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2013 Event - Former Mayor of New York City, Ed Koch, dies in Manhattan of congestive heart failure at age 88

2012 Event - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announces the cancellation of the New York City Marathon due to the damage and devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy

2012 Event - The governing Worker's Party takes control of Brazil's financial capital and largest city when Fernando Haddad is elected mayor of Sao Paulo

2012 Event - The Chicago Teachers Union leadership votes to suspend the strike; teachers go back to school as union members review a tentative pact with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel

2012 Event - Dallas, Texas Mayor Mike Rawlings declares a state of emergency after an outbreak of West Nile Virus kills at least 17 people; the city plans to combat the mosquitoes with aerial spraying of pyrethroid insecticides

2012 Event - Archeologist excavating the Templo Mayor, one of the Aztec's main temples in their capital city of Tenochtitlan (now Mexico city), make an unprecedented find - the skeleton of a young woman inside a burial, surrounded by piles of 1,789 human bones

2011 Event - Financial disputes lead New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to report that the National September 11 Museum will not open on time

2011 Event - Jacques Chirac, former President of France, is declared guilty of embezzlement and violating trust for filling non-existent jobs with party members while serving as Mayor of Paris

2011 Event - After losing a referendum on free school lunches, Seoul's mayor, Oh Se-hoon, resigns

2011 Event - Florida's Miami-Dade County Mayor, Carlos Alvarez, and County commissioner Natacha Seijas are ousted in recall elections

2010 Event - The first black mayor of a town in the former Eastern Bloc of Europe, Peter Bossman, becomes Mayor of Piran, Slovenia

2010 Event - Naheed Nenshi, the first Muslim in Canada's history is elected mayor of Calgary in Alberta, Canada

2010 Event - Thousands of Kyrgyzstani's rally in response to rumors that Osh's mayor was fired by Kyrgyzstan's interim government

2010 Event - Santiago, Nuevo Leon's mayor, Edelmiro Cavazos is found dead, handcuffed and blindfolded after being abducted Sunday night

2010 Event - Japan's Mayor Tomihisa Taue appeals to eliminate nuclear weapons at the 65th anniversary commemoration of the 1945 bombing of Nagasaki

2003 Death - Maynard Jackson, lawyer/mayor, first black mayor of Atlanta, dies at 65

1998 Death - Tom Bradley, mayor, first black mayor of LA, dies at 80

1997 Death - Coleman Young, 1st black mayor of a major city (Detroit)

1997 Death - Peng Zhen, mayor of Beijing China (1951-66), dies

1996 Death - Amschel Mayor James Rothschild, banker, joined family banking firm N M Rothschild & Sons, chief executive of Rothschild Asset Management dies

1996 Death - Carl Stokes, 1st black mayor of a major U.S. city, Cleveland, dies

1996 Event - New York City Mayor Guiliani visits Israel

1995 Death - John Erik Jonsson, businessman/Mayor of Dallas, dies at 93

1995 Event - 1st New York City Mayor Trophy's High school track meet in 19 years

1994 Event - Ben Mokoena becomes 1st black mayor of Middelburg South Africa

1994 Death - Tawfik Ziad, Palestinian communist/Israeli MP/mayor of Nazareth, dies

1994 Death - John Slot, mayor of Eethen/Hardenberg/Ede, dies

1994 Death - Gustaaf AWC baron van Hemert Dingshof, mayor of Maarn, dies at 78

1994 Event - Freddy Thielemans sworn in as mayor of Brussels Belgium

1994 Event - Schelto Patijn appointed mayor of Amsterdam

1994 Death - Sorrell Brooke, actor (Mayor Hogg-Dukes of Hazzard), dies at 64

1994 Death - Louis R J Ridder van Rappard, Dutch mayor of Zoelen, dies at 87

1993 Death - Wu Yi Shen, mayor of Shen Yang China, dies in helicopter

1993 Event - Ehud Olmert elected mayor of Jerusalem

1993 Event - Rudolph Guliani (R) elected 107th mayor of New York City

1993 Death - Heinrich Albertz, theologist/mayor of Berlin (1966-67), dies at 78

1993 Death - Andreas J A I Bruggeman, Dutch mayor (Leiderdorp), dies at 62

1993 Event - Former Washington D.C. Mayor Marion Barry divorces his wife Effi

1992 Death - Giulio C Argan, Italian art critic/mayor of Rome, dies

1992 Death - Antoon J Hubben, mayor of Maasbree/President KVM/Unie BLHP, dies at 73

1992 Death - Ruurd Faber, mayor of Aalten (1971-75), dies at 79

1992 Death - Otto FAH van Nispen, mayor of Pannerden/MP (KVP), dies at 85

1992 Event - Marion Berry, former mayor of Washington D.C., let out of prison

1992 Event - Game 2 of Mayor Challenge - New York Yankees sweep New York Mets 6-5 at Shea

1992 Event - Game 1 of Mayor Challenge - New York Yankees beat New York Mets 6-4 at Yank Stad

1992 Death - Salvo Lima, mayor (Palermo)/MP (chr-dem), murdered

1991 Event - New York City Mayor Dinkins declares "Joseph Doherty Week"

1991 Death - Robert Wagner, mayor (NYC-D-1954-65), dies

1990 Event - Washington D.C. mayor Marion Barry announces he will not seek a 4th term,

1990 Event - Washington D.C., Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting

1990 Event - David Dinkins sworn in as 1st black mayor of New York City

1989 Event - David Dinkins elected 1st black mayor of New York City

1989 Event - New York City elects it's 1st black mayor (Dinkins) and female comp (Holtzman)

1989 Event - Yankees beat Mets 4-0, sweeping 1989 mayor's trophy series in 2 games

1988 Event - Mayor Koch says he plans to wipe out street-corner windshield washers

1988 Event - Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992

1988 Event - Sonny Bono elected mayor of Palm Springs California

1988 Event - New York City Mayor Koch calls Reagan a "WIMP" in the war on drugs

1987 Event - Chicago City Council elects Eugene Sawyer acting mayor

1987 Death - Harold Washington, 1st black mayor of Chicago (D, 1983-87), dies at 65

1986 Event - Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel, California

1986 Death - Zafer Masri, mayor of Nablus, murdered

1984 Death - Lou Crosby, TV announcer (Mayor of Hollywood), dies at 72

1984 Event - Wilson Goode, sworn-in as Philadelphia's 1st black mayor

1983 Event - Jose Happart installed as mayor of Voeren Belgium

1983 Event - W Wilson Goode (D) elected 1st black mayor of Philadelphia

1983 Death - Walter O'Keefe, songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood), dies at 82

1983 Event - Harold Washington sworn in as Chicago's 1st black mayor

1983 Event - Harold Washington elected 1st black mayor of Chicago

1983 Event - Harold Washington becomes Chicago's 1st black mayor

1983 Event - Jose Happart becomes mayor of Voeren Belgium

1982 Event - New York City Mayor Koch announces he will run for New York governor (unsuccessful)

1982 Event - Hanneke Jelgersma installed as Netherlands 1st Communist mayor

1981 Event - Edward M McIntrye elected 1st black mayor of Augusta Georgia

1981 Event - Andrew Young, former United Nations Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia

1981 Event - New York Mayor Ed Koch is given Heimlich maneuver in a Chinese restaurant

1981 Event - New York City mayor Koch turns down a $7,500 offer to perform comedy

1981 Event - 16th and final Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yankees 4-1, hold 8-7-1 edge

1981 Event - Henry Cisneros becomes 1st Mexican-American mayor (San Antonio)

1981 Event - Jochem Bird elected mayor of West Berlin

1979 Event - Richard Arrington elected mayor of Birmingham

1979 Event - Dan White convicted of manslaughter death of San Francisco mayor Moscone

1979 Event - 15th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees and Mets tie 1-1

1979 Event - Jane Byrne, elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago, Illinois

1978 Event - Dianne Feinstein is named San Francisco 1st female mayor

1978 Death - George Moscone, (SF Mayor), shot by Dan White

1978 Event - 1st black mayor of New Orleans (Ernest Morial) inaugurated

1978 Event - 14th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees beat Mets 4-3 in 11

1977 Event - Ernest N. Morial elected mayor of New Orleans

1977 Event - New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest "Dutch" Morial

1977 Event - 13th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yankees 6-4

1977 Event - Wim Polak becomes mayor of Amsterdam

1977 Death - Gijsbert van Hall, banker/mayor of Amsterdam (1957-67), dies at 73

1977 Event - Parisians elect former Prime Minister Jacques Chirac as 1st mayor in a century

1977 Event - Henry L. Marsh III elected mayor of Richmond

1976 Event - 12th Mayor's Trophy Game Yankees beat Mets 8-4

1975 Event - 11th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees beat Mets 9-4

1974 Event - Walter E. Washington, becomes 1st elected mayor of Washington D.C.

1974 Event - Andre van de Louw appointed mayor of Rotterdam

1974 Event - 10th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees beat Mets 9-4

1973 Event - Abe Beame eleceted 1st Jewish mayor on New York City

1973 Event - Coleman Young elected mayor of Detroit

1973 Event - Maynard Jackson elected 1st black mayor of Atlanta

1973 Event - Thomas Bradley elected 1st black mayor of Los Angeles, California

1973 Event - 9th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yankees 8-4

1973 Death - Henry J Elias, Flemish historian/mayor of Gent, dies at 70

1972 Event - 8th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees beat Mets 2-1

1972 Event - New York City Mayor John Lindsey appeals that John Lennon not be deported

1971 Event - Mayor declares state of emergency in Columbus Ga, racial disturbance

1970 Event - Kenneth A. Gibson elected mayor of Newark, New Jersey

1969 Birthday - Pedro Astacio, Hato Mayor, Dominican Republic, pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers

1969 Event - 7th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yankees 7-6

1968 Death - Pieter J Auld, mayor of Rotterdam (1945-52), dies at 81

1968 Event - Jarry Park is approved by Mayor Jean Drapeau for interim use by Expos

1968 Event - 6th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yankees 4-3

1967 Death - Arnold J d'ailly, mayor of Amsterdam (1946-56), dies at 65

1967 Event - Carl B. Stokes elected 1st black mayor of a major city-Cleveland, Ohio

1967 Event - Richard G. Hatcher elected mayor of Gary, Indiana

1967 Birthday - Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco

1967 Event - Walter Washington elected 1st mayor of Washington, D.C.

1967 Event - Izaak Samkalden becomes mayor of Amsterdam

1967 Event - 5th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yankees 4-0

1967 Event - Gijsbert van Hall resigns as mayor of Amsterdam

1966 Event - 4th Mayor's Trophy Game; Yankees beat Mets 5-2

1965 Event - 3rd Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yankees 2-1 in 10

1964 Event - 2nd Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees beat Mets 6-4

1964 Event - Mayor Daley declares "Ernie Banks Day" in Chicago

1964 Birthday - Boris Johnson, New York City, New York, politician, journalist, Mayor of London, formerly served as a Member of Parliament for Henley-on-Thames

1964 Event - Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr., announces a baseball team is moving there

1963 Event - 1st Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yankees 6-2

1963 Death - Kornelis ter Laan, 1st Dutch socialist mayor (Zaandam), dies at 91

1962 Death - Jasper McLevy, socialist mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut, dies

1961 Death - French of Cauwelaert, Flemish minister/mayor of Antwerp, dies at 81

1961 Death - Susanna M. Salter, 1st U.S. female mayor/temperance leader, dies at 101

1959 Death - Gershon Agron, mayor of Jerusalem, dies at 66

1958 Event - New York City Mayor Robert Wagner announces plans to begin a new baseball called the Continental League

1958 Death - Hendrik Heyman, Belgian minister of Nijverheid/mayor, dies at 78

1957 Event - NY Mayor Robert Wagner forms a committee to replace Dodgers and Giants

1957 Event - Willy Brandt elected mayor of West Berlin

1957 Event - New York City Mayor Robert Wagner says he plans to confer with the Giants and Dodgers about the proposed move to the west coast

1957 Event - Gijsbert of Hall appointed mayor of Amsterdam

1956 Event - New York Mayor Robert Wagner and Brooklyn Boro President Frank Cashmore sponsor a bill to create a $30M Brooklyn Sports Center Authority to build

1956 Event - Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking

1955 Birthday - Amschel Mayor James Rothschild, born in Paris, France, banker, joined family banking firm N M Rothschild & Sons, chief executive of Rothschild Asset Management

1954 Birthday - Janet Maw, actress, Sparrow, King John, Mayor of Casterbridge

1953 Birthday - Tom Barrett, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, politician, Democratic party, 38th Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin

1953 Event - Baltimore Mayor D'Alesandro buys Veeck's interest in Browns for $2,475,000

1953 Event - Future New York City mayor David Dinkins marries Joyce Burrows in New York City

1951 Birthday - Jan Franssen, born in Hilversum, North Holland, politician, Dutch liberal political party, in 2006, named Queen's Commissioner in South Holland, previously served as city councilor, Nederhorst den Berg, President, House of Representatives 1982 - 1994, mayor of Zwolle, 1994 - 2000

1950 Event - Mayor of Brussels reluctantly bans May Day parade

1950 Birthday - Donna Hanover Giuliani, TV news anchor, WPIX, wife of Mayor Giuliani

1947 Event - Earnest Reuter becomes mayor of Berlin

1947 Event - Trial against WW II mayor of Amsterdam Edward Vonte begins

1946 Event - Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in San Francisco history)

1946 Birthday - Maureen O'Connor, Mayor, San Diego

1946 Event - NSB mayor of Rotterdam, Netherlands, FE Muller sentence to 100 years in jail

1945 Death - Karl F Goerdeler, mayor (Leipzig)/"July 20th plot", hanged at 60

1944 Death - Arthur J Treadwell, English mayor of Stoke Newington, dies at about 71

1943 Birthday - M A M "Thos" Woltgens, Mayor, Kerkrade, Netherlands

1943 Event - Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens city's new subway system

1943 Birthday - Elmer R. Wilsoe, Island mayor, Curacao

1939 Death - Philipp Scheidemann, German MP (SPD)/mayor of Kassel, dies at 74

1939 Death - Alfred R Zimmerman, mayor of Rotterdam (1906-22), dies

1938 Event - Mayor Oud of Rotterdam forbids soccer match between Netherlands-Germany

1938 Birthday - Alexander Graham, Lord Mayor of London

1938 Birthday - Anthony Joliffe, mayor of London

1938 Event - New York City Mayor LaGuardia assigns 21 cops to patrol subway

1937 Death - Prosper Poullet, Belgian mayor, dies

1936 Event - Barbara Hanley became Canada's 1st woman mayor (Webbwood, Ontario)

1934 Birthday - Bob Martinez, born in America, served as Mayor of Tampa, Florida and 40th Governor of Florida, initiated Preservation 2000, America's largest environmental land acquisition program, appointed Drug Czar by President George H.W. Bush

1934 Birthday - Hugh Bidwell, mayor, London

1934 Birthday - Ed van Thijn, Jewish, Dutch Foreign Minister/mayor, Amsterdam, 1983-94

1934 Birthday - Jane Byrne, born in Chicago, Illinois, first female Mayor of Chicago, Illinois 1979 - 1983, served as head of consumer affairs

1934 Birthday - Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Barcelona Spain, UNESCO director, 1987-

1933 Birthday - Dianne Feinstein, born in San Francisco, California, 1st female mayor of San Francisco, Senator-D-California 1992 -

1933 Birthday - Johnny Grant, unofficial mayor of Hollywood

1933 Birthday - Unita Blackwell, 1st black mayor in Mississippi

1933 Birthday - Heiko Wierenga, Dutch soc-dem mayor of Enschede, 1977-94

1933 Death - Anton J Cermak, U.S. mayor of Chicago, murdered

1932 Event - John P O'Brien sworn-in as mayor of New York City

1932 Event - New York City Mayor James J "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigns (graft charges)

1932 Death - Samuel Rutherford, lawyer, politician, businessman, jurist, Mayor of Forsyth, Georgia, served in Georgia House of Representatives, elected to 69th U.S. Congress, served for four terms, dies of a heart attack in Washington, D.C.

1932 Event - Jacob Cocey Sr chosen as mayor of Massillon Ohio

1931 Birthday - Carrie Saxon Perry, 1st black mayor of a major U.S. city, Hartford CT

1931 Birthday - Stanley Brock, Brooklyn, actor, Ivan-He's the Mayor

1931 Birthday - Johannes Gruijters, Dutch mayor, D66-Lelystad

1931 Birthday - John Chalstrey, alderman/Lord Mayor, London

1930 Birthday - Andreas JAI Bruggeman, Dutch mayor, Schipluiden/Leiderdorp

1930 Birthday - Clint Eastwood, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Dirty Harry, mayor, Carmel, California

1929 Event - SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system

1926 Event - Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle

1925 Birthday - Al Fann, Cleveland, actor, Alvin-He's the Mayor

1922 Event - Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium

1922 Birthday - Harold Washington, 1st black mayor of Chicago, D, 1983-87

1920 Birthday - Jerry Maren, actor, munchkin-Wizard of Oz, Mayor McCheese

1919 Birthday - Antoon J. Hubben, Dutch mayor and trade union leader

1918 Death - Albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author/mayor/painter, dies at 83

1916 Birthday - Jean Drapeau, mayor of Montreal, 1954-

1915 Event - SF City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph

1914 Death - Gijsbert van Tienhoven, mayor (Amsterdam)/foreign minister, dies at 73

1914 Event - Germans arrest A Max, mayor of Brussels

1914 Death - Eugene Odene, French mayor of Senlis, executed

1914 Event - Klaas ter Laan becomes Netherlands 1st socialist mayor (Zaandam)

1913 Birthday - Jan Slot, Dutch mayor, Eethen/Hardenberg/Ede

1912 Birthday - Ruurd Faber, mayor of Aalten, 1971-75

1912 Birthday - Izaak Samkalden, Dutch Minister of Justice, PvdA, mayor of Amsterdam

1910 Event - New York City Mayor Wm J Gaynor seriously wounded during assassination attempt

1910 Death - Karl Lueger, Austrian anti-semite/mayor of Vienna, dies at 65

1909 Birthday - Gilbert Inglefield, Mayor of London, 1967-68

1908 Event - Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council and announces that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles"

1907 Birthday - Otto F A H van Nispen, Dutch mayor, Pannerden, MP, KVP

1906 Death - Leon Vanderkindere, Belgian historian/mayor of Ukkel, dies at 64

1906 Death - Jan van Rijswijck, Flemish journalist/mayor of Antwerp, dies

1906 Birthday - Louis RJ Ridder van Rappard, Dutch mayor, Zoelen

1906 Event - Shields/Cobbs musical "His honor, the Mayor," premieres in New York City

1906 Birthday - Abraham Beame, Mayor-D-NYC, New York City's 1st Jewish mayor

1905 Birthday - Ralph Perring, Lord Mayor, London

1904 Birthday - Gijsbert van Hall, banker/mayor of Amsterdam, 1957-67

1902 Birthday - Arnold J d'Ailly, dir, Nederlandsche Bank, mayor, Amsterdam, 1946-56

1901 Birthday - John Erik Jonsson, businessman/Mayor of Dallas

1900 Birthday - Walter O'Keefe, Hartford, Connecticut, songwriter/TV host, Mayor of Hollywood

1892 Birthday - Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian author/mayor of Palmeira

1887 Event - Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st U.S. woman mayor (Argonia, Kansas)

1886 Birthday - Pieter J Old, lawyer/minister of Finance/mayor of Rotterdam, 1945-52

1886 Event - M A Maclean elected 1st mayor of Vancouver, BC

1885 Death - General Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel, mayor (Elzas-Lothar'n), dies

1884 Birthday - Karl F Goerdeler, mayor, Leipzig, "July 20th Plot"

1882 Birthday - W C Wendelaar, mayor of Alkmaar, 1919-34, Dutch MP, VVD

1880 Birthday - French van Cauwelaert, Flemish minister/mayor of Antwerp

1879 Birthday - Hendrik Heyman, Belgian minister of Noverheid/mayor

1876 Birthday - Baron Joseph van de Meulebroeck, mayor, Brussels, Belgium

1871 Birthday - Kornelis ter Laan, 1st Dutch socialist mayor, Zaandam

1870 Event - Mayor William Tweed accused of robbing New York treasury

1870 Birthday - Samuel Rutherford, born in Culloden, Georgia, lawyer, politician, businessman, jurist, Mayor of Forsyth, Georgia, served in Georgia House of Representatives, elected to 69th U.S. Congress, served for four terms

1869 Birthday - James, Sunny Jim, Rolph, San Francisco mayor, 1912-31, MUNI backer

1869 Birthday - Alfred R Zimmerman, mayor, Rotterdam 1906 - 1922, Dir, League of Nations

1868 Birthday - Bertha Landes, 1st woman elected mayor of a major U.S. city, Seattle

1868 Event - Major General E R S Canby removes mayor of Columbia SC

1865 Birthday - Philipp Scheidemann, German Parliament, SPD, mayor of Kassel

1861 Event - New York City mayor proposes New York become a free city, trading with N and S

1860 Birthday - Susanna M. Salter, 1st U.S. female mayor and temperance leader

1853 Birthday - Jan van Rijswijck, Flemish journalist/mayor, Antwerp

1850 Event - John Geary becomes 1st San Francisco mayor

1846 Event - W A Bartlett appointed 1st U.S. mayor of Yerba Buena (SF)

1844 Birthday - Karl Lueger, anti semitic mayor of Vienna

1842 Birthday - Leon Vanderkindere, Belgian historian/mayor, Ukkel

1841 Birthday - Bert van Tienhoven, mayor, Amsterdam, foreign minister

1841 Birthday - Gijsbert van Tienhoven, Dutch mayor, Amsterdam, foreign minister

1836 Birthday - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, 1st woman mayor in England, Aldeburgh

1835 Birthday - Albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author/mayor/painter

1834 Event - Toronto incorporated with William Lyon Mackenzie as its 1st mayor

1830 Birthday - Adolph Sutro, San Francisco mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels

1830 Death - Charles G G, Earl of Merode, mayor (Brussels), dies at 67

1824 Death - Rhijnvis Feith, Dutch mayor/writer (Zwolle, Julia), dies at 71

1823 Death - Cornelis van Foreest, Dutch mayor (Alkmaar), dies at 66

1822 Event - John Phillips becomes 1st mayor of Boston

1819 Birthday - John Geary, 1st San Francisco postmaster, 1st mayor, May 1, 1850

1808 Event - Mayor Wolters offers French king Louis Napoleon townhall as a palace

1798 Birthday - Benjamin Lee, Baronet Guinness, Irish brewer/Dublin mayor

1762 Birthday - Charles G G, earl of Merode/mayor of Brussels/French senator

1756 Birthday - Cornelis van Foreest, mayor of Alkmaar

1755 Death - Caspar Burman, historian/mayor (Utrecht), dies

1753 Birthday - Rhijnvis Feith, Dutch mayor/writer, Zwolle/Thirsa

1741 Birthday - Theodor Gotlieb von Hippel, East Prussian author/mayor of Koningsberg

1722 Event - Willem K. H. Friso appointed mayor of Drente

1718 Death - Francois Fagel, Dutch field marshal/mayor of Nimegen, dies at 63

1717 Death - Nicolaas Witsen, etcher/mayor (Amsterdam), dies

1705 Death - Willem Roukens, mayor (Nimegen ort Nimeguen), beheaded

1704 Death - John Hudde, 21x mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 76

1696 Event - State of Drenthe accredits Willem III as mayor

1695 Birthday - Caspar Burman, born in Utrecht, Netherlands, historian and mayor

1693 Death - Coenraad van Beuningen, mayor of Amsterdam/diplomat, dies at 71

1680 Death - Gillis Valckenier, mayor of Amsterdam (1665..80), dies at about 57

1678 Death - Andries de Graeff, mayor of Amsterdam (1657..71), dies at 67

1674 Death - Claes P "Nicolas" Tulip, mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 80

1674 Death - Jacob de Witt, Dutch mayor (Dordrecht)/MP, dies at 84

1654 Death - Cornelis Bicker, merchant/mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 61

1652 Death - Vredius, Olivier de Wree, Flem historian/mayor (Brugge), dies at 55

1651 Death - Jan III van Foreest, Dutch lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn, dies

1641 Birthday - Nicolaas Witsen, etcher/mayor, Amsterdam

1638 Death - Jacob C van Neck, admiral/mayor of Amsterdam, dies at about 73

1635 Death - Philips de l'Espinoy, historian/mayor of Ghent, dies

1632 Death - Ernst Casimir, count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Friesland, dies at 58

1618 Birthday - Jan Six, Dutch mayor of Amsterdam

1612 Birthday - Hendrik Casimir I, count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Frisia

1611 Birthday - Andries de Graeff, mayor of Amsterdam, 1657..71

1603 Death - Pieter Adriaansz van der Werff, mayor of Lead, dies at 73

1597 Death - Pieter J Kies, Dutch mayor of Haarlem (1572-73), dies at about 66

1596 Birthday - Vredius, Olivier de Wree, Flemish historian/poet/mayor

1595 Death - Reynier Cant, mayor of Amsterdam, dies at about 59

1595 Death - Ferdinand, archduke of Austria/mayor of Bohemenia, dies

1593 Birthday - Claes P "Nicolaas" Tulip, anatomy/mayor of Amsterdam, 1654..71

1589 Birthday - Jacob de Witt, Dutch mayor, Dordrecht, mathematician

1586 Birthday - Jan III van Foreest, lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn

1580 Death - Jacob Hillebrand, Dutch mayor of Groningen, dies

1573 Birthday - Ernst Casimir, count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Frisia/Groningen

1573 Death - Antonie van Burgundy, mayor of sealand, dies in battle

1568 Death - Antoon van Stralen, Flemish mayor of Antwerp, beheaded at about 47

1551 Death - Joachim Vadianus, Swiss physician/mayor of Sankt Gallen, dies at 66

1529 Birthday - Ferdinand, archduke, Austria, mayor, Bohemia

1522 Death - Martin Siebenburger, mayor of Vienna, beheaded

1489 Death - Hans Waldmann, Swiss military/mayor (Zurich), beheaded

1484 Birthday - Joachim Vadianus, von Watt, Swiss physician/mayor of Sankt Gallen

1338 Event - Jacob of Arteveld elected mayor of Ghent

1315 Death - Jean I of Chalon-Arlay, mayor of Neuchatel, dies

1030 Death - Mohammud van Ghazna, Turkish mayor (G'widen)/Islamic ruler, dies













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