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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 156

365 - [Felix II] ends his reign as Catholic Pope
498 - St Symmachus begins his reign as Pope replacing Anastasius II
845 - 845 : the first King of all Brittany, Nominoe defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.
1221 - Frederik II Hohenstaufen crowned Roman-German Emperor
1346 - Street fights in Utrecht, Hollandsgezinde Gunterlingen statements
1497 - Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope
1542 - Spain delegates "New Laws" against slavery in America
1573 - The Brazilian city of Niterói is founded.
1574 - Discovery of the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.
1675 - English king Charles II adjourns parliament
1683 - Purcells "Welcome to All the Pleasures," premieres in London
1699 - Treaty of Preobrasjensku Denmark/Russia/Saksen/Poland divide Sweden
1707 - Prince Johan Willem Friso sworn in as viceroy of Friesland
1714 - King Karel XII leaves Turkish captivity to return to Sweden
1718 - Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
1794 - Strasbourg Alsace-Lorraine, prohibits circumcision & wearing of beards
1809 - Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen
1830 - Charles Grey, (2nd Earl Grey), became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1831 - Opera "Robert Le Diable" is produced (Paris)
1842 - Mount St Helens in Washington, erupts
1851 - Opera "La Perle Du Brésil" is produced (Paris)
1861 - Battle of Ft McRee, FL
1864 - Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia, ends after 650 casualties
1864 - Union General O Howard orders plunderers, shot to death
1872 - Franz Grillparzer's "Die Judin von Toledo," premieres in Prague
1884 - T Thomas Fortune starts NY Freeman (NY Age) newspaper
1886 - Victoria Street Cable Tram route begins in Melbourne, Australia
1898 - Opera "Iris" premieres (Rome)
1899 - -23] Battle at Willow Grange, Natal (British vs Boer army)
1905 - British, Italian, Russ, French & Aust-Hung fleet attack Lesbos
1906 - Intl Radio Telecommunications Com adopts "SOS" as new call for help
1908 - 1st US-Japanese baseball game Reach All-Americans defeat Waseda U, 5-0
1910 - Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs
1914 - Ypres Belgium burned by German bombing
1917 - NHL forms with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators & Quebec Bulldogs; National Hockey Assn disbands
1918 - Bathe: grand duke Frederik II resigns
1918 - King Albert I's triumphant procession through Brussels
1918 - Marshal J Pilsudski becomes 1st president (dictator) of Poland
1918 - Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov)
1919 - 15,000 men are cremated at Domela Newenhouse, Amsterdam
1919 - Labor conference committee in US urges 8-hour work day & 48-hour week
1922 - British Labour party selects Ramsay MacDonald as leader
1922 - Library Ave in Bronx named
1922 - Wilhelm Cuno forms new German govt
1923 - Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death
1924 - England orders Egyptians out of Sudan
1925 - Red Grange signs with Chicago Bears directly out of college
1926 - Imperial Conference ends-giving autonomy inside Brit Commonwealth
1927 - 1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (Sayner Wisc)
1927 - George Gershwin's "Funny Face," premieres in NYC
1927 - Neil Simon Theater (Alvin) opens at 250 W 52nd St NYC
1928 - "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, 1st performed publicly (Paris)
1929 - Bradman scores 157 for NSW against the MCC at cricket SCG
1930 - 1st Irish Sweepstake run
1930 - 1st US football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0)
1930 - Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in Detroit
1931 - Ferde Grofe's "Grand Canyon Suite," premieres
1932 - Pump patented that computes quantity & price delivered
1934 - "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" 1st heard on Eddie Cantor's show
1935 - China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda, Calif, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight
1936 - 19th PGA Championship: Denny Shute at Pinehurst CC Pinehurst NC
1940 - 500 students in Delft demonstrate against nazis
1941 - British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Atlantis
1941 - NZ troops conquer Ft Capuzzo Libya
1942 - Gen-major Rodins 26th Pantser corp recaptures Ostrov
1942 - Hitler orders Rommels African corps to fight to last man
1943 - FDR, Churchill & Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan
1943 - Lebanon declares independence from French administration
1943 - RAF begins air bombing of Berlin
1943 - US troops land on Abemada, Gilbert Island
1944 - Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry occupies Hoven at Geilenkirchen
1945 - "Day before Spring" opens at National Theater NYC for 167 performances
1945 - Jim Benton, Cleveland end, gains 303 yards (NFL record)
1950 - 7,021 see lowest NBA score, Ft Wayne Pistons 19, Minneapolis Lakers 18
1950 - 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills NY
1952 - A's Harry Byrd selected AL Rookie of Year
1954 - Humane Society forms
1955 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1955 - RCA Victor's best investment paying $25,000 to Sun Records & Sam Philips for rights to Elvis Presley, a truck driver from Tupelo Miss
1956 - 16th modern Olympic games opens in Melbourne
1956 - Bill Sharman (Boston) begins NBA free throw streak of 55 games
1957 - Mickey Mantle wins AL MVP
1957 - Miles Davis Quintet debuts a jazz concert at Carnegie Hall in NY
1957 - Simon & Garfunkel appear on "American Bandstand" as "Tom & Jerry"
1959 - AFL's 1st draft - NY Titans choice George Izo, QB, Notre Dame
1959 - Boston Patriots enters AFL
1960 - French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons
1961 - Frank Robinson is 1st to win MVPs in both major leagues
1961 - St Louis Hawk Bob Pettit sets NBA record, hitting 19 of 19 free throws
1961 - Producers Albert Broccoli & Harry Saltzman announce expensive publicity campaign to make Sean Connery (James Bond) a star
1963 - Beatles release their 2nd album "With the Beatles" in UK
1964 - Lyndon Baines Johnson sworn in as 36th US president
1964 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mary Mills Miss Gulf Coast Golf Invitational
1964 - WITF TV channel 33 in Harrisburg-Hershey, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 - "Man of La Mancha" opens at ANTA Wash Sq Theater NYC for 2329 perfs
1965 - Bob Dylan weds Sara Lowndes
1965 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Floyd Patterson in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1966 - 32nd Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Spurrier, Florida (QB)
1967 - BBC unofficially bans "I Am the Walrus" by Beatles
1967 - Silver hits record $2.17 an ounce in New York

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 234

1450 - Jacob Obrecht, composer
1458 - Jacob Obrecht, Dutch composer (d. 1505)
1511 - Erasmus Reinhold, Germany, mathematician (calculated planetary table)
1515 - Marie Guise, French wife of king James V of Scotland
1535 - John, the Old, earl of Nassau/tribal father Neth royal family
1564 - Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (d. 1610)
1579 - Jan Baptist Stalpart van der Wiele, Dutch lawyer/pastor/lyricist
1602 - Elisabeth of Bourbon, Queen of Philip IV of Spain (d. 1644)
1606 - Pieter II de Jode, Flemish engraver/publisher
1635 - Francis Willughby, English biologist (d. 1672)
1643 - René R Cavelier sieur de La Salle, French explorer
1690 - Francois Collin de Blamont, composer
1698 - Pierre de Rigaud, Canadian-born French Governor (d. 1778)
1709 - Frantisek Benda, composer
1710 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of JS Bach (Sinfonias 64)
1721 - Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-born Canadian statesman (d. 1824)
1722 - Hryhorii Skovoroda, Ukrainian poet (d. 1794)
1767 - Andreas Hofer, Tirol nationalist
1771 - Paul R Cantzlaar, gov of Saba/St-Eustatius/Curacao/Dutch-West Indies
1780 - Conradin Kreutzer, composer
1780 - Jose Cecilio del Valle, Honduran Politician (d. 1834)
1805 - Benjamin Hugur, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1877
1808 - Thomas Cook, founder (Cook travel bureau)
1814 - Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (d. 1893)
1818 - Samuel Gibbs French, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
1819 - George Eliot, [Mary A Evans], England, author (Silas Marner)
1823 - Nathan Kimball, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1898
1832 - George Henry Chapman, Bvt Maj Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1882
1835 - Frank Crawford Armstrong, Brig General (Confederate Army)
1838 - Jose Augusto da Ferreira Veiga, Viscount d' Arneiro, composer
1842 - Anna S Barbiers, actress (Uncle Tom)
1849 - Friedrich von Bernhardi, Ger historian (Germany & the Next War)
1849 - Christian Rohlfs, German artist (d. 1938)
1852 - Paul H B d'Estornelles de Constant, French diplomat/pacifist
1856 - Heber J Grant, Salt Lake City, 7th pres of Mormon church
1857 - George Gissing, English author (Thyrza, Crown of Life)
1868 - John Nance Garner, (D) 32nd VP (1933-41)
1869 - Andre Gide, France, novelist (Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel 1947)
1870 - Howard Brockway, composer
1873 - Johnny Tyldesley, cricketer (brother of Ernest, 31 Tests for England)
1873 - Leopold CMS Amery, British minister of Colonies (India)
1875 - Elizabeth Patterson, Savannah TN, actress (Climax, Tall Story)
1875 - Georges Rency, Belgian poet
1877 - Joan Gamper, Swiss-born businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (d. 1930)
1884 - Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani biographer of Muhammad (d. 1953)
1888 - Tarzan, of the Apes, according to Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel
1890 - Charles de Gaulle, Lille, France, Pres of France (1958-69)
1891 - Bengt Axel von Torne, composer
1891 - Edward Bernays, PR expert
1891 - Erik Lindahl, Swedish economist (Theory of Money & Capital)
1893 - M Kaganovitsj Kogan, people's commissioner for Stalin
1893 - Harley J. Earl, American automobile designer (d. 1969)
1896 - Mario La Broca, composer
1896 - Nikolai S Tichonov, Russian writer (against Pasternak) [OS]
1897 - Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (d. 1989)
1898 - Wiley Post, Grand Plain Tx, aviator/parachutist (crashed in Alaska)
1899 - Hoagy Carmichael, Bloomington Ind, actor/songwriter (Stardust)
1900 - Hugo Godron, composer
1900 - Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist (d. 1980)
1902 - Emanuel Feuermann, Kolomea Galicia, cellist (Chicago Symph Orch)
1902 - Sir Humphrey Gibbs, Rhodesian politician (d. 1990)
1902 - Albert Leduc, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1990)
1903 - Herbert Sally Frankel, economist
1904 - Roland Winters, Boston Mass, actor (Mama, Smothers Brothers)
1905 - James Burnham, philosopher (Coming Defeat of Communism)
1906 - Howard Petrie, Beverly MA, actor (Border River, Bounty Hunter)
1906 - Lee Patrick, NYC, actress (Henrietta-Topper, Maltese Falcon)
1907 - Bernard Naylor, composer
1907 - Dick Bartell, baseball player
1908 - Michael Balfour, historian
1909 - Theodorus H J Zwartkruis, Bishop of Haarlem Netherlands (1966-83)
1909 - Mikhail Mil, Russian aviation designer (d. 1970)
1912 - Doris Duke, NYC, multi-millionaire (American Tobacco heiress)
1912 - Eric Stuart Woord, archaeologist
1913 - Benjamin Britten, Lowestoft Suffolk England, composer (Beggar's Opera)
1913 - Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (d. 2006)
1914 - Peter Woolridge Townsend, war hero courtier writer
1917 - Jean-Etienne Marie, composer
1918 - Claiborne Pell, (Sen-D-RI, 1961- )
1919 - Wilfred Norman Aldridge, biochemist/toxicologist
1920 - Anne Crawford, British film actor (d. 1956)
1921 - Rodney Dangerfield, [John Cohen], Babylon NY, comedian (Caddyshack)
1921 - Brian Cleeve, Irish broadcaster (d. 2003)
1922 - Fikret Dzhamil Amirov, Kirovabad Russia, Azerbaijani composer (Shur)
1923 - Arthur Hiller, director (Love Story)
1923 - Dika Newlin, composer
1924 - Axel Borup-Jorgensen, composer
1924 - Geraldine Page, Kirksville Mo (Interiors, Trip to Bountiful)
1925 - Gunther Schuller, NYC, hornist/composer (Visitation)
1926 - Lew Burdette, baseball player
1926 - Zulfiqar Ahmed, Pakistani cricket pace bowler (9 Tests 1952-56)
1927 - Grady "Fats" Jackson, tenor sax player
1928 - Juno Stover-Irwin, US, diver (Olympic-silver-1956)
1928 - Pat Smythe, England, equestrian jumper (Olympic-bronze-1956)
1928 - Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley (d. 2008)
1929 - Aleksandar Popović, Serbian dramatist (d. 1996)
1930 - John Paul Schiffer
1930 - Owen Kay Garriott, Enid Oklahoma, astronaut (Skylab 3, STS 9)
1930 - Peter Hall, British stage/film/opera director (Pedestrian)
1932 - Robert Vaughn, NYC, actor (Napolean Solo-Man from UNCLE, I Spy)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 131

365 - Felix II, Italian anti-pope, dies
950 - Lotharius, King of Italy (947-50), dies
1247 - Robin Hood, dies (from "A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hood")
1286 - Eric V of Denmark, Danish King (b. 1249)
1318 - Mikhail Yaroslavich, Russian prince (b. 1271)
1594 - Martin Frobisher, English vice-admiral/explorer, dies
1617 - Ahmed I, 14th sultan of Turkey (1603-17), dies
1694 - John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1630)
1697 - Libéral Bruant, French architect (b. 1635)
1718 - Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, English pirate, killed off Virginia coast
1751 - Anton Englert, composer, dies at 77
1758 - Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, British politician (b. 1680)
1773 - Robert Clive, English occupier (India), dies at about 48
1776 - Johann Caspar Simon, composer, dies at 75
1781 - John Ekels, the Old, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist, dies at 57
1782 - John Barueth, vicar/pamphleter, dies
1782 - John de Mol, porcelein manufacturer, dies
1783 - John Hanson, American Continental Congressman (b. 1715)
1794 - John Alsop, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1799 - Baroness van Dorth, orangist, executed
1803 - Bernardus Bosch, Dutch vicar/patriot, dies at 57
1813 - Johann Gottfried Vierling, composer, dies at 63
1825 - Ann Bailey, pioneer, dies
1826 - Pavel Lambert Masek, composer, dies at 65
1852 - August Alexander Klengel, composer, dies at 69
1859 - Ludwig "Louis" Spohr, German violinist/composer (Faust), dies at 75
1871 - Oscar J Dunn, (Lt Gov-La), dies suddenly, charges he was poisoned
1875 - Henry Wilson, Vice President of the United States (b. 1812)
1886 - William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)
1890 - Johanne Luise Heiberg, Danish actress, dies at 77
1893 - James Calder, 5th President of the Pennsylvania State University (b. 1826)
1896 - George Washington Gale Ferris, inventor (Ferris wheel), dies
1896 - Leon Leopold Lewandoski, composer, dies at 65
1900 - Arthur S Sullivan, England, composer (Mikado, Ivanhoe), dies at 58
1902 - Friedrich A Krupp, cannon manufacturer, commits suicide
1902 - Septimus Winner, composer, dies at 75
1904 - Theophile E A de Bock, painter/etcher, dies
1906 - Earnest Josephson, Swedish painter, dies
1916 - Jack London, author, dies at 40
1917 - Teoberto Maler, German-born explorer (b. 1842)
1919 - Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer (b. 1852)
1920 - Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (b. 1884)
1924 - Herman Heijermans Jr, author (On Hope, Heap of Blessing), dies
1926 - Darvish Khan, Iranian musician (b. 1872)
1932 - William Walker Atkinson, American author (b. 1862)
1936 - Louis F H Apol, painter/etcher/literary, dies at 86
1940 - Waclaw Berent, Polish novelist, dies at 67
1941 - Werner Mölders, German ace fighter pilot (b. 1915)
1943 - Lorenz Hart, lyricist, dies in NY
1943 - Pietro Alessandro Yon, composer, dies at 57
1944 - Arthur Stanley Eddington, dies
1946 - Bertie Rose-Innes, cricketer (S Africa's Test), dies
1946 - Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist (b. 1889)
1953 - Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani religious scholar and biographer of Muhammad (b. 1884)
1954 - Andrej J Vysjinski, Russian UN ambassador, dies at 70
1954 - Moroni Olsen, actor (Possessed), dies at 65
1954 - Roderick McMahon, Professional Wrestling/Boxing Booker (b. 1882)
1955 - Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz, composer, dies at 91
1955 - Shemp Howard, actor (3 Stooges), dies at 60
1956 - Vincent (Moro-)Giafferi, French criminal (Caillaux/Landru), dies
1956 - Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born choreographer (b. 1882)
1963 - Aldous L Huxley, English author (Devils of Loudon), dies at 69
1963 - Bikram Singh, Indies Lt-General (Kashmir), dies
1963 - C[live] S[taples] Lewis, [Hamilton], author (Silver Chair), dies at 64
1963 - Claude Floquet, cricketer (Test for S Africa), dies
1963 - Daulet Singh, Indies Lt-General, dies
1963 - John F Kennedy, 35th president of the United States (1961-63), assassinated in Dallas at 46
1963 - NKD Nanavati, Indies general-major (WW II), dies
1963 - William R Titterton, English author (Candle of the Stars), dies at 87
1963 - Wilhelm Beiglböck, Nazi physician (b. 1905)
1963 - J. D. Tippit, Dallas Police Officer (b. 1924)
1966 - Moises F da Costa Gomez, premier Dutch Antilles, dies
1967 - Edvin Kallstenius, composer, dies at 86
1967 - Pavel Korin, Russian painter (b. 1892)
1969 - Acario Cotapos, composer, dies at 80
1971 - Walter Sande, actor (Red Planet Mars), dies of heart attack at 65
1976 - Rupert Davies, actor (Zeppelin, Oblong Box), dies at 59
1977 - Reg Perks, England cricket pace bowler (1938-39), dies
1979 - Anne Vondeling, Male Dutch soc democratic party-minister, dies at 63
1980 - Herbert Wade, cricketer (S African batsman & captain 1935-36), dies
1980 - Leonard Barr, comedian (Dean Martin Show, Szysznyk), dies at 77
1980 - Mae West, actress (She Done Him Wrong), dies in Hollywood at 87
1980 - Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter (b. 1901)
1980 - Mae West, American actress and writer (b. 1893)
1981 - Andreina Pagnani, actress (Il Commandante), dies at 74
1981 - Jack Fingleton, cricketer (18 Tests for Australia, 1189 runs), dies
1982 - Burton Turkus, lawyer/author/TV host (Mr Arsenic), dies at 80
1982 - Enny, [Engelina] de Leeuwe, actress (Anatevka), dies at 84
1982 - Max Deutsch, composer, dies at 90
1983 - Michael Conrad, actor (Hill Street Blues), dies of cancer at 58
1986 - Fred Bertrand, Belgian politician, dies at 73
1986 - Robert Sutton Whitney, composer, dies at 82
1986 - Scatman Crothers, actor (Shining, Zapped), dies at 76
1986 - William Bradford Huie, American writer (b. 1910)
1987 - Ted Taylor, rock vocalist, dies
1988 - Erich Fried, writer, dies at 67
1988 - Janet Ertel, crooner, dies
1988 - Luis Barragán, Mexican architect (b. 1908)
1988 - Paul Vario, U.S. Italian Mafia of the Lucchese Family (b. 1914)
1989 - Rajindernath, Indian cricketer wicketkeeper (1 Test), dies