2DAY_IN_HISTORY 23_MAY_2014 King of France King Philip I 1059-Henri I crowns his son compassionate King Philip I of France 1275-King Edward I of England orders cessation of persecution of French Jews 1420-Jews of Syria & Austria expelled 1421-Jews of Austria imprisoned & expelled 1430-Joan of Arc is captured at Compiegne & sold to the English 1493-King Charles VIII & Maximilian I of Austria signs Peace of Senlis 1536-Pope Paul III installs Portugese inquisition 1544-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V recognizes king Christian III of Denmark 1555-Giampietro Caraffa elected Pope Paul IV 1568-Battle of Heiligerlee, Groningen: Dutch rebels beat Spanish, thousands killed 1568 -The Netherlands declare independence from Spain. 1576-Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory 1609-Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place. 1611-Matthias von Habsburg chosen king of Bohemia 1618-2nd Defenestration of Prague; beginning of 30 Years War. Four Catholic Lords Regents thrown out of window Astronomer Tycho Brahe 1644-Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists 1647-Willem II sworn in as viceroy of Holland 1660-King Charles II returns from exile sails from Scheveningen to England 1667-King Afonso VI of Portugal flees 1701-Captain William Kidd is hanged in London after being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore. 1706-Battle of Ramillies: John Churchill (1st Duke of Marlborough) defeats French; 17,000 killed 1750-Carlo Goldonis Il Bugiardo premieres in Mantua 1774-Chestertown tea party occurs (tea dumped into Chester River) 1785-Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals 1788-South Carolina becomes 8th state to ratify US constitution 1813-South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador (The Liberator) 1844-Declaration of Bab (Bahai festival) (Azamat 7, 1) 1853-Buenos Aires gains independence from Argentina (reunited 1859) 1861-3 fleeing slaves enter Fort Monroe Virginia 1861 -Virginia citizens vote 3 to 1 in favor of secession from the Union Military and Political Leader Simon Bolivar 1862-Battle at Front Royal, Virginia 1862 -Valley Campaign: Stonewall Jackson takes Fort Royal, Virginia 1863-Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan. 1864-Battle of Dallas, GA 1864 -Battle of North Anna, Va, 1st of 3 days of fighting 1865--24] Victory parade in Washington, DC (Grand Review) 1865 -Flag flown at full mast over White House, 1st time since Lincoln shot 1867-Jesse James gang robs bank in Richmond, Missouri (2 die, $4,000 taken) 1873-1st Preakness: G Barbee aboard Survivor wins in 2:43 1873 -Canadas North West Mounted Police Force forms 1873 -Postal cards sold in SF for 1st time 1876-1st NL no-hitter (Joe Borden, Boston) 1878-Atty John Henry Smyth named minister to Liberia 1882-6 of snow falls in eastern Iowa 1883-9th Kentucky Derby: William Donohue aboard Leonatus wins in 2:43 Outlaw Jesse James 1883 -Baseball game between one-armed & one-legged players 1884-12th Preakness: S Fisher aboard Knight of Ellerslie wins in 2:39.5 1887-1st transcontinental train arrives in Vancouver, BC 1894-William Love hosts ground breaking ceremonies for Love Canal 1898-1st Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Francisco 1900-Associated Press News Service forms in NY 1901-35th Belmont: H Spencer aboard Commando wins in 2:21 1901 -Indians score 9 runs after 2 outs in 9th to beat Senators 14-13 1901 -Ottawa Mint Act receives Royal Assent 1901 -US captures leader of Philippine rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo 1903-1st automobile trip across US from San Francisco to NY, ended April 1 1903 -1st direct primary election law in US adopted, by Wisconsin 1907-The single chamber Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session. 1908-Dirigible explodes over SF Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die 1908 -Part of Great White Fleet arrives in Puget Sound, Washington 1911-NY Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by Pres Taft 1915-Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary & Germany during WW I 1916-Heavy battles at Fort Douaumont Verdun 1917-Dutch 2nd Chamber approves 1908 conscription draft 1918-King Oil/Shell refinery on Curacao officially opens 1920-Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Pacem Dei 1921-Shuffle Along 1st black musical comedy, opens in NYC 1922-Abies Irish Rose 1st of over 2,500 performances 1922 -Harry Greb gave Gene Tunney his only professional boxing defeat Animator Walt Disney 1922 -Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films 1923-Launch of Belgiums SABENA airline: first flight from Brussels to Lympne, England 1926-Hack Wilson is 1st to hit a home run off Wrigley Field scoreboard 1926 -Lebanese constitution forms under French mandate 1928-Bomb attack on Italians embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die 1931-Whipsnade Zoo opens in Bedfordshire, England 1932-Sir Hubert Ferdinand Opperman sets 24 hr record of 860 mi, 367 yds 1934-The Auto-Lite Strike culminates in the Battle of Toledo, a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers. 1935-1st scheduled night game postponed due to rain (Cincinnati) 1939-British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949 1939 -Dmitri Shostakovitch appointed professor at conservatory of Leningrad 1939 -Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland 1939 -Submarine Squalis sank off Portsmouth NH, 26 die 1940-1st great dogfight between Spitfires and Luftwaffe 1941-Joe Louis beats Buddy Baer on DQ in 7 for heavyweight boxing title Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler 1941 -Rudolf Harbig runs world record 1k (2:21.5) 1943--24] 826 Allied bombers attack Dortmund 1943 -Thomas Mann begins writing his novel Dr Faustus 1944-British and Canadian troops occupy Pontecorvo, Italy 1944 -Chinese counter offensive at Hunan front 1944 -Operation Buffalo: Allied break out from Anzio bridgehead 1944 -Polo Grounds host 1st NYC night game since 1941 1945-British military police arrest Admiral Karl Doenitz 1945 -German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to British 1945 -Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi leader & Gestapo leader, commits suicide in prison at 44 1945 -Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) arrested at Danish boundary 1947-PC Hooft prize forms for literature 1948-Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs 1948 -Ramat Rahel gateway to Jerusalem is repossessed by Israel 1949-Federal Republic of [West] Germany proclaimed (Republic Day) Baseball Player Joe DiMaggio 1951-Peter Ustinovs Love of Four Colonels premieres in Lond 1 2 ▶ Famous Birthdays Birthdays1 - 100of255 King of France King Philip I(1052) 1052-King Philip I of France (d. 1108) 1100-Emperor Qinzong of China (d. 1161) 1598-Claude Mellan, French engraver/cartoonist/painter, baptized 1606-Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (d. 1682) 1617-Elias Ashmole, antiquary 1620-Pieter Neefs, the Younger, Flemish painter, baptized 1644-Thomas Eisenhut, composer 1696-Johann Caspar Vogler, composer 1707-Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist and the Father of Taxonomy (d. 1778) 1710-Francois-Gaspard Adam, French sculptor (garden sculptures) 1718-William Hunter, obstetrician/medal writer 1729-Giuseppe Parini, Italian priest/poet (Il Giorno) 1734-Friedrich Anton Mesmer, Austria, physician/hypnotist (Mesmerism) 1735-Charles Joseph, prince the Ligne, Belgian fieldmarshal/author 1737-Louis Francois Chambray, composer 1741-Andrea Lucchesi, composer 1753-Giovanni Battista Viotti, violonist/composer 1754-Andrea Appiana, Italian royal painter (Napoleon) 1756-Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel, composer 1759-Antoinio da Silva Leite, composer 1790-Jules Dumont dUrville, French explorer (d. 1842) 1794-Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles, composer 1795-Charles Barry, architect 1799-Thomas Hood, English poet/composer (Song of the Shirt) 1812-Henri A Esquiros, French poet/writer (Les Vierges Folles) 1813-Mason Brayman, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895 1820-James Buchanan Eads, US, engineer/inventor (Eads Bridge-St Louis) 1820 -Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California (d. 1891) 1824-Ambrose Everett Burnside, Major General (Union volunteers) 1828-Edward Hitchcock, Americas 1st prof of physical ed (Amherst College) 1832-Pieter J B C R van der Aa, Dutch Indologist/geographer 1834-Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (d. 1890) 1837-James Sanks Brisbin, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1892 1843-Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia, composer 1844-`Abdul-Bahá, Successor to Prophet of the Baháí Faith (d. 1921) 1848-Helmuth J L von Moltke, German general/chief of staff (WW I) 1848 -Otto Lilienthal, pioneer aviator 1851-Antoni Stolpe, composer 1862-William Dummy Hoy, professional baseball player who lived to 99 1864-Louis Glass, composer 1865-Epitácio Pessoa, President of Brazil (d. 1942) 1866-Gustav Aschaffenburg, German psychiatrist/criminalologist 1871-Sigurd Lie, composer 1873-Leo Baeck, rabbi/president (World Union for Progressive Judaism) 1875-Alfred P. Sloan, American long-time president and chairman of General Motors (d. 1966) 1879-Dezső Lauber, Hungarian sportsman (d. 1966) 1882-James Gleason, NYC, writer/actor (Bishops Wife, Flying Fool) 1883-Douglas Fairbanks, Denver CO, actor (Zorro/3 Musketeers/Robin Hood) 1884-Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist (d. 1965) 1887-Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1963) 1888-Adrian Roland Holst, Dutch poet (Raged & Tired) 1888 -Zack Wheat, American baseball player (d. 1972) 1889-José Padilla, Almería, Spanish composer and pianist (La Violetera - City Lights, Ça cest Paris - Moulin Rouge) 1889 -Ernst Niekisch, German politician (d. 1967) 1890-Herbert Marshall, London, actor (Murder, Razors Edge, Little Foxes) 1890 -Virginia Eames, Ft Davis TX, entertainer 1891-Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1974) 1893-Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (d. 1977) 1896-Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Heer and Waffen-SS officer (d. 1966) 1898-Frank McHugh, actor (Front Page, Gold Diggers 1935, Mighty Joe Young) 1898 -Joseph Hazen, lawyer 1898 -Scott ODell, American author (d. 1989) 1900-Hans Frank, German Nazi war criminal (d. 1946) 1901-Edmund Rubbra, Northampton England, composer (Morning Watch) [or 3/23] 1902-Mark Lothar, composer 1903-Walter Reisch, US, screenwriter (Ninotchka, Gaslight, Titanic) 1906-Hellmuth Christian Wolff, composer 1907-Kenneth Allen, engineer 1907 -Matthew Campbell, British senior civil servant Physicist and Electrical Engineer John Bardeen(1908) 1908-John Bardeen, US, physicist (transistor, Nobel 1956, 1972) 1908 -Max Abramovitz, US architect (Lincoln Center, UN Building) 1909-Edwin Arrowsmith, diplomat 1910-Artie Shaw, [Arthur Arshawsky], NYC, bandleader (Comeon my House) 1910 -Franz Jozef Kline, US expressionist painter 1910 -Hugh Casson CH, architect 1910 -Scatman Crothers, [Benjamin], Terre Haute IN, actor (Zapped, Shining) 1910 -Margaret Wise Brown, American author (d. 1952) 1911-Boris Kremenliev, composer 1911 -Melvin M Payne, president (National Geographic Society) 1912-David Barran, CEO (Midland Bank, England) 1912 -John Payne, Roanoke Va, actor (Restless Gun) 1912 -Marius Goring, Isle of Wight, actor (Herr Palitz-Holocaust) 1912 -Samuel Curran, vice chancellor (Strathclyde University) 1913-Ian Graeme, major-general 1914-Alec Dickson, founder (VSO) 1914 -Barbara Ward, economist/writer (Only One Earth) 1914 -Leo Lerman, actor/manager/critic (Dance Magazine) 1914 -Travis Kemp, dancer/teacher 1915-Clyde Wiegand, physicist 1916-M Jean Francaix, composer 1916 -Margaret Hayden Rector, playwright (living legacy award 1995) 1917-Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (d. 2008) 1918-Bulent Arel, composer 1918 -Bumps Blackwell, rocker 1918 -Denis Compton, cricketer (England batsman 1938-56 & Arsenal forward) 1919-Betty Garrett, St Joseph Mo, actress (Irene-All in the Family) 1919 -Robert KJE Antonissen, South African literary 1919 -Ruth Fernandez, Ponce, Puerto Rico, singer (When you Return), politician, (d. 2012) 1920-Helen OConnell, Lima Ohio, singer (Green Eyes, Anapola) 1920 -Sid Melton, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Alf-Green Acres, Charlie-Danny Thoma 1 2 3 ▶ Famous Weddings Weddings1 - 6of6 Comic Book Artist and Writer Jack Kirby(1942) 1942-Comic book artist Jack Kirby (24) weds Roz Goldstein 1953-John F. Kennedys sister Eunice Kennedy (31) weds activist and attorney Sargent Shriver at Saint Patricks Cathedral in New York City 1992-Once and Again actress Sela Ward (35) weds actor Howard Sherman (42) 1992 -Actress Anjelica Huston (40) weds sculptor Robert Graham (54) 2004-Singer-guitarist Michelle Branch (21) weds musician Teddy Landau at Isla Pardito, Mexico 2012-Grammy-winning Spanish pop star Alejandro Sanz (43) weds longtime girlfriend Raquel Perera (37) in Barcelo Famous Divorces Divorces1 - 1of1 Spanish Princess, Queen of England Catherine of Aragon(1533) 1533-King Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragons marriage declared null & void by authority English clergy not the Po Famous Deaths Deaths1 - 100of117 1125-Hendrik V, Roman catholics German king/emperor (1098/1111-25), dies 1304-Jehan de Lescurel, French poet and composer 1423-Benedict XIII, [Pedro the Luna], Spanish Pope (1394-1423), dies 1498-Girolamo Savonarola, dictator of Florence (1494-98), hanged at 45 1523-Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (b. 1466) 1524-Ismail I, Shah of Persia (b. 1487) 1568-Adolf van Nassau, German son of Willem the Rich, dies in battle at 27 1627-Luis de Gongora y Argote, poet/writer, dies 1648-Luis de Nain, painter, dies 1662-John Gauden, English bishop and writer (b. 1605) 1668-Philips Wouwerman, Haarlems painter, buried 1670-Ferdinando II de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1610) 1684-Adriaen Backer, Amsterdams painter buried at about 48 1691-Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (b. 1622) Pirate Legend William Kidd(1701) 1701-William Kidd, Scottish pirate, hanged at Londons Execution Dock 1752-William Bradford, English-born printer (b. 1663) 1754-John Wood, architect/town planner, dies 1783-James Otis, American lawyer, dies 1785-William Woollett, engraver, dies 1786-Móric Beňovský, Slovak officer and explorer, King of Madagascar (b. 1746) 1813-Geraud Duroc, French general (b. 1772) 1825-Ras Gugsa of Yejju, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia 1834-Charles Wesley, composer, dies at 76 1838-John W Janssens, gov-gen (Cape Colony), dies at 75 1841-Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher/theologist, dies at 76 1842-Jose de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet, dies at 34 1846-Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki, Polish politician (b. 1778) 1851-Lucas Pieter Roodbaard, architect, dies at 69 1855-Charles Robert Malden, English explorer (b. 1797) 1857-Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (b. 1789) 1860-Albert Richard Smith, author/lecturer, dies 1867-Archibald Alison, Scottish historian, dies at 74 1868-Kit Carson, American trapper, scout, and Indian agent (b. 1809) 1875-Johann Wilhelm Mangold, composer, dies at 78 1881-Kit Carson, frontiersman, dies 1881 -Leopold von Ranke, historian, dies 1883-Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter/poet/playwright (Wanda), dies 1886-Leopold von Ranke, German historian (b. 1795) 1887-Ludwig Mathias Lindeman, composer, dies at 74 1891-Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer, dies at 73 1893-Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (b. 1805) 1895-Franz E Neumann, German mineralogist/physicist, dies at 96 1897-Aleko Konstantinov, Bulgarian writer (To Chicago & Back), dies at 34 1905-Martinus W van AA Meerbeke, head-editor (Time), dies at 75 1906-Henrik Johan Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (Doll House), dies at 78 1908-Francois Coppee, French poet, dies 1920-Svetozar Boroević, Austrian field marshal (b. 1856) 1926-Hans Koessler, composer, dies at 73 American Outlaw Bonnie Parker(1934) 1934-Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush at 23 1934 -Clyde Barrow, outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush 1937-John Davison Rockfeller, industrialist, dies at 97 in Ormond Beach Fla 1937 -John D Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist, dies at 97 1938-Philip Kleintjes, republic leader, dies at 70 1940-Andrej N Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/son of Nikolai, dies 1940 -Paul Nizan, French journalist/writer (Ce Soir/Aden Arabia), dies at 35 1941-Lord Herbert Austin, motor manufacturer, dies 1941 -Slavko Osterc, composer, dies at 45 1947-C F Ramuz, writer, dies at 68 1952-Georg Alfred Schumann, composer, dies at 85 1954-H R Bromley-Davenport, cricketer (batted in 4 Tests for England), dies 1960-Georges Claude, engineer/inventor, dies 1961-Joan Davis, comedic actress (I Married Joan), dies at 53 1965-David Smith, sculptor, dies Oil Industrialist John D. Rockefeller(1937) 1965 -Earl Webb, American baseball player (b. 1897) 1966-Ruth Gates, Denton TX, actress (Aunt Jenny-Mama), dies at 79 1966 -Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (b. 1902) 1967-Philip Coolidge, actor (I Want to Live, Tingler), dies at 58 1967 -Sanne Sannes, photographer, dies at 30 1968-James Burke, actor (Ellery Queen, Army Surgeon), dies at 81 1968 -Merle Kendrick, orchestra leader (Window on the World), dies at 72 1969-Diane Aubrey, actress (Haunted Strangler), dies of heart attack at 79 1969 -Jimmy McHugh, composer (Cant Give You Anything But Love), dies at 74 1969 -Peter Alma, painter/graphic artist, dies at 83 1970-Nydia Westman, actress (Going My Way, Young Mr Bobbins), dies at 68 1973-Athena Lorde, actress (Fuzz, Skin Game, Firecreek), dies at 57 1974-Kathleen Cannell, writer, dies 1975-Jackie Moms Mabley, comedienne (Amazing Grace), dies at 81 1979-Hubert van Doorne, auto manufacturer (DAF), dies at 79 1981-George Jessel, US comic/toastmaster (Diary of Young Comic), dies at 83 1981 -Rayner Heppenstall, English novelist (d. 1911) 1981 -David Lewis, Canadian labour lawyer and politician (b. 1909) 1983-Albert Claude, Belgian biologist (Nobel 1974), dies at 84 1986-Sterling Hayden, actor (Blue & Gray), dies at 70 1987-Karel Albert, Flemish composer (Marieken van Nymeghen), dies at 86 1988-David Schoenbrun, CBS broadcast bureau head (Wash, Paris), dies at 73 1989-Georgy Tovstonogov, Russian theatre director (b. 1915) 1991-Jean van Houte, Belgian premier, dies 1991 -Peter T Thwaites, British brig-gen/playwright (Love or money), dies 1991 -William Sinnot, Scottish pop musician (Shamen), dies at 30 1991 -Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist and composer (b. 1895) 1992-Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentine singer/composer/poet/guitarist, dies 1992 -Giovanni Falcone, anti-mafia judge (Palermo), murdered 1993-James Millhollin, actor (Anston Foster-Grindl), dies at 77 1994-Carl Althoff, German circus director, dies at 82 1994 -Joe Pass, US jazz guitarist (The Trio), dies at 65 1994 -Ray Candy, American professional wrestler (b. 1951) 1996-Dorothy Hyson, actress (Spare a Copper, Sing as We Go), dies at 81 1996 -Kronid Arkadyevich Lyubarsky, human rights activist, dies at 61 1996 -Patrick Cargill, actor (Up Pompeii, Magic Christian), dies at 77 1996 -Rob Hall, New Zealand high altitude climber
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