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- 1097 1st Crusaders arrive in Antioch during the First Crusade
Christian III's Reformation
1536 King Christian III of Denmark & Norway leads reform in Catholic possessions
- 1740 Maria Theresa becomes ruler of Austria, Hungary & Bohemia
- 1751 Royal ship Duc de Bourgogne launched at Rochefort
- 1774 American Continental Congress orders discouragement of entertainment
- 1786 Harvard University organizes 1st astronomical expedition in US
- 1803 US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase
- 1813 German Kingdom of Westphalia abolished
- 1817 1st Mississippi "Showboat" leaves Nashville on maiden voyage
- 1818 49th parallel forms as border between US & Canada
- 1818 US and Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country
- 1822 1st edition of London Sunday Times
- 1827 Naval Battle of Navarino (off the Peloponnese coast): English, Russian, French combined fleet beat a Turkish and Egyptian force, paving the way for Greek independence
- 1835 HMS Beagle leaves Galapagos Archipelago to sail to Tahiti
Margaret Fuller Editor
1839 Margaret Fuller is appointed editor of new US Transcendental Magazine "The Dial"
Schubert's Symphony No. 2
1877 Franz Schubert's 2nd Symphony in B premieres in London, England by Crystal Palace Orchestra, conducted by Alfred Manns
Before Dawn
1889 Gerhart Hauptmann's play "Vor Sonnenaufgang" (Before Dawn) premieres in Berlin to a scandalous reception
- 1891 1st International 6 day bike race at New York's Madison Square Garden begins
- 1898 NC Mutual & Provident Insurance Company forms
- 1899 American yacht Columbia beats the Shamrock challenge from Royal Ulster Yacht Club in 11th America's Cup
- 1899 Battle at Talana Hill, Natal: British army vs Boers
- 1902 The Chamber of Deputies appoints a committee to consider questions on the separation of Church and State in France
- 1903 US wins disputed boundary between District of Alaska & Canada
- 1904 Bolivia and Chile sign a treaty ending the War of the Pacific; recognizing Chile's possession of the coast, providing for construction of a railway linking La Paz, Bolivia, to Arica on the coast
- 1905 Great General Strike in Russia begins; lasts 11 days
Polish Revolution
1905 Russian Tsar Nicholas II allows the Poles to speak Polish to help quell the revolution in the Kingdom of Poland
- 1906 Dr Lee DeForest demonstrates his electrical vacuum tube (radio tube)
Leopold II Sells Congo
1908 King Leopold II sells Congo to Belgium
- 1910 Soccer team KFC forms in Alkmaar
- 1910 The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, launched from Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland
Helen Hayes Theater
1911 Helen Hayes Theater (Folies Bergere) opens at 210W 46th St, NYC
Amundsen Races to South Pole
1911 Norwegian Roald Amundsen sets out a race to the South Pole
- 1912 Cort Theater opens at 148 W 48th St NYC
- 1912 Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record marathon (2:29:39.2)
Alice Paul Enters Jail
1917 US suffragette Alice Paul begins a 7 month jail sentence for peacefully picketing in support of the women's Suffrage (right to vote) Amendment at the White House in Washington, D.C.
End of World War I
1918 In order to secure a WWI armistice, Germany agrees to further concessions
- 1920 "1st Year" with Frank Craven premieres in NYC
- 1921 Germany and Allies comes to an agreements over reparation payments in a meeting at Wiensbaden
- 1921 The French and Mustafa Kemal nationalists sign a treaty at Ankara fixing the Turko-Syrian border
- 1922 Kennelworth in Bronx renamed Dwight Place
- 1926 Hurricane in Cuba, kills 600
MVP Frankie Frisch
1931 Frankie Frisch of the Cards named MVP
- 1932 Journalist Robert Trout joins CBS
MLB Stars Go to Japan
1934 MLB All-Star team led by Connie Mack and including Babe Ruth, Jimmie Foxx and Lou Gehrig sails to Japan for 18-game series against Big-Six University League
The Silent Woman
1934 Richard Strauss completes his opera "Die Schweigsame Frau" (The Silent Woman)
- 1935 400,000 demonstrators against fascism in Madrid
- 1935 Anti-fascist People's Front forms in Brussels
End of the Long March
1935 Communist forces end their Long March at Yan'an, in Shaanxi, China, bringing Mao Zedong to prominence
MVP Hank Greenberg
1935 Detroit Tigers future Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman Hank Greenberg is named AL MVP by the BWAA; Boston Red Sox pitcher Wes Ferrell is runner-up
MVP Carl Hubbell
1936 Carl Hubbell, 26-6, edges out Dizzy Dean, 24-13, for MVP honors in NL
- 1936 Spanish government moves to Barcelona
All the Things You Are
1939 "All the Things You Are" recorded by Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
- 1940 Cheese rationed in the Netherlands
- 1940 Greenhouse rationing begins in the Netherlands
- 1941 Nazi occupiers murder 500 inhabitants of Kragujevac Serbia
- 1942 "Durham Manifesto" issued by the Southern Conference on Race Relations held in Durham, North Carolina, calls for fundamental changes in race relations
- 1944 Liquid-gas tanks in Cleveland, Ohio, explode, 135 die, and 3,600 are left homeless
- 1944 Revolution by workers & students in Guatemala
- 1944 Soviet and Yugoslav troops free Belgrade
- 1944 US 1st army wins battle of Aachen on Germany's western border
'I Shall Return'
1944 US forces under General Douglas MacArthur return to the Philippines with the landing of the US 6th army on Leyte
- 1949 Eugenie Anderson becomes 1st woman US ambassador (to Denmark)
Gas Chromatography
1950 Chemists Archer John Porter Martin and James Lovelock give the first demonstration of gas chromatography at a meeting of the Biochemical Society. The technique is rapidly adopted by the petrochemical industry.
Banana Boat (Day-O)
1955 Calypso singer Harry Belafonte records his signature tune "Day-O" (Banana Boat Song) in NYC
The Return of the King
1955 Publication of "The Return of the King", the 3rd and final volume of "The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien by George Allen and Unwin in London
Event of Interest
1957 Walter Cronkite begins hosting weekly documentary
Sports History
1960 Ralph Houk, 41, replaces Casey Stengel as Yankee manager
- 1962 Chinese army lands in India
#1 in the Charts
1962 Peter, Paul and Mary's debut folk album "Peter, Paul and Mary" reaches No. 1 on US album charts
- 1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
Event of Interest
1963 Alec Douglas-Home's Conservative Party forms British government
- 1963 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker, Algeria
Event of Interest
1963 South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela & 8 others on conspiracy charges
- 1963 WITV TV channel 7 in Charleston, South Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1964 Ann Packer of Great Britain runs a world record 2:01.1 to win the women's 800m gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics
- 1964 Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
- 1964 Riot at Rolling Stones conecrt in Paris leads to 150 arrests
- 1964 Tamara Press of the Soviet Union wins her second gold medal in 2 days by taking out the women's shot put at the Tokyo Olympics; Press' second consecutive Olympic shot put title
- 1965 Beatles receive a gold record for the single "Yesterday"
- 1965 Mass arrests of communists in Indonesia
Nobel Prize in Literature
1966 Nobel Prize for Literature awarded jointly to Jewish writers Shmuel Yosef Agnon and Nelly Sachs
- 1967 A purported bigfoot is filmed at Bluff Creek by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin in Northern California
- 1967 All white federal jury convicts 7 in murder of 3 civil rights workers in Meridan Mississippi
- 1967 KMXN (now KJTV) TV channel 34 in Lubbock, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
- 1967 Owner Charlie Finley names Bob Kennedy 1st manager of the newly relocated Oakland A's
- 1968 American Dick Fosbury using his unconventional technique wins the men's high jump gold medal with 2.24m at the Mexico City Olympics; "Fosbury Flop" becomes accepted most efficient technique
- 1968 Kenyan runner Kip Keino wins 1,500m gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics in 3:34.91 despite a severe gall bladder infection
- 1968 Mamo Wolde wins 16th Olympic marathon (2:20:26.4)
- 1968 Margitta Gummel of East Germany throws world record 19.61m to beat teammate Marita Lange by 0.83m and win the women's shot put gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics
- 1968 US men's 4 x 400m relay team of Vincent Matthews, Ron Freeman, Larry James & Lee Evans runs world record 2:56.16; easily beats Kenya & West Germany into the minor medals at the Mexico City Olympics
- 1968 US women's 4 x 100m relay team sets world record 42.88s to win the gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics; Margaret Bailes, Barbara Ferrell, Mildrette Netter & Wyomia Tyus
- 1969 WKYH (now WYMT) TV channel 57 in Hazard, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1970 American agronomist Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his contribution to world food supply
- 1970 Zond 8 Launches to orbit the Moon
- 1971 The Nepal stock exchange collapses.
Event of Interest
1971 US Senator Edward Kennedy calls for a withdrawal of British troops from Northern Ireland and all-party negotiations to establish a United Ireland
Nobel Peace Prize
1971 West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is awarded Nobel Peace Prize
Appointment of Interest
1972 John Betjeman is appointed British Poet Laureate by Queen Elizabeth II
Event of Interest
1972 Queen Juliana visits Yugoslavia
TV Show Appearance
1973 Mariette Hartley appears on "The Bob Newhart Show" in the episode "Have You Met Miss Dietz?"
Sydney Opera House
1973 Queen Elizabeth II opens the Sydney Opera House, at Bennelong Point in Sydney, Australia, after 14 years of construction
- 1973 The Family Station Inc buys shortwave Radio Station WNYW, changes call letters to WYFR & moves station from NYC to Scituate, Massachusetts
- 1973 US President Nixon accepts the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus as they refuse orders to discharge Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, in what has become known as "The Saturday Night Massacre"; after the resignations, Acting Attorney General Robert Bork fires Cox
Sports History
1973 US President Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe to have been the greatest athlete of the 1st half of the 20th century
- 1974 1st broadcast of "Derrick" on ZDF
- 1974 Bard's presentation of "Richard III" opens at Lincoln Center NYC
- 1975 Soviet orbiter Venera 9 becomes the 1st spacecraft to orbit Venus
- 1975 Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after warning
- 1976 70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince
- 1976 NY Nets Julius "Dr J" Erving sold to Philadelphia 76ers
Event of Interest
1977 David Mamet's "Life in the Theater" premieres in NYC
- 1977 Plane chartered by rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd runs out of fuel and crashes in a wooded area near Gillsburg, Mississippi. Six people are killed, including band members Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gains, and Cassie Gaines, and road manager Dean Kilpatrick
- 1977 Revival of stage play "Dracula" premieres in NYC starring Frank Langella as Dracula
- 1978 British ska-rock band The Police perform 1st US concert at CBGBs in NYC
- 1978 Paul Vanden Boeynants forms Belgium government
- 1978 US dollar devalued below Dutch Ÿ2
- 1979 American John Tate beats local favourite Gerrie Coetzee by UD in 15 rounds in Pretoria, South Africa for vacant WBA heavyweight boxing title
Event of Interest
1979 John F. Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston, Massachusetts
The Wanderer
1980 Geffen Records release their first album, Donna Summer's "The Wanderer"
- 1981 1st NBA game at Meadowlands Arena, NJ Nets lose to NY Knicks 103-99
- 1981 3 members of Weather underground arrested for armored truck robbery
- 1981 Bomb attack on Antwerp Belgium synagogue, 1 dead, 80 injured
Sports History
1982 Billy Martin fired as manager of Oakland A's
NHL Record
1984 Islander's Mike Bossy's 30th career hat trick, in his 6th career 4-goal game, an 8-3 win over visiting Los Angeles Kings
- 1984 The Monterey Bay Aquarium opens in Monterey Bay, California.
- 1986 Tupolev-134 crashes in Southern Africa
- 1987 10 die as US Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis
- 1987 Dow-Jones increases 102.27 pts/608,120,000 shares traded (record)
- 1987 Subway vigilante Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail
- 1988 Britain ends suspects' right to remain silent in crackdown on IRA
- 1988 Gastineau sacks Jets, retires from football "for personal reasons"
- 1988 Man armed with explosives blows himself up in 125 St subway station (NYC)
- 1988 Reggie Rogers, Det Lion's # 1 pick, kills 3 by driving intoxicated
- 1989 Pakistan win Sharjah Trophy over India & WI on round-robin
- 1989 US Senate impeaches US District Judge Alcee L Hastings
- 1990 3 members of 2 Live Crew acquitted on obsenity charges in Florida
- 1990 Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 US cities (US-Iraq)
- 1991 6.1-7.1 earthquake in Uttar Kashi, India, about 670 die
F1 World Champion
1991 Brazilian McLaren driver Ayrton Senna clinches his 2nd straight, and 3rd overall F1 World Drivers Championship by finishing 2nd in the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka
- 1991 Formal opening ceremony of Intl One Mind Zen center in Crestone, Colo
- 1992 David Houghton scores Zimbabwe's 1st Test hundred (121 v India, debut)
- 1992 Mr Johnson surrenders Monrovia, Liberia & is exiled to Nigeria
- 1995 Sri Lanka beat West Indies to win Sharjah Champions Trophy final
- 1995 STS 73 (Columbia 18) launches into orbit
Cricket Record
1996 Wasim Akram (257) & Saqlain Mushtaq gets cricket Test record 313 for 8th wicket, vs Zimbabwe at Sheikhupura
- 1997 Richard Gnida, Limo driver in Detroit Red Wings crash, pleads guilty
- 1997 US accuses Microsoft of violating pact forcing IE browser on computers
Film & TV History
1998 Comedian Richard Pryor is awarded the 1st ever Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
Top Gear
2002 Motoring TV series "Top Gear" premieres on the BBC, starring Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and Jason Dawe (replaced after the first season by James May)
Battle of Interest
2011 The former leader of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, and his son Moatassem Gaddafi are killed shortly after the battle of Sirte (2011) while in the custody of NTC fighters.
- 2013 30 people are killed by a suicide truck bomber in Hama, Syria
- 2013 37 people are killed in a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq
- 2013 78 people are killed by cattle raiders in Jonglei, Sudan
Event of Interest
2014 Joko Widodo becomes President of Indonesia
- 2014 Laquan McDonald (17) is shot dead by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke while jaywalking, the murder caught on video footage
- 2015 Migrants arriving in Greece top 500,00 for the year, according to the UN
- 2017 Pollution linked to 1 in 6 deaths worldwide or 9 million in 2015 in report published in "The Lancet"
