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- 741 Pope Zachary elected
- 1041 Michael IV, Paphlagonicus, Byzantium Emperor dies of results of dropsy. His wife Empress Zoe elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V.
- 1294 Pope Coelestinus V becomes Pope (until Dec 13th)
- 1508 League of the kingdom signed (covenant against Venice)
Goa Surrenders
1510 Muslim ruler of Goa, Yusuf Adil Shah and his Ottoman allies surrender to Portuguese forces led by Afonso de Albuquerque who puts the Muslim population to the sword
Martin Luther Burns Papal Edit
1520 Martin Luther publicly burns papal edict demanding he recant
Gregory Conquers Julius Caesar
1582 France begins use of Gregorian calendar
Battle of Dungeness
1652 Sea battle at Dungeness: Dutch Lt Admiral Maarten Tromp defeats an English fleet led by Robert Blake
- 1672 New York Governor Lovelace announces monthly mail service between New York & Boston
Newton's De Motu Corporum in Gyrum
1684 Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper “De motu corporum in gyrum” (On the motion of bodies in an orbit), is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.
- 1690 Massachusetts Bay becomes first American colonial government to issue paper money
Jacobite Army Reaches Manchester
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite army reaches Manchester
- 1768 First part (number) of the Encyclopedia Britannica is published in Edinburgh, Scotland
- 1799 Metric system first adopted in France
- 1810 English bare-knuckle boxer Tom Cribb beats African-American Tom Molineaux in 33rd of 40 round bout at Copthall Common, England; first interracial boxing match
- 1816 Dutch regain Sumatra from the British
- 1817 Mississippi admitted as 20th state of the Union
- 1831 "Spirit of the Times" begins publishing in New York City, the premier sports journal of the 19th century
- 1836 Emory College (now Emory University) is chartered in Oxford, Georgia
The Childhood of Christ
1854 Hector Berlioz premieres his oratorio "L'enfance du Christ (The Childhood of Christ)", conducting musicians and soloists from the Opéra-Comique, at the Salle Herz, Paris
Sherman Begins Siege of Savannah
1864 General Sherman's armies reach Savannah & 12 day siege begins
- 1869 The first American chapter of Kappa Sigma is founded at the University of Virginia.
- 1869 Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)
- 1877 Russo-Turkish War: Turkish commander Osman Pasha surrenders the city of Plevna, Ottoman Empire (now Pleven, Bulgaria) to Romanian Col. Mihail Cerchez
Song of the Fates
1882 Johannes Brahms' choir and orchestra piece "Gesang der Parzen" (Song of the Fates) premieres in Basel
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1884 "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain is first published in the UK and Canada (US Feb 1885, due to printing error)
Spain Declares War Against the United States
1898 Treaty of Paris which ended the Spanish–American War is signed by US President McKinley; US acquires Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam
- 1899 -15] British "Black Week" due to defeats in South Africa
- 1899 Battle at Storm Berge South Africa - Boers vs British army
- 1899 Delta Sigma Phi fraternity founded at City College of New York, to spread "the principles of friendship and brotherhood among college men, without respect to race or creed."
Der Kammersänger
1899 Frank Wedekind's play "Der Kammersänger" premieres in Berlin
- 1901 First Nobel Peace Prizes awarded, first recipients Red Cross founder Jean Henri Dunant and peace activist Frederic Passy
Röntgen's Nobel for X-Rays
1901 First Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Wilhelm Röntgen for his discovery of X-rays
Fischer Awarded Chemistry Nobel
1902 German organic chemist Emil Fischer is award the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on sugar and purine syntheses
Aswan Low Dam Opens
1902 Opening of the Aswan Low Dam at the first cataract - first dam across the Nile, then the largest masonry dam in the world
- 1902 Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania
Curies Awarded Nobel
1903 Nobel Prize for physics awarded to Pierre and Marie Curie for their study of spontaneous radiation
- 1904 Founding of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity in Charleston, South Carolina
Pavlov First Russian Nobel
1904 Ivan Pavlov awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for work on the physiology of digestion, first Russian to win a Nobel Prize
Physics Nobel for Argon Discovery
1904 John William Strutt [Lord Rayleigh] and William Ramsay are presented with the Nobel Prize for Physics for their discovery of Argon
- 1904 King Peter I of Serbia named nationalist regime
- 1905 Austrian pacifist and writer Bertha von Suttner becomes the 1st woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Moissan Nobel for Isolating Fluoride
1906 Frenchman Henri Moissan is presented with the Nobel prize for Chemistry for isolating Fluoride
Nervous System Work Awarded Nobel
1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal "in recognition of their work on the anatomy of the nervous system" [1]
Roosevelt First US Nobel
1906 US President Theodore Roosevelt is the 1st American awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Kipling's Nobel for Literature
1907 Rudyard Kipling receives the Nobel prize for literature, the first English-language writer to do so
- 1907 The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected.
First Woman Awarded Literature Nobel
1909 Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
Physics Nobel to Van der Waals
1910 Dutch Physicist Johannes van der Waals wins the Nobel Prize for physics
Maeterlinck Nobel for Literature
1911 Belgium poet and playwright Maurice Maeterlinck is presented in absentia with the Nobel Prize for Literature
- 1911 Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of US by airplane in 84 days
- 1911 Dutch lawyer Tobias Asser receives the Nobel Peace Prize
Dalén Awarded Physics Nobel
1912 Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to Gustaf Dalén for inventing automatic regulators for gas accumulators for lighthouses and buoys
- 1913 Belgium head of the International Peace Bureau Henri La Fontaine becomes the first Socialist to win the Nobel Peace Prize
Tagore Nobel Prize for Literature
1913 Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore becomes the first non-European to be presented with the Nobel Prize for Literature for "Gitanjali"
Wilson Nobel Peace Prize
1919 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US President Woodrow Wilson
Ban Johnson Controversy
1919 NY, Boston, & Chicago, oppose AL resolution accusing Ban Johnson of overstepping his duties
Krog Nobel Prize
1920 August Krogh is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the regulation mechanisms of capillaries in skeletal muscle
- 1922 Canton Bulldogs' future HOF tackle Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards
Nobels to Bohr, Aston and Nansen
1922 Nobel prizes awarded to Danish physicist Niels Bohr for his work on the structure of atoms, Francis William Aston for Chemistry and a Peace Prize to Fridtjof Nansen for his work on behalf of displaced victims of World War I at a ceremony in Copenhagen
- 1922 Spanish playwright Jacinto Benavente is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in absentia in Stockholm, his speech is given by Count de Torata, the Spanish Ambassador
- 1923 Polish government of Grabski forms
Shaw Awarded Literature Nobel
1925 Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
- 1926 1st radio broadcast in the Sprinfield area (WCBS)
Mein Kampf
1926 2nd part of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf published
- 1927 "Grand Ole Opry" first named as such during Barn Dance radio broadcast, in Nashville, Tennessee
Nobel to Eijkman and Hopkins
1929 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine jointly awarded to Christiaan Eijkman and Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins for the discovery of vitamins
Nobel Prize in Medicine
1930 Austrian American Karl Landsteiner is presented with the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of human blood groups"
Fischer Awarded Chemistry Nobel
1930 German chemist Hans Fischer is awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on haemin
1st Science Nobel to Asia
1930 Indian Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman is presented with the Nobel Prize for Physics for work on light scattering - first Asian and non-white to win a Science Nobel
Nobel to 1st American Woman Nobel
1931 Jane Addams named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize; 1st American woman Nobel laureate [1]
Azaña Spanish PM
1931 Manuel Azaña becomes Prime Minister of Spain with Niceto Zamora as President
- 1932 King Rama VII (Prajadhipok) grants Thailand a constitution
- 1932 The "Great Emu War" ends: Emu's surprising resilience to bullets led to Emu victory over Australian military in Campion district, Western Australia
Dirac and Schrödinger Physics Nobel
1933 Nobel Prize for Physics is presented to Paul Dirac and Erwin Schrödinger "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory"
- 1934 Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp
- 1934 NFL adopts player waiver rule; applies after 6th game of season
- 1934 Saint-Adelbert cooperation formed by Catholic elite
Neuron Discovery Wins Nobel
1935 James Chadwick is awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of the neutron
Marie Curie Daughter Wins Nobel
1935 Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to Irene Joliot-Curie (daughter of Marie Curie) and her husband Frédéric Joliot for the discovery of artificial radioactivity
Foxx to the Red Sox
1935 Philadelphia Athletics sell infielder Jimmie Foxx's contract to Boston Red Sox for $150,000 (about $2.8M in 2020 dollars)
- 1935 White Sox sell Al Simmons to the Tigers for $75,000
- 1936 Britain replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI
Edward VIII Abdicates
1936 Edward VIII signs Instrument of Abdication, giving up the British throne to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson
Ist Latin American Wins Peace Prize
1936 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Carlos Saavedra Lamas for mediating end to Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia, 1st Latin American to win
- 1936 Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry
- 1937 William Grant Still's Symphony No. 2 ("Song of a New Race") premieres at the Academy of Music by the Philadelphia Orchestra led by conductor Leopold Stokowski
Fermi Awarded Physics Nobel
1938 Italian scientist Enrico Fermi receives the Nobel Prize for Physics (work on reduced radioactivity)
- 1938 Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Zen teacher, Rinzai line, enters Zen priesthood
- 1939 KNVB celebrates 50th anniversary
Harmon 1st Draft Pick
1940 1941 NFL Draft: Tom Harmon from University of Michigan first pick by Chicago Bears
- 1940 British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani)
- 1941 British battleship Prince of Wales and battlecruiser Repulse (Force Z) sunk following Japanese aerial attacks off Malaya. 840 men die
- 1941 Japanese troops landed on northern Luzon in the Philippines
- 1941 Japanese troops overrun Guam
- 1942 Adolf Hitler names Anton Mussert "leader of the Dutch people"
Early Report of the Holocaust
1942 An early report of the Holocaust prepared by the Polish government-in-exile, using information obtained by Witold Pilecki, is addressed to UN member states
- 1942 North Africa: 5th German panzer army forms under col-gen von Arnim
- 1943 British 8th Army (1st Canadian Infantry Division) occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy
- 1944 9 Dutch citizens hanged by Nazis
- 1944 German counterattack at Dillingen bridgehead on the Saar
- 1945 Aust Services lose 3rd Victory Test Cricket to India by 6 wkts
- 1945 Preston Tucker reveals plan to produce the Torpedo, a new 150 MPH car
Hesse Nobel Literature Prize
1946 German/Swiss novelist Hermann Hesse wins the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his inspired writings which, while growing in boldness and penetration, exemplify the classical humanitarian ideals and high qualities of style"
Nobel for Work on Nerve Function
1947 American physiologists Joseph Erlanger and Herbert Gasser presented with Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in Stockholm (awarded 1944), for research into nerve function
- 1947 USSR & Czechoslovakia sign trade agreement
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1948 UN General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Bunche Nobel Peace Prize
1950 Ralph Bunche (1st black American) presented the Nobel Peace Prize for mediation in Israel
Pauling Nobel Chemistry Prize
1954 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its applications
- 1954 Philadelphia Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium
- 1954 USAF Lt Col John Stapp travels at 632 mph in a rocket sled at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico
- 1956 Establishment of The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola, MPLA (from Portuguese: Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola), left-wing party that has ruled since independence from Portugal
- 1957 Chinese physicists Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on parity laws, which created a major breakthrough in particle research
- 1958 1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111
- 1958 U of Pitts agrees to buy Forbes Field from the Pirates
Poet Quasimodo Nobel Prize
1959 Novel Prize for Literature awarded to Sicilian writer Salvatore Quasimodo for his lyrical poetry
- 1960 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine awarded to Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet and Peter Medawar for work on tissue grafting
Nobel for Carbon-14 Dating
1960 Willard Libby wins the Nobel prize in Chemistry for his work developing carbon-14 dating (radiocarbon dating).
Cannon Rush/Receiving Record
1961 Houston Oilers utility back Billy Cannon gains AFL record 373 yards combined rushing/receiving in 48-21 win over NY Titans at the Polo Grounds, NYC
Physics Nobel to Hofstadter, Mössbauer
1961 Robert Hofstadter and Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer win the Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleon
- 1961 US performs nuclear test at Carlsbad New Mexico (underground)
- 1961 USSR & Albania break diplomatic relations
Lawrence of Arabia
1962 David Lean's film "Lawrence of Arabia", based on life of T. E. Lawrence and starring Peter O'Toole, premieres at Odeon Leicester Square (Academy Awards Best Picture 1963)
- 1962 Hunters Point (San Francisco) jitney ends service after 50 years
Donny Osmond Debut
1963 6-year old Donny Osmond's singing debut on Andy Williams Show
Chemistry Nobel to Ziegler and Natta
1963 Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta receive the 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on the technology of high polymers
Kaddish
1963 Leonard Bernstein premieres his Third Symphony "Kaddish" with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, in Tel Aviv, Israel
- 1963 Zanzibar gains independenence from Great Britain
First Nobel to British Woman
1964 Dorothy Hodgkin is the first British woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on penicillin and vitamin B12
King Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1964 Nobel Peace Prize presented to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Oslo, Norway
The Ed Sullivan Theater
1967 CBS officially renames CBS-TV Studio 50 in New York (built in 1927 as Hammerstein's Theatre), as "The Ed Sullivan Theater" in celebration of the 20th anniversary of his program
Asturias Nobel Literature Prize
1967 Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm
Eye Discoveries Win Nobel
1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Ragnar Granit, Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald "for discoveries about the make-up of the eye
- 1968 Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", occurs in Tokyo.
Frazier vs. Bonavena
1968 Joe Frazier beats Oscar Bonavena in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1970 North American Soccer League awards NY & Toronto franchises
Solzhenitsyn Doesn't Claim Nobel
1970 Soviet novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn chooses not to claim his Nobel Prize in Literature for fear that the USSR would prevent his return afterwards. Accepts in 1974 after he was deported.
Lucasfilm Ltd. Founded
1971 Lucasfilm Ltd. is founded as a film and television production company by George Lucas in San Francisco, California
Brandt Noble Peace Prize
1971 West German Chancellor Willy Brandt receives the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1971 William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice
- 1972 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Sammartino vs. Stasiak
1973 Bruno Sammartino beats Stan Stasiak, to become WWWF champ for 2nd time
Two Tennis No. 1s
1973 For the first time since 1885, tennis has 2 top-ranked male players - Americans Stan Smith and Jimmy Connors [1]
- 1974 European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament
- 1974 Helios 1 launched by US and Germany; later makes closest flyby of the Sun
MacBride, Satō Win Peace Prize
1974 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Irishman Seán MacBride for his human rights work and Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Satō for signing Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Nobel to Soviet Dissident
1975 Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner accepts the Soviet dissident's Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo - Sakharov not allowed to leave the country
Funk vs. Brisco
1975 Terry Funk beats Jack Brisco in Miami Beach, Florida to become NWA wrestling champ
First Nobel Lecture in Mandarin
1976 Samuel C. C. Ting is the first person to deliver a Nobel Prize lecture in Mandarin, during the ceremony to award him and Burton Richter the Nobel Prize for Physics for discovering the J/ψ particle
- 1976 Wings release triple album "Wings Over America"
- 1977 Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
Superman: The Movie
1978 "Superman: The Movie", directed by Richard Donner and starring Christopher Reeve, Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman and Margot Kidder premieres at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C.
- 1978 Islanders ends 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadians
Peace Negotiators Receive Nobel
1978 Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo for negotiating peace between Egypt and Israel
- 1979 Piet Dankert appointed as chairman of European Parliament
- 1980 Soyuz T-3 returns to Earth
- 1980 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- 1981 -13] El Salvador army kills 900
- 1981 Jules Feiffer's "Grownups" premieres in NYC
- 1981 The United Nations General Assembly approves Pakistan's proposal for establishing nuclear free-zone in South Asia.
- 1982 CDC report on a transfusion recipient who developed AIDS symptoms
Doakes vs. Weaver
1982 Heavyweight Michael Doakes KOs Mike Weaver in 1:03 in Las Vegas
Nobel Prize for Wałęsa
1983 Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Wałęsa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
- 1983 Last NFL game at Shea Stadium; Steelers beat NY Jets 34-7
- 1983 Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's 1st civilian president
- 1984 1st "planet" outside our solar system discovered
Nobel to Archbishop Tutu
1984 South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu is presented with his Nobel Peace Prize
- 1984 WNSY-AM in Newport News VA returns from WGH
Out of Africa
1985 "Out of Africa", based on the book by Isak Dinesen, directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford premieres in Los Angeles (Best Picture 1986)
- 1985 Bill to balance the federal budget passed by US Congress
- 1986 Atlanta Hawk Dominique Wilkins scores 57 points vs Chicago Bulls
- 1986 France performs nuclear test
Holocaust Spokesman Awarded Nobel
1986 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize for being a leading spokesman on the Holocaust
Lendl's Back-to-Back ATP
1986 Ivan Lendl repeats previous year's result with a 6–4, 6–4, 6–4 win over Boris Becker to claim back-to-back season-ending ATP Masters Grand Prix tennis titles at Madison Square Garden, NYC
- 1987 "Nightline" is seen in USSR for 1st time
Drug Developers Awarded Nobel
1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine presented to Gertrude B. Elion, George H. Hitchings and James W. Black "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment"
