| 0218 |
7th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
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| 0352 |
Liberius begins his reign as Catholic Pope replacing Julius I
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| 0884 |
St Adrian III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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| 1525 |
Battle at Zabern: duke of Lutherans beats rebels
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| 1527 |
P nfilo de Narvaéz departs to explore Florida
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| 1536 |
Anne Boleyns 4 "lovers" executed
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| 1544 |
Scot earl Matthew van Lennox signs secret treaty with Henry VIII
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| 1579 |
Artois/Henegouwen/French-Flanders sign Treaty/Peace of Parma recognizing Spanish duke van Parma as land guardian
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| 1620 |
1st merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey)
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| 1630 |
Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface
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| 1631 |
Earl Johann Tilly attacks Maagdenburg
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| 1648 |
Emperor Ferdinand III defeats Maximilian I of Bavaria
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| 1672 |
Frontenac becomes governor of New France (Canada)
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| 1673 |
Louis Joliet & Jacques Marquette begin exploring Mississippi
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| 1678 |
King Charles II & Louis XIV sign secret treaty
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| 1712 |
Maximilian Emanuel of Bavaria honored as "sovereign of Netherlands"
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| 1733 |
England passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum & molasses imported to the colonies from a country other than British possessions
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| 1742 |
Frederick great (Emperor of Prussia) beats Austrians
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| 1744 |
French army takes Austrian Netherlands
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| 1750 |
-18] Tax revolt in Gorinchem
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| 1756 |
Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French & Indian War)
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| 1787 |
English slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes
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| 1792 |
24 merchants form NY Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street
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| 1794 |
Hard frost in southern New England
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| 1803 |
John Hawkins & Richard French patent the Reaping Machine
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| 1804 |
Lewis & Clark begin exploration of Louisiana Purchase
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| 1809 |
Papal States annexed by France
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| 1814 |
Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (Natl Day)
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| 1814 |
Norwegian constitution passed by constitutent assembly at Eidsvoll
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| 1837 |
Royal Decides installs the Weapon of Belgium firm(ly)
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| 1845 |
Rubber band patents
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| 1846 |
Saxophone is patents by Antoine Joseph Sax
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| 1848 |
Premier earl Schimmelpenninck resigns
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| 1849 |
Fire destroy Centrum in St Louis Missouri
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| 1853 |
Thorbeckes liberals win 2nd-Parliamentary election
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| 1862 |
Battle of Princeton WV, ends, about 128 casualities
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| 1863 |
Battle of Big Black River Bridge, MS
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| 1864 |
Battle of Adairsville Georgia, Union forces Confederates to retreat
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| 1871 |
Indians fighter Gen Sherman escapes in ambulance vs Comanches
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| 1872 |
Bohemian Club incorporated
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| 1875 |
1st Kentucky Derby: Oliver Lewis aboard Aristides wins in 2:37.75
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| 1876 |
7th US Cavalry under Custer leaves Ft Lincoln
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| 1877 |
Edwin T Holmes installs 1st telephone switchboard burglar alarm
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| 1881 |
7th Kentucky Derby: Jim McLaughlin aboard Hindoo wins in 2:40
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| 1881 |
Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Wash DC
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| 1881 |
Revised version of New Testament
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| 1883 |
Buffalo Bill Cody's 1st wild west show premieres in Omaha
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| 1884 |
Alaska becomes a US territory
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| 1890 |
Clyde Fitch's "Beau Brummel," premieres in NYC
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| 1890 |
Comic Cuts, 1st weekly comic paper, published in London
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| 1890 |
Pietro Costanzi's opera "Rustic Chivalry," premieres in Rome
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| 1894 |
19th Preakness: Fred Taral aboard Assignee wins in 1:49¬
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| 1895 |
W G Grace completes his 100th 100 v Somerset at Bristol
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| 1898 |
Camp Merritt forms in Presidio [see 0503]
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| 1899 |
Victoria & Albert Museum foundation laid England
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| 1900 |
British troops relieve Mafeking (Cape Colony)
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| 1903 |
Cleve Indians beat NY Highlanders 9-2 in Columbus Ohio
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| 1904 |
Maurice Ravel's "Shéhérazade," premieres in Paris
|
| 1905 |
Waseda U of Tokyo defeats LA High School 5-3 in baseball
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| 1906 |
Switzerland's Simpion Tunnel open to rail traffic
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| 1909 |
White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks
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| 1910 |
Canada sets the designs for the 1›-50› coins
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| 1911 |
36th Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Watervale wins in 1:51
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| 1915 |
40th Preakness: Douglas Hoffman aboard Rhine Maiden wins in 1:58
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| 1915 |
Cubs George "Zip" Zabel relieves with 2 outs in 1st & winds up with 4-3 19-inning win over Brooklyn in longest relief job ever
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| 1915 |
Last liberal British govt of Asquith falls
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| 1915 |
National Baptist Convention chartered
|
| 1916 |
British Summer Time (Daylight Savings), 1st introduced
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| 1920 |
1st De Havilland double-decker flight (London) lands in Schiphol
|
| 1920 |
1st flight by Dutch airlines KLM (Koninklijke-Luchtvaart-Maatschappij)
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| 1921 |
Belgian-Luxembourg sign customs union
|
| 1921 |
President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show
|
| 1923 |
Fire during closing day ceremonies at Grover Cleveland School (SC)
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| 1924 |
50th Kentucky Derby: John Mooney aboard Black Gold wins in 2:05.2
|
| 1925 |
Cleveland Indian Tris Speaker gets his 3,000th hit
|
| 1926 |
Chiang Kai-shek is made supreme war lord in Canton
|
| 1926 |
German govt of Marx takes power
|
| 1927 |
Chicago Cubs beat Boston Braves, 4-3, in 22 innings
|
| 1928 |
9th modern Olympic games opens in Amsterdam
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| 1930 |
56th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:07.6
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| 1932 |
Congress changes name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico"
|
| 1937 |
Juan Negrin succeeds Largo Caballero as Spain's premier
|
| 1938 |
Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy
|
| 1938 |
Radio quiz show "Information Please!" debuts on NBC Blue Network
|
| 1939 |
1st sports telecast-Columbia vs Princeton-college baseball
|
| 1940 |
Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium & begins invasion of France
|
| 1940 |
Nazi's bombs Middelburg/B IJzerdrat begins illegal defiance
|
| 1941 |
Pennsylvania declares legal holiday to honor A's manager Connie Mack
|
| 1942 |
Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler
|
| 1944 |
-18] Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java
|
| 1944 |
Chinese/US arm forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma
|
| 1944 |
General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th
|
| 1944 |
Operation Straightline: Allies land in Neth New-Guinea
|
| 1945 |
2 US P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu
|
| 1946 |
KVP Labor/Communists win 1st post-WW2 Dutch parliamentary elections
|
| 1946 |
Pres Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike
|
| 1947 |
"Street Scene" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 148 performances
|
| 1948 |
Israel liberates Acre, Nebi Yusha & Telel-Kadi
|
| 1948 |
Soviet Union recognized Israel
|
| 1949 |
British government recognizes Republic of Ireland
|
| 1952 |
78th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Blue Man wins in 1:57.4
|
| 1953 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Reno Golf Open
|
| 1953 |
Yanks & Browns use record 41 players in a game
|
| 1954 |
Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown v Topeka Board of Education reversed 1896 "separate but equal" Plessy Vs Ferguson decision
|
| 1955 |
Dutch Govt of Drees resigns
|
| 1957 |
Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC)
|
| 1957 |
School desegregation law, Brown v Board of education
|
| 1958 |
84th Preakness: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 1:57.2
|
| 1958 |
Emergency crisis proclaimed in Algeria
|
| 1959 |
Sam Snead sets PGA record for 36 holes at 122
|
| 1960 |
1st atomic reactor system patents, J W Flora of Canoga Park CA
|
| 1961 |
Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers
|
| 1962 |
Marin County withdraws from BART district
|
| 1963 |
Bruno Sammartino beats Buddy Rogers in NY, to become WWF champ
|
| 1963 |
Houston Colt .45's Don Notterbart no-hits Phillies, 4-1
|
| 1963 |
US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
|
| 1964 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open Invitational
|
| 1964 |
Phillies triple play Houston Colt .45s
|
| 1966 |
KFDO (now KVIJ) TV channel 8 in Sayre, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
|
| 1967 |
Dylan's 1965 UK Tour is released as film "Don't Look Back"
|
| 1968 |
European Space Research Org launches 1st satellite
|
| 1968 |
Frank Howard belts record 8th HR in 5th straight game
|
| 1968 |
US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
|
| 1969 |
"My Wife, My Dog, My Cat," by Maskman & The Agents hits #92
|
| 1969 |
95th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Majestic Prince wins in 1:55.6
|
| 1969 |
Balt, Cleve & Pitts agree to go from NFC to AFC in NFL
|
| 1969 |
Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus
|
| 1970 |
Hank Aaron becomes 9th player to get 3,000 hits
|
| 1970 |
Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Johnny Londoff Chevrolet Golf Tournament
|
| 1970 |
Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atlantic on reed raft Ra
|
| 1971 |
Stephen Schwartz' musical "Godspell," premieres off-Broadway
|
| 1971 |
Washington State bans sex discrimination
|
| 1972 |
Neth & China PR exchange ambassadors
|
| 1972 |
Tottenham Hotspur wins 1st UEFA Cup in London
|
| 1973 |
"Nash at Nine" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 21 performances
|
| 1973 |
Joe Ferguson, hits the 6,000th Dodger home run
|
| 1973 |
Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings
|
| 1973 |
Stevie Wonder releases "You are the Sunshine of my Love"
|
| 1973 |
US performs 3 nuclear tests at Rifle Colorado
|
| 1973 |
Angels outfielder Bobby Valentine breaks his leg trying to scale wall to prevent a Dick Green home run during a 5-4 loss to the A's
|
| 1974 |
Bayern Mnchen wins 20th Europe Cup 1 at Brussels
|
| 1974 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 15th String quartet
|
| 1975 |
"Funky Gibbon" by The Goodies hits #79
|
| 1975 |
101st Preakness: Darrel McHargue aboard Master Derby wins in 1:56.4
|
| 1975 |
10cc releases "I'm Not in Love"
|
| 1975 |
Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches
|
| 1975 |
NBC paid $5M for rights to show "Gone with the Wind" one time
|
| 1976 |
28th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Jack Albertson & M Learned
|
| 1976 |
Earthquake in Uzbekistan: 1000's killed
|
| 1977 |
Menahem Begins Likoed-party wins election in Israel
|
| 1978 |
Lee Lacy hits record 3rd consecutive pinch-hit home run
|
| 1979 |
-12°F (-11°C), on top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii (state record)
|
| 1979 |
Emmy 6th Daytime Award presentation
|
| 1979 |
Phillies beat Cubs, 23-22, on 50 hits with 11 HRs
|
| 1980 |
106th Preakness: Angel Cordero Jr aboard Codex wins in 1:54.2
|
| 1980 |
Kumar Anandan balanced on one foot for 33 hours
|
| 1980 |
Major race riot in Miami Florida - 16 killed, 300 injured
|
| 1980 |
Paul & Linda McCartney appear on Saturday Night Live
|
| 1981 |
"Inacent Black" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 14 performances
|
| 1981 |
Islanders score 5 power play goals against Flyers in a playoff
|
| 1981 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
|
| 1983 |
Israel & Lebanon sign a peace treaty
|
| 1983 |
Stanley Cup: NY Islanders sweep Edmonton Oilers in 4 games
|
| 1984 |
Cincinnati Reds Mario Soto throws 4 strikeouts in one inning
|
| 1984 |
Mai Shanley, 21, (NM), crowned 33rd Miss USA
|
| 1985 |
Les Anderson, catches record 97 lb 4 oz Chinook Salmon, off Alaska
|
| 1986 |
"Chicken Song" by Spitting Image hit #1 on the UK pop chart
|
| 1986 |
112th Preakness: Alex Solis aboard Snow Chief wins in 1:54.8
|
| 1987 |
"Stardust" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 102 performances
|
| 1987 |
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
|
| 1987 |
USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die
|
| 1989 |
Longest Cab Ride Ever: 14,000 miles cost $16,000!
|
| 1989 |
Napoli wins 18th UEFA Cup in Stuttgart
|
| 1989 |
Nelson Mandela receives a BA from U of S Africa
|
| 1989 |
Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Dr Gachet" auctioned for $825M
|
| 1990 |
Cheers' star Kelsey Grammer sentenced to jail for 30 days for DWI
|
| 1990 |
Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,831.71
|
| 1990 |
European court rules pension rights for both men & women
|
| 1990 |
WIBC Bowling Queens won by Patty Ann
|
| 1991 |
Lupita Jones, 23, of Mexico, crowned 40th Miss Universe
|
| 1992 |
38th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Betsy King
|
| 1992 |
Expos Gary Carter is 3rd to catch 2,000 games (joins Boone & Fisk)
|
| 1993 |
Intel's new Pentium processor is unveiled
|
| 1994 |
Bakili Muluzi's UDF wins Malawi presidents/parliamentary election
|
| 1996 |
Alicia Machado, 18, of Venezuela crowned 45th Miss Universe
|
| 1996 |
Habib & Whitaker make 320 for 5th Cricket wkt, Leics v Worcs
|
| 1997 |
123rd Preakness: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 1:54
|
| 1997 |
Sylvester Stallone weds Jennifer Flavin in London
|
| 1997 |
WIBC Bowling Queens won by Sandra Jo Shiery-Odom
|
| 1998 |
44th McDonald's LPGA Championship
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