Today in history brought to you by HistoryOrb gc 1425 BC - Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty). 417 - Zosimus becomes bishop of Rome 537 - Goths lay siege to Rome 843 - Icon worship officially re-instated in Aya Sofia Constantinople 928 - Trpimir II succeeds to the Croatian throne. 1387 - The Battle of Castagnaro begins. 1502 - Tebriz] shah Ismail I of Persia crowned 1513 - Giovanni de Medici chosen Pope Leo X 1563 - League of High Nobles routes 2nd protest against King Philip II 1567 - Geuzen army leaves Walcheren to return to Oosterweel 1597 - Land guardian Albrecht occupies Amiens on France 1649 - The Frondeurs (French rebels) and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil. 1665 - NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights 1669 - Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000 1702 - 1st English daily newspaper Daily Courant publishes 1708 - Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation. 1779 - US army Corps of Engineers established (1st time) 1789 - Benjamin Banneker with LEnfant begin to lay out Washington DC 1791 - Samuel Mulliken, Phila, is 1st to obtain more than 1 US patent Pope Leo X 1795 - Battle at Kurdla India: Mahratten beat Mogols 1812 - Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews 1823 - 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vt 1824 - US War Dept creates the Bureau of Indian Affair 1835 - HMS Beagle anchors off Valparaiso, Chile 1845 - The Flagstaff War: In New Zealand, Chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti lead 700 Māoris to chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka because of breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi. 1848 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government. 1850 - Womans Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school) 1851 - Giuseppe Verdis opera Rigoletto premieres in Venice 1861 - Confederate convention in Montgomery adopts constitution 1862 - Lincoln removes George McClellen as general-in-chief 1862 - 12] Gen Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief 1864 - Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee 1864 - The Great Sheffield Flood: the largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield. 1865 - Gen Shermans Union forces occupies Fayetteville, NC Composer Giuseppe Verdi 1867 - Giuseppe Verdis opera Don Carlos premieres in Paris 1867 - Great Mauna Loa eruption (Hawaiian volcano) 1872 - Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain. 1872 - The Meiji Japanese government officially annexes the Ryukyu Kingdom into what would become the Okinawa prefecture. 1882 - Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton NJ 1888 - Great blizzard of 88 strikes northeastern US 1892 - 1st public basketball game (Springfield, Mass) 1895 - Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks in Straits of Gibraltar, over 400 die 1897 - A meteorite enters the earths atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville, West Virginia. The debris causes damage but no human injuries are reported. 1901 - Cincinnati Enquirer reports Balt mgr John McGraw signed Cherokee Indian Tokohoma, who is really black 2nd baseman Charlie Grant 1904 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Brandon Wheat Kings in 2 games 1905 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 beat Rat Portage Thisles, 2 games to 1 1910 - Jack Hobbs 1st Test ton (187 v SAfr), his only Test hit wicket 1912 - 1st Stanley Cup game to be played in 3 20-min periods, formerly played in 30-min halfs, Quebec beats Moncton 9-3 on way to sweep 1912 - Eleftherios Venizelos, leader of the Liberal Party, wins the Greek elections again. 1917 - 1st NHL championship game ever played, Toronto Arenas beats Montreal Canadiens 7-3 in 1st of 2 game set (second game on March 13) 1917 - World War I: Baghdad falls to the Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude. 1918 - Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia 1918 - Save the Redwoods League founded 1918 - First confirmed cases of the Spanish Flu are observed at Fort Riley, Kansas. 1919 - General strike in Germany crushed 1922 - Western Hockey Championship: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Regina Capitals, in 2 games 1924 - 3rd term of Belgium Theunis government begins 1924 - Eden Phillpotts Farmers Wife premieres in London 1924 - NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweeps Ottawa Senators in 2 games 1926 - Eamon da Valera ends leadership of Sinn Fein 1927 - 1st armored commercial car hold-up in US, Pittsburgh 1927 - 1st golden gloves tournament 1927 - Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens famous Roxy Theater (NYC) 1928 - Netherlands & Belgium tie 1-1 (soccer match in Amsterdam) 1930 - Pres & Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington 1931 - Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union. 1934 - Netherlands beats Belgium 9-3, in soccer 1935 - Bank of Canada opens Nazi Politician Hermann Goering 1935 - Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe 1936 - British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin pardons five convicted Irish militants who promise to join growing conflict with Germany. 1938 - Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria; German troops also entered the country 1941 - Bronko Nagurski beats Ray Steele in Minn, to become wrestling champ 1941 - FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill (lend money to Britain) 1942 - 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1942 - Gen MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia 1942 - Japanese troop land on North Sumatra 1943 - Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands 1944 - Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested 1945 - 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs 1945 - Flemish nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death 1948 - 1st black in the US Tennis Open (Reginald Weir) 1948 - Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed 1948 - WBAL TV channel 11 in Baltimore, MD (CBS) begins broadcasting WW2 General Douglas MacArthur 1953 - 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams) 1953 - American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb 15,000 feet on Mars Bluff, South Carolina; it created a crater 75 feet acrosss, but the nuclear core did not detonate, due to 6 safety catches 1954 - US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics 1956 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship 1958 - Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show 21 1958 - Starting this season, AL batters are required to wear batting helmets 1959 - Raisin in the Sun, 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens 1959 - Teddy Scholten wins Eurovision Song festival with A Little Bit 1960 - Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth & Venus 1961 - Then NHL record 40 penalties, Black Hawks & Maple Leafs (20 each) 1963 - Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain 1965 - Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto 1966 - Military coup led by Indonesian Gen Suharto breaks out 1966 - A fire at two ski resorts in Numata, Japan kills 31 people. 1967 - Pink Floyd releases 1st single (Arnold Layne) US Senator Joseph McCarthy 1968 - Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting 1968 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 12nd string quartet 1 2 ▶ Famous Birthdays Birthdays 1 - 100 of 232 1544 - Torquato Tasso, Italy, Renaissance poet (Aminta, Apologia) 1549 - Henric/Hendrik Spieghel, Dutch Renaissance writer and poet (Hertspiegel) 1596 - Isaac Elsevier, book publisher 1654 - Heinrich Georg Neuss, composer 1683 - Giovanni Veneziano, composer 1725 - Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1807) 1731 - Robert Treat Paine, judge, signer (Declaration of Independence) 1738 - Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (d. 1792) 1781 - Anthony Philip Heinrich, composer 1785 - John McLean, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1861) 1787 - Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (d. 1852) 1793 - Jan F Willems, Flemish writer/philologist 1811 - Marsena Rudolph Patrick, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 1811 - Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier, co-discoverer (Neptune) 1812 - James Speed, Atty Gen (Union), died in 1887 1812 - William Vincent Wallace, composer 1818 - John Wilkins Whitfield, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879 1819 - Henry Tate, English sugar producer (Tate Gallery) 1819 - Marius Petipa, French ballet dancer/choreographer (Don Quiotte) 1822 - Allison Nelson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 1827 - Septimus Winner, composer 1832 - Franz Melde, German phyicist (Melde test) 1832 - William Ruffin Cox, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1919 1840 - Edmund Kirby Jr, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 1846 - Antonio C G Crespo, Brazilian/Portuguese poet 1860 - Thomas Hastings, NYC, architect (NY Public Library) 1863 - Andrew Stoddart, cricketer (My Dear Victorious Stod) 1863 - Wobbe de Vries, Dutch linguist 1870 - Louis Bachelier, French mathematician (d. 1946) 1872 - Abraham van Stolk Jzn, lumber merchant/art collector 1873 - David Horsley, English-born film executive (d. 1933) 1876 - Carl Ruggles, Marion Mass, composer (Evocations) 1876 - David Wijnkoop, Dutch revolutionary socialist 1879 - Justus Hermann Wetzel, composer 1879 - Niels Bjerrum, Danish chemist (ph tests) 1880 - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenecist (d. 1943) 1884 - Jan Lemaire, Dutch writer/actor (Beautiful Juliet) 1884 - Lewi Pethrus, Swedish politician (d. 1974) 1885 - Malcolm Campbell, 1st auto racer to travel 5 miles/min (8 km/min) 1887 - Raoul Walsh, American film director (Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry), (d. 1980) 1890 - Vannevar Bush, developed 1st electronic analogue computer 1892 - Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general (WW I, WW II) 1897 - Henry Dixon Cowell, Menlo Park California, composer (New Musical Resources) 1898 - Dorothy Gish, Massillon OH, film actress (Orphans of the Storm) 1899 - Frederick IX, [Christian FFMKWG], King of Denmark (1947-72) 1902 - Josef Martin Bauer, writer 1903 - Dorothy Schiff, publisher (NY Post) 1903 - George Dickinson, cricketer (bowled for NZ in their 1st 3 Tests) 1903 - Lawrence Welk, Strasburg ND, orchestra leader (Lawrence Welk Show) 1903 - Ronald Syme, New Zealand classicist and historian (d. 1989) 1904 - Cornelis Jan Bakker, Dutch/US nuclear physicist 1904 - Maurits Wertheim, Dutch writer (Isaac De Fuentes) 1906 - Aasan Ferit Alnar, composer 1907 - Eleni Gatzoyiannis, heroine (saved her kids) 1907 - Helmuth J von Moltke, German politician (July 20th plot) 1907 - Jessie Matthews, London England, actress (Gangway, First a Girl) 1907 - Margaret Herbison, British minister (Lab) 1909 - Ljubica Maric, composer 1910 - Robert H G Havemann, German chemist 1911 - Alan Gifford, Boston MA, actor (Time Lock, Up Periscope) 1911 - Fitzroy Maclean, British diplomat soldier politician/historian 1912 - Robert Clifford Latham, pepys Scholar 1912 - Xavier Montsalvatge, Spanish composer (El gato con botas) 1913 - John Jacob Weinzweig, Toronto Canada, composer (Enchanted Hill) 1913 - Thomas Gray, professor/anaesthetist 1915 - Karl Krolow, writer 1915 - Vijay Hazare, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman 1946-54) 1915 - J. C. R. Licklider, American computer scientist and Internet pioneer (d. 1990) 1916 - [James] Harold Wilson, (L) British PM (1964-70, 1974-76) 1916 - Ezra Jack Keats, childrens literature author (d. 1983) 1917 - Robert L Carter, Caryville, Florida, American civil rights activist and judge (Brown v. Board of Education, NAACP v. Alabama) (d. 2012) 1919 - Mercer Ellington, son of Duke Ellington/bandleader 1920 - D J Enright, England, poet/novelist (Some Men are Brothers) 1920 - Henry Marking, CEO (British Airways) 1920 - Kenneth Dover, chancellor (St Andrews University) 1921 - Astor Piazzolla, Argentina composer (Tango Nuevo) 1921 - F[rancis] M[arion] Busby Jr, US, sci-fi author (Star Rebel) 1921 - Frank Harary, American mathematician (d. 2005) 1922 - Abdul Razak bin Hussain, premier of Malaysia (1970-77) 1922 - Thom Kelling, Dutch singer/guitarist (Programa de Manha) 1922 - Vinnette Carroll, NYC, actress (Alices Restaurant, Reivers) 1922 - José Luis López Vázquez, Spanish actor 1923 - A Louise Brough Clapp, Oklahoma, tennis player (4 time Wimbledon champ) 1923 - A X Gwerder, writer 1923 - Ad[rianus C] de Besten, Dutch literary (River Basin) 1923 - Morschi Mirando, [Thomas Weiss], German/Dutch gypsy artist 1923 - Terry Alexander, London, actor (Tony-Behind the Scenes) 1925 - James Miskin, QC/recorder of London 1926 - Adrienne Keith Cohen, travel editor 1926 - Ilhan Mimaroglu, composer 1926 - Patricia Tindaole, England, architect 1926 - Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader (Southern Christian Leadership) 1927 - Alan Betts, emeritus professor (Royal Veterinary College) 1927 - Raymond Jackson, [Jaki], British cartoonist 1927 - Robert Mosbacher, US politician(?) 1927 - Ron Todd, British trade unionist 1928 - Albert Salmi, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Daniel Boone, 79 Park Avenue) 1928 - Peter Roger Hunt, London England, director (Dr No) 1929 - Erskine Childers, unofficial/civil servant 1929 - Francisco Bernardo Pulgar Vidal, composer 1 2 3 ▶ Famous Weddings Weddings 1 - 3 of 3 1302 - Romeo & Juliets wedding day, according to Shakespeare 1598 - Countess Charlotte of Nassau marries duke Claude de la Tremoille 2009 - Actress and singer Mandy Moore (28) weds alt-country/rock singer-songwriter Ryan Adams (37) Savannah, Georgia Famous Divorces Divorces 1 - 1 of 1 1958 - Actress Agnes Moorehead (57) divorces actor/film director Robert Gist (40) after 5 years of marriage Famous Deaths Deaths 1 - 100 of 117 222 - Julia Soaemias, mother of Elagabalus (b. 180). Ruler during her sons minority, murdered by the Praetorian Guard 222 - Elagabalus, Roman Emperor (218-22) murdered by the Praetorian Guard aged 18 638 - Sophronius of Jerusalem, saint/patriarch of Jerusalem, dies 859 - Eulogius of Cordoba, Spanish Bishop and Christian Martyr 1198 - Marie de Champagne, daughter of Louis VII of France (b. 1145) 1486 - Albrecht III Achilles, elector of Brandenburg, dies at 71 1514 - Donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444) 1575 - Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (b. 1520) 1602 - Emilio de Cavalieri, Italian composer 1607 - Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer 1715 - Jan-Erasmus Quellinus, Flemish painter, dies at 80 1722 - John Toland, Irish philosopher (b. 1670) 1759 - John Forbes, British general (b. 1710) 1772 - George Reuter, composer, dies at 63 1786 - Jacobus Bellamy, [Zelandus], Dutch/Swiss poet, dies at 28 1786 - Charles Humphreys, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1714) 1787 - Maximilian JLP Gardel, French ballet dancer/choreographer, dies at 45 1807 - Anton Eberl, composer, dies at 41 1820 - Benjamin West, British painter (Death of General Wolfe), dies at 81 1826 - Gervais-Francois Couperin, composer, dies at 66 1833 - Fridolin Weber, composer, dies at 71 1851 - George McDuffie, Governor of South Carolina (b. 1790) 1854 - Willard Richards, American religious leader (b. 1804) 1856 - James Beatty, Irish railway engineer (b. 1820) 1857 - Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author/poet (A la paz), dies at 84 1863 - Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, English general (b. 1803) 1869 - Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1803) 1870 - King Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho 1874 - Charles Sumner, a white civil rights leader, dies at 63 1894 - John Selby, cricketer (6 Tests for England 1877-82), dies 1897 - Berthold Tours, composer, dies at 58 1897 - Henry Drummond, Scottish geologist/evangelist, dies at 45 1898 - William Rosecrans, American Civil War Union general (b. 1819) 1900 - Edmund Peate, cricketer (9 Tests for England 1881-86), dies 1907 - Nikola Petkow, premier (Bulgaria), murdered 1907 - Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (b. 1847) 1908 - Peter Milne, composer, dies at 83 1908 - Revd Benjamin Waugh, American activist (b. 1839) 1915 - Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (b. 1826) 1919 - Harald Fryklof, composer, dies at 36 1920 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (b. 1865) 1921 - Sherburne W Burnham, US astronomer (binary stars), dies at 83 1925 - Andreas Hallen, composer, dies at 78 1926 - John Henry Anderson, cricketer (score 32 & 11 in Test for S Afr), dies 1931 - F.W. Murnau, German film director (b. 1888) 1932 - Dora Carrington, British Bloomsbury artist commits suicide aged 38 1937 - Paul Scheinpflug, composer, dies at 61 1937 - Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist (b. 1860) 1941 - Walford Davies, British organist/composer, dies at 71 1944 - Hendrik W van Loon, Neth/US radio commentator/writer, dies at 62 1947 - Victor Hely-Hutchinson, composer, dies at 45 1949 - Juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer, dies at 76 1950 - Florence Arliss, actress (Disraeli), dies at 78 1951 - Philippe of Isacker, Belgian minister, dies at 66 1952 - Pierre Renoir, French stage and film actor and director (b. 1885) Biologist Alexander Fleming (1955) 1955 - Alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist (penicillin), dies at 73 1955 - Oscar Mayer, Bavarian-born American meat packer (b. 1859) 1956 - Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, Russian opera composer, dies at 83 1957 - Richard E Byrd, US, explorer (Antarctica), dies at 68 1958 - Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor of Legos (b. 1891) 1959 - Haydn Wood, composer, dies at 76 1960 - Roy Chapman Andrews, US biologist/explorer, dies at 76 1962 - Will Vesper, German author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 79 1963 - Mahomed Nissar, cricketer (6 Tests for India 1932-36, 25 wkts), dies 1965 - James Reeb, US vicar/civil rights activist, murdered 1967 - Geraldine Farrar, soprano/actress (Such Sweet Compulsion), dies at 85 1969 - John Wyndham, [Parkes Lucas B Harris], author (Chrysalids), dies at 65 1970 - Erle Stanley Gardner, US writer (Perry Mason), dies at 80 1971 - Philo T Farnsworth, US TV pioneer, dies at 64 1971 - Roy Glenn, dies in Los Angeles at 56 Detective Writer Erle Stanley Gardner (1970) 1971 - Whitney M Young Jr, leader (National Urban League 1961-71), dies at 49 1972 - Fredric [William] Brown, sci-fi author (Martians Go Home), dies at 65 1975 - Philip Bezanson, composer, dies at 59 1975 - Sammy Spear, orchestra leader (Dom Deluise Show), dies at 65 1975 - Walter Kinsella, actor (Happy-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 74 1977 - Alberto Rodriguez Larreta, Argentine racing driver (b. 1934) 1977 - Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist (b. 1893) 1978 - Claude François, French singer (b. 1939) 1979 - Victor Kilian, actor (Gentlemans Agreement), dies at 88 1982 - Edmund Cooper, British sci-fi writer (Tomorrow Came), dies at 55 1982 - Horace Gregory, American poet (b. 1898) 1984 - Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher/poet, dies in Rytutakuji monastery at 76 1984 - Kostas Roukounas, Greek rembetiko singer and song writer (b. 1903) 1986 - Sonny Terry, American blues musician (b. 1911) 1987 - [Wayne] Woody Hayes, football coach (Ohio State), dies at 74 1988 - Pham Hung, premier of Vietnam, dies at about 74 1989 - Johan Fleerackers, Flemish linguist, dies at 57 1989 - James Kee, American politician (b. 1917) 1989 - John J. McCloy, United States Secretary of War (b. 1895) 1990 - Dean Horrix, English footballer (b. 1961) 1992 - David Carroll, actor (Grand Hotel), dies of pulmonary embolism at 41 1992 - Manuel De Dios Unanue, US anti-drug journalist, murdered at 48 1992 - Richard Brooks, director (Blackboard Jungle, Key Largo), dies at 79 1993 - Dino Bravo, wrestler (WWF), shot to death at 44 1993 - Edgar Nelson Barclift, dancer, dies after lengthy illness at 76 1993 - Manuel da Fonseca, Portuguese writer (Cerro Maior), dies at 81 1994 - Jacques Doucet, French painter (Mostar Sarajevo), dies at 69 1995 - Carel Birnie, found Utrecht Opera/Dutch Dance Theater, dies at 69 1995 - Ernest Kabushemeye, Burundese minister of Mijnbouw, murdered 1995 - Frank Fidler, artist, dies at 84
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