| * 70 |
Roman army under Titus occupies & plunders Jerusalem |
| * 1159 |
Ottaviano de Montecello elected as anti-Pope |
| * 1497 |
Sailor Perkin Warbeck becomes English King Richard IV |
| * 1525 |
Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius ends in the Hague |
| * 1543 |
Duke Willem of Gulik surrenders to emperor Charles V |
| * 1596 |
Dutch fleet bombs Banten Java |
| * 1599 |
Earl van Essex & Irish rebel Tyrone signs treaty |
| * 1652 |
Battle of Monte Christo: Dutch fleet under J van Galen beat English |
| * 1701 |
Germany, England & Netherlands sign anti-French covenant |
| * 1714 |
Treaty of Baden: Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI & France, ends War of Spanish Succession, French retain Alsace, Austria gets bank of Rhine |
| * 1800 |
Zion AME Church dedicated (NYC) |
| * 1812 |
Battle at Borodino: Napoleon-Kutuzov |
| * 1813 |
"Uncle Sam" was 1st used to refer to US (Troy Post of NY) |
| * 1822 |
Brazil declares independence from Portugal (National Day) |
| * 1822 |
Pedro I, son of king Joao VI, declares Brazil independence |
| * 1860 |
Excursion steamer "Lady Elgin" drowns 340 in Lake Michigan |
| * 1863 |
Federal naval expedition arrives off Sabine Pass |
| * 1871 |
Bay of Biskaje: English warship HMS Captain fired on, 500 killed |
| * 1876 |
Bank robbery by James/Younger fails (Cole/Bob/Jim Younger arrested) |
| * 1880 |
Geo Ligowsky patents device to throw clay pigeons for trapshooters |
| * 1888 |
Edith Eleanor McLean is 1st baby place in an incubator |
| * 1889 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Engineer's Thumb" (BG) |
| * 1891 |
Captain Frederick Lugards army reaches Kavalli Equatoria |
| * 1892 |
James Corbett KOs John Sullivan in 21 for heavyweight boxing title |
| * 1896 |
1st closed-circuit auto race, at Cranston, RI |
| * 1896 |
A H Whiting wins 1st automobile race held on a track in Cranston, RI |
| * 1897 |
George Davis (Giants) HR off Sport McAllister (Spiders) in DH |
| * 1901 |
Peace of Peking - Ends Boxer Rebellion in China |
| * 1903 |
Federation of American Motorcyclists organized in NY |
| * 1907 |
Sutro's ornate Cliff House in SF destroyed by fire |
| * 1912 |
Eddie Collins steals record 6 bases in 9-7 Athletics win over Detroit |
| * 1914 |
NY Post Office Building opens to public |
| * 1915 |
35th US Mens Tennis: Wm Johnston beats M E McLoughlin (16 60 75 108) |
| * 1915 |
John Gruelle patents his Raggedy Ann doll |
| * 1915 |
St Louis Dave Davenport no-hits Chicago (Federal League), 3-0 |
| * 1916 |
Giants beat Brooklyn 4-1, to launch NY's record 26-game winning streak |
| * 1916 |
Workmen's Compensation Act passed by Congress |
| * 1923 |
Boston Red Sox Howard Ehmke no-hits Phila A's, 4-0 |
| * 1923 |
Interpol forms in Vienna |
| * 1923 |
Mary Katherine Campbell (Ohio), 16, crowned 2nd Miss America 1922-23 |
| * 1927 |
Philo Farnsworth demonstrates 1st use of TV in SF |
| * 1928 |
Sophie Treadwell's "Machinal," premieres in NYC |
| * 1932 |
Earl Grace, ends NL catcher record streak of 110 cons errorless games |
| * 1934 |
Luxury liner "Morro Castle" burns off NJ, killing 134 |
| * 1936 |
Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) begins operation |
| * 1939 |
Radio NY Worldwide-WRUL begins radio transmission |
| * 1940 |
54th US Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (62 63) |
| * 1940 |
60th US Mens Tennis: McNeill beats Robert Riggs (46 68 63 63 75) |
| * 1940 |
German Air Force blitz London for 1st of 57 consecutive nights |
| * 1940 |
Luftwaffe loses 41 bombers above England |
| * 1941 |
61st US Mens Tennis: R L Riggs beats Francis Kovacs (2d 57 61 63 63) |
| * 1942 |
62nd US Mens Tennis: F Schroeder Jr beats F Parker (86 75 36 46 62) |
| * 1942 |
German occupiers take silver anniversary coins in battle |
| * 1942 |
Transport nr 29 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| * 1943 |
987 Dutch Jewish transported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp |
| * 1943 |
Fire in decrepit old Gulf Hotel kills 45 (Houston Texas) |
| * 1944 |
SS-general Kurt Meyer takes Durnal Belgium |
| * 1944 |
Strongest Hurricane of century in Netherlands (wind force 12) |
| * 1945 |
Japanese at Rioekioe-islands surrender |
| * 1945 |
Joe Kuhel hits inside-the-park HR, only HR hit by a Senator all season at Washington's Griffith Stadium |
| * 1947 |
Battles between Hindus & Moslems in New Delhi |
| * 1948 |
1st use of synthetic rubber in asphaltic concrete, Akron Oh |
| * 1950 |
Monasteries shut down in Hungary |
| * 1952 |
66th US Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (63 75) |
| * 1952 |
72nd US Mens Tennis: Frank Sedgman beats Gardnar Mulloy (61 62 63) |
| * 1952 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Carrollton Golf Tournament |
| * 1952 |
General Naguib forms Egyptian govt/becomes premier |
| * 1952 |
Outfielder Don Grate throws a baseball a record 434'1" (Tenn) |
| * 1952 |
Whitey Ford becomes 5th pitcher to hurl consecutive 1 hitters |
| * 1952 |
NY Yankees Johnny Mize's pinch-hit grand slam gives Yanks a 5-1 win at Washington He has now HRed in all 15 major league parks |
| * 1953 |
67th US Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (62 64) |
| * 1953 |
73rd US Mens Tennis: Tony Trabert beats Elias V Seixas Jr (63 62 63) |
| * 1953 |
Roy Campanella sets catcher record of 125 (en route to 142) RBIs |
| * 1954 |
Integration begins in Wash DC & Balt MD public schools |
| * 1955 |
Yankees Whitey Ford is 5th to throw consecutive 1-hitters, beats A's |
| * 1956 |
Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000'+ |
| * 1957 |
71st US Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats A Louise Brough (63 62) |
| * 1957 |
WWL TV channel 4 in New Orleans, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| * 1958 |
72nd US Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats Darlene R Hard (36 61 62) |
| * 1958 |
78th US Mens Tennis: A J Cooper beats M J Anderson (62 36 46 108 86) |
| * 1960 |
Ljudmila Shevcova runs female olympic record 800m (2:04.3) |
| * 1963 |
1st US TV appearance of Beatles (Big Night Out-ABC) |
| * 1963 |
American Bandstand moves to Calif, & airs once a week on Saturday |
| * 1963 |
Pro Football Hall of Fame dedicated in Canton Ohio |
| * 1964 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Valhalla Golf Open |
| * 1965 |
-10] Hurricane Betsy, kills 74 in Florida, Miss & La |
| * 1966 |
KTNE TV channel 13 in Alliance, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| * 1966 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
| * 1969 |
83rd US Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith Court beats Nancy Richey (62 62) |
| * 1969 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Molson's Canadian Golf Open |
| * 1969 |
Rod Laver completes his 2nd grand slam winning US Tennis Open |
| * 1969 |
US amateur Womens Tennis: Margaret Court beat Virginia Wade (46 63 60) |
| * 1970 |
Jerry Lewis' 5th Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
| * 1970 |
PLO hijacks 4 planes |
| * 1970 |
White Sox use record 41 players in doubleheader & lose both games |
| * 1970 |
Donald Boyles sets record for highest parachute jump from a bridge, by leaping off of 1,053' Royal George Bridge in Colorado |
| * 1973 |
Jackie Stewart becomes Formula 1 world champion |
| * 1973 |
Mike Storen becomes American Basketball Assn's 4th commissioner |
| * 1974 |
"Irene" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 605 performances |
| * 1974 |
Shirley Cothran (Texas), 21, crowned 47th Miss America 1975 |
| * 1975 |
95th US Mens Tennis: Manuel Orantes beats Jimmy Connors (64 63 63) |
| * 1975 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| * 1975 |
Cincinnati Reds, win earliest NL division title |
| * 1975 |
Last day of 1st-class cricket for Hanif Mohammad |
| * 1975 |
Manuel Orantes upsets #1 seed Jimmy Connors to win US Open |
| * 1976 |
US courts find George Harrison guilty of plagiarism (He's So Fine) |
| * 1977 |
Ethiopia drops diplomatic relations with Somalia |
| * 1977 |
Pres Carter & Gen Herrera sign Panama Canal treaties |
| * 1978 |
1st game of Boston Massacre, Yanks beat Red Sox 15-3 |
| * 1979 |
5 day MUSE concert against nuclear energy opens at MSG, NY |
| * 1980 |
100th US Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Bj”rn B”rg (76 61 67 57 64) |
| * 1980 |
32nd Emmy Awards shown despite boycott |
| * 1980 |
32nd Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ed Asner & Barbara Bel Geddes |
| * 1980 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Series of Women's Golf |
| * 1980 |
Cape Verde adopts its constitution |
| * 1980 |
Earnest Gray becomes 2nd NY Giant to score 4 TDs (vs St Louis) |
| * 1980 |
Oakland A's pitch record 78th complete game of season |
| * 1980 |
Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Barth Golf Classic |
| * 1980 |
John McEnroe & Bjorn Borg stage one of the greatest US Open finals as 21 year old McEnroe fends off Borg to win his 2nd straight title |
| * 1981 |
Cleveland Browns' Brian Sipe sets club record with 57 pass attempts |
| * 1981 |
Jerry Lewis' 16th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $31,500,000 |
| * 1981 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| * 1981 |
Judge Wapner & People's Court premier on TV |
| * 1981 |
West Tampa Fl defeats Rich Va, 6-4 to win American Legion World Series |
| * 1983 |
Drury Gallagher sets fastest swim around Manhattan (6h41m35s) |
| * 1984 |
Met Dwight Gooden's 11 strikeouts gives him NL rookie record 236 |
| * 1985 |
99th US Womens Tennis: Hana Mandlikova beats M Navratilova (76 16 76) |
| * 1985 |
Mary Decker Tabb Slaney runs US 3K female record (8:25.83) |
| * 1986 |
100th US Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Helena Sukova (63 62) |
| * 1986 |
106th US Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (64 62 60) |
| * 1986 |
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship |
| * 1986 |
Desmond Tutu becomes Anglican archbishop of Capetown |
| * 1986 |
Failed assassination attempt on Chilean dictator Pinochet, 5 killed |
| * 1986 |
Ivan Lendl defeats Miloslav Mecir for US Tennis open title |
| * 1986 |
Cleveland Browns becomes 1st team in NFL history to have a play reviewed by instant replay, Chicago 41, Browns 31 |
| * 1987 |
Jerry Lewis' 22nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $39,021,723 |
| * 1987 |
Netherlands routes 2 minesweepers to Persian Gulf |
| * 1987 |
Rosie Jones wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| * 1987 |
South Africa frees Dutch anthropologist/Anc'er Klaas de Young |
| * 1988 |
5th MTV Awards |
| * 1988 |
Guy Lafleur, Tony Esposito & Brad Park inducted in NHL Hall of Fame |
| * 1988 |
NY Daily News reports boxer Mike Tyson is seeing a psychiatrist |
| * 1988 |
Security & Exchange Comm accuses Drexel of violating security laws |
| * 1990 |
"Street Scene" opens at NY State Theater NYC for 6 performances |
| * 1990 |
Marjorie Judith Vincent (Ill), 25, crowned 64th Miss America 1991 |
| * 1991 |
105th US Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats Martina Navratilova (76 61) |
| * 1991 |
1st S African international competition in 25 years, gymnastics |
| * 1991 |
Die Laughing wins Messenger Stakes |
| * 1991 |
Harry Hamlin weds Nicollette Sheridan |
| * 1991 |
Monica Seles (17) defeats Martina Navratilova (34) to win US Open |
| * 1991 |
Ty Detmer of Brigham Young passes NCAA record 11,606 yards |
| * 1992 |
Army of Ciskei homeland kills 28 ANC demonstrators |
| * 1992 |
Baseball commissioner Faye Vincent resigns |
| * 1992 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| * 1993 |
Brazil votes over importing monarchy |
| * 1993 |
Cards Mark Whiten, hits 4 HRs & 12 RBIs in 2nd game of doubleheader |
| * 1994 |
Jingyi Le/Ying Shan/Ying Le/Bin Lu swimming 4x100 freestyle (3:37.91) |
| * 1995 |
12th MTV Awards |
| * 1995 |
STS 69 (Endeavour 9), launches into orbit |
| * 1995 |
Sen Bob Packwoord (R-Ore) resigns rather than face expulsion |
| * 1996 |
Women's championship at US Tennis Open |
| * 1997 |
111th US Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beats Venus Williams (60 64) |
| * 1997 |
117th US Mens Tennis: Patrick Rafter beats Greg Rusedski (63 62 46 75) |
| * 1997 |
Boone Valley Senior Golf Classic |
| * 1997 |
Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
| * 1997 |
Karrie Webb wins Safeway LPGA Golf Championship |
| * 1997 |
Men's championship at US Tennis Open |
| * 1997 |
Steve Jones wins Canadian Golf Open with a 275 |
| * 1998 |
Jerry Lewis' 33rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises |
