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Hepburn, Bruce Lee, Marilyn Monroe, Paul Newman, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Sidney Poitier, Meryl Streep, Elizabeth Taylor, James Stewart, and John Wayne are among the most popular Hollywood stars of the 20th century. Oscar Micheaux, Sergei Eisenstein, D. W. Griffith, Cecil B. DeMille, Frank Capra, Howard Hawks, John F... | Greeks in the Ottoman Empire during World War I, spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP). Rising nationalism and increasing national awareness were among the many causes of World War I (1914–1918), the first of two wars to involve many major world powers including Germany, France, Italy, Japan, ... |
Throughout the 20th century in the developed world, the leading causes of death transitioned from infectious diseases such as influenza, to degenerative diseases such as cancer or diabetes. In 1900, the leading cause of death in the United States was influenza with 202.2 deaths per 100,000 people followed by tuberculos... | as cancer or diabetes. In 1900, the leading cause of death in the United States was influenza with 202.2 deaths per 100,000 people followed by tuberculosis with 194.4, which is a curable illness today. In the middle of 20th century America, the leading cause of death was heart disease with 355.5 deaths per 100,000 foll... |
Varangian army. The Emirate of Sicily is divided and fragmented into small fiefdoms. The Arab nobles of Palermo restore the regime of the Kalbids (approximate date). August 22 - 23 – Battle of Brůdek: Duke Bretislav I of Bohemia defeats the German forces under King Henry III (the Black) in the Bohemian Forest. Peter De... | the Knights Hospitaller (d. 1120) Bonfilius, bishop of Foligno (approximate date) Conrad I, count of Luxembourg (approximate date) Elimar I (or Egilmar), count of Oldenburg (d. 1112) Ernulf, French Benedictine monk and bishop (d. 1124) Gebhard III, bishop of Constance (approximate date) Geoffrey III, French nobleman (a... |
the Tuareg contingent at Tombouctou (or Timbuktu) and capturing the city. He develops both his own capital, Gao, and the main centres of Mali, Timbuktu and Djenné, into major cities. Ali Ber controls trade along the Niger River with a navy of war vessels. 1462: Mehmed the Conqueror is driven back by Wallachian prince V... | banking and accounting were founded in Italy. Constantinople, known as the Capital of the World and the Capital of the Byzantine Empire (today's Turkey), fell to the emerging Muslim Ottoman Turks, marking the end of the tremendously influential Byzantine Empire and, for some historians, the end of the Middle Ages. This... |
Russia. 1542: War resumes between Francis I of France and Emperor Charles V. This time Henry VIII is allied with the Emperor, while James V of Scotland and Sultan Suleiman I are allied with the French. 1542: Akbar The Great is born in the Rajput Umarkot Fort 1542: Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos named the isla... | Indonesia), and the pepper and gold producing lands on the east coast. 1520: The Portuguese established a trading post in the village of Lamakera on the eastern side of Solor (in present-day Indonesia) as a transit harbour between Maluku and Malacca. 1521: Belgrade (in present-day Serbia) is captured by the Ottoman Emp... |
the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers. 1648–1653: Fronde civil war in France. 1648–1657: The Khmelnytsky Uprising – a Cossack rebellion in Ukraine which turned into a Ukrainian war of liberation from Poland. 1648–1667: The Deluge wars leave Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in ruins. 1648–1669: The Ottomans captu... | politics were increasingly dominated by the Kingdom of France of Louis XIV, where royal power was solidified domestically in the civil war of the Fronde. The semi-feudal territorial French nobility was weakened and subjugated to the power of an absolute monarchy through the reinvention of the Palace of Versailles from ... |
1766: Christian VII becomes king of Denmark. He was king of Denmark to 1808. 1766–1799: Anglo-Mysore Wars. 1767: Taksin expels Burmese invaders and reunites Thailand under an authoritarian regime. 1768–1772: War of the Bar Confederation. 1768–1774: Russo-Turkish War. 1769: Spanish missionaries establish the first of 21... | territory becomes colonized by Russians. More than a hundred thousand Kalmyks migrate back to Qing Dzungaria. 1772: Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d'état, becoming almost an absolute monarch. 1772–1779: Maratha Empire fights Britain and Raghunathrao's forces during the First Anglo-Maratha War. 1772–1795: The Partit... |
than the tiny ones found on 1940s models occurred during 1950–52. In 1954, RCA intro Bell Telephone Labs produced the first Solar battery. In 1954, a yard of contact paper could be purchased for only 59 cents. Polypropylene was invented in 1954. In 1955, Jonas Salk invented a polio vaccine which was given to more than ... | opened in Obninsk near Moscow. NASA is organized. The first human cervical cancer cells were cultured outside a body in 1951, from Henrietta Lacks. The cells are known as HeLa cells and are the first and most commonly used immortalised cell line. First transistor computer, built at the University of Manchester in Novem... |
in 1877 Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–1880), fought between the British Raj and the Emirate of Afghanistan Anglo-Zulu War (11 January – 5 July 1879) War of the Pacific (1879–1884), fought over resource-rich territory along the Pacific coast between Chile and an alliance of Bolivia and Peru Colonization, decolonization,... | Second French Empire and in the formation of both the French Third Republic and the German Empire Third Anglo-Ashanti War, also known as the "First Ashanti Expedition" (1873–1874), ended with the destruction of the royal palace at Kumasi and the signing of the Treaty of Fomena, which secured British trading rights in t... |
in the U.S.; 3,145 die, and 21,269 are left with mild to disabling paralysis. The Nordic Council agrees to the unrestricted transport of people, goods and services throughout the Nordic Countries. The National Prohibition Foundation is incorporated in Indiana. Supramar launched the first commercial high-speed craft, a ... | September September 2 Jimmy Connors, American tennis player Yuen Wah – Hong Kong martial actor September 4 – Rishi Kapoor, Indian actor (d. 2020) September 6 – Lucky Enam, Bangladeshi television, theater actress September 8 – Patrick Prosser, Scottish computer scientist September 9 – Angela Cartwright, British-American... |
Ernest Laszlo, Hungarian-born American cinematographer (b. 1898) January 7 – Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902) January 9 – Sir Deighton Lisle Ward, 4th Governor-General of Barbados (b. 1909) January 11 – Jack La Rue, American actor (b. 1902) January 13 – Ray Moore, American comic writer (... | celebrity and actress Christy Carlson Romano, American actress and singer Fernando Torres, Spanish football player March 21 – Sopho Gelovani, Georgian singer March 22 – Didit Hediprasetyo, Indonesian fashion designer and socialite March 24 Chris Bosh, American basketball player Park Bom, South Korean singer March 25 – ... |
as Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens (together called "the Four Horsemen of New Atheism" in a taped 2007 discussion they held on their criticisms of religion, a name that has stuck), along with Victor J. Stenger, Lawrence M. Krauss and A.C. Grayling. Several best-selling books by the... | countries which are the two most populous countries in the world provide huge pools from which to find talent and as because both countries are low cost sourcing countries. As a result of this growth, many of these developing countries accumulated capital and started investing abroad. Other countries, including the Uni... |
(XXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 26th Year of the Anno Domini (AD) designation, the 26th year of the 1st millennium, the 26th year of the 1st century, and the 6th year of the 3rd decade. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship... | became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire Pontius Pilate is appointed as prefect of Judea. Emperor Tiberius retires to Capri, leaving the Praetorian Guard under Lucius Aelius Sejanus in charge of the Roman Empire and the city of |
(1949), Yankee Doodle Dandy directed by Michael Curtiz (1942), and Notorious directed by Alfred Hitchcock, (1946). The Walt Disney Studios released the animated feature films Pinocchio (1940), Dumbo (1941), Fantasia (1940), and Bambi (1942). Although the 1940s was a decade dominated by World War II, important and notew... | 1949. Most of World War II took place in the first half of the decade, which had a profound effect on most countries and people in Europe, Asia, and elsewhere. The consequences of the war lingered well into the second half of the decade, with a war-weary Europe divided between the jostling spheres of influence of the W... |
of the United Nations. The Universal Postal Union (UPU) becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations (effective July 1 1948). November 16 In Brussels, 15,000 people demonstrate against the relatively short prison sentences of Belgian Nazi criminals. Great Britain begins withdrawing its troops from Palestine. Nove... | Air Station Atsugi, Japan, killing all 41 on board in the worst aviation accident in Japanese history up to this time. Douglas DC-4 Mainliner Lake Tahoe, operating as United Airlines Flight 521, fails to become airborne while attempting to take off from LaGuardia Airport in New York City, runs off the end of the runway... |
(d. 1711) July 18 – Francis Pemberton, English judge, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench (d. 1697) August 6 – Charles Kerr, 2nd Earl of Ancram, English politician (d. 1690) August 11 – John Strode, English politician (d. 1679) August 22 – Jean Regnault de Segrais, French poet and novelist born in Caen (d. 1701) Aug... | – Sir Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Baronet, English baronet (d. 1669) April 26 – Johann Leusden, Dutch Calvinist theologian (d. 1699) May 13 – Aleksander Kazimierz Sapieha, Polish nobleman and archbishop (d. 1671) May 23 – William Duckett, English politician (d. 1686) May 30 – Leopold Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Montbélia... |
September 7 – Maria Klara of Dietrichstein, German noblewoman (d. 1667) September 8 – Simon Patrick, English theologian and bishop (d. 1707) September 16 – Leopold Wilhelm, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Imperial Field Marshal (d. 1671) September 27 – William Douglas, 2nd Lord Mordington, eldest son and heir of Sir James Dou... | Dutch emigrants. February 2 – King Charles I of England is crowned, but without his wife, Henrietta Maria, who declines to participate in a non-Catholic ceremony. February 2–10 – Battle of Ningyuan in Xingcheng, Liaoning, China: With a much smaller force, the Ming dynasty commander Yuan Chonghuan defeats the Manchu tri... |
23 – Hester Davenport, English stage actress (d. 1717) March 25 – Anna Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury, English countess (d. 1702) March 28 – Henry Wolrad, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (1645–1664) (d. 1664) March 29 – Emich Christian of Leiningen-Dagsburg, Lord of Broich, Oberstein and Bürgel (d. 1702) March 31 – Ephraim ... | – First English Civil War – Battle of Turnham Green: The Royalist forces withdraw in face of the Parliamentarian army, and fail to take London. November 24 – Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania). First week of December – First English Civil War – Battl... |
July 1 – Russo-Swedish War (1656–58) – Treaty of Cardis: Russia surrenders to Sweden all captured territories. August 6 – Portugal and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of The Hague, whereby New Holland is formally ceded to Portugal by the Dutch Republic. September 5 – Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV's Superintende... | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, English statesman (d. 1724) December 8 – Kenneth Mackenzie, 4th Earl of Seaforth, Scottish Jacobite nobleman (d. 1701) December 18 – Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (d. 1751) date unknown – Rijkuo-Maja, Sámi noaidi (d. 1757) Deaths January 19 – Tho... |
is exposed and subdued. June 25 – The Marine Society is founded in London, the world's oldest seafarers' charity. June 29 – Seven Years' War: Siege of Fort St Philip at Port Mahón: The British garrison in Menorca surrenders to the French after two months' siege by the Duke of Richelieu. July–September July 30 – Bartolo... | and reinstate absolute monarchy in Sweden with the support of the Hovpartiet, is exposed and subdued. June 25 – The Marine Society is founded in London, the world's oldest seafarers' charity. June 29 – Seven Years' War: Siege of Fort St Philip at Port Mahón: The British garrison in Menorca surrenders to the French afte... |
Chief Mihsihkinaahkwa (Little Turtle) and by Shawnee warriors commanded by War Chief Weyapiersenwah (Blue Jacket) rout the forces of General Arthur St. Clair and kill 630 U.S. soldiers, along with hundreds of civilians. December 4 – The first issue of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published in Lo... | Act 1791, splitting the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada. February 8 – The Bank of the United States, based in Philadelphia, is incorporated by the federal government with a 20-year charter and started with $10,000,000 capital. February 21 – The United States opens diplomatic relations with Portugal. ... |
English Royalist soldier (d. 1657) July 24 – Sir Philip Wodehouse, 3rd Baronet, English baronet (d. 1681) August 4 – John Tradescant the Younger, British botanist (d. 1662) August 15 – Henry Howard, 22nd Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1652) August 16 – Jean-Louis Raduit de Souches, German Imperial field marsha... | Colony of Virginia, Powhatan releases Captain John Smith. January 2 – The first of the Jamestown supply missions returns to the Colony of Virginia with Christopher Newport commanding the John and Francis and the Phoenix bringing about 100 new settlers to supplement the 38 survivors he finds at Jamestown. January 7 – At... |
carol "Silent Night" (Stille Nacht), with words by the priest Josef Mohr, set to music by organist Franz Xaver Gruber, is first performed at St. Nikolaus Parish Church, in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria. Date unknown Catholic–Orthodox clash in Aleppo. The first edition of the Farmers' Almanac is published in the Unite... | Geer, 1st Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1896) July 22 – J. Gregory Smith, Vermont governor (d. 1891) July 27 – Agostino Roscelli, Italian priest, founder of the Institute of Sisters of the Immaculata (d. 1902) July 30 Emily Brontë, British novelist (d. 1848) Jan Heemskerk, 2-time Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 18... |
The State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs declares its independence from Austria-Hungary. October 30 The Martin Declaration is published, including Slovakia in the formation of the Czecho-Slovak state. The Armistice of Mudros ends conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the Allies of World War I, and grants independence ... | WWI: The Armistice of Villa Giusti ends warfare between Italy and Austria-Hungary, on the Italian Front. November 6 – A new Polish government is proclaimed in Lublin. November 7 – King Ludwig of Bavaria flees his country. November 8 – The German army withdraws its support of the Kaiser. The German Armistice delegation ... |
army to retreat 150 kilometres south to the Piave river. The Italians lose 13,000 killed, 30,000 wounded, around 270,000 taken prisoner (mostly willingly) and 50,000 deserted; the government of Paolo Boselli collapses on November 29. November 20 WWI: Battle of Cambrai – British forces, using tanks, make early progress ... | home for the Jewish people..., it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities". November 5 (N.S.) (October 23, O.S.) – Estonian and Russian Bolsheviks seize power in Tallinn, Autonomous Governorate of Estonia, two days before ... |
Rocky Mountains from the eastern side (the Spanish conquistadors had seen the Rockies from the west side). January 8 – King Augustus III of Poland, acting in his capacity as Elector of Saxony, signs an agreement with Austria pledging help in war in return for part of Silesia to be conveyed to Saxony. January 12 The Ver... | in England near Cornwall. The wreckage is located in 1971. July 20 – Lord Anson captures the Philippine galleon Nuestra Señora de Covadonga and its treasure of 1,313,843 Spanish dollars at Manila along with a treasure of 2 1/2 million dollars, and proceeds back toward Mexico, then returns to Britain in 1744 July 23 – J... |
3 – King Charles XV of Sweden and Norway (d. 1872) May 4 – Frederic Edwin Church, American painter (d. 1900) May 7 – Varina Davis, First Lady of the Confederate States of America (d. 1906) May 8 – Miguel Ângelo Lupi, Portuguese painter (d. 1883) May 24 – Marie Goegg-Pouchoulin, Swiss international women's rights activi... | Mexican Texas make the first attempt to secede from Mexico, establishing the Republic of Fredonia, which will survive for just over a month. December 25 The Eggnog Riot breaks out at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York during the early morning hours. Major Edmund Lockyer arrives at King George So... |
and Mexico. September 17 – Russian troops withdraw from Poland. September 19 – 1993 Polish parliamentary election: A coalition of the Democratic Left Alliance and the Polish People's Party led by Waldemar Pawlak comes into power. September 22 – Big Bayou Canot train disaster: A bridge collapses as the Amtrak Sunset Lim... | residents vote with a slim margin to maintain Commonwealth status. The first meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit opens in Seattle. November 20 – An Avioimpex Yakovlev Yak-42D crashes into Mount Trojani near Ohrid, Macedonia. All 8 crew members and 115 of the 116 passengers are killed. November 28 – ... |
makes landfall in the Caribbean and lands on Guanahani, but he believes he has reached the East Indies. October 28 – Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba. November 3 – The Peace of Étaples is signed between England and France, ending French support for Perkin Warbeck, the pretender to the English throne. All English-held... | for Perkin Warbeck, the pretender to the English throne. All English-held territory in France (with the exception of Calais) is returned to France. November 7 – The Ensisheim meteorite, a meteorite, lands in a wheat field near the village of Ensisheim in Alsace. December 5 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first Europ... |
23 John Bardeen, American physicist, twice awarded the Nobel Prize (died 1991) Hélène Boucher, French aviator (died 1934) May 25 – Theodore Roethke, American poet (died 1963) May 26 Robert Morley, British actor (died 1992) Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ, 1st Prime Minister of South Vietnam (died 1976) May 28 – Ian Fleming, English no... | May 8 – Arturo de Córdova, Mexican actor (died 1973) May 17 – Muhammad Ahmad Mahgoub, Sudanese author, 6th Prime Minister of Sudan (died 1976) May 19 – Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (died 1982) May 20 – James Stewart, American actor (died 1997) May 23 John Bardeen, American physicist, twice awarded the Nobel Prize (... |
committee. December 16 – In Japan, over 700 children suffer epilectic attacks due to an episode of the anime Pokémon. December 18 – In Australia, 20th Century Fox releases a feature-length film about a children's group named The Wiggles called The Wiggles Movie. December 19 Janet Jagan (widow of Cheddi Jagan) takes off... | the Vietnam War, and dedicates the Laos Memorial in honor of Hmong and other "Secret War" veterans. May 16 President Mobutu Sese Seko is exiled from Zaire. U.S. President Bill Clinton issues a formal apology to the surviving victims of the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male and their families. May 1... |
coach Dean Paul Martin, American pop singer and screen actor (d. 1987) Stephen Root, American actor and voice actor November 18 – Justin Raimondo, American political activist (d. 2019) November 19 Zeenat Aman, Indian actress and model Lord Falconer of Thoroton, British politician November 20 – Rodger Bumpass, American ... | February 25 – Don Quarrie, Jamaican sprinter February 27 Lee Atwater, American political activist, campaign strategist and presidential advisor (d. 1991) Steve Harley, British rock musician March March 1 Sergei Kourdakov, Soviet KGB agent, later Christian convert (d. 1973) Mike Read, British television presenter, radio... |
an office and their voters of representation, it also changes the power index in the assembly, which may have dramatic implications for coalition-building. In the 2013 German federal election, the FDP, in Parliament since 1949, got only 4.8% of the list vote, and no district, excluding the party altogether. This, along... | Slovenia, the threshold was set at 3 parliamentary seats during parliamentary elections in 1992 and 1996. This meant that the parties needed to win about 3.2% of the votes in order to pass the threshold. In 2000, the threshold was raised to 4% of the votes. Sweden In Sweden, there is a nationwide threshold of 4%, but i... |
cricketer (d. 1995) Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish filmmaker, director, screenwriter, producer, and actor Ronaldo Caiado, Brazilian politician September 26 – Jane Smiley, American novelist September 27 Mike Schmidt, American baseball player Jahn Teigen, Norwegian singer (d. 2020) September 29 – Wenceslao Selga Padilla, Filip... | – Queen Juliana of the Netherlands grants Indonesia sovereignty. December 29 – KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule. December 30 – India recognizes the People's Republic of China. Date unknown The Malta Labour Party is founded. The... |
American food chemist, inventor (d. 2004) October 26 Sid Gillman, American football coach (d. 2003) Mahalia Jackson, African-American gospel singer (d. 1972) October 27 – Leif Erickson, American actor (d. 1986) October 30 Ruth Hussey, American actress (d. 2005) Eileen Whelan, British cricketer (d. 2021) November Novemb... | Austria (d. 1990) January 24 – C. L. Moore, American writer (d. 1987) January 25 – Kurt Maetzig, German director (d. 2012) January 26 – Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993) January 28 – Johan van Hulst, Dutch politician, academic, author and Yad Vashem recipient (d. 2018) January 29 – P... |
in for a second term, as President of the United States. Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula (captured from Egypt on October 29, 1956). The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut, and charged with planting more than 30 bombs. January 21 – President Dwight D. Eisenhowe... | makes its first appearance on Broadway, and runs for 732 performances. September 29 – The Kyshtym disaster occurs, at the Mayak nuclear reprocessing plant in Russia. October October 1 Which? magazine is first published by The Consumers' Association in the United Kingdom. The Africanized bee is accidentally released in ... |
group of users began collecting bug fixes and enhancements, releasing them as an unofficial patchkit. Due to differences of opinion between the Jolitzes and the patchkit maintainers over the future direction and release schedule of 386BSD, the maintainers of the patchkit founded the FreeBSD project in 1993 to continue ... | of the port can be found in 4.3BSD Net/2 of 1991. The port was made possible as Keith Bostic, partly influenced by Richard Stallman, had started to remove proprietary AT&T out of BSD in 1988. The port was first released in March 1992 (version 0.0) and in a much more usable version on July 14, 1992 (version 0.1). The po... |
Helen Maksagak, Canadian, first Inuk and woman to be Commissioner of both the Northwest Territories and Nunavut (d. 2009) Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet, translator and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 2015) April 17 – Esteban Siller, Mexican voice actor (d. 2013) April 18 - Noel Marshall, American agent... | of the Soviet Union, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize March 3 – John Smith, American actor (d. 1995) March 4 William H. Keeler, American Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017) Alice Rivlin, American economist (d. 2019) March 5 – Barry Tuckwell, Australian horn player (d. 2020) March 6 Carmen de Lavallade, American actress,... |
eruption in Hokkaido, Japan, according to the Japanese government official report. May 26 – The Rif War ends, when Rif rebels surrender in Morocco. May 28 – The 1926 coup d'état, commanded by Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal, installs the Ditadura Nacional (National Dictatorship), followed by António de Oliveira Salaz... | Jewison, Canadian film director July 22 – Bryan Forbes, English film director (d. 2013) July 24 – Hans Günter Winkler, German show jumping rider (d. 2018) July 25 Beatriz Segall, Brazilian actress (d. 2018) Ray Solomonoff, American inventor (d. 2009) July 26 – James Best, American actor and acting coach (d. 2015) July ... |
– Riots in Curaçao mark the start of an Afro-Caribbean civil rights movement on the island. June June 3 – While operating at sea on SEATO maneuvers, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne accidentally rams and slices into the American destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in the South China Sea, killing 74 American seam... | – French is made equal to English throughout the Canadian national government. July 8 – Vietnam War: The very first U.S. troop withdrawals are made. July 10 – Donald Crowhurst's sailing trimaran Teignmouth Electron is found drifting and unoccupied in mid-Atlantic; it is presumed that Crowhurst committed suicide (or fel... |
Divine names for persons, with the example of Mālik ul-Mulk (مَـٰلِكُ ٱلْمُلْكُ: "Lord of Power" or "Owner of all Sovereignty"): The two parts of the name starting with ˁabd may be written separately (as in the previous example) or combined as one in the transliterated form; in such a case, the vowel transcribed after ... | such as "The Haughty". Theophoric given names The Arabic names of God are used to form theophoric given names commonly used in Muslim cultures throughout the world, mostly in Arabic speaking societies. Because the names of God themselves are reserved to God and their use as a person's given name is considered religious... |
of Jim Jones) (d. 2017) Tom Sneva, American race car driver, Indianapolis 500 winner June 2 – Jerry Mathers, American actor (Leave It to Beaver) June 3 – Carlos Franzetti, Argentine composer and arranger June 4 Bob Champion, English jump jockey David Haskell, American actor (d. 2000) June 5 – Alex Sink, American politi... | in Bogotá, Colombia. November 17 Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi divorces his second wife, the former Princess Fawzia of Egypt. Whittaker Chambers produces secret government papers, handwritten and typewritten by Alger Hiss, during pretrial examination. November 20 – Geoffrey B. Orbell rediscovers the Takahē, last seen 50 y... |
Bourbon Restoration phase which had started in the 1870s. A Second Spanish Republic emerges. In the Soviet Union, agricultural collectivization and rapid industrialization take place. Millions died during the Holodomor. More than 25 million people migrate to cities in the Soviet Union. Anglo-German Naval Agreement is s... | these attacks leading to the outbreak of World War II on September 1, 1939, despite calls from the League of Nations for worldwide peace. World War II helped end the Great Depression when governments spent money for the war effort. The 1930s also saw many important developments in science and a proliferation of new tec... |
that Jews living in towns and villages in the Polish occupation zones are to be transferred to ghettos, and Jewish councils, Judenräte, will be established to carry out the German authorities’ orders. Assassination of Armand Călinescu: Prime Minister of Romania Armand Călinescu is shot in Bucharest by members of the fa... | Terminal Island, due to deteriorating health caused by syphilis. November 17 – WWII: To punish protests against the Nazi occupation of the Czech homeland, the Nazis storm the University of Prague and murder 9 Czech graduate students, send over 1,200 to concentration camps, and close all Czech universities, an event whi... |
War (1920–21). Major armed conflict in Ireland including Irish War of Independence (1919–1921) resulting in Ireland becoming an independent country in 1922 followed by the Irish Civil War (1922–23). Russian famine of 1921–22 claimed up to five million victims. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union) is c... | John T. Scopes had violated the law by teaching evolution in schools, creating tension between the competing theories of creationism and evolutionism. Europe Polish–Soviet War (1920–21). Major armed conflict in Ireland including Irish War of Independence (1919–1921) resulting in Ireland becoming an independent country ... |
Norwegian philosopher (d. 2009) Francis Rogallo, American aeronautical engineer (d. 2009) January 28 – Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956) January 30 Werner Hartmann, German physicist (d. 1988) Barbara Tuchman, American historian (d. 1989) Francis Schaeffer, American Evangelical theologian, philosopher, and Pre... | Nicaragua: U.S. Marines land from the USS Annapolis in Nicaragua, to support the conservative government at its request. August 12 – Sultan Abd al-Hafid of Morocco abdicates. August 21 – The first Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America) earns his rank. August 25 – The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded. ... |
is made by Swiss mountaineers Daniel Baud-Bovy and Frédéric Boissonnas guided by Christos Kakkalos. August 4 – Republic of China: The province of Chungking (Chongqing) declares independence; Republican forces crush the rebellion in a couple of weeks. August 10 – Second Balkan War: The Treaty of Bucharest is signed, end... | February 3 – The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect income taxes on all sources of income, not just some. February 9 – Mexican Revolution: "La Decena Trágica", the rebellion of some military chiefs against the President Francisco I. Mad... |
of World War I (d. 2011) Clark Gable, American actor (d. 1960) February 2 – Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian violinist (d. 1987) February 3 – Arvid Wallman, Swedish diver (d. 1982) February 6 – Pat Harrington Sr., Canadian actor (d. 1965) February 9 – Brian Donlevy, American actor (d. 1972) February 10 Stella Adler, American... | Colin McPhee, Canadian composer (d. 1964) March 16 – Marta Krásová, Czech contralto (d. 1970) March 17 – Alfred Newman, American film composer (d. 1970) March 21 Karl Arnold, German politician (d. 1958) Carmelita Geraghty, American actress (d. 1966) March 22 – Greta Kempton, American artist (d. 1991) March 23 – Bon Mah... |
The flight was seen by a number of people, including several invited friends, their father Milton, and neighboring farmers. Four days later, they wrote to the United States Secretary of War William Howard Taft, offering to sell the world's first practical fixed-wing aircraft. 1906 – The Gabel Automatic Entertainer, an ... | argument for the famous equation E = mc2. Planck's law of black-body radiation Seismographs built in the University of California, Berkeley, in 1900 Practical air conditioner designed by Willis Carrier in 1902 Geiger counter (measures radioactivity) invented by Hans Geiger in 1908 Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium... |
Wars. July–September July 4 – Lord William Bentinck arrives at Calcutta (now Kolkata) to begin his administration as the new Governor-General of India, on behalf of King George IV of the United Kingdom. July 5 – The British weekly magazine, The Spectator is founded by Robert Stephen Rintoul. August 11 – William Corder ... | by the Russian army. October–December October 26 – English naturalist and explorer William John Burchell collects the only known specimen of Parabouchetia brasiliensis, an exceptionally rare member of the nightshade family Solanaceae, in central Brazil. November 11 – Greek War of Independence: the London Protocol entai... |
1 to July 12, 1916, a series of shark attacks, known as the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916, occurred along the Jersey Shore, killing four and injuring one. On January 11, 1914, Sakurajima erupted which resulted in the death of 35 people. In addition, the surrounding islands were consumed, and an isthmus was created... | Soviet Union. April 13, 1919 – The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, at Amritsar in the Punjab Province of British India, sows the seeds of discontent and leads to the birth of the Indian Independence Movement. Xinhai Revolution causes the overthrow of China's ruling Qing Dynasty, and the establishment of the Republic of Chin... |
in a single season, and the first passage through the Prince of Wales Strait. October 13 – WWII: Riga, the capital of Latvia, is taken by the Red Army. The first V-2 rocket attack on Antwerp takes place. October 14 – WWII: German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits forced suicide rather than face public disgrace and exe... | battle in which Japanese aircraft carry out organized kamikaze attacks. October 24 Battle of Leyte Gulf: The is sunk by United States aircraft. The Allies recognise Charles de Gaulle's cabinet as the provisional government of France. October 25 WWII: The Red Army liberates Kirkenes, the first town in Norway to be liber... |
tribunal. Radio Republik Indonesia starts broadcasting. The Batu Lintang camp in Sarawak, Borneo is liberated by Australian forces. September 12 – The Japanese Army formally surrenders to the British in Singapore. September 18 Typhoon Makurazaki kills 3,746 people in Japan. The Japanese Army in Central China officially... | (being headquartered in Berlin) effectively ceases to exist (it is recreated on June 3, 1946). May 1 – WWII: Reichssender Hamburg's Flensburg radio station announces that Hitler has died in battle, "fighting up to his last breath against Bolshevism." Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda commit suicide, after killing thei... |
Indonesia. 1353: Fa Ngum established the Lan Xang kingdom in Laos. 1356: The Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire headed by Emperor Charles IV issues the Golden Bull of 1356, establishing various constitutional aspects of the Empire, the most significant being the electoral college to elect future emperors. 1356: The... | out of China and retreated to Mongolia, the Ilkhanate collapsed, the Chaghatayid dissolved and broke into two parts, and the Golden Horde lost its position as a great power in Eastern Europe. In Africa, the wealthy Mali Empire, a global leader of gold production, reached its territorial and economic height under the re... |
United States of America under President Abraham Lincoln and the self-declared Confederate States of America under President Jefferson Davis (April 12, 1861 – April 9, 1865) and Vice President Alexander Stephens. Beginning of the Reconstruction era under President Andrew Johnson (1865–1869). 1863–64 January Uprising in... | land confiscations beginning in 1863. In Asia, the Meiji Restoration of 1868 would begin the process of transforming Japan into a global imperial power. The Qing Dynasty of China would experience decline following its defeat to the British in 1860 in the Second Opium War. In 1864, the Russian Empire would embark upon t... |
of Denmark–Norway invades Sweden. October–December October 1 – William Brodie is hanged at the Tolbooth in Edinburgh. October 21 – The 14th and last session of the Continental Congress and (the 6th as Congress under the Articles of Confederation) is adjourned. October – King George III of the United Kingdom becomes der... | the Marshall Islands. June 21 – New Hampshire ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the ninth U.S. state, enabling the Constitution to go into effect. (The latter happens on March 4, 1789, when the first Congress elected under the new Constitution assembles.) June 25 – The Virginia Ratifying Convention r... |
1st century – Augustus of Primaporta, (perhaps a copy of a bronze statue of ca. 20 BC), is made. It is now kept in Musei Vaticani, Braccio Nuovo, Rome. Early 1st century – Gemma Augustea is made. It is now kept at Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Early 1st century – House of the Silver Wedding, Pompeii, is built. Exca... | 1st century – Gemma Augustea is made. It is now kept at Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Early 1st century – House of the Silver Wedding, Pompeii, is built. Excavated in 1893, the year of the silver wedding anniversary of Italy's King Humbert and his wife, Margherita of Savoy, who have supported archaeological fieldwo... |
singer and actress September 20 – Rose Francine Rogombé, Gabonese lawyer and politician (d. 2015) September 21, Luis Mateo Díez, Spanish writer September 22 Wu Ma, Chinese film actor, director, producer and writer (d. 2014) Marlena Shaw, American jazz singer David Stern, American commissioner of the National Basketball... | the Allies. After the war, the Nuremberg trials finds this order a direct violation of the laws and customs of war. October 21 – A Royal New Zealand Air Force torpedo bomber sinks the German MS Palatia, with a loss of 946 lives. October 23 – Award-winning composer and songwriter Ralph Rainger ("Thanks for the Memory") ... |
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WFTD). John F. Kennedy and crew are found by Solomon Islands coastwatchers Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana, with their dugout canoe. August 6 – WWII: Battle of Vella Gulf: Americans defeat a Japanese convoy off Kolombangara, as the U.S. Army drives the Japanese out of Munda airfield on New Ge... | month-long Third Battle of Kharkov. March 16–19 – WWII: 22 ships from Convoys HX 229/SC 122 and one U-boat are sunk, in the largest North Atlantic U-boat "wolfpack" attack of the war. March 17 (Saint Patrick's Day) – Éamon de Valera, Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland, makes the speech "The Ireland That We Dreamed Of... |
– The Emirate of Transjordan becomes the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan when its parliament makes the ruling amir Abdullah their king on the day it ratifies the Treaty of London. May 26 – 1946 Czechoslovak parliamentary election: Communists win with (38%), in the last election before communists take power. May 31 – A... | – In the first Basketball Association of America game, the New York Knicks defeat the Toronto Huskies 68–66, at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens. November 4 – UNESCO is established, as a specialized agency of the United Nations. November 10 At least 1,400 people are killed in an earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter magn... |
from the Germans since the start of the invasion. Other elements of the 21st attack the Germans in the rear toward Babruysk (some 80 kilometers behind the frontlines), and even take bridges over the Berezina River. An uprising in Montenegro against the Axis powers starts, the second popular uprising in Europe (the firs... | 8 – WWII: The U.S. House of Representatives passes the Lend-Lease Act. February 9 – Winston Churchill, in a worldwide broadcast, tells the United States to show its support by sending arms to the British: "Give us the tools, and we will finish the job." February 12 Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli. Elements of the Germa... |
Yuan Dynasty. 1290s 1290: By the Edict of Expulsion, King Edward I of England orders all Jews to leave the Kingdom of England. 1291: The Swiss Confederation of Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden forms. 1291: Mamluk Sultan of Egypt al-Ashraf Khalil captures Acre, thus ending the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem (the last Christi... | America, according to some population estimates, the population of Cahokia grew to being equal to or larger than the population of 13th-century London. In Peru, the Kingdom of Cuzco begins. The Kanem Empire in what is now Chad reaches its apex. The Solomonic dynasty in Ethiopia and the Zimbabwe Kingdom are founded. In ... |
called the United States. June 28 – Princess Wilhelmina of Orange, sister of King Frederick William II of Prussia, is captured by Dutch Republican patriots, taken to Goejanverwellesluis and not allowed to travel to The Hague. July–September July 13 – The Congress of the Confederation enacts the Northwest Ordinance, est... | eleventh of the Spanish missions in California. December 12 – Pennsylvania becomes the second U.S. state. December 18 – New Jersey becomes the third U.S. state. December 23 – Captain William Bligh sets sail from England for Tahiti, in . Date unknown Caroline Herschel is granted an annual salary of £50, by King George I... |
another night of protests against the poll tax. Newfoundland Premier Clyde Wells confirms he will rescind Newfoundland's approval of the Meech Lake Accord. March 10 – Prosper Avril is ousted in a coup in Haiti, eighteen months after seizing power. March 11 – Singing Revolution: The Lithuanian SSR declares independence ... | Expedition, a group of six explorers from six nations, completes the first dog sled crossing of Antarctica. March 8 – The Nintendo World Championships were held within the Fair Park's Automobile Building, kickstarting an almost year long gaming competition across 29 American cities. March 9 Police seal off Brixton in S... |
21 – Marco Asensio, Spanish footballer January 24 – Patrik Schick, Czech footballer January 31 Joel Courtney, American actor Nikita Dragun, American YouTuber, make-up artist, and model February February 1 – Ahmad Abughaush, Jordanian taekwondo athlete February 2 Paul Mescal, Irish actor Harry Winks, English footballer ... | hit Decatur, Illinois, causing approximately $10.5 million in damage. The April 19 Tornado also hit Urbana and Ogden April 21 – A general election in Italy proclaims a new center-left government headed by Romano Prodi, replacing Silvio Berlusconi. April 22 – General Lino Oviedo is fired of his role as commander of the ... |
Zealand Maori rugby player (d. 1986) April 26 – Raúl Leoni, President of Venezuela (d. 1972) April 29 – George Beamish, British Royal Air Force air marshal, Irish rugby player (d. 1967) April 30 – Sergey Nikolsky, Russian mathematician (d. 2012) May 3 – Werner Fenchel, German mathematician (d. 1988) May 5 – Floyd Gottf... | the founding of Las Vegas. 1905 is also the year in which Albert Einstein, at this time resident in Bern, publishes his four Annus Mirabilis papers in Annalen der Physik (Leipzig) (March 18, May 11, June 30 and September 27), laying the foundations for more than a century's study of theoretical physics. Events January ... |
to the employee for amounts paid during the taxable year for medical care (determined without regard to whether the employee itemizes deductions for such taxable year). Amounts withdrawn are subject to ordinary income taxes to the participant. The Internal Revenue Code generally defines a hardship as any of the followi... | required to pay tax on the excess contribution amount the year was earned, the tax will effectively be doubled as the late corrective distribution is required to be reported again as income along with the earnings on such excess in the year the late correction is made. Plans which are set up under section 401(k) can al... |
Danville, Virginia, kills 11 people and inspires a ballad. September 29 – Prussia becomes the second jurisdiction to require mandatory driver's licenses for operators of motor vehicles, after New York State in 1901. October October 1-13 – First modern World Series: The Boston Americans defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates, in... | 1994) Shimaki Kensaku, Japanese author (d. 1945) John Kloza, Polish professional baseball player, manager (d. 1962) September 8 – Jane Arbor, British writer (d. 1994) September 9 Lev Shankovsky, Ukrainian military historian (d. 1995) Edward Upward, English author (d. 2009) Phyllis Whitney, American mystery writer (d. 2... |
The Philadelphia Phillies of the National League defeat the Kansas City Royals of the American League, 4–1, in Game Six of the World Series to win the championship. October 25 – Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude at The Hague. October 27 – Six Provisional ... | begin demonstrations, calling for democratic reforms. May 20 – 1980 Quebec referendum: Voters in Quebec reject by a vote of 60% a proposal to seek independence from Canada. May 22 – Pac-Man, the highest-earning arcade game of all time, is released in Japan. May 24 The International Court of Justice calls for the releas... |
1–4 – American Civil War – Battle of Chancellorsville: General Robert E. Lee defeats Union forces with 13,000 Confederate casualties, among them Stonewall Jackson (fatally wounded by friendly fire), and 17,500 Union casualties. May 8 The Granadine Confederation becomes the United States of Colombia, under President Tom... | fortnight earlier. January 4 – The New Apostolic Church, a Christian and chiliastic church, is established in Hamburg, Germany. January 7 – In the Swiss canton of Ticino, the village of Bedretto is partly destroyed and 29 killed, by an avalanche. January 8 Ground is broken in Sacramento, California, on the construction... |
Alaric to escape north to Epirus with his loot. Presumably, Stilicho left Greece in order to prepare for military action in northern Africa, where a rebellion (see Gildonic Revolt in 398) seemed imminent. Emperor Honorius passes a law making barbarian styles of dress illegal in the city of Rome. As a result of this law... | skins, and long hair. This law is passed in response to the increasing popularity of barbarian fashions among the people of Rome. China The Xiongnu occupy the Gansu area, an economically important province situated along the Silk Road. By topic Religion April 4 – Ambrose, Archbishop of Milan, dies in his diocese after ... |
throughout this period, but recurring invasions by Germanic tribes plagued the empire from 376 CE onward. These early invasions marked the beginning of the end for the Western Roman Empire. In China, the Jin dynasty, which had united the nation prior in 280, began to quickly face troubles by the start of the century du... | empire, he is also noted for re-establishing a single imperial capital, choosing the site of ancient Byzantium in 330 (over the current capitals, which had effectively been changed by Diocletian's reforms to Milan in the West, and Nicomedeia in the East) to build the city soon called Nova Roma (New Rome); it was later ... |
Hoysala architecture reaches a peak. In the Middle East, the icon of Theotokos of Vladimir is painted probably in Constantinople. Everything but the faces will later be retouched, and the icon will go to the Tretyakov Gallery of Moscow. The Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli composes his epic poem The Knight in the Panther'... | ibn Yusuf in the Battle of Ourique; Prince Afonso Henriques is acclaimed King of Portugal by his soldiers. 1140s 1140–1150: Collapse of the Ancestral Puebloan culture at Chaco Canyon (modern-day New Mexico). 1141: The Treaty of Shaoxing ends the conflict between the Jin dynasty and Southern Song dynasty, legally establ... |
patron saint of Norway and Rex perpetuum Norvegiae ('the eternal king of Norway'). 1030: Sanghyang Tapak inscription in the Cicatih River bank in Cibadak, Sukabumi, West Java, mentioned about the establishment of sacred forest and Kingdom of Sunda. (to 1579) 1035: Raoul Glaber chronicles a devastating three-year famine... | University of Bologna is established. 1088: Rebellion of 1088 against William II of England led by Odo of Bayeux. 1090s 1091: Normans from the Duchy of Normandy take control of Malta and surrounding islands. 1091: the Byzantine Empire under Alexios I Komnenos and his Cuman allies defeat Pechenegs at the Battle of Levou... |
Alps confront and defeat Austrian forces, led by Field Marshal-Lieutenant Carl Baron Urban. May 26, June 2 – Geologist Joseph Prestwich and amateur archaeologist John Evans report (to the Royal Society and Society of Antiquaries of London, respectively) the results of their investigations of gravel-pits in the Somme va... | Idylls of the King. The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women is founded. The Mary Institute is founded in Missouri. Tidskrift för hemmet, the first women's magazine in the Nordic countries, begins publication in Sweden. Nillmij, as predecessor of Aegon, an insurance service in worldwide, founded in Dutch East ... |
January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria. January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. January 14 – The World Trade Center is robbed by Mafia Member Ralph Guarino. January 17 – The Drudge Report breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged af... | dragged to death by three white men in Jasper, Texas. Two are subsequently executed. June 10–July 12 – The 1998 FIFA World Cup in France: France beats Brazil 3–0 in the FIFA World Cup Final. June 10 – The Organisation of African Unity passes a resolution which states that its members will no longer comply with punitive... |
Minister of Hungary June June 1 – David Westhead, English actor and producer June 2 – Bernard Cazeneuve, Prime Minister of France June 3 – Alessandra Karpoff, Italian voice actress June 4 Sean Fitzpatrick, New Zealand rugby union player mossimo giannulli, American fashion designer June 5 – Joe Rudán, Hungarian heavy me... | raids: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngô Đình Nhu, brother of President Ngô Đình Diệm, vandalise Buddhist pagodas across South Vietnam, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead. In the wake of the raids, the Kennedy administration by Cable 243 orders the United States Emb... |
through Ellis Island; this will be the busiest year ever seen here, with 1.1 million immigrants arriving. April 24 – Al Ahly SC is founded in Cairo by Omar Lotfi, as a gathering place for Egyptian students' unions in the struggle against colonization; it is the first association football club officially founded in Egyp... | Peninsula. April April 7 – Hershey Park opens in Hershey, Pennsylvania. April 17 The first Minas Geraes-class battleship is laid down for Brazil, by Armstrong Whitworth on the River Tyne, in England, triggering the South American dreadnought race. Today is the all-time busiest day of immigration to the United States th... |
the British Raj; it becomes a driving force for the creation of an independent Pakistan. Date unknown The BCG vaccine for tuberculosis is first developed. Richard Oldham argues that the Earth has a molten interior. Construction begins on the modern-day Great Mosque of Djenné. The Simplo Filler Pen Company is founded, l... | China (d. 1967) February 8 – Chester Carlson, American physicist, inventor (d. 1968) February 10 Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (d. 1973) Erik Rhodes, American actor and singer (d. 1990) February 14 – Nazim al-Kudsi, 26th Prime Minister of Syria and 14th President of Syria (d. 1998) February 17 Mary Brian, American act... |
Chris Watson. April 30 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri (closes December 1). May May 4 United States Army engineers begin work on the Panama Canal. German Association football club FC Schalke 04 is established. May 5 Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics, Cy Young of t... | American politician in Ohio legislature (died 1969) B. F. Skinner, American behavioral psychologist (died 1990) March 22 – Itche Goldberg, Yiddish author (died 2006) March 23 – Joan Crawford, American actress (died 1977) (other sources report her year of birth as 1903, 1905, 1906, or 1908) March 26 Gustave Biéler, Swis... |
1969) January 16 – Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (d. 1945) January 17 – Martin Harlinghausen, German air force general (d. 1986) January 19 – Marjorie Daw, American actress (d. 1979) January 20 Kevin Barry, Irish republican (d. 1920) Leon Ames, American actor (d. 1993) January 22 – Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (d. 1... | Kent, U.K. October 21 – A five-month strike by the United Mine Workers in the United States ends. November November 15 King Leopold II of Belgium survives an attempted assassination in Brussels by Italian anarchist Gennaro Rubino. The Hanoi exhibition, a world's fair, opens in French Indochina. November 16 – A newspape... |
they have been sealed since the early 11th century. June 27 – The London Underground's Central London Railway opens. June 30 – Hoboken Docks fire: A wharf fire at the docks in Hoboken, New Jersey, owned by the North German Lloyd Steamship line, spreads to German passenger ships , , and . The fire engulfs the adjacent p... | administers the Presidencies and provinces of British India, consists of fewer than 3,500 overwhelmingly European officials, with power over a native population of some 300 million. Four out of every 1,000 residents of British India die of cholera each year. Births January January 1 Mieczysław Batsch, Polish footballer... |
American actress Rik Verbrugghe, Belgian road racing cyclist July 24 Eva Aridjis, Mexican-American director and screenwriter July 25 – Lauren Faust, American animator July 26 – Daniel Negreanu, Canadian poker player July 28 – Alexis Tsipras, Greek politician July 29 – Josh Radnor, American actor July 30 – Hilary Swank,... | singer and songwriter March 31 Natali, Russian singer, composer and songwriter Jani Sievinen, Finnish swimmer April April 1 – Marcos Balter, Brazilian composer April 2 – Håkan Hellström, Swedish musician April 8 – Chris Kyle, American sniper (d. 2013) April 11 – Tricia Helfer, Canadian actress and model April 12 – Marl... |
3 – Braniff Flight 352 crashes near Dawson, Texas, killing all 85 people on board. May 8 – The Kray twins were arrested. May 11 – The Montreal Canadiens defeat the St. Louis Blues in a four-game sweep to win the Stanley Cup. May 13 – Paris student riots: One million march through the streets of Paris. May 13 – Manchest... | race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. March 17 – A demonstration in London's Grosvenor Square against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War leads to violence; 91 people are injured, 200 demonstrators arrested. March 18 – Gold standard: The United States Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve... |
as Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Les Aventures de Tintin, reporter..., au pays des Soviets), begins serialization in the children's newspaper supplement, Le Petit Vingtième. January 17 – The comic strip hero Popeye first appears in Thimble Theatre. January 17 – Kabul falls to Habibullāh Kalakāni's forces, beginnin... | Abderrahmane Mahjoub, French and Moroccan international football (soccer) midfielder (d. 2011) April 26 – Alexandre Lamfalussy, Hungarian-Belgian economist and central banker (d. 2015) April 28 – Evangelina Elizondo, Mexican actress (d. 2017) April 30 – Klausjürgen Wussow, German theatre, television actor (d. 2007) May... |
Geoff Hurst with a long pass, which Hurst carried forward while some spectators began streaming onto the field and Hurst, as he later revealed, tried to shoot the ball as far into the Wembley stands as he could, to waste time. He mishit that attempt, but the mishit went straight to the top corner of Hans Tilkowski's ne... | of 96,924 at the stadium, the British television audience peaked at 32.3 million viewers, making it the United Kingdom's most-watched television event ever. Road to the final Both teams were strong throughout the tournament. Each won two and drew one of their three matches in the group stages. England did not concede a... |
over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance. September 6 – NATO air strikes against Bosnian Serb forces continue, after repeated attempts at a solution to the Bosnian War fail. September 9 – Sony enters the video game market with the release of the PlayStation. September 19 – The Washington Post and The New Y... | for the first time. The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 502 and injuring 937. Iraq disarmament crisis: According to UNSCOM, the unity of the U.N. Security Council begins to fray, as a few countries, particularly France and Russia, become more interested in ma... |
Cumia, American radio personality April 27 – Moana Pozzi, Italian pornographic actress, television personality and politician (d. 1994) April 28 – Futoshi Matsunaga, Japanese serial killer April 29 – Fumihiko Tachiki, Japanese voice actor April 30 – Isiah Thomas, African-American basketball player, coach and team owner... | the new U.S. Supreme Court integration decision. May 5 – Mercury program: Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space, aboard Mercury-Redstone 3. May 6 – Tottenham Hotspur F.C. becomes the first team in the 20th century to win the English league and cup double. , this is the last time Tottenham have won the Englis... |
English navigator and samurai (d. 1620) September 25 – Magnus Brahe, Swedish noble (d. 1633) September 28 – Sibylla of Anhalt, Duchess consort of Württemberg (1593-1608). (d. 1614) October 15 – Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1589-1613) (d. 1613) October 26 – Hans Leo Hassler, German composer and organist (d.... | of Moscow, having gained a considerable extension of trading rights for the English Muscovy Company. September 4 – The Ronneby Bloodbath takes place in Ronneby, Denmark (now in Sweden). September 10 – Battle of Kawanakajima in Japan: Takeda Shingen fights the forces of Uesugi Kenshin for the final time, to a draw. Nove... |
Democratic Kampuchea. January 11 – The 1976 Philadelphia Flyers–Red Army game results in a 4–1 victory for the National Hockey League's Philadelphia Flyers over HC CSKA Moscow of the Soviet Union. January 16 – The trial against jailed members of the Red Army Faction begins in Stuttgart, West Germany. January 18 Full di... | Tank, American R&B musician January 2 Mahée Paiement, Canadian actress Paz Vega, Spanish actress January 3 – Angelos Basinas, Greek footballer January 4 Shiro Amano, Japanese manga artist/writer August Diehl, German actor January 5 – Shintarō Asanuma, Japanese voice actor January 6 – Johnny Yong Bosch, American actor a... |
October 31 – Neal Stephenson, American writer November November 1 – John Odey, Nigerian politician (d. 2018) November 2 – Saïd Aouita, Moroccan athlete November 3 – Timothy Patrick Murphy, American actor (d. 1988) November 5 – Bryan Adams, Canadian singer and photographer November 6 – Nobuo Tobita, Japanese voice actor... | Tenor saxophonist John Coltrane begins two days of principal recording sessions for his jazz album Giant Steps. May 7 – English scientist and novelist C. P. Snow delivers an influential Rede Lecture on The Two Cultures, concerning a perceived breakdown of communication between the sciences and humanities, in the Univer... |
He requests and receives help from Belgium. Harper Lee publishes her novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which later wins the Pulitzer Prize for the best American novel of 1960. July 12 – Chin Peng is exiled from Malaysia to Thailand, and the Malayan state of emergency is lifted. July 13 – U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy is nomi... | Hahn, American entrepreneur and computer software programmer Michael Urbano, American musician and record producer March 20 Norm Magnusson, American artist Norbert Pohlmann, German computer scientist Yuri Shargin, Russian cosmonaut March 21 Ayrton Senna, Brazilian triple Formula One world champion (d. 1994) Robert Swee... |
Baseball, the Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, five games to three, over the Chicago White Sox, whose players are later found to have lost intentionally. October 10 – Estonia adopts a radical land reform, nationalizing 97% of agrarian lands, mostly still belonging to Baltic Germans. October 11–November 18 – Russia... | John Browning finalizes the design for the M1919 Browning machine gun (.30 caliber), the first widely distributed and practical air cooled medium machine gun introduced to the United States Military. It receives an official designation, and production is started in the same year. Severe inflation in Germany sees the Pa... |
1934) February 5 Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (d. 1907) Belle Starr, American outlaw (d. 1889) February 13 – Hermann von Eichhorn, German field marshal (d. 1918) February 14 – Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (d. 1934) February 16 Octave Mirbeau, French art critic, novelist (d. 1917) Hugo de Vries, Dutch bota... | occupying Transylvania. During these events (mostly in October 1848 – January 1849, but also between May–July 1849) between 7,500 and 8,500 Hungarian civilians (men, women, and children) are massacred by the Romanian insurgents. October 18 – Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life, is pu... |
1942) April 8 – Alfred Allen, American actor (d. 1947) April 13 – Butch Cassidy, American outlaw (k. 1908) April 14 – Anne Sullivan, American tutor of Helen Keller (d. 1936) April 17 – Ernest Starling, English physiologist (d. 1927) April 21 – Josefa Toledo de Aguerri, Nicaraguan pioneer educator (d. 1962) April 22 – H... | the Paraguayan War, with 16,000 casualties. May 26 – First production of the comic opera Cox and Box by F. C. Burnand and Arthur Sullivan at Moray Lodge, Kensington June 2 – Fenian forces skirmish with Canadian militia at the battles of Ridgeway and Fort Erie. June 5 – Calculations indicate Pluto (not known at this tim... |
is fined 1 shilling for speeding at (exceeding the contemporary speed limit of , the first speeding fine). February 1 – Puccini's opera La bohème premieres in Turin, Italy. February 11 – Oscar Wilde's play Salomé premieres in Paris. February 19 – Braamfontein Explosion: A train carrying 56 tons of dynamite explodes at ... | South Australian politician (d. 1981) July 7 – Harold Beamish, New Zealand World War I flying ace (d. 1986) July 8 – James B. Wilson, American football player, coach (d. 1986) July 9 Thomas Barlow, American professional basketball player (d. 1983) Cullen Landis, American actor and director (d. 1975) July 10 Stefan Aske... |
into a mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing all 113 people on board. China General Aviation Flight 7552 bound for Xiamen crashes soon after taking off from Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport, killing 108 of the 116 people on board. August August 3–4 – Millions of black South Africans participate in a general strike call... | 25418, dissolving the Congress of the Republic of Peru, imposing censorship and having opposition politicians arrested, setting off the 1992 Peruvian constitutional crisis. April 6 – Republic of Ilirida, was proclaimed by Albanian Macedonian activists in Struga, Republic of Macedonia. April 7 – The United States recogn... |
Tunari massacre: Bolivian anti-narcotics police kills 9 to 12 and injuries over a hundred protesting coca-growing peasants. June 30 – Roman Catholic Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre consecrates four bishops at Écône, Switzerland for his apostolate, along with Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer, without a papal mandate. July July... | Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Sumgait pogrom of Armenians occurs in Sumqayit. February 29 – A Nazi document implicates Kurt Waldheim in World War II deportations. March March 6 – Operation Flavius: A Special Air Service team of the British Army shoots dead 3 unarmed members of a Provisional Irish Republican Army (I... |
of Nepal. February February 2 A bomb explodes at the British Yacht Club in West Berlin, killing Irwin Beelitz, a German boat builder. The German militant group 2 June Movement claims responsibility, announcing its support of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. Anti-British riots take place throughout Ireland. The Br... | the government reveals it in 1975. Worship of Norse gods is officially approved in Iceland. The Climatic Research Unit is founded by climatologist Hubert Lamb at the University of East Anglia. The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia bans the cultural organization Matica hrvatska, founded in 1842. The German compan... |
and Johnny Cash) get together at Sun Studio, for the first and last time in history. December 9 – Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes into Slesse Mountain near Chilliwack, British Columbia. All 62 people aboard, including five Canadian Football League players, are killed. December 12 – Jap... | Israel to withdraw their troops from Arab lands immediately. November 11 – Hungarian Revolution of 1956: Last insurgents succumb to the invading Soviet army. November 12 – Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations. November 13 – Browder v. Gayle: The United States Supreme Court declares illegal the state and m... |
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