History Today :Army for Allah created, US 1st law school

• 533 Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, under King Gelimer, at the Battle of Ticameron
• 687 St Sergius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Conon
• 1124 Chancellor Haimeric selects pope (Lamberto becomes Honorius II)
• 1167 Sicilian chancellor Stephen du Perche moves the royal court to Messina to prevent a rebellion.
• 1256 Hulagu Khan captures and destroys Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut, in present-day Iran, part of the Mongol offensive on Islamic southwest Asia
• 1467 Stephen III of Moldavia defeats Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, with the latter being injured thrice, at the Battle of Baia.
• 1569 Westmoreland flees to Scotland
• 1582 Leidse university names Rembert Dodoens prof of botany/medicine
• 1582 Spanish Netherlands/Denmark/Norway adopt Gregorian calendar
• 1586 Laevinus Torrentius, becomes bishop of Antwerp
• 1593 State of Holland grants patent on windmill with a crankshaft
• 1612 German Astronomer Simon Marius is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope
• 1640 Duke of Braganca crowned King Johan IV of Portugal
• 1660 Philippines: Andres Malongs rebels plunders Bagnotan
• 1664 English colonizing Connecticut
• 1667 Brandenburg declares himself neutral in Devolutie War
• 1680 Tax revolt on Terschelling due to tax on cereal
• 1688 Lord Delamere sides with King James II [NS 12/25]
• 1745 Battle at Kesseldorf: Prussia beats Saksen & Austria
• 1791 1st US law school established at University of Pennsylvania
• 1791 US Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gives its approval, becomes amendments 1-10 of the US constitution
• 1792 1st life insurance policy issued in US (Philadelphia)
• 1794 Revolutionary Tribunal abolished in France
• 1810 1st Irish magazine in US, Shamrock, is published
• 1815 Rossini gets assignment for Il barbiere di Siviglia
• 1820 1st General pharmacopoeia in US published, Boston
• 1836 Patent Office burns in Wash, DC
• 1863 Skirmish at Bean's Station, Tennessee (Knoxville Campaign)
• 1863 Romania is using for the first time a mountain railway (from Anina to Oravita).
• 1864 Battle of Nashville, TN
• 1864 Raid on Stoneman: Abingdon & Glade Springs, VA
• 1868 Shogunate rebels found Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
• 1874 1st reigning king to visit US (of Hawaii) received by Pres Grant
• 1893 Dvoráks "From the New World" premieres at Carnegie Hall NYC
• 1894 Cricket day 2 1st T Aus v Eng Aus 586 (Gregory 201) England 3-130
• 1899 Battle at Colenso, South Africa (Boers-British army)
• 1905 The Pushkin House is established in St. Petersburg to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin
• 1907 In Persia, the Shah leads a coup de'etat against the liberal Prime Minister Nasir ul-Mulk and imprisons him, but a popular uprising forces the Shah to restore Nasir ul-Mulk soon after
• 1909 Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League
• 1913 Nicaragua becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1914 Battle of Lodz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow
• 1914 British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea
• 1914 Serbian troops retake Belgrade in Austria-Hungary
• 1916 French defeat Germans in WW I Battle of Verdun
• 1917 Moldavian Republic declares independence from Russia
• 1917 World War I: An armistice is reached between the new Russian Bolshevik government and the Central Powers.
• 1918 American Jewish Congress holds its 1st meeting
• 1919 Edna St Vincent Millay's "Aria da Capo" premieres in NYC
• 1919 Fiume (Rijeka) declares it's Independence
• 1922 IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague
• 1925 1st hockey game at Madison Sq Garden, Mont Candiens 3, NY Americans 1
• 1925 1st road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic
• 1926 Facist national symbol elevated in Italy
• 1927 Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads
• 1929 Walter Mittelholzer flies as 1st about the Kilimanjaro
• 1933 Baseball owners agree to ban Sunday doubleheaders until after June 15
• 1934 Fokker F18 Snip flies to Neth West Indies
• 1935 Detroit Lions win NFL championship
• 1935 Max Euwe becomes world champ chess beating Alexander Alekhine
• 1936 KVL-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KEEN (now KING)
• 1938 Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
• 1939 "Gone With the Wind" premieres in Atlanta
• 1939 1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware
• 1939 Snip departs for 1st flight to Paramaribo/Curacao
• 1941 Gas/electrical use restricted in Holland
• 1941 German submarine U-127 sinks
• 1941 Nazi's transfers 100 Czech citizens/Heinrich Himmler falls faint
• 1941 North Africa: allied assault up Italians Gazala-posing
• 1941 USS Swordfish becomes 1st US sub to sink a Japanese ship
• 1941 The American Federation of Labor adopts a no-strike policy in war industries.
• 1942 Massachusetts issues 1st US vehicular license plate tabs
• 1944 Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English Channel
• 1944 Hizbu'allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms
• 1944 US troops lands on Mindoro
• 1945 John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, ordained as a priest
• 1946 Chicago Bears beat NY Giants 24-14 in NFL championship game
• 1946 Giants Filchock & Hapes suspended by NFL, didn't report bribe attempt
• 1948 Former state dept official Alger Hiss indicted in NYC for perjury
• • 1950 NYC's Port Authority opens
  • 1952 "Two's Company" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 90 performances
  • 1952 Christine Jorgenson is 1st person to undergo a sex-change operation
  • 1952 KHON TV channel 2 in Honolulu, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
  • 1952 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientales Ecclesias
  • 1953 WJHG TV channel 7 in Panama City, FL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
  • 1954 Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons
  • 1954 Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands
  • 1956 Emergency crisis in North Ireland proclaimed after IRA strikes
  • 1956 KGW TV channel 8 in Portland, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting
  • 1956 WRAL TV channel 5 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (CBS) begins broadcasting
  • 1959 Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me"
  • 1961 Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel
  • 1961 Equal access rule, political parties get TV broadcasting time
  • 1961 JFK visits Puerto Rico
  • 1961 L J Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels
  • 1962 Vaughn Meader's "1st Family" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 12 wks
  • 1964 1st time 4 people in space
  • 1964 Canada adopts maple leaf flag
  • 1965 3rd cyclone of year kills 15,000 at the mouths of the Ganges River in Bangladesh
  • 1965 D Heneker & J Taylor's musical "Charlie Girl" premieres in London
  • 1965 Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7)
  • 1965 Queen Juliana opens Zeeland Bridge to Oosterschelde
  • 1965 William Eckert replaces Ford Frick as 4th Commissioner of Baseball
  • 1966 "Joyful Noise" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 12 performances
  • 1966 Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus
  • 1966 John W Mecom Jr becomes 1st owner of New Orlean Saints
  • 1967 Beatles release "Christmas Time is Here Again"
  • 1967 Joe Garagiola joins "Today" show panel
  • 1967 Silver Bay bridge (Oh-WV) collapes during afternoon rush hr, 34 die
  • 1967 The Silver Bridge collapses, killing 46 people.
  • 1969 Plastic Ono Band, play their only concert at London's Lyceum Ballroom
  • 1969 SF Fire Dept replaces leather helmets with plastic ones
  • 1970 Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261
  • 1970 S Korean ferry Namyong-Ho sinks in Strait of Korea, 308 killed
  • 1970 Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)
  • 1970 Illinois State Constitution is adopted at a special election.
  • 1971 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
  • 1973 American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not a mental illness
  • 1973 Golf Resort (Disney Inn) opens
  • 1973 Pirates of Caribbean ride opens at Disneyland
  • 1973 Sandy Hawley becomes 1st jockey to win 500 races in 1 year
  • 1973 Tennessee beats Temple 11-6 in low scoring NCAA basketball game
  • 1974 A's Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with Yankees)
  • 1976 Oil tanker Argo Merchant runs aground on the Nantucket Shoals, spilling 7.6 m million gallons of fuel oil - one of the largest oil spills at sea
  • 1976 Jamaica premier Manley wins elections
  • 1976 Samoa becomes a member of the UN.
  • 1978 Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W James
  • 1978 Test Cricket debut of Malcolm Marshall, v India at Bangalore
  • 1979 Deposed Shah of Iran leaves US for Panama
  • 1979 World Court in Hague rules Iran should relase all US hostages
  • 1980 NY Yankee Dave Winfield becomes highest-paid player, 10 years $15M
  • 1980 Premier Queddei troops conquers Chad capital N'djamena
  • 1980 ZBZ Sangha registered after 5 yrs of administrative hassles in Warsaw
  • 1981 NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 503
  • 1982 Roy Williams, Teamsters pres, & 4 others convicted of bribery
  • 1982 Sao Tome & Principe constitution approved
  • 1982 Spain reopens border with Gibraltar
  • 1983 3 KC Royals suspended due to cocaine usage
  • 1983 Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso, Kelly AFB
  • 1983 Last 80 US combat soldiers in Grenada withdrew
  • 1983 Wendy Wasserstein's "Isn't It Romantic" premieres in NYC
  • 1984 USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet
  • 1986 150 killed during race riot in Karachi
  • 1992 WNew AM (1130) NYC resigns air, replaced by WBBR
  • 1993 C-130 flies into a Philippines hill & explodes, 16 killed
  • 1993 Haitian premier Robert Malval resigns
  • 1993 John Williams final appearance as conductor of Boston Pops
  • 1993 Lee Aspen resigns as secretary of defense
  • 1993 Y-12 crashes at Phonesavanh, Laos: 18 killed
  • 1993 British premier Major/Irish premier Reynolds signs Downing Street Declaration concerning Northern Ireland self determination
  • 1994 "A Tuna Christmas" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 20 performances
  • 1994 John Bruton becomes Ireland's premier
  • 1994 Liberia militia kills 48 inhabitants of Monrovia
  • 1994 Palau becomes a member of the UN.
  • 1995 Playboy goes back on sale after 36 year ban in Ireland
  • 1995 The European Communities Court of Justice hands down the "Bosman ruling", giving EU footballers the right to a free transfer at the end of their contracts, with the provision that they are transferring from one UEFA Federation to another.
  • 1996 Dottie Pepper & Juli Inkster win LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches
  • 1996 Jim Colbert & Bob Murphy wins Diner's Club Senior PGA Golf Matches
  • 1996 Tom Lehman & Duffy Waldoff wins Diner's Club PGA Golf Matches
  • 2005 Latvia amends its constitution to eliminate possibility of same-sex couples being entitled to marry.
  • 2005 Argentina's president Néstor Kirchner announces the early repayment of its external debt to the IMF.
  • 2005 Introduction of the F-22 Raptor into USAF active service.
  • 2005 The 2005 Atlantic Power Outage began.
  • 2006 First flight of the F-35 Lightning II.
  • 2013 China successfully lands its moon rover on the moon
  • 2015 1,000 schools closed in Los Angeles after a email threat, supposedly from jihadists
  • 2015 Mayor of Flint, Michigan declares state of emergency over contaminated water supplies amid calls for a a criminal investigation
  • 2015 Fifth Republican presidential candidates debate in Las Vegas, Nevada