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Historical Events

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1209 - Pope Innocent II crowns German king Otto of Wittelsbach
1227 - Assassination of Caliph al-Adil.
1363 - End of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history.
1535 - 1st full English translation of the Bible printed in Switzerland
1537 - The first complete English-language Bible (the Matthew Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.
1539 - King Henry VIII & Anna of Kleef marry
1571 - -13] Synod of Emden
1582 - Last Julian calender day in Spain/Portugal/pontifical states
1636 - 1st code of law for Plymouth Colony
1636 - Battle at Wittstock, Brandenburg: Sweden beat Ferdinand III
1636 - In Massachusetts the Plymouth Colony's 1st law drafted
1648 - Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen
1675 - Christian Huygens patents pocket watch
1693 - Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
1712 - Utrecht banishes poor Jews
1725 - Foundation of Rosario in Argentina.
1767 - Prince Willem V marries Prussian princess Wilhelmina
1777 - Battle of Germantown
1777 - Gen George Washington's troops attacked British at Germantown Pa
1779 - The Fort Wilson Riot takes place.
1824 - Mexico becomes a republic
1830 - Provisional government declares secession of Belgium from Netherlands
1830 - Creation of the state of Belgium after separation from The Netherlands.
1834 - Franz Grillparzer's "Der Traum ein Leben," premieres in Vienna
1854 - Abraham Lincoln made his 1st political speech at Illinois State Fair
1862 - Battle of Corinth ends
1864 - National black convention meets (Syracuse NY)
1864 - New Orleans Tribune, 1st black daily newspaper, forms
1873 - Toronto Argonaut Football Club forms
1880 - University of California founded in Los Angeles
1881 - Edward Leveaux patents automatic player piano
1883 - Orient Express' 1st run, linking Turkey to Europe by rail
1883 - First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
1895 - 1st US Golf Open: Horace Rawlins shoots a 173 at Newport GC RI
1895 - Horace Rawlins wins 1st US Open golf tournament (Newport RI)
1897 - George Bernard Shaw's "Devil's Disciple," premieres in NYC
1900 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Problem of Thor Bridge" (BG)
1901 - Columbia (US) beats Shamrock II (England) in 12th America's Cup
1904 - 1st day of NYC subway, 350,000 people ride 9.1 mile tracks
1906 - Chicago Cubs win their 116th game (116-36 .763) of year
1910 - Portugal becomes a republic, King Manuel II flees to England
1910 - Adoption of the Flag of Bermuda.
1911 - 1st public elevator (London's Earl's Court Metro Station)
1913 - Bkln Dodger Jake Daubert earns a new Chalmers auto as NL MVP
1913 - Freddy Wilson of Regina Roughriders kicks 10 singles in a game
1914 - Dardanellen (French & English) fleet bombs Turkish forts
1915 - Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado & Utah is established
1916 - Market Street's "Path of Gold" lit for 1st time
1917 - British assault on Broodseinde, France
1918 - Musical "Sometime" with Mae West premieres in NYC
1921 - League of Nations refuses to assist starving Russians
1921 - Riccardo Zanella becomes first elected president of Free State of Fiume.
1922 - For 1st time, entire World Series broadcast over radio (WJZ & WGY)
1922 - Protocol of Genevia signed: Austria gains independence
1923 - Young Stribling held light-heavyweight boxing championship for shortest amount of time (3 hrs). Referee overturns decision
1924 - NY Giants become 1st team to appear in 4 consecutive World Series
1925 - Harry Heilmann's 6 hits edges Ty Cobb .393 to .389 as batting champ
1926 - Dahlia is officially designated as SF city flower
1927 - Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mt. Rushmore.
1928 - 25th World Series begins, NY Yankees vs St Louis Cardinals
1928 - KPD begins petition against Germany building a battle fleet
1930 - A's Jack Quinn, 46, pitches 2 inn, is oldest to play in World Series
1931 - Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould debuts
1931 - Juan Esteban Montero becomes president of Chile
1932 - Anti-semite Julius Gombos forms new govt in Hungary
1932 - Clark Griffith announces Walter Johnson will be manager of Senators
1932 - Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov marries Yelena Sergeyevna
1933 - Esquire magazine is 1st published
1936 - Italian lire devalued
1936 - Record 66,669 at Yankee Stadium for 4th game of World Series
1939 - Last Polish troops surrender
1940 - 12 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 - Adolph Hitler & Benito Mussolini confer at Brenner Pass in Alps
1940 - French Vichy-regime proclaims end of "Statut of the Juifs"
1940 - Wrestling returns to Madison Sq Garden after 12 year lay off
1942 - German assault on Tractor factory in Stalingrad
1943 - Corsica freed by Free French
1943 - German occupiers forbid flying of kites (6 month jail sentence)
1944 - British troops land on Greek continent
1944 - 1st All St Louis World Series, all games played at Sportsman's Park
1944 - St Louis Browns win 1st World Series game in their only appearance
1947 - Negro League World Series, NY Cubans beat Cleveland Buckeyes, 6-5
1948 - Indians beat Red Sox, 8-0, in 1st AL playoff game
1948 - World Council of Churches forms under W Fisherman It Hooft)
1949 - American Contract Bridge League votes 58½% to keep blacks out
1949 - United Nations' permanent NYC headquarters is dedicated
1950 - French troops vacate Cla Afraid Vietnam
1951 - In opening World Series game, Giant Monte Irvin steals home in 1st inn
1952 - "Top Banana" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 356 perfs
1953 - Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:17:39.4)
1953 - Mickey Mantle hits a grand slam in World Series
1955 - Brooklyn Dodgers only World Series victory, beating Yankees in 7
1955 - Rev Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul
1956 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1957 - "Leave It to Beaver," debuts on CBS
1957 - USSR launches Sputnik I, 1st artificial Earth satellite
1957 - Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario.
1958 - 12th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 6-3 at Montreal
1958 - 5th French republic forms
1958 - Transatlantic coml jet passenger service began (BOAC)

Famous Birthdays

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1160 - Alys, Countess of the Vexin, daughter of Louis VII of France (d. 1220)
1276 - Margaret of Brabant, Queen of Germany (d. 1311)
1289 - Louis X, the Stubborn, king of France (1314-16)
1331 - James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde (d. 1382)
1379 - King Henry III of Castile (d. 1406)
1515 - Lucas Cranach, the Younger, German painter
1542 - Roberto Bellarmino, Italian theologist/diplomat
1542 - Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (d. 1621)
1550 - Charles IX, King of Sweden
1562 - Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (d. 1647)
1570 - Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal (d. 1637)
1585 - Anna of Tyrol, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1618)
1607 - Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Span playwright (Del Rey Abajo Ninguno)
1625 - Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy (d. 1661)
1626 - Richard Cromwell, lord protector of England (1658-59)
1657 - Francesco Solimena, Italian painter (d. 1747)
1659 - Franz Weichlein, composer
1720 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian etcher
1723 - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (d. 1798)
1744 - Domenico Corri, composer
1749 - Jean-Louis Duport, composer
1759 - Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician (d. 1803)
1762 - Tommaso Sogner, composer
1772 - Francois-Louis Perne, composer
1787 - Francois P G Guizot, French historian/politician
1796 - John Richardson, Canadian writer (Wacousta, or the prophecy)
1797 - J Gotthelf, writer
1804 - "Felix", cricketer (Nicholas Wanostracht)
1807 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, French Canadian politician, prime minister of the Province of Canada (d. 1864)
1809 - Albrecht F H, prince of Prussia
1809 - Robert Cumming Schenck, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
1810 - Alexander Walewski, French earl/foreign minister/Napoleon I's son
1816 - Egbert Benson Brown, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1902
1818 - Francesco Crispi, Italian minister of War/premier
1822 - Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Delaware Ohio, (R) 19th pres (1877-81)
1832 - William Griggs, inventor (photo chromo lithography)
1836 - Juliette Adam-Lamber, French author (Salon/Nouvelle Revue)
1840 - Charles Ferdinand Lenepveu, composer
1841 - Stephen Albert Emery, composer
1841 - Prudente José de Morais Barros, President of Brazil (d. 1912)
1841 - Maria Sophie of Bavaria, queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1925)
1850 - John W McGraw, (Gov-R-Wash) (1893-97)
1857 - Henry Schoenfeld, composer
1858 - Michael I. Pupin, Serbian-born telephone pioneer (d. 1935)
1859 - Henryk Pachulski, composer
1860 - Sidney Paget, British illustrator (Sherlock Holmes)
1861 - Frederic Remington, US, artist/sculptor of American West
1861 - Joao Marcellino Arroyo, composer
1862 - Edward Stratemeyer, American author (d. 1930)
1865 - Max Halbe, writer
1868 - Marcelo Torcuato the Alvear, president of Argentina (1922-28)
1875 - Mikolajus Konstantinas Ciurlionis, composer
1876 - Hugh McCrae, Australian writer (d. 1958)
1877 - Pancho Villa, [Doroteo Arango], Mexico, revolutionary rebel [or 6/25]
1877 - Razor Smith, English cricketer (d. 1946)
1880 - Damon Runyon, US journalist/writer (Guys & Dolls-based on his work)
1881 - [Heinrich A H] Walther von Brauchitsch, German fieldmarshal
1885 - Henricus Wijdefield, Dutch architect (Peace Palace)
1886 - Luis Alberni, Spain, actor (Topaze)
1887 - Francis Bull, Norway, writer (Norsk literature historian)
1888 - Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1954)
1889 - John B Kelly, Olympic champion rower/father of Grace Kelly
1892 - Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian Fascist chancellor killed by Nazis
1892 - Luis Trenker, Sankt Ulrich, actor (Berge in Flammen)
1892 - Hermann Glauert, British aerodynamicist (d. 1934)
1894 - Cliff Hall, Bkln NY, actor (Crime Photographer)
1895 - Buster [Joseph F] Keaton, actor (Navigator, Steamboat Bill, Jr)
1895 - Hattie McDaniel, actress (Gone With the Wind-academy award)
1895 - Richard Sorge, German spy for USSR in Tokyo (WW II)
1895 - Sergei Jessenin, writer
1901 - Carroll Nye, Canton OH, actress (Lawless Woman)
1903 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian nazi (SS/SD)
1903 - Lord Roborough, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1903 - Bona Arsenault, French Canadian politician, historian and genealogist (d. 1993)
1904 - Harris Rhoad, rocker
1904 - Rene Mable Neighbour Cloke, illustrator
1905 - Leon Orthel, composer
1905 - Rene Defossez, composer
1906 - Johannes Post, Dutch farmer/resistance fighter (passage fight)
1909 - James B Pritchard, US, theologist/archaeologist
1909 - Noel Chiboust, trumpeter/Sax
1910 - Frankie Crosetti, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1912 - Alfonso Letelier-Llonas, composer
1912 - John de Mol, Dutch accordianist/producer (Baantjer, Pril Geluk)
1913 - Stanley Oliphant Stewart, librarian
1914 - Brendan Gill, writer/critic (New Yorker magazine)
1914 - Jim Cairns, Australian politician (d. 2003)
1915 - Koos Schuur, Dutch journalist/poet (7 Curses)
1916 - Owen Tudor Williams, civil engineer
1916 - George Sidney, American film director (d. 2002)
1917 - Albert de Klerk, Dutch composer/conductor
1917 - Jan Murray, Bronx NY, comedian (Treasure Hunt, Who Killed Teddy Bear)
1918 - Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
1920 - George Tribe, cricketer (Australian chinaman bowler, Northants)
1922 - Malcolm Baldrige, Conn, US Secretary of Commerce (1981-87)
1922 - Shin Kyuk-Ho, Japanese businessman
1923 - Charlton Heston, Ill, actor (10 Commandments, Ben Hur, Planet of Apes)
1928 - Alvin Toffler, author (Future Shock, Power Shift, The Third Wave)
1928 - Torben Ulrich, Danish musician, writer, filmmaker and tennis player
1929 - Leroy Van Dyke, Spring Fork Mo, country singer (Walk on By)

Famous Deaths

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1052 - Vladimir of Novgorod (b. 1020)
1072 - Sancho II, king of Castile/bro of Alfonso VI, murdered at about 35
1221 - William III Talvas, Count of Ponthieu (b. 1179)
1250 - Herman VI, Margrave of Baden
1305 - Emperor Kameyama of Japan (b. 1249)
1540 - Helius Eobanus Hessus, German humanist/poet (Silvae), dies
1564 - Pietro P Vergerio, Italian theologist/bishop of Croatia, dies
1571 - Claude Togniel d'Espence, French theologist (Sorbonne), dies at 60
1582 - Theresia van Avila, Spanish mystic writer, dies
1590 - Cujacius, [Jacques Cujas], French lawyer, dies at about 68
1597 - Sarsa Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1550)
1661 - Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy (b. 1625)
1669 - Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Dutch painter (b. 1606)
1680 - Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer
1713 - Valentin Molitor, composer, dies at 76
1721 - Abraham Alewijn, poet/playwright (Beslikte Swaantje), dies at 36
1743 - John Campbell, 2nd duke of Argyll/fieldmarshal, dies at 64
1749 - Franz Freiherr von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (b. 1711)
1754 - Tanacharison, Catawba Indian chief
1755 - Samuel von Cocceji, German lawyer, dies
1785 - David Brearly, American statesman (b. 1703)
1821 - John Rennie, Scottish engineer (b. 1761)
1830 - Hans DL earl Yorck von Wartenburg, gov-gen of E-Prussia, dies at 71
1838 - Eleanore Sophia Maria Westenholz, composer, dies at 79
1848 - Louis Massonneau, composer, dies at 82
1851 - Manuel de Godoy, Spanish statesman (b. 1767)
1859 - Karl Baedeker, German tour guide (Die Schweiz), dies at 57
1862 - William Duncan Smith, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 36
1863 - Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, earl of Nijenhuis/Peckedam, dies at 69
1864 - Joseph Montferrand, French Canadian logger and strong man (b. 1802)
1867 - Francis Xavier Seelos German-American Roman Catholic priest (b. 1819)
1880 - William Lassell, English astronomer (1st moon of Neptune), dies
1890 - Catherine Booth, the Mother of The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
1892 - Guillaume Van Kerckhoven, Belgian captain, dies at 39
1893 - Pieter J Elout van Soeterwoude, MP (AR), dies at 88
1903 - Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (b. 1880)
1904 - Frederic Auguste Bertholdi, French sculptor (Statue of Liberty), dies
1904 - Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (b. 1847)
1907 - Alfredo Kiel, composer, dies at 57
1910 - Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma (b. 1850)
1912 - Gen Zeledon, Nicaraguan opponent of US occupation, is executed
1929 - John Metzelaar, Dutch/US writer (Report on the Fishes), dies at 37
1935 - Jean Béraud, French painter (b. 1849)
1935 - Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano (b. 1874)
1943 - Richard T Ely, US economist (Ground under our feet), dies
1943 - Irena Iłłakowicz, Polish agent of Intelligence (b. 1906)
1944 - Al Smith, American politician (b. 1873)
1947 - Max KEL Planck, German physicist (constantly of P, Nobel 1918), dies
1949 - Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer, dies at 75
1951 - Willie Moretti, American gangster (b. 1894)
1955 - Alexander Papagos, Greek fieldmarshal, dies
1961 - Max Weber, Polish/Russ/US painter, dies
1961 - Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Orthodox missionary and writer, Exarch of Russian Church in North America (b. 1880)
1962 - E H Hendren, cricketer (57,611 1st-class runs, 3rd-best ever), dies
1962 - John Lowry, Mount Vernon NY, NYC builder, dies at 79
1966 - Sherman Billingsley, talk show host (Stork Club), dies at 66
1969 - Vibart Wight, cricketer (member of WI 1st Test touring 1928), dies
1969 - Natalino Otto, Italian singer (b. 1912)
1970 - George Frederick McKay, composer, dies at 71
1970 - Janis Joplin, rock singer (Down on Me), dies of a drug overdose at 27
1971 - Edit Angold, actor (Suspense, Molly, Blue Angel), dies at 76
1972 - Colin Gordon, actor (John-Baron), dies at 61
1972 - Louis S B Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist, dies at 68
1974 - Anne Sexton, US poetess (Pulitzer 1967), dies at 45
1975 - Joan Whitney Payson, owner of New York Mets, dies at 72
1976 - Alexander Gray, singer (This is Music), dies at 74
1979 - Christina Spierenburg, Dutch singer, dies at 56
1981 - Freddie Lindstrom, Major League Baseball Hall of famer (b. 1905)
1982 - Ahmad H al-Bakr, Iraqi fieldmarshal/president/premier, dies
1982 - Glenn H Gould, Canadian pianist, dies at 50
1989 - Graham Chapman, comedian (Monty Python), dies of cancer at 48
1989 - Norman Yardley, cricketer (England captain 1947-50), dies
1989 - Secretariat, American race horse (b. 1970)
1990 - Avis Bunnage, actor (Loneliness of Long Distance Runner), dies at 67
1990 - Jill Bennett, actress (Skull, Hawks), dies of undisclosed causes at 58
1991 - Leonard C Odell, wrote 7,000 Burma Shave poems, dies at 83
1992 - Itzhak Fuks, El Al captain, crashes in Bijlmer Netherlands
1992 - Laurie Anders, singer, dies of cancer
1992 - Ohad Arnon, El Al captain, crashes in Bijlmer Netherlands
1993 - Fran Carlon, dies of cancer at 80
1993 - Jim Holton, Scottish footballer (b. 1951)
1994 - Bill Challis, arranger/Pianist, dies at 90
1994 - Daniel Wood Gatton, guitarist, dies at 49
1994 - Heinz Rohmann, German actor/dir (Brave Soldier Schwejk), dies at 92
1995 - Peter Nicholson Gunn, writer, dies at 81
1996 - Martyn Harris, journalist, dies at 43
1996 - Silvio Piola, footballer, dies at 83
1996 - Tim N Gidal Gidalewitsch, photojournalist, dies at 87
1999 - Erik Brødreskift (aka Grim), Norwegian black metal musician (b. 1969)
1999 - Art Farmer, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1928)
1999 - Bernard Buffet, French painter (b. 1928)
2000 - Michael Smith, Nobel laureate (b. 1932)
2000 - Yu Kuo-hwa, former Premier of Taiwan (b. 1914)
2001 - Blaise Alexander, American race car driver (b. 1976)
2001 - Ahron Soloveichik, Orthodox Jewish rabbi
2002 - Alphonse Chapanis, founder of ergonomics (b. 1917)
2002 - André Delvaux, Belgian film director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2003 - Sid McMath, American politician (b. 1912)
2004 - Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (b. 1927)
2004 - Rio Diaz, Filipino actress & TV hosts (b. 1959)