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Today's Significant Events
1373 - Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest extant) signed in London
1866 - US House of representatives passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights)
Today's Historical Events
Events 1 - 202 of 202
1325 - Ibn Battuta begins his travels, leaving his home in Tangiers to travel to Mecca (gone 24 years)
1373 - Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest extant) signed in London
1392 - Assassination attempt on Pierre de Craon Van Clisson of France fails
1547 - King Ferdinand of Austria subjects himself on Turkish sultan Suleiman
1611 - John Fabricius dedicates earliest sunspot publication
1655 - Adriana Nooseman-van de Bergh is 1st actress in Amsterdam theater
1665 - Battle of Lowestoft, off Suffolk, England: English fleet beats Dutch
1707 - Hungary declares itself independent under Ferenc Rákóczi II
1721 - England signs Treaty of Madrid
1727 - Spain underwrites Preliminairy of Paris
1753 - Austria, England & Modena sign secret military treaty
1774 - Rhode Island becomes first colony to prohibit importation of slaves
1777 - Leonard Norcross patents a submarine diving suit
1777 - Marquis de Lafayette lands in US
1789 - Mrs Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream for dessert to Washington
1792 - King Louis XVI dissmisses French government
1798 - Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in California
Military and Political Leader Simon Bolívar1828 - Simon Bolívar proclaimed dictator
1837 - 1st Mormon missionaries to British Isles leave Kirtland, Ohio
1855 - Opera "Les Vêpres Sicilenne" is produced (Paris)
1863 - Battle of Winchester VA
1863 - Samuel Butler publishes 1st part of "Erewhon", Christchurch, NZ
1863 - Skirmish at Berryville Virginia
1865 - President Andrew Johnson proclaims reconstruction of confederate states
1866 - US House of representatives passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights)
1868 - Oscar J Dunn (a black) is elected Lt Governor of Louisiana
1871 - Hurricane kills 300 in Labrador
1874 - 8th Belmont: G Barbee aboard Saxon wins in 2:39.5
1878 - Congress of Berlin meets to divide African colonization
1881 - The USS Jeannette, under the command of George Washington De Long, sinks in the Arctic circle following 21 months of drifting after becoming trapped in the ice
17th US President Andrew Johnson1886 - Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Vancouver, BC
1886 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM at 40. Builder of palace of Neuschwanstein and patron of Wagner
1888 - US Congress creates Department of Labor
1889 - 2' of snow accumulates in Rawlins, Wyoming
1889 - 23rd Belmont: W Hayward aboard Eric wins in 2:47.25
1890 - Eagle Ave in the Bronx is cut out & named
1895 - Emile Levassor wins 1st Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph)
1898 - Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital
1900 - In China, Baron von Kettler, the German minister to China, beats two young Boxers with his walking stick; when word of this circulates, rioting and arson spread throughout Peking during the night.
1902 - Prussian Upper house gives 350 million marks to Poland
1905 - NY Giant Christy Mathewson 2nd no-hitter, beats Chicago Cubs, 1-0
1907 - Lowest temp ever in 48 US states for June, 2°F in Tamarack Calif
Boxer and World Heavyweight Champion Tommy Burns1908 - Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1910 - Pilot Charles Hamilton makes 1st 1-day round-trip from NY to Phila
1910 - William D Crum, a South Carolina physician, appointed minister to Liberia
1912 - NY Giant Christy Mathewson wins his 300th game
1913 - 45th Belmont: Roscoe Troxler aboard Prince Eugene wins in 2:18
1913 - Yanks win 13th game of year after losing 36 games
1914 - 28th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Marie Wagner (6-2 1-6 6-1)
1914 - Eleftherios Venizelos annouces that Greece intends to annex Chios and Mytilene, two large islands off the Turkish coast; Greece and Turkey have been heading towards conflict for months over claims to Aegean islands
1917 - World War I: the deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.
1918 - Phillies & Cards tie 8-8 in 19 innings
1920 - Post Office says children could not be sent by parcel post
1921 - Yanks' pitcher Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs beating Tigers 11-8
1922 - Longest attack of hiccups begins Charlie Osborne, 98 hiccupped over 435 million times before it stops, He dies 11 months after it stops
1924 - Bene Berak Palestine founded
1924 - Gaston Doumergue elected as 1st protestant French premier
1924 - Yanks win by forfeit over Tigers, their 3rd forfeit win
1925 - 57th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard American Flag wins in 2:16.8
1925 - Charles Jenkins demonstrates the transmission of synchronized pictures and sound (early television)
Aviator Charles Lindbergh1927 - Ticker-tape parade welcomes Charles A Lindbergh to NYC
1930 - 1st Nudist Colony opens
1930 - 22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista Greece
1931 - 63rd Belmont: Charley Kurtsinger aboard Twenty Grand wins in 2:29.6
1932 - Air force's Marmaduke Brutal becomes leader of revolutionary junta
1932 - Great Britain & France sign peace treaty
1933 - 1st sodium vapor lamps installed (Schenectady NY)
1933 - Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation authorized
1933 - German Secret State Police (Gestapo - Geheime Staats Polizei) established by Hermann Goering
1935 - Hammond scores his 100th hundred, 116 for Gloucs v Somerset
1935 - James J Braddock beats Max Baer in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1936 - 2nd Belgian government of Van Zealand forms
Baseball Player Joe DiMaggio1937 - Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs against St Louis Browns
1937 - Stalin executes Russian officers Tuchachevski, Jakir, Putna & Uberevitch
1938 - Great Cricket innings of 232 by Stan McCabe v England at Trent Bridge
1938 - Jews injured & property destroyed in Przemyal, Poland
1940 - Paris evacuates before German advance
1942 - 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km
1942 - FDR creates Office of War with Elmer Davis as head
1942 - Germany puts 4 saboteurs on Long Island
1942 - US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) formed
1942 - The United States opens its Office of War Information.
1944 - German counter attack on Villers-Bocage, Normandy
1944 - Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) flying bomb (doodle-bugs) attacks
1945 - Heerjansdam soccer team forms
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt1945 - Orokoe peninsula Okinawa captured, with 6,000 dead
1946 - 1st transcontinental round-trip flight in 1-day, California-Maryland
1946 - King Umberto II of Italy abdicates
1947 - 1st night game at Fenway Park (Red Sox 5, White Sox 3)
1948 - Babe Ruth's final farewell at Yankee Stadium, he dies Aug 16th
1950 - South African parliament accept "Groups Area Act"
1951 - UN arm forces reach Pyongyang Korea
1952 - Soviet fighters shoot Swedish Dakota down over East Sea, kills 8
1953 - 53rd US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 283 at Oakmont CC in Oakmont PA
1953 - 85th Belmont: Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 2:28.6
1953 - Alec Bedser takes 14-99 (7-55 & 7-44) v Australia
1953 - Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:18:40.2)
1953 - KOAA TV channel 5 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (NBC) 1st broadcast
1954 - Cornerstone of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, laid in Bronx
Golfer Ben Hogan1955 - Mercedes racing car kills 77 at Le Mans France
1956 - "Shangri-La" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 21 performances
1956 - After 72 years, Britain gives up Suez Canal to Egyptian control
1956 - Parliamentary election: Dutch Democrates 50/KVP 49
1956 - Real Madrid wins 1st Europe Cup
1957 - Mayflower II from Plymouth, England, reaches Plymouth Mass
1957 - Ted Williams becomes 1st ALer to have 2, 3-HR games in a season
1958 - Frank Zappa graduates from Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster Ca
1959 - "Sammy Kaye Show" last airs on ABC-TV
1959 - 59th US Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 282 at Winged Foot GC NY
1959 - 91st Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Sword Dancer wins in 2:28.6
1960 - "Alley-Oop" by Dyna-Sores peaks at #59
1960 - Prince Norodom Sihanoek becomes head of Cambodia
Baseball Player Ted Williams1961 - "Billy Barnes People" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 8 performances
1962 - "Bob Newhart Show" last airs on NBC-TV
1962 - Norway named ombudsman
1963 - Vostok 6 launched, pilot is 1st woman cosmonaut
1964 - Basil Heatley runs world record marathon (2:13:55)
1965 - 19th Tony Awards: Subject Was Roses & Fiddler on the Roof win
1965 - Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1966 - Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights
1967 - Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st black Supreme Court justice
1969 - Mick Taylor leaves John Mayall Band & joins Rolling Stones
1970 - "In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry hit #1 in UK
1970 - Beatles' "Let It Be" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
1970 - Beatles' "Long & Winding Road" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1971 - 17th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth
LPGA Golfer Kathy Whitworth1971 - The New York Times begin publishing excerpts from the Pentagon Papers, classified documents on the long history of the U.S. in Vietnam
1971 - In defiance of a government ban, members of the Orange Order march through the mainly Catholic town of Dungiven, County Londonderry causing a riot
1972 - The Irish Republican Army invites Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Whitelaw to 'Free Derry'; Whitelaw rejects offer and reaffirms his policy to not "let part of the United Kingdom ... default from the rule of law"
1972 - The Irish Republican Army invites Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Whitelaw to 'Free Derry'; Whitelaw rejects offer and reaffirms his policy to not "let part of the United Kingdom ... default from the rule of law"
1973 - Garvey, Lopes, Cey & Russell play together for 1st time, set record of staying together as an infield for 8½ years (LA Dodgers)
1974 - Henry Aaron addresses House of Representatives
1974 - IMF establishes its "oil facility", a special fund for loans to nations whose balance of payments have been severely affected by high oil prices
LPGA Golfer Donna Caponi1976 - 4th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Donna Caponi
1976 - Bob Marley performs in Amsterdam
1976 - Inge Helten runs female European record 100m (11.04)
1977 - Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray recaptured
1978 - Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.
1979 - "Madwoman of Central Park West" opens at 22 Steps NYC for 86 perfs
1979 - Sioux nation receives $100 million in compensation for Black Hills SD
1980 - Billy Joel's "Glass Houses" hits #1
1980 - Deborah Harry/Meat Loaf film, "Roadie," premieres
1980 - Paul McCartney releases "Waterfall"
1980 - Rep John Jenrette Jr (D-SC) indicted in "Abscam" investigation
1980 - UN Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela
1981 - 39 Unification church couples wed in Germany
Queen of the United Kingdom Elizabeth II1981 - Teenager fires 6 blanks at Queen Elizabeth II
1981 - Tom Snyder interviews Charles Manson on "Tomorrow"
1982 - 28th LPGA Championship won by Jan Stephenson
1982 - Fahd becomes king of Saudi Arabia when King Khalid dies at 69
1983 - Pioneer 10 becomes the 1st man-made object to leave the solar system
1985 - "Prizzi's Honor", starring Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, and Anjelica Huston, is released
1986 - Pres Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency
1986 - Steve Garvey 1st ejection from a game, after Atlanta's triple-play
1987 - Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel & Anne Knabe complete cycling journey of 15,266 mi from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Argentina
1988 - 45th time opposing pitchers hit HRS, Mark Davis (Padres)/Mike Krukow
1988 - Boston Red Sox are 10 games back in AL, & go on to win AL East
1988 - Fed jury finds Liggett liable in death of NJ woman of lung cancer
Singer-Songwriter George Harrison1988 - George Harrison releases "This is Love"
1988 - US Supreme Court refuses to hear Yonkers argument they aren't racist
1989 - 43rd NBA Championship: Detroit Pistons sweeps LA Lakers in 4 games
1989 - Houston's Terry Puhl plays in his 1,403rd game (most by a Canadian)
1989 - Jerry Lee Lewis gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
1989 - "Licence to Kill", 16th James Bond film, last directed by John Glen and starring Timothy Dalton premieres in London
1990 - "Les Miserables" opens at S Alberta Jubilee Centre, Calgary
1990 - Boeing 767 sets nonstop commercial flight, Seattle to Narobi Kenya
1990 - Nelson & Winnie Mandela welcomed in NYC
1990 - Wash DC mayor Marion Barry announces he will not seek a 4th term
1991 - A spectator is killed by lightning at US Open Golf tournament
1991 - NHL owners present contract to players (leads to Apr 1, 1992 strike)
1991 - The National, 1st all-sports daily newspaper, ceases publication
Country Singer Jerry Lee Lewis1993 - "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" closes at Booth NYC after 232 perfs
1993 - 39th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1993 - Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani re-elected president of Iran
1993 - YokoZuna beats Hulk Hogan to become WWF champ
1994 - Chicago Cub 2nd baseman Ryne Sandberg, retires due to poor play, he forfeits $15.7 million of his $25 million contract
1994 - Don Mattingly plays 1st base 1,469 game for Yankees (2nd most)
1994 - A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
1995 - Indians' Dennis Martinez no-hits Balt 11-0
1995 - NJ Devils beat Phila Flyers, to go to their 1st Stanley Cup finals
1996 - Freeman in Montana give up to FBI after 81 days
1996 - The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
MLB Pitcher Dennis Martínez1997 - 51st NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Utah Jazz 4, games to 2
1997 - Jurors in Oklahoma City bombing trial sentence Timothy McVeigh to death
1997 - Red Wings Vladimir Konstantinov & Slava Fetisov hurt in car crash
1997 - American fugitive Ira Einhorn is arrested in France for the murder of Holly Maddux after 16 years on the run, though he would not return for another four years.
2000 - Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
2000 - President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
2000 - Samuel L. Jackson is honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
2001 - 35th TNN & CMT Country Weekly Music Awards: George Strait, Faith Hill & Alan Jackson wins
Country Singer Faith Hill2002 - The United States of America withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
2002 - Scotty Bowman wins his 9th Stanley Cup as a coach, an NHL record, and retires
2004 - 50th LPGA Championship won by Annika Sörenstam
2005 - A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.
2007 - The Al Askari Mosque is bombed again.
2007 - First large scale exhibition of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's work in Mexico opens at Palacio de Bellas Artes on the 100th anniversary of her birth
2010 - 64th Tony Awards: Memphis & Red win
2011 - Christchurch, New Zealand is hit by another strong earthquake measuring magnitude 6.3
King of Pop Michael Jackson2012 - A series of bombings across Iraq kill 93 and wound 300 people
2012 - San Francisco Giants' Matt Cain pitches first perfect game in the franchise's history against the Houston Astros
2012 - "The Amazing Spider-Man" directed by Marc Webb and starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone premieres at the Tokyo Film Festival
2014 - Stanley Cup: Los Angeles Kings defeat the New York Rangers in 5 games
1373 - Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest extant) signed in London
1392 - Assassination attempt on Pierre de Craon Van Clisson of France fails
1547 - King Ferdinand of Austria subjects himself on Turkish sultan Suleiman
1611 - John Fabricius dedicates earliest sunspot publication
1655 - Adriana Nooseman-van de Bergh is 1st actress in Amsterdam theater
1665 - Battle of Lowestoft, off Suffolk, England: English fleet beats Dutch
1707 - Hungary declares itself independent under Ferenc Rákóczi II
1721 - England signs Treaty of Madrid
1727 - Spain underwrites Preliminairy of Paris
1753 - Austria, England & Modena sign secret military treaty
1774 - Rhode Island becomes first colony to prohibit importation of slaves
1777 - Leonard Norcross patents a submarine diving suit
1777 - Marquis de Lafayette lands in US
1789 - Mrs Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream for dessert to Washington
1792 - King Louis XVI dissmisses French government
1798 - Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in California
Military and Political Leader Simon Bolívar1828 - Simon Bolívar proclaimed dictator1837 - 1st Mormon missionaries to British Isles leave Kirtland, Ohio
1855 - Opera "Les Vêpres Sicilenne" is produced (Paris)
1863 - Battle of Winchester VA
1863 - Samuel Butler publishes 1st part of "Erewhon", Christchurch, NZ
1863 - Skirmish at Berryville Virginia
1865 - President Andrew Johnson proclaims reconstruction of confederate states
1866 - US House of representatives passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights)
1868 - Oscar J Dunn (a black) is elected Lt Governor of Louisiana
1871 - Hurricane kills 300 in Labrador
1874 - 8th Belmont: G Barbee aboard Saxon wins in 2:39.5
1878 - Congress of Berlin meets to divide African colonization
1881 - The USS Jeannette, under the command of George Washington De Long, sinks in the Arctic circle following 21 months of drifting after becoming trapped in the ice
17th US President Andrew Johnson1886 - Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Vancouver, BC1886 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM at 40. Builder of palace of Neuschwanstein and patron of Wagner
1888 - US Congress creates Department of Labor
1889 - 2' of snow accumulates in Rawlins, Wyoming
1889 - 23rd Belmont: W Hayward aboard Eric wins in 2:47.25
1890 - Eagle Ave in the Bronx is cut out & named
1895 - Emile Levassor wins 1st Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph)
1898 - Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital
1900 - In China, Baron von Kettler, the German minister to China, beats two young Boxers with his walking stick; when word of this circulates, rioting and arson spread throughout Peking during the night.
1902 - Prussian Upper house gives 350 million marks to Poland
1905 - NY Giant Christy Mathewson 2nd no-hitter, beats Chicago Cubs, 1-0
1907 - Lowest temp ever in 48 US states for June, 2°F in Tamarack Calif
Boxer and World Heavyweight Champion Tommy Burns1908 - Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 8 for heavyweight boxing title1910 - Pilot Charles Hamilton makes 1st 1-day round-trip from NY to Phila
1910 - William D Crum, a South Carolina physician, appointed minister to Liberia
1912 - NY Giant Christy Mathewson wins his 300th game
1913 - 45th Belmont: Roscoe Troxler aboard Prince Eugene wins in 2:18
1913 - Yanks win 13th game of year after losing 36 games
1914 - 28th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Marie Wagner (6-2 1-6 6-1)
1914 - Eleftherios Venizelos annouces that Greece intends to annex Chios and Mytilene, two large islands off the Turkish coast; Greece and Turkey have been heading towards conflict for months over claims to Aegean islands
1917 - World War I: the deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.
1918 - Phillies & Cards tie 8-8 in 19 innings
1920 - Post Office says children could not be sent by parcel post
1921 - Yanks' pitcher Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs beating Tigers 11-8
1922 - Longest attack of hiccups begins Charlie Osborne, 98 hiccupped over 435 million times before it stops, He dies 11 months after it stops
1924 - Bene Berak Palestine founded
1924 - Gaston Doumergue elected as 1st protestant French premier
1924 - Yanks win by forfeit over Tigers, their 3rd forfeit win
1925 - 57th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard American Flag wins in 2:16.8
1925 - Charles Jenkins demonstrates the transmission of synchronized pictures and sound (early television)
Aviator Charles Lindbergh1927 - Ticker-tape parade welcomes Charles A Lindbergh to NYC1930 - 1st Nudist Colony opens
1930 - 22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista Greece
1931 - 63rd Belmont: Charley Kurtsinger aboard Twenty Grand wins in 2:29.6
1932 - Air force's Marmaduke Brutal becomes leader of revolutionary junta
1932 - Great Britain & France sign peace treaty
1933 - 1st sodium vapor lamps installed (Schenectady NY)
1933 - Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation authorized
1933 - German Secret State Police (Gestapo - Geheime Staats Polizei) established by Hermann Goering
1935 - Hammond scores his 100th hundred, 116 for Gloucs v Somerset
1935 - James J Braddock beats Max Baer in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1936 - 2nd Belgian government of Van Zealand forms
Baseball Player Joe DiMaggio1937 - Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs against St Louis Browns1937 - Stalin executes Russian officers Tuchachevski, Jakir, Putna & Uberevitch
1938 - Great Cricket innings of 232 by Stan McCabe v England at Trent Bridge
1938 - Jews injured & property destroyed in Przemyal, Poland
1940 - Paris evacuates before German advance
1942 - 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km
1942 - FDR creates Office of War with Elmer Davis as head
1942 - Germany puts 4 saboteurs on Long Island
1942 - US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) formed
1942 - The United States opens its Office of War Information.
1944 - German counter attack on Villers-Bocage, Normandy
1944 - Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) flying bomb (doodle-bugs) attacks
1945 - Heerjansdam soccer team forms
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt1945 - Orokoe peninsula Okinawa captured, with 6,000 dead1946 - 1st transcontinental round-trip flight in 1-day, California-Maryland
1946 - King Umberto II of Italy abdicates
1947 - 1st night game at Fenway Park (Red Sox 5, White Sox 3)
1948 - Babe Ruth's final farewell at Yankee Stadium, he dies Aug 16th
1950 - South African parliament accept "Groups Area Act"
1951 - UN arm forces reach Pyongyang Korea
1952 - Soviet fighters shoot Swedish Dakota down over East Sea, kills 8
1953 - 53rd US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 283 at Oakmont CC in Oakmont PA
1953 - 85th Belmont: Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 2:28.6
1953 - Alec Bedser takes 14-99 (7-55 & 7-44) v Australia
1953 - Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:18:40.2)
1953 - KOAA TV channel 5 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (NBC) 1st broadcast
1954 - Cornerstone of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, laid in Bronx
Golfer Ben Hogan1955 - Mercedes racing car kills 77 at Le Mans France1956 - "Shangri-La" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 21 performances
1956 - After 72 years, Britain gives up Suez Canal to Egyptian control
1956 - Parliamentary election: Dutch Democrates 50/KVP 49
1956 - Real Madrid wins 1st Europe Cup
1957 - Mayflower II from Plymouth, England, reaches Plymouth Mass
1957 - Ted Williams becomes 1st ALer to have 2, 3-HR games in a season
1958 - Frank Zappa graduates from Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster Ca
1959 - "Sammy Kaye Show" last airs on ABC-TV
1959 - 59th US Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 282 at Winged Foot GC NY
1959 - 91st Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Sword Dancer wins in 2:28.6
1960 - "Alley-Oop" by Dyna-Sores peaks at #59
1960 - Prince Norodom Sihanoek becomes head of Cambodia
Baseball Player Ted Williams1961 - "Billy Barnes People" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 8 performances1962 - "Bob Newhart Show" last airs on NBC-TV
1962 - Norway named ombudsman
1963 - Vostok 6 launched, pilot is 1st woman cosmonaut
1964 - Basil Heatley runs world record marathon (2:13:55)
1965 - 19th Tony Awards: Subject Was Roses & Fiddler on the Roof win
1965 - Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1966 - Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights
1967 - Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st black Supreme Court justice
1969 - Mick Taylor leaves John Mayall Band & joins Rolling Stones
1970 - "In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry hit #1 in UK
1970 - Beatles' "Let It Be" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
1970 - Beatles' "Long & Winding Road" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1971 - 17th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth
LPGA Golfer Kathy Whitworth1971 - The New York Times begin publishing excerpts from the Pentagon Papers, classified documents on the long history of the U.S. in Vietnam1971 - In defiance of a government ban, members of the Orange Order march through the mainly Catholic town of Dungiven, County Londonderry causing a riot
1972 - The Irish Republican Army invites Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Whitelaw to 'Free Derry'; Whitelaw rejects offer and reaffirms his policy to not "let part of the United Kingdom ... default from the rule of law"
1972 - The Irish Republican Army invites Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Whitelaw to 'Free Derry'; Whitelaw rejects offer and reaffirms his policy to not "let part of the United Kingdom ... default from the rule of law"
1973 - Garvey, Lopes, Cey & Russell play together for 1st time, set record of staying together as an infield for 8½ years (LA Dodgers)
1974 - Henry Aaron addresses House of Representatives
1974 - IMF establishes its "oil facility", a special fund for loans to nations whose balance of payments have been severely affected by high oil prices
LPGA Golfer Donna Caponi1976 - 4th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Donna Caponi1976 - Bob Marley performs in Amsterdam
1976 - Inge Helten runs female European record 100m (11.04)
1977 - Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray recaptured
1978 - Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.
1979 - "Madwoman of Central Park West" opens at 22 Steps NYC for 86 perfs
1979 - Sioux nation receives $100 million in compensation for Black Hills SD
1980 - Billy Joel's "Glass Houses" hits #1
1980 - Deborah Harry/Meat Loaf film, "Roadie," premieres
1980 - Paul McCartney releases "Waterfall"
1980 - Rep John Jenrette Jr (D-SC) indicted in "Abscam" investigation
1980 - UN Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela
1981 - 39 Unification church couples wed in Germany
Queen of the United Kingdom Elizabeth II1981 - Teenager fires 6 blanks at Queen Elizabeth II1981 - Tom Snyder interviews Charles Manson on "Tomorrow"
1982 - 28th LPGA Championship won by Jan Stephenson
1982 - Fahd becomes king of Saudi Arabia when King Khalid dies at 69
1983 - Pioneer 10 becomes the 1st man-made object to leave the solar system
1985 - "Prizzi's Honor", starring Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, and Anjelica Huston, is released
1986 - Pres Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency
1986 - Steve Garvey 1st ejection from a game, after Atlanta's triple-play
1987 - Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel & Anne Knabe complete cycling journey of 15,266 mi from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Argentina
1988 - 45th time opposing pitchers hit HRS, Mark Davis (Padres)/Mike Krukow
1988 - Boston Red Sox are 10 games back in AL, & go on to win AL East
1988 - Fed jury finds Liggett liable in death of NJ woman of lung cancer
Singer-Songwriter George Harrison1988 - George Harrison releases "This is Love"1988 - US Supreme Court refuses to hear Yonkers argument they aren't racist
1989 - 43rd NBA Championship: Detroit Pistons sweeps LA Lakers in 4 games
1989 - Houston's Terry Puhl plays in his 1,403rd game (most by a Canadian)
1989 - Jerry Lee Lewis gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
1989 - "Licence to Kill", 16th James Bond film, last directed by John Glen and starring Timothy Dalton premieres in London
1990 - "Les Miserables" opens at S Alberta Jubilee Centre, Calgary
1990 - Boeing 767 sets nonstop commercial flight, Seattle to Narobi Kenya
1990 - Nelson & Winnie Mandela welcomed in NYC
1990 - Wash DC mayor Marion Barry announces he will not seek a 4th term
1991 - A spectator is killed by lightning at US Open Golf tournament
1991 - NHL owners present contract to players (leads to Apr 1, 1992 strike)
1991 - The National, 1st all-sports daily newspaper, ceases publication
Country Singer Jerry Lee Lewis1993 - "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" closes at Booth NYC after 232 perfs1993 - 39th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1993 - Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani re-elected president of Iran
1993 - YokoZuna beats Hulk Hogan to become WWF champ
1994 - Chicago Cub 2nd baseman Ryne Sandberg, retires due to poor play, he forfeits $15.7 million of his $25 million contract
1994 - Don Mattingly plays 1st base 1,469 game for Yankees (2nd most)
1994 - A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
1995 - Indians' Dennis Martinez no-hits Balt 11-0
1995 - NJ Devils beat Phila Flyers, to go to their 1st Stanley Cup finals
1996 - Freeman in Montana give up to FBI after 81 days
1996 - The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
MLB Pitcher Dennis Martínez1997 - 51st NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Utah Jazz 4, games to 21997 - Jurors in Oklahoma City bombing trial sentence Timothy McVeigh to death
1997 - Red Wings Vladimir Konstantinov & Slava Fetisov hurt in car crash
1997 - American fugitive Ira Einhorn is arrested in France for the murder of Holly Maddux after 16 years on the run, though he would not return for another four years.
2000 - Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
2000 - President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
2000 - Samuel L. Jackson is honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
2001 - 35th TNN & CMT Country Weekly Music Awards: George Strait, Faith Hill & Alan Jackson wins
Country Singer Faith Hill2002 - The United States of America withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.2002 - Scotty Bowman wins his 9th Stanley Cup as a coach, an NHL record, and retires
2004 - 50th LPGA Championship won by Annika Sörenstam
2005 - A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.
2007 - The Al Askari Mosque is bombed again.
2007 - First large scale exhibition of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's work in Mexico opens at Palacio de Bellas Artes on the 100th anniversary of her birth
2010 - 64th Tony Awards: Memphis & Red win
2011 - Christchurch, New Zealand is hit by another strong earthquake measuring magnitude 6.3
King of Pop Michael Jackson2012 - A series of bombings across Iraq kill 93 and wound 300 people2012 - San Francisco Giants' Matt Cain pitches first perfect game in the franchise's history against the Houston Astros
2012 - "The Amazing Spider-Man" directed by Marc Webb and starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone premieres at the Tokyo Film Festival
2014 - Stanley Cup: Los Angeles Kings defeat the New York Rangers in 5 games
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