1825 Johann Strauss II (born), Austrian composer (died 1899) 1838 Georges Bizet (born), French composer (died 1875) 1856 Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger (born), Croatian geologist, paleontologist, and archeologist (died 1936) 1864 John Francis Dodge (born), American businessman, co-founded the Dodge Company (died 1920) 1881 Pablo Picasso (born), Spanish painter and sculptor (died 1973) 1921 Bat Masterson (born),… Continue reading
1503 Isabella of Portugal (died 1539) 1537 Jane Seymour (died), English wife of Henry VIII of England (born 1508) 1632 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microbiologist (died 1723) 1852 Daniel Webster (died), American lawyer and politician, 14th United States Secretary of State (born 1782) 1857 Sheffield F.C., the world’s first football club, is founded in Sheffield,… Continue reading
1707 The first Parliament of Great Britain meets. 1835 Adlai Stevenson I, American politician, 23rd Vice President of the United States (died 1914) 1850 The first National Women’s Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. 1915 Woman’s suffrage: In New York City, 25,000-33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote…. Continue reading
362 The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire. 1511 Erasmus Reinhold (born), German astronomer and mathematician (died 1553) 1565 Jean Grolier de Servières (died), French book collector (born 1479) 1659 Georg Ernst Stahl (born), German chemist and physician (died 1734) 1707 – Scilly naval disaster: four British Royal… Continue reading
1520 Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Strait of Magellan off the tip of South America and north of Tierra del Fuego. 1772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (born), English poet and philosopher (died 1834) 1797 In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched. 1805 Horatio Nelson (died), 1st Viscount Nelson, English navy officer… Continue reading