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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 158

54 - Nero ascends to the Roman throne
409 - Vandals and Alans crossed the Pyrenees and appeared in Hispania.
1213 - Battle at Steppes-Bishop Pierrepont & Louis II beat Henry I of Brabant
1282 - Nichiren Daishonin, founder of the Nichiren School of Buddhism, dies. His ashes are interred at Taisekiji Temple.
1307 - French king Philip IV convicts templars because of heresy
1483 - Rabbi Issac Abarbanel starts his exegesis on Bible
1492 - English admiral Poynings fleet occupies Lock
1501 - Maximilian of Austria & Louis XII sign Treaty of Trente
1534 - Alessandro Farnese elected as Pope Paul III
1629 - Dutch West Indies Co grants religious freedom in West Indies
1652 - Prince of Condé flees Paris
1659 - Gen-major John Lambert drives out English Rump-govt
1660 - Denmark king Frederik III makes coup
1702 - Dutch/English troops occupy Luik
1710 - English troops occupy Acadia (Nova Scotia)
1716 - Hungarian Emperor Karel VI's troops occupy Temesvar
1724 - Jonathan Swift publishes last of Drapier's letters
1760 - Russian/Austrian army evacuates Berlin
1773 - The Whirlpool Galaxy was discovered by Charles Messier
1775 - Continental Congress orders construction of a naval fleet
1792 - "Old Farmer's Almanac" is 1st published
1792 - Washington lays cornerstone of Executive Mansion (White House)
1812 - Battle of Queenstown Heights, Brit beats US attempt to invade Canada
1843 - B'nai B'rith founded (NY)
1845 - Texas ratifies a state constitution
1860 - 1st aerial photo taken in US (from a balloon), Boston
1862 - Bismarck's "Blood & Iron" speech
1863 - Skirmish at Blountsville, Tennessee (50 casualties)
1864 - Battle at Darbytown Road Virginia (337 casualties)
1864 - Battle of Dalton, GA - surrendered
1864 - Battle of Harpers Ferry, WV (Mosby's Raid)
1864 - Maryland voters adopt new constitution, including abolition of slavery
1870 - Gustav Mahler (10) gives his 1st public piano concert
1871 - The Delphic Fraternity is founded as the Delphic Society at the State Normal School in Geneseo, New York.
1881 - Revival of Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda & friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations
1884 - Greenwich established as universal time meridian of longitude
1885 - The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
1890 - The Delta Chi fraternity is founded by 11 law students at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
1893 - Vigilant (US) beats Valkyrie II (Engld) in 9th America's Cup
1899 - 7000 lay-offs black mine workers of South Africa reach Natal
1902 - Arna W Bontemps noted poet & librarian of Fisk University
1903 - Pirates beats Pilgrims (Red Sox) 5 games to 3 in 1st World Series
1903 - Victor Herbert's "Babes in Toyland," premieres in NYC
1913 - Explosion & fire in Universal Coal Mine, South Wales
1914 - Belgian regime forms at St Adresse at Le Havre
1914 - Boston Braves sweep Phila A's, 1st sweep in World Series history
1914 - Garrett Morgan invents & patents gas mask
1914 - Pro-German Boers begin opposition of British authority in South Africa
1915 - Boston Red Sox beat Phila Phillies, 4 games to 1 in 12th World Series
1917 - Soviet accept establishment of Petrograd Military
1919 - Race riot at Elaine Arkansas
1920 - World Series celebration in Wade Park brings out 50,000+ Clevelanders
1921 - NY Giants beat NY Yankees, 5 games to 3 in 18th World Series
1923 - Angora (Ankara) becomes Turkey's capital
1924 - Wahhabietes under Ibn Saudi take Mecca
1930 - New German Reichstag opens with 107 NSDAP'ers in uniform
1931 - Musical "Everybody's Welcome" with T/J Dorsey premieres in NYC
1931 - Noel Cowards "Cavalcade," premieres in London
1933 - JDJ Boularan's "Tovarich," premieres in Paris
1933 - Soccer team STEVO forms in Geesteren
1936 - Explosion caused by leaking gas rips out section 12 of Cleve Stadium
1937 - A recorded trace of snow in Central Park NYC
1941 - Nazi's kill 11,000 Jewish children/old people
1943 - Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany
1944 - Riga Latvia freed
1944 - US 1st army begins battle of Aachen
1947 - "Kukla, Fran & Ollie" premieres
1947 - 1st NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 4-3 at Toronto
1949 - "Touch & Go" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 176 performances
1953 - Burglar alarm-ultrasonic or radio waves-patented-Samuel Bagno
1954 - RP Smith/M Shulman's "Tender Trap," premieres in NYC
1955 - 1st edition of L'express publishes in Paris
1956 - WAGM TV channel 8 in Presque Isle, ME (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins
1957 - German Dem Rep recalls East Mark & issues new currency
1958 - Burial of Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII on the 41st anniversary of the "Miracle of the Sun".
1960 - 3rd presidential debate with Nixon in Hollywood & Kennedy in NY
1960 - Nikita Khrushchev (PM USSR) bangs his shoe on table at UN
1960 - Opponents of Fidel Castro executed in Cuba
1960 - Pirate's Mazeroski's bottom of 9th lead off HR beats NY Yankees 10-9 in game 7 of 57th World Series
1962 - "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens on Broadway, with Uta Hagen
1963 - "Beatlemania" is coined after Beatles appear at Palladium
1963 - 15th Ryder Cup: US beats 23-9 at East Lake Country Club (Atlanta, Georgia, US)
1963 - 9th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright
1964 - At Plesman airport, Curacao, 125.5 mm rainfalls (record)
1964 - Voskhod 1 crew returns
1966 - 173 US airplanes bomb North-Vietnam
1966 - Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, becomes deputy director of CIA
1967 - CBS radio cancels "House Party"
1968 - Tinker Creek Gorge of Cleveland Metroparks is dedicated
1969 - 1st time 7 people in space
1969 - Billy Martin (97-65) is fired as manager of AL West-winning Twins
1969 - Soyuz 8 is launched
1970 - Angela Davis arrested in NYC
1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1971 - 1st World Series night game (Pittsburgh 4-Baltimore 3)
1971 - WTZH TV channel 24 in Meridian, MS (CBS) suspends broadcasting
1972 - "Hurry, Harry" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 2 performances
1972 - Aeroflot Il-62 crashes in large pond outside Moscow, 176 die
1972 - Commish Bowie Kuhn allows Bert Campaneris to play in World Series
1972 - Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountain, (12 of 23 rescue)

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 226

1162 - Leonora of England, Queen of Castile (d. 1214)
1244 - Jaques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templars (d. 1314)
1474 - Mariotto di Bigio di Bindo Albertinelli, Italian painter
1537 - Jane Grey, Queen of England for 9 days
1563 - Francesco Caracciolo, Italian religious founder/saint (Caracciolini)
1566 - Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (d. 1643)
1613 - Luisa of Medina-Sidonia, queen of Portugal (d. 1666)
1652 - Johann Heinrich Kittel, composer
1696 - John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, English statesman and writer (d. 1743)
1713 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter (d. 1784)
1714 - Pieter Burmann the Younger, Dutch philologist (d. 1778)
1759 - Ecco Epkema, Dutch linguist (Frisian, old-Frisian)
1761 - Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch earl/general/minister of War [NS]
1768 - Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, French explorer (d. 1839)
1769 - Horace H Hayden, cofounded 1st dental college
1783 - Frantiszek Soltyk, composer
1792 - Moritz Hauptmann, composer
1794 - Anselm Huttenbrenner, composer
1797 - William Motherwell, Scottish civil servant/poet
1808 - Henry Haywood Bell, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1868
1810 - James Shedden Palmer, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1867
1815 - Jules Quicherat, French historian/archaeologist
1820 - John William Dawson, Canadian geologist (d. 1899)
1821 - Rudolf Virchow, German politician/antropologist (cell pathology)
1822 - Karl Reinthaler, composer
1823 - Immanuel Faisst, composer
1824 - Henry Stephen Cutler, composer
1826 - Lafayette Curry Baker, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1853 - Lillie Langtry, [Jersey Lily], vaudevillian actress (Lillie)
1853 - Maria E "Beppie" Bakker, Dutch actress/wife of Piet Vink Sr
1862 - Mary Kingsley, English writer and explorer (d. 1900)
1863 - C-E Auguste Rateau, French mining engineer (Rateau steam turbine)
1876 - Rube Waddell, American baseball player (d. 1914)
1877 - Bernard Bosanquet, cricketer (pioneer of googly)
1878 - Patrick Joseph Hartigan, Australian Roman Catholic priest (d. 1952)
1879 - Peter Van Anrooy, Dutch conductor/composer (Piet Hein Rhapsodie)
1880 - Sasha Cherny, Russian poet (d. 1932)
1881 - George Bacovia, [Vasiliu], Romanian poet/composer/painter
1887 - Jozef Tiso, Slovak politician (d. 1947)
1889 - Douglass Dumbrille, Hamilton Ont, actor (Mr Deed Goes to Town)
1890 - Conrad Richter, writer (Light in the Forest)
1890 - Gosta Nystroem, composer
1891 - Irene Rich, [Luther], Buffalo NY, actress (Beau Brummell, Champ)
1891 - Ludwig Weber, composer
1895 - Kurt Schumacher, German politicial chairman (SPD) [NS]
1895 - Vera [A Veronica] Bondam, actress
1895 - Mike Gazella, American baseball player (d. 1978)
1899 - Marcelle de Manziarly, composer
1900 - Marius-Francois Gaillard, composer
1900 - Gerald Marks, American songwriter (All of Me) (d. 1997)
1901 - Benjamin Merkelbach, architect/city builder of Amsterdam
1901 - Edward Chapman, Harrogate England, actor (Promoter, Rembrandt)
1902 - Arna Bontemps, Louisiana, black author (100 years of negro freedom)
1902 - Franco Giorgetti, Italy, cyclist (Olympic-gold-1920)
1903 - Jens Bjerre, composer
1903 - Patsy Moran, PA, actress (Children of the Wild)
1904 - Jutta Hecker, writer
1904 - Wilfred Pickles, Halifax England, actor (Billy Liar, Gay Dog)
1907 - Yves Allégret, French film director (d. 1987)
1908 - John Grant, British rear-admiral
1908 - Werner Reinowski, writer
1909 - Herblock, [Herbert L Block], Roosevelt, Utah, political cartoonist
1910 - Art[hur] Tatum, US jazz pianist/composer
1910 - Otto Joachim, composer
1911 - Ticker Freeman, Paterson NJ, pianist (Dinah Shore Show)
1911 - Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (d. 2001)
1912 - Hugo David Weisgall, Ivancice Moravia, composer (4 Impressions)
1913 - Frances Tustin, child psychologist
1915 - Cornel Wilde, NYC, actor (High Sierra, 5th Musketeer)
1915 - Terry Frost, English artist (d. 2003)
1916 - David Hollestelle, Dutch baritone (Great-Broadcast chorus)
1917 - Burr Tillstrom, Chic Ill, puppeteer (Kukla, Fran & Ollie)
1917 - Laraine Day, Roosevelt Utah, actress (Dr Kildaire, I've Got a Secret)
1918 - Jack MacGowran, Dublin Ireland, actor (King Lear, Exorcist)
1918 - Robert Walker, Salt Lake City Utah, actor/writer (Bataan, Mme Curie)
1920 - Albert Hague, Berlin Germany, actor (Mr Shorofsky-Fame)
1920 - Nipsey Russell, Atlanta Ga, comedian (Car 54, Barefoot in the Park)
1920 - Laraine Day, American actress (d. 2007)
1921 - Harper MacKay, Boston Mass, orch leader (NBC Follies)
1921 - Yves Montand, France, actor/singer (Z, Napoleon, Grand Prix)
1922 - Alan Scott, Haddonfield NJ, TV host/songwriter (Spin the Picture)
1922 - Gilberto Mendes, composer
1923 - Servaas "Faas" Wilkes, Dutch soccer star (Xerxes/Fortuna/Inter Milan)
1923 - Cyril Shaps, English actor (d. 2003)
1924 - Terry Gibbs, Bkln NY, orch leader (Steve Allen Comedy Hour)
1925 - Frank D Gilroy, American writer (Subject Was Roses)
1925 - Lenny Bruce, [Leonard Schneider], comedian, arrested on obsenity
1925 - Margaret Thatcher, Grantham England, (Tory) British PM (1979-90)
1925 - Gustav Winckler, Danish singer (d. 1979)
1926 - Ray Brown, US, bandleader
1926 - Ray Brown, American jazz bassist (d. 2002)
1926 - Walter "Killer" Kowalski (wrestler) Canadian Wrestler (d. 2008)
1927 - Anita Kerr, Memphis TN, singer (Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour)
1930 - Peter J Clase, S African minister of Education/Culture (1985- )
1931 - Ed Matthews, Hall of Famer/Milwaukee Brave/HR hitter (512)
1931 - Janice Elliott, novelist
1931 - Eddie Mathews, American baseball player (d. 2001)
1931 - Raymond Kopa, French footballer
1932 - Jack Colvin, American actor (d. 2005)
1933 - Adam Kaczynski, composer

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 98 of 98

54 - Claudius, Roman Emperor, dies of poison mushrooms at 63
1093 - Robrecht I, the Fries, Count of Flanders, dies
1282 - Nichiren Japanese founder of Nichiren Buddhism (b. 1222)
1311 - Gwijde van Names, Flemish marshal (Golden Track), dies at 35
1415 - Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1381)
1508 - Edmund de Ros, 11th Baron de Ros, English politician (b. 1446)
1601 - Tycho Brahe, greatest naked-eye observer, dies in Prague
1605 - Theodore Beza, French theologian (b. 1519)
1643 - Sweder van Haersolte, mister of Swaluwenborch/diplomat, dies at 61
1652 - Abraham Verhoeven, Flemish printer/newspaper publisher, dies
1673 - Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (b. 1617)
1680 - Daniel Elsevier, book publisher/publisher, dies at 54
1680 - Francois Roberday, composer, dies at 56
1687 - Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (b. 1633)
1701 - Andreas Anton Schmelzer, composer, dies at 47
1706 - Iyasus the Great, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1682)
1708 - Henry van Nassau, mister of Ouwerkerk/fieldmarshal, dies at 67
1715 - Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (b. 1638)
1759 - John Henley, English minister (b. 1692)
1774 - Willem Bentinck, mister of Rhoon/Pendrecht/Orangist, dies at 69
1777 - Dismas Hatas, composer, dies at 52
1788 - Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet (b. 1702)
1795 - William Prescott, American Revolutionary soldier, dies
1805 - Johann Christoph Kuhnau, composer, dies at 70
1812 - Isaac Brock, English general (conquered Detroit), dies in battle
1815 - Joachim Murat, marshal of France/King of Naples (1808-15), executed
1819 - Giovanni Battista Gaiani, composer, dies at 61
1822 - Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor, dies at 64
1825 - Maximiliaan I Jozef, king of Bayern, dies
1825 - Maximilian I of Bavaria (b. 1756)
1855 - Gottfried Rieger, composer, dies at 91
1869 - Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Fren writer (Tableau Historique), dies
1882 - Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (b. 1816)
1890 - Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1816)
1904 - Pavlos Melas, Greek officer who organized and participated in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia (b. 1870)
1905 - Henry Irving, [John H Brodribb], English actor (Hamlet), dies at 67
1909 - Francisco Ferrer, Spanish anarchist, executed
1917 - Florence La Badie, American actress
1918 - Gerrit Engelke, German writer (Briefer der Liebe), dies
1919 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)
1920 - Isaac Capadose, lawyer/evangelist, dies at 86
1924 - Anatole France, [Jacques Thibault], writer (Ecrivain Francais), dies
1926 - Hans E Kinck, Norwegian philological/writer (Driftekaren), dies at 61
1931 - Ernst Didring, Swedish author (b. 1868)
1938 - E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye) (b. 1894)
1941 - GJ Berenschot, general/supreme commander Dutch East Indies army, dies
1945 - Milton S. Hershey, American chocolate tycoon (b. 1857)
1947 - Sydney Webb, England, writer/husband of Beatrice Potter, dies
1948 - Samuel S Hinds, actor (Raven, Test Pilot), dies at 73
1950 - Ernest Haycox, American writer (b. 1899)
1951 - W G (Billy) Quaife, cricketer (7 Tests for England, 228 runs), dies
1953 - Millard Mitchell, actor (12 O'Clock High, Gunfighter), dies at 50
1955 - Manuel Ávila Camacho, President of Mexico (b. 1897)
1958 - Alexander Moiseyevich Veprik, composer, dies at 59
1959 - K Rudolf Mengelberg, Dutch composer (Concert Amsterdam), dies at 67
1963 - Henry Daniell, English actor (Woman in Green, Body Snatchers), dies
1965 - Paul H Muller, Swiss chemist (DDT-Nobel 1948), dies at 66
1966 - Clifton Webb, actor (Laura, Razor's Edge), dies of heart attack at 72
1966 - Father Marriott, cricketer (one Test for England, 11 wickets), dies
1968 - Bea Benaderet, actress (Petticoat Junction), dies of lung cancer at 62
1970 - Julia Culp, mezzo-soprano, dies at 90
1971 - Stafford Smythe, Canadian NHL executive (b. 1921)
1974 - Ed Sullivan, TV host (Ed Sullivan Show, Toast of the Town), dies at 73
1979 - Clarence Muse, actor (Sam-Casablanca), dies at 90
1979 - Rebecca Clarke, composer, dies at 93
1981 - Nils Asther, actor (Son of Lassie, Wild Orchids), dies at 84
1985 - Jack Wilson, cricketer (Test for Australia, 0-39 & 1-25, DNB), dies
1987 - Walter H Brattain, US physicist (transistors, Nobel 1956), dies at 85
1987 - Kishore Kumar, Indian Singer (b.1929)
1988 - Mike Venezia, jockey, dies in 5th-race fall at Belmont Race Track, NY
1989 - Jay Ward, animator (Rocky & His Friends), dies at 69 of cancer
1990 - Hans Freudenthal, mathematician/director OW&OC (F Institution), dies
1990 - Le Duc Tho, North Vietnamese negotiator in Paris (1975), dies at 78
1990 - Lê Ðức Thọ, Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1911)
1991 - Daniel Oduber Quiros, president of Costa Rica (1974-1978), dies
1991 - Donald Houston, actor (Battle Hell, Study in Terror), dies at 67
1992 - Hughes Rudd, news anchor (CBS Morning News), dies of aneurysm at 71
1992 - James Marshall, illustrator/author (The Stupids), dies at 50
1992 - John Hancock, actor (Ike-Love & War), dies of heart attack at 51
1993 - Gwen Wells, actress (Nashville), dies of cancer at 42
1993 - Leon Ames, US actor (Mr Ed, Peggy Sue got Married), dies at 90
1995 - Golfredo Corradetti, conductor, dies at 79
1995 - Henry Roth, novelist (Call it Sleep), dies at 89
1995 - Ali Faik Zaghloul, Egyptian radio presenter
1996 - Albert Hughes Williams, teacher/historian, dies at 89
1996 - Beryl Reid, actress (Yellowbeard, Psychomania), dies at 76
1996 - Henri Nannen, journalist, dies at 82
1996 - Rene Lacoste, tennis player, dies at 92
1997 - Adil Carcani, prime minister of Albania (1982-91), dies
2000 - Jean Peters, American actress (b. 1926)
2001 - Peter Doyle, Australian pop singer (The New Seekers) (b. 1949)
2002 - Stephen Ambrose, American historian and biographer (b. 1936)
2003 - Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
2004 - Enrique Fernando, Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court (b. 1915)
2005 - Vivian Malone Jones, American civil rights activist (b. 1942)
2006 - Wang Guangmei, Chinese first lady (b. 1921)
2007 - Bob Denard, French mercenary (b. 1929)
2008 - Alexei Cherepanov, Russian hockey player (b. 1989)