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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 192

524 - Battle at Vezerone: Burgundy beats France
524 - Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce.
996 - Pope Gregory V crowns Otto III Roman Catholic German emperor of Elzas
1128 - Battle of Akspoele: earl Willem of Normandy beats Diederik
1498 - Jews are expelled from Nurenberg Bavaria by Emperor Maximillian
1529 - Battle at Landriano: Leyva beats France
1547 - Great fire in Moscow
1572 - Garrison under Adrian of Swieten conquers Gouda
1582 - The Incident at Honnō-ji takes place in Kyoto, Japan.
1607 - 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown
1633 - Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse, & detest" his Copernican heliocentric views
1661 - Treaty of Kardis: Russia & Sweden sign peace treaty
1667 - Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter occupies Sheerness, England
1672 - Dutch pension advisor Johan de Witt seriously wounded
1672 - French troops under king Louis XIV occupy Utrecht
1684 - King Charles II revokes Massachusetts Bay Colony charter
1734 - In Montreal in New France (today primarily Quebec), a black slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city, is tortured and hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony that involved her disgrace and the amputation of a hand.
1749 - Pieter Steyn installed as pension advisor of Neth
1749 - Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
1768 - 1st US bachelor of medicine degree (Dr John Archer)
1788 - US Constitution goes into effect as NH is 9th to ratify
1788 - Vizille France population demands local parliament
1791 - Fleeing French King Louis XVI & family captured at Varennes-en-Argonne
1792 - Vancouver meets Spanish ships Sutil & Mexicana off Vancouver, BC
1805 - Great Stoneface Mt found in NH
1813 - Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria.
1821 - African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church organizes (NYC)
1824 - Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
1826 - Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
1834 - Cyrus Hall McCormick patents reaping machine
1849 - Battle at Waghausel: Prussian troops beat Baden rebels
1854 - First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands.
1858 - Louisiana chess prodigy Paul Morphy arrives in Europe
1863 - Battle at Upperville Virginia, 389 casualities
1864 - New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends.
1868 - Wagner's opera "Meistersinger von Nuernberg," premieres in Munich
1877 - The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons.
1879 - F W Woolworth opens 1st store (failed almost immediately)
1887 - Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria
1893 - 1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition)
1894 - Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company
1895 - British Roseberry govt falls
1898 - Guam becomes a territory of US
1900 - Dodgers score 7 in top of 11th to go ahead of Phillies, 20-13, In bottom of 11th Phillies stalls so umpire forfeits game to Dodgers
1903 - Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Mazarine Stone" takes place (BG)
1904 - Boston Herald tells of Red Sox trade "Dougherty as a Yankee," 1st known reference to NY club as Yankees (became Yankees in 1913)
1907 - 13th US Golf Open: Alec Ross shoots a 302 at Phila Cricket Club PA
1907 - E W Scripps founded United Press
1913 - Tiny Broadwick is 1st woman to parachute from an airplane
1915 - Anti-British revolt in South-Africa ends with arrest of Gen De Law
1915 - The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
1916 - Boston Rube Forster no-hits NY Yankees, 2-0
1916 - Mexican troops beat US expeditionary force under Gen Pershing
1917 - Hawaiian Red Cross forms
1919 - Bauer forms German govt
1919 - German Admiral von Reuter scuttles his own captured fleet
1921 - HSC '21 soccer team forms in Haaksbergen
1923 - Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using mail to defraud
1924 - NCRV, Dutch Christian Radio Society, forms
1930 - Ruth hits 3 HRs as Yanks blow 6-0 lead in 7th & lose 15-7
1932 - Heavyweight Jack Sharkey TKOs Max Schmeling (NYC)
1932 - Jack Sharkey beats Max Schmeling in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1933 - 1st Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans
1937 - French People's front govt-Blum falls
1938 - Baseball's Pinky Higgins gets 12th straight hit
1938 - Bradman scores 101* in 77 minutes, Australia v Lancashire
1939 - Doctors reveal Lou Gehrig has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
1939 - NY Yankees announce Lou Gehrig's retirement
1940 - German occupiers disband Dutch States-General/Council of State
1940 - The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia.
1941 - 2nd French troops occupies Damascus Syria
1941 - After winning 20 straight at Fenway, Lefty Grove loses to Browns
1942 - 129°F (54°C), Tirat Zevi, Israel (Asian record)
1942 - Jacqueline Kennedy's mother marries Hugh Auchincloss
1942 - President Roosevelt/premier Churchill arrives in Washington, DC
1942 - Rommel takes Tobruk in North Africa
1942 - Seinheuer throws female world record spear (47.24m)
1943 - Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit 30 dead
1944 - Very heavy bombing on Berlin
1945 - US defeat Japanese forces on Okinawa during WW II
1945 - World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends.
1946 - 10 die in fire at Baker Hotel, Dallas Texas
1946 - Bill Veeck buys Indians for $2.2 million
1946 - Fed judge rules Seattle club doesn't have to play returning serviceman
1948 - 1st stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I
1948 - 33 1/3 RPM LP record introduced (DR Peter Goldmark-Columbia Records)
1948 - Lord Mountbatten resigns as gov-gen of India
1948 - Rhodes conference on Israeli-Arab war opens
1948 - WNAC (now KNEV) TV channel 7 in Boston, MA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1948 - Columbia commits to 33 1/3 rpm records, plans to phase out 78's as Dr Peter Goldmark of CBS demonstrates "long playing record"
1950 - Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit
1951 - "17" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 180 performances
1951 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open
1951 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Evangelii praecones
1952 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open
1952 - Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce; later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
1954 - John Landy runs world record mile (3:58.0)
1956 - Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere
1956 - German DR frees almost 19,000 prisoners
1956 - Oriole Connie Johnson beats WS Jack Harshman (1-0) in dual 1 hitters

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 286

1002 - Leo IX, [Bruno count of Egesheim & Dagsburg], Pope (1049-54)
1002 - Pope Leo IX (d. 1054)
1226 - King Boleslaus V of Poland (d. 1279)
1528 - Maria of Spain, Holy Roman Empire Empress (1603)
1577 - Giovanni Del Turco, composer
1596 - Michael Fjodorovitsj, tsar of Russia (1613-45)/1st Romanov
1639 - Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (d. 1723)
1640 - Abraham Mignon, still life painter
1646 - Maria Francisca of Nemours, queen of Portugal (d. 1683)
1668 - Cajetan Kolberer, composer
1688 - Alexander Pope, English poet (Rape of the Lock)
1712 - Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (d. 1790)
1730 - Norinaga Moto'ori, Japanese scientist
1732 - Johann Christoph Frederic Bach, composer
1732 - Martha Washington, 1st, 1st lady (1789-97)
1740 - Hendrik van Wijn, Dutch archivist (Algemeen Rijksarchief)
1750 - Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet, French artist (d. 1818)
1759 - Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (d. 1817)
1763 - Pierre P Royer-Collard, French attorney/philosopher
1764 - Sidney Smith, British admiral (d. 1840)
1774 - Daniel D Tompkins, (D-R), 6th US vice-president (1817-25)
1781 - Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1840)
1782 - Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (d. 1852)
1788 - Princess Augusta of Bavaria (d. 1850)
1790 - Wilhelm Speyer, composer
1791 - Robert Napier, British engineer (d. 1876)
1798 - Wolfgang Menzel, German writer (d. 1873)
1805 - Karl Friedrich Curschmann, composer
1805 - Charles Thomas Jackson, American scientist, polymath (d. 1880)
1811 - Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (d. 1868)
1812 - Moses Hess, Jewish socialist and nationalist (d. 1875)
1817 - James Brewerton Ricketts, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1887
1818 - Ernst II, duke of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha (1844-93)/composer
1818 - Joseph Abel Haskin, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
1823 - Edward Elmer Potter, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1889
1823 - Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (d. 1873)
1825 - William Stubbs, English historian and Anglican bishop of Oxford (d. 1901)
1839 - Joaquim M Machado de Assic, Brazil, writer (Epitaph of a small winner)
1839 - Johannes P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician
1839 - John Decatur Barry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1867
1839 - Machado de Assis, writer
1844 - Ernest F Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer (1st railway Congo)
1851 - Daniel Carter Beard, US, organized 1st boy scout troop
1859 - Henry O Tanner, artist
1862 - Henry Holden Huss, composer
1862 - Johannes Schlaf, writer
1862 - Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian (d. 1943)
1863 - Max Wolf, German astronomer (d. 1932)
1864 - Heinrich Wölfflin, Swiss art historian (d. 1945)
1865 - Albert Herbert Brewer, composer
1868 - Edwin Stephen Goodrich, English zoologist (d. 1946)
1870 - Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (d. 1915)
1873 - Henry M Tomlinson, British writer (Sea & Jungle)
1876 - Willem H Keesom, physicist (helium vast)
1879 - Umberto Brunelleschi, Italian cartoonist/illustrator (Candide)
1880 - Arnold Gesell, American psychologist and pediatrician (d. 1961)
1880 - Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, British civil servant, industrialist, economist, statistician and banker (d. 1941)
1882 - Rockwell Kent, artist/painter/illustrator (Canterbury Tales)
1882 - Lluís Companys i Jover, Spanish politician (d. 1940)
1883 - Fjodor W Gladkow, Russian writer (Cement)
1883 - Fyodor Gladkov, Russian writer (d. 1958)
1884 - Claude "Auk" Auchinleck, British fieldmarshal North-Africa
1887 - Norman L. Bowen, Canadian petrologist (d. 1956)
1889 - Ralph Craig, American athlete (d. 1972)
1890 - Frank Sherman Land, The order of DeMolay founder (d. 1959)
1891 - Hermann Scherchen, Berlin Germany, conductor (Nature of Music)
1891 - Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect (Nuove Struttura)
1892 - Reinhold Niebuhr, US, theologian (Nature & Destiny of Man)
1893 - Alois Hába, Czech composer (d. 1973)
1894 - Milward Kennedy, British public servant and mystery writer (d. 1968)
1896 - Charles B. Momsen, American inventor (d. 1967)
1898 - Donald C. Peattie, American botanist and writer (d. 1964)
1899 - Pavel Haas, composer
1900 - Gunnar Ek, composer
1902 - Wilhelm Maler, composer
1902 - Howie Morenz, professional ice hockey player (d. 1937)
1903 - Al[bert] Hirschfield, St Louis Mo, cartoonist (NINA, NY Times)
1903 - Dorothy Stickney, Dickinson ND, actress (And So They Were Married)
1903 - Helene Costello, dancer/actress (Love Toy)
1903 - Louis Krasner, violinist
1903 - Al Hirschfeld, American cartoonist (d. 2003)
1905 - Jacques Goddot, French publisher (Tour de France)
1905 - Jean Paul Sartre, existentialist/writer (Le Mur, Nobel 1964; declined)
1906 - Luis Maria Millet, composer
1906 - Harold Spina, American composer (d. 1997)
1908 - William Frankena, American philosopher (d. 1994)
1909 - Kurt Schwaen, composer
1910 - Bela Tardos, composer
1910 - Charles Jones, composer
1910 - Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Soviet poet (d. 1971)
1912 - Mary McCarthy, US, novelist (Group)
1913 - Irving Shulman, author/screenwriter
1914 - Jan Decadt, composer
1914 - William Vickrey, economist
1916 - Joe Bamford, British manufacturer/multi-millionaire
1918 - James Bysse Joll, historian
1918 - Eddie Lopat, American baseball player (d. 1992)
1919 - Gérard Pelletier, French Canadian journalist, politician, and diplomat (d. 1997)
1919 - Paolo Soleri, Italian-born American architect
1920 - Helen Cattanach, British Army Nursing Service (QARANC)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 87 of 87

223 - Liu Bei, Emperor of Shu Han (b. 161)
524 - Chlodomir, king of the France to Orleans (511-24), dies at about 28
1205 - Enrico Dandolo, Doge of Venice (b. 1107)
1208 - Philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen, Roman-German King, dies
1208 - Philip of Swabia, King of Germany and duke of Swabia (b. 1177)
1305 - King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (b. 1271)
1377 - Edward III, king of England (1327-77), dies
1421 - Jean Le Maingre, Marshal of France (b. 1366)
1527 - Niccolo Machiavelli, Florentine statesman/author, dies at 57
1529 - John Skelton, English poet, dies at about 69
1547 - Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485)
1573 - Antonie van Burgundy, mayor of sealand, dies in battle
1582 - Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1534)
1591 - Aloysius [Luigi] van Gonzaga, Prince/Italian Jesuit saint, dies
1621 - Kryštof Harant, Polish soldier, writer, and composer (b. 1564)
1652 - Inigo Jones, English architect (b. 1573)
1738 - Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English statesman (b. 1674)
1824 - Étienne Aignan, French writer (b. 1773)
1865 - Frances Adeline Seward, wife of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward (b. 1824)
1874 - Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1814)
1876 - Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican general (took Alamo), dies at 79
1884 - Alexander, prince/last male descendent of Johan W Friso, dies
1887 - Adolf Schimon, composer, dies at 67
1893 - Leland Stanford, American business tycoon and founder of Stanford University
1900 - Polibo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 69
1908 - Nikolai A Rimski-Korssakov, Russian composer (Sheherazade), dies at 64
1913 - Stefan O Iosif, Romanian poet (Beautiful Irine), dies at 37
1914 - Glauco Velasquez, composer, dies at 30
1914 - Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
1925 - Jan H Leopold, poet/classical (translated Omar Khayyam), dies at 60
1934 - [James] Thorne Smith, US, sci-fi author (Stray Lamb, Turnabout)
1940 - Edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist, dies
1940 - Hendrik Marsman, Dutch poet/writer/critic, drowns at 40
1940 - W Hasenclever, writer, dies at 49
1940 - Smedley Butler, American Marine general (b. 1881)
1944 - Jan Bonekamp, Dutch resistance fighter/friend of Hannie Schaft, dies
1945 - Josef Hora, Czech writer/poet (Sinking Shadows), dies at 53
1946 - Heinrich Kaminski, composer, dies at 59
1951 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (b. 1867)
1954 - Gideon Sundback, American inventor, perfected the zipper (b. 1880)
1957 - Don McBride, actor (Mr Clyde-My Friend Flicka), dies at 68
1957 - Frantisek Kupka, Czech writer, dies at 85
1964 - Andrew Goodman, US civil rights activist, murdered at 20
1964 - James Chaney, US civil rights activist, murdered at 21
1964 - Michael Schwerner, US civil rights activist, murder at 21
1965 - Bernard M Baruch, pres advisor (termed "Cold War"), dies at 94
1968 - Ruth St Denis, ballerina (Dances of the 5 Senses), dies at 91
1969 - Maureen "Little Mo" Connolly, 1st woman grand slam (1953), dies at 34
1970 - Achmed Sukarno, 1st president of Indonesia (1945-67), dies at 68
1972 - Seth Bingham, composer, dies at 90
1973 - Frank Leahy, football coach (Notre Dame), dies at 64
1975 - Heinz Lau, composer, dies at 49
1976 - Margaret Herrick, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences director (b. 1902)
1979 - Julian Orchard, actor (Perfect Friday, Bless this House), dies at 49
1979 - Angus Maclise, American mystic, shaman, musician, and composer (b. 1938)
1981 - Gunnar Ek, composer, dies on 81st birthday
1983 - Anton G J van de Velde, Flemish writer/director (Tijl), dies at 87
1985 - Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1901)
1986 - Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer and author (b. 1923)
1987 - Madman Muntz, American entrepreneur, businessman, electrical engineer, TV commercial actor (b. 1914)
1988 - Robert Lee "Bobby" Dodd, US football coach
1989 - Lee Quencey Calhoun, hurdler (Olympic-gold-1956, 60), dies at 56
1989 - Simon van Collem, Dutch journalist/TV host, dies at 70
1992 - Li Xiannian, Chinese President (1983-88), dies
1992 - Thomas Whitfield, gospel vocalist, dies of heart attack at 38
1993 - Frank Moro, entertainer, dies
1993 - Jerry Strivelli, actor (Out for Justice, Lock Up), dies at 61
1993 - Ticho Parly, Danish tenor (b. 1928)
1994 - Mark Robert Isfeld, combat Engineer, dies at 31
1995 - Kenneth Henry Lowry Lamb, broadcaster, dies at 71
1995 - Tristan Jones, sailor, dies at 71
1997 - Art Prysock, jazz musician, dies at 68
1997 - Shintaro Katsu, Japanese entertainer (b. 1931)
1997 - Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Mexican labour leader (b. 1900)
1998 - Al Campanis, American baseball executive (b. 1916)
1999 - Kami, Japanese drummer (Malice Mizer) (b. 1973)
2000 - Alan Hovhaness, American composer (b. 1911)
2001 - John Lee Hooker, American musician (b. 1916)
2001 - Carroll O'Connor, American actor (b. 1924)
2001 - Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress (b. 1942)
2003 - Roger Neilson, Canadian ice hockey coach (b. 1934)
2003 - Leon Uris, American writer (b. 1924)
2003 - Jason Moran, Australian criminal (b. 1967)
2004 - Leonel Brizola, Brazilian politician (b. 1922)
2005 - Jaime Cardinal Sin, Filipino Catholic Archbishop of Manila (b. 1928)
2007 - Bob Evans, American restaurateur (b. 1918)
2008 - Scott Kalitta, American drag racer (b. 1962)