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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 138

306 - Mark Aurelius Valerius Maxentius proclaimed emperor of Rome
312 - Emperor Constantine the Great beats rivaal Maxentius
969 - Byzantines troops occupy Antioch Syria
1061 - Emperor disposes of bishop Cadalus & Pope Honorius II
1422 - Charles V's son succeeds him as king Charles VII of France
1467 - Battle at Brustem: Charles the Stoute beats the Luikenaars
1516 - Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza.
1531 - Battle of Amba Sel: Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi again defeats the army of Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia. The southern part of Ethiopia falls under Imam Ahmad's control.
1538 - The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established.
1574 - Prince Willem van Orange installs university
1595 - Battle at Giurgevo: Zsigmond Bathory of Transylvania beats Turks
1612 - Robert Dowland appointed court luitist of King James I
1628 - Hugenot bulwark La Rochelle surrenders to Cardinal Richelieu
1636 - Harvard University (Cambridge Mass) founded
1646 - 1st Protestant church assembly for indians (Massachusetts)
1664 - The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.
1740 - Ivan VI becomes czar of Russia [OS=Oct 17]
1746 - Peruvian cities of Lima & Callao demolished by earthquake, 18,000 die
1776 - Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to NJ
1790 - NY gives up claims to Vermont for $30,000
1793 - Eli Whitney applies for a patent on cotton gin
1834 - The Battle of Pinjarra occurs in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
1846 - Pioneers suffer blizzard in Sierra Nevada; 42 die
1848 - The first railroad in Spain - between Barcelona and Mataró - is opened.
1858 - Macy's Dept store opens in NYC
1863 - Battle at Wauhatchie Georgia: 865 killed or injured
1864 - Second Battle of Newtonia (American Civil War), Newton County, Missouri
1864 - Battle at Fair Oaks, Virginia, ends after 1554 casualties
1864 - Battle of Wauhatchie, TN
1867 - Maimonides College in Penns is 1st Jewish college in the US
1882 - Athletics reveal $22,000 profit in their 1st season in the Amer Assn
1886 - Statue of Liberty dedicated by Pres Grover Cleveland, it is celebrated by 1st confetti (ticker tape) parade in NYC
1890 - Last NL-AA World Series game Bkln ties Louisville 3 games & 1 tie
1891 - Quake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan kills 7,300
1893 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducted 1st performance of "Symphony Number Six in B minor, "Pathetique"
1894 - German emperor Wilhelm II fires chancellor Leo von Caprivi & premier Botho zu Eulenburg
1900 - After over 5 months 2nd Olympic games in Paris France, close
1904 - St Louis police try a new investigation method-fingerprints
1906 - Belgian-British "Union Minstry of Haut-Katanga" begins
1911 - Bill Dobbie of Calgary Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game
1914 - German battle cruiser Goeben enters Black Sea
1914 - Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, founded at Howard University, incorporates
1915 - Richard Strauss' Alpensymfonie, premieres in Berlin
1918 - Czechoslovakia gains independence as Austria-Hungary breaks up
1919 - Volstead Act passed by Congress, start prohibition over Wilson's veto
1921 - Amsterdam's Tuschinski movie theater opens
1922 - 1st coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game
1922 - Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government
1924 - French-Russian trade agreement signed
1924 - White Sox beat NY Giants 8-4 in Dublin, less than 20 fans attend
1927 - Josip Broz (Tito) begins 7 months jail sentence in Croatia
1927 - KLM-plane "Homing Pigeon" leaves Neth-Indies after 1st regular flight
1928 - Bradman scores 131 NSW v Queensland, 212 mins, 14 fours
1928 - Indonesian child laws enfoced in Bahasa Indonesia
1929 - Dow Jones plummets 38.33 pts (13%) to 260.64
1934 - Brooklyn & Pittsburgh play a penalty free NFL game
1935 - Sidney Kingsley's "Dead End," premieres in NYC
1936 - FDR rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary
1938 - Farewell parade of International Brigade (Barcelona)
1939 - Anti-German demonstrations/strikes in Czechoslovakia
1939 - Spitfire shoots German Heinkel-111 down above Scotland
1940 - Greece successfully resists Italy's attack
1940 - Meeting between Hitler & Mussolini in Florence
1942 - 6th day battle at El Alamein: British offensive under Montgomery
1942 - Train crashes into bus, killing 16 & injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan)
1943 - U-220 sinks
1944 - Russia & Bulgaria sign weapon pact
1946 - German rocket engineers begin work in USSR
1948 - Flag of Israel is adopted
1949 - Eugenie Anderson is 1st woman US ambassador (to Denmark)
1949 - Georges Bidault elected president of France
1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1952 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Women's Texas Golf Open
1953 - Bud Grant of Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record)
1953 - Red Barber, resigns as Dodger sportscaster to join Yankees
1954 - Ernest Hemingway wins Nobel prize for literature
1954 - Major league owners vote down sale of A's to a Phila syndicate
1954 - N Richard Nash' "Rainmaker," premieres in NYC
1954 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway
1955 - Egypt & Saudi-Arabia sign defense treaty
1956 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Luctuosissimi eventus
1957 - WMVS TV channel 10 in Milwaukee, WI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1958 - Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope, taking name John XXIII
1958 - Pete Runnels wins Comeback Player of Year (avg went from .230 to .322)
1959 - Buffalo Bills enter AFL
1959 - Jean Genet's "Les Nigres," premieres in Paris
1961 - "Fiorello!" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 796 performances
1961 - Ground broken for Municipal (Shea) Stadium for NY Mets
1962 - Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis
1962 - NY Giant YA Tittle passes for 7 touchdowns vs Wash Redskins (49-34)
1962 - Radio Moscow reports nuclear missiles in Cuba deactivated
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1965 - Gateway Arch (630' (190m) high) completed in St Louis, Missouri
1965 - Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion
1966 - Belgium's Gaston Roelants runs 12-4/5 miles in 1 hour
1970 - NBA Cleve Cavaliers 1st home game, lose to San Diego 110-99
1970 - US/USSR sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts
1971 - England becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit
1971 - John & Yoko record "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in NYC
1972 - "Mother Earth" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 12 performances

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 229

1017 - Henry III, Roman Catholic German emperor (1046-56)
1510 - Francisco Borgia, great grandson of pope Alexander VI/theologist/saint
1510 - Francis Borgia, Spanish duke and Jesuit priest (d. 1572)
1585 - Cornelius Otto Jansen, France, Roman Catholic reform leader
1667 - Maria Anna of Neuburg, second wife of Charles II of Spain (d. 1740)
1689 - Michel Mathieu, composer
1691 - Peder Tordenskjold, Norwegian naval hero (d. 1720)
1697 - Canaletto, Italian artist (d. 1768)
1703 - Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (d. 1768)
1718 - Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary (d. 1793)
1733 - Ignaz Franz von Beecke, composer
1767 - Marie Sophie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1852)
1789 - Johann Schneider, composer
1793 - Eliphalet Remington, US gun maker
1795 - Leonardus A Lightenvelt, minister of RC Worship (1848 . .53)
1798 - Henri-Jerome Bertini, composer
1801 - Karl Georg Lickl, composer
1804 - Pierre F Verhulst, Belgium, mathematician (logistic curve)
1805 - John Thomson, composer
1810 - Adley Hogan Gladden, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1818 - Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons) [OS]
1834 - Dudley McIver DuBose, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1883
1837 - Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japan's last shogun (d. 1913)
1842 - Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, orator (Joan of Arc of the Civil War)
1842 - Charles Boissevain, editor Dutch Algemeen Handelsblad (1885-1908)
1845 - Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (d. 1888)
1846 - Auguste Escoffier, king of chefs & chef of kings
1855 - Ivan V Mitshurin, Russian botanist (new types of fruit)
1856 - Franz Xavier Arens, composer
1864 - Adolfo Camarillo, prominent land owner, horse breeder, and rancher (d. 1958
1875 - Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, American geographer and editor (d. 1966)
1876 - Albert E Michotte van den Berck, Belgian psychologist
1877 - Joe Adams, American baseball player (d. 1952)
1879 - Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta, composer
1879 - Channing H. Cox, 49th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1968)
1881 - Bruno Söderström, Swedish athlete (d. 1969)
1881 - Vin Coutie, Australian footballer
1884 - Miloje Milojevic, composer
1885 - V Chlebnikov, writer
1885 - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (d. 1922)
1886 - Grigory K Ordzhonikidze, [Sergo], Russian revolutionary politician
1889 - Juliette Béliveau, Quebec comedian (d. 1975)
1890 - Andres Isasi, composer
1891 - Ormer Locklear, American movie stunt pilot (d. 1920)
1892 - Eduard J Dijksterhuis, Dutch mathematician/historian (Fall & Throw)
1892 - Ludwig Strauss, German/Israeli writer (Night Watch)
1892 - Dink Johnson, American musician (d. 1954)
1893 - Christopher K Ingold, English chemist
1893 - Otto E Huiswoud, [Frank Billings], editor-in-chief (Negro Worker)
1896 - Howard Hanson, Wahoo Nebraska, composer/conductor (Nordic)
1897 - Hans Speidel, nazi chief-staff/NATO-supreme commander
1901 - Eileen Shanahan, Irish Poet (d. 1979)
1902 - Elsa Lanchester, Lewisham London, actress (Bride of Frankenstien)
1903 - Evelyn A Waugh, London, author (Brideshead Revisited, Scoop)
1904 - Louis de Meester, composer
1905 - Harry Broadhurst, airman
1907 - Edith Head, fashion designer (MGM)
1907 - Lew Parker, actor (Lou Marie-That Girl)
1907 - John Harold Hewitt, Northern Irish poet (d. 1987)
1909 - Adolfs Skulte, composer
1909 - Claude Bourdet, human rights activist/journalist
1909 - Francis Bacon, Ireland, painter (Study for a Pope)
1910 - Arthur Altman, songwriter
1910 - Marie Dollinger, Germany, dropped bataan in 1936 Olympic sprint
1912 - Richard Doll, English epidemiologist (d. 2005)
1913 - Peter Glenville, actor stage/screen director (Hotel Paradiso, Becket)
1914 - Jonas Salk, NYC, medical reseacher (polio vaccine)
1914 - Richard Lawrence Millington Synge, British bio-chemist (Nobel 1952)
1914 - Glenn Robert Davis, U.S. Congressman (d. 1988)
1915 - Dody Goodman, Columbus Ohio, comedienne (Mary Hartman!, Max Duggan)
1915 - Richard Michael Fraser, political Administrator
1916 - Jessie Kesson, author
1917 - Jack Soo, American actor (d. 1979)
1918 - Harold Sheperdson, soccer trainer
1919 - Bernhard Wicki, St Polten Austria, director/actor (Crime & Passion)
1921 - Peggy Kirk Bell, LPGA golfer
1922 - Gershon Kingsley, German composer
1922 - Butch van Breda Kolff, American basketball coach (d. 2007)
1922 - Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician (d. 2003)
1924 - Alfonso Montalva Montecino, composer
1924 - Antonio Creus, Spanish racecar driver (d. 1996)
1925 - Leonard Starr, comic strip cartoonist (Little Orphan Annie)
1925 - Wim Keja, Dutch MP (VVD)
1925 - Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (d. 2006)
1926 - Bowie Kuhn, baseball commissioner (1969-1984)
1927 - Cleo Laine, Middlesex England, actress/singer (Flesh to a Tiger)
1928 - Wim van Heumen, coach of Dutch field hockey team
1928 - Ion Mihai Pacepa, Romanian general
1929 - 1st child born in aircraft, Miami, Florida
1929 - Joan Plowright, Brigg England, actress (Brimstone & Treacle)
1929 - Narotam Puna, cricketer (Bombay NZ off-spinner v England 1966)
1929 - Marcel Bozzuffi, French actor (d. 1988)
1929 - John Hollander, American poet
1930 - Harry Gilbert Trythall, composer
1930 - John Henry Mayer, composer
1930 - Bernie Ecclestone, English motorsports impresario (F1)
1933 - Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (d. 1983)
1934 - Jim Beatty, track runner (1st sub 4 minute indoor mile)
1935 - Folke Rabe, composer
1936 - Charlie Daniels, Wilmington NC, singer (Devil Went Down to Georgia)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 114

312 - Maxentius, Roman emperor (b. c. 278)
900 - Alfred the Great, English monarch, dies
1138 - Boleslaw III Kryzwousty, [scheefmond], duke of Poland, dies
1225 - Jien, Japanese poet and historian (b. 1155)
1312 - Elisabeth of Tirol, German queen
1412 - Margaret I of Denmark, wife of Haakon VI of Norway (b. 1353)
1520 - Pier Gerlofs Donia, Frisian pirate and freedom fighter
1568 - Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (b. 1539)
1627 - Djehangir/Jahangir, great mogol of India, dies
1637 - Foppe van Aitzema, diplomat, dies at about 57
1639 - Stefano Landi, Italian composer (b. 1587)
1646 - William Dobson, English painter (b. 1610)
1661 - Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish playwright (b. 1518)
1676 - Jean Desmarets, French writer (b. 1595)
1703 - John Wallis, English mathematician/cryptographer (wig of W), dies
1704 - John Locke, English philosopher (2 treatises of govt), dies at 72
1708 - Prince George of Denmark, Consort of Queen Anne of England (b. 1653)
1716 - Stephen Fox, British politician (b. 1627)
1740 - Anna Ivanova Romanova, empress of Russia (1730-40), dies at 47
1754 - Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (b. 1708)
1755 - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, composer, dies at 65
1763 - Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (b. 1700)
1768 - Michel Blavet, French court flautist/composer, dies at 68
1779 - Raphael Weiss, composer, dies at 66
1792 - Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist (b. 1710)
1792 - John Smeaton, British civil engineer (b. 1724)
1800 - Artemas Ward, American politician and soldier (b. 1727)
1806 - Charlotte Turner Smith, British poet and novelist (b. 1749)
1818 - Abigail Adams, 2nd first lady (1797-1801), dies at 73
1841 - Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (b. 1792)
1852 - Gerhard M Roentgen, founder Fijenoord dockyard, dies at 57
1854 - James P Carrell, composer, dies at 67
1857 - Louis Eugène Cavaignac, French soldier and politician (b. 1802)
1875 - William Howard Glover, composer, dies at 56
1877 - Johann Herbeck, composer, dies at 45
1877 - Robert Swinhoe, British naturalist (b. 1835)
1879 - Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French writer (b. 1799)
1897 - Hercules Robinson, S Africa Commissioner (1880-89,1895-97), dies at 72
1899 - C Grant B Allen, Canada, British writer (Woman Who Did), dies
1899 - Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-born inventor (tuberculosis) (b. 1854)
1900 - Max Müller, German-born orientalist (b. 1823)
1905 - Alphonse Allais, French humorist/writer (Le chat noir), dies
1914 - Richard Heuberger, composer, dies at 64
1916 - Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (b. 1838)
1916 - Oswald Boelcke, German pilot (b. 1891)
1917 - Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (b. 1831)
1918 - Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician (b. 1845)
1919 - Ted Wainwright, cricketer (Yorks stalwart, 5 Tests 1893-98), dies
1922 - Hugo Verriest, Flemish writer/poet (Flemish Motion), dies
1927 - Eaton Faning, composer, dies at 77
1929 - Hermann Ungar, writer, dies at 36
1929 - Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849)
1936 - E G Winkler, writer, dies
1939 - Alice Brady, actress (My Man Godfrey, Gay Divorcee), dies at 46
1940 - Andrea d' Angeli, composer, dies at 71
1952 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
1957 - Anthony J Morabito, co-owner of SF '49ers, dies while watching a game
1959 - Abe Waddington, cricketer (Yorks left-arm quick, Test avg 119), dies
1959 - Egon Kornauth, composer, dies at 68
1959 - Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (b. 1932)
1962 - Pierre Froidebise, composer, dies at 48
1963 - Mart Saar, composer, dies at 81
1964 - Reginald Horace Blyth, Zen teacher/scholar, dies in Japan at 66
1965 - Ben Barka, Moroccan opposition leader, kidnapped & murdered in Paris
1965 - Earl Bostic, American saxophonist (b. 1913)
1968 - Henricus WJM Keuls, lawyer/poet, dies at 85
1969 - Constance Dowling, actress (Blind Spot), dies of cardiac arrest at 49
1970 - Baby Huey, [James Ramey], vocalist (Baby Huey & Babysitters), dies
1970 - Eduardo Lopez-Chavarri y Marco, composer, dies at 99
1971 - Yves de La Casiniere, composer, dies at 74
1973 - Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer (b. 1889)
1973 - Sergio Tofano, Italian actor (b. 1883)
1975 - Georges Carpentier, French boxer (b. 1894)
1975 - Oliver Nelson, American jazz composer and arranger (b. 1932)
1980 - Leon Janney, actor (Jim Matthews-Another World, Hawk), dies at 63
1986 - Margaretha "Marga" Klompe, Dutch 1st female minister (CRM), dies at 74
1986 - John Braine, British novelist (b. 1922)
1987 - Andre Masson, France, surrealist artist (Labyrinth), dies at 91
1987 - Woody Herman, US jazz clarinetist/composer, dies at 74
1991 - Dudley McConnell, headed NASA's Earth Science Division, dies
1991 - G L Vitto entertainer, dies at 69
1991 - John Korbal, film historian (Marlene Dietrich), dies at 51
1991 - Lydia Hodson Copeland, America's Jr Miss (1972), dies at 37
1991 - Sylvia Fine Kaye, US lyricist/composer, dies at 78
1992 - Joan Maloney Rio, dancer, dies of cancer at 57
1993 - Carmino Baelen, Belgian sleder, dies at 22
1993 - Doris Duke, heiress (American Tobacco Co), dies at 80
1994 - Sjlomo Goren, Polish/Israeli supreme rabbi, dies
1995 - Allan Leslie Merson, historian, dies at 79
1995 - Katsumasu Roy Sakioka, propery owner, dies at 96
1996 - Jack Tinker, drama critic, dies at 58
1996 - Morey Amsterdam, comedian (Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 87
1996 - William Downie Forrest, journalist, dies at 94
1997 - Toni Carabillo, writer (Feminist Chronicles), dies of lymphoma at 71
1997 - Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
1998 - Ted Hughes, British poet (b. 1930)
2000 - Lída Baarová, Czech actress (b. 1914)
2000 - Andujar Cedeno, Dominican baseball player for the Houston Astros (b. 1969)
2000 - Carlos Guastavino, Argentine composer (b. 1912)
2001 - Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch composer (b. 1910)