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Historical Events 421 - Friday at 12 PM - city of Venice founded 1961 - 3rd place game is one of the wildest contests in NCAA Tournament history as St Joseph's defeats Utah, 127-120 in quadruple overtime 1968 - Members of the Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) disrupt a meeting of Londonderry Corporation to protest at the lack of housing provision in the city, Northern Ireland 1979 - Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova retains her WTA Tour Championship with a 6–3, 3–6, 6–2 win over American teenager Tracey Austin in NYC 1985 - Edwin Meese III takes office as US Attorney General 2019 - Further power blackouts in Caracas, Venezuela, prompt government to tell workers and students to stay at home More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1532 - Pietro Pontio, Italian composer (Ragionamento di Musica), born in Parma, Duchy of Milan (d. 1596) 1762 - Francesco Giuseppe Pollini, Italian composer, singer, and pupil of Mozart, born in Ljubljana , Habsburg Empire (d. 1846) 1903 - Gertrude "Binnie" Barnes, actress (Last of the Mohicans, 3 Musketeers), born in London, England (d. 1998) 1930 - David Burge, American pianist, composer and conductor, born in Evanston, Illinois (d. 2013) 1960 - Idy Chan Yuk-Lin, Hong Kong actress 1982 - Álvaro Saborío, Costa Rican footballer More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1223 - Afonso II, 3rd King of Portugal (1211-23), dies at 36 1692 - Gerardus Blasius, Flemish anatomist, dies at about 66 1712 - Nehemiah Grew, English naturalist (b. 1641) 1983 - Martha Sleeper, actress (Spitfire), dies of a heart attack at 72 1991 - Marcel Lefebvre, French Catholic prelate (b. 1905) 2020 - Mark Blum, American actor (Desperately Seeking Susan, Blind Date, Presidio), dies of COVID-19 complications at 69 More Famous Deaths »

1877 - University boat race between Oxford and Cambridge ends in a dead heat 1972 - Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland 1980 - Capitol Records releases some rare Beatles tracks on the LP "Rarites" 1981 - Bombay beat Delhi by innings and 46 to win Ranji Cricket Trophy 1982 - US sub Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia 1987 - 1st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross win 1990 - Tom Hunter swims world record 50m freestyle (21.81 sec) 1996 - MTA raises NYC bridge tolls to $3.50 each way 1997 - 69th Academy Awards: "The English Patient", Geoffrey Rush and Frances McDormand win 2015 - Germanwings flight on route between Barcelona and Düsseldorf crashes in the French Alps killing all 150 on board More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1883 - 1st telephone call between NY and Chicago 1905 - A group of Cretans dedicated to Crete's union with Greece led by Eleutherios Venizelos, meet at the village of Therisso and proclaim a union in defiance of the Great Powers 1979 - 10 rebounds and 10 assists, as the Spartans cruise to a 101-67 by Penn Mich State's Earvin "Magic" Johnson registers triple-double 29 pts 1990 - Indian troops leave Sri Lanka 1999 - "The Matrix" film written and directed by The Wachowskis, starring Keanu Reeve, Lawrence Fishburne and Carrie-Ann Moss premieres 2013 - Scotland defeats Sweden to win the 2013 World Women's Curling Championship More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1919 - John J. Duncan Sr., American politician (Rep-R-TN, 1965-1988), born in Huntsville, Tennessee (d. 1988) 1938 - David Irving, British historian 1951 - Dougie Thompson, Scottich bassist (Supertramp - "Bloody Well Right"), born in Glasgow, Scotland 1957 - Scott J Horowitz, PhD/Capt USAF/astronaut (STS 75, 82), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1960 - Kelly LeBrock, American actress (Weird Science, Woman in Red), born in New York City 1977 - Natalie Hemby (Wrucke), American Grammy Award-winning country music songwriter (Miranda Lambert - "Only Prettier"; "Automatic"; Toby Keith - "Drinks After Work"), and singer (The Highwomen), born in Bloomington, Illinois More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1396 - Walter Hilton, English mystic 1563 - Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514) 1823 - Cornelis van Foreest, Dutch politician, Mayor of Alkmaar, dies at 66 1993 - John Hersey, American author (Hiroshima, Bell for Adano, Wall), dies at 78 2010 - Robert Culp, American actor, screenwriter, voice actor, and director (I Spy, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice), dies at 79 2020 - Albert Uderzo, French cartoonist and script writer (Asterix comic books), dies at 92 More Famous Deaths »

1752 - Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, dies 2 days later 1861 - London's 1st tramcars, designed by Mr Train of NY, begins operating 1931 - Indian independence fighters Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged after conducting an assassination and a bombing. Their request to be shot by a firing squad is refused. 1933 - Kroll Opera in Berlin opens 1950 - "Great to Be Alive" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 52 performances 1980 - PGA Tournament Players Championship, Sawgrass Country Club (Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida): Lee Trevino wins by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Ben Crenshaw 1981 - US Supreme Court upholds law making statutory rape a crime only for men 1988 - Geffen Records releases "Chalk Mark In A Rain Storm", Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell's 13th studio album 2019 - More than 130 Fulani people killed in Ogossagou, Mali, in attack by Dogon hunters, prompting government ban on the hunters 2023 - Canada records record population growth (+2.7%), adding 1 million people in 2022, mostly through immigration More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1630 - French troops occupy Pinerolo Piedmont 1933 - Kroll Opera in Berlin opens 1973 - After a 5½ year run soap "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" ends 1980 - 18-year old American tennis star Tracy Austin wins her only WTA Tour Championship; upsets Martina Navratilova in the final 6–2, 2–6, 6–2 in NYC 2015 - British entertainer James Corden becomes the host of "The Late Late Show" on CBS; hosts the program through 2023 2021 - First ever tweet by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey "just setting up my twttr" sells for $2.9 million in digitally autographed version More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1937 - Craig Breedlove, American auto racer (5 x world land speed record holder; first to reach 500mph (800km/h) and 600mph (970km/h), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2023) 1971 - Alexander Selivanov, NHL right wing (Tampa Bay Lightning), born in Moscow, Russia 1975 - Rita Grande, Napoli Italy, tennis star (3rd round 1996 Aust Open) 1976 - Dougie Lampkin, English motorcycle trials rider (7 x world outdoor champion; 4 x indoor world champion), born in Silsden, England 1981 - Tony Peña, Jr., Dominican baseball player 1990 - Eugenie, Princess of York and daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, born in London More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1962 - Josef van Schaik, Dutch lawyer and politician (Vice-Premier of Netherands), dies at 80 1995 - Alan Barton, English singer (Smokie, Black Lace), dies in a bus crash at 41 1995 - Russell Reading Braddon, Australian author, dies at 74 2001 - Rowland Evans, American news reporter (CNN-Evans and Novak), dies at 79 2021 - Julié Pomagalski, French snowboarder (World C'ship gold snowboard cross 1999), dies in an avalanche at 40 2022 - Madeleine Albright (née Korbell), American diplomat (UN Delegate, 1993-97), and 1st female US Secretary of State (1997-2001), dies of cancer at 84 More Famous Deaths »

1917 - The USA is the first nation to recognize the new government of Russia 1927 - Federico Garcia Lorca's first play "El Maleficio" (The Butterfly's Evil Spell) premieres in Madrid 1944 - American movie star James Stewart flies his 12th combat mission, leading the 2nd Bomb Wing in an attack on Berlin 1957 - "All Shook Up" single released by Elvis Presley 1958 - 20th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Seattle, 84-72; Seattle's future Hall of Fame small forward Elgin Baylor is named tournament MOP 1968 - Student riot in Nanterre near Paris 1986 - Ice Pairs World Championship at Geneva won by Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov (USSR) 1991 - Law enforcement officers raid fraternities at University of Virginaa, seizing drugs 2021 - World's largest painting "The Journey of Humanity" by British artist Sacha Jafri sells in Dubai for $62m to raise funds for children's charities 2023 - Microsoft founder Bill Gates says development of artificial intelligence (AI) is the most important technological advance since the graphical user interface (GUI) in 1980 More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1936 - "The Great Ziegfeld" directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring William Powell and Luise Rainer premieres in Los Angeles (Best Picture 1937 1971 - 6th Academy of Country Music Awards: Merle Haggard and Lynn Anderson win 1986 - HBO launches boxing's heavyweight-title-unification-tournament 1994 - South African government and ANC take power in Ciskei homeland 2021 - Sanctions imposed on Chinese officials over rights abuses against Uighurs in China by EU, UK, US and Canada 2022 - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party reaches a deal with opposition New Democratic Party to stay in power till 2025 More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1609 - John II Casimir Vasa [Jan Kazimierz], King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1648-68), born in Kraków, Poland (d. 1672) 1720 - Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect who introduced Neoclassical architecture to Denmark, born in St. Germain des Noyers (d. 1799) 1925 - Colin Spedding, British biologist and animal welfare advocate (d. 2012) 1934 - Orrin Hatch, American politician (US Senator from Utah (R), 1977-2019) longest-serving Utah US Senator, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2022) 1941 - Jeremy Clyde, English pop singer and guitarist (Chad and Jeremy - "A Summer Song") and actor (The Iron Lady), born in Dorney, Buckinghamshire 1946 - Laraine Ashton, fashion models' agent (London) More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1758 - Jonathan Edwards, American Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian (Original Sin), dies at 54 1771 - Gottlieb Rabener, German author (Vom Misbrauch of the Satire), dies at 56 1959 - Olga Knipper. Russian-Soviet stage actress, and wife of Anton Chekhov, dies at 1996 - Don Murray, American drummer (The Turtles), dies from post-operative complications at 50 1996 - Robert Franklin Overmyer, astronaut (STS 5, STS 51-B), dies at 59 2017 - Francine Hughes Wilson, American domestic abuse victim "The Burning Bed" who changed pubic perceptions, dies at 69 More Famous Deaths »

1864 - Battle at Henderson's Hill (Bayou Rapids) Louisiana 1961 - The Beatles' first appearance at the Cavern Club in Liverpool 1962 - Philadelphia Phillies retire pitcher Robin Roberts' # 36 1973 - Montreal Canadiens' left wing Frank Mahovlich becomes 5th NHL player to score 500 goals 1982 - Movie "Annie" directed by John Huston, starring Aileen Quinn, Albert Finney and Carol Burnett premieres 1997 - Ice Dance Championship in Lausanne, Switzerland won by Oksana Grishuk and Evgeny Platov (Rus) 2018 - English TV presenter Ant McPartlin charged with drink driving following an accident in London 2019 - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces a ban on military-style semiautomatic weapons, 6 days after the Christchurch terrorist attack 2019 - Former Brazilian President Michel Temer is arrested in São Paulo as part of a large corruption investigation 2022 - Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador inaugurates Felipe Angeles International Airport to serve Mexico City More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1702 - Queen Anne addresses English parliament 1860 - English novelist George Eliot finishes her novel "The Mill on the Floss" in Wandsworth, London 1871 - 33rd Grand National: Irish 1868 winner The Lamb claims second GN at 11/2; ridden by Tommy Pickernell 1963 - Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay is closed 1985 - Canadian Rick Hansen sets off on his 'Man in Motion' world tour in his wheelchair raising money for spinal research, from Oakridge Mall, Vancouver (successfully completes May 1987) 2019 - Bangladeshi woman with two uteruses safely gives birth to twins 26 days after giving birth to another child More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1880 - Hans Hofmann, German-American painter (Search for the Real), born in Weißenburg, Germany (d. 1966) 1911 - John Paxton, American screenwriter and producer (On The Beach, Kotch, Farewell My Lovely), born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 1985) 1913 - Ghita Ionescu, Romanian politician scientist (Communism in Romania), born in Bucharest, Romania (d. 1996) 1939 - Kathleen Widdoes, actress (Without a Trace), born in Wilmington, Delaware 1944 - Marie-Christine Barrault, actress (Stardust Memories), born in Paris, France 1969 - Ali Daei, Iranian footballer More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1768 - Jan Jacob Mauricius, Dutch governor-general of Suriname (1742-51), dies at 75 1844 - Leopold van Sasse van Ysselt, Dutch nobleman and politician, dies at 65 1920 - Federigo Tozzi, Italian writer and journalist (Torre, Tre Croci), dies from pneumonia at 37 1945 - Arthur Nebe, German SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator who took part in assassination plot against of Adolf Hitler, executed by hanging at 50 1970 - Marlen Haushofer, Austrian writer (The Wall), dies at 49 2001 - Chung Ju-yung, Korean industrialist (b. 1915) More Famous Deaths »

Historical Events 1702 - Queen Anne addresses English parliament 1860 - English novelist George Eliot finishes her novel "The Mill on the Floss" in Wandsworth, London 1871 - 33rd Grand National: Irish 1868 winner The Lamb claims second GN at 11/2; ridden by Tommy Pickernell 1963 - Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay is closed 1985 - Canadian Rick Hansen sets off on his 'Man in Motion' world tour in his wheelchair raising money for spinal research, from Oakridge Mall, Vancouver (successfully completes May 1987) 2019 - Bangladeshi woman with two uteruses safely gives birth to twins 26 days after giving birth to another child More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1880 - Hans Hofmann, German-American painter (Search for the Real), born in Weißenburg, Germany (d. 1966) 1911 - John Paxton, American screenwriter and producer (On The Beach, Kotch, Farewell My Lovely), born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 1985) 1913 - Ghita Ionescu, Romanian politician scientist (Communism in Romania), born in Bucharest, Romania (d. 1996) 1939 - Kathleen Widdoes, actress (Without a Trace), born in Wilmington, Delaware 1944 - Marie-Christine Barrault, actress (Stardust Memories), born in Paris, France 1969 - Ali Daei, Iranian footballer More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1768 - Jan Jacob Mauricius, Dutch governor-general of Suriname (1742-51), dies at 75 1844 - Leopold van Sasse van Ysselt, Dutch nobleman and politician, dies at 65 1920 - Federigo Tozzi, Italian writer and journalist (Torre, Tre Croci), dies from pneumonia at 37 1945 - Arthur Nebe, German SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator who took part in assassination plot against of Adolf Hitler, executed by hanging at 50 1970 - Marlen Haushofer, Austrian writer (The Wall), dies at 49 2001 - Chung Ju-yung, Korean industrialist (b. 1915) More Famous Deaths »

1648 - King Charles I of England first tries to escape captivity at Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight by climbing out a window - but gets stuck 1819 - London’s famous Burlington Arcade opens, the world’s 1st shopping arcade 1911 - Winter Garden Theater opens at 1634 Broadway NYC 1934 - American all-round female super athlete Babe Didrikson Zaharias pitches a hitless inning for Philadelphia A's in their exhibition pre-season baseball game against Brooklyn Dodgers 1940 - Paul Reynoud becomes French premier 1947 - 180 tonne blue whale (record) caught in South Atlantic 1957 - Britain accepts NATO offer to mediate in Cyprus, but Greece rejects it 1996 - UK admits humans can catch CJD (Mad Cow Disease) 2019 - Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts calls the state's flooding "the most widespread destruction we have ever seen in our state's history" 2022 - Intense fighting in Ukrainian city of Mariupol continues as Russian forces encircle the city, trapping 300,000 people More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1896 - Marines land in Nicaragua to protect US citizens 1942 - Major German assault on Malta 1948 - First live televised symphony performances: Eugene Ormandy leads Philadelphia Orchestra on CBS, followed 90 minutes later by Arturo Toscanini leading the NBC Orchestra on NBC 1973 - Pittsburgh Pirates right fielder Roberto Clemente elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame, 11 weeks after his death in a plane crash 1986 - New York City passes its first lesbian and gay rights legislation 2021 - Severe one-in-a-hundred-year flooding in Sydney and the surrounding state of New South Wales prompts evacuation orders More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1890 - Lauritz Melchior, Danish-American baritone tenor (National Symphony), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1973) 1896 - Hal Walker, director (I Married Joan), born in Ottumwa, Iowa (d. 1972) 1903 - Edgar Buchanan, American actor (Petticoat Junction), born in Humansville, Missouri (d. 1979) 1911 - Mieke Verstraete [Maria Augustina De Graef], Belgian-Dutch actress (Pleasantly Settled), born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1990) 1928 - Anthony Blond, British publisher (The Publishing Game, Book Book), born in Sale, Cheshire (d. 2008) 1984 - Winta [Efrem], Eritrean-Norwegian RandB singer (Hot Romance (Rok With You); Nails on Chalkboard), born in Oslo, Norway More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1874 - Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish waltz composer, and musical director (Tivoli Gardens, 1843-72), dies at 63 1918 - Lewis A. Grant, American Civil War General (b. 1828) 1934 - Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Queen consort of William and Regent of the Netherlands, dies at 76 1974 - [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, African American advocate in Virginia, dies at 83 1979 - Mino Pecorelli, Italian journalist, shot dead in Rome at 50 1999 - Roy L. Johnson, American admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean, commanded Seventh Fleet 1960s), dies at 93 More Famous Deaths »

1571 - Spanish troops occupy Manila 1799 - Joseph Haydn's oratorio "The Creation" ("Die Schöpfung") fisrt public performance premieres at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria 1917 - US Supreme Court uphoelds 8-hr work day for railroad employees 1938 - Scotland beats England, 21-16 at Twickenham, London to win the Home Nations Rugby Championship, Triple Crown and Calcutta Cup 1942 - Thoroughbred Racing Association of US formed in Chicago 1945 - Adolf Hitler issues "Nero Decree" to destroy all German factories 1965 - Rembrandt's "Titus" sells for then record 7,770,000 guilders 1978 - 50,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against neutron bomb 1989 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Kurt Browning (CAN) 1997 - Ice Pairs won by Mandy Woetzel and Ingo Steuer (GER) More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1917 - Victor Herbert and Harry Blossom's operetta "Eileen", loosely based on a novel by Herbert's grandfather, premieres at Shubert Theater, New York City 1946 - Nikolai Mikhailovich Schwernik succeeds Kalinin as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR 1953 - 25th Academy Awards: "Greatest Show on Earth", Gary Cooper and Shirley Booth win (1st time televised) 1965 - Stoica becomes president and Ceausescu party leader of Romania 1981 - Buffalo Sabres beat Toronto Maple Leafs 14-4 2016 - Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, directed by Zack Synder and starring Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill, first premieres in Mexico City More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1593 - Georges de la Tour, French painter of candlelit scenes, born in Vic-sur-Seille, Duchy of Lorraine (d. 1652) 1917 - Constantin "Dinu" Lipatti, Romanian classical pianist and composer, born in Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania (d. 1950) 1930 - Bill Henderson, American jazz singer ("Señor Blues"), and actor (Dreams - "Torpedo"), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2016) 1975 - Antonio Daniels, NBA guard (Vancouver Grizzlies) 1982 - Brad Jones, Australian footballer 1999 - Tatum McCann, American actress More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1797 - Philip Hayes, English composer, dies at 58 1897 - Antoine T. d'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia), dies at 87 1945 - Fritz Fromm, German supreme commander of Reserve army, executed 1995 - Gerard Tebroke, 5/10 km-dasher, dies at 45 1999 - Bob Cato, American photographer, graphic artist and Grammy Award-winning album cover designer (Columbia Records; United Artists), of complications of Alzheimer's disease at 75 2009 - Ion Dolănescu, Romanian singer and politician (b. 1944) More Famous Deaths »

1766 - Britain repeals the Stamp Act, which had caused outrage in colonial America and helped lead to the American Revolution 1877 - US President Rutherford B. Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Washington, D.C. 1909 - Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast 1933 - US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson 1939 - England beats Scotland, 9-6 at Murrayfield, Edinburgh to force a share of the Home Nations Rugby Championship with Wales and Ireland 1950 - "Touch and Go" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 176 performances 1959 - Boston Celtic's Bill Sharman begins record of 56 straight free-throws 1968 - WVER TV channel 28 in Rutland, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting 1977 - The Clash release their first recording "White Riot" 1996 - 50,000 swimmers raise 15 million for charity during BT's Swimathon '96 More Historical Events »

Historical Events 978 - Edward the Martyr, the teenage King of England, is murdered, possibly arranged by his stepmother Queen Ælfthryth, by Corfe Castle 1532 - English parliament bans payments by English church to Rome 1850 - Henry Wells and William Fargo form American Express in Buffalo 1909 - Russia and Bulgaria reach an agreement in which late 19th century Russian financial claims are cancelled to meet compensation due to Turkey from Bulgaria 1963 - France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker, Algeria 2019 - Italian charity ship Mare Jonio rescues 50 migrants off the coast of Libya More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1893 - Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist, born in Novi Ligure, Italy (d. 1978) 1905 - Thomas Townsend Brown, American scientist (d. 1985) 1937 - Mark Donohue, American auto racer (Indianapolis 500, 1972), born in Haddon Township, New Jersey (d. 1975) 1940 - Mark Medoff, American playwright, director, actor and professor (Children of a Lesser God), born in Mount Carmel, Illinois (d. 2019) 1949 - Starr Danias, American ballerina (Turning Point), born in New York City 1960 - Guy Carbonneau, Sept-iles, NHL center (Dallas Stars) More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1583 - King Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540) 1972 - Jimmy Carroll, American pianist (Most Important People), dies at 58 1984 - Charlie Lau, White Sox coach/renowned hitting instructor, dies at 50 1990 - Robin Harris, American comedian and actor (House Party, Mo' Better Blues), dies of a heart attack at 36 2011 - Jet Harris [Terence Harris], English rock bassist (Drifters), dies of cancer at 71 2022 - John Clayton, American sports journalist/reporter (The Pittsburgh Press, The News Tribune; ESPN), dies at 67 More Famous Deaths »

1778 - Britain declares war on France, due to French alliance with US 1845 - Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London 1868 - Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued 1894 - US and China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering US 1921 - Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die) 1924 - Netherlands and USSR begin talks over USSR recognition 1960 - US President Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA 1989 - "Chu Chem" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 44 performances 1995 - Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams visits the White House in Washington, D.C. 2016 - Brazilian federal judge blocks swearing-in of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as Chief of Staff to President Dilma Rousseff, as part of "Car Wash" controversy More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1190 - Crusades complete massacre of Jews of York England 1924 - Netherlands and USSR begin talks over USSR recognition 1932 - Montreal Canadiens center Howie Morenz registers his 334th career point with an assist in a 10-4 win v NY Americans; passes Cy Denneny as NHL leader for career points 1993 - 19th People's Choice Awards: Kevin Costner and Demi Moore win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen and Candice Bergen win (TV) 2013 - Stacy Lewis wins the RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup and becomes the number one ranked woman golfer in the world 2019 - PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland wins biggest cheque in golf ($2.25m) by 1 stroke from Jim Furyk More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1789 - Edmund Kean, British Shakespearean tragic actor (Shylock), born in London, England (d. 1833) 1888 - Paul Ramadier, French politician (d. 1961) 1901 - Eisaku Satō, Prime Minister of Japan (1963-72) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1974), born in Tabuse, Yamaguchi, Japan (d. 1975) 1918 - Józef Franczak, Polish soldier and anti-communist resistance fighter who was the last cursed soldiers, born in Kozice Górne, Kingdom of Poland (d. 1963) 1953 - Filemon Lagman, Filipino communist revolutionary (d. 2001) 1967 - Chris Luongo, American NHL defenseman (NY Islanders), born in Detroit, Michigan More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1989 - Merritt Butrick, American actor (Shy People, Square Pegs), dies of AIDS at 29 1993 - Skip Young, American actor (Smokey and Hotwire Gang, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), dies at 62 1996 - Terry Stafford, American singer (b. 1941) 2002 - Paul Runyan, American golfer (PGA C'ship 1934, 38; Ryder Cup 1933, 35), dies at 93 2012 - Pope Shenouda III, Egyptian Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, dies from prostate cancer at 88 2015 - Bob Appleyard, English cricketer (superb England off-spinner, brief career), dies at 90 More Famous Deaths »

1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" published by Ticknor, Reed and Fields in Boston 1896 - Gustav Mahler' conducts premiere of his "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen" (Songs of a Wayfarer), leading the Berlin Philharmonic and Dutch baritone Anton Sistermans as soloist 1946 - "Would-Be Gentleman" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 77 performances 1949 - KFMB TV channel 8 in San Diego, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting 1971 - Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark meets with British PM Edward Heath to discuss the security situation in Northern Ireland 1976 - British Prime Minister Harold Wilson announces his resignation 1978 - Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy, 5 killed 1988 - Chemical attack on Kurdish town of Halabja by Iraqi forces kills 5000 civilians - largest ever chemical weapons attack 2012 - Turkish NATO helicopter crashes into a house killing ten people in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan 2013 - 24 Pakistani Army soldiers are killed in Rawalpindi after their bus falls down a ravine More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1731 - Treaty of Vienna signed by Prince Eugene of Savoy, Count Sinzendorf and Count Gundacker, Thomas Stahremberg and the British envoy to Vienna, Sir Thomas Robinson. 1948 - Jazz musician Billie Holiday is released early from Alderson Federal Prison Camp in West Virginia due to good behavior 1949 - KFMB TV channel 8 in San Diego, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting 1991 - Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Munich won by Kristi Yamaguchi 2014 - 55th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Florida beats Kentucky, 61-60 2020 - COVID-19 study by London Imperial College showing migration approach could lead to 250,00 deaths in UK, over 1 million in US, prompts strategy changes from both countries More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1902 - Lucie Rie, Austrian-born British potter, born in Vienna (d. 1995) 1922 - Harding Lemay, American writer (head writer for soap "Another World"), born in North Bangor, New York (d. 2018) 1940 - Keith Rowe, English improvisational tabletop guitarist (AMM; M.I.M.E.O.) and painter, born in Plymouth, England 1942 - Jerry Jeff Walker [Ronald Clyde Crosby], American country music singer and songwriter ("Mr. Bojangles"), born in Oneonta, New York (d. 2020) 1951 - Ritchie Teeter, American drummer (The Dictators, 1976-79; Twisted Sister, 1980-81), born in the USA (d. 2012) 1968 - Ananya Khare, Indian actress and teacher More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1629 - Emilia van Nassau, daughter of William I of Orange and Anna of Saxony, dies at 59 1841 - Félix Savart, French surgeon and physicist (Law of Biot and Savart), dies at 49 1975 - Richard W. DeKorte, American politician (b. 1936) 1984 - John Hoagland, American photographer (b. 1947) 2001 - Bob Wollek, French race car driver (b. 1943) 2004 - Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor (BBC Concert Orchestra, 1956-66), opera director and educator (Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 1966-92), and composer, dies at 93 More Famous Deaths »

1887 - 1st salaried fish and game warden (William Alden Smith in Michigan) 1917 - Nicholas II, the last Russian Tsar abdicates and nominates his brother Grand Duke Michael to succeed him [OS Mar 2] 1922 - 1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta Georgia) 1926 - Belgium's "black monday", franc falls 1949 - WLWD (now WDTN) TV channel 2 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting 1958 - "Body Beautiful" musical closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 60 performances 1959 - WILX TV channel 10 in Lansing, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting 1978 - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC 1986 - Scotland (10-9 v Ireland) and France (29-10 v England) win their final round matches to share the Five Nations Rugby Championship with 3-1 records 1994 - Experts from AL certify the Cleveland Indians Jacobs Field is properly lit More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1855 - Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine 1993 - In a landmark case, Mohamed Tabet, police commissioner of Casablanca, is convicted of sexually abusing over 1,500 women and sentenced to death 1997 - France beats Scotland, 47-20 at Parc des Princes, Paris to claim an 11th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship and 5th Triple Crown; fly-half Christophe Lamaison lands 6 penalties and 3 conversions 2013 - Justin Timberlake releases his 3rd studio album "The 20/20 Experience" (2013 Billboard Album of the Year) 2013 - 16 people are killed by a fireworks accident in Tlaxcala, Mexico 2017 - Dutch elections; Prime Minister Mark Rutte's centre-right VVD party win 33 seats vs against 20 for right wing Geert Wilder's Party of Freedom More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1821 - Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (d. 1895) 1913 - Lex Goudsmit, Dutch actor (Fiddler on the Roof, Thomas en Senior op het spoor van Brute Berend), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1999) 1916 - Geert Lubberhuizen, Dutch publisher (Busy Bee), born in Schoten, Netherlands (d. 1984) 1961 - Craig Ludwig, American NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars), born in Rhinelander, Wisconsin 1964 - Rockwell [Kennedy Gordy], American rock vocalist (Somebody's Watching Me), born in Detroit, Michigan 1972 - Mark Hoppus, American rock singer and bass player (+44; blink-182), born in Ridgecrest, California More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1891 - Théodore de Banville, French writer, dies at 67 1983 - Rebecca West [Cicely Isabel Fairfield], English author (Meaning of Treason), dies at 90 1983 - José Luis Sert, Spanish-American architect and urban developer, dies at 80 2011 - Smiley Culture [David Victor Emmanuel], British reggae singer ("Police Officer"; "Cockney Translation"), dies from a self-inflicted stab wound at 48 2022 - Lu Liang-Huan, Taiwanese golfer (British Open 1971 runner-up), dies at 85 2023 - Dorothy Bohm, German-born British pioneering street photographer, dies at 98 More Famous Deaths »

1369 - Battle of Montiel: Peter of Castile (Peter the Cruel) with support from England is defeated by an alliance between the French and his half-brother Henry II of Castile 1845 - -5.3°F (-20.7°C) in Groningen, Netherlands 1900 - Dutch botanist Hugo de Vries rediscovers Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity and genetics 1935 - 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars in San Francisco 1960 - 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield, California 1967 - JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial 1980 - Ice Pairs Championship at Dortmund won by Cherkasova and Shakhrai (USSR) 1986 - European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km) 1994 - Mexican banker and billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped 2018 - NASA twin study finds that Scott Kelly is no longer identical to his twin brother after one year in space, 7% of his genes altered More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1874 - English FA Cup Final, Kennington Oval, London: Oxford University beats Royal Engineers, 2-0 1962 - Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France 1967 - JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial 1991 - English Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment 1996 - Australia beat West Indies by 5 runs in amazing cricket World Cup semi 1997 - The Chinese city of Chongqing (formerly Chunking) is upgraded to a centrally administered municipality More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1895 - François Louis Ganshof, Belgian medieval historian, born in Bruges, Belgium (d. 1980) 1939 - Stavros Xarhakos, Greek composer and conductor, born in Athens, Greece 1967 - Vijay Yadav, Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1 Test, 3 dismissals, HS 30; Haryana), born in Gonda, India 1972 - Antowain Smith, American NFL running back (Buffalo Bills), born in Millbrook, Alabama 1978 - Pieter van den Hoogenband, Dutch swimmer 1994 - Ansel Elgort, American actor (Fault in our Stars), born in New York City More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1986 - Edith Atwater, American actress (Phyllis-Love on a Rooftop), dies at 74 1992 - Ralph James, American actor (Orson-Mork and Mindy), dies at 67 1997 - Lucy Kroll, American talent agent, dies at 87 1997 - John Curtis Jr, American executive (Luby's Cafe), commits suicide at 49 2002 - Cherry Wilder [Cherry Barbara Grimm], New Zealand sci-fi author (Nearest Fire), dies at 71 2012 - Pierre Schoendoerffer, French Academy Award-winning director and screenwriter (The Anderson Platoon), dies from surgical complications at 83 More Famous Deaths »

1564 - Cardinal Granvelle flees Brussels 1915 - Brooklyn Robins manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substitutes a grapefruit 1970 - Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer 1975 - Bernard Slade's stage comedy "Same Time, Next Year", starring Ellen Burstyn and Charles Grodin, opens at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, NYC; later transfers to the Ambassador Theatre, and runs for a total of 1,453 performances 1980 - Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto 1982 - ABC TV crime drama "T.J. Hooker" premieres, starring William Shatner 1988 - 29th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Georgia, 62-57 1988 - 35th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Duke beats North Carolina, 65-61 1994 - Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed) 2005 - Terry Ratzmann shoots and kills six members of the Living Church of God and the minister at Sheraton Inn in Brookfield, Wisconsin before killing himself. More Historical Events »