History Today:1st world Prime Minister, 1st the mummy movies

• 401 St Innocent I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
• 795 Leo III succeeds pope Adrianus I
• 1135 Norman nobles recognize Stefanus van Blois as English king
• 1216 Pope Honorius III delegates degree "Religiosam vitam eligentibus"
• 1465 Peace of St Truiden: Louis van Bourbon becomes bishop of Liège
• 1536 English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal
• 1596 Ferryboat Meuniers crashes in Paris, 150 die
• 1642 Pope Urbanus VIII publishes degree In eminente
• 1688 Pro-James II, Earl of Danby occupies York
• 1689 Heavy earthquake strikes Innsbruck
• 1715 English pretender to the throne James III lands at Peterhead
• 1731 Dutch people revolt against meat tax
• 1772 Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny
• 1775 Continental navy organized with 7 ships
• 1790 Supposedly impenetrable Turkish fortress of Izmail stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies during the Russo-Turkish War (1787–92)
• 1807 US Congress passes Embargo Act, prohibiting American ships from trading in all foreign ports, as a result of involvement in hostilities between France and Britain.
• 1810 British frigate HMS Minotaur sinks killing 480
• 1814 Samuel Marsden of the Church Missionary Society arrives in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand to establish the country's first mission station; Sheep, cattle, horses and poultry are introduced
• 1849 The execution of Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky is called off at the last second
• 1851 The first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India.
• 1862 -Jan 2nd) Raid on Morgan's: Bardstown to Elizabethtown, KY
• 1870 Jules Janssen, flys in a balloon in order to study a solar eclipse
• 1877 "American Bicycling Journal" begins publishing (Boston, Mass)
• 1883 August Strindberg's "Lycko-Pers Reja" premieres
• 1885 Pope Leo XIII proclaims extraordinary jubilee
• 1885 Itō Hirobumi, a samurai, becomes the first Prime Minister of Japan
• 1886 1st national accountants' society in US formed (NYC)
• 1888 Heavyweight boxing champ John L Sullivan challenges Jake Kilrain
• 1890 Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kingsport and Kentville, Nova Scotia.

• 1894 United States Golf Association forms (NYC)
• 1894 French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated)
• 1905 Arrest of St Petersburg Soviet members leads to an uprising of Moscow workers and fighting in the street
• 1907 Saint-Saëns'/Fokine's ballet "Le Cygne" premieres in St Petersburg
• 1910 US postal savings stamps 1st issued
• 1915 Federal Baseball League disolved
• 1915 Organized baseball & Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati
• 1917 Flanders declares its independence, under Pieter Tack
• 1919 US deports 250 alien radicals, including anarchist Emma Goldman
• 1922 Belgian parliament rejects Dutch university in Ghent
• 1923 Bill Ponsford & Edgar Mayne make 456 opening stand for Vict
• 1924 Babe Dye of NHL's Toronto St Patricks scores 5 goals beat Bruins 10-2
• 1924 Philip Barry's "Youngest" premieres in NYC
• 1930 Convention of Economic Rapprochement/Oslo Agreesments signed between some European countries in response to the Great Depression
• 1932 "The Mummy" directed by Karl Freund and starring Boris Karloff is released in the US - 1st Mummy horror film
• 1934 1st flight from Netherland to Curacao (Christmas flight 1934)
• 1934 Miss Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record 702 pins in games
• 1935 Yaeko Iwasaki, student of D S Harada Roshi, 1st awakening in Kamakura
• 1936 1st common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton, Pa
• 1937 Lincoln Tunnel (NYC) opens to traffic
• 1939 125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany
• 1943 Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core
• 1944 Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium
• 1944 Sub Swordfish departs Pearl Harbor for Japan
• 1945 Utrecht: Catholic People's party (KVP) established
• 1946 "Bal Negre" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 54 performances
• 1946 Cleveland Browns beat NY Yankees 14-9 in AAFC championship game
• 1947 Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution
• 1948 KPIX TV channel 5 in San Francisco, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1950 2 self-propelled trains of Long Island RR collide, killing 77
• 1951 Australia cricket all out 82 v West Indies at Adelaide
• 1952 French government of Pinay, resigns
• 1952 WSBA (now WPMT) TV channel 43 in York, PA (IND) begins broadcasting
• 1953 Jack Dunn III, owner of Balt Orioles in Intl League, turns name over to newly relocated St Louis Browns
• 1956 "New Faces of 1956" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 221 performances
• 1956 Last British & French troops leave Egypt
• 1956 Colo is born, the first gorilla to be bred in captivity at Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Columbus, Ohio
• 1957 KWRB (now KFNE) TV channel 10 in Lander-Riverton, WY (ABC) begins
• 1958 "Chipmunk Song" reaches #1
• 1958 "Whoop-Up" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 56 performances
• 1958 2nd Dutch Beel government forms
• 1959 Continental League awards its last franchise to Dallas-Fort Worth
• 1959 NY Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask
• 1961 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1962 1,000,000th NBA point scored
• 1962 Harris County voters approve all-weather stadium for Houston Colt .45s
• 1962 Kinderman Place in the Bronx named
• 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1963 Oakland Raider Tom Flores passes for 6 touchdowns vs Houston (52-49)
• 1965 Great Britain sets national maximum road speed at 70 miles per hour
• 1965 Radio Mil (Domincan Republic) transmitter blown up
• 1966 WCVW TV channel 57 in Richmond, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1969 Pete Marovich sets NCAA record of hitting 30 of 31 foul shots
• 1970 Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment
• 1971 KUAC TV channel 9 in Fairbanks/College, AK (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1971 UN General Assembly ratifies former Austrian President Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General
• 1971 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1972 6.25 earthquake strikes Managua Nicaragua, 12,000+ killed
• 1973 OPEC Gulf Six decides to raise the posted price of marker crude from $5.12 to $11.65 per barrel effective January 1, 1974
• 1974 2nd cease-fire between IRA & British; lasts until approx April 1975
• 1976 "Your Arm's Too Short..." opens at Lyceum NYC for 429 performances
• 1976 35 Unification church couples wed in NYC
• 1976 German DR banishes singer Nina Hagen
• 1977 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes
• 1978 Kenney Jones becomes The Who's new drummer
• 1978 Thailand adopts constitution
• 1980 Cardinals release outfielder Bobby Bonds
• 1984 Test Cricket debut of Craig McDermott, v WI at the MCG
• 1985 "Wind in the Willows" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 4 performances
• 1985 74th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Germany in Munich (3-2)
• 1985 STS 51-L vehicle moves to Launch Pad 39B
• 1986 India score 7-676 v Sri Lanka at Kanpur in Cricket
• 1987 Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx overdoses from Heroin
• 1988 2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 M in NJ
• 1988 South Africa signs accord granting independence to South West Africa
• 1988 Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 300 mi of WA & BC coast
• 1989 Chad adopts its Constitution
• 1989 Cold wave: -4°F in Oklahoma City, -6°F in Tulsa, -12°F in Pitts
• 1989 -18°F in Denver, -23°F in KC Mo, -42°F in Scottsbluff Nebraska -47°F in Hardin Mont & -60°F in Black Hills South Dakota
• 1990 Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait
• 1990 Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 US servicemen
• 1990 Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president
• 1992 Libyan MIG-23UB attacks Boeing 727 at Souk al-Sabt, 158 die
• 1994 "Christmas Carol" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 18 performances
• 1994 Italian government of Silvio Berlusconi resigns
• 1995 David Cone signs $19.5 million 3 year contract with NY Yankees
• 1996 Steelers' Kordell Stewart runs quarterback record 80 yds for TD
• 1996 Wendy's Three Tour Golf Challenge
• 1996 Zimbabwe & England draw Bulawayo Test Cricket with England needing 1 run to win
• 1997 Hunter Tylo awarded $4 million in Melrose Place breach of contract
• 1997 Merck baldness pill for men approved by FDA
• 1997 Nancy Kerrigan & Tonya Harding pre-record a show to air on FOX on Feb 5
• 1997 Acteal massacre: Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas are massacred by paramilitary forces.
• 1999 The Spanish Civil Guard finds near Calatayud (Zaragoza) another van loaded by ETA with 750 kg of explosives (see related event on December 21, 1999).
• 2001 Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.
• 2001 Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.
• 2003 A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits near San Simeon, California.
• 2012 6 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus
• 2012 8 people are killed by a suicide bomber in Peshawar, Pakistan
• 2012 Tomasz Adamek outpoints Steve Cunningham in a split decision in the IBF heavyweight title eliminator at the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

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