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Historical Events 1621 - Myles Standish is elected as the first commander of the Plymouth Colony 1905 - Frances Willard becomes 1st women honored in National Statuary Hall 1954 - WAST (now WNYT) TV channel 13 in Albany-Troy, NY (NBC) 1st broadcast 1995 - Colin Fergusson found guilty of killing 6 people on the Long Island Rail Road in NY 1995 - Tiger Manager Sparky Anderson takes unpaid leave due to baseball strike 2021 - South Africa, Africa's worst-affected country begins COVID-19 vaccinations with the one-shot Johnson and Johnson vaccine in Cape Town More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1796 - Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (d. 1866) 1821 - Lola Montez, Irish dancer and courtesan, born in Grange, Ireland (d. 1861) 1850 - Anton Urspruch, German composer, born in Frankfurt (d. 1907) 1895 - Anita Stewart, American silent film actress (South of Hell Mountain), producer, and mystery novelist, born in Brooklyn, NYC (d. 1961) 1913 - Oskar Danon, Yugoslav conductor (Belgrade Opera, 1944-65), born in Sarajevo, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Bosnia and Herzegovina) (d. 2009) 1963 - Larry the Cable Guy [Daniel Lawrence Whitney], American comedian (Blue Collar Comedy Tour), born in Pawnee City, Nebraska More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1841 - Ferdinando Carulli, Italian classical guitar composer (Méthode, Op. 27), dies at 71 1924 - Henry Bacon, American architect (Lincoln Memorial), dies at 57 1976 - Jean Servais, Belgian actor (Le Plaisir, Every Man is My Enemy), dies from heart failure at 65 1982 - Lee Strasberg, Austrian acting coach and actor (The Godfather: Part II, Somewhere in the Night), dies at 80 2013 - Mindy McCready, American country singer, commits suicide by gunshot at 37 2019 - Ethel Ennis, American jazz singer (If Women Ruled The World), dies of a stroke at 86 More Famous Deaths »

1646 - Battle of Great Torrington, Devon - the last major battle of the first English Civil War 1892 - Opera "Werther" by Jules Massenet premieres in Vienna 1909 - 1st subway car with side doors goes into service (NYC) 1916 - Russian troops conquer the Ottoman Empire city of Erzurum during WWI 1916 - The US rejects the right of Germany and Austria-Hungary to sink armed merchant ships 1961 - 1st all-solid-propellant rocket put in orbit, Wallops Island, Virginia 1963 - 1st round-trip swim of Strait of Messina, Italy (Mary Revell of US) 1966 - End of Wally Grout's Test Cricket career, 187 dismissals as Australian wicketkeeper 1973 - West Indies v Australia at Kingston, 1st time since 1955 without Gary Sobers 1975 - 17th Daytona 500: Benny Parsons wins after Cale Yarborough sends race leader David Pearson spinning on the backstretch; Parsons avoids the accident and takes the victory More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1512 - Battle at Valeggio: French troops beat Venetianen 1559 - Pope Paul IV calls for deposition of sovereigns supporting heresy 1916 - The German ambassador in Washington announces that Germany will pay an indemnity for American lives lost on the Lusitania 1931 - Extreme right wing politician Pehr Evind Svinhufvud becomes President of Finland 1952 - Ian Craig makes NSW cricket debut aged 16 years 249 days (NSW record) 2016 - Former French President Nicholas Sarkozy is placed under investigation for campaign funds More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1868 - Wilhelm Schmidt, German anthropologist and linguist (Anthropos), born in Hörde, Germany (d. 1954) 1900 - Vincent Coleman, American actor (For the Freedom of Ireland, Salome), born in Louisiana (d. 1971) 1934 - Harold "Hal" Kalin, American singer (Kalin Twins), born in Port Jervis, New York (d. 2005) 1945 - Julio Morales, Uruguayan soccer striker (24 caps; Racing Montevideo, Nacional, Austria Wien), born in Montevideo, Uruguay (d. 2022) 1971 - Marco Sas, Dutch soccer player (NAC) 1980 - Agim Kaba, American actor and film producer More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1823 - Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, French Romantic painter and draughtsman - allegorical paintings and portraits, dies at 64 1907 - Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer and Nobel Prize Laureate 1906 regarded as the official national poet of modern Italy, dies at 71 1932 - Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1841) 1944 - Edmund von Borck, German composer, dies fighting in Italy in WWII at 37 1966 - Hendrik Tilanus, Dutch artillery officer and political leader (CHU 1939-63), dies at 81 1987 - Dmitri Kabalevsky, Russian pianist and composer (In the Fire), dies at 82 More Famous Deaths »

1145 - Bernardo elected Pope Eugene III 1861 - Fort Point, in San Francisco, California, completed and garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger) 1958 - Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by June Markham/Courtney Jones GRB 1967 - 1st anti-bootleg recording laws enacted 1979 - Paul Shirley (21) of Australia, sucked a lifesaver for 4 hrs 40 mins 1987 - ABC-TV begins broadcasting "Amerika" mini-series 1996 - American boxer Tommy Morrison announces he has contracted HIV 1999 - Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party, widely recognized as terrorist organization), was arrested in Kenya. 2005 - YouTube, Internet site on which videos may be shared and viewed by others, is launched in the United States 2013 - Chelyabinsk meteor breaks up over Chelyabinsk, Russia, injuring over 1,200 people, with 26 to 33 times energy of Hiroshima bomb More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1799 - 1st US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania 1895 - 23 cm (9 inches) of snow falls on New Orleans 1986 - National Assembly of the Philippines proclaims Ferdinand Marcos President for six more years after rigged elections against Corazon Aquino, supercharging the EDSA people power revolution 1987 - 29th Daytona 500: Bill Elliott leads for 104 of 200 laps including the last 3; had won pole with record speed of 210.364 mph 1995 - Burundi premier Anatole Kanyenkiko resigns 2009 - 58th NBA All-Star Game, US Airways Center, Phoenix, AZ: West beats East, 146-119; MVPs: Kobe Bryant, LA Lakers, F; Shaquille O'Neal, LA Lakers, C More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1885 - Richard Würz, German composer, and music critic, born in Munich, Germany (d. 1965) 1921 - Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (d. 1985) 1923 - Justice Drake, British justice 1937 - Terry Everett, American politician (Rep-R-Alabama 1993-2009), born in Dothan, Alabama 1947 - John Adams, American composer (Nixon In China), born in Worcester, Massachusetts 1979 - Kaj-Erik Eriksen, Canadian actor (Quarantine), born in Vancouver, British Columbia More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1503 - Henry Deane, Archbishop of Canterbury (1501-03), dies 1891 - Claudius W. Sears, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 74 1994 - Maria Britneva, Russian actress (A Room with a View, Maurice), dies of heart failure 72 2005 - Samuel Francis, American journalist (b. 1947) 2010 - Art Van Damme, American jazz accordionist (Chicago Jazz), dies at 89 2022 - P. J. O'Rourke, American journalist and satirist (Parliament of Whores; National Lampoon), dies of lung cancer at 74 More Famous Deaths »

1831 - Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay 1945 - World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans. 1952 - VI Winter Olympic Games open at Oslo, Norway 1971 - Movie "Ben Hur" 1st shown on television 1972 - Luna 20 (Russia) launched to orbit and soft landing on Moon 1989 - World's 1st satellite Skyphone opens 1989 - The first of 24 satellites of the Global Positioning System are placed into orbit. 2010 - 52nd Daytona 500: Jamie McMurray, driving for Earnhardt Ganassi Racing wins; Mark Martin, oldest polesitter in Daytona 500 history at 51 years, 27 days 2018 - Ex-student Nikolas Cruz shoots and kills 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Florida, before being captured 2018 - Dutch speed skater Jorien ter Mors wins her 3rd career Olympic gold medal in the 1,000m at Pyeongchang; 1,500m and team pursuit champion in Sochi (2014) More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1912 - Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state 1921 - Little Review faces obscenity charges for publishing "Ulysses," in New York 1936 - Karl Schäfer of Austria wins his 2nd consecutive men’s figure skating Olympic gold medal at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games in Germany 2005 - Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected Al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit the Philippines' Makati financial district in Metro Manila, Davao City, and General Santos City. 2010 - America's Cup: Team USA defeats Alinghi 2-0 to win in Spain 2014 - Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta resigns after less than a year in office More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1572 - Hans Christoph Haiden, German composer, organist and poet (d. 1617) 1858 - Joseph Thomson, Scottish geologist and early African explorer (Thomson's Gazelle), born in Penpont, Dumfries, Scotland (d. 1895) 1903 - Fritz Büchtger, German composer, educator, and modern music proponent (Association for Contemporary Music; Studio for New Music), born in Munich, Germany (d. 1978) 1926 - Alfred Körner, Austrian soccer striker (47 caps; Rapid Wien), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2020) 1945 - Gregory Hines, American actor and dancer (White Nights, Taps), born in NYC, New York (d. 2003) 1977 - Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer, born in Ladysmith, South Africa (d. 2007) More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1760 - François Colin de Blamont, French composer, dies at 69 1922 - Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish lawyer and politician (Minister of the Interior), assassinated at 41 1929 - Tom Burke, American athlete (Olympic gold 100m, 400m 1896), dies at 53 1990 - Jean Wallace [Walasek], actress (Big Combo), dies of hemorrhage at 66 1998 - Claude Prey, French composer, dies at 72 2003 - Dolly the sheep, first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, dies young from a progressive lung disease aged 6 More Famous Deaths »

1633 - Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun 1786 - Abraham Baldwin selected president of University of Georgia 1858 - Sir Richard Burton and John Speake explore Lake Tanganyika, Africa 1866 - Jesse James holds up his first bank, stealing $15,000 from the Clay County Savings Association in Liberty, Missouri 1927 - Uprising against Portuguese regime of Gen Carmona defeated 1946 - "The Duchess Misbehaves" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 5 performances 1948 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Richard Button USA 1993 - Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (21.87 sec) 1994 - Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5000m 6:34,96 1995 - Howard Stern radio show premieres in San Diego CA on XTRA-FM More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1706 - Battle at Fraustadt: Swedish army beats Russia and Saxon forces, one of Swedish's Greatest victories in the Great Northern War 1864 - Miridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek and Wyatt, Mississippi 1915 - The French try to drive the Germans forces back into the Champagne region 1948 - Wright Flyer, 1st plane to fly, returns to US from England 1970 - 16th National Film Awards (India): "Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne" wins the Golden Lotus 1970 - Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1879 - Sarojini Naidu, Indian freedom fighter and poet, born in Hyperbad, India (d. 1949) 1895 - Fred Essler, Austrian actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown, Saratoga Trunk), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1973) 1944 - Sal Bando, American baseball third baseman (4 x MLB All-Star; World Series 1972, 73, 74 Oakland A's) and executive (GM Milwaukee Brewers 1991-99), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2023) 1953 - Suleiman Nyambui, Tanzanian runner (world record 5k indoor), born in Tanzania 1956 - Princess Alia bint Al Hussein, Jordanian Royal Family member, born in Amman, Jordan 1974 - Jeff Duran, US radio personality, born in Arcadia, California More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1787 - Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat, dies at 67 1959 - William Axt, American film scores composer (The Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 70 1980 - David Janssen, American actor (The Fugitive, Harry O), dies at 49 1992 - Dorothy Tree [Triebitz], American actress (Abe Lincoln in Illinois; Confessions Of A Nazi Spy; The Asphalt Jungle), dies of heart failure at 85 1995 - Azeddine Medjoubi, head Algerian nationally theater, murdered at 49 2006 - Peter Strawson, British philosopher (Oxford University), dies at 86 More Famous Deaths »

1130 - Pope Innocent II elected 1577 - Spanish land guardian Don Juan of Habsburg signs "Eternal Edict" 1908 - Anna Jeanes bequeaths $1,000,000 to Swarthmore to become all female 1912 - China adopts the Gregorian calendar 1941 - First injection of penicillin into a patient by British physician Charles Fletcher at Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, England 1947 - Daytime fireball and meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia 1959 - The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design 1994 - Model Anna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose 2001 - "Ain't Nothing 'bout You" single released by Brooks and Dunn 2017 - North Korea conducts a solid fuel ballistic missile test from Banghyon air base More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1855 - Michigan State University established 1938 - Austrian chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg visits Adolf Hitler in Berchtesgaden 1949 - "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 performances 1958 - Boston Celtic Bill Russell grabs 41 rebounds to beat Syracuse Nationals, 119-101 1962 - Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia 2006 - A powerful winter storm blankets the Northeastern United States dumping 1 to 2 feet of snow from Washington, D.C. up to Boston, Massachusetts. The storm dumped a record 26.9 inches of snow in New York City. More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1778 - Franz Joseph Volkert, Austrian composer, conductor and organist, born in Vienna (d. 1845) 1857 - Bobby Peel, English cricket all-rounder (20 Tests, 3 x 50, 101 wickets, BB 7/31; Yorkshire CCC), born in Churwell, England (d. 1941) 1900 - Fred Emney, British actor (Let the People Sing, Adventures of a Private Eye, Lilac Domino), born in London, England (d. 1980) 1924 - Hans Berghuis, Dutch author/poet (3 Women, Adam) 1946 - Ajda Pekkan, Turkish singer and actress, born in Istanbul, Turkey 1965 - Brett Kavanaugh, American judge, born in Washington, D.C. More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1889 - Andrew Greenwood, English cricket batsman (2 Tests, HS 49; Yorkshire CCC), dies from tuberculosis at 41 1896 - Isaac Murphy, American jockey, 628 wins on 1,412 mounts (44.5%), dies at 35 1960 - Bobby Clark, American vaudevillian, clown and actor (in comedy act with Paul McCullough), dies at 71 1973 - Benjamin Frankel, British composer, dies at 67 2005 - Rafael Vidal, Venezuelan athlete (b. 1964) 2011 - Gino Cimoli, American baseball player, dies at 81 More Famous Deaths »

1895 - -17°F (-27.2°C) in Braemar, Grampian (UK record) 1897 - White Rose Mission opens on East 97th Street, NYC 1927 - US Female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran 1958 - Ruth Carol Taylor is 1st African-American woman hired as flight attendant, Ithaca NY 1968 - Jeffrey Kramer survives 76-m jump, Washington Bridge, Hudson River New York 1975 - Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for leadership of the British Conservative Party 2009 - Uri Geller purchases Lamb Island, Scotland, previously known for its witch trials 2014 - 77 people are killed after a military transport plane crashes in Algeria 2018 - Norway sweeps the medals in the Olympic 30k cross country skiathlon at Pyeongchang; Simen Hegstad Krüger wins gold ahead of teammates Martin Johnsrud Sundby and Hans Christer Holund 2019 - Artificial Intelligence system meant to assist diagnosis in the future, pitted against physicians in test to diagnose 600,000 patients in results published in "Nature Medicine", A.I. won, just More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1837 - American Physiological Society organizes in Boston 1895 - -17°F (-27.2°C) in Braemar, Grampian (UK record) 1899 - -15°F (-26°C), Washington, D.C. (district record) 1908 - Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory vs England 1964 - Beatles 1st live appearance in US; Washington, D.C. Coliseum 1977 - 20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean) More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1377 - King Ladislas of Naples (d. 1414) 1897 - Yves de La Casiniere, French composer, born in Angers, France (d. 1971) 1908 - Vivian Fuchs, English geologist and explorer (led Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1st to cross Antarctica via South Pole), born in Freshwater, Isle of Wight (d. 1999) 1941 - Glenn Randall Jr, stuntman (Species, Mrs Soffel, Return of the Jedi) 1967 - Derek King, Canadian NHL left wing (NY Islanders), born in Hamilton, Canada 1969 - Mark Atkinson, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (Tasmanian batsman), born in Sydney, Australia More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1879 - Willem Josephus van Zeggelen, Dutch author, dies at 67 1931 - Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine), dies at 76 1982 - Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (Rashomon, 7 Samurais), dies at 76 1993 - Joy Garrett, American actress (Jo Johnson-Days of Our Lives), dies of liver failure at 47 1994 - Sorrell Booke, American actor (Boss Hogg in Dukes of Hazard), dies of colorectal cancer at 64 2017 - Harvey Lichtenstein, American head of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, dies at 87 More Famous Deaths »

1855 - US citizenship laws amended; all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship 1940 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer 1971 - Royal Albert Hall bans scheduled concert featuring Frank Zappa 1971 - "Tapestry", second album by Carole King, is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year 1972) 1984 - Soviet cross-country skier Nikolay Zimyatov wins a career 4th Olympic gold medal when he takes out the 30k event in Sarajevo; 3 gold in Lake Placid 1980 1985 - Andrea Schöne skates ladies world record 5 km (7:32.82) 1998 - Olympic figure skater Peggy Fleming undergoes breast cancer surgery 2004 - Kanye West releases his debut album "The College Dropout" (2005 Grammy Best Rap Album) 2013 - 5 people are killed by a falling lifeboat from the cruise ship Thomson Majesty in the Canary islands 2019 - Insect populations are collapsing worldwide threatening a“catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems” according to a global review saying 40% declining, 30% endangered More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1535 - 12 nude anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets 1882 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's opera "Snyegurochka" premieres in St Petersburg 1927 - US President Calvin Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference 1962 - Jim Beatty sets American indoor mile record (3:58.9) in LA 2014 - German alpine skier Maria Höfl-Riesch retains her Olympic combined title (Vancouver 2010) when she Nicole Hosp beats of Austria by 0.4s 2019 - 72nd British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs): "Roma" Best Film, Alfonso Cuarón Best Director, Olivia Coleman, Rami Malek best actors More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1741 - Franz Adam Veichtner, German violinist and composer, baptized in Regensburg, Bavaria (d. 1822) 1927 - Nigel Bagnall, British field marshal 1940 - Peter Middleton, CEO (Lloyd's) 1961 - Eva Pfaff, German tennis player (Australian Open doubles 1982 runner-up), born in Königstein im Taunus, Germany 1970 - Nobushige Kumakubo, Japanese racing driver, born in Fukushima, Japan 1981 - Holly Willoughby, British TV presenter, born in Brighton, United Kingdom More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1774 - Florian Leopold Gassmann, Bohemian composer, dies at 44 1836 - Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, French chemist (worked with husband Antoine Lavoisier), dies at 78 1918 - Abdul Hamid II, 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876-1909), dies at 75 1993 - Fred Hollows, New Zealand ophthalmologist (b. 1929) 2007 - Ned Austin, American character actor (b. 1925) 2022 - Nikolai Manoshin, Russian soccer midfielder (8 caps; FC Torpedo Moscow, CSKA Moscow) and manager (Somalia, Yemen, Mali), dies at 83 More Famous Deaths »

1744 - Battle at Toulon (French/Spanish vs English fleet of Adm Matthews) 1918 - US Army chaplain school organizes at Ft Monroe, Virginia 1924 - Nakhichevan ASSR constituted within Azerbaijan SSR 1939 - Belgian Spaak government falls 1956 - KHPL (now KWNB) TV channel 6 in Hayes Center, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast 1971 - Elektra Records releases eponymous debut album of American singer-songwriter Carly Simon; garners two Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist 1972 - British government declares state of emergency after month-long coal miners' strike 1974 - "The Americans (A Canadian's Opinion)" by Gordon Sinclair peaks at #24 1986 - 36th NBA All-Star Game, Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX: East beats West, 139-132; MVP: Isiah Thomas, Detroit Pistons, G 1989 - Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1933 - -63°F (-53°C), Moran, Wyoming (state record) 1940 - Joe Louis beats Arturo Godoy in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 1943 - Japanese troops evacuate Guadalcanal, ending the epic World War II battle on the Solomon Islands in the Pacific 1979 - ABC airs "Heroes of Rock N Roll" special, featuring archival performances of 62 artists 1989 - Michael Manley's Socialist Party wins Jamaica parliamentary election 2020 - Suspected militants attack and kill at least 30 people, many while sleeping in their cars in Auno, north-eastern Nigeria, kidnapping women and children More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1871 - Howard T Ricketts, American pathologist (studied typhus fever), born in Findlay, Ohio (d. 1910) 1914 - Ernest Tubb, American country musician ("Walking the Floor Over You"), born in Crisp, Texas (d. 1984) 1937 - (Leonard) "Len" Skeat, British jazz double-bassist, born in East End, London, England (d. 2021) 1950 - Lloyd Weldon Keasor, American wrestler (Olympic silver 1976), born in Pumphrey, Maryland 1969 - Jeff Pahukoa, NFL guard/tackle (Atlanta Falcons) 1983 - Vladimira Krckova, Czech jazz-pop singer, composer ("Your Aura On My Lips"), actress, and poet, born in Valašské Meziříčí, Czech Republic More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1583 - Jeseph Sanalbo, Jewish convert in Rome, burned at stake 1751 - Henri François d'Aguesseau, Chancellor of France (1717-50), dies at 82 1938 - Truby King, pioneer of mothercraft, dies 1991 - James Cleveland, American gospel singer, dies at 59 2001 - Herbert Simon, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916) 2020 - Sorrel [Doris Ernestine] Hays, American pianist and composer (The Glass Woman), dies of cancer at 78 More Famous Deaths »

1627 - Gunpowder is used in a mining operation instead of mechanical tools in present-day Slovakia, reportedly the first time explosives had been used in mining 1735 - First opera performance in North American colonies "Flora" opens in Charleston, South Carolina 1744 - French and Spanish fleet leave Toulon 1862 - Battle of Roanoke Island NC, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound 1924 - 1st US coast-to-coast radio hookup: General John Joseph Carty speech in Chicago 1930 - "Happy Days Are Here Again" by Benny Mereoff hits #1 1960 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issued an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor". 1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 2009 - Singer Rihanna cancels appearance at the Grammys after being assaulted by boyfriend Chris Brown More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1896 - Georges Feydeau's "Le Dindon" premieres in Paris 1972 - Josh Gibson and Buck Leonard selected to Hall of Fame 1973 - Jean Kerrs "Finishing Touches" premieres in NYC 1983 - Wayne Gretzky sets NHL all star record of 4 goals in 1 period 1990 - "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine 1993 - Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1828 - Antonio Cagnoni, Italian composer, born in Godiasco (d. 1896) 1877 - Helen Homans, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1906), born in Englewood, New Jersey (d. 1949) 1906 - Chester F. Carlson, American inventor (photocopy), born in Seattle, Washington (d. 1968) 1930 - Manuel Castillo, Andalusian classical pianist and composer, born in Seville, Spain (d. 2005) 1966 - Hristo Stoichkov, Bulgarian footballer 1983 - Jim Verraros, American pop singer (American Idol, 2002), born in Mount Prospect, Illinois More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1611 - Jan Huygen van Linschoten, Dutch traveller and writer (Reys-Gheschrift), dies (B. 1653) 1650 - John Adriaensz, Dutch hydraulic engineer (Haarlemmermeer), dies at about 74 1909 - Edouard Silas, Dutch composer, dies at 80 1975 - Robert Robinson, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1886) 1979 - Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov, Russian poet and writer (against Pasternak), dies at 82 1994 - Raymond Scott, American composer (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85 More Famous Deaths »

1550 - Giovanni Maria del Monte elected Pope Julius III 1889 - Astronomical Society of Pacific holds 1st meeting in San Francisco 1908 - Philadelphia A's manager/owner Connie Mack sells future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Rube Waddell to St Louis Browns for $5,000 1946 - Filibuster in US Senate kills FEPC (Fair Employment Practices Committee) bill 1969 - Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO 1976 - World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation (USSR) 1979 - Faoud Bacchus scores 250 for WI v India at Kanpur 1984 - American astronaut Bruce McCandless makes 1st untethered space walk 1988 - NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 15-6; MVP: Bruce Smith, Buffalo Bills, DE 2018 - DNA analysis of Chedder Man, UK's oldest complete skeleton shows he had dark skin and blue eyes More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1301 - Edward of Caernarfon (later Edward II) becomes the first English Prince of Wales 1912 - 2nd Dutch 11 city skate (Coen de Koenig wins (11:40) 1943 - Shoe rationing begins in US (may purchase up to 3 more pairs in 1942) 1964 - Baskin-Robbins introduces Beatle Nut ice cream 1974 - Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day) 1985 - Marshall U's Bruce Morris scores a basket from 92'5" More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1899 - Arvid Pelshe, Latvian Communist leader (First Secretary of the Latvian SSR, CPSU Politburo member), born near Zālīte, Latvia (d. 1983) 1904 - Alison Leggatt, British character actress (Day of Triffids, Cows), born in Kensington, London (d. 1990) 1925 - Marius Constant, Romanian-born French composer and conductor (founded Ars Nova), born in Bucharest, Romania (d. 2004) 1931 - Gloria Talbott, American film and television actress, sometimes known as "the Scream Queen" for her work in B-movies, born in Glendale, California (d. 2000) 1960 - James Spader, American actor (Endless Love, Wall St, Mannequin), born in NYC, New York 1968 - Peter Bondra, Lutsk Ukr, NHL right wing (Washington Capitals) More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1693 - Paul Pellisson, French writer, dies at 68 1994 - Richard Bissell, US under director of CIA (Pig's Bay), dies at 84 2005 - Bob Turner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1934) 2012 - Phil Bruns, American actor and writer (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman - "George Shumway"), dies of natural causes at 80 2018 - Mickey Jones, American musician and actor (Home Improvement, Justified), dies at 76 2019 - Frank Robinson, American Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder, manager (14 x MLB All-Star; NL MVP 1961; AL MVP 1966; World Series 1966, 70; Baltimore Orioles), dies of bone cancer at 83 More Famous Deaths »

1902 - Young Women's Hebrew Association organizes in NYC 1934 - Far right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France 1943 - Singer Frank Sinatra debuts on radio's "Your Hit Parade" 1948 - World and European champion Barbara Ann Scott becomes the first Canadian to win a women's figure skating Olympic gold medal at the St. Moritz Winter Games 1969 - The New Ulster Movement forms, promoting moderate and non-sectarian policies and to assist those candidates who support Northern Ireland Prime MinisterTerence O'Neill 1973 - 6th ABA All-Star Game: West 123 beats East 111 at Utah 1993 - 44th NHL All-Star Game, Montreal Forum, Montreal, QC: Wales beats Campbell, 16-6; MVP: Mike Gartner, NY Rangers, RW 1994 - NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 17-3; MVP: Andre Rison, Atlanta Falcons, WR 1995 - MLB outfielder Darryl Strawberry suspended from baseball for 60 days for positive cocaine test 2019 - Quadriga, Canada's biggest cryptocurrency exchange is unable to get to $145 million of bitcoin assets after its CEO dies with its access passwords More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1760 - Niccolò Piccinni's opera buffa "La buona figliuola" (The Good-Natured Girl) first performed at the Teatro delle Dame, Rome, Italy, with an all-male cast 1855 - British government of Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston forms 1911 - Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) 1947 - Compton and Arthur Morris both complete dual tons in same Test Cricket 1979 - Supreme court of Lahore affirms death sentence against Premier Bhutto 2018 - Brazilian jockey Jorge Ricardo equals world record number of victories for a jockey - 12,844 in Rio de Janeiro More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1673 - Maximilian Dietrich Freisslich, German composer, born in Immelborn, Germany (d. 1731) 1868 - Syd Callaway, Australian cricket all-rounder (3 Tests, 6 wickets, BB 5/37, HS 41; NSW CA, Canterbury [NZ]), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 1923) 1931 - Mamie Van Doren, American actress, model, singer, and sex symbol (Teacher's Pet, The Navy vs. the Night Monsters), born in Rowena, South Dakota 1957 - Kathy Najimy, American actress and activist (Sister Act, Veronica's Closet), born in San Diego, California 1972 - Mark Labbrook, Australian 200m/400m runner (Olympics 1996), born in Melbourne, Australia 1993 - Tinashe [Kachingwe], American actress and singer (Nightride), born in Lexington, Kentucky More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1785 - Iman Willem Falck, Dutch governor of Ceylon (1765-83), dies at 48 1896 - Abraham van Stolk, Dutch art collector, dies at 82 1963 - Abd el-Krim [Mohamed ibn Abdelkrim El-Khattabi], Moroccan political and military leader (Republic of the Rif), dies at 85 1966 - Algot Haquinius, Swedish pianist, and composer, dies at 79 2012 - Billy Bean, American jazz guitarist (John Lewis; Herbie Mann; Bud Shank), dies at 79 2015 - André Brink, South African writer (Kennis van die aand - 1st Afrikaans book banned), dies at 79 More Famous Deaths »

1864 - Danish army begins its withdrawal from Danevirke to Dybbøl through driven snow, last time the Danes would occupy Danevirke, symbol of Danish identity 1897 - Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel 1917 - The last of the American troops commanded by General John Pershing leave Mexico; President Carranza will be assassinated within the next year 1933 - Crew of Dutch "7 Provinces" mutiny after pay cuts 1967 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren 1969 - Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, vice-president, general manager, and head coach of NFL Washington Redskins 1970 - Test Cricket debut of John Traicos, South Africa v Australia, Durban 1978 - Fred Newman makes 88 consecutive basketball free throws blindfolded 1994 - 68 killed and 200 wounded after a mortar bomb is set off in Sarajevo 1997 - Japan's Ministry of Finance announces plans to cut import tariffs on crude oil and most petroleum products More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1818 - Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway 1870 - 1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia 1885 - News of the fall of Khartoum reaches London 1962 - French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence 1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1991 - Howard Stern kisses NY Giant Leonard Marshall's ass over bet, Stern lost claiming the Giants would lose the Super Bowl More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1804 - Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (Finland's national anthem "Maamme"), born in Jakobstad, Finland (d. 1877) 1923 - Doris Bohrer [Sharrar], American WWII spy, born in Basin, Wyoming (d. 2016) 1948 - Sven-Göran Eriksson, Swedish football manager and player, born in Sunne, Sweden 1953 - Valerie Carter, American folk-rock singer-songwriter, and session vocalist, born in Winter Haven, Florida (d. 2017) 1968 - Nir Kabaretti, Israeli conductor, born in Tel Aviv, Israel 1980 - Brad Fitzpatrick, American programmer (LiveJournal), born in Iowa, United States More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1807 - Pasquale Paoli, Corsican freedom fighter, dies at 80 1892 - Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist (b. 1807) 1946 - George Arliss, British Academy Award-winning actor (Disraeli; Devil; Green Goddess), dies at 77 1977 - Izaak Boleslavski, Russian chess player, dies at 67 1979 - Eddie Paynter, English cricketer (20 Tests for England, avg 59.23), dies at 77 2003 - Helge Boes, American Central Intelligence Agency officer More Famous Deaths »