Today in history brought to you by HistoryOrb fr 1489 - The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice. 1558 - Ferdinand I appointed Holy Roman emperor 1559 - Storm floods ravage Gorinchem, Dordrecht & Woudrichem, Netherlands 1590 - Battle at Ivry: French King Henri IV beats Catholic League 1629 - England granted a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony 1644 - England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island) 1647 - Thirty Years War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm. 1653 - Johan van Galen beats English fleet at Livorno 1689 - Scotland dismisses William III & Mary Stuart as king & queen 1743 - 1st American town meeting (Bostons Faneuil Hall) 1757 - On board HMS Monarch (his own flagship), British Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for neglecting his duty Pour encourager les autres. 1794 - Eli Whitney patents cotton gin 1800 - Luigi Chiaramonti crowned Pope Pius VII 1812 - Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812 1821 - African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (NY) 1826 - General Congress of South American States assembles at Panama 1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Australia 1840 - Jose Zorillas El Zapatero y el Rey premieres in Madrid 1843 - Boston conducts its 1st town meeting (Faneuil Hall) Naturalist Charles Darwin 1845 - -5.3°F (-20.7°C) in Groningen 1862 - Battle of New Bern NC: General Burnside conquers New Bern 1864 - Rossinis Petite Messe Solennelle premieres in Paris 1864 - Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana 1869 - Defeat of Titokowaru. 1870 - California legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible 1875 - Smetanas Vysehrad premieres 1885 - Gilbert & Sullivans comic opera Mikado premieres in London 1888 - 2nd largest snowfall in NYC history (21) 1889 - August Strindbergs Froken Julie premieres in Copenhagen 1889 - German Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon 1896 - Sutro Baths (SF) opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1, 1952) 1899 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks beat Winnipeg Victorias, 6-2 1900 - Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendels laws of genetics 1900 - US currency goes on gold standard Inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin 1901 - 1st performance of Anton Bruckners 6th Symphony in A 1903 - 1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian, FL 1903 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Rat Portage Thisles in 2 games 1903 - WB Yeats & Lady Gregorys Hour-glass premieres in Dublin 1906 - Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club forms 1908 - Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers beat Toronto Trolley Leaguers, 6-4 1909 - Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms 1910 - Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere. 1912 - King Vittorio Emanuel III of Italy injured in an assassination attempt 1913 - John D Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation 1914 - Serbia & Turkey sign peace treaty 1915 - German cruiser Dresden scuttled off Más a Tierra, Chile, having been pursued by the Royal Navy after the Battle of the Falkland Islands, with her engines worn out and virtually no coal. 1916 - Battle of Verdun - German attack on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun 1918 - 1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched, SF 1922 - KGU-AM in Honolulu HI begins radio transmissions Oil Industrialist John D. Rockefeller 1922 - KSD-AM in Saint Louis MO begins radio transmissions 1922 - WGR-AM in Buffalo NY begins radio transmissions 1923 - Allies accepts Vilnus taking East-Galicia in Poland 1923 - German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP (Nazi party) 1923 - Pres Warren G Harding becomes 1st pres to pay taxes 1926 - A train in Costa Rica falls into the Río Virilla, killing 248 and injuring 93. 1931 - 1st theater built for rear movie projection (NYC) 1933 - Civilian Conservation Corp begins tree conservation 1935 - 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars 1936 - Federal Register, 1st magazine of the US government, publishes 1st issue 1937 - Battle of the Century: Fred Allen & Jack Benny meet on radio 1937 - Pope Pius XI publishes anti-nazi-encyclical Mit brennender Sorge 1939 - England draw with South Africa at Durban on the 10th day 1939 - Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia 1940 - 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen, Texas 1941 - Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies 1941 - Xavier Cugat & orchestra record Babalu 1943 - World War II - The Kraków Ghetto is liquidated. 1945 - RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm 1946 - Belgian government of Spaak forms 1948 - Freedom Train arrives in SF 1950 - FBIs 10 Most Wanted Fugitives program begins 1951 - During Korean War, US/UN forces recapture Seoul 1951 - Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany 1953 - KOLR TV channel 10 in Springfield, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting 1954 - Braves Henry Aaron homers in his 1st exhibition game 1954 - KDAL (now KDLH) TV channel 3 in Duluth-Superior, MN (CBS) begins 1954 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship 1954 - NBA Baltimore Bullets end a 32 game road losing streak 1955 - Prince Mahemdra becomes king of Nepal 1956 - Satchel Paige signs with the Birmingham Black Barons (Negro League) 1957 - Indonesian government of Sastroamidjojo resigns 1958 - RIAA certifies 1st gold record (Perry Comos Catch A Falling Star) 1958 - Recording Industry Association of American created 1958 - South Africa government prohibits the African National Congress 1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1958 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test 1960 - 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield Calif 1960 - Wilt Chamberlain (Phila) sets NBA playoff record of 53 points 1961 - George Weiss becomes pres of NY Mets 1962 - Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France 1962 - Gordie Howe (Det Red Wings) is 2nd NHLer to score 500 goals 1963 - SF Guy Rogers ties NBA record with 28 assists 1964 - Girl Who Came to Supper closes at Broadway NYC after 112 perfs Night club operator Jack Ruby 1964 - Dallas, Texas; Jack Ruby sentenced to death for Lee Harvey Oswalds murder 1965 - Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany 1967 - 1st NFL-AFL common draft, Balt Colts pick Bubba Smith 1967 - JFKs body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial 1968 - CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesnt make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA 1969 - Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win at Aqueduct 1969 - Seymour Nurse scores 258 in his last Test Cricket innings, WI v NZ 1 2 ▶ Famous Birthdays Birthdays 1 - 100 of 228 1623 - Adam-Nicolas Gascon, composer 1638 - Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (d. 1710) 1681 - Georg Philipp Telemann, Magdeburg Germany, late baroque composer 1692 - Peter Musschenbroek, Dutch physician/physicist (Leyden jar) 1726 - Josef Antonin Stepan, composer 1727 - Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, composer 1755 - Pierre-Louis Couperin, composer 1782 - Thomas Hart Benton, (rep), Old Bullion 1790 - Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (d. 1863) 1795 - Rubert Lucas Pearsall, composer 1800 - James Bogardus, US inventor/builder (made cast-iron buildings) 1804 - Johann Strauss, the Elder, Viennese violinist and composer (Radetzky March) (d. 1849) 1807 - Josephine of Leuchtenberg, queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1876) 1808 - Catharinus Putnam Buckingham, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) 1815 - Josephine Lang, composer 1816 - Montgomery Dent Corse, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1895 1820 - Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia (1849-61)/Italy (1861-78) 1821 - Jens Worsaae, Denmark, archaeologist 1822 - Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Empress of Brazil (d. 1889) King of Sardinia and Italy Victor Emmanuel II (1820) 1823 - Roswell Sabine Ripley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1887 1823 - Théodore de Banville, French writer (d. 1891) 1826 - William Fisk Sherwin, composer 1829 - Charles Charlesworth, England, (dies at 7 of old age) 1831 - Leon Leopold Lewandoski, composer 1833 - John Sappington Marmaduke, Major General (Confederate Army) 1833 - Lucy Hobbs Taylor, 1st US woman dentist (1866) 1835 - Giovanni V Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (Mars) [or March 4] 1835 - Manuel Fernandez Caballero, composer 1837 - Charles Ammi Cutter, US librarian (Expansive classification) 1844 - King Umberto I, of Italy (1878-1900) 1847 - Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (Espumas Flutuantes) 1853 - Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (d. 1918) 1854 - Paul Ehrlich, Germany, bacteriologist (Nobel-1908) 1854 - Thomas Riley Marshall, (D) 28th VP (1913-21) 1854 - Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer (d. 1920) 1854 - John Lane, British publisher (d. 1925) 1862 - Vilhelm FK Bjerknes, Norwegian/US physicist/meteorology 1864 - [John] Casey Jones, RR engineer (Ballad of Casey Jones) 1866 - Alexey Troitsky, Russian chess problemist (d. 1942) 1869 - Algernon Blackwood, British writer (d. 1951) 1873 - Johannes Aengenent, sociologist/bishop of Haarlem (1928-35) 1874 - Anton F Philips, president-director of Philips 1874 - Mary Carr, Phila, actress (Forbidden Trail, Pack Up Your Troubles) 1875 - Isadore Gilbert Mudge, US, librarian/author (Thackeray Dictionary) 1875 - Norman Houstoun ONeill, composer 1878 - Carel T Scharten, Dutch poet/writer (Forces of the Future) Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein (1879) 1879 - Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate (theory of relativity) 1880 - Oscar (Bachigaloupi) Tourniaire, actor/director (Pink Kate) 1882 - Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (d. 1969) 1883 - Juan Manen, composer 1884 - Albert Egges van Giffen, Dutch archaeologist 1884 - Winter Haynes Watts, composer 1885 - Raoul Lufbery, American World War I pilot (d. 1918) 1886 - Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (d. 1964) 1887 - George Creten, Belgian sculptor/painter 1887 - Lawrence Collingwood, composer 1887 - Sylvia Beach, American publisher (d. 1962) 1888 - Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Quebec painter (d. 1970) 1891 - John P Strijbos, Dutch writer (Wandering through South-Africa) 1892 - Olive Netta Parsons, co-founder (Collets Bookshop) 1894 - Josef Schelb, composer 1894 - Osa Johnson, American explorer (d. 1953) 1895 - Frans Ganshof, Belgian historian 1898 - Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (d. 1985) 1899 - K.C. Irving, Canadian industrialist (d. 1992) 1903 - Molla Mustafa Barzani, Iran, Kurd leader (KDP) 1903 - Adolph Gottlieb American painter (d. 1974) 1904 - Doris Eaton Travis, American actress, Ziegfeld girl 1905 - Raymond Aron, French sociologist/political scientist 1906 - Ulvi Cemal Erkin, composer 1908 - Maurice (Jean Jacques) Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher 1908 - Nikolay Petrovich Rakov, composer 1908 - Ed Heinemann, American aircraft designer (Douglas Aircraft; d. 1991) 1909 - Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, French writer (Margin) 1911 - Pete Piute, [Morris Kaufman], NYC, comedian (Village Barn) 1912 - Les Brown, Reinerton Pa, American bandleader (d. 2001) 1913 - Witold Rudzinski, composer 1914 - Henry Ralph Carr, soldier 1914 - Jiri Reinberger, composer 1914 - Lee Elhardt Hays, American folksinger (d. 1981) 1914 - Bill Owen, British actor (d. 1999) 1914 - Lee Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000) 1915 - Alexander Brott, composer 1915 - Carlos Surinach, Barcelona Spain, composer (Monte Carlo) [NS] 1915 - Kenneth Rowntree, painter 1916 - Horton Foote, American author, playwright and screenwriter 1917 - Macha Louis Rosenthal, critic/poet 1918 - Dennis Patrick, Phila, actor (Dear Dead Delilah, Dallas, Rituals) 1919 - Luther Henderson Jr, KC Mo, orchestra leader (Polly Bergen Show) 1919 - Max Shulman, novelist (Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap) 1920 - Dorothy Tyler-Odam, Great Britain, high jumper (Oly-silver-36, 48) 1920 - Hank Ketcham, cartoonist (Dennis the Menace) 1921 - Lis Hartel, Denmark, equestrian dressage (Olympic-silver-1952, 56) 1921 - S. Truett Cathy, founder of Chick-fil-A 1922 - Colin Fletcher, author (Walking Through Time) 1922 - Les Baxter, US, singer/orchestra leader/composer (Born Again) 1925 - John Barrington Wain, England, novelist/poet (Hurry on Down) 1925 - Francis A. Marzen, American Catholic prelate (d. 2004) 1926 - Francois dAssise Morel, composer 1927 - Bill Rexford, auto racer 1 2 3 ▶ Famous Weddings Weddings 1 - 6 of 6 1850 - French writer and playwright Honoré de Balzac marries Ewelina Hańska in Berdyczów, Ukraine 1906 - Film director D. W. Griffith (31) weds Linda Arvidson (21) at Old North Church in Boston, Massachusetts 1946 - American author and journalist The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway marries Mary Welsh 2006 - OVW Heavyweight wrestling champion Matt Cappotelli (26) weds Lindsay Seeders at Makena Cove Beach in Maui 2006 - Argentinean actress Andrea Frigerio (44) weds Lucas Boccino in an intimate civil ceremony 2006 - Comedian actor Jack Black (36) weds musician and animator Tanya Haden (34) in Big Sur, California Famous Deaths Deaths 1 - 98 of 98 840 - Eginhard, French nobleman/biographer (Vita Karoli Magni), dies at 69 968 - Matilda of Ringelheim, German Queen (c. 895) 1272 - Re Enzo, Italian poet/son of Emp Frederik II von Hohenstaufen, dies 1298 - Petrus Johannis Olivi, South France theologist, dies 1457 - Jingtai Emperor of China (b. 1428) 1490 - Charles I, Duke of Savoy, dies at 21 1559 - Jacques dAuchy, Walloon baptist merchant, executed 1573 - Claude II, of Lotharingen, duke of Aumale/murdered adm Coligny, dies 1590 - Philip van Egmont, general/prince of Gavere, dies in battle at Ivry at 30 1612 - Philip Galle, Flemish engraver, dies at about 74 1647 - Frederik Hendrik, count of Nassau/prince of Orange, dies at 63 1648 - Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (b. 1584) 1680 - René Le Bossu, French critic (b. 1631) 1682 - Jacob I van Ruysdael, physician/landscape painter, dies at about 53 1696 - Jean Domat, French jurist (b. 1625) 1698 - Claes Rålamb, Swedish statesman (b. 1622) 1748 - George Wade, British military leader (b. 1673) 1757 - John Byng, English Admiral executed by firing squad at 52 for for neglecting his duty in defence of Minorca 1760 - Anton Filtz, composer, dies at 26 1768 - Vigilio Blasio Faitello, composer, dies at 58 1791 - Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (b. 1725) 1801 - Christian Friedrich Penzel, composer, dies at 63 1803 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet, dies at 78 1805 - Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki, Russian general (b. 1753) 1811 - August Henry Fitzroy, English premier (1768-70), dies at 75 1823 - Charles François Dumouriez, French general (b. 1739) 1861 - Abraham Louis Niedermeyer, composer, dies at 58 Communist Philosopher Karl Marx (1883) 1883 - Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto), dies at 64 1884 - Quintino Sella, Italian statesman (b. 1827) 1899 - Emile Erckmann, French writer (Waterloo), dies at 76 1903 - Johannes H Weissenbruch, Dutch landscape painter, dies at 88 1925 - Walter Camp, father of American football, dies at 65 1932 - George Eastman, US industrialist (Kodak-camera), suicide at 77 1933 - Balto, husky dog who brought back the antitoxin in 1925 1944 - Pavel Grigoryevich, composer, dies at 66 1949 - John Callan OLaughlin, American political and military figure and journalist (b. 1873) 1953 - Klement Gottwald, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, dies at 56 1954 - Ludomir Michal Rogowski, composer, dies at 72 1957 - Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot freedom fighter (b. 1938) 1958 - Eugeen Van de Velde, Flemish musicologist/critic/composer, dies at 64 1961 - Akiba Rubinstein, Polish chess player (opening theorist), dies at 78 1968 - Erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian/iconologist, dies 1969 - Ben Shahn, US painter, dies at 70 1973 - Murat B Chic Young, US comic strip artist (Blondie), dies at 72 1973 - Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (b. 1907) 1975 - Susan Hayward, actress (Young & Willing), dies at 56 1976 - Alberta Franklin, silent screen actress, dies at 79 1976 - Busby Berkeley, US choreographer/dir (Strike Up the Band), dies at 80 1976 - Martha Saalfeldt, writer, dies 1977 - Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (b. 1917) 1980 - Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician (b. 1902) 1981 - Ken Barrington, cricketer (82 Tests for England, 6806 runs), dies 1982 - Kirill Vladimirovich Molchanov, composer, dies at 59 1983 - Maurice Ronet, actor (Circle of Love, Frantic, Sphinx), dies at 55 1984 - Aurelio Peccei, Italian businessman/CEO (Club Rome), dies at 75 1986 - Benno Ammann, composer, dies at 81 1986 - Edith Atwater, actress (Phyllis-Love on a Rooftop), dies at 74 1986 - Jozef Kresanek, composer, dies at 73 1986 - Marlin Perkins, TV host (Wild Kingdom) at 80 1989 - Edward Abbey (environmental author), dies after surgery at 62 1989 - Zita, Empress of Austria/Queen of Hungary, dies at 96 1991 - Howard Ashman, song writer (Under the Sea), dies of AIDs at 40 1991 - Jef Houthuys, Belgian union leader (ACV, 1968-87), dies at 68 1991 - Jerome Doc Pomus, lyricist (Save Last Dance for Me), dies at 65 1991 - Robert Maroff, dies at 57 1991 - Margery Sharp, childrens author (b. 1905) 1992 - C V Wood Jr, theme park developer (Disneyland), dies of cancer at 71 1992 - Jean Poiret, French actor/writer (La Cage aux Folles), dies at 65 1992 - Ralph James, actor (Orson-Mork & Mindy), dies at 67 1992 - Steven Brian Pennell, 1st execution in Delaware in 45 years at 34 1994 - Abdelkader Alloula, Algerian playwright, murdered 1994 - Sally Mary Caroline Belfrage, writer, dies at 57 1995 - Gerard Thomas Victory, composer, dies at 73 1995 - Johan W Jo van Marle, CEO (KNVB, 1980-93), dies at 70 1995 - William A Fowler, US nuclear/astro physicist (Nobel 1983), dies at 83 Jurist John Peters Humphrey (1995) 1995 - John Peters Humphrey, Canadian jurist and human rights advocate, dies at 89 1996 - Dewi Lorwerth Ellis Bebb, rugby international/journalist, dies at 57 1996 - Nico Kiasashvii, professor of English Literature, dies at 69 1996 - Vic Marshall, chemist, dies at 74 1997 - Fred Zinnemann (director), dies of heart attack at 89 1997 - John Curtis Jr, pres/CEO (Lubys Cafe), commits suicide at 58 1999 - Kirk Alyn, American actor (b. 1910) 2002 - Cherry Wilder, New Zealand-born author (b. 1930) 2003 - Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born artist (b. 1945) 2003 - Jean-Luc Lagardère, French publisher (b. 1928) 2006 - Ann Calvello, Roller Derby Queen (b. 1929) 2006 - Lennart Meri, former president of Estonia (b. 1929) 2007 - Lucie Aubrac, French history teacher and member of the French Resistance (b. 1912) 2007 - Gareth Hunt, English actor (b. 1943) 2008 - Chiara Lubich, Italian Catholic activist and leader and foundress of the Focolare (b. 1920) 2008 - Anthony Minghella, English Oscar winning film director (b. 1954) 2009 - Alain Bashung, French singer, songwriter, comedian and actor. (b. 1947) 2009 - Altovise Davis, American entertainer, best known as Sammy Davis, Jr.s third wife. (b. 1943) 2010 - Peter Graves [Aurness], American actor, dies at 83 2012 - Censu Tabone, President of Malta, dies at 98 2012 - Pierre Schoendoerffer, French Academy Award winning director and screen writer, dies from surgical complications at 83 2013 - Jack Greene, American country artist, dies from complications from Alzheimers disease at 83 2013 - Mirja Hietamies, Finnish skier, dies at 82
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