1518 Birth of Italian painter Tintoretto. 1547 Birth of Spanish playwright Miguel de Cervantes. 1758 Birth of English naval commander Horatio Nelson. 1907 Birth of American cowboy actor Gene Autry. 1914 Birth of American...
1573 Death of Italian painter Caravaggio. 1841 Birth of French prime minister Georges Clemenceau. 1891 Death of American author of Moby Dick, Herman Melville. 1895 Death of French chemist Louis Pasteur. 1934 Birth of French actress...
1722 Birth of American revolutionary Samuel Adams. 1825 George Stephenson’s engine Locomotion pulls 32 carriages full of passengers 27 miles between Shildon and Stockton in under 3 hours. 1917 Death of French painter Edgar Degas. 1921 Death...
1852 A hydrogen filled airship makes it’s maiden flight at Versailles in France. 1896 Birth of American novelist F Scott Fitzgerald. 1932 Birth of Russian prima ballerina Svetlana Beriosova. 1960 The world’s first nuclear...
63BC Birth of Gaius Octavius Caesar, adopted son of Julius Caesar. 1914 Three British cruisers are sunk by a German U boat off the Dutch coast. 1920 Birth of American actor Mickey...
1791 Birth of English physicist Michael Faraday. 1885 Birth of Austrian film director Erick von Stroheim. 1902 Birth of Romanian born actor, producer and writer, John Houseman. 1972 Ugandan dictator Idi Amin gives Ugandan Asians 48...
1327 King Edward II of England is murdered at Berkeley Castle. 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie’s forces defeat the English at the Battle of Prestonpans. 1756 Birth of Scottish engineer John MacAdam, pioneer of the tarmac...
1792 French forces defeat the Prussians at the Battle of Valmy. 1878 Birth of American author Upton Sinclair. 1885 Birth of American pianist and singer, Jelly Roll Morton. 1914 Birth of English actor Kenneth Moore. 1931...
1356 English forces defeat the French at the Battle of Poitiers. 1876 The carpet sweeper is patented by American inventor Melville Bissell. 1881 Death of US president James Abram Garfield, who had been shot on 2...
1851 The first edition of The New York Times is published. 1905 Birth of Swedish born actress Greta Garbo. 1911 Russian prime minister Pyotr Stolypin dies after being shot the week before. 1939 Birth of American singer Frankie...
1701 Death of King James II of England. 1901 Birth of English yachtsman and aviator Sir Francis Chichester. 1908 Lieutenant Thomas W Selfridge becomes the first aircraft fatality when a plane piloted by Orville Wright...
1387 Birth of English King Henry V. 1498 Death of one of the principal instigators of the Spanish Inquisition, Tomas de Torquemada. 1620 The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth for the New World. 1824 Death of...
1649 Birth of English Anglican priest Titus Oates, creator of the “popish plot” against the King. 1830 English MP William Huskisson becomes the first person to be killed by a train when he...
1851 Death of the Duke of Wellington. 1901 US president William McKinley dies, eight days after being shot in an assassination attempt. 1910 Birth of English actor Jack Hawkins. 1927 American dancer Isadora Duncan is...
1598 Death of King Philip II of Spain. 1759 British forces defeat the French at Quebec. 1860 Birth of American general John Pershing. 1916 Birth of Welsh born author Roald Dahl. 1993 Israeli prime minister Yitzak...
1852 Birth of British prime minister Herbert Henry Asquith. 1910 Los Angeles Police Department appoints the world’s first policewoman. 1913 Birth of American athlete Jesse Owens. 1935 US billionaire sets anew air speed record...
1862 Birth of American writer O Henry. 1885 Birth of English writer D H Lawrence. 1917 Birth of Czech born actor Herbert Lom. 1950 Death of South African statesman Jan Smuts. 1971 Death...
1771 Birth of Scottish surgeon and explorer Mungo Park. 1855 The Black Sea port of Sevastapol falls to British and French forces. 1914 Birth of American film director Robert Wise. 1919 The Treaty of Saint Germain...
