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• 69 Roman Lower Rhine army proclaims its commander, Vitellius, Emperor
• 366 The Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire
• 533 John II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
• 1235 Emperor Joseph II orders Jews of Galicia Austria to adopt family names
• 1492 Muhammad XII. (Boabdil) last Nasird ruler of Moorish fortress Alhambra surrenders to the Catholic Monarchs
• 1585 Spain & Catholic France sign Saint League of Joinville
• 1602 Spanish force in Ireland surrender to the English army at Kinsdale
• 1678 Staatsoper Hamburg opens with Theiles "Adam und Eva"
• 1757 British troops occupy Calcutta India
• 1776 1st revolutionary flag displayed
• 1776 Austria ends interregation torture
• 1791 Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.
• 1800 Free African American community of Philadelphia petitions US Congress to abolish the slave trade
• 1811 US Sen Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the president of the US)
• 1814 Lord Byron completes "The Corsair"
• 1818 Lord Byron completes "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (4th canto)
• 1818 The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded.
• 1831 Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston
• 1832 1st Curling club in US (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens
• 1833 Re-establishment of British rule on the Falklands.
• 1842 1st US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Penn
• 1843 Wagner's opera "Der Fliegende Holländer" premieres, Dresden
• 1861 SC seizes inactive Ft Johnson in Charleston Harbor
• 1861 Colonel Charles Stone is put in charge of organizing DC militia
• 1863 Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone's River) ends
• 1871 King Amadeus I of Spain inaugurated at 25
• 1879 Dr Benjamin E Mays, named president of Atlanta Board of Education
• 1879 Northwestern League (minor baseball league) organized, Rockford, Ill
• 1881 Camille Saint-Saëns' 3rd Concerto in B, premieres
• 1882 Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust
• 1883 Battle of Boschberg takes place in South Africa as part of the Mapoch War
• 1885 General Wolseley receives last distress signal of General Gordon in Khartoum
• 1890 Alice Sanger becomes 1st female White House staffer
• 1890 Record 19'2" alligator shot in Louisiana by E A McIlhenny
• 1893 1st US commemoratives & 1st US stamp to picture a woman issued (Queen Isabella, patron of Columbus)
• 1893 World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago [or 0501]
• 1896 Battle at Doornkop, South Africa (Boers beat Dr Jamesons troops)
• 1900 E Verlinger begins manufacturing 7" single-sided records (Montreal)
• 1900 Gustave Charpentiers opera "Louise," premieres in Paris
• 1900 John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
• 1914 Philips installs research dept in Eindhoven
• 1917 Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank
• 1918 Dodgers trade Casey Stengel & Cutshaw to Pitts for Grimes & Mamaux
• 1918 NHL Montreal Wanderers disband after Westmount arena burns down
• 1919 Anti-British uprising in Ireland
• 1919 Lithuania gains independence
• 1920 Responding to global fear of communism caused by the Russian Revolution, US Attorney General Palmer authorizes raids across the country on unionists and socialists
• 1921 1st religious service radio broadcast in US, KDKA-Pittsburgh
• 1921 DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens
• 1922 8th Rose Bowl: California ties Washington & Jefferson, 0-0
• 1923 Ku Klux Klan surprise attack on black residential area Rosewood Fla, 8 killed (compensation awarded in 1995)
• 1925 Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region established (now in Tadzhik SSR)
• 1928 14th Rose Bowl: Stanford beats Pittsburgh, 7-6
• 1929 US & Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls
• 1932 Young gang shoot dead 6 police in Springfield Missouri
• 1936 1st electron tube to enable night vision described, St Louis, Mo
• 1936 Bradman scores 357 for SA v Vic, 424 minutes, 40 fours
• 1938 Book publisher Simon and Schuster founded
• 1939 Bradman scores 107 SA v Victoria, his 4th consecutive century
• 1939 5th Sugar Bowl: #1 TCU beats #6 Carnegie Tech, 15-7
• 1939 5th Orange Bowl: #2 Tennessee beats #4 Oklahoma, 17-0
• 1941 World War II: German bombing severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales.
• 1941 World War II: The U.S. government announces its Liberty ship program to build freighters in support of the war effort.
• 1942 WWII: the 28 nations at war with Axis powers pledge to make no separate peace deals
• 1942 German troops in Bardia surrender
• 1942 Japanese troops occupy Manila Philippines
• 1942 The United States Navy opens a blimp base at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
• 1944 1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol)
• 1945 Allied air raid on Nuremberg
• 1945 Kentucky begins 130 home basketball game win streak, ends in 1955
• 1945 Radio Orange ends cooperation at Liese-Aktion
• 1947 Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali
• 1948 WNDT (now WNET) TV channel 13 in New York-Newark, NY (PBS) begins
• 1949 KDKA TV channel 2 in Pittsburgh, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1949 Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
• 1950 36th Rose Bowl: #6 Ohio State beats #3 California, 17-14
• 1950 16th Sugar Bowl: #2 Oklahoma beats #9 LSU, 35-0
• 1950 16th Orange Bowl: #15 Santa Clara beats #11 Kentucky, 21-13
• 1951 Philip Barry's "Second Threshold," premieres in NYC
• 1952 "Pal Joey" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 542 performances
• 1953 NBA Baltimore Bullets begin a 32 game road losing streak
• 1954 Herman Wouks "Caine Mutiny," premieres in NYC
• 1955 1st "Bob Cummings Show" premieres on NBC (later on CBS)
• 1955 Panamanian president Jose Antonio Remon is assassinated.
• 1956 Poujadists/communists win French parliamentary elections
• 1956 42nd Rose Bowl: #2 Michigan State beats #4 UCLA, 17-14
• 1956 22nd Sugar Bowl: #7 Georgia Tech beats #11 Pittsburgh, 7-0
• 1956 22nd Orange Bowl: #1 Oklahoma beats #3 Maryland, 20-6
• 1958 Dmitri Shostakovitch' 2nd Piano concert, premieres in NY
• 1959 USSR launches Mechta (Luna 1) for 1st lunar fly-by, 1st solar orbit
• 1960 1st redshank old world shore bird reported in North America (Halifax)
• 1960 John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years
• 1960 Roger Sessions' 4th Symphony, premieres
• 1965 NY Jets sign quarterback Joe Namath
• 1965 Obverse design of all Canadian coins is changed to depict present-day
• 1966 1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion
• 1966 Green Bay Packers beat Cleveland Browns 23-12 in NFL championship game
• 1967 53rd Rose Bowl: #7 Purdue beats Southern California, 14-13
• 1967 33rd Sugar Bowl: #6 Alabama beats #3 Nebraska, 34-7
• 1967 33rd Orange Bowl: Florida beats #8 Georgia Tech, 27-12
• 1968 "Zizi" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 49 performances
• 1968 Christian Barnard performs 2nd heart transplant
• 1968 KBHK TV channel 44 in San Francisco, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
• • 1970 Dutch premiere of musical "Hair" in Amsterdam
  • 1970 US population is 293,200,000; Black population: 22,600,000 (11.1%)
  • 1971 A barrier collapses at Ibrox Park football ground at end of a soccer match in Glasgow Scotland, killing 66
  • 1972 "Rothschilds" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 505 performances
  • 1972 Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars
  • 1972 AFC Championship Game: Miami Dolphins beat Baltimore Colts 21-0
  • 1972 An anti-internment rally is held in Belfast, North Ireland
  • 1972 NFC Championship Game: Dallas Cowboys beat San Francisco 49ers 14-3
  • 1978 Rhino Records releases their 1st album "Wildmania"
  • 1978 64th Rose Bowl: #13 Washington beats #4 Michigan, 27-20
  • 1978 44th Sugar Bowl: #3 Alabama beats #9 Ohio State, 35-6
  • 1978 44th Orange Bowl: #6 Arkansas beats #2 Oklahoma, 31-6
  • 1979 30th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 9-0 vs Vancouver
  • 1979 Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (v WI)
  • • 1984 70th Rose Bowl: UCLA beats #4 Illinois, 45-9
    • 1984 50th Sugar Bowl: #3 Auburn beats #8 Michigan, 9-7
    • 1984 13th Fiesta Bowl: #14 Ohio State beats #15 Pittsburgh, 28-23
    • 1984 50th Orange Bowl: #5 Miami (FL) beats #1 Nebraska, 31-30
    • 1985 90th hat trick in Islander history-Brent Sutter
    • 1985 Australia beat WI by innings at SCG, Bob Holland 10 match wkts
    • 1989 55th Sugar Bowl: #4 Florida State beats #7 Auburn, 13-7
    • 1989 18th Fiesta Bowl: #1 Notre Dame beats #3 West Virginia, 34-21
    • 1989 55th Orange Bowl: #2 Miami (FL) beats #6 Nebraska, 23-3
    • 1990 Dow Jones hits record 2,800 (2,810.15)
    • 1990 Sting joins wrestlings 4 Horsemen (Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson)
    • 1991 Colorado wins its 1st AP national title poll
    • 1992 Test debut of Shane Warne, v India at Sydney
    • 1993 "Gypsy Passion" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 55 performances
    • 1993 Opposing factions in the Bosnian conflict hold meetings with the aim of ending the nine month conflict
    • 1994 "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" closes at Beaumont NYC after 40 performances
    • 1994 "Shakespeare after My Father" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 266 perf
    • 1994 Battles between army & rebellious indians in South Mexico, kill 57
    • 1995 Bus crashes in Luzon Philippines, 29 killed
    • 1995 Carquest Bowl 5: South Carolina beats West Virginia, 24-21
    • 1995 Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15 billion light years away)
    • 1995 81st Rose Bowl: #2 Penn State beats #12 Oregon, 38-20
    • 1995 61st Sugar Bowl: #7 Florida State beats #5 Florida, 23-17
    • 1995 24th Fiesta Bowl: #4 Colorado beats Notre Dame, 41-24
    • 1996 The US deploys troops in Northern Bosnia with the intention of maintaining order and peace between Bosnian Serbs and Muslims
    • 1996 25th Fiesta Bowl: #1 Nebraska beats #2 Florida, 62-24
    • 1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Columbus OH on WBZX 99.7 FM
    • 1997 63rd Sugar Bowl: #3 Florida beats #1 Florida State, 52-20
    • 1998 Autopsy of Chris Farley shows he overdosed of opiates & cocaine
    • 1998 64th Orange Bowl: #2 Nebraska beats #3 Tennessee, 42-17
    • 1999 A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States, causing 14 inches (359 mm) of snow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 19 inches (487 mm) in Chicago, where temperatures plunge to -13°F (-25°C); 68 deaths are reported.
    • 1999 65th Orange Bowl: #7 Florida beats #18 Syracuse, 31-10
    • 2000 29th Fiesta Bowl: #3 Nebraska beats #6 Tennessee, 31-21
    • 2001 Sila Calderón becomes the first female Governor of Puerto Rico.
    • 2001 67th Sugar Bowl: #3 Miami beats #7 Florida, 37-20
    • 2002 Eduardo Duhalde is appointed interim President of Argentina by the Legislative Assembly.
    • 2002 68th Orange Bowl: #5 Florida beats #6 Maryland, 56-23
    • 2014 80th Sugar Bowl: #11 Oklahoma beats #3 Alabama, 45-31
    • 2016 Saudi Arabia executes 47 alleged terrorists, including Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr