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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 172

767 - St Paul I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.
1119 - Battle of Sarmada - Emir Ilghazi defeat French Crusaders
1245 - 1st Council of Lyons (13th ecumenical council) opens
1389 - Ottomans defeat Serbian army in the bloody Battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe (see Vidovdan).
1461 - Edward IV crowned king of England
1485 - Gent/Brugge/Ieper recognize Maximilian of Austria as regent of Neth
1519 - King Carlos I elected Roman Catholic German emperor Charles V
1524 - Duke van Bourbon occupies Province
1575 - Spanish troops conquer Buren
1583 - Duke French van Valois returns to France
1593 - Earl Mauritius conquerors Geertruidenberg
1629 - Peace of Ales: Rights of French huguenots limited
1635 - French colony of Guadeloupe established in Caribbean
1651 - Battle of Beresteczko between Poles and Ukrainians starts.
1675 - Battle at Fehrbellin: Brandenburgs army beats Sweden
1748 - Riot after public execution in Amsterdam, 200+ killed
1762 - 1st reported counterfeiting attempt (Boston)
1762 - Russian tsarina Catharina II grabs power
1770 - Quakers open a school for blacks in Philadelphia
1776 - Charleston, SC repulses British sea attack
1778 - Battle of Monmouth, NJ (Gen Washington beats Clinton)
1778 - Mary Ludwig Hayes "Molly Pitcher" aids American patriots
1807 - British troops lands at Ensenada, Argentina
1820 - Tomato is proven non-poisonous
1832 - Gerrit Moll measures noise of guns
1838 - Britain's Queen Victoria crowned in Westminster Abbey
1838 - The coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
1841 - The Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris premieres the ballet Giselle
1855 - The Sigma Chi Fraternity was founded at Miami University
1859 - 1st dog show held (Newcastle-on-Tyne, England)
1861 - Leipzig Observatory discovers short-period (6.2 yrs) Comet d'Arrest
1862 - Day 4 of 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station/Garnett's Farm, VA
1865 - The Army of the Potomac is disbanded
1869 - Amsterdam typographer strike
1874 - Freedmen's Bank closes
1880 - Ned Kelly the Australian bushranger captured at Glenrowan.
1887 - Phillies most lopsided shut-out beating Indianapolis 24-0
1892 - Phillies tie club record of 16 straight victories
1894 - Labor Day established as a federal employees holiday
1895 - El Salvador, Honduras & Nicaragua form Central American Union
1897 - Marquis C de Bonchamps' expedition reaches Gore Ethiopia
1902 - Congress authorizes Louisiana Purchase Expo $1 gold coin
1902 - US buys concession to build Panama canal from French for $40 million
1904 - International Anti-Military Cooperation (IAMV) forms in Amsterdam
1904 - The SS Norge Runs aground and sinks
1907 - Nationals steal a record 13 bases off catcher Branch Rickey
1909 - 1st French air show, Concours d'Avation opens
1911 - Joseph Caillaux forms govt in France
1914 - Austria invades Siberia (WW I)
1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip , the casus belli of World War I.
1917 - Potato entrepreneurs begins in Amsterdam
1917 - Raggedy Ann doll invented
1918 - 1st flight between Hawaiian Islands
1919 - Carl Mazes pitches a complete doubleheader against NY Yankees
1919 - Harry S Truman marries Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence
1919 - Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed in France
1923 - Dodgers lost 7-0 lead, as Phillies score 8 in bottom of 9th
1923 - Queen Wilhelmina & Prince Henry for state visit to London
1924 - Test cricket umpire debut for Frank Chester, v South Africa at Lord's
1924 - Tornado strikes Sandusky Ohio & Lorain Ohio, killing 93
1928 - Alfred E Smith (NY-Gov) nominated for president at Dem Convention
1928 - Friedrich Schmiedl attempted rocket mail in Austria (unsuccessful)
1930 - 1st night game in Detroit at newly built Hamtramck Stadium as Negro League Detroit Stars take on KC Monarchs
1934 - Hitler flies to Essen (Night of Long Knifes)
1935 - Earl Averill's consecutive-game streak ends at 673
1935 - FDR ordersa federal gold vault to be built at Fort Knox Kentucky
1936 - The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
1938 - Bradman scores 102* in drawn 2nd Test cricket at Lord's
1939 - Joe Louis TKOs Tony Galent in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
1939 - Pan Am opens southern route transatlantic air service (Dixie Clipper)
1939 - Yanks hit 13 HRs, sweep A's 23-2 & 10-0
1940 - "Quiz Kids?" premieres on radio
1940 - Romania cedes Bessarabia to Soviet Union
1941 - German & Romanian soldiers kill 11,000 Jews in Kishinev
1941 - German troops occupy Galicia Poland
1942 - Col-gen Von Hoth' 6th Pantser enters Voronezj
1942 - Dumont TV network begins (WABD NY)
1945 - Polish Provisional Govt of National Unity set up by Soviets
1946 - Enrico de Nicola becomes 1st pres of Italy
1946 - Permanent radio play-by-play of Cleve Indians games begins
1947 - "Temptation (Tim-Tayshun) by Red Ingle with Jo Stafford hits #1
1948 - US/British airlift to West-Berlin begins
1950 - "Michael Todd's Peep Show" opens at Winter Garden NYC for 278 perfs
1950 - North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea in opening phase of the Korean War
1951 - "Amos 'n' Andy" premieres on CBS TV
1953 - 8th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls
1954 - 111°F (44°C) at Camden, South Carolina (state record)
1956 - 1st atomic reactor built for private research operates Chicago Ill
1956 - Riots break out in Poznan Poland, 38 die
1957 - Reds' fans stuff ballot box, electing 8 Reds as All Star starters
1957 - Frick overrules & names Stan Musial, Willie Mays, & Hank Aaron to team
1958 - Brazil becomes world soccer champ in Sweden
1958 - Nancy Ramey swims world record 100m (1:09.6)
1959 - Phils Wally Post is only outfielder to throw out 2 runners in an inning twice (Losing to Giants 6-0)
1960 - 10.40" (26.42 cm) of rainfall, Dunmor, Kentucky (state 24-hour record)
1961 - Phils & SF set then record longest night game (5h11m) 7-7 15 inn tie
1962 - Thalidomide drug banned in Netherlands
1963 - Belaunde Terry inaugurated as pres of Peru
1963 - Khrushchev visits East-Berlin

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 222

1367 - Sigismund, German Emperor/king of Hungary/Bohemia
1476 - Paul IV, [Giampietro Caraffa], inquisition/Pope (1555-59)
1476 - Pope Paul IV (d. 1559)
1490 - Albrecht von Brandenburg, German archbishop/monarch of Mainz/cardinal
1491 - Henry VIII, King of England (1509-47)
1503 - Giovanni della Casa, Italian poet (d. 1556)
1547 - Cristofano Malvezzi, composer
1550 - John Drusius, Flemish hebrew translator
1577 - Peter Paul Rubens, Siegen, Flemish Baroque painter (Circumcision)
1586 - Paul Siefert, composer
1641 - Marie Casimire Louise de la Grange d'Arquien, queen of Poland (d. 1716)
1712 - Jean Jacques Rousseau, France, composer/social contractor (Confession)
1719 - Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (d. 1785)
1734 - Jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier, composer
1787 - Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces
1806 - Napoleon Coste, composer
1808 - Cristina di Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess/politican
1812 - Rudolf von Alt, Austrian painter
1816 - Jacob P P baron van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Min Foreign Affairs (1852-53)
1824 - Paul Broca, France, brain surgeon/anthro (located speech center)
1824 - William Tatus Wofford, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1884
1825 - Richard ACE Erlenmeyer, German chemist (Erlenemyer kolf)
1831 - Joseph Joachim, Kittsee Germany, violinist (Hungarian Concerto)
1847 - Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson, composer
1852 - Hans Huber, composer
1853 - Edwin Arthur Jones, composer
1865 - Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer/journalist (Remarkable Stories)
1867 - Luigi Pirandello, Italy, writer (6 Characters-Nobel 1934)
1867 - William Courtleigh, Guelph Ontario, actor (Eyes of Youth, Madame X)
1873 - Alexis Carrel, France, surgeon/sociologist/biologist (Nobel 1912)
1874 - Oley Speaks, composer
1875 - Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (d. 1941)
1879 - Sigurd von Koch, composer
1883 - Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
1884 - Lamina Sankoh, early Sierra Leonean nationalist (d. 1964)
1885 - Berthold Viertel, writer
1885 - Giuseppe Mule, composer
1886 - Joe Cox, cricketer (S African pace bowler in 1913-14 series v England)
1887 - Boleslav Vomacka, composer
1888 - George Challenor, cricketer (pioneering West Indian batsman)
1889 - Frank Mayo, silent screen actor (Burning Gold, Hell's Headquarters)
1891 - Carl Panzram, American serial killer (d. 1930)
1891 - Esther Forbes, American writer (d. 1968)
1891 - Carl Spaatz, American Air Force general (d. 1974)
1892 - Edward H Carr, England, historian (History of Soviet Russia)
1893 - Luciano Gallet, composer
1893 - Nils Bjorkander, composer
1894 - Lois Wilson, Pitts Pa, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family)
1895 - Kazimierz Sikorski, composer
1897 - Jacobus J E Hondius, graphic artist
1900 - Leon Kruczkowski, Polish author (Kordian into Cham)
1902 - John Dillinger, US bank robber (public enemy #1)
1902 - Pierre Brunet, France, figure skater pair (Olympic-gold-1928, 32)
1902 - Richard Rodgers, Hammels Station NY, composer (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
1903 - Alan Bunce, Westfield NJ, actor (Albert-Ethel & Albert)
1904 - Wlodzimierz Pozniak, composer
1906 - Maria Goeppert Mayer, US atomic physicist (Nobel 1963)
1906 - Nancy Mayhew Youngman, artist/educator
1906 - Safford Cape, US/Belgian conductor/composer/music historian
1907 - Paul-Emile Victor, French pole explorer (La civilisation du phoque)
1908 - James L Reinsch, media-adviser (Roosevelt/Churchill/Kennedy)
1909 - Arnold Shaw, composer
1909 - Eric Ambler, London, suspense writer (Epitaph for a Spy)
1909 - French van Immerseel, Belgian graphic artist
1912 - Audrey Langford, singing teacher
1912 - Sergiu Celibidache, conductor
1913 - George Walter Selwyn Lloyd, English composer (Serf, John Socman)
1913 - Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker (d. 2007)
1913 - Walter Oesau, German pilot (d. 1944)
1914 - Charles Urbanus, Dutch baseball player
1914 - Lester Raymond Flatt, TN, bluegrass (Earl-Ballad of Jed Clampett)
1914 - Aribert Heim, Austrian physician
1917 - Willem "Wim" Sonneveld, Dutch singer/actor (My Fair Lady)
1917 - Katherine Rawls, American swimming champion (d. 1982)
1918 - Bert Schierbeek, [Lambertus], Dutch writer/poet (Cross Roads)
1920 - A. E. Hotchner, American editor, novelist and playwright
1921 - P V Narasimha Rao, premier of India (1991- )
1922 - Terje Stigen, Norwegian author (Det siste paradiset)
1922 - Michael Vale, American actor (d. 2005)
1923 - Lloyd Labeach, Panama City, 100m/200m runner (Olympic-bronze-1948)
1923 - Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, Argentine racing driver
1924 - Henk van Stipriaan, Dutch radio host
1926 - Mel Brooks, NYC, comedian/actor/director (Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs)
1926 - Robert Shelton Shapiro, journalist
1926 - Mel Brooks, American filmmaker
1927 - Theo van Tijn, Dutch marxist/social-historian
1928 - Andrew Gordon Speedie-Pask, cybernetician stage producer/lyricist
1928 - Peter Heine, cricketer (solid South African fast bowler in 1950's)
1928 - Ronald Alfred Gardyne "Rags" Butler, sailor
1928 - Dr Hans Blix, Swedish head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission 2000-2003
1928 - Harold Evans, English journalist and writer; editor of The Sunday Times
1929 - Don Dubbins, Brooklyn, actor (Enchanted Island, Fix)
1930 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Karetnikov, composer
1930 - Itamar Franco, President of Brazil
1931 - Junior Johnson, American NASCAR driver
1931 - Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (d. 1995)
1933 - Gunnar Reynir Sveinsson, composer
1933 - Pat Morita, Berkeley CA, actor (Happy Days, Karate Kid)
1933 - Gusty Spence, Northern Irish loyalist politician
1934 - Carl M Levin, (Sen-D Michigan, 1979- )

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 115

548 - Theodora, dancer/empress of Byzantine (Nika-oproer), dies
573 - Alboin, king of Longobarden, probably poisoned by his wife
767 - Paul I, Italian Pope (757-67), dies
1061 - Floris I, count of Holland, dies
1175 - Andrei Bogolyubsky, Russian prince
1194 - Emperor Xiaozong of Song China (b. 1127)
1385 - Andronicus IV Paleologus, Byzantine anti-emperor, dies
1389 - Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović of Serbia (b. 1329)
1586 - Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (b. 1508)
1598 - Abraham Ortelius, [Ortels/Hortels], South Neth geographer, dies at 71
1617 - Johan Evertsen de Captain, Swiss admiral, dies in battle
1714 - Cornelis Chastelein, colonial director, dies at 56
1714 - Daniel van Papenbroeck, Flemish jesuit/historian, dies at 86
1716 - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (b. 1665)
1742 - Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner, composer, dies at 52
1748 - Marretje Arends, [Matje of Nieuwendijk], Amsterdam plunderer, hanged
1748 - Pieter van Dort, Amsterdam plunderer, hanged
1776 - Thomas Hickey, American sergeant convicted of treason, hanged
1788 - Johann Christoph Vogel, composer, dies at 32
1798 - Pierre Dutillieu, composer, dies at 44
1802 - Johann J Angel, German author/director, dies at 60
1806 - Johann Friedrich Ludwig Sievers, composer, dies at 64
1813 - Gerhard JD von Scharnhorst, Prus min of War (1807-10), dies in battle
1830 - David Walker, abolitionist (Appeal to Colored Citizens), dies at 44
1834 - Joseph Bové, Russian architect (b. 1784)
1836 - James Madison, 4th US pres (1809-17), dies in Montpelier Va at 85
1846 - Adrian van de Ende, vicar/protestant reformer, dies at 77
1855 - Giovanni Agostino Perotti, composer, dies at 86
1857 - Joseph Fischhof, composer, dies at 53
1872 - Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch, composer, dies at 66
1876 - August W Ambros, Austria musicologist, dies at 59
1880 - Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (b. 1846)
1881 - Jules Armand Dufaure, French statesman (b. 1798)
1889 - Maria Mitchell, 1st US woman astronomer (Vassar), dies at 70
1890 - Edouard Gregoir, composer, dies at 67
1891 - Jose Inzenga y Castellanos, composer, dies at 63
1892 - Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman (b. 1810)
1909 - Israel Durham, Phillies president dies
1910 - Gustave Leon Huberti, composer, dies at 67
1913 - Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, President of Brazil (b. 1841)
1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Austrian archduke (Sarajevo, Bosnia), assassinated
1914 - Sophie, Princess of Austria, assassinated
1915 - Victor Trumper, cricketer (48 Tests for Australia, 3163 runs), dies
1916 - Ştefan Luchian, Romanian painter (b. 1868)
1922 - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (b. 1885)
1929 - Edward Carpenter, English poet (b. 1844)
1937 - Max Adler, Austrian socialist theorist, dies at 64
1940 - Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/gov-gen of Libya, dies at 44
1946 - Eduard Veterman, Dutch painter/playwright, dies in an auto accident
1947 - Stanislav K Neumann, Czech poet (Anti-Guide), dies at 72
1950 - Henry Balfour Gardiner, composer, dies at 72
1954 - Red deer, in Milwaukee Zoo, oldest known deer, dies at 26
1957 - Ede Poldini, composer, dies at 88
1958 - Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist (Robin Hood), dies at 77
1958 - George Gunn, cricketer (15 Tests for England), dies at 50
1960 - Jake Swirbul, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1898)
1962 - Mickey Cochrane, baseball hall of fame catcher, dies at 59
1963 - Frank "Home Run" Baker, (hit 2 HRs in 1911 world series) dies at 77
1964 - King Calder, actor (Lt Grey-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 64
1965 - [Theodora E] Betsy Ranucci-Beckman, actress (Dood Water), dies at 88
1965 - Red Nichols, American musician (b. 1905)
1971 - Henri Puvrez, Belgian sculptor (Serenity), dies at 78
1971 - Joseph Colombo, mobster, shot dead at 48
1971 - Franz Stangl, Austrian commandant of concentration camps (b. 1908)
1974 - Frank Sutton, actor (Sgt Vince Carter-Gomer Pyle USMC), dies at 50
1975 - Rod Serling, writer/host (Twilight Zone, Night Gallery), dies at 50
1975 - Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis, Greek architect (b. 1913)
1975 - Serge Reding, Belgian weightlifter (b. 1941)
1976 - Stanley Baker, actor (Accident, Guns of Navarone), dies at 49
1978 - Clifford Dupont, First President of Rhodesia (b. 1905)
1979 - Paul Dessau, German composer/conducter (Berlin, 1925-33), dies at 84
1980 - Heal Gahagan Douglas, (Rep-D-Ca), lost to Nixon, dies at 79
1980 - Herbie Faye, comedian (Doc, Phil Silvers Show), dies at 81
1980 - Yoshiro Irino, composer, dies at 58
1980 - José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor (b. 1895)
1981 - Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, Iran Islamic Rep Party founder, bombed
1981 - Peter Paul Kreuder, German composer, dies at 75
1981 - Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer activist (b. 1958)
1982 - Gerard[us M] Rutten, director (Sterren stralen overal), dies
1982 - Harry Mills, US, singer (Mills Brothers), dies at 70
1985 - James Craig, actor (Human Comedy, Kismet), dies of lung cancer at 74
1985 - Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (b. 1913)
1988 - Kurt Raab, writer/actor (Boarding School, Stationmaster's Wife), dies
1989 - Joris Ivens, director (Indonesia), dies at 90
1990 - Estelle Lamont, entertainer, dies
1991 - Ernie McCormick, cricketer (12 Tests for Australia), dies
1991 - Klas Bruinsma, clergyman, dies
1992 - Mikhail Tai, World chess champion (1960-61), dies at 55
1993 - Boris Christoff, Bulgaria/Italian bass (Don Carlos), dies at 79
1993 - GG Allin, American punk rock singer (b. 1956)
1994 - Fredericka Carolyn Washington, actress (Black & Tan), dies at 90
1994 - William A Henry III, critic (Time Mag), dies of heart attack at 44
1995 - Donald Sinclair, vet, dies at 83
1996 - George Ghita Ionescu, academic, dies at 83
1996 - Michael Wishart, artist, dies at 68
1996 - Piers Gray, critic/writer, dies at 49
1996 - Ronald George Woodman, pilot, dies at 82
1996 - Willard F. McMurry, musician, dies at 89
2000 - Jane Birdwood, British anti-Semitic activist (b. 1913)
2000 - Nils Poppe, Swedish actor (b. 1908)