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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 207

143 - Earliest known date in Amer-pre Mayan king Harvest-Bergvorst installed
685 - Battle at Nechtansmere: Picten beat Northumbrians
878 - Syracuse, Italy is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.
879 - Pope John VIII gives blessings to duke Branimir and to Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of Croatian state.
996 - Pope Gregory V crowns his cousin Otto III German emperor
1040 - King Henry III gives Utrecht the Groninger currency
1216 - French crown prince Louis enters England
1260 - Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire sends his envoy Hao Jing and two other advisors to the Song Dynasty court of Emperor Lizong of Song; while attempting to negotiate with the Song in order to resolve their conflict, Hao Jing and his fellow emissaries are imprisoned by order of the high Chancellor of China, Jia Sidao.
1420 - Treaty of Troyes-French King Charles VI gives France to English
1471 - King Edwards IV enters London
1502 - Portuguese admiral Da Nova discovers St Helena
1526 - -Jun 8] Sermon of Bathe, Aargau: TC evangelical theology
1553 - English Lady Jane Grey marries Guildford Dudley
1602 - Martha's Vineyard 1st sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold)
1674 - General John Sobieski chosen King of Poland
1683 - West Indian Company sells 1/3 of Suriname
1725 - The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by the empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
1758 - Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War.
1793 - Curacao Island Council forbids criticism on House of Orange
1804 - Lewis & Clark Expedition begins
1809 - Battle at Aspern-Essling: Austrian arch duke Karl beats Napoleon
1819 - 1st bicycles (swift walkers) in US introduced in NYC
1825 - Prince Willem FK marries Louise AWA of Prussia
1832 - 1st Democratic National Convention (Baltimore)
1840 - NZ became a British colony
1846 - 1st steamship arrives in Hawaii
1856 - Lawrence Kansas captured, sacked by pro-slavery forces
1861 - NC is 10th state to secede from Union
1861 - Richmond, Va is designated Confederate Capital
1863 - Siege on Port Hudson, Louisiana begins
1864 - GEN David Hunter takes command of Dept of West Virginia
1864 - Russia declares an end to the Russian-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated to be the Circassian Day of Mourning.
1866 - 1st-class debut of G F Grace aged 15 years 159 days
1871 - -July 28] French regular troops attack Commune of Paris; 17,000 die
1878 - 4th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Carter aboard Day Star wins in 2:37.25
1879 - Battle of Iquiquw
1879 - War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
1881 - American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton
1881 - US Nation Lawn Tennis Association forms
1886 - 14th Preakness: S Fisher aboard Bard wins in 2:45
1891 - Boxers Peter Jackson & Jim Corbett fight to a draw in 61 rounds
1892 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo's opera "Pagliacci," premieres in Milan
1894 - 22-year-old French Anarchist Émile Henry is executed by guillotine.
1897 - Yerkes Observatory 40" (1m) refractor used for 1st time
1898 - US Assay Office in Seattle, Washington authorized
1904 - Federation Internationale de Football Assn (Soccer) forms in Paris
1906 - Louis H Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars
1907 - 32nd Preakness: G Mountain aboard Don Enrique wins in 1:45.4
1908 - 1st horror movie (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) premieres in Chicago
1908 - Bill Burns has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in 9th
1914 - 39th Preakness: Andy Schuttinger aboard Holiday wins in 1:53.8
1914 - Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota
1916 - Britain begins "Summer Time" (Daylight Savings Time)
1917 - Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WW I
1917 - The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 takes place.
1918 - House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote
1921 - Oldest radio station west of Mississippi River licensed in Greeley Co
1922 - "On the Road to Moscow" is 1st cartoon to receive a Pulitzer Prize
1922 - Col Ruppert buys out Col Huston interest in NY Yankees for $1,500,000
1922 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Anna Christie)
1922 - Ruppert buys out Huston interest in Yankees for $15 million
1924 - Leopold & Loeb kidnap Bobby Franks for fun
1925 - Canadians allow to sell beer
1925 - George Lloyd of Dolobran becomes British High Director of Egypt
1925 - Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole
1926 - White Sox Earl Sheely hits a record 6th consecutive double
1927 - Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic
1929 - Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NYC
1929 - Sergei Prokoviev's ballet "Prodigal Son," premieres in Paris
1930 - Max Bishop draws 8 walks in a doubleheader
1930 - NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers
1931 - Belgian govt of Jaspar falls
1932 - 1st Curtis Cup: US wins, 5½-3½ at Wentworth Club (Wentworth, England)
1932 - 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands
1933 - Mt Davidson Cross lit by FDR via telegraph
1934 - Oskaloosa Iowa, becomes 1st US city to fingerprint its citizens
1936 - Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her hand. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
1938 - Bradman scores 143 Aust v Surrey, 198 mins, 11 fours
1940 - AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees
1940 - Allied counter attack at Atrecht North-France
1940 - Reynaud forms French govt
1941 - 1st US ship sunk by a U-boat (SS Robin Moore)
1941 - German airforce occupies airport at Maleme Kreta
1941 - Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp
1942 - Great-Britain convoy PQ16 departs to Russia
1943 - Fastest 9 inning AL baseball game (89 mins), White Sox beat Senators
1944 - Hitler begins attack on English/US "terror pilots"
1945 - Aust Services win 1st Victory Test Cricket at Lord's by 6 wickets
1945 - German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured
1945 - Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart wed
1948 - NY Yank Joe Dimaggio hits for cycle (single, double, triple, HR)
1950 - Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia
1951 - The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition - a gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively know as the New York School.
1952 - Bkln Dodgers score 15 runs in 1st inning & beat Cin Reds, 19-1
1952 - Dutch Queen Juliana opens Amsterdam-Rhine Canal
1953 - French govt of Mayer resigns
1954 - Amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated
1955 - "House of Flowers" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 165 performances
1955 - 1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight-sunrise to sunset
1955 - WFRV TV channel 5 in Green Bay, WI (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting

Famous Birthdays

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1471 - Albrecht Durer, Nornberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker
1527 - Philip II, King of Spain (1556-98) & Portugal (1580-98)
1633 - Joseph de La Barre, composer
1653 - Eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria, queen consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1697)
1671 - Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer
1680 - Frederich Karl Erbach, composer
1688 - Alexander Pope, England, poet (Rape of the Lock)
1720 - Antonio Corbisiero, composer
1722 - Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer
1755 - Alfred Moore, American judge (d. 1810)
1763 - Joseph Fouché, French statesman (d. 1820)
1775 - Lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino/Musignano
1780 - Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse
1792 - Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (d. 1843)
1796 - Reverdy Johnson, rep (Union), died in 1876
1821 - John F Loudon, Dutch entrepreneur/colonial director
1822 - Dabney Herndon Maury, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1900
1822 - Mosby Monroe Parsons, Brig General (Confederate Army) died in 1865
1825 - George Lafayette Beal, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1826 - Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro
1827 - William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (d. 1899)
1832 - Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (d. 1917)
1834 - Charles-Albert Gobat, Switz, politician/lawyer/author (Nobel 1902)
1835 - Newton Martin Curtis, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1835 - František Chvostek, Moravian physician (d. 1884)
1841 - Joseph Parry, composer
1843 - Louis Renault, French lawyer
1843 - Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician (d. 1914)
1850 - Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (d. 1914)
1851 - Leon Bourgeois, France, politician, internationalist (Nobel 1920)
1853 - Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (d. 1905)
1855 - Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian poet/writer (Les Flammes Hautes)
1858 - Jose Battle Ordonez, Uruguay, politician
1860 - Willam Einthoven, Dutch physiologist/inventor (electrocardiograph)
1864 - Princess Stephanie of Belgium (d. 1945)
1865 - C J Thomsen, Denmark, archaeologist, named Stone/Iron/Bronze Ages
1867 - John James Ferris, cricketer (mighty Australian bowler of late 1880's)
1867 - Marie Joseph Leon Desire Paque, composer
1872 - Henry Warren, Boston Mass, inventor (Telechon electric clock)
1873 - Emil Ermatinger, Switz, literature historian
1873 - Everard Verachtert, Flemish translator (I speak beschaafd Dutch)
1873 - Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (d. 1941)
1878 - Glenn Hammond Curtiss, US, inventor (hydroplane)
1878 - Louis L H de Visser, Dutch MP (CPN)
1880 - Pablo Luna y Carne, composer
1880 - Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (d. 1967)
1882 - Georgine M "May" Basting, actress (Hostage Rights of Aemstel)
1884 - Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (d. 1920)
1885 - Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, wife of Prince William of Wied (d.1936)
1887 - Mabel Taliaferro, NYC, actress (Sentimental Tommy, My Love Come Back)
1888 - May Aufderheide, composer
1890 - Albert van Raalte, conductor (AVRO-orchestra)
1892 - John Peale Bishop, US poet (This Side of Paradise)
1893 - Arthur Carr, cricket capt (England v Australia 1926)
1893 - Simon Delmonte, actor/director (Boemeladvocaat)
1898 - Armand Hammer, NYC, millionaire industrialist (Occidental Petroleum)
1898 - Karel Haba, composer
1899 - Ilse Lagner, writer
1899 - Ralph Sanford, Springfield Mass, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp)
1901 - Horace Heidt, Alameda Calif, orch leader (Swift Show Wagon)
1901 - Suzanne Lilar, [Verbist], France/Belgian writer (Le burlador)
1902 - Earl Averill, baseball player (d. 1983)
1902 - Marcel Lajos Breuer, Hungarian-born architect (d. 1981)
1903 - Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesian attorney/minister/premier (1953..7)
1903 - Manly Wade Wellman, Angola, sci-fi author (After Dark, Devil's Planet)
1903 - Pedro Aramburu, president Argentina
1904 - Fats Waller, [Thomas Wright], jazz singer/composer (Ain't Misbehavin')
1904 - Robert Montgomery, Beacon NY, actor/dir (Earl of Chicago, Yellow Jack)
1905 - Edward Lockspeiser, composer
1906 - Keith Rigg, cricketer (Australian Test batsman in the thirties)
1909 - Guy de Rothschild, French banker
1909 - François-Albert Angers, Quebec economist (d. 2003)
1912 - John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist (d. 1986)
1912 - Monty Stratton, baseball player (d. 1982)
1913 - Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (d. 1976)
1916 - Harold Robbins, NYC, author (Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers, Betsy)
1916 - Helen Willis Moody Roark, tennis player (US Open 1923-25, 27-29, 31)
1916 - Joseph Janni, producer
1916 - Leonard Manasseh, architect
1916 - Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (d. 2002)
1917 - Dennis Day, Irish tenor/comedian (Jack Benny Show, Danny Boy)
1917 - Heather Swift, local councillor
1917 - Jean-Louis Curtis, French writer (Just Causes)
1917 - Raymond Burr, BC Canada, actor (Perry Mason, Ironsides, Godzilla)
1917 - Ronald John Bilsland Colville, businessman
1918 - Leonard Mullens, rubber physicist
1919 - Lord Maxwell, senator/prof (college of Justice Scotland)
1919 - Mark Wood, bishop (Ludlow)
1920 - Anthony Steel, London, actor (Malta Story, Wooden Horse)
1921 - Andrei Sakharov, Moscow, physicist, human rights worker (Nobel '75)
1923 - Bettye Danoff, LPGA golfer
1923 - Doris Mae Akers, gospel singer/songwriter
1923 - Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (d. 2003)
1924 - Peggy Cass, Boston MA, actress/TV panelist (To Tell the Truth, Mame)
1924 - Robert Parris, Philadelphia, composer (Book of Imaginery Beings)
1926 - Dan Perlsweig, horse trainer
1926 - Joseph Horovitz, composer
1926 - Rick Jason, NYC, actor (Day of the Wolves, Eagles Attack at Dawn)
1926 - Robert Creeley, Mass, poet/novelist (Island)
1927 - George Levy, antique dealer/heritage campaigner

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 113

987 - Louis V, last Carlovingians King of France (966-987), dies
1254 - Koenraad IV, RC-German king (1237-54), dies at 26
1254 - Conrad IV of Germany (b. 1228)
1481 - Christian I, king of Denmark/Norway/Sweden, dies
1512 - Pandolfo Petrucci, ruler of Siena
1524 - Thomas Howard 2nd duke of Norfolk, general/premier, dies at about 80
1542 - Hernando de Soto, dies while searching for gold, near Mississippi R
1607 - John Rainolds, English scholar (b. 1549)
1639 - Giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, dies at 70
1647 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, poet/playwright (Warenar), dies at about 65
1650 - James G, Marquis of Montrose, Scottish general, hanged
1664 - Elizabeth Poole, Puritan businesswoman
1670 - Niccolo Zucchi, Italian astronomer (b. 1586)
1686 - (N. S.) Otto von Guericke, German scientist (b. 1602)
1690 - John Eliot, English missionary in Massachusetts, dies at 85
1703 - Roemer Vlacq, Dutch admiral, dies in battle
1719 - Pierre Poiret, French mystic (b. 1646)
1725 - Robert Haley earl of Oxford, English Whig-premier (1710-4), dies at 63
1742 - Lars Roberg, Swedish physician (b. 1664)
1771 - Christopher Smart, English poet (b. 1722)
1786 - Carl W Scheele, Swedish pharmacist/chemist, dies at 43
1790 - Thomas Warton, English poet (Oxford sausage), dies
1810 - Charles GLAAT chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy, dies at 81
1812 - Joseph Wolfl, composer, dies at 38
1815 - Roman Hoffstetter, composer, dies at 73
1817 - Johann Friedrich Christmann, composer, dies at 64
1844 - Guiseppi Baini, composer, dies at 68
1860 - Johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer, dies at 53
1862 - John Drew, Irish-born American actor (b. 1827)
1879 - Arturo Prat, Chilean naval officer (b. 1848)
1885 - Gavril Yakimovich Lomakin, composer, dies at 73
1894 - August A Kundt, German physicist, (test of Kundt), dies at 54
1894 - Emile Henry, French anarchist (b. 1872)
1895 - Franz von Suppe, Austrian composer (Poet und Bauer), dies at 76
1897 - Karol Mikuli, composer, dies at 77
1911 - Williamina Fleming, Scottish-born astronomer (b. 1857)
1915 - Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (b. 1875)
1919 - Victor A D Segalen, [Max Anely], French ship's doctor/writer, dies
1919 - Yevgraf Fyodorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1853)
1924 - Bobby Franks, killed by Leopold & Loeb, at 14
1926 - Georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer, dies at 65
1926 - Ronald Arthur A Firbank, British writer (Prancing Nigger), dies at 40
1929 - V P F A Royle, cricketer (one Test England v Australia 1879), dies
1933 - John Henry Mackay, Scottish/German author (Der Schwimmer), dies at 69
1935 - Hugo de Vries, botanist Gruppenweise Artbildung, dies at 87
1935 - Jane Addams, a founder of ACLU (Nobel 1973), dies at 65
1949 - Klaus Mann, German writer, dies at 42
1952 - John Garfield, actor (Juarez, Air Force), dies at 39
1954 - Janos Hammerschlag, composer, dies at 68
1957 - Edwin St Hill, cricketer (two Tests for West Indies 1930-31), dies
1957 - Aleksandr Vertinsky, Russian singer (b. 1889)
1964 - James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
1965 - Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer (b. 1882)
1966 - Pat O'Malley, silent film actor (Wild One, Quiet Man), dies at 75
1968 - Doris Lloyd, actress (Oliver Twist), dies of heart strain at 71
1970 - Vinton Hayworth, actor (Gen Schaeffer-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 63
1970 - E. L. Grant Watson, Australian biologist (b. 1885)
1971 - Dennis King, actor (Devil's Brother), dies of heart ailment at 73
1973 - Carlo E Gadda, Italian engineer/writer (War Diary), dies at 79
1973 - George Breakstone, actor/director (Great Expectations), dies at 53
1973 - Vaughn Monroe, singer/orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), dies at 61
1976 - Sulo Nikolai Salonen, composer, dies at 77
1978 - Joseph EA "Jo" Spier, Dutch cartoonist/water color painter, dies at 77
1980 - Ida Kaminska, actress (Shop on Main Street), dies
1981 - Yuki Shimoda, actor (Farewell to Manzanar), dies
1981 - Patsy O'Hara, Irish hunger striker (b. 1957)
1981 - Raymond Mccreesh, Irish hunger striker (b. 1957)
1983 - Finn Einar Mortensen, composer, dies at 61
1983 - Kenneth Clark, English art historian (b. 1903)
1984 - Andrea Leeds, actress (Stage Door, Earthbound), dies of cancer at 70
1984 - Ann Little, actress (Roaring Road), dies
1984 - Ann Little, American actress (b. 1891)
1985 - Julie Vega, Philippine Actress (b. 1968)
1987 - Alejandro Rey, actor (Carlos-Flying Nun), dies at 57
1988 - Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations, dies at 92
1990 - Franklyn Seales, actor (Silver Spoon, Onion Field), dies of AIDS at 37
1990 - Mary Victor Bruce, who flew around empire state bldg in 1930, dies
1990 - Moelvi Mohammed Farouk, Indian spiritual leader, murdered
1991 - Bobby Dale, dies at 92
1991 - Jean Van Joutte, PM of Belgium (1952-54), dies
1991 - Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated at 46
1992 - Brendan Nulholland, Daily Mail reporter, dies at 59
1992 - Elizabeth David, British cookbook writer, dies
1992 - Mrithi, gorilla (Gorilla in the Mist), dies at 24
1992 - Skip Stephenson, TV host (Real People), dies
1993 - John Frost, English lt-kol (operation Market Garden 1944), dies at 80
1993 - John Holland, actor (They Saved Hitler's Brain), dies at 65
1994 - Cliff Wilson, snooker player, dies at 60
1994 - Forsyth Hardy, documentary film pioneer, dies at 84
1994 - Giovanni Goria, PM of Italy (1987-88), dies
1994 - John Henry Weidner, Dutch/US resistance fighter, dies at 81
1994 - John Weidner, war hero, dies at 71
1995 - Kieron Walsh, academic, dies at 46
1995 - Les Aspin, US sec of Defense (1993-95), dies of stroke at 56
1995 - Patrick Bowles, writer/translator, dies at 68
1996 - Al "Lash" La Rue, cowboy actor (Lash of the West), dies at 78
1996 - Bobby Tulloch, ornithologist, dies at 67
1996 - Eric Stuart Woord, archaeologist, dies at 83
1996 - Laurence Dowdall, lawyer, dies at 91
1996 - Mary Perot Nichols, journalist, dies at 79