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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 196

46 BC - Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the battle of Thapsus.
402 - Battle at Pollentia: Roman army under Stilicho beats Visigoten
610 - Lailat-ul Qadar, night koran descended to Earth
774 - Charles the Great (Charlemagne) confirmed the gift to the Pope of the territories belonging to Ravenna made by his father Pepin the Short at Quiercy-sur-Loire in 753
1106 - Fire in Venice
1320 - The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
1327 - Italian poet Petrarch 1st sets eyes on his beloved Laura
1362 - Robber bastion Tard-Venus strikes at Brignais France
1385 - John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal.
1516 - A Willaert installed as singer of cardinal Ippolito I d'Este
1634 - Heeren XIX asks "to secure Eylands Curacao"
1652 - Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in South Africa, established by Dutch East India Company under John of Riebeeck
King Charles II1663 - King Charles II signs Carolina Charter
1664 - France & Saxony sign alliance
1667 - An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik, then an independent city-state.
1672 - France declares war on Netherlands
1712 - Slave revolt in NY
1722 - Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, ends tax on men with beards
1724 - Duke of Newcastle becomes English minister of Foreign Affairs
1727 - Denmark signs Covenant of Hannover
1757 - British King George II fires minister William Pitt Sr
1782 - Rama I succeeds King Taksin of Siam (modern day Thailand), who is overthrown in a coup d'état.
1789 - 1st US Congress begins regular sessions, Federal Hall, NYC
1808 - John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company.
British Prime Minister (The Great Commoner) William Pitt the Elder1815 - English militia shoots prisoners, 100's killed
1830 - Joseph Smith & 5 others organizes Mormon church in Seneca Co, NY
1841 - Cornerstone laid for 2nd Mormon temple, Nauvoo, Illinois
1848 - Jews of Prussia granted equality
1859 - US recognizes Liberal government in Mexico's War of Reform
1860 - Joseph Smith III, creates the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by reorganizing the previous church organized by his father, Joseph Smith, Jr.
1862 - Battle of Shiloh, Union defeats Confederacy in SW Tennessee
1865 - Battle of Sayler's Creek during US Civil War, 1/4rd of Lee's army cut off
1865 - Skirmish at High Bridge VA (Appomattox) during US Civil war;
1866 - G.A.R. forms
1869 - 1st plastic, Celluloid, patented
1883 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Speckled Band" (BG)
Religious Leader Joseph Smith Jr1886 - City of Vancouver BC incorporated
1886 - Declaration of Berlin neutralizes Tonga
1889 - George Eastman places Kodak Camera on sale for 1st time
1890 - French troops under capt Archinard occupy Segu, West-Sudan
1893 - Andy Bowen & Jack Burke box 7 hrs 19 mins to no decision (111 rounds)
1893 - Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City dedicated
1896 - 1st modern Olympic games open in Athens Greece [3/25 OS] American, James Connolly, wins 1st Olympic gold medal in mod history
1900 - james j jeffries KOs Jack Finnegan in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1903 - General railroad strike against "worgwetten" (anti-strike laws)
1903 - The Kishinev pogrom in Bessarabia begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and the Western world.
1903 - In Holland, railroad and dock workers go out on strike, but the government passes anti-strike bills, calls out troops, and promptly ends the strike on the 13th April
Boxer and World Heavyweight Champion James J. Jeffries1905 - Germany receives invitation from Sultan of Morocco to an international conference to discuss matters relating to Morocco
1906 - 1st animated cartoon copyrighted
1909 - 1st credit union forms in US
1909 - North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary & Matthew Henson
1912 - Electric starter 1st appeared in cars
1914 - American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded
1916 - German parliament OKs unrestricted submarine warfare
1917 - US declares war on Germany, enters World War I
1919 - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a General Strike
1920 - To force German evacuation of the Ruhr area, the French occupy Frankfurt, Darmstadt, and Hanau
1923 - The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia.
Pacifist and Spiritual LeaderMahatma Gandhi1924 - 4 planes leave Seattle on 1st successful around-the-world flight
1924 - Italy fascists receives 65% of vote of parliament
1924 - Völkische Block (nazi's) receives 17.8% of vote in Bavaria
1925 - 1st film shown on an airplane (British Air)
1926 - Stanley Cup: Montl Maroons beat Victoria Cougars (WHL), 3 games to 1
1930 - 1st transcontinental glider tow completed
1930 - Hostess Twinkies invented by bakery executive James Dewar
1931 - 1st Scottsboro (Ala) trial begins - 9 blacks accused of rape
1931 - 1st broadcast of "Little Orphan Annie" on NBC-radio
1934 - 418 Lutheran ministers arrested in Germany
1935 - H Levitt sinks 499 basketball free throws, misses & sinks 371 more
1936 - 3rd Golf Masters Championship: Horton Smith wins, shooting a 285
1936 - ANP begins telex service in Amsterdam
1936 - Tornado, kills 203 & injuring 1,800 in Gainesville Georgia
1938 - Teflon invented by Roy J Plunkett
1939 - Great Britain & Poland sign military pact
1939 - US & UK agree on joint control of Canton & Enderbury Is (Pacific)
1941 - 8th Golf Masters Championship: Craig Wood wins, shooting a 280
1941 - Begin oper Bestrafung-Germany bomb attacks Belgrade (17,000 die)
1941 - British general Gambier-Parry caught in North Africa
1941 - German bombardment on Piraeus (munitions ship explodes)
1941 - Italian held Addis Ababa surrenders to British & Ethiopian forces
1943 - British & US armies link up in Africa during WW II
1943 - British offensive at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia
1943 - Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN) arrested
1944 - Jewish nursery at Izieu-Ain France overrun by Nazis
1945 - Coevorden freed from Nazis
1945 - Japanese giant battleship Yamato heads to Okinawa
1945 - Massive kamikaze attack on US battle fleet near Okinawa
1945 - US marines explore Tsugen Shima near Okinawa
1947 - 11th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 281
Playwright Arthur Miller1947 - 1st Tony Awards: Arthur Miller, David Wayne & Patricia Neal win for theatrical achievements
1950 - John F Dulles becomes advisor to US Sect of State Acheson
1952 - 16th Golf Masters Championship: Sam Snead wins, shooting a 286
1954 - Mont Canadiens score 3 goals in 56 sec in playoff game against Det
1954 - TV Dinner was 1st put on sale by Swanson & Sons
1954 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1955 - "3 for Tonight" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 85 performances
1955 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1955 - Yemen: failed coup by Abdullah Seif el-Islam
1956 - Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison
1957 - NYC ends trolley car service

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 217

1483 - Raphael Sanzio, Urbino, Italy, Italian painter/master builder (Madonna Sistina and School of Athens) (birthday in the Julian calendar)
1613 - Stjepan Gradić, Croatian philosopher and scientist (d. 1683)
1631 - Vincenzo De Grandis, composer
1632 - Maria Leopoldine of Austria, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1649)
1651 - André Dacier, French classical scholar (d. 1722)
1660 - Johann Kuhnau, composer
1664 - Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman (d. 1742)
1671 - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French playwright/poet (Sacred Odes & Songs)
Italian painter and architectRaphael (1483)1672 - Andre Cardinal Destouches, composer
1708 - George Reuter, composer
1752 - Johann Friedrich Kranz, composer
1757 - Alessandro Rolla, composer
1773 - James Mill, Scotland, philosopher/historian (Hist of British India)
1778 - Joseph Funk, composer
1810 - Philip Gosse, intentor of institutional aquarium, writer (Omphalos)
1812 - Aaron Bernstein, writer
1812 - Gavril Yakimovich Lomakin, composer
1812 - Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (d. 1870)
1815 - Friedrich Robert Volkmann, composer
1818 - Francis Henry Brown, composer
1818 - Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian poet (d. 1870)
1819 - Johann A H Scheler, Belgian librarian
1823 - Joseph Medill, St John NB Canada, newspaper editor (Chicago Tribune)
1826 - Gustave Moreau, French painter
1828 - Charles William Field, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1892)
1830 - James Augustine Healy, Macon Ga, 1st African American Roman Catholic bishop
1833 - Johan H C Kern, Dutch linguist (Sanskrit, Old Javan)
1835 - Jose Marraco y Ferrer, composer
1841 - Karl Binding, German jurist (d. 1920)
1844 - Joseph Ludwig, composer
1849 - John William Waterhouse, British painter (d. 1917)
1851 - Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (d. 1932)
1860 - René Lalique, French jewel designer
1866 - Joseph Lincoln Steffens, muckraker/journalist (Shame of the Cities)
1869 - Louis Raemakers, Dutch draftsman/painter
1871 - Alexander, grandson of England's Queen Victoria
1878 - Carl Emil Theodor Ehrenberg, composer
1878 - Erich Mühsam, German author (d. 1934)
1883 - Mien Labberton, Dutch poetress
1884 - Walter Huston, Tor, actor (Maltese Falcon, Treasure of Sierra Madre)
1885 - Carlos Leon Salzedo, composer
1886 - Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, The Last Nizam of Hyderabad state (d. 1967)
1888 - Daniel Andersson, Swedish poet/writer (Svarta Ballader)
1889 - Barry Macollum, Northern Ireland
1889 - Gabriela Mistral, writer
1890 - Andre L Danjon, French astronomer
1890 - Anthony Fokker, Dutch aviation pioneer and an aircraft manufacturer (Eindecker monoplanes, Fokker Triplane)
1892 - Donald Wills Douglas, US, aircraft pioneer (McConnell Douglas)
1892 - Lowell Thomas, Woodington Ohio, newscaster (High Adventure)
1892 - Mateusz Glinski, composer
1894 - Gertrude Baines, American Supercentarian
1896 - Juan Tomas Perez, composer
1898 - Bobby Gilbert, PA
1900 - Andres Sas, composer
1900 - Leo Robin, US writer (Thanks For the Memory)
1901 - Willem Pelemans, Flemish composer/music reviewer
1901 - Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Catholic (d. 1925)
1902 - Gertrude Short, Cincinnati OH, actress (Stella Dallas, Blonde Venus)
1902 - Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer (d. 1989)
1903 - Harold Edgerton, foremost high-speed photographer
1903 - Mickey Cochrane, baseball hall of fame catcher (.320 avg)
1904 - Kurt G Kiesinger, German chancellor (Wherever They May Be)
1906 - John Betjeman, English Poet Laureate 1972-1984 (Mount Zion)
1908 - Vano Il'ich Muradeli, composer
1909 - Hermann Lang, German race car driver (d. 1987)
1909 - William M. Branham, American evangelist (d. 1965)
1910 - Desmond Dreyer, British admiral
1911 - Phyllis Margaret Duncan Tate, composer
1912 - Endre Szekely, composer
1912 - Wilhelmus H L "Willem" Tollenaar, actor/director (Don Carlos)
1917 - Julian Faber, CEO (Willis Faber)
1917 - Shakey, [Walter Horton], Miss, harmonicist (Everybody's Fishin')
1917 - Leonora Carrington, Clayton-le-Woods UK, British-Mexican Surrealist artist
1918 - Joan Bernard, Principal (Trevelyan College, Durham)
1918 - Karen Verne, actress (Madame X), born in Berlin, Germany
1918 - Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian president (d. 1982)
1919 - Paula Kelly, Grove City, Pennsylvania, American big band singer
1920 - Bernard Carter, British painter/etcher
1921 - Andrew Welsh Imbrie, composer
1921 - Franta Belsky, British sculptor
1921 - Lord Moore of Wolvercote [Philip Brian Cecil Moore], Private Secretary to the Sovereign (UK)
1925 - Arthur D Larsen, tennis champ (US Open-1950)
1925 - John Knox, British supreme court justice
1925 - Marcus Worsley, Lord-Lieutenant of North Yorkshire, (d. 2012)
1926 - Ian Paisley, North Ireland, clergyman/MP
1926 - Gil Kane, Latvian-born cartoonist (d. 2000)
1927 - David Ingram, Vice-Chancellor (University of Kent at Canterbury)
1927 - Gerry Mulligan, British saxophonist/orchestra leader (Jazz on a Summer Day)
Molecular biologist James Watson (1928)1928 - James Watson, American chemist (co-discovered structure of DNA)
1928 - Joi Lansing, Salt Lake City Utah, actress (Bob Cummings Show)
1929 - Andre Previn, conductor (London Symphony)/pianist, born in Berlin, Germany
1929 - Arthur S Taylor Jr, US drummer/band leader (Taylor's Wailers)
1929 - Edison Vasalievich Denisov, composer
1929 - Li Yuan-chia, artist
1929 - Willis Hall, British writer
1931 - Ivan Dixon, actor (Car Wash, Hogan's Heroes), born in NYC, New York
1931 - Joan Carlyle, British soprano
1933 - Dudley Sutton, British actor (Leather Boys, Brimstone & Treacle)
1933 - Roy Goode, British lawyer
1933 - Eduardo Malapit, American Democratic politician (d. 2007)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 8 of 8

Founder of Salt Lake City and President of the LDS ChurchBrigham Young (1868)1868 - Brigham Young marries his 27th & final wife
1896 - 23rd US President Benjamin Harrison (63) weds Mary Scott (37) at St Thomas Protestant Episcopal Church in New York City
1920 - Physicist Erwin Schrödinger (32) weds Annemarie Bertel
1953 - MLB baseball player Ernie Banks (22) weds Mollye Louise
1963 - Actress Anita Ekberg (31) weds actor Rik Van Nutter (33) in Lugano, Switzerland
1979 - Singer Rod Stewart & model Alana Collins wed
1997 - Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan (71) weds NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell (50) at Little Washington in Washington, Virginia
2012 - "Sex and the City" actor Chris Noth (57) weds actress Tara Wilson (30) in Hawaii

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

Supermodel Heidi Klum(2012)2012 - Actress and model Heidi Klum (39) divorces British soul and R&B singer-songwriter Seal (49) due to irreconcilable differences after almost seven years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 111

885 - Methodius, Greek apostle of the slaves/archbishop of Sirmium, dies
912 - Nottker "the Stamelaar", benedictine monk/poet, dies at about 71
1147 - Frederick II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1090)
King Richard the Lionheart(1199)1199 - Richard I, the Lion-hearted, King of England (1189-99), dies at 41
1199 - Pierre Basile, French soldier
1252 - Peter of Verona, [Peter Martyr], Italian inquisitor/st, dies at 45
1348 - Petrarch's Laura, dies of plague
1362 - Jacques de Bourbon, count of Marche, killed in battle
1472 - Pieter Bladelin, Belgium, land owner (Middelburg castle), dies
1489 - Hans Waldmann, Swiss military/mayor (Zurich), beheaded
1490 - Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary, dies
1520 - Raphael [Sanzio], artist (Sistine Madonna), dies on his 37th birthday
1528 - Albrecht Durer, German painter/graphic artist, dies in Germany at 56
1551 - Joachim Vadianus, Swiss physician/mayor of Sankt Gallen, dies at 66
1571 - John Hamilton, Scottish prelate and politician
1590 - Francis Walsingham, English secretary of state, dies at about 57
1593 - Henry Barrow, English puritian/Congressionalist, hanged
Italian painter and architectRaphael (1520)1593 - John Greenwood, English Congressionalist, hanged
1605 - John Stow, British historian, dies
1655 - David Blondel, French Protestant clergyman (b. 1591)
1686 - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (b. 1614)
1707 - Willem Van de Velde, the Young, Dutch seascape painter, dies a 73
1755 - Richard Rawlinson, English minister and antiquarian (b. 1690)
1779 - Tommaso MFS Traetta, Italian opera composer (Farnace), dies at 52
1782 - Rynoldus Popma van Oevering, composer, dies at 90
1805 - Lorenz Justinian Ott, composer, dies at 56
1817 - Bonaventura Furlanetto, composer, dies at 78
1822 - Franz Xaver Partsch, composer, dies at 62
1825 - Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (b. 1757)
1829 - Niels H Able, Norwegian mathematician (infinite series), dies at 26
1833 - Adamantios Korais, Greek humanist scholar (b. 1748)
1838 - Jose B de Andrada e Silva, premier of Brazil (1822-23), dies at 74
1854 - William Strickland, US architect, dies
1862 - Adley Hogan Gladden, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 51
1862 - Albert Sidney Johnston, US Confederate general, dies in battle at 59
1865 - John Austin Wharton, US Confederate general-major, dies at 36
1865 - Reuben B Boston, US Confederate cavalery colonel, dies in battle
1883 - Benjamin Wright Raymond, American politician (b. 1801)
1884 - Emanuel Geibel, writer, dies at 68
1906 - Alexander L Kielland, Norwegian writer (Working People), dies at 57
1913 - Jose Marraco y Ferrer, composer, dies on 78th birthday
1919 - Stefan Surzynski, composer, dies at 63
1926 - Giovanni Amendola, antifascist/editor-in-chief (Il Mondo), dies at 43
1931 - Giuseppi Radiciotti, composer, dies at 73
1933 - Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of George Armstrong Custer (b. 1842)
1935 - Edward Arlington Robinson, US poet, dies
1939 - Robert Courtneidge, British theater producer, dies
1940 - Andres Isasi, composer, dies at 49
1945 - Benjamin M Telders, president (Dutch Liberal States Party), dies at 42
1947 - Vaclav Kapral, composer, dies at 58
1947 - Herbert Backe, German Nazi politician (b. 1896)
1949 - Stanley Christopherson, cricketer (1884, MCC Pres during WWII), dies
1951 - Halfdan Cleve, composer, dies at 71
1953 - Idris Davies, Welsh poet (b. 1905)
1961 - Jules J B V Bordet, Belgian bacteriologist (Nobel 1919), dies at 90
1962 - J C Heldring, Dutch businessman, dies at 74
1963 - Otto Struve, Russian-born astronomer (b. 1897)
1966 - Julia Faye, actress (10 Commandments. Samson & Delilah), dies at 73
1968 - Bobby Hutton, US Black Panther leader, shot to death
1970 - Sam Sheppard, American accused murderer (b. 1923)
1970 - Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (b. 1933)
Composer Igor Stravinsky(1971)1971 - Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (Le Sacre du Printemps), dies of pneumonia at 88
1974 - Willem Dudok, Dutch architect (Hilversum Town Hall), dies at 89
1974 - Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and businessman (b.1895)
1975 - Chiang Kai-shek, Nationalist Chinese leader, dies at 87
1976 - Ruth P Thomson, writer, dies
1976 - Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (b. 1903)
1978 - Nicolas Nabokov, composer (Holy Devil), dies at 74
1978 - Reinoud Anders, Dutch actor (Unrest of Grave), dies at 65
1979 - M Marie Widlow, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1957), dies at 61
1979 - Milton Ager, US composer, dies at 85
1983 - Ana Maria, Salvador guerilla leader, murdered
1984 - Jimmy Kenndy, British songwriter (South of the Border), dies
1984 - Ral Donner, singer/narrator, dies at 41
Chinese Military and Political Leader Chiang Kai-shek(1975)1990 - Nancy Hawkes, (1946 best dress woman), dies at 73
1990 - Ronald E Evans, astronaut (Apollo 17), dies of a heart attack at 57
1991 - Bill Ponsford, cricketer (Test avg 48 22, 1st-class avg 65 18), dies
1992 - Isaac Asimov, Sci-Fi author (I Robot), dies from kidney failure at 72
1992 - Molly Picon, Yiddish actress (Milk & Honey), dies of Alzheimers at 94
1993 - Divya Bharati, "Baby Doll" Indian Bollywood actress (Diwana), dies at 19 by mysteriously falling from her husband's apartment
1993 - Hedi Amira Nouira, PM of Tunisia (1970-80), dies
1994 - Agatha Uwilingiyimana, Rwanda/1st female PM in Africa, assassinated
1994 - Cyprian Niayamira, president of Burundi (1993-94), assassinated
1994 - Dick Cary, jazz musician, dies at 77
1994 - Patricia Louise Dalton, chair (Sherlock Holmes Society), dies at 75
1994 - Theo Bosch, humanist/architect (Amsterdam), dies at 54
1994 - Cyprien Ntaryamira, Burundian politician (b. 1956)
1995 - Vieno J Sukselainen, PM of Finland (1959-61), dies
Author, Biochemistry Professor Isaac Asimov(1992)1996 - Greer Garson, actress (Goodbye Mr Chips), dies at 92
1997 - Jack Kent Cooke, NFL owner (Wash Redskins), dies at 84
1998 - Tammy Wynette, American country singer, dies at 55
1998 - Wendy O. Williams, American singer (Plasmatics) (b. 1949)
1999 - Red Norvo, American jazz vibraphonist (b. 1908)
2000 - Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician (b. 1903)
2001 - Charles Pettigrew, American singer (b. 1963)
2003 - David Bloom, American reporter (b. 1963)
2003 - Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer (b. 1927)
2003 - Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter, Canadian religious figure (b. 1912)
2004 - Larisa Bogoraz, Soviet dissident (b. 1929)
2004 - Niki Sullivan, American guitarist (The Crickets) (b. 1937)