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History Today: 1st Vikings attack Jews expelled from Italy and more

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1884 Chrome tanning process for leather patented by Augustus Schultz
1889 Dr Herman Hollerith receives 1st US patent for a mechanical tabulating machine
1894 Columbus World's fair in Chicago destroyed by fire
1897 Michael Eagan wins 1st US national amateur handball championship
1901 New South Wales score 918 all out vs South Australia in 560 minutes
1902 1st National Bowling Championship held (Chicago, Ill)
1902 The United Irish League, a leading force for unification in all Ireland and independence from Britain, holds its convention in Dublin
1904 Pope Pius X banned low cut dresses in the presence of churchmen
1906 A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people.
1912 Chiefs, representatives of people's and church organisations, and other prominent individuals form the African National Congress and declare its aim to bring all Africans together as one people to defend their rights and freedoms
1913 Frank Chance becomes Yankee manager
1916 WWI: ANZAC forces withdraw from the Gallipoli Peninsula after Ottoman forces successfully defend access to Constantinople
1917 Austria-Hungarian troops conquer Forlani Italy
1918 Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition of alcohol) of the US Constitution
1918 US President Wilson outlines his Fourteen Points for peace after the Great War
1923 Typography strike in Amsterdam
1925 1st all-female US state supreme court appointed, Texas
1929 1st telephone connection between Netherlands & West-Indies
1929 CBS radio network buys WABC in NYC
1931 Philadelphia Quakers set then NHL record of 15 straight loses
1932 Ratification of present SF City Charter
1934 Jaap Speyers "Bluejackets" premieres in Amsterdam
1935 Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy
1937 -50°F (-45.6°C), San Jacinto, Nevada (state record)
1947 Toronto Maple Leaf rookie Howie Meeker scores 5 goals in a game
1948 Queen Wilhelmina signs death sentence against Ans van Dijk for treason
1949 "Make Mine Manhattan" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 429 performances
1949 "My Romance" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 95 performances
1949 "Small Wonder" closes at Coronet Theater NYC after 134 performances
1951 Thought extinct since 1615, a Cahow (the Bermuda petrel) is rediscovered in Bermuda
1952 Jordan adopts constitution
1953 Indians bar night games with Browns (who refuse to share TV receipts)
1953 René Mayer forms French government
- 1955 Furman sets NCAA basketball single-game scoring record with 154 pt
- 1955 Georgia Tech ends Kentucky's 130-game home basketball win streak
- 1955 Louise Sugg wins LPGA LA Golf Open
- 1955 WUNC TV channel 4 in Chapel Hill, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1956 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Conrad Aiken
- 1956 Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog" single goes #1 & stays #1 for a record 11 weeks (for a single)
- 1956 Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
- 1958 Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana
- 1968 Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill travels to Dublin to meet with Irish Prime Minister Jack Lynch to continue discussions on matters of joint interest to the two governments
- 1971 29 pilot whales beach themselves & die at San Clemente Island, Calif
- 1971 Voyageurs National Park, Minn, established
- 1972 Dmitri Shostakovitch' 15th Symphony premieres in Moscow
- 1972 NCAA announces freshman can play on teams starting in fall
- 1973 "Tricks" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 8 performances
- 1973 Greg Chappell's best Test bowling, 5-61 v Pakistan at SCG
- 1973 Secret peace talks between US & North Vietnam resumed near Paris
- 1973 USSR launches Luna 21 for Moon landing
- 1974 E Wilson Jr's musical "Let My People Come" premieres in NYC
- 1974 Gold hits record $126.50 an ounce in London
- 1974 Loch Ness Monster "photographed"
- 1974 Silver hits record $3.40 an ounce in New York
- 1979 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up
- 1979 Argentina & Chile sign Beagle Canal accord
- 1979 Today Show gets a new theme song
- 1979 Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge & occupy Phnom Penh
- 1980 Islander Glenn Resch's 20th shut-out opponent-Canucks 3-0
- 1980 NCAA decides to sponsor women's championships in 5 sports
- 1981 "Pirates of Penzance" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 772 performances
- 1981 India all out 63 in one-day international v Australia
- 1981 Reds become last team to sign a free agent (Larry Biitner)
- 1982 AT&T agrees to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies
- 1982 Johnny Cash Parkway opens in Hendersonville, Tennessee
- 1982 Justice Dept withdraws antitrust suit against IBM, pending since
- 1984 NCAA announces that basketball tournament will have 64 teams
- 1984 Wash Caps Bengt Gustafsson scores 5 goals to beat Philadelphia 7-1
- 1984 AFC Championship Game: Los Angeles Raiders beat Seattle Seahawks 30-14
- 1984 NFC Championship Game: Washington Redskins beat San Francisco 49ers 24-21
- 1985 Japan launches Sakigake space probe to Halley's Comet
- 1986 Willie McCovey is 16th elected to Hall of Fame in his 1st year
- 1987 Dow Jones closes above 2,000 for 1st time (2,002.25)
- 1987 Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games
- 1988 9th largest NBA crowd 38,873-Chicago at Detroit
- 1988 Dow Jones down 140.58 points
- 1988 Hewlett-Packard introduces HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator
- 1988 US female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas
- 1989 "42nd Street" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 3,486 performances
- 1989 "Starlight Express" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 761 performances
- 1989 Boeing 737-400 crashes at Kegworth, England, 46 die
- 1989 Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons
- 1989 Beginning of Japanese Heisei era.
- 1989 AFC Championship Game: Cincinnati Bengals beat Buffalo Bills 21-10
- 1989 NFC Championship Game: San Francisco 49ers beat Chicago Bears 28-3
- 1991 "Davis Rules" with Jonathan Winters & Randy Quaid premieres on ABC-TV
- 1991 Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins & Rod Carew elected to Hall of Fame
- 1991 Rod Carew is 22nd player elected to Hall of Fame on 1st try
- 1991 Tamas Darnyi swims world record 400m medley (4:12.36)
- 2004 The RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
- 2006 A magnitude 6.9 earthquake with its epicenter just off the Greek island of Kythira hits much of the country and is felt throughout the entire eastern Mediterranean Sea.
- 2007 9th BCS National Championship: #2 Florida beats #1 Ohio State, 41-14
- 2008 New Jersey officially apologizes for slavery, becoming the first Northern state to do so.
- 2009 A 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit Costa Rica´s region of Volcan Poás, with an epicenter near Cinchona. It was caused by Varablanca-Angel fault.
- 2009 14th Critics' Choice Movie Awards: Slumdog Millionaire wins Best Film
- 2009 11th BCS National Championship: #2 Florida beats #1 Oklahoma, 24-14
- 2011 Attempted assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store kills 6 and wounds 13, including Giffords
- 2012 "The 3:16 Game" AFC Wild Card Playof, underdogs Denver Broncos defeat Pittsburgh Steelers 29–23 with Tim Tebow connecting with Demaryius Thomas on an 80-yard touchdown pass on first scrimmage play of overtime
- 2013 130 wildfires across Australia’s east coast force thousands to evacuate their homes
- 2013 2,130 prisoners held by the Syrian government are exchanged for 48 Iranians kidnapped by Syrian rebels

History Today: 1st Vikings attack Jews expelled from Italy and more

History Today: 1st Vikings attack Jews expelled from Italy and more

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