History Today :US 1st catholic priest, World Cup trophy stolen

• 324 Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor.
• 401 St Anastasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
• 1055 Seldjuken under Toghril Beg occupy Baghdad
• 1154 King Henry II of England crowned
• 1551 Dutch west coast hit by hurricane
• 1562 Battle at Dreux: Anne de Montmorency & huguenots under Condé captured
• 1642 4 of Tasman's crew are killed at Wharewharangi (Murderers) Bay by Māori; Tasman's ships depart without landing
• 1686 Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Daniel Defoe)
• 1688 King James II's wife & son flee to France
• 1696 Jean-Francois Regnard's "Le Joueur" premieres in Paris
• 1788 Chinese troops occupy capital Thang Long Vietnam
• 1795 1st state appropriation of money for road building, Kentucky
• 1823 Georgia passes 1st US state birth registration law in US
• 1828 South Carolina declares right of states to nullify federal laws
• 1854 Allen Wilson of Conn patents sewing machine to sew curving seams
• 1859 Grading started for Market Street RR
• 1861 Battle of Black Water (American Civil War)
• 1862 Skirmish at Jackson/Salem Church, Tenn (80 casualties)
• 1871 Albert L Jones (NYC), patents corrugated paper
• 1881 Opera "Hérodiade" is produced (Brussels)
• 1884 Italy recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
• 1887 Jake Kilrain & Jem Smith fight 106 round bare knuckle draw
• 1888 Stanley's expedition reaches Fort Bodo, East-Africa
• 1889 Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii
• 1890 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Beryl Coronet" (BG)
• 1891 1st Negro Catholic priest ordained in US, Charles Uncles, Baltimore
• 1891 Canadian Rugby Union forms
• 1894 Cricket day 5 1T Aus v Eng Eng 437 all out, Aus need 177 are 2-113
• 1900 Kitchener offers protections to all Boers who will surrender and asks the Dutch community of Pretoria to convey this offer, leaders in the field refuse to surrender
• 1903 Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn & Manhattan
• 1904 Dawson City hockey team begins 9 day walk to get a boat to Seattle to catch a train to Ottawa to play in Stanley Cup on Jan 13 1905
• 1907 239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania
• 1910 1st US city ordinance requiring white & black residential areas (Balt)
• 1910 Rayon 1st commercially produced, Marcus Hook, Penn
• 1913 Jack Johnson fights Jim Johnson to a draw in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1916 Suriname Bauxite Company forms in Paramaribo
• 1917 1st NHL game played on artificial ice (Toronto)
• 1917 Quebec Bulldogs play their 1st professional hockey game
• 1918 Robert Ripley began his "Believe It or Not" column (NY Globe)
• 1919 American Meteorological Society found
• 1920 1st US indoor curling rink opens (Brookline, Mass)
• 1920 King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander I of Greece and a plebiscite.
• 1922 Theresa Vaughn, 24, confesses in court in Sheffield, England, to being married 61 times over 5 years in 50 cities in three countries
• 1924 Test Cricket debut of Bill Ponsford, who scored 110 in 1st innings
• 1924 The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
• 1928 1st autogyro flight in US
• 1931 Joseph A Lyons (C) becomes premier of Australia
• 1932 British Broadcasting Corp begins transmitting overseas
• 1933 Electric Home & Farm Authority Inc, authorized
• 1934 Japan agrees to naval treaty of 1922 & 1930
• 1939 Russian air & ground attack against Finnish positions near Summa
• 1941 German submarine U-574 sinks
• 1941 US Office of Censorship created to control info pertaining to WW II
• 1942 Robert Stroud "Birdman of Alcatraz" is transferred to Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary
• 1943 Military coup in Bolivia
• 1945 Austrian Republic re-establishes
• 1945 Jean Giraudoux' "La Folle de Chaillot" premieres in Paris
• 1946 Noel Cowards musical "Pacific 1860" premieres in London
• 1947 1948 NFL Draft: Harry Gilmer from University of Alabama first pick by Washington Redskins
• 1948 2nd political action of Java/Sumatra
• 1948 8th largest snowfall in NYC history (15.3")
• 1948 Cleveland Browns beats Buffalo Bills 49-7 in AAFC championship game
• 1948 Philadelphia Eagles shutout Chicago Cards 7-0 in NFL championship game
• 1949 Luxury passenger ship Aquitania demolished in Gareloch, Scotland
• 1949 WJW TV channel 8 in Cleveland, Ohio (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1951 Nazi General Christiansen leaves Netherlands
• 1952 Queen Juliana unveals statue "Docker"
• 1953 KFYR TV channel 5 in Bismarck, ND (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1955 Carl Perkins records "Blue Suede Shoes"
• 1957 "Music Man" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1375 performances
• 1958 1st radio broadcast from space (President Eisenhower voice "To all mankind, America's wish for Peace on Earth & Good Will to Men Everywhere")
• 1959 1st Liberty Bowl game-Penn State beats Alabama 7-0
• 1960 Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction at Brooklyn (50 die)
• 1962 Nyasaland secedes from Rhodesia & Nyasaland
• 1962 Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission
• 1962 Transit 5A1, 1st operational navigational satellite, launched
• 1967 Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead.
• 1968 WCWB (now WMGT) TV channel 41 in Macon, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1969 Beatle's 7th Christmas album is released
• 1971 "Inner City" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 97 performances
• 1971 CBS airs "Homecoming A Christmas Story," (introducing the Waltons)
• 1971 NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp
• 1972 Apollo 17 (last of Apollo Moon landing series) returns to Earth
• 1973 "Molly" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 68 performances
• 1973 Grenada adopts constitution
• 1974 Dave Kryskow scores Washington Capitals 1st NHL shorthanded goal
• 1974 Nelson A Rockefeller sworn-in as 41st VP
• 1975 John Paul Stevens becomes a US Supreme Court Justice
• 1975 Ron Wood joined the Rolling Stones
• 1975 The Red Hand Commandos, a very secretive Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland, explode a no-warning car bomb in Dundalk, killing 2 civilians and wounding 20
• 1976 Jo Ann Washam/Chi Chi Rodriguez wins Pepsi-Cola Mixed Team Golf Champ
• 1976 John Lever takes 7-46 in 1st Test Cricket innings, v India Delhi
• 1976 Piper Cherokee crashes into Balt Memorial Stadium upper stands, 10 minutes after Colts lose 40-14 to Steelers. No one seriously hurt
• 1976 65th Davis Cup: Italy beats Chile in Santiago (4-1)
• 1977 Dutch government of Van Agt/Wiegel forms
• 1978 France performs nuclear test
• 1981 Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee, Cornwall, lifeboat goes to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas.
• 1981 Romuald Spasowski, Polish ambassador to the United States defects to show support for the Solidarity movement amid a crackdown
• 1983 The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro.
• 1985 "Wind in the Willows" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 4 performances
• 1985 Mary Lund is 1st woman to receive a Jarvik VII artificial heart
• 1985 STS 61-C scrubbed at T -13s because of SRB auxiliary power problem
• 1987 Bruins' Linseman & Blues' Doug Gilmore score goals, 2 seconds apart
• 1987 Gari Kasparov becomes world chess champ
• 1988 NASA unviels plans for lunar colony & manned missions to Mars
• 1988 Oklahoma's College football team gets 3 year probation
• 1988 Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany-5,000 evacuated
• 1989 American Airlines purchases Eastern Airline's Latin American route
• 1991 NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe arrested for cocaine possession
• 1993 "Red Shoes" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 5 performances
• 1994 Rolls-Royce announces its future cars will feature V12 engine which will be produced by BMW.
• 1996 "Once Upon a Matress" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 187 performances
• 1997 MTV drops video "Smack My Bitch Up" by Prodigy
• 2000 The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, killing one person and injuring three.
• 2001 A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl Province, Mongolia.
• 2001 Argentine economic crisis: December 2001 riots - Riots erupt in Buenos Aires after Domingo Cavallo's corralito measures restrict the withdrawal of cash from bank deposits.
• 2001 "The Fellowship of the Ring", 1st Lord of the Rings film is released. Makes US$47 million US opening weekend, $871 million total worldwide.
• 2007 The Lakotah people, a Native American tribe, proclaim independence and withdraw all their treaties with the United States. Establish the Republic of Lakotah, as a separate country.
• 2010 "Miracle at the New Meadowlands", Philadelphia Eagles trail New York Giants by 21 points with eight minutes to play, before scoring 4 touchdowns in final 7 minutes, including dramatic walk-off punt returned for a touchdown by DeSean Jackson
• 2012 UBS bank is fined $1.5 billion for its role in manipulating the Libor rate
• 2012 Park Geun-hye wins the South Korean presidential election to become the nation’s first female president
• 2013 81 people are injured after part of the ceiling caved in at London's Apollo Theatre
• 2014 The Guardian newspaper calls 2014 'The year the people stood up'
• 2015 Third Democratic presidential candidates debate, broadcast by ABC, held in Goffstown, New Hampshire
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