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• 418 St Boniface I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
• 801 Louis the Vrome occupies Barcelona
• 1065 Westminster Abbey in London consecrated
• 1308 The reign of Emperor Hanazono, emperor of Japan, begins.
• 1614 Sperm whale beached at Noordwijk
• 1732 1st known ad for "Poor Richard's Almanack" (Pennsylvania Gazette)
• 1767 King Taksin crowned King of Thailand and establishes Thonburi as his capital
• 1816 American Colonization Society organizes
• 1821 Naples: Gioacchini Rossini moves to Bologna
• 1828 6.8 earthquake strikes Echigo Japan, 30,000 killed
• 1836 Spain recognizes independence of Mexico
• 1836 Proclamation of South Australia as a British Province. Formal proclamation was read out in what is now the Adelaide suburb of Glenelg North by Captain (later Rear Admiral, Governor, Sir) John Hindmarsh
• 1846 Iowa becomes 29th state the Union
• 1849 M Jolly-Bellin discovers dry-cleaning, he accidentally upset lamp containing turpentine & oil on his clothing & sees cleaning effect
• 1850 Rangoon, Burma, destroyed by fire
• 1864 Battle of Egypt Station, MS
• 1867 United States claims Midway Island, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits.
• 1869 William Finley Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio, patents chewing gum
• 1877 John Stevens, applies for a patent for his flour rolling mill
• 1878 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Quod apostolici muneris (socialism)
• 1879 North British Railway's train falls as Tay bridge collapses (Scotland)
• 1887 Sir John Layton Jarvis, 1st British race horse trainer knighted
• 1893 French lieutenant Boiteux annexes Tumbuktu
• 1895 Filmmakers the Lumiere brothers, hold the first commercial film screening at Salon Indien du Grand Café, Paris
• 1897 Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac" premieres in Paris
• 1902 1st indoor pro football game, Syracuse beats Philadelphia 6-0 (Madison Square Garden, NYC)
• 1902 Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US
• 1903 Clyde Fitch's "Glad of It" premieres in NYC
• 1904 1st daily wireless weather forecasts published (London)
• 1905 Intercollegiate Athletic Association of US founded (becomes NCAA in 1910)
• 1905 NSW all out for 805 vs Victoria, win by innings & 253
• 1906 Ecuador adopts its second liberal constitution
• 1908 Earthquake strikes Messina, Italy, killing nearly 80,000
• 1910 Opera "Konigskinder" is produced (NYC)
• 1912 National Council of Young Israel convenes
• 1912 SF Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St (MUNI)
• 1912 The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco, California.
• 1914 Turks are repulsed by the Russians after fighting in Armenia for weeks
• 1915 SF City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph
• 1915 Today the British Cabinet recognizes the true nature of the war by deciding to institute compulsory military service, with single men to be conscripted before married ones
• 1921 The beginning of the Rand Rebellion in Southern Africa; the rebellion started as a strike by white mineworkers on and became an open armed rebellion against the state

• 1935 W P A Federal Art Project Gallery opens in NYC
• 1935 Pravda publishes a letter by Pavel Postyshev, who revives New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union.
• 1937 Fascist Octavian Goga becomes PM of Romania/begins spread of Judaism
• 1938 Paul Gibb scores 106 on Test Cricket debut v South Africa
• 1940 Cricketer Arthur Morris scores 111 in 2nd innings of 1st game after 148
• 1941 State of siege goes into effect in Bohemia/Moravia
• 1942 Oberkommando Wehrmacht orders strategist flight out of Kaukasus
• 1942 Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly Atlantic 100 times
• 1943 All Kalmyk inhabitants of the Republic of Kalmukkie deported by the Soviet Union to Central Asia and Siberia. Many die en rout

• 1944 Former Wash 3rd baseman Buddy Lewis wins Distinguished Flying Cross
• 1944 Leonard Bernstein's musical "On the Town" premieres in NYC
• 1945 Congress officially recognizes "Pledge of Allegiance"
• 1947 Chic Cards beat Philadelphia Eagles 28-21 in NFL championship game
• 1948 IDF crosses Egyptian border
• 1948 Middel-Java as a whole in Dutch hands
• 1948 US announced a study to launch an Earth satellite
• 1948 The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami, Florida.
• 1949 20th Century Fox announces it would produce TV programs
• 1950 Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea
• 1950 The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.
• 1952 Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-7 in NFL championship game
• 1953 WLBT TV channel 3 in Jackson, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1954 43rd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Sydney (3-2)
• 1954 KEPR TV channel 19 in Pasco-Kennewick-Richl, WA (CBS) 1st broadcast
• 1955 44th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (5-0)
• 1956 Miss Frances [Horwich], last Ding Dong School on NBC-TV
• 1957 CBS states it won't broadcast baseball where minor league games are on
• 1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
• 1957 46th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Melbourne (3-2)
• 1958 Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon & Theodore with David Seville) hits #1
• 1958 "The Greatest Game Ever Played", Baltimore Colts beat New York Giants 23-17 in the first every sudden-death overtime game in NFL history (17 future members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame were involved in the game)
• 1960 49th Davis Cup: Australia beats Italy in Sydney (4-1)
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• 1963 14th Formula One WDC: Jim Clark wins by 21 points
• 1964 Premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' Stefan Rasin
• 1964 Principal filming on film "Doctor Zhivago" begins
• 1966 13 die in a train crash in Everett Mass
• 1966 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
• 1966 55th Davis Cup: Australia beats India in Melbourne (4-1)
• 1967 KTSB (now KSNT) TV channel 27 in Topeka, KS (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1967 Muriel Siebert is 1st woman to own a seat on NY Stock Exchange
• 1967 56th Davis Cup: Australia beats Spain in Brisbane (4-1)
• 1968 100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival
• 1968 57th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Adelaide (4-1)
• 1968 Beatles' "White Album" goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
• 1968 Israeli assault on Beirut Airport
• 1968 KVOF (KUDO, now KWBB) TV channel 38 in SF, CA (IND) 1st broadcast
• 1969 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1969 Dallas Cowboy kicker Mike Clark, attempting an on-side kick against Cleveland, missed the ball
• 1970 "Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" opens at Majestic NYC for 19 performances
• 1970 Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) adopts constitution
• 1971 Hasj falls from now on under(neath) the Opiumwet
• 1972 Kim Il-song, becomes president of North Korea
• 1972 Martin Bormanns skeleton found in Berlin (Hitlers deputy)
• 1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1972 2 people are killed in a Loyalist bomb attack on the village of Belturbet, County Cavan, Republic of Ireland
• 1973 US President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law
• 1973 Akron Ohio's Chamber of Commerce terminates itself from Soap Box Derby
• 1973 Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes "Gulag Archipelago" - a literary investigation of the police-state system in the Soviet Union
• 1973 Comet Kohoutek at perihelion
• 1974 6.3 earthquake strikes Pakistan: 5200 killed
• 1974 Senegalese marxist group Reenu-Rew founds the political movement And-Jëf at a clandestine congress.
• 1974 4th Fiesta Bowl: Oklahoma State beats #17 BYU, 16-6
• 1975 1st broadcast of radio Hilversum IV (classic music)
• 1975 Earthquake in Pakistan, 4,000 die
• 1975 Gary Cosier scores 109 v West Indies at MCG on Test Cricket debut
• 1975 Red Army beats NY Rangers 7-3 at Madison Square Garden
• 1975 "The Hail Mary", with 32 seconds left in the NFC Divisional Playoff Game, Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach throws a desperate 50-yard winning touchdown pass to Drew Pearson to defeat the Minnesota Vikings, and the "Hail Mary" play is born
• 1976 "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 167 performances
• 1976 Genie Francis joins "General Hospital" as Laura Vining
• 1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1976 Winnie Mandela banished in South Africa
• 1980 Mexico terminated fishing agreements with US
• 1981 Cleveland Metroparks Administrative offices move from downtown to Zoo
• 1981 Warner-Elektra-Atlantic raises price of 45 records from $1.68 to $1.98
• 1981 1st American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr is born in Norfolk, Virginia
• 1983 72nd Davis Cup: Australia beats Sweden in Melbourne (3-2)
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• 1991 Irene the Icon of Greek Orthodox church returns after being stolen
• 1991 Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jiminez, 20, of Venez, crowned 41st Miss World
• 1991 Ted Turner is named Time Magazine Man of Year
• 1993 Dow-Jones hits record 3793.49
• 1993 Dutch Antilles government of Yandi Paula forms
• 1993 John Maclean passes Kirk Muller as all-time NJ Devils scorer (521 pts)
• 1994 Boon completes his 20th Test Cricket century (131 v England, MCG)
• 1994 The Madness of King George premieres in the US
• 1996 India all out for 66 at Durban after making 100 in cricket 1st innings
• 1997 Sting beats Hollywood Hogan for WCW Championship
• 1999 Saparmurat Niyazov is proclaimed President for Life in Turkmenistan.
• 2000 U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
• 2001 OPEC oil ministers meeting in Cairo agree to reduce their crude oil output quotas by a combined 1.5 million barrels per day
• 2005 A U.S. immigration judge orders John Demjanjuk deported to Ukraine for crimes against humanity committed during World War II.
• 2007 Nepal declared a federal democratic Republic by interim parliament, abolishing the monarchy.
• 2008 The Detroit Lions finished the season 0-16 with a 31-21 lost to the Green Bay Packers The first time in National Football League history that a team went winless in a 16-game season.
• 2009 43 people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims were observing the Day of Ashura.
• 2013 Chris Weidman defeats Anderson Silva to retain the UFC Middleweight Championship
• 2013 Early signs of Ebola epidemic: 2 year old child in Guinea dies of an unidentified haemorraghic fever; mother, sister and grandmother soon follow
• 2014 Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ8501 crashes in bad weather in the Java Sea, killing all 162 people on board
• 2015 Japan and South Korea reach agreement over WWII "comfort women", Japan apologies and pays 1bn yen compensation