Today in History for 12th August 2015

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 190

3 - Venus-Jupiter in conjunction-Star ofBethlehem

1071 - Alp Arslan beat Byzantines,emperor Romanos IV Diogenes

1099 - Battle at Ascalon: Godfried ofBroth leading the Crusaders beatsEgyptians Fatimid army

1121 - Battle of Didgori: the Georgianarmy under King David the Builderwins a decisive victory over the famousSeljuk commander Ilghazi.

1164 - Battle of Harim: Nur ad-Dindefeats the Crusader armies of the County of Tripoli and the Principality of Antioch.

1323 - Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and Novgorod (Russia) regulates the border for the firsttime.

1332 - Battle of Dupplin Moor; Scottish dynastic battle

1336 - English King Edward III ends wool export to Flanders

1480 - Battle of Otranto - Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam.

1492 - Christopher Columbus arrives in the Canary Islands on his first voyage to the New World

1499 - First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets.

1530 - Florence surrenders for emperor Karel I

1549 - French troops occupy Ambleteuse England

Explorer of the New World Christopher Columbus

1553 - Pope Julius III orders confiscation & burning of Jewish Talmud

1588 - Commander of the English fleet Lord Howard of Effingham calls off chase of the SpanishArmada off coast of Scotland

1588 - Medemblik surrenders to Spanish army

1658 - 1st American police force forms (New Amsterdam)

1665 - English fleet beat Dutch fleet

1676 - 1st war between American colonists & Indians ends in New England

1687 - Charles of Lotharingen defeats Turkish leaders

1687 - Battle of Mohacs: Ottoman invaders of Hungary routed by forces of Holy Roman Emperorunder Charles of Lorraine

1759 - Battle of Kunersdorf - Russian-Austrian army overpowers Prussians

1793 - The Rhône départment is created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire was splitinto two: Rhône and Loire (Lêre).

1812 - Duke of Wellington's troops enter Madrid

1831 - Dutch troops conquer Leuven

1831 - Netherlands & Belgium sign peace treaty

1833 - Chicago is founded.

1851 - 1st America's Cup - US schooner America beats British yacht Aurora after race around theIsle of Wight

1851 - Isaac Singer patents sewing machine

1856 - Anthony Fass patents accordion

1861 - Skirmish at Texas - rebels are attacked by Apache Indians

1862 - Gen John Hunt Morgan & his raiders capture Gallatin, TX

1863 - 1st cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC)

1865 - Joseph Lister performs 1st antiseptic surgery

1867 - US President A Johnson defies Congress suspending Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

Emperor of the USA Emperor Norton

1869 - Self-proclaimed Emperor, Emperor Norton of the USA issues edit abolishing the Democraticand Republican parties

1876 - Madeline (US) beats Countess Dufferin (Canada) in 4th America's Cup

1877 - Thomas Edison invents Edisonphone, a sound recording device

1879 - 1st National Archery Association tournament (Chicago)

1883 - The last quagga (zebra subspecies) dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.

1884 - Bill Murdoch scores 1st Test Cricket double-century, 211 at The Oval

1886 - W G Grace made his highest Test Cricket score, v Aust, The Oval

1888 - Bertha, wife of inventor Karl Benz, makes 1st motor tour

1896 - Willem II soccer team forms in Tilburg

1898 - Hawaii formally annexed to US

1898 - Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed

1901 - Boer general Kritzinger driven out of Cape colony

Inventor Thomas Edison

1903 - The Japanese Minister to Russia presents a note to the Russian Government protestingagainst its failure to evacuate Manchuria

1905 - King Leopold II opens Central Station Antwerp

The 1910Model T Ford

Ford Motor Company Founder Henry Ford

1908 - Henry Ford's company builds the first Model T car

1914 - Cavalry battle at Halen, Belgium ("Battle of the Silver Helmets")

1914 - German 16.5"/12" guns fires on forts round Liege

1914 - Great Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary

1914 - Russian troops take East-Prussia & occupy Marggrabowa

1915 - "Of Human Bondage" by William Somerset Maugham, published

1916 - Picasso, Max Jacob, Kisling, Ortiz & Paquerette photographed in Paris

1918 - WW I: Allies defeat Germans at the Battle of Amiens - the last great battle on the WesternFront

1920 - Battle of Warsaw (Vistula) between Poland and Russia begins

1922 - Dedication of Frederick Douglas' home in Wash DC as national shrine

1923 - Dutch AR-leader Coair replaces De Geer as minister of finances

1923 - Enrico Tiraboschi is 1st to swim English Channel westward

1925 - KMA-AM in Shenandoah IA begins radio transmissions

Artist Pablo Picasso

1925 - The first cast of Alpha Psi Omega, drawn from The Masquers of Fairmont College, WestVirginia, is initiated.

1927 - "Wings", the only silent film to win an Oscar for best picture, opens starring Clara Bow(Outstanding Picture 1929)

1928 - 9th Olympic Games close in Amsterdam

1931 - Yangtzee River floods after heavy rain crumbles dikes in China

1933 - Cuban dictator Machado y Morales flees after military coup

1935 - Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park, 41,766 on hand

1935 - 49th U.S. Women's National Championship: Helen Jacobs beats Sarah Palfrey Cooke (6-2, 6-4)

1936 - 120°F (49°C), Seymour, Texas (state record)

1936 - Demo baseball game at 1936 Olympics in Berlin, world beats US, 6-5

1936 - Diver Marjorie Gestring is youngest Olympic gold medalist (13y 268d)

Baseball Legend Babe Ruth

1940 - Luftwaffe bombs British radar stations, loses 31 aircraft

1940 - Netherlands starts rationing textiles

1941 - French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany

1942 - British premier Churchill arrives in Moscow, meets Stalin

1942 - German 1st tank leader captures Elista, Kalmukkensteppe

1942 - Lt General Bernard Montgomery arrives in Cairo

1943 - Alleged date of the first Philadelphia Experiment test on United States Navy ship USSEldridge.

1944 - Churchill & Tito meet in Naples

1944 - Pipeline under ocean (Pluto) begins operating

1944 - Waffen SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.

1948 - Cleveland Indians get 29 hits in a 9 inning game

1948 - Court of justice sentences General Friedrich Christiansen, commander of the GermanWehrmacht in the Netherlands, to 12 years imprisonment

Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin

1949 - 16th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Philadelphia 38, All-Stars 0 (93,780)

1950 - NY Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 20-6 in Ottawa

1950 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Humani generis

1951 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship

1952 - Hussain ibn Talal proclaimed King of Jordan

1953 - Ann Davison arrives in Miami in her 23 foot boat Felicity Ann, becoming the 1st woman to sailsolo across the Atlantic

1953 - Heavy earthquake strikes the Ionian islands, 435 killed

1953 - Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb

1954 - Senator Eddie Yost draws his 100th walk for 5th year in a row

1955 - 22nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 30, Cleveland 27 (75,000)

1955 - President Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour

1955 - WPBT TV channel 2 in Miami, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting

1956 - KOTI TV channel 2 in Klamath Falls, OR (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting

34th US President & WWII General Dwight D. Eisenhower

1956 - Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA World Golf Championship

1959 - 1st ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island

1959 - Progressive Party under John Steytler forms in South Africa

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 251

1503 - Christian III, king of Denmark/Norway (1534-59)

1566 - Isabella CE, infante of Spain/governess of the Netherlands

1592 - Willem earl of Nassau-Siegen, Dutch gov (Fort Emmerik/Heusden)

1604 - Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1651)

1620 - Pieter Cuypers, S Neth lawyer

1626 - Giovanni Legrenzi, composer

1629 - Tsar Alexei I of Russia (d. 1676)

1644 - Georg Christoph Leuttner, composer

1644 - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, composer

1647 - Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (d. 1719)

1686 - John Balguy, English philosopher (d. 1748)

1696 - Maurice Greene, composer

1720 - Martin Gerbert, [von Hornau], prince-abbot/music historian

1720 - Konrad Ekhof, German actor (d. 1778)

1744 - Rowland Hill, preacher

1751 - Johann Baptist Lasser, composer

1753 - Thomas Bewick, England, artist (British Birds, Aesop's Fables)

1757 - ALF, alien life form (ALF)

1762 - King George IV of the United Kingdom (1820-30)

1774 - Robert Southey, English poet laureate/biographer of Nelson

1778 - Francis Horner, politician

1781 - Robert Mills, US, architect (Washington Monument)

1819 - Daniel Davidson Bidwell, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1864)

1820 - Oliver Mowat, a founder of the Canadian Confederation

1825 - Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley, composer

1829 - John Horace Forney, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1902)

1832 - Hely Hutchinson Almond, politician/doctor

1833 - William Price Sanders, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1863)

1838 - Joseph Barnby, conductor/academic principal

1848 - Macellus Emants, Dutch writer/poet (Along the Nile)

1849 - Abbott Handerson Thayer, painter/naturalist

1853 - Jean Louis Nicode, composer

1854 - Alfred Gilbert, sculptor/goldsmith

1854 - Johannes P Kelly, Dutch [Kellij], actor/operetta writer

1856 - "Diamond Jim" Brady, American financier (d. 1917)

1859 - Katharine Lee Bates, US, author (America the Beautiful)

1866 - Jacinto Benavente y Martínez, Spanish playwright (Nobel 1922)

1867 - Edith Hamilton, US, writer (Mythology)

1868 - Frederick JNT lord Chelmsford, viceroy of British-India (1916-21)

1872 - Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1956)

1875 - Ettore Panizza, composer

1875 - Mezio Agostini, composer

1876 - Mary Roberts Rinehart, mystery writer (Miss Pinkerton)

1880 - Christy Mathewson, HOF baseball pitcher (Won 37 in 1908)

1880 - Marguerite "John" Radclyffe-Hall, author

1881 - Vaclav Vackar, composer

Filmmaker and Director Cecil B. DeMille (1881)

1881 - Cecil B. DeMille, American filmmaker (The Ten Commandments), born in Ashfield,Massachusetts (d. 1959)

1883 - Jan Schouten, Dutch co-founder (Daily Trouw)/chairman (ARP)

1883 - Pauline Frederick, American actress (d. 1938)

1884 - Frank Arthur Swinnerton, English novelist (Summer Storm, Sanctuary)

1885 - Alexander Albrecht, composer

1885 - Jean Cabannes, French physicist (d. 1959)

1885 - Marion Lorne, American actress (d. 1968)

1886 - Sir Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist and newspaper owner (d. 1952)

1887 - Erwin Schrodinger, physicist and Nobel Prize Laureate, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1961)

1888 - Marion Lorne, Phila, actress (Strangers on a Train, Girl Rush)

1888 - Willem Vogt, Dutch radio pioneer/founder (AVRO)

1889 - Zerna Sharp, American writer and educator (Dick and Jane) (d. 1981)

Physicist and Nobel Laureate Erwin Schrödinger (1887)

1890 - Al Goodman, Nikopol Russia, orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour)

1893 - Howard Smith, Attleboro Mass, actor (Harvey Griffin-Hazel)

1897 - Manuel Blancafort, composer

1897 - Otto (von) Struve, German/US dir (Yerkes/MacDonald observatory)

1897 - Ramon Gonzalez Barron, composer

1898 - Oscar Homolka, actor (I Remember Mama), born in Vienna, Austria

1899 - Alfred Kantorowicz, German historian (Spanish Diary)

1899 - Ben Sealey, West Indian cricketer (d. 1963)

1900 - Jose Ignacio Prieto Arrizubieta, composer

1903 - Frances Clode, CEO (WRVS)

1904 - Aleksei N Romanov, son of Tsar Nicholas II [OS=July 30]

1904 - Frank Ervin, harness racer (Hambletonian 1959, 66)

1904 - Kay Campbell, [Catherine Hibben], actress (All My Children)

1905 - Joan [Jacobus J] Remmelts, Dutch actor (Jantjes, Twee Vorstinnen)

1906 - Harry Hopman, Australian-born tennis player and coach (d. 1985)

1906 - Tedd Pierce, American animator (d. 1972)

1907 - James Herbert Lloyd Morrell, bishop

1907 - Joe Besser, American actor and comedian (d. 1988)

1908 - Lord Renton, QC/British government minister

1909 - Maurice Heath, air marshal

1909 - Richard Bare, American director

1910 - Baroness Phillips, pres/general secretary (Natl Association of Women)

1910 - Heinrich Sutermeister, Swiss composer (Romeo & Juliet)

Actress Jane Wyatt (1910)

1910 - Jane Wyatt, Mahwah, New Jersey, American actress (Father Knows Best, Star Trek), (d. 2006)

1910 - Yusof bin Ishak, first President of Singapore (d. 1970)

1911 - Cantinflas, [Mario Moreno], Mexico, actor (Around World in 80 Days)

1912 - Samuel Fuller, Worchester Mass, actor (Return to Salem's Lot)

1913 - Kurt Kaszner, actor (Cmdr Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants), born in Vienna, Austria

1914 - [Hendrik] Jan Bakker, Dutch resistance fighter/journalist (Parool)

1914 - Gerd Buchdahl, German philosopher (d. 2001)

1914 - Ruth Lowe, Canadian pianist and composer (I'll Never Smile Again) (d. 1981)

1915 - Alex Wojciechowicz, NFL center (Lions, Eagles)

1915 - Michael Kidd, American choreographer (d. 2007)

1917 - Douglas Gunsekera, banker

RAF Pilot Guy Gibson (1918)

1918 - Guy Gibson, British aviator, awarded Victoria Cross (d. 1944)

1918 - Sid Bernstein, New York, NY, music producer/promoter (Beatles, Rolling Stones), (d. 2013)

1919 - Michael Kidd, [Milton Greenwald] choreographer (7 Brides for 7 Bros)

1919 - Peter Ambrose Cyprian Luke, playwright

1919 - Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist (d. 1971)

1920 - Percy Mayfield, US singer (Please Send Me Someone to Love)

1920 - Peter West, British sports commentator

1921 - Marjorie Reynolds, [Goodspeed], Buhl Id, actress (Peggy-Life of Riley)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 10 of 10

Frontiersman/Soldier Davy Crockett (1806)

1806 - Frontiersman Davy Crockett (20) weds Polly Finley in Tennessee

1940 - PGA golfer Sam Snead (28) weds high school sweetheart Audrey Karnes

1941 - "I Love Lucy" actress Vivan Vance (32) weds actor Philip Ober (39)

1949 - Multi-Tony award-winning actress Angela Lansbury (23) weds actor and producer Peter Shaw(31) at St. Columba's Presbyterian Church of Scotland in London, England

1956 - Canadain actor William Shatner (Star Trek) marries Gloria Rand

1988 - Country singer John Denver (44) weds actress Cassandra Delaney

2000 - "Saturday Night Live" actor-comedian Will Ferrell (33) weds Swedish actress Viveca Paulin(31)

2006 - "Syfy" actor Sam Huntington (24) weds actress Rachel Klein in Hancock, New Hampshire

2006 - Phil McGraw's son and "Renovate My Family" host Jay McGraw (27) weds former PlayboyPlaymates Erica Dahm (28) in Beverly Hills, California

Country Singer John Denver (1988)

2011 - Actress and model Brooke Burke (40) weds singer/actor David Charvet (39) in St. Barthelemy,Guadeloupe

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

2011 - Rock singer John Mellencamp (59) divorces modelElaine Irwin Mellencamp (41) after 18 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 114

30 BC - Cleopatra VII Philopator, the last ruler of theEgyptian Ptolemaic dynasty, commits suicide allegedly byinducing an asp (Egyptian cobra) to bite her

875 - Louis II, king of Italy/emperor of France, dies at about 50

1158 - Anselmus van Havelberg, Brandenburg bshp of Havelberg (1129-55), dies

1350 - Philip VI, king of France, dies

1424 - Yongle, Emperor of China (b. 1360)

1484 - Sixtus IV, [Francesco della Rovere], Pope (1471-84), dies

1484 - George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher (b. 1395)

Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt Cleopatra (30 BC)

1546 - Francisco de Vitoria, Spanish theology/lawyer, dies

1577 - Thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (b. 1513)

1588 - Alfonso Ferrabosco, composer, dies at 45

1612 - Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer (Madrigali), dies at about 60

1633 - Jacopo Peri, Itallian opera composer, dies at 71

1638 - Johannes Althusius, [Althaut], German lawyer, dies at about 81

1648 - Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1615)

1654 - Cornelis Haga, ambassador to Constantinople (1611-39), dies at 76

1660 - Gilbertus van Zinnik, Flemish architect, dies at about 33

1674 - Philippe de Champaigne, painter, dies

1675 - Karl Rabenhaupt, German/Neth baron of Sucha/army leader, dies at 73

1676 - King Philip, [Metacomet], leader Wampanoag-indians, shot to death

1689 - Innocent XI, [Benedetto Odescalchi], Pope (1676-89), dies at 78

1715 - Nahum Tate, English poet/playwright/poet laureate, dies

1728 - Henricus Zwaardecroon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies, dies at 61

1750 - Rachel Ruysch, royal painter of soverign Johan von de Pfalz, dies

1778 - Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, British general and politician (b. 1714)

1797 - Ignaz Franz Xaver Kurzinger, composer, dies at 73

1809 - Mikhail Kamensky, Russian field marshal (b. 1738)

1810 - Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (b. 1725)

1811 - John FE Acton, cruel premier of Naples, dies at 77

1812 - Jean Joseph Rodolphe, composer, dies at 81

1822 - Robert Stewart, 2nd marguess of Londonderry, commits suicide, dies

Poet/Artist William Blake (1827)

1827 - William Blake, English poet/painter, dies at 69

1830 - Franz de Paula Roser, composer, dies at 50

1848 - George Stephenson, locomotive engineer, dies

1849 - Abraham AA "Albert" Gallatin, Min of Finance (1801-14), dies at 88

1857 - William Daniel Conybeare, geologist, dies

1861 - Eliphalet Remington, American inventor, designer of the Remington rifle (b. 1793)

1864 - Sakuma Sh?zan, Japanese reformer (b. 1811)

1865 - William Jackson Hooker, botanist, dies

1877 - James Drummond, historical painter, dies

1883 - Last Quagga, (zebra with less slashes), dies in Amsterdam zoo

1885 - Georg Curtius, German classical/linguist/philologist, dies at 65

1891 - James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat, dies

1896 - Thomas Chamberlain, officer of the 20th Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg

1900 - James E Keeler, US astronomer (rings of Saturn), dies at 42

1900 - Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player (b. 1836)

1901 - Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish explorer (b. 1832)

1911 - Jozef Israels, painter, dies

1911 - Petrus H Hugenholtz, Dutch reformist vicar (Levenslicht), dies at 79

Engineer John Philip Holland (1914)

1914 - John Philip Holland, submarine designer, dies at 74

1918 - Anna Held, Polish-born actress and singer (b. 1872)

1922 - Arthur Griffith, Irish nationalist/president (Sinn Fein), dies

1928 - Leo? Janá?ek, Czech composer (b. 1854)

1934 - Hendrik P Berlage, architect (Stock exchange Amsterdam), dies at 78

1935 - Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (b. 1851)

1938 - Ludwig Borchardt, German egyptologist, dies at 74

1941 - Bobby Peel, cricketer (took 102 wickets for England), dies

1943 - Georges Martin Witkowski, composer, dies at 76

1944 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., brother of President John F. Kennedy (b. 1915)

1948 - Harry Brearley, English inventor (b. 1871)

1952 - David Bergelson, Yiddish language writer (b. 1884)

1955 - Thomas Mann, German writer (Dr Faustus, Nobel 1929), dies at 80

1955 - James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1887)

Novelist Thomas Mann (1955)

1959 - Mike O'Neill, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1877)

1964 - Ian L Fleming, British journalist/writer (James Bond), dies at 56

1968 - Pieter J Auld, mayor of Rotterdam (1945-52), dies at 81

1968 - Esther Forbes, American novelist (b. 1891)

1969 - Dick Ryan, actor (For Heaven's Sake), dies after long illness at 72

1973 - John Clay, cricketer (Glamorgan offie in only Test 1935), dies

1973 - Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1881)

1973 - Karl Ziegler, German chemist and Nobel Laureate, dies at 74

1976 - Thomas Edward Driberg, 1st baron Bradwell, journalist, dies

1982 - Helvi Lemmikke Leiviska, composer, dies at 80

1982 - Henry Fonda, actor (On Golden Pond), dies of heart disease at 77

1982 - Joe Tex, rocker, dies at 49

1982 - Salvador Sanchez, Mexican boxer (b. 1959)

Chemist/Nobel Laureate Karl Ziegler (1973)

1982 - Varlam Shalamov, Russian writer (b. 1907)

1983 - Henry Gifford Vivian, cricketer (7 Tests for NZ, 17 wkts), dies

1985 - Marcel Mihalovici, composer, dies at 86

1985 - Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (b. 1951)

1988 - Jean-Michel Basquiat, US musician/graffiti painter (Gray, SAMO), dies

1989 - William Shockley, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)

1989 - Samuel Okwaraji, Nigerian footballer (b. 1964)

1990 - Dorothy Mackaill, actress (Love Affair), dies of kidney failure at 87

1990 - Sara Seegar, [Stone], actor (Mystery of Room 13), dies at 76

1990 - B. Kliban, American cartoonist (b. 1935)

1991 - Irene Campbell, British actress/dancer (Wicker Man, St Justice), dies

1991 - William Gordon, screenwriter (Back to Bataan), dies

1992 - Beverley Brooks, dies of a stroke at 63

1992 - John Cage, avante-garde composer, dies of a stroke at 79

Physicist William Shockley (1989)

1992 - Lady Rothermere, [Bubbles], wife of British newspaper magnate, dies

1992 - Queen Mother of Oman, dies

1993 - Jerome Thor, actor (Riot in Juvenile Prison), dies of cardiac at 69

1994 - Gene Cherico, bassist, dies at 59

1994 - Manfred Salzgeber, German film distributor/publicist, dies at about 51

1995 - Frank Cvitanovich, film maker, dies at 68

1996 - Anthony Derrick Parsons, diplomat, dies at 73

1996 - Victor Ambartsumian, astrophysicist, dies at 87

1997 - Luther Allison, blues performer (Motown), dies of cancer at 57

1999 - Jean Drapeau, Quebec politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1916)

2000 - Loretta Young, American actress (b. 1913)

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