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- :0101
- :B
- 1481 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant reformer
- 1618 - Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spain, Baroque artist (baptised)
- :D
- 1560 - Guillaume du Bellay, Sieur de Langey, French soldier, dies
- 1716 - William Wycherley, dramatist (The Country Wife), dies at about 75
- :H
- - [Cameroon] Independence Day (1960)
- - [Cuba] Revolution Day
- :I
- 1 - Origin of Christian Era
- 30 - -BC- Origin of Actian Era
- :0102
- :B
- 1713 - Mlle Dumesnil, Paris, tragic actress (Racine's Phèdre, Hermione)
- 1727 - James Wolfe, commanded British Army (captured Québec)
- :D
- 1955 - José Antonio Remon, president of Panamá, assassinated
- 1963 - Jack Carson, actor (Star is Born, Mildred Pierce), dies at 52
- :H
- - [Haiti] Ancestor/Hero's Day
- - [Japan] Kakizome
- :I
- 533 - John II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1492 - Spain recaptures Granada from the Moors (Granada Day)
- :0103
- :B
- 1793 - Lucretia Coffin Mott, US, teacher/minister/abolitionist/feminist
- 1803 - Douglas William Jerrold, London, author/playwright/wit
- :D
- 1641 - Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomical prodigy, dies at 22
- 1875 - George Bizet, composer, dies
- :H
- - [Scotland] Handsel Monday
- :I
- 269 - St Felix I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1521 - Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church
- :0104
- :B
- 1643 - Sir Isaac Newton, scientist (Whatever goes up)
- 1785 - Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Germany, librarian (fairy tale collector)
- :D
- 1804 - Charlotte Lennox, English novelist (The Female Quixote), dies
- 1946 - Barney Oldfield, daredevil, dies at 67
- :H
- - [Sri Lanka] Tamil Thai Pongal Day
- - [Utah] Admission Day (1896)
- :I
- 1493 - Columbus left new world on return from 1st voyage
- 1754 - Columbia University founded, as Kings College (NYC)
- :0105
- :B
- 1592 - Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor of India (1628-58), built Taj Mahal
- 1620 - Miklós Zrínyi, Hungarian poet/writer (The Peril of Sziget)
- :D
- 1589 - Catherine de Médicis, Queen mother of France, dies at 69
- 1860 - St John Nepomucene Neumann, 1st male US saint, dies
- :H
- - [England] Glastonbury Thorn Day
- - [Scotland] Handsel Monday
- :I
- 1800 - 1st Swedenborgian temple in US holds 1st service, Baltimore
- 1804 - Ohio legislature passes 1st laws restricting free blacks movement
- :0106
- :B
- 1412 - Joan of Arc, Domremy, martyr
- 1587 - Gaspar de Guzman, Count of Olivares, Spanish minister
- :D
- 1884 - Gregor Mendel, Augustine monk & heredity pioneer, dies
- 1919 - Theodore Roosevelt, dies at his home in Oyster Bay, NY, at 60
- :H
- - [New Mexico] Admission Day (1912)
- - [Uruguay] Children's Day
- :I
- 1497 - Jews are expelled from Graz (Syria)
- 1540 - King Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves
- :0107
- :B
- 1800 - Millard Fillmore, (Whig) 13th pres (1850-53)
- 1830 - Albert Bierstadt, Germany, painter (US landscapes)
- :D
- 1537 - Alessandro de' Medici, of Florence, assassinated
- 1957 - Al White, choreographer (NBC Comedy Hour), dies
- :H
- - [Scotland] Handsel Monday
- :I
- 1558 - French under François, Duke of Guise, capture Calais from England
- 1566 - Michaele Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V
- :0108
- :B
- 1628 - François de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxemburg, French soldier
- 1632 - Samuel, Freiherr von Pufendorf, German jurist
- :D
- 1642 - Galileo Galilei, dies at 78 in Arceti, Italy
- 1775 - John Baskerville, English printer/type designer, dies at about 69
- :H
- - [Switzerland] Meitlisunntig Festival-Woman in Villmergen War (1712)
- :I
- 1499 - Louis XII of France after papal divorce marries Anne, Duchess of
- Brittany to keep the duchy for the crown
- :0109
- :B
- 1728 - Thomas Warton, poet laureate of England (Pleasures of Melancholy)
- 1829 - Thomas William Robertson, England, playwright (Caste)
- :D
- 1843 - Caroline Herschel, "1st lady of astronomy," dies at 98 in Germany
- 1946 - Countee Cullen, black poet, dies at 42 in NYC
- :H
- - [Panamá, Canal Zone] Martyrs' Day/Día de los Mártires
- - [Switzerland] Meitlisunntig Festival-Woman in Villmergen War (1712)
- :I
- 1522 - Adrian of Utrecht is elected the last non-Italian pope (Adrian VI)
- 1558 - Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland
- :0110
- :B
- 1738 - Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (led Green Mtn Boys)
- 1814 - Aubrey de Vere, Irish writer (Victorian Observer)
- :D
- 1778 - Carolus Linæus "Carl von Linné", Swedish botanist/explorer, dies
- 1968 - Howard Smith, actor (Harvey Griffin-Hazel), dies at 74
- :H
- :I
- 236 - St Fabian begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 681 - St Agatho ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- :0111
- :B
- 1757 - Alexander Hamilton, West Indies, 1st US Sec of treasury ($10 face)
- 1807 - Ezra Cornell, founder (Western Union Telegraph, Cornell University)
- :D
- 1843 - Francis Scott Key, composer (Star Spangled Banner), dies at 63
- 1893 - Benjamin F Butler, US gen/pres candidate (anti-monopoly), dies at 74
- :H
- - [Chad] Independence Day (1960)
- - [Puerto Rico] De Hostos' Birthday (1839)
- :I
- 705 - John VI ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 0989 - Denver Nuggets' rookie Jerome Lane misses 7 free throws
- :0112
- :B
- 1588 - John Winthrop, 1st governor (Mass Bay Colony)
- 1729 - Lazzaro Spallanzani, Modena Italy, physiologist
- :D
- 1965 - Lorraine Hanbsberry, dies in NYC at 34
- 1965 - Porcupine, in Washington DC zoo, dies at 27; oldest known rodent
- :H
- - [Switzerland] Meitlisunntig Festival-Woman in Villmergen War (1712)
- :I
- 1598 - Pope Clement VIII seizes the duchy of Ferrara on death of Alfonso
- 1701 - Parts of the Netherlands adopt the Gregorian calendar (others in 1
- :0113
- :B
- 1616 - Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic/French religious fanatic
- 1628 - Charles Perrault, France, lawyer/writer (Mother Goose)
- :D
- 1691 - George Fox, founder of Quakers, dies at 66
- 1864 - Stephen Foster, (My Old Kentucky Home), dies in a NY hospital
- :H
- - [Togo] Liberation Day (1963)
- - [US] Stephen Foster Memorial Day
- :I
- 1610 - Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter
- 1630 - Patent to Plymouth Colony issued
- :0114
- :B
- 1730 - William Whipple, patriot (Declaration of Independence signer)
- 1741 - Benedict Arnold, US general turn traitor (Revolutionary War)
- :D
- 1742 - Edmund Halley, genius eclipsed by Newton, dies at 86
- 1847 - Gov Bent, 5 others in US occupation, killed by revolt in New Mexico
- :H
- - [Maryland] Ratification Day (1784)
- - [Switzerland] Meitlisunntig Festival-Woman in Villmergen War (1712)
- :I
- 1601 - Church authorities burn hebrew books in Rome
- 1690 - Clarinet is invented, in Nürnberg, Germany
- :0115
- :B
- 1716 - Philip Livingston, merchant (signed Declaration of Independence)
- 1779 - Jean Coralli, Paris, ballet producer/choreographer
- :D
- 1896 - Matthew Brady, photographer, dies
- 1949 - Black Dahlia, murder victim found in LA (basis of the movie)
- :H
- - [Japan] Adults Day/Seijin-No-Hi
- - [Jordan] Arbor Day
- :I
- 1535 - Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church
- 1582 - Russia cedes Livonia & Estonia to Poland, loses access to the Baltic
- :0116
- :B
- 1853 - André Michelin, France, industrialist/tire manufacturer (Michelin)
- 1864 - Frank Bacon, actor/author (Lightnin)
- :D
- 19-- - Albert Fish, mass murderer, executed [1939]\-
- 1901 - Hiram Revels, dies at 73
- :H
- - [Virginia] Lee-Jackson Day
- - [Florida] Arbor Day
- :I
- 1325 - Laure de Noves, beloved of Petrarch, marries Hugues de Sade
- 1547 - Ivan IV the Terrible crowned 1st tsar of Russia
- :0117
- :B
- 1501 - Leonhard Fuchs, Germany, botanist (History of Plants)
- 1504 - Pius V, saint, pope (1566-72)
- :D
- 1893 - Rutherford B Hayes, (US Pres) dies in Fremont Ohio, at 70
- 1910 - Thomas Crapper, inventor (flush toilet), dies
- :H
- - [US] Martin Luther King Jr Day (1929)
- - [Virginia] Lee-Jackson Day
- :I
- 1536 - François Rabelais absolved of apostasy by Pope Paul III
- 1562 - Edict of St. Germain recognizes the Huguenots in France
- :0118
- :B
- 1782 - Daniel Webster, Salisbury NH, orator/politician/lawyer
- 1813 - Joseph Farwell Glidden, inventor (1st coml useable barbed wire)
- :D
- 1936 - Rudyard Kipling, author, dies in Burwash, England
- 1967 - Barney Ross, Welterweight Boxing Champ (1934), dies at 57
- :H
- - [US] Martin Luther King Jr Day (1929)
- - [Virginia] Lee-Jackson Day
- :I
- 1520 - Christian II of Denmark & Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Asunde
- 1644 - 1st UFO sighting in America, by perplexed pilgrims in Boston
- :0119
- :B
- 1544 - Francis II, king of France (1559-60)
- 1639 - Noël Alexandre, French theologian/historian
- :D
- 1729 - William Congreve, English dramatist (Love for Love), dies in London
- 1747 - Johann Bode, "discoverer" of Bode's Law, dies
- :H
- - [Texas] Confederate Heroes' Day
- - [US] Martin Luther King Jr Day (1929)
- :I
- 1714 - Richard Steele publishes "The Crisis," defending Hanoverian success
- 1770 - Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan)
- :0120
- :B
- 1775 - André-Marie Ampère, France, discovered electromagnetism (or 0122)
- 1806 - Nathaniel Willis, writer/editor/founder (American Monthly Mag)
- :D
- 1900 - R.D. Blackmore, English novelist (Lorna Doone), dies at 74
- 1936 - King George V, of Britain dies, succeeded by Edward VIII
- :H
- - [Mali] National Army Day
- - [US] Martin Luther King Jr Day (1929)
- :I
- 1265 - 1st English Parliament called into session by Earl of Leicester
- American affairs
- :0121
- :B
- 1743 - John Fitch, inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton)
- 1813 - John C Frémont, map maker/explorer (western US)
- :D
- 1626 - John Dowland, English musician/lyric poet, dies at about 63
- 1793 - Louis XVI, French king, beheaded by French revolutionaries
- :H
- - [US] Martin Luther King Jr Day (1929)
- - [Virginia] Lee-Jackson Day
- :I
- 1677 - 1st medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), Boston
- 1789 - 1st American novel, WH Brown's "The Power of Sympathy," is published
- :0122
- :B
- 1561 - Francis Bacon, England, statesman/essayist (Novum Organum)
- 1571 - Robert Bruce Cotton, English antiquary, politician
- :D
- 1552 - Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, beheaded for treason
- 1901 - Victoria, Britain's Queen, dies at 82
- :H
- :I
- 1517 - Turks conquer Cairo
- 1528 - England & France declare war on Emperor Charles V
- :0123
- :B
- 1730 - Joseph Hewes, patriot (Declaration of Independence signer)
- 1783 - Stendahl, Marie Henri Beyle, France, writer (Le Rouge et de Noir)
- :D
- 1639 - Francisco Maldonado da Silva Solis, Peruvian poet, burned at stake
- 1913 - Nazim Pasha, Turkey's PM assassinated
- :H
- :I
- 1265 - 1st English Parliament formally convened (some authorities)
- 1492 - "Pentateuch" (Jewish holy book) 1st printed
- :0124
- :B
- 1664 - Sir John Vanbrugh, London, dramatist, architect (baptized)
- 1705 - Farinelli "Carlo Broschi", Andria Italy, castrato
- :D
- 1547 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, executed for treason
- 1639 - George Jenatsch, Grisons leader, is assassinated
- :H
- 1993 - [China] Chinese New Years-The Year of the Rooster (4689)
- :I
- 817 - St Paschal I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 817 - Stephen IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- :0125
- :B
- 1540 - Edmund Campion, English Jesuit
- 1627 - Robert Boyle, Ireland, physicist/chemist/author
- :D
- 1906 - Joseph Wheeler, Confederate General, dies at 70
- 1947 - Al Capone, Chicago gangster, dies of syphillis
- :H
- 2001 - [China] Chinese New Years-The Year of the Snake (4699)
- :I
- 1533 - England's King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn (approximate date)
- 1554 - Sir Thomas Wyatt gathers an army in Kent, rebels against Queen Mary
- :0126
- :B
- 1763 - Charles XIV, French marshall, king of Sweden & Norway (1818-44)
- 1804 - Eugène "Marie Joseph" Sue, France, novelist (Wandering Jew)
- :D
- 1939 - Armand Calinescu, Romania's PM assassinated by the iron guard
- 1939 - Professor Cristescu, Romania's iron guard leader, murdered
- :H
- - [Dominican Rep] Duarte's Day/Día de Duarte
- - [India] Republic Day (1950)
- :I
- 1697 - Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit
- problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night
- :0127
- :B
- 1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austria, musical prodigy/composer
- 1805 - Samuel Palmer, London, painter/etcher (Valley of Vision)
- :D
- 1901 - Giuseppe Verdi, opera composer, dies in Milano at 87
- 1967 - Edward H White II, astronaut, dies in Apollo I fire
- :H
- - [Vietnam] Vietnam Peace Day (1973)
- - [Australia] Australia Day (1788)
- :I
- 847 - Sergius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1302 - Dante becomes a Florentine political exile
- :0128
- :B
- 1582 - John Barclay, Scottish satirist, Latin poet (Argenis)
- 1600 - Clement IX, Pistoia, Italy, 238th Roman Catholic pope (1667-69)
- :D
- 1256 - William of Holland, Holy Roman emperor, dies at about 28
- 1547 - Henry VIII, King of England (1509-47), dies at 55
- :H
- - [Australia] Australia Day (1788)
- :I
- 1561 - By Edict of Orleans persecution of French Huguenots is suspended
- 1581 - James VI signs the 2nd Confession of Faith in Scotland
- :0129
- :B
- 1700 - Daniel Bernoulli, Basel Switz, mathematician (10 time French award)
- 1737 - Thomas Paine, political essayist (Common Sense, Age of Reason)
- :D
- 1837 - Aleksandr Pushkin, poet, novelist, dramatist, killed in a duel
- 1956 - H.L. Mencken, satirist, critic, dies in Baltimore at 75
- :H
- - [Australia] Australia Day (1788)
- 1998 - [China] Chinese New Years-The Year of the Tiger (4696)
- :I
- 1781 - Mozart's opera "Idomeneo" premiers, Munich
- 1788 - Australia Day
- :0130
- :B
- 1775 - Walter Savage Landor, English critic/writer (Imaginary Conversation)
- 1829 - Alfred Cummings, Georgia, Brig Gen
- :D
- 1649 - Charles I, king of Great Britain, executed by Parliament
- 1948 - Mahatma Gandhi, assassinated in New Delhi
- :H
- - [Kentucky, Virgin Islands] Franklin D Roosevelt Day
- - [Australia] Australia Day (1788)
- :I
- 1487 - Bell chimes invented
- 1592 - Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII
- :0131
- :B
- 1623 - Francois-Xavier de Laval
- 1633 - Nathaniel Crew, English bishop (Durham)
- :D
- 1954 - Florence Bates, actress (Kismet, I Remember Mama), dies at 65
- 1972 - Howard Barlow, conductor (Voice of Firestone), dies at 79
- :H
- - [Nauru] Independence Day (1968)
- - [Surrey England] Dicing for Maid's Money Day
- :I
- 1504 - By treaty of Lyons, French cede Naples to Ferdinand of Aragon
- 1779 - Charles Messier adds M57 (Ring Nebula in Lyra) to his catalog
- :0201
- :B
- 1763 - Thomas Campbell, founder (Church of Disciples in America)
- 1801 - Thomas Cole, US, romantic landscape painter (Hudson River School)
- :D
- 1908 - King Carlos I, of Portugal & son, killed by mob
- 1966 - Nicholas Piantanida, sets balloon flight record & dies in descent
- :H
- - [Nicaragua] Air Force Day
- - [US] National Freedom Day
- :I
- 1709 - Alexander Selkirk [Robinson Crusoe] rescued from Juan Fernandez
- 1783 - William Herschel announces star Lambda Herculis as apex
- :0202
- :B
- 1600 - Gabriel Naudé, France, librarian (Mazarin Library)
- 1649 - Benedict XIII, [Pierfrancesco Orsini], Italy, 245th pope (1724-30)
- :D
- 1969 - Giovanni Martinelli, opera singer (NY Met), dies at 83
- 1970 - Bertrand Russell, philosopher, MP, dies at 99 in Merioneth
- :H
- - [Switzerland] Homstrom-celebrates end of winter
- :I
- 1536 - Pedro de Mendoza finds the Argentine city of Buenos Aires
- 1653 - New Amsterdam becomes a city (later NYC)
- :0203
- :B
- 1811 - Horace Greeley, editor ("Go west, young man")
- 1820 - Elisha Kent Kane, US arctic explorer (Kane Basin off NW Greenland)
- :D
- 1924 - Woodrow Wilson, 28th pres, dies at his home in Washington at 68
- 1959 - Buddy Holly, dies in a plane crash
- :H
- - [Puerto Rico] Fiesta de San Blas, protector of harvest (316)
- - [US] 4 Chaplains Memorial Day
- :I
- 1690 - 1st paper money in America issued (colony of Mass)
- 1743 - Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants
- :0204
- :B
- 1693 - George Lillo, bourgeois English dramatist (The London Merchant)
- 1747 - Tadeusz Kosciusko, Poland, patriot, (NY Bridge)
- :D
- 1943 - Frank Calder, 1st hockey president, dies
- 1957 - Joseph Hardaway, creator of Bugs Bunny, dies at 66
- :H
- - [Sri Lanka] Independence Day (1948)
- - [US] Kosciuszko Day
- :I
- 1508 - Maximilian I assumes imperial title without being crowned
- 1600 - Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler meet for 1st time outside of Prague
- :0205
- :B
- 1723 - John Witherspoon, clergyman/signed Declaration of Independence
- 1744 - John Jeffries, colonial physician/meteorologist
- :D
- 1881 - Thomas Carlyle, historian/essayist, dies in London at 85
- 1897 - Hoss Radbourn, pitcher won 60 games in 1884, dies at 42
- :H
- - [Japan] Japanese Martyrs Day (26 martyrs-1597)
- - [México] Constitution Day (1857 & 1917)
- :I
- 1576 - Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours
- 1631 - Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England
- :0206
- :B
- 1608 - Antonio Vieira, Portuguese Jesuit preacher
- 1637 - Toyotomi Hideyoshi, unified Japan
- :D
- 1612 - Christopher Clavius, calendar reformer, dies (birth date unknown)
- 1793 - Carlo Goldoni, Italian author, dies at 85
- :H
- - [New Zealand] Waitangi Day-New Zealand Day (1840)
- - [Switzerland] Homstrom-celebrates end of winter
- :I
- 1626 - Huguenot rebels & the French sign Peace of La Rochelle
- 1693 - Royal charter granted College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Va
- :0207
- :B
- 1764 - Ann Radcliffe, London, Gothic novelist (Mysteries of Udolpho)
- 1801 - John Rylands, England, merchant/philanthropist
- :D
- 1968 - Stuart Foster, singer (Galen Drake Show), dies at 49
- 1984 - Brooks West, actor (Richard-My Friend Irma), dies at 67
- :H
- - [Switzerland] Homstrom-celebrates end of winter
- - [World] Boy Scouts Day (1910)
- :I
- 1550 - Giovanni Maria del Monte elected Pope Julius III
- 1639 - Académie Française begins the Dictionary of the French Language
- :0208
- :B
- 1577 - Robert Burton, writer, Anglican clergyman (Anatomy of Melancholy)
- 1612 - Samuel Butler, England, poet/satirist (Hudibras) (baptized)
- :D
- 1954 - Mabel Paige, actress (Lucky Jordan), dies at 73
- 1963 - Abdul Karim Kassem, PM of Iraq, assassinated at Baghdad
- :H
- - [Norway] Narvik Sun Pageant Day
- - [World] Boy Scouts Day (1910)
- :I
- 1672 - Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London
- 1750 - Slight earthquake in London
- :0209
- :B
- 1773 - William Henry Harrison, 9th Pres (March 4-April 4, 1841)
- 1814 - Samuel Jones Tilden, philanthropist for NY Public Library
- :D
- 1811 - Nevill Maskelyne, 5th Astronomer Royal of England dies
- 1906 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, dies at 33 in Dayton, Ohio
- :H
- :I
- 1621 - Alexander Ludovisi is elected Pope Gregory XV (-1623)
- 1799 - USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgente off Nevis, W.I.
- :0210
- :B
- 1670 - William Congreve, restoration writer (Way of the World)
- 1775 - Charles Lamb, England, critic/poet/essayist
- :D
- 1567 - Darnley, Mary Queen of Scots' husband, murdered
- 1902 - J.N. Krieger, German Selenographer, dies
- :H
- :I
- 1635 - Académie Française is founded in Paris
- 1720 - Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England
- :0211
- :B
- 1657 - Bernard Fontenelle, France, scientist/writer (Plurality of Worlds)
- 1783 - Jarena Lee, famous African
- :D
- 1650 - René Descartes, philosopher "I think therefore I am", stops thinking
- 1963 - Sylvia Plath, poet/novelist, kills herself, in London at 30
- :H
- - [Cameroon] Youth Day
- - [Florida] Gasparilla Carnival-rememberance of pirates
- :I
- 731 - St Gregory II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 824 - St Paschal I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- :0212
- :B
- 1585 - Caspar Bartholin, Malmö, physician, theologian, writer on anatomy
- 1663 - Dr Cotton Mather, witchcraft authority
- :D
- 1804 - Immanuel Kant, philosopher, dies at 79 in Königsberg, Prussia
- 1896 - Isaac Murphy, jockey, 628 wins on 1,412 mounts (44.5%) dies at 35
- :H
- - [Burma] Union Day (1947)
- - [Georgia] Georgia Day/Oglethorope Day (1733)
- :I
- 1733 - Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe, at site of Savannah
- 1772 - Yves de Kerguelen of France discovers Kerguelen Archipelago, India
- :0213
- :B
- 1610 - Jean de la Badie, French divine, founder of the Lagardists
- 1682 - Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Venice, painter (Fortune Teller)
- :D
- 1602 - Alexander Nowell, English churchman, dean of St Paul's, dies
- 1882 - Henry Highland Garnet, diplomat, dies at 66 in Monrovia, Liberia
- :H
- 2002 - [China] New Years-Year of the Horse (4700)
- :I
- 1601 - John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London
- 1635 - Oldest US public institution, Boston Latin School founded
- :0214
- :B
- 1806 - Lajos, Count Batthyány, revolutionary premier of Hungary (1848-49)
- 1845 - Cecil De Vere, 1st official British chess champion (1866)
- :D
- 1779 - James Cook, British explorer, killed in fracas with Hawaiian
- 1831 - Vincente Guerrero, Mexican revolutionary hero dies
- :H
- - [Bulgaria] Viticulturists' Day/Trifon Zarezan, cult of Dionysus
- - [Denmark] Gaekkebrev/Fjörtende Februar-gift exchanges by school kids
- :I
- 1540 - Emperor Charles V enters Ghent without resistance, executes rebels
- 1778 - "Stars & Stripes" arrives in foreign port for 1st time (France)
- :0215
- :B
- 1483 - Babur, founded Mughal dynasty in India (1526-30)
- 1497 - Philipp Melanchthon, Germany, Protestant reformer
- :D
- 1955 - S.Z. Sakall, actor (Dolly Sisters, Casablanca), dies at 71
- 1965 - Nat King Cole, singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa), dies at 65
- :H
- - [US] Battleship Day, Remember the Maine (1898)
- - [US] President's Day (formerly Washington's Birthday)-legal holiday
- :I
- 1764 - St Louis founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue
- 1768 - 1st mustard manufactured in America advertised, Philadelphia
- :0216
- :B
- 1519 - Gaspard de Coligny, Huguenot leader/French admiral
- 1620 - Frederick William, Great Elector, founder of Brandenburg-Prussia
- :D
- 1857 - Elisha Kane, Arctic explorer, dies at 37
- 1967 - Smiley Burnette, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction), dies at 55
- :H
- - [US] President's Day (formerly Washington's Birthday)-legal holiday
- 1999 - [China] New Years-Year of the Hare/Rabbit (4697)
- :I
- 1349 - Jews are expelled from Burgsdorf Switzerland
- 1559 - Pope Paul IV calls for deposition of sovereigns supporting heresy
- :0217
- :B
- 1723 - Tobias Mayer, "method of lunars" for longitude determination
- 1774 - Raphaelle Peale, US, painter (After the Rain-1823)
- :D
- 1600 - Giordano Bruno, advocate of Copernican theory & plurality of worlds
- 1673 - Jean Baptiste Poquelin, French author & dramatist, dies
- :H
- - [US] President's Day (formerly Washington's Birthday)-legal holiday
- :I
- 1634 - William Prynne tried in Star Chamber for publishing "Histrio-masti
- 1691 - Thomas Neale granted British patent for American postal service
- :0218
- :B
- 1559 - Isaac Casaubon, naturalized English classical scholar, theologian
- 1609 - Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, English lord chancellor
- :D
- 1546 - Martin Luther, biblical scholar, religious reformer, dies at 62
- 1564 - Michelangelo, Italian painter/sculptor/architect/poet, dies
- :H
- - [Iceland] National Bun Day
- - [Iran] Mohammed's Death
- :I
- 1574 - Zeeland falls to Dutch rebels
- 1678 - John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress" is published
- :0219
- :B
- 1683 - King Philip V, France, King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46)
- 1717 - David Garrick, actor/producer/writer (Aboan-Oroonoko)
- :D
- 1553 - Erasmus Reinhold, German mathematician, dies at 41
- 1951 - André Gide, French writer, dies in Paris at 81
- :H
- - [Gabon] Constitution Day (1959)
- - [World] Brotherhood Day (1934)
- :I
- 1700 - Last day of the Julian calendar in Denmark
- 1771 - Messier adds M46-M49 to his catalog (galactic clusters in Puppis &
- :0220
- :B
- 1507 - Gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II)
- 1632 - Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English chief minister/founded Tories
- :D
- 1916 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish politician, Nobel winner, dies
- 1936 - John Hope, president of Atlanta University, dies at 67
- :H
- - [World] Brotherhood Day (1934)
- - [US] President's Day (formerly Washington's Birthday)-legal holiday
- :I
- 1725 - 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in NH for £100/scalp bounty
- 1768 - 1st American chartered fire insurance company receives charter, Pa
- :0221
- :B
- 1801 - John Henry Newman, England, cardinal/churchman/author
- 1817 - José Zorrilla y Moral, Vallodolid Spain, poet/dramatist
- :D
- 1554 - Hieronymus Bock, German doctor, founder of modern botany, dies
- 1803 - Edward Despard, last drawn & quartered in England
- :H
- - [World] Brotherhood Day (1934)
- - [US] President's Day (formerly Washington's Birthday)-legal holiday
- :I
- 1797 - Trinidad, West Indies surrenders to the British
- 1804 - 1st locomotive, Richard Trevithick's, runs for 1st time, in Wales
- :0222
- :B
- 1732 - George Washington, Father figure, 1st Pres (1789-1796)
- 1749 - Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist & 1st biographer of Bach
- :D
- 1770 - Christopher Snider, 11, Boston, becomes 1st martyr of US Revolution
- 1913 - Francisco Indalecio Madero, Mexican pres, assassinated in milt coup
- :H
- - [Central African Republic] President's Birthday
- - [Egypt, Syria] Unity Day (1958)
- :I
- 606 - Sabinian ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1349 - Jews are expelled from Zurich Switzerland
- :0223
- :B
- 1633 - Samuel Pepys, England, diarist (Memoirs)
- 1649 - John Blow, composer of 1st English opera (Venus & Adonis) (baptized)
- :D
- 1792 - Joshua Reynolds, painter, dies
- 1821 - John Keats, Romantic poet, dies of tuberculosis at 25 in Rome
- :H
- - [Guyana] Republic Day (1970)
- - [US] Iwo Jima Day (1945)
- :I
- 1455 - Johannes Gutenberg prints 1st book, the Bible (estimated date)
- 1574 - 5th War of Religion breaks out in France
- :0224
- :B
- 1463 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italy, scholar/platonist
- 1500 - Emperor Charles V, king of Spain (1516-56)
- :D
- 1945 - Ahmed Maher Pasha, Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament
- 1970 - Conrad Nagel, actor (Celebrity Time), dies at 73
- :H
- - [Estonia] National Day (1920)
- - [Ghana] Liberation Day (1966)
- :I
- 1525 - Imperial forces defeat the French in battle of Pavia
- 1528 - John Zápolya, Hungarian king, recognizes Sultan Suleiman's suzerai
- :0225
- :B
- 1725 - Armand-Louis Couperin, Paris France, composer/organist (Notre Dame)
- 1778 - José Francisco de San Martín, liberated Argentina, Chile & Perú
- :D
- 1723 - Sir Christopher Wren, England, astronomer/architect, dies
- 1914 - John Tenniel, illustrator (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 93
- :H
- - [México] Coronado Day (1540)
- - [World] Brotherhood Day (1934)
- :I
- 1751 - 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1¢)
- 1791 - 1st Bank of US chartered
- :0226
- :B
- 1802 - Victor Hugo, France, author (Hunchback of Notre Dame)
- 1808 - Honoré Daumier, France, painter/lithographer/caricaturist
- :D
- 1961 - Mohammed V, King of Morocco dies
- 1962 - Harold Johnson, comedian (Olsen & Johnson), dies at 70
- :I
- 1531 - Earthquake in Lisbon Portugal, kills 20,000
- 1564 - Christopher Marlowe, dramatist (Dr Faustus), baptized
- :0227
- :B
- 1807 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Portland Maine, poet (Hiawatha)
- 1823 - William Buel Franklin, Union general during the Civil War
- :D
- 1955 - Tom Howard, comedian (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 66
- 1956 - Frank Dailey, orch leader (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 54
- :H
- - [St Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla] Statehood Day (1967)
- - [St Kitts & Antigua] Independence Day (1967)
- :I
- 1526 - Saxony & Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes)
- 1563 - William Byrd is appointed organist at Lincoln Cathedral
- :0228
- :B
- 1675 - Guillaume Delisle, Paris, cartographer/geographer
- 1683 - René-Antoine de Réaumur, France, biologist/engineer
- :D
- 1638 - Henri, duc de Rohan, French soldier, Huguenot leader, dies
- 1844 - Thommas W Gilmer, Navy Secretary, dies in explosion on USS Princeton
- :H
- - [Luxembourg] Burgsonndeg-celebrates end of winter
- :I
- 1610 - Thomas West, Baron De La Warr, is appointed governor of Virginia
- 1704 - Elias Neau, a Frenchman, opens a school for blacks in NYC
- :0229
- :B
- 1692 - Edward Cave, England, printer (Gentlemen's Magazine)
- 1712 - Louis Joseph de Montcalm de Saint-Vèran, France, general\-
- :D
- 1604 - John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, dies at about 74
- 1852 - John Landseer, printer & engraver for the Royal Academy, dies
- :I
- 1504 - Columbus uses a lunar eclipse to frighten hostile Jamaican Indians
- 1692 - Sarah Good & Tituba, an Indian servant, accused of witchcraft, Salem
- :0301
- :B
- 1837 - William Dean Howells, US, novelist/critic/editor (Atlantic)
- 1841 - Blanche K Bruce, Virginia, (Sen-Miss, 1875-1881)
- :D
- 1962 - Roscoe Ates, actor (Dep Roscoe-Marshal of Gunsight Pass), dies at 70
- 1984 - Jackie Coogan, actor (Uncle Fester-Addams Family), dies at 69
- :H
- - [Engadine, Switzerland] Chalanda Marz/Coming of spring
- - [Lanark, Lanarkshire Scotland] Whuppity Scoorie Day
- :I
- 492 - St Felix III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 492 - St Gelasius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- :0302
- :B
- 1760 - Camille Desmoulins, France, journalist/pamphleteer/revolution leader
- 1769 - DeWitt Clinton, (Gov/Sen-NY)
- :D
- 1957 - Harry E Soref, padlock inventor dies at 70
- 1972 - Bill Lawrence, news anchor (ABC), dies at 56
- :H
- - [Ethiopia] Battle of Aduwa Day (1896)
- - [Texas 1836, Morocco 1956] Independence Day
- :I
- 1776 - Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston
- 1799 - Congress standardizes US weights & measures
- :0303
- :B
- 1606 - Edmund Waller, England, poet (Penshust)
- 1652 - Thomas Otway, England, dramatist/poet (Venice Preserved)
- :D
- 1902 - Sandy Dennis, actress (Up the Down Staircase), dies of cancer at 54
- 1959 - Lou Costello, comedian (Abbott & Costello), dies at 52
- :H
- - [Bulgaria] Liberation from Ottoman Rule Day (1878)
- - [Florida] Admission Day (1845)
- :I
- 468 - St Simplicius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 561 - Pelagius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- :0304
- :B
- 1651 - John Baron Somers, (Whig), William III's chief minister (1696-1700)
- 1747 - Casimir Pulaski, Count/American Revolutionary War general
- :D
- 1922 - Bert Williams, famous black, dies at 46, in NYC
- 1962 - Cairine R Wilson, 1st Canadian female senator (appointed) dies at 77
- :H
- - [Thailand] Magka Puja
- - [US] Constitution Day (1789)
- :I
- 1681 - King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Penn
- 1699 - Jews are expelled from Lubeck Germany
- :0305
- :B
- 1512 - Gerardus Mercator, Rupelmonde (Belgium), geographer/mapmaker
- 1574 - William Oughtred, England, mathematician/inventor (slide rule)
- :D
- 1770 - Crispus Attuks, is 1st of 5 killed during Boston Massacre
- 1963 - Cyril Smith, actor (Adv of Sir Lancelot), dies at 70
- :H
- :I
- 1179 - 3rd Lateran Council (11th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
- 1616 - Copernicus' "de Revolutionibus" placed on Catholic Forbidden index
- :0306
- :B
- 1619 - Cyrano de Bergerac, famous nose, dramatist (A Voyage to the Moon)
- 1787 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, Germany, physicist, studied Sun's spectrum
- :D
- 1900 - Gottlieb Daimler, designed 1st motorcycle, dies
- 1941 - Gutzon Borglum, Mt Rushmore's sculptor dies at 73
- :H
- - [Guam] Magellan Day/Discovery Day (1521)
- - [US] Stoneware Pottery Appreciation Day
- :I
- 1521 - Magellan discovers Guam
- 1646 - Joseph Jenkes, MA, receives 1st colonial machine patent
- :0307
- :B
- 1715 - Ewald Christian von Kleist, German lyric poet (Der Frühling)
- 1765 - Joseph Niepce, inventor (photography)
- :D
- 1274 - St Thomas Aquinas, Italian thelogian dies at 48
- 1804 - John Wedgwood, founder (Royal Horticulture Society), dies
- :H
- - [Laos] Veteran's Day
- :I
- 1774 - British close port of Boston to all commerce
- 1778 - Capt James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay
- :0308
- :B
- 1783 - Hannah Hoes Van Buren, 1st lady
- 1787 - Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, help create modern plastic surgery
- :D
- 1930 - William Howard Taft, 27th US president, dies
- 1951 - The Honeymoon Killers, die in electric chair
- :H
- - [Egypt, Libya, Syria] Syrian Revolution Day (1963)
- - [Memphis, Tenn] Cotton Carnival (held for 5 days)
- :I
- 1782 - Gnadenhutten massacre - Ohio militia kills 90 indians
- 1801 - British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt
- :0309
- :B
- 1564 - David Fabricius, Essens Germany, astronomer (discover variable star)
- 1814 - Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine, national poet/painter/prof of Kiev
- :D
- 1931 - Ida B Wells-Barnett, famous black, dies at 78 in Chicago
- 1962 - Dr Howard Engstrom, Boston, a designer of Univac computer dies at 59
- :H
- - [Ukraine] Taras Shevchenko (Ukrainian poet) Day (2/25 OS) (1814)
- - [World] Amerigo Vespucci Day (1451)
- :I
- 1497 - Nicolaus Copernicus 1st recorded astronomical observation,
- 1745 - Bells for 1st American carillon shipped from England to Boston
- :0310
- :B
- 1772 - Friedrich von Schlegel, Germany, romantic writer/critic
- 1810 - John McCloskey, US, pres of St John's College (Fordham U)
- :D
- 1980 - Doctor Tarnoff, Jean Harris kills Scarsdale diet doctor
- 1984 - June Marlowe, actress, dies at 81
- :H
- - [Laos] Teachers' Day
- - [World] World Culture Day (leap years)
- :I
- 418 - Jews are exculed from public office in the Roman Empire
- 483 - St Simplicius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- :0311
- :B
- 1726 - Mme Louise-Florence d'Épinay, France, writer/salon hostess
- 1731 - Robert Treat Paine, judge, signer of Declaration of Independence
- :D
- 1874 - Charles Sumner, a white civil rights leader, dies at 63
- 1957 - Richard E Byrd, US, explorer (Antarctica), dies at 68
- :H
- - [US] Johnny Appleseed Day (anniversary of his death-1845)
- - [World] World Culture Day (leap years)
- :I
- 1302 - Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare
- 1702 - 1st London daily newspaper
- :0312
- :B
- 1806 - Jane Means Appleton Pierce, 1st lady
- 1821 - Sir John Abbott, Québec Canada, (C) 3rd Canadian PM (1891-92)
- :D
- 1628 - John Bull, organist/composer, dies
- 1888 - Henry Bergh, founder of ASPCA, dies at 76
- :H
- - [Lesotho] Moshoeshoe's Day
- - [Libya] King's Birthday
- :I
- 604 - St Gregory I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1496 - Jews are expelled from Syria
- :0313
- :B
- 1733 - Joseph Priestly, England, clergyman/scientist, discovered oxygen
- 1764 - Charles Earl Grey, (Whig), British PM (1830-34)
- :D
- 1901 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd pres, dies in Indianapolis
- 1906 - Susan B Anthony, American suffragist, dies
- :H
- - [Liberia] Decoration Day
- - [US] Good Samaritan Involvement Day
- :I
- 607 - 12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
- 1519 - Cortez lands in México
- :0314
- :B
- 1782 - Thomas Hart Benton, (rep), "Old Bullion"
- 1800 - James Bogardus, US inventor/builder (made cast-iron buildings)
- :D
- 1925 - Walter Camp, father of American football, dies at 65
- 1964 - Kitty Genovese, murdered before neighbors eyes
- :H
- - [New Mexico] Arbor Day
- :I
- 1644 - England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)
- 1743 - 1st American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall)
- :0315
- :B
- 1767 - Andrew Jackson, (D) 7th pres (1928-37)
- 1779 - William Lamb, (Whig) Viscount Melbourne, British PM (1834, 1835-41)
- :D
- 1962 - Sam Wren, actor (Wren's Nest), dies at 64
- 1966 - Abe Saperstein, founder of Harlem Globetrotters, dies
- :H
- - [India, Mauritius, Nepál] Holi
- - [Iran] Armed Forces Day/Labor Day
- :I
- 1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after 1st new world voyage
- 1729 - Sister St Stanislas Hachard, 1st US nun, takes her vows, N Orleans
- :0316
- :B
- 1739 - George Clymer, signed Decl of Ind, Constitution
- 1751 - James Madison, (D-R), 4th US president (1809-17)
- :D
- 1909 - George Thorndike Angell, lawyer (ASPCA), dies at 85
- 1914 - Gaston Calmette, editor of Figaro, killed by Mme Caillaux
- :H
- - [Umatilla, OR] Curlew Day
- :I
- 1190 - Crusades begin massacre of Jews of York England
- 1621 - 1st Indian appears at Plymouth, Mass
- :0317
- :B
- 1789 - Edmund Kean, London England, tragic actor (Shylock)
- 1804 - James Bridger, scout/fur trader/mountain man par excellance
- :D
- 1846 - FW Bessel, measurer of distance to 61 Cygni, dies
- 1898 - Blanche Kelso Bruce, dies at 57, in Washington
- :H
- - [Ireland] St Patrick's Day/Irish National Day (461, 493)
- - [World] World Maritime Day
- :I
- 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines
- 1753 - 1st official St Patrick's Day
- :0318
- :B
- 1609 - Frederick III, king of Denmark & Norway (1648-70); absolutist
- 1782 - John Caldwell Calhoun, SC, Andrew Jackson's VP (1825-32)
- :D
- 1314 - Jacques De Molay, the last grand master of Order of Knights dies
- 1913 - King George I, of Greece assassinated by Schinas
- :H
- - [Haiti] University Day
- - [Ireland] Sheelah's Day
- :I
- 731 - St Gregory III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1123 - 1st Latern Council (9th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
- :0319
- :B
- 1813 - David Livingstone, found by Stanley in Africa
- 1821 - Sir Richard Burton, explorer/translator (Arabian Nights)
- :D
- 1974 - Anne Klien, fashion designer, dies at 50
- 1979 - Al Hodge, actor (Capt Video), dies at 65
- :H
- - [Italy, Spain, Canary Island] St Joseph Day
- :I
- 1775 - 4 people buried by avalanche for 37 days, 3 survive (Italy)
- 1822 - Boston, Mass incorporated as a city
- :0320
- :B
- 1770 - Friedrich Hölderlin, Tübingen Germany, lyric poet (Andenken)\=
- 1770 - Johann Friedrich Hölderlin, Tübingen Germany, lyric poet (Der Rhein)
- :D
- 1894 - Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian nationalist, dies
- 1899 - Martha Place, of Bkln, becomes 1st woman to die by electrocution
- :H
- - [Tunisia] Independence Day (1956)
- :I
- 1760 - Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings
- 1815 - Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule
- :0321
- :B
- 1713 - Francis Lewis, signed Decl of Ind
- 1768 - Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician/Egyptologist
- :D
- 1987 - Dean Paul Martin, actor (Billy-Misfits of Science), dies at 35
- 1987 - Robert Preston, actor (Music Man), dies at 68
- :H
- - [Iowa] Bird Day
- - [México] Benito P Juarez' Birthday (1806)
- :I
- 1788 - Fire destroyed 856 buildings in New Orleans Louisiana
- 1788 - Gustavus Vassa petitions Queen Charlotte, to free enslaved Africans
- :0322
- :B
- 1777 - John Bartram, father of American botany
- 1797 - Kaiser Wilhelm I, German emperor (1871-88)
- :D
- 1758 - Jonathan Edwards, theologian/philospher (Original Sin), dies at 54
- 1820 - Stephen Decatur, killed in a duel with Com James Barron, at 41
- :H
- - [Puerto Rico] Emancipation Day (1873)
- :I
- 1349 - Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacre Jews (blamed for black death)
- 1621 - Massasoit & Pilgrims agree on league of friendship (Plymouth)
- :0323
- :B
- 1749 - Pierre-Simon Laplace, mathematician/astronomer/physicist
- 1769 - William Smith, geologist (Strata Identified by Organized Fossils)
- :D
- 1960 - Franklin P Adams, columnist (Information Please), dies at 78
- 1961 - James Edward Murray, (Sen-D-Montana) (1935-61)
- :H
- - [Laos] Armed Forces Day
- - [Lithuana] Independence Day (1918)
- :I
- 1490 - 1st dated edition of Maimonides "Mishna Torah" published
- 1657 - France & England form alliance against Spain; England gets Dunkirk
- :0324
- :B
- 1755 - Rufus King, framer of US constitution/(Sen-F)
- 1809 - Joseph Lioville, discover of transcendental numbers
- :D
- 1471 - Sir Thomas Malory, author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55
- 1905 - Jules Verne, sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 77
- :H
- - [US] Agriculture Day
- :I
- 1664 - Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island
- 1765 - Britain enacts Quartering Act
- :0325
- :B
- 1797 - John Winebrenner, US, clergyman, founded Church of God
- 1839 - William Bell Wait, US, educated the blind
- :D
- 1918 - Claude Debussy, French composer, dies in Paris
- 1951 - Edward Collins, Hall of Fame infielder (White Sox, A's), dies at
- :H
- - [Greece] Independence Day (1821)
- - [Maryland] Maryland Day (1634)
- :I
- 31 - 1st Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus
- 708 - Constantine begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- :0326
- :B
- 1819 - Louise Otto, Germany, author/feminist
- 1850 - Edward Bellamy, author (Looking Backward)
- :D
- 1831 - Richard Allen, dies at 71
- 1892 - Walt Whitman, poet, dies in Camden, NJ
- :H
- - [Hampshire, England] Tichborne Dole (1150)
- - [Hawaii] Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianole Day/Regatta Day
- :I
- 1150 - Tichborne family of Hampshire England started tradition of giving a
- Gallon of flour to each resident to keep deathbed promise
- :0327
- :B
- 1813 - Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
- 1844 - Alophus Washington Greely, US, Arctic explorer
- :D
- 1968 - Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, & Seryogin die in plane crash
- 1977 - Diana Hyland, actress (Peyton Place, 8 is Enough), dies at 41
- :H
- - [Alaska] Seward Day (1867)
- - [US Virgin Island] Transfer Day (1917)
- :I
- 1625 - Charles I King of England Scotland & Ireland ascends to throne
- 1802 - Pallas (asteroid) discovered by Heinrich Olbers
- :0328
- :B
- 1592 - Jan Amos Komensky, [Comenius] Moravian educational reformer
- 1760 - Thomas Clarkson, English abolitionist (Negro Emancipation)
- :D
- 1941 - Virginia Woolf, novelist/critic, dies
- 1943 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer, dies
- :H
- - [Libya] Evacuation Day
- - [Alaska] Seward Day (1867)
- :I
- 1774 - Britain passes Coercive Act against Massachusetts
- 1797 - Nathaniel Briggs of NH patents a washing machine
- :0329
- :B
- 1799 - Edward Stanley, Earl Derby (C), British PM (1852, 1858-59, 1866-68)
- 1819 - Edwin Drake, drilled 1st productive US oil well
- :D
- 1848 - John Jacob Astor, charted American Fur Company, dies at 84
- 1959 - Barthelemy Boganda, Central African Republic's 1st president, dies
- :H
- - [Delaware] Delaware Swedish Colonial Day (1638)
- - [Madagascar] Commemoration Day/Memorial Day (1947)
- :I
- 1807 - Discovery of 4th asteroid Vesta by Heinrich Olbers
- 1807 - H W Olbers discovers asteroid #4 Vesta
- :0330
- :B
- 1222 - Nichiren, Japan, Buddhist priest/saint
- 1719 - Sir John Hawkins, England, wrote 1st history of music
- :D
- 1961 - PJ Melotte, discovered Jupiter's 8th satellite Pasiphae, dies
- 1971 - Selmer Jackson, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 82
- :H
- - [US Virgin Island] Transfer Day (1917)
- :I
- 1822 - Territory of Florida organized
- 1842 - Dr Crawford Long, 1st physician to use ether as anesthetic
- :0331
- :B
- 1621 - Andrew Marvell, England, poet (To His Coy Mistress)
- 1732 - Franz Joseph Haydn, Austria, composer, help develop classical style
- :D
- 1850 - John Calhoun, dies at 68
- 1931 - Knute Rockne, football player/coach dies in a plane crash at 43
- :H
- - [Alaska] Seward Day (1867)
- - [US Virgin Island] Transfer Day (1917)
- :I
- 1651 - Great earthquake at Cuzco, Peru
- 1745 - Jews are expelled from Prague
- :0401
- :B
- 1697 - Abbé Prévost, French novelist/journalist (Manon Lescaut)
- 1755 - Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French lawyer (Fisiologia del Gusto)
- :D
- 1930 - Zawditu, 1st reigning female monarch of Ethiopia, dies
- 1950 - Charles R Drew, surgeon/developer of blood bank concept, dies at 45
- :H
- - [Burma] Bank Holiday
- - [Switzerland] Glarius Festival (1388)
- :I
- 1778 - Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates "$"
- 1789 - House of Reps 1st full meeting, NYC, F Muhlenberg 1st speaker
- :0402
- :B
- 1805 - Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, author of 150 fairy tales
- 1834 - Frédéric-Auguste Bertholdi, Statue of Liberty sculptor
- :D
- 1865 - Richard Cobden, founder Anti-Corn-Law League, dies at 60
- 1872 - Samuel F B Morse developer of electric telegraph, dies at 80
- :H
- - [Iran] Nawroz 13
- - [Chad] Creation of Union of Central African States (1968)
- :I
- 1550 - Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy
- 1792 - Congress establishes Philadelphia mint
- :0403
- :B
- 1245 - Philip III, king of France (1270-85)
- 1593 - George Herbert, English metaphysical poet (5 Mystical Songs)
- :D
- 1936 - Bruno Hauptmann, convicted Lindbergh baby killer, executed
- 1950 - Carter G Woodson, "father of black history," dies in Wash DC at 74
- :H
- - [Mass] Student Government Day
- :I
- 309 - -BC- Origin of Seleucid Era
- 419 - [Etalius] ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- :0404
- :B
- 1648 - Grinling Gibbons, sculptor/woodcarver
- 1752 - Nicolo Antonio Zingarelli, composer (Andromeda)
- :D
- 1588 - Frederick II, king of Denmark, dies
- 1604 - Thomas Churchyard, poet/pamphleteer, dies
- :H
- - [Senegal] National Day (1960)
- - [Switzerland] Glarius Festival (1388)
- :I
- 896 - Pope Formous ends reign
- 1460 - University of Basle in Swizerland forms
- :0405
- :B
- 1649 - Elihu Yale, England, philanthropist founded Yale
- 1725 - Giacomo Casanova, Italian writer/philanderer/adventurer (uncertain)
- :D
- 1649 - John Winthrop, 1st governor Mass Bay Colony, dies
- 1684 - William Brouncker, 2nd viscout/1st pres of Royal Society, dies
- :H
- - [Iceland] 1st Day of Summer (or 0418)
- - [South Korea] Arbor Day
- :I
- 1614 - 2nd parliment of King James I begin session (no enactments)
- 1614 - Indian princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe
- :0406
- :B
- 1671 - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (Sacred Odes & Songs)
- 1773 - James Mill, Scotland, philosopher/historian (Hist of British India)
- :D
- 1348 - Petrarch's Laura, dies of plague
- 1520 - Raphael, artist dies on his 35th birthday
- :H
- - [South Africa] Van Riebeeck Day-founding of Capetown
- - [Thailand] Chakri Day
- :I
- 648 - -BC- Earliest total solar eclipse; chronicled by Greeks
- 1327 - Italian poet Petrarch 1st sets eyes on his beloved Laura
- :0407
- :B
- 1770 - William Wordsworth, England, poet laureate (The Prelude)
- 1775 - Francis C Lowell, founded 1st raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill
- :D
- 1614 - El Greco, Spanish painter, dies (birth date unknown)
- 1891 - PT Barnum, circus showman (Barnum & Bailey), dies at 80
- :H
- - [Yugoslavia] Republic Day (1963)
- - [Haiti] World Health Day (1948)
- :I
- 1652 - Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, S Africa
- 1712 - Slave revolt (NYC)
- :0408
- :B
- 1460 - Ponce de León, searched for fountain of youth, found Florida
- 1533 - Claudio Merulo, organist/composer
- :D
- 1143 - John II, Byzantine emperor, dies in an accident
- 1794 - Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicholas-Caritat, mathematician dies
- :I
- 1730 - 1st Jewish congregation in US consecrates synagogue (NY)
- 1766 - 1st fire escape patented, wicker basket on a pulley & chain
- :0409
- :B
- 1794 - Theobald Böhm, flautist/composer
- 1798 - Giuditta Pasta, [Negri], soprano
- :D
- 1492 - Lorenzo de' Medici, Florentine statesman, dies
- 1553 - François Rabelais, author, dies
- :H
- - [US, England] Churchill Day (1963)
- - [Bolivia] National Day (1952)
- :I
- 1241 - Battle of Liegnitz - Mongol armies defeat Poles & Germans
- 1388 - Battle of Näfels; Glarius Swiss defeat Habsburg (Austrian) army
- :0410
- :B
- 1778 - William Hazlitt, Maidstone Kent England, essayist/critic
- 1794 - Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, opened Japan
- :D
- 1938 - Nana Annor Adjaye, Pan-Afrianist, dies in W Nzima Ghana
- 1956 - Clarence Beaumont, 1st batter in 1st World Series, dies at 75
- :I
- 1739 - Dick Turpin executed in England for horse stealing
- 1741 - Prussians defeat Austrians at Mollwitz
- :0411
- :B
- 1722 - Christopher Smart, English poet & journalist (Ceremony of Carols)
- 1770 - George Canning, (C) British PM (1827)
- :D
- 1906 - James A Bailey, circus showman (Barnum & Bailey), dies at 58
- 1916 - Richard Harding Davis, journalist, dies at 52
- :H
- - [Egypt] Shan-et-Nissin
- - [Liberia] Fast & Prayer Day
- :I
- 678 - Donus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1713 - Peace of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces to Britain
- :0412
- :B
- 1791 - Francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor (Washington Globe)
- 1823 - Aleksandr Ostrovsky, Russian playwright (Artists & Admirers)
- :D
- 1912 - Clara Barton, organized American Red Cross, dies at 90
- 1965 - Linda Darnell, actress, dies
- :H
- - [North Carolina] Halifax Independence Day (1776)
- :I
- 1204 - 4th Crusade sacks Constantinople
- 1606 - England adopts the Union Jack as its flag
- :0413
- :B
- 1721 - John Hanson, Maryland, 1st US Pres under Articles of Confederation
- 1732 - Frederick Lord North, (C) British PM (1770-82)
- :D
- 1984 - Christopher Wilder, FBI's "most wanted man," accidentally kills self
- :H
- - [Alabama, Oklahoma] Thomas Jefferson's Birthday (1743)
- - [Maryland] John Hanson Day
- :I
- 1598 - Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots
- 1759 - French beat European Aliies in Battle of Bergen
- :0414
- :B
- 1629 - Christiaan Huygens, Holland, astronomer (discovered Saturn's rings)
- 1738 - Duck of Portland, (C) British PM (1783, 1807-09)
- :D
- 1964 - Earle Hodgins, actor (Guestward Ho!), dies at 64
- 1971 - Armand Spitz, developer of small educational planetarium, dies
- :H
- - [Laos] New Years (416)
- - [Burma] Water Festival (416)
- :I
- 1775 - 1st abolitionist society in US organizes in Phila
- 1818 - US Medical Corp forms
- :0415
- :B
- 1469 - Nanak, 1st guru of Sikhs
- 1684 - Catherine I, empress of Russia (1725-27)
- :D
- 1975 - Richard Conte, actor (Four Just Men, Jean Arthur Show), dies at 65
- 1980 - Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialist philosopher, dies in Paris at 74
- :H
- - [Mass, Maine] Patriots Day-Boston Marathon run (1775)
- :I
- 1800 - James Ross discovers North Magnetic pole
- 1850 - City of San Francisco incorporated
- :0416
- :B
- 1844 - Anatole France, writer (Thaïs, The Wickerwork Woman) (Nobel 1921)
- 1850 - Herbert Baxter Adams, US, historian (American Historical Assn)
- :D
- 1968 - Fay Bainter, actress (Jezebel, Our Town, State Fair), dies at 76
- 1985 - Scott Brady, actor (Shotgun Slade), dies at 60
- :H
- - [Cuba] Militiamen Day
- - [Puerto Rico] José De Diego's Birthday (1867)
- :I
- 1705 - Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College
- 1777 - Battle of Bennington-New England's Green Mountain Boys rout Brits
- :0417
- :B
- 1622 - Henry Vaughan, English poet (Silex Scintillans)
- 1676 - Frederick I, king of Sweden (1720-51)
- :D
- 1790 - Benjamin Franklin, US, (Poor Richards Almanac), dies at 84
- 1960 - Eddie Cochran, rocker, dies in an auto accident
- :H
- - [Japan] Children's Protection Day
- - [NYC] Verrazano Day (1524)
- :I
- 1492 - Christopher Columbus signs contract with Spain to find the Indies
- 1521 - Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church
- :0418
- :B
- 1817 - George Henry Lewes, English philosophical writer (Life of Goethe)
- 1819 - Franz von Suppé, Spalato Dalmatia, composer (Light Cavalry Over)
- :D
- 1955 - Albert Einstein, developer of relativity theory, dies
- 1963 - Henrietta Kreis, 3rd of famous Wallenda aerialist to fall to death
- :H
- - [Oklahoma] 89'ers Day rodeos commemorate opening of Okla in 1889
- - [Mass, Maine] Patriots Day-Boston Marathon run (1775)
- :I
- 1676 - Sudbury, Mass attacked by Indians
- 1775 - Paul Revere & William Dawes warn "the British are coming!"
- :0419
- :B
- 1775 - Battle of Lexington & Concord-American Revolution
- 1832 - José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, mathematician/dramatist (Nobel 1904)
- :D
- 1944 - Tommy Hitchcock, polo player (Westchester Cup 1924,27), dies at 44
- 1954 - Joe Laurie Jr, comedian (Can You Top This?), dies at 61
- :H
- - [US] John Parker Day (1775) honors minutemen
- - [Cuba] Bay of Pigs Victory Day (1961)
- :I
- Revolution begins-Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world"
- 1782 - Netherlands recognizes US
- :0420
- :B
- 1745 - Philippe Pinel, physician, founder of psychiatry
- 1808 - Louis-Napoleon (Napoleon III), emperor of France (1852-71)
- :D
- 1812 - George Clinton, 4th US VP, dies at 73 1st VP to, die in office
- 1900 - Mebel Mercer, popular singer of England
- :H
- :I
- 1139 - 2nd Lateran Council (10th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
- 1505 - Jews are expelled from Orange Burgandy by Philibert of Luxembourg
- :0421
- :B
- 1782 - Friedrich Froebel, Germany, founded kindergaten
- 1816 - Charlotte Brontë, Tornton England, novelist (Jane Eyre)
- :D
- 1910 - Mark Twain, [Samuel Langhorne Clemens], author, dies in Redding Conn
- 1918 - "Red" Baron, Manfred von Richtofen, killed in WW I
- :H
- - [Indonesia] Kartini Day
- - [Brazil] Tiradentes Day/Día de Tiradentes/Brasilia Day (1789, 1960)
- :I
- 1600 - 1st date in James Clavell's novel Shogun (OS)
- 1649 - Maryland Toleration Act passed, allowing all freedom of worship
- :0422
- :B
- 1658 - Giuseppe Torelli, Italy, composer (Concert Grossi op. 8)
- 1690 - John Carteret, Earl Granville (C), English chief minister (1722-42)
- :D
- 1967 - Tom Conway, actor (Mark Saber, Betty Hutton Show), dies at 62
- 1977 - Charles Sanford, orch leader (Your Show of Shows), dies at 71
- :H
- - [USSR] Lenin's Birthday (1870)
- - [Spain, US] Queen Isabella Day
- :I
- 536 - St Agapitus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 687 - -BC- Chinese record a meteor shower in Lyra
- :0423
- :B
- 1547 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer (Don Quioxite)
- 1564 - William Shakespeare, bard (Hamlet, MacBeth, Julius Cæsar) (approx)
- :D
- 1616 - William Shakesphere, English author, dies, on his 52nd birthday
- 1915 - Rupert Brooke, British poet, dies
- :H
- - [Turkey] National Sovereignty Day/Children's Day (1923)
- :I
- 1775 - The opera "Il Ré Pastore" is produced (Salzburg)
- 1789 - President George Washington moves into Franklin House, NY
- :0424
- :B
- 1743 - Edmund Cartwright, England, cleric, inventor (power loom)
- 1766 - Robert Bailey Thomas, founded Farmer's Almanac
- :D
- 1967 - Frank Overton, actor (12 O'Clock High), dies at 48
- 1967 - Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut is 1st to die in space, aboard Soyuz 1
- :H
- - [Alabama, Florida, Mississippi] Confederate Memorial Day (1868)
- - [US-Utah] Arbor Day-plant a tree (1872)
- :I
- 1704 - Boston News-Letter, 1st successful newspaper in US, established
- 1792 - "La Marseillaise" composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle
- :0425
- :B
- 1284 - Edward II, king of England (1307-27)
- 1599 - Oliver Cromwell, Puritan lord protector of England (1653-58)
- :D
- 1960 - Hope Emerson, actress (I Married Joan, Peter Gunn), dies at 62
- 1972 - George Sanders, actor (Mr Freeze-Batman), dies at 65
- :H
- - [Azores] Portugal's Day (1974)
- - [Italy] Liberation Day
- :I
- 1707 - Battle of Almansa-Franco-Spanish forces defeat Anglo-Portugese
- 1792 - Guillotine 1st used, executes highwayman Nicolas J Pelletier
- :0426
- :B
- 1718 - Esek Hopkins, US, 1st commander-in-chief (US Navy)
- 1785 - John James Audubon, Haiti, bird watcher/artist
- :D
- 1865 - John Wilkes Booth, assassin, is shot dead near Bowling Green, VA
- 1956 - Edward Arnold, actor (Mr Smith Goes to Washington), dies at 66
- :H
- - [Georgia] Confederate Memorial Day (1868)
- - [Virginia] Cape Henry Day
- :I
- 1478 - Pazzi conspirators attack Lorenzo & kill Giuliano de'Medici
- 1514 - Copernicus makes his 1st observations of Saturn
- :0427
- :B
- 1759 - Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, England, writer/feminist (Female Reader)
- 1791 - Samuel Finley Breece Morse, US painter/inventor (telegraph)
- :D
- 1893 - John Murray Corse, US general (Union), dies on his 58th birthday
- 1902 - Julius Sterling Morton, who started Arbor Day, dies at 72
- :H
- - [Sierra Leone-1961, Togo-1960] Independence Day
- - [Alabama, Florida, Mississippi] Confederate Memorial Day (1868)
- :I
- 1565 - 1st Spanish settlement in Philippines, Cebu City, forms
- 1773 - British Parliament passes the Tea Act (Boston won't like this)
- :0428
- :B
- 1758 - James Monroe, (D-R) 5th pres (1817-25)
- 1774 - Francis Baily, describer of "Baily's Beads" during solar eclipse
- :D
- 1970 - Ed Begley, actor (Mr Koppel-Leave it to Larry), dies at 69
- 1980 - Tommy Caldwell, rocker (Marshall Tucker Band), dies
- :H
- - [Alabama, Florida, Mississippi] Confederate Memorial Day (1868)
- - [US-Utah] Arbor Day-plant a tree (1872)
- :I
- 1686 - 1st volume of Isaac Newton's "Principia" published
- 1788 - Maryland becomes the 7th state to ratify the constitution
- :0429
- :B
- 1745 - Oliver Ellsworth, 3rd Chief Justice Supreme Court (1796-1800)
- 1818 - Alexander II, Tsar of Russia (1855-81)
- :D
- :H
- - [Alabama, Florida, Mississippi] Confederate Memorial Day (1868)
- - [US-Utah] Arbor Day-plant a tree (1872)
- :I
- 1553 - Flemish woman introduces practice of starching linen into England
- 1661 - Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan
- :0430
- :B
- 1777 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, world's great mathematicians
- 1858 - Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison, 1st lady
- :D
- 1829 - George Washington Adams, son of John Q Adams, dies on City Is NYC
- 1900 - John Luther (Casey) Jones, dies in Cannonball Express train wreck
- :H
- - [Netherland, Neth Antilles, Surinam] Queen Juliana's Birthday
- - [Louisiana] Admission Day (1813)
- :I
- 1563 - Jews are expelled from France by order of Charles VI
- 1722 - The game of Billiards is mentioned in the New England Courant
- :0501
- :B
- 1672 - Joseph Addison, England, essayist (Spectator)
- 1764 - Benjamin Henry Latrobe, engineer/architect (built Capitol)
- :D
- 1932 - Paul Doumer, Pres of France, assassinated by Russia's Paul Gargalov
- 1959 - Oscar Torp, Norwegian premier, dies
- :H
- - [Finland] Vappu Day
- - [Hawaii] Lei Day
- :I
- 1682 - Louis XIV & his court inaugurate Paris Observatory
- 1707 - England, Wales & Scotland form UK of Great Britain
- :0502
- :B
- 1729 - Catherine II (the Great), empress of Russia (1762-96)
- 1740 - Elias Boudinot, lawyer/patriot, found Amer Biblical Society
- :D
- 1957 - Joseph McCarthy, commie hunting senator, dies at 47
- 1960 - Caryl Chessman, rapist executed after 12 years of appeals
- :H
- - [Bhutan] 3rd King's Birthday
- - [Burma] Peasants' Day
- :I
- 1670 - Hudson Bay Company founded
- 1776 - France & Spain agree to donate arms to American rebels
- :0503
- :B
- 1844 - Richard D'Oyly Carte, England, opera impresario (Ivanhoe)
- 1849 - Jacob Riis, Denmark, reporter (NY Tribune, NY Evening Sun)
- :D
- 1979 - Erin O'Brien-Moore, actress (Nurse Choate-Peyton Place), dies at 76
- 1982 - Helmut Dantine, actor (Shadow of the Cloak), dies at 64
- :H
- - [Lesotho] King's Birthday
- - [Northern Ireland] Bank Holiday
- :I
- 1494 - Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica
- 1494 - Jamaica discovered by Columbus; he names it "St Iago"
- :0504
- :B
- 1796 - Horace Mann, US, educator/author/editor (pioneered public schools
- 1820 - Joseph Whitaker, England, publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack
- :D
- 1965 - Norman Brokenshire, TV moderator (Four Square Court), dies at 66
- 1970 - 4 students, at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard
- :H
- - [US] Student Memorial Day (1970)
- - [Zambia] Labour Day
- :I
- 1626 - Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth & buttons
- 1715 - French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris)
- :0505
- :B
- 1818 - Karl Marx, philospher (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital)
- 1832 - H.H. Bancroft, historian, publisher (History of the Pacific States)
- :D
- 1951 - Eddie Dunn, comedian (Face to Face, Spin the Picture), dies at 54
- 1969 - Ben Alexander, actor (Frank Smith-Dragnet), dies at 57
- :H
- - [Ethiopia] Victory Day
- - [Japan] Tango-no-sekku [Boys' Festival]/Children's Day
- :I
- 1430 - Jews are expelled from Speyer Germany
- hristopher Columbus 1st sights Jamaica on his 2nd voyage
- :0506
- :B
- 1740 - John Penn, signed Decl of Ind
- 1758 - Maximilien Robespierre, Arras Fr, French revolutionary/avocat (1781)
- :D
- 1910 - Edward VII, king of England, dies
- 1919 - Lyman Frank Baum, author ("Wizard of Oz"), dies at 62
- :H
- - [Denmark] Prayer Day
- - [Lebanon] Martyrs' Day
- :I
- 1626 - Peter Minuet purchases Manhattan Island for $24
- 1753 - French King Louis XV observes transit of Mercury at Mendon Castle
- :0507
- :B
- 1774 - Sir Francis Beaufort, naval officer; devised wind force scale
- 1812 - Robert Browning, England, poet (The Pied Piper)
- :D
- 1871 - Louis Papineau, political reformer, dies
- 1985 - Dawn Addams, actress (Alan Young Show, Star Maidens), dies at 54
- :H
- - [Scotland] Spring Day
- - [Thailand] State Ploughing Ceremony Day
- :I
- 1429 - English siege of Orléans broken by Joan of Arc
- 1727 - Jews are expelled from Ukraine by Empress Catherine I of Russia
- :0508
- :B
- 1753 - Miguel Hidalgo, father of Mexican independence
- 1786 - Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry
- :D
- 1891 - Helena Petrovina Blavatsky, Russian theosophist, dies
- 1915 - Henry McNeal Turner, 1 US black army chaplain, dies at 82
- :H
- - [Mexico] Higaldo Day
- - [Missouri] Harry S Truman's Birthday (1884)
- :I
- 615 - St Boniface IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 685 - St Benedict II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- :0509
- :B
- 1785 - James Pollard Espy, Penns, meteorologist (Philosphy of Storms)
- 1800 - John Brown, abolitionist; led attack on Harpers Ferry
- :D
- 1958 - Bill Goodwin, TV announcer (Burns & Allen), dies at 47
- 1968 - Marion Lorne, actress (Aunt Clara-Bewitched), dies at 81
- :H
- - [Poland, USSR] Victory Day [in World War II]
- - [World] North Pole Flight Day (1926)
- :I
- 1754 - 1st newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake "Join or die"
- 1785 - Joseph Bramah receives British patent for beer pump handles
- :0510
- :B
- 1770 - Louis Nicholas Davout, French field marshall (defeated Prussians)
- 1788 - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, optics pioneer
- :D
- 1798 - George Vancouver, British explorer, dies (birth date unknown)
- 1863 - Gen Stonewall Jackson, dies from wounds received at Chancellorsville
- :H
- - [North & South Carolina] Confederate Memorial Day (1868)
- - [Thailand] Ploughing Ceremony
- :I
- 1503 - Columbus discovers Cayman Islands
- 1652 - John Johnson, a free black granted 550 acres in Northampton Va
- :0511
- :B
- 1852 - Charles Warren Fairbanks, (R) 26th US VP (1905-09)
- 1854 - Ottmar Mergenthaler, Hachtel Germany, inventor (linotype)
- :D
- 1927 - Gen Henry Martyn Robert, (Robert's Rules of Order), dies at 90
- 1960 - John D Rockefeller Jr, philanthropist, dies at 86
- :H
- - [Laos] Constitution Day (1947)
- - [Minnesota] Admission Day (1858)
- :I
- 1421 - Jews are expelled from Styria Austria
- 1689 - Battle of Bantry Bay, French & English naval battle
- :0512
- :B
- 1806 - J V Snellman, Finland, journalist/statesman/nationalist
- 1812 - Edward Lear, England, landscape painter, writer of nonsense verse
- :D
- 1864 - J.E.B. Stuart, Confederate General, dies at 31
- 1932 - Lindbergh baby, found dead
- :H
- - [Finland] Snellman Day (1806)
- - [Khmer Republic] Constitution Day (1972)
- :I
- 1780 - Charleston, SC falls to the British (Revolutionary War)
- 1789 - Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It
- :0513
- :B
- 1717 - Empress Maria Theresa, Austria (Wife of Napolean)
- 1729 - Henry William (Baron) Stiegel, early American glassmaker
- :D
- 1962 - Dr H Trendley Dean, introduced fluoridation into water
- 1962 - Frank Jenks, actor (Colonel Flack), dies at 60
- :H
- - [US] Mother's Day, give her a call today
- - [Ireland] Feis Ceoil music festival (1897)
- :I
- 1607 - English colonists lands near the James River in VA
- 1779 - War of Bavarian Succession ends
- :0514
- :B
- 1686 - Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, Germany, inventor (thermometer) (or 0524)
- 1771 - Robert Owen, England, factory owner/socialist
- :D
- 1976 - Keith Reif, guitarist, electrocuted tuning his guitar
- 1982 - Hugh Beaumont, actor (Ward-Leave it to Beaver), dies at 73
- :H
- - [Liberia] Unification Day/Integration Day
- - [Malawi] Kamuzu Day
- :I
- 1264 - Baron's War fought in England
- 1509 - Battle of Agnadello, French beat Venitians in Northern Italy
- :0515
- :B
- 1856 - Lyman Frank Baum, children's book author (Wizard of Oz)
- 1859 - Pierre Curie, France, physicist (Nobel 1903)
- :D
- 1886 - Emily Dickinson, US poet, died
- 1985 - Jackie Curtis, playwright/actor, dies of a drug overdose at 38
- :H
- - [US] I am an American Day
- - [US] Armed Forces Day
- :I
- 1248 - Archbishop Konrad v Hochstaden lays cornerstone for Köln cathedral
- 1602 - Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold
- :0516
- :B
- 1801 - William Henry Seward, Sec of State (1861-69, buys Alaska at 2¢/acre)
- 1804 - Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, founded 1st US kindergarten
- :D
- 1892 - John Banvard, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas), dies
- 1955 - James Agee, US author & critic, dies in NY
- :H
- - [US] Armed Forces Day
- :I
- 1763 - Samuel Johnson meets his future biographer James Boswell in London
- 1770 - Marie Antoinette marries future King Louis XVI of France
- :0517
- :B
- 1749 - Edward Jenner, England, physician, discovered vaccination
- 1836 - Joseph Norman Lockyer, discovered Helium/founded Nature magazine
- :D
- 1985 - Bobby Ewing, (Patrick Duffy) killed off on Dallas
- 1985 - Hugh Burden, actor, dies at 72
- :H
- - [Norway] Independence Day/Constitution Day (1814)
- - [US] Armed Forces Day
- :I
- 352 - Liberius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 884 - St Adrian III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- :0518
- :B
- 1836 - Wilhelm Steinitz, Austria, world chess champion (1866-94)
- 1850 - Oliver Heaviside, physicist predicted existance of ionosphere
- :D
- 1955 - Mary McLeod Bethune, educator & civil rights leader, dies at 79
- 1955 - Mary McLeod Bethune, slave/educator, dies at 79
- :H
- - [Uruguay] Battle of Las Piedras (1828)
- - [Canada] Victoria Day (1819)
- :I
- 1756 - England declares war on France
- 1804 - Napoleon became Emperor of France
- :0519
- :B
- 1795 - Johns Hopkins, philanthropist, founded Johns Hopkins University
- 1864 - Carl Ethan Akeley, US, naturalist, devoleped animal mount process
- :D
- 1536 - Anne Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII, beheaded
- 1935 - T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia), dies in a motorcycle crash
- :H
- - [Turkey] Youth & Sports Day
- - [Vietnam] Ho Chi Minh's Birthday (1890)
- :I
- 1588 - Spanish Armada sets sail for Lisbon, bound to England
- 1749 - George II grants charter to Ohio Company to settle Ohio Valley
- :0520
- :B
- 1759 - William Thornton, architect (Capitol building, Wash DC)
- 1768 - Dolley Dandridge Payne Madison, 1st lady
- :D
- 1834 - Marquis de Lafayette, French general, dies
- 1876 - Khristo Botev, Bulgarian poet, dies
- :H
- - [Cambodia] Martyrs Day (1979)
- - [Cameroon] Constitution Day (1972)
- :I
- 526 - Earthquake kills 250,000 in Antioch, Syria
- 1690 - England passes Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II
- :0521
- :B
- 1471 - Albrecht Dürer, Nürnberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker
- 1527 - Philip II, king of Spain (1556-98) & Portugal (1580-98)
- :D
- 1973 - Vaughn Monroe, singer/orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), dies at 61
- 1984 - Andrea Leeds, actress, dies of cancer at 70
- :H
- - [Chile] Battle of Inquique/Navy Day (1879)
- - [Macedonia, Greece] Anastenarides Feast-dance barefoot on hot coals
- :I
- 1804 - Lewis & Clark Expedition begins
- 1832 - 1st Democratic party national convention
- :0522
- :B
- 1828 - Albrecht Gräfe, pioneer eye surgeon; founded modern ophthalmology
- 1844 - Mary Cassatt, US, Impressionist painter (Woman Bathing)
- :D
- 1984 - John Marley, actor, dies at 77 following heart surgery
- 1988 - Giorgio Almirante, Italy, fascist (member of parliament), dies at 73
- :H
- - [Haiti] National Sovereignty Day
- - [Sri Lanka] Republic Day (1972)
- :I
- 1370 - Jews are expelled from Brussels Belgium
- 1761 - 1st life insurance policy in US, issued in Phila
- :0523
- :B
- 1734 - Friedrich Anton Mesmer, Austria, physician/hypnotist (Mesmerism)
- 1810 - Margaret Fuller, writer/critic 1st pro book review column (NY Trib)
- :D
- 1934 - Bonnie & Clyde, bank robbers killed in shoot-out with police in La
- 1937 - John D Rockfeller, industrialist, dies in Ormond Beach Fla
- :H
- - [German Federal Republic] Republic Day (1949)
- - [Jamaica] Labour Day
- :I
- 1533 - King Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon marriage declared null & void
- 1576 - Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory
- :0524
- :B
- 1743 - Jean-Paul Marat, France, revolutionist
- 1753 - Oliver Cromwell, Burlington NJ, black who served with Washington
- :D
- 1543 - Nicolas Copernicus, astronomer, dies in Poland
- 1879 - William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist (Liberator), dies at 73
- :H
- - [Bulgaria] Education Day/Enlightenment & Culture Day
- - [Ecuador] Battle of Pichincha (1822)
- :I
- 1738 - Methodist Church established
- 1822 - At Battle of Pichincha, Bolívar secures independence of Quito
- :0525
- :B
- 1845 - William Muldoon, Belfast NY, boxing commissioner (help find PAL)
- 1847 - John Alexander Dowie, [Elijah the Restorer], US, evangelist
- :D
- 1971 - Jo Etha Collier, young black woman killed by 3 whites in Drew Miss
- 1971 - Terence De Marney, actor (Case Thomas-Johnny Ringo), dies at 62
- :H
- - [Chad, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Zambia] African Freedom/Unity Day
- - [Jordan] Independence Day/Arab Renaissance Day (1946)
- :I
- 1085 - St Gregory VII, pope (1073-85), dies (birth date unknown)
- 1721 - John Copson becomes America's 1st insurance agent
- :0526
- :B
- 1689 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English essayist, feminist, eccentric
- 1799 - Alexander S Pushkin, Russia, writer (Eugene Onegin)
- :D
- 1933 - Jimmie Rodgers, country singer, dies at 35
- 1959 - Ed Walsh, baseball pitcher, dies at 78
- :H
- - [US] Memorial Day/Decoration Day, a legal holiday (1868)
- - [Virginia] Confederate Memorial Day (1868)
- :I
- 1736 - Battle of Ackia (La), British & Chickasaw Indians defeat the French
- 1781 - Bank of North America incorporated in Philadelphia
- :0527
- :B
- 1626 - William II, prince of Orange
- 1794 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, millionaire (B & O railroad)
- :D
- 1949 - Ropert L Ripley, cartoonist (Believe It or Not), dies at 55 in NY
- 1958 - Ainslie Pryor, actor (Adventures of Hiram Holiday), dies at 46
- :H
- - [Nicaragua] Army Day
- - [Nigeria] Children's Day
- :I
- 1813 - Americans capture Fort George, Canada
- 1844 - Samuel F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line
- :0528
- :B
- 1660 - George I, king of England (1714-27)
- 1738 - Dr Joseph Ignace Guillotin, guess what he invented
- :D
- 1898 - Edward Bellamy, US author ("Looking Backward"), died
- 1964 - John Finley Williamson, conductor (Westminster Choir), dies at 76
- :H
- - [US] Memorial Day/Decoration Day, a legal holiday (1868]
- - [Virginia] Confederate Memorial Day (1868)
- :I
- 1539 - Hernando de Soto lands in Florida
- 1664 - 1st Baptist Church organized (Boston)
- :0529
- :B
- 1736 - Patrick Henry, US, patriot "Give me liberty or give me death"
- 1826 - Ebenezer Butterick, inventor (tissue paper dress pattern)
- :D
- 1970 - John Gunther, author/host (John Gunther's High Road), dies at 68
- 1982 - Romy Schneider, actress, dies of cardiac arrest at 43
- :H
- - [Rhode Island] Ratification Day (1790)
- - [Wisconsin] Admission Day (1848)
- :I
- 1453 - Constantinople falls to Muhammad II (Turks); ends Byzantine Empire
- 1660 - Charles II restored to English throne after Puritan Commonwealth
- :0530
- :B
- 1757 - Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth (C), British PM (1801-04)
- 1835 - Alfred Austin, Leeds England, poet laureate of England (Garden)
- :D
- 1431 - Joan of Arc, burned as a witch by the English at Rouen at 19
- 1744 - Alexander Pope, poet, dies at 56
- :H
- - [Guam, Puerto Rico, US, US Virgin Islands] Memorial Day
- - [Lincoln City, Indiana] Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial Day
- :I
- 1527 - U of Marburg (Germany) founded
- 1814 - 1st Treaty of Paris, after Napoleon's 1st abdication
- :0531
- :B
- 1701 - Alexander Cruden, compiler of a concordance to King James Bible
- 1819 - Walt Whitman, West Hills, NY, poet (Leaves of Grass)
- :D
- 1740 - Frederick-William I, king of Prussia (1713-1740)
- 1809 - Franz Josef Hayden, composer, dies in Wien (Vienna) Austria
- :H
- - [Brunei] Royal Brunei Malay Regiment
- - [Namibia, South Africa] Union Day (1910), Republic Day (1961)
- :I
- 1790 - US copyright law enacted
- 1837 - New York's Astor Hotel opens ... most elaborate in US
- :0601
- :B
- 1801 - Brigham Young, religious leader (Mormon church)/polygamist
- 1804 - Mikhail Glinka, Novosspaskoye Russia, composer (Jota Aragonesa)
- :D
- 1864 - Solomon George Washington Dill, poor white ally of blacks,
- assassinated in his home by white terrorists in SC
- :H
- - [Kentucky-1792, Tennessee-1796] Statehood Day
- - [Kenya] Madaraka Day, a day to enjoy freedom
- :I
- of Scotland. Friar John Cor is the distiller
- 1638 - 1st earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Mass
- :0602
- :B
- 1740 - Marquis de Sade, 1st known sadist, writer (Justine)
- 1821 - Ion Bratianu, (Lib), premier of Romania (1876-88)
- :D
- 1941 - Lou Gehrig, Yankee great, dies at 37 of ALS in Riverdale NY
- 1943 - Leslie Howard, actor killed, when Nazis shot down his plane
- :H
- - [Iceland] Seaman's Day
- - [Italy-1946, West Germany] Republic (Constitution) Day
- :I
- 575 - Benedict I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 657 - St Eugene I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- :0603
- :B
- 1780 - William Hone, England, author/bookseller (The Every-Day Book)
- 1804 - Richard Cobden, founder Anti-Corn-Law League
- :D
- 1881 - Japanese giant salamander, dies in Dutch zoo at 55; oldest amphibian
- 1933 - William Muldoon, Belfast NY, boxing commissioner, dies at 88
- :H
- - [Massachusetts] Teachers' Day
- - [Ireland] Bank Day
- :I
- 1539 - Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain
- 1621 - Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands"
- :0604
- :B
- 1738 - George III, English king during American Revolution (1760-1820)
- 1867 - Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, Finland, military hero, Pres (1944-46)
- :D
- 1960 - Lucien Littlefield, actor (Mr Beasley-Blondie), dies at 64
- 1970 - Menasha Skulnik, comedian (Menasha the Magnificent), dies at 78
- :H
- - [Finland] Flag Day (1867)
- - [International] Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
- :I
- 1070 - Roquefort cheese created in a cave near Roquefort, France
- 1647 - British army seizes King Charles I as a prisoner
- :0605
- :B
- 1723 - Adam Smith, Kirkcaldy Scot, economist (Wealth of Nations) (baptized)
- 1819 - John Couch Adams, co-discover (Neptune)
- :D
- 1864 - Gen William E "Grumble" Jones, killed at Piedmont
- 1916 - Horatio H Kitchener, British General (Sudan), dies at 65
- :H
- - [Denmark] Constitution Day (1849, 1953)
- - [Massachusetts] Teachers' Day
- :I
- 1783 - Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public balloon flight
- 1794 - Congress prohibits citizens from serving in foreign armed forces
- :0606
- :B
- 1599 - Diego Velázquez, Spain, painter (Rokeby Venus) (baptized)
- 1606 - Pierre Corneille, France, dramatist (Le Cid, Horace)
- :D
- 1956 - Margaret Wycherly, actress (Claudia), dies at 75
- 1961 - Dr Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychatrist, dies at 85
- :H
- - [New Zealand] Queen's Birthday
- - [South Korea] Memorial Day
- :I
- 1639 - Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill
- 1813 - US invasion of Canada halted at Stoney Creek (Ont)
- :0607
- :B
- 1770 - Earl of Liverpool, (C) British PM (1812-27)
- 1778 - George Bryan "Beau" Brummel, London England, English dandy
- :D
- 1631 - Mumtax Mahal, wife of Shah Jahan of India, her tomb (Taj Mahal)
- 1862 - William Mumford, 1st US citizen hanged for treason
- :H
- - [Western Australia] Foundation Day (1838)
- - [Massachusetts] Teachers' Day
- :I
- 1614 - 2nd parliment of King James I, disolves passing no legislation
- 1654 - Louis XIV crowned king of France
- :0608
- :B
- 1810 - Robert Schumann, Zwickau Saxony Germany, composer (Fantastiestücke)
- 1813 - David D Porter, US Admiral (Civil War)
- :D
- 1809 - Thomas Paine, writer (Age of Reason, Common Sense), dies at 72
- 1969 - Robert Taylor, actor (Death Valley Days), dies at 57
- :H
- - [Massachusett] Children's Day
- - [Shelby, Mich] National Asparagus Festival
- :I
- 536 - St Silverius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 570 - Relgion of Islam (submission) founded in Mecca
- :0609
- :B
- 1781 - George Stephenson, inventor (principal RR locomotive)
- 1791 - John Howard Payne, US, author/actor/diplomat (Home Sweet Home)
- :D
- 1870 - Charles Dickens, author, dies in England
- 1897 - Alvin Graham Clark, dies 3 weeks after 1st use of Yerkes 40" lens
- :H
- - [Massachusett] Children's Day
- - [Shelby, Mich] National Asparagus Festival
- :I
- 1534 - Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of St Lawrence River
- 1628 - 1st deportation from what is now US, Thomas Morton from Mass
- :0610
- :B
- 1735 - John Morgan, American physician-in-chief of Continental Army
- 1819 - Gustave Courbet, France, realist painter (Funeral at Ornans)
- :D
- 1839 - Nathaniel Pryor, sgt of Lewis & Clark Expedition, dies
- 1903 - King Alexander I & Queen Dragia, of Serbia are assassinated
- :H
- - [Azores] Camoes Day (1580)
- - [Cape Verde, Maderia] National Day (1580)
- :I
- 1639 - 1st American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware)
- 1682 - Tornado in Connecticut uproots a 3' diameter oak tree
- :0611
- :B
- 1723 - J G Palitzsch, 1st saw Halley's comet on return, Prolitz
- 1776 - John Constable, England, landscape painter (Hay Wain)
- :D
- 1966 - Wallace Ford, actor (The Deputy), dies at 68
- 1970 - Frank Laubach, Benton Pa, taught reading through phonetics, dies
- :H
- - [Nepál] King's Birthday
- - [US] National Impressionists Day
- :I
- 1488 - Battle of Sauchieburn, Scotland
- 1517 - Sir Thomas Pert reached Hudson Bay
- :0612
- :B
- 1771 - Patrick Gass, Falling Springs PA, sgt of Lewis & Clark Expedition
- 1819 - Charles Kingsley, England, clergyman/novelist (Westward Ho!)
- :D
- 1963 - Medgar Evers, NAACP official, murdered in Jackson, Miss at 37
- 1972 - Saul David Alinsky, radical writer (John L Lewis), dies at 63
- :H
- - [Phillipines] Independence Day (1898)
- - [Turk & Cacios Island] Constitution Day
- :I
- 1665 - English rename New Amsterdam, New York, after Dutch pull out
- 1701 - Act of Settlement gives English crown to Sophia, Princess of Hanover
- :0613
- :B
- 823 - Charles II (the Bald), king of France (843-77), emperor (875-77)
- 1752 - Fanny Burney, England, author (Camille, Evelina)
- :D
- 1886 - King Ludwig II, of Bavaria drowns
- 1946 - Edward Bowes, radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour), dies at 71
- :H
- - [Massachusett] Children's Day
- - [Paraguay] Chaco Peace Day (1935)
- :I
- 1611 - John Fabricius dedicates earliest sunspot publication
- 1774 - Rhode Island becomes 1st colony to prohibit importation of slaves
- :0614
- :B
- 1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
- 1820 - John Bartlett, US, editor (compiled Familiar Quotations)
- :D
- 1828 - Charles, Duke of Prussia, dies at 70
- 1962 - Anna Sleasers, first Boston Strangler victim
- :H
- - [US] Flag Day (1777)
- - [Massachusett] Children's Day
- :I
- Cicely Jordan. He loses
- 1642 - 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts
- :0615
- :B
- 1767 - Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson, 1st lady
- 1843 - Edvard Grieg, Bergen Norway, composer (Bewitched One)
- :D
- 1467 - Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, dies at 76
- 1849 - James Knox Polk, the 11th US Pres, dies in Nashville, Tenn
- :H
- - [Denmark] Flag Day/Valdemar Day (1219)
- - [Idaho] Pioneer Day (1910)
- :I
- 1215 - King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, England
- 1219 - King Valdemar brought victory for Denmark
- :0616
- :B
- 1895 - Stan Laurel, comedian (Laurel & Hardy)
- 1899 - Nelson Doubleday, US, publisher (Doubleday)
- :D
- 1671 - Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader, tortured, executed in Moscow
- 1686 - -BC- Hammurabi the Great, dies in Babylon
- :H
- - [US] Father's Day (Remind the guy how much you care)
- :I
- 1567 - Mary Queen of Scots thrown into Lochleven Castle prison
- 1671 - Cossack rebel leader Stenka Razin tortured, executed in Moscow
- :0617
- :B
- 1703 - John Wesley, cofounded Methodist movement/author
- 1742 - William Hooper, signed Decl of Ind
- :D
- 1939 - Eugene Weldman, last guillotined in France
- 1961 - Jeff Chandler, actor, dies at 40
- :H
- - [Iceland] Republic Day (1944)
- - [Japan] Lily Festival
- :I
- 676 - Deusdedit III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1397 - Union of Kalmar established between Denmark, Sweden & Norway
- :0618
- :B
- 1799 - William Lassell, discoverer (satellites of Uranus & Neptune)
- 1812 - Ivan Goncharov, Russia, novelist/travel writer (Oblomov)
- :D
- 1974 - Georgi Zhukov, Russian Marshal (WW II), dies at 78
- 1975 - Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz, Saudi prince, beheaded in Riyadh
- :H
- - [US] Father's Day (Remind the guy how much you care)
- :I
- 5 Canterbury monks report explosion on the moon (only such
- observation known)
- :0619
- :B
- 1623 - Blaise Pascal, mathematician/physicist/religious writer
- 1764 - José Gervasio Artigas, general/father of Uruguay
- :D
- 1939 - Grace Abbott, social worker (US Children Bureau), dies at 60
- 1953 - Rosenbergs, executed at Sing Sing, Julius takes 3 tries, Ethel 5
- :H
- - [Kuwait] Independence Day (1961)
- - [Texas] Juneteenth Day/Emancipation Day (1865)
- :I
- 1586 - English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island NC
- 1754 - Albany Congress held by 7 British colonies & Iroquois indians
- :0620
- :B
- 1819 - Jacques Offenbach, Cologne, French composer (Tales of Hoffmann)
- 1868 - Helen Miller Shepard, philanthropist/established Hall of Fame
- :D
- 1947 - Benjamin `Buggsy' Siegel, gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal
- 1963 - Gordon Jones, actor (Mike the Cop-Abbott & Costello), dies at 52
- :H
- - [Senegal] Independence Day (1960)
- - [West Virginia] Admission Day (1863)
- :I
- 1567 - Jews are expelled from Brazil by order of regent Don Henrique
- 1632 - Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area
- :0621
- :B
- 1774 - Daniel D Tompkins, (D-R), 6th US vice-president (1817-25)
- 1851 - Daniel Carter Beard, US, organized 1st boy scout troop
- :D
- 1973 - Frank Leahy, football coach (Notre Dame), dies at 64
- :H
- - [New Hampshire] Ratification Day (1788)
- - [US] Father's Day (Remind the guy how much you care)
- :I
- 1607 - 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown
- 1633 - Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse, &
- :0622
- :B
- 1856 - H Rider Haggard, author (King Solomon's Mine, She)
- 1858 - Giacomo Puccini, Italy, operatic composer (Madama Butterfly)
- :D
- 1954 - Don Hollenbeck, newscaster (CBS Weekend News), dies at 49
- 1955 - Wyllis Cooper, TV narrator (Volume One), dies at 56
- :H
- - [El Salvador] School Teacher's Day/Día del Maestro
- - [Haiti] Sovereignty Day/President's Day
- :I
- 816 - Stephen IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1342 - Bilbo Baggins returns to his home at Bag End, (Shire Reconning)
- :0623
- :B
- 1846 - George Sax, inventor (the saxophone)
- 1848 - Antoine Joseph Sax, inventor (the saxophone)
- :D
- 1972 - Elton Britt, country singer (Sat Night Jamboree), dies at 54
- 1973 - Fay Holden, actress (Mother-Andy Hardy films), dies at 77
- :H
- - [Finland, Latvia, Scandinavia] Midsummer Eve/St John's Eve
- - [Luxembourg] Official birthday of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg
- :I
- in Pennsylvania; only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken"
- 1757 - Robert Clive defeats Indians at Plassey, wins control of Bengal
- :0624
- :B
- 1783 - Johann Heinrich von Thünen, economist/geographer/farmer
- 1797 - John Hughes, archbishop, founded Fordham University in the Bronx
- :D
- 1922 - Dr Walter Rathenau, German foreign minister killed by anti-semites
- 1971 - Kenneth Washington, actor (Sgt Baker-Hogan's Heroes), dies at 53
- :H
- - [Canada, PR] St John the Baptist/St Jean Baptiste Day/San Juan Day
- - [Europe] Midsummer Day
- :I
- 1314 - Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England
- 1322 - Jews are expelled from France
- :0625
- :B
- 1864 - Walther Hermann Nernst, Prussian physical chemist (Nobel 1920)
- 1865 - Robert Henri, US painter, leader of the Ashcan school
- :D
- 1906 - Architect Stanford White shot dead atop Madison Square Garden which
- he designed by Harry Thaw jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit
- :H
- - [Mozambique] Independence Day (1975)
- - [Virginia] Ratification Day (1788)
- :I
- 1178 - 5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on Moon
- 1630 - Fork introduced to American dining by Gov Winthrop
- :0626
- :B
- 1730 - Charles Messier, cataloguer of "M objects"
- 1742 - Arthur Middleton, signer Declaration of Independence
- :D
- 1938 - James Weldon Johnson, dies of injuries received in car crash
- 1967 - Francoise Dorléac, actress (That Man From Rio), dies at 35
- :H
- - [Newfoundland] Discovery Day (1497-John Cabot)
- :I
- 1483 - Richard III usurps English throne
- 1797 - Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to
- :0627
- :B
- 1550 - Charles IX, king of France (1560-74)
- 1682 - Charles XII, king of Sweden (1697-1718)
- :D
- 1844 - Joseph & Hyrum Smith, Mormon leaders killed by a mob in Carthage Ill
- 1973 - Ernest Truex, actor (Pop-Pete & Gladys, Mr Peepers), dies at 73
- :H
- - [Newfoundland] Discovery Day (1497-John Cabot)
- :I
- 1693 - 1st woman's magazine "The Ladies' Mercury" published (London)
- 1743 - English defeat French at Dettingen
- :0628
- :B
- 1491 - Henry VIII, of England (1509-47), Don't lose your head over him
- 1577 - Peter Paul Rubens, Siegen, Flemish Baroque painter (Circumcision)
- :D
- 1836 - James Madison, 4th US pres, dies in Montpelier, Va
- 1889 - Maria Mitchell, 1st US woman astronomer, dies at 71
- :H
- - [Iowa] Independence Sunday (1776)
- :I
- 1245 - 1st Council of Lyons (13th ecumenical council) opens
- 1635 - French colony of Guadeloupe established in the Caribbean
- :0629
- :B
- 1858 - George Washington Goethals, engineer (built Panama Canal)
- 1861 - William James Mayo, surgeon/co-founder Mayo clinic in Minnesota
- :D
- 1923 - General JC Gomez, Venezuala's 1st VP, assassinated
- 1941 - Ignace Paderewski, Polish statesman pianist, dies in NY at 80
- :H
- :I
- 1767 - British passes Townshend Revenue Act levying taxes on America
- 1776 - Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay
- :0630
- :B
- 1685 - John Gay, author (Baggars' Opera)
- 1768 - Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, 1st lady
- :D
- 1971 - 3 cosmonauts, die as Soyuz XI depressurizes during reentry
- 1973 - Elmer Layden, one of Notre Dame's legendary 4-horsemen, died
- :H
- - [Lybia] Troop Withdrawl Day
- - [Mongolia] Constitution Day
- :I
- 1294 - Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland
- 1607 - Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of Catholicism) published
- :0701
- :B
- 1788 - Jean-Victor Poncelet, mathematician, founded projective geometry
- 1804 - George Sand, France, novelist (Valentine, Le Figaro)
- :D
- 1979 - Richard Ward, actor (Beacon Hill), dies at 64
- 1981 - George Voskovec, actor (Fred-Nero Wolfe, Peter-Skag), dies at 76
- :H
- - [British Virgin Islands] Territory Day
- - [Burundi, Rwanda] Independence Day (1962)
- :I
- 1690 - Army of England's Protestant King William III defeats Roman
- Catholic King James II in Battle of the Boyne in Ireland
- :0702
- :B
- 1489 - Thomas Cranmer, England, archbishop/reformer/martyr
- 1714 - Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck, Erasbach Germany, composer
- :D
- 1644 - William Gascoigne, introduced telescopic sights, is killed at 24
- 1798 - John Fitch, American inventor, clockmaker, etc, dies
- :H
- - [Norway] King's Birthday
- - [Iowa] Independence Sunday
- :I
- 0195 - "Plan 9 From Outer Space," one of the worse films ever, premieres
- 1644 - Battle of Marston Moor; Parliamentary forces defeat royalists
- :0703
- :B
- 1567 - Samuel de Champlain, explorer (Lake Champlain)
- 1731 - Samuel Huntington, (Gov-Ct), Continental Congress pres
- :D
- 1971 - Jim Morrison, rocker (Doors), dies of heart failure in Paris
- 1978 - James Daly, actor (Medical Center), dies at 59
- :H
- - [Idaho] Admission Day (1890)
- - [Iowa] Independence Sunday
- :I
- 1608 - City of Québec founded by Samuel de Champlain
- 1754 - George Washington surrenders to French, Ft Necessity (7 Years' War)
- :0704
- :B
- 1753 - Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, 1st balloon flights in England, US
- 1807 - Giuseppe Garibaldi, unified Italy
- :D
- 1826 - John Adams & Thomas Jefferson, 2nd & 3rd presidents, die
- 1831 - James Monroe, 5th president, dies
- :H
- - [Cayman Islands] Constitution Day
- - [Hannibal Missouri] Tom Sawyer Fence painting Day
- :I
- 1636 - City of Providence, Rhode Island form
- 1653 - Barebones Parliment goes into session in England
- :0705
- :B
- 1794 - Sylvester Graham, developed graham cracker
- 1801 - David G Farragut, Knoxville Tenn, naval hero
- :D
- 1950 - Pvt Kenneth Shadrick, of WV becomes 1st US fatality in Korean War
- 1969 - Tom Mboya, economics minister, assassinated in Narobi Kenya
- :H
- - [Isle of Man] Tynwald Day (1266)
- - [Laos] Boun Festival
- :I
- 767 - [Constantine] begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1643 - 1st recorded tornado in US (Essex County, Massachusetts)
- :0706
- :B
- 1796 - Nicholas I, Russia, Tsar (1825-55)
- 1818 - Adolf Anderssen, Prussia, world chess champion (1851-66)
- :D
- 1415 - Jan Hus, burned for heresy by the Church at Constance, Germany
- 1476 - Regiomontanus, [Johannes Müller of Königsberg], dies
- :H
- - [Iowa] Independence Sunday
- - [Caribbean Common Market] Caribbean Day (1973)
- :I
- 1535 - Sir Thomas More executed in England for treason
- 1687 - Newton publishes "Principia"
- :0707
- :B
- 1843 - Camillo Golgi, Italy, physician, cytologist (Nobel 1906)
- 1851 - Lillien Jane Martin, psychologist. found gerontology clinic
- :D
- 1967 - Vivian Leigh, Scarlet in Gone with the Wind, dies at 53
- 1970 - Louise Harrison, mother of Beatle George, dies
- :H
- - [Equatorial Guinea] P.U.N.T. Anniversary
- - [Japan] Star Festival/Tanabata
- :I
- 1754 - Kings College in NYC opens (renamed Columbia College)
- 1768 - Firm of Johann Buddenbrook founded, in Thomas Mann's novel
- :0708
- :B
- 1839 - John D Rockefeller, US capitalist; founded Standard Oil
- 1867 - Käthe Kollwitz, Germany, print maker/sculptor (Bauernkrieg)
- :D
- 1957 - Grace Goodhue Coolidge, 1st lady, dies at 78
- 1957 - William Cadbury, chocolate maker, dies at 89
- :H
- - [South Africa] Family Day
- - [Swaziland] Reed Dance Day
- :I
- 1693 - NYC authorizes 1st police uniforms in American colonies
- 1709 - Battle of Poltava; Russians defeat Swedes
- :0709
- :B
- 1802 - Thomas Davenport, invented 1st coml electric motor
- 1819 - Elias Howe, Spencer Mass, invented sewing machine
- :D
- 1850 - Báb, [Bahá'í prophet] executed in Tabriz, Iran; Rahmat 16, 7
- 1850 - Zachary Taylor, 12th pres of US, dies in White House served 16 mo
- :H
- - [Morocco] Youth Day/King Hassan II's Birthday
- - [US] National POW/MIA Recognition Day
- :I
- 1595 - Johannes Kepler inscribes geometric solid construction of universe
- 1755 - Brit Gen E Braddock mortally wounded during French & Indian War
- :0710
- :B
- 1723 - Sir William Blackstone, England, jurist (Blackstone's Commentaries)
- 1792 - George Mifflin Dallas, (D) 11th VP (1845-49)
- :D
- 1863 - Clement Clarke Moore, ('Twas the Night Before Xmas), dies at 83
- 1884 - Paul Morphy, US chess wizard, dies
- :H
- - [Bahamas] Independence Day (1973)
- - [Wyoming] Statehood Day (1890)
- :I
- 1690 - Battle of Beachy Head-French fleet defeats Anglo-Dutch fleet
- 1775 - Horatio Gates, issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army
- :0711
- :B
- 1558 - Robert Greene, Elizabethan dramatist (Friar Bacon)
- 1754 - Thomas Bowdler, famous prude, bowdlerized Shakespeare
- :D
- 1804 - Alex Hamilton, killed by VP Aaron Burr in pistol duel near Weehawken
- 1909 - Simon Newcomb, celestial mechanics authority, dies
- :H
- - [Dahomey, Ivory Coast, Niger, Upper Volta] Independence Day (1960)
- - [Mongolia] National Day (1921)
- :I
- 1740 - Jews are expelled from Little Russia by order of Czarina Anne
- 1781 - Thomas Hutchins designated Geographer of the US
- :0712
- :B
- 1730 - Josiah Wedgewood, England, pottery designer/manufacturer
- 1817 - Henry David Thoreau, Concord Mass, naturalist/author/pacifist
- :D
- 1976 - Ted Mack, TV host (Original Amateur Hour), dies at 72
- 1977 - Ed Holmes, actor (Growing Paynes, Once Upon a Tune), dies at 66
- :H
- - [Northern Ireland] Orangeman's Day (1690) (7/1 OS)
- - [Rhodesia] Thodes Day
- :I
- 1290 - Jews are expelled from England by order of King Edward I
- 1543 - England's King Henry VIII weds Catherine Parr (6th & last wife)
- :0713
- :B
- 1527 - John Dee, London, alchemist/astrologer/mathematician
- 1793 - John Clare, Northamptonshire peasant poet (Shepard's Calendar)
- :D
- 1793 - Jean Paul Marat, French revolutionary, murdered by Charlotte Corday
- 1890 - John C Fremont, declared Republic of California, dies at 76
- :H
- - [Japan] Bon Festival starts
- - [Rhodesia] Founder's Day/Rhode's Day
- :I
- 574 - John III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1568 - Dean of St Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer
- :0714
- :B
- 1602 - Jules Mazarin, France, cardinal, French 1st Minister (1642-61)
- 1834 - James Abbott McNeill Whistler, artist (Whistler's Mother)
- :D
- 1958 - King Faisal II, PM of Iraq, assassinated at Baghdad
- 1968 - Westbrook Van Voorhis, announcer (March of Time), dies at 64
- :H
- - [Iran] Appointment of the Prophet
- - [Iraq] Republic Day (1958)
- :I
- 1771 - Mission San Antonio de Padua founded in California
- 1789 - Bastille Day-citizens of Paris storm Bastille prison
- :0715
- :B
- 1606 - Rembrandt van Rijn, Leiden, Netherlands, painter (Night Watch)
- 1701 - Pierre Joubert, became oldest known Canadian (113 y 124 d at death)
- :D
- 1881 - William "Billy the Kid" Bonney, killed by Pat Garrett
- 1940 - Robert Wadlow, world's tallest man (8'11.1"), dies at 32
- :H
- - [Japan] Bon Festival/Feast of Lanterns/Black Ship Day (1853)
- - [Pakistan] Mohammed's Ascension
- :I
- 1662 - Charles II grants charter to establish Royal Society in London
- 1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte captured
- :0716
- :B
- 1704 - John Kay, England, machinist, invented flying shuttle
- 1723 - Sir Joshua Reynolds, England, portrait painter (Simplicity)
- :D
- 1982 - Patrick Dewaere, actor, dies at 35 of self-inflicted gunshot wound
- 1984 - Billy Williams, singer (Your Show of Shows), dies at 73
- :H
- - [Wash DC] District of Columbia Day (1790)
- :I
- 622 - Origin of the Islamic Era (Muharram 1, 1 AH)
- 1212 - Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Moslem power in Spain
- :0717
- :B
- 1674 - Isaac Watts, England, writer/preacher/hymnist (Horae Lyrican)
- 1744 - Elbridge Gerry, (DR) 5th VP (Mass-Gov), invented gerrymandering
- :D
- 1946 - Mikhailovich, resistance leader, executed by Tito regime
- 1959 - Billie Holiday, blues singer, dies of liver failure at 44 in NYC
- :H
- - [Korea] Constitution Day
- - [Puerto Rico] Muñoz Rivera Day (1859)
- :I
- 855 - St Leo IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1549 - Jews are expelled from Ghent Belgium
- :0718
- :B
- 1720 - Gilbert White, "father of British naturalists"
- 1796 - Feargus O'Connor, County Cork, leader of the English Chartists
- :D
- 1650 - Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer, dies at 74
- 1899 - Horatio Alger Jr, American clergyman & author, dies
- :H
- - [Uruguay] Constitution Day/Jura de la Constitución (1951)
- :I
- 390 - -BC- Battle of Allia-Gauls inflict heavy casualties on Romans
- 1536 - Pope's authority declared void in England
- :0719
- :B
- 1817 - Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, US, army nurse (union)
- 1834 - Edgar Degas, France, impressionist painter (Bouquet)
- :D
- 1958 - Robert Earl Hughes, weighed 1,041 lbs (473 kg), dies at 32
- 1964 - Carol Veazie, actress (Maude-Norby), dies at 69
- :H
- - [Laos] Independence Day (1949)
- :I
- 532 - Start of Dionysian Pascal Cycle
- 1321 - -BC- origin of Era of Menophres
- :0720
- :B
- 1519 - Innocent IX, 230th Roman Catholic pope (1591)
- 1785 - Mahmud II, Ottoman sultan, Westernizer, reformer
- :D
- 1954 - Blair Moody, (Sen-Mich), dies at 52
- 1957 - Phil Hanna, singer (Once Upon a Tune), dies at 46
- :H
- :I
- 1773 - Scottish settlers arrive at Pictou, Nova Scotia (Canada)
- 1810 - Colombia declared independence from Spain
- :0721
- :B
- 1816 - Paul Julius Baron von Reuter, founded Reuters news service
- 1856 - Louise Blanchard Bethune, 1st US woman architect
- :D
- 1948 - Arshile Gorky, abstract expressionist, dies at 43
- 1957 - Bernard Spooner, US inventor of bulletproof jacket, dies
- :H
- - [Bhutan] 3rd King of Bhutan's Death
- - [Bolivia] Martyr's Day
- :I
- 1588 - English fleet defeats Spanish armada
- 1831 - Belgium gains independence from Netherland, Leopold I made king
- :0722
- :B
- 1822 - Gregor Mendel, monk/geneticist, discoverer of the laws of heredity
- 1844 - Rev William Archibald Spooner, London, invented "spoonerisms"
- :D
- 1802 - Marie-François-Xavier Bichat, a founder of histology, dies
- 1826 - Giuseppe Piazzi, discoverer of 1st asteroid, dies
- :H
- - [Poland] Liberation Day (1944)
- - [Swaziland] King's Birthday
- :I
- 1298 - English defeat Scots at Battle of Falkirk
- 1587 - 2nd English colony established on Roanoke Island off NC
- :0723
- :B
- 1834 - James Cardinal Gibbons, archbishop of Baltimore
- 1853 - William H Gillette, actor, portrayed Sherlock Holmes on stage
- :D
- 1885 - Ulysses S Grant, 18th US pres, dies in Mount McGregor, NY, at 63
- 1951 - Henri Philippe Pétain, dies
- :H
- - [Virgin Islands] Hurricane Supplication Day
- :I
- 685 - John V begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1253 - Jews are expelled from Vienne France by order of Pope Innocent III
- :0724
- :B
- 1802 - Alexandre Dumas Père, France, author (3 Musketeers)
- 1802 - Ira Aldridge, famous African
- :D
- 1954 - Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90
- 1966 - Montgomery Clift, actor, dies at 45
- :H
- - [Ecuador, Venezuala] Bolivar Day (1783)
- - [Idaho, Utah] Pioneer Day (1847)
- :I
- 1673 - Edmund Halley enters Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate
- 1683 - 1st settlers from Germany to US, leave aboard the Concord
- :0725
- :B
- 1575 - Christoph Scheiner, Germany, astronomer
- 1775 - Anna Symmes Harrison, 1st lady
- :D
- 1934 - Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian chancellor assassinated by nazis
- 1959 - Dr Isaac Halevi Herzog, chief rabbi of Israel (1936-59), dies at 71
- :H
- - [Luiza Puerto Rico] Fiest of Santiago Apóstal
- - [Netherlands] Independence Day
- :I
- 1593 - France's Protestant King Henri IV converts to Roman Catholic
- 1670 - Jews are expelled from Vienna Austria
- :0726
- :B
- 1796 - George Catlin, US, author/painter of American Indian scenes
- 1799 - Isaac Babbitt, invented babbitt's metal for bearings
- :D
- 1925 - William Jennings Bryan, jurist, dies
- 1941 - Marx Dormoy, French socialist, killed by a time bomb
- :H
- - [Cuba] Anniversary of Moncada Barricks attack (1953)
- - [Liberia] Independence Day (1847)
- :I
- 1788 - New York becomes 11th state to ratify constitution
- 1788 - Sydney, Australia settled by British colonists
- :0727
- :B
- 1801 - George Biddle Airyy, 7th Astronomer Royal
- 1824 - Alexandre Dumas fils, France, playwright/novelist (Camille)
- :D
- 1974 - Lightning Slim, blues singer, dies at 61
- 1976 - Ray Brennan, becomes 1st to, die of "Legionnaire's Disease"
- :H
- - [Virgin Islands] Hurricane Supplication Day
- - [Gilroy, California] Garlic Festival
- :I
- 1501 - Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral
- 1586 - Sir Walter Raleigh brings 1st tobacco to England from Virginia
- :0728
- :B
- 1165 - Ibn al-'Arabi, Muslim mystic/philosopher
- 1746 - Thomas Heyward, soldier, signed Decl of Ind
- :D
- 1655 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist/novelist, dies in Paris
- 1794 - Maximilien Robespierre, Fr revolutionary/avocat (1781), guillotined
- :H
- - [San Marino] Fall of Facism Day (1943)
- - [US] Joseph Lee Day-honors playgrounds (1937)
- :I
- 1588 - Spanish Armada sails to overthrow England's Queen Elizabeth I
- 1609 - Admiral George Somers settles in Bermuda
- :0729
- :B
- 1869 - Booth Tarkington, US, novelist (17, Magnificent Ambersons)
- 1871 - [Gregory Efimovich] Rasputin, the mad Russian monk
- :D
- 1164 - King Olaf, of Norway, dies
- 1890 - Vincent Van Gogh, dies in Auvers, France
- :H
- - [Gilroy, California] Garlic Festival
- :I
- 1715 - 10 Spanish treasure galleons sunk off Florida coast by hurricane
- 1751 - 1st international world title prize fight-Jack Stack of England,
- :0730
- :B
- 1818 - Emily Brontë, England, novelist (Wuthering Heights)
- 1855 - James Edward Kelly, US, sculptor "Sculptor of American History"
- :D
- 1980 - Charles McGraw, actor (Michael-Falcon, Smith Family), dies at 66
- 1983 - Howard Deitz, MGM executive, dies at 86 of Parkinson's disease
- :H
- - [France] Marseillaise Day (1792)
- - [Thailand] Asalha Puja
- :I
- 657 - St Vitalian begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1619 - House of Burgesses Virginia formed, 1st elective US governing body
- :0731
- :B
- 1803 - John Ericsson, US, invented screw propeller, built USS Monitor
- 1841 - George Melville, polar explorer, naval engineer
- :D
- 1811 - Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican hero priest, executed by Spanish
- 1875 - Andrew Johnson, 17th pres, dies in Tennessee at 66
- :H
- - [Gilroy, California] Garlic Festival
- :I
- 768 - [Philip] begins & ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1498 - Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad
- :0801
- :B
- 126 - Publius Helvius Pertinax, Roman emperor (193 AD)
- 1744 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, believed in inheritance of acquired traits
- :D
- 1957 - Harvey Glatmin, first bondage-photo victim
- 1983 - Peter Arne, actor, bludgeon to death in London at 62
- :H
- - [China PR] Army Day
- - [Dahomey/Benin] Independence Day (1960)
- :I
- 1619 - 1st black Americans (20) land at Jamestown, Virginia
- 1716 - 1st sculling race (London Bridge to Chelsea)
- :0802
- :B
- 1754 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, France, architect laid out Wash DC
- 1832 - Henry Steel Olcott, 1st president of Theosophical Society
- :D
- 1876 - Wild Bill Hickok, shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while
- poker. He held a pair of Aces & a pair of 8's
- :H
- - [Grenada] Emancipation Day
- - [Lesotho] National Tree Planting Day
- :I
- 640 - Severinus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 686 - John V ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- :0803
- :B
- 1811 - Elisha Graves Otis, inventor (safe elevator)
- 1851 - Lady Isabella Caroline Somerset, temperance leader
- :D
- 1966 - Lenny Bruce, comedian, dies of a morphine overdose
- :H
- - [Niger] Independence Day (1960)
- - [Tunisia] Bourguiba's Birthday (1902)
- :I
- 1678 - Robert LaSalle builds 1st ship in America, Griffon
- 1852 - 1st intercollegiate rowing race, Harvard beats Yale by 4 lengths
- :0804
- :B
- 1792 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, England, romantic poet (Adonais)
- 1823 - Oliver Perry Morton, (Gov-Ind)
- :D
- 1526 - Juan Sebastiàn Cano, Spanish explorer, dies
- 1891 - George Washington Williams, dies at 41 in Blackpool England
- :H
- - [Trinidad & Tobago] Discovery Day (1498)
- - [US] Coast Guard Day (1790)
- :I
- 1578 - Battle of Alcazarquivir, Morrocans defeat Portugeese
- 1693 - Dom Perignon invents champagne
- :0805
- :B
- 1604 - John Eliot, "Apostle to Indians," Bible translator
- 1624 - William, Jamestown Va, 1st black child born in English America
- :D
- 1959 - Edgar Guest, newspaperman, dies at 77
- 1961 - Sir Sidney Holland, PM of New Zealand (1949-57), dies at 67
- :H
- - [Upper Volta] Independence Day/Burkina Faso (1960)
- - [Arizona, Michigan] American Family Day
- :I
- 1583 - Gilbert claims Newfoundland (1st English colony in North America)
- 1772 - 1st partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia
- :0806
- :B
- 1697 - Charles VII, Holy Roman emperor (1742-45)
- 1809 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet laureate of England
- :D
- 1914 - Ellen Wilson, Pres Wilson's wife, dies at 54
- 1964 - Sir Cedric Hardwicke, actor (Capt Hook-Peter Pan), dies at 71
- :H
- - [Bolivia] Independence Day (1825)
- - [Hiroshima, Japan] Peace Festival at Peace Memorial Park (1945)
- :I
- 523 - St Hormisdas ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 768 - [Constantine] ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- :0807
- :B
- 1598 - Georg Stiernhielm, "father of Swedish poetry" (Hercules)
- 1742 - Nathanael Greene, American Revoluntionary War General
- :D
- 1957 - Oliver Hardy, comedian of Laurel & Hardy, dies at 65
- 1969 - Russ Morgan, orch leader (Welcome Aboard), dies at 65
- :H
- - [Ivory Coast/Côte d'Ivoire] Independence Day (1760)
- - [Trinidad & Tobago] Discovery Day (1498)
- :I
- 1498 - Columbus arrives in Caribbean
- 1620 - Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft
- :0808
- :B
- 1865 - Matthew A Henson, famous African
- 1879 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, peasant leader
- :D
- 1961 - Charlie Gemora, actor who portrayed King Kong, dies at 58
- 1975 - Julian "Cannonball" Alderly, sax player, dies of a stroke
- :H
- - [Ivory Coast] Independence Day (1960)
- - [Nepal] Tij Day- Woman's holiday
- :I
- 1609 - Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope
- 1709 - 1st known ascent in hot-air balloon, Bartolomeu de Gusmao (indoors)
- :0809
- :B
- 1686 - Benedetto Marcello, Venice Italy, composer (Lettera Famigliare)
- 1776 - Amedeo Avogadro, Tuin Italy, 6.022 x 10 ^ 23 (Avogadro's Law)
- :D
- 1969 - George P Marshall, president of Washington Redskins, dies at 72
- 1969 - Sharon Tate, actress, killed by Charles Manson's gang
- :H
- - [Libya] Sanusi Army Day
- - [Rhode Island] Victory Day
- :I
- 480 - -BC- Persia defeats Spartan king Leonidas at Thermopylae
- 1638 - Jonas Bronck of Holland becomes 1st European settler in the Bronx
- :0810
- :B
- 1865 - Alexander Glazunov, St Petersburg Russia, composer (Chopiniana)
- 1869 - Lawrence Binyon, Vienna Austria, writer (Symbolic Wounds)
- :D
- 1945 - Robert Goddard, father of American rocketry, dies
- 1962 - Ted Husing, sportscaster (Monday Night Fights), dies at 60
- :H
- - [Missouri] Admission Day (1821)
- - [Italy] Palio Del Golfo (2nd Sunday)
- :I
- 1519 - Magellan's 5 ship set sail to circumnavigate the Earth
- 1680 - In N Mex, Popé leads rebellion of Pueblo Indians against Spaniads
- :0811
- :B
- 1823 - Charlotte Mary Yonge, England, writer (Heir of Redclyffe)
- 1837 - Sadi Carnot, engineer, French president (1887-94); assassinated
- :D
- 1973 - Peggy Castle, actress (Lily Merrill-Lawman), dies at 46
- 1982 - Tom Drake, actor, dies of lung cancer at 63
- :H
- - [Jordan] Coronation Day/Accession of King Hussein
- - [Italy] Palio Del Golfo (2nd Sunday)
- :I
- 1780 - Barbados hurricane begins
- 1835 - George B Airy begins 46-year reign as England's Astronomer Royal
- :0812
- :B
- 1757 - ALF, alien life form (ALF)
- 1762 - George IV, king of England (1820-30)
- :D
- :H
- - [Massachusetts, Oklahoma] Indian Day
- - [Texas] Pioneer' Day
- :I
- 1508 - Ponce de León arrives in Puerto Rico
- 1553 - Pope Julius III orders confiscation & burning of the Talmud
- :0813
- :B
- 1655 - Johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet)
- 1802 - Nikolaus Lenau, Hungary, German poet (Faust, Die Albigenser)
- :D
- 1982 - Charles Walters, director, dies at 68
- 1982 - Joe E Ross, comedian (Toody-Car 54, Phil Silvers Show), dies at 77
- :H
- - [Italy] Palio Del Golfo (2nd Sunday)
- - [Zambia] Youth Day
- :I
- 1521 - Spanish conquerors captured Mexico City from Aztecs
- 1642 - Christiaan Huygens discovers Martian south polar cap
- :0814
- :B
- 1860 - Ernest T Seton, naturalist/painter/author (Buffalo Wind-1938)
- 1867 - John Galsworthy, England, author (Forsyte Saga-Nobel 1932)
- :D
- 1951 - William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher, dies in Beverly Hills
- 1958 - Gladys L Presley, mom of Elvis, dies at 46
- :H
- - [Bahrain] Independence Day (1971)
- - [Chicago] Bud Billiken Day-honors children (1923)
- :I
- 1248 - Construction of Cologne Cathedral begun
- 1385 - Portuguese defeat Castilians at Aljubarrota, retain independence
- :0815
- :B
- 1688 - Frederick-William I, king of Prussia (1713-1740)
- 1769 - Napoleon Bonaparte, resident of Elba (emperor 1804-13, 1814-15)
- :D
- 1975 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahiman, of Bangladesh killed in a military coup
- 1983 - Anthony Costello, actor, dies at 42
- :H
- - [Costa Rica] Mother's Day
- - [Grenada, Liechtenstein, Corsica] National Day
- :I
- 1519 - Panama City founded
- 1535 - Asunción, Paraguay founded
- :0816
- :B
- 1862 - Amos Alonzo Stagg, football pioneer, inventor (tackling dummy)
- 1863 - Gabriel Pierné, Metz France, composer (Edith)
- :D
- 1920 - Norman Lockyer, editor of NATURE, discoverer of helium in Sun, dies
- 1948 - Babe Ruth, Baseball legend, dies in NY at 53
- :H
- - [Dominican Republic] Restoration Day (1963)
- - [Liechtenstein] Prince Franz-Josef II Day
- :I
- 1777 - Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington, Vt
- 1780 - British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden, SC
- :0817
- :B
- 1786 - Davy Crockett, US, frontiersman/adventurer/politician
- 1840 - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, England, writer (Irish Land League)
- :D
- 1920 - Ray Chapman, hit in the head by Yanks' Carl Mays pitch, dies
- 1971 - Horace McMahon, actor (Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 64
- :H
- - [India] Janmashtami
- - [Indonesia-1945, Gabon-1960] Independence Day
- :I
- 1787 - Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups
- 1807 - Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River
- :0818
- :B
- 1587 - Virginia Dare, 1st American born of English parents
- 1685 - Brook Taylor, England, mathematician, discoverer of Taylor's Theorem
- :D
- 1952 - Ralph Byrd, actor (Dick Tracy TV Show), dies at 43
- 1959 - Harvey Glatmin, executed
- :H
- - [Mich] Montrose-Blueberry Festival
- :I
- 1686 - Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus
- 1817 - Gloucester, Mass, newspapers tells of wild sea serpent seen offshore
- :0819
- :B
- 1631 - John Dryden, 1st poet laureate of England (Absalom & Achitophel)
- 1646 - John Flamsteed, 1st astronomer royal of England
- :D
- 1493 - Frederick III, Innsbruck Austria, German Emperor (1440-1493)
- 1962 - Kerstin Hesselgren, 1st woman in Swedish parliament, dies at 90
- :H
- - [US] National Aviation Day (1939)
- - [Hawaii] Admission Day (1959)
- :I
- 1099 - Crusaders beat Saracens in Battle of Ascalon
- 1263 - King James I or Argon censors Hebrew writings
- :0820
- :B
- 1785 - Oliver Hazard Perry, US Naval hero ("We have met the enemy")
- 1833 - Benjamin Harrison, North Bend, Ohio (R) 23rd Pres (1889-1893)
- :D
- 1914 - Pope Pius X, dies
- 1915 - Paul Ehrlich, scientist, dies in Hamburg at 61
- :H
- - [Senegal] Independence Day (1960)
- - [Hawaii] Admission Day (1959)
- :I
- 1852 - Steamer "Atlantic" collided with fishing boat, sinks with 250 aboard
- 1865 - Pres Johnson proclaims an end to "insurrection" in Tx
- :0821
- :B
- 1660 - Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building
- 1765 - William IV, king of England (1830-37)
- :D
- 1971 - George Jackson, murdered
- 1982 - Benigno S Aquino Jr, Philippines opposition leader, killed in Manila
- :H
- - [Mich] Montrose-Blueberry Festival
- :I
- 1680 - Pueblo Indians took possession of Santa Fé from Spanish
- 1831 - Nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia)
- :0822
- :B
- 1862 - Claude Debussy, St Germain-en-Laye, composer (La Mer, Clair de lune)
- 1891 - Francis McDonald, Bowling Green Ky, actor (Will-Adv of Champion)
- :D
- 1922 - Michael Collins, Sinn Fein leader, killed by rebels
- 1926 - Charles William Elliot, Pres of Harvard (1869-1909), dies at 92
- :I
- 1454 - Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus
- 1485 - Richard III slain at Bosworth Field-last of Plantagenets
- :0823
- :B
- 1785 - Oliver Hazard Perry, naval hero
- 1869 - James (Sunny Jim) Rolph, SF mayor (1912-31), MUNI backer
- :D
- 1926 - Rodolpho Alfonzo Rafaello Pietro Filiberto Guglieimi Di Valentina
- 1927 - Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti, executed in Mass
- :H
- - [Swaziland] Umhlanga Day
- :I
- 1833 - Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed
- 1838 - Mt Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) 1st graduating class
- :0824
- :B
- 1591 - Robert Herrick, England, poet (Gather ye rosebuds) (baptized)
- 1759 - Wilbur Wilberforce, England, crusaded against slavery
- :D
- 1973 - Billy Greene, actor (Burton-One Man's Family), dies at 76
- 1983 - Jack Somack, actor (Ball Four, Stockard Channing Show), dies at 64
- :H
- - [Sierra Leone] President's Birthday
- :I
- 410 - Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire
- 1572 - King Charles IX orders massacre of thousands of French Protestants
- :0825
- :B
- 1724 - George Stubbs, England, animal painter (House Frightened by Lion)
- 1819 - Allan Pinkerton, founded Chicago detective agency
- :D
- 1822 - William Herschel, discovered Uranus, dies at 85
- 1835 - Ann Rutledge, said to be Lincoln's true love, dies in Ill at 22
- :H
- - [Paraguay] Constitution Day (1967)
- - [Uruguay] Independence Day (1825)
- :I
- 1609 - Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers
- 1689 - Montréal taken by Iroquois
- :0826
- :B
- 1728 - Johann Lambert, Switzerland, mathematician, proved π is irrational
- 1740 - Joseph Montgolfier, France, aeronaut (ballooning)
- :D
- 1966 - Art Baker, TV host (You Asked For It), dies at 67
- 1974 - Charles Lindbergh, dies at 72 in his Hawaiian home
- :H
- - [Namibia] Namibia Day
- - [US] Women's Equality Day (1973)/Susan B Anthony Day (1920)
- :I
- 1346 - English longbows defeat French in Battle of Crécy
- 1629 - Cambridge Agreement, Mass Bay Co stockholders agree to emigrate
- :0827
- :B
- 1809 - Hannibal Hamlin, (R) 15th VP (1861-65)
- 1865 - Charles Gates Dawes, (R) 30th VP (1925-29, Nobel 1925)
- :D
- 1635 - Lope Felix de Vega, dramatist/poet (Angelica, Arcadia), dies at 72
- 1840 - William Kneass, 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40), dies in office
- :H
- - [Hong Kong] Liberation Day (1945)
- :I
- 1665 - "Ye Bare & Ye Cubb" is 1st play performed in N America (Acomac, Va)
- 1667 - Earliest recorded hurricane in US (Jamestown Virginia)\=
- :0828
- :B
- 1749 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Frankfurt, social philosopher (Faust)
- 1774 - Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, 1st American Catholic saint
- :D
- 1955 - Emmett Till, kidnapped & lynched at 14, in Money Mississippi
- 1961 - Thomas Connolly, 1st baseball umpire elected to hall of fame, dies
- :H
- - [Jordon] Arab Renaissance Day
- - [Laos]
- :I
- 1655 - New Amsterdam & Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service
- 1776 - Battle of Long Island
- :0829
- :B
- 1780 - Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (Valpincon Bather)
- 1811 - Henry Bergh, 1st president of SPCA
- :D
- 1533 - Atahualpa, last Incan King of Peru, murdered by Spanish conquerors
- 1769 - Edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown)
- :H
- - [England, Channel Is, Northern Ireland, Wales] Bank Holiday
- - [Hong Kong] Liberation Day (1945)
- :I
- 1526 - Hungary conquered by Turks in Battle of Mohács
- 1708 - Haverhill, Mass destroyed by French & Indians
- :0830
- :B
- 1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, London England, author (Frankenstein)
- 1837 - Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, wife of president Chester A Arthur
- :D
- 1483 - Louis XI, king of France (1461-83), dies at 60
- 1879 - John B Hood, confederate general (lost Atlanta), dies at 48
- :H
- - [Gibraltar] Bank Holiday
- - [Turkey] Victory Day (1922)
- :I
- 257 - St Sixtus II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1645 - Dutch & Indians sign peace treaty
- :0831
- :B
- 1811 - Théophile Gautier, Tarbas France, writer/poet (Albertus)
- 1834 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Paderno Italy, composer (I Lituani)
- :D
- 1688 - John Bunyan, preacher/novelist/author of "Pilgrim's Progress,", dies
- 1879 - William Barber, 6th US chief engraver (1844-79), dies
- :H
- - [Malaysia] Malaysia Day (1957)
- - [Trinidad & Tobago] Independence Day (1962)
- :I
- 1772 - Hurricane destroy ships off Dominica
- 1778 - British kill 17 Stockbridge indians in the Bronx during Revolution
- :0901
- :B
- 1854 - Engelbert Humperdinck, Germany, opera composer (Parisfal)
- 1864 - Sir Roger David Casement, Ireland, martyr (IRA)
- :D
- 1557 - Jacques Cartier, French explorer, dies (birth date unknown)
- 1648 - Marin Mersenne, French mathematician, dies at 59
- :H
- - [Lybia, Egypt] Revolution Day (1969)
- - [Malaysia] National Day
- :I
- 312 - -BC- Origin of Greek Era-Start of Indiction of Constantinople
- 891 - Northmen defeated near Louvaine, France
- :0902
- :B
- 1839 - Henry George, land reformer/writer (Progress & Poverty)
- 1850 - Albert Spaulding, baseball player/founded Spaulding sports company
- :D
- 1937 - Baron Pierre de Coubertin, revivor of Olympics, dies at 74
- 1970 - Allan Walker, actor/writer (Red Buttons Show), dies at 64
- :H
- - [Namibia, South Africa] Settlers' Day
- - [US, Canada, Guam, Virgin Islands] Labor Day (1894)
- :I
- 1666 - Great Fire of London starts; destroys St Paul's Church
- 1752 - Last day of Julian calendar in Britain, British colonies
- :0903
- :B
- 1757 - Charles X, Versailles France, Duke of Prussia
- 1803 - Prudence Crandall, founded school for "young ladies of colour"
- :D
- 1658 - James I, king of England (1603-25), dies at 92
- 1658 - Lord Oliver Cromwell, British king (1653-58), dies at 59
- :H
- - [Qatar] Independence Day (1971)
- - [San Marino] Founding Day
- :I
- 1189 - England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) crowned in Westminster
- 1189 - King Richard I (Lionhearted) coronated in London
- :0904
- :B
- 1768 - François René de Chateaubriand, France, poet/novelist/statesman
- 1802 - Marcus Whitman, missionary, led to US securing Oregon
- :D
- 1965 - Albert Schweitzer, dies
- 1975 - Walter Tetley, voice (Sherman-Bullwinkle Show), dies at 60
- :H
- - [US, Canada, Guam, Virgin Islands] Labor Day (1894)
- :I
- 476 - Romulus Augustulus, last Roman emperor in west, is deposed
- 1609 - Navigator Henry Hudson discovers island of Manhattan (or 0911)
- :0905
- :B
- 1638 - Louis XIV, the great, king of France (1643-1715)
- 1735 - Johann Christian Bach, composer, son of JS Bach (English Bach)
- :D
- 1980 - Barbara Loden, actress (Ernie Kovacs Show), dies at 48
- 1981 - Ayatollah Ali Qoddusi, prosecutor-general of Iran, assassinated
- :H
- - [Namibia, South Africa] Settlers' Day
- - [US, Canada, Guam, Virgin Islands] Labor Day (1894)
- :I
- 1781 - Battle of Virginia Capes, French defeat British, traps Cornwallis
- 1795 - US-Algiers sign peace treaty
- :0906
- :B
- 1757 - Marquis de Lafayette, American patriot, French revolutionary
- 1766 - John Dalton, chemist, developed atomic theory of matter
- :D
- 1901 - Pres William McKinley, assassinated by Leon Czologosz in Buffalo, NY
- 1939 - Arthur Racham, artist, dies at 71
- :H
- - [Swaziland] Somhlolo Day/Independence Day (1968)
- - [Namibia, South Africa] Settlers' Day
- :I
- 1628 - Puritans land at Salem, from Mass Bay Colony, witches soon to settle
- 1839 - Great fire in NY
- :0907
- :B
- 1707 - George-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, writer on natural history
- 1726 - François-André Philidor, France, chess champion/musician
- :D
- 1655 - Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist/poet, dies (birth date unknown)
- 1909 - Eugène Lefebvre, dies test piloting a Wright A aircraft
- :H
- - [US] National Grandparents' Day
- - [Namibia, South Africa] Settlers' Day
- :I
- 1800 - Zion AME Church dedicated (NYC)
- 1822 - Brazil declares independence from Portugal (National Day)
- :0908
- :B
- 1474 - Ludovico Ariosto, Italy, poet (Orlando Furioso)
- 1830 - Frédéric Mistral, Provençal poet (Nobel 1904)
- :D
- 1935 - Huey P Long, (Sen-La) assassinated at Baton Rouge Capitol building
- 1965 - Dorothy Danridge, actress, dies at 41 in Hollywood
- :H
- - [Guinea-Bissau] Independence Day (1974)
- - [Lichfield, England] Sheriff's Ride Ceremony (1533)
- :I
- 1522 - Spanish navigator Juan de Elcano returns to Spain, completes 1st
- 1553 - City of Lichfield, England established
- :0909
- :B
- 1789 - William Cranch Bond, US, astronomer, codiscovered Hyperion
- 1828 - Leo Tolstoy, Russia, novelist (War & Peace, Anna Karenina)
- :D
- 1817 - Paul Cuffe, entrepreneur/ civil rights activist, dies at 58
- 1962 - Pat Rooney, vaudevillian, dies at 82
- :H
- - [California] Admission Day (1850)
- - [Italy] Salerno Day-Allied landing (1943)
- :I
- 1513 - Battle of Flodden Fields; English defeat James IV of Scotland
- 1739 - Slave revolt in Stono SC led by Jemmy (25 whites killed)
- :0910
- :B
- 1736 - Carter Braxton, signed Decl of Ind
- 1753 - Sir John Soane, England, architect (Soane Museum)
- :D
- 1842 - Letitia Tyler, Pres Tyler's wife, dies at 51
- 1961 - Leo Carrillo, actor who portrayed Pancho on Cisco Kid, dies at 81
- :H
- - [Hispanics] National Hispanic Heritage Week
- - [US] National Grandparents' Day
- :I
- 1608 - John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va
- 1776 - George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers
- :0911
- :B
- 1862 - O Henry, pen name of William Sidney Porter, short story writer
- 1877 - Sir James Jeans, England, physicist/mathematician/astronomer
- :D
- 1948 - Quaid-i-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah, dies
- 1959 - Paul Douglas, actor (Adventure Theater), dies at 52
- :H
- - [Korea]
- - [Pakistan] Jinnah Day (1948)
- :I
- 1709 - English, Dutch & Austrians defeat French in Battle of Malplaquet
- 1773 - Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace."
- :0912
- :B
- 1818 - Richard Jordan Gatling, US, inventor (hand-cranked machine gun)
- 1829 - Charles Dudley Warner, Mass, newspaperman/author (Being a Boy)
- :D
- 1972 - William Boyd, cowboy (Hopalong Cassidy), dies at 77
- 1977 - Steven Biko, S African black student leader, dies in police custody
- :H
- - [Japan] Respect for the Aged Day
- - [Maryland] Defenders Day (1812)
- :I
- 1609 - Henry Hudson discovers Hudson River
- 1649 - Drogheda, Ireland falls to Puritan troops; inhabitants massacred
- :0913
- :B
- 1755 - Oliver Evans, pioneered high-pressure steam engine
- 1819 - Clara Schumann (née Wieck), Leipzig, Germany, pianist/composer
- :D
- 1598 - Philip II, King of Spain (1556-98), dies at 71
- 1759 - James Wolfe, British general (Plains of Abraham), dies at 32
- :H
- - [Rhodesia] Pioneer Day (1923)
- - [World] Dante Alighieri Day
- :I
- 604 - Sabinian begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1625 - Rabbi Isiah Horowith & 15 other rabbis arrested in Jerusalem
- :0914
- :B
- 1864 - Lord Cecil of Chelwood, UK, help form League of Nations (Nobel 1937)
- 1867 - Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator, drew "Gibson Girl"
- :D
- 1836 - Aaron Burr, 3rd VP, dies
- 1852 - Arthur Wellesley, General/Duke of Wellington, dies at 83
- :H
- - [Nicaragua] Battle of San Jacinto (1856)
- - [Pakistan] Jamat Ul-Wida
- :I
- 1716 - 1st lighthouse in US lit (Boston Harbor)
- 1752 - England & colonies adopt Gregorian calendar, 11 days disappear
- :0915
- :B
- 1613 - Françoise duc de la Rochefoucald, Paris France, writer (Mémoires)
- 1789 - James Fenimore Cooper, 1st major American novelist (Prairie)
- :D
- 1979 - Tommy Leonetti, singer/actor (Gomer Pyle USMC), dies at 50
- 1981 - Sara Haden, actress (A Family Affair), dies at 83
- :H
- - [Japan] Respect for the Aged Day
- - [UK] Battle of Britain Day (1940)
- :I
- 1620 - Mayflower departs from Plymouth, England with 102 pilgrims
- 1776 - British forces capture Kip's Bay Manhattan during the Revolution
- :0916
- :B
- 1638 - Louis XIV, [Sun King] king of France (1643-1715)
- 1685 - John Gay, poet (Beggar's Opera)
- :D
- 1672 - Anne Bradstreet, American poet, dies (birth date unknown)
- 1946 - Sir James Jeans, dies
- :H
- - [Oklahoma] Cherokee Strip Day (1893)
- - [Papua-New Guinea] National Day (1975)
- :I
- 1662 - Flamsteed sees solar eclipse, 1st known astronomical observation
- 1782 - Great Seal of US used for 1st time
- :0917
- :B
- 1271 - Wenceslas II, king of Bohemia & Poland (1278-1305)
- 1730 - Baron Frederick von Steuben, Germany, made Continental Army winners
- :D
- 1948 - Count Folke Bernadotte, UN mediator for Palestine, assassinated
- in Jerusalem by Jewish extremists
- :H
- - [US] Baron Frederick von Steuben Day (1730)
- - [US] Citizenship Day (replaces Constitution Day) (1952)
- :I
- 1630 - City of Boston forms
- 1776 - Presidio of SF forms as a Spanish fort
- :0918
- :B
- 1709 - Dr Samuel Johnson, writer (Boswell's tour guide)
- 1733 - George Read, lawyer/signed Declaration of Independence
- :D
- 1968 - Francis McDonald, Bowling Green Ky, actor (Will-Adv of Champion)
- 1970 - Jimi Hendrix, rock guitarist, dies at 27 in London
- :H
- - [UN observance] Intl Day of Peace
- 0923 - [US] Constitution Week
- :I
- 1755 - Fort Ticonderoga, NY opens
- 1759 - British capture Québec during the French & Indian War
- :0919
- :B
- 1655 - Jan Luyts, Netherlands, scholar/physicist/mathematician/astronomer
- 1737 - Charles Carroll, signed Decl of Ind
- :D
- 1967 - Martin Block, TV announcer (Chesterfield Supper Club), dies at 64
- 1968 - Red Foley, country singer (Mr Smith Goes to Washington), dies at 58
- :H
- - [Chile] Army Day (1810)
- - [UN observance] Intl Day of Peace
- :I
- 1777 - Battle of Freeman's Farm (Bemis Heights) or 1st Battle of Saratoga
- 1796 - George Washington's farewell address as president
- :0920
- :B
- 1833 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italy, journalist (Nobel Peace Prize 1907)
- 1878 - Upton Sinclair, novelist (Jungle)
- :D
- 1957 - Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer, dies at 91
- 1959 - Olin Howlin, actor (Swifty-Circus Boy), dies at 63
- :H
- - [UN observance] Intl Day of Peace
- :I
- 1519 - Magellan starts 1st successful circumnavigation of the world
- 1565 - Spaniards capture Fort Caroline Fla & massacre the French
- :0921
- :B
- 1452 - Girolamo Savonarola, Florentine monk/preacher/reformer
- 1756 - John Loudon McAdam, created macadam road surface (asphalt)
- :D
- 1576 - Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, dies at 74
- 1776 - Nathan Hale, spied on British for American rebels, hanged
- :H
- - [Malta] Independence Day (1964)
- - [Philipines] Thanksgiving
- :I
- 1348 - Jews in Zurich Switzerland are accused of poisoning wells
- 1451 - Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa orders Jews of Holland to wear a badge
- :0922
- :B
- 1791 - Michael Faraday, discovered principle of electric motor
- 1822 - Brig Gen Eppa Hunton, fought in most ANV campaigns
- :D
- 1658 - Georg Philipp Harsdörfer, poet (Poetischer Trichter), dies at 50
- 1923 - Marquess of Ripon, game hunter, dies, after shooting 52nd grouse
- :H
- - [Wheaton, Illinois] Autumn Harvest Festival
- - [US] Good Neighbor Day (4th Sunday in September)
- :I
- 530 - St Felix IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 530 - [Discorus] begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- :0923
- :B
- 484 - -BC- Euripides, Greek playwright (Trojan Women)
- 1713 - Ferdinand VI, king of Spain (1746-59)
- :D
- 1877 - Urbain JJ Leverrier, codiscoverer of Neptune, dies
- 1939 - Sigmund Freud, created psychoanalysis, dies at 83
- :H
- - [Saudi Arabia] Unification Day (1932)
- - [Wyoming] Frontier Day
- :I
- 1779 - John Paul Jones' "Bon Homme Richard" defeats 'HMS Serepis'
- 1780 - Brit Maj John André reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Pt
- :0924
- :B
- 1717 - Horace Walpole, England, writer (Cattle of Ontario)
- 1755 - John Marshall, Va, 4th Supreme Court Chief Justice (1801-35)
- :D
- 1815 - John Sevier, indian fighter, dies at 70
- 1951 - Phillippus Paracelsus, physician/alchemist, dies at 48
- :H
- - [US] Gold Star Mother's Day (Last Sunday in September)
- - [US] Good Neighbor Day (4th Sunday in September)
- :I
- 366 - Liberius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 673 - Synod of Hertford opens; canons made for English Church
- :0925
- :B
- 1657 - Imre Thököly, Hungary, patriot, opposed Habsburg rule
- 1683 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, Dijon France, composer (Traite) (baptized)
- :D
- 1959 - S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, Ceylon's PM, assassinated by a Buddhist monk
- 1960 - Emily Post, etiquette expert, dies at 86
- :H
- - [US] Pacific Ocean Day (1513)
- - [US] Gold Star Mother's Day (Last Sunday in September)
- :I
- 1493 - Columbus sails on 2nd voyage to America
- 1513 - Vasco Nuñez de Balboa is the 1st European to see the Pacific Ocean
- :0926
- :B
- 1774 - John Chapman, [Johnny Appleseed], frontier nurseryman
- 1820 - Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita)
- :D
- 1904 - Lafcadio Hearn, multinational author, dies
- 1937 - Bessie Smith, singer, dies of injuries sustained in car crash
- :H
- - [Sri Lanka] Bandaranaike Day (1959)
- - [Yemen Arab Rep, Yemen Peo Dem Rep] Revolution Day (1962)
- :I
- 1777 - British troops occupy Philadelphia during the American Revolution
- 1789 - Jefferson appointed 1st Sec of State; John Jay 1st chief justice;
- :0927
- :B
- 1657 - Sophia, regent of Russia (1682-89)
- 1722 - Samuel Adams, revolutionary rabble rouser/(Lt Gov-Mass, 1789-94)
- :D
- 1870 - Henry TP Comstock, Canadian silver prospector, dies at 50
- 1956 - Mildred "Babe" Didrickson Zaharias, great female athlete, dies
- :H
- - [Taiwan] Moon Festival
- - [World] Ancestor Appreciation Day
- :I
- 1540 - Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola
- 1777 - Battle of Germantown; Washington defeated by the British
- :0928
- :B
- 551 - -BC- Confucius, (as celebrated in Taiwan)
- 1573 - Caravaggio, Italy, painter (or 1573)
- :D
- 1953 - Edwin P Hubble, astronomer, designer of telescopes, dies at 63
- 1954 - Bert Lytell, actor (Henry-One Man's Family), dies at 69
- :H
- - [Guinea] Referendum Day (1958)
- - [Kiwanis] Kiwanis Kid Day
- :I
- 1542 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay
- 1781 - Siege of Yorktown begins, last battle of the Revolutionary War
- :0929
- :B
- 1755 - Robert, Lord Clive, founded British empire in India
- 1758 - Horatio Nelson, Burnham Thorpe Britain, naval hero at Trafalgar
- :D
- 1959 - Harold Huber, actor (I Cover Times Square), dies at 49
- 1962 - Patrick Corry, developed self-rotating rock drill, dies in the Bronx
- :H
- - [Paraguay] Battle of Boquerón Day (1930)
- - [US] Gold Star Mother's Day (Last Sunday in September)
- :I
- 855 - Benedict III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1349 - People of Krems Austria accuse Jews of posioning the wells
- :0930
- :B
- 1870 - Jean Perrin, France, physicist, studied Brownian motion (Nobel 1926)
- 19-- - Brian Forsythe, rocker (Kix-Hot Wire)
- :D
- 1959 - John H Kliegl, developer of the Klieg light, dies at 89
- 1978 - Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy), dies at 75
- :H
- - [US] Gold Star Mother's Day (Last Sunday in September)
- :I
- 1630 - 1st execution in America-J Billington hanged in Plymouth, MA
- 1659 - 1st mention of tennis in US by Peter Stuyvesant
- :1001
- :B
- 1685 - Charles VI, Holy Roman emperor (1711-40)
- 1746 - John Mühlenberg, Lutheran pastor/general/congressman
- :D
- 1807 - John Mühlenberg, Lutheran pastor, dies on his 61st birthday
- 1961 - Donald Cook, actor (Too Young To Go Steady), dies at 60
- :H
- - [Cameroon] Unification Day (1961)
- - [Cyprus & Tuvalu-1978] National Day
- :I
- 366 - St Damasus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1661 - Yachting begins in England; King Charles II beats his brother James
- :1002
- :B
- 1851 - Ferdinand Foch, believed to be responsible for Allies winning WW I
- 1869 - Mahatma K Ghandi, Porbandar Kathiawad India, pacifist
- :D
- 1264 - Pope Urban IV, (1261-64), dies (birth date unknown)
- 1780 - John André, British major, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold)
- :H
- - [India] Gandhi Jayanti
- - [Massachusetts] Grandparents Day
- :I
- 1535 - Jacques Cartiér discovers Mount Royal (Montréal)
- 1608 - Hans Lippershey offers Dutch gov't a new invention, the telescope
- :1003
- :B
- 1728 - Christian d'Oriola, France, foils (Olympic-gold-1952, 56)
- 1800 - George Bancroft, historian (Hall of Fame)
- :D
- 1959 - William Bishop, actor (Steve-It's a Great Life), dies at 42
- 1965 - Zachary Scott, actor (Spotlight Playhouse), dies at 51
- :H
- - [Barbados] United Nations Day/Clerks' Holiday
- - [Honduras] Morazán Day/Soldier's Day
- :I
- 1430 - Jews are expelled from Eger Bohemia
- 1789 - Washington proclaims the 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26
- :1004
- :B
- 1626 - Richard Cromwell, lord protector of England (1658-59)
- 1822 - Rutherford B Hayes, (R) 19th pres (1877-81)
- :D
- 1962 - John Lowry, Mount Vernon NY, NYC builder, dies at 79
- 1966 - Sherman Billingsley, talk show host (Stork Club), dies at 66
- :H
- - [Lesotho] Independence Day (1966)
- - [Massachusetts] Grandparents Day
- :I
- 1636 - 1st code of law for Plymouth Colony
- 1648 - Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen
- :1005
- :B
- 1713 - Denis Diderot, France, encyclopedist (Dictionnaire Encyclopédique)
- 1830 - Chester Alan Arthur, Fairfield Vt, (R) 21st Pres (1881-85)
- :D
- 1967 - Clifton C Williams Jr, astronaut, dies at 35, in T-38 jet crash
- 1976 - Barbara Nichols, actress (Pajama Game, Loved One), dies at 46
- :H
- - [Bulgaria] Independence Day (1908)
- - [Indonesia] Army Day
- :I
- 1450 - Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Ludwig IX
- 1582 - Gregorian calendar introduced in Italy, other Catholic countries
- :1006
- :B
- 1824 - Henry Chadwick, baseball pioneer, developed 1st rule book
- 1831 - Richard Dedekind, mathematician (Nature & Meaning of Numbers)
- :D
- 1951 - Henry Gurney, British high commissioner to Malaya assassinated
- 1956 - Walter Herlihy, announcer (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 42
- :H
- - [Massachusetts] Grandparents Day
- - [Missouri] Missouri Day
- :I
- 1683 - 13 German families arrive in present day Philadelphia
- 1781 - Americans & French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last
- :1007
- :B
- 1746 - William Billings, Boston Mass, hymn composer (Rose of Sharon)
- 1849 - James Whitcomb Riley, US, poet (The Raggedy Man)
- :D
- 1959 - Mario Lanza, singer, dies at 38 of a heart attack
- 1988 - Billy Daniels, singer, dies of cancer at 73
- :H
- - [German Dem Rep] Constitution Day (1949)
- - [Libya] Evacuation Day
- :I
- 1571 - Turkish fleet defeated by Spanish & Italians in Battle of Lepanto
- 1737 - 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft & kill 300,000 (Bengal, India)
- :1008
- :B
- 1872 - John Cowper Powys, British writer (Wood & Stone)
- 1873 - Ejnar Hertzsprung, Denmark, astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram)
- :D
- 1944 - Wendell Lewis Willkie, Republican politician, dies
- 1964 - Dr Charles Hodge, NYU professor (Answers for Americans), dies at 69
- :H
- - [Canada] Thanksgiving Day
- - [Florida] Farmers' Day (1915)
- :I
- 1604 - The supernova called "Kepler's nova" is 1st sighted
- 1775 - Officers decide to bar slaves & free blacks from Continental Army
- :1009
- :B
- 1757 - Charles X, reactionary king of France (1824-30); deposed
- 1782 - Lewis Cass, (Gov-Mich)
- :D
- 1562 - Gabriel Fallopius, Modena Italy, anatomist
- 1806 - Benjamin Banneker, astronomer/mathematician, dies at 74
- :H
- - [Hong Kong] Confucius' Birthday
- - [Khmer Republic] Republic Day (1970)
- :I
- 1000 - Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England)
- 1446 - Korean Hangual alphabet devised
- :1010
- :B
- 1738 - Benjamin West, painter (Death of General Wolfe)
- 1813 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italy, composed operas (Rigoletto, Aida, Otello)
- :D
- 1959 - Prince Friedrich, of Liechtenstein, dies
- 1964 - Eddie Cantor, comedian (Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater), dies at 72
- :H
- - [Cuba] Yara Day/Beginning of War of Independence (1868)
- - [Finland] Aleksis Kivi Day (1834)
- :I
- 1802 - 1st non indian settlement in Oklahoma
- 1845 - The Naval School (now called US Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis
- :1011
- :B
- 1821 - Sir George Williams, England, founder YMCA
- 1844 - Henry John Heinz, founded prepared-foods company (57 varieties)
- :D
- 1809 - Meriwether Lewis, capt of Lewis & Clark Expedition, dies at 35
- 1959 - Bert Bell, NFL hall of famer, dies at 64
- :H
- - [Sri Lanka] Deepavali
- - [US] General Pulaski Memorial Day (1779)
- :I
- 1776 - Brig Gen Arnold's Lake Champlain fleet defeated by British
- 1797 - British naval forces defeat Dutch off Camperdown, the Netherlands
- :1012
- :B
- 1798 - Pedro I, 1st emperor of Brazil (1822-31), king of Portugal
- 1840 - Helena Modjeska, Poland, Shakespearian actress (Juliet)/anti-Russian
- :D
- 1860 - Sir Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces, dies at 73
- 1864 - Roger Taney, Supreme Court Chief Justice, dies at 87
- :H
- - [Mexico, Latin America] Dia de la Raza/Day of the Race
- - [Spain] National Day
- :I
- 642 - John IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1285 - 180 Jews refuse baptism in Munich Germany, they are set on fire
- :1013
- :B
- 1853 - Lillie Langtry, [Jersey Lily], vaudevillian actress
- 1885 - Harry Hershfield, Cedar Rapids Iowa, cartoonist (Can You Top This?)
- :D
- ---- - Prince L Rwagasore, of Burundi, murdered; Hero of the Nation Day
- 1601 - Tycho Brahe, greatest naked-eye observer, dies in Prague
- :H
- - [Western Samoa] White Sunday (2nd Sunday)
- - [Canada] Thanksgiving Day
- :I
- 1775 - Continental Congress orders construction of a naval fleet
- 1792 - Washington lays cornerstone of the Executive Mansion (White House)
- :1014
- :B
- 1633 - James II, king of England (1685-88)
- 1644 - William Penn, English Quaker & founder of PA
- :D
- 1959 - Errol Flynn, actor, dies
- 1977 - Bing Crosby, dies of a heart attack at 74, in Madrid, Spain
- :H
- - [Malagasy Rep] Independence Day (1958)
- - [Maryland] Peggy Stewart Day-US sinks ship against taxes (1774)
- :I
- 1066 - Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England
- 1586 - Mary Queen of Scots goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth
- :1015
- :B
- 1542 - Akbar, Indian Mughal emperor (1556-1605)
- 1674 - Robert Herrick, Mass, British poet (Together)
- :D
- 1910 - Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel, HW boxing champ, shot & killed
- 1917 - Mata Hari, Dutch dancer/German spy executed by firing squad in Paris
- :H
- - [Tunisia] Evacuation Day
- - [Alaska] Alaska Day (1867)
- :I
- 1582 - Many Catholic countries switch to Gregorian calendar, skip 10 days
- 1641 - Paul de Chomedy de Maisonneuve claims Montreal
- :1016
- :B
- 1792 - Francisco Morazán, (L) president of Central America (1830-40)
- 1827 - Arnold Böcklin, Switzerland, landscape/allegory painter
- :D
- 1849 - George Washington Williams, Penns, 1st major black historian
- 1946 - Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian chancellor (1930s), dies at 54
- :H
- - [Jamacia] National Heroes Day
- - [World] World Food Day
- :I
- 1775 - Portland, Maine burned by British
- 1781 - Washington takes Yorktown
- :1017
- :B
- 1835 - Alexandrine-Pieternella-Françoise Tinné, explored the White Nile
- 1848 - William "Candy" Cummings, created the curve ball
- :D
- 1887 - Gustav Kirchoff, discoverer of the laws of spectroscopy, dies
- 1910 - Julia Ward Howe, composer (Battle Hymn of the Republic), dies at 91
- :H
- - [Malawi] Mother's Day
- - [Alaska] Alaska Day (1867)
- :I
- 1492 - Columbus sights isle of San Salvador (Watling Island, Bahamas)
- 1691 - New royal charter for Massachusetts, now including Maine, Plymouth
- :1018
- :B
- 1777 - Heinrich von Kleist, Germany, dramatist/poet (Penthesilea)
- 1785 - Thomas Love Peacock, English author (Headlong Hall)
- :D
- 1862 - James Creighton, dies of rupture bladder hitting HR on Oct 14th
- 1931 - Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, dies in West Orange, NJ, at 84
- :H
- - [Alaska] Alaska Day (1867)
- :I
- 1016 - Danes defeat Saxons at Battle of Assandun (Ashingdon)
- 1648 - 1st US labor organization forms (Boston Shoemakers)
- :1019
- :B
- 1784 - John McLoughlin, Hudson's Bay Co pioneer in Oregon Country
- 1784 - Leigh Hunt, British writer (Lord Byron)
- :D
- 1978 - Gig Young, kills his bride of 3 weeks & then commits suicide at 64
- 1982 - Jock Ewing, dies in an aircrash on TV show "Dallas"
- :H
- - [Virginia] Yorktown Day (1781)
- - [Alaska] Alaska Day (1867)
- :I
- 615 - St Deusdedit I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1298 - Rindfleish-140 Jews of Heilbron Germany are murdered
- :1020
- :B
- 1632 - Sir Christopher Wren, England, astronomer/great architect
- 1812 - Austin Flint, 19th century heart research pioneer
- :D
- 1954 - Willie Shaw, race car driver (Indy 500-1937, 39, 40), dies at 51
- 1964 - Herbert Hoover, 31st president of US, dies in NY at 90
- :H
- - [Kenya] Jomo Kenyatta Day
- - [Alaska] Alaska Day (1867)
- :I
- 1740 - Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria, Hungary & Bohemia
- 1803 - US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase
- :1021
- :B
- 1790 - Alphonse-Marie Louis de Lamartine, Macon France, writer (René)
- 1833 - Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Stockholm, created dynamite & Peace Prizes
- :D
- 1831 - Nat Turner, 19 associates, hung
- 1966 - Gertrude Hoffman, actress (Mrs Odetts-My Little Margie), dies at 95
- :H
- - [Hondurous] Army Day (1956)
- - [Hong Kong] Kite Flying Festival
- :I
- 686 - Conon begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1520 - Magellan entered the strait which bears his name
- :1022
- :B
- 1870 - Ivan Bunin, Russia, poet/novelist (Gentleman from SF-Nobel 1933)
- 1880 - Joe Carr, Ohio, NFL hall of famer/NFL president (1921-39)
- :D
- 1932 - Anna Dickinson, dies just a week shy of her 90th birthday
- 1934 - Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, shot dead by FBI in Ohio
- :H
- - [Japan] Jidai Matsuri/Festival of the Eras (1895)
- - [Puerto Rico] Veterans Day
- :I
- 1797 - André-Jacques Garnerin makes 1st parachute jump from balloon (Paris)
- 1836 - Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected pres of Republic of Texas
- :1023
- :B
- 1835 - Adlai Stevenson, (D) 23rd VP (1893-97), US amb to UN
- 1844 - Louis Riel, Manitoba, leader of insurrection of Métis
- :D
- 1915 - W.G. Grace, British cricketer, dies
- 1978 - Maybelle Carter, country singer (Johnny Cash Show), dies at 69
- :H
- - [US] United States Day
- - [US] Mother-in-Law's Day
- :I
- 1775 - Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army
- 1790 - Slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed)
- :1024
- :B
- 1788 - Sarah Josepha Hale, author (Mary Had a Little Lamb)
- 1882 - Dame Sybil Thorndike, England, actress (Saint Joan)
- :D
- 1601 - Tycho Brahe, astronomer, dies in Prague at 54
- 1655 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, dies at 63
- :H
- - [Zambia] Independence Day (1964)
- - [US] Mother-in-Law's Day
- :I
- 1795 - 3rd partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia
- 1836 - The match is patented
- :1025
- :B
- 1800 - Thomas Babington Macaulay, England, poet/historian (Ivry, Naaseby)
- 1825 - Johann Strauss (the younger), composer (Waltz King)
- :D
- 1892 - Caroline Harrison, Pres Benjamin Harrison's wife, dies at 60
- 1959 - Bob Murphy, TV host (RFD America), dies at 42
- :H
- - [Virgin Islands] Thanksgiving Day
- - [US] Mother-in-Law's Day
- :I
- 1415 - Battle of Agincourt, Welsh longbow defeats the armored knight
- 1671 - Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, satellite of Saturn
- :1026
- :B
- 1685 - Domenico Scarlatti, Naples Italy, composer/harpsichordist
- 1759 - Georges Danton, France, revolutionary leader
- :D
- 1868 - B F Randolph, SC state senator, assassinated
- 1909 - Prince Ito, of Japan is assassinated by a Korean
- :H
- - [Benin, Rwanda] Armed Forces Day
- - [Iran] Birthday of HIM the Shahanshah
- :I
- 1825 - Erie Canal between Hudson River & Lake Erie opened
- 1854 - H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #32 Pomona
- :1027
- :B
- 1811 - Issac Merrit Singer, inventor (1st practical home sewing machine)
- 1844 - Klas Arnoldson, Sweden, politician/pacifist (Nobel 1908)
- :D
- 1553 - Michael Servetus, Spanish physician burns at stake for heresy
- 1955 - Clark Griffith, baseball player/manager (NY Yankees), dies at 85
- :H
- - [Iran] Imam Reza's Birthday
- - [St Vincent Islands] Statehood Day (1969)
- :I
- 1492 - Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba
- 1775 - US Navy established
- :1028
- :B
- 1585 - Cornelius Otto Jansen, France, Roman Catholic reform leader
- 1810 - Brig Gen Adley H Gladden, La, killed at Shiloh
- :D
- 1980 - Leon Janney, actor (Hawk), dies at 63
- 1987 - André Masson, France, surrealist artist (Labyrinth), dies at 91
- :H
- - [Czechoslovakia] Foundation of the Republic Day (1918)
- - [Greece, Cyprus] Ochi Day (1940)
- :I
- 1636 - Harvard University (Boston) established
- 1776 - Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to NJ
- :1029
- :B
- 1740 - James Boswell, Scotland, Samuel Johnson's biographer
- 1859 - Charles Ebbets, (namesake of Ebbets Field, Brooklyn)
- :D
- 1885 - George B McClellan, Union army general, dies at 58
- 1901 - Leon Czolcosz, assassin of President McKinley, is executed
- :H
- - [New Zealand] Labour Day-last Monday in October
- 1030 - [Turkey] Republic Day (1923)
- :I
- 1682 - William Penn lands in what will become Pennsylvania
- 1727 - Severe earthquake in New England
- :1030
- :B
- 1735 - John Adams, Braintree, Mass (F) 2nd pres (1797-1801)
- 1830 - John S Bowen, Major-General (Confederate)
- :D
- 1893 - Sir John Abbott, PM of Canada (C) (1891-92), dies at 72
- 1968 - Pert Kelton, actress (Cavalcade of Stars), dies at 61
- :H
- :I
- 1270 - 8th & last crusade is launched
- 1864 - Helena, Montana's capital, founded
- :1031
- :B
- 1632 - Jan Vermeer, Holland, painter (Procuress, The Astronomer)
- 1795 - John Keats, London, England, romantic poet (Ode to a Grecian Urn)
- :D
- 1918 - Count Stephen Tisza, Hungarian PM assassinated by soldiers
- 1926 - Erich Weiss, better known as magician Harry Houdini, dies in Detroit
- :H
- - [Mass] Youth Honor Day
- - [Nevada] Admission Day (1864)
- :I
- 1759 - Earthquake in Safed Palestine kills hundred
- 1793 - Execution of the Girondins at Paris, during the Reign of Terror
- :1101
- :B
- 1762 - Spencer Perceval, (Tory), British PM (1809-12)
- 1782 - Viscount Goderich, (Tory), British PM (1827-28)
- :D
- 1947 - Man O' War, dies
- 1956 - Lajos Asztalos, International Chess Master (1950), dies at 67
- :H
- - [Antigua] State Day (1981)
- - [Celtic] Samhain; beginning of year & most important holiday
- :I
- 1210 - King John of England begins imprisoning Jews
- 1512 - Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel, 1st exhibited
- :1102
- :B
- 1734 - Daniel Boone, frontiersman/explorer (US Hall of Fame-1915)
- 1755 - Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France, let them eat cake
- :D
- 1963 - South Vietnamese President, assassinated in a military coup
- 1980 - Edith Bunker, dies on "All in the Family"
- :H
- - [Mexico/Portugal] Dia de Muertos/Day of the Dead
- - [North & South Dakota] Admission Day (1889)
- :I
- 1648 - 12,000 Jews massacred by Chmielnicki hordes in Narol, Podlia
- 1783 - Gen Washington bids farewell to his army
- :1103
- :B
- 1718 - John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor (sandwich)
- 1793 - Stephen Fuller Austin, colonized Texas
- :D
- 1926 - Annie Oakley, dies
- 1962 - Harlow H Curtice, pres of General Motors (1953-8), dies at 69
- :H
- - [Japan] Culture Day
- - [Panama] Independence Day (1903)
- :I
- 1620 - Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony
- 1679 - Great panic occurs in Europe over the close approach of a comet
- :1104
- :B
- 1862 - Eden Phillpotts, England, novelist/poet/playwright (Red Madymaynes)
- 1873 - GE Moore, English philosopher (Ethics)
- :D
- 1987 - Raphael Soyer, artist (Depression scenes in NYC), dies at 87
- 1990 - Mary Martin, actress (Peter Pan), dies\-
- :H
- - [Oklahoma] Will Rogers Day (1879)
- - [Panama, Panama Canal Zone] Flag Day
- :I
- 1842 - Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd in Springfield, Ill
- 1845 - 1st nationally observed uniform election day in US
- :1105
- :B
- 1849 - Rui Barbosa, Brazil, statesman/jurist/essayist/civil liberties
- 1855 - Eugene V Debs, labor organizer, Socialist presidential candidate
- :D
- 1960 - Ward Bond, actor, dies at 55
- 1969 - Lloyd Corrigan, actor (Prof McKillup-Hank), dies at 69
- :H
- - [England] Guy Fawkes Day
- - [Sweden] All Saints Day
- :I
- 1492 - Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from the Indians of Cuba
- 1605 - Gunpowder Plot; Catholics try to blow up English Parliament. Plot
- :1106
- :B
- 1661 - Charles II, last Habsburg king of Spain (1665-1700)
- 1671 - Colley Cibber, England, dramatist/poet laureate (Love's Last Shift)
- :D
- 1839 - Rabbi Hayim Rapoport of Ostrowiec, author (Maxim Chayyim), dies
- 1944 - Hannah Senesh, Jewish poetess, executed by Nazis in Budapest
- :H
- - [Mauritius] Ganga Asnam
- - [Virgin Islands] Liberty Day
- :I
- 1813 - Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain
- 1844 - Spain grants Dominican Rep independence
- :1107
- :B
- 1096 - Herbert R O'Connor, Balt Md, (Sen-Md)/TV narrator (Crime Syndicated)
- 1598 - Francisco de Zurbarán, Spain, Baroque painter (baptized)
- :D
- 1837 - Elijah P Lovejoy, publisher, murdered by proslavery mob
- 1962 - Eleanor Roosevelt, Former 1st Lady, dies at 78 in NYC
- :H
- - [USSR, Bulgaria, Hungary, Mongolia] October Revolution Day (1917)
- - [Virgin Islands] Liberty Day
- :I
- 1631 - Pierre Gassendi observes transit of Mercury predicted by Kepler
- 1775 - Lord Dunmore, promises freedom to male slaves who join British army
- :1108
- :B
- 1848 - Gottlob Frege, Germany, mathematician/logician (Begriffsschrift)
- 1876 - Frank L Gillespie, Ark, founded Supreme Life Insurance Company
- :D
- 1933 - King Nadir, Shah of Afghanistan, assassinated by Abdul Khallig
- 1965 - Dorothy Kilgallen, columnist (What's My Line?), dies at 52
- :H
- - [World] World Community Day (1945) (pray for peace)
- - [England] Lord Mayor's Day
- :I
- 1793 - Louvre in Paris, opens
- 1837 - Mount Holyoke Seminary in Mass-1st US college founded for women
- :1109
- :B
- 1818 - Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons)
- 1825 - Ambrose P Hill, Lt General (Commander 3rd Corps, ANV)
- :D
- 1952 - Chaim Weizmann, 1st pres of Israel, dies at 57
- 1953 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud, founder of Saudi Arabia, dies (born c 1880)
- :H
- - [Tunisia] Arbor Day/Tree Festival Day
- - [Turks & Caicos Island] Peacemaker's Day
- :I
- 1720 - Rabbi Yehuda Hasid synagogue set afire
- 1799 - Napoleon becomes dictator (1st consul) of France
- :1110
- :B
- 1668 - François Couperin, Paris France, composer/organist (Concerts Royaux)
- 1683 - George II, king of England (1727-60)
- :D
- 1938 - Kemal Atarük, 1st pres of Turkey, dies
- 1968 - Gerald Mohr, actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue), dies at 54
- :H
- - [Indonesia] Hero Day/Youth Day
- - [Iran] Death of Iman Ali Day
- :I
- 1674 - Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (NY) to English
- 1775 - US Marine Corps established by Congress
- :1111
- :B
- 1636 - Yen Jo-chü, Chinese scholar of Ch'ing dynasty
- 1744 - Abigail Smith Adams, 2nd 1st lady
- :D
- 1831 - Nat Turner, former slave, led a violent insurrection, hanged in VA
- 1956 - Victor Young, orch leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 56
- :H
- - [Belgium, France, French countries] Armistice Day
- - [Bhutan] King's Birthday
- :I
- 1215 - 4th Lateran Council (12th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
- 1620 - 41 pilgrims land in Mass, sign Mayflower Compact (just & equal laws)
- :1112
- :B
- 1790 - Letitia Christian Tyler, 1st wife of President Tyler
- 1815 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Johnstown NY, suffragist (80 Years & More)
- :D
- 1558 - Rabbi Shalom Shakna ben Joseph, founder of 1st Polish Yeshiva, dies
- 1962 - Sid Tomack, actor (Jim Gillis-Life of Riley, My Friend Irma)
- :H
- - [Bermuda] Rememberance Day
- - [Saudi Arabia] Coronation Day
- :I
- 324 - -BC- Origin of Era of Alexander
- 607 - Boniface III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- :1113
- :B
- 1792 - Edward John Trelawney, England, traveler/author (Adv of Younger Son)
- 1831 - James Maxwell, Edinburgh Scot, physicist (Treatise on Electricity)
- :D
- 1460 - Henry the Navigator, prince of Portugal, dies at 66
- 1829 - Sam Patch, loses his live in a 125' dive into Genesse Falls
- :H
- - [Laos] King's Birthday
- - [West Germany] Repentance Day
- :I
- 1002 - English king Ethelred II launches massacre of Danish settlers
- 1775 - American Revolutionary forces capture Montréal
- :1114
- :B
- 1776 - Henri Dutrochet, discovered & named process of osmosis
- 1779 - Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, Denmark, poet (Natl Poet 1849)
- :D
- 1915 - Booker T Washington, educator/organizier, dies at 59 in Tuskegee Ala
- 1929 - Joseph McGinnity, baseball pitcher (NY Giants), dies at 58
- :H
- - [English commonwealth] Prince Charles' Birthday (1948)
- - [Jordan] King's Birthday (1935)
- :I
- 1732 - 1st US professional librarian, Louis Timothee, hired in Phila
- 1792 - Capt George Vancouver is 1st Englishman to enter SF Bay
- :1115
- :B
- 1738 - Sir William Herschel, astronomer (discovered Uranus)
- 1815 - John Banvard, NYC, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas)
- :D
- 1630 - Johann Kepler, German astronomer, dies at 58
- 1897 - John Mercer Langston, dies at 67
- :H
- - [Brazil] Republic Day (1889)
- - [Japan] 7-5-3 Festival Day
- :I
- 1492 - In Spain, 6 Jews & 5 Conversos are accused of using black magic
- 1660 - 1st kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in NYC (New Amsterdam)
- :1116
- :B
- 1873 - W(illiam) C(hristopher) Handy, Alabama, jazz star (St Louis Blues)
- :D
- 1960 - Clark Gable, dies at 59
- 1961 - Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House for 17 years, dies
- :H
- - [US] Natl Children's Book Week Begins
- - [West Germany] Repantance Day
- :I
- 1676 - 1st colonial prision organized, Nantucket, Mass
- 1776 - Hessians capture Fort Washington, Manhattan
- :1117
- :B
- 1717 - Jean d'Alembert, Fr, mathematician/philosopher (Traité de Dynamique)
- 1755 - Louis XVIII, 1st post-revolutionary king of France (1814-24)
- :D
- 1962 - Arthur Vining Davis, CEO (Alcoa-1910-57), dies at 92 in Miami
- 1971 - Gladys Cooper, actress (Margaret-The Rogues), dies at 83
- :H
- - [US] Natl Children's Book Week Begins
- - [West Germany] Repentance Day
- :I
- 1558 - Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of Queen Mary
- 1734 - John Zenger, arrested for libel against NY col gov; later acquitted
- :1118
- :B
- 1810 - Asa Gray, Sauquoit NY, botanist (Flora of North America)
- 1832 - Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskjöld, Sweden, Artic explorer
- :D
- 1946 - Donald Meek, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach)
- 1962 - Niels Bohr, physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1922, dies at 77
- :H
- - [Haiti] Army Day
- - [YWCA] World Fellowship Day
- :I
- 1421 - Zuider Zee floods 72 villages, killing est 10,000 in Netherlands
- 1497 - Bartolomeu Dias discovers Cape of Good Hope
- :1119
- :B
- 1752 - George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in Revolutionary War
- 1770 - Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen, Copenhagen Denmark, sculptor (Dying Lion)
- :D
- 1915 - Joe Hill, Labor leader, executed for murder
- 1971 - Bill Stern, sportscaster (Saturday Night Fights), dies at 64
- :H
- - [Monaco] Monegasque National Day
- - [Puerto Rico] Discovery Day (1493)
- :I
- 498 - Anastasius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1493 - Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his 2nd voyage
- :1120
- :B
- 1620 - Peregrine White, son of Wm & Susanna White, born aboard Mayflower
- 1726 - Oliver Wolcott, (Ct-Gov), signed Declaration of Independence
- :D
- 1962 - Jasper McLevy, socialist mayor of Bridgeport Ct, dies
- 1968 - Cathy Lewis, actress (Deidre-Hazel), dies at 50
- :H
- - [World] Rights of the Child Day
- - [US] Natl Children's Book Week Begins
- :I
- 1637 - Peter Minuit & 1st Swedish immigrants to Delaware sail from Sweden
- 1780 - Britain declares war on Holland
- :1121
- :B
- 1694 - Voltaire, [François-Marie Arouet], France, thinker
- 1785 - William Beaumont, surgeon (studied digestion)
- :D
- 1624 - Jakob Böhme, German philosophical mystic, dies (birth date unknown)
- 1817 - Richard B Garnett, killed during Pickett's Charge, Brig Gen
- :H
- - [US] Natl Children's Book Week Begins
- :I
- 496 - St Gelasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1654 - Richard Johnson, a free black, granted 550 acres in Virginia
- :1122
- :B
- 1819 - George Eliot, England, novelist (Silas Marner)
- 1835 - Frank C Armstrong, Brig Gen (Cavalry Commander under Forrest)
- :D
- 1825 - Ann Bailey, pioneer, dies
- 1871 - Oscar J Dunn, (Lt Gov-La), dies suddenly, charges he was poisoned
- :H
- - [Lebanon] Independence Day (1943)
- - [Bern Switzerland] Onion Market Day-autumn festival
- :I
- 498 - St Symmachus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 498 - [Lawrence] begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- :1123
- :B
- 1221 - Alfonso X (the Wise), king of Castile & Leon (1252)
- 1553 - Prospero Alpini, Italy, botanist/physician (De Medocoma Aegyptorum)
- :D
- 1962 - Gloria Gordon, actress (My Friend Irma), dies at 81
- 1972 - Marie Wilson, actress (My Friend Irma), dies at 56
- :H
- - [Maryland] Repudiation Day (1765)
- - [Bern Switzerland] Onion Market Day-autumn festival
- :I
- 1832 - French take Antwerp in liberation of Belgium
- 1835 - Henry Burden patents Horseshoe manufacturing machine, Troy, NY
- :1124
- :B
- 1713 - Father Junipero Serra, had a mission in California
- 1713 - Laurence Sterne, Ireland, novelist/satirist (Tristram Shandy)
- :D
- 1959 - Dr Lyman Bryson, educator (UN Casebook), dies at 71
- 1962 - James J Kilroy, tank inspector (Kilroy was here), dies at 60
- :H
- - [Mass] John F Kennedy Day (1963)
- - [Bern Switzerland] Onion Market Day-autumn festival
- :I
- 496 - Anastasius II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 642 - Theodore I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- :1125
- :B
- 1835 - Andrew Carnegie, steel industrialist/library builder
- 1846 - Carry Nation, scourge of barkeepers & drinkers
- :D
- 1949 - Luther "Bill" Robinson, famed tap dancer, dies at 71
- 1958 - Charles F Kettering, invented auto self-starter, dies at 82
- :H
- - [Mass] John F Kennedy Day (1963)
- - [Bern Switzerland] Onion Market Day-autumn festival
- :I
- 1715 - 1st English patent granted to an American, for processing corn
- 1758 - Britain captures Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh)
- :1126
- :B
- 1731 - William Cowper, England, preromantic poet (His Task)
- 1792 - Sarah Moore Grimké, American antislavery, women's rights advocate
- :D
- 1939 - James Naismith, Basketball inventor, dies
- 1970 - B O Davis Sr, 1st black general, dies at 93 in Chicago
- :H
- - [Mass] John F Kennedy Day (1963)
- - [Bern Switzerland] Onion Market Day-autumn festival
- :I
- 579 - Pelagius II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1703 - Bristol England damaged by hurricane, Royal Navy loses 15 warships
- :1127
- :B
- 1746 - Robert Livingston, delivered oath of office to George Washington
- 1804 - Sir Julius Benedict, Stuttgart Germany, opera composer (Protoghesi)
- :D
- 1934 - Baby Face Nelson, shot by FBI agents
- 1953 - Eugene O'Neill, playwright, dies in Boston at 65
- :H
- - [Cuba] Martyrs' Day
- - [Israel] Weizmann Day
- :I
- 1095 - Pope Urban II preaches 1st Crusade
- 1815 - Cracow (Poland) declared a free republic
- :1128
- :B
- 1632 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Florence Italy, composer (Bellérophen)
- 1785 - Achille-Charles, duc de Broglie, French PM (1835-36)
- :D
- 1827 - Dov Baer Schneersohn, Lubavitch leader/author (Imirei Binah), dies
- 1939 - James A Naismith, creator of basketball, dies at 78
- :H
- - [Chad, Burundi] Republic Day (1966)
- - [Mauritius] Independence Day (1960)
- :I
- 1520 - Ferdinand Magellan begins crossing Pacific Ocean
- 1795 - US pays $800,000 & a frigate as tribute to Algiers & Tunis
- :1129
- :B
- 1803 - Christian Doppler, discovered Doppler Effect (color shift)
- 1811 - Wendell Phillips, women's suffrage/antislavery/prison reformer
- :D
- 1780 - Maria Theresa, leader of Austria, dies at 63
- 1872 - Cornelius Kreighoff, Canadian, dies
- :H
- - [Liberia] President Tubman's Birthday
- - [UN] Intl Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People
- :I
- 1825 - 1st Italian opera, Barber of Seville, produced in US (NYC)
- 1847 - Indians kill Marcus & Narcissa Whitman, 11 settle in Walla Walla Ore
- :1130
- :B
- 1466 - Andrea Doria, Genoese statesman/admiral
- 1554 - Philip Sidney, England, poet/statesman/soldier (Arcadia)
- :D
- 1016 - Edmund II, Ironsides, King of the Saxons (1016), dies at 27
- 1631 - Rabbi Samuel Eliezer ben Judah ha-levi Edels, dies
- :H
- - [Benin] National Day
- - [Iran] Qadir Khom Festival
- :I
- 1782 - Britain signs agreement recognizing US independence
- 1803 - Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to France
- :1201
- :B
- 1835 - Micah Jenkins, Brig Gen (Led Hoods Division at Chickamauga)
- 1886 - Rex Stout, mystery writer (Nero Wolf)
- :D
- 1934 - Sergei Kirov, Josef Stalin's collaborator, assassinated in Leningrad
- 1935 - Bernard Schmidt, inventor (Schmidt camera), dies
- :H
- - [Cape Verde] Restoration Day (1968)
- - [Central African Republic] Republic Day (1958)
- :I
- 1641 - Mass becomes 1st colony to give statutory recognition to slavery
- 1653 - An athlete from Croydon is reported to have run 20 miles from
- :1202
- :B
- 1866 - Henry Thacker Burleigh, Erie Pa, black composer (Springarn Medal)
- 1885 - George Minot, US, physician, worked on anemia (Nobel 1934)
- :D
- 1888 - Kemal Bey, Turkish poet dies at 47
- 1935 - Albert Kessel, first to die in Cal gas chamber
- :H
- - [Cuba] Landing of Granma Expeditionaries
- - [UAE] Independence Day (1971)
- :I
- 1777 - British Gen Howe plots attack on Washington's army for Dec 4
- 1804 - Napoleon becomes 1st French emperor, placing crown on his own head
- :1203
- :B
- 1684 - Ludvig, Baron Holberg, a founder of Danish & Norwegian literature
- 1729 - Padre Antonio Soler, Olot Spain, composer (Fandango)
- :D
- 1973 - Michael O'Shea, actor (Denny- It's a Great Life), dies at 67
- 1985 - Sam Gillman, actor (Sam-Shane), dies at 70
- :H
- - [Philatelists] Sir Rowland Hill Day (1795/1840)
- - [World] Heart Transplant Day (1967)
- :I
- 1586 - Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England, from Colombia
- 1621 - Galileo perfects the telescope
- :1204
- :B
- 1584 - John Cotton, Puritan clergyman in Mass Bay colony
- 1795 - Thomas Carlyle, Scotland, essayist/historian (French Revolution)
- :D
- 1732 - John Gay, poet (Beggar's Opera), dies at 47
- 1807 - Prince Hall, activist & Masonic leader, dies in Boston
- :H
- - [Tonga] Proclamation Day
- :I
- 1563 - Council of Trent holds last session, after 18 years
- 1619 - America's 1st Thanksgiving Day (Va)
- :1205
- :B
- 1830 - Christina Rossetti, London, poet (Winter Rain, Passing Away)
- 1839 - George Armstrong Custer, General, of Little Big Horn fame
- :D
- 1594 - Gerardus Mercator, geographer dies
- 1784 - Philis Wheatley, poet, dies in Boston
- :H
- - [Haiti] Discovery Day (1492)
- - [Netherlands] St Nicholas' Eve
- :I
- 1492 - Columbus discovers Hispaniola (El Española) (Haiti)
- 1496 - Jews are expelled from Portugal by order of King Manuel I
- :1206
- :B
- 1732 - Warren Hastings, England, 1st governor-general of India (1773-84)
- 1822 - John Eberhard, built 1st large-scale pencil factory in US
- :D
- 1984 - Ruth Cummings, actress dies at 90
- 1985 - Burr Tillstrom, puppeteer (Kukla Fran & Ollie), dies at 68
- :H
- - [Ecuador] Day of Quito (1534)
- - [Finland] Independence Day (1917)
- :I
- 1534 - Quito, Ecuador founded by Spanish
- 1631 - 1st predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed
- :1207
- :B
- 1598 - Giovanni Bernini, Italy, baroque sculptor (St Teresa in Ecstasy)
- 1761 - Madame Marie Tussaud, created wax museum
- :D
- 1912 - George Darwin, theorized Moon was pulled out of Pacific Ocean, dies
- 1979 - Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, 1st woman full prof at Harvard U, dies
- :H
- - [Delaware] Ratification Day (1787)
- - [Ivory Coast] National Day (1960)
- :I
- 43 - -BC- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman writer, gets his head &
- -BC- right hand chopped off by Mark Antony's soldiers
- :1208
- :B
- 1626 - Christina, queen of Sweden who abdicated after becoming Catholic
- 1708 - Francis I, Holy Roman emperor (1745-1765)
- :D
- 1831 - James Hoban, architect who designed the White House, dies
- 1954 - Gladys George, actress (Roaring Twenties), dies at 50
- :H
- - [Japan] Enlightenment of the Buddha
- - [Spain, Panama, Canal Zone] Mother's Day
- :I
- 1792 - 1st cremation in US, Henry Laurens
- 1794 - 1st issue of the Herald of Rutland, VT published
- :1209
- :B
- 1594 - Gustavus II Adolphus, king who made Sweden a major power (1611-32)
- 1608 - John Milton, London, poet/puritan (Paradise Lost)
- :D
- 1944 - Laird Cregar, actor (Charley's Aunt, Hangover Square), dies at 28
- 1957 - Carswell Adams, sportscaster (Your Sports Special), dies
- :H
- :I
- himself to be free of original sin
- 1738 - Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia
- :1210
- :B
- 1805 - William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist (Liberator)
- 1813 - Zachariah Chandler, US, merchant/politician (found Republican Party)
- :D
- 1603 - William Gilbert, physician/physicist dies at 58
- 1896 - Alfred Nobel, dies; Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date
- :H
- - [Mississippi] Admission Day (1817)
- - [Stockholm, Sweden] Nobel Prize presentation Day (1896)
- :I
- 1672 - NY Gov Lovelace announces monthly mail service between NY & Boston
- 1690 - Mass Bay becomes 1st American colonial goverment to borrow money
- :1211
- :B
- 1803 - Hector Berlioz, Côte-Saint-André, Isère, France, composer (Manqué)
- 1810 - Alfred de Musset, Paris, writer (Un Caprice, Bettine)
- :D
- 1974 - Reed Hadley, actor (Racket Squad, Public Defender), dies at 63
- 1979 - Claire Carleton, NYC, actress (Alice-Cimarron City), dies at 66
- :H
- - [Indiana] Admission Day (1816)
- - [Upper Volta] Republic Day (1958)
- :I
- 1620 - 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (12/21 NS)
- 1719 - 1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in US (New England)
- :1212
- :B
- 1805 - Henry Wells, founder (American Express Co & Wells Fargo & Co)
- 1805 - William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist publisher (The Liberator)
- :D
- 1889 - Robert Browning, English poet, dies
- 1914 - Watkins Lewis, black man lynched in Shrevport La
- :H
- - [Kenya] Independence Day/Jamhuri Day (1963)
- - [Kenya] Independence Day/Jamhuri Day (1963)\=
- :I
- 1769 - Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee
- 1777 - Rev Benjamin Russen executed at Tyburn, England for rape
- :1213
- :B
- 1810 - Clark Mills, US, sculptor (Freedom, Armed Liberty)
- 1818 - Mary Todd Lincoln, 1st lady
- :D
- 1250 - Frederick II, German Emperor (1212-1250), dies at 55
- 1557 - Niccoló Tartaglia, Italian mathematician dies
- :H
- - [Upper Volta] National Day
- :I
- 1577 - Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around the world
- 1642 - New Zealand discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman
- :1214
- :B
- 1546 - Tycho Brahe, Knudstrup Denmark, astronomer (Golden nose)
- 1829 - John Mercer Langston, 1st black to hold US political office
- :D
- 1861 - Albert, prince consort of England & husband of Queen Victoria, dies
- 1903 - William Ennis, first cop to die in the electric chair
- :H
- - [El Salvador] Revolution Day
- - [Iran] Death of Iman Ja'far Sadeq Day
- :I
- 872 - John VIII begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1287 - Zuider Zee seawall collapses with loss of 50,000 lives
- :1215
- :B
- 1787 - Charles Cowden Clarke, English editor/Shakespearean critic
- 1793 - Henry Charles Carey, Phila, economist (Principles of Poli Economy)
- :D
- 1934 - Maggis Lena Wlaker, 1st black woman to head a bank, dies at 69
- 1943 - Thomas W "Fats" Waller, dies at 39, in KC Missouri
- :H
- - [Malaysia] Hol Al-Marhom Sultan Ibrahim of Johore
- - [Netherlands Antilles] Kingdom Day/Statute Day (1954)
- :I
- 1612 - Simon Marius, is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope
- 1791 - Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval
- :1216
- :B
- 1685 - Charles Cressent, France, cabinetmaker (Régence)
- 1770 - Ludwig von Beethoven, Bonn Germany, composer (Ode to Joy)
- :D
- 1922 - Gabriel Narutowicz, 1st pres of Polish Republic assassinated
- 1965 - W Somerset Maugham, English author ("Of Human Bondage"), dies at 91
- :H
- - [Bangladesh] Victory Day (1971)
- - [México] Posadas Days/Lodgings
- :I
- 882 - Marinus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1631 - Mount Vesuvious, Italy erupts, destroys 6 villages & kills 4,000
- :1217
- :B
- 1797 - Joseph Henry, US, scientist/inventor/pioneer of electromagnetism
- 1807 - John Greenleaf Whittier, US, poet (Snow-bound)
- :D
- 1909 - Leopold II, king of Belgium dies
- 1961 - Marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53
- :H
- - [Columbia] Independence Day (1819)
- - [US] Pan American Aviation Day/Wright Brothers Day (1903)
- :I
- 1538 - Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
- 1777 - France recognizes independence of English colonies in America
- :1218
- :B
- 1707 - Charles Wesley, co-founder (Methodist movement)
- 1709 - Elizabeth, empress of Russia (to Peter the Great & Catherine I)
- :D
- 1939 - Matthew Brown, Journalist, dies at 51
- 1948 - Janet Fay, hammered to death by the Honeymoon Killers
- :H
- - [Niger] Republic Day (1958)
- - [World] Underdog Day
- :I
- 1787 - New Jersey becomes 3rd state to ratify constitution
- 1796 - 1st US newspaper to appear on Sunday, Baltimore Monitor
- :1219
- :B
- 1036 - Su Tung-p'o, China, poet/essayist/painter/official
- 1683 - Phillip V, 1st Bourbon king of Spain (1700-46)
- :D
- 1915 - Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist, dies
- 1951 - Barton Yarbrough, actor (Dragnet), dies at 51
- :H
- - [World] Underdog Day
- :I
- 1686 - Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe)
- 1732 - Benjamin Franklin begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"
- :1220
- :B
- 1805 - Thomas Graham, father of colloid chemistry
- 1813 - Samuel Jordan Kirkwood, (Gov-Iowa)/US Sect of Interior (1881-82)
- :D
- 1812 - Sacagawea, Shoshone interpreter for Lewis & Clark, dies
- 1876 - Hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hung in US
- :H
- - [World] Underdog Day
- :I
- 1669 - 1st jury trial in Delaware; Marcus Jacobson condemned for
- insurrection & sentenced to flogging, branding & slavery
- :1221
- :B
- 1823 - Jean Henri Fabre, France, entomologist (insects & spiders)
- 1859 - Gustave Kahn, France, poet (claimed to have invented vers libre)
- :D
- 1921 - P B S Pinchback, major Reconstruction politician, dies at 84
- 1945 - George S Patton, General, dies in a car accident in Heidelberg
- :H
- - [Plymouth, Mass] Forefathers' Day (1620)
- - [World] Underdog Day
- :I
- 1784 - John Jay becomes 1st US secretary of state (foreign affairs)
- 1829 - 1st stone arch railroad bridge in US dedicated, Baltimore
- :1222
- :B
- 1639 - Jean-Baptiste Racine, French dramatist (Andromaque) (baptized)
- 1696 - James Oglethorpe, England, general/author/colonizer of Georgia
- :D
- 1668 - Stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer dies
- 1721 - Nathaniel Hawes, tortured & executed in England for robbery
- :H
- - [México] Day of National Mourning (Josè Maria Morelos) (1815)
- - [World] International Arbor Day
- :I
- 1772 - Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny
- 1775 - Continental navy organized with 7 ships
- :1223
- :B
- 1732 - Sir Richard Arkwright, inventor (spinning frame)
- 1777 - Alexander I, tsar of Russia (1801-25)
- :D
- 1652 - John Cotton, Mass Bay Puritan preacher dies at 68
- 1909 - King Leopald II, of Belgium
- :H
- 0123 - [Montego Bay Jamaica] John Canoe Day
- :I
- 619 - Boniface V begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1569 - St Philip of Moscow martyred by Ivan the Terrible
- :1224
- :B
- 1745 - Benjamin Rush, Byberry Pa, physician-general (Continental Army)
- 1754 - George Crabbe, Aldeburgh England, poet (Everlasting Mercy)
- :D
- 1942 - Adm Jean Darlan, French naval officer is murdered
- 1954 - Johnny Ace, ballad singer dies at 25 of Russian Roulette
- :H
- - [Libya] Independence Day (1951)
- :I
- 1814 - Treaty of Ghent (end of the War of 1812) signed
- 1818 - "Silent Night" composed by Franz Joseph Gruber; 1st sung next day
- :1225
- :B
- 1721 - William Collins, Chichester England, (Mayor-Chichester)/poet
- 1821 - Clara Barton, Oxford Mass, nurse, founded American Red Cross
- :D
- 1899 - Raphael Soyer, artist (Depression scenes in NYC)
- 1951 - Harry T Moore, Florida NAACP official, killed by bomb
- :H
- - [Taiwan] Constitution Day (1946)
- :I
- 336 - 1st recorded celebration of Christmas on Dec 25 occurs in Rome
- 597 - England adopts Julian calendar
- :1226
- :B
- 1716 - Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard)
- 1738 - Thomas Nelson, merchant, signer of the Declaration of Independence
- :D
- 1963 - "Gorgeous George" Wagner, Wrestler dies
- 1972 - Harry Truman, 33rd US Pres dies at 88 in Kansas City, Mo
- :H
- - [Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland)] Boxing Day
- - [China PR] Mao Tse-Tung's Birthday
- :I
- 418 - St Zosimus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 795 - St Leo III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- :1227
- :B
- 1773 - George Cayley, England, found science of aerodynamics
- 1822 - Louis Pasteur, Dole France, bacteriologist (pasturization)
- :D
- 1982 - John L Swigert Jr, astronaut (Apollo 13), dies of cancer at 51
- 1983 - Houari Boumediene, Algerian President dies after 40 days in a coma
- :H
- - [Bhutan] Day of 9 Evils
- - [Indonesia] Independence Day (1949)
- :I
- 1741 - Prussian forces took Olmutz, Czechoslovakia
- 1825 - 1st public railroad using steam locomotive completed in England
- :1228
- :B
- 1856 - Woodrow Wilson, Staunton Va, (D), 28th pres (1912-21, Nobel 1919)
- 1882 - Arthur Eddington, England, astrophysicist/cosmologist/mathematician
- :D
- 1918 - George H White, last post Reconstruction congressman (Penn), dies
- 1937 - Maurice Ravel, composer dies in Paris
- :H
- - [Nepál] King Birendra's Birthday
- :I
- 1816 - American Colonization Society organizes
- 1846 - Iowa becomes 29th state
- :1229
- :B
- 1776 - Charles Macintosh, Scotland, patented waterproof fabric
- 1800 - Charles Goodyear, inventor (vulcanization process for rubber)
- :D
- 1980 - Roy Engle, actor (Police Chief-My Favorite Martian), dies at 67
- 1984 - Leo Robin, lyricist dies of heart failure at 84
- :H
- - [Texas] Admission Day (1945)
- - [World] Anti-Pent-Ultimate Day
- :I
- 1813 - British burn Buffalo, NY during the War of 1812
- 1837 - Canadian militia destroy Caroline, a US steamboat docked at Buffalo
- :1230
- :B
- 1851 - Asa Griggs Candler, developed Coca-Cola
- 1865 - Rudyard Kipling, Bombay, author (Gunga Din-Nobel '07)
- :D
- 1832 - Col Abijah Hammond, owned large portion of Greenwich Village, dies
- 1894 - Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragist dies (Bloomers named for her)
- :H
- - [Iran] Birthday of Iman Reza
- - [Italy] New Year's Eve
- :I
- 1809 - Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston
- 1817 - 1st coffee planted in Hawaii
- :1231
- :B
- 1738 - Charles Lord Cornwallis, solider/statesman "fire when ready Gridley"
- 1869 - Henri Matisse, France, impressionist painter (Odalisque)
- :D
- 1719 - John Flamsteed, 1st Astronomer Royal, dies at 73
- 1775 - Gen Richard Montgomery, dies fighting the British
- :H
- - [Bangladesh, Brunei, India, México, Phil, Sri Lanka] Bank Holiday
- - [Benin] Feed Yourself Day
- :I
- 1492 - Jews are expelled from Sicily
- 1600 - British East India Company chartered
- :1301
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