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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 225

1002 - German king Henry II the Saint crowned
1242 - 24 wagonloads of Talmudic books burned in Paris
1391 - Inhabitants of Seville Spain massacres 5,000 Jews
1513 - Battle at Novara: Habsburgers vs Valois
1520 - France & England sign treaty of Scotland
1523 - Gustavus I becomes king of Sweden (Swedish National Day)
1523 - Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden, marking the end of the Kalmar Union.
1536 - Mexico begins it's inquisition
1639 - Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill
1654 - Queen Christina of Sweden resigns & converts to Catholicism
1660 - Denmark & Sweden signs peace treaty
1664 - New Amsterdam renamed NYC
1665 - Battle at Monte Carlo: English & Portuguese army beat Spain
1673 - France & Brandenburg sign peace treaty
1683 - The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
1716 - 1st slaves arrive in Louisiana
1744 - France & Prussia sign peace treaty
1752 - 3rd great fire in Moscow in 2 weeks; 1/3 of city destroyed
1772 - Haitian explorer Jean Baptiste-Pointe Dusable settles Chicago
1795 - Fire destroy 1/3 of Copenhagen; 18,000 injured
1797 - Napoleon forms Ligurische Republic
1801 - Peace of Badajoz: Spain-Portugal
1809 - Sweden declares independence, constitutional monarchy established
1809 - Sweden promulgates a new Constitution, which restores political power to the Riksdag of the Estates after 20 years of Enlightened absolutism.
1813 - US invasion of Canada halted at Stoney Creek (Ont)
1816 - 10" snowfall in New England, "year without a summer" (Krakatoa)
1831 - 2nd national black convention (Phila)
1832 - The barricades fall and the Paris student uprisings of 1832 end.
1844 - Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) forms in London
1850 - Levi Strauss made his 1st blue jeans
1857 - Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway.
1859 - Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day).
1861 - Lincoln's cabinet declares Union govt will pay for expenses once states have mobilized volunteers
1862 - Battle of Memphis-city is surrendered
1862 - Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry)
1862 - Skirmish at Harrisonburg, PA
1863 - Battle of Milliken's Bend, LA & Williamsport, MD
1864 - Battle of Lake Chicot, AR (Dutch Bayou)
1872 - Susan B Anthony is fined for trying to vote
1875 - Netherlands goes on the gold standard
1882 - Cyclone in Arabian Sea (Bombay India) drowns 100,000
1882 - Electric iron patented by Henry W Seely, NYC
1882 - The Shewan forces of Menelik defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and heir victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
1885 - 19th Belmont: Paul Duffy aboard Tyrant wins in 2:43
1885 - Opera "Lakmé" is produced (Paris)
1889 - Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks
1890 - United States Polo Association forms, NYC
1896 - 21st Preakness: Henry Griffin aboard Margrave wins in 1:51
1896 - George Samuelson leaves NY harbor to row across Atlantic
1904 - National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, NJ
1905 - French Foreign minister Delcasse resigns on German request
1906 - Paris Métro Line 5 is inaugurated with a first section from Place d'Italie to the Gare d'Orléans (today known as Gare d'Austerlitz).
1911 - Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
1912 - The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
1913 - Rabbit Maranville, is thrown out trying to steal home 3 times
1914 - 1st air flight out of sight of land (Scotland to Norway)
1916 - Voters in East Cleveland approves women suffrage
1918 - Battle of Belleau Wood, 1st US victory of WW I
1919 - Assent is given to an Act to amend the Canadian Currency Act, 1910
1919 - Finland declares war on bolsheviks
1919 - The Republic of Prekmurje ends.
1920 - Gen Wrangel opens offensive against red Army
1921 - Detroit Stars' Bill Gatewood pitches the 1st no-hitter in Negro League history, defeating the Cuban Stars 4-0
1921 - The Southwark Bridge in London, is opened for traffic by King George V and Queen Mary.
1924 - 28th US Golf Open: Cyril Walker shoots a 297 at Oakland Hills CC Mich
1925 - Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp (Iacocca is 8 months old)
1926 - Egyptian govt of Adly Pasha forms
1931 - "There Ought To Be A Moonlight Saving Time" by Guy Lombardo hits #1
1931 - Yanks turn triple-play but lose 7-5 to Indians
1932 - Carlos Davila coup against pres Juan Montero of Chile
1932 - Ijsselmeervogels soccer team forms in Spakenburg
1932 - US Federal gas tax enacted
1932 - The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1/4 ¢/L) sold.
1933 - 1st drive-in theater opens (Camden NJ)
1933 - US Employment Service created
1934 - Securities & Exchange Commission established
1934 - Yankee Myrl Hoag hits 6 singles in one game
1936 - 40th US Golf Open: Tony Manero shoots a 282 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1936 - 68th Belmont: James Stout aboard Granville wins in 2:30
1936 - Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro NJ
1937 - Phillies trailing 8-2 to St Louis, forfeit game
1938 - Sigmund Freud arrives in London
1939 - NY Giants beat Reds 17-3, with 5 HRs in 4th inning
1939 - NY supreme court justice J F Crater legally declared dead
1941 - 1st navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched
1941 - Giants use plastic batting helmets for 1st time
1942 - 1st nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray)
1942 - 74th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Shut Out wins in 2:29.2
1942 - Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway
1942 - Japanese troop land on Kiska, Aleutians
1944 - Baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion
1944 - D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France
1944 - Nazi troops executed 96 prisoners by firing squad
1944 - Theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor
1944 - U-955, U-970, U-629, U-373 sink in Gulf of Biskaje
1944 - Alaska Airlines commences operations.
1945 - "Free People" premieres in Amsterdam
1946 - 11 Basketball of America Assn teams meet to schedule 1st season
1946 - Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV
1946 - Martin Kresses begins publishing "Eric the Viking" comic strip

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 248

1236 - Wen Tianxiang, Chinese prime minister (d. 1283)
1436 - Regiomontanus (Johannes Muller), prepares astronomical tables
1502 - King John III of Portugal (d. 1557)
1519 - Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher and botanist (d. 1603)
1576 - Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1649)
1580 - Godefroy Wendelin, Flemish astronomer (d. 1667)
1599 - Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660)
1606 - Pierre Corneille, France, dramatist (El Cid, Horace)
1622 - Claude-Jean Allouez, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d.1857)
1625 - Domenico Guidi, Italian sculptor
1661 - Giacomo Antonio Perti, composer
1671 - Stenka/Stepan Razin, Russian cossack/boer leader
1676 - Georg Reidel, composer
1695 - Adriaen Valckenier, gov-gen Neth-Indies (1737-41)/killed 8,000 Chinese
1714 - King Joseph I of Portugal (d. 1777)
1722 - Adrien Trudo Sale, composer
1735 - Anton Schweitzer, composer
1755 - John Flaxman, English sculptor (Westminster Abbey tomb stones)
1755 - Nathan Hale, hanged patriot, had but one life to give for his country
1756 - John Trumbull, US painter (Declaration of Independence)
1765 - Cornelis Loots, Dutch accountant/poet (Dwingelandij)
1772 - Maria Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Holy Roman Empire Empress consort (d. 1807)
1799 - Aleksandr Sergeyevich, Russia, poet, founder of modern Russian Lit
1799 - Alexandr Pushkin, Russia, writer (Eugene Onegin) (5/26 OS)
1804 - Petter Conrad Boman, composer
1807 - Adrien Francois Servais, composer
1813 - Israel Washburn, gov (Union), died in 1883
1815 - Francesco Antonio Norberto Pinto, composer
1819 - William Howard Glover, composer
1826 - Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist
1829 - John Baillie McIntosh, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888
1829 - Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (d. 1862)
1840 - John Stainer, composer
1840 - William Francis Bartlett, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1841 - Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish novelist (d.1910)
1842 - James Morrison Steele Mackaye, US actor (Amer Acad of Dramatic Art)
1844 - Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (d. 1905)
1847 - Gerben Postma, [Ids], Frisian writer (Swealtsjeblommen)
1850 - Karl F Braun, Germany, co-developed wireless telegraphy (Nobel 1909)
1857 - Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician (d. 1918)
1860 - William R Inge, English theologist/Deacon St Paul's Cathedral
1862 - Henry John Newbolt, English sea historian/poet
1867 - David Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder (d. 1931)
1868 - Robert Falcon Scott, British leader of ill-fated south pole expedition
1869 - Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer/conductor
1872 - Alexandra Fjodorovna Romanova, last Russian tsarina (1894-1918)
1875 - Thomas Mann, Germany, novelist (Magic Mountain-Nobel 1929)
1878 - Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French criminal attorney (d. 1956)
1879 - L Patrick Abercrombie, English architect
1880 - William T Cosgrave, president Irish Free state
1886 - Paul Dudley White, heart specialist
1887 - Ruth Benedict, anthropoligist
1890 - Dorothy Heyward, NYC, playwright (Porgy)
1890 - Ted Lewis, American bandleader (d. 1971)
1891 - Istvan Kardos, composer
1891 - Vladislac Vancura, writer
1892 - Pearl S Buck, writer
1892 - Donald F. Duncan Sr., American entrepreneur (d. 1971)
1893 - Ludovic Feldman, composer
1894 - Sabin V Dragoi, composer
1896 - Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/gov-gen of Libya (La marcia su Rome)
1896 - Robert Sheriff, playwright (Journey's End)
1896 - Henry Allingham, English first world war veteran
1898 - Ninette de Valois, [Edris Stannus], Engl, ballerina (Royal Ballet)
1898 - Walter Abel, St Paul Mn, actor (Suspicion, Dream Girl)
1900 - Arthur Askey, Liverpool, actor (Bees in Paradise, Ghost Train)
1900 - Manfred Sakel, Polish psychiatrist (d. 1957)
1901 - Achmed Sukarno, Java, PM of Indonesia (1945-67)
1902 - Avraham Daus, composer
1902 - Harold Roxbee Cox Kings Norton, aeronautical engineer
1902 - Jimmie Lunceford, American bandleader (d. 1947)
1903 - Aram Il'yich Khachaturian, Tiflis Georgia, musician/composer (Gayane)
1905 - John Gart, Russia, orch leader (Paul Winchell Show)
1906 - Max Zorn, German mathematician (lemma of Zorn)
1906 - Stefan Andres, writer
1907 - Bill Dickey, NY Yankee hall-of-fame catcher (1928-43)/manager (1946)
1909 - Isaiah Berlin, philosopher
1909 - M J Gopalan, cricketer (1 Test India v England 1933-34)
1910 - Ben Aerden, [John Mikkelsen], actor (Hamlet)
1910 - Toshitsugu Ogiwara, composer
1913 - Jiri Hajek, Czech jurist/foreign minister
1913 - Carlo L. Golino, American scholar (d. 1991)
1915 - Vincent Persichetti, Phila Pennsylvania, composer (Sibyl)
1917 - Kirk Kerkorian, CEO (MGM, UA)
1917 - Prior Jones, cricketer (WI pace bowler in 9 Tests 1948-52)
1918 - Maria Montez, Dominican Rep, actress (Arabian Nights)
1918 - Richard Crane, Newcastle Ind, actor (Surfside 6)
1918 - Tom Scott, poet/editor
1919 - Charles Pringle, British air marshal
1922 - Ian Hamilton, composer
1923 - V. C. Andrews, American author (d. 1986)
1924 - Serge Nigg, composer
1924 - Jinyong, Chinese novelist
1926 - Klaus Tennstedt, Merseburg Germany, conductor (Fidelio)
1926 - Tom Ryan, comic strip cartoonist (Tumbleweeds)
1928 - George Deukmejian, Menands NY, (Gov-Cal)
1929 - Boguslaw Schaffer, composer
1929 - Viktor Konezki, writer
1929 - Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (d. 2005)
1930 - Frank Tyson, cricketer ("Typhoon" England pace destroyer mid-50's)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 113

840 - Agobard, archbishop of Lyon (anti-semite), dies
1134 - Norbertus van Xanten, monastery founder, dies at about 51
1393 - Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (b. 1359)
1480 - Vecchietta, Italian artist and architect
1548 - Juan de Castro, Portuguese explorer (b. 1500)
1563 - Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1519)
1583 - Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese warlord (b. 1556)
1671 - Stenka/Stepan Razin, Russian cossack/boer leader, killed
1686 - Joannes B van Neercassel, RC spiritual leader of Neth, dies at 60
1710 - Francoise de la Baume Le Blanc, mistress of king Louis XIV, dies at 65
1730 - Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, Marshal of France (b. 1646)
1735 - Georg Osterreich, composer, dies at 71
1740 - Alexander Spotswood, British governor of Virginia Colony
1747 - Jean Barriere, composer, dies
1784 - Joan Derk van de Capellen, leader of democratic Patriots, dies at 42
1785 - Johann Michael Demmler, composer, dies at 36
1799 - Patrick Henry, American revolutionary (b. 1736)
1813 - Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect
1815 - Samuel Whitbread, English Politician
1816 - Christiane Vulpius, wife of Johann W von Goethe, dies at 51
1832 - Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (b. 1748)
1836 - Antons Klemens Theodor, king of Saksen (1827-36), dies at 80
1840 - Marcellin Champagnat, French priest (b. 1789)
1843 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet and dramatist (b. 1770)
1852 - Tommaso Marchesi, composer, dies at 79
1861 - Giuseppe Concone, Italian singing teacher, dies at 59
1861 - Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1810)
1862 - Turner Ashby, General, killed near Harrisonburg VA, dies at 33
1877 - Prairie Flower, daughter of Ponca & chief Standing Bear, dies
1878 - Gottfried Herrmann, composer, dies at 70
1878 - Robert Stirling, Scottish inventor (b. 1790)
1881 - Henry Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer, dies at 61
1883 - Ciprian Porumbescu, composer, dies at 29
1891 - John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815)
1898 - Constant A Serrure, Flemish historian, dies at 62
1914 - Walter T Watts-Dunton, England, lawyer/poet/writer (Aylwin), dies
1916 - Yuan Shikai, president of China, dies at 56
1917 - Iacob Moresianu, composer, dies at 59
1922 - Lillian Russell, entertainer, dies at 60
1926 - Henry Tate, composer, dies at 52
1928 - Heinrich Gottlieb Noren, composer, dies at 67
1934 - Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (b. 1864)
1935 - Jacques Urlus, tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth), dies at 68
1935 - Julian Byng, British army officer (b. 1862)
1937 - Jean Harlow, actr (Bombshell), dies from gallbladder infection at 26
1939 - Ford Madox Ford, writer, dies at 65
1940 - E E Clive, actor (Bulldog Drummond, Night Muss Fall), dies at 56
1941 - Louis Chevrolet, American automotive pioneer (b. 1878)
1943 - Karl Landsteiner, Austrian/US pathologist (Nobel 1930), dies at 74
1944 - Danny Brotheridge, British lieutenant, 1st to die during D-Day
1944 - Gerrit John van de Peat, artist/resistance fighter, executed at 41
1945 - Meinoud M Rost van Tonningen, anti semite/NSB (1937-41), suicide
1946 - Gerhart Hauptmann, writer, dies at 83
1947 - Norman Reid, cricketer (Test S Af v Aust 1921-22, 11 & 6, 2-63), dies
1948 - Louis Lumière, French movie pioneer (b. 1864)
1951 - Lionel Hallam, cricketer (England capt 1921), dies
1951 - Olive Tell, American actress (b. 1894)
1955 - Max Meldrum, Scottish-born Australian painter (b. 1875)
1956 - Margaret Wycherly, actress (Claudia), dies at 74
1958 - Lily Theresa Strickland, composer, dies at 71
1961 - Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875)
1962 - Guinn Williams, actor (Big Boy-Circus Boy), dies of poisoning at 63
1962 - Yves Klein, French sculptor/painter, dies at 34
1964 - Robert Warwick, actor (Konga, Zorro, Lady Godiva), dies at 85
1965 - Lester Matthews, (Sir Dennis-Adv of Fu Manchu), dies at 64
1966 - Claudette Orbison, wife of singer Roy, dies in a motorcyle crash
1967 - Edward G Givens Jr, Major USAF/astronaut, dies in an car crash at 47
1968 - Franklin C Fry, US minister (World Rad of Church), dies
1968 - Robert F Kennedy, (Sn-D-NY), assassinated in LA by Sirhan Sirhan at 42
1968 - Randolph Churchill, son of Winston Churchill (b. 1911)
1971 - Arnold Elston, composer, dies at 63
1974 - Blanche Yurka, actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Cry of Werewolf), dies at 86
1975 - Larry Blyden, actor (Joe & Mabel, What's My Line), dies at 49
1976 - J Paul Getty, oil magnate/billionaire, dies at 83 in London
1976 - Victor Varconi, actor (Divine Lady, King of Kings), dies at 85
1977 - Sophie Stewart, actress (As You Like It), dies at 69
1979 - Jack Haley, actor (Wizard of Oz), dies of cancer at 79
1982 - Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (b. 1905)
1984 - A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, author (Empress of Outer Space), dies at 72
1984 - Bill Voce, cricketer (key player of the Bodyline series), dies
1985 - Siem Devout, Dutch actor, dies at 54
1986 - Bhavana Balachandran, Indian actress
1988 - Ella Raines, actress (Brute Force), dies of throat cancer at 66
1991 - Larry Kert, actor (Tony-West Side Story), dies of AIDS at 60
1991 - Stan Getz, jazz saxophonist (Girl from Impanima), dies at 64
1991 - Sylvia Porter, economist/author (Money Book), dies at 77
1992 - Larry Riley, actor (Soldier Story, Knots Landing), dies of AIDS at 39
1992 - Thijs van Lier, lawyer/Dutch MP (PvdA), dies at 44
1993 - James Bridges, writer/director (Paper Chase), dies of cancer at 57
1993 - Peter Tazelaar, adjutant of Dutch queen Wilhelmina, dies at 73
1994 - Barry Sullivan, actor (Great Gadsby), dies at 81
1994 - John Morey Downs, actor/dancer/singer, dies at 80
1994 - John Slot, mayor of Eethen/Hardenberg/Ede, dies
1994 - Johnny Morey Downs, actor/singer (Algiers, Red Head), dies at 80
1994 - Mark McManus, actor (Ned Kelly), dies of pneumonia at 59
1994 - Peter Graves, English actor (Derby Day/Admirable Crichton), dies at 82
1994 - Willie Humphrey, jazz clarinetist, dies at 93
1995 - Imam Elissa, singer, dies at 76
1995 - James Anderson, writer, dies at 41
1996 - George Snell, genetecist, dies at 92