What happened on this day
Dalibor 1868 Bedřich Smetana's opera "Dalibor" premieres at the New Town Theatre in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia 194…
1578 Everard Digby, English nobleman and conspirator in the Gunpowder plot, born in Stoke Dry, England (d. 1606) Governor of the Spanish Netherl…
577 Saint Brendan, Irish navigator and Catholic saint dies* at about 93 [*Feast Day - exact dates of birth and death undocumented - born c. 484] 9…
955 Octavian, son of Duke Alberic II of Spoleto, elected Pope John XII 1165 Ramjbam & his family reach Acre Palestine 1204 Baldwin IX, C…
1941 Nazis forbid Dutch Organization of Actors (NOT) Annie Get Your Gun 1946 Irving Berlin, Dorothy Fields, and Herbert Fields…
1882 8th Kentucky Derby: Babe Hurd aboard Apollo wins in 2:40.00 1884 10th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Buchanan wins in 2:40.25 1894…