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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 173

579 - Benedict I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
657 - St Vitalian begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Eugene I
1178 - Frederick I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman Emperor, crowned King of Burgundy
1419 - Anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, stormtown hall in Prague & throw Catholic councillors out the windows
1419 - First Defenestration of Prague.
1537 - Resistant of Bomy: French/Dutch cease fire
1601 - Spanish garrison of Rhine birch surrenders to Earl Mauritius
1608 - At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years.
1618 - Prince Maurits' troops pull into Utrecht
1619 - House of Burgesses Virginia forms, 1st elective US governing body
1626 - Earthquake hits Naples; 10,000 die
1629 - An earthquake in Naples, Italy kills 10,000 people.
1646 - English parliament sets king Charles I Newcastle Propositions
1650 - Prince Willem II occupies Amsterdam
1653 - Johan de Witt sworn in as pension advisor of Holland
1655 - Dutch troops occupy Fort Assahudi Seram
1678 - English troops lands in Flanders
1715 - Spanish gold & silver fleet disappears off St Lucie, Florida
1729 - City of Baltimore founded
1733 - Society of Freemasons opens 1st American lodge in Boston
1733 - First Freemasons's lodge is opened in what will become the United States.
1739 - Caspar Wistar begins glass manufacturing in Allowaystown, NJ
1756 - Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
1775 - Capt Cook with Resolution returns to England
1792 - 500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for 1st time
1809 - British armed force of 39,000 lands in Walcheren
1811 - Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua, Mexico.
1822 - James Varick becomes 1st bishop of Afr Meth Episcopal Zion Church
1824 - Gioacchino Rossini becomes manager of Theatre Italian, Paris
1825 - Malden Island is discovered.
1826 - Java prince Dipo Negoro surprise attacks Dutch colony, 82 killed
1836 - 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii
1839 - Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad
1844 - 1st US yacht club organized, NY Yacht Club
1863 - Pres Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot
1863 - Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing the emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.
1864 - Battle of Chambersburg, PA - burned by Union forces under McCausland
1864 - Battle of the Crater: Gen Burnsides fails on attack of Petersburg
1864 - Confederate troops attack Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in fire
1865 - Pope Pius IX visits Suriname
1866 - Race riot in New Orleans
1866 - New Orleans's Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
1870 - Staten Island ferry "Westfield" burns, killing 100
1874 - 1st baseball teams to play outside US, Boston-Phila in British Isles
1878 - German anti-semitism begins during the Reichstag election
1878 - Russian assault on Plevna Turkey, 7,300 Russian casualties
1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Naval Treaty" (BG)
1898 - Will Kellogg invents Corn Flakes
1902 - Anti-Jewish rioters attack funeral procession of Rabbi Joseph (NYC)
1905 - Dutch Covenant of Worker's union, NVV, forms
1908 - Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris
1909 - John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League
1909 - Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army
1913 - Conclusion of 2nd Balkan War
1914 - Austrian-Hungary & Russia proclaim general mobilization
1914 - French troops withdraw 10 km from German border
1914 - John French appointed British supreme commander
1916 - German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, NJ
1916 - Black Tom Island explosion in Jersey City, NJ.
1917 - Board of Commissioners of Cleveland Metroparks has its 1st meeting
1923 - New Zealand claims Ross Dependency
1926 - Albanian boundaries deduced
1928 - George Eastman shows 1st color motion pictures (US)
1930 - 1st broadcast of "Death Valley Days" on NBC-radio
1930 - Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer's 1st World Cup in Montevideo
1932 - 10th modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles
1933 - 28th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats France in Paris (3-2)
1935 - 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution
1937 - Phillies Dolph Camilli, plays 1st base & registers no put outs
1938 - Gen Metaxas names himself premier of Greece
1939 - Belgium Sylvere Maes wins 33rd Tour de France
1941 - German occupiers forbid SDAP, VDB, ARP, RKSP, CHU & SGP in Netherlands
1942 - FDR signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)
1942 - German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
1942 - German occupiers set night curfew on Jews in Netherlands
1943 - Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (Girl Crazy)
1943 - US 45th Infantry division occupies San Stefano
1944 - Heavy battles at Tessy-sur-Vire & Villebaudon Normandy
1944 - US 30th division reaches suburbs of St-Lo Normandy
1945 - Philippines Sea: US cruiser Indianapolis torpedoed/sinks, 880 die
1946 - 1st rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, NM
1947 - Cin Reds 16 game win streak ends, losing to NY Giants 5-4
1948 - Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record (10K - 29:59.6)
1948 - Professional wrestling premieres on prime-time network TV (DuMont)
1949 - British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff
1951 - Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players
1952 - Ford Frick sets waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs in same league get right to bid
1953 - Rikidōzan holds a ceremony announcing the establishment of the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance.
1954 - Bob Kennedy hits the 1st grand slam for the new Baltimore Orioles
1954 - Elvis Presley joins Memphis Federation of Musicians, Local 71
1955 - Louison Bobet wins his 3rd Tour de France
1956 - US motto "In God We Trust" authorized
1959 - In his major league debut, SF Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4
1960 - 1st AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7)
1961 - 43rd PGA Championship: Jerry Barber shoots a 277 at Olympia Fields IL
1961 - Judy Kimball wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
1962 - 33rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-4 at Wrigley Field, Chicago
1962 - All star MVP: Leon Wagner (LA Angels)
1963 - British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow
1964 - US naval fire on Hon Ngu/Hon Mo, North Vietnam

Famous Birthdays

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1511 - Giorgio Vasari, Italy, painter/art historian (Vasari's Lives)
1549 - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609)
1641 - Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673)
1747 - Antonio Benedetto Maria Puccini, composer
1751 - Maria A [Nannerl] Mozart, Austrian pianist/Wolfgang's sister
1763 - Samuel Rogers, English poet (Italy, a poem)
1793 - Josepf Francois Snel, composer
1809 - Charles Chiniquy, Quebec-born excommunicated Catholic priest (d. 1899)
1815 - Thomas Jackson Rodman, Bvt Brig General (Union volunteers)
1817 - Charles Radoux-Rogier, composer
1818 - Emily Jane Bronte, England, novelist (Wuthering Heights)
1818 - John Heemskerk Azn, Dutch minister of Internal minister (1866..88)
1824 - Eugenio Terziani, composer
1825 - Chaim Aronson, inventor and academic (d. 1893)
1831 - Helene P Blavatsky, founder (Theosophist Cooperation)
1837 - Elon John Farnsworth, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1838 - Eugen Richter, German parliament member (Liberal)
1855 - James Edward Kelly, US, sculptor "Sculptor of American History"
1856 - Richard B Haldane, British viscount/lord-chancellor (Life of A Smith)
1857 - Thorstein Veblen, US, economist (Theory of the Leisure Class-1899)
1859 - Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian (d. 1939)
1863 - Henry Ford, Dearborn Township Mich, auto maker (Ford)
1868 - Alfred Weber, German economist/sociologist
1872 - Clementine, Princess of Belgium, wife of Prince Napoleon Bonaparte
1875 - James William Tate, composer
1880 - Robert Rutherford McCormick, US, editor/publisher (Chicago Tribune)
1881 - Smedley Butler, American Marine general (d. 1940)
1882 - Holmes Herbert, Mansfield England, actor (The Kiss)
1882 - Leo van Puyfielde, Flemish art historian
1886 - Johan Algot Haquinius, composer
1887 - Felix A Vening Meinesz, Dutch geophysicist (gravity)
1887 - Timothy Mara, NFL owner (NY Giants)
1888 - Raden Sutomo, Indonesian freedom fighter
1889 - Vladimir K Zworykin, USSR, electronics engineer/inventor, father of TV
1890 - Casey Stengel, baseball manager (Yankees (1949-60)/NY Met's 1st)
1892 - Roy Park, cricketer (one Test Aust v Eng 1920, out 1st ball)
1893 - Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani Mother of the Nation (d. 1967)
1895 - Wanda Hawley, American actress (d. 1963)
1897 - Jacques de Kadt, Dutch politician/writer (Fascism is War!)
1898 - Henry Moore, England, sculptor (Vertebrae)
1899 - Gerald Moore, England, pianist (Am I Too Loud)
1899 - Henricus Moorman, Dutch vice-admiral (KVP)
1899 - John Woods Duke, composer
1901 - Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1955)
1904 - Salvador Novo, Mexican writer (d. 1974)
1906 - L'udovit Rajter, composer
1906 - Serafin Pro, composer
1909 - Cyril Northcote Parkinson, England, historian (Pursuit of Progress)
1910 - Edgar de Evia, American photographer (d. 2003)
1913 - Ivo Lhotka-Kalinski, composer
1913 - Karl Guttmann, Austrian/Neth playwright/director (Albee/Pinter)
1914 - Lord Killanin, Irish IOC president (d. 1999)
1916 - Robert van Spaendonk, Dutch resistance fighter
1916 - Dick Wilson, American actor (d. 2007)
1918 - Joe Daley, jazz tenor/clarinet/flute player
1919 - Berniece Baker Miracle, half-sister of Marilyn Monroe
1921 - Georg G Lampe, Dutch painter/director (Free Academy)
1921 - Jacques Vander Schueren, Belgium, minister of Economic Affairs
1921 - Grant Johannesen, American pianist (d. 2005)
1922 - Zbigniew Wiszniewski, composer
1922 - Henry W. Bloch, American co-founder of H&R Block
1923 - Dipa Nusantara Aidit, Indonesian communist/leader of PKI (1951-65)
1923 - John Richard Brinsley Norton, landowner
1924 - Christopher Shaw, composer
1924 - William Gass, Fargo ND, novelist/philosopher (Omensetter's Luck)
1925 - Antoine Duhamel, composer
1925 - Jacques Sernas, Lithuania, actor (La Dolce Vita, Helen of Troy)
1926 - Peter T Thwaites, British brig-gen/playwright (Love or money)
1927 - Richard Johnson, actor (Never So Few, Restless, Beyond the Door)
1927 - Victor Wong, American actor (d. 2001)
1928 - Eunice Muñoz, Portuguese actress
1929 - Christine McGuire, Middletown Oh singer (McGuire Sisters-Sugartime)
1929 - Sid Kroft, Athens Greece, puppeteer (Barbara Mandrell Show)
1930 - Thomas Sowell, author/activist
1931 - Joan Vohs, St Albans NY, actress (Fort Ti, Vice Squad, Sabrina)
1933 - Edd "Kookie" Byrnes, LA, actor (77 Sunset Strip, Jack the Ripper)
1934 - Andre Prevost, composer
1934 - Ben Piazza, Little Rock Ark, actor (Blues Brothers, Ben Casey, Dallas)
1934 - Bud Selig, owner (Milw Brewers)/acting baseball commissioner
1936 - Buddy Guy, rocker
1936 - George "Buddy" Guy, US blues guitarist (Stone Crazy)
1936 - Istvan Zelenka, composer
1936 - John Burton-Hall, Dorset England, captain (QE2)
1936 - Ralph Taeger, Richmond Hill NY, actor (Klondike, Acapulco, Hondo)
1936 - Yuri Alexandrovich Falik, composer
1936 - Infanta Pilar of Spain
1938 - Vayachselav Ivanenko, USSR, 50K walker (Olympic-gold-1988)
1938 - Hervé de Charette, French politician
1939 - Eleanor Smeal, leader (National Organization for Women)
1939 - Peter Bogdanovich, Kingston NY, director/producer (Last Picture Show)
1940 - Clive Sinclair, British computer inventor (ZX Spectrum)
1940 - Patricia Schroeder, (Rep-D-Colorado, 1973- )
1940 - Reva Rose, Chicago Ill, singer/actress (Temperature's Rising)
1940 - Pat Schroeder, American politician
1941 - Count Desmond, [Edward Benjamin], Binghamton NY, sword swallower
1941 - Paul Anka, Ottawa Ontario, singer (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)
1943 - Henri-François Gautrin, Quebec politician
1944 - Frances de la Tour, actress (Bejeweled, Wombling Free)
1944 - Teresa Cahill, opera singer
1945 - David Sanborn, jazz saxophonist (David Letterman Show)

Famous Deaths

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578 - Jacob Baradaeus, Bishop of Edessa
579 - Benedict I, Italian Pope (575-79), dies
1516 - Johan V Nassau, earl of Nassau-Vianden/Dietz, dies
1528 - Jacopo d'antonio Negreti Palma, Italian painter, dies at about 48
1540 - Robert Barnes, English churchman (martyred) (b. 1495)
1540 - Thomas Abel, English priest (martyred)
1550 - Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (b. 1505)
1652 - John Cloppenburg, vicar/theologist, dies at 68
1652 - Charles Amédée de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier (b. 1624)
1655 - Sigmund Theophil Staden, composer, dies at 47
1680 - Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (b. 1634)
1683 - Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
1691 - Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (b. 1639)
1712 - Abraham Elsevier, publisher, dies
1718 - William Penn, English Quaker/colonizer (No cross, no crown), dies
1727 - Franz Weichlein, composer, dies at 67
1741 - Wierich PL count von Daun, gov-gen of Austria & Netherlands, dies
1771 - Thomas Gray, English poet, dies at 54
1781 - Augustin Ullinger, composer, dies at 35
1784 - Denis Diderot, writer, dies at 70
1796 - Nicolas the Pigage, French classical architect, dies
1832 - Jean-A-C Chaptal, French chemist/Internal minister, dies
1863 - George Crockett Strong, US Union gen-mjr, dies of injuries at 29
1865 - George Wright, US Union brig-general, dies at 61
1875 - George Pickett, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
1889 - Charles Absolom, cricketer (Test for Eng), dies in an accident
1898 - Otto von Bismarck, German "Iron" chancellor, dies at 83
1900 - Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)
1903 - Servas Daems, [Peeter Klein], Flem writer (Wheelbarrows), dies at 65
1912 - Mutsuhito, 122nd emperor of Japan (1867-1912), dies at 60
1914 - Albert Trott, cricketer (3 Tests for Aus, 2 for Eng), commits suicide
1914 - Jean Jaurès, leading socialist, assassinated in Paris
1918 - Chaim Soloveitchik, Rabbi of Brisk, talmudic scholar, dies
1918 - Joyce Kilmer, American poet (b. 1886)
1927 - Robert Marquies de Flers, French writer (Monsieur Bretonneau), dies
1930 - Joan Gamper, Swiss-Catalan businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (b. 1877)
1936 - Adolf Philipp, composer, dies at 72
1943 - Benjamin James Dale, composer, dies at 58
1947 - George Challenor, cricketer (played in 1st WI Test side 1928), dies
1947 - Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
1957 - Sem Dresden, Dutch composer/conductor, dies at 76
1958 - Alexander Albrecht, composer, dies at 72
1962 - Myron McCormick, actor (China Girl, Jigsaw), dies of cancer at 54
1965 - Junichiro Tanizaki, Japanese writer (Key), dies at 79
1966 - Edward G Craig, English actor/dir (On Art of Theatre), dies at 94
1967 - Alfried Krupp, German industrialist, dies at 59
1967 - John Macchia, actor (Beach Blanket Bingo), dies of stroke at 35
1968 - Jon Leifs, composer, dies at 69
1970 - George Szell, Hungarian/US conductor (Cleveland Orch), dies at 73
1971 - Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (b. 1901)
1973 - Erich Katz, composer, dies at 72
1973 - Guy Middleton, actor (Fur Collar, Now & Forever), dies at 65
1974 - Lev Konstantinovich Knipper, composer, dies at 75
1977 - Jorgen Ponto, West German banker, murdered
1979 - Beppie Nooij Jr, Dutch actress (Rooie Sien), dies at 67
1980 - Charles McGraw, actor (Michael-Falcon, Smith Family), dies at 66
1980 - Norman Lloyd, composer, dies at 70
1982 - Frank Nicholson, S African cricket wicket-keeper (1935-36), dies
1982 - Roberta Pedon, American glamour model (b. 1954)
1983 - Howard Deitz, MGM executive, dies at 86 of Parkinson's disease
1983 - Lynn Fontanne, Broadway's premier actress (Emmy 1965), dies at 95
1983 - Howard Dietz, American lyricist (b. 1896)
1984 - Maurice Tremlett, cricketer (England pace bowler 1948-49), dies
1985 - Julia Hall Bowman Robinson, American mathematician (b. 1919)
1987 - Mary Spinell, actress (Last Horror Film), dies
1989 - Lane Frost, American bull rider (b. 1963)
1990 - Ian Gow, British Conservative parliament leader, murdered
1990 - Karl Weber, dies of heart failure at 74
1991 - Leonardus S van Egerat, travel expert, dies at 68
1991 - William Ball, actor (Suburban Commando), dies at 60
1992 - Brenda Marshall, actress (Highway West, Smiling Ghost), dies at 76
1992 - Joe Shuster, co creator (Superman), dies at 78
1992 - Titti Sotto, latin songwriter, dies at 48 of aids
1993 - Edward B A M Raczynski, Polish pres-in-exile (1979-86), dies at 97
1993 - Jay Scott, [Jeffrey Scott Beaven], US/Canada movie critic, dies at 43
1993 - John Castrios, 1st murder in Washington NH in 200 years, killed at 45
1994 - Enid Balint-Edmonds, British psychoanalyst, dies at 90
1994 - Henry Mackie, designer of the Belfast Calorimeter, dies at 73
1994 - Theo van Scheltinga, skater, dies at 80
1995 - Biggie Rodwell Tembo Marasha, musician, dies at 36
1995 - Charles James Dunn, japanese scholar, dies at 80
1995 - Harry Shorto, linguist, dies at 75
1996 - Alan Cheales, dominican priest, dies at 83
1996 - Claudette Colbert, actress (Happened One Night), dies of stroke at 93
1996 - Magda Schneider, actress (Going Gay, Be Mine Tonight), dies at 87
1997 - Bảo Đại, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1913)
1998 - Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (Howdy Doody) (b. 1917)
2003 - Sam Phillips, American record producer (b. 1923)
2004 - Andre Noble, Canadian actor (b. 1979)
2005 - Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (b. 1905)
2005 - John Garang, Vice President of Sudan (b. 1945)
2005 - Anthony Walker, English hate crime murder victim (b. 1987)
2006 - Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (b. 1904)
2006 - Al Balding, Canadian golfer (b. 1924)
2006 - Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b. 1921)
2007 - Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (b. 1912)
2007 - Teoctist, Ex-Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (b. 1915)
2007 - Ingmar Bergman, Swedish stage and film director (b. 1918)
2007 - Bill Walsh, American football coach (b. 1931)
2008 - Anne Armstrong U.S. ambassador to Britain (b. 1927)