|
|
Home -
Events -
Birthdays -
Deaths -
Years -
History Feeds |
|
|
|
Home -
Events -
Birthdays -
Deaths -
Years -
History Feeds |
| Found Events in History | ||||
|
2013 Event - In China, more than 9,000 pigs were found rotting in the Huangpu river, threatening to contaminate Shanghai's drinking supply; the government said the water quality in the city tested as normal 2013 Event - Calcium deposits found on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover; the deposits are similar to deposits formed on Earth when water circulates in cracks and rock fractures 2013 Event - After stripping Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France Titles, the IOC takes away the cyclist's bronze medal from the 2000 Summer Olympics; he was found guilty of doping 2012 Event - Scientists studying the Sutter's Mill meteorite, found near where the Sutter's Mill California Gold Rush site, determine it contains the oldest material in the Solar System 2012 Event - An early work by noted childhood fairytale author Hans Christian Andersen, titled, 'The Tallow Candle", is found at the bottom of a filing box at the National Archives of Funen 2012 Event - In Surrey, England, a message found on the leg of a pigeon from WWII stumps GCHQ code-breakers, who say the message hidden in the code may never be revealed 2012 Event - A novel corona virus found in a Qatari man returning from Saudi Arabia is investigated by the World Health Organization, prompting the announcement of a global alert 2012 Event - A large crude deposit of oil is found by Permex, Mexico's state-owned oil company, in the northern state of Tamaulipas; deposits could contain 250 - 400 million barrels of oil 2012 Event - The last known Pinta Island Tortoise, Lonesome George, is found dead in the Galapagos Islands 2012 Event - Evidence of citrus greening, a disease that has killed millions of citrus trees in Brazil and Florida, is found in a residential area of Los Angeles County, California 2012 Event - Two survivors are found trapped inside the capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia, which ran aground off the coast of Tuscany January 13 2011 Event - Health authorities begin slaughtering 17,000 chickens after a carcass infected with H5N1 is found at a poultry market in Hong Kong 2011 Event - Physician Conrad Murray, is found guilty of manslaughter in the death of the American entertainer Michael Jackson 2011 Event - At the Zekiah Swamp in Charles County, Maryland, archeologists believe they found a fort from 1680 built to protect the 'friendly' Piscataway Indians 2011 Event - The world's potentially oldest fossils, thought to be 3.4 billion years old, are found in the Strelley Pool rock formation in Western Australia's outback 2010 Event - Longtime U.S. Democratic Representative Charlie Rangel is found guilty of multiple violations of House rules, including failure to pay taxes 2010 Event - The oldest type of stone axe in the world is dated at 35,500 years old; it was found in Australia's Northern Territory in the lands of the Jawoyn people 2010 Event - Mexico's lead investigator of the 72 corpses found near the U.S. Texas border at Tamaulipas, has been missing for two days 2010 Event - Santiago, Nuevo Leon's mayor, Edelmiro Cavazos is found dead, handcuffed and blindfolded after being abducted Sunday night 2010 Event - Philip Markoff, accused Craigslist killer, commits suicide and is found dead in Nashua Street jail prison 2010 Event - A piano reportedly played by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is found in Baden-Baden, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany 2010 Event - Senior Rwandan opposition politician Andre Kagwa Rwisereka is found, after reported missing, with his head nearly severed off 2009 Event - Margarito Montes, a prominent union leader, is found among fifteen people killed on a ranch in northern Mexico 2009 Event - A new kind of flying reptile fossil, Darwinopterus, lived over 160 million years ago, is found in China 2009 Event - Two mass graves relating to Columbia's long fight with the Farc, were found in northwest and south Columbia 2009 Event - More than 2,000 people found in Poland's largest mass grave during World War II are reburied in a military cemetary 2006 Event - Slobodan Milosevic found dead in cell in the Hague 1998 Event - Singers Bobby Brown found guiilty of DWI in Ft. Lauderdale Fla 1997 Event - Terry Nichols found guilty of manslaughter in Oklahoma bombing 1997 Event - Autumn Jackson, found guilty of trying to extort $40M from Bill Cosby 1997 Event - Carroll O'Connor found not guilty of slandering Harry Perzigian 1997 Event - Vincent "The Chin" Gigante found guilty of racketeering in New York City 1997 Event - Timothy McVeigh found guilty of 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, killing 168 1997 Event - Lemrick Nelson found guilty in the fatal stabbing on Hasidic Jew Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights Brooklyn in 1991 1997 Event - O. J. Simpson found liable in murders of Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson 1996 Death - Veronica Guerin, born in Ireland, nicknamed 'Ronnie', journalist, crime reporter, used pseudonyms, street names, exposing underworld figures in the Sunday Independent newspaper, helped found Criminal Assets Bureau, received death threats, murdered, by drug dealers, dies at 36 1996 Event - Erik and Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents 1995 Event - Rosemary West, found guilty in England, of killing 10 women 1995 Event - O. J. Simpson found not guilty in murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman 1995 Event - Susan Smith found guilty of drowning her 2 children in South Carolina 1995 Death - Carel Birnie, found Utrecht Opera/Dutch Dance Theater, dies at 69 1995 Event - Graves of czar Nicholas and family found in St. Petersburg 1995 Event - Colin Fergusson found guilty of killing 6 people on the LIRR in NY 1995 Event - Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15 billion light years away) 1994 Event - Mass murderer Joel Rifkind found guilty in New York 1994 Event - Dr. Kervokian found innocent on assisting suicides 1994 Event - Michael Bolton found plagurized Isley Bros "Love is Wonderful Thing" 1994 Event - Chuck Jones found guilty of breaking into Marla Maples home 1994 Event - Lorena Bobbitt found temporarily insane of chopping off spouse's penis 1993 Death - James Jordan, NBA Michael Jordan's father, found dead near McColl, South Carolina 1993 Event - Police officers found guilty of violating Rodney Kings civil rights 1992 Death - Gert Nastian, general and companion of Petra Kelly, found dead at 69 1992 Death - Petra Kelly, founder (German Green Party), found dead at 44 1992 Event - John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallanos 1992 Event - Jeffrey Dahmer found sane and guilty of killing 15 boys 1991 Event - Charles Keating, Jr. (Lincoln Savings and Loan fraud), found guilty 1991 Event - A new cancer drug is announced, which can only be found in bark of a rare tree in the Pacific Northwest 1991 Event - Italian actress Laura Antonelli found guilty of cocaine possession 1991 Event - Pamela Smart (High School teacher) found guilty in New Hampshire of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband 1990 Event - Florida record store owner Charles Freeman is found guilty of obsenity, for selling 2 Live Crew rap records 1990 Event - 2 slain college students found in Gainesville, Florida 1990 Event - 5 Bank of Credit and Commerce members found guilty of money 1990 Event - Imelda Marcos and Adnan Khashoggi found not guilty of racketeering 1990 Event - John Poindexter (National Security Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal 1990 Event - Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen, are found in some 1989 Event - Buck Helm found alive after being buried 4 days, in San Francisco earthquake 1989 Event - Congressman Lukins found guilty of having sex with a 16 year old girl 1989 Event - 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found in Philadelphia 1989 Event - 150-million-year-old fossil egg found 1989 Event - Margaret Ray found in David Letterman's home, claims to be his wife 1989 Event - 5 pharoah sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor 1989 Event - Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter 1989 Event - Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq 1988 Event - Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany - 5,000 evacuated 1988 Event - 3 giant turtles found in Bronx sewage plant 1987 Event - In Arkansas R Gene Simmons kills 2, later bodies of 14 of his relatives are found at his home near Dover Ark 1987 Event - "Twilight Zone" director John Landis found innocent in death of actor 1986 Event - NASA announces searchers found remains of Challenger astronauts 1986 Event - Tomb of Tutanchamon's treasurer Maya found in Egypt 1985 Death - Dian Fossey, U.S. naturalist (Gorillas in Mist), found dead in Rwanda 1985 Event - Yonkers is found guilty of segregating schools and housing 1984 Event - 33 unknown Bach keyboard works found in Yale library 1983 Death - Kusan Sunim, found Milae Sa temple/Bulsung Sa Zen in Korea, dies at 74 1983 Event - Bottle with note of June 9, 1910 found in Queensland 1983 Event - Champion thoroughbred Shergar kidnapped in Ireland; never found Lloyds of London pays $10.6 million insurance 1982 Event - John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity 1982 Event - Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta 1981 Event - Divers begin to recover a safe found aboard Andrea Doria 1980 Event - Ford Motor Company found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto 1978 Event - Corpse of kidnapped ex-premier Aldo Moro found 1977 Event - Corpse of kidnapped West German, H. M. Schleyer, found 1976 Event - George Harrison found guilty of plagurizing "My Sweet Lord" 1976 Death - John Roselli, hired by CIA to kill Castro, found murdered 1976 Event - Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars 1974 Event - Most complete early man skeleton found (Johanson and Gray in Ethiopia) 1974 Event - Stolen "Guitar Player" painting by Jan Vermeer found in London 1974 Event - Chancellor Willy Brandt sect Gunther Guillaume found to be a spy 1972 Event - Martin Bormanns skeleton found in Berlin (Hitlers deputy) 1971 Event - Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon, killing all except Juliane Margaret Koepcke found 10 days later 1971 Event - 1st Lt William L Calley, Jr. found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre 1971 Event - U.S. heavyweight "Sonny" Liston's (36) corpse found 1971 Death - Sonny Liston, World Champ hw boxer (1962-64), found dead at 36 1970 Event - Jim Morrison found not guilty of "lewd" behavior 1970 Event - Chicago 7 defendants found innocent of inciting to riot 1969 Death - Walter Gropius, architect/found (Bauhaus school of design), dies at 86 1969 Event - Communist New People's Army found in Philippines 1968 Event - Nuclear-powered sub Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing and is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores 1966 Death - Bobby Fuller, rocker, singer, guitarist, most famous single titled, I Fought the Law, written by Sonny Curtis, first top 40 hit, Let Her Dance, influences include The Beatles, Little Richard, Eddie Cochran, found dead at 22 1966 Event - Writers Andrei Sinjavski and Joeij Daniel found guilty 1964 Event - Beckwith arrested for murder of Medger Evers, found guilty 30 yr later 1963 Event - British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow 1962 Death - Marilyn Monroe, found dead of apparent self-inflicted drug OD at 35 1961 Event - Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel 1961 Event - SS Col Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel 1960 Event - Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea 1959 Birthday - Veronica Guerin,, nicknamed 'Ronnie', journalist, crime reporter, used pseudonyms, street names, exposing underworld figures in the Sunday Independent newspaper, helped found Criminal Assets Bureau 1957 Event - Ed Gein found insane of murder 1953 Event - Yamada Koun, leader of Sanbo Kyodan line of Zen, found 1st awakening 1951 Event - New York Times reports the New York City subway will auction off things found 1950 Event - Mother Teresa found her Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India 1950 Event - Preston Tucker, auto maker, found not guilty of mail fraud 1948 Event - CBS news correspondent George Polk's body is found in Greece 1948 Event - George Polk, CBS news correspondant, body found 1946 Event - 22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg 1943 Event - Poon Lim found after being adrift 133 days 1941 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight 1940 Birthday - Clem Curtis, born in Trinidad, singer, lead vocalist for The Foundations, a British soul group, including hits, 'Baby Now That I've Found You', 'Back On My Feet Again', 'Any Old Time' 1939 Birthday - Annea Lockwood, born in Christchurch, New Zealand, composer, records natural found sounds, Fluxus works with burning pianos, teacher, Vassar College 1938 Birthday - Alvin Curran, born in Providence, Rhode Island, composer, professor at Mills College, co-founder of Musica Elettronica Viva, using electronic and environmental found sounds 1935 Event - Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap and murder of Lindbergh's infant 1934 Event - World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines 1932 Event - Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell, New Jersey 1932 Death - Lindbergh baby, found dead 1930 Event - Remains of Solomon Andrees' balloon expedition to North Pole in 1897, found at Kvit oya Spitsbergen 1929 Event - 1st skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien 1925 Event - Monkey Trial ends-John Scopes found guilty of teaching Darwinism 1924 Event - Leopold and Loeb found guilty of murder 1919 Event - American Meteorological Society found 1917 Event - Han Yong-woon, found Zen awakening at Osean Monastery Korea 1914 Birthday - Taisen Deshimaru, Saga City Japan, found several Zen centers in France 1913 Event - Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird known to have crossed the Atlantic) 1912 Event - Bust of Queen Nefertete found in El-Amarna, Egypt 1912 Event - Robert Scott's diary and dead body found in Antarctica 1911 Event - Remains of a neanderthal man found in Jersey UK 1910 Event - Passenger on SS Arawatta throws bottle with note overboard, found June 6, 1983 in Queensland 1909 Event - Bird banding society found 1906 Event - Alfred Dreyfus found innocent in France 1906 Event - Will Keith Kellogg found Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co. 1905 Event - World's largest diamond, Cullinan - 3106 carets, found in South Africa 1904 Event - 2 prehistoric bones found in Weerdingerveen, Drenthe 1903 Event - AL/NL batting champ Ed Delahanty, disappears, found dead days later 1902 Birthday - Gustav von Koenigswald, paleontologist, found Pithecanthropus erectus 1900 Death - Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi/found Amer Hebrew Congregations, dies at 80 1900 Event - American Hall of Fame found 1899 Birthday - Robert Welch, found John Birch Society 1897 Event - 1800-1900 year old fossil of "girl of Yde" found in Drente, Netherlands 1896 Event - D T Suzuki found the awakening at Engakuji temple, in Kamakura 1896 Event - Gold discovered in Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek, Ala 1888 Death - Mary Ann Nicholls, a 42-year-old prostitute, was found stabbed to death in London, 1st of at least five murders by Jack the Ripper 1879 Birthday - Thomas Beecham, born in England, composer, found London Philharmonic 1878 Event - Edward Scripps and John Sweeney found Penny Press (Cleveland Press) 1875 Birthday - Walter Percy Chrysler, found Chrysler Corp, 1925 1873 Birthday - Howard Carter, British archaeologist, found King Tutankhamen's tomb 1872 Event - U.S. cargo ship Mary Celeste set sail from New York on a journey which ended when it is found mysteriously abandoned the following month 1872 Event - World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales 1865 Event - 8 alleged conspirators in assassination of Lincoln are found guilty 1859 Birthday - Frank Heino Damrosch, author/musician/teacher, found Inst of Music 1858 Birthday - Emmeline Pankhurst, born in England, found, Women's Social and Political Union 1857 Birthday - Jose Celso Barbosa, born in Puerto Rico, found Federalist Party in 1900 1856 Event - Doctor William Palmer found guilty of poisoning 1854 Birthday - Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch director, Lost and Found, Silvia Silombra 1851 Birthday - Lillien Jane Martin, psychologist, found gerontology clinic 1846 Event - Mormons found 1st English settlement in California (San Joaquin Valley) 1845 Birthday - Emmanuel-Persillier Lachapelle, dr, found Notre Dame Hosp Montreal 1844 Birthday - A Montgomery Ward, found mail-order business, Montgomery Ward 1841 Event - Imakita Kosen, 1st Zen teacher of D. T. Suzuki, found the awakening 1841 Birthday - Henry Stanley, England, journalist/explorer, found Livingston in Africa 1839 Death - Israel Ashkenazi of Shklov, found Ashkenazic community (1815), dies 1829 Event - Sir Robert Peel found London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies) 1826 Death - Giuseppe Piazzi, monk, mathematician and discoverer, found 1st asteroid, dies at 80 1824 Birthday - Elisha Harris, U.S., physician/found American Public Health Assoc 1813 Birthday - Zachariah Chandler, U.S., merchant/politician, found Republican Party 1813 Birthday - David Livingstone, born in Scotland, explorer, found by Stanley in Africa 1811 Birthday - John Humphrey Noyes, Vt, found Oneida Community, Perfectionists 1807 Event - Vice President Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent 1806 Birthday - Chapin Aaron Harris, U.S., found America Society of Dental Surgeons 1805 Event - Great Stoneface Mount found in New Hampshire 1788 Event - Lord Gordon found guilty of libel of queen of France 1776 Event - Duchess of Kingston found guilty of bigamy 1773 Birthday - George Cayley, England, found science of aerodynamics 1773 Event - Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago 1748 Event - Ruins of Pompeii found 1740 Birthday - Elias Boudinot, lawyer/patriot, found American Biblical Society 1729 Event - Diamonds found in Minas Geras, Brazil 1718 Event - Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans, found 1711 Birthday - Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg, found U.S. Lutheran church 1701 Event - Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac found trading post at Ft. Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit 1675 Event - Cornelia/Dina Olfaarts found not guilty of witchcraft 1639 Event - Suzuki Shosan, Samurai monk of Zen Buddhism, found awakening 1580 Birthday - Jean Baptiste van Helmont, Belgian chemist, found boiling pt temp 1519 Birthday - Pedro Menendez de Aviles, explorer, found St. Augustine Florida 1503 Event - Casa Contratacion (Board of Trade) found (Spain) to deal with American affairs 1497 Event - John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England (believes he found Asia in Nova Scotia) 1460 Birthday - Ponce de Leon, Spain, searched for fountain of youth, found Florida 1306 Death - Musho [Hokai], Zen teacher/found subtemple at Jochiji, dies 1240 Death - Raymundus Nonnatus, found Mercedariers (protect pregnant women), dies |
Add History to your Site or Blog You can add our Today in History or Today's Birthdays scripts to your site. The script has fresh, new content each day, and requires no work on your part. Get started BrainyHistory on FaceBook Get the birthdays of the day from BrainyHistory on FaceBook and Twitter |
|||
 BrainyHistory
|
|
Social BrainyHistory on FaceBook BrainyHistory on Twitter |
|
Site Home Events Birthdays Deaths Years History Feeds |
|
About Us Inquire Privacy Terms |
| Copyright © 2001 - 2013 BrainyHistory | ||||||