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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 175

740 - An earthquake strikes Constantinople, causing much damage and death.
1366 - Comet 55P/1366 U1 (Tempel-Tuttle) approaches 0.0229 AUs of Earth
1387 - Amsterdam buccaneer Herman of Kuinre sign peace
1407 - Mobs attack Jewish community of Cracow
1492 - Columbus' fleet anchors on Ragged Island Range, Bahamas
1492 - Lead pencils 1st used
1524 - Spanish troops give Milan to France
1529 - Thomas More appointed English Lord Chancellor
1534 - Charles V names Joris of Egmont, bishop of Utrecht
1662 - Charles II of England sold Dunkirk to France
1667 - Aru Palakka's occupies Makassar (Goa)
1674 - Prince Willem III occupies Grave
1682 - William Penn accepts area around Delaware River from Duke of York
1749 - Georgia Colony reverses itself & rules slavery is legal
1774 - 1st Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia
1774 - Minute Men organized in colonies
1776 - Benjamin Franklin departed from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution.
1787 - "Federalist Papers" published, calls for ratification of Constitution
1795 - Pinckney's Treaty between Spain & US is signed, establishing southern boundary of US & giving Americans right to send goods down Mississippi
1795 - The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
1810 - US annexes western Florida
1822 - King Willem I obligates inhabitants of Brussels to use Dutch language
1825 - Erie Canal between Hudson River & Lake Erie opened
1830 - Belgian rebels occupy Antwerp
1858 - Hamilton Smith patents rotary washing machine
1859 - The Royal Charter is wrecked on the coast of Anglesey, north Wales with 459 dead.
1861 - Pony Express ends
1863 - Soccer rules standardized; rugby starts as a separate game
1863 - Worldwide Red Cross organized in Geneva
1863 - Football Association forms in England, standardizing soccer
1864 - Union troops ambush & kill 'Bloody' Bill Anderson in Richmond MI
1868 - White terrorists kill several blacks in St Bernard Parish La
1869 - 1st American steeplechase horserace (Westchester, NY)
1876 - President sends federal troops to SC
1881 - Gunfight at OK Corral, in Tombstone, Az
1886 - Modest Mussorgsky's "A Night on Bald Mountain," premieres in Russia
1887 - Detroit (NL) beats St Louis (AA) 10 games to 5 in World Series
1894 - German emperor Wilhelm II fires Chancellor Leo von Caprivi & premier Botho zu Eulenburg
1896 - Abyssinia & Italy sign peace treaty
1900 - After 4 years of work, 1st section of NY subway opens
1901 - 1st use of "getaway car" occurs after holding up a shop in Paris
1903 - Yerba Buena is 1st Key System ferry to cross SF Bay
1905 - 1st Soviet (workers' council) formed, St Petersburg, Russia
1905 - Union of Sweden & Norway ends
1911 - Phila A's beat NY Giants, 4 games to 2 in 8th World Series
1912 - Serbian troops over run Skopje (Uskup)
1912 - Woolwich Tunnel under Thames opens
1913 - Huerta elected president of Mexico
1916 - Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control)
1917 - Petrograd Soviet accepts establishment of Military
1917 - World War I:Brazil declared in state of war with Central Powers.
1918 - Soldier revolt at Harskamp Veluwe
1919 - B C Hilliams musical "Buddies," premieres in NYC
1919 - Elgars "Cello concerto on 85" premieres in Queen's Hall London
1919 - President Wilson's veto of Prohibition Enforcement Bill is overridden
1921 - Solomon Porter Hood named minister to Liberia
1922 - Italian govt resigns under pressure from fascists & Benito Mussolini
1923 - Dutch 2nd Chamber rejects Fleet laws (50-49 vote)
1923 - Govt-Ruijs de Beerenbrouck resigns
1926 - Arthur Goodrich's "Caponsacchi," premieres in NYC
1926 - Belgium stabilizes current value of franc (5 franc becomes 1 "Belga")
1927 - Duke Ellington sings "Creole Love Song"
1930 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch' ballet "Zolotoy Vyek," premieres in Leningrad
1931 - Eugene O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra," premieres in NYC
1933 - French govt of Serraut forms
1934 - While Wash player-mgr Joe Cronin honeymoons with Mildred Robertson owner Clark Griffith's niece & adopted daughter, he is sold to Red Sox
1938 - Du Pont named its new synthetic fiber "nylon"
1939 - Polish Jewish forced into obligatory work service
1940 - The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.
1941 - 2nd meeting partisans Tito & Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia
1941 - US savings bonds go on sale
1942 - 2nd day of Battle of Henderson Field, Guadalcanal
1942 - 4th day in battle at El Alamein: Australian breakthrough
1942 - Battle of Santa Cruz: USS SD shoots down a record 32 enemy planes
1943 - World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 "Pfeil".
1947 - Maharajah of Jammu & Kashmir accedes to India
1947 - The British Military Occupation ends in Iraq.
1949 - President Truman increases minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents
1950 - 630 Dutch volunteers depart (on)to Korea
1950 - Branch Rickey resigns as Brooklyn Dodger president
1950 - Mother Teresa found her Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India
1950 - South Korean troops reach Chosan at Chinese boundary
1951 - Emile Zatopek runs world record 30,000m, 25,000m & 15 miles
1951 - Rocky Marciano defeats Joe Louis at Madison Square Garden
1951 - Winston Churchill re-elected British PM
1952 - Pakistan's 1st Test Cricket win Fazal Mahmood 12 wkts v India
1953 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Emu Field Australia
1954 - Chevrolet unveils V-8 engine
1954 - Walt Disney's 1st television program, "Disneyland," premieres on ABC
1954 - Trieste return to Italy.
1955 - 1st edition of "Village Voice" (NYC) published
1955 - British troops occupy Saudi-Arabic oil field at Boeraimi
1955 - Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as pres
1956 - UN's International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved
1956 - Vietnam promulgates its constitution
1957 - USSR fires defense minister, Marshal Georgi Zhukov
1958 - PanAm flies 1st transatlantic jet trip-NY to Paris
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1960 - AL approves Washington Senators move to become Minnesota Twins & announces franchises in LA & Wash DC for 1961
1961 - 1st Saturn launch vehicle made a flight test

Famous Birthdays

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1427 - Archduke Sigismund of Austria (d. 1496)
1466 - Desiderius Erasmus, Holland, scholar/author (In Praise of Folly)
1473 - Friedrich of Saxony (d. 1510)
1483 - Hans Buchner, composer
1491 - Zhengde, Emperor of China (d. 1521)
1609 - William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (d. 1675)
1645 - Aert de Gelder, Dutch painter (King David)
1673 - Dimitrie Cantemir, Romanians historian/monarch of Moldova (1710-11)
1684 - Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (d. 1757)
1685 - Domenico Scarlatti, Naples Italy, composer/harpsichordist
1685 - Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti, composer
1694 - Johan Helmich Roman, Finnish/Swedish composer/conductor/violinist
1719 - Joaquin de Oxinaga, composer
1740 - Ernest Louis Muller, composer
1757 - Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (d. 1823)
1758 - Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey, composer
1759 - Georges Danton, France, revolutionary leader/min of Justice
1768 - Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (d. 1844)
1789 - Joseph Mayseder, composer
1791 - Charles Sprague, Boston, banker/poet (Curiosity)
1794 - Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (d. 1881)
1795 - Nicolaos Mantzaros, composer
1800 - Helmuth K B von Moltke, Prussian general-fieldmarshal
1802 - King Miguel of Portugal (d. 1866)
1804 - Lorenzo Thomas, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1875
1813 - Henry Thomas Smart, composer
1818 - Stefano Golinelli, composer
1823 - Karl Weinhold, German sociologist
1824 - Arthur Middleton Manigault, Brig General (Confederate Army)
1830 - Polibo Fumagalli, composer
1830 - Stephen Elliott Jr, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1866
1837 - James Lawlor Kiernan, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1869
1843 - Vasili V Vereshchagin, Russian painter (War & Peace)
1845 - Hendrick Waelput, Flemish composer/conductor (Forest, Stella)
1849 - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (d. 1917)
1854 - August T C Kiehl, Dutch actor (Pearl of Zaandam)
1854 - C. W. Post, American entrepreneur (d. 1914)
1855 - Charles Post, who had a way with breakfast cereals (Post Cereals)
1859 - Arthur Friedheim, composer
1861 - Richard D Sears, Boston, tennis champ, US Open (1881)
1864 - Joseph Moorat, composer
1865 - Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman (d. 1912)
1869 - Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (d. 1957)
1871 - Hermann Lohr, composer
1871 - Guillermo Kahlo, father of Frida Kahlo (d. 1941)
1873 - Thorvald Stauning, Denmark, PM (1924-26, 1929-42)
1874 - Martin Lowry, British chemist (d. 1936)
1875 - H[arry] B[yron] Warner, London England, actor (King of Kings)
1879 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (pres of 1st Soviet) [OS]
1880 - Andrei Bely, Russian writer (d. 1934)
1881 - Margaret Wycherly, London England, actress (Keeper of the Flame)
1883 - Napoleon Hill, American Writer and Philosopher (Think and Grow Rich)(d. 1970)
1883 - Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (d. 1958)
1886 - Gustav Hermann Unger, composer
1886 - Mark Aldanov, [Landau], Russian/French chemist (Myslitel) [OS]
1888 - E Runar Schildt, Finnish writer (Segrande Eros)
1888 - Nestor Ivanovich Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist Insurrectionary leader (d. 1934)
1894 - John S Knight, WV, publisher (Knight-Rider)
1898 - Beryl Rubinstein, composer
1900 - Ibrahim Abbud, general/premier Sudan (1958-64)
1900 - Karin Boye, writer
1902 - Hugh Chilvers, cricketer (great leggie of 30's for NSW but not Aust)
1902 - Joseph Paul Sharkey Zukauskas, boxer
1905 - George Flahiff, Canadian Cardinal (d. 1989)
1907 - Giovanni Salviucci, composer
1907 - Johannes A Apon, Dutch actor (Kaukasische Krijtkring)
1910 - John "Cardinal" Krol, former archbishop (Philadelphia)
1911 - Mahalia Jackson, New Orleans, gospel singer (Whole World in his Hands)
1911 - Sid Gillman, NFL hall of fame coach (LA, San Diego, Houston)
1911 - Sorley MacLean Somhairle MacChaluim, poet
1911 - Sid Gilman, American football player (d. 2003)
1912 - Don[ald] Siegel, Chicago IL, director (Escape from Alcatraz, Shootist)
1913 - Stuart J[ames] Byrne, US, sci-fi author (Star Man, God Man)
1914 - Dylan Thomas, Swansea South Wales, poet
1914 - Jackie Coogan, LA Calif, actor (Uncle Fester-Addams Family)
1915 - Golfredo Corradetti, conductor
1915 - Joe Fry, British racing driver (d. 1950)
1916 - Francois Mitterand, Jarnac France, President of France (1981-95)
1917 - Felix the Cat, cartoon character
1917 - Mario Biaggi, (Rep-D-NY, 1969-90)
1919 - Edward W Brooke, 1st black senator in over 80 yrs (Sen-R-Mass)
1919 - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Aryamehr, Shah of Iran (1941-79)
1920 - T C Jones, PA, female impersonator
1921 - George Houston, land economist
1921 - George Forrest, Northern Irish MP (d. 1968)
1924 - Tom F Lewis, (Rep-R-Florida, 1983- )
1925 - Jan Wolkers, Dutch sculptor/novelist (Brief American)
1926 - Yuri Aleksandrovich Letunov, Russia, cosmonaut
1928 - Francisco Solano López, Argentine comics artists
1929 - Georgette Amowitz, choreographer/educator
1929 - Hans Peter Haller, composer
1929 - Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer (The Jordanaires) (d. 2000)
1930 - John Arden, England, novelist/playwright (Left Handed Liberty)
1931 - Hank Garrett, Monticello NY, actor (Car 54 Where Are You)
1932 - Anthony C Beilenson, (Rep-D-California, 1977- )
1932 - Chinadorai Deshmutu, India, field hockey player (1952)
1933 - Suzy Parker, San Antonio Tx, model/actress (Chamber of Horrors)
1934 - Ulrich Plentzdorf, writer
1934 - Hans-Joachim Rödelius, German composer and musician (Cluster, Harmonia)
1936 - Bruce Belland, Chicago, singer (Tim Conway Hour)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 112

899 - Alfred the Great, writer/king of Wessex (871-99), dies
1132 - Floris the Black, brother of earl Dirk VI of Holland, murdered
1235 - Andres II Arpad, King of Hungary (1205-35), dies
1440 - Gilles de Rais, French marshal, killer of 140 children, hanged
1576 - Frederick II the Vrome, ruler of Palts, dies
1607 - Philipp Nicolai, German Lutherian theologist/poet/composer, dies at 52
1608 - Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, Spanish royal painter, dies
1633 - Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1596)
1640 - Pietro Tacca, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 63
1658 - Francisco de Borja y Aragon Esquilache, Spanish poet, dies
1661 - Johann B Schup, [Schuppius], German poet/historian/vicar, dies
1671 - Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1593)
1675 - William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (b. 1609)
1678 - John Jenkins, composer, dies
1679 - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (b. 1621)
1686 - John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (b. 1623)
1693 - Coenraad van Beuningen, mayor of Amsterdam/diplomat, dies at 71
1706 - Andreas Werkmeister, composer, dies at 60
1717 - Catherine Sedley, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1657)
1733 - Antonio Veracini, composer, dies at 74
1749 - Louis-Nicholas Clerambault, French composer/organist, dies at 72
1751 - Philip Doddridge, English religious leader (b. 1702)
1756 - Johann Theodor Romhild, composer, dies at 72
1764 - William Hogarth, British painter (b. 1697)
1773 - Amédée-François Frézier, French military engineer and explorer (b. 1682)
1803 - Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (b. 1721)
1806 - John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada (b. 1752)
1817 - Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist (b. 1727)
1823 - Josef Preindl, composer, dies at 67
1848 - Vissarion G Belinski, Russian literature critic, dies
1858 - Isac Baker Woodbury, composer, dies at 39
1864 - "Bloody Bill" Anderson, American Civil War rebel guerrilla leader (b. 1839)
1866 - John Kinder Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer (Labatt Brewing Company) (b. 1803)
1867 - John Fawcett, composer, dies at 77
1868 - B F Randolph, SC state senator, assassinated
1874 - Peter Cornelius, German composer, dies at 49
1881 - Billy Clanton, brother of Ike, dies
1890 - Collodi, [Carlo Lorenzini], Italian writer (Pinocchio), dies
1896 - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (b. 1827)
1902 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist and suffragette (b. 1815)
1903 - Herbert Stanley Oakeley, composer, dies at 73
1903 - Victorin de Joncieres, composer, dies at 64
1909 - Horiboemi Ito, Prince of Japan, assassinated by a Korean
1929 - Arno Holz, writer, dies at 66
1930 - Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1872)
1931 - Charles Comiskey, baseball team owner (b. 1859)
1935 - Akos Buttykai, composer, dies at 64
1936 - Bob Dellemijn, Lourdes-ganger/Franco-volunteer, dies in battle at 18
1937 - Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general (b. 1867)
1941 - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (b. 1904)
1943 - Marc Aurel Stein, Hungarian-born archaeologist (b. 1862)
1944 - Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1857)
1944 - William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1881)
1945 - Paul Pelliot, French explorer (b. 1878)
1945 - Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (b. 1863)
1947 - Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, English rector (b. 1862)
1952 - Hattie McDaniel, American singer and actress (b. 1895)
1954 - Floris HL Prims, Flemish priest/historian/archivist of Antwerp, dies
1955 - Arne Eggen, composer, dies at 74
1956 - Walter Gieseking, German pianist/composer, dies at 60
1957 - N Kazantzakis, writer, dies
1961 - Edgar Mayne, cricketer (4 Tests for Australia around WWI), dies
1961 - Milan Stojadinovic, premier of Yugoslavia (1935-39), dies at 73
1962 - Hattie McDaniel actress (Gone With the Wind), dies at 67
1962 - Louise Beavers, actress (Beulah-Beulah), dies at 64
1964 - Agnes Miegel, writer, dies
1965 - Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (b. 1949)
1966 - Alma Cogan, English singer (b. 1932)
1968 - Erich Von Stroheim, actor/director (Napoleon), dies of cancer at 52
1971 - Robert Gordon director/writer (Loveless), dies at 76
1971 - Vincent Coleman, American actor (b. 1901)
1972 - Igor Sikorsky, Russian/US helicopter builder, dies at 83
1976 - Deryck Victor Cooke, composer, dies at 57
1978 - George Grant, cricketer (WI Test captain through early 1930's), dies
1979 - Jackie Grant, cricketer (West Indian captain 1930-35), dies
1979 - Park Chung-hee, South Korean President, assassinated
1980 - Marcello J tie Neves Alves Caetano, premier of Portugal, dies at 74
1982 - Giovanni Benelli, archbishop of Florence/Pope candidate, dies
1984 - John Woods Duke, composer, dies at 85
1984 - Laurie Langenbach, author, dies at 37
1984 - Sue Randall, actress (Miss Landers-Leave it to Beaver), dies at 49
1986 - Jackson Scholz, American runner (b. 1897)
1989 - Andrew Roberts, cricketer (7 Tests for New Zealand 1976), dies
1989 - Charles J. Pedersen, American Nobel laureate (b. 1904)
1990 - William Paley, CEO (CBS), dies of a heart attack at 89
1991 - Lori Rae Matthews, crushed to death by an artist's 485 lb umbrella
1992 - Dottie Green, female baseball player (Peaches), dies of cancer at 71
1992 - Jerome Andrews, US/French dancer/choreographer, dies
1992 - Laurel Cronin, actor (Beethoven, Housesitter), dies of cancer at 53
1993 - Absolutely Nobody, [David Powers], Wash lt-gov candidate, dies at 37
1993 - H Hardenberg, writer, dies
1994 - Rudi van Vlaenderen, Flemish actor/dir/poet (Thyestes), dies at 64
1994 - Tutta Rolf, actress (Whalers), dies at 87
1994 - Wilbert Harrison, singer, dies at 65
1995 - Agha Saadat Ali, cricketer (8 not out in 1 inn for Pak 1956), dies
1995 - Bernhard Heiliger, sculptor, dies at 79
1995 - Georgia Neese Gray, 1st Woman Treasurer of USA, dies at 95
1996 - Gordon Scarrott, engineer, dies at 80
1996 - Hans Walter Kosterliz, biochemist, dies at 93
1996 - Sylvia Mary Paget Chancellor, philanthropist, dies at 95