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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 195

512 - A solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland.
1149 - Raymond of Antioch is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din.
1194 - Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
1312 - Roman Catholics German King Henry VII crowned
1377 - French invasion fleet lands at Rye England
1428 - Jacoba of Bavaria signs cease fire with Philip the Good
1529 - Emperor Karel V & Pope Clemens VII sign Treaty of Barcelona
1534 - Jacques Cartier discovers Prince Edward Islands Canada
1540 - English ex chancellor Thomas Cromwell sentenced as heretic
1613 - Shakespeare's Globe Theater burns down
1659 - The Russians, led by prince Trubetskoy are defeated by the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop.
1682 - Sofia names herself regent of Russia
1694 - Dutch fleet attacks French grain transports
1749 - New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island).
1755 - 515 prominant filipinos baptized as Catholic
1762 - Russian Czar Peter III divorces his wife Catharina II
1767 - British passes Townshend Revenue Act levying taxes on America
1776 - Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay
1776 - Va state constitution adopted & Patrick Henry made governor
1786 - Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
1800 - Free mason lodge establishes in Alkmaar
1822 - Prince Charles Bonaparte marries niece Zenaide Bonaparte
1850 - British ex-premier sir Robert Peel falls off his horse
1850 - Autocephaly Officially Granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to The Church of Greece.
1854 - Netherlands allows corporal punishment
1857 - Battle at Chinhat (Indies rebel under Barkat Ahmed beat British)
1858 - Great fire in London harbor
1858 - Treaty of Algun, China cedes north bank of Amur River to Russia
1862 - Day 5 of 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station Va
1863 - Battle at Westminster Maryland: Federal assault
1863 - George A Custer (23) appointed Union Brig-general
1863 - Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
1863 - Very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa
1864 - Grand Trunk Railway accident; 100 killed
1867 - Pope Pius IX declares Gorcumse holy martyrs
1874 - Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
1880 - France annexes Otaheite (Tahiti)
1881 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Diuturnum illud
1888 - First (known) recording of classical music made, Handel's Israel in Egypt on wax cylinder.
1891 - 100°F (SF, CA)
1891 - National Forest Service organized
1891 - Street railway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, commences operation.
1895 - Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
1897 - Chicago beats Louisville 36-7 (baseball)
1899 - Brazo River in Texas floods 12 miles wide causing $10 mil damage
1903 - British govt protests against abuser in Belgian Congo
1904 - 2 prehistoric bones found in Weerdingerveen, Drenthe
1906 - 12th US Golf Open: Alex Smith shoots a 295 at Onwentsia Club Ill
1911 - Freiherr Gautsch von Frankenthurn becomes premier
1913 - 2nd Balkan War begins-Bulgaria overthrows Greek/Serbian troops
1914 - Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
1916 - Boeing aircraft flies for 1st time
1921 - 34th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats E Ryan (62 60)
1922 - France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes."
1925 - Canada House opens in London, England.
1926 - Carter Woodson wins Springarn Medal for research of Black history
1926 - Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
1927 - 1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii
1927 - First test of Wallace Turnbull's Controllable pitch propeller.
1928 - The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York both opened.
1929 - 1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca
1929 - 31.1°C (88°F) hoogste temperatuur op deze dag in De Bilt
1929 - Mexico & Vatican sign Concord
1931 - 109°F (43°C), Monticello, Florida (state record)
1931 - Pope Pius XI encyclical on Nun abbiamo bisogno Mussolini
1932 - USSR & China sign no attack treaty
1933 - Primo Carnera KOs Jack Sharkey in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1936 - Empire State Building emanates high definition TV-343 lines
1936 - Pope Pius XI encyclical to US bishops "On motion pictures"
1939 - 4th Dutch govt of Colijn falls
1939 - Dixie Clipper completes 1st commercial plane flight to Europe
1940 - Anjer (Carnation) Day-anniversary of Prince Bernhard
1940 - US passes Alien Registration Act requiring Aliens to register
1940 - Batman Comics, mobsters rubbed out a circus highwire team known as the Flying Graysons, leaving their son Dick (Robin) an orphan
1941 - DiMaggio extends hitting streak to 42 breaking Sisler's record
1942 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th Symphony, premieres
1943 - Pope Pius XII encyclical Mystic Corporis (mystic body of Christ)
1943 - US forces landed at Nassau Bay, near Salamaua, New Guinea
1943 - Germany begins withdrawing U-boats from North Atlantic in anticipation of the Allied invasion of Europe
1944 - German counter attack at Caen
1944 - Nazi Paul Touvier shoots 7 Jews dead
1944 - Rommel & von Rundstedt travel to Berchtesgaden
1944 - Soviet Armys join in Bobroesjk
1944 - US 7th army corp conquers Cherbourg
1945 - 20.6 cm rainfall at Litchville North Dakota (state record)
1945 - Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, becomes part of Ukrainian SSR
1945 - Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union.
1946 - "Are You with It?" closes at Century Theater NYC after 264 perfs
1946 - "Billion Dollar Baby" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 219 perfs
1946 - Black Sabbath-Brits arrest 2700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorist
1946 - British mandatory govt of Palestine arrests 100 leaders of Yishnuv
1947 - 2nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betty Jameson
1947 - Yanks beat Senators 3-1 starting a 19 game win streak
1949 - South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages
1949 - US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II
1950 - US beats England 1-0 in a world cup soccer game (next win in 1994)
1950 - West Indies beat England by 326 runs thanks Ramadhin & Valentine
1952 - 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn-Oriskany
1952 - 7th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Louise Suggs
1953 - XETV TV channel 6 in Tijuana-San Diego, CA (IND) begins broadcasting

Famous Birthdays

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1397 - John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
1482 - Maria of Aragon, queen of Portugal (d. 1517)
1517 - Rembert Dodoens, [Rembertus Dodonaeus], physician/botanist
1596 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
1738 - Constantin Reindl, composer
1783 - August Alexander Klengel, composer
1798 - Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)
1803 - John Newton Brown, American publisher (d. 1868)
1805 - Hiram Powers, US sculptor (Greek Slave)
1824 - Victor J van Hinsbergh, South Neth engraver (PTT Stempels)
1831 - William Thomas Clark, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1842 - Josef Labor, composer
1849 - Sergei J Witte, Neth/Russ count/premier Russia
1849 - John Hunn, American businessman (d. 1926)
1850 - Joseph Paul Skelly, composer
1858 - George Washington Goethals, engineer (built Panama Canal)
1861 - William James Mayo, surgeon/co-founder Mayo clinic in Minnesota
1863 - James Harvey Robinson, Ill, historian (Ordeal of Civilization)
1864 - Anton Beer-Walbrun, composer
1864 - Pietro Bonfante, Italian lawyer (Roman law)
1865 - Shigechiyo Izumi, achieved oldest authenticated age (120 y 237 d)
1865 - William E Borah, lawyer/(Sen-R-Id)
1866 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1934)
1868 - George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)
1870 - Joseph Carl Breil, composer
1874 - Georg Gohler, composer
1876 - Nellie Taylor Ross, 1st woman to serve as a gov (Wyoming, 1925-27)
1880 - Ludwig Beck, chef Germany general staff ("July 20th plot")
1881 - Harry Frazee, American baseball team owner (d. 1929)
1881 - Curt Sachs, German musicologist (d. 1959)
1885 - Andre Gailhard, composer
1885 - Virginia Pope, (NY Times)
1886 - George Frederick Boyle, composer
1886 - James Van DerZee, famous African
1886 - Juliane Gabriels, Flemish physician (Artus Quellin)
1886 - Robert Schuman, French premier
1889 - Willie MacFarlane, Scottish golfer (d. 1961)
1893 - Aare Merikanto, composer
1893 - Antoon Schweigmann, Dutch religious poet/resistance fighter
1896 - Irene Browne, England, actress (All at Sea, Peg O' My Heart)
1897 - Ottmar Gerster, composer
1897 - Fulgence Charpentier, French-Canadian journalist (d. 2001)
1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer (d. 1944)
1901 - Frieda Inescort, Edinburgh Scotland, actress (Pride & Prejudice)
1901 - Hendrik Diels, Flemish conductor
1901 - Nelson Eddy, Providence RI, baritone (Duets with Jeanette MacDonald)
1902 - Carl-Heinz Schroth, Innsbruck, director (Reaching for the Stars)
1902 - Ellen Clara Pollock, actress (Wicked Lady, Horror Hospital)
1903 - Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (d. 1942)
1905 - Manuel Altolaguirre, Spanish poet/publisher (La lenta libertad)
1906 - Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (d. 1945)
1907 - Joan Davis, St Paul Minn, actress (I Married Joan)
1907 - Paul O'Dwyer, pres of City Council (D-NYC)
1908 - Paul Lebeau, Flemish writer (Last Rose, Xanthippe)
1908 - Rene Gerber, composer
1909 - Leroy Anderson, US, composer (Syncopated Clock)
1910 - Franc Henry Loesser, US songwriter/composer (Most Happy Fella)
1910 - Burgess Whitehead, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1911 - Bernard Herrmann, composer
1911 - Bernhard, Germany, Prince (Consort to Queen Juliana of Netherlands)
1911 - Klaus E J Fuchs, German/British/German nuclear physicist/spy
1912 - John Toland, US, political writer (Rising Sun, Pulitzer 1971)
1912 - Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia, Guadalajara Mexico, composer (Huapango)
1912 - Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (d. 2004)
1914 - Rafael Kubelik, Bychory Czechoslovakia, conductor (Cornelia Farooli)
1914 - Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek mathematician (d. 1976)
1915 - Ruth Warrick, American actress (d. 2005)
1916 - David Donaldson, painter
1916 - Ruth Warwick, St Joseph Mo, actress (Citizen Kane, All My Children)
1918 - Jack Harkness, rose grower
1919 - Slim Pickens, Kingsburg Calif, actor (Dr Strangelove, Blazing Saddles)
1919 - Lloyd Richards, American director (d. 2006)
1920 - Ray Harryhausen, movie special effect artist (Clash of Titans)
1921 - Frédéric Dard, French writer (d. 2000)
1922 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslavia/Serbian poet (Heaven is a Side Issue)
1923 - Chou Wen-Chung, Cheefoo China, composer (Mode of Shang)
1924 - Ezra Laderman, NYC, composer (Jacob & the Indians)
1924 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (d. 2006)
1925 - Cara Williams, Bkln NY, actress (Pete & Gladys, Cara Williams Show)
1925 - Hale Smith, composer
1925 - Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician
1926 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
1928 - Ian Bannen, Airdrie Scotland, actor (Eye of the Needle, Gorky Park)
1929 - Johnny Ace, rocker
1929 - Michio Mamaia, composer
1929 - Peter George, Akron Ohio, weightlifter (Oly-gold/2 silver-48, 52)
1929 - Pat Crawford Brown, American actress
1930 - Robert Evans, NYC, director/actor (Love Story, Godfather, Chinatown)
1930 - Viola Léger, Acadian-Canadian actress
1931 - Ed Gilbert, American actor (d. 1999)
1933 - Bob Shaw, baseball player
1933 - John Bradshaw, American theologian
1934 - Carl Levin, (Sen-D-MI)
1934 - Henning Kronstam, dancer
1936 - David Jenkins, US, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1960)
1936 - Harmon Killebrew, baseball player (Minnesota Twins)
1936 - Leonard Lee, US vocalist (Shirley & Lee-Let the Good Times Roll)
1938 - Billy Storm, singer (Valiants-This is the Night)
1938 - Edmund Falkiner, jazz saxophinist/probation officer
1939 - Alan Connolly, cricketer (Australian pace bowler through 60s)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 105

1021 - Notker Labeo, tutor in convent Sankt Gallen, dies
1059 - Bernard II, Duke of Saxony
1252 - King Abel of Denmark (b. 1218)
1293 - Hendrik van Gent, Flemish neo-Augustian philosopher/theologist, dies
1306 - Musho [Hokai], Zen teacher/found subtemple at Jochiji, dies
1315 - Ramon Llull, Spanish philosopher (b. 1235)
1458 - Mapheus Vegius, [Maffeo Vegio], Italian lawyer/humanist/poet, dies
1509 - Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (b. 1443)
1620 - John Aerts, Flemish sculptor
1696 - Michel Lambert, composer, dies
1725 - Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (b. 1657)
1764 - Ralph Allen, English businessman and politician (b. 1693)
1779 - Anton R Mengs, German writer/neo-classic painter Madrid, dies at 51
1784 - Caesar Rodney, US judge/singer (Declar of Independence), dies at 55
1790 - Feike H Van de Crew, Fries writer (Mayke Jakkelis), dies
1798 - Kaat Mussel [Catharina Mulder], exerciser, dies
1818 - Carl P Fohr, German painter/cartoonist, dies at 22
1840 - Lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino/Musignano, dies at 65
1852 - Henry Clay, the great compromiser, dies at 75
1855 - John Gorrie, American scientist (b. 1802)
1860 - Thomas Addison, English physician (A-Biermer Disease), dies at 67
1861 - Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, writer, dies at 55
1873 - Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali poet (b. 1824)
1875 - Ferdinand I KLJM de Goedige, Emperor of Austria, dies at 82
1880 - George W Vreede, lawyer/politician, dies
1895 - Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (b. 1825)
1900 - Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
1903 - Rentaro Taki, composer, dies at 23
1919 - José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician (b. 1864)
1921 - Otto Seeck German classical historian (b. 1850)
1923 - Fritz Mauthner, German author/philosopher (skepticism), dies at 73
1923 - Gustave Adolph Kerker, composer, dies at 66
1923 - J C Gomez, General/Venezuela's 1st VP, assassinated
1931 - Nérée Beauchemin, Quebec poet (b. 1850)
1933 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, US actor (Keystone comedies), dies at 46
1935 - Jack O'Neill, American baseball player (b. 1873)
1940 - Paul Klee, Swiss/German painter/tutor (Modern Art), dies at 60
1941 - Ignace Jan Paderewski, Polish statesman pianist, dies in NY at 80
1949 - Walter Giffen, cricketer (brother of George, 3 Tests), dies
1953 - Jules van Nuffel, composer, dies at 70
1955 - Max Pechstein, German painter/graphic artist (Oceania), dies at 73
1956 - Johan[nes F] Bakker Jr, actor, dies at 62
1958 - Charles Spencelayh, English painter (b. 1865)
1959 - A Cecil Snyder, Chief Justice of Puerto Rico, dies at 51
1964 - Milenko Zivkovic, composer, dies at 63
1964 - Eric Dolphy, American jazz musician (b. 1928)
1965 - Sidney Marion, actor (Outlaws is Coming, Quicksand), dies at 64
1966 - Arthur Meulemans, Belgian composer, dies at 82
1966 - Isabel Dawn, writer, dies
1966 - Ronald Shiner, actor (Aunt Clara, Forbidden, Girls at Sea), dies at 63
1967 - Jayne Mansfield, actress (Female Jungle), dies in a car crash at 34
1967 - O M Graf, writer, dies at 72
1967 - Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
1968 - Kitty Kelly, actress (Ladies of Jury, Behind Office Doors), dies at 66
1969 - Moise K Tsjombe, premier Congo/Zaire, dies
1969 - Shorty Long, soul singer/pianist (Here Comes the Judge), dies at 29
1969 - Vesselin Stoyanov, composer, dies at 67
1970 - Roman Ingarden, Polish philosopher (Studia philosophica), dies at 77
1970 - Stefan Andres, German writer (Wir sind Utopia), dies at 64
1971 - Georgi T Dobrovolsky, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11-land accident), dies at 43
1971 - Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11-landing accident), dies at 38
1971 - Vladimir Volkov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11-landing accident), dies at 35
1973 - Germán Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1915)
1975 - Jerry Verno, actor (River of Unrest, Ourselves Alone), dies at 79
1975 - Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
1976 - Leonora Summers, entertainer, dies
1977 - Anton D Hildebrand, children's book writer (Monus), dies at 70
1977 - Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (b. 1895)
1978 - Bob Crane, actor (Hogan's Heroes), murdered at 59
1979 - Ben Barnett, cricketer (4 Tests for Australia 1938), dies
1979 - Lowell George, rocker (Mothers of Invention, Little Feat), dies at 34
1981 - Mohammed Hussein Beheshti, Iran ayatollah/politician, murdered
1982 - Gerard[us PM] Knuvelder, literature historian (Anthology), dies
1982 - Henry King, director, dies at 86
1986 - Ida Mae McKenzie, entertainer, dies
1986 - John P East, (Sen-R-NC), dies at 55
1986 - Robert Drivas, actor (Our Private World), dies at 47
1990 - Irving Wallace, author (Book of Lists, Peoples Almanac), dies at 74
1992 - Mohammed Boudiaf, president of Algeria, assassinated at 73
1992 - Pierre Billotte, French military man (IIGM), dies
1993 - Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1946)
1994 - Cameron Mitchell, actor (Man on Tightrope), dies of lung cancer at 76
1994 - Kurt Eichhorn, conductor, dies at 85
1994 - Ray Crane, trumpeter, dies at 63
1995 - Lana Turner, actress (Madame X), dies of cancer at 75
1995 - Roy Rowland, film director, dies at 84
1996 - Alexander George Ogston, biochemist, dies at 85
1996 - Bobby Keetch, footballer/entrepreneur, dies at 54
1996 - Pamela Mason, actress (Wild in the Streets), dies at 78
1997 - William Hickey, actor (Prizzi's Honor), dies of emphysema at 68
1998 - Horst Jankowski, German pianist (b. 1936)
1999 - Allan Carr, American film producer (b. 1937)
2000 - Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b. 1922)
2002 - Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)
2002 - Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)
2002 - François Périer, French actor (b. 1919)
2003 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
2004 - Bernard Babior, American biochemist (b. 1935)
2006 - Randy Walker, American football coach (b. 1954)
2006 - Fabián Bielinsky, Argentinean film director (b. 1959)