North - Notable Historical Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
480 |
Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Artemisium - Persian naval victory over the Greeks in an engagement fought near promontory on the north coast of Euboea. Greek fleet holds its own against the Persians in three days of fighting but withdraws upon news of the defeat at Thermopylae. |
BC AD | |
69-04-15 |
Battle at Bedriacum, North-Italy |
180-07-17 |
6 inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians. Earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world. |
439-10-19 |
The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa. |
533-09-13 |
General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium, near Carthage, North Africa. |
711-07-09 |
Berbers under Tarik-ibn Ziyad occupies North Spain |
1000-10-09 |
Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada) reputedly becoming first European to reach North America |
1158-11-11 |
Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa declares himself ruler of North Italy |
1262-01-28 |
Flemish/Dutch coast ravaged by north westerly storm |
1356-10-18 |
Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroyed the town of Basel, Switzerland. |
1362-01-16 |
A great storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German island of Strand and the city of Rungholt. |
1497-08-06 |
Italian explorer John Cabot returns to Bristol from North America (Newfoundland) - first European to do so since the Vikings |
1527-08-03 |
First known letter was sent from North America by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland. |
1558-04-04 |
Tsar Ivan IV gives parts of North-Russia to fur traders |
1562-04-30 |
1st French colonists in North America: Jean Ribault & colonists arrive in Florida |
1570-11-01 |
All Saints Flood, tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland; killing more than 1,000 people. |
1578-06-11 |
England grants Sir Humphrey Gilbert a patent to explore & colonize North America |
1583-08-05 |
Humphrey Gilbert claims Newfoundland for the British crown - first English colony in North America and the beginning of the British Empire |
1584-03-25 |
Sir Walter Raleigh renews Humphrey Gilbert's patent to explore North America |
1620-06-03 |
Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins at Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. |
1634-10-11 |
the Burchardi flood — "the second Grote Mandrenke" killed around 15,000 men in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany. |
1634-10-19 |
Beach Island in North Sea destroyed by a heavy storm flood |
1644-07-02 |
Battle of Marston Moor, North Yorkshire: Parliamentary forces under Lords Fairfax and Manchester defeat royalists led by Prince Rupert |
1648-10-18 |
1st labor organization forms in North American colonies (Boston Shoemakers) |
1652-06-27 |
New Amsterdam (now New York City) enacts first speed limit law in North America |
1653-06-12 |
- 13] First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Gabbard/ Battle at North Foreland, English fleet beats the Dutch |
1656-10-02 |
British north American colony of Connecticut passes law against Quakers |
1665-08-27 |
"Ye Bare & Ye Cubb" is first play performed in North America (Acomac, Va) |
1667-08-27 |
Earliest recorded hurricane in North America (Jamestown Virginia) |
1693-02-08 |
William & Mary college is chartered in the Dominion and Colony of Virginia (2nd in North America) |
1700-01-26 |
The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake took place off the west coast of the North America, as evidenced by Japanese records. |
1701-08-02 |
Great Peace of Montreal signed between New France and North American Indian nations at urging of Huron chief Kondiaronk |
1716-09-06 |
1st lighthouse built in north America (Boston) |
1719-12-11 |
1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in north American colonies (New England) |
1721-08-30 |
Russian/Swedish Peace of Nystad, ends North Sea War |
1722-01-24 |
Edward Wigglesworth appointed 1st north American divinity professor (Harvard) |
1729-07-25 |
North Carolina becomes a royal colony |
1732-11-14 |
First professional librarian in north America, Louis Timothee, hired in Philadelphia |
1738-07-20 |
North America: French explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan. |
1748-03-19 |
Naturalization Act passes granting Jews right to colonize north American colonies |
1748-08-26 |
The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
1760-10-23 |
First Jewish prayer books printed in North America |
1761-05-22 |
1st life insurance policy in North America issued in Philadelphia |
1763-10-07 |
George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north & west of Alleghenies to white settlement |
1768-05-10 |
John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticizing King George III. This action provokes rioting in London. |
1768-10-30 |
First Methodist church in North American colonies initiated (Wesley Chapel, NYC) |
1771-05-16 |
The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called "The Regulators", occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina. |
1774-05-20 |
Britain gives Quebec, Labrador & territory north of Ohio |
1775-03-06 |
1st Negro Mason in north America initiated, Boston |
1776-04-12 |
Halifax resolution for independence adopted by North Carolina |
1776-07-01 |
1st vote on Declaration of Independence for Britain's North American colonies |
1780-04-16 |
The University of Münster in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded. |
1781-05-26 |
Bank of North America incorporates in Philadelphia |
1781-12-31 |
Bank of North America, 1st US bank opens |
1782-01-07 |
1st US commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia |
1789-11-21 |
North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state |
1795-02-13 |
1st state university in US opens, University of North Carolina |
1799-08-27 |
British invasion army lands in North-Holland |
1811-02-02 |
Russian settlers establish Ft Ross trading post, north of SF |
1813-10-23 |
The Pacific Fur Company trading post in Astoria, Oregon is turned over to the rival British North West Company (the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest was dominated for the next three decades by the United Kingdom). |
1814-09-12 |
Battle of North Point fought near Baltimore during War of 1812 |
1816-06-19 |
Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
1817-07-04 |
Chief Engineer James Geddes begins construction on the Erie Canal, one of the first great engineering works in North America |
1823-11-12 |
Great North Holland Canal (Amsterdam) opens |
1824-04-17 |
Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54° 40'N |
1824-12-16 |
Great North Holland Canal opens |
1825-02-03 |
Dutch North Sea coast floods |
1825-06-22 |
British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America. |
1826-01-30 |
The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales is opened. |
1828-05-19 |
U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828/Tariff of Abominations into law to protect industry in the North |
1831-07-01 |
Admiral James C Ross reaches magnetic North Pole |
1835-05-12 |
Charles Darwin visits copper mines in North Chile |
1840-05-21 |
Captain William Hobson proclaims British sovereignty over New Zealand; the North Island by treaty and the South Island by 'discovery' |
1844-06-22 |
Influential North American fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon is founded at Yale University. |
1847-12-03 |
Frederick Douglass publishes 1st issue of his newspaper "North Star" |
1850-07-15 |
John Wisden bowls all 10 South batsmen, North v South at Lord's |
1851-12-09 |
1st Young Men's Christian Association in North America (Montreal) |
1852-09-11 |
Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R |
1853-07-18 |
Completion of Grand Trunk Line, trains begin running over 1st North American railroad between Portland, Maine & Montreal |
1854-05-30 |
Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise opens north slavery |
1858-06-29 |
Treaty of Algun, China cedes north bank of Amur River to Russia |
1859-04-27 |
"Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard |
1859-10-26 |
The Royal Charter is wrecked on the coast of Anglesey, north Wales with 459 dead. |
1859-11-01 |
The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse was lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (30 kilometers), in good conditions. |
1861-05-03 |
Gen Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan for the North against the South in American Civil War |
1861-05-20 |
North Carolina becomes 11th & last state to secede from Union |
1861-08-29 |
American Civil War: US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina. |
1862-01-03 |
Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson moves north from Winchester |
1862-06-02 |
Robert E. Lee takes command of Confederate armies of North Virgin during US Civil War |
1862-09-04 |
General Lee invades North with 50,000 Confederate troops |
1862-09-04 |
North Beach & Mission Railway Company organized in San Francisco |
1863-05-02 |
South defeats North in Battle of Chancellorsville, Va |
1863-07-23 |
Alexandra Park opens in North London |
1864-05-23 |
Battle of North Anna, Va, 1st of 3 days of fighting |
1865-04-18 |
Confederate Gen Johnson surrendered to General William T. Sherman in North Carolina |
1865-05-05 |
1st US train robbery (North Bend Ohio) |
1865-11-26 |
Battle of Papudo: The Spanish navy engages a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet north of Valparaiso, Chile. |
1867-03-08 |
The British North America Act is passed in the House of Commons, and would serve as a constitution for Canada for the next 100 years |
1867-03-29 |
British North America Act (Canadian constitution) passes |
1869-04-12 |
North Carolina legislature passes anti-Klan Law |
1870-10-19 |
British steamship SS Cambria wrecked off the north-west of Ireland with the loss of 178 lives |
1873-05-23 |
Canada's North West Mounted Police Force forms |
1874-07-04 |
Social Democratic Workmen's Party of North America formed |
1874-07-08 |
The Mounties (North West Mounted Police) begin their March West from Fort Dufferin |
1876-11-01 |
King Willem III opens North Sea Canal (Amsterdam-IJmuiden) |
1877-12-26 |
Socialist Labor Party of North America holds 1st natl convention |
1879-02-12 |
1st artificial ice rink in North America (Madison Sq Garden, NYC) |
1879-09-05 |
George Washington De Long, American Arctic Explorer, and commander on board the Jeannette, becomes trapped with his crew in pack ice during his attempt to reach the North Pole |
1879-12-28 |
North British Railway's train falls as Tay bridge collapses (Scot) |
1883-07-04 |
Buffalo Bill Cody presents 1st wild west show, North Platte, Nebr |
1885-07-02 |
Canada's North-west Insurrection ends with surrender of Big Bear |
1886-07-10 |
Eruption of Tarawera volcano destroys famous pink & white calcium carbonate hot-spring terraces (North Island, New Zealand) |
1887-03-07 |
North Carolina State University is founded by the North Carolina General Assembly. |
1889-11-02 |
North Dakota becomes 39th & South Dakota becomes 40th state in the United States |
1895-01-30 |
SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed |
1895-10-05 |
The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London. |
1897-07-11 |
Solomon Andree leaves Spitsbergen by balloon towards North Pole |
1897-08-31 |
General Kitchener occupies Berber, North of Khartoum |
1897-09-01 |
The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America. |
1899-03-04 |
Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 m wave that reaches up to 5 km inland - over 300 dead. |
1903-03-03 |
North Carolina becomes 1st state requiring registration of nurses |
1908-04-21 |
Frederick A Cook claims to reach North Pole (He didn't) |
1908-04-23 |
Denmark, Germany, Britain, France, Netherlands & Sweden sign North Sea accord |
1908-07-06 |
Robert Peary's expedition sails from NYC for north pole |
1908-08-07 |
The first train to travel the length of New Zealand's North Island 'main trunk line', leaves Wellington |
1909-04-06 |
North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary & Matthew Henson |
1909-09-06 |
Word received that Admiral Peary discovers North Pole 5 months earlier |
1909-12-21 |
U of Coopenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was 1st to North Pole |
1910-04-03 |
Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt McKinley climbed |
1911-03-18 |
North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law |
1911-07-10 |
105°F (41°C) at North Bridgton, Maine (state record) |
1911-10-24 |
Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina setting a new world record that stood for 10 years. |
1911-11-05 |
Italy attacks Turkish North-Africa (Libya), takes Tripoli & Cyrenaica |
1911-11-11 |
Russia issues an ultimatum to Persia and follows it with an invasion of North Persia to impose political control |
1912-05-01 |
Amsterdam-North soccer team DWV forms |
1912-07-22 |
In the face of ever-increasing German naval power, the British Admiralty decides to recall British warships from the Mediterranean and base them in the North Sea |
1913-04-22 |
Montenegro troops march into Skoetari, North-Albania |
1913-05-06 |
King Nikita I of Montenegro vacates Skoetari, North-Albania |
1914-08-03 |
French fleet sails to North Africa |
1914-11-02 |
Great Britain declares the entire North Sea a military area: neutral ships will transit it at their own risk |
1914-12-15 |
British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea |
1915-03-27 |
Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is arrested and returned to quarantine on North Brother Island, New York after spending five years evading health authorities and causing several further outbreaks of typhoid |
1916-03-15 |
Dutch merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed by German submarine & sinks in North Sea |
1918-06-26 |
The Australian steamer Wimmera is sunk by a mine laid north of Cape Maria van Diemen in 1917 by the German raider Wolf; 26 of its 151 passengers and crew were killed |
1918-11-10 |
The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, NS received a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa, ON and Washington, DC) that said on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air. |
1922-05-10 |
The United States annexes the Kingman Reef in n the North Pacific Ocean |
1924-11-10 |
Dion O'Banion, leader of the North Side Gang is assassinated in his flower shop by members of Johnny Torrio's gang, sparking the bloody gang war of the 1920s in Chicago. |
1925-05-21 |
Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole |
1926-05-08 |
1st flight over North Pole (Bennett & Byrd) |
1926-05-09 |
Richard Byrd & Floyd Bennett make 1st flight over North Pole |
1926-05-12 |
Airship Norge is 1st vessel to fly over North Pole |
1926-05-12 |
Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole |
1928-05-24 |
Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole again |
1930-04-29 |
North Sea floodgate at Ijmuiden (biggest in world) officially opens |
1930-08-06 |
Remains of Solomon Andrees' balloon expedition to North Pole in 1897, found at Kvit oya Spitsbergen |
1932-07-04 |
Bradman scores 260, a North American record, v Western Ontario |
1933-01-03 |
Minnie D. Craig becomes the first female elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States. |
1933-02-06 |
Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 34 m, in North Pacific hurricane by USS Ramapo |
1933-04-03 |
Then longest North American hockey game requires a 1:44:46 overtime as Maple Leaf Ken Doraty scores to beat Canadiens 1-0 |
1933-06-10 |
37th US Golf Open: Johnny Goodman shoots a 287 at North Shore Ill |
1936-02-15 |
-60°F (-51°C), Parshall, North Dakota (state record) |
1936-07-06 |
121°F (49°C), Steele, North Dakota (state record) |
1938-02-19 |
Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark |
1938-04-30 |
The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End. |
1939-12-27 |
1st American skimobiles (North Conway, NH) |
1940-12-07 |
North Africa: British counter offensive under general O'Connor |
1940-12-09 |
British assault on Banghazi Libya: 1st major offensive in North Africa |
1941-03-16 |
Blizzard hits North Dakota & Minnesota killing 60 |
1941-03-30 |
German counter offensive in North-Africa |
1941-04-06 |
British general Gambier-Parry caught in North Africa |
1941-04-07 |
British generals O'Connor & Neame captured in North Africa |
1941-10-19 |
1st woman jockey in North America, Anna Lee Wiley in Mexico |
1941-11-18 |
British troops open attack on Tobruk, North Africa |
1941-11-26 |
General Alan Cunningham relieved of command of British 8th Army in North Africa |
1941-12-15 |
North Africa: allied assault up Italians Gazala-posing |
1941-12-17 |
German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa |
1942-01-01 |
Rose Bowl football match played in North Carolina due to Japanese threat - Oregon State 20, Duke University 16 |
1942-01-05 |
55 German tanks reach North-Africa |
1942-01-10 |
Japan invades North-Celebes, Neth Indies |
1942-03-11 |
Japanese troop land on North Sumatra |
1942-03-26 |
German offensive in North Africa under General Erwin Rommel |
1942-06-05 |
British offensive in North Africa under General Ritchie |
1942-06-11 |
German army defeated at El-Alamein North Africa |
1942-06-20 |
German troops conquer Tobruk, North Africa |
1942-06-21 |
Rommel takes Tobruk in North Africa |
1942-08-14 |
Dwight D Eisenhower named commander for invasion of North Africa |
1942-10-25 |
Field Marshal Rommel back in North-Africa |
1942-11-08 |
Operation Torch; began as US and British forces under Eisenhower land in French North Africa |
1942-12-10 |
North Africa: 5th German panzer army forms under col-gen von Arnim |
1943-01-03 |
Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa |
1943-02-10 |
British 8th Army sweeps through North Africa to Tunisia |
1943-02-16 |
Withdrawing Afrika Korps reaches Mareth-line in North-Africa |
1943-02-26 |
German assault moves to Beja North Tunisia |
1943-03-06 |
Battle at Medenine, North-Africa: Rommels assault attack |
1943-04-12 |
Allies conquer Soussa, North-Africa |
1943-04-22 |
German counter attack in North-Tunisia |
1943-04-28 |
German-Italian counter offensive in North-Africa |
1943-04-28 |
US 34th Division occupies Djebel el Hara North Tunisia |
1943-04-29 |
US 34th Division occupies Hill 609, North Tunisia |
1943-05-12 |
Axis forces in North Africa surrender |
1943-05-12 |
German troops in Tunisia North Africa surrender |
1943-05-26 |
Premier Churchill & General Marshall fly from US to North Africa |
1943-06-29 |
Germany begins withdrawing U-boats from North Atlantic in anticipation of the Allied invasion of Europe |
1943-07-23 |
US 45th Infantry division occupies north coast of Termini |
1943-08-08 |
US amphibians land at St Agata on North coast of Sicily |
1943-08-11 |
US amphibians land at Brolo on north coast of Sicily |
1943-11-03 |
P-47D Thunderbolt shot down above North Holland |
1944-01-01 |
Army defeats Navy 10-7 in football "Arab Bowl," Oran, North Africa |
1944-03-04 |
Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy |
1944-08-15 |
Allied air raid on train in North Netherlands, 32 killed |
1944-10-22 |
Kurita's vice-admiral fleet leaves North-Borneo |
1944-11-05 |
German troops blow-up Heusden North Brabant city hall, 134 die |
1945-03-17 |
Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra |
1945-05-23 |
German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to British |
1945-06-09 |
-10] Australian troops lands in Brunei Bay North-Borneo |
1945-06-29 |
20.6 cm rainfall at Litchville North Dakota (state record) |
1945-08-08 |
USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea |
1946-02-05 |
The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea. |
1946-03-02 |
Ho Chi Minh elected president of North Vietnam |
1946-07-15 |
British North Borneo Co transfers rights to British crown |
1947-02-03 |
-81°F (-63°C), Snag Yukon (North American record) |
1948-03-27 |
The Second Congress of the Workers' Party of North Korea is convened. |
1948-05-01 |
North Korea proclaims itself People's Democratic Republic of Korea |
1948-05-14 |
Jordan's Arab League captures Atarot, north of Jerusalem |
1948-09-01 |
Communist form North China People's Republic |
1949-03-18 |
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Org) ratified |
1949-04-03 |
North Atlantic Treaty signed by US, Britain, France & Canada |
1949-04-04 |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed (Wash DC) |
1949-07-21 |
Senate ratifies North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13 (NATO) |
1949-08-24 |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) goes into effect |
1949-09-17 |
North Atlantic Treaty Council meets for 1st time |
1950-06-25 |
Korean conflict begins; North Korea invades South Korea |
1950-06-25 |
UN member states begin using integrated forces against North Korea |
1950-06-27 |
North Koreans troop reach Seoul, UN asks members to aid South Korea, Harry Truman orders Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict |
1950-06-28 |
North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea in opening phase of the Korean War |
1950-07-03 |
1st time US & North Korean forces clash in Korean War |
1950-09-01 |
13 North Korean divisions open assault on UN lines |
1950-09-15 |
UN lands at Inchon to drive North Korean troops out of the south |
1950-10-01 |
South Korean troops cross the 38th parallel into North Korea |
1950-10-19 |
UN forces entered Pyongyang, capital of North Korea |
1950-11-04 |
US troops vacate Pyongyang North Korea |
1950-11-06 |
Chinese offensive halts at Chongchon River, North Korea |
1951-01-01 |
Massive Chinese/North Korean assault on UN-lines |
1951-05-29 |
1st North Pole flight in single engine plane-CF Blair |
1951-09-20 |
1st North Pole jet crossing |
1951-11-04 |
9th Ryder Cup: US wins 9½-2½ at Pinehurst Resort (Pinehurst, North Carolina, US) |
1952-03-01 |
Helgoland, in North Sea, returned to West Germany by Britain |
1952-05-03 |
1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole |
1952-05-28 |
Memphis Kiddie Park opens in Brooklyn, Ohio. The park's Little Dipper roller coaster would become the oldest operating steel roller coaster in North America. |
1952-11-19 |
North American F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record, 1124 KPH |
1953-07-27 |
North Korea & UN sign armistice |
1953-07-29 |
US bombers shot down at north of Wladiwostok |
1953-08-23 |
Dutch DC-6 crashes near Ymuiden in North Sea, 21 die |
1954-07-20 |
Armistice for Indo-China signed, Vietnam separates into North & South |
1954-07-21 |
At Geneva, France agrees to independence of North & South Vietnam |
1954-10-22 |
West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
1954-11-07 |
US spy plane shot down North of Japan |
1954-11-15 |
1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begins |
1956-12-15 |
Emergency crisis in North Ireland proclaimed after IRA strikes |
1957-08-01 |
US & Canada create North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) |
1957-09-17 |
The North East Humanists group is founded in Newcastle upon Tyne. |
1958-05-19 |
US & Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) |
1958-06-16 |
Government troops land on North-Celebes Indonesia |
1958-08-01 |
US atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st begins transit of North Pole "operation Sunshine" |
1958-08-03 |
USS Nautilus reaches North Pole, 1st submarine to achieve submarine transit of North Pole |
1958-10-23 |
The Springhill Mine Bump - An underground earthquake traps 174 miners in the No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, the deepest coal mine in North America at the time. By November 1, rescuers from around the world had dug out 100 of the victims, marking the death toll at 74. |
1958-12-02 |
KNOP TV channel 2 in North Platte, NB (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1960-01-02 |
1st redshank old world shore bird reported in North America (Halifax) |
1960-05-04 |
1st great Delta dam closes, North-South Beveland |
1962-04-20 |
New Orleans Citizens Co gives free 1-way ride to blacks to move North |
1962-09-27 |
Military uprising under Col Abdullah as-Sallal North Yemen |
1962-10-08 |
North Korea reports 100% election turnout, miraculously 100% vote for the Workers' Party |
1962-10-10 |
Indies assault up Chinese positions in North-India attack |
1963-02-16 |
North Carolina forward Billy Cunningham grabs a record 27 rebounds in a game vs Clemson |
1963-12-22 |
Cruise ship Lakonia burns 180 miles north of Madeira with the loss of 128 lives. |
1964-07-30 |
US naval fire on Hon Ngu/Hon Mo, North Vietnam |
1964-08-02 |
North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin |
1964-08-04 |
North Vietnam torpedos US ships Gulf of Tonkin |
1964-08-05 |
US begins bombing North Vietnam |
1964-09-21 |
The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, made its maiden flight from Palmdale, California. |
1965-03-06 |
1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North America, JR Willford |
1965-04-20 |
People's Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid |
1965-06-17 |
1st bombing by B-52 (50 km north of Saigon) |
1965-11-09 |
Hurricane hits north east US/Canada |
1966-01-29 |
Snow storm in north east US kills 165 |
1966-03-04 |
North Sea Gas was 1st pumped ashore by BP |
1966-03-10 |
North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley |
1966-04-12 |
1st B-52 bombing on North Vietnam |
1966-05-30 |
300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam |
1966-06-29 |
US bombs fuel storage facilities near North Vietnamese cities |
1966-09-12 |
KPNE TV channel 9 in North Platte, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1966-10-13 |
173 US aircraft bomb North Vietnam |
1966-10-14 |
175 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam |
1967-03-24 |
U of Mich holds 1st "Teach-in" after bombing of North Vietnam |
1967-07-01 |
Canada celebrates the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867. |
1967-08-26 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber demands US stop bombing North Vietnam |
1967-09-08 |
The formal end of steam traction in the North East of England by British Railways. |
1968-01-13 |
Minn North Stars center Bill Masterton fatally injured (dies on 15th) |
1968-01-23 |
Spy ship USS Pueblo & 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by North Korea |
1968-02-06 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns US bombing of North Vietnam |
1968-05-10 |
Vietnam peace talks began in Paris between the US & North Vietnam |
1968-10-31 |
President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam |
1968-11-02 |
A banned march in Derry, North Ireland, by members of the Derry Citizen's Action Committee (DCAC) is joined by thousands; due to the number of people taking part, the Royal Ulster Constabulary are unable to prevent it |
1968-11-08 |
Londonderry Corporation agreed to a Nationalist request to introduce a points system in the allocation of public sector housing, North Ireland |
1968-11-09 |
Ian Paisley and Ronald Bunting led a Loyalist march to the Diamond area of Derry, North Ireland |
1968-12-23 |
82 members of US intelligence ship Pueblo released by North Korea |
1969-01-10 |
Sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam |
1969-01-25 |
US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris |
1969-01-28 |
Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win in North America |
1969-04-15 |
North Korea shoots at US airplane above Japanese sea |
1969-05-09 |
Following his release from prison Ian Paisley, North Ireland Loyalist holds a 'victory' meeting |
1969-07-13 |
North Ireland loyalist Ian Paisley addresses a crowd at Loughgall, County Antrim, and is reported to have said: "I am anti-Roman Catholic, but God being my judge, I love the poor dupes who are ground down under that system." |
1969-09-24 |
Ton Duc Thang elected president of North Vietnam |
1969-10-15 |
Madison Square Garden TV Network begins (Rangers vs North Stars) |
1970-03-06 |
A Catholic man is shot dead by British soldiers in Belfast, North Ireland |
1970-03-29 |
Serious disturbances in Derry, North Ireland, following a march to commemoration the Easter Rising |
1970-04-16 |
Protestant Unionist Ian Paisley wins seat formerly held by Terence O'Neill in the Stormont (North Ireland Parliament |
1970-05-11 |
Henry Marrow is murdered in a violent racially-motivated crime in Oxford, North Carolina. |
1970-05-23 |
A fire breaks out in the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits in north Wales contributing to its partial destruction and causing approximately £1,000,000 worth of fire damage. |
1970-06-05 |
The Falls Road curfew in North Ireland, imposed by the British Army while searching for IRA weapons, is lifted after a march by women breaches the British Army cordon |
1970-07-04 |
Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons |
1970-07-04 |
The Falls Road curfew in North Ireland, imposed by the British Army while searching for IRA weapons, continues throughout the day; a man is killed by the British Army. |
1970-07-23 |
A ban on parades and public processions until January 1971 is announced by the Stormont government (North Ireland Parliament) |
1970-07-30 |
Riots hit Belfast, North Ireland |
1970-08-26 |
Minister of Home Affairs Robert Porter resigns from the Stormont government (North Ireland parliament) |
1970-09-30 |
A Protestant man is shot and killed by Loyalists in Belfast, North Ireland |
1970-12-10 |
North American Soccer League awards NY & Toronto franchises |
1970-12-23 |
A Protestant man is shot dead at his home in Belfast, North Ireland |
1970-12-28 |
Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) adopts constitution |
1971-01-23 |
Riots break out in the Shankill Road area of Belfast, North Ireland |
1971-02-15 |
A British soldier dies 7 days after being mortally wounded in an Irish Republican Army attack in North Ireland |
1971-02-26 |
Two Royal Ulster Constabulary officers are shot and killed by the Irish Republican Army while on a mobile patrol in the Ardoyne area of Belfast, North Ireland |
1971-04-05 |
Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole |
1971-06-08 |
North Vietnam demands US end aid to South Vietnam |
1971-06-18 |
Social Democratic and Labour Party and Nationalist Members of Parliament refuse to attend the state opening of Stormont (North Ireland Parliament) |
1971-07-16 |
The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) withdraw from Stormont (North Ireland Parliament) after no inquiry is announced into the shooting dead of Seamus Cusack and Desmond Beattie |
1971-09-13 |
Two North Ireland Loyalists are mortally injured when the bomb they were preparing exploded prematurely in a house in Bann Street, Belfast |
1971-10-11 |
Switzerland recognizes North Vietnam |
1971-10-24 |
President of Sinn Féin Ruairi O'Brady, then (SF), address a SF Ard Fheis in Dublin, claiming that the North of Ireland must be made ungovernable as first step in achieving a united Ireland |
1972-01-02 |
Anti-internment rally in Belfast, North Ireland |
1972-01-17 |
Seven men who were held as internees escape from the prison ship HMS Maidstone in Belfast Lough, North Ireland |
1972-01-21 |
Assam's North East Frontier Agency becomes Arunachal Pradesh terr |
1972-03-30 |
North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam |
1972-05-01 |
North Vietnamese troops occupy Quang Tri Activities Committee |
1972-05-22 |
Over 400 women in Derry attack the offices of Official Sinn Féin in Derry, North Ireland, following the shooting of William Best by the Official Irish Republican Army |
1972-06-06 |
US bombs Haiphong, North-Vietnam; 1000s killed |
1972-06-26 |
IRA proclaims resistant in North-Ireland |
1972-07-31 |
Claudy bombing: nine civilians were killed when three car bombs exploded in County Londonderry, North Ireland; no group has since claimed responsibility |
1972-08-23 |
4 civilians and 1 British soldier are injured in separate overnight shooting incidents in North Ireland |
1972-08-27 |
US bombs Haiphong, North Vietnam |
1972-09-04 |
Thieves steal 18 paintings from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in what was at the time the largest art theft in North America. |
1972-10-12 |
Mariner 9 takes pictures of Martian north pole |
1972-10-14 |
North Irish Loyalist paramilitaries raid Headquarters of the 10 Ulster Defence Regiment in Belfast and stole rifles and ammunition |
1972-12-18 |
US begins its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam |
1972-12-20 |
Five civilians (four Catholics, one Protestant) killed in gun attack on the Top of the Hill Bar in Derry, North Ireland |
1972-12-27 |
New North Korean constitution comes into effect |
1972-12-28 |
Kim Il-song, becomes president of North Korea |
1972-12-30 |
Pres Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks |
1973-01-07 |
British Darts Organisation founded in North London |
1973-01-08 |
Secret peace talks between US & North Vietnam resumed near Paris |
1973-01-22 |
US, North & South Vietnam & Vietcong sign boundary accord |
1973-01-27 |
US & North Vietnam's William Rogers & Nguyen Duy Trinh sign cease-fire, ending longest US war and miltary draft |
1973-01-28 |
In the run up to the first anniversary of 'Bloody Sunday' there is serious rioting in Derry, North Ireland |
1973-02-07 |
The United Loyalist Council hold a one-day strike to "re-establish some sort of Protestant or loyalist control over the affairs of the province"; loyalist paramilitaries forcibly tried to stop many people going to work and to close any businesses that had opened, North Ireland |
1973-04-09 |
Netherlands recognizes North Vietnam |
1973-04-12 |
France recognizes North Vietnam |
1974-06-05 |
As' Reggie Jackson & Bill North engage in clubhouse fight at Detroit |
1974-06-19 |
Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) suspends constitution |
1975-04-02 |
Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from the Quang Ngai Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops. |
1975-04-12 |
Six Catholic civilians are killed in a Ulster Volunteer Force gun and grenade attack on Strand Bar in Belfast, North Ireland |
1975-04-29 |
Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate US citizens from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end. |
1975-06-11 |
1st oil pumped from North Sea oilfield |
1975-08-11 |
US vetoes proposed admission of North & South Vietnam to UN |
1975-10-04 |
A Cessna 310Q airplane crashes over Wilmington, North Carolina, killing the pilot and severely injuring several pro wrestlers affiliated with the NWA's Mid-Atlantic promotion. One of the survivors is the legendary Ric Flair. |
1975-11-22 |
Drummuckavall Ambush: 3 British Army soldiers are killed and one captured when the Provisional Irish Republican Army attack a watchtower in South Armagh, North Ireland |
1976-01-04 |
Reavey and O'Dowd killings: the Ulster Volunteer Force shoot dead 6 Catholic civilians in 2 co-ordinated attacks in County Armagh, North Ireland |
1976-05-24 |
1st commercial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Wash DC) |
1976-06-05 |
After a suspected republican bombing kills 2 Protestant civilians in a pub, the Ulster Volunteer Force kill 5 civilians in a gun and bomb attack at the Chlorane Bar, North Ireland |
1976-07-02 |
Formal reunification of North & South Vietnam |
1977-03-18 |
US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea & Cambodia |
1977-07-14 |
North Korea shoots down US helicopter, killing 3 |
1977-08-17 |
Russian nuclear sub "Artika" is 1st to North Pole |
1977-08-28 |
NY Cosmos defeat Seattle Sounders, 2-1, at Civic Stadium in Portland Ore, winning their 2nd North American Soccer League championship |
1978-05-01 |
Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone |
1978-06-18 |
78th US Golf Open: Andy North shoots a 285 at Cherry Hill CC in Denver |
1979-02-24 |
War between North & South Yemen begins |
1980-02-16 |
Continuous traffic jam extends 176 km north of Lyons, France |
1980-03-27 |
The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212. |
1980-05-21 |
"Star Wars Episode V - Empire Strikes Back" opens in cinemas in UK and North America |
1980-11-11 |
Islanders' Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against North Stars |
1981-03-30 |
43rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats North Carolina 63-50 |
1981-05-21 |
Stanley Cup: NY Islanders beat Minnesota North Stars, 4 games to 1 |
1981-08-04 |
Oliver North is assigned to White House duty |
1982-01-22 |
75% of North America is covered by snow |
1982-04-18 |
Canada Constitution Act replaces British North America Act |
1982-11-11 |
30th time Islanders shut-out-2-0 vs North Stars |
1982-11-23 |
NY Islanders & Minn North Stars play to an 8-8 tie |
1983-08-21 |
110°F (43°C) at Fayetteville, North Carolina (state record) |
1985-01-21 |
-34°F (-37°C), Mt Mitchell, North Carolina (state record) |
1985-06-16 |
85th US Golf Open: Andy North shoots a 279 at Oakland Hills CC Mich |
1986-01-22 |
Ghorbanifar 1st suggests diversion of cash to contras, says North |
1986-05-01 |
Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole |
1986-11-25 |
Oliver North's sect, Fawn Hill, smuggles documents out of his office |
1987-03-12 |
Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North |
1987-05-30 |
North American Philips Company unveils compact disc video |
1987-06-08 |
Oliver North's secretary Fawn Hall tesifies at Iran-Contra hearing |
1987-07-07 |
Lt Col Oliver North began public testimony at Iran-Contra hearing |
1987-07-09 |
Colonel Oliver North admits to shredding Iran-Contra evidence |
1987-07-14 |
Lt Col Oliver North concludes 6 days of Congressional testimony |
1987-11-08 |
IRA bomb attack in Enniskillen, North Ireland, 11 killed |
1988-03-16 |
Federal grand jury indicts North & Poindexter in Iran-Contra affair |
1988-03-16 |
North Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic funeral, 3 killed |
1988-03-19 |
2 British soldiers lynched in Belfast, North Ireland |
1988-07-06 |
North Sea oil platform Piper Alpha explodes, 166 die |
1988-11-25 |
Widespread earthquake hits North East US, Canada, no damage reported |
1988-12-30 |
North subpoenas Reagan & Bush as defense witnesses for upcoming trial |
1989-02-16 |
Egypt, Iraq, Jordan & North Yemen form common market |
1989-03-07 |
Partial eclipse of the Sun (Hawaii, NW North America, Greenland) |
1989-03-07 |
Dino Ciccarelli is traded by the Minnesota North Stars to the Washington Capitals |
1989-04-14 |
In the Iran-Contra trial, Oliver North's case goes to the jury |
1989-04-15 |
Then largest lottery in North America ($69M) drawn in Illinois |
1990-05-22 |
North & South Yemen merge to form Republic of Yemen |
1990-08-10 |
The Massacre of more than 127 Muslims in North East Sri Lanka by paramilitaries. |
1991-01-20 |
Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south. |
1991-02-12 |
North & South Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition |
1991-04-14 |
Chic Blackhawks becomes 1st NHL regular season champion in 20 years to lose in 1st round of the playoffs (To Minn North Stars) |
1991-05-25 |
Stanley Cup: Pittsburgh Penguins beat Minn North Star, 4 games to 2 |
1991-09-17 |
UN admits Estonia, Latvia, Lithuiania, North & South Korea, Marshall Islands & Micronesia |
1992-08-12 |
Canada, Mexico, and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). |
1992-09-25 |
Opening Main-Donau canal (North Sea-Black Sea) |
1992-12-07 |
Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater) |
1993-03-13 |
Blizzard of '93 hits north-east US |
1993-11-18 |
North-Siberia record cold for November (-55°C) |
1994-01-01 |
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect |
1994-04-22 |
Borge Ousland reaches North pole |
1994-05-05 |
North-Yemen air force bombs Aden South Yemen |
1994-05-29 |
Great iceball comet seen above North Sea |
1994-06-02 |
Chinook helicopter crashes in North Scotland (29 killed) |
1994-06-08 |
7.8 earthquake strikes North Bolivia |
1994-07-02 |
US Air DC-9 crash in North Carolina, 37 killed |
1994-07-07 |
North Yemenite troops occupy Aden |
1994-10-21 |
North Korea signs pact to end their nuclear projects |
1994-11-05 |
Yak-40 accident in north of Peru, 8 killed |
1994-11-27 |
Fire in disco in Fuxin, North-China, 233 killed |
1995-01-01 |
The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves. |
1995-02-27 |
Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (54-80 killed) |
1995-03-08 |
-26°F (-32.2°C) in Bismarck, North Dakota |
1995-04-02 |
North & Western Colorado begins using new area code 970 |
1995-09-24 |
Volcano Mount Ruapehu (North Island, NZ) erupts |
1995-11-29 |
US President Bill Clinton lifts ban on exports of oil from the Alaskan North Slope; the ban was imposed after the oil embargo by Arab oil producers in 1973 |
1995-12-30 |
Carquest Bowl 6: North Carolina beats Arkansas, 20-10 |
1997-01-18 |
In north west Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other. |
1997-02-28 |
The North Hollywood shootout takes place. |
1997-05-12 |
14 North Koreans defect to South Korea |
1997-05-27 |
1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole |
1997-08-16 |
For only 2nd time Stanley Cup leaves North America (heads to Russia) |
1997-10-04 |
The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. An FBI investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million in cash which had been taken. |
1998-01-18 |
48th NHL All-Star Game: North America beats World 8-7 at Vancouver |
1998-08-31 |
North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyongsong, its first satellite. |
1998-11-16 |
Monica Lewinsky signs a deal for the North American rights to a book about her affair with US President Clinton |
1999-06-09 |
Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and North Atlantic Treaty Organization sign a peace treaty. |
1999-08-11 |
Total solar eclipse in India-North -France (2m23s) |
1999-11-15 |
Next transit of Mercury visible in North America |
2000-06-13 |
President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang. |
2000-10-17 |
Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of Railtrack. |
2002-01-29 |
In his State of the Union Address, United States President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea. |
2002-06-29 |
Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel. |
2004-04-22 |
Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people. |
2004-05-24 |
North Korea bans mobile phones. |
2004-09-01 |
The Beslan school hostage crisis begins when armed terrorists take hundreds of school children and adults hostage in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia. |
2004-10-02 |
American Samoa joins the North American Numbering Plan. |
2005-02-16 |
2004-05 NHL season is canceled by league commissioner Gary Bettman. This was the first time that a North American professional sports league had to cancel a season due to a labor dispute |
2005-03-03 |
Mayerthorpe Incident: James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. It is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion. |
2005-09-08 |
Two EMERCOM Il-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America. |
2005-12-30 |
Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic Ocean, tying the record for the latest tropical cyclone ever to form in the North Atlantic basin. |
2006-03-22 |
BC Ferries' M/V Queen of the North runs aground on Gil Island British Columbia and sinks; 101 on board, 2 presumed deaths. |
2006-04-22 |
Four Canadian soldiers are killed 75 kilometers north of Kandahar, Afghanistan by a roadside bomb planted by Taliban militants, the worst single day combat loss for the Canadian army since the Korean War. |
2006-07-04 |
North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium-range missile, and a long-range Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails in mid-air over the Sea of Japan/East Sea. |
2006-07-05 |
North Korea missle tests: at least two short-range Nodong-2 missiles, one SCUD missile and one long-range Taepodong-2 missile. |
2006-07-05 |
Emergency United Nations Security Council meeting at the U.N in New York City because of North Korean missile tests that day |
2006-10-09 |
North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device. |
2006-12-07 |
A tornado struck Kensal Green, North West London, seriously damaging around 150 properties. |
2007-01-17 |
The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing. |
2007-02-23 |
Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea. |
2007-05-17 |
Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953. |
2007-10-02 |
President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. |
2007-11-29 |
A 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurs off the northern coast of Martinique. This affected the Eastern Caribbean as far north as Puerto Rico and as south as Trinidad. |
2009-04-05 |
North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks |
2009-05-25 |
North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device. Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tests bulding tensions in the international community. |
2010-11-23 |
The Bombardment of Yeonpyeong occurs on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea. The North Korean artillery attack kills 2 civilians and 2 South Korean marines. |
2011-08-23 |
5.8 earthquake occurrs in Mineral, Virginia felt as far north as Ontario and as far south as Atlanta, Georgia |
2012-02-20 |
South Korea angers North Korea as it proceeds with live fire drills in disputed Korean sea borders |
2012-04-13 |
North Korean long range rocket testing ends in failure after the rocket broke up after launch |
2012-07-18 |
Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army |
2012-07-26 |
North Korea is hit by Tropical Storm Khanun, killing 88 people and leaving 60,000 people homeless |
2012-07-29 |
Tropical Storm Khanun kills 88 people and leaves 60,000 homeless in North Korea |
2012-08-25 |
39 people are killed and 80 are injured after a gas leak in North Venezuelan refinery |
2012-09-01 |
US drone strike kills 5 people in North Waristan, Pakistan |
2012-09-03 |
Typhoon Bolaven kills 48 people in North Korea |
2013-02-12 |
North Korea confirms it has successfully tested a nuclear device that could be weaponized |
2013-03-07 |
UN Security Council approves further North Korean sanctions for its nuclear testing |
2013-03-08 |
North Korea terminates all peace pacts with South Korea |
2013-03-11 |
North Korea cuts the phone line with South Korea, breaching the 1953 armistice |
2013-03-13 |
North Korea shreds the Korean Armistice agreement |
2013-03-24 |
17 soldiers are killed by a suicide bomber at a military checkpoint in North Waziristan, Pakistan |
2013-03-29 |
UN regulation of international arms trade is blocked by North Korea, Iran, and Syria |
2013-03-30 |
North Korea declares it is at a state of war with South Korea |
2013-04-17 |
North Korea blocks a South Korean supply delegation from the Kaesong joint industrial zone |
2013-05-02 |
60 miners are killed after a gold mine collapses in Jebel Amir, North Darfur, Sudan |
2013-08-20 |
9 Islamist militants are killed by Russian police in North Caucasus |
2014-05-13 |
Christopher Columbus's flagship, the Santa Maria, is discovered north off the coast of Haiti |
2014-10-14 |
Richard Flanagan's novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North wins the 2014 Man Booker Prize |
2014-11-11 |
The people of Catalonia in north-eastern Spain vote in a disputed and non-binding poll on independence |
2015-12-16 |
North Korea sentences Canadian pastor Hyeon Soo Lim to life in prison |
2016-01-05 |
North Korea says it successfully conducts hydrogen bomb test |
2016-01-22 |
North Korea Says It's Holding US Student for 'Hostile Act' |
2016-02-03 |
China Urges Restraint Over North Korea Rocket Launch |
2016-02-03 |
South Korea Warns North Korea Not to Launch Satellite |
2016-02-04 |
North Korea's Rocket Plans Seen as Disrespectful of China |
2016-02-09 |
Japan's Parliament Condemns North Korea Rocket Launch |
2016-02-10 |
North Korea's Rocket Launch Frays Ties Between South Korea and China |
2016-02-10 |
Senate approves new North Korea sanctions |
2016-02-11 |
North Korea army chief Ri Yong-gil said to be executed |
2016-03-02 |
UN Security Council approves North Korea sanctions |
2016-03-03 |
North Korea fires several short-range projectiles into sea - South Korea |
2016-03-03 |
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wants nukes ready to go |
2016-03-04 |
North Korea leader orders military to be ready to use nuclear weapons at any time |
2016-03-07 |
South Korea, US begin exercises as North Korea threatens attack |
2016-03-08 |
South Korea announces unilateral sanctions on North Korea |
2016-03-08 |
North Korea's Kim says country has miniaturised nuclear warhead |
2016-03-09 |
US serves up Korean rocket salad in war drill response to North's nuclear threats |
2016-03-09 |
North Korea fires two short-range missiles into sea - Yonhap |
2016-03-10 |
South Korea considers approval of North Korea tuberculosis aid despite sanctions |
2016-03-10 |
North Korean leader Kim orders more nuclear tests: KCNA |
2016-03-12 |
North Korea Warns of Pre-emptive Strikes Against the South |
2016-03-12 |
North Korea submarine 'missing' as US-South Korea drills continue |
2016-03-13 |
Selection Sunday 2016: Kansas, North Carolina, Virginia and Oregon Are Top Seeds |
2016-03-15 |
North Korean leader says will soon conduct nuclear, missile tests |
2016-03-18 |
North Korea Fires Missile Into Sea, South Korea Says |
2016-03-21 |
North Korea fires short-range projectiles into sea |
2016-03-25 |
North Carolina Gay Bias Law Draws a Sharp Backlash |
2016-04-01 |
North Korea Jamming GPS Signals Across Border, South Korea Says |
2016-04-01 |
China's Xi urges implementation of UN resolutions on North Korea |
2016-04-09 |
North Korea Says It Successfully Tested Missile Engine |
2016-04-09 |
Springsteen cancels North Carolina concert over 'anti-gay' law |
2016-04-13 |
In North Carolina and Mississippi, Backlash Grows Over Rights Law |
2016-04-13 |
North Korea Threatens South Korea Over 13 Defectors |
2016-04-16 |
Cirque du Soleil cancels North Carolina shows over transgender law |
2016-04-18 |
South Korea Says North Is Preparing for 5th Nuclear Test |
2016-04-24 |
North Korea says submarine ballistic missile test 'great success' |
2016-04-24 |
France calls on EU to adopt new sanctions against North Korea |
2016-04-24 |
North Korea 'will halt' nuclear tests if US stops S Korea exercises |
2016-04-24 |
North Korea 'fires submarine-launched ballistic missile' |
2016-04-27 |
North Korea to stage first party congress in nearly 40 years |
2016-04-29 |
North Korea Sentences American to 10 Years for Spying, Reports Say |
2016-04-29 |
Russia, China in Agreement on North Korea, South China Sea |
2016-05-05 |
North Carolina transgender law violates civil rights law: US |
2016-05-08 |
North Korea Claims Its Nuclear Arsenal Is Just a 'Deterrent' |
2016-05-08 |
North Korea leader Kim says will not use nuclear arms unless threatened |
2016-05-09 |
North Korea says to push nuclear programme, defying UN sanctions |
2016-05-10 |
China's Xi congratulates North Korea's Kim on party promotion |
2016-05-10 |
US Justice Department files complaint over North Carolina bathroom law |
2016-05-10 |
State lawmakers file second lawsuit over North Carolina bathroom law |
2016-05-31 |
South Korea Says North Korea Missile Launch Likely Failed |
2016-06-01 |
North Korea's missile and nuclear projects unacceptable, Japan envoy says |
2016-06-22 |
North Korea 'tests banned missiles' |
2016-06-23 |
Kim Jong-un says North Korea missiles can reach US in Pacific |
2016-07-30 |
North Carolina 'discriminatory' voter ID law overturned |
2016-08-03 |
North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile Into Sea, South Korea Says |
2016-08-24 |
North Korea Seeks UN Meeting on US-South Korea Exercises |
2016-08-24 |
Japan, China, South Korea agree to urge North Korea to stop provocation |
2016-08-24 |
North Korea fires submarine-launched ballistic missile towards Japan |
2016-08-27 |
Federal Judge Curbs Enforcement of North Carolina Transgender Access Law |
2016-08-30 |
North Korea Denounces UN Condemnation, Warns US of Action |
2016-08-31 |
South Korea Says Top North Korean Official Executed |
2016-09-05 |
North Korea fires three ballistic missiles, reports say |
2016-09-09 |
North Korea confirms it has conducted fifth nuclear test |
2016-09-10 |
With latest North Korea test, US again seeks elusive Chinese help |
2016-09-10 |
UN Security Council strongly condemns North Korean nuclear test |
2016-09-13 |
US flexes muscle at North Korea, flying bombers over South Korea: reports |
2016-10-11 |
Obama declares major disaster in North Carolina from Hurricane Matthew |
2016-10-14 |
Historic town swamped, 22 dead in North Carolina flooding |
2016-10-15 |
North Carolina Democrats win extension of voter registration deadline |
2016-10-17 |
North Carolina estimates $1.5 billion in hurricane damage to buildings |
2016-11-29 |
North Dakota Governor orders evacuation of some pipeline site protesters |
2016-12-22 |
North Carolina rebuffs transgender bathroom law repeal |
2017-02-05 |
Avalanche Kills 13 People in Pakistan's North |
2017-02-12 |
North Korea Launches Missile in First Test Since Trump Took Office |
2017-02-12 |
Trump says US behind Japan '100 percent' after North Korea missile launch |
2017-02-14 |
UN Security Council condemns North Korea missile launching |
2017-02-18 |
North Korean man arrested over killing of Kim Jong-nam |
2017-02-19 |
Malaysia searching for four North Korean suspects in Kim Jong Nam murder |
2017-02-19 |
US pushes Beijing to keep up pressure on North Korea |
2017-02-23 |
North Korea blames Malaysia for death of its citizen: KCNA |
2017-02-24 |
North Korea Accuses China of 'Mean Behavior' After It Tightens Sanctions |
2017-03-02 |
US, South Korea agree to strengthen cooperation on North Korea sanctions |
2017-03-06 |
US detects North Korean missile launch, no threat to North America |
2017-03-06 |
Japan says North Korean missiles landed as close as 300 km to Japan coast |
2017-03-07 |
Malaysian PM Najib calls on North Korea to release all Malaysians |
2017-03-07 |
North Korea bars Malaysians from leaving as murder row boils |
2017-03-07 |
North Korea bans Malaysians from leaving country over Kim Jong Nam's death |
2017-03-19 |
North Korea 'conducts high-thrust engine test' |
2017-04-01 |
12-year-old North Carolina girl picks perfect NCAA Final Four bracket |
2017-04-05 |
North Korea launches missile into Sea of Japan |
2017-04-11 |
North Korea issues warning as US strike group heads to Korean Peninsula |
2017-04-12 |
Japanese, US navies plan joint show of force toward North Korea |
2017-04-14 |
Trump says North Korea problem 'will be taken care of' |
2017-04-15 |
North Korea rolls out heavy artillery in giant military parade |
2017-04-16 |
North Korean missile test fails, US and South Korea say |
2017-04-17 |
US Vice President Pence visits DMZ amid high tensions with North Korea |
2017-04-18 |
Pence reassures Japan of US resolve against North Korea |
2017-04-18 |
Trump may have to be patient about North Korea |
2017-04-19 |
North Korean mock-up birthday video shows missiles blowing up US |
2017-04-20 |
China criticizes North Korea, praises US on nuclear issue |
2017-04-20 |
Russia vetoes UN statement on North Korea's missile tests |
2017-04-24 |
China's Xi urges restraint on North Korea issue on call with Trump |
2017-04-24 |
North Korea detained a professor who is US citizen; at least 3rd American held |
2017-04-27 |
South Korea, US warn of punishment for North Korea; US stresses sanctions |
2017-05-01 |
Trump calls North Korean leader a 'pretty smart cookie' |
2017-05-14 |
US military confirms North Korea fired missile |
2017-06-08 |
North Korea fires suspected cruise missiles after US drills |
2017-06-29 |
North Korea warns US it will keep building nuclear arsenal |
2017-07-04 |
North Korea claims it tested first intercontinental missile |
2017-07-06 |
China urges calm after US says ready to use force against North Korea |
2017-07-29 |
China urges North Korea to stop acts that could worsen tensions |
2017-07-29 |
South Korea to deploy more THAAD units after North Korea ICBM launch |
2017-07-30 |
US flies bombers over Korean peninsula after North Korea missile test |
2017-08-03 |
US bans travel to North Korea from September 1, says Americans should leave |
2017-08-07 |
South Korea, US agree to pressure North Korea, China hopes for North-South talks |
2017-08-07 |
China media stress limits to North Korea sanctions, slam US 'arrogance' |
2017-08-09 |
North Korea threatens missile strike on Guam that will create an 'enveloping fire' |
2017-08-14 |
Rescuers pull out 46 bodies after landslide hits north India |
2017-08-15 |
North Korea maps out detailed plan for missile launches to sea off Guam |
2017-08-15 |
Dozens rally in Guam for peace amid North Korea threats |
2017-08-18 |
North Korea tells UN chief nuclear program not up for negotiation |
2017-08-21 |
Next total solar eclipse visible from North America |
2017-08-23 |
China July trade with North Korea slows from June as coal ban bites |
2017-08-26 |
China bans new business with North Korea in line with sanctions |
2017-08-26 |
North Korea launches 3 short-range ballistic missiles |
2017-08-29 |
North Korea fires missile over Japan in aggressive test |
2017-09-03 |
North Korea detonates its sixth and most powerful nuclear test yet |
2017-09-07 |
South Korea deploys anti-missile system as US seeks tough North Korea sanctions |
2017-09-08 |
Trump says hopes to avoid use of military action on North Korea |
2017-09-14 |
North Korea threatens to 'sink' Japan, reduce US to 'ashes and darkness' |
2017-09-20 |
Trump vows to 'totally destroy North Korea' at UN assembly |
2017-09-23 |
China follows UN sanctions with bans, limits on fuel products to North Korea |
2017-09-27 |
Trump says US 'totally prepared' for military option in North Korea |
2017-10-09 |
North Korea's 'princess' now one of the secretive state's top policy makers |
2017-10-17 |
North Korea says 'a nuclear war may break out any moment' |
2017-11-29 |
North Korea says successfully launches new ICBM that can reach all of US |
2017-12-04 |
South Korea, US kick off largest air exercise amid North Korean warnings |
2017-12-21 |
South Korea fires warning shots after North soldier defects |
2017-12-26 |
China halts oil product exports to North Korea in November as sanctions bite |
2017-12-29 |
South Korea seizes HK-flagged vessel it says transferred oil to North Korea |
2018-01-01 |
North Korea's Kim says US will never start war against North |
2018-01-02 |
South Korea offers talks with defiant North ahead of Olympics |
2018-01-03 |
North Korean leader orders border hotline with South Korea reopened on Wednesday |
2018-01-05 |
North Korea accepts January 9 talks offer from South Korea |
2018-01-09 |
North, South Korea to hold talks as Winter Olympics help break ice |
2018-01-09 |
North Korea will send Olympic team to South as countries hold high-level talks |
2018-01-10 |
Little damage as mag 7.6 quake hits in sea north of Honduras |
2018-02-10 |
North Korea's Kim invites South Korean president for summit: South Korea |
2018-02-23 |
South Korea says approved visit by sanctioned North Korean to pursue peace on peninsula |
2018-02-26 |
South Korea says it hopes for constructive talks between US, North Korea |
2018-03-04 |
South Korea to send high-level officials to North for talks |
2018-03-07 |
North Korea open to abandoning its nuclear program, Seoul says |
2018-03-09 |
Oil prices rise as US President Trump set to meet North Korea's Kim |
2018-03-28 |
North Korea's Kim Jong Un visits China in 1st foreign trip as leader |
2018-04-09 |
North Korea tells US that Kim Jong Un ready to discuss nukes |
2018-04-21 |
North Korea says it will stop nuclear tests, abolish test site |
2018-04-27 |
North Korea's Kim Jong Un crosses DMZ line for historic meeting with South Korea |
2018-05-02 |
South Korea says it wants US troops to stay regardless of any treaty with North Korea |
2018-05-16 |
North Korea threatens to cancel US summit |
2018-05-24 |
China tells US 'now is the time' if it wants peace with North Korea |
2018-06-13 |
North Korea state media says Trump agreed to lift sanctions against North |
2018-06-14 |
US, South Korea, Japan vow to work on North Korean denuclearisation |
2018-06-20 |
North Korea expected to return remains of up to 200 US service members lost in Korean War |
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North - Notable Birthdays
North - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1606-11-12 |
Jeanne Mance, Langres, French Canadian settler (founded first hospital in North America) |
1637-12-06 |
Sir Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (d. 1714) |
1641-05-16 |
Dudley North, financier/economist |
1704-07-15 |
August Gottlieb Spangenberg, founder of Moravian Church in North America |
1725-03-24 |
Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina (d. 1813) |
1732-04-13 |
Frederick North, (C) British PM (1770-82) |
1796-11-06 |
George Back, English sea officer/explorer (North Canada) |
1809-03-13 |
Fredrik Pacius, Here, Beneath the North Star |
1810-11-18 |
Asa Gray, Sauquoit NY, botanist (Flora of North America) |
1833-08-20 |
Benjamin Harrison, North Bend Ohio, (R) 23rd Pres (1889-1893) |
1856-05-06 |
Robert Edwin Peary, US, arctic explorer (North Pole-Apr 6 1909) |
1859-07-30 |
Henry Louis Smith, Greensboro, North Carolina, American physicist who made the first X-ray photograph |
1860-08-13 |
Annie Oakley [Phoebe Ann Moses], North Star Ohio, sharp shooter (Buffalo Bill's Wild West), (d. 1926) |
1861-02-15 |
Alfred North Whitehead, Engl mathematician/philosopher (Adv of Ideas) |
1862-04-03 |
Waldemar Maes, People of the North Sea |
1863-01-16 |
Wilfrid North, Mrs. Dane's Danger |
1865-06-10 |
Frederick A Cook, US, explorer (claimed falsely to be at North Pole) |
1866-08-08 |
Matthew A Henson, 1st Black to reach North Pole (Jun 4 1909) |
1868-04-05 |
Maurits Binger, A Carmen of the North |
1873-10-19 |
Barton King, cricketer (North America's greatest all-rounder) |
1873-12-27 |
Joseph North, The Fightin' Actor |
1877-08-11 |
Adolph M. Christianson, justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court (d.1954) |
1878-03-13 |
Lau Lauritzen, People of the North Sea |
1881-04-17 |
Hugo Fischer, People of the North Sea |
1881-08-07 |
Jean Darlan, At the Front in North Africa with the U.S. Army |
1881-10-04 |
Otto Wille Kuusinen, Here, Beneath the North Star |
1883-01-07 |
Andrew Cunningham, At the Front in North Africa with the U.S. Army |
1884-02-02 |
Robert North, In Old California |
1884-02-16 |
Robert Flaherty, Mich, father of documentary film (Nanook of North) |
1884-02-16 |
Robert J. Flaherty, Nanook of the North |
1884-05-05 |
Jack Walters, Headin' North |
1884-06-21 |
Claude "Auk" Auchinleck, British fieldmarshal North-Africa |
1885-04-04 |
Emil Henriks, People of the North Sea |
1886-04-01 |
Alberto Vacarezza, North Wind |
1886-06-20 |
William Van Vleck, Ranger of the North |
1886-10-25 |
Leo G. Carroll, North by Northwest |
1887-02-20 |
Chris Willow Bird, Where the North Begins |
1887-08-29 |
Mrs. Wilfrid North, Meet John Doe |
1889-04-06 |
Clyde North, Remote Control |
1889-07-19 |
Walter L. Griffin, Nomads of the North |
1890-01-14 |
Bert Mott, North by Northwest |
1890-05-19 |
Ho Chi Minh [Nguyễn Sinh Cung], Nghệ An Province, French Indochina, Vetnamese communist revolutionary and President of North Vietnam (1946-69) |
1890-05-19 |
Chi Minh Ho, North Vietnam |
1891-01-04 |
Joseph O'Donnell, North of the Rio Grande |
1891-02-26 |
Alan Bridge, PA, actor (North of Arizona, Badmen of the Hills) |
1891-11-27 |
Bonnie Hill, The Frozen North |
1891-12-25 |
Kenneth A N Anderson, British general (Dunkerk, North Africa) |
1892-04-13 |
Michio Ito, Spawn of the North |
1900-10-03 |
Thomas Wolfe, Asheville, North Carolina, American novelist (Look Homeward Angel) |
1903-08-14 |
John Ringling North, circus director (Ringling Bros) |
1903-08-14 |
John Ringling North, The Greatest Show on Earth |
1904-01-18 |
Cary Grant, England, actor (Arsenic & Old Lace, North by Northwest) |
1904-02-07 |
Howard Voss, North by Northwest |
1904-04-24 |
Willem De Kooning, Rotterdam Netherland, artist (North Atlantic Light) |
1904-11-25 |
Jessie Royce Landis, [Medbury], Chicago, actress (North by Northwest) |
1905-12-08 |
Ernst Hermann Meyer, North Sea |
1906-03-12 |
Harry Kress, North by Northwest |
1906-11-04 |
Sterling North, So Dear to My Heart |
1907-03-20 |
Henry Grace, North by Northwest |
1907-08-19 |
Franklin Milton, North by Northwest |
1907-11-02 |
Sydney Guilaroff, North by Northwest |
1908-09-29 |
Greer Garson, North Ireland, actress (Pride & Prejudice, Chips) |
1909-05-15 |
James Mason, North by Northwest |
1909-11-12 |
Henry Ringling North, The Greatest Show on Earth |
1909-11-19 |
Moses Josiah Madiba, Seshego, Pietersburg (now Polokwane) district, South African author and first African chancellor of the University of the North |
1909-12-19 |
Urban Thielmann, North to Alaska |
1910-01-12 |
Patsy Kelly, Bkln, actress (Rosemary's Baby, North Ave Irregulars) |
1910-03-17 |
Patrick McVey, North by Northwest |
1910-05-11 |
Howard Hohler, Emperor of the North |
1910-07-15 |
Ken Lynch, North by Northwest |
1910-12-04 |
Alex North, Chester Penn, composer (Spartacus, Viva Zapata) |
1910-12-04 |
Alex North, Spartacus |
1911-01-11 |
Irving Rubine, Twenty-Four Hours at North Fork |
1911-02-08 |
Elizabeth Bishop, US poet (North & South)/Pulitzer Prize (1956) |
1911-03-12 |
Edmund H. North, Patton |
1911-07-04 |
Dwight Hauser, Nikki, Wild Dog of the North |
1911-07-17 |
Robert Saunders, North by Northwest |
1912-04-13 |
William Tuttle, North by Northwest |
1912-04-15 |
Kim II Sung, Eternal President ("The Great Leader") of North Korea (1945-94) |
1912-07-03 |
Edward Jones, North Ireland lord justice of appeals |
1912-9-05 |
Peter Pohlenz, The North Star |
1913-03-29 |
Joan Marlowe, Mr. and Mrs. North |
1913-03-31 |
Etta Baker, Caldwell County North Carolina, American blues guitarist |
1913-04-16 |
Les Tremayne, North by Northwest |
1913-05-01 |
Ygnacio Sepulveda, Emperor of the North |
1913-05-23 |
Dorothy Bradshaw, Death Goes North |
1913-10-05 |
Lee LeBlanc, North by Northwest |
1914-06-21 |
Charles K. Hagedon, North by Northwest |
1914-10-13 |
Marion Meadows, Viking Visitors to North America |
1914-12-03 |
Don Haldane, Nikki, Wild Dog of the North |
1915-12-08 |
Ernest Lehman, North by Northwest |
1916-02-14 |
Edward Platt, North by Northwest |
1916-07-12 |
Gil North, The Village Constable |
1916-10-03 |
Ted North, The Ox-Bow Incident |
1916-11-24 |
Howard Cashion, North by Northwest |
1917-01-01 |
Sherle North, An Angel Comes to Brooklyn |
1917-01-28 |
William Walker, The North Star |
1917-04-02 |
John Mulqueeney, Mr. North |
1917-04-14 |
Valerie Hobson, North Ireland, actress (Great Expectations) |
1917-04-30 |
Pentti Lähde, Here, Beneath the North Star |
1917-08-06 |
Robert Mitchum, Bridgeport Ct, actor (Winds of War, North & South) |
1917-10-10 |
Thelonious Monk, Rocky Mount North Carolina, American jazz pianist and composer |
1919-01-23 |
Ernie Kovacs, North to Alaska |
1919-05-22 |
Douglas Heyes, North and South |
1919-12-08 |
Ensio Lumes, Here, Beneath the North Star |
1920-01-17 |
Doreen North, The Red Shoes |
1920-11-05 |
Douglass North, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate |
1920-12-20 |
Väinö Linna, Here, Beneath the North Star |
1920-12-23 |
Alan North, Guiding Light |
1921-05-01 |
Stanley Hosgood, North West Frontier |
1921-06-17 |
John North, Paper Lion |
1921-10-18 |
Jesse Helms, (Sen-D/R-North Carolina, 1973- ) |
1921-9-14 |
Nora Thomas, Games of the North |
1922-03-16 |
Harding Lemay, North Bangor NY, headwriter (Another World) |
1922-03-21 |
Bob Coe, North by Northwest |
1922-03-31 |
Patrick J G McGee, North Ireland, actor (Clockwork Orange) |
1922-04-05 |
Tom Finney, Preston, Lancashire, English football player (Preston North End) |
1922-08-09 |
Philip Larkin, Coventry England, writer (North Ship, Jill) |
1922-11-15 |
Paul Acket, Dutch publisher/organizer (Music Express, North Sea Jazz) |
1922-11-26 |
Adam Williams, North by Northwest |
1922-12-24 |
Ava Gardner, Smithfield North Carolina, American actress (On the Beach, Night of the Iguana) |
1923-02-15 |
Charles Scherza, Mr. North |
1923-02-17 |
Hwang Jang-Yop, Inside North Korea |
1923-04-11 |
Richard Ung, Spawn of the North |
1923-06-18 |
Robert Ellenstein, North by Northwest |
1923-10-07 |
Pamela Archer, North Hollywood Shoot Out |
1924-05-12 |
Doris Singh, North by Northwest |
1924-07-04 |
Eva Marie Saint, Newark NJ, actress (On the Waterfront, North by Northwest) |
1924-07-04 |
Eva Marie Saint, North by Northwest |
1924-11-02 |
John Edward Weems, Peary's Race for the North Pole |
1924-11-07 |
Mel North, Spartacus |
1925-03-31 |
Jean Coutu, Nikki, Wild Dog of the North |
1925-04-06 |
Marcus Worsley, Lord-Lieutenant of North Yorkshire, (d. 2012) |
1925-04-30 |
Johnny Horton, North to Alaska |
1925-08-12 |
Albert Fay Hill, The North Avenue Irregulars |
1925-11-24 |
Alun Owen, North Wales, writer (Hard Days Night)/actor (Servant) |
1925-9-30 |
Tetsurô Hoshino, Tora-san Goes North |
1926-01-26 |
Junji Chiba, Fist of the North Star |
1926-04-06 |
Ian Paisley, North Ireland, clergyman/MP |
1926-12-18 |
Peggy Cummins, North Wales, actress (Curse of the Demon) |
1927-9-27 |
Josh Graves, Finding North |
1929-03-06 |
Ho Dam, North Korean secretary of State (1970-83) |
1929-07-05 |
Chikao Ohtsuka, Fist of the North Star |
1929-12-02 |
Lowell North, Springfield Mass, yachtsman (Olympic-Gold-1968) |
1930-01-16 |
Guil Fisher, South of No North |
1930-02-06 |
Allan King, Silence of the North |
1931-06-19 |
Risto Taulo, Here, Beneath the North Star |
1931-11-03 |
Yon Hyong-muk, North Korean politician (d. 2005) |
1932-01-17 |
Sheree North, The Shootist |
1932-10-12 |
Ned Jarrett, Conover, North Carolina, American race car driver and announcer (50 Grand National victories) |
1932-10-18 |
Neil North, Billy Elliot |
1932-11-05 |
Arthur L Liman, NYC, trial lawyer (Oliver North) |
1933-01-11 |
Susumu Takaku, Fist of the North Star |
1933-01-17 |
Sheree North, [Dawn Bethel], LA, actress (Mary Tyler Moore Show) |
1933-08-08 |
Jack North, Halloween 5 |
1933-09-01 |
Marshall Lytle, Old Fort, North Carolina, Hall of Fame rock bassist (Comets), (d. 2013) |
1934-04-29 |
Mirja Traat, Here, Beneath the North Star |
1934-08-04 |
Wally White, North Shore |
1934-09-16 |
Eva Clayton, (Rep-D-North Carolina) |
1935-01-04 |
Floyd Patterson, Waco North Carolina, heavyweight champ (1956-59, 1960-62) (Oly-gold-1952) |
1935-08-27 |
Frank Yablans, NYC, writer (North Dallas Forty) |
1936-01-25 |
Ron Chapman, North Dallas Forty |
1936-11-01 |
Katsuhisa Hattori, Fist of the North Star |
1937-07-22 |
Tommy Thompson, Far North |
1937-9-16 |
Eero Keskitalo, Here, Beneath the North Star |
1938-06-26 |
Gerald North, American climatologist |
1938-07-03 |
Shin Geum Dan, North Korea, 400m/800m runner (1962 world record) |
1938-07-05 |
Stanley Silverman, Nanook of the North |
1938-07-28 |
Buddy Spicher, Finding North |
1938-08-07 |
Zeme North, Zotz! |
1939-02-10 |
Roberta Flack, Black Mountain North Carolina, US vocalist (If Ever I Saw Your Face) |
1939-08-10 |
Charles Rose, (Rep-D-North Carolina, 1973- ) |
1940-04-01 |
Aarno Sulkanen, Here, Beneath the North Star |
1940-08-17 |
David E Price, (Rep-D-North Carolina) |
1940-11-25 |
Joe Gibbs, Mocksville North Carolina, American football coach (Washington Redskins) |
1941-02-13 |
Bo Svenson, Goteborg Sweden, actor (North Dallas 40, Walking Tall) |
1941-03-16 |
Roy North, The Basil Brush Show |
1941-04-26 |
Birgit Hutter, North Face |
1941-10-15 |
Ingemo Engström, Flight North |
1942-01-21 |
Mac Davis, Lubbock, Texas, American country music singer-songwriter, actor (Mac Davis Show, North Dallas 40) |
1942-02-01 |
Terry Jones, Colwyn Bay North Wales, comedian (Monty Python) |
1942-02-16 |
Kim Jong-il, Supreme Leader of North Korea (1994-2011) [disputed birthdate, 1941] |
1942-06-10 |
Gordon Burns, North West Tonight |
1942-07-12 |
Richard Stoltzman, Nanook of the North |
1942-08-23 |
Peter Gent, North Dallas Forty |
1942-09-04 |
raymond floyd, Fort Bragg North Carolina, American golfer (four-time Major winner) |
1942-9-29 |
Bill Nelson, The Last Frontier/North Korea/The Wrong Man |
1943-06-16 |
Jukka Salomaa, Here, Beneath the North Star |
1943-06-29 |
Little Eva (Eva Boyd), Belhaven, North Carolina, American pop singer (Locomotion) |
1943-10-02 |
Henri Szeps, Travelling North |
1943-10-07 |
Oliver L North, US colonel (Irangate) |
1943-10-07 |
Oliver North, Post No Bills |
1944-02-23 |
Dick Fuchs, The North Avenue Irregulars |
1945-01-04 |
Vesa-Matti Loiri, Road North |
1945-01-27 |
Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, North Irish peace activist (Nobel 1976) |
1945-02-22 |
Oliver, North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, American pop singer (Good Morning Starshine, Jean) |
1945-03-28 |
Pat Mooney, The North Remembers |
1945-08-26 |
Melvin Watt, (Rep-D-North Carolina) |
1946-03-21 |
Timothy Dalton, North Wales, actor (James Bond-Living Daylights) |
1946-04-24 |
Virginia North, On Her Majesty's Secret Service |
1946-06-03 |
Penelope Wilton [Penelope Alice], Scarborough, North Yorkshire, English actress (Cry Freedom, Norman Conquests) |
1946-12-14 |
Jackie McCauley, North Ireland, rock pianist (Them Coleraine) |
1946-9-18 |
Akira Kamiya, Fist of the North Star |
1947-06-16 |
Leena Uotila, Road North |
1947-06-16 |
Buronson, Fist of the North Star |
1947-08-06 |
Pertti Mutanen, Under the North Star |
1947-11-24 |
Dave Sinclair, English musician (Caravan, Hatfield and the North) |
1948-02-12 |
Kurt Peterson, North Country |
1948-03-12 |
Kent Conrad, (Sen-D North Dakota) |
1948-05-15 |
Billy North, Game 4 |
1948-09-24 |
Gordon Clapp, North Conway NH, actor (Greg Medavoy-NYPD Blue) |
1948-11-03 |
Michael Lloyd, The North Avenue Irregulars |
1949-04-14 |
John Shea, North Conway NH, actor (Honeymoon, New Life, Lois & Clark) |
1949-07-11 |
Noelle North, Carrie |
1949-10-09 |
Martin Imhof, North Dallas Forty |
1950-02-27 |
Sara Maitland, Far North |
1950-03-23 |
Michael F. Easley, The 2005 North Carolina Inaugural Gala |
1950-04-22 |
Lewis Biggs, curator (Tate Gallery-North Liverpool) |
1950-05-20 |
Alan Zweibel, North |
1950-07-04 |
Theo Baltz, North Face |
1950-08-30 |
Antony Gormley, London England, British sculptor (Angel of the North) |
1950-10-18 |
Robert D. North, Men Don't Leave |
1950-12-13 |
Heather North, Pasadena California, actress (Barefoot Executive) |
1950-12-13 |
Heather North, Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire |
1950-9-16 |
David Bellamy, North Country |
1951-08-03 |
Jay North, Zebra in the Kitchen |
1951-9-19 |
Erwin Steinhauer, North Face |
1951-9-26 |
Nancy Dolman, Martin Short: Concert for the North Americas |
1952-02-25 |
Christian Kolonovits, North Face |
1952-03-12 |
Tommy Reamon, North Dallas Forty |
1952-07-24 |
Michele Turner, North Dallas Forty |
1952-08-03 |
Jay North, North Hollywood California, actor (Dennis the Menace, Maya) |
1952-09-02 |
Earl Pomeroy, (Rep-D-North Dakota) |
1952-9-20 |
Mitchell Group, North |
1953-04-26 |
Doug France, North Dallas Forty |
1953-08-23 |
Louie Kelcher, North Dallas Forty |
1954-07-10 |
Neil Tennant, North Shields, Tyne-and-Wear, English singer/songwriter (Pet Shop Boy-West End Girl) |
1954-09-07 |
Corbin Bernsen, North Hollywood California, actor (Arnie Becker-LA Law) |
1955-02-22 |
Tim Young, Scarborough, Ontario, Canadian ice hockey player (Minnesota North Stars) |
1955-10-07 |
Danny J. Bunz, North Dallas Forty |
1955-10-07 |
James StJames, North Dallas Forty |
1956-01-03 |
Tomiko Suzuki, Fist of the North Star |
1956-05-17 |
Sugar Ray [Charles] Leonard, Rocky Mount North Carolina, boxer (Olympics-gold-76) |
1956-9-12 |
Sam Brownback, The Last Frontier/North Korea/The Wrong Man |
1957-02-16 |
Kevin R. Young, North and South |
1957-03-13 |
John Hoeven, American politician, governor of North Dakota |
1957-05-11 |
Peter North, New Wave Hookers |
1957-05-31 |
Jim Craig, North Easton Mass, hockey goalie (oly-gold-1980) |
1957-11-29 |
Charles Grant, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, American actor (Evan Frame-Another World, Bold & Beautiful) |
1957-12-07 |
Winifred Robinson, North West Tonight |
1958-03-06 |
Igor Czerniawski, South by North |
1958-03-11 |
Ritva Jalonen, Under the North Star |
1958-04-11 |
Brynn Hartman, North |
1958-06-09 |
Thomas Chan, Fist of the North Star |
1958-06-20 |
Teiyû Ichiryûsai, Fist of the North Star |
1958-11-16 |
Marg Helgenberger, North Bend Nebraska, actress (China Beach) |
1959-02-13 |
Yuriko Yamamoto, Fist of the North Star |
1959-07-01 |
Phyllis Cicero, Finding North |
1960-02-08 |
Dino Ciccarelli, Sarnia Ontario, NHL right wing (Minnesota North Stars, Washington Capitals) |
1960-04-06 |
Warren Haynes, Asheville, North Carolina, rock and blues guitarist (The Allman Brothers Band) |
1960-04-14 |
Katelijne Damen, North Sea Texas |
1960-10-24 |
Steve Fish, North & South |
1960-12-03 |
Julianne Moore, Fayetteville North Carolina, American actress (Magnolia, The Kids are Alright) |
1960-12-11 |
Marilyn Moyer, North of 60 |
1961-02-27 |
James Worthy, Gastonia North Carolina, NBA small forward (LA Lakers, 1988 Playoff MVP) |
1961-03-05 |
Arisa Andô, Fist of the North Star |
1961-06-29 |
Sharon Lawrence [Sharon Elizabeth], Charlotte, North Carolina, American actress (NYPD Blue, Fired Up) |
1961-9-02 |
Tetsuo Hara, Fist of the North Star |
1962-01-06 |
Michael Houser, Boone North Carolina, American guitarist (Widespread Panic) |
1962-05-16 |
Jacek Januszyk, South by North |
1962-07-08 |
Rob Burnett, North Caldwell NJ, head writer (David Letterman) |
1962-08-15 |
Takashi Ukaji, Fist of the North Star: New Saviour Legend |
1962-08-19 |
Cam North, The Cabin in the Woods |
1962-08-22 |
Marie Laurie Mahabir, Guadeloupe, North American Bodybuilding Champ (1985-87) |
1964-03-20 |
Marc Rainsford North, |
1964-08-12 |
Teo Mammucari, Witches to the North |
1964-9-17 |
Jukka-Pekka Siili, Once Upon a Time in the North |
1965-04-10 |
Tim Alexander, Cherry Point, North Carolina, American funk metal drummer (Primus-Prok soda) |
1965-08-02 |
Irina Pulkka, Road North |
1965-12-30 |
Lukasz Karwowski, South by North |
1965-9-13 |
Brian Wilson, 51 Degrees North |
1966-01-25 |
John [Vo] Velyvis, North Adams Mass, rower (Olympics-1996) |
1966-03-12 |
Alecia Stephenson, North Vancouver BC, softball ss (Olympics-96) |
1966-05-23 |
Gary Roberts, North York, NHL left wing (Calgary Flames) |
1966-07-04 |
Boris Schönfelder, North Face |
1966-07-13 |
Myong Hui Choe, North Korea, gymnist (Olympic-1980) |
1966-08-29 |
Victor Zaidi, North Sea Texas |
1967-08-13 |
Richard Matthews, 31 North 62 East |
1967-11-01 |
Michael Seitzman, North Country |
1967-11-23 |
Diane O'Grady, North Bay Ontario, rower (Olympics-96) |
1967-12-24 |
Rupert Henning, North Face |
1968-04-07 |
Don[ald] Smith, North Tonawanda NY, rower (Olympics-5th-1996) |
1968-05-13 |
Annette DeLuca, North Bergen NJ, LPGA golfer |
1968-11-11 |
Gary Pillai, Far North |
1969-01-10 |
Thomas Hunt, The 2005 North Carolina Inaugural Gala |
1969-02-06 |
Christopher North, Bible Quiz |
1969-04-03 |
David Morland, North Bay Ont, golfer (1992 Trafalgar Rookie of Year) |
1969-07-31 |
Kelly D. Lewis, Finding North |
1969-11-12 |
Iain Sydie, North York Ontario, badminton player (Olympics-96) |
1969-11-12 |
Matt North, Dirty Pictures |
1970-08-06 |
Lucie Ayala, North Beach |
1970-10-31 |
Nolan North, General Hospital |
1970-11-04 |
Corey Schwab, North Battleford Canada, NHL goalie (NJ Devils) |
1970-12-10 |
Susan Jarrett, The North Londoner |
1970-12-13 |
Elizabeth Patricia Reilly, North Providence RI, Miss America-RI (1996) |
1970-9-01 |
Akimitsu Takase, New Fist of the North Star |
1971-06-13 |
Lauri Marie Gapp, Miss USA-North Dakota (1997) |
1971-07-06 |
Owen Lance Bill Hughes, Palmerston North NZ, kayaker (Olympics-96) |
1971-09-15 |
Crystal McLaurin-Coney, Miss USA-North Carolina (1997) |
1971-11-30 |
Ray Durham, Charlotte, North Carolina, American MLB infielder (Chicago White Sox) |
1971-12-27 |
Kent North, Communion |
1972-01-06 |
Catherine Campion, North Country |
1972-03-04 |
Pae Gil-Su, North Korean gymnast |
1972-04-09 |
Tiffany Love, North Pole #32 |
1972-07-03 |
Leigh Andrew-Pearso, North Vancouver BC Canada, 470 yachter (Oly-96) |
1972-08-25 |
Amy Zimmerman, Finding North |
1972-10-11 |
Kyoko Ina, Tokyo Japan, figure skater (1993 North Atlantic Sr champ) |
1972-12-05 |
Dayna Lynne North, Three Lucky Ladies on the Line |
1972-12-29 |
Jessica Lee McMinn, Miss North Carolina USA (1996) |
1973-04-25 |
Paige Gordon, North Vancouver BC, diver (Olympics-16-92, 96) |
1973-05-05 |
Zach Curtis, Further North |
1973-05-29 |
Jason Dawe, North York, NHL left wing (Buffalo Sabres) |
1973-06-01 |
Heidi Klum, Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, German supermodel |
1973-07-31 |
Chandra North, American supermodel |
1973-07-31 |
Chandra North, 1998 VH1 Fashion Awards |
1973-08-29 |
Derek Meister, Bermuda Triangle North Sea |
1974-01-05 |
Iwan Thomas, North East England |
1974-04-01 |
Andrey Sokolov, To the South of North |
1974-06-26 |
Fiona Pears, 31 North 62 East |
1974-08-03 |
Dave Brock, The Road Virus Heads North |
1974-12-05 |
Misty, North Pole #11 |
1975-01-22 |
Lee Maxwell Francis Vertongen, Palmerston North NZ, cyclist (Oly-96) |
1975-02-20 |
Yves Verbraeken, North Sea Texas |
1975-06-16 |
Heather Peace, 31 North 62 East |
1975-09-11 |
Juliette Spier, Miss North Dakota USA (1996) |
1976-04-20 |
Brian Martin, North Carolina Legends |
1976-05-20 |
Tuukka Huttunen, Under the North Star |
1976-12-25 |
Ross Sevrance, North Pole #68 |
1977-01-24 |
Kris Janssens, North Sea Texas |
1977-06-12 |
Diamond 4 Ever, North Pole #19 |
1977-10-22 |
Katrina Bergstrom, Miss North Dakota Teen USA (1996) |
1977-11-13 |
Tammy Leigh Ashton, Miss North Carolina Teen USA (1996) |
1977-9-01 |
Eva van der Gucht, North Sea Texas |
1978-02-03 |
Jake McGee, On the North Coast |
1978-02-27 |
Scott Summerton, North Shore Stories |
1978-11-19 |
Layla Summers, Mr. North |
1978-12-31 |
Chance Romero, North Country |
1979-02-13 |
Julie Nagle, Miss North Dakota Teen USA (1997) |
1979-03-22 |
Aaron North, American musician |
1979-04-06 |
Ali Burr, Miss North Carolina Teen USA (1997) |
1979-04-13 |
Molly Rome, North Pole #22 |
1979-05-23 |
JB Reynolds, North Starr |
1979-08-09 |
Alizah Allen, NYC NY, figure skater (1997 North Atlantic Sr champ) |
1980-01-15 |
Jessie Winn, North and South |
1980-10-23 |
Dwight Bazemore, The North Star |
1980-10-27 |
Holly Beck, Boarding House: North Shore |
1980-12-08 |
Veronica Kay, Boarding House: North Shore |
1980-12-29 |
Ariah, North Pole #17 |
1980-9-27 |
Zac Hutton, North Hollywood Shoot Out |
1981-03-23 |
Jennifer Steffin, North and South, Book II |
1981-06-11 |
Robert M. Neilson, South of No North |
1981-07-28 |
Cole Williams, North Country |
1981-11-16 |
Hye-mi Lee, North Korean Guys |
1981-12-30 |
Brooke Stone, North Pole #35 |
1982-01-06 |
Heather Oaks, North Pole #38 |
1982-02-15 |
Danny Fuller, The Arena: North Shore |
1982-06-22 |
Sanguita Akkrum, Carmen of the North |
1982-06-24 |
Sarah Mirabelli, 99 North |
1982-10-11 |
Julie Ryan, North Pole #26 |
1982-12-24 |
Chris Goulder, 31 North 62 East |
1982-9-11 |
Johannes Jonsson, 66°23 North West, the Day of the Avalanche |
1983-02-14 |
Shi Reeves, North Pole #109 |
1983-06-21 |
Jussie Smollett, North |
1983-10-15 |
Chelsea Georgeson, Boarding House: North Shore |
1983-12-16 |
Juha-Petteri Kulmala, Under the North Star |
1984-11-28 |
Kia Winston, North Pole #47 |
1985-06-26 |
Mounira Hadj Mansour, Carmen of the North |
1985-07-31 |
Jessica Van Vliet, Up North |
1985-9-03 |
Chris Hocking, One Flu North |
1985-9-23 |
Hayley Jade, North Pole #93 |
1986-03-03 |
Xavier Morin-Lefort, North Station |
1987-05-25 |
Alan Gomez, The North Kingdom |
1988-05-20 |
Jewel Styles, North Pole #80 |
1988-07-21 |
Chris Spanswick, Runes in the North |
1989-05-09 |
Billie North, It'll Be Dark Soon |
1990-12-04 |
Lauren Peters, When North Winds Blow |
1990-9-05 |
Emma Carr, 31 North 62 East |
1991-04-20 |
Thomas Curtis, North Country |
1992-03-16 |
Josie Nelder, 31 North 62 East |
1994-10-31 |
Clovis Asong, North East England |
1995-03-05 |
Nina North, Lesbian Oil Orgy |
1995-9-22 |
Jelle Florizoone, North Sea Texas |
1996-07-30 |
Austin North, The Pilot |
1999-04-07 |
Elle Peterson, North Country |
2013-06-15 |
North West, Kim's Journey to the Altar |
North - Notable Weddings
North - Weddings
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1756-08-14 |
Frontiersman Daniel Boone (21) weds Rebecca Bryan (17) in Yadkin River, North Carolina |
1795-11-25 |
US President William Henry Harrison (22) weds Anna Symmes (20) in North Bend, Ohio |
1906-03-14 |
Film director D. W. Griffith (31) weds Linda Arvidson (21) at Old North Church in Boston, Massachusetts |
1910-12-31 |
Editor Maxwell Perkins (26) weds Louise Saunders at Holy Cross Episcopal Church in North Plainfield, New Jersey |
1927-10-15 |
Writer Graham Greene (23) weds Vivien Dayrell-Browning at St. Mary's Church in Hampstead, North London |
1934-02-10 |
British born actor "North by Northwest" Cary Grant (30) weds "City Lights" actress Virginia Cherrill (26) |
1937-09-17 |
Economist John Kenneth Galbraith (29) weds author Catherine Atwater (24) at the Reformed Church of North Hempstead in New York |
1949-10-01 |
Television host and comedian Johnny Carson (23) weds Joan Morrill Wolcott (23) at the North Platte Episcopalian Church |
1965-08-26 |
Mobster and nbi informant Henry Hill (22) weds Karen Friedman in North Carolina |
1971-03-04 |
Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau (51) weds author/actress Margaret Joan Sinclair (23) at a private ceremony in North Vancouver, Canada |
1991-12-21 |
Actress Jane Fonda (55) weds CNN founder Ted Turner at the groom's home in north Florida |
1998-05-03 |
"Jekyll & Hyde" lead singer Linda Eder (37) weds composer Frank Wildhorn (38) at their new 8-acre estate in North Salem, New York |
1998-11-28 |
Actor and martial arts expert Chuck Norris (58) weds former model Gena O'Kelley (30) at The North Church in Carrolton, Texas |
2000-08-03 |
British PM Gordon Brown (49) weds Sarah Jane Macaulay (36) in North Queensferry, Fife |
2001-11-10 |
"Four Weddings and A Funeral" actress Andie MacDowell (43) weds businessman Rhett Hartzog (42) at Central United Methodist Church in Asheville, North Carolina |
2005-06-18 |
"Queens Park Rangers" football striker Djibril Cisse (23) weds Jude Littler at Bodelwyddan Castle in Denbighshire, North Wales |
2005-08-23 |
Olympic gold medalist swimmer Pieter van den Hoogenband (27) weds fellow Olympic swimmer Minouche Smit at Henkenshage Castle in Sint-Oedenrode, North Brabant, The Netherlands |
2007-02-24 |
Former world champion track and field athlete Marion Jones (31) weds Olympic bronze medalist Obadele Thompson (30) at the Union Hill African Methodist Episcopal Church in Wilson's Mills, North Carolina |
2007-09-03 |
Oscar winning actor Ben Kingsley (63) weds Brazilian actress Daniela Lavender (33) in North Leigh, Oxfordshire |
2011-10-22 |
Former US Senator John Edwards's daughter Cate Edwards (29) weds Trevor Upham (30) in Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
2012-12-04 |
"Teen Mom 2" star Jenelle Evans (21) weds Courtland Rogers (26) at a courthouse in Brunswick County, North Carolina |
North - Notable Deaths
North - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
430-08-28 |
Augustine of Hippo, North African saint and theologian (Belijdenissen), dies at 75 |
1283-10-03 |
Dafydd ap Gruffyd, last monarch of Gwynnedd (North-Wales), dies |
1510-05-25 |
Georges d'Amboise, French cardinal/viceroy in North Italy, dies at 49 |
1583-03-04 |
Bernard Gilpin, English clergyman, "Apostle of the North" (b. 1517) |
1673-06-18 |
Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler and founder of the first hospital in North America, dies at 66 |
1691-12-31 |
Dudley North, English economist (b. 1641) |
1714-02-24 |
Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (b. 1637) |
1734-03-01 |
Roger North, English biographer (b. 1653) |
1778-08-04 |
Pierre de Rigaud, French colonial governor in North America (b. 1698) |
1792-08-05 |
Frederick 7th baron North, English premier (1770-82), dies at 60 |
1801-03-28 |
Ralph Abercromby, English army commander (North Holland), dies at 66 |
1813-02-13 |
Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina (b. 1725) |
1815-04-21 |
Joseph Winston, U.S. Congressman from North Carolina (b. 1746) |
1832-02-01 |
Archibald Murphey, North Carolina politician (b. 1777) |
1858-06-17 |
Rani Lakshmibai, queen of Jhansi in North India, one of the leading figures of the Indian rebellion of 1857 (b. 1828) |
1881-10-31 |
George Washington De Long, American Arctic Explorer, dies during his disastrous expedition to the North Pole at 37 |
1888-01-30 |
Asa Gray, US botanist (Flora of North America), dies at 77 |
1891-01-08 |
Fredrik Pacius, Here, Beneath the North Star |
1920-02-20 |
Robert E Peary, US pole explorer (North Pole, 6/4/1909), dies at 63 |
1923-04-09 |
Maurits Binger, A Carmen of the North |
1928-06-07 |
Chiang Tsolin, Chinese warlord of North-China, murdered |
1935-06-03 |
Wilfrid North, Mrs. Dane's Danger |
1938-07-02 |
Lau Lauritzen, People of the North Sea |
1940-08-05 |
Frederick A Cook, US, explorer (North Pole), dies at 75 |
1942-12-24 |
Jean Darlan, At the Front in North Africa with the U.S. Army |
1943-10-25 |
H van Zanten, guerrilla leader on North Sumatra, executed |
1944-01-23 |
Jack Walters, Headin' North |
1945-01-08 |
Joseph North, The Fightin' Actor |
1945-08-19 |
Mrs. Wilfrid North, Meet John Doe |
1948-02-28 |
Camila Quiroga, North Wind |
1950-07-06 |
Guy Gilpatric, Action in the North Atlantic |
1951-06-12 |
Waldemar Maes, People of the North Sea |
1951-07-23 |
Robert J. Flaherty, Nanook of the North |
1953-03-24 |
Mary, queen of Great-Britain/North-Ireland, dies at 85 |
1954-02-11 |
Adolph M. Christianson, justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court (b. 1877) |
1954-03-25 |
Walter L. Griffin, Nomads of the North |
1954-07-13 |
Roger James Manning, Brawn of the North |
1955-03-09 |
Matthew A Henson, met Peary on 6/4/1909 at North Pole, dies at 88 |
1956-02-15 |
Freeman Wood, The Frozen North |
1956-10-26 |
Walter Gieseking, True and Tender Is the North |
1957-02-06 |
A. North, Shoulder Arms |
1959-03-02 |
William A. Horning, North by Northwest |
1959-07-29 |
Barrett Willoughby, Spawn of the North |
1960-01-17 |
Sid Cassel, Rebellion in the North |
1960-06-17 |
Pierre Reverdy, French author/poet (North-South), dies at 70 |
1960-11-05 |
Johnny Horton, North to Alaska |
1961-10-04 |
Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Orthodox missionary and writer, Exarch of Russian Church in North America (b. 1880) |
1961-11-06 |
Michio Ito, Spawn of the North |
1962-01-13 |
Ernie Kovacs, North to Alaska |
1963-06-12 |
Andrew Cunningham, At the Front in North Africa with the U.S. Army |
1967-05-23 |
Philip Coolidge, North by Northwest |
1969-09-03 |
Ho Chi Minh [Nguyễn Sinh Cung], Vietnamese communist revolutionary and President of North Vietnam (1946-69), dies at 79 of heart failure |
1972-02-02 |
Jessie Royce Landis, actress (North by Northwest), dies at 67 |
1976-08-13 |
Robert North, In Old California |
1978-06-25 |
Hussein al-Ghasjmi, president of North-Yemen, murdered |
1978-06-26 |
Carl Deloro, Riders of the North |
1979-10-06 |
Elizabeth Bishop, poetess (North & South, Pulitzer 1956), dies at 68 |
1980-01-17 |
Barbara Britton, actress (Pamela-Mr & Mrs North), dies at 59 |
1980-06-20 |
Howard Voss, North by Northwest |
1981-02-27 |
Charles Wallace, North by Northwest |
1981-03-28 |
Tom Hadley, North by Northwest |
1982-06-19 |
Richard Lockridge, Mr. and Mrs. North |
1982-09-13 |
Philip Ober, North by Northwest |
1982-10-14 |
Richard Ung, Spawn of the North |
1982-12-14 |
Howard Hohler, Emperor of the North |
1983-09-16 |
Henry Grace, North by Northwest |
1983-10-02 |
Henry Ringling North, The Greatest Show on Earth |
1984-04-03 |
James V. King, North by Northwest |
1984-04-17 |
Mark W. Clark, At the Front in North Africa with the U.S. Army |
1984-07-27 |
James Mason, North by Northwest |
1984-08-03 |
Ygnacio Sepulveda, Emperor of the North |
1985-01-02 |
Moses Josiah Madiba, South African author and first African chancellor of the University of the North, dies at 76 |
1985-06-04 |
John Ringling North, The Greatest Show on Earth |
1985-10-16 |
Franklin Milton, North by Northwest |
1986-06-11 |
Amos Burg, Giants of the North |
1986-11-26 |
Robert Saunders, North by Northwest |
1986-11-29 |
Cary Grant, North by Northwest |
1988-02-17 |
Junji Chiba, Fist of the North Star |
1988-07-21 |
Lee LeBlanc, North by Northwest |
1988-10-08 |
Ernst Hermann Meyer, North Sea |
1988-10-10 |
Urban Thielmann, North to Alaska |
1988-12-16 |
Dorothy Bradshaw, Death Goes North |
1989-01-21 |
Field Marshal Lord Harding, The Desert: North Africa - 1940-1943 |
1990-02-13 |
Ken Lynch, North by Northwest |
1990-08-28 |
Edmund H. North, Patton |
1991-04-19 |
Harry Kress, North by Northwest |
1991-05-11 |
Ho Dam, foreign minister North-Korea (1970-83), dies |
1991-09-08 |
Alex North, music composer (Spartacus), dies at 80 of cancer |
1991-09-08 |
Alex North, Spartacus |
1992-01-04 |
William Walker, The North Star |
1992-01-11 |
Heikki Aaltoila, Here, Beneath the North Star |
1992-04-21 |
Väinö Linna, Here, Beneath the North Star |
1992-10-05 |
Paul Acket, organizer (Music Express, North Sea Jazz Festival), dies |
1993-02-08 |
Douglas Heyes, North and South |
1993-02-16 |
Peter Pohlenz, The North Star |
1993-03-19 |
Barend P Tammeling, journalist (Trouw, Peek on the North), dies at 58 |
1993-10-02 |
Henry Ringling North, circus owner (Ringling Bros Circus), dies at 83 |
1993-12-09 |
Danny Blanchflower, North Ireland soccer/union coach, dies at 67 |
1994-07-08 |
Kim Il Sung, president of North-Korea (1948-94), dies at 82 |
1994-07-20 |
Kim II Sung, pres of North-Korea (1948-94), buried |
1994-11-14 |
Ferdinand J Kranenburg, director of queen (North Holland), dies at 83 |
1994-12-09 |
Kim II Sung, pres of North Korea (1945-94), dies at 82 |
1997-05-28 |
Sydney Guilaroff, North by Northwest |
1998-05-28 |
Brynn Hartman, North |
1998-06-04 |
Josephine Hutchinson, North by Northwest |
1999-09-22 |
John Edward Weems, Peary's Race for the North Pole |
1999-10-03 |
Risto Taulo, Here, Beneath the North Star |
1999-11-01 |
Jean Coutu, Nikki, Wild Dog of the North |
2000-01-19 |
Alan North, Guiding Light |
2001-01-15 |
John Mulqueeney, Mr. North |
2002-02-14 |
Nina Draxten, Far North |
2002-08-14 |
Sherle North, An Angel Comes to Brooklyn |
2003-01-24 |
Tommy Thompson, Far North |
2003-07-07 |
Tomiko Suzuki, Fist of the North Star |
2003-12-19 |
Les Tremayne, North by Northwest |
2004-06-05 |
Virginia North, On Her Majesty's Secret Service |
2005-07-02 |
Ernest Lehman, North by Northwest |
2005-10-24 |
Howard Cashion, North by Northwest |
2005-11-04 |
Sheree North, American actress and singer (b. 1932) |
2005-11-04 |
Sheree North, The Shootist |
2005-12-26 |
Jack North, Halloween 5 |
2006-09-30 |
Josh Graves, Finding North |
2006-12-04 |
Adam Williams, North by Northwest |
2007-01-02 |
Paek Nam-sun, North Korean Foreign Affairs minister (b. 1929) |
2007-01-03 |
Sir Cecil Walker, Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for North Belfast 1983-2001 (b. 1924) |
2007-03-07 |
Neil North, Billy Elliot |
2007-03-09 |
Jeanne Hopkins Lucas, North Carolina politician (b. unknown) |
2007-07-04 |
Kent North, Communion |
2007-07-27 |
William Tuttle, North by Northwest |
2007-10-08 |
Bob Coe, North by Northwest |
2008-06-21 |
Nora Thomas, Games of the North |
2008-09-21 |
Don Haldane, Nikki, Wild Dog of the North |
2009-01-23 |
Robert W. Scott, American politician, governor of North Carolina (b. 1929) |
2009-01-24 |
Kay Yow, North Carolina State Univ. women's basketball head coach (b. 1942) |
2009-06-15 |
Allan King, Silence of the North |
2009-07-22 |
Susumu Takaku, Fist of the North Star |
2010-04-08 |
Pamela Archer, North Hollywood Shoot Out |
2010-06-21 |
Cam North, The Butterfly Effect |
2010-07-06 |
John North, Paper Lion |
2010-08-21 |
Nancy Dolman, Martin Short: Concert for the North Americas |
2010-10-10 |
Hwang Jang-Yop, Inside North Korea |
2010-10-28 |
Robert Ellenstein, North by Northwest |
2010-11-06 |
Jo Myong-Rok, North Korean military official (b. 1928) |
2010-11-15 |
Tetsurô Hoshino, Tora-san Goes North |
2010-12-06 |
Marion Meadows, Viking Visitors to North America |
2011-09-30 |
Peter Gent, North Dallas Forty |
2011-12-17 |
Kim Jong-il, supreme leader of North Korea (DPRK) 1994-2011, dies of a suspected heart attack at 70 |
2012-05-07 |
Kevin R. Young, North and South |
2012-09-02 |
Marilyn Moyer, North of 60 |
2012-12-18 |
Marcus Worsley, British Lord-Lieutenant of North Yorkshire, dies at 87 |
2014-03-16 |
Charles Scherza, Mr. North |
2014-05-01 |
Albert Fay Hill, The North Avenue Irregulars |
2015-01-15 |
Chikao Ohtsuka, Fist of the North Star |
2015-12-08 |
Douglas Tompkins, 72, North Face Founder, Dies in Kayaking Accident |
2016-10-18 |
North Melbourne legend 'Twinkle Toes' Laurie Dwyer dies aged 77 |
2017-06-20 |
US student Otto Warmbier, who was freed by North Korea, dies aged 22 |
2017-12-12 |
Charles Jenkins, US soldier who defected to North Korea, dies aged 77 |
2017-12-20 |
'Scooby-Doo' voice actress Heather North dies, aged 71 |
2018-03-10 |
Former North Dakota Gov. George Sinner dies at age 89 |
