2DAY_IN_HISTORY 11_MAY_2014 WORLD MOTHERS DAY 330-Constantinople (Byzantium) becomes capital of Roman Empire 1189-Emperor Frederik I Barbarossa & 100,000 crusaders depart Regensburg 1310-Fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake in France for being heretics. 1421-Jews are expelled from Styria Austria Explorer of the New World Christopher Columbus 1502-Columbus begins 4th & last trip to Indies 1548-Start of great fire in Brielle 1625-Peasants besiege Frankenburg estate in Upper Austria 1647-Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam. 1674-Netherlands & Cologne sign peace treaty 1678-French admiral Jean dEstrees fleet runs aground on Aves-islands, Curacao 1689-Battle of Bantry Bay, French & English naval battle 1690-English troops of W Phips conquer Port Royal, Nova Scotia 1745-Battle of Fontenoy (Doornik): Austrian Succession war 1749-British parliament accepts Consolidation Act: fleet reorganization 1751-1st hospital founded (Pennsylvania Hospital) in the 13 Colonies in America 1752-1st US fire insurance policy issued (Philadelphia) 1772-Amsterdam theater destroyed by fire, 18 killed 1784-Britain & Tippu Sahib of Mysore sign peace treaty 1792-Columbia River discovered & named by US Capt Robert Gray 1812-Waltz introduced into English ballrooms. Most observers consider it disgusting & immoral. No wonder it caught on! 1812 -British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, London. Ironically, descendants of both were later elected to Parliament at the same time. 1813-In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth, lead an expedition westwards from Sydney. Their route opens up inland Australia for continued expansion throughout the 19th century. 1814-Americans defeat British at Battle of Plattsburgh 1816-American Bible Society forms (NY) Naturalist Charles Darwin 1820-Launch of HMS Beagle, the ship that took young Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage. 1833-Lady-of-the-Lake strikes iceberg & sinks in N Atlantic; kills 215 1841-Lt. Charles Wilkes lands at Fort Nisqually in Puget Sound. 1850-Work starts on 1st brick building in San Francisco 1858-Minnesota admitted as 32nd US state 1862-Confederates scuttle CSS Virginia off Norfolk, VA 1864-Battle of Yellow Tavern, VA (Sheridans Raid, South Anna Bridge) 1864 -Gen J.E.B. Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern 1865-Jeff Thompson surrenders 1867-Treaty of London drawn, concerning Luxembourg 1875-George Charmer Zettlein pitches the 1st 9 inning shutout 1881-Bedrich Smetanas opera Libusa premieres in Prague 1887-13th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Lewis aboard Montrose wins in 2:39.25 1888-16th Preakness: F Littlefield aboard Refund wins in 2:49 1891-The Otsu Scandal takes place. Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart 1892-18th Kentucky Derby: Lonnie Clayton aboard Azra wins in 2:41½ 1893-Henri Desgrange establishes 1st bicycle-world record (35.325 km) 1894-American RR Union strikes Pullman Sleeping Car Co 1897-Wash Senator catcher Charlie Farrell throws out 8 attempted stealers 1900-James J Jeffries KOs James J Corbett in 23 for heavyweight boxing title 1904-Andrew Carnegie donates $1.5M to build a peace palace 1907-Bank of San Francisco incorporated 1907 -A derailment outside Lompoc, California, kills 32 Shriners when their chartered train jumps off the tracks at a switch near Surf Depot. 1910-Montanas Glacier National Park forms 1911-The United States becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. 1912-38th Kentucky Derby: Carol H Shilling aboard Worth wins in 2:09.4 1916-Albert Einsteins Theory of General Relativity presented 1917-King George V grants Royal Letters Patent to New Zealand 1918-44th Kentucky Derby: William Knapp on Exterminator wins in 2:10.8 1919-Cincinnati Reds Hod Eller no-hits St Louis Cards, 6-0 Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein 1919 -Yanks Jack Quinn & Senators Walter Johnson, 12 inning 0-0 tie 1921-Tel Aviv is 1st all Jewish municipality 1923-10 HRs hit in Phillies 20-14 victory over St Louis Cards 1924-Cartel des Gauches wins French parliamentary election 1924 -Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost (New Hampshire) 1924 -Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging the two companies. 1925-Communist Party of Holland splits 1925 -Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region constituted in RSFSR 1926-Airship Norge leaves Spitsbergen for 1st air crossing of Arctic Ocean 1927-Belgium beats England 9-1 in soccer 1927 -Louis B Mayer forms Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences 1928-54th Kentucky Derby: Chick Lang aboard Reigh Count wins in 2:10.4 1928 -54th Preakness: Raymond Sonny Workman aboard Victorian wins in 2:00.2 1928 -63rd British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 292 at Royal St Georges 1928 -General Electric opens 1st TV-station (Schenectady, NY) Golfer Walter Hagen 1929-1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week) 1929 -Dr Annie Webb Blanton forms Delta Kappa Gamma Society in Austin Tx 1931-Credit-Anstalt, Austrias largest bank, fails, beginning financial collapse of Central Europe 1935-61st Preakness: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 1:58.4 1940-66th Preakness: Fred A Smith aboard Bimelech wins in 1:58.6 1940 -NY Worlds Fair reopens 1941-1st Messerschmidt 109F shot down above England 1942-Japanese troops conquer Kalewa 1942 -William Faulkners collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published. 1943-Hermann Goering division in Tunisia surrenders 1943 -US 7th div lands on Attu, Aleutian, (1st US territory recaptured) 1944-Opposition group surprise attack post office Washer 1944 -Slomp Resistance fighter (Frits de Zwerver) freed from Arnhem prison 1945-US marines conquer Awatsha Draw Okinawa 1946-1st night game at Boston Braves Field (Giants 5, Braves 1) Nazi Politician Hermann Goering 1946 -72nd Preakness: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:01.4 1946 -United Malays National Organisation is created. 1947-BF Goodrich announced the development of tubeless tire (Akron Ohio) 1947 -Laos accepts constitution for parliamentary democracy 1948-Haganah takes control of Safed & port of Haifa 1948 -Luigi Einaudi elected president of Italy 1949-By a vote of 37-12, Israel becomes 59th member of UN 1949 -Siam renames itself Thailand 1950-Belgium mine disaster at Borinage, 39 die 1950 -Eugene Ionescos La Cantatrice Chauve premieres in Paris 1951-Jay Forrester patents computer core memory 1953-Tornado kills 114 in Waco Texas ($39M damage) 1953 -Winston Churchill criticizes John Foster Dulles domino theory 1955-Israel attacks Gaza 1956-Pinky Lee Show last airs on NBC-TV Soldier, Author and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill 1957-Gabriel Paris forms government of Colomb 1 2 3 ▶ Famous Birthdays Birthdays1 - 100of241 1568-Christian I, ruler of Anhalt-Bernburg (Battle of White Mountain) 1571-Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (d. 1637) 1654-Cornelis van Alkemade, Dutch historian 1720-Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German adventurer (d. 1797) 1722-Peter Camper, Leyden Holland, anatomist/professor (Amsterdam) 1731-Johann Gottfried Seyfert, composer 1733-Victoire of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d. 1799) 1752-Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840) 1763-János Batsányi, Hungarian poet (d. 1845) 1772-Henri-Jean Rigel, composer 1791-Jan Vaclav Hugo Vorisek, composer 1799-John Lowell, American philanthropist (d. 1836) 1801-Henri Labrouste, French architect (d. 1875) 1807-Ira Aldridge, Great 19th century black Shakespearian actor (Othello) 1811-Chang & Eng Bunker, Chinese Siamese twins 1811 -Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1893) 1817-Fanny Cerrito, Italian ballet dancer (d. 1909) 1821-[Carlos] Charles John Stolbrand, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) 1823-Alfred Stevens, Belgian painter 1824-Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (d. 1904) 1827-Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (d. 1875) 1830-John Converse Starkweather, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) 1835-Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (d. 1905) 1838-Walter Goodman, British painter, illustrator and author (d. 1912) 1840-Filippo Capocci, composer 1841-Ernst von Possart, German actor/stage manager/reciter 1852-Charles Warren Fairbanks, (R) 26th US VP (1905-09) 1854-John Blackham, cricketer (Australias 1st wicketkeeper) 1854 -Ottmar Mergenthaler, Hachtel Germany, inventor (linotype) 1855-Anatol Konstantinovich Lyadov, Russian composer (Bewitched Lake) 1858-Carl Hauptmann, writer 1861-Frederick Russell Burnham, father of the international scouting movement (d. 1947) 1869-Francisco Lacerda, composer 1871-Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer (d. 1943) 1875-Harriet Quimby, American aviator (d. 1912) 1878-Jan Machiel Reyskens, oldest male resident of the Netherlands. Died 1990 aged 111. 1881-Jan van Gilse, composer/resistance fighter (Frau Helga von Staveren) 1881 -Pascual Rogatis, composer 1881 -Al Cabrera, Spanish-born Cuban baseball player (d. 1964) 1881 -Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian physicist (d. 1963) 1882-Joseph Marx, Austrian composer/critic 1885-Joe King Oliver, American jazz musician (d. 1938) Composer and Lyricist Irving Berlin(1888) 1888-Irving Berlin, [Isadore Balin], Temum Siberia, composer (White Xmas) 1888 -P A J Losecaat Vermeer, leader of Dutch High Council 1888 -Willis A. Lee, World War II U.S. naval admiral (d. 1945) 1890-Woodall Rodgers, mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1961) 1891-Henry Morgenthau Jr, US Secretary of Treasury (1934-45) 1892-Margaret Rutherford, England, actress (Murder Most Foul) 1894-Anton A Mussert, Dutch nazi leader (NSB) 1894 -Florimond Cornellie, Belgium, yachting (Olympic-gold-1920) 1894 -Martha Graham, Allegheny Penn, choreographer (Appalachian Spring) 1895-Jan Parandowski, writer 1895 -William Grant Still, Woodville Mississippi, composer (Afro-American) 1896-Josip Slavenski, composer 1896 -Philippo de Pisis, Italian painter 1897-Izak W van der Merwe, [Boerneef], S Afr writer (Tweetalige Woordeboek) 1897 -Robert E. Gross, American businessman (d. 1961) 1899-Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (d. 1963) 1901-Mari Sandoz, Nebraska, author (Cheyenne Autumn) 1902-Kaarlo Sarkia, Finnish poet (Unen Kaivo) 1903-Charlie Gehringer, Detroit Tigers 2nd baseman (1924-42) 1904-Guus Weitzel, Dutch radio-announcer Painter Salvador Dali(1904) 1904 -Salvador Dali, Figueras Spain, surrealist artist (Crucifixion) 1905-Marjorie Sykes, peace campaigner 1906-Kent Taylor, [Louis Weiss], Iowa, actor (Boston Blackie, Rough Riders) 1907-Rose Ausländer, German poet (d. 1988) 1907 -Rip Sewell, American baseball player (d. 1989) 1909-Herbert Murrill, composer 1910-Jorge Croner de Vasconcelos, composer 1911-Doodles Weaver, Los Angeles California, comedian (Spike Jones & City Slickers) 1911 -Edgar Beck, president (John Mowlem) 1911 -Roy James Alfred Kaulback, soldier 1911 -Mitchell Sharp, Canadian politician (d. 2004) 1912-Foster Brooks, Louisville Ky, comedian/actor (Miles-Mork & Mindy) 1912 -Phil Silvers, Brooklyn New York, American comedian (Sgt Bilko-Phil Silvers Show) 1913-Clare Grundman, composer 1913 -Tutti Camarata, Glen Ridge NJ, orchestra leader (Vic Damone Show) 1913 -Robert Jungk, Austrian publicist (d. 1994) 1914-Haroun Tazieff, French volcanologist (d. 1998) 1916-C J Cela, writer 1916 -Camilo Jose Cela, Spain, author (La Colmena-1951) 1917-Hon Montague Woodhouse, Greek resistance organiser 1918-Richard P Feynman, physicist (Feynman-diagrams/Nobel prize 1965) 1918 -Robert Hunt, CEO (Dowty Group) 1920-Beryl Bryden, jazz singer 1920 -Denver Pyle, Bethune Colo, actor (Dukes of Hazzard, Tammy, Doris Day) 1921-Ian Percival, QC/MP 1921 -Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician 1922-Nestor Chylak, American baseball umpire (d. 1992) 1922 -Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera, Filipino Supreme Court jurist 1923-Joan Moriarty, Brigadier matron-in-chief/dir (Army Nursing Services) 1923 -Lord Gordon Gordy White, English industrialist/multi-millionaire 1923 -Vincent Gordon Lindsay White, tycoon 1924-Antony Hewish, radio astronomer 1924 -Jackie Milburn, English soccer star (Newcastle United) 1924 -Eugene Dynkin, Russian mathematician 1925-Rhodes Boyson, MP 1925 -Edward J. King, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 2006) 1925 -William Glasser, Cleveland, OH, psychiatrist (reality therapy, choice theory), (d. 2013) 1926-Ernest Harrison, CEO (Racal Electronic 1 2 3 ▶ Famous Weddings Weddings1 - 3of3 1970-Sammy Davis Jr weds Altovise 1996-Fashion designer Cynthia Rowley (39) weds retail store designer Bill Keenan (43) at Manhattan City Hall in New York 2001-Actress Suzanne Pleshette (64) weds actor Tom Poston (79) at Manhattans City Ha Famous Deaths Deaths1 - 100of107 1304-Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271) 1610-Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (China), dies 1631-Christoph Buel, composer, dies at 57 1672-Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, English royalist (b. 1615) 1708-Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (b. 1646) 1723-Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (b. 1656) 1742-Francesco Stradivari, Ital violin maker/son of Antonius, dies at 70 1772-Joseph Kerckhoff, Limburg surgeon/robber captain, hanged 1777-George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (b. 1719) British Prime Minister (The Great Commoner) William Pitt the Elder(1778) 1778-William Pitt Sr, English premier (1756-61, 66-68), dies at 69 1779-John Heart, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at about 68 1812-Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (assassinated) (b. 1762) 1819-Caspar Furstenau, composer, dies at 47 1845-Karoly Filtsch, composer, dies at 14 1848-Tom Cribb, English boxer (b. 1781) 1849-Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai, composer and conductor, dies at 38 of a stroke 1849 -Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier, French socialite (b. 1777) 1857-E Francois Vidocq, French criminalogist/police officer, dies at 81 1871-John Herschel, cataloguer of southern hemisphere stars, dies at 79 1881-Henri-Frederic Amiel, Swiss/French writer (Journal Intime), dies at 59 1885-Ferdinand Hiller, German pianist/composer/conductor, dies at 73 1887-Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (b. 1802) 1891-A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1820) 1895-Feliks Jaronski, composer, dies at 71 1907-John Albert Delany, composer, dies at 54 1916-Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (s-effect), dies 1916 -Max Reger, composer, dies at 43 1916 -Max [Johann BJM] Reger, German composer/pianist/organist, dies at 43 1917-Otto Adolf Klauwell, composer, dies at 66 1920-William D Howells, US author (A Womans Reason), dies at 83 1927-Henry Martyn Robert, (Roberts Rules of Order), dies at 90 1927 -Juan Gris, Spanish cubist painter, dies at 40 1929-Jozef Murgaš, Slovak inventor (b. 1864) 1934-Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (b. 1852) 1935-Edward H Thompson, US archaeologist (Mayan civilization), dies at 78 1937-Viliam Figus, composer, dies at 62 1938-Arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Hours of Solitude), dies at 81 1939-Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1867) 1944-Henk Hos, resistance fighter, executed at 37 1947-Ture Rangstrom, composer, dies at 62 1949-Adrianus PHA de Kleyn, throat/nose/otologist (ear doctor), dies at 65 1952-Giovanni Tebaldini, composer, dies at 87 1953-Jean Adair, dies at 80 1955-G L Jessop, cricketer (match-winning batsman, brilliant field), dies 1956-Walter S Adams, US astronomer/director of Mount Wilson, dies at 79 1960-John D Rockefeller Jr, philanthropist, dies at 86 1963-Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888) 1965-Ludovicus H Lode Baekelmans, Flemish playwright, dies at 86 1965 -Roger Vailland, French author, dies at 57 1970-Johnny Hodges, American musician (b. 1906) 1973-Grigory M Kosinzev, Russian director, dies 1973 -Lex Barker, American actor (b. 1919) 1976-Alvar Aalto, architect (Finlandia House), dies at 78 1976 -Camille Schmit, composer, dies at 68 1976 -J Anaya, Bolivian military/ambassador to France, murdered 1978-John Clinge Doorenbos, Dutch journalist/poet, dies at 93 1979-Joan Chandler, dies at 55 1979 -Lester Raymond Flatt, musician (Ballad of Jed Clampett), dies at 64 Reggae Musician Bob Marley(1981) 1981-Bob Marley, reggae singer, dies of brain & lung cancer at 36 1981 -Hoyt J Fuller, editor (1st World magazine), dies at 57 1982-Leigh Snowden, actress (Hot Rod Rumble), dies at 51 of cancer 1982 -Piet van Egmond, organist/conductor, dies at 70 1983-Zenna [Chlarson] Henderson, author (Anything Box), dies at 65 1985-Chester Gould, cartoonist (Dick Tracy), dies at 84 1985 -Garmt Stuiveling, literatrary (Ego & Echo), dies at 77 1985 -Jorja Curtright, actor (Whistle Stop), dies of a heart attack 1985 -Samuel Frith, English co-founder of soccer team (Bradford City), dies 1986-Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (b. 1910) 1986 -Fritz Pollard, American football player (b. 1894) 1988-H A R (Kim) Philby, British double agent, dies 1991-Filip J Field, dies at 67 1991 -Ho Dam, foreign minister North-Korea (1970-83), dies 1992-Carlos Herrera, drink inventor (Margarita), dies at 90 1992 -Elizabeth McDonald, inventor (Spic & Span), dies at 98 1994-Alfred James Broomhall, methodist Missionary, dies at 82 1994 -Danny Overbea, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 68 1994 -Leonard Friedman, violinist, dies at 63 1994 -Lewis B Puller, US writer (Pulitzer 1992), commits suicide at 48 1994 -Timothy Carey, dies of stroke at 64 1995-Arthur Lubin, director (Francis The Talking Mule, Mr Ed), dies at 96 1995 -David Avidan, poet/writer, dies at 62 1995 -William John Phillips, actor (Nothing but a Man), dies at 80 1996-Bruce Boyce, singer/teacher, dies at 85 1996 -Joan Thirkettle, journalist, dies at 48 1996 -Malcolm MacEwen, writer, dies at 84 1996 -Nnamdi Azikiwe, Pres of Nigeria (1963-66), dies 1996 -Walter Hyatt, #Musician, dies at 46 1996 -Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (b. 1922) 1997-Brenda Carlin, TV producer/wife of comedian George Carlin, dies at 57 2000-Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (b. 1907) Author Douglas Adams(2001) 2001-Douglas Adams, English author (b. 1952) 2002-Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (b. 1905) 2002 -Renaude Lapointe, French Canadian journalist and senator (b. 1912) 2003-Noel Redding, English bassist (The Jimi Hendrix Experience) (b. 1945) 2004-John Whitehead, American singer (McFadden & Whitehead) (b. 1949) 2004 -Mick Doyle, Irish rugby union footballer and coach 2005-Michalis Genitsaris, Greek rebetiko singer and composer (b. 1917) 2006-Floyd Patterson, American boxer...
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