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1558 Ferdinand I appointed Holy Roman emperor 
1559 Storm floods ravage Gorinchem, Dordrecht & Woudrichem, Netherlands 
1590 Battle at Ivry: French King Henri IV beats Catholic League 
1629 England granted a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony 
1644 England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island) 
1653 Johan van Galen beats English fleet at Livorno 
1689 Scotland dismisses Willem III & Mary Stuart as king & queen 
1734 Prince Willem KHF van Orange marries George II's daughter Mary Anne 
1743 1st American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall) 
1794 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin 
1800 Luigi Chiaramonti crowned Pope Pius VII 
1812 Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812 
1821 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (New York) 
1826 General Congress of South American States assembles at Panamá 
1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Australia 
1840 José Zorilla's "El Zapatero y el Rey" premieres in Madrid 
1843 Boston conducts its 1st town meeting (Faneuil Hall) 
1845 -5.3ºF (-20.7ºC) in Groningen 
1862 Battle of New Bern NC: General Burnside conquers New Bern 
1864 Rossini's "Petite Messe Solennelle" premieres in Paris France 
1864 Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana 
1870 California legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible 
1875 Smetana's "Vysehrad" premieres 
1885 Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "Mikado" premieres in London 
1888 2nd largest snowfall in New York NY history (21") 
1889 August Strindberg's "Froken Julie" premieres in Copenhagen 
1896 Sutro Baths (San Francisco) opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1, 1952) 
1899 Stanley Cup: Montréal Shamrocks beat Winnipeg Victorias, 6-2 
1900 Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's laws of genetics 
1900 US currency goes on gold standard 
1901 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 6th Symphony in A 
1903 1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian FL 
1903 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Rat Portage Thisles in 2 games 
1903 WB Yeats & Lady Gregory's "Hour-glass" premieres in Dublin 
1906 Calgary City Rugby Football Club forms 
1908 Stanley Cup: Montréal Wanderers beat Toronto Trolley Leaguers, 6-4 
1909 Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms 
1912 King Vittorio Emanuel III of Rome injured during assassination attempt 
1913 John D Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation 
1914 Serbia & Turkey sign peace treaty 
1915 German cruiser Dresden blows itself up near coast of Chile 
1916 Battle of Verdun: German attack on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun 
1918 1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched, San Francisco 
1922 KGU-AM in Honolulu HI begins radio transmissions 
1922 KSD-AM in Saint Louis MO begins radio transmissions 
1922 WGR-AM in Buffalo NY begins radio transmissions 
1923 Allies accepts Vilnus taking East-Galicië in Poland 
1923 German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP 
1923 President Warren G Harding became 1st President filing income tax report and pay taxes 
1931 1st theater built for rear movie projection (New York NY) 
1933 Civilian Conservation Corp, begins tree conservation 
1933 Winston Churchill wants to boost air defense 
1935 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars 
1936 Federal Register, 1st magazine of the US government, publishes 1st issue 
1937 Battle of the Century: Fred Allen & Jack Benny meet on radio 
1937 Pope Pius XI publishes anti-Nazi-encyclical Mit brennender Sorge 
1939 England draw with South Africa at Durban on the 10th day 
1939 Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia 
1940 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen TX 
1941 Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies 
1941 Xavier Cugat & his Orchestraestra record "Babalu" 
1945 RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm 
1946 Belgian government of Spaak, forms 
1948 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco 
1950 FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins 
1951 During Korean War, US/UN forces recapture Seoul 
1951 Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany 
1953 KOLR TV channel 10 in Springfield MO (CBS) begins broadcasting 
1953 Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as Secretary of Communist Party 
1954 Braves Henry Aaron homers in his 1st exhibition game 
1954 KDAL (now KDLH) TV channel 3 in Duluth-Superior MN (CBS) begins 
1954 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship 
1954 NBA Baltimore Bullets end a 32 game road losing streak 
1955 Prince Mahemdra becomes king of Nepal 
1956 Satchel Paige signs with the Birmingham Black Barons (Negro League) 
1957 Indonesian government of Sastroamidjojo resigns 
1958 RIAA (Recording Industry Association of American)is created and certifies 1st gold record (Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star) 
1958 South Africa government disallows ANC 
1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 
1958 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test 
1960 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield CA 
1960 Wilt Chamberlain (Philadelphia) sets NBA playoff record of 53 points 
1961 George Weiss becomes president of New York Mets 
1962 Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France 
1962 Gordie Howe (Detroit Red Wings) is 2nd NHLer to score 500 goals 
1963 San Francisco's Guy Rodgers ties NBA record with 28 assists 
1964 "Girl Who Came to Supper" closes at Broadway NYC after 112 performances 
1964 Dallas jury sentences Jack Ruby to death for Lee Harvey Oswald murder 
1965 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany 
1967 1st NFL-AFL common draft, Baltimore Colts pick Bubba Smith 
1967 JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial 
1968 CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA 
1968 POM performs atmospheric nuclear test at Maralinga Australia 
1969 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win at Aqueduct 
1969 Seymour Nurse scores 258 in his last Test Cricket innings, West Indies vs New Zealand 
1971 Barbra Streisand appears on "The Burt Bacharach Special" on CBS TV 
1971 South Vietnamese troops flee Laos 
1971 The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes 
1972 NBA's Cincinnati Royals announce they are moving to Kansas City 
1973 Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland 
1976 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race 
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 
1978 Marines terminate Molukse action in Province house (1 dead) 
1978 NFL permanently adds 7th official (side judge) 
1980 3rd Emmy Sports Awards presentation 
1980 Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers) 
1980 World Ice Dance Championship in Dortmund West Germany won by Krisztina Regoczy & Andras Sallay (Hungary) 
1980 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Marina Cherkasova & Sergei Shakhrai (USSR) 
1980 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Anett Potzsch 
1980 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Jan Hoffmann (German Democratic Republic) 
1982 Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic 
1982 Sidath Wettimuny scores Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket century 
1983 OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years 
1984 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-C mission 
1985 11th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby wins 4 awards 
1985 Michael Secrest (US) completes 24 hour ride of 516 miles, 427 yards 
1986 European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km) 
1987 New York Met Darryl Strawberry charges Red Sox pitcher Al Nipper during spring training exhibition game, causes bench clearing brawl 
1987 Providence, with Billy Donovan's 25 points, beats Austin Peay 90-87 
1987 Skier Piotr Fijas jumps record 194 meter 
1990 4th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson 
1990 Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress 
1991 British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment 
1991 Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City, after the Iraqis leave 
1991 World Ice Dance Championship in Munich won by Isabel & Phil Duchesnay (France) 
1991 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by N Mishkutenok & A Dmitriev (USSR) 
1991 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by Kristi Yamaguchi (USA) 
1991 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by Kurt Browning (Canada) 
1992 Farm Aid V 
1992 New York Mets Daryl Boston, Vince Coleman & Dwight Gooden accused of rape 
1992 Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication 
1993 "Conversations with My Father" closes at Royale NYC after 462 performances 
1993 "Face Value" closes at Cort Theater NYC after performances 
1993 "Saint Joan" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 49 performances 
1993 3,000th performance of "Nunsense" 
1993 Johan Koss skates world record 5 km (6 :6.57) 
1993 Meg Mallon wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship 
1993 Ricky Ponting hits twin tons for Tasmania aged 18 years 84 days 
1994 Mexican banker/billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped 
1994 Soyuz TM-21 launches with V Dezyurov, G Strekalov & N Thagard 
1995 1st time 13 people in space 
1996 Australia beat West Indies by 5 runs in amazing cricket World Cup semi 
1996 Crufts show at NEC Birmingham, (1995 winner, Joshua, an Irish setter) 
1997 68 year old Gordie Howe signs AHL contract with Syracuse Crunch 
1997 Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80 
1997 Olympics gold medalist Michael Johnson wins 67th James E Sullivan Award 
1997 President Clinton trips & tears up his knee requiring surgery 































































  

 

 

 

 

 

 




 
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