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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 170

597 BC - Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king.
1079 - Iran adopts solar Hijrah calendar
1190 - Crusades begin massacre of Jews of York England
1190 - Jews of York England commit mass sucide rather than submit to baptism
1249 - The Servite Order is officially approved by Cardinal Raniero Capocci, papal legate in Tuscany.
1322 - The Battle of Boroughbridge takes place in the First War of Scottish Independence.
1345 - Holy spirit glides above fire: "the miracle of Amsterdam" (legend)
1517 - Pope Leo X signs 5th Council of Lateranen
1521 - Magelhaes' fleet discovers Zamal (Samar)
1521 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches Philippines
1527 - Battle at Khanua: Mogol Emperor Babur beats Rajputen
1621 - Native American chief visits colony of Plymouth Mass
1641 - General court declares RI a democracy & adopts new constitution
1660 - English Long Parliament disbands
1689 - The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded.
1690 - French king Louis XIV sends troops to Ireland
1730 - Willem Charles Henry Friso installed as viceroy of Drenthe
1731 - Treaty of Vienna: Emperor Charles VI of England & Netherlands
1792 - Murder attempt on King Gustavus III by count Ankarstrom at opera
1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
1802 - Law signed to establish US Milt Academy (West Point, NY)
1802 - US army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time)
1815 - Willem I proclaimed king of the Netherlands, including Belgium
1818 - Second Battle of Cancha Rayada - Spanish forces defeat Chileans under José de San Martín.
1822 - Composer Gioacchino Rossini marries Spanish soprano
1827 - 1st US black newspaper, "Freedom's Journal" (NYC), begins publishing
1829 - Ohio authorizes high school night classes
1830 - London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard)
1830 - New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded)
1833 - Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st US woman grad of a pharmacy college
1834 - HMS Beagle anchors at Berkeley Sound, Falkland Islands
1836 - Texas approves a constitution
1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" published
1861 - Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union
1861 - Confederate government appoints commissioners to Britain
1861 - Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who was evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.
1862 - Battle at Pound Gap Kentucky: Confederates separate battles
1865 - Battle of Averasboro NC (1,500 casualities)
1867 - First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet.
1869 - Hiram R Revels makes 1st official speech by a black in the Senate
1871 - 1st fertilizer law enacted
1872 - 1st FA Cup Final: Wanderers-Royal Engineers 1-0 in Bolton
1876 - Nelly Saunders & Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY)
1877 - Charles Bannerman completes 1st Test cricket century, 165 v Eng
1881 - Barnum & Bailey Circus debuts
1882 - US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross
1894 - Jules Massenet's opera "Thaïs," premieres in Paris
1896 - Premiere of Mahler's "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen"
1897 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Devil's Foot" (BG)
1900 - AL meets in Chicago, Ban Johnson announces that an AL team will be in
1900 - Sir Arthur Evans finds old city of Knossus
1900 - Chicago, KC, Minn, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleve & Buffalo
1907 - 1st 1st-class cricket game between NSW & Western Australia
1910 - Barney Oldfield sets land speed record of 131.7 mph at Daytona
1911 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Port Arthur (Ont) 13-4
1912 - Mrs William Howard Taft plants 1st cherry tree in Wash DC
1915 - Brit battle cruisers Inflexible & Irresistible hit mines in Dardanelle
1915 - Federal Trade Commission organizes
1916 - James Barries' "Kiss for Cinderella," premieres in London
1916 - US & Canada sign migratory bird treaty
1918 - Geoffrey O'Hara's "K-K-K-Katy" song published
1919 - Frank Wedekind's "Elius Erweckung," premieres in Hamburg
1920 - 1 Acre Park also known as Baby Park in the Bronx renamed Melrose Park
1922 - Sultan Fuad I crowned king of Egypt, England recognizes Egypt
1922 - WKY-AM in Oklahoma City OK begins radio transmissions
1923 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Der Unbestechliche," premieres in Vienna
1924 - The free port of Fiume is formally annexed by Mussolini's fascist regime.
1926 - Robert Goddard launches 1st liquid fuel rocket, goes 184' (56 meters)
1929 - WHP-AM in Harrisburg PA begins radio transmissions
1930 - USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a natl shrine
1931 - Genootschap Onze Taal (Our Language) organizes (Neth)
1933 - Hitler names Hjalmar Shaft, president of Bank of Germany
1934 - Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act
1935 - Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty
1937 - All but one senior fouls out of a scrimmage game between seniors & sophomores, but he holds on to win the game 35-32
1938 - Noel Coward's musical "Operette," premieres in London
1938 - Temple defeats Colorado to win 1st NIT
1939 - Germany occupies Czechoslovakia
1939 - Hungary annexes republic of Karpato-Ukraine
1939 - NHL record 10 goals in 1 period-NY Rangers (7), NY Americans (3) & a record 26 points in the 3rd period
1939 - Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran.
1940 - German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow
1941 - Blizzard hits North Dakota & Minnesota killing 60
1941 - Dmitri Shostakovitch receives the Stalin Prize
1941 - National Gallery of Art opens in Wash DC
1943 - Elin K (No) & Zaanland (Neth) torpedoed & sinks
1944 - Vichy Internal minister Pucheu sentenced to death
1945 - Allies secure Iwo Jima
1945 - Würzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British bombers.
1946 - "Would-Be Gentleman" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 77 performances
1947 - Convair Liner, 1st US twin-engine pressurized airplane, tested
1949 - KFMB TV channel 8 in San Diego, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 - 1st annual National Book Awards
1952 - 1870 mm rain in Cilaos, Reunion (world record)
1952 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1953 - AL rejects Bill Veeck's request to move St Louis Browns to Baltimore
1955 - Josephine Kroesen appointed as 1st Dutch female judge
1955 - President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war
1956 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
1956 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 220

1338 - Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick (d. 1401)
1445 - Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (d. 1510)
1473 - Henry IV the Pious, Duke of Saxony (d. 1541)
1581 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian and writer (d. 1647)
1585 - Gerbrant A Bredero, Holland, poet/playwright (Klucht van de Koe)
1609 - Michael Franck, composer
1631 - René Le Bossu, French critic (d. 1680)
1634 - Contessa Marie Madeleine La Fayette, novelist
1651 - Zaccaria Tevo, composer
1654 - Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (d. 1704)
1663 - Nicholas Siret, composer
1687 - Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, queen consort in Prussia (d. 1757)
1729 - Georg W "Franz" Panzer, German vicar/librarian (Annales typographic)
1739 - George Clymer, US merchant (signed Decl of Ind, Constitution)
1745 - Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow, composer
1750 - Caroline Lucretia Herchel, Hanover, Germany, 1st mod woman astronomer
1751 - James Madison, Port Conway Va, (D-R), 4th US president (1809-17)
1757 - Bengt Lidner, Swedish poet (Medea, Yttersa Domen)
1773 - Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (d. 1836)
1774 - Matthew Flinders, English navigator/cartographer (coast Australia)
1776 - Johan G Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs
1787 - Georg Simon Ohm, physicist (discovered Ohm's Law)
1789 - Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist (d. 1854)
1794 - Ami Boué, Austrian geologist (d. 1881)
1800 - Emperor Ninko of Japan (d. 1846)
1802 - George Archibald McCall, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1805 - Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (d. 1861)
1806 - Norbert Rillieux, inventor (sugar refiner)
1812 - Henry Dwight Terry, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1869
1814 - Jules Eugene Abraham Alary, composer
1821 - Ernest Feydeau, French author (Georges Feydeau)
1822 - John Pope, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1822 - Rosa Bonheur, French landscape painter (Buffalo Bill)
1823 - William Henry Monk, composer
1832 - Charles Camp Doolittle, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteer)
1834 - James Hector, Scottish geologist (d. 1907)
1836 - Andrew S Hallidie, inventor (cable car)
1839 - René F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, France, poet, 1st Nobel winner (1901)
1840 - Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (d. 1931)
1846 - Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (d. 1927)
1849 - James E Smith, became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger
1851 - Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (d. 1931)
1856 - E Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte, French/English prince
1857 - Charles Harding Firth, British historian (d. 1936)
1859 - Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1906)
1865 - Patsy Donovan, Irish-American baseball player (d. 1953)
1868 - Maxim Gorki, USSR, playwright (The Lower Depths) [3/28 NS]
1869 - F. A. Forbes, Scottish author (d. 1936)
1873 - Hippoliet Daeye, Flemish painter (Sereniteit)
1876 - Charles Halton, Wash DC, actor (Dr Cyclops, Tugboat Annie Sails Again)
1878 - Clemens A Graaf von Galen, cardinal/bishop of Munster/anti-nazi
1878 - Henry B Walthall, Shelby City AL, actor (Birth of a Nation, Klondike)
1878 - Reza Sjah Pahlawi, [Reza Chan], shah of Iran
1883 - Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (d. 1958)
1884 - Harrison Ford, Kansas City, Missouri, silent screen actor (Rubber Tires, Vanity Fair, Love In High Gear)
1885 - Giacomo Benvenuti, composer
1885 - Sydney Chaplin, S Afr, actor (Limelight)
1889 - Reggie Walker, South African athlete (d. 1951)
1890 - Solomon Mikhoels, Soviet actor and chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (d. 1948)
1892 - Caesar Vallejo, Peruvian/French poet (Los Heraldos Negros)
1892 - James Petrillo, leader of the U.S. musicians union (d. 1984)
1893 - Isobel Elsom, actress (My Fair Lady, Love From a Stranger)
1896 - Conrad Nagel, Keokuk Iowa, actor (Celebrity Time)
1901 - Edward Pawley, American actor (d. 1988)
1902 - Lucie Rie, potter
1903 - Mike Mansfield, (Sen-D-Mont) majority whip
1903 - Morgan Conway, actor (Dick Tracy)
1903 - Nikolai Lopatnikoff, Revel Estonia, composer (Variaioni Concertanto)
1904 - Clive Morton, London England, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Moonraker)
1905 - Elisabeth Flickenschildt, German actress (d. 1977)
1906 - Francisco Ayala, writer
1906 - Henny Youngman, London England, comedian (Take my wife please)
1908 - Robert Rossen director/writer (Hustler, All the King's Men, Mambo)
1910 - Aladar Gerevich, Hungary, sabres (Olympic-gold-1948)
1910 - Andrew Miller-Jones, British TV pioneer
1910 - Iftikhar Ali Khan, cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi, England & India)
1910 - Martijn Lijnema, boer/resistance fighter (WW II)
1910 - Norman Wooland, Dusseldorf Germany, actor (Hamlet)
1911 - Dr. Josef Mengele, German, accused Nazi war criminal (d. 1979)
1911 - Pierre Harmel, Belgian politician
1912 - Patricia Nixon, [Thelma Catherine], Ely Nevada, 1st lady (1968-74)
1916 - Lloyd McBride, union president (United Steelworkers)
1916 - Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (d. 2004)
1917 - Samael Aun Weor, Colombian writer (d. 1977)
1918 - Aldo E van Eyck, Dutch architect (City Hall)
1918 - Howard Boatwright, composer
1919 - Erno Kiraly, composer
1920 - John Addison, Surrey England, composer (Tom Jones-Acad Award)
1920 - Leo McKern, Sydney Aust, actor (Blue Lagoon, Help, Mouse that Roared)
1920 - Percy Mansell, cricketer (leg-spin all-rounder in 13 Tests for S Afr)
1920 - Traudl Junge, Hitler's secretary (d. 2002)
1920 - Dorothea Binz, Nazi war criminal (d. 1947)
1920 - Sid Fleischman, American author
1922 - Geoffrey Freeman Allen, railway writer
1922 - Harding Lemay, North Bangor NY, headwriter (Another World)
1923 - George Bean, cricketer (92 runs in 3 Tests for Eng v Aust)
1925 - Cornell Borchers, Germany, actress (Big Lift, Floodtide, Istanbul)
1925 - Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (d. 2004)
1926 - Jerry Lewis, [Levitch], comedian/fund raiser (MDA), loved in France
1926 - Charles Goodell, American politician (d. 1987)

Famous Deaths

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455 - Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (b. 419)
1021 - Heribert of Cologne, Archbishop of Cologne and Chancellor of Emperor Otto III
1037 - Robert I, Archbishop of Rouen
1072 - Adalbert, archbishop of Bremen-Hamburg, dies
1322 - Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1276)
1410 - John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (b. 1373)
1485 - Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England (b. 1456)
1536 - Ibrahim Pasha, grand-visier of Osmaanse Rich, murdered at about 45
1559 - Anthony St. Leger, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1496)
1620 - St. John Sarkander, Moravian priest, died of injuries caused by torturing
1629 - Emilia of Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange, dies at 59
1649 - St. Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
1679 - John Leverett, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1616)
1721 - James Craggs the Elder, English politician (b. 1657)
1736 - Giovanni B Pergolesi, Italian composer (Stabat Mater), dies at 26
1737 - Benjamin Wadsworth, President of Harvard University (b. 1670)
1738 - Georg Baehr, German master builder (Frauenkirche, Dresden), dies at 72
1738 - George Bähr, German architect (b. 1666)
1747 - Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (b. 1690)
1804 - Francisco marquis Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright, dies at 75
1806 - Giuseppe Colla, composer, dies at 74
1819 - Nicolas Sejan, composer, dies at 73
1838 - Nathaniel Bowditch, astronomer/navigation expert, dies at 64
1841 - Félix Savart, French surgeon/physicist, dies at 49
1843 - Anton R Falck, Dutch minister of Education/Colonies, dies at 65
1867 - Benjamin Hanby, composer, dies at 33
1878 - William Banting, English undertaker, dies
1881 - Modest P Mussorgsky, Russian composer (Boris Godunov), dies at 42
1887 - Emanuel Kania, composer, dies at 59
1888 - Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (b. 1801)
1890 - Zorka of Montenegro, Princess of Serbia (b. 1864)
1892 - Samuel F. Miller, American politician (b. 1827)
1898 - Aubrey (Vincent) Beardsley, English illustrator (Salome), dies at 23
1899 - Joseph Medill, mayor of Chicago (b. 1823)
1903 - Roy Bean, American jurist
1909 - George Thorndike Angell, lawyer (ASPCA), dies at 85
1914 - Gaston Calmette, editor (Le Figaro), killed by Mme Caillaux at 55
1914 - John Murray, piloted HMS Challenger to Christmas Island, dies
1914 - Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
1919 - Sigurd von Koch, composer, dies at 39
1926 - Sergeant Stubby, decorated World War I dog
1930 - Miguel Primo de Riveray Orbaneja, Sp dictator (1923-30), dies at 60
1933 - Alfred Her, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 47
1935 - John J R Macleod, Scot/Canadian physiologist (Nobel 1923), dies at 58
1935 - Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-born chess player (b. 1886)
1936 - Marguerite Durand, French journalist and feminist (b. 1864)
1937 - J Austen Chamberlain, English Min of For affairs (Nobel), dies at 73
1938 - Egon Friedell, writer, dies
1940 - Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
1941 - John Murray, Canada oceanographer (Challenger), dies at 73
1942 - Alexander van Zemlinsky, Austrian composer (African Dance), dies at 69
1945 - Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, French writer/poet, commits suicide at 52
1945 - Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (b. 1874)
1946 - Marius HLW "Max" Blokzijl, Dutch Nazi propagandist, executed at 61
1955 - Mayhew Lake, composer, dies at 75
1955 - Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter (b. 1914)
1956 - Joseph John Richards, composer, dies at 77
1957 - Mosa Pijade, Yugoslavian MP (communist), dies at 67
1957 - Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (b. 1876)
1958 - Leon J Cadore, pitched the 26 inning game, dies at 65
1959 - John Sailling, last documented Civil War vet, dies at 111
1961 - Chen Geng, Chinese military leader (b. 1903)
1962 - John Owen Jones, composer, dies at 85
1964 - Nicholas Joy, actor (Boss Lady), dies at 80
1967 - James Friskin, composer, dies at 80
1968 - June Collyer, actress (June-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 60
1968 - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, composer, dies at 72
1970 - Arthur Adamov, Russian/French playwright, dies at 61
1970 - Tammi Terrell, singer (You're All I Need), dies of brain tumor at 24
1971 - Bebe Daniels, actress (Silver Dollar, My Past), dies at 70
1971 - Chuck Fleetwood-Smith, cricketer (Vict & Aust), dies
1971 - Thomas E Dewey, US president candidate (R 1944, 48), dies at 68
1972 - Harold "Pie" Traynor, hall of fame 3rd baseman (Pirates), dies at 72
1973 - Carl Benton Reid, actor (Trap, Underwater City), dies at 79
1973 - M Revis, [Willem Fisherman), author (People that Mutiny), dies at 68
1975 - T-Bone Walker, blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done), dies at 64
1975 - Richard W. DeKorte, American politician (b. 1936)
1978 - Aldo Moro, 5 times PM of Italy, assassinated by terrorists
1979 - Jean Monnet, French economist/CEO (ECSC), dies at 90
1980 - Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-born painter (b. 1898)
1983 - Arthur Godfrey, TV host (Arthur Godrey Show), dies at 79
1983 - Fred Rose, Canadian politician (b. 1907)
1984 - John Hoagland, American photographer (b. 1947)
1985 - Roger Huntington Sessions, US composer (Black Masks), dies at 88
1985 - Eddie Shore, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1987 - Scott McKay, actor (Guest in House, 30 Seconds over Tokyo), dies at 71
1988 - Dorothy Adams Foulger, actress (Laura, Devil Commands), dies at 88
1990 - Ernst Bacon, composer, dies at 91
1991 - 7 members of Reba McIntire's band, killed in a plane crash
1991 - Jan H van Roijen, Dutch diplomat/Foreign Minister, dies at 85
1991 - Wim van den Brink, Dutch actor (Turkish Fruit, Red Sien), dies
1992 - Renzhong Weangn, China politician (1934-45), dies
1992 - Yves Rocard, French physicist (b. 1903)
1993 - Chishu Ryu, Japanese actor (Autumn Afternoon), dies of cancer at 86
1993 - Djilalli Lyabes, Algerian minister of Higher Education, murdered
1993 - Don Randolph, actor (Harem Girl), dies of pneumonia at 87
1993 - Giovanni Testori, Italian writer (Arialda), dies at 69
1993 - Mohammed Hussein Nagdi, Iran diplomat/resistance fighter, murdered
1995 - Albert Maurice Hackett, playwright/screenwriter, dies at 95
1995 - Clan Fraser of Lovat, soldier/Landowner, dies at 83