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2001 U.S. launches strikes against the Taleban in Afghanistan, in retaliation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US.

1997 "Bean" opens in US

1997 Smokers must prove they are over 18 to purchase cigarettes in US

1996 Cedric Pioline, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, tennis pro, US open final 1993

1995 Eleanore M "May" Sarton, Belg/US writer (Land of Silence), dies at 83

1995 Bernard Cornfeld, Romanian/US financier (Fund of Funds), dies at 67

1995 Patricia Highsmith, Mary Patricia Plangman, US/Swiss, dies at 74

1995 John Halas, Hungarian/US cartoonist (Animal Farm), dies at 81

1994 Leo Fuchs, Polish/US Yiddish actor (Story of Ruth), dies at 83

1994 Lilia Skala, Austrian/US actress (Ship of Fools, Caprice), dies at 98

1994 Artur Balsam, Polish/US pianist, dies at 88

1994 Nancy Keene Lancaster, US/British architect (Binnen House), dies at 96

1994 Earnest Pawel, Polish/US author (Nightmare of Reason), dies at 74

1994 Hans J. Salter, Australia/US composer (Deanna-Durbin musicals), dies at 98

1994 Nathan Susskind, Slovak/US linguist (Yiddish), dies at 87

1994 Gottfried Reinhardt, Goldmann, German/US director, dies at 83

1994 Robert Jungk, German/French/Us/Austrian philosopher/historian, dies

1994 Andres Escobar, Colombia world cup soccer star, shot for losing to US

1994 John Henry Weidner, Dutch/US resistance fighter, dies at 81

1994 Gilbert Roland, Mexican/US actor (Armand in Camille), dies at 88

1994 Harry la Fontaine, Danish/US resistance fighter/producer, dies at 81

1994 Angelus Gottfried "Golo" Mann, German/US historian, dies at 85

1994 Charles Bukowski, German/US writer (Barfly, Hollywood), dies at 73

1994 Ignace Strasfogel, Polish/US pianist/conductor/composer, dies at 84

1994 Martin Kosleck, German/US actor (Hitler Gang), dies at 86

1994 Samuel Bronston, Romanian/US producer (El Cid), dies at 85

1994 Dixy Lee Ray, chairwoman (US Atomic Energy Commission), dies at 79

1993 Alexander Mackendrick, British/US director (Lady Killers), dies at 81

1993 Kenneth Nelson, US/English actor (Boys in the Band), dies at 63

1993 Erich Leinsdorf, Austria/US conductor/author (Cadenza), dies at 81

1993 Rita Karin, Polish-Latvia/US actress (Sophie's Choice), dies at 73

1993 Leon Liebgold, Pol/US actor/chairman (Hebrew Actors Union), dies at 83

1993 Eric Berry, English/US actor (Pippin, 49th Parallel), dies at 80

1993 Kenny Drew, US/Danish jazz pianist (Moonlight Desert), dies at 64

1993 Jay Scott, Jeffrey Scott Beaven, US/Canada movie critic, dies at 43

1993 Mario Bauza, Cubans/US jazz musician, dies at 82

1993 Art Hodes, Russian/US jazz/blues pianist/editor (Jazz Record), dies

1993 Paul Brickhill, Dutch/US WW II pilot/physician, dies

1993 George L George, Russian/US journalist/director/producer, dies at 85

1992 Monica Dickens, English/US journalist/author, dies at 77

1992 Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian/US violist (Beethoven, Bach), dies at 87

1992 "Malcolm X" with Denzel Washington premieres in US

1992 Keith "Red" Mitchell, US/Swedish jazz bassist, dies

1992 Jerome Andrews, US/French dancer/choreographer, dies

1992 Atlanta, becomes 1st U.S. team to win a World Series game out of US

1992 Ephraim Katz, Israeli/US encyclopedist (film encyclopedia), dies

1992 Julio C Fernandez, Cuban/US journalist (founder Alma Mater), dies

1992 Samuel H Reshevsky, Polish/US chess grandmaster, dies at 80

1992 Nestor Almendros, Spanish/US cameraman (Kramer vs Kramer), dies at 61

1991 Ernst Krenek, Austrian/US composer (Orpheus and Eurydike), dies at 91

1991 Irina Nijinska, Russian/US dancer, dies at 77

1991 Rudolf Serkin, Bohemian/US pianist, dies

1990 US, England, France, U.S.S.R., East and West Germanys sign agreements allowing 2 Germanys to merge

1990 Bruno Bettelhelm, Austrian/US psychoanalyst, commits suicide at 86

1989 U.S. beats Trinidad, 1-0 qualifing for 1990 world soccer cup finals it was US' 1st qualification since 1950

1989 Appeals court restores America's Cup to U.S. after New York Supreme Court gave it to New Zealand (New Zealand protested US's use of a catamaran)

1988 Canadian Senate OK's free trade pact; with US

1988 Antal Dorati, Hungarian/US conductor/composer, dies at 82

1988 Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombia's Medellin drug cartel, is convicted in Florida for smuggling more than 3 tons of cocaine into US

1988 Gil Evans, Canadian/US jazz composer (Out of the Cool), dies at 75

1987 John Huston, US/Irish actor and director (Maltese Falcon), dies at 81

1987 Dennis Conner and Stars and Stripes bring America's Cup back to US

1986 Federated States of Micronesia signs Compact of Free Association with US

1986 Northern Mariana Islands becomes a Commonwealth associated with US

1986 Republic of Marshall Islands signs Compact of Free Association with US

1985 Paul McCartney releases "Spies Like Us"

1985 Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of US

1985 "View to a Kill" premieres in US

1985 Eugene Ormandy [Blau], Hungarian/US conductor, dies at 85

1985 Efrem A Zimbalist, Russian/US composer/violinist, dies at 95

1985 US's 1st manadatory seat belt law goes into effect (NY)

1984 Mabel Mercer, English/US singer (Fly me to the moon), dies at 84

1983 "Octopussy" premieres in US

1983 George Balanchine, Russian/US composer, dies at 79

1982 Maria Jeritza, Jedlicka, Australia/US, singer (Metropolitan Opera), dies

1982 Gerard[us PM] Knuvelder, literature historian (Anthology), dies

1982 Gerard[us M] Rutten, director (Sterren stralen overal), dies

1981 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US

1980 Mexico terminated fishing agreements with US

1980 US's copyright law amended to include computer programs

1980 Martina Hingis, born in Kosice, Slovakia, tennis star, 1997 Australia/US/Wimb

1980 Lori Fredrickson, born in Aurora, Illinois, rhythmic gymnast, US team-96

1980 Jose Iturbi, Spanish/US pianist (Pequena danza Espanola), dies at 84

1980 Erich Fromm, German/US psychoanalyst, dies at 79

1979 Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US's worst oil spill disaster

1979 Pope John Paul II begins visit of US

1979 Cyrus S Eaton, Canada/US multi-millionaire, dies at 95

1979 Heidi Zeigler, actress, Sherry-Just the 10 of Us

1979 Last total eclipse of Sun in 20th century for continental US

1978 Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with US

1978 Mandy James, born in Jacksonville, Florida, rhythmic gymnast, US team-96

1978 Aliane Baquerot, New York City, rhythmic gymnast, US team-96

1978 "Sun Day" - solar energy events are held in US

1978 Caroline Hunt, born in Chicago, Illinois, rhythmic gymnast, US team-96

1977 Vladimir V Nabokov, Russian/US writer (Lolita), dies at 78

1977 Oskar Morgenstern, German/US economist, dies at 75

1977 Carl Zuckmayer, German/Swiss/US playwright (Second Wind), dies at 80

1976 18th Grammy Awards: Love Will Keep Us Together, Natalie Cole wins

1975 Apollo 18 and Soyuz 19 make 1st US/U.S.S.R. linkup in space

1975 Michel Simon, actor (Panic, Plague, Two of Us), dies at 80

1975 Josephine Baker, US/French revue artist (Folies-Bergere), dies at 68

1975 Pelham G Wodehouse, English/US writer (Piccadilly Jim), dies at 93

1975 U.S.S.R. breaks trade agreement with US

1974 "Man With Golden Gun" premieres in US

1974 Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian/US author (Angry Angel), dies at 83

1974 Most Arab oil producing nations end embargo against US

1974 Louis I Kahn, Estonia/US architect, dies at about 73

1974 Fritz Zwicky, Swiss/US astronomer (supernova), dies at 75

1974 Samuel Goldwyn, Polish/English/US film magnate (MGM), dies at 91

1974 Guillermo Mercedes, Dominican/US baseball infielder for the Texas Rangers

1973 Trick Daddy, born in Miami, Florida, rapper, popular hits 'Let's Go', 'Shut Up', 'Thugs are Us'

1973 Otto Klemperer, German/US conductor, dies at 88

1973 Safford Cape, US/Belgian conductor/composer/musicologist, dies at 67

1973 Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian/US violinist, dies at 80

1973 US, North and South Vietnam and Vietcong sign boundary accord

1972 Jose Limon, Mexican/US dancer (moor's pavane), dies at 64

1972 Igor Sikorsky, Russian/US helicopter builder, dies at 83

1972 "Don't Play Us Cheap" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 164 performances

1972 Brooke Bushnell, born in Los Angeles, California, rhythmic gymnast, US team-96

1972 David Lichine, Lichtenstein, Russian/US choreographer, dies at 61

1972 "Don't Play Us Cheap" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 164 performances

1972 Richard Courant, German/US mathematician, dies at 84

1972 Al Goodman, Russian/US orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 81

1971 "Diamonds are Forever" premieres in US

1971 John and Yoko release "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in US

1971 Jamie Luner, Palo Alto California, actress, Cindy-Just the 10 of Us

1971 Carlos Perez, Dominican/US baseball pitcher for the Montreal Expos

1970 Johannes Urzidil, Austria/US writer (Goethe in Bohmen), dies at 74

1970 US/U.S.S.R. sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts

1970 Beatles' last LP, "Let It Be," is released in US

1970 Richard J. Neutra, Australia/US architect (Who Bought America?), dies at 78

1970 "Cry for Us All" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 8 performances

1970 "Cry for Us All" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 8 performances

1970 Nigel Wilson, Canadian/US baseball outfielder for the Florida Marlins

1969 2nd Vietnam Moratorium Day in US

1969 Brooke Theiss, California, actress, Wendy-Just the 10 of Us, Good and Evil

1969 Erika Mann, German/US author/daughter of Thomas Mann, dies

1969 Beatles release Ballad Of John and Yoko/Old Brown Shoe, in US

1969 Debut album of Led Zeppelin released in US

1969 Domingo Jean, Dominican/US baseball pitcher for the Houston Astros

1968 Iwo Jima and Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US

1968 Helen Keller, blind and deaf/author (Let us Have Faith), dies at 87

1968 Erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian/iconologist, dies

1968 Pitirim A Sorokin, Russian/US sociologist, dies at 79

1968 Ben Rivera, Dominican/US baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies

1967 Jaromir Weinberger, Czechoslovakian/US composer (Czechoslovakian Rhapsody), dies

1967 Jaromir Weinberger, Czechoslovakian/US composer (Czechoslovakian Rhapsody), dies at 71

1967 Mischa Elman, Ukraine/US violinist, dies at 76

1967 Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US

1966 Lunar Orbiter 2 launched by US

1966 Jan Kiepura, actor (Give Us this Night), dies of heart attack at 64

1966 Enrique E Ecker, Curaeaos/US bacteriologist, dies at 79

1966 Rene Arocha, Cubans/US baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals

1966 Hans Hofmann, German/US painter (Search for the Real), dies at 85

1966 Melido Perez, Dominican/US baseball pitcher, New York Yankees

1966 Sophie Tucker, Russian/US singer and actress (My Yiddish Mama), dies at 79

1966 Harold R Perry becomes 2nd black Roman Catholic bishop in US

1965 "Thunderball" premieres in US

1965 Hurricane hits north east US/Canada

1965 Paul Tillich, German/US Theologist (Courage To Be), dies

1965 Kevin Dillon, New York, actor, Heaven Help Us, Remote Control, Platoon

1965 Howard Spring, British author (Heaven Lies About Us), dies at 76

1965 Jim Bowie, Japanese/US baseball infielder, Oakland Athletics

1964 "Goldfinger" premieres in US

1964 Jo Ann Willette, actress, Constance-Just 10 of Us, Real Genius

1964 Heather Langenkamp, actress, Marie-Just the 10 of Us

1964 Leo Szilard, Hungarians/US nuclear physicst, dies at 66

1964 Dana Hill [Goetz], Van Nuys California, actress, 2 of Us, Shoot the Moon

1964 Peter Lorre, Hungarian/US actor (Maltese Falcon, Raven), dies at 59

1964 Franz Alexander, Hungarian/US psycho analyst, dies at 73

1964 "Introducing the Beatles" album released in US

1964 "Meet The Beatles" album released in US

1964 Edgar Maass, German/US author (Verdun), dies at 67

1963 Lars Ulrich, Danish/US heavy metal drummer, Metallica-Kill 'em All

1963 Ernst Kantorowicz, German/US historian, dies at 68

1963 Craig Shipley, Australian/US baseball infielder for the San Diego Padres

1962 US/U.S.S.R. sign joint space effort in telecommunications and meteorology

1962 Fritz Kreisler, Austria/US violinist and composer, dies at 86

1961 Max Weber, Polish/Russian/US painter, dies

1961 Eero Saarinen, Finnish/US architect (Dulles Airport), dies at 51

1961 Percy Aldridge Grainger, Australian/US composer/pianist, dies at 78

1960 Jean-Michel Basquiat, Haiti/US graffiti artist/painter, Gray, SAMO

1960 Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek/US conductor/composer, dies at 64

1960 Hurricane Donna, kills 148 in Caribbean and US

1960 WH Walter Baade, German/US astronomer (Andromeda), dies at 67

1960 Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as U.S.S.R. levels spy charges against US

1960 Cornelis Jan Bakkerr, Dutch/US nuclear physicist, dies

1959 Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US

1959 600 Indian Dutch emigrate to US

1959 Jacob Epstein, US/English sculptor/painter, dies at 78

1959 Ernest Bloch, Swiss/US composer (Macbeth), dies at 78

1959 Ernest Bloch, Swiss/US composer (Macbeth), dies at 78

1959 Alfred Schutz, Austrian/US architect/philosopher, dies at 60

1959 Soviet Union wins 62-37 for 1st international basketball loss by US

1958 Lion Feuchtwanger, Germ/US philosopher (Judische Krieg), dies at 74

1958 "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak published in US

1958 World's 1st Moon probe, US's Thor-Able, explodes at T +77 sec

1958 Florian Znaniecki, Polish/US sociologist/philosopher, dies at 76

1957 Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austria/US composer (Kathrin), dies at 60

1957 Erich von Stroheim, Austrian/US actor (Grand Illusion), dies at 71

1956 George A L Sarton, Belgian/US historian, dies at 71

1956 Alexander Tikhonovich Gretshaninov, Russian/US composer, dies at 91

1955 Earnest Rabel, Austrian/US civil rights activist, dies at 81

1955 Hurricane Diane, kills 400 in US

1955 "Ballad of Davy Crockett," becomes the #1 record in US

1955 Otto J Gombosi, Hungarian/US musicologist, dies at 52

1954 Joel Coen, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, actor/dir, Spies Like Us, Barton Fink

1954 Enrico Fermi, Italian/US nuclear physicist, dies

1954 Hurricane Hazel (3rd of 1954) becomes most severe to hit US

1954 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Oslo won by Hayes Alan Jenkins US

1953 Elisabeth "Ilse" Kuyper, Dutch/US (opera)composer, dies

1953 Bill Kirchenbauer, actor/comedian, Coach-Just the 10 of Us

1952 Tuskegee Inst reports 1952 as 1st yr in 71 with no lynchings in US

1952 Karen Horney, German/US neo freudian psycho analyst, dies at 67

1952 W de Basil, US Voskresenski, Russia, ballet dancer, dies

1952 Alfred Einstein, German/US musicologist, dies at 71

1951 Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian/US composer (Blossom Time), dies at 64

1951 Artur Schnabel, Austria/US pianist (Reflections on Music), dies at 69

1951 Arnold Schonberg, Austria/US composer (Verklarte Nacht), dies at 76

1951 Deborah Harmon, actress, Ted Knight Show, M*A*S*H, Just the 10 of Us

1950 Eliel Saarinen, Fins/US architect (Chicago Trib building), dies at 76

1950 L Heinrich Mann, German/US writer (Between the Races), dies at 78

1950 Joseph A Schumpeter, Aus/US economist/Minister of Finance, dies at 66

1949 Eugenie Anderson becomes 1st woman ambassador nominated in US

1949 Czechoslovakian tennis stars Jaroslav Drobny and Vladimir Cernik, defect to US

1949 Jamaica Kincaid, Elaine P Richardson, Antigua/US journalist, NYer

1949 Klaus H T Mann, German/US writer (Turning Point), dies

1948 Claude McKaye, Jamaican/US author (Banjo, Home to Harlem), dies at 57

1948 1st Polaroid camera was sold in US

1948 Dick Button becomes 1st world figure skating champion from US

1947 Veit Valentin, German/US historian (German People), dies at 61

1946 Churchill argues for a "US of Europe"

1946 Morris Hirshfield, Polish/US painter, dies

1946 Sally Priesand, 1st us woman rabbi

1945 Rationg of auto tires ends in US

1945 Declaration of Potsdam: US/Brit/China demands Japanese surrender

1945 Ernest T Pyle, British/US newscaster, killed in WW II at 44

1945 Herman[us J] van Veen, Netherlands, cabaretier, singer, composer and writer

1944 Leo H A Baekeland, Belgian/US chemist (bakeliet), dies at 80

1943 Cairo: president Roosevelt travels back to the US

1943 Ismar Elbogen, German/US learned/rabbi (Jewish Lexicon), dies at 68

1943 Conrad Veidt, German/US actor (Cabinet of Dr. Calgary), dies at 50

1942 Gasoline rationed in US

1942 Vichy-France drops diplomatic relations with US

1942 1st US/8th Air Force bombs Europe

1942 Kim Fowley, Philippines/US rock vocalist/producer/songwriter

1942 Dmitri Shostakovich' 7th Symphony, premieres in US

1942 Alexander van Zemlinsky, Australia/US composer (African Dance), dies at 70

1942 John Cale, Welsh/US bassist/altviolist/singer, Velvet Underground

1941 Germany and Italy declare war on US

1940 1st successful helicopter flight in US: Vought-Sikorsky US-300

1939 Katie Webster, Swamp-Boogie Queen]/US R&B pianist/singer

1939 Grace Abbott, social worker (US Children Bureau), dies at 60

1938 Paul Seiko Chihara, born in Seattle Washington, US and Japanese composer

1938 Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher/psychologist, dies at 66

1938 Mary Frances Berry, educator/head, US Commission on Civil Rights

1937 Mort Zuckerman, CEO, US News and World Report, New York Daily News

1936 1st giant panda imported into US

1936 John Shalikashvili, Polish/US general, NATO

1935 J Wouter[us] van Dieren, biologist (Terschelling), dies

1935 Griffith Planetarium opens in Los Angeles, 3rd in US

1934 John Kane, Scotish/US miner/painter, dies at 73

1932 Ronald B Kitaj, US/British painter/graphic artist, pop art

1932 J. P. Getty, US/British oil magnate/billionaire, Getty Oil

1931 Leslie Bricuse, English/US composer, Stop the world I want to get off

1930 Leopold von Auer, Hungarian/US violinist, dies

1930 Jules Pascin, Julius Pincas, Bulgarian/US painter/cartoonist, dies

1930 Edward W. Buck, Dutch/US editor (Ladies Home Journal), dies at 66

1929 John Metzelaar, Dutch/US writer (Report on the Fishes), dies at 37

1928 1st autogiro (predecessor of helicopter) flight in US

1928 Betsy Rawls, Spartanburg, South Carolina, golfer, US Womens Open-51, 53, 57, 60

1928 1st radio telephone connection between Netherlands and US

1927 James E K Aggrey, Ghana/US theologist, dies

1927 August(us) Alleb, Dutch painter/lithograph, dies at 88

1924 Victor Herbert, Irish/US composer, Kiss in Dark

1924 Victor Herbert, Irish/US cellist/ composer and conductor, dies at 65

1924 Theodore Bikel, Austrian/US folk singer and actor, Russians Are Coming

1924 Mass Investors Trust becomes 1st mutual fund set up in US

1923 Kate Douglas Wiggin, author (US kindergarten movement), dies at 66

1923 Louis Simpson, Jamaican and US poet, Good News of Death

1922 Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish/US physicist (telephone), dies

1921 James [Benjamin] Blish, US/UK, sci-fi author, Hugo, Star Trek Reader

1921 Patricia Highsmith, Plangman, US/Swiss writer, Strangers on a Train

1920 1st U.S. postage stamps printed without the words United States or US

1918 LeRoy Walker, born in Atlanta, Georgia, CEO, US Olympic Committee

1917 Eddie Constantine, US/French actor, Lucky Jo, It Lives Again

1916 Cecilia P J "Cilly" Bach, Dutch/US/Spanish actress, In Pyama

1916 Henry James, US/British writer (Bostonians), dies in London at 72

1915 Monica Dickens, author/founder, US Samaritians

1915 C. W. Ceram, Kurt W Marek, German/US writer, March of Archaeology

1913 Irina Nijinska, Russian/US dancer

1913 John Pierpont Morgan, U.S. banker/CEO (US Steel Corp), dies at 75

1911 Audience throws vegetables at actors for 1st recorded time in US

1911 Samuel H Reshevsky, Polish/US chess grandmaster/prodigy

1911 Anatol Rapoport, Russian/US mathem/biologist, game theory

1911 Leo Fuchs, Polish/US Yiddish actor, Galitzianer Cowboy

1910 David Lichine, Lichtenstein, Russian/US dancer, Make Mine Music

1909 Szymon Goldberg, Polish/US violinist and conductor, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra

1909 1st credit union forms in US

1908 Jose Limon, Mexican/US dancer, I, Odysseus

1907 August Saint-Gaudens, Irish/US sculptor (Mrs Henry Adams), dies at 59

1907 Leslie Charteris, English/US detective writer, Enter the Saint

1906 Klaus Mann, German/US author, Mephisto, son of Thomas Mann

1906 Safford Cape, US/Belgian conductor/composer/music historian

1906 Fred Fehl, Austrian/US Broadway photographer

1905 Erika Mann, German/US author, Other Germany, daughter of Thomas Mann

1905 James Robertson Justice, born in Scotland, actor, Above Us the Waves

1905 Dominican Rep signs treaty turning over customs collection to US

1904 Christopher W. Bradshaw-Isherwood, British/US writer, Goodbye to Berlin

1904 Supreme Court rules Puerto Ricans cannot be denied admission to US

1903 John Piper, British writer, US Churches in WW I, official war painter

1903 Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian/US psycho-analyst, Uses of Enchantment

1903 Marguerite Yourcenar, France/US writer, Memoires d'Hadrien

1903 George Wyman makes 1st motorcycle trip across the US

1903 Rudolf Serkin, Bohemian/US pianist, dies

1902 Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US

1902 Otto J Gombosi, Hungarian/US musicologist

1902 Gerard[us M] Rutten, director, Miraculous Life of Willem Parel

1902 Samuel Abraham Goldsmith, Dutch/US phycist

1902 Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Church in US"

1902 John Peter Altgeld, German/US governor of Illinois, dies at 54

1902 Karl Menger, Austria/US mathematician, theory of dimension

1902 Oskar Morgenstern, German/US economist

1901 Marconi receives 1st transatlantic radio signal, England to US

1901 Henry Eyring, Mexican/US chemist

1900 Julien Green, US/French writer, Frere Francois

1900 Ferenc Kormendy, Hungarian/US author, Budapest Kaland

1900 Freeland Colony founded in US

1899 Otto E Neugebauer, Austrian/US math historian

1899 Alfred Schutz, Austrian/US architect/philosopher

1899 Treaty of Paris ratifies ends war; Spain cedes Puerto Rico to US

1898 Joachim Wach, German/US philosopher/sociologist, Understanding

1897 Jacob A B "Jack" Bjerknes, Norwegian/US meteorologist, USAF in London

1897 William McKinley inaugurated as 25th president of US

1897 Mae Busch, Australian/US actress, Cowboy Socialist

1897 Pola Negri, Barbara A Chalupec, Polish/US actress, Madame Bovary

1896 25th auto built in US

1895 Nigel Bruce, British/US actor, Dr. Watson-Sherlock Holmes

1895 Earnest Kantorowicz, German/US historian, Laudes regiae

1894 Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist, dies at 68

1894 Dirk J Bush, Dutch/US mathematician, Concise History of Mathematics

1893 W H Walter Baade, German/US astronomer, Andromeda

1892 Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Polish/US pianist

1891 John Metzelaar, Dutch/US, About Tropical Atl Visschen

1891 Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian/US author, Ararat/Sud a nap

1891 Franz Alexander, Hungarian/US psycho analytical

1890 Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa-Sioux chief (Little Big Horn), killed by US

1890 Dion Boucicault, Irish/US actor and playwright (Octoroon), dies at 67

1890 Claude McKaye, Jamaica/US author, Songs of Jamaica, Banjo

1890 Naum Gabo, Pevsner, Russian/US sculptor, Stillife Flower

1890 Sandor Rado, Hungarian/US psycho analyst

1889 Vaslav F Nijinski, Ukraine/US ballet dancer, l'apres-midi d'une faune

1889 Jens/John Ericsson, Swed/US, engineer (fire extinguisher), dies at 85

1889 Pitirim A. Sorokin, Russian/US sociologist, Social mobility

1888 Eric Blore, English/US actor, Great Gatsby, Bowery to Baghdad

1888 Hedwig "Vicki" Baum, Austrian/US author, Men Never Know

1887 Emma Lazarus, U.S. poet ("Give us your tired and poor"), dies in New York at 38

1887 Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstangl, German/US pianist/politician, NSDAP

1886 Joseph Achron, Latvia/US violinist and composer, Golem suite

1886 Moyshe Leyb Halpern, Galican/US poet, In New-York

1885 Special delivery mail service begins in US

1885 Karen Horney, German/US, neo-freudian psychoanalyst

1885 Jules Pascin, Julius Pincas, Bulgarian/US painter/cartoonist

1885 Veit Valentin, German/US historian, Deutsche Revolution

1884 Godfrey Tearle, English/US actor, 39 Steps

1884 John McCormack, Irish/US singer, Irish folksongs

1884 Anti-Monopoly party and Greenback Party forms People's Party in US

1884 Tambo Tambo, Australian aboriginal/US circus attaction, dies at 23

1884 Arnold Henry Guyot, Swiss/US geologist/meteorologist, dies at 76

1882 Richard Hageman, Dutch/US pianist/ composer and conductor, Caponsacchi

1882 Florian Znaniecki, Polish/US sociologist, Polish Peasant in Europe

1881 Nikolai Miaskovsky, Novogeorievsk Poland, composer, Kirov is With Us

1881 Max Weber, Polish/Russian/US painter

1880 [Joshua] Norton I, Emperor of US/Protector of Mexico, dies at 60

1879 Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, US/Eng's feminist/ex of Waldorf Astor

1878 Grace Abbott, Grand Island, Nebraska, social worker, US Children Bureau

1878 Ferenc Molnar, Hungarian/US playwright, A Pal Utrai Fiuk

1877 Bela Schick, Hungarian/US children artist, Serum Krankheit

1876 Hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hanged in US

1876 Albertus C van Raalte, Dutch/US vicar (Michigan), dies at 65

1875 James Augustine Healey became 1st Black Catholic Bishop in US

1874 Ismar Elbogen, German/US rabbi, Encyclopedia Judaica

1874 Ernst Rabel, Austrian/US law historian, Grundzuge

1873 1st international football game in US: Yale 2, Eton (England) 1

1873 Harold Bauer, English/US pianist, Beethoven-Association

1873 Rudolf Rocker, German/US anarchist

1871 Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher, Intelligence of Children

1871 Wilfred Lucas, actor, Pardon Us, Chump at Oxford

1870 Rudolf W. Canne, Fries playwright, Der de Wier Us

1870 Felix Salm-Salm, Prussian/US prince/Brigadier-General, dies in battle

1870 Memoria of Jackson Kemper, 1st Missionary Bishop in US

1870 Virginia rejoins US

1869 Ales Hrdlicka, U.S., anthropologist and curator, US National Museum

1868 Henry P Scholte, Dutch/US vicar (Iowa), dies at 62

1868 FL, AL, LA, GA, North Carolina and South Carolina readmitted to US

1867 Maimonides College in Penns is 1st Jewish college in the US

1866 Alexander Campbell, Irish/US founder Disciples of Christ, dies at 77

1865 "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll published in US

1865 Rene E de Russy, West Indian/US Brigadier-General, dies at about 75

1865 Thomas Alfred Smyth, Irish/US Union general-major, dies at 32

1864 Alexander Tikhonovich Gretsjaninow, Russian/US composer, Snow White

1863 Louis Ludwig Blenker, German/US Brigadier-General (Union), dies at 51

1863 Francis P Kenrick, Irish/US archbishop of Baltimore, dies at 65

1862 Henry Bohlen, German/US Brigadier-General (Union), dies in battle at 51

1861 US, banks stops payments in gold

1861 Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from US

1861 Arkansas and Tennessee becomes 9th and 10th state to secede from US

1861 Florida becomes 3rd state to secede from US

1859 Great auroral display in US

1849 Mrs Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman physician in US

1848 General Zachary Taylor elected as president of US

1847 Conspiracy in New Mexico against US

1846 George Westinghouse, responsible for alternating current in US

1846 Beginning of Mormon march to west US

1845 1st nationally observed uniform election day in US

1845 Leopold von Auer, Hungarians/US violinist

1845 Mexico drops diplomatic relations with US

1844 James K Polk elected 11th president of US

1843 Henry James, US/British writer/critic, Turn of the Screw, Bostonians

1843 Congress appropriates $30,000 "to test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs" by the US

1840 William H Harrison elected president of US

1838 John Ireland, Irish/US archbishop of St. Paul

1837 J. P. Morgan, U.S. banker/CEO, US Steel

1835 Andrew Carnegie, Scottish/US industrialist/philanthropist

1835 P. T. Barnum and his circus begin 1st tour of US

1834 James A. McNeill Whistler, US/British painter, Whistler's Mother

1832 Andrew Jackson re-elected president of US

1832 President Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US

1830 Albert Bierstadt, Germany, painter, US landscapes

1828 Andrew Jackson elected 7th president of US

1827 Creek-indians lose all their property in US

1826 Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist

1823 Mother Joseph, Esther Pariseau, religious leader, US capitol

1822 Dion Boucicault, Irish/Us actor and playwright, Rip van Winkle

1822 Mexico officially recognized as an independent nation by US

1822 John Eberhard, built 1st large-scale pencil factory in US

1822 In San Salvador, a congress proposes incorporation into US

1800 Washington D.C. established as capital of US

1788 New York City becomes 1st capital of US

1785 Prussia signs trade agreement with US

1783 Britain evacuates New York City, their last military position in US

1781 Thomas Hutchins designated Geographer of US

1777 Marquis de Lafayette lands in US

1776 Continental Congress renames "United Colonies," "US"

1753 Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, 1st balloon flights in England, US

1748 English Naturalization Act passes granting Jews right to colonize US

1693 William and Mary college is 2nd college chartered in US

1652 New Amsterdam (now New York City) passes 1st speed limit law in US

1578 England grants Sir Humphrey Gilbert a patent to explore and colonize US

1562 1st French colonists in US: Jean Ribaut and Hugenots at Parris Is NC

1554 Sixt[us] Birck [Xystus Betulius], German writer (Judith), dies at 53

1501 Sixt, us, Birck [Xystus Betulius], German writer, Suzanna

1153 Bernard[us] van Clairvaux, French saint, dies

1054 Bernold[us] Benno/Bernulphus, bishop of Utrecht (1027-54)/saint, dies


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