Events 1 - 100 of 194
456 - Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Roman Empire.
1311 - Council of Vienne (15th ecumenical council) opens
1384 - Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although a woman.
1492 - Columbus' fleet anchors at "Fernandina" (Long Island, Bahamas)
1502 - Storm ravages Friese coast
1551 - English Edward Seymour duke of Somerset re-arrested
1600 - Olivier van Noorts ships reach Philippines
1674 - Emperor Leopold I fires chancellor Furst Wenzel Lobkowitz
1710 - British troops occupies Port Royal, Nova Scotia
1757 - Austrian troops occupy Berlin
1775 - Portland, Maine burned by British
1780 - Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont last major raid of the American Revolutionary War.
Explorer of the New World Christopher Columbus 1781 - Washington takes Yorktown
1793 - Battle of Wattignies.
1795 - M von Böhms "Oorlogscantate" premieres
1813 - Battle of Leipzig, largest battle in Europe prior to WWI, Napoleon's forces defeated by Prussia, Austria & Russia
1829 - Tremont Hotel, 1st US modern hotel opens (Boston)
1834 - Much of the ancient structures of the Palace of Westminster (parliament) in London is burnt down.
1841 - Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, is chartered
1843 - Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
1846 - Dentist William T Morton demonstrates effectiveness of ether
French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte 1847 - Charlotte Bronte's book "Jane Eyre" published
1848 - 1st US homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania
1849 - Avery College establishes in Allegheny, Pennsylvania
1849 - British seize Tigre Island in Gulf of Fonseca from Honduras
1852 - Dutch government recognize Catholics right to organize
1859 - John Brown leads 21 in raid on federal arsenal, Harper's Ferry, Va
1861 - Confederacy starts selling postage stamps
1863 - Grant is given command of Union forces in West
1867 - Alaska adopts Gregorian calendar, crosses intl date line
1869 - Hotel in Boston becomes 1st to have indoor plumbing
Abolitionist John Brown 1875 - 1st Quebec vs Ontario football game, Ontario wins
1875 - Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
1876 - Race riot at Cainhoy SC (5 whites & 1 black killed)
1882 - The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
1900 - Queen Wilhelmina leaves duke Heinrich "Henry" von Mecklenburg-Schwerin
1900 - Great Britain and Germany sign the Anglo-German Treaty, in which they agree to maintain the territorial integrity of China and support the 'open door' policy called for by US secretary of State
1901 - Baron Hayashi of Japan begins negotiations in London to make an alliance with the British and strengthen Japan's position against Russians
Founder of Salt Lake City and President of the LDS Church Brigham Young 1903 - Homel, 1st Jewish self defense organization founded in Russia
1904 - Russian Baltic fleet departs to Port Arthur
1905 - The Partition of Bengal (India) occurred.
1907 - Belasco Theater opens at 111 W 44th St NYC
1907 - David Belasco's "Grand Army Man," premieres in NYC
1908 - Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club re-organizes as Esquimoux
1909 - Jack Johnson KOs Stanley Ketchel in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1909 - Pirates beat Tigers 4 games to 3 in 6th World Series
1912 - Arnold Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire," premieres
1912 - Boston beats NY Giants, 4 games to 3 with a tie in 9th World Series
1913 - Booth Theater opens at 222 W 44th St NYC
1915 - Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria
1916 - Dodger manager Wilbert Robinson given $5,000 bonus
Nurse Margaret Sanger 1916 - Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic (46 Amboy St, Bkln)
1916 - T E Lawrence (of Arabia) meets with Fasal Hoessein
1921 - Babe Ruth, Bob Meusel, & Bill Piercy defy Landis ban on World Series
1921 - Jim Conzelman takes over as coach of Rock Island Independents from Frank Coughlin-only mid-game coaching change in NFL history
1923 - Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio founded
1923 - John Harwood patents self-winding watch (Switzerland)
1925 - Peace accord of Locarno signed (Rhine Pact)
1925 - Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution
1926 - Mohammed Nadir Khan begins coup in Afghanistan, 1200 killed
1926 - Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200
1928 - Mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP honors, edging Heinie Manush by 2 points
1931 - Trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd chops 1st
Chinese Communist Revolutionary Mao Zedong 1934 - Mao Zedong & 25,000 troops begin 6,000 mile Long March
1936 - Lou Gehrig, is voted AL MVP by BBWAA
1939 - Sugar rationing begins in Netherlands
1940 - Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named 1st black general in regular army
1940 - Lottery for 1st US WW II draftees held; #158 drawn 1st
1940 - Warsaw Ghetto forms
1941 - "Gordo" comic strip (by Gus Arriola) 1st appears in newspapers
1941 - Germany advances within 60 miles (96 K) of Moscow
1941 - Romanian Legionnaires enter Odessa, Russia
1942 - Aaron Copland/de Milles ballet "Rodeo," premieres in NYC
1942 - Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta India
Composer Aaron Copland 1942 - Natl Boxing Association freezes titles of those serving in armed services
1943 - Anti Jewish riot in Rome
1943 - Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens city's new subway system
1943 - Jewish quarter of Rome surrounded by Nazis, they are sent to Auschwitz
1943 - US 1st Army establishes headquarter in Bristol
1944 - Hungary: Horthy government falls/nazi count Szalasi becomes premier
1945 - UN's Food & Agriculture Organization comes into existence
1946 - 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials
1948 - "Red Mill" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 831 performances
1948 - Demonstration by Moscow Jews honoring Israeli ambassador Golda Meir
1949 - WDAF TV channel 4 in Kansas City, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting
Author and Theologian C. S. Lewis 1950 - The first edition of C.S. Lewis' "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" is released in London
1951 - The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
1952 - Pakistan's 1st Test starts, v India at Delhi
1952 - Woolworth's at Powell & Market (SF) opens
1953 - Fidel Castro sentenced to 15 years (Havana)
1956 - "Love Me Tender" with Elvis Presley premieres
1956 - William J Brennan Jr becomes a Supreme Court Justice
1957 - Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visits Williamsburg Virginia
1957 - USAF sends 2 aluminium bullets into space
1958 - Benjamin Britten's "Nocturne," premieres
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley 1960 - NL votes to admit Houston & NY to league
1962 - Byron R White becomes a Supreme Court Justice
1962 - Cuban missile crisis begins as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba
1962 - KTXT TV channel 5 in Lubbock, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
Birthdays 1 - 100 of 223
1396 - William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English soldier (d. 1450)
1430 - King James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
1483 - Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542)
1535 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)
1605 - Charles C Dassoucy, French writer/singer
1663 - Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736)
1679 - Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer
1708 - Albrecht von Haller, Switz, experimental physiology (Acad of Science)
1710 - Andreas Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (d. 1790)
1714 - Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (d. 1795)
1723 - Johann Andreas Joseph Giulini, composer
1726 - Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (d. 1801)
1729 - Pierre van Maldere, composer
1751 - Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, Queen of Prussia (d. 1805)
1754 - Morgan Lewis, Governor of New York (1804-07) (d. 1844)
Lexicographer Noah Webster (1758) 1758 - Noah Webster, West Hartford, Connecticut, lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary), (d. 1843)
1762 - Paul Hamilton, Governor of South Carolina (1804-06) and U.S. Secretary of Navy (1809-12) (d. 1816)
1765 - Frederic Nicolas Duvernoy, composer
1789 - William Burton, Governor of Delaware (1859-63) (d. 1866)
1795 - William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (d. 1876)
1802 - Isaac Murphy, Governor of Arkansas (1864-68) (d. 1882)
1806 - William Pitt Fessenden, Secy Treas (Union), died in 1869
1811 - Gaetano Capocci, composer
1815 - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (d. 1905)
1816 - William Preston, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1887
1819 - Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (d. 1886)
1821 - Albert Franz Doppler, composer
1825 - Thomas Turpin Crittenden, Brig Genl (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1826 - Piotr Studzinski, composer
1830 - Ferdinand van der Haeghen, Flemish librarian/bibliography
1832 - George Crockett Strong, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1832 - Vicente Riva Palacio, Mexico, writer/diplomat
1837 - John Francis Barnett, composer
1840 - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1900)
1841 - Ito Hirobumi, Japanese samurai, Japanese Prime Minister and Resident-General of Korea (d. 1909)
1849 - Arnold Krug, composer
1849 - Charles Harford Lloyd, composer
1851 - James Ten Eyck, champion rower/coach (Ten Eyck Trophy namesake)
1854 - Karl J Kautsky, Austrian marxist/socialist
Writer/Poet Oscar Wilde (1854) 1854 - Oscar Wilde, [Fingal O'Flahertie Wills], Dublin, (Pic of Dorian Gray), (d. 1900)
1855 - Camille Looten, Belgian priest/literature historian
1855 - Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (d. 1931)
1861 - J. B. Bury, Irish historian (d. 1927)
1863 - Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary (Nobel 1925)
1866 - Pieter J Kromsigt, theologist/publicist (Troffel & Sword)
1868 - Franz X Ritter von Epp, German general (China)
1870 - Helge Rode, Danish poet/essayist
1878 - Carlos Pedrell, composer
1878 - Maxey Long, American athlete (d. 1959)
1883 - Vasiliki Maliaros, Greek actress (d. 1973)
1884 - Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (d. 1916)
1885 - Dorando di Desiderio Pietri, Italian marathoner (Olympic-DQ gold-1908)
1886 - Armin T Wegner, writer
First Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion (1886) 1886 - David Ben-Gurion, Plonsk Poland, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (1948-53, 55)
1888 - Eugene O'Neill, NYC, dramatist (Desire Under the Elms-Nobel 1936)
1888 - Paul Popenoe, American activist (d. 1979)
1890 - Paul Strand, NYC, photographer (Native Land-1942)
1890 - Maria Goretti, Italian saint (d. 1902)
1890 - Michael Collins, Sam's Cross County Cork, Irish revolutionary leader
1896 - Edmond van Dooren, Flemish painter
1897 - Harrison Kerr, composer
1897 - Louis de Cazenave, France's oldest living man
1898 - Arthur H Dean, lawyer/advisor to FDR
1898 - William O Douglas, Maine, 81st Supreme Court justice (1939-75)
Irish Nationalist Leader Michael Collins (1890) 1900 - Lloyd Corrigan, SF, actor (Papa Dodger-Willy, Prof McKillup-Hank)
1900 - [Leon] Goose Goslin, baseball hall of famer (AL bat champ 1928)
1900 - Edward Ardizzone, artist and illustrator (d. 1979)
1900 - Primo Conti, Italian painter (d. 1988)
1903 - Mario Pilati, composer
1903 - Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (d. 2003)
1904 - Reginald Dixon, Sheffield, Britain, theatre organist, (d. 1985)
1905 - Rex Bell, Chicago, cowboy actor (Cowboys & Injuns)/lt-gov (Nevada)
1905 - Wild Bill Elliott, Pattonsburg MO, actor (Beyond the Sacramento)
1906 - Dino Buzzati, writer
1906 - George Martin Lott Jr, tennis champ (1931 US Open runner-up)
1907 - Roger Vailland, French author (La Novice, Et Mourir de Plasir)
1908 - Enver Hoxha, post-war leader of Albania (1944-85)
1910 - William Leonard Reed, composer
1913 - Alice Pearce, NYC, comedienne/actress (Gladys Kravitz-Bewitched)
1913 - Cesar Bresgen, Austrian composer/organist
1914 - Christian J Modeste, gypsey king
1916 - George Turner, Australian author (d. 1997)
1917 - Alice Pearce, American actress (d. 1966)
1918 - Bill Nichols, (Rep-D-AL, 1967- )
1919 - Kathleen Winsor, American writer (d. 2003)
1921 - Michael Conrad, Washington Hgts NY, actor (Delvecchio, Hill St Blues)
1921 - Matt Batts, San Anttonio, TX, MLB catcher (Red Sox), (d. 2013)
1922 - Max Bygraves, London, actor (Tom Brown's School Days)
1922 - Robert Urquhart, actor (Dunkirk, Bulldog Breed, Dark Avenger)
1923 - Linda Darnell, Dallas, Texas, American actress (Unfaithfully Yours, A Letter to Three Wives)
1923 - Bert Kaempfert, rocker
Actress Angela Lansbury (1925) 1925 - Angela Lansbury, London England, actress (Jessica-Murder She Wrote)
1925 - Daniel J Evans, (Sen-R-WA, 1983- )
1925 - Lorraine Sweeny, communications specialist
1927 - Gus Yatron, (Rep-D-PA, 1969- )
1927 - Lee Montague, London England, actor (Uncle Sasha-Holocaust)
1927 - Peter Brinson, dance educationalist
1927 - Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1928 - Mary Daly, American feminist
1928 - Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress
Weddings 1 - 9 of 9
Spanish Dictator and General Francisco Franco (1923) 1923 - General Francisco Franco (30) marries María del Carmen Polo y Martínez-Valdés (23) at Church of San Juan el Real in Oviedo
1965 - Singer Leslie Uggams marries Grahame Pratt in NYC
1979 - MLB outfielder Tim Raines (20) weds his high school sweetheart Virginia Hilton
1986 - Marie Osmond marries Brian Blosil
1992 - Author J. K. Rowling (27) weds Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes
1993 - NFL coach Don Shula (28) weds second wife Mary Anne Stephens at St Joseph's Catholic Church in Miami Beach
2004 - Actor Marlon Brando's son Christian Brando (46) weds Deborah Presley at The Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas
2011 - Actress, screenwriter and model Nikki Reed (24) weds singer-songwriter Paul McDonald (27) at a private ranch in Malibu, California
NFL Head Coach Don Shula (1993) 2013 - Actress and singer Kristen Bell (30) weds actor Dax Shepard (38) at the Beverly Hills County Clerk's Office in California
Divorces 1 - 2 of 2
Author Margaret Mitchell (1924) 1924 - American writer ("Gone with the Wind") Margaret Mitchell divorces 1st husband Berrien (Red) Upshaw
1984 - Joyce King divorces NBA guard George Gervin (32) after nearly 8 years of marriage
Deaths 1 - 100 of 138
775 - Mansur, kalief of Abbasiden, dies
1323 - Amadeus V the Great, count of Flanders/Savoy, dies at 74
1333 - Nicolaas V, [Pietro Rainalducci], Italian anti-Pope (1328-30), dies
1355 - Louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death
1473 - Reinoud II van Brederode, viscount of Utrecht, dies
1553 - Lucas Cranach Sr, German painter, dies at 81
1555 - Hugh Latimer, English bishop and royal chaplain, burned at the stake as one of the Oxford Martyrs at 80
1555 - Nicholas Ridley, English theologist/bishop of Rochester, burned at the stake as an Oxford martyr
1570 - Baron van Montigny, Dutch earl of Horne, murdered
1591 - Gregory XIV, [Niccolo Sfondrati], Italian Pope, dies at 56
1594 - William Allen, English cardinal/founder seminary of Douai, dies at 62
1621 - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, organist/composer, dies at about 59
1628 - François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555)
1649 - Isaac van Ostade, painter, buried
1655 - Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (b. 1591)
1680 - Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian general (b. 1608 or 1609)
1688 - Philips Koninck, painter/etcher, buried at 68
1690 - Margaretha M Alacoque, French mystic/saint, dies at 43
1694 - Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf, German lawyer, dies at 62
1726 - Giovanni Maria Capelli, composer, dies at 77
1750 - Silvius Leopold Weiss, composer, dies at 64
1755 - Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (b. 1725)
1774 - Robert Fergusson, Scottish songwriter (Scottish Poems), dies
1781 - Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (b. 1705)
1791 - Grigorij A Potemkin, Monarch of Tauris, dies
Queen of France Marie Antoinette (1793) 1793 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, beheaded at 37
1793 - John Hunter, eminent doctor and philosopher (b. 1728
1796 - Victor Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1726)
1799 - Antoine-Frederic Gresnick, composer, dies at 44
1810 - Nachman of Breslov, founder of Breslov Hasidut (b. 1772)
1814 - Juan Jose Landaeta, composer, dies at 34
1817 - Manuel C Piar, Curacaos/Venezulian freedom writer, dies
1822 - Eva Marie Veigel, Austrian ballet dancer (b. 1724)
1836 - Friedrich Theodor Frohlich, composer, dies at 33
1849 - George Washington Williams, 1st major black historian, dies
1862 - George Burgwyn Anderson, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 31
1865 - Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, philosopher, and sociologist (b. 1781)
1867 - Salomon J Rappoport, Czech rabbi (Ereg miliem), dies
1877 - John Zwijsen, archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 83
1877 - Theodore Barrière, French dramatist (b. 1823)
1880 - Edward Wolff, composer, dies at 64
1888 - John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815)
1891 - Sarah Winnemucca, indian scout, dies
1893 - Carlo Pedrotti, composer, dies at 75
1893 - Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, President of France (b. 1808)
1909 - Jakub Bart-Cišinski, Sorbian writer (b. 1856)
1916 - Klaas/old stick Kater, christian worker's union leader, dies at 73
1918 - Felix Arndt, composer, dies at 29
1919 - Charles Harford Lloyd, composer, dies on 70th birthday
1920 - Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazilian composer/conductor (Artemis), dies at 56
1928 - Septimus Kinneir, cricketer (Test for Eng), dies
1937 - Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (b. 1899)
1939 - Carl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen, composer, dies at 63
1942 - 12, Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter/3 NVV-hostages, executed
1944 - Eric Westberg, composer, dies at 52
1944 - John Eigenhuis, writer (The Dike), dies at 78
1946 - Alfred G Jodl, Col-Gen/German staff chief weather authority, hanged
1946 - Alfred Rosenberg, German war criminal, hanged
1946 - Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian chancellor (1930s), hanged at 54
1946 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian Nazi (SS), hanged
1946 - Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal, hanged
1946 - Granville Ransome Bantock, English composer/conductor, dies at 78
1946 - Hans Franc, German war criminal, hanged
Foreign Minister of the German Reich Joachim von Ribbentrop (1946) 1946 - Joachim von Ribbentrop, German war criminal, hanged
1946 - Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal, hanged
1946 - Wilhelm Keitel, German fieldmarshal, hanged
1946 - Nuremberg trial execut
1948 - Henry Foley, cricketer (one Test for NZ, scored 2 & 2), dies
1949 - Hale Ascher VanderCook, composer, dies at 85
1951 - Liaquat Ali Khan, PM of Pakistan (1947-51), assassinated by Said Akbar
1956 - Jules Rimet, president of FIFA (b. 1873)
1959 - George Marshall, US army general, dies at 78
1962 - Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher (Water & Dreams), dies at 78
1966 - George O'Hara, American actor (b. 1899)
1968 - Ellis Kinder, baseball player (b. 1914)
Military Leader George Marshall (1959) 1972 - Leo G Carroll, actor (Topper, Man From Uncle), dies at 80
1972 - Hale Boggs, U.S. Congressman from Louisiana (b. 1914)
1973 - Gene Krupa, US swing drummer (Sing Sing Sing), dies at 64
1974 - Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, noted Carnatic musician (b. 1895)
1977 - Michael Balcon, producer, dies at 81
1978 - Dan Dailey, American dancer and actor (Governor & JJ), dies of anemia at 62
1979 - Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (b. 1903)
1980 - Carl PM Romme, Dutch minister of Social Affairs (KVP), dies at 83
1981 - Moshe Dayan, Israel's general/minister of Defense, dies at 66
1981 - Stanley Clements, actor (Boys' Prison, Army Bound, Hot News), dies
1981 - William Holden, actor (Casino Royale), dies at 63
1982 - Jacov Gotovac, composer, dies at 86
1982 - Mario del Monaco, Italian opera singer (Verdi/Puccini), dies at 67
1983 - George Liberace, violinist (Liberace Show), dies at 72
1983 - Kelso, American racehorse (b. 1957)
1984 - Ken Carpenter, TV announcer (Lux Video Theater), dies at 84
1984 - Peggy Ann Garner, actress (Ford Theater), dies at 53 of cancer
1985 - Claude Stroud, actor (Hobart-Ted Knight Show, Duke), dies at 78
1986 - Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist, dies at 65
1986 - C Wttewaall van Stoetwegen, CHU Member of Dutch parliament, dies at 85
1987 - Dana Suesse, songwriter (You Ought to be in Pictures), dies at 75
1989 - Cornel Wilde, actor (Saadia, Comic, Beach Red, Gargoyles), dies at 74
1990 - Art Blakey, jazz drummer (Jazz Messengers), dies of cancer at 71
1990 - Jorge Bolet, Cuban-American classical pianist (b. 1914)
1991 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, country singer (16 Tons), dies at 72
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