History Today : First penis transplant, Mona Lisa recovered

• 359 Honoratus, first known Prefect of the City of Constantinople, takes office.
• 384 St Damasus I dies and ends his reign as Catholic Pope. Began reign 366
• 1282 Llywelyn ab Gruffydd/Llywelyn the Last, last native Prince of Wales is killed at Cilmeri, near Builth Wells, south Wales. Reigned from 1259.
• 1419 Heretic Nicolaas Serrurier exiled from Florence
• 1477 Duchess Maria of Burgundy ends the 'Great Privilege'
• 1572 Spanish troops begin siege of Haarlem
• 1602 Surprise attack by forces of the Duke of Savoy and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain repelled by citizens of Geneva. Commemorated since as Fête de l'Escalade.
• 1618 Russia & Poland signs Peace treaty of Dailino
• 1620 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (12/21 NS)
• • 1665 "Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi festival in Smyrna
  • 1688 King James II captured in Kent.
  • 1710 Battle of Villa Viciosa (France beat Habsburgers)
  • 1719 1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in north American colonies (New England)
  • 1792 France's King Louis XVI goes on trial, accused of high treason and crimes against the state
  • 1812 1st newspaper on Curacao (Curacao Gazette & Commercial Advertiser)
  • 1816 Citizens of Geneva thwarted Savoyard invaders
  • 1816 Indiana becomes 19th state of the Union
  • 1844 1st dental use of nitrous oxide, Hartford, Ct
  • 1866 1st yacht race across Atlantic Ocean
  • 1872 1st black US govenor took office, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (La)
  • 1882 Boston's Bijou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, 1st performance, Gilbert & Sullivan's "Iolanthe"
  • 1882 Victorien Sardous "Fedora" with Sarah Bernhardt, premieres in Paris
  • 1888 French Panama Canal Company fails
  • 1893 11 fishing ships wash up at Wadden Sea, 22 killed
  • 1902 The US signs a treaty with Cuba allowing for a 20 percent reduction of tariff rates on imported Cuban products
  • 1903 British forces under MacDonald & Younghusband march into Tibet
  • 1905 120°F (49°C), Rivadavia, Argentina (South American record)
  • 1905 British government of Campbell-Bannerman forms
  • 1905 A workers uprising occurs, establishing the Shuliavka Republic in Kiev.
  • 1907 New Zealand Parliament Buildings almost completely destroyed by fire.
  • 1908 Frederick Delius' "In a Summer Garden" premieres
  • 1909 Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC
  • 1909 Canadian Football exhibition game played in Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, Hamilton Tigers beat Ottawa Rough Riders, 11-6 before 15,000
  • 1913 "Mona Lisa" recovered 2 years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum
  • 1914 Stockton Street Tunnel (SF) completed
  • 1917 13 black soldiers hanged for participation in Houston riot
  • 1917 German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia
  • 1919 Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise, Alabama
  • 1925 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quas Primas
  • 1926 Josephine Baker goes up in Amsterdam
  • 1926 Queensland win their 1st Sheffield Shield cricket match, v NSW
  • 1928 NL Pres John Heydler proposes designated hitter for pitchers
  • 1930 Bank of the United States closes in New York City
  • 1931 Japan leaves the Gold Standard
  • 1931 Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland (Free State), and Newfoundland (not then part of Canada)
  • 1932 San Francisco's coldest day (27°F) - it snows
  • 1934 1935 All-Star Game is assigned to Cleveland
  • 1934 1st Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher unsuccessful vs Rangers
  • 1934 Ford C Frick becomes president of baseball's National League
  • 1934 NL votes to permit night baseball (up to 7 games per home team)
  • 1937 25th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 30-7
  • 1937 Italy withdraws from League of Nations
  • 1938 NY Giants win NFL championship
  • 1939 New anti-Jewish measures proclaimed in Poland
  • 1941 Dutch government in London declares war on Italy
  • 1941 Germany & Italy declare war on USA
  • 1941 Giants acquire Johnny Mize from Cards for 3 players & $50,000
  • 1941 Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WW II-landing)
  • 1941 Japanese occupy Guam
  • 1942 Australian/Dutch guerrilla troops evacuated to Timor near Australia
  • 1944 Surprise attack on House of Keeping Axe, 29 prisoners freed
  • 1945 Het Parool publishes 1st Captain Rob-strip
  • 1946 Spain suspended from UN
  • 1946 UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)
  • 1947 Bob Hilliard/Carl Sigman's musical "Angel in the Wings" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 308 performances
  • 1947 Pacific Coast League application for major league status rejected
  • 1948 WHEN (now WTVH) TV channel 5 in Syracuse, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
  • 1948 WMC TV channel 5 in Memphis, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting
  • 1949 Chic Bear Johnny Lujack passes for 6 touchdowns vs Chic Cards (52-29)
  • 1949 Cleveland Browns beat SF '49ers 21-7 in final AAFC championship game
  • 1949 WOAI (now KMOL) TV channel 4 in San Antonio, TX (NBC) 1st broadcast
  • 1950 Baseball owners vote 9-7 not to renew Commissioner Chandler's contract
  • 1950 Hindemiths Concerto for clarinet, premieres
  • 1953 KTVA TV channel 11 in Anchorage (CBS) becomes Alaska's 1st TV station
  • 1954 Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium
  • 1954 USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va
  • 1956 Anti-Russian demonstrations in Stettin & Wroclaw Poland
  • 1958 4th (last) Dutch government of Drees falls
  • 1958 Archibald MacLeish's "JB" premieres in NYC
  • 1958 Upper Volta (now Bourkina Faso) gains autonomy from France
• 1965 "Anya" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 16 performances
• 1965 "Yearling" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 3 performances
• 1966 Al Nelson sets NFL record returning missed field goal, 100 yards
• 1967 6.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed
• 1967 Beatles' Apple Music signs its 1st group-Grapefruit
• 1967 People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) established
• 1967 Supersonic airliner prototype "Concorde" 1st shown (France)
• 1968 KECC (now KECY) TV channel 9 in El Centro, CA (CBS) 1st broadcast
• 1968 US Soccer Football Association refuses to let NASL disband
• 1968 Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill sacks Home Affairs Minister, William Craig
• 1969 Libya adopts constitution
• 1970 Start of the 1st Test match at the WACA, v England
• 1970 Test Cricket debut of Gregory Stephen Chappell
• 1971 The Libertarian Party of the United States is formed.
• 1971 A bomb explodes outside a furniture showroom on the mainly-Protestant and loyalist Shankill Road, Belfast; four civilians (including two babies) were killed and nineteen wounded
• 1972 Astronauts Cernan & Harrison become 11th & 12th on Moon
• 1972 Jets' Don Maynard becomes all time pro reception leader (632)
• 1973 Houston Astro Caesar Cedino jailed in death of 19 year old woman
• 1973 NA Soccer League awards LA, SF, Seattle & Vancouver franchises
• 1973 West German chancellor Willy Brandt normalizes trade with Czech
• 1975 US 1st class postage rises from 10 cents to 13 cents
• 1977 Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams, leaders of the group 'Peace People' (an organisation dedicated to encouraging a peaceful resolution of 'the Troubles' in Northern Ireland) receive the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1978 6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at NYC Kennedy Airport & made off with $5.8 M in cash & jewelry
• 1978 NBC premiere of "A Woman Called Moses"
• 1979 Geoff Boycott scores cricket century in a limited-over international
• 1980 Dirk Wellham scores 100 on 1st-class debut, NSW v Victoria
• 1980 The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (known as either CERCLA or Superfund) is enacted by the U.S. Congress.
• 1981 Spacelab I arrives at Kennedy Space Center
• 1981 UN Secrity Council choses Javier Pérez de Cuélla of Peru as the 5th Secretary-General of the United Nations
• 1981 Wash Capitals biggest margin of victory (9) beating Toronto 11-2
• 1981 El Mozote massacre: Salvadoran armed forces kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the country's civil war.
• • 1984 "Doug Henning & His World..." opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 60 perf
  • 1984 Mauretania military coup under Col Maawiya Ould Sid'ahmed Taya
  • 1985 Computer store owner in Sacramento California killed by package bomb
  • 1985 Dow Jones closes above 1,500 for 1st time (1,511.70)
  • 1985 General Electric acquires RCA Corp & its subsidiary, NBC
  • 1985 NHL Record 62 points scored, Edmonton (36) beats Chicago (26) 12-9 & ties record of 21 goals
  • 1986 A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's National League
  • 1986 South Africa censors press
  • 1987 Test debut of Carl Hooper, WI v India at Bombay
  • 1989 "City of Angels" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 878 performances
  • 1989 Mark Davis signs record $3.25 million per year KC Royals contract
  • 1990 13 die in 83 vehicle accident in Chattanooga Tn I-75, due to fog
  • 1990 US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) returns from space
  • 1991 William Kennedy Smith found not guilty of rape
  • 1992 Nor'easter storm hits NY, doing $ Billion worth of damage
  • 1992 WNEW AM radio on 1130 in NYC ends transmitting after 58 years
  • 1993 59th Heisman Trophy Award: Charlie Ward, Florida State (QB)
  • 1993 Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle elected President of Chile
  • 1994 Kelly Robbins & Tammie Green wins LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches
  • 1994 Russian troops enter Chechnya
  • 1995 Thomas O Hicks buys NHL Dallas Stars for $84 million
  • 1997 "Sunshine Boys" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC
  • 1997 Federal judge orders Microsoft not to bundle IE4 in Windows
  • 1997 Delegates from 150 industrial nations attending a UN climate conference in Kyoto, Japan, reach agreement to control heat-trapping greenhouse gases
  • 1998 Thai Airways Airbus A310-200 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101
  • 2000 66th Heisman Trophy Award: Chris Weinke, Florida State (QB)
  • 2001 The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization.
  • 2004 70th Heisman Trophy Award: Matt Leinart, USC (QB)
  • 2005 The Buncefield Oil Depot in Hemel Hempstead, England, is rocked by explosions, causing a huge oil fire.
  • 2005 Cronulla riots: thousands of white Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence, resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese (and many who were not) in Cronulla Sydney. These are followed by ethnic attacks on Cronulla
  • 2007 Two car bombs go off at the Constitutional Court building in Algiers and the United Nations office. An estimated 45 people are killed in the bombings.
  • 2008 Bernard Madoff arrested and charged with securities fraud in $50 billion Ponzi scheme
  • 2012 125 people are killed and 200 are injured by bombings in Aqrab, Syria
  • 2012 HSBC bank settles with US authorities to pay $1.9 billion for drug cartel money laundering
  • 2013 20 people are killed by the bubonic plague in a small Madagascan village
  • 2014 CIA Director John Brennan defends interrogation methods used after 9/11 but admits some methods were "abhorrent"
  • 2014 World's 1st penis transplant procedure by a team from Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa
  • 2015 Unrest in Burundi leads to clashes between authorities and protesters in Bujumbura, killing at least 87
  • 2015 "Playboy" magazine publishes its last nude issue, featuring Pamela Anderson on the cover
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