Historical Events on this day

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• 1482 "Pentateuch" (Jewish Bible) 1st printed as a book in Bologna, Italy
• 1500 Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to set foot in Brazil.
• 1531 Lisbon hit by Earthquake; about 30,000 die
• 1564 The Council of Trent issued its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
• 1589 Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
• 1654 Portuguese troops conquer last Dutch base on Recife
• 1666 France declares war on England & Munster
• 1689 Jean Racine's "Esther" premieres in Saint-Cyr
• 1699 Venice, Poland & Austria sign Treaty of Carlowitz with Ottoman Empire
• 1700 The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake took place off the west coast of the North America, as evidenced by Japanese records.
• 1736 Stanislaw I of Poland abdicates his throne.
• 1748 Britain, Netherlands, Austria & Sardinia sign anti-French treaty
• 1797 Russia, Prussia & Austria sign treaty
• 1802 Congress passes an act calling for a US Capitol library
• 1808 Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia.
• 1833 Gaetano Dinozetti's opera "Lucrezia Borgia" premieres in Milan
• 1837 Michigan admitted as 26th US state
• 1838 Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
• 1841 Hong Kong proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain
• 1850 1st German language daily newspaper in US published, NYC
• 1861 Louisiana secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
• 1871 British Rugby Union forms
• 1871 US income tax repealed
• 1875 Electric dental drill is patented by George F Green
• 1881 Union of Baptists Communities forms in Foxholl
• 1882 France government of Gambetta falls
• 1884 1st Dutch Wagner version of Elizabeth aria
• 1885 Muhammad Ahmed ("Mahdi") rebels conquer Khartoum
• 1905 Han Yong-woon [Bongwan, Manhae] (1879-1944) ordained a monk in Korea
• 1905 World's largest diamond, the 3,106-carat Cullinan, is found in South Africa
• 1907 1st US federal corrupt election practices law passed
• 1907 J M Synge's "Playboy of Western World" opens; police are called
• 1907 The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the oldest military rifle still in official use.
• 1907 In Austria, universal and direct suffrage (limited to males over 24) is introduced, a reform long demanded by the socialists and others
• 1910 Heavy rains cause floods in Paris
• 1911 Glenn Curtiss pilots 1st successful hydroplane, San Diego
• 1911 Richard Strauss's opera "Die Rosenkavalier" premieres, Dresden
• 1920 Amadeo Modigliani's mistress jumps out of a window
• 1920 Former Ford Motor Co. executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
• 1921 Soccer team GVAV of Groningen Neth forms
• 1921 Toronto St Pat Corb Denneny scores 6 goals vs Hamilton Tigers
• 1922 Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Pastoral Symphony" premieres in London
• 1924 Charles Jewtraw, US 500m skater, takes 1st Winter Olympics gold medal
• 1924 17th Women's Australasian Championships: Sylvia Lance Harper beats Esna Boyd Robertson (6-3, 3-6, 8-6)
• 1924 17th Men's Australasian Championships: James Anderson beats Richard Schlesinger (6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 5-7, 6-3)
• 1926 1st public demonstration of television by John Logie Baird in his laboratory in London
• 1927 Maxwell Anderson's "Saturday's Children" premieres in NYC
• 1929 Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence
• 1930 Cleveland's Terminal Tower opens (52 stories)
• 1931 Hungary-Austria sign peace treaty
• 1931 Lynn Riggs' "Green Grow the Lilacs" premieres in NYC
• 1931 "Cimarron" directed by Wesley Ruggles and starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne premieres in New York. 1st western to win Best Outstanding Production/Picture (1931)
• 1932 British submarine M-2 sinks in English Channel (60 dead)
• 1932 KUT-AM in Austin Texas changes call letters to KNOW
• 1934 Nazi Germany & Poland sign 10-year non-aggression treaty
• 1934 The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
• 1939 Federal Hall National Monument established
• 1939 Filming begins on "Gone With the Wind"
• 1945 Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp
• 1947 KLM Dakota crashes near Copenhagen, 22 die
• 1948 Executive Order 9981 ending racial segregation in US Armed Forces signed
• 1948 36th Women's Australian Championships: Nancye Wynne Bolton beats Marie Toomey (6-3, 6-1)
• 1948 36th Men's Australian Championships: Adrian Quist beats John Bromwich (6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 2-6, 6-3)
• 1949 WHIO TV channel 7 in Dayton, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1950 India becomes a republic, ceasing to be a British dominion
• 1950 Constitution of India goes into effect
• 1951 Mel Ott & Jimmie Foxx elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
• 1952 At least 20 people have been killed and 100s injured during riots in Cairo against the British
• 1954 Ground breaking begins on Disneyland
• 1956 7th Winter Olympic games open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
• 1956 Porkkala military base returned to Finland by USSR
• 1957 Bernanos & Poulenc's opera "Dialogue des Carmelites" premieres
• 1957 Dutch Pacifist Socialist Party forms
• 1957 India annexes Kashmir
• 1957 Joseph F Cairnes succeeds Lou Perini as President of Milwaukee Braves
• 1958 H Laskow replaces Moshe Dayan on as Israeli minister of Defense
• 1958 Jack Smith takes over from Art Baker as TV host of "You Asked for It"
• 1958 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Lake Worth Open Golf Invitational
• 1958 Japanese ferry Nankai Maru capsized off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 167 killed.
• 1959 Italy government of Fanfani resigns
• 1959 KOKH TV channel 25 in Oklahoma City, OK (IND/PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1959 47th Women's Australian Championships: Mary Carter Reitano beats Renee Schuurman Haygarth (6-2, 6-3)
• 1959 47th Men's Australian Championships: Alex Olmedo beats Neale Fraser (6-1, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3)
• 1960 High-school basketball sensation Danny Heater scores 135 points
• 1960 Oakland Raiders enter the American Football League
• 1961 1st woman "personal physician to president"-JG Travell
• 1962 Bishop Burke of Buffalo Catholic dioceses declares Chubby Checker's "Twist" is impure & bans it from all Catholic schools
• 1962 Canadian Marine Service renamed Coast Guard
• 1962 David Diamond's 7th Symphony, premieres in Philadelphia
• 1962 US launches Ranger 3, misses Moon by 22,000-mi (37,000-km)
• 1963 "Milk & Honey" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 543 performances
• 1963 Major League Rules Committee votes to expand strike zone
• 1965 South Vietnam military coup under general Nguyen Khanh
• 1966 Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2:06.2)
• 1966 The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia.
• 1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
• 1967 Chicago Blizzard strikes with a record 23 inches of snow fall causing 800 buses and 50,000 automobiles to be abandoned
• 1968 Israeli submarine Dakar sinks in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die
• 1969 "Red, White, & Maddox" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 41 performances
• 1969 Minister of Health and Social Services William Morgan resigns from the Northern Ireland government
• 1969 Police break up a march by hundreds of demonstrators in central Prague
• 1970 Pendleton, Ford & Cryer's "Last Sweet Days of Isaac," premieres in NYC
• 1971 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts law against limitation of war crimes
• 1972 Air stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives 10,160m fall without parachute
• 1973 Belgium government of Leburton forms
• 1974 Bülent Ecevit becomes Prime Minister of Turkey for the 1st time
• 1976 Belgium Catholic elite starts amnesty campaign for war criminals
• 1976 David Mamet's "American Buffalo" premieres in NYC
• 1976 Israel opens "Good Fence" to Lebanon
• 1976 NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 23-20
• 1977 Soviet figure skaters Sergei Shakrai & Marine Tcherkasova are 1st to perform a quadruple twist lift, Helsinki
• 1978 Frank Herbert completes his novel "Destination: Void"
• 1978 International Ultraviolet Explorer placed in Earth orbit
• 1980 Islanders & Whalers play a NHL penalty-free game
• 1980 Israel & Egypt establish diplomatic relations
• 1980 Mary Decker became 1st woman to run a mile in under 4½ minutes
• 1981 Sandeep Patil scores memorable 174 v Australia at Adelaide Oval
• 1982 Islanders score 4 goals within 1:38, 5 within 2:37 vs Penguins
• 1982 Mauno Koivisto elected president of Finland
• 1982 For the first time since the 1930s, the unemployed population in UK rises above three million
• 1983 Dutch/British infrared satellite IRAS launched from Calif
• 1984 Nordiques' Michel Goulet scored on 9th penalty shot against Islanders
• 1984 US navy exhibits Piasecki helistat-4 helicopters & a blimp able to lift 26 tons-Lakehurst, NJ
• 1985 42nd Golden Globes: Amadeus, F. Murray Abraham, & Sally Field win
• 1985 Edmonton Oiler Wayne Gretzky scores 50th goal in 49th game of season
• 1986 Hein Vergeer becomes European skating champ
• 1986 Val Skinner wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic
• 1986 Yoweri Museveni's rebel army conquers Kampala Uganda
• 1986 Super Bowl XX: Chicago Bears beat NE Patriots, 46-10 in New Orleans Super Bowl MVP: Richard Dent, Chicago, DE
• 1987 Hart Foundation beat British Bulldogs for WWF tag team title
• 1988 "Phantom of the Opera" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 4,000+ performances
• 1988 Australian 200th anniversary parade of tall ships in Sydney Harbour
• 1989 "Black & Blue" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 829 performances
• 1989 AT&T reports 1st loss in 103 years; $1.67 B in 1988
• 1989 Allan Border takes 7-46 against the West Indies at the SCG
• 1989 Madison Sq Garden announces 2-year $100 M renovation plan
• 1989 Test debut of Mark Taylor, Australia v West Indies, Sydney
• 1989 US computer security expert warns of catastrophic virus
• 1990 Annular eclipse visible over Antarctica & South Atlantic
• 1990 Boston Red Sox hires Elaine Weddington as asst GM (highest-ranking African American female in a major-league front office)
• 1991 "Few Good Men" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 497 performances
• 1991 Alfaro Vive guerrilla group of Ecuador gives arms to Catholic church
• 1991 Houston guard Vernon Maxwell is 4th NBAer to score 30 pts in a quarter
• 1991 Jan Stenerud becomes 1st pure placekicker to make NFL Hall of Fame
• 1991 NY Lotto pays $90 million to nine winner (#s are 5-15-30-35-46-50)
• 1992 "Little Hotel on the Side" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 41 performances
• 1992 Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect
• 1992 Super Bowl XXVI: Wash Red Skins beat Buffalo Bills, 37-24 in Minn Super Bowl MVP: Mark Rypien, Washington, QB
• 1992 80th Men's Australian Open: Jim Courier beats Stefan Edberg (6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2)
• 2001 An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.
• 2003 Super Bowl XXXVII: Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat Oakland Raiders, 48-21 at the Qualcomm Stadium MVP: Dexter Jackson, Tampa Bay, S
• 2003 19th Sundance Film Festival: "American Splendor", directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
• 2004 President Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan.
• 2004 A whale explodes in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion.
• 2005 Glendale train crash: Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California, near Los Angeles.
• 2006 Western Union discontinues its telegram service.
• 2010 After 6 consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth, the UK economy officially finally comes out of recession with a GDP growth of 0.1%
• 2013 30 people are killed during a violent protest in Port Said, Egypt
• 2013 10 people are killed and 20 are injured by a suicide bombing in Kunduz, Afghanistan
• 2013 The United States Sentencing Commission is hacked by Anonymous in response to the suicide of Aaron Swartz
• 2013 Miloš Zeman wins the Czech Republic’s presidential election
• 2013 101st Women's Australian Open: Victoria Azarenka beats Li Na (4-6, 6-4, 6-3)
• 2014 NFL Pro Bowl: Team Rice beats Team Sanders 22-21
• 2014 30th Sundance Film Festival: "Whiplash", directed by Damien Chazelle, wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
• 2015 Libby Lane is ordained as the first female bishop of the Church of England
• 2016 Cold snap across East Asia leads to more than 50 deaths and 60,000 travellers stranded in South Korea
• 2016 Leader of Oregon militia occupying Malheur wildlife refuge arrested and another killed in shoot-out with Federal agents