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1301 – King Andrew III died without any male heirs, ending the Árpád dynasty, which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century.; 1900 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca (poster pictured), based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
Library of Congress: Today in History; History Channel (US): This Day in History; History Channel (UK): This Day in History; New Zealand Government: Today in New Zealand History Archived 2017-04-14 at the Wayback Machine; Computer History Museum: This Day in History; Internet Movie Database: This Day in Movie History
Born Person description occupation position held country of citizenship given name 2018-01-15 Chicago West: Kanye West & Kim Kardashian's daughter United States: Chicago: 2008-01-15 Christopher Convery: American actor actor child actor: United States: Christopher: 2007-01-15 Laura Frličková: Slovak athlete (born 2007) athletics competitor ...
1649 – The High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I begins its proceedings.; 1783 – The Kingdom of Great Britain signs preliminary articles of peace with the Kingdom of France, setting the stage for the official end of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War later that year.
1986 – The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites. [67] 1989 – In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m 3) of crude oil after running aground. [68] [69]
The King's Official Birthday is the selected day in most Commonwealth realms on which the birthday of the monarch is officially celebrated in those countries. It does not necessarily correspond to the date of the monarch's actual birth. The sovereign's birthday was first officially marked in the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1748, for King George II.
2005 – Graham Payn, South African-born English actor and singer (b. 1918) 2005 – Hiro Takahashi, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1964) 2006 – Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1915) 2006 – Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American author (b. 1908) 2007 – Karl Rebane, Estonian physicist and academic (b. 1926)
25 March – Edmund Selous, ornithologist and writer (born 1857) 11 April – John Collier, writer and Pre-Raphaelite painter (born 1850) 25 May – Gustav Holst, composer (born 1874) 10 June – Frederick Delius, composer (born 1862) 10 September – Sir George Henschel, musician (born 1850) 27 September – Ellen Willmott, horticulturalist ...