Today in history: Libya ends relation with Egypt, first protestant church in England.

• 461 St Hilary begins his reign as Catholic Pope
• 615 Pope Deusdedit/Adeodatus I elected to succeed Boniface IV
• 1302 Pope Boniface VIII delegates degree "Unam sanctam"
• 1367 League of Cologne goes against Danish king Waldemar IV
•  1521 Battle at Milan: Emperor Karel V's/pontifical/Spanish/German troops beat France &                 occupy Milan
• 1523 Giulio de' Medici chosen as Pope Clemens VII
• 1530 The Recess document resulting from the Diet of Augsburg signed by Charles V and                    by  catholic princes
• 1544 Pope Paul III opens council of Trente
• 1620 Mayflower reaches Cape Cod & explores the coast
• 1621 Rabbi Isaiah ben Abraham aha-Levi Horowitz arrives in Israel
• 1644 First protestant ministry society in New England
• 1700 Battle at Narva: Swedish King Karel XII defeats Russians
• 1794 Jakobin Club forms in Paris
• 1794 Jay Treaty, first US extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain
• 1805 Lewis & Clark expedition reaches the Pacific Ocean, first European Americans to cross            the west
• 1816 Warsaw University is established.
• 1824 Storm causes St Petersburg flood, killing 10,000
• 1835 A ship carrying 500 armed Maori from Ngati Tama and Ngati Mutunga arrives on the                  Chatham Islands; those Moriori (indigenous people of the Chatham Islands) that are          not killed are enslaved.
• 1837 Floridsdorf-Deutsch Wagram railway in Austria opens
• 1861 Julia Ward Howe committed "Battle Hymn of the Republic" to paper
• 1861 The first petroleum shipment (1,329 barrels) from the U.S. to Europe leaves                              Philadelphia, USA, for London, England on the Elizabeth Watts
• 1863 US President Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address beginning; "Four score & seven               years ago..."
• 1872 E.D. Barbour of Boston is awarded the first U.S. patent for the first 'calculator', an                     adding machine capable of printing totals and subtotals.
• 1873 James Reed and two accomplices rob the Watt Grayson family of $30,000 in the                     Choctaw Nation
• 1879 National Association of Trotting Horse Breeders determines what "is" a trotter
• 1881 A meteorite lands near the village of Großliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
• 1885 Bulgarians, led by Stefan Stambolov, repulse a larger Serbian invasion force at                         Slivinitza
• 1887 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Dying Detective" (BG).
• 1893 1st newspaper color supplement (NY World)
• 1894 1st mushroom on a stamp (China 1 & 5 Ap)
• 1894 Dutch troops occupy & plunders palace of Tjakra Negara, Lombok
• 1895 American inventor Frederick E Blaisdell patents the pencil
• 1896 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Sussex Vampire" (BG)
• 1903 Carrie Nation attempts to address Senate
• 1905 The steamer "Hilda" sinks in the English Channel (100 people drown)
• 1906 London selected to host 1908 Olympics
• 1909 Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper denies corruption
• 1910 Ferenc Molnàr's "Tester" premieres in Budapest.
• 1919 US Senate rejects (55-39) Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations
• 1922 Demonstration for a French Language University in Ghent
• 1923 Béla Bartòk's "Tancsuite" premieres
• 1923 The Oklahoma State Senate ousts Governor Walton for anti-Ku Klux Klan measures
• 1926 British miners' strike ends after 28 weeks.
• 1933 Women allowed to vote in Spain (helps right wing)
• 1939 Don Lash wins 6th straight AAU cross-country 10K championship
• 1940 Belgian King Leopold III visits Adolf Hitler
• 1940 First major German air raid on Birmingham - about 440 bombers kill 45
• 1952 North American F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record, 1124 KPH
• 1952 Spain joins UNESCO
• 1952 Scandinavian Airlines opens a commercial route from Canada to Europe
• 1953 US Supreme Court rules (7-2) baseball is a sport not a business.
• 1955 KXMB TV channel 12 in Bismarck, ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1955 National Review publishes its first issue.
• 1957 Antonin Novotny appointed president of Czechoslovakia
• 1958 First 2 F-27 Fokker's Friendships delivered on Aer Lingus
• 1959 "Rocky & His Friends" debuts on ABC
• 1959 Ford Motors cancels its poorly received Edsel model
• 1960 Mickey Vernon is hired as 1st manager of new Washington team
• 1961 Houston George Blanda passes for 7 touchdowns vs NY Titans (49-13).
• 1962 KOET (now KULC) TV channel 9 in Ogden, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1962 SN Behrman's "Lord Pengo" premieres in NYC
• 1962 Todor Zjivkov becomes premier of Bulgaria
• 1965 ABC radio begins weekly "Vietnam Update" report
• 1965 Kellogg's Pop Tarts pastries created
• 1966 Mad Dog Vachon beats Dick The Bruiser in Omaha, to become NWA champ
• 1967 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Pensacola Ladies' Golf Invitational
• 1967 The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
• 1968 Military coup in Mali, president Modibo Keita flees
• 1968 Yankees pitcher Stan Bahnsen wins AL Rookie of Year
• 1969 Apollo 12's Charles Conrad & Alan Bean become 3rd & 4th humans on the Moon
• 1969 WENY TV channel 36 in Elmira, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a Cal state historical landmark
• 1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1971 Disney World's Fort Wilderness opens
• 1972 "Ambassador" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 9 performances
• 1972 "Dear Oscar" closes at Playhouse Theater NYC after 5 performances
• 1972 Gershwin Theater (Uris) opens at 1633 Broadway NYC
• 1972 KFIZ TV channel 34 in Fond du Lac, WI suspends broadcasting
• 1972 Willy Brandts SPD wins West German election
• 1972 Leader of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) Seán MacStiofáin is arrested in Dublin
• 1973 Elections in Suriname, premier Sedney's PNP doesn't win a chair
• 1973 New York stock market takes sharpest drop in 19 years
• 1975 Reds 2nd baseman Joe Morgan is named NL MVP 
• 1976 Jaime Ornelas Camacho takes office as the first President of the Regional.                              Government of Madeira, Portugal.
• 1977 -21] Egyptian president Sadat visits Israel
• 1977 Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 3rd penalty shot against Islanders
• 1977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel
• 1977 Libya drops diplomatic relations with Egypt
• 1978 Gavaskar gets twin cricket tons for India for 2nd time
• 1978 "The Miracle at the Meadowlands", Eagles Herman Edwards returns a fumble for a                    touchdown with 31 seconds left to give Philadelphia a 19-17 victory over the rival New              York Giants
• 1978 28th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Cale Yarborough wins
• 1984 Liquid gas tank in Mexico City explodes; 334 die
• 1984 NY Met Dwight Gooden, 20, is youngest to be named NL Rookie of Year
• 1985 Herb Gardner's "I'm Not Rappaport" premieres in NYC 
• 1986 Tina Howe's "Coastal Disturbances" premieres in NYC
• 1987 France performs nuclear test
• 1989 US beats Trinidad, 1-0 qualifing for 1990 world soccer cup finals it was US' 1st                        qualification since 1950
• 1989 39th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Rusty Wallace wins.
• 1990 Greyhound files reoganization plan so they can be traded publically.
• 1992 "3 From Brooklyn" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 45 performances
• 1993 Algerian Muslim fundamentalists uprising, 27 killed
• 1993 Curacaose vote to remain part of Dutch Antilles
• 1994 Aishwarya Rai, 21, of India, crowned 44th Miss World
• 1994 Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Tish Johnson for the third time
• 1994 59th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 21-14 in Birmingham
• 1995 "Beatle Anthology" premieres on ABC-TV
• 1995 "Sacrilege" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 21 performances
• 1995 "School for Scandal" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 23 performances
• 1995 83rd CFL Grey Cup: Balt Stallions defeats Calgary Stampeders, 37-20
• 1995 CNET lauches www.shareware.com
• 1995 Keelin Curnuck, 23, Ms Venus Swimwear 1994, crowned Miss NY USA
• 1995 Suicide bomber blasts into Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, kills 16
• 1996 "God Said, Ha!" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 22 performances
• 1996 "Sex & Longing" closes at Cort Theater NYC
• 1996 Albert Belle, signs record five-year, $55 million with White Sox
• 1996 Space Shuttle STS 80 (Columbia 21), launches into space
• 1996 The case of the Port Arthur massacre comes to trial.
• 1996 Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force            in Zaire.
• 1996 The 12.9 km Confederation Bridge, joining Borden-Carleton, Prince Edward Island and              Cape Jourimain, New-Brunswick is completed and becomes the longest bridge over                 ice covered waters in the world
• 1997 "Eugene Onegin" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
• 1997 "Old Neighborhood" opens at Booth Theater NYC
• 1997 STS 87 (Columbia 24) launches into orbit.

• 1999 Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
• 2010 New Zealand suffers its worst mining disaster since 1914 when the first of four explosions occurs at the Pike River Mine; 29 people are killed
• 2011 21st College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College 16-14 in South B
• 2010 New Zealand suffers its worst mining disaster since 1914 when the first of four explosions occurs at the Pike River Mine; 29 people are killed
• 2011 21st College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College 16-14 in South Bend
• 2013 23 people are killed by a suicide bombing attack on the Iranian Embassy in Beirut,                  Lebanon
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• 2011 21st College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College 16-14 in South                     Bend
• 2013 23 people are killed by a suicide bombing attack on the Iranian Embassy in Beirut,                  Lebanon

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