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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 204

1 - Origin of Dionysian Incarnation of the Word
31 - 1st Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus
421 - Friday at 12 PM - city of Venice founded
708 - Constantine begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1133 - William the Conqueror orders 1st Domesday Survey of England
1199 - Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France which leads to his death on April 6.
1306 - Robert the Bruce crowned king of Scotland
1409 - Council of Pisa opens
1571 - Catholic Italian businessman Roberto Ridolfi leaves Enngeland
1581 - Portugese Cortes calls Philip II king of Portugal
1584 - Sir Walter Raleigh renews Humphrey Gilbert's patent to explore N Amer
1598 - Cornelis de Houtman's fleet departs for East-Indies
1609 - Henry Hudson embarks on an exploration for Dutch East India Co
1634 - Lord Baltimore founded Catholic colony of Maryland
1634 - The first settlers arrive in Maryland.
1647 - Cape of Good Hope: tour ship Haerlem stranded in Tafel Bay
1655 - Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, (Saturn's largest satellite)
1668 - 1st horse race in America takes place
1669 - Mount Etna in Sicily erupts, destroying Nicolosi, killing 20,000
1700 - England, France & Netherlands ratify 2nd Extermination treaty
1753 - Voltaire leaves the court of Frederik II of Prussia
1774 - English Parliament passes Boston Port Bill
1776 - Continental Congress authorized a medal for George Washington
1802 - France, Netherlands, Spain & England signs Peace of Amiens
1807 - 1st railway passenger service began in England
1807 - British Parliament abolishes slave trade
1807 - George Canning becomes British minister of Foreign affairs
1811 - Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for his publication of the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
1813 - 1st US flag flown in battle on the Pacific, frigate Essex
1814 - Netherlands Bank established
1817 - Tsar Alexander I recommends formation of Society of Israeli Christians
1820 - Greece freedom revolt against anti Ottoman attack
1821 - Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day)
1847 - Pope Pius IX encyclical "On aid for Ireland"
1852 - Friedrich Hebbel's "Agnes Bernauer," premieres in Munich
1856 - A E Burnside patents Burnside carbine
1857 - Frederick Laggenheim takes 1st photo of a solar eclipse
1863 - 1st Army Medal of Honor awarded
1863 - Skirmish at Brentwood Tennessee
1864 - Battle of Paducah, KY (Forrest's raid)
1865 - Battle of Bluff Spring, FL
1865 - Battle of Fort Stedman, VA - in front of Petersburg
1865 - Battle of Mobile, AL (Spanish Fort, Fort Morgan, Fort Blakely)
1865 - SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire & sinks, killing 400
1876 - Glasgow 1st soccer match Scotland-Wales (4-0)
1882 - 1st demonstration of pancake making (Dept store in NYC)
1888 - Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber
1889 - 1st Test Cricket match played at Newlands, Cape Town v England
1894 - Coxey's Army of the unemployed sets out from Massillon Oh for Wash
1895 - Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1896 - Modern Olympics began in Athens, Greece [NS=Apr 6]
1898 - Intercollegiate Trapshooting Association formed in NYC
1900 - US Socialist Party forms in Indianapolis
1901 - 55 die as Rock Island train derailed near Marshalltown Iowa
1902 - Irving W Colburn patents sheet glass drawing machine
1903 - Racing Club de Avellaneda, one of the big five of Argentina, is founded.
1905 - Rebel battle flags captured during war are returned to South
1907 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers lose to Kenora Thistles but outscore them in 2 game set but outscore them 12-8 and win cup
1908 - Clube Atletico Mineiro, Founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
1910 - Chalmers Auto Co offers a new car to each leagues' batting champ
1911 - L D Swamikannu publishes "Manual of Indian Chronology" in Bombay
1911 - Triangle Shirtwaist Factory catches fire 145 die, all but 13 girls
1913 - Great Dayton Flood
1913 - Home of vaudeville, Palace Theatre, opens (NYC) starring Ed Wynn
1915 - 1st submarine disaster; a US F-4 sank off Hawaii, killing 21
1915 - German U boat torpedoes Neth merchant ship Medea
1916 - Heavyweight Jess Willard & Franc Moran fight to no decision in NYC
1916 - Jess Willard fights Frank Moran to no decision in 10 for boxing title
1916 - Women are allowed to attend a boxing match
1918 - The Belarusian People's Republic is established.
1920 - Greek Independence Day
1923 - British govt grants Trans-Jordan autonomy
1924 - Greek parliament selects admiral Paul Koundouriotis as premier
1924 - Stanley Cup: Mont Canadiens (NHL) sweep Calgary Tigers (WCHL) in 2
1931 - Hal Kemp & his Orch record Whistles, with Skinnay Ennis
1931 - Scottsboro Boys (accused of raping a white woman) arrested in Alabama
1934 - 1st Golf Masters Championship: Horton Smith wins, shooting a 284
1935 - 1st Belgium government of Van Zealand resigns
1936 - 200" mirror blank leaves for California to be ground
1936 - Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in NHL longest game (2h56m30s)
1937 - It's revealed Quaker Oats pays Babe Ruth $25,000 per year for ads
1937 - Italy & Yugoslavia sign no-attack treaty (Pact of Belgrade)
1937 - Lionel Conacher misses on 1st Stanley Cup penalty shot
1937 - Wash Daily News is 1st US newspaper with perfumed advertising page
1938 - 1st US bred horse (Battleship) to win Grand National Steeplechase
1939 - Billboard Magazine introduces hillbilly (country) music chart
1941 - Carolina Paprika Mills in Dillon SC, incorporated
1942 - 700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp
1943 - 97% of all Dutch physicians strike againt nazi registration
1943 - Jimmy Durante & Garry Moore premiere on radio
1944 - Germany troop executes 335 residents of Rome
1944 - RAF Sgt Nickolas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet without a parachute
1945 - US 1st army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen
1945 - US 4th Armored div arrives at Hanau & Aschaffenburg
1945 - US Northern Tractor Flotilla departs Ulithi to Okinawa
1946 - 1st performance of Igor Stravinsky's "Ebony Concerto"
1947 - 9th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Holy Cross beats Okla 58-47
1947 - Agreement of Linggadjati ratified in Batavia
1947 - Coal mine explosion in Centralia, Ill, claims 111
1947 - Last day of Test cricket for Walter Hammond (v NZ, Christchurch)

Famous Birthdays

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1133 - Henry II, King of England (1154-89)
1252 - Konradijn Hohenstaufen, [Koenrad van Zwaben], son of Konrad IV
1252 - Conradin, Duke of Swabia (d. 1268)
1259 - Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1332)
1297 - Andronicus III Palaeologus, Byzantine emperor (d. 1341)
1297 - Arnost of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (d. 1364)
1345 - Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt (d. 1369)
1347 - Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (d. 1380)
1404 - John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (d. 1444)
1495 - Leonhard Paminger, composer
1532 - Pietro Pontio, composer
1539 - Christopher Clavius, German mathematician (d. 1612)
1541 - Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1587)
1593 - Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
1594 - Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, Dutch writer
1643 - Louis Moréri, French encylopedist (d. 1680)
1653 - Joseph Sauveur, French physicist/mathematician
1661 - Paul de Rapin, French historian (d. 1725)
1688 - Johann Gotthilf Ziegler, composer
1699 - Johann Adolf Hasse, composer
1702 - Christian Gottlieb Ziegler, composer
1702 - Pieter Teyler Van der Hulst, Dutch silk merchant (Teyler's Museum)
1713 - Jean-Baptiste Canavas, composer
1723 - Kaat Mussel, [Catharina Mulder], Dutch demonstrater
1745 - Nicolas Etienne Framery, composer
1762 - Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer
1767 - Joachim Murat, marshal of France/King of Naples (1808-15)
1769 - Salvatore Vigano, composer
1770 - Carl Friedrich Ebers, composer
1782 - Carolina [Maria A] Bonaparte, (countess Lipona), sister of Napoleon)
1782 - Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples (d. 1839)
1786 - Giovanni B Amia, Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist
1797 - John Winebrenner, US, clergyman, founded Church of God
1800 - Paulin Paris, French historian
1808 - Jose de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet (Cortes)
1818 - Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1820 - Xavier F M G, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister to Pope (in Rome)
1823 - William Thompson Martin, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
1824 - Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (d. 1900)
1830 - Julius Caesar, cricketer (prominent batsman for Surrey)
1839 - William Bell Wait, US, educated the blind
1840 - Myles Keogh, U.S. Soldier in U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment & Irish Soldier of Fortune (d. 1876)
1863 - Simon Flexner, American pathologist (d. 1946)
1867 - Arturo Toscanini, Parma Italy, temperamental conductor (NBC)
1867 - Gutzon Borglum, sculptor (Mt Rushmore)
1868 - Bill Lockwood, cricketer (England all-rounder in 12 Tests 1893-1902)
1869 - Gustaaf DFL Schamelhout, Flemish physician/writer
1871 - John Gutzon Borglum, sculptor (Mt Rushmore)
1872 - Vito Pardo, Italian sculptor (Columbus monument in Argentina)
1873 - Rudolf Rocker, German/US anarchist
1875 - Spencer Charters, Duncannon PA, actor (3 Faces West)
1877 - Walter Little, Canadian politician (d. 1961)
1878 - Henry graaf de Baillet-Latour, Belgian pres of IOC (1925-42)
1878 - Theodore Samuel Holland, composer
1879 - Otakar Zich, composer
1881 - Béla Bartok, Hungary, composer/pianist (Concerto for Orchestra)
1881 - Louis Dosfel, Flemish lawyer/writer (Assault!)
1881 - Mary Gladys Webb, English writer (d. 1927)
1882 - Haydn Wood, composer
1884 - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (d. 1950)
1885 - Veit Valentin, German/US historian (Deutsche Revolution)
1886 - Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1972)
1890 - Marten Baersma, [MH Bottema], Friesan author (De ljochte kimen)
1892 - Andy Clyde, Scotland, actor (George-Real McCoys, Cully-Lassie)
1893 - Edward Hart, (Rep-D-NJ)/1st chairman of Com on Un-American Activities
1894 - Erik William Gustav Leidzen, composer
1895 - Siegfried Handloser, German physician (d. 1954)
1897 - John Laurie, Dumfries Scotland, actor (Jericho, Island of Desire)
1899 - Bella Spewack, Hungary, playwright (Kiss Me Kate)
1899 - Jacques Audiberti, French poet (Race of Men)
1899 - Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (d. 1978)
1901 - Ed Begley, Hartford Ct, actor (Mr Koppel-Leave it to Larry)
1902 - Sten Broman, composer
1903 - Frankie Carle, Providence RI, orch leader (Golden Touch)
1903 - Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (d. 1990)
1905 - Binnie Barnes, London, actress (Last of the Mohicans, 3 Musketeers)
1906 - Alan J P Taylor, British historian (English history 1914-1915)
1906 - Howard Pyle, (Gov-R-Az, 1951-55)
1906 - Jean Sablon, crooner
1908 - Bridget D'Oyly Carte, British theater & hotel director
1908 - David Lean, Croydon England, director (Dr Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter)
1909 - Dutch (Emil) Leonard, baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox, 1.01 ERA 1914)
1909 - Jay Blackton, NYC, conductor/arranger (Guys & Dolls)
1910 - Mario Peragallo, Italian composer
1910 - Magda Olivero, Italian soprano
1911 - Willy Anthoons, Flemish sculptor (Mystic verheffing)
1911 - Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1967)
1912 - Jean Vilar, French stage and film actor (d. 1971)
1913 - Sir Reo Stakis, Anglo-Cypriot hotel magnate (d. 2001)
1914 - Marthe Robert, essayist/translator
1914 - Norman E Borlaug, US agriculture scientist (Nobel 1970)
1916 - Nikolay Ivanovich Peyko, composer
1919 - Jeanne Cagney, actress (Lion is in the Streets, Quicksand)
1920 - Patrick Troughton, actor (Doctor Who)
1920 - Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (d. 1992)
1921 - Nancy Kelly, Lowell Mass, actress (Double Exposure, Jesse James)
1921 - Simone Signoret, Weisbaden Germany, (Casque d'Or, Room at the Top)
1921 - Alexandra of Greece and Denmark, Queen of Yugoslavia (d. 1993)
1922 - Bruno VeSota, Ill, actor/director (Chopper, Teenage Doll, Wild Rovers)
1922 - Eileen Ford, modeling agency head (Ford Modeling Agency)

Famous Deaths

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1223 - Afonso II, 3rd King of Portugal (1211-23), dies at 36
1345 - Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1281)
1458 - Inigo Lopez de Mendoza, Spanish marquis of Santillana/poet, dies
1510 - Georges d'amboise, French archbishop of Narbonne/Rouen, dies at 49
1558 - Marcos de Niza, French Franciscan explorer
1561 - Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German philosopher and encyclopedist (b. 1518)
1603 - Ikoma Chikamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1526)
1609 - Olaus Martini, Swedish Archbishop of Uppsala (b. 1557)
1620 - Johannes Nucius, German composer
1625 - Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (b. 1569)
1692 - Gerardus L Blasius, Flemish anatomist, dies at about 66
1697 - Hendrik Casimir II, King of Nassau-Dietzstadhouder, dies
1712 - Nehemiah Grew, English naturalist (b. 1641)
1736 - Nicholas Hawksmoor, British architect
1738 - Turlough O'Carolan, Irish harper and composer (b. 1670)
1751 - Frederik of Hessen Kassel, King of Sweden (1720-51), dies at 74
1751 - Frederick I of Sweden (b. 1676)
1766 - Johannes Ritschel, composer, dies at 26
1799 - Constantin Reindl, composer, dies at 60
1801 - Anthony Ziesenis, architect/sculptor (Camper), dies at 69
1801 - Novalis, writer, dies at 28
1818 - Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician (b. 1745)
1823 - Coelestin Jungbauer, composer, dies at 75
1825 - Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, Dutch patriot/earl, dies at 63
1835 - Friederike Blum, writer, dies
1852 - Alexis Garaude, composer, dies at 73
1860 - James Braid, Scottish surgeon (b. 1795)
1873 - Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (b. 1810)
1880 - Joseph Rummel, composer, dies at 61
1880 - Ludmilla Assing, writer, dies
1908 - Durham Stevens, American diplomat (b. 1851)
1909 - Ruperto Chapi y Lorente, composer, dies at 57
1914 - Frederic Mistral, French poet (Nobel-1904), dies
1917 - Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (b. 1832)
1918 - Claude A Debussy, French composer (Iberia/La mer), dies in Paris at 55
1924 - John Reedman, cricketer (Test for Aust 1894, 17 & 4, 1 for 24), dies
1937 - John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Bird in Hand), dies at 54
1940 - Ion Nonna Otescu, composer, dies at 51
1948 - Warren Hymer, actor (Show Them No Mercy), dies at 42
1949 - Hanns A Rauter, German SS-commandant in Netherland, executed at 54
1951 - Edward Collins, Hall of Fame infielder (White Sox, A's), dies at 63
1951 - Eddie Collins, American baseball player (b. 1887)
1956 - George Luther Foote, composer, dies at 70
1956 - Robert Newton, actor (Henry V, Odd Man Out), dies at 50
1957 - Fud Livingston, composer, dies at 50
1957 - Max Ophüls, German director and writer (b. 1902)
1958 - Emerson Whithorne, composer, dies at 73
1958 - Tom Brown, American musician (b. 1888)
1959 - Billy Mayerl, composer, dies at 56
1962 - Auguste Piccard, Swiss explorer/balloonist, dies at 78
1963 - David Moore, US feather weight boxer, dies at 29
1965 - Giorgio Federico Ghedini, composer, dies at 72
1965 - Viola Gregg Liuzzo, US civil rights activist, murdered
1966 - Colin Campbell, actor (Leather Boys), dies at 83
1967 - Renato Cellini, Italian conductor (b.c.1913)
1968 - Douglas Evans, actor (South Pacific Trail), dies in Hollywood
1969 - Alan Mowbray, actor (Dante, Colonel Flack), dies at 72
1969 - Max F Eastman, US critic/essayist (Love & Revolution), dies at 86
1969 - Norman Gallichan, cricketer (one Test for NZ, 30 & 2, 3-113), dies
1969 - Max Eastman, American writer (b. 1883)
1969 - Billy Cotton, British bandleader & entertainer (b. 1889)
1973 - Edward Steichen, pioneer of US photography, dies at 93
1974 - Otto Waldis, actor (Unknown World, Whip Hand), dies at 72
1975 - Juan Gaudino, Argentine racing driver (b. 1893)
1978 - Jack Hulbert, actor (Bulldog Jack), dies at 85
1979 - ... Sykes, British ambassador in The Hague, murdered
1979 - Anton Heiller, composer, dies at 55
1980 - Roland Barthes, French literary critic and writer (b. 1915)
1980 - Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (b. 1901)
1980 - Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b. 1913)
1980 - James Wright, American poet (b. 1927)
1983 - Martha Sleeper, actress (Spitfire), dies of a heart attack at 72
1983 - Bob Waterfield, American football player (b. 1920)
1987 - Henry R LaBouisse, headed UNICEF (1965-79), dies at 83
1991 - Eileen Joyce, pianist, dies at 78
1991 - Lee Donn, pianist, dies of stroke at 96
1991 - Marcel Lefebvre, French Catholic prelate (b. 1905)
1992 - Nancy Walker, actress (Ida Morgenstern-Rhoda), dies of cancer at 69
1994 - David Miles Bensuan Economist-Butt, , dies at 79
1994 - Michel R Vassallucci, French/Neth publisher (Arena), dies at 32
1995 - James Gardner, designer, dies at 87
1995 - Peter Herbert Penwarden, priest, dies at 73
1995 - Warren E Burger, chief justice of US (1969-86), dies
1995 - James Coleman, American sociologist (b. 1926)
1995 - Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player (b. 1948)
1996 - John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge, news commentator (BBC), dies at 91
1997 - Roberto Sanchez Vilella, governor of Puerto Rico in (1965-69), dies
1998 - Max Green, Australian lawyer (b. 1952)
1998 - Steve Schiff, United States Congressman (b. 1947)
1999 - Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball manager (b. 1936)
2000 - Helen Martin, American actress (b. 1909)
2002 - Kenneth Wolstenholme, English football commentator (b. 1920)
2005 - Paul Henning, American TV/film producer and writer (b. 1911)
2006 - Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
2006 - Richard Fleischer, American film director (b. 1916)
2006 - Buck Owens, American singer and television personality (b. 1929)
2007 - Andranik Margaryan, Armenian politician (b. 1951)
2008 - Rafael Azcona, Spanish screenwriter (b. 1926)
2008 - Ben Carnevale, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
2009 - Johnny Blanchard, American baseball player (b. 1933)