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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 160

1066 - King Harald of England crowned
1099 - Henry V crowned German king
1205 - Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans.
1227 - Ferrand of Portugal freed from the Louvre
1352 - French king Jean II introduces Order of the Star
1449 - Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI is crowned at Mistra.
1453 - Emperor Frederik III becomes archduke of Austria
1494 - The first Mass in the New World is celebrated at La Isabela, Hispaniola.
1496 - Moorish fortress Alhambra, near Grenada, surrenders to the Christi
1497 - Jews are expelled from Graz (Syria)
1535 - City of Lima Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro
1540 - King Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves
1579 - Artois/Hainault/Dowaai sign pro-Spanish Union of Arras
1579 - The Union of Atrecht is signed.
1622 - Pope Gregory XV forms Congregatio the Propagande Fide
1639 - Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed
1649 - The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial for treason and other "high crimes"
1661 - The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London.
1663 - Great earthquake in New England
1681 - 1st recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher)
1690 - Emperor Leopold's son Jozef chosen Roman Catholic king
1690 - Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans.
1720 - The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings.
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws to Glasgow
1759 - George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Curtis
1773 - Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom
1781 - Battle of Jersey (Island in UK)
1784 - Turkey & Russia sign treaty in Constantinople
1832 - New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston)
1838 - Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph
1839 - 2 day storm off Irish & English coast immortalized as "Big Wind"
1842 - 4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India
1857 - Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Penn
1861 - Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola
1861 - NYC mayor proposes NY become a free city, trading with N & S
1870 - The inauguration of the Musikverein (Vienna).
1873 - Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the Church in Armenia"
1873 - US Congress begins investigating Crédit Mobilier scandal
1880 - Record snow cover in Seattle-120 cm
1883 - Ontario Rugby Football Union forms
1887 - `Abd-allah II of Harar opens the Battle of Chelenqo with an attack on the camp of the Shewan army of Negus Menelik II.
1893 - Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast
1893 - The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
1896 - 1st US women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden
1896 - Cecil Rhodes resigns as premier of Cape colony
1898 - 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake
1900 - Boers attack at Ladysmith, about 1,000 killed or injured
1900 - Maurice Ravel's "Albaradode Gracioso," premieres in Paris
1903 - Dutch Press museum opens in Amsterdam
1906 - Maurice Ravel's "Miroirs," premieres in Paris
1907 - Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome)
1912 - New Mexico becomes 47th state
1914 - Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded
1922 - -13] Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments
1924 - Poulenc/Nijinska's ballet "Les Biches," premieres in Monte Carlo
1925 - Paavo Nurmi, sets indoor record, 4:13.6 mile & 14:44.6 5,000m
1926 - Kees Boeke opens 1st comprehensive school in Holland
1927 - US marines sent to Nicaragua
1928 - Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Mortalium animos (against oecumene)
1929 - Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia
1929 - Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin a her work amongst India's poorest and diseased people.
1930 - 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed
1930 - Bradman scores 452* for NSW against Qld, 377 mins, 49 fours
1931 - Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
1936 - Barbara Hanley became Canada's 1st woman mayor (Webbwood, Ontario)
1937 - Bradman scores 270 Aust v England at the MCG, incl 110 singles
1938 - Bronze memorial statue of Henry Hudson erected in Bronx
1939 - Daily newspaper comic strip "Superman" debuts
1940 - Mass execution of Poles, committed by Germans in the city of Poznań, Warthegau.
1941 - FDR's "4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want & from fear)
1942 - 1st around world flight (Pan Am "Pacific Clipper")
1942 - Bob Feller, enlists in Navy & reports for duty to Norfolk Virginia
1942 - Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
1945 - Future president George Bush marries Barbara Pierce in Rye NY
1946 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Quemadmodum
1947 - Ray Lindwall smashes 100 v England in MCG Test
1950 - "Happy as Larry" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 3 performances
1950 - Britain recognizes Communist government of China
1951 - "Pardon Our French" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 100 perfs
1951 - Indianapolis beats Rochester 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes
1953 - WKBN TV channel 27 in Youngstown, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - KGNS TV channel 8 in Laredo, TX (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Federal court bars former Little League Commissioner Carl Stotz from forming a rival group
1957 - Elvis Presley makes his 7th & final appearance on Ed Sullivan Show
1957 - Yeshiva Kol Ya'ackov opens in Moscow Russia
1958 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to ee cummings
1958 - Gibson patents Flying V Guitar
1958 - WIPR TV channel 6 in San Juan, PR (PBS) begins broadcasting
1963 - "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" with Marlin Perkins begins on NBC
1963 - "Oliver!" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 774 performances
1964 - Charlie Finlay announces he wants to move KC A's to Louisville
1964 - Rolling Stones' 1st tour as headline act (with Ronettes)
1965 - Geoff Boycott takes 3-47 against S Africa, his best Test bowling
1967 - "Milton Berle Show" last airs on ABC-TV
1967 - KHTV TV channel 39 in Houston, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
1967 - 2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140
1967 - United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
1968 - Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 8 weeks
1968 - Dr N E Shumway performs 1st US adult cardiac transplant operation
1968 - Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 311

1367 - Richard II, Bordeaux, France, king of England (1377-99)
1367 - Richard II of England (d. 1400)
1412 - Joan of Arc, Domremy, martyr
1412 - Joan of Arc, Roman Catholic Saint and national heroine of France (legendary date) (d. 1431)
1486 - Martin Agricola, [M Sore], German composer/cantor
1488 - Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (Silvae)
1525 - Caspar Peucer, German reformer (d. 1602)
1561 - Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician (d. 1656)
1580 - (baptised) John Smith of Jamestown (d. 1631)
1585 - Claude Favre baron de Perouges seigneur de Vaugelas, French grammarian
1587 - Gaspar de Guzman, Count of Olivares, Premier of Spain (1621-43)
1595 - Claude Favre de Vaugelas, French man of letters (d. 1650)
1602 - Karl Rabenhaupt, German/Dutch baron of Sucha/army leader
1617 - Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (d. 1673)
1655 - Eleonore-Magdalena of Neuburg, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1720)
1655 - Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1705)
1673 - 1st Duke of Chandos, English aristocrat, eponym of Handel's Chandos Anthems (d. 1744)
1683 - Francois de La Croix, composer
1692 - Rynoldus Popma van Oevering, composer
1695 - Giuseppe Sammartini, composer
1702 - Jose Melchior de Nebra Blascu, composer
1714 - Percivall Pott, English physician (d. 1788)
1728 - Charles-Joseph-Balthazar Sohier, composer
1728 - Domingos dos Reis Quita, Portuguese playwright/poet
1732 - Matija A Reljkovic, Croatia, writer (Satir iliti divji covic)
1745 - Jacques Montgolfier, France, aeronaut (1st pioneer balloonist)
1745 - James Montgolfier, France, aeronaut (1st pioneer balloonist)
1745 - Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1799)
1776 - Ferdinand von Schill, Prussian officer/rebel
1791 - Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer
1793 - James Madison Porter, American politician (d. 1862)
1794 - Kaspar Masek, composer
1795 - Anselme Payen, French chemist (d. 1871)
1798 - Ferdinand Simon Gassner, composer
1799 - Jedediah Strong Smith, US fur trader/explorer
1800 - Willem A Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Dutch politician
1802 - Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romania, author/novelist/writer (Gramatica)
1803 - Henri Herz, composer
1807 - Joseph Holt, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1894
1807 - Ludwig Erk, composer
1807 - Jozef Maximilián Petzval, Slovak inventor (d. 1891)
1808 - Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (d. 1864)
1811 - Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction senator, died in 1874
1812 - Melchora Aquino, Filipino revolutionary hero (d. 1919)
1819 - Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (d. 1886)
1822 - Heinrich Schliemann, German polyglot/archeologist (Troje)
1826 - Herman Grimm, Germany, writer/novelist (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
1827 - John Calvin Brown, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1889
1827 - John Wesley Frazer, Brig General (Confederate Army), die in 1906
1829 - Kanagaki Robun [Bunzo Nozaki], Japanese humorist/gesaku-author
1832 - Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor (d. 1883)
1838 - Max Bruch, Koln (Cologne), Germany, composer
1842 - Clarence King, mining engineer (geologist)
1850 - Eduard "Ede" Bernstein, German marxist (New Era)
1850 - Franz Xaver Scharwenka, German pianist/composer (Mataswintha)
1854 - Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft, fictional detective (via Arthur Conan Doyle)
1856 - Giuseppe Martucci, composer
1857 - Hugh Mahon, Irish-born Australian politician (d. 1931)
1857 - William E. Russell, 37th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
1859 - Samuel Alexander, English philosopher (Moral order & progress)
1861 - Heinrich Gottlieb Noren, composer
1861 - George Exton Lloyd, Anglican bishop and theologian (d. 1940)
1864 - Ban Johnson, Norwalk Ct, baseball founder (American League)
1867 - Georges Martin Witkowski, composer
1868 - Vittorio Monti, composer
1870 - Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1944)
1872 - Alexander N Scriabin, Moscow, hallucinogenic composer (Prometheus)
1873 - Karl Straube, German organist/conductor
1874 - Fred Niblo, U.S. film actor, director, producer (d. 1948)
1878 - Carl Sandburg, US, poet/biographer of Lincoln (The People, Yes)
1878 - Dame Adeline Genée, Danish-British ballerina (d. 1970)
1880 - Tom Mix, Mix Run PA, silent screen cowboy actor (Dick Turpin)
1880 - Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg, composer
1880 - Tom Mix, American actor (d. 1940)
1882 - Samuel Rayburn, Tenn, (Rep-D-Tx), speaker of the House (1940-57)
1882 - Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter (d. 1949)
1882 - Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop (d. 1965)
1883 - Khalil Gibran, Lebanon, mystic poet (The Prophet, Broken Wings)
1889 - Alan M Bateman, Canadian geologist (Yale professor)
1891 - Ted McDonald, cricketer (great Australian quick of 20's)
1892 - Ludwig Berger, writer
1896 - Abram N Pritzker, US businessman (Hyatt Hotels, McCall's magazine)
1896 - Freerk Siemon Wolters, notary/resistance fighter
1897 - Billy Greene, actor (Burton-One Man's Family)
1898 - Jan Filip Boon, Flemish author/editor (De Standaard 1929-39)
1898 - Charles E. Pont, American artist (d. 1971)
1899 - Phyllis Haver, Douglas KS, silent screen actress (What Price Glory)
1900 - Pierre-Octave Ferroud, French composer (Sarabande, Jeunesse)
1901 - Patrick Aherne, England, actor (Bwana Devil, Botany Bay, Q Planes)
1902 - Mark Brunswick, composer
1902 - Sofie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatte, composer
1902 - Helmut Poppendick, Nazi physician (d. 1994)
1903 - Boris Blacher, Newchwang China, German composer (Orchester-Ornament)
1903 - Francis L Sullivan, London England, actor (Missing Rembrandt)
1903 - Maurice Abravanel, Saloniki Greece, conductor/composer
1903 - Stanley Smith, KC MO, actor (Honey, King of Jazz, Soup to Nuts)
1905 - Eric Frank Russell, UK, sci-fi author (Hugo, Deep Space, Dark Tides)
1906 - Benedict Vilakazi, S Africa, poet/educator (Zulu-English Dictionary)
1906 - Jaap Wagemaker, [Adrian B], Dutch sculptor
1907 - David Fleay, Australian naturalist (d. 1993)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 123

664 - Amr ibn al-A'as, Arab general (bc. 583)
1088 - Berengarius of Tours, French theologist, dies
1275 - Raymundus of Penafort, Spanish church law scholar, dies
1374 - Andreas Corsini, Italian saint/bishop of Fiesole, dies
1425 - Jan of Bavaria, liege of Holland/bishop/duke, dies
1448 - Christopher III, king of Denmark/Norway/Sweden, dies
1481 - Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Golden Horde
1536 - Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect/painter, dies
1541 - Bernard van Orley, Flemish royal painter of Hungary, dies at about 52
1592 - Johan Casimir, palsgrave at the Rhine, dies
1592 - Johann Casimir of Simmern, Elector Palatine (b. 1543)
1616 - Philip Henslowe, English theatrical entrepreneur (bc. 1550)
1646 - Elias Hill, German architect of Augsburg, dies at 72
1685 - Malachias Siebenhaar, composer, dies at 68
1689 - Seth Ward, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1617)
1693 - Mehmed IV, sultan (Turkey), dies at 51
1694 - Francesco Morosini, Italian army general, dies
1697 - Carlo Mannelli, composer, dies at 56
1702 - Thomas Franklin, English smith/uncle of B Franklin, dies [NS=Jan 17]
1718 - Richard Hoare, English goldsmith and banker (b. 1648)
1718 - Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (b. 1664)
1725 - Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Jap playwright (Yotsugi Soga), dies at about 71
1731 - Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (b. 1672)
1734 - John Dennis, English dramatist whose thunder was stolen (b. 1657)
1738 - Franz Xaver Murschhauser, composer, dies at 74
1742 - Johann Georg Reinhardt, composer, dies
1785 - Haym Salomon, dies in Phila at 44, helped finance the revolution
1790 - Johann Trier, composer, dies at 73
1799 - W G Frederik, prince of Orange/general, dies at 25
1800 - William Jones, composer, dies at 73
1813 - Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (b. 1764)
1831 - Rodolphe Kreutzer, Fr composer/violinist (Kreutzersonate), dies at 64
1840 - Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (b. 1752)
1852 - Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind and inventor of braille (b. 1809)
1855 - Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (b. 1779)
1882 - Richard Henry Dana, U.S. novelist (Two Years Before the Mast) (b. 1815)
1884 - Gregor Mendel, Augustine monk/heredity pioneer, dies at 61
1884 - Paul Taglioni, "the Great," Ital/Austrian choreographer, dies at 75
1885 - Peter C Asbjornsen, Norwegian fairy tale writer, dies at 72
1907 - Walter Read, cricketer (Engl batsman, 117 at no 10 v Aust 1884), dies
1913 - Frederick Hitch, English Victoria Cross Winner (b. 1856)
1915 - Reginald Wood, cricketer (one Test England v Australia 1886), dies
1917 - Hendrik P G Quack, lawyer/economist (Bank of Neth), dies at 82
1918 - Georg F L P Cantor, German mathematician: collection, dies at 72
1919 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th Pres (1901-09), dies in NY at 60
1919 - Max Heindel, Danish astrologer and mystic (b. 1865)
1922 - Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician (b. 1842)
1928 - Alvin C Kraenzlein, track star (Olympic-4 gold-1900), dies at 51
1929 - Nicolas Nikolayevitch, grand-duke of Russia, dies at 72
1933 - Vladimir de Pachmann, Russian-German pianist (b. 1848)
1934 - Herbert Chapman , Legendary Manager of Arsenal and Huddersfield Town (b. 1878)
1935 - George P Baker, US playwright (Dramatic Technique), dies at 68
1936 - Charles A Stoneham, pres (NY Giants), dies
1937 - André Besette, Canadian religious figure (b. 1845)
1939 - Albert Ward, cricketer (England batsman in 7 Tests 1893-95), dies
1941 - Franz Hessel, writer, dies at 60
1941 - Charley O'Leary, American baseball player (b. 1882)
1942 - Emma Calvé, French soprano (b. 1858)
1944 - Ida Tarbell, American journalist (b. 1857)
1945 - Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (b. 1863)
1950 - Isaiah Bowman, geographer/co-founder (Geographical Review), dies at 71
1958 - Josephine CMA, princess of Belgium/nun, dies at 85
1959 - Jose Enrique Pedreira, composer, dies at 54
1960 - Edith Barstow, choreographer (Frankie Laine Time), dies at 52
1960 - Erik Lindahl, Swedish economist (Scope & Means), dies at 68
1961 - Regina Ullmann, writer, dies at 76
1962 - Jacob "Jaap" Nanninga, Dutch painter (France, N Africa), dies at 57
1963 - Lourens GM Baas Becking, Dutch botanist/resistance fighter, dies at 68
1964 - Edgar Maass, German/US author (Verdun), dies at 67
1965 - John Larkin, dir (Circumstanial Evidence), dies of heart attack at 52
1967 - Arnhem "Tata" Joseph Weiss, "the Zigeunerbaron," buried
1967 - Johnny Keane, baseball player/mgr (Cards, NY Yanks), dies at 55
1968 - Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81
1972 - Chen Yi, Chinese military commander and politician (b. 1901)
1974 - David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican sculptor/muralist, dies at 77
1975 - Noel Madison, actor (Jitterbugs, Black Raven), dies at 77
1978 - John D MacArthur, US insurance billionaire, dies at 80
1978 - Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (b. 1899)
1981 - A[rchibald] J[oseph] Cronin, physician/author (Citadel), dies at 84
1981 - A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (b. 1896)
1984 - Ernest Laszlo, Hungarian-U.S. cinematographer (b. 1898)
1985 - Robert H W Welch Jr, US founder/leader John Birch Society, dies at 85
1986 - Louis Lebeer, Dutch art historian, dies at 90
1988 - Brent Collins, soap actor (Another World), dies of heart attack at 46
1989 - Hirohito, Japan`s emperor (1922-89), dies at 87 after 62-year reign
1990 - Hans Jaray, actor (Lydia, Fedora), dies
1990 - Ian Charleson, actor (Gandhi, Chariots of Fire), dies of AIDS at 40
1991 - Ada Moore, entertainer, dies of cancer at 64
1992 - Avon Jaeger Hill, entertainer, dies of cancer at 44
1992 - Elaine McKenna, Australian actress (Peg Martin-Cell Block H), dies
1993 - Elisabeth, arch duch of Austria/princess of Liechtenstein, dies at 70
1993 - John B "Dizzy" Gillespe, blues trumpeter, dies of cancer at 75
1993 - Rudolph Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer (Kirov), dies of AIDS at 54
1994 - "Iron" Adriaan van Es, Dutch undersec of Navy (1963-72), dies at 80
1994 - Gerardus J Sizoo, physicist/director of Dutch Free University, dies
1994 - Morty the Moose, (Northern Exposure), dies at 6
1994 - Tip O'Neill, speaker of the house, dies of cancer
1994 - Virginia Kelley Clinton, Mother of Pres Clinton, dies at 70
1995 - Edward Sutcliffe, judge (British Central Criminal Court), dies at 77
1995 - James Clay, saxophonist, dies at 59