Today in History From JJD Aug 26th

1071 - Battle of Manzikert, Byzantine Armenia (modern Malazgirt, Turkey). Fought between Byzantine Empire and Seljuq Turks.
1278 - Battle of Marchfeld: Rudolf of Habsburg defeats Ottokar II
1303 - Ala ud din Khilji captures Chittorgarh.
1346 - Battle of Crécy, south of Calais in northern France; Edward III's English longbows defeat Philip VI's army, cannons used for first time in battle
1466 - A conspiracy against Piero di Cosimo de Medici in Florence, led by Luca Pitti, is discovered.
1498 - Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pietà.
1541 - Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Buda and annexes Hungary
1545 - Pope Paul III names his son Pierluigi Farnese as Duke of Parma
1549 - Battle of Dussingdale, near Norwich: John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, defeats rebels and ends "John Kett's Rebellion"
1629 - Cambridge Agreement, Massachusetts Bay Company stockholders agree to emigrate
1634 - Battle at Nordlingen Bavarian: emperor Ferdinand II & Spain beat Sweden & German protestants
1641 - West India Company conquerors Sao Paulo de Loanda, Angola
Painter Michelangelo 1648 - People's uprising against Anna of Austria & Cardinal Mazarin
1652 - Battle of Plymouth: General-at-Sea George Ayscue of the Commonwealth of England attacked a convoy of the Dutch Republic commanded by Vice-Commodore Michiel de Ruyter. Dutch victory
1745 - Britan, Prussia & Hannover sign treaty
1748 - The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1778 - The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia.
1791 - John Fitch granted US patent for his working steamboat
1794 - French troops occupy Lock
1843 - Charles Thurber patents a typewriter
1846 - Felix Mendelssohn's "Elijah" premieres
1846 - W A Bartlett appointed 1st US mayor of Yerba Buena (SF)
1858 - First news dispatch by telegraph.
1863 - Battle of Rocky Gap, WV (White Sulphur Springs)
1873 - First free kindergarten in the U.S. started by Susan Blow in Carondelet, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri
1874 - 16 blacks lynched in Tennessee
1894 - Netherlands Social-Democratic Worker's party (SDAP) forms
1895 - Electric central at Niagara Falls gives 1st steam
1896 - Armenian revolutionairy assault on Ottoman Bank Constantinople
1896 - 16th U.S. National Championship: Robert Wrenn beats Fred Hovey (7-5, 3-6, 6-0, 1-6, 6-1)
1903 - Phillies walk 17 Dodgers in a game
1903 - 23rd U.S. National Championship: Laurence Doherty beats William Larned (6-0, 6-3, 10-8)
Magician & Escape Artist Harry Houdini 1907 - Harry Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec
1909 - Frank Tarrant scores cricket 145 & 13-67 for Middlesex v Gloucs
1909 - Middlesex beat Gloucs (Bristol) by Inn & 31 in a single day
1912 - 32nd US Men's Tennis: M E McLoughlin beats W F Johnson (3-6 2-6 6-2 6-4 6-2)
1912 - Walter Johnson's 16-game winning streak ends
1912 - 32nd U.S. National Championship: Maurice McLoughlin beats Wallace F. Johnson (3-6, 2-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-2)
1913 - 33rd US Men's Tennis: M E McLoughlin beats R N Williams (6-4 5-7 6-3 6-1)
1913 - 33rd U.S. National Championship: Maurice McLoughlin beats R. Norris Williams (6-4, 5-7, 6-3, 6-1)
1914 - -9/10] Russian army attacks Austrian army in Galicia
1914 - Battle of Tannenberg (WWI) - 8th German army defeats Russian Narev army
MLB Pitcher Walter Johnson 1915 - German troops overrun Brest-Litovsk, Russia
1916 - Phila A's Bullet Joe Bush no-hits Cleve, 5-0
1916 - Yanks turn triple-play beating Browns 10-6
1918 - W Smith & F Bacon's "Lightnin'" premieres in NYC
1920 - Percy Fender (Surrey v Northants) scores 100 in 35 mins
1922 - Japanese cruiser Niitaka driven onto rocks in storm at Kamchatka, 284 killed
1924 - (August 13 Old Style) The Catastrophe of Smyrna, known as the Asia Minor Catastrophe to Greeks, occurs. The Ottoman army expels Greeks and other non-Turks from Asia Minor.
1929 - First US roller coaster built
1930 - Hack Wilson hits his 44th HR, breaks Chuck Klein's NL record
1933 - Jan van Houten bicycles world record time (44,588 km)
1935 - CCC camp opens in Brecksville Reservation of Cleveland Metroparks
1937 - Franco's troops conquer Santander
1937 - Pumping to build Treasure Island in SF Bay is finished
1938 - British leaders & Arabians fight in Palestine
1938 - Montreal Maroons dropped from NHL
1939 - 1st major league baseball telecast-Reds beat Bkln Dodgers (W2XBS NY)
1939 - Belgium mobilizes
1939 - Croatia gets autonomous status
1940 - RKC soccer team forms in Waalwijk
1940 - Chad is the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor.
1942 - 7,000 Jews are rounded up in Vichy-France
1942 - Japanse troops lands on New-Guinea, Milne Bay
1942 - Russian counter offensive begins in Moscow
1942 - Transport nr 24 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1944 - Bulgaria announces withdrawal & German troops are to be disarmed
1944 - De Gaulle marches along the Champs-Elysees
1944 - US 12nd Army Corps crosses river Seine East of Paris
1945 - Japanese diplomats board USS Missouri to receive instructions on Japan's surrender at the end of WW II
1947 - 1st black baseball pitcher Don Bankhead (Hit a HR on 1st at bat)
1950 - 39th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (4-1)
1951 - Jongbloed in Paris demonstrates artificial heart
1951 - "An American in Paris" with music by George Gershwin, directed by Vincente Minnell and starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron premieres in London (Best Picture 1952)
1952 - Fluoridation of SF water begins
1955 - 1st color telecast (NBC) of a tennis match (Davis Cup)
1956 - KREY TV channel 10 in Montrose, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Denver Golf Open
1956 - Yankees announce purchase of outfielder Enos Slaughter from KC
1957 - USSR announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile
1959 - British Motor Corporation introduced the Morris Mini-Minor, designed by Alec Issigonis it was only 10 ft long but seated 4 passengers
1961 - Official International Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto
LPGA Golfer Mickey Wright 1962 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Salt Lake City Golf Open
1962 - Minnesota Twins Jack Kralick no-hits KC A's, 1-0
1963 - W I beat England 2-1 in series, 1st holders of Wisden Cricket Trophy
1964 - Italian Communist Party selects Luigi Longo as chairman
1964 - LBJ nominated at Democratic convention in Atlantic City, NJ
1966 - Balt Orioles Roznovsky & B Powell are 4th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1966 - KLOC (now KCSO) channel 42 in Charlotte, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - Beatles, Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithfull meet Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1967 - Dean Chance pitches a 2-1 no-hitter, & Twins sweep Cleveland
1967 - Dutch 2nd Chamber demands US stop bombing North Vietnam
1970 - Minister of Home Affairs Robert Porter resigns from the Stormont government (North Ireland parliament)
1971 - Dutch Queen Juliana & Prince Bernhard visit Indonesia
Rock Star Mick Jagger 1971 - NY Giant football team announces they're leaving Bronx for NJ in 1975
1971 - Orioles' Don Buford struck out 5 times in a game
1971 - Bobby Orr signs a five-year contract with the Boston Bruins worth one million dollars, the first million dollar contract in NHL history
1972 - 20th Olympic games open at Munich German FR
1972 - Leo Durocher replaces Harry Walker as manager of Astros
1972 - NY Cosmos beat St Louis Stars, 2-1 to win NASL championship

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 215
1469 - Ferdinand II of Naples (d. 1496)
1540 - King Magnus of Livonia (d. 1583)
1596 - Frederik V, king of Bohemia (White Mountain)
1627 - Thomas Bullis, composer
1676 - Robert Walpole, (Whig) British PM (1721-42) [NS=Sept 5]
1687 - Willem the Fesch, Dutch violinist/composer (Joseph)
1694 - Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (d. 1755)
1726 - Karl Kohaut, composer
1728 - Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist (d. 1777)
1736 - Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French chemist (d. 1790)
1740 - Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, France, aeronaut (ballooning)
1743 - Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, Paris, father of mod chemistry (Oxygen)
1745 - Francois Guichard, composer
1749 - Johann Ernst Rembt, composer
1775 - William Joseph Behr, German writer (d. 1851)
1788 - Aloys Schmitt, German music theory/composer/royal pianist
1789 - Abbas Mirza, Prince of Persia (d. 1833)
1792 - Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan political figure (d. 1857)
1811 - Danville Leadbetter, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1866)
1813 - Nicaise de Keyser, Flemish painter (Battle of Guilder Tracks)
1819 - Albert "Bertie" von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, husband of queen Victoria
1820 - James Harlan, (Rep-Iowa)/US Secretary of Interior (1865-66)
1823 - Wilhelm Troszel, composer
1825 - Jacobus J Backer, German sea historian
1826 - Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (d. 1875)
1828 - Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni, composer
1833 - Charles Jackson Paine, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1835 - Theodore Washington Brevard, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1842 - Heinrich I Quincke, German internist (Lumbaalpunctie)
1843 - George August Lumbye, composer
First Victim of Jack the Ripper Mary Ann Nichols (1845) 1845 - Mary Ann Nichols, English victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
1850 - Charles Richet, French physiologist (anaphylaxis-Nobel 1913)
1854 - Arnold Fothergill, England cricketer (d. 1932)
1862 - Herbert Booth, American son of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1926)
1870 - Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author (Pojedinok) [NS=Sept 7]
1873 - Lee De Forest, Council Bluffs, inventor (Audion vacuum (radio) tube)
1874 - Zona Gale, American novelist (d. 1938)
1875 - John Buchan, Scotland, Gov-Gen of Canada/writer (Battle of Somme)
1880 - Guillaume Apollinaire, France, poet/movie critic (Alcoola)
1882 - James Franck, German naturalist (Nobel 1925)
1882 - Johannes Lindeboom, vicar/church historian (Neth Archives)
1884 - Earl Biggers, author ("Charlie Chan" detective series)
1885 - Jules Romains, France, novelist/playwright/poet (Men of Good Will)
1887 - Luis Abraham Delgadillo, composer
1890 - Tommy Andrews, cricketer (NSW & Aussie player of the 1920's)
1891 - Emmy van Lokhorst, Dutch author
1891 - Ferdinand Bruckner, [Theodor Tagger], Austrian playwright (Races)
1894 - Sparky Adams, Baseball player (d. 1989)
1896 - Richard Hammond, composer
1896 - Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1990)
1897 - Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (d. 1990)
1898 - Peggy Guggenheim, art patron & collector
1899 - Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter
1900 - Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (d. 1980)
1901 - Gen Maxwell D Taylor, former US Army chief of staff
1901 - Jan de Quay, Dutch minister of war/premier (KVP, 1959-63)
1901 - Tullio Campagnolo, Italy, bicycle manufacturer (Fiat)
1901 - Chen Yi, Chinese communist military commander and politician (d. 1972)
1903 - Jimmy Rushing, US blues singer
1904 - Christopher W Bradshaw-Isherwood, Brit/US writer (Goodbye to Berlin)
1906 - Albert B Sabin, Russia, US microbiologist (oral polio vaccine)
1908 - Bill Hunt, cricketer (NSW slow left-armer, Test for Australia 1933)
1908 - W. B. Henning, Prussian-born Iranist (d. 1967)
1909 - Eric Quail Davies, cricket pace bowler (5 Tests for South Africa 1935-39)
1909 - Frank Gasparro, Phila Pa, US chief engraver (1965-81)
1909 - Jim Davis, American actor (d. 1981)
1909 - Gene Moore, baseball player (d. 1978)
Catholic Missionary Mother Teresa (1910) 1910 - Mother Teresa, [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu], Skopje Ottoman Empire, nun and Founder of Missionaries of Charity (Nobel Peace Prize 1979)
1911 - Lester Lanin, orchestra leader (40 Beatle Hits)
1913 - Cees de Lange, Dutch conferencier
1913 - Robertson William Davies, novellist essayist/dramatist
1913 - Tschakowski, writer
1914 - Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (d. 1984)
1915 - Humphrey Searle, England, writer (20th Century counterpoint)
1915 - William Bardwell, composer
1916 - Allan Leslie Merson, historian
1917 - Jan Clayton, Tularosa NM, actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie)
1917 - William French Smith, Attorney General (1981-85)
1918 - Louis W "Louis" Stotijn, bassoonist/conductor (Residence Orchestra)
1919 - Ronny Graham, Phila Pa, actor (Bob Crane Show, Chico & the Man)
1920 - Brant Parker, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
Journalist Ben Bradlee (1921) 1921 - Ben Bradlee, editor/journalist/executive (Washington Post), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1921 - David Begelman, film producer
1921 - William Preston, Columbia Penn, actor (Fisher King, Waterworld)
1922 - Lazar Nikolov, composer
1922 - Irving R. Levine, American journalist
1923 - Wolfgang Sawallisch, Munich Germany, conductor (Vienna Symph 1960-70)
1924 - Alex Kellner, baseball player (d. 1996)
1925 - Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (d. 2005)
1925 - Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and writer (d. 1999)
1925 - Sangharakshita, Buddhist Philosopher, Founder of the Western Buddhist Order
1927 - Francois Leydet, sierra club (Last Redwoods)
1927 - Sam Massell, (Mayor-Atlanta)
1927 - B. V. Doshi, Indian architect
1928 - Peter Appleyard, Canadian jazz vibraphonist, (d. 2013)
1928 - Naïm Kattan, Canadian novelist and essayist
1930 - Joe Solomon, cricketer (WI batsman of 50's Cap fell on wkt v Aust)
1931 - Dane Skerl, composer
1931 - Gordon Greig, journalist
1931 - Guy Vander Jagt, (Rep-R-MI, 1966- )

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 6 of 6
Poet Arna Bontemps (1926) 1926 - Poet Arna Bontemps (24) weds fellow Seventh-Day Adventist Alberta Johnson
1965 - Mobster and nbi informant Henry Hill (22) weds Karen Friedman in North Carolina
2006 - "Days of our Lives" actor Billy Warlock (45) weds actress Julie Pinson in Las Vegas, Nevada
2006 - 2004 X-Factor winner Steve Brookstein (37) weds jazz musician Eileen Hunter at King's College Chapel in Aberdeen, Scotland
2012 - "The Campaign" actress Kate Lang Johnson (28) weds musician Justin Miner at La Venta Inn in Palos Verdes, California
2012 - "Bridesmaids" actor Chris O'Dowd (32) weds British TV presenter Dawn Porter (33) at an intimate ceremony with family and friends in London

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1927) 1927 - Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (60) divorces artist Maude Noel after almost 4 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 111
1278 - Ottokar II, King of Bohemia (1253-78), dies in battle
1346 - Jan de Blinde, King of Bohemia/count of Luxemburg, dies in battle
1346 - Charles II of Alençon, killed in the Battle of Crécy (b. 1297)
1346 - Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine, killed in the Battle of Crécy (b. 1320)
1349 - Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury
1368 - Engelbrecht van der Mark, prince-Bishop of Luik (1345-64), dies
1486 - Ernst I, ruler of Saxon (1464-86), dies at 45
1518 - Giberto X, Italian mister of Correggio/husband of Veronica Gambara
1551 - Margareta Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1516)
1572 - Petrus Ramus, French philosopher (b. 1515)
1595 - Antonio, Prior of Crato, claimant to the throne of Portugal (b. 1531)
1616 - Johan van de Veeken, merchant/co-founder (VOC), dies at 66
1661 - Louis Couperin, composer, dies
1666 - Frans Hals, Dutch painter (b. circa 1580)
1683 - Christoph Schultze, composer, dies at 76
1712 - Sebastian Anton Scherer, composer, dies at 80
1714 - Edward Fowler, English Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1632)
1723 - Thonis van Leeuwenhoek, biologist/inventor (microscope), dies at 90
1770 - Domingos dos Reis Quita, Portuguese playwright/poet, dies at 42
1785 - George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (b. 1716)
1813 - Daniel Gottlob Turk, composer, dies at 63
1813 - Karl Theodor Korner, German poet (Vetter aus Bremen), dies at 21
1832 - Henryk Klein, composer, dies at 96
1849 - Jacques-Fereol Mazas, composer, dies at 66
1850 - Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1773)
1860 - Philipp Friedrich Silcher, German composer, dies at 71
1863 - John Buchanan Floyd, US min of War (1857-60)/Confederate general, dies
1865 - Johann F Encke, German astronomer (Comet Encke), dies at 73
1865 - Marcellus Monroe Crocker, US attorney/Union brig-general, dies at 35
1869 - Henri Leys, Flemish painter, dies at 54
1873 - Carl Wilhelm, composer, dies at 57
1894 - PPH van Ham, general-major, dies in battle on Lombok
1894 - Te Wherowhero Tāwhia,the second Māori King (New Zealand)
1908 - Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer (b. 1837)
Father of American psychology William James (1910) 1910 - William James, American psychologist and philosopher (Pragmatism), dies at 68
1915 - John Bunny American comedian (b. 1863)
1921 - Ludwig Thoma, writer, dies
1921 - Matthias Erzberger, German min of Finance, murdered at 45
1921 - Peter I Karadjordjevic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia (1903-21), dies
1930 - Lon Chaney, actor (Thunder, Big City, Unholy 3), dies at 47
1937 - Andrew W. Mellon, American banker, industrialist and Secretary of the Treasury (1921-32), dies at 82
1944 - Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat (b. 1909)
1945 - Franz Werfel, Czech/German/US poet/writer (Mirror Man), dies at 54
1946 - Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1887)
1948 - Oscar L Fernandez, Brazilian conductor/composer (Imbapara), dies at 50
1949 - Nico van Suchtelen, publisher, dies at 70
Banker, Industrialist and Secretary of the US Treasury Andrew W. Mellon (1937) 1956 - Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist (b. 1881)
1958 - Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer, dies at 85
1960 - Mark Hambourg, composer, dies at 81
1963 - Larry Keating, actor (George Burns Show, Roger-Mr Ed), dies at 67
1966 - Art Baker, TV host (You Asked For It), dies at 67
1967 - Andres Sas, composer, dies at 67
1967 - Dilawar Hussain, cricketer (Indian wicketkeeper in the 1930's), dies
1968 - Kay Francis, actress (Charley's Aunt, Play Girl), dies of cancer at 65
1968 - Kay Francis, American actress (b. 1899)
1971 - Francesco Santoliquido, composer, dies at 88
1972 - Jacques Gans, Dutch author/journalist, dies at 63
1974 - Charles Lindbergh, US aviator, dies at 72
1975 - Cullen Landis, entertainer, dies at 80
1976 - Lotte Lehmann, German soprano (Der Rosenkavalier, More than singing), dies at 88
Aviator Charles Lindbergh (1974) 1976 - Warner Anderson, actor (Doctor, Lineup, Peyton Place), dies at 65
1977 - HA Rey, author of popular constellation book, dies at 78
1977 - Heinz Rottger, composer, dies at 67
1977 - Willis Bouchey, actor (Battle Cry, From Here to Eternity), dies at 34
1978 - Charles Boyer, actor (Gaslight, Rogues), dies at 78
1978 - Charles Trowbridge Haubiel, composer, dies at 86
1978 - José Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer (b. 1916)
1979 - Mika Waltari, Finnish author (b. 1908)
1980 - Miliza Korjus, actress (Great Waltz), dies at 71
1980 - Rosa Albach-Retty, German actress (b. 1874)
1980 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (b. 1908)
1981 - Lee Hays, rocker, dies of a heart attack
1981 - Roger Nash Baldwin, founder (ACLU), dies at 97
1983 - Mike Kellin, actor (Honestly Celeste), dies at 61 of cancer
1984 - Julie Stevens, actress (Lorelei-Big Town), dies at 67
1985 - Pieter Jongeling, Dutch MP/editor (GPV, Netherlands Daily), dies at 76
1986 - Jennifer Levin, American murder victim, strangled by Robert Chambers in New York City's Central Park aged 18
1986 - Ted Knight, [Tadeus Konopka], actor (Mary Tyler Moore), dies at 62
1987 - John Goddard, cricketer (West Indian captain 1948-53), dies
1988 - Paul Francis Lloyd, entertainer, dies
1988 - Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer (b. 1957)
1989 - Henk Heidweiller, ambassador of Suriname, dies
1989 - Irving Stone, US writer (Love is Eternal, Lust for Life), dies
1990 - Minoru Honda, Japanese astronomer (b. 1913)
1992 - Bob the Moor, Flemish comic strip artist (Kuifje), dies
1992 - Arthur Leigh Allen, American suspected murderer (b. 1933)
1993 - Rockin Dopsie Sr, Jazz-Fusion singer (Zydeco), dies at 61
1994 - Tariq Yunus, actor (Bollywood, Ashanti, Deceivers), dies at 54
1995 - David James Moore, educationalist, dies at 62
1995 - Evelyn Wood, speed reading guru, dies at 86
1995 - John Costello, historian, dies at 52
1995 - Omukama Patrick D Matthew Olimi Kaboyo II, king of Toro, dies at 49
1995 - Ronald Anthony White Jr, singer, dies at 57
1996 - Alejandro Lanusse, army officer/politician, dies at 77
1996 - Baron Baker, activist, dies at 71
1996 - Catherine Mary Hall, nurse, dies at 73
1998 - Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2000 - Akbar Adibi, Iranian scientist (b. 1939)
2001 - Louis Muhlstock, Canadian painter (b. 1904)
2003 - Jim Wacker, American football coach (b. 1937)