This Day in History for 3rd November

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 196

644 - Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is killed by a Persian slave in Medina.
1394 - Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI
1468 - Liège is sacked by Charles I of Burgundy's troops.
1493 - Christopher Columbus discovers island of Dominica
1527 - Ferdinand of Austria/Bohemia chosen as king of Hungary
1529 - London] 1st sitting of the Reformation Parliament
1534 - English parliament accepts Act of Supremacy: Henry VIII church leader
1620 - Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony
1629 - Prince Frederik Hendrik festival in The Hague
1640 - English Long Parliament forms
1655 - England & France sign miltary & economic treaties
1656 - Treaty of Vilnius Russia/Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant [NS]
1676 - Kara Mustafa succeeds Ahmed Kiprulu as Turkish grand vizier
1679 - Great panic occurs in Europe over close approach of a comet
1716 - Pacification Treaty of Warsaw: Czar Peter the Great guarantees Saxon monarch August I's Polish kingdom
1752 - Georg Friedrich Handel undergoes (failed) eye operation
1760 - Battle at Torgau, Saxony: Prussia beats Austria
1762 - England & Spain signs Treaty of Paris
1762 - Spain acquires Louisiana
Composer George Friedrich Handel 1783 - Washington orders Continental Army disbanded
1783 - John Austin, a highwayman, is the last to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows.
1791 - Battle at Wabash: indians assault general St Clair/killed 637 soldiers
1793 - French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
1794 - French troops conquer Maastricht
1796 - John Adams elected president of the United States of America
1812 - Napoleonic armies defeated at Vyazma
1813 - US troops under General Coffee destroy Indian village at Talladega Ala
1820 - Cuenca Ecuador declares independence
1838 - The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
1839 - 1st opium war - 2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks
1839 - Palace of Gulhane Turkey, freedom of religion proclaimed
1848 - Johan Thorbeckes revises Great Force
1856 - A British fleet bombs Canton.
1862 - Battle until the 5th November between gunboats at Bayou Teche, a waterway in Louisiana
1863 - Battle of Grand Coteau in Southwestern Louisiana in the American Civil War
1867 - Battle at Mentana: French/pontifical troops beat Garibaldi
1868 - 1st black Congressman elected (John W Menard, Louisiana)
US President Ulysses S. Grant 1868 - Ulysses Grant (R) wins presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D)
1869 - Canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club forms
1874 - James Theodore Holly, elected bishop of Haiti
1883 - Race riots in Danville Virginia (4 blacks killed)
1883 - US Supreme Court decides Native Americans can't be Americans
1883 - American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the poet" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves an incriminating clue that eventually leads to his capture.
1885 - Tacoma vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes & businesses
1886 - Friars of Tilburg arrives on Curacao
1888 - Amsterdam: 1st concerto of Concert worker, under Willem Kes
1889 - Chaplain Ariëns founds 1st roman catholic workers group
1896 - J H Hunter patents portable weighing scales
1896 - Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah elected 1st female senator
1896 - William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for president
1899 - James J Jeffries beats Tom Sharkey in 25 for heavyweight boxing title
1900 - 1st US automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (NYC)
25th US President William McKinley 1903 - Colombia grants Panama independence
1905 - Csar Nicholas II of Russia signs a document of amnesty for the political prisoners.
1908 - William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th pres over William Jennings Bryan
1911 - Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
1913 - The USA introduces an income tax.
1916 - Treaty establishes British suzerainity over Qatar
1917 - 1st class mail now costs 3 cents per ounce
1918 - Austro-Hungarian Empire disolves
1918 - Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I
1920 - "Emperor Jones" opens at Provincetown Theater
1922 - Greek parliament bans prince Andreas for life
1926 - 15th party congress CPSU ends/5 year plan begins
1926 - Ty Cobb resigns as Detroit Tigers manager
1927 - 22.3 cm rainfall at Somerset, Vermont (state record)
1927 - Rodgers & Hart's musical "Connecticut Yankee," premieres in NYC
Last Emperor of Russia Nicholas II 1927 - Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley (Vt)
1928 - Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet
1930 - 1st vehicular tunnel to a foreign country (Detroit-Windsor) opens
1930 - Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America
1930 - Getúlio Dornelles Vargas became Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
1931 - 1st commercially produced synthetic rubber manufactured
1934 - Although Lou Gehrig wins Triple Crown, Mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP
1934 - Dizzy Dean chosen as NL MVP
1935 - George II returns to Greece & regains monarchy
1935 - Kitei Son runs world record marathon (2:26:42)
1936 - President FDR (D) wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R)
1937 - Archambaud bicycles world record time (45,796 km)
1937 - NHL Howie Morenz Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 6-5 in Mont
1939 - Clare Booth's "Margin for Error," premieres in NYC
1941 - Hirohiti's accord on Yamamoto's attack plan on Pearl Harbor fails
1942 - 12th day of battle at El Alamein: Scottish assault
1942 - Despite Ted Williams wins Triple Crown, Yanks Joe Gordon wins AL MVP
1942 - Mort Cooper wins NL MVP
1942 - William L Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago
1943 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 8th Symphony premieres in Moscow
1943 - P-47D Thunderbolt shot down above North-Holland
1944 - Allied commando's lands at Westkapelle Walcheren
1944 - German troops in Vlissingen surrenders
1944 - Pro-German government of Hungary flees
1944 - US 28th Infantry division occupies Schmidt Hurtgenwald
1945 - Lindsay Hassett scores 187 & 124* for Aust Services at Delhi
1946 - Emperor Hirohito proclaims new Japanese constitution
1948 - 2nd NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-1 at Chicago
1952 - Clarence Birdseye markets frozen peas
1952 - Egypt protests German retribution payments to Israel
1953 - 1939 sacrifice fly rule restored: no time at bat for sac fly
1953 - 1st live color coast-to-coast telecast (NYC)
1954 - Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born & Walter Bothe

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 225

39 - Lucan, Cordova Spain, Latin poet (Bellum Civile)
1470 - Edward V, King of England (Apr 9-Jun 25 1483)
1560 - Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1609)
1587 - Samuel Scheidt, composer
1604 - Osman II, sultan of Turkey (1618-22)
1611 - Henry Ireton, English general/MP (Edgehill)
1618 - Aurangzeb, [Alamgir], Emperor of India (1658-1707)
1619 - Willem Kalf, Rotterdam Neth, painter (still lifes)
1621 - Renatus Rapinus, [René Rapin], French jesuit/poet (Hortorum libri IV)
1633 - Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (d. 1714)
1656 - Georg Reuter, composer
1689 - Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner, composer
1718 - John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor (sandwich)
1736 - Christian Brunings, Dutch hydraulic engineer
1749 - Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (d. 1819)
1753 - August G Meissner, German author
1753 - Friedrich Christoph Gebtewitz, composer
1780 - Victor-Charles-Paul Dourlen, composer
1781 - Johann Ernst Friedrich Wollank, composer
1793 - Stephen Fuller Austin, colonized Texas
1794 - William Cullen Bryant, poet (Thanatopsis)
1798 - Mason James Murray, (Confederacy), died in 1871
1799 - William Sprague III, American politician from Rhode Island (d. 1856)
1801 - Karl Baedeker, Germany, published travel books
1801 - Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer (La Sonnambula, Norma)
1815 - Adrien Louis Victor Boieldieu, composer
1815 - John Mitchel, Fenian
1816 - Jubal Anderson Early, Lt General (Confederate Army), died in 1894
1818 - Gustavus Adolphus DeRussy, Brig Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1891
1826 - Jasper Adalmorn Maltby, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
1830 - Esten Cooke, John (Confederate Army), died in 1886
1830 - Jacob M van Bemmelen, Dutch physicist/chemist
1833 - Edward Dorr Tracy, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1844 - Mehmed V Reshad, sultan of Turkey (1909-18)
1845 - Edward Douglass White, 9th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1921)
1852 - Mutsuhito, 122nd emperor of Japan (1867-1912)
1856 - Jim McCormick, baseball player (d. 1918)
1857 - Michail V Alekseyev, Imperial Russian general and WW I Chief of Staff (d. 1918)
1861 - Johann Peter Kirsch, Luxembourg church historian/archaeologist
1863 - Eugene Samuel-Holeman, composer
1867 - Siegfried Garibaldi Kallenberg, composer
1871 - Albert Goldthorpe, English rugby league footballer
1872 - Paul Panzer, actor (Cat's Paw, Mildred Pierce, Hotel Berlin)
1875 - Emils Darzins, composer
1876 - Stephen Peter Alencastre, Roman Catholic prelate (d. 1940)
1877 - Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, Chilean president. (d. 1960)
1879 - Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Canada, Arctic explorer/ethnologist
1880 - Edmond Barrett, heavyweight wrestler (Olympic-bronze-1908)
1880 - Raffaele Casimiro Casimiri, composer
1883 - Enny Vrede, [Maria M Muller], Dutch actress/wife of Eduard Verkade
1884 - Apie [Adrian P] Prince, Dutch author (Me Own Way)
1887 - Samuil Marshak, Russian writer, translator and children's poet (d. 1964)
1888 - William Charles Denis Browne, composer
1889 - Heinrich Campendonk, German painter/wood carver/glazer
1890 - Eustaquio van Lieshout, Dutch priest (d. 1943)
1893 - R Lindley Murray, tennis champ (US Open-1918)
1896 - Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish illustrator (d. 1970)
1897 - Karel Salmon, composer
1899 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (d. 1986)
1900 - Roger Blunt, cricketer (NZ all-rounder in 9 Tests 1930-32)
1900 - Adolf Dassler, founder of Adidas (d. 1978)
1901 - Andre Malraux, [Berger], France, novelist/art historian (L'Espoir)
1901 - Leopold III, [Filip von Saksen-Coburg], King of the Belgians (from 1934, abdicated 1951), d. 1983
1903 - Walker Evans, US, photographer (Fortune Magazine)
1904 - Gideon Fagan, composer
1904 - Janis Kalnins, composer
1905 - Lois Mailou Jones, US painter (Peasants on Parade)
1905 - William Donald Campbell, diarist/ornithologist
1907 - James Geoffrey Cutcliffe Hepburn, tap-dancer/socialist
1907 - Joe Turner, US jazz pianist
1908 - Bronko Nagurski, NFL fullback (Chicago Bears)
1909 - James "Scotty" Barrett Reston, Clydebank Scotld, journalist (NY Times)
1910 - Richard Hurndall, British actor (d. 1984)
1911 - Vladimir Ussachevsky, Hailar Manchuria, composer (Creation)
1912 - Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay (1954-89)
1914 - Hallgrimur Helgason, composer
1918 - Bob Feller, pitcher (Cleve Indian, 3 no-hitters)
1918 - Russell B Long, (Sen-D-LA, 1948-86)
1918 - Bob Feller, baseball player
1918 - Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (d. 2007)
1918 - Dean Riesner, film and television screenwriter (d. 2002)
1919 - Bert Freed, NYC, actor (Rufe-Shane)
1919 - Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (d. 1995)
1920 - Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian writer (d. 1993)
Actor Charles Bronson (1921) 1921 - Charles Bronson, Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, actor (Magnificent Seven, Death Wish, Dirty Dozen), (d. 2003)
1922 - Earl of Lonsdale, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1923 - Tomás Cardinal Ó Fiaich, Northern Irish clergyman (d. 1990)
1925 - Dieter Wellershoff, German author (Minotaur)
1926 - Valdas Adamkus, President of the Republic of Lithuania
1927 - Zbigniew Cybulski, Pniarz Poland, actor (See You Tommorrow)
1927 - Andy Williams, Wall Lake, Iowa, singer/actor (Andy Williams Show, "Butterfly"), (d. 2012)
1928 - Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist (d. 1989)
1930 - Ken Berry, Moline Ill, actor (F Troop, Mayberry RFD, Mama's Family)
1930 - Lois Smith, Topeka Ks, actress (Reckless, Reuben Reuben)
1930 - Philip M Crane, (Rep-R-IL, 1969- )
1930 - William H Dana, pilot (X-15)
1930 - D. James Kennedy, American theologian (d. 2007)
1930 - Brian Robinson, British cyclist
1931 - Monica Vitti, [Ceciarelli], Rome Italy, actress (Tigers in Lipstick)
1931 - Yon Hyong-muk, North Korean politician (d. 2005)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 2 of 2

2012 - Professional bull rider Luke Snyder (30) weds Jennifer Manna (34) at Big Cedar Lodge outside of Branson, Missouri
2012 - Olympic gymnast Carly Patterson (24) weds Mark Caldwell (27) at the Main Street Garden Park in Dallas, Texas

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 92 of 92

361 - Flavius Julius Constantius II, 1st Byzantine Emperor, dies at 44
753 - Pirminius, German saint (b. 753)
1254 - Johannes III Doukas Vatatzes, Byzantine Emperor (1222-54)/saint, dies
1344 - Adolf van der Mark, prince-bishop of Liege (1313-44), dies at 56
1378 - Jan II, ruler of Polanen/Leck/Breda, dies
1428 - Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1388)
1456 - Edmund Turdor, earl of Richmond, dies
1580 - Jeronimo Zurita y Castro, Spanish historian (b. 1512)
1584 - Charles Borromeo, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1538)
1600 - Richard Hooker, English theologian (b. 1554)
1639 - Martinus de Porres, Peruvian saint (patron of social justice), dies at 69
1643 - Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (b. 1577)
1643 - John Bainbridge, English astronomer (b. 1582)
1708 - Henriette Catharina van Nassau, daughter of Frederik Henry, dies at 71
1711 - Ferdinand Tobias Richter, composer, dies at 60
1711 - John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (b. 1666)
1787 - Robert Lowth, British bishop and grammarian (b. 1710)
1793 - Olympe de Gouges, French feminist and revolutionary (b. 1748)
1794 - François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1715)
1803 - Henri Moreau, composer, dies at 75
1832 - Pietro Generali, composer, dies at 59
1845 - Johan G Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, dies at 69
1864 - Antonio Goncalves Dias, Brazilian national poet, dies at sea
1867 - Pieter J Jong, Dutch Zouave, dies in battle
1869 - Andreas Kalvos, Greek poet (b. 1792)
1873 - Kintpuash, "Captain Jack", chief of Modoc-indians, dies
1890 - Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1811)
1904 - Gaston Henri Charles Antoine Serpette, composer, dies at 57
1911 - Salvador Giner y Vidal, composer, dies at 79
1913 - Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf, composer, dies at 83
1914 - Georg Trakl, Austria poet (Totentag, Cocaine Overdose), dies at 27
1917 - Léon Bloy, French novelist and essayist (b. 1846)
1918 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov, Russian scientist (b. 1857)
Sharp Shooter Annie Oakley (1926) 1926 - Annie Oakley, US sharp shooting star, dies at 66
1927 - Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist (b. 1860)
1929 - Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (b. 1883)
1931 - Rudolf W Canne, Fries playwright (Peaske), dies at 60
1933 - Emile Roux, French scientist (b. 1853)
1936 - Filip Lazar, composer, dies at 42
1942 - Carl Sternheim, German playwright (Trousers, Snob), dies at 64
1945 - Alessandro Longo, composer, dies at 80
1949 - Solomon R Guggenheim, US art collector, dies at 88
1954 - Henri E B Matisse, French painter/sculptor (Dance II), dies at 84
1957 - Wilhelm Reich, Austria/US psycho analyst (sexual), dies at 60
1958 - Harry Revel, movie composer (Sitting Pretty, Gay Divorcee), dies
1959 - Friedrich Niggli, composer, dies at 83
1960 - Paul Willis, American actor (b. 1901)
1962 - Harlow H Curtice, pres of General Motors (1953-8), dies at 69
Impressionist Painter Henri Matisse (1954) 1964 - John Henry Barbee, American guitarist and singer (b. 1905)
1966 - Eric Spear, British composer for film and TV (Coronation Street theme)
1970 - Peter II Karadjordjevic, last king of Yugoslavia (1934-45), dies at 57
1971 - Etienne Gailly, Belgium marathoner (Oly-bron-48), dies in accident at 48
1973 - Arturo De Cordova, actor (This Strange Passion), dies at 65
1973 - Marc Allégret, French director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
1977 - Florence Vidor, actress (Jack Knife Man), dies at 82
1980 - Ludwig Hohl, writer, dies
1982 - Edward H Carr, British historian, dies at 90
1983 - Alfredo Antonini, conductor (Jane Froman Canteen), dies at 82
1986 - Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, jazz saxophonist, dies at 65
1988 - Henri van Praag, Dutch para-psychologist, dies
1990 - Mary Martin, actress (Peter Pan), dies of cancer at 76
1990 - Valerie French, actress (Jubal), dies of leukemia
1992 - Jean Daskalides, Belgian chocolate factory, dies at 70
Actress Mary Martin (1990) 1992 - John H Davis, actor (Our Gang), dies of respiratory failure at 78
1993 - Duncan Gibbins, director (Fire With Fire), dies in California fire at 41
1993 - Leon Theremin, electronic musical instruments inventor, dies at 97
1993 - William Lanteau, actor (On Golden Pond), dies at 70
1994 - Dennis C Ott, US actor (Star Trek 3/4), dies of AIDs
1994 - Richard Krautheimer, US art historian, dies at 97
1995 - Arthur George Bottomley, politician, dies at 88
1995 - Gordon S. Fahrni, physician and president of the Canadian Medical Association (b. 1887)
1996 - Barry George Barrington Porter, politician, dies at 57
1996 - Heather Swift, local councellor, dies at 79
1996 - Jean-Bedel Bokassa, dictator of Cent Africa Rep (1967-79), dies at 75
1996 - Michael Burchill, actor, dies at 65
1996 - Abdullah Çatlı, a Turkish nationalist and neofascist activist (b. 1956)
1998 - Bob Kane, comic artist and Batman co-creator (b. 1915)
1999 - Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (b. 1928)
2001 - Ernst Gombrich, Austrian art historian (b. 1909)
2002 - Lonnie Donegan, Scottish musician (b. 1931)
2002 - Jonathan Harris, American actor (b. 1914)
2003 - Rasul Gamzatov, Russian poet (b. 1923)
2004 - Sergei Zholtok, Latvian hockey player (b. 1972)
2006 - Paul Mauriat, French musician (b. 1925)
2006 - Marie Rudisill, American author and "Fruitcake Lady" (b. 1911)
2006 - Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorean footballer (b. 1937)
2007 - Martin Meehan, Irish republican (b. 1945)
2009 - Francisco Ayala, Spanish novelist (b. 1906)
2010 - Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician (b. 1938)
2010 - Jerry Bock, American musical theatre composer (b. 1928)
2010 - Jim Clench, Canadian bassist (April Wine and Bachman-Turner Overdrive) (b. 1949)
2012 - Tommy Goodwin, British track cyclist, dies at 91