b. 1828)
1902 - Filippo Marchetti, composer, dies at 70
1906 - Bartolomé Mitre, president of Argentina (1862-70), dies at 84
1913 - Edmond R H Regout, Dutch industrialist/politician, dies at 49
1919 - John C F, son of English king George V, dies at 13
1921 - Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor, dies at 73
1923 - Wallace Reid, actor (Birth of a Nation), dies at 31
1936 - Rudyard Kipling, author (Gunga Din, Nobel 1907), dies at 70
1940 - Kazimierz P Tetmajer, Polish writer/poet (Young Poland), dies at 74
1951 - Robert Mark, US chairman (Caste World Congress), dies at 41
Poet Rudyard Kipling (1936) 1952 - Curly Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1903)
1954 - Sydney Greenstreet, actor (Conflict, Maltese Falcon), dies at 74
1962 - Raymond Moulaert, composer, dies at 86
1963 - Johnnie Moyes, journalist/cricketer (S Aust batsman), dies
1966 - Kathleen Norris, US author, dies at 85
1967 - Albert Conti, actor (Eagle, Jazz Heaven, Topaz), dies at 79
1967 - Barney Ross, welterweight Boxing Champ (1934), dies at 57
1967 - Harry Antrim, actor (Ma & Pa Kettle), dies of heart attack at 83
1967 - Reese "Goose" Tatum, basketballer (Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 45
1967 - Simon FHJ Berkelbach van der Sprenkel, vicar/theologist, dies at 84
1968 - Bert Wheeler, actor (Rainmakers, High Flyers, Dixiana), dies at 72
1968 - John Ridgely, actor (Air Force, Possessed, Big Sleep), dies at 58
1968 - Lee Tracy, actor (Martin Kane-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 69
1969 - Hans Freyer, German sociologist (b. 1887)
1970 - David O McKay, 9th Mormon president, dies at 96
1971 - Catherine Calvert, actress (Fires of Faith), dies of stroke at 80
1972 - Rudolf Wittelsbach, composer, dies at 69
1975 - Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (b. 1897)
1976 - Ad Verhoeven, soccer player (Xerxes, Sparta), dies in crash [or 1/17]
1976 - Sonia Dresdel, actor (Fallen Idol, Secret Tent), dies at 67
1977 - Carl Zuckmayer, German/Swiss/US playwright (Second Wind), dies at 80
1977 - Paul Nordoff, US composer (Frog Prince), dies at 67
1977 - Yvonne Printemps, actress (Paris Waltz, Voyage to America), dies at 81
1978 - Carl Betz, actor (Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show), dies at 56
1978 - Ivan Ivonovich Dzerzhinsky, composer, dies at 68
1978 - Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher, critic and writer (b. 1919)
1978 - Walter H. Thompson, English Scotland Yard detective, bodyguard of Winston Churchill (b. 1890)
1979 - Cyril Mockridge, composer, dies at 82
1980 - Cecil Beaton, British photographer, dies at 76
1982 - Burnet Corwin Tuthill, US composer (Laurentia), dies at 93
1982 - Trent Lehman, actor (Butch-Nanny & the Professor), dies at 20
1984 - Malcolm H Kerr, 9th pres of American U of Beirut, shot dead
1984 - Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
1985 - Mahmoud Taha, Sudanese Moslem leader, hanged at 76
1985 - Wilfrid Brambell, actor (Hard Day's Night, Boys), dies at 72
1986 - Claire James, actress (Jack Armstrong), dies
1989 - Bruce Chatwin, British writer, dies at 49
1990 - Melanie Appleby, rocker (Mel & Kim), dies of liver cancer at 23
1990 - Rusty Hamer, American actor (b. 1947)
1991 - Hamilton Fish, congressman (NY), dies at 102
1991 - Lillian Bond, actress (Air Mail, Pick-up, Blond Cheat), dies at 83
1991 - Nita Krebs, actor (Munchkin-Wizard of Oz), dies of heart attack at 85
1992 - John Remme, entertainer, dies of AIDS at 56
1992 - Tom Elios, entertainer, dies
1993 - M Eleonore Lippits, 1st Dutch female missionary doctor, dies at 85
1993 - Mia Meijer, Dutch playwright/director (Machine Child), dies
1993 - Mike Templeton, 2nd person to receive a heart pump, dies at 34
1993 - Eleanor Hibbert, British author (b. 1906)
1994 - Arthur Altman, songwriter, dies at 83
1995 - Adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist (Nobel 1939), dies at 91
1995 - Charles Baskerville, vocalist, dies at 54
1995 - Joseph Kagan, businessman, dies at 79
1995 - Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (b. 1937)
1996 - Leonor Fini, painter, dies at 87
1996 - Minnesota Fats, [Rudolf Wanderone Jr], billiard hustler, dies at 82
1996 - N T Rama Rao, PM of Andhra Pradesh India (1983-84, 84-89, 94-95), dies
1996 - Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian actor (b. 1923)
1997 - Myfanwy Piper, librettist, dies at 85
1997 - Neville Crump, racehorse trainer, dies at 86
1997 - Paul Tsongas, (Sen-D-Mass), dies at 55
2000 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (b. 1897)
2001 - Al Waxman, Canadian actor (b. 1935)
2003 - Edward "The Sheik" Farhat, American professional wrestler (b. 1926)
2005 - Lamont Bentley, American actor (b. 1973)
2006 - Jan Twardowski, Polish poet (b. 1915)
2007 - Brent Liles, American musician (Agent Orange/Social Distortion) (b. 1963)