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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 200

680 - Husain ibn 'Ali, Shi'i religious leader, enters martyrdom
768 - Charles the Great & Charlamane II divide French republic
768 - Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks.
869 - Charles the Bare crowned king of Lotharingen
1000 - Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England)
1003 - Leif Erikson lands in L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada, becoming the first European to reach America.
1192 - Richard Coeur de Leeuw leaves Jerusalem in disguise
1238 - James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
1290 - Last of 16,000 English Jews expelled by King Edward I, leaves
1446 - Korean Hangual alphabet devised
1446 - The hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
1514 - King Louis XII of France marries Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII
1558 - Mérida is founded in Venezuela.
1573 - Don Frederik disbands siege of Alkmaar
1595 - The Spanish army captures Cambrai.
1597 - Earl Mauritius occupies Breevoort
1617 - Peace of Pavia (Spain & Savoye)
1621 - Turkey & Poland signs Peace of Chotin
1635 - Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony
1651 - English parliament proclaims Navigation Act off
1655 - Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow
1668 - Mass society storms palace of "heretics" Spanish gov Jose de Paternina
1701 - Collegiate School of Ct (Yale U), chartered in New Haven
1708 - Battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy
1716 - England & France sign treaty
1740 - Neth gov-general Adriaen Valckenier allows murder of 8000 Chinese inhabitants of Batavia
1760 - Russian/Austrian army occupies Berlin [OS=Sep 28]
1760 - 7 Year's War: Russian forces occupy Berlin.
1771 - The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.
1776 - Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay
1794 - French troops occupy Hertogenbosch
1799 - British frigate HMS Lutine sinks off Dutch coast
1799 - Sinking of HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
1804 - Hobart Tasmania founded
1806 - Prussia declares war on France.
1817 - University of Gent officially opens
1818 - Congress of Aken returns to France from Libya
1820 - Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador
1824 - Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
1831 - Capo d'Istria is assassinated.
1835 - The Royal College, Colombo established with the name Hillstreet Academy in Sri Lanka.
1837 - Steamboat "Home" sinks off Okracoke NC killing 100
1837 - Meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
1845 - The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
1854 - the siege of Sebastopol begins.
1855 - Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor
1855 - Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Mass patents 1st calliope
1863 - Battle of Brady Station, VA (Culpeper Court House, Bristoe Station)
1864 - Battle of Tom's Brook-Confederate cavalry that harassed Sheridan's campaign is wipped by Custer & Merrit's cavalry divisions
1865 - 1st US underground pipeline for carrying oil is laid in Pennsylvania
1870 - Rome is incorporated into Italy by royal decree
1872 - Aaron Montgomery started his mail-order business
1874 - World Postal Union forms in Bern Switzerland
1876 - 1st 2-way telephone conversation, 1st over outdoor wires
1877 - American Humane Association organizes (Cleveland)
1888 - Washington Monument opens for public admittance
1890 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Red-Headed League"
1899 - 1st British troops reaches Durban South Africa
1899 - South Africa President Kruger routes British authorities ultimatum
1900 - 8.3 earthquake shakes Cape Yakataga, Alaska
1903 - 11" (28.4 cm) rainfall in 24 hrs (NYC)
1905 - Phila A's meet Giants in World Series, Giants win 3-0
1909 - Ty Cobb steals home in World Series game
1910 - Nap Lajorie challenges Ty Cobb batting avg with 8 hits, 6 were bunts as Brown's 3rd baseman Red Corriden played deep, Cobb still won
1914 - German troops take Antwerp in World War I
1915 - Belgrade Serbia, surrenders to Central leaders
1915 - Gil Anderson races auto (165.1 km record) in Sheepshead Bay, NY
1915 - Louis Kaufmans "Unchastened Woman," premieres in NYC
1915 - Woodrow Wilson becomes 1st pres to attend a World Series game
1916 - Babe Ruth begins 29 2/3 scoreless World Series innings
1916 - Babe Ruth pitches & wins longest WS game (14 innings) 2-1
1920 - 1st World Series game in Cleveland, Indians win 2-1
1921 - Babe Ruth's 1st WS homer; only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays
1926 - Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Royal Colonial Institution
1926 - NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) forms
1928 - Marcel Pagnol's "Topaz," premieres in Paris
1928 - NY Yankees sweep Cards in 25th World Series, Ruth hits 3 HR in game
1928 - NY Yankees become 1st to sweep consecutive World Series
1929 - G Kaufman & R Lardner's musical "June Moon," premieres in NYC
1930 - 1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls
1934 - St Louis Cards beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3 in 31st World Series
1934 - Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France.
1936 - Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to LA
1938 - A Copland & E Lorings ballet "Billy the Kid," premieres in Chicago
1938 - Cleveland Browns & Chicago Bears play a penalty free NFL game
1938 - NY Yankees sweep Cubs in 35th World Series, 3rd straight WS win
1941 - A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
1942 - Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy.
1944 - British PM Winston Churchill arrives in Russia for talks with Stalin
1944 - British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Moscow
1944 - Canadian offensive in West-Zeeuws-Flanders
1944 - German occupier turn off electricity in Amsterdam
1944 - St Louis Cards beat St Louis Browns, 4 games to 2 in 41st World Series
1945 - British troops occupy Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal
1946 - 1st electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50
1946 - Eugene O'Neill's "Iceman Cometh," premieres in NYC
1947 - "High Button Shoes" opens at Century Theater NYC for 727 performances
1947 - 1st telephone conversation between a moving car & a plane
1947 - Julie Styne & Sam Cohn's musical "High Button Shoes," premieres in NYC
1948 - WXYZ TV channel 7 in Detroit, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting

Famous Birthdays

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1201 - Robert de Sorbon, founded Sorbonne University, Paris
1221 - Salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler
1261 - Dionysius, the Justified, king of Portugal (1279-1325)
1328 - King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)
1581 - Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/theologist
1586 - Jan III van Foreest, lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn
1586 - Archduke Leopold V of Austria (d. 1632)
1626 - John Ferrabosco, composer
1663 - Gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic (Arcadia)
1704 - Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777)
1727 - Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer
1757 - Charles X, reactionary king of France (1824-30); deposed
1760 - Pierre Gaveaux, composer
1766 - Bedrich Divis Weber, composer
1771 - Frederik Willem, duke of Brunswick (1813-15)
1782 - Lewis Cass, (Gov-Mich)
1796 - Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English Egyptologist (d. 1878)
1813 - John Jones Pettus, Confederate governor (D-Miss, 1859-63)
1819 - Samuel McGowan, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
1822 - George Sykes, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1880
1823 - Mary Ann Shadd Cary, 1st black US newspaper publishers
1830 - Harriet Hosmer, sculptor
1835 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)
1840 - Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905)
1847 - Andre Dumont, Belgian mine engineer (Limburg's coal basin)
1847 - Stephanus J du Toit, South Africa theologist/journalist (Afr Bond)
1852 - Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
1858 - Gerard L F Philips, Dutch engineer/manufacturer (Philips)
1859 - Alfred Dreyfus, accused Jewish French officer (Dreyfus Affair)
1863 - Alexander Siloti, Kharkov Russia, pianist/prof (Moscow Cons 1888-91)
1869 - Harry Lawrence Freeman, composer
1871 - Gerrit Bolkestein, minister of Education (1939-4-)
1871 - George Gauthier, Bishop of Montreal and rector of the Université de Montréal (d. 1940)
1871 - Didak Buntić, Croatian monk and scholar.
1873 - Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (Schwarzschild effect)
1873 - Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (d. 1944)
1874 - Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (d. 1947)
1878 - Robert Warwick, [Bien], Sacramento CA, actor (Falcon's Adventure)
1884 - Helene Deutsch, [Rosenbach], psychoanalyst (Boston)
1884 - Martin Elmer Johnson, explorer/photographer
1886 - Frank Newburg, actor (Homemaker)
1886 - Rube Marquard, American baseball player (d. 1980)
1888 - Hank Patterson, Alabama, actor (Gunsmoke, Fred Ziffel-Green Acres)
1888 - Irving Cummings Sr, NYC, silent screen star/director (Curly Top)
1888 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician (d. 1938)
1890 - Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist (Pentecostal)/radio preacher
1890 - Alfred Julius Swan, composer
1890 - Janis Medins, composer
1892 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (d. 1941)
1893 - Heinrich George, (Schulz), German actor (Hitlerjunge Quex)
1893 - M de Andrade, writer
1899 - Bruce Catton, US, historian/writer (Civil War)
1900 - Alastair Sims, Edinburgh Scot, actor (Christmas Carol, Stage Fright)
1900 - Silvio Cator, Haiti, long jumper (Olympic-silver-1928)
1902 - Freddie Young, British cinematographer (d. 1998)
1903 - Walter O'Malley, baseball team owner (Dodgers)
1904 - Carl Parrish, composer
1904 - J Dito, Dutch dominican/broadcast chairman (KRO, 1938-45)
1904 - Wally Brown, Malden MA, actor (Zombies on Broadway, Girl Rush)
1905 - Euphemia MacDonald, dance producer
1905 - Howard St John, Chicago IL, actor (Born Yesterday, Li'l Abner)
1906 - 13th earl of Stair, English lt-colonel/large landowner
1906 - Janis Ivanovs, composer
1906 - Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician (d. 2001)
1907 - Klaes Karppinen, Findland, 4 X 10K relay (Olympic-gold-1936)
1907 - Quintin Hogg, British politician (d. 2001)
1908 - Jacques Tati[scheff], La Pecq France, director (Traffic, Playtime)
1908 - James E Folsom, (Alabama-Gov, 1947-51, 1955-59)
1908 - Harry Hooton, Australian poet (d. 1961)
1908 - Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (d. 1975)
1910 - Donald Coggan, English archbishop of York/Canterbury (Glory of God)
1910 - Phil Hanna, River Forest Ill, singer (Once Upon a Tune)
1911 - Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (d. 2006)
1914 - Edward Andrews, Griffin GA, actor (Tea & Sympathy, Glass Bottom Boat)
1914 - Roger Goeb, composer
1915 - Clifford M. Hardin, United States Secretary of Agriculture
1917 - Kusuo Kitamura, Japan, 1500m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1932)
1918 - E Howard Hunt, Hamburg NY, involved in Watergate break-in
1918 - Lila Kedrova, Russian-born actress (d. 2000)
1919 - Rezso Sugar, composer
1920 - Jens Bjorneboe, Norway, poet/writer (Dikt, Jonas)
1920 - Vivienne Della Chiesa, US, actress (?)
1920 - Yusef Lateef, composer
1920 - Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (d. 1976)
1921 - Michel Boisrond, French film director (d. 2002)
1922 - Fyvush Finkel, actor (Middle Ages, Picket Fences)
1922 - Raymond Wilding-White, composer
1923 - Donald Sinden, England, actor (Doctor at Large, Mogambo, Simba)
1923 - Ronald Tremain, composer
1924 - Robert A Rushworth, Madison Maine, test pilot (X-15)
1925 - Robert Finch, actor (Academy Theater)
1925 - Johnny Stompanato, American organized crime figure (d. 1958)
1926 - Daniele Delorme, [Gabrielle Girard], Paris, actress (Pardon My Affair)
1927 - Ivan Metropolitan Ioann Snychev, Russion Orthodox Priest
1928 - Einojuhani Rautavaara, Helsinki Finland, composer (Kaivos)
1930 - David Rounds, Bronxville NY, actor (Terence-Beacon Hill)
1930 - Fjolnir Stefansson, composer
1931 - Tony Booth, British actor and father of Cherie Blair
1933 - Bill Tidy, English cartoonist (Fosdyke Saga)
1934 - Jacobo Majluta Azar, politician

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 107

1047 - Clemens II, [Suitger], Pope (1046-47), dies (b. 1005)
1253 - Grosseteste, an English scholar, dies at 78
1273 - Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany
1326 - Reinald I, earl of Gelre/monarch, went insane, dies
1390 - Johan I, king of Castile (1379-90), dies
1423 - Frederik III of Blankenheim, bishop of Straatsburg/Utrecht, dies
1436 - Jacoba van Bavarian, countess of Holland/Zealand, dies at 35
1555 - Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493)
1562 - Gabriel Fallopius, Modena Italy, anatomist, dies
1562 - Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and early advocate for the use of condoms. (b. 1523)
1569 - Vladimir of Staritsa, Russian prince (b. 1533)
1597 - Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1537)
1646 - Baltasar Carlos, son of Spanish king Philip IV, dies
1691 - William Sacheverell, English statesman (b. 1638)
1709 - Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1640)
1729 - Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (b. 1654)
1769 - Marianus Konigsperger, composer, dies at 60
1781 - Thomas Alexander Erskine Kelly, composer, dies at 49
1793 - Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b. 1718)
1797 - Elia van Vilnius, Latvian rabbi, dies at 77
1797 - Elijah B Solomon Zalman, rabbi/Gaon of Vilna, dies
1806 - Benjamin Banneker, astronomer/mathematician, dies at 74
1821 - Georg-Friederich Fuchs, composer, dies at 68
1831 - Joannis Capodistrias, Pres of Greece (1829-31), murdered
1831 - John Capodistria, Governor of Greece (b. 1776)
1837 - Charles Fourier, French utopian socialist (Harmony universal), dies
1841 - Karl F Schinkel, German painter/writer (Neue Wache), dies at 60
1873 - George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (b. 1785)
1891 - Johannes Tideman, theologist, dies at 83
1897 - John Heemskerk Azn, Dutch Internal minister (1866..88), dies at 79
1900 - Heinrich von Herzogenberg, composer, dies at 57
1906 - Joseph F Glidden, inventor (barbed wire), dies
1907 - Romualdo Marenco, composer, dies at 66
1912 - Millie & Christine, Siamese twins, dies at 61
1915 - Constant A M Cap, Flemish poet/etcher, dies at 73
1917 - Hussain Kamil, sultan of Egypt (1914-17), dies at 63
1918 - Michail V Alekseyev, Russian general (WW I), murdered at 60
1924 - Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873)
1934 - J-Louis-F Barthou, French writer/premier/foreign minister, murdered
1934 - King Alexander, of Yugoslavia, killed by Georgief (Croatian terrorist)
1937 - August de Boeck, composer, dies at 72
1937 - George AA Alting van Geusau, Dutch min of war (1918-20), dies at 73
1940 - Wilfred Grenfell, English medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1865).
1941 - Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)
1943 - Gerard W Kerncamp, historian/editor-in-chief (Green Amsterdam), dies
1943 - Jan Dieters, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed
1943 - Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed
1943 - Pieter Zeeman, naturalist (Nobel 1902), dies
1949 - Viktor Alexandrovich Uspensky, composer, dies at 70
1950 - George Hainsworth, National Hockey League goaltender (b. 1895)
1955 - Alice Joyce, actress (Song O' My Heart), dies at 65
1956 - Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)
1958 - Pius XII, [Eugenio Pacelli], Pope (1939-58), dies at 82
1960 - Howard Glenn, NY Titan, dies of injuries sustain in this day's game
1962 - Lulu McConnell, comediene (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 80
1963 - Thurlow Weed Lieurance, composer, dies at 85
1967 - Andre Maurois, [Emile Herzog], French writer (Balzac), dies
1967 - Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Argentinian-born guerrilla, executed in Bolivia
1968 - Pierre Mulele, Congolese rebel leader, executed
1970 - Jean Giono, writer, dies
1972 - Giuseppe Capogrossi, Italian painter, dies at 72
1972 - Miriam Hopkins, actress (Carrie, Barbary Coast), dies at 69
1974 - Oskar Schindler, German businessman (b. 1908)
1976 - Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (b. 1894)
1978 - Jacques Brel, Belgian chansonnier, buried on Atuama, dies at 49
1982 - Anna Freud, Austria/Engl psychoanalyst/daughter of Sigmund, dies at 86
1983 - Sun Suk Joon, South Korean vice premier, murdered
1985 - Emílio Garrastazu Médici, president of Brazil (b. 1905)
1987 - Clare A Booth Luce, US diplomat/journalist, dies at 84
1987 - Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (b. 1908)
1988 - Edward Chodorov, playwright/director (Louis Pasteur), dies at 84
1988 - Felix Wankel, developer of Wankel rotary engine, dies
1989 - Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)
1990 - Richard Murdoch, actor (Lilli Marlene), dies of heart attack at 83
1991 - Roy Black, German singer/actor (Kinderarzt Dr Froehlich), dies
1991 - Thalmus Rasulala, actor (Blacula), dies of heart attack at 51
1992 - Willy Brandt, German chancellor (1969-74), dies
1993 - C R Rangachari, cricketer (4 Tests for India), dies
1993 - Geert de Vlaeminck, Belgian champion cyclist, dies at 26
1994 - Fred Lebow, US founder of New York Marathon, dies of cancer
1994 - James Hill, English director/screenwriter (Born Free), dies at 75
1994 - Joan Dickson, cellist, dies at 72
1994 - Raich Carter, footballer, dies at 80
1995 - Alec Douglas-Home, PM of Britain (1963-64), dies
1995 - John Alfred Scali, journalist/diplomat, dies at 77
1995 - Kukrit Pramoj, PM of Thailand (1975-76), dies at 84
1995 - Lord Home of Hirsel, cricket (Middlesex player later British PM), dies
1995 - Patric William Billy Walker, astrologer, dies at 64
1995 - Phillip Jack Oppenheimer, diamond trader, dies at 83
1996 - Alan Charles Downes, cameraman, dies at 58
1996 - Harvey Vernon, actor (Jasper-Carter Country), dies at 69
1996 - Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher, politician, dies at 83
1996 - Richard Clarkson, aerodynamicist, dies at 94
1997 - Arthur Tracy, radio personality (Street Singer), dies at 98
1999 - Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist (b. 1923)
1999 - Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries (b. 1914)
2000 - David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945)
2000 - Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
2001 - Dagmar, American television personality (b. 1921)
2001 - Herbert Ross, American film director and producer (b. 1927)