| * 1377 |
Cardinal Robert of Geneva (anti-pope Clemens VII) starts term |
| * 1377 |
Mass execution of population of Cesena Italy |
| * 1488 |
Bartholomeus Diaz discovers Mosselbaai (Angra dos Vaqueros) |
| * 1547 |
Russian czar Ivan IV (17) marries Anastasia Romanova |
| * 1576 |
Henry of Navarre (future Henry IV) escapes from Paris |
| * 1591 |
German monarchy forms Protestant Union of Torgau |
| * 1653 |
Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris from exile |
| * 1660 |
General Moncks army reaches London |
| * 1690 |
1st paper money in America issued (colony of Mass) |
| * 1740 |
Charles de Bourbon, King of Naples, invites Jews to return to Sicily |
| * 1743 |
Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants |
| * 1752 |
Dutch States-General forbid export of windmills |
| * 1781 |
Dutch West Indies island of St Eustatia taken by British |
| * 1783 |
Spain recognizes US independence |
| * 1809 |
Territory of Illinois organizes (including present-day Wisconsin) |
| * 1815 |
World's 1st commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland |
| * 1825 |
Dutch North Sea coast floods |
| * 1836 |
Whig Party holds its 1st national convention (Albany NY) |
| * 1844 |
Hector Berlioz' "Carnaval Romain," premieres in Paris |
| * 1855 |
Wisconsin Supreme Ct declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional |
| * 1860 |
Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st US superintendent of agriculture |
| * 1864 |
Sherman's march through Mississippi |
| * 1865 |
Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln & Stephens reach an impasse |
| * 1867 |
Prince Mutsuhito, 14, becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan (1867-1912) |
| * 1869 |
Booth theater at 23rd & 6th opens in NYC (Romeo & Juliet) |
| * 1870 |
15th Amendment (Black suffrage) passed |
| * 1876 |
Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods co, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, & football |
| * 1882 |
Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo |
| * 1887 |
To avoid disputed natl elections, Congress creates Electoral Count Act |
| * 1892 |
Russia closes down Yeshiva of Volozhin |
| * 1894 |
1st US steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched, Bath, Me |
| * 1895 |
Wilhelm Mauseth skates world record 500 m (46.8 secs) |
| * 1900 |
Rival forces fight for control of the Union Park ball grounds in Balt |
| * 1901 |
Dutch troops under Gen Van Heutsz conquer Batu Ilia on Sumatra |
| * 1903 |
Frederick Lugard occupies Kano West Africa |
| * 1908 |
Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act |
| * 1913 |
16th Amendment, federal income tax, ratified |
| * 1913 |
Golden/Cawthorne's musical "Sunshine Girl," premieres in NYC |
| * 1915 |
Turkish & German army reach Suez Canal |
| * 1916 |
Canada's original Parliament buildings, in Ottawa, burns down |
| * 1916 |
Tristan Tzar publishes Dada-manifest in Zurich Switzerland |
| * 1917 |
US liner Housatonic sunk by German sub & diplomatic relations severed |
| * 1918 |
Twin Peaks Tunnel longest (11,920') streetcar tunnel begins service |
| * 1919 |
Herbert/Blossom's musical "Velvet Lady," premieres in NYC |
| * 1919 |
League of Nations 1st meeting (Paris) |
| * 1919 |
Socialist conference convenes (Berne Switzerland) |
| * 1924 |
Alexei Ryko elected as Pres of People's commission (succeeds Lenin) |
| * 1927 |
Uprising against regime of general Carmona in Portugal |
| * 1929 |
Revolutionary Socialist Party forms in Amsterdam |
| * 1930 |
Vietnamese Communistic Party forms |
| * 1930 |
William Howard Taft, resigns as chief justice for health reasons |
| * 1931 |
Arkansas legislature passes motion to pray for soul of H L Mencken after he calls state "apex of moronia" |
| * 1933 |
1st interstate legislative conference in US opens, Washington, DC |
| * 1933 |
German minister G”ring bans social-democratic newspaper Vorw„rts |
| * 1933 |
Marinus van der Lubbe departs to Berlin |
| * 1937 |
Bradman scores 212 (in 441 minutes!) in 5th Test Cricket v England |
| * 1938 |
Paul Osborn's "On Borrowed Time," premieres in NYC |
| * 1941 |
Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage & Hour law, sets min wages & max hrs |
| * 1942 |
1st Japanese air raid on Java |
| * 1942 |
Baseball owners agree to permit each club up to 14 night games in 1942 |
| * 1943 |
4 chaplains drown after giving up their life jackets to others |
| * 1945 |
Almost 1000 Flying Fortresses drop 3000 ton bombs on Berlin |
| * 1945 |
Walt Disney's "3 Caballeros" released |
| * 1947 |
-81°F (-63°C), Snag Yukon (North American record) |
| * 1947 |
1st black reporter in Congressional press gallery (Percival Prattis) |
| * 1947 |
Bradman bowled by Alec Bedser for a duck in 4th Test Cricket |
| * 1948 |
Dick Button becomes 1st world figure skating champion from US |
| * 1950 |
Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spy charges |
| * 1951 |
"Victor Borge Show," debuts on NBC TV |
| * 1951 |
Dick Button wins US skating title for 6th time |
| * 1951 |
Largest purse to date in horse racing, $144,323, won by Great Circle |
| * 1951 |
Tennessee Williams' "Rose Tattoo," premieres in NYC |
| * 1953 |
J Fred Muggs, a chimp, becomes a regular on NBC's Today Show |
| * 1954 |
Jeen van den Berg wins Dutch Eleven Cities Skating race (7:32) |
| * 1956 |
Autherine J Lucy admitted to U of Alabama, suspended 2/7 after a riot |
| * 1956 |
Toni Sailor becomes 1st Olympic skier to sweep 3 alpine events |
| * 1957 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Havana Golf Open |
| * 1958 |
Royal Teens' "Short Shorts" enters Top 40 chart & peaks at #3 |
| * 1959 |
American Airlines Electra crashes in NY's East River, killing 65 |
| * 1961 |
6th largest snowfall in NYC history (17.4" (44.2cm)) |
| * 1962 |
John Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm |
| * 1962 |
Pres Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs |
| * 1963 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational |
| * 1964 |
"Meet the Beatles" album goes Gold |
| * 1964 |
Black & Puerto Rican students boycott NYC public schools |
| * 1965 |
105 USAF cadets resigned for cheating on exams |
| * 1965 |
Geraldine McCullough wins Widener Gold Medal for Sculpture |
| * 1965 |
Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552/636 km) |
| * 1965 |
Braves offer Milwaukee $500,000 to terminate their lease a year earlier, the proposal is turned down |
| * 1966 |
1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched US |
| * 1966 |
1st soft landing on Moon (Soviet Luna 9) |
| * 1967 |
"Purple Haze" recorded by Jimi Hendrix |
| * 1969 |
"Canterbury Tales" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 122 perfs |
| * 1969 |
The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasser Arafat head of PLO |
| * 1971 |
KTSC TV channel 8 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (PBS) 1st broadcast |
| * 1972 |
11th Winter Olympic games opens in Sapporo, Japan (1st in Asia) |
| * 1972 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| * 1973 |
Dr Hook's "Cover of "Rolling Stone"" enters Top 40 & peaks at #6 |
| * 1973 |
President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law |
| * 1974 |
"Pajama Game" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 65 perfs |
| * 1974 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
| * 1975 |
Billy Herman, Earl Averill, & Bucky Harris elected to Hall of Fame |
| * 1976 |
26th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 123-109 at Philadelphia |
| * 1977 |
Martin Dihigo John Lloyd elected to Hall of Fame |
| * 1978 |
Australia beat India 3-2 on 6th day of final test |
| * 1978 |
India needing 493 to beat Australia at Adelaide, all out 445 |
| * 1979 |
"YMCA" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart |
| * 1979 |
Minnesota Twins trade Rod Carew to California for 4 players |
| * 1979 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne |
| * 1979 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner |
| * 1980 |
30th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 144-136 (OT) at Washington |
| * 1980 |
Larry Holmes TKOs Lorenzo Holmes in 6 for heavyweight boxing title |
| * 1980 |
Mohammed Ali tours Africa as Pres Carter's envoy |
| * 1981 |
Australia beats NZ 3-1 to win World Series Cup |
| * 1981 |
Gro Harlem Brundtland elected premier of Norway |
| * 1982 |
Columbia Shuttle moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-3 mission |
| * 1982 |
Greatest helicopter lift, 56,888 kg, Podmoscovnoe, USSR |
| * 1982 |
John Sharples of England finishes disco dancing 371 hours |
| * 1982 |
Porn star John Holmes ordered to stand trial for murder |
| * 1983 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners |
| * 1984 |
10th Space Shuttle Mission (41B)-Challenger 4 launched |
| * 1985 |
"Harrigan 'n Hart" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 5 performances |
| * 1985 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
| * 1986 |
Pres Reagan announces formation of Comm on Challenger Accident |
| * 1987 |
Expos trade Jeff Reardon to Twins for Neal Heaton |
| * 1987 |
SD Yacht Club celebrates return of America's Cup |
| * 1989 |
Bill White named NL president; 1st black major-league sports head |
| * 1989 |
Military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay |
| * 1989 |
Start 1st Test Cricket, NZ v Pak, washed out |
| * 1990 |
Darryl Strawberry enters Smither Center for Alcohol rehabilitation |
| * 1990 |
Jockey Billy Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse race |
| * 1990 |
NY Met Darryl Strawberry voluntarily enters Alcohol rehab center |
| * 1991 |
Meg Mallon wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic |
| * 1991 |
NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 23-21 |
| * 1992 |
Defense opens calling Noriega "our ally in war on drugs" |
| * 1992 |
Labor strike at Royal Canadian Mint ends |
| * 1992 |
Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $300 per week |
| * 1993 |
Cin Red owner Marge Schott suspended for 1 year due to racist comments |
| * 1993 |
General Hospital's Tristan Rogers convicted of drunk driving |
| * 1993 |
Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in LA Calif |
| * 1994 |
"Les Miserables," opens at Kallang Theatre, Singapore |
| * 1994 |
Actor Jean-Claude van Damme (32) weds Darcy Lapier (28) in Bangkok |
| * 1994 |
Pres Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam |
| * 1994 |
STS-60 (Discovery) launches into orbit |
| * 1995 |
STS 63 (Discovery 19), launches into orbit |
| * 1997 |
Carl Sagan Public Memorial at Ithaca NY |
| * 1997 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Detroit MI on WKRK 97.1 FM |
| * 1998 |
Britain issues a set of Princess Diana stamps |
| * 1998 |
Fla Panther Dino Ciccarelli's is 9th NHLer to score 600 career goals |
| * 1998 |
NY Yankees replace general manager Bob Watson with Brian Cashman |
| * 1998 |
Stamps commemorating Princess Diana go on sale across Britain |
| * 1998 |
US military plane clips cable car lines in northern Italy, kills 20 |
| * 1998 |
Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, violates probation with 14 year-old father of her baby |
