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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 223

1190 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Sally River while leading an army to Jerusalem.
1358 - French boer leader Guillaume Cale captured
1538 - Catholic German monarchy signs League of Neurenberg
1539 - Council of Trent: Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.
1540 - Thomas Cromwell arrested in Westminister
1605 - Valse Dimitri crowned Russian tsar for 1st time
1610 - Thomas West, Baron de La Mar, is appointed governor of Virginia
1610 - 1st Dutch settlers arrive (from NJ), to colonize Manhattan Island
1619 - Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
1624 - Netherlands & France sign anti-Spanish Treaty of Compiègne
1627 - Piet Heyn conquerors 38 ships at bay of Salvador
1639 - 1st American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware)
1648 - Moscow's people uprise against regent Boris Morozov
1652 - In Boston, John Hull opens the 1st mint in America
1682 - Tornado in Connecticut uproots a 3' diameter oak tree
1719 - Jacobite Rising: Battle of Glen Shiel.
1720 - Mrs Clements of England markets 1st paste-style mustard
1752 - Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning-what a shock!
1760 - NY passes 1st effective law regulating practice of medicine
1761 - Puritan version of "Othello" opens in Newport Rhode Island
1772 - Burning of Gaspée, British revenue cutter, by Rhode Islanders
1776 - Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Decl of Ind
1786 - A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
1793 - 1st public zoo opens in Paris
1793 - Washington replaced Philadelphia as US capital
1794 - Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Phila, forms
1794 - France revolutionary regime begins trials
1801 - Tripoli declares war on US for refusing tribute
1805 - First Barbary War: Yussif Karamanli signs a treaty ending hostilities with the United States.
1809 - 1st US steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves NY for Phila
1818 - Pesaro opera theater opens with Rossini's "La gaza ladra"
1826 - Sultan Mahmud II rebellious elite corp, slaughter 20,000 in Turkey
1829 - The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place.
1834 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails Pacific Ocean
1838 - Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
1846 - Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire
1847 - Chicago Tribune begins publishing
1848 - 1st telegraph link between NYC & Chicago
1848 - Battle at Vicenza: Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte
1850 - Millard Fillmore sworn-in as president of US (replacing Taylor)
1854 - Georg F B Reiman proposes that space is curved
1854 - The first class of the United States Naval Academy students graduate.
1857 - England passes an act putting Canada on the decimal currency system
1861 - Battle of Big Bethel VA (Bethel Church, Great Bethal)-Union retreats
1863 - Battle of Brice's Crossroads, Miss; Forrest w/3500 defeats 8000 Feds
1864 - Battle of Kellar's Bridge KY (Licking River)
1864 - Battle of Waynesboro VA
1865 - Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" 1st performance Munich Germany
1868 - 2nd Belmont: Bobby Swim aboard General Duke wins in 3:02
1869 - 'Agnes'arrives in New Orleans with 1st ever shipment of frozen beef
1871 - 5th Belmont: W Miller aboard Harry Basset wins in 2:56
1871 - Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 Marines in naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
1876 - 10th Belmont: William Donohue aboard Algerine wins in 2:40.5
1880 - Charlie Jones becomes 1st to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning
1882 - Anti-colonization mass society of Alexandria Egypt kills 50 Europeans
1890 - 24th Belmont: Pike Barnes aboard Burlington wins in 2:07.75
1891 - 25th Belmont: Ed Garrison aboard Foxford wins in 2:08.75
1892 - Wilbert Robinson sets record by going 7-for-7 in a 9-inning game
1893 - 27th Belmont: Willie Simms aboard Commanche wins in 1:53.25
1898 - US Marines land in Cuba, during Spanish-American War
1899 - Improved Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks forms in Cincinnati
1902 - Patent for window envelope granted to H F Callahan
1905 - 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, Me
1908 - 1st flying club, Aeronautical Society of NY, opens
1911 - Queen Wilhelmina opens Rembrandt house in Amsterdam
1915 - British/French troops conquer German colony of Cameroon
1915 - Girl Scouts founded
1916 - 48th Belmont: E Haynes aboard Friar Rock wins in 2:22
1916 - Great Arab Revolt begin
1917 - 60,000 people of Petrograd welcome Prince Kropotkin (banned 41 years)
1917 - Limburgse mine workers strike
1921 - Babe Ruth becomes all time HR champ with #120 (Gavvy Cravath)
1922 - 54th Belmont: C H Miller aboard Pillory wins in 2:18.8
1924 - 1st political convention broadcast on radio-Republicans at Cleveland
1925 - Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches held in Toronto Arena.
1926 - Phillies Russ Wrightstone hits for the cycle
1930 - Winnipeg Rugby Football Club forms
1931 - Norway occupies East-Greenland
1932 - 1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass
1932 - 67th British Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 283 at Prince's England
1933 - 37th US Golf Open: Johnny Goodman shoots a 287 at North Shore Ill
1933 - 65th Belmont: Mack Garner aboard Hurryoff wins in 2:32.6
1934 - Italy beats Czechoslovakia 2-1 (OT) in soccer's 2nd World Cup at Rome
1934 - USSR & Romania regain diplomatic relations
1935 - Dr Robert Smith & William Wilson of Akron form Alcoholics Anonymous
1938 - Charlie Barnett makes 98 by lunch v Australia at Trent Bridge
1939 - Barney Bear, cartoon character, by MGM, debuts
1940 - French government moves to Bordeaux
1940 - German "Dutch Q-ship Atlantis" sinks Norwegian tanker
1940 - German 5th Armour division occupies Rouen
1940 - Italy declares war on France & Britain during WW II
1940 - Norway surrenders to nazis
1940 - World War II: Canada declares war on Italy.
1942 - Massacre at Lidice (Czechoslovakia), Gestapo kills 173
1942 - Nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich
1943 - FDR becomes 1st US pres to visit a foreign country during wartime
1943 - FDR signs withholding tax bill into law (this is W-2 Day!)
1944 - Joe Nuxhall at 15 becomes youngest ML baseball player
1944 - Joe Nuxhall, 15, of Cin Reds is youngest player in major league
1944 - Nazi murders in Oradour-sur-Glane, France

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 243

1213 - Fakhruddin 'Iraqi, Persian philosopher
1613 - Johan Georg II, elect of Saxon (1656-80)
1630 - Willem van Bemmel, Dutch painter/etcher
1632 - Esprit Fléchier, French writer and bishop (d. 1710)
1637 - Jacques Marquette, jesuit/missionary founder (Chicago)
1657 - James Cragg the Elder, British politician (d. 1721)
1688 - James III Edward, Old Pretender, recognized as King of Britain by Pope
1688 - James Francis Edward Stuart (d. 1766)
1706 - John Dollond, owner of 1st patent for achromatic lens
1710 - James Short, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768)
1735 - John Morgan, American physician-in-chief of Continental Army
1753 - William Eustis, 12th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825)
1781 - Giovanni Battista Polledro, composer
1782 - Amable-G-P B de Barante, French politician/historian
1790 - Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul, composer
1803 - Henry Darcy, French scientist (d. 1858)
1804 - Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (d. 1884)
1808 - Friedrich Kaiser, Dutch astronomer (Kaiser compass-card)
1819 - J D Gustave Courbet, French realist painter (Demoiselles the la Seine)
1825 - Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier (d. 1897)
1825 - Princess Hildegard of Bavaria d. 1864
1831 - W A Remy, composer
1832 - Edwin Arnold, English writer (Light of India)
1832 - Nikolaus A Otto, German technician (gas motor, otto motor)
1834 - Hendrik Pierson, Dutch theologist (HP Foundation)
1835 - Constant A Serrure, Flemish historian
1835 - Ferdinand IV SMJJBFLGRRJ, ruler of Toscane
1835 - Rebecca Latimer Felton, U.S. Senator (d. 1930)
1836 - Yamaoka Tesshu, Japanese swordsman/master of kendo
1838 - Meyer E van Beem, actor (Black Venus)
1839 - Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Council President of Denmark (d. 1912)
1840 - Thomas Fentress Toon, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1902
1840 - Theodor Philipsen Danish painter (d. 1920)
1843 - Heinrich von Herzogenberg, composer
1844 - J Albert Neuhuys, Dutch painter (Haagse school)
1844 - Karl Hagenbeck, German animal trainer (Von Tieren und Menschen)
1859 - Jacques F H Perk, Dutch poet (Iris, Wood Song)
1861 - Josephus T J Cuypers, Dutch architect (St Bavo, Haarlem)
1861 - Pierre M M Duhem, French naturalist/philosopher/historian
1862 - Mrs. Leslie Carter, American actress (d. 1937)
1863 - Louis M A Couperus, Dutch poet/writer (Eline Vere)
1865 - Frederick A Cook, US, explorer (claimed falsely to be at North Pole)
1869 - Gustave Vanzype, Belgian literary/headed La Gazette
1879 - Benjamin Lambord, composer
1880 - Margit Kaffka, writer
1882 - Neville Henderson, British diplomat
1886 - Baron Josse Emile van Dievoet, Flemish lawyer
1888 - Leo Weismantel, German writer (Der Reiter der Apocalypse)
1889 - Cliff Clark, actor (Kid Glove Killer, Golden Hoofs, Vigilante Hideout)
1890 - Paul J M Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author
1890 - Powell Weaver, composer
1890 - Sessue Hayakawa, Japan, actor (Bridge on River Kwai, Hell to Eternity)
1891 - Al Dubin, Swiss songwriter (Tiptoe Thru the Tulips)
1893 - Franz Andre, Belgian conductor
1894 - Pavel Borkovec, Czech composer (Stmivani, [Twilight])
1895 - Immanuel Velikovsky, writer (Worlds in Collision)
1898 - Hattie McDaniel, Wichita, 1st Black to win Oscar (Gone With The Wind)
1898 - Virginia Valli, [McSweeney], Chicago IL, actress (Pleasure Garden)
1899 - Raoul Salan, Fr/Indochina/Algeria (leader OAS)
1900 - Henri Bruning, Dutch literary
1901 - Frederick Loewe, Austrian-born composer (d. 1988)
1902 - Gaston Brenta, composer
1902 - J Wouterus van Dieren, Dutch biologist (Terschelling)
1903 - Clyde Beatty, US animal trainer/actor (Big Cage)
1903 - Theo Lingen, German director/actor (M, Charm of La Boheme) [or Jun 19]
1904 - Frederick Loewe, composer (Learner & Loewe)
1906 - Janos Viski, composer
1907 - Fairfield Porter, American painter (d. 1975)
1908 - Brinsley Ford, CEO (National Art Collections Fund)
1908 - Ernst B Chain, German chemist/bacteriologist (penicillin, Nobel 1945)
1909 - Erwin Dressel, composer
1910 - Howlin' Wolf, [Chester Arthur Burnett], harmonica (Big City Blues)
1910 - Robert Still, composer
1910 - Frank Demaree, American baseball player (d. 1958)
1910 - Robert Still, English composer (d. 1971)
1911 - C P "Chilla" Christ, cricketer (Qld spinner late 30's)
1911 - Ralph Kirkpatrick, Leominster MA, harpsichordist (Domenico Scarlatti)
1911 - Terence Rattigan, playwright (Winslow Boy, Browning Version)
1912 - Leslie Brown, Bishop (St Edmundsbury & Ipswich)
1912 - William Gordon Harris, civil engineer
1912 - Jean Lesage, Premier of Quebec (d. 1980)
1913 - John Edmunds, composer
1913 - Thor Johnson, Wisconsin Rapids Wisconsin, conductor (Cin Symph 1958)
1913 - Tikhon Nikoleyevich Khrennikov, composer
1913 - Van Carlyle Wilton-Davies, archdeacon Emeritus (Oxford)
1913 - Wilbur J Cohen, 1st employee of Social Security System
1914 - Polly Hill, Dr/anthropologist
1914 - Saul Bellow, Lachine Quebec, author (Mr Sammler's Planet, Nobel 1976)
1915 - Oscar Comras, Bronx, drummer (namesake of Comras Mall in Bronx Park)
1916 - Bill Waddington, British actor/comedian (Percy-Coronation Street)
1917 - William Barr, rector (Exeter College, Oxford)
1918 - Barry Morse, actor (Fugitive-Lt Philip Gerard, Winds of War)
1919 - Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish athlete and physician (d. 2006)
1919 - Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian Negotiator and community leader (d. 2007)
1920 - Zbynek Vostrak, composer
1921 - Philip Mountbatten, Greece, Duke of Edinburgh/Prince, Mr Elizabeth II
1921 - Jean Robic, French cyclist (d. 1980)
1922 - Judy Garland, [Frances Gumm], Mich, actress/singer (Wizard of Oz)
1922 - Rose Moffard, (acting Gov-AZ)
1923 - Earl Hamner Jr, Schuyler Va, TV narrator (Waltons)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 119

323 BC - Alexander the Great, Macedonian king (b. 356 BC) (or the 11th June)
1075 - Ernest of Austria (b. 1027)
1190 - Frederik I van Hohenstaufen "Barbarossa", German King, dies
1190 - Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1122)
1247 - Rodrigo Jimenez de Rada, archbishop Toledo/advisor Alfonso VIII, dies
1424 - Duke Ernest of Austria (b. 1377)
1552 - Alexander Barclay, English poet
1556 - Martin Agricola [M Sore], German composer/cantor, dies
1560 - Mary de Guise, queen-mother of Scotland
1580 - Luis Vaz de Camoes, Portugal's national poet (Os Lusiados), dies
1584 - Francois-Hercule de Valois, French crown prince, dies at 28
1588 - Valentin Weigel, German mystic, dies
1607 - John Popham, English politician
1654 - Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 58
1680 - Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1635)
1727 - George Ludwig, German monarch of Hannover/king of England, dies at 67
1735 - Thomas Hearne, English antiquarian (b. 1678)
1776 - Leopold Widhalm, Austrian luthier (b. 1722)
1791 - Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (b. 1720)
1800 - Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German composer, dies at 53
1831 - Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Russian field marshal (b. 1785)
1834 - Antonius van Gils, RC theologist (against Relief), dies at 75
1836 - André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (b. 1775)
1839 - Nathaniel Pryor, sgt of Lewis & Clark Expedition, dies
1849 - Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner, composer, dies at 63
1849 - Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly (b. 1784)
1868 - Michael Obrenovic, ruler of Sweden, murdered
1883 - Carl Gradener, composer, dies at 71
1893 - Elek Erkel, composer, dies at 49
1896 - Amelia Dyer, English murderer (b. 1829)
1898 - Tuone Udaina, last speaker of the Dalmatian language.
1899 - Ernest Chausson, French composer (Solitude dance le bois), dies at 44
1901 - Robert Williams Buchanan, British dramatist (b. 1841)
1902 - Auguste Schmidt, German teacher/feminist, dies at 68
1902 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)
1903 - Alexander I, King of Serbia are assassinated
1903 - Dragia, Queen of Serbia, assassinated
1903 - Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician (grafostatica), dies
1909 - Edward Everett Hale, American author (b. 1822)
1912 - Anton Aškerc, Slovenian poet (b. 1856)
1918 - Arrigio Enrico Boito, composer, dies at 76
1923 - Pierre Loti, [Julien Viaud], French sea officer/writer, dies
1924 - Giacomo Matteotti, Italian socialist deputy, assassinated by fascists
1926 - Antonio Gaudi y Cornet, Spanish architect, dies
1930 - Adolf Harnack, German theologian (b. 1851)
1934 - Frederick Delius, English composer (Suite Florida), dies at 72
1937 - Robert Borden, eighth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1854)
1941 - Herschel Mayall, actor (Tale of 2 Cities), dies at 78
1941 - Marcus Garvey, US black leader (Back to Africa Movement), dies at 52
1942 - Jean Van Royen, Sect-Gen of Concentration Camp Amersfoort, dies at 63
1942 - Ross Gregory, cricketer (Australian batsman 1937), dies
1944 - French Duwaer, Dutch printer/resistance fighter, executed
1944 - Gerrit Jan van der Veen, [Wolffensperger], resister, executed at 41
1944 - Johan Limpers, sculptor/resistance fighter, executed at 28
1944 - Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (b. 1910)
1946 - Ananda Mahidol, king of Siam, shot dead at 20
1946 - Jack Johnson, 1st black heavyweight champion, dies in car accident
1947 - Alexander Bethune, Canadian politician (b. 1852)
1949 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
1953 - Grzlegorz Fitelberg, composer, dies at 73
1954 - Will Rossiter, composer, dies at 87
1958 - Angelina Weld Grimke, American journalist (b. 1880)
1959 - Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian Nazi (b. 1883)
1963 - Anita King, actress (Tender Loving Care), dies of heart attack at 74
1964 - Louis Gruenberg, composer, dies at 79
1967 - Frank Butler, actor/screenwriter (Road to Bali, China), dies at 76
1967 - Spencer Tracy, US actor (7th Cross, Father ot Bride), dies at 67
1968 - Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, composer, dies at 65
1969 - Frank Lawton, actor (David Copperfield, Skin Game), dies at 64
1971 - Michael Rennie, actor (Day the Earth Stood Still), dies at 61
1971 - Virginia Eames, entertainer, dies of heart attack at 82
1973 - William M Inge, US playwright (Come Back Little Sheba), dies at 60
1974 - Henry WFA, English duke of Gloucester/baron Culloden, dies at 74
1976 - Adolph Zukor, Hungarian/US fur trader/movie producer, dies at 103
1980 - Denys Morkel, S Afr cricketer (batsman scored 663 runs 1927-32), dies
1981 - Russell "Lucky" Hayden, actor (Judge Roy Bean), dies at 68
1982 - Addie "Micki" Harris, US singer (Shirelles-Mama Said), dies at 42
1982 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director, dies of drug overdose at 36
1985 - Bob Prince, sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball), dies at 68
1985 - George Chandler, actor (Lassie), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 87
1986 - Merle Miller, American biographer (b. 1919)
1987 - Elizabeth Hartman, actress (Fixer, Patch of Blue), dies at 45
1988 - Louis L'Amour, western writer (Bowdrie), dies at 80 of cancer
1989 - Richard Quine, director/actor (Babes on Broadway), dies at 68
1991 - Vercors, [Jean Bruller], French writer (Silence of Mer), dies
1992 - Hachidal Nakamura, composer (Sukiyaki), dies at 61 of heart failure
1992 - Otto FAH van Nispen, mayor of Pannerden/MP (KVP), dies at 85
1992 - Peter Von Zerneck, actor (Foreign Affair), dies at 84
1992 - Zak Hernández, American soldier (b. 1973)
1993 - Alexis Smith, actress (Constant Nymph), dies of cancer at 72
1993 - Alice Reinhart, entertainer, dies at 83
1993 - Richard Webb, actor (Captain Midnight), shoots himself at 77
1993 - Les Dawson, English Comedian (b. 1934)
1994 - Edward Kienholz, US sculptor (Back seat of a '38 Dodge), dies at 66
1994 - Mary Maxwell Gates, philanthropist/mother of Bill Gates, dies at 64
1995 - Ernest Anderson, publicist, dies at 85
1995 - Masaya Hanai, businessamn, dies at 82
1995 - Ron Morrisby, cricketer (prolific batsman for Tasmania 1931-52), dies
1996 - Hugh Burnton Mitchell, US senator, dies at 89
1996 - Jo Van Fleet, actress (Seize the Day, Cinderella), dies at 75