| 0527 |
Justinianus I succeeds Justinus I as emperor of Byzantium
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| 0649 |
Pope Martinus I chosen successor of Theodorus I [or 8/7]
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| 0860 |
Peace of Koblenz: Charles the Bare, Louis the German & Lotharius II
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| 0902 |
Aghlabidisch emir Ibrahim II destroys Taormina, Sicily
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| 1021 |
Synod of Pavia: emperor Henry II convicts married priest
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| 1086 |
English barons become submissive to king Willem the Occupier
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| 1177 |
Peace Treaty of Venice: Emperor Frederik I & Pope Alexander III
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| 1203 |
Alexius IV Angelus appointed co-regent of Byzantium
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| 1291 |
Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (Independence)
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| 1404 |
Earl Engelbert I of Nassau marries Johanna of Poland
|
| 1485 |
Henry (VII) Tudors army sails to England
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| 1498 |
Christopher Columbus lands on "Isla Santa" (Venezuela)
|
| 1588 |
English admiral Howard van Effingham beats Spanish Armada
|
| 1589 |
Murder attempt by monk Jacques Clement on French King Hendrik III
|
| 1619 |
1st black Americans (20) land at Jamestown, Virginia
|
| 1626 |
Earl Earnest Casimir conquerors Oldenzaal
|
| 1628 |
Emperor Ferdinand II demands Austria Protestant convert to Catholicism
|
| 1664 |
Battle at St Gotthard: Earl Raimondo Montecucculi beats Ahmed Köprl
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| 1690 |
Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus van Savoye
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| 1711 |
Surrounded Czar Peter the Great flees Azov
|
| 1714 |
Monarch Georg Ludwig becomes king George I of England
|
| 1716 |
1st sculling race (London Bridge to Chelsea)
|
| 1716 |
Waterman's race on Thames 1st rowed
|
| 1732 |
Foundation laid for Bank of England
|
| 1759 |
Battle at Minden, Westfalen: Ferdinand van Brunswick beats France
|
| 1774 |
Priestly discovers oxygen
|
| 1780 |
Sweden declares neutrality
|
| 1781 |
English army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia
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| 1785 |
Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet
|
| 1789 |
US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act
|
| 1790 |
1st US census (population of 3,939,214; 697,624 are slaves)
|
| 1793 |
France becomes 1st country to use the metric system
|
| 1794 |
Whiskey Rebellion begins
|
| 1798 |
Battle of Abukir on the Nile-Nelson defeats French fleet
|
| 1812 |
Rare tornado hits Westchester County NY
|
| 1814 |
Belgium King Willem I accept blame in Southern defeat
|
| 1831 |
London Bridge opens to traffic
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| 1834 |
Slavery abolished through out the British Empire
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| 1836 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin returns to Bahia Brazil
|
| 1838 |
Emancipation of British slaves on Bahamas
|
| 1842 |
Rotherhithe Thames Tunnel opens
|
| 1852 |
SF Methodists establish 1st black church, Zion Methodist
|
| 1855 |
Castle Clinton in NYC opens as 1st US receiving station for immigrants
|
| 1861 |
Brazil recognizes Confederacy
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| 1863 |
Battle of Little Rock AK & Start of Chattanooga campaign
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| 1863 |
Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign
|
| 1864 |
Battle of Petersburg, VA
|
| 1867 |
Blacks vote for 1st time in a state election in South (Tenn)
|
| 1869 |
1st voyage down Colorado River
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| 1873 |
SF's 1st cable car begins service
|
| 1876 |
Colorado becomes 38th state
|
| 1881 |
US Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island, SF Bay
|
| 1883 |
A papyrus offered to Brit Museum for œ10,000 (forgery)
|
| 1883 |
Amsterdam's Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky gets electric lights
|
| 1883 |
Inland postal service begins in Great Britain
|
| 1886 |
Great Britain annexes Kermadec-Island near New Zealand
|
| 1890 |
Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Lundi
|
| 1893 |
Henry Perky & William Ford patent shredded wheat
|
| 1896 |
George Samuelson completes rowing Atlantic (NY to England)
|
| 1901 |
Burial within SF City limits prohibited
|
| 1902 |
Building begins on Dutch public housing
|
| 1902 |
Mine accident in Wollongong, Australia (100 die)
|
| 1903 |
1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed
|
| 1906 |
Bkln Dodger Harry McIntire no-hits Pitts for 10 2/3 loses in 13th
|
| 1907 |
Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street, SF
|
| 1907 |
Signal Corps of US army starts aircraft division
|
| 1909 |
British SS Waratah disappears on Sydney to London, 300 killed
|
| 1911 |
Omar N Bradley (18) begins education in West Point
|
| 1914 |
British fleet reaches Scapa Flow
|
| 1914 |
Emperor Wilhelm II declares war on his nephew tsar Nicolas II (WW I)
|
| 1914 |
France & Germany mobilize
|
| 1914 |
Trois Vierges: German 69th infantry regiment enter Luxembourg Germany declares war on Russia in WW I
|
| 1916 |
Hawaii National Park forms
|
| 1917 |
Frank Little, IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, MT
|
| 1918 |
British troops enter Vladivostok
|
| 1918 |
Pitts Pirates beat Boston Braves, 2-0, in 21 innings
|
| 1919 |
Queen Wilhelmina opens 1st Air Fair in Amsterdam
|
| 1919 |
Treffers soccer team forms in Groesbeek
|
| 1920 |
Papendrecht soccer team forms
|
| 1920 |
Peace of Riga-Independence of Latvia
|
| 1922 |
Hendrikus Colijn becomes political editor-in-chief of The Standard
|
| 1925 |
Shortwave-radio link between Kootwijk & Netherland East-Indies
|
| 1926 |
Battles between Druzen & French in Damascus
|
| 1926 |
Failed assassination on Gen Primo de Rivera in Barcelona
|
| 1927 |
Earliest date for a film to be considered for the Academy Awards
|
| 1928 |
Babe Ruth hits HR # 42 & is 4 weeks ahead of his 1927 pace
|
| 1933 |
Carl Hubbell sets record of consecutive scoreless innings (45 1/3)
|
| 1933 |
Death penality for anti fascists in Germany
|
| 1933 |
Dutch colonial regime in Batavia arrest ir Sukarno
|
| 1933 |
NRA (National Recovery Administration) forms
|
| 1936 |
Adolph Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin
|
| 1936 |
Benjamin E Mays named president of Morehouse College
|
| 1941 |
Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd division
|
| 1941 |
NY Yankee Lefty Gomez walks most (11) in a shutout (Yanks 9, St L 0)
|
| 1942 |
Deurne soccer team forms
|
| 1942 |
German occupier demands listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers
|
| 1942 |
Race riots in Harlem, New York
|
| 1943 |
Japan declares Burma Independence under U Ba Maw
|
| 1943 |
Race riot in Harlem NYC
|
| 1943 |
Sunderland seaplanes sink U-454 & U-383
|
| 1944 |
Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st black congressman from East
|
| 1944 |
Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested
|
| 1944 |
General Montgomery takes command of 12th & 21st army
|
| 1944 |
US 90th division occupies St Hilaire-du-Harcourt
|
| 1944 |
US troops enter Tessy-sur-Vir
|
| 1944 |
Uprising in Warsaw ghetto
|
| 1945 |
Japanese city Toyama destroyed by B-29's
|
| 1945 |
Mel Ott is 1st in NL to hit 500th HR (joins Babe Ruth & Jimmy Foxx)
|
| 1945 |
SVBO soccer team forms in Barger-Oosterveld
|
| 1946 |
Pres Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
|
| 1947 |
"Medium & The Telephone" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 211 perfs
|
| 1947 |
Valleivogels soccer team forms in Scherpenzeel
|
| 1950 |
1st Major League baseball player to fight in Korea (Curt Simmons)
|
| 1950 |
American Bowling Congress ends all-white-males rule
|
| 1950 |
Guam adopts constitution (Organic Act)
|
| 1950 |
King Leopold of Belgium abdicates, Baudouin becomes King
|
| 1950 |
Territory of Guam created
|
| 1951 |
David Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election
|
| 1953 |
Calif introduces sales tax (for education)
|
| 1953 |
Fidel Castro arrested in Cuba
|
| 1953 |
KMBC TV channel 9 in Kansas City, MO (MET/ABC) begins broadcasting
|
| 1953 |
KOBI TV channel 5 in Medford, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting
|
| 1953 |
Northern Rhodesia becomes part of Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland
|
| 1953 |
Red Sox Ben Flowers sets then record of 8 consecutive games in relief
|
| 1954 |
Louison Bobet wins his 2nd Tour de France
|
| 1954 |
WKBT TV channel 8 in La Crosse, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
|
| 1955 |
1st microgravity research begins
|
| 1955 |
Tengku Abdul Rahman forms Malacca govt
|
| 1955 |
WILL TV channel 12 in Urbana-Champaign, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting
|
| 1956 |
KRCR TV channel 7 in Redding-Chico, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
|
| 1957 |
1st coml building heated by Sun (Albuquerque NM)
|
| 1957 |
Gil Hodges hits his NL record 13th career grand slam (Last by Bkln)
|
| 1957 |
Glen Gorbous throws a baseball a record 136 m (445'10")
|
| 1957 |
US & Canada create North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)
|
| 1958 |
1st class postage up to 4› (had been 3› for 26 years)
|
| 1958 |
US atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st dives under North Pole
|
| 1959 |
New Continental baseball league formed
|
| 1959 |
Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Sacerdotii nostri primordia
|
| 1959 |
WAAY TV channel 31 in Huntsville, AL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
|
| 1960 |
Aretha Franklins 1st recording session
|
| 1960 |
Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France
|
| 1960 |
Chubby Checker releases "The Twist"
|
| 1961 |
Benaud rips through England team for Aussie win at Old Trafford
|
| 1961 |
German DR limits traffic to West Berlin
|
| 1961 |
New SF Hall of Justice opens
|
| 1961 |
Whitney Young Jr named executive director of National Urban League
|
| 1962 |
Boston Red Sox Bill Monboquette no-hits Chic White Sox, 1-0
|
| 1962 |
Failed assassination on president Nkrumah of Ghana
|
| 1963 |
Beatles Book is sold out on its 1st day of sale
|
| 1963 |
Germany FR annexes Elten village
|
| 1963 |
WQAD TV channel 8 in Moline, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
|
| 1964 |
ALM (Antillian Airlines) begins operation
|
| 1964 |
Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
|
| 1965 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
|
| 1966 |
Charles Whitman climbs U of Texas tower & shoots 12 dead
|
| 1966 |
Former marine Charles Whitman kills 13 & wounds 31 at U of Texas
|
| 1967 |
Izaäk Samkalden becomes mayor of Amsterdam
|
| 1967 |
WBRA TV channel 15 in Roanoke, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
|
| 1968 |
Canada begins replacing silver with nickel in coins
|
| 1968 |
Cleveland Metroparks begins operating Zoo
|
| 1968 |
WXIX TV channel 19 in Cincinnati-Newport, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
|
| 1969 |
110,000 attend Atlantic City Pop Festival
|
| 1969 |
36th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: NY Jets 26, All-Stars 24 (74,208)
|
| 1969 |
Mariner 6 sends close-up photo's of Mars
|
| 1970 |
EAA Convention moves from Rockford Ill to Oshkosh, Wi
|
| 1970 |
KTSD TV channel 10 in Pierre, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
|
| 1970 |
Willie Stargell (Pirates) ties record of 5 extra base hits in a game
|
| 1971 |
Bangladesh refugee concert with George Harrison
|
| 1971 |
CBS presents Masterpiece Theatre's 6 Wives of Henry VIII
|
| 1971 |
George Harrison's concert for Bangladesh takes place in NYC
|
| 1971 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
|
| 1972 |
1st article exposing Wategate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward)
|
| 1972 |
Nate Colbert of SD Padres hits record tying 5 HRs in a double header
|
| 1973 |
H J Witteveen appointed as director of IMF
|
| 1973 |
Munson & Fisk get into a brawl at Fenway Park
|
| 1974 |
Virginia Squires trade Julius "Dr J" Erving to NY Nets
|
| 1975 |
38 government leaders signs Helsinki accord
|
| 1975 |
41st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Pittsburgh 21, All-Stars 14 (54,103)
|
| 1975 |
Billy Martin replaces Bill Virdon as manager of NY Yankees
|
| 1975 |
Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations
|
| 1976 |
21st Olympic games close at Montreal Canada
|
| 1976 |
Flash flood in Big Thompson Canyon Colo on Route 34, kills 139
|
| 1976 |
Liz Taylor's 6th divorce (re-divorces Richard Burton)
|
| 1976 |
Seattle Seahawks play 1st (preseason) game (SF 27, Seattle 20)
|
| 1977 |
SF Giant Willie McCovey hits NL record 18th grand slammer
|
| 1978 |
Braves stop Reds Pete Rose's hitting streak at 44 games
|
| 1978 |
Commandos occupy Iraqi embassy in Paris, 1 dead
|
| 1978 |
Pete Rose goes hitless, ends his 44 game hitting streak (ties NL)
|
| 1979 |
Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo forms govt in Portugal
|
| 1980 |
Gerd Wessig of East Germany set high jump record
|
| 1980 |
Waldemar Cierpinski wins 19th olympics marathon (2:11:03
|
| 1981 |
MTV premieres at 12:01 AM
|
| 1981 |
Poland premier Jagielski resigns
|
| 1982 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic
|
| 1982 |
Greg Louganis, US becomes 1st diver to score 700 (752.67) in 11 dives
|
| 1982 |
H Aaron, F Robinson, T Jackson, & H Chandler inducted in Hall of Fame
|
| 1982 |
Heavy Israeli air bombardment on Beirut
|
| 1982 |
Petra Schneider swims world record 400m medley (4:36.10)
|
| 1983 |
New Zealand score their 1st Test Cricket match victory in England
|
| 1985 |
15.4 cm rainfall at Cheyenne, Wyoming (state record)
|
| 1985 |
Emmy 12th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 6th time
|
| 1985 |
Vince Coleman steals 2 bases in 1st inning, for NL rookie record 74
|
| 1986 |
Bert Blyleven becomes 10th pitcher to strike out 3,000
|
| 1986 |
Cleveland sets AL attendance record for twi-night doubleheader, 65,934
|
| 1986 |
Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia release from hospital after 3 week coma
|
| 1986 |
Tennis ace John McEnroe marries actress Tatum O'Neal
|
| 1987 |
Bananarama's Siobhan Fahey marries Eurythmics Dave Stewart
|
| 1987 |
Crossbow flight record (2,005 yds 1'9") set by Harry Drake in Nevada
|
| 1987 |
Mike Tyson beat Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
|
| 1987 |
Nurse Mary R Stout chosen chairperson of Vietnam Veterans of America
|
| 1988 |
Deep Rover 1-man research submarine unveiled at Crater Lake, Oregon
|
| 1989 |
Australia take 3-0 series lead over England to regain Cricket Ashes
|
| 1990 |
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" closes at Eugene O'Neill NYC after 149 perfs
|
| 1990 |
Indians' Alex Cole sets club record with 5 stolen bases in one game
|
| 1990 |
Iraq pulls out of talks with Kuwait
|
| 1990 |
Soyuz TM-10 launches
|
| 1990 |
Stanton Cook becomes CEO of Chicago Cubs
|
| 1991 |
Actress Hedy Lamarr, 77, arrested for shoplifting in Florida
|
| 1991 |
Italian/Argentine Soccer star Diego Maradona retires
|
| 1992 |
"Salome" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 9 performances
|
| 1992 |
NBC's "Saturday Today" premieres
|
| 1992 |
USA/USSR Around World Air Race begins at Santa Monica
|
| 1993 |
"In the Summer House" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 25 perfs
|
| 1993 |
"She Loves Me" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 61 performances
|
| 1993 |
Missie Berteott wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
|
| 1993 |
Reggie Jackson enshrined in Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY
|
| 1993 |
Walter Koenig, Checkov of Star Trek, suffers a heart attack
|
| 1994 |
99.9°F (37.7°C) in Berlin-Dahlem: record
|
| 1994 |
The Rolling Stones begin Voodoo Lounge world tour
|
| 1994 |
Train crash in Havana Cuba, 6 killed
|
| 1995 |
Westinghouse purchases CBS-TV network
|
| 1996 |
M2, MTV's second TV channel is launched
|
| 1998 |
-8] Gay & Lesbian Games #5 open in Amsterdam
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