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1861 West Virginia created as a result of dispute over slavery with Virginia
1863 -Dec 2] Mine Run campaign, VA
1864 Confederate troops vacate Sandersville Georgia
1864 Skirmish at Sylvan Brutal/Waynesboro, Georgia
1865 Battle of Papudo: The Spanish navy engages a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet north of Valparaiso, Chile.
1867 Refrigerated railroad car patented by JB Sutherland of Detroit
1868 1st baseball game played in enclosed field in SF, at 25th & Folsom
1894 King Lafia "Absalamu" of Nikki signs accord with France
1895 Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association forms
1896 1st large indoor football game, University of Chicago beats U of Mich 7-6
1896 A A Stagg of U Chicago creates American football huddle
1898 -27) Snow/ice storm over US; 455 die
1898 SS Portland “The Titanic of New England” leaves for Cape Cod, shipwrecked off Cape Ann, all 192 on board killed
1901 Italy and Britain sign an agreement fixing the frontier between their colonies of Eritrea and Sudan in East Africa
1905 1st Australasian Championships: Rodney Heath beats Albert Curtis (4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4)
1909 Sigma Alpha Mu is founded in the City College of New York by 8 Jewish young men.
1910 2nd CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Hamilton Tigers, 16-7
1913 Russian kingdom forbids Polish congregation of speakers
1913 Phi Sigma Sigma is founded at Hunter College in New York City.
1914 Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbour, England, 788 die
1916 Greece declares war on Germany
1916 Addressing the Chamber of Commerce in Cincinnati, US President Wilson declares that 'The business of neutrality is over. The nature of modern war leaves no state untouched'
1917 The new government of Russia offers an armistice to Germany and Austria-Hungary
1918 The Podgorica Assembly votes for "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
1924 Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed
1925 Netherlands & Germany sign trade agreement
1927 15th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Hamilton Tigers, 9-6
1928 Paul Claudel's "Lepdrehumily" premieres in Dresden
1928 Philip Barry's "Holiday" premieres in NYC
1933 Camille Chautemps becomes French premier
1934 German theologist Karl Barth surrenders to Nazis
1934 Turkish regiment decrees importing family names
1939 4 soviet soldiers killed on Finnish-Russian border
1940 Leidse students strike
1940 Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw
1941 General Alan Cunningham relieved of command of British 8th Army in North Africa
1941 British troops conquer Belhamed, Sidi Rezegh & El Duda
1941 Japanese naval carrier force left its base & moves east toward Pearl Harbor
1941 Lebanon independence first proclaimed by France

1942 Anti-fascist Council for National Liberation (AVNOJ) forms
1944 1st allied marines move onto Antwerp harbor
1944 Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz & Birkenau crematoria
1945 During snow storm, school bus crashes, kills 15 (Washington).
1949 37th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeat Calgary Stampeders, 28-15
1949 India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic
1950 China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River
1952 1st modern 3-D movie "Bwana Devil" premieres in Hollywood
1953 KBOI (now KBCI) TV channel 2 in Boise, ID (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 WJHL TV channel 11 in Johnson City, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 Yamada Koun, leader of Sanbo Kyodan line of Zen, found 1st awakening
1954 Test Cricket debut of Colin Cowdrey v Australia at Gabba
1955 "Boy Friend" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 483 performances
1955 43rd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 34-19
1955 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Cyprus
1955 20th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 26-0 in Birmingham
1956 "The Price Is Right" debuts on NBC
1956 USSR single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold medal in his excitement he jumps for joy, & loses his medal, it sinks
1957 WCVB TV channel 5 in Boston, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1960 48th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 16-6
1960 Minneapolis-St Paul baseball club takes the name Twins
1960 25th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 3-0 in Birmingham
1961 For 2nd time in his career, St Louis' Jerry Norton has 4 interceptions
1961 Pro Baseball Rules Committee votes 8-1 against legalizing the spitball
1962 Caribbean Air Transport Me NV (CLTM Airlines) forms
1962 Fab Four have their first recording session under name The Beatles
1963 29th Heisman Trophy Award: Roger Staubach, Navy (QB).

1963 Explorer 18 spacecraft launched by NASA
1964 29th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 21-14 in Birmingham
1965 Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim Lefebvre is voted NL Rookie of Year
1965 France launches 1st satellite, 92 lb (42 kg) A1-capsule (Asterix)
1966 "Walking Happy" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 161 performances
1966 1st major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France
1966 54th CFL Grey Cup: Saskatchewan Roughriders defeats Ottawa, 29-14
1967 Browns' Carl Ward sets club record with a 104-yd kickoff return
1967 Cloud burst over Lisbon kills about 450
1968 34th Heisman Trophy Award: O J Simpson, Southern Cal (RB)
1969 35th Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Owens, Oklahoma (RB)
1969 Cream's final concert (Royal Albert Hall)
1969 Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon
1970 In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever on record
1972 Pete Gogolak scores NY Giant record 8 pts after a touchdown
1972 Bomb explosion at the Film Centre Cinema, in O’Connell Bridge House in Dublin
1973 Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18½ minute gap in a key Watergate tape
1974 Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses in Nepal
1974 Catfish Hunter & Charlie Finley meet in arbitration
1974 Greenidge scores 107 in 2nd innings of Test Cricket debut v India
1975 US Federal jury finds Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination
1975 France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
1975 Fred Lynn becomes the 1st rookie to win MVP
1975 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 German DR deprives singer/poet Wolf Biermann citizenship
1976 Ringo releases "Hey Baby" single
1976 Sex Pistols release their debut single "Anarchy In The UK"
1976 Willy Brandt elected chairman of Socialist International
1977 'Vrillon', claiming to be the representative of the 'Ashtar Galactic Command', takes over Britain's Southern Television for six minutes at 5:12 PM.
1977 42nd Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 48-21 in Birmingham
1978 10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, NY
1978 1st lesbian theme TV movie - "A Question of Love"
1978 66th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 20-13
1978 Christina Crawford autobiography "Mommie Dearest" reaches best-seller status
1979 Intl Olympic Committee votes to readmit China after 21 years
1979 Twins John Castino & Jays Alfredo Griffin tie for AL Rookie of Year
1980 Columbia mated to SRBs & external tank at Vehicle Assembly Building.

1984 John W Mercom Jr announces NO Saints are up for sale for $75 million
1984 Kim Hughes tearfully resigns as Australian cricket captain
1984 US & Iraq re-establish diplomatic relations
1985 23rd Space Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-is launched
1985 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1988 Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalev & Jean-Loup Chretien launch
1988 Pioneer 6's closest approach to Earth since 1965 launch (1.87 M km)
1989 77th CFL Grey Cup: Saskatchewan defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 43-40
1989 Comores coup under Bob Benard
1989 Luis Alberto Lacalle becomes President of Uruguay
1989 Rafael Callejas installed as president of Honduras
1990 Premier Mazowiecki of Poland resigns
1990 US proposes addition to UN resolution that would require Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait by January 1
1991 Condoms are handed out to thousands of NY High School students
1992 57th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 17-0 in Birmingham
1995 33rd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Valencia Spain (3-2)

1995 New Zealand score 8-348 in 49 overs v India in Nagpur ODI
1996 Baseball owners approve interleague play, 26-4
1996 Colbert, Floyd & Irwin win Wendy's Senior 3 Tour Golf Challenge
1996 Couples, Davies, Sheehan & Sorenstam win Wendy's Lady's 3 Tour Golf
1996 Couples, Love & Stewart win Wendy's Men's 3 Tour Golf Challenge
1997 Wash Capitals final game at USAir Arena, retire Rod Langway's #5

2000 88th CFL Grey Cup: BC Lions defeats Montreal Alouettes, 28-26
2003 Concorde makes its last ever flight over Bristol, England.
2004 Ruzhou School massacre: a man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China.
2008 Terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India: Ten coordinated attacks by Pakistan-based terrorists kill 164 and injure more than 250 people in Mumbai, India.
2010 75th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 28-27 in Tuscaloosa
2011 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan: NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani checkpost in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others.
2011 76th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 42-14 in Auburn
2012 10 children are killed and 15 people are injured after a Syrian government Jet drops a cluster bomb on a playground
2012 The cost of Hurricane Sandy to New York is announced to be $32 Billion.