Today in history brought to you by HistoryOrb fr 362 - Athanasius returns to Alexandria. 1173 - Pope Alexander III canonizes Thomas Becket Absp of Canterbury 1245 - Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after having confessed to torture and forgery. 1431 - England begins trial against Joan of Arc 1440 - The Prussian Confederation is formed. 1564 - Philip II routes cardinal Granvelle to Franche-Comte 1574 - Spanish garrison of Middelburg Neth surrenders 1583 - Groningen Neth begins using Gregorian calendar 1598 - Boris Godunov crowned tsar 1613 - Michael Romanov, son of Patriarch of Moscow, elected Russian tsar 1673 - Michiel A de Ruyter appointed lt-admiral-general of Dutch fleet 1675 - Prince Willem III appointed viceroy of Gelderland 1764 - John Wilkes thrown out of Engl House of Commons for Essay on Women 1777 - English ambassador Joseph Yorke demands dismissal of Governor John de Graaff for saluting US flag 1782 - US congress resolves establishment of a US mint 1792 - Congress passes Pres Succession Act 1795 - Freedom of worship established in France under constitution 1797 - Trinidad, West Indies surrenders to British 1804 - 1st locomotive, Richard Trevithicks, runs for 1st time, in Wales French National Heroine Joan of Arc 1828 - 1st American Indian newspaper in US, Cherokee Phoenix, published 1842 - 1st known sewing machine patented in US, John Greenough, Wash DC 1846 - 1st US woman telegrapher, Sarah G Bagley, Lowell, Mass 1853 - US authorizes minting of $3 gold pieces 1857 - Congress outlaws foreign currency as legal tender in US 1857 - US issues flying eagle cents 1858 - Edwin T Holmes installs 1st electric burglar alarm (Boston, Mass) 1861 - Navaho indians elect Herrero Grande as chief 1862 - Confederate Constitution & presidency are declared permanent 1862 - Texas Rangers win Confederate victory at Battle of Val Verde, NM 1864 - -22] Battle at Okolona, Mississippi 1864 - 1st US Catholic parish church for blacks dedicated, Baltimore 1866 - Lucy B Hobbs (Taylor) becomes 1st US woman to earn a DDS degree 1874 - Benjamin Disraeli replaces William Gladstone as English premier 1874 - Oakland Daily Tribune begins publication British Prime Minister William Gladstone 1878 - 1st telephone book issued, 50 subscribers (New Harbor, Connecticut) 1882 - NYCs 24 hour race begins, winner with most mileage in 24 hours 1883 - 2nd French government of Ferry begins 1885 - Washington Monument dedicated (Wash DC) 1887 - 1st US bacteriology laboratory opens (Brooklyn) 1887 - Oregon becomes 1st US state to make Labor Day a holiday 1895 - NC Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass 1902 - Dr Harvey Cushing, 1st US brain surgeon, does his 1st brain operation 1903 - Cornerstone laid for US army war college, Washington, DC 1904 - National Ski Association forms in Ishpeming Mich 1907 - SS Berlin sinks off Hoek van Holland Neth (142 dead) 1909 - John Galsworthys Strife, premieres in London 1910 - John Galsworthys Justice, premieres in London 1911 - Gustav Mahler conducts his last concerto (Berceuse élégique) 1914 - White Wolf troops attack Zhanjiang China Abolitionist Frederick Douglass 1915 - 20th Russian Army corps surrenders 1915 - Worlds Fair in SF opens 1916 - Battle of Verdun in WW I begins (1 million casualties) 1917 - British Mendi sinks off Isle of Wight, 627 die 1917 - Train near Chirurcha Romania catches fire & explodes; 100s die 1918 - Australians chase Turkish troop out of Jericho, Dutch Palestine 1918 - The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. 1919 - German National Meeting accepts Anschluss: incorporation of Austria 1919 - Revolutionary strike in Barcelona 1920 - Darius Milhaud & Jean Cocteaus ballet, premieres in Paris 1921 - Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the countrys first constitution. 1922 - Airship Rome explodes at Hampton Roads Virginia; 34 die 1922 - Great Britain grants Egypt independence 1922 - WHK-AM in Cleveland OH begins radio transmissions 1923 - Andre Charlots musical Rats, premieres in London 1925 - 1st issue of New Yorker magazine published 1925 - Mass meeting of SPDs Reichsbanner Black-Red-Gold in Magdeburg 1927 - Franz Lehrs opera Zarewitsch, premieres 1930 - Marc Connellys Green Pastures, premieres in NYC 1931 - Alka Seltzer introduced 1931 - Chicago White Sox & NY Giants play 1st exhibition night game 1932 - Andre Tardieu becomes premier of France 1932 - Camera exposure meter patented, WN Goodwin 1934 - Nicaraguan patriot Augusto Cesar Sandino assassinated by Natl Guard 1937 - Initial flight of the first successful flying car, Waldo Watermans Arrowbile. 1937 - The League of Nations bans foreign national volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. 1939 - Belgian government of Pierlot forms 1941 - Omar Bradley is promoted to the rank of brigadier general 1942 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn 1942 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Bobby Specht 1943 - Dutch RC bishops protest against persecution of Jews 1943 - German offensive at Western Dorsalgebergte Tunisia 1944 - War As It Happens news show premieres on NBC TV (NYC only) 1945 - Archbishop De Jong calls for help with war casualties 1945 - British Army captures Goch 1945 - US 10th Armour division overthrows Orscholz line 1946 - Anti-British demonstrations in Egypt 1947 - 1st broadcast of 1st US TV soap opera A Woman to Remember 1947 - 1st instant developing camera demonstrated in NYC, by E H Land 1947 - Whipper Billy Watson beats Bill Longson, to become wrestling champ 1948 - NASCAR is incorporated. 1950 - WOI TV channel 5 in Ames-Des Moines, IA (ABC/PBS) begins broadcasting 1951 - SC House urges Shoeless Joe Jackson be reinstated 1952 - Bangladesh Martyrs Day (martyrs of Bengali Language Movement) 1952 - Dick Button performs 1st figure skating triple jump in competition 1953 - Maggie closes at National Theater NYC after 5 performances 1953 - F Crick & J Watson discover structure of DNA-molecule 1953 - Longest collegiate basketball game (6 OTs) Niagara beats Siena 88-81 1957 - Dodgers (Fort Worth) & Cubs (LA) trade minor league franchises 1958 - Portotino opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 3 performances 1958 - Egypt-Syria as UAR elect Nasser president (99.9% vote) 1 2 ▶ Famous Birthdays Birthdays 1 - 100 of 248 1417 - Louis IX, Duke of Bayern (University of Ingolstadt) 1484 - Joachim I Nestor, elector (Brandenburg, Constitution) 1556 - Sethus Calvisius, composer 1674 - Johann Augustin Kobelius, composer 1675 - Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (d. 1750) 1684 - Justus van Effen, writer/founder (Holland Spectator) 1690 - Christoph Stoltzenberg, composer 1705 - Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (d. 1781) 1710 - Willem van Haren, Frisian nobleman/poet (Human Life) 1721 - John McKinly, American physician (d. 1796) 1723 - Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (d. 1808) 1728 - Peter III, Kiel Germany, Russian tsar (1762)/husband of Catherine 1730 - Charles L Fournier, Flemish writer/painter 1744 - Eise J Eisinga, Frisia, built planetarium Franeker 1776 - Vincenzo Lavigna, composer 1779 - Friedrich C von Savigny, German lawyer 1783 - Princess Catharina of Württemberg, Queen consort of Westphalia (d. 1835) 1785 - Karl A Varnhagen von Ense, German officer/author (Die Sterner) 1794 - Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, president of Mexico (1833-36) 1795 - Francisco Manuel da Silva, composer 1800 - John Henry Winder, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1865 1801 - Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda, composer 1801 - John Henry Newman, England, cardinal/author (Dream of Gerontius) 1802 - George Douglas Ramsey, Bvt Major general (Union Army), died in 1882 1805 - David Tod, US diplomat/(Gov-R-Ohio, 1861-63) 1814 - Nicolo Gabrielli, composer 1815 - Ernest Meissonier, French painter/sculptor 1817 - Jose Zorrilla y Moral, Vallodolid Spain, poet/dramatist (El rey Loco) 1821 - Charles Scribner, US, music publisher (Scribner Catalog) 1829 - Johnson Hagood, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898 1831 - Eduard Rappoldi, composer 1836 - Clement-Philibert-Leo Delibes, composer 1836 - Emil Hartmann, composer 1844 - Charles-Marie Widor, Lyons France, composer/prof (Paris Conservatory) 1852 - [James] Burner Matthews, US playwright/critic (NY Times) 1855 - Alice Freeman Palmer, educator (Hall of Fame) 1856 - Hendrik P Berlage, architect (Stock exchange Amsterdam) 1857 - Jules de Trooz, baron/premier of Belgium (1907) 1860 - Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist (d. 1927) 1860 - Goscombe John, Welsh sculptor (d. 1952) 1861 - Pierre Breville, composer 1865 - John Haden Badley, English school founder (d. 1967) 1867 - Otto Hermann Kahn, Banker, organized Metropolitan Opera Co 1875 - Jeanne Louise Calment, France, worlds oldest woman (died at 122) 1876 - Constantin Brancusi, Romanian/French sculptor (Princesse X) 1876 - Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (d. 1956) 1877 - Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist 1878 - Fritz Cortolezis, composer 1878 - The Mother, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1973) 1880 - Frank Orth, Phila Pa, actor (Boston Blackie, Brothers) 1880 - Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (d. 1952) 1881 - Savilly Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player 1883 - J M M Mick Commaille, cricketer (dual South African cricket/soccer rep) 1885 - Sacha Guitry, France, actor/playwright (Story of a Cheat) 1887 - Savielly [Xavier] G Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player 1888 - Florence Bates, TX, actress (Moon & Sixpence, Love Crazy, San Antonio) 1888 - Willem Banning, Dutch theologist/sociologist (Religious Build Up) 1888 - Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (d. 1965) 1889 - Felix Aylmer, actor (Anastasia, Hamlet, Iron Duke, Macbeth, St Joan) 1893 - Andres Segovia, Linares Spain, classical guitarist, (d. 1987) 1893 - Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet film director/theorist (Mother, Deserter) 1895 - Carl Peter Henrik Dam Danish biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976) 1896 - Sylvain Poons, Dutch cabaret performer (Blue Jackets) 1897 - Celia Lovsky, Austrian-American actress (Soylent Green, TPau-Star Trek) 1898 - Vassily Vainonen, Russian ballet dancers/choreographer (Gayaneh) 1900 - Madeleine Renaud, French actress/theater director (Plaisir) 1900 - Sydney Arnold, English comic/actor (Miss Jones & Son) 1902 - Arthur D Nock, English/US historian (St Paul) 1902 - Bob [Hijman] Scholte, Dutch vocalist [or 1909] 1902 - John Smallenbroek, Dutch minister of Internal Affairs [or 1909] 1903 - Eric Fogg, composer 1903 - Madeleine Renaud, Paris France, actress (Helene, Longest Day) 1903 - Raymond Queneau, [M Presle], French author (Un Enfant a Dit) 1903 - Thomas Yawkey, baseball owner (Boston Red Sox) 1903 - Fairfax M. Cone, American advertising executive (d. 1977) 1903 - Anaïs Nin, French writer (d. 1977) 1904 - Armand Preudhomme, Flemish organist/poet 1907 - Wystan Hugh Auden, US, poet (Age of Anxiety-Pulitzer 1948) 1909 - George G F van Renesse, Dutch pianist/music director 1909 - Hans Erni, Switz, painter/sculptor 1909 - Helen O Dickens, [Henderson], US physician/gynaecologist 1910 - Douglas R S Bader, British pilot (WW II) 1910 - Carmine Galante, Italian-born gangster (d. 1979) 1910 - Eddie Waring, British sports commentator (d. 1986) 1912 - Arline Judge, actress (Girls in Chains, Mad Wednesday, Age of Consent) 1912 - Nikita Magaloff, Russian/Swiss pianist (Arkadia 598-Schubert) 1912 - Patrick Murphy, English multi-millionaire 1913 - Glenn M Anderson, (Rep-D-CA, 1969- ) 1913 - Roger Laurent, Belgian racing driver (d. 1997) 1914 - Arnold S Denker, NY, US chess champion (1944-46) 1914 - Hermanus P Piet Mulder, Dutch journalist (Parool/VARA) 1915 - Ann Sheridan, Denton Texas, actress (Dodge City, Another World) 1915 - Godfrey Brown, England, 4 X 400m runner (Olympic-gold-1936) 1917 - Victor G M Marijnen, Dutch premier (1963-65) 1922 - Uros Krek, composer 1923 - Lola Flores, entertainer 1923 - Lucille Bremer, Amsterdam, New York, American actress/dancer (Meet Me in St. Louis, Ziegfeld Follies) 1923 - Zvi Zeitlin, Dubrovnik Yugoslavia, violinist/prof (Eastman School) Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe (1924) 1924 - Robert Mugabe, president (Zimbabwe, 1988- ) 1925 - Al Fann, Cleve, actor (Alvin-Hes the Mayor) 1 2 3 ▶ Famous Weddings Weddings 1 - 2 of 2 1952 - Liz Taylors 2nd marriage (Michael Wilding) 1988 - Actor Dudley Moore (53) weds actress Brogan Lane at the Little Chapel of the West in Las Vegas Famous Deaths Deaths 1 - 100 of 111 556 - Maximianus van Ravenna, bishop (Basilica S Stefano), dies 1437 - King James I of Scotland dies at 42 1471 - John of Rokycan, Czech Catholic archbishop 1513 - Julius II, [Giuliano dellea Rovere], Pope (1503-13), dies at 69 1554 - Hieronymus Bock, German doctor (founder of modern botany), dies 1595 - Robert Southwell, English Jesuit/poet, hanged 1624 - Dirck van Baburen, Dutch painter (Sepulture), dies at about 28 1648 - Christian IV, king of Denmark/Norway, dies 1653 - Adriaen Pauw, master of Heemstede/Dutch Grand Pensionary, dies at 71 1668 - John Thurloe, English Puritan spy (b. 1616) 1677 - [Benedictus] Baruch Spinoza, philosopher, dies at 44 1684 - Pieter van den Abeelen, Dutch medallist/jeweller, dies at about 75 1689 - Isaacus Vossius, Dutch [Isaac Vos], librarian, dies 1711 - Joan van Hoorn, gov-gen of Neth-Indies (1707-09), dies at 57 1715 - Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (b. 1637) 1730 - Benedict XIII, [Pietro F Orsini], Pope (1724-30), dies at 81 1788 - Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (b. 1723) 1790 - Johann Friedrich Kloffler, composer, dies at 64 1803 - Edward Despard, last person drawn & quartered in England The Warrior Pope Julius II (1513) 1821 - Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (b. 1756) 1824 - Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Napoleons wife, Josephine (b. 1781) 1842 - Wojciech Zywny, composer, dies at 85 1846 - Emperor Ninko of Japan (b. 1800) 1862 - Justinus A C Kerner, German family doctor/poet/writer, dies at 75 1864 - Jeffery Forrest, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle 1872 - Pavel P Gagarin, Russian monarch/politician, dies at 82 1876 - Henry John Gauntlett, composer, dies at 70 1879 - Peter P van Bosse, Dutch liberal minister of Finance, dies at 69 1884 - John Pike Hullah, composer, dies at 71 1894 - Gustave Caillebotte, French shipbuilding designer/painter, dies at 45 1901 - George Francis FitzGerald, Irish mathematician (b. 1851) 1919 - Giovanni Bolzoni, composer, dies at 77 1919 - Habib Ullah Chan, emir of Afghanistam (1901-19), murdered at 46 1919 - Karl von Hohenzollern, Prince of Belgium, dies 1919 - Kurt Eisner, premier Bayern (soc), murdered at 51 1920 - Jacinta Marto, witness of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima (b. 1910) 1924 - Salvatore Auteri Manzocchi, composer, dies at 78 1925 - Alfred Baldwin Sloan, composer, dies at 52 1926 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1913), dies at 72 1938 - Albert Huybrechts, composer, dies at 39 1938 - George Ellery Hale, astronomer, dies Physician Frederick Banting (1941) 1941 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1891) 1944 - Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-born race car driver (b. 1873) 1945 - Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (Olympic-gold 1924), dies at 43 1946 - José Streel, Belgian World War II collaborator (b. 1911) 1948 - Frederick Archibald Lamond, composer, dies at 80 1949 - Ernest Walker, composer, dies at 78 1951 - Anton Roemer, Dutch actor (Gay Death), dies at 63 1956 - Edwin Franko Goldman, composer, dies at 78 1958 - Duncan Edwards, English footballer (b. 1936) 1961 - Blaise Cendrars, [Frederic Sauser-Hall], Switz, poet, dies at 73 1965 - Malcolm X, [Little], black Moslem leader, assassinated in NYC at 39 1966 - Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (b. 1895) 1967 - Charles Beaumont, American writer (b. 1929) 1968 - Howard Florey, pharmacologist/Pathologist, Nobel Prize Laureate, dies at 69 1969 - Jose de Capriles, Mexican-born US Olympic fencer, dies Pathologist and Nobel Laureate Howard Florey (1968) 1971 - Adolph Weiss, composer, dies at 79 1972 - Bronislava Nijinska, Polish-Russian ballet dancer (b. 1891) 1972 - Eugène Tisserant, French Catholic candinal (b. 1884) 1974 - Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player (b. 1930) 1976 - Florence Ballard, rocker (Supremes), dies at 32 1976 - Frieda Inescort, Scottish actress (Meet Corliss Archer), dies at 74 1978 - Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish historian and priest (b. 1901) 1979 - Glendon Gibbs, cricketer (Test Cricket WI v Australia 1955), dies 1979 - Ray Whitley, composer, dies 1980 - Chester H Lauck, actor (2 Weeks to Live, Goin to Town), dies at 78 1982 - Murray the K Kaufman, NYC DJ (5th Beatle), dies at 60 1984 - Michail A Sholochov, Russian writer (Ocean Don, Nobel 1965), dies 1985 - Eric Herfst, Dutch cabaret performer (Floris), dies at 47 1985 - Ina Claire, actress/comedienne (3 Bdwy Girls), dies of stroke at 89 1985 - Louis Hayward, actor (Lone Wolf, Survivors), dies of lung cancer at 75 1986 - Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese sugarcane farmer, once thought to be the worlds oldest man ever but now disputed (b. 1865) 1986 - Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (b. 1895) 1989 - Alex Thépot, French footballer (b. 1906) 1991 - Margot Fonteyn, ballerina (1st lady of British Ballet), dies at 71 1991 - Roger Swaybill, actor/writer (Porkys II, Breaking Point), dies at 47 1992 - Eva A Jessye, US singer/actress (Eva Jessye Choir), dies at 97 1992 - Franc Holden, British astronomer (Binary Stars), dies 1992 - Jane Pickens Langley Hoving, singer, dies at 83 1992 - William S Magginetti, dies at 98 1993 - Ferrucci Lamborghini, car maker (Lamborghini), dies at 76 1994 - Frederick Edward Nicklin, architect, dies at 68 1994 - William Elgin Swinton, child Psychiatrist, dies at 54 1995 - Robert Bolt, Brit playwright (Doctor Zhivago, Bounty), dies at 70 1996 - Horace Leonard Gold, sF writer/editor, dies at 81 1996 - Jean Burroughs, educationalist, dies at 67 1996 - Morton Gould, composer, dies at 82 1996 - Terence Edward Armstrong, polar geographer, dies at 75 1997 - Kenneth Rowntree, painter, dies at 81 1997 - Michael Hollings, catholic priest/crusader, dies at 75 1999 - Wilmer David Mizell, baseball player (b. 1930) 1999 - Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1918) 2000 - Antonio Díaz-Miguel, Spanish basketball coach (b. 1933) 2002 - Harold Furth, Austrian-born physicist (b. 1939) 2002 - John Thaw, English actor (b. 1942) 2003 - Eddie Thomson, Scottish football player and coach (b. 1947) 2004 - Guido Molinari, Canadian artist (b. 1933) 2004 - John Charles, Welsh footballer (b. 1931) 2005 - Ara Berberian, American opera singer (b. 1930) 2005 - Gérard Bessette, Quebec novelist and poet (b. 1920)
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