Historical Event Today

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• 565 Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus.
• 871 Battle of Basing: Danish invasion army beats Saxon Ethelred of Wessex
• 1371 King Robert II Stuart of Scotland crowned
• 1506 The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrive at the Vatican.
• 1510 Jews are expelled from Colmar, Alsace
• 1517 Ottoman forces take Cairo, capital of the Mamluk Sultanate
• 1584 Parts of Switzerland adopt Gregorian calendar (& parts in 1812)
• 1588 Pope Sixtus V decrees "Immense aeterni" (Reformed curia)
• 1673 Postal service between New York & Boston inaugurated
• 1689 Lord Halifax becomes Speaker of English House of Lords
• 1689 Prince William of Orange (future King William III of Britain), summons Convention Parliament to discuss ruling jointly with his wife Mary (daughter of exiled King James II)
• 1690 Iroquois tribes renew allegiance to British against French
• 1758 Russian troops occupy Königsberg, East Prussia [OS=Jan 11]
• 1760 Battle at Wandewash India: British troops beat French
• 1771 Spain cedes Falkland Islands to Britain
• 1775 Marshal Oscar von Lubomirski expels Jews from Warsaw Poland
• 1798 Coup d'état, Batavian Republic
• 1813 Americans capture Frenchtown, Michigan Territory
• 1814 1st Knights Templar grand encampment in US held, NYC
• 1816 Lord Byron completes "Parisina" & "Siege of Corinth"
• 1817 British freighter Diana sinks off Malaya
• 1824 Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast.
• 1837 Earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands
• 1840 New Zealand Company settlers arrive aboard the Aurora at Te Whanganui a Tara, which becomes Port Nicholson, Wellington
• 1850 Alta California becomes a daily paper, 1st such in Calif
• 1857 National Association of Baseball Players founded, NY
• 1859 Brahms' 1st piano concerto (in D minor) premieres, Hanover
• 1862 Confederate government raises premium for volunteers from $10 to $20

• 1863 Union General Burnside's "Mud March"
• 1873 British SS Northfleet sinks at Dungeness, England, 300 die
• 1877 Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman is taken into custody after being prosecuted for using ritualist practices.
• 1879 Zulu warriors attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana, South Africa
• 1879 James Shields (D) elected US senator from Missouri after previously serving as US senator from Illinois & Minnesota
• 1879 Battle of Rorke's Drift: British garrison of 150 holds off 3,000-4,000 Zulu warriors. Eleven Victoria Crosses and a number of other decorations were awarded to the defenders.
• 1881 Ancient Egyptian obelisk "Cleopatra's Needle" erected in Central Park, New York
• 1883 England complete 1st innings victory in Tests v Aust MCG
• 1889 Columbia Phonograph was formed in Washington, D.C.
• 1890 Jose Marti forms La Liga (Union of Cuban exiles) in NYC
• 1895 National Association of Manufacturers organized in Cincinnati
• 1899 Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.
• 1903 The Hay-Herran Treaty concerning the USA's right to the Panama Canal is signed by the Colombian Charge d'affaires in Washington, D.C. (never ratified)
• 1905 In St Petersburg, Russia, a large demonstration of workers led by Father Gapon, march to the Winter Palace with a petition to the Tsar; troops fire on protesters in what becomes known as 'Bloody Sunday'
• 1906 SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
• 1909 Vassily Kandinsky forms Kunstlerverein in Munich
• 1910 Opera "Germania" premieres in NYC
• 1914 Paul Claudel's "L'échange" premieres in Paris
• 1918 Ukraine proclaimed a free republic (German puppet)
• 1924 Dutch Blast Furnace & Steel Factory opens
• 1924 KGO-AM in San Francisco CA begins radio transmissions
• 1925 Albania Republic proclaimed under Pres Achmed Zogu
• 1926 Belgian chief of staff Gen Maglinse quits
• 1930 -35°F (-37°C), Mount Carroll, Illinois (state record)
• 1931 French government of Steeg falls
• 1931 VARA begins experimental TV broadcast in Diamantbeurs Amsterdam
• 1931 Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
• 1934 Dmitri Shostakovitch's opera "Lady MacBeth" premieres in Leningrad
• 1938 "Our Town", Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winner of small-town life in Grover's Corners, NH, premieres (NJ)
• 1939 Aquatic Park, near Fisherman's Wharf, SF, is dedicated
• 1940 1st radio broadcast of "Road to Happiness" on CBS
• 1941 1st mass killing of Jews in Romania
• 1941 British/Australian troops capture Tobruk from Italians
• 1942 Sietze de Groot wins 8th Dutch 11 city skate (8:44:06)
• 1943 66.3 cm precipitation at Hoegees Camp, California (state record)
• 1943 Battle of Anzio: Italy; Allies stopped on beach[1944]-
• 1943 Allied Joint Chiefs of Staff determine invasion in Sicily for July 10th
• 1943 Temperature rises 49°F (9°C) in 2 minutes in Spearfish, SD
• 1944 Allied forces begin landing at Anzio on the Italian mainland
• 1945 Burma highway reopens
• 1945 Heavy US air raid on Okinawa
• 1946 US president Harry Truman sets up the Central Intelligence Agency
• 1947 1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi opens, Hollywood CA
• 1947 KTLA TV channel 5 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
• 1948 Jim Laker takes 7-103 in his 1st Test Cricket innings v WI Barbados
• 1949 "All for Love" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 121 performances
• 1949 Chinatown telephone exchange closed
• 1950 Polly Riley wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
• 1951 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Johncrowe Ransom
• 1951 Fidel Castro is ejected from a Winter League baseball game after hitting a batter
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• 1955 Norwegian government of Einar Gerhardsen forms
• 1956 30 people die in a train crash in Los Angeles
• 1956 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
• 1956 Canadian Football Council forms
• 1957 Israeli forces withdraw from Sinai Peninsula
• 1957 Mad Bomber (George P Metesky) accused of 30 explosions, arrested
• 1958 KRSD (now KEVN) TV channel 7 in Rapid City, SD (ABC) 1st broadcast
• 1959 USAF concludes that less than 1% of UFOs are unknown objects
• 1960 10th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 125-115 at Philadelphia
• 1960 Paul Pender beats Sugar Ray Robinson for middleweight boxing title
• 1962 The Organization of American States suspends Cuba's membership.
• 1963 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Naples Professional Golf Tournament

• 1964 Kenneth Kaunda becomes premier of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)
• 1964 World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured in Wisconsin for New York's World Fair
• 1965 US launches TIROS 9 weather satellite
• 1967 NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 20-10
• 1968 "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" premieres on NBC
• 1968 Apollo 5 launched to Moon; unmanned lunar module tests made
• 1968 NBA announces it will expand to Milwaukee & Phoenix
• 1969 "Celebration" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 110 performances
• 1969 Orbiting Solar Observatory 5 launched into earth orbit
• 1980 PGA begins a senior golf tour
• 1980 West Indies beat England 2-0 to win cricket's 1st World Series Cup
• 1981 40th Islander shut-out opponent-3-0 vs Red Wings-Billy Smith 15th
• 1981 O A "Bum" Phillips becomes head coach of New Orleans Saints
• 1982 75% of North America is covered by snow
• 1983 2nd flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 22 seconds
• 1983 Houston is 1st NBA team to be held scoreless in an overtime Portland Trail Blazers out score them 17-0 & win 113-96
• 1983 NFC Championship Game: Washington Redskins beat Dallas Cowboys 31-17
• 1984 Annette Kennedy of SUNY sets women's basketball record with 70 pts
• 1984 Hilbert van de Thumb becomes European all-round skates
• 1984 Super Bowl XVIII: LA Raiders beat Wash Red Skins, 38-9 in Tampa Super Bowl MVP: Marcus Allen, LA Raiders, RB
• 1985 -30°F (-34°C), Mountain Lake Bio Station, Virginia (state record)
• 1985 Cold wave damages 90% of Florida's citrus crop
• 1985 Kelly Hu, 16, of Hawaii, crowned 3rd Miss Teen USA
• 1986 Ghorbanifar 1st suggests diversion of cash to contras, says North
• 1987 Blizzard in NJ, as 334 attend Devils-Flame NHL game, NJ wins 7-5
• 1987 Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself at a press conference on live national television, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism.
• 1988 1st-class cricket debut of Brian Lara, Trinidad & Tobago v Leeward Is
• 1988 1st-class cricket debut of Hansie Cronje, OFS v Transvaal
• 1991 Gulf War. Three SCUDs and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people. Three elderly people die of heart attacks.
• 1991 Kuwaiti oil facilities are destroyed by Iraqi forces
• 1992 Sarah, Duchess of York (aka Fergie) wears paper bag over her head on airline ride
• 1992 Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) launches into space
• 1992 Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.
• 1993 Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6:38.77
• 1994 45th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 9-8 at NY Rangers
• 1994 5.5 magnitude earthquake strikes Sumatra
• 1995 Palestinian bomb attack in Beit Lid Israel, 21-22 killed
• 1995 Pat Bradley wins LPGA HealthSouth Inaugural Golf Tournament
• 1997 Space shuttle Atlantis successfully returns to Earth
• 1998 NHL's Minnesota franchise selects the nickname Wild
• 1998 STS 89 (Endeavour 12) launches into orbit
• 1998 World League of American Football renamed as NFL Europe
• 1999 Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
• 2001 The British government launches pro-vaccine campaign
• 2002 Kmart Corp becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
• 2003 Last successful contact with NASA spacecraft Pioneer 10, one of the most distant man-made objects
• 2006 Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.
• • 2006 AFC Championship Game: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Denver Broncos 34-17
  • 2006 NFC Championship Game: Seattle Seahawks beat Carolina Panthers 34-14
  • 2007 The jury portion of the trial against Robert Pickton, accused of being Canada's worst serial killer, opens in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.

  
  
• • 2012 AFC Championship Game: New England Patriots beat Baltimore Ravens 23-20
  • 2012 NFC Championship Game: New York Giants beat San Francisco 49ers 20-17 (OT)
  • 2013 A series of Baghdad car bombings kill 17 people
  • 2013 The Bank of Japan doubles its inflation target to 2% and announces open-ended asset purchases for 2014 in the hope of ending deflation
  • 2014 Water vapour is detected on the dwarf planet Ceres
  • 2016 Winter storm conditions strand 500 motorists for 24 hours on the New Jersey turnpike in Pennsylvania
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