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Results 1 - 100 of 210

1024 - Duke Koenraad II chosen German king
1141 - -9] Battle of Samarkand: Yelutashi defeats Islams
1156 - Henry II Jasormigott leaves Bavaria
1264 - The Statute of Kalisz, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal liberties and giving battei din jurisdiction over Jewish matters, is promulgated by Boleslaus the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland.
1276 - John XXI elected Pope
1303 - Anagni: French king Philip IV captures Pope Boniface VIII
1331 - Stefan Dušan declares himself king of Serbia
1380 - Battle on Kulikovo: Moscow's great monarch Dimitri beats Mongols
1380 - Russians defeat Tatars at Kulikovo, beginning decline of Tatars
1449 - Battle of Tumu Fortress - Mongolians capture the Chinese emperor.
1504 - Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Florence.
1514 - Battle at Ozra: Polish/Latvia army beats Russians
1514 - Battle of Orsha - in one of the biggest battles of the century, Lithuanians and Poles defeat the Russian army.
1522 - Spanish navigator Juan de Elcano returns to Spain, completes 1st circumnavigation of globe, expedition begins under Ferdinand Magellan
1536 - Earl of Nassau disbands siege of Peronne
1545 - English earl Hertford leads retaliatory mission against Scotland
1553 - City of Lichfield, England forms
1563 - Maximilian chosen king of Hungary
1565 - 1st permanent settlement in US forms (St Augustine, Florida)
1565 - Turkish siege of Malta broken by Maltese & Knights of St John
1628 - Bay of Matanzas Cuba: Piet Heyn captures Spanish silver fleet
1664 - Dutch surrender New Amsterdam (NY) to 300 English soldiers
1689 - China & Russia signs Treaty of Nertsjinsk (Nierchul)
1713 - Pope Clemens XI publishes degree "Unigenitus" against Jansenism"
1727 - A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78 people, many of whom are children.
1755 - Battle at Lake George: English army beats France
1756 - French and Indian War: Kittanning Expedition.
1760 - French army gives Montreal to Gen Jeffrey Amherst
1761 - Marriage of George III of the United Kingdom to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Queen Charlotte).
1771 - Mission San Gabriel Archangel forms in California
1796 - Battle of Bassano-French beat Austrians
1831 - William IV is crowned King of Great Britain.
1833 - Charles Darwin departs to Buenos Aires
1847 - US under Gen Scott defeat Mexicans at Battle of Molino del Rey
1855 - Crimean war - assault of Malakof Tower under Mac-Mahon)
1858 - Lincoln makes a speech about when you can fool people
1860 - Loss of steamer, "Lady Elgin"
1863 - -10] Federal troops reconquer the Cumperland Gap, Tennessee
1863 - Battle of Sabine Pass TX: 47 Texas volunteers repel Federal forces
1863 - Battle of Telford's Depot TN
1868 - NY Athletic Club forms
1870 - Neth & Engl sign "Koelietraktaat" Br-Indian contract work in Suriname
1883 - NY Giants score 13 runs in an inning against Phillies
1883 - Northern Pacific RR's last spike driven at Independence Creek, Mont
1888 - In England the first six Football League matches ever are played.
1892 - 1st appearance of "Pledge of Allegiance" (Youth's Companion)
1899 - British govt sends an additional 10,000 troops to Natal South Africa
1900 - 6,000 killed when a hurricane & tidal wave strikes Galveston, Texas
1905 - Pitts Pirates strand NL record 18 men on base & lose to Reds 8-3
1907 - Pius X publishes encyclical Pasceni dominici gregis (anti-modernism)
1914 - British trader Oceanic sinks off Scotland
1914 - World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
1915 - Assn of Negro Life & History founded
1919 - Babe Ruth hits his 26th HR off Jack Quinn in NY, breaking Buck Freeman's 1899 HR mark of 25
1920 - US Air Mail service begins (NYC to SF)
1921 - 1st Miss America crowned (Margaret Gorman of Washington DC)
1921 - Mary Gorman (Wash DC), 16, crowned 1st Miss America [or 9/14]
1923 - Honda Point Disaster: nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost.
1924 - Alexandra Kollontai of Russia becomes 1st woman ambassador
1926 - League of Nations Assembly voted unanimously to admit Germany
1930 - 1st appearance of comic strip "Blondie"
1930 - NYC public schools begin teaching Hebrew
1930 - Richard Drew creates Scotch tape
1933 - Spain's 2nd govt of Azaña forms
1934 - 54th US Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats Wilmer L Allison (64 63 16 86)
1934 - Bradman scores 132 v Leveson-Gower XI, 90 mins, 24 fours 1 six
1934 - Luxury passenger ship Morro Castle for NJ catches fire, 133 die
1935 - Willy de Supervise swims runs world record 200 m freestyle (2:25.2)
1936 - Princess Juliana & German prince Bernard Lippe-Biesterfeld get engaged
1937 - Pan Arab conference about Palestine opens
1937 - Yankees trailing 6-1 in 9th, score 8 to beat Boston 9-6
1939 - FDR declares "limited national emergency" due to war in Europe
1939 - Gen Von Reichenaus pantzer division reaches suburbs of Warsaw
1939 - Indians Bob Feller, 20, is youngest pitcher to win 20 games
1939 - Yanks beat Red Sox 4-1 in 7, game called because of lightning
1941 - Blockade of Leningrad (St Petersburg) by Germany begins
1941 - Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania is exterminated
1943 - Gen Eisenhower announce unconditional surrender of Italy in WW II
1943 - Italy surrenders to Allies in WW II
1943 - Lt-Gen Bradley flies to Carthago/Algiers Sicily
1943 - NY Giants' pitcher Ace Adams sets record by working in his 62nd game
1944 - 1st V-2 rockets land in London & Antwerp
1944 - Russians march into Bulgaria; Bulgaria declares war on Germany
1944 - World War II: London is hit by a V2 rocket for the first time.
1945 - US invades Japanese-held Korea
1945 - Hideki Tojo, Japanese PM during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged
1946 - 60th US Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats Patricia Canning (119 63)
1946 - 66th US Mens Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Tom Brown Jr (97 63 60)
1946 - Bill Kennedy of Rocky Mount (CPL) strikes out minors record 456
1946 - Bulgaria ends monarchy
1946 - Jack Kramer wins US Tennis Open
1946 - SF 49ers play 1st AAFC game, lose to NY Yankees 21-7
1947 - British govt sails "Exodus" with fugitives from Nazis
1948 - British De Havilland 08-fighter flies faster than sound
1951 - Japan signs peace treaty with 48 countries (SF)
1951 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Sempiternus Rex
1952 - 72nd US Mens Tennis: Frank A Sedgman beats Gardnar Mulloy (61 62 63)
1952 - Ernest Hemmingway's "Old Man & Sea" published
1953 - "Carnival in Flanders" opens at New Century Theater NY for 6 perfs
1953 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fulgeno corona

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 245

801 - Ansgar, German Catholic archbishop (d. 865)
828 - Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (d. 868)
1157 - Richard I, [Richard the Lion Hearted], King of England (1189-99)
1207 - Sancho II, king of Portugal
1271 - Charles Martel d'Anjou, son of Charles II of Naples (d. 1295)
1380 - Bernardinus of Siena, Italian saint
1474 - Ludovico Ariosto, Italy, poet (Orlando Furioso)
1515 - Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (d. 1585)
1588 - Marin Mersenne, France, mathematician/musician/philosopher (Cartesian)
1591 - Jacqueline M A de Sainte Madeleine Arnauld, French abbess
1611 - Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (d. 1671)
1621 - Louis II Condé, [Great Condé], duke of Bourbon (Rocroy)
1633 - Ferdinand IV of Germany (d. 1654)
1672 - Nicolas de Grigny, composer
1718 - Francois-Thomas the Baculard d'Arnaud, sentimental writer
1736 - Bernardo Ottani, composer
1749 - Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac, French aristocrat (d. 1793)
1749 - Marie-Louise, Princesse de Lamballe, French aristocrat (d. 1792)
1756 - Anton Teyber, composer
1767 - Karl August von Lichtenstein, composer
1774 - Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich, German poet
1778 - Clemens Brentano, German poet (d. 1842)
1779 - Johann Philipp Samuel Schmidt, composer
1779 - Mustafa IV, sultan of Turkey (1807-08)
1783 - Nicolai Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (d. 1872)
1792 - Joseph Netherclift, composer
1804 - Eduard Mörike, German poet (d. 1875)
1814 - Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (d. 1874)
1815 - Alexander Ramsey, Gov (Union), died in 1903
1821 - Henry Baxter, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1873
1824 - Jaime Nuno, composer
1826 - Disma Fumagalli, composer
1827 - Emil Naumann, composer
1828 - Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1829 - George Crook, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
1829 - Seth Maxwell Barton, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1900
1830 - Frederic Mistral, Provencal poet (Nobel 1904)
1831 - Wilhelm Raabe, [Jakob Corvinus], German author (Der Hungerpastor)
1841 - AntonínDvorák, Nelahozeves Czech, composer (New World Symphony)
1841 - Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (d. 1904)
1841 - Charles J. Guiteau, American assassin of James A. Garfield (d. 1882)
1852 - Emperor Gwangmu of Korea (d. 1919)
1854 - Willem M van Rossum, Dutch cardinal/prefect of Propaganda File
1857 - Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1936)
1863 - Gustavo Emilio Campa, composer
1865 - Adolfo Albertazzi, Italian writer (Amore & Amore, Top)
1870 - Hermann Hans Wetzler, composer
1873 - David O McKay, Huntsville, Utah, 9th pres of Mormon church
1873 - Max Reinhardt, Austria, theatrical director (Oedipus Rex)
1873 - Alfred Jarry, French absurdist playwright (d. 1907)
1880 - Roelof Kranenburg, Dutch social democratic chairman (1st Chamber)
1881 - Harry Hillman, American athlete (d. 1945)
1884 - Théodore Pilette, Belgian racing driver (d. 1921)
1886 - Siegfried L Sassoon, English poet/writer (Counterattack)
1887 - Prince George of Yugoslavia (d. 1972)
1888 - Louis Zimmer, Flemish clock maker (Jubelklok/Wonder Clock)
1889 - Robert A Taft, (Sen-R-Ohio, Taft-Hartley Act)
1894 - Willem FJ Pijper, Dutch composer/critic
1895 - Sara García, Mexican actress (d. 1980)
1896 - Howard Dietz, American lyricist and librettist (d. 1983)
1897 - Jimmie Rodgers, Mendoza Miss, country singer/singing brakeman
1898 - Queenie Smith, NYC, actress/dancer (Funny Side)
1900 - Claude D Pepper, (Rep-D-FL, 1963- ), old people's advocate
1901 - Hendrik F Verwoerd, premier South Africa (1958-66) (assassinated)
1902 - Anthonie Donker, [Prof N Donkersloot], Dutch literary
1904 - Carlos Sanchez Malaga, composer
1905 - Henry Wilcoxon, actor (Cleopatra, Jericho, 10 Commandments)
1906 - Andrei P Kirilenko, Russian member of Central Committee of CP
1907 - Buck O'Neil, Old Negro League Baseball player
1907 - Gavin Muir, Chic Ill, actor (Hollister-Betty Hutton Show)
1907 - Leon Askin, Vienna Austria, actor (Pierre-Charlie Farrell Show)
1907 - Sid Tomack, actor (Life of Riley)
1908 - Geoffrey Hodges, bomb disposal expert
1910 - Gella Allaert, Flemish actress (La Round)
1910 - Jean-Louis Barrault, Vesinet France, actor (Les Enfants du Paradis)
1912 - Alexander Mackendrick, Boston, director (Man in the White Suit, Mandy)
1912 - Leo Cherne, NYC, economist/commentator (All Star News)
1914 - Dimitrios I, patriarch (primus interparis orthodox Christians)
1914 - Hillary Brooke, Abbott & Costello's neighbor (Hillary)
1915 - Frank Cady, actor (Mr Drucker-Green Acres)
1915 - Frank Pullen, English business person and racehorse owner (d.1992)
1918 - Derek Barton, British chemist (Nobel 1969)
1918 - John F Seiberling, (Rep-D-OH, 1971-86)
1919 - David Johan Kvandal, composer
1919 - Richard Pool, naval Officer
1919 - Gianni Brera, (Giovanni Luigi Brera), Italian journalist and writer (d. 1992)
1921 - Hans Ulrich Engelmann, German composer (Ophelia)
1921 - Harry Secombe, Swansea Wales, actor (Down Among the "Z" Men)
1922 - Lyndon LaRouche, American presidental candidate (1980)
1922 - Sid Caesar, Yonkers NY, comedian (Your Show of Shows)
1923 - Alan Weeks, sports commentator
1923 - Francois Chaumette, actor (They Never Slept, Christine)
1923 - Hillevi Lagerstam, Kurikka Finland
1924 - Wendell H Ford, (Sen-D-Kentucky, 1974- )
1924 - Mimi Parent, Canadian painter (d. 2005)
1924 - Marie-Claire Kirkland, Quebec politician
1925 - Alexander Nikolayevich Kholminov, composer
1925 - Denise Darcel, Paris France, actress (Dangerous When Wet)
1925 - Heinz Lau, composer
1925 - Magnus Blondal Johansson, composer

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 108

394 - Arbogast, French general, commits suicide
701 - Sergius I, Syrian/Italian Pope (687-701), dies
780 - Leo IV de Chazaar, Byzantine Emperor (775-80), dies
876 - Lodewijk de Duitser, king of East French Republic (833-76), dies at 72
1100 - Clement III, [Wibert van Ravenna], 1st anti-pope (1084-1100), dies
1397 - Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester.
1425 - King Charles III of Navarre (b. 1361)
1539 - John Stokesley, English churchman
1550 - Hans [Johann] Vischer, German count of Johann Cicero, dies
1555 - Thomas Villanova, Spanish saint/archbishop of Valencia, dies
1560 - Amy Robsart, wife of English premier Robert Dudley, dies by accident
1603 - George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, English politician (b. 1547)
1613 - Don Carlo Gesauldo, composer, dies
1633 - Carlo Caraffa, Ital jesuit/religious order founder, dies at about 72
1637 - Robert Fludd, composer, dies at 63
1644 - Francis Quarles, English poet (Enchiridion), dies
1645 - Francisco Gomez Quevedo y Villegas, Spanish author/poet, dies at 64
1645 - John Coke, English politician (b. 1563)
1654 - Peter Claver, Spanish saint (baptized 300,000 slaves), dies
1656 - Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (b. 1574)
1660 - Daniel von Czepko, German poet, dies at 54
1675 - Amalia, countess of Solms-Braunfels, dies at 73
1682 - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (b. 1606)
1706 - Romanus Weichlein, composer, dies at 53
1721 - Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1686)
1739 - Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (b. 1668)
1755 - Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (b. 1715)
1761 - Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer (b. 1698)
1780 - Enoch Poor, American Continental Army general (b. 1736)
1784 - Ann Lee, American religious leader (b. 1736)
1811 - Peter S Pallas, German geologist/zoologist, dies at 69
1819 - Franz Stanislaus Spindler, composer, dies at 56
1831 - John Aitken, Scottish-born music publisher (b. 1745)
1838 - Pietro Rovelli, composer, dies at 45
1840 - John H van de Palm, theologist/literature/speaker, dies at 77
1853 - Frédéric Ozanam, founder of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (b. 1813)
1871 - Etienne-Joseph Soubre, composer, dies at 57
1879 - Nikolay Ivanovich Zaremba, composer, dies at 58
1881 - W Frederik K, prince of Netherlands/general/admiral, dies at 84
1882 - Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (surface of Liouville), dies
1894 - Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician (b. 1821)
1895 - Adam Opel, German manufacturer (motorcars), dies at 58
1899 - Vaclav Hugo Zavrtal, composer, dies at 78
1914 - William E Darwin, British son of Charles Darwin, dies at 74
1917 - Charles Edouard Lefebvre, composer, dies at 74
1933 - Faisal I ibn Hussein ibn Ali, 1st king of Iraq/Syria, dies at 50
1935 - Carl Austin Weiss, murderer of Sen Huey Long, shot down
1935 - Huey P Long, (Sen-La) assassinated at Baton Rouge Capitol building
1944 - Jan van Gilse, composer/Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 63
1948 - Thomas Mofolo, Lesotho writer (b. 1876)
1949 - Richard Strauss, German composer (Also sprach Zarathustra), dies at 85
1951 - Jurgen Stroop, Nazi commander of Warsaw Ghetto, executed
1951 - Maria Montez, actress (Arabian Nights), dies of heart seizure at 33
1955 - John de Young, cardinal/archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 69
1956 - Gerrit Bolkestein, Dutch minister of Education (1939-4.), dies at 84
1956 - Vital Celen, Flemish writer ('t Pastoorke van Vossendonck), dies at 69
1962 - Hermann Standiger, German chemist (Nobel 1953), dies at 84
1965 - Dorothy Danridge, actress (Island in the Sun), dies at 41 in Hollywood
1969 - Bud Collyer, TV emcee (Beat the Clock, To Tell the Truth), dies at 61
1969 - Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer and writer (b. 1868)
1970 - Percy Spencer, inventor of the microwave oven, (b. 1894)
1974 - Robert Cox, last surviving member of Keystone Kops, dies at 79
1975 - John Mylong, actor (Robot Monster), dies at 82
1976 - Assen Karastoyanov, composer, dies at 83
1976 - Joaquin Zamacois Soler, composer, dies at 81
1977 - Zero [Samuel J] Mostel, US actor (Fiddler on the Roof), dies at 62
1978 - Pancho Vladigerov, composer, dies at 79
1979 - Jean Seberg, actress (Breathless, Airport), commits suicide at 40
1980 - Bruce Dooland, cricketer (prolific leggie for Notts), dies
1980 - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist/theory/educator, dies at 84
1981 - Hediki Joekawa, Japans physicist (Nobel 1949) at 74
1981 - Roy Wilkins, longtime executive director of NAACP, dies at 80
1981 - Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist (b. 1901)
1983 - Antonin Magne, French bicylist (won Tour de France 1931, 34), dies
1983 - Willem C "Wim" Kan, Dutch cabaret performer, dies at 72
1984 - Frank Lowson, cricketer (England opener 1951-55), dies
1984 - Rene Bernier, composer, dies at 79
1985 - John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1887)
1991 - Alex North, music composer (Spartacus), dies at 80 of cancer
1991 - Brad Davis, US, actor (Midnight Express, Chariots of Fire), dies at 41
1991 - Jan J Lipski, chairman (Polish Socialist Party)/writer, dies
1991 - Jo Budie, Dutch orch leader (KRO), dies
1992 - Quentin N Burdick, (Sen-D-ND, 1960-91), dies at 84
1993 - Hall Bartlett, US director (Jonathan Livingston Seagull), dies at 70
1993 - Lorin "Whitey" Harrison, surfer, dies at 80 of a heart attack
1993 - Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, Egyptian philosopher/author/diplomat, dies at 88
1994 - Arthur Rex Alston, British sports commentator, dies at 93
1994 - Deborah Bear, Engl still photographer (Pasolini/Fellini), dies at 44
1994 - Dennis Morgan, actor (Cattle Town, Canyon Pass), dies at 83
1994 - Edna Manilow, mother of singer Barry Manilow, dies at 70 of cancer
1994 - Michael Peters, choreographer, dies
1994 - Rex Alston, cricketer (distinguished BBC commentator), dies
1995 - Eileen Zhang Ailing Chang, writer, dies at 73
1995 - Olga Ivinskaya, mistress of Boris Pasternak, dies of cancer at 83
1995 - Safa Khulusi, writer, dies at 78
1996 - Elizabeth Eyre de Lanaux, designer artist/writer, dies at 102
1999 - Moondog, American composer, musician and poet (b. 1916)
2002 - Laurie Williams, West Indian cricketer (b. 1968)
2003 - Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian voice actress (b. 1986)
2003 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (b. 1902)