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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 172

362 - The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside of Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire.
794 - Emperor Kanmu relocates Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto).
1335 - Ex-emperor Hanazono became a Zen priest
1383 - The 1383-1385 Crisis in Portugal: A period of civil war and disorder began when King Fernando died without a male heir to the Portuguese throne.
1575 - Foundation of Aguascalientes.
1633 - Ming dynasty fight with Dutch East India Company that Battle of southern Fujian sea (1633), Ming dynasty won great victory.
1708 - Great Alliance occupies Rijsel
1721 - Czar Peter the Great becomes "All-Russian Imperator"
1746 - Princeton University (NJ) received its charter
1797 - 1st sky diver (Andre-Jacques Trim, above Paris)
1797 - Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes 1st parachute jump from balloon (Paris)
1799 - Russia leaves second anti-French Coalition
1812 - Duke of Wellington seizes Burgos Spain
1819 - 1st ship sails by Erie-channel (Rome-Utica)
1836 - Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected pres of Republic of Texas
1844 - 7th day adventists wait for appearance of Jesus
1861 - 1st telegraph line linking West & East coasts completed
1862 - Battle at Old Fort Wayne, Indian Territory
1862 - Confederate troops reconquer Cumperland Gap, Tennessee
1866 - Paraguay: Battle of Curupaytí against Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.
1867 - Foundation of the National University of Colombia.
1868 - Jacques Offenbach's opera "Genevieve de Brabant," premieres in NYC
1875 - Sons of American Revolution organizes
1875 - First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
1877 - The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners. Those widows and orphans who were unable to support themselves were evicted by the mine owners and likely sent to the Poor House.
1878 - The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
1881 - Boston Symphony Orchestra gives its 1st concert
1883 - 1st NY Horse Show held (Madison Sq Garden)
1883 - Original Metropolitan Opera House (NYC) grand opening (Faust)
1884 - General Gordon receives letter of Mahdi
1884 - Sporting Life announces that both pennant winners will meet in 3 game series Oct 23-25 at Polo Grounds NYC to determine baseball champion
1885 - John Ward & several teammates secretly form Brotherhood of Prof Base Ball Players, 1st baseball union
1895 - David Belasco's "Heart of Maryland," premieres in NYC
1895 - In Paris an express train overruns a buffer stop and crosses more than 30 metres of concourse before plummeting through a window at Gare Montparnasse.
1897 - World's 1st car dealer opens in London
1899 - British troops flee Dundee, Natal South Africa
1904 - Russian fleet shoots at British fishing ship
1906 - 3000 blacks demonstrate & riot in Phila
1907 - Ringling Brothers Greatest Show on Earth buys Barnum & Bailey circus
1907 - Panic of 1907: A run on Knickerbocker Trust Company stock sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
1910 - Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and was subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
1913 - Explosion at Dawson NM coal mine kills 263 mine workers
1922 - Lucerne Street in Bronx named
1922 - Parsifal Place laid out in Bronx, named for knight in Wagner's Opera
1924 - Toastmasters International is founded.
1926 - J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal.
1928 - China expels all Russian instructors & civil servants
1928 - ESL Robinson's "Far-Off Hills," premieres in Dublin
1928 - Pres Hoover speaks of "American system of rugged individualism"
1928 - Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.
1929 - French govt of Briand falls
1929 - James H Scullin forms Australia government
1930 - 1st concerto of BBC Symphony Orchestra, under Adrian Boult
1930 - Blake & Razaf's "Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1930," premieres in NYC
1930 - SC Genemuiden soccer team forms
1932 - Charles de Broqueville becomes premier of Belgium
1932 - George Kaufman & Edna Ferbers "Dinner at 8," premieres in NYC
1933 - Primo Carnera beats Paulin in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1934 - In East Liverpool, Ohio, notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd is shot and killed by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents.
1935 - 18th PGA Championship: Johnny Revolta at Twin Hills CC Oklahoma City
1935 - Establishment of the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union.
1936 - 1st commercial flight from mainland to Hawaii
1938 - Chester Carlson demonstrates 1st Xerox copying machine
1939 - 1st TV NFL game-Eagles vs Dodgers
1941 - Maxwell Anderson's "Candle in the Wind," premieres in NYC
1942 - 1st ships of invasion fleet for Oran (Algeria) leave Scotland
1942 - US gens Clark & Lemnitzer & French gen Mast meet secretly in Algeria
1944 - Kurita's vice-admiral fleet leaves North-Borneo
1946 - 2 British ships sink near Albania
1948 - Egyptian flagship King Farouk sunk by Israel
1949 - 200 killed in train derailment near Nowy Dwor Poland
1949 - Emile Zatopek runs world record 10,000m (29:21.2)
1950 - LA Rams beat Baltimore Colts 70-27
1951 - Earthquake hits Formosa, 100 killed
1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1953 - Laos gains full independence from France
1954 - West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization
1955 - WWNY TV channel 7 in Carthage-Watertown, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - France intercept Moroccan plane, arrest Ben Bella
1956 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1956 - A concrete girder weighing 200 tons kills 48 in Karachi, Pakistan.
1957 - Conrad Adenauer re-elected chancellor of West-Germany
1957 - KJAC TV channel 4 in Port Arthur-Beaumont, TX (NBC) 1st broadcast
1959 - "Take Me Along" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 448 performances
1959 - Bob Merrill's musical "Take me Along," premieres in NYC
1960 - Cassius Clay wins 1st battle as professional boxer
1961 - 75,000 Flemings demand equal rights & Flemish language in Belgium
1961 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Antonio Golf Civitan
1962 - JFK addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba
1962 - JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis
1962 - JFK receives Ugandan premier Milton Obote
1962 - Pacific Science Center opens at Seattle Center
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1963 - 225,000 students boycot Chicago schools in Freedom Day protest
1963 - BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes on October 22 in UK with the loss of all on board.
1964 - EMI rejects audition by "High Numbers," they go on to become The Who
1964 - French philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize
1964 - US performs underground nuclear test at Hattiesburg Miss
1966 - USSR launches Luna 12 for orbit around Moon
1967 - 17th Ryder Cup: US wins 23½-8½ at Champions Golf Club (Houston, Texas, US)

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 215

1071 - William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and poet (d. 1126)
1197 - Emperor Juntoku of Japan (d. 1242)
1592 - Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1657)
1686 - Georg Balthasar Schott, composer
1688 - Nadir Shah of Persia (d. 1747)
1689 - King John V of Portugal (d. 1750)
1698 - Nicola Bonifacio Logroscino, composer
1701 - Maria Amalia of Austria, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1756)
1729 - Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (d. 1798)
1737 - Vincenzo Manfredini, composer
1752 - Ambrogio Minoja, composer
1761 - Johann Christian Gottlob Eidenbenz, composer
1765 - Daniel Steibelt, composer
1766 - Hans CE Freiherr von Gagern, German advisor to Dutch king
1770 - Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (d. 1831)
1790 - Jan Ackersdijk, Dutch political economist
1809 - Federico Ricci, composer
1809 - Volney E. Howard, American politician (d. 1889)
1810 - Henry Bohlen, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1811 - Franz Liszt, Raiding Hungary, romantic composer/virtuoso pianist
1818 - Leconte de Lisle, writer
1821 - Collis Potter Huntington, American railroad executive (d. 1900)
1826 - Guglielmo Quarenghi, composer
1832 - August Labitzky, composer
1832 - Leopold Damrosch, composer
1838 - Carl Fuchs, composer
1845 - Sarah Bernhardt, France, actress (Camille, Queen Elizabeth)
1847 - Jacobus Herculas [Uncle Koos] de la Rey, South African politician
1865 - Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (d. 1943)
1870 - Ivan Bunin, Russia, poet/novelist (Gentleman from SF-Nobel 1933)
1870 - Alfred Douglas, English partner of Oscar Wilde (d. 1945)
1873 - Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat (d. 1950)
1876 - Karl B Adam, German theologist (Christ our Brother)
1880 - Joe Carr, Ohio, NFL hall of famer/NFL president (1921-39)
1881 - Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
1883 - Adolf A Joffe, Russian revolutionary/writer (Brest-Litovsk)
1883 - Viktor Jacobi, composer
1885 - Giovanni Martinelli, Montagnana Italy, opera singer (NY Met)
1885 - Lothar Windsperger, composer
1886 - Erik Bergman, Lutheran pastor (d. 1970)
1887 - John Reed, journalist who reported on Mexican, Russian revolutions
1891 - Fidelio Friedrich Finke, composer
1891 - Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (d.1988)
1894 - Méi Lánfāng, Chinese opera performer (d. 1961)
1896 - Charles Glenn King, biochemist (discovered vitamin C)
1898 - Damaso Alonso, Spanish poet (Hijos de la ira)
1898 - Marcel Mihalovici, composer
1900 - Edward R Stettinius, US, foreign minister (1944-45)/diplomat
1900 - James Hall, Dallas TX, actor (Hell's Angels)
1901 - Charles Huggins, Canada, US physician
1903 - George Beadle, US biologist (Nobel 1958)
1904 - Paul Arma, composer
1905 - Constance Bennett, NYC, actress (Easiest Way, Ladies in Love)
1905 - Joseph Kosma, composer
1905 - Karl Jansky, Czech, discoverer (cosmic radio emissions in 1932)
1906 - Cornelis L "Kees" van Baaren, Dutch composer (Willem Pijper)
1906 - Sidney Kingsley, US playwright (One in White, Darkness at Noon)
1907 - Henriette Wyeth, 1st lady of american art
1907 - Jimmy Foxx, baseball HR hitter (534, Detroit Tigers)
1908 - Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologist/antifascist
1908 - John Sutton, Rawalpindi India, actor (Tower of London, Return of Fly)
1908 - John Gould, American humorist, essayist, and columnist (d. 2003)
1909 - Litz Pisk, movement teacher
1912 - Frances Drake, American actress (d. 2000)
1913 - Annette Rogers, US sprinter (Olympic-gold-1932, 36)
1913 - Bo Dai, last emporer of Vietnam
1913 - Patricia "Boots" Mallory, US dancer/actress (Handle With Care)
1913 - Tamara Desni, German-born British actress (d. 2008)
1913 - Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 2002)
1915 - Harry Hickox, Big Springs Tx, (Herb-Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
1916 - Michael F Howard, British Major-General (Gold Stick to the Queen)
1916 - Sid Miller, Shenandoah Pa, actor (Donald O'Connor Texaco Show)
1917 - Joan Fontaine, Tokyo Japan, actress (Gunga Din, Ivanhoe, Rebecca)
1918 - Lou Klein, American baseball player (d. 1976)
1919 - Doris Lessing, Kermanshah Iran, novelist (Golden Notebook)
1919 - Kathleen Ankers, American scenic designer (d. 2001)
1920 - Harry Potts, soccer star/manager
1920 - Mitzi Green, Bronx NY, actress (Little Orphan Annie)
1920 - Timothy Leary, Harvard prof (LSD taker)
1921 - Georges Brassens, French poet/cabaret singer
1921 - Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (d. 1986)
1922 - John H Chafee, (Sen-R-Rhode Island, 1976- )
1922 - John Weidner, war hero
1922 - Ton Lensink, Dutch actor (Rituelen)
1922 - Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Argentine footballer (d. 2001)
1923 - Pete Pihos, NFL end (Phil Eagles)
1923 - Bert Trautmann, German former footballer
1925 - Robert Rauschenberg, Port Arthur Tex, painter (Gloria)
1926 - Jan A de Jonge, Dutch historian
1927 - Helenard J "Allan" Hendrickse, leader of S Afr Labour Party
1927 - Ray Stern, mother of radio personality Howard Stern
1928 - Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazilian movie director
1929 - Dory Previn, Rahway NJ, pop singer (Love Be My Cover)
1929 - Giorgio Gaslini, composer
1929 - Lev Jasjin, Russian soccer player (goalie)
1929 - Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (d. 1990)
1931 - Hikaru Hayashi, composer
1933 - Donald Herod Peterson, Winona Mississippi, Col USAF/astronaut (STS 6)
1933 - Helmut Senekowitsch, Austrian footballer (d. 2007)
1934 - Donald McIntyre, Auckland NZ, Bass-Baritone (Wotan-Das Rheingold)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 101

741 - Charles Martel, ruler of the Franks, dies at 63
1383 - Ferdinand I, the wise, king of Portugal, dies
1494 - Gian Galeazzo, Italian duke of Milan (1476-94), dies
1565 - Jean, Vicomte d'Aguisy Grolier de Servieres, French bibliophile (b. 1479)
1613 - Pomponio Nenna, Italian composer
1625 - Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (b. 1561)
1651 - Jacob Praetorius, composer, dies at 65
1674 - Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (b. 1621)
1707 - Cloudesley Shovell, Admiral, drowns at Scilly
1708 - Herman Witsius, [Wits], reformed theologist, dies at 72
1725 - Alessandro Scarlatti, composer, dies at 65
1725 - Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlotti, composer, dies at 65
1751 - Willem IV KH Friso, prince of Orange-Nassau, dies at 40
1755 - Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (b. 1694)
1763 - French van Mieris "the Young", painter/historian, dies at 73
1764 - Jean Marie I'aine Leclair, composer, dies at 67
1792 - Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (b. 1725)
1802 - Samuel Arnold, English composer, dies at 62
1813 - August Harder, composer, dies at 38
1818 - Joachim H Campe, German theory/author, dies at 72
1835 - Willem G F Bentinck, earl/politician/organist, dies at 73
1847 - Sahle Selassie, Negus of Shewa
1852 - Hans C E Freiherr von Gagern, German advisor to Dutch king, dies at 86
1854 - J Gotthelf, writer, dies at 57
1859 - Louis (Ludwig) Spohr, composer (Faust), dies at 75
1869 - Michael Sars, Norwegian zoologist, dies at 64
1881 - Janis Cimze, composer, dies at 67
1882 - Janos Arany, Hungarians poet (Toldi Szerelme), dies at 65
1883 - George Coulthard, cricketer (Test for Australia 1882), dies
1883 - Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (b. 1818)
1889 - Olivier Metra, composer, dies at 59
1891 - Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, Austrian physiologist (b. 1846)
1906 - Paul Cezanne, French painter (b. 1839)
1917 - Bob Fitzsimmons, English boxer (b. 1863)
1918 - Myrtle Gonzalez, American film and stage actress (b. 1891)
1919 - Bruce F Cummings, English author (Enjoying Life), dies at 30
1926 - Jules Van de Hill, Belgian lawyer/politician, dies
1927 - Ross Youngs, Hall of Fame baseballer, dies of Bright's disease at 30
1927 - Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (b. 1876)
1928 - Andrew Fisher, fifth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
1932 - Anna Dickinson, dies just a week shy of her 90th birthday
1934 - Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, gangster, shot dead at 30 by FBI in Ohio
1935 - Komitas, Armenian composer (b. 1869)
1942 - Gustave "Staff" de Clercq, leader Flemish Nationally Covenant, dies
1942 - Sybren Tulip, NSBer/supt of police in Amsterdam (1941-42), dies
1943 - Josef Venantius von Woss, composer, dies at 80
1948 - Augustyn Hlond, Polish cardinal, dies
1954 - Prosper Cocquyt, Belgian brewer/pilot, dies at 54
1954 - Jibanananda Das, Bengali poet (b. 1899)
1960 - Edgar Scauflaire, Belgian, painter/decorator, dies at 67
1965 - Dipa Nusantara Aidit, Indonesian leader (PKI 1951-65), murdered at 42
1965 - Paul Tillich, German/US Theologist (Courage To Be), dies
1966 - Hewlett Johnson, Red Deacon of Canterbury, dies
1969 - Giovanni Martinelli, Ital opera singer (NY Met), dies on 84th birthday
1970 - René Schneider, Chilean general/supreme commander, murdered
1972 - Kurt Edzard, German sculptor (nudist/portraits), dies
1973 - Pablo Casals, Spanish violin cellist/conductor/composer, dies at 96
1975 - Arnold Toynbee, English historian/cultural sociologist, dies at 86
1978 - John Riley, English poet (murdered) (b. 1937)
1979 - Jesse Bishop, murderer, dies in Nevada gas chamber
1979 - Nadia Boulanger, French composer and composition teacher (b. 1887)
1981 - Michael Granger, actor (Creature with Atom Brain, Pier 5 Havana), dies
1984 - Harold Laurence Walters, composer, dies at 66
1984 - Napoleon Whiting, actor (Silas-Big Valley), dies at 75
1985 - Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano (b. 1894)
1986 - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, bio-chemist (Vitamin C, Nobel 1937), dies at 93
1986 - Ivor Francis, actor (Dusty's Trail), dies at 68
1986 - Jane Dornnacker, WNBC-AM NYC helicopter traffic reporter, dies doing a live traffic report as her copter crashes
1986 - Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician
1987 - Lino Ventura, Italian/French actor (Medusa touch), dies at 68
1989 - Roland Winters, actor (Jet Pilot, Meet Millie), dies at 84
1991 - Peter Willes, British actor/producer (Way We Live), dies
1992 - Cleavon Little, actor (Blazing Saddles), dies of colon cancer at 53
1992 - Red Barber, sportscaster (Dodgers, Yankees), dies at 84
1993 - Elie A Cohen, physician (held in Auschwitz), dies at 84
1993 - Fred C Shapiro, US journalist (Tiananmen-square 1989), dies at 62
1993 - Jiri Hajek, Czech lawyer/minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 80
1994 - Chester WIlliams, painter, dies at 73
1994 - David Buchan, ethno-Musicologist, dies at 55
1994 - Fabio Grobart, founder (Cuban Communist Party), dies
1994 - Harold Horace Hopkins, inventor (Endoscope), dies at 75
1994 - Rollo May, founder (Humanistic Psychology Movement), dies at 85
1994 - Sandy Horn, lesbian Activist, dies at 59
1995 - Edward Totah, art Dealer, dies at 46
1995 - K B Wilson, methodist principal (Westminster College), dies at 50
1995 - Kingsley Amis, author, dies of injuries from a fall at 73
1995 - Mary Wickes, actress (Sister Act), dies at 79
1995 - Ralph Whitlock, writer, dies at 81
1995 - Simone Gallimard, publisher, dies at 77
1996 - Charles Edward Pevensey Tennant, aristocrat, dies at 39
1996 - John Bauldie, music journalist/Dylanologist, dies at 47
1996 - Matthew Harding, businessman/football supporter, dies at 42
1997 - Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator (b. 1905)
1998 - Eric Ambler, English novelist (b. 1909)
2001 - Prof. Dr. Dkfm. Helmut Krackowizer, journalist and motorcycle racer (b. 1922)
2002 - Queen Geraldina of the Albanians (b. 1915)
2005 - Arman, French-born artist (b. 1928)
2005 - Tony Adams, Irish film producer (b. 1953)
2005 - Franky Gee, American singer (Captain Jack) (b. 1962)
2006 - Arthur Hill, Canadian actor (b. 1922)