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 UÄŸur 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
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