This Day in History for 5th September
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Events 1 - 100 of 199
1198 - Philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen crowned king of Roman Catholic Germany
1519 - 2nd Battle of Tehuacingo, Mexico: Hernan Cortes vs Tlascala Aztecs
1550 - William Cecil appoints himself English minister of foreign affairs
1590 - Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris.
1596 - Dutch fleet commander Cornelis de Houtman taken hostage in Java
1622 - Richelieu becomes cardinal
1634 - -6] Battle at Nordlingen: King Ferdinand III & Spain beat Sweden & German protestants
1644 - Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Sas of Gent
1661 - French superintendant of Finance Nicolas Fouquet arrested
1666 - Great Fire of London ends, leaving 13,200 houses destroyed and 8 dead
1698 - Russia's Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards
1750 - Decree issued in Paderborn Prussia allows for annual search of all Jewish homes for stolen or "doubtful" goods
1774 - 1st Continental Congress assembles, in Philadelphia
1781 - Battle of Virginia Capes, French defeat British, traps Cornwallis
1786 - Montplaisir Ceramic factory opens in Schaarbeek Belgium
1793 - In the French Revolution, the "Reign of Terror" begins
1795 - US-Algiers sign peace treaty
1796 - General Salicetti orders equal rights for Jews of Bologna Italy
1798 - New conscription law goes into effect in France
Russian Tsar Peter the GreatRussian Tsar Peter the Great 1800 - Malta surrenders to British after they blockade French troops
1814 - -15] Battle at Masurische Meren: Germans chase Russ out of E Prussia
1816 - Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").
1836 - Sam Houston elected president of Republic of Texas
1838 - Central Museum opens in Utrecht Netherlands
1839 - The First Opium War begins in China.
1844 - Iron ore discovered in Minnesota's Mesabi Mountains
1862 - Lee crosses Potomac & enters Maryland
1863 - Bread revolt in Mobile Alabama
1864 - British, French & Dutch fleets attacked Japan in Shimonoseki Straits
1864 - Achille François Bazaine becomes Marshall of France.
1877 - Southern blacks led by Pap Singleton settle in Kansas
1882 - 10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in NYC
1885 - 1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer (Ft Wayne, Ind)
1887 - Gas lamp at Theater Royal in Exeter catches fire killing about 200
1895 - George Washington Murray elected to Congress from SC
1900 - France proclaims a protectorate over Chad
1901 - National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues forms
1905 - Lillian Mortimer's "No Mother to Guide," premieres in Detroit
1905 - Treaty of Portsmouth USA, ends Russo-Japanese War
1906 - 1st legal forward pass (Brandbury Robinson to Jack Schneider)
1908 - Dodger Nap Rucker no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0
1910 - Jack Coombs begins a record streak of 53 shutout innings
1913 - Phillies & Braves tie record of only 1 run in a double header, Phillies win 1st game 1-0, then a scoreless tie into 10th
1914 - - till the 12th Sept Battle of Marne (WWI) begins French and British forces prevent German forces advancing on Paris
1914 - French headquarters move to Chatillon-sur-Seine
1914 - Gr Britain/France/Belgium/Russia sign pact of London
1914 - Proclamation prohibits Canadian mint from issuing gold coins
1915 - 35th US Mens Tennis: William Johnston beats McLoughlin (1-6 6-0 7-5 10-8)
1915 - Anti-war conference in Zimmerwald, Switzerland
1916 - 36th US Mens Tennis: R N Williams III beats Johnston (4-6 6-4 0-6 6-2 6-4)
1918 - Due to WW I, 15th World Series begins a month early
1918 - Decree "On Red Terror" is published in Russia
1920 - Iron monument unveiled at Stone churches, Flanders
1921 - Walter Johnson sets strikeout mark at 2,287
1922 - 17th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in New York (4-1)
1922 - Yankees final game at Polo Grounds (played there 7 years)
1923 - Flyweights Gene LaRue & Kid Pancho KO each other simultaneously
1925 - 112 F (44°C), Centerville, Alabama (state record)
1925 - 29th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones
1927 - Red Sox beat Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings
1929 - French premier A Briand requests a US of Europe
1932 - The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
1936 - Red Sox turn a triple-play on Yankees
1937 - Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls.
1939 - 34th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Haverford (3-2)
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1939 - FDR declares US neutrality at start of WW II in Europe
1939 - US declare itself neutral
1942 - Battle at Alam Halfa ends
1942 - British & US bomb Le Havre & Bremen
1943 - 57th US Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (6-3 5-7 6-3)
1943 - US airland at Nadzab, New-Guinea
1944 - "Mad Tuesday" 65,000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany
1944 - 5 resistance fighter executed in Terneuzen
1944 - Allies liberate Brussels
1944 - Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands sign unity treaty
1944 - British premier Churchill travels to Scotland
1944 - Dutch Armed Forces forms, under prince Bernhard
1946 - "Yours Is My Heart" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 36 performances
1946 - Joe Garagiola plays his 1st major league baseball game
1948 - In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister, As such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.
1949 - 63rd US Womens Tennis: M Osborne duPont beats Doris Hart (6-4 6-1)
1949 - 69th US Mens Tennis: Pancho Gonzales beat Schroeder (16-18 2-6 6-1 6-2 6-4)
1950 - 64th US Womens Tennis: Margaret Osborne duPont beats D Hart (6-3 6-3)
1950 - 70th US Mens Tennis: Art Larsen beats Herbert Flam (6-3 4-6 5-7 6-4 6-3)
1950 - 98.3 cm rainfall at Yankeetown, Florida (state record)
1951 - 65th US Womens Tennis: Mo Connolly beats Shirley J Fry (6-3 1-6 6-4)
1951 - 71st US Mens Tennis: Frank A Sedgman beats Elias Seixas Jr (6-4 6-1 6-1)
1952 - General Carlos Ibáñez elected president of Chile
1953 - 1st privately operated atomic reactor-Raleigh NC
1953 - US give Persian premier Zahedi $45 million aid
1954 - Dutch Super Constellation crashes at Shannon, 28 die
1955 - Fred Kaps becomes world champion magician
1955 - Dodger Don Newcombe hits NL pitcher record 7th HR of season
1955 - WKRG TV channel 5 in Mobile, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - WTTW TV channel 11 in Chicago, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - 20 die in a train crash in Springer NM
Cuban President and Dictator Fulgencio BatistaCuban President and Dictator Fulgencio Batista 1957 - Cuban dictator Batista bombs Cienfuegos uprising
1957 - Yugoslavia bans Milovan Djilas' book "new class marine officers"
1958 - "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak published in US
1958 - 1st color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte NC
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Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 100 of 217
1187 - Louis VIII, [Coeur-de-Lion] king of France (1223-26)
1319 - Pedro IV, king of Aragon
1567 - Date Masamune, Renowned Samurai and Daimyo in Japan (d. 1636)
1568 - Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian, philosopher, and poet (d. 1639)
1600 - Loreto Vittori, composer
1621 - Juan Andrés Coloma, Spanish noble (d. 1694)
1638 - Louis XIV, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, King of France (1643-1715), (Sun King), (d. 1715)
1644 - Gillis Schey, Dutch admiral (battle at Lowestoft)
1666 - Gottfried Arnold, German theologist/historian/songwriter
1667 - Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (d. 1733)
1688 - Lukas Fencer, Dutch poet (Fight of Kings & Mice)
1694 - Frantisek Antonin Mica, composer
1695 - Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (d. 1770)
1722 - Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (d. 1763)
1725 - Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (d. 1799)
1734 - Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, composer
1735 - Johann Christian Bach, composer, son of JS Bach (English Bach)
1737 - Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Beckmann, composer
1750 - Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (Scots poems)
The Sun King of France Louis XIVThe Sun King of France Louis XIV (1638) 1767 - August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/translator/critic
1771 - Charles L J, archduke of Austria/Gov (Austria Netherland)
1775 - Juan Martín Díez, el Empecinado (the undaunted), Spanish guerrillero (d. 1825)
1787 - François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1850)
1791 - Giacomo Meyerbeer, Vogelsdorf Germany, composer (Golt Und Die Natur)
1792 - Alexis-Charles-Maximilien Thibault, composer
1792 - Pierre-Armand Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist (d. 1857).
1806 - Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (d. 1865)
1807 - Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish Anglican clergyman and philologist (d. 1886)
1809 - Manuel Montt Torres, President of Chile (d. 1880)
1815 - Carl Wilhelm, composer
1815 - Tyree Harris Bell, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1902
1817 - Aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet/writer [NS]
1826 - John Wisden, England cricketer (d. 1884)
1827 - Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and writer (d. 1849)
1836 - Justiniano Borgoño, President of Peru (d. 1921)
1842 - Louis F J Bouwmeester, Dutch actor (Shakespeare)
1846 - John W Cromwell, Secy (American Negro Academy)
Outlaw Jesse JamesOutlaw Jesse James (1847) 1847 - Jesse James, Missouri, outlaw, son of a clergyman, (d. 1882)
1848 - Manuel Giro, composer
1856 - Jacobus C J Hermans, actor (7th Command)
1867 - Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, American composer and pianist (d. 1944)
1874 - Nap Lajoie, American baseball player (d. 1959)
1875 - Napoleon "Larry" Lajoie, RI, hall of fame shortstop (.426 in 1901)
1876 - Abdelaziz Thâalbi, Tunisian politician. (d. 1944)
1876 - Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (d. 1956)
1877 - O W Albert Roelofs, Dutch painter/etcher
1881 - Otto Bauer, Austrian social-democrat
1883 - Otto E Deutsch, Austrian musicologist (Schubert-Brevier)
1885 - John Raedecker, Dutch sculptor (National monument on the Dam)
1888 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishan, president (India)/philosopher
1890 - Albert H Edelkoort, theologist (Zondebesef)
1892 - Joseph Szigeti, Budapest Hungary, violinist (Violinist Notebook 1933)
1897 - Doris Kenyon, Syracuse NY, silent screen actress (Alexander Hamilton)
1897 - Luella Gear, NYC, actress (Joe & Mabel)
1897 - Morris Carnovsky, St Louis MO, actor (Dead Reckoning)
1898 - Ebbe Hamerik, composer
1901 - Florence Elridge, Brooklyn New York, American actress (Long Days Journey into the Night)
1901 - Mieczyslaw Kolinski, composer
1902 - Darryl F Zanuck, film magnate/president (20th Century Fox)
1905 - Arthur Koestler, Hungary, British writer (Arrow in Blue)
1905 - Justiniano Montano, Filipino politician (d. 2005)
1906 - Peter Mieg, composer
1906 - Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet (Semj Dnej Nedeli) [NS=Sept 18]
1907 - Sunnyland Albert Luandrew Slim, blues pianist
1908 - Joaquin Maria Nin-Culmell, Berlin Germany, Cuban/Spanish composer
1908 - Gloria Holden, British actress (d. 1991)
1909 - Archie Jackson, Australian cricketer (d. 1933)
1912 - John Cage, Los Angeles California, composer (Imaginary Landscape No 1/O'O)
1912 - Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer (d. 2001)
1912 - Frank Thomas, American animator (d. 2004)
1913 - Connie Stuart, [Cornelia van Meygard], Dutch cabaret performer
1914 - Gail Kubik, South Coffeyville, Oklahoma, composer (Gerald McBoing Boing)
1914 - Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet (Defense of Violeta Parra)
1914 - Stuart Freeborn, London, England, motion picture make-up artist (Star Wars: Yoda, Jabba the Hut), (d. 2013)
1916 - Frank Yerby American novelist (d. 1991)
1916 - Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (Wayne and Shuster) (d. 2002)
1917 - Jack Buetel, Dallas Tx, actress (Outlaw, Half Breed)
1918 - Luis Alcoriza, Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor (d. 1992)
1920 - Fons Rademakers, director (Assault)/actor (Daughter of Darkness)
1920 - Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink, Dutch author (Anna & her Father)
1920 - Peter Racine Fricker, British composer
1921 - Jack Valenti, Pres (Motion Picture Association of America)
1923 - Arthur C Nielsen, market researcher (TV's Nielsen's Ratings)
1923 - Ken Meuleman, Australian cricketer (d. 2004)
1924 - Krystyna Moszumanska-Nazar, composer
1925 - Jos Vandeloo, Flemish journalist/playwright (Cola Drinkers)
1925 - Justin Kaplan, US
1927 - Paul Volcker, Federal Reserve chairman
1929 - Andrian Grigoryevich Nikolayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Vostok III, Soyuz 9)
1929 - Bob Newhart, Oak Park Ill, comedian (Bob Newhart Show, Newhart)
1933 - Vincent McDermott, composer
1933 - Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Chilian catholic archbishop
1934 - Carol Lawrence, Illinois, dancer/actress (West Side Story)
1935 - Helen Gifford, composer
1935 - Mikhail Ivanovich Lisun, Russia, cosmonaut
1935 - Werner Erhard, Phila, founded EST
1936 - Alcee Hastings, (Rep-D-Florida)
1936 - Bill Mazeroski, MLB 2nd baseman (won 1960 World Series for Pitts)
1936 - Cornelius Boyson, bassist
1936 - John C Danforth, (Sen-R-Missouri, 1977- )
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Famous Weddings
Weddings 1 - 7 of 7
1725 - French King Louis XV marries Polish princess Mary Lesczynski
1991 - Actor John Travolta weds Kelly Preston
1992 - Andrew "Dice" Clay marries his long time partner Trinie
1992 - Rock singer John Mellencamp (40) weds model Elaine Irwin Mellencamp (23) in Indiana
1993 - Robocop Richard Eden (36) weds actress Shannon Hile (30)
1993 - "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" actress Nia Vardalos (30) weds "Felicity" actor Ian Gomez (28)
1997 - TV and radio host Larry King (64) weds singer Shawn Southwick (38) at the hospital room in Los Angeles, California
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 100 of 105
1165 - Emperor Nijo of Japan (b. 1143)
1201 - Constance, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1161)
1235 - Henry I, duke of Brabant, dies
1548 - Catharine Parr, queen of England/wife of Henry VIII, dies at about 36
1566 - Suleiman I, Great Law Giver, sultan of Turkey (1520-66), dies at 71
1569 - Pieter Bruegel, South Netherlands painter, dies at about 44
1572 - Pieter Tichelmann, Flemish Franciscan, dies at about 71
1607 - Pomponne de Bellièvre, chancellor of France (b. 1529)
1629 - Domenico Allegri, Italian composer (b. c. 1585)
1659 - Pieter de Carpentier, Flemish gov-gen of Neth East-Indies, dies at 71
1683 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French Minister of Navy, dies at 64
1684 - John Uytenhage van Lacks, lawyer/author, drowned at 48
1786 - Jonas Hanway, English merchant, traveler, and philanthropist (b. 1712)
1803 - Francois Devienne, composer, dies at 44
1808 - John Home, Scottish writer (b. 1722)
1836 - Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790)
1838 - Charles Percier, French architect (b. 1764)
1857 - Auguste Comte, French sociologist (b. 1798)
1858 - Moritz G, [Moses] Saphir, Hungarian journalist, dies at 63
1859 - W Friedrich Olivier, German landscape painter, dies at 68
1867 - Santiago Derqui, Argentinian politician (b. 1809)
1876 - Manuel Blanco Encalada, first president of Chile (b. 1790)
1877 - Crazy Horse, [Tashunka Witko], last great Sioux war chief, dies at 27
1890 - Ludwig Deppe, composer, dies at 61
1898 - Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds, disguised as man fought for union, dies
1901 - Ignacij Klemencic, Slovenian physicist (b. 1853)
Anthropologist/Pathologist Rudolf VirchowAnthropologist/Pathologist Rudolf Virchow (1902) 1902 - Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist and politician, dies at 80
1906 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b. 1844)
1910 - Franz Xaver Haberl, German priest/musicologist, dies at 70
1910 - Julian Edwards, composer, dies at 54
1912 - Arthur MacArthur, Jr., U.S. Army general (b. 1845)
1914 - Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist and editor (b. 1873)
1917 - Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (b. 1872)
1920 - Robert Harron, actor (Intolerance), accidental shot to death at 27
1922 - Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867)
1926 - Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician, founding member of the "DAP", which would become the Nazi Party (b. 1890)
1930 - Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
1931 - John Thomson, football player who died in an accidental collision during a match (b. 1909)
1932 - Paul Bern, husband of Jean Harlow, dies
1932 - Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist (b. 1866)
1936 - Gustave Kahn, French Symbolist poet and art critic (b. 1859)
1939 - Cornelis J "Cor" van Ast, Dutch actor/director (Two Boys), dies at 67
1942 - François de Labouchère, French aviator of World War II, compagnon de la Libération. (b. 1917)
1944 - Willem M Groenewegen, resistance fighter, executed
1948 - Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881)
1953 - Richard Walther Darré, Nazi politician, one of the leading 'blood and soil' ideologists (b. 1895)
1954 - Eugen Schiffer, German politician (b. 1860)
1961 - Ernest Bock, cricketer (Test for South Africa, 1935), dies
1965 - Thomas Johnston, Scottish-born politician (b. 1882)
1966 - Dezso Lauber, Hungarian athlete (b. 1879)
1968 - Juan Jose Castro, composer, dies at 73
1969 - Henk Bijvanck, composer, dies at 59
1969 - Mitchell Ayres, orchestra leader (Hollywood Palace), dies at 58
1972 - Josef Romano, Israeli olympian, murdered
1972 - Mosje Weinberg, Israeli olympic wrestling coach, murdered
1973 - Jack Fournier, American baseball player (b. 1889)
1975 - Georg Ots, Estonian singer (b. 1920)
1976 - A E R Gilligan, cricketer (11 Tests for England 1922-25), dies
1977 - Marcel Thiry, Belgian writer and wallon militant (b. 1897)
1979 - Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave (b. 1884)
1980 - Barbara Loden, actress (Ernie Kovacs Show), dies at 48
1981 - Ayatollah Ali Qoddusi, prosecutor-general of Iran, assassinated
1982 - Maurice Naessens, Belgian banker, dies at 73
1982 - Douglas Bader, RAF fighter pilot in World War II (b. 1910)
1983 - Antonio Mairena, flamenco singer (b. 1909)
1987 - Bill Bowes, cricketer (Bodyline bowler, 68 wkts for England), dies
1988 - Gert Froebe, actor (Lover's Wood, Upper Hand), dies at 75
1990 - Beppo Brem, actor (Frontgockel), dies of heart failure at 84
1990 - Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1896)
1992 - Billy Herman, 2nd baseman/manager (Dodgers, Cubs), dies at 83
1992 - Dorothy MacKaye, marital advisor (Ladies Home Journal), dies at 88
1992 - Irving Allen Lee, actor (Newspaper Boys), dies of AIDS at 43
1993 - Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (Spy Who Loved Me), dies at 78
1993 - John Truscott, Australian set designer (Camelot), dies at 57
1993 - René Klijn, [Dorian], singer (Mr Blue), dies of AIDS at 30)
1993 - Willem Wagter, actor (Ghetto, Medic Center West), dies at 60
1994 - Billy Usselton, saxophonist, dies at 68
1994 - Edgar Louis Vanderstegen Millington Drake, painter, dies at 62
1994 - John Newman, Australian parlement member (Lab), murdered at 47
1994 - William Usselton, US tenor saxophonist, dies at 68
1995 - Francis Showering, brewer, dies at 83
1995 - James "Pigmeat" Jarrett, pianist, dies at 95
1995 - John Britten, motorcycle Designer, dies at 45
1996 - Leonard Katzman, TV producer, dies at 69
1996 - Richard Clement Charles Thomas, rugby intl/journalist, dies at 67
1996 - Rose Isabel Williams, sister of Tennessee Williams, dies at 86
1997 - Georg Solti, conductor, dead, dies at 84
1997 - Leon Edel, biographer, dies at 89
Catholic Missionary Mother TeresaCatholic Missionary Mother Teresa (1997) 1997 - Mother Teresa, Nobel (1979), dies of cardiac arrest at 87
1998 - Verner Panton, Danish designer (b. 1926)
1998 - Leo Penn, American film director (b. 1921)
1999 - Allen Funt, American radio and television personality (b. 1914)
1999 - Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (b. 1921)
2001 - Vladimir Žerjavic, Croatian UN statistician (b. 1912)
2001 - Justin Wilson, American Cajun chef and humorist (b. 1914)
2002 - David Todd Wilkinson, American astronomer, author of the first study of the Cosmic microwave background radiation (b. 1935)
2003 - Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-born singer (b. 1927)
2005 - Roberto Viaux, Chilean Army General and the primary planner in two failed coup d'état attempt in Chile (b. 1917)
2007 - Jennifer Dunn, American politician (b. 1941)
2007 - Paul Gillmor, American politician (b. 1939)
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Historical Events
Events 1 - 100 of 199
1198 - Philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen crowned king of Roman Catholic Germany
1519 - 2nd Battle of Tehuacingo, Mexico: Hernan Cortes vs Tlascala Aztecs
1550 - William Cecil appoints himself English minister of foreign affairs
1590 - Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris.
1596 - Dutch fleet commander Cornelis de Houtman taken hostage in Java
1622 - Richelieu becomes cardinal
1634 - -6] Battle at Nordlingen: King Ferdinand III & Spain beat Sweden & German protestants
1644 - Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Sas of Gent
1661 - French superintendant of Finance Nicolas Fouquet arrested
1666 - Great Fire of London ends, leaving 13,200 houses destroyed and 8 dead
1698 - Russia's Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards
1750 - Decree issued in Paderborn Prussia allows for annual search of all Jewish homes for stolen or "doubtful" goods
1774 - 1st Continental Congress assembles, in Philadelphia
1781 - Battle of Virginia Capes, French defeat British, traps Cornwallis
1786 - Montplaisir Ceramic factory opens in Schaarbeek Belgium
1793 - In the French Revolution, the "Reign of Terror" begins
1795 - US-Algiers sign peace treaty
1796 - General Salicetti orders equal rights for Jews of Bologna Italy
1798 - New conscription law goes into effect in France
Russian Tsar Peter the GreatRussian Tsar Peter the Great 1800 - Malta surrenders to British after they blockade French troops
1814 - -15] Battle at Masurische Meren: Germans chase Russ out of E Prussia
1816 - Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").
1836 - Sam Houston elected president of Republic of Texas
1838 - Central Museum opens in Utrecht Netherlands
1839 - The First Opium War begins in China.
1844 - Iron ore discovered in Minnesota's Mesabi Mountains
1862 - Lee crosses Potomac & enters Maryland
1863 - Bread revolt in Mobile Alabama
1864 - British, French & Dutch fleets attacked Japan in Shimonoseki Straits
1864 - Achille François Bazaine becomes Marshall of France.
1877 - Southern blacks led by Pap Singleton settle in Kansas
1882 - 10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in NYC
1885 - 1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer (Ft Wayne, Ind)
1887 - Gas lamp at Theater Royal in Exeter catches fire killing about 200
1895 - George Washington Murray elected to Congress from SC
1900 - France proclaims a protectorate over Chad
1901 - National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues forms
1905 - Lillian Mortimer's "No Mother to Guide," premieres in Detroit
1905 - Treaty of Portsmouth USA, ends Russo-Japanese War
1906 - 1st legal forward pass (Brandbury Robinson to Jack Schneider)
1908 - Dodger Nap Rucker no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0
1910 - Jack Coombs begins a record streak of 53 shutout innings
1913 - Phillies & Braves tie record of only 1 run in a double header, Phillies win 1st game 1-0, then a scoreless tie into 10th
1914 - - till the 12th Sept Battle of Marne (WWI) begins French and British forces prevent German forces advancing on Paris
1914 - French headquarters move to Chatillon-sur-Seine
1914 - Gr Britain/France/Belgium/Russia sign pact of London
1914 - Proclamation prohibits Canadian mint from issuing gold coins
1915 - 35th US Mens Tennis: William Johnston beats McLoughlin (1-6 6-0 7-5 10-8)
1915 - Anti-war conference in Zimmerwald, Switzerland
1916 - 36th US Mens Tennis: R N Williams III beats Johnston (4-6 6-4 0-6 6-2 6-4)
1918 - Due to WW I, 15th World Series begins a month early
1918 - Decree "On Red Terror" is published in Russia
1920 - Iron monument unveiled at Stone churches, Flanders
1921 - Walter Johnson sets strikeout mark at 2,287
1922 - 17th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in New York (4-1)
1922 - Yankees final game at Polo Grounds (played there 7 years)
1923 - Flyweights Gene LaRue & Kid Pancho KO each other simultaneously
1925 - 112 F (44°C), Centerville, Alabama (state record)
1925 - 29th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones
1927 - Red Sox beat Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings
1929 - French premier A Briand requests a US of Europe
1932 - The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
1936 - Red Sox turn a triple-play on Yankees
1937 - Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls.
1939 - 34th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Haverford (3-2)
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1939 - FDR declares US neutrality at start of WW II in Europe
1939 - US declare itself neutral
1942 - Battle at Alam Halfa ends
1942 - British & US bomb Le Havre & Bremen
1943 - 57th US Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (6-3 5-7 6-3)
1943 - US airland at Nadzab, New-Guinea
1944 - "Mad Tuesday" 65,000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany
1944 - 5 resistance fighter executed in Terneuzen
1944 - Allies liberate Brussels
1944 - Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands sign unity treaty
1944 - British premier Churchill travels to Scotland
1944 - Dutch Armed Forces forms, under prince Bernhard
1946 - "Yours Is My Heart" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 36 performances
1946 - Joe Garagiola plays his 1st major league baseball game
1948 - In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister, As such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.
1949 - 63rd US Womens Tennis: M Osborne duPont beats Doris Hart (6-4 6-1)
1949 - 69th US Mens Tennis: Pancho Gonzales beat Schroeder (16-18 2-6 6-1 6-2 6-4)
1950 - 64th US Womens Tennis: Margaret Osborne duPont beats D Hart (6-3 6-3)
1950 - 70th US Mens Tennis: Art Larsen beats Herbert Flam (6-3 4-6 5-7 6-4 6-3)
1950 - 98.3 cm rainfall at Yankeetown, Florida (state record)
1951 - 65th US Womens Tennis: Mo Connolly beats Shirley J Fry (6-3 1-6 6-4)
1951 - 71st US Mens Tennis: Frank A Sedgman beats Elias Seixas Jr (6-4 6-1 6-1)
1952 - General Carlos Ibáñez elected president of Chile
1953 - 1st privately operated atomic reactor-Raleigh NC
1953 - US give Persian premier Zahedi $45 million aid
1954 - Dutch Super Constellation crashes at Shannon, 28 die
1955 - Fred Kaps becomes world champion magician
1955 - Dodger Don Newcombe hits NL pitcher record 7th HR of season
1955 - WKRG TV channel 5 in Mobile, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - WTTW TV channel 11 in Chicago, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - 20 die in a train crash in Springer NM
Cuban President and Dictator Fulgencio BatistaCuban President and Dictator Fulgencio Batista 1957 - Cuban dictator Batista bombs Cienfuegos uprising
1957 - Yugoslavia bans Milovan Djilas' book "new class marine officers"
1958 - "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak published in US
1958 - 1st color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte NC
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Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 100 of 217
1187 - Louis VIII, [Coeur-de-Lion] king of France (1223-26)
1319 - Pedro IV, king of Aragon
1567 - Date Masamune, Renowned Samurai and Daimyo in Japan (d. 1636)
1568 - Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian, philosopher, and poet (d. 1639)
1600 - Loreto Vittori, composer
1621 - Juan Andrés Coloma, Spanish noble (d. 1694)
1638 - Louis XIV, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, King of France (1643-1715), (Sun King), (d. 1715)
1644 - Gillis Schey, Dutch admiral (battle at Lowestoft)
1666 - Gottfried Arnold, German theologist/historian/songwriter
1667 - Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (d. 1733)
1688 - Lukas Fencer, Dutch poet (Fight of Kings & Mice)
1694 - Frantisek Antonin Mica, composer
1695 - Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (d. 1770)
1722 - Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (d. 1763)
1725 - Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (d. 1799)
1734 - Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, composer
1735 - Johann Christian Bach, composer, son of JS Bach (English Bach)
1737 - Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Beckmann, composer
1750 - Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (Scots poems)
The Sun King of France Louis XIVThe Sun King of France Louis XIV (1638) 1767 - August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/translator/critic
1771 - Charles L J, archduke of Austria/Gov (Austria Netherland)
1775 - Juan Martín Díez, el Empecinado (the undaunted), Spanish guerrillero (d. 1825)
1787 - François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1850)
1791 - Giacomo Meyerbeer, Vogelsdorf Germany, composer (Golt Und Die Natur)
1792 - Alexis-Charles-Maximilien Thibault, composer
1792 - Pierre-Armand Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist (d. 1857).
1806 - Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (d. 1865)
1807 - Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish Anglican clergyman and philologist (d. 1886)
1809 - Manuel Montt Torres, President of Chile (d. 1880)
1815 - Carl Wilhelm, composer
1815 - Tyree Harris Bell, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1902
1817 - Aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet/writer [NS]
1826 - John Wisden, England cricketer (d. 1884)
1827 - Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and writer (d. 1849)
1836 - Justiniano Borgoño, President of Peru (d. 1921)
1842 - Louis F J Bouwmeester, Dutch actor (Shakespeare)
1846 - John W Cromwell, Secy (American Negro Academy)
Outlaw Jesse JamesOutlaw Jesse James (1847) 1847 - Jesse James, Missouri, outlaw, son of a clergyman, (d. 1882)
1848 - Manuel Giro, composer
1856 - Jacobus C J Hermans, actor (7th Command)
1867 - Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, American composer and pianist (d. 1944)
1874 - Nap Lajoie, American baseball player (d. 1959)
1875 - Napoleon "Larry" Lajoie, RI, hall of fame shortstop (.426 in 1901)
1876 - Abdelaziz Thâalbi, Tunisian politician. (d. 1944)
1876 - Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (d. 1956)
1877 - O W Albert Roelofs, Dutch painter/etcher
1881 - Otto Bauer, Austrian social-democrat
1883 - Otto E Deutsch, Austrian musicologist (Schubert-Brevier)
1885 - John Raedecker, Dutch sculptor (National monument on the Dam)
1888 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishan, president (India)/philosopher
1890 - Albert H Edelkoort, theologist (Zondebesef)
1892 - Joseph Szigeti, Budapest Hungary, violinist (Violinist Notebook 1933)
1897 - Doris Kenyon, Syracuse NY, silent screen actress (Alexander Hamilton)
1897 - Luella Gear, NYC, actress (Joe & Mabel)
1897 - Morris Carnovsky, St Louis MO, actor (Dead Reckoning)
1898 - Ebbe Hamerik, composer
1901 - Florence Elridge, Brooklyn New York, American actress (Long Days Journey into the Night)
1901 - Mieczyslaw Kolinski, composer
1902 - Darryl F Zanuck, film magnate/president (20th Century Fox)
1905 - Arthur Koestler, Hungary, British writer (Arrow in Blue)
1905 - Justiniano Montano, Filipino politician (d. 2005)
1906 - Peter Mieg, composer
1906 - Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet (Semj Dnej Nedeli) [NS=Sept 18]
1907 - Sunnyland Albert Luandrew Slim, blues pianist
1908 - Joaquin Maria Nin-Culmell, Berlin Germany, Cuban/Spanish composer
1908 - Gloria Holden, British actress (d. 1991)
1909 - Archie Jackson, Australian cricketer (d. 1933)
1912 - John Cage, Los Angeles California, composer (Imaginary Landscape No 1/O'O)
1912 - Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer (d. 2001)
1912 - Frank Thomas, American animator (d. 2004)
1913 - Connie Stuart, [Cornelia van Meygard], Dutch cabaret performer
1914 - Gail Kubik, South Coffeyville, Oklahoma, composer (Gerald McBoing Boing)
1914 - Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet (Defense of Violeta Parra)
1914 - Stuart Freeborn, London, England, motion picture make-up artist (Star Wars: Yoda, Jabba the Hut), (d. 2013)
1916 - Frank Yerby American novelist (d. 1991)
1916 - Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (Wayne and Shuster) (d. 2002)
1917 - Jack Buetel, Dallas Tx, actress (Outlaw, Half Breed)
1918 - Luis Alcoriza, Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor (d. 1992)
1920 - Fons Rademakers, director (Assault)/actor (Daughter of Darkness)
1920 - Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink, Dutch author (Anna & her Father)
1920 - Peter Racine Fricker, British composer
1921 - Jack Valenti, Pres (Motion Picture Association of America)
1923 - Arthur C Nielsen, market researcher (TV's Nielsen's Ratings)
1923 - Ken Meuleman, Australian cricketer (d. 2004)
1924 - Krystyna Moszumanska-Nazar, composer
1925 - Jos Vandeloo, Flemish journalist/playwright (Cola Drinkers)
1925 - Justin Kaplan, US
1927 - Paul Volcker, Federal Reserve chairman
1929 - Andrian Grigoryevich Nikolayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Vostok III, Soyuz 9)
1929 - Bob Newhart, Oak Park Ill, comedian (Bob Newhart Show, Newhart)
1933 - Vincent McDermott, composer
1933 - Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Chilian catholic archbishop
1934 - Carol Lawrence, Illinois, dancer/actress (West Side Story)
1935 - Helen Gifford, composer
1935 - Mikhail Ivanovich Lisun, Russia, cosmonaut
1935 - Werner Erhard, Phila, founded EST
1936 - Alcee Hastings, (Rep-D-Florida)
1936 - Bill Mazeroski, MLB 2nd baseman (won 1960 World Series for Pitts)
1936 - Cornelius Boyson, bassist
1936 - John C Danforth, (Sen-R-Missouri, 1977- )
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Famous Weddings
Weddings 1 - 7 of 7
1725 - French King Louis XV marries Polish princess Mary Lesczynski
1991 - Actor John Travolta weds Kelly Preston
1992 - Andrew "Dice" Clay marries his long time partner Trinie
1992 - Rock singer John Mellencamp (40) weds model Elaine Irwin Mellencamp (23) in Indiana
1993 - Robocop Richard Eden (36) weds actress Shannon Hile (30)
1993 - "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" actress Nia Vardalos (30) weds "Felicity" actor Ian Gomez (28)
1997 - TV and radio host Larry King (64) weds singer Shawn Southwick (38) at the hospital room in Los Angeles, California
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 100 of 105
1165 - Emperor Nijo of Japan (b. 1143)
1201 - Constance, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1161)
1235 - Henry I, duke of Brabant, dies
1548 - Catharine Parr, queen of England/wife of Henry VIII, dies at about 36
1566 - Suleiman I, Great Law Giver, sultan of Turkey (1520-66), dies at 71
1569 - Pieter Bruegel, South Netherlands painter, dies at about 44
1572 - Pieter Tichelmann, Flemish Franciscan, dies at about 71
1607 - Pomponne de Bellièvre, chancellor of France (b. 1529)
1629 - Domenico Allegri, Italian composer (b. c. 1585)
1659 - Pieter de Carpentier, Flemish gov-gen of Neth East-Indies, dies at 71
1683 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French Minister of Navy, dies at 64
1684 - John Uytenhage van Lacks, lawyer/author, drowned at 48
1786 - Jonas Hanway, English merchant, traveler, and philanthropist (b. 1712)
1803 - Francois Devienne, composer, dies at 44
1808 - John Home, Scottish writer (b. 1722)
1836 - Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790)
1838 - Charles Percier, French architect (b. 1764)
1857 - Auguste Comte, French sociologist (b. 1798)
1858 - Moritz G, [Moses] Saphir, Hungarian journalist, dies at 63
1859 - W Friedrich Olivier, German landscape painter, dies at 68
1867 - Santiago Derqui, Argentinian politician (b. 1809)
1876 - Manuel Blanco Encalada, first president of Chile (b. 1790)
1877 - Crazy Horse, [Tashunka Witko], last great Sioux war chief, dies at 27
1890 - Ludwig Deppe, composer, dies at 61
1898 - Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds, disguised as man fought for union, dies
1901 - Ignacij Klemencic, Slovenian physicist (b. 1853)
Anthropologist/Pathologist Rudolf VirchowAnthropologist/Pathologist Rudolf Virchow (1902) 1902 - Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist and politician, dies at 80
1906 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b. 1844)
1910 - Franz Xaver Haberl, German priest/musicologist, dies at 70
1910 - Julian Edwards, composer, dies at 54
1912 - Arthur MacArthur, Jr., U.S. Army general (b. 1845)
1914 - Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist and editor (b. 1873)
1917 - Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (b. 1872)
1920 - Robert Harron, actor (Intolerance), accidental shot to death at 27
1922 - Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867)
1926 - Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician, founding member of the "DAP", which would become the Nazi Party (b. 1890)
1930 - Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
1931 - John Thomson, football player who died in an accidental collision during a match (b. 1909)
1932 - Paul Bern, husband of Jean Harlow, dies
1932 - Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist (b. 1866)
1936 - Gustave Kahn, French Symbolist poet and art critic (b. 1859)
1939 - Cornelis J "Cor" van Ast, Dutch actor/director (Two Boys), dies at 67
1942 - François de Labouchère, French aviator of World War II, compagnon de la Libération. (b. 1917)
1944 - Willem M Groenewegen, resistance fighter, executed
1948 - Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881)
1953 - Richard Walther Darré, Nazi politician, one of the leading 'blood and soil' ideologists (b. 1895)
1954 - Eugen Schiffer, German politician (b. 1860)
1961 - Ernest Bock, cricketer (Test for South Africa, 1935), dies
1965 - Thomas Johnston, Scottish-born politician (b. 1882)
1966 - Dezso Lauber, Hungarian athlete (b. 1879)
1968 - Juan Jose Castro, composer, dies at 73
1969 - Henk Bijvanck, composer, dies at 59
1969 - Mitchell Ayres, orchestra leader (Hollywood Palace), dies at 58
1972 - Josef Romano, Israeli olympian, murdered
1972 - Mosje Weinberg, Israeli olympic wrestling coach, murdered
1973 - Jack Fournier, American baseball player (b. 1889)
1975 - Georg Ots, Estonian singer (b. 1920)
1976 - A E R Gilligan, cricketer (11 Tests for England 1922-25), dies
1977 - Marcel Thiry, Belgian writer and wallon militant (b. 1897)
1979 - Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave (b. 1884)
1980 - Barbara Loden, actress (Ernie Kovacs Show), dies at 48
1981 - Ayatollah Ali Qoddusi, prosecutor-general of Iran, assassinated
1982 - Maurice Naessens, Belgian banker, dies at 73
1982 - Douglas Bader, RAF fighter pilot in World War II (b. 1910)
1983 - Antonio Mairena, flamenco singer (b. 1909)
1987 - Bill Bowes, cricketer (Bodyline bowler, 68 wkts for England), dies
1988 - Gert Froebe, actor (Lover's Wood, Upper Hand), dies at 75
1990 - Beppo Brem, actor (Frontgockel), dies of heart failure at 84
1990 - Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1896)
1992 - Billy Herman, 2nd baseman/manager (Dodgers, Cubs), dies at 83
1992 - Dorothy MacKaye, marital advisor (Ladies Home Journal), dies at 88
1992 - Irving Allen Lee, actor (Newspaper Boys), dies of AIDS at 43
1993 - Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (Spy Who Loved Me), dies at 78
1993 - John Truscott, Australian set designer (Camelot), dies at 57
1993 - René Klijn, [Dorian], singer (Mr Blue), dies of AIDS at 30)
1993 - Willem Wagter, actor (Ghetto, Medic Center West), dies at 60
1994 - Billy Usselton, saxophonist, dies at 68
1994 - Edgar Louis Vanderstegen Millington Drake, painter, dies at 62
1994 - John Newman, Australian parlement member (Lab), murdered at 47
1994 - William Usselton, US tenor saxophonist, dies at 68
1995 - Francis Showering, brewer, dies at 83
1995 - James "Pigmeat" Jarrett, pianist, dies at 95
1995 - John Britten, motorcycle Designer, dies at 45
1996 - Leonard Katzman, TV producer, dies at 69
1996 - Richard Clement Charles Thomas, rugby intl/journalist, dies at 67
1996 - Rose Isabel Williams, sister of Tennessee Williams, dies at 86
1997 - Georg Solti, conductor, dead, dies at 84
1997 - Leon Edel, biographer, dies at 89
Catholic Missionary Mother TeresaCatholic Missionary Mother Teresa (1997) 1997 - Mother Teresa, Nobel (1979), dies of cardiac arrest at 87
1998 - Verner Panton, Danish designer (b. 1926)
1998 - Leo Penn, American film director (b. 1921)
1999 - Allen Funt, American radio and television personality (b. 1914)
1999 - Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (b. 1921)
2001 - Vladimir Žerjavic, Croatian UN statistician (b. 1912)
2001 - Justin Wilson, American Cajun chef and humorist (b. 1914)
2002 - David Todd Wilkinson, American astronomer, author of the first study of the Cosmic microwave background radiation (b. 1935)
2003 - Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-born singer (b. 1927)
2005 - Roberto Viaux, Chilean Army General and the primary planner in two failed coup d'état attempt in Chile (b. 1917)
2007 - Jennifer Dunn, American politician (b. 1941)
2007 - Paul Gillmor, American politician (b. 1939)
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