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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 186

625 - Boniface V ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1131 - Crowning of Louis VII the Young, King of France
1147 - Battle at Doryleum: Arabs beat Koenraad III's crusaders
1147 - King Afonso I of Portugal occupiers Lisbon
1147 - Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.
1241 - Goffredo Castiglioni elected as Pope Coelestinus IV (-Nov 10 1241)
1315 - Adam Banastre, Henry de Lea and William Bradshaw, led an attack on Liverpool Castle.
1415 - Battle of Agincourt, Welsh longbow defeat armored knight
1415 - John IV van Bourgondy becomes duke of Brabant/Limburg
1492 - Columbus' fleet sites "Zandislands" (Ragged Island Range, Bahamas)
1492 - Christopher Columbus' ship Santa Maria lands at Dominican Republic
1521 - Emperor Charles V bans wooden buildings in Amsterdam
1555 - Emperor Karel puts son Philip II in charge of Netherlands/Naples/Milan
1577 - Pope Gregory XIII asks renewal of ecclesiastical hymns
1596 - Spanish fleet sails from Lisbon to Ireland
1616 - VOC-ship "The Eendracht" discovers Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia
1621 - Gov Bradford of US colony Plymouth disallows sport on Christmas Day
1666 - Brandenburg/Brunswick/Denmark/Neth form anti-French Quadruple Alliance
1671 - Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, satellite of Saturn
1747 - British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke defeats the French at the second battle of Cape Finisterre.
1760 - George III ascends British throne
1760 - George III becomes King of Great Britain.
1764 - John Adams marries Abigail Smith (marriage lasts 54 years)
1812 - US frigate United States captures British vessel Macedonian
1825 - Erie Canal opens, linking Great Lakes & Atlantic Ocean
1828 - The St Katharine Docks opened in London.
1854 - Charge of Light Brigade (Battle of Balaklava, Crimean War), 409 die
1854 - Prince Menshikov of Krim occupies British base at Balaclava
1859 - Merchant vessel Royal Charter runs aground at Liverpool, 459 die
1861 - Battle of Wilson's Creek, MI (Springfield)
1861 - Telegraph message sent from St Louis to SF
1861 - The Toronto Stock Exchange was created.
1864 - Battle of Marais Des Cygnes River, Kansas (Mine Creek)
1864 - Skirmish at Mine Creek, KS & Turkeytown, AL
1870 - Pimlico Race Course opens in Baltimore
1870 - Postcards 1st used in US
1875 - Peter Tsjaikofsky's "1st Pianoconcert up. 23" premieres in Boston
1875 - The first performance of the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is given in Boston, Massachusetts with Hans von Bülow as soloist.
1881 - Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday & Clanton engage in "Shootout at OK Corral"
1884 - 1st World Series OK by AA, Providence (NL) sweeps NY Mets (AA) in 3
1885 - John Brahms' 4th Symphony in E, premieres
1891 - 1st International 6 day bike race (NY MSG) ends
1893 - Battle of Shangani, Matabeleland: Dr Jameson beats Ndebeles
1900 - England annexes Transvaal
1902 - Maksin Gorki's "Na dne," premieres in Moscow
1902 - Santa Maria Guatemala hit by Earthquake; about 6,000 die
1906 - US inventor Lee de Forest patents "Audion," a 3-diode amplification valve which proved a pioneering development in radio & broadcasting
1907 - Frederik of Oaths disbands mental home colony Walden
1915 - Atty James L Curtis named minister of Liberia
1917 - In Russia, Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin seizes power
1917 - Pan-Russian Congress opens in Petrograd
1918 - Canadian steamship "Princess Sophia" hit a reef off Alaska, 398 die
1923 - Senate committee publishes 1st report on Teapot Dome scandal
1924 - "Little Orphan Annie" comic strip 1st published
1925 - Lester Patrick takes over NY Rangers
1925 - Rightist German ministers disavows Treaty of Locarno
1926 - Lester Patrick becomes 1st coach & gm of NY Rangers
1929 - Former Interior Sec Albert Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe
1930 - 1st football game in Atlantic City Convention Center
1930 - 1st scheduled transcontinental air service began
1932 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Company consultant
1932 - Mussolini promises to remain dictator for 30 years
1935 - Hurricane-produced floods kill 2,000 in Jeremie & Jacmel Haiti
1937 - Belgian govt of Zealand falls due to black money
1937 - Casey Stengel signs to manage Boston Bees
1938 - Japanese troops occupies Hankou & Wuhan
1938 - The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces Swing music as "a degenerated musical system... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people", warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell".
1939 - George Kaufman/Moss Hart's "Man Who Came to Dinner," premieres in NYC
1939 - Nylon stockings go on sale in US for 1st time
1939 - William Saroyan's "Time of Your Life," premieres in NYC
1940 - Benjamin O Davis Dr became 1st Black general in US Army
1940 - Col Bo Davis attains rank of Brigadier General
1940 - Duke, Latouche & Felter's musical premieres in NYC
1940 - US Army Gen Benjamin Davis becomes 1st black general
1941 - 16,000 Jews massacred in Odessa Ukraine
1941 - Germany attacks Moscow
1941 - Winston Churchill routes "Forces South" to SE Asia
1942 - 3rd day of battle at El Alamein: British offensive
1942 - Battle of Henderson Field Guadalcanal begins
1942 - Fieldmarshal Rommel back in North-Africa
1943 - Burma railroad completed & opens
1944 - Battle at Cape Engano: 4 Japanese ships sink
1944 - Battle at Samar-island
1944 - Battle in Straits of Surigao: Japanese fleet destroyed
1944 - Gas output stopped in Amsterdam
1945 - Japanese surrender Taiwan to Gen Chiang Kai-shek
1946 - 1st trial against nazi war criminals (Neurenberg)
1947 - "Under the Counter" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 27 perfs
1947 - Bradman scores 156 for SA v the Indians, 152 mins, 22 fours
1947 - Sam Breadon sells Cards to Robert Hannegan & Fred Saigh for $4M
1948 - Special Council of Annulment convicts F Weinreb for collaboration
1950 - Dutch NSB leader C van Gelderen sentenced to life
1950 - Jean Anouilh's "La Repetition, ou L'Amour Pani," premieres in Paris
1950 - Sukarno appointed president of Republic Indonesia
1951 - Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom
1952 - 1st Dutch edition of youth magazine "Donald Duck"
1952 - French president inaugurates Donzère-Mondragonstuw Dam
1952 - Nazar Mohammad scores Pakistan's 1st Test century 124* v India
1953 - Cleveland Browns' QB Otto Graham sets club record with 4 fumbles
1953 - Coal mine in Seraing Belgium explodes, 26 die

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 227

1102 - William Clito, Count of Flanders (d. 1128)
1330 - Louis II of Flanders (d. 1384)
1360 - Louis, founder of house of Anjou
1510 - René/Renata de France, duchess of Ferara/daughter of Louis XII
1510 - Renée of France, french princess (d. 1574)
1528 - Seerp Galama, Dutch nobleman/soldier/politician
1576 - Thomas Weelkes, composer
1683 - Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (d. 1757)
1692 - Elisabeth Farnese, princess of Parma/queen of Spain
1709 - Georg Gebel, composer
1709 - John Wagenaar, Amsterdam merchant/historian, baptised
1716 - Petronio Maria Pio Sgabazzi, composer
1721 - Pierre Talon, composer
1735 - James Beattie, Scotland, poet/philosopher (Essay on Truth)
1759 - Baron Grenville, (Whig) British PM (1806-07)
1759 - Maria Fyodorovna of Russia, wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia (d. 1828)
1772 - Corneille Vander Planken, composer
1782 - Levi Lincoln, Jr., 13th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1868)
1800 - Thomas Babington Macaulay, England, poet/historian (Ivry, Naaseby)
1802 - Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strong man (d. 1864)
1803 - Maria van Ackere-Doolaeghe, Flemish poetess (Daisies)
1806 - Max Stirner, [Johann C Schmidt], German philosopher (Der Einzige)
1811 - Évariste Galois, French mathematician (d. 1832)
1814 - Louis CPR van Orleans, French duke of Nemours
1815 - Ernesto Camillo Sivori, composer
1815 - Philipp Fahrbach, composer
1818 - Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author (V Lesach) [NS=Nov 6]
1819 - Zachariah Cantey Deas, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1882
1825 - Johann Baptist Strauss, (the younger), Austria, composer (Waltz King)
1838 - Georges Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold Bizet, France, composer (Carmen)
1843 - Gleb Uspensky, Russia, author (Power of the Soil)
1856 - Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger, Croatian paleontologist (d. 1936)
1859 - Stephanie H [Lapidoth-]Swarth, Dutch author (Lonely Flowers)
1864 - Alexander Tikhonovich Gretsjaninow, Russ/US composer (Snow White)
1864 - Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer (d. 1956)
1864 - John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (d. 1920)
1866 - Georg Alfred Schumann, composer
1867 - Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general (d.1937)
1869 - August Otto Halm, composer
1869 - John Heisman, pioneering football coach/trophy namesake
1877 - Henry Norris Russell, astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram)
1878 - Nico van Suchtelen, Dutch publisher
1879 - Jean Rogister, composer
1879 - Mayhew Lake, composer
1881 - Pablo Picasso, Malaga Spain, artist (3 Dancers, Guernica)
1882 - Heinrich Max Ludwig, composer
1884 - Eduardo Barrios, Chile, novelist (The Love-Crazed Boy)
1887 - Willem CN Andriessen, Dutch composer/pianist (Beethoven)
1888 - Francois Pauwels, Dutch writer/attorney
1888 - Richard E Byrd, Virginia, admiral/polar explorer (1926)
1888 - Nils von Dardel, Swedish painter (d. 1943)
1889 - Abel Gance, French film director (d. 1981)
1889 - Smoky Joe Wood, American baseball pitcher (d. 1985)
1891 - Father Coughlin, Roman Catholic priest and pro-Fascist radio broadcaster (d. 1979)
1892 - Leo G. Carroll, English actor (d. 1972)
1895 - Levi Eshkol, [Sjkolnik], Israeli PM (MWP) (1963-69)
1898 - Sidney van den Bergh, Dutch businessman/politician
1902 - Henry Commager, Pittsburgh, Steele historian
1902 - Henry Steele Commager, Pitts Pa, historian (Atlas of Civil War)
1902 - Eddie Lang, American jazz guitarist (d. 1933)
1903 - Katharine Byron, U.S. Congresswoman (d. 1976)
1903 - Harry Shoulberg, American painter (d. 1995)
1908 - Edmond Pidoux, Swiss writer (d. 2004)
1909 - Philleo Nash, US Bureau of Indian Affairs (1961-67)
1909 - Whit Bissel, NYC, actor (Time Machine, General Kirk-Time Tunnel)
1910 - William Higinbotham, American physicist (d. 1994)
1912 - Jack Kent Cooke, NFL team owner (Washington Redskins)
1912 - Minnie Pearl, [Sarah Ophelia Colley], Tenn, (Grand Old Opry, Hee-Haw)
1913 - Horace Grant Fletcher, composer
1914 - John Berryman, American poet (Friends & Associates)
1915 - Ivan M. Niven, Canadian mathematician (d. 1999)
1917 - Lee MacPhail, American baseball manager and league executive
1921 - Brian Malzard Foss, psychologist
1921 - Michael I, King of Romania (1927-30, 40-47)
1923 - Bobby Thomson, HR hitter (Giants win the pennant)
1923 - Jean Duceppe, Quebec actor (d. 1990)
1924 - Billy Barty, Millsboro Pa, 3'9" actor (Under the Rainbow, Foul Play)
1925 - Yakov Rylskly, USSR, sabre team (Olympic-bronze-1956)
1926 - Biff McGuire, New Haven Ct, actor (Serpico, Heart is Lonely Hunter)
1926 - Galina Vishnevskaya, Leningrad, soprano (Madama Butterfly)
1926 - Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter
1927 - Barbara Cook, Atlanta Ga, stage singer/actress (Music Man)
1927 - Franklin "Bud" Held, javelin world champ (1949, 51, 53-55)
1927 - Hedley Keith, cricketer (solid left-handed for S Africa in the 1950's)
1927 - Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, President of Uruguay
1928 - Anthony Franciosa, [Papaleo], NYC, actor (Jeff-Name of the Game)
1928 - Jeanne Cooper, Minneapolis, actress (Kay-Young & Restless)
1928 - Marion Ross, Albert Lea Mn, actress (Marion-Happy Days, Bkln Bridge)
1929 - Peter Loader, cricketer (England quick in 13 Tests 1954-59, later WA)
1929 - Peter Rohmkorf, writer
1929 - Roger John Tayler, astrophysicist
1931 - Annie Giradot, Paris France, actress (Gypsy, Jacko & Lise)
1931 - Jimmy McIlroy, Irish footballer and football manager
1932 - Lev Nikolayevich Smirenny, cosmonaut
1932 - Harry Gregg, Irish footballer and football manager
1933 - Larry J Hopkins, (Rep-R-KY, 1979- )
1933 - Ron Archer, cricketer (Aussie all-rounder mid-50's)
1933 - Roy Swetman, cricketer (England wicket-keeper late 50's)
1933 - Eugene "Porky" Lee, American child actor (d. 2005)
1935 - Russell Luis Schweickart, Neptune NJ, astronaut (Apollo 9)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 82 of 82

304 - Marcellinus, bishop of Rome, dies
625 - Boniface V, Italian Pope (619-25), dies
1047 - Magnus I Godhi, king of Norway/Denmark (1035-47), dies
1154 - Stefanus van Blois, king of England (1135-54), dies
1400 - Geofrey Chaucer, author (Canterbury Tales), dies in London
1415 - Anton van Bourgondie, French son of Philip the Stout/duke, dies at 31
1415 - Eduard, duke of York, dies at 45
1415 - Philip of Nevers, French earl, dies in battle
1415 - Robert of Bar, French knight, dies in battle
1495 - John II, the Perfect/Consummate, King of Portugal (1481-95), dies
1510 - Il Giorgione, [Giorgio del Castelfranco], Italian painter, dies at 32
1604 - Claude de la Tremoille, French duke of Thouars/huguenot, dies
1676 - Justus G Schottel [Schottelius], German linguistic/poet, dies at 64
1760 - George II (August), king of Great-Britain (1727-60), dies at 76
1833 - Abbas Mirza, Persian governor/heir to the throne, dies at 44
1845 - Carel H Verhuell, Dutch/French vice-admiral, dies at 81
1855 - Willem F earl van Bylandt, military, dies at 84
1861 - Friedrich C von Savigny, German lawyer, dies at 82
1878 - Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, composer, dies at 89
1892 - Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison, 1st lady (1889-1892), dies at 60
1895 - Charles Halle, British pianist, dies
1902 - Frank Norris, writer, dies at 32
1902 - [B] Frank[lin] Norris, US writer (Pit), dies at 32
1904 - Teresa Milanollo, composer, dies at 77
1907 - Edmund Hart Turpin, composer, dies at 72
1920 - Alexander, king of Greece (1917-20), dies after ape bite at 27
1926 - Frederick Jr Zech, composer, dies at 68
1929 - James Lillywhite Jr, cricketer (two Tests for England 1877), dies
1933 - Lillian Hall-Davies actress (Farmer's Wife, Ring), dies at 36
1936 - Jaime de Magalhes Lima, Portuguese author/poet, dies at 76
1939 - Cornelis JK van Aalst, president Dutch Business Society, dies at 73
1942 - Ted Arnold, cricketer (160 runs & 31 wkts in 10 Tests for Eng), dies
1943 - H van Zanten, guerrilla leader on North Sumatra, executed
1944 - Fake Krist, nazi collaborator, killed
1952 - Sergei Bortkiewicz, composer, dies at 75
1956 - Risto Ryti, Finnish minister/premier/president, dies at 67
1957 - Henry C van de Velde, Flemish painter/architect, dies at 94
1957 - Lord Dunsany, [Edward J M D Plunkett], author (Jorkens), dies at 79
1957 - Maria "Mary" Beekman, actress (Modern Landhaaien), dies at 73
1957 - Umberto "Albert" Anastasia, US gangster (Murder Inc), dies at 55
1959 - Bob Murphy, TV host (RFD America), dies at 42
1960 - Jose Padilla, composer, dies at 71
1961 - Peter Jensen, co-inventer (loud speaker), dies at 75
1963 - Abu-Bakr Khairat, composer, dies at 53
1964 - Belle Montrose, actress (Mrs Harrison-Hathaways), dies at 78
1968 - Jean Schlumberger, French writer (Passions), dies
1969 - Rudolf Forster, actor (Threepenny Opera, Tonio Kroeger), dies at 84
1971 - Albertus W "Albert" van Dalsum, actor/director (King Lear), dies at 82
1972 - Norman Norell [Levinson], US fashion designer, dies at 72
1973 - Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian marathoner (Oly-gold 1960, 64), dies at 46
1973 - G Paul H Schuitema, graphically designer/photographer, dies
1975 - Frank Puglia actor (Black Orchid, Jungle Book), dies at 83
1976 - Raymond Queneau, [M Presle], French writer (Last Days), dies at 73
1981 - Ariel Durant, US author (Story of Civilization), dies at 83
1983 - Hermann Ambrosius, composer, dies at 86
1984 - Pascale Ogier, actress (Ghost Dance), dies of heart attack at 24
1985 - Elsa Moranet, writer, dies at 67
1985 - Morton Downey, singer (Star of the Family), dies at 83
1986 - Forrest Tucker, actor (O'Rourke-F Troop, Dusty Trail), dies at 67
1987 - Cecil Brown, news correspondent (CBS), dies at 80
1988 - Bill Cody, actor (Blazing Justice, Ghost City), dies at 75
1989 - Gerard Walschap, Flemish writer (Men of Goods), dies
1989 - Mary McCarthy, author (Group), dies, at 77
1991 - Bill Graham, rock concert promoter (Filmore, Dylan), dies at 60
1991 - Khigh Dhiegh, actor (Forbidden Nights), dies of heat failure at 75
1992 - Adelino Da Palma Carlos, PM of Portugal (1974), dies
1992 - Roger Miller, country singer (King of the Road), dies at 56
1993 - Francisco Velis, El Salvador guerilla leader (FMLN), murdered
1993 - Mary C Lawton, jurist (CIA's Agency Seal Medallion), dies at 58
1993 - Philip P Cohen, Doctor (Nobel), dies at 85
1993 - Vincent Price, actor (Raven, Fly), dies of lung cancer at 82
1993 - Vladimir Yevgenyevich Preobrazhensky, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 54
1994 - Anthony David Machell Cox, medievalist, dies at 81
1994 - Mildred Natwick, US actress (Barefoot in Park), dies at 89
1995 - Bobby Riggs, tennis star, dies of prostate cancer at 77
1995 - David Healy, actor (Supergirl, Doomsday Gun, Patton), dies at 64
1995 - Kenneth Kweku Sinaman Dadzie, diplomat, dies at 65
1995 - Robert Grieve, civil Servant, dies at 84
1995 - Robert Lorimer Riggs, tennis Player, dies at 77
1995 - Viveca Lindfors, actress (Stargate, Luba, Misplaced), dies at 74
1996 - Eugene Polyakov, dancer, dies at 95
2008 - Anne Pressly, American news anchor (b. 1982)