Today in history:Britain vacate New York, Pope warn against anti-Christians

1034 Malcolm II, King of Scots (Máel Coluim mac Cináeda) (b. 980) dies; Donnchad, the son of his second daughter Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld, inherits the throne.
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1185 Pope Lucius III (Ubaldo Allucingoli) reigned 1181-85, dies and is replaced by Umberto Crivelli (Pope Urban III)
1277 Giovanni Gaetano Orsini elected as Pope Nicolas III
1357 Charles IV issues letter of protection of Jews of Strasbourg Alsace
1491 The siege of Granada, last Moorish stronghold in Spain, begins.
1598 Jacob Cornelius van Neck's merchant fleet reaches Bantam West-Java on second Dutch expedition to Indonesia
1659 Michiel de Ruyter conquers Danish city Nyborg
1667 A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha, in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people.
1715 First English patent granted to an American, for processing corn
1744 Austrian forces pillage & kill Jews of Prague
1755 King Ferdinand IV of Spain granted the Beaterio dela Compania de Jesus or now known as the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary(RVM) a royal protection.
1758 Britain captures Fort Duquesne (later Fort Pitt/Pittsburgh) from French
1766 Pope Clement XIII warns On dangers of anti-Christian writings
1783 Britain evacuates New York city, its last military position in United States

1805 Opera "Thaïs" first American performance
1817 First sword swallower in US performs (NYC)
1826 The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy.
1834 Delmonico's, one of NY's finest restaurants, provides a meal of soup, steak, coffee & half a pie for 12 cents
1839 Cyclone slams south eastern India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying city of Coringa. Storm waves sweep inland, destroying 20,000 ships and killing an estimated 300,000 people
1841 35 survivors of the mutiny on the slave ship Amistad return to Africa
1847 Opera "Marta" is produced (Vienna)
1863 Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee
1864 Confederate plot to burn New York city fails
1864 Confederate retreat at Sandersville, Georgia
1876 Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.
1884 John B Meyenberg of St Louis patents evaporated milk
1894 Greenback (Independent) Party organizes in Indianapolis
1897 Spain grants Puerto Rico autonomy
1899 Battle at Graspan, Cape colony: General Methuen beats Farmers
1902 Franz Lehar's opera "Wiener Frauen" premieres in Vienna
1908 Dorando Pietri (It) beats Johnny Hayes (US) in Madison Square Garden marathon by 60 yds
1911 3rd CFL Grey Cup: U of Toronto defeats Toronto Argonauts, 14-7
1911 7th Australasian Championships: Norman Brookes beats Horace Rice (6-1, 6-2, 6-3)
1912 American College of Surgeons incorporates in Springield, Illinois
1912 Socialist International rejects that world war is coming
1913 The Irish Volunteers founded in Dublin to "secure the rights and liberties common to all the people of Ireland"
1920 1st Thanksgiving Parade (Philadelphia)
1920 WTAW of College Station, Tx, broadcast 1st football play-by-play
1922 Japanese crown prince Hirohito appointed prince regent
1925 KPD proposes German Parliament expropriate possession of monarchy
1930 690 earthquake shocks recorded in 1 day (Ito, Japan)
1930 Sporting News picks Bill Terry as NL MVP & Joe Cronin as AL MVP
1933 1st Soviet liquid fuel rocket attains altitude of 261' (80m)
1935 International Institute for Social History (IISG) forms in Amsterdam
1936 Germany & Japan sign anti-Komintern pact
1937 World's Fair of Paris closes (31.2 million visitors)
1940 SS Patria, carrying illegal immigrants, sinks in port of Haifa, 200 die
1940 U of Mich retires Tom Harmon's #98
1940 Woody Woodpecker debuts with release of Walter Lantz's "Knock Knock"
1940 First flights of the de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.
1941 German Jews in Netherlands declared stateless (lose of nationality)
1941 Lou Boudreau, 24, becomes Cleveland Indians player/manager
1941 Finland joined the Anti-Komintern Pact.
1942 National Organization for Aid to Underground, LO, forms
1943 U-600 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1944 32nd CFL Grey Cup: Montreal HMCS defeat Hamilton Flying Wildcats, 7-6
1944 World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's store in Deptford, United Kingdom, killing 160 shoppers.
1947 New Zealand accedes to Statute of Westminster, becomes a dominion
1948 16-inch coastal guns removed from Fort Funston, San Francisco
1948 KING TV channel 5 in Seattle, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" appears on music charts
1950 "Tickets, Please" closes at Coronet Theater NYC after 245 performances
1950 38th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 13-0
1950 UN gives Eritrea to Ethiopia
1951 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock, Alabama
1951 Cleveland Browns penalized a record 209 yards against Chicago Bears
1951 Commemoration of Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft forbidden
1951 3rd NASCAR Sprint Cup: Herb Thomas wins
1952 George Meany appointed as chairman of AFL
1952 Only win ever for NFL's Dallas Texans (11-1) beats Bears 27-23
1953 "Guys & Dolls" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 1,200 performances
1953 Earthquake and tsnunami strike Honshu, Japan
1953 Hungary beats England in soccer match, 6-3
1955 Race segregation forbidden on trains & buses between US states
1955 Walter Piston's 6th Symphony premieres
1958 Senegal becomes an autonomous state in French Community
1959 "Once Upon a Mattress" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 460 performances
1960 "Amos 'n' Andy" made its last broadcast on CBS radio
1960 First atomic reactor for research & development, Richland, Wa
1960 CBS ends last 4 radio soap operas (Ma Perkins, Right to Happiness, Young Dr Malone & 2nd Mrs Burton) & cancels 4 other series
1960 Three of the four Mirabal sisters, opponents of the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, are assassinated
1966 Pirate Radio Station 390 (Radio Invicta) closes down (reopen 12/31)
1967 "Apple Tree" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 463 performances
1967 Puerto Rico placed on Atlantic Standard Time
1968 15th National Film Awards (India): "Hatey Bazarey" wins the Golden Lotus

1969 KC outfielder Lou Piniella is voted AL Rookie of Year
1970 Yankees catcher Thurman Munson wins AL Rookie of Year
1970 In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and two compatriots commit ritualistic suicide after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
1971 "Dan Cooper" jumps with $200,000 out of plane over Washington
1971 37th Heisman Trophy Award: Pat Sullivan, Auburn (QB)
1972 "Ambassador" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 9 performances
1973 3 Palestinians hijack KLM B747 above Iraq, to Dubai
1973 61st CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 22-18
1973 Bloodless military coup ousts Greek Pres George Papadopoulos
1973 Maximum speed limit cut to 55 MPH as an energy conservation measure
1974 Irish Republican Army is outlawed in Britain following deaths of 21
1974 Rangers' Mike Hargrove wins AL Rookie of Year
1975 Netherlands grants Suriname independence (National Day)
1975 Portuguese leftist officers occupy 4 airbases
1975 A loyalist gang nicknamed the "Shankill Butchers" undertakes its first "cut-throat killing"; the gang was named for its late-night kidnapping, torture and murder (by throat slashing) of random Catholic civilians in Belfast.

1976 Viking 1 radio signals from Mars help prove the general theory of relativity
1976 NYPD officer Robert Torsney shoots unarmed youth Randolph Evans while answering response at youth's Brooklyn home
1977 David Steed balanced stationary on a bike for 9 hrs 15 mins
1977 Thomas Hearns KOs Jerome Hill in 2 rounds in his 1st pro fight
1979 "Most Happy Fella" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 53 performances
1979 67th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 17-9
1979 Israel returns Alma oilfields in Gulf of Suez to Egypt
1979 Pittsburgh gains 606 net yards against Cleveland, winning 33-30.
1980 Coup in Burkina abolishes constitution
1980 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1980 Imran Khan scores his 1st Test Cricket ton, 123 v WI Lahore
1980 Sugar Ray Leonard defeats Duran regains WBC welterweight championship
1980 Upper-Volta military coup under Col Saye Zerbo, president Lamizana flees
1981 Failed coup by South African mercenaries in Seychelles
1981 Rollie Fingers is 1st relief pitcher to win AL MVP.
1983 Soyuz T-9 returns to Earth, 149 days after take-off
1983 Syria & Saudi Arabia announce cease-fire in PLO civil war in Tripoli
1983 World's greatest robbery 26 million pounds worth of gold, diamonds & cash stolen from the Brink's-Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport, England
1984 Julio M Sanguinetti wins Uruguay presidential election
1984 William Schroeder is second person to receive Jarvik-7 artificial heart
1985 White Sox shortstop Ozzie Guillen, is named AL Rookie of Year
1986 A's Jose Canseco wins AL Rookie of Year.
1986 Oliver North's secretary, Fawn Hall, smuggles documents out of his office
1987 Abdul Qadir takes 9-56 against England at Lahore
1987 India all out for 75 v West Indies at Delhi, Patterson 5-24
1987 Supertyphoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 165 mph and a surge that swallows entire villages. at least 1,036 deaths attributed to the storm.
1988 Chuck Berry pays $250 fine to resolve NYC assault charges
1988 Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources signed
1988 US & Soviet chess grand masters Donaldson & Akhmilovskaya wed
1988 Widespread earthquake hits North East US, Canada, no damage reported
1988 German politician Rita Süssmuth becomes president of the Bundestag.
1988 53rd Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 15-10 in Birmingham
1989 David Boon scores 200 v NZ at cricket WACA
1990 78th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Edmonton Eskimos, 50-11
1990 Lech Walesa wins in Poland's first popular election
1990 NFL's NY Giants & SF 49ers after winning their 1st 10 games both
1990 India bowl the Sri Lankan cricket team out for 82; Venkatapathy Raju (I) takes 6-12 off 17.5 overs
1993 Dutch Antilles government of Liberia-Peters falls
1993 Failed bomb attack on Egyptian premier Atef Sedki, 1 dead
1994 Sony founder Akio Morita announces he will be stepping down as CEO of the company.
1995 "Patti LuPone on Broadway" closes at Walter Kerr NYC after 46 performances
1996 After 24 years, Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade, ends
1997 US telephone technician Richard Bliss arrested for spying in Russia
2000 Earthquake in Baku, Azerbaijan
2000 12th Rugby League World Cup: Australia beats New Zealand 40-12
2001 89th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeats Winnipeg Blue Bombers, 27-19
2005 Polish Minister of National Defence Radek Sikorski opens Warsaw Pact archives to historians. Maps of possible nuclear strikes against Western Europe, including nuclear annihilation of 43 Polish cities by Soviet-controlled forces revealed
2007 The first European Parliament election and a referendum on changing the voting system (called by the President and declared invalid because of insufficient turnout) were held in Romania.
2007 95th CFL Grey Cup: Saskatchewan Roughriders defeats Winnipeg Blue Bombers, 23-19
2008 A car bomb in St. Petersburg, Russia, kills three people and injures one
2009 Flooding in Jeddah, Saudia Arabia; powerful storm brings 3 years worth of rain in 4 hours, killing over 150 people and sweeping thousands of cars away during Hajj
2011 Sudden violent storms strike southern Sri Lanka, killing 27 people and drowning many fishermen caught by surprise. Thousands of homes lose their roofs and several more sustain damage. Landslides along with flooding was reported on the mainland.
2012 11 people are killed and 30 are wounded by twin car bombs hitting a Protestant church in Nigeria
2012 16 people are killed and 44 injured after a wedding party bus plunges 300 ft down a gorge in India
2012 100th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Calgary Stampeders, 35-22
2012 63rd Formula One WDC: Sebastian Vettel wins by three points
2013 17 people are killed and 37 are wounded in a cafe bombing in Baghdad, Iraq
2014 US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel resigns, ending nearly two years in the Pentagon's top job
2014 Switzerland's Bern Art Museum agrees to accept artworks looted from their Jewish owners by the Nazis
2014 Protest erupt across US after a decision by Missouri grand jury not to bring charges against a white policeman who shot dead a black teenager
2014 Missouri Governor Jay Nixon orders hundreds more US National Guard troops to the town of Ferguson to prevent a second night of rioting and looting.
2015 Pope Francis begins his trip to Africa, visiting Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic