Historical Events On This Day

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• 896 Pope Formosa crowned king Arnulf of Karinthie/French emperor
• 1071 Battle of Cassel; Robert I the Frisian defeats Arnulf III/I
• 1281 Simon de Brion elected Pope Martinus IV
• 1288 Girolamo Masci elected Pope Nicolas IV
• 1300 Pope Boniface VIII delegates degree
• 1349 Jews are expelled from Zurich, Switzerland
• 1495 French King Charles VIII enters Naples to claim crown
• 1561 William of Orange appointed viceroy of Burgundy/Charolais
• 1630 Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn, at Thanksgiving
• 1861 On a bet Edward Weston leaves Boston to walk to Lincoln's inauguration
• 1864 -27] Battle at Dalton Georgia
• 1864 2nd/last day of Battle of Okolona, MS
• 1864 Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Battle of Dug Hill), Tennessee
• 1865 Battle of Wilmington, NC (Fort Anderson) occupied by Federals
• 1865 Tennessee adopts a new constitution abolishing slavery
• 1872 1st national convention of Prohibition Party (Columbus Ohio)
• 1876 Johns Hopkins University opens
• 1878 Greenback Labor Party forms (Toledo, Ohio)
• 1879 1st 5 cent & 10 cent store opened by Frank W. Woolworth in Utica, New York (failed almost immediately)
• 1882 With 120 miles James Saunders wins NYC's 24 hour race & $100 prize
• 1882 The Serbian kingdom is refounded.
• 1887 Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati
• 1888 John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans (Yonkers NY)
• 1889 US President Cleveland signs bill to admit Dakotas, Montana & Washington state to the union
• 1892 Manitoba Rugby Football Union forms
• 1893 1st Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 32-22 in Birmingham
• 1898 Black postmaster lynched, his wife & 3 daughters shot in Lake City SC
• 1900 Battle at Wynne's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
• 1900 Hawaii became a US territory
• 1903 Due to drought the US side of Niagara Falls runs short of water
• 1904 The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
• 1904 The Hague Tribunal gives its decision in claims against Venezuela; it sets the sum to be paid by Venezuela and gives preferential treatment to the three powers that initiated the block - Britain, Germany, and Italy
• 1906 Black evangelist William J Seymour arrives in LA Calif
• 1907 1st cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London
• 1907 Leonid N Andreyev's "Zhizn Cheloveka" premieres in St Petersburg
• 1909 Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Virginia
• 1911 The Canadian Parliament resolves to maintain union with the British Empire, while controlling domestic fiscal affairs
• 1912 J Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph-161.29 kph
• 1913 Lowell HS, SF opens (on its 1st campus)
• 1915 Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war
• 1916 The House-Grey Memorandum, drafted by US and Britain, states: 'Should the Allies accept [the American idea of a conference to end the war] and should Germany refuse it, the United States would "probably" enter the war against Germany'
• 1917 German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships
• 1917 [NS Mar 7] Russian February Revolution begins with strike at Putilov factory in Petrograd
• 1918 Germany claims Baltic states, Finland & Ukraine from Russia
• 1920 1st artificial rabbit used at a dog race track (Emeryville, California)
• 1922 Congress authorizes Grant Memorial $1 gold coin
• 1923 1st successful chinchilla farm in US (Los Angeles California)
• 1923 Transcontinental airmail service begins
• 1927 ARC soccer team forms in Alphen on the Rhine
• 1927 Baruch Spinosa's house of mourning opened as a museum
• 1928 1st solo England to Australia flight lands (Bert Hinkler)
• 1932 Purple Heart (the Badge of Military Merit) award reinstituted

• 1943 Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
• 1944 US 8th Air Force bombs Enschede, Arnhem & Nijmegen by mistake/800+ die
• 1945 Arab League forms (Cairo)
• 1945 British troops take Ramree Island, Burma
• 1945 Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland
• 1948 Arabs bomb attack in Jerusalem, 50 die
• 1950 Brockway & Weinstock publish "Men of Music" (rev ed)
• 1951 4th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS): "All About Eve" Best Film
• 1955 British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sets sail
• 1956 1st English soccer match at Kunstlicht: Portsmouth vs Newcastle United
• 1957 Jockey Ted Atkinson, 3,500th win
• 1957 Walter O'Malley says Dodgers may play 10 exhibitions in California in 1958
• 1958 "Portotino" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 3 performances
• 1958 Australian swimmer Jon Konrads sets 6 world records in 2 days
• 1958 Egypt & Syria form United Arab Republic (UAR)
• 1958 Indonesian air force bombs Padang, Sumatra/Menado, Celebes
• 2010 Taiwan's economy exits from the recession with 9.22% growth in the last quarter of 2009 after increased demand from China and other key markets in the region
• 2011 An earthquake measuring 6.3 in magnitude strikes Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 181 people
• 2012 Train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 50 and injures hundreds
• 2013 29 people are killed and 150 are injured by 3 Syrian army missiles in Aleppo
• 2013 13 Chadian soldiers and 65 Muslim insurgents are killed in conflict in Northern Mali
• 2013 The UK's credit rating is downgraded from AAA to AA1 by Moody's Investors Service
• 2013 The European Commission forecast for 2013 expects growth of 0.1% across the 27 members of the EU but a contraction of 0.3% in the Eurozone economy
• 2013 The UK's AAA credit rating is downgraded by Moody's to AA+; the agency expects growth to "remain sluggish over the next few years"
• 2014 Matteo Renzi becomes Prime Minister of Italy
• 2014 Marit Bjørgen of Norway becomes the most successful female Winter Olympian with 10 medals
• 2014 Protests in Kiev, Ukraine, occupy the office of President Yanukovich
• 2014 45th NAACP Image Awards: "12 Years a Slave" wins Outstanding Motion Picture
• 2015 57th Daytona 500: Joey Logano wins (148.379 MPH)
• 2016 10 million people are without water in Delhi after caste protests in Jat sabotage the Munak water canal