Significant Events
- 1095 Pope Urban II preaches 1st Crusade
- 1295 English King Edward I calls what later became known as "The Model Parliament" extending the authorities of its representatives
- 1895 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel's will establishes the Nobel Prize
- 1943 Conference of Tehran (Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin)
- 1965 1st French satellite launched; France becomes 3rd nation in space
Interesting Historical Events
1807 The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops
1868 Battle at Washita River, Oklahoma. General George A. Custer attacks group of Native American Indians, their chief Black Kettle dies in the attack
1895 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel's will establishes the Nobel Prize
1896 "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Thus Spake Zarathustra) by Richard Strauss, inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical novel, debuts in Frankfurt
1901 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Der rote Hahn" premieres in Berlin
1931 1st Test Cricket match at the Gabba Bradman scores 200 on 1st da
1941 Joe DiMaggio is named AL MVP
1943 Conference of Tehran (Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin)
1945 Gen George Marshall named special US envoy to China
1960 Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHLer to score 1,000 points
1967 French President Charles de Gaulle said 'Non!' to British entry to the European Common Market for the second time
1970 George Harrison releases 3 album set "All Things Must Pass"
1973 Neil Simon's "Good Doctor" premieres in NYC
1973 US Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President
1973 US President Richard Nixon signs the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act, authorizing petroleum price, production, allocation and marketing controls
1991 Undertaker beats Hulk Hogan to become new WWF champ
2004 Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
2006 The Canadian House of Commons endorses Prime Minister Stephen Harper's motion to declare Québécois a nation within a unified Canada.
2011 62nd Formula One WDC: Sebastian Vettel wins by 122 points
2013 Tiger Woods is named PGA Tour's player of the year for the 11th time
2013 "Frozen", the highest-grossing animated film of all time, starring Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell, is released
Birthday
1701 Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer (proposed the Celsius temperature scale), born in Uppsala, Sweden (d. 1744)
1746 Robert R. Livingston, US Founding Father who delivered oath of office to George Washington, born in NYC, New York (d. 1813)
1940 Bruce Lee [Lee Yuen Kam], Chinese-American martial artist and actor (Enter the Dragon), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1973)
1942 Jimi Hendrix, rock guitarist (Purple Haze), born in Seattle, Washington (d. 1970)
1951 Kathryn Bigelow, American director, producer and writer (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty), born in San Carlos, California ]
Death
8 BC Horace, Roman Republican poet (Odes), dies at 56
1852 Ada Lovelace, English mathematician considered the first computer programmer, dies of uterine cancer at 36
1978 Harvey Milk, first openly gay person to be elected to public office, assassinated by Dan White at 48
Wedding and Divorce
1971 MLB center fielder Willie Mays (40) weds Mae Louise Allen in Mexico City
2010 US Navy Seal Marcus Luttrell (25) weds Melanie Juneau in Texas
2006 Actress Selma Blair (34) divorces actor-rocker Ahmet Zappa (32) due to irreconcilable differences after more than 2 years of marriage
2013 Actor Ashton Kutcher (35) divorces actress Demi Moore (51) due to irreconcilable differences after 8 years of marriage
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