| 0483 |
St Felix III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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| 0607 |
12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
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| 1138 |
German king Koenraad II von Hohenstaufen crowned
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| 1519 |
Cortez lands in México
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| 1560 |
Spanish fleet occupies Djerba, at Tripoli
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| 1564 |
Cardinal Granvelle flees Brussels
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| 1567 |
Battle at Oosterweel: Spanish troops destroy Geuzenleger
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| 1569 |
Battle of Jarnac, Count of Anjou defeats Huguenots
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| 1591 |
Battle at Tondibi: Moroccans army under Judar beats sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai
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| 1634 |
Académie Française opens
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| 1639 |
Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard
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| 1656 |
Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam
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| 1677 |
Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000
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| 1735 |
1st US Moravian bishop, David Nitschmann, consecrated in Germany
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| 1759 |
27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
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| 1772 |
Gotthold Lessing's "Emilia Calotti," premieres in Brunswick
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| 1781 |
Sir William Herschel sees "comet" (really discovered Uranus)
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| 1790 |
John Martin, 1st American-born actor, performs in Philadelphia
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| 1797 |
Cherubini's opera "Medée," premieres in Paris
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| 1835 |
Charles Darwin departs Valparaiso for Andes crossing
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| 1846 |
Friedrich Hebbel's "Maria Magdalena," premieres in Königsberg
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| 1852 |
Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the NY Lantern weekly
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| 1861 |
Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers
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| 1865 |
US Confederate Congress calls on black slaves for field service
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| 1868 |
Senate begins Pres Andrew Johnson impeachment trial
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| 1869 |
Arkansas legislature passes anti-Klan law
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| 1878 |
Oxford defeats Cambridge in their 1st golf match
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| 1884 |
Siege of Khartoum Sudan begins
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| 1884 |
US adopts Standard Time
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| 1887 |
Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs
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| 1888 |
Great Blizzard of 1888 rages
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| 1894 |
J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate
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| 1895 |
Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die
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| 1900 |
British troops occupy Bloemfontein, Orange-Free state
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| 1904 |
Bronze statue of Christ on Argentine-Chilian border dedicated
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| 1911 |
Ivan Caryll's musical "Pink Lady," premieres in NYC
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| 1911 |
Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Galt (Ont), 7-4
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| 1912 |
Stanley Cup: Quebec Bulldogs sweep Moncton (NB) in 2 games
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| 1913 |
Kansas legislature approved censorship of motion pictures
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| 1915 |
Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit
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| 1918 |
American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms
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| 1918 |
1st NHL championship: Mont Canadiens beat Toronto Arenas, outscoring them 10-7 in a 2 game set
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| 1920 |
Wolfgang Kapp's coup attempt in Berlin fails
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| 1921 |
Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China
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| 1922 |
George Bernard Shaws "Back to Methusaleh V," premieres in NYC
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| 1922 |
WRR-AM in Dallas TX begins radio transmissions
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| 1922 |
NHL Championship: Ottawa Senators outscore Toronto St Pats, 5 to 4, in 2 games
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| 1923 |
Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (NYC)
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| 1924 |
German Republic day
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| 1925 |
NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Arenas in 2 games
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| 1925 |
Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution
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| 1928 |
450 die in St Francisquito Valley Dam burst (Calif)
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| 1928 |
Rudolph Friml's musical "Three Musketeers," premieres in NYC
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| 1929 |
Bradman scores 123 Aust v England at MCG, his 2nd Test Cricket ton
|
| 1930 |
Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
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| 1933 |
Banks reopen
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| 1933 |
Josef Göbbels becomes German minister of Information & Propaganda
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| 1935 |
Driving tests introduced in Great Britain
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| 1938 |
Anschluá-Austria annexed by Nazi Germany
|
| 1940 |
Finland-Russian cease fire signed, Finland gives up Karelische
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| 1941 |
A Bougne forms AGRA (Amis du Grand Reich Allemand)
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| 1942 |
Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army
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| 1943 |
Baseball approves official ball (with cork & balata)
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| 1943 |
Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight
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| 1943 |
Frank Dixon wins Knights of Columbus mile (4:09.6)
|
| 1944 |
USSR recognizes Italian Badoglio govt
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| 1945 |
Queen Wilhelmina returns to Netherlands
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| 1945 |
Sicherheitsdienst arrest Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman
|
| 1947 |
"Brigadoon" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 581 performances
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| 1947 |
19th Academy Awards - "Best Years of Lives," De Havilland, March win
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| 1948 |
10th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Baylor 58-42
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| 1949 |
US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman
|
| 1949 |
US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
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| 1950 |
General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record)
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| 1951 |
2nd Dutch govt of Drees forms
|
| 1951 |
Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany
|
| 1954 |
Braves' Bobby Thomson breaks his ankle, he is replaced by Hank Aaron
|
| 1954 |
Viet Minh General Giap opens assault on That Bien Phu
|
| 1955 |
Bir BSD Mahendra succeeds Tribhubana as king of Nepal
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| 1955 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
|
| 1956 |
NZ bowl out WI for 77 at Eden Park to score their 1st Test Cricket win
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| 1957 |
Bloody battles after anti-Batista demonstration in Havana Cuba
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| 1958 |
Govt troops land in Sumatra Indonesia
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| 1960 |
Fay Crocker wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
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| 1960 |
NFL's Chicago Cardinals moves to St Louis
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| 1960 |
White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players' names above number
|
| 1961 |
Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes pres of US Communist Party
|
| 1961 |
Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 6 for heavywgt boxing title
|
| 1961 |
JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress
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| 1961 |
Landslide in USSR, kills 145
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| 1961 |
Old type, black & white notes cease to be legal tender
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| 1961 |
Pablo Picasso (79) marries his model Jacqueline Rocque (37)
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| 1962 |
Yugoslavia grants 1,000 prisoners amnesty
|
| 1963 |
2 Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska
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| 1963 |
Hindemith & Wilder's opera "Long Christmas Dinner," premieres in NYC
|
| 1963 |
Indonesia & Netherlands recover diplomatic relations
|
| 1964 |
Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack
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| 1965 |
Beatles' "Eight Days a Week," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
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| 1965 |
Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds
|
| 1966 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lagunita Golf Invitational
|
| 1967 |
Congo sentences ex-premier Mo‹se Tsjombe to death
|
| 1967 |
Robert Anderson's "You Know I Can't Hear You ...," premieres in NYC
|
| 1968 |
Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK
|
| 1969 |
Apollo 9 returns to Earth
|
| 1970 |
100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam
|
| 1970 |
Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
|
| 1970 |
SF city employees begin 4-day strike
|
| 1971 |
Live at Fillmore East recorded
|
| 1973 |
Syria adopts constitution
|
| 1973 |
"Irene" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 605 performances
|
| 1973 |
Minskoff Theater opens at 200 W 45th St NYC
|
| 1974 |
Charles de Gaulle Airport opens near Paris
|
| 1974 |
Glenn Turner scores twin tons for NZ's 1st win against Aust
|
| 1975 |
Bernard Slade's "Same Time, Next Year," premieres in NYC
|
| 1977 |
Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test
|
| 1978 |
Moluccans "suicide commandos" occupies Province house
|
| 1979 |
European Monetary System is established, ECU created
|
| 1979 |
Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement
|
| 1979 |
Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick
|
| 1980 |
Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:13.60)
|
| 1980 |
Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto
|
| 1980 |
Men's Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Jan Hoffmann GDR
|
| 1981 |
Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca
|
| 1981 |
NCAA St Joseph's upsets top seed DePaul
|
| 1982 |
Ice Dance Championship at Copenhagen won by Torvill & Dean (GRB)
|
| 1982 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Copenhagen won by Baess & Thierbach (GDR)
|
| 1982 |
Men's Fig Skating Champions in Copenhagen won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
|
| 1982 |
Worlds Ladies Fig Skate Champs in Copenhagen won by Elaine Zayak (USA)
|
| 1982 |
Elaine Zayak, lands 6 triple jumps to win world skating championship
|
| 1983 |
"Woman of the Year" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 770 perfs
|
| 1983 |
1st USFL overtime game-Birmingham Stallions beat Oakld Invaders 20-14
|
| 1984 |
Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird
|
| 1984 |
WA beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield
|
| 1985 |
Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)
|
| 1985 |
Michael Secrest (US) begins 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
|
| 1986 |
Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
|
| 1987 |
Ice Dance Championship at Cincinnati won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)
|
| 1987 |
John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering
|
| 1987 |
Washington Caps score 5 goals against Toronto in 3 mins & 3 secs
|
| 1988 |
14th People's Choice Awards: Fatal Attraction, Bill Cosby. win
|
| 1989 |
27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown
|
| 1989 |
FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in US
|
| 1989 |
US space shuttle STS-29 launched
|
| 1990 |
Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada
|
| 1991 |
Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill
|
| 1992 |
570 die in a Turkish earthquake
|
| 1992 |
FCC rules companies can own 30 AM & 30 FM stations (formerly 12)
|
| 1992 |
Martina Navratilova & Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit
|
| 1993 |
Blizzard of '93 hits north-east US
|
| 1994 |
33.3% of Austria votes for ultra-right FP™
|
| 1994 |
Cuba Godding Jr (26) weds Sara Kapfer (26)
|
| 1994 |
Donna Andrews wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship
|
| 1994 |
Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed)
|
| 1994 |
President Mangope of Bophuthaswana deposed
|
| 1995 |
9th Soul Train Music Awards: Boyz II Men, Anita Baker win
|
| 1995 |
Anti fascist Kazachstan anti-parliament forms
|
| 1995 |
Hungarian Forint devalued 9%
|
| 1995 |
Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators
|
| 1996 |
Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play
|
| 1996 |
Thomas Hamilton kills 16 kindergardeners, their teacher & himself
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