Today in History - Famous Events for Yesterday

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0235 St Anterus begins his reign as Catholic Pope

0496 St Gelasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

0695 Pope Sergius names Willibrord as archbishop Clemens of Friezen

1317 Frederik of Sierck/Zyrick becomes bishop of Utrecht

1492 Pinta under MartЎn A Pinzўn separates from Columbus' fleet

1620 Pilgrim Fathers reach America: Provincetown Harbor, Mass

1620 Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims in Cape Cod

1654 Richard Johnson, a free black, granted 550 acres in Virginia

1696 J Vanbrughes "Relapse or Virtue in Danger," premieres in London

1729 Netherlands signs Treaty of Seville

1759 Battle at Maxen: Prussian army surrenders to Austrians

1783 Pilѓtre de Rozier & Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st free balloon flight

1787 Andrew Jackson admitted to bar

1789 North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state

1794 Honolulu Harbor discovered

1806 Decree of Berlin: Emperor Napoleon I bans all trade with England

1813 Stettin surrenders to allied armies

1818 Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine

1824 1st Jewish Reform congregation forms, Charleston, SC

1834 HMS Beagle anchors at Bay of San Carlos, Chile

1837 Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times

1847 Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200

1848 Alfred de Musset's "Andr‚ del Sarto," premieres in Paris

1848 Cincinnati Turngemeinde founded

1849 Friedrich Hebbel's "Der Rubin," premieres in Vienna

1852 Duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College

1864 -22] Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia

1865 Shaw University forms in Raleigh NC

1871 Moses F Gale patents a cigar lighter (NYC)

1871 The 1st human cannonball, Emilio Onra, is shot

1876 Skirmish between HM Stanley's expedition & natives

1877 Tom Edison announces his "talking machine" invention (phonograph)

1880 Henry Stanley & Pierre de Brazza quarrel about possession of Congo

1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Bruce Partington Plans" (BG)

1901 Richard Strauss' opera "Feuersnot," premieres in Dresden

1902 1st night football game, Phila Athletics beats Kanaweola AC, 39-0

1902 Baseball's Phila Athletics & Phillies form pro football teams, joining Pitts Stars in 1st attempt at a National Football League

1905 1st game ever played in the Australian Tennis Open

1906 China prohibits opium trade

1914 Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game

1914 British army conquerors Bazra

1917 M Gorki calls Lenin a blind fanatic/unthinking adventurer

1918 2 German ammunition trains explode in Hamont Belgium, 1,750 die

1918 Polish soldiers organize a pogrom against Jews of Galicia Poland

1920 Karel Cap‚k's "Vec Makropulos," premieres in Prague

1920 Mussolini's squad begins terror, 11 die in Bologna Italy

1922 Rebecca L Felton (Ga) sworn in as 1st female US Senator

1924 British premier Baldwin cancels Labor contract with USSR

1925 Red Grange plays final Univ of Illinois game, signs with Chicago Bears

1933 1st US ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service

1934 "Uiver" returns from Schiphol in London-Melbourne air race

1934 NY Yankees buy Joe DiMaggio from SF Seals (Pacific Coast League)

1935 1st commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper)

1935 Jean Giraudoux' "La Guerre de Troie n'Aura," premieres in Paris

1937 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 5th Symphony premieres in Lenningrad

1938 -24] Belgian king Leopold III visits Netherlands

1938 Nazi forces occupy western Czech & declared them German citizens

1940 Nazi occupiers forbid building schools in Netherlands

1942 Tweety Bird, aka Tweety Pie, debuts in "Tale of Two Kitties"

1943 7 Belgian ministers in London sentence King Leopold III

1944 Personnel & executive staff of Philips demonstrate for more food

1945 Benjamin Britten's 2nd String quartet in C, premieres

1945 General Motors workers go on strike

1946 Georgi Dimitrov elected premier of Bulgaria

1946 Harry Truman becomes 1st US president to travel in a submerged sub

1947 Bill Longson beats Lou Thesz in St Louis, to become wrestling champ

1949 Bill Veeck sells Indians for $22 million

1952 1st US postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) introduced

1952 Dodgers pitcher Joe Black wins NL Rookie of Year

1953 "Pitdown Man," discovered in 1912 proved to be a hoax

1953 WKJG TV channel 33 in Ft Wayne, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting

1955 Argentina asks Panama for return of ex-president Perўn

1955 KTVO TV channel 3 in Ottumwa-Kirksville, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting

1956 Don Newcombe, wins NL MVP & 1st-ever Cy Young Award

1959 Jack Benny (violin) & Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet

1960 Bob Scheffing signs to manage Tigers after Casey Stengel turns it down

1963 JFK flies to Texas

1964 "Something More!" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 15 perfs

1964 "Zizi" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 49 performances

1964 Pope Paul VI signs 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council

1964 World's longest suspension bridge "Verrazano Narrows" opens (NYC)

1965 1st freighter arrives in Ashdod Port Israel

1965 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1966 Dutch govt of Zijlstra forms

1967 Phillip & Jay Kunz fly a kite a record 28,000 feet

1968 Cin trades shortstop Leo Cardenas to Twins for pitcher Jim Merritt

1968 Supremes & Temptations release "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"

1968 Yoko Ono suffers a miscarriage

1969 KXIX (now KVCT) TV channel 19 in Victoria, TX (ABC) 1st broadcast

1969 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1970 NY Knicks 1st game against Cleve Cavalier, Knicks win 102-94 at MSG

1971 NY Rangers scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period

1971 Richard Baker becomes teacher of SF Zen Center

1972 Red Sox Carlton Fisk wins AL Rookie of Year, Mets Jon Matlack wins NL

1973 Pete Rose wins NL MVP

1973 Pres Nixon's attorney, J Fred Buzhardt, reveals presence of 18« minute gap in a White House tape recording related to Watergate

1974 Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over Pres Ford's veto

1975 Linda McCartney drug charges in US are dropped

1977 1st flight of Concorde (London to New York)

1977 Orioles 1st baseman Eddie Murray wins AL Rookie of Year

1978 Bob Horner of Braves wins NL Rookie of Year Award

1979 Crowd at Islamabad, Pakistan attack US embassy, 1 dies

1980 Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating (83 mill)

1980 Fire at MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 84

1980 Gene Michael named 25th Yank mgr, replacing Dick Howser, who resigns

1980 It is revealed Kristen shot J.R. Ewing on "Dallas"

1980 John & Yoko pose nude for photographer Allan Tannenbaum

1980 MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas in fire; 84 die

1981 400,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against cruise missiles

1981 Olivia Newton-John's "Physical," single goes #1 & stays for 10 weeks

1983 "Doonesbury" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 104 performances

1983 NY Ranger Ron Greschner marries model Carol Alt

1986 Central African Republic adopts constitution

1986 Suriname army leader Desi Bouterse massacres Moiwana village

1987 Actress Demi Moore marries actor Bruce Willis

1987 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Epitome, Ferdinand, Miesque, Sacahuista, Success Express, Theatrica, Very Subtle at Hollywood

1989 Law banning smoking on most domestic flights signed by Pres Bush

1989 TV cameras permitted in British House of Commons

1990 Michael Milken is sentenced to 10 years for security law violations

1991 Poetess Maria Elene Cruz Varela arrested in Cuba

1992 Jan Karlsson swims world record 50m butterfly (23.80 sec)

1992 Jani Sievinen swims world record 100m medley (53.78 sec)

1992 Louise Karlsson swims world record 50m freestyle (31.19 sec)

1992 Oregon Sen Bob Packwood issues apology for unwelcome sexual advances

1992 Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Tish Johnson

1993 "Cinderella" closes at New York State Theater NYC after 14 perfs

1993 "Cyrano - The Musical" opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 137 perfs

1993 Neo-fascists MSI win 36% of municipal elections in Rome

1994 1st-class cricket debut of Andrew Symonds (Queensland v NSW, SCG)

1995 Dow Jones closes above 5,000 for 1st time

1995 Israel grants jailed US spy Jason Pollard, citizenship

1995 New double Beatle CD released with new song "Free as a Bird"

1996 "Rehearsal" opens at Criterion Theater NYC

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