1839 – Nelson Appleton Miles, American Major General (Union Army), born in Westminster, Massachusetts (d. 1925) 1904 – (William) Elmo Tanner, American big band singer, whistler (Ted Weems Orchestra – “Heartaches”), bandleader, and DJ, born in Nashville, Tennessee (d. 1990) 1919 – Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer (King Kong), born in Torre Annunziata, Italy …
1984 – Carl Lewis wins his third gold medal of the Los Angeles Olympics, joining Kirk Baptiste and Thomas Jefferson in an American sweep of the 200 m 1988 – Rap group N.W.A releases their debut studio album “Straight Outta Compton” 1992 – Spanish center forward Kiko scores twice as the home team wins the …
1033 – Frederick II, duke of Upper Lorraine 1106 – Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1084–1105), dies at 54 1485 – Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, Scottish prince 1547 – Cajetan of Thiene, Italian priest and saint who founded Catholic order of Theatines, dies at 66 1639 – Martin van den Hove, Dutch scientist …
317 – Constantius II, Roman Emperor (337-61), born in Sirmium, Pannonia Inferior (d. 361) 1902 – Ann Harding, American actress (East is West, Janie), born in San Antonio, Texas (d. 1981) 1910 – Clark Poling, American US Army chaplain and Protestant minister (The Four Chaplains), born in Columbus, Ohio (d. 1943) 1927 – Carl “Alfalfa” …
1914 – Russia invades East Prussia 1926 – George S. Kaufman and Irving Berlin’s musical “The Cocoanuts,” starring the Marx Brothers, closes at the Lyric Theatre, NYC, after 276 performances and is later adapted as a film 1936 – Twenty-two nations line up as the first basketball competition in the Olympic Games begins in Berlin; …
1657 – Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Polish-Lithuanian military leader of Zaporozhian Cossacks (organized rebellion of Ukrainian Cossacks against the Polish), dies (b. c. 1595) 1821 – Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, Italian composer and conductor, dies at 64 1828 – Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman, dies of a fever at 43 1881 – James Springer White, American …
1609 – Richard Bennett, English Colonial Governor of Virginia, born in Wiveliscombe, Somerset (d. 1675) 1873 – John Wesley Work Jr., 1st African-American collector of folk songs and spirituals, born in Nashville, Tennessee (or 1871) (d. 1925) 1877 – Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (Senate Majority Leader), born in Lewiston, Maine (d. 1952) 1934 …
1675 – Russian Tsar Alexis bans foreign hair styles for those below the nobility 1921 – The municipal ferry system connecting Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens begins 1937 – MLB overturns New York Yankees’ 7-6 win over Cleveland Indians due to umpire error 1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American national …
1778 – Thomas Linley the younger, English violinist and composer known as the “English Mozart”, drowns in a boating accident at 22 1799 – Richard Howe, British admiral, dies at 73 1895 – Friedrich Engels, German social philosopher and revolutionary socialist who co-authored “The Communist Manifesto” with Karl Marx, dies of throat cancer at 74 …
1540 – Joseph Justus Scaliger, French-Dutch scholar (revolutionised ideas about ancient chronology), born in Agen, France (d. 1609) 1828 – Giovanni Rossi, Italian composer, born in Borgo San Donnino, Duchy of Parma and Piacenza (d. 1886) 1906 – Wassely Leontief, Russian American economist (Nobel 1973), born in Munich, Germany (d. 1999) 1923 – Devan Nair, …
1435 – Battle of Ponza: King Alfonso V of Aragon is captured by the Genoese 1862 – Union forces prevent Confederate attempts to capture Baton Rouge, Louisiana 1926 – French and German trade agreement is signed 1974 – US President Richard Nixon admits he withheld information about Watergate break-in 1985 – Establishment of the Rock …
1578 – Thomas Stuckley, English adventurer and mercenary, killed at the Battle of Three Kings in Morocco 1612 – Hugh Broughton, English scholar (b. 1549) 1718 – René Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France, dies at 62 1778 – Pierre de Rigaud, Canadian-born French Governor of New France, dies …
1502 – Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish artist, architect and designer of tapestries and stained glass (court painter to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V), born in Aelst (d. 1550) 1521 – Pope Urban VII, Roman head of the Catholic Church and shortest recognized ruler of the Papal States, born in Rome, Papal States (d. 1590) …
1914 – US declares neutrality on the outbreak of WWI 1936 – Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas leads a self-coup, giving him authoritarian control of the country 1941 – Winston Churchill departs on the Prince of Wales to the US 1942 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo, Egypt 1948 – Five-day Southern …
1879 – Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793) 1942 – Richard Willstätter, German chemist (Nobel 1915), dies at 69 1944 – Felka Platek, Polish painter, wife of painter Felix Nussbaum, murdered at in Auschwitz Concentration Camp at 44 1947 – Vic Willis, American Baseball HOF pitcher (no-hitter 1899; World Series 1909; MLB ERA leader 1899 …
1850 – Reginald Heber Roe, 1st Vice-Chancellor of the University of Queensland and 2nd Headmaster of Brisbane Grammar School, born in Blandford, Dorset, England (d. 1926) 1887 – Rupert Brooke, British WW I poet (Lithuania, The Soldier), born in Rugby, England (d. 1915) 1918 – Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official, born in The Bronx, New …
1933 – Philadelphia A’s defeat NY Yankees 7-0, the first time in 308 games “Bronx Bombers” are shut out 1949 – Republic of Indonesia proclaims ceasefire 1954 – The Convair XFY-1 Pogo, a VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft, makes its first successful flight 1972 – British Prime Minister Edward Heath proclaims an emergency crisis …
1100 – William II [William Rufus], King of England (1087-1100), killed by an arrow shot by Sir Walter Tyrell while hunting in the New Forest at 44 1921 – Enrico Caruso, Italian operatic tenor (Faust), dies of pleurisy at 48 1955 – Rupprecht, last crown prince of Bavaria and German fieldmarshall during WWI, dies at …