History Home
Events     Birthdays     Deaths     Years

Add "Today in History" or "Today's Birthdays" to Your Site - it's Easy!

Google Web brainyhistory.com   
Secret


2000 Deborah Laake, writer, Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond, dies at 47

1999 Brian Moore, writer, The Secret Passion of Judith Hearn, dies at 77

1998 Federal rules that the Secret Service must testify in the Lewinsky case

1994 South Africa Goldstone committee reveals existence of secret police

1993 Garry Moore, TV host (I've Got A Secret), dies of emphysema at 78

1993 Clinton orders cruise missle strike on Iraqi secret service in Baghdad

1993 "Secret Garden" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 706 performances

1991 Court rules Manuel Noriega, may access some secret U.S. documents

1991 "Secret Garden" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 706 performances

1988 STS-27 Atlantis lands in California after secret mission

1988 STS-27 Atlantis launched (Secret military mission)

1988 Morgan Farley, actor (Open Secret), dies of natural causes at 90

1988 Israel launches 1st satellite, for secret military reconnaissance

1987 Madeleine Carroll, actress (39 Steps, Secret Agent), dies at 81

1987 President Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran

1986 Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals secret arm deal

1986 Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret U.S. arms sales to Iran

1986 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Brave Raj, Capote, Lady's Secret, Last Tycoon, Manila, Skywalker, Smile at Santa Anita

1986 Paul Stewart, actor (Top Secret USA, Deadline), dies at 77

1985 Coca-Cola announced it is changing its secret flavor formula

1984 Winston Smith in Orwell's "1984" begins his secret diary

1983 Faye Emerson, actress (I've Got a Secret), dies of cancer at 65

1982 Kate Maberly, actress, Secret Garden

1979 Daisy Eagan, born in Brooklyn, New York, actresss, Secret Graden

1979 Melville Cooper, TV panelist (I Got a Secret), dies at 82

1978 Walter Keirnan, TV panelist (I've Got a Secret), dies at 75

1977 Percy Marmont, actor (Secret Agent, Lisbon), dies at 93

1976 Sonia Dresdel, actor (Fallen Idol, Secret Tent), dies at 67

1974 Jerry O'Connell, New York City, actor, Scream 2, Andrew-My Secret Identity

1974 Soap opera "Secret Storm" ends a 20 year run

1973 Barret Oliver, actor, Never Ending Story, Secret Garden

1973 U.S. ends secret bombing of Cambodia

1973 Secret peace talks between U.S. and North Vietnam resumed near Paris

1971 Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House

1967 New York Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments

1965 David Whyte, rocker, Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret

1965 Nathan, rocker, Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret

1964 U.S. diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy

1963 2 secret U.S. military satellites launched from Cape Canaveral

1963 Carl Fysh, rocker, Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret

1962 Steve Alexander, rocker, Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret

1962 Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia

1960 Eg White, rocker, Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret

1959 Val Kilmer, actor, Top Secret, Top Gun, Willow

1959 Val Kilmer, actor, Top Secret, Batman Forever

1958 Florent Schmitt, French composer/critic (Jardin Secret), dies at 87

1957 Carole Bouquest, Paris, actress, On Her Majesty's Secret Service

1956 Lucy Gutteridge, actress, Top Secret, Trouble With Spies

1956 Juliet Stevenson, Essex England, actress, Secret Rapture, Life Story

1954 West German secret service head Otto John defects to German DR

1954 1st TV soap opera "Secret Storm" premieres

1953 Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb

1952 "I've Got A Secret" debuts on CBS-TV with Garry Moore as host

1951 PM Ben-Gurion orders establishment of Israeli secret service Mossad

1951 Anne Twomey, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress, Secret, Deadly Friend, Imagemaker

1949 Lukas D. Barnard, head of South Africa secret service, NIS

1948 Spider Robinson, Canada, sci-fi author, 3 Hugo, Callahan's Secret

1947 David Zucker, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, director, Airplane, Naked Gun, Top Secret

1946 Joanna Lumley, Kashmir India, actress, Abs Fab, OHM's Secret Service

1945 Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada

1945 Arthur Docters van Leeuwen, jurist, Holland's secret service

1945 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by secret police in Hungary

1944 Secret Police arrest Gerrit Van de Peat

1944 Jim Abrahams, Shorewood, Wisconsin, director, Hot Shots, Top Secret

1943 Anna Ford, British broadcaster/actress, Secret Policeman's Ball

1943 Susan Jameson, actress, Secret World of Polly Flint

1942 Johnny Rivers, [Ramistella], New York City, singer, Secret Agent Man

1942 Willy Bogner, Jr., Munich, director, On Her Majesty's Secret Service

1941 Lodo of Hamel, 1st Dutch secret affiliate, dies

1940 George Greenstein, author, Secret of a Jewish Baker

1938 LP Beria follows Nikolai Jezjov as head of Russian secret police

1934 Alan Bennett, England, playwright/actor, Secret Policeman's Other Ball

1934 Heinrich Himmler becomes inspector Prussian secret state police

1933 Portuguese dictator Salazar forms secret police (PIDE)

1933 German Secret State Police, Gestapo, established

1932 Omar Sharif, born in Egypt, actor, Dr. Zhivago, Top Secret

1931 Eileen Diss, theatrical designer, August, Secret Places, Betrayal

1928 Patrick McGoohan, born in Astoria, New York, actor, #6-Prisoner, Secret Agent

1923 Andrew Duggan, actor, Secret War of Harry Frigg, Winds of War

1921 Hans Warren, Dutch writer, poet and critic, Secret Diary

1920 Louise Allbritton, born in Oklahoma City, actr, Celia-Stage Door, Got a Secret

1918 Clemenceau publishes secret French/Austrian documents

1918 David Opatoshu, New York City, actor, Bonino, Secret Empire, Masada

1917 Russian secret police in Czech forms under Felix Dzerzjinski

1917 Laraine Day, Roosevelt Utah, actress, Dr. Kildaire, I've Got a Secret

1917 Faye Emerson, born in Elizabeth, Louisiana, actress, I've Got a Secret

1917 Secret Service extends protection of president to his family

1915 Henry Morgan, born in New York City, comedian/TV panelist, I've Got a Secret, Arena

1915 Garry Moore, [Thomas Garrison Morfit], Balt, host, I've Got a Secret

1914 Germany and Turkey signs secret treaty

1914 Chapman Pincher, British journalist/author, about secret service

1911 British premier Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany

1909 Astrid Allwyn, Manchester CT, actress, Charlie Chan's Secret

1908 Paul Stewart, born in New York City, actor, Top Secret USA, Deadline

1906 Dick White, head of British secret service, MI-5/MI-6

1906 Beene Dubbelboer, Dutch writer, Secret Resistance

1906 Madeleine Carroll, England, actress, 39 Steps, Secret Agent

1902 Sipyagain, Russian min of interior/headed Secret Service, assassinated

1902 Walter Keirnan, New Havens, Connecticut, TV panelist, I've Got a Secret

1901 Dame Nellie Melba, reveals secret of her now famous toast

1900 Laura Hobson, New York City, TV writer/panelist, I've Got a Secret

1899 Lavrenti Beria, chief of Soviet secret police under Stalin

1896 Melville Cooper, Birmingham England, TV panelist, I Got a Secret

1896 William Gillette's "Secret Service," premieres in New York City

1894 British and Belgian secret accord on dividing Central-Africa

1893 Harry Wright suggests umps keep ball-strike count a secret

1878 Secret meeting of King Leopold II's agent and Henry Morton Stanley

1872 Britain introduces secret ballot voting

1865 Secret Service began operating under the Treasury Department

1860 U.S. Secret Service created

1849 Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of childrens book, My Secret Garden

1822 Secret meeting of Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin

1800 Spain cedes Louisiana to France in a secret treaty

1784 Patrice F earl de Neny, South Netherlands Secret Council chairman, dies at 67

1776 Adam Weishaupt founds secret society of Illuminati

1753 Austria, England and Modena sign secret military treaty

1739 French emperor Karel VI sign secret treaty

1727 France and Bavaria renew secret treaty

1725 Spain and Austria sign secret treaty

1716 Patrice F earl De Neny, South Netherlands chairman of Secret Council

1714 Prussia and Russia sign secret treaty

1678 King Charles II and Louis XIV sign secret treaty

1676 Kings Charles II and Louis XIV sign secret treaty

1671 French King Louis XIV and RC German emperor Leopold I sign secret anti-Dutch treaty

1669 France and Brandenburg sign secret treaty

1585 English secret service discovers Anthony Babingtons murder plot against queen Elizabeth I

1570 King Janos Sigismund Zapolyai signs secret treaty with Maximilian II

1552 France signs secret treaty with German Protestants

1544 Scot earl Matthew van Lennox signs secret treaty with Henry VIII

1532 Henry VIII and Francois I signs secret treaty against emperor Karel V

1531 Pope Clemens VII and Francois I sign secret treaty against Karel V



History Home    Copyright 2007 BrainyMedia.com