Today in history brought to you by HistoryOrb gc 295 - 8th recorded perihelion passage of Halleys Comet 850 - Guntherus becomes bishop of Cologne 1139 - 2nd Lateran Council (10th ecumenical council) opens in Rome 1505 - Jews are expelled from Orange Burgandy by Philibert of Luxembourg 1551 - John Dudley becomes English Earl Marshal 1650 - Dutch East India Company (VOC) management sets new guidelines 1653 - Cromwell routes English parliament to house 1657 - Battle in Santa Cruz Bay, Tenerife: English fleet under Robert Blake sinks Spanish silver fleet 1689 - The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry. 1702 - Comet C/1702 H1 approaches within 0.0437 AUs of Earth 1715 - Nicholas Rowes Tragedy of Lady Jane Grey premieres in London 1759 - George Frideric Handel is buried in Westminster Abbey, London 1770 - Captain Cook arrives in New South Wales 1775 - British begin siege of Boston 1777 - New York adopts new constitution as an independent state 1792 - France declares war on Austria, Prussia & Sardinia 1799 - Friedrich von Schillers Wallensteins Tod premieres in Weimar 1799 - Napoleon issues a decree calling for establishing Jerusalem for Jews 1809 - Napoleon I defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria Composer George Friedrich Handel 1810 - The Governors of Caracas declares the national sovereignty from Spain. 1828 - René Caillié is first non-Muslim to enter Timbouctou. 1836 - Territory of Wisconsin created 1841 - 1st detective story (Poes Murders in Rue Morgue) published 1861 - Battle of Norfolk, VA 1861 - Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from Union army 1862 - The first pasteurization test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard. 1865 - Chicagos Crosby Opera House opens 1871 - 3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus) 1872 - SF Bar Association organized 1879 - 1st mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London & Cyprus 1884 - Pope Leo XIII encyclical On Freemasonry 1888 - 246 reported killed by hail in Moradabad, India 1894 - 136,000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase 1896 - 1st public film showing in US John Philip Sousas El Capitan premieres in NYC Composer John Philip Sousa 1898 - US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota opens 1902 - Marie & Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive element radium chloride 1903 - 7th Boston Marathon won by John Lorden of Mass in 2:41:29.8 1904 - George Bernard Shaws Candida premieres in London 1904 - Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in St Louis 1908 - 12th Boston Marathon won by Tom Morrissey of NY in 2:25:43.2 1908 - Opening day of competition of the New South Wales Rugby League. 1910 - Cleve Indians Addie Joss 2nd no-hitter, beats Chicago, 1-0 1910 - Halleys Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km 1912 - Fenway Park officially opens, Red Sox beat NY Highlanders 7-6 in 11 1912 - Tiger Stadium in Detroit opens, Tigers beat Cleve Indians 6-5 1914 - 18th Boston Marathon won by James Duffy of Canada in 2:25:01.2 1914 - 33 killed by soldiers during mine strike in Ludlow, Colo 1916 - German-British sea battle off Belgian coast 1916 - Weeghman Park (Wrigley Field) in Chicago opens, Cubs beat Cin Reds 7-6 Pilot The Red Baron 1918 - Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims marking his final victories before his death the following day. 1919 - Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army 1920 - 7th modern Olympic games opens in Antwerp Belgium 1920 - Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate 1920 - Big Show ends 2 year run on NBC radio 1920 - Tornadoes kill 219 in Alabama & Mississippi 1920 - Phillies mgr Gravvy Cravath puts himself in as pinch hitter, his 3- run homer beats NY Giants 3-0 1925 - 29th Boston Marathon won by Charles Mellor of Ill in 2:33:00.6 1926 - 1st check sent by radio facsimile transmission across Atlantic 1931 - 35th Boston Marathon won by Jim Henigan of Mass in 2:46:45.8 1931 - British House of Commons agrees for sports play on Sunday 1934 - Heinrich Himmler becomes inspector Prussian secret state police 1935 - Your Hit Parade begins broadcasting (becomes #1 quickly) 1936 - 40th Boston Marathon won by Ellison Brown of RI in 2:33:40.8 1936 - Jews repel an Arab attack in Petach Tikvah Palestine Baseball Player Ted Williams 1939 - Ted Williams 1st hit (off of Yankee Red Ruffing) a double 1940 - 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia, Pa 1941 - 100 German bombers attack Athens 1941 - Dodgers start to wear liners in their caps 1942 - German occupiers forbids Dutch access to their beach 1942 - Heavy German assault on Malta 1943 - Braves manager Casey Stengel is struck by a taxi, fractures a leg 1944 - Dutch Communist Party resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death 1944 - NFL legalizes coaching from bench 1945 - Cleveland Browns organization formed by Arthur Mickey McBride 1945 - German occupiers flood Beemster & Fencer 1945 - Soviet troops enter Berlin 1945 - US 7th army captured German city of Nuremberg 1945 - US forces conquer Motobu peninsula on Okinawa 1946 - 1st baseball broadcast in Chicago, Cards vs Cubs Playwright George Bernard Shaw 1946 - 50th Boston Marathon won by Stylianos Kyriakides of Greece in 2:29:27 1947 - Frederik IX becomes king of Denmark 1948 - NYC hikes subway fare from 5 cents to 10 cents 1948 - Walter P Reuther UAW pres shot & wounded at his home in Detroit 1949 - Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 1st race, in Albany, California 1950 - Balts Memorial Stadium opens - Orioles of International League 1951 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak 1951 - Velsen city council demands investigation of police collaborators 1953 - 57th Boston Marathon won by Keizo Yamada of Japan in 2:18:51 1954 - Golden Apple opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 125 performances 1955 - Saint of Bleecker St closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 92 perfs 1957 - 61st Boston Marathon won by John J Kelley of Conn in 2:20:05 1957 - Yankee Bill Skowron becomes 3rd player to hit a ball out of Fenway 1958 - Buses replace Key System trains at 3 AM 1958 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open 1958 - Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup 1958 - Morocco demands departure of Spanish troops 1959 - 63rd Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:22:42 1960 - From A to Z opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 21 performances 1961 - American Harold Graham makes 1st rocket belt flight 1962 - NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 63,250 m 1 2 3 ▶ Famous Birthdays Birthdays 1 - 100 of 205 702 - Jafar Sadiq, Muslim scholar (d. 765) 1442 - Edward IV, King (England, 1461-83) 1494 - John Agricola, [Schneider], German theologist/prime minister 1586 - Saint Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (d. 1617) 1592 - John Eliot, St Germans Cornwall, English MP/author 1594 - Matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern, composer 1633 - Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (d. 1654) 1646 - Charles Plumier, French botanist (d. 1704) 1650 - William Bedloe, English informer (d. 1680) 1668 - Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (d. 1739) 1705 - Balthasar Schmid, composer 1718 - David Brainerd, American missionary (d. 1747) 1723 - Cornelius Harnett, American delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1781) 1725 - Johann Friedrich Kloffler, composer 1726 - Jozef de Ferraris, French/Austrian earl/general/cartographer 1745 - Philippe Pinel, physician, founder of psychiatry 1748 - Georg Michael Telemann, composer 1748 - Guillaume Albert Teniers, composer 1761 - Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier, composer 1808 - Louis-Napoleon (Napoleon III), emperor of France (1852-71) 1809 - John Smith Preston, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1881 1818 - Heinrich Göbel, German-born inventor (d. 1893) 1824 - Alfred Holt Colquitt, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1894 1826 - Dina M Craik, writer 1827 - John Gibbon, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1896 1839 - Carol I, King of Romania (1881-1914) 1850 - Daniel Chester, French/American sculptor (Minute Man) 1851 - Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1875) 1857 - Charles LP Philip Zilcken, painter/author (HW Knife Day) 1857 - Hermann Bang, writer 1858 - Auguste Chapuis, composer 1860 - Charles Gordon Curtis, US attorney/inventor (Curtis Turbine) 1860 - Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Dutch MP (SDAP) 1866 - Victor Hollaender, composer 1870 - Simeon Roncal, composer 1870 - Maulvi Abdul Haq, Father of Urdu, Pakistani scholar (d.1961) 1871 - William Henry Davies, Wales, poet (Autobiography of a Super Tramp) 1876 - Gerard J Arbous, actor/publicist (Prince William of Orange) 1879 - Robert Lynd, Irish writer/critic (Pleasures of Ignorance) 1879 - Paul Poiret, French couturier (d. 1944) 1881 - Nikolai Miaskovsky, Novogeorievsk Poland, composer (Kirov is With Us) 1881 - Sem Dresden, composer/conductor 1882 - Holland Smith, U.S. General (d. 1967) 1884 - Princess Beatrice of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1966) Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler (1889) 1889 - Adolf Hitler, Braunau, Austria, Austrian-born German dictator and Führer of Nazi Germany (1936-45) 1889 - Albert Jean Amateau, Turkish-born businessman and social activist (d. 1996) 1890 - Maurice Duplessis, premier of Québec, known as Le Chef (d. 1959) 1893 - Harold Lloyd, Burchard Neb, silent comic (Why Worry, Safety Last) 1893 - Hermann Ungar, writer 1893 - Edna Parker, American supercentenarian 1893 - Joan Miró, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1983) 1894 - Martinus Nijhoff, poet/interpreter/linguistic (spelling) 1895 - Emile Christian, American musician (d. 1973) 1896 - Senor Wences, ventriloquist (Close the Door) 1896 - Wop May, Canadian aviator (d. 1952) 1897 - Bernard Verhoeven, poet/literature (About the Laugh) 1897 - Gregory Ratoff, Petrograd Russia, actor/director (Corsican Brothers) 1900 - Fred Raymond, composer 1900 - Kees Verwey, painter/water colors painter/cartoonist 1901 - Michel Leiris, French cultural anthropologist 1902 - Donald Wolfit, England, actor (Lawrence of Arabia, Becket, Accursed) 1902 - Vesselin Stoyanov, composer 1903 - Dagmar Edqvist, Swedish author (Kamrathustru-Wife & Comrade) 1904 - Bruce Cabot, Carlsbad NM, actor (Diamonds are Forever, King Kong) 1904 - George Stibitz, American scientist (d. 1995) 1907 - Miran Bux, cricketer (his one season of Test & 1st-class play 1954-55) 1907 - William Dollar, St Louis, ballet dancer/choreographer 1908 - Wilhelmus M Bekkers, bishop of Hertogenbosch 1908 - Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader/vibraphone improviser (Depths Below) 1909 - Guido Alberti, literary patron/businessman 1909 - Richard Stubbs, publicity adviser 1910 - Robert F Wagner, (Mayor-D-NYC, 1954-65) [or May 15] 1911 - Kukrit Pramoj, politician 1912 - David Townsend, cricketer (3 Tests Eng v WI 1935) 1912 - Ed Jones, (Rep-D-TN, 1969- ) 1912 - Frederick Craig Riddle, violist 1912 - Soewarsil Djojopoespito, Indonesia, writer (Toe the Line) 1913 - Dick Wessel, WI, actor (Dick Tracy vs Cueball, Beware of Blondie) 1914 - Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (d. 1999) 1915 - Joseph Wolpe, South African-born psychotherapist (d. 1997) 1919 - Richard Hillary, Australian Spitfire pilot and author (d. 1943) 1920 - John Paul Stevens, Illinois, 103rd Supreme Court Justice (1975- ) 1920 - Ronald Speirs, WWII Veteran (d. 2007) 1921 - Donald Gunn MacRae, sociologist 1921 - Janine Sutto, French Canadian actress 1923 - Tito Puente, Puerto Rico, bandleader (Dance Mania) 1923 - Mother Angelica, American nun and broadcaster 1924 - Gerhard Samuel, composer 1924 - Nina Foch, Leiden Netherlands, actress (American in Paris) 1924 - Paul M Van Buren, US theologist (Theological Explorations) 1925 - Ernie Stautner, NFL tackle (Steelers)/WLAF head coach (Galaxy) 1925 - Richard Hoffmann, composer 1926 - Harriett Elizabeth Byrd, politician (Wyoming house of Reps) 1927 - Karl Muller, Switzerland, superconductivity physicist (Nobel 1987) 1928 - Johnny Gavin, Irish footballer (d. 2007) 1928 - Gerald S. Hawkins, English astronomer (d. 2003) 1929 - Bob Braun, Ludlow Ky, singer (Dotty Mack Show) 1930 - Alan Oakman, cricketer (England batsman against Australia 1956) 1931 - Lee H Hamilton, Daytona Beach Fla, (Rep-D-Ind, 1965- ) 1934 - Lindsay Oliver John Boynton, furniture historian 1 2 3 ▶ Famous Weddings Weddings 1 - 5 of 5 1914 - Poet and critic Ezra Pound (28) weds Dorothy Shakespear 1968 - The Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein (24) weds fellow reporter Carol Honsa 2007 - Indian film actor and producer Abhishek Bachchan (31) weds actress Aishwarya Rai (33) at the Bachchan residence in Juhu, Mumbai 2008 - The Game actress Tia Mowry (29) weds actor Cory Hardrict (32) at the Biltmore Hotel in Santa Barbara, California 2011 - Hollywood Confidential radio host Leeza Gibbons (54) weds Steven Fenton (41) at the rooftop of the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills Famous Divorces Divorces 1 - 1 of 1 2006 - Actor-writer Charlie Shanian (39) divorces former Beverly Hills, 90210 actress Tori Spelling (32) only 15 months after their lavish $1-million wedding Famous Deaths Deaths 1 - 99 of 99 1164 - Victor IV, [Ottaviano Montecello], Italian antipope (1159-64), dies 1176 - Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English soldier (b. 1130) 1314 - Clement V, [Bertrand Got], pope (1305-14) move papacy to Avignon, dies 1317 - Agnes van Montepulciano, Italian mystic/saint, dies 1521 - Zhengde, Emperor of China (b. 1491) 1534 - Elizabeth Barton, [St Magd van Kent], British prophet, dies 1558 - Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (b. 1485) 1632 - Nicolas Antione, converted to Judiasm, burned at the stake 1643 - Christoph Demantius, composer, dies at 75 1662 - Gerard Terborch, the elder, painter, dies 1695 - Georg Caspar Weckler, composer, dies at 63 1703 - Lancelot Addison, English royal chaplain (b. 1632) 1765 - Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (b. 1674) 1768 - Giovanni AC Canaletto, Italian painter/cartoonist (Rialto), dies at 70 1769 - Pontiac, indian chief to Ottawa, murdered 1786 - John Goodricke, English deaf & dumb astronomer, dies at 21 1812 - George Clinton, 4th US VP, dies at 73 1st VP to, die in office 1820 - Arthur Young, author (Annals of Agriculture), dies 1821 - Franz K Achard, German physicist/chemist, dies at 67 1831 - John Abernethy, English surgeon (b. 1764) 1836 - Johan I Jozef, monarch of Liechtenstein/fieldmarshal, dies at 75 1839 - Giuseppe Rossini, father of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, dies 1869 - Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe, composer, dies at 72 1869 - Piotr Studzinski, composer, dies at 42 1872 - Ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja), dies at 62 1873 - William Tite, English architect (b. 1798) 1874 - Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (b. 1817) 1887 - Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Egyptian statesman (b. 1826) 1899 - Joseph Wolf, German artist (b. 1820) 1900 - Mebel Mercer, popular British singer, dies 1906 - Australian wombat; oldest known marsupial, dies in London Zoo at 26 1908 - Henry Chadwick, sports reporter (baseball), dies at 85 Novelist Bram Stoker (1912) 1912 - Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/writer (Dracula), dies at 64 1918 - Reginald Harry Mybirgh Hands, cricketer (1 Test for SA), dies 1932 - Giuseppe Peano, mathematician, dies 1935 - Juliaan de Vriendt, Flemish painter, dies at 92 1941 - Barend ter Haar, Dutch lawyer, dies in Buchenwald at 49 1947 - Christian X, king of Denmark (1912-47), dies at 76 1951 - Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1873) 1953 - Erich Weinert, writer, dies at 62 1956 - Jaap Vranken, organist/composer (Stabat mater), dies 1956 - Lieven Duvosel, Flemish music composer (Levensschets), dies at 78 1962 - Arthur Harmat, composer, dies at 76 1962 - Jesse G Vincent, engineer designed 1st V-12 engine, dies at 82 1964 - Eddie Dyer, baseball player (b. 1899) 1965 - Dick Wessel, dies of heart attack on 52nd birthday 1968 - Marion Weeks, singer/actress, dies of stroke at 81 1971 - Cecil Parker, actor (Court Jester, Operation Snafu), dies at 73 1973 - Robert Armstrong, actor (Fall Guy, Exposed), dies at 82 1974 - Mohammed Ayub Khan, premier/president (Pakistan), dies 1977 - Bryan Foy, director/writer, dies at 80 1977 - Len Johnson, cricketer (one Test for Australia, 3-66 & 3-8), dies 1977 - Sepp Herberger, German football coach (b. 1897) 1979 - Peter Donald, host (Masquerade Party), dies at 60 1982 - Andrew Sandham, cricketer (325 Eng 1930, 879 runs in 14 Tests), dies 1982 - Archibald MacLeish, US, lawyer/writer (Conquistador), dies at 89 1982 - Mimi Boesnach, actress (Wedding of Kloris & Roses), dies at 82 1983 - Jerzy Andrezjewski, writer, dies 1984 - Mabel Mercer, English/US singer (Fly me to the moon), dies at 84 1984 - Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer (b. 1943) 1986 - Sibte Hassan, Pakistani activist, journalist and writer (b. 1916) 1987 - Antony Tudor, dancer/choreographer (Amer Ballet Theater) dies at 78 1990 - Horst Sinderman, RDA 1st minister (1973-76), dies 1991 - Don[ald] Siegel, US director (Coogans Bluff/Dirty Harry), dies at 78 1991 - Jumjaagiyn Tsedenbal, Mongolian politician, dies 1991 - Sean OFaolain, [J Whelan], Irish writer (Nest of Simple), dies at 91 1991 - Steve Marriott, English guitarist (Small Faces), dies in a fire at 44 1991 - Yumzhagin Tsendenbal, PM of Mongolia (1952-74), dies 1992 - Benny Hill, comedian (Benny Hill Show), dies of a heart attack at 67 1992 - Johnny Shines, Delta blues singer/guitarist, dies at 76 1993 - Cantinflas, [Mario Moreno], Mexican actor (Pepe), dies at 81 1994 - Jean Carmet, French actor (Merci la Vie, Le Sucre), dies at 72 1995 - Milovan Djilas, Yugoslavian politician (1945-54), dies 1995 - R E S Wyatt, cricketer (England capt 16 times), dies 1995 - Sunil Jayasinghe, Sri Lankan wicketkeeper (1979 World Cup), suicide 1995 - Tessie OShea, entertainer, dies at 81 1996 - Cecilia Grace Hunt Reeves Gillie, bBC Executive, dies at 88 1996 - Christopher Robin Milne, bookseller, dies at 75 1996 - Tran Van Tra, soldier, dies at 77 1999 - Victims and shooters of the Columbine High School massacre 1999 - Rick Rude, American professional wrestler (b. 1958) 1999 - Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist and comedian (b. 1896) 2001 - Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1946) 2002 - Alan Dale, American singer (b. 1925) 2003 - Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress (b. 1908) 2003 - Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1976) 2003 - Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1911) 2005 - Fumio Niwa, Japanese novelist (b. 1904) 2005 - Zygfryd Blaut, Polish football player (b. 1943) 2006 - Anna Svidersky (b. 1988) 2007 - Andrew Hill, American jazz composer and pianist (b. 1931) 2007 - Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (b. 1931). 2008 - VL Mike, American Rapper (b. 1976) 2008 - Monica Lovinescu, Romanian essayist, literary critic and journalist (b. 1923) Civil Rights and Womens Rights Activist Dorothy Height (2010) 2010 - Dorothy Height, American civil rights activist (b. 1912) 2011 - Tim Hetherington, British-American photojournalist (b. 1970) 2011 - Chris Hondros, American photographer (b. 1970) 2013 - Howard Phillips, American politician, dies from dementia and Alzheimers disease at 72 2013 - Nosher Powell, English actor and boxer, dies at 84
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