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Historical Events

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9 - The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends.
506 - The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
813 - Charles the Great crowns Louis I emperor
1185 - Isaac II Angelus kills Stephanus Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people, resulting in the revolt that deposes Andronicus I Comnenus and places Isaac on the throne of the Byzantine Empire.
1226 - The Roman Catholic practice of public adoration of the Blessed Sacrament outside of Mass spreads from monasteries to parishes.
1297 - Battle at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel Wm Wallace beats English
1304 - Willem III becomes earl of Holland
1390 - Lithuanian Civil War (1389-1392): the Teutonic Knights begin a five-week siege of Vilnius.
1541 - Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by indigenous warriors, lead by Michimalonko.
1557 - Catholic & Lutheran theology debated in Worm
1609 - Expulsion order announced against the Moriscos of Valencia; beginning of the expulsion of all Spain's Moriscos.
1645 - Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies Bristol
1648 - -13] Battle at Pilawce: Bohdan Chmielricki's beats John Casimir [OS]
1649 - Massacre of Drogheda-Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists
1649 - Oliver Cromwell seizes Drogheda Ireland, most inhabitants massacred
1697 - Battle at Zenta: Prince Eugen van Savoye beats Turkish superior power
1708 - Charles XII of Sweden stops his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk, marking the turning point in the Great Northern War. The army is defeated nine months later in the Battle of Poltava, and the Swedish empire is no longer a major power.
1709 - Battle at Malplaquet: Engl/Aust/Dutch Great Alliance beat France
1714 - French & Spanish troops under duke of Berwick occupy Barcelona
1741 - Queen Maria Theresa addresses Hungarian Parliament
1758 - Battle of Saint Cast France repels British invasion during the Seven Year's War.
1773 - Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace"
1777 - Battle of Brandywine, Pa; Americans lose to British
1786 - Annapolis Convention to determine interstate commerce
1789 - Alexander Hamilton appointed 1st Secretary of Treasury
1792 - The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other crown jewels when six men break into the house used to store the jewels.
1802 - France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont.
1814 - Battle of Lake Champlain, NY; American Navy defeats British
1831 - Charles Darwin meets with capt Fitzroy at Plymouth
1839 - 1st Canadian track & field meet held (Caer Howell Grounds)
1847 - 1st singing of Stephen Fosters "Susanna" (in Pittsburgh)
1850 - "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind gives 1st US concert
1852 - Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R
1853 - 1st electric telegraph used (Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos)
1857 - Mountain Meadows Massacre, Mormons dressed as Indians murder 120 colonists in Utah
1875 - 1st newspaper cartoon strip
1877 - Rijkslandbouwhoge school opens in Wageningen
1881 - Triple landslides bury Elm Switz
1883 - James Cutler patents postal mail chute
1885 - Moses Hopkins, named minister to Liberia
1886 - Mayflower (US) beats Galatea (England) in 7th America's Cup
1888 - Death of the Argentine politician Domingo Sarmiento, after whom the Latin American Teacher's Day is chosen.
1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Crooked Man" (BG)
1891 - The Jewish Colonization Association is established by Baron Maurice de Hirsch.
1893 - Bronx Gas & Electric Company opens on Frisby & Tremont Ave
1893 - Shaku Soen is 1st Zen teacher to visit the West (Chicago)
1893 - First conference of the World Parliament of Religions is held.
1895 - FA Cup stolen in Birmingham
1897 - After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
1900 - President Kruger crosses border with Mozambique
1903 - The first race at The Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
1906 - Mahatma Gandhi coins the term "Satyagraha" to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.
1909 - Max Wolf rediscovers Halley's comet
1910 - 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)
1912 - Netherland Olympic Committee forms
1912 - Phila A's Eddie Collins steals 6 bases in 1 game
1914 - William Christopher Handy publishes "St Louis Blues"
1914 - Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent there.
1916 - German troops conquer Kavalla Greece
1916 - The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge initially collapsed in toto on August 29, 1907.
1918 - Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 15th World Series
1919 - US marines invade Honduras
1921 - Nahalal, the first moshav in Israel, is settled.
1922 - British mandate of Palestine begins
1922 - Yankees play their farewell home game in Polo Grounds win doubleheader
1922 - The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia.
1922 - One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded.
1923 - After a single, Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires next 27 Yanks
1923 - Bernie Neis, hits the 1,000th Dodger home run
1923 - ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over NY's tallest skyscraper, Woolworth Tower
1926 - 21st Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (4-1)
1926 - Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu
1926 - Spain leaves League of Nation due to Germany joining
1926 - US defeats France for their 7th straight Davis Cup championship
1926 - Yanks' Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies
1927 - After losing 21 in a row to NY, the Browns win their last meeting, 6-2
1927 - Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers
1928 - 1st TV drama-WGY's Queens Messenger
1928 - Ty Cobb last hitting appearance, pops out against Yankees
1929 - SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system
1930 - Stomboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles
1931 - Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by Charles Luciano's hitmen.
1932 - Franciszek Żwirko and Stanisław Wigura, Polish Challenge 1932 winners, are killed in a plane crash when their RWD 6 crashes into the ground during a storm.
1933 - Britain's Fred Perry thwarts Australian Jack Crawford's bid for a Grand Slam by defeating him at US Tennis championship
1935 - 49th US Womens Tennis: H H Jacobs beats Sarah H Palfrey Fabyan (62 64)
1935 - US captures Davis Cup for 7th straight year
1936 - A's pitcher Horace Lisenbee gives up 26 hits in a game
1936 - FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam
1937 - 51st US Womens Tennis: Anita Lizana beats Jadwiga Jedrzejowska (64 62)
1937 - 57th US Mens Tennis: J D Budge beats G v Cramm (61 79 61 36 61)
1939 - Battle of Kutno-pocket: Germans advance to Warsaw
1939 - British submarine Triton torpedoes British submarine Oxley
1939 - Iraq & Saudi Arabia declare war on nazi-Germany
1940 - -12] Buckingham Palace destroyed by German bombs
1940 - 54th Postmaster General: Frank C Walker of Pa takes office
1940 - Anton Mussert establishes Dutch SS
1940 - Buckingham Palace in London destroyed by German bombs
1940 - Hitler begins operation-Seelöwe (aborted invasion England)
1940 - George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
1941 - Belgium King Leopold secretly marries Lilian Baels

Famous Birthdays

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1182 - Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (d. 1204)
1458 - Bernardo Accolti, [Unico Aretino], Italian writer (Virginia)
1476 - Louise of Savoye, French mother/regentes of king Francois I
1522 - Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical
1523 - Pierre de Ronsard, poet
1525 - Johan Georg, elector of Brandenburg (1571-91)
1584 - Thomas Erpenius, [van Erpe], Dutch orientalist/arabist (grammar)
1611 - Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France (d. 1675)
1614 - Philipp Buchner, composer
1681 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (d. 1741)
1700 - James Thomson, songwriter (Rule Britannia)
1723 - Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educational reformer (d. 1790)
1741 - Johann J Angel, German author (Herr Lorenz Stark)
1753 - Friedrich August Baumbach, composer
1764 - Valentino Fioravanti, composer
1786 - Friedrich Kuhlau, composer
1798 - Franz E Neumann, German mineralogist/mathematician/physicist
1800 - Daniel S. Dickinson, New York senator (d. 1866)
1804 - Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka) [NS]
1806 - Joshua Blackwood Howell, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1807 - Ignaz Lachner, composer
1813 - Conrad Feger Jackson, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1816 - Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (d. 1888)
1825 - Eduard Hanslick, German music critic (d. 1904)
1835 - William Wirt Allen, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1894
1836 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (d. 1870)
1838 - John Ireland, Irish/US archbishop of St Paul
1844 - George Clement Martin, composer
1859 - Vjenceslav Novak, Croatian writer (d. 1905)
1860 - Marianne V von Werefkin, Russian/German/Swiss painter [NS]
1860 - James Allan, former All Black (d. 1934)
1861 - Juhani Aho, Fins journalist/writer (Panu, Tuomio)
1862 - O Henry, [William Sydney Porter], short story writer
1862 - O. Henry, American writer (d. 1910)
1862 - Julian Byng, British army officer (d. 1935)
1865 - Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (d. 1929)
1874 - Heinrich Kaspar Schmid, composer
1876 - Alfonso Broqua, composer
1877 - Feliks E Dzjerzjinski, Lithuania, founder (KGB)
1877 - James Jeans, England, physicist/mathematician/astronomer
1883 - Asta Nielsen, Copenhagen Denmark, actress (Joyless Street)
1883 - Grogorij J Zinovjev, [Gerson Radomyslski], Russian
1885 - David Herbert "DH" Lawrence, England, writer (Lady Chatterly's Lover)
1885 - Eratstus Flaval Beadle, publisher (Beadle's Dime Novels)
1885 - Herbert Stothart, composer
1890 - Marius Moaritz Ulfrstad, composer
1891 - Noel Gallon, composer
1891 - William Thomas Walsh, American author (d. 1949)
1892 - Pinto Colvig, OR, animation voice (Goofy, Pluto)
1892 - Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist (d. 1980)
1893 - W. Douglas Hawkes, British racing driver (d. 1974)
1895 - Harry Tobias, songwriter
1899 - Nelly A "Nell" Knoop, Dutch actress (Driestuivers Opera)
1899 - Jimmie Davis, composer (d. 2000)
1900 - D. W. Brooks, American farmer and businessman (d. 1999)
1902 - Alice Tully, Corning, NY, singer/patroness (Carnegie Hall)
1902 - Jimmie Davis, singer/songwriter/(gov-LA, 1944-48, 60-64)
1903 - Theodor Adorno, German philosopher/sociologist
1906 - Roye England, modeller/museum curator
1908 - Everhardus J van Romondt, physician/Dutch Antillean minister of Eco
1909 - Anne Seymour, Engld, actress (Gemini Affair, Empire, Tim Conway Show)
1909 - William H Natcher, (Rep-D-Kentucky, 1953- )
1911 - Bola de Nieve, Cuban pianist (d. 1971)
1913 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, US football coach (Alabama Crimson Tide)
1915 - Athena Lorde, NY, actress (Fuzz, Skin Game, Firecreek)
1915 - Jack Fascinato, Bevier Mo, pianist/orch leader (Kukla Fran & Ollie)
1917 - Ferdinand Marcos, Philippines Pres (1965-86)
1917 - Henderson Forsythe, Macon MO, actor (Crisis at Central High)
1917 - Jessica Lucy Mitford, author (American Way of Death)
1917 - Daniel Wildenstein, French art dealer and racehorse owner (d. 2001)
1918 - Donald Blakeslee, American aviator (d. 2008)
1921 - Edwin Richfield, British Actor (d. 1990)
1922 - Charles Evers, civil rights leader (Amazing Grace)
1923 - Alan Badel, Manchester England, actor (Shogun)
1923 - Betsy Drake, fitness expert/actress (Every Girl Should be Married)
1924 - Daniel Kahikina Akaka, (Rep-D-HI, 1977- /Sen-D Hawaii)
1924 - Tom Landry, NFL player (NY Giants)/coach (Dallas Cowboys)
1924 - Rudolf Vrba, Jewish Canadian professor, Holocaust survivor (d. 2006)
1925 - Ashley Heenan, composer
1925 - Harry Stuart Somers, composer
1926 - Alfred Slote, author (Love & Tennis, Omega Station)
1926 - Gerrit van Niekerk Viljoen, South African minister of Legislation
1926 - Lee Richardson, Chicago, actor (Sweet Lorraine, Fly 2, Tiger Warsaw)
1926 - Eddie Miksis, baseball player (d. 2005)
1927 - David Schine, businessman
1927 - Vernon Corea, Sri Lankan broadcaster (d. 2002)
1928 - Earl Holliman, Delhi La, actor (Police Woman, Tribes, Cry Panic)
1928 - Reubin Askew, (Gov-Fla)
1929 - David S Broder, Chicago Hgts Ill, journalist (Pulitzer 1973)
1930 - Cathryn Damon, Seattle Wash, actress (Mary-Soap, She's Having a Baby)
1930 - Saleh Selim, Egyptian football player (d. 2002)
1931 - Hans-Ulrich Wehler, German historian
1932 - Herbert "Sonny" Leon Callahan, (Rep-R-Alabama, 1985- )
1932 - Robert W "Bob" Packwood, (Sen-R-OR, 1969- )
1932 - Valentino, Milan Italy, fashion designer (Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis)
1932 - Peter Anderson, English footballer
1933 - William Luther Pierce, American author and activist (d. 2002)
1934 - Oliver Jones, Canadian jazz pianist
1934 - Norma Croker, Australian sprinter
1935 - Arvo Part, composer

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 146

1161 - Queen Melisende of Jerusalem (b. 1105)
1185 - Stephanus Hagiochristophorites, Byzantine courtier
1297 - Hugh de Cressingham, English treasurer, dies in battle
1298 - Philip of Artois, French soldier (b. 1269)
1349 - Bonne of Luxembourg, wife of John II of France (b. 1315)
1599 - Cornelis de Houtman, navigator (1st Dutch trip to Java), murder at 35
1599 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman executed for planned fratricide (b. 1577)
1630 - John de White, calvinist/banker to Prague, commits suicide
1646 - Johann Stobaeus, composer, dies at 66
1677 - James Harrington, English political philosopher (b. 1611)
1680 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (b. 1596)
1680 - Roger Crab, English Puritan political writer (b. 1621)
1709 - Hamilton, Scottish(?) general (Malplaquet), dies in battle
1709 - Oxenstiern, German(?) general (Malplaquet), dies in battle
1709 - Spaar, German(?) general (Malplaquet), dies in battle
1712 - Giovanni D Cassini, French astronomer, dies
1713 - John Foot, lawyer, dies at 65
1721 - Rudolph J Camerarius, German physician (sexuality plans), dies
1733 - Francois Couperin, French composer (Le Grand), dies at 64
1760 - Louis Godin, French astronomer (b. 1704)
1789 - Luca Sorkocevic, composer, dies at 55
1822 - Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor (b. 1777)
1823 - David Ricardo, economist (b. 1772)
1843 - Joseph Nicollet, mathematician and explorer (b. 1786)
1848 - Henri-Philippe Gerard, composer, dies at 87
1851 - Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist (b. 1794)
1858 - Alexander L'vovich Gurilyov, composer, dies at 55
1865 - Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (b. 1806)
1870 - Eugenio Lucas y Padilla, Spanish poet, dies at about 46
1888 - Domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina (1868-74), dies at 77
1892 - Charles-Louis-Adolphe Vogel, composer, dies at 84
1896 - Anton Joseph Bruckner, composer, dies at 72
1896 - Francis James Child, American ballad collector (b. 1825)
1898 - Adolphe-Abraham Samuel, composer, dies at 74
1911 - Louis Henri Boussenard, French novelist (b. 1847)
1915 - William Sprague IV, American politician (b. 1830)
1915 - William Cornelius Van Horne, American railway executive (b. 1843)
1917 - Georges Guynemer, French WW I pilot, dies at 22
1921 - Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil poet (b. 1882)
1922 - Louis Coerne, composer, dies at 52
1924 - Mieczyslaw Surzynski, composer, dies at 57
1926 - Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor (b. 1875)
1931 - Salvatore Maranzano, American crime boss (b. 1868)
1932 - Franciszek Zwirko and Stanislaw Wigura, Polish pilots (Żwirko b. 1895 Wigura b. 1901)
1946 - Arthur van Schendel, writer (Holland Drama), dies at 72)
1948 - Albert Powell, cricketer (one Test S Africa v England 1898-99), dies
1948 - Mohammed Ali Jinnah, 1st governor of Pakistan (1947-48), dies at 71
1949 - Henri Rabaud, French composer/conductor (L'ete), dies at 75
1950 - John C Smuts, co-found British RAF/S African PM (1919..48), dies at 80
1950 - S M H Colah, cricketer (69 runs in India's 1st 2 tests 1932-33), dies
1954 - Licinio Refice, composer, dies at 69
1956 - Billy Bishop, Canadian pilot in World War I (b. 1894)
1957 - Petar Stojanovic, composer, dies at 80
1958 - Robert Lach, composer, dies at 84
1958 - Robert W. Service, Scottish-born Canadian poet (b. 1874)
1958 - Camillien Houde, French Canadian politician (b. 1889)
1959 - Paul Douglas, actor (Adventure Theater), dies at 52
1965 - Ralph C. Smedley, Founder of Toastmasters International (b. 1878)
1966 - Charlie Cantor, actor (Artie-Ray Bolger Show), dies at 68
1966 - C. E. Woolman, American airline magnate (b. 1889)
1967 - Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish technician and textilist (b. 1904)
1968 - René Cogny, French General (b. 1904)
1970 - Chester Morris, actor (Diagnosis: Unknown), dies at 69
1971 - Nikita Khrushchev, dies of a heart attack at 77
1971 - Percy Helton, actor (Homer-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 77
1972 - Max Fleischer, American animator (b. 1883)
1973 - Salvador Allende Gossens, president Chile (1970-73), dies at 65
1973 - Neem Karoli Baba, Indian guru
1974 - Víctor Olea Alegría, Chilean Socialist Party member
1976 - Jan Kunc, composer, dies at 93
1977 - Don Blackman, actor (Old Man & Sea, Desert Legion), dies at 65
1977 - Leonard Carey, actor (Laughter), dies at 90
1978 - Mike Gazella, American baseball player (b. 1895)
1978 - Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (b. 1929)
1978 - Janet Parker, medical photographer (b. c. 1938)
1978 - Ronnie Peterson, Swedish F1 driver (b. 1944)
1980 - Jose Antonio Calcano, composer, dies at 80
1981 - Frank McHugh, actor (Dawn Patrol, Going My Way), dies at 83
1982 - Albert Soboult, French historian, dies at 68
1984 - Hilding Hallnas, composer, dies at 81
1984 - Jerry Voorhis, American politician (b. 1901)
1985 - William Alwyn, composer, dies at 79
1985 - Andrew C. Thornton II, American drug smuggler (b. 1945)
1987 - Lorne Greene, actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica), dies at 72
1988 - George Alpert, railroad executive, dies at 90
1988 - Luis W Alvarez, physicist (Nobel-1968), dies at 77
1988 - Peter Tosh, reggae singer shot dead at 43 in Jamacia
1988 - John Sylvester White, American actor (b. 1919)
1990 - Ben Frank, actor (Don't Answer the Phone), dies of heart attack at 56
1990 - Myrna Mack, Guatemalan anthropologist (b. 1949)
1991 - Ernst Herbeck, German Poet (b. 1920)
1992 - Erik Terpstra, director (Versier de leegte, De ander, Daniel), dies
1992 - Frank Singuineau, actor (Firepower, Pressure, Mummy), dies
1992 - Paul Storken, Dutch priest (Away Backing), dies
1993 - Antoine Izmery, Haitian businessman/advisor to pres Aristide, murdered
1993 - Erich Leinsdorf, Austria/US conductor/author (Cadenza), dies at 81
1994 - Frederick Rand Weissman, philanthropist, dies at 82
1994 - Jessica Tandy, actress (Driving Miss Daisy), dies of cancer at 85
1994 - Sara Taylor, mother of Elizabeth, dies at 62
1994 - William Obanheim, actor (Officer Obie-Alice's Restaurant), dies at 69