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FuZE3 Hits Gigapascal Plasma in Fusion Energy Milestone

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Zap Energy’s FuZE-3 device has reached giga-pascal-level plasma pressures thanks to a novel design that independently tunes acceleration and compression. These early results suggest rapid progress toward fusion conditions once thought achievable only with massive, expensive systems. Record-Breaking Plasma Pressures in FuZE-3 Operating the Fusion Z-pinch Experiment 3, known as FuZE-3, Zap Energy has produced […]

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15 Fully Funded PhD Positions in Antimicrobial Resistance Research: Applications Now Open – Global South Opportunities

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15 Fully Funded PhD Positions in Antimicrobial Resistance Research: Applications Now Open Global South Opportunities

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On the Spot: Justine Firnhaber-Baker

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Why are you a historian of medieval France?

I study France because I like spending time there. I study the Middle Ages because it’s hard and I am a glutton for punishment.

What’s the most important lesson history has taught you?

Expect the unexpected.

Which history book has had the greatest influence on you?

Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, which I read as a teenager. It was the first time I’d seen history written from an inclusive perspective.

What book in your field should everyone read?

Marion Meade’s Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Which moment would you most like to go back to?

VE Day in New York City.

Which historian has had the greatest influence on you?

My PhD supervisor, Thomas N. Bisson, a model of dignity, culture, and kindness.

Which person in history would you most like to have met?

Abbess Heloise of the Paraclete, a fierce and fiercely intelligent woman.

How many languages do you have?

One fewer than Heloise had.

What is the most common misconception about your field?

That medieval people were dumber than modern ones.

What historical topic have you changed your mind on?

The importance of cross-border communication to late medieval revolts.

Who is the most underrated person in history…

King Jean II was captured on the battlefield in 1356, but his fiscal and military reforms put France on track to (almost) win the Hundred Years War 80 years early.

… and the most overrated?

Joan of Arc, though I may change my mind about that.

Is there an important historical text you have not read?

I have never managed to finish Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie’s Montaillou.

What’s your favourite archive?

The archives départementales de l’Oise in Beauvais, France.

What’s the best museum?

The museum of the Rhode Island School of Design.

What technology has changed the world the most?

Birth control.

Recommend us a historical novel…

Hella Haasse’s In a Dark Wood Wandering.

… and a historical drama?

If you haven’t seen A Lion in Winter, you should do that right now.

You can solve one historical mystery. What is it?

Why did King Philippe II want to divorce his second wife so badly?

Justine Firnhaber-Baker is Professor of History at the University of St Andrews. Her latest book is House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France (Allen Lane, 2024).

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Rare marble portrait of scandal-plagued Victorian lady barred from leaving UK – The History Blog

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UK’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport has placed a temporary export bar on a rare double portrait of Victorian sisters by Henri-Joseph François, Baron De Triqueti. The decision gives a UK institution until February 13, 2026, to acquire the piece for the recommended price of £280,000.

The Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest (RCEWA) recommended the bar because the double portrait is unique in Triqueti’s oeuvre and of “outstanding significance to the study of Triqueti’s sources, work practices, patronage networks, and the commissioning of medallion portraits by English families. It was also of outstanding significance to the study of the role of Victorian women and to development of estate management ideas.”

The son of a wealthy Piedmontese diplomat, Triqueti received a thorough classical education and had a deep knowledge of an appreciation for Greco-Roman and Renaissance art and architecture. Trained as a painter, he was an avid art collector and in his own work revived Classical and Renaissance techniques like chryselephantine sculpture, portrait medallions and colorful pictorial marble/stone inlay reinvented for modern tastes.

Triqueti began his career creating ornamental sculptures, and quickly rose to prominence receiving important commissions. He was 30 years old and had only been sculpting for four years when he was commissioned to make the monumental bronze doors of the Madeleine in Paris in 1834. The dramatic doors, four times taller than Lorenzo Ghiberti’s famed Doors of Paradise on the Florence Baptistery and twice the size of the doors of Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome, earned him a position as a royal sculptor for King Louis-Philippe.

After the overthrow of the July Monarchy in the 1848 Revolution, Triqueti moved to England where he found new aristocratic patrons. His wife, Julia Forster, was the daughter of the chaplain to Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley, future British Ambassador in Paris. Cowley and his brother Gerald Wellesley, Dean of Windsor, commissioned several sculptures and bas reliefs and introduced his work to the highest echelons of society. Queen Victoria herself bought sculptures from Triqueti, gifting his ivory Sappho and Cupid to her beloved husband Prince Albert for his birthday in 1852. After his premature death in 1861, she commissioned Triqueti to design Prince Albert’s cenotaph and later the intricate inlaid marble wall panels and reliefs that adorned the Albert Memorial Chapel at Windsor Castle.

The double portrait of Florence and Alice Campbell was Triqueti’s version of an imago clipeata, a portrait on a round shield that in ancient Rome was used to depict images of honored ancestors, deities and famous people. They inspired the Renaissance tondo painting or sculpture. Triqueti’s innovation was to take the flat round medallion-like background of antiquity and transform it into a deep concave shape.

It is hoped that the acquisition of the work by a UK institution may allow further study, unlocking more insights into the artist’s methods and practices. Triqueti’s work also presents an enticing opportunity for the further study of Victorian women.

The sculpture’s focus are young sisters, Florence and Alice Campbell. It was commissioned by the girls’ father, Robert Tertius Campbell, an Australian businessman who is credited with introducing innovative agricultural techniques to his Oxfordshire estate, Buscot Park.

Robert Campbell was the son of merchant who made a fortune in gold and moved his large family to England in 1852. He poured money into climbing the social ladder, buying several country estates and city mansions and getting his kids lessons in the aristocratic pursuits. In 1857, he engaged a sculptor favored by Queen Victoria to make a portrait of two of his daughters.

One of the daughters in the portrait, Florence, started out following her father’s general plan with a big society wedding to a dashing British military officer in 1864 when she was 19. The marriage faltered out of the gate. Her husband was a chronically unfaithful abusive alcoholic and they finally separated seven years after their lavish wedding, over her father’s objections. He died a few weeks after their official separation from an alcohol-fueled episode of vomiting blood.

Her father would some come to yearn for something as simple as the separation he called “morally offensive.” Florence began an affair with the doctor they had sent her to in the attempt to “cure” her desire to divorce her husband. He was a quack to Victorian luminaries like Benjamin Disraeli and Florence Nightingale. She was 25; he was 62. And married. The death of her husband left her independently wealthy, so her father’s threats to cut her off fell on deaf ears, and she dove into the affair, to the point that she was caught having sex with him in the drawing room of her solicitor’s house, exposing herself to such venomous gossip that she was ostracized by society, her family and even shopkeepers who refused to supply such a scandalous household.

The affair finally ended after she had an abortion and almost died. Florence remarried to Charles Bravo, an age-appropriate barrister in 1875. This marriage too was an absolute disaster. He tried to control her money, isolate her from her friends, teamed up with his mother to stop her traveling, threatened suicide, hit her and insisted she get pregnant again right after a miscarriage. Five months after their wedding, he died in great abdominal pain. The post mortem found the cause of death was antimony poisoning.

Enter scandal number three. Now the gossip was about Florence having potentially poisoned her husband, and of course, all the past gossip about her separation from her first husband and her affair with the doctor old enough to be her grandfather came bubbling back up in the tabloids. She had to testify for three days at a second inquest, fielding questions about her past sex scandal. In the end, there was zero evidence she had anything to do with the poisoning, and a decent amount of evidence that her husband had done it to himself, but the stain was indelible and ruined her life. She sold her house, fled London, moved to a secluded place in the country where she became a virtual shut-in and drank herself to death at the age of 33.

The Charles Bravo case was such a huge scandal that it was still subject of conversation in three Agatha Christie stories a century after events, Ordeal by Innocence (1958), The Clocks (1963) and Elephants Can Remember (1972).

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Famous Deaths on November 18

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1827 Wilhelm Hauff, German writer, dies at 24
1841 Georg Christoph Grosheim, German composer, dies at 77
1851 Ernst August, duke of Cumberland/king of Hanover (1837-51), dies at 80
1852 Anton Bernhard Furstenau, German composer and flutist, dies at 60
1854 Edward Forbes, English Naturalist and pioneer in the field of biogeography, dies of an illness at 39
1883 Wilhelm Siemens, German-British physicist and inventor (open-hearth furnace), dies at 60

1887 Eduard Marxsen, German pianist and composer, dies at 81
1887 Gustav Fechner, German psychologist and physicist (Weber–Fechner law), dies at 86
1887 Heinrich Panofka, German violist and composer, dies at 80
1889 William Allingham, Irish poet (Day & Night Songs), dies at 68
1904 Justus van Maurik, Dutch author and cigar manufacturer, dies at 58
1909 Renee Vivien, British-born poet, wrote in French, dies at 32
1917 Henry Spiekman, Dutch journalist and politician (co-founder Social Democratic Workers’ Party), dies of leukemia at 43
1918 Reggie Schwartz, English cricket spin bowler (20 Tests South Africa, 55 wickets, BB 6/47) and rugby union fly half (3 Tests England), dies from Spanish flu at 43
1919 Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician (Riemann–Hurwitz formula), dies at 60
1919 Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis, Dutch socialist politician (1st Socialist Member of Parliament), dies at 72
1922 Marcel Proust, French intellectual and author (Recherche du Temps Perdu), dies at 51
1929 Henricus van de Wetering, Archbishop of Utrecht (1895-1929), dies at 78
1941 Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (Labour Party), dies at 74
1941 Émile Nelligan, Canadian poet who wrote in French, dies inside a mental hospital at 61
1941 Walther Hermann Nernst, Prussian physicist and chemist (Nobel Prize, 1920), dies at 77 [1]
1946 Donald Meek, Scottish-American stage and screen actor (You Can’t Take It With You; Stagecoach), dies of leukemia at 68
1946 John King, cricketer (scored 60 & 4 in only Test Eng v Aus 1909), dies
1946 Johnny Lush, American MLB baseball pitcher, 1904-10 (Philadelphia Phillies, St . Louis Cardinals 2 no-hitters – 1 official, 1 rain-shortened), dies at 61
1950 Gerardus van de Lion, Dutch minister of Education, dies at 60
1951 Johan van Maarseveen, Dutch Minister of Justice and Internal minister, dies at 57
1951 Václav Kálik, Czech composer, dies at 60
1951 Will Vodery, African-American theater and film arranger, orchestrator (Showboat; Ziegfeld’s Follies; Blackbirds), and composer (From Dixie to Broadway), dies at 66
1952 Paul Éluard, French communist and poet, dies at 56
1953 Ruth Crawford Seeger, American modernist classical and folk music composer (String Quartet, 1931; Rissolty, Rossolty), dies at 52
1958 Sivert Samuelson, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1910), dies
1959 Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin, Russian mathematician, dies at 65
1959 Arthur Q Bryan, American voice actor, comedian and radio personality (Beulah, The Devil Bat), dies from a heart attack at 60
1961 Clarence “Bud” Pinkston, American diver (Olympic gold 10m platform, silver 3m springboard 1920), dies at 61
1962 Luc Haesaerts, Flemish art critic (Flandre), dies at 63

1965 Henry A. Wallace, American editor and politician (33rd US Vice-President 1941-45, founded Progressive Party), dies at 77 [1]
1966 Béla Tardos, Hungarian composer (A beke napja alatt (Under the Sun of Peace), dies at 56
1968 Walter Wanger [Feuchtwanger], American film producer (Cleopatra), dies at 74

American businessman, diplomat and father of JFK, RFK and Teddy, dies at 81

1969 Léon Jongen, Belgian organist, composer, and academic, dies at 85
1969 Ted Heath, British jazz trombonist, composer, and big bandleader, dies at 67
1970 Hal Dickinson, American singer (Modernaires), dies at 56
1971 (Herman) “Junior” Parker, American blues and soul singer and musician (Mystery Train), dies during brain tumor surgery at 39
1972 Danny Whitten, American rock guitarist and songwriter (Crazy Horse; Rod Stewart – “I Don’t Want To Talk About It”), dies of a methaqualone overdose at 29
1972 Segundo Luis Moreno Andrade, Ecuadorian composer and musicologist, dies at 90
1976 Man Ray, American artist (Dada), dies at 86
1977 (Theodora) “Teddi” King, American pop standards and jazz vocalist, dies from complications of lupus at 48
1977 Davey O’Brien, American College Football Hall of Fame quarterback (Heisman Trophy 1938, Texas Christian University; NFL: Philadelphia Eagles), dies from cancer at 60
1977 Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian politician (Dictator of the Austrian Federal State), dies at 79
1977 Victor Francen, Belgian actor (J’Acusse, San Antonio), dies at 89

American pastor and leader of the Peoples Temple cult (Jonestown Massacre), commits suicide at 47

1978 Lennie Tristano, American jazz pianist (The New Tristano), dies of a heart attack at 59
1978 Leo Ryan, American teacher and politician (U.S. House of Representatives from California, 1973-78), assassinated at 53 in Jonestown, Guyana
1979 Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball pitcher (MLB record career double plays [79] 1938-64) and manager (Philadelphia Phillies), dies of a heart attack at 78
1980 Conn Smythe, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame team owner (Toronto Maple Leafs 1927-61; Stanley Cup x 8), dies of heart failure at 85
1981 Fredric Wertham, German-born American psychiatrist and author, dies at 86
1982 Donald Dillaway, American stage and screen actor (Min and Bill; Platinum Blonde), dies at 79
1982 Heinar Kipphardt, German writer and playwright (In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer), dies at 60
1983 Hilton Smith, American Baseball HOF pitcher (6 x NgL All Star; Monroe Monarchs, Kansas City Monarchs), dies at 76
1983 Ivan Albright, American painter (Door, Window), dies at 86
1984 Mary Hamman, American writer and editor (Pictorial Review, Good Housekeeping), dies at 77
1986 Gia Carangi, American model (AIDS) (b. 1960)
1986 Lajos Bárdos, Hungarian conductor, composer, musicologist and professor, dies at 87

1989 Henry de Vries, Dutch painter and poet (Toovertuin), dies at 83
1990 Peter Schilperoort, saxophonist/clarinetist, dies
1991 Gustav Husak, president of Czechoslovakia (1975-89), dies at 78
1992 Dorothy Kirsten, American operatic soprano (Time to Sing, Chevy Show), dies from stroke at 82
1992 Herman Musaph, Dutch Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, dermatologist and sexologist, dies at 76
1992 Superman, fictional character, killed by Doomsday at 54
1993 Fritz Feld, German actor (Jack Benny Show, At the Circus, Errand Boy, Promises Promises), dies at 93

American singer, bandleader (“Minnie the Moocher”; “The Jumpin’ Jive”), writer, radio host, and actor (The Blues Brothers), dies at 86

1994 Christopher Joyce, British photographer, dies at 51
1994 Michael [George] Somes, English dancer (Royal Ballet), dies at 77
1995 Miron Grindea, Romanian-born literary editor (ADAM International Review), dies at 86
1995 Ted Sannella, square dance caller, dies of cancer
1996 David Herbert, English publisher (The Herbert Press), dies at 69 [1]
1996 Douglas Guest, British organist, choir master (Westminster Abbey, 1963-81), conductor, and composer (For the Fallen), dies at 80 [1]
1996 John Vassall, British spy and civil servant (spied for Soviet Union), dies at 72
1997 Joyce Wethered, British golfer (English Ladies’ champion 1920–24), dies at 96
1998 Norma Connolly, American actress (Ruby Anderson-General Hospital, The Young Marrieds), dies at 71

American roots-rock and Tex-Mex musician (Sir Douglas Quintet – “Mendocino”; Texas Tornadoes – “Adios Mexico”), dies of a heart attack at 58

1999 Paul Bowles, American novelist (The Sheltering Sky), translator, and composer, dies at 88
2002 James Coburn, American actor (Our Man Flint, Magnificent Seven), dies at 74
2002 Kim Gallagher, American athlete (Olympic silver 800m 1984; bronze 1988), dies of colon cancer at 38
2003 Michael Kamen, American composer and arranger (film scores to Brazil and Mr. Holland’s Opus; Pink Floyd), dies from a heart attack at 55

American jazz pianist, songwriter (“Witchcraft”; “The Best Is Yet to Come”), and Tony Award-winning composer (The Will Rogers Follies; Sweet Charity), dies of cardiac arrest at 75

2004 John Arnold, British judge and President of the Family Division of the High Court (1979-88), dies at 89
2005 Harold J Stone, American actor (Spartacus, The Wrong Man), dies at 92
2009 Bill Narum, American counter-culture figure, illustrator and rock poster and album art designer (ZZ Top), dies at 62
2009 Jeanne-Claude [Denat de Guillebon], French artist who worked with Christo (Running Fence, Wrapped Reichstag), dies at 74
2009 Red Robbins, American basketball player (b. 1944)
2010 Brian G. Marsden, British astronomer (Smithsonian’s Minor Planet Center (MPC), 1978-2006), dies at 73
2011 David Langdon, English newspaper and magazine cartoonist (Sunday Mirror), dies at 97 [1]
2011 Walt Hazzard, American basketball player (Olympic gold 1964), dies at 69
2012 Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, Soviet-American chess Woman Grandmaster, dies from brain cancer at 55
2012 Philip Ledger, British organist, composer, conductor, and academic (King’s College Cambridge), dies of cancer at 74
2014 Dave Appell, American musician, arranger, musical director (Ernie Kovacs), record producer (Charlie Gracie; The Orlons; Tony Orlando and Dawn), and songwriter, dies at 92
2015 Erik Lotichius, Dutch composer (Anaitalrax), dies at 86
2015 Jim Slater, British financier and writer, dies at 86

New Zealand rugby union winger (youngest ever All Black, 63 internationals), dies of a heart attack linked to kidney disease at 40

2015 Mal Whitfield, American track athlete (Olympic 3 gold, silver & bronze 1948, 52), dies at 91
2016 Denton Cooley, American heart surgeon (1st artificial heart transplant), dies at 96
2016 Sharon Jones, American soul singer (Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings), dies of cancer at 60
2017 Gillian Rolton, Australian equestrian (Summer Olympics 1992, 1996- gold), dies from endometrial cancer at 61
2017 Malcolm Young, Scottish guitarist and songwriter (founding member of AC/DC), dies at 64
2017 Mother Flawless Sabrina [Jack Doroshow], American LGBT activist and drag queen who was a pioneer for transgender people and drag queens, dies at 78
2018 Jerry Frankel, American Broadway producer, dies at 88
2018 Larry Pickering, Australian political cartoonist and illustrator, dies of lung cancer at 76
2019 Michael Putland, British portrait photographer and photojournalist who focused on musicians (Disc & Music Echo magazine; album cover art), dies of prostate cancer at 72
2020 Adam Musiał, Polish soccer defender (34 caps; Wisła Kraków) and manager (Wisła Kraków, Lechia Gdańsk, Stal Stalowa Wola), dies at 71
2020 Pim Doesburg, Dutch soccer goalkeeper (8 caps; Eredivisie record 687 games; Sparta, PSV), dies at 77
2021 Dzyanis Kowba, Belarusian soccer defensive midfielder (36 caps; PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara 247 games), dies from complications of COVID-19 at 42
2021 Kim Suominen, Finnish soccer midfielder (39 caps; TPS, FF Jaro), dies at 52
2021 Slide Hampton [Locksley Wellington Hampton], American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger, dies at 89
2022 Ned Rorem, American Pulitzer Prize-winning composer (Air Music: Ten Etudes for Orchestra; Evidence of Things Not Seen), and author (The Paris Diary), dies at 99 [1]
2023 David Del Tredici, American pianist, Neo-Romantic composer, and 1980 Pulitzer Prize winner (In Memory of a Summer Day), dies of Parkinson’s disease at 86 [1]
2023 Ruud Geels, Dutch soccer striker (20 caps; Feyenoord, Go Ahead Eagles, Club Brugge, Ajax, Anderlecht, Sparta, PSV, NAC), diess at 75
2024 Charles Dumont, French songwriter (“Non, je ne regrette rien”, “Mon Dieu”), and singer, dies at 95
2024 Karl Kohn, Austrian-American pianist, composer, and educator (Pomona College), dies at 98

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Famous Birthdays on November 18

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German pianist, romantic composer (Der Freischutz; Oberon), and lithographer, born in Eutin, Bishopric of Lübeck, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany)

1786 Henry Bishop, British composer and conductor, born in London (d. 1855)

African-American abolitionist and feminist, born in Swartekill, New York [birth date is approximate]

1803 Cornelis Broere, Dutch Roman Catholic priest and poet, born in Amsterdam (d. 1860)
1804 Alfonso Ferrero la Marmora, Italian general and statesman (6th Prime Minister of Italy, 1864-66), born in Turin, French Empire (d. 1878)
1808 Antoine-Amable-Elie Elwart, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1877)
1810 Asa Gray, American botanist (Flora of North America), born in Sauquoit, New York (d. 1888)
1810 Benjamin Stone Roberts, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Manchester, Vermont (d. 1875)
1812 Jesse J. Finley, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Lebanon, Tennessee (d. 1904)
1820 James William Abert, American army officer and explorer who travelled the Canadian River, born in Mount Holly, New Jersey (d. 1897)
1824 Franz Sigel, German-American teacher, newspaperman, politician, and Major General (Union Army), born in Sinsheim, Grand Duchy of Baden (d. 1902)
1824 Isham Nicholas Haynie, American lawyer, politician, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Dover, Tennessee (d. 1868)
1832 Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish explorer and mineralogist (Vega Expedition), born in Helsinki, Finland (d. 1901)
1835 Americus Vespucius Rice, American politician, banker, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Perrysville, Ohio (d. 1904)

English dramatist, poet librettist remembered for his comic operas with Arthur Sullivan (The Pirates of Penzance; H.M.S. Pinafore; The Mikado), born in London

1839 August Kundt, German physicist (sound vibration, test of Kundt), born in Schwerin, Mecklenburg, Germany (d. 1894)
1845 Jacob-Ferdinand Mellaerts, Belgian Catholic priest, social worker and founder of the first Christian Farmers’ Guild, born in Binkom, Belgium (d. 1925) [1]
1846 Prince Louis of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein nobleman and politician, born in Prague (d. 1920)
1856 Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich, Russian noble (Grand Duke of Russia; disputed Emperor, 1922-23), and military officer (Imperial Army Commander, 1914-18), born in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (d. 1929) [NS date]

Polish pianist, composer and statesman (Prime Minister of Poland, 1919), born in Kuryłówka, Russian Empire

1861 Dorothy Dix [Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer], American journalist and columnist, born in Woodstock, Tennessee (d. 1951)
1863 Richard Dehmel, German poet and writer, born in Hermsdorf, Brandenburg, Prussia (d. 1920)
1871 Amadeo Vives, Spanish composer, born in Collbató, Spain (d. 1932)
1872 Margaret Seddon, American stage and screen actress (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town), born in Washington, DC (d. 1968)
1874 Clarence Day, American author (Life With Father), born in New York City (d. 1935)
1874 Riccardo Martin, American tenor and composer, born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky (d. 1952)
1877 Arthur Cecil Pigou, English economist (Economics of Welfare), born in Ryde, Isle of Wight, England (d. 1959)
1881 Percy LeSueur, Canadian hockey goaltender (inventor large goalie glove & LeSueur net), born in Quebec City, Quebec (d. 1962)
1882 Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian-American operatic soprano (Cave of the Winds), born in Milan, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1963)
1882 Jacques Maritain, French Catholic philosopher (exponent of St Thomas), born in Paris (d. 1973)
1882 Wyndham Lewis, English author (Tarr, Apes of God) and co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art, born in Amherst, Nova Scotia (d. 1957)
1883 Carl Vinson, American politician (38th Dean of the United States House of Representatives, 1961-65), born in Baldwin County, Georgia (d. 1981)
1888 Frances Marion, American screenwriter and actress (Pollyanna), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1973)
1888 Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, Indian yoga instructor and scholar known as “The Father of Modern Yoga”, born in Southern India (d. 1989)
1895 Ernst Levy, Swiss composer, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1981)
1897 Jules Buffano, American composer and pianist (Jimmy Durante Show), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 1960)
1897 Patrick Blackett, British physicist (Nobel 1948 – nuclear reaction), born in London (d. 1974)
1898 Erich Sehlbach, German composer, born in Barmen, Germany (d. 1985)
1898 Joris Ivens, Dutch director (A Tale of the Wind, Rain), born in Nijmegen, Netherlands (d. 1989)

Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (Philadelphia Orchestra, 1936-80), born in Budapest, Hungary

1899 Howard Thurman, African-American theologian and author (Deep River, Deep is the Hunger), born in Daytona Beach, Florida (d. 1981)
1900 Constantin Alajalov, Armenian-American illustrator (The New Yorker; Saturday Evening Post; Dithers & Jitters), and painter, born in Rostov-on-Don, Russia (d. 1987)
1900 George Kistiakowsky, Ukrainian-American chemist who helped develop the first atomic bomb (Manhattan Project), but later opposed nuclear weapons, born in Kyiv, Ukraine (d. 1982)

American golfer (US Masters, US Open 1941), born in Lake Placid, New York

American survey sampling pioneer and inventor of the Gallup poll, born in Jefferson, Iowa

1902 Barbara Giuranna, Italian pianist and composer, born in Palermo, Italy (d. 1998)
1902 Jorgen Nielsen, Danish author (regional novels), born in Pårup, Denmark (d. 1945)
1903 Lillian Fuchs, American violist and composer, born in New York (d. 1995)
1904 Guido Santórsola, Brazilian-Uruguayan composer and violinist, born in Canosa di Puglia, Italy (d. 1994)
1904 Jean Paul Lemieux, Canadian painter, born in Quebec (d. 1990)

Greek-British automotive designer who designed the Mini, born in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire

American physiologist and biologist (Nobel Prize 1967, vitamin A in retina), born in New York City

1906 Klaus Mann, German-American writer (Mephisto; The Turning Point), born in Munich, Germany (d. 1949)
1907 Compay Segundo [Máximo Muñoz-Telles], Cuban trova guitarist, singer, and composer (Buena Vista Social Club), born in Siboney, Cuba (d. 2003)
1907 Halldis Moren Vesaas, Norwegian author and poet (Harp and Dagger), born in Trysil, Norway (d. 1995)

American comedienne (Your Show of Shows, Grindl), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

American singer, Academy Award-winning lyricist (“Moon River”; “That Old Black Magic”; “And the Angels Sing”: Come Rain Or Come Shine”), and record label executive (Capitol Records), born in Savannah, Georgia

1910 Friedrich Weinreb, Polish economist and narrative author, born in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1988)
1911 Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and writer, born in San Lazzaro Parmense, Italy (d. 2000)
1912 Arthur Peterson, American actor (Soap, Mission: Impossible, Crisis), born in Mandan, North Dakota (d. 1996)
1912 Jaap Meijer, Dutch historian and rabbi in Paramaribo, born in Winschoten, Netherlands (d. 1993)
1914 Leif Solberg, Norwegian organist, choral conductor and composer, born in Lena, Norway (d. 2016)
1915 Ken Burkhart, American baseball pitcher (St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds) and MLB umpire (NL 1957-73), born in Knoxville, Tennessee (d. 2004)
1916 James L. Lyons, American jazz promoter (Monterey Jazz Festival, 1958-92), born in China (d. 1994)
1918 Tasker Watkins, Welsh World War II hero, born in Nelson, Wales (d. 2007)
1919 Jocelyn Brando, American actress (The Big Heat, Ugly American, China Venture), born in San Francisco, California (d. 2005)
1920 Bill Bedford, British test pilot (pioneered the development of V/STOL aircraft), born in Loughborough, England (d. 1996)
1920 Louis Alfred Mennini, American composer, born in Erie, Pennsylvania (d. 2000)
1920 Mustafa Khalil, 40th Prime Minister of Egypt (1978-80), born in Al Qalyubiyah Governorate, Egypt (d. 2008)
1922 Al Dvorin, American Elvis Presley concert announcer, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2004)
1922 Luis Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (1956-63), born in León, Nicaragua (d. 1967)
1922 Marjorie Gestring, American diver (Olympic gold 3m springboard 1936; International Swimming HOF), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1992)
1922 Viktor Afanasyev, Soviet politician and editor (Pravda), born in Aktamysh, Tatar A.S.S.R., Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (d. 1994)

American astronaut and 1st American in space, born in Derry, New Hampshire

1923 Ted Stevens, American politician (U.S. Senator from Alaska, 1968-2009), born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 2010)
1924 Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, Scottish jurist, born in Aberdeen, Scotland (d. 2000)
1925 Alex Macintosh, British BBC presenter and actor (Hell Fight), born in Fulham, London (d. 1997)
1925 William Mayer, American composer (A Death in the Family; Brief Candle; Octagon), born in Manhattan, New York City (d. 2017)
1925 Yvonne Bryceland, South African stage actress (Road to Mecca), born in Cape Town, South Africa (d. 1992)
1926 Dorothy Collins [Marjorie Chandler], Canadian-American singer and actress (Your Hit Parade), born in Windsor, Ontario (d. 1994)
1926 Estanislao Basora, Spanish footballer (The Monster of Colombes, 22 caps for Spain, 301 matches for Barcelona), born in Barcelona, Catalonia (d. 2012)
1926 Kim Besly, British peace activist (Greenham Common), birthplace unknown (d. 1996)
1927 Eldar Ryazanov, Russian film director and screenwriter (A Cruel Romance), born in Kuybyshev, USSR (d. 2015)
1927 Hank Ballard [John Henry Kendricks], American rocker (The Midnighters – “The Twist” – pre-Chubber Checker), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2003)
1927 Lawrence Moss, American contemporary classical, opera, and electronic music composer, and educator, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2022)
1928 Otar Gordeli, Georgian composer, born in Tbilisi, Georgia (d. 1994)
1928 Salvador Laurel, Filipino lawyer and politician (Vice President of the Philippines, 1986-92), born in Paco, Manila, Insular Government of the Philippine Islands (d. 2004)
1928 Sheila Jordan (née Dawson), American jazz singer and songwriter, born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2025) [1] [2]
1929 Francisco Savín, Mexican conductor and composer (Quasar I), born in Mexico City (d. 2018)
1929 William J. “Pete” Knight, American astronaut and test pilot (X-15), born in Noblesville, Indiana (d. 2004)
1930 Sonja Edström-Ruthström, Swedish cross-country skier (Olympic gold 3 × 5k relay 1960), born in Luleå, Sweden (d. 2020)
1933 Bruce Conner, American artist and experimental filmmaker (A Movie, America is Waiting), born in McPherson, Kansas (d. 2008)
1934 Vassilis Vassilikos, Greek writer (Z) and diplomat, born in Kavala, Greece
1935 Pervis Staples, American gospel vocalist (The Staple Singers – “Uncloudy Day”), born in Drew, Mississippi (d. 2021)
1935 Rodney Hall, Australian author and poet, born in Solihull, England
1935 Rudolf Bahro, German dissident, politician and Marxist philosopher imprisoned by East Germany, born in Bad Flinsberg, Germany (d. 1997)
1936 Brian Huggett, Welsh golfer (British Open 1965 runner-up; Harry Vardon Trophy 1968; 10 x European Senior Tour titles), born in Porthcawl, Wales (d. 2024)
1936 Don Cherry, American jazz trumpeter (Ornette Coleman), born in Oklahoma City (d. 1995)
1938 Karl Schranz, Austrian alpine skier (World C’ship gold Downhill, Combined 1962; Giant slalom 1970), born in St. Anton, Austria
1939 Amanda Lear, French pop singer, born in Saigon, French Indochina [some sources give date as June 18]
1939 Brenda Vaccaro, American actress (Cactus Flower, Sara, Paper Dolls), born in Brooklyn, New York
1939 John Cheek, Falkland Islands advocate, born at Hill Cove, Falkland Islands (d. 1996)
1939 John O’Keefe, American-English neuroscientist (2014 Nobel Prize for Physiology for discovery of place cells), born in New York City

1939 Canadian author (The Handmaiden’s Tale) poet, activist and inventor, born in Ottawa, Ontario

1939 Tom Johnson, American minimalist composer (The Four-Note Opera; Nine Bells; An Hour for Piano), and music critic (Village Voice, 1971-83), born in Greeley, Colorado (d. 2024)
1940 Qaboos bin Said al Said, Omani politician and Sultan of Oman (1970-present), born in Salalah, Oman
1941 Conleth “Con” Cluskey, Irish pop vocalist (The Bachelors – “Diane”; “I Wouldn’t Trade You For The World”), born in Dublin, Ireland
1941 David Hemmings, British actor (Blow-up, Barbarella) and co-founder of Hemdale Film Corporation, born in Guildford, England (d. 2003)
1941 Peter Pocklington, Canadian NHL team owner (Edmonton Oiler), born in Regina, Saskatchewan
1941 Ronnie Lamont, Irish rugby union #8, flanker (12 Tests Ireland; 4 Tests British & Irish Lions), born in Co Antrim, Northern Ireland (d. 2022)
1942 Jeffrey Siegel, American pianist (Chicago Symphony), born in Chicago, Illinois

1942 American actress (Dynasty, Big Valley, Beach Blanket Bingo), born in Hartford, Connecticut

1942 Susan Sullivan, American actress (Dharma & Greg, Falcon Crest), born in New York City
1945 Glen Walken, American actor (Leave it to Larry), born in Queens, New York
1945 Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lankan politician, Prime Minister (2018-22) and President (2005-15), born in Weeraketiya, British Ceylon

Native American activist and 1st woman chief of the Cherokee Nation, born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma

1946 Alan Dean Foster, American sci-fi author (Midworld, Flinx in Flux), born in New York City
1946 Chris Rainbow [Harley], Scottish rock singer, musician and producer (Alan Parsons Project), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 2015)
1947 Jameson Parker, actor (American Justice, Simon & Simon), born in Baltimore, Maryland
1947 Michael Carabello, American percussionist and songwriter (Santana, 1968-71), born in San Francisco, California
1948 Andrea Marcovicci, American actress (Berrengers – “Gloria”; Trapper John, M.D. – “Fran”), born in New York City
1948 Jack Tatum, American NFL defensive back, 1971-80 (Oakland Raiders, Houston Oilers), born in Cherryville, North Carolina (d. 2010)
1949 Bonnie St. Claire [Bonje Cornelia Swart], Dutch singer (“Tame Me Tiger”; “I Won’t Stand Between Them”), born in Rozenburg, Netherlands
1949 Herman Rarebell [Hermann Erbel], German rock drummer and lyricist (Scorpions – “Rock You Like A Hurricane”), born in Schmelz, West Germany
1949 Ted Sator, NHL coach (NY Rangers, Buffalo Sabres), born in Utica, New York
1950 Graham Parker, British singer-songwriter (Squeezing Out Sparks – “Local Girls”; “Mercury Poisoning”), born in Hackney, London, England
1950 Rudy Sarzo, Cuban-American bass guitarist (Quiet Riot; Ozzy Osbourne), born in Havana, Cuba
1950 Tommy Cassidy, Irish soccer midfielder (24 caps Northern Ireland; Newcastle United 180 games, Burnley), born in Belfast, Northern Ireland (d. 2024)
1951 Heinrich Schiff, Austrian cellist and conductor, born in Gmunden, Austria (d. 2016)
1951 Justin Raimondo, American author (Antiwar.com), born in White Plains, New York
1951 Mark N. Brown, American colonel and NASA astronaut (STS 28, 48, 66), born in Valparaiso, Indiana
1952 Delroy Lindo, English-American actor (Get Shorty, Ransom), born in London, England
1952 John Parr, British pop singer (“St. Elmo’s Fire”), and songwriter (Roger Daltry – “Under A Raging Moon”), born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England
1952 Paul McNaughton, Irish sportsman (16 caps Ireland Rugby, Leinster RC; Shelbourne FC, Bray Wanderers AFC; Wicklow GAA; only person to play 3 sports in Ireland’s national stadiums), born in Bray, Ireland (d. 2022)
1952 Peter Beattie, Australian politician, Premier of Queensland (1998-2007), born in Sydney
1953 Alan Moore, British comic book writer and novelist (Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Swamp Thing), born in Northampton, England
1953 Alan Murphy, British rock session guitarist (Kate Bush), born in Islington, London, England (d. 1989)
1953 Kevin Nealon, American actor (SNL, Hot Shot, Coneheads), born in Bridgeport, Connecticut
1954 Carter Burwell, American film composer (Coen Brothers films, Twilight Saga), born in New York City
1954 Evan Gray, New Zealand cricket all-rounder (10 Tests, 1 x 50, 17 wickets; Wellington), born in Wellington, New Zealand
1955 Jake Brockman, British musician (Echo and the Bunnymen), born in Borneo (d. 2009)
1956 Laura Lynch, American bluegrass and country musician and songwriter (Dixie Chicks, 1989-95), born in El Paso, Texas (d. 2023) [1]
1956 Noel Brotherston, Irish soccer winger (27 caps Northern Ireland; Blackburn Rovers 317 games), born in Dundonald, Northern Ireland (d. 1995)
1956 Tony Franklin, American football kicker (Pro Bowl, NFL scoring leader 1986; New England Patriots), born in Big Spring, Texas
1956 Warren Moon, American Pro Football HOF quarterback (NFL Offensive Player of the Year 1990 Houston Oilers; 9 × Pro Bowl; Grey Cup MVP 1980, 82 Edmonton Eskimos), born in Los Angeles, California
1957 J. C. Watts, American politician. member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Oklahoma: 1995-2003) and Chair of the House Republican Conference (1999-2003), born in Eufaula, Oklahoma
1957 Jenny Burton, American R&B singer (“Nobody Loves Me Like You Do”: “Bad Habits”), born in New York City
1957 Seán Mac Falls, American-Irish poet, born in Boston Massachusetts (d. 2023)
1958 Oscar Nunez, Cuban American actor (Oscar in “The Office” and “The Paper”), born in Colón, Cuba
1958 Robert Dill-Bundi, Swiss track cyclist (Olympic gold Individual pursuit 1980; World C’ship gold Keirin 1984), born in Chippis, Valais, Switzerland (d. 2024)
1959 Cindy Blackman Santana, American jazz and rock session and touring drummer (Lenny Kravitz; Santana), born in Yellow Springs, Ohio
1959 Jimmy Quinn, Irish soccer striker (46 caps, Northern Ireland; Reading) and manager (Reading, Swindon, Cambridge, Bournemouth), born in Belfast, Northern Ireland
1960 Elizabeth Perkins, American actress (About Last Night, Big), born in Queens, New York
1960 Kim Wilde, English pop singer (“Kids in America”; “You Keep Me Hanging On”), born in London
1961 Gunnar Idenstam, Swedish concert organist, arranger, and composer, born in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden
1961 Gwen Knapp, American sports journalist (Philadelphia Inquirer, SF Examiner, SF Chronicle, New York Times), born in Wilmington, Delaware (d. 2023)
1961 Janice Lynn Kuehnemund, American rock guitarist (Vixen – “Edge of a Broken Heart”), born in Saint Paul, Minnesota (d. 2013)
1961 Steven Moffat, Scottish TV writer and producer (Doctor Who, Sherlock), born in Paisley, Scotland
1962 Jamie Moyer, American baseball pitcher (MLB All-Star 2003 Seattle Mariners; World Series 2008 Philadelphia Phillies; Roberto Clemente Award 2003), born in Sellersville, Pennsylvania

1962 American heavy-metal guitarist (Metallica – Master of Puppets; “Enter Sandman”), born in San Francisco, California

1963 Dante Bichette, American baseball outfielder (Colorado Rockies), born in West Palm Beach, Florida
1963 Len Bias, American basketball player (Boston Celtics pick for 1986 draft), born in Landover, Maryland (d. 1986)
1963 Peter Schmeichel, Danish soccer goalkeeper (129 caps; Brøndby IF, Manchester United 292 games), born in Gladsaxe, Denmark
1963 Steve DiStanislao, American session and touring drummer (Paul Anka, David Crosby, David Gilmour), born in Orange County, California
1964 Seth Joyner, American football linebacker (Super Bowl 1998 Denver Broncos; First-team All-Pro 1991, 93; Pro Bowl 1991, 93, 94; Philadelphia Eagles), born in Spring Valley, New York
1965 Mark Petkovsek, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals), born in Beaumont, Texas
1966 Darren Flutie, American CFL wide receiver (Grey Cup 1994, 99; CFL All-Star 1996, 97, 99; Edmonton Eskimos, Hamilton Tiger-Cats), born in Manchester, Maryland
1966 Jorge Camacho, Spanish poet, born in Zafra, Spain

1967 Tom Gordon, American baseball pitcher (Kansas City Royals, Boston Red Sox), born in Sebring, Florida
1968 Barry Hunter, Irish soccer defender (14 caps Northern Ireland; Wrexham, Reading) and manager (Rushden & Diamonds), born in Coleraine, Northern Ireland
1968 Gary Sheffield, outfielder (Florida Marlins), born in Tampa, Florida
1968 Mel Stewart, American swimmer (Olympic gold 1992), born in Gastonia, North Carolina

1968 American actor (Meet the Parents, Zoolander), born in Dallas, Texas

1968 Romany Malco, American actor (Weeds, No Ordinary Family), rapper and music producer (College Boyz – “Victim of the Ghetto”), born in Brooklyn, New York
1969 Ahmed Helmy, Egyptian actor (Aboud Ala El Hodoud), born in Banha, Egypt
1969 Duncan Sheik, American singer-songwriter (“Barely Breathing”), born in Monclair, New Jersey
1969 Lee Anne Ketcham, female pitcher (Silver Bullets), born in Tallahassee, Florida
1969 Raghib Ismail, American NFL wide receiver/kick returner (Oakland Raiders), born in Elizabeth, New Jersey
1969 Sam Cassell, American NBA guard (NJ Nets, Houston Rockets), born in Baltimore, Maryland
1970 Allen Watson, American baseball pitcher (SF Giants), born in Brooklyn, New York
1970 Johan Liiva, Sweden heavy metal vocalist (Arch Enemy; Hearse), born in Helsingborg, Sweden
1970 Megyn Kelly, American television news anchor and journalist (Fox News, NBC), born in Champaign, Illinois
1970 Mike Epps, American actor and comedian (“Next Friday”, “The Upshaws”), born in Indianapolis, Indiana
1970 Peter Dutton, Australian politician, Minister for Home Affairs (2017-18), born in Brisbane, Australia

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Earliest English Printed Book

1477 “The Dictes & Sayengis of the Philosophers,” the first dated printed book in England, is printed by William Caxton at his press in Westminster

Gama Reaches the Cape

1497 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama reaches the Cape of Good Hope

1626 St. Peter’s Basilica is consecrated in Rome, replacing an earlier basilica on the same site and becoming the world’s largest Christian church

1646 Seventh Council of Toledo of bishops convened by Visigothic King of Hispania Chindasuinth, extends treason laws to the clergy
1667 Treaty of Bongaja: King Hassan-Udin of Makasar & VOC
1686 Charles François Felix operates on King Louis XIV of France’s anal fistula after practising the surgery on several peasants.

Voltaire’s First Play

1718 Voltaire‘s first play, the tragedy “Oedipe” premieres in Paris, and first use of non de plume Voltaire by François-Marie Arouet

1738 France & Austria sign peace treaty
1742 Prussia and Great Britain sign an anti-French military covenant

1750 The original Westminster Bridge across the River Thames in London is opened in a midnight ceremony

1755 Worst quake in Massachusetts Bay area strikes Boston; no deaths reported
1787 First Unitarian minister in US ordained, Boston
1803 Battle of Vertieres; Haitian population inflict final defeat on French force attempting to quell slave rebellion on colony of Saint-Dominque
1804 Pulver Purim is first celebrated to commemorate miraculous escape of Rabbi Abraham Danzig from a gunpowder explosion in Vilna
1820 Antarctica sighted by US Navy Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer
1833 Netherlands & Belgium sign Treaty of Zonhoven

Letter by Göttingen Seven

1837 Letter by Göttingen Seven published protesting abolition of constitution of Kingdom of Hanover, by seven professors including Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

1852 Rose Philippine Duchesne dies in St. Charles, Missouri. She would be canonized on July 3, 1988 by Pope John Paul II.

Funeral of the Duke of Wellington

1852 State funeral of Duke of Wellington is held at St Paul’s Cathedral in London

1861 The first provisional meeting of the Confederate Congress is held in Richmond, Virginia

The Celebrated Jumping Frog

1865 Mark Twain publishes the short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” in The New York Saturday Press

Arrested for Voting

1872 Suffragette Susan B. Anthony is arrested by a U.S. Deputy Marshal and charged with illegally voting

1874 National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland, Ohio
1883 Antonín Dvořák‘s “Husitska” (Hussite Overture) premieres at the gala opening of the Prague National Theater
1883 US and Canadian railroads set and synchronize four standard time zones – Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific, replacing over 100 previous time zones
1889 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii

On the Study of Holy Scripture

1893 Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Providentissimus Deus (On the Study of Holy Scripture), reviewing the history of Bible study

1894 Richard Outcault’s early comic strip “Origin of a New Species” published in World
1899 Trumper scores 208 in 185 mins (1 five 25 fours) NSW v Qld
1901 The USA and Great Britain sign the Second Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, or Interoceanic Ship Canal Treaty
1902 Brooklyn toymaker Morris Michtom names his stuffed teddy bear after US President “Teddy” Roosevelt [1]
1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives US exclusive canal rights in Panama
1904 General Esteban Huertas steps down after the government of Panama fears he wants to stage a coup

1905 Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway
1906 Anarchists bomb St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome
1906 Langdon Mitchell’s “New York Idea” premieres in NYC
1909 US invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya
1911 First American performance of Ludwig Thuille’s opera “Lobetanz”, Metropolitan Opera in New York City
1912 Cholera breaks out in Constantinople, in the Ottoman Empire
1913 Lincoln Beachey becomes the first American pilot to perform an aircraft loop-the-loop in his Curtiss aeroplane near San Diego

1916 British General Douglas Haig finally calls off the First Battle of the Somme in World War I after more than 1 million soldiers are killed or wounded

1917 Sigma Alpha Rho, a Jewish high school fraternity, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1918 Belgian troops re-enter Brussels, lost to the German invaders on 20 August 1914
1918 Latvia declares independence from Russia
1919 H. Tierney & J. McCarthy’s musical “Irene” premieres in NYC
1920 Apollo Theater (Academy, Bryant) opens at 221 W 42nd St NYC
1922 Turkish National Assembly nominates Abdülmecid II as caliph – the last Ottoman caliph
1926 George Bernard Shaw accepts the Nobel Prize for Literature but refuses the prize money, saying “I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize”

On the Persecution of the Church in Mexico

1926 Pope Pius XI encyclical Acerba animi (On the Persecution of the Church in Mexico)

Steamboat Willie

1928 Walt Disney‘s “Steamboat Willie” is released, the first Mickey Mouse sound cartoon

1929 Foundation stone for Umaid Bhawan Palace laid in Jodhpur, India. Originally built to provide employment for drought-stricken farmers, now one of world’s largest private residences
1929 Large earthquake in Atlantic breaks transatlantic cable in 28 places
1930 Musical “Smiles” with Bob Hope and Fred Astaire premieres in NYC
1930 Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Soka Gakkai, is founded by Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda.

1932 The Disney cartoon Flowers & Trees is the first cartoon to receive an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

1936 Main spans of the Golden Gate Bridge are joined
1938 Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
1939 Dutch KNSM passenger ship Simón Bolívar hits German mine, 86 die
1939 The Irish Republican Army explodes three bombs in Piccadilly Circus
1940 George Matesky, New York City’s Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.

Italy Departs Abyssinia

1941 Benito Mussolini‘s Italian forces leave Abyssinia/Ethiopia, forced out by Allied attacks

1941 British troops open attack on Tobruk, North Africa
1941 Jerome Chodorov/Joseph Fields’ “Junior Miss” premieres in NYC

Skin of our Teeth

1942 Thornton Wilder‘s play “Skin of our Teeth” premieres in NYC (Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1943)

1943 444 British bombers attack Berlin
1943 First US ambassador to Canada, Ray Atherton, nominated
1943 WWII: German submarine U-211 sunk east of the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean by British aircraft
1945 Arnold Schoenberg‘s Prelude for orchestra and mixed choir premieres
1949 The U.S. Air Force grounds B-29s after two crashes and 23 deaths in three days

Mass Executions End

1950 South Korean President Syngman Rhee forced to end mass executions

1951 “See it Now” premieres on TV
1951 British troops occupy Ismailiya, Egypt
1951 Former Cubs first baseman & future TV star of Rifleman Chuck Connors is 1st player to oppose the major league draft
1953 Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) accept female suffrage
1955 The Bell X-2 rocket plane has its first powered flight, reaching Mach 0.992 at Edwards Air Force Base

We Will Bury You!

1956 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev says the phrase “we will bury you!” to Western ambassadors at a reception at the Polish embassy in Moscow

1957 Tunisia refuses Russian weapons
1958 1st true reservoir in Jerusalem opens
1958 Indians minority stockholders sell their stock to William Delay

1959 Wash Senator Bob Allison wins AL Rookie of Year
1960 Charlie Finley makes a bid to purchase expansion LA Angels
1960 The Copyright Office issues its 10 millionth registration

1961 JFK sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam

1961 US Ranger 2 launched to Moon; failed
1963 Bell Telephone introduces the touch-tone telephone to customers in Pennsylvania

First Moroccan Parliament

1963 King Hassan II opens the first Parliament in Morocco

1963 The Dartford-Purfleet tunnel under River Thames opens

1966 Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers’ pitcher Sandy Koufax announces his retirement due to an arthritic left elbow
1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1966 US Roman Catholic bishops end the rule of abstaining from meat on Fridays
1967 British government devalues pound from US equivalent of $2.80 to $2.40
1968 Soviets recover the Zond 6 spacecraft after a flight around the moon
1969 Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi assigned to the Tate and LaBianca murders, will eventually convict Charles Mason for orchestrating the killings

Pauling on Vitamin C

1970 American scientist Linus Pauling popularizes the idea that taking large doses of vitamin C can prevent or treat the common cold; the claim is largely unproven

Frazier vs. Foster

1970 Future HOF boxer Joe Frazier KOs defending champion Bob Foster in second round at Cobo Arena, Detroit, for the WBA, WBC and The Ring heavyweight titles

1970 Netherlands and Albania form diplomatic relations
1970 Russia lands self propelled rover on Moon
1971 A British soldier is shot dead by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Belfast
1971 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
1973 Arab oil ministers cancel the scheduled 5 percent cut in production for EEC
1973 Greek regime calls emergency crisis due to mass protests

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

1974 “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway” album by English progressive rock band Genesis is released, their last to feature original frontman Peter Gabriel

Rufus ft. Chaka Khan

1975 “Rufus featuring Chaka Khan” 4th studio album by Rufus is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1976)

1975 Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver returns to US
1975 Calvin Murphy (Houston) ends NBA free throw streak of 58 games
1976 MLB New York Yankees sign free agent pitcher Don Gullett
1976 Spain’s parliament establishes democracy after 37 yrs of dictatorship
1978 First flight of McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet
1978 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Jonestown Massacre

1978 In Jonestown, Guyana, 918 members of the Peoples Temple are murdered or commit suicide under the leadership of cult leader Jim Jones

1978 Leo J Ryan, American politician, and 4 others, killed in Jonestown, Guyana by members of Peoples Temple, followed by ritual mass suicide of 914 members of the religious cult

Boxing Matches Shortened to 12 Rounds

1982 South Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim dies from injuries sustained during a 14-round beating by Ray Mancini in Las Vegas; WBC shortens title bouts to 12 rounds; WBA and WBO follow in 1988, and IBF in 1989

1983 Argentina announces its ability to produce enriched uranium for nuclear weapons
1983 MGM/UA releases nostalgic holiday film “A Christmas Story”, starring Peter Billingsley and Darren McGavin, based on anecdotes from humorist Jean Shepherd
1984 Browns set team records for most sacks (11)
1984 Flyers’ Ron Sutter fails on 11th penalty shot against Islanders
1984 NBC premiere of the first part of fact based crime mystery “Fatal Vision”, based on Joe McGinnis’ novel about Jefferey MacDonald and the 1970 murders of his then-pregnant wife and two children
1984 NJ Devils shutout NY Rangers 6-0
1984 The Soviet Union helps deliver American wheat during the Ethiopian famine
1985 Enterprise (OV-101) flies from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport
1985 Howard Stern Radio Show returns to NYC (WXRK 92.3 FM) with an afternoon drive slot
1985 Paul McCartney releases film theme single “Spies Like Us”
1987 31 people die in a fire at King’s Cross, London’s busiest tube station
1987 Congressional committee reports on Iran-Contra affair
1989 Pennsylvania is first to restrict abortions after US Supreme Court gave states the right to do so

1990 1st Solheim Cup Women’s Golf, Lake Nona G & CC: US beats Europe 11½-4½ in the inaugural event; Kathy Whitworth and Mickey Walker are the US and European captains

1990 NFL NY Giants beat Det Lions 20-0, to run 1990 record to 10-0
1991 Auburn men’s basketball team placed on 2 yr probation for recruiting violations and not eligible for post-season play 1991-92
1991 France deports Marlon’s daughter Cheyenne Brando to Tahiti
1991 Muslim Shi’ites release hostages Terry Waite & Thomas Sutherland

Siege of Vukovar Ends

1991 The Croatian city of Vukovar surrenders to Yugoslav People’s Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces after an 87-day siege

1992 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Las Vegas, Nevada on KXTE 107.5 FM
1993 27 killed at prison in Morazan, El Salvador

Nirvana Records MTV Unplugged

1993 American rock band Nirvana films a mostly acoustic set at Sony Music Studios in New York City, for the television series MTV Unplugged

1993 Black and white leaders in South Africa approve a new democratic constitution
1993 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) passes US House of Representatives
1993 North-Siberia record cold for November (-55°C)
1993 Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder arrested for public drunkiness

Star Trek: Generations

1994 “Star Trek: Generations” film directed by David Carson and starring Patrick Stewart premieres

1996 “Star Trek: First Contact” film directed by Jonathan Frakes and starring Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes premieres
1996 Eappen family hire Louise Woodward as their nanny, later charged with murder and convicted of involuntary manslaughter
1997 “Titanic: Music from the Motion Picture” album is released by Sony Music Soundtrax
1997 70s glam-rock star Gary Glitter (real name Paul Gadd) arrested by British police in child porn probe
1997 A rare black pearl necklace is auctioned for a record $902,000
1997 Arizona Diamondbacks & Tampa Bay Devil Rays expansion draft
1997 FBI says no evidence of foul play in 1996 TWA 800 crash

1997 Mavericks’ A. C. Green ties Randy Smith’s NBA record of 906 cons games
1997 Warner Bros. releases “Songs from The Capeman”, ninth solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon; it contains Simon’s own performances of songs from his Broadway musical flop
1997 Willem de Kooning painting “Two Standing Women” sold for $4,182,500
1999 In College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 27 injured at Texas A&M University when a massive bonfire under construction collapses.
2001 Home crowd favourite Leyton Hewitt wins his first of 2 season-ending Tennis Masters Cup titles with a 6–3, 6–3, 6–4 victory over Frenchman Sébastien Grosjean in Sydney, Australia
2001 Phillips Petroleum and Conoco merge into a new company as ‘ConocoPhillips’, the third-largest oil and natural gas company in the US

Brainwashed

2002 Dark Horse/EMI posthumously releases “Brainwashed”, George Harrison‘s 12th and final studio album

2002 Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq

Up!

2002 Mercury Nashville Records releases “Up!”, the 4th studio album by Shania Twain (Billboard Album of the Year, 2003)

2003 In England, the Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial anti-gay amendment Section 28, becomes effective
2003 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules the state’s ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional
2003 The congress of the Communist Party of Indian Union (Marxist-Leninist) decides to merge the party into Kanu Sanyal’s CPI(ML).
2004 Russia officially ratifies the Kyoto Protocol

One Direction Debut Album

2011 “The X Factor” group One Direction release their debut album “Up All Night” in Ireland and the UK

Macapagal-Arroyo Arrested

2011 Former Filipino President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is arrested and held at Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City under charges of electoral sabotage

2011 Video game Minecraft is officially released by Mojang
2012 Israeli Gaza rocket strikes kill 80 alleged terrorist targets
2012 Lewis Hamilton wins the 2012 US Formula One Grand Prix
2013 20 people are killed after a train collides with a minibus in Cairo, Egypt
2014 Jamaica win the 2014 Caribbean Cup in football

2015 “Kangaroo Dundee” wildlife TV series premieres featuring Brolga and Roger the ripped Kangaroo on BBC Two

2015 French police raid terrorist cell in Saint Denis, killing 2 including the leader of the Paris terror attacks Abdelhamid Abaaoud
2015 Two female suicide bombers aged 18 and 11 blow themselves up in Kano, Nigeria, killing 15 and injuring over 100

Third Hit Single Under 18

2017 Shawn Mendes is the first singer under 18 to have three No. 1 singles on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart

2018 American missionary John Allen Chau killed on forbidden North Sentinel Island, Bay of Bengal by one of world’s most isolated tribe
2018 APEC Summit in Papa New Guinea fails to produce a joint agreement for first time in two decades after US and China clash on definition of trade

The Young Men’s Magazine

2019 Book written by Charlotte Brontë at age 14 for her toy soldiers “The Young Men’s Magazine” is bought by the Brontë Society for €600,000 at auction in Paris

2019 Deforestation of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest worst since 2008, has lost 9,762 sq km (3,769 sq miles) of vegetation in 12 months according to country’s Space Agency

West Bank Settlements

2019 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reverses US policy regarding Israeli West Bank settlements as illegal after 24 years

2019 World wind speeds have risen, 3x faster since 2010 than previous decades of decline, according to Princeton study published in “Nature Climate Change”

2020 Floods and landslides effect more than 3 million people, killing at least 70 in wake of Typhoon Vamco in Cagayan Province, Philippines
2020 Thailand’s parliament agrees to reforms, but not to the monarchy, after massive public protests were met by tear gas and water canons
2020 US COVID-19 death toll passes 250,000, recorded cases at 11.5 million, hospitalizations at 76,830 amid a country-wide surge
2021 US judge exonerates Muhammad Abdul Aziz and Khalil Islam for the killing of Malcolm X in 1965, saying they were “wrongly convicted”, after 55 years [1]
2022 International Bureau of Weights and Measures votes to abandon the leap second, to take effect in 2035, originally inserted in 1972 to reconcile atomic and astronomical time scales [1]
2024 Russian vetoes a UK-backed ceasefire plan to end Sudan’s 19-month civil war at the UN Security Council [1]

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Brooklyn toymaker Morris Michtom names his stuffed teddy bear after US President “Teddy” Roosevelt

November 18, 1902

Fun Fact About November 18

Lincoln Beachey becomes the first American pilot to perform an aircraft loop-the-loop in his Curtiss aeroplane near San Diego

November 18, 1913

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This Inexpensive Anti-Inflammatory Pill Could Reduce Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke

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November 18, 2025

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A common gout drug may unexpectedly lower the risk of heart attacks and strokes, according to a major new review A commonly used and affordable medication for gout may help lower the risk of heart attacks and strokes in people with cardiovascular disease, according to a new Cochrane review. In this analysis, researchers evaluated the […]

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