1808 – Charles Fisher, Canadian politician and jurist (Premier of the Colony of New Brunswick 1854-56, 1857-51), born in Fredericton, New Brunswick (d. 1880) [or born 16 Sept] 1944 – Linda Ellerbee, American journalist (Weekend, NBC Overnight), born in Bryan, Texas 1946 – Jean-Claude Arnault, French Swedish photographer involved in Nobel Prize scandal, born in …
1483 – Sistine Chapel to Our Lady of the Assumption in Vatican City is consecrated with a Mass by Pope Sixtus IV [some sources cite August 9] 1931 – Roy Wilkins joins the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as Assistant Secretary 1949 – WOTV TV channel 8 in Grand Rapids, MI …
1852 – Margaret Taylor, wife of Zachary Taylor and 1st lady of the United States (1849-50), dies at 63 1856 – William Buckland, dean (Westminster)/geologist, dies 1891 – Johnny Mullagh, Australian cricket all-rounder (Aboriginal tour of England 1868), dies at 50 1969 – Leonard Woolf, English author and husband of Virginia Woolf, dies at 88 …
1814 – Henry Hayes Lockwood, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Kent County, Delaware (d. 1899) 1847 – Robert Comtesse, Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1899-1912), born in Valangin, Sweden (d. 1922) 1868 – Leone Sinigaglia, Italian composer, born in Turin, Italy (d. 1944) 1916 – Wellington Mara, Co-Owner of …
554 – Ravenna becomes the seat of the Byzantine military governor in Italy 1782 – Suriname forbids selling enslaved mothers without their babies 1900 – First electric tram in Netherlands (Leidseplein-Brouwersgracht) 1964 – LA Angels pitcher Bo Belinsky is suspended after a hotel room fight with elderly Los Angeles Times sportswriter Braven Dyer 1965 – …
1382 – Eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile, dies giving birth to her third child at 24 1787 – Isaac de Pinto, Dutch merchant (Dutch East India Company), and scholar, dies at 70 1910 – Florence Nightingale, British nurse who revolutionized nursing during the Crimean War, dies at 90 1916 – Fritz …
1889 – Camillien Houde, French Canadian politician and Mayor of Montreal, born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1958) 1912 – Rita Johnson, American actress (Honolulu, All Mine to Give), born in Worcester, Massachusetts (d. 1965) 1914 – Ivon De Bie, Belgian jazz pianist (Django Reinhardt), and bandleader, born in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Belgium (d. 1989) 1920 – Charlie …
1608 – John Smith’s story of Jamestown’s first days submitted for publication 1892 – US black newspaper “Afro-American” begins publishing from Baltimore 1948 – Hungarian boxer László Papp wins the first of three consecutive Olympic gold medals, defeating British middleweight Johnny Wright on points at the London Games 1954 – 21st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: …
1633 – Jacopo Peri, Italian composer and singer who wrote the 1st recognized opera “Dafne”, dies at 71 1750 – Rachel Ruysch, Dutch painter (portrait of sovereign Johan von de Pfalz), dies at 86 1896 – Thomas Chamberlain, officer of the 20th Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg 1970 – Glenn Hartranft, American athlete (discus …
1872 – Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein, British princess and granddaughter of Queen Victoria, born in Old Windsor, England (d. 1956) 1885 – Alexander Albrecht, Slovak composer, born in Arad, Kingdom of Hungary (d. 1958) 1907 – Joe Besser, American actor and comedian (The Three Stooges, Let’s Make Love, Africa Screams), born in St. Louis, Missouri …
1905 – King Leopold II opens Antwerp Central Station in Belgium 1914 – France and Great Britain declare war on Austria-Hungary 1960 – USAF Major Robert M. White takes the X-15 to an altitude of 41,600 meters 1977 – For the second consecutive day, Oakland’s Manny Sanguillen foils a no-hit bid 1980 – Warner Bros. …
1656 – Prince Ottavio Piccolomini, Italian nobleman, Duke of Amalfi, and field marshal of the Holy Roman Empire, dies at 56 1851 – Lorenz Oken, German naturalist, dies at 72 1890 – John Henry Newman, British thologian (Tract 90), educator, poet (Dream of Gerontius), Anglican priest, Catholic priest, cardinal and saint, dies of pneumonia at …
1900 – Alexander Mosolov, Soviet composer (Iron Foundry; Four Newspaper Advertisements; Signal), born in Kyiv, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) (d. 1973) 1914 – José Silva, American parapsychologist, author of the Silva Method and Silva UltraMind ESP System, born in Laredo, Texas (d. 1999) 1926 – Aaron Klug, Biochemist (Nobel prize for Chemistry 1982), born in …
1963 – Kingston Trio are the mystery guests on “What’s My Line?” 1970 – Two Royal Ulster Constabulary officers are killed by the Irish Republican Army when they set off a booby trap bomb planted in a car near Crossmaglen, County Armagh 1973 – The birth of hip-hop: DJ Kool Herc uses two turntables, playing …
794 – Fastrada, 3rd wife of French King Charles the Great, dies at 30 1655 – Louis de Vadder, Flemish painter, dies at 50 1717 – Nicolaas Witsen, Dutch statesman and mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 76 1843 – Jakob F. Fries, German philosopher, dies at 69 1896 – Otto Lilenthal, German aviation pioneer, killed …
1556 – Philipp Nicolai, German Lutheran pastor, poet, composer and hymnodist, born in Mengeringhausen, Landgraviate of Hesse, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1607) 1753 – Edmund Randolph, US Founding Father, 1st US Attorney General (1789-94) and 2nd US Secretary of State (1794-95), born in Williamsburg, Virginia, British America (d. 1813) 1856 – Paul Geisler, German conductor, …
1885 – Leo Daft opens America’s first commercially operated electric streetcar in Baltimore 1920 – Allies recognize Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Romania 1940 – Dutch Prince Bernhard Fund forms 1942 – General Bernard Montgomery is appointed commander of the British 8th Army in North Africa 1965 – USAF test pilot Joe Engle in the X-15 reaches …
1727 – Johann Philipp Treiber, German composer dies at 52 1744 – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English patron of the arts (George Frideric Handel) (b. 1673) 1911 – John Gates (“Bet-a-million” Gates), American inventor and industrialist who established the market for barbed wire fencing, dies following an unsuccessful operation to remove a throat …