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 …
1552 – Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia (1598-1605) and chief adviser to Tsar Fyodor I, born in Vyazma, Russia (d. 1605) 1802 – Nicholas Wiseman, 1st archbishop of Westminster (1860-65), born in Sevilla, Spain (d. 1865) 1890 – Marin Sais, American actress (The Pony Express Girl), born in San Rafael, California (d. 1971) 1924 – …
1858 – Government of India transferred from the East India Company to the British Crown 1880 – British Parliament officially adopts Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) 1914 – Belgian government receives German ultimatum 1928 – Benito Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia (Ethiopia) 1991 – Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) launched 2018 – Japanese newspaper …
1541 – Simon Grynaeus, German theologian dies at about 48 {[exact birthdate unknown c.1493] 1667 – Paul Foot, lawyer/historian, dies at 48 1932 – Arnold Fothergill, English cricket fast bowler (2 Tests, 8 wickets. BB 4/19; Somerset CCC, MCC), dies at 77 1944 – Manuel L. Quezon y Molina, Second President of the Philippines (1935-42), …
1881 – Rose Macaulay, English writer (The Towers of Trebizond), born in Rugby, Warwickshire, England (d. 1958) 1902 – Hendrik Johan Kruls, Dutch general and chief military authority (1944-46), born in Amsterdam (d. 1975) 1903 – Paul Horgan, American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (Mountain Standard Time), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1995) 1911 – Ronald …
1954 – South African Natives Resettlement Act comes into effect, empowering the government to remove Africans from any area within and adjacent to the magisterial district of Johannesburg 1968 – Canada begins replacing silver with nickel in its coins 1996 – American athlete Michael Johnson wins 200 m at the Atlanta Olympics in a world …
450 – Petrus Chrysologus, Emilia-Romagnan priest (1st archbishop of Ravenna, 433-50), Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint, dies at about 44 [birthdate uncertain] 1943 – Hedley Verity, English cricket spin bowler (40 Tests, 144 wickets @ 24.37), dies in POW camp in Italy at 38 1954 – Onofre Marimón, Argentine racing driver (b. 1923) 1985 …
1578 – Catharina Belgica of Nassau, Countess of Hanau-Münzenberg and daughter of William of Orange, born in Antwerp (d. 1648) 1830 – František Zden?k Skuherský, Czech composer, born in Opo?no, Kingdom of Bohemia (d. 1892) 1848 – Jean Robert Planquette, French composer (Bells of Corneville), born in Paris (d. 1903) 1944 – Robert C. Merton, …
1655 – Russo-Polish War (1654-1667): the Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years 1790 – First US patent is granted to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process 1853 – First nighttime surgery performed at Lychakiv Hospital in Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine) using new kerosene …
1550 – Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (b. 1505) 1691 – Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (b. 1639) 1741 – Wierich PL count von DauWirich Philipp von Daun, Austrian nobleman and field marshal, Viceroy of Naples, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands, dies at 71 1947 – Joseph Cook, 6th Prime …