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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 160

399 - St Anastasius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1095 - Pope Urban II preaches 1st Crusade
1237 - Battle of Cortenuova: Emperor Frederik II vs Lombardische steden
1295 - The first elected representatives from Lancashire were called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as "The Model Parliament".
1382 - Battle of Westrozebeke (French army beats Flemings-1,000s die)
1495 - Scottish king James IV receives bedrieger Perkin Warbeck
1582 - William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway
1587 - Dutch County Groningen flood by dike break
1703 - The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.
1798 - Rabbi Shneur Zalman, author (Tanya), released from St Peterburg jail
1807 - The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops
1815 - Cracow (Poland) declared a free republic
1815 - Adoption of Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland
1817 - US soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War
1826 - John Walker invents friction match in England
1839 - American Statistical Association organizes in Boston
1843 - Opera "Bohemian Girl" is produced (London)
1863 - -29] Battle at Fort Esperanza Texas
1863 - Battle of Payne's Farm, VA
1864 - 2nd day of Battles at Waynesboro, Georgia
1868 - Battle at Washita-Gen Custer defeats Cheyennes
1870 - NY Times dubs baseball "The National Game"
1877 - Burkina adopts its constitution
1885 - Earliest photograph of a meteor shower made
1889 - 1st permit issued to drive a car through Central Park (Curtis P Brady)
1889 - Hermann Sudermann's "Ehre," premieres in Berlin
1890 - 1st signal box for SF Police Department goes into operation
1895 - Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize
1896 - "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Thus Spake Zarathustra) debuts in Frankfurt
1898 - Side-wheeler "Portland" sinks off Cape Cod, 190 die
1901 - Army War College forms in Washington DC
1901 - Gerhart Hauptmanns "Der rote Hahn," premieres in Berlin
1901 - U.S. Army War College is established.
1903 - Opera "Die Heugierigen Frauen" is produced (Munich)
1910 - NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal
1911 - Audience throws vegetables at actors for 1st recorded time in US
1912 - Albanian National Flag adopted
1912 - Spanish protectorate in Morocco forms
1914 - 1st women elected political agent (Grantham, Linconshire UK)
1919 - Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine: Allies & Bulgaria
1924 - 57,000 watch a High School football game (LA & Polytechnic tie 7-7)
1924 - In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
1925 - German Parliament ratifies treaty of Locarno
1926 - 110,000 watch Army & Navy play a 21-all tie
1926 - Béla Bartoks ballet "Miraculous Mandarin," premieres in Keulen
1926 - Italian & Albania sign peace treaty
1926 - KXL-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
1926 - Restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins
1931 - 1st Test Cricket match at the Gabba Bradman scores 200 on 1st day
1932 - Poland & USSR signs non-attack treaty
1934 - Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.
1937 - Pro-labor musical revue "Pins & Needles" opens, produced by ILGWU
1939 - Maxwell Anderson's "Key Largo," premieres in NYC
1940 - 6th Heisman Trophy Award: Tom Harmon, Michigan (HB)
1940 - Nazis signs Technical Hague court Delft
1941 - British 13th Army corp reaches Tobruk
1941 - Joe DiMaggio is named AL MVP
1941 - USSR begins a counter offensive causes Germany to retreat
1942 - Bobby Managoff beats Yvon Robert in Houston, to become wrestling champ
1942 - French navy at Toulon scuttles ships & subs so Nazis don't take them
1942 - Tito appoints Anti fascist Liberation board in Yugoslavia
1943 - 31st CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Flying Wildcats defeat Winn Bombers, 23-14
1943 - Conference of Teheran (Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin)
1944 - 3,500-40,00 ton explosive, explodes in Staffordshire, 68 killed
1944 - US 121st Infantry regiment opens assault on Hurtgen
1945 - Gen George C Marshall named special US envoy to China
1945 - Hannie Buy buried in presence of Queen Wilhelmina
1945 - Trial against NSB-leader Mussert begins
1945 - Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft re-buried in presence of Queen Wilhelmina
1946 - English soccer team beats Netherlands, 8-2
1947 - Joe DiMaggio wins his 3rd MVP, beating Ted Williams by 1 vote
1948 - 36th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeat Ottawa Rough Riders, 12-7
1948 - Honda 1st opens in America
1950 - Red Sox sign shortstop Lou Boudreau as a player to 2-year contract
1950 - Trial against RC clergy "imperialistic conspiracy" begins in Prague
1951 - 1st rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, NM
1951 - Cease-fire & demarcation zone accord signed in Panmunjon Korea
1952 - KTBC TV channel 7 in Austin, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - Indians 3rd baseman Al Rosen is unanimously named AL's MVP
1954 - "By the Beautiful Sea" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 270 perfs
1954 - 42nd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 26-25
1954 - Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
1956 - F Goodrich & A Hackett's "Diary of Anne Frank," premieres in Neth
1957 - Army withdraws for Little Rock Ark, after Central HS integration
1958 - USSR abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany
1960 - CBS radio cancels "Have Gun Will Travel"
1960 - Dr Felix Houphouet-Boigny becomes president of Ivory Coast
1960 - Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHLer to score 1,000 points
1960 - Patrice Lumumba flees Leopoldville Congo
1960 - Trailing 38-7 late in 3rd quarter, Buffalo Bills tie Broncos at 38-38
1961 - Gordie Howe becomes 1st to play in 1,000 NHL games
1961 - KHAW TV channel 11 in Hilo, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1962 - 1st test flight of the Boeing 727 takes place
1962 - Sumner Arthur Long's "Never Too Late," premieres in NYC
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.
1965 - 15-25,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam in Wash DC
1965 - 1st French satellite launched, France becomes 3rd nation in space
1965 - 53rd CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeat Winn Blue Bombers, 22-16
1966 - In highest-scoring NFL game, Wash Redskins defeat NY Giants 72-41

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 242

1127 - Emperor Xiaozong of China (d. 1194)
1544 - Ascanio Trombeti, composer
1563 - Robbert Robbertsz, (le Canu), nautical expert
1569 - Ottavio Vernizzi, composer
1576 - Shimazu Tadatsune, Ruler of Satsuma (d. 1638)
1582 - Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (d. 1651)
1588 - Valerius Andreas, [Walter Driessens], Flemish historian
1595 - Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor/architect
1627 - Louise Henriette, [Mlle d'Orange], daughter of Frederik Henry
1630 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (d. 1665)
1635 - Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, wife of Louis XIV of France (d. 1719)
1648 - Peter Codde, RC apostole vicar (1688-1704)
1668 - Henri F d'Aguesseau, chancellor of France (1717..50)
1691 - Josef Antonin Planicky, composer
1701 - Anders Celsius, Sweden, scientist/inventor (centigrade temp scale)
1710 - Robert Lowth, British bishop (d. 1787)
1731 - Gaetano Pugnani, composer
1732 - Johann Joseph Emmert, composer
1741 - Jean-Pierre Duport, composer
1745 - Boniface Stoecki, composer
1746 - Robert Livingston, delivered oath of office to George Washington
1746 - Increase Sumner, 5th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1799)
1750 - Anton Thadaus Johann Nepomuk Stamitz, composer
1756 - Paul van Hemert, Dutch theologist/philosopher (Kant)
1759 - Franz Vinzenz Krommer, composer
1775 - Joachim G le Sage ten Broek, Dutch notary/catholic foreman/publicist
1778 - John Murray, publisher
1779 - Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (d. 1865)
1787 - Christian Rummel, composer
1787 - Jacob earl van Rechteren van Appeltern, governor of Gelderland
1801 - Alexander Egorovich Varlamov, composer
1804 - Julius Benedict, Stuttgart Germany, opera composer (Protoghesi)
1808 - Hugh Weedon Mercer, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1877
1809 - Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble, England, Shakespearian actress (Juliet)
1813 - Michele Puccini, composer
1830 - Harrison Millard, composer
1833 - Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (d. 1897)
1840 - Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet/friend of Tsjaikovski [OS=11/15]
1843 - Cornelius Vanderbilt II, American businessman (d. 1899)
1843 - Elizabeth Stride, victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
1854 - Aloys L earl von Aehrenthal, Austrian minister of Foreign affairs
1857 - Charles Scott Sherrington, British physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1952)
1865 - Jose Asunción Silva, Colombia, poet (Nocturno III)
1867 - Margaret Ruthven Lang, composer
1867 - Charles Koechlin, French composer (d. 1950)
1870 - Juho Kusti Paasikivi, president Finland
1871 - Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (d. 1950)
1874 - Chaim Weizmann, Israeli statesman (1st President)
1874 - Charles A Beard, American historian (American Continentalism)
1875 - Wladyslaw Orkan, [Szmaciarz-Smreczynsky], Pol author (Nowele Zebrane)
1878 - Mabel Wheeler Daniels, composer
1878 - Jatindramohan Bagchi, Indian (Bengali) poet (d.1948).
1879 - Adam Tadeusz Wieniawski, composer
1885 - Rudolph Reti, composer
1886 - Tsugouharu T Foujita, Japans/French painter
1892 - Pedro Salinas, writer
1893 - Stanislaw Wiechowicz, composer
1894 - Forrest Shaklee, founder (Shaklee Products)
1894 - Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox saint (d. 1971)
1894 - Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (d. 1989)
1896 - Giovanni B Angioletti, Italian author (Il giorno del giudizio)
1897 - Vito Genovese, American mafioso (d. 1969)
1898 - Nelly Steuer-Wagenaar, Dutch pianist
1898 - Fredric Warburg, publisher and author (d. 1981)
1900 - Leon Barzin, Brussels Belgium, conductor (NY City Ballet 1948-58)
1900 - Robert Blum, composer
1901 - Ted Husing, NYC, sportscaster (Monday Night Fights)
1902 - Giuseppe Savagnone, composer
1903 - Johnny Blood, aka John McNally, early NFL halfback (Green Bay)
1903 - Mona Washbourne, England, actress (Stevie, Billie Liar, Driver's Seat)
1905 - Daniel Sternefeld, Belgian conductor/composer (Mater Dolorosa)
1907 - L[yon] Sprague de Camp, US, sci-fi author (Goblin Tower, Hand of Zei)
1909 - Astrid Allwyn, Manchester CT, actress (Charlie Chan's Secret)
1909 - Donald John Urquhart, librarian
1909 - James Agee, American author (African Queen, Death in Family)
1909 - Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (d. 1967)
1910 - Rudolf Holzmann, composer
1911 - Georges Dargaud, French publisher (Asterix/Kuifje)
1911 - Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and National Scientist
1912 - David Merrick, [Margulois], Hong Kong, Broadway producer (Hello Dolly)
1912 - Howard de Walden, English landowner/multi-millionaire
1913 - Frances Swem Anderson, technologist (nuclear medicine)
1913 - Robert Dougall, English TV host
1914 - Evangeline Bruce, hostess
1915 - Caro van Eyck, [Gerarda JE Taytelbaum], Dutch actress (Medea)
1915 - Victor Alessandro, composer
1916 - Chick Hearn, American sportscaster (d. 2002)
1917 - "Buffalo" Bob Smith, Buffalo NY, TV host (Howdy Doody)
1917 - Tiny Rowland, [Roland Fuhrop], German/British owner (Observer)
1918 - Zeev Wolfgang Steinberg, composer
1919 - Siegfried Naumann, composer
1920 - Abe Lenstra, Dutch soccer star
1920 - David Waller, actor (Shadowlands, Work is a 4 Letter Word)
1920 - Elaine Greene, literary Agent
1920 - John Richard Ravensdale, historian
1920 - Max Tripels, attorney/Dutch MP
1921 - Alexander Dubcek, headed Czech Communist Party (1968-69)
1921 - Ole Sarvig, Danish writer/critic (Limbo, Glem Ikke)
1923 - Robert A Young, (Rep-D-MO, 1977-86)
1924 - Theresa R van der Pant, sculptor

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 103

8 - Horace, Roman poet (b. 65 BC)
450 - Galla Placidia, daughter of Byzant emperor Constantius III, dies at 58
511 - Clovis, 1st King of France, dies at about 45
640 - Acharius, bishop of Noyon/saint, dies
835 - Muhammad at-Taqi, Shia Imam (b. 811)
1026 - Adalbert II, bishop of Utrecht (1010-26), dies
1198 - Queen Constance of Sicily, wife of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1154)
1382 - Philip Van Artevelde, Flemish commander-in-chief, dies in battle at 42
1474 - Guillaume Dufay, French/Flemish composer, dies at about 74
1570 - Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1486)
1592 - Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1568)
1592 - King John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
1632 - John Eliot, English parliament leader/author (In Jail), dies at 40
1673 - Anthonie Palamedesz, painter, dies at about 72
1680 - Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit/inventor (lantern), dies
1749 - Balthasar Schmid, composer, dies at 44
1749 - Gottfried Heinrich Stolzel, composer, dies at 59
1754 - Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (b. 1667)
1811 - Andrew Meikle, British mechanical engineer (b. 1719)
1836 - Carle [Antoine CH] Vernet, French painter/lithographer, dies
1852 - Ada Lovelace, British mathematician (b. 1815)
1868 - Black Kettle, [Motavato], Cheyenne chief, dies
1884 - Franziska "Fanny" Elssler, Austrian ballerina/choreography, dies at 74
1890 - Emmanuele Muzio, composer, dies at 69
1894 - Johanna von Puttkamer, Prussian noblewoman, wife of Otto von Bismarck (b. 1824)
1895 - A Dumas D J, writer, dies at 71
1895 - Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author (b. 1824)
1899 - Felipe Gutierrez y Espinoza, composer, dies at 74
1901 - Clement Studebaker, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1831)
1908 - Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (b. 1827)
1915 - Sigismund Vladislavovich Zaremba, composer, dies at 54
1916 - James Cutler Dunn Parker, composer, dies at 88
1921 - Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician]] (b. 1854)
1925 - Roger de la Fresnaye, French sculptor/painter, dies
1930 - J T Tyldesley, cricket (1661 runs in 31 Tests for Eng 1898-1909), dies
1931 - Lya De Putti, Hungarian actress (b. 1899)
1932 - Evelyn Preer, American actress and singer (b. 1896)
1934 - "Baby Face" Nelson, [Lester Gillis], gangster, shot by FBI at 26
1934 - Herman Hollis, FBI agent, killed by Baby Face Nelson
1934 - Sam Cowley, FBI agent, killed by Baby Face Nelson
1942 - A B C Langton, cricketer (WWII 15 Tests for S Africa 1935-39), dies
1943 - Ivo Lola Ribar, Croatian communist and partisan (b. 1916)
1944 - Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam, Russian physicist (b. 1879)
1953 - Eugene O'Neill, playwright (Nobel 1936), dies in Boston at 65
1955 - Arthur Oscar Honegger, Swiss composer (Cantate Noel), dies at 63
1955 - Luis de Freitas Branco, composer, dies at 65
1955 - William Nigh, director (Ape, Doomed to Die, Mr Wong), dies at 74
1957 - Margot SE Scharten-Antink, author (Catherina/Sprotje), dies at 88
1958 - Artur Rodzinski, Polish conductor/composer, dies at 66
1959 - Gerard Philipe, actor/dir (La Ronde, Gambler), dies of cancer at 36
1960 - Dirk J de Geer, Dutch premier (1926-29, 39-40), dies at 89
1960 - Frederick Fane, cricketer (682 runs in 14 Tests for Eng 1905-10), dies
1965 - Carl Parrish, composer, dies at 61
1965 - Harry Harvey Sr, actor (It's a Man's World), dies at 64
1967 - Cameron Prud'Homme, actor (Rainmaker), dies after long illness at 75
1967 - Ettore Panizza, composer, dies at 92
1968 - Gino Roncaglia, composer, dies at 85
1968 - Hans Redlich, composer, dies at 65
1971 - Jakabs Medins, composer, dies at 86
1971 - Korneel Goossens, Flemish literary/art historian, dies at 70
1972 - Mahalia Jackson, vocalist (Got Whole World in His Hands), dies at 61
1973 - Frank Christian, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1887)
1974 - Louis B Russell Jr, longest living heart transplant, dies at 49
1975 - Ross McWhirter, Guinness Book of Records keeper, murdered
1977 - John L McClellan, (Sen-D-Ark), dies at 81
1978 - George Moscone, (SF Mayor), shot by Dan White
1978 - Harvey Milk, (SF City Supervisor), shot by Dan White
1978 - Susan Damante Shaw, actress (Wilderness Family), dies at 58
1980 - F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (b. 1882)
1981 - Lotte Lenya, singer/actress (From Russia With Love), dies in NY at 83
1981 - Max [Machgielis] Euwe, chess champ (1935-37), dies
1982 - Philipp Kutev, composer, dies at 79
1983 - Manuel Scorza, Peruvian writer, dies at about 55
1984 - Percy Norris, deputy high commissioner of India, shot dead
1986 - Steve Tracy, actor (Percival-Little House on Praire), dies at 61
1988 - Angela Aames, actress (Lost Empire, Basic Training), dies
1988 - John Carradine, actor (Ten Commandments), dies of kidney failure at 82
1988 - Karel Horky, composer, dies at 79
1988 - [John] Hein Donner, chess grand master, dies at 61
1990 - David White, actor (Larry Tate-Bewitched), dies at 74
1992 - Ivan Generalić, Croatian painter (b. 1914)
1994 - Arthur Frank "Peter" Shore, egyptologist, dies at 70
1994 - Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and musicologist (b. 1906)
1995 - Giancarlo Baghetti, racing driver/journalist, dies at 60
1995 - Peter Harrison Swan, bomber pilot/stockbroker, dies at 75
1995 - Simon Bailey, priest, dies at 40
1996 - George Ernest Leslie, trade union official, dies at 76
1997 - Buck Leonard, Hall of Famer in Negro League, dies at 90
1997 - Henry Charnock, oceanographer, dies at 76
1998 - Barbara Acklin, American singer and songwriter (b. 1943)
1999 - Yasuhiro Kojima, wrestler (b. 1937)
1999 - Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and author (b. 1925)
2000 - Len Shackleton, English former footballer (b. 1922)
2005 - Jocelyn Brando, American actress (b. 1919)
2005 - Joe Jones, American R&B singer (b. 1926)
2006 - Don Butterfield, American tuba player (b. 1923)
2006 - Alan Freeman, British disc jockey known by his nickname 'Fluff' (b. 1927)
2006 - Bebe Moore Campbell, American author (b. 1950)
2006 - Casey Coleman, American sportscaster (b. 1951)
2007 - Bill Willis, American football player (b. 1921)