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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 169

529 BC - The international day of Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, who declared the first charter of human rights in the world also known as Cyrus Cylinder.
437 - Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople. This unifies the two branches of the House of Theodosius
439 - Vandalen under Genseric occupy Carthago
1268 - Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings of Germany and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily, a political rival and ally to the hostile Roman Catholic church.
1390 - First trial for witchcraft in Paris.
1467 - Battle of Brusthem: Charles the Bold defeats Liege
1508 - Gelderse troops occupies Kuinre
1552 - Czar Ivan IV escapes back to Moscow after battle
1591 - Giovanni A Facchinetti elected as Pope Innocentius IX
1618 - English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
1658 - Action of 29 October 1658 (Naval battle)
1665 - Battle of Ambuila, where Portuguese forces defeated the forces of the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitated king Antonio I of Kongo, also called Nvita a Nkanga..
1675 - Leibniz makes the first use of the long s, ∫, for integral.
1682 - William Penn lands at what is now Chester Pennsylvania
1709 - England/Netherlands sign anti-French "Barrieretraktaat"
1727 - Severe earthquake in New England
1787 - Opera "Don Giovanni" is produced (Prague)
1792 - Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
1794 - French troops occupies Venlo
1811 - 1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans
1814 - "Demologos," 1st steam-powered warship, is launched
1833 - 1st US college fraternity to have a fraternity house founded
1859 - Spain declares war on Morocco.
1863 - Intl Comm of Red Cross forms (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)
1864 - Greek parliament accept new Constitution
1867 - Mail packets "Rhone" & "Wye" capsizes off St Thomas Virgin Islands
1872 - J S Risdon patents metal windmill
1881 - Judge (U.S. magazine) first published.
1888 - Lord Salisbury grants Cecil Rhodes charter for BSA Company
1889 - NY Giants (NL) beat Bkln (AA) in world series 6 games to 3
1889 - Queen Victoria grants Cecil Rhodes rights to Zambezia
1889 - Stanley Park dedicated in Vancouver, BC
1894 - 1st election of Hawaiian Republic
1901 - In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
1904 - 1st intercity trucking service (Colorado City & Snyder, Texas)
1904 - IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) subway (NYC) opens
1905 - Hottentot chief Hendrik Witbooi fataly injured
1910 - Bob Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks record 11 singles in a game
1913 - Floods in El Salvador kill thousands.
1914 - Russia declares war on Turkey
1914 - Turkish warships storm Black Sea
1915 - Aristide Briand becomes premier of France
1915 - Thomas Masaryk claims independence for Czechoslovakia
1920 - Ed Barrow appointed GM of NY Yankees
1921 - The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
1923 - "Runnin' Wild" (introducing Charleston) opens on Broadway
1923 - Army move SPD/KPD-govt to German part of Saxon
1923 - Gibbs/Grey/Wood's revue "Runnin' Wild," premieres in NYC
1923 - Textile strike in Enschede Neth, against lower wages, begins
1923 - Turkey declares independence (successor state to Ottoman Empire)
1924 - "Dixie to Broadway," opens at Broadhurst Theater
1924 - Labour loses British parliamentary election
1929 - "Black Tuesday," Stock Market crashes triggers "Great Depression"
1930 - 1st Eastern Canada night CF game: Oshawa vs Toronto Balmy Beach
1931 - Lefty Grove, A's pitcher who won 31 games, is named the AL's MVP
1932 - French liner Normandie is launched
1939 - Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure)
1939 - NHL Babe Seibert Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-3
1940 - Sec of War Henry L Stimson drew 1st number-158-in 1st peacetime military draft in US history
1941 - Cole Porters musical "Let's Face It," premieres in NYC
1942 - 16,000 Jews killed in Pinsk Russia
1942 - 7th day of battle at El Alamein: Montgomery assault
1942 - Alaska highway completed
1942 - Branch Rickey named president/GM of Brooklyn Dodgers
1942 - Nazi's murder 16,000 Jewish in Pinsk, Soviet Union
1943 - 3 allied officers escape out camp Stalag Luft 3
1944 - 1st Polish Armoured Division liberates Breda Neth
1944 - Breda freed
1944 - Cabadese 2nd Infantry division frees Goes South-Beveland
1945 - 1st ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it is patented
1945 - Happy Chandler, resigns as US Senator, remains as baseball commish
1945 - Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns.
1947 - Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherland form Benelux Union
1947 - Trial of art forger Han of Meegeren begins in Amsterdam
1948 - Israeli forces liberate Meron & Gush-Halev
1948 - Safsaf massacre
1949 - White Sox trade Joe Tipton to A's for Nellie Fox
1950 - British minister of Finance Stafford Cripps resigns
1950 - Wally Triplett avgs 735 yards on 3 kickoff returns
1950 - Cleveland Browns' Marion Motley sets record for highest avg gain in a game with 17.1 (10 attempts), Cleveland 45, Pittsburgh 7
1953 - A Baltimore group purchases St Louis Browns
1954 - Colonel Nasser disbands Moslem Brothership
1954 - Sweden begins experimental TV
1955 - Belgium signs accord for 5 day work week (45 hours)
1955 - Emile Zatopek runs world record 15 mile (1:14:01) & 25,000m (1:16:36)
1956 - Chet Huntley & David Brinkley, NBC News, team up
1956 - International zone of Tangier returns to Morocco
1956 - Israeli paratroopers drop into Sinai to open Straits of Tiran
1957 - Hand grenade explodes in Israel's Knesset (Parliament)
1958 - Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature
1958 - Dr F Mason Sones is 1st doctor to perform a coronary angiogram
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 - 10 nation soccer league to play all games on NY Randalls Is, announced
1960 - Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) 1st professional fight
1960 - Chartered C46 carrying Cal State's football team crashes, kills 16
1960 - Muhammad Ali's 1st professional fight, beats Tunney Hunsaker in 6
1961 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - "Meet the Beatles" booklet is published
1964 - Bobby Simpson completes cricket century in each innings v Pakistan
1964 - Karmi'el founded in Galilee

Famous Birthdays

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1463 - Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher
1507 - Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Spanish viceroy of Neth (1566-73)
1513 - Jacques Amyot, French humanist/translator/abbot of Bellozanne
1562 - George Abbott, English theologist/archbishop of Canterbury
1656 - Edmund Halley, astronomer (Halley's Comet) [NS=Nov 8]
1682 - Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (d. 1761)
1690 - Martin Folkes, English antiquarian (d. 1754)
1704 - John Byng, British admiral (d. 1757)
1740 - James Boswell, Scotland, Samuel Johnson's biographer
1815 - Daniel Emmett, American composer (d. 1904)
1815 - Ľudovít Štúr, Slovak politician, author of Slovak language (d. 1856)
1816 - Ferdinand II AFA, king of Portugal
1822 - Joost G Kist, Dutch lawyer/president of High Council (1885-97)
1822 - Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal (d. 1902)
1824 - Joseph Horace Lewis, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1904
1827 - Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist (d. 1907)
1837 - Abraham Kuyper, clergyman/Dutch premier (AR, 1908-12)
1837 - Harriet Powers, US, slave/writer (Creation of Animals)
1844 - Albert von Rothschild, Austrian banker
1853 - Josephine B Willson Bruce, US theorist (NACW)
1855 - Paul Bruchési, archbishop of Montreal (d. 1939)
1857 - Conrad Haebler, German historian (Early printers of Spain/Portugal)
1859 - Charles Ebbets, (namesake of Ebbets Field, Brooklyn)
1861 - Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (d. 1904)
1871 - Narziss Ach, German psychologist (Analyse des Willens)
1873 - Guillermo Valencia, Colombia, poet/translator/statesman
1875 - Marie, queen consort of Ferdinand I of Romania (1914-27)
1877 - Wilfred Rhodes, cricketer (Yorks & Eng SLA, played Tests 1899-1930)
1877 - Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film mogul (d. 1966)
1878 - Alex E von Falkenhausen, German general (China, WW II)
1879 - Franz JHMM von Papen, German diplomat/chancellor (1932)
1879 - Alva B. Adams, American politician (d. 1941)
1882 - Jean Giraudoux, French writer (d. 1944)
1883 - Dirk Verbeek, Dutch actor/director (Hofstad Stage)
1884 - Bela Lugosi, Lugos Hungary, horror actor (Dracula, Body Snatcher)
1890 - Claire Goll, writer
1891 - Fanny Brice, NYC, singing comedienne (Ziegeld Follies, Baby Snooks)
1893 - Johannes F "Johan" Bakker Jr, Dutch actor
1897 - Hope Emerson, Hawarden Iowa, actress (I Married Joan, Peter Gunn)
1897 - [Paul] Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propagandist
1898 - Emmanuel Bondeville, composer
1899 - Akim Tamiroff, Tiflis Russia, actor (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
1901 - Daniele Amfiteatrov, composer
1903 - Vivian Ellis, composer
1905 - Laurence Dowdall, lawyer
1906 - Fredric [William] Brown, US, sci-fi author (Martians Go Home)
1907 - Edwige Feuillère, French film actress (d. 1998)
1908 - Stewart Myles MacPherson, broadcaster
1909 - Douglass Montgomery, LA CA, actor (Forbidden, Harmony Lane)
1910 - Alfred J Ayer, England, Neopositivist philosopher/logician
1911 - Phillip Jack Oppenheimer, diamond trader
1915 - Dennis Brookes, cricketer (one Test England v WI 1948, scored 10 & 7)
1917 - Eddie Constantine, US/French actor (Lucky Jo, It Lives Again)
1917 - Henry Carlsson, Sweden, soccer (Olympic-gold-1948)
1918 - Bernard Gordon, American writer and producer (d. 2007)
1920 - Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born immunologist, Nobel laureate
1920 - Catholicos Baselios Mar Thoma Didymos I, Indian Catholic
1921 - Bill Mauldin, cartoonist (WW II Army grunts)
1921 - Ed Kemmer, Reading Pa, actor (Buzz Corey-Space Patrol)
1921 - William Henry Mauldin, NM, political cartoonist (Pulitzer-1945, 59)
1922 - Francois H L Henrichs, sportscaster/actor (Spider)
1922 - Neal Hefti, Hastings Neb, orch leader (Kate Smith Show)
1922 - Neil Blaney, politician
1923 - Dietrich Manicke, composer
1923 - Carl Djerassi, Austrian chemist
1924 - Zbigniew Herbert, writer
1925 - Betty Evans Grayson, Portland Or, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1959)
1925 - Geraldine Brooks, NYC, actr (Faraday & Co, Dumplings, Act of Murder)
1925 - Zoot Sims, rocker
1925 - Dominick Dunne, American author
1925 - Robert Hardy, English actor
1926 - Jon[athan Stewart] Vickers, Prince Albert, Canada, tenor
1927 - Frank A Sedgman, tennis champ (US Open-1951)
1927 - Hugo Schiltz, Flemish politician
1930 - Peter Stampfel, rocker
1930 - Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor (d. 2002)
1930 - Natalie Sleeth, American composer (d. 1992)
1930 - Omara Portuondo, Cuban singer
1931 - Franco Interlenghi, Italian actor
1934 - Karl Francis Hettinger, Onion Field survivor
1934 - Pim Jacobs, jazz pianist/Dutch TV host/actor (Gilas)
1934 - Ramon Sender, composer
1934 - Robert E Hughes, NYC, orch leader (Rich Little Show)
1935 - David Allen, cricketer (England off-spinner of 60's)
1936 - Akiko Kojima, Japanese model
1937 - Michael Ponti, Freiburg Germany, pianist (Boston Competition 1964)
1938 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia
1940 - Connie Mack, (Rep-R-FL, 1983- /Sen-R-FL)
1940 - Galen Weston, English/Canadian industrial/multi-millionaire
1940 - John Gotti, mafia head
1940 - Frida Boccara, French singer (d. 1996)
1940 - José Ulises Macías Salcedo, Catholic bishop
1941 - Brian Yuile, cricketer (NZ slow left-armer took 34 wkts in 17 Tests)
1942 - Johan Fleming Ramsland, British broadcaster
1942 - Bob Ross, American artist and television host (d. 1995)
1943 - Donald Simpson, film producer
1944 - Denny Laine, [Brian Hines], rock guitarist (Moody Blues, Wings)
1944 - Fausto Leali, Italian entertainer
1944 - Robbie van Leeuwen, Dutch guitarist (Shocking Blue)
1944 - Otto Wiesheu, German minister

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 99 of 99

490 - Petrus Mongus, patriarch of Alexandria, dies
1038 - Aethelnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury
1138 - Bolesław III Krzywousty, Duke of Poland (b. 1086)
1268 - Conradin, Duke of Swabia (executed) (b. 1252)
1268 - Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (beheaded) (b. 1249)
1321 - Stefanus VI Uros II Milutin, king of Serbia (1282-1321), dies
1590 - Dirck Volkertsz Coornhert, theologist/philosopher, dies at about 68
1618 - Walter Raleigh, English scholar/poet/historian, beheaded for treason
1650 - David Calderwood, Scottish historian (b. 1575)
1666 - Edmund Calamy the Elder, English Presbyterian leader (b. 1600)
1666 - James Shirley, English dramatist (b. 1596)
1783 - Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, philosopher/mathematician, die at 66
1790 - Pieter van/of Bleiswijk, pension advisor 1771-87, dies at about 66
1802 - Jacques-Philippe Lamoninary, composer, dies at 95
1822 - Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch earl/general/minister of War, dies at 61
1829 - Maria A [Nannerl] Mozart, Austrian pianist, dies
1846 - Jean Louis van Aelbroeck, Flemish agronoom, dies at 90
1853 - Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, composer, dies at 68
1853 - William Richard Bexfield, composer, dies at 29
1856 - Carel SW van Hogendorp, colonial director, dies at 68
1873 - Ernest Feydeau, French author, dies at 52
1873 - Johan N M J, king of Saxon (1854-73), dies
1873 - Leonardus Lightenvelt, minister of RC Worship, dies at 78
1876 - Jacques Gregoir, composer, dies at 59
1877 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate general (b. 1821)
1882 - Martin Gustav Nottebohm, composer, dies at 64
1883 - Friedrich Robert Volkmann, composer, dies at 68
1885 - George B McClellan, Union army general, dies at 58
1885 - James Hannington, English missionary, murdered in Uganda
1892 - William M Harnett, US painter (Old Cupboard Door), dies
1901 - Leon Czolcosz, assassin of President McKinley, is electrocuted
1905 - Etienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
1911 - Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaperman, dies in Charleston, SC
1919 - Soen Shaku, Zen abbot of Engakuji monastery in Kamakura, dies at 60
1919 - A. B. Simpson, Canadian preacher (b. 1843)
1920 - Johann Ernst Perabo, composer, dies at 74
1922 - George August Lumbye, composer, dies at 79
1927 - Leonard Nelson, Ger philosopher (Nelson-Friessche Schule), dies at 45
1931 - Luciano Gallet, composer, dies at 38
1932 - Joseph F F Babinski, Polish/French neurologist (B-Reflex), dies
1933 - Paul, [Prudent] Painlevé, French mathematician/minister/premier, dies
1934 - Gustavo Emilio Campa, composer, dies at 71
1939 - Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (b. 1864)
1941 - Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (b. 1897)
1943 - Adrianus M de Young, writer (Merijntje Gijzen's youth), murdered at 55
1946 - John S Curry, US painter (Baptism in Kansas), dies
1947 - Frances Cleveland Preston, former 1st lady (1885-89 93-97), dies at 83
1947 - Theodore Samuel Holland, composer, dies at 69
1949 - G. I. Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic (b. 1872)
1950 - Gustav V, king of Sweden, dies at 92
1951 - De Raymond, French High Director of Cambodia, murdered
1951 - Robert G Aitken, US astronomer (New General Catalogue), dies at 86
1953 - William Kapell, American pianist (b. 1922)
1957 - Louis B Mayer, MGM producer, dies at 71
1957 - Rosemarie Nitribitt, German call girl (b. 1933)
1958 - Zoe Akins, American playwright (b. 1886)
1962 - Naphtali Siegfried Salomon, composer, dies at 77
1963 - Adolphe Menjou, actor (Front Page, Star is Born), dies at 73
1965 - Mehdi Am Barka, Moroccan socialist leader, murdered in Paris
1966 - [Louis C] Marcel Berckmans, painter/actor (Manner Kater), dies at 83
1968 - Marius Moaritz Ulfrstad, composer, dies at 78
1969 - Vic Richardson, cricketer (Aussie capt 1935-36), dies
1971 - Duane Allman, rock guitarist, dies in a motorcycle accident at 24
1973 - Heathcote Dicken Statham, composer, dies at 83
1974 - Victor E van Vriesland, poet (Mirror of Dutch Poetry), dies at 82
1975 - John Scott Trotter, orch leader (George Gobel Show), dies at 67
1981 - William O Walker, publisher of Cleveland Call Post, dies at 85
1983 - Sten Broman, composer, dies at 81
1985 - John Lodge, actor (Sensation, In Like Flint)/(gov-R-CT), dies at 82
1986 - Sem Presser, Dutch press photographer, dies at 68
1986 - Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1913)
1987 - Kamal El Mallakh, dies at 57
1987 - Woody Herman, bandleader/composer (Thundering Herds), dies at 74
1990 - William French Smith, attorney general (1980), dies at 73 of cancer
1991 - Donald Churchill, playwright, dies of heart attack at 60
1991 - Harry Thomas, founder (Flower Festival, Dutch Homofielen Party), dies
1991 - Maria Monica, silent film actress, dies
1991 - Mario Scelba, PM of Italia (1954-55), dies
1992 - Adrienne Canivez, wife of Victor of Vriesland, dies
1992 - Kenneth MacMillan, British choreographer (Manon, Judas Tree), dies
1993 - George Pope, cricketer (one Test for England, 8 runs not out), dies
1993 - Raymond Lockhart, TV director (Huntley Brinkley Report), dies at 65
1994 - Andrew Miller-Jones TV pioneer, dies at 84
1994 - Evelyn Anderson, dancer, dies at 87
1994 - Pearl Primus, dancer, dies at 44
1996 - James Leo Herlihy, author (Midnight Cowboy), commits suicide at 66
1996 - Patricia Ticia Anne Ingrams, broadcaster, dies at 50
1996 - Patrick Johnson, physicist, dies at 92
1997 - Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (b. 1930)
1998 - Paul Misraki, French songwriter (b. 1908)
1999 - Michel Regnier (Greg), Belgian comic-book writer and artist (Achille Talon) (b. 1931)
2002 - Glenn McQueen, American animator (b. 1960)
2003 - Hal Clement, American writer (b. 1922)
2003 - Franco Corelli, tenor (b. 1921)
2004 - Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (b. 1923)
2004 - Vaughn Meader, American comedian (b. 1936)
2004 - Peter Twinn, English mathematician (b. 1916)
2006 - Mohammadu Maccido, 18th Sultan of Sokoto (b. 1928)
2008 - Mike Baker, American singer Shadow Gallery (b. 1963)