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This Day in History for Thursday 26th June 2014

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 15 of 183

363 - Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
684 - St Benedict II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1284 - Pied Piper lures 130 children of Hamelin away (actually happened)
1409 - Council of Pisa selects Petros Philargi as 3rd Pope: Alexander V
1483 - Duke of Gloucester appoints himself King Richard III of England
1498 - Toothbrush invented
1553 - Christ's Hospital in England granted a charter
1630 - Swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf lands at Peenemunde
1714 - Spain & Netherlands sign peace/trade agreement
1718 - Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
1721 - Dr Zabdiel Boylston gives 1st smallpox inoculations in America
1723 - After a lasting siege and bombardment by cannons, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
1794 - Battle of Fleurus; a major victory by the army of the First French Republic under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan over the Coalition Army (Great Britain, Hanover, Dutch Republic, and Habsburg Monarchy) commanded by Prince Josias of Coburg
1797 - Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to farmers, though, they fear effects of iron on soil!
1807 - Lightning hits gunpowder warehouse in Luxembourg; 230 die

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Famous Birthdays

Born Today

Singer Chris Isaak (1956)

Birthdays 1 - 15 of 234

1575 - Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612)
1582 - Johannes Schultz, composer
1655 - Jean Deutz, merchant/Amsterdam regent
1681 - Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708)
1689 - Edward Holyoke, American academic (d. 1769)
1694 - Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768)
1702 - Philip Doddridge, England, Dr/nonconformist clergyman
1703 - Thomas Clap, American academic (d. 1767)
1730 - Charles Joseph Messier, astronomer (cataloguer of "M objects")
1742 - Arthur Middleton, signer (Declaration of Independence)
1747 - Leopold Jan Antonin Kozeluh, composer
1749 - Louis Joseph Claude Saint-Amans, composer
1760 - Johan I Jozef, monarch of Liechtenstein/fieldmarshal
1763 - George Morland, England, artist of rural landscapes
1819 - Abner Doubleday, Mjr Gen (Union)/inventor (baseball) [or 1/26]

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 14 of 14

1739 - Taxonomist Carolus Linnaeus (32) weds Sara Elisabeth Moræa
1844 - 10th US President John Tyler marries 2nd wife Julia Gardiner in NYC, 1st president to marry while in office
1915 - Author T. S. Eliot (26) weds governess Vivienne Haigh-Wood (27) at Hampstead Register Office in London
1937 - Actress Mary Pickford (45) weds actor and band leader Charles Rogers (32)
1955 - Actor Geoffrey Holder marries Carmen de Lavallade
1982 - Marie Osmond marries Steve Craig
1984 - Tiny Tim marries Miss Jan (23)
1989 - Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson marry for 2nd time
1994 - Actor Brandon Cruz (32) weds Elizabeth Finkelstein (26)
1996 - Actor Kiefer Sutherland (29) weds model Elizabeth Kelly Winn (34)
1999 - Bestselling novelist Tom Clancy (52) weds freelance journalist Alexandra Llewellyn (32) in Manhattan
2010 - Former WWE Diva Michelle McCool (30) weds fellow wrestler "The Undertaker" Mark Calaway (45) in Houston, Texas
2010 - "American Beauty" actress Mena Suvari (31) weds concert producer Simone Sestito (25) at Santo Stefano degli Abissini in Vatican City, Italy
2010 - "Shear Genius" TV personality finalist Janine Jarman (29) weds sales executive Matthew Wolcott (33) in Hollywood

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Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 2 of 2

1974 - Actress Elizabeth Taylor's 5th divorce from actor Richard Burton
1975 - Cher divorces Sonny Bono

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Famous Deaths

Passed Away Today

Spanish Conquistador Francisco Pizarro (1541)

Deaths 1 - 15 of 107

363 - Julian the Apostate, Roman Emperor (361-63)
1291 - Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III of England
1541 - Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
1631 - Justinus van Nassau, ltalian admiral (Armada), dies
1657 - Tobias Michael, composer, dies at 65
1661 - Lazaro Valvasensi, composer, dies at 76
1666 - Richard Fanshawe, diplomat/translator/poet, dies
1688 - Ralph Cudworth, philospher/cleric, dies
1778 - Angelo Antonio Caroli, composer, dies at 77
1793 - Gilbert White, naturalist/cleric, dies
1798 - Eugene Godecharle, composer, dies at 56
1810 - Joseph Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1740)
1819 - Johann Wilhelm Stadler, composer, dies at 71
1819 - Slome Duikelar, [Abraham J Swalff], Yiddish writer, dies
1827 - Christian A Vulpius, German writer (Ornaldo Ornaldini), dies