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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 191

306 - St Marcellus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
722 - Pope Gregory II names Boniface as missionary bishop
1215 - Pope Innocent III closes 4th council of Lateranen
1406 - Angelo Correr elected Pope Gregory XII
1523 - Amsterdam bans assembly of heretics
1554 - England reconciles with Pope Julius III
1630 - 16,000 inhabitants of Venice died this month of plague
1648 - English army captures King Charles I
1678 - Roman Catholics banned from English parliament
1700 - King Charles XII of Sweden defeats Russia at Narva [NS]
1700 - Turkey declares war on Russia
1700 - Utrecht/Overijssel/Buren/Leerdam/IJsselstein go on Gregoria calendar
1718 - Swedish king Charles XII dies during a siege of the fortress Fredriksten in Norway.
1731 - Beijing hit by Earthquake; about 100,000 die
1735 - States of Holland forbid Free Masonry
1747 - Dutch State of Zealand declare governorship hereditary for women
1753 - Benjamin Franklin receives Godfrey Copley-Penny
1776 - Capt Cook begins 3rd & last trip to Pacific (South Sea)
1782 - Britain signs agreement recognizing US independence
1786 - Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. November 30 is therefore commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.
1787 - Spanish governor leaves Philippines
1803 - Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to France
1804 - Impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase begins
1813 - Prince Willem Frederik returns to Netherlands
1824 - First ground is broken at Allenburg for the building of the original Welland Canal.
1829 - First Welland Canal opens for a trial run, 5 years to the day from the ground breaking.
1838 - Mexico declares war on France
1861 - Harper's Weekly publishes EE Beers' "All quiet along the Potomac"
1863 - Confederate troops vacate Fort Esperanza, Texas
1864 - Battle of Franklin Tenn: Confederate attack fails, 7,700 casualities
1864 - Battle of Honey Hill SC (Broad River) 96 dead/665 wounded
1866 - Work begins on 1st US underwater highway tunnel, Chicago
1868 - The inauguration of a statue of King Charles XII of Sweden takes place in the King's garden in Stockholm.
1872 - 1st intl soccer game, Scotland-England 0-0 (Glasgow)
1885 - Opera "El Cid" premieres (Paris)
1886 - 1st commercially successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo
1886 - The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
1887 - 1st indoor softball game (Chicago)
1891 - Pope Leo XIII's encyclical "Rerum novarum" published
1900 - A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles
1902 - American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.
1907 - Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle
1912 - 4th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Alerts defeats Toronto Argonauts, 11-4
1915 - St John Ervine's "John Ferguson," premieres in Dublin
1916 - Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1922 - 1st speed test of 1st genuine Japanese aircraft carrier Hosho
1922 - Hitler speaks to 50,000 national-socialists in Munich
1923 - Dutch Catholic minority govt of Wilhelm Marx forms
1924 - 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-NYC)
1924 - Last French/Belgian troops leave Ruhrgebied
1928 - Test Cricket debut of Don Bradman, who scored 18 & 1 vs England
1929 - 17th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Regina Roughriders, 14-3
1931 - Crystal Palace in Hyde Park London destroyed by fire
1931 - His Master's Voice & Columbia Records merge into EMI
1933 - CCC Camps are established in Cleveland Park District
1936 - London's Crystal Palace (built 1851), destroyed by fire
1937 - 3rd Heisman Trophy Award: Clint Frank, Yale (HB)
1938 - Fascist coup in Romania, fails
1938 - Germany bans Jews being lawyers
1939 - 21 U boats sunk this month (52,000 ton)
1939 - Paul Osborn's "Mornings at 7," premieres in NYC
1939 - USSR invades Finland, bombs Helsinki
1940 - 28th CFL Grey Cup (Game 1): Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Ottawa, 8-2
1940 - 32 U boats sunk this month (147,000 ton)
1940 - Lucille Ball weds Desi Arnaz
1941 - 101 year old Nyack-Tarrytown (NY) ferry makes it's last run
1941 - 13 U boats sunk this month (62,000 ton)
1941 - Japanese Emperor Hirohito consults with admirals Shimada & Nagano
1942 - -Dec 1st: Sea battle at Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal
1942 - 109 U boats sunk this month (729,000 ton)
1942 - 30th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Hurricanes defeats Winnipeg Bombers, 8-5
1942 - Bill Terry resigns as supervisor of NY Giants minor league system
1942 - German scout ship Altmark explode & sinks off Yokohama
1944 - Biggest & last British Battleship HMS Vanguard runs aground
1945 - 33rd CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 35-0
1946 - Bradman scores 187 in 1st Test Cricket v England at the Gabba
1947 - Arab terrorist campaign opens in Palestine
1947 - Day after UN decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked
1948 - Baseball's Negro National League disbands
1948 - Player-manager Lou Boudreau is selected AL MVP
1948 - Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin
1949 - Chinese Communists captured Chungking
1949 - KOTV TV channel 6 in Tulsa, OK (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 - US Pres Truman threatens China with atom bomb
1952 - Jackie Robinson charges NY Yankees with racism
1953 - French parachutist under Col De Castries attacks Dien Bien Phu
1953 - Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
1954 - 1st meteorite known to strike a woman (Liz Hodges-Sylacauga Ala)
1954 - 20th Heisman Trophy Award: Alan Ameche, Wisconsin (FB)
1954 - John Strydom succeeds Malan as premier of South Africa
1955 - "Pipe Dream" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 245 performances
1955 - Argentine government disbands Peronistic party
1956 - 1st use of videotape on TV (Douglas Edwards & the News)
1956 - Floyd Patterson KOs Archie Moore in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1957 - "Happy Hunting" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 413 performances
1957 - 45th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 32-7
1957 - Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, kills 8
1958 - 1st guided missile destroyer launched, Dewey, Bath, Me
1958 - WKBW TV channel 7 in Buffalo, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1959 - Joe Foss named 1st commissioner of AFL

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 256

538 - St Gregory of Tours, chronicler/bishop
1340 - John duke of Berry, captain of Paris/art collector
1364 - John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (d. 1390)
1373 - Ferdinand I, the Righteous, king of Aragon/Sicily
1427 - Kazimierz IV, king of Poland (1447-92)
1466 - Andrea Doria, Genoese statesman/admiral
1485 - Veronica Gambara, Italian poetess
1498 - Andrés de Urdaneta, Spanish Augustinian friar, sail-captain and explorer (d. 1568)
1508 - Andrea Palladio, [Andrea di Pietro della Gondola], architect
1554 - Philip Sidney, England, poet/statesman/soldier (Arcadia)
1593 - Johann Dilliger, composer
1594 - John Cosin, English clergyman (d. 1672)
1622 - Thomas of Apshoven, Flemish painter, baptized
1625 - Jean Domat, French jurist (d. 1696)
1634 - Andres de Sola, composer
1637 - Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (d. 1698)
1645 - Andreas Werkmeister, composer
1667 - Jonathan Swift, Engl, satirist (Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal)
1670 - John Toland, Irish philosopher (d. 1722)
1683 - Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (d. 1744)
1693 - Christoph Forster, composer
1699 - Christian VI, king of Denmark/Norway
1719 - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (d. 1772)
1722 - Theodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler (d. 1761)
1723 - William Livingston, revolutionary Governor of New Jersey (d. 1790)
1726 - Jacques Aliamet, French etcher/engraver
1753 - Johann Baptist Schenk, composer
1756 - Ernst Chladni, German physicist (d. 1827)
1764 - Franz Xaver Gerl, composer
1768 - Jędrzej Śniadecki, Polish writer, physician, chemist and biologist (d. 1838)
1781 - Alexander Berry, British adventurer (d. 1873)
1796 - Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe, composer
1809 - Thomas Molleson Mudie, composer
1810 - Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker (Winchester)
1813 - Charles-Henri Valentin Alkan, composer
1813 - Hermann Kurz, German author/poet
1813 - Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (d. 1890)
1817 - Theodor Mommsen, Germ, historian/author (Imperial Lives, Nobel 1902)
1821 - Gustavus Woodson Smith, Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1896
1821 - Frederick Temple, 95th Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1902)
1826 - George Washington Deitzler, Brig General (Union volunteers)
1827 - Constantine P Pobedonostsev, Russian reactionary lawyer/senator
1827 - Ernest H Baillon, French botanist (History of Plants)
1828 - Jedediah Hotchkiss, Engineer (Confederate Army), died in 1899
1835 - Mark Twain, [Samuel L Clemens], author (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn)
1836 - Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician (d. 1882)
1840 - Henry Birks, Canadian businessman (d. 1928)
1843 - Jozsef Kiss, Hungarian literary (Zsido Dalok)
1847 - August Friedrich Martin Klughardt, composer
1855 - Marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of Agriculture/Finance
1857 - Robert Abel, cricketer (The Guv'nor Surrey & England batsman)
1858 - Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1937)
1859 - Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, composer
1861 - French Gailliard, Belgian painter (Zeustempel in Athens)
1861 - Ludwig Thuille, composer
1863 - Andres Bonifacio, leader of 1896 Philippine revolt against Spain
1863 - Gellio Benevenuto Coronaro, composer
1869 - Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1937)
1870 - Cecil Forsyth, composer
1870 - Princess Henriette, Duchess of Vendôme and Alençon (d. 1948)
1872 - Dr. John McCrae, Canadian physician and soldier (d. 1918)
1874 - Winston Churchill, (C) Brit PM (1940-45, 1951-55, Nobel 1953)
1874 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (d. 1942)
1885 - Albrecht (von) Kesselring, German fieldmarshal (Poland/Netherland)
1889 - Edgar D Adrian, English physiologist (Nobel 1932)
1890 - John Tasker Howard, composer
1890 - Oege Bakker, Dutch economist
1895 - Johann Nepomuk David, composer
1897 - Andreas Nezertis, composer
1897 - Quinto Maganini, composer
1898 - Roy "Link" Lyman, NFL tackle (Chicago Bears)
1900 - Korneel Goossens, Flemish literature/art historian
1903 - Germaine Emilie Madame Gres Krebs, haute Couturist
1904 - Clyfford Still, US, abstract painter
1904 - Philip Burton, teacher/writer/dramatist
1904 - Philip H Burton, Welsh director/acting teacher (Richard Burton)
1906 - Marina, princess of Greece/Denmark/husband of English prince George
1907 - Gyorgy Ranki, composer
1907 - Jacques Barzun, France, author (The House of Interlect)
1909 - Robert Nighthawk, American musician (d. 1967)
1910 - Paul Cerutti, Monaco, trap shooter, disqualified for drugs in 76 oly
1911 - Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (d. 1953)
1912 - Constant Stotijn, Dutch oboist (Residence Orchestra)
1912 - Gordon Parks, Ft Scott KS, film director/author (Learning Tree)
1913 - John K M McCaffery, Moscow Idaho, TV host (One Minute Please)
1914 - Brownie McGhee, Knoxville TN, blues guitarist
1915 - Angier Biddle Duke, NYC, US Ambassador (Spain)
1915 - Henry Taube, chemist (Nobel 1983)
1915 - Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee, blues singer/guitarist
1916 - Michael Gwynn, Bath England, actor (Village of Damned, Question 7)
1918 - Efren Zimbalist Jr, NYC, actor (77 Sunset Strip, FBI, Scruples)
1919 - Anne S Wadman, Frisian literary (Fioele & faem, Smearlappen)
1919 - Jan Elburg, [Joannes G], Dutch poet (Through the Night)
1920 - Virginia Mayo, St Louis Mo, actress (Out of the Blue, White Heat)
1922 - Robert Evett, composer
1924 - Allan Sherman, parody singer/songwriter (Hello Muddah, Hello Fardah)
1924 - Klaus Huber, composer
1924 - Shirley Chisholm, (Rep-D-NY)
1925 - Maxwell Street Jimmy Charles Davis Thomas, blues musician
1926 - Richard Crenna, LA Cal, actor (Rambo, Summer Rental, Sand Pebbles)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 101

1016 - Edmund II, Ironsides, King of Saxons (1016), dies at 27
1016 - Edmund II of England
1519 - Michael Wolgemut, German painter (Weltchronik), dies at about 85
1528 - Great Wierd, Dutch Gelderland army commander, beheaded
1580 - Richard Farrant, English composer
1626 - Thomas Weelkes, English composer
1631 - Rabbi Samuel Eliezer ben Judah ha-levi Edels, dies
1646 - John C Lichthart, admiral (Cape Augustine), dies at about 45
1654 - John Selden, English jurist and oriental scholar (b. 1584)
1675 - Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (b. 1605)
1678 - Andries de Graeff, mayor of Amsterdam (1657..71), dies at 67
1679 - Pieter van Schooten, Dutch mathematician/fort architect, dies at 45
1694 - Marcello Malpighi, father of microscopic anatomy, dies
1700 - Artus II Quellinus [Quellien/"the Young], Flemish sculptor, dies at 75
1703 - Nicolas de Grigny, composer, dies at 31
1705 - Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II of England (b. 1638)
1718 - Charles XII, king of Sweden (1697-1718), killed in battle at 36
1761 - John Dollond, British optician (b. 1706)
1764 - Dieudonne Raick, composer, dies at 61
1765 - George Glas, British merchant and adventurer (b. 1725)
1777 - Jean-Marie Leclair, composer, dies at 74
1792 - Ernst William Wolf, composer, dies at 57
1798 - Friedrich Fleischmann, composer, dies at 32
1813 - Friedrich August Baumbach, composer, dies at 60
1824 - Johann Georg Christoph Schetky, composer, dies at 87
1830 - Pius VIII, [Francesco S Castiglioni], Ital Pope (1829-30), dies at 69
1841 - Charles Louis W J van Keverberg, Dutch govt official, dies at 73
1864 - Hiram Bronson Granbury, Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 33
1864 - John Adams, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at about 39
1864 - Otto French Strahl, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 33
1864 - Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 33
1893 - Jacobus J Backer, German sea historian, dies at 68
1897 - Abraham C Wertheim, Dutch banker/MP (Lib), dies at 64
1900 - Oscar Wilde, Irish author, dies in Paris at 46
1901 - Edward J Eyre, British explorer/governor (Jamaica), dies at 86
1904 - Aldine Sillman Kieffer, composer, dies at 64
1909 - Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/translator, dies at 53 [NS=Dec 13]
1931 - John Hyatt Brewer, composer, dies at 75
1931 - Marc-Jean-Baptiste Delmas, composer, dies at 46
1933 - Sir Arthur Currie, Canadian general (b. 1875)
1934 - Hélène Boucher, French aviatrix (b. 1908)
1935 - Fernando A N Pessoa, Portuguese poet (Book of Disquiet), dies at 47
1938 - Corneliu Codreanu, Romania fascist/putschist (Iron Guard), dies
1940 - Fritz Volbach, German musicologist/conductor/composer, dies at 78
1944 - Max Halbe, writer, dies at 79
1947 - Earnest Lubitsch, actor/director (Anna Boleyn, Ninotchka), dies
1948 - Franco Vittadini, composer, dies at 64
1954 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (b. 1886)
1955 - Josip Slavenski, composer, dies at 59
1957 - Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (b. 1890)
1958 - Hubert Wilkins, Australian polar explorer (b. 1888)
1961 - Stanislaw Kazuro, composer, dies at 80
1964 - Don Redman, orch leader (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 64
1967 - Patrick Kavanagh, Irish screenwriterr (Great Hunger), dies
1972 - Hans-Erich Apostel, Austrian composer (Kubiniana, Requiem), dies at 71
1972 - Neil H McElroy, soap manufacturer/minister of Defense (1957-59), dies
1972 - Valentin Ruiz Azner, composer, dies at 70
1973 - Bruce Yarnell, LA Calif, actor (Outlaws), dies at 35
1976 - Fritz Rasp, actor (Diary of a Lost Girl), dies at 85
1977 - Terrence Rattigan, British writer and playwright (b. 1911)
1979 - Joyce Grenfell (Adventure for Two), actress, dies at 69
1979 - Zeppo Marx, [Herbert], US comic (Marx Brothers), dies at 78
1981 - Robert H Harris, actor (Jake-Goldbergs), dies at 72
1983 - George Headley, cricket (10 tons in 22 Tests, 1st black WI capt), dies
1986 - Cary Grant, Brit/US actor (Awful Truth, Charade, Father Goose), dies
1987 - Arthur H Dean, lawyer/advisor to FDR, dies at 89
1987 - James Baldwin, writer (Go Tell it on the Mountain), dies at 63
1987 - Simon Carmiggelt, journalist/literary (Kronkel), dies at 74
1989 - Alfred Herrhausen, German CEO (Deutsche Bank), murdered at 59
1990 - Hilde Spiel, writer, dies at 78
1990 - Horst Bienek, German author, dies
1990 - Norman Cousins, editor (Saturday Review), dies at 75
1991 - P G Z (Zin) Harris, cricketer (9 Tests for NZ 1962-65), dies
1992 - Jorge Donn, dancer, dies after long illness at 45
1993 - Bob Wolf, agent (New Kids on the Block, Larry Bird), dies
1993 - Sebastian Kappen, Indian theologian (b. 1924)
1994 - Connie Conrad Henry Kirnon Kay, jazz Drummer, dies at 67
1994 - Guy Debord, situationist, dies at 63
1994 - Irwin Kostal, US arranger/conductor (Sound of Music), dies at 83
1994 - Lionel Stander, US blacklisted actor (Hart to Hart), dies at 86
1995 - Hopper Levett, Kent cricket wicketkeeper (1930-47, Test 1934), dies
1995 - June Rosemary Fisher, teacher/trade unionist, dies at 66
1995 - William Roerick, actor (Guiding Light), dies in car crash at 83
1995 - Randy Walker (AKA Stretch), American musician (b. 1972)
1996 - Dan Flavin, minimalist sculptor, dies at 63
1996 - Koji Kobayashi, industrialist, dies at 89
1996 - Paul Derrick, co-operator/Christian socialist, dies at 80
1996 - Tiny Tim, [Herbert Khaury], entertainer (Tip Toe), dies at 71
1997 - Clare Lucy Madeleine Evans, historian, dies at 37
1997 - Kathy Acker, writer, dead Cancer Died, dies at 54
1997 - Ron Gulliford, educationalist, dies at 76
1999 - Charlie Byrd, American jazz guitarist (b. 1925)
2002 - Tim Woods, American professional wrestler (b. 1934)
2003 - Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (b. 1906)
2004 - Pierre Berton, Canadian author (b. 1920)
2005 - Jean Parker, American actress (b. 1915)
2006 - Elhadi Adam, Sudanese poet and lyricist (b. 1927)
2006 - Rafael Buenaventura, Former BSP Governor (b. 1938)
2007 - Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil (b. 1938)
2007 - Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist (b. 1948)