2015 Event Beck wins Album of the Year and Sam Smith wins both Song and Record of the Year at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards, while 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' wins five awards and 'Boyhood' wins best film at the 68th BAFTA Awards 1988 Event Ice Dance Championship at Budapest won by Bestemianova and Bukin (URS) 1988 Event Ice Pairs Championship at Budapest won by E Valova and O Vasiliev (URS) 1988 Event Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Budapest won by Katarina Witt (GDR) 1988 Event Men's Figure Skating Champions in Budapest won by Brian Boitano (USA) 1987 Event "Les Miserables," opens at Rock Theatre, Vigzinhaz Budapest 1976 Birthday Tamas Buday, Jr., Budapest Hungary, Canadian canoeist 1996 Olympics 1974 Birthday Atilla Buday, born in Budapest, Hungary, Canadian canoeist 1996 Olympics 1971 Event Budapest in 1956 to escape treason charges, ends exile and flies to Rome 1967 Birthday Tamas Darnyi, born in Budapest, Hungary, backstroke swimmer, 5 Gold Medals 1988, 1992 Olympics 1966 Birthday Andrea Temesvari, born in Budapest, Hungary, tennis star, 1985 U.S. Clay Courts 1964 Birthday Klari MacAskill, Budapest Hungary, kayaker, Olympics-5-92, 96 1957 Event Trial begins in Budapest against participants october uprising 1956 Event 200,000 Russian troops attack anti-Stalinist revolt in Budapest 1956 Event U.S.S.R. sends tanks into Hungary and threatens to bomb Budapest 1956 Birthday Ava Cadell, born in Budapest, Hungary, actress, Do or Die 1953 Birthday Andras Schiff, Budapest Hungary, pianist, Tchaikovsky-1974 1952 Birthday Zoltan Kocsis, born in Budapest, Hungary, composer, pianist, conductor, musical director, Hungarian National Philharmonic 1951 Birthday La Cicciolina, Ilona Staller, Budapest Hungary, Italian MP 1949 Birthday Tommy Ramone, Thomas Erdelyi, Budapest, rock drummer, Ramones 1945 Event Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WW II 1945 Event U.S.S.R. captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000 die 1944 Event Budapest surrounded by soviet army 1944 Death Hannah Senesh, Jewish poet, executed by Nazis in Budapest 1944 Birthday Erno Rubik, born in Budapest, inventor, Rubik's cube 1943 Birthday Anna Gael, Gyarmarthy, Budapest Hungary, Lady Weymouth 1943 Birthday Zoltan Jeney, born in Szolnok, Hungary, composer, minimalist style, studied with Ferenc Farkas in Budapest, Goffredo Petrassi, in Rome 1930 Birthday Lazar Berman, Leningrad Russia, pianist, Budapest 3rd place-1956 1929 Birthday Istvan Kertesz, Budapest Hungary, conductor, Budapest Opera 1953-57 1929 Birthday Eva Bartok, Budapest Hungary, actress, Assassin, Crimson Pirate 1924 Birthday Janos Starker, born in Budapest, Hungary, cellist, Chicago Symphony 1953 - 1958 1921 Birthday Eva Gabor, born in Budapest, Hungary, actress, Lisa-Green Acres, Gigi 1919 Event Admiral Horthy conquerors Budapest from Bela Kuns Soviet Republic 1919 Event Romanian forces destroys Bela Kun Republic in Budapest 1918 Event Franz Lehars opera "Wo die Lerche singt," premieres in Budapest 1917 Birthday Zsa Zsa Gabor, born in Budapest, actress, Queen of Outer Space 1914 Birthday Magda Gabor, born in Budapest, Hungary, actress, People vs Zsa Zsa Gabor 1914 Birthday George Tabori, born in Budapest, Gyorgy Tabori, writer, theater director, worked for BBC in London, moved to United States, became screenwriter, translated works by Bertolt Brecht, Max Frisch 1912 Event Ferenc Moln rs "Farkas," premieres in Budapest 1912 Birthday Georg Solti, Budapest Hungary, conductor, Fidelio 1912 Birthday Gyorgy Sandor, Budapest Hungary, pianist, L'Apprenti Sorcier 1912 Birthday Eric Feldary, born in Budapest, Hungary, actor, 16 Fathoms Deep 1910 Event Ferenc Moln rs "Tester," premieres in Budapest 1910 Birthday Ilona Massey, born in Budapest, Hungary, actress and singer, Ilona Massey Show 1908 Birthday Alexander Schneider, Vilna Lith, violinist, Budapest String Quartet 1908 Birthday Edward Teller, born in Budapest, Hungary, fathered H-bomb, Manhattan Project 1907 Birthday Gyorgy Ranki, Budapest Hungary, composer, Hoemberek 1907 Birthday Ida Turay, Budapest, actress, Deryne, Ida Regenye 1907 Birthday Ilona Schacherer Elek, born in Budapest, Hungary, fencer, Gold Medal Olympics 1936, 1948 1907 Birthday Miklos Rozsa, born in Budapest, Hungary, movie composer, Atomic Cafe, Fedora 1907 Birthday Janos Ferencsik, Budapest Hungary, conductor, Budapest Opera 1906 Birthday Lili Darvas, born in Budapest, Hungary, actress, Szerelem, Cimmaron 1906 Birthday Antal Dorati, born in Budapest, Hungary, conductor, Dresden Opera 1928-29 1905 Birthday Matyas Seiber, Budapest, Hungary, composer, Scherzando 1905 Birthday Lili Krus, born in Budapest Hungary, pianist, Austrian Cross of Honor 1978 1904 Birthday Paul Arma, born in Budapest, born Weisshaus Imre, pianist, composer, ethnomusicologist, studied under Bela Bartok, piano soloist with Radio Paris 1903 Birthday Erwin Nyiregyhazi, Budapest Hungary, pianist 1901 Birthday Paul Henry Lang, Budapest, critic/musicologist, New York Herald Tribune 1901 Event Anti semitic riot in Budapest 1901 Birthday Stefan Lorant, born in Budapest, Hungary, writer, Hungarian-American filmmaker, photojournalist, made fourteen films in Vienna and Berlin, opposed to Adolph Hitler, imprisoned, wrote memoir 'I was Hitler's Prisoner' 1900 Birthday Charles Vidor, born in Budapest, Hungary, direct, Rhapsody, Gilda, Cover Girl 1900 Birthday Ferenc Kormendy, Hungarian/US author, Budapest Kaland 1899 Birthday Eugene Ormandy, Blau, Budapest Hungary, conductor, Philadelphia Orchestra 1899 Birthday Hans Swarowsky, Budapest Hungary, conductor, Graz Opera 1947-50 1899 Birthday Georg von Bekesy, born in Budapest, Hungary, physician, Nobel-1961 1898 Birthday Vilma Banky, Budapest Hungary, silent screen actress, Eagle, Rebel 1897 Birthday George Szell, born in Budapest, Hungary, conductor, Metropolitan 1942-45 1895 Birthday Paul Lukas, Budapest Hungary, actor, Watch on the Rhine, Sphynx 1894 Birthday Tibor Dery, born in Budapest, Hungary, writer, wrote satire on Hungarian communist regime, primary work, 'The Unfinished Sentence' 1894 Birthday Andre Kertesz, born in Budapest, Hungary, Hungarian photographer and photojournalist 1894 Birthday Paul Horbiger, born in Budapest, Hungary, actor, Liebelei 1892 Birthday Joseph Szigeti, Budapest Hungary, violinist, Violinist Notebook 1933 1888 Birthday Fritz Reiner, Budapest Hungary, U.S. conductor, Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1884 Birthday S. Z. Sakall, Budapest Hungary, actor, Dolly Sisters, Casablanca 1874 Birthday Harry Houdini, Budapest, magician/escape artist 1787 Event Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups
