This Day in History for 7th January

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 156

754 - Pope Stefanus II arrives in Ponthion
1325 - Afonso IV succeeds Dionysius as King of Portugal
1558 - Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French
1566 - Antonio "Michele" Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V
1579 - England signs an offensive & defensive alliance with Netherland
1584 - Last day of the Julian calendar in Bohemia & Holy Roman empire
1598 - Boris Godunov seizes Russian throne on death of Feodor I
1601 - Robert, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth
1608 - Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia
1610 - Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa & Ganymede
1618 - Francis Bacon becomes English lord chancellor
1622 - Germany & Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg
1654 - Fire after heavy storm destroys 2/3 of De Rijp Neth, 1 dies
1698 - Russian Czar Peter the Great departs Neth to England
1714 - Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)
1761 - Battle at Panipat India: Afghan army beats Mahratten
1782 - 1st US commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia
1784 - 1st US seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia
1785 - 1st balloon flight across English Channel (Blanchard & Jeffries)
Russian Tsar Peter the Great 1797 - The modern Italian flag is first used.
1817 - 2nd Bank of US opens
1822 - 1st printing in Hawaii
1822 - Liberia colonized by Americans
1830 - 1st US Railroad Station opens (Baltimore)
1835 - HMS Beagle anchors off Chonos Archipelago
1842 - Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Stabat Mater" premieres in Paris
1861 - Florida troops takeover Ft Marion at St Augustine
1862 - Battle of Manassas Junction, VA
1862 - Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson march towards Romney, WV
1868 - Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock
1868 - Mississippi constitutional convention meets in Jackson
1888 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Valley of Fear" (BG)
1890 - W B Purvis patents fountain pen
1892 - Mine explosion kills 100, Krebs, Oklahoma-blacks trying to help rescue white survivors, driven away with guns
1893 - Hermann Sudermanns "Heimat," premieres in Berlin
1894 - Motion picture experiment of comedian Fred Ott filmed sneezing
1896 - Fanny Farmer publishes her 1st cookbook
1899 - Walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Collier's
1903 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Blanched Soldier" (BG)
1903 - Vincent d'Indy's opera "L'etranger," premieres in Brussel
1904 - Marconi Co establishes "CQD" as 1st intl radio distress signal
1907 - Clyde Fitch' "Truth," premieres in NYC
1908 - England beat Australia by one wicket at the MCG
1910 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators sweep Galt (Ont) in 2 games
1911 - 1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives, SF
1911 - Dutch Scouts Organization established in Amsterdam
1913 - William M Burton patents a process to "crack" petroleum
1914 - 1st steamboat passes through Panama Canal
1916 - German troops conquer Fort Vaux at Verdun
1923 - Baltimore Sun warns of Ku Klux Klan
1925 - Musical "Big Boy" with Al Jolson premieres in NYC
1927 - Coml transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between NY & London
1927 - Harlem Globetrotters play 1st game (Hinckley, Illinois)
1929 - "Buck Rogers," 1st sci-fi comic strip, premieres
1929 - "Tarzan," one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears
1930 - Edwin Justus Mayer's "Children of Darkness," premieres in NYC
1931 - Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
1932 - 1st game played at Orchard Lake Curling Club, Mich
1933 - 1st edition of People & Fatherland published in Netherlands
1934 - "Flash Gordon" comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts
1935 - Zoe Akins' "Old Maid," premieres in NYC
1936 - Tennis champs Helen Moody & Howard Kinsley volley 2,001 times (1h18m)
1939 - US worker's union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916)
1942 - WW II siege of Bataan starts
1944 - Air Force announces production of 1st US jet fighter, the Bell P-59
1945 - Lord Haw-Haw reports total German victory at Ardennen
1946 - Cambodia becomes autonomous state inside French Union
1947 - Aust v Eng at MCG drawn in 6 days, 1st cricket draw in Aust since 1882
33rd US President Harry Truman 1948 - US president Harry Truman raises taxes for Marshall-plan
1949 - 1st photo of genes taken at U of S California by Pease & Baker
1950 - "Happy as Larry" closes at Coronet Theater NYC after 3 performances
1950 - Hank Snow's 1st appearance on "Grand Ole Opry"
1950 - Mental health wing of Mercy Hospital burns, kills 41 (Davenport Ia)
1952 - French Plevin government falls
1953 - Pres Harry Truman announces development of hydrogen bomb
1954 - Georgetown-IBM experiment, the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
1955 - Marian Anderson becomes 1st black singer to perform at Met (NYC)
1955 - WCIQ TV channel 7 in Mt Cheaha, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - Vinoo Mankad scores 231 v NZ, 413 opening stand with Roy
1958 - USSR shrinks army to 300,000
1959 - US recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban government
1961 - 1st NFL Playoff Bowl (runner-up bowl)-Detroit beats Cleveland 17-16
1961 - Trucial States (now UAE) issue their 1st postage stamps
Dictator Fidel Castro 1962 - AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 47-27
1962 - Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, fails
1962 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Hall Wheelock
1963 - 1st class postage raised from 4 cents to 5 cents
1964 - Bahamas becomes self-governing
1964 - Dick Weber rolls highest bowling game in air (Boeing 707)
1965 - France announces it will convert $150 million of its currency to gold
1966 - Dance Theatre of Harlem debuts
1966 - Gene Kiniski beats Lou Thesz in St Louis, to become NWA champ
1967 - "Newlywed Game" premieres on ABC TV
1968 - "GE College Bowl" quiz show premieres on NBC TV
1968 - 1st class postage raised from 5 cents to 6 cents
1969 - US Congress doubles president salary
1970 - Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock"
1971 - -40°F (-40°C), Hawley Lake, Ariz (state record)
1972 - Iberian Airlines crashes into 800' peak on island of Ibiza, 104 die
1972 - LA Lakers chalk up 33rd consecutive win (NBA record)

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 245

1355 - Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, son of Edward III of England (d. 1397)
1502 - Gregory XIII [Ugo Boncompagni], Bologna, Papal States, Italian pope (1572-85), introduced Gregorian calendar in 1582
1528 - Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarra/mother of French King Henry IV
1539 - Sebastian de Covarrubias Horozco, Spanish lexicographer
1611 - James Harrington, England, political author (Commonwealth of Oceans)
1612 - Paul de La Pierre, composer
1634 - Adam Krieger, German composer
1647 - Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)
1652 - Pavao Vitezovic, Croatia, writer/historian
1653 - Bernhard Albinus, Germany, court-physician (Frederick of Prussia)
1685 - Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company
1685 - Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (d. 1761)
1706 - Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751)
1710 - Josef Antonin Sehling, composer
1718 - Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1790)
1768 - Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples (d. 1844)
1786 - John Catron, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1865)
1796 - Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (d. 1817)
1799 - Daniel Tyler, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1882
13th US President Millard Fillmore (1800) 1800 - Millard Fillmore, Locke NY, (Whig) 13th president (1850-53)
1808 - Jacob Ammen, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1816 - Stephen Miller, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1881
1821 - Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell, Brigadier General (Confed Army), died in 1891
1822 - Lucius C M Bakker, Frisian physician/author (Goethe)
1822 - Theodor Aufrecht, German indologist (Rigveda's Hymns)
1824 - James Morrison Hawes, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1889
1827 - Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer; introduced Universal Standard Time (d. 1915)
1830 - (Samuel) Emerson Opdycke, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1830 - Albert Bierstadt, Germany, painter (US landscapes)
1832 - James Munro, Premier of Victoria (d. 1908)
1834 - Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor (d. 1874)
1842 - Johan Lindegren, composer
1844 - Marie-Bernarde Soubirous, [St Bernadette of Lourdes], saint/visionary
1845 - Louis III, last king of Bavaria (1913-18)
1845 - Paul Deusen, German philosopher (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft)
1853 - Nikolai Arkas, composer
1858 - Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, key figure in the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language (d. 1922)
1860 - Emanuil Mandlov, composer
1868 - Abraham M "Mark" Lidzbarski, Polish/German orientalist
1870 - Lord Gordon Hewart, British judge (d. 1943)
1871 - Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956)
1873 - Adolph Zukor, Hungary, movie producer/director/executive (Paramount)
1875 - Thomas Hicks, English/US marathon runner: (Olympic-gold-1904)
1875 - Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1945)
1876 - William Yeates Hurlstone, composer
1877 - Johannes F Buziau, Dutch cabaret performer (1 great dog)
1879 - St Bernadette (Marie-Bernarde Soubirous), 1844(?), religious visionary
1883 - Andrew Browne, Irish/British admiral (WW II)
1890 - Henny Porten, Magdeburg Germany, silent screen star (Deception)
1890 - Maurice E McLoughlin, tennis champ (US Open-1912)
1891 - Zora Neale Hurston, American writer (d. 1960)
1892 - Rudolf Moser, composer
1894 - Jose Rozo Contreras, composer
1895 - Marie-Dominique Chenu, French Roman Catholic theologist
1895 - Clara Haskil, Romanian pianist (d. 1960)
1895 - Sir Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and co-founder of QANTAS (d. 1974)
1896 - Arnold Ridley, Bath England, actor/dramatist (The Ghost Train)
1898 - Art Baker, NYC, TV host (You Asked For It)
1898 - Geronimo Baqueiro Foster, composer
1898 - Al Bowlly, British jazz singer (d. 1941)
1899 - Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc, Paris, composer/pianist (Les Biches)
1899 - Kenneth Thomson, Pitts, actor (Broadway Melody, Little Giant)
1900 - John Brownlee, Australian tenor (d. 1969)
1903 - Alan Napier, Birmingham England, actor (Alfred-Batman)
1903 - Albrecht Haushofer, writer
1903 - Shalva Azmayparashvili, composer
1903 - Vladimir Alexandrovich Vlasov, composer
1905 - Francis Taylor, builder
1907 - Nicanor Zabaleta, San Sebastian, Spain, harpist
1908 - Red Allen, American musician (d. 1967)
1910 - Alain JG de Rothschild, France, banker/baron
1910 - Jack Lovelock, NZ/US surgeon/runner (Olympic-gold-1936)
1910 - Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani poet (d. 1984)
1910 - Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas (d. 1994)
1911 - Merv Waite, cricketer (S Australian all-rounder)
1912 - Charles Addams, cartoonist (New Yorker, Addams Family)
1912 - Günter Wand, German conductor, composer (d. 2002)
1913 - Francis De Wolff, England, actor (From Russia With Love)
1913 - Shirley Ross, Omaha NE, actress (Cafe Society, Prison Farm)
1913 - Johnny Mize, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1915 - Herman Musaph, Dutch psychiatrist/sexologist/founder (NVSH)
1916 - Gerrit Schulte, [Le Fou Pedalant], Dutch 6 day bicyclist
1916 - Paul Keres, USSR, chess grandmaster (1950)
1917 - Ulysses Sipmson Kay, composer
1918 - Alessadro Natta, Italian political leader (Communist Party)
1918 - Colin Snedden, cricketer (Test NZ v England 1947, 0-46, did not bat)
1920 - Albert Meltzer, anarchist
1920 - Aubrey Brabazon, jockey/trainer
1920 - Lionel Alexander Bethune [Alastair] Pilkington, engineer/Industrialist
1921 - John Lanigan, tenor
1922 - Jean-Pierre [Louis] Rampal, Marseilles France, flautist
1922 - Vincent Gardenia, Naples Italy, actor (All in the Family, LA Law)
1923 - Charles Russell Woolen, composer
1923 - Hugh Kenner, Canadian literary critic (d. 2003)
1924 - Roloff Beny, Alberta, painter/photographer (A Time of Gods)
1924 - Pablo Birger, Argentine racing driver (d. 1966)
1925 - Gerald Malcolm Durrell, Britain, zoologist/writer (Mockery Bird)
1928 - Rajindranath, cricketer (4 stumpings in his only Test for India)
Writer & Filmmaker William Peter Blatty (1928) 1928 - William Peter Blatty, NYC, author/director (The Exorcist)
1929 - Douglas Kiker, NBC newsman (1970 Peabody Award)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 7 of 7

1630 - Composer Pier Cavalli marries rich widow Maria Sosomeno
1879 - Dutch King Willem II marries Emma von Waldeck-Pyrmont
1934 - Princess Juliana marries German prince Bernhard von Lippe-Biesterfeld
1971 - American horror, sci-fi and fantasy author Stephen King marries Tabitha Spruce, author and activist
1995 - Actor-comedian Martin Lawrence (29) weds former Miss Virginia USA Patricia Southall (24) at Norfolk Waterside Marriott in Virginia
2006 - Punky pop singer Pink (26) weds motocross daredevil and The Surreal Life actor Carey Hart (30) at the Four Seasons Resort Costa Rica at Peninsula Papagayo in Guanacaste, Costa Rica
2012 - Lady Antebellum singer-songwriter Hillary Scott (26) weds drummer Chris Tyrrell (25) at the Appel Inn near Albany, New York

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

1985 - Actress-singer Janet Jackson (18) divorces fellow R&B singer James DeBarge (21) only 4 months after getting married

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 146

312 - Lucianus of Antioch, theologist/saint, dies
1130 - Baldricus Burgoliensis, French historian/archbishop, dies at about 83
1285 - Charles I of Anjou, king of Naples/bro of King Louis IX, dies at 58
1325 - Dionysius, the justified, King of Portugal (1279-1325), dies
1400 - Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician (b. 1374)
1451 - Amadeus VIII, last anti-pope Felix V (1439-49), dies at 67
1529 - Peter Vischer, the Old, German count of Sebaldus, dies
1536 - Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife of England's King Henry VIII, dies at 50
1537 - Alessandro de' Medici, Italian monarch of Florence, assassinated
1566 - Ludovicus Blosius, [Louis de Blois "Dacrianus"], wrtier, dies
1590 - Jacob Andreae, German theologist (Formulae Concordiae), dies at 61
1591 - Jacobus de Kerle, French/Flemish composer, dies at about 59
1598 - Feodor I/Theodorus I, czar of Russia (1584-98), dies at 40
1619 - Nicholas Hilliard, English painter (bc. 1547)
1625 - Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer (bc. 1560)
1655 - Pope Innocent X (Giambattista Pamfili), Reigned 1644-55, dies at 80
1658 - Theophilus Eaton, American colonist (b. 1590)
1678 - Johannes Flittner, composer, dies at 59
1694 - Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general (bc. 1618)
Spanish Princess/Wife of Henry VIII Catherine of Aragon (1536) 1695 - Mary II Stuart, queen of England, dies at 32 [OS=Dec 28 1694]
1700 - Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquarian (b. 1618)
1715 - François Fénelon, French-Catholic theologian and writer (b. 1651)
1721 - Rochus Aerts, Flemish sculptor, dies [or 1739]
1722 - Antoine Coypel, French painter/poet, dies at 60
1736 - Ceslav Vanura, composer, dies at 41
1755 - Gallus Zeiler, composer, dies at 49
1758 - Allan Ramsay Sr, Scottish poet (Gentle Shepherd), dies at 71
1767 - Thomas Clap, 1st president of Yale University (b. 1703)
1770 - Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (b. 1695)
1783 - William Tans'ur, English hymnist (b. 1700)
1786 - Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (b. 1715)
1790 - Antonio Corbisiero, composer, dies at 69
1810 - Joseph Lipavsky, composer, dies at 37
1830 - Infanta Carlota Joaquina, daughter of Charles IV of Spain and wife of John VI of Portugal, dies at 53
1830 - Thomas Lawrence, English painter (b. 1769)
1833 - Ramon Felix Cuellar y Altarriba, composer, dies at 55
1843 - Franz Schoberlechner, composer, dies at 45
1858 - Willem Broes, vicar/theologist (Textenrol), dies at 91
1864 - Caleb Blood Smith, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (b. 1808)
1868 - William Batchelder Bradbury, composer, dies at 51
1870 - Karl Schwencke, composer, dies at 72
1872 - James Fisk, American entrepreneur (b. 1834)
1876 - Juste Olivier, Swiss poet (b. 1807)
1878 - François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (b. 1794)
1887 - Abraham I van Lier, Dutch actor/director (Gran Theatre), dies at 74
1890 - Augusta Maria L Katharina, wife of Germ emperor Wilhelm I, dies at 78
1890 - Hans Matthison-Hansen, composer, dies at 82
1891 - Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, composer, dies at 79
1892 - Tewfik Pasja, viceroy of Egypt, dies at 39
1893 - Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835)
1907 - Anton Urspruch, composer, dies at 56
1913 - Jack Boyle, American baseball player (b. 1866)
1920 - Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
1921 - Benno Erdmann, German philosopher (Logik I), dies at 69
1922 - Antonio Scontrino, composer, dies at 71
1929 - Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright (Silver King), dies at 77
1932 - Henri Stroethoff, Dutch actor (Bright Paradise), dies at 60
1936 - Howard Francis, cricketer (2 Tests S Af v Eng 1898-99, 39 runs), dies
1936 - Guy d'Hardelot, French composer, best known for Because (b. 1858)
1942 - Henry, Count of Baillet-Latour, pres of IOC (1925-42), dies at 63
1943 - Nikola Tesla, Yugoslavian physicist (tesla motor), dies at 86
1944 - J Verleun, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1944 - Lou Hoover, U.S. First Lady (b. 1874)
1944 - Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet (b. 1888)
1946 - Adamo Didur, Polish tenor (b. 1874)
1948 - Raoul Auernheimer, writer, dies
1951 - Johanna C H "Nelly" Bodenheim, painter (Luilekkerland), dies at 76
1951 - René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (b. 1886)
1953 - Osa Johnson, American explorer (b. 1894)
1955 - Gerald Hartigan, cricketer (S Afr batsman in 5 Tests 1911-14), dies
1957 - Al White, choreographer (NBC Comedy Hour), dies
1958 - Petru Groza, premier/president (Romania, 1945-58), dies at 74
1960 - Luis da Costa, composer, dies at 80
1960 - Dorothea Douglass Chambers (aka Katharine Lambert Chambers), UK tennis player (b. 1878)
1961 - Clarice Baright, 1st woman admitted to American Bar Association, dies at 74
1963 - Arthur Moore, Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
1964 - Colin C McPhee, composer (H2O, Mechanical Princibles), dies at 62
1964 - Cyril Davies, American musician (b. 1932)
1967 - Carl Schuricht, composer, dies at 86
1967 - Sid Emery, cricket leg-spinner (NSW & Aus, 5 wkt in 1912 series), dies
1967 - David Goodis, American writer (b. 1917)
1968 - Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)
1970 - Robert [Harriot] Barrat, actor (Bad Lands, Go West), dies at 81
1971 - Dick Kollmar, actor (Broadway Spotlight, Guess What), dies at 60
1971 - Madame Spivy [LeVoe], actress (All Fall Down), dies at 64
1972 - Clarence Passailaigue, cricketer (487 for 6th wkt for Jamaica), dies
1972 - John Berryman, US poet (Imaginary Jew), dies
1972 - Eftichia Papagianopoulos, Greek lyricist
1979 - Zbigniew Turski, composer, dies at 70
1980 - Carl White, rocker, dies
1980 - Sarah Selby, actress (Tower of London), dies at 74
1981 - Jose Ardevol, composer, dies at 69
1981 - Alvar Lidell, UK radio broadcaster (b. 1908)
1981 - Eric Robinson, Australian politician (b. 1926)
1982 - Bert Oosterhuis, Dutch motor racer (Paris-Dakar), dies in race crash
1983 - August Cool, Belgian trade union leader, dies at 79
1984 - Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
1985 - Johnny Guarnieri, jazz pianist (Morey Amsterdam Show), dies at 67
1985 - Mary Hardy, Australian radio and television presenter (b. 1931)
1986 - Juan Rulfo, writer, dies