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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 177

310 - St Eusebius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
335 - Constantinople emperor Constantine the Great rules laws against Jews
686 - Conon begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1096 - Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea defeats 1st Crusaders
1187 - Alberto de Morra elected as Pope Gregorius VIII (12/17/1187)
1492 - Columbus lands on San Salvador Island
1492 - Columbus' discovers America (Oct 12, 1492 Julian calender)
1496 - Emperor Maximiliaans daughter marries Spanish crown prince Johan of Aragon/Philip de Blank marries Johanna "the Waanzinnige" of Aragon
1512 - Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg.
1520 - Ferdinand Magellen arrives at Tierra Del Fuego (Pacific Ocean)
1553 - Volumes of Talmud are burned
1555 - Emperor Charles V makes Erard of Pallandt earl of Culemborg
1555 - English parliament refuses to recognize Philip of Spain as king
1568 - 2nd Altenburger sermon: Philippisten/Gnesiolutheranen
1591 - Nijmegen surrenders to Earl Mauritius van Nassau
1601 - Memorial service for Daitokuji's Shinju held for Ikkyu Sojun in Kyoto
1639 - Sea battle at Dunes, Lt Admiral Maarten Tromp defeats Spanish armada under De Oquendo
1641 - Catholic uprising in Ulster: 1000s English & Scots killed
1652 - King Louis XIV returns to Paris
1708 - Dutch & English troops occupy Lille (Rijsel)
1727 - Russian & Chinese accord to correct boundaries
1774 - First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts and which was in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.
1797 - US Navy frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, launched in Boston
1805 - Battle of Trafalgar, Adm Nelson defeats French & Spanish fleet & dies
1816 - The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings. It is the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia.
1824 - Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement (Yorkshire England)
1854 - Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to the Crimean War.
1858 - In Paris, the Can-Can is 1st performed
1858 - Jacques Offenbach's opera "Orphée aux Enfers," premieres in Paris
1861 - Battle of Balls Bluff, VA (Leesburg, Harrison's Island)
1864 - Battle of Westport, MO (Kansas City)
1868 - Severe earthquake at 7:53 AM, centered in Hayward, Calif
1869 - 1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore
1871 - 1st US amateur outdoor athletic games (NY)
1878 - German republic chancellor Bismarck delegates end of "Socialism"
1879 - Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb
1887 - Detroit clinches best-of-15 touring World Championship with its 8th victory in Game 11 this afternoon in Baltimore, 13-3
1895 - The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
1897 - Yerkes Observatory of University of Chicago is dedicated
1899 - Battle at Elandslaagte Natal: (Boers vs British army)
1902 - In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.
1905 - England Pilgrim Assn beats All NY 11, 7-1 in soccer at Polo Grounds
1911 - RS Hichens & M Hudsons "Garden of Allah," premieres in NYC
1911 - Manitoba, Saskatchewan & Alberta Unions form Western Canada Rugby Football Union
1914 - Battle of Warsaw ends with German defeat
1915 - 1st transatlantic radiotelephone message, Arlington, Va to Paris
1916 - US Army forms Reserve Officers Training Corps
1917 - 1st Americans to see action on front lines of WW I
1917 - Petrograds garrison accepts Revolutionary Military Committee
1918 - Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min
1921 - Tuschinski Theater opens in Amsterdam
1923 - 1st planetarium opens at Deutsche Museum in Munich
1924 - KLM Fokker's F7 H-NACC departs to Dutch East Indies
1925 - Sidney Howards "Lucky Sam McGarver," premieres in NYC
1935 - Hank Greenberg selected AL MVP unanimously
1937 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 5th Symphony premieres
1937 - Franco-troops occupies Gijon
1938 - Japanese troops occupies Canton
1940 - RAF drops 1st anti-nazi pamphlets on Netherlands
1944 - Canadian troops occupy Breskens
1944 - During WW II, US troops capture Aachen, 1st large German city to fall
1944 - Walter Piston's "Fugue for a Victory Tune," premieres in NYC
1945 - Women in France allowed to vote for 1st time
1947 - Dutch Dakota explodes near Coopenhagen, 16 die
1948 - Beersheba liberated by Israeli army
1948 - Dutch Constellation crashes at Prestwick Scotland (40 murder)
1948 - Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated (Washington DC)
1948 - UN reject Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons
1950 - Chinese forces occupy Tibet
1950 - Death penality abolished in Belgium
1950 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Hardscrabble Women's Golf Invitation
1950 - Tom Powers of Duke scores 6 touchdowns
1952 - Dutch govt refuses New-Guinea (West-Irian)
1954 - Dorothy Parker/Arnaud d'Usseau's "Ladies of the Corridor," premieres
1954 - Indonesian troops land in New-Guinea
1956 - Betty Dodd wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open
1957 - Giants purchase Class-A Phoenix team
1957 - Jailhouse Rock starring Elvis Presley opens
1957 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open
1958 - 1st women in English House of Lords
1959 - Contra revolutionaries bomb Havana
1959 - Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens (NYC)
1959 - Players Assn approves 2 All-Star Games in 1960, to be held in KC & NY
1960 - 1st British nuclear sub Dreadnought launched
1960 - JFK & Nixon clashed in 4th & final presidential debate (NYC)
1961 - Barbra Striesand opens in "Another Evening with Harry Stones"
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1962 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Carlsbad Cavern Golf Open
1964 - Abebe Bikila runs world/olympic record marathon (2:12:11.2)
1964 - Braves ask NL to allow them to leave Milwaukee for Atlanta
1965 - KTWU TV channel 11 in Topeka, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Robert B Woodward
1965 - Vivian Beaumont Theater (NYC) opens
1965 - Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun.
1966 - 144 die as a coal waste landslide engulfed a school in Aberfan S Wales
1967 - Egypt sinks Israeli torpedo boat
1967 - Thousands opposing Vietnam War try to storm Pentagon
1969 - Bloodless coup in Somalia (National Day)
1969 - Leonard Gersh' "Butterflies are Free," premieres in NYC
1969 - Willy Burns elected chancellor of West Germany

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 206

1449 - George, Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV and Richard III (d. 1478)
1527 - Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (d. 1578)
1570 - Wolfgang Schonsleder, composer
1574 - Nicolo Rubini, composer
1581 - Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (d. 1641)
1582 - Johan Ernst earl of Nassau-Siegen, military/son of Johan VII
1650 - Jean Bart, French captain/sea hero (Escape from Plymouth)
1660 - Georg Ernst Stahl, German scientist (d. 1734)
1675 - Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (d. 1710)
1680 - Francisco Jose Coutinho, composer
1687 - Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1759)
1712 - Sir James Steuart, British economist (d. 1780)
1725 - Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (d. 1801)
1751 - David Moritz Michael, composer
1757 - Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (d. 1816)
1761 - Louis AG baron de Bacler d'Albe, French cartographer/brig general
1762 - Herman W Daendels, brig-gen/gov-gen of Dutch-Indies (1807-11)
1767 - Francesco Ruggi, composer
1772 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, England, poet (Rime of Ancient Mariner)
1775 - Guiseppi Baini, composer
1790 - Alphonse-Marie Louis de Lamartine, Macon France, writer (René)
1803 - George Wright, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1865
1807 - Hanri Reber, composer
1807 - Miguel Hilarion Eslava y Elizondo, composer
1822 - Levinus Keuchenius, Dutch minister of Colonies (1888-90)
1823 - Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera, composer
1827 - Petrus PM Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch historian/writer
1833 - Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Stockholm, created dynamite & Peace Prizes
1839 - Georg von Siemens, founder (Deutsche Bank)
1843 - Mark M Antokolski, Russian/French sculptor (Peter the Great)
1846 - Edmondo de Amicis, Italian writer (Cuore)
1847 - Guiseppe Giacosa, Italian songwriter (libretti opera Puccini)
1851 - George Ulyett, cricketer (great Yorkshire all-rounder 1873-93)
1858 - Ramabai Dongre' Medhavi, India, social reformer
1873 - George P Gooch, English historian/MP
1874 - Albert Aftalion, Bulgaria/French economist
1879 - Marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer
1885 - Egon Joseph Wellesz, Austria, composer/musicologist
1885 - Jan Altink, Dutch painter/co-founder (Ploeg)
1890 - Gerrit Engelke, German writer/poet (Love Letters)
1891 - John Metzelaar, Dutch/US (About Tropical Atl Visschen)
1891 - Ted Shawn, US dancer/choreographer (Dance We Must)
1894 - Rampo Edogawa, Japanese author and critic (d. 1965)
1895 - Alexander d'Arbeloff, entrepreneur
1895 - Shukichi Mitsukuri, composer
1896 - Edna Purviance, Lovelock NV (Dog's Pleasure, Dog's Life)
1898 - Amedeo duke of Aosta, viceroy of Ethiopia/gov-gen of Ital East-Africa
1898 - Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wresler and Olympic medalist (d. 1960)
1901 - Gerhard von Rad, German old testament scholar (Deuteronomium)
1902 - Hilarion Rubio, composer
1902 - Lillian Bronson, Lockport NY, actress (Next Voice you Hear)
1904 - Edmond [Moore] Hamilton, US, sci-fi author (Danger Planet)
1904 - Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet (d. 1967)
1906 - Lillian Asplund, last American Titanic survivor (d. 2006)
1907 - Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (d. 1985)
1907 - Jules Chevalier, French priest (b. 1824)
1908 - Alexander Schneider, Vilna Lith, violinist (Budapest String Quartet)
1908 - Howard Ferguson, composer
1911 - Peter Graves, London England, actor (Mission Impossible, Stalag 17)
1911 - Vladimir Ussachevsky, Manchurian/US composer (Creation) [NS=Nov 3]
1912 - Carlos Don Byas, US jazz saxophonist
1912 - Georg Solti, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Fidelio)
1914 - Martin Gardner, Scientific American math & puzzles columnist
1916 - Andrea Checchi, Firenze Italy, actress (Attack & Retreat)
1916 - Tomojiro Ikenouchi, composer
1917 - Dizzy Gillespie, [John B], jazz trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz
1919 - Claire Sterling, journalist
1919 - Daniel John Chapman Cunningham, physiologist
1921 - Jarmil Burghauser, composer
1921 - Malcolm Arnold, Northampton Engld, composer (Bridge over River Kwai)
1922 - Liliane de Bettencourt, heir to L'Oreal
1924 - Celia Cruz, Cuban singer, Queen of Salsa. (d. 2003)
1925 - Joyce Randolph, Detroit Mich, actress (Trixie-Honeymooners)
1925 - Louis J. Robichaud, Canadian premier of New Brunswick (d. 2005)
1926 - Leonard Rossiter, Liverpool England, actor (Britannia Hospital)
1926 - Marga Richter, composer
1927 - Nadine Judd, [Nadia Moore/Nerina], S African/British ballerina
1928 - Edward "Whitey" Ford, hall of fame pitcher (NY Yankees)
1928 - Mario Pinto, the Andrade, writer/president MPLA (Angola)
1929 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin, US, sci-fi author (Tombs of Atuan)
1930 - Doreen Cannon, teacher of acting (London)
1931 - Jim Parks, cricketer (England batsman-keeper in 46 Tests 1954-68)
1933 - Georgia Brown, [Lillian Getel], actress (Study in Terror, Fixer)
1934 - Jerry Lewis, (Rep-R-California, 1979- )
1936 - James H "Simon" Gray, English playwright (Butley)
1937 - Norman Wright, rocker (Del-Vikings)
1940 - Don Ritter, (Rep-R-PA, 1979- )
1940 - Frances FitzGerald, NYC, journalist/author (Fire in the Lake)
1940 - Geoffrey Boycott, cricketer (stoic England opener 1964-82)
1940 - Julie Parrish, Middlesboro Ky, actress (Good Morning World, Capitol)
1940 - Manfred Mann, [Michael Lubowitz], S Afr, rocker (Mighty Quinn)
1940 - Osamu Watanabe, Japan, featherweight (Olympic-gold-1964)
1941 - Marina Ripa, Rome Italy, countess/writer (My First 40 Years)
1941 - Steve Cropper, TN, guitarist/songwriter (Booker T & MGs)
1942 - Elvin Bishop, Tulsa OK, rock guitarist (Fooled Around & Fell in Love)
1942 - Les AuCoin, (Rep-D-OR, 1975- )
1942 - Allan Grice, Australian racing driver
1943 - Frans LAJ Wolters, economist/Dutch MP (PvdA)
1943 - Paula Kelly, Jacksonville Fla, dancer/actress (Liz-Night Court)
1943 - Ron Elliott, rocker

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 104

1125 - Cosmas of Prague, Bohemian writer
1204 - Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester, English nobleman
1221 - Alix of Thouars, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1201)
1266 - Birger jarl, Swedish statesman (b. 1210)
1422 - Charles VI, King of France (1380-1422), dies at 54
1439 - Traversari Ambrosius, Italian humanist/leader, dies at 53
1500 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1442)
1505 - Paul Scriptoris, German mathematician
1558 - Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian physician (Poetice), dies at 74
1561 - Johannes Vasaeus, Flemish humanist/historian, dies at about 49
1600 - Toda Katsushige, Japanese warlord (b. 1557)
1623 - William Wade, English statesman and diplomat (b. 1546)
1627 - Frederik de Houtman, navigator/governor of Ambon, dies at about 56
1629 - Tumengung Buraksa, Matarams/Javanese general, dies in battle
1637 - Laurens Reael, vice-governor of Ambon/poet/admiral, dies at 54
1650 - Pedro de Espinosa, Spanish poet/writer, dies
1662 - Henry Lawes, composer, dies at 66
1687 - Edmund Waller, English poet/plotter (Waller's plot), dies
1765 - Giovanni Paolo Pannini/Panini, Italian painter/architect, dies at 73
1773 - Johann Conrad Schlaun, German barok architect, dies at 78
1775 - Peyton Randolph, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1721)
1777 - Samuel Foote, English dramatist and actor (b. 1720)
1793 - Johann Ernst Hartmann, composer, dies at 66
1798 - Johann Christoph Schmugel, composer, dies at 71
1805 - Horatio Nelson, dies in Battle of Trafalgar
1805 - Johann Baptist Lasser, composer, dies at 54
1810 - Franz Teyber, composer, dies at 52
1831 - Nat Turner, & 19 associates, hanged at 31
1861 - Edward Dickinson Baker, US attorney/senator, dies in battle at 50
1861 - John Breckinridge Grayson, Confederate brig-general, dies
1863 - Lambertus GC Ledeboer, Dutch old-reformed vicar, dies at 55
1872 - Jacques Babinet, French physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 78
1873 - Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (b. 1807)
1886 - Jose Hernandez, Argentine poet (La vuelta the MartinFierro), dies
1896 - James Henry Greathead, British engineer (b. 1844)
1897 - Paul Kuczynski, composer, dies at 50
1904 - Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and writer (b. 1877)
1905 - Jose Teodor Vilar, composer, dies at 69
1906 - [Georgette A] Helena Amelung, actress (Small Lord), dies at 55
1916 - Karl von Storgkh, premier Austria, assassinated
1919 - Sven August Korling, composer, dies at 77
1924 - Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick, composer, dies at 76
1929 - Owen Dunell, cricketer (two Tests for South Africa in 1889), dies
1931 - A Schnitzler, writer, dies at 69
1937 - Betty Carver, wife of Bernard Montgomery, buried
1939 - Nummy Deane, cricketer (628 runs in 17 Tests for South Africa), dies
1940 - William G. Conley, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1866)
1943 - Alfred DPR Pound, British admiral/1st Sealord (Jutland, WW II), dies
1944 - Alois Kayser, German missionary to Nauru (b. 1877)
1955 - Roy Minnett, cricketer (Australian all-rounder prior to WW I), dies
1961 - Nils J E Ferlin, Swedish songwriter (Goggles), dies
1963 - George B Cressey, US geographer (Crossroads), dies at 66
1963 - Józef Franczak, last cursed soldier - anticommunist underground in Poland(b. 1918)
1965 - Bill Black, rocker, dies at 39
1965 - Marie McDonald, singer/actress (Promises Promises), dies of OD at 42
1966 - Gertrude Hoffman, actress (Mrs Odetts-My Little Margie), dies at 95
1967 - Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish astrophysicist, dies at 94
1969 - Jack Kerouac, US writer (Doctor Sax, On the Road), dies at 47
1969 - Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (b. 1882)
1970 - John T Scopes, US teacher (Scopes "monkey trial" 1925), dies at 70
1971 - Etienne Gailly, Belgian marathoner (Oly-bronze-48), dies at 48
1971 - Raymond Hatton, actor (Girls in Prison), dies of heart attack at 84
1973 - Arabi El Goni, VP/Chad parliament, murdered
1973 - Nasif Estéfano, Argentine racing driver (b. 1932)
1975 - Charles Reidpath, American athlete (b. 1887)
1977 - Ferit Tuzun, composer, dies at 48
1977 - Ronnie Van Zant, singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd Band), killed in plane crash
1977 - Stevie Gaines, guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd Band), killed in plane crash
1978 - Anastas I Mikojan, Russian politician, dies at 83
1980 - Hans Asperger, Austrian psychologist (b. 1906)
1983 - Theodorus H J Zwartkruis, Bishop (Haarlem), dies
1984 - Dalibor Cyril Vackar, composer, dies at 78
1984 - Francois Truffaut, dir (Fahrenheit 451), dies of brain cancer at 52
1986 - Lionel Murphy, Australian politician and judge (b. 1922)
1987 - Ying-Chin Ho, Taiwan govt official, dies at 88
1989 - Jean Image, Hungarian-born French animator (b. 1910)
1992 - Jackson Weaver, voice of Smokey the Bear, dies of diabetes
1992 - Jim Garrison, Louisiana DA (investigate JFK assassination), dies at 70
1992 - Shirley Booth, actress (Hazel), dies at 94
1992 - Jim Garrison, American attorney (b. 1921)
1993 - Assad Saftawi, Palestinian co-founder of al-Fatah, murdered at 58
1993 - Irving Torgoff, US baseball player (Detroit Tigers), dies at 75
1993 - Melchior Ndadaye, banker/1st Hutu pres of Burundi (1993), murder at 40
1993 - Sam Zolotow, US theater critic (NY Times), dies at 94
1993 - Scott Heiser, US photographer (Interview), dies at 44
1994 - Edward Moss Hutchinson, educationalist, dies at 85
1994 - Jerome Bert Weisner, military Scientist/Disarmer, dies at 79
1995 - Jose Ignacio Cabrujas, writer, dies at 58
1995 - Maxene Andrews, vocalist (Andrews Sister), dies of heart attack at 79
1995 - Shannon Hoon, vocalist (Blind Melon), dies of drug overdose at 28
1996 - Abdelhamid Benhadugah, novelist, dies at 71
1996 - Eric Halsall, sheepdog trial commentator, dies at 76
1996 - George Houston, land economist, dies at 74
1996 - Georgios Zoitakis, leader of Greece (1967-72), dies
1996 - Robert O'Neill Crossman, politician, dies at 49
1996 - Wang Li, politician, dies at 78
1997 - Dolph Camilli, Bkln Dodger/MVP (1941), dies at 90
1998 - Francis W. Sargent, 64th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1915)
2003 - Fred Berry, American actor (b. 1951)
2003 - Luis A. Ferré, Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1940)