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Today in History For 20th September 2015
Today in History For 20th September 2015
Today in History For 20th September 2015
Historical Events
Events 1 - 100 of 219
Boxer and World Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis1939 - Joe Louis KOs
Bob Pastor in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1942 - Gunther Hagg becomes world champ of all records from 1500m to 5000m
1943 - Liberator bomber sinks U-338
1944 - Nijmegen is liberated from German occupation
1944 - Polish forces free Terneuzen Neth
1945 - German rocket engineers begin work in US
1946 - Churchill argues for a 'United States of Europe'
1948 - "Magdalena" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 48 performances
1948 - Mexican Baseball league disbanded
1949 - Dutch Guilder devalued 30.3%
1949 - Tennis player Pancho Gonzales turns professional
1951 - 1st North Pole jet crossing
1951 - NL President Ford Frick elected 3rd commissioner of baseball
1951 - Swiss males votes against female suffrage
1952 - KPTV TV channel 12 in Portland, OR (IND) begins broadcasting
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 100 of 207
1486 - Arthur, Prince of Wales, son of King Henry VII of England (d. 1502)
1593 - Gottfried Scheidt, composer
1599 - Christian the Younger, German Protestant military leader (d. 1623)
1653 - Benedict Schultheiss, composer
1663 - Pirro Conte d' Albergati Capacelli, composer
1665 - Johannes van der Hagen, vicar/genealogist/chronologer
1706 - Franz Habermann, composer
1744 - Giacomo Quarenghi, Ital/Russian master builder (Hermitage Theater)
1744 - Thomas Grosvenor, American Revolutionary War hero (d. 1825)
1746 - Mric Beovsk, Slovak officer and explorer, King of Madagascar (d. 1786)
1767 - Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia, composer
1771 - Mungo Park, Scotish explorer (Africa)
1777 - Ramon Felix Cuellar y Altarriba, composer
1790 - Francisco Acuna the Figueroa, Uruguayan poet (Toraidas)
1791 - Sergei T Aksakov, Russian writer (Semejnaja chronika)
1795 - Charles Heinrich Christoph Zeuner, composer
1795 - Peter of Limburg Brouwer, physician/classical/author
1809 - Sterline "Old Pap" Price, Major General (Confederate Army)
1810 - Alpheus Starkey Williams, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1820 - George Washington Morgan, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1820 - John Fulton Reynolds, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1863)
1832 - Johann Joseph Abert, composer
Italian Pacifist Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (1833)1833 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Milan, Italy,
journalist/soldier/pacifist (Nobel Peace Prize 1907), (d. 1918)
1842 - James Dewar, Scottish chemist/physicist (Dewarfles/cordiet)
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 100 of 105
1168 - Paschal III, [Guido di Crema], Italian anti-Pope, dies
1246 - Mikhail of Chernigov, ruler of Kiev
1384 - Louis, duke of Anjou/wife of Marie of Bretagne
1460 - Gilles Binchois, Flemish composer
1493 - Philippe Pot, governor/viceroy of Burgundy, dies
1586 - Anthony Babington, page/conspirator to Mary Stuart, executed at 24
1590 - Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer (b. 1534)
1613 - Willem H van Est (Estius), theologist, dies
1624 - Isaac Le Maire, Amsterdam ship owner, dies at about 66
1625 - Heinrich Meibom, German historian and critic (b. 1555)
1627 - Jan Gruter, Dutch critic (b. 1560)
1630 - Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (b. 1586)
1639 - John Meursius, [van Meurs], historian, dies at 60
1643 - Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, English politician and writer
1647 - Giovanni Del Turco, composer, dies at 70
1648 - Marco Ivan Lukacic, composer, dies at 61
1679 - Cornelis Evertsen the Young, vice-admiral of Zealand, dies at 51
1703 - Archibald Campbell, Scot milt man (blood bath of Glencoe), dies at 52
1706 - Pierre Verdier, composer, dies at 79
1721 - Thomas Doggett, Irish actor
1731 - Sicco van Goslinga, Fries diplomat/sect of High Council, dies at 67
1773 - Pieter de Swart, architect (Delfts Port Rotterdam), dies at 63
1803 - Robert Emmet, Irish nationalist, executed
1806 - Utamaro Kitagawa, painter, dies
Nazi Physician Eduard Wirths (1945)1945 - Eduard Wirths, Nazi physician at Auschwitz, commits
suicide at 36
1946 - Raimu, French actor (b. 1883)
1947 - Fiorello H La Guardia, (Mayor-R-NYC, 1933-45), dies
1949 - Nikolaos Skalkottas, composer, dies at 45
1949 - Richard Dix, actor (Tombstone, Ghost Ship, 13th Hour), dies at 56
1957 - Jean Julius Christian Sibelius, Fin composer (Finlandia), dies at 91
1959 - Olin Howlin, actor (Swifty-Circus Boy), dies at 63
1960 - Lee Duncan, owner/trainer (Rin Tin Tin), dies of heart attack at 67
1960 - Michel Brusselmans, composer, dies at 74
1967 - Henri Mulet, composer, dies at 88
1968 - Frank Pelleg, composer, dies at 57
1971 - James Westerfield, actor (Travels of Jaime McPheeters), dies at 59
1971 - William F Albright, US archaeologist, dies at 80
1973 - Ben[jamin F] Webster, US tenor saxophonist, dies
1973 - Glenn Strange, actor (Sam the Bartender-Gunsmoke), dies at 74
1973 - Jim Croce, vocalist (Time in a Bottle), dies in a plane crash at 30
1974 - Carlyle Blackwell Jr, entertainer, dies at 61
1974 - Robert Herberigs, Flemish composer (La Chanson d'Eve), dies at 88
1975 - Saint-John Perse, French diplomat/poet (Nobel 1960), dies at 78
1976 - Johan Boskamp, opera singer/actor, dies at 83
1979 - Ludvik Svoboda, Czech general/politician, dies at 83
1980 - Sanpei Hayashiya, Japanese comedian (b. 1925)
1984 - Steve Goodman, folk singer/guitarist, dies at 36
1987 - Michael Stewart
1988 - Roy Kinnear, actor (Casanova, Pirates, Scrooge, Help!), dies at 54
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