Today in History - Famous Events for Yesterday

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0384 St Damasus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1419 Heretic Nicolaas Serrurier exiled from Florence

1477 Duchess Maria van Bourgondi‰ ends Great Privilegie

1572 Spanish troops begin siege of Haarlem

1618 Russia & Poland signs Peace treaty of Dailino

1620 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (12/21 NS)

1665 "Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi festival in Smyrna

1688 King James II arrested

1710 Battle of Villa Viciosa (France beat Habsburgers)

1718 Battle at Frederikshall Norway

1719 1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in US (New England)

1730 Voltaire's "Brutus," premieres in Paris

1792 France's King Louis XVI went on trial, accused of treason

1812 1st newspaper on Cura‡ao (Cura‡ao Gazette & Commercial Advertiser)

1816 Citizens of Geneva thwarted Savoyard invaders

1816 Indiana becomes 19th state

1844 1st dental use of nitrous oxide, Hartford, Ct

1866 1st yacht race across Atlantic Ocean

1872 1st black US gov took office, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (La)

1882 Boston's Bijou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, 1st performance, Gilbert & Sullivan's "Iolanthe"

1882 Victorien Sardous "Fedora," with Sarah Bernhardt, premieres in Paris

1888 French Panama Canal company fails

1893 11 fishing ships wash up at Wadden Sea, 22 killed

1899 Battle of Magers' fountain - Boer leader Cronj‚ vs Gen Methuen

1901 Marconi sends 1st transatlantic radio signal, Cornwall to Nfld

1903 British forces under MacDonald & Young march into Tibet

1905 120ш F (49ш C), Rivadavia, Argentina (South American record)

1905 British govt of Campbell-Bannerman forms

1906 US president Roosevelt attacks abuses in the Congo

1908 Frederick Delius' "In a Summer Garden," premieres

1909 Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC

1909 Canadian Football exhibition game played in Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, Hamilton Tigers beat Ottawa Rough Riders, 11-6 before 15,000

1914 Stockton Street Tunnel (SF) completed

1916 David Lloyd George forms British war govt

1917 13 black soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot

1917 German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia

1919 Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise, Ala

1925 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quas Primas

1926 Josephine Baker goes up in Amsterdam

1926 Queensland win their 1st Sheffield Shield cricket match, v NSW

1928 Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on Pres-elect Herbert Hoover

1928 NL Pres John Heydler proposes designated hitter for pitchers

1930 Bank of the United States opens in NYC

1931 Japan leaves the Golden Standard

1931 Brit Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, NZ, South Africa, Ireland, Newfndlnd

1932 SF's coldest day (27шF) - it snows

1934 1935 All-Star Game is assigned to Cleveland

1934 1st Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher unsuccessful vs Rangers

1934 Ford C Frick becomes president of baseball's National League

1934 NL votes to permit night baseball (up to 7 games per home team)

1936 King Edward VIII marries Mrs Wallis Simpson; abdicates throne Duke of York becomes King George VI

1937 25th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 30-7

1937 Italy withdraws from League of Nations

1938 NY Giants win NFL championship

1939 New anti Jewish measurements in Poland, proclaimed

1940 Russian general Zhukov warns of German assault

1941 Dutch government in London declares war on Italy

1941 Germany & Italy declare war on US

1941 Giants acquire Johnny Mize from Cards for 3 players & $50,000

1941 Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WW II-landing)

1941 Japanese occupy Guam

1942 Australian/Dutch guerrilla troops evacuated to Timor near Australia

1944 Surprise attack on House of Keeping Axe, 29 prisoners freed

1945 Het Parool publishes 1st Captain Rob-strip

1946 Hank Williams begins to record on Sterling label

1946 Spain suspended from UN

1946 UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)

1947 "Angel in the Wings" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 308 performances

1947 Bob Hilliard/Carl Sigman's musical "Angel in Wings," premieres in NYC

1947 Pacific Coast League application for major league status rejected

1948 WHEN (now WTVH) TV channel 5 in Syracuse, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting

1948 WMC TV channel 5 in Memphis, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting

1949 Chic Bear Johnny Lujack passes for 6 touchdowns vs Chic Cards (52-29)

1949 Cleveland Browns beat SF '49ers 21-7 in final AAFC championship game

1949 WOAI (now KMOL) TV channel 4 in San Antonio, TX (NBC) 1st broadcast

1950 Baseball owners vote 9-7 not to renew Commissioner Chandler's contract

1950 Hindemiths Concerto for clarinet, premieres

1951 Joe DiMaggio announces his baseball retirement

1953 KTVA TV channel 11 in Anchorage (CBS) becomes Alaska's 1st TV station

1954 Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium

1954 USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va

1956 Anti-Russian demonstrates in Stettin & Wroclaw Poland

1957 Jerry Lee Lewis weds Myra

1958 4th (last) Dutch govt of Drees falls

1958 Archibald MacLeish's "JB," premieres in NYC

1958 Upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France

1959 Yanks trade Marv Thronberry, Don Larsen, Hank Bauer & Norm Seibern for Roger Maris, Kent Hadley & Joe Deaestri

1960 Black Sunday - Riot in Algiers, 114 die

1960 Coleman/Leigh's musical "Wildcat" with Lucille Ball premieres in NYC

1960 Cleveland's Bernie Parrish sets club record for longest interception return with a 92 yard run

1961 "Please, Mr. Postman" by Marvelettes, released

1961 Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel

1961 Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii," album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 20 wks

1961 JFK provides US miltary helicopters & crews to South Vietnam

1965 "Anya" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 16 performances

1965 "Yearling" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 3 performances

1966 Al Nelson sets NFL record returning missed field goal, 100 yards

1967 6.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed

1967 Beatles' Apple Music signs its 1st group-Grapefruit

1967 People's front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) established

1967 SST prototype "Concorde" 1st shown (France)

1968 KECC (now KECY) TV channel 9 in El Centro, CA (CBS) 1st broadcast

1968 US Soccer Football Assoc refuses to let NASL disband

1969 Libya adopts constitution

1970 John Lennon releases an album that contains songs with word "fuck"

1970 Start of the 1st Test match at the WACA, v England

1970 Test Cricket debut of Gregory Stephen Chappell

1972 Astronauts Cernan & Harrison become 11th & 12th on Moon

1972 Jet's Don Maynard becomes all time pro reception leader (632)

1973 Houston Astro Caesar Cedino jailed in death of 19 year old woman

1973 NA Soccer League awards LA, SF, Seattle & Vancouver franchises

1973 Ron Santo becomes 1st to invoke no-trade clause of 10-year-1-club vet

1973 West German chancellor Willy Brandt normalizes trade with Czech

1975 1st class postage rises from 10› to 13›

1975 Great Yankee trade getting Willie Randolph, Dock Ellis & Ken Brett from Pirates for George "Doc" Medich

1977 Billboard Awards

1978 6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at NY Kennedy Airport & made off with $5.8 M in cash & jewelry

1979 Geoff Boycott scores cricket century in a limited-over international

1979 Great Britain grants independence to Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)

1980 Dirk Wellham scores 100 on 1st-class debut, NSW v Victoria

1981 Argentine president/gen Roberto Viola flees

1981 Muhammad Ali's 61st & last fight, losing to Trevor Berbick

1981 Peru's Javier Perez de Cuellar becomes sec-gen of UN

1981 Spacelab I arrives at Kennedy Space Center

1981 UN Sec Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as 5th Sec Genl

1981 Wash Capitals biggest margin of victory (9) beating Toronto 11-2

1983 1st visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome)

1983 72nd Australian Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (61 64 64)

1983 Jan Stephens/Fred Couples wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic

1984 "Doug Henning & His World..." opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 60 perf

1984 Mauretania military coup under Col Maawiya Ould Sid'ahmed Taya

1985 Computer store owner in Sacramento Calif killed by package bomb

1985 Dow Jones closes above 1,500 for 1st time (1,511.70)

1985 General Electric acquires RCA Corp & its subsidiary, NBC

1985 NHL Record 62 points scored, Edmonton (36) beats Chicago (26) 12-9 & ties record of 21 goals

1986 A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's National League

1986 South Africa censors press

1987 Test debut of Carl Hooper, WI v India at Bombay

1989 "City of Angels" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 878 performances

1989 Mark Davis signs record $3.25 million per year KC Royals contract

1990 13 die in 83 vehicle accident in Chattanooga Tn I-75, due to fog

1990 US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) returns from space

1991 William Kennedy Smith found not guilty of rape

1992 Nor'easter storm hits NY, doing $ Billion worth of damage

1992 WNEW AM radio on 1130 in NYC ends transmitting after 58 years

1993 59th Heisman Trophy Award: Charlie Ward, Florida State (QB)

1993 Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile

1994 Kelly Robbins & Tammie Green wins LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches

1994 Russian troops pull inside Tsjetsjeni‰

1995 Thomas O Hicks buys NHL Dallas Stars for $84 million

1997 "Sunshine Boys," opens at Lyceum Theater NYC

1997 Fed judge orders Microsoft not to bundle IE4 in Windows

1225 Norbertus van Xanten finds order of the Norbertijnen

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