Significant Events
1755- Samuel Johnson's "A Dictionary of the English Language" published in London.1877 - 1st telephone installed: Boston-Somerville, Mass
1896 - 1st Olympic games close at Athens, Greece
1912 - RMS Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as band plays on
2013 - 3 people are killed and 183 are injured after two explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon
Historical Events
69-Battle at Bedriacum, North-Italy1205 - Battle at Adrianople: Bulgaria beats Emp Boudouin of Constantinople
1250 - Pope Innoncent III refuses Jews of Cordova Spain to build a synagogue
1450 - French defeat English at Battle of Formigny in 100 Years' War
1493 - -20/4 Barcelona] Columbus meets with King Ferdinand & Isabella
1528 - Pánfilo the Narváez, Spanish conquistador arrives in Florida with 350 men to a hostile reception from native Indians
1534 - Thomas Cromwell is appointed Chief Secretary to King Henry VIII
1581- Cortes van Thomar accepts Philip II as king of Portugal1594 - Fleming Pieter Stevens appointed royal painter of Rudolf II (Prague)
1621 - Hugo the Great arrives in France
1632 - Battle of Rain; Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat Count Tilly of the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
1654 - England & Netherlands sign peace treaty
1689 - French King Louis XIV declares war on Spain
1697 - Charles XII succeeds Charles XI as King of Sweden
1715 - Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
1716 - Russian & Prussian troops occupy Wismar
1729 - Johann Sebastian Bach's "St Matthew Passion" premieres in Leipzig
1738 - Bottle opener invented
1738 - Premiere in London of "Serse", an Italian opera by George Frederic Handel.
1755- Samuel Johnson's "A Dictionary of the English Language" published in London.1776 - Duchess of Kingston found guilty of bigamy
1788 - Britain, Netherlands & Prussia sign peace treaty
1793 - Bank of England issues first £5 note
1802 - William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud".
1817 - 1st American school for the deaf opens (Hartford Conn)
1850 - City of San Francisco incorporated
1851 - Earl G Andressy sentenced to death in Hungary
1853 - Protestant church questions king Willem III RC bishops
1858 - Battle of Azimghur, Mexicans defeat Spanish loyalists
1861 - Federal army (75,000 volunteers) mobilized by US President Lincoln (US Civil War)
Famous Weddings
1909 - Mien Wenneker, Dutch prince Henry's lover, weds Uncle Cornelis Abbo
1925 - Russian writer ("Lolita") Vladimir Nabokov (26) marries fellow Russian writer Vera Evseevna Slonim (23) in Berlin
1953 - Ice hockey player Gordie Howe (25) weds sports agent Colleen Joffa (20) at Calvary Presbyterian Church
1978 - Novelist Danielle Steel (30) weds William George Toth
Famous Divorces
1994 - Robert F Kennedy Jr (21 days after his divorce) weds Mary Richardson
2011 - Grammy-winning pop singer Christina Aguilera (29) divorces music executive Jordan Bratman (33) due to irreconcilable differences after 5 years of marriage
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