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 Today in History

Thursday, May 17, 2012

* 218 7th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
* 352 Liberius begins his reign as Catholic Pope replacing Julius I
* 884 St Adrian III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
* 1525 Battle at Zabern: duke of Lutherans beats rebels
* 1527 P nfilo de Narva‚z departs to explore Florida
* 1536 Anne Boleyns 4 "lovers" executed
* 1544 Scot earl Matthew van Lennox signs secret treaty with Henry VIII
* 1579 Artois/Henegouwen/French-Flanders sign Treaty/Peace of Parma recognizing Spanish duke van Parma as land guardian
* 1620 1st merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey)
* 1630 Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface
* 1631 Earl Johann Tilly attacks Maagdenburg
* 1648 Emperor Ferdinand III defeats Maximilian I of Bavaria
* 1672 Frontenac becomes governor of New France (Canada)
* 1673 Louis Joliet & Jacques Marquette begin exploring Mississippi
* 1678 King Charles II & Louis XIV sign secret treaty
* 1712 Maximilian Emanuel of Bavaria honored as "sovereign of Netherlands"
* 1733 England passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum & molasses imported to the colonies from a country other than British possessions
* 1742 Frederick great (Emperor of Prussia) beats Austrians
* 1744 French army takes Austrian Netherlands
* 1750 -18] Tax revolt in Gorinchem
* 1756 Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French & Indian War)
* 1787 English slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes
* 1792 24 merchants form NY Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street
* 1794 Hard frost in southern New England
* 1803 John Hawkins & Richard French patent the Reaping Machine
* 1804 Lewis & Clark begin exploration of Louisiana Purchase
* 1809 Papal States annexed by France
* 1814 Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (Natl Day)
* 1814 Norwegian constitution passed by constitutent assembly at Eidsvoll
* 1837 Royal Decides installs the Weapon of Belgium firm(ly)
* 1845 Rubber band patents
* 1846 Saxophone is patents by Antoine Joseph Sax
* 1848 Premier earl Schimmelpenninck resigns
* 1849 Fire destroy Centrum in St Louis Missouri
* 1853 Thorbeckes liberals win 2nd-Parliamentary election
* 1862 Battle of Princeton WV, ends, about 128 casualities
* 1863 Battle of Big Black River Bridge, MS
* 1864 Battle of Adairsville Georgia, Union forces Confederates to retreat
* 1871 Indians fighter Gen Sherman escapes in ambulance vs Comanches
* 1872 Bohemian Club incorporated
* 1875 1st Kentucky Derby: Oliver Lewis aboard Aristides wins in 2:37.75
* 1876 7th US Cavalry under Custer leaves Ft Lincoln
* 1877 Edwin T Holmes installs 1st telephone switchboard burglar alarm
* 1881 7th Kentucky Derby: Jim McLaughlin aboard Hindoo wins in 2:40
* 1881 Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Wash DC
* 1881 Revised version of New Testament
* 1883 Buffalo Bill Cody's 1st wild west show premieres in Omaha
* 1884 Alaska becomes a US territory
* 1890 Clyde Fitch's "Beau Brummel," premieres in NYC
* 1890 Comic Cuts, 1st weekly comic paper, published in London
* 1890 Pietro Costanzi's opera "Rustic Chivalry," premieres in Rome
* 1894 19th Preakness: Fred Taral aboard Assignee wins in 1:49¬
* 1895 W G Grace completes his 100th 100 v Somerset at Bristol
* 1898 Camp Merritt forms in Presidio [see 0503]
* 1899 Victoria & Albert Museum foundation laid England
* 1900 British troops relieve Mafeking (Cape Colony)
* 1903 Cleve Indians beat NY Highlanders 9-2 in Columbus Ohio
* 1904 Maurice Ravel's "Sh‚h‚razade," premieres in Paris
* 1905 Waseda U of Tokyo defeats LA High School 5-3 in baseball
* 1906 Switzerland's Simpion Tunnel open to rail traffic
* 1909 White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks
* 1910 Canada sets the designs for the 1˘-50˘ coins
* 1911 36th Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Watervale wins in 1:51
* 1915 40th Preakness: Douglas Hoffman aboard Rhine Maiden wins in 1:58
* 1915 Cubs George "Zip" Zabel relieves with 2 outs in 1st & winds up with 4-3 19-inning win over Brooklyn in longest relief job ever
* 1915 Last liberal British govt of Asquith falls
* 1915 National Baptist Convention chartered
* 1916 British Summer Time (Daylight Savings), 1st introduced
* 1920 1st De Havilland double-decker flight (London) lands in Schiphol
* 1920 1st flight by Dutch airlines KLM (Koninklijke-Luchtvaart-Maatschappij)
* 1921 Belgian-Luxembourg sign customs union
* 1921 President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show
* 1923 Fire during closing day ceremonies at Grover Cleveland School (SC)
* 1924 50th Kentucky Derby: John Mooney aboard Black Gold wins in 2:05.2
* 1925 Cleveland Indian Tris Speaker gets his 3,000th hit
* 1926 Chiang Kai-shek is made supreme war lord in Canton
* 1926 German govt of Marx takes power
* 1927 Chicago Cubs beat Boston Braves, 4-3, in 22 innings
* 1928 9th modern Olympic games opens in Amsterdam
* 1930 56th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:07.6
* 1932 Congress changes name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico"
* 1937 Juan Negrin succeeds Largo Caballero as Spain's premier
* 1938 Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy
* 1938 Radio quiz show "Information Please!" debuts on NBC Blue Network
* 1939 1st sports telecast-Columbia vs Princeton-college baseball
* 1940 Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium & begins invasion of France
* 1940 Nazi's bombs Middelburg/B IJzerdrat begins illegal defiance
* 1941 Pennsylvania declares legal holiday to honor A's manager Connie Mack
* 1942 Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler
* 1944 -18] Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java
* 1944 Chinese/US arm forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma
* 1944 General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th
* 1944 Operation Straightline: Allies land in Neth New-Guinea
* 1945 2 US P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu
* 1946 KVP Labor/Communists win 1st post-WW2 Dutch parliamentary elections
* 1946 Pres Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike
* 1947 "Street Scene" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 148 performances
* 1948 Israel liberates Acre, Nebi Yusha & Telel-Kadi
* 1948 Soviet Union recognized Israel
* 1949 British government recognizes Republic of Ireland
* 1952 78th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Blue Man wins in 1:57.4
* 1953 Patty Berg wins LPGA Reno Golf Open
* 1953 Yanks & Browns use record 41 players in a game
* 1954 Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown v Topeka Board of Education reversed 1896 "separate but equal" Plessy Vs Ferguson decision
* 1955 Dutch Govt of Drees resigns
* 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC)
* 1957 School desegregation law, Brown v Board of education
* 1958 84th Preakness: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 1:57.2
* 1958 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Algeria
* 1959 Sam Snead sets PGA record for 36 holes at 122
* 1960 1st atomic reactor system patents, J W Flora of Canoga Park CA
* 1961 Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers
* 1962 Marin County withdraws from BART district
* 1963 Bruno Sammartino beats Buddy Rogers in NY, to become WWF champ
* 1963 Houston Colt .45's Don Notterbart no-hits Phillies, 4-1
* 1963 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
* 1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open Invitational
* 1964 Phillies triple play Houston Colt .45s
* 1966 KFDO (now KVIJ) TV channel 8 in Sayre, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
* 1967 Dylan's 1965 UK Tour is released as film "Don't Look Back"
* 1968 European Space Research Org launches 1st satellite
* 1968 Frank Howard belts record 8th HR in 5th straight game
* 1968 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
* 1969 "My Wife, My Dog, My Cat," by Maskman & The Agents hits #92
* 1969 95th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Majestic Prince wins in 1:55.6
* 1969 Balt, Cleve & Pitts agree to go from NFC to AFC in NFL
* 1969 Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus
* 1970 Hank Aaron becomes 9th player to get 3,000 hits
* 1970 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Johnny Londoff Chevrolet Golf Tournament
* 1970 Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atlantic on reed raft Ra
* 1971 Stephen Schwartz' musical "Godspell," premieres off-Broadway
* 1971 Washington State bans sex discrimination
* 1972 Neth & China PR exchange ambassadors
* 1972 Tottenham Hotspur wins 1st UEFA Cup in London
* 1973 "Nash at Nine" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 21 performances
* 1973 Joe Ferguson, hits the 6,000th Dodger home run
* 1973 Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings
* 1973 Stevie Wonder releases "You are the Sunshine of my Love"
* 1973 US performs 3 nuclear tests at Rifle Colorado
* 1973 Angels outfielder Bobby Valentine breaks his leg trying to scale wall to prevent a Dick Green home run during a 5-4 loss to the A's
* 1974 Bayern Munchen wins 20th Europe Cup 1 at Brussels
* 1974 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 15th String quartet
* 1975 "Funky Gibbon" by The Goodies hits #79
* 1975 101st Preakness: Darrel McHargue aboard Master Derby wins in 1:56.4
* 1975 10cc releases "I'm Not in Love"
* 1975 Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches
* 1975 NBC paid $5M for rights to show "Gone with the Wind" one time
* 1976 28th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Jack Albertson & M Learned
* 1976 Earthquake in Uzbekistan: 1000's killed
* 1977 Menahem Begins Likoed-party wins election in Israel
* 1978 Lee Lacy hits record 3rd consecutive pinch-hit home run
* 1979 -12°F (-11°C), on top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii (state record)
* 1979 Emmy 6th Daytime Award presentation
* 1979 Phillies beat Cubs, 23-22, on 50 hits with 11 HRs
* 1980 106th Preakness: Angel Cordero Jr aboard Codex wins in 1:54.2
* 1980 Kumar Anandan balanced on one foot for 33 hours
* 1980 Major race riot in Miami Florida - 16 killed, 300 injured
* 1980 Paul & Linda McCartney appear on Saturday Night Live
* 1981 "Inacent Black" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 14 performances
* 1981 Islanders score 5 power play goals against Flyers in a playoff
* 1981 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
* 1983 Israel & Lebanon sign a peace treaty
* 1983 Stanley Cup: NY Islanders sweep Edmonton Oilers in 4 games
* 1984 Cincinnati Reds Mario Soto throws 4 strikeouts in one inning
* 1984 Mai Shanley, 21, (NM), crowned 33rd Miss USA
* 1985 Les Anderson, catches record 97 lb 4 oz Chinook Salmon, off Alaska
* 1986 "Chicken Song" by Spitting Image hit #1 on the UK pop chart
* 1986 112th Preakness: Alex Solis aboard Snow Chief wins in 1:54.8
* 1987 "Stardust" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 102 performances
* 1987 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
* 1987 USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die
* 1989 Longest Cab Ride Ever: 14,000 miles cost $16,000!
* 1989 Napoli wins 18th UEFA Cup in Stuttgart
* 1989 Nelson Mandela receives a BA from U of S Africa
* 1989 Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Dr Gachet" auctioned for $825M
* 1990 Cheers' star Kelsey Grammer sentenced to jail for 30 days for DWI
* 1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,831.71
* 1990 European court rules pension rights for both men & women
* 1990 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Patty Ann
* 1991 Lupita Jones, 23, of Mexico, crowned 40th Miss Universe
* 1992 38th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Betsy King
* 1992 Expos Gary Carter is 3rd to catch 2,000 games (joins Boone & Fisk)
* 1993 Intel's new Pentium processor is unveiled
* 1994 Bakili Muluzi's UDF wins Malawi presidents/parliamentary election
* 1996 Alicia Machado, 18, of Venezuela crowned 45th Miss Universe
* 1996 Habib & Whitaker make 320 for 5th Cricket wkt, Leics v Worcs
* 1997 123rd Preakness: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 1:54
* 1997 Sylvester Stallone weds Jennifer Flavin in London
* 1997 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Sandra Jo Shiery-Odom
* 1998 44th McDonald's LPGA Championship