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01-05-2008, 09:40 PM
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1349 Margaretha of Bavaria names her son Willem V Earl of Holland/Zealand 1438 Pope Eugenius IV deallocated council of Basel to Ferrara 1463 French poet François Villon banished from Paris 1477 Battle at Nancy, Burgundy vs Switzerland, 7000+ killed 1500 Duke Ludovico Sforza's troops reconquer Milan 1531 Pope Clemens VII forbids English king Henry VIII to re-marry 1554 Great fire in Eindhoven Netherlands 1593 William Louis of Nassau becomes Governor/Viceroy of Drenthe 1638 Petition in Recife Brazil leads to closing of their 2 synagogues 1649 Francesco Cavalli's opera "Giasone" premieres in Venice 1675 Battle at Turkheim (Colmar) French army beats Brandenburg 1709 Sudden extreme cold kills 1000s of Europeans 1717 Prussian King Frederik Willem I buys conscript for nobles 1719 England/Hannover/Saxony-Poland/Austria sign anti-Prussian/Russian pact 1757 Failed assassination attempt on French king Louis XV by Damiens 1776 Assembly of New Hampshire adopts its 1st state constitution 1781 British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond VA 1800 1st Swedenborgian temple in US holds 1st service, Baltimore MD 1804 Ohio legislature passes 1st laws restricting free blacks movement 1809 Treaty of Dardanelles concluded between Britain & France 1822 Central America proclaims annexation to Mexican Empire 1825 Alexandre Dumas pare fights his 1st duel; his pants fall down 1828 1st edition of Amsterdam General Trade Journal (Algemeen Handelsblad) 1834 Kiowa Indians record this as the night the stars fell 1836 Davy Crockett arrives in Texas, just in time for the Alamo 1840 Records show 95,820 licensed public houses in England on this date 1841 James Clark Ross (UK) is 1st to enter pack ice near Ross Ice Shelf 1850 California Exchange opens 1854 Steamship San Francisco wrecked-300 die 1859 1st steamboat sails, Red River 1861 Alabama troops seize Forts Morgan & Gaines at Mobile Bay 1861 250 Federal troops are sent from New York to Fort Sumter 1875 President Grant sends federal troops to Vicksburg MS 1875 Charles Garnier's new Opera opens in Paris 1887 1st US school of librarianship opens at Columbia University 1888 Dutch Heidemaatschappij established 1892 1st successful auroral photograph made 1895 French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later declared innocent 1895 Henry James' play "Guy Domville" opens in London 1895 Victor Trumper makes first-class debut for New South Wales 17 years 64 days 1896 Austrian newspaper "Wiener Presse" publishes 1st public account of 1896 German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen's discovers x-rays 1896 Isaac Albeniz' opera "Pepita Jiminez" premieres in Barcelona 1899 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure-Charles Augustus Milverton (BG) 1903 San Francisco-Hawaii telegraph cable opens for public use 1904 -34ºF (-36.7ºC), River Vale NJ (state record) 1904 -42ºF (-41.1ºC), Smethport PA (state record) 1904 England beat Australia at the MCG, Rhodes 7-56 & 8-68 1905 Charles Perrine announces discovery of Jupiter's 7th satellite, Elara 1905 National Association of Audubon Society incorporates 1909 Colombia recognizes Panamá's independence 1911 San Francisco has it's 1st air meet 1911 Portuguese expel Jesuits 1912 1st National Hockey Assn game (Victoria) 1914 James Cox of Ford Motor Co announces wages will jump from $2.40/9-hour day to $5.00/8-hour day 1916 Austria-Hungary offensive against Montenegro 1918 British premier Lloyd George demand for unified peace 1919 National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party 1919 Spartacus uprising in Berlin state of siege 1920 Boston Red Sox sell Babe Ruth to New York Yankees 1925 Nellie Taylor Ross became Governor of Wyoming, 1st woman governor in USA 1925 Under Polish control, Danzig establishes Port Gdansk post office 1925 French Baseball Federation awards silver medals to John McGraw, Charlie Comiskey, & Hugh Jennings 1925 James Gleason & Richard Tabers "Is zat so?" premieres in New York City NY 1927 Fox Studios exhibits Movietone 1927 Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago & Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox 1929 Coup by King Alexander in South Slavia 1930 Mao Tse-tung writes "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire" 1931 1st woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League 1933 Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side 1934 Fenway Park catches fire for 2nd time (May 8th 1926 also) 1934 National & American baseball leagues select a uniform ball 1937 Only unicameral state legislature in US opens 1st session (Nebraska) 1937 Fingleton & Bradman make record stand of 346 for 6th wicket 1940 FCC hears 1st transmission of FM radio with clear, static-free signal 1940 Finnish offensive at Suomossalmi against Russia 1941 British/Australian troops conquer Bardia Lybia 1942 55 German tanks reach North-Africa 1943 William H Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigns to protest segregation in armed forces 1943 Teams agrees to start season later due to WWII 1945 Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Bros cartoon "Odor-able Kitty" 1945 Surprise attack on Liese-Aktion-office on Marnix St, Amsterdam 1946 "Show Boat" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City NY for 417 performances 1949 President Harry S Truman labels his administration the "Fair Deal" 1949 General Spoor orders cease-fire on Sumatra 1950 Carson McCuller's "Member of the Wedding" premieres in New York City NY 1951 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Ponte Vedra Beach Women's Golf Open 1952 Flying Enterprise sinks 1953 Passenger ships Willem Ruys & Orange collide in the Red Sea 1953 Samuel Beckett's "En Attendant Godot" premieres in Paris 1955 KMSP TV channel 9 in Minneapolis-St Paul MN (IND) 1st broadcast 1956 Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel" 1957 Dodgers' Jackie Robinson retires rather than be traded to New York Giants 1957 Eisenhower asks Congress to send troops to the Mid East 1959 "Bozo the Clown" live children's show premieres on TV 1959 Buddy Holly releases his last record "It Doesn't Matter" 1960 Continental League, a proposed third major league, gets an assurance of congressional support from New York Senator Kenneth Keating 1961 US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba 1962 Tony Sheridan & Beatles produce "My Bonnie" & "The Saints" 1963 San Diego beats Boston 51-10 in AFL championship game 1963 "Camelot" closes at Majestic Theater New York City NY after 873 performances 1963 "Carnival!" closes at Imperial Theater New York City NY after 719 performances 1964 Pope Paul VI visits Jordan & Israel 1964 San Diego Chargers win AFL-championship 1967 KLXA (now KTBN) TV channel 40 in Fontana-San Ana CA (IND) begins 1968 Dr Benjamin Spock indicted for conspiring to violate draft law 1968 Dubcek succeeds President Novotny as party leader of Czechoslovakia 1969 Neville Williams' "Chronology of the Expanding World" completed 1969 USSR Venera 5 launched for 1st successful planet landing (Venus) 1969 "Maggie Flynn" closes at ANTA Theater New York City NY after 82 performances 1969 Bollingen prize for poetry presented to John Berryman & Karl Shapiro 1970 Soap Opera "All My Children" premieres on ABC 1970 23,000 Belgian mine workers strike 1970 KPTS TV channel 8 in Hutchinson-Wichita KS (PBS) begins broadcasting 1971 Harlem Globetrotters lose 100-99 to New Jersey Reds, ending 2,495-game win streak 1971 1st one-day international, Australia vs England at the MCG 1971 US heavyweight "Sonny" Liston's (36) corpse found 1972 Largest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavaliers vs Lakers-11,178) 1972 NASA announces development of space shuttle 1972 New York City NY transit fare rises from 30¢ to 35¢ 1972 President Nixon signs a bill for NASA to begin research on manned shuttle 1972 West-Pakistani sheik Mujib ur-Rahman freed 1973 Mali & Niger break diplomatic relations with Israel 1973 Netherlands recognizes German Democratic Republic 1974 Raul Julia appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Oh, Brother" 1975 14 die when British freighter "Lake Illawarra" rams pylon bridge between Derwent & Hobart, Tasmania & ship sinks 1975 Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days 1975 "Wiz" opens at Majestic Theater New York City NY for 1672 performances 1975 Charlie Smalls' "Wiz" premieres in New York City NY 1976 "MacNeil-Lehrer Report" premieres on PBS 1976 Cambodia is renamed "Democratic Kampuchea" 1976 Greg Chappell scores 182* at SCG against West Indies 1977 Kenya President Jomo Kenyatta disbands parliament 1981 "Nightline" with Ted Koppel extended from 20 minutes to 30 minutes 1981 Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, arrested in England 1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women 1982 Arkansas judge rules against obligatory teaching of creation 1984 Adrian Dantly (Utah), ties NBA record of 28 free throws 1984 Greg Chappell scores 182* in his last Test innings 1985 Bryan Trottier failed on 9th Islander penalty shot 1985 Discovery moves to launch pad for STS 51-C mission 1987 Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack NJ 1988 Austrian President Waldheim's war record investigated 1989 2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test 1989 Baseball signs $400M with ESPN, showing 175 games in 1990 1990 J Donald Crump appointed 8th Commissioner of CFL 1991 "Oh, Kay!" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City NY after 77 performances 1991 Edwin Jongejans of Netherlands wins 1-meter springboard diving title 1991 Kevin Bradshaw of US International scores NCAA Division 1 record 72 points 1992 "6 Degrees of Separation" closes at Vivian Beaumont New York City NY after 496 performances 1992 "Crucible" closes at Belasco Theater New York City NY after 32 performances 1992 "On Borrowed Time" closes at Circle in Square Theater New York City NY after 99 performances 1992 "Peter Pan" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City NY after 48 performances 1992 Ravi Shastri scores 206 at SCG before being Warne's 1st cricket Test wicket 1993 Brian Lara completes 277 vs Australia at cricket SCG 1993 Price is Right model Janice Pennington sues CBS for show accident 1993 Reggie Jackson elected to Hall of Fame 1994 Aleksandr Popov swims world record 100m free style (47.82) 1994 Yat Weiju swims world record 100m butterfly stroke (58.71) 1995 AFC beats NFC 41-13 in the pro bowl 1995 Lockheed C-140 Jetstar crashes at Isfahan Persia, 18 killed 1996 Miami Dolphin coach Don Shula announces his retirement 1996 Muralitharan no-balled for throwing in ODI vs West Indies at the Gabba 1997 "Juan Darien-Carnival Mass" closes at Vivian Beaumont New York City NY 1997 "Love Thy Neighbor" closes at Booth Theater New York City NY 1997 "Show Boat" closes at Gershwin Theater New York City NY 1998 Ice storm knocks out electricity in Québec & Ontario 1998 Vandals decapitate Copenhagen's Little Mermaid |
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01-06-2008, 02:12 PM
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1066 King Harald of England crowned 1099 Henry V crowned German king 1227 Ferrand of Portugal freed from the Louvre 1352 French king Jean II introduces Order of the Star 1453 Emperor Frederik III becomes archduke of Austria 1496 Moorish fortress Alhambra, near Grenada, surrenders to the Christi 1497 Jews are expelled from Graz (Syria) 1535 City of Lima Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro 1540 King Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves 1579 Artois/Hainault/Dowaai sign pro-Spanish Union of Arras 1622 Pope Gregory XV forms Congregatio the Propagande Fide 1639 Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed 1663 Great earthquake in New England 1681 1st recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher) 1690 Emperor Leopold's son Jozef chosen Roman Catholic king 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws to Glasgow 1759 George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Curtis 1773 Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom 1781 Battle of Jersey (Island in the UK) 1784 Turkey & Russia sign treaty in Constantinople 1832 New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston) 1838 Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph 1839 2 day storm off Irish & English coast immortalized as "The Big Wind" 1842 4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India 1857 Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Pennsylvania 1861 New York City NY mayor proposes New York become a free city, trading with N & S 1861 Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola 1873 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the Church in Armenia" 1873 US Congress begins investigating Crédit Mobilier scandal 1880 Record snow cover in Seattle-120cm 1883 Ontario Rugby Football Union forms 1893 Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast 1896 1st US women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden 1896 Cecil Rhodes resigns as premier of Cape colony 1898 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake 1900 Boers attack at Ladysmith, about 1,000 killed or injured 1900 Maurice Ravel's "Albaradode Gracioso" premieres in Paris 1903 Dutch Press museum opens in Amsterdam 1906 Maurice Ravel's "Miroirs" premieres in Paris 1907 Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome) 1912 New Mexico becomes 47th state 1914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded 1922 Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments 1924 Poulenc/Nijinska's ballet "Les Biches" premieres in Monte Carlo 1925 Paavo Nurmi, sets indoor record, 4 13.6 mile & 14 44.6 5,000m 1926 Kees Boeke opens 1st comprehensive school in Holland 1927 US marines sent to Nicaragua 1928 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Mortalium animos (against oecumene) 1929 Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia 1930 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed 1930 Bradman scores 452* for New South Wales against Queensland, 377 minutes, 49 fours 1936 Barbara Hanley became Canada's 1st woman mayor (Webbwood, Ontario) 1937 Bradman scores 270 Australia vs England at the MCG, including 110 singles 1938 Bronze memorial statue of Henry Hudson erected in the Bronx 1941 FDR's "4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want & from fear) 1942 1st around world flight (Pan Am "Pacific Clipper") 1942 Bob Feller, enlists in Navy & reports for duty to Norfolk Virginia 1945 Future President George Bush marries Barbara Pierce in Rye NY 1946 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Quemadmodum 1947 Ray Lindwall smashes 100 vs England in MCG Test 1950 Britain recognizes Communist government of China 1950 "Happy as Larry" opens at Coronet Theater New York City NY for 3 performances 1951 Indianapolis beats Rochester 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes 1951 "Pardon Our French" closes at Broadway Theater New York City NY after 100 performances 1953 WKBN TV channel 27 in Youngstown, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting 1956 Federal court bars former Little League Commissioner Carl Stotz from forming a rival group 1956 KGNS TV channel 8 in Laredo TX (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting 1957 Elvis Presley makes his 7th & final appearance on Ed Sullivan Show 1957 Yeshiva Kol Ya'ackov opens in Moscow Russia 1958 Gibson patents the Flying V Guitar 1958 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to ee cummings 1958 WIPR TV channel 6 in San Juan, PR (PBS) begins broadcasting 1963 "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" with Marlin Perkins begins on NBC 1963 "Oliver!" opens at Imperial Theater New York City NY for 774 performances 1964 Charlie Finlay announces he wants to move Kansas City A's to Louisville 1964 Rolling Stones' 1st tour as headline act (with Ronettes) 1965 Geoff Boycott takes 3-47 against South Africa, his best Test bowling 1967 2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140 1967 "Milton Berle Show" last airs on ABC-TV 1967 KHTV TV channel 39 in Houston TX (IND) begins broadcasting 1968 Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 8 weeks 1968 Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon 1968 Dr N E Shumway performs 1st US adult cardiac transplant operation 1969 Supremes release "I'm Livin' In Shame" 1969 WLIW TV channel 21 in Garden City NY (PBS) begins broadcasting 1971 Cecil Partee elected president pro tem of Illinois state senate 1971 Berkeley chemists announces 1st synthetic growth hormones 1972 US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn 1972 US male Figure Skating championship won by Kenneth Shelley 1972 Vladimir Bukovski is exiled from USSR 1973 "Schoolhouse Rock" premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock 1974 "CBS Mystery Theater" premieres on radio 1974 England begins 3 day work week during mine strike 1975 AM America premieres on ABC-TV with Bill Beutel as host 1975 "AM America" premieres on ABC-TV with Bill Beutel as host 1975 "Wheel Of Fortune" debuts on NBC-TV 1976 Ted Turner purchases Atlanta Braves for reported $12 million 1976 China People's Republic performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Republic of China 1977 EMI records drop punk rock group Sex Pistols 1978 1st postage stamp copyrighted by US (Carl Sandburg stamp) 1978 US hand over St Stephan crown to Hungary 1980 Philadelphia Flyers set NHL record of 35 straight games without a defeat 1980 "1940's Radio Hour" closes at St James Theater New York City NY after 105 performances 1980 Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India 1981 50th hat trick in Islander history-John Tonelli scored 5 goals 1984 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41 B mission 1984 Last day of Test cricket for Chappell, Marsh & Lillee 1986 British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns 1986 STS 61-C scrubbed at T-31 seconds because of liquid oxygen valve problem 1986 Impala Platinum fires 20,000 black mine workers in Johannesburg 1986 Last day in Test cricket for Bob Holland 1987 100th US Congress convenes 1987 Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy 1990 New York Lotto pays $35 million to one winner (#s are 18-25-26-32-42-44) 1991 "Real Life With Jane Pauley" premieres on NBC-TV 1991 "Gypsy" closes at St James Theater New York City NY after 477 performances 1991 Jorge Serrano Elías elected President of Guatemala 1991 Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 seconds) 1992 New York Yankees sign free agent Danny Tartabul 1992 Robert Schenkkan's "Kentucky Cycle" premieres in Los Angeles 1992 Sachin Tendulkar completes 148* vs Australia at the SCG 1992 Shane Warne takes 1-150 in his 1st Test innings 1993 Bill Wyman announces he will leave Rolling Stones 1993 Jean Mueller discovers comet Mueller/1993a 1993 Last day of Test cricket for Greg Matthews 1994 "Government Inspector" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City NY for 37 performances 1994 Dow-Jones hits record 3803.88 1994 Ice skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked by Tonya Harding's bodyguard 1994 Yat Weiju swims world record 50m butterfly stroke (26.44) 1995 Atlanta Hawks' Lenny Wilkens becomes NBA's winningest coach (939) 1996 Record $65.2 million British lottery won by 3 people (2-3-4-13-42-44) 1997 "It's a Slippery Slope" closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York City NY 1998 Barry Switzer resigns as Dallas Cowboy coach 1998 Don Sutton selected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
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01-07-2008, 07:09 PM
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0754 Pope Stefanus II arrives in Ponthion 1325 Afonso IV succeeds Dionysius as king of Portugal 1558 Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French under Francois, Duke of Guise 1566 Antonio Michaele Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V 1579 England signs an offensive & defensive alliance with the Netherlands 1584 Last day of the Julian calendar in Bohemia & Holy Roman empire 1598 Boris Godunov seizes the Russian throne on death of Feodore I 1601 Robert, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth 1608 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia 1610 Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa & Ganymede 1618 Francis Bacon becomes English lord chancellor 1622 Germany & Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg 1630 Composer Pier Cavalli marries rich widow Maria Sosomeno 1654 Fire after heavy storm destroys 2/3 of De Rijp Netherlands, 1 dies 1698 Russian Czar Peter the Great departs Netherlands to England 1714 Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later) 1761 Battle at Panipat India Afghan army beats Mahratten 1782 1st US commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia 1784 1st US seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia 1785 1st balloon flight across English Channel (Blanchard & Jeffries) 1789 1st national (Presidential) election in US 1817 2nd Bank of the United States opens 1822 1st printing in Hawaii 1822 Liberia colonized by Americans 1830 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co begins carrying revenue traffic - 1st US Railroad Station (Baltimore MD) 1835 HMS Beagle anchors off Chonos Archipelago 1842 Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Stabat Mater" premieres in Paris 1861 Florida troops takeover Fort Marion at St Augustine 1862 Battle of Manassas Junction VA 1862 Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson march towards Romney WV 1868 Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock 1868 Mississippi constitutional convention meets in Jackson 1879 Dutch King Willem II marries Emma von Waldeck-Pyrmont 1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Valley of Fear" (BG) 1890 W B Purvis patents fountain pen 1892 Mine explosion kills 100, Krebs OK-blacks trying to help rescue white survivors, driven away with guns 1893 Hermann Sudermanns "Heimat" premieres in Berlin 1894 Motion picture experiment of comedian Fred Ott filmed sneezing 1896 Fanny Farmer publishes her 1st cookbook 1899 Walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Collier's 1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier" (BG) 1903 Vincent d'Indy's opera "L'etranger" premieres in Brussel 1904 Marconi Co establishes "CQD" as 1st international radio distress signal 1907 Clyde Fitch' "Truth" premieres in New York City NY 1908 England beat Australia by one wicket at the MCG 1910 Ottawa Senators sweep Galt in 2 games for the Stanley Cup 1911 1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives, San Francisco 1911 Dutch Scouts Organization established in Amsterdam 1913 William M Burton patents a process to "crack" petroleum 1914 1st steamboat passes through the Panamá Canal 1916 German troops conquer Fort Vaux at Verdun 1923 Baltimore Sun warns of Ku Klux Klan 1925 Musical "Big Boy" with Al Jolson premieres in New York City NY 1927 Commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York & London 1927 Harlem Globetrotters play 1st game (Hinckley IL) 1929 "Buck Rogers", 1st sci-fi comic strip, premieres 1929 "Tarzan", one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears 1929 1st telephone connection between Netherlands & East Indies 1930 Edwin Justus Mayer's "Children of Darkness" premieres in New York City NY 1932 1st game played at Orchard Lake Curling Club, Michigan 1933 1st edition of People & Fatherland published in Netherlands 1934 "Flash Gordon" comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts 1934 Princess Juliana marries German prince Bernhard von Lippe-Biesterfeld 1935 Zöe Akins' "Old Maid" premieres in New York City NY 1936 Tennis champs Helen Moody & Howard Kinsley volley 2,001 times (1h18m) 1939 US worker's union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916) 1942 WWII siege of Bataan starts 1944 Air Force announces production of 1st US jet fighter, the Bell P-59 1945 Lord Haw-Haw reports total German victory at Ardennen 1946 Cambodia becomes autonomous state inside French Union 1947 Australia vs England at MCG drawn in 6 days, 1st cricket draw in Australia since 1882 1948 US President Truman raises taxes for Marshall-plan 1949 1st photo of genes taken at University of Southern California by Pease & Baker 1950 Mental health wing of Mercy Hospital burns, kills 41 (Davenport IA) 1950 "Happy as Larry" closes at Coronet Theater New York City NY after 3 performances 1950 Hank Snow's 1st appearance on "Grand Ole Opry" 1952 French Plevin government falls 1953 President Truman announces development of the hydrogen bomb 1955 Marian Anderson becomes 1st black singer to perform at the Met (New York City NY) 1955 WCIQ TV channel 7 in Mt Cheaha AL (PBS) begins broadcasting 1956 Vinoo Mankad scores 231 vs New Zealand, 413 opening stand with Roy 1958 USSR shrinks army to 300,000 1959 US recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban government 1961 1st NFL Playoff Bowl (runner-up bowl)-Detroit beats Cleveland 17-16 1961 Trucial States (now UAE) issue their 1st postage stamps 1962 AFL Pro Bowl West beats East 47-27 1962 Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, fails 1962 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Hall Wheelock 1963 1st class postage raised from 4¢ to 5¢ 1964 Bahamas achieves internal self-government & cabinet responsibility 1964 Dick Weber rolls highest bowling game in the air (Boeing 707) 1965 France announces it will convert $150 million of its currency to gold 1966 Dance Theatre of Harlem debuts 1966 Gene Kiniski beats Lou Thesz in St Louis MO, to become NWA champ 1967 "Newlywed Game" premieres on ABC TV 1968 1st class postage raised from 5¢ to 6¢ 1968 Surveyor 7 lands on the Moon 1968 "GE College Bowl" quiz show premieres on NBC TV 1969 US Congress doubles presidential salary 1970 Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock" 1971 -40ºF (-40ºC), Hawley Lake AZ (state record) 1972 Iberian Airlines crashes into 800' peak on island of Ibiza, 104 die 1972 Lewis F Powell Jr becomes a Supreme Court Justice 1972 Los Angeles Lakers chalk up 33rd consecutive win (NBA record) 1972 William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice 1973 British Darts Organization founded in North London 1973 "Purlie" closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City NY after 14 performances 1973 Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational 1973 Johnny Watkins bowls six overs 0-21 vs Pakistan Never again 1973 US poet James Merrill wins Bollingen Prize 1973 WNPB TV channel 13 in Marquette MI (PBS) begins broadcasting 1974 Dutch rations gasoline 1975 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to AR Ammons (Sphere) 1975 Gary Geld & Peter Udell's musical "Shenandoah" premieres at Alvin Theater New York City NY for 1050 performances 1975 Led Zeppelin fans riot before Boston concert, causing $30,000 damage 1977 Human Rights Charter '77 established in Prague 1978 Angola revises its constitution 1979 Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge 1980 Minnesota ends Philadelphia Flyers' NHL record 35 game unbeaten streak ends 1982 "Fame" premieres on NBC TV 1982 Islander's Bryan Trottier's 10th career hat trick 1983 Reagan ends US arms embargo against Guatemala 1983 Australia regain the Ashes with a 2-1 series win vs England 1985 KHQ-AM in Spokane WA changes call letters to KLSN (now KAQQ) 1985 "King & I" opens at Broadway Theater New York City NY for 191 performances 1985 Japanese space probe Sakigake launched to Halley's comet 1985 Lou Brock & Hoyt Wilhelm, elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame 1986 STS 61-C mission scrubbed at T -9m because of weather problems 1986 Netherlands Bank issues 250 guilder notes 1986 US President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya 1987 French airplanes harass Libyan positions in Duadi Doum 1987 Kapil Dev takes his 300th Test wicket, at 28 the youngest 1989 British Midland Boeing 737 crashes on Motorway 1989 International Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris 1989 NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers longest win streak (11); Cavaliers block 21 New York Knick shots tying NBA regulation game record 1989 Akhito becomes emperor of Japan 1989 Cleveland Cavaliers block 21 New York Knick shots tying NBA regulation game record 1990 Lynn Jennings runs world record 5K indoor at 15 22.64 1990 Tower Of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far 1991 "Nia Peeples Party Machine" premieres on TV 1991 Haiti coup defeated 1991 Soviet paratroopers sent to Baltic Republics 1992 AT&T releases video-telephone ($1499) 1992 Last day of Test cricket for Imran Khan 1992 Tom Seaver & Rollie Fingers elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame 1994 South Africa beats Australia in the Sydney Test by 5 runs 1994 United Express commuter plane crashes in Ohio, killing 5 1994 US female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding 1995 "Christmas Carol" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City NY after 18 performances 1995 "Passion" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City NY after 280 performances 1996 "Crazy after You" closes at Shubert Theater New York City NY after 1622 performances 1996 "Fool Moon" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City NY after * performances 1996 16th United Negro College Fund raises $12,600,000 1997 Newt Gingrich, narrowly re-elected speaker of the House |
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01-14-2008, 08:58 PM
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1236 English king Henry III marries Eleonora of Provence 1526 Charles V & Francis I sign Treaty of Madrid; Francis I forced to give up claims in Burgundy, Italy & Flanders 1601 Church authorities burn Hebrew books in Rome 1639 1st Connecticut constitution (Fundamental Orders) adopted in Hartford 1639 Rodger Ludlow publishes"Fundamental Orders of Connecticut" 1641 United East Indian Company conquerors city of Malakka, 7,000 killed 1659 Battle at Elvas Portuguese beat Spanish 1690 Clarinet is invented, in Nüremberg, Germany 1699 Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly persecuting "witches" 1717 German mob leader "Sjako" sentenced to death in Amsterdam 1724 Spanish King Philip V abdicates throne 1739 England & Spain signs 2nd Convention of Pardo 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie's army leaves Glasgow 1783 Congress ratifies peace treaty between US & England 1784 Revolutionary War ends; Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris 1785 Mozart completes "Dissonantenkwartet" (opus 10) 1794 Dr Jessee Bennet of Edom VA, performs 1st successful Cesarean section operation on his wife 1799 Eli Whitney receives government contract for 10,000 muskets 1799 King of Naples flees before the advancing French armies 1813 Gideon Hawley becomes 1st state school superintendent in US (NY) 1814 King of Denmark cedes Norway to King of Sweden by treaty of Kiel 1847 Conspiracy in New Mexico against US 1858 French Emperor Napoleon III escapes attempt on his life by Felice Orsini, an Italian patriot who was later executed 1861 Fort Pikens FL falls into state hands 1863 Battle between gunboats at Bayou Teched LA 1864 Battle of Cosby Creek TN 1864 General Sherman begins his march to the South 1868 North Carolina constitutional convention meets in Raleigh 1868 South Carolina constitutional convention, meets with a black majority 1873 "Celluloid" registered as a trademark 1873 P B S Pinchback elected to Senate 1874 I D Shadd elected Speaker of the lower house of the Mississippi legislature 1878 US Supreme court rules race separation on trains unconstitutional 1897 6,960-m (22,834') Cerro Aconcagua (Argentina) 1st climbed 1898 Joe Darling hits the 1st six in Tests (out of the ground) 1900 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Tosca" premieres in Rome 1905 Hubbell, Shubert & Smith's musical "Fontana" premieres in New York City NY 1908 Roger Hartigan scores century on Test debut vs England Adelaide (116) 1909 Coöp Far Central Management forms 1912 Raymond Poincaré becomes premier of France 1914 Henry Ford introduces assembly line, for T-Fords 1916 Dutch South Sea dike cracks 1918 Finland & USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar 1919 John McGraw, Charles A Stoneham, & Judge McQuade buy New York Giants 1924 Allies direct Fiume (Rijeka) in Italy 1925 Alban Berg's atonale opera "Wozzeck" premieres in Berlin 1927 Toronto Maple Leafs 1st hat trick (Hap Day) vs New York Rangers 1929 Afghan King Amanullah forced to resign 1932 1st totalisator (to record racetrack bets) in US installed, Hialeah 1932 Horse racing legend Eddie Arcaro won his 1st race 1935 Oil pipeline Iraq-Mediterranean goes into use 1936 L M (Mario) Giannini elected president of Bank of America 1938 National Society for the Legalization of Euthanasia formed (NY) 1939 All commercial ferry service to East Bay ends 1939 Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica 1940 Commissioner Kenesaw Landis gives free agency to 91 Detroit Tigers 1940 NFL Pro Bowl Green Bay beats NFL All-Stars 16-7 1942 Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in Borneo 1943 Alex Smart (Montréal) is 1st NHLer to score hat trick in his 1st game 1943 FDR & Winston Churchill confer in Casablanca concerning WWII 1943 Heinrich Himmler views Warsaw 1944 Soviet army begins offensive at Oranienbaum/Wolchow 1946 2 jetties collapse in Ganges-160 Hindu pilgrims are crushed 1949 Black/Indian race rebellion in Durban, South Africa; 142 die 1950 US recalls all consular officials from China 1950 "As the Girls Go" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City NY after 420 performances 1951 NFL Pro Bowl 1st since 1942, Americans beat Nationals 28-27 1952 "Today Show" premieres with Dave Garroway & Jack Lescoulie on NBC-TV 1952 Rationing of coffee in Netherlands ends 1952 Snow storm in Sierra NV kills 26 1953 Yugoslavia elects its 1st president (Marshal Tito) 1953 Vaughan William's "Sinfonia Antartica" premieres in Manchester 1953 WALA TV channel 10 in Mobile, AL (NBC) begins broadcasting 1954 Marilyn Monroe marries baseball star, New York Yankee, Joe DiMaggio 1954 Sandy Wilson's musical "Boyfriend" premieres in London 1955 Heitor Villa-Lobos' 8th Symphony, premieres in Philadelphia 1956 Little Richard releases "Tutti Frutti" 1956 Jordan government refuses to join Pact of Baghdad 1960 Tuindorp-Oostzaan in Northern Amsterdam, flooded 1960 US Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant 1961 Chicago Bear Willard Dewveall becomes 1st NFLer to join the AFL 1962 NFL Pro Bowl West beats East 31-30 1963 George C Wallace sworn in as Governor of Alabama, his address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!" 1964 Jacqueline Kennedy's 1st public appearance (TV) since assassination 1964 14th NBA All-Star Game East beats West 111-107 at Boston 1964 Bapu Nadkarni 32-27-5-0 vs England, 21 maiden overs in a row 1966 David Bowie releases his 1st record (Can't Help Thinking About Me) 1967 20,000 attend the Human Be-In, San Francisco 1967 New York Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments 1967 Sonny & Cher release "The Beat Goes On" 1967 Earthquake in Sicily kills 231 1968 Super Bowl II Green Bay Packers beat Oakland Raiders, 33-14 in Miami; Super Bowl MVP Bart Starr, Green Bay, Quarterback 1969 25 members of US aircraft carrier Enterprise die during maneuvers 1969 Soyuz 4 launched; rendezvous with Soyuz 5 two days later 1971 John Snow takes 7-40 for England to beat Australia by 299 runs 1972 "Sanford & Son" starring Redd Foxx premieres on NBC TV 1973 Grateful Dead bass player, Phil Lesh, busted for drugs in California 1973 Tap dancer Ray Castle measured at 1440 taps/minutes on BBC TV 1973 Super Bowl VII Miami Dolphins beat Washington Redskins, 14-7 in Los Angeles; Super Bowl MVP Jake Scott, Miami, Safety 1974 World Football League founded 1975 Anita Wold (Norway) sets women's ski jump distance record-98 meters 1975 USSR breaks trade agreement with US 1976 "The Bionic Woman" with Lindsay Wagner debuts on ABC (later NBC) 1976 Ted Turner becomes CEO of Atlanta Braves 1978 Sex Pistols' final concert (Winterland, San Francisco) 1979 President Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday 1980 "Blues Brothers" movie with Dan Akroyd & John Belushi opens 1980 Sha****ala Devi, mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in 28 seconds 1981 FCC frees stations to air as many commercials an hour as they wish 1984 Madonna 1st sings "Holiday" on American Bandstand 1985 16 indicted by US for granting sanctuary to Central American refugees 1985 British pound (£) sinks to record low-$1.11 1985 Martina Navratilova is 3rd to win 100 tennis tournaments (Connors & Evert) 1986 Vinicio Cerezo becomes only the 2nd freely elected President of Guatemala since the CIA-sponsored coup in 1954 1986 Constitution of Guatemala takes effect 1987 Catfish Hunter & Billy Williams are elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1989 29 year old French woman gives birth to sextuplets in Paris 1989 "Romance/Romance" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City NY after 297 performances 1989 1,000 muslims burn Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradford England 1989 Former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants kidnapped 1990 Perez de Cuellar says he has lost all hope for peace in the Gulf 1990 "Simpsons" premiered on Fox-TV 1990 11th ACE Cable Awards 1991 "Barbara DeAngelis Show" premieres on CBS-TV 1991 Tyne Daly arrested for drunk driving in Van Nuys CA 1991 Jorge Serrano Elías sworn in as President of Guatemala 1991 Valentin Pavlov become new premier of USSR 1993 "Anna Christie" opens at Criterion Theater New York City NY for 54 performances 1993 David Letterman announces his show is moving from NBC to CBS 1993 Polish ferry boat capsizes in storm, 50 die 1994 Inna Lassovskaya triple-jumps ladies world record (14.61 meters) 1994 Kathleen Kinmont files for divorce from Lorenzo Lamas 1994 Russian manned space craft TM-17, lands 1995 10,000s South Africans attend state funeral of Joe Slovo 1995 16th ACE Cable Awards HBO wins 23 awards 1996 "Holiday" closes at Circle in Square Theater New York City NY after 49 performances 1996 "Swinging On a Star" closes at Music Box Theater New York City NY after 97 performances 1996 Liselotte Neumann wins Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Champions 1998 100th episode of "Ellen" airs 1998 Charles Barkley pleads not guilty to an assault charge |
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0379 Theodosius installed as co-emperor of East Roman Empire 0973 Pope Benedictus VI elected 1419 French city of Rouen surrenders to Henry V in Hundred Years War 1493 France cedes Roussillon & Cerdágne to Spain by treaty of Barcelona 1668 King Louis XIV & Emperor Leopold I sign treaty dividing Spain 1714 Richard Steele publishes "The Crisis", defending Hanoverian success 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Stirling 1770 Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan) 1793 French King Louis XVI sentenced to death 1795 Democratic revolution in Amsterdam ends oligarchy 1806 Britain occupies the Cape of Good Hope 1808 Louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law 1810 Overnight temp at Portsmouth NH drops 50ºF (10ºC) 1825 Ezra Daggett & nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans 1829 Johann von Goethe's "Faust, Part 1" premieres 1833 Charles Darwin reaches Straits Ponsonby, Fireland 1839 Aden conquered by British East India Company 1840 Antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (US claim) 1853 Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore" premieres, in Rome 1853 Napoleon III marries Eugénie de Montijo 1861 Georgia becomes 5th state to secede 1861 MS troops take Fort Massachusetts an Ship Island 1862 Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky (Fishing Creek, Logan's Crossroads) 1863 General Mieroslawski appointed dictator of Poland 1865 NV Suriname Bank established 1865 Union occupies Fort Anderson NC 1871 1st Negro lodge of US Masons approved, New Jersey 1884 Jules Massenet's opera "Manon" premieres in Paris 1885 Battle at Abu Klea Sudan 800-1000 killed 1886 Aurora Ski Club, 1st in US, founded in Minnesota 1898 Brown defeats Harvard 6-0 in 1st intercollegiate hockey game 1899 Anglo-Egyptian Sudan forms 1903 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England 1903 New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced 1906 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Und Pippa Tanzt!" premieres in Berlin 1909 Eugene Walter's "Easiest Way" premieres in New York City NY 1910 Germany & Bolivia ends commerce/friendship treaty 1910 National Institute of Arts & Letters incorporated by Congress 1913 Raymond Poincaré installed as President of France 1915 1st German Zeppelin attack over Great Britain, 4 die 1915 Neon Tube sign patented by George Claude 1917 Silvertown Essex's ammunition factory explodes; 300 die 1918 Soviets disallows a Constitution Assembly 1919 "Tidal wave" of molasses 15 meters high x 25 meters wide kills dozens, Boston 1920 Alexandre Millerand forms French government 1920 US Senate votes against membership in League of Nations 1921 Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador sign Pact of Union 1922 Geological survey says US oil supply would be depleted in 20 years 1923 WMC-AM in Memphis TN begins radio transmissions 1925 -48ºF (-44ºC), Van Buren ME (state record) 1927 British government decides to send troops to China 1929 Acadia National Park, Maine established 1929 Clas Thunberg skates world record 500m in 42.8 seconds 1932 Charlie Conacher becomes 1st Toronto Maple Leaf to score 5 goals in a game, the 1st coming at 7 seconds of the game 1934 Kenesaw Mountain Landis denies Joe Jackson's appeal for reinstatement 1935 KLM begins flight path between Curaçao & Aruba 1937 Cy Young, Tris Speaker & Nap Lajoie elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1937 Millionaire Howard Hughes sets transcontinental air record (7h28m25s) 1938 GM began mass production of diesel engines 1939 Ernest Hausen of Wisconsin sets chicken-plucking record-4.4 seconds 1941 British offensive in Eritrea 1941 British troops occupy Kassalaf Sudan 1942 Japanese forces invade Burma 1942 Titus Brandsma (Carmelite priest) arrested by German occupiers for speaking out against Nazism as a "lie" and "pagan" 1943 Joint Chiefs of Staff decide on invasion in Sicily 1947 SS Himera runs aground at Athens, kills 392 1950 Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Canada CF-100 military plane 1952 NFL takes control of New York Yanks 1952 PGA approves allowing black participants 1953 Jesse Owens named Illinois Athletic Commission secretary 1955 "The Millionaire" TV program premieres on CBS 1955 1st Presidential news conference filmed for TV (Eisenhower) 1955 "Scrabble" debuts on board game market 1956 Hoboken dedicates a plaque honoring achievements of Alexander Cartwright in organizing early baseball at Elysian Field 1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test 1958 Canadian Football Council renamed Canadian Football League 1960 Eisenhower & Premier Kishi sign US-Japanese Security pact 1961 1st episode for "The Dick Van Dyke Show" is filmed 1964 AFL Pro Bowl West beats East 27-24 1964 KFME TV channel 13 in Fargo, ND (PBS) begins broadcasting 1966 Indira Gandhi elected India's 3rd prime minister 1966 Neil Simon, Coleman & Fields' musical "Sweet Charity" premieres 1966 Tippett's cantata "Vision of St Augustine" premieres in London 1967 Herr Karl Tausch writes shortest will "Vse Zene" (All to wife) 1968 WKBF TV channel 61 in Cleveland OH (IND) begins broadcasting 1969 AFL Pro Bowl West beats East 38-25 1969 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational 1969 NFL Pro Bowl West beats East 10-7 1970 UCLA fires Angela Davis for being a communist 1970 Dutch bishop says he is in favor of married priest 1970 Nixon nominates G Harrold Carswell to Supreme Court (fails) 1971 Beatles' Helter Skelter is played at the Charles Manson trial 1971 NHL Writers' Association renamed Professional Hockey Writers' Association 1971 "No, No Nanette" opens at 46th St Theater New York City NY for 861 performances 1971 24th NHL All-Star Game West beat East 2-1 at Boston 1972 Sandy Koufax, Yogi Berra, & Early Wynn elected to Hall of Fame 1974 Notre Dame beats UCLA, ends NCAA-record 88-game basketball win streak 1974 Belgium government of Leburton falls 1975 4 mail truck assault on El Al B-747 in Paris, escape to Iraq 1975 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Colgate Golf Triple Crown 1977 President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) 1977 World's largest crowd-12.7 million-for Indian religious festival 1977 Ernie Banks elected to Hall of Fame 1978 Eddie Mathews elected to Hall of Fame 1978 Judge William H Webster appointed head of FBI 1979 John N Mitchell (former AG) released on parole from federal prison 1981 Muhammad Ali talks a despondent 21 year old out of committing suicide 1981 US & Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages 1982 Heater explodes at Star Elementary School-Oklahoma, kills 6 kids & teacher 1982 Australia-West Indies one-day game that produced a Privy Council libel case 1983 Klaus Barbie, SS chief of Lyon in Nazi-France, arrested in Bolivia 1984 California Supreme Court refuses to allow quadriplegic Elizabeth Bouvia to starve herself to death in a public hospital, she appeals and is later granted the right to die 1984 Francesco Moser bicycles world record time 50,808 km (he is the first man to break the 50 km/h barrier) 1985 4 die in a car & train crash in Buda IL 1985 "Born In The USA" by Bruce Springsteen peaked at #9 1986 Cerebral Palsy telethon 1986 Israeli premier Simon Peres visits Netherlands 1986 Spain recognizes Israel 1987 Guy Hunt becomes Alabama's 1st Republican governor since 1874 1988 "48 Hours" premieres on CBS-TV 1989 President Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for illegal funds for Nixon 1990 Test debut of Mushtaq Ahmed, vs Australia at Adelaide 1991 42nd NHL All Star Game-Campbell beats Wales 11-5 in Chicago 1991 Sergeant Slaughter defeats Ultimate Warrior for WWF championship belt 1991 48th Golden Globes Dances with Wolves 1991 Jumbo Tsuruta beats Stan Hansen to win All Japan Triple Crown title 1992 "City of Angels" closes at Virginia Theater New York City NY after 878 performances 1992 Cerebral Palsy telethon raises 23,500,000 1992 IBM announces a nearly $5B loss for 1992 1992 Nature Boy Ric Flair becomes WWF champ at Royal Rumble 1992 Rowdy Roddy Piper beats Mountie to become WWF Intercontinental Champ 1993 Israel recognizes PLO as no longer criminal 1993 Oakland A's unveil new elephant logo 1993 Robert M Gates, ends term as 15th director of CIA 1993 STS-54 (Endeavour) lands 1994 -20ºF (-29ºC) (5 32 AM) coldest day ever recorded in Cleveland OH 1994 -36ºF (-38ºC) in New Whiteland IN (state record) 1995 Jean-Claude Juncker (2 sworn in as premier of Luxembourg 1996 NHL approves move of Winnipeg Jets to Phoenix 1997 54th Golden Globes English Patient, Brenda Blethyn & Geoffrey Rush 1997 Cerebral Palsy telethon 1997 Michelle McGann wins LPGA Healthsouth Inaugural |
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0250 St Fabian ends his reign as Catholic Pope (236-50) 0820 Book of mother, published 1045 Giovanni di Sabina elected Pope Sylvester III 1265 1st English Parliament called into session by Earl of Leicester 1320 Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland 1356 Scottish king Edward Baliol resigns 1503 Casa Contratacion (Board of Trade) found (Spain) to deal with American affairs 1513 Christian II succeeds Johan I as Danish/Norwegian king 1613 Peace of Knärod ends War of Kalmar between Denmark & Sweden 1648 Cornerstone of Amsterdam town hall laid 1667 Treaty of Andrussovo-ends 13 year war between Poland & Russia 1778 1st American military court martial trial begins, Cambridge MA 1781 1st edition of Pieter It Hoens "Post of Neder-Rhijn" published 1783 Hostilities cease in Revolutionary War 1785 Samuel Ellis advertises to sell Oyster Island (Ellis Island), no takers 1788 Pioneer African Baptist church organizes in Savannah GA 1800 Napoleon I's sister Carolina marries King Joachim Murat of Naples 1801 John Marshall appointed US chief justice 1807 Napoleon convenes the great Sanhedrin, Paris 1809 1st US geology book published by William Maclure 1840 Dumont D'Urville discovers Adélie Land, Antarctica 1840 Dutch King Willem II crowned 1841 China cedes Hong Kong to the British 1850 Investigator, 1st ship to effect northwest passage, leaves England 1860 Dutch troops conquer Watampone in Celebes 1866 Prim's Insurrection in Spain ends 1868 Florida constitutional convention meets in Tallahassee 1869 Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes 1st woman to testify before Congress 1870 "City of Boston" vanishes at sea with all 177 aboard 1870 Hiram R Revels elected to fill unexpired term of Jefferson Davis 1872 California Stock Exchange Board organized 1879 British troops under Lord Chelmsford set camp at Isandlwana 1883 Billy Barnes takes a hat-trick, England vs Australia MCG 1887 US Senate approves the naval base lease of Pearl Harbor 1892 1st basketball game played (Massachusetts) 1910 Ottawa Senators sweep Edmonton in 2 for the Stanley Cup (2nd of 1910) 1920 Dutch 2nd Chamber passes school laws 1921 Mountain Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR 1921 Turkey declared in remnants of the Ottoman Empire 1921 British submarine K5 leaves with man & mouse 1921 Dagestan ASSR forms in RSFSR 1922 Arthur Honegger's ballet "Skating Rink" premieres, Paris 1925 USSR & Japan sign treaty of Peking, Seychelles back to USSR 1926 2nd German government of Luther begins 1929 1st feature talking motion picture taken outdoors, "In Old Arizona" 1930 1st radio broadcast of "Lone Ranger" (WXYZ-Detroit) 1934 Japan sends Henry Pu Yi as regent to emperor of Manchuria 1936 Edward VIII succeeds British king George V 1937 -45ºF (-43ºC), Boca CA (state record) 1937 1st Inauguration day on Jan 20th, (held every 4th years thereafter) 1939 Charles Ives' 1st sonata "Concord" premieres 1939 Hitler proclaims to German parliament to exterminate all European Jews 1941 Béla Bartók's 6th string quartet, premieres in New York City NY 1942 Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin deciding on "final solution" calling for extermination of Europe's Jews 1942 Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain 1942 Japanese invade Burma 1943 Lead SD, temp is 52ºF, while 1.5 miles away Deadwood SD records -16ºF 1943 Operation-Weiss Assault of German, Italian, Bulgarian & Croatian 1944 RAF drops 2300 ton bombs on Berlin 1945 FDR sworn-in for an unprecedented 4th term as President 1946 F Gouin follows De Gaulle as temporary leader of French government 1947 Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA 1949 President Truman announces his point 4 program 1949 J Edgar Hoover gives Shirley Temple a tear gas fountain pen 1950 "Dance Me a Song" opens at Royale Theater New York City NY for 35 performances 1950 Suriname becomes independent part in Realm of Netherlands 1952 British army occupies Ismailiya, Suez Canal Zone 1952 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open 1953 1st live coast-to-coast inauguration address (Eisenhower) 1953 1st US telecast transmitted to Canada-from Buffalo NY 1954 -70ºF (-57ºC), Rogers Pass, Montana (state 48 record) 1954 Dmitri Shostakovich's "Concertino opus 94" premieres 1956 Buddy Holly records "Blue Days Black Night" in Nashville 1957 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open 1957 Gomulka wins Poland's parliamentary election 1957 Morton Gould's "Declaration" premieres in Washington DC 1958 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open 1958 KUED TV channel 7 in Salt Lake City UT (PBS) begins broadcasting 1959 Dmitri Shostakovich's "Moscow-Tsjerjomoesjki" premieres in Moscow 1960 Patrice Lumumba sentenced to 6 months in Belgian Congo 1961 Robert Frost recites "The Gift Outright" at JFK's inauguration 1961 Arthur M Ramsay becomes archbishop of Canterbury 1961 Francis Poulenc's "Gloria" premieres in Boston 1961 Yugoslav ex-Vice-President Milovan Djilas flees 1962 "Kean" closes at Broadway Theater New York City NY after 92 performances 1964 "Meet The Beatles" album released in US 1965 JPL proposes modified Apollo flight to fly around Mars & return 1965 The Beatles appear on Shindig (ABC-TV) 1965 The Byrds record "Mr Tambourine Man" 1965 Generalissimo Francisco Franco meets with Jewish representatives to discuss legitimizing Jewish communities in Spain 1968 Houston ends UCLA's 47-game basketball winning streak, 71-69 1968 US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming 1968 US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood 1969 Richard M Nixon inaugurated as President 1969 U of Arizona reports 1st optical id of pulsar (in Crab Nebula) 1970 20th NBA All-Star Game East beats West 142-135 at Philadelphia 1970 23rd NHL All-Star Game East beat West 4-1 at St Louis 1970 Super Fight, computer mock championship between Ali & Marciano 1971 John Lennon meets Yoko Ono's parents in Japan 1971 Ard Schenk skates world record 1000m (1 18. 1974 Essex Community College beats Englewood Cliffs 210-67 in basketball 1974 4th NFL Pro Bowl AFC beats NFC 15-13 1974 7th ABA All-Star Game East 128 beats West 112 at Virginia 1975 5th NFL Pro Bowl NFC beats AFC 17-10 1975 Terrence McNally's "Ritz" premieres in New York City NY 1976 29th NHL All-Star Game Wales beat Campbell 7-5 at Philadelphia 1977 George Bush, ends term as 11th director of CIA 1977 Mr Knoche, serves as acting director of CIA through March 9 1978 Columbia Pictures pays $9.5 million for movie rights to "Annie" 1980 President Jimmy Carter announces US boycott of Olympics in Moscow 1980 Super Bowl XIV Pittsburgh Steelers beat Los Angeles Rams, 31-19 in Pasadena; Super Bowl MVP Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh, Quarterback 1980 US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne 1980 US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner 1981 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days freed 1981 Islander Glenn Resch's 25th & last shut-out opponent-Flames 5-0 1981 Admiral Stansfield Turner, USN (Retired), ends term as 12th director of CIA 1981 Ronald Reagan inaugurated as President 1982 7 miners killed in an explosion in Craynor KY 1982 Honduras constitution goes into effect 1982 Piet Dankert elected chairman of European Parliament 1984 US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners 1985 Cold front strikes US, at least 40 die (-27ºF (-33ºC) in Chicago) 1985 Super Bowl XIX San Francisco 49ers beat Miami Dolphins, 38-16 in Stanford; Super Bowl MVP Joe Montana, San Francisco, Quarterback 1986 1st federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr 1986 Chunnel announced (railroad tunnel under English Channel) 1986 Military coup in Lesotho under General-Major Lekhanya & premier Leabua Jonathan 1987 Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon 1987 Rhino Records 1st #1-Billy Vera & the Beaters' "At This Moment" 1988 Arizona committee opens hearing on impeachment of Governor Evan Mecham 1988 André Hoffman skates world record 1500m (1 52.06) 1989 Bush inaugurated as 41st President & Quayle becomes 44th Vice President 1989 Reagan becomes 1st President elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive 1989 Wayne Holdsworth takes a wicket 1st ball in 1st-class cricket 1990 US 64th manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) returns from space 1990 47th Golden Globes Born on 4th of July, Driving Miss Daisy win 1991 Buffalo Bills beat Los Angeles Raiders 51-3 for AFC title 1991 Iraq pardes captured Allied airmen on TV 1991 Matt Barr's field goal with no time left gives New York Giant 15-13 victory over defending champs San Francisco 49ers, for NFC title 1991 US Patriot missiles begins shooting down Iraqi missiles 1991 "Black & Blue" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City NY after 829 performances 1991 "Les Miserables" opens at Pantages Theatre, Los Angeles 1991 "Peter Pan" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City NY or 45 performances 1991 "Shogun - The Musical" closes at Marquis Theater New York City NY after 72 performances 1991 13th UCP Telethon 1991 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic 1992 Score begins selling international soccer cards 1992 Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup 1993 Admiral Studeman, serves as acting director of CIA 1993 Bill Clinton inaugurated as 42nd President 1995 "Love! Valor! Compassion!" opens at Walter Kerr New York City NY for 276 performances 1995 1994-95 NHL Season begin after a lengthy strike 1995 Russian ruble drops to 3,947 per dollar (record) 1996 46th NHL All-Star Game East beat West 5-4 at Fleet Center Boston 1996 Australia defeat Sri Lanka 2-0 to win World Series Cup 1996 US female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan 1996 WPAT FM New York City NY radio station switches to English-Spanish format 1997 Comet Hale-Bopp crosses Mars' orbit 1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in New Orleans LA on KKND 106.7 FM 1997 Pakistan defeats West Indies 2-0 to win Australia one-day Series 1998 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts Mama & Papas, Eagles 1998 Warner Brothers TV Network begins Tuesday night programming |
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On this day... 0638 Start of Islamic calendar 1265 1st English Parliament formally convened (some authorities) 1490 1st printing of Ramban's Sha'ar ha-Gemul 1492 "Pentateuch" (Jewish holy book) 1st printed 1552 2nd version of Book of Common Prayer becomes mandatory in England 1556 Most deadly earthquake kills 830,000 in Shansi Province, China 1570 Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland, assassinated; civil war breaks out 1571 Queen Elizabeth I opens Royal Exchange in London 1579 Union of Utrecht signed, forming protestant Dutch Republic 1631 France & Sweden sign anti-German Treaty of Bärwald 1637 Dutch Governor Johan Mauritius lands in Pernambuco Brazil 1643 Sir Thomas Fairfax takes Leeds for the Parliamentarians 1647 Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English parliament 1663 King Louis XIV affirms covenant with Rÿnstaten 1668 England, Netherlands & Sweden signs Triple Alliance against French 1719 Principality of Liechtenstein created within Holy Roman Empire 1723 Georg Friedrich Händel's opera "Ottone" premieres in London 1779 Charles Messier catalogs M56 (globular cluster in Lyra) 1789 Georgetown, 1st US Catholic college, founded 1793 2nd partition of Poland, between Prussia & Russia 1793 Humane Society of Philadelphia (first aid society) organized 1796 Armand-Gaston Camus becomes chairman of Council of 500 1812 7.8 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri 1833 Joseph Pease, a Quaker, admitted to Parliament on his affirmation 1845 Uniform US election day for President & Vice President authorized 1849 Mrs Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman physician in US 1849 Patent granted for an envelope-making machine 1856 Steamer Pacific lost 1861 Agoston Haraszthy, 1st vintner in Sonoma Valley, imports 100,000 cuttings of 350 varieties from Europe 1865 Battle of City Point, VA (James River, Trent's Reach) 1865 General Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies 1870 173 Blackfoot Indians (140 women & children) killed in Montana by US Army 1879 National Archery Association formed, Crawfordsville IN 1889 Dr Daniel Hale Williams forms Provident Hospital in Chicago 1894 G W Bunbury of Dublin sets shorthand record of 250 wpm for 10 minutes 1896 Edward Macdowell's 2nd Suite in E, premieres 1897 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange" (BG) 1902 Winnipeg Victorias sweep Toronto Wellingtons in 2 for the Stanley Cup 1907 Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes 1st Native American US senator 1908 US & Great-Britain demand end of abuses in Congo 1909 1st radio rescue at sea 1916 Temp falls from 44ºF (7ºC) to -56ºF (49ºC) night of 23-24, Browning MT 1920 Dutch government refuses to turn over ex-Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany to the allies 1923 Taxi strike in Amsterdam begins (through March 9th) 1924 Ramsey MacDonald forms 1st Labour government in Britain 1926 Eugene O'Neill's "Great God Brown" premieres in New York City NY 1928 "Abenteuer of brave Soldier Schwejk" premieres in Berlin 1930 George Washington Birthplace National Monument VA established 1930 Clyde Tombaugh photographs planet Pluto 1932 El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers 1933 20th amendment changes date of Presidential Inaugurations to 1/20 1936 Catholic People's Party (KVP) of Curaçao forms 1937 Karl Radek & 16 others go on trial in Stalin's great purge 1940 Pianist Ignaz Paderewski becomes premier of Polish government in exile 1941 Ground breaking for NACA (now NASA) Lewis Research Center 1941 WOR-AM in Newark NJ moves to New York City 1942 Japanese troops occupy Rabaul New Britain 1942 Tank battle at Adzjedabia, African corps vs British army 1943 66.34 cm (26.12"), Hoegees Camp CA (state precipitation record) 1943 Detroit Red Wings scores NHL record 8 goals in 1 period 1943 British 8th army marches into Tripoli 1943 Japanese Mount Austen on Guadalcanal captured 1944 Detroit Red Wings score 15 goals against New York Rangers & NHL record 37 points, also most consecutive goals & most lopsided game 15-0 1944 Arnold Schoenberg's "Ode to Napoleon" premieres in New York City NY 1945 Dutch Premier Gerbrandy, exiled in London, offers his resignation 1946 Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, becomes 1st director of CIA 1948 Bradman scores 201 in 272 minutes vs India, 21 fours 1 six 1948 Huston's "Treasure of Sierra Madre" starring Humphrey Bogart opens 1948 Test debut of Neil Harvey, vs India at Adelaide 1950 3rd edition of Joseph Kane's Famous 1st Facts published 1950 Israeli Knesset resolves that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel 1950 NFL rule changes open way for 2-platoon system (offense & defense) 1950 AP picks "Miracle Braves" of 1914 as greatest sports upset 1950 Rebel army of cap Raymond Westerner occupies Bandung 1951 3rd Emmy Awards Alan Young Show, Alan Young & Gertrude Berg 1953 NFL Dallas Texans become Baltimore Colts (now Indianapolis Colts) 1953 NFL's National & American conferences become Eastern & Western conferences 1953 Bobby Simpson makes 1st-class debut for New South Wales 16 years 357 days 1954 Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games) 1954 Harry van Thorn chosen chairman of Dutch KVP 1955 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open 1955 KORK (now KVBC) TV channel 3 in Las Vegas, NV (NBC) 1st broadcast 1958 "Body Beautiful" opens at Broadway Theater New York City NY for 60 performances 1958 Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez flees Venezuela, Larrazábal takes power 1958 Hanif Mohammad completes 337 in 970 minutes vs West Indies 1960 Piccard & Walsh in bathyscaph "Trieste" reach 10,900 meters in Mariana Trench 1961 Supreme Court rules cities & states have right to censor films 1961 Venezuela adopts constitution 1962 Libya, Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia plan to form United Arab Maghreb 1962 Bob Feller & Jackie Robinson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1962 British spy Kim Philby defects to USSR 1964 24th Amendment ratified, barring poll tax in federal elections 1964 Arthur Miller's "After the Fall" premieres in New York City NY 1965 "The King Family Show" (musical variety) premieres on ABC TV 1965 Boston Celtic center Bill Russell misses all 14 shots in loss to Philadelphia Warriors led by Wilt Chamberlain 1965 BPAA All-Star Tournament won by Dick Weber 1967 Stan Musial is named GM of Cards 1968 Spy ship USS Pueblo & 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by N Korea 1968 Joe Medwick elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1969 Cream releases their last album "Goodbye" 1970 Australia's 1st amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched (California) 1970 US launches 2nd generation weather satellite, ITOS 1 1970 Dolle Mina burns her bra in Amsterdam 1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1971 -80ºF (-62ºC), Prospect Creek Camp AK (US record) 1971 UCLA loses to Notre Dame, UCLA then wins next 88 games in a row 1971 4th ABA All-Star Game East 126 beats West 122 at Carolina 1972 2nd AFC-NFC pro bowl, AFC wins 26-13 1972 Bootlegger sells wood alcohol to wedding party-100 die-New Delhi 1972 Ard Schenk becomes European all-round skating champ 1972 Entire population of Istanbul under 24 hour house arrest 1972 NFL Pro Bowl AFC beats NFC 26-13 1973 Helgafell, island of Heimaey Iceland erupts for 1st time in 7,000 years 1973 Jordan Air crash at Kano, Nigeria kills 176 Moslem pilgrims 1973 President Nixon announces an accord has been reach to end the Vietnam War 1973 23rd NBA All-Star Game East beats West 104-84 at Chicago 1974 1st edition of women's magazine "Story" 1975 "Barney Miller" premieres on ABC TV 1975 Ralph Kiner elected to baseball's Hall of Fame 1976 Washington Capitals end 25 game winless streak (0-22-3) beat New York Rangers 7-5 1976 Ian Redpath hits his only 2 sixes in Cricket Tests, vs West Indies Adelaide 1977 $1.5-million Serge Lepage dress exhibited, Paris 1977 Miniseries "Roots" premieres on ABC 1978 8th NFL Pro Bowl NFC beats AFC 14-13 1978 Belgian industrial Haron Empain kidnapped in Paris 1979 Willie Mays elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1981 1st Richard Nixon museum opens (San Clemente CA) 1981 Mike Bossy becomes 1st in NHL to score 50 goals in 50 games 1981 Jochem Bird elected mayor of West Berlin 1981 Red Sox trade Fred Lynn to Angels for Frank Tanana & Joe Rudi 1982 Urbe Blanca (cow) produces record 110 kg of milk, Cuba (approximate date) 1982 World Airways DC-10 skids at Boston Logan Airport killing 2 1983 "A-Team" with Mr T premieres on NBC 1983 Björn Borg announces his retirement from tennis 1983 In NBA, Portland scores all 17 points in overtime to beat Houston 113-96 1983 Cerebral Palsy telethon raises $14,700,000 1983 Russian radioactive satellite falls into Indian Ocean 1983 Schöne skates ladies world record 5 km (7 40.97) 1984 Buffalo Sabres win NHL record 10th straight road game 1984 Greatest unpaced 1-hour bicycle distance, F Moser (Italy), 51.15 km 1984 Hulk Hogan defeats Iron Sheik to become WWF champ 1985 Britains House of Lords debate 1st televised 1986 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB 1986 "Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" opens at Ritz Theater New York City NY for 13 performances 1986 1st induction of Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame (Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Domino, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis & Elvis Presley) 1987 Dow Jones rises 64 points then drops 110 points (44.15 point loss) 1987 Japan 1st exceeds military spending cap of 1% of GNP ($23 billion) 1988 Bob Benoit bowls 1st 300-point game in a televised title match 1988 45th Golden Globes Last Emperor, Sally Kirkland, Michael Douglas 1988 62nd Australian Women's Tennis Steffi Graf beats Chris Evert (61 76) 1988 Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager, complete 1st nonstop, round-the-world flight without refueling lands 1989 Challenge to "who is a Jew" law filed in Israeli Supreme Court 1989 NBA New Jersey Nets begin a 32+ game road losing streak 1990 Dean Jones scores twin Test tons vs Pakistan at Adelaide Oval 1991 High-denomination banknotes withdrawn in USSR 1991 "Seinfeld" debuts on NBC-TV 1991 World's largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait 1992 "Visit" opens at Criterion Theater New York City NY for 45 performances 1993 50th Golden Globes Scent of a Woman, wins 1993 Graham Gooch scores his 100th 100, on tour at Cuttack 1993 Indian Airlines B737 crashes art Aurangabad, 61 die 1993 New York Newsday reports Oregon's Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 23 women 1993 US female Figure Skating championship won by Nancy Kerrigan 1994 Bernie Kosar is 2nd QB to throw TD passes in AFC & NFC Championship games 1994 Worldwide Day for peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina 1996 Chris Cairns scores 120, 96 balls, 10x4, 9x6 in Test New Zealand vs Zimbabwe 1998 Pope John Paul II condemns US embargo against Cuba |
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0066 5th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 1340 English king Edward III proclaimed king of France 1531 Lisbon hit by Earthquake; about 30,000 die 1654 Portuguese troops conquer last Dutch base on Recife 1666 France declares war on England & Münster 1689 Jean Racine's "Esther" premieres in Saint-Cyr 1697 Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night 1699 Venice, Poland & Austria sign peace treaty with Turkey 1736 Stanislaw Lesczynski flees Polish throne 1748 England, Netherlands, Austria & Sardinia sign anti-French treaty 1784 Ben Franklin expresses unhappiness over the eagle as America's symbol 1788 Captain Arthur Phillip forms English colony at Sydney, Botany Bay New South Wales as a penal colony 1789 John Odell signs contract for £336 to build St Peter's church (Bronx) 1790 Mozart's opera "Cosi Fan Tutte" premieres in Vienna 1797 Russia, Prussia & Austria sign treaty 1802 Congress passes an act calling for a US Capitol library 1833 Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Lucrezia Borgia" premieres in Milan 1837 Michigan admitted as 26th US state 1838 Tennessee becomes 1st state to prohibit alcohol 1841 Hong Kong proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain 1850 1st German-language daily newspaper in US published, New York City NY 1861 Louisiana becomes 6th state to secede 1862 Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive McClellan ignores order 1863 War Department authorizes Massachusetts Governor to recruit black troops 1863 54th Regiment (Black) infantry forms 1870 Virginia rejoins the US 1871 US income tax repealed 1871 British Rugby Union forms 1875 Electric dental drill is patented by George F Green 1881 Union of Baptists Communities forms in Foxholl 1882 France government of Gambetta falls 1884 1st Dutch Wagner version of Elizabeth aria 1885 Muhammad Ahmed ("Mahdi") rebels conquer Khartoum 1886 Karl Benz patents 1st auto with burning motor 1887 Battle of Dogali Abyssinian Emperor John IV defeats Italians 1891 Oscar Wilde's "Duchess of Padua" premieres in New York City NY 1897 Battle at Bida Gold Coast British troops beat Nupe's army 1900 Henrik Ibsen's "Naar vi Dode Vaaguer" premieres in Stuttgart 1905 Arnold Schönberg's "Pelleas und Melissande" premieres in Vienna 1905 Han Yong-woon [Bongwan, Manhae] (1879-1944) ordained a monk in Korea 1905 World's largest diamond, the 3,106-carat Cullinan, is found in South Africa 1907 1st federal corrupt election practices law passed 1907 J M Synge's "Playboy of the Western World" opens; police are called 1910 Heavy rains cause floods in Paris 1911 Glenn Curtiss pilots 1st successful hydroplane, San Diego CA 1911 Richard Strauss's opera "Die Rosenkavalier" premieres, Dresden 1913 Jim Thorpe relinquishes his 1912 Olympic medals for being a pro 1914 600 Dutch textile workers go on strike 1914 Vatican puts Belgian Nobel winner Maeterlinck's works in their index 1915 Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado established 1918 US food administrator Hoover calls for "wheatless" & "meatless" days for war effort 1920 Amadeo Modigliani's mistress jumps out of a window 1921 Toronto St Pat Corb Denneny scores 6 goals vs Hamilton Tigers 1921 Soccer team GVAV of Groningen Netherlands forms 1922 Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Pastoral Symphony" premieres in London 1924 Charles Jewtraw, US 500m skater, takes 1st Winter Olympics gold medal 1926 Television 1st demonstrated (John L Baird, London) 1927 Maxwell Anderson's "Saturday's Children" premieres in New York City NY 1929 Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence 1930 Cleveland's Terminal Tower opens (52 stories) 1931 Hungary-Austria sign peace treaty 1931 Lynn Riggs' "Green Grow the Lilacs" premieres in New York City NY 1932 KUT-AM in Austin Texas changes call letters to KNOW 1932 British submarine M-2 sinks in Channel (60 dead) 1934 Bradman scores 128 New South Wales vs Victoria, 96 minutes, 17 fours 4 sixes 1934 Nazi Germany & Poland sign non-attack treaty for 10 years 1939 Federal Hall National Monument established 1939 Filming begins on "Gone With the Wind" 1939 Franco conquers Barcelona 1940 Nazis forbid Polish Jews to travel on trains 1942 1st US force in Europe during WWII goes ashore in Northern Ireland 1942 Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German marshal Rommel 1945 Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp 1947 KLM Dakota crashes near Copenhagen, 22 die 1948 Executive Order 9981, end segregation in US Armed Forces signed 1949 WHIO TV channel 7 in Dayton, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting 1950 India becomes a republic ceasing to be a British dominion 1951 Mel Ott & Jimmie Foxx elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1954 Ground breaking begins on Disneyland 1956 7th Winter Olympic games open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy 1956 Porkkala military base returned to Finland by USSR 1956 Buddy Holly's 1st formal recording session 1956 Hank Greenberg & Joe Cronin are elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1957 Bernanos & Poulenc's opera "Dialogue des Carmelites" premieres 1957 Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, forms 1957 India annexes Kashmir 1957 Joseph F Cairnes succeeds Lou Perini as president of Milwaukee Braves 1958 Jack Smith takes over for Art Baker as TV host of "You Asked for It" 1958 H Laskow replaces Moshe Dayan as Israeli minister of Defense 1958 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Lake Worth Open Golf Invitational 1959 Italy government of Fanfani resigns 1959 KOKH TV channel 25 in Oklahoma City OK, (IND/PBS) begins broadcasting 1960 Danny Heater scores 135 points in basketball game (Boys' High School) 1960 Oakland enters the AFL 1960 Pete Rozelle elected NFL commissioner on the 23rd ballot 1961 1st woman "personal physician to President"-JG Travell 1961 "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" by Elvis Presley peaks to #1 1962 US launches Ranger 3, misses Moon by 22,000-mile (37,000-km) 1962 Bishop Burke of Buffalo Catholic dioceses declares Chubby Checker's "Twist" is impure & bans it from all Catholic schools 1962 Canadian Marine Service renamed Coast Guard 1962 David Diamond's 7th Symphony, premieres in Philadelphia 1963 "Milk & Honey" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City NY after 543 performances 1963 Major League Rules Committee votes to expand strike zone 1965 South Vietnam military coup under General Nguyen Khanh 1966 Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2 06.2) 1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR 1968 Israeli submarine Dakar crashes in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die 1969 "Red, White, & Maddox" opens at Cort Theater New York City NY for 41 performances 1970 Pendleton, Ford & Cryer's "Last Sweet Days of Isaac" premieres in New York City NY 1971 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept law against limitation of war crimes 1972 Stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives 10,160m fall without parachute 1973 Belgium government of Leburton forms 1975 Edward Albee's "Seascape" premieres in New York City NY 1976 Israel opens "Good Fence" to Lebanon 1976 6th NFL Pro Bowl NFC beats AFC 23-20 1976 Belgium catholic elite start amnesty campaign for war criminals 1976 David Mamet's "American Buffalo" premieres in New York City NY 1977 Soviet figure skaters Sergei Shakrai & Marine Tcherkasova are 1st to perform a quadruple twist lift, Helsinki 1978 Frank Herbert completes his novel "Destination Void" 1978 International Ultraviolet Explorer placed in Earth orbit 1978 Mario Soares forms Portuguese government 1978 Strikers riot in Tunisia, killing about 40 1979 "The Dukes of Hazzard" premieres on CBS's vast wasteland 1979 Music Center Vredenburg opens in Utrecht Netherlands 1980 175,000 pay to hear Frank Sinatra sing in Rio de Janeiro! 1980 Islanders & Whalers play a NHL penalty-free game 1980 Israel & Egypt establish diplomatic relations 1980 Mary Decker became 1st woman to run a mile in under 4½ minutes 1981 Sandeep Patil scores memorable 174 vs Australia at Adelaide Oval 1982 Islanders score 4 goals within 1 38, 5 within 2 37 vs Penguins 1982 Mauno Koivisto elected President of Finland 1983 Dutch/British infrared satellite IRAS launched from California 1984 Nordiques' Michel Goulet scored on 9th penalty shot against Islanders 1984 US navy exhibits Piasecki helistat-4 helicopters & a blimp able to lift 26 tons-Lakehurst New Jersey 1985 Edmonton Oiler Wayne Gretzky scores 50th goal in 49th game of season 1985 42th Golden Globes Amadeus wins 1986 Hein Vergeer becomes European skating champ 1986 Super Bowl XX Chicago Bears beat New England Patriots, 46-10 in New Orleans; Super Bowl MVP Richard Dent, Chicago, Defensive End 1986 Val Skinner wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic 1986 Yoweri Museveni's rebel army conquerors Kampala Uganda 1987 14th American Music Award Whitney Houston, Lionel Richie & Alabama 1987 Hart Foundation beat British Bulldogs for WWF tag team title 1988 Australia's 200th anniversary-parade of tall ships in Sydney Harbor 1988 "Phantom of the Opera" opens at Majestic Theater New York City NY for 4,000+ performances 1989 AT&T reports 1st loss in 103 years; $1.67 B in 1988 1989 Madison Square Garden announces 2-year $100 M renovation plan 1989 US computer security expert warns of catastrophic virus 1989 "Black & Blue" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City NY for 829 performances 1989 Allan Border takes 7-46 against the West Indies at the SCG 1989 Test debut of Mark Taylor, Australia vs West Indies, Sydney 1990 Annular eclipse visible over Antarctica & South Atlantic 1990 Boston Red Sox hires Elaine Weddington as assistant GM (highest-ranking black female in a major-league front office) 1991 "Few Good Men" closes at Music Box Theater New York City NY after 497 performances 1991 65th Australian Womens Tennis Monica Seles beats J Novotna (57 63 61) 1991 Alfaro Vive guerrilla group of Ecuador gives arms to Catholic church 1991 Houston guard Vernon Maxwell is 4th NBAer to score 30 points in a quarter 1991 Jan Stenerud becomes 1st pure placekicker to make NFL Hall of Fame 1991 New York Lotto pays $90 million to nine winner (#s are 5-15-30-35-46-50) 1992 "Little Hotel on the Side" opens at Belasco Theater New York City NY for 41 performances 1992 80th Australian Mens Tennis Jim Courier beats Stefan Edberg (63 36 64 62) 1992 Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect 1992 Super Bowl XXVI Washington Redskins beat Buffalo Bills, 37-24 in Minnesota; Super Bowl MVP Mark Rypien, Washington, Quarterback 1993 West Indies defeat Australia by one run in 4th Test at Adelaide 1995 New Jersey Governor Christine Whitman, dedicates a rest stop to Howard Stern 1996 "Les Miserables" opens at Musichall Theatre, Duisburg 1997 "Ideal Husband" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City NY after 308 performances 1997 85th Australian Mens Tennis Pete Sampras beats Carlos Moya (62 63 63) 1997 Brunswick World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by John Gant 1997 Super Bowl XXXI Green Bay Packers beat New England Patriots, 35-21 in New Orleans; Super Bowl MVP Desmond Howard, Green Bay, Kick Returner 1998 25th American Music Award Spice Girls & Babyface win 1998 Intel launches 333 MHz Pentium II chip 1998 President Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people, I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky" |
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0672 St Vitalian ends his reign as Catholic Pope 0847 Sergius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1302 Dante becomes a Florentine political exile 1538 States of Gelderland accepts Willem van Kleef as viceroy 1556 Willem of Orange becomes knight of Guilder Flies 1593 Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno 1662 1st American lime kiln begins operation (Providence RI) 1671 Pirate Henry Morgen lands at Panama City 1710 Czar Peter the Great sets 1st Russian state budget 1736 Abdication of Stanislas, last king of Poland 1778 Piccinni's opera "Roland" premieres, Paris 1785 1st US state university chartered, Athens GA 1823 President Monroe appoints 1st US ambassadors to South America 1864 Civil War skirmish at Kelly's Ford VA 1864 Battle of Fair Gardens, Tennessee 1870 1st sorority (Kappa Alpha Theta) (DePauw University in Greencastle IN) 1870 Manitoba & Northwest Territories incorporated 1870 After accepting 15th amendment, Virginia is readmitted to Union 1880 Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp 1886 1st British government of Salisbury resigns 1888 National Geographic Society organizes (Washington DC) 1891 Mine explosion kills 109 at Mount Pleasant PA 1894 1st college basketball game, University of Chicago beats Chicago YMCA 19-11 1894 Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park 1896 Tasmania bowl out Victoria for 65 for their 1st ever innings victory 1897 British troops occupy Bida Gold Coast (Ghana) 1900 Social Democrat Party of America (Debs' party) holds 1st convention 1902 5 workers killed on explosion during IRT subway construction (New York City NY) 1905 Maurice Rouvier forms government in France 1906 Rudolf Gundersen skates world record 500m at 44.8 seconds 1908 Pasiphaë, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Melotte 1915 US Marines occupy Haiti 1916 Communist party "Spartacus Letters" 1st published in Berlin 1917 Coen de Koning wins 2nd official 11 cities race (9 53) (record) 1918 "Tarzan of the Apes", 1st Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater 1924 Egyptian king Foead nominates Saad Zaghloel Pasja premier 1924 Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square 1926 US Senate agrees to join World Court 1927 Harlem Globetrotters play their 1st game 1933 Otto Meisnner dines with British ambassador Rumbold 1934 27th Australian Men's Tennis Open Fred Perry beat Crawford (63 75 61) 1934 French government of Chautemps falls (Stavisky Affair) 1934 VARA refuses to hire after commemoration of Marinus Van de Lubbe 1940 -17ºF (-27ºC), CCC Camp F-16, Georgia (state record) 1941 Peruvian agent Rivera-Schreibér warns of Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor 1942 -19ºF (-27.4ºC), Netherlands' coldest day since 1850 1943 1st US air attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen) 1944 Casey Stengel, manager of the Boston Braves since 1938, resigns Lou Perini, Guido Rugo, & Joseph Maney buy control of Boston Braves 1944 Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed 1945 Nazi occupiers forbid food transport to West (The Netherlands) 1945 Russia liberates Auschwitz & Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland) 1945 S Romberg, H&D Fields' musical premieres in New York City NY 1945 Wally van Hall, "banker in defiance", arrested 1948 1st locomotive to carry 1,000,000 pounds (450,000 kg) operates 1948 1st tape recorder sold 1949 Chinese liner "Taiping" collides with a collier off south China 1950 2nd Emmy Awards Ed Wynn Show & Texaco Star Theater win 1951 "Peter Pan" closes at Imperial Theater New York City NY after 320 performances 1951 US begins 126 nuclear tests at Nevada Test Site 1953 Netherlands end Marshall aid 1955 "Plain & Fancy" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City NY for 476 performances 1956 NFL's New York Giants switches games from Polo Grounds to Yankee Stadium 1957 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open 1958 Ferenc Münnich follows Kádár as premier of Hungary 1961 "Sing Along with Mitch" [Miller] premieres on NBC TV 1962 "Family Affair" opens at Billy Rose Theater New York City NY for 65 performances 1963 Jevgeni Grishin skates world record 500m in 39.6 seconds 1963 Sam Rice, Eppa Rixey, Elmer Flick, & John Clarkson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1964 "Introducing the Beatles" album released in US 1964 Margaret Chase Smith (Senator-R-ME) tries for Republican Presidential bid 1964 Barlow & Graeme Pollock complete 341 stand at Adelaide Oval 1965 1st ground station-to-aircraft radio communication via satellite 1965 Ground breaking for "Dragon Gateway" at Grant Avenue 1966 Wisconsin State Circuit Court Judge Elmer W Roller rules either the Braves stay in Milwaukee or National League must promise Wisconsin an expansion team for 1966 1967 Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White & Chaffee 1967 Beatles sign a 9 year worldwide contract with EMI records 1967 New Orleans Saints sign their 1st player (Paige Cothren-kicker) 1967 Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space, signed 1968 "Darling of the Day" opens at George Abbott Theater New York City NY for 31 performances 1969 Actress Thelma Ritter suffers a heart attack (she dies Feb 4th) 1969 14 spies hung in Baghdad 1969 9 Jews publicly executed in Damascus Syria 1969 Noordiers vicar Ian Paisley sentenced to 3 years 1970 Movie rating system modifies "M" rating to "PG" 1971 Montgomery St Station, last link in BART, `holed thru' 1973 UCLA's basketball team wins 61st consecutive game (NCAA record) 1973 US & Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest US war & military draft 1973 US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn (her 5th consecutive win) 1973 US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr 1973 William Rogers & Nguyen Duy Trinh sign US-N Vietnam treaty 1974 "Lorelei" opens at Palace Theater New York City NY for 320 performances 1976 "Laverne & Shirley" spin-off from "Happy Days" premieres on ABC TV 1976 9th ABA All-Star Game Denver 144 beats ABA 138 at Denver 1976 Morocco-Algeria battles in Westerly Sahara 1976 Viv Richards scores his 1st Test century against Australia 1977 President Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10,000) 1977 1st broadcast of "Roots" mini-series on ABC TV 1979 Islanders ends 23 undefeated games at home streak (15-0-8) 1979 36th Golden Globes Midnight Express, Jon Voight & Jane Fonda 1980 "Comin' Uptown" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City NY after 45 performances 1980 10th NFL Pro Bowl NFC beats AFC 37-27 1982 "Joseph & the Amazing Dreamcoat" opens at Royale New York City NY for 747 performances 1982 Mauno Koivisto installed as President of Finland 1982 Philadelphia trades Larry Bowa & Ryne Sandberg to Cubs for Ivan DeJesus 1982 Roberto S Cordova installed as President of Honduras 1982 West Indies beat Australia 3-1 to win World Series Cup 1983 World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.90 km) opens, Honshu-Hokkaid 1984 John & Yoko release "Milk & Honey" album 1984 Los Angeles Kings end Wayne Gretzky's NHL-record 51-game scoring streak 1984 Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial 1985 15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 returns to Earth 1985 "Doug Henning & His World..." closes at Lunt-Fontanne NY after 60 performances 1985 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic 1985 Mark Mckoy cycles world record 50m hurdles indoor (5.25) 1985 NFL Pro Bowl AFC beats NFC 22-14 1986 13th American Music Award Whitney Houston, Huey Lewis & Crystal Gayle 1987 Midnight Rockers beat Buddy Rose & Doug Somers for AWA World Tag Team 1988 Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves nomination of Judge Anthony M Kennedy to US Supreme Court 1989 Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) begins NBA free throw streak of 57 games 1989 Oklahoma's linebacker, Mark VanKeirsblilck assaults an Oklahoma grad student 1989 German war criminals Fischer & Austrian der Fünten freed 1990 Dissolution of Polish communist party 1990 64th Australian Open Women's Tennis Steffi Graf beats Mary Jo Fernandez (63 64) 1991 79th Australian Open Men's Tennis Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (16 64 64 64) 1991 Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, disbands 1991 Nadine Strossen is 1st female president of the ACLU 1991 Super Bowl XXV New York Giants beat Buffalo Bills, 20-19 in Tampa; Super Bowl MVP Ottis Anderson, New York Giants, Running Back 1992 Mike Tyson goes on trial for rape (he is found guilty) 1992 "Crazy He Calls Me" opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City NY for 7 performances 1992 19th American Music Award C & C Music Factory, Michael Bolton win 1992 Jane Fonda undergoes arthroscopic surgery on her right knee 1992 Presidential candidate Bill Clinton (D) & Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair 1993 DC-3 crashes in Kinshasa, killing 12 1994 "No Man's Land" opens at Criterion Theater New York City NY for 61 performances 1994 Carlos Reina succeeds President Callejas in Honduras 1994 Romanian social-democrats form government with anti-Semites 1995 69th Australian Open Women's Tennis Mary Pierce beats A S Vicario (63 62) 1996 15 day old siamese twins separated-Sarah Morales survives, Sarahi dies 1996 70th Australian Open Women's Tennis Monica Seles beats Anke Huber (64 61) 1996 Catherine Roskam becomes the 1st New York female Episcopal bishop 1996 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1996 Germany celebrates its 1st Holocaust Remembrance Day 1996 Shiv Chanderpaul scores 303* for Guyana vs Jamaica at Kingston 1997 "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" opens at Gershwin New York City NY 1997 24th American Music Award Toni Braxton & Alanis Morissette win 1998 Crane crashes into Roosevelt Is (New York City NY) Tram, injuring 10 1998 Roland Clarkson discovers 2^3021377-1 (37th known Mersenne prime) 1998 WNBA begins filling rosters of Washington Mystics & Detroit Shock |
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1077 Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV 1349 Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred 1349 Günther of Schwarzburg chosen German anti-king 1467 Battle at Velke Kostolany Hung king Mátyás Corvinus beats Bratríci 1487 Bell chimes invented 1522 Duke of Albany takes captured French back to Scotland 1544 Adrian van Goes becomes land advocate of Holland 1592 Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII 1647 Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for £400, 1648 Spain & Netherlands sign Peace of Münster, ending Tachtigjarige War 1667 Treaty of Andrussovo Russia & Poland sign peace treaty 1713 England & Netherlands sign 2nd anti-French boundary treaty 1774 Captain Cook reaches 71º 10' S, 1820 km from S pole (record) 1781 Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland 1790 Lifeboat 1st tested at sea, by Mr Greathead, the inventor 1797 Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks 1798 Representative Matthew Lyon (Vermont) spits in face of Representative Roger Griswold (Connecticut) in US House of Representatives, after an argument 1800 US population 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%) 1804 Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River 1806 Prussia takes possession of Hanover 1815 Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson's 6500 volumes 1818 Keats composes his sonnet, "When I Have Fears" 1820 Edward Bransfield aboard Williams discovers Antarctica (UK claim) 1835 Richard Lawrence misfires at President Andrew Jackson in Washington DC 1847 Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco 1853 Emperor Napoleon III marries Eugénie Maria de Montijo y de Guzman 1854 1st election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast 1858 Charles Hallé founds Hallé Orchestra in Manchester 1858 William Wells Brown published 1st Black drama, "Leap to Freedom" 1862 US Navy's 1st ironclad warship (Monitor) launched 1877 Storm flood ravages Dutch coastal provinces 1879 French President MacMahon resigns 1883 England team presented with ashes of a bail after Sydney Test 1888 Harry Moses 297 not out for New South Wales against Victoria 1889 John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48" (120cm) telescope 1889 Victoria beat New South Wales after following on (New South Wales all out 63 needed 76) 1892 Bobby Abel carries his bat for 132* for England in SCG Test 1892 Captain Lugard occupies Uganda's King Mwanga's hide out 1894 Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit 1894 US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Admiral Benham 1895 C J Eady (Tasmania) 1st Australian to score twin centuries (vs Victoria) 1895 SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed 1895 Tasmania beat Victoria for 1st F-C victory in 41 years 1911 1st rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba 1913 House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill 1915 German submarine attack on Le Havre 1915 No 10 batsman F W Hyett scores century on debut, Victoria vs Tasmania 1917 1st jazz record recorded (Dark Town Strutters Ball) 1919 Reds hire Pat Moran as manager as Christy Mathewson, is still in France with US Army 1920 Québec's Joe Malone sets NHL record of 7 goals in a game 1921 French rapist-murderer Henri-Désiré Landru sentenced to death 1922 World Law Day, 1st celebrated 1922 Ted McDonald takes 8-58 in big Victorian win over New South Wales 1924 Ponsford scores second 110 of the game in Victoria win over New South Wales 1925 Turkish government throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople 1927 Left wins national election in Thüringen 1928 1st radio telephone connection between Netherlands & US 1928 Bradman scores 134 not out (225 minutes, 13 fours) New South Wales vs Victoria 1928 Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude" premieres in New York City NY 1930 Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Banya" premieres in Leningrad 1931 Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" premieres at Los Angeles Theater 1932 Grimmett 7-116 in South Africa 1st innings at Adelaide Oval 1933 "The Lone Ranger" premieres on ABC radio 1933 German President von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor, Hitler forms government with Von Papen 1933 Grimmett takes 7-86 for South Africa in Queensland 2nd inn, 13-135 for match 1934 1st theatrical presentation sponsored by the US government, New York City NY 1934 Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 years 298 days 1934 Hitler proclamation on German unified states 1935 Ezra Pound meets Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos" 1936 Fans asked to pick a new name for Boston Braves; they choose "The Bees" it doesn't catch on & is scrapped by 1940 season 1936 Victoria need 442 to win against New South Wales, but lose, all out for 415 1937 2nd of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov & 16 others sentenced to death 1939 Hitler calls for the extermination of Jews 1939 Heavy after shocks destroy some of Chile 1940 Benjamin Britten's "Lesson Illuminations" premieres in London 1940 Cor Jongert wins 6th Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race 1940 Hassett's second 122 of the game for Victoria can't stop a New South Wales win 1941 Australian troops conquer Derna Libya 1942 Japanese troops land on Ambon 1943 6 British Mosquito's daylight bomb Berlin 1943 German assault on French in Tunisia 1943 German under officers shot down in Haarlem Netherlands 1943 Hitler promotes Friedrich von Paul to General - field marshal 1943 Illegal opposition newspaper Loyal begins publishing 1943 USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean 1944 US invades Majuro, Marshall Islands 1945 German ship "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7,700 die 1946 1st issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime 1948 5th Winter Olympic games open in St Moritz, Switzerland 1950 "Robert Montgomery Presents" dramatic anthology premieres on NBC TV 1951 Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio 1952 Lehmer verifies 2  21-1 & 2^607-1 (183 ciphers) Mersenne-prime # 1952 Paul Creston's 4th Symphony, premieres 1954 Belgium ends trade agreement with USSR 1954 Italy's Fanfani government resigns 1956 Martin Luther King Jr's home bombed 1956 Elvis Presley records his version of "Blue Suede Shoes" 1956 KRMA TV channel 6 in Denver CO (PBS) begins broadcasting 1956 KTXS TV channel 12 in Sweetwater-Abilene TX (ABC) begins broadcasting 1957 US Congress accepts "Eisenhower-doctrine" 1958 1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas TX 1958 House of Lords passes bill allowing women in 1958 Baseball announces players & coaches rather than fans pick all stars 1958 Dore Schary's "Sunrise at Campobello" premieres in New York City NY 1959 Australia 1-200 1st day 4th Test vs England, Adelaide Oval 1959 Paul Hindemith's symphony "Pittsburgh" premieres 1960 CIA oks Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft (Oxcart) 1960 Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands 1960 Riot curtails third day's play at Port-Of-Spain West Indies vs England 1960 US female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss 1960 US male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins 1961 Bobby Darin is youngest performer to headline a TV special on NBC 1961 JFK asks for an Alliance for Progress & Peace Corps 1961 KAET TV channel 8 in Phoenix AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting 1961 Lance Gibbs takes hat-trick (Mackay, Grout, Misson) at Adelaide 1962 UN General Assembly censures Portugal (because of Angola) 1962 2 members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1964 Ranger 6 launched; makes perfect flight to Moon, but cameras fail 1964 Military coup of General Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam 1965 "The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis hits #3 1965 State funeral of Winston Churchill 1966 -19ºF (-28ºC), Corinth MS (state record) 1966 -27ºF (-33ºC), New Market AL (state record) 1966 Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2 05.2) 1966 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 11th string quartet 1968 Bobby Goldsboro records his biggest hit, "Honey" 1968 Vietcong launch Tet-offensive on US embassy in Saigon 1969 Beatles perform their last gig together, a 42-minute free concert on the roof of Apple HQs 1969 US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere 1971 "Ari" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City NY after 19 performances 1971 Dennis Lillee takes 5-84 in his 1st Test bowl, vs England 1971 UCLA starts 88 basketball game win streak 1972 Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth 1972 Bloody Sunday British soldiers shoot on catholics in Londonderry, 13 die 1973 Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all counts 1973 26th NHL All-Star Game East beat West 5-4 at New York Rangers 1973 KISS plays their 1st show (Coventry Club in Queens NY) 1974 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk USSR 1976 1st-class debut of Dav Whatmore, in Johannesburg 1976 George Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977) 1976 William E Colby, ends term as 10th director of CIA 1977 8th (final) part of "Roots" is most-watched entertainment show ever 1977 Allan Border scores 36 in his 1st-class innings (New South Wales vs Queesland) 1977 Edward W Stack replaces Paul Kerr president of Hall of Fame 1978 Addie Joss & Larry MacPhail elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1978 Mutual Broadcasting Network begins airing Larry King Show on radio 1979 Rhodesia agrees to new constitution 1980 Edward Albee's "Lady from Dubuque" premieres in New York City NY 1981 8th American Music Award Kenny Rogers wins 1982 US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners 1983 Hilbert van Thumb becomes European skating champ 1983 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Mazda of Deer Creek Golf Classic 1983 Super Bowl XVII Washington Redskins beat Miami Dolphins, 27-17 in Pasadena; Super Bowl MVP John Riggins, Washington, Running Back 1988 Hansie Cronje gets a pair in 2nd 1st-class game (OFS vs N Tvl) 1989 Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter 1989 Olympian, Bruce Kimball, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident 1989 16th American Music Award Randy Travis & George Michael win 1989 5 pharoah sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor 1989 Last day of 1st class cricket for Dav Whatmore 1991 Battle for Khafji in Saudi Arabia (2nd day) 1992 Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) lands 1993 100,000n Europeans demonstrate against fascism & racism 1993 67th Australian Open Women's Tennis Monica Seles beat Graf (46 63 62) 1994 68th Australian Open Women's Tennis Steffi Graf beats Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (60 62) 1994 82nd Australian Open Men's Tennis Pete Sampras beats Todd Martin (76 64 64) 1994 Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.76) 1994 Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wickets 1994 Super Bowl XXVIII Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 30-13 in Atlanta; Super Bowl MVP Emmitt Smith, Dallas, Running Back 1995 22nd American Music Award Boyz II Men & Ace of Base win 1995 Belgium's TV channel 2 in Flanders goes on the air 1995 Car bomb explodes in Algiers, 42 killed/296 injured 1995 Kevin Eubanks officially becomes band leader of "Tonight Show" 1997 Minuteman III launches 1998 All-Star Florida Marlin catcher Darren Daulton, retires 1998 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Indianapolis IN on WNAP 93.1 FM 1998 Paul Simon's "The Capeman" premieres |
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On this day... 0060 St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta 1098 Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch 1535 12 nude Anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets 1549 Tomé de Sousa appointed Governor-General of Brazil 1635 Académie Française is founded in Paris (by Cardinal Richelieu) 1676 Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster MA 1713 Netherlands & England sign accord concerning anti-French Barrier 1716 Scottish pretender to the throne James III Edward returns to France 1720 Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England 1746 English Pelham government resigns 1749 10th (final) volume of Fielding's "Tom Jones" is published 1763 Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrenders Canada to England 1774 Andrew Becker demonstrates diving suit 1794 Joseph Haydn's 99th Symphony in E, premieres 1807 US Coast Survey authorized by Congress 1824 Simon Bolívar named dictator by the Congress of Perú 1840 British queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert von Saksen-Coburg 1846 British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon, India 1846 Beginning of Mormon march to west US 1855 US citizenship laws amended all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship 1859 General Horsford defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny 1860 John Brahms' 2nd Serenade in A, premieres 1862 Dutch 2nd government of Thorbecke forms 1863 1st US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia 1863 PT Barnum stages wedding of Tom Thumb & Mercy Lavinia Warren (New York NY) 1866 Dutch government Frans van der Putte forms 1868 Conservatives & military, seize Convention Hall in Florida 1870 City of Anaheim incorporates (1st time) 1870 YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) is founded (New York NY) 1878 Peace of Zanjón 1878 Peter Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony in F, premieres 1879 1st electric arc light used (California Theater) 1879 Henry Morton Stanley departs to the Congo 1880 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Arcanum about Christian marriage 1881 Jacques Offenbach's opera "Les Contes d'Hoffman" premieres in Paris 1882 Rimski-Korsakovs opera "Snyegurochka" premieres in St Petersburg 1883 Fire at un-insured New Hall Hotel in Milwaukee WI, kills 71 1890 Around 11 million acres, ceded to US by Sioux Indians opens for settlement 1897 New York Times begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print" 1899 -39ºF (-39ºC), Milligan OH (state lowest temperature record) 1899 US-Spain peace treaty signed by President McKinley; US gets Puerto Rico & Guam 1900 Peter Ostlund skates world record 500 meter (45.2 seconds) 1904 Japan & Russia declares war after Japan's surprise attack on Russian fleet at Port Arthur disabled 7 Russian warships 1906 Britain's 1st modern & largest battleship "HMS Dreadnought" launched 1906 State of siege proclaimed in Zululand 1908 Tommy Burns KOs Jack Palmer in 4 for heavyweight boxing title 1912 Hobbs & Rhodes make 323 cricket opening stand vs Australia at MCG 1913 Edward Sheldons "Romance" premieres in New York NY 1916 Conscription begins in Britain 1917 Johanna Westerdijk installed as Netherlands 1st female professor 1920 Baseball outlaws all pitches involving tampering with the ball 1923 Ink paste manufactured for 1st time by Standard Ink Company 1923 Owen Davis' "Icebound" premieres in New York NY 1923 SDAP speaks out against allied occupation of Ruhrgebied 1924 Bucky Harris, 27, becomes youngest baseball manager (Washington Senators) 1925 1st waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City IN 1925 AL decides to alternate leagues for game 1 of World Series each year 1926 Building of Olympian Stadium Amsterdam, begins 1927 President Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference 1930 Grain Stabilization Corporation authorized by Congress 1931 New Delhi becomes capital of India 1931 Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Harts premieres in New York NY 1933 -54ºF (-48ºC), Seneca OR (state record) 1933 Delivery of 1st singing telegram (Postal Telegram Company NYC) 1933 Dutch sea-plane bombs Dutch ship 1933 Hitler proclaims end of Marxism 1933 Mutiny on "7 Provinces" ends (began Feb 4th), 23 killed 1934 Byrd souvenir sheet issued, NYC; 1st unperforated ungummed US stamp 1934 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine 1934 Howard Hanson's "Merry Mount" premieres in New York NY 1934 Stalin ends 17th CPSU-congress, says "Life becomes merrier" 1934 Thomson/Gertrude Stein's opera "Four Saints in Three Acts" premieres in New York NY 1935 Pennsylvania RR begins passenger service on new streamlined electric locomotive 1937 Ragnhild Hveger swims world free style record 400 meter (5:14.2) 1938 King Carol II of Romania drives out dictator Goga 1940 "In The Mood" by Glenn Miller hits #1 1940 Tom & Jerry created by Hanna & Barbera debut by MGM 1940 US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer 1940 US male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner 1941 1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Washington DC-Harrisonburg, VA 1941 Anti-Nazi "Het Parool" begins publishing in Netherlands 1943 "Manifesto of Algerian People" calls for equality & self-determination 1943 8th Army sweeps through North Africa to Tunisia 1943 Van der Veen Resistance starts fire in Amsterdam employment bureau 1944 Belgium resistance fighter/author Kamiel van Baelen arrested 1944 U-666/U-545/U-283 sink off Ireland 1945 "Rum & Coca Cola" by Andrews Sisters hits #1 1946 1st black pro-baseball player Jackie Robinson marries Rachel Isum 1947 Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia 1947 Province of Petsamo returned to Soviet Union by Finland 1947 Netherlands Radio Union forms 1947 WWII peace treaties signed 1948 Greek General Markos' guerrilla army bombs Saloniki 1949 Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" opens at Morosco Theater, NYC 1951 "John & Marsha" by Stan Freberg peaks at #21 1951 Shah of Persia marries 19 year old Soraja Esfandiara Bakhtiari 1953 Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Jean Westwood & Lawrence Demmy of Great Britain 1953 Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Jennifer & John Nicks of Great Britain 1953 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Tenley Albright USA 1953 Men's Figure Skating Champion in Davos won by Hayes Alan Jenkins USA 1954 Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam 1954 Ice Dance Championship at Oslo won by Jean Westwood/Lawrence Demmy Great Britain 1954 Ice Pairs Championship at Oslo won by Frances Dafoe/Norris Bowden CAN 1954 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Oslo won by Gundi Busch Germany 1954 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Oslo won by Hayes Alan Jenkins US 1956 "My Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV 1956 Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel" for RCA 1957 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open 1957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference forms 1959 Dutch Princess Wilhelmina publishes "Lonely, but not alone" 1959 Tornado in St Louis kills 19 & injures 265 1960 "Unsinkable Molly Brown" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 532 performances 1960 Charles Ives' "Lincoln, the Great Commoner" premieres 1961 AFL's Los Angeles Chargers move to San Diego 1961 Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power 1961 Walter Piston's 7th Symphony, premieres 1962 Jim Beatty sets American indoor mile record (3 minutes 58.9 seconds) in Los Angeles CA 1962 USSR swaps spy Francis Gary Power to US for Rudolph Abel 1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA St Petersburg Women's Golf Open 1963 US female Figure Skating championship won by Lorraine Hanlon 1963 US male Figure Skating championship won by Thomas Litz 1964 Australian destroyer "Voyager" sinks in collision, killing 82 1964 Destroyer Voyager sinks off Australia after colliding with aircraft carrier Melbourne 1964 WBGU TV channel 27 in Bowling Green OH (PBS) begins broadcasting 1966 Harmel government in Belgium resigns 1967 25th Amendment (Presidential Disability & Succession) in effect 1968 "Spooky" by Classics IV hits #3 1968 Peggy Fleming wins Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France 1969 LSU Pete Maravich scores 66, despite losing to Tulane 101-94 1970 Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel killing 40 Belgian, French, & German youths (Val d'Isere, France) 1970 26.4 cm precipitation falls on Mount Washington NH (state record) 1971 American Mensa, Ltd incorporates in New York 1971 John Guares "House of Blue Leaves" premieres in New York NY 1971 Royal Albert Hall bans scheduled concert featuring Frank Zappa 1972 BBC bans "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" by Wings 1972 Ras al Khaima joins the United Arab Emirates 1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR 1973 2nd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0 1973 83 meter wide gas tank on Staten Island NY explodes, crushing 40 1973 Mushtaq Mohammad follows up 201 to take 5-49 vs New Zealand Dunedin 1974 Silver futures hit record $4.81½ an ounce in London 1974 "Gigi" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 103 performances 1974 Gail Denenber wins LPGA Sears Women's Golf Classic 1974 Iran/Iraqi border fight breaks out 1974 Judy Ikenberry wins 1st Us women's marathon (2:55:17) 1975 William "Judy" Johnson selected to baseball Hall of Fame 1977 Yehonathan Netanyou Lane in the Bronx named in honor of Bronx-born Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebbe Raid (1976) 1977 "Party with Comden & Green" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 92 performances 1977 Bomb explosion in Moskouse metro 1978 Frank C Carlucci succeeds John F Blake as deputy director of CIA 1979 "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" by Rod Stewart peaks at #1 1979 Border is named 12th man for Australia, only Test Cricket he missed 1980 Ianford Wilsons "Talley's Folly" premieres in New York NY 1980 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic 1981 8 killed & 198 injured by fire at Las Vegas Hilton 1981 33rd NHL All-Star Game Campbell beat Wales 4-1 at Los Angeles CA 1981 Dennis Lillee becomes Australian Cricket's top wicket-taker with 249 1982 28 skiers perform backflips while holding hands, Bromont Québec 1983 Anglican synod vote 338-100 against unilateral UK nuclear disarmament 1985 -61ºF (-52ºC), Maybell CO (state record) 1985 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-E mission 1985 35th NBA All-Star Game West beats East 140-129 at Indiana 1985 Andrea Schöne skates ladies world record 5 km (7:32.82) 1985 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic 1985 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR 1986 John Lennon's "Live in NYC" album is released 1987 Philippine troops murder 17 civilians-Lupao Massacre 1988 3-judge panel of 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal) 1988 Rocky Malebane-Metsing coup in Bophuthatswana fails 1989 Miami Vice's 100th episode seen on TV 1989 Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting, St Louis MO 1989 To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition & not a sport, in a New Jersey court 1989 Celtic Kansas City Jones & Cavalier Lenny Wilkens elected to NBA Hall of Fame 1989 Ron Brown chosen 1st black chairman of a major US party (Democrats) 1989 Test Cricket debut of Aaqib Javed, Pakistan vs New Zealand age 16 years 189 days 1989 Tony Robinson of Jamaica becomes Nottingham's 1st black sheriff 1989 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1990 Buster Douglas KOs Mike Tyson in 10 to become heavyweight boxing champion 1990 Perrier Water pulls product from shelf due to benzene in water 1990 South Africa President de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be free Feb 11th 1990 6th Largest wrestling crowd (63,900-Tokyo Dome) 1990 US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary 1991 NBA All Star Game at Charlotte NC 1991 "La Bete" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 24 performances 1991 41st NBA All-Star Game East beats West 116-114 at Charlotte 1991 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Phar-Mor at Inverrary Golf Tournament 1991 Johann Koss skates world record 10 km (13:43.54) 1991 Lithuania votes for independence from USSR 1992 "Dangerous Women" final episode on WWOR-TV 1992 Bonnie Blair wins 1992 Olympics 1st gold medal for the USA 1992 Mike Tyson convicted of raping Desiree Washington in Indiana 1993 "Michael Jackson Talks To Oprah Winfrey" airs on ABC & drew an astounding 39.3 rating/56 share, 90 million people 1993 Jani Sievinen swims world record 200 meter backstroke (1:55.59) 1993 US officially backs peace plan in Bosnia 1995 Chelsi Smith, 21, (Texas), crowned 44th Miss USA 1995 Sun Cayun pole vaults female indoor world record (4.12 meters) 1995 US female Figure Skating championship won by Nicole Bobek 1996 IBM's Deep Blue defeats chess champion Gary Kasparov 1997 13th Soap Opera Digest Awards 1997 5th annual ESPY Awards presented 1997 Comet Shoemaker-Holt 2 Closest Approach to Earth (1.9245 AU) 1997 Lemrick Nelson found guilty in the fatal stabbing on Hasidic Jew Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights Brooklyn in 1991 1997 O J Simpson jury reaches decision on $25 million in punitive damages 1997 Soyuz TM-25 launches to the MIR 1998 AOL raises monthly flat rate Internet access from $19.95 to $21.95 1998 Olympics figure skater Peggy Fleming undergoes breast cancer surgery |
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0468 St Hilary ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1504 Columbus uses a lunar eclipse to frighten hostile Jamaican Indians 1692 Sarah Good & Tituba, an Indian servant, accused of witchcraft, Salem 1696 English ex-premier Earl Danby accused of corruption 1704 French & Indians attack Deerfield MA, kill 50, abduct 100 1720 Queen Ulrica Eleonora of Sweden resigns 1784 Marquis de Sade transferred from Vincennes fortress to the Bastille 1796 Jay's Treaty proclaimed, settles some differences with England 1816 Dutch (King) Willem II marries Russian grand-duchess Anna Paulowna 1832 Charles Darwin visits jungle near Bahia Brazil 1836 Giacomo Meyerbeer's (Jakob Liebmann Beer) opera "Les Huguenots" premieres in Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra, Paris) 1848 Neufchatel declares independence of Switzerland 1856 Hostilities in Russo-Turkish War cease 1868 1st British government of Disraeli forms 1880 Gotthard railway tunnel between Switzerland & Italy opens 1892 Britain & US sign treaty on seal hunting in Bering Sea 1904 Theodore Roosevelt, appoints 7 man committee to study Panamá Canal 1908 Dutch scientists produce solid helium 1932 Failed coup attempt by fascist Lapua Movement in Finland 1936 FDR signs 2nd neutrality act 1940 Frederic from G & S "Pirates of Penzance" finally released by pirate 1940 "Gone with the Wind" wins 8 Oscars 1940 45 U boats sunk this month (170,000 ton) 1940 Hattie McDaniel becomes 1st black woman to win an Oscar 1944 5 leaders of Indonesia Communist Party sentenced to death 1944 US troop land on Los Negros, Admirality Islands 1948 Stern-group bomb Cairo-Haifa train, 27 British soldiers died 1952 Dick Button wins his 5th consecutive world figure skating title 1952 Ice Dance Championship at Paris France won by Westwood & Demmy Great Britain 1952 Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Ria Falk & Paul Falk of Germany 1952 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Jacqueline du Bief of France 1952 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Richard Button USA 1956 Islamic Republic established in Pakistan 1956 President Eisenhower announces he would seek a 2nd term 1960 1st Playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago 1960 Earthquake kills 1/3 of Agadir Morocco population (12,000) in 15 seconds 1960 JFK makes "missile gap" the Presidential campaign issue 1960 KRET TV channel 23 in Richardson TX (PBS) begins broadcasting 1964 Frank Rugani sets badminton shuttlecock distance record, 24.3 meters 1964 LBJ reveals US secretly developed the A-11 jet fighter 1964 North Carolina high school basketball teams play to 56-54 score in 13 overtime 1964 "Rugantino" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 28 performances 1968 1st pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge) 1968 Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" wins Grammy 1968 National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission) reports against racism & demands aid given to blacks 1968 Howard Hanson's 6th Symphony, premieres 1968 US end regular flights with nuclear bombs 1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1972 Hank Aaron becomes 1st baseball player to sign for $200,000 a year 1972 Jack Anderson discloses Dita Beard (ITT) memo indicating antitrust charges were dropped for $400,000 contribution to Republican Party 1980 Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHL player to score 800 career goals 1980 Michael Bracey ends 59 hours 55 minutes trapped in an elevator, England 1984 Canadian PM Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced he is stepping down 1988 KWK-FM in St Louis MO changes call letters to WKBG 1988 Nazi document implicates Waldheim in WWII deportations 1988 NYC Mayor Koch calls Reagan a "WIMP" in the war on drugs 1988 Mark Greatbatch scores 107 vs England on Test Cricket debut 1992 The Professional Spring Football League begins 1992 Dawn Coe wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1996 Kenya defeat West Indies (all out 93) in Cricket World Cup 1996 Soyuz TM-23, lands |
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0001 -BC- Start of revised Julian calendar in Rome 0293 Roman emperor Maximianus introduces tetrarchy 0492 St Felix III ends his reign as Catholic Pope 0492 St Gelasius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope 0705 John VII begins his reign as Catholic Pope 0743 Slave export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited 0918 Balderik becomes bishop of Utrecht 1260 Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, conquerors Damascus 1382 French Maillotin uprises against taxes 1420 Pope Martinus I calls for crusade against the hussieten 1434 Jacoba of Bavaria marries Frank van Borselen 1562 Blood bath at Vassy; General de Guise allows 1200 huguenots murder 1565 Spanish occupier Estacio de Sá founds Rio de Janeiro 1587 English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower 1591 Pope Gregory XIV threatens to excommunicate French king Henri IV 1634 Battle at Smolensk; Polish King Wladyslaw IV beats Russians 1642 Georgeana (York) ME became the 1st incorporated American city 1692 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, & Tituba arrest for witchcraft (Salem MA) 1711 "The Spectator" begins publishing (London) 1780 Pennsylvania becomes 1st US state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only) 1781 Continental Congress adopts Articles of Confederation 1784 E Kidner opens 1st cooking school, in Great Britain 1785 Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture organized 1790 1st US census authorized 1792 US Presidential Succession Act passed 1796 1st National Meeting in the Hague 1803 Ohio becomes 17th state 1809 Embargo Act of 1807 repealed & Non-Intercourse Act signed 1811 Egyptian king Muhammad Ali Pasha oversees ceremonial murder of 500 1811 French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel 1815 Sunday observance in Netherlands regulated by law 1845 President Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas 1847 Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state) 1854 SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbor & is never seen again 1859 Present seal of San Francisco adopted (its 2nd) 1864 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built) 1864 Rebecca Lee (US) becomes 1st black woman to receive a medical degree 1866 Paraguayan canoes sink 2 Brazilian ironclads on Rio Parana 1867 Howard University, Washington DC, chartered 1867 Most of Nebraska becomes 37th US state (expanded later) 1869 Postage stamps showing scenes are issued for 1st time 1871 J Milton Turner named minister to Liberia 1872 Yellowstone becomes world's 1st national park 1875 Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Court, 1883 1876 Guernsey Cattle Club forms (Farmington CT) 1879 Library of Hawaii founded 1890 1st US edition of Sherlock Holmes (Study in Scarlet) published 1893 Diplomatic Appropriation Act, authorizes the US rank of ambassador 1896 Battle of Adua: 80,000 Ethiopians destroy 20,000 Italians 1904 England regains cricket Ashes taking a 3-1 series lead vs Australia 1909 1st US university school of nursing established, University of Minnesota 1910 3 passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range: 118 die; Worst snowslide in US history 1912 Albert Berry makes 1st parachute jump from an airplane 1912 Isabella Goodwin, 1st US woman detective, appointed, New York NY 1913 1st state law requiring bonding of officers & state employees, North Dakota 1913 Federal income tax takes effect (16th amendment) 1914 Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleum 1916 Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic 1917 1st federal land bank chartered 1919 Demonstrations for Korean independence from Japan begin 1920 Austria becomes a kingdom again, under Admiral Horthy 1921 Australia Cricket team complete 5-0 drubbing of England 1921 Rwanda ceded to England 1921 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt Russia 1923 Allies occupy Ruhrgebied; killing railroad striker 1924 Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD lifted 1927 Bank of Italy becomes a National Bank 1928 Paul Whiteman & his orchestraestra record "Ol' Man River" for Victor Records 1932 Charles Lindbergh Jr (20 months), kidnapped in New Jersey; found dead May 12 1933 Bank holidays declared in 6 states, to prevent run on banks 1934 Henry Pu Yi crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria 1934 Primo Carnera beats Tommy Loughran in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 1937 1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Connecticut) 1937 Governor Wouters innaugrates the radio station on the Dutch Antilles 1937 US Steel raises workers' wages to $5 a day 1940 12th Academy Awards: "Gone with the Wind", Robert Donat & Vivien Leigh win 1940 Richard Wright's novel "Native Son" is published 1941 "Captain America" appears in a comic book 1941 1st US commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville TN 1941 Elmer Layden becomes 1st NFL commisioner 1941 German troops invade Bulgaria 1941 Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp 1942 3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, US suffers a major naval defeat 1942 Baseball decides that players in military can't play when on furlough 1942 J Milton Cage Jr's "Imaginary Landscape No 3" premieres in Chicago 1942 Japanese troops occupy Kalidjati airport in Java 1942 Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save Jews 1942 Tito establishes 2nd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia 1943 Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided 1944 Massive strikes in Northern Italian towns 1944 U-358 sinks in Atlantic 1945 British 43rd Division under General Essame occupies Xanten 1945 Chinese 30th division occupies Hsenwi 1945 FDR announces success of Yalta Conference 1945 Fieldmarshal Kesselring succeeds von Rundstedt as commander 1945 US infantry regiment captures Mönchengladbach 1946 British Govt takes control of Bank of England, after 252 years 1946 Panamá accepts its new constitution 1947 International Monetary Fund began operations 1949 Joe Louis retires as heavyweight boxing champion 1949 The Browns, owners of Sportsman's Park, move to evict the Cardinals 1950 Chiang Kai-shek resumed the Presidency of National China on Formosa 1950 Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years for atomic espionage (London) 1950 USSR issues golden rubles 1952 Egyptian government-Ali Maher Pasja resigns 1952 Helgoland, in North Sea, returned to West Germany by Britain 1953 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open 1953 KAUZ TV channel 6 in Wichita Falls TX (CBS) begins broadcasting 1953 KTNT (now KSTW) TV channel 11 in Tacoma-Seattle WA (IND) begins 1953 WJZ-AM in New York NY becomes WABC; WJZ-TV in Baltimore final transmission 1953 WTAJ TV channel 10 in Altoona PA (CBS) begins broadcasting 1954 4 Puerto Ricans open fire in US House of Representatives injuring 5 Representatives 1954 Rebellion during visit of President Naguib in Khartoum Sudan, 30 die 1954 Ted Williams fractures collarbone in 1st game of spring training after flying 39 combat missions without injury in Korean War 1954 US explodes 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll 1955 Israeli assault on Gaza, kills 48 1955 KFAR (now KATN) TV channel 2 in Fairbanks AK (ABC/NBC) 1st broadcast 1955 Pakistan vs India 5 Test Cricket series ends in a 0-0 draw 1957 "Ziegfeld Follies of 1957" opens at Winter Garden NYC for 123 performances 1957 Kokomo the Chimp becomes Today Show animal editor 1957 KTWO TV channel 2 in Casper WY (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting 1958 Gary Sobers 365 vs Pakistan, 614 minutes, 38 fours, best Cricket before Lara 1958 Sobers completes 446 stand for 2nd wicket with Conrad Hunte, 260 1958 West Indies cricket declare at stumps score of 3-790 declare vs Pakistan 1959 Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after 3 years 1959 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Golden Triangle Festival Golf Tournament 1961 Cellist Jacqueline du Prés debut in Wigmore Hall 1961 President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps 1962 American Airlines 707 plunges nose 1st into Jamaica Bay NY killing 95 1962 K-Mart opens 1962 Uganda became a self-governing country 1962 US/British nuclear test experiment in Nevada 1963 200,000 French mine workers strike 1965 Australia suspends champion swimmer Dawn Fraser for 10-years for misconduct 1965 Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex (La Salle Québec Canada) 1965 WPSX TV channel 3 in Clearfield PA (PBS) begins broadcasting 1966 Ba'ath-party takes power in Syria 1966 Venera 3 becomes 1st man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus) 1967 Dominica & St Lucia gain independence from Britain 1967 House of Representatives expels Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr (307 to 116) 1967 Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Center) opens in London 1967 WMET (now WHSW) TV channel 24 in Baltimore MD (IND) 1st broadcast 1968 NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return 1968 Pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting 1968 Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands 1968 Singers Johnny Cash (36) & June Carter (38) wed 1968 Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect 1969 "Red, White, & Maddox" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 41 performances 1969 After 88 weeks Sergeant Pepper drops off the charts 1969 Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself at Dinner Key Auditorium 1969 New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from baseball 1969 Pirate Radio 259 begins operation off the French coast 1970 Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champion all-round ladies skater 1970 Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released 1970 End of US commercial whale hunting 1970 Kreisky's social-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election 1970 White government of Rhodesia declares independence from Britain 1971 Bomb attack on the Capitol in Washington DC 1971 Clandestine Radio Deutsche Reich (Germany) begins transmitting on FM 1972 Club of Rome publishes report "Boundaries on the Growth" 1972 David Rabe's "Sticks & Bones" premieres in New York NY 1972 KHMA TV channel 11 in Houma LA (IND) begins broadcasting 1972 Wilt Chamberlain is 1st NBA player to score 30,000 points 1973 Robert Joffrey Dance Company opens 1973 Robyn Smith becomes 1st female jockey to win a major race 1974 George Harrison announces his concert tour of US in November 1974 Ian & Greg Chappell make 264 partnership vs New Zealand cricket at Wellington 1974 Watergate grand jury indicts 7 Presidential aides 1975 17th Grammy Awards: I Honestly Love You, Marvin Hamlisch win 1975 Eagles' "Best of My Love" reaches #1 1977 Bank of America adopts the name VISA for their credit cards 1977 US extends territorial waters to 200 miles 1978 "Timbuktu!" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 243 performances 1978 Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery 1979 "Sweeney Todd" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 557 performances 1980 CTUC, Commonwealth Trade Union Council, established 1980 Hilbert van der Duim becomes world champion all-round skater 1980 Patti Smith & MC5 guitarist Fred Sonic Smith wed in Detroit MI 1980 Snow falls in Florida 1981 "Sophisticated Ladies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 767 performances 1981 Bobby Sands, IRA member, begins 65-day hunger strike in Maze Prison (he dies) 1981 Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic 1982 5 die as ski lift malfunctions a Lúz-Ardiden in Pyrenees 1982 5th Emmy Sports Awards presentation 1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data 1982 The New York Times raises it's price from 25¢ to 30¢ 1983 Tamara McKinney becomes 1st US woman skier to win the World Cup 1983 Tornado tears through Louisiana, injuring 33 people 1984 NASA launches Landsat-D Prime (Landsat 5) to thematic map the Earth 1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR 1985 Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center 1985 Milwaukee businessman Herb Kohl purchases the Milwaukee Bucks 1985 Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter 1987 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1988 Courtney Gibbs Eplin, 21, (Texas), crowned 37th Miss USA 1988 Iraq says it launched 16 missiles into Tehran 1988 Pontiac announces the end of the Fiero automobile 1988 Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howe with his record 1,050th NHL assist 1989 Ben Johnson's coach testifies Johnson began using steroids in 1981 1989 Comet du Toit at perihelion 1989 Julianne Phillips & Bruce Springsteen divorce 1990 Benin nullifies its constitution 1990 Luis Alberto Lacelle sworn in as President of Uruguay 1991 US Embassy in Kuwait officially reopens 1992 "Little Hotel on the Side" closes at Belasco NYC after 41 performances 1992 "Visit" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances 1992 Jenny Thompson swims 100 meter freestyle world record (1 :1.40) 1992 Nelson Diebel swims 100 meter freestyle US record (54.48 seconds) 1993 Authorities in Waco TX negotiate with Branch Davidians 1993 George Steinbenner is reinstated as owner of New York Yankees 1993 New expansion NHL team, owned by Disney, is named the Mighty Ducks 1994 36th Grammy Awards: I Will Always Love You, Toni Braxton win 1994 Martti Ahtisaari inaugurated as President of Finland 1994 Senate rejectes a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution 1995 37th Grammy Awards: All I Want to Do, Streets of Philadelphia, Sheryl Crow 1995 Belgium ends military conscript 1995 Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland 1995 Julio María Sanguinetti sworn in as President of Uruguay 1995 Part of Houston begins using new area code 261 1995 Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol, resigns 1996 Lenny Wilkens, winningest coach in NBA, coaches his 1,000th victory 1996 New toll-free 888 area code introduced 1996 Plans approved allowing traffic cameras High Harrington & Shap England 1997 "Mandy Patinkin in Concert" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC 1997 5th annual ESPY Awards shown on TV 1998 "Art" opens at Royale Theater NYC |
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