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Today's Significant Events

1633 - Galileo Galilei forced to recant Earth orbits Sun by Pope (Oct 31 1992 Vatican admits it was wrong)
1675 - Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II
1772 - Somerset v Stewart UK court case finds slavery unsupported by English common law, encourages abolitionist movement
1848 - Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris.

1934 - John Dillinger is informally named America's first Public Enemy Number One

1941 - Germany, Italy & Romania declare war on Soviet Union

Today's Historical Events

Events 1 - 201 of 201

217 BC - Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
168 BC - Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War.
431 - Council of Ephesus (3rd ecumenical council) opens
816 - Pope Stephen IV, [V] elected to succeed Leo III
1342 - Bilbo Baggins returns to his home at Bag End, (Shire Reckoning)
1377 - Richard II succeeds Edward III as king of England
1476 - Battle at Morat/Murten: Charles the Stout invades Switzerland
1497 - Antitax insurrection in Cornwall suppressed at Blackheath
1533 - Ferdinand of Austria & Sultan Suleiman sign peace treaty
1559 - Jewish quarter of Prague burned & looted
1593 - Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Turks.
1596 - Cornelis de Houtmans fleet reaches Banten Java

Explorer Henry Hudson1611 - Henry Hudson set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers on his ship Discovery & never seen again
1633 - Galileo Galilei forced to recant Earth orbits Sun by Pope (Oct 31 1992 Vatican admits it was wrong)
1675 - Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II
1679 - Battle at Bothwell Bridge on Clyde: Duke of Monmouth beats Scots
1740 - King Frederik II of Prussia ends torture & guarantees religion & freedom of the press
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charles sails to Scotland
1772 - Somerset v Stewart UK court case finds slavery unsupported by English common law, encourages abolitionist movement
1774 - British parliament accepts Quebec Act
1775 - 1st Continental currency issued ($3,000,000)

King Charles II1799 - Britain & Russia decide to invade Bataafse Republic
1807 - British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812
1808 - Zebulon Pike reaches his peak
1812 - Upon learning of plans by the Americans to execute a surprise attack, Laura Secord walks 32 km to warn the British troops, which results in a British surprise victory at the Battle of Beaver Dams
1814 - 1st match at the present Lord's, MCC v Herefordshire
1815 - 2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo)
1825 - British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
1832 - John Howe patents pin manufacturing machine
1844 - Influential North American fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon is founded at Yale University.

French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte1847 - Doughnut created
1848 - Barnburners (anti-slavery) party nominates Martin Van Buren for Pres
1848 - Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
1849 - Stephen C Massett opens concert at San Francisco courthouse using only piano in Calif
1851 - Fire destroys part of San Francisco
1864 - Battle of Ream's Station, VA (Wilson's Raid)
1864 - Skirmish at Culp's (Kulp's) House, Georgia
1865 - 1st class cricket debut of Dr W G Grace
1867 - Leopold Marquard, South African clergyman, missionary and educationist, 80
1868 - Arkansas re-joins the US
1870 - 1st Boardwalk in America invented
1870 - US Congress creates Department of Justice

8th US President Martin Van Buren1873 - Prince Edward Island joins Canada
1874 - Dr Andrew T Still, discovers the science of osteopathy
1874 - Game of lawn tennis introduced
1875 - Garonne Flood: great damage in Verdun & Toulouse, kills about 1,000
1889 - Louisville Colonels set ML baseball record with 26th consecutive loss
1893 - British fleet under Vice Admiral George Tryon leaves Beirut
1900 - In China, practically the whole foreign community in Peking, including many Chinese Christians, retreat to British compounds
1904 - Chinese laborers arrive in South Africa following a severe labor shortage
1906 - Haakon VII crowned king of Norway
1910 - 1st airship with passengers sets afloat-Zeppelin Deutscheland
1911 - King George V crowned king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and all his realms and territories beyond the sea.

King of the United Kingdom George V1915 - BMT, then Brooklyn Rapid Transit, begins subway service
1918 - 32nd US Womens Tennis: Molla Mallory beats E E Goss (6-4 6-3)
1918 - Circus train rammed by troop train kills 68 (Ivanhoe Illinois)
1921 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:40.2)
1922 - Herrin massacre, 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.
1925 - Spain & France fight Morocco
1926 - Cardinals pick up 39-year-old Grover Alexander on waivers from Cubs
1929 - Mel Ott (Giants) homers off Leo Sweetland (Phillies) in doubleheader
1930 - Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in a game, Ruth hits 3 in doubleheader
1931 - RVU, Radio-Volks-University, forms
1932 - NL finally approves players wearing numbers
1933 - German social-democratic party (SPD) forbidden
1934 - John Dillinger is informally named America's first Public Enemy Number One

Gangster John Dillinger1936 - Harry Froboess dives 110 m from airship into Bodensee & survives
1936 - Virgin Islands receives a constitution from US (Organic Act)
1937 - Joe Louis KOs James J Braddock in 18 for heavyweight boxing title
1938 - Joe Louis KOs Max Schmeling at 2:04 of 1st round at Yankee Stadium
1939 - Princes (future Queen) Elizabeth meets future husband Prince Philip of Greece (Midshipman Mountbatten, RN)
1940 - France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarms
1940 - SS rounds up 31 German/Polish/Dutch Jews in Roermond, Netherlands
1940 - About 10,000 Afrikaner women march to the union buildings in protest of South Africa's involvement in WWII
1941 - Estonians starts armed resistance against Soviet occupation
1941 - Finland invades Karelia
1941 - Operation Barbarossa: Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union during WWII

Boxer and World Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis1941 - Germany, Italy & Romania declare war on Soviet Union
1941 - Michael Gerasimov opens grave of Tamerlan "Lenk"
1941 - The Lithuanian 1941 independence begins.
1941 - Various Communist and Socialist French Resistance movements merge to one group.
1942 - Japanese submarine in mouth of Columbia River, Oregon
1942 - Jewish Brigade attached by British Army in WW II, forms
1943 - W.E.B. Du Bois becomes 1st Black member of National Institute of Letters
1944 - British 14th Army frees Imphal Assam
1944 - US President Franklin Roosevelt signs "GI Bill of Rights" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act)
1944 - Longest shut out in Phillies history, Phils beat Braves 1-0 in 15 inn
1944 - Boston Brave Jim Tobin 2nd no-hitter of yr beats Phils, 7-0 in 5 inn
1944 - Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre.

32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt1946 - Alec Bedser takes 7-49 v India on 1st day of his 1st Test cricket
1946 - Bill Veeck purchases Cleveland Indians
1946 - Speaking at a prayer meeting in New Delhi, Gandhi calls on the South African government to stop 'hooliganism' by Whites
1947 - 12" rain in 42 mins (Holt, MO)
1947 - Ewell Blackwell just misses pitching back-to-back no-hitters (9th inn)
1949 - Ezzard Charles beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for hw boxing title
1951 - Gene Rayburn & Dee Finch show premieres on NBC radio
1954 - Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands
1955 - Antonio Segni forms government in Italy
1955 - US air patrol plane shot down above Bering sea
1957 - KC stops using streetcars in it's transit system
1958 - Game in KC between A's & Red Sox delayed 29 minutes due to tornado
1958 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open

Boxer and World Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles1959 - "Along Came Jones" by Coasters peaks at #9
1959 - "Class" by Chubby Checker peaks at #38
1959 - Eddie Lubanski bowls 2 consecutive perfect games
1959 - Most Phillies strike out in a game (16 by Sandy Koufax)
1959 - Shunryu Suzuki completes his historical Japan to SF voyage
1959 - Vanguard SLV-6 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1961 - Moise Tsjombe freed from prison in Congo
1961 - Beatles record Aint She Sweet, Cry for a Shadow, When the Saints Go Marching In, Why, Nobody's Child & My Bonnie, in Hamburg
1962 - 1st test flight of a Hovercraft
1962 - French Boeing 707 crashes at Guadeloupe, 113 killed
1963 - "Little" Stevie Wonder (13) releases "Fingertips"
1965 - Freddie Trueman ends his Test cricket career, v NZ at Lord's
1966 - "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens

Singer-Songwriter Stevie Wonder1966 - South African Bishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu, is refused a passport and thus permission to attend an international church conference by the South African government
1968 - "Here Come Da Judge" by The Buena Vistas peaks at #88
1969 - Aretha Franklin arrested in Detroit for creating a disturbance
1969 - Cleveland's Cuyahgo River catches fire
1969 - Susie Berning wins LPGA Pabst Ladies' Golf Classic
1969 - The Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) stage a protest by blocking the Lecky Road in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland
1970 - President Nixon signs 26th amendment (voting age lowered to 18)
1970 - Supreme Court ruled juries of less than 12 are constitutional
1970 - WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) suspends broadcasting
1970 - Irish socialist, republican and Member of Parliament, Bernadette Devlin, loses her appeal against a 6-month prison sentence imposed for taking part in riots in Derry
1971 - a Pretoria court rules that the former leader of the banned Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), Robert Sobukwe, will not be allowed to use his exit permit to leave South Africa for his studies in the United States.
1972 - "Man of La Mancha" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 140 performances
1972 - The Irish Republican Army announce that it would call a ceasefire from 26 June 1972 provided that there is a "reciprocal response" from the security forces
1973 - Dutch High Council stops fluorine addition to drink water

Singer-Songwriter George Harrison1973 - George Harrison releases "Living in the Material World"
1973 - Skylab 2's astronauts land
1975 - Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic
1975 - The Ulster Volunteer Force try to derail a train by planting a bomb on the railway line near County Kildare, Ireland; a civilian tries to stop the UVF volunteers, and is stabbed-to-death (his actions delay the explosion enough to let the train pass safely)
1976 - "Godspell" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 527 performances
1976 - SD Padre pitcher Randy Jones ties record of 68 innings without a walk
1977 - Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison
1977 - Walt Disney's "Rescuers" released
1978 - James Christy's discovery of Pluto's moon Charon announced
1978 - Neo-Nazis call off plans to march in Jewish community of Skokie, Ill
1978 - Pluto's satelite Charon is discovered

WBC Heavyweight Champion Larry Holmes1979 - Larry Holmes TKOs Mike Weaver in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1979 - Little Richard quits rock & roll for religious pursuit
1979 - Pro Football Researchers Association forms (Canton Ohio)
1980 - Jim King begins riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours
1980 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1981 - 2 Habash terrorists attack a travel agency in Greece killing 2
1981 - Iran president Bani Sadr deposed
1981 - John McEnroe exhibits a disgraceful act of misbehavior at Wimbledon
1981 - Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon
1982 - Manhattan institutes bus-only lanes
1982 - Pete Rose gets his 3,772nd hit, moves past Aaron into 2nd place
1982 - Prince Charles & Princess Diana take son Prince William home from hospital
1982 - Susan Lea Hammett, of Miss, 18, crowned 25th America's Junior Miss

Duke of Cambridge; RAF Search and Rescue helicopter pilot Prince William1983 - "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life," released in France
1983 - 1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by Space Shuttle
1983 - NHL institutes a 5 minute sudden death overtime period
1984 - Calvin Griffith signs letter of intent to sell ownership of Twins
1984 - Carl Pohlad becomes CEO of Minnesota Twins
1984 - Jolande van de Meer swims Dutch record 800 m freestyle (8:39.30)
1984 - Joseph Luns resigns as secretary-general of NATO
1985 - "Grind" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 79 performances
1985 - "Smuggler's Blues" by Glenn Frey peaks at #12
1986 - Judy Dickinson wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1986 - Pirate Radio Euro Weekend (Holland) begins transmitting
1986 - Spain's premier Gonzalez' Socialist Party wins elections
1987 - Tom Seaver retires after 3rd try with NY Mets
1987 - The International Labour Organisation, meeting for its annual conference in Geneva, calls for international sanctions against South African minerals

Rock Vocalist Glenn Frey1987 - A bomb blast in a Johannesburg video-game arcade kills an unborn baby and injures ten people
1989 - Business Day reports that SA is about to test an intermediate range ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads
1990 - Billy Joel performs a concert at Yankee Stadium
1990 - Braves replace manager Russ Nixon with GM Bobby Cox
1990 - Florida passes a law prohibits wearing a throng bathing suit
1990 - Longest game in Toronto, Yanks beat Blue Jays 8-7 in 15 inns
1990 - Nelson Mandela addresses the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid in New York, saying that nothing, which has happened in South Africa, calls for a revision of the position that the Organisation has taken in its struggle against apartheid; he adds that a democratic, non-racial SA is within reach

Actor Adam Sandler1990 - Adam Sandler joins "Saturday Night Live"
1991 - "I Hate Hamlet" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 88 perfs
1991 - Quebec Nordiques pick Eric Lindros #1 at NHL entry draft
1991 - Underwater volcano, Mount Didicas, erupts in Philippines
1992 - 2 skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg identified as Tsar Nicholas II & Tsarina Alexandra
1992 - Supreme Court rules "hate crime" laws violated free-speech rights
1993 - NY Met Anthony Young ties record of 23rd straight lose
1993 - Wilson Pickett plead guilty to auto assault due to drunk driving
1994 - 48th NBA Championship: Houston Rockets beat NY Knicks, 4 games to 3
1994 - Ken Griffey Jr breaks Ruth's record for most HRs by end of June (31)
1994 - Mets reliever John Franco sets lefty save mark at 253
1994 - FIFA World Cup: USA beats Colombia 2-1 in 1994 world cup match (1st win since 1950)

R&B and Soul Singer Songwriter Wilson Pickett1996 - 29th Curtis Cup: Great Britain & Ireland wins 11-6
1996 - Michael Moorer beats Axel Shultz in 11 for IBF heavyweight boxing title
1996 - Saurav Ganguly scores 131 at Lord's on Test cricket debut
1997 - Ernie Els wins golf's Buick Classic
1997 - Nationwide Senior Golf Championship
1997 - Penny Hammel wins LPGA Rochester International
1997 - World Bowl: Barcelona Dragon beat Rhein Fire, 38-24
1999 - Former Mpumalanga premier, Ndaweni Mahlangu causes a storm within political circles with his now infamous statement, "It is acceptable for politicians to lie", South Africa
2002 - An earthquake in western Iran measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale kills more than 261 people.
2009 - 2009 Washington Metro subway crash: Two Metro trains collide in Washington, D.C., USA, killing 9 and injuring over 80.

World Boxing Champion Michael Moorer2009 - 109th US Golf Open: Lucas Glover shoots a 276 at Bethpage State Park NY
2011 - After hiding for 16 years, Boston gangster Whitey Bulger is arrested outside an apartment in Santa Monica, California
2012 - Two Baghdad market bombings kill 14 people and injure 106
2015 - South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley calls for the removal of the Confederate flag from statehouse grounds in wake of killings in a Charleston church
2015 - JAMA Internal Medical Journal announces obese Americans now outnumber those just overweight

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