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Today's Significant Events

1500 - Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil & claims it for Portugal
1903 - NY Highlanders (Yankees) 1st game, Senators win 3-1 before 11,950
1915 - 1st military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WW I
1993 - Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated in Wash DC
1994 - 7,000 Tutsi's slaughtered in stadium of Kibuye Rwanda
2006 - 243 people are injured in pro-democracy protest in Nepal after Nepali security forces open fire on protesters against King Gyanendra.

Today's Historical Events

Events 1 - 177 of 177

296 - St Gaius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
536 - St. Agapetus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1056 - Supernova Crab nebula last seen by the naked eye
1073 - Pope Alexander II buried/Ildebrando chosen as Pope Gregory VII
1145 - 19th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1164 - Raynald of Dassel names Guido di Crema as anti-pope Paschalis III
1370 - Building begins of Bastille fortress in Paris
1500 - Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil & claims it for Portugal
1521 - French King Francois I declares war on Spain
1526 - 1st slave revolt occurs in SC
1529 - Treaty of Saragosa: Spain & Portugal divide eastern hemisphere

King Charles I1648 - English army claims king Charles I responsible for bloodshed
1659 - Lord protector Cromwell disbands English parliament
1671 - King Charles II sits in on English parliament
1674 - Netherlands & Munster sign peace treaty
1676 - Battle of Etna - Neth/Spain vs France, M de Ruyter fatally wounded
1677 - Battle at Catania: between French & Dutch fleet
1692 - Edward Bishop is jailed for proposong flogging as cure for witchcraft
1722 - 19 VOC "komplotteurs" in Batavia executed
1728 - Pierre de Marivaux' "Le Triomphe de Plutus" premieres in Paris
1769 - Madame du Barry becomes King Louis XV's "official" mistress
1793 - Pres Washington attends opening of Rickett's, 1st circus in US
1804 - Gioacchino Rossini (12) performs in Imola
1809 - Battle at Eckmuhl - Napoleon beats Austria Archduke Karl

French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte1817 - Curacao prohibits use of white paint due to fierce sunlight
1823 - Baltic Club (Exchange) forms in London
1823 - R J Tyers patents roller skates
1838 - English steamship "Sirius" docks in NYC after Atlantic crossing
1864 - US mints 2 cent coin (1st appearance of "In God We Trust")
1876 - 1st NL game, Boston Braves beat Phila Athletics 6-5
1876 - Tsjaikovsky completes his "Swan Lake" ballet
1876 - Phila Nationals Wes Fisler scores baseball's 1st run
1884 - Thomas Stevens starts 1st bike trip around world (2 yrs 9 mos)
1884 - US recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
1889 - Oklahoma land rush officially started; some were "sooner"
1893 - Francis Dhanis army occupies Kasongo
1893 - Paul Kruger elected president of Transvaal for 3rd time
1897 - NYC Jewish newspaper "Forward" begins publishing (still active)
1898 - 1st Spanish-American War action: USS Nashville, takes enemy ship
1898 - Baltimore James Hughes no-hits Boston Braves 8-0
1898 - Cincinnati Red Theodore Breitenstein no-hits Pirates 11-0
1898 - Congress passes Volunteer Army Act calling for a Volunteer Cavalry
1898 - US President McKinley orders blockade of Cuban harbors
1903 - American Power Boat Association forms
1903 - NY Highlanders (Yankees) 1st game, Senators win 3-1 before 11,950
1905 - Operations begin uniting conservatory of Nature monument Amsterdam
1906 - 10th anniversary Olympic games open at Athens, Greece
1906 - New rule puts umpire in sole charge of all game balls
1908 - Queensland beat NSW by 171 runs for their 1st cricket win at Gabba
1913 - Montenegro troops march into Skoetari, North-Albania

Baseball Legend Babe Ruth1914 - Babe Ruth's 1st professional game (as a pitcher) is a 6-hit 6-0 win
1915 - 1st military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WW I
1915 - The Second Battle of Ypres begins on the Western Front
1915 - NY Yankees don pinstripes & hat-in-the-ring logo for 1st time
1916 - France battles at Fort Douaumont
1916 - Karl Spindler scuttles the Aud near Daunt's Rock, to prevent its cargo of 20,000 rifles destined for Irish republicans falling into enemy hands
1916 - Chief of Staff of the Irish Volunteers Eóin MacNeill issues the Countermanding order in Dublin to try to stop what would become the Easter Rising
1922 - South Ossetian Autonomous Region forms in Georgian SSR
1924 - Hague Chambers of Commerce forms
1926 - Persia, Turkey & Afghanistan sign treaties of security
1927 - 1st performance of Roger Sessions' Symphony in E
1930 - US, Britain & Japan sign London Naval Treaty
1930 - British troops battle pro-independence revolutionaries in the Jalalabad hills near Chittagong in Bengal province, British India leaving 80 troops and 12 revolutionaries dead.
1931 - Egypt & Iraq sign peace treaty
1933 - Dutch government forbids leftwing radio address
1937 - NYC college students stage 4th annual peace strike
1940 - Rear Adm Joseph Taussig testifies before US Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with Japan is inevitable
1943 - German counter attack in North-Tunisia
1943 - RAF shoots down 14 German transport planes over Mediterranean Sea
1944 - Allies land near Hollandia, New-Guinea

Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini1944 - Hitler & Benito Mussolini meet at Salzburg
1945 - Concentration Camp at Sachsenhausen liberated
1945 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 3
1946 - SED, Sozialistic Einheitspartei Deutschlands, party forms
1947 - 1st NBA Championship: Phila Warriors beat Chicago Stags, 4 games to 2
1948 - WTVR TV channel 6 in Richmond, VA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 - Ticker-tape parade for General MacArthur in NYC
1952 - 1st atomic explosion on network news, Nob, Nevada
1952 - Eugene Ionesco's "Les Chaises" premieres in NYC
1954 - Achiel van Acker forms Belgian government
1954 - NBA adopts 24-second shot clock & 6 team-foul rule
1954 - US Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings begin
1954 - USSR joins UNESCO
1955 - KC Athletic's 1st game, beat Tigers 6-2

WW2 General Douglas MacArthur1956 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Dallas Golf Open
1957 - All NL teams intergates, John Irwin Kennedy is 1st black on Phillies
1959 - Yankee Whitey Ford strikes-out 15, beating Senators, 1-0 in 14 innings
1959 - Chicago White Sox beat KC Athletics 20-6, in 1 inning Sox score 11 runs on 1 hit, 10 walks, & 3 errors
1961 - Uprising of French parachutist of Gen Salan/Challe in Algeria
1962 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Sunshine Golf Open
1962 - NY Mets tiea NL record by losing 9 straight to start season
1962 - Pirates tie then record of 10 straight wins to start season
1962 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 2
1963 - Lester B. Pearson is sworn in as the 14th Prime Minister of Canada
1964 - World's Fair (Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, NY) opens
1966 - Atlanta Braves win their 1st game, beating NY Mets 8-4
1966 - USSR performs underground nuclear test

Prime Minister of Canada Lester B. Pearson1967 - Martial Law goes into effect in Greece
1969 - 1st human eye transplant performed
1969 - Joe Frazier KOs Dave Zyglewick in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1969 - Robin Knox-Johnston ends 312 day non-stop sailing
1969 - Bernadette Devlin, the youngest woman ever to be elected to Westminster, makes a controversial maiden speech in the House of Commons concerning the situation in Northern Ireland
1970 - "Park" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 5 performances
1970 - 1st Earth Day held internationally to conserve natural resources
1970 - Flat Earth celebrated
1970 - NY Met Jerry Grote sets record of 20 put outs by a catcher
1970 - NY Met Tom Seaver strikes out last 10 Padres, for a total of 19
1970 - Senators beat Yankees 2-1 in 18 innings
1971 - Soyuz 10 launched

Boxer and Undisputed Heavyweight Champion Joe Frazier1972 - Apollo astronauts John Young & Charles Duke ride on Moon
1972 - An 11-year-old boy killed by a rubber bullet fired by the British Army in Belfast; he was the first to die from a rubber bullet impact
1974 - Barbara Walters becomes news co-anchor of Today Show
1975 - Penguins 2-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-2 lead
1976 - Barbara Walters becomes 1st female nightly network news anchor
1976 - Director Ingmar Bergman leaves Sweden due to taxation
1977 - Simon Peres becomes premier of Israel
1978 - Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony
1979 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Florida Lady Citrus Golf Tournament
1979 - Mick Jagger & Keith Richards give a benefit concert in Canada
1981 - 10,000 copper workers in Chile strike
1981 - Almost 1 million West German metal workers in strike
1981 - Dodgers rookie Fernando Valenzuela tosses his 3rd shutout in 4 starts

Rock Star Mick Jagger1981 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 - Largest US bank robbery (Tucson Ariz), more than $3.3 million stolen
1982 - Atlanta Braves lose after winning 1st 13 games of season
1982 - Launch of STS-3-Lousma & Fullerton [03/23]
1983 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 - Rangers 2-Isles 5-Patrick Div Finals-Isles win series 4-2
1983 - Soyuz T-8 returns to Earth
1983 - Start of 1st Sri Lanka-Australia Test Cricket match (at Kandy)
1983 - Stern mag announces major historical find-discovery of 60 volume personal diaries written by Adolf Hitler (turned out to be a hoax)
1984 - Vicki Fergon wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1984 - CBS premiere of TV film "Pope John Paul II", starring Albert Finney in title role
1986 - Consumer Price Index drops .04% for 2nd month in a row
1986 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1987 - Sri Lanka Air Force bomb Tamil, 100s killed
1988 - Women are allowed to compete in Little 500 bicycle race (Indiana)
1988 - NJ Devil Patrik Sundstrom sets NHL playoff record of 8 pts in a playoff game (hat trick & 5 assists) in 10-4 rout over the Capitals
1989 - "Welcome to the Club" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 12 perfs
1990 - "Truly Blessed" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 33 performances
1990 - Lebanon release US hostage Robert Polhill after 39 months
1991 - Earthquake strikes Costa Rica & Panama, kills 95
1991 - Frank Thomas is 1st White Sox to homer at new Comiskey Park
1991 - Intel releases 486SX chip
1991 - Johnny Carson announces he will retire next year from Tonight Show
1991 - Shalom America (Jewish cable network) is launched in Brooklyn & Queens
1992 - "High Rollers Social & Pleasure Club" closes at H Hayes NYC 14 perfs
1992 - 6.0 earthquake in California
1992 - Gas explodes in sewer, kills 200 in Guadalajara Mexico
1992 - Plane crash at Perris Valley Airport California, kills 16 parachutists
1993 - "Who's Tommy" opens at St James Theater NYC for 899 performances
1993 - Candid Camera creator Allen Funt suffers a stroke at 78
1993 - Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated in Wash DC
1993 - Seattle Mariner Chris Basio no-hits Boston Red Sox
1993 - The web browser Mosaic version 1.0 is released.
1994 - 7,000 Tutsi's slaughtered in stadium of Kibuye Rwanda
1994 - Borge Ousland reaches North pole
1994 - Ice skater Tonya Harding sues ex-husband Jeff Gillooly for $42,500
1994 - In Denmark the largest lollipop, weighing 3,011 pounds, made

World Boxing Champion Michael Moorer1994 - Michael Moorer beats Evander Holyfield in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1994 - Schelto Patijn appointed mayor of Amsterdam
1995 - General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Aulby
1995 - George Foreman beats Axel Schulz in 12 for heavyweight boxing title in Las Vegas
1997 - Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria - 93 villagers killed.
1997 - The Japanese embassy hostage crisis ends in Lima, Peru.
1998 - Disney's Animal Kingdom opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1998 - 33rd Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood & George Strait wins
2000 - In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida.

Country Music Singer and Songwriter Garth Brooks2000 - The Big Number Change takes place in the United Kingdom.
2003 - Patrick Roy plays his final career NHL game
2004 - Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people.
2006 - 243 people are injured in pro-democracy protest in Nepal after Nepali security forces open fire on protesters against King Gyanendra.
2006 - Four Canadian soldiers are killed 75 kilometers north of Kandahar, Afghanistan by a roadside bomb planted by Taliban militants, the worst single day combat loss for the Canadian army since the Korean War.
2012 - 30 year old woman collapses and dies during London Marathon
2013 - 6 people are killed in a shooting rampage in Belgorod, Russia
2013 - Manchester United defeat Aston Villa to claim the 2012/2013 English Premier League
2014 - David Moyes is sacked as manager of Manchester United

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