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Events 1 - 100 of 176

1192 - English king Richard I the Lion hearted, captured
1217 - The Estonian tribal leader Lembitu of Lehola was killed in a battle against Teutonic Knights.
1348 - Jews in Zurich Switzerland are accused of poisoning wells
1435 - Treaty of Atrecht: Philip of Bourgondy vs French king Charles II
1451 - Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa orders Jews of Holland to wear a badge
1589 - Battle at Arques: French king Henri IV beats Catholic League
1591 - French bishops recognize Henri IV as king of France
1621 - King James of England gives Canada to Sir Alexander Sterling
1648 - -23] Battle at Pilawce: Bohdan Chmielricki's beats John Casimir [NS]
1676 - Benedetto Odescalchi elected as Pope Innocent XI
1677 - John & Nicolaas van der Heyden patents fire extinguisher
1745 - Battle at Preston Pans: Bonnie Prince Charles beats English army
1746 - French expeditionary army occupies Labourdonnais & Dupleix Madras
1765 - Antoine de Beauterne announces he had killed the Beast of Gévaudan, but was later proved wrong by more attacks.
1776 - 5 days after British take NY, a ¼ of city burns down
1776 - Nathan Hale, spied on British for American rebels, arrested
1780 - Benedict Arnold gives British Major Andre plans to West Point
1784 - 1st daily newspaper in America (Pennsylvania Packet & General Advertiser)
1792 - Collot D'Herbois, first man to propose to abolish the monarchy in France at National Convention
US Defector General Benedict ArnoldUS Defector General Benedict Arnold 1814 - "Star Spangled Banner" published as a poem
1815 - King Willem I takes oath in Brussels
1823 - Moroni 1st appears to Joseph Smith, according to Smith
1827 - According to Joseph Smith, Jr., the angel Moroni gave him a record of gold plates, one-third of which Joseph translated into The Book of Mormon.
1837 - Charles Tiffany founded his jewelry & china stores
1860 - In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Baliqiao.
1863 - Union forces retreat to Chattanooga after defeat at Chickamauga
1872 - John Henry Conyers of SC becomes 1st black student at Annapolis
1883 - 1st direct US-Brazil telegraph connection
1885 - Dutch demonstrate for general voting right
1893 - Frank Duryea drives 1st US made gas propelled vehicle (car)
1895 - 1st auto manufacturer opens-Duryea Motor Wagon Company
1896 - General Kitcheners army occupies Dongola Sudan
1897 - NY Sun runs famous "Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus," editorial
1898 - China's empress-mother Ci Xi & emperor De Zong arrested
Religious Leader Joseph Smith JrReligious Leader Joseph Smith Jr 1898 - Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
1903 - 1st cowboy film "Kit Carson," premieres in US
1905 - Atlanta Life Insurance Co forms
1906 - Yankee 1st baseman Hal Chase's 22 put-outs ties record
1913 - 1st aerobatic maneuver, sustained inverted flight, performed in France
1913 - Turkey & Bulgaria sign peace treaty in Constantinople
1915 - CH Chubb buys Stonehenge for £6,600
1915 - Emanuel Querido ("Kerido") begins publishing Querido
1919 - 33rd US Womens Tennis: Hazel H Wightman beats M Zinderstein (61 62)
1921 - Gas explodes at Bradishe Aniline chemical works in Germany, 565 die
1921 - Pope Benedictus XV donates 1 million lire to feed Russians
1921 - Oppau explosion, a storage silo at a fertilizer producing plant exploded in Oppau, Germany, 500—600 killed.
1922 - Pres Warren G Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine
1928 - "My Weekly Reader" magazine made its debut
1929 - 1st legal pass in Canada was thrown by Gerry Seiberling & 1st reception by Ralph Losie of Calgary Altomah-Tigers against Edmonton
1930 - Johann Ostermeyer patents flashbulb
1931 - Britain abandons gold standard/pound devalues 20%
1933 - Trial against Marinus der Lubbe opens
1934 - St Louis Card Paul Dean no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 3-0
1934 - Typhoon strikes Honshu Island Japan, kills 4,000
Spanish Dictator Francisco FrancoSpanish Dictator Francisco Franco 1936 - Spanish fascist junta names Franco to generalissimo/supreme commander
1937 - J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" is published
1938 - Hurricane (183 MPH winds) in New England kills 700
1938 - Winston Churchill condemns Hitler's annexation of Czechoslovakia
1938 - The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500-700 people.
1939 - Reinhard Heydrich meets in Berlin to discuss final solution of Jews
1941 - US launches its 1st Liberty-ship, "Patrick Henry"
1942 - 116 hostages executed by Nazis in Paris
1942 - Transport nr 35 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1943 - Arundel (Solomon Island) in US hands
1943 - Lynch Triangle (Square) in Bronx named
1943 - Russian 13th/61st Army reconquer Chyernigov
1943 - Soviet forces reach Dnjepr
1944 - Last British paratroopers at bridge of Arnhem surrenders
1946 - Indians play their final game in League Park, ending a 55-year stay
British war time Prime Minister Winston ChurchillBritish war time Prime Minister Winston Churchill 1948 - "Texaco Star Theater" with Milton Berle premieres on NBC-TV
1949 - Chinese Communist leaders proclaims People's Republic of China
1949 - Federal Republic of [West] Germany created under 3-power occupation
1950 - George Marshall sworn in as the 3rd Secretary of Defense of United States.
1951 - Emil Zatopek runs 15,000m in record 44 min, 54.6 sec
1953 - Allied forces form West Germany
1953 - KRDO TV channel 13 in Colorado Spgs-Pueblo, CO (ABC) 1st broadcast
1954 - 1st nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, commissioned under Commander Eugene P. Wilkinson
1954 - Kleffens appointed chairman of General Meeting UN
1955 - Last allied occupying troops leave Austria
1955 - Rocky Marciano KOs Archie Moore in 9 for heavyweight boxing title
1955 - USSR performs nuclear test
1955 - Heavyweight champ Rocky Mariano KOs Archie Moore in round 9
1956 - Yanks set dubious record, stranding 20 men on base Mantle hits a 500' plus homer but Red Sox win 13-9 in Fenway
1957 - "Perry Mason" with Raymond Burr premieres on CBS-TV
Boxing Champ Archie MooreBoxing Champ Archie Moore 1957 - German sailing school ship Pamir sails Atlantic Ocean
1957 - Olav V, becomes king of Norway
1957 - Pote Sarasin forms government in Thailand
1958 - 1st airplane flight exceeding 1200 hours, lands, Dallas Tx
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 - 600 Indian Dutch emigrate to US
1961 - Antonio Abertondo swims English Channel round trip (44 miles)
1961 - Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.
1964 - Constellation (US) beats Sovereign (England) in 20th America's Cup
1964 - Malta gains independence from Britain
1964 - Reds Chico Ruiz steals home, beats Phillies 1-0. Phillies start a 10 game losing streak that gives Cards the pennant
1964 - Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1964 - The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, made its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.
1965 - O Kommissarova (USSR) sets women's longest parachute jump (46,250')
1965 - Singapore admitted as a part of the United Nations.
1966 - 5" of rain falls on NYC

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 219

1051 - Bertha of Savoy, German queen and Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1087)
1328 - Hongwu Emperor of China (d. 1398)
1372 - Frederik I van Hohenzollern, monarch of Brandenburg (1417-40)
1411 - Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, claimant to the English throne (d. 1460)
1415 - Frederick III, Innsbruck Austria, German Emperor (1440-1493)
1428 - Jingtai Emperor of China (d. 1457)
1452 - Girolamo Savonarola, monk/reformer/dictator of Florence (1494-98)
1527 - Matthaus Ludecus, composer
1629 - Philip Cardinal Howard, English Catholic cardinal (d. 1694)
1645 - Louis Joliet, Canadian explorer (d. 1700)
1706 - Jacob Wilhelm Lustig, composer
1706 - Polyxena Christina of Hesse-Rotenburg, queen of Sardinia (d. 1735)
1728 - Louis Emmanuel Eadin, composer
1737 - Francis Hopkinson, US, writer/lawyer (helped design Stars & Stripes)
1752 - Louise MC, countess of Albany
1756 - John Loudon McAdam, created macadam road surface (asphalt)
1758 - Christopher Gore, 8th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1827)
1760 - Gaetano Valeri, composer
1760 - Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman (d. 1837)
1788 - Margaret Smith Taylor, 1st lady (1849-50)
1817 - Carter Littlepage Stevenson, Major General (Confederate Army)
1817 - Charles Balmer, composer
1819 - Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France (d. 1864)
1820 - Williams Carter Wickham, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1824 - Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1827 - Michael Corcoran, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1832 - Friedrich Wilhelm Langhans, composer
1832 - Samuel Sprigg Carroll, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1893
1833 - Josef Richard Rozkosny, composer
1840 - Murad V, sultan of Turkey (1876)
1842 - Abd-ul-Hamid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
1843 - David Emlyn Evans, composer
1849 - Edmund Gosse, London, translator/critic (Father & Son)
1849 - Maurice Barrymore, Indian-born patriarch of the Barrymore family (d. 1905)
1853 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist (liquid helium, Nobel 1913)
1859 - Cyriel Buysse, Flemish baron/writer (Sursum Corda, Ace Knave)
1862 - James E. Talmage, LDS apostle and author (d. 1933)
1863 - John Bunny, American film comedian (d. 1915)
1866 - Charles Jean Henri Nicolle France, bacteriologist (Nobel-1928)
Science Fiction Writer H. G. WellsScience Fiction Writer H. G. Wells (1866) 1866 - H. G. Wells, Bromley, Kent, , English writer (War of the Worlds, Kipps), (d. 1946)
1867 - Henry Lewis Stimson, US minister of War (1911-13)
1869 - Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski, composer
1871 - Ernst Heldring, Dutch merchant/ship owner/financier
1873 - Papa Jack Laine, American musician (d. 1966)
1874 - Gustav Theodore Holst, Cheltenham, England, composer (Planets)
1880 - Henry Louis Mencken, US essayist/critic (American Mercury)
1882 - Alf Thorbald Hurum, composer
1884 - Hugh "Shorty" Ray, supervisor of NFL officials, HOF member
1885 - Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann, composer
1886 - Teiichi Igarashi, Japan, climed Mt Fuji at age 99
1887 - Lodewijk de Vocht, composer
1889 - Otto Forst de Battaglia, Austrian diplomat/genealogist
1893 - Moses Pergament, composer
1894 - Tullio Carminati, Zara Dalmatia Italy, actor (Roman Holiday)
1895 - Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (d. 1925)
1898 - Tushar Kanti Ghosh, world's oldest/longest serving newspaper Editor
1899 - Luc Haesaerts, Flemish art critic (Flandre)
1899 - Frederick Coutts, the 8th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1986)
1901 - Adele Bochner
1902 - Allen Lane, English publisher/founder (Penguin Books)
1902 - Learie [Nicholas] Constantine, Trinidad cricket player
1902 - Limari Salminen, Finland, 10K run (Olympic-gold-1936)
1904 - Hans Hartung, German/French painter
1905 - Robert Lebel, French Canadian ice hockey executive (d. 1999)
1906 - Derrick De Marney, London England, actor (Inheritance)
1906 - Henry Beachell, American plant breeder (d. 2006)
1907 - Helen Foster Snow, writer
1907 - Lloyd Gough, actor (Mike Axford-Green Hornet)
1912 - Chuck Jones, animator (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck)
1912 - György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (d. 2005)
1913 - Ulrich Ernst Simon, theologian
1914 - John Kluge, Chemnitz Germany, media CEO (Metromedia)/billionaire
1916 - Jagernath Lachmon, premier Suriname
1916 - Françoise Giroud, French journalist and politician (d. 2003)
1917 - Phyllis Nicolson, British mathematician (d. 1968)
1918 - Rand Brooks, LA California, actor (Cpl Boone-Rin Tin Tin)
1919 - Aya Zikken, author (Atlasvlinder, Rameh)
1919 - Mario Bunge, Argentine philosopher and physicist
1919 - Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani scholar (d. 1988)
1920 - Jay Ward, cartoonist (Rocky & his Friends, Bullwinkle)
1922 - Lode Backx, Flemish pianist
1923 - Harry JN Vane 11th Lord Barnard, English large landowner
1924 - Gail Russell, Chicago IL, actress (Uninvited, Moonrise, Unseen)
1926 - Donald A Glaser, physicist (Nobel-1960)
1926 - Noor Jehan, Pakistani singer and actress (d. 2000)
1929 - Bernard Williams, English philosopher (d. 2003)
1929 - Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (d. 1979)
1930 - Dawn Addams, Felixstown Engl, actress (Alan Young Show, Star Maidens)
1931 - Larry Hagman, Fort Worth Tx, TV actor (I Dream of Jeannie, JR-Dallas), (d. 2012)
1932 - Don Preston, rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
1932 - Melvin Van Peebles, US, playwright/director (Watermelon Man)
1934 - Leonard Cohen, Montreal, singer/songwriter (Death of Ladies Man)
1935 - Henry Gibson, Germantown Pa, comedian (Nashville, Laugh-In's poet)
1935 - Jimmy Armfield, Former English Footballer and Manager
1936 - Yuriy Luzhkov, Russian politician, mayor of Moscow
1936 - Dickey Lee, American singer and songwriter
1938 - Atli Heimir Sveinsson, composer
1938 - Yuji Takahashi, composer
1940 - Bill Kurtis, Pensacola Fla, newscaster (American Parade)
1940 - Hermann Knoflacher, Austrian civil engineer

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 2 of 2

1996 - Supermodel Christie Brinkey marries for 4th time to Peter Cook
1996 - Elder son of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and socialite John F. Kennedy Jr. (35) weds Caroline Bisset (30) at the wood-frame Brack Chapel of the First African Baptist Church in Cumberland Island, Georgia

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 111

19 BC - Virgil, Roman poet, dies at 50
454 - Aëtius, Roman general (bc. 396)
687 - Conon, Sicilian Pope (686-87), dies
1217 - Lembitu of Lehola, Estonian soldier
1327 - Edward II, king of England (1307-1327), assassinated at 43
1397 - Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (executed) (b. 1346)
1433 - Zweder van Kuilenberg, bishop of Utrecht
1440 - Frederik I van Hohenzollern, ruler Brandenburg (1417-40), dies at 68
1481 - Bartholomeus Platinum, Italian humanist/pontifical librarian, dies
1519 - Hans Backofen/Backoffen, German sculptor, dies at about 49
1520 - Selam I Jawuz, the Barse, poet/cruel sultan of Turkey, dies
1542 - Juan Boscán Almogáver, Spanish poet
1558 - Charles V, King of Spain (Carlos I)/Holy Roman Emperor, dies at 58
1576 - Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, dies at 74
1586 - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, viceroy of Naples (1571-75), dies at 69
1590 - Ascanio Trombeti, composer, dies at 45
1626 - François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, Constable of France (b. 1543)
1629 - John Pieterszoon Coen, merchant/gov-gen of East-Indies, dies at 42
1705 - Willem Hadriaan of Nassau, corrupt mister of Odijck, dies
Roman Poet VirgilRoman Poet Virgil (19 BC) 1719 - Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (b. 1647)
1743 - Jai Singh II, King of Amber-Juiper (b. 1688)
1748 - John Balguy, English philosopher (b. 1686)
1796 - François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (b. 1769)
1798 - George Read, US judge/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 65
1809 - Alexander Reinagle, composer, dies at 53
1812 - Emmanuel Johann Joseph Schikaneder, composer, dies at 61
1820 - Joseph R Drake, US poet (American Flag), dies at 25)
1832 - Walter Scott, Scottish attorney/poet/writer (Ivanhoe), dies
1836 - John Stafford Smith, composer, dies at 86
1839 - Jacob Gottfried Weber, German composer, dies at 60
1860 - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (b. 1788)
1874 - JBAL Leonce Elie the Beaumont, French geologist, dies at 75
1883 - Johannes van Vloten, Dutch man of letters/theologist, dies at 65
1897 - Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (b. 1819)
1904 - Chief Joseph, US indian chief (Nez Perces), dies
1905 - Rudolf Baumbach, writer of German student drinking songs, dies at 64
1906 - Samuel Arnold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1838)
1908 - Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist/composer (Spanish Dancer), dies
1911 - Arab Pasha, "al-Misri" [Pasha Ahmad Arab), Egyptian minister, dies
1915 - Anthony Comstock, anti-vice crusader, dies at 71 in NYC
1922 - Tom Armitage, cricketer (England lob bowler v Australia 1877), dies
1926 - Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (b. 1857)
1937 - Henri [Lucien] Capitant, French lawyer, dies at 72
1938 - Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic Croatian writer (b. 1874)
1939 - Armand Calinescu, premier of Romania, murdered
1946 - Leo Bittermieux, Flemish missionary (Congo), dies at 66
1946 - Olga Engl, Austrian actress (b. 1971)
1947 - Harry Carey Sr, actor/director (Red River, Sundown), dies at 69
1953 - Roger Quilter, British composer, dies at 75
1954 - Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese inventor (b. 1858)
1956 - Anastasio Somoza, Nicaraguan dictator, assassinated by Roliberto Lopez
1956 - Robert Mills Delaney, composer, dies at 53
1957 - Haakon VII (CF Charles WA), Danish king of Norway (1905-57), dies
1961 - Earle Dickson, inventor (band-aid), dies at 68
1961 - Maurice Delage, composer, dies at 81
1963 - Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (b. 1899)
1964 - Jim Koethe, Dallas Times Herald reporter, killed by karate chop
1966 - Paul Reynaud, premier France (1940), dies
1970 - Gijsbert Friedhoff, architect (Wibautstrat tax office), dies
1971 - Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
1972 - Henry M de Montherlant, French author (Port Royal), dies at 76
1973 - Diana Sands, actress (Landlord, Raisin in the Sun), dies at 39
1973 - William CF Plomer, S Afr libretto writer (Curlew River), dies at 69
Author Jacqueline SusannAuthor Jacqueline Susann (1974) 1974 - Jacqueline Susann, author (Valley of the Dolls), dies of cancer at 53
1974 - Walter Brennan, actor (Real McCoys), dies at 80
1976 - Orlando Letelier, minister Chile, dies
1979 - John McQuade, actor (Charlie Wild Private Detective), dies at 73
1980 - Ernest White, composer, dies at 80
1981 - Nigel Patrick, actor/director (Sapphire, Prize of Gold), dies at 68
1981 - Tony Aubin, composer, dies at 73
1982 - Hovhannes Bagramyan, Soviet general (b. 1897)
1985 - Gu Long, Taiwanese writer of wuxia novels (b. 1937)
1986 - Pierre Wigny, Belgium minister of Foreign affairs (1958-61), dies at 81
1987 - Ruth Attaway, actress (Porgy & Bess, Conrack, Being There), dies
1987 - Jaco Pastorious, jazz bassist and composer (Weather Report) dies at 36
1988 - Christine Norden, actress (Little Shop of Horroers, Night Beat), dies
1988 - Henry Koster, director, dies
1988 - Robert Gwathmey, artist, dies at 85
1988 - Glenn Robert Davis, member of United States Congress (b. 1914
1989 - F Fischer, German war criminal (4, Two of Breda), dies
1991 - Angelo "Little Moe" Rossitto, dwarf actor (Carousel), dies at 83
1991 - Angelo Rossitto, dwarf known as "Little Moe"/actor (Dark), dies at 83
1991 - JA Mommersteeg, Dutch state sect of Defense (KVP), dies
1992 - Billy Williams, actor (Adv of Kit Carson), dies at 76 of brain tumor
1992 - Hans Rosenberg, astronomer/alderman of Utrecht, dies
1993 - Fernand Ledoux, Belgian/French actor (L'Homme de Londres), dies at 96
1993 - Kamaran Abdalla, Iraq/Engl/Neth actor (Best Thing in Life), dies at 34
1994 - Arthur Krim, US director (United Artists, Orion Pictures), dies
1994 - Oswald "Ossie" Stevens Nock, railway Writer, dies at 69
1995 - Irven Spence, animator, dies at 86
1995 - Peter Shankland, film maker/writer, dies at 94
1995 - Vernell Townsend, blues/gospel singer, dies at 64
1995 - William Murray, teacher/educationalist, dies at 83
1995 - Rudy Perpich, American politician (b. 1928)
1996 - John Stachniewski, scholar/teacher, dies at 42
1996 - Julius Silverman, politician, dies at 90
1996 - Sabine Zlatin, nurse, dies at 89
1997 - Tommy Cecil, ferryman, dies at 51
1997 - Jennifer Holt, American actress (b. 1920)
1998 - Florence Griffith Joyner, American athlete (b. 1959)

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