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Historical Events

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1276 - While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Song Dynasty court hold the coronation ceremony for the young prince Zhao Shi, making him Emperor Duanzong of Song.
1381 - Richard II in England meets leaders of Peasants' Revolt on Blackheath. The Tower of London is stormed by rebels who enter without resistance.
1535 - Karel V's fleet sails under Andrea Doria to Tunis
1541 - Duke Willem van Gulik of Gelre marries Jeanne d'Albret
1565 - Catharina de Medici & Duke of Alva discuss Calvinism
1597 - At 4:30 AM Willem Barents leaves Novaya Zemlya for Netherlands
1615 - Jacques Le Maire sail to Zuidland/Terra Australis
1623 - 1st breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev Gerville Pooley, Va files against Cicely Jordan, he loses
1634 - Russia & Poland sign Peace treaty of Polianov
1642 - 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts
1645 - Battle at Naseby Leicester: New Model army under Oliver Cromwell & Thomas Fairfax beats royalists
1647 - English New Model-army installed
1658 - Battle at Dunes: English & French fleet beat Spanish
1673 - Battle at Schooneveld: Michiel de Ruyter beats French/English fleet
1755 - 1e edition of Dr Johnsons "Dictionary"
1775 - US Army founded
1777 - Continental Congress adopts Stars & Stripes replacing Grand Union flag
1789 - Capt William Blighs reaches Timor
1800 - Battle of Marengo (Alessandria): Bonaparte vs Austria
1807 - Emperor Napoleon I's French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.
1821 - Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Ismail Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom.
1822 - Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables".
1834 - Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine
1834 - Isaac Fischer Jr patents sandpaper
1834 - Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont
1839 - 1st Henley Regatta held
1841 - 1st Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario
1846 - Belgian Liberal Party forms
1846 - California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma
1846 - California declares independence from Mexico
1847 - Robert von Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner
1850 - Fire destroys part of SF
1861 - Harpers Ferry evacuated by rebels in face of McClellan's advance
1863 - Battle of 2nd Winchester, Virginia
1864 - Congress rules Black soldiers must receive equal pay
1864 - US Union warship USS Kearsarge appears at Cherbourg
1870 - All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer 1st loss in 130 games
1872 - Trade unions are legalised in Canada.
1876 - 1st player to hit for cycle (George Hall, Phila Athletics)
1876 - California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise
1880 - 14th Belmont: L Hughes aboard Grenada wins in 2:47
1881 - Player piano patented by John McTammany Jr (Cambridge, Mass)
1898 - France signs Niger Convention
1900 - Hawaiian Territorial Government begins
1900 - The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
1901 - 1st golf championship is played
1904 - Dutch troops occupies Kuto Reh, Sumatra, killing all inhabitants
1906 - Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia
1907 - Govt of Transvaal sends home 50,000 Chinese day workers
1907 - Norway restricts woman's voting rights
1907 - Norway adopts female suffrage.
1908 - Fourth German Navy Bill is passed authorising the financing the building of another four major warships.
1917 - 1e German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East-London
1917 - Gen Pershing & his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I
1919 - 1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock & Brown) leaves Nfld
1922 - 5th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Oakmont CC Oakmont Pa
1922 - Charles Hoffner wins PGA golf tournament
1922 - Pres Harding is 1st US president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore
1923 - Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane)
1924 - Test Cricket debuts of Herbert Sutcliffe & Maurice Tate v S Africa
1924 - WOKO-AM radio begins transmitting from Albany NY
1926 - 2nd French Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Mary K Browne (61 60)
1928 - Republican Natl Convention, met in KC, nominated Herbert Hoover
1929 - Prussia & Vatican sign Concord
1930 - VVGZ soccer team forms in Zwijndrecht
1931 - French "St Philbert" overturns off St Nazaire France, drowns 450
1931 - Reinhard Heydrichs 1st meeting with Himmler
1932 - German govt of von Papen forms
1933 - Lou Gehrig & Joe McCarthy thrown out of game, McCarthy suspended 3 games but Gehrig isn't, so he continues his streak at 1,249 games
1934 - Hitler & Mussolini meet in Vienna
1934 - Max Baer KO's Primo Carnera in 11 for HW box champ in Long Island City
1934 - WOQ-AM in KC Missouri goes off the air
1935 - Chaco War between Bolivia & Paraguay ends
1936 - Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens
1938 - Bradman scores 144* in 1st Test Cricket at Trent Bridge
1938 - Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin
1938 - Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal (kid books author)
1940 - Auschwitz concentration camp opens (3 million killed there)
1940 - German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral
1940 - German forces occupied Paris during WW II
1941 - Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita KS
1941 - Estonia loses 11,000 inhabitants as a consequence of mass deportations into Siberia
1942 - 1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport Ct
1942 - Anne Frank begins her diary
1942 - French govt of Reynaud resigns
1942 - Walt Disney's "Bambi" animated movie is released Thumper's 1st job
1944 - 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan
1944 - General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles France
1946 - Canadian Library Association established
1948 - Klemens Gottwald becomes president of Czechoslovakia
1949 - State of Vietnam forms, Bao Dai installed as Emperor
1949 - WROC TV channel 8 in Rochester, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1951 - "Courtin' Time" opens at National Theater NYC for 37 performances
1951 - 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau
1952 - 52nd US Golf Open: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Northwood Club Dallas
1952 - Boston Brave Warren Spahn strikes out 18 Cubs in 15 innings
1952 - General strike in Tunisia
1952 - Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:20:42.2)
1952 - Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub Nautilus
1952 - Braves Warren Spahn ties NL record of Jim Whitney with 18 strikeouts against the Cubs in 15-inning, 3-1 loss

Famous Birthdays

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1479 - Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Italian poet (d. 1552)
1529 - Ferdinand, archduke (Austria)/mayor (Bohemia)
1657 - Cornelis Cruys, [Niels Olsen Creutz], Norwegian/Dutch admiral
1691 - Jan Francisci, composer
1730 - Antonio Maria Gasparo Giaccino Sacchini, composer [or Jul 23 1734]
1736 - Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist (formulated Coulomb's Law)
1760 - Candido Jose Ruano, composer
1763 - Johannes Simon Mayr, composer
1769 - Dominique Della-Maria, composer
1796 - Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (d. 1866)
1801 - Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1868)
1805 - Robert Anderson, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1871
1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
1812 - Fernando Wood, New York City mayor (d. 1881)
1819 - Henry J. Gardner, 23rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1892)
1820 - John Bartlett, US, editor (compiled Familiar Quotations)
1821 - Jozef Lies, Flemish painter
1835 - Nikolay Rubinstein, composer
1836 - Thomas Wilberforce Egan, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1844 - Edouard Naville, Swiss egyptologist
1854 - Frederik Rung, composer
1855 - Robert Marion La Follette, Wisconsin, pres candidate (Progressive)
1856 - Andrey Markov, Russia, mathematician (Markov Chain)
1864 - Alois Alzheimer, Germany, psychiatrist/pathologist (Alzheimer Disease)
1865 - Auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx, composer
1868 - Karl Landsteiner, Austria, immunologist/pathologist (Nobel 1930)
1870 - Sophia of Prussia, consort of Constantine I of Greece (d. 1932)
1871 - Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (d. 1946)
1874 - Edward Bowes, radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour)
1877 - Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano (d. 1970)
1882 - Ion Antonescu, fascist premier/dictator of Roemenia
1882 - Michael Zadora, composer
1883 - Lucien Cerfaux, Belgian bible expert
1884 - John McCormack, Irish/US singer (Irish folksongs)
1889 - Victor van Straelen, Flemish biologist/palaeontologist
1890 - May Allison, American actress (d. 1989)
1893 - Siggie Nordstrom, Swedish singer (The Nordstrom Sisters) (d. 1980)
1894 - Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1924)
1895 - Cliff Edwards, "Ukulele Ike", Hannibal Missouri, singer (54th Street Revue, When You Wish Upon a Star)
1895 - Louis Finkelstein, US historian/theologist (Pharizees)
1895 - Jack Adams, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and general manager (d. 1968)
1899 - Kawabata Yasunari, Zen writer (Nobel Literature 1968)
1900 - June Walker, IL, actress (War Nurse, Unforgiven)
1903 - Arthur William Raynes McDonald, radar Pioneer/pilot
1904 - Benno Ammann, composer
1906 - Carl Esmond, Wien (Vienna) Austria, actor (Smash-Up)
1906 - Gil Lamb, Minneapolis, actor (Hit Parade of 1947, Riding High)
1906 - Margaret Bourke-White, photographer/innovator/correspondent
1907 - René Char, French poet/painter
1907 - Nicolas Bentley, British writer and illustrator (d. 1978)
1907 - Chico Landi, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1989)
1908 - John Scott Trotter, Charlotte NC, orch leader (George Gobel Show)
1909 - Burl Ives, Hunt Ill, folk singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
1910 - Rudolf Kempe, Niederpoyritz Germany, conductor (Tonhalle Orch 1965-72)
1912 - E Cuyler Hammond, scientist (1st to link smoking with lung cancer)
1914 - Pauline Moore, American actress (d. 2001)
1916 - Geoffrey Goodwin, British professor of international relations
1916 - Karl-Rudi Griesbach, composer
1917 - Al "Lash" LaRue, Gretna La, actor (Lash of the West, Wyatt Earp)
1917 - Atle Selberg, Norwegian mathematician
1918 - Carter Harman, composer
1918 - Dorothy McGuire, Omaha Neb, actress (Old Yeller, Summer Magic)
1918 - Leroy T Walker, Atlanta Ga, US Olympic consultant (1960, 68, 72)
1919 - Sam Wanamaker, Chic Ill, actor (Holocaust, Competition, Raw Deal)
1920 - Helmer-Rayner Sinisalo, composer
1921 - Gene Barry, NYC, actor (Bat Masterson, Name of the Game, Burke's Law)
1922 - Arthur Jacobs, musicologist
1922 - Kevin Roche, Irish architect
1923 - Donald Smith, cricketer (uneventful England opening batsman 1957)
1923 - Jack Hayward, Brit financier (Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club)
1923 - Theodore Bloomfield, composer
1924 - Solouchin, writer
1925 - Barbara Hammer Avedon, scriptwriter
1925 - David Bache, designer
1925 - Pierre Salinger, newsman (ABC)/press secretary (John Kennedy)
1926 - Hermann Kant, writer
1926 - Don Newcombe, baseball player
1928 - Ernesto "Che" Guevara Serna, Arg/Cuba revolutionary (Cuba)
1929 - Alan Davidson, cricketer (mighty Australian lefty quick all-rounder)
1929 - Cy Coleman, [Seymour Kaufman], songwriter (Witchcraft, Sweet Charity)
1929 - Cy Coleman, American composer (d. 2004)
1931 - Marla Gibbs, Chicago Ill, actress (Florence-Jeffersons, Mary-227)
1932 - Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, composer
1932 - Joe Arpaio, sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona
1933 - Jerzy Kosinski, novelist (Painted Bird, Being There)
1933 - Vladislav Rastorotsky, Soviet gymnastics coach
1935 - Jan Nijland, cattle breeder/Dutch MP (CDA)
1936 - Renaldo "Obie" Benson, singer (The Four Tops) (d. 2005)
1936 - Irmelin Sandman Lilius, Finnish actor
1937 - Jørgen Leth, Danish film director
1939 - Steny H Hoyer, (Rep-D-MD, 1981- )
1939 - John F. MacArthur, American evangelist
1940 - Ben Davidson, LA Calif, actor (Rhino-Ball Four, Code R)
1940 - Bill Baker, (Rep-R-California)
1940 - Jack Bannon, LA Calif, actor (Art-Lou Grant, Trauma Center)
1940 - John Mizelle, composer
1941 - John Edgar Widerman, US writer
1943 - F James Sensenbrenner, (Rep-R-Wisconsin)
1943 - Muff [Mervyn] Winwood, singer (Spencer Davis Group-Gimme Some Lovin)
1943 - W J [Billy] Tauzin, (Rep-D-LA, 1980- )

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 116

1144 - Aboe 'l-Kasim Mahmoed ibn Omar al-Zapowersjari, theologist, dies at 69
1161 - Emperor Qinzong of China (b. 1100)
1349 - Gunther Van Schwarzburg, German anti-king 1349, dies at about 44
1381 - Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
1497 - Giovanni Borgia, Duke of Borgia (b. 1474)
1544 - Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1489)
1548 - Carpentras, French composer
1594 - Orlandus Lassus, composer (Prophet sybillarum), dies at about 61
1594 - Roland de Lassus, composer, dies
1662 - Henry Vane the Younger, British Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1613)
1674 - Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French writer (b. 1600)
1703 - Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (b. 1625)
1709 - Gottfried Wegner, composer, dies at 65
1727 - Cornelis Cruys, Norwegian/Dutch admiral, dies at 70
1744 - Andre Campra, composer, dies at 83
1750 - Franz Anton Maichelbeck, composer, dies at 47
1752 - Charles-Antoine Coypel, French carpet designer, dies at 57
1752 - Daniel Marot, French/Neth, architect/engraver, dies at about 88
1789 - Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer, dies at 61
1794 - Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Viceroy of Ireland (b. 1718)
1800 - Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French military leader (b. 1768)
1800 - Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general (b. 1753)
1801 - Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary War general, dies in London
1825 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French architect (b. 1754)
1828 - Charles Augustus, grand duke of Saxon-Weimar-Eisenach, dies
1828 - Charles, Duke of Prussia, dies at 70
1837 - Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer (b. 1798)
1864 - Leonidas Polk, general, killed in action in Battle of Pine Mt
1873 - Friedrich von Raumer, German historian/parliamentarian, dies at 92
1883 - Edward FitzGerald, English poet (b. 1809)
1885 - Agustin Bethencourt, Venezuelan publisher on Curacao, dies at 58
1886 - Alexandr Ostrovsky, Russian dramatist (b. 1823)
1891 - Nicolo Gabrielli, composer, dies at 77
1907 - A Adolf Daens, Belgian priest/politician (CVP), dies
1907 - Bob McLeod, cricketer (bro of Charlie, 6 Tests for Aus 1891-93), dies
1908 - Frederick Arthur Stanley, Governor general of Canada (b. 1841)
1911 - Johan Severin Svendsen, composer, dies at 70
1916 - João Simões Lopes Neto, Brazilian writer (b. 1865)
1920 - Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian, dies
1926 - Mary Cassatt, American artist (b. 1843)
1927 - Johanna C P Barbiers, actress (Voddenraper of Paris), dies at 79
1927 - Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (b. 1894)
1927 - Jerome K. Jerome, British author (b. 1859)
1928 - Emmeline Pankhurst-Goulden, English feminist, dies
1932 - Dorimène Roy Desjardins, Canadian business pioneer
1933 - Albert Ross Parsons, composer, dies at 85
1936 - Gilbert K Chesterton, English writer/poet (Father Brown), dies
1938 - William W Campbell, US astronomer (Stellar Motions), dies at 76
1941 - Pieter J Kromsigt, theologist/publicist (John Knox), dies at 74
1944 - Lubor Niederle, Czech archaeologist/slavist, dies at 78
1944 - Robert H Iseley, US pilot/lt-comdr (Saipan), dies in battle
1946 - John Logie Baird, Scottish television pioneer (b. 1888)
1948 - Ernst Henrik Ellberg, composer, dies at 79
1948 - John Blackwood McEwen, composer, dies at 80
1951 - Hendrik Baels, Belgian politician, dies at 73
1960 - Ana Pauker-Rabensohn, Romanian Foreign Minister (1945-52), dies at 67
1960 - Vladimir Nikolayevich Kryukov, composer, dies at 57
1962 - Anna Sleasers, first Boston Strangler victim
1962 - Mykhaylo Verikivsky, composer, dies at 65
1964 - [Hei]ko E Arnoldi, actor/director (3 Drops of Water), dies at 81
1965 - Guido Guerrini, composer, dies at 74
1967 - Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (b. 1897)
1968 - Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Swedish opera composer (Aniara), dies at 51
1968 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet/essayist (Nobel 1959), dies at 66
1974 - Knud Christian Jeppesen, composer, dies at 81
1975 - Pablo Antonio, Filipino modernist architect (b. 1902)
1977 - Alan Reed, actor (Fred Allen)/voice (Fred Flintstone), dies at 69
1977 - Robert Middleman, actor (Barney-Monroes), dies at 66
1977 - Robert Middleton, American actor (b. 1911)
1978 - Theodore Karyotakis, composer, dies at 74
1982 - Marie Rambert, [Cyviam Ramberg], Polish/British ballerina, dies at 94
1982 - Marjorie Bennett, actress (Blossom-Dobie Gillis), dies at 87 of cancer
1986 - Alan Jay Lerner, Broadway librettist, dies in NY at 67
1986 - Jorge Luis Borges, Arg author (Book of Sand), dies in Geneva at 86
1986 - Marlin Perkins, TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom), dies at 81
1987 - Les Favell, cricketer (757 runs for Australia), dies
1989 - Pete de Freitas, drummer (Echo & the Bunnyman), dies
1990 - Erna Berger, German soprano (b. 1900)
1991 - Joy Finzi, [Joyce A Black], British painter, dies at 84
1991 - Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (A passage to India), dies at 83
1993 - Vincent T Hamlin, cartoonist (Alley Oop), dies at 93
1994 - Denys Hay, historian, dies at 78
1994 - Harry "Little" Caesar, blues singer/actor (City Heat), dies at 66
1994 - Henry Mancini, composer (Pink Panther, Moon River), dies at 70
1994 - Lionel Grigson, professor of Jazz, dies at 52
1994 - Marianne Kunvari, writer, dies at 81
1994 - Mark Alexander Lees, rowing Coach, dies at 38
1994 - Michel Vitold, Russian/French actor (Madame et le Mort), dies at 78
1994 - Simon Prior, British auto maker, dies of injuries
1995 - Anthony Joly de Lotbiniere, television producer, dies at 69
1995 - Gesualdo Bufalino, novelist, dies at 74
1995 - Gordon Greig, journalist, dies at 63
1995 - Roger Joseph Zelazny, sci-fi writer, dies of cancer at 60
1995 - Rory Gallagher, Irish rock guitarist (See Here), dies at 47
1996 - Ted Nightingale, former colonial governor, dies at 91
1996 - Thomas Edward Montgomery, drummer, dies at 73
1997 - Henry C Gordon, USAF/astronaut (Dynasoar), dies at 71
1997 - Richard Jaeckel, actor (Starman, The Dark), dies of cancer at 70
1997 - Tesslynn O'Cull, American child abuse victim (b. 1995)
1999 - Bernie Faloney, professional football player (b. 1932)