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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 190

1325 - Sheik Ibn Battuta begins 1st world trip, Tangiers to Mecca
1373 - Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest) signed in London
1392 - Assassination attempt on Pierre de Craon Van Clisson of France, fails
1525 - Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.
1547 - King Ferdinand of Austria subjects himself on Turkish sultan Suleiman
1611 - John Fabricius dedicates earliest sunspot publication
1625 - English king Charles I marries French princess Henriette
1633 - Charter for Maryland is given to Lord Cecil Baltimore
1655 - Adriana Nooseman-van de Bergh is 1st actress in Amsterdam theater
1665 - Sea battle at Lowestoft: English fleet beats Dutch
1707 - Hungary declares itself independent under Ferenc Rákóczi II
1721 - England signs Treaty of Madrid
1727 - Spain underwrites Preliminairy of Paris
1753 - Austria, England & Modena sign secret military treaty
1774 - Rhode Island becomes 1st colony to prohibit importation of slaves
1777 - Leonard Norcross patents a submarine diving suit
1777 - Marquis de Lafayette lands in US
1789 - Mrs Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream for dessert to Washington
1792 - King Louis XVI fires French government
1798 - Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in California
1825 - Walter Hunt patents safety pin
1828 - Simon Bolívar proclaimed dictator
1837 - 1st Mormon missionaries to British Isles leave Kirtland, Ohio
1855 - Opera "Les Vêpres Sicilenne" is produced (Paris)
1863 - Battle of Winchester VA
1863 - Samuel Butler publishes 1st part of "Erewhon," Christchurch, NZ
1863 - Skirmish at Berryville Virginia
1865 - Pres Johnson proclaims reconstruction confederate states
1866 - House passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights for blacks)
1868 - Oscar J Dunn (a black) is elected Lt Governor of Louisiana
1871 - Hurricane kills 300 in Labrador
1874 - 8th Belmont: G Barbee aboard Saxon wins in 2:39.5
1878 - Congress of Berlin meets to divide African colonization
1881 - The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
1886 - Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Vancouver, BC
1886 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM.
1888 - Congress creates Department of Labor
1889 - 2' of snow accumulates in Rawlins Wyoming
1889 - 23rd Belmont: W Hayward aboard Eric wins in 2:47.25
1890 - Eagle Ave in the Bronx is cut out & named
1895 - Emile Levassor wins 1st Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph)
1898 - Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital
1900 - China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners & Christians
1902 - Prussian Upper house gives 350 million marks to Poland
1905 - NY Giant Christy Mathewson 2nd no-hitter, beats Chic Cubs, 1-0
1907 - Lowest temp ever in 48 US states for June, 2°F in Tamarack Calif
1908 - Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1910 - Pilot Charles Hamilton makes 1st 1-day round-trip from NY to Phila
1910 - William D Crum, a SC physician, appointed minister to Liberia
1912 - Capt Albert Berry made the 1st parachute jump from an airplane
1912 - NY Giant Christy Mathewson wins his 300th game
1913 - 45th Belmont: Roscoe Troxler aboard Prince Eugene wins in 2:18
1913 - Yanks win 13th game of year after losing 36 games
1914 - 28th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Marie Wagner (62 16 61)
1917 - Germany bombs London
1917 - World War I: the deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.
1918 - Phillies & Cards tie 8-8 in 19 innings
1920 - Post Office says children could not be sent by parcel post
1921 - Yanks' pitcher Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs beating Tigers 11-8
1922 - Longest attack of hiccups begins Charlie Osborne, 98 hiccupped over 435 million times before it stops, He dies 11 months after it stops
1924 - Bene Berak Palestine founded
1924 - Gaston Doumergue elected as 1st protestant French premier
1924 - Yanks win by forfeit over Tigers, their 3rd forfeit win
1925 - 57th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard American Flag wins in 2:16.8
1927 - Ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles A Lindbergh to NYC
1930 - 1st Nudist Colony opens
1930 - 22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista Greece
1931 - 63rd Belmont: Charley Kurtsinger aboard Twenty Grand wins in 2:29.6
1932 - Air force's Marmaduke Brutal becomes leader of revolutionary junta
1932 - Great Britain & France sign peace treaty
1933 - 1st sodium vapor lamps installed (Schenectady NY)
1933 - Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation authorized
1933 - German Secret State Police (Gestapo) established
1935 - Hammond scores his 100th hundred, 116 for Gloucs v Somerset
1935 - James J Braddock beats Max Baer in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1936 - 2nd Belgian govt of Van Zealand forms
1937 - Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs against St Louis Browns
1937 - Stalin executes Rus officers Tuchachevski, Jakir, Putna & Uberevitch
1938 - Great Cricket innings of 232 by Stan McCabe v England at Trent Bridge
1938 - Jews injured & property destroyed in Przemyal Poland
1940 - Paris evacuates before German advance
1942 - 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km
1942 - FDR creates Office of War with Elmer Davis as head
1942 - Germany puts 4 saboteurs on Long Island
1942 - OSS, Office of Strategic Services, form
1942 - The United States opens its Office of War Information.
1944 - German counter attack on Villers-Bocage Normandy
1944 - Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) buzz-bomb attacks
1945 - Heerjansdam soccer team forms
1945 - Orokoe peninsula Okinawa captured, with 6,000 dead
1946 - 1st transcontinental round-trip flight in 1-day, California-Maryland
1946 - King Umberto II of Italy abdicates
1947 - 1st night game at Fenway Park (Red Sox 5, White Sox 3)
1948 - Babe Ruth's final farewell at Yankee Stadium, he dies Aug 16th
1950 - South African parliament accept "Groups Area Act"
1951 - UN arm forces reach Pyongyang Korea
1952 - Soviet fighters shoot Swedish Dakota down over East Sea, kills 8
1953 - 53rd US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 283 at Oakmont CC in Oakmont PA
1953 - 85th Belmont: Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 2:28.6
1953 - Alec Bedser takes 14-99 (7-55 & 7-44) v Australia

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 229

40 - Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general; conquered Wales, No England
823 - Charles II, the Bald, King of France (843-77)/emperor (875-77)
1539 - Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist/illustrator
1592 - Tobias Michael, composer
1612 - Karel van Croij, prince of Chimay/Duke of Aarschot
1627 - Fidel Molitor, composer
1649 - Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (d. 1706)
1701 - Angelo Antonio Caroli, composer
1736 - Henryk Klein, composer
1752 - Fanny Burney, England, author (Camille, Evelina)
1757 - Christian Ludwig Dieter, composer
1761 - Anton Wranitzky, composer
1763 - Jose B de Andrada e Silva, premier of Brazil
1765 - Anton Eberl, composer
1773 - Thomas Young, British philologist/physician (light interference)
1775 - Antoni Henryk Radziwill, composer
1775 - Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish politician (d. 1833)
1786 - Winfield Scott, army general (Union)/presidential candidate
1790 - Jose Antonio Peez, president of Venezuela
1795 - Thomas Arnold, English educator/historian (History of Rome)
1806 - Bernard ter Haar, Dutch vicar/poet/church historian
1809 - George Philip St Cooke, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1895
1820 - WF Hendrik, the Navigator, prince of the Netherlands/admiral
1821 - Albert, duc de Broglie, France, premier (1873-74, 1977)
1821 - Navy Gustavus Vasa Fox, Asst Secy (Union), died in 1883
1822 - Carl Schmidt, German chemist (d. 1884)
1823 - Gustave Paul Cluseret, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1900
1824 - Julius Eichberg, composer
1825 - Benjamin Jefferson Hill, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1880
1827 - Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (d. 1882)
1829 - Antonio Zamara, composer
1831 - James Clerk Maxwell, Scotish physicist (electromagnetic theory)
1854 - Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine)
1863 - Josef Venantius von Woss, composer
1863 - Lady Lucy Duff Gordon, English fashion designer (d. 1935)
1864 - Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist (d. 1922)
1864 - Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (d. 1939)
1865 - William Butler Yeats, Ireland, poet (Wild Swans at Coole-Nobel 1923)
1866 - Lambertus Zijl, sculptor (Trade scholarship)
1869 - Ede Poldini, composer
1874 - Leopoldo Lugones, Argentina, writer
1875 - Max d' Ollone, composer
1876 - William Sealey Gosset, English chemist, statistician (d. 1937)
1879 - George Gunn, cricketer (elegant English batsman 1907-30)
1879 - Johannes G Geelkerken, Dutch reformed vicar
1884 - Anton Drexler, founder of the German Worker's Party (d. 1942)
1884 - Gerald Gardner, British occultist (d. 1964)
1884 - Etienne Gilson, French philosopher (d. 1978)
1887 - Bruno Frank, writer
1888 - Fernando A Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa, Portuguese poet
1891 - Nell Craig, NJ, actress (Calling Dr Kildare, Queen of Sheba)
1892 - Basil Rathbone, Johannesburg S Africa, actor (Sherlock Holmes)
1893 - Dorothy Leigh Sayers, England, novelist (9 Taylors)
1894 - Isaak E Babel, Russian writer (Konarmija, Marija) [or Jul 13]
1894 - Jacques-Henri Lartigue, France, photographer
1894 - Mark van Doren, Ill, author (Happy Critic, Transients)
1894 - Dr. Leo Kanner, Austrian-American physician (d. 1981)
1897 - Paavo Johannes Nurmi, Finland, 5K runner (Olympic-gold-1920/24/28)
1898 - Eva J C Beck, actress (Resurrection)
1899 - Carlos Chavez, Mexico City, conductor/composer (Sinfonia India)
1900 - Ian Hunter, Capetown S Afr, actor (Dr Blood's Coffin, White Unicorn)
1901 - Lode Zielens, Flemish author/journalist (Obscure Blood)
1901 - Tage F Erlander, Swedish premier (1946-69)
1903 - Harold "Red" Grange, "Galloping Ghost" of football (Illinois Bears)
1903 - Philipp Kutev, composer
1905 - Doc Cheatham, jazz musician
1905 - Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji, cricketer (England 1929-31)
1906 - Bruno de Finetti, Italian mathematician (d. 1985)
1910 - Mary Whitehouse, British campaigner (d. 2001)
1910 - Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Galician writer (d. 1999)
1910 - Mary Wickes, American actress (d. 1995)
1911 - Albert Cleage, famous African
1911 - Luis W Alvarez, physicist (Nobel-1968) [or Jan 17]
1912 - Mary Wickes, St Louis Mo, actress (Dennis the Menace, Julia, Doc)
1912 - Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (d. 1943)
1913 - Ralph Edwards, Merino Colo, TV host (This is Your Life)
1913 - Etienne Leroux, major Afrikaans author.
1915 - J Donald Budge, US tennis player (1st to hold world's 4 major titles)
1916 - Mary Wickes, character actress (Sister Act)
1918 - Ben Johnson, Foraker Okla, actor (Chisum, Battle Force, Dillinger)
1918 - Ben Johnson, American actor (d. 1996)
1918 - Helmut Lent, German night fighter pilot (d. 1944)
1919 - Leif Kayser, composer
1920 - Eiji Okada, actor (Traffic Jam, Yakuza, Ugly American)
1920 - Knut Nordahl, Sweden, soccer player (Olympic-gold-1948)
1924 - Percy Rodrigues, Montreal Quebec, actor (Brainwaves)
1925 - Hans Fellner, bookseller
1926 - Geoffrey Finsberg, politician
1926 - Paul Lynde, Mt Vernon Ohio, comedian (Uncle Arthur-Bewitched)
1927 - Knut Wiggen, composer
1928 - Jean Villain, writer
1928 - John Forbes Nash, American mathematician, Nobel laureate
1929 - Alan Civil, English French horn player (d. 1989)
1930 - Ryszard Kukliński, Polish colonel (d. 2004)
1931 - Lachlan Macleay, USAF/pilot
1931 - Irvin D. Yalom, psychotherapist,Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University
1933 - Bob Litty, US
1933 - Tom King, British politician
1934 - Lady Annabel Goldsmith, English socialite
1935 - Aleksandr Alekseyevich Kiselyov, Russia, cosmonaut

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 83 of 83

1036 - Ali az-Zahir, caliph (b. 1005)
1142 - Godfried II, duke of Brabant/Neth-Lotharingen, dies
1231 - Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (b. 1195)
1256 - Tankei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1173)
1371 - Jan V of Virneburg, bishop of Utrecht (Pledge Vollenhove), dies
1550 - Johann Spangenberg, composer, dies at 66
1550 - Veronica Gambara, Italian poet, dies at 64
1612 - Charles van Croij, prince of Chimay, dies at 51
1636 - George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish politician (b. 1562)
1645 - Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman
1665 - Auke Stellingwerf, lt-admiral of Friesland, dies in battle at about 29
1665 - Egbert Meussen Kortenaer, vice-admiral, dies in battle at about 29
1665 - Jacob van Wassenaer, [Foggy Obdam], lt-admiral, dies in battle at 55
1713 - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian violinist/composer, dies at about 49
1749 - Jan F van Bloemen, [Orizonte], Flemish painter, dies at 87
1784 - Henry Middleton, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)
1810 - J G Seume, writer, dies at 47
1821 - [Izaak J] Alexander Gogel, minister of finance/patriot, dies at 55
1825 - Johan Peter Melchior, German sculptor, dies at 82
1839 - Martin-Pierre Dalvimare, composer, dies at 66
1865 - Cleaveland J Campbell, Union brig-general, dies at about 29
1873 - Angelo Maurizio Gaspare Mariani, composer, dies at 51
1881 - Josef Skoda, Czech physician (b. 1805)
1886 - Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, drowns, dies at 40
1898 - Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1840)
1904 - Nikiphoros Lytras, Greek painter (b. 1832)
1905 - Theodoros Delyannis, premier Greece, murdered
1905 - Tippo-Tip, [Hamed ben Mohammed], Zanzibar merchant, dies at about 67
1920 - Essad Pasja, Albanian military man/minister, murdered at peace confer
1927 - Henry CK "Clan" Petty-Fitzmaurice, gov of India (1888-94), dies at 82
1928 - Damaso Ledesma, composer, dies at 60
1930 - Henry Segrave, British racing driver who held land speed records and the water speed record (b. 1896)
1931 - Shibasaburo Kitasato, Japanese physician (b. 1851)
1939 - Arthur Coningham, cricketer (one Test for Australia 1894), dies
1939 - Volter A Kilpi, Finnish writer (Suljetuilla Porteilla), dies at 64
1943 - Kočo Racin, Macedonian poet (b. 1908)
1944 - Christopher Heseltine, cricketer (2 Tests for England 1895-96), dies
1946 - Edward Bowes, radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour), dies at 71
1952 - Max Pulver, writer, dies
1954 - Nikolai Obouhov, composer, dies at 62
1958 - Edwin Keppel Bennett, British writer (b. 1887)
1961 - Ben Jones, Missouri, horse trainer (Citation, Whirlaway), dies at 79
1962 - Eugene Goossens, British composer (Perseus), dies at 69
1965 - Martin Buber, German/Israel philosopher/zionist/theologist, dies at 87
1965 - David Drummond, Australian politician (b. 1890)
1972 - Clyde L Mcphatter, US singer (Drifters-Without Love), dies at 39
1972 - Dündar Taşer, Turkish nationalist (b. 1925)
1973 - Alvin Derold Etler, composer, dies at 60
1973 - Frantisek Suchy, composer, dies at 82
1976 - Don Bolles, US journalist (against Arizona), dies
1977 - Tom C Clark, former Supreme Court Justice (1949-67), dies in NY at 77
1977 - Matthew Garber, British child actor (Mary Poppins) (b. 1956)
1979 - Darla Hood, actress (Our Gang 1935-45), dies at 47
1982 - Abdul Aziz Khaled, King of Saudi-Arabia, dies at 69
1982 - Ken "Slasher" Mackay, cricketer (Aussie all-rounder 1956-63), dies
1982 - Peter Maivia, wrestler (b. 1935)
1984 - Marinus de Jong, Dutch composer, dies at 92
1986 - Benny Goodman, clarinetist/bandleader (King of Swing), dies at 77
1987 - Geraldine Page, actress (Blue & Gray), dies at 62
1989 - Fran Allison, actress (Kukla, Fran & Ollie), dies at 81
1993 - Donald "Deke" K Slayton, US major/astronaut (Apollo 18), dies at 69
1993 - Gérard Côté, Canadian runner (b. 1913)
1994 - Anne Aitken, student of Zen, dies at 83
1994 - Igor Youskevitch, dancer, dies at 82
1994 - James Pollack, US room designer, dies at 55
1994 - Nadia Gray, actress (Naked Runner, Maniac, Candide), dies at 71
1995 - David Parry, guitarist, dies 53
1996 - David Nicholls, priest/theologian/political theorist, dies at 60
1998 - Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (b. 1911)
2002 - John Hope, American meteorologist (b. 1919)
2003 - Malik Meraj Khalid, Former caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1916)
2004 - Dick Durrance, American skier (b. 1914)
2004 - Ralph Wiley, American journalist and writer (b. 1952)
2005 - Jonathan Adams, English actor (b. 1931)
2005 - Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician and writer (b. 1913)
2005 - David Diamond, American composer (b. 1915)
2005 - Lane Smith, American actor (b. 1936)
2006 - Charles Haughey, Taoiseach (b. 1925)
2007 - Walid Eido, Lebanese MP (b. 1942)
2008 - Tim Russert, American television host, NBC News Meet the Press moderator (b. 1950)
2008 - Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (b. 1926)
2009 - Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1962)
2009 - Fathi Yakan, Lebanese leader and Muslim cleric (b. 1933)