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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 198

1256 - The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
1303 - Flemings conquers Middelburg
1415 - Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.
1471 - Battle of Tewkesbury - King Edward IV vs Ex-queen Margaretha
1493 - Spanish Pope Alexander VI divides America between Spain & Portugal
1494 - Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica
1540 - Venice & Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople
1572 - Veere sides with Geuzen
1626 - Peter Minuit becomes director-general of New Netherlands
1634 - Johan van Walbeecks fleet departs to West-Indies
1652 - Battle at Etampes: French army under Turenne beats Fronde rebels
1686 - Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines.
1715 - French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris)
1728 - Georg F Handel's opera "Tolomeo, re di Egitto," premieres in London
1747 - Willem IV appointed viceroy of Overijssel
1776 - Rhode Island declares independence from England
1780 - American Academy of Arts & Science founded
1780 - Charles Bunbury on Diomed wins 1st Epsom Derby
1783 - Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus
1799 - Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is assaulted and the Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.
1805 - Henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in Bronx
1814 - Bourbon reign restored in France
1814 - King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decrete of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism.
1818 - Netherlands & England sign treaty against illegal slave handling
1834 - Charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean
1839 - The Cunard Steamship Company Ltd forms San Bonifacio
1843 - Great-Britain annexes Natal
1846 - US state Michigan ends death penalty
1847 - NY State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration
1851 - 1st major SF fire
1858 - War of Reform (Mexico); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz
1859 - The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England.
1861 - At Gretna LA, one of 1st guns of Rebel navy is cast
1862 - -5] Battle at Williamsburg, Virginia
1862 - Yorktown, VA - McClellan halted his troop before town as it is full of armed torpedoes left by CS Brig general Gabrial Rains
1863 - Battle of Chancellorsville-action at Salem Church
1863 - End of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws
1864 - -16] actions at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia
1864 - Gen Grant's Army at Potomac attacks at Rappahannock
1864 - Ulysses S Grant crosses Rapidan & begins his duel with Robert E Lee
1865 - Battle of Citronville, AL; Richard Taylor surrenders
1865 - Battle of Mobile, AL
1866 - Woodward's Gardens opens to public
1869 - The Naval Battle of Hakodate takes place in Japan.
1871 - 1st baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players), (Ft Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double
1878 - Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House
1883 - John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" (Miss)
1886 - Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen
1888 - Italy & Spain sign military covenant
1893 - Cowboy Bob Pickett invents bulldogging
1896 - 1st edition of London Daily Mail (halfpenny)
1896 - Grease fire ignites half ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek Colorado
1897 - 23rd Kentucky Derby: Buttons Garner aboard Typhoon II wins in 2:12.5
1897 - Fire in Paris bazaar at Rue Jean Goujon kills 200
1898 - 24th Kentucky Derby: Willie Simms aboard Plaudit wins in 2:09
1899 - 25th Kentucky Derby: Fred Taral aboard Manuel wins in 2:12
1904 - Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal.
1904 - Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England.
1910 - Canadian Currency Act, 1910, receives Royal Assent
1910 - Canadian parliament accept creation of Royal Canadian Navy
1910 - Tel Aviv founded
1912 - Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes
1915 - Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungaryb & Germany
1916 - At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare
1917 - Arabs sack Tel Aviv
1918 - Yankees set record with 8 sacrifices, beat Red Sox's Babe Ruth 5-4
1919 - 1st legal Sunday baseball game in NYC (Phillies beat Giants 4-3)
1919 - FVC soccer team forms
1919 - Giants play their 1st legal Sunday home game, 35,000 see Phils win 4-3
1922 - KNX-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions
1923 - Bloody street battles between nazi's, socialist & police in Vienna
1923 - NY state revokes Prohibition law
1924 - 8th Olympic games open at Paris, France
1924 - German Republic election fascists & communists win
1925 - League of Nations conference on arms control & poison gas usage
1926 - General strike hits Britain
1927 - 1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Ill)
1927 - Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences forms
1927 - Nicaragua agrees to a US supervised presidential election in 1928
1929 - Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive HRs, Yankees 11, Tigers 9
1931 - Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish president
1932 - Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiary
1933 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador)
1935 - 61st Kentucky Derby: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 2:05
1936 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Harold L Davis (Honey in the Horn)
1938 - Douglas Hyde (a protestant) becomes 1st president of Eire
1940 - 21 "not neutral" nazis & communists arrested in Netherlands
1940 - 66th Kentucky Derby: Carroll Bierman aboard Gallahadion wins in 2:05
1942 - Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air)
1942 - Food 1st rationed in US
1942 - German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages
1942 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life)
1943 - NL Ford Frick demonstrates revised balata ball to reporters by bouncing it on his office carpet ball proves to be 50% livelier
1945 - German troops in Netherlands, Denmark & Norway surrender
1946 - 5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz prison in SF bay
1946 - 72nd Kentucky Derby: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:06.6
1946 - Wash's Cecil Travis gets 6 straight hits before being stopped
1948 - The Hague Court of Justice convicts Hans Rauter (SS) to the death
1949 - Air crash at Turijn (whole Torino-soccer team survives)
1952 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Fresno Golf Open

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 222

1006 - Abd-Allah Ansari, Persian mystic/poet (Monadjat)
1008 - Khajeh Abdollah Ansari, The Persian Sufi (d. 1088)
1008 - King Henry I of France (d. 1060)
1611 - Carlo Rainaldi, composer
1631 - Mary I Henriette Stuart, daughter of Charles I/queen of England
1635 - Willem van Outhoorn, Dutch governor-general (Dutch East Indies)
1654 - Kangxi Emperor of China (d. 1722)
1655 - Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori, Italy, piano builder
1715 - Richard Graves, English writer (d. 1804)
1733 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (d. 1799)
1738 - Josef Kohaut, composer
1744 - Marianne von Martinez, composer
1752 - John Brooks, 11th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825)
1763 - Franz Stanislaus Spindler, composer
1767 - Tyagaraja, Composer of Indian classical Carnatic music (d. 1847)
1769 - Charles Hague, composer
1772 - Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German publisher (d. 1823)
1776 - Johann Friedrich Herbart, Germany, philosopher/psychologist
1777 - Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer
1781 - Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (d. 1832)
1796 - Horace Mann, US, educator/author/editor (pioneered public schools)
1796 - Joseph Pannell Taylor, Brig General (Union Army), died in 1864
1796 - William H. Prescott, American historian (d. 1859)
1820 - Joseph Whitaker, England, publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack
1820 - Julia Gardiner Tyler, 2nd wife of Pres John Tyler (1841-45)
1822 - Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Quebec politician (d. 1915)
1825 - Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist/humanist/Darwinist
1825 - Augustus Le Plongeon, French antiquitarian (d. 1908)
1826 - Frederick Church, US romantic landscape painter (Hudson River Sch)
1827 - John Hanning Speke, British explorer (d. 1864)
1835 - Edmund Hart Turpin, composer
1852 - Alice Pleasance Liddell, English schoolgirl model for Alice in Wonderland (d. 1934)
1860 - Emil Nikolaus Von Reznicek, Vienna Austria, composer (Donna Diana)
1867 - Dynam-Victor Fumet, composer
1870 - Alexandre Benois, Russian artist (d. 1960)
1871 - Mynona, writer
1873 - Joe De Grasse, Canadian film director (d. 1940)
1875 - Ramiro de Maeztu y Whitney, Spanish writer (Don Quixote & Celestine)
1875 - Reggie Schwartz, cricketer (1st of great South African googlists)
1877 - Arthur Lang, US, boxer/businessman (Died Aug 8, 1992 at 115)
1881 - Aleksandr F Kerenski, Russian premier (1917-Prelude to Bolshevism)
1882 - Wilhelm Lehmann, writer
1889 - Francis J Spellman, US Cardinal
1891 - Frederick Jacobi, composer
1891 - Johan W F Werumeus Buning, Dutch poet (Daily Bread)
1893 - Edgar Dearing, Ceres CA, actor (Abraham Lincoln, Free & Easy)
1893 - Royal Butler, [Edwin Richey], Atlanta GA, actor
1902 - Cola [Nicolas] Debrot, Bonaire governor (Neth Antilles)/author
1902 - Cvjetko Rihtman, composer
1902 - Rodney Meredith Thomas, architect/painter
1903 - Luther Adler, NYC, actor (Dr Bernard Altman-Psychiatrist)
1904 - Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer (official Date of Birth) (d. 1975)
1905 - Mátyás Seiber, Budapest Hungary, composer (Scherzando)
1906 - Esmond Knight, East Sheen England, actor (Hamlet, Sleeping Murder)
1907 - Lincoln Kirstein, American impresario (d. 1996)
1909 - Howard Da Silva, [Silverblatt], Cleve Oh, actor (Ben Franklin-1776)
1909 - Jeroom Verten [Jozef F Vermetten], Flemish playwright
1910 - Mady Alfredo, [Maria M the Brieder], actress (Alicia)
1912 - Lou Brown, Bkln, orch leader (Jerry Lewis Show)
1913 - Lady Katherine Brandram, née Princess of Greece and Denmark (d. 2007)
1914 - Abdel Karim Kassem, general/premier/dictator of Iraq (1958-63)
1914 - Emmanuel Robles, Algerian-Fren journalist/playwright (Lesson Hauteurs)
1915 - Curt Conway, Boston MA, actor (Raw Deal)
1915 - Pedro Saenz, composer
1916 - Maurice "Moe" Purtill, jazz drummer
1917 - Edward Toner Cone, composer
1918 - Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese PM (1972-74), convicted of bribe-taking
1918 - Thomas Mead, Australian politician and journalist (d. 2004)
1919 - Dimiter Petkov, composer
1919 - Mary Ann McCall, singer
1921 - John van Kesteren, Dutch tenor (Komische Oper, West-Berlin)
1921 - Patsy Garrett, Atlantic City NJ, actress (Nanny & the Professor)
1921 - Edo Murtić, Croatian painter (d. 2005)
1922 - John Paul Hammerschmidt, (Rep-R-AR, 1967- )
1923 - Ed Cassidy, American musician (Spirit)
1923 - Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer and author
1924 - Peter Aldersley, actor/disc jockey
1924 - Tat'yana Petrovna Nikolayeva, composer
1925 - Peter Blum, German/South African/English poet (Capricorn)
1925 - Maurice R. Greenberg, American businessman
1926 - G Reinshagen, writer
1926 - Milton "Milt" Thompson, US NASA-test pilot/chief-engineer (X-15)
1928 - Betsy Rawls, Spartanburg SC, golfer (US Womens Open-51, 53, 57, 60)
1928 - Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian president (1981- )
1928 - Maynard Ferguson, Verdun Quebec, jazz trumpeter (Roulette)
1928 - Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver (d. 1961)
1929 - Audrey Hepburn, Brussels Belg, (Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady)
1929 - Sidney Lamb, American linguist
1930 - Roberta Peters, NYC, operatic soprano (NY Met)
1931 - Ed Cassidy, drummer (Spirit-I Got A Line on You)
1931 - Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Moscow Russia, conductor (USSR State Radio)
1931 - Thomas Stuttaford, British doctor and writer
1932 - Fausto Razzi, composer
1933 - J. Fred Duckett, Texan sports announcer and teacher
1934 - Pete Barbutti, Scranton Pa, comedian (Garry Moore Show)
1936 - El Cordobés, Spanish matador
1937 - Hans Ulrich Lehmann, composer
1937 - Mr. Fuji, Former professional wrestler
1937 - Dick Dale, American guitarist
1938 - Tyrone Davis, US R&B singer (Are you serious)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 87 of 87

1436 - Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish statesman (b. 1390s)
1471 - Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (killed in battle) (b. 1453)
1471 - Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, English military commander (executed)
1506 - Husayn Bayqarah, ruler of Herat (b. 1438)
1519 - Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (b. 1492)
1566 - Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1490)
1594 - Paul Buys, Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies at 62
1604 - Claudio Merulo, composer, dies at 71
1605 - Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical, dies at 82
1615 - Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (b. 1561)
1626 - Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, English bishop and Bible translator (b. 1569)
1677 - Isaac Barrow, English mathematician (b. 1630)
1684 - John Nevison, English highwayman (b. 1639)
1729 - Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles, French cardinal (b. 1651)
1734 - James Thornhill, English painter
1737 - Eustace Budgell, English writer (b. 1686)
1752 - Pieter Snyers, Flemish painter/engraver, dies at 71
1770 - Christian Gottfried Krause, composer, dies at 51
1774 - Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1714)
1776 - Jacques Saly, French sculptor (b. 1717)
1790 - Matthew Tilghman, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1718)
1799 - Tipu Sultan, Indian military leader (b. 1750)
1811 - Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (b. 1776)
1824 - Joseph Joubert, French essayist and moralist (b. 1754)
1832 - Jan van Speyck, Dutch admiral, buried in New Church
1855 - Camille Pleyel, Austria piano builder/composer, dies at 66
1858 - Aimé Bonpland, French explorer and botanist (b. 1773)
1859 - Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician (b. 1771)
1860 - Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, composer, dies
1879 - William Froude, Brit civil eng/shipbuilder (F Integer), dies at 68
1880 - Edward Clark, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
1885 - Aleksandar I Karadjordjevic, monarch of Serbia (1842-58), dies at 78
1891 - Sherlock Holmes, "dies" at Reichenbach Falls
1893 - George Washington Hewitt, composer, dies at 82
1901 - John Jones Ross, Canadian politician (b. 1831)
1903 - Goce Delchev, a revolutionary from the Balkans - leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (b. 1872)
1916 - Joseph Mary Plunkett, Irish revolutionary (b. 1887)
1919 - Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak politician, French general and astronomer (b. 1880)
1922 - Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (b. 1888)
1928 - Barry E Odell Pain, English writer (Punch), dies at 63
1929 - Henry Morton Dunham, composer, dies at 75
1937 - Noel Rosa, Brazilian songwriter (b. 1910)
1938 - Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist/writer (Nobel 1935), dies at 48
1953 - Edward B B Shanks, British poet/critic, dies at 60
1953 - Thomas Tertius Noble, composer, dies at 85
1955 - Georges Enescu, Romanian/French violist/composer (Oedipe), dies at 73
1955 - Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer, dies at 75
1961 - Anita Stewart, dies of heart attack at 66
1965 - Norman Brokenshire, TV moderator (Four Square Court), dies at 66
1966 - Juan Maria Thomas Sabater, composer, dies at 69
1967 - Bengt Axel von Torne, composer, dies at 75
1969 - Osbert Sitwell, English writer (b. 1892)
1970 - 4 students, at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard
1970 - William Schroeder (b. 1950)
1971 - Donald Dexter Van Slyke, US chemist (Cyanosis), dies at 88
1971 - Joseph Csaky, Hungarian/French sculptor, dies at 83
1971 - Louis de Bree, [Louis C Davids], Dutch actor (Bluejackets), dies at 87
1972 - Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
1973 - Jane Bowles, writer, dies at 56
1974 - Israel Citkowitz, composer, dies at 65
1974 - John Wengraf, actor (Pride & Passion, 12 to the Moon), dies at 77
1975 - Moe Howard, [Moses Horowitz], comedian (3 Stooges), dies at 77
1980 - Josip Broz Tito, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80), dies at 87
1980 - Kay Hammond, actress (Blithe SPirit, 5 Golden Hours), dies
1983 - Nino Sanzogno, composer, dies at 72
1984 - Diana Dors, actress (Berserk!), dies at 52 of cancer
1984 - Bob Clampett, American cartoonist (b. 1913)
1985 - Clarence Wiseman, the 10th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1907)
1987 - Cathryn Damon, actress (Mary Campbell-Soap), dies at 56
1987 - Dick Hillenius, Dutch biologist/writer, dies at 59
1987 - Paul Butterfield, singer/harmonica player, dies of drug abuse at 44
1990 - Don Appell, dies
1991 - Dennis Crosby, son of Bing, commits suicide at 54
1992 - Henri Guillemin, French historian, dies at 89
1992 - Ismael Galeano, "Commandant Franklyn" (Contra), dies
1992 - Vitali Andreyevich Grishchenko, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 50
1992 - Gregor Mackenzie, Labour Party (UK) politician (b. 1927)
1994 - Karl Francis Hettinger, onion Field survivor, dies at 59
1995 - Lewis T Preston, banker, dies at 68
1995 - Louis Krasner, violinist, dies at 91
1996 - Jean Crepin, soldier/industrialist, dies at 87
1996 - Stanley William Reed, cineaste, dies at 85
1997 - Alvy Moore, actor/producer (Mr Kimball-Green Acres), dies at 75
1997 - Vijayananda Dahanayake, PM of Sri Lanka (1959-60), dies
2001 - Bonnie Lee Bakley, American murder victim (b. 1956)
2005 - David Hackworth, U.S. Army officer and military journalist (b. 1930)
2009 - Dom Deluise, American comedian, actor (b. 1933)