1866 – George Morrison, American entrepreneur (owner of Mammoth Caves), born at the border of Ohio and Pennsylvania (d. 1937) 1870 – George Dixon, Canadian boxer (World Bantamweight title, 1892; World Featherweight champion, 1891-97 and 1898-1901; 1st Black athlete to win a World C’ship in any sport), born in Halifax, Nova Scotia (d. 1908) 1872 …
1221 – Emperor Go-Horikawa, aged only 10 years old, ascends to the Chrysanthemum Throne of Japan 1566 – Great Britain executes Agnes Waterhouse, the first British woman convicted of witchcraft in Chelmsford, England 1923 – Albert Einstein speaks about pacifism in Berlin 1940 – SV Urk Dutch soccer team forms 1973 – Led Zeppelin has …
1641 – John Amner, English composer, dies at 61 1793 – Hayashi Shihei, Japanese military scholar, dies at 54 1847 – John Walter II, English newspaper owner (who made The Times into an important newspaper, 1812-47), dies at 71 1865 – William Henry Smith, English bookseller (W H Smith), dies at 73 1937 – Muslim …
1609 – Judith Leyster, Dutch Golden Age painter, baptized in Haarlem, Dutch Republic (d. 1660) 1896 – Barbara La Marr [Reatha Watson], American vaudeville and silent film actress (The White Moth), and screenwriter, born in Yakima, Washington (d. 1926) 1902 – Kenneth F. Fearing, American poet (Dead Reckoning), born in Oak Park, Illinois (d. 1961) …
1893 – Vizcaya Bridge, the largest transporter bridge in the world designed by Basque architect Alberto de Palacio, opens over the River Ibaizabal 1904 – Rafael Reyes becomes dictator of Colombia after losing Panama 1942 – The Zionist partisans in Poland form the ?ydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ZOB) or Jewish Fighting Organization 1980 – Peru adopts …
916 – Clemens van Ohrid, first bishop of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and saint, dies 1965 – Henri Daniel-Rops, French writer and historian (b. 1901) 1990 – Salim Ali, Indian Ornithologist (Birdman of India), dies at 90 1994 – Kevin Carter, South African photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize winner (member of the Bang-Bang Club), commits suicide …
1625 – Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, English soldier, admiral and patron to Samuel Pepys, born in Barnwell (d. 1672) 1886 – Ernst May, German architect and city planner (New Frankfurt), born in Frankfurt am Main (d. 1970) 1890 – Judith Lowry, American actress (The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds), born in …
1900 – German Kaiser Wilhelm II delivers his “Hun” speech at Bremerhaven, addressing German troops departing to suppress the Boxer Rebellion in China, later used as propaganda in World War I 1914 – Roda JC soccer team forms in Kerkrade 1954 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Keller GC: Chick Herbert scores a 4 and 3 …
1801 – Daniel Dal Barba, Italian composer, dies at 86 1836 – José Melchor Gomis, Spanish Romantic composer, dies of tuberculosis at 45 [some source date death as 4 August] 1918 – Eduard “Mick” Mannock, British WW I flying ace (Victoria Cross), killed in action at 31 1919 – Edward Poynter, British painter, President of …
1727 – Horatio Gates, British-American soldier (general of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War), born in Maldon, England (d. 1806) 1739 – George Clinton, American revolutionary war soldier and politician (US Vice-President, 1805-12; Governor of New York, 1777-95 and 1801-04), born in Little Britain, New York (d. 1812) 1885 – Andre Maurois [Emile Herzog], …
1775 – US Continental Congress creates United States Post Office (U.S.P.O.) in Philadelphia under Benjamin Franklin 1903 – Horatio Nelson Jackson, Sewall K. Crocker, and a bulldog named Bud complete the first automobile trip across the United States, traveling from San Francisco to New York in a two-cylinder Winton in 63 days, 12 hours, and …
1881 – Nathan Clifford, American statesman, diplomat and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, dies at 77 1934 – Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian right-wing politician (Chancellor, 1932-34), assassinated by Nazis at 41 1973 – Louis St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (Liberal: 1948-57), dies of natural causes at 91 1987 – Charles Stark “Doc” Draper, …
1683 – Pieter Langendijk, Dutch painter, etcher and playwright (Wiskunstenaars), born in Haarlem, Netherlands (d. 1756) 1750 – Henry Knox, American general (Continental Army and later the United States Army) and 1st US Secretary of War (1785-94), born in Boston, Massachusetts Bay (d. 1806) 1824 – Richard James Oglesby, American politician and Major General (Union …
1922 – ATandT begins broadcasting on WBAY (NYC, later WEAF, WNBC, WRCA, and WFAN) 1956 – Pittsburgh Pirates’ Roberto Clemente hits MLB’s first and only walk-off inside-the-park grand slam for a 9-8 win over visiting Chicago Cubs at Forbes Field 1963 – Belgian Senate accepts law on language regulations 1993 – Romantic comedy film “Sleepless …
1739 – Benedetto Marcello, Italian author and composer (Lettera Famigliare), dies on 53rd birthday 1819 – Sophie Gail, French singer and composer, dies at 43 1846 – Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, French King of the Netherlands (1806-10), dies at 67 1910 – Arkhip Kuindzhi, Ukrainian landscape painter, dies at 69 1995 – Jerzy Bonawentura Toeplitz, Ukrainian-Polish …
1884 – Abraham Rutgers, Dutch governor (Suriname, 1928-33), born in Amsterdam (d. 1966) 1914 – Kenneth Bancroft Clark, American civil rights activist (Dark Ghetto) and first black president of the American Psychological Association, born in Panama Canal Zone (d. 2005) 1914 – Frances Oldham Kelsey, Canadian-American FDA Director (stopped thalidomide use in the US), born …
1651 – Anthony Johnson, a free African American, receives grant of 250 acres in Virginia 1905 – Tsar Nicholas II (Russia) and Emperor Wilhelm II (Germany) sign the Björkö Treaty, whereby each country agrees to come to the other’s defense if attacked by European powers 1908 – After days of discussion with his ministers, Sultan …
685 – John V begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1812 – Battle of Mogilev: first significant fighting during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia results in minor French victory 1877 – First telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii is completed 1904 – Ice cream cone is created during the St. Louis World’s Fair, reputedly first by …