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Henry Bacon

Henry Bacon

Henry Bacon (November 28, 1866–February 17, 1924) an American Beaux-Arts architect, is best remembered for his severe Greek Doric Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. (built 1915–1922), which was his final project. Born in Watseka, Illinois and raised in and around Wilmington, North Carolina, where his father was a civil engineer, Bacon spent a year at the University of Illinois, Urbana, before beginning in 1885 as a draftsman, briefly in Boston, and then in the office of McKim, Mead and White in New York City, the best-known American architectural firm of its time. After four years, a fellowship enabled him to spend two years traveling abroad, drawing details of Roman and Greek architecture as far afield as Turkey, where he met his future wife, Laura Florence Calvert, daughter of a British consul. Returning to the U.S. he spent a few more years with his mentor, McKim, working on projects like the Rhode Island State House in Providence, Rhode Island, before opening his own office in 1897, at first with a partner James Brite. Aside from the Lincoln Memorial Bacon built the Danforth Memorial Library, in Paterson, New Jersey; the train station in the style of an Italian villa in Naugatuck, Connecticut, the Observatory and other buildings at Wesleyan University and the Union Square Savings Bank, New York City. Bacon was very active as a designer of monuments and settings for public sculpture. He designed the Court of the Four Seasons, for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco. He designed the World War I memorial at Yale University. He collaborated with sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens on the Sen. Mark Hanna Monument in Cleveland, Ohio, and Daniel Chester French was responsible for the Memorial's pensive colossal Lincoln. He is less known for his private houses, including some early ones in Shingle Style. He died of cancer in New York, and is buried at Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington, with which he never lost contact. During World War II a Liberty ship was named after him.

See also


- SS Henry Bacon

External links


- [http://www.spinnc.org/celebratewilmington/wof_bacon.htm Biography]
- [http://www.nps.gov/linc/clr/clr_chap7_endnotes.pdf Christopher A. Thomas, “The Lincoln Memorial and Its Architect, Henry Bacon (1866-1924)”] ( Ph.D. diss., Yale University 1990)
- [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pis&GRid=2879&PIgrid=2879&PIcrid=48265&PIpi=77735&pt=Henry+Bacon& Henry Bacon's Gravestone] ([http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pis&GRid=2879&PIgrid=2879&PIcrid=48265&PIpi=79416&pt=Henry+Bacon& closeup]) Bacon, Henry Bacon, Henry Bacon, Henry

November 28

November 28 is the 332nd day (333rd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 33 days remaining.

Events


- 1095 - On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appoints Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land.
- 1443 - Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja, in Middle Albania and raise the Albanian flag.
- 1520 - After navigating through the South American strait, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
- 1582 - In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage licence.
- 1660 - At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.
- 1729 - Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez.
- 1785 - The Treaty of Hopewell is signed
- 1821 - Panama Independence Day. Panama separates from Spain and joins the Great Colombia.
- 1843 - Ka Lahui: Hawaiian Independence Day - The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
- 1862 - American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General John Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates.
- 1895 - The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.
- 1905 - Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party whose goal is the independence of Ireland.
- 1907 - In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.
- 1912 - Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
- 1914 - World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
- 1919 - Lady Astor is elected to be the first female member of parliament in the UK.
- 1920 - The Mark of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks opens.
- 1925 - Country-variety show Grand Ole Opry makes its radio debut on station WSM.
- 1942 - In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 491 people.
- 1943 - World War II: Tehran Conference - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran to discuss war strategy.
- 1944 - Albania is liberated by the Albanian partisans.
- 1958 - Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
- 1960 - Mauritania becomes independent of France.
- 1964 - Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.
- 1964 - Vietnam War: National Security Council members agree to recommend that US President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam.
- 1965 - Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam, Philippines President Elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.
- 1969 - The final episode of BBC soap-opera The Newcomers is broadcast.
- 1969 - The Rolling Stones release the album Let It Bleed.
- 1975 - East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.
- 1975 - As the World Turns and The Edge of Night, the final two American soap operas that had resisted going to pre-taped broadcasts, air their last live episodes.
- 1979 - The Mount Erebus disaster: an Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mount Erebus on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board.
- 1980 - Mark Morris, choreographer, puts on the Mark Morris Dance Group's first show at the Merce Cunningham Studios.
- 1982 - Representatives from 88 countries gather in Geneva to discuss world trade and ways to work toward aspects of free trade.
- 1984 - Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made honorary citizens of the United States.
- 1987 - South African Airways flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on-board.
- 1987 - Tawana Brawley is allegedly raped by six white men, some of them police officers, in Wappingers Falls, New York.
- 1989 - Cold War: Velvet Revolution - In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces they will give up their monopoly on political power.
- 1990 - Margaret Thatcher formally tenders her resignation to The Queen and leaves Downing Street for the last time. John Major is elected her successor.
- 1994 - Voters in Norway reject European Union membership (see Norwegian EU referendum, 1994).
- 1994 - In Portage, Wisconsin, convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by an inmate in the Columbia Correctional Institute gymnasium.
- 1995 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs a highway bill that ends the federal 55 mph speed limit.
- 1997 - Kosovo Liberation Army, Albanian guerrilla group fighting for freedom of Kosovo, presents in front of the people of Kosovo.
- 2000 - Ukrainian politician Oleksander Moroz begins the Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze.
- 2000 - The eighth tar drop falls in the University of Queensland pitch drop experiment.
- 2002 - 13 people are killed in a hotel bombing in Mombasa.
- 2005 - The Official Opposition (Conservative Party of Canada , New Democratic Party, and Bloc Quebecois) bring down the 38th Minority Liberal Government of Canada in a vote of non-confidence forcing immediate campaigning for the 39th Federal Election.

Births


- 1489 - Margaret Tudor, Queen of James IV of Scotland (d. 1541)
- 1570 - James Whitelocke, English judge (d. 1632)
- 1598 - Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (d. 1667)
- 1628 - John Bunyan, English cleric and author (d. 1688)
- 1632 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer (d. 1687)
- 1640 - Willem de Vlamingh, Flemish sea captain
- 1661 - Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (d. 1723)
- 1681 - Jean Cavalier, French protestant rebel leader (d. 1740)
- 1700 - Nathaniel Bliss, Astronomer Royal (d. 1764)
- 1757 - William Blake, British poet and artist (d. 1827)
- 1772 - Luke Howard, British meteorologist (d. 1864)
- 1785 - Achille Charles Léon Victor, duc de Broglie, Prime Minister of France (d. 1870)
- 1792 - Victor Cousin, French philosopher (d. 1867)
- 1793 - Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Swedish romantic poet (d. 1866)
- 1805 - John Stephens, American archeologist (d. 1852)
- 1810 - William Froude, British engineer and naval architect (d. 1879)
- 1820 - Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (d. 1895)
- 1821 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (d. 1878)
- 1829 - Anton Rubinstein, Russian composer, pianist, and conductor (d. 1894)
- 1837 - John Wesley Hyatt, American inventor of celluloid (d. 1920)
- 1853 - Helen Magill White, first American woman to earn a Ph.D. (d. 1944)
- 1864 - Lindley M. Garrison, American lawyer, U.S. Secretary of War from 1913 through 1916 (d. 1932)
- 1866 - Henry Bacon, American architect (d. 1924)
- 1881 - Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (d. 1942)
- 1887 - Ernst Röhm, Nazi official (d. 1934)
- 1895 - José Iturbi, Spanish pianist (d. 1980)
- 1896 - Lilia Skala, Austrian actress (d. 1994)
- 1902 - Victor Jory, Canadian actor (d. 1982)
- 1904 - Nancy Mitford, British essayist and satirist (d. 1973)
- 1907 - Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (d. 1990)
- 1908 - Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist
- 1916 - Mary Lilian Baels, Princess of Rethy, Belgium (d. 2002)
- 1925 - Gloria Grahame, American actress (d. 1981)
- 1925 - József Bozsik, Hungarian international footballer (d. 1978)
- 1927 - Chuck Mitchell, American actor (d. 1992)
- 1929 - Berry Gordy Jr., American record company owner and founder of Motown (d. 1992)
- 1931 - Hope Lange, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1931 - Tomi Ungerer, French graphic artist, and author
- 1936 - Gary Hart, American politician
- 1941 - Laura Antonelli, Italian actress
- 1942 - Paul Warfield, American football player
- 1943 - Randy Newman, American composer and musician
- 1949 - Alexander Godunov, Russian composer and ballet dancer (d. 1995)
- 1949 - Paul Shaffer, Canadian orchestra leader and musician
- 1950 - Ed Harris, American actor
- 1950 - Russell Alan Hulse, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
- 1952 - S. Epatha Merkerson, American actress
- 1955 - Adem Jashari, Albanian freedom fighter
- 1957 - David Van Day, British singer (Dollar)
- 1958 - Dave Righetti, American baseball player
- 1959 - Judd Nelson, American actor
- 1961 - Martin Clunes, British actor
- 1961 - Alfonso Cuarón, Mexican film director
- 1961 - Jane Sibbett, American actress
- 1962 - Jon Stewart, American comedian, actor, and television host
- 1963 - Walt Weiss, American baseball player
- 1964 - Cornelia Guest, American debutante
- 1965 - Erwin Mortier, Belgian author
- 1965 - Matt Williams, American baseball player
- 1967 - Anna Nicole Smith, American model and television personality
- 1967 - Stephnie Weir, American actress and comedienne
- 1968 - Dawn Robinson, R&B singer (En Vogue)
- 1969 - Robb Nen, American baseball player
- 1969 - Lexington Steele (Clifton Britt), American adult film actor
- 1973 - Rob Conway, American professional wrestler
- 1974 - András Tölcséres, Hungarian footballer
- 1974 - Styles P (David Styles), American rapper
- 1977 - DeMya Walker, American basketball player
- 1978 - Freddie Mitchell, American football player
- 1978 - Mehdi Nafti, Tunisian footballer
- 1979 - Chamillionaire (Hakeem Seriki), American rapper
- 1979 - Joel Maximo (Kelvin Ramirez), American professional wrestler
- 1980 - Stuart Taylor, British footballer
- 1984 - Andrew Bogut, Australian basketball player
- 1988 - Scarlett Pomers, American actress

Deaths


- 741 - St. Gregory III
- 1170 - Owain Gwynedd, Prince of Gwynedd
- 1262 - Shinran, Japanese religious leader (b. 1173)
- 1290 - Eleanor of Castile, Queen of Edward I of England (b. 1241)
- 1574 - Georg Major, German protestant theologian (b. 1502)
- 1585 - Hernando Franco, Spanish composer (b. 1532)
- 1667 - Jean de Thévenot, French traveller and scientist (b. 1633)
- 1675 - Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, English Civil War soldier
- 1675 - Leonard Hoar, American President of Harvard University (b. 1630)
- 1680 - Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian baroque sculptor (b. 1598)
- 1680 - Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1606)
- 1694 - Matsuo Basho, Japanese poet (b. 1644)
- 1695 - Giovanni Paolo Colonna, Italian composer
- 1695 - Anthony Wood, English antiquarian (b. 1632)
- 1698 - Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (b. 1622)
- 1794 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (b. 1730)
- 1815 - Johann Peter Salomon, German violinist, impresario, and composer (d. 1745)
- 1859 - Washington Irving, American writer (b. 1783)
- 1870 - Frédéric Bazille, French painter (b. 1841)
- 1872 - Mary Fairfax Somerville, British scientific writer (b. 1780)
- 1878 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (b. 1805)
- 1907 - Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet, painter, and architect (b. 1869)
- 1912 - Walter Benona Sharp, American oil tycoon (b. 1870)
- 1921 - `Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian leader of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1844)
- 1935 - Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1877)
- 1939 - James Naismith, Canadian creator of basketball (b. 1861)
- 1945 - Dwight F. Davis, U.S. Secretary of War and donor of the Davis cup (b. 1879)
- 1954 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
- 1960 - Richard Wright, American author (b. 1908)
- 1962 - Queen Mother Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (b. 1880)
- 1963 - Karyn Kupcinet, American actress (b. 1941)
- 1968 - Enid Blyton, British children's author (b. 1897)
- 1972 - Havergal Brian, British composer (b. 1875)
- 1973 - Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (b. 1886)
- 1976 - Rosalind Russell, American actress (b. 1907)
- 1977 - Trevor Bardette, American actor (b. 1902)
- 1983 - Christopher George, American actor (b. 1929)
- 1986 - Herb Vigran, American actor (b. 1910)
- 1987 - Choh Hao Li, Chinese biochemist (b. 1913)
- 1994 - Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (b. 1960)
- 1994 - Jerry Rubin, American activist (b. 1938)
- 2000 - Liane Haid, Austrian actress (b. 1895)
- 2001 - William Kienzle, American author (b. 1928)
- 2003 - Antonia Forest, British children's author (b. 1915)

Holidays and observances


- R.C. Saints - Pope Gregory III
- Also see November 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Bahá'í Faith: Holy Day - Ascension of `Abdu'l-Bahá
- Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii: Feast of the Holy Sovereigns in honor of the founders of the Anglican Church of Hawaii
- Albania - Albanian Independence day (from Turkey, 1912); also known as Albanian Flag Day due to other National events that correspond to this day
- Mauritania - Independence Day (from France, 1960)

External links


- [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/28 BBC: On This Day]
- [http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20051128.html The New York Times: On This Day] ---- November 27 - November 29 - October 28 - December 28 -- listing of all days ko:11월 28일 ms:28 November ja:11月28日 simple:November 28 th:28 พฤศจิกายน

1866

1866 is a common year starting on Monday.

Events

January – June


- January 6 – Ottoman troops clash with men of a Maronite leader Karam in St. Doumit in Lebanon - Turks are defeated
- January 12 - Royal Aeronautical Society is formed (London)
- January 28 - 800 Maronite troops clash with Ottoman troops in Karem Saddah, modern-day Lebanon - more battles between nationalist Maronites and Ottoman army follow
- February 13 - The first daylight robbery in United States history during peacetime takes place in Liberty, Missouri. This is considered to be the first robbery committed by Jesse James and his gang, although James's role is disputed.
- February 26 - The Calaveras Skull is discovered. Purported to be evidence of humans during the Pliocene Age, it turns out to be a hoax.
- April 4 - Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt in the city of Kiev. A design for a city gate to commemorate his escape was the inspiration for Mussorgsky's The Great Gate of Kiev from Pictures at an Exhibition.
- April 10 - The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh.
- May - Student Choen Blind fails to assassinate Otto von Bismarck in Unter den Linden in Berlin
- May 2 - Peruvian defenders fight off Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao.
- May 16 - The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.
- May 16 - Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer.
- May 24 - Battle of Tuyuti - 32.000 soldiers of the Triple Alliance defeat 24.000 Paraguayan soldiers few miles north of the Parana - 18.000 dead
- June 2 - Fenian forces skirmish with Canadian militia at Ridgeway and Fort Erie
- June 5 - Calculations indicate Pluto reached its most recent aphelion (furthest point from Sun) on this day. The next aphelion will occur in August 2113.
- June 8 - The Canadian Parliament meets for the first time in Ottawa.
- June 11 - Agra High Court established (later shifted to Allahabad High Court.
- June 14 - Beginning of the Austro-Prussian War, when the Austrians and most of the medium German states declare war on Prussia.
- June 20 - The Kingdom of Italy declares war on Austria.
- June 24 - At the Second Battle of Custozza, the Austrian army under Archduke Albert defeats the main Italian army, commander by King Victor Emmanuel.
- June 27-29 - The Prussians defeat the Hanoverian army at the Battle of Langensalza.

July – December


- July 3 - At the Battle of Königgratz, the Prussian army under King Wilhelm and Helmuth von Moltke defeats the Austrian army of Ludwig von Benedek, leading to a decisive Prussian victory in the Austro-Prussian War.
- July 5 - Marriage of Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, third daughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
- July 20 - At the Naval Battle of Lissa, the Austrian fleet under Wilhelm von Tegetthoff defeats the Italian fleet of Carlo di Persano.
- July 24 - Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
- July 25 - The U.S. Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army (now called "5-star general") Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to have this rank.
- July 27 - The Atlantic Cable is successfully completed, allowing transatlantic telegraph communication for the first time.
- July 28 - The Metric Act of 1866 becomes law and legalizes the standardization of weights and measures in the United States.
- August 23 - Treaty of Prague ends the Austro-Prussian War
- September 22 - Paraguay successfully defends Curupaity against the Triple Alliance, scoring more than 5000 with just about 50 casualties.
- October 12 - The Treaty of Vienna ends the war between Austria and Italy. It formalizes the annexation of Venetia by Italy.
- December 21 - Fetterman's massacre - Sioux ambush and wipe out 79 cavalrymen under lieutenant colonel William J. Fetterman
- Federalist revolts in Argentina
- In Sweden the Riksdag of the Estates is replaced by an elected two chamber assembly, the Riksdag.
- Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
- First historical mention of gerbils, "yellow rats" sent to Museum of Natural History (Musée d'Histoire Naturelle) in Paris, by father Armand David from northern China
- First use of the term Ecology

Births


- January 13 - Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (d. 1901)
- January 15 - Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1931)
- January 29 - Romain Rolland, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1944)
- March 30 - George Van Haltren, baseball player (d. 1945)
- April 1 - Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist and composer (d. 1924)
- April 6 - Butch Cassidy, American outlaw (d. 1909)
- April 17 - Ernest Starling, British physiologist (d. 1927)
- May 17- Erik Satie, French composer (d. 1925)
- June 26 - George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier of Egyptian excavations (d. 1923)
- July 28 - Beatrix Potter, English children's author (d. 1943)
- August 12 - Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)
- September 1 - James J. Corbett, American boxer (d. 1933)
- September 7 - Tristan Bernard, French writer (d. 1947)
- September 10 - Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish poet and novelist

February 17

February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 317 days remaining (318 in leap years).

Events


- 1500 - Battle of Hemmingstedt
- 1621 - Miles Standish is appointed as first commander of Plymouth colony.
- 1753 - February 17 is followed by March 1 as Sweden moves to the Gregorian from the Julian calendar.
- 1801 - An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.
- 1814 - Battle of Mormans
- 1819 - The United States House of Representatives passes the Missouri Compromise.
- 1854 - The British recognizes the independence of the Orange Free State.
- 1865 - American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina burns as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
- 1867 - The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
- 1895 - Swan Lake, with music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, is first performed at full length in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
- 1913 - The Armory Show opens in New York City, displaying works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century.
- 1924 - In Miami, Florida, Johnny Weissmuller sets a new world record in the 100-yard freestyle swimming competition with a time of 52-2/5 seconds.
- 1933 - The magazine Newsweek is published for the first time.
- 1933 - The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.
- 1944 - World War II: Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins. The battle ends in an American victory on February 22.
- 1947 - The Voice of America begins to transmit radio broadcasts into the Soviet Union.
- 1955 - Christian Pineau becomes Prime Minister of France
- 1957 - A fire at an elderly home in Warrenton, Missouri kills 72 people.
- 1958 - Pope Pius XII declares Saint Clare of Assisi (1193~1253) the patron saint of television
- 1959 - The first weather satellite, Vanguard 2, was launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
- 1962 - A storm kills more than 300 people in Hamburg, West Germany.
- 1964 - In Wesberry v. Sanders the Supreme Court of the United States rules that congressional districts have to be approximately equal in population.
- 1968 - In Springfield, Massachusetts the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens.
- 1972 - Sales of the Volkswagen Beetle model exceed those of Ford Model-T.
- 1974 - Robert Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House with a stolen helicopter.
- 1979 - The Sino-Vietnamese War begins.
- 1991 - on this day the minister for the principlity of chipmuun, Andrew Buchorn was assassinated in his home in Denmark.
- 1992 - A court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin sentences serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to life in prison.
- 1995 - Colin Ferguson is convicted of six counts of murder for the December 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings and later receives a 200+ year sentence.
- 1995 - The Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador ends on a cease-fire brokered by the UN.
- 1996 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.

Births


- 1490 - Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Constable of France (d. 1527)
- 1519 - Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (d. 1563)
- 1524 - Charles of Guise, French cardinal (d. 1574)
- 1581 - Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (d. 1653)
- 1646 - Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (d. 1714)
- 1653 - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (d. 1713)
- 1718 - Matthew Tilghman, American Continental Congressman (d. 1790)
- 1723 - Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (d. 1762)
- 1752 - Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (d. 1831)
- 1754 - Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (d. 1803)
- 1781 - René Laënnec, French physician (d. 1826)
- 1792 - Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (d. 1876)
- 1796 - Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (d. 1866)
- 1817 - King William III of the Netherlands (d, 1890)
- 1820 - Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer (d. 1881)
- 1821 - Lola Montez, Mexican dancer, actress, friend of monarchs (d. 1861)
- 1836 - Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish poet (b. 1870)
- 1844 - Aaron Montgomery Ward, American department store founder (d. 1913)
- 1854 - Friedrich Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (d. 1902)
- 1863 - David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1945)
- 1864 - Banjo Paterson, Australian poet (d. 1941)
- 1874 - Thomas J. Watson, American computer manufacturer (b. 1874)
- 1877 - André Maginot, French politician (d. 1932)
- 1888 - Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969)
- 1887 - Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (d. 1947)
- 1908 - Red Barber, baseball announcer (d. 1992)
- 1910 - Marc Lawrence, American actor
- 1912 - Andre Norton, American author
- 1914 - Arthur Kennedy, American actor (d. 1990)
- 1919 - Kathleen Freeman, American actress (d. 2001)
- 1920 - Ivo Caprino, Norwegian animated film director
- 1922 - Marshall Teague, American race car driver (d. 1959)
- 1924 - Margaret Truman, American novelist
- 1925 - Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (d. 2003)
- 1925 - Hal Holbrook, American actor
- 1929 - Chaim Potok, American author (d. 2002)
- 1929 - Patricia Routledge, English actress
- 1930 - Ruth Rendell, English writer
- 1932 - Buck Trent, American banjo player
- 1934 - Alan Bates, English actor (d. 2003)
- 1934 - Barry Humphries, Australian actor and comedian
- 1936 - Jim Brown, American football player
- 1939 - Mary Ann Mobley, American actress and beauty queen
- 1940 - Christina Pickles, British actress
- 1941 - Gene Pitney, American singer
- 1942 - Huey P. Newton, American founder of the Black Panther Party (d. 1989)
- 1944 - Karl Jenkins, Welsh composer
- 1945 - Zina Bethune, American actress
- 1945 - Brenda Fricker, Irish actress
- 1953 - Janice Dickinson, American model
- 1953 - Norman Pace, British actor and comic
- 1954 - Rene Russo, American actress
- 1956 - Richard Karn, American actor
- 1957 - Loreena McKennitt, Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter
- 1962 - Alison Hargreaves, British mountaineer (d. 1995)
- 1962 - Lou Diamond Phillips, American actor
- 1963 - Michael Jordan, American basketball player
- 1963 - Larry the Cable Guy, American actor and comedian
- 1967 - Chanté Moore, American singer
- 1969 - Tuesday Knight, American actress
- 1972 - Billie Joe Armstrong, American singer and musician (Green Day)
- 1972 - Philippe Candeloro, French figure skater
- 1972 - Denise Richards, American actress
- 1973 - Amy Van Dyken, American swimmer
- 1974 - Jerry O'Connell, American actor
- 1974 - Bryan White, American singer
- 1975 - Wish Bone, American rapper
- 1975 - Vaclav Prospal, Czech hockey player
- 1978 - Jacob Wetterling, American kidnapping victim
- 1980 - Jason Ritter, American actor
- 1981 - Joseph Gordon-Levitt, American actor
- 1981 - Paris Hilton, American actress and heiress
- 1982 - Adriano Leite Ribeiro, Brazilian footballer
- 1991 - Bonnie Wright, British actress

Deaths


- 197 - Clodius Albinus, Roman usurper (killed in battle)
- 364 - Jovian, Roman Emperor
- 1339 - Duke Otto of Austria (b. 1301)
- 1596 - Friedrich Sylburg, German classical scholar (b. 1536)
- 1600 - Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher (burned at the stake) (b. 1548)
- 1609 - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1549)
- 1624 - Juan de Mariana, Spanish historian (b. 1536)
- 1659 - Abel Servien, French diplomat (b. 1593)
- 1673 - Molière, French playwright (b. 1622)
- 1680 - Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (b. 1599)
- 1680 - Jan Swammerdam, Dutch scientist (b. 1637)
- 1715 - Antoine Galland, French archaeologist (b. 1646)
- 1732 - Louis Marchand, French organist and harpsichordist (b. 1669)
- 1768 - Arthur Onslow, English politician (b. 1691)
- 1780 - Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian and librarian (b. 1706)
- 1841 - Ferdinando Carulli, Italian guitarist
- 1854 - John Martin, English painter (b. 1789)
- 1856 - Heinrich Heine, German writer (b. 1797)
- 1883 - Napoleon Coste, French guitarist and composer (b. 1806)
- 1909 - Geronimo, Apache leader (b. 1829)
- 1919 - Wilfrid Laurier, seventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1841)
- 1934 - King Albert I of Belgium (b. 1875)
- 1939 - Willy Hess, German violinist (b. 1859)
- 1943 - Armand J. Piron, American jazz violinist and composer (b. 1888)
- 1961 - Nita Naldi, American actress (b. 1897)
- 1962 - Bruno Walter, German conductor (b. 1876)
- 1970 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
- 1970 - Alfred Newman, American film composer (b. 1901)
- 1977 - Janani Luwum, Ugandan Archbishop (shot) (b. 1922)
- 1982 - Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (b. 1917)
- 1982 - Lee Strasberg, Austrian-born actor (b. 1901)
- 1990 - Erik Rhodes, American actor (b. 1906)
- 1994 - Randy Shilts, American author and activist (AIDS) (b. 1951)
- 1998 - Ernst Jünger, German author (b. 1895)
- 2001 - Khalid Abdul Muhammed, American Nation of Islam spokesman (brain aneurysm) (b. 1948)
- 2004 - José López Portillo, President of Mexico (b. 1920)
- 2005 - Dan O'Herlihy, Irish actor (b. 1919)
- 2005 - Omar Sivori, Argentine football player (b. 1935)

Holidays and observances


- Roman Empire - Quirinalia in honor of Quirinus
- Ancient Latvia - Tanis Diena observed

External links


- [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/17 BBC: On This Day]
- [http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20050217.html The New York Times: On This Day] ---- February 16 - February 18 - January 17 - March 17 -- listing of all days ko:2월 17일 ms:17 Februari ja:2月17日 simple:February 17 th:17 กุมภาพันธ์

1924

1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar).

Events

January


- January 7 - Great fire in London harbour
- January 8 - Heavy blizzards in England
- January 10 - British submarine L-34 sinks in the English Channel - 43 dead.
- January 12 - Gopinath Saha shoots a man he erroneously thinks is a Police commissioner of Calcutta, Charles Augustus Tegart - he is arrested soon after
- January 21 - Vladimir Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin begins to purge his rivals to clear way for his leadership.
- January 22 - Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister.
- January 23 - Soviet Union officially declares that Lenin died January 21.
- January 25 - The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
- January 26 - Petrograd (St. Petersburg) is renamed Leningrad.
- January 27 - Lenin is buried in a mausoleum in the Red Square.

February


- February 1 - The United Kingdom recognizes Soviet Union.
- February 1 - Australian Loans Council meets for the first time
- February 4 - Mohandas Gandhi is released prematurely on medical grounds.
- February 5 - GMT: Hourly time signals from Royal Greenwich Observatory are broadcasted for the first time.
- February 8 - Death penalty: The first state execution using gas in the United States takes place in Nevada.
- February 14 - IBM corporation founded.
- February 16-February 26 - Dock strike in US harbors.
- February 22 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.

March


- March 1 - Diana Vreeland, fashion editor and columnist, marries Thomas Reed Vreeland at St. Thomas's church in New York.
- March 3 - The 1400-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdul Mejid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of President Kemal Atatürk.
- March 9 - Italy annexes Fiume
- March 25 - Greece proclaims it is a republic.
- March 29 - Government of Raymond Poincaré starts in France.

April


- April 1 - Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in jail for his participation in the Beer Hall Putsch. However he was only in jail for nine months.
- April 1 - First revenue flight for Belgium's SABENA Airlines.
- April 6 - Fascists win elections in Italy with 2/3 majority.
- April 13 - Referendum in Greece favors the formation of Hellenic Republic.
- April 26 - Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his "death ray" in London but fails to convince British War Office
- April 27 - Group of Alawites kill some Christian nuns in Syria – French troops march against them.

May


- May 3 - The Aleph Zadik Aleph, the oldest Jewish youth fraternity, founded.
- May 4 - The 1924 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies held in Paris, France.
- May 10 - J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head the Bureau of Investigation.
- May 21 - University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a thrill killing.

June


- June 1 - Harry Grindell Matthews returns from Paris to London - he tries to use a Pathe film to demonstrate that his death ray works
- June 2 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
- June 5 - Ernst Alexanderson sends the first facsimile across the Atlantic Ocean (to his father in Sweden).
- June 8 - George Mallory and Andrew Irvine are last seen "going strong for the top" of Mount Everest by teammate Noel Odell at 12:50 PM. The two mountaineers were never seen alive again.
- June 10 - Fascists kidnap and kill Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
- June 12 - the Roundout Heist - Six men of Egan's Rats gang rob a mail train in Roundout, Illinois. Robbery is later found to have been an inside job
- June 16 - Whampoa Military Academy is founded.
- June 23 - American airman Russell L. Maughan flew from New York to San Francisco in 21 hours and 48 minutes on a dawn-to-dusk flight in a Curtiss pursuit plane.

August-October


- August 18 - France begins to withdraw its troops from Germany.
- September 9 - Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii
- September 9 - 8-hour work day in Belgium
- October 2 - The Geneva Protocol is adopted as a means to strengthen the League of Nations.
- October 19 - Abdul Azis declares himself protector of holy places in Mecca.
- October 22 - Toastmasters is founded.
- October 24 - British Foreign Office publishes Zinoviev Letter.
- October 25 - British authorities in India arrest Subhas Chandra Bose and jail him for the next two and half years

November


- November 4 - Fermin Romo of Wyoming elected as the first woman governor in the United States.
- November 4 - Calvin Coolidge defeats John W. Davis in the U.S. presidential election
- November 19 - In Los Angeles, California, famous silent film director Thomas Ince ("The Father of the Western") dies, reportedly of a heart attack, in his bed (rumors soon surface that he was shot dead by publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst).
- November 27 - In the New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.

December


- December 12 - Failed communist takeover attempt in Estonia
- December 24 - Air crash in Croydon air field - 8 dead.
- December 24 - Albania becomes a republic.
- December 30 - Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galaxies.

Unknown date


- Andre Breton founds surrealism, defining it as "pure psychic automatism"
- Voting in federal elections becomes compulsory in Australia
- US bootleggers begin to use Thompson SMGs
- Fritz Haarmann sentenced to death for 27 murders

Births

January-February


- January 2 - Sabine Baring-Gould, English composer and novelist (b. 1834)
- January 3 - Hank Stram, American football coach and broadcaster
- January 6 - Earl Scruggs, American musician
- January 11 - Roger Guillemin, French neuroendocrinologist, recpient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- January 11 - Sam B. Hall, American politician (d. 1994)
- January 11 - Slim Harpo, American musician (d. 1970)
- January 12 - Olivier Gendebien, Belgian race car driver (d. 1998)
- January 16 - Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
- January 19 - Jean-Francois Revel, French author
- January 21 - Telly Savalas, American actor (d. 1994)
- January 26 - Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1998)
- January 27 - Sabu, Indian actor (d. 1963)
- January 29 - Luigi Nono, Italian composer (d. 1990)
- January 30 - Lloyd Alexander, American writer
- February 2 - Elfi von Dassanowsky, Austrian-born producer and musician
- February 17 - Margaret Truman, American novelist
- February 19 - Lee Marvin, American actor (d. 1987)
- February 20 - Gloria Vanderbilt, American cosmetics entrepreneur
- February 21 - Robert Mugabe, first Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
- February 23 - Allan McLeod Cormack, South-African physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1998)
- February 29 - Al Rosen, baseball player

March-May


- March 1 - Deke Slayton, astronaut (d. 1993)
- March 7 - Kobo Abe, Japanese novelist (d. 1993)
- March 15 - Walter Gotell, German actor (d. 1997)
- March 27 - Sarah Vaughan, American jaz singer (d. 1990)
- March 28 - Freddie Bartholomew, British actor (d. 1992)
- March 30 - Alan Davidson, British author (d. 2003)
- April 1 - Brendan Byrne, Governor of New Jersey
- April 3 - Marlon Brando, American actor (d. 2004)
- April 3 - Doris Day, American actress
- April 4 - Gil Hodges, American baseball player (d. 1972)
- April 7 - Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer
- April 15 - Sir Neville Marriner, English conductor and violinist
- April 24 - Clement Freud, British writer, radio personality, and politician
- April 25 - Albert King, American musician (d. 1992)
- May 11 - Antony Hewish, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
- May 12 - Tony Hancock, English comedian (d. 1968)
- May 18 - Priscilla Pointer, American actress
- May 19 - Sandy Wilson, British composer
- May 22 - Charles Aznavour, French singer, actor, and songwriter

June-August


- June 1 - Dr. William Sloane Coffin, American clergyman
- June 3 - Torsten Wiesel, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- June 12 - George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st United States President
- June 18 - George Mikan, basketball player (d. 2005)
- June 20 - Chet Atkins, American country guitar player (d. 2001)
- June 20 - Audie Murphy, American World War II hero and actor (d. 1971)
- June 27 - Bob Appleyard, English cricketer
- June 29 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer
- June 29 - Ezra Laderman, American composer
- July 4 - Eva Marie Saint, American actress
- July 5 - Janos Starker, Hungarian cellist
- July 13 - Carlo Bergonzi, Italian tenor
- July 14 - James W. Black, Scottish pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- July 19 - Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician
- August 1 - Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- August 2 - John Carroll O'Connor, American actor (d. 2001)
- August 3 - Leon Uris, American writer (d. 2003)
- August 12 - Derek Shackleton, English cricketer
- August 12 - Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, leader of Pakistan (d. 1988)
- August 15 - Robert Bolt, English writer (d. 1995)
- August 23 - Robert Solow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- August 28 - Peggy Ryan, American actress (d. 2004)
- August 29 - Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (d. 2005)
- August 31 - Buddy Hackett, American comedian and actor (d. 2003)

September-October


- September 2 - Daniel arap Moi, President of Kenya
- September 4 - Joan Aiken, English writer (d. 2004)
- September 8 - Mimi Parent, Canadian painter (d. 2005)
- September 9 - Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)
- September 11 - Tom Landry, American football player and coach (d. 2000)
- September 19 - Don Harron, Canadian entertainer
- September 22 - Charles Keeping, English illustrator (d. 1988)
- September 22 - Rosamunde Pilcher, English novelist
- October 1 - Jimmy Carter, President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- October 1 - William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 2005)
- October 10 - Ed Wood, American filmmaker (d. 1978)
- October 11 - Mal Whitfield, American athlete
- October 12 - Doris Grau, American actress (d. 1995)
- October 15 - Mark Lenard, American actor (d. 1996)
- October 21 - Celia Cruz, Cuban singer (d. 2003)

November-December


- November 13 - Motoo Kimura, Japanese population geneticist (d. 1994)
- November 19 - William Russell, British actor
- November 20 - Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-born mathematician
- November 24 - Mel Patton, American athlete
- November 25 - Takaaki Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, critic, and philosopher.
- December 2 - Alexander M. Haig, Jr., American politician
- December 25 - Rod Serling, American television screenwriter (d. 1975)
- December 25 - Atal Behari Vajpayee, tenth Prime Minister of India
- December 25 - Moktar Ould Daddah, first President of Mauritania (d. 2003)
- December 28 - Milton Obote, President of Uganda (d. 2005)
- Tuanku Al-Mutassimu Billahi Muhibbudin Sultan Abdul Halim Al-Muadzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah, King of Malaysia
- King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

Deaths


- January 21 - Vladimir Lenin, first leader of the USSR (b. 1870)
- January 24 - Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1894)
- February 3 - Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1856)
- April 21 - Eleonora