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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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