Events in History
Events 201 - 275 of 275
Event of Interest
Sep 30 Joachim von Ribbentrop & Hermann Goering sentenced to death by Nuremberg trial
Hermann Goering
Joachim von Ribbentrop
- Oct 1 12 Nazi war criminals sentenced to death in Nuremberg
- Oct 1 Cleveland Indians pitcher Bob Feller claims his MLB record 348th strikeout of season in a 4-1 win v Detroit; record stands for 19 years
- Oct 6 90°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Oct
- Oct 6 US President Harry Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine
- Oct 7 Charles Ives' 2nd string quartet premieres
Appointment of Interest
Oct 8 Kwo-less-shrew selects Gen Chiang Kai-shek as President of China
Chiang Kai-shek
- Oct 8 Military plane crashes at Christian HBS, 24 die
- Oct 9 First electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50
- Oct 9 Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh" premieres in NYC
- Oct 10 Max Frisch' "Die Chinesische Mauer" premieres in Zurich
- Oct 14 Netherland & Indonesia sign cease fire
- Oct 16 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials
- Oct 22 2 British ships sink near Albania
- Oct 23 UN General Assembly 2nd session convenes (1st NYC-Flushing Meadows)
- Oct 24 Netherlands & Indonesia sign cease fire
- Oct 24 A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket, launched from Whites Sands US, takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
- Oct 25 1st trial against nazi war criminals in Nuremberg
- Oct 27 Georgi Domitrovs National Front wins Bulgaria elections (78%)
- Oct 28 German rocket engineers begin work in USSR
- Nov 1 Charles S Johnson becomes 1st black president of Fisk University
- Nov 1 West German state of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) created
- Nov 1 Karol Wojtyla is ordained to Catholic priesthood
- Nov 4 United Nations Educational, Scientific, & Cultural Organization (UNESCO) formed
Election of Interest
Nov 5 John F. Kennedy (Democrat, Massachusetts) elected to US House of Representatives
John F. Kennedy
Event of Interest
Nov 6 Karol Wojtyla (future Pope John Paul II) holds his first Mass as newly ordained Catholic priest in Wawel Cathedral's crypt
John Paul II
Event of Interest
Nov 8 Jean-Paul Sartre's "La Putain Respecteuse" premieres in Paris
Jean-Paul Sartre
Event of Interest
Nov 9 US President Harry Truman ends wage/price freeze
Harry Truman
- Nov 10 Communists win many seats at French parliamentary election
- Nov 12 A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois opens the first ten drive-up teller windows.
- Nov 13 First artificial snow produced from a natural cloud, Mt Greylock, Massachusetts
- Nov 14 Dutch Dakota flight to Schiphol crashes, kills 11
- Nov 15 House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) interrogates astronomer Harlow Shapley
- Nov 20 Lillian Hellman's "Another Part of the Forest" premieres in NYC
- Nov 21 Georgi Dimitrov elected premier of Bulgaria
- Nov 21 Harry Truman becomes 1st US President to travel in a submerged sub
- Nov 23 French Navy fire in Haiphong Vietnam, kills 6,000
- Nov 23 The Workers Party of South Korea is founded
- Nov 28 French Fouth Republic government led by Georges Bidault resigns
- Nov 28 Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert sentenced to death
- Nov 29 Minister Drees begins emergency rule of old age facilities
- Dec 3 US government asks UN to order dictator Franco out of Spain
- Dec 5 US President Harry Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Exec Order #9808
- Dec 7 Fire at Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, kills 119
- Dec 8 US Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight
Nobel Prize
Dec 10 German/Swiss novelist Hermann Hesse wins the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his inspired writings which, while growing in boldness and penetration, exemplify the classical humanitarian ideals and high qualities of style"
Hermann Hesse
Event of Interest
Dec 12 UN accepts 6 Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr
John D. Rockefeller Jr
Event of Interest
Dec 16 French fashion designer Christian Dior and his backer Marcel Boussac found fashion house Christian Dior
Christian Dior
Event of Interest
Dec 19 War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi
Ho Chi Minh
- Dec 21 Earthquake in South Japan, kills 1,086
- Dec 21 Morton Gould's "Minstrel Show" premieres in Indianapolis
- Dec 23 Belgian Council of State forms
- Dec 23 Highest ridership in NYC subway history (8.8 million passengers)
- Dec 23 University of Tennessee refuses to play Duquesne University as they suggested they may use a black player in their basketball game
- Dec 24 US General MacNarney gives 800,000 "minor nazis" amnesty
- Dec 24 French Fourth Republic is founded
- Dec 25 Constitution accepted in Taiwan
- Dec 26 Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas opens (start of an era)
- Dec 31 French troops leave Lebanon
- Dec 31 US President Harry Truman officially proclaims end of WW II
Birthdays in History
Birthdays 201 - 300 of 328
Janet Yellen
Aug 13 Janet Yellen, American economist (Chair of US Federal Reserve 2014-), born in Brooklyn, New York
Janet Yellen
- Aug 14 Alexander Curly, [Harm Breemer], Dutch artist
- Aug 14 Marga van Praag, Dutch radio hostess
- Aug 15 Kathryn Jean Whitmire, (4 time Mayor-Houston), born in Houston, Texas
- Aug 15 Jean-Claude Arnault, French Swedish photographer involved in Nobel Prize scandal, born in Marseille, France
- Aug 16 Massoud Barzani, Iraqi Kurdish politician
- Aug 17 Patrick Manning, Trinidad and Tobago politician, Prime Minister (1991-95, 2001-10), born in San Fernando (d. 2016)
- Aug 19 Charles F Bolden Jr, astronaut (STS 61C, 31, 45, 60), born in Columbia, South Carolina
Bill Clinton
Aug 19 Bill Clinton [William Jefferson], 42nd US President (Democrat, 1993-2001), born in Hope, Arkansas
Bill Clinton
- Aug 20 N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian businessman
- Aug 22 Felix Meurders, Dutch radio host, born in Maastricht, Netherlands
- Aug 24 Richard "Dick" N Richards, Key West, USN/astr (STS 28, 41, 50, 64)
- Aug 25 Larry LaRocco, American politician (Rep-D-Idaho), born in Los Angeles, California
- Aug 25 Charles Ghigna (Father Goose), American poet and children's books author (Tickle Day: Poems from Father Goose), born in Bayside, New York
- Aug 30 Anne-Marie of Greece, Danish princess and daughter of Frederik IX, born in Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark
- Aug 31 Jerome Corsi, American writer
- Sep 1 Roh Moo-Hyun, President of South Korea
- Sep 2 Marty Grebb, rocker (Buckinghams), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Sep 3 Peter Morris, historian of France (d. 1997)
- Sep 6 Bryan D. O'Connor, U.S. Marine Corps colonel and astronaut (STS 61B, STS 40), born in Orange, California
- Sep 9 Pete Gavin, English rocker (Heads Hands & Feet), born in London
- Sep 10 Michèle Alliot-Marie, French politician
- Sep 14 Jim Angle, American journalist and television reporter, born in Fort Worth, Texas
- Sep 15 Oliver Stone, American director (Wall St, Good Morning Vietnam, Platoon), born in NYC, New York
- Sep 15 Howard Waldrop, American sci-fi author
- Sep 16 Lord Walton of Detchant, physician (Warden of Green College Oxford)
- Sep 16 Mike Reynolds, Australian politician
- Sep 17 Michael Jack, British minister of state-home office
- Sep 18 Alan "Bam" King, English rocker, born in Muswell Hill, North London
- Sep 21 Moritz Leuenberger, Swiss Federal Councilor
- Sep 22 Daniel E "Dan" Lungren, (Rep-R-California, 1979-88)
- Sep 22 Dan Baker, American public address announcer
- Sep 23 Franz Fischler, Austrian politician
- Sep 24 Carson Van Osten, rocker
- Sep 24 Jerry Donahue, rocker (Fairport Convention)
- Sep 24 Richard Spring, British MP
- Sep 24 Robert Jackson, MP/minister of British Civil Service
- Sep 26 Andrea Dworkin, American radical feminist, born in Camden, New Jersey (d. 2005)
- Sep 26 Christine Todd Whitman, American politician (50th Governor of New Jersey), born in NYC, New York
- Sep 26 Radha Krishna Mainali, Nepalese politician, born in Chokpur, Taplejung, Nepal
- Sep 27 Peter H Kostmayer, (Rep-D-PA, 1977-81, 83- )
- Sep 27 Ronald Fox, senior partner (Fox Williams)
- Sep 27 T.C. Cannon, Kiowa/Caddo artist (d. 1978)
- Sep 30 Claude Vorilhon, founder of Raelism, a ufo religion
- Sep 30 William Thurston, Washington, mathematician (Fields Medal, 1982), (d. 2012)
- Oct 4 Chuck Hagel, American politician
- Oct 5 Richard Kermode, rocker
- Oct 5 Zahida Hina, Pakistani columnist
- Oct 6 Eddie Villanueva, JIL Spiritual Director, Owner of ZOE Broadcasting Network
- Oct 6 Lloyd Doggett, American attorney and politician (US Representative, Democrat, Texas), born in Austin, Texas
- Oct 7 Pengiran Anak Saleha, Queen of Brunei
- Oct 7 Anita Shreve, American writer (Weight of Water, Past the Island; Drifting), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2018)
- Oct 8 Jean-Jacques Beineix, director (Betty Blue, Diva)
- Oct 8 Dennis Kucinich, American politician
- Oct 10 Franco Malerba, astronaut (STS 46), born in Genoa, Italy
- Oct 10 Mildred Grieveson (aka: Anne Mather, Caroline Fleming, Cardine Fleming), English writer
- Oct 10 Naoto Kan, Japanese politician
- Oct 11 Oba Chandler, American convicted murderer
- Oct 13 Edwina Currie, British politician (C), born in Liverpool
- Oct 14 Craig Venter, American biologist
- Oct 15 Stewart Stevenson, Scottish politician
- Oct 17 Sir Cameron Mackintosh, British stage producer
- Oct 17 Adam Michnik, Polish activist
- Oct 17 Drusilla Modjeska, Australian writer and editor
- Oct 19 Philip Pullman, English writer
- Oct 20 Elfriede Jelinek, writer
- Oct 21 Lee Loughnane, rocker (Chicago)
- Oct 22 Richard Loncraine, director (Missionary, Deep Cover, Bellman & True)
- Oct 22 Kelvin MacKenzie, British media tycoon
- Oct 23 Mel Martinez, American politician
- Oct 27 Leslie Byrne, American politician (Rep-D-Virginia), born in Salt Lake City, Utah
- Oct 27 Steven R. Nagel, American astronaut, USAF (STS 51-G, 61-A, 37, 55), born in Canton, Illinois (d. 2014)
- Oct 27 Terry J. Hart, American astronaut (STS 41C), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Oct 28 John Hewson, Australian politician
- Oct 29 Strinivasa Moodley, South African anti-apartheid activist
- Oct 30 Chris Slade, rocker (AC/DC)
- Oct 30 Robert L "Hoot" Gibson, American aviator, aeronautical engineer and astronaut (STS 41B,61C,27,47,71), born in Cooperstown, New York
- Nov 1 Dennis Muren, American special effects artist
- Nov 1 Yuko Shimizu, Japanese illustrator (creator of Hello Kitty), born in Kyoto, Japan
- Nov 4 Robert Mapplethorpe, US photographer
- Nov 4 Laura Bush, U.S. First Lady 2001-09
- Nov 4 Frederick Elmes, American cinematographer
- Nov 5 Gram Parsons, [Cecil Ingram Connor III], Winter Haven Florida, rocker (Byrds)
- Nov 5 Patricia K Kuhl, speech & hearing scientist
- Nov 6 Fred Penner, Canadian children's entertainer, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba
- Nov 10 David Stockman, Reagan's ex-budget director
- Nov 10 Jack Ketchum [Dallas William Mayr], American horror fiction author (Off Season, Red, The Woman), born in Livingston, New Jersey (d. 2018)
- Nov 11 Corrine Brown, American politician convicted on corruption charges (Rep-D-Florida 1993-2017), born in Jacksonville, Florida
- Nov 11 Vladimir Alekseyevich Soloviyov, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz T-10, T-15, TM-10), born in Moscow, Soviet Union
- Nov 17 Terry E. Branstad, Governor of Iowa
- Nov 18 Alan Dean Foster, American sci-fi author (Midworld, Flinx in Flux)
- Nov 20 Patriarch Kirill [Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev] Russian Orthodox church leader (2009-), born in Leningrad, Soviet Union
- Nov 22 Hans Kombrink, sociologist/Dutch undersecretary of Finance (PvdA)
- Nov 23 Bobby L Rush, (Rep-D-Illinois)
