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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 233

296 - St Marcellinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the usurper Magnentius, in Rome.
833 - Louis, king of Austria, crowned
949 - Otto I the Great gives away bishopdom of Utrecht
1294 - Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland
1371 - Arnold II of Horne chosen bishop of Utrecht
1397 - Denmark, Norway & Sweden sign Union of Kalmar under Queen Margaretha
1422 - Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
1520 - Spanish conquerors under Cortes take gold from Aztecs
1520 - The Spaniards are expelled from Tenochtitlan.
1528 - Burgundy army occupies Utrecht
1548 - Emperor Charles V orders Catholics to become Lutherans
1559 - Duke of Montgomery wounds king Henri II during tournament
1559 - King Henry II of France is seriously injured in a jousting match against Gabriel de Montgomery.
1596 - English/Dutch fleet reach Cadiz
1598 - King Philip II moves to Escorial palace
1607 - Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of Catholicism) published
1643 - Battle at Atherton Moor: Royalists beat parliamentary armies
1648 - French premier cardinal Mazarin calls Saint Louis Chamber together
1651 - The Deluge: Khmelnytsky Uprising - the Battle of Beresteczko ends with a Polish victory.
1688 - Whig-Lords questions prince Willem III van Orange on Protestantism
1690 - Battle at Beachy Head: French under Tourville beat Neth/English fleet
1700 - Gelderland goes on Gregorian calendar (tomorrow is 12/7/1700)
1722 - Hungarian Parliament condemns emperor Karel VI's Pragmatic Sanctions
1734 - Russian army occupies Danzig
1741 - Pope Benedict XIV encyclical forbidding traffic in alms
1755 - Philippines close all non-catholic Chinese restaurants
1758 - Seven Years' War: The Battle of Domstadtl takes place.
1794 - Battle of Fort Recovery, Ohio
1815 - US naval hero Stephen Decatur ends attacks by Algerian pirates
1834 - Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
1859 - Charles Blondin is 1st to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope
1860 - The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.
1861 - CSS Sumter slips past USS Brooklyn blockade
1862 - Battle at Nelson's Farm, Virginia
1862 - Battle at Turkey Bridge Virginia: Confederate assault attack
1862 - Day 6 of 7 Days-Battle of White Oak Swamp VA (Frayser's Farm)
1862 - Gustave Flaubert completes "Salammbo"
1863 - Battles in Hanover Pennsylvania: 80 casualties
1863 - Dutch colony Suriname counts population of 33,000 slaves
1863 - Skirmish at Sporting Hill Pennsylvania
1865 - 8 alleged conspirators in assassination of Lincoln are found guilty
1870 - Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law college graduate
1871 - Guatemala revolts for agrarian reforms
1876 - Serbia declares war on Turkey
1879 - Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha leaves Cairo with train full stolen goods
1881 - Henry Highland Garnet, named minister to Liberia
1893 - Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered
1894 - Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid
1894 - London Tower Bridge opens
1896 - W S Hadaway patents electric stove
1899 - Jack Hearne takes a hat-trick Eng v Australia at Headingley
1900 - 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks NJ, 326 die
1902 - Cleveland is 1st AL team to hit 3 consecutive HRs in same inning
1906 - John Hope becomes 1st black president of Morehouse College
1906 - Pure Food & Drug Act & Meat Inspection Act adopted
1908 - Boston's Cy Young's 2nd no-hitter, beats NY Highlanders, 8-0
1908 - Giant fireball most likely caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet impacts in Siberia (Tunguska Event)
1909 - Jack Johnson fights Tony Ross to no decision in 6 for hw boxing title
1910 - Russia absorbs Finland
1911 - Adolphe Messimy appointed French minister of War
1911 - US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri closes
1913 - 2nd Balkan War begins
1913 - NY Giants score 10 in 10th to beat Phillies 11-1
1914 - Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in S Africa
1916 - 22nd US Golf Open: Chick Evans shoots a 286 at Minikahda Club MINN
1916 - General Douglas Haig reports "The men are in splendid spirits"
1923 - NZ claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica
1924 - England score 2-503 in day's play v S Africa at Lord's
1927 - Augusto Cesar Sandino issues his Manifesto Politico
1927 - US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes
1928 - Radio Service Bulletin lists radio stations call signs that are to be changed to conform with international standards
1929 - 33rd US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 294 at Winged Foot CC NY
1930 - 1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady NY
1930 - Bradman scores 254 at Lord's v England, 320 mins, 25 fours
1933 - 50,000 demonstrate in Antwerp against fascism/war
1933 - Card's Dizzy Dean strikes out 17 Cubs to win 8-2
1933 - US Assay Offices in Helena Mon, Boise Id & Salt Lake City Utah closes
1934 - "Night of Long Knives," Hitler stages bloody purge of Nazi party
1934 - French Equatorial Africa constituted a single administrative unit
1934 - NFL's Portsmouth Spartans become Detroit Lions
1935 - Danno O'Mahoney beats Ed George in Boston, to become wrestling champ
1935 - The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress.
1936 - "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, published
1936 - 40 hour work week law approved (federal)
1936 - Haile Selassie asks League of Nations for sanctions against Italy
1936 - Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind" published
1938 - Superman 1st appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1
1938 - Final game at Phila's Baker Bowl, Giants beat Phils 14-1
1939 - Heinkel He 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemunde
1940 - "Brenda Starr" cartoon strip, by Dale Messick, 1st appears
1940 - 58 U-boats (284,000 ton) sunk this month
1940 - US Fish & Wildlife Service forms
1941 - 61 U-boats (310,000 ton) sunk this month
1941 - Pro-nazi group declares Ukraine independence
1941 - World War II: Operation Barbarossa - Germany captures Lviv, Ukraine.
1942 - 144 U boats (700,000 ton) sunk this month
1942 - Col-gen Von Paul' 6th Army enters Ukraine
1942 - US Mint in New Orleans ceases operation
1942 - US bombs Celebes & Timor

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 226

1286 - John de Warenne, 8th Earl of Surrey, English politician (d. 1347)
1468 - Johan, the Standvastige, monarch of Saxon
1470 - Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98), invaded Italy
1503 - Johan Frederik, elector of Saxon (1532-47)
1503 - John Frederick, Elector of Saxony (d. 1554)
1641 - Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general (d. 1719)
1669 - Mauritius Vogt, composer
1685 - Dominikus Zimmermann, German architect/painter (Liebfrauenkirche)
1685 - John Gay, author (Baggars' Opera)
1685 - John Gay, British writer (d. 1732)
1722 - Jiri Antonin Benda, composer
1723 - Christian Ernst Graf, composer
1743 - Niels Schiorring, composer
1748 - Jacques D "comte" Cassini, French astronomer
1755 - Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (d. 1829)
1768 - Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, 1st lady (1817-25)
1789 - E J Horace Vernet, French painter
1791 - Félix Savart, French surgeon/physicist (law of Biot & Savart)
1807 - Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher/writer (Auch einer)
1810 - Stanko Vraz, [Jakob Frass], Slovenian/Croatian poet (illyrism)
1817 - Joseph D Hooker, British botanist
1818 - Edward John Hopkins, composer
1819 - William A Wheeler, (R) 19th VP (1877-81)
1823 - Hendrik Jan Schimmel, Dutch writer/dramatist (2 Tudors)
1823 - Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, Indian industrialist (d. 1901)
1837 - Stephen D Ramseur, youngest West Pointer to be Maj Gen
1843 - Ernest Mason Satow, British diplomat (d. 1929)
1846 - Ricardo Drigo, composer
1847 - Jacob T Cremer, min of Colonies/pres (Dutch Trading Comp)
1856 - Gerrit Kalff, writer (history of Dutch writers)
1858 - Andre Antoine, French stage manager (Theatre Libre) [or 7/31]
1860 - Gyula Andressy Jr, Hungarian minister of Foreign affairs (1918-20)
1868 - C V France, Bradford Engld, actor (Skin Game, Adventure in Blackmail)
1879 - Walter Hampden, Bkln NY, actor (Five Fingers, Hunchback of Notre Dame)
1884 - Georges Duhamel, French author (d. 1966)
1890 - Gertrude McCoy, Sugar Valley GA, silent screen actress (Blue Bird)
1890 - Horace Chapman, cricketer (leg-spin all-rounder for S Afr in 2 Tests)
1891 - Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (d. 1953)
1891 - Ed "Strangler" Lewis, American professional wrestler (d. 1966)
1892 - Laszlo Lajtha, composer
1892 - Pierre Blanchar, Philippeville Algeria, actor (Magnificent Sinner)
1892 - Oswald Pohl, German Nazi leader (d. 1951)
1893 - Harold/Joseph Laski, English economist/Labour leader (1945-..)
1893 - Walter Ulbricht, president German DR
1894 - Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian assassin (arch duke Ferdinand)
1896 - Wilfred Pelletier, Montreal Canada, conductor (Voice of Firestone)
1898 - George Chandler, Waukegan Ill, actor (Lassie)
1899 - Frantisek Tomasek, bishop of Prague/cardinal
1899 - Madge Bellamy, American actress (d. 1990)
1902 - Madge Bellamy, Hillsboro TX, actress (White Zombie)
1904 - Glenda Farrell, Enid OK, actress (Golddiggers of 1935)
1905 - Nestor Paiva, Fresno CA, actor (Comanche, Fear, Tarantula, Killer Ape)
1906 - Ralph Allen, English footballer (d. 1981)
1906 - Anthony Mann, American film actor and director (d. 1967)
1907 - Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian politician (d. 1950)
1908 - Charles Camproux, French linguistic/author (Bestiari)
1908 - Lucino Tinio Sacramento, composer
1908 - Monica Maurice, industrialist
1908 - Winston Graham, British writer (d. 2003)
1909 - Juan Bosch, poet/pres of Dominican Republic (1962-63)
1911 - Czeslaw Milosz, Polish/American writer (Bells in Winter, Nobel 1980)
1911 - Virginia Smith, (Rep-R-NB, 1975- )
1912 - Dan Reeves, NFL team owner (Cleveland/LA Rams)
1912 - Kenneth Jameson, art educator
1912 - Madhaviah Krishnan, naturalist
1912 - [J] Tibor de Machula, Hungarian/Dutch cellist
1912 - Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (d. 2003)
1913 - Harry Wismer, Port Huron Mich, AFL owner (NY Titans)
1913 - Alfonso López Michelsen, 32nd Colombian President (d. 2007)
1914 - David Wayne, actor (Adam's Rib, Andromeda Strain, 3 Faces of Eve)
1914 - Natko Devcic, composer
1914 - Francisco da Costa Gomes, 16th President of Portugal (d. 2001)
1915 - Charles Rowe, cricketer (scored a pair in only Test (NZ v Aust 1946))
1917 - Lena Horne, Bkln NY, actress/singer (Stormy Weather, Wiz)
1917 - Robert Vandekerckhove, Belgian politician
1918 - Stuart Foster, Binghamton NY, singer (Galen Drake Show)
1918 - Susan Hayward, Flatbush Bkln, actress (I Want to Live, Tulsa)
1919 - Lee Krieger, MD, actor (Clambake, One Way Wahini)
1919 - Ed Yost, American inventor (d. 2007)
1920 - Sam Moskowitz, SF fandom historian
1920 - Zeno Colo, Italy, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1952)
1921 - Gordon Reynolds, musician
1925 - Dorothy Malone, actress (Peyton Place)
1925 - Jim Levitch, horse trainer
1925 - Micheline Lannoy, Belgium, figure skating pairs (Olympic-gold-1948)
1925 - Will Gay Bottje, composer
1926 - Paul Berg, Nobel Prize laureate
1927 - Harvey Vernon, Flint Mich, actor (Jasper-Carter Country)
1927 - James Goldman, author/playwright (Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid)
1927 - Joseph R Skeen, (Rep-R-New Mexico, 1981- )
1928 - Frank Ulrich Marcus, playwright/critic
1929 - Alexander Kelly, pianist/teacher
1929 - James Goldman, American screenwriter (d. 1998)
1930 - Doyle Holly, comedian/country performer (Buckaroos)
1930 - June Valli, Bronx NY, singer (Your Hit Parade)
1930 - Mac Benson, horse trainer
1930 - Nikolai Karetnikov, composer
1931 - James Loughran, British conductor
1931 - Johannes Gruijters, Dutch mayor (D66-Lelystad)
1931 - June Thorburn, Kashmir India, actress (Touch & Go, Children Galore)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 104

350 - Nepotianus, Roman usurper
1109 - Alfonso VI, (imperator totius Hispaniae), king of Leon, dies
1181 - Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester, English politician (b. 1147)
1224 - Adolf of Osnabrück, Saint Adolf (b. 1185)
1364 - Arnost of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (b. 1297)
1520 - Montezuma II, the last Aztec emperor, killed
1538 - Charles van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen, dies at 70
1579 - Mehmed Pasha Sokolović, Turkish Janissary
1607 - Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1538)
1649 - Simon Vouet, French painter
1655 - Jacob Boonen, South Netherlands clergyman/lawyer, dies at 81
1660 - William Oughtred, English mathematician (b. 1575)
1662 - Johannes C Verspronck, portrait painter, buried at about 64
1666 - Adam Krieger, German composer, dies at 32
1666 - Alexander Brome, British poet
1670 - Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1644)
1685 - Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 55
1704 - John Quelch, a pirate was hanged (b. 1665)
1709 - Edward Lhuyd, Welsh scientist (b. 1660)
1785 - James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (b. 1696)
1792 - Francesco Antonio Rosetti, composer, dies
1796 - Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1817 - Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist
1819 - Ernst Ludwig Gerber, composer, dies at 72
1839 - Johan O Wallin, Swedish poet/archbishop (Dead Angel), dies
1857 - Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (b. 1802)
1862 - Richard Griffith, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 48
1882 - Charles J Guiteau, assassin (Pres Garfield), hanged
1882 - Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (b. 1827)
1889 - Eugenio Terziani, composer, dies at 64
1890 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer, dies at 71
1899 - Jon Helgason, Icelandic poet (Ur Landsudri), dies
1904 - Thomas Emmett, cricketer (English Test bowler of the sostenuter), dies
1905 - John Hay, US politician, dies
1914 - Bai Long, [White Wolf], Chinese Robin Hood/crowd leader, dies
1919 - John W S Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies at 76
1920 - Lena Christ, writer, dies at 38
1923 - Claude Antoine Terrasse, composer, dies at 56
1924 - Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch poet/writer (Pypelyntjes), dies at 42
1934 - Ernst Rohm, German staff member, executed at 46
1934 - Gregor Strasser, German pharmacist/NSDAP-leader, murdered at 42
1934 - Karl Ernst, German SA-leader, murdered
1934 - Kurt von Schleiger, German chancellor (1932-33), murdered at 52
1934 - Night of the Long Knives mur
1934 - Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Prime Minister of Bavaria killed in the Night of the Long Knives murders (b. 1862)
1934 - Erich Klausener, Catholic politician killed in the Night of the Long Knives murders (b. 1885)
1935 - William Brockwell, cricket (Brit all-rounder in 7 Tests 1893-99), dies
1938 - Milan Rakic, Serbian poet (Nove Pesme), dies at 61
1942 - Arnoldus J H Aerts, Dutch bishop of New-Guinea, executed at 62
1946 - Michael Zadora, composer, dies at 64
1948 - Karl Wolfskehl, writer, dies at 78
1953 - Elsa Beskow, (Maartman), Swedish author (children's book), dies at 79
1953 - Gote Carlid, composer, dies at 32
1953 - Charles William Miller, father of football in Brazil (b. 1874)
1959 - Lazare Saminsky, composer, dies at 76
1959 - José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer and politician (b. 1882)
1960 - Clarence Cameron White, composer, dies at 79
1961 - Lee de Forest, inventor (Electron Tube), dies at 87
1961 - Lee DeForest, American inventor (b. 1873)
1962 - Caspar Neher, German set designer/librettist, dies at 65
1965 - Bessie Barriscale, actress (Plain Jane, Show Folks), dies
1968 - John Gough, actor (Circus Kid, 2 for Tonight), dies at 73
1969 - Jan Evangelista Zelinka, composer, dies at 76
1971 - Georgi T Dobrovolsky, Odessa, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11), dies at 43
1971 - Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 11), dies at 35
1971 - Crew of Soyu
1971 - Herbert Biberman, Jewish American screenwriter and film director (b. 1900)
1973 - Elmer Layden, one of Notre Dame's legendary 4-horsemen, died
1973 - Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky C.Ss.R Bishop and Martyr (b. 1903)
1974 - Alberta King, mother of Martin Luther King Jr, assassinated in church
1974 - Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (b. 1890)
1976 - Firpo Marberry, baseball player (b. 1898)
1979 - Alfons Vranckx, Belgian politician, dies at 72
1980 - Virginia Brown Faire, actress (Lonesome Trail, Temptress), dies
1983 - Bo Gentry, songwriter/producer, dies
1983 - Mary Livingstone, [Sadye Marks] Comedienne, (Jack Benny), dies at 77
1984 - Lillian Hellman, playwright, (Little Foxes), dies at 79
1985 - James Dewar, inventor (Twinkie), dies
1987 - Federico Mompou, composer, dies at 94
1987 - King Donovan, actor/director (Enforcer, Perfect Furlough), dies
1992 - Doug Delauder, entertainer, dies
1992 - Jim Alaimo, vocalist, dies after heart surgery at 53
1992 - Nico Booken, director (Jewish Labor Social), dies
1993 - George "Spanky" McFarland, child actor (Our Gang), dies at age 65
1994 - Nicholas Warner, test Pilot, dies at 51
1995 - Barney Simon, theatre director/writer, dies at 63
1995 - Gale Gordon, comedian (Our Miss Brooks, Here's Lucy), dies at 89
1995 - Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 3), dies at 74
1995 - Phyllis Hyman, R&B/Jazz singer (Prime of My Life), suicides at 45
1995 - Sicco Mansholt, pres Commission of Europe (1972-1973), dies
1996 - Hugh Henry Home Popham, aviator/writer/poet, dies at 76
1996 - Margaux Hemingway, model/actress (Lipstick), commits suicide at 41
1996 - Michael Parkin, journalist, dies at 74
1996 - Norman Aldridge, biochemical toxicologist, dies at 76
1997 - Larry O'Day, wrestler (b. 1944)
2001 - Chet Atkins, American country guitar player and producer (b. 1924)
2001 - Joe Henderson, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1937)
2002 - Chico Xavier, popular medium in Brazil´s spiritism movement (b. 1910)
2003 - Buddy Hackett, American comic (b. 1924)
2003 - Robert McCloskey, American children's book writer and illustrator (b. 1915)