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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 187

323 - Battle at Adrianopolis: Flavius Julius Crispus' beats emperor Licinius
324 - Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.
683 - St Leo II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
987 - Hugo Capet crowned king of France
1090 - Battle at Hagenoorde: German emperor beats earl Egbert II
1187 - Crusaders enter Tiberias
1250 - Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself.
1428 - Treaty of Delft-between Jacoba of Bayern & Philip the Good
1468 - Duke Charles the Stout marries Princess Margaretha of York
1608 - Samuel de Champlain founded city of Quebec
1630 - Emperor Ferdinand II opens German Parliament
1661 - Portugal gives Tanger & Bombay to English King Charles II
1720 - Sweden & Denmark sign peace treaty
1754 - George Washington surrenders to French, Ft Necessity (7 Years' War)
1767 - Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret.
1767 - Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded (first edition published this date).
1775 - Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass
1778 - British forces massacre 360 men, women & children in Wyoming, Pa
1778 - Prussia declares war on Austria
1806 - Michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry
1814 - Americans capture Fort Erie Canada
1816 - French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas
1819 - 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors
1839 - 1st state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students
1841 - John Couch Adams decides to determine position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus
1844 - The last pair of Great Auks is killed.
1848 - Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands)
1849 - The French entered Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification.
1852 - Congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, Calif)
1853 - Commodore Matthew Perry reach Japan
1861 - Colonal Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general
1861 - Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY
1861 - Martinsburg, VA - Confederate forces pull out before US advance
1863 - Battle of Donaldsonville, LA
1863 - Battle of Gettysburg Pa ends, major victory for North
1864 - Battle of Chattahoochie River, GA [until Jul 9]
1864 - Harpers Ferry, WV - Federals evacuate in face of Early's advance
1871 - Jesse James robs bank in Corydon, Iowa ($45,000)
1876 - Montenegro declares war on Turkey
1883 - SS Daphne sinks on Clyde River Scotland; 195 die
1884 - Dow Jones published it's 1st stock avg
1886 - 1st NY Tribune printing using 1st commercial linotype machine
1886 - In Germany, Karl Benz drives 1st automobile
1888 - NY Giant pitcher Rube Marquard ties record of 19 game win-streak
1890 - Idaho admitted as 43rd US state
1890 - King Leopold II gives Congo to Belgium
1895 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Black Peter" (BG)
1898 - American troops captured deserted Wake Island
1898 - Dutch Automobile Club forms (KNAC)
1898 - Joshua Slocum completes 1st solo circumnavigation of the globe
1898 - US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor, Cuba
1902 - Excelsior soccer team forms in Rotterdam
1905 - Kuyper govt forms in Holland
1905 - Marvin Hart KOs Jack Hart in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1907 - Pope decree forbids modernization of theology
1911 - Ty Cobb hits in his 40th straight game. Does not get a hit next day
1912 - NY Giant pitcher Rube Marquard ties record of 19 game win-streak
1913 - Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird known to have crossed the Atlantic)
1913 - Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors.
1915 - US military forces occupy Haiti, remain until 1934
1916 - 1st of 3 fatal shark attacks occurred near NJ shore (4 die)
1917 - Spontaneous demonstration at Tauride-palace Petrograd
1918 - SDAP'er Suze Groenweg elected 1st woman in Dutch parliament
1920 - 40th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats Patterson (26 63 62 64)
1920 - Java Technical School Bandung opens
1920 - Royal Air Force holds an air display at Hendon, England
1923 - Harbor strike in Hull/Grimsby/Cardiff/Bristol over to London
1925 - 38th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Joan Fry (62 60)
1927 - 47th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: H Cochet beats Borotra (46 46 63 64 75)
1928 - 1st color TV broadcast in London (John Logic Baird)
1929 - Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories made foam rubber
1930 - Veterans Administration created
1931 - 51st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Sid Wood Jr beats F X Shields (walkover)
1931 - Max Schmeling TKOs Young Stribling in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1932 - 1st Sunday game at Fenway Park, Yanks beat Red Sox 13-2
1932 - John McGraw retires from baseball
1934 - FDIC pays off 1st insured depositors, Fon du Lac Bank, East Peoria IL
1936 - Jahangir Khan kills a sparrow while cricket bowling, Cambridge U v MCC
1938 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
1939 - Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800-kph rocket plane to Hitler
1939 - Lou Gehrig day; Gehrig makes "luckiest man" speech
1940 - ARP-leader/ex-premier Colijn argues cooperation with Germany
1940 - British Royal Navy sinks French fleet in North Africa
1940 - German occupiers forbids using Dutch royal names
1942 - Germany troop march into Sebastopol
1942 - Hitler visits fieldmarshal Von Bocks headquarter/d into/d Ukraine
1943 - Liberator bombers sinks U-628
1944 - Oriole Park (minor league baseball stadium) burns down in Baltimore
1944 - US V-III-E Army corp opens assault on Coutances Cotentin
1946 - 1st Dutch government of Beel forms
1947 - 252,288 people (record) pass through Grand Central Station, NYC
1947 - Cleveland Indians purchase Larry Dolby, the 1st black in AL
1947 - Soviet Union doesn't partake in Marshall Plan
1948 - 55th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Louise Brough beats Doris Hart (63 86)
1948 - Kidnapper Caryl Chessman sentenced to death
1950 - 1st time US & North Korean forces clash in Korean War
1950 - Casey Stengel asks Joe DiMaggio to play 1st base (handles 13 chances)
1951 - 33rd PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Oakmont CC Oakmont Pa
1952 - Puerto Rico's constitution approved by US Congress
1953 - 67th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Vic Seixas beats Kurt Nielsen (97 63 64)

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 230

1423 - Louis XI, King of France (1461-83)
1442 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)
1530 - Claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601)
1567 - Samuel de Champlain, explorer (Lake Champlain)
1676 - Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747)
1683 - Edward Young, English poet (Revenge, Complaint)
1685 - Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768)
1687 - Arnold Hoogvliet, Dutch poet (Abraham the Patriarch)
1728 - Robert Adam, architect/designer (Adelphi Terrace, London)
1731 - Samuel Huntington, (Gov-Ct), Continental Congress pres
1738 - John Singleton Copley, Mass, finest colonial American artist
1743 - Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, queen consort of Sweden (d. 1813)
1793 - John Claire, England, poet
1794 - Eberhard F Walcker, German organ builder (Paulskirche Frankfurt)
1796 - Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher (Sotsjinenija) [NS]
1802 - Joseph Labitzky, composer
1814 - Janis Cimze, composer
1819 - Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer
1821 - F Kornberger, writer
1828 - John Austin Wharton, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1865
1846 - Achilles Alferaki, composer
1850 - Alfredo Kiel, composer
1854 - Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (d. 1928)
1855 - Piotr Maszynski, composer
1860 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, economist/lecturer/author/feminist
1860 - William Wallace, composer
1861 - Peter Jackson, heavyweight boxer (hall of famer)
1862 - Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer
1866 - Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter
1870 - Richard B Bennett, (C) 11th Canadian PM (1930-35)
1871 - Vicente Arregui Garay, composer
1872 - Habib Ullah Chan, emir of Afghanistam (1901-19)
1874 - Apirana Turupa Ngata, Kawaka NZ, Maori political/cultural leader
1875 - Ernst F Sauerbruch, German nazi/surgeon
1878 - George M Cohan, actor/singer (Phantom Pres, Give My Regards to Bdwy)
1879 - Philippe Gaubert, composer
1879 - Alfred Korzybski, Polish linguist (d. 1950)
1880 - Carl Schuricht, composer
1881 - Leon Errol, Australian actor (Ziegfeld Follies, What a Blonde!)
1883 - Alfred Korzybski, Poland, scientist (Science & Sanity)
1883 - Franz Kafka, Czech, author (Metamorphosis, Trial, Amerika)
1883 - Moses Leverock Crossley, US bio-chemist
1886 - Raymond A Spruance, US admiral/fleet commander/ambassador
1892 - Wilhelm Rettich, composer
1893 - Mississippi John Hurt, rocker
1895 - Oles' Semyonovich Chishko, composer
1896 - Doris Lloyd, actress (Bachelor Father, Charley's Aunt, Sarah & Son)
1899 - Klimenty Arkad'yevich Korchmaryov, composer
1899 - Otto Reinhold, composer
1900 - John Mason Brown, Louisville Ky, critic (Tonight on Broadway)
1902 - Jack Newman, NZ cricket lefty pace bowler (1932-33, later knighted)
1903 - Jean du Bela, [Simon Buytekant], singer/actor (Chaste Susanna)
1906 - Francis Steegmuller, US, biographer (Cocteau)
1906 - George Sanders, Russia, actor (All About Eve-Academy Award 1950)
1906 - Gwendolen Rees, zoologist
1906 - Jack Earle, American actor and sideshow performer (d. 1952)
1907 - Arthur Steel, Dutch architect (Group '32)
1907 - Gene Gutche, composer
1908 - Thomas Narcejac, Rochefort-sur-Mer France, writer (Vertigo)
1908 - M. F. K. Fisher, American writer (d. 1992)
1908 - Robert B. Meyner, American politician (d. 1990)
1909 - Earl L Butz, US Secretary of Agriculture (1971-76); a real Butz
1909 - Lucy Kroll, entertainment agent
1909 - Stavros Niachos, Greece, shipping magnate (Those Fabulous Greeks)
1910 - Bernard Burrows, British diplomat
1910 - Eric Franklin, Indian civil servant
1911 - Joe Hardstaff Jr, cricketer (son of Joseph, 23 Tests for England)
1912 - Edward Jones, North Ireland lord justice of appeals
1913 - Hugh Stirling MacKenzie, British vice admiral
1913 - William Deakin, warden (St Anthony's College Oxford)
1917 - Helene Cordet, entertainer/nightclub owner
1917 - João Saldanha, Brazilian journalist and football manager (d. 1990)
1918 - Lord Mulley, British MP (Labour)
1920 - John Ayers Lessard, composer
1920 - Louise Allbritton, Okla City, actr (Celia-Stage Door, Got a Secret)
1921 - Susan Peters, Spokane WA, actress (Random Harvest, Young Ideas)
1922 - Art Fowler, baseball player
1922 - Corneille [Cornelis G of Beverloo], Dutch painter (Africa, Antilles)
1922 - Francois Reichenbach, French director (La douceur du Village)
1922 - Tom Hudson, artist/teacher
1923 - Baroness Ryder, of Warsaw & Cavendish, worked for sick & disabled
1923 - Emmanuel Bankole Timothy, journalist
1923 - William Mills, painter
1924 - Geoffrey Sammons, senior partner (Allen & Overy)
1924 - S. R. Nathan, 6th president of Singapore
1925 - Michael Oliver, cardiologist
1926 - Johnny Coles, trumpeter
1926 - Joseph M Gaydos, (Rep-D-PA, 1969- )
1927 - Charles Vandenhove, Belgian architect (Standard-Omnisporthal, Luik)
1927 - Ken Russell, England, director (Tommy, Altered States, Gothic)
1927 - William McMillan, moderator (Gen Assembly of Church of Scot) [or 1/29]
1928 - Evelyn Anthony, English historical writer (Poellenberg Inheritance)
1928 - G B Fuchs, writer
1928 - John Wills, lord-lt of Avon England
1929 - Eustace Gibbs, vice marshal (Diplomatic Corps)
1930 - Carlos Kleiber, Berlin Germany, conductor (Bavarian State Orch 1968)
1930 - Pete Fountain, New Orleans, jazz clarinetist (Lawrence Welk 1957-59)
1931 - Andres Burnier, [Catharina Dessaur], criminologist/author (Jongensuur)
1933 - Edward Brandt, American doctor and public health official (d. 2007)
1934 - Manfred Bieler, writer

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 105

683 - Leo II, Pope (681-83), dies
1090 - Egbert II van Brunswick, Fries count, dies in battle
1570 - Antonio Paleario, Italian humanist, executed by inquisition at 67
1642 - Maria de' Medici, French queen-mother, dies at about 69
1672 - Francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635)
1704 - Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657)
1749 - William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675)
1778 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies
1778 - Anna Maria Pertl Mozart, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1720)
1795 - Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (b. 1714)
1795 - Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (b. 1716)
1801 - Johann Nepomuk Went, composer, dies at 56
1809 - Joseph Quesne, composer, dies at 62
1809 - Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian composer and playwright (b. 1746)
1816 - Dorothea Jordan, French actress/mistress (William IV), dies at 65
1858 - Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (b. 1806)
1862 - William Barksdale, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 40
1863 - Alonzo Hersford Cushing, US Union lt, dies in battle at about 22
1863 - Lewis Addison Armistead, Conf brig-gen Gettysburg/dies in battle at 46
1863 - Little Crow, [Ta-oya-te-duta], Santee Sioux indian chief, dies
1863 - Richard Brooke Garnett, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 45
1863 - Samuel Kosciuzko Zook, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 40
1863 - George Hull Ward, American general (b. 1826)
1873 - Josef Michal Ksawery Jan Poniatowski, composer, dies at 57
1891 - Stefano Golinelli, composer, dies at 72
1904 - Theodor Herzl, Austrian journalist/Zionist, dies
1904 - Edouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881)
1908 - Joel Chandler Harris, created Uncle Remus, dies at 59
1910 - Julius Slabbe, Belgian writer, dies
1910 - Mordecai Sherwin, English cricket wicketkeeper (Aust 1886-88), dies
1916 - Henrietta "Hetty" Howland Robinson Green, (Witch of Wall Street), dies
1918 - Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1844)
1933 - Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (b. 1852)
1934 - Henry WAE, Prince of Netherlands/father of Queen Juliana, dies
1935 - André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
1940 - George Shepstone, cricketer (2 Tests for S Africa 1896-99), dies
1942 - Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (b. 1856)
1948 - Adrien H Gerhard, Dutch SDAP-politician, dies at 90
1948 - Quintin McMillan, cricketer (13 Tests for South Africa), dies
1952 - Daniel Zamudio, composer, dies at 64
1952 - Henriette Bosmans, composer, dies
1954 - Siegfried Handloser, German physician (b. 1895)
1957 - Richard Mohaupt, German composer (Bucolica), dies at 52
1957 - Dolf Luque, baseball player (b. 1890)
1960 - Alfred Henry Ackley, composer, dies at 73
1965 - Clarence Loomis, composer, dies at 75
1965 - Trigger, horse (Roy Rogers), dies at 25
1966 - Andre Gailhard, composer, dies at 81
1966 - Cornelis "Kees" Boeke, theorist, dies at 81
1966 - Joseph Deems Taylor, composer, dies at 80
1967 - John Clark, actor (Last Day of the War), dies at 50
1969 - Brian Jones, guitarist (Rolling Stones), drowns to death at 25
1969 - Hermann Grabner, composer, dies at 83
1971 - Jim Morrison, rock singer (Doors), dies of heart failure at 27
1971 - Ricci Riano, entertainer, dies after long illness at 71
1972 - Mississippi Fred McDowell, jazz artist, dies at 68
1973 - Charles Ancerl, Czech conductor (Prague/Toronto), dies at 63
1974 - John C Ransom, US poet (World's Body), dies
1976 - Hans Bentz van den Berg, Dutch actor (Last Train), dies at 58
1977 - Hugh Le Caine, composer, dies at 63
1977 - Mohammed al-Zahaby, Egyptian minister, murdered
1978 - James Daly, actor (Medical Center), dies at 59
1979 - Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888)
1981 - Ross Martin, actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West), dies at 61
1982 - Henry King, US director (Song of Bernadette, Gunfighter), dies
1984 - Raoul Salan, French general/OAS leader (Algeria), dies at 85
1985 - Frank Selke, Canadian ice hockey manager (b. 1893)
1986 - Rudy Vallee, singer (Vagabond Dreams), dies at 84
1987 - Viola Dana, actress (Willow Tree, 40 Winks, Silent Lover), dies at 90
1988 - Gabriel Dell, actor (Dead End Kids), dies of leukemia at 68
1989 - Andrei Gromyko, Soviet diplomat, dies just short of his 80th birthday
1989 - Jim Backus, actor (Magoo, Gilligan's Island), dies at 76 of pneumonia
1990 - Ludi Claire Hugo, entertainer, dies at 70
1990 - Maurice Girodias, French publisher, dies at 71
1991 - Irina Nijinska, Russian/US dancer, dies at 77
1992 - Arline Bletcher, entertainer, dies of natural causes at 99
1992 - Marc Tannenbaum, rabbi (only Jew to attend Vatican II), dies at 66
1993 - "Curly" Joe DeRita, last of Three Stooges, dies of pneumonia at 83
1994 - Felix Kelly, artist, dies at 80
1994 - Harry Ebbeling, PC-corrector, dies at 54
1994 - Lewis A "Lew" Hoad, tennis star (Wimbledon 1953, 56), dies at 59
1994 - Pieter Hennipman, Dutch economist, dies at 85
1995 - Albert Hardy, photographer, dies at 82
1995 - Brad Lee Sexton, bass guitarist, dies at 47
1995 - Gil Wolman, situationist, dies at 65
1995 - Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
1996 - Raaj Kumar, actor (Tiranga, Saudagar), dies at 68
1998 - Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (b. 1949)
1999 - Mark Sandman, American musician (b. 1952)
2000 - Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor (b. 1944)
2001 - Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (b. 1931)
2001 - Johnny Russell, American country singer and songwriter (b. 1940)
2003 - Gaetano Alibrandi, Papal diplomat (b. 1914)
2004 - Andrian Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1929)
2005 - Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (b. 1914)
2005 - Gaylord Nelson, American politician (b. 1916)
2006 - Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
2006 - Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (b. 1950)
2007 - Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (b. 1915)
2007 - Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (b. 1927)