Today in history brought to you by HistoryOrb gc 753 BC - Romulus and Remus found Rome (traditional date). 43 BC - Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered shortly after. 953 - Otto I the Great gives Utrecht fishing rights 1420 - Treaty of Saint Maartens Dike 1453 - Turkish fleet sinks ships Golden Receiver in Constantinople 1509 - Henry VIII becomes King of England 1521 - Battle at Villalar: Emperor Charles I beats Communards 1526 - Battle at Panipat: Mogol Emperor Babur beats sultan Ibrahim Lodi 1572 - France & England sign anti-Spanish military covenant 1600 - 1st date in James Clavells novel Shogun (OS) 1649 - Maryland Toleration Act passed, allowing all freedom of worship 1654 - England & Sweden sign trade agreement 1689 - William III & Mary Stuart proclaimed king & queen of England 1739 - Spain & Naples-Austria sign peace accord 1785 - Russian tsarina Catharina II ends noble privileges 1789 - John Adams sworn in as 1st US VP (9 days before Washington) 1792 - Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading movement for Brazils independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered. 1794 - NYC formally declares coast of Ellis Island publically owned, so they can build forts to protect NYC from British 1796 - Napoleon and the French defeat the Piedmontese at Battle of Mondovi 1818 - Franz Grillparzers Sappho premieres in Vienna 1836 - Battle of San Jacinto, in which Texas wins independence from Mexico 1855 - 1st train crosses Miss Rivers 1st bridge, Rock Is Ill-Davenport Ia 1857 - Alexander Douglas patents the bustle 1862 - Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Co 1862 - Ellen Price Woods East Lynne premieres in Boston 1863 - Baháulláh, founder of the Baháí Faith, enters gardens of Rivden, near Baghdad. Makes the declaration of ahaullah during 12 days spent there US President Abraham Lincoln 1865 - Abraham Lincolns funeral train leaves Washington 1878 - First Lady Lucy Hayes begins egg rolling contest on White House lawn 1878 - NY installs 1st firehouse pole 1878 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Inscrutabili 1878 - Ship Azor leaves Charleston with 206 blacks for Liberia 1884 - Potters Field reopened as Madison Park 1892 - Black longshoremen strike for higher wages in St Louis, Mo 1894 - George Bernard Shaws Arms & the Man premieres in London 1898 - Phillies pitcher Bill Duggleby hits a grand slam on 1st at bat 1898 - Spanish-American War: The U.S. Congress, on April 25, recognizes that a state of war exists between the United States and Spain as of this date. 1904 - Ty Cobb makes his pro debut for Augusta (South Atlantic League) 1908 - Frederick A Cook claims to reach North Pole (He didnt) 1910 - Cleve Naps play 1st game at League Park, lose to Det Tigers 5-0 1913 - German passenger ship Imperator runs aground 1914 - US marines occupy Vera Cruz, Mexico, stay 6 months Pilot The Red Baron 1918 - World War I: German fighter ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as The Red Baron, is shot down and killed over Vaux sur Somme in France. 1920 - John Galsworthys Skin Game premieres in London 1921 - Ottawa Senators beat Vanc Millionaires 3 games to 2 for Stanley Cup [or 4/4] 1922 - The first Aggie Muster is held as a remembrance for fellow Aggies who had died in the previous year. 1925 - Chuvash Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Chuvash ASSR 1925 - No baseball games played in NL due to Charles Ebbets funeral 1925 - Noel Cowards Fallen Angels premieres in London 1930 - Fire at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 322 1930 - Vladimir Mayakovskys Moskva Golid premieres in Moscow 1934 - Moe Berg, Senators catcher, plays AL record 117th cons errorless game 1935 - King Boris of Bulgaria forbids all political parties 1940 - 1st $64 Question, Take It or Leave It, on CBS Radio 1940 - Netherlands beats Belgium 4-2 in soccer 1941 - Greece surrenders to nazi-Germany 1944 - NFL Chic Cardinals & Pittsburgh Steelers merge (dissolves on Dec 3) Playwright George Bernard Shaw 1945 - Allied troops occupy German nuclear laboratory 1945 - He Shima Okinawa conquered in 5 days, 5,000 die 1945 - Ivor Nivellos Perchance to Dream premieres in London 1945 - Russia army arrives at outskirts of Berlin 1945 - US 7th Army occupies Neurenberg 1946 - SED, Socialistic Einheitspartei Germany forms in East Germany 1948 - 2nd NBA Championship: Balt Bullets beat Phila Warriors, 4 games to 2 1951 - 5th NBA Championship: Rochester Royals beat NY Knicks, 4 games to 3 1951 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 1 1952 - BOAC begins 1st passenger service with jets (London-Rome route) 1952 - Secretarys Day (now Administrative Professionals Day) is first celebrated. 1954 - Gregori Malenkov becomes premier of USSR 1954 - USAF flies French battalion to Vietnam 1955 - Bkln Dodgers win, then record 10th straight game to begin a season 1955 - J Lawrence & R E Lees Inherit the Wind premieres in NYC 1955 - Minas Gerais Argentina tunnel caves in; 30 die Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley 1956 - Elvis Presleys 1st hit record, Heartbreak Hotel, becomes #1 1957 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open 1957 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fidei Donum 1959 - 1211-kg great white shark becomes largest fish ever caught on a rod 1959 - Alf Dean using a rod & reel hooks a 2,664lb, 16 10 white shark 1960 - Brasilia becomes capital of Brazil 1960 - Founding of the Orthodox Baháí Faith in Washington, D.C. 1961 - Dirk U Suffocated chosen as sec-gen of NATO 1961 - French army revolts in Algeria 1961 - USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 32,000 m 1962 - Century 21 Exposition opens in Seattle, Washington 1963 - Beatles meet Rolling Stones for 1st time 1963 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sunshine Womens Golf Open 1963 - The Universal House of Justice of the Baháí Faith is elected for the first time. 1964 - Pirates & Cubs combine for 9 HRs, Pirates win 8-5 1965 - New York Worlds Fair reopens for 2nd & final season 1966 - Emperor Haile Selassie (Ethiopia) visits Kingston Jamaica 1967 - Dodgers 1st rain out in Los Angeles (after 737 consecutive games) 1967 - EO, Evangelical Broadcasting, begins in Netherlands 1967 - Military coup in Greece, Konstantinos Kollias becomes premier 1967 - Svetlana Alliluyeva, Josef Stalins daughter defects to the US in NYC 1968 - 22nd Tony Awards: Rosencranz & Guilderstern & Hallelujah Baby! win 1968 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open 1969 - 73rd Boston Marathon won by Yoshiaki Unetani of Japan in 2:13:49 1970 - Reds clout 7 HRs by 6 batters, Braves counter with 3 HRs, 6 for one team & 9 different batters for two teams, all tie or set records 1970 - The Hutt River Province Principality secedes from Australia. 1971 - Original Codex Reguis (with Edda-liederen) returns to Iceland 1972 - John Young & Charles Duke explores Moon (Apollo 16) 1 2 ▶ Famous Birthdays Birthdays 1 - 100 of 209 1488 - Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot 1546 - Arcangelo Crivelli, composer 1555 - Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1619) 1619 - John A van Riebeeck, colonial director/founder (Cape Colony) 1651 - Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (d. 1711) 1652 - Michel Rolle, French mathematician (d. 1719) 1671 - John Law, Scottish economist (d. 1729) 1672 - Johann Philipp Kafer, composer 1673 - Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1742) 1713 - Louis Duke de Noailles, marshal of France 1730 - Antonin Kammel, composer 1749 - Johann Michael Malzat, composer 1774 - Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist/astronomer (balloonist) 1775 - Alexander Anderson, US, engraver/illustrator (Shakespeare) 1779 - William Knyvett, composer 1795 - Vincenzo Pallotti, Italian saint 1803 - Levin Minn Powell, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1885 1806 - Peter van Schendel, Dutch painter 1809 - Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, Secy State (Confederacy) 1810 - John Putnam Chapin, American politician (d. 1864) 1811 - Alson Sherman, American politician (d. 1903) 1814 - Beni Egressy, composer 1816 - Charlotte Bronte, Tornton England, novelist (Jane Eyre) 1816 - Louis Trezevant Wigfall, Confederate Army, died in 1874 1824 - Anselmo Clave, composer 1828 - Hippolyte Taine, French philosopher/historian (Voyage in Italy) 1834 - William Rufus Terrill, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862 1837 - Fredrik Bajer, Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1908) 1838 - John Muir, US, naturalist/discoverer (glaciers in High Seirras) 1838 - Nat Thompson, cricketer (1st batsman dismissed in a Test match) 1840 - Franz Xaver Haberl, German priest/musicologist (Magister choralis) 1849 - Oskar Hertwig, Germany, embryologist, discovered fertilization 1851 - Charles Barrois, French geologist (d. 1939) 1853 - Charles-Theodore Malherbe, composer 1854 - Eusapia Palladino, Napolitanse with parergische phenomenons 1854 - Wladyslaw Rzepko, composer 1854 - William Stang, Roman Catholic Bishop (d. 1907) 1864 - Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian (Ancient Judaism) 1867 - Benjamin A Jesurun, Antillian literary 1870 - Edwin S. Porter, American film pioneer (d. 1941) 1871 - Leo Blech, composer 1871 - Vojtech Rihovsky, composer 1872 - GW Bitzer, [Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Bitzer], Roxbury MA 1878 - Albert Weisgerber, German painter/graphic artist 1879 - Kartini, Indonesian national figure (d. 1904) 1881 - Jules-Marie Canneel, Flemish painter/caricaturist (Rocks of Oran) 1882 - Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1961) 1886 - Charlie Naughton, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Frozen Limits) 1887 - Lillian Walker, Brooklyn NY, entertainer 1887 - Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager (d. 1978) 1889 - Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971) 1892 - Jaroslav Kvapil, composer 1896 - Henry M de Montherlant, French novelist and stage author (La Reine Morte) 1898 - Steve Owen, NFL tackle, coach (NY Giants) 1899 - Clement DHooghe, composer 1899 - Randall Thompson, NYC, composer (Trip to Nahant) 1901 - Julian Bautista, composer 1902 - Bernard J H Ben Stroman, recensent/writer (Jomtof & Blue Beard) 1903 - Hans Hedtoft, premier Denmark (1947..55) 1904 - Gijsbert van Hall, banker/mayor of Amsterdam (1957-67) 1905 - Edmund G Pat Brown, (Gov-D-California) 1905 - Pat Brown, American politician (d. 1996) 1906 - Tom Burns, editor 1907 - Antoni Szalowski, composer 1907 - Beatrice Kay, NYC, singer/actress, Sister Sue-Calvin & Col) 1908 - Louis Hostin, France, Light Heavyweight, Olympic-gold-1932, 36) 1909 - Rollo May, US, psychologist, Love & Will) 1911 - Leonard Warren, NYC, baritone, Met 1939-60) died on stage 1911 - Ivan Combe, American inventor (d. 2000) 1912 - Feike P Asma, Dutch organist 1912 - Marcel Camus, French director, Orfeu negro) 1912 - Nell [Petronella GS] Koppen, actress, Kniertje-Op Hoop van Zegen) 1912 - Eve Arnold, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, photojournalist (Marilyn Monroe) (d. 2012) 1913 - Choh Hao Li, bio-chemist professor, isolated growth hormones) 1913 - Kai-Uwe von Hassel, German politician 1913 - Norman Parkinson, England, fashion photographer, Harpers Bazaar) 1914 - Norman Panama, American screenwriter (d. 2003) 1915 - Andor Kovach, composer 1915 - Anthony Quinn, Mexico, actor, Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia) 1915 - Frick, [W Groebli], Swiss clown, Frick & Frack) 1916 - Sidney Clute, Brooklyn NY, actor, Lou Grant, Cagney & Lacey) 1917 - Emanuel Vardi, Jerusalem Israel, violist, SD Symph 1978-82) 1919 - Franc [Franklin E] Essed, Suriname agricultural eng, Oper Grasshopper) 1919 - John Goddard, cricketer, West Indian all-rounder 1948-57) 1919 - Don Cornell, American singer (d. 2004) 1920 - Bruno Maderna, Venice Italy, conductor/composer, Hyperion) [or Mar 21] 1920 - Christopher Dark, NY, actor, Suddenly, Tenderfoot) 1920 - Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (d. 1991) 1921 - Jack Fletcher, Forest Hills NY, actor, Grady, Bob Crane Show) 1922 - Allan Watkins, cricketer, England batsman late 40s early 50s) 1923 - Andrea Domburg, Dutch actress, (Theo dOr Prize, Keetje Tippel) 1923 - John Mortimer, English barrister and writer 1924 - Daniel Melnick, NYC, producer, Get Smart) 1924 - Ira Louvin, Rainsville Ala, country singer, Louvin Brothers) Queen of the United Kingdom Elizabeth II (1926) 1926 - Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor II, London UK, Queen of England, 1952- ) 1926 - Arthur Rowley, English Footballer (d. 2002) 1927 - Robert Brustein, NYC, dean, Yale School of Drama) 1927 - Gerald Flood, British actor (d. 1989) 1930 - Don Tyson, founder, Tyson Foods) 1930 - Silvana Mangano, Rome Italy, actress (Death in Venice, Barabbas) 1 2 3 ▶ Famous Weddings Weddings 1 - 6 of 6 1993 - Rolling Stone Bill Wyman weds Suzanne Accosta on French Riveria 2006 - Professional drag racer Andrew Hines (22) weds Tanya Phillips at the First Baptist Church in Tampa, Florida 2007 - Bolivian model Carla Moron weds architect Pedro Gantier at la Iglesia San Francisco de Santa Cruz 2007 - Pop singer sensation Anastacia (38) weds her bodyguard Wayne Newton at the Quinta Real Huatulco in Huatulco, Mexico 2012 - Actress Carey Mulligan (26) weds Mumford & Sons lead singer Marcus Mumford (25) in Somerset, England 2012 - Music legend Neil Diamond (71) weds music manager Katie McNeil (42) at the Beverly Hills Hotel Famous Deaths Deaths 1 - 100 of 104 1073 - Alexander II, [Anselmo da Baggio], Pope (1061-73), dies 1109 - Anselmus, philosopher/archbishop of Canterbury, dies 1142 - Pierre Abélard, French writer (b. 1079) 1329 - Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1282) 1509 - Henry VII, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509), dies at 52 1551 - Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510) 1552 - Peter Apianus, [Bennewitz/Bienewitz], German astronomer, dies at 50 1557 - Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (b. 1495) 1574 - Cosimo de Medici, Italian duke of Toscane, dies at about 54 1652 - Pietro Della Valle, composer, dies at 66 1696 - Andres de Sola, composer, dies at 61 1699 - Jean Racine, French dramatist (b. 1639) 1701 - Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (b. 1667) 1719 - Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and historian (b. 1640) 1720 - Antoine Hamilton, French writer (b. 1646) 1722 - Robert Beverley, Jr., historian of Colonial Virginia (b. 1673) 1730 - Jan Palfijn, Flemish physician/inventor (forceps), dies at 79 1736 - Frans Eugenius, duke/prince of Savoye, dies at 72 1780 - Ferdinand Zellbell, composer, dies at 60 1792 - Tiradentes, Brazilian revolutionary (b. 1746) 1793 - John Michell, English seismologist (b. 1724) 1815 - Joseph Winston, U.S. Congressman from North Carolina (b. 1746) 1825 - Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathemattician (b. 1765) 1852 - Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (b. 1787) 1868 - Henry James OFarrell, Australian would-be assassin of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh 1871 - Elisabeth Grube, writer, dies 1878 - Temistocle Solera, composer, dies at 62 1898 - Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer, dies at 78 1899 - Heinrich Kiepert, German cartographer/geographer, dies at 80 1900 - Heinrich Vogl, composer, dies at 55 1910 - Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens], American author (Huckleberry Finn), dies at 74 1918 - Red Baron, [Manfred von Richtofen], shot down in WW I at 25 Pilot The Red Baron (1918) 1918 - Manfred von Richthofen [The Red Baron], German pilot dies after his plane his shot down at 25 1922 - Alessandro Moreschi, Italian castrato (b. 1858) 1924 - Eleanora Duse, Ital actress (La Gioconda, La Locandiera), dies at 64 1930 - Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman, Dutch actress (Mother), dies at 79 1930 - Robert S Bridges, poet laureate (Testament of beauty), dies at 85 1938 - Muhammad Iqbal, Brt E Indies lawyer/Pakistan national hero, dies at 65 1938 - Allama Iqbal, Indian philosopher and poet (b. 1877) 1939 - Herman Finck, composer, dies at 66 1945 - John Poston, British major/Montgomerys ADC, dies in battle at 25 1946 - Robert Graham, cricketer (3 wkts for S Afr in 2 Tests 1898-99), dies 1946 - John Maynard Keynes, English economist (b. 1883) 1948 - Carlos Lopez Buchardo, composer, dies at 66 1952 - Leslie Banks, actor (Henry V, 21 Days, Eye Witness), dies at 61 1952 - [Richard] Stafford Cripps, Engl min of Plane-manufacturing, dies at 62 1956 - Charles MacArthur, American writer (b. 1895) 1961 - James Melton, opera tenor (Ford Festival), dies at 57 1962 - Frederick Handley Page, designer of 1st big airplane (40 seats), dies 1965 - Edward V Appleton, English physicist (Nobel Prize 1947), dies at 72 1967 - Andre L Danjon, French astronomer, dies at 77 1968 - Norman Demuth, composer, dies at 69 1968 - Toby Halicki, car-crash film producer 48, killed shooting stunt 1971 - Edmund Lowe, actor (Front Page Detective), dies at 81 1971 - Francois Doc Duvalier, dictator of Haiti, dies at 64 1973 - Ursula Jeans, actress (Cavalcade, Over the Moon), dies at 66 1973 - Arthur Fadden, thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894) 1974 - Charles Chic Harley, American football player (b. 1895) 1975 - Jack Allan Westrup, composer, dies at 70 1977 - Gummo [Milton] Marx, US comic (Marx Brothers), dies at 84 1978 - Sandy Denny, country singer, dies at 37 1980 - Aleksandr Oparin, Russian biochemist (b. 1894) 1980 - Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (b. 1928) 1981 - Harry Lee, cricketer (scored 18 & 1 in only Test for England), dies 1982 - Joe Sawyer, actor (Biff OHara-Adventures of Rin Tin Tin), dies at 80 1985 - Rudi Gernreich, US designer (miniskirt), dies at 62 1985 - Tancredo Neves, president-elect of Brazil, dies at 75 1985 - Foster Hewitt, Canadian radio pioneer (b. 1902) 1986 - Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (b.1930) 1987 - Edith S Green, (Rep-D-Ore), dies at 77 1989 - James Kirkwood, actor/writer (Devils Holiday), dies at 64 1989 - Princess Dukhye of Korea (b. 1912) 1990 - Johnny Beagley, winner of two 1942 World Series games, dies 1990 - Erté, French artist (b. 1892) 1991 - Richard Bolling, (Rep-D-Missouri), dies at 74 1991 - Willi Boskovsky, Austrian conductor (new years concert), dies at 81 1992 - Robert Harris, murderer, executed in Califs gas chamber at 39 1992 - Vladimir K Romanov, Grand Duke/Rus pretender to the throne, dies at 74 1993 - Hal Schumacher, baseball pitcher, dies at 82 1994 - Clement Merk, animal trainer, dies at 93 1995 - Robert Elliott Storey Wyatt, cricketer, dies at 93 1995 - Stafford Heginbotham, toymaker/Football Club Chairman, dies at 61 1996 - A H Kardar, cricketer (3 Tests for India & 23 for Pak 1946-58), dies 1996 - Dzhokhar Dudayev, separatist leader and President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (1991), dies at 52 1996 - Jimmy The Greek Snyder, oddsmaker/sportscaster (CBS), dies at 76 1996 - Robert Hersant, press baron, dies at 76 1996 - Rodney Meredith Thomas, architect/painter, dies at 93 1996 - Zora Arkus-Duntov, engineer, dies at 86 1997 - Andres Rodriguez, Paraguayan president (1989-93), dies 1997 - Diosdado Macapagal, Philippine president (1961-65), dies 1998 - Jean Francois Lyotard, French philosopher and sociologist (b. 1924) 1999 - Charles Buddy Rogers, American actor and musician (b. 1904) 2000 - Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer (b. 1929) 2003 - Nina Simone, American singer and pianist (b. 1933) 2004 - Mary McGrory, American journalist (b. 1918) 2005 - Gerry Marshall, British racing driver (b. 1941) 2006 - T.K. Ramakrishnan, Indian politician (b. 1922) 2006 - Telê Santana, Brazilian football manager (b. 1931) 2007 - Lobby Loyde, Australian guitarist and songwriter (b. 1941) 2008 - Al Wilson, American singer (b. 1939)
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