| 1077 |
Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV
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| 1349 |
Gnther of Schwarzburg chosen German anti-king
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| 1349 |
Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred
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| 1467 |
Battle at Velke Kostolany: Hung king M ty s Corvinus beats Bratríci
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| 1487 |
Bell chimes invented
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| 1522 |
Duke of Albany takes captured French back to Scotland
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| 1544 |
Adrian van Goes becomes land advocate of Holland
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| 1592 |
Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII
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| 1647 |
King Charles I handed over to English parliament
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| 1647 |
Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for œ400,
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| 1648 |
Spain & Netherlands sign Peace of Mnster, ending Tachtigjarige War
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| 1667 |
Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia & Poland sign peace treaty
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| 1713 |
England & Netherlands sign 2nd anti-French boundary treaty
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| 1774 |
Capt Cook reaches 71° 10' S, 1820 km from S pole (record)
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| 1781 |
Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland
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| 1790 |
Lifeboat 1st tested at sea, by Mr Greathead, the inventor
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| 1797 |
Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks
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| 1798 |
Rep Matthew Lyon (Vt) spits in face of Rep Roger Griswold (Ct) in US House of Representatives, after an argument
|
| 1800 |
US population: 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%)
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| 1804 |
Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River
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| 1806 |
Prussia takes possession of Hanover
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| 1815 |
Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson's 6500 vols
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| 1818 |
Keats composes his sonnet, "When I Have Fears"
|
| 1820 |
Edward Bransfield aboard Williams discovers Antarctica (UK claim)
|
| 1835 |
Richard Lawrence misfires at Pres Andrew Jackson in Washington DC
|
| 1847 |
Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco
|
| 1853 |
Emperor Napoleon III marries Eugénie Maria de Montijo y de Guzman
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| 1854 |
1st election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast
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| 1858 |
Charles Hallé founds Hallé Orchestra in Manchester
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| 1858 |
William Wells Brown published 1st Black drama, "Leap to Freedom"
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| 1862 |
US Navy's 1st ironclad warship (Monitor) launched
|
| 1877 |
Storm flood ravages Dutch coastal provinces
|
| 1879 |
French President MacMahon resigns
|
| 1883 |
England team presented with ashes of a bail after Sydney Test
|
| 1888 |
Harry Moses 297 not out for NSW against Victoria
|
| 1889 |
John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48" (120cm) telescope
|
| 1889 |
Victoria beat NSW after following on (NSW all out 63 needed 76)
|
| 1892 |
Bobby Abel carries his bat for 132* for England in SCG Test
|
| 1892 |
Capt Lugard occupies Uganda's King Mwanga's hide out
|
| 1894 |
Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit
|
| 1894 |
US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Adm Benham
|
| 1895 |
C J Eady (Tas) 1st Australian to score twin centuries (v Vic)
|
| 1895 |
SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed
|
| 1895 |
Tasmania beat Victoria for 1st F-C victory in 41 years
|
| 1911 |
1st rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba
|
| 1913 |
House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill
|
| 1915 |
German submarine attack on Le Havre
|
| 1915 |
No 10 batsman F W Hyett scores century on debut, Vic v Tas
|
| 1917 |
1st jazz record recorded (Dark Town Strutters Ball)
|
| 1919 |
Reds hire Pat Moran as manager as Christy Mathewson, is still in France with US Army
|
| 1920 |
Québec's Joe Malone sets NHL record of 7 goals in a game
|
| 1921 |
French rapist-murderer Henri-Désiré Landru sentenced to death
|
| 1922 |
Ted McDonald takes 8-58 in big Victorian win over NSW
|
| 1922 |
World Law Day, 1st celebrated
|
| 1924 |
Ponsford scores second 110 of the game in Vic win over NSW
|
| 1925 |
Turkish govt throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople
|
| 1927 |
Left wins national election in Thringen
|
| 1928 |
1st radio telephone connection between Netherlands & US
|
| 1928 |
Bradman scores 134 not out (225 mins, 13 fours) NSW v Vic
|
| 1928 |
Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude," premieres in NYC
|
| 1930 |
Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Banya," premieres in Leningrad
|
| 1931 |
Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" premieres at Los Angeles Theater
|
| 1932 |
Grimmett 7-116 in South Africa 1st innings at Adelaide Oval
|
| 1933 |
"Lone Ranger" begins a 21-year run on ABC radio
|
| 1933 |
Adolph Hitler named German Chancellor, forms govt with Von Papen
|
| 1933 |
Grimmett takes 7-86 for SA in Qld 2nd inn, 13-135 for match
|
| 1934 |
1st theatrical presentation sponsored by US government, NYC
|
| 1934 |
Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 yrs 298 days
|
| 1934 |
Hitler proclamation on German unified states
|
| 1935 |
Ezra Pound meets Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos"
|
| 1936 |
New owners of Boston Braves ask newspapermen to pick a new nickname
|
| 1936 |
Victoria need 442 to win against NSW, but lose, all out for 415 They pick "The Bees" it doesn't catch on & is scrapped by 1940 season
|
| 1937 |
2nd of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov & 16 others sentenced to death
|
| 1939 |
Heavy after shocks destroy some of Chile
|
| 1939 |
Hitler calls for extermination of European Jews
|
| 1940 |
Benjamin Britten's "Lesson Illuminations" premieres in London
|
| 1940 |
Cor Jongert wins 6th Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race
|
| 1940 |
Hassett's second 122 of the game for Vic can't stop a NSW win
|
| 1941 |
Australian troops conquer Derna Libya
|
| 1942 |
Japanese troops land on Ambon
|
| 1943 |
6 British Mosquito's daylight bomb Berlin
|
| 1943 |
German assault on French in Tunisia
|
| 1943 |
German under officers shot down in Haarlem Neth
|
| 1943 |
Hitler promotes Friedrich von Paul to general-fieldmarshal
|
| 1943 |
Illegal opposition newspaper Loyal begins publishing
|
| 1943 |
USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean
|
| 1944 |
US invades Majuro, Marshall Islands
|
| 1945 |
"Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7,700 die
|
| 1945 |
German ship "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed, 4,800 killed
|
| 1946 |
1st issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime
|
| 1948 |
5th Winter Olympic games open in St Moritz, Switzerland
|
| 1950 |
"Robert Montgomery Presents" dramatic anthology premieres on NBC TV
|
| 1950 |
Pres Truman orders development of H-bomb [or 0131?]
|
| 1951 |
Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio
|
| 1952 |
Lehmer verifies: 2^521-1 & 2^607-1 (183 ciphers) Mersenne-prime #
|
| 1952 |
Paul Creston's 4th Symphony, premieres
|
| 1954 |
Belgium ends trade agreement with USSR
|
| 1954 |
Italy's Fanfani govt resigns
|
| 1956 |
Elvis Presley records his version of "Blue Suede Shoes"
|
| 1956 |
KRMA TV channel 6 in Denver, CO (PBS) begins broadcasting
|
| 1956 |
KTXS TV channel 12 in Sweetwater-Abilene, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
|
| 1956 |
Martin Luther King Jr's home bombed
|
| 1957 |
US Congress accepts "Eisenhower-doctrine"
|
| 1958 |
1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas Tx
|
| 1958 |
Baseball announces players & coaches rather than fans pick all stars
|
| 1958 |
Dore Schary's "Sunrise at Campobello," premieres in NYC
|
| 1958 |
House of Lords passes bill allowing women in
|
| 1959 |
Australia 1-200 1st day 4th Test v England, Adelaide Oval
|
| 1959 |
Paul Hindemith's symphony "Pittsburgh," premieres
|
| 1960 |
CIA OKs Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft (Oxcart)
|
| 1960 |
Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands
|
| 1960 |
Riot curtails third days play at Port-Of-Spain WI v England
|
| 1960 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss
|
| 1960 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins
|
| 1961 |
Bobby Darin is youngest performer to headline a TV special on NBC
|
| 1961 |
JFK asks for an Alliance for Progress & Peace Corp
|
| 1961 |
KAET TV channel 8 in Phoenix, AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting
|
| 1961 |
Lance Gibbs takes hat-trick (Mackay, Grout, Misson) at Adelaide
|
| 1962 |
UN General Assembly censures Portugal (because of Angola)
|
| 1962 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
|
| 1962 |
2 members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit
|
| 1964 |
Military coup of Gen Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam
|
| 1964 |
Ranger 6 launched; makes perfect flight to Moon, but cameras fail
|
| 1965 |
"The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis hits #3
|
| 1965 |
State funeral of Winston Churchill
|
| 1966 |
-19°F (-28°C), Corinth, Mississippi (state record)
|
| 1966 |
-27°F (-33°C), New Market, Alabama (state record)
|
| 1966 |
Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2:05.2)
|
| 1966 |
Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 11th string quartet
|
| 1968 |
Bobby Goldsboro records his biggest hit, "Honey"
|
| 1968 |
Vietcong launch Tet-offensive on US embassy in Saigon
|
| 1969 |
Beatles perform their last gig together, a free concert
|
| 1969 |
US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere
|
| 1971 |
"Ari" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 19 performances
|
| 1971 |
Dennis Lillee takes 5-84 in his 1st Test bowl, v England
|
| 1971 |
UCLA starts 88 basketball game win streak
|
| 1972 |
Bloody Sunday: Brit soldiers shoot on catholics in Londonderry, 13 die
|
| 1972 |
Pakistan withdraws from Commonwealth
|
| 1973 |
1st Kiss concert (Queens NY)
|
| 1973 |
26th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 5-4 at NY Rangers
|
| 1973 |
Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all counts
|
| 1973 |
KISS plays their 1st show (Coventry Club in Queens NY)
|
| 1974 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
|
| 1976 |
1st-class debut of Dav Whatmore, in Johannesburg
|
| 1976 |
George Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977)
|
| 1976 |
William E Colby, ends term as 10th director of CIA
|
| 1977 |
8th (final) part of "Roots" is most-watched entertainment show ever
|
| 1977 |
Allan Border scores 36 in his 1st-class innings (NSW v Qld)
|
| 1977 |
Edward W Stack replaces Paul Kerr president of Hall of Fame
|
| 1978 |
Addie Joss & Larry MacPhail elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
|
| 1978 |
Mutual Broadcasting Network begins airing Larry King Show on radio
|
| 1979 |
Rhodesia agrees to new constitution
|
| 1980 |
Edward Albee's "Lady from Dubuque," premieres in NYC
|
| 1981 |
8th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers wins
|
| 1982 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners
|
| 1983 |
Hilbert van Thumb becomes European skating champ
|
| 1983 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Mazda of Deer Creek Golf Classic
|
| 1983 |
Superbowl XVII: Wash Red Skins beat Miami Dolphins, 27-17 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: John Riggins, Washington, RB
|
| 1988 |
Hansie Cronje gets a pair in 2nd 1st-class game (OFS v N Tvl)
|
| 1989 |
16th American Music Award: Randy Travis & George Michael wins
|
| 1989 |
5 pharoah sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor
|
| 1989 |
Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter
|
| 1989 |
Last day of 1st class cricket for Dav Whatmore
|
| 1989 |
Olympian, Bruce Kimball, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident
|
| 1992 |
Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) lands
|
| 1993 |
100,000n Europeans demonstrate against fascism & racism
|
| 1993 |
67th Australian Women's Tennis Open: Monica Seles beat Graf (46 63 62)
|
| 1994 |
68th Australian Women's Tennis Open: S Graf beats A S Vicario (60 62)
|
| 1994 |
82nd Australian Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Todd Martin (76 64 64)
|
| 1994 |
Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.76)
|
| 1994 |
Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wkts
|
| 1994 |
Superbowl XXVIII: Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 30-13 in Atlanta Superbowl MVP: Emmitt Smith, Dallas, RB
|
| 1995 |
22nd American Music Award: Boyz II Men & Ace of Base win
|
| 1995 |
Belgium's TV channel 2 in Flanders goes on the air
|
| 1995 |
Car bomb explodes in Algiers, 42 killed/296 injured
|
| 1995 |
Kevin Eubanks officially becomes band leader of "Tonight Show"
|
| 1997 |
Minuteman III launches
|
| 1998 |
All-Star Fla Marlin catcher Darren Daulton, retires
|
| 1998 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Indianapolis IN on WNAP 93.1 FM
|
| 1998 |
Paul Simon's "The Capeman," premieres
|
| 2000 |
NFL Pro Bowl
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