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303 - On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France. 953 - Ratherius becomes bishop of Luik 955 - Bishop Ratherius of Luik flees 1066 - The Battle of Stamford Bridge; an English army under King Harold Godwinson beat the invading Norwegians led by King Harald Hardrada and Harold's brother Tostig, who were both killed. Three weeks later Harold died fighting the Normans at Hastings. 1212 - Emperor Frederik II ends Golden Degree (Bohemia) 1340 - England & France sign disarmament treaty 1396 - Battle of Nicopolis: Sultan Bajezid I defeats Crusades armies 1492 - Crewman on Pinta sights "land"-a few weeks early 1493 - Columbus sails with 17 ships on 2nd voyage to the Americas 1513 - Vasco Nunez de Balboa is first European to see Pacific Ocean 1555 - Freedom of Religion in Augsburg 1560 - Spanish king Philip II names Frederik Schenck of Toutenburg as 1st archbishop of Utrecht 1597 - Amiens surrenders to French King Henri IV King of Spain Philip II 1639 - First printing press in America 1639 - Suzuki Shosan, Samurai monk of Zen Buddhism, found awakening 1654 - England & Denmark sign trade agreement 1663 - Austrian Fort Neuhausl surrenders to invading Turkish army 1690 - Publick Occurrences, first newspaper in the American colonies (Boston), publishes first & last edition 1775 - American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured 1777 - British general William Howe conquers Philadelphia 1780 - Benedict Arnold joins the British 1781 - -26] Joan Derks scatters "On the People of Netherlands" pamphlets 1789 - US Congress proposes Bill of Rights (10 of 12 will ratify) 1804 - 12th amendment to US constitution, regulating judicial power 1820 - French Physicist Francois Arago announces electromagnetism in his discovery that a copper wire between the poles of a voltaic cell could laterally attract iron filings to itself Military and Political Leader Simon Bolívar 1829 - Failed assassination attempt on Simon Bolívar 1836 - HMS Beagle anchors at St Michael 1844 - Canada defeats USA by 23 runs in the 1st cricket international 1846 - US troops under Gen Taylor occupies Monterey Mexico 1857 - Relief of Lucknow by Havelock & Outram begins 1861 - Secretary of US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves 1862 - Skirmish at Davis' Bridge, Tennessee 1866 - (Leonard W) Jerome Park opens in Bronx for horse racing 1867 - Congress creates 1st all-black university, Howard U in Wash DC 1868 - The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevski shipwrecks off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia. 1878 - British physician Dr. Charles Drysdale warns against the use of tobacco in a letter to The Times newspaper in one of the earliest pubic health announcements on the dangers of smoking 1882 - 1st baseball doubleheader (Providence & Worcester) 1886 - Comedy opera "Dorothy" 1st produced in London 1888 - Royal Court Theatre, London, opens 1888 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Hound of Baskervilles" (BG) 1890 - Congress establishes Yosemite National Park (California) 1890 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Silver Blaze" (BG) 1897 - 1st British bus service opens 1904 - Charles Follis is 1st black to play proessional American football 1906 - John Galsworthy's "Silver Box" premieres in London 1906 - In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the Remote control. 1907 - Jean Sibelius' 3rd Symphony premieres 1908 - Cubs' Ed Reulbach becomes only pitcher to throw doubleheader shutout 1909 - Hudson-Fulton Celebration opens in NY 1911 - French battleship Liberte explodes at Toulon Harbor, 285 killed 1911 - Ground breaking begins in Boston for Fenway Park 1912 - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York. 1915 - Battle of Loos commenced, lasted until 14th October. Chlorine gas deployed by the British was blown back into their own trenches: 59,000 British & 26,000 German casualties 1915 - The Second Battle of Champagne begins. 28th US President Woodrow Wilson 1919 - US president Woodrow Wilson suffers a breakdown in Colorado, his health never recovers 1920 - Vern Bradburn of Winnipeg Victorias kicks 9 singles in a game 1920 - 34th U.S. Women's National Championship: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats Marion Zinderstein (6-3, 6-1) 1922 - Giants beat St Louis, to clinch John McGraw's 8th pennant 1924 - Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 MPH 1926 - 9th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Salisbury Golf Club in Westbury, New York 1926 - Henry Ford announces 8 hour, 5-day work week 1926 - International slavery convention signed by 20 states 1926 - NHL grants franchises to Chicago Black Hawks & Detroit Red Wings 1926 - Yankees take a doubleheader from Browns to clinch AL pennant 1926 - Mackenzie King is re-elected as Prime Minister of Canada 10th Prime Minister of Canada Mackenzie King 1929 - Queen-mother Emma opens Antonie van Leeuwenhoek House in Amsterdam 1930 - Austrian government of Vaugoin forms 1930 - Roger Hornsby replaces Joe McCarthy as Cubs manager 1930 - Zoe Akins' "Greeks Had a Word for it" premieres in NYC 1932 - Jimmie Foxx hits his 58th HR in last game of season 1933 - 1st state poorhouse opens in Smyrna, Georgia 1933 - 5th "extermination campaign" against communists in Nanjing China 1934 - John Van Druten's "Distaff Side" premieres in NYC 1934 - Lou Gehrig plays in his 1,500th consecutive game 1934 - Rainbow (US) beats Endeavour (England) in 16th America's Cup 1935 - Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset" premieres in NYC 1936 - Joe Medwick sets a still-standing NL record with his 64th double 1937 - "il duce" visits Berlin/named "the Fuhrer" to corporal 1st class 1937 - Battle of of P'ing-hsin-kuan Wutai Mountain Baseball Player Lou Gehrig 1939 - German Luftwaffe strikes Warsaw with (fire)bombs 1939 - Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra, so Andorra & Germany finally sign an official treaty ending WW I 1940 - German High Commissioner in Norway sets up Vidkun Quisling government 1940 - Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Southampton 1941 - Brooklyn Dodgers win their 1st pennant in 21 years 1943 - Russian troops liberate Smolensk 1947 - 2nd Cannes Film Festival ends 1948 - "Heaven on Earth" closes at Century Theater NYC after 12 performances 1949 - 4th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Louise Suggs 1949 - Despite 71 injuries, Yankees have been in 1st place all season until Red Sox move into a tie for 1st place 1952 - Hal Newhouser of Tigers wins his 200th game 1954 - Francois "Doc" Duvalier wins Haitian presidential election 1954 - Indians win AL record 111 games 1954 - WCBD TV channel 2 in Charleston, SC (ABC) begins broadcasting 1955 - Detroit outfielder Al Kaline, 20, is youngest batting champ 1955 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Clock Golf Open 1955 - The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded. 1956 - First transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation (Newfoundland-Oban) 1956 - Brooklyn Dodger Sal Maglie no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 5-0 1957 - 300 US Army troops guard 9 black kids return to Central HS in Ark1358 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1408) 1525 - Steven Borough, English explorer (d. 1584) 1593 - Matthew Merian, the Elder, engraver/bookseller 1599 - Francesco Borromini, Italian architect (d. 1667) 1612 - Mark Zuesius Boxhorn, Dutch historian 1613 - Claude Perrault, Paris, French Architect and Physician (east facade of the Louvre) 1644 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710) 1683 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, Dijon France, composer (Traite) (baptized) 1711 - Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799) 1714 - Jean-Benoit Leclair, composer 1725 - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, designed & built 1st automobile 1725 - Robert Clive, English explorer/founder (British empire in India) 1729 - Christian G Heyne, German archaeologist 1738 - Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (d. 1789) 1741 - Vaclav Pichl, composer 1744 - Frederick Willem II, king of Prussia (1786-97) 1752 - Carl Stenborg, composer 1764 - Fletcher Christian, English Bounty mutineer (d. 1793) 1766 - Armand-Emmanuel, duc de Richelieu, French PM (1815-18, 1820-21) 1773 - Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (d. 1856) 1780 - Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (d. 1801) 1782 - Charles Robert Maturin, Irish playwright and novelist (d. 1824) 1785 - George Frederic Pinto, composer 1793 - Felicia Dorothea Hermans, poet 1796 - Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (d. 1875) 1798 - Henri Scheffer, painter 1798 - JBAL Leonce Elie de Beaumont, French mine engineer/geologist 1805 - Henry P Scholte, Dutch/US vicar/founder (Pella colony in Iowa) 1807 - Alfred Vail, Morristown New Jersey, American Inventor, early telegraph pioneer, and financial backer to Samuel Morse 1822 - Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr, Brig Gen (Union vol) 1823 - Thomas John Wood, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1906) 1829 - William Michael Rossetti, civil servant 1830 - Karl Klindworth, pianist/conductor 1832 - William Le Baron Jenney, US, architect/"father of skyscraper" 1839 - Karl A von Zittel, German geologist/paleontologist (Libya) 1839 - [Wilhel]Mina JPR Kruseman, writer/feminist 1843 - Melville Reuben Bissell, Hartwick New York, American inventor (carpet sweeper) 1843 - Thomas Chrowder Cham Mattoon Illinois, American Geologist and educator, born in Berlin, Germany 1846 - Wladimir Köppen [Vladimir Köppen], St. Petersburg, Russia, German Meteorologist and Climatologist who mapped and classified the climatic regions of the world (Köppen climate classification system) 1852 - Cornelis J Snijders, supreme commander of Dutch Navy (1910-18) 1852 - Hans Vaihinger, German philosopher (Nietzsche Philosophy) 1862 - Leon Boellmann, French organist/composer (Variations Symphoniques) 1862 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952) 1866 - Thomas Hunt Morgan, US, biologist (Nobel-1933) 1867 - Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1938) 1872 - Charles Blake Cochran, impresario 1877 - Plutarco Elias Calles, Mexican revolutionary, president (1924-28) 1879 - Luis da Costa, composer 1879 - Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer and labor leader, Father of the Philippine National Language and Grammar (d. 1963) 1881 - Lu Xun, Chinese writer (d. 1936) 1884 - Cornelis "Kees" Boeke, Dutch educationalist 1886 - Jesus Guridi, composer 1886 - John Howard Lawson, scriptwriter/playwright 1887 - May Sutton Bundy, US, 1st US woman to win Wimbledon (US 1904) 1889 - George Douglas Howard Cole, socialist/novelist 1889 - C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Scottish writer and translator (d. 1930) 1896 - Elsa Triolet, writer 1896 - Roberto Gerhard, composer 1896 - Sandro Pertini, president Italy 1897 - Teddy Hart, actor (3 Men on a Horse), born in NYC, New York Author and Nobel Laureate William Faulkner (1897) 1897 - William Faulkner, New Albany Mississippi, author (Sound & Fury-Nobel 1949), (d. 1962) 1898 - Robert Brackman American artist (d. 1980) 1901 - Robert Bresson, French film director (d. 1999) 1902 - Ernst von Salomon, German writer (Kette Der Tausend Kraniche) 1902 - Jeno Takacs, composer 1903 - John Everett Allen, US businessman 1903 - Mark Rothko, [Marcus Rothkovich], US, painter (Green on Blue) 1904 - Columbus O'Donnell Iselin, New Rochelle, New York, American oceanographer 1905 - Nahman Avigad, Israeli archaeologist (Discovering Jerusalem) 1905 - Red Smith, Green Bay Wisc, sportscaster/columnist (Fight Talk) 1906 - Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, St Petersburg Russia, composer [NS] 1906 - Jaroslav Jezek, composer 1906 - Madeleine Bourdouxhe, writer 1906 - Phyllis Pearsall, East Dulwich, London, British painter and writer (A to Z Map Company) 1907 - Jan Felderhof, composer 1907 - Robert Bresson, France, director (Pickpocket, Mouchette) 1908 - Eugen Suchon, composer 1909 - Florizel A Glasspole, governor-gen of Jamaica (1973-91) 1911 - Lionel Henry Nowak, composer 1911 - Eric Williams, first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 1981) 1913 - David Hunt, British diplomat/quiz winner 1914 - Frederick William Sternfield, musicologist Alleged Soviet Spy Ethel Rosenberg (1915) 1915 - Ethel Rosenberg, American Communist, born in New York City, New York 1916 - Tolia Nikiprowetzsy, composer 1917 - Johnny Sain, American baseball player (d. 2006) 1918 - Phil Rizzuto, American sportscaster/shortstop (NY Yankees-MVP 1950), born in Brooklyn, New York 1920 - Sergey Bondarchuk, Belozerka Ukraine, director (War & Peace) 1921 - Remy C, de Kerckhove, Flemish poet 1921 - Robert Muldoon, premier NZ (1975-84)/chairman (IMF) 1922 - John Farr, British MP 1922 - Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (d. 1992) 1924 - Norman Ayrton, opera director (Royal Shakespearean Acad - UK) 1925 - Silvana Pampanini, Rome Italy, actress (Day in Court, Island Sinner) 1925 - William Edgar Mitchell, physicist 1925 - Paul MacCready, engineer/inventor (1st man-powered aircraft) 1926 - Aldo Ray, Pen Argyl PA, actor (God's Little Acre, Green Beret) 1926 - John Ericson, Dusseldorf Germany, actor (Sam Bolt-Honey West) 1926 - Sergei Filatov, USSR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1960) 1926 - Jack Hyles, Baptist pastor (d. 2001) 1927 - Carl Braun, basketball player (NY Knicks)