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Historical Events

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680 - Battle at Kerbela: Kalief Yazid beats pretender al-Hussein
1375 - Westfriese sea wall breaks flooding northern Netherlands
1471 - Battle of Brunkeberg Stockholm (Sten Sture beats Christian I)
1549 - Duke of Somerset fired as Lord Protector & imprisoned
1575 - Battle of Dormans: Roman Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeated the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
1578 - Count Johan Casimir occupies Ghent with 500 horsemen
1631 - Saxon army occupies Prague
1695 - King Willem III escapes South Netherlands, back to England
1720 - French govt proclaims strike on banknotes
1733 - France declares war on emperor Charles VI
1760 - Suriname Colonial Regime signs treaty with Aukaners (ex-slaves)
1780 - Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean
1787 - Amsterdam surrenders to Prussian invasion army
1799 - Convention of Alkmaar: English/Russian invasion army departs
1802 - 1st non indian settlement in Oklahoma
1839 - British troops under Gen Charles Napier occupy Beirut
1845 - Naval School (now called US Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis
1846 - Alexis the Tocqueville writes about "Algerian problem"
1846 - Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell
1854 - US Assay Office in NY City, NY opens
1857 - American Chess Association formed (NYC)
1863 - Skirmish at Blue Springs, Tennessee (166 casualties)
1865 - John Hyatts patents billard ball
1868 - 1st written account of a Canadian football game
1868 - Cuba revolts for independence against Spain
1874 - Fiji becomes a British possession
1886 - 1st dinner jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, NY (tuxedo)
1888 - Teatotalers excursion train crushed, killing 64 (Mud Run Pa)
1889 - Barnard College is founded.
1892 - Entire Hong Kong national cricket team, die in shipwreck off Taiwan
1899 - IR Johnson patents bicycle frame
1902 - S Afr's president Paul Kruger visits Utrecht
1904 - Liberty Theater opens at 234 W 42nd St NYC
1904 - Yanks 2 games out play 1st place Red Sox on final day doubleheader 41 game winner Chesbro loses 1st game & chance at pennant
1904 - Boston pitchers achieve 148 complete games-an AL record, also record for total complete games AL 1,098, NL 1,089
1908 - Baseball Writers Association, formed
1911 - Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan Natl Day)
1911 - The KCR East Rail commences service between Kowloon and Canton.
1913 - British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 kill)
1913 - Gamboa Dam in Panama blown up; Atlantic & Pacific waters mix
1913 - Yuan Shikai installed as 1st president of China
1914 - German forces route Belgians in Antwerp Belgium (WW I)
1916 - In Game 3, Charlie Ebbets becomes the 1st owner to raise the price of World Series grandstand seats to $5-up from $3
1917 - Giants Rube Benton is 1st lefty to pitch a World Series no hitter
1917 - Plymouth Theater opens at 236 W 45th St NYC
1918 - Baden's Geisz forms govt
1919 - Richard Strauss & Hugo van Hofmannsthals premieres in Vienna
1920 - 1st Grandslam in WS (Smith) & 1st unassisted triple play (Wambsganss)
1920 - Indians' Elmer Smith hits baseball's 1st post-season grand slam
1920 - Italy annexes South Tirol (Alto Adige)
1920 - Phoenix Cardinals (then in Chicago) play 1st NFL game, a 0-0 tie
1920 - Indian Bill Wambsganns makes 1st unassisted World Series triple play
1920 - Indian's Elmer Smith hits 1st World Series grand slam
1921 - NFL Decatur Staleys become Chicago Staleys, win 14-10
1923 - Saxony gets Social Democratic & Communist coalition government
1923 - NY Giants & NY Yankees become 1st teams to play each other for 3 consecutive World Series, also 1st played at Yankee Stadium
1924 - Ibn Saud of Nedzhed captures Mecca
1924 - Washington Senators win their 1st World Series beat Giants in 7
1926 - St Louis Cards beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 23rd World Series
1930 - AP votes Joe Cronin unofficial AL MVP & BWA names Hack Wilson NL MVP
1930 - Yankees announce signing Joe McCarthy to manage for 4 years
1931 - A J Bennett hits H Garbarino for 1st scoring pass in Canada's Big 4
1931 - St Louis Cards beat Phila A's, 4 games to 3 in 28th World Series
1931 - William Waltons "Belshazzar's Feast," premieres in Leeds
1932 - "Betty & Bob" premieres on radio
1932 - Dnjepr Dam in USSR put into operation (world's biggest)
1933 - 1st synthetic detergent, "Dreft" by Procter & Gamble, goes on sale
1935 - "Porgy & Bess," by George Gershwin, NY premiere
1935 - Coup under Gen Giorgios Kondylis in favor of Greek monarchy
1935 - George Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway
1935 - League of Nations denounces Italian invasion of Abyssinia
1936 - Bradman scores 212 in 202 mins in a cricket testimonial game
1937 - NY Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 1 in 34th World Series
1938 - Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland
1938 - Premier of Dmitri Shostakovitch's 1st String Quartet
1941 - German U-boat torpedoes US destroyer Kearney
1942 - 1,300 Austrian Jews transported to Theresienstadt
1943 - Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China
1943 - US bombers accidentally strike Enschede Neth, causing 151 deaths
1944 - Adm Halsey's Task Force 30 bombs Okinawa, 700 die
1944 - US takes Okinawa
1945 - Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 3 in 42nd World Series
1946 - Max Frisch' "Die Chinesische Mauer," premieres in Zurich
1947 - "Allegro" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 318 performances
1947 - Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical "Allegro," premieres in NYC
1948 - Then record 86,288 see game 5 of World Series in Cleveland
1949 - 3rd NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-1 at Toronto
1951 - Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 2 in World Series, DiMaggio's final game
1954 - Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after French troops pulled out
1956 - Fazal Mahmood takes 13-114 for match v Aus, Karachi
1956 - On Skowron's grand slammer NY Yanks beat Dodgers 9-0 in series game 7
1957 - Accident at British nuclear reactor in Windsdale
1957 - Braves' Lew Burdette beats Yankees for 3rd time in 1 World Series
1957 - Milwaukee Braves beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 54th World Series
1957 - Pres Eisenhower apologizes to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Del, restaurant
1957 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1957 - The Windscale fire in Cumbria, UK becomes the world's first major nuclear accident.
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1959 - "Happy Town" closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 5 performances

Famous Birthdays

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1344 - Mary Plantagenet,English princess (d. 1362)
1486 - Charles III, Duke of Savoy
1567 - Infanta Caterina Micaela of Spain (d. 1597)
1599 - Jacob Aertsz Colom, Dutch publisher (Consolation of the Sea)
1678 - John Campbell, 2nd duke of Argyll/fieldmarshal (Union of 1707)
1684 - Jean Antoine Watteau, French rococo painter (Onverschillige)
1700 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (d. 1759)
1713 - Johann Ludwig Krebs, composer
1731 - Henry Cavendish, England, physicist/chemist (discovered hydrogen)
1738 - Benjamin West, painter (Death of General Wolfe)
1757 - Erik Acharius, Swedish botanist (lichens)
1779 - Antoine PFGdV Celles, Belgium/Dutch/French MP
1780 - John Abercrombie, Scottish physician (d. 1844)
1790 - George Gerson, composer
1794 - William Whiting Boardman, American politician (d. 1871)
1804 - Albin Masek, composer
1813 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (d. 1901)
1817 - Christophorus H D Buys Ballot, Dutch meteorologist/founder KNMI
1819 - Zebulon York, Brig general (Confederate Army), died in 1900
1823 - Theodore Furchtegott Kirchner, composer
1825 - Paulus Kruger, Pres of South African Republic (1883), Boer leader
1828 - Samuel J. Randall, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1890)
1829 - Dandridge McRae, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
1830 - Isabella II, Queen of Spain (1833-68)
1832 - Theodore Shelton Bowers, Bvt Brig General (Union Army), died in 1866
1834 - Aleksis Kivi, [Stenvall], Finland, writer/poet (Nummisuutarit)
1847 - Gheorghe Dima, composer
1854 - Jeronimo Gimenez y Bellido, composer
1861 - Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian Arctic explorer/humanitarian (Nobel 1922)
1862 - Arthur De Greef, composer
1863 - Louis Cyr, French Canadian strongman (d. 1912)
1863 - Helen Dunbar, American actress (d. 1933)
1864 - T. Frank Appleby, United States Congressman from New Jersey (d. 1924)
1865 - Raffaele Merry del Val, Spanish cardinal
1868 - Guillermo M Tomas, composer
1870 - Louise Mack, Australian writer (d. 1935)
1876 - Walter Niemann, composer
1884 - C "Ormy" C Pearse, cricketer (3 Tests for S Afr in Australia 1910-11)
1884 - Ferdinand Bordewijk, Dutch lawyer/writer (Bint)
1885 - Walter Anderson, German folklorist (d. 1962)
1887 - Rie Cramer, [Marie Holman], Dutch cartoonist/author
1889 - Han [Henricus A] Van Meegeren, Dutch painter/art forger (Vermeer)
1892 - Ivo Andric, Yugoslavia, novelist (Bridge on Drina, Nobel 1961)
1893 - August Balthazar, Belgian politician
1895 - Johnny Taylor, cricketer (stalwart Aussie batsman of post-WW I days)
1895 - Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian (d. 1935)
1895 - Wolfram von Richthofen, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1897 - Lamar Stringfield, composer
1897 - Pricilla L Williams, social activist/humanitarian
1898 - Lilly Daché, French-born milliner (d. 1989)
1900 - Helen Hayes, Wash DC, actress (Caesar & Cleopatra, Happy Birthday)
1901 - Albert Giacometti, Swiss/French painter/sculptor
1903 - Charles T von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, Count of Flanders/prince
1903 - Vernon Duke, composer
1905 - Jane Winton, Phila, actress (Hell's Angel, Patsy, Don Juan)
1906 - Paul Creston, [Giuseppe Guttoveggio], NY, composer (Creative Harmony)
1906 - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
1908 - David Alexander Reginald Herbert, writer
1908 - John Waldo Green, NYC, composer (Body & Soul, Guy Lombardo's arranger)
1908 - Mercè Rodoreda, Catalan novelist (d. 1983)
1909 - Florida Friebus, actress (Dobie Gillis' mom, Bob Newhart Show)
1909 - Luc van Brabant, Flemish writer/erotic poet
1909 - Robert F. Boyle, American production designer and art director
1910 - Alan Frank, music publisher
1910 - Milton "Tippy" Larkin, band leader
1910 - Price Daniel, (Gov/Sen-D-Texas)
1912 - Charles Henry Madge, poet writer/sociologist
1913 - Claude Simon, writer
1913 - Johnny Downs, Bkln NY, actor (Manhattan Showcase)
1914 - Dorothy Lamour, [Kaumeyer], NO LA, actress (Road to Bali, Road to Rio)
1914 - Ivory Joe Hunter, rocker
1914 - Tommy Fine, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1916 - Benson Fong, Sacramento CA, actress (Charlie Chan, Purple Heart)
1916 - Scott Huston, composer
1917 - Ilona Ference, actress (Quatermass II, Star of My Night)
1917 - Thelonious Monk, jazz composer/pianist
1918 - Bobby Byrne, Columbus Ohio, orch leader (Club Seven)
1918 - Jean Gimpel, author/iconoclast
1918 - Jigal Allon, Israeli politician
1918 - Thelonious Monk, jazz guitarist/composer/pianist (Monk's Dream)
1919 - Gerald Etheridge Gomez, cricketer (post-war WI all-rounder)
1921 - "Boy" [FHP] Trip, Dutch minister
1922 - Boeli [Willem C] van Leeuwen, Antillian writer (Vreemdeling Op Aarde)
1922 - Harry Cave, cricketer (NZ bowler & Test captain in the 1950's)
1923 - Louis Gottlieb, musician
1923 - Nicholas Parsons, English actor
1924 - Edward D Wood Jr, Poughkeepsie NY, director (Plan 9 from Outer Space)
1924 - Huey "Piano" Smith, rocker (Rockin' Pneumonia & Boogie Woogie Flu)
1924 - James Clavell, England, author (Tai Pan, Shogun) [or 1920, 22, 26)
1924 - Ludmilla Tcherina, French actress/ballet dancer (Sins of Rome)
1924 - Ed Wood, American filmmaker (d. 1978)
1925 - Ivan Svitak, philosopher
1925 - Great Antonio, Croatian-Canadian strongman (d. 2001)
1926 - Oscar Brown Jr, US songwriter (Brown Baby, Forbidden Fruit)
1926 - Richard Jaeckel, NY, actor (3:10 to Yuma, Sands of Iwo Jima)
1927 - Clairmonte Depeiaza, cricketer (world record partnership v Aust 1955)
1927 - John Eric Tieman, production manager (The Guardian)
1927 - Thomas Brendon Wilson, composer
1927 - Dana Elcar, American actor (d. 2005)
1930 - Adlai Stevenson III, (D-Sen-Ill)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 130

19 - Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commandant of Rijnleger, dies at 33
413 - Nicias, Athens politician (Peace of Nicias), killed at about 57
680 - Hussein, grandson of prophet Mohammed, beheaded
680 - 10 Muharram 61 AH - Husayn ibn Ali (AS) , Shi'a Imam, Muhammad's grandson (b. 626)
732 - Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Moorish Governor of Andalusia
833 - al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph of Baghdad (b. 786)
1359 - King Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1295)
1616 - Maria van Nassau, countess of Buren, dies at 60
1651 - Philippus Rovenius, [Rouveen], apostole, dies at 77
1659 - Able J Tasmania, navigator/discovered (Tasmania, NZ), dies at about 56
1676 - Sebastian Knupfer, composer, dies at 43
1691 - Isaac de Benserade, French poet (b. 1613)
1708 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (b. 1659)
1714 - Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (b. 1646)
1720 - Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (b. 1640)
1723 - William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1665)
1725 - Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, Governor-General of New France (b. 1643)
1727 - Alphonse d' Eve, composer, dies at 61
1745 - Jacobus Nozeman, Dutch composer/organist, dies at 52
1747 - John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1674)
1759 - Granville Elliott, British military officer (b. 1713)
1765 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1688)
1789 - Pierre-Louis Couperin, composer, dies at 34
1791 - C F D Schubart, writer, dies
1795 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (b. 1714)
1797 - Carter Braxton, US boer/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 61
1827 - Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet, dies at 49
1836 - Jacob-Joseph-Balthasar Martinn, composer, dies at 61
1843 - Karl Theodor Toeschi, composer, dies at 75
1856 - Michal Wielhorski, composer, dies at 67
1858 - Karl A Varnhagen von Ense, German author/poet/diplomat, dies at 73
1864 - David Bullock Harris, US Confederate colonel, dies of yellow fever
1867 - Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski, composer, dies at 60
1872 - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (b. 1801)
1875 - Aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet/writer, dies at 58
1875 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (b. 1817)
1876 - Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (b. 1814)
1886 - David L Yule, 1st Jewish US senator, dies
1889 - Adolph von Henselt, composer, dies at 75
1893 - Lip Pike, American baseball player (b. 1845)
1901 - Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814)
1910 - Willem Maris, painter (Hague School), dies at 66
1913 - Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1848)
1913 - Adolphus Busch, American brewer (Anheuser-Busch) (b. 1839)
1914 - Gijsbert van Tienhoven, mayor (Amsterdam)/foreign minister, dies at 73
1914 - Karol I, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, King of Romania (1881-1914), dies
1927 - Gustave Whitehead, German-born inventor (b. 1874)
1930 - Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)
1931 - Karl von Bach, German engineer (Maschinenelemente), dies at 84
1935 - Arthur Henderson, British Labour minister (Nobel 1934), dies at 72
1938 - Martin Bladen, cricketer (the 7th Lord Hawke), dies
1939 - Eleanor Rigby, a real person whose name may have suggested the title to The Beatles song (b. 1895)
1940 - Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (b. 1876)
1942 - Richard von Schaukal, Austria poet/writer (Schlemihle), dies at 68
1957 - Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (b. 1885)
1959 - Friedrich, Prince of Liechtenstein, dies
1963 - Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (b. 1893)
1964 - Eddie Cantor, comedian (Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater), dies at 72
1964 - Frantisek Picha, composer, dies at 71
1964 - Konrad Bayer, writer, dies
1964 - Russ Case, orch leader (Julius La Rosa Show), dies at 52
1964 - Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist (b. 1888)
1965 - Georgy Mikhaylovich Rimsky-Korsakov, composer, dies at 63
1967 - Ervin Major, composer, dies at 66
1968 - Wilhelmina J "Willy" Haak, Dutch actress (Abandoned Child), dies at 71
1970 - Adam Rapacki, Polish minister of Maritime (1956-68), dies at 60
1970 - Edouard Daladier, premier of France (1933..40), dies at 86
1971 - John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian (b. 1901)
1973 - Albe, [Renaut A Joostens], Flemish writer (Paradise Bird), dies at 71
1974 - Marie Luise Kaschnitz, writer, dies at 73
1975 - Lillian Walker, dies at 88
1976 - Connee Boswell, singer (Pete Kelly's Blue), dies at 68
1976 - Silvana Armenulic, Yugoslavian folk singer (b. 1939)
1977 - Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (b. 1930)
1978 - Gesina Van de Molen, Dutch lawyer, dies at 86
1978 - Gesina Van der Molen, Dutch WWII resistance fighter/lawyer, dies at 86
1978 - Ralph H Metcalfe, (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 68
1978 - Ralph Marterie, American big band leader (b. 1914)
1979 - Paul Paray, French composer, dies at 93
1979 - Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b. 1931)
1980 - Bill Thomas, actor (Buckwheat), dies
1980 - Walter Keeton, cricketer (opening bat in 2 Test for Eng 1934-39), dies
1980 - William "Buckwheat" Thomas, actor (Little Rascal), dies at 49
1982 - Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (b. 1908)
1983 - Ralph [David] Richardson, English actor (Richard III), dies at 80
1985 - Orson Welles, actor/dir (Citizen Kane), dies of heart attack at 70
1985 - Yul Brynner, [Taidje Khan], actor (King & I), dies of cancer at 65
1986 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (b. 1899)
1990 - Carlos Thompson, actor (Mistress of the World), dies at 67
1990 - Dick Jorgensen, NFL referee, dies at 56
1990 - Michael A Salcido, dies at 39
1990 - Tom Murton, American penologist (b. 1928)
1991 - Redd Foxx, comedian (Sanford & Sons), dies of heart attack at 68
1991 - Stephen J Falat, dies after long illness at 34
1992 - James Seay, actor (Amazing Colossal Man), dies at 78
1993 - Catherine Collard, French pianist (Debussy, Haydn), dies at 46
1993 - Djillali Belkhenchir, Algerian doctor, murdered at 52
1994 - Anna Hauptmann, wife of Lindbergh baby kidnapper Bruno, dies at 95
1994 - Chaim Raphael, writer, dies at 86
1994 - Danny Gatton, US guitarist, commits suicide at 48