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• 69 General Vespasian's troops occupy Rome after defeating the Emperor Vitellius
• 1046 Synod of Sutri: German King Henry III removes Popes Gregory VI
• 1046 Benedictus IX & Silvester III & names Bishop Siutger, Pope Clemens II at the Council of Sutri
• 1585 English fleet & Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, reach Vlissingen
• 1600 Ottario Rinuccini/Giulio Caccini's opera "Euridice" published
• 1606 Virginia Company settlers leave London to establish Jamestown, Virginia
• 1626 Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and Prince of Transylvania Gabor Bethlen sign Peace of Pressburg (Bratislava)
• 1661 Corporation Act enforced in England
• 1669 1st jury trial in Delaware; Marcus Jacobson condemned for insurrection & sentenced to flogging, branding & slavery
• 1688 Prince William of Orange's troops arrive in London
• 1694 Frederik van Brandenburg flees Schweiben
• 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's army reaches the river Esk
• 1780 Britain declares war on Holland
• 1790 1st successful US cotton mill to spin yarn (Pawtucket, RI)
• 1803 French flag lowered in New Orleans to mark formal transfer of Louisiana Purchase from France to US for $27M
• 1830 Great Britain, France, Prussia, Austria and Russia recognize Belgium
• 1850 Hawaiian post office established
• 1860 South Carolina secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
• 1861 Battle of Dranesville, VA
• 1862 -Dec 20th] Battle of Kelly's Ford, VA
• 1862 -Jan 3rd] Vicksburg campaign
• 1862 Confederate raid on Union supplies at Holly Springs, Mississippi
• 1865 De Clear-Alkmaar railway opens
• 1879 Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park
• 1880 Battle at Bronker's Spruit, Transvaal: Farmers beat Britten
• 1880 NY's Broadway lit by electricity, becomes known as "Great White Way"
• 1883 Intl cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls
• 1891 Strongman Louis Cyr withstands pull of 4 horses
• 1892 Pneumatic automobile tire patented, Syracuse, NY
• 1893 1st state anti-lynching statute approved, in Georgia
• 1894 England beat Australia by 10 runs in the 1st six-day Test Cricket, Australia needed 177 to win, all out at 166 on 6th day
• 1900 Giacobini discovers a comet (will be 1st comet visited by spacecraft)
• 1906 Venezuela (under vice-pres Gomez) attacks Dutch fleet
• 1907 Explosion at Yolande Alabama, coal mine kills 91
• 1912 J Hartley Manners' "Peg O' My Heart" premieres in NYC
• 1912 Paul Claudels "L'Annonce Faite à Marie" premieres in Paris
• 1915 Russian troops overrun Qom, Persia
• 1915 Final withdraw of all allied troops from Anzac Cove
• 1917 A second nationwide referendum on military conscription is rejected by the Australian public
• 1918 Eugene O'Neill's "Moon of the Caribees" premieres in NYC
• 1918 The Allies turn their attention to Bolshevik expansion in the East, landing troops in Crimea and Latvia
• 1919 Canadian National Railways established (N America's longest, 50,000 KM)
• 1919 US House of Representatives restricts immigration
• 1920 Bert Collins scores 104 on Test Cricket debut v England SCG
• 1921 AL votes to return to best-of-7 World Series, while NL votes best-of-9 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis casts deciding vote for best-of-7
• 1922 14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (USSR)
• 1922 Polish parliament selects Stanislaw Wojcieckowski as president
• 1926 Cards trade Rogers Hornsby to Giants for Frankie Frisch & Jimmy Ring
• 1926 Pope Pius XI convicts fascist pursuit in Italy
• 1926 Sidney Howard's "Silver Cord" premieres in NYC
• 1928 1st international dogsled mail leaves Minot, Maine for Montreal, Quebec
• 1928 Ethel Barrymore Theater opens at 243 W 47th St NYC
• 1929 Heinie Wagner replaces Bill Carrigan as Red Sox manager
• 1929 Mount Davidson dedicated as a San Francisco city park
• 1930 Learie Constantine cricket 100 in 52 mins WI v Tas (10x4, 1x6, 1x5)
• 1932 Queensland all out 74 v Victoria, Ironmonger (age 50) 7-13
• 1933 Bolivia & Paraguay sign cease fire
• 1935 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Ad Catholici Sacerdotii
• 1937 Bill O'Reilly takes 9-41 for NSW against South Australia
• 1938 Vladimir K Zworykin (Penn) receives patent on Iconoscope TV system
• 1939 Radio Australia begins overseas shortwave service
• 1941 Free France under adm Muselier occupies St-Pierre et Miquelon
• 1941 Japanese troops lands on Mindanao
• 1941 World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers" in Kunming, China.
• 1942 1st Japanese bombing of Calcutta
• 1943 "Internationale" is no longer USSR National Anthem
• 1944 Archbishop De Young & bishop Huibers condemn black market
• 1944 Battle of Bastogne: Nazis surround 101st Airborne (NUTS!)
• 1944 Bishop forbids membership of non Catholic unions
• 1944 Terence Rattigan's "O Mistress Mine" premieres in London
• 1945 Rationing of auto tires ends in US
• 1946 Darius Milhaud's 2nd Symphony, premieres
• 1948 Second Chamber accept 2nd Police Action in Indonesia
• 1949 Maurice Ravel/John Cranko's ballet "Beauty & the Beast" premieres
• 1950 "Harvey" starring James Stewart premieres in NY
• 1951 Walter Zinn's Experimental Breeder Reactor I, the first nuclear reactor to produce electric power, goes live at the Argonne National Laboratory, USA
• 1952 KHQ TV channel 6 in Spokane, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1953 KID (now KIDK) TV channel 3 in Idaho Falls, ID (CBS) 1st broadcasting
• 1953 KWTV TV channel 9 in Oklahoma City, OK (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1955 Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales
• 1956 Military coup under colonel Simbolon in Sumatra
• 1956 Montgomery, Ala, removed race-based seat assignments on its buses
• 1959 Jasu Patel takes 9-69, India v Australia at Kanpur
• 1960 Auschwitz commandant Richard Bar arrested in German FR
• 1960 National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam is formed.
• 1962 Osmond brothers debut on Andy Williams Show
• 1963 Berlin Wall opens for 1st time to West Berliners
• 1963 Massemba-Debate elected President of Congo-Brazzaville
• 1963 Trial against 21 camp guards of Auschwitz begins
• 1964 Levi Eshkol forms 12th Israeli government
• 1966 NBA awards Seattle Supersonics a franchise for 1967-68 season
• 1966 Nuclear Planning Group forms in Brussels
• 1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1967 474,300 US soldiers in Vietnam
• 1967 Ian Anderson & Glenn Cornick form rock group Jethro Tull
• 1968 The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.
• 1968 The People's Democracy (PD) announce that its members will undertake a protest march from Belfast to Derry beginning 1 January 1969
• 1969 Peter, Paul & Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" reaches #1
• 1970 Edward Gierek succeeds Wladyslaw Gomulka as Poland's communist party leader
• 1971 Pakistan president Yahya Khan resigns
• 1977 1st Space walk made by G Grechko from Salyut
• 1977 RAF -terrorist Knut Folkerts sentenced to 20 years
• 1978 H. R. Haldeman, Nixon's White House Chief of Staff released from jail
• 1980 NBC broadcasts NY Jets' 24-17 win over Dolphins without audio
• 1980 USSR formally announces death of Alexei Kosygin
• 1981 Harry Krieger/Tom Eyen's musical "Dreamgirls" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1522 performances
• 1981 Browns set team records for most fumbles (9) & most turnovers (10)
• 1981 Doug Small (Winnipeg Jets) ties NHL record scoring at 5 second mark
• 1983 El Salvador adopts constitution
• 1987 76th Davis Cup: Sweden beats India in Gothenburg (5-0)
• 1987 Dona Paz ferry sinks after crash with oil tanker Vector, 4386 die
• 1987 Nancy Lopez/Miller Barber wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
• 1988 Animal rights terrorists fire-bomb Harrod's dept store, London
• 1988 NBC signs lease to stay in NYC, 33 more years
• 1988 Premier Ranasinghe Premadasa elected President of Sri Lanka
• 1989 Premier Lubbers sees CDA-party leader Elco Brinkman as successor
• • 1990 Pentagon warns Saddam that US air power is ready to attack on 1/15
  • 1990 Robert F X Sillerman purchases WAFL NY-NJ Knights for $11 million
  • 1990 Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns
  • 1991 NHL grants permanent membership to Tampa Lightning & Ottawa Senators
  • 1991 Paul Keating installed as premier of Australia
  • 1991 A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.
  • 1999 Portugal returns Macau to China
  • 2001 Argentine economic crisis: President of Argentina Fernando de la Rúa is forced out of office.
  • 2001 90th Davis Cup: France beats Australia in Melbourne (3-2)
  • 2002 US Senator Trent Lott resigns as majority leader.
  • 2005 US District Court Judge John E. Jones III rules against mandating the teaching of "intelligent design" in his ruling of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.
  • 2005 The first same sex civil partnerships in Scotland are celebrated.
  • 2005 2005 New York City transit strike: New York City's Transport Workers Union Local 100 goes on strike, shutting down all New York City Subway and Bus services.
  • 2006 A judge rules against the death penalty in the case of Naveed Haq, a man convicted in the shooting death and injuries at the Jewish Federation in Seattle.
  • 2012 Apple is denied a patent for mobile pinch-to-zoom gestures by the US patent authorities
  • 2012 Intercontinental Exchange purchases the New York Stock Exchange, the largest in the world, for $8 billion
  • 2014 Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley kills 2 NYPD officers in Brooklyn, New York, supposedly in revenge for the killing of Eric Garner, before killing himself
  • 2015 Landslide from construction waste in Shenzhen, China leaves 74 dead or missing and buries 30 buildings