Historical EventsEvents 1 - 100 of 1931223 - Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his...

1. Today in History for 14th July 2015
Historical Events
Events 1 - 100 of 193
1223 - Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II
1420 - Battle at Vitkov Zizka's hill (Prague): Taboriets beat Bohemia
1535 - Emperor Charles V conquers Tunis
1581 - English jesuit Edmund Campion arrested
1682 - Henry Purcell appointed organist of Chapel Royal, London
1698 - The Darien scheme begins with five ships, bearing about 1,200 people, departing Leith for the
Isthmus of Panama.
1714 - Battle of Aland, Russian fleet overpowers larger Swedish fleet
1769 - The de Portolá Expedition establishes a base in California, and sets out to find the Port of
Monterey (now Monterey, California).
1771 - Mission San Antonio de Padua founded in California
1789 - Bastille Day-French Revolution begins with the fall of Bastille
1791 - The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of
Birmingham, England.
1798 - 1st direct US federal tax on states-on dwellings, land slaves
1798 - US Sedition Act prohibits "false, scandalous malicious" writing against government
1822 - Slave revolt in South Carolina under Denmark Vesey/Peter Poyas
1823 - Switzerland signs boundaries for fugitives
1832 - Opium exempted from federal tariff duty
1845 - 1st postmasters' provisional stamps issued, NYC
1845 - Fire in NYC destroys 1,000 homes kills many
1850 - 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration
1853 - 1st US World's fair opens at New York's Crystal Palace

2. 1853 - Commodore Perry requests trade relations with Japan
14th US President Franklin Pierce
1853 - Pres Franklin Pierce opens 1st industrial exposition (NY)
1853 - New Zealand holds its first general election
1861 - Gen McDowell advances toward Fairfax Courthouse, VA with 40,000 troops
1861 - Naval Engagement at Wilmington NC - USS Daylight establishes blockade
1863 - Battle of Falling Waters, MD (Beaver Creek)
1863 - Jews of Holstein Germany granted equality
1864 - Gold is discovered in Helena, Montana
1865 - Whymper, Hudson, Croz, Douglas Hadow 1st to climb Matterhorn
1868 - Alvin J Fellows patents tape measure
1870 - The United States Congress grants Mary Todd Lincoln a life pension in the amount of $3,000
a year
1877 - General strike brings US railroad to a stand still
1891 - John T Smith patents corkboard
1902 - The Campanile in St Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta.

3. First Lady of the United States Mary Todd Lincoln
1909 - Germany chancellor Bernhard von Bulow resigns
1911 - 46" of rain begins to fall in Baguio, Philippines
1912 - Kenneth McArthur runs Olympic record marathon (2:36:54.8)
1914 - 1st patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted (Robert Goddard)
1914 - NL's Boston Braves start climb from last place to world series sweep
1916 - 33.6 cm rainfall at Effingham SC (state record)
1916 - St Louis Brown Ernie Koob pitches all 17 inns in a 0-0 tie vs Boston
1918 - Dutch government reclaims South seas
1921 - Nicola Sacco Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted in Dedham Mass, of killing their shoe company's
paymaster
1927 - 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii
1932 - Belgian Chamber rules Dutch language for education of Flanders
1933 - Germany began mandatory sterilization of those with hereditary illness
1933 - NSDAP (Nazis) becomes only political party in Germany
Rocket Pioneer Robert H. Goddard

4. 1933 - Verity bowls out Essex twice in a day, 8-47 9-44, at Leyton
1934 - 116°F (47°C), Orogrande NM (state record, broken on June 27, 1994)
1934 - NY Times erroneously declares Ruth 700 HR record to stand for all time
1934 - Phillies score 11 runs in an inning, beats Cincinnati 18-0
1934 - Ruth hits 700th career home run
1936 - 1 million demonstrate to support French People's Front government
1936 - 116°F (47°C), Collegeville, Indiana (state record)
1938 - Benito Mussolini publishes anti-Jewish/African manifesto
1940 - Due to beanball wars, Spalding advertises batting helmet with earflaps
1940 - Lithuania becomes Lithuanian SSR
1941 - 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp
1941 - Cease fire of Joan of Arc (ends combat in Lebanon Syria)
1941 - Jam rationed in Holland
1942 - 1st transport of Amsterdam Jews to Westerbork
Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini
1942 - Riots against Jews in Amsterdam
1944 - Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested
1944 - US assault on Coutances Cotentin
1945 - Battleship USS South Dakota is 1st US ship to bombard Japan
1946 - Dr Benjamin Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby Child Care" published

5. 1946 - Mass murder of Jews in Kielce, Poland
1946 - Cleve Lou Boudreau hits 4 doubles HR but Red Sox win 11-10 on Ted Williams 3 HR with 8
RBIs
1948 - Israel bombs Cairo
1948 - Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot near to the Italian Parliament.
1950 - RE Wayne awarded 1st Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea
1951 - "Courtin' Time" closes at National Theater NYC after 37 performances
1951 - "Make a Wish" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 102 perfs
Baseball Player Ted Williams
1951 - 1st color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race)
1951 - Citation becomes 1st horse to win $1,000,000 in races
1951 - George Washington Carver monument unveiled
1952 - SS United States crosses Atlantic in 84:12 (record westward)
1953 - 1st US National monument dedicated to a Negro-George Washington Carver
1953 - 20th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati
1953 - Communist offensive in Korea
1954 - 117°F (47°C), East St Louis, Illinois (state record)
1954 - 118°F (48°C), Warsaw Union, Missouri (state record)
1955 - 2 killed, many dazed when lightning strikes Ascot racecourse, England
1956 - Boston Red Sox Mel Parnell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0
1957 - Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270

6. 1958 - General Abdul K Kassem forms a military government in Iraq overthrowing the monarchy
1958 - Pope Pius XII publishes his 39th last encyclical Meminisse juvat
1959 - USS Long Beach, first nuclear powered cruiser launched at Quincy, Mass
1960 - Barbara Romack wins LPGA Leesburg Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1960 - Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane asylum kills 225, severly injuring
300
1961 - Astro's Eddie Matthews hits HR #500
1961 - Finland's Miettunen government forms
Pope John XXIII
1961 - Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et magistrate
1962 - Borehole for Mont Blanc tunnel finished
1962 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Sight Golf Open
1964 - Jacques Anquetil wins his 5th Tour de France
1964 - Oriole Bob Johnson's 6th straight hit as a pinch hitter
1965 - Australian Ronald Clarke runs world record 10k (27:39.4)
1965 - Israeli/Jordanian border fights
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 100 of 212

7. 1454 - Poliziano, Florentine humanist (d.
1494)
1486 - Andrea del Sarto, Italy, painter
(Recollets)
1602 - Jules Mazarin, France, cardinal,
French 1st Minister (1642-61)
1608 - George Goring, Lord Goring, English
royalist soldier (d. 1657)
1610 - Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1670)
1634 - Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (d. 1719)
1671 - Jacques D'Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1732)
1675 - Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (d. 1747)
1676 - Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (d. 1763)
1696 - William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (d. 1761)
1707 - Jacques-Philippe Lamoninary, composer
1721 - John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (d. 1807)
1743 - Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (d. 1816)
1756 - Thomas Rowlandson, English painter/cartoonist/etcher
1762 - Joseph Lakanal, Serres Ariège, French Politician and Educator
1785 - Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (d. 1851)
1794 - John G Lockhart, [Scorpion], biographer (Life of Sir Walter Scott)
1801 - Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (d. 1858)
1804 - Ludwig A Benedek, Austrian general
1816 - Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (d. 1882)
1818 - Nathaniel Lyon, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1861)
1830 - Richard Henry Jackson, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1831 - William Dwight, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1888)

8. 1834 - James Abbott McNeill Whistler, artist (Whistler's Mother)
1839 - Edward Sydney Smith, composer
1854 - Alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov, composer
1855 - Richard Samuel Hughes, composer
1857 - Maytag, inventor (washing machine)
1859 - Willy Hess, German violinist (d. 1928)
1862 - Florence Bascom, US, 1st American woman PhD
1862 - Gustav Klimt, Austria, Art Nouveau painter
1865 - Annie Jones, Virginia, bearded lady
Archaelogist Gertrude Bell (1868)
1868 - Gertrude Bell, Durham, British archaeologist (Desert The Sown), (d. 1926)
1869 - Owen Wister, US, novelist (Virginian)
1874 - 'Abbas Hilmi II, last khedive (Ottoman viceroy) of Egypt (1892-1914)
1874 - Andre Debierne, French chemist/physicist (Actinium)
1880 - Donald Meek, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach)
1883 - Alexandru Zirra, composer
1884 - Charles Meldrum Daniels, Dayton Oh, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1904, 08)
1885 - King Sisavang Vong of Laos (d. 1959)
1890 - Ossip Zadkine, [Zadkin], Russ/French sculptor (Destroyed City)
1891 - Henry Oscar, actor (Saint in London), born in London, England

9. 1893 - John G Strijdom, premier of South-Africa (1954-58)
1893 - Spencer Williams, Vidalia La, actor (Andy-Amos 'n' Andy)
1893 - Clarence J. Brown, Newspaper publisher and politician (d. 1965)
1895 - Frank Raymond Leavis, British literary critic (Culture Environment)
1896 - Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (d. 1936)
1898 - Ivan Triesault, Estonia, actor (Cry of the Werewolf, Black Parachute)
1898 - A. B. "Happy" Chandler, American politician and baseball commissioner (d. 1991)
1901 - George Tobias, actor (Abner Kravitz-Bewitched), born in NYC, New York
1901 - Gerald Finzi, British composer (Dies natalis), born in London, England
1902 - Paul Guilfoyle, Jersey City NJ, actor/director (Curiosity Kills)
1902 - Richard Clarkson, aerodynamicist
1902 - Truman J Hedding, US vice-admiral (WW II)
1903 - Irving Stone, US, author (Love is Eternal, Lust for Life)
1903 - Ken Murray, comedian (Ken Murray Show, Judy Garland Show), born in NYC, New York
1904 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, Poland, Yiddish novelist (Enemies-Nobel 1978)
1906 - Arthur James Bramwell Hutchings, composer
1906 - Tom Carvel, ice cream mogul (Carvels)
1908 - Chaim Raphael, writer
1909 - Annabella, [Suzanne G Charpentier], Paris, actress (Dinner at Ritz)
1910 - Peter Stadlen, pianist/critic

10. Animator William Hanna (1910)
1910 - William Hanna, Melrose New Mexico, animator (Hanna-Barbera- Tom and Jerry, Scooby Doo),
(d. 2001)
1911 - J de Graaf, Dutch ethicist/president (Church Peace)
1912 - Woodrow Wilson "Woodie" Guthrie, folk singer (This Land Is Your Land)
1912 - Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic (d. 1991)
1913 - Fritz Erler, German politician (SDP)
1913 - Gerald R Ford, [Leslie King], 41st US VP (1973-74)/38th US President (R-1974-77), born in
Omaha, Nebraska (d. 2006)
1913 - Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher, politician
1914 - Sidney George Gray, company secretary
1916 - Natalia Ginzburg, Italian author (Family dictionary)
1916 - Phyllis Stedman, politician
1917 - Arthur Leavins, violinist
1917 - Douglas Edwards, Alda Oklahoma, newscaster (CBS Evening News, FYI)
38th US President Gerald Ford (1913)

11. 1918 - Arthur Laurents, playwright (West Side Story, Gypsy), born in NYC, New York
1918 - Ingmar Bergman, Uppsala Sweden, director (Cries Whispers)
1918 - Jay Wright Forrester, invented random-access magnetic core memory
1919 - Lino Ventura, Parma Italy, actor (Happy New Year, Pain in the A--)
1921 - Geoffrey Wilkinson, chemist
1921 - Leon Garfield, English children's author (d. 1996)
1922 - Peter Andrew Tranchell, composer
1922 - Robin Olds, American World War II and Vietnam War ace fighter pilot (d. 2007)
1922 - Elfriede Rinkel, Nazi concentration camp guard
1923 - Dale Robertson, Harrah Ok, actor (Death Valley Days, Walter-Dynasty)
1923 - Frances Lear, Larchmont NY, Woman's magazine publisher (Lears)
1923 - Willie Steele, American Olympic gold medalist (d. 1989)
Director, Writer Ingmar Bergman (1918)
1924 - James W. Black, Scottish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate
1925 - Luis Antonio Escobar, composer
1926 - Harry Dean Stanton, West Irvine KY, actor (Alien, Cool Hand Luke)
1926 - Jan Krenz, composer
1927 - John William Chancellor, news anchor (NBC, VOA), born in Chicago, Illinois
1928 - Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher
1928 - Nancy Olson, Milwaukee, actress (Absent-Minded Professor, Pollyanna)

12. 1928 - Ole Schmidt, composer
1928 - Pierre Olaf, Cauderan France, actor (Kraft Music Hall)
1929 - George Alan Dawson, jazz drummer/teacher
1929 - Charles Anthony [Caruso], tenor (2,928 performances at Metropolitan Opera), born in New
Orleans, Louisiana (d. 2012)
1930 - Eric Norman Stokes, composer
1930 - Polly Bergen, Knoxville Tn, actress (Rhoda-Winds of War, Baby Talk)
1931 - Donald Eugene Webb, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Famous Weddings
Weddings 1 - 7 of 7
British Prime Minister Robert Peel (1820)
1820 - British PM Robert Peel (32) weds Sir John Floyd's daughter Julia at St George's, Hanover
Square in London
1930 - 1st Filippino President Emilio Aguinaldo (61) weds second wife Maria Agoncillo (51) at
Barasoain Church in Malolos, Bulacan
1966 - Sex symbol of the 1960s Brigitte Bardot (31) weds German millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs
(33) in Las Vegas
1994 - Princess Margaret's daughter Sarah Armstrong-Jones (30) weds ex-actor and fellow artist
Daniel Chatto (37) in London, United Kingdon
1996 - "Green Bay Packer" quarterback Brett Favre (20) weds Deanna Tynes (28) at St. Agnes
Catholic Church in Green Bay, Wisconsin
2007 - Actor Jerry O'Connell (33) weds Xmen's "Mystique" Rebecca Romijn (34) at Calabasas,
California
2007 - Former "Full House" actress Jodie Sweetin (25) weds set designer Cody Herpin (30) at Little

13. Church of the West in Las Vegas
Famous Divorces
Divorces 1 - 1 of 1
Actor Michael Biehn (1987)
1987 - Actor Michael Biehn (30) divorces actress Carlene Olson (32) after 7 years of marriage
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 100 of 109
664 - Deusdedit of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
937 - Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria
1223 - King Philip II of France (1180-1223) dies at 57
1298 - Jacob de Voragine, Italian bishop/writer (Golden Legend), dies
1575 - Richard Taverner, English Bible translator
1614 - Camillus de Lellis, Ital soldier/monastery founder/saint, dies at 64
1671 - Méric Casaubon, English classical scholar (b. 1599)
1711 - Johan Willem Friso, Prince of Orange/(Nassau-Dietz), drowns at 23
1723 - Claude Fleury, French historian (b. 1640)
1742 - Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (b. 1662)
1744 - Immanuel J Pyra, German poet (Temple of True Poetry), dies at 28
1762 - Cornelis Hop, Amsterdams regent/diplomat, dies at 77
1766 - Franti?ek Maxmilián Ka?ka, Czech architect (b. 1674)

14. 1770 - David 't Kindt, Flemish architect (Mammelokker, Ghent), dies at 71
1774 - James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley and Kilmaine, British field marshal (b. 1682)
1779 - George Ross, US judge/signer (Declaration of Independence), dies at 49
1780 - Charles Batteux, French philosopher (b. 1713)
1788 - Johann Gottfried Muthel, composer, dies at 60
1789 - Jacques de Flesselles, French provost (assassinated) (b. 1721)
1789 - Bernard-René de Launay, governor of the Bastille, murdered during the Storming of the
Bastille (b.1740)
1790 - Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (b. 1717)
1793 - Jacques Cathelineau, French royalist, dies in battle at 44
1803 - Esteban Salas y Castro, composer, dies
1812 - Christian G Heyne, German archaeologist, dies at 82
1816 - Francisco de Miranda, Venezuela freedom fighter, dies at 66
1817 - Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Swiss author (b. 1766)
1827 - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (b. 1788)
1830 - Anthony FRE Haersolte, member of Executing Regime, dies at 73
1834 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French
Revolution (b. 1763)
1850 - August Neander, German theologian (b. 1789)
1873 - Ferdinand David, Dutch violinist/composer, dies at 63
1876 - Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder (b. 1816)
Frontier Outlaw Billy the Kid (1881)

15. 1881 - Billy the Kid, American outlaw (b. 1859?)
1895 - Alexander Ewing, composer, dies at 65
1902 - Mark M Antokolski, Russian/French sculptor, dies at 58
1904 - President Paul Kruger, the face of Boer resistance against the British during the South
African or Second Boer War (1899-1902), heart failure at 78
1907 - William Henry Perkin, English chemist and inventor (b. 1838)
1908 - William Mason, composer, dies at 79
1917 - Octave Lapize, French cyclist (b. 1887)
1923 - Louis Ganne, composer, dies at 61
1925 - Pancho Villa, Filipino world boxing champion (b. 1901)
1930 - W H Ashley, cricketer (Test South Africa, 7 wkts), dies
1938 - Robert Poore, cricketer (3 Tests for South Africa in 1895-96 series), dies
1939 - Alphonse Mucha, Czech painter, decorative artist (b. 1860)
1940 - Bill Howell, cricketer (18 Tests for Aust 1898-1905), dies
1942 - Neel [Cornelia H] Doff, Neth/French/Belgian painter's model, dies
1943 - Johannes F "Frits" Bakker Sr, actor, dies at 74%
1948 - Palmiro Togliatti, Italy's CPI chairman, assassinated
1949 - Frank Hearne, cricketer (2 Tests for England, 4 Tests for S Afr), dies
1950 - ?pirana Ngata, a prominent Maori New Zealand politician and lawyer, dies at 76
1951 - Sammy Jones, cricketer (last survivor of the 1882 Oval Test), dies
1954 - Jacinto Benavente y Martinez, Spanish playwright, dies at 87
1954 - Jackie Saunders, American silent screen actress (b. 1892)
1956 - Jaroslav Ridky, composer, dies at 58
1958 - Abdoel Illah, crown prince of Iraq, murdered
1958 - Emil Barth, writer, dies at 58
1958 - Faisal II, King of Iraq (1939-58), assassinated at Baghdad

16. 1958 - Franciscus J Feron, vicar-general of Roermond, dies at 62
1958 - Noeri el-Said, premier of Iraq, murdered
1959 - Grock, [Adrien Wettach], Swiss clown/circus director, dies at 79
1965 - Adlai Stevenson, US amb to UN/pres candidate (D, 1952, 56), dies
1966 - Julie Manet, French painter (b. 1878)
1967 - Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (b. 1880)
1968 - Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian sailor/author, dies at 76
1968 - Westbrook Van Voorhis, announcer (March of Time), dies at 64
1968 - Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky, Russian writer (b. 1892)
1970 - Preston S Foster, actor (Waterfront, Gunslinger), dies at 69
1973 - Clarence White, guitarist (Byrds), killed by a car
1974 - Henri Smajda, Tunis/French publisher (Combat), commits suicide at 77
1974 - Carl Spaatz, American World War II general and 1st Chief of Staff of the United States Air
Force, dies at 83
1975 - Zutty Singleton, US jazz drummer, dies at 77
1975 - Madan Mohan, Hindi Film's Melodious Music director (b. 1924)
1979 - George De Witt, TV host (Name that Tune), dies at 56
1982 - George Amadee Tremblay, composer, dies at 71
1983 - Jack MacBryan, cricketer (Test for England 1924), dies
1984 - Al Schacht, [Clown prince of baseball], baseball player, dies at 91
1984 - Kenny Delmar, comedian (School House), dies at 74
1984 - Philippe Wynne, US soul singer (I'll Be Around), dies at 43
1984 - Ernest Tidyman, American writer (b. 1928)
1986 - Raymond Loewy, US industrial designer, dies at 92
1989 - Frank Bell, British educator (b. 1916)
1990 - Dallas Alinder, dies

17. 1990 - Philip Leacock, dies of collapsed lungs at 73
1991 - Nic van Bridges, Flemish poet, dies
1993 - Robert Strong
1994 - Patrick Crommelynck, Belgian pianist, commits suicide
1994 - Robert Jungk, German/French/Us/Austrian philosopher/historian, dies
1994 - Taeko Kuwata, Japanese/Belgian pianist, commits suicide
1995 - Michael Naylor, insurance broker, dies at 59
1996 - Frederick Angus Armstrong, journalist, dies at 82
1996 - Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, physicist, dies at 91
1996 - Kim Besly, activist, dies at 69
1996 - Jeff Krosnoff, CART driver (b. 1964)
1998 - Richard McDonald, American fast food pioneer (b. 1909)
2000 - William Roscoe Estep, American Baptist historian (b. 1920)
2000 - René Ríos Boettiger, Chilean cartoonist (b. 1911)
2000 - Meredith MacRae, American actress (b. 1944)
2002 - Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1906)
2003 - Éva Janikovszky, Hungarian novelist (b. 1926)
2003 - François-Albert Angers, French Canadian economist (b. 1909)
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