Historical Events On This Day

1118 Giovanni Caetani elected Pope Gelasius II
1458 Matthias I Corvinus chosen king of Hungary
1534 Francois I signs classified treaty with evangelical German monarchy
1568 Abdij Church in Middelburg destroyed by fire
1568 In Netherlands, Duke of Alva declares William of Orange an outlaw
1613 Amsterdam merchant Hans Bontemantel baptized
1616 Jacques Le Maire discovers Street Lemaire/Cape Receiver
1634 Emperor Ferdinand II declares Albrecht von Wallenstein a traitor
1639 Connecticut colony organizes under Fundamental Orders
1644 Parliamentary army wins battle of Nantwich, Cheshire, English Civil War
1648 Lord Baltimore's representative Margaret Brent ejected from the Maryland Council after requesting right to vote
1652 Duke of Orleans joins Fronde rebels
1656 1st Jewish doctor in North American colonies, Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland
1659 Pierre Corneille's "Oedipe" premieres in Paris

1722 Edward Wigglesworth appointed 1st north American divinity professor (Harvard)
1742 German leaders elect Charles VII Albert Emperor
1764 Gov Winthrop Telescope is destroyed in a Harvard fire
1776 Henry Knox arrives at Cambridge, Massachusetts, with the artillery that he has transported from Fort Ticonderoga.
1847 1,500 New Mexican Indians & Mexicans defeated by US Col Price
1848 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California
1857 The University of Calcutta is founded as the first full-fledged university in South Asia
1859 Political union of Moldavia and Wallachia; Alexandru Ioan Cuza is elected as ruler.
1861 Arsenal at Augusta, Georgia, seized by Confederacy
1861 Federal troops from Ft Monroe are sent to Ft Pikens
1862 Romanian principality arises under King Alexander Cuza. Bucharest proclaimed its capital.

1874 Gen J van Swieten conquers Kraton Atjeh, after thousands die
1874 Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov" premieres in St Petersburg
1875 Camille Saint-Saëns' "Danse Macabre" premieres
1878 Revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, Governor of Saint Petersburg.
1892 Battle of Mengo, Uganda: French missionaries attack British missionaries
1899 Belgium government of Vandenpeereboom forms
1899 Rubber heel for boots or shoes patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan
1900 Battle of Tugela-Spionkop, South Africa (Boers vs British army)
1900 Newcastle Badminton Club, world's oldest, forms in England
1901 1st games played in baseball's American League
1901 Emily Hobhouse views the British administrated concentration camp at Bloemfontein for women and children
1901 Denmark and the US sign a treaty under which Denmark will sell the Danish West Indies to the USA for $5 million, but the sale will be postponed until 1917
1908 Lieutenant General Robert Baden-Powell publishes "Scouting for Boys" as a manual for self-instruction in outdoor skills and self-improvement. The book becomes the inspiration for the Scout Movement.

1914 Opera "Madeleine" premieres in NYC
1915 German-British sea battle at Dogger Bank & Helgoland
1916 The Military Service Bill, calling for conscription of men for war services, passes in the British House of Commons
1920 12th Australasian Championships: Algernon Kingscote beats Eric Pockley (6-4, 6-0, 6-3)
1922 -54°F (-48°C), Danbury, Wisconsin (state record)
1922 Eskimo Pie patented by Christian K Nelson of Iowa (not an Eskimo)
1922 Lehman Caves National Monument established
1923 Aztec Ruins National Monument, NM established

1930 J E Mills scores 117 on Test Cricket debut, NZ v England, Wellington
1930 Stewie Dempster scores New Zealand's 1st Test century
1933 Noel Coward's "Design for Living" premieres in NYC
1935 1st canned beer, "Kruger Cream Ale," is sold by American company Kruger Brewing Co.
1943 Jewish patients/nurses/doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau
1944 Allied troops occupy Nettuno Italy
1945 Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg
1947 NFL adds 5th official (back judge) & allows sudden death in playoffs
1948 "Music in My Heart" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 124 performances
1951 Dutch government Drees-van Schaik resigns
1952 1st NFL team in Texas, Dallas Texans formerly NY Yanks
1952 Fire in main building of French Port Martin Antarctic base
1954 BPAA All-Star Tournament won by Don Carter
1954 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open
1956 96.5 cm precipitation at Kilauea Plantation, Hawaii (state record)
1956 An inquiry considers building homes in a war devastated area in London
1956 6th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 108-94 at Rochester, New York
1958 After warming to 100,000,000 degrees, 2 light atoms are bashed together to create a heavier atom, resulting in 1st man-made nuclear fusion
1959 "Party with Comden & Green" closes at John Golden NYC after 38 performances
1959 Dmitri Shostakovitch's comedy "Cheryomushk" premieres in Moscow
1959 WHCT TV channel 18 in Hartford, CT (IND) begins broadcasting
1960 Algeria uprises against French president De Gaulle
1961 Lazard Brothers Ltd draw a check for $334,867,807.68
1962 28 refugees escape from East to West Germany
1962 Brian Epstein signs management contract with the Beatles
1962 Jackie Robinson is 1st African American elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame. Bob Feller is also elected.
1962 Mickey Wright/Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Naples Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1963 Buddy Rogers & Lou Thesz wrestle in Toronto, Rogers becomes WWF wrestling champ & Thesz becomes NWA champion
1964 CBS purchases 1964 & 1965 NFL TV rights for $28.2 million
1964 Martin Kresses final comic strip of Eric the Viking
1964 24th Amendment to US Constitution goes into effect & states voting rights could not be denied due to failure to pay taxes
1966 WDIO TV channel 10 in Duluth, MN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1966 117 passengers are killed after an Air India Boeing-707 plane crashes into Mont Blanc, France
1969 Queen Juliana of the Netherlands appointed honorary citizen of Addis Ababa

1969 Deputy Prime Minister Brian Faulkner resigns from the Northern Ireland cabinet in protest at the lack of 'strong government' on the part of PM Terence O'Neill
1969 Students protest the erection of steel gates around the London School of Economics
1970 3rd ABA All-Star Game: West 128 beats East 98 at Indiana
1970 Valeri Muratov skates world record 500m (38.99 sec)
1971 NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 27-6
1972 WRIP (now WDSI) TV channel 61 in Chattanooga, TN (IND) 1st broadcast
1972 Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
1973 Warren Spahn is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1974 10th British Commonwealth Games open in Christchurch, New Zealand
1975 "Hot l Baltimore" situation comedy premieres on ABC TV
1975 Fastest Earth-bound object, 7200 kph, in vacuum centrifuge, England
1976 Cleveland Cavaliers biggest margin victory-43 pts (beat Milwaukee 132-89)
1977 Massacre of Atocha in Madrid: five labor lawyers murdered by fascists in Madridvduring the Spanish transition to democracy
1978 31st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 3-2 (OT) at Buffalo
1978 Carter Executive Order on Intelligence (# 12036)
1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 Islanders scored 5 power play goals against Nordiques
1981 Kim Hughes scores 213 v India at Adelaide

1986 South Yemen Premier Haydar Bakr al-Attas becomes interim-president
1986 Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km), finds new moons
1986 Leon Brittan, Trade and Industry Secretary under Thatcher is 2nd cabinet minister to resign after 'Westland affair'
1988 1st WWF Royal Rumble - Jim Duggan wins
1988 9th ACE Cable Awards: Discovery Channel wins the Golden CableACE for "Russia: Live From the Inside"
1988 Australia beat New Zealand 2-0 to win cricket's World Series Cup
1988 Cerebral Palsy telethon raises $21 million
1988 NBC premiere of fact based "The Murder of Mary Phagan"
1988 4th Sundance Film Festival: "Heat and Sunlight" wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
1989 1st reported case of AIDS transmitted by heterosexual oral sex
1990 Japanese MUSES-A (Hiten) launched towards moon
1990 14th Commonwealth Games open in Auckland, New Zealand
1991 "Les Miserables" opens at Theatre St Denis, Montreal
1993 14th annual star-athon $24,000,000
1993 Polish ferry boat John Heweliusz sinks, 52 killed
1993 Soyuz TM-16 launches
1993 US men's Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis
1993 Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara.
1994 Dow Jones closes above 3,900 for 1st time (3,914.48)
1999 49th NHL All-Star Game: North America beats World 8-6 at Tampa, Florida
2010 AFC Championship Game: Indianapolis Colts beat New York Jets 30-17
2010 NFC Championship Game: New Orleans Saints beat Minnesota Vikings 31-28 (OT)
2011 At least 35 died and 180 injured in a bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo airport.
2013 17 people are killed and 34 are injured in a bus crash in Taperas, Bolivia
2013 A Japanese Coast guard ship engages a Taiwanese activist ship in the Senkaku Islands dispute
2013 Russian police kill 13 rebels in Vedeno District, Chechnya
2015 Golden State Warrior Klay Thompson scores the most NBA points in a quarter with 37 & the most 3-pointers in a quarter with 9
2016 TV drama "The X-Files" returns after 13 years, reuniting lead actors David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson and produced again by Chris Carter